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LEGISLATIVE LABORS.
PAOCBKDINGS IV THE TWO HOUSES
YESTERDAY.
Reading and Di*p:>«ing of Measures in
the House nnd Senate— Pensioning
Kninaoin Montgomery, n Negro
Who Claims to He the Prop
erty of the Mate—Asking
Ahi For the Lower Sa
''vannah Branch
Colleges.
(Special to the Cblnnicle.]
SENATE.
Atlanta, Hepfenber 21.-Senate met.
President Boynton pretidiog. Dr. Jones
prayed. Roll call. Junrnal reported cor
rect.
Mr. Daßlgnop, of the Judiciary Com
mittre, and Mr. I’olhill, of the Coutinittte
cn Finance, reported Lille.
Mr. McAfee, Chairman of the Confer
ence Coromittfco on the liquor Lili for
Rockdale county, reported in favor of the
Henatn receding from its amendments.
On motion of Mr. McDonald, the bill to
forbid fishing in Eryce’a pond, w>»b recon
biderod and recommitted on motion of
Mr. Meldrim.
'!’«> incorporate the Atlanta nnd West
End Hlse< (PlCailroAd CctaTpajfy. Paased.
To provide for the probate of foreign
Mills. Thia bill was introduced by Mr.
K Gary, of Richipond. Peeked.
io provide for a road patera in Whit
field county. /Paaaed.
To incorporate the Mechsnica* Saving
Bank of Atlanta. Pass* d.
Moved anft carried to transmit all local
bills to the House tight after passage.
Liquor bill for Maxwell’s in Montgomery
county. Passed.
To incorporate the Georgia Loan and
TrnstOmpiroy. <
Mr. McDonald opposed the bill as giving
a perpetual charter, allowing the company
to do bnein<ss ontof Georgia, issue bonds,
etc. Fill recommitted to Jndiciery.
Liquor lull for Dahlonega in Lampkin
r Risked.
Dog law for Pioyd county. The Agti
cu itur.il Committee amend, making the
bill general.
Mr. Livingston argaed the adoption, of
the arnruendment. The bill was a good
one and should be made general.
„ , Mr, Jlarris thought ic improper to
convert a local bill into a general law.
Mr. Baker opposed the amendment, as
not germane to the bill. There was no
ad valorem value attached to a deg on
which tax could be laid, lie said this
amendment was a parliamentaiy act to
tost the Nenato oii the dog law.
Mr. Moldrim defended the amend
ment. He urged the need of a general
dog law, and advocated this as an admir
able one.
Mr. Barker moved to amend Exempting I
Bartow county.
Mr. Neal called the previous question, j
Sustained.
On the amendment of the Agricultural ■
Committee, making the law general, the .
vote stood: Yeas, 16; nay?, 16. So the
amendment was tied. The Preeident|
voted no. So the amendment was lost. !
Mr. Baker withdrew his amendment.
The bill was then passed.
Mr. Pike reported bills enrolled.
Bill to fix the pay of tax officers of Floyd
county. Passed.
The liquor bi 1 for Hookdalo county;
, amendment receded from.
To make Waynesboro a city. Passed.
To amend the not creating the City Court
of Olarko county, as to pay of jurors.
Passed.
To estab j"sh a City Court in the county
of Floyd. Passed.
To amend the new charter of Atlanta, to
issue bonds to pay the State of Georgia
$56,000, the value of the old oapitol at
Milledgeville. Passed.
To inoorporde the Merchants and Plant
ers Bank of West Point.
Message from the House by Mr. Hardin
reporting bills passed.
To fix the duties and pay of clerks of
county courts. Pasted.
To incorporate the Canal Navigation and
Land Company of Georgia. Passed.
To incorporate Ball Ground in Cherokee
county. Passed.
To amend the act creating commission
ers in Johnson county. Passed.
Mr. Dußignon offered a resolution for
the order of business. Passed.
To incorporate Wrightsville, in Johnson
county. Passed.
To amend the act incorporating the
Chattahoochee Navigation Company. Pass
ed.
To employ Ramsotn Montgomery, the
eolore I saver of the Chattahooche bridge
on the State Hoad, at sls a month in the
capitol.
Mr. Harris opposed the bill. We had
pauper laws. *
Mr. Livingston explained the case.
Montgomery was a slave and saved the
State a bridge worth $75,006 in 1847.
It was a case of gratitude and justice to
the old man giving him employment.
Mr. Baker opposed the bill. The Legis
lature of 1859 bought him, gave him a
place on tue road and paid him wages.
Another Legislature gave him SSOO. The
lessees turned him off because negligent.
Montgomery has been fully paid for Its
services. If his employment as a porter
was »nforced, they would have one that if
negligent they oonld not gpt rid of
Mr. Hoyt favored the bill. He had
known Montgomery from his boyhood—a
faithful man. The case was peculiar.
Montgo-.iisry was the only slave the State
ever owned, and he claimed to belong to
Georgia yet.
Mr. Greer favored the bill, for the honor
of Georgia. Bill laid on table.
To amend the act for keeping up stock
in Monroe county. Passed-
To change the time of holding the quar
terly term of the City Court of Richmond
county. Passed.
To prohibit seining, etc., in Emanuel
county. Passed.
To provide a registration law for Quit
man, in Brooks county. Passed.
To exempt the Baldwin Blues from jury
duty. Passed.
To let Baldwin county issue bonds to
take np old bonds. Passed.
To let Baldwin issue bonds to build
court house. Passed.
To amend liquor act for Kwaiuesboro to
a'low the sale for medical purposes.
Passed.
To amend the aot to abolish the offi ce nf
County Treasurer of Bibb county. Pass
ed.
To abolish the office of County Commis
sioner of Oolnmbns county. Passed.
v Liquor bill for Baptist Church in Bandy
town. Passed.
To antboriz vßnrke county to collect tax
additional. Pai Sid.
The resolution for adj ournment on tha
112.1 was taken up.
Mr. Baker's amendment changes the
time to Wednesday, the 26:h, and was I
passed.
To prevent stocY running loose in Vine-
Wille district, in Bibb county. Passed.
Adjourned to 3'j, p. m.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Thursday Afternoon's Session.
The House reconvened at 3 o’clock.
The bill of Mr. Waldroop to prevent the ’
driving of cattle from districts where i
there are infectious diseases woe passed.
Mr. McDonough, of Chatham —A bill to
require Judges of the Superior Court to '
grant chatters to shell and plank roads.
Pasted.
Mr. Sweat, of Clinch—A bill tn amend
an act to provide for keeping records of
wild lands 'in each county, and to pre
edribe the luanutr of giving in the same
• • -• for taxation. Passed.
A bill to authorize the authorities of
Chatham county to levy an additional tax
for educational purposes. Passed.
A bill to authorize the Commissioners of
Ch ttham county to build a new court
house. Passed.
The reconsidered bill of Mr. Calvin, of
CHRONICLE AND CONSTITUTIONALIST, AUGUSTA, GA.. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 80, 1888.
Richmond, to regulate the fees of Tax Col
lectors and Receivers was, after some dis
cussion, defeated.
Mr. Bishop, of Dawson—A bill to pre
scribe fees of Justices of the Peace to dis
possess intruders and tenants holding
over. Passed.
Mr. Lofton, of Bibb -A bill to amend
section 3533 of the Code relative to suing
out process of garnishment. After some
discussion the bill was lost.
Hr. De Lacey, of Dodhge— A bill to estab
li-M a branch college at Kastman.
JfckOe Lacey said that the proposed 00l
would be a feeder to the State
nJ n W«r sWj.
Mr. Maddox, of Chattooga, opposed the
bill and said that the whole system of
brenoh colleges was wrong, and that those
now in < xistence ought to be out loose.
Mr Brewster, of Harris, asked Mr. Mad
dox who built the State Road through a
few cot?ities.
— The State built it.
Mr. Brewster-Whom did it benefit
most?
Mr. Maddox-Well, Governor Brown.
(Great laughter.)
On the bill of Mr De Liaey the ayes
were 44 and the nays G 6.
Mr. Jordan, .of Hancock—A bill to appro
priate money to the blind and deaf and
dumb asylums of this State. The bill pro
posed to give SSOO to each of the institu
tions to pay the expenses of the inmates
who havebeen or may be treated.
Mr. Reese, of Wilkes, moved Io stiike
nut the deaf and (fhmb asylum. The con
stitution forbids two appropriations in one
bill.
Mr. Jordan, of Hsuccek, said he thought
tl.e bill referred to the same subject matter
and was constitutional. However, he ac
cepted the amendment offered by Mr.
Reese.
1 be bill was passed.
'J he House adjourned at 8 o’clock.
Night Session.
The Hnnue convened at 8 o’clock.
The bill of Mr. Go rd on Houston, to
supply Judges of the Supreme Court with
the reports of the United States Supreme
Court was lo<t.
Mr. Johnston, of Baldwin,rose to a ques
tion of privilegeend Raid that some state
ments tpade by Mr. Maddox? of Chattooga,
in the afternoon, relative to the branch
college at Milledgeville, were'in correct.
Some of the statistics given by Air. Mad
dox, he said were incorrect. This institu
tion is doing a great deal of good and their
influence is widespread. ,
A bill to regulate the tees of Superior
Court Clerks recording deeds, mortgages
and liens, was passed.
Mr. Fite, of Bartow—A bill to establish a
branch college at Cartersville.
Mr. Wood, of Dalton, offered an amend
ment to tlx the school at Dalton, instead of
Cartersville. Agreed to.
Mr. Hassell. of Clarke spoke against the
bill. He said the branch colleges were
weakening the University instead of
strengthening it.
Mr. Fite, of Bartowr, made an earnest
speech in supportpTtbe bill, ..
Ou the passage '<JRhe bill the yeas were
41 and the
Mr. Rice, bill to regulate
the by clerks of the
Mr. A bill
a Indefi-
-a bill to
iu > r
moneys
reports. re
under tbo4HßHym|Mßiipreiae
judges.
Mr. Little, Finance Com
mittee, explained the bit. It was pass
ed.
The House adjourned to 9 o’clock Fri
day. > .. ~. , ’>'
Friday’s Proceedings.
The House met at nine o’clock. Prayer
by the Chaplain. The roll was called and
the Journal read.
■ Mr. Fite moved to reconsider the bill to
establish a branch college at Carters
ville. Carried. Mr. Fite then withdrew
the bill. - •*
The Journal was confirmed.
A resolution to pay the stenographer
and sergeant-at-arms of the committee to
investigate the Marietta and North Geor
gia Railroad. Agreed to.
Senate amendments to certain House
bills were concurred in.
A joint resolution memoralizing Con
gress through our Senators and Represen
tatives to make adequate appropriation to
improve the navigation of the Savannah
river below Augusta.
A reconsidered bill to compensate cer
tain attorneys for ■ legal services in the
prosecution of the Eastman rioters.
Mr. Lofton, of Bibb, offered an amend
ment paying these attorneys SIOO each.
Agreed to.
The bill passed, yeas 93. nays 22.
A message from the Senate concerning
certain Hoose bills.
On motion of Mr. Ray, of Coweta, the
privileges of the floor were extended ol
Major U. B. Wilkinson, of Newnan.
A bill to provide for the selection of
special juries in certain cases, and com pen
sation of the same. Lost.
A message Irpcm the Senate ..announcing
the passage of certain House bilh.
On motion of Mr. Reese, of Wilkes, the
Senate resolution asking the return of
Senate bill No. 44, for the purpose of
withdrawing the same. Agreed to.
Mr,. Reese, Chairman of the General
Judiciary Committee, submitted a report.
The Senate amendments to certain
House bills were agreed to.
the Senate amendment to House bill
1036, providing for a public road system
for Whitfield county. Concurred in.
Mr. Falligant, of Chatham—A recon
sidered bill to amend section 708 of the
Code. Passed. *
A bill to amend section 710 of the Code.
Withdrawn.
Mr.Redwine, Chairman of theOommittee
cn Enrollment, submitted a report.
A reconsidered bill to alnend section
2693 of the Code, relating to the disposi
tion of witnesses. Lost.
A message from the Senate announcing
the passage of certain House bills with
amendments.
M*. DAtts, of Habersham, Chairman
pro tern, of the Penitentiary Committee,
submitted a report?
Mr. Hoge, of Fulton, moved to place on
the calendar the tabled bill relating to
working the public roads of the State.
Agreed to.
By Mr. Russell, of Clarke—A bill pro
posing a const itutitjonal amendment
creating the office of Lieutenant-Governor.
Tabled.
A message from the Governor approving
tho following bills:
To repeal an act incorporating Forest
vilfe in the county of Floyd.
To amend the charter of Gainesville.
To establish a new charter of the city of
Dawson.
To supply Supreme ONurt reports to
counties not heretofore supplied.
To create a Board of Commissi men of
Roads and Revenues for the county of
Terrell.
To establish the State line between
Georgia and North Carolina, as to the
line between Ribun County in this
State and Maoon county in North Caro
lina.
To fix the salary of the State Librarian.
To provide for the taking of testimony
in certain cases.
To amend section 1333 of the Code.
To prevent the practice of fraud upon
the public in the eale of the product known
as oleomargarine.
To incorporate the White Star Steamboat
Company.
A bill to prescribe the method of work
ing the pablic roads of tha State and to
provide for a road fund in each county.
Mr. Payne, of Catooss, offered a substi
tute for the bill.
Mr. Flynt, of Monroe, offered an amend
ment to the substitute, providing for the
concurrence of two grand juries as to the
levy of tax for road purposes.
Mr. Rice, ot Falton, opposed the amend-
ment, and opposed the tax feature of the
bill.
Mr. Jordan, of Hancock, suggested that
the adoption of the amendment would kill
the bill, as it couldn’t pass the House in
that shape.
Mr. Payne, of Catoosa, also opposed the
amendment. The amendment was not
agreed to.
Mr. Jordan, of Hancock, offered an
amendment to the third section, which was
adopted.
Mr. Spence, of Mitchell, offered an
amendment to the fourth section. Dis
agreed to.
Mr. Harris of Bibb -An amendment,
which was adopted.
At this point half the House rose with
amendments to the various sections.
The substitute as amended was adopted.
Oa the passage of tho bill the yeas were
97, nays 37. Passed.
Adjourned to three o’clock.
Rich mind.
A WORD IO DR. IIAY(HM)I).
Is <he Negro Here To Sts y I—Was lie To
Learn That Labor Is Honorable A
Race Without Tombstones.
Editors Chronicle
Slats Rcck, Columbia County, Ga.,
September s.—ln the very best humor
and, as I trust, in a Christian spirit, I
want to say a few words in regard to the
plan and. policy of Dr. A. G Haygood
towards onr Brother in Black. Extremists
always fail, and yet may do immense
harm. Much depends, in accomplishing
big results, in jumping off on the r'ght
foot. This man has undertaken a Her
culean task and has jamped off on the
wrong foot. One of the mistakes he
makes consists in the attempt to educate
the head ot the negro before educating
the heart, and by the time be can spell
in two syllables, in a large majority ot
cases, be feels himself above labor; must live
by his wits and by other doubtful means
too tedious to mention—eoon beoomes
to be a prominent loafer and vagabond, a
bad citizen, unfit for church or State. 1
speak of them en masse, there are excep
tions, I know, but they are exceptions and
not the rule, lhe highest civilization the
negro ever reached was as a slave of the
South. Could he have been educated there
enough to read the lest will aud testament of
Jesus Christ in English this might have
been done then with benefit to the race,
but now since they have lost the beet
friend they ever had, this educations
policy is exceedingly doubtful. The Re
publican party, with all tho im
proved machinery of the government
at their control, have been trying to
make a white man out of the negro for a
quarter of a century. They have failed,
just as extremists always do,'and the more
sensible of them are ready io acknowledge
it. The first gieat cause of all things made
a difference and none but fanaticu will
try to make possible what God has made
impossible. I would not be understood
as beirg opposed to educating the negroes
after we convince them that it is a crime
to steal, that it is wrong to tell lies, that it
is mean to apply the midnight torch to
the dwellings of innooent and helpless
families—that labor is as honorable as it is
necessary and that there is a great future
where vice will be punished and virtue re
warded. Dr. Haygood says: “The negro
is here to stay.” His idea is not in pro
portion to his words. Mr. Jeffer
son said that the Anglo-Saxon and
the negro could not live together
without the negroes being enslaved.
Dr. Haygood pays they are living
together now, and the negro is free.
This is a mistake. The negro is not as free
to-day as he was the day before the first
gun of the civil war was fired at Sumter.
Is a man free who has neither food nor rai
ment, and ia too lazy to work for it ? Whose
head and hand has to be guided and di
rected by n superior race ? Here to stay.
Ahem ! The Indian was found here, and
is a very superior race to the negro. He
was here to stay until he got in the white
man’s way, and notwithstanding there was
not one Anglo-Saxon to the square mile,
everything be said to the Indian meant,
Get further. He is now shoved back to
the Rocky Mountains, and has been taught
that this is a white man’s country, and
that he intends to possess it. We
have said that labor is ns honorable
as it is necessary. This great truth the
negro has yet to learn; This knowledge,
in order to make him a good citizen or
rather, to keep from spoiling the whole
race, must be firmly impressed upon the
heart, and that, too, before the head is
educated : “A little learning is a danger
ous thing." A vast amount of labor itrthis
country must be done by somebody
whether they think it honorable or not.
To cease labor one year would be worse
than all the plagues sent upon us in the
last half century. To elevate the negro
above labor (and it takes very little to put
him on stilts) wonld be his ruin. Then
Dr. Haygood would discover whether he
was here to stay or net. Idleness is the
soil upon which sin grows to the greatest
perfection. Then we might expect Com
munism, Socialism, Monteagleism.
Then you would hear the Anglo Saxon say:
Get further, and if the edict was not
promptly obeyed, tho negro, upon whom
God Himself set His mark more than six
thousand years ago (and the color is fast),
would melt away like wax before the flame.
Fanaticism is blind and never stops to
reason. It is said thought governs the
world. According -to my reading there
are two other principles, both factors, in
governing—love and fear. If the time
should ever come when fear of the old
master, the foundation stone of governing
the negro race, should be cast away, then
it cannot be said : Behold how pleasant it
is ta dwell together in unity. Then the
two races cannot breathe the same atmo
sphere and live. Then the weaker would
give place to the stronger, and this race,
without tombstones, would be numbered
among things that have passed away.
Traveller.
SUDDEN DEATH.
An Augusta Young Lady Dies Suddenly
- On Friday in Boston.
Yesterday morning Capt. Frank G.
Ford, of this city, received a telegram from
Col. Geo. W. Rains, in Boston, stating that
his only daughter, Miss Fannie Rains, had
died suddenly, at 12 o’clock on Friday, in
that city. The announcement caused great
sorrow among the many friends of the
family in this city, where they are so well
known and universally esteemed. Miss
Fannie Rains, although she has spent
much of her young ladyhood with her
relatives North, will be remembered with
admiration by many in Augusta. She had
just attained full womanhood, endowed
with rare attainments and many virtues,
and exalted with a most lovAble character.
She had been spending the summer at
Campton, N. H., when she was taken sick
aud was removed to Boston, where Rhe
speedily became worse and died on Fri
day. The sympathies of the whole com
munity go out to C_>l. and Mrs. Bains in
their bereavement.
Fatal Explosion of a Boiler.
Shrevewort, La , September 22.—At 8
o’clock to-night the boiler of the engine
running the saws at a bridge being con
structed over the Red river, for the Vicks
burg, Shreveport and Pacific Kiilroad, ex
ploded with terrific force, killing five per
sons and wounding five others who were
at work. A boy named Willie Watts was
the only person on the boat at the time of
the explosion who escaped unhurt.
The killed are A. L. Humphreys, Jas.
Summers, Wm. Thomss, Jno. Mallory and
Jno. Bnrke, all white. The wounded are
Willie Jones, hurt slightly in the head;
Abe Gilliland, (colored) fatally irjured;
A. D. Wilson, white, wounded on the head
and brast; A. L. Watkin?, white, scalded,
and Henry, a colored boy, slightly injured.
The dead bodies are all in the river and
being dragged for.
Died From Yellow Fever.
Hermosella, Mexico, September 21.
Senor Alsur, one of the wealthiest men in
Sonora, and the owner of the famous Trini
dad mine, died of yellow fever yesterday.
LOCOMOTIVE LORE.
AMBLING AMONG RULROID BOLTS
AND ENGINE BOILERS.
Tolklng About the Tracks and the
Trip*—Fast Freight Lines—The Geor
gia Railroad Shops—New Engine
Built Outright—General Rail
road Racket Roundabout.
What do you put so much railroad talk
in the Chronicle for?
Why, bless your sweet soul, gentle
reader, there’s more freshness and more
facts floating about in railroad circlis than
anywhere els% and our great lines are be
coming giant belts binding the country
and controlling all other kinds of business.
> Besides, the Chronicle has two or three
railroad presidents in its office now, and
the people are beginning to look to our
columns to famish news and preserve
equilibria between the corporations and
the people.
Two Chronicle men ambled out through
the Georgia Railroad shops yesterday, one
gathering items in a Rashton snark ar
rester, and the other bringing them home
in a hand car.
A New Locomotive.
The Georgia Railroad shops ere just
turning ont the fourth engine for the fast
mail sei vice between Augusta and At
lanta. It is the “31,” and, with the ex
ception of the boiler, frame and cylinder,
was built outright under Mr. Jno. 8.
Cooke. This hrge locomotive was com
menced on G:h of July, and will, on Mon
day, make a trial trip to Barnett to test its
perfection and power. It has jast been
painted and burnished and is as neat as a
new button. These locomotives, put up
in the Georgia Bailroad shops, have
proven among the best and most reliable
on the road. The “31” carries the small,
straight stack, tfie extension boiler, with
draught appliances, and spark arresters,
Westinghouse air brake and all im
proved appurtenances for elaborate
service. This machine cost about $lO,-
000 and the greater part of this
amount has been spent right here, in
material aud labor. The Georgia Rail
road shops are now busy turning out car
wheels for an np-country narrow gauge
road.and scores of them are being bundled
np with trucks and loaded upon fteight
cars for shipment. The shops in fact are
full of business, and their one hundred
horse power Corliss boiler and engine are
operated unceasingly from morning to
night. Mr. Jno. 8. Cooke, the master
machinist, who has been for 34 years in
these shops, is doing some excellent work
for the road. He has just built a massive
elevator for lowering cabs which are finish
ed up in the second story, thus saving
room in the shops beneath.
Mr. Raoul In Augusta.
On Thursday, President W. G. Raoul, of
the Central Railway, arrived in Augusta
and took a trip over the A. & K Railway,
his first sines his lease of the road for
the Fort Royal and Augusta Railway, He
expressed himself as agreeably surprised
in the construction of the track and the
condition of the road bed. He took oc
casion to commend the laying of the road,
in consideration of the limited amount of
means the company had at the time on
hand, and complimented the nrudent
management of President E, F. Verdery.
The latter, by the way, will remain at his
office at the road by request until October
Ist, when he will leave Captain Bass in
charge.
President Verdery is very sanguine of
the early completion of the Greenwood,
Laurens and Spartanburg Railroad. There
are but 13 miles of the 65 to be graded
now, and part of this is light work. When
the line is thoroughly graded and settled,
President Verdery thinks the road can be
bonded and iroued, probably next spring.
At all events, trains from Augusta to
Spartanburg by next summer are not
among the
A Bust of Col. Wm. M. Wadley.
The Savannah Times, of Thursday, eays:
A magnificent marble bust of the late Col.
Wm. M. Wadley, the lamented President
of the Central Riilroad Company, is on
exhibition for a time at the Hall of the
Georgia Historical Society. The bust has
recently bsen executed by the celebrated
sculptor, Mr. Robert Cushing, of No 1
Union Square, New York, and was order
ed specially by Mrs. Wadley. At the sug
gestion of Capt. W. G. Raoul, Mrs. Wadley
consented to its being stopped here in
order that Col. Wadley’s friends might
have the opportunity of seeing it.
The bust is of the purest marble, being
a portion of the same piece from which
was sculptured the bust of Cardinal Mo-
Oloskey, and is the most perfect and life
like representation of our distinguished
fellow-citizen we have ever seen. It is
mounted on a very handsome pedestal,
and is movable, so that different views of
the profile may be obtained. Every linea
ment in Colonel Wadley’s face is distinctly
outlined, and the lips are so natural that
at the first glance one is impressed with
the idea that they are about to open for
speech. The bust will remain here for two
or three weeks, when it will be placed in
the family residence. The friends of Col.
Wadley will be repaid by visiting the Hall
of the Georgia Historical Society and in
specting this magnificent work of art and
perfect likeness.
A Fast Freight Line to the South.
A new fast freight line, to be known as
the “Great Southern Dispatch,” is now be
ing organized by the East Tennessee, Vir
ginia and Georgia, Norfolk and Western,
Shenandoah Valley, Western Maryland,
Cumberland Valley and Pennsylvania Rail
roads, to run between all Sonthern and
Southwestern points and Baltimore, Phila
delphia and New York, No announcement
has yet been made, says the Baltimore thin,
of the time of inaugurating the line, but
it will doubtless be ready for business
within the next thirty days. The line
will start with 500 cars provided by the
several companies in proportion to their
interested mileage. This is the first
through Southern freight line ever estab
lished with Baltimore, and in that respect
it is to the business community the most
important railroad movement contem
plated for some time. The East and
West fast freight lines of Pennsyl
vania, Baltimore, and Ohio, and
the other trunk lines are conspicuously
known everywhere and their business is
enormous. The main stem of the Great
Southern Dispatch will be 1,100 miles
long, from New York to Chattanooga, or
Selma, but its cars will be sent to all points
east of New York and over the South and
Southwest.
Sweeping Change* Tn the Richmond
and Danville.
Some anticipated changes in the Rich
mond and Danville Railroad, of an im
portant character, are to ba made by the
new managers. Mr. George E. Seott, one
of the new managers, gives a reporter of
the New York World authority to say that
the affaire of the road are to be put in a
more satisfactory condition. The amount
of the floating debt is 91,025,000. and it
is hoped that by retrenchment thia will be
paid off in two years. Among other items
there is to be a 'saving of $78,000 in office
expenses and it is intended to abolish the
New York office. The company holds val
uable securities of auxiliary and other cor
porations for a large sum and it will re
ceive over 9300,000 from these companies
in a year. A meeting of the new directors
is soon to be held.
General Railroad Note?.
The new fast train on the Central is to
complete the new Western line from Cin
cinati to Jacksonville, Florida. This
promises to be a popular route for the Flo
rida travel the coming winter. The route
is over the Cincinnati Southern, Western
and Atlantic, Central to Albany, and the
Brunswick and Western to Waycross,
thence over the Savannah, Florida and
Western to Jacksonville. This train leaves
Atlanta at 2:30 in the afternoon, arriving
at Jacksonville the next morning at T3C.
Through sleepers run from Cincinnati to
Jacksonville.
There is said to be more travel over the
Western North Carolina Railroad than
over any road of its age ever built. The
freight traffic is enormous, and the quan
tity of coal brought from the East Tennes
see mines into North Carolina is so great
as to surprise even the most sanguine.
The people on the line pay that indefati
gable man. Colonel A B. Andrews, the
highest compliments.
At some points on the Macon and Au
gusta Raihoad the grades are said to be so
heavy and the track straight, that a train
can be seen some distance off. then it
sinks out of sight and reappears again.
The work of ballasting the track of the
Raleigh and Gaston Railroad progresses
quite satisfactorily. The track of Raleigh
and Augudaßoad Is ballasted to the fair
grounds, so that trips there by rail dating
fair week will be without dust.
A new platform ia being built aronnd
the large brick depot of the Richmond and
Danville Road at Charlotte, and the depot
floor is to raised, making it more conve
nient for loading and unloading freight.
The new order of the Georgia Riilroad,
forbidding riding on freight trains, sets
up the hotels considerably along the line.
“It’s an ill wind that blows no good."
The new fast train on the Central, leav
ing Atlanta at 9 o’clock, averaging 45
miles an hour, running time between At
lanta and Savannah. It runs from Atlanta
to Forsyth, a distance of 77 miles, with
out stopping.
The Mobile and Ohio Railroad gives
notice that it will reduce passenger rates
between all points on its line, October Ist,
to three cents per mile. The present rate
is four cents per mile.
THE LOTTERY AGENT.
As tn a National Bank In”
With Mr. Dauphin’s Lottery Com
pany.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Wa hikoton, September 22.—The Presi
dent of the New Orleans National Bank,
against which Postmaster-General Gresh
am's recent order in relation to lottery
company’s mail matter was directed, has
had an interview with the Secretary ot the
Treasury on the subject. Secretary Folger
told him that the question of the delivery
of mail matter to a bjnk was one over
which be had no direct control, thakbeing
a matter under the jurisdiction of the Post
Office Department. The only question, he
said, which he (Secretary Folger) had to
decide was whether the action of the bank
in becoming the agent of the lottery com
pany to receive its mail was a proper snb
jact for inspection by the Treasury De
partment.
Naw Orleans, September 22.—The New
Orleans National Bank has obtained an
injunction restraining Postmaster Mer
chant from refusing to deliver registered
letters or pay money orders to said bank
on the ground that they are agents for
lottery companies, which" have been ex
cluded from the mails.
FOUND GUILTY,
An Areli Fiancl to Probably Suffer For
Ilia Capital Crimes.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Baltimore, September 22. - John Smith,
colored, was convicted, at Oakland, Gar
rett county, Md., yesterday, of murder in
the first degree for the killing of Josiah
Harding, near Elkins on the 15th of May
last. The evidence against Smith showed
that he had been in Elkins’ drinking and
said he would go away next day, but be
fore he wen the would do something which
would make the people remember him
forever. He went to Harding’s house and
shot him dead without provocation and
then dragged Mrs. Harding out of the
house and outraged her. Last Sunday
Smith had made a plot to kill the sheriff as
he entered the cell, but this failed. During
the trial the prisoner showed the utmost
unconcern.
TKRRIBLK ACCIDHNI*.
Workmen Drowned by Being Hurled
to the Bottom of a Shaft.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Wilksfbarre, Pa., September 22. A
terrible accident occurred this afternoon
at the Woodward shaft of the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western Coal Company,
at Kingston. The shaft is five hundred
feet deep and has twenty feet of water at
the bottom. George Bulge, Thomas J.
Davis, Edward Phillips and Isaac Bevan
were working on a platform of timbering
in the shaft, sixty feet from the bottom.
A piece of timber, weighing half a ton,
while being lowered, fell on the platform,
which gave way and the men were pre
cipitated to the bottom and drowned.
Phillip Barry and Lewis T. Jones were
saved by hanging to the beam after crying
for help.
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A General s Sult for Divorce.
San Francisco, September 20.—General
Winfield Scott Keyes, son of the celebra
ted General Keyes, has applied for a di
vorce from his wife, on the ground that
she was already the wife of James O'Brien
Kelly, of Sweet Chalybeate Springs, Va.,
when he married her, the fact being un
known to him at that time. Mrs. Keyes is
a prominent society lady of this city. Her
msiden name was Flora A. Hastings. She
denies the charge, and says General Keyes
knew all about her acquaintance with Kel
ly; that he satisfied himself tnat she had
not been previously married, and she can
show that he wrote Kelly, warning him
not to annoy his wife, Mrs. Keyes, bv pre
tensions of marriage. When Gen. Keyes
first saw his present wife he became so
enamored of her that he persuaded his
former wife to consent to be divorced from
him, which she immediately did. The
social prominence of the parties invests
the case with much interest. The matter
will be tried in the Superior Court soon.
Finances Across the Sea.
London, September 22.—The Economist
of this week save: “The rate of di«count
for bank bills, GO days to three months, is
per cent, and for trade bills 60
days to 3 months, per oent. Busi
ness is generally slack. Foreign stocks
are firm, on account of the continuance of
the negotiations between France and
China. The movements in American se
curities have been small. Lake Shore has
risen 1% per cent,Denver and Bio Grande
common, and Oregon and California pre
ferred have declined 1 per cent., and Lou
isville and Nashville, and Wabash pre
ferred % per cent.”
The Commander of the French.
Paris, September 22.—Admiral Courbet,
Commander of the French forces in Ton
quin, sailed from Tourane, on Tuesday
last, on the iron clad Bayard, accompanied
by the gunboat Lynx, for the gulf of Ton
quin. A imiral Courbet has been tendered
complete civil and military authority for
the French government in Tonquin, which
offer he has declined. It is believed, how
ever, that he may yet be induced to accept
the position. The health of the troops is
excellent. General Benet, lately French
commander, was expected at Sargon on the
19th inst.
Apparently ’Abandoned— Ashore.
Washington, September 22.—The Sig
nal Corps Station, at Portsmouth, N. 0.,
reports that the schooner Chas. F. Heyer,
of Thomaston, Maine. loaded with lum
ber. apparently abandoned at sea, came
ashore twenty miles south of that station
on the night of the 20tb, There was no
oce on board.
The Brunettes and Blondes in the Dia
mond.
Naw York, September 22.—Eighteen
yoang women, gorgeously attired, attempt
ed to play a game of base ball at the Man
hattan Athletic club ground, to-day. The
contest was a mare burlesque. It resulted
as follows : Brunette i, 51; Blondes, 22.
CITY OF AUGUSTA
j BUSIMESS [lßß3] DIRECTORY
And Classified Index of Representative Houses
and Prominent Interests.
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.
DEVENEY, HCCD & CO.,
Agent* for Champion Reapers S Mow
•n, Thomas’ Horae Rakes, ws*tuple
Wheel Harrows, Grain Cradles, etc.
_jPg£jaer Broa j and Washlngton StJi.
ARCHITECTS,
DAVIS & CLARK,
Architects, Room Ift, Library Building.
B anks7~~
GEORGIA RAH.ROAD BANKING CO.
Capital $4,200,000. Surplus $*.000,000.
Banking Capital $500,000
Chua. 11. Phinlzy, President,
Charles G. Goodrich, Cashier.
701 Broad.
NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA.
Capital $500,000
Z. McCord, Prea’t. G. M. Thew, Cash’r.
A. C. Beane, Assistant Cashier.
Safe Deposit Bgxes for rent. 707 Broad.
The COMMERCIAL RANK of AUGUSTA
Capital, $300,000.
John A. North, President,
L. T. Taliaferro, Cashier.
Accounts of Bankers, Merchants and
others solicited.
THE NATIONAL EXCHANGE BANK
of Ausnsta.
Alfred Baker, President.
C. E. Coffin, Cashier.
Capital and Snrplns, S.'IOO.OUO.
Foreign Exchange drawn in Sums to
suit Prompt Remittances at Lowest
Rate of Exchange. 811 Broad Street.
AUGUSTA SAVINGS BANK,
Alfred Baker. President,
Joseph S. Bean, Jr., Cashr.
Transacts a General Deposit and
Discount Business.
Assets, $200,000 Surplus, $23,000
811 Broad Street-
G. P. CURRY’S EXCHANGE BANK.
Established 1806. Stocks nnd Bonds
bought and sold. Collections promptly
attended to. Loans negotiated. Interest
allowed on Deposits ny special agree
ment. Foreign Exchange drawn on all
parts of the vyorld. Also Prop’r Sum
merville Mills, manufacturer of Cotton
Plaids and Rope, 033 Broad St.
BROKERS.
John jay cohew.
Bond and Stock Broker, 723 Broad St.
Stocks, Bonds and Insurance.
Business solicited. 128 Seventh Street.
■* ZTwTCAIiwrEK, JR.,
Prevision Broker. Oitiers executed for
Salerof Grain & Provisions in Chicago,
10 Library Bnl dlng,
BAKERSrZZZ
James r. KidweLl,
Baker and Confectioner, Fruits & Nuts
1026 Broad Street.
BOTTLING g= ”
Clinton’s Model Soda Water Works,
Ginger Ale, Soda Water, etc., equal to
any Imported. Orders solicited.
1348 Broad. B(o goods misrepresented.
E. SHEEHAN?
Sheehan’s Excelsior Bottling Works.
Manufacturer and Dehler in Pure Soda
Water, Ginger Ale, etc. Lager Beer in
kegs & hotties, always in stock. Orders
solicited. Write for terms. Satisfaction
guaranteed. 1025 Greene Street.
QfS AND SHO
JOHN D. HALL,
Boots, Shops, Hats and Trunks,
602 Byroad Strifeet, Bothvyelffg Old Stand.
J. B. WHITE & CO.
Dealers in Dry Goods. Clothing, Shoes,
WM. MULHlftllN <k CO.
Dealers In Shoea Hats and Slippers,
>22 a»gff 913 Broad.
TARVER, CASHIN & CO.
Dealers in Boots, Shoes, Hats, etc.
833 Bro off.
BUILDtHG MATERIAL.
AV. J. RUTHERFORD,
Prop’r Hamburg Brick Yard. Bricks,
Ala. Lime, Plaster, Cement, 611 Broad.
J. T. OIENnISG, Manufactured ot
Candy, Butter-Cups, Daisy Drops, Bos
ton Chips, etc. Frujjts. Nuts, 636 Broad.
CARPETS.Z
JAMES G. BAILIE & SONS.
Dealers in Carpets, Window Shades,
Oil Cloths, Mattings, Lace Curtains,
Cornices, Wall Paper, etc. 713 Broad.
Carpets and House Furnishing Goods.
The Largest Steck South of Baltimore
Moquet, Brussels, 3-Ply & Ingrain Car
pets, Window Shades, Lace Curtains,
Cornices & Poles, Wall Papers, Chroygps,
Cocoa Ac Canton Matt Ings, Rugs de Sials.
George A. Bailie, Masonic Building.
CIGAR MANUFACTURER,
P. IIANSBERGER,
Tobaccos, Snuff and Cigarettes,
629 Ellis, and 734 Broad Street.
W. 11. BRIGHAM.
Cotton Commission Merchant and Deal
er in Choice Family Groceries. Agent
fry Commercial Fertilizers, 528 Broad.
CO~AL~AND WOOD. ~
D. B. GILLISON.
Wood Ac Coal. Orders left H. 9. Jordan’s
Corner Washington & Hale Streets.
o. M. STONM,
Agent NeW River Coal Company*
Leave orders at F. H. Stellmg’s, sls
Broad, D. C, SteUing’s, 1001 Broad, dr
at Coal Yard, Mclntosh, near R. R. also
at Office, cor. Mclntosh and
Telephone Number 8.
F. M. STOVALL,
All kinds of Coal for Domestic Ac Mast**
factoring Purposes, 2 Law Rangy.
J. M. WOODWARD,
Wood Dealer, Office and Yard at South
Carolina Railroad Depot.
L. STALLINGS, Dealer in all kinds of
Wood, Fence Posts, etc., Yard Comer
Twiggs and Watkins Streets.
CHAS. B. ALLEN,
Contractor and Builder,
430 Ellis Street.
SANFORD.
Contractor and Builder,
Planters Hotel.
CQTfoiT FACTORS.
W. N. MERCIER,
Cotton Commission Merchant. Liberal
cask advances on consignments.
3 Warren
M. O’DOWD,
Cotton Commission Merchant. Liberal
Advances oh Cotton & ProdueaJn Store.
Selling OOP, Storage ye. A
eaockWr.
If yon want Glnsswaro,Tinware, Lawns
or anything cheap, call at 0,10 or 100.
Store. 5 t 2 gedd
PRUccisTS.
B. HAKTt,
•oaler ia Drugs, Tobacco, Cigars, etc.
Comer Walker and Campbell Sts.
BEALL Ac CO.
Krugs, Faints, Seeds, oto., 412 Broad.
J. H. WENZEL,
Apothecary, Broad Street.
T. B. FLlfidlNG,
Dmggift <pd Pyediifean, 954 Broad.
pSTO’.SaTh aNO
' FEYIRTtI MJUtUFAcTrRiNtf C4V '
YeilowFine Lumber,Sash, Doors, Blind
Calhoun St. hot. Centro Jk Washington
Braneh, Our. Kolleek Ac Fenwichlta.
JMSSE THOMPSON A CO.
ManuCaetnryrs Sash, Doors and Blinds,
Dealers in YeUew Pino Lnmbor, Yard,
Halo •*— near Oeotral UnUread Yard*
WE ARE OFFERING
GREAT BARGAINS I
IN
FURNITURE!
Preparatory to Moving. Our Stock is Com
plete. The Best Goods for the Money ever Of
fered in Augusta*
J. Hf. BOWLES <fc CO.,
839 BROAD STREET
for Catalogue and Price or Call and See
DRY COOPS.
DHLANR A HICKOK,
Dry Goods, Carpets, etc.
630 Broad. _
DALY & ARMSTRONG,
Dry Goods, Daces, etc.
Masonic
CHRISTOPHER GRAY A CO.
Dry Goods, Hosiery, etc.
638 Broad.
FACTORIES*
•ftlE AUGUSTA FACTORY.
C. H. Phtnixy, Pres’t. F. Cogin, Snp’t,
Manufacturers of Brown sheeting.
Shirtings and Drills.
705 Broad Stree
FAMILY GROCERS.
JAMES G. BAILIE & SONS,
Dealers in Choicest Family Groceries,
Canned Goods, Crackers, etc. 713 Broad.
Honest Quality! Honest Quantity!
1114,1116 and 1118 Broad Street,
HAINS BROTHERS,
Purveyors to the People and Dealers In
the Finest Family Groceries.
FANCY & CENX MERCHANDISE,
EDWIN R. CUNNINGHAM, 385 Broad,
Commissioner of Deeds and Not. I’ublle.
Probating & Drawing papers specialty
FOUND RI ES.
GEO. R. LOMBARD A CO.
Foundry, Machine and Boiler Works,
New Work and Repairs Promptly dona.
1014 to 1086 Fenwick Street.
C. F. LOMBARD,
Foundry and Machine Works,
Special Attention Given to Repairing,
Nos. 615, Gl7 and 619 Kollock Street.
COOPER A
Iron and Brass Foundry, Blacksmith
Work. Making and Repairing Engine*
510 A *lB Reynolds, opposite S. C.
FURNITURE
J. l. bowlesT& co.
We Lead in Styles, Prices & Quality.
Write for New Illustrated Catalogue.
839 Broad Street.
JAMES F. MACBETH,
Mattrass Manufacturer for the Trad*,
and Dealer in Furniture of all kinds,
1840 Broad and 1436 Marbury jjtreet*.
CR Al N, FLOUR,~ PROV NsT*
J. M. BERRY,
Commission Merchant in Grain, Flour,
Meats and Lard, OfUce and 'Warehouse,
near Union Depot, on Walker Street.
Hardware and seeds7 j
JACOB THORNE, 1138 Broad Street,
Hardware, Tin and Crochfery War*,
IN SURA NCE AC ENTS?
JOSEPH S. BEAN. Jr.
General Insurance Agent,
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~ Jewelers. ~
F. A. BRAHE,
Jeweler, 708 Broad.
MONOGRAM ENGRAVING,
Watchmaking and Specialties,
J, H. FEARE V, opposite Central Hotel.;
HIDES AND WOOL?"
JOSEPH SABEL.
Leather, Hides, Wool and Beeswax,
838 Reynolds, oppo, Sibley & Jordan’s.,
~ LIQUORS? ~
A. R. SCHNEIDER,
Importer and Dealer in Segars, Tobae
FHie Wines, Spirits, Malt Liquors,
Mineral Waters, etc. 601 and 808 Bread|
S. B. WRIGHT,
Aged Rye Whiskies,
CHARLES SPAETH,
Dealer in Impor. Wines, Liquors, Deer.i
Corner Sth and Telfair Street*.
MAC HI N E RY.
6. M. STONE,
Gen’l Agt. Ames’ Agricultural, Portable
A Stationary Engines, Saw Mills. Gris*
Mills,Cotton Gins,Cotton Presses,Thresh*
ere, etc.. Corner Reynolds di Melnta*lu,
MAff&LE WORKS.
P. REYNOLDS,
Marble and Granite Monument*,
Head Stones, Tablets, etc.
Corner Telfair and Campbell Streets.
THEO. MARKWALTBLR,
Steam Marble and Granite Work*,
Broad Street, Near Lower Marlyf*
2 MILLINERY,
New York Millinery Store.
MISS NELLIE PURGELL. Dealer In
French Millinery, Velvet*, Ribbongi
788 Broad Street, Under Central ■
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.
G. O. ROBINSON di CO.
Pianos, Organs, Sheet Music and
Music Books. 831 Broad Street.
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OLD BOOKS.
OLD ROOKS
BwM T-,
painters? -
K. J RGDGERI*
PAPER BACB, WRAPPING PAPER.
Chronicle and Constitutionalist
706 Broad Street.
REALESTATE,
Counjl A CASHIN,
Th* Real Estats Agents of the South.
Leant Negotiated. Exchanges of CitF*
and Country Property a Specialty.
*ll Mclntosh Street.
SAFE LOCK EXPERK
W. C. CHAPMAN,
g ts. L.e k K tp rt,
Safes and ScaloSjOdd F«)k>wi Building
SEWING MACHINES.
WHEELER A WILSON MFG. CO.
Salesroom 314 Jackson Street,
Th* Lightest Running Machine said,
Tjig. l 1,/? 1 * ",
STATIONERY, PRINTING, E
Chronicle and Constitutionalist OAlee,
706 Broad Street.
STdCK
Kg. ftuftutf CUS
Lin., Laths, Cement, Plaxtef and Halo*
Stack Feed, Hay and LQpg Forage.
L. W. COLEMAN A Cf). ’
Hay, Grain and Stock Feed.
Weight and .Quality
STOVES, CRATES * TINWARE/
~~ W. I. DEIPHT **
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
Cooking and Heating Stoves. Grate*
and Tinware, 831 Bread Strf et.
W. H.
Healing, Guttering, Copper, Sheet
ban Work and Repairing,
A. B. SHOLDS c 6, oppoalte Planter*
Hotel, Cao king add Heating Stave*.
Hiaja Mantel* and urates, Hahafnetn*
rers Tin, .CypyXr Xyon W<rk ?
TAILORS.
———w. marmhxce;
Merchant Tailor, Woolen*, DlMenatab
Cheviot*, always an hand, Sit 7th St,
TOYS, ETC.
SARAH J. KIMI
Toys *f all kind*. Stamping and
Vtnhi&g den*. SM RbahT
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