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VOLUME XX.
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
What ts Being Done in Congressional
Halls for the Country’s Welfare.
PROCEEDINGS FROM DAY TO DAY BRIEFLY
TOI.D—BJJ.I.8 AND MEASURES UNDER
CONB1DERATION—OTHEU NOTES.
THE HOUSE.
1 bukbday. —The debate on the free
cc day. >inage bill was kept up all day Thurs¬
At times it was heated, for the
house lira n< ver labored under such in¬
tense excitement as existed from the m i-
medt it met at the morning hour. Mem¬
bers on both sides of the question were
working for votes like bees in a hive.
Mr. Hatch, of Missouri, made the m st
sensational speech of the day. He de¬
nounced the you g (Massachusetts) mug¬
wumps, who have calie 1 themselves dem¬
such ocrats, stating that he would even prefer
statesmen as the barefooted Kansan
lo Mr. Williams. Many other sensa-
tioi al speeches were made during the
day, but the genuine fight did not eom-
mince until 5 o’clock, when Mr. Bland
called the previous question on the pas¬
sage of the bill. At that time nearly
every member was upon the floor. There
was not a vacant seat in any of the gal-
laries. liven the doors were crowded with
men and women as eager to get in as
they would be to crowd in a circus.
When Mr. Bland called the previous
question, Mr. Burrows, of Michigan,
moved as a substitute to lay the bill and
nil its amendments upon the table,
This motion, if carried, would have
defeated the bid. During the roll
call, the leaders on the two sides
ran about the lmll like wild men.
The free coinage m< n were angered. They
beg>>n to realize that the immense lobby
present and the heuvy pressure brought
to bear by the goldbugs in favor of post¬
poning the question, was having its ef¬
fect. Many free coinage democrats were
exhibiting weakness. Many who had »n-
nonneed for free coinage had dropped
over into the ranks of tho-e who wanted
to postpone the issue. When the roll
call had concluded, the result was start¬
ling to the free coinage men and a sur¬
prise to the goldbugs. It was 148 to
table, against 147 against tabling.
This me nt the defeat of the Bland bill,
but the speaker had not voted, As soon
as he saw it he demanded of the clerk to
call his name. It was done. He voted
“no. ” As he did so the very ceiling
vibrated at the applause given him.
Then he announced the vote 148 to 148,
n tie vote, which meant that the house
refused to table the bill. It was amazing.
No one expected it, and nobody cm ac-
count for it, except on the ground that
the backbones of many Democrats had
weakened under the great pressure
from the East. Only nine Republi¬
cans had voted with the mass
of Democrats against tabling; eightv-
one Democrats had voted to table.
These included all the New York men
except Mr. Rockwell, who represents
Senator Hill’s district, and whose seat is
contested, all the New England Demo¬
crats, all from Pennsylvania, and a ma¬
jority from Michigan, Wisconsin, Min¬
nesota, Illinois and Maryland. The
South was almost unanimous against
tabling, but a few Southern men went
down under pressure or convictiou.
Among them was Colonel Herbert, of
the Montgomery, Alabama, dis¬
trict, an ardent Cleveland man;
Colonel Elliott and Mr. Bravv-
ley, of South Carolina; Mr. Logan, of
Louisiana; Mr. Wilson, of West Virgin¬
ia, and Mr. Raynor, of Maryland. 'I hen
there was Geary, of California, Castle, of
Minnesota, and several score of others
who would vote for free coinage on the
direct i c sue, but who arc trying to shelve
it. Then the anti-free coinage men com¬
menced fillibustering. They moved to
adjourn, by but wire turned down on that
a vote of 120 to 146. Mr. Johnson, of
Ohio, came forward as an anti-free coin¬
age bill leader, and move to reconsider
the vote by which the vote to table the
hill had been lost. Mr. Bland thereupon
moved to table that motion. On this
latter motion the vote was again an¬
nounced to tie—148 to 148. Immedi-
atcly there was intense excitement. The
opposition leaders rushed down the aisle,
yelling that the vote had not been reca-
pitulated. The speaker replied that no
one had called for it. At this the
gold men yelled vociferously for a
recapitulation, and, when tlie names
were called over, two more “no” votes
were added, and Mr. Bland’s motion to
table the motion to reconsider was lost.
This looked serious to the free coinage
mi u. It looked like they were defeated.
Both sides were wild with excitement.
The scones on the floor were of the w ild¬
est confusion. Pages anil runners were
sent everywhere for absent members.
The roll w s being called again on the
original motion to table the bill. The
defeat of Bland’s motion had brought up
the original motion again During the
calling of the names, every man in the
house was laboriug under a strain of ex-
eit- ment. Such c ose votes were never be¬
fore known <>n the floor of the house. The
change of a single vote, the arrival of
one new man, would reverse the result.
Those w ho seemed to waver were pleaded
w ith, threatened and everything possible
done to change them. But none changed.
When the vote was being recapitulated,
the most exciting incident of the day
occurred. Mr. Donovan, of Ohio, was
recorded as voting no. Mr. Outhwaite,
of O >i >, declared that Mr. Donovan had
not been in toe house during the roll
call. Here half of rii? house yelled to
have Mr. Donovan’s name stricken off,
i nd the other half protested. Mr. Dono¬
van him elf was not present.
Then the confusion and excite¬
ment wire i'tense. Congressmen shook
their fists at cue another, turned red in
th’ face and yelled themsa.ves hoarse. It
Poked like bedlam had broken loose.
The n ise of the speaker’.? gavel was
drowned in the confusion, and the ser-
geant-at arms, with his mace, a great sil¬
ver eagle with outstretched wings perch¬
ed on h marble rod, had to be called, and
seut through the aisles to force the raem-
be s into tin ir seats. This quieted the
house for a few moments. Then Mr.
Lock wood, of New York, declared that
his name had not been recorded,
and voted “aye” to table the bill,
but Mr. Lawson, of Virginia, who had
not been recorded, offset this by voting
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“no." This made the vote 140 to 147,
a m»j rily of one against tabling the
hi 1. Mr. Johnson, <f Gain, changed his
vote to m v- another consideration, leav¬
ing the final vot - 141 to 143. The an¬
nouncement was gr> eted with great and
long continued applause. The free coin-
Johnson a e men found were that growing hopeful. Mr.
he could not more to
re'onsider wi'hout other business inter¬
val ing, Mr. Fitch, of New York,therefore
began filibustering by moving to a ^journ,
and calling the yeas and nays. It takes
half an hour on each roll-call, and it was
after 9 o’clock at night when the vote
vas announced. The house by a large
majority, 102 to 80, refu ed to adjourn.
The anti-free coinage men at this stage
commenced resorting to all manner
of dilatory tac'ics- One man would
move to take a recess for an hour,
ano her would amend it by adding
two hours, and a third would
move to adjourn. On each motion the
yeas and nays were called. At 11 o’clock
Mr. Bland nv-ved to take a recess until
11 o’clock Friday. But a recess Friday
would have been a continuation of tho
legislative day of Thursdty. But the
goldbugs were determined to have noth¬
ing le-s than an adjournment, which
would defeat the bill for the present, at
least. Therefore they began a new order
of fiibustering, by moving that when
the house adjourned, it be to meet
on Saturday, and another gold-
bug amended by inserting Monday.
The goldbug members endeavored in
every way to lead the free coinage men
astray, but without success. At 2:30
o’clock in the morning upon Mr. Bland’s
motion, the house adjourned.
Friday. —After the storm the calm.
Not fifty members were pn sent Friday
morning when the speaker’s gavel called
the house to order. Not more than one
hundred specta'ors looked down upon
the arena of Thursday’s bottle. But the
c dm is only temporary. On both sides
there is a smolde'ing fire which requires
but a spark tp set it into a blaze. Tho
order will be made as soon as Catchings,
of the committee on rules, returns to
Washington, which will not be later than
Monday. After the approval of the
journal the house went into a committee
of the whole on the private calender.
Saturday. —The attendance of the
members in the house Saturday morning
was small. Mr. Culberson, of Texas, of¬
fered a resolution providing for the pay¬
ment of the expenses of the sub-commit¬
tee of the committee on judiciary investi¬
gation of the charges against certain ju¬
dicial officers of the Uni ed States. Mr.
Baxley, of Texas, said that he did not
believe that there was a quorum present
and demanded a division. The vote re¬
sulted 93 to 1. Baxley raised the point
of no quorum and Culberson withdrew
the resolution. The house then pro¬
ceeded, under special order, to the con¬
sideration of pension bills, reported fa¬
vorably from the committee of the whole
at Friday night’s session.
Monday.— Speaker Crisp gave the sil¬
ver situation a severe twist Monday, one
which the anti-silver men exultantly
claim means the death of free coinage, at
least at this session. He informed
Mr. Bland that, holding the cast¬
ing vote in the committee on
rules, he should decline to vote
to report the cloture resolution offered by
Mr. Bland last Friday for the purpose
of bringing the silver bill to a square
aye and nay vote, unless a clear
majority house of the democrats of the
should instruct him to do so.
Speaker Crisp’s position, he explains,
is entirely consistent with his record. A
cloture rule is odious and distasteful.
When the matter was discussed iu the
caucus, Speaker Crisp, iu a ringing
speech, insisted that the cloture should
be the lrst resort of the majority, in the
most emphatic and unequivocal mauner.
The speaker’s action aroused the ire of
Mr. Bland who charges Speaker Crisp with
had faith. Although the news had
gone forth that the committee on rules
would not report the resolution for the
consideration of the silver bill during the
day, yet the gallaries were well filled
with spectators, and there was an air of
anxiety pervading the members in the
chamber. The speaker laid before the
house a communication from Representa¬
tive Joseph McKenna, of the sixth
district of California, informing
the house that he had sent his resig¬
nation ns representative to the governor
of California. The communication was
spread upon the Journal. The speaker
also laid before the house a communica¬
tion from I). D. Donovan, of the sixth
Ohio district, s-tatiug that on page 263 of
the congressional record he was recorded
as voting iu the negative of Burrow's mo¬
tion to the bill (the silver bill on the ta¬
ble). He was not in thehall when his name
was called on this or any other r< II per¬
taining to the silver bill, he being at
home sick. The speaker stated that cor¬
rection would be made and communica¬
tion sprea 1 uf on the journal. Mr. Bur¬
row-', of Michigan, inquired whether this
would make auv change in the result of
the vote. The speaker reported that it
ha<i been stated at the time that it would
not.
Tuesday. — The silver excitement
seemed to have entirely subsided when
the house met Tuesday morning Thq
attendance both on the floor and in the
galleries were small, and tbe silver and
anti-silver leaders relaxed their activity,
Mr. Bland aud Mr. Pierce, were absent,
and the only leaders of the antis who
were present when the speaker called the
bouse to order were Tracey and Harter,
whose faces wore an expression of per¬
fect content. The speaker laid before
the house a communic riion from Mr.
Roger Q. 3Iills stating that he had sent
to the governor of Texas his resignation
as representative.
THE SENATE.
Thursday —At the conclusion of the
executive session of the senate, which
lasted four hours, the correspondence re¬
ceived Wednesday from the president
relative to Behring sea was made public.
It cover's the points as heretofore indi¬
cated.
Friday— The senate, Friday, on the
motion of Mr. Sherman, went into exec-
utive session. The seriousness of the
fact Behring sea situation is shown by the
that Secretary Blaine attended the
cabinet meetiug, notwithstanding he has
not yet fully recovered from his recent
attack of grip. All the other members
of the cabinet were prompt in attend¬
ance. Foster and Tracy had a
conference prior , to the meet"
TOCCOA. GEORGIA, SATURDAY. APRIL 2, 1892.
ing. presumably in regard to the orders
to be sent to the naval and revenue ves¬
sels to be as-igned to the duty of patrol-
ing tbe sealing grounds. It is practi¬
cally settled that this service will be as¬
signed to the WHiships Charleston, Ranger Balti¬
more, Boston, Yoiktown, Adams,
and Michigan, and the revenue vessels
Corwio, Bear, Rush and Albatross.
Saturday. —The day was occupied by
the senate in the discussion of the Behr¬
ing sea matter. The session was held
with closed doors. Notwithstanding
this, it was developed that the treaty will
be ratified with a modus vivendi a tach-
m;nt, aud that President Harrison will be
sustained.
Monday.— Among the bills reported
from committees and placed on the cal¬
endar Monday was one to amend the act
establishing define and circuit regulate, courts in of certain npneal and
to cases,
the United Stales courts. Mr. Hoar,who
reported the bill, gave notice that hs
would r,sk the senate to consider it at e
very early day.
Tuesday. —In the senate Mr. Stewarl
gave notice that he would, Monday next,
move to take up the senate bill to pro¬
vide for the free coinage of gold and sil¬
ver. At 2 o’clock the senate went intc
si eret session and the call of senate was
immediately ordered for full attendance.
NOTES.
A cabinet meeting was held at thr
white house Tuesday morning. All cd
the members were present. The Behrinp
sea question was taken up at once, and
President Harrison’s response to Lord
Salisbury’s latest uote discussed.
It is said on good authority that the
president and hiscabiuet are well pleased
with the conciliatory tone of Lord Salis
bury’s note of the 26th instant, especially
ns it is held to concede the point that has
been the principal cause of contention,
viz.,*the removal of modus vivendi ol
Inst year for protection of the seal fish
eries.
There has not been a contested electior
case before congress in many years that
has attracted such universal attention as
that of Noyes vs Rockwell, from the
Elmira district of New York. The case
is one of those close and delicate ones
that affords a good argument on eithei
side. Noye3 chums to have been elected
by sixteen vot s,and Rockwell claims the
election by twenty-one.
Senator George has a bill authorizing
the secretary of the treasury to ascertain
the amount of internal tax collected
up >n cotton produced in each of the
states, and upon demand to pay the
amounts so ascertained to the governors
of the respective st ites to be held in
trust for the benefit of the producers o!
cotton so taxed. The secretary of the
treasury is authorized to issue enough
treasury notes, bearing no interest, to
carry out the purposes of the bill.
Carolina, Representative Johnstone, of South
has introduced an important
bill, which has the double purpose of de¬
creasing taxation and increasing the cir¬
culating medium. It directs the secre¬
tary of the treasury to purchase the out¬
standing bonds due by the government,
and to replace the amount of this pur¬
chase by issuing treasury notes. It pro¬
vides that the gold aud silver bullion of
the government shall be coined and held
for the redemption of these treasury
notes.
GREETING TO VETERANS.
The General Commanding Extends His
Congratulations.
The following order has been issued to
United Confederate Veterans from head¬
quarters at New 7 Orleans:
General Orders 42. —The general
commanding congratulates the ex-Con-
federate veterans that as many as 103
c imps have been enrolled to date into the
phil inthropic brotherhood of United
Confederate Veterans, the gallant Ken¬
tuckians having just reported seven
camps, besides many more forming in
every state, and that the brave survivors
ar: at last to be all united into tho great
federation — social, literary, historical
and benevolent— for the benefit of the
living and care for the graves and mem¬
ory of our dead.
Every southern state is now repre¬
sented except Virginia, and the general
aud c unman iing expresses the earnest wish
hope that the heroic veterans of that
proud old commonwealth will also join
their comrades in the peaceful, beneficient
and Christian purposes contemplated,
and that veteraus and camp3 everywhere
will immediately organize and apply by
telegram or letter to these headquarters
for the necessary information and docu¬
ments, and be represented at the great
leunion to be held in New Orleans on
the 8th and 9tb of April next.
By order of J. B. Gordon, general
commanding; George Morgan, adjutant-
general.
TRADE REVIEW.
The Past Week’s Business as Reported
by Dunn & Co.
R. G. Dunn & Co.’s weekly review ol
trade says: The business failures occur
ring throughout the country during thi
week ended March 26th, number for thi
United States 200, Canada 31, total 231,
against 240 last week. Business indica
tions are not quite so clear. Perhaps il
is partly because the unfavorable weathei
temporarily retards trade at many pointi
and perhaps because uncertainties re
garding the results of the silver agitatioi
aud the Behring sea controversy some¬
what affect financial and commercial cal¬
culations, but there is on the whole les;
evidence of improvement in distribution,
and yet the prospects in the great indus
tries seem9 brighter. The movement o:
uram and cotton has fallen off, and <
harp decline in prices is felt in mana
quarters.
NEW COTTON MILLS
Which Are te be Erected in the South
by Northern Capitalists.
A Chattanioga dispatch says: The
Tradesman announces the receipt of offi¬
cial information that Massachusetts capi¬
talists will begin the immediate erection
at Nottingham, Ala., of a cotton mill to
Contain 40,000 spindles and 1,000 looms,
the plant to cost $400,000. The Trades¬
man reports the organization of several
other large cotton mills is now in prog¬
ress in the south and their erection is as¬
sured.
THROUGH GEORGIA.
Interesting Notes Gathered Frcm Here
and There Over the State.
At a meeting of the Merchants’ Week
association, at Savannah, recently, it was
decided to have a gala week in May.
Two thousand dollars was subscribed,
and a soliciting committee appointed.
The programme will be unusually attracr
tive, and practically everything will be
free.
*
Mr. Ira W. L. Maddox, of Stockbridge,
has discovered a valuable deposit of mica '
on hts place. The mica vein is three aud
a half feet wide and three-fourths of a
mile long. It is said by experts to be
finer than the celebrated North Carolina
mica. The vein is from ten to fourteen
feet deep, and the mica is worth $13 a
pound.
* * ¥
Colonel J. H. Estill, of the Savannah
Morning News, has forwarded his resig¬
nation as a member of the national dem¬
ocratic committee trom Georgia to Chair¬
man Brice, and has notified the chairman
of the state central committee oi his ac¬
tion. Colonel Estill stated that his res¬
ignation was due to the fact that he has
been in ill health for nearly tw’o years
past, and therefore desires to be relieved
of all unnecessary care.
* * *
dollars’ Spalding county will issue ten thousand
wor h of bonds to maintain the
The chaingang system on her public roads.
matter has been decided by a practi¬
cally unanimous vote in favor of the
bonds. This means a good deal for that
section. It will give a good money circu¬
lation, and in putting it into circulation
the commissioners will give the people a
system of good roads. The bonds are 6
per cent interest bearing, the first falling
due January 1, 1907, and one bond of
$1,000 each succeeding year.
m * *
Phosphate deposits have been discov¬
ered in the Big Ogeechee river. For a
long time it has been predicted that
phosphate mining would be an important
industry in Georgia, and a number of
counties have claimed the honor of con¬
cealing the coveted deposit in their soil.
The legislature in 1885 passed a law pro¬
viding liberal privileges for phosphate
mining in the rivers of the state, aud ■
number of licenses have been taken out,
but so far nothing of any consequence
has been done. Now, however, a com¬
phosphate pany engaged in oyster culture reports a
find which it is believed will
amount to something.
*
The Cost of liaising Cotton.
The question of the cost of raising cot¬
ton lias created great discussion among
planters, cotton buyers and business men
in general, since Commissioner Nesbitt’s
statement that it could bo made for 3£
cents called was questioned. In a little book
“Cotton Facts,” which is pub¬
lished annually, appears each year an
estimate of the cost of making cotton.
That for the season of 1887-8 was made
by Colonel W. L. Peek, president of the
state exchange of the alliance, then a
member of tho Georgia senate. It was as
follows:
Average cost of cotton iu Georgia (for
a farm of 35 acres—one-mule farm):
Cost of one hand seven months, at $13
“ per hand month.........................$ 91 00
one five months, at $13 per
month.............................. 65 00
“ feed for one male, seven months... 43 00
“ 70 bushels cotton seed for planting,
12 1-2 cents per bushel............ 8 75
“ 7,000 pounds fertilizers, at 13-4 cts. 122 50
“ ginning, basrging and ties.......... 35 06
“ picking 17,500 pounds seed cotton,
at 50 cents per 100 pounds......... 87 50
“ hauling to market................... 3 75
Rent of land 105 oo
Total cost of crop $560 56
Yield— 5,833 pounds lint cotton—or
a bale of 500 pounds to 3 acres,
Cost of cotton about 9 3-5 cents per
pound, making no allowance for seed.
At a yield of a bale to 2 1-2 acres, the
cost would be 8 cents per pound.
* * *
An Epidemic of Glanders.
That scourge of live stock, tho glan¬
ders, is doing its deadly work among
horses and mules in the state. The dis¬
ease w T as brought in by drovers who sold
diseased stock regardless of consequences,
and an epidemic of glanders is threat¬
ened. Upon the appeal of a Coffee coun¬
ty farmer Colonel R. T. Nesbitt, commis¬
sioner of agriculture, sent a veterinary
surgeon to an infected district to inves¬
tigate and report the situation. The
surgeon’s le’ter reveals a startling state
of affrirs. We extract the following:
“I went to the plantation of Mr. Sam¬
uel Harral, ten miles from Pearson sta¬
tion, in Coffee county, to investigate the
disease among his stock. The horse de¬
scribed in his letter was dead when I got
there. Two mules, his only remaining
stock, had well-developed cases
of glanders, both of which
he killed and cremated. The horse which
was fiisfc to develop the disease was
bought in January last from an itinerant
trader from Texas. It has been singu¬
larly fortunate that the many cases of
glanders that haye developed in this
central and southern portion of the state
have all been isolated from other stock,
and the disease has been checked by the
destruction of the animals affected. It
has been no less remarkable that the
owners, in the absence of any compulsory
law. have consented to kill them. I
would most lespectfully recommend
some legis'ation in this traffic matter that would
fix a penalty on the of glandered
stock and make it compu’sorv on the
part of owners to destroy them. It
also suggests itself to me that a minimum
recompense wou’d be just to parties sac¬
rificing their stock for the protection of
th :ir neighbors. It certainly is a great
hudship for an individual to sacrifice all
his stock without having the means to
replace it- Mr. Harrall is left without a
single horse or mule to start the season’s
planting. Also the ease of Mr. Pate, of
Sumner, a short dist^ice from the last
cases mentioned, who sacrificed six head
of valuable stock in order to protect his
neighbors from loss, while some unscru¬
pulous dealers are selling the diseased
stock and spreading the seeds of conta¬
gion over the entire state.”
In Favor of Farm Vlllagei.
Communal life seems to have taken
root in Georgia at last. Governor Northen
has taken hold of the idea of village
f rming and is presenting it to the people
of Georgia in his speeches. He advo-
vocated it in his own county among his
neighbors, proposing to include his own
farm in the experiment, and now he is
suggesting it in his addresses. The idea
is one that has been taken up with enthu¬
siasm by some of the most sagacious men
of the country. Governor Northen thinks
it will do more to make country life
pleasant, and will solve more of its knotty
problems than anything that has been
suggested. “One way by which tile plan
may be consummated,” says the gov¬
ernor, “is for the capitalists to buy up
lavce tracts of land, and lay it off in'o
farms sections, with a convenient number ol
and a village in the center, where
all the farmers and their families
reside. Another plan is for thi
farmers to get together and arrange the
thing among themselves, so that they
may get all the benefit of the eri ac?meut
of values due to the presence of a vil¬
lage. The advantage is that when you
bring fifty or a hundred farmers together,
you have a village of several hundred,
with its social pleasure, its church aud
its school, and with a convenient store,
butcher’s shop and all the comforts of
such a community, increasing as it grows
in size. Then you have frequent mails,
with the probability of a telephone, and
as the town crows larger nerhans an
electric line or a railroad. The idea is
not now. It las been in operation in
Europe for a long time, but I think we
can improve on the European plan.
Their method of dividing farms into long
strips is not suited to the character of our
country. The better plan would be to
have the farms in more compact shape
and put the vi lage in the center. Farm
villages will solve more knotty problems
of country life than any other one thing.
The social intercourse of the village
brightens people up, tends to promote
public spirit and does away with the
dullness and the loneliness of rural life.
*■
A Plan to Save tlie Frnit.
There is a chance to save the fruit from
frosts. The freeze of the 19th has left
some, and it will be well to guard that
with jealous care. The weather bureau
proposes to send out frost warnings to
fruit growing districts and if the simple
precaution of keeping up smothered fires
should be adopted for the next four
weeks, the rest of the fruit will be
saved. The remedy suggested will smothered be the
use of smudges. A smudge is a
fire. At the bottom, in the center, some
dry, combustible material is placed and
Bet on fire. This is covered with two
or three wagon loads of dampened will
straw, or some material that
make the fire bum slowly and
emit a great volume of smoke.
The farmers of the Red river valley saved
their wheat from damage by early frosts
last year, and at times the whole valley
was covered with smoke from tha
smudges.
Mr. Park Morrill, director of the Geor¬
gia weather service, proposes to apply the
same system to Georgia. He says smoke
will hardly protect fruit from such a freze
as that of the 19th, when the temperature
went down to 16£ degrees, but it will
protect it from damage by frost, and such it is
not likely that we will have another
freeze.
The Georgia weather bureau has been
greatly changed within the past three
months, and weather indications, includ¬
ing cold wave, storm and frost warnings,
are sent to the observers at thirty-five
regular stations and to seventy-nine
other points, where there are no olher
observers. Mr. Morrill proposes, for the
next thirty days, to send frost warn¬
ings to as many as fifty additional
points for the benefit of fruit grow¬
ers. Those who are engaged in
that business will do well to write imme¬
diately to the director of the weather
service at Atlanta and have their stations
put on the list. The government pro¬
poses to give fair warning, but the par¬
ties interested must take tbe precaution
nece sary to protect fruit after the notice
of frost is received. aud inexpensive. The precautions are
few, simple everywhere Happily
the materials are abundant in
Georgia.
Georgia Will Have No Building at Chicago
Georgia will have no bu lding at the
world’s fair. And the money which was
first intended to be spent in the direc¬
tion of a state building will be used in
making Georgia’s exhibit more magnifi¬
cent. At least this seems to be a fair
prophecy regarding the Georgia build¬
ing, Architect Norrman, who, with Mr.
Martin Amorous, has been to Chicago
and investigated the whole matter, and he will
so recommend in his report, will
be supported in his view by several if
not all tbe members of the executive
committee of the world’s fair committee
of which Governor Northen is chairman.
These gentlemen visited Chicago about
three weeks ago and performed their
duties. They found the space
alloted the state in a very incon /enient
corner of the grounds. It was alto¬
gether out of the current and
would not be visited by one-half of the
people who go to the world’s fair. Even
with three times as much ground, a build¬
ing in that out-of-the-way place would
be a useless expenditure of money. The
first obstacle of too small grounds then
disappeared, and a greater and more in¬
surmountable one arose in its stead . The
gentlemen found that it would not be a
hard matter to secure additional space,
but after looking at it they decided that
it was not desirable. They came home
to Georgia with this fixed impression.
Now, Mr. Norrman has prepared his re¬
port to the executive committee. In the
report he details the true state of
affairs as they exist CL- and recom¬
mends that Georgia o not build a
state building at the world's fair at
all. He states that it was estimated to
spend about ten thousand dollars in the
erection of a Georgia building. The or¬
iginal purpose of the building was for
a state exhibit and for a headquarters for
Georgia people, eomfortab'e sitting
rooms, cloak rooms and other conveni¬
ences. He states that the Georgia ex¬
hibit can be placed in the main visitor building,
where it cm be seen by every to
the World’s fair, and will do incalcula¬
ble good to Georgia in advertising her
resources and possibilities. would He be thinks
that the money which neces¬
sary to erect a Georgia building could be
much better expended in improving the
Georgia exhibit.
CENTRAL RESCUED,
And Placed in the Hands of the Geor¬
gia Directors,
A CONDITIONAL DECISION BUT NO PERM A-
NE.yr RECEIVER WILL BE IN IT.
A dispatch of Monday afternoon from
Macon says: At five minutes to 3 o’clock
the Central railroad case was decided in
a conditional manner by Judge Pardee.
Tbe decision is that the road shall be
placed in the hands of the Georgia di¬
rectors as temporary receiver, and that
the 42,000 shares held iu New York shall
not be voted.
The decision is regarded as a happy
termination of the case, one that will
place this magnificent property where it
belongs and take it trom the hands of
the wall street manipulators. Major
Bacon concluded his masterly argument
for the complainants and as he took his
seat Judge Pardee aud Judge Speer,
without leaving their seat*, held a short
consultation which lasted but a few
minutes, and when Judge Par¬
dee straightened up and began to talk
every one in the crowded courtroom bent
forward to hear his decision. In refer¬
ence to the claim that this court did not
have jurisdiction in the case, he decided
against it, as this was an instance where
the minority stockholders had come into
; court asking that their property, which
was being wrecked by the majority stock¬
holders, be protected.
He thought there was no necessity in
passing upon the validity of the lease at
this time, as the property was in the
hands of the court.
In referring to the 42,000 shares of stock
held by the Wall street crowd Judge Par¬
dee decided that it could not be legally
voted as it was held by a competing com¬
pany as he felt satisfied that so long as
this voting power was held by a foreign
company, the court could control the vot-
iug power, the holders of the stock
and retaining the right to sell it or to
draw dividends upon it, recognizing the
large interest? held outside the minority
stockholders, the court did not feel dis¬
posed to damage the property, but it felt
that the minority stockholders had rights
that must be protected.
The court had come to the conclusion,
said Judge Pardee, that a modified re¬
ceiver would protect the minority stock¬
holders, aud yet would not have the
tffect of damaging the property.
Judge Pardee then stated that if it
would he satisfactory to the attorneys on
both sides the court would sign an order
enjoining the Central Railroad and
B inking Compauy from voting the forty-
two thousand shares of stock held by the
Richmond and Dinville in future elec¬
tions, directing the property to be turned
over to the Georgia directors of the com¬
pany, who should hold it out and manage
it for the court as temporary receivers
until the court was ready to dispose of it,
with the understanding that the court
would dispose of the property as soon as
soon as the legal board of directors could
be chosen. The judge announced that
an election would be ordere 1 as soon as it
c. uld be legally held.
The attorneys on both sides express
themselves as perfectly satisfied with the
order which the court indicated would be
passed.
GENERAL ALEXANDER RESIGNS.
After the court adjourned the board of
diiectors of the Central met, a full board
being present. General E. P. Alexander,
president, tendered his resignation. Mr.
M. H. Comer, of Savannah, wa9 elected
as director to fill the vacancy caused by
the failure of General Sorrell to qualify.
General Alexander’s resignation having
been accepted, Mr. Comer was nominated
t > fill the vacancy of the president of the
board and was immediately elected. The
e'ectiou of Mr. Comer was well received,
He is one of the ablest financiers
i i the state and it is understood that his
election was iu accordance with the
wishes of a large number of the creditors
of the road. It is understood that the
changes in the board will result in a re
organization of the company and will
greatly enhance the value of the stock.
Active steps will be taken at once to put
o i foot a plan to take the road out of tbe
hands of the receivers aud put it on a
>1 id financial basis.
Other changes will probably be made
> i the board, and a mnch more cheerful
o itlook is shown already for Central se¬
curities.
A BANK GOES UNDER.
Liquidation Decided Upon to Stralgthen
Out its Affairs.
The American National bank, of Birm¬
ingham, Ala, went into liquidation
Wednesday. The bank originally had s
capital of $250,000, which was, securities to fc
large extent, loaned out on
that depreciated in value. Not long
since, it threw out its worthless securi
ties and scaled its stock down to $125,-
000. Some of the stockholders kicked
on this arrangement and went into court
to enjoin some of the directors from act
ing. As the best way out. liquidatiOL
has been determined on. Nobody will
suffer, unless it ba the stockholders,
through the failure of the securities tc
realize the amounts loaned.
•’•JACK THE RIPPER.”
A Murderer Captured in Australia Sup-
posed to lie the Wllitechapiiel Fiend.
Con.ider.kl. excitement n, ,. au . ed
nt , , Melbourn. r ,, Australia, . . Saturday 0 by , .i the
statement whch pubUshed by . relmt,in
paper declared lemming the
r,t,T
that Demming is none other than the
notorious “Jack ibe Ripper,” the slayer
of the Whitecbappel, I.ondon, outcasts,
and this suspicion is home out in a meas¬
ure not only by Demming’s appearance,
which clost-lv tallies with the description
given of the Wi.itechappel fiend, but
bv his alleged confess ons.
J. A. Torian, once a wealthy planter of
Horn Lake, Miss., went to Memphis, Tenn.,
to get supplies for the coming all year, merchants
low price of cotton caused
and bankers to refuse him credit, and,
smarting under the humiliation, he killed
himself.
NUMBER
RICHMOND & DANVILLE R. R.
Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line Division.
Condensed Schedule of Passenger
Trains, in Effect Jan. 17th. 1892.
NORTHBOUND. No. 38. No. 10. No. 12
FASTEBX TIKE. Daily. Daily. Daily
Lv. Atlanta (E.i .) 1 25 pm 8 50 pm 9 00am
Chamblee..... ....... 9 27 pm 9 38am
Noreross....... ....... 9 S9 pm 9 52am
Dnluth........ ....... 9 51 pm 10 05am
Suwanee....... .......110 03 pm 10 16am
Buford........ .......11017 pm 10 18am
Flow, ry Branch .......[10 31 pm 10 40ara
Gainesville..... 2 59 pm 10 51 pm 11 03am
Lula.......... .......ill 18 pm 11 33am
Bellton........ .......Ill 21 pnr 11 37am
Cornelia....... .......11 45 pm 12 08pm
Mt. Airy....... .......11 50 pm 12 11pm-
Toecoa......... ....... 12 20 am 12 41pm
Westminster ... ....... 12 58 am 1 22pm
Seneca ........ ....... 1 17 am 1 47pm
Central........ ....... 1 50 am 2 35pm
Easleys........ ....... 2 18 am 3 08pm
Greenville..... 6 05 pm 2 44 am 3 37pm
Greers......... ....... S 14 am 4 07pm
Wellford....... ....... 3 33 am 4 25 pm
Clifton........ Spartanburg 6 57 pm 3 54 am 4 50pm
....... 4 13 am 5 08pm
Cowpens ...... ....... 4 18 am 5 12pm
Gaffney ....... 4 40 am 5 39pm
Blaeksb nrg ....... 5 01 am 6 00pm
Grover., ....... 5 11 am 6 11pm
King’s Mount’n ....... 5 2S am 6 30pm
Gastonia....... ....... 5 54 am 6 5Spm
Lowell........ ....... 6 07 am 7 12pm
Bellemont..... ....... 6 14 am 7 24pm
Ar. Charlotte...... 9 10 pm 6 40 am 7 50pm
SOUTHBOUND. No. 37, No. 11. No. 9.
Daily. Daily, Daily.
Lv. Charlotte...... 9 45 am 1 50 pm 2 20 am
Bellemont..... 2 12 pm 2 42 am
Lowell......... 2 23 pm 2 52 am
Gastonia....... 2 35 pm 3 04 am
Grover......... King’s Mount’n 3 00 pm 3 3 27 43 am
3 16 pm am
Blacksburg .... *...... 3 26 pm 3 53 am
Gaffney....... 3 45 pm 4 10 am
Cowpens...... 4 10 pm 4 42 am
Clifton........ 4 13 pm 4 45 am
Spartanburg... 11 43 am 4 27 pm 5 00 am
Wellford........ 4 £0 pm 5 23 am
Greers......... 5 O'J pm 5 42 am
Greenville...... 12 36 pm 5 34 pm 6 10 am
Easleys......... 6 07 pm 6 88 30 am
Central........ ....... 6 55 pm 7 am
Seneca,........ ....... 7 22 pm 7 57 am
Westminster.... ....... 741pm 8 17 am
Toecoa........ ....... 8 19 pm 8 55 am
Mt. Airy....... ....... 8 48 pm 9 23 am
Cornelia....... ....... 8 52 pm 9 27 am
Bellton........ ....... 9 16 pm 9 49 am
Lula.......... ....... 9 18 pm 9 51 am
Gainesville..... 3 41 pm 9 42 pm 1C 16 am
Flowery Branch ....... 10 CO pm 10 40 am.
Buford........ .......10 33 17 pmllO 1104 52 arx
Suwanee....... ....... 10 pm am
Duluth........ ...... 10 45 pm 11 15 pm
Noreross...... .......10 56 pm 11 28 am
Chamblee...... .......11 08 pm 11 42 am
Ar. Atlanta (E. T.) 5 05 pm 11 45 pm 12 20 pm
Additional trains Nos. 17 anl 18—Lula ac¬
commodation, daily except Sunday, leaves At¬
lanta 5 30 p m, arrives Lula 8 12 p m. Return¬
ing, leaves Lula 6 00 a m, arrives Atlanta 8 50
am.
Between Lula and Athens—No. 11 daily, ex¬
cept Sunday, and No. 9 daily 7 , leave Lu'.a 8 30 p
ra, and 1140 a m, arrive Athens 10 15 p m and
12 20 pm. Returning leave Athens, No. lO
daily, except Sunday, and No. 12 daily, 6 20 y> m
and 6 45 a m, arrive Lula 8 05 p m and 8 30
a m.
Between Toecoa and Elberton—No. G1 dai¬
ly; except Sunday, leave Toecoa 1 00 p n*
arrive Elberton 4 40 p m. Returning, No. W
daily, except Sunday, leaves Elberton 5 00 a di
and arrives Toecoa 8 30 a m.
Nos. 9 an l 10 carry Pullman Sleepers be¬
tween Atlanta and New York.
Nos. 37 and 38, Washington and Southwest«
ern Vestibuled Limited, between Atlanta and
charged. Washington. On this train no Sleepers extra be fare w
Through Pullman tween
New York and New Orleans, al-o between
Washington and Memphis, via Atlanta and
Birmingham. local and
For detailod information as to
through time tables, rates and Pullman Sleep¬
ing car reservations, confer with local agents,
or address,
JA8. L. TAYLOR, W. A. TURK,
Gen’l Pass. Ag’t. Ass’t. G-nl. P-iss. Ag't.
Atlanta, Ga. Charlotte N. 0/
C. P. HAMMOND,
Superintendent. Atlanta, Ga.
W. H. GREEN, SOL. HASS,
Gen’l Manager. Traffic Manager,
Atianta, Ga, Atlanta, Ga.
LEWIS DAVIS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
T0CC0A CITY, GA.,
Will practioe in the counties of Habers
sham and Rabun of the Northwestern
Circuit, and Franklin and Banks of wiij the
Western Circuit. Prompt attention
be given to all business entrusterfto him,
The collection of debts will have speo-
ia! attention.
OYSTERMEN AT WAR.
A Conflict in Which Several Men av<j
Killed and Wounded.
Telegrams of Thursday from Tasley,
Va., state that a furious battle occurred
Tuesday between the oyster men in Ches¬
apeake bay. Several years ago some per -
sons residing in Accomack county took
up a large tract of oyster ground in tho
Pokomoke sound. The oys-ter men iu
the neighborhood had of violated Tangier the claimed
that the planters law by
taking up a natural oyster lock.
The courts decided against the planter4
who, under an proceeded act passed by the Virginia
legislature, their reservation. to take up the
oysters from Tb s
termined greatly enraged the it islanders, who de¬
to prevent at all hazards.
THEY MAN THEIR VESSELS.
Early Tuesday morning they manne i
two sloops with a force numbering 75
men and proceeded to where the dredge: *
were operating. They found twehe
schooners at work, and close by was ore
of the Virginia oyster police boats to pr >-
tect the dredgers. The ordered commanders island- of
the state police off. boat »l,en the thej disre-
er« to keep he and opened fire the
g«rdedh with his ls order., The islanders on o
cannon. were
‘ d „ ith ^ rifl Bn dredger. d 6 „on the firing oS
The c«me
deck .„d fired volley alter volley in to
-*>*■•*
tbe une< l ual c tntest -
THE KILLED AND WOUNDED.
In the engagement Captain Thomas
Dies, of Pungateague, Va., was killed,
and several islanders received slight
wounds. The fight island, took place in full
view of Fangier and while it was
goirg on the entire population of the
island watched its progress.
Great excitement prevailed on the
island all Tuesday night, and scarcely
any of the inhabitants went to bed. The
dredgers and islanders are both greatly
incensed against each other, and it ia
feared that hostilities will break ou»
afresh.