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BAItNESVILLE, Ga.
Lb practice in the countie
V V comprising the Flint .Indicia
Ciivuit, and in the Supreme Court of the j
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VOL. VIII.
Flowers aiul Seeds,
VEGETABLE PLANTS ANDORNAMENTAL SHRUBBERY
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feb22-ly
An art to amend the Constitution of
the State.
Stction 1. Beit enacted by the
General Assembly of he S;ato of
Georgia, That the following b ad
ded us an amendment, and ,-iii addi
tional clause to the sixth section of the
third article of theOonstitution of tlr.s
State, to wit: Neither the General
Asssembly nor any other authority
or officer of this State, s. all ever
have Dower to pay, or recognize as
legal, or in any sense valid or bin
ding upon tne State, any direct
bonds, gold bonds, or currency bonds,
or the State alleged guaranty, or en
dorsement of any railroad bonds, or
any other bonds, guarantees, or in
dorsement, heretofore declared to
be illegal, fraudulent, or void, by
act, or resolution of the Legislature
originating this amendment, viz :
Tiie Slate gold bonds, issued under
the act ol October IT, 1870, hi aid
of the Brunswick and Albany iviil
raid Company : the currency bonds
issued m dor the act of August 27,
1870 ;th quarterly gold bonds is
sued under the act ol September 10,
1870, which are enumerated in the
act of August 22, 1872 ; the indorse
ment of the State upon the bond's of
the Brunswick and Aloany Railroad
Company, made under the act of
March 18, 1860 ; the indorsement of
the State upon the bonds of the
('artersviile and Van Were Railroad
Company, and of the Cherokee Rail
road Company, the indorsement, of
the State upon the bonds of the
Bainbridgc, Cuthbert and Colum
bus Railroad Company : and ail oth
er bonds, guaranties, or indorse
ments declared illegal, farudnlent
or void, as herein 'provided. Nor
shall any General Assembly ever
have power to provide for the re-in
dorsement of such railroad bonds, or
to provide for the indorsement, oi
guaranty by the State of any new
bonds issued in lieu of, or to pay off,
or retire, such railroad bonds, by any
railroad companies, or other persons
in payment, or in lieu of such indors
ed bonds, or other bonds declared ille
gal ; or to lend the aid, or credit of
tne State by any act, resolution or
law, to such railroad companies, or
to other incorporated companies, or
persons, acquiring, or succeeding -to
the rights and franchises of said com
panies ;or to buy the railroads of
such companies ; or to suoinit the
questions of the liability of the State
upon any of the bonds, or indorse
ments upon bonds, or other guaran
ty herein declared illegal, fraudu
lent, and void, or upon any claim
of money advanced upon said bonds,
indorsements, or guaranties, or ex
pended by said companies, o: other
persons in and about the construc
tion of said railroads, to the decision
of any court, tribunal, or persons
whatever • or io pay, assume, or se
cure. directly or indirectly, by any
act, or law, any money
advanced, or claimed to have been
advanced on the bonds, indorse
ments, or guaranties herein declared
invalid.
Section. 2. Beit further enacted,
That so soon as this Ac t shall have
been passed by the rc quisite vole of
two-thirds of two successive Legisla
tures, in the manner required by
the Constitution, his Excellent-} the
Governor, be, and he is hereby, au
thorized and directed to provide, by
proclamation, for submitting the
amendment herein proposed to the
unqualified voters of said State for
final ratification, upon a day u> be
fixed by the proclamation ; the man
nor of voting and conducting the
election to be such as is, or may be,
p escribed by law, for the election
of members to the most numerous
branch of the Legislature.
Sec. J. Repeals convicting laws.
Approved February 2A 1875.
The Failed States has a Depart
ment, not a Minister, of Agriculture,
the average appropriation to which,
for 1873," 1874, and 1875, averaged
about $280,000 per annum.
THOM ASTON. GA.. SATURDAY MORNING. APRIL 2s, 1877.
The Macon Telegraph of last
Thursday gives a horrible account
of a negro by the name of Charles
4 homas, going to the house of a Mr.
James Caraway, a thrifty farmer in
South "West Georgia, and brutally
murdering Mrs. Caraway. The Tel
egraph says that Mr. Caraway was
at one of his farms three miles off,
and the negro Amnd Mrs. Caraway
alone. She, seeing the negro, told
him that if he wanted to see her hus
band he must go to the plantation.
1 ho monster walked into the house
and struck Mrs. Caraway a blow on
the head with a heavy club which
he carried. The blow felled her
face downward upon the floor, where
she lay motionless. He then pro
ceeded to rifle the drawers and
trunks in the house, and secured ten
hollars in silver, and two or three
tdousand dollars worth of papers and
notes, which he destroyed. As lie
was passing out of the house, lie ob
served that Mrs. C. was groaning,
and fearing that she might recover
and tell on him, he struck the pros
trate woman two more blows upon
the head with the same club with
which he knocked her down. These
last blows crushed in her skull un
til the brain oozed out. Taking his
pitiful booty the monster then fled
toward his home in Terrell county.
A Baptist minister stopped at Mr.
Caraway’s house a few hours after
the commision of the deed and was
horror stricken to find the lady ly
ing upon the floor, with blood and
brain oozing from her head. He
saw at once that she had been mur
dered. The spectable was a most
ghastly one—one that cannot easily
be effaced from memory. He gave
the alarm at once and soon t lie
whole neighborhood was aroused. A
posse formed and started at once in
search of the murderer. For some
reason or other Thomas was suspec
ted, and the party went at once to
the plantaton in Terrell county
where he was employed and had no
difficulty in finding and arresting
him. lie confessed the whole hor
rible deed, substantially as we have
stated above. He had in his posses
sion, when arrested, the money
which he had taken from Mr Cara
away’s house.
The monster was taken to the
neighborhood of where the crime
was committed, and Mr. C. was no
tified that he was there. That gen
tle .nan, with a forbearance as rem
arkable as it was commendable, ask
ed that the inhuman murderer of his
wife be taken to jail in order that
the law might take its course with
him. At a hint from him the fiend
would have [laid the penalty of his
fearful crime in an equally fearful
manner.
At the beginning of the present
difficulties between Russia and Tur
key there was a general opinion a
mong many of our army officers that
the troubles would create a market
for ordnance supplies, arms and oth
er implements of warfare, and that
the l nited States would be enabled
to dispose of the vast amount of mi- i
serviceable goods of that character !
now stored in our arsenals and forti
fications; but a careful examination
of the subject by prominent officers
of the Ordnance Department leads to
the belief that there will be no de
mand upon our country for these
goods, for the reason that England,
Germany and France have vast quant
ities of condemned arms for sale, and
therefore neither of the contending
parties would find it necessary to
make purchases on this side of the
Atlantic when they can obtain similar
goods so much nearer home, unless
the present complications should as
sume such shape that the Powers
mentioned would decline to dispose
of th’eir condemned arms and sup
plies to either party, and then there
might be a demand for ours.
Since the Franco-Prussian war
both France and Germany have been
rearming aid replacing the arms us
ed by them in that war with those of
more improved patterns, and conse
quently have many ohl arms for
sale.
Turkey’s Present Supplies.
It has also been ascertained that
Turkey is much better supplied with
arms than was at first supposed, she
haying received over three hundred
thousand stand of arms from the
Providence Tool Company, of Prov
idence, R. 1., within the past two
years, under a contract made with
that company to furnish half a mil
lion Peabody guns, a breech-loading
rifle similar to tne Martini-Henry
rifle used in England. These rifles
tire still being manufactured for and
delivered to the Turkish government,
several officers of which have been in
this country for some months past
inspecting tliearmsand superintend
ing their manufacture. The Turks
also have contracts with various
firms in this country for 200,000,000
rounds of metallic cartridges and for
a large number of cartridge eases,
which are now being made at Bridge
port and New Haven, Conn., and
other places. That government is
also well supplied with breech-loading
steel guns for field service, and it is
not probable that there will be any
great demand for arms of obsolete
patterns upon this or any other
country.
Russia’s armament.
Russia has also received a good sup
ply of arms from this country, in
pursuance of contracts with Smith &
Wesson, Colt and other manufac
turers. These contracts were for re
volver.-, a large number of whi-h
have been delivered.
ARMS OF THE UXITED STATES.
We have for sale about four hun
dred thousand of the new Spring
field muzzleloading rifles, and a large
number of repaired breech-loaders,
besides ordnance and ordnance sup
plies of every description, loft from
the Into civil war.
Flie lilies could be converted into
breechloaders, but it has been found
cheaper to make new one- outright
than to undertake to ehatrge the old
ones. The G mini nee Department
lias from year to year urged upon
Congress the necessity of making
sufficient appropriations for the
manufacture of improved arms, so as
to permit the gradual accumulation
of them in store for use in case of an
emergency. During the ten years
proceeding the late war an average of
manufacture of such arms, but for
several years past the appropriations
for that purpose have been SIOO,OOO
or $150,000. It is estimated that
there will not be more than eight
thousand arms of approved patterns
on hand at the end of the present
fiscal year, and should the States
draw upon the national government
for the full quotas to which they are
entitled the limited stock of improv
ed arms held in reserve would be
exhausted. The ac. of April 23,
1808, makes a permanent annual ap
propriation of $200,000 for arming
and equipping the militia of the
United States, and it is argued that
if that sum was necessary at that
time, when the population did not
exceed eight millions, at least $l v
-000,000 should be appropriated now,
the population having increased
nearly five fold. Under the act
named the State of New York is an
nually credited witli $10,792 of the
$200,000, but if the appropriation
should he increased to $1,000,000 as
recommended, she would have $83,-
902, and so with the other States ac
cording to their population. The
stylo of gun now being manufactured
is the Springfield breech-loading ri
fle, and it is argued that those guns
should be manufactured in uuanti
ties sufficient to render a gradual
accumulation of them in store a cer
tainty.
THE A UVI OT TH K < l"IT RE.
That a better arm than the
Springfield may some day be invent
ed is not at all improbable, and ex
perienced ordnance officers contend
ed that a magazine gun will no
doubt be the arm of the future; but
until such a one suitable for the niil
ttary service has been perfected and
approved a reserve stock of Spring
fields is a necessity.
Walt! liii' Papers Say.
Mr. President and gentlemen of
the Administration, isn’t if about
time to halt in this career of conces
sion ?—Boston Traveller.
The dead Whig party can no more
be rehabilitated than the hones of
Henry Clav can be reclothed with
flesh and blood. That party during
its fitful existence presented a galaxy
of brilliant men, but, like the cap
tain's deck on the Western steam
boat, it had altogether too much tal
ent for one boat —Washington Slur.
We should like to see every post
office in the country presided over by
a good woman. It is work for which
women arc fitted, and women, no
more than men, should be cut out of
public employment.— Louisville Cou
rier-Journal.
The Republican opponents of
Hayes naturally ask where the Re
publican votes of 1880 are to come
from. To hand down the flag of
the “bloody shirt” seems to them a
piece of egregious folly. Buffalo
Courier.
Mr. Hayes is undertaking to do
justice by South Carolina and Louis
iana. He is not the first man who
has sought to stifle his conscience by
making good use of stolen goods.
While accepting every righteous act
with thankfulness, as an outraged
people must, they nevertheless can
not and will not condone his crime.
—Albany Ary us,
The Southern leaders ere neither
knaves, ingrates nor fools, and the
plan of building up a Hayes party in
the South will result in nothing.
—Baltimore Gazette.
The creatures who have sold them
selves will hide their dishonored
heads when, in future elections,
they see a South solid for integrity,
ann patriotism; solid nfirepiidiatie.g a
fraudulent President, and solid in
uniting tvitii tlie noble men of the
North "on the basis of the Constitu
tion, the rights of the States, the
liberty of the people, and for that
peace and reconciliation which the
Democratic party can alone give to
the country. — Memphis Appeal.
If we were going to state the Re*
publican opinion in lowa, as we have
heard and seen it expressed, one-half
the members of the party in this
State are dissatisfied with the course
of the Administration, two-thirds of
the rest are patiuntly waiting to see
it tried, with grave doubts, in regard
to it. and the remainder more or
less heartily approve of it.— Jotra
State Bey ist er \llep.)
Labor troubles are fomenting in
Eastern Massachusetts.
To the f armers of Georgia:
In view of tlie threatened war in
the East—which seems now to he uu
! avoidable —it becomes us as prudent
men. to avert, as far as jiossible, its
disastrous effects upon our industries,
by a wise forecast in onr farm econ
omy.
The indications now are that there
will he a protracted war, involving
the leading powers of Europe, the
necessary consequence of which will
be a rapid advance in the price of ail
food supplies.
Even the “rumor of war’has al
ready caused an appreciable advance
in meats and hivadstutfs, and a de
cline in our great staple —cotton.
Unusually large shipments of provis
ions to the various European ports
are already reported, and must con
tinue so long as the war lasts.
The foreign demand for cotton
may lie greatly reduced, and its price
fall below even its present low fig
u res.
In view of these facts, the farmers
of Georgia are urged to increase
their areas in provision crops. Lis
not yet too late to increase the area
in corn, even if it has to be done by
reducing the area in cotton. Let
fanners plant enough corn to insure
an ample supply for the ensuing
year, net them plant crops for their
hogs, and force them forward to se
cure, as nearly as possible, a supply
of bacon for home comsmnption.
Let them plant liberally in German
millet and field peas to supplement
their corn crop in feeding stock, in
order that more of their corn may be
used for bicad.
If the war should he averted—of
which there is, at present little prob
ability—we will have lost nothing by
the above policy; if not, we will have
provided against the possibility of
loss or suffering.
In either event, those adopting the
bovc advice will have nothing to re
gret, while those who do not may bo
compelled to purchase provisions at
ruinously high prices, and pay for
them with cotton at prices even be
low the cost of production.
Very respectfully,
Thomas P. Janes,
Commissioner of Agriculture.
Colton Planting.
SOME SOUND ADVICE FROM A NORTH
ERN SOURCE.
(New York Cotton Record).
Too much advice is sometimes
worse than none at all. and at this
season of the year, the cotton plan
ter has probably more friendly sug*
geslions dinned into his ear than lie
can well digest.—Apart from all
questions of agricultural lore, as to
whether he should plant this tract
in corn, or reduce Ins patch of cot
ton —for he has undoubtedly become
its good a judge of these important
elements, as the many theorists who
are constantly advocating the neces
sity of making his cotton crop only
a secondary adjunct to tin raising of
his daily supplies—the question of
price will in the long run, have
greater weight with lum in the de
term i nation of what amount of acre
age he shall place under cotton.
For the [last three years the great
staple has gradually been declining,
and the average result to the plan
ter has invariably been lessened each
year The evil was first started by
the line and cry raised by the manu
facturers, at being obliged to hu v on
a falling market, and with it all,
have a perfect surfeit of on
hand. . All this has been changed,
mill-owners enter upon anew era
this year, for this surplus of the
manufactured article has all been
cleared off, the demand is good,
prices are advancing and the raw ma
terial is low. Of course, this is not
entirely lost sight of by the ‘tiller’
of the soil, and even if his judge**
ment should dictate to hint the pru
deuce of sowing less cotton this year,
in view of its steadily decreasing val
lie, the favorable prospects for the
outlet of goods wijl naturally make
him pause and determine, whether
after all, even an increased supply of
hi* ‘snowy flakes' may not lie just as
well taken care of, during the com
ing year, as has been vouchsafed to
him in the past.
“The vital point at issue to the
planter is not then, as to the next
crop being four, five or six millions,
but whether his financial position
will warrant him in cultivating more
land or not. It isstill an open ques
tion, if our crops do increase from
year to year, whether values recede
1 very materially, for the growing fa
vor of .American cotton abroad, as
the real standard article, our, of
winch more yarn can be spun, the
larger consumption, both North and
South, will give an increased de
mand, which production will find
great difficulty in keeping pace with,
now that an equal distribution of
goods has taken place. The real se
cret lies in whether the planter is
out of debt, for if the aggregate
crops are large all over the country
I prices ef necessaries fall m a like
! proportion, and the money obtained
| for his labor will go as far, as if the
j crop had been only a small one, lor
|he would then have had to pay an
advance price for his corn, molasses,
'etc. The whole question then re
solves itself into this—that tin* inde
pendent fanner can plant with safe
ty just as much as he lias the capac
ity of cultivating, and his better
judgement will invariably teach him
to devote some of his land to the
raising of wheat, oats, etc. Every
! year will undoubtedly place the
| planter in a stronger position than
j ever lie has been in, anil, while pri
! ees will invariably influence some.
* the necessity of raising articles of
food others, it will Ik? found that
pieparations for the coming season
will Jh on a larger scale than ever be
fore, for farmers who are driven from
sheer necessity to pay their arrears
will vie with those who are perfectly
able and willing to undertake an in
j creased acreage, irrespective of their
, neighbor's crops.*’
A flomoni of lloror.
For twenty-three years, old Jack
A iHard has cultivated the ‘soil in
Baldwin county, and drawn there
from a support for himself and wife.
She is childless. Not long ago Jack
left his house in search of a missing
cow. His route led him through an
old worn-out piece of clay land of
six acres in extent, in the centre of
which was a well about twenty-live
or thirty feet deep, that at some
time probably had furnished the in
mates of a dilapidated house near by
with water. In passing by this spot
an ill wind drifted Jack’s hat from
his head and maliciously wafted it to
the edge of the well, —in it turn hied.
Now. Jack had always practiced the
virtue of economy, and lie imme
diately sot about recovering bis hat.
He ran to the well and finding it was
dry at the bottom lie uncoiled the
rope which be had brought for the
purpose of capturing the cow, and
after several attempts to catch the
hat with a noose, lie concluded to
save time by going down into the
well himself. To accomplish this
he made fast one end of the rope to
a stump bard by, and was soon on
his way down the well.
It was a fact of which Jack was
less obvious than the reader hereof
—that a mischievous fellow named
Xeal Willis was in the old building
and saw Jack go down into the well,
and it so happened that Jack’s old
blind horse was close by with a bell
on his neck. The devil himself, or
some other w icked spirit, put it into
Neal’s head to have a little fun; so
he slipped up to the old horse, un
buckled the strap, and approached ,
the well with the hell in hand, ting
aling-ting, ting-aliug-ting, ting
aling. Jack thought that the old
horse was coming, and said in audi
ble tones, “hang the old blind horse,
he’s coinin’this way sure, ain’t got
no more sense than to fall in here on
me ; woa, Ball. ’ But the sound of
the hell came closer and closer, and
Jack was resting at the bottom of
the well—“ Great Jerusalem ! said
Jack, the old blind fool will he light
in on top of me in a minit, w’oa,
Ball 1 woa ; woa now, Ball ! Just
then Neal got close to tne edge of
the well and kicked in a little dirt
on Jack’s head. Jack thought Ball
was about to come and got close up
to the wall and began to pray.
“Oli ! Lord, have mercy on—woa,
Ball—a poor sinner. I’m gone, now,
woa, Ball ! Our Father wiio art in
—woa, Ball !—Heaven, hallowed he
N by—gee, Ball, gee what’ll I do—
name. Ayw I lay me down to si—
gee, Ball ! out on your livers I (just
then in fell more dirt) hack, Ball!
Oh ! Lord, if you ever intend to do
anything for me—back, Ball, woa.
ho! ho-a—Thy kingdom conic—jee,
Ball ! Oh! Lord, you know I was
baptised in Smith’s mill-dam—woa
Ball! hol’up !! m-u--d-e-r !!! woa,
farewell world !
Neal could hold in no longer, and
showing himself at the top of the
well with a big horse laugh, which
might have been heard two miles.
I'll is was more than Jack could bear,
and he started up the rope line a
monkey: Blast your picture, 1 11 give
you fits ; I’ll make your ears ring
wors’n that bell.
Neal took to his heels and ran like
a quarter-horse,and the last that was
seen of him, he was a mile from the
well with two big dogs grabbing at
his coat-tail, and Jack was close be
hind yelling at the dogs.
It is reported that the Texas cattle
drive for the coming season will be
250,000 head.
The emigration from Maine to the
West is unusually large this spring.
Since 1870 that state has lost 10,000
of her population in this manner.
The defiant attitude of Turkey is
explained in private letters from
Constantinople. The Ottomans are
rendered confident by assurances
that Poland, the Crimea, the Cauca
sus, Persia and even India will fur
nish moral and material aid against
Russia m the course of the impend
ing war.
A cattle disease is raging in Ulster
county, N. V., which is fatal in al
most every case. The animals are
first attacked in the legs, which be
come weak and soon altogether pow
erless. They have also evident pains
in the head and symptoms like epi
zootic among army horses.
It is intimated that will be issued
in Now York in a few days for a
mass meeting of all who are “in fa
vor of maintaining the integrity and
indivisibility of the Republican par
ty.’’ The friends of Wendall Phil
ips and Senator Blaine are under
stood to be leading in the movement,
and the object of the meeting isopen
warfare upon Mr. Hayes’ Southern
policy.
Official notice is given by the Post-
Oftice Department that the colonies
of Spain and of the Netherlands are
admitted into the General Postal
Union from the first day of May,
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The Southern Jiutl Claim*.
The Utorney-Gcncral has rend
ered his decision to the Secretary of
the Treasury in reference to the ap
propriation of 1315,000 to l>e paid
to different contractors for carrying
the mails for the Tinted States Gov
ernment during the tirst two or three
months of the rebellion. It will be
remembered that a number of these
f contractors carried the mails up to
tiie ending of the fiscal year, June
30, 1861. Congress at its last ses
sion appropriated *3115,900 to pay
these Southern contiactois, all ot
whom, strange to say, lived iu the
Southern States. It was discovert, u.
however, after an examination by
Secretary Sherman and Mr. McGrow,
Sixth Auditor of the Treasury, that
by its reading the bill made no pos
itive designation as to the time up
to which to pay these claimants.
The vital ijuestiou to he decided
I was when did the rebellion begin ;
was it on the 10th of April,
when the riot began in Baltimore,
was it on the days upon which the
■various Legislatures of the South
ern States passed the act of seces
sion, or was it on the day when Lin
coln issued his proclamation i I hese
various tpicstiOTS of course puzzled
the Sixth Auditor, and he referred
the matter to the Secretary of the
Treasury) who referred it to the So
licitor, who in turn referred it to
the Attorney-General. The latter
decides that these contractions must
he paid up to the time that their
States respectively seceded or passed
the resolution of secession. The
last state that did that was the State
of Virginia, which passed its Seces
sion act some time in the latter part
of May. From Virginia there .are
<|ii.te a large number of claimant.'.
Under this ruling of the Attorney-
General the Sixth Auditor has issued
a circular of instruction, by order of
Secretary of the Treasury, to t he-e
claimants, in which he sets forth
that they must put in their claims
in detail, giving the number of day
of actual seryice rendered, and. that
they must prove that they have nev
er received any money from the reb
el government for this service.
In each claim they must give two
responsible and reliable securities m
reference to this after all the claims
are in and properly adjusted the
money will he paid, audit it is fou ml
that the *375,000 appropriated for
this purpose is insufficient, it will l e
paid pro rata to the claimants. Ihe
fact that no money is to he paid un
til all the claims are in and properly
adjusted can he regarded, as the
Sixth Auditor says as an indication
that payment will he made without
further Congressional legislation.
It will take such a length of time
to get all these claims in and prop
erly adjust them, that this and the
ensuing administrations cannot ac
complish it. Therefore one of the
first propositions that the Secretary
of the Treasury injustice to these
men will make to Congress in June
will he the asking of further legis
lation on this subject, so as to make
the act more infinite in regard to the
payment of this money. In the
mean time the just clalments will
have to wait for their money, ow ing
to the imperfect wording of the hill.
I exports of the United States for the
! month ending February 28, 187’<,
and for the period of eight month
terminating on the same date. The
chief of the bureau compares these
j statements with like data for the
| corresponding periods of the year
immediately preceding, and shows
that the excess of trade has been m
favor of the United States. Recko
ning wholly in gold values, it ap
pears that our excess of exports over
imports, on merchandise accounts,
for February, 1887, amounted to
$16,409,397, while for the corres
ponding month in 1876 the execs
was $13,504,685, a difference of 82 | -
964,712 in favor of the present year.
In February, 1877, the export of
corn and bullion amounted to 83,-
310,082, and the imports to $1,903,-
989. During February, 1876, the
expoits reached the sum of $4,558,-
771, and the imports to $732,528.
The difference favors the present
year to the extent of $1,922,554.
mi*
Good financial authority, says a
| London correspondent of * the New
\ ork World, are of the opinion that
j the ultimate effect of the Eastern
! complications will he beneficial to
American securities, and that the
present panic in the stock market
! will he of short duration.
The commission to consider tin*
Washington monument has met, ami
j the engineers reported that the fouu
i dation is not sufficient to hear the
additional weight of the structure,
hut they make no recommendation
whatever upon the subject.
The Federal Bureau of Statistics
furnishes a statement—corrected to
the sth instant—of the imports and
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