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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. — I > I 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, . _____ ~ 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. — ...> -—,'?_z— sa»t 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 5