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Show A H;rJ tlzv to tba Cc!cr.c!s; At last the Southern colonel has been stripped of his 'proud title,. and. unless he bore that military handle to his name bj virtue of some sort of commission,' com-mission,' he must hereafter be a plain mister at least In CJeorgia. According to the Macon Telegraph this is what happened to the colonels tbe other day: While the Superior court was in Bession in Lowndes the Sheriff went to the door and called a lawyer who. was wanted in the courtroom, preflxing "colonel" "colo-nel" to the name at each of the three calls. When the officer of the law came back to the inner inclo-sure inclo-sure of the bar Judge Robert Mitchell called him to his feet, and directed that in future he should drop the colonel prefix to lawyers names while he was serving :that court. He declared that all the colonels colo-nels in the court had been reduced to ranks. , It was a great folow to the colonels, but the court's action has been indorsed by the entire press of Georgia. |