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VOLUME XX.
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Wbat Is Feing Done in Congressional
Halls lor the Country’s Welfare.
PROCEEDINGS F ROM IMY TO DAY BRIEFLY
TOLD— BILLS AND MEASURES UNDER
CONSIDERATION—OTHER NOTES.
THE nOUSE.
Thursday. —In the house, Mr. Bur¬
rows, of Michigan, rising to question of
privilege, called the chair’s attention to
a speech polished in The Record pur¬
porting to have been delivered by Wil-
1 am J. S one, of Kentucky. To the
five lines of his own remarks Mr. Stone
appended five chapters of Henry
George's Free book on “Protection or
Trade.” These chapters run from
twenty one to twenty six. “There seems
sto be something preconcerted about
this,” continued Mr. Burrows. “One gen¬
tlemen had quoted from chapters from six¬
teen to twenty inclusive. Auother rep¬
resentative had quoted chapters eleven
to fifteen. Auother gentleman, Mr. Fith-
ian, had quoted from chapters six to ten;
another gentlemen had quoted from
chapters one to five. In other
words, under leave to print, there had
been publish* d the entire volume of a
Those, copyright hook except throe chapters.
he presumed, would be forthcom¬
ing. (Laughter.) When one member
left off at one chapter it was taken up by
the next and they had succeeded in get¬
ting in The Record the entire volume of
public a co pyright book, to be distributed at
expense. His point of order was
that under the leave granted to members
to print remarks in The Record it was
not in order to say simply, “I desire to
submit a certain volume as expressing
my views,’’ and then publish the printed
book in The Record. After a lively dis¬
cussion Mr. Burrow’s’motion was tabled.
Friday —Whether in deference to the
religious sentiment or in deference to the
inclement weather, a number of members
were absent Friday morning, and when
the speaker called the house to order at
noon the vacant seats far outnumbered
those which were occupied. The speak¬
er laid before the house a house bill to
promote the safety of national banks
with the senate amendment thereto. Mr.
Bicon, of New York, in charge of the
measure, not being present, a request was
made that the bill be permitted to remain
upon the speaker’s table, but, to this Mr.
Bland objected, and upon his motion the
bill was referred to the committee on
banking and currency, which actioD, in
the opinion of the advocates of the meas¬
ure means its death. Private business
was then proceeded with.
Saturday. —In the house, Saturday,
only private business w r as transacted.
Monday. —Easter Monday opened dis¬
mally. Rain fell in torrents, and there
was a mixture of chill and warmth about
the atmosphere which was very disagree¬
able. The result was that the attendance
of the members in t ie house was small
when the hour of noon arrived. Mr.
McRae, fioin the committee ou public
lands, movtd to suspend the rules and
pass a bill to adjust the swamp land
grants aud to fix limitations for filing
claims thereunder. The motion to 8U8-
pend the ru es and pass the bill was de¬
feated. Yeas, 1.13; nays, 77, not tw T o-
tbirds voting in the affinnative. The
house then w’ent into committee of the
who e ou the naval appropriation bill.
Mr. EUiott, of South Carolina, favored
the clause for the increse of the navy, in
the precise language in which it was
couched in the pending measure. He
1 e ieved that the committee ou naval
affairs had fol’owed the wisest and safest
c mrse. He was opposed to the motion
of the gentleman from Indiana (Mr.
Holman) to strike out the provision
for the construction of one cruiser,
and also to the amendment ol
the gentleman from Maine (Mr. Bontelle)
for the construction of two additional
his battleships. Mr. Boutelle, in advocating
amendment, urged the importance of
of immediately proceeding with the con¬
struction of two new battleships. Mr.
Herbert look the ground that if the
democratic party struck out the cluase for
the construction of an additional crui-er it
would commit a political blunder. Mr.
Bnutelie’s amendment was then rejected
—05 to 102: ten democrats voting in the
affirmative aud no republicans in the
negative. Mr. Cummings, of New York,
offered an amendment for the construc¬
tion of one battle ship and five torpedo
boats. Lost—73 to 99. Mr. Boutelle
offered an amendment for the construc¬
tion of two steel gunboats at a ccst of
$500,000 each. Lost—58 to 104. Mr.
Boutelle then moved to recommit the
bill with instructions to the c mmittee
naval affairs to report it back with the
incorporated in the original amendment
for the construction of two battle ships
at $3,000,000 each, and ten torpedo
boats at 120,000 each. The motiou was
defeated—yeas, 61; nays, 134.
Tuesday. —In ihe house, a rule was
Drought in by committee putting a stop
to the general leave to priai in the Con¬
gressional Record. After a brief discus-
siou it was pas-ed almost unanimously.
Mr. O’For rail then called up the
Noyes-Rock well contested election case.
He gave notice that at the end of ten
hours debate he would demaud the previ¬
ous question. Judge Lawsou, of Geor¬
gia. made the opening speech in favor of
the majority report that Mr. Noyes was
legally elected and entitled to the seat.
Judge Lawson’s speech was follorved by
st veral other members of the committee
reviewing the evidence in the case.
Judge Lawson was frequently interrupted
by questions from’ the opposition, and
when Mr. Coekrao, of New York, rose
to a k a question, Mr. O’Farrall pro-
tis ed that the frequent interruptions
were intended to break the continuity of
bis colleague’s argument. This brought
on a little spit between Cockran and
O’Fvrrall. Mr. Cockran warmly pro-
t«s'el against anv interruptions from the
gentleman from Yirgima. He had ad¬
dressed his question to the gentleman
from Georgia, not to the gentleman from
Virginia. Mr. Lawson yielding to the
question, peace was restored. In con¬
clusion, Mr. Lawson expressed his belief
that the principles of the democratic
party were right; that the principles of
the republican party were wrong. There
were, of course, s 'me bad democrats,
but very few. There were some good
THE TOCCOA
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL
republicans, but not many. When as
good a democrat as he was, voted to oust
a tleni c atic representative from his
sea', he cast his vote from asense of duty
of the highest character. Wherever the
path of du y pointed no man should fear
to go. Mr. Johnson, of Indiana, argued
f at according to the positive evidence
Noyes was o.ected by six majority. The
question was one above party and beyond
party, and one that should be decided
open the evidence and th r - !■ w. Mr.
B con, of New York, supported tiie title
of Rockwell, the sitting member. Pend¬
ing action the house adjourned.
TnE SENATE.
Thursday —In the senate, at the dose
ot tne routine moraing business, in tne
course of which the resolutions of the
Boston merchants favoring the repeal of
the silver law r of I860 were presented,the
calendar .vas taken up.
Friday —Only routine business was
transacted in the senate Friday when ad
journment w T as had until Monday.
Monday.— The familiar figure of ex-
Senator Edmunds was seen in the senate
chamber at the opening of Monday’s ses-
sion of the senate. While Secretary Mc¬
Cook was reading the journal of last
Thursday, Mr. Edmunds moved around
ou the republican .-ide and received
greetings from the sera’ors of both polit¬
ic d parties. The first bu-iness transact¬
ed after the reading of the journal was
the announcement by Vice President
Morton that he had received a com
munication in the nature of a petition
from .Tames R. Young, late chief
executive clerk, to be laid be¬
fore the senate, which will, Morton
ad ed, bo laid upon the table, it having
been bill printed. Mr. Vest introduced a
to prohibit the contracts by the post¬
master-general wdth any steamship com¬
pany making unjust discrimination
against any part of the United States as
to imports by vessels carrying foreign
mails. In connection with the bill, ai
before mittee asking its reference Mr. Vest to the said co] |
on commerce,
desired to submit certain reso’utio
of i he merchants’ exchange
the city of St. Louis. Mr. Sht
man, the chairman of the f*
eign relations committee, gave notice ,
the senate that he would on Tuesday a<
the attention of the senate to the Chine
restoration bill. It was necessary,
said, that it should be passed withiu t
days, as present legislation on the su
ject would, under the cer'ain co
struction of it, expire some time in Vef 1.
month of May next. Senators
Cockrell and Daniel called the attentp
of the senate to the alleged discrircufi
tion made by the United States and 13‘
zilian Steamship company against the mJ
chants and produce dealers of the sod t!
and west by refusal to land at
from port of Brazil Newport News, of coffee theobjectiil ship;]
on account
by Vist the presented merchants the resolutions of New York. of the M| 1
Louis merchant’s exchange, piotesUl
against the discrimination as being-1 vj
blow aimed at the commerce of the
°ud south, aud he also offered a bill |
remedy the evil. Mr. Daniel stated
had received a number of resoluti-msJ
the same purport from many boards1
trade, etc., which he would present at a
early day and address the senate CocJ upg
this unjust discrimination. Mr
rell supplemented these statements Wholes! 1
presenting resolutions of the tl
Grocers’ Association, of St. Louis, to
same effect. The bill and resolutions 1
the subject were referre l to the comnJ
tee on commerce.
the Tuesday. senate Tuesday —There was the a test free v coina! te ]
oo
of sfiver. The question came up in s
Arizona bill providing that the bond^*
a fuudiug act should be payable in g J
coin of the United Sta'es. Senator Kyj
to strike out “in gold coin” atj
insert “in lawful money.” Immediately
the gold men arrayed themselves on the
side of gold coin, and the silver men
tO' k the side of lawful money. It was a
contest between the gold and silver men
of the senate, and the silver men won
by a vote of 28 to 24. The vote on
the Kvle amendment was not antici¬
pated by mauy senators. Many of the
gold men insist that the vote was not
a square test of the sentiment of the sen¬
ators ou the silver question; but the sil
ver men claim a victory. Senators who
opposed the Kyle amendment hold that
they were voting to allow the territory
to manage its own affairs. A feature of
the vote was the disclosure of the atti¬
tude of Senator Hill, who was recorded on
the silver side. Theie were other features
of interest, however. Mr. Gorman, who
was preseut wi'.hout an announced pair,
did not vote. Hansbrough voted
under a misunderstanding. He be¬
lieved that, in voting for the
Kyle amendment, he was earryiug out
the wishes of Delegate Smith, of Arizo¬
na, who had been strenuously pushing
the bill. Mr. Skoup, who was in the
cloakroom, did not vote, and his col¬
league, Dubois?, voted for the amend¬
ment with reluctance, although a silver
mau, be-ause he feared that the amend¬
ment would not help the people of Ari¬
zona to place their bonds at the best
figure. Eight republicans voted with
the democrats. So did Peffer and Kyle,
aliiauce senators, and two democrat!
voted with the republicans.
NOTES.
The postmaster general has notified
Speaker Crisp that free delivery will b>
established in Americus, Ga., on the imt.
of June.
Judge Allen Fort appeared before the
house committee on inteis ate and foreign
commerce Friday and made an argument
in favor of an amendment to the inter¬
state commerce laws in favor of extend
ing the powers of the commerce commis¬
sion. He was representing the conven¬
tion of the state railroad commissioners
and they want the interstate commission
to have the power to enforce its findings.
The committee will probably report a Dill
of the character asked.
The recent liberties taken in connec¬
tion with the Congressional Record were
called to the attention of the senate Tues¬
day morning in the shape of a resolution
which instructed the judiciary committee
to inquire whether the publication in tho
recent record of copyrighted books,with¬
out the consent of the proprietor is au
infringement of the right of such
etor, and whether it subjects any
who sells the record containing such re
prints to liability for damages, Til-s
resolution, however, went over without
action.
TOCCOA. GEORGIA, SATURDAY, APRIL
Riding a Free Horse.
On account of the many books, of hun¬
dreds of pages each, which have been
bri ught in a rule Tuesday morning put¬
ting a stop to the genera! leave to print.
There was but a few minutes’ discussion
when the house, by an almost unanimous
vote, passed it. The practice of stuffi g
the Record full of all sorls of dead stuff
has become so repulsive to all the sensi¬
ble member of the house that they were
glad to get an opportunity to vote* to put
a stop to i f .
For Public Buildings.
The house committee on public build¬
ings Friday completely negatived the
supposition that, in persuanceof an ec >u-
omlcal policy, tne construction of new
public buildings w r as to be very much
restricted, for it presented favorable re¬
ports upon twenty-three bills, authorizing
the construction of new buddings. * -
iveii u.i upon two bji.s mcreuses ot origi¬
nal appro} riations. The bills reported
were as follows: At Cumberland, Ind.;
Gardiner, Maine; Newport News, Ya.;
L iredo, Texas; Brunswick, Ga.;
Ann ston, Ala.; Hastings, Nebraska;
Joliet, III. ; Spokane Falls, Wash.; Ann
Arbo-, Mich ; Boise City, Idaho; Helena,
Mont.; Durham, N. C. ; Massillon, Ohio;
GaMipolis, Ohio; Suspension Bridge, N.
Y.; Brockton, Mass.; Bedford City, Ya. ;
Cheyenne, Wyo.; Waterbury, Conn.;
Cli don, Iowa; Providence, R. I., and
Nashua, N. II. Also increasing the limit
of cost of building at Paterson, N. J.,
and Kansas City, Mo. Also for the sale
of the old custom house at Louisville,
Ky. All of the bills were placed upon
the calendar.
liiirul JIail Delivery.
The resolution reported to the senate,
by Mr. Mitchell, of Oregon, appropria¬
ting $200,000 for the continuation of the
postmarier extending general’s successful experiment
in Ihe free collection and dc-
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yet. Some of the southern and south¬
western congressmen think if the
coast line subsidy is to be continued the
Piedmont Air-Line, which runs the fast¬
est mail service of any railroad entering
the south, should likewise receive addi¬
tional compensation. Perhaps an amend¬
ment to the bill to that effect will be of¬
fered, when it comes up, in either the
house or the senate. 'Ihe Air-Line peo¬
ple claim that their fast vestibuled train
would pay if they received the addition¬
al mail compensation allowed the coast
line. The New Orleans, Texas and Cen-
iral and South American mails go over
this line. They are important, and by
the fast train on the Piedmont Air-Line
one day is saved in the time to Mexican
and Central and South American coun¬
tries .
THE WYOMING “RUSTLERS’'
Form a Subject of Discussion at a
Cabinet Meeting.
A Washington telegram says: The
“justlers” trouble in Wyoming was the
principal topic of discu-sion at the meet¬
ing of the cabinet Tuesday. All the
members were preseut except the secre¬
tary of the treasury and attorney-gen¬
eral. The situation in Wyoming is re¬
garded as serious in view of the (act that
the feeling against the prisoners in charge
of the military is very bitter, and also
because of the freely expressed threats of
desperate men that they mean to aveuge
the killing of Champion and Ray at the
first opportunity. word received from Col¬
No has been
onel Van Horn and his captives at Fort
McKinney since Saturday morning,when
he telegraphed General Brooke,at Omaha,
that he would start Thursday for Doug¬
lass to turn his prisoners over to the civil
authorities. General Brooke, department
commander at Omaha, expresses himself
as having no fear ab< ut Colonel Yan
Horn’s command getting shrough safely,
and General Schofield said that he felt no
uneasiness on aecount of the soldiers, as
there was no reason why they should be
attacked and even if they should be, he
was confident of their ability to protect
themselvtrs and their prisoners.
A Marble Trnst Being Formed.
According to a dispatch of TDiirsday
from Murphy, N.C.,the combining of the
southern marble interests is becoming an
assured fact. All the quarries between
Marietta, Ga., and Murphy though own-
edby half a dozen different corporations,
are really controlled by the Southern
Marble Company. The agents of the
combine aregobbling up all the marble
lands available.
FOSTER WINS.
Tls Kitten Crowd Victorious ii
the Lonisiana Election.
THE WIND-UP OF AN EXCITING TWC
YEARS’ CAMPAIGN IN THE PELICAN
STATE.
A JNew Orleans dispatch of Tuesday
says: The election which was held
throughout Louisiana Tuesday was the
most 1 imnnrHnt in thn l l l C ! ie
t imous one of 18 «~o < 9, which ■ u decided the
presidency, and it may indeed have
equally important effects, not on Louisi-
ana alone, but on the whole union- uuiuu, for iui
although iii , it is . purely , a state contest,
the whole country has been deeplv in-
terested in the campaign and has con-
Iributed liberally J to it. All the indica-
i- s are that the spirt ,
the democratic now Louisiana existing in
party of is a
permanent one like that in Virginia
over the state debt. There were five full
tickets ucKecs ,- n n tneneidas the field ns lollows. fnllnn-vi-
Anti-lottery (now claiming to be the
Foster; regular lieutenant democrats)—Governor, M. J.
governor, Charles Par-
lange; secretary of state. \ T. 8. Adams- T ’
snditor itor, W V\. w \\ tt„. Heard; , treasurer, John
.
l ickett; attorney geneial, M. .J. Cun-
ningbam ; superintendent of public edu-
cati< n, A. D. LaFarouie
McEnery democrats (formerly regu-
lars)—Governor, S. D. McEnery; lieuten¬
ant governor, R. C. Wickliffe; secretary
of state, L. F. Mason; auditor, O. B.
Steele; treasurer, Gabriel Montegut; at¬
torney general, R. W. Sutherlin; superin¬
tendent of public education, J. V. Cal¬
houn.
Regular republicans—Governor. A. H.
Leonard; lieutenaut-governor, H. D.
Coleman; secretary of state, T. Voisiu,
colored; auditor, C. A. Fontellieu;
treasurer, C. B. Darrell; attorney-gen
end, John Yoist; superintendent of
public education, L. Martinet, colored.
Custom house republicans—Governor,
J. E. Breaux; lieutenant-governor, J. C.
Weaks; secretary of state, J. E. States,
colored; auditor, S. R. Gay; treasurer.
James Lewis, colored ; attorney-general,
J. M. Edwards; superintendent of pub-
lie education, J. Barret.
People’s party—Governor, R. L. Tan-
nerhill; lieutenant governor, J. J. Mills;
secretary of state, D. McStravick; sudi
tor, John Hendricks; treasurer, John
Mahoney; attorney general, Wade
Hough; superintendent of public educa-
tion, J. D. Patten.
The campaign preceding this election
has been the longest ever waged in any
state. It has been carried on for tweuty-
five months without a moment’s interrup-
tion. During all this long period of over
two years there has not been a single day
without mass meetings, conventions, bar-
becues, etc. The people are tired out,
and even business is fatigued by the long
strain, while the cost has impoverished
both democratic factions. One of them,
it is said, had to draw on the Louisi¬
ana State Lottery and spent over a
million dollars in legitimate politi¬
cal purposes; while the other, or
anti-lottery wing, depended on the con¬
tributions raised in New York, Boston
and other cities to support their fight
against the lottery, and but for this as-
sistance it would have been compelled
to retire from the political field. The
strength of this faction, which by a curi-
ous succession of events has become the
regular democracy of the state, came
altogether from the outside.
When the anti-lottery movement was
organized it was legislature very weak. It was de-
feated in the two to one, and
was beaten in every contest in the state.
It appealed to the north, however, and
received both sympathy and financial
aid, and finally, by its importunities,
secured the passage of the anti-lottery
postal law which dealt the regular
democracy a frightful blow.
The latter, however, was magnificently
organized; it carried on the fight, won
the state by a majority of 14,736 in the
democratic elections of November and
December and nominated a full state
ticket. The anti-lottery democrats
bolted, as was expected, and also r.omi
nated a state ticket.
As for the lottery question which is
the cause of all this division and confu¬
sion it has dropped completely out of the
campaign, and every one of the tickets,
democratic as well as republican, w( r .*
against the constitutional emendmeut ex¬
tending the charter of the lottery com¬
pany ior twenty-nve years at a payment
of an annual license of $1,250,000.
The election throughout the state and
city of New Orleans passed off without
a serious disturbance anywhere as far a s
heard from. It will be a long time be¬
fore the result is officially known, but
there can be no doubt of the election oi
Foster, anti-lottery democrat, over Leon
ard and Breaux, republicans, and Mc¬
Enery, democrat. This result has been
brought about by the overwhelming ma
jorities for Foster in the big negro par-
lsnes oi north "Louisiana. These parishes
were expected to go for Leonard, and
both the republicans and McEoery dem¬
ocrats charge fraud. The returns, unof
ficial, from thirty-four parishes, includ¬
ing New Orleans, and which cast two-
thirds of the vote of the state, show
Foster, anti-lottery democrat, 49,100:
Leonard, regular republican, 37,600:
McEnery, democrat, 37,400; Breaux,
custom house republican, 7,200: Tanner-
hill, people’s pYty, 3,200.
THE VOTE ANALYZED.
McEnery’s strength lies principally in
New Orleans. In the country he runs
badly and behind his vote ia-t March.
The parishes not yet heard from are ex¬
pected to give Foster 31,400; Leonard,
28,200; McEnery, 12,100; assuring Fos¬
ter’s election by least 15,000. His cen¬
tral committee claims the election by
25,000 to 30,000. The result in the
negro parishes republican of north Louisiana reduce
the expected strength in the
legislature, and increase that of the anti-
lottery democrats who, however, wili
scarcely have an actual majority,
j n Orleans the regular democratic
ticket, headed by Fitzpatrick for nuyor,
wins by about 4,500 maj rity over the
independent or anti-lottery democratic
ticket. New Orleans will send a nearly
solid McEnery delegation to the legisla-
ture. The famous lottery amendment to
state constitution was defeated unan
imousiy, not receiving a vote in the state.
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
The Industrial Development in the
Week Ended April 16th.
Louisiana Correspondents in the flooded districts of
anl Mississippi, report that the dam¬
age will is being rapidlv repaired, and that th-
loss be considerable, chiefly affecting the
railroads, however. The increase in the stocks
of iron has a depressing effect ou the mirker
bat blast; nearly unless every furnace in the south is iii
some recovery occurs in prices a
further reduction in freights is possible. Tli«
lumber markets show a slight improvement and
an advance of 50 cents per thousand h s been
made in yellow pine, with an improved demaud,
The slight texti advance e plauts continue in full operation, i
in cotton has stimulate ! trade,
auA general One business of the sign shows Scant a shade features of improve!
merit- ot' the
week was the shipment by steamboat of 1.000
barrels of sugar from New Orleans, via Cairo,
to tlje Tennessee valley, opening up thereby, a
n?w channel of commerce vm the Mussel
Shoals canal.
Sixty-six new industries are reported as es-
tal >lished or incorporate! during the week;
a then, «iong Ala., them being Levrisburg. brick and tile works at Do-
Tenn., F atonia and
Kosse, Lexas; canneries at Harrisburg, Arlc..
Ellaville, Ga. Owensboro, Fla , aud Florence Ga.!
C,; electric light plants at LaGrange,
Darriman, Tenn., and Culpappe:-, Va., and a
development compa >y at Luling, iexus. Grain
elevators will bo built at Harrold and Iowa
Park, Texarkana, Texas, Texas, fence works at Griffin, Gi.. and
and flour and gr st mills at
Knoxville, Tenn., Lebanon, Ky., and San An-
t0Di ’> Texas.
An ir0!1 mining company, with 82.000,000
capital, is reported as chartered at Brist >1, Va
and one with 81,000,000 capital i t Ga veston,
Texas, a bob and screw manufacturing compa-
nv at Eatonton, Va., plow works at Fo t
Wortt .i- Texas a coal L mining corporation, with
$15),000 capital, at Rolf.jW. Va., a marble an 1
quarrying company oil capital zed at $100,000 at
Atla na, Ga., and gas companies, each with
$100 000 capital, at Newport,Ky.,and Wnee ing,
W. Va., anti cotton seed oil mills at Hendrson,
Texas, and Shr veport, La., ilie latter hav ng
$100,(X)0 capital.
Shoe factory at Louisville, Kv., and Peters¬
burg end Ettricks, Va-, a clothing factory at
Durham. N. C., cotton mills at Bamberg, S.' C..
capital $100,000, at Dillon and Clinton, S. O.,
and Double Shoal and Pincville, N. C., fibre
works with $1,500,000 capi al at Atlanti, Ga.,
and working a hemp factory at Mobil -, Ala. A s:ono
plant is to be established at Eureka
Springs, Ark., and steel making works on a
largo seal? are in contemplation at Birming¬
ham, Ala.
Among woodworking establishments of tlio
week are a $40,000 lumber company at Little
Bock, Avk., a box factory at Harri-burg, Ark.,
a furniture factory a' Buckhannan, W. Va.,
spoke and handle works at Lexington Kv.,
Erwin, and saw Tenn., anl planing Claiborne, mills at Cha tanooga and
Water-works Ala., and Laws, Tex
will bo built at Car ol ton aud
Eatonton, Ga., Hickman and Hopkinsville.Ky,
Port Gibson, Miss., Alcolu, S. C , and Halletts-
ville, Texas. Cotton mills will be enlarged at
Augusta, Ga-, Burlington and Bynum, N. C.,
lo, and Miss., Maryville,Tenn., and the foundry at Tupe¬
wi 1 be increased in capacity.
Among the new buildings of the "week
bulk buildings at Pine B.uff, Ark., and Cha’-
Va., tanooga, Opelousas, Tenn., business houses at B >anoke,
La., and Chattanooga, Tenn.,
a court house to cost $225,000 at San Antonio,
Texas, and one at Talbotton, Ga.; $2>,000 col¬
lege building at DtLand, Fla., school buildings
at Milledgeville, Ga-, a $75,000 hotel at Fo t
Smith, Ark., and government buildings at Lit¬
tle Bock, Ark ; Anniston, Ala., Jacksonville,
F a., Brunswick, Ga., Durham N. C., Laredo,
Texas, and Bedford City, and Newport News,
Va.—The Tradesman (Chattanoega, Tenn.)
FERDINAND WARD
Will Soon be Released from Sing Sing
Prison.
A New York dispatch of Sunday sa\s;
Ferdinand Ward will soon be a free man.
For nearly eight years he has been an in-
ma*e of Sing Sing prison. In 1884 he
was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment
for his part in wrecking the firm of
Grant & Ward, involving $14,000,000
and the good name of the man who had
been commander of the armies of this re¬
public and twice its president, and inci¬
dentally in dragging down any number of
Wall street firm-<.
This was in the spring of 1884.
Ward was only thirty years old, but he
was known as the “Napoleon” of finance.
So great was his influence iu Wall street
that when James K. Keene failed for
some $10,000,000 the market was stead¬
ied by this young man’s calmness. A
few days later the firm of Grant & Ward
went down with a crash that is yet re
membered. Then followed the panic iu
which the Metropolitan bank went to the
wall. George I. Seney and others failed.
John C. Eno became a defaulter for mil¬
lions, and for days Russell Sage was be-
feiged in his office by frightened holders
of his “puts” and “calls.”
Wall street will never forget those
few days. The rest can be quickly toi<J.
Ward and his partner, Fish, were final y
arrested, tried and after some delay im¬
prisoned. Fish Ward got ten years in S ng
Sing, seven years in Auburn. Fish
was pardoned several years ago. Ward’s
terra ; allowing for commutation for go d
behavior, will expire in June, and the
ex-Napoleon is already preparing to come
out.
MORE ABOUT OLCOTT’S PLAN.
It is Now Asserted that the Whole
Thing will Fall Through.
It was reported in Wall street Saturday
afternoon that the guarantee syndicate
formed to back up the Olcott plan for
reorganizing the Richmond and West
Point Tirminal company was on the
eve of disso ution. The report created a
great deal of excitement, for if the syndi¬
cate refuses to advance the $14,500,000
which it h .d contracted under certain
conditions to do, the famous Olcott plan
will inevitably fail. The trouble is that
while under the Olcott plan a large
majority of the Richmond Terminal
securities have come in, very few
of the mortgage bonds of the un¬
derlying roads have been deposited.
Mr. II. C. Fahnstock, vice and president
of the First National bank, a mem¬
ber both of the Olcott committee and of
the guarantee syndicate, says: “Un¬
doubtediy there is a great deal wrong in
the affairs of the reorganization. The
plan has been before the public for a
month, aud in that time but $913,000 of
the u iderlying b rads of the Richmond
an 1 Danville, the East Tennessee and the
Virginia Midland have been deposited.
This does not look like the public ap¬
proved of the plan. There has been no
mec ing of the committee for two
weeks.”
EartiiqHake in Cal fornia.
A Sau Francisco dispatch says: Tne
worst shock of earthquake since the
memorable one of 1868, occurred shortly
before 3 o’clock Tuesday morning. The
shock was terrible in Savannah and Oak¬
land, but no damage of any character is
reported. miles north-east In the c.-ty of Vacaville, sixty-
five from San Francisco,
the disturbance was most severe.
HIE SOUTH IN BRIEF
he News of Her Progress Portrayed in
Pithy and Pointed Paragraphs
'ND A COMPLETE EPITOME OF HAPPEN¬
INGS OF GENERAL INTEREST FROM DAT
TO DAY WITHIN HER BORDERS.
1 he comptroller of currency has au¬
thorized N. C., t<> the begin Atlantic business National Bauk, of
with a captital
$125,000.
Sheriff Lincoln, of Lowndes county,
'Hss., says the loss of life by the floods
n t ie Tombigbee valley has been greatly
exaggerated.
A lire at Savannah, Ga., Sunday morn-
ng, injured the stock in Saul’s ten cent
-tore, Sampson’s fruit store and Field’s
urnishing store to the extent of $12,000.
A special from Sherman, La., says the
in st terrific rain, wind and hail storm
that has visited those section of the
country for fifteen years occurred Tuei-
day.
Four hundred government tents were
received in Columbus, Miss., Sunday
nsigned to the mayor, who is distribu¬
ting them to those made homeless by the
lecent flood.
A Washington telegram ? a y 9 that
Quartermaster - General Batchelder has
1 rdered the department quartermaster at
bt. Louis to send 400 tents to Columbus,
Miss., for the benefit of the flood suf-
fereis.
The state board of prison inspectors of
Tennessee have decided that they had DO
authority to interfere with the working
of the state convicts ou the streets of
Nashville, and declined to interfere.
of According to a San Antonio dispatch
Friday the receivers of the San An¬
tonio and Arkansas Pass railroad have
refused to treat with Gran 1 Chief Clark,
of the Order of Railway Conductors, and
a strike of the trainmen of the road will
be ordered.
An Ocila, Fla., special says two men
were murdered Friday night near Her¬
nando, Citrus county. Their names are
Robert Stevenson, paymaster of the Em- .
pire State Phosphate company, of that
place, and Mr. Payne, the mail carrier.
They are said to have been killed for
their money.
Lawyer Edrington, of Memphis,
has been at Washington, Pa., se¬
curing affidavits for use in the
defense of Alice Mitchell, indicted for
tne murder of Freda Ward. He learned
that Alice Mitchell’s mother’s maiden
name was Isabella Scott and insanity was
hereditary in the Scott family.
A Vicksburg, Miss., dispatch of Mon
day says: Serious trouble is apprehended
at Hardtimes, Li., where 300 to 400
levee laborers are out on a strike. The
men claim to have been paid in paper
subject to a heavy discount, and they
were obliged to nay extortionate prices
for supplies. They are utterly destitute
and said to be desperate.
The immense plant of the Sample
Lumber company, at Hollins, Clay coun¬
ty, Ala .burned Sunday,causing a loss of
seventy-five thous.nd dollars, with an in¬
surance of fifty thousand. Two million
feet of lumber was destroyed. The fire
started in the dry kiln and everything,
went. The plant was oue of the largest
in the south. It will be rebuilt at once.
A fire at Martinsville, Henry county,
Va., Friday night, destroyed Self’s livery
stable, Mountain View hotel, Dyer’s tin
shop, Stevens’ saddlery, the postoffice,
T. A. Ransom’s store, Davis’ grocery
store, the county jail, and two saloons.
The courthouse and Trent’s hotel caught
fire, but the flames were extinguished.
The mail matter in the postoffice was
saved. The loss is estimated at $30,000.
Insurance considerably less than half.
A special from Huntington, W. Va.,
says: Friday evening as the Chesapeake
and Ohio train No. 13, west bound, was
coming into the city, Mrs. Kirk and her
daughter, Zella, were walking along the
track, and stepped from one track to the
other, not seeing the passenger train ap¬
proaching and before they could get off
the train struck them. Mrs. Kirk was
instantly killed while her daughter lived
only a few minutes.
There have been a uumberof incendiary
fires at San Antonio, Texas, in the last
three weeks. Sunday night three fires
started simultaneously in the business
portion of the city, entailing a loss of
$100,000. Citizens stood guard all night
over tne cuy. me etty marsbal, Sbar-
dein. received aa anonymous note saying
the fires have just begun. A meeting of
citizens has been called to devise means
to protect the city and incidentally to
punish the incendiaries if caught.
The last grand democratic rallies of
the campaign in New Orleans were held
Saturday night by the opposing demo¬
cratic factions. Those favoring the state
ticket headed by S. D. McEnery, for
governor, and the municipal ticket
Headed by Joe Fitzpatrick for mayor, had
their meeting in LaFayette square. The
Fosterites and the citizens, having the
municipal Shakespeare, ticket headed by Hon. Joseph
for mayor, the present in¬
cumbent, held their meeting on Canal
street, where speeches were made.
MORE COAL CREEK TROUBLE.
“The Convicts and Troops Must Go
When the Leaves Come Out.”
A Knoxville t legam of Saturday says:
The trouble at Coal Creek continues.
The firing on the troops by the miners
has probably brought a long impending
crisis. At Camp Anderson, telegraph
operator, Maddox, is missing. A hint
was dropped by tha miners some days ago
that the troop; and convicts would have
to go “when the leaves come out.” All
the miners have qui: work and trouble is
looked for every moment.
Yarn Mills Burned.
At 3 o’clock Tuesday morning fire de¬
stroyed the yarn mill of E. B. Wot 1-
worth & Co., in Oriskany Falls. As soon
as the fire found its way through the
roof it was impossible to check its pro¬
gress, as the floors were soaked with oil.
About fifty hands were employed. Only
the walls remain standing. Loss $50,-
000 . _... _ .
NUMBER 16.
RICHMOND &DANVILLE R. R.
lilanta and Cbarlotte Air-Line Division.
Condensed Schedule of Passenger
Trains. In Effect Jan. 17th, 1892.
NORTHBOUND. [ j No. 38. No. Daily. 10. No. *.2
t astern TIME. Daily. Daily
Lv.Atlanta (E. 1 .) 1 25 pmi 8 50 pm 9 00am
Chamblee..... ........ 9 27 pm 9 38am
Norcross....... ........: 9 89 pm 9 52am
Duluth........ ........i 9 51 pm 10 05am
Suwanee....... ........jl0 03pm 10 16am
Buford........ ........10 17 pm 10 18am
Flow. rY Branch ........' 10 31 pm 10 40am
Gainesville..... 2 59 pm 10 51 pm II 03&m
Lula.......... ........Ill 18 pm 11 33am
Bellton........ .......Ill SI pm 11 37am
Cornelia....... .......il 45 pm 12 06pm
Mt. Airy....... .......Ill 50 pm 12 11pm
Toccoa......... ....... 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......... 3 14 am 4 07pm
Weilford....... ....... 8 33 am 4 25;>m
Spartanburg 6 57 pm 3 54 am 4 50pm
Clifton........ .......I 4 18 am 5 08pm
Cowpens ...... .......! 4 18 am 5 12pm
Blacksb Gaffney ....... 4 40 am 5 89pm
urg...... ....... 5 01 am 6 00pm
Grover. ....... 511 am 6 11pm
King’s Moum’n ....... 5 2S am 6 30pm
Gastonia....... ....... 5 54 am 6 58pm
Lowell........ ....... 6 07 am 7 12pm
Bellemont..... ....... 6 14 am 7 24pm
Ar. Cbarlotte...... 9 10 pm 6 40 am 7 50pm
SOUTHBOUND. No. 37. No. 11. No. 9.
Daily. Daily. Daily.
Lv. Charlotte...... 9 45 am 1111111111111111111111111111111 liilBEiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiililiiigs
Bellemont.....
Lowell.........
Gastonia.......
King’s Mount’n
Grover.........
Gaffney....... Blacksburg .... *......
Cowpens Clifton........ ......
Spartanburg... Ilford........ 11 48 am
We
Greers.........
Greenville...... 12 36 pm
Easleys.........
Central........
Seneca,........
Westminster....
Toccoa........
Mt. Airy.......
Cornelia.......
Bellton........
Lula..........
Gainesville..... 3 41 pm
Flowery Branch
Buford........
Suwanee.......
Duluth........
Norcross......
Chamblee......
Ar. Atlanta (E. T.)
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
a m.
Between Lula and Athens—No. 11 daily, ex¬
cept Sunday, and No. 9 daily, leave Lula 8 30 p
m, and 11 40 a m, arrive Atnens 10 15 p m and
12 20 pm. Betuming leave Athens, No. 10
daily, except Sunday, and No. 12daily, 6 20 y> m
and 6 45 a m, arrive Lula 8 05 p m and 8 30
a m.
Between Toccoa and Elberton—No. Cl dai¬
ly; except Sundav, leave Toccoa 100 pm
arrive Elberton 4 40 p m. Returning, No. 60
daily, except Sunday, leaves Elbert on 500s m
and arrives Toccoa 8 30 a m.
Nos. 9 and 10 carry Pullman Sleepers be¬
tween Atlanta and New York.
Nos. 37 and 38, Washington and Southwest¬
ern Vestibuled Limited, Detween Atlanta and
Washington. On this train no extra fare is
charged. Throngh Pullman Sleepers between
New York and New Orleans, al-o between
Washington and Memphis, via Atlanta and
Birmingham. local and
For detailed information as to
through time tables, rates and Pullman Sleep¬
ing car reservations, confer with local agents,
or address, L. TAYLOR,
JAS. W. A. TURK,
Gen’l Pass. Ag’t. Ass’t. Genl. Pass. Ag’t.
Atlanta, Ga. Charlotte N. O.
C. P. HAMMOND,
Superintendent. Atlanta, Ga.
W. H. GREEN, SOL. HASS,
Gen’l Manager. Traffic Manager,
Atlanta, Ga, Atlanta, Ga.
LEWIS DAVIS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will practioe in the oountiea of Haber¬
sham and Rabun of the Northwestern
Circuit, end Franklin and Banka of the
Westc rn Circuit. Prompt attention wifl
be given to ail business entrusteefto him.
The collection of debts will have apeo-
ia 1 . attention.
rs
SCENES OF DEVASTATION
As Witnessed in the Overflowed Bottoms
of the Tombigbee River.
Further news of the devastation in the
flooded districts in Mississippi is given
in telegrams of Friday. The reports
from the flood-stricken regions confirm
all heretofore said and as the waters ia
the Tombigbee and its tributaries’ bot¬
toms recede, the destruction is more fully
realized. Deputy Sheriff Crocker, of Lee
county, is reported ns s tying that he was
a passenger on the first Mobile and Ohio
train that crossed the Tombigbee river in
eight days. At that point half a mile of
track has been washed out and carried a
mile, where it lodged against trees. He
also says the published reports do not
give half an idea of the wreck and ruin
to Lowndes, Clay and Monroe counties.
Houses, fences and bridges are all gone.
Thousands of dead horses, mules, c .ttlc,
hogs, sheep, poultry and occasionally the
body of a negro can be seen in every di¬
rection.
The Warrior river in Alabama, just
across the line, rose forty-seven feet in
four hours. He relates many incidents
of personal suffering among the negioes,
with whom these bottoms were thickly
settled, and upon whom the mad torrents
decended with terrible fury, wiping
homes and families out of existence.
1 he city of Columbus is feeding 500
refugees, but telegraphs Governor Stose
that they doubt the wisdom of asking
government aid, though they would like
a few hundred tents for shelter. Wa er
is falling in fbe Yazoo and Big Black
rivers in the western portion of the state,
and the danger of immediate serious
overflow there is about over and trains
are running.
Hot Weather in Texas.
Telegram from Denis »n, Texas, state
that the torrid wave has reached that
place. The thermometer at 3 p. m.
Monday was 80 degrees in the shade.
The weather is stifling and the most ex
traordinary experienced at this season in
a number of years.