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cZ) ' / ~ > ~ r r w THE VIENNA PROGR ESS. y s - TERMS, $1. Per Annum. “Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall Where They May.” KSvVSX'SK. 1 • VOL. XI., NO 38. **** ' " — — VIENNA, GA., TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1893. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. i The loss to the farmers of Michigan m .1892 from smut of oafs is estimated at over $1,000,000. GEORGIA HEWS NOTES. The New England Farmer h authority for the statement that “the condition of the average farmer in New England, all things considered, is much better than that of the average farmer in most other sections of the country. Two car-loads of Boston girls have & gone to Texas to supply the demand there for wives, which leads the Detroit Free Press to exclaim that “the man who seeks to escape from woman recklessly tackles the impossible.” During the year 1S92 England published 4915 new books and 1339 new editions, or a total of 0251. L ist year the figures were 5706. Tiie increase has been especially in the department of novels, namely 1117 as compared with £96 in 1891. Theology reports 528, philosophy 579, medicine 127 new pub lications, while law has only twenty-six, altho poetry has 185, history 293, and geography 250. Renewed attention is called by the New York Independent to the brutality of the best military establishment in the world. A non-commissioned officer had been unusually brutal to a German recruit of good family, who eventually was driven to suicide to escape the deg radation to which he was forced, hut not before he had written a letter to his parents giving a full account of what he suffered. .'Ibis letter was sent by them to the Emperor who has caused the ar rest of the brute. A result has been the discovery of the fact that out of 127 deaths in the army during December last, twenty-four were suicides mostly caused by desperation at the tyranny of non commissioned officers. But war is essentially brutal. [Isms of Interest Gathered at Random from All Orer the State. An American naval officer says that ODce when a great function took place in the harbor of Cherbourg, Franca, several vessels of our Atlantic Squadron were present and were drawn up in line to salute the Empress Eugenie’s yacht as it passed. The French sailors manned the yards of their 3hips and shouted, “Vivo l’Imperatrice.” Knowing that he could not school his men to repeat those words in the brief time left to him the American Admiral ordered his crews to cry, “Beef, and cheese.” The Imperial yacht came sweeping on, and as it reached the fleet a mighty roar went up of “Beef, lemons and chedse” that entirely drowned the voice of the French men. And the Empress said she had never been so complimented. One of the largest and most valuable of the Indian reservations is/that on which the Crows are settled in Montana. Its area, states the New York ’ Post, is almost as great as New Jersey, stretch ing along the south side of the Yellow stone for about 400 miles andfextending southward to the Big Horn Mountains and to the Wyoming line. Rich bottom lands, mountains of mineral, and, tracts of primitive forest are comprisediin this territory. The Crows are slowly-solving the problem of civilization, although their inclination to peaceful pursuits is sometimes rudely disturbed by the raids of their immemorial euemses the Piiegans, and it is not in the nature of the Crows to forego retaliation. Vftere the reserva tion divided among the members of the tribe, each buck, squaw aud pappoose would receive 1500 acres. If one travels through the Big Horn Valley in; these days he will find it dotted with cabins that are surrounded by corn and vege table patches. In a few instances \dug- outs for the winter storage of cropsffiave been constructed and even stables built for Montana cayuses which have been broken for the harrow and the plow. These signs of industry are evidences that the strenuous couusel of army of ficers and the Indian agents to take up lauds in severalty have not been disre garded, but it must be admitted that the work of redemption is slow, for the hunting grounds of the Crows are still more alluring than the productive toil of the fields. That substantial progress is being made, however, may be judged from the fact that whereas those In dians a few years ago possessed only p.elts, robes, and wild bronchos, their wealth now includes many farming im plements, 3000 ponies, 2500 head of cattle and innumerable pigs, sheep and fowls. “The growth of the phosphate busi ness in southern Georgia and Florida,” remarks one who knows, “has been mar velous within the past four years Steamers putting in to Brunswick have contracted in the past few months to tiacsport 50,000 tons of phosphate, about a year’s work.” * * * Breoks county is certainly the banner county for hog raising, as is attested by the large amount of bacon sold by he; farmers to the merchan’s of Quitman representative merchant of Quitman bought over 500 pounds of hams at one time from a fanner of Brooks and paid 13 5-8 cents cash for it. Who will say that doc3 not beat cottonl * * * Discussing the railroad situation, the Columbus Enquirer-Sun cays: “The country will wait with some interest to see what new feature of the railroad business will attract tbe attention of those greatest of alt modern railroad king' the federal court judges. More than one of these now could write an interestin story on ‘What I know about running railroads for the benefit of the stock holders.’ ” ♦ * * Weather crop bulletin No. 2 shows an exceedingly fine condition of affairs. Tbe weather all over the state has been re ported as very warm, the maximum be ing 85 degrees. Hail showed up in some portions of the state, but enough to do no damage. Vegetables are growing rapidly, and in the southern section o the state, peaches are developed to slight extent. Preparations for cotton planting are under way in great shape. * * * There is a very strong movement in Floyd county in favor of the adoption of the Australian ballot system. The grand jury recommended its adoption and iu their general presentments, which were read in court, this paragraph appears “We endorse and recommend the Aus traiian ballot system and recommend its adoption by the legislature of the state.” This expression meets the general ap proval of the people and there wi be some strong efforts made to get th next legislature to adopt the system. Mongolian Pheasants. If the .Mongolian pheasant at all re sembles in gamy spirit its European af finity it is more fitted for a barnyard fowl than a sportsman’s trophy. Proba bly it is just as easy of domestication. It is a common thing to hatch out pheasants under ordinary fowls, and they readily come at the call for iood. The less of the game quality they have the better are they fitted for the spit. It is amusing to learn that as the Mongo lian phcasaut.s are greedy grain feeders they should be boarded out on the farm ers of the Sacramento and San Joaquin. —Mysviile (Cal.) Appeal. A Quaint Epitaph. A collector of curious epitaphs—and there seem to be as many such as there are collectors of coins and stamps and insects and ferns—clami3, according to Harper’s Young People, to have found this singular inscription upon a grave stone iu a New Hampshire burying ground; To all my friends I bid a lieu, A more sudden death yon never knew—. As I was leading the old mare to drink ; She kicked, and killed me quicker’n wink. The work of improving the encamp ment site at Griffin according to the com mands of the advisory board, goes steadi ly on from day to day. The site will b greatly beautified and improved. It I going to be one of the prettiest military encampments to be found in the entire country. The barracks will be moved higher up the hill, and the rifle range will be greatly improved. It is a splen did place for the encampment and the men who have the work in charge have determined to make it all that it can be made before they finish the work of im provement. * * * The Romo Tribune wants the Geologi cal board abolished, and say3: “The governor has largely redeemed the state’s interests, which were much dam aged by the management of the geolpgi cal board. We are glad that he has taken the bull by the horns and decided to publish the state geologist’s report and save that much to the state from the wreck of the department. If the gov ernor had the whole of the responsibili ly in the matter we would not be afraid of tbe result, and it is to be hoped that the legislature, at its next session, will do away with such useless furniture as the geological board. A competent geo logist can manage the business better.” “That was a very important decision that was rendered on Monday by the su preme court, ” said an eminent lawyer. “I refer to the one which permits a note given in Georgia and payable in New York to be attacked successfully on the ground of usury, if it bears more than the New York statutory rate of interest, which is 6 per cent. The New York statue declares that all such contracts are void and so every note given by a Geor gia man to a New York firm that bears more than 6 per cent interest is really void and can be defeated in a suit brought on it in Georgia, or New York, by pleading the New York law as a de fense.” * * * Direct Trade. Direct trade, so dear to the south, vi tal to her interest, needful to tbe west aud of value to tbe whole union, after ri peated partial victories, is steadily moving to final success. The Savannah board of trade, perhaps the strongest commercial body in the south, had it: tenth annual meeting March 29th, and the able president, Captain D. G. Purse, thus officially repots ot the last great step in the effort for direct trade, tame ly, the organized plan of the trade bodies of the south Atlantic ports to swell southern exports abroad with some of the vast volume of western stuff now go ing to foreign lands by other routes. After commending the agitation and em phasizing the aid given the move by the Savannah exchange. President Purse adds these strong words; Appropos to this direct trade movement looking to the east for its inauguration, comes the recently started inquiry from the ports of lii unswick, Charleston aud Savannah, in con vention assembled XT Savannah, as to what steps are necessary to direct some part of the grain shipments to Europe through south At lantia ports. The railroads centering at these ports are in full sympathy with the inquiry and are aiding it in every possible manner. The west and northwest are also moving on the same line of investigation, and it does not seem improbable, wnn changes constantly occurring to increase oui advantagts, that this fall and winter may see a movement of western pro ducts through ihe south Atlantic ports that may be far-r. ach ng in their commercial results, and he the means of realizing through western anil not eas'ern influences the dream of south- i rn statesmen aud economists for more than half a century—a iclf-snstaining direct trade b-tween th- ports of the south Atlantic aud those of the great marts of the world by direct lines of sail or s’eam or loth. Export ntf grain added to the present phenomenal export trade of Savannah, would soon draw to itself imports for the west and make economical and piaetic- abie an enlargement of it for the cities in the Atlantic slope, when direct trade would ba no ouger a theory, but au accemplised fact. Honorins a Georgian. Honor has been paid the name of Chancelloi John A. Foster by the chan cery court of Aabsmi. John Arthur Foster was born November 11, 1828, at Monticello, Jasper county, Georgia. He was graduated in August, 1847, at the University of Alabama; early in the fif- t : es he became president of the Southern Female college at LaGrauge, Ga. He was admitted to the hat by the supreme court of Alabama at Montgomery, Jan uary 9, 1859, and commenced prac tice soon after at Clayton, Ala., being associated with the Hon. Jere N- , Jams the ptet ent chancellor. In 1861^ tie was elected justice of the peace, which office he resigned to enter the con federate service in August, 1861, as cap tain of Company G. Twenty ninth regi tnent of Alabama volunteers. He setved in that capacity until captured at Na=h ville on the loth of December 1864, from which time he was held as a prisoner of war at Johnson’s island until his re lease and return home in June, 1865. While in the confederate service he was appointed as register in chancery, but did not enter upon the duties of the of fice until reappointed in 1866. After tbe close of the war he was engaged in the practice of the law for a short time with the Hon. L. M. Lane, and subsequently With his son, J. Webb Foster. He was a member of the constitutional conven tion of 1875, and a member of the leg islature in 1876, and during the session of 1878-9. Upon his election to the legislature iu 1870, be resigned the posi tion of register in chsnbery. In August, 1880, be Was elected chancellor of the southern chancery division, then com posed of twenty-two counties; he was re-elected chancellor in 1886 and again 18&2. He was one of the trustees of the university of Alabama from 1876 to 1889, when he resigned. The degree of L.L. £). was conferred upon him by the A. & M. college in 1883. He died at bis home at Clayton, Ala., on Saturday, the 28th of January, 1893. ¥ * .* A Big I,nnd Company. A charter has been filed at Atlanta, for a mammoth laDd company which will do business in this state. The petition was filed by Governor W. J. Northen, S. F. WoodsoD, R. J. Lowry, N. J. Osborne, H. M. Atkinson, George W. Adair, H. G. Saunders, W. H. Venable, J. F. Ga tins, J. W. English, W. A. Hemphill, J. G. Oglesby, II. H. Cabaniss, Hugh T. Inman and others, and its object is the organization of the Central Georgia Lard Development Company, which is certain to prove a powerful factor in the indus trial progress of this section, and will work wonders in middle Georgia. It is understood that a number of Macon gen tlemen of the best financial standing will be interested in the operations of this company and that half of the capital will be put up by Georgians and the other half t>y northern capitalists. The prin cipal office of the Company will be in the county of Fulton, and local offices will be established wherever desired; but said company desires to do bus iness anywhere in Georgia. The amount of capital stock actually paid in will be $60,000, divided into shares of $100 each, with the right to increase the same from time to time through tbe direction of the board of directors, to any amount not to exceed $500,000. The most interesting and im portant feature of its operation, is to be the planting and raising of all fruits and vegetables in any and ail counties of this state and preparing the same for market; the canning of all classes of fruit and vegetables; tbe manufacturing of fruits into jellies and preserves and the manu facture of vegetables into sauces. An other object is to establish crate and can ning factories, packing houses, wineries, etc. The idea of the projectors is that cotton cult-ure as the leading industry of the south must “step down and out,” and this feeling is almost universal at the south—and that divirsified and improved farm methods must take its place; that food supplies must be raised at home in stead of being imported from the north and west—a constant drain upon our capital—and that fruit and tobacco cul ture, vegetable raising and wine making to a large extent, be made to supply us with that ready mouey which, hitherto, the southern people have looked to cot ton alone to produce. Realizing that the plantations must be broken up nnd that both capital and thrifty settlers are wanted to introduce new methods and a different system, the projectors proposj to purchase, sub divide aud sell to settlers, lands in cen tral Georgia, suitable for fruits, tobacco, vineyards of truck farms. Their lands will lie Buffiiently far south to escape the danger of frost and yet sufficiently far north to secure the re quisite elevation, climate, soil, etc., and thus the owners will be able to raise fruit and vegetables to supply all, but especially the eariy markets in the north a d Europe. The scheme is not only entirely feasi ble, but a most intelligent one, and is bound to be eminently successful, for no section of this country is better adapted to the raising the products contemplated than central Georgia. As compared with California, hitherto regarded as the greatest fruit-growing section of the country, Georgia oilers ineninublv better advantages in the fact that land is cheaper and that no»such thing as irriga tion is necessary. In addition, Georgia is nearer the eastern markets by many thousand miles, almost in direct touch with them, and with the markets of Eu rope. The establishment of direct trade, soon to come, between Georgia ports and Europe, is an addiiional factor in the success of this enterprise. * * * About Cotton Acreage. “Just because a greater quantity of fertilizers has been sold in Georgia this year than last is no reason for tho belief that the cotton acreage is so much larger this year than it was last year," remarked Howlett Joiner, fertilizer clerk of the de partment of agricu'ture at the state capi- tol to a Constitution repeater a day or two ago. “It now seems that the cotton acreage of the present year will be slightly more than it was last season, but at the same time it will not be so vastly increased as might be taken from the vast amount of fertilizers inspected. The several inspectors of fertilizers who hive been all over the state from this office find that the truth of the situation is that the cotton acreage is but slightly in creased this year. In many regions of Georgia they have found that the farm ers have really cut down the acreage of cotton below the mark reached last year. The reason for the inspection of so much fertilizers this year is casilv explained. ”ou see the price of cotton seed went away up this year, inducing all of the farmers, or nearly all of them, to sell out their seed. The price went up to $25 and $30 per ton. This was a great temptation to the farmers to sell. The result was that many of th- m sold so nearly out that they have not enough cotton seed left them to put under their corn crops as a fertil’ztr. Cotton seed has heretofore been their chief com fer tilizer, and having sold cut their cotton seed it is easy to see that they would have to have more commercial fertil izers than usual for their corn planting. This, in a great measure, accounts for the great increase in the sales of fertilizers. Not only this, the farm ers have, in mmy instances, exchanged their cotton seed for fertilizes di rect, just for planting corn, aud in this way it is found that the increas ed sale of commercial fertilizers means, nine times out of ten, that the farmers are planting a large grain crop this year. The truth is that the increase of fertilizer sales before Christmas, away back yonder in the fall, was four times greater than it was last year at that time, and how could this hive any effect upon the cotton acreage whatever, it being in the fall and almost before the last cotton crop was gathered. It was bought for fertilizing grain. There has been a great amount of grain sown by the Georgia farmers this year, and it becomes mure and more evident as the years go by that the farm ers of this part of the south at least are learning the lesson that has been taught them by such loDg eiperience to live at home. They are going for a good crop of home products this year, and it is truly very gratifying. Still another very strong argument that the increase of fer tilizer sales means all increase in grain crops, not cotton, is that meat is so high. Meat has gobe up to wonderful prices. It necessitates a much larger Corn crop than has heretofore been planted. The deduction is Clear. It means that the farmers see what is ahead of them and they have been planting much larger corn crops than they did last year and the year before. It is alto gether wrong to believe that the cotton acreage has been so vastly increased just because the sales of fertilizers have been so much greater than they were last year. It is the opinion of the inspectors of fer tilizers from this office, whose duty it has been to go all over the state to look into this matter, that the cotton acreage in the state of Georgia will be but little, if indeed any greater this year than it was last season. I am confident that this will be shown up by the regular report of the commissioner of agriculture when it is compiled with absolute accuracy from the reporters of the department all through Georgia.” THE GOVERNORS MEET. Organized in Convention at Rich* mond—The Proceedings. A Richmond, Va., special siys: Promptly at 12 o’clock Wednesday Gov ernor McKiuney, of Virginia, entered the chamber at the head of the southern governors. The distinguished guests were at once seated. Twenty-five min utes were consumed in shaking hands and introductions, - Governor McKinney, still standing on the floor, rapped the body to order and said: “Gentlemen; it ia a time honored custom in Virginia to open all deliberative bodies by asking God’s blessing.” He then called upon Dr, Nelson who offered a brief but fer vent prayer; at the close of which the governor proceeded to deliver a brief but cordial welcome to the visitors, say- that he wished this would be a work iDg and not a talking body. He then nominated Governor Fish- back, of Arkansa 3 , as temporary chair man, who was unanimously elected. The gathering of the convention drew a large crowd of spectators, who filled the senate gallery and the space in the chamber outside of the railing. Bi sides Governor McKinney theio were present Governor Fishbank, of Arkansas, who originated the convention movement; Governor Foster, of Louisiana; Governor Brown, of Maryland; Governor Jones, of Alabama; Governor Carr, of North Carolina; Governor Stone, of Missouri, and Governor Tillman, of South Caro lina. The other states represented by delegates were Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee and West Virginia. Ken tucky; Texas-and Florida were not rep resented. SECOND DAT. The convention of southern governors was called to order Thursday morning by President Fishback. The committee on permanent organization reported through Governor McKinney, recommending that the temporary officers be made perma nent, and that, upon all questions before the convention, each state shall be enti tled to one vote, to be cast by the gover nor, and if he be not present, by oHe of the delegates from the state, selfeeted by the representatives. This was ad >p'ed. Governor Carr, rf North Carolina, offer ed the following resolutions, which, un der the rules, was referred; £ii'at, in order that work may be now and herb begun, it is reccommended that tbe gov- erbors of those states appoint several persons, one to investigate carefully evcti one on tbe following subjects in its relations to immigra tion to that Blate: Direct trade, labor and t m- ployinent, mining, cluna'otogy and health, advertising and manufacturing: and th, se per sons, under the direction of the governor of that state, shall co-operate with him in such immigration work as he may direct. , NEW WING OF DEMOCRACY TELEGRAPHIC GLEANINGS. The News ol the World Condensed Into Pithy anid Pointed Paragraphs. To be Organized in South Carolina, Text of the Call. Meetings were he'd all over the state of South Carolina Tuesday for the organ ization of another wing of the democratic party in the state. The nddress calling for the organization of the Industrial ami Wage Workers’ D.mocratic League, says: We declare our principles to be embodied in the simple but sound democratic doctrine of “equal rights to all, special privileges to none,” and our purpose to repeal and to oppose all legislation inconsistent therewith. We ac knowledge agriculture to be the Master wheel of industrial mechanism, but declare that in the enactment and education of just and whole some laws it is essential to good order that the quality and quantity of the product depend upon the harm mions working of ihe whole ma chine, and that upon no indn-try more than agricultural will fall the injurious effects of a departure from this ju,t principle. We believe the interest of capital and labor to he"the same and we assert that a blow aimed atone will fall upon both, and that legislation directed ■‘against” eith r will reflect upon the people of the whole state. We condemn the vicious class of legislation attempted and enacted by tbe legislature at its recent session and endoi sed and approved by the governor of this state, the pernicious effects of which will lie pnt to hazard ail industries dependent npon corporative capital, to lessen the volume of currency, to increase the cost of credit aud to render uncertain and precarious the occupation of all wage-workers within the state. We denounce the inconsistency of the so-called ‘ reform" party which proclaiming salaries loo large, omits ro reduce them. De- c anng taxee too high increases them; profes- s ng opposilion to monopoly conspires to make the state a monopoly; preaching prohibition legislates the state itself into a rum-seller. The new organiz .tion is aimed direct ly at the reform or Tillmanite wing of the party. It was brought into existence by tbe passage of laws at the last session of the general assemb v in obedience to the governor’s recommendations calcu lated to oppress the railroads, banks, factories and in fact, all industries. The membership of the league, it is said, is already very large and it proposes to play an important part in the next elec tion. A state convention has been call- ad for the 19th instant. A BIG COMBINE That Will Menace the Carnegie Organ izations. A Fittsburg. Pa., special of Sunday says: It has just been discovered that a powerful svndidate will be formed that will rival the Carnegie organizations. The financial backing will come from various parts of the country and Europe, and the capital stock will be one bun dled million dollars. Many of the best known capitalists of Pittsburg. Cincin nati, New York, Boston. Chicago, Phila delphia. Birmingham. South Pittsbqnr, ■Ala., and St. Louis arc CQDfiPpted in (hi; enterprise. Interesting and Instructive to AU Classes of Readers. A St. Mary’s, O., dispatch siys a de structive fire Wednesday night, destroy ed the entire fountain square, involving a loss of $200,000. Three persons died of cholera Sunday in L’Orienf, in the department of Morbi- han, Fr nee, where the disease caused many deaths recently. A New York special of Thursday Eays: Messrs. Drexel, Morgan & Co. have ac cepted the reorgaoiz ition of the Rich mond Term'nal comps^v. The Eagle woolen mills, in Hubbards- town, Mass., were totally destroyed by fire early Tuesday morning. The cause is unknown. The loss is from $75,000 to $100,000. J. W. Flood, for twenty-seven years cashier of the Donohue Kelley Banking Company, of San Francisco, is $25,000 short iD his accounts. He was arrested Monday night. A. G. Spaulding & Co.’s sporting goods factory at Fifty-third street Chi cago, and the Rock Island tracks was destroyed by fire Saturday night. Loss $70,000; fully insured. A dispatch from Brooklyn, N. Y., says; The planing mills, lumber yards and stables of Voorhis & Co., on Newton creek, were destroyed by early Thursday morning. Sixteen valuable horses were burned to death. The total loss is $130,000. A dispatch of Sunday to the Brazilian legation in London, from Rio Janeiro, states that the insurrection in tbe prov ince of Rio Grande DeSuI, is being sup pressed, and that the rebels everywhere are being closely pursued by the govern ment forces, and have been driten close to tbe Uraguayan frontier. Reports from different sections of Michigan, shows that the storm of Wed- day night prevailed all over the southerh portion of the state, leaving destruction and death in i's wake. It was most severe in the southwestern portion where most of the damage was done and several lives lost. A New York special of Monday says: Another action has just been begun by Eva Mann, the woman calling herself the lawful widow of Robert Ray Ham ilton, to recover what she claims to be her rights. The latter consists of her dower interest in the late assemblyman’s estate, amounting to over $130,000. A news special of Monday from the City of Mexico states that the national pawn shop of that city, which is a government institution, is doing a flourishing busi ness. The report just issued, shows that during the month of March, the shop loaned $109,099.30 to 25,822 individuals. The entire amount loaned on jewelry, etc., and deposited in the institution amounts to $1,204,823.57. A New York dispatch of Wednesday says: The Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company has begun paying holders of insurance policies on the cargo of the Naronic, the White Star liner which left Liverpool two months ago, and other companies have given her up as lost. The cargo was valued at $500,000. The ves sel itself was insured by the White Star Com; any’s reserve fund. Among other securitna, the New York stock exchange, on Wednesday, listed $5,700,000 Mercantile Trust ColflpaUy certificates of deposit issued in exchange for Savannah and Western first consoli dated mortgage 5 per cent bonds of the Central Railroad nnd Banking Company of Georgia and $3,000,000 capital atock and $2,000,000 consolidated first mort gage 5 per cent, twenty-five year gold bonds of 1918 of the Detroit Gas Com pany. The exchange will be closed Thursday, April 27th. The A. S. Holmes Oil Refinery Com pany, at Buffalo, N. Y., covering twelve acres of ground, was destroyed by fire Thursday morning, together with twenty freight cars and a train of oil cars. Thir ty thousand barrels of oil were also burn ed. The fire was started by an engine dropping coals iu some oil which was running on top of water in a little citch. The wind blew the flames into the works and an explosion followed. Three fire men were slightly injured by one of the explosions. The loss will be heavy. A meeting of the rapid transit com mission of New York city was held Tuesday afternoon. The session was Understood 11 be chiefly for the purpose of hearing John M. Bowers’ opinion on the legality of the scheme for the build ing of the underground road, proposed by R. T. Wilson & Co., the bankers. On Saturday last they proposed to raise $15,000,000 of private capitd and have the city lend its credit for $35,000,000 additional capital, and then build the road at their estimated cost of $50,000^ 000, A cable dispatch of Monday from Dub- in, Ireland, says: Baron Houghton, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, has issued an order limiting the importation of arms and ammunition to Ireland. Arms aud ammunition must be imported only at certain ports, and all consignees must, previous to consignment, obtain a per mit for importation from the cu tom offi cers, giving the particulars of the arms consigned. The customs officials are au thorize 1 to open packages suspected of containing aims or ammunition imported contrarv to order. TENNESSEE’S LEGISLATURE TIE FIGHT IS OH. Adjourns After an Important Session. * Cn® ii Ceilral Eailraafl Affairs The revenue bill has gone to the gover- • nor, and am >Dg its most startling fea- I tures is the tax ef $30,000 per annum on bucket shops or dealers in futures, j There were many amendments made by ; the senate and the house refused to con- | cur. At a late hour in the afternoon the senate posed the appropriation bill with j fifty-two amendments. The house con- ! The Richmond Terminal People Ask for Mr- Comer’s Dismissal. A great surprise was sprung on the United States court at Savannah Tues- curred in thirty-seven, but there were j day afternoon, when, without any warn- fifteeD, most of them raising salaries of ' ng whatever, Henry Crawford, of New clerks, that the house n-mconcurred in. i York, attorney for the Richmond Term- In the senate Judge Julius J. Dubose j inal, addressed the court and stated that appearel with his counsel in answer to ; he had just filed two motions. One the senate summons, and speaker Dis- asked that Receivir Comer of the Cen- makes announced that immediately after ; tral systim be discharged and all con- the adj >urnmentat midnight the court \ tracts under the receivership be annulled of impeachment would convene Under the presidency of the chief justice cf the supreme Court. The appropriation bill occupied the greater portion of the day. The com mittee considering the controversy with the penitentiary lesses to be composed of the governor, secretary of state and comptroller to compromise the state’s claim, but tbe report was not acted oh. The house by a vote of 54 to 35 passed Mr. Goodwin’s state bank bill, which provides for the issue of circulating notes. Mr. Hicks’ bill putting a 5 per cent, tax on all property left out of the re.ular order of inheritance to children was passed. Tbe bill authorizing the issue of $600,000 in bonds for peniten tiary purposes passed by a vote of 52 to 40. During the consideration of amendments Speaker Trousdale refused to allow republicans to f'>rce a calling of the roil on the ground that their action was manifestly dilatory. The bill compelling insurance compan ies in cases of total loss to pay the full amount named in the policies passed, 72 to 10. The bill allowing the placing of insurance outside the state was tejected, on the grond of illegality. The other moved that the order of Judge Speer in regard to the reorganization committee authorizing loans to the Central be set aside on the ground that said orders were imprudent, irregular and erroneous and that the court had no jurisdiction whatever in the cause to enter such orders and that the same arc entirely void. These motions were filed under the Roweda Clarke bill, which placed the Central in the hands of a receiver. The case of the Central Trust company vs. the Central railroad had been called before Judge Pardee and everything was progressing calmly when theso motions were read and fell like a thunder clap on the lawyers assembled. Judge H. B. Tompkins made an argu ment for the Central Trust company, asking the appointment of an independ ent receiver for the Savannah and West ern on the ground that it was a competi tive system with the Central and had not been properly managed by the receiver. He was answered on behalf of the Cen tral by Captain Cunningham, who said that the interests of the Central aud the Savannah and Western were mutual and 32 to 53. The bill appropriating $45,- affidavits were produced showing that ARRANGEMENTS COMPLETED For the Removal of .Jefferson Davis Remains to Richmond. A Richmond, Va., dispatch of Sunday says: The executive committee of Lee camp in charge of the arrangements for the arrival of the remains of Jefferson Davis from New Orleans to this city has completed the details of the programme. General John B. Gordon, of Georgia, will be chief marshall, and Governor Philip W. McKinney, of Virginia, chair- man of the committee on invitations and reception. The command rs of a'l con federate Camps of Virginia are to be members of this committee. It is not yet known at what points the funeral train will stop, but the governor of each state through which it will pasB ill accompany it through their respect ive states, thereby giviog official appro val for conveyance through their borders. Tbe cortege will leave New Orleans May 28th and will reach Richmond on the evening of the 30th. The ca-ket will be borne to the state capitol, which will he appropriately decorated and where a guard of honor from Lee camp and Pick ett camps will watch it. Recent statistics show that women to day average two inches taller than they did twecty-fi”e years ago. 000 for the maintenance of a natural gtlard, or so-called standing army was passed after failing once for want of a constitutional majority. THE END. The house met at 7:30 nnd the senate at 9 o’clock Monday night, the inten tion being after getting the appropria tion bill through to pass as many of the more important bills as possible before midnight, when the assembly adjourned sine die. GROWTH OF THE SOUTH. The Industrial Development During the Past Week. The review of the industrial situation in the south for the past week shows the following among the impirtant new industries estab lished for the seven days. The i exas City Im provement company, of Galveston, Texas, capital $2,000,000; an electric plant to co.-t $■’00,000 at Birmingham, 41a , by ilia General Electrical company, of Boston, Mass,; the Elk Elver Coal Mining company, of Charleston, W. V., capital $30,090, a brewery with $225,000 capital at Mid licsborongh, Ky., by the New Son h Brewing and Ice company) the Lyon Manufacturing. Co.; of Louisville, Ky., capital $100,000; the Natioual Machine company, also of Louisville, capital $100 090; a cotton Mill at Jonesville, S- C., to cost $5O,0C0, by T. L. Haines and associates; a barr l facto 1 y with $50,000 capital at Hictory, Miss., by the Ste venson Manufac tiring company, a cooperage company at Ashland, Kv., capital $50,000, by the National Stave and Cooperage company, there was no competition except in con junction with the same road3. TAKEN BV SURPRISE. This argument, however, became oi minor importance when the Terminal people sprung their motions. Mr. W. G. Oakman, receiver, and Henry Craw ford, attorney for the Terminal, came down from New York Monday night and until the Case was sprung no one knew anything about their mission, which hid an air of mystery about it. When Mr. Crawford addressed the court and read the two mo tions under the Rowcna Clarke bill above outlined, Judge Pardee straightened up to listen to every utterance and every eve in the court was intent upon the speaker. Mr. Crawford said he appear ed to represent the Richmond Terminal Company, which owned 42,000 shares of Central stock thit hid been disfran chised by that .court. He charged the district court with acting in copartner ship with the reorganization committee and said the court had no right to ap point a receiver for a solvent corporation. “The proceeding whereby a district judge takes charge of an iutcrsta’e sys tem of railroads,” said he, “are most unUsUal and entirely without precedent. The property has been illegally and im properly admici-tered—under authority of the court nnd its receiver—and orders THE WITCHING HOUR. .. .. Snow for hours had blown and drifted, And the rack went scudding by; Spectrally the branches Iifte-l Naked arms against the sky. What cared we though time was flitting. What cared we though winds made mo.iu. In the witching twilight sitting All alone? She with a rocker cosy. I upon a hassock low, Watching o’er her face the rosy Cupid dimples come and go; For the lover flrelight heightened Every blush with ardor bold, Aud her locks ot brown were brightened Intogold. > ' Like the fabulous “Jack Horner” Of the merry nursery page. Gleeful from a dusky corner Grinned an idol'gray with agef And methought his dark lips muttered, What I longed to there avow; “Tell herl” were the words he uttere f, “Tell her now f Then there fell a silence sweeter Than when air is stirred with song, * Than when strains in mellow meter Swing with rhythmic s weep along. In her eyes a look beguiling Bade me not to break the spell. Something told me in her smiling All was well. Slowly grew the firelight dimmer • ^ ■ Till the angles of the room. Lighted by no ruddy glimmer. Melted in the shrouded gloom' And not e’en tho ancient idol Saw love’s apotheosis, - Or the presage of a bridal In a kiss. ' —Clinton Scollard, in Mnusej.’s, HUMOR OF THE DAY. me iM&uonai oia*e miu uouptTago comjmny, , , , . , ... , an*l a $40,000 j otterv at New Decatur, Ala., by have been v 0< » cl which will not bear the test of LT3 Ration, and are illegal from begiun i.g to end. I refer to the the Potters’ Flint ccnipsny. Thirty-seven new industries were established or Incorporated during llie week, three systems of waterworks, and 14 new buildings. Among the new industries not already re ferred to are a brewery at Wheeling, W. Va.; brick and pottery works costing - $*0,000, at Galveston, T(X.. by the Ent rprise Brck and Pottery Co.; a distillery at Covington, Ky.; au electric lighting p’ant at Donaldson vide, La.* f a roller pr« cefB floii ing mill at White Piue,T|nu., and ah iC3 factory at LaGrAnge, l ex. A 25 ton chanti.tl furnace is reported at KiVerside, Ala-; fonn ri?s And machine shop* at A*h ville, N. C., Willis, Tex., and Montgomery. W. Va.; an nigation company at Pecos City, Tex., an 1 rclirri wor’.iS on a large scale at Cartersvi!Iti,Ga. T1 e*e ar e also reported a $30,000 cotton seed oil mill at Palestine, Texts, by the Palestine Cotton Sjed Oil Co.; cotton m ils at Morgan- fc< n and Shelby, N. C., and Mount Pleasant, S. C., and a woolen mill at Ncwherry Mills, Va. Among the woodworking plants of the week are a barrel factory at Collin*, La.; furniture factoritp at Middlesborough. Ky., and Charles ton, W. Vfi.; and $aw and planing mil's at Riv erside and (iieensbo o, A’a., B a k Rock. Ark., Jacksonville, Fla., Orangeburg, b. C., Bristol, Tenn, and Qmen City, Texan. Wa er works aie to be established at Cull man. Ala., and Tullahoma, T« nn , and enlarge l at P«Tersburg, Va. The new bn Minus include business bousis at Atlanta, Gp„ Louisville, Ky., Houston and San Marcos. Texas; court houses at Elberlon, Ga., and Waynesboro, Miss.; a public ball at Charleston. S. C.; hotels at Atlanta, Ga*, New Orleans, La., and Mont- vjle. Va., and school buddings at Greenville, Ttnn., and Port Lavaca, Texas.—Tradesman, (Chattanooga, Tenn.) SHEPARD’S WILL The Editor of the Mail and Exptess was Liberal to the Churches. The will of lh" late Eriiot F. Shepard was filed for probate in New Y'ork Tues day nfte/noon. It was ixecutcd July 15tb, 1891, and disposed of an estate estimated at $850,000 in reality and $300,000 in personal propi rty. He gives lo the trustees of the presbytery of New Y'ork $100,000 for tbe general religious and evangelical work of the city. He also gives the same trustees $5,000 to be used by them for the benefit of the Sev enth Presbyterian church of Jesus Christ of New York city. He gives t > St. Paul’s chutch of Tarsu9, Asia Minor, $100,000. He devises all his real estate to his widow, with the residue of his estate to his children. FOUR MEN KILLED By the Premature Explosion ol ■ Charge of Dynamite. At Ladd’s lime works, abont two miles from Cartersville, Ga, Siturday morning, a most terrible dynamite explosion oc curred. A number of men were drilling a bole in a rock, and after putting the explosive in decided to make the result sure by drilling the hole deeper. In tam pering with the dynamite already placed a cap was exploded and the effect was most disastrous. James Mayhew and Robert Jackson, white, and Bill Murphy and Bedford BronD, colored, were killed. The first two instantly and the others died in about an hour. Three other men were more or les3 seriously injured. A BUILDING WRECKED And a Xumberof People Go Down in the Ruins. Thrre was an explosion in the Bala Ca- ladia Company’s mills in Mataro, Spain, Wednesday. The roof of the building was blown off, and struck the ground more than a hundred yards from the order authorizing tho receiver to borrow money without stating in the petition to the crurt to what use the money was to be put. But most unusual of all was the Older authorizing the receiver to contract a loan with the Hollins syndi cate, and making a contract that the syn dicate could negotiate collateral securi ties belonging to the Central Railroad Company ns soon as its bonds fell due if they were not paid. Thii order was most unusual and without precedent and we shall tai.ve that it be annulled and the receiver discharged.” Mr. Crawford was in the midst of his argument when tho court adjourned until Wcdmsday morn ing. The United States court room was crowded to the extent of its capacity Wednesday morning, everybody waiting in expectancy to hear the continuation of the sensational speech of Mr. Craw ford, attorney for the Richmond Termi nal, who was expicted to make some pretty strong charges. He continued his irgument on the motions already intro duced stating that the receiver of the present day mnnagis property af ter hia own fashion in collusion with the courts. He began a criticism of Judge Speer’s actions, but was interrupted by Judge Partee who prohibite t him from lUither criticising Judge Speer as he said the action of the district judge was not germane to the discussion. An arrange ment will be made by the attorneys to Fet a date for the hearing of the motion to discharge the rcc iver before Judge Pardee at New Orleans at an early date. BEHRING SEA MATTERS Discussed by the Court of Arbitration. The American Side Presented. A Paris cable dispatch says: Upon the resumption of the sitting of the Bebrina sea court of arbitration Thursday Mr. James C. Carter continued the presents tion of the American side of the cast commenced Wednesday. He read let ters bearing upon the question at issue-, sent by Mr. Blaine when secretary of state to Sir Julian Poncefote, the British minister at Washington, and commented up in the m. At tbi6 point Senator John L. Morgan, one of tbe arbitrators on the part of tbe United States, inquired whether Canada htd approved the draft of a convention before Lord Salisbury had made his sug gestion relative to a ten-mile limit. This question was left to a discussion, in which Mr. Carter, Sir Charles Bussell, of Counsel for Great Britain; Sir John Thompson, of Canada, one of the arbi trators, and Senator Morgan took part.' REMARKABLE FATALITIES. Death’* Carnival of Extermination of an Alabama Family. News was received at Montgomery Saturday of the remarkable fatality of a family of the came of Seagers, who live near Deatsville, in Elmore county. Ala. Out cf a family of nine or ten persons living, and in good health a little over a week ago, only three are now living, two of whom are now at the point of death, and are not expected to recover. The only members of the family who have so far escape! sickness are the mother and a daughter, the latter re siding in Montgunery. The strangest foundations. The walls were rent and -----a — —- - . ... - r. . most of the flooring torn up. All the thing about the singular fa a y men employed by the men were at work they all are supposed to have died of when ihe explosion occurred. Most of natural causes. Ihe .am-y as een them went down in the wreck. The 1 living at that place for sixty years end work of rtscue was begun at once. The j they do not think tbe sickness is due to dead bodies of nine workmen and the j any local cause, manager have beeu removed from the I - ~ ruins so far. Advertise cow, it will pay you. Stand and deliver—Saleswomen. A common report—The sunset gun. A force pump—A reporter’s inter* iew. . , Out of the fashion—A dressmaker’s profits. A checkered career — Tho .chess, player’s. Love is merely a very pleasant faith cure.—Galveston News. o' Even when hard at work the copper has a staving good time. — Boston Courier. . ‘We will let it go at that,” said tha young boy as he threw aa ajiple at a dudf.—Harvard Lampoon., When a man says that the world i3 growing better, it means that the opinion of Himself is growing higher.—Rain’s Hprn. . “I can dispose of a whole boatload of sailors,” remarked tho whale, “but it’s when I swallow their yarns that. I feel worsted.”—Elmira Gazette. 3 r When doctors disagree. An’ aunno what does ail ver. Then, ’twixt you an’ me, - — They jes’ calls it “heart failure!” • —Pu4kv The bee of Northern Greenland-haVno sting. But there is nothing in Nortaern Greenland worth stinging. Naturp sel dom makes a blunder.—Chicago , Tri bune. The great difficulty about politics- is that it is utterly impossible for the,-ap- pointments to make any kind of a nu merical showing alongside of the disap pointments. The idea of employing pretty woffieu for bill collectors looks feasible, but-it would not work. The delinquent debt ors would all want them to call again.j— Somerville Journal. •, The question of deportment is nofc.aa unimportant one. A man always looks better who carries himself well than when two or more friends are trying to carry him.—Philadelphia Times. He talked of love in a cottage, It was his fondest dream; ■ But he forgot the awful expanse Of heating it by steam. —Chicago Inter-Ocean.. ; Physician—“Considering the ' w'eqk state of your eyes, it will be as well-if you gaze as much as possible into empty space.” Patient—“All right, thenplil keep looking into my purse.”—Bluiqeu- lese. Carleton Gates—“Are you really, so hard up?” Tramp—“Hard up? Why, sir, if suits of clothes wuz soilin’ at a ha'penny apiece I wouldn’t have enongl to buy the armhole of a vest.”—Thi Million. * Yapsley-—“Miss Passay seemed offend ed at you last evening. What did you say?” Mudge—“Blessed if I know; I only asked her if she didn’t dread haviqg to wear hoop3 again.”—Indianapolis Journal. ' 71 “I thought the Miltons were going to give a large party.” “They were’, but a water pipe broke in the house.” “Couldn’t it be mended?” “Yes, but the plumber took.the house as part pay.” —Chicago Iuter-Ocean. Flora—“Why does Airs. Minton Worcester invariably wear wliite this season?” Dora—“Oh, hadn’t you heard that her $3000 vase was broken? And white, you know, is the mourning' color —for China.”—Vogue. ; •Wife—“Oh, George, the water pipe is leaking and tho water is spoiling the new hall cirpet. Go and get a plumber, quick 1” Husband—“That’s all right, my dear; let it go; it’s cheaper to get a new carpet.”—Harvard Lampoon. Cook (on the day after her arrival)— “Please, mum, I’m a bit fiery at times, aud when I’nrtiery I’m apt to be “a bit rough spoken; but you needn’t lot that put you about—with a little present you can alius bring ma round again.”—fit Bits. Mistress—“Now, Jane, clear away the break-ast dishes and then.look after the children. I’m going around tho corner to have a dress fitted.” Faithful—• “Yes, mum. Will ye tike the night key, or shall I set up for ye?”—Texas Sift ings ■ New Boy—“There s a man outside a3 acts as if hs owned the place,” Agent —“Tell him I’m out. (Later) What did he say?” New Boy—“That if you couldn’t stay here and attend to business he would get au agent who would.”— New Y’ork Sun. Sugar in the Sandwich Islands. The people of tiie Hawaiian Islands raise a good deal more than enough sugar for tea and coffee sweetening purposes. These little islands, which are celebrated principal!? for orange bitters, vomanoes and rulers with unpronounceable names, last year exported 234,622,271 pounds of sugar- And tne people don’t woric very hard there, either. —New Yotk Ad vertiser, 1 j