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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- 2 of A j 50 F !S le ’. P h L _ 1 •r la ^ , a jg Q t h [ l’. Sy te ise . e _ ib- ag g n j 10 rit- ,1 „ ! e g 0 _ k e en- , re ias 5y '7 me cnances are it will be continued for a while 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.