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THROUGH GEORGIA.
KITS OK SKW S GATHERED KIUM1
OVKR TUB STATIC.
Hein* H Summary of Interesting Hap¬
penings From Day to Day.
The stockholders of the Tennessee,
Georgia and Atlantic Kail way Com pa-
uj held a meeting at Athens last Sat¬
urday, elected a full board of direc¬
tors, accepted the charter and called a
meeting of directors for October 15th
in New York. No action whs taken
conoi.rning the transfer of the North¬
eastern lease, as the same would in-
■’-olvc litigation, which was due to
Harrison’s opposition.
Governor Northern's Bureau of Im¬
migration has located in Troup county
an - 1 Dalian colony. Eighteen have
already arrived, 30 are sure to come
and there may bo a great many more.
They have purchased the Henry Ware
place, two miles from LaGrange,
where they will en age in truck farm-
ing, will run small farms and raise
grapes. They are educated, thrifty
people from Pennsylvania.
The charter for the Tennessee, Geor-
r;a and Atlantic Railway company, tho
1,i W J'uo which is to bo built from
Chattanooga to Augusta, has been
granted by Secretary of State Candler.
The incorporators named iu tho char¬
ter are A. 11. Cornell, Henry E. King,
Joseph Gilfillan and Francis M. Fer¬
guson, of New York, and E. A. Ilich-
ar.L, Hoke Smith, J. W. English, SV.
S. N\ itliam, and G. V. Gress, of Atlanta.
lion. Ihoroas E. Watson, who is at
his home in Thomson, has for some
time been suffering with a case of
pharyngitis but is much improved,
ilis attending physician, Dr. E. S.
Harrison, says it will be some ten days
before it would bo advisable for him to
make any more speeches. Mr. Wat¬
son has mi engagement to speak iu the
west the latter part of this week, but
under tho doctor’s advice, will have to
canci I it or have it postponed.
Hubbard, Price & Co., of New York,
ihrongh their Macon attorney, will file
suit in Bibb superior court againt the
which \istnl Telegraph Company for $l!,00()
is the amount the New York
firm says they lost by reason of a
forged telegram sent in the name of
the American National bank of Macon
to Hubbard, l’rice A Co., by Henry
Morris, who was the Macon manager
of the Postal Telegraph Company at
the time and also the Macon represen¬
tative of Hubbard, Price .V Co. The
fin it will allege fraudulent representa¬
tion by Manager Morris.
A suit brought by Mrs. Sallie Lee
Shaw, wife of Tom Shaw, who is
charged with wrecking the Southern
railway train at Stone creek on Feb,
29tb, has been transferred from the
superior court of Twiggs county to
the United States court at Atlanta^ tbe
order of transfer being signed by
Judge C. C. Smith at the request of
the Southern railway. The most inter¬
esting circumstances connected with
the transfer of the suit is that Mrs.
Shaw sues to recover $10,000 damages
for injuries received iu the wreck at
Stone ereek, and that her husband is
to be tried lor wrecking the train on
which she was a passenger and which
caused her injuries. The case is
thought to b*j without a parallel.
The returns from all over the state
indicate tbe ratification of b >th amend¬
ments of tho constitution, ami natural¬
ly a great deal of interest is manifest¬
ed in the races for the three additional
judges of tbe supreme court, which is
bound to come. A number of promi¬
nent gentlemen are mentioned in eon-
nee* ion with the newly created judge-
ships. Under the act of the legisla¬
ture, which provided for the submis¬
sion of the question to the people, it is
provided that an election sIihII be held
on the third Wednesday in December.
Tho state committee will be called to¬
gether for tho purpose of deciding
upon the time for holding the conven¬
tion to make nominations, but it is not
probable that this convention will l>e
held until after the November election.
This will give ample time and will not
' n any wise conflict with the election iu
November.
Will Build New Courthouse.
The county commissioners of De-
Kalb county have decided to build a
new courthouse at Decatur. At a re¬
cent meeting of the commissioners it
was agreed that tbe county badly need¬
ed a new courthouse, and final action
*»u the matter was taken. The com¬
missioners will levy a special tax for
the purpose of raising money to build
the courthouse. The plnus and details
of tho proposed work have not yet
been completed, but it is said that
the commissioners have in mind the
erection of a courthouse which will be
creditable to the county aud oue which
will till the needs of the county for
many years. There is considerable
opposition to the proposed action of
the commissioners, many of DeKalb’s
citizens having strenuously objected
to the making of another tax levy at
(bis time.
Am Ex-Mayor Indicted.
A trim bill has beeu found by the
grand jury of the Uuited Slates court
charging Jack King, president of the
Merchants’ National bank of Borne,
and at oue time mayor of that city,
with embezzlement. The amount of
the defalcation ie said to be $22,000.
Tbe instigators of tho prosecution
were Charles D. Wood of Rome, a
stockholder in the bank, who is also a
director, and three other citizens of
Home. Mr. King was arrested iu
It *tne and carried to Atlanta, where he
gave bond for $10,000 to warrant his
appearance at the October term of the
conrt.
Mr. King attributes the indictment
“to the malicious work of parties who
had some petty spite to gratify,” and
declares that be will have no trouble
in establishing his innocence. Ilia
brother, S. S. Kiug, the present mayor
of ( Ruine, was not in bo composed a
state. Ho considered the arrtBt an
outrage and expressed himself accord¬
ingly.
No Evidence of the Money.
Sensational developments in regard
to the Eagle and Pdenix failure con¬
tinue to crop out. The latest story is
contained in the answer of the receiv¬
ers, Messrs. English and Jordan, to
the intervention of the Lowry Bank¬
ing company, asking payment of their
810,000 note, the money which was re¬
cently turned over to Judge Bigby,
president of the mills. This answer
of the receivers has been filed in the
United States conrt at Atlanta. It de¬
clares that the $10,000 loaned to Judge
Bigby for tho mills has never been en¬
tered in the books of the concern, and
that there is no evidence on the books
to show that the mill ever received the
money.
•Judge Bigby declares that he used
the money on the Eagle aud Phenix
property in the regular conduct of its
business, and that it went up iu the
general crash. He says that the books
were not properly kept, and that ho
will huve uo trouble iu substantiating
that, the money was used iu the regu¬
lar course of business.
Observance of Arbor Day.
Preparations are now being made
for tho proper observance of Arbor
day by tho school children of thu
state.
The law requiring the observance of
Arbor day in Georgia is only a recent
one, aud the day will be a legal holi¬
day this year for the first time. State
School Commissioner Glenn is greatly
interested iu the matter and will urge
the county commissioners of all the
counties in Georgia lo have the day
observed in their respective couuties.
In order to give the school commis¬
sioners some idea how the day should
be properly celebrated and observed
the state school commissioner has is¬
sued a circular which will be mailed to
the school commissioners of every
county in the state. The circular gives
all Ihe information on the subject that
will be required.
Iu the circular the commissioner
gives interesting figures showing that
the forest product of the United States
is at present fur more valuable than
that of anything else, even more valu¬
able than the product of gold aud sil¬
ver. He proposes that tbe school
children throughout the state shall
plant trees on the paths and highways
leading from their homes to the school-
houses. The work will be done on
Arbor day of each aud every year and
as time goes by the highways of the
country will be well shaded.
Arbor day is the time set aside by
luw for trees to be planted. It is a
matter of duty with the children, but
if they carry out the idea given them
by the state school commissioner the
duty will become a pleasure.
Professor Glenn believes that the
planting of trees on the roads by the
children will cause their fathers to
improve the roads, and in that way the
good roads problem will be solved.
The circular sent to the county school
commissioners of the state is withal an
interesting document.
MACON TELEGRAPH SOLD.
Syndicate, Headed by Major Hansen,
the Purchasers.
The Macon Telegraph has passed
into the hands of a syndicate controlled
by Major J. F. Hanson and perhaps
other republicans, aud it was rumored
that the paper was to come out as a
straight republican organ.
This has been a great surprise,
though it is known that the republi¬
cans of Georgia have been anxious to
secure an organ, and it is believed
that they would have in this venture
the moral support if not the financial
assistance of Chairman Hanna and
other lending republicans.
It is uuderstood that several promi¬
nent employes have been given notice
ami that places are to be filled by re¬
publican newspaper men. Whether
these newspaper men are to come from
the north or not is not known.
Major Hanson will, of course, be
the moving power in control of the pa¬
per. Although for a time he declared
he was absolutely out of politics the
major, as it is believed, always had a
hankering to get back into journalism,
at least so far as dictating the policy
of an organ is concerned. He has cast
all his fortunes with the republican
party and is devoting his time to the
promulgation of McKinley doctrines.
The Telegraph is still under the old
board of directors, and there has been
uo reorganization of the company
siuce Major Hanson’s purchase. The
board of directors consist entirely of
Macon citizens. The parties associ¬
ated with Mojor Hauton in the owner¬
ship of the paper are not politicians.
PROHIBITION ELECTORS.
A Full Ticket to Be Put Out in
Georgia.
The national prohibition party has
put out a presic'utial electoral ticket
in Georgia, and the people will be
given au opportunity to cast their votes
for electors favoring tbe election of a
prohibitionist president and vice pres¬
ident.
The announcement will be in the
nature of a surprise to many. A com¬
plete tieket of two electors at-large
and one for each congressional district,
as required by law, have been selected
and their names will be on the official
ballots for the presidential election on
November 3d.
The candidate for president of the
party is Joshua Levering, of Balti¬
more, one of the wealthiest merchants
and importers of the country. He is
well known in the south and through¬
out the country, in commercial circles.
His running mate for the vice presi¬
dency is Hale JohnsoD, of Illinois.
The candidates were nominated by the
national convention of the prohibition
party held last summer.
The prohibition party ha£ held no
state convention this year and the
electoral ticket was selected by the state
executive committee.
The national platform of the prohi¬
bition party follows:
“We, the members of the prohibi¬
tion party, iu national convention as¬
sembled, renewing onr declaration of
allegiance to Almighty God as the
rightful ruler of the universe, lay
down the following as our declaration
of political purpose.
. “The prohibition party, in national
convention assembled, declares its
firm conviction that the manufacture,
exportation, importation and sale of
alcoholic beverages baH produced such
social, commercial, industrial and po¬
litical wrongs, and is now so threaten¬
ing to the perpetuity of all onr social
and political institutions, that the
suppression of the same by a national
party organization therefor, is the
greatest object to be accomplished by
the voters of our country, and is of
such importance that it, of right,
ought to control the political actions
of all our patriotic citizens until such
suppression is accomplished.
“The urgency of this course de¬
mands the union without further de¬
lay of all citizeus who desire the pro¬
hibition ol the liquor traffic; therefore
be it
“Resolved, That we favor the legal
prohibition by state aud national leg¬
islation of the manufacture, importa¬
tion and sale of alcoholic beverages;
that we declare our purpose to organ¬
ize aud unite all the friends of prohi¬
bition into one party, and in order to
accomplish this end we deem it of
right to leave every prohibitionist the
freedom of his own convictions upon
all other political questions, and trust
our representatives to take such action
upon other political questions as the
changes occasioned by prohibition and
the welfare of the whole people shall
demand.”
BRYAN IN j'HK WEST.
Democratic Candidate Faces Chilling
Blasts to Deliver Speeches.
William J. Bryan arrived in Sioux
City, la., Friday morning, one hour
behind schedule time. The fact that
the train was late was caused by the
numerous demands of the people at the
stations along the line to see the presi¬
dential candidate.
At Onawa in Monowa county, where
p large crowd had gathered, the train
stopped about 10 minutes, and Mr.
Bryan went out on the rear platform
and addressed the people. It was bit¬
terly cold and a strong southwest wind
blew directly into the speaker’s face.
The people were wild with enthusi¬
asm.
As this train arrived in Sioux City
the candidate was greeted by a large
crowd at the depot and was escorted
to the large train shed of the
depot, where he spoke for 10 minutes
to a large crowd. It was au enthusias¬
tic reception and seemed to jflease Mr.
Bryan. After the speech he was driven
directly to the Milwaukee depot, where
a special train was waiting to take the
party to Sioux Falls.
RICK CROP GONE.
Swept Away By Tidal Wave in the
Savannah Section.
The rice planters in South Georgia
are iu destitute circumstances. They
have just met with their second mis¬
fortune this year, after having lost
one-fourth of their crop by the storm
of two weeks ago. The severe north-
cast winds, together with Sunday’s
tidal wave, caused an overflowing of
practically all the banks,and the fields
were, some of them, completely inun¬
dated, ail the rice iu them being more
or less damaged.
The planters on the Savannah, the
Ogeecbee, the Satilla and Altamaba
rivers, have been looking forward to
the season with great hopes. The
great shortage of the crop in Louisi¬
ana has caused considerable advances
in the price of rice, and with a good
crop, the planters this year could have
done better thau they have done iu
many seasons. But the entire section
appears to be under the ban.
GUAYAQUIL IN FLAMES.
City in Ecuador Almost Wiped From
the Face of the Earth.
The New Y'ork Herald’s special cable
from Guayaquil, Ecuador, says:
“More than half of this city has
been destroyed by fire. The loss of
life has been great, but tbe number
cannot be given. The fire has burned
for twenty-four hours, aud is not yet
under control. Many persons who
were in the arsenal when the flames
burst forth are missing, aud it is be¬
lieved that they were burned.
Thousands of citizens are homeless
and are camping in the fields near the
city. Provisions ate scarce and there
is dauger of famine. The losses are
roughly estimated at $5,000,000. The
correspondent says that it is believed
ti«e fire is of inceudiary origin.
Mexico Visited by Storms.
The west coast of Mexico has been
visited by a tremendous storm which
has caused great damage and conster¬
nation. The town of AlUis, the port
of the state ofSinaloa,isinundafcedand
the capital city, Cnliacan, has suffered
severely. Many small towns hsve been
flooded.
BILL ARP S LETTER.
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IN THE TKUIHFUL CAMERA.
Photo Gallery by the Countryside
Marks Civilization's Progress.
The photograph gallery in a country
town is one the most pleasing marks
of Christian civilization and the ad¬
vancement of modern science. I pass
by one every day and it is gratifying
t . see its patrons awaiting their tun
or coming out with smiling faces and
all arrayed in their best apparel. It
is a family discussion before they come
what dress to wear, what ornaments,
aud how the hair shall be arranged, or
whether to sit or stand, whether a side
view or a front or whether the baby
shall be taken alone or with its mother.
All classes are on an eqaality before
the camera, for the sunlight of nature
has no favorites. So far as faces and
features are concerned, the camera
tells the truth, the whole truth and
nothing but the truth. This morning
as I passed I saw a countryman sit¬
ting on the steps with a child
in his arms. His wife and little
girl were inside awaiting their
turn. I used to know him before ho was
married, aud so I stopped and gave
him my hand. His folks were poor,
honest and industrious, and I have
great respect for all such. The women
do the housework and have the care of
the children. The men cultivate their
little farms, work the roads, sit on the
juries, nurse their sick neighbors,bury
the dead, go fishi» g on Saturdays and
take the family to mee ing onSundays.
They are generally P pulists, not be¬
cause of any polit cal principles in¬
volved, but because of affiliation and
association. Most of their kind are
Populists and therefore clannish. They
stick together because they are either
poor or less than rich. Their fathers
fought in the late war, and these will
light in tlio next if it comes in their
days. It may be a rich man’s war,
but it will be a poor man’s fight.
“Are you goiDg to have the baby’s
picture taken.” “No; not this one,”
said be ; “I wanted my wife’s ai d our
little girl’s. They are iu there. I
I thought I would like to have them
about the house, for life is uncertain,
you know. Jim Moore’s wife died last
year and Jim says he would give the
world for her picture, and Jack Brown
lost his little girl in June. She was a
mighty purfy little thing, but Jack
hain’t got no picture and so I conclud¬
ed to have some taken for fear of acci¬
dent.,’
“That is all right,” said I, “but sup¬
pose you die; wouldn’t your wife like
to have one of you?”
“I reckon she would. She mention¬
ed that, but pictures don’t become a
rough man like me, and besides, it
would cost more money than I have
got to spare. The winter is cornin’ on
and we all have to have Bhobs and
stockings and the like, and my cotton
crop was powerful short, but I will
have mine taken sometime. I reckon
all your folks have got ’em, haven’t
they?”
Love for wife aud children is the
best virtue of human kind, aud poor
folks have as much of it as rich ones.
Y T es, more. Many of them haven’t
anything else to divide their affec¬
tions. It is a pleasing thing to see
them at the picture gallery and to wit¬
ness their pride when the work is done
and the faces of their loved ones are
before them on enameled cards, fresh
aud clean from the artist’s hand.
What a wonderful art it is. I remem¬
ber well when the first daguerreotype
was taken in our town. It was only
forty years ago, and when our first lit¬
tle girl was four years old we had her
picture taken. She was a little beauty
then, and I thought the picture was
the sweetest gem on earth. AVe have
it uow in its old-fashioned case. That
little girl is long since a mother and
has pictures of her own little girls,
and they are much finer in their finish,
but I prize the first one most. It car¬
ries me back in memory to th a days of
my sweetest, fondest, proudest, pa¬
rental love. I idolize that child and
I love her dearly yet, but she left ue
for a youDg man she was no kin to in
the world, and who has never done
anything for her but to give her a
ring and books of poetry and a little
French, candy now and then. We had
to give her up to him, and as Tom
Hood said:
“She took our daylight with her
And the joys that we love best.
With morning light upon her brow
And pearls upon her breast.”
Daguerre was a benefactor to the
emotional side of our nature. He was
a French artist—a painter of pano¬
ramas of cities like London and Paris
and Naples. He used the rays of the
sun through colored glass to heighten
the effect of hig paintings, and kept on
experimenting with sunlight until in
1839 he caught it on the king and
made it stick to meta]lie plates and re¬
flect the images thrown upon them.
His success was partly accidental, part¬
ly design, and he himself was aston¬
ished at his discovery. In 1840 Arago
made the announcement to the acade¬
my of science aud Daguerre was made
an officer in the Legion of Honor and
voted a pension of 6,000 francs a year.
He died in 1851 and a monument was
erected to him in Paris.
But like all inventions, Daguerre’s
was crude and imperfect. Photogra¬
phy has grown ont of it and seems now
to be the perfection of art. It is used
in makiDg the exact likenesses of all
the great work* of art and nature and
bringing them in reach of the millions
who have never seen ami never will see
the originals. All the monuments,
pyramids,churches, cathedral*,bridges,
mountain* and waterfalls—all the
grand old paintings of Rnphael and
RembtaiuR, all the sculpture of the
old masters and even the aspects of
the moon and eelipses of the sun and
ihe reproduction of the ancient manu¬
scripts of the Old and New Testa¬
ments. The lightning itself cannot
more instantly speed its way than pho¬
tography now catches a bird on the
wing or a race horse on the turf or a
meteor in the heavens. Just so it was
with the locomotive, the spinning
jenny, the sewing machine, the tele¬
graph and telephone. All weie im¬
proved from time to time by the cun¬
ning of the human brain and human
hand until they now seem to be per¬
fect, but they are not.
On the mantle near me I see a cabi¬
net photograph of a well preserved old
man who has a sweet little black-eytd
grand-child on his arm, while her head
rest® trustingly upon his shoulder and
tom he * his venerable cheek. She
looks shyly and timidly at you, but
clings to the old man as the tender
vine clings to the old oak that the storm
has riven. The old man’s face is ca’m
and serene. I like those pictures for
the children’s sake, and wish that I
was so coupled with every little grand¬
child and that my wife had some to
match them. I was ruminating that
when I am dead and gone and that lit¬
tle girl is a mother, maybe she will
show the picture to her child and say:
“I never knew my father, for he died
when I was very young, but that old
man was my grandfather aud he was
good to me and I loved him very
dearly.” Maybe when I am in the
spirit land I will some times be near her
and hear her talk that way—may be so ;
who knows? Flowers and music are
the sweetest gift of God to mankind
and pictures and painting the sweetest
that come from the hand of mau.
T> Bat of all the that ... catch , ,
cameras
and i hold n * fast .1 the images • of , art . or uu-
ture . there ., are men of * science who i as-
sort that none are equal to the retina
of the human eye. ihey say that ev-
erv look or glance or vision makes an
there. An . -
impoessiou impression
delicate and . impalpable ill that . i ,
so
millions .... he its -a. glassy i
may upon
surface * and i the i last . thing .i seen is • ou
the ., top. . r They „, say that ®., it a man is ■
r J
murdered , while he faces the murderer a
>1,» unailant’c l»ce .ad form ..ill be
found noon tho victim’, eye. Some
experiments ■ , , have been , made , to .
prove
satisfactory/ thin, hut thev were imperfect and uu-
Maybe it will yet bo
proven. —Bill Any in Atlanta Const!-
tution. , ..
KILLS WIFE AND BABES.
Awful Deed of an Insane
and Father.
A horrible tragedy was discovered
Friday morning at the homo of Albert
Bray, a farmer, living near Nobles-
ville, Ind.
A neighbor on going to the house
and failing to get a response to a t«2S
forced his way in and found the bodus
of Bray and his wife and their little
ebildre , aged three and six years,
upon the floor of the bed room iu
which they slept.
A bloody razor was lying at his side
arid it is supposed that lie committed
the awful butchery with it. Bray was
thirty-six years of age, was a member
of church and had always borne a good
reputation.
Mrs. Bray and the children had
been struck by some blunt instrument
aud evidently stunned before tbe razor
was used. Mrs. Bray was found lying
on a bed and the child, a boy, ou a
lounge. Both had died without a strug¬
gle.
Tbe younger child, a little girl, was
taken from bed into another room ami
then killed. Bray was found lying on
the porch outside. He bail been sick
for some time with typhoid fever and
was probably insane at the time of tbe
tragedy.
A MANIAC’S DEED.
He Fires Five Bullets into an Uft.
suspecting Victim.
At Atlanta, Friday afternoon, Ben¬
jamin H. Osborn, age twenty-one.
a raving lunatic, who had escaped from
hiB home aud was being hunted by of¬
ficers at the time, walked up behind
Theodore Schrader, who was return¬
ing home from his day’s work, and
without a word of warning shot him
to death liko a dog.
Never knowing who his assailant
was, the murdered man reeled forward
twenty feet before falling neadlong to
the pavement.
The streets were filled with pedes¬
trians at the time, aud half a dozen
persons saw the assastin’s awful deed.
They saw the murderer standing ap¬
parently unconcerned, watching the
effect of his deadly work.
Without resistance the murderer was
arrested.
SWEDES FOR TENNESSEE.
A Colony of Fifteen Hundred to Lo¬
cate at Bristol.
Caldwell Dulaney, brokers, of
Bristol. Tenn., have just closed a deal
for the establishment of a Swedish
coIodj of 1,500 inhabitants in the
suburbs of Bristol. An agent of the
Swedish government has purchased
5,000 acres of land, to be laid out in
tracts of twenty acres each. Each
tract is to be occupied by a family of
Swedes. These people will have their
own schools, churches and mercantile
enterprises.
EXPLOSION WRECKS BREWERY
Ammonia Pipe Bursts and Eight Men
are Injured.
A tremendous explosion of ammonia
occured Tuesday night at the Schmidt
brewery, owned by the Indianapolis
Brewing Company, which completely
wrecked the cold storage plant, badly
injuring eight men and causing much
damage. The men were injured by
being burned mostly about the face,
neck, breast and hands.
NATIONAL CAPITAL
W ASHINGTON NKWS ANi> NOTES
OF IX ITCliKSI’.
Wlsat Is Daily Transpiring at Unde
Sam's .lead quarters.
The Pr si’dent lias appointed Mid¬
dleton S. Elliott of South Carolina, to
be assistant surgeon in the navy.
Airs. Cleveland, accompanied by Ler
three children, Ruth, Esther and Ms-
rioD, reached Washington shortly t
lore 10 o’clock Saturday night.
It is annnounced that a shortage of
I etween $15,000 and $16,000 has been
found iu the accounts of Pr. A. C.
Patterson, assistant physician in charge
of the criminal and homicidal wards of
the government hospital for the in¬
sane. The deficit does not come out
of government fund?, but out of sums
paid by private patients. Dr. God¬
ding stated that the amount of the
shortage had already been made good.
The United States supreme court
convened promptly at noon Monday
for the Oetobfr term, and remained in
session only three minutes. The time
sufficed for the admission of four at¬
torneys to the bar, and fur the an¬
nouncement of the chief justice that
the hearing of all motions docketed
for the day would be postponed for
Tuesday, in order to permit tho
court to call upon the president in a
body, according to a time-honored
custom.
Why consul Smith Resigned.
r Ihe ,,, , letter ,. of , c Secretary , . OInev ...
ae-
*
cepting .. the resignation of Henry XT (.lav
'
Smith, ^ appointed - ,, , from Alanama . as
Uuj , , Kantoe,
j “ix
si bave the honor to ttc kuow!-
edge . the ,, receipt . . of , registered . ,
.? vour
•
, letter ot .. tho .. StU instant, . . addressed ,, to
the .. president, . aud . bv , him , . reterrea ..
1 ’ :n
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due . mail . the , afternoon of .
course ol on
(Jet. .. , nth, the material . . contents . . of t
which, . . . however, appeared . . at . Seaat ,
11 in
one W,.»hmgt„u , . . pircr on ihe . ev..,oo S
of the 8tb. In M you tender your re,-
ignation v of the office of consul ct me
U r “ ,tea .. , S 0 ta . ‘ , CB at , Sn,lt ., . ° B ; '«»?'• ., .. “ , ls
not » violent . , «...impt.on that your
rwaiguatiou . tendered... wel..
.ib S roum,.
ed anticipation of a probable action of
‘
the ., president Si. charges s of t
on numerous
personal aud official misconduct, some
of which have been ou file in this de-
partment for n considerable period, all
of which have been e tiled to your at¬
tention and none of which have you
ever refuted or satisfactorily explained.
As, however, tho acceptance of your
resignation by relieving the public
service of the injurious consequences
of your connection with it an.-wera
practically all the purposes that could
be accomplished l>v your dismissal, I
am directed by ilie president to notify
yon that your resignation is accepted.
Ilfspeetfully yours,
Richaki> (
Secretary of State.
M OT H E SJ-1N- L A \Y JAILED.
Karl Russell Charges l.snly Scott With
Criminal Libel.
A London dispatch says; Earl Rus¬
sell has obtained a warrant for the ar¬
rest of his m<ith* r in-law, Lady Tina
Scott, upon the charge of criminal li¬
bel.
She was arrested at a hotel in the
Strand and spent the night in a cell at
the Bow sfreet police station. Lady
Scott Wiss arraigned in the Bow street
police c >urt Saturday morning and
was rem inded for inrlher hearing, but
was admitted to bail in the suai of
£‘2,000, two sureties furnishing £500
each »iij <5 Lady 'tiissell herself luri; m-
ing £1,000.
DOCTOR SHORT $16,000.
Was Physician to St. Elizabeth Hospi¬
tal For the Insane, at Washington.
A discrepancy has been discovered
in the accounts of I>r. A. (J. Patterson,
one of the staff' physicians at St. Eiix-
beth hospital for the insane, at Wash¬
ington, D. C. It Las been ascertained,
after a careful examination of the
books, that the shortage amounts tc
between $15,000 and $16,000.
ATLANTA MARKETS.
COI4KECTED WEEKLY.
Groceries.
Loasted coffee 17-G0 100 tt> '*aaes. €rreen,(.fc'iee
17%C;fair I6V£c; prime Sugar. Standard
granulated 4.78c; New Oii'n* white 4?£c; do. yel¬
low 4J/c. Syrup—New Orleans open kettle
25@4<Jc: mixed l’ip£(g20c; fcngarltouse 20 <$33e.
Teas— lllack SC/SG-Ze; green Itice—Heart
6L£:clioice 6^c. Salt-dairy,sacks,$1.25: dtvbb *.
ice cream 90c; common 67c. Cheese—
Full cream 10@llc. Matches--65* 50c ; 3004
$1.30/5)$ 1.75; 300* $2.75. Soda-Bo:m oc:
(Jr; ck nil--Soda 5l£c; cream
guif.e.* map* 7c. Garniv—Common <tick
>V. $1.25. !2?^@I3‘<. Powder—llifle Oysters $4!«k). F. W. $1.75; L.
Shot—$1-15.
Flour, Grain and Meal.
$4.40: Flour, first paten'-, $5.00; secou i p%Umt
straight $3.8.'; fancy $3.70; f-xtra fim -
lv $3.40. Corn, white 40c; mixed 39c. Oats,
white 34c; mixed 99c; Texas ru.-;t proof 1>. lije
Georgia TUc. Barley, Gourgia raised 75e. flay.
No. 1 timothy, largo bales 90c: small bales
80c. No.2 timothy, -mall bales 75c. Meai.puwa
42c; bolted 38c. Wheat braD, large saci* ***.>•--
small sack* 65c. Short* 90c. Stock Ilea*.. $1.
Cotton Seed Meal 95c per 10!) lba. Hnl!*. $6.
per ton. Peas, GOe per bn. Grits #2.50.
Country Produce.
13al4c. Batter—Western Creamery
16/^lSc; fancy Tenu. ]56£l7%c, elioto?
Georgia 12%(2$15c. Live poultry — Tnr-
keys 8al0; hens £2L'u|25c; qjriag
cluck'>iis,12%a22I^ :ducks ‘20<&22*4. Irish p«v.*-
toes, Burbank 1.7o-/?$2.0i) V bb*; G ! )»G5 j S# bn.
Tennessee bu. 50(3,60c. Sweet potatoes now
CtrJ(S,7-> bn. 7<d* ! z: m
ihe comb 8^ 9c. Onion* G'j«a75 bn; bb»a-
$:2.00a$2.50. Cabbage I^a
Provisions.
Clear rib sides, boxed iee-cure l bailies
7c- Clear aid-s 4%‘. Sagar-cured hams
1 la’ 2J.£c; California 7% e. Break fast bacon 9a!0.
quality 5%e; seooud quality 5v;
4>£c.
W»rke; Cotton.
el toed ready; middling 6%.