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11? THE banner,Leals. Beeiuis It prints All ibn Local N*wt of Athnnn, All th» E*org!» N»w» and Happenings. Afltlta Important Events In thn Woria. THE LIQUOR LICENSE. DEALERS WILL PAY TWO HUN DRED DOLLARS. AGES, SAGES, AND WAGES. If you have a wife and a half-a-dozen daughters, yon can keep them all well by very simple means. Let them use Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. It is good for women of all agts. You will not need to spend all your wages for it. Those ancient sages, the M. D’s of a century since, did nothing but dose and bleed their patients. We do better today: We use Dr. Pierce’s remedies. For womankind, Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is simply indis pensable. The yonng girl needs its strengthening help at that critical pe riod when she is blossoming into wo manhood. The matron and mother 'j.A find in it invigoration and relief from the numerous ills which beset their ex istence. And ladies well advanced in years universally acknowledge the re- *4 vivifying and restorative efleets of this favorite and standard remedy. ATM •^jlJStto ADVERTISERS. ” ,« DIM »»» •*a » circulations of My n ** * Ncrtlsutt and Eutsra Gtorgla . 1,1. 1*54 rgg&'*' rT - I ronnoliJntcd with the I A them* Banner, Kr . JKKerney the iinag' naUve indtvidaal the articles who in the Atlanta —*?»Hf 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.