The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-17
GEORGIA NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

R%ANA05O
James NJ. Smith, the millionaire plan
ter OF OglethOTpe county. 1t is known
that negroes who made the charges
| against Colonel Smith to the federal
authorities have been interviewed by
these sleuths and that a full report
on the case is being secured. lt Is
quite probable visit will be paid Cox
Onel Smiths plantation and possibly
the sieuths will calh on the colonel
himself. Whether or not any action
against the Oglethorpe planter is TAX
en- Will depend entirely on what the
men from Washington find out Their
report will be made to the depart
ment of justice and if the facts ascer-
tanned warrant prosecution orders
Will be passed down the line to the
Atlanta Office.
| Governor Brown Is in receipt of
another gourd This time he has been
favored by hiG friends in Habersham
county, and on the handle of the
gourd Is inscribed, "Habersham coun-
ty. 1909" One of the governors vfsi-
| tors q day or so ago told him that
the gbyernnor's gourd had made that
old-fashioned drinking utensil the
thing In this county He said that
the market for gourds was brisk and
that they had become quite the thing,
as a drinking vessel in the fashion
able society of his community.
A case of pellagra, the victim Of
which claims never to have eaten
corn bread or any corn products, has
been discovered In Atlanta. Mrs. Kate
Barto Is the patient, and she is in
the last stages of the disease. DIR.
Frank ESkridge, who claims to have
treated many cases Of the disease,
says he doubted his own diagnosis
and thought she might be victim of
'Sprue,' disease known to the trop-
| les, with symptoms resembling those
4 Of pellegra. He called in physician
who has had years Of experience in
the tropics and found that. his orig
inal diagnosis was correct. Il am
convinced now" he said, That the di-
sease does not come from musty corn
products.
The second fight at Athens Of the
aeropiane Of Ben Epps and lump
HUFF was not as successful as the
first The first attempt at flight the
machine left the ground about one
foot for distance Of fifty yeards, but
at the second trial the aeroplane fail.
ed to leave the ground The attempt
at fight was witnessed by fully
thousand people The failure of the
| machine to fly is attributed to the
| roughness Of the ground and the poor
start received. Instead of having a
traekway prepared along which the
machine could glide to it's start, the
| young men chose to make the start
| on the plain hillside which had more
or less unevenness. The result was
| the machine got no start and there
was much lost motion, The twisting
| of the machine over the uneven
! ground caused one of the wheels to
spread and the machine was brought
| to sudden stop. The young men will
have trackway constructed at once
and will enlarge the propeller blades
of the machine. They were not in
the least daunted by their failure and
will try again in few days.
William H. Mitchell of brownsville
must serve twelve months on the
| chaingang. Governor Brown reached
| a conclusion on the famous case, and
announced that he would allow the
sentence of the court to stand undis-
turbed, thus ignoring the recommen-
/ dation of the prison commission to
change the sentence of twelve months
on the changing to a like period on
the state prison farm at MilIedgeVille.
Atlanta's postofice receipts for
| August, 1909, are $70,691.02, an in
crease of $2,474.S6 oyer the receipts
! for the same period last year This
means that unless something phenom-
email has happened in the Louisville
or New Orleans ofices, Atlanta has
more than retained her proud position
| which the July, 1909, figures gave her,
at the head Of all the posteffices in
the south. The figures for July 1909,
were $70,S45.S5, and represented an
increase Of $4,510.28 over the receipts
for the same period in 1908.
Fire swept three stores on Broad
street in Rome causing total dam
age of $4,000, fully covered by insur-
ance. The same section was visited
| by a $150.0O0 fire last January.
That Major ]. f. Hanson, president
! Of the Central of Georgia railroad,
Will file an answer to the suit for d.
vorce instituted by his wife, was DOS
itiVely indicated. Il will file nay an
swer to the petition for divorce with
the courts" said Major Hanson, after
seying that he did not care to discuss
the matter. He had just been called
upon for statement for publication.
Major Hanson returned to Atlanta,
after months vacation spent in the
west. 1t was during his absence that
Mrs. Hanson fled suit for total di-
vorce
Because no one in Albany can open
its doors, the big manganese safe of
the Citizens First National bank,
with a cash reserve Of $50. 600 In gold