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FORSYTH, GA.
Orncixt Omai 0» Mokbob Ooirmr
BY MrGINTY vY G'ABANISS.
An expert sap that when the tele¬
phone wires nee placed under ground
thc service will be improved ten-fold.
Robert Bonner, thc famous New York
horse fancier, has at last told thc price
he paid for bund. It was $41,000, he
»ay«, or $1000 more than he gave for
Maud 0.
“There are thousands of farmers’
childrcu in this couutry,” exclaims the
New York World, “who never sec s
piece of white bread, nor ever get a tea
fpoooful o( sugar, nor have anything to
but calico.” *
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Before the railroads and street cart
were in use in India tlicre-werc seven dif
ferent castes in cities like Bombay which
could not ride ki the same vehicle with
each other. This has all been knocked
in the head, declares the Detroit Fret
J'rn», and the only struggle between
them is to get the best seat.
'I’he New Orleans Tirnet-Democrat is
stirring up Louisianians to thc necessity
of more schooling and better school
houses. It says that only $1730 was
«pent on sclioolhouscs in Louisiana in
US.t. As a sample of the buildings
erected it cites the fact that the new
uchoolhouscs in Assumption Parish cost
$£8, in Avoyelles $40 and in Acadia
$16.
Major-General O. O. Howard has un¬
dertaken mission work iu New York
wince lie was stationed at Governor’s
Island in command of tho United States
troops, according to thc Chicago Times.
He and his sou have been teaching Bible
classes in a miserable room over a stable
in Elizabeth street. He is now trying to
buy a deserted church in Chrystic street
for thc use oT the school and for services
for adults. The General contributes
$1000, and asks the Christian public to
help him raise the balance, about $17,
000 .
Tho destitution now existing in the
east end of London is appalling. Ninety
t housand men are out of employment, and
every day deaths from starvation aro re¬
ported. Many people have stripped their
houses of every article of furniture to be
sold for food. Mcu fight at the docks
for f\, iob tbnt n/Jwth'■'vi-.v Aw .shil¬
lings. There is danger in such a state of
affairs. Some clay, predicts thc Atlanta
Constitution, a mob of half-starved and
desperate people, reinforce 1 by the So
< ialists, will march through the streets of
the British capital crying “Broad or
death!”and then anarchy will try con¬
clusions with the law.
Statistics lately gathered by the United
States War Department show that iu
height the enlisted mcu of thc army vary
from a minimum of four feet nine inches
to a maximum of six feet four aud ,‘oae
half inches, thc soldier' of this latter
stature, for whom old King Frederick
would have given a bonus, serving in thc
Department of Arizona. Iu weight there
is n range from the minimum of ninety
seven pounds to the maximum of 280,
with an averege through the army of
157J, and the fair average height of ti\ f e
feet sovea inches. The youngest soldier
enlisted is sixteen years of age, and the
oldest sixty-six, white thc average is
about thirty years.
A movement is ou foot to, if possible,
put the railways of thc United Kingdom
under Governm y'* fpetrol, to be operated
for the nation am. controlled bv a gov¬
ernment department to be established
for the purpose. The railway systems of
Great Britain and Irelatnl are said to be
in a rotten condition and especially arc
the “third-class” passengers “oppressed”
by thc companies. .It is argued that
these steel roads are just as much public
thoroughfares as the turnpike roads and
are national avenues of commerce and as
such should at once be bought up and
nlaintaioed by the national Government
for the benefit of the people at large.
“This is a move iu thc right direction,”
declares the American Agriculturut.
“Everything goes by rages in New
York society,” alleges tho Boston Tran
* ri: *. “Thc present craze is for dinner¬
giving. Nobody who is sufficiently any¬
body to know nice people need go hungry
these days, even if he has felt the pinch
of Wall street and run behind in his
steward’s bill at the club. As for thc
average poor relative, he or she is in gas
tronomic clover. For ' be it understood ’
lt is aot enough to dine your friends; .
your generosity must minor itself iu thc
of * i kinsmen • and j who ,
presaacc women on
joy at your l.oxrd a luxury fortune ha?
denied them at their own. An avengt
of one poor relative to every three other
guests is, I believe, thc proper propor
lion. In contrast to thc expausiveness
of its hospitality 7 the simplicity of thc
Gyle , . with which the hospitality is dis- v
pensed is to be noted. Very little in the .
way of flowers and a simple menu rule, j
‘
Ihe family . cook takes the . place . of , tne ,
caterer, and bouquets supplant banks of
flowers. Gold plate is absolutely bad
form, and silver only * permissible on very * 1
etatelv occasions,
the MONROE ADVERTISER. FORSYTH. GA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10. 1891.--EIGHT PAGES.
The Boston Transcript avers that
"young men in Connecticut are leaving
the farms for the cities in droves.’'
Some time ago J*. D. Rockefeller, the
c. Standard orwl , ir( i na Oil magnate, testified i i & jt court .
that he could q t swear to his exact for
tune by at least $10,000,000 or *12,.
000 , 000 .
Texas’s Attorney-General has decided
that the court house of Bowie Couuty
must be built iu the geographical center
fo the county. This locates it in a
dense wood.
Thc Philadelphia H$cord suggests a
’rtC8l.tlor a.
article in which it j-ivea the name, and
^dresses of more than 200 women of
Philadelphia, most of them young, who
mvstcrinunlv mystcno u-lv di«-.T.r.onroU a.sappeared i last ye w. 1
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The Hollanders are so mad because
people liave twitted them with being
Z ruled ,.Z by a * little ' girl *' that tbev have trot fe0t
the High Court rr to rule . ,. that thcNorereign
of lfolland is King Wilhelmina. The
title will be rather awkward, think, the
l-o„ "‘- King Wilhei
mum comes to get married.
The Georgia Legislature has made an
appropriation of $35,000 for the current
year for thc mi'itia of that State, The
Augusta Chronicle says thc good effects
of the last summer encampment have al¬
ready been shown. Not only is there
greater proficiency among the militia, but
the encampment was an educator of opin¬
ion. The General Assembly has recog
nized the advantages of the school of the
soldier. The companies next year will be
better equipped than ever, and the com
jng encampment will be a crowning
event.
Says a writer in the New Y T ork Press:
Annuities on the English plan are be
comyig quite a feature of insurance now.
I believe there is no large corporation in
this couutry which makes a specialty of
annuities, but several of the leading old
line insurance companies have taken up
that line of business also, and by the pay
ment of certain lump sums they willguar
antce you certain yearly payments, which
will give you a'fixed income for life. I
hear men of considerable means talking
about applying for annuities to make
them easy lor the remainder of their
lives. Bachelors, who have no one de¬
pendent upon them for means of living,
are well disposed toward the annuity
plan, but men of family prefer to insure
their lives for the benefit of those who
will survive them.
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Hypnotism is likely, in the opinion
of ihe New York Mail and Express ,to play
aii important part in tho homicidal
trag edies ^ the nejn'_future— Tb"e in¬
evitable pica of insanity is in bad odor
and has lost its effect with the average
jury. Hypnotism combines the elements
of novelty and mystery and has the ad¬
vantage of exonerating the hypnotic in¬
strument of crime on the ground of
irresponsibility when under the dominat¬
ing influence of a superior will, while it
leaves the subject entirely rational and
responsible when not in the hypnotic
state. This pica is destined to complicate
our criminal jurisprudence, and involve
the administration of justice in most
serious difficulties. If the hypnotized
agents of crime are irresponsible, and at
the same time are perfectly rational and
honorable, the only parties who can bo
held for such crimes are those who use
for criminal purposes this uncanny
power. Dr. Liegcois,professor of' thc
medical college of Nancy, testified in the
trial of the Paris stranglers, to the effect
that not only was Gabrieile Bompard,
thc famous accomplice, au unconscious
accessory of the crime committed, but
that in his opiuion there were from four
to five persons in every hundred who
were similarly susceptible to hypnotic
influence.
Chief Justice Bleckley, of Georgia, in
deciding that the Antioch Baptist
Church at Atlanta must be sold to pay
thc salary of the preacher, says: “If
any debt ought to be paid, it is one con¬
tracted for the health of souls, for pious
ministrations and holy service. If any
class of debtors ought to pay, as a mat¬
ter of moral as well as legal duty, thc
good people of a Christian Church are
that class. No church can have tfci auv
higher higher oblioa-ion oh iga.ion restinv resting tinon upon it it than
titat of being just. Tne study of justice
for more than forty years has impressed
me with the supreme supreme imnortance importance of of this this
grand and noble virtue. Some of the
virtues are in the nature of moral lux
uries, but this is an absolute necessity
of social life. It is the ho" and hominy
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the he bacon bacon and and beans of morality, n pub- u
lie and private. It is the exact virtue,
being mathematical in its nature. Merer ;t'’
nitv charity 65 gratitude ’ ’ ’ ’ TOnw clLSi „ 5
^ ‘'-’ •
. . etc.,
magnanimity, are the liberal vir- I
tues. They flourish partly on voluntary
concessions made bv the exact virhip'
but thev have nn ritrLt sbL to ext , ori , from ,
it any unwilling concessions. A man
.
cannot give ^ in charity, * or pitv l i hosffital- i c
m
ity . magnanimity, . . the
or smallest part of j
what is necessary to enable him to sat
i>fy the demands of justice. Thc law
grants exemptions of property to fam
dies, but none to corporations or collec- ’
tive bodies, lay ecclesiastical. ’
or These
must pay their legal debts if thev can
All their property, legal and equitable, !
is subject. Wc think a court may well
constrain this church to do justice. It
'
. ... ainly . sell
is cer an energetic measure to
the churcn to pay the preacher, nor
would it bo allowable to do so if other
means of satisfying the debts were within
reach. . „ :
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WASHINGTON, D.
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NEWS NOTES AND ITEMS FROM
THP THE NATIONAL MATTOiaAT r CAPITAL. adttat I
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Proceedings Of the Second Ses
sion of the 51 st Congress. °
SENATE.
In the senate, Saturday, Mr. Culiom
presented , tWo _ resolutions , . of , the , , house of
repnsentatives in the Illinois tegis.ature. j
He said that they instructed the senators ;
from that state to vote for the free com- j I
age bill and against the “force bill,” so
termed in the“ resolution. He regarded
io t 'he records of the Mute. They v. U
so ordered. -Mr. Blair, rising to a personal
expl -nation, said that he had observed,
circulating * in newspapers of the country, red
what pur 0 rted to be a copy of an as
ment alleged to havo been entered into by
republican senators with reference to tha
consideration of the force bill, so called,
or election bill, more properly Aot called.
Mr. Teller said that casp,pe“ he diU intend to
pa attt .„, ioo n rep Snv .rts, Atten- and
ns u gene™: rule, never garo
tion to statements made by newspaper
circulated, that he had been in favor of |
the force bill—so called, or election bill—
at any time, w r as incorrect; that the fur¬
ther statement that amendments were
made to that bill in committee whenever
he asked to have them made, w r as also
incorrect; and that the statement bill* thut he
had ever agreed to support thc di¬
rectly or indirectly, was iucorrect.
The senate met at 2 o’clock p. m. Mon¬
day. Mr. Turpie introduced a joint
re.-olution, which was referred to the
conini’ttee amendment on judiciary, proposing an
to the constitution l\>r the
electi m of United States Senators by the
direct vote of the people of the several
states. The Unification appropriation
bill was then taken up. Au amendment
reported by the committee to reduce the ’
appropriation for guns and mortar bat¬
teries for the defense of the harbors of
Boston New York, San Francisco,Ilamp
tou Roadsand Washington from $1,000,
000 to $750,000, gave rise to a discussion,
Mr. Dolph opposing the ameudmeut and
speaking at much length on the necessity
of a gun factory on the Pacific coast.
Messrs. Cockrell, Hawley, Allen an d
Plumb took part in the discussion, Mr.
Cockred favored the amendment, and
regretted that the proposed reduction
was not greater. He regarded a system
of coast defenses (which would involve
an outlay of $125,000,000) as utterly
worthless and an absolute waste of money.
Isolated as the United States
was, it could resist the com¬
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bined powers of the entire earth.
Mr. Hawley ridiculed the pretension that
the* United States can whip any other
people on the Lee of the earth. He
sod: “In twelve or eighteen hours
Great Britain could assemble a fleet at
Portland; in eighteen or twenty hours at
Boston, and in twenty-four hours, per¬
haps, at New York. What are you go¬
ing to do when you .find British war ves¬
sels iu the harbor of New York. They
could levy a tribute of $50,000,090 or
$160,000,000 on the city of New York,
aud New York would be comp iled
pay iU In the mauotim*, -Hm . j flkdllh
sons of liberty,’ by 100,000 or 500.000
are arming, but they would not be worth
a single.last y< ar’s bird nest. You can
not defend the harbors of Boston, Port¬
land, New York, Charleston, New Or
leans or San Francisco. You have no
modern guns.”
The senate, on Tuesday, resumed con¬
sideration of the fortification bill. The
first item that attracted notice was one
appropriating $1,000,000 for the purchase
of oil-tempered and annealed steel for
high power coast defenseguusof eight,ten
and twelve inch calibre. The committee
on tion appropriations recommended-a reduc¬
of the amount to $800,000, and Mr.
Gorman moved a still further reduction
to $250,000, aud made a statement to
show that the amount should be reduced.
After another long debate, upon much
the same lines as that of Monday, and
participated in by the same senators—
Dolph, Hawley, Allen and Blair—Mr.
Gorman’s amendment was rejected.
house.
house, Monday'being suspension day in the
the speaker announced that the
unfinished business was the senate bill
for the relief of sufferers by the wreck of
the United States steamer, Tallapoosa,
and on roll call the house refused to sus¬
pend thc rules and pass the bill. Mr.
Walker, of Massachusetts, moved to
suspen i the rules and pass the senate bill
making and additional appropriation of
$150,000 to continue the work on the
public building at Worcester, 0as3. In
the course of the debate, Mr. Rogers, of
Arkansas, complained of his lack of suc¬
cess iu getting action upon the Hot
Springs public building bill, and Mr.
Breckinridge,, of Kentucky, referred to
the strong existing suspicion that there
was a builuing ring which controlled all
appropriations for public buildings. Mr.
bpinola took advantage his" of the recogm- "the
tion to renew appeal for
passage of the bill providing for the
erection of a monument to the victims
of British prison ships. The
bi’l was parsed_yeas parsed,’ 138- nays 53
Thc senate bill ias on motion
<•« Mr. Edmunds, ,’ of Virginia, J for the
tj f b ic buMi „ flt K oanokt thi ,
Va.. „ith an amendment limiting
cost to *75,000. On motion of .Ml Me
Kinlcv, a bill was f passed amending ° see
tfon ^ reviged s atutes? so as to read;
Vacancies occasioned by death or resigna
tion shall not be temporarily filled under
three preceding sections for a longer
P cnod than thlrt J The present law
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limits the time to ten davs and the biF
has special reference the late to the appointment
of a successor to Secretary Win
bom. The senate bill was passed with
an amendment striking out the appropri
at in" a^ublic Clause, providing for the erection
of building at St. Paul Minn..
at a cost of $800,009. The message from
the president relative to the succession in
the office of the secretary of the treasury,
was read and referred to the committee
and *
on wavs means.
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The secretarv of the^navv formally ac
ce-nted the cruiser Newark Saturday *
.nd orteed thatAe be put iUcom m i
«on.
The President on Saturday sent to the
sec a ; e a message in regard to the law re
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in ten uays after the death of a •ecre.aiy
of the treasury. He thinks he should
Jiave .° er tlme ’ '
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delegation a ^ L 3n d erst to ^ Washington 2 d Canada, will after send March a
4(L> tte date on whi( J the life of the
present congress expires, for the purpose
of discussing in/ormullv the questions oi
pension tween tne md United development bt .tes and of Canada, trade and be
rhe settlement of all auesjions of differ-
capital, it is said, ns a result of friendly
Sl, ^ e ^° n M from ° r % Washington. AUbam *f 0Q f**!
urday, telegraphed Governor Jones that
Tr, view of the positive assurances from
th* republicans that no further efforts
would be made to pass the force bill, it
wouid ^ be8t for the AIabaraa legislature
now to pass the bill providing for an ex¬
hibit at the world’s fair. Other South
ern senators seut similar telegrams to the
governors of their states Among them
were Senator Harris, of Tennessee; Sena
tor Coke, oCTexas, and Senator Berry,
0 f Arkansas. Senator Gorman advised it.
m Tbe sundry . civil ... appropriation . bill,
reported to the house 1 uesday, contain*
Macon postoffiee 18,000; (or the pur
cha ce J? f a sl tf and ^ cons< £ uctl £° ^ a
f , . me!’° °nd
£>7 t °h r. e quarters^ a ' °o (the enlisted’ C D ‘ S e mea a aD d
, , a AuvUsta . ial .
araei
$3 ’ 443; to tb e improvement of
McPherson barracks, Atlanta, $75,000;
to continue the improvement of
mknmauga . P artf . $~00,000. iwnM . . The
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«PI>'°P™t.on for the construct, on
? ! " r0 ; d from *? M ‘p hc ™""
barracks w,,s not provided in , >h« bill,
^£5“'” w j Th™ ommUto
! he believing that the effort be¬
ing made to get it by a few Atlantians
was more in the interest of booming real
estate along the route than for the con¬
venience of the Dublic.
NEWS AND NOTES
CONDENSED FROM TELEGRAPH
AND CABLE.
Epitome of Incidents that Hap¬
pen from Day to Day.
Mtissonier, the paiuter, is dead, He
was born in Lyons in 1812.
Ebenezer Morrison, paper dealer, Wash¬
ington, D. C., has made an assignment.
The debt statement shows a decrease
of the national debt during the month of
January of $15,835,496 67.
'Flic speaker of the house of repre¬
sentatives of Montana, died Monday.
This leaves the body a political tic.
th'usand A dispatch of Tuesday says: Ten
shoemakers in Vienna have
gone on a strike for an increa e in wages.
The cruiser Newark will'probably join
the squadron of evolution in the Gulf of
Mexico, and then make a cruise in Euro¬
pean waters.
Master Workman Powderly, on Satur¬
day, issued an appeal to the Knights of
Labor in behalf of the widowed and
fatherless victims of the Mammoth mine
disaster.
Dispatches of Tuesday evening say':
North Nebraska and Southern Dakota
are enveloped in a terrific storm. At
-Di ad wood it is 20 degrees below zero; at
^ead lena 40 City degrees 30 degrees below. below, and at Ga¬
Assistant Secretary Spaulding has m
ed a tobacco firm that all tobacco
ld j0 t )ok eff ct wdl be ^rtqbor to duty l^
' > its j weight ? » at the time of with
u P on
drawal for consumption,
The women of the country intend
erecting a monument to the memory of
General Francis E. Spinner, and have
issued petitions for subscriptions for that
purpose. He was the first man’ to em¬
ploy females in the government depart¬
ments at Washington.
The Chilian legation in Paris, on Tues¬
day, received a cable message from Chili,
stating that the insurgent fleet has not
occupied any port of that country. The
message adds that the country is quiet,
ihe army loyal, and that the coast is effi¬
ciently guarded.
James R. Boyce, Jr., & Co., of Butte,
Montana, one of the largest dry goods
houses in the West, has been levied on
by the First National bank for $60,000,
and on Monday an assignment was made
to D. P. Porter. The assets are $125,
000 and the liabilities $100,000.
President John H Inman, of the
Richmond and Danville railroad, left
New York Monday evening for a trip
road. through the sou h over the lines of the
He is accompanied by Jay Gould,
George Gould, Helen Gould, Sidney
Dillon, Calvin S. Brice and General Sam
Thomas. The party occupy special cars.
They will visit points in all the southern
states. *
Receipts for customs received in New
Yo«-k from Monday last to Saturday night
exceeded any previous like period for
years past. They amounted, for imports
and withdrawals from warehouse, alto
gether to $5,216,199. The great increase
was due to the activity of importers in
fhe cufffimfofficers 9 beh^e the 0 operations
c ; t i ie Ar c Kinlev ant which were sns
pended until noon Saturday, went into
..ow
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Chief , Justice T -on Fuller, on Monday , r
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nounced that the supreme court had de
cld ed to grant thc P etltl0: > of counsel
representing the British . government for
leave to file au appbcaiiou for a writ ot
1™hpu.ou to prevest the district court
\ A |aska fr „T *. T* <mt
Q[ th° ^ee schooner; of forfeiture bayward made is, ■ The the Alaska case
f, oUI ^ as f' e( i r ‘' ,ei ^ -now cause w ij
‘ h e wr ‘ t of prohibition should not issue,
, lU ao<
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second M a r ondaym i . - A p r.l -L
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NARROW ESCAPE
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Of Seventv-five FrS klinfr Coal MioPT»S
riOm a o Ui IHIlg: Pit rlt.
What almost proved to be another
Mammoth mine disaster occuiTed at New
GranS castl G Coh, Tuesday evening ins the
River coal and coke mines. Just;
at 6 o'clock as the day shift, composed of ;
seventy-five miners, were about to leave
the mine a terrific explosion occurred)
and immediately black smoke came pour- ;
ing out the side of the mountain. Above:
the roar of escaping gases, the pitiable;
cries of ttc imprisoned miners couTd be
plainly heard willing by their wives and child
rcn - Soon lands braved the
^ “"eir Sis “foS?r licame
exhausted Soon
the seventv-five miners were brought to
t { ie sur f aC g SO me of them more dead
thaa aIive ’ and EODe tf them an V to °
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soon, as the flamis immediately reached
the shaft and came up with such force
that it drove everybody away. Explo
sions followed every few hours thereaf
ter for some time. A later telegram f^c-at .
st tes that the excitement was so
that it was impossible to tell if anyone
failed to get out. It is thought several
*»ve perishedi Had the explosion oc
curred when ihe miners were at work not
olc, would have escaped.
GEORGIA BRIEFS.
Interesting: Paragraphs from all
Over the State.
It was in response to an invitation
from the board of trade, of the Commer¬
cial club an l the citizens of Lousville the
meeting of the Scotch-Irish congress will
be held in that city May 14, 15 aud 1(3.
The Macon branch of the Southern
Travelers’ Association will hold a meet¬
ing n xt week, which, it is expected, will
be fully attended. The meeting may have
some impoitaut matters to act upon.
The cotton is being moved off the
streets of Athens in a hurry. The mer¬
chants are selling, and the fleecy staple is
going. However, the fanners are still
bringing it in and Athens’'receipts will
amount to over 100,100 bales.
The recent panic, bard times and strin¬
gency iu money matteis have not hurt the
farmers of Stewart countv to any great
extent. There is a considerable quantity
of cotton in the county yet. Much of
this is being held for higher prices.
Of the section of the Macon, Dublin
snd Savannah road from Macon to Dub¬
lin, fifty-four miles, about ten mile* re¬
main to be graded. Over twelve miles of
track have been laid, aud it is intended
to have the remainder fiuished soon.
Judge Speer having refused a new T
trial and declined to grant an arrest of
judgment in the great case of the tjuited
States vs. L. A. Hall, et al., for con¬
spiracy and murder, the public will very
naturally iuquistively await the next step
of defendants counsel.
Detectives in Thomas county are on the
track of certain persons w T ho have been
wantonly shooting horses in that section.
Two fine colts, belonging to Mr. M. B,
Jones, ball£ were found in the lot wounded by
rifle A number of fine hogs were
also found in the sarnw condition.
The establishment of new r banks shows
the healthy financial growth of 'Thomas
ville. Iu a idition to two flourishing
banks another—the Citizens’ Bank aud
Trust Company—is well under way. This
aew T bank will commence business with a
capital of $ 100,000. It has an authorized
capital of $300,000.
The death of Mr. Edward Elder, of
Greene county, recalls the fact that he
served in the war of 1812. Ho was
ninety-seven years old ’at the time of his
death, and was the father of twelvd chil¬
dren, seven of whom are living. Of his
posterity there are living thirty-four
grandchildren and thirty-four great¬
grandchildren and two great-great-grand¬
children .
Extensive preparations are being mads
for the Georgia Chautauqua at Albany,
and a brilliant programme is being ar¬
ranged. The interest in this southern
offshoot of the great parent chautauqua
of New York is yearly increasing, and
important new features arc being cou
stantlv added. This year a sensation has
been caused among many of the other
church people in the fact that the exer¬
cises are to take place during holy week,
which they state will debar their presence
and participation.
At a meeting of the Merchants’ Asso¬
ciation, decided in Favannah, Monday, it was
to have merchants’ week this
sive. year from There April 27th to May 2d, inclu¬
horsrTraces, will be the usual traces’ dis
"f^y, open house to visitors-’
elect. The special features will be a big
confederate veterans’ union and a mili¬
tary parade on Memorial Day. The en
campment of the Fifth Georgia cavalry
and an interstate cavalry tournament, in
which prizes aggregating more than
$1,000, will be offered.
The bondholders of the Covington and
Macon Railroad Company held an ad¬
journed meeting at Baltimore, a few days
ago. It was announced that proposals to
lease the road are contemplated by other
parties, besides the Georgia Central,
whose .offer on a 4 per cent interest basis
was made two weeks ago. They decided
to leave the question with the committee
of bondholders, to receive proposals and
to report to another meeting two weeks
hence for final decision. The Georgia,
Carolina and Northern railroad people
have been interested in the proceedings,
which are to settle the future control of
the Covington' and Macon road.
The following memoiiai has b?en re¬
ceived by Governor Northen, and ex¬
plains itself: “To the Governor of the
State of Georgia: We, the members of
the Woman’s National Industrial League
of America, present this memorial and
petition to the legislature of Georgia,
that in making appropriations fur the
Columbian World’s Fair, to be held in
Chicago in 1893, a certain amount be set
aside to encourage and aid the industrial
women of your State and enable them to
make an industrial exhibit. The object
of our petition is to encourage, and de¬
velop the genius of » industrial women.”
The death of h rses and muleg frora
various causes has entailed great loss
apOD a Dumber of farmer3 in Henry
^pfow a 1 low stVcV'hllmance^^omDanv^h stock insurance company, by 11
fT^re 10ShCS osL^in m tim respect, *=*””** Five
hundred men in . the county will proba
bly tatce stock in this company. Out of
his number of farmers there will b<?
1,000 head of stock entered and valued
for insurance. Putting the average
value of this cumber of mules and horses
a: *100, they wou d have $100,000 worth
° f Stock ’ whloh ««* » la¬
snrance of $66,080. „ Two per cent would
make $5 000. buppoaing only one out
o every twenty-five to die, that would
make forty of the number to be paid for,
$66.66| being the average price. It
would require near $700 more to payoff
l0SSfcS the com P an y w °u!d sus
tain ’
on ecveiate somiers widows who are
entitled to draw pensions can have their
applications mad t e ou? in about twp
weeks. The law provides that a pension
or $i JO a year shab be paid to certain
widows, beginning on the loth of FeD
ruary, 1891. The payment will be made
03 proper proofs presented to the execu
Dve department on blanks furnished
om j® on manea of the state,
™ Tuoss whose husbamds killed
were in the
service, those whose husbands died
in ^he army of wounds or disease con
tr&cted in the service, those whose hus
bands went i<? the war and have never
been heard from since, those whose hus
wounds, and those whose husbands con
tracted disease in the service and have
died since the war from the effects of that
money, mon?v nrovkf^Ih provided that she was the pen Wife ; ion of ,
the soldier during the war and has never
re-married.
,
' rne raisei o. a.
The impression has got abroad that the
railroads one and all bad derided tore
fuse passes to the delegates to the State
Agricultural Society convention which
meets m Savannah. Fhis was based upon
the delay of the authoritiei of the Central
road in furnishing those courtesies. All
sorts of w ild rumors concerning the sup¬
posed cause for this delay were started on
their rounds, but these rumors have nl!
been knocked in the head, as the passes
are to be issued as usual and
Colonel General Alexander telegraphed
Waddell to that effect.
In acknowledging the telcgr m. Colo¬
nel Waddell wired the president of the
Central as follows:
Atlanta, Ga , February 2 —General
E. I\ Alexander, President Central Rail¬
road, Savannah, Ga. The farmers of
Georgia render you pr found thanks for
your successful efforts to secure free
parses tural to delegates to the State Agricul¬ in
Savannah Society couventi n to assemble
February 11th and 12th. No
one appreciates your kindness moro than
J. O. Waddell.
Ollier railioads had alrea ly granted the
request for passes. The Richmond and
Danville had d me so, the Georgia rail¬
road, the Covington and Macon, the At¬
lanta and Florida, the Georgia Southern,
the Columbus and R *inc, the Savannah,
Araericus aud Montgomery, the Wrights
ville road aiul the Savannah, Florida and
Western.
REPORT OF BUSINESS
For the Week Just Ended by
Dunn & Co.
R. G. Dunn & Co’s weekly review ol
trade says: Business continues uuprece
d* nted in volume aud satisfactory in
character, being larger than in any other
year atf this season. The tone in com¬
mercial circles throughout the country is
hopeful, and money markets are now
comparatively easy at nearly all points.
The uncertainty regarding the monetary
future causes some hesitation, especially
as derneath to new undertakings, abiding but there is un¬
an confidence that in
the fertile genius of the people and tha
measureless r» sources of the country will
meet feeling every difficulty. So strong is this
that it is often hard to realize
that tne pressure and anxiety of Novem¬
ber aud December lasted until within
thirty days. But there are some ground!
for caution still.
The dry goods trade is, on the whole,
very satisfactory for the season, and
while buying is conservative both in cot¬
ton and woolens, and prices are low
enough to embarrass some brandies of
production, trade is clearly on a more
healthy basis, as well as larger in volume,
than it was a year ago. The increasing
demand for wool, though still confined
to aciual needs for consumption, proves
that caricnt prices, low' as they are, do
not arrest production. Trade in boot*
and shoes and leather is somewhat re¬
tarded by the monetary uncertainty.
The embarrassment iu iron and steel
manufacture trade is now clearly per¬
ceived to be the resu’t of the marked
shrinkage in demands for consumption.
Accounts from southern cities indicate
only a fair trade, with an improvement
at Atlanta, and a slight improvement at
Jacksonville, but increasing receipts and
lower prices for cotton at New Orleans.
Phimdelphia reports a good demand for
combing wool.
The startling death of Secretary Win
dom caused a sudden fall in the price Of
bar silver from 47| to 4G| cents in Lon¬
change don, it whatever is Gated in dispatches. financial But policy na
in the
of the government fs likely to result,
t h o ugh it may easily happen that liis sue
able, v *may not posses*
the fertility of n sources which Mr. VVin
dom has shown in meeting emergencies.
The operations of the treasury during the
past week have in no way affected the"
money-market, which is well supplied.
Speculation accordingly, grows more ac¬
tive, and wheat has advanced 3^- cents,
corn 2^ cents, oats £ cent and coffee 13
cents sixteenth per lower,'and 1U0. pounds; but.cotton is a
oil 2$ cents lower.
Failures for the week number 278;
for the corresponding week of last yeai
th^ failures were 246.
L J TO REST.
Burial of Secretary Windom at
Washington.
™ The national ,. , capital ., , was truly . . a city ., of .
mourning Monday.. Ihe executive de
partments and their various branches were
closed all day, and congress did not as
semble till 2 o’clock. Flags on the white
house and all the other public buildings
were displayed at half-mast, and so were ;
those of the hotels and other business j
es ablishments throughout thueity. These I
honors were paid to the memory of the
late Secretary Windom, who'was stricken
down in thc full tide of his usefulness on
the 29th ulfc. I
There wns an air of genuine and univer- !
sal mourning throughout the whole city ,
and streets in the vicinity of the church j
where the last rites were performed, and ,
along the routejtaken by the funeral pro
cession were crowded with men, women
and children who stood iu respectful si
lenee 2 many of them with bared heads,
as the mournful cortege passed. The
funeral was simple in character and
without tlie least attempt at display or ! ;
ostentation. The only semblance to mil
itary honors was the presence of sixteen
members of the treasury branch of the
national guard of the district. They
acted as body bearers and marched be
hind the hearse on its journey to the
cemetery. There never was, however, a ;
larger purely civic funeral in the city of
Washington, and it strikingly evidenced
the people’s gt<fet love and esteem for the
dead statesman.
LOWER INTEREST
Wanted by AUianCemen Of North
Carolina.
A Raleigh dispatch says: The Far
mers i Alliance members of the legislature
held a caucus Friday night on the bill to j
reduce the rate of interest fiom 8 to 8 ;
percent. There was much discussion of .
the proposed change, but it was decided
that it was expedient to make the change,
The vote was overwhelmingly in favor of
this. Inquiry was made ot ailiancemen
and they ail said they would s:and to
gether and that the passage of the bill
was certain. The ailiancemen are in a
large majority. Of course, the bank peo
pie will antagonize the bill, and the op
ponents of it claim that it will cripple
the interests of the state. ,
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IRONWORKS BURN.
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$400,000 Worth Of Property
Goes Up In Smoke.
The Hecla Iron Works iu YYillam^bure
N. Y. were burned at an tarb hour
Wednesday morning, causing a loss which
is estimated at $800 000 The covered°the iron works
were one story buUdfan dtjolli^an's btit !
entire block. Brenan the°Hecla cooper- :
age situatid opposite iron
works Davis & Comnanv’s cSoperage varnish far
tory adjoining building the and six
story occupied by J. S. Lugeut
paper company, and Eureka Incandescent
Lighting company caught fire and par
tiallv destroyed. Damage to tlv se firms
and buildings is estimated atllfjO^QO. '
^
SOUTHERN BRIEFS
DAILY OCCURRENCES IN THE
SUNNY SOUTHLAND
Curtailed into Interesting’ and
Newsy Paragraphs.
T. J. Tillman & Bro., dry good*, at
Decatur, Ala., male an assignment Mon¬
day. Liabilities $7,000.
A disastrous fire occurred at Ozark,
Ala., Tuesday. Eight business houses
were destroyed. The estimated loss is
$25,000.
Telegrams received in Macon from Bab
timore state that the Covington and Macon
railroad bondholders’meeting adjourned j
Saturday until February 14th to reccivo
further bids.
The board of directors of the Business
Men’s Association, of Norfolk, Va., calls
upon Virginia congressmen to vote for
the “tonnage” bill, now pending in the
house of representatives.
Leaf tobacco sold in Danville, Va., in
January, bold since amounted October to 2,919,502^>unds. 1st, JB^8,000
pounds. Increase over tho period
last year, 600,000 pounds.
The jail at Friar’s Point, Miss., burned
Monday, and three negro prisoners con¬
fined on trivial charges perished. They door
started thc fire trying to burn the
down so they might escape.
Tho contract for the construction of
the Danville and East Tennessee railroad,
from Danville, Va., to Bristol. Tonn.,
xvas, on Monday, awarded to the Inter¬
state Construction Company, of New
York.
Thc grand jury at Chattauooga, Judge on
Tuesday, found a true bill against
J. A. Warder for tho murder of his son
in-law, Simpson M. Fugette, Sunday,
Jauuary 18th. The verdict is for mur¬
der in the first degree.
A Nashville dispatch of Monday says:
Hunter McDonald, of the Nashville,
Chattanooga and St. Louis railway, will
be appointe Atlantic d chief engineer railroad, of the Wes¬
tern and to fill the
vacancy occasioned by thc death ofEben
Pardor.
A dispatch of Sunday from El Paso,
Texas, says: The stage running between
Chihuahua and Pcmos Alton, Mexico,
was held up Friday night by masked
robbers, and $6,000 in silver and bullion
taken. The highwaymen escaped, but
tbe officers are in pursuit.
It has been one hundred years since
the capital of South Carolina was estab¬
lished at Columbia, and the fcity is pre¬
paring to celebrate the centennial of that
event with due form and ceremony.
General Hampton has been invited to de¬
liver the centennial Oration.
At Charlotte, N.C., the Belmont hotel,
used n3 an annex to the Central, was de¬
stroyed by fne Saturday night, entailing
a loss of $50,000. A large number of
guests were stopping at tho In tel, and
naturally a great panic was created, but
no lives were lost.
The United States circuit and district
court for thc western district of North
Carolina convened at Greenville Tuesday.
There are over 600 witnesses and jurors
in attendance. The principal business
of tbe court is tbe trial of the moon¬
shiners, who are so numerous in tho
mountains of that section of the state.
A Chattanooga dispatch of Tuesday
says: The Ice Dealers’ Association, com¬
posed of the principal factories in At¬
lanta, Savannah, Macon, Rome, Clia'ta
meet oga^and in Chattanooga other Southern February cities, 25th, will
to
outline the policy for this summer’s busi¬
ness. The association was formed just
one year ago.
Robert Moore, a farmer living near
Carrollton, Ky., died Monday, aged
ninety-five years. Until he was stricken a
week ago was remarkably hale and active.
He lived all his life in a hilly and unfre¬
quented part of the country, within a
mile of where he was born. lie came info
life while Washington was president;
voted his first democratic vote in 1816
before he was quite twenty-one years old.
T . reported A Louisville . * that , S.
1S from
B- Li ,. win, president of the Kentucky
farmers f f^ an< k Alliance, Gardner was was deposed put batur- in his
P. e Inc change ,• was owing to far¬
*
win , s warning in the alliance paper, of
which he v .as editor, to the larmers to
keep away from the growers’ tobacco
warehous \ of which ex-Senator John S.
Williams is president. The alliance has
been supporting this warehouse in oppo
sition to the warehouse •combination,
A Charlotte dispatch of Sunday says:
The exercised liquor dealers of the state are much
discovered over a movement they have
regulating to change the existing law
boards of the granting conuni-sinners. of licenses by
county The
liquor sellers claim that the propose:’,
change would place them at the state,“ mercy of
third party boards all over the as
^ c]ausc wllich ro , v reads that on ccr _
taia conditions county commissioners
.. shall is8Ue i icenscs v ,“ as ljeen changed
to read “ raa v issue licenses.”
_ b ayerweather and Ladew, who
own
| je b*rg * tannery in Chattanooga, the
birgest in the world, have just completed
‘ r branch tannery on the Chattanooga
6 Southern i ail road, in Walker county,
Georgia, eight mi.es south of Chattanoo¬
ga \\ lthm the past month an en rmous
amount of tan bark, aggregating^ ■ )00
worth, has been delivered to new
tannery. f The shipment will confirm'’,
aiid fu ly $100,000 worth will be secured.
The tannery is a big enterprise lor
Walker county and north Georgia. •
A Jack=on, Miss., dispatch of Sunday
says: Under the new constitution, all
electors otherwise qualified, 4 who failed
to pay aii taxes legally assessed to them
which they had opportunity of paring for
the past two ye.rs. by February 1st, can¬
not vote this year. The time expired
with the close of business Saturday, and
it is estimated that the j ercentage of
white ehetors disfranchised by their fail-’
ure to pay the’r taxes is less than, 8 per
cent. The percentage of negroes failing
to pay, will, it is thought, reach 40 per
cent.
Mr. James Ij. Glover, 3Iuriettn, .
(>f f „ . Gu. _
f
was on Sa turd y appointed permanent
receiver o! the Marietta and North
a^oralr ’ '
Mr. titover was first
appointed temporary receiver on a con
sent order submitted by the road and the
trust company. The question of a per
"fl 1 ®” 1
Jud g ® Newman ln Atlanta Saturday
-
mornln g. Beingthechoiceofthestock
holders a3d bondholders of the railroad
well as t trust company, Mr. Glover
was a PP 01 nted, his bond being fixed at
|25 - 000 ’ wbich fu ^ed.
Hunter—“Did you into'the realize anythin^ on
that $500 you put Cataract
Mine?” Wvrkes—“Y ps- T-piIGpI wriat
a chump I Brooklyn Life