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AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
Allairs of Government and Rontine of
tlie House and Senate Discussed.
Notes of Interest Concerning the Peo
pie and Their General Welfare.
special states t , ia ,
A Washington whatever lor
there is no foundation
the report that a crank attempted to
assassinate President Cleveland 7 rictav.
An inquiry made of Private Secretary
Thurber was the first that he or auy 1
one connected with the white house
had heard of the rumor.
The senate adjourned Friday with
out confirming the nomination of Mr.
Hornblower to be justice of the su
preme court. This failure to confirm
has the effect of a rejection, lhc
president will, therefore, be compelled
to either send his name again or to
nominate another man for the office. |
The president, Friday, signed the |
bill extending for six months the time
m which tho Chinese can register
under the Geary law. The presi
dent also signed the New York
world’s fair prize winners’ expo
sitiou bill, and the bill conveying the
battle ship “Illinois’’ at the world’s
fair to the state of Illinois.
A Washington special of Monday
says ■ The report is being widely cir
culated that Commissioner of Pensions
Lochren has resigned. The reason
assigned for the resignation is that
he is an old soldier and is dissatisfied
with the attitude of the administra
lion concerning reforms in the pension
list. Secretary Smith contradicts the
report and insists that there is no
truth in it.
A Washington special says: ’lbe
populist members of congress, inclu¬
ding senators and members of the
house, issued an address Saturday ap¬
pealing to the people to take up tlie
silver cause. The address begins with
a statement of the nggregftte debts of
the world and pf the gold *nd silver
in existence, calls attention to the fact
that the arts require almost the total
gold production and says the decrease
of the volume of this metal, caused by
hoarding, has caused it to appreciate
4(1 or 50 per cent.
The senate, just before the close of
tbe executive session Friday, rejected
the nomination of Henry C. G. Ast
wood, of New lork, to be consul of the
* United States at Calais, France. The
following nominations were confirmed :
James 11. Roosevelt, of New Vork, to
be secretary of tho embassy of the
United Staten at London, England,
vice Hemy White resigned; Thomas
I’. Smith, of Indian lerritory, to be
an Indian Inspector. Postmasters-—
Dufl Post, at latnpa, Ha.; John M.
Waddell, Darlington, S. (.; trank
M. Emanuel, Beunettsville, S. C,
The KrefiCftiiiige Volf.
Now that the repeal bill has become
a law and silver purchases have ceased,
it will be interesting to those who have
studied tho question and kept up with
the action of congress to read tho fol
lowing votes 1U the two houses, rhe
figures were prepared from the official
record.
In the house the vote oil free coin¬
age was as follow s ; For—democrats,
103; republicans, 13; populists, 8.
Against -democrats, 114 ; republicans,
113. On the Bland-Allisou bill the
vote was: For—democrats, 144; re¬
publicans, 14 ; populists, 8. Against—
democrats, 103; republicans, 110. On
repeal the vote was: For—democrats,
138; republicans, 101. Against—demo
erats, <6; republicans, _*4 . populists,
8. In tho senate the votes were on
tree silver: l or democrats, 18; re
publicans, i , populists, J. Against
democrats, 18 ; republicans, til On
the Blaud-Alhson bill 1-or demo
erats, 20, republicans, 10; jiopn
ulists, 3. ^ Against democrats, 11 ■ re
publicans, 20. Ou repeal lot- dein
ocrats, 20; republicans. ‘23. Against
democrats, 19, republicans, 10: popu
lists 3. I welve states voted solidly
in the house and senate for repeal,
Ihey were: Connecticut, Delaware,
Indiana, Maryland. New Jersey, New
\ork and \\ lseonNin,which gavet leve
“ , ’ d '* I'biralit,' of (i.>,459 votes in
IS!., and Maine, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, Rhode Island and A er
mon *‘* “J* S»ve Harrison a plurali
l v ,' lve states voted
solidly in both house and senate
agaiiist repeal. I hey were Colorado,
Idaho, Kansas and Nevada, w hich gave
Weaver a plurality of 27,222 votes.
nnd South Dakota, which gave Harri
son a plurality of <\344 votes, though
all tlie votes which Montana east wore
against it. Harrison s plurality in
this state was 1,270. three states,
Colors, Idaho and Nevada, were solid
for free silver, and all the votes of
Montuna were cast the same way.
leu states, Delaware, Maine, Mary
land, Massachusetts. New Hampshire,
New Jersey, New dork. Rhode Island,
\ ermont and \\ iseonsm voted solidly
against free silver.
A Birmingham, Ala., dispatch says:
1 he two thousand miners at the Bloc
ton mines, of the Tennesse Coal, Iron
and Railway Company, resumed work
Monday after having l>een idle for a
week or more. The company paid
them their balance for August Arork
and promised to pay them the Septein
ber and October ballauces during the
present month. 1 lie Gurnee and An
ita mines of the same company resum
work several days ago under the
same oonditions.
Kilted the Conductor.
Fast express teain No. 51, of the St.
Imms, Iron Mountain and Southern
known as the "Cannon Ball, due at
’ Ark#D8 “’ * ./ :1 °
o’clock . v v Inday g morning was held up
and robbed by seven masked men at
Oliphant, Ark., seven miles north of
Newpoint Passenger Conductor J.
P, McNally w« shot and killed while
trying to protect hi# two.
GEORGIA ROAD CONGRESS.
4 all Issued for a Meeting in Angnstn,
November 2*fh.
The Georgia road congress has been
called to meet in Augusta on the 28th
instant, the Augusta Exposition hav¬
ing set apart that day as “Road Con
greHS j )gLy ’<
The vice-presidents of the body are :
Hon. H. P. Hmart, of Savannah; Hon.
O. A. Barry, Coleman; Colonel G. W.
.7o r G»n, Jr., Hawkinsville; Hou. W T
.
f Weeks, Talbotton; Dr. J. W.
Velm<> Atlanta; Hon. W. A. Huff,
Macon; c 0 j J. o. Waddell, Atlanta;
Prof c yj Htrahan, Athens; Hon.
j w j* obertsou Cornelia; Colonel
O. H. Beall, Sandersville; Colonel
A. T. Putnam, Brunswick.
The time for the meeting is auspi
c jous, as the unprecented low rates on
( be railroads will enable every county
j 0 represented. The basis of rep
resentatiou is double the number ot'
representatives in the lower branch
0 f Cio general assembly,
-pjjg Georgia state fair adopted the
suggestion of the secretary of the
Georgia road congress and instituted
a department of roads, and now the
management of other fairs are imitat
j U g them. It will be seen that Geor
gia leads the van in favor of a perma
r ,ont system of improved roads con
structed under the direction of the
most skilled engineers, and by the use
of convict labor and improved road
working machinery. Lvery county
in Georgia should be represented by
her ablest men m the congress that
meets in Augusta on the 2 th.
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Congress Adjonrns Until Next December
When if Meets in Regular Session.
Work of Both Houses During the Clos¬
ing Days Briefly Ontllned.
Closing Day. —The appearance of
the senate presented no unusual fea
tures Friday morning. The attend¬
ance was small, both of senators and
spectators. Boon after the senate met
Mr. Cockrell, from the committee on
appropriations, reported favorably the
} loU8e concurrent resolution, provid
j ng for the adjonrunnSht of congress at
0 >lock and asked for its present
consideration. Messrs. Gray Cockrell,
Cullnm and Blackburn favored ad
j 0U rnment, and Messrs Allen and Tef
f er opposed the passage of tlie resolu
tion Mr. Peffer asked fortheyeasand
nays but the demand was not seconded,
Tbe „ e natc then passed the resolution
providing for adjournment at 3 o’clock,
; ln accordance with the house resolu
tion. The senate appointed Messrs.
Ransom and Cullom a committee to
1 act with the house committee to notify
the president that congress was ready
^ adjourn, aud clear"up had gone into execu
tive session to nominations
' pending. Both houses appointed com
mitten to wait on the president and
; j u f orro him that if he had no further
communications to make congress was
ready to adjourn. The usual resolu
tions complimentary to the president
of tlie senate and tho speaker were
passed. The committees returned, say
ing that the. president had no further
communication aud, at 3 o’clock, the
extra session came to an end.
THE HOUSE.
Closing Day.— Tlie last day of the
session in the house began with a slim
attendance on the floor and in the
g a ll e rj,.8. The bill remitting the du
tie8 ou imported exhibits at tho
World’s fair which may be donated to
or purchased for the new Columbian
museum, was taken up and discussed,
'pjjg house refused to concur iu the
| 8cua t e amendments, and ordered a
conference at 12:55. A message was
received from the senate announcing
n, a t the resolution fixing 3 p. m. as
the hour of adjournment, had been
pasaed by that body. The speaker
appointed Holman, Turner, of Georgia.
aIld pingley, a committee to wait
upon the president, in connection with
the senate committee and notify him
that the business of the session was
ended, A resolution was introduced
bv Mr. Richardson, of Tennessee,
continuing the services of tlie ei»
ploves of cougress during recess. It
< met with small but determined oppo
sitiou, which assumed the shape of
filibustering, led bv Mr. Hutcheson, of
Texas. He was opposed to the origi
nal resolution to pay the employee of
: congress during tbe recess bill. He
j was easily out-generaled l>y the par
liamentaries who opposed him. When
the resolution earno back to the house,
i ' however, with the senate amendment,
it was about 3 o’clock, Mr. Hutohe
son saw that if he could hold the house
at bay for the space of a few- minutes
the adjournment would give him vie
j torv. The senate was immediately
notified of tbe situation in the house
: and a resolution was hurriedly passed
extending the time of adjournment, to
; 4 o’clock, but the effort came too
j i ate . Mr. Hutchinson, with Mr. Kil
gore on his left hand, and Boen, the
Nebraska populist, on his right, held
: his position until 3 o’clock, when the
house, by it* own previous action, was
declared bv the speaker adjourned sine
j die. While the house adjourned at 3
o’clock to the second, the senate also
adjourning by resolution simultan
ecmsly, did not in reality adjourn until
seven minutes later.
The Scale Signed.
A PltU b nr g special «ts: After
two daV8 . 8e88 i on three of the largest
rolli plants in Mahoning valley
Saturday night Itional signed the scale snb
mittwl bv K Finishers Un
ion Tbp ^ j, pnK .tieallT the one
^ ^ reed upou by the amalgamated asso
the exception ' that there
no for t e iriratioB .
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
The Drill oi Her Progress ai Pros
penty Briefly Note!
Happenings of Interest Portrayed in
Piihy Paragraphs.
mill being •
A 8100,000 woolen , is sen
ously considered as the next factory to >
be established at Huntsville, Ala. |
The court house at Lexington, j
Holmes county, Miss., together with ,
all the books and records, was destroy
ed by fire Friday morning.
The Commercial club, of Binning
ham, Ala., has resolved to circulate a
petition to the ways and means com- j
mittee asking it not to lower the duty
on iron and coal in the new tariff bill.
The Brunswick board of health re
ported thirteen new cases of yellow fe
ver and one death for the twenty-four Becapit
hours ending Monday noon.
illation—Under treatment, 151; dis
charged, 700; dead, 50—total 901.
Thomas R. Purnell and Robert L.
Burkehead, of Raleigh, have taken an
option upon the lease of all the North
Carolina state convicts, 1,200 in num¬
ber. These convicts are to be em¬
ployed in the penitentiary, at the
phosphate mines or other mines or on
farms.
Michael A Loeser, wholesale and re¬
tail harness aud saddlery and buggy
dealers, at Huntsville, Ala., have failed
and assigned. The liabilities are esti¬
mated at $10,000 to $15,000 and the
assets at $900. They have been ship¬
ping goods to various points over both
railroads for some weeks by the carload.
The brick court house at Brook
haven, Miss., the scene last May of the
white cap attack on the jail, in which
Judge Chrisman figured as a hero, was
burned Sunday night. All the records
were destroyed. The court was to
meet there Monday morning. This is
the second courthouse burned there in
the last ten years.
Twenty-four new cases of yellow
fever were reported by the Brunswick
board of health Friday. It is r»
liiored that one case of genuine yellow
fever has developed at Camp Detention
in the person of a sailor en route to
another port. The rumor, while not
officially confirmed, lias been fully in
vestigated and appears to be correct,
A New Orleans dispatch of Monday
says: There is a newspaper war on
between the two morning papers, The
Picayune and the Times-Democrat,
which has developed some very bitter
feeling and several fist fights, and the
rcsult is that two policemen are sta
tioned in the vicinity of the offices,
which adjoin each other, to prevent
further hostilities.
A Montgomery special, of Sunday,
says: The extension of the Alabama
Midland road, known as tho Abbeville
Southern, is completed to Headland,
Ala., and that place is now connected
by rail with Montgomery. The may
ors of the two places exhanged tele
graphic congratulations. lhis new
line will bring a large quantity of cot
ton to Montgomery.
A thirty-page book, printed and
bound in sheep, was filed for record at
Brenham, Texas, Friday. It isa mort
gage for $5,068,000, executed by the
Houston and Texas Central railroad in
favor of a loan and trust company of
New York and the Southern Pacific.
The amount is made payable in gold,
the bonds being for $1,000 each and
due April 1, 1912.
A Raleigh special of Friday says:
The state will not abandon its convict
farm on Roanoke river, but will put
2,500 acres additional under cultiva
tion. The superintendent of the pen
itentiary says the six floods in Roan
oke river have caused the state a loss
of $30,000 this year. Despite the
floods 1,200 bales of cotton and 60,
000 bushels of corn wero produced.
A Knoxville special of Saturday
says: William Smith, the train rob
her who was shot, at Coal Creek, has
told tho story of the attempt. He says
that Fred Gerding persuaded him to
g mt0 . 1 . ' j m f ... tohl , ,, - Ins ■ father a d i
others a a that ( Gerding r was planning and
says he knew the express people had
been notified. He expected to be re
warded by the express company,
Smith may die.
A Charleston dispatch of Sunday
save : In the ease of Sadie Means, the
telephone girl who was expelled from
the Second Presbyterian church at Co
lumbia, K. C„ for working in the tele
phone exchange on Sunday, the South
Carolina synod, at Clinton, has or
dered that the action of the Charles
ton presbvterv in the ease be annulled
and that tlie chureffi m Columbia “re
store Sadie M. Means to all her rights
and privileges as a member in full
communion. ’’
A LexiDgton, Kv.. dispatch says:
Longfellow, one of the distinguished
blue grass equine kings, is dead. Mon
dav morning the old horse, who has
been a mere shell for several years.
succumbed to the ravages of age.
Longfellow was foaled in 1867 and
was twenty-six years old. Asa race
horse, he had few equals. In the
palmy days of the turf, his battle with
Harry Basset and other shining equine
stars of those davs are still fresh in
the minds of turfmen.
ColJ I. AIa b am a. *
A Birmingham . , dispatch , of f Sunday ^ ,
»ys: In a very quiet way a big syn
dicate has been formed and » now mm
ing gold at Arbocooche. near Heflin
Ala., at a good profit. For years it
has been known that gold existed in
considerable quantities in the neigh
borhood of Heflin. In fact the very
vein at Arbocooche was worked thirty
years ago at a profit. At one time the
United States mint depended to some
s tent cs its shipments from this mine.
over $8,000,000 in gold has been
minted in the past from these mines.
TH * NKSGIV,NGPR0CLAMATI0N
Thursday, November 80lh, Designated
by President Cleveland.
President Cleveland issued the fol
lowing thanksgiving proclamation Fri
day: “By the president of the United i
States of America:
“A Proclamation While t-lie Amer
ican people should every day remember j
w ith praise and thanksgiving the divine
goodness and mercy which have fol-
1()We(1 them BinCte their beginning day as in a
)jation> it is titt ing that one devoted
eftf . n year Bhonl(l )(e especially
to the contemplation of the blessings
we p liv(! received at the hands of God j
ftnd to the grateful acknowledgement
of His loving kindness.
“Therefore, I, Grover Cleveland,
president of the United States, do
hereby designate and set apart Thurs
day, the 30th day of the present month
of November, as a day of thanksgiving
liaise to be kept and observed by
all the people of our land. On that
day let us forego our ordinary work
and employments and assemble m our
usual places of worship, where we may
recall all that God has done for us,
and where, from grateful hearts, our
united tribute of praise and song may
reach the throne of grace. Let the
reunion of kindred and the social
meeting of friends lend cheer and en¬
joyment to duty,and let generous gifts
of charity for the relief the poor and
needy prove the sincerity of our
thanksgiving. “Grover Cleveland.”
OUR LATEST DISPATCHES.
The Hapiiisgs of a Day Chronicled in
Brief and Concise Paragraphs
And Containing the Gist of the Jiews
From All Farts of the World.
rho Ditrnar dynamite factory, at
Bay Chester, N. Y. was blown up
ruesda v corning- » is reported that
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several men were lulled,
Under date of Unalaska. Alaska,
October 7th, Captain Healy, of the
revenue cutter Bear, reports that an
epidemic of la grippe and pneumonia
bas broken out at that place among
the people of the village and on the
vessels of the ^rbor.
A Washington dispatch of Tuesday
says: The secretary of state has re
ceived the translation of a decree of
October 20, 1793, making importers
liable at Mexican ports from and af
tor January 1, 1894, to an additional
lax 011 imports of 1 and 1-4 of 1 per
cent.
The white house will probably see
little of President Cleveland between
now and Monday, December 4, when
congress reconvenes. Most of the in
tervemng time will be spent at Wood
ley in the preparation of his animal
message, as the president can work
there better than in the executive of
c ‘ e
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A special from Fort Payne, Ala., says
A forty-horse power engine at Elrod’s
cotton gin and saw-mill, in the county
near here, blew up Saturday night and
killed two men,Charles Richardson and
Dick Elrod. Robert Bullock, another
employe at the mill, was fatally in
jured. Phillip Elrod is badly wound
ed, but it is thought he will recover,
The Alabama Christian Missionary
Convention met in regular session at
Birmingham, Tuesday, about fifty
delegates attending, coming from all
parts of the state. Rev. Irwin, of
Selma, the president of the association,
presided. The president’s annual ad
address showed the church to be grow
ing rapidly in Alabama. It now has
more than ten thousand members.
Secretaries Gresham, Lament, Hoke
Smith and Morton received the elec
tion returns at the white house in Pri
vate Secretary Thurber’s room. A
special wire delivered the bulletins,
Such as were indicative of results were
telephoned the president at Woodley,
The members of the cabinet at the
white house attributed the results to
^ busineM depre8sion of the 1 8t
gevern i mont j lg
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A dispatch of I uesday , to the ,, London T ,
standard, from Berlin, shows that
81 “ c ® November id there were six eases
ot cholera and three deaths in east
fi e ? ew eases ln and near
’ e m aud hix uew cases and one
death , in other places , in Pomerania.
Sinco ^* ober th ree cases of chol
a " d three ,‘ leaths "T " e P“ r ed at
Havelberg and one death J at Potsdam.
the opinion is expressed at IV ash
'ngton that the cause of the rise in sil
ver for the past few days is due in
to the belief that the goverment
m Russia is eontemplating the step of
adopting sliver as a part of her mon
* s .' s elli - is san ia in lma
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"f ^ , bllver t , to , be used , for f 1 P 8 «Bs.d,ary 1 h 7
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. Ihe Nen York Herald, of 1 ^ uesday
morning printed a dispatch from La
Libertad, Honduras, stating, that by
the alleged orders of President Vas
9 uez and by the express command of
th e commissioner of the port of Ama
P» la - a*'^ 11 cannon shots were fired
af ‘er the Paefie mail steamship, Costa
Rica, flying the stars and stripes, as
she . 8 team ed away, because she refused
to surrcnder Polieorpo Conella who
re centlv led the revolution in Hondu
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raa . , ul t was de{eat e d bv Yasque/..
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Fully T One Thousand Dead.
A cable dispatch .. of Tuesday from
Madrid. Spain, says: The latest de
tails concerning the terrible disaster
at Santander Friday show that the
' nnrnber of dead, missing and wounded
is fully one thousand.
(GEORGIA R AILROAD SCHEDULES.
OFFICE GENERAL MANAGER.
Augusta, Ga., April 22d, e893.
Commencing April 2d .the following schedules will be operated. All
t r8 i ng run foy the 90th Meridian Time. The schedules are subject to change
withont aotice to the public.
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BEAD DOWN, BEAD UP.
NIGHT DAY FAST FAST DAY NIGET
EXPRESS MAIL. train. STATIONS. TRAIN. MAIL. EXPRESS
11 00pm 11 05am 7 45am Augusta 8 15pm 3 15pm 5 35am
11 27pm 11 28am Belair 2 43pm 5 05am
11 41pm|ll 56pm! 40am 8 14am Grovetown 7 43pm 2 30pm 4 58am
.11 11 55am Berzelia 2 16pm 4 40am
12 06am 12 04pm 8 31am Harlem 7 24pm 2 07pm 4 31am
12 18aml2 14pm 8 40am Dearing 6 58pm 1 33pm 4 18am
12 41am 12 32pm 8 57am Thomson 6 41pm 1 13pm 3 59am ,
12 56am 12 43pm Mesena 1 01pm 3 45am
1 11am 12 55pm 9 12am Camak 6 26pm 12 52pm 3 37am
1 20am 1 02pm 9 18am Norwood 6 18pm 12 35pm 3 24am
1 38am 1 20pm 9 31am Barnett 6 06pm 12 22pm 3 08am
1 53am 1 32pm 9 42am Crawfordville 5 54pm 12 06pm 2 53am
2 25am 1 55pm 10 03am Union Point 5 35pm 11 45am 2 26am
2 41am 2 23pm 10 15am Greensboro 5 20pm 11 27am 2 07am
3 11am 2 48pm 10 37am Buckhead 4 57pm 11 02am 1 38am
3 29am 3 01pm 10 49am Madison 4 45pm 10 45am 1 18am
3 52am 3 18pm 11 04am Butledge 4 30pm 11 23am 12 54am
4 13arn 3 34pm 11 18am Social Circle 4 19pm 10 07am 12 36am
4 39am 3 54pm 11 37am Covington 3 59pm 9 42amJl2 07am
5 06am 4 22pm 11 55am Conyers ! 3 40pm 9 17am 11 39pm
5 22am 4 35pm 12 07pm Lithonia 3 29pm 9 03am 11 23pm
5 44am 4 57pm 12 22pm Stone Mountain 3 15pm 8 42am 11 01pm
5 58am 5 10pm Clarkston 8 30am 10 48pm
6 09am 5 22pm 12 42pm Decatur 3 00pm 8 19am 10 36pm
6 30am 5 45pm 1 00pm Atlanta, 2 45pm 8 00am 10 15pm
3 37 am 1 17pm Camak 12 15j>m l2 40am
3 48 am 1 27pm Warrenton 12 04pm 12 27 am
4 12 am 1 48pm Mayfield 11 39 am 11 59pm
4 33 am 2 01pm Culverton 11 23 am 11 40pm
4 48 am 2 17pm Sparta 11 07 am 11 26pm
5 12 am 2 32pm Devereux 10 51 am 11 03pm
5 27 am 2 41pm Carrs 10 39 am 10 50pm
6 00 am 3 06pm Milledgeville 10 13 am 10 20pm
6 35 am 3 27pm Browns 9 48 am 9 54pm
6 58 am 3 42pm Haddocks 9 32 am 9 37pm
7 21 am 3 58pm James 9 16 am 9 20pm
8 20 am 4 45pm Macon 8 30 am 8 30pm
6 06pm 1 20pm 9 32 am: Barnett 9 05 am 12 04pm 5 40pm
6 19pm 1 39pm 9 47 am Sharon 8 51am 11 50 am 5 26pm
6 28pm 1 49pm 9 56 am Hillman 8 40 am 11 36 am 5 15pm
7 00pm 2 30pm 10 30 am Washington 8 00 am 11 00 am 4 35pm
wmmmmmmmmmmmmrnmm mtmm 9 50 11 35 5 15pm
5 40pm 2 10pm 10 15 am Union Point am am
5 49pm 2 31pm 10 24 am Woodville 9 42 am 11 22 am 5 07pm
6 06pm 3 06pm 10 41 am Maxeyn 9 25 am 10 52 am 4 50pm
6 13pm 3 21pm 10 48 am Antioch 9 18 am 10 27 am 4 43pm
6 29pm 4 03pm 11 04 am Crawford 9 02 am 9 59 am 4 27pm
4 39pm Dunlap 9 20 am
6 50pm 4 51pm 11 25 am Winters 8 41am 9 12 am 4 06pm
7 05pm 5 15pm 11 40 am Athens 8 25 am 8 40 am 3 50pm
5 40pm 10 10 am Union Point 9.00 am 4 30pm
6 05pm 10 35 am Siloam 8 35 am 4 05pm
6 40pm 11 10 am White Plains 8 00 am 3 15pm
Daily Mail, West bound—Dinner, Union Point. Fast Mail, East Bound—Suiper, Harlem.
Day Mail, East bound—Dinner Harlem. Sleeping Cara between Atlanta and Charleston,
Augusta and Atlanta, Augusta and Macon.
J. W. GREEN, JOE W. WHITE, A. G. JACKSON,
General Manager. Traveling Passenger Agent. General Freight and Pass Agent
ArmnsT*., Ga.
FUuUHSTlC ALDERMEN.
A Disgraceful Scrap in Chicago’s (Ntj
Conncil.
A Chicago special says: Such scenes
we re never before enacted in the cham
tier of the city council or the city of
Chicago as transpired Saturday. Be
f ore the crepe-draped speaker’s desk
stood two aldermen, opponents politi
cally in the conncil, each declaring
himself the chairman of the body. A
reading clerk, au officer of the conn¬
cil, in order to protect one of these
speakers in liis alleged right to rule
over the body, leaped upon the back
of the opposing speaker and tried to
eject him from the stand. A clerk of
the body tore up a resolution regular
ly introduced, because it was notin
line with what his party desired. Ovei
the crepe-draped rail of the speaker’
stand leaped another alderman upoi
the back of the clerk. To his ai.
flocked his colleagues. Upon bin
jumped an alderman of the opposim
faction, throwing off his coat as h
rau an( ^ clutching at the throat of thi
111911 who By force was trying to ge
Before the council that which shoul.
not legally have been tried
Police officers rushed into the tn
closure to separate the struggling a
d ® r m e °’ Bnd m t J ‘,
which . , hung about , the desk of f the dea<
mayor was torn down and trample,
under foot. The men who three day
ago spent money and labor to lionoi
j£ ayor Harrison, disgraced his memo
rv f b J a disreputable brawl over tin
£ ht t sit for twent y minutes in hi:
c ir
The council is almost evenly divided
p ‘ 0 iiti c »Hy the republicans havings
light f mtt3ority , while the dead ex
mf Yor ft democrat.
The conncil chamber is guarded bj
a Bquftd of po l ice officers and no man,
no matter what his politics or position
j 8 allowed t o enter. _
King Lobengula Trapped,
Adyices of Thursdttv from Cape
Town Afric a. says / that the native run
nerB ^ fire eftching Fort Viotoria
confirm the belief that King Lobengula
has been trapped. He is blocked to
the northward by the tzetse fly coun
trv, J through ^ which it will be impossi
M for hl to driTe his CBtt le, and to
the southward by the imperial troops
and the forces of the British South
African Company. Lobengula’s forces
supposed to be in the vicinity of
the Shangani and Gaulo rivers,‘l40
mdee west of Fort Charter. The cap
tnre seems probable,
7^7. ®° ,d i» Alabama. » Iah ,_ a
A Birmingham . dispatch of Sunday
says: In a very quiet way » b,g syn
dioatehasbeenformedandisnowmin
ing gold at Arbocooche. near Heflin,
Ala.. at a good profit. For years it
tnown that gold existed in
considerable quantities in the neigh
borhood ~ of Heflin. In fact the very
Arbocooche r was worked thirty
^ted fit At one time the
States mint depended thiamine. to some
„ ■ dent on its ahipments from
Wanted « 000 000 in gold has been
in the past from these mines,
THE MONEY PUT OP.
Jacksonville, Fla., is Anxions foi* the
Corbett-Mitehell Fight.
A Jacksonville, Fla., dispatch says:
The members of the local syndicate to
secure the Corbett-Mitehell fight, had
a conference Tuesday morning, and
decided to put up $20,000 in a lump.
The following telegram was sent at
11:30 a. m. to Richard K. Fox, at New
York:
Certified check for twenty thousand dollar*
by Harry Mat on and T. E. T. Bowden, well
known capitalists, bas just been mailed to yon
ns stakes in proposed Corbett-Mitehell contest,
with conditions attached. Le ter will follow
this. Biox A. Barnett,
Cashier National Bank of Jacksonville.
As the money is now up, everybody
here feels confident that the fight will
• be had in Jacksonville.
Lost Fortune and Courage.
Some strange things happen iu mining
camps. The number who have worked
ind delved in following a prospect until
iheir money or their patience became
exhausted urs many. And it not infre¬
quently happens that such parties live to
■earn that they abandoned their claims
when a few more days’ work, or possibly
i few more strokes with the pick, would
aave revealed the lead which they had
worked to find. A story was told to us
iy an old miner a few days ago of an
Eastern college professor who came out
aere in early days and started to prospect
in some of the quartz leads around Grass
Valley. When he arrived here he had
570,000, and he bought up quite a num
aer of claims and spent his money freely
in prospecting heart, them. confident He worked with
t buoyant that his
ahor and investments would bo remon
ited. He had a charming wife and four
Wight children. One thousand after
mother of his money was sunk into the
ground and until from final.y outward his last doliar was
gone, appearance he
was no nearer getting it back than he
was when he started. He became de
ipondent and depression while laboring under a fit
Df mental he prepared a
draught of deadly poison, gave a drink
to his wife and to each of his children,
xnd then after waiting long enough to
latisfy himself that they were past re¬
covery he partook of the poison and laid
him down to die with those he loved.
Before their bodies were cold they were
found by a man from one of his mines
who had come in to inform him that a
large vein of rich rock had just been un¬
covered He and his had passed beyond
the cares of this world, and had no further
use for earthly treasures, but the lead
that was struck the day of his death
turned out a rich one aud yielded gold
enough in independently subsequent years to have
made him rich.—[Auburn
[Cal.) Herald.
Sir John Abbott Buried.
The funeral of the late Sir John
Abbott, ex-premier of Canada, took
place at Montreal, Canada, Thursday
afternoon. The deceased was taken
to Christ church cathedral, where the
final services were held prior to the
remains being removed to Mt. Royal
cemetery, The cortege was one of
the largest ever seen in Montreal and
the coffin was buried under a mass of
flowers. Among the messages of con¬
dolence was a cablegram from Queen
Victoria,