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efrimed the so-called Russian
A-' thistle, but the Russian
» not*
weed.
John Jacob Astor is quoted by the
UK** York World*as saying that
phalt is the best material for street
Says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat:
have been diversi¬
fying their crops this year, and are
more prosperous thau ever before in
the history of the State. They are
comparatively out of debt and will
ham fatted razor-backs to kill for
bristtnas.”
m
The country known as Korea re¬
sembles many other Oriental regions
la the fact that tfie name which for
s use to designate it is but little
Known in the country itself. The
name “Korea” was originally “Korie,"
the title of a trivial State on the penin¬
sula, but the Japanese and Chinese
applied it, in various forms, to the
•ntire country. The true official title
Of “Korea” was adopted when the
various peninsular States were con¬
solidated ia the fourteenth century.
It is “Chaosien” or “Taiosen,” and
means “serenity of the morning.”
The extraordinary prevalence of
tholera and the high percentage of
mortality in Western Russia and the
adjoining Austro-Hungarian provinces
4>f Galicia and Bukowina are due, in
j great measure, maintains the New
: York Times, to the dense ignorance of
the people as well as to their habits of
ilife. Even in the capital city of Bu
kowina the physicians and sanitary
Officers have to contend against the
prevalent belief that the doctors ad¬
minister poison to their patients, with
intention of killing them. On this
isocount new cases are conoealed, med
leal rid is repelled, and the attempts
«>f offioers to enforce unitary rules
are thwarted. Among suoh people an
'epidemic of cholera muet run its
^oourse, and the infected provinces of
Galicia and Bukowina will be fortun¬
ate if the disease shall not beoome ep
Mamie in them, as it appears to be on
the other aide of the Russian boun¬
dary, where the conditions for the
and surrival of it have
tw area more favorable.
oon tains between four and
re hundred million# of people. With
tributary provinces it is said to
• tha enormous population of 537,
,dBQ, Since the beginning of our
’eminent we have coined all told
m ril 461,000,000 silver dollars, not
Ending dimes, halves end quarters,
I U the whole oould be gathered
riher end carried to Chine there
old not be enough to give a dollar
Mtr of Us inhabitants. Chine ia
V rally
►kb. supposed to be very poor.
M Carpenter, who has traveled
■afN^ that ia Chins, it believes, on the
ia a rich country,
isjmsi te, require a vast amount to
* tmeiwa— i It is true there are
Uotu of poor, but there ere
of .well-to-do and mil
fratively rich. There
Mae where jewelry is
y worn, end where the
ere more
has eeen thou*
brocaded silk lined
tside of the laboring women
Be ooet and silk pant aloons.
tvs society sent
of Re
to in
their port of
York Tribune,
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«us sent to them
to
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the legislature
GEORGIA'S LAW-MAKERS MEET
AND BEGIN WORK.
Routine Business of Both House and
Senate-Bills of Interest.
The new Georgia legislature assem¬
bled at Atlanta Wednesday morning.
The house and senate met at 10
o’clock elected officers and proceeded
with regular business. The nom¬
inees of the democratic caucus held
Tuesday night were elected in every
instance for the offices in the house
and senate.
The most important development in
connection with Thursday’s session of
the general assembly was the extension
of invitations to each of the candidates
for the United States sfenate to deliver
addresses to the body. The governor’s
message was read and the count of the
vote in the state election was about
half completed. The roll caH-of coun¬
ties began and nntil late in the after¬
noon the general assembly was kept
listning to the monotonous reading of
the returns. Captain Tip Harrison,
of the executive department, kept the
official tally sheet and in making ad¬
ditions the tellers were assisted by
Captain Futlow, of the tax department.
The official connt footed up as fol¬
lows:
Governor—Atkinson, 121,049; Hines,
96,888.
Secretary—Candler, 124,862; Nance,
92,764. 125,295;
Comptroller — Wright,
Kemp, 92,641. 125,161;
Treasurer — Hardeman,
Jones, 93,012. Mehaf
Attorney—Terrell, 125,125;
fey, 92,9301
Commissioner 124,^69; of Agriculture—Nes¬
bitt, Barrett, 92,945.
Governor Atkinson’s majority is 24,-
161. a
SESSION OP THE HOUSE.
The house of representatives Hardin, was
called to order by Hon. Mark
the clerk of the last house. An affec¬
ting and heartfelt prayer was/ offered o
by Rev. Dr. Hillyer. After tiii oath the
members of the house took the
of office in batches of ten. The oath
was administered by Hon. Seaborn
Reese, jndge of the Northern circuit.
The election qt a speaker was then
proceeded ywffli. Fleming, Richmond,
Hon. W: H. of
waa put fn nomination by Mr. Bayton,
of CelbowL-Jktrr Boyd, of McDuffie,
nominated Hon. Mel I. Branch. The
balloting was immediately proceeded
with end showed the presence of 162
members. The vote was as follows:
Fleming, 123. Branch 29. The dem¬
ocrats on the floor broke into a storm
of applause and the galleries joined in.
Messrs. Behnett of Wayne, Branch, of
Columbia, and Bookwell, of Chatham,
were appointed elected a committee the to escort chair.
the newly speaker to
As he walked down the center aisle
of the house, Mr. Fleming’s populari¬
ty was proven. Democrats and popu¬
lists united in giving him an .ovation.
As soon as order was restored Mr.
Fleming made an appropriate and
feeling apeeoh of aooeptance.. election
The next bnainem war the
of a olerk. Mark Hardin received 123
votes and hie popnlist competitor, Mr.
Irwin, of Rockdale, 42.
For messenger of the house, Smith,
of Coffee Harris, (dem), received (pop) 120 38. votes,
and of Cobb,
Captain Moses Martin wm elected
doorkeeper, reoeiving 115 votes, to 31
oast for Mr. ffiuioe, populist, of Gwin¬
nett.*
Hon. Clarenoe Wilson, of Clsy, was
elected speaker pro tern. The popu¬
late nominated H. G. Eden field for
thie position, and he received 22 votes.
A committee wm appointed to wait
on the governor and notify him that
the house was duly organised and
ready to receive eay communication
he might desire to tend.
A resolution was adopted providing
for a committee of nine to nominate a
chaplain of the boose—the house to
vote on the nomination.
Just before adjournment a resolu¬
tion was offered to allow the door¬
keeper a Gfasoook,\objeeted page to assist him. Mr.Wal¬
ton, of on the score
of eoonomy. His motion to dispense
with the page was voted down.
Hon. E. P. Hcqrell, of Felton, in¬
troduced a resolution tendering the
of the hall of the house of repre
tatives to Hon. Patrick Walsh to
an address on Thursday evening
at 8 o’oktok. It was unanimously oar*
ried. After the selection of eeata tha
house adjourned at 2 :20 o’aioek. <
2d Dat—T he session of the boose of
moraiag with prayer by Bev. Mr.
Hurst, a member from Walton county. that
By resolution it wm determined
moat to joint
sion at eleven o’clock to the vote
to ton rear of the ball of the
tha
m.
0. Bacon, of Bibb eounty, on Monday Mr.
evening, for the same purpose.
Rockwell, of Chatham, also'in trod need
a resolution tendering the use of the
hall on Wedneeday evening, at 8:30, The to
the Hon. Henry G. Turner.
house concurred in a senate resolution
do appoint a committee of three
from the senate and five from the house
td elected determine what officers are to
be by the members of the gen¬
eral assembly. Shortly after half past
ten the governor’s message was by Mr. re¬
ceived. It was read at once
John D. Munnerlyn, Jr., one of the
new reading clerks of the house, who
has a remarkably clear and melo¬
dious voice—something unusual in
legislative bodies. At five minutes
after eleven while the , governor’s
message was being read the
doorkeeper-announced the presence of
the senate. The senators were preceded
by two darkies from the executive
mansion bringing the vote of the dif¬
ferent counties in a big clothes basket.
Then the senators filed in, headed by
President Venable and Secretary Clif¬
ton. A committee of two from the
senate and three from the house was
appointed to open the returns. They
were Senators Broughton and Becks,
and Representatives Barnes, Mell and
Hogan.
3d Day —There was quite a flutter
of excitement in the house of repre¬
sentatives Friday morning over reso¬
lutions introduced by Mr. Pittman, of
Troup, calling for the immediate res¬
toration of silver to its former posi¬
tion as a constitutional money of final
payment by opening our mint to the
free and unlimited coinage of all silver
bullion produced by the United States,
independently of European dictation,
and witbont waiting longer for inter¬
national agreement; the free and un¬
limited coinage of both gold and sil¬
ver to be resumed at the ratio now
fixed by law, and the coinage of both
metals to be continued until some
other ratio may be fixed by a law
which shall also provide for the free
aud unlimited coinage as aforesaid,
and the immediate repeal of the fed¬
eral tax of 10 per cent, on the bills of
state banks of issue. When the
resolntion had been read, Mr. Pitt¬
man made a few remarks npon
it, saying he wanted it to come before
the members so that the sense of the
body could be obtained in a straigbout
vote in which there was no dodging.
He asked that the resolution be made
the special order for next Tuesday.
After a breezy discassion the resolu¬
tions were tabled. Mr. Neely, of
Burke, introduced a bill to amend the
constitution so as to enlarge the ex¬
emption from taxation, touching places
to religious worship or burial and all
buildings erected for use as a college
or seminary of learning. Mr. Awtry,
of Cobb, introduced a resolution au¬
thorizing the speaker to appoint a
committee of five to examine into the
condition of the Northeastern railroad,
and to snggest any needed legislation
for the road. Mr. Middlebrooks, of
Newton, introduced a joint resolution
to enoonrage the building of an inter¬
national railroad running from the
United States to Sonth America. Mr.
Middlebrooks also introduced a bill
to provide for a general and uniform
registration law. His bill makes the
collector of each county the registrar
and makes it his duty to register each
voter when his tax is paid. Mr. Rook
well, of Chatham, introduced quite a
shower of bills of a local character.
Mr. Hodges, of Bibb, as chairman of
the committee to report the offices to
be filled by the legislature, rendered
his report. They are a chief justioe
of the snpreme court, a judge of the
Angusta circuit, the Brunswiok cir¬
cuit, the Flint, the Macon, the Mid¬
dle, the Ocmulgec, the Pataula, the
Southern, the Northeastern, the Talla¬
poosa, the Western and the Northern.
The soliotors to be elected are for the
Northeastern, the Tallapoosa and the
Southwestern. The joint resolntion to
appoint three members from the sen¬
ate and five from the house to notify
Hr. Atkinson of his election and pre¬
pare Several for his inauguration was adopted. import¬
other bills of minor
ance were introduced. The house
oommittee ‘appointed > to nominate a
chaplain for that body reported the
name of Bev. R. W. Eaka, who was
unanimously 4th Dat— The elected. of both bouse
sessions
and senate Saturday Pittniui were short Ip
the house Mr. moved to take
from the table the resolutions intro¬
duced by himarif bearing on the silver
question, for the purpose of fixing arid a
date for their consideration. He
that any date would suit him. The
bourn was not, however, ia a mood to
transact any business, in view of the
impending inauguration exercises,
motion
a vote .of 64 to 03. following Speaker
Fleming anaouaoed the
oommittee oa
Harrison, of Quitman,
Fooche, of Floyd; Battle, of
Barnes, of Richmond * 13 __ v
ell; Caldwell, G&reath,of Meriwether; BertowTiril, GOas, of
Houston;
of Coweta t I of Lincoln; Hol
brook, of Fra of
field; Mansfit
id, of Fanuii
of Lumpkin;
or StM#r.#
5as Nat Sfersvasr Harris nominated Judge
Senator
T. J. Simmons for chief justice. He
was elected for the unexpired term of
eix years from January 1st, 1893. Sen
ator Wilson nominated Judge Spencer
Atkinson for the unexpired term of
associate justice, and he was elected.
He was also elected for the full term.
Hon. J. L. Hardeman was nominated
by Mr. Giles, of Houston, for the un¬
expired term of Judge Barttlet of the
Macon circuit. He was elected for
that and also the full term. Mr. J. A.
Barnes, of Richmond, nominated Hon.
E. H. Calloway for judge of the Au¬
gusta circuit, and he was ej ected. Mr.
W. A. McDonald, of Ware, , nominated
Hon. J. L. 'Sweat for judge of the
Brunswick circuit. He was elected
and then the joint session dissolved
until 3 o’clock and the house adjourn¬
ed until a quarter before three.
/ •
SESSION OF THE SENATE.
At 10 o’clock the senate was called
to order by Hon. H. H. Cabaniss, sec¬
retary of the last senate. After prayer
by Rev. Mr. Watkins, the members
advanced to the clerk’s desk and the
oath of office was administered by
Judge C. J. Wellborn.
Mr. Cabaniss then announced that
the next thing in order was the elec¬
tion of officers.
Senator Broughton nominated Hon.
W. H. Venable for president and Hon.
N. E. Harris seconded the nomination.
Senator McGarity, populist, nominat¬
ed Senator Chas. E. McGregor, and
B. H. Brown seconded the nomi¬
nation. The vote resulted in Mr.
Venable’s election, he receiving 33, and
Mr. McGregor 6. ✓ E.
A committee consisting of Mr. N.
Harris, W. C. Beeks and W. G. Little
were appointed to escort Mr. Venable
to the chair.
Mr. Venable returned his thanks in
a neat speech for the honor, and prom¬
ised fairness and courtesy to all mem¬
bers, no matter to what party he be¬
longed.
For secretary of the senate, Mr.
Sheppard nominated Hon. William
Clifton, of McIntosh, and Mr. Little
seconded it. Mr. Sneed nominated,
Mr. F. M. Waddell, of Meriwether.
Mr. Clifton was elected. Mr. Star
nominated R. E. Wilson for doorkeep¬
er, and he was elected. Mr. Williams
nominated Mr. Flynn Hargett elected. for
messenger, and he, also, was
Governor Northen notified the sen
ate of three contested seats, that of
Mr. Whitley against Bion Williams, A.
M. Baxter against 0. H. Brand, and
L. G. Hardman against T. S. Johnson.
A resolution was adopted in the sen¬
ate allowing President Venable to ap¬
point three gallery doorkeepers and six
pages.
2d Day —All of the senators were
in their seats Thursday morning continued look¬
ing none the worse from the
onslaughts made upon them by the
various seekers for office. After prayer
by ted the chaplain a resolution was adop¬
asking the house to meet them in
joint session at 12 m. to count the vote
for governor and state house offioers.
A similar resolution was received from
the house and concurred in. The
president announced the following
committee W. on R. privileges and Cum¬ elec¬
tions: Little, Bryan
mings, W. C. BeekB, Harris of the 3d,
J. J. Upchurch, G. W. Tatum, W. J.
Morton, J. E. Meroer and B. H.
Brown. The annual message from the
governor was received and read. Mr.
Bryan Cummings introduced the first
bills. They the are a bill to amend the the is¬
section of oode relating to
suing of citations before setting aside
a year’s support, and a bill to require
corporations to allow executors and
administrators to draw dividends and
transfer stock.
3d Dat— The senate routine of
Thursday was an important Mr. Ven¬
able has not had time to appoint the
various committees of the senate.
Senator Roberts introduced a bill to
amend tha act providing for a local
board of trustees of the military and
agricultural college. Mr. Wade in¬
troduced^ bin to change the constitu¬
tion so as to enlarge the exemption
from taxation places of religious wor¬
ship or burial, and also colleges, in¬
corporated academies ami for other
seminaries of learning, and to provide
for its ratification by the people. The
{jgerideatappointed Boyd and Meroer Messrs. oommittee Cummings, to
a
wait upon Governor Atkinson and no¬
tify him of his election, and arrange
for hie inauguration. Tho governor
sent to the senate for confirmation n
number of county appointed judges and since oonaty the
solicitors he had
hat session of the all legislature. them, well The
senate confirmed of as
•ant in a
toat the appropriation for tho
f bo continued for the next two
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paired to the hall of the boose of yep*
resent&tives to elect judges and solicit
ore.
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.
A CONDENSATION OF OUR MOST
IMPORTANT DISPATCHES.
Short and Crisp Morsels of General
Interest to Our Readers.
-Six tong of dynamite exploded Wis., in a
magazine at Chippewa Falls,
Sunday morning, causing $5,000 loss
in property.
It iB generally reported in Yokohama
that the second Japanese army, military num¬
bering 25,000, have begun Port Ar¬ op¬
erations for the capture of
thur. ,
A large Hungarian boarding house
Laurel Run, Pa., was blown to
atoms by dynamite at 3 o’clock Sun¬
day morning and three of the inmates
killed outright, four fatally injured
and a half dozen seriously hurt.
Six thousand dollars’ worth of cedar
logs, together with all the buildings of
the Red Cedar Bucket Factory at Mur¬
freesboro, Tenn., were destroyed by
fire Sunday, entailing a total loss that
will be very great, and throwing one
hundred men out of employment.
Stern & Company, of New York,
wholesale men’s furnishing goods,
failed Wednesday and the sheriff closed
them np on executions for $46,693.
The liabilities are returned at $250,
000; the assets are not known. They
claim to have a large stock on band.
Inquiries made at the Chinese lega¬
tion at London regarding the re¬
port from Tien-Tsin saying that
negotiations for peace between China
and Japan were in progress at Seoul,
the capital of Corea, show that they
do not believe it probable that such
negotiations would be conducted at
Seoul.
A dispatch from Livadia says that
the operation of thoracentecis has been
performed upon the czar with success.
The releasing of liquid matter by
puncturing has greatly relieved the
patient’s breathing and the pressure
around the heart. It is reported that
there is no danger of imminent col¬
lapse.
A dispatch received from Peterhead,
a seaport about twenty-five miles from
Aberdeen, Scotland, announces that
the Swedish schooner Alene, loaded
with gunpowder, which was at anchor
near Peterhead, has been blown up.
It is added that within two minutes
after the explosion nothing was to be
seen on the surface of the water but
splinters from the schooner. All her
crew perished.
News was received at Fort Smith,
Ark., by deputy United States mar¬
shals that the Cook gang of robbers
who have been balding up trains and
looting towns in the Indian Territory,
raided Gibson station Wedneeday.
They looted all the shops, escaping
with considerable booty. The band
then raided the cotton fields in the
vicinity and robbed the pickers at
work. They are being hotly pursued
by Indian police and a strong posse of
deputy marshals.
A special from Princeton, Ill., says:
The five defendants, including Mayor
Lauer, who were given penitentiary
sentences in the Spring Valley Pinker¬
ton conspiracy oase have been granted
new trials by Jndge Sharp. prevails As a re¬
sult a high state of excitement
and both the defendants and the action
of the judge are openly denounced. It
is considered that the judge unduly
favored the defendants dnring the
trial It has been impossible to against make
a verdict stand in the court
any Spring Valley and Ladd conspira¬
tors, store looters and rioters.
A fast freight train on the Pennsyl¬
vania railroad Sunday evening crashed
into the rear end of a work train at
Oorydon station, killing three men and
injuring many more. The work train
was bound for Bristol, and stopped at A
Corydon to take on more laborers.
large number of Italian employes were
on the open oars. While the men
were boarding the cars around the feet the freight,
eastbonnd, dashed curve
and crashed into the rear end of tha
workmen’s train. Many and of the
had no time to escape, beneath they awful were
crushed to death the
wreck.
HOPE FOR ALEXANDER.
The*!'rials In the Geer** Gaea Supposed
to Hava Beau.
The condition of the pe
ror continues to excite hopes that the
crisis of his disease has passed aad tost
his recovery j bo possi b le. The
following bulletin by
Washington Monday Prince Canto*
the Button minister to toe
United States, from the minister of
:
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NEWSY ITEMS PICKED UP AT
THE NATIONAL CAPITOL.
Sayings and Doings of the Official
Heads of the Government. ________
Judge Cole has dismissed the peti¬
tion for habeas corpus in the ease of
Smith, the stamp rdbber, and remand¬
ed him to jail for trial
All of the inmates of the white house
were vaccinated last Monday by Dr.
O’Reilly, the president’s physician,as a
necessary precaution in view of the ap¬
pearance of smallpox in the city.
The program of the postoffice offi¬
cials is to prevent the correspondence
of bond investment companies from
being carried through the mails and
the postmaster general will order crim
inal proceedings instituted in every
case brought to his attention.
The United States supreme .court
Monday reversed the decision of the
circuit court in the case of John C.
Eno, formerly president of the Second
National bank, of New York, who was
convicted of forgery in the New York
state courts about ten years ago.
The department of following state Saturday
evening received the cable
from Mr. Denby, at Peking: “Japa¬
nese troops entered into Manchuria.”
This is the first authentic information
that has been received by the United
States government that any Japanese
forces had entered Chinese territory.
Several days ago, at Washington, a
baby died of smallpox and from this
source has sprung five others. The
child’s father is an employe in the pen¬
sion office, and he communicated the
disease to Judge E. M. Rucker, of the
law department of the pension bureau,
and William Owens, a messenger in
the same bureau. Judge Rucker lives
at a boarding house containing twenty
six guests. Some have become fright¬
ened and left, while others are quar¬
antined.
Another case of smallpox developed
in Washington Friday morning.
James L Parker, of Indiana, a law
clerk in the division of tho interior
department, where the other cases
were reported, was the victim. Sec¬
retary Smith issued directions to have
the department closed. This action
was taken before the secretary was
aware of the new case. Hd said that
the order to close was on account of
the fumigation of several rooms in the
building which was very disagreeable
to persons employed in the building.
Secretary Carlisle will not make
political speeches during the present
campaign. The secretary had a con¬
ference with the president Monday
morning in regard to the matter. The
secretary told the president that 1 he
had received a very large number of
invitations to speak in different sec¬
tions of the country, and would very
much like to acoept as many of them
as he could fill, but there were a num¬
ber of important questions pending in
bis department his that imperatively in Washington de¬
manded presence
for some weeks to come.
Secretary Herbert spent an hoar
with the president Saturday morning which
endeavoring to settle a problem
has worried the naval authorities for
several months and which must be
disposed of promptly. Four impor¬
tant commands are to be filed—the
superintendent of the naval aoademy
and naval observatory, the commander
in chief of the sontb Atlantic station,
and the commandant of the New York
navy yard, the latter becoming vacant of
November 10th by the retirement
Admiral Gherardi. Ordinarily these
details would not cause so much con¬
cern, but at present they involve most
of the higher officers of the navy and
numerons changes are likely to result.
They are Subject to Tax.
* Secretary Carlisle has made public
the decision of the attorney-general on
the question as to whether counties
have the right to issue interest-bearing
bonds of small denominations for gen¬
eral circulation. The attorney-general
says:
“I have yours of the 17th instant, in
which you request my opinion on the
question whether the proposed issue of
interest-bearing bonds by the county
commissioners of Floyd county, Gu.,
will be in conflict with the banking
laws of the United 8tates. You en¬
close the opinion of the solicitor to tho
effect that such issue, if made, will not
conflict with the banking laws of the
United Btries, and, for the
given by the solicitor, I concur in that
conclusion.
' “As to the question whether
bonds, if will be subject to
taxation under sections 19 and 30 of
the act of February 18, 1875, existing does not
arise upon any facts now aad
is one npon which my opinion is not
asked. I express no opinion respect¬
ing it.”
The decision doss tot pass upon tha
will be sebject to the 10 per cent, tux
oa currency. It is understood, how¬
ever, tost Secretary Garin' 1
tost they will bo subject to
ttoa to like e as toe
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