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The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18

the bombardment which followed on
here until after midnight.
Two official messages from Viceroy
Alexieff had been received during the
day and presented to the emperor, but
the public remained in suspense. All
sorts of rumors of the information
contained in the dispatches were
spread among the officials, but they
did not have the texts, and were
under the impression that Admiral
Makaroff had directed the attack upon
the enemy's fleet. When the texts
appeared, it became evident that the
collisions between the torpedo flotilla
fleets had occurred accidentally dur
ing the night, while the Russians were
scouting in cearch of the enemy.
Russians Make Heroic Dash.
AS far as is known here this is the
first time torpedo boats have engaged
each other at sea. Although the odds
were against the Russians, as the Jap
anese f1otilla was supported by the
cruiser squadron, the Russians made
a heroic dash for the foe, and appar-
emily had the better of the combat,
sinking a Japanese torpedo boat, until
the cruisers got within range, and one
of the latter's shells crippled the
Stereguschtchi.
The gallant action of Vice-Admiral
Makaroff in transferring his flag to
the fast cruiser Novik and sailing out
in the face of the enemy, in an at
tempt at rescue, receives unstintei
praise, stamping him at the outset of
his command as a man of force and
action, who insists on being in the
van of the fighting.
Not much importance is attached
here to the bombardment On account OF
the great distance of the enemy from
the batteries. Their cruisers took
refuge behind the Lao Tichin pro-
monotory, fearing to expose them
selves to the direct fire of the forts.
B%attIeship Retvizan Removed.
The removal of the ~battleship Ret
vizan from the mouth of the inner har-
Dor, which marked the assumption
of command by Admiral Makarof, will
permit the free exit of the heavy ar
mored ships. 1t had been believed that
the reason why the Russian ships had
not made a sortie before was the ap-
prehension of meeting with a superior
force, but it is now clear that the
ships were unable to leave. With the
channel open it is expected that Ad-
miral Makaroff will make the squad
ron an aggressive force.
Approaching the misfortune of the
division of the fleet before the war, is is
believed the admiral will attempt to
unite his forces by bringing the Vladi.
vostok squadron to Port Arthur.
NEW CHWANG FALLEN.
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stated that Japanese were reported
landing in a small bay on the Lao
Tung peninsula Wednesday.
The viceroy has received a telegram
that New Chwang has been taken and
the Russians in the Lao Tung PENN
sula cut off.
Chinese officials have received in
formation of the arrival of Japanese
at Feng Huang Chen.
Russian officials are informed from
Mukden that there is no truth in the
report that some influential China
men in the United States telegraphed
to the Pekin for Il office Wednesday,
urging that the emperor be made head
OF the army and that China join the
forces OF Japan against Russia.
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THE NEUTRALITY
PROCLAMATION
The President Supplements 1t With
an Executive Order.
CAUTION TO ALL OFFICIALS
are Must BE Taken to Avoid Giving
OTense, BY Either Act of Word,
to the Powers Now En-
gagged in War.

Washington, March 11.-PresiGent
Roosevelt, after a conference with Sec
rotary of State Hay, issued the follow
ing executive order, respecting the OBJ
of the proclamation recently
promulgated, declaring the neutrality
of the United States between Russia
and Japan, the two combatant nations
in the far eastern war now in progress:
"All officials Of the government, civil,
military and naval, are hereby directed
not only TO observe the presidents
proclamation of neutrality in the pend
ing wal between Russia and Japan, but
also to abstain from either action or
speech which can legitimately cause
irritation to either Of the combatants.
The government of the United States
represents the people of the United
States, lot only in the sincerity with
which it is endeavoring to keep the
scales of neutrality exact and even,
but in the sincerity with which it de-
plores the breaking out of the present
war, and hopes it will end at the earli-
est possible moment and with the
smallest possible loss to those engaged.
Such a war inevitably increases and
inf1ameS the SuSceptibilities OF the
combatants to anything in the nature
Of an injury or slight by outsiders.
TOO often combatants make conflict
inc elaine &c tn tho dnfiac and nbJiro
tons of %neutrals, sc that even when
dicharging these duties and obligations
with scrupulous care it is difficult to
avoid giving offense to n or the other
party. To such unavoidable causes of
offense, due to the performance of ma
tional duty, there must not be added
any a%voidable causes It is always I'M
fortunate to bring old world antipa-
thies and jealousies into our life, or by
speech or conduct to excite anger and
resentment toward our nation in
friendly foreign lands; but in a govern
ment employee, whose official position
makes him in some sense the repre-
sentative of the people, the mischief OF
such action is greatly increased. A
strong and self-confident nation
should be peculiarly careful not only Of
the rights but of the susceptibilities
of its neighbors; and nowadays all of
the nations of the world are neighbors
one to the other. Courtesy, modera-
ton and self-restarint should mark in
t~ernational, no less than private, inter-
course.
"All the officials of the government,
civil, military and naval, are expected
so to carry themselves, both In act and
deed, so as to give no just cause Of
just offense to the people of any for
eign and friendly power-and with all
mankind we are now in friendship.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
White House March 10, 1904"
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R N TO I~RRIGAT0RS.
The Platte River Is Going Dry, Ow.
ing to Light Snow in the
Mountains.

Lincoln, Neb., March 1.-THE gov
eminent has issued a warning to irri-
the Platte river is going dry, owing to
light SHOWS in the mountains, and that
the water should be used now. 1t is
feared that no matter how much water
is used now, there will be suffering for
it later, as the little snow there is in
the mountains will melt too soon. All
the western watersheds are in unfavor-
able condition.
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WIJU-SEOUL RAILWAY.
Concession Signed By the Japanes
and Korean Authorities.

Concession Signed BY the Japanese
and Korean Authorities.
Toxic, March 12.-The Wiju-Seoul
railway concession was signed, Thurs
day, by the Japanese and Korean au-
thorities.
The Russians are engaged in building
defenses at Wiju which will cooperate
with the Notifications already con
structed on the left bank of the Yalu.
1t is reported that the Russians have
$4,000 ton of coal at Wijuy which they
keep drenched with kerosene, in read
mess to burn, should the Japanese land
there.
KOREAN SYMPATHY WITH RUSSIA.
Koreans Mt VIndivOstolA Offer Their
Services to R0ssia.
Vladivostok, March 12.-Korean in
habitants of V~ladivostok, as a tangible
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OFFICER is FOUND GUILTY.
First Lieut.. Sharpley, Twelfth Cav
airy. Found Guilty of Charges
Affecting His Character.

Washington, March 11.-First Lieut..
Arthur G. Sharpley, of the Twelfth cav
airy, having been tried by a general
court martial at Manila, and found
guilty of serious charges affecting his
moral character, has been sentenced
to dismissal from the army. The pa
pers have been prepared in the war de-
partment for transmission to the pres
ident.
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Explosion Wrecks n store.

Rockwell, Ia, March 11.-An explo-
sion of gas completely wrecked the
millinery store of Miss L. M. Moran
Thursday. Miss Moran, Miss Eta Au-
ger, Mrs. Kelley, Tarpy and Howard
Siegfried were blown into the street,
and all were more OF less injured. Sieg-
fried was badly burned about the face
and head.
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would-Be Lyncher. Rolled.

M%urphysboro, Ill, March 11.-A mob
from Carbonate made an attempt to
take Thomas Vaughn, a mulatto, from
the Jackson county Jail at four o'clock
Thursday morning. intending to lynch
him. They were met by two deputy
sheriffs armed with riot guns and con-
cluded they didn't want Vaughn.
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SHERIFF DISPERSED MOB.
Attempted Ly nching mt Murphysboro
is Quickly Fooled By Plucky
Sheriff.

Murphysboro, ILL.,, March ia mob
came over from Carbonate Wednes-
day night with the avowed intention OF
lynching a mulatto named Thomas
Vaughn, confined in the county Jail,
charged with assaulting Miss Eva Kav-
anaugh, a school teacher, in the out
skirts of Carbonate, January q.
Sheriff John r. Thorp had been ad-
vised from Carbonate that the mob
was coming, and deputized Deputy
County Clerk A. j. Woodward to assist
in protecting the Jail.
The two awaited the arrival of the
mob, which occurred about two o'clock
Thursday morning.
The men demanded admittance. but
after parleying with them a few min
utes, the sheriff appeared at an upper
window, and warned them the first man
who made an effort to force the door
would be shot.
A few minutes later he ordered them
to leave the premises, which they did.
Leaving the Jail in charge of the dep
uty, Sheriff Thorp followed the mob
and arrested four of them-Dr. H. E.
Lightfoot, Josh Walker, John McCuen
and Rupert Stanley.
They claimed to be merely onlookers,
but were placed under bonds of $500
each for their appearance before a JUS
tice of the peace.
The whole thing turned out to be a
farce, owing doubtless to the nerve dis
played by the sheriff.
After the moi had left Deputy Sheriff
Woodward's revolver fell from his
pocket to the floor and was discharged,
the ball entering his arm at the elbow
and shattering the bone. The doctors
say he will lose the arm.
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B. D. FIELD Is A SUICIDE.
Was u Nephew of Cyrus w. Field.
Who Laid the
Cable.

Pueblo, Col, March lib. D. Field,
connected with a prominent family in
New York city and a nephew of Cyrus
committed suicide Thursday by drink
ing cabolide. Dependency Over health
is assigned as the cause. Field reached
the city last Sunday from his home and
appeared in his usual spirits until this
morning. He was about 25 years of
age.
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Printers strike settled.

Boston, March 1.-THE strike Of
book and job. printers, which has been
in effect several weeks, was settled
Thursday night at a joint meeting of
representatives of Typographical I'm
ion No. Is and the Boston Typothetae.
The settlement was in the nature of a
compromise, and a contract between
employers and employees was signed.
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CAPTURED JAPANESE.
Russians Parad Their Prisoners
Through the Streets

Russians rad Their Prisoners
Through the treet
Tien Tsin, March Zone officer
and four Japanese soldiers who re-
Gently were captured near Wiju, Ko-
rea, were paraded through the streets
OF Mukden, on Tuesday, March g..
On February 20, Maj.-Gen. Plug,
c~hief-Of-staff of Viceroy AleXieff, tele-
graphed from Port Arthur to st. Pc
tersburg that a number Of COssacks
marching from Wiju had captured a
Japanese major named Tatsuro, with
five soldiers and two civilians.
Another dispatch from Port Arthur
of the same date stated that a picket
Of Cossacks had captured some Japan
csc on whom they found maps and pa
perS.
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Chill May Sell warships.

Santiago, Chilli, March 1.-THE gov
eminent is again discussing the pro-
posal to sell the two warships, the bat
tleship Captain Pratt and the cruiser
Chacabuco, to an american firm. A de-
cision on the subject will be arrived at
shortly.
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MISSING TORPEDO BOATS.

Were Sent Out as Scouts From Port
Arthur and Didn't Return.
New York, March 1.-TWO torpedo
boats sent out as scouts from Port Ar
thur March Z have not been heard
from according to a herald dispatch
from Che Foo.
1t is feared, the dispatch adds, that
they have fallen into the hands OF the
Japanese.
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EDITOR Nen Nominated.

Kansas City. Mo-, March III. H.
Neff, editor of a local stock paper and
we'll known to stock men throughout
the country, was nominated for mayor
Friday BY the republican city onven
ton here
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200 900 men, have now been shipped
from Japan since the commencement
of hostilities.
any western power would find it hard
to beat if not to approach.
1t it reported that a further force OF
Japanese has landed to the south of
V~ladivostok.
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While nothing definite has been de-
cided, it is feared hat because of the
death of his youngest son, Prince Hem
ry will ask the emperor not to appoint
him as head of the commission which
will represent Emperor William at the
unwilling in October of the statue of
Frederick the Great, the gift of the en-
peror to the American people.
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Senator TiIlman Much Better.

Washington, March 11.-Senator Till
man, OF South Carolina, was operated
on Thursday, to relieve an abscess of
his left tonsil. The result was pro-
nounced satisfactory and his condition
was reported to be much better.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18

The Pittsburg district delegates to
the joint convention Of coal miners
and operators at Indianapolis returned
home on the 8th. They expressed them
selves as opposed to a strike at his
time, and say President Dolan will go
through the district and urge the min
ers to vote against a strike.
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Denies Reported Naval Battle.

Vladivostok, March 1.-THE acting
cnief Thursday officially announced
that the reports of a sea fight between
the Russian and Japanese ~squadrons
on Sunday last are absolutely I'M
founded.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18

First Lieut.. Arthur G.. Sharpley. of
the Twelfth cavalry, having been tried
by a general court martial at Manila,
fecting his moral character, has been
sentenced to dismissal from the army.
The papers have been prepared in the
war department for transmission to the
president.
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Senator Tillman, of South Carolina,
was operated on to relieve an abscess
of his left tonsil on the 10th. The re-
suit was pronounced satisfactory and
his condition was reported to be much
better.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18
GAMMA HAS FIVE BABY BOYS

The News mat came TO u bridge
Worker While NJ Work mt
P~ittsburG, Pa
Pittsburg, Pa, March 12.-"Come
home at once. Annie has five baby
boys. They were born this morning"
David Swope, the husband of An
ME, was perched 125 feet above the
murky waters of the Allegheny river,
Thursday, tying the last strand of the
Wabash steel bridge, when the fore
mans whistle called him. Hand over
hand he came down the rope, and the
message was given him.
For a minute he was dazed, and
then, turning to the foreman, said:
"Give me my time; I'm going home
to Fulton county to see those five
boys"
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Tien Tsin, March IA Chinese
refugee from Hsu Yien insists that he
has seer Russians %retreating from the
Yau river and destroying villages en-
route.
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JAPANEsE-KoREAN PROTOCOL.

1t is Said to NuIlffy Concession
Granted to Russia.
Toxic, March 1.-THE Japanese
Korean protocol was published at Seoul
in an extra edition of the Gazette
Thursday. The Korean government
will publicly that the pub
LEGATION of the protocol nullifies the
concessions granted to Russia, such as
the non-alienation of coal mining at
Kochio island and Roze island, and
the forestry concessions in the Ulle-
ungdo, Tumen and Yalu valleys.
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D~ecisfon Has Been Receiyed.

Washington, March 1.-THE official
copy Of the decision of The Hague
tribunal in the Venezuelan cases has
just been received at the state depart
ment.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18

One of the worst dust storms In
many years swept over the central part
of Kansas on the 9th. The wind was
terrific. 1t is believed wheat was badly
damaged.
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ATTACKED JAPANESE FLEET.

A Japanese Torpedo Boat and a RUS
sian Destroyer Sunk.
st. Petersburg, March 12.-The Rus
sian torpedo boat flotilla left Port Ar
thur at broad daylight Friday morning
and attacked the Japanese fleet. One
Japanese torepdo boat was sunk and
one Russian torpedo boat destroyer, the
Bezposhtchadni, was sunk. The fate
of the latter's crew is not known.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18

Russia Stops Expectation of Horses.
st. Petersburg, March 11.-An i'm
perial ukase has been issued prohibit
ing the expectation of horses from Rus
STA until further notice.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18

The official copy of the decision OF
The Hague tribunal in the Venezuelan
cases has just been received at the
state department in Washington.
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THE JAPANESE ADVANCE.

Two ndr Thousand Men Al.
ready Shipped From Japan.
Nagasaki, Japan, March 12.-The
Japanese general advance has begun.
e divisions, or in round numbers
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18

DR.. /. P. Wilson, of Burlington, Ia.
past grand high priest of the Iowa
Royal Arch Grand Chapter, dropped
dead, on the 9th, of heart disease. He
was 67 years of age.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18

Maj. William H. Olden, of Spring
field, H.. veteran of the civil wal n
prominent citizen, was found dead in
bed on the 9Th, at his home. He was
rs years old.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18

Erastus Low Palmer, the famous
sculptor. died at Albany. N. Y, on the
9th, at his home in that city, in his
eighty-seventh year.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18

John w. White, head attorney of the
Modern Woodmen, is dead of Brights
disease at Rock Island, Ill. He was
81 years of Age.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18

The government has issued a warn
ing to irrigators in Nebraska and Col
orado that the Platte river is going
dry, owing to light SHOWS in the
mountains, and that the water should
be used now. 1t is feared that no
matter how much water is used o
there will be suffering for it later, as
the little snow there is In the mount
ans will melt too soon. All the west.
ern watersheds are in unfavorable con-
,dition.
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Japanese Steamer wrecLea.

Yokohama, March 1.-THE Japanese
steamer Shinshiu Maru has been
wrecked off Chemulpo, Korea. Both
ship and cargo were totally lost.
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proof of their sympathy with Russia,
have g~ratuitously placed their serv-
ices at the disposal of the commander
of the town for the construction of
defenses.
Foreign residents of Nagasaki. who
have arrived here, report that all the
Japanese docks are engaged in making
repairs to the ships that were dam
aged in the engagement at Port Arthur.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18

President Roosevelt issued an ex-
ecutiye order, on the 10th, to all off,
Gals of the government, civil, military
and naval, to not only observe the
proclamation of neutrality in the pend
ing war between Russia and Japan,
but to abstain from either action or
speech which could legitimately cause
irritation to either of the combatants.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18
SUNK IN BATTLE
OFF PORT ARTHUR
One Japanese and One Russian Yes
sci Sent to the Bottom.
ALL ON BOARD WENT DOWN
Russian Torpedo Boat Destroyers
and Torpedo Boats Made a Sortie
From the Harbor and Attack
the Japanese Fleet.

Murkden, Manchuria, March H.
Admiral MnrkOfY, commanding the
Russian feet, reports from Port Ar
thur as follows; "Six torpedo boats,
which went to sea On the night
of March 10, four of them being un-
der the general of Capt.
Mattoussevftch, encOMntered the
cruisers. A hot action ensued, in
which the torpedo boat destroyer
Vlastinia discharged IA whitehead
OrpedO and sank one of the enemys
Orpedo boats. On the way back the
Orpedo boat destroyer Steregusch-
tchi, commanded by Lieut.. Serguei-
eff, sustained damages, her engine
being disabled, and she began to
founder. AT eight o'clock in the
morning five of our torpedo boat
critical position of the Steresuscht-
chi became evident 1 hoisted my flag
on the cruiser NOvfk, and went with
the Novik and the cruiser Boyarin
to the rescue. But as five of the
enemy's cruisers ~rOHn our de-
and ms their battleship
squadron was approaching, L did
not succeed in saving the Stere-
guschtchi, which f~Oundered. Part
of the crew WAS made prisoners and
part was drowned"
ST. PETERSBURG HEARS NEWS.
Complete story Not Given Out Until
After Midnis hit.
st. Petersburg, March 12.-The
complete story of the fierce fight off
Port Arthur between the torpedo flo
tillas which occurred Wednesday,, and
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18

Secretary of VA Taft has accepted
an invitation to deliver an address at
Topeka, Kas., on May 80.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18

]. H. Neff, editor of a local stock
paper at Kansas City, Mo, and we'll
known to stock men throughout the
country, was. nominated for mayor, on
the 18th, by the republican city con
Vention.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18

Capt. w. w. Gibson, ordnance corps,
u. S. A, now on duty in the Philip
pines, has been substituted as a repre-
sentative of the United States army
with the Russian troops for Capt. w. B.
Kerr, who has fallen i'll.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18

E. Benjamin Andrews, head of the
University of Nebraska at Lincoln, is
at the Chicago Baptist hospital suffer-
ing from the grippe. DR.. Andrews ar
rived in Chicago on the 9th, en- route to
New York. but was compelled to aban-
don the trip, for the present at least,
owing to his illness.
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NEW CHWANG FALLEN.

VicerOy Mt Tien Tsfn Hears New
Chwang Has Bee Taken.
Ten Tsin, March 12.-Refugees ar
rived from New Chwang Friday. and
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18

All cases against union miners,
charged with different train wreckings,
the indicator mine disaster and 9th
ers, have beer nolle pressed on request
of District Attorney Trowbridge before
Justice Lewis at Cripple Creek, Col.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18

Maj. Thomas U. Raymond, surgeon,
has been ordered to st. Louis for spe-
cial duty at the Louisiana Purchase
exposition, with a view to exercising
supervision Eel the sanitary condi-
tons on the exposition grounds.
DR.. Andrew S. Draper, president of
the University of Illinois, was formally
elected commissioner of education by
the New York legislature, on the 9th,
ratifying the action of the republican
caucus. The term is for six years.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18

The first substantial rain since last
October fell in Wichita, Kas., on the
9th. q 1t will aid the growing wheat and
put the ground in good condition for
blowing for corn and oats. The storm
extended throughout East Oklahoma.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18

The mob spirit again became mani
fest at Springfield, O., on the 8th, on
account of threats made by negroes
against Sheriff Routzahn, for not pro-
tecting the murderer Dixon. A num-
Der of negro residences and saloons
on the '~levee' were burned. Troops
were called out to dispense the mob.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18

The steamer Sunshine, plying be-
tween Memphis and Cincinnati, was
destroyed by fire near Tiptonville,
Tenn, on the 10th. The crew escaped,
but both boat and cargo were lost. The
Sunshine was owned by the Memphis
d Cincinnati Packet Co., and valued
at $40, 900.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-03-18

DR.. A. Mcintosh, of Bloomington,
Ill, on the Sth, received information of
the death of his father, Col. w. A. Nc
Intosh, general counsel of the Postal
Telegraph Co, who was on his vacation
in Jamaica. Col. Mcintosh lived in
Atlanta, Ga.