The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1895-02-18
SPECIAL ELECTIONS.
THERE MAY BE A LOT OF THEM IN
GEORGIA THIS YEAR.
Many OflciaI Bonds Not Returned-Mor
Than Forty Counties are Behind In This
Respect-Payment of Pensions.

About forty counties in Georgia
the edge of special elections:
Tuesday Comp roller General Wright
sent a communication to the governor stat
ing that the tax collectors and tax receiv-
ers in a number of counties had failed to
make the requisite bond.
The list is a long one
Whether the delay is due to simple neg
ilgence ON the part OF the men who are
elected TO these offices or whether there is
some more vital reason it is not apparent.
IL Is perhaps, however, simple neglect, and
IL may be that the neglect will prove fatal
TO the official lives of the gentlemen re-
sponsible for it,
comptroller General Wright's list states
that the officers from the following coun-
ties have not compiled with the law:
Tax Receivers-Appling, Baker, Berrien,
BROOKS. Bulloch. Clayton. Colquitt. Dawson,
Decatur, Dekalb, Dodge, Dougherty, Doug
las, Emanuel, Gordon Greene. Irwin. john
son. Jones. Laurens, Liberty, Lowndes,
Iumpkln, Marion, Milton, Mitchell Morgan,
Murray Oconee, Pickens. Quitman, Rabun,
Screven. Terrell Thomas, Troup, Ware,
Washington Wilcox. Wilkes Wilkinson,
Carroll. Stewart
Tax Collectors-AppIirr Rerrien brooks
8ulloch. Colquitt. Coweta. Decatur. De-
halb. Dodge. Douglas Echols, Emanuel,
Gllmer, Gordon, Greene Hall Irwin, .!aCf-
son. jefferson. Johnson, Jones, Laurens,
Lowndes Lunpllin, Marion Mitchell. Muir
ray. Oconee Pickens. Polk, Quitman RAJ
bun. ScreVen. Spalding. Terrell Thomas,
Ware, Washington, Wilcox, Wilkes
His list. which was prepared a day or two
ago, contained originally several other
counties. but bonds from these officers have
since been received. The tax receivers of
Camden. Catoosa. Crawford, Early, Fulton,
Pulaski. Schley, Taylor and Worth and the
tax collectors of Camden Catoosa, Cobb,
Crawford Dougherty, Early, Fulton. Pu-
lasS Schley and Wilkinson have got in
their bonds since the expiration OF the for
ty days allowed by law
The Payment of Pensions.
Judge johnson completed Tuesday the
payment of the widows pensions to pen
sioners in all counties from which the prop
er returns of the ordinaries have been re-
ceived. His last payment was made to the
ordinary of Franklin county Tuesday.
There are a few new claims to this pen
sion." said Judge Johnson yesterday per
haps twenty-five or thirty. that are pending
for consideration. I have paid all the coun-
ties from which the proper applications
have been received. A very few counties
have not been heard from. Fulton county
shows the largest number Of pensioners
under this act, 165: Canden county shows
the fewest, ,; GWinnet county shows an
even 100. While l have not made a definite
count as yet. my estimate is that about
thrty-eight hundred confederate widows
have been paind pensions under this
act this year. The decrease from last years
estimate is between and per cent Each
widow. as you know, is paid $50 per year.
The appropriation made by the last legis-
ture to cover this was $4,000"
what about soldiers pensions?"
1.-The payment of pensions TO disabled sol
diers under the old law viii begin the 18TH
OF March. L have received. by the way,
very many applications for information con-
corning the new law and there seems to be
a great deal of apprehension about its
terms. The intent of the new law is clear
" 10 pension only such veterans are in
extreme poverty. For instance, man
came to me the other day in the firm be-
lief that he was eligible to a pension under
that law and had Acknowledged that he
was earning $40 a month. After the prepara-
ton of the blanks for the pensioners under
the old law is completed and the payment
of these pensioners begins, | Will send out
the blanks for applications OF persons who
seek pensions under the new law. The
payment of these pensions viii begin some
time in May"
The Election in Douglas.
The committee On privileges and elections
rendered decision in the Douglas county
acse Thursday morning. The decision was
that no legal election had been held in that
county and that means that there must
be a new election. The committee declares
that there are glazing evidences or fraud
by both sides, and will recommend to the
legislature that the seat be declared vacant
and that there be another election.
The Butts county case was the one next
called but as the parties were not ready,
the ease went over until today.
In the nick of time the cooking was saw
ed-by using DR.. Prices Cream Baking Pow
der.