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ESTABLISHED 1887. GEORGIA’S GOVERNOR He Is Now Lingering on the Brink of the Grave. . WORK OF THE SURGEON’S KNIFE. Dr, J. B. S. Holmes Performed the Operation. HIS STRONG AND DETERMINED FIGHT Against the Bnemv May Puli the Chief Ex ecutive Through the Trying Ordeal. No Change In His Condition. Atlanta, June lb.—Georgia’s gover nor lies at the mansion in a critical con dition from the effects of an operation made imperative on account of an at tack of appendicitis on Sunday morn ing. The operation c insisted in the remo val of the vermiform appendage which ’ jsiwJiKß ,r ' \ l * K ■ ’ GOVERNOR ATKINSO* •was found to be in a fearful state of in flamation and very much enlarged, and, but for its removal, death would have been inevitable within a few hours. It was about 3 o’clock Sunday morn ing when the governor was attacked first, and, so severe and unremitting was the pain, that it was feared for a time that he would succumb under the first stroke of the disease. His physi cians, however, succeeded in bringing about some relief by the use of power ful opiates, and all day Monday, and up to nearly midnight, they watched beside their patient until he should re cover sufficient strength for- the use of the knife, which had, early in the course of the malady, been determined as absolutely necessary. It was the -only hope. At 6 p. m. the governor was apprised -of the fact that the operation was nec essary, and, with wonderful courage and calmness, announced that he would submit, after he had made his will. He ■directed that Judge John L. Hopkins ' be sent for, which was done and, as soon as possible, the distinguished at torney was by the side of his distin guished client and the document was made out. The governor read it over carefully and then, turning to his pri vate secretary, called for the papers in the appeal of a condemned murderer, who had asked a respite at the chief ■executive’s hands. It was the case of John Ford of De catur county, sentenced to hang on Fri day, .lune 21. The governor had re viewed the testimony, which was main ly circumstantial, and with the affixing cf his signature to his will he signed a document which granted the doomed man a respite. When he had completed these pre liminaries he announced his readiness for the operation and expressed a be lief that he could stand the shock and survive, although if the worst came, he was ready to meet death. Dr. J. B. 8. Holmes performed the operation, assisted by Dr. Cooper, Dr. Nicholson and Dr. Westmoreland. Dr. Mcßae and Dr. Harris stood at their el bows to assist, the latter administering the ether. The physicians who performed the operation on Governor Atkinson, and who are still in attendance at his bed side, issued the following bulletin: We have just examined Governor At kinson and held a consultation over his condition. He rallied well from the op eration, has slept considerably since 4 o’clock, has a good pulse and no fever, and his condition at this hour is as good as we could reasonably expect. Atlanta, June 18.—At 6 o’clock tonight the governor’s condition was a little worse, but no immediate dan ger. 11:40 p. m.—Gov. Atkinson im proved slightly today, but the symp toms became alarming at 6 o’clock this afternoon. His temperature and pulse ran up. A consultation of his physicians was hastily Summoned for 10 o’clock tonight. The doctors were in conference at Dr. Holmes’ sanita rium for one hour, and then gave out a bulletin stating there had been another change for the better. This consultation was just twenty four hours after the’ operation. At midnight the doctors are much en couraged. The governor’s tempera' -ture and pulse have both fallen slightly. He speaks in a clear voice, breathes better, and says he feels, better. The symptoms of Jperionitis! are no more threatening than they] THE ROHE TRIBUNE. I were today. While his condition is L extremely critical, there is more ground for hope than there has been since the attack of appendicitis first f became manifest. The dispatches after midnight stated that Gov. Atkinson was still improv , ing- SOUTH CAROLINA’S CASES. 1 The State Goes to the United States Su preme Court With Them. Washington, Juno 18.—The South I Carolina railroad cases which have at tracted general attention during the past three years, have reached the United States supreme court, They are brought to this tribunal at the in stance of the state on an appeal from a decision of Judge Himonton of the • United States circuit court of the dis . trict of South Carolina, allowing cer tain counsel fees on the ground that his 1 court was without jurisdiction. There ■ are several of the cases, but the most 1 important of them, and the one upon which all hinges, is that of the state of South Carolina vs. the Port Royal and Augusta Railroad company. i The record is a very voluminous doc ument, but the gist of the complaint as made by the state is that the Port Roy al road, which has been a part of the Central railroad system of Georgia since 1881, has been run in the interest of that company to such an extent as to bankrupt the Port Royal line and do great injury to certain South Carolina interests which the road as originally chartered was intended to subserve. It is asserted that whereas ther road while under independent management made contracts advantageous to its in terests with other railroad companies, maintained its own line of steamers and built docks, wharves and grain ele vators at Port Royal, it is now so con ducted as to “keep it at the lowest state of life compatible with existence at all.” It is also asserted in the bill of con plaint that the business of the road I been diverted, the elevators and what. os dismantled and that one purpose of this proceeding has been to build up the line of steamers owned b.y the Georgia company running out of Savannah to Boston and New York. It is also . shown that the Georgia system is in the hands of a receiver who as appoint ’ ed also has control of the South Caro- J lina road. This is a state es affairs alleged to be • illegal Hence the effort is to have the I receiver ousteld and the independence ! of the Port Royal road re established, i Failing to secure this result the state i asks to have the road deprived of its charter. r . . AGAINST FREE SILVER. I • [ Kentucky Democrat* Will Not Support lilt White Metal Claims. I Louisville, June 18.—It is still an [ open question who will win the Demo , cratic nomination for governor, but it is not an onen question as to what the Democratic state convention will do about free silver. The voice of the ’ Kentucky Democracy has emphatically rebuked the free silver craze. Nearly ’ half the delegates selected are either ’ instructed to vote against free silver or 1 are known to be opposed to it. Many others, friendly to silver, are individu ally and as representatives of the con J ventions which chose them, opposed to the policy of making any declaration for free silver in the state platform. 1 Neither General P. W. Hardin nor Cassius M. Clay has anything like enough instructed votes to win on the first ballot. There are 878 votes, and 440 necessary to a choice. One hun dred and fourteen out of 119 counties give Hardin for governor 269; Clay 201; Alford, 2; Buckner, 5. ■ The uninstructed vote is 364. Conn ’ ties not heard from have only 13 votes. Interested In Kentucky’s Fisht. Topeka, June 18.—In his telegram . regretting his inability to attend the silver conference here, Senator W. M. , Stewart says: “Am enlisted in Kentucky silver > fight; can’t be with you. Restoration of silver is the only hope to stop falling prices and destruction of American • homes. No other issue of importance ; compares with the necessity of breaking the gold corner. One more gold presi- i dent will down the Americans to servi tude perhaps for all time. Four-fifths of the American people are opposed to any kind of money, the purchasing . power of which grows in a safe. i "The growing purchasing power of ■ money must be stopped. We can do it with silver and with nothing else. The government is in the hands of the ene my. Give it no more rest until the people secure control. Let Kansas lead : and enough will follow to restore the 3 government to the people.” B«< b 11 n Atlanta, June 18.—The Southern • League games today resulted as fol - lows: ; Atlanta 10, Chattanooga 7. I Montgomery 2, New Orleans 4. Nashville 3, Evansville 12. ’ Little Rock 7, Memphis 2. > The Big League. Washington, June 18.—Baseball . games were played today with the following results: 1 Philadelphia 6, Pittsburg 3. New York 10. Cincinnati 3. Boston 7, Cleveland 3. 5 Baltimore 3, St. Louis 5. Washington 4, Chicago 6. ‘ Brooklyn 6, Louisville 5. t Prof, Declines. , Atlanta, June 18.—Prof. Harry i .-White was recently offered the presi- Jdency of the Technological school, ■ | today declined. ROME. GA.. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 19. 1895. SOUTHERN INDUSTRY. Favorable Conditions in Trade Circles Are Increased. WAGES WILL ADVANCE SHORTLY. Factories Still Springing Up In AH Sections. LOCAL CAPITAL BEING BROUGHTOUT. New Enterprises of Every Description Ara Also Reported In The Tradesman’s Review of the Week. Chattanooga, June 18. —The Trades man has received reports of industrial conditions in all parts of the south' for the week ending June 17, which are to the effect that the favorable conditions of manufacturing and mercantile busi ness have been increased by the ad vance in the price of iron and the firm ness in quotations for all staple prod ucts. The large manufacturing con cerns throughout the south will ad vance wages shortly, and some of them have already done so. Iron products of all kinds are ad vancing in sympathy with pig iron, the bar iron quotation having been ad vanced SI.OO during the week. Textile mills continue to be reported in large numbers, representing investments of local capital. The list of new coton mills for the week includes a mill at Rock Hill, S. C., to cost $200,000, one at Goldsboro, N. C., capitalized at SIOO,OOO, one costing $75,000 at Wage ner, S. C., and others at New Decatur, Ala., and Pulaski, Tenn. A SIO,OOO knitting mill is reported at Athens, Ga., and one at Durham, N. C. A large cotton mill is to be established at Birmingham, Ala., by removal from a northern point. Among the important new industries established or incorparated in the south ern states during the week, are: The Kanawaha Valley Coal company of Charleston, W. Va., capital $1,000,000; the Empire Coal Mining company of Ashboro, N. C., with $600,000 capital, and the Cottonseed Deolinting and Oil company of New Orleans, La., with $400,000 capital. A sugar mill to cosu $250,000 is to be established at Henriet ta, Tex., and a manufacturing compa ny with the same capital at Savannah, Ga. The American Delinter company, capital $200,000, has been chartered at Little Rock, Ark., the Linton Coated Paper company with the same capital at Richmond, Va., the Machine and Shipbuilding company, capital $150,000 at New Orleans, La., and the R. M. McCoy Lumber company, capital $125,- 000, at Helena, Ark. The Crown Hill Colliery company been chartered at Crown Hill, W. Va., with SIOO,OOO cap ital; the Economy Electric company, capital $50,000 at Parkersburg, W. Va.; the Kenton Paper company with the same capital at Louisville, Ky., and the McGregor Cotton Oil company,cap ital $50,000, at McGregor, Tex The Tradesman also reports the or ganization at Big Shanty, Tex., of the Big Sandy Lumber company, with $5,- 000 capital, of the Arcadia Lumber com pany, capital $250,000, at Monroe, 1 La., and of planing mills with SI,OOO capital at Galveston, Tex. A SIO,OOO oil mill is to be built at Cullman, Ala., and imple ment works with the same capital have been organized at Chattanooga, Tenn. An oil mill is to be built at Ladonia, Tex., a tannery at Galveston, Tex., and woodworking plants at Riverside, Ala., Fannin and Jacksonville, Fla , Little Rock, Fort Smith and Helena, Ark., Athens, Ga., Dunn, Goldsboro and Thomasville, N. C., Monroe, La., Er win, Tenn., and North River, Va. BOUGHT A TOWN. A Boston Syndicate Expends Two Millions In Wisconsin For n Tannery Site. morse, June 18. —A syndicate of Bos ton capitalists has purchased every thing in this town except the school - house, and will take possession in a short time. The purchase includes the entire outfit of the Penokee Lumber company, every building of every kind and all the mercantile interests of every kind. The price paid is supposed to be in the neighborhood of $2,000,000. The syndicate will establish the larg est tannery in Wisconsin, giving em ployment to nearly 1,000 men. The tannery plant will cost in the neighbor hood of $500,000. It is said that the intention of the promoters is to run the town of Morse on much the same plan as the town of Pullman, Ills. Lots of Foreigners Land. New York, June 18.—Five transat lantic steamers which have just reach ed their piers in this city brought in the aggregate 1,844 steerage passengers. The Werra which sailed from. Naples contributed 700 of these; the Alsatia from men, 312; -he Friesland from Antwerp, 800, and the State of Nebraska from Glasgow, 59. Rich Find In California. Stockton, June 18.—A number of Btpcktonians are on the qui vive over the reported find of over $1,000,000 of treasure on the Island of Cocos, near Veraguas, in the department of Pana ma. There are some 30 citizens who think they have an interest in the mil lions of Spanish doubloons supposed to have been hidden on the island. SOUTHERN EDITORS. They Give Their, Opinion* Upon the Free Silver Coinage Question. Baltimore, June 18.—The News con tains letters from many prominent southern editors, giving thei. opinions on the silver question and tne drift of sentiment in their respective sections. J. P. Caldwell of the Charlotte Ob server: “I am opposed to the unlimited coinage of silver by this country inde pendently of national agreement. The next national Democratic convention should declare for sound money in such terms as to leave no doubt that it is op posed to the free coinage of silver. The sentiment of this section is in favor of free coinage. This is the almost unan imous sentiment of the agricultural districts, while the majority &f the sen timent of th4 towns perhaps favors sound money.*’ R. M. Johnson, the Houston Daily Post: “The last national Democratic plat form about Expresses my idea of the silver question. lam in favor of coin age of both gold and silver without dis crimination against either, but with legislative safeguards to the extent of preserving the parity of the two.” H. J. Hearsey, The Dairy States, New Orleans: “I agree with the president and Secretary of the Treasury Carlisle, and am for sound money. In my opin ion the right thing would be the plank in the Chicago platform of 1892, with the addition of a more specific and ringing declaration in favor of the re peal of 10 per cent taxes on state bank issues under proper safeguards, or an amendment to the national banking law that will enable farmers and other owners of other unincumbered estates to be able to get banking privileges at a reasonable rate of interest. Such a declaration would do more to check the silver craze in this portion of the south than all things else combined. “A large majority of the business men of New Orleans and the larger interior cities are for ‘sound money.’ In the rural districts of the state, the free and unlimited silver coinage craze largely predominates. I think there has been little change during the time speci fied.” n Raleigh, N. C., News and Observer: “I am in favor of unlimited coinage of silver by this country independently of international agreement. The money plank in the next Democratic national platform should declare for bimetallism, embracing free coinage at 16 to 1. The sentiment of my section on this ques tion is for silver. Whatever change has taken place has been increasing the sentiment in favor of free coinage of silver. ” G. A Baskette, the Nashville Ban ner: “I am opposed to the unlimited coin age of silver independently of interna tional agreement. -should be no straddling of the issue. The Democracy should adhere to the gold standard but express its desire for international co operation to make the most of the white metal. Public sentiment in this section is divided. Doubtless at this time the majority of the people would vote for free silver coinage but I think there has been appreciable weakening in. the free silver sentiment in this state in the last few months.” A. B. Pickett, The Evening Scimitar, Memphis: “I am opposed to the unlimited coin age of silver by this country independ ently and regard bimetallism as an ir ridiscent dream. The government should retire from the banking busi ness. Until lately the masses of the people had given very little attention to the subject and comparatively few had any fixed convictions. I am in clined to believe the tide has already begun to turn and that the free silver cry will not be anything like as voci ferous when the next Democratic na tional convention meets as it is at pres ent.” J. F. McGowan of the Chattanooga Times: “The<Chattanooga Times opposes the unlimited coinage of silver by this country independent of international agreement. The money plank of the next Democratic national convention should be a repetition of the one adopt ed in Chicago in 1892. The southern sentiment for free silver is strong; it is not as strong as it was a few months ago. There has been a considerable modification towards sound money since congress adjourned.” H. H. Clayton. Roanoke. Va.. Timest “I favor the free and unlimited coin age of silver at 16 to 1 by the United States without considering Europa Mr. Cleveland has built up a school of more than a million of voters who accept without scrutiny and vote without rea son the directions of the gold bugs, doctrines which, if followed, will bank rupt 80 per cent of the people of this country. I think unlimited coinage of silver is gaining friends in southwest Virginia. The 'campaign of education* is doing the work. ” On Her Vahlrn Trip. Glasgow, June 18.—Valkyri 111. the challenger for America’s cup, started on her maiden trip here. She was tow ed out from Goureck at 2:30 p. m. and was let go in mid-channel, proceeding down to the Firth. Lord Dunraven and the designer of the new yacht, Mr. George L. Watson, were on board. Governor Mitchell lias signed tne death warrants of George Mitchell and Henry Brown of Suwanee county, con victed of murder, to be hanged at Live Oak, Fla, on Wednesday, July 17. Al Benson and Bert Rockett engaged in a duel upon the streets of Bessemer, near Birmingham, Ala, and Rockett was shot through the heart, dying in stantly. Benson was denied bail and locked up. They were both liquor sel lers. CIVIL SERVICE RULES Postmasters Must Have a Care How They Discharge. PARTISANSHIP MAY CROP OUT. The Civil Service Commission Makes an Important Report UPON THEkWORKINGS OF THE LAW And Lays Down a Few Points by Which Postmasters Should be Governed 1Q Making Changes Washington, June 18.—The forth coming annual report of the United States civil service commission will show that the whole number of per sons regularly employed in the civil service of this country is about 200,000. Os these approximately one-fourth are in the classified service subject to com petitive examinations under the civil service rules. Os those in the unclassi fied service 22,000 are laborers, 5,000 are appointed by the president subject to confirmation by the senate, 1,500 are in the legislative branch of the govern ment, and 2,700 are in the judicial branch. The civil service act excludes these classes from classification. The total number of positions affected by the extension of civil service rules from March 4, 1894 to Jan. 3, 1895, was 8,184. Os these, 5,537 were added to the classified service by original classi fication and 2,647 by transfer of places classified but excepted from examina tion to list of places subject to competi tive examination. Since Jan. 8 all employes of the agri cultural department have been brought into the classified service except the secretary and assistant secretary of ag riculture, a private secretary to each, the chief of the weather bureau and his private secretary, the chief clerk of a department and his private secretary and laborers. An unusually large number of holi days is allowed, especially in the orient al countries. They are a rule religious ones, Christmas and New Year’s day being generally observed in the Euro pean countries. In Some, national events are also celebrated. The report gives an exhaustive review of the investigations of violasions of the civil service laws among the postoffices. The commission holds that where a postmaster makes sweeping removals of employes of one party and fills the vacancies by the appointment of per sons of the opposite party, there is a presumption that he is controlled in the matter by political considerations, and is to be so judged unless he shows to the contrary the burden of proof resting upon him. Undoubtedly there are cases where such presumption will be overcome by a disclosure of the facts showing that there was a justifia ble cause for every removal, and that selections for appointment were made in strict conformity to the civil service rules. But even in some of these cases, although the record is technically cor rect, the law has nevertheless been evaded. Many cases have come to the notice of the commission where employes of one political party were freely dis missed for offenses which perhaps justi fied the action, but which passed unno ticed when committed by employes of the opposite political party. A public officer is not to be relieved on the charge of partisanship when he has ap plied different standards of discipline to persons of opposite political parties. Moreover, when he finds it necessary to make sweeping removals of employ es opposed to him in political faith, it is his duty to make the public under stand that he is not actuated by politi cal bias by taking such affirmative ac tion as will prevent the necessity of making appointments from registers on which all the names are members of his own political party. A WRONG IMPRESSION, Sir Edward Gray’. Statement In Regard io the Venezuela Question. Washington, June 18.—Sir Edward Gray’s statement in parliament that Ambassador Bayard had been informed that Great Britain would consent to the arbitration of the Venezuela ques tion under certain conditions, creates some surprise among officials here, as Sir Edward’s statement is calculated to show that Great Britain has accepted the suggestion of the United States, whereas it has been declined. The desire of Venezuela is to arbi trate the entire boundary question and the request of Mr. Bayard in behalf of the United States was in this direction. But the answer of Great Britain, as given in the Associated Press dispatch es at the time, was that no arbitration was admissible as regards certain terri tory which Great Britain asserts is her’s .though she offered to arbitrate concerning other territory as to which apparently Great Britain regarded her title as less clear. The practical effect of this was to re ject the only proposition the United States had presented. A similar an swer was given by Great Britain to Venezuela five years ago and was re jected as an indirect refusal to arbi trate. Shingle shippers Combine. Seattle, Wash., June 18.—Repre sentatives of 28 firms of Tacoma, Port land and Mount Vernon, which ship 80 per cent of the shingle output of the Pacific coast northwest, have organ ized the Pacific Lumber and Shingle Shippers' aeeooiasmu PRICE FIVE CENTS. MATTERS AT KIEL. Care Will Have to Be Exercised to Keep Peace Among Nations. New York, June 18.—A special to The Herald from Paris says: Kiel was the reason for the speech delivered by M. Hanotaux, French min ister of foreign affairs, and it was also the reason for the conferring by the czar of the decoration of the Order of St. Andrew upon President Faure—two facts of capital importance. But other demonstrations of a similar sort are ex pected this week at Kiel. It is probable that the Russian and French fleets will start for and depart from Kiel concur rently, and will also afterward proceed together to Copenhagen to coal These two movements of the fleets will be one demonstration, but a coun ter demonstration by the German em peror is probabla Reports received by diplomatists say that the emperor will make a speech expressing his pleasure at seeing all the nations of Europe as his guests, and especially two such friends as France and Russia, who have all his sympathy and whose friend he himself wishes to be. This speech will be the culmination of the festivities, and it is dreaded by every one. “The kaiser, at the present moment, is very inimical to England,” saida diplomat in speaking of the matter, “and French statesmen have very much blundered since 1870. They ought to have been able to turn the public opin ion of France against England, for England is France’s sole enemy. In diplomatic circles it is hoped that everything will pass of happily at Kiel. Stringent orders have been given to all the admirals, with the object of pre venting any departure from the official ly prescribed order of ceremonies. ANOTHER REPLY. Turkey Finds New Loopholes to Get Out of Doing Right by Armenians. Constantinople, June 18. The Turkish government has made a fresh reply to the note of the powers, out lining the reforms insisted upon for Armenia. The porte accepts the prin ciple of the proposed reforms, but re quests that several of the points be dis cussed before any action is taken. The Turkish government also denies that the terms of the treaty of Berlin confer the right of demanding the guar antees formulated by the powers and expresses the hope that the sultan’s sovereign rights will not be prejudiced. T.h-j impression which prevails here is that this last reply is tantamount to a refusal and it is feared that the pow ers will adopt more urgent measures to enforce their demands. The British Mediterranean squ idron which arrived at Beyrouth on June 8, has sailed from that port for Tripoli. Reinforcements of Russian troops, it has now been definitely ascertained, have been sent to the Turkish frontier in the vicinity of Armenia, in order to prevent the passage of marauders and supplies of arms and ammunition. WOMEN WRANGLE. American W. O. T. U. Charged With Sym pathy With Lyncher#—A ."Spirited l ime. London, June 18.—There was a large and enthusiastic gathering at the meet ing in the City Temple of the British Woman’s Temperance association. Miss Florence Balgarnie accused Miss Fran ces E. Willard, president of the Wom en’s Christian Temperance union, and the Women’s Christian Temperance union of America of being apologists for the lynchings in the southern part of the United States. But both Miss Willard and the W. C. T. U. were am ply exonerated from the charges. Miss Willard made a spirited defense of herself and of the union and was ably seconded by other delegates. A resolution carried unanimously declar ing that the council emphatically be lieved that the American W. C. T. U. maintained towards the lynching ques tion the same attitude as other Chris tian bodies, namely, that under no cir cumstances must human life be taken Without process of law. YOUNG GRADY WEDS. His Marring* to Mhi Grace Gould of St. Louis at Oconomowoc. Oconomowoc, Wis., June 18.—The wedding here of Miss Grace Gould, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David B. Gould of St. Louis, and Henry W. Grady of Atlanta, Ga., was an event that will long be remembered by so journers at this popular lake resort The ceremony took place at 9 o’clock at Z:on Episcopal church, the Rev. Frederick Jewell officiating. A reception followed at the superb new granite and redwood cottage of Mr. Gould on Lac la Belle. Fifteen hundred invitations had been issued and the assemblage was an exceedingly brilliant one. Robfie.r oi 86,000 by Bandits. Nozales, A T., June 18.—E. B. Woodruff, paymaster for the Nacaro Copper company, managed by John Weir of New York, and who is oper ating big mines in the state of Sonoro, report that on Thursday last while travelling by buckboard to Nacaro from Bisbee, A. T., with money to pay the employes, he was attacked by masked men near Cachuta, a point about 40 ■miles south of the. Arizona line and more than 100 miles southeast of No gales. The driver, a man named Mo reno, was killed and $6,000 was taken by the brigands. Another Ship Stranded. Charleston, June 18.— The schooner William H. Schubert, Captain Sloan, bound from Pascagoula, Miss., to New York with a cargo of lumber put into port in a leaking condition with 15 in ches of water in her hold.