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Weklj Clrwide & ConOitiomilist.
sssiss j?;?: j consolidated march iy, iayy.
OFFICIAL REPORTS.
WHAT SEVERAL. OFFICERS OF THE
STATE HAVE TO SAY.
An In i nf; Statement of the Sta(<-'«
AfTairi a« Made by the Comptroller.
Gmcral—Thelnt-renxe in Georgia Prop
erty—The Atylum for the Insane, Etr.
Several reports of the beads of depart
ments have ju6t been issued from the press,
namely : Tfce report of Comptroller-General
Wrigbt, the trustees of the lunatic asjlnrr,
the trustees of the academy for the blind
and the report of the board of trustee* and
officers of the institute for tfce education of
the deaf and dnmb. The most important of
these reports is that of the Comptroller-
Oeneral. It abows some very impor
tant as well as gratifying things con
cerning the increase of the taxable value
of property in the State. The report
covers 171 pages and is principally com
posed of tabulated statements which it is
impossible to reproduce here. The state
ment of receipts aid disbursements shows
that the balance in the Treasury October
7tb, 1881, was $794,547 51. and the re
ceipts to September 30th, 1882, were sl,-
009,432 10. making a total to be accounted
for off 2.403,979 61. The amount paid
out by warrants from October Gtb, 1881, to
September 30tb, 1882, was f 1,713,507 46,
leaving balsnce in the Treasury of $690,-
472 15. This is not all cash but represents
cash values with the exception of the money
still due from the broken State depositories,
the Citizens’ Bank and Bank of Rome. The
actual cash is $310,046 41.
The increase in the value of property is
very marked. It amounts in actual figures
to $16,255,513. Tb« total value of pro
perty in 1881 was $270,993,888. So that
the value of the taxable property in 1882 is
$287,249,403. l’be increase in cotton
manufactures is a little over a million; in
improved lands, $3,865,395; city and town
propertv, $4,831,186, and railroads sl,-
988,169. In speaking of the State’s rev
enue, Mr. Wright says that for the next two
yearp,so rapidly are we regainin'; our former
wealth, there will be do necessity for an in
crease in the rate of taxation in order
to meet the demands of the State. The in
crease for 1882, added to the increase for
1881, shows an increase for the two years
amounting to thirty-five millions, two hun
dred and thirty-two thousand, seven hun
dred and sixty one dollars. At the present
rate of taxation tbe revenue has been in
creased in tbe sum of one hundred and tiv.»
thousand, six hundred and ninety-eight
dollars. This state of affairs is not merely
spasmodic, but is the outcome of the pro
gressive spirit Vith which the people are
beiDg imbued, tbe natural advantages that
Oeorgia is blessed with as a State, and the
wise administration of “home government,”
and will doubtless increase so rapidly in
the next few years that the State’s indebted
ness oan and will be met at even a less rate
of taxation than that which is now being
levied.
The School Fund.
The present school fond is derived as fol
lows: One-half the rental of the Western
and Atlantic Railroad, tbe dividends from
the stock owned by the State in tbe Geor
gia Railroad, tbe net income derived from
hire of convicts, and net amount of fees
arising from the inspection of fertilizers,
the special taxes imposed on shows and
liquor dealers; from these souroeg the
school fund, (tobe apportioned by the State
School Commissioner) in the Treasury on
the lit of July last, the dav of apportion
ment fixed by law, was $272,474 91 and
derived as follows:
From one-h&lf rental Western and At
lantic Railroad, $150,000; from dividends
Georgia Railroad stock. $1,116; from net
hire of convicts, $19,192; from fees of in
spectors of fertilizers, $56,198 S9;fqok tax
on shows. $5,794 76; from tax on liquor
dealers, $41,767 71. From this, after de
ducting the warrants chargeable under tbe
law to the fund, amounting to $4,494 45,
leaves a balanoe to be apportioned of $272,-
574 91.
The Insurance Companies.
The increase in premiums from fire in
surance over the year 1881, is $124,176
09, and the increase of tax and fees during
the same period is $1,199 85. Daring the
past year $118,048 367 has been carried by
insurance against fire at a cost of $1,107,'-
363 34. or less than an average rate of one
per cent. per annum. The business has
not been remunerative as tbe losses amount
to $991,329 86. The two destructive fires
in the business portion of Atlanta contribu
ted about $300,000 to this loss. The re
ports of regular life insuranee compa
nies shows a falling off Os the matri
monial associations, Mr. Wright says: “A
new and rather anomalous co-operative as
sociation has made its appearance within a
year or two. It is the marriage endowment
plan which has nothing bnt its name to
commend it to the public. It has become,
as I learn, within the short period of its
existence, almost entirely speculative in its
obaracter. If a young person, male or fe
male. is expected to be married, hundreds
of policies are taken out by persons not hav
ing the slightest interest in either of tbe
parties, If tbey are to be allowed to do
business in the State, I would suggest that
a law be so framed that the claimant should
furnish proof of interest. This at least
would relieve them of their most objection
able feature and no doubt close the busi
ness. I have uniformly declined to admit
fire insurance companies claiming to be as
sessment companies. Such might be made
snecessfnl as strictly local companies, bnt
could not do a general business. There is
still a good deal of clandestine insurance in
the State.”
Tire Lunatic Asylum.
The report of the Trustees and Superin
tendent of the Lunatic Asylnm is very in
teresting. The report states there are dow
in the inatitntion 979 patients, fully 100,
if not 179, more than should be therein, to
insure them proper care and treatment
The Superintendent estimates that for the
year 1883 there will be an average of 1,-
200 patients in the Asylnm, and for 1884,
when all the projected new buildings will !
be completed and occupied. 1,400 patieots; !
for these the trustees ask an appropriation
for 1883 of $160,000; and for 1884, of
$190,000, being at the rate of 35 cents per
patient each day, and including the pay
ment of all expenses of every kind, viz;
Salaries of officers, employes, clothing, wp
subsistence, fuel and* transportation, ordi
nary and extraordinary repairs, and im
provements of all the buildings and other
property ot tha State, medical supplies, and
various contingencies. It seems that there
is no insurance on the propertv, and that
fact is brought to the attention of the Gov
ernor. A large balance is brought forward,
but that is explained by the statement that
the Trustees feared the appropriations
might not be sufficient for the expenses of
the year, sod necessary improvements and
repairs were postponed until tbe end of
the years, when it wonld be positively known
whether the money would be in hand to do
the work. It has been found f that the in
stitution has gone through the year and
laid np money enough to pay for the im
provements and repairs, and they have
been entered upon. It will require the
whole unexpended balance to pay the ■ cost
of this work.
The Death* at tbe Asylum.
The deaths at the Asylum have been as
follows daring the year: Twenty-one from
general chronic exhaustion, seventeen from
epilepsy, eight from old age, eight from
paralysis, four from diarrhoea, five from
consumption, two from dysentery, two from
apoplexy, one fiom general debility, six from ,
; marasmus, one from heart disease, ore from
j effasion of heart and lungs--, one acute eon
i gestion of tha lungs, one pneumonia, one
| congestion of the bowels, one carbuncles.
There have been received 144 chronic
cases and 113 acute. Fifty-nine have been
i received in a very feeble anaemic condition
■ from chronic and acute disease, seme so
‘ feeble they coaid not walk without assist
ance, and some almost exhausted by the trip
to the institution, helpless and hopeless
cases of paralysis and senile imbecility with
the indications of mental and physical de
cay; nothing to justify a hope that they
could live but a short while. Even the
friends do not appear to appreciate their
true condition; they are brought to tbe asy
lum bs the laA resort, their friends still
entertaining hopes’ of mental and physical
recovery, gome of them living only a few
days or weeks after reception. There are
but few cases that can be cured within tbe
next year. There are now 73 more patients
in the asylnm than at the game time last
year.
The work on the new buildings has not
been as rapid as desirable, and owing to tbe
increase in tbe price of labor an additional
appropriation will be asked for.
The Deaf and Dumb and Blind.
The report of the trnstees and officers of
tbe Asylum for tbe Blind shows that the
amount necessary to carry on the institu
tions for the next two years is $139,000,
which includes S9OO necessary for com
pleting some improvements that are need
ed, some of which have been already begun.
A site for an academy for colored persons
was purchased daring the last year, and
upon it the trustees have erected a substan
tial brick builaing, with capacity for about
forty pupils, and which, though not yet
completed, is being used for opening the
school while the work is yet going on. A
farther appropriation is asked by tbe prin
cipal to complete, heat and furnish this
building. There are 38 white males on the
roll and 28. white females, and two colored
males.
The Academy for the Deaf and Dumb has
35 male pupils and 25 females; a total ol
60. The $5,000 appropriated for erecting
a school building has not been used as it
was regarded as insufficient. The expendi
tures for the year ending September 30tb,
1882, were $14,773 68. In the colored
department the expenditures for the same
time were $1,444 42. The appropriation
asked for for the' next two years is $59,
500, $19,500 of which it is proposed to ex'
pend on improvements and new buildings
CEATR L RAILROAD.
Report of the President and Director*.
The Savannah Xeics publishes the report
of the President and Directors of the Cen
tral Railroad, in advance of its regular issue.
The report shows that the company owns
312 miles of road in fee simple, and con
trols 418 miles of leased lines and 420
miles operated by separate companies. The
earnings of the Ocean Steamship Company
represent a net income of $1,366 60 per
mile. The whole system of roads operated
by the company during the year has aver
aged $1,399 per mile. The fitting debts
of all the roads composing the Central sys
tem prop3r at the commencement of the
last fiscal year (September Ist, 1881), were
as follows :
Central Railroad and Bank
ing Company $1,152,348 20
Ocean Steamship Company.. 524,000 00
Montgomery and Enfaula
Railway 300,000 00
Total $2,376,348 20
At the commencement of the present
fiscal year (September 1, 1882), the floating
debts were as follows ;
Central Railroad and Bank
ing Company $ 825,000 00
Ocean Steamship Company.. 100,000 00
Total $ 925,000 00
Reduction during year $1,451,348 20
This reduction was made by the disposal
of securities held among the assets of the
company, available for the purpose, with
out interfering with the interests in the
connecting system. There remain, among
our present assets, other securities held
temporarily, and not estimated in the fore
going exhibits of property, which are more
than sufficient to extinguish the remainder
of the floating debt.
The tables exhibit a general falling off in
gross receipts daring the year 1882, as com
pared with 1881. The falling off averages
about 6 per cent, on our principal roads,
and it is doubtless due to tbe exceptional
ly bad crops of the last cotton year. But as
compared with 1880, all the roads show
gross receipts of about ten per cent, in ex
cess, which indicates a steady growth df the
business.
In regard to the Georgia Railroad lease,
the report says : “This lease went into op
eration April Ist, 1881. It was determined
by the management for the lessees, very
soon afterward, to immediately put tbe
road in the best possible condition for eco
nomical operation, regardless of the finan
cial results until that was done. As all the
improvements were charged to operat
ing expenses, and as the gross re
ceipts were diminished by the short crops,
the net income for the first year
of the lease was bnt $449,521 18. It
was also determined to extend the Athens
branch across to Oconee river to a favorable
location in the city of Athens, in order to
compete on better terms for the Athens
business, and of the above net resnlts $16,-
409 22 were applied to that extension.
This amonnt, though an asset of the lessees
and a source of fature revenue, and proper
ly borne on the books to be refunded at the
expiration of the lease, has been deducted
from the net earnings of the Georgia Road
in estimating the Central Railroad’s half of
the deficiency on this lease, shown in ta
ble 7.
The General Manager of the Georgia Rail
road, however, in his report, estimates the
value of betterments put upon the road dur
ing the year, in addition to the work on the
Athens branch, $207,370 67, which is
$56,891 85 more than the deficiency.
During the first six months of the year
current at the date of this report, the ex
tension of the Athens branch has been near
ly completed (the total co3t when finished
will be about $100,000). and the conteo.
plated betterments have been so fit ad
vanced that it has recently been thought
best to suspend what remains to be done,
and distribute it gradually over a longer
period. The whole main line of this road
is in steel, and much economy of operation
will resnlt from the improvements that
have been made. The business of tbe road
justifies tbe hope that the lease will become
after this fiscal year a source of direct profit
in addition to'the increased facilities for
competition which we enjoy over the leased
lines.
Gen. Grant's View* of Fitz John Porter.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.
New York, November 15.— 1 n the Decem
ber number of the North American Review,
issued to-day, General Grant has an article
ot ten pages entitled “An Undeserved
Stigma,” in which he reviews the Fitz John
Porter case. He reaches the conclusion,
from military considerations, that the find
ing of the court martial was erroneous, and
that great wrong was done to Gen Porter,
which ought to be undone as far as is now
possible and as speedily as possible.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 22, 18V<$ VOLUME XCV TERMS—S 2 A YEAR.
POLITICAL.
WHAT SOME OF THE BIG ME A SAY.
Senator Vest's Views—The Cau.se of the
Revolution Opposition to Randall'*
Tariff Ideas.
(Dispatch to Philadelphia Times.)
Washington*. November 13.—Senator Vest
arrived from the West to-night, fresh from
the political field of carnage. He says the
recent victory insures success in 1884.
Nothing but the most atrocious blunders
can prevent it. He thinks the real cause of
defeat is the growing conviction
of the people that the party represents mo
nopoly and centralization. He found the
discussion of these two topics in his can
vass most excited the attention and interest
of the people. Mr. Arthur i 3 looked upon
as a machine politician, entirely under the
control of the great monopolists. The atro
cious system of political assessments under
him was cited in illustration. The Senator
said the story of the assessment of that
Philadelphia cat always brought down
the house and made a good maoy
votes as an absurd illustration of a
corrupt system. The tariff was very gener
ally discussed in his canvass and the senti
ment is tariff for revenue only. This ques
tion, the Senator thinks, is the greatest now
before the American people. A tariff for
revenue with incidental protection is Dem
ocratic doctrine. He does not believe in
the entire abolition of the internal revenue
system, bnt thinks we should retain the
taxation of whiskey and tobacco. The tariff
wonld form the leading feature of the con
test for the Speakership. Mr. Randall be
regards as the representative of the high
protective tariff idea. His methods of gov
erning the House were very objeotionable.
In the Senator’s opinion Randall did
more to defeat the party the last time than
anybody else. Opposed to him was Mr.
Carlisle, a broad gauge man, who repre
sented the progressive ideas of the party.
Carlisle is entirely opposed to Randall’s
tariff theories and Randall’s methods. Sen
ator Vest hopes there will be a square issue
brought on this tariff business. He be
lieved Carlisle would be Speaker. He will
muster a large majority of the Southern
and Western vote. He was a Union man
during tbe war and above sectional feeling.
Senator Vest thinks if Cleveland can bold
the party together in New York, aud give
bis State a popular aDd pure government
he will be the Democratic nominee in 1884.
He thinks it now lies between three men
Cleveland, McDonald and Thurman.
REPRESENTATIVE CARLISLE’S
VIEWS.
The Republican Party Dead.
Hon John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky, was
intetviewed last Siturday. He said a good
many things; but he was particularly hap
pv in speaking of the Republican party.
H* said:
“It seems from present appearances that
the breach is permanent, and that tbe pro
cess of disintegration will go steadily on
from this time forth. I have never believed
that the Republican party could survive a
single defeat in a national contest, and by
that I mean a contest involving the posses
sion of the Executive power of the Govern
ment. It has always seemed to me that
when tbe war closed, and the questions
growing out of the war had been settled ac
cording to the Republican plan, tbe mission
of that party as a national organization was
practically ended. Thereafter it lived only
to hold the offices, and its life was sustained
solely by official patronage and the improper
use of official authority. There has not
be n a time, in my opinion, since 1876,
when a full and fair vote of the people, free
from all improper influences, would not
have shown a Democratic majority of at
least half a million in this conntry. The
recent elections indicate that the people are
determined to resist these improper influ
ences hereafter, even when attempted to be
exercised by the President himself; and if
this is reaily their determination, the Re
publican party is doomed. It will be de
feated in 1884, and disappear forever as a
national political organization.”
BEN BUTLER’S VIEWS.
How the Democrats May Succeed.
(N. Y. Herald.)
“What do you think of the chances of
the Democrats electing a President in
1884 ?”
“You have heretofore been asking my
views upon the administrative, financial
and business questions, about which I
think I know something, but lam not a
prophet, or the sen of a prophet, and ought
not to be called upon to prophecy.”
“What can the Democrats do to be suc
cessful ?”
“Carry out the principles of Jefferson j
and Jackson in enacting reform wherever
they have the opportunity, creating a judi
cious tariff, striking off every surplus, ex- |
captions), questionable expenditure; bring
ing down every kind of taxation to the
lowest possible point consistent with de
fraying the most economical expenditure
of the public money; taking in hand tbe ’
monopolies which are regrading and rais
ing the price of provisions and other neces
saries of life; bringing back in this time of
peace the action of the Federal Government
within the narrowest limits possible for its
efficiency, and leaving ail local questions of
government to the several States; showing
by their moderation, economy and states
manship that they are fitted to govern. The
people will then give them the government
for a series of years, as they gave it to their
fathers.”
“Would you advise the Democrats in the
present House to vote for the sweeping
away this session of all internal revenue
taxes ?”
“I wonld advise their takiog it all away
from the producer, because I do not think
it ever ought to be levied in that way; but
I doubt very much whether it ought to be
taken away so suddenly from spirits and
tobacco, because I have observed that all
civilized countries have found it convenient
and necessary to raise quite a large portion
of their revenue from that source, and it
would seem not to be wise to put ourselves
in opposition to the political economy and
civilization of the world without * more
study than can be given to t-b® question in
sixty dajs. When tbe whiskey and to
bacco tax is taken off the tariff must be re
vised to meet the deficiency, and be so ad- ;
justed as to become the permanent and
stable rule of business of the country to
which it may adjust itself.”
LOUISIANA AFFAIRS.
President of tlie City Council Resigns—
His Interpretation of the New City
Charter.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
New Yobk, November 16.—A New Or
leans special to the Times says that the
Hon. Thomas J. Semmes. an eminent law
yer and ex-Confederate State Senator, re
signed his seat as President of the City
Council, yesterday, on acoount of a pro
vision in the new city charter forbidding
any member of Council being interested in
any contract or business engagement paid
for out of the city treasury. It is said
Semmes’ interpretation of the law will
probably disqualify several other members
of the city government, among whom it is
alleged Mr. Behan, the newly elected
Mayor, who is judgment creditor of the
city under an old contract for lighting the
surburban portion of the town with coal
oil.
OFFICIAL RETURNS.
The Official Return* From the Eighth
and Ninth District* Reach the Secre
tary of State.
The returns came in Monday from enough
counties to complete two more districts
the Eighth and the Ninth. Three Districts,
the second, Fourth and Fifth have already
been given. The others are still to be heard
from officially. The full vote o! the E’ghth
and Ninth is given below :
Eighth District.
I
4
Boose.
Reese.
47th Gongres.
Hardeman.
Forsyth.
!
Counties,
Columbia 133 132 134 ...
Elbert 395 353 387....
Glascock 141 141 141 ....
Greene 426 421 423 317
Hancock 815 315 315 27
Hart 375 375 374....
Jefferson 170 165 156....
Johnson 70 70 70....
Lincoln 90 90 90,...
McDuffie 150 149 149 i
Oglethorpe 323 321 322....
Richmond 557 557 648 110
Taliafero 256 257 250....
Warren 277 277 379....
Washington 373 326 377 If 9
Wilkes 333 333 333....
T0ta1....» 14884 4,282 4,448 624
Reese, no opposition.
Hardeman’s majority 3,824
Ninth District.
Candler.
Speer.
Dugger.
Hardem’n
Forsyth,
COUNTIES.
Banks 714 525 1171 23
Clarke 820 1066 1085 778
Dawson 461 29' 10 639 112
Fannin 232 318 203 328 373
Forsvth 749 710 1 1329 102
FraDklin 877 913 1673 78
Gilmer 367 270 180 611 84
Gwinnett 1774 997 1 2682 5
Hall 1780 817 1 2575 7
Habersham 539 820 1263 81
Jackson 1791 1142 2424 439
Lumpkin 555 415 7 859 78
Madison 789 437 1108 111
Morgan 856 1067 1086 750
Oconee 659 399 745 309
Pickens 173 419 19 345 239
Pabun 26 s 260 519
Towns 177 283 3 269 179
Union 493 402 27 783 72
White 454 362 767 21
Total 14521 11915 452 21251 3841
Candler’s majority 2,606
Hardeman’s majority. 17,410
IM _
GLOOMY TRADE PROSPECTS.
Cincinnati Merchants Expecting a De
crease of Business.
Cincinnati, November 16.—From leading
business men it is ascertained that there is
little prospect of any considerable improve
ment in the money market for seme time to
come, and failures of merchants in the in
terior who have purchased heavy stocks of
goods may be looked for. The difficulty is
that the farmers are not selling their pro
duce. and the usual flow es currency from
the East at this season*©f the year has, for
that reason, been in a large measure stop
ped. For some time tbe Cincinnati banks
have been buying New York exchange from
each other, which is very unusual. The
mild weather during October and half of
November has prevented the Fall trade from
being as heavy as was anticipated, and
stocks are unsold. The country merchants
have bought heavily on time, and there will
be an nnusual number of cases •where they
will be unable to meet their paper at ma
turity. The time has now come for bad
roads, and produce will be slow in being
marketed, even in cases where farmers are
desirous of selling soon.
In Cincinnati the merchants have less to
complain of. Sales have not been as heavy
as was expected, but owing to the demand
for moDey in New York, extraordinary rates
of discount were effered for ca«h payments,
and the local merchants have taken advan
tage of it by borrowing money of the banks,
i In spite of the small sales, therefore, they
| have thus been enabled to make a fair profit.
Tbey anticipate a decrease of business
i through southern Indiana. Kentucky, Ten
nessee, and the States further South and
West.
THE WESTPHALIA COLLISION.
An Unknown Steamer Sank.
(By Cable to the Chronicle.)
London, November 15. —A dispatch from
New Haven states that the third officer and
two quartermasters and three seamen, con
stituting the crew of a boat sent from the
steamer Westphalia in search of the steam
er which collided with the Westphalia, have
been landed there by a Belgian pilot boat.
They report having seen the other steamer
sink with all hands.
Portsmouth, November 15.—The third
officer of the Westphalia reports that after
palling about for nearly two hours he saw a
vessel go down, about two hundred yarde
distant, but was unable to ascertain her
name or nationality. He saw flames burst
from the steamer before she sank. The
Westphalia was surveyed in the dock to-day.
The damage on the starboard side extends
from the stem to forty ieet aft, and on the
port side from the stem to fifteen feet aft.
The hole on the port side is nine feet across.
A large piece ot the steamer with which she
collided, including some frames, is sticking
in the holes. The Westphalia’s stem ap
pears to be sound. The vessels seem to
have met stem to stem. After striking tbe
Westphalia on the port side it is probable
that the other steamer swung aronnd and
scraped along the Westphalia’s starboard
side. The latter vessel, despite the exten
sive damage she sustained, according to
latest accounts, waited six hours before
making for a port of refuge.
ALABAMA.
A Good Showing From tke Governor.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Montgomery, November 15.—The Gov
ernor’s message makes a fine exhibit of the
State’s affairs. The bonded debt of the
State is $9,407,800, and the annual inter
est is $344,000. Amonnt of cash in the
Treasury on October Ist, end of the last
fiscal year, was $421,000. There has been
a considerable increase in the assessed
value of property in the State, it being
nearly 25 per cent es the last three years.
Reduction of taxation is recommended, as
the State expenses have been greatly re
duced in the last few years, and after pay
ing every claim there has been a surplus at
the end of each year. The greater part of
the message is devoted to recommending to
the Legislature a review of the public in
stitutions of the State, which are all in good
condition. The message, on the whole,
gives great satisfaction, and shows the
State to be on a high road to a prosperous
future.
A Heavy Gale.
(By Cable to the Chronicle.)
London, November 16.—A heavy gale is
blowing around the coast to-day, particu
larly in the southwest. A brig has been
lost with all hands, off St. Ives. A small
1 vessel is ashore in St. Ives bay. Another
I vessel has been totally wrecked at Hayle.
SOUNDS FROM HOME.
WHAT IS GOING ON IN GEORGIA AND
HER VICINITY.
! The State and the South—Excerpt* Front
Exchanges and Private Advices to the
Chronicle and Constitutionalist.
Thomson, November 15.—0 n Thursday
afternoon of last week Mr. G. Ud. Lear with
his wife and child, and accompanied by
his unmarried brother, Mr. Robert Lear,
aged abont 24 years, all of Rockcastle coun
ty, Ky., stopped at the residence of Mr.
John H, Boyd, in this county, to spend the
night. Robert Lear, was in the last stages
of consumption, aud his brother and family
were carrying him to Florida. He rested
little during the night, and the next morn
ing about eleven o’clock he died.—Journal.'
Harlem, November 15.—Mr. Jack Faller
gathered sixty-four bushels frem one acre
of land. The land and corn were both
measured.—Sentinel.
Covington, November 15.—There has
been a preceptible falling ofl in the receipts
of cotton, at this place, during the prst two
or three weeks.—Covington is fast becoming
a first-class fish market. Over 1,500 pounds
were sold here last Saturday.— Star.
Amebicus, November 15.— 0 n Monday
moaning, at 3 o’clock, Hon. W. L. Clark, of
Webster, had his gin house, with 15 bales
of cotton and four gins, destroyed. When
discovered it was impossible to save any
thing. Not insured.—Republican.
Thomasville, November 15.—0 n la9t
Thursday night, a little after ten o’clock,
Mr. Leon Neil’s corn crib, on his Glasgow
plantation, was totally destroyed by fire.
It contained a little over 2,000 bushels of
corn and 210 bushels of clean oats. The
loss is*a heavy one, but fortunately s Mr. L.
had about that much more corn than he
needed for use on the plantation.—Enter
prise.
Winnseobo, S. C., November 14.—Mr. W.
H. Flenniken has made this year, on his
farm on the outskirts of town, with two
mules, the following: Thirty-two bales of
cotton, with the expectation of gathering
five or six more; fourteen hundred bushels
of oats, with a sufficient supply of corn;
fifty bushels of peas, one ton of millet,
over three tons of hay, and five wagon loads
of lodder corn.— Herald.
Greenville, S. C., November 13.—Mr*
S. Y. Chapman states that on Sunday night,
about ten o’clock, the barn of Slone White,
colored, who lives on Squire Huff’s place
about eleven miles from here on the Fork
Shoals road, was burned to the ground.
The building contained 1,000 bundles of
fodder, 40 bushels of corn, a bale of seed
cotton and some agiicultural implements
all of which wer® consumed. A mule
which was in the stable was rescued. The
loss is about $l5O and there is no insurance,
—News.
Athens, November 15.—Work is now
progressing rapidly on tbe new Georgia
bridge, and in a week it will be ready for
the trains to pass over. It is a very sub
stantial structure, aud will endure for
years. Great care is taken that no further
accident occurs. —H. L. Hutchins, of
Gwinnett, has been elected by the Legis
lature as Judge of the Western Circuit, to
supercede A. S. Erwin, resigned. His
selection gives unanimous satisfaction to
our people.—Acorns and other mast have
been exceedingly abundant this Fall,
which has nearly fattened the small sup
ply of hogs in this section. Opossums
are also fat but the supply short arid the
race dwindling—Banner.
Marietta, November 15.—0 n last Wed
nesday week, while Mr. Ervin Green was
feeding a gin for Mr. D. N. McEaohern, near
Lost Mountain, his right hand was caught
by the exposed saws and drawn in, crush
ing the arm to the elbow. Mr. Green is a
very muscular! stout man, and by mere
strength pulled his mangled arm from the
saws. He would have bled to death before
medical skill could have reached him bnt
for the very thoughtful act of Mr. McEach
ern in compressing the lacerated arteries by
a bandage, which stayed the profuse flow of
blood until the arrival of Drs. H. Y. Rey
nolds and Cortelyou, of this place, who sue
cessfully amputated the arm near the shonl
der. Mr. Green is doirig well at this time.
Journal.
Abbeville, S. C., November 15. — Last
Sunday as John Arnold, his wife and his
mother, were returning from church,
Wyatt Cozby walked up behind him and
knocked him down with a stick. As
Arnold rcse he shot Cozby in the head,
the ball entering the skull about an inch
and a half above the eye, passing obliquely
through the brain, which caused immedi
ate death. Arnold has been lodged in jail.
Messrs. T. P. Cothran and W. C. Mc-
Gowan have been employed to defend him.
—Never in the history of Abbeville county
have we had more land sown to smail
grain, nor have we had a larger ar«k io the
cultivated crops. All have been abundant
ly productive. The harvest of small grain
was never equalled. The corn crop is per
haps three times as much as it has been in
any year since the war. The cotton crop
is as good as labor, land and water can
make it, Although the weather has been
favorable to a degree beyond any reason
able expectation, yet every man has been
pressed to his utmost to gather and house
his crops, and to do this it has been nec
cessary to build new corn cribs in every
neighborhood. More new cribs have been
built this Fail than have been built for the
last ten years. Thousands of gallons of
sorghum syrup have been made, and hun
dreds of families have enough molasses and
coin, and wheat and oats to last them un
til the time for another harvest arrives.
With all these blessings in oar basket and
in cur store, added to good health and
good government, our people have every
reason to be thankful to the scarce from
whence these good things come. Let
pastors aud people give thanks.—Pr6S£ and
Banner.
THE MUTUAL TELEGRAPH COM
PANY.
Suit to Be Commenced On the Ground of
An Over Issue of Stock.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Albany, N. Y., November 16.—An appli
cation was yesterday made to the Attorney-
General for the commencement of an action
by the people of the State of New York
against the Mutual Union Telegraph Com
pany, to vacate its charter and dissolve the
corporation, upon the following grounds :
“First—That the company has unlawfully
issued $10,000,000 of capital stock, wheD,
by law, it was only authorized to issue sl,-
200,000. Second—That about $5,000,000
of the bonds of tbe company have been
issued in payment for tbe construction and
equipment of lines of telegraph worth
abont $3,500,000, and substantially the
whole of the $10,000,000 of stock has been
fraudulently issued in connection there
with, without any payment or other ade
quate consideration to the company.” Ap
plication is made by William Hendrey Cam
eron, stockholder in the company, and with
it is filed a farther application, made by
Jay Gould, stating that he is informed of
these proceedings, and that he desires to be
joined as relator in such action as may be
brought. The Attorney-General has issued
a citation directing the company to show
cause, on Tuesday next, why the applica
tion should not be granted and proceedings
commenced.
Hundreds of acres are being planted in
fruit trees along the Air Line and North
eastern Railroads.
THE TWO SENATORS.
Sketches of the Lives of Hon. A. H. Col
quitt ancl of lion. Pope Barrow.
Governor Colquitt, who w»9 chosen United
Sta’es Senator Wednesday for the full term
of six years, beginning March 4th, 1883,
has been one of the leading men of Georgia
almost since he reached the age of man
hood. His father, Walter T. Colquitt, was
one of the most illustrious men of his day,
and represented Georgia in the United
States Senate with great honor. Alfred Col
quitt graduated at Pinceton, and returning
home studied law. He had hardly entered
the practice before he left it to engage in
planting in the cotton belt of Georgia. He
was one of the very largest planters in the
State, his cotton crop running up as high
as one thousand bales of cotton.* In 1852,
though scarcely beyond the limit as to age,
he was nominated for Congress in the
Second Georgia District as a Democrat and
was elected after a very laborious campaign.
At the end of his term he retired, though
his constituents wished to force a larger
period of service upon him.
When the war began he was elected
Colonel of the Sixth Georgia, a regiment
that made itself famous for its gallantry.
He rose to the rank of Major-General. He
distinguished himself especially at Olnstee,
Florida, where he was in command, and
won a remarkable victory over a superior
force. This was the origin'of his well known
title, “Hero of Olustee.” After the war he
again planted and was the President of the
Georgia State Agricnltnral Society.
In 1876 he was unanimously nominated
for Governor as the successor of James M.
Smith, and was elected by 82,000 majori
ty. After a four years’ administration he
came before tbe Democratic Convention for
re-nomination. The Convention sat in At
lanta for more than a week, and because of
the two-thirds rule could not make a nomi
nation, though Colquitt needed only nine
votes of two-thirds. He was simply recom
mended by the majority, and in the elec
tion defeated ex-Senator Norwood by 55,-
000 votes! Tbe events and the success of
his two administrations are well known not
only in Georgia but all over the United
States. Governor Colquitt goes to the Sen
ate by no means a new figure in the eyes of
tbe Nation. His liberal sentiment, bis
high Christian character, and bis wonder
ful success ia public life have made bim
well known throughout the country. He
will be a prominent figure in the Senate.
The new Senator is a man of commanding
appearance, a superb specimen of manhood.
Senator Colquitt was born in Walton coun
ty on the 20th of April, 1824, and is there
fore in his 59th year. His first wife was
Miss Dollie Taylor, by whom the only child
now living is Mrs Newell, of Milledgeville.
The preseht Mrs. Colquitt was a Miss Bnnn
and then Mrs. Tarver. By her marriage
with Senator Colquitt, there are liviDg five
children, all girls except the youngest.
Pope Barrow.
The unexpired term of Senator Benjamin
H. Hill will be filled by Pope Barrow, one of
the most prominent of the younger Georgia
politicians. He was born in Oglethorpe
•ountv on the 1 st August 1839, He received
a good education and gradnated at the
State University in 1859. In his class were
Hon. A. 0. Bacon, Col. J. M. Pace, of Cov
ington, Captain E. P. Howell, Judge
Twiggs, and Hon John Jordan, of the pres
ent House of Representatives. In April,
18G1’, he entered the Confederate service
as a lieutenant in the Troup artillery.—
Afterwards be was made aid-de-camp of
General Howell Cobb, and held that posi
tion until he was captured in 1865. He
was held in prison until the war closed.—
Then he came back to Athens and began the
law. His practice was abandoned for three
years since that time, when he farmed in
Oglethorpe county. He returned to Athens
and the practice several years ago and at the
bar has achieved flattering success. He was
elected to the last Legislature and was one
of its foremost men. He held in the House
the chairmanship of the Committee on Im
migration.
Mr. Barrow married Miss Sallie Craig,
grand daughter of Dr. Church. She died
last Christmas, leaving motherless five chil
dren. A few weeks ago quite a number of
the members of the last Legislature address
ed a letter to Mr. Barrow and asked him to
allow the use of his name for the unexpired
Senatorial term. He consented, and the
zealous advocacy of his friends bore fruit in
his election Wednesday. It is a singular co
incidence that Mr. Barrow’s great grand
father, Gov. Wilson Lumpkin, was also
eleoted to fill an unexpired term in the Uni
ted States Senate. Mr. Barrow’s father, Da
vid C. Barrow, i 3 a planter in Og’ethorpe
county. His brother, David C, Barrow, Jr ,
is a Professor at the State University, and
another brother, Thomas Barrow, is a plan
ter in Decatur connty.
Mr. Barrow will enjoy the honor of being
the youngest member of the present Senate.
Benator Gorman, of Maryland, is two years
older. Senator Biddleberger is a little
younger, but will not enter the Senate until
the day Mr. Barrow goes ont. The Senator
elect has won an enviable fame at the bar
and in legislative conncil. He has thou
sands of Georgia friends, confidently look
ing for a fulfillment of the hopes of a life
that has been remarkably successful up to
its meridian.
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THE WESTPHALIA.
Tiding* of the Accident— I The Nederland
Supposed to Be the Unknown Vessel—A
Leaky Bark Arrives.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
London, November 16.—The third offi
cer of tbe steamer Westphalia, who com
manded the boat sent in search of the steam
er which collided with the Westphalia, says
tbe boat seen by tbe channel pilot Tuesday
morning, 20 miles from Beachy Head can
not have been his. It may have been one
belonging to tha sunken steamer.
Washington, November 16.—Philadel
phians are anxiously discussing tbe proba
bility that the ate mer sunk in the collision
with the Westphalia, in tbe British Chan
nel. is the Nederland, from Antwerp for
Philadelphia, which sailed from Antwerp
on Sunday.
London, November 16.—The bark Tri
umph, from Pascagoula for Harfleur, has
arrived at Plymouth in a leaky condition.
Bhe lost her mainmast and sails and sus
tained other damage.
Yellow Fever Note*.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Pensacola, November 16.—Five new
cases of fever are reported to-day, causing
some trepidation amoDg those residents
who have just returned. It has been an
nounced to-day by the Superintendent of
this division of the Louisville and Nash
ville Railroad that all quarantines against
Pensacola have been removed. The news
papers thus far have given us no informa
tion on the subject. The regular passenger
trains resume their trips to-night to run
henceforward twice daily. The Louisville
and Nashville Railroad, which has shown
much liberality throughout the epidemic,
has reduced its rates for returning nurses
to $2 59 from Pensacola to New Orleans
and Mobile. „, , w
Georgia Patents.
Mr. H. N. Jenkins, Solicitor of Patents,
Washington, D. 0., officially reports to the
Chronicle the following complete list of
patents granted Georgia inventors for the
week ending November 14, 1882:
Robert M. George, Fleming, scaffold; Da
vid A. Willbanks, High Shoals, loom shut
tle; Darwin 8. Wright, Macon, mechanical
fan.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
MATTERS AND THINGS ABOUT WASH
INGTON CITY.
A' Qoerr Application F*or a Position-
Cabinet Meeting—Are Removals To B«
Made—'What Senator Beck Says.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Washington, November 16.—The glasier,
whose putty box received the second bullet
fired by Guiteau at President Garfield, has
applied to the board which is auditing
claims arising out of President Garfield’s
illness and death, seeking their influenoe
to secure him a position as watchman in
the Government employ.
Gen. Wright, Chief of Engineers, has
gone on a tour of inspection of the works
in progress on the Mississippi river south
of St. Louis.
Senator Vest says that with perhaps one
exception the Representatives recently
elected in Missouri will support Mr. Car
lisle for Speaker. He believes that Mr.
Carlisle will win on the first ballot. The
Senator’s candidate for SBrgeant-at-Arms
is John C. Thompson; for Clerk er-Ooa
gressman Stenger, of Pennsylvania; and for
Doorkeeper, Gen. W. A. Fields, Doorkeeper
of the last House. He regards Cleveland’s
nomination for President as a sure thing if
he beoomes a good Governor and preserves
harmony in the party in New Tork.
The notice sent out after the election to
all office-holders in New York who had
failed to contribute to the campaign expense
fund, and to which was attacked the signa
ture of Mr. Edward M. Johnson, was shown
to the Secretary of the committee here yes
terday. Mr. Johnson laughed, and declared
that it was a new thing to him, and must
have been sent out by the committee nfter
he left the rooms. He is persuaded that it
had been issued to enable the committee to
discharge its indebtedness to the proprie
tors of the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
For two or three day# predictions have
been heard here that at to-day’s meeting of
the Cabinet a programme would be con
sidered for the removal of Collector Robert
sod, Postmaster Hearson. and other Gov
ernment officers in New York. This pro
gramme has given great satisfaction to some
of the warmer friends of the Administra
tion, while to others it has appeared to bs
totally uncalled for, and calculated, if car
ried out, to add to the embarrassment on
the party in New York and elsewhere.—
When the Cabinet met at noon to-day all
the members except Attorney-General
Brewster and Secretary of the Interior Tell
er were present. The President had come
in from the Soldiers’ Home, where he is
living while the repairs to the White House
are being completed, and after eleven
o’clock had received the new Argen
tine Minister and attended to some
routine business. In the meeting which
followed, the half-hour session was taken
up with talk about department matters
and particularly with reference to the forth
coming annual reports. It is understood
that no reference was made to the subjeot
of removals in New York or elsewhere. A
Cabinet officer who spoke to a friend about
this matter this afternoon said that, while
it was not improbable that several removals
might be intended, they were not discussed
to-day, and to him it seemed to be an alto
gether improper and absurd thing to sup
pose that the President would submit a pro
gramme for a sweeping change in one par
ticular State to a meeting of his Cabinet. It
was much more likely, in the estimation ot'
the Cabinet officer referred to, that the
President would be governed, if at all, in
deciding upon probable removals, by the
heads of the departments in which the
changes were desired to be made.
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CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
London, November 16.—Five pilots have
been drowned while attempting to reaoh a
distressed vessel in the Firth of Forth.
New Orleans. La , November 16.—The
Picayune's Baton Rouge special says the
Governor has issued a reprieve to Luke
Landry, sentenced to be banged in Rich
land parish to-morrow.
Galveston, November 16.—The News'
Navasota special says the Court House at
Anderson, Grimes county, was entered by
unknown burglars recently and all the elec
tion returns were taken.
Philadelphia, November 16.—Alexander
Teese, who has been an object of suspicion
by detectives for some time, was arrested
last night, and 99 counterfeit Bland and
trade dollars were taken from him.
Montgomery,*Ala., {November 16.—The
boiler of an engine attached to a steam gin
nery and mill of A. G. McGehee, about 12
miles from this city, exploded yesterday,
instantly killing three negro men. It was
caused by insufficient water in the boiler.
New Brunswick, N. J., November 16. —
Christian Jansen, the Danish poet, aged 69
years, was to-day killed at Randolph’s
crossing by a Pennsylvania Railroad train. -
Twenty-five letters were found on him from
President Arthur; also letters from the Em
peror of Russia.
New York, November 16 —An Euclaire,
Wisconsin, dispatch says : "The Western
bound freight train was brought to a sad
den stop forty miles west of here early this
morning by one of the oars jumping the
track. A passenger train closely following,
which the hands on the freight train neg
lected to stop, crashed into the caboose
with terrible force, upsetting the stove
therein, scattering the live coals an'' set
ting the train on fire. Fifteen loaded oars
were burned. Loss, $75,000. No lives
were loct.
Cincinnati, November 16.—A boiler on
the premises of Peter Reuhl & Go., picture
frame manufacturers, on Sycamore street,
near Seventh, burst this afternoon, causing
a panic among the occupants of the upper
stories of a five story building. The build
ing was set on fire, and the floor above the
engine room was blown to pieoes and part
of the wall blown out. Louis Meyer, helper
of the foreman, was thrown into the street
and fatally injured. Frank Bittner, one of
the employes, was badly scalded, and Christ
Geisi; Albert Post and Frank Weiss were
,-slishtly injured.
Louisville, Ky., November 16.—T0-day
the passenger elevator in McKnight’s car
pet house, on Main street, containing five
passengers, fell from the second floor to the
basement, seriously injuring four of the
passengers and painfully wounding a fifth.
Their names are Capt. W. C. Hite, of Louis
ville, compound fracture of the left leg and
simple fracture of the right leg; Capt. John
Howard, of Jeffersonville, small bone of the
left leg and right ankle fractured; Judge B.
F. Beard, of Hardinsburg, Breckenridge
. county, Ky., painfully bruised with no
bones yet found broken; C. F. Turner,
salesman with McKcight, badly bruised,
and K. Dye, another salesman, ankle joint
fractured and probably rib broken.
New York, November 16.—A water
tower, designed for use in the fire depart
ment of this city, while being teste! in
Battery Park this a. m., overturned and
killed one man,mortally wounding another.
The tower was introduced to the notice of
the Fire Commissioners by Albert Green
leaf, of Baltimore, Md. All the Fire Com
missioners and many members of the de
partment were present at the exhibition.
The man killed was struok by a section of
pipe attached to the tower. His neck was
broken, his skull crushed and his legs
fraotured. He was abont thirty-five years
old and his name and residence are un
known. Geo. H. Ayer had hi 3 skull fractur
ed and will probably die.