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HANDKERCHIEFS
Especially adapted for Christmas presents, in Brocade Silk, Plain Silk, Embroid
ered Silk, Clear Lawn, Plain and Printed Embroidered, etc. Our stock of these goods
is unusually large and in great variety. Ladies and Gents Embroidered Initial PURE
LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS for $3.00 per dozen, half dozen in a box.
OUR HALF PRICE SALE.
All our French Pattern Hats; Ladies and Misses Camel's Hair French Felt Hate
Misses Ready-Made Suits; Ladies Extra Choice Pattern Saits, regular price $20 to $33.
Ladies and Misses Jersey Waists. A small lot of our best KID GLOVES, slightly
soiled or spotted. All go at exactly HALF PRICE.
CHOICE, BEST BRANDS OF PRINTS AT FIVE CENTS.
Notwithstanding this cold weather has stimulated the WRAP trade we will com
tinue to make reduced prices of any of our CLOAKS AND WRAPS for Ladies oi
Children. Also a discount of oae-third off from the price on FUR BOA AND MUFF
SETS. ’
Xj-A.DI:ES TTISrIDES.VESTS 25 OEUSTTS.
Reductions in UNDERWEAR. We are determined not to carry over so large
stock of Underwear as we did last winter if LOW PRICES will move them.
DOLLS IN QEEAT VjALLIETIT.
Bisque Heads with jointed Bodies; Bisque Heads with Kid Bodies, from 25
•ents to $1.50.
MAKE THE GENTLEMEN PRESENTS.
We have Gents Kid, Dog Skin, Dressed Buck and Moca GLOVES in sizes from
7 to 9, at low prices. Also Four-in-Hand SCARFS at 50 Cents, worth $1.00. Also
a choice line of CUFF BUTTONS, etc.
J. • A KIRVEN & CO.
HUNDREDS OF LADIES AND GENTLEMEN
CROWD DAILY THE
outfit™ store
OF-
Chancellor & Pearce,
Purchasing Christmas Presents
Gloves to Please All.
Kid, Fur-Top, Do.jr-
Skin, FJeice Lined, Drivers’
and Railroad, and any style, from 25c to
NECKWEAR
Suited to old and young, ladies and gen
tlerner. Mufflers, Initial Silk Handker
chiefs (50c to $1), Socks, etc,
5 Dozen Xmas Slippers
Will be opened today.
We sold more Fine
Slippers Jast Xmas
than any two houses.
This season we expect
to do better still. On
Men’s Fine Patent Leather. Calf, Kid and Kangaroo Shoes
we have no competition—simply do the business. Our close
prices and immense stock the secret. Note this fact and
examine the line.
CHANCELLOR & PEARCE.
N. B.—Great reduction on Overcoats. They must be sold.
THE SUMMER SESSION of Terre51 county and providing for com- QlT.ROfi’S H 4 }! B 1 T T f!|{ | ed the House in 1875. He had its pro
pensat.on of same. UlAIfUjIA 0 DflrtL> LL CA 1 visions read for the purpose of justifvins
House bills with
THAT’S WHAT THE LEGISLATURE were then taken
IS PREPARING FOR.
THS BRANCH COLLEGES STILL UNDER THE
BAN—THE NORTH HIGHLANDS
BILL PASSED AS AH ENDED.
OTHER BUSINESS.
STILL A MYSTERY.
.FINANCIAL LEGISLATION.
THE ATTACK ON AND llOBBERT OFTBEA9- ! THE SENATE COMMITTEE READY TO RE-
URER MURDOCK. I PORT A BILL.
Atlanta, December 10.—[Special.]— I Washington, December 19. —The
The reported robbery of Treasurer Mur- j finance committee of
dock, of the Bluebeard company, is still
an unsolved mystery. Speculation is still
rife. Dr. Von Der Hoya says the wounds
on Murdock’s head were not sufficient to
have caused unconsciousness.
A Miss Herbert, of the same company,
occupied a room opposite Murdock's, and
was in it at the time. She says she was
sleeping and heard no noise. She nursed
Murdock while he was under treatment
for the bruises.
Manager Meade says that the company
was paid off before leaving Allanta, de
spite the fact that the $2500 stolen was
being arranged in envelopes for that pur
pose by Treasurer Murdock.
The investigation is looked forward to
with much interest.
THE CHICAGO MARKET.
Chicago, December 19.—There was
nothing of interest to wheat speculators in
this morning’s budjet of new's except the
cables, but the tone of these dispatches
was decidedly strong. The market opened
firm at * to ±c improvement on the closing
price of the preceeding day. Business was
dragging in character till noon, and there
was a lack of orders from the
outside, but those and local
dealings increased later, and a fairly ac
tive trade was done in the last hour of the
session. May closed 100* or *c over the
latest yesterday. .
The corn and oat pits were not interest
ing to either speculators or sectors. Hie
fluctuations in the most active delivery
were confined to a range of about *c.
The provision market was fairly active
and a good deal firmer.
CHARGED WITH MURDER.
Marietta. Ga., December 19.—[Spe
cial.]—Tom Alexander, Charlie Porter,
Joseph Edward, Will Dealer and Ike
Smith, negroes, and a white man named
George Sanges were arrested at Marietta
last night on true bills found by the grand
jury of the United States Court for this
district charged with conspiracy.
Deputy marshals made the arrest, and
lodged them in jail until it is decided
whether or not bail will be accepted.
A man named Wright, who was a wit
ness against illicit distillers in the
United States Court, was murdered in the
big road when he returned to his home
near Marietta. These men are charged
with complicity in the crime.
the Senate has
agreed to report the financial bill intro
duced yesterday by Senator Sherman.
The only amendments made in the com
mittee are said to be as to the phraseology.
The chairman of the finance committee,
Senator Morrill, was opposed to some of
the propositions contained in the bill, and,
with Senator Sherman, reserved the right
to vote for the restoration of the 2 per cent
bond clause when the bill is considered in
the Senate.
Senator Hiscock reserved the right to
vote against that part of the proposition
relative to supplying the deficiency in the
national bank circulation which proposes
to authorize the issue of original treasury
notes therefor, if silver bullion cannot be
purchased.
Aldrich reserved the right to advocate
the retention of the bond clause, and also,
like Hiscock, to oppose the proposition to
issue treasury notes to make good the de
ficiency in the national bank circulation.
As for the Democratic members of the
committee, they reserved the right to op
pose the whole bill inasmuch as
they had had no proper oppor
tunity to examine it, but consented
to the report of the measure so that
no yea and nay vote was necessary. . The
absentees at the meeting were Aldrich and
Jones, of Nevada.
It is the purpose of the committee to re
port the bill at the earliest moment prac
ticable, and Sherman has been charged
with that duty.
EMIN PASHA RECALLED.
Berlin, December 19.—Advices re
ceived from Baron Wissman state he has
recalled Emin Pasha from the interior of
Africa, owing to the latter’s d’sregard of
orders. He says that Emin has impeded
operations being carried on under the di
rection of Stokes, and has refused to act
in accordance with the plans of the impe
rial Government.
force bill amendments.
Washington, December 19.—Senator
Gray has introduced in the Senate a num
ber of amendments to the pending elec-
tons bill, the effect of which are, in brief,
to strike out the provision for a permanent
annual appropriation for the compensation
of Supervisor?, and to deprive these officers
nf the novtar to interfere with the returns,
and to separate them entirely from the
election machinery after election day.
Atlanta, December 19.—[Special.]—
This morning Mr. Baxter, of Bibb, secured
reconsideration of the Harvey alley bill
from Macon. It was defeated last night,
and largely on the understanding that the
railroad company had not offered Mrs.
Harvey any remuneration. Mr. Huff agreed
to the reconsideration with the undemand
ing that it wiii not be called up without
his having notice.
The resolution of Look, of Clay, pro
viding that the House adjourn Saturday
night, and reconvene the second vVedues-
day in July, was called up from the table
and adopted. A number of amendments
were proposed in one way and another,
some favoring coming back in January,
others to stay here until Tuesday. Lock
said the question with the planters now
was “home,” and not the Western and At
lantic road matter. Christmas is most here
and the roads now are peopled with riot
ous merry makers and tne members want
to go Uome.
Smith, of Decatur, remided him that
Yoeman owed the State consideration
when they came here as legislators. Tne
feeling is that the Senate will concur in
the resolution as the Western and Atlantic
question is about the only matter now im
peratively requiring attention.
The general appropriation act was re
ported from the finance committee, with
the amendments concurred in except the
first, providing that railroad passes of iu
mates of the Deaf anil Dumb Asylum be
paid by the State at vacation time, which
was disagreed in. The House sustained
the disagreement, aud the amendment was
lost.
The amendment restoring the branch
colleges be replaced, and that matricula
tion fees be reduced to $5.
Whitfield, of Baldwin, pleaded that the
State of Georgia should not take one back
step. The State Las taken the property of
tliese colleges as part of a contract, aud
now proposes to repudiate these agree
ments.
Reed, of Putnam, argued against the
branch colleges. He said they were noth
ing but academies. Georgia’s real duty
was to the public school system. The
State cannot afford to keep up
the branch colleges. Georgia was now
about to give $1,200,000 for educational
purposes, where two years ago, not one cent
was appropriated. These branch colleges
could only live just now at the expense of
the common school fund.
Davis, of Burke, pointed out that though
he was from that Eastern part of the State
beyond an imaginary line run through
Milledgeville, where not one single insti
tution of learning is maintained by the
State. He was favorable of maintaining
the branch colleges. In winding up, he
stated that the negro children of
Atlanta are supplied with better
educational facilities than are the -.vliite
children in other parts of the State.
Dr. Hand, of Baker, said these talks
were only rehashes of the House debate
on the bill when it was under passage,
and he moved the previous question.
Before it was enforced, Fleming, of
Richmond, put in a new phase of the
question a special act was needed, and if
the House wanted to cut off the branch
olleges let the Trustees of the State
University deed back the titles of property
to the donators if appropriations are
withheld.
amah of Greene, and Hill of Meri
wether, both talked against the
amendment. Mr. Huff had twenty min
utes, but he yielded time to these two gen
tlemen and further gave Berner two and a
half minutes of the remaining time left.
Hill wanted it understood—reporters in
cluded—that he was not an enemy of
higher education, but was opposeu to such
privileged academies as the branch col
leges.
Berner—The gentleman from Jackson
(Twitty) has implied that I changed my
position when my effort to secure a branch
college was thwarted. He wished to stamp
it as unjust and uncalled for. He reserved
the right to change, and resented any suefi
construction.
Twitty—I meant nothing personal;
merely cited the case as an illustration of
what privilege legislation would bring
us to.
Berner accepted the disclaimer; he was
for branch colleges in every district in the
State, aud trusted to seeing the day when
every county would have such an institu
tion.
Huff, in winding up, paid his respects
to the House in sententious fashion. He
pointed out that three years
ago Georgia had not appropriated
1 cent to the common schools. The farm
ers had fashioned a fund of $1,200,000,
and he honored them for it. Of this
amount $400,000 would go to the negroes,
who paid $48,000 of taxes. These, then,
had taken every dollar from higher educa
tion, which they designated “class legis
lation.” Yes, it was class legislation in
favor of the negroes. If the members
could go home with that record, he would
leave it to them to say.
The ayes and nays were taken and the
Senate amendment restoring the branch
colleges was lost; ayes 05, nays 94.
The other amendments were accepted.
Among them was one increasing the con
tingent fund from $12,000 to $18,000.
A brass band passed the capitol during
the consideration of the bill, and windows
were in great demand. The Speaker stated
that he would excuse any of the members
who desired to witness the diversion, but
HELD UP,
MACUNE—A REPUBLICAN sena
tor HITS THE FORCE BILL.
Senate amendments
up and passed.
Among these was the bill by Gilbert,
of Muscogee. The Senate amended by
providing that the North Highlands Rail
road Company shall not parallel for more
than one block at any one point the tracks
of any other existing company, and that
no other company shall parallel the line
of the said Highlands Company. All par
ties '
Columbus consent, the above^ restrictions t ™; ,er ot tbe Treasury
shall not be operative. The effect of this 8 anD . na ( l u0 , ta for tbe maintenance of
binds both railroads whenever they desire . agricultural experimental station,
to do any paralleling to first obtain permis- „ ben . tbe kw was first enacted,
Washington, December 19.—[Special.]
Av* ouiu xxicuiauuo vvinpuii*. ah DUi « , , . . . •*
further agreed to the proviso offered reason of soffitTH-regularity or omission
dr. Gilbert that if the City Council of ? be Sta “ 8 certificate, the First Comp-
imhn« pnnapnf tlia ahnvn rAeLri/*tinna trO.IW Of tll6 Tre&SUrV U&3 withheld Cx€Or-
Highest of *11 in Livening Power.
■ J XT. S. Gor’t Report, Aug. I7>
Baking
Powder
ABSOLUTE!* PURE
he must insist on members in the hall re
suming their seats.
Several Senate bills were passed. The
Southern Exchange Bank, of Atlanta, was
incorporated. Also a bill changing the
period for certrorari service in criminal
cases from ten to thirty days. Senator
Beck’s bill amending section 3354, so that
third parties, friendly to two makers of a
contract, one of whom is deceased or dis
qualified, may, in a court of justice; testify
to perfect the instrument or lead to its ad
judication.
Senator Glenn’s bill providing for uni
form law to charter railroads, banks and
like corporations, and providing machinery
for such.
Berner objected, and moved to table the
bill and let it go ovei until summer, and
the bill was so disposed of.
The bank of Richland and the town of
Richland, in Pickins county, were incor
porated.
A resolution offered by Senator Caba-
niss asking that our
sion from Council. A similar situation of
affairs existed in Augusta up to a short
time ago, but was solved by the consolida
tion of the lines.
The bill by Gilbert, of Muscogee, em-
poweriug the Commons Commissioners, if
they see fit, to donate a tract of land to
the Public Library of Columbus, passed in
the Senate this morning.
Tne constitutional amendment offered
by Mr. Gilbert, by which local bills are
read by captions a first and second time,
passed the Senate today. It is an impor
tant measuse, tending to economise the
time of the Legislature, and would not be
a law if it had not been for an error in
advertising the bill after the last session,
The other and last bill of Mr. Gilbert
one empowering Judges of Superior Courts
“•in the exercise of sound discretion’
call special terms of said courts for the
disposition of civil business. This is al
ready the law regarding the criminal cal
endar. This will pass the Senate if ad
journment is not had before Monday,
has met with no objection in either
House, and if passed before adjournment
will enable Muscogee Superior Court to
hold a special term before the regular term
in May.
This finishes up the work Mr. Gilbert
had mapped out for the fall session of the
Legislature, and his successful conduct of
the same to the stage of the business, to
gether with his prominent part in securin.
the $25,000 for the military of the State re
flect credit on him and his constituency.
IN THE SENATE.
The Senate this morning took what
seemed to be final action on the Twitty
bili, laying it upon the shelf with the
understanding that it is to remain there
till the summer session, that, the Senators
may have an opportunity of conferring
with their constituents on the subject,
The many points that have been urged
against this measure appears at last to
have had their effect, and some of the
most confident advocates of the bill have
come to feel shy of it.
Major Rials’ bill authorizing municipal!
ties to tax railroads passed with amend
rnent pro-rating the personality of the roads
for purposes of taxation among the various
towns along their lines, the relative pro
portion of each to be determined by the
length of the track lying within its corpo
rate limits
The tax act was taken up and concurred
in with certain amendments,
The suggestion of the finance committee,
that exchanges doing business through the
regular boards of trade be separated from
bucket shops proper, and taxed $1000 in
stead of $10,000, was, after debate, con
curred in.
The amendment offered by Mr. John
ston, of the Thirty-ninth, to tax eommer
cial agencies, was agreed to as amended.
The amendment accepted by Mr. Johnston
reduces the amount of the poposed tax
from $150 to $100 for each office estab
lished by such companies in cities of the
Slate,
The sleeping car tax was fixed by the
Senate as the committee had recommended,
at 2* per cent of gross earnings instead of
5 per cent.
Mr. Gill offered a resolution to adjourn
the present session tomorrow, aud recon
vene for the summer session the second
Wednesday in July.
A similar resolution was received from
the House. Both went over until tomor
row.
The Senate concurred in the House
amendments to Ellington’s fertilizer bill.
The bill of Mr. Huff to create a sinking
fund to pay off maturing bonds, passed.
To authorize the creation of a Board of
Health, etc., for the city of Macon. Passed.
AFTERNOON SESSION—HOUSE.
Atlanta, December 19.—[Special.]—
The House had a unique bill for a first
reading tonight. Seay, of Floyd, wants a
revenue created for the branch colleges by
taxing annually unmarried male pe.sons
from $25 for young men of twenty-one to
$200 for those sixty or over.
The Governor is authorize i by the Jack-
son resolution to negotiate a loan of
$200,000 temporarily, that under Boifeuil-
lett’s bill the teachers may De paid quar
terly.
The general tax act came back amended
from the Senate, and after a long wrangle
over bucket shops and futures. The Sen
ate amendment was adopted taxing
brokers $1000 and bucket 3hops $2000.
AFTERNOON SESSION—SENATE.
Atlanta, Ga.,December 19.—[Special.]
—The Senate, this afternoon, adjourned
to avoid a vote on the proposition to insist
on their amendment to the appropriation
bill re-establishing the branch colleges.
The majority is clearly in favor of the col
leges, but the danger of locking horns
with the House, thus putting an early ad
journment out of the question, may tempt
the body to recede tomorrow.
The bill providing for a constitutional
amendment, so as to allow local bills for
bank and railroad charters to be read the
first and second times by caption, was
passed.
Also the appropriation of $15,000 for
improvements of the Deaf and Dumb
Asylum, and the bill charging the State
with the expense of trials of convicts for
all crimes committed while in the peniten
tiary, were passed.
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS.
Montgomery, December 19. — [Spe
cial.]—The following Supreme Court de
cisions were rendered today:
Stone, C. J.—W. M. Terry vs. the State,
from Jefferson Criminal Court; affirmed.
Clopton, J.—Gus Allen vs. the State,
from DeKalb Circuit Court; affirmed.
McClellan, J.—Henry Waldmax vs. North
British Mutual Insurance Company, from
Montgomery Circuit Court; affirmed.
Coleman, J.—Mobile Street Railway
Company vs. M. H. Turnel, from Mobile
Circuit Court; reversed and rendered.
purpose of justifying
HER QUOTA OF THE AGRICUL- tb , e °?, po3i , ti ,? n made t0 u b y himself and
TUR4T appro^putigv other Republicans, and to show that th;re
j was no inconsistency in their oppositii n to
i that measure and in their support of the
bit she will get it—return of tramp P^ding measure.
Stewart repeated that he opposed the
pending bill because it pr posed to do
things which could not be done without
force. The Senate should not attempt to
deceive the country. The country should
be informed of what was necessary to
enforce the bill, if it should be
called upon to sustain it.
He did not wish to enter upon such & cam
paign as was entered upon fifteen years
ago, and again to meet with defeat as on
that occasion, when the bill had to be
dropped. If the time had come when the
Republican party was willing to pass the
bill, and to put the necessary force behind
it, and if that was the will of the Republi
can party, he would go with it. But he
did not believe that time had ar
rived, and, believing that the bill
would be a failure, he regretted separating
from his party. He believed that he had
been a good party min, but as he thought
that the pending measure was going to
lead to bad results, and that it could not
succeed, he deemed it his duty to express
his opinion honestly and frankly, as he
had done today. [Much applause in the
galleries.]
The discussion was then taken up on
Fulkner’s amendment, and was partici
pated in by many Senators. No vote was
taken
Dawes, by request, introduced a bill to
prohibit the opening on Sunday of any ex
hibition or exposition where appropria
tions of the United States are expended.
The Senate then adjourned.
in the house.
Washington, December 19. — The
House conference report on the bill con
ferring certain powers on the Baltimore
and Potomac Railroad Company in the
District of Columbia, .known as the Atkin
son bill, was presented and agreed to, but
not without a good deal of opposition.
The conference report on the bill amend
ing the act for the division of a
portion of the Sioux Indians
in Dakota into smaller reservations,
was presented. The only change made is
an authorization for the expenditure of
the appropriation of $100,000, made for
the purchase of beef, in other rations.
Enloe, in the interest of private bills,
raised tbe question of consideration.
The House determined—yeas 11, nays
73—to consider the conference report.
After some debate it was agreed to, and
the House adjourned.
BAD FAITH TO HAWAII.
Washington, December 19.—It is un
derstood that after a consultation between
Senator Sherman and Representative Mc
Kinley on the subject, the former has de-
Congression- ! termined to withdraw the resolution intro-
al Representatives and those of - duced by him to so construe the tariff law
other States use their best efforts to secure \ as to maintain the Hawaiian reciprocity
relief to the country from the oppression \ treaty in operation. The probability of
of the present tariff" laws and the strin- amendments being offered, which might
gency created in monetary ciTcles by the , reopen the entire tariff question, is under-
present policy of the Treasury Depart- stood to have caused this decision,
ment. was concurred in. ! *
Senator Ellington’s bill creating fertil- a retaliate policy.
izer inspectors to secure samples from tbe London, December 19.— The Bradford
sacks, passed in the House. Lewis, of Chamber of Commerce has adopted a reso-
Haticock wanted warehouses established iutiou favoring the imposition by the Gov-
in which the Ordinaries may store sam- ernment of discriminating duties on
-igg % j French wines. This action is recorn-
Mitchell’s Senate till incorporating the mended for the purpose of retaliating
Citizens’ Banking and Trust Company, of against France for duties on English pro-
Thomasville passed. ducts established by the new Anglo-Saxon
Also bill amending section 1689 of tbe French Company. The adoption of such
code of 1882, which regulates the crossing a resolution by the Bradford Chamber of
of railroad lines by other systems at grade Commerce is considered of special signifi-
j eve j g cance, as it is the first deliverance by that
Also incorporating the Bank of Cal- body in forty years looking in any degree
boun, and tbe bill designating the officers toward a protective policy.
Georgia was the last State to
get her money under the act establishing
these stations, and it appears that she has
not yet discovered the method of tiling an
application for her dues. Governor
Northen might with propriety give his
Secretaries a lesson in finance.
Bate of Tennessee, and Gibson of Louis
iana, addressed the Senate today in oppo
sition to the Force bill. These speeches
were very tame, the heavy ordnance on
the Democratic side having been exhausted
last week.
A protest against the Conger lard bill,
adopted by the New York Produce Ex
change, was filed in the Senate today.
Ingalls is announced to leave here on
. Sunday for a visit to Kansas.
The United States war ship Kersage,
tbe same that sunk the Alabama during
tha war, is anchored in Port Royal Roads
with some malignant fever among her
crew.
Dr. Macune, editor of the National Alii
ance organ, is back at his desk. He looks
a bit worsted fro/n his fall against Polk,
but he declares that he is still in the ring
and the Alliance principles are perpetual
and everlasting. The Doctor refuses to
talk about a hayseed ticket for ’92
Duncan Jordan was confirmed as post
master at Cuthbert today.
IN THE SENATE.
Washington, December 19.—Stanford
addressed the Senate in explanation and
advocacy of the bill introduced by him on
the 5th inst., to provide the government
with means sufficient to supply the
national want of a soimd circulating
medium. At the conclusion of his re
marks, the bill was, on his motion, refer
red to the committee on finance.
Gray offered a preamble and resolution
looking to the establishment of reciprocity
between tbe United States and the Domin
ion of Canada and Mexico, and asked that
it lie on the table, stating that at a conven
ient time he would move to take it up.
Ingalls introduced a bill, which was re
ferred to the finance committee, to allow
the exchange of the interest bearing debt
for legal tender notes.
The Senate then took up and passed,
with amendments increasing the amount,
the printing deficiency bill. The bill was
passed with an amendment increasing the
amount.
The elections bill was taken up, and
Bate concluded his speech against it. He
declared that its effect would be the organ
izing of mobs by the Government itself,
aud the leading of them by Government
officers. As the alien, and sedition law
had pulled down the older Adams, this
Force bill would, he predicted, pull down
the younger Harrison.
Giosou oppose ! the bill as unreasonable,
as belonging to another epoch, as not in
keeping with the temper of the times. It
came like au Arctic iceberg into a tem
perate sea, but he had believed that the
sentiment of kindliness and brotherhood
which had pervaded the Senate and the
country at large would cause it to dissolve
aud disappear. It was the moat intensely
partisan measure that was ever before tile
Senate, and ought to be entitled “A bili to
vest the supervision and control of elec-
ieus in the Republican party, and to vest
iu that party the permanent organization
of the House of Representatives.”
At the ciose of Gibsou’s speech, the
Vice President announced the question to
be on Gray’s amendment to strike out the
House provision, aud asked whether the
Senate was teady lor the question.
Gray withdrew the amendment, leaving
the question to be oa Butler's amendment
declaring election supervisors, deputy
marshals, etc., executive, not judicial offi
cers.
Faulkner offered an amendment, of
which he had given notice the other day,
being a substitute for section 14 as to the
appointment of three election canvassers
for the State upon application therefor.
He had the lloor to speak upon it, but
yielded to Stewart, who made an argu
ment against the bill on the ground that
au attempt to execute it in the South
would be disastrous to both races. He
believed that the safeguards thrown arouud
the election franchise in the great cities of
the North had been, on the whole, belief!
cial, but a differeutprobleiu was presented
in the South. He was a friend of the
colored man . and deeply sympathized
with him, but he could not ask him to put
his life in jeopardy in order to fight politi
cal battles for his (Stewart’s) advantage.
He was equally a friend to the white man,
and desired to refrain from any act which
might seem to justify him (the white man)
iu making war upon the defeseless race
which Congress had enfranchised. What
ever was done in the matter of protecting
suffrage at the South, unless it was done
through the voluntary action of the people
of that section, would have to result in one
of two things. If the negro were protected
by force, the same force would
inevitably be driven to the necessity
of destroying his enemy. That involved
the enslavement and final extermination
of the whites. There was nothing more
certain than that the employment of force
would result ultimately in the extermi
nation either of the blacks or of the
whites. He reviewed the reconstruction
legislation, in which he had himself been a
prominent actor in the Senate, pointed out
the stringent provisions by wliicb the pro
tection of the negro voter was supposed to
have been all-sufficient, and quoted tbe
arguments made by leading Republicans
in both houses against the suspension of
the habeas corpus and against allowing
the military power of the U niled States to
be exercised in the South during the
presidency of Grant. Aud h e asked how,
if President Grant had been unable to
protect the colored men in their right of
uffrage, any other ^President could do
better.
If the military power was to be used in
the execution of the pending bill, then the
bill should be defeated, and if it was to be
a dead letter, why pass if.’ Public opinion
at the South was intirely against it. In
stead of protecting the colored man, it
would bring upon him persecution and
misery, if not death. No assumption of
party necessity could justify such an act.
It was the plain duty of the Senate,
he held, to trust to natural causes in the
hope that they would remedy the evil.
The bill ought not to pass, because it never
would be enforced, because it would con
solidate the Southern whites, because it
would bring further misery on the South
ern blacks, and because it would increase
sectional animosities and kindle anew the
discords of the past.
JUDGE FORT’S DECISION l£ s ‘ i . mated the crop at 8 - 100 ’ 000 bales -
’ J This causeu free selling and a drop of two
THE RESULT OF TIIE HABEAS
CORPUS FOR BAIL.
ROBERT HOWARD REMANDED—RICHARD
HOWARD AND BICKERSTAFF AD
MITTED TO BAIL—FULL TEXT
OF THE ORDER.
BURROWS’ BLOOD MONEY.
HIS CAPTORS GET IT—A ROUND HOUSE
BURNED.
Birmingham, December 19.—[Special.]
—Jefferson Davis Carter, who killed Rube
Burrows, tbe outlaw, came here today to
receive the reward. The total amount of
the reward for Burrows alone was $3650.
Marshall and Hildreth, the two negroes
who aided in the capture, got $500 each.
Carter was paid $1000, which is one half
of the reward offered oy the express and
railroad companies. A conference will
be held with McDuffie, the other captor,
before the balance, is paid. The United
States and State Governments will pay the
other $1650 reward to Carter and McDuf
fie.
a murderous striker.
John Giltan, a striking miner at Cool-
burg, is in jail for shooting two miners who
were at work. He was run down with blood
hounds.
A ROUND HOUSE BURNED.
A round house of the Sheffield and
Birmingham railroad burned at Sheffield
today, with six engines. The loss was, in
eluding the engines, $13,000.
Amebicus, Ga., December 19.—[Spe
cial.]—Judge Fort made public uis decis
ion today iu the Howards-Bickerstaff ap
plication for bail. He allows Richard
Howard and James Bickerstaff bail each
bond fixed at $15,000. Robert Howard is
not allowed bail. The official decision was
sent to Columbus this afternoon, together
with the evidence and all the papers bear
ing on the case. Here is Judge Fort’s
official opinion, a copy of that sent to Co
lumbus:
Iu re. Richard Howard, James Bicker-
staff and Robert Howard. Petition for
habeas corpus to be allowed bail, under
commitment for murder from Muscogee
county.
After considering the evidence sub
mitted, and the able arguments of the
leared counsel for the petitioners and the
State, I am of the opinion that, in the case
of Robert Howard, bail should not be
allowed. In the case of James Bickerstaff,
bail should be allowed in the sum of
($15,000) fifteen thousand dollars. In the
case of Richard Howard, bail should be
allowed in the sum of ($15,000) fifteen
thousand dollars. It is thereupon ordered,
that Robert Howard be remanded to the
Muscogee jail, there to be safely kept
without bail or mainprize, until his first
trial under the charges as set forth in the
petition; that James Biekerstaff and Rich
ard Howard be remanded to the Muscogee
jail, there to be safely kept until
their final trial under said charge
of murder, iu default of
good and sufficient bonds for each in the
sum of ($15,000) fifteen thousand dollars.
Each of said bonds are to be in the usual
form of appearance bonds, and are to be
approved by the Sheriff of Muscogee
county, Ga.
The manifest impropriety of entering into
a full discussion of the facts and reasons
for this decision in advance of a tiial be
fore the jury, presents a more extended
opinion. This conclusion is reached from
the evidence submitted on this hearing
What other evidence may be adduced on
the final trial is not anticipated. This
order will be duly entered on "the minutes
of the Muscogee Superior Court. Witness
my official signature this December 19th,
1S90, at Americus, Ga.
Allen Fort. .1. S. C. S. W. C.
or three points. The figures for today
from the interior now began to come out.
They showed small totals, and a renewed
buoyancy in futures was the result. The
biggest advance from the opening prices
was in December options, very few of
which are coming out.
Spot cotton was fairly active for home
consumption.
THE IMMIGRATION CONVENTION.
THE PULSE OF TRADE.
AN ONTARIO HANGING.
the excitement of the occasion kills
THE SHERIFF.
Siikrbrook, Ont., December 19.—Remi
Lamontague was hanged here at 9:26
o’clock this morning for the murder of his
brother-in-law, Napoleon Michael. About
8:45 o’clock this morning Sheriff Webb,
who had charge of the exeeutiou, died
suddenly from heart disease. It is be
lieved the excitement attending the ar
rangements was the cause of the fatal
attack.
A MURDERER HANGED.
HE CONFESSED HIS GUILT AND SANG A
HYMN.
Charleston. S. C., December 19.—
Adam Morgan, colored, was hanged today
at Mount Pleasant, Berkeley county, for
the murder of Simon Jackson, colored,
on May 31 last. The murderer confessed
his crime under the gallows and sang a
hymn. He showed no signs of fear or
weakness.
MONEY FOR THE NAVY.
WASHINOTON, December 19.—The naval
appropriation bill was completed today by
the House committee on naval affairs, and
will be reported to the House tomorrow or
Monday. Only one new ship is provided
for. This is to be a triple screw pro
tected cruiser, like what is known to naval
officers as cruiser No. 12. It is to
be 7250 tons displacement, without
armament, and the limitation of
cost is fixed at $2,750,000. The bill car
ries a total appropriation of about $30,500,-
000, being about $3,000,000 less
than the estimates, and considerably
more than the bill of last year.
This increase falls almost entirely un<‘er
the head of “increase in the naval estab
lishment,” and is to meet the payments on
vessels whose construction was authorized
in oue or the other of several previous
Congresses under the head of “increase of
the navy.” Four million dollars is appro
priated towards the armament and armor
of vesself heretofore authorized to be built,
$1,500,000 more than the appropriation for
the same purpose for the current fiscal
year, and $11,<>07,000 is appropriated
towards the construction and completion
of new vessels heretofore and herein
aulhorized by Congress, with their engines
and machinery, including premiums, being
$6,132,000 more that! the current year’s
appropriation.
ABOUT PARNELL’S CHANCES.
Dublin, December 19. — Freeman’s
Journal, today, says that Parnell will carry
Kilkenny in the coming Parliamentary
election if the priests hold aloof in the con
test. “ We know that Home Rule with
out Parnell is impossible. No British
statesman would commit Ireland to a man
his inferior in strength. Parnell can re
store the financial situation between Ire
land and America.”
GUBERNATORIAL APPOINTMENTS.
Atlanta, December 19.—[Special.]—
The Governor has appointed the following
University trustees: State-at-large, Hon.
W. H. Feb on, of Bartow; Ninth Congres-
j sional district, Hon. N. L. Hutchins: City
The fact that this was the first open j of Athens, Hon. A. L. Hull,
opposition to the bili on the part of a Re- ! The Governor has also appointed Chas.
publican Senator caused the closest alten- ! G. Campbell, Judge of the Decatur county
tiou to be paid to Stewart’s speech on both ; court.
sides of the chamber. The Republican —
and Democratic Senators were in about hunting for a negro carver.
equal numbers (about thirty ca each | Atlanta, December 19.—[Special 1—
side) and ail turned towards Stewart Tbe police are searching for Tom Martin,
and appeared to be moat interested listen- • a negro man, who last night went to a
ers. A; the close of his speech, Hoar rose wedding out in Adamsville, seven miles
and said that he would not now reply to it, f rom here, and carved up one of the merry-
but he wished to have put upou record the makers with a big knife. The injured
provisions of the Force bili, to which refer- negro is not expected to live, from the re
ence had been made, and which had pass- port of physicians.
dun’s WEEKLY REVIEW of TIIE CONDI
TION OF BUSINESS.
New York, December 19.—Business
continues large for the season, but there is
a perceptibly less feeling of confidence.
The causes appear to be:
First, the prospect ot' important mone
tary legislation, the effects of which ar ■
not clearly foreseen. Second, the fre
quent failures aud greater difficulties in
making collections, and third, less satis
factory conditions in some large branches
of industry. Probably more people are
affected as to business undertakings,
often unconsciously, by uncertainty about
financial legislation and its effects, than
by any other cause. Though tbe rate for
money on call is lower than a week aero,
and money is easier at Boston and Phila
delphia, there is still a stringency at most
points throughout the country. Tbe com
plaints of slow collections have rarely been
more general, and in many cases settle
ment can be made only with notes or re
newal. But in all quarters there is
hope that by January 1st things
may improve in this respect,
if legislative prospects do not
meanwhile, cause a greater shrinkage of
credits aud curtailment of purchases. The
foreign influences are not now disturbing.
Large amounts of gold are arriving,
though exchange has now so advaueed as
to prevent shipments, h iving risen 2 cents
this week, and the Bank of England lost
£2,270,000 of gold without changing its
rate. The exports of products for two
weeks of December from New York show
a gain of 8 per cent over last year, and the
total last December was hardly ever sur
passed. Though imports continue heavy,
they are grt-atly exceeded by exports at
present, and iu November more than
$20,000,000, although In that mouth the
exports of cotton, breadstuff?, provisions,
cattle and oil showed a decrease of $5,083,-
744, or 7 per cent, from last year. Exports
of cotton thus far this month exceed last
year’s, and also of provisions, but there is
a heavy decrease in grain, caused by specu
lative prices here. The foreign trade in
securities does not favor this country,
partly because of apprehended legislation
on the money question, and partly
because the new agreement of the Western
railroads is supposed to be incomplete,
though excellent results are expected if it
can be perfected. The stock market,
though a shade stronger, has been dull and
lacks confidence.
Trade in the South is fair at most points
reporting. It is considered healthy at
New Orleans with larger cotton receipts,
dull at Memphis, but more confident at
Little Rock; slightly improved at Mont
gomery, and good at Nashville,
less confident at Jacksonville,
and at Atlanta the accumulations
of cotton are large. Money is very ciose
at all points. At Chicago money is firm,
but regular; business is supplied. Pitts
burg reports more confidence. Trade in
manufactured iron and in gla-s is slower,
and Bessemer blooms are lower.
Eastern cities feel the effects of expected
legislation and recent failures, but also of
present monitary relief. At Boston, wool
sells more largely, and also leather.
Though money is easier at Philadelphia, a
noteworthy feature is the general difficulty
of collections, especially in iron,
paints, oils, jewelry and glass. The
dry goods trade feels the influence of
recent failures, and of the stringency in
commercial loans. Trade in cotton goods
is not so large as usual and, though print
cloths are down to three cents forthe first
time for several years, tbe stocks on hand
are 860,000 pieces. Trade in woolen dress
goods has been encouraging, and there is
no evidence of failure in distribution, and
the knit goods trade has had an exceptional
season, but other woolen goals are
much affected by the ctution or
inability of clothing bouses, and by the
fai'ures in that branch. In the specula
tive markets the tendency has generally
been downward, and the markets are all
hesitating in the feeling that monetary
legislation may indefinitely altar the sit
uation; hence the largely increased imme
diate supplies of money, by imports of gold
and treasury disbursements, have less
effect than might be expected.
The failures of the week number 363,
compared with 306 for the same time last
week.
SOME IMPORTANT RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED
AT ASHEVILLE YESTERDAY.
Asheville, N. C., December 19.—The
last day of the Interstate Immigration
Convention was a busy one, receiving re
ports from various committees. Gen. R.
B. Vance and W. C. Wilson, both of North
i 'arolina, offered resolutions declaring it to
be the sense of the convention that the
proper observance of the Sabbath required
the closing of the Columbian World's Fair
Exposition on the Sabbath. After a
heated debate the resolution was referred
to the committee on the Columbian Expo
sition.
A resolution to recommend t* the
Governors of each State to appoint a com
mittee of five from their Slates to act in
conjunction with another committee to be
known as the promotion committee of the
World’s Fair was adopted.
The report of the committee on legisla
tion was as follows:
“We recognize the necessity of unity of
action by the Southern States here repre
sented, and that it can best be accomplished
by a concerted system of legislation. There
fore you are requested to provide by law
for the appointment and maintenance of a
Commissioner of Immigration, whose du’y
shall be to form a board of Southern mi
gration to co-operate with the Southern
Immigration Bureau in promoting the
great cause of Southern immigra
tion and the upbnihiingfof our com
mon Southland; that the executive
committee present to the legislatures suit
able bills to carry this recommendation in
to effect and urge the passage of such
measure; that the general manager, aided
by the executive committee, be requested
to draft a constitution ami by-laws for the
permanent government of this body and
report at the next convention; that the
general manager and the committee issue
a periodical as the general official organ of
the bureau, to be under their control, but
the. character and expediency of the same
as to the frequency of publication be dis
cretionary with said manager ami com
mittee.” The report was adopted.
The report of the finance committee was
read and adopted. It recommends that
the executive committee appoint a dele
gation to request the Governors of the
States to call on the Legislatures of the
States for financial aid, and that an ap
propriation of $25,000 from each State
be asked for the purpose of making
a full exhibition at the Columbian
Exposition; that the bureaus of mining,
manufactory, agriculture and immigration
be asked to lend financial aid; that where
there are no such bureaus, the exective
committee shall call a convention to organ
ize a State immigration bureau, and that
this bureau shall raise funds ami make
such appropriation as they deem
test; that the general manager
of the association be made a paid official
by the railroads of the South, and that his
salary as general manager of the associa
tion shall be $5000 a year; that tbe bureau,
if it deem it best, shaii publish the re
sources of the States with illustrations,
with space for each according to contribu
tions.
HANGING AT SEALK.
STEP FORD PAYS THE PENALTY OF HIS
CRIME.
Seale, Ala., December 19.—[Special.]
—Step Ford was hanged here at 12:0is
o’clock this afternoon for the murder of
William Patterson, which occurred last
spring.
Ann Patterson, the wife of the murdered
man, was also sentenced to be executed
here today for the same crime, but Gov
ernor Jones granted a reprieve nntil the
16th of Janurry.
The execution of Ford took place in a
small enclosure in the rear of the jail, and
was witnessed by about fitly peopie. Five
or six hundred negroes were congrt-gated
near the jail, but could not get a tuii view
of the gailows.
Ford was taken out of the jail at 12
o’clock by Sheriff H. T. Ragland ami his
deputy, Mr. J. M. Bishop. Just before
stepping on the gallows F'ord made a state
ment to the crowd, admitting his gmit.
He said that he bought the poison admin
istered to Patterson, knowing for what
purpose it was intended and knowing that
it would produce death. He bought the
poison because the woman (Ann Patter
son) asked him to buy it. ile regretted
his aet now aud was ready to die. F'ord
said he wanted his case to be an example
to others. This ended his statement, and
lie ascended the gallows with a firm step,
accompanied by Rev. Mr. Hardin ami
two colored preachers. Mr. Hardin
offered up a brief prayer, after which the
three ministers left the gallows. Sheriff
Ragland shook hands with the doomed
man and stepped to the ground. Deputy
Sheriff Bishop adjusted the black cap, aud
when all was ready gave the signal to his
superior officer, who pulled the trigger of
the gallows. The drop fell at l2:lu, and
in nine and a half minutes F'ord was pro
nounced dead by Drs. Bruce, Pratber,
Hendricks and Pitts. The body was cut
down at 12:29 and placed in eiiarge of the
brothers of Ford, who left with it for Fort
Mitchell by the 6:30 o’clock train tonight.
The burial will take place at F’ort Mitchell
tomorrow.
F'ord died from strangulation and almost
without a struggle after the drop fell.
There were several hundred negroes on
the. grounds, many of them being women.
General disappointment existed among
them because the woman was not executed
also.
The crime for which F'ord paid the pen
alty today was committed early last spring.
The husband of Ann Patterson died from
poisoning, Rough on Rats, being the poi
son used. Ford and tbe wife of Patterson
were convicted of the murder at the full
term of Russell Circuit Court, and Judge
Carmichael sentenced them both to be exe
cuted on the 19th day of December. A
few days ago, acting on a petition signed
by a large number of ladies at Seale, Gov.
Jones granted a reprieve in the case of
Ann Patterson until he could inquire mor*
fully into the case.
Walter Daniels, also colored, wa3 sen
tenced to be executed on the same day, but
tji# Governor granted a reprieve, and will
probably commute the s ntence to life im
prisonment.
Quite a number of Columbus people
came down to witness the hanging.
IRISH WOMEN CONDEMN PARNELL.
Dublin, December 19.—Canon Cody*
asserts that it was mud that was thrown
in Parnell’s face and eye9, and not lime,
as it is said by his supporters.
An address signed by twenty-three wo
men of Kilkenny has been published. It
declares that Parnell, after years of sys-
SUN'S COTTON REVIEW.
New York, December 19.—Futures
opened at one to two points decline on near i
and unchanged on late monthsfclosing I
steady at an advance of seven points on !
December, and partially one to two points j sematic deceit, has at last been unmasked,
on other months, from yesterday’s closing ; and that his very presence pollutes the
prices. The market today was a regiiar : soil.
wiggle. The opening showed some de- j ' _
pression in early months under an easier j wrecked b\ a landslide.
report from Liverpool, but that market! Baltimore, December 19.—A Roanoke,
recovered and the figures for the week Va., special to the Sua tells of the wreck
from many of the interior towns began to , of an engine and five cars on the Sheaan-
show up comparatively small. Smait buy- ; doah Valley railroad near Buchanan, and
ing followed to cover contracts, and the killing of C. H. Atwood, the fireman,
something very like a “bull” movemnte ' and Edward Houston, a brakeman. The
set in. Then came a memorandum from train ran into a landslide and was thrown
the editor of Bradstreets, saying that he 1 from the track with the above result.
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