The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-07-02
LATE NEWS NOTES.

Washington.
President Taft has signed the bill
providing funds for taking the census
Of 1910.
Following a policy Of retrenchment
there are to be no further increases
IN salaries In the custom service for
some time to come number of sal
aries We're to have been raised ON
July 1, the beginning of the fiscal
year, but Secretary MacVeagh has de-
| cided that these increases will not be
made until the treasury department
10 able to make a better financial
showing. The secretary is said to
| believe that. his department should
make the first response to the de-
mand for economy which is constant
| ~ coming to President Taft Other
wise, the secretary is put in the atti-
tude OF declining to raise the salar-
les OF employees In other departments,
but allowing his own officials to re-
ceive promotions.
Secretary NageI's determination to
remove clerks in the department Of
commerce and labor ought not to af-
| rect those from southern states. A
table prepared shows all Of these
| states have far below their quotes,
| Alabama under fair apportionment
| would be allowed one hundred and
! eighty-three. The state has but one
hundred and thirty-six. Arkansas
| quota is one hundred and thirty-one.
! 1t has ninety-eight Kentucky has one
hundred and ninety-fve out of the
two hundred and fifteen to which it
! Is entitled. Texas two hundred and
| eighty-four out Of three hundred and
! five; Mississippi one hundred and
| tWenty-three cut of one hundred and
! fifty-hve; Tennessee has it's exact
quota, two hundred and two.
General.
The Rev. G. R. Robbins, pastor of
the wealthy Lincoln Park Baptist
| church in Cincinnati, received an in
fernal machine, accompanied by
| note decorated with skull and cross
! bones, and saying he would suffer If
he did not stop his talk against the
| Black Hand.
Official orders have been issued pro-
| hlbitlng any United States circus
from parading on the streets of Win
nipeg, Manitoba, unless it flies
| British instead of an American flag.
Two trains met accidents in Col
! orado as a result apparently, of the
| intense heat, which is believed to
have twisted the rails Eight persons
! were hurt
| The Turin, Italy, Gazetts publishes,
under New York date, the state
ment that the Duke Of Abruzzi's
! marriage to Miss Katherine Elkins
has not been abandoned, but will oc-
| cur after the dukes return from his
| Himalayan expedition.
| When street car conductor was
convicted CT pilfering from the com
pany in Brooklyn, it was shown by
his own diary that his profits had
ranged from $3.50 to $11 day. He
was started for Sing Sing prison,
where he must serve two and half
| years at least.
/ X. s. Ellis, prominent capitalist
and ranchman of San Antonio, Tex,
who has been lying at the point of
| death, was operated on for an abcess
OF the throat. A parlor match was
removed which had lodged immedi-
ately above the vocal chords. Mr.. FL
lis, during a hearty laugh had swal-
lowed the match two months ago.
aged thirteen, sons of Contractor Val
Walter Wellman and the other
members of the expedition that is
! planning to reach the north pole
this summer, by airship, left Tromsoe,
/ Norway, on the steamer Attic, with
large quantity of material for the re-
| building Of the balloon shed at Spitz-
| bergen. The balloon shed was de-
stroyed last winter by a storm.
Joseph Junet, who farms a ranch
near Alton, ILL.,, has trained his flock
| of ducks in novel manner. Just
| now Junet is enjoying an income of
| S15 day from fifteen ducks. He put
them in a pen and fed them on pota-
to bugs exclusively until they were
accustomed to the diet. Then he turn
ed them loose in his potato patch and
they went through it like a neighbor-
hood scandal, entirely clearing it of
the bugs. The ducks are in great
/ demand on the farms in Junet's neigh
! borhood.
Before the war" prices were re-
ceiyed on the floor of the Houston,
/ Texas, cotton exchange when the first
bale of this season cotton sold at auc-
ton at $425. The bale came from
Mercedes, Hidalgo county, and weigh
ed two hundred and sixty-eight
| pounds.
The first newspaper ever printed in
balloon was received in Butler
county, Ohio, when a balloon from
Dayton passed over the western part
Of that county. The balloon was
/ equipped with corps of newspaper
men and printing press by Day
ton, Ohio, paper and as it scared over
the towns, miniature copies of the
paper, printed in the balloon basket,
We're thrown to the ground. When the
| balloon reached Woods Station. eight