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ATHENS, GA., TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1891.
the rape of ™ e CENTRAl " the Central was about to be leased
* n4 (ti i Ul ion entitled “special” tele-
ms t think that all the read-
^ 0 f that paper are extremely ig~
t aD j credulous people. The
iinoest and most transparent stnff
.'complacently spread out before
peeves as startling facts. The la-
t ' iZV gauzy clTusion of this sort
. i0l he paper Friday as a “spe-
from New York. We are gravely
uia ifl ii that Mr. Jay Gould is
jinking of “going into” the Rich.
j Terminal and if he does b.<-
f ;]turn the business of the Mis-
pacific Railroad system over to
Missouri Pacific
toun
jjj Central. The
has its principal Eastern
jjminus at St. Louis, Mo. The Wa
^ Railroad with a mileage east of
^Mississippi of 1304 miles begins
Louis and extends eastward,
la me H >ard of Directors of the Mis-
>iur i pacific aie Jay Gould, Geo. J
fioulcl Sidney Dillon, Russell Sage,
lime B ard of the Wabash Railroad
fo. are George J. Gould, Sidney Dit
to, Russell Sage.
| lW! li thus be seen that the con
trolling men in the Missouri Pacific
jjii is the Wabash are the same. It
Uextremely improbable, to say the
last, that they will divert business
t Kansas City trotn the Missouri
Pit:tic and Horn the Wabash and
itl.ver it to the Central. Certainly
if they should do so, it will be a new
i-psriure ia railroading. Messrs.
Mil, Dillon and Sage live in New
Irk and are interested in and con-
iroidiere Western lines. It is not a
p'jshle story that they will divert
Iksiness from them and give it to
neCentral and to the City of Sa-
Tinaali.
Tnen again it is announced as
Ms to ncuighud Georgians that
hi G m.a bas “gone into” the Ter-
nil company. Everybody in Geor-
his known for six months past
iihc had ' gone into” the Termi-
some time ago and common re-
t in New i irk and Georgia told
o* be went in. It was interesting.
*a$ more interesting to him
L’iigh than to those already “in it.”
be columns of the Constitution of
at date will throw some light upon
*lie ‘‘went in.”
his not news that Jay Gould is
tae Terminal. Everybody
tows it. His fine Italian hand has
at work for some time. There
some who believe that he went in-
At Terminal to control the Cen*
i of Georgia and save hie Western
-« from the competition of the
wtril which was being felt. Hence
ordered the Central to be leased
-eGa. Pacific, which put it into
if hands of tfi e R. & D. The busi-
Savannah increased twenty
-‘ions the twelve months preceding
■oi'e of the Central. This was
‘iog serious, so the Central was
m up by a lease. It will be in-
sc dve, especially to Savannah, to
®pare the business of the twelve
■ bs after the lease with the
tlVe “oaths preceding.
^btre is room for the suspicion
11 til,s 9 Pecial telegram, dealing
ll does exclusively in rumor and
s its author to no state**
•3 of fact, was intended to infl»*
-Je h'gislatnre against the Ber-
lll ‘ ^his bill is demanded by
It the legislature should
CQit) st last to the skillful and
foments and appeals of the
^ “si advocates there will be
'^Appointment felt through'
e State. There can be no
^ at the late Alliance conven-
iil rrettly re P re8ei *ted the public
, t( j * Dt of t * le State, when they dew
a«tii .'^ l8lslion enforcing the
ution. n 0 observant man
llle People anywhere
eg °* a w ’ l kont finding convin
in f °° f 0U ever y side that they
D f »'or ot
p^ ai ' s of tkese corporations.
VOte ‘ n Geor 8 ia to-day
iti, . 0Ve rwhelmingly adopted,
ill h„ * Cate<1 ““t® better reason
tn K
1)8 given to satisfy the
an y that has yet .been
for ninety-nine years to the Ga Pa
cific the stock of the Central began
to decline. The rental was seven per
cent upon the capital stock of the
Central. The Central has been won
derfully prosperous. It began pay
ing dividends nearly fifty-years ago
and has kept it up with few inter
ruptions. In 1882 it paid eight per ct;
in 1883 the same; in 1884 six per
cent; in 1885 five per cent; in 1886
four per cent; in 1887, 1888, 1889
and 1890, eight per cent in each
year, in cash. From June 1847 to
June 1890, a period of foriy-three
years, the cash dividends aggregated
356 per cent and over, more than an
avetage of eight per cent a year.
Besides these cash dividends it has
declared and paid the following
stock dividends: eight per cent in
1854; twelve per cent in 1861, ami
forty per cent in certificates in July
1881. This magnificent road, witL
this splendid record, was turned ove;
for ninety-nine years to the Georgia
Pacific, a company which has never
earned or paid a single dividend—
which did not even pay the interest
on its own bonds the year of the lease
and which had previously leased
itself lo the Richmond and Danville.
This rape of the Central was perpe
trated through the Richmond Ter
minal. It is this contract which the
Berner bill attacks and which the
Terminal advocates defend.
cooked bis own goose pretty brown
wben he undertook to turn tbe State
Alliance to Pat Calhoun and the Rich
mond Terminal Company.—Cuihbert
Enterprise.
No doubt of it. Colonel Lining-
8ton will cook his own goose if it is
ever cooked. The people trusted him,
and many of them trust him yet, hut he
went wrong on the railroad question.
L. Q, C. Lamar, jr., a son of the jus
tice of the supreme court, had a diffi-
ulty in the courthouse at Roanoke,
Va., on Tuesday, with Mr. Morris, of
the firm of Greenbnrg & Morris, whose
assignment he was contesting. Morris
used insulting language, and Lamar
knocked him down and stamped in his
face. Lamar was arrested, stood trial
and was dismissed.
Says the Cuthbert Liberal-Enter
prise : Tbe Berner bill, to enforce
that clause ,of our state Constitution
which forbids railroad monopoly, was
favorably reported by the committee on
Thursday of last week. Will Pat Cal
houn and his private car again succeed
in overriding our Constitution and the
will of the people, or will this bill be
come a law ?
The Boston Herald gets -off this fine
bit of irony.
Yes, the Republican party never,
never will desert the colored voter, and
the office of alternate deiegate to con
ventions will be kept sacred to him a?
he and the party exist ”
EXPENSIVE LEGISLATION.
Has anybody suggested to th
present legislature that it is piling
up the taxes upon the people of
Georgia ? This pertinent question
asked by the Columbus Enquiter-
8un, and this joarual continues to
say:
If not, it ht time the suggestion
was made. This has been a vear of
great financial depression and the
payment ot taxes this fall will be a
heavy burden on the people. When
the legislature reassembled in July
was face to face with a large de°
ficit created by the-loose legislation
of the winter session. That ought
to have been a warning of the urgent
necessity of an economical summer
session. But the warning has beeu
nheeded and is still being unheeded.
Aside from the accumulated and ac
cumulating appropriations, the ses
sion itself is lengthening ont to the
frost line at a cost to the people of
$1500 a day. There is no sign yet of
final adjournment, and the session
may yet make a $100,000 record
This must be paid with tax money
When the people go to the tax col
lector’s office, as they soon mast, and
the State, county and municipal tax
rates stare them in the face, it is safe
to say that there will be some groan
ing and a great deal of kicking. It
is certain that they will have to pay
an increased tax rate, at a time when
lower rate would be a public boon,
and they will charge it up, with ex«
act justice, to this present General
Assembly.' As the Enquirer»Sun
has the kindest feelings for that body
ndividnally, we deem it a duty to
say to it, confidentially, hedge, while
yet there is time, or rather, and bet
ter still, flee the wrath to come by
finishing up at once the remaining
important public business, then ad
jouro, go home and face the music
like.men.
It will not be very funny if the Geor
gia legislators after staying in Atlanta
this long go borne without protecting
the State’s Contistution from these
mammoth railroad combinations. Noi
very funny to the dear people.
Georgia still manages to have about
as many annual fairs as auy State in the
Union. Atlanta, Augusta, Columbus.
Macon and Gainesville will all have a
big season this year.
Th* general attemlly ofthie date thall havt
no power to auihorite any corporation to bay
thorn* or ftock in any other corporation in th*
ttatt, or tlttwhere, or to mat* any contractt,
agreement* whatever with any tack corporation
which may have thereat, or he intended to have
the effect, to iff cat or lectern competition m their
retpective buttnett, or to cnconrage monopoly
and all tuck etnUraoU and agretmtnU thall
illegal and void.—Paraobam 4, Sscno*
ard Abticli IS or m* Co»«titdtio* or Geor
gia
Editor Young, of the Greenesboro
Hotne-Jolurnal is very angry with the
Georgia Legislature for not passing
tbe dog law. He writes:
Sons of the very brilliant members
of the Georgia legislature treated the
dog law as a joke, and tberefoi* de
feated it. Tbe people who have been
beset by roving curs should humor tbe
joke and keep these very brilliant men
at home in the futu<e untii they look at
a very important matter in a serious
North bn
A. DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY
MUNICIPAL MATTERS MAY
MADE MERRY.
What does the State Constitution
say about tbe purpose of the Berner
bill ? It says no railroad shall be leased
to a competing line.
It seems that the democr .< y of New
York is haviug a Hill of a lime.
—
A new hotel and more houses me
needed in Athens. Let our capitalists
take notice of this fact and act accor
dingly.
An Order Prom the Executive Com
mittee of the City Democracy—
November 25th Is the Day
Fixed.
The municipal campaign grows live
lier still.
There will be a Democratic primary
election in this city on tbe 25th day of
November.
And at that election all the candi
dates for Mavor of Athens, and for Al
derman from each ward must submit
their claims.
Such at least is the order that has
been passed hy the city members of the
executive committee.
This will bring out the iucerest in
the battle much earlier and the
tax payers and voters will have, some
thing to think about from this time on
'till the primary is held.
Meantime, the candidates will crop
out in profusion and some life and fun
may be expected in the very near fu
ture.
Mayor Brown and Henry Tuck will
have to go to work with their canvass
ing in dead earnest, and who tvrr
wants to be aide rman bad better say so
and that soon.
HKRE IS THE ORDER. *
The following order was passed by
the city members of the Democratic
Executive Committee.
Ordered, that a Primary election for
the nomination of a Democratic can
didal** for mayor, and a Democratic
candidate for Alderman from each warn
of the city of Athens shall be held at
the usual places, in each ward, of hold
ing municipal elections on Wednesday
X ovembor 25 th 1891.
The polls will be opened at 9 o’clock
m. and closed at 4 o’clock p. m. on
said day.
This primary will be conducted under
the rules governing municipal elections,
except that none bat Registered Demo
crats will be allowed to vote.
If you want to vote in this primary,
pay your citv taxes and register with
the Clerk of the Council.
The regi* r tion books are now open,
and will close November 20th 1891, at
' o’clock p m.
Registry lists will be fnnished the
managers in each ward.
The Banner and Ledger are respect
fully requested to give tbe party full
notice of said primary.
A. L. Mitchell,
Chairman Dem. Ex Com.
J. M. Collins,
John Crawford.
Athens, Ga , Sept. 18th. 1891.
Subscribe for the Daily Banner,
read all the news and full market re
ports and be happy.
The Lincoluton News grows weary
and cries out aloud : *‘How long oh
Lord how long ’till the legislature ad
journs?
Georgia is winning an unenviable
reputation as tbe land of train robbers
Be sure to go to church this fine Sab
bath day.
More houses are needed in Athens.
BANNER WAVE-LETS
Free coinage is ignored by the New
York Democrats. It will be heard
from, however, when the West and
Sonth meet the East at the National
Convention.
If tbe Alliance stands by the Demro-
racy the party will win with hands
down in the next campaign.
Larry and Harry have a wonderful
way of working the pres to change
raoket as editor of the Southern Alli
ance Farmer. It is like a childish game
of see-saw.
The Flower of Democracy in New
York will never have the bloom knock
ed from it.
If there be a division among Demo
crats over the tree coinage question it
is the first time the world ever knew
men to be divided in tbe desire for
more money.
SOME SILLY SMILES.
A borrower of books is generally
thorough bookkeeper.—Baltimore
American.
Give Russia an inch and she’ll take
the Dardanelles.—Philadelphia Record
The “balance of the season” is what
troubles paterfamilias.—Boston Com
monwealth.
When a man begins to blow yon may
know be is trying to take things by
storm.—Galveston News
The Eternal City must be a Rome-
antic spot during the carnival.—Bing
hamton Republican.
It is said that Czar never shaves, but
most pe ople know be has had many
close sh ave — Pittsburg Post.
When the seizure officers visit a sal-
loon they usually are on. a rummaging
expedition.—Lowell Courier.
he woods use to be full of balloon
acrobats, but they seem to be falling
off rapidly.—Yonkers Statesman.
THE ROAD CONGRESS.
Clarke County Should' Call a Meeting
to Elect a Delegate.
The following letter explains itself:
Atlanta. Ga., Sept lfi.—Rbmsbn
Crawford Esq , Editor .of the Ban
der, Athens. Ga—Dear Su:-Tbe
call for the Road Congress leaves it o
tional with each county as to the mo<
of selecting delegates to the Congress
assembling here October- 28. In order
that there may be prompt and harmo
nious action, I suggest that the county
commissioners, or the Ordinary having
in charge the public roads, the presi
dents of tbe county alliance and county
agriclntural club, and master of £the
county grange nnite in calling a meet-
It is a settled fact that
hM«tokeilbi8*owMriowwho^is"going| tie .t Ibe 'county site on'the first
ID& Record. ^ . I r ry ri WmnRY
M “ »*8 made public that ^cu‘^nd nom°idlLnt*cme^ Ig He Secretary Georgia'Road Cougrek
AND THE DISPENSARY WILL OPEN
THIS WEEK.
A PRIMARY IS CALLED,
THE QUESTION OF PROFITS
la Settled by the Commlsslonere—Fif
ty per cent on the Invoice Cost
Will be laid—A Full Line of
Liquor, Wine and Beer to be
had
THE MARKETS.
Bannkr Office, Athens Sept 18th 1891.
The local market stood at yesterday’s
figures but the cautious action of buy
ers indicated that they feared a decline
next week following the, steady and
continued drop in futures. A promi
nent buyer predicted a price of 734c.
next week, and offered to back his
judgment with a good hat The pro
ducer however, has the consolation of
knowing that if the fine weather does
lower the price, it at the same time,
raises the grade of tbe cotton and elim
inates stains and blue cotton that have
been so common in this market and so
unsaleable.
The following prices ruled today on
an easy market.
Good middling 8
Strict middling 7%
Middling
Strict low middling 734
Low middling 734-726
Receipts were 138 bales, sales 109,
shipments 150, stock 1,774. Total re
ceipts to date 996.
In New York spots were quoted
without change, 826. market easy. -
Futures tumbled again but rallied
slightly toward the close, wben quota
tions were abont one or two points be
low yesterday. The market opened
steady at the decline and closed steady.
Sept.
Opening.
790
Closing.
8.5-8
Oct.
8.4
8 10-11
Nov.
8 25
8.28 29
Dec.
842
8.46 47
Jan.
8.59
8 62-63
Feb.
8.74
8.76 77
Mar.
8.87
8.88 -9c
Apr.
8.97
8 99-94
May.
9.7
9 9-10
June
9 16
9.18 19
July
9 24
9.29 29
Aug.
930
j9.34 36
Sales
73,400.
Liverpool
In Liverpool spots dropped 1-16 to
426* Tone dull with prices generally
in buyers favor. Sales 5,000. Ameri
can receipts 2,000.
Futures showed a marked decline and
the market was barely steady at the
close at 5 64 below yesterdays prices.
OPENING.
CIsOSB.
Sep. Oct
4.35-36
Oct.;Nov.
4.36 37
4 3.6 37
Nov. Dec.
4.43-42
4 40-41
Dec. Jan.
4.45-44
4.43-44
Jan. Feb.
4.48 47
4.46 47
Feb. Mar.
4.52-51
4 49-50
Mar. Apr.
4.53 52
4 52-53
Apr. May
4.56
May June
4.59
Receipts at all U. S. ports today
28,775.
Total port receipts Sept. 1 to
Sept 19, 1891 1890 1889
192,329 249,907 188.541
Stock at all U. S. ports 394 143.
■C Groceries and Provisions.
Without change from yesterday’s
figures Messrs. J. S. Ring & Co.,
port the following prices.
'ard Grans
Sugar Stands
ExC
Granulated Bbl 534
Bbl 4;
26 5
Flour
Family
Straight
Best Patent
Co flee
Hams best
Meat
Lard BestLeaf—basis
, Corn white
Mixed
Hay No. 1 .Timothy per ton
Bran per iOOlba
Oats Feed
“ Rust Proof
Meal 86 to 90c
Bagging 21b Full Weight
“ 2341b “ «
. Ties
, , ,
Over to Hioh Shoals.—Jodge G. C.
Thomas went over to the barbecue at
B igh Shoals yesterday, and made tbe
crowd a big temperance speech.
Bbl $5.
“ $5 50
$6,25 to $6 60
20 to 22c
13 to 1334
834 to 834c
9c
88 to 90c
$20
$1 05
50
7c
THE STOCK ORDERED
ANEDREW LIPSCOMB
PUTS A QUIETUS ON AN IRATE JU
RYMAN.
But Things have Quieted Down now
and no More Trouble Is expected—
The Latest News.
The dispensary commissioners and
the dispensary manager have been
working with a will, and the result
will be that the dispensary will be run
ning before this week closes.
All during last week samples of li
quors, wines and beers were sent in to
the commissioners and manager, and
from about one hundred samples they
made their choice and placed their or
der.
They determined to order the stock
and have it analyzed after it came here.
The commissioners made up the order
on Friday evening and sent it off at
once. The goods are ordered from sev
eral firms in Atlanta, and will be of the
very best quality.
The stock laid in is an abundant one,
and of great variety. There will be
several kinds and grades of liquors;
different kinds of wines, and beers; and
champagne to suit the more fastidious.
The stock thus ordered will be open
ed up as soon as it is analyzed and it is
more than likely that the dispensary
will be running before next Saturday.
The hours for keeping
open the dispensary have
not been set, but it is pietty well
settle that they will be from seven
’clock in the morning until six in tbe
evening in the winter, and from seven
till seven in the summer.
The law allows the commissioners to
fix the amount in which liquor can be
sold and provides that it shall not be
sold in less quantities than a half pint.
The commissioners have decided that
shall not be sold in less quantities
than one pint.
The manager will give bond in tbe
sum of $2,500 during the week, and be
ready to enter upon the discharge of his
duty.
The question of profits has been set
tled, so it is said.
It is said that the commissioners have
decided to lay a profit of 50 per cent,
on the invoice cost of the liquors, or, in
other words, about thirty-five per cent,
on the actual cost of the stock.
The commissioners have not yet com
pleted their rules and regulations, hat
when they do. they will have them
printed and turned over to the manager
as a guide for bis actions.
So the dispeusary will be running be
fore another week passes by.
If the stock is shipped prompt
ly and analysis is satisfactory.
AN IMPOSING SHAFT
Erected to the Memory of General
Howell CobD.
Yesterday a handsome and imposing
monument was placed in position in
Oconee cemetery.
It was a monument erected by the
children of the late General Howell
Cobb.
The monument is situated on the
Cobb lot on an overlooking hill by the
side of the Oconee and is in a lovely
situation. It is twenty feet
height and most elegantly
finished by that skilfull sculptor, Mr.
Thomas Markwalter, of Augusta.
Quite appropriate it is that it should
have been carved out of Georgia gran
ite and placed; in position by Georgia
workmen.
The granite out of which the shaft
was made came from the quarries near
Lexington, and is more beautiful in
appearance than marble.
On the western face the monn
ment is inscribed the name of General
Howell Cobb, the date of his birth and
death, etc.
On the northern side is inscribed the
name ot Mary Ann Lamar Cobb, the
wfte of General Cobb.
On the eastern side are the names of
tbe desceased children of General and
Mrs. Cobb and on the southern Bide are
inscribed the many offices of honor and
trust held by this distinguished Geor
gian while in life.
It is one of the most beautiful monu
ments in the cemetery and is a fitting
remembrance of the illustrious dead by
their living children.
Correspond«nee Between Governors.
Louisville, Sept. 19. — Governor
Buchanan of Tennessee, wired Governor
Brown of Kentucky, that he had relia*
“ tion that Kentucky miners
g to release the convicts
in the mines at Briceville. He says the
says the suue men have before invaded
TennessdPfcnd released convicts. He
asks Governor Brown to repress law
lessness. Governor Brown replied that
he would do all in bis power to prevent
the trouble anticipated, but called Gov
ernor Buchanau’s attention to the fact
that Kentnckians doing unlawful acts
in Tennessee are liable to punishment
under the laws of that state.
bleinf
were
Punishing Chinese Rioters.
Paris, Sept. 19.—The Chinese charge
d’affaires visited Foreign Minister Ribot
and, after informing him that China
recognized that the measures hitherto
taken to protect Europeans in China
were insufficient, assured him that the
negligent mandarins would be dis
missed and the rioters punished. He
added that six of the latter have al
ready been hanged. It is feared, how
ever, that these promises will remain a
dead letter. _
BLOODSHED THREATENED.
Fort Monroe, Va., Sept. 19.—
[Sepcial.]—All is quiet here today over
the threatened mobbing of the Hon.
Andrew A. Lipscomb, attorney in tbe
Hains case.
There came very near being blood
shed, however, atone period of the
game, and if Mr. Lipscomb and bride
had not left town when they did some
serious trouble may have arisen.
The jurymen who took offense at Mr.
Lipscomb’s speech were so incensed
that tbey would certainly
have made another, break upon him bad
bis business detained him here. As has
already been reported, Mr. Lipscomb,
be attorney, ot Washington, who ad
dressed tbe meeting at Hampton last
night and bitterly denounced tbe Hains
jury, was followed to Old Point by
Booker Jones, (me of the '.jurors, with
two of his brothers and a few friends.
Sheriff CnrtL, who bad got wind of it,
followed them closely, and arrived joist
in time to prevent bloodshed.
As Lipscomb and bis wife entered the
lobby of tbe Hygeia hotel, Jones fol
lowed him and reached for bis revolver.
Lipscomb also drew bis pistol, but
before a shot could be fired, the sheriff
came np and carried JoneB away.
Manager Pike sounded a general alarm
for the watchmen, and sent a message
to Col. Frank for a guard, but when
they arrived the parlies bad left. Lips
comb and his bride left for New York
last uight.
It has been quite a sensation around
here today, and a very great deal of
interest has been manifested in the
affair.
The rumor is out that the father of
young Washington, a very rich old
man, made the statement that he would
spend every cent he had to acquit his
son. This, together with tbe general
surprise of the verdict leads to the be
lief that the jury was bribed.
The public sentiment is with Mr.
Lipscomb.
The Cottou Crop.
Memphis, Sept. 19. —Owing to a dry,
warm weather, crop conditions have
generally improved throughout the
Memphis district in the last ten days.
The tendency to rust noticed in the
last report, and which was causing
much alarm among the planters both
in the hills and bottoms, has been
checked, and but little additional dam
age from that source is reported. Still,
in low lying fields on the uplands,
considerable injury has already been
done.
Married Sixty-Seven Tear*.
Monticello, Ills.. Sept. 19. —The six
ty-seventh anniversary of the marriage
of Mr. and Mrs. George Clouser of
Platt county, was celebrated at the
psirk in Mansfield, where there were
1,000 relatives and friends of the aged
couple assembled to participate in the
festivities, which consisted of a grand
feast with speeches and music. They
are among the old pioneers of Illinois.
“Salvation ia Still Free.”
Moberly, Mo., Sept. 19.—John L.
An cell, justice of the peace in this city,
knocked the anti-Salvation ordinance
out. He sustained a motion to diamiaH
prosecutions on the ground of the ille-
ditv of the ordinance and discharged
e three lady prisoners. Salvation is
still free in Moberly. The Salvationists
are jubilant, and are still on the march.
COMMENCING NEXT YEAR.
A Bill to Bond the State Debt Recom
mitted—A Resolution hi the Sen
ate to Adjourn Sine Die
September 23.
HE HISSED
And Won
THE DINNER
Suit Agalntt the Western
Union for 9150.
San Francisco, Sept. 19.—Lansing
B. Mizner, Jr., won a suit here against
the Western. Union Telegraph company.
Abont three weeks age H. Porter Ash
gave a dinner at which Mizner was to
be the honored guest. The dinner was
an impromptu affair, and Mizner was
notified by telegram. The evening ar
rived, and among the guests were Geo
Pollock and several well known club
men and legal lights of this city. The
dinner was an elegant affair, but the
principal guest, Mizner, failed to ap
pear. The next day Ash saw Mizner,
and asked the cause of his failure to
respond to the invitation. Mizner ex
hibited much surprise. He had not
received the telegram. It was too late
for the dinner then, hat the disappointed
young man vowed revenge, and accord
ingly brought suit in a justice’s court
»t Benecia, where the dispatch should
have been delivered, asking $150 dam
ages from the Western Union for failure
to deliver the despatch. The case was
tried and judgement was rendered for
the plaintiff in the full amount claimed
with $11.60 costs. The defendant did
not appear by counsel or otherwise.
Swallowed Carbolic Acid.
Troy, N. Y., Sept. 19.—Gerald G.
Riorandon, a young attorney, was
of fbe first to welcome the return from
Saratoga of the Troy Democratic clnb.
Less than half an hoar later he was
dead. He was wont to take cocaine
that he kept in Moucrief & Francis’s
drug store, and by mistake he swal
lowed a large dose of carbolic acid.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 18.—{Special-]—
The bill by Mr. Hoff to increase the li
quor tax from fifty to two hundred dol
lars, oame np as unfinished business.
Mr. Graves, of Newton, offered to
amend by substituting one hundred
dollars for two hundred dollars. Tbe
amendment was lost.
Mr. Craigo, of Gilmer, proposed to
amend by adding to section 1, after the
word “dealer” in tbe 16th line, “and
provided further that this tax aball not
be required of mannfactnrers of spirit
uous or malt liqnors who sell in the
original packages of not less than ten
gallons.” The amendment was lost
The bill was then put upon its pas
sage, and Mr. Huff, of Bibb, as author
of tbe bill, had twenty minutes in
which to defend tbe measure. He be
lieved that if you would put that $200
tax on the liquor dealers it would wipe
out the little contemptible bar-rooms
where all the deviltry and crime was
concocted.
He believed that if such a thing were
possible this tax would elevate the
whisky traffic.
Mr. Fleming, of Richmond, closed
the argument in behalf of the commit
tee on its adverse report.
Mr. Hill, of Meriwether, in explana
tion of his vote, said that he did not
believe in elevating the whisky traffic;
that it was the greatest drawback to
prohibition that could be instituted,
whenever you sought to make whisky
selling elevating.
The bill passed by a vote of 94 to 48
and some one sbouted ‘‘hurrah for the
94.”
Mr. Wheeler, of Walker, moved that
the bill be immediately transmitted to
the Senate, and the motion was adop
ted.
Tbe bill by Mr. Huff, of Bibb, to au
thorize the governor and treasurer to is
sue bonds, and negotiate tbe same for
the purpose of raising money with
which to pay ofl any amount of the
public debt matnring in 1892
Mr. Huff, author of the bill, agreed
to this proposition, and it was recom
mitted to the finance committee with
instructions to return a bill to the
house providing for the payment of
one hundred thousand dollars at the
time of the maturity of the debt from
the sinking fund and tbe bonding of
the remaining two hundred and seven
thousand.
THE SENATE.
This morning immediately after the
roll call Senator Candler of the 40th,
introduced a resolution to adjourn sine
die on Wednesday, September 23rd.
1891.
Mr. Terrell took, tbe floor and spoke
against the resolution Baying th at the
tax bill now pending in the house
should be disposed of before the assem
bly adjourned.
A motion was made to table the reso
lution with amendments offered thereto,
which was carried by a vote of ayes 17,
nayB 13.
The Senate passed the bill introduced
by Mr Morton, of Clarke, amending
the act incorporating the Athens Sa
ving bank.
Abraded Coin.
Washington, Sept. 19.—Congress, at
its last session, authorized the recoinage
of the unenrrent fractional silver coin
now in the treasury abraded below the
limit of tolerance and made an appro
priation of $150,000 to cover the loss to
the coin by abrasion, etc. This sum, it
is estimated, will cover the loss on
about $400,000 of the coin, and this
amount is now being coined into quar
ter dollars and dimes, for which there
is a very great demand^ particularly for
the dimes, as the fall approaches and
trade becomes active. The recoinage
into standard silver dollars of the f ~
000,000 (in round numbers) of trade i
lar bullion, which the last <
i$5.-
i dol-
thorized, is also in progress, and will be
completed in the next two-months.
Preacher Confessed to Lying.
Akron, O., Sept. 19.—A small-sized
row was precipitated in session of the
East Ohio conference when the resigna
tion of Rev. A. J. Hyatt of Burton,
came np for consideration. Mr. Hyatt
had confessed that on a certain occasion
specified he had been guilty of lying,
and under the impnlse of the moment
handed in his resignation, bat on sec
ond thought he decided to withdraw it.
Mr. Hyatt was represented by Dr. Nor-
cross of Pittsburg, who stated that his
client desired a hearing and wished to
withdraw his reeigntation. A few angrv
words passed, bat Bishop Fowler's
diplomacy speedily referred the mat
ter to a committee, and qniet was re
stored.