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About The Vienna progress. (Vienna, Ga.) 18??-???? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 22, 1893)
THE VIENNA PROGRESS. / CS ( f -= ■■ ■— = TEBMS, $1. Per Annum. “Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall Where They May.” JOHN E, HOWELL, Editor and Proprietor. 11 ■- — VOL. XII. NO. 4. 1 ■nm . 1 ~ _ VIENNA, GA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1893. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. A CENTRAL AMERICAN AT THE FAIR. STATE Fine Exhibit of Its Products-Min erals, Woods, Hides, Cofr. fee, Herbs and Roots in Great Profusion. 40 i f OSTA RICA’S house stands at the head of the lagoon which washes the steps to the Art Pahrce. It is the yellow build ing-, with the blue, white and red flag flapping above the trees. Along the back runs a wide piazza, whose foundation is laid in the water. At the front two mar ble urns stand at each door post and above the door is the coat-of-arms of the State, Striving to de velop its impenetrable forests and ore- filled mountains, it bankrupted its treasury and thus has not much money to spend for luxuries. However, it is at the Fair in a most creditable shape, and'the old country which Columbus stumbled on during his third voyage hopes to receive an impulse in the right direction by taking its light from under a bushel. Once out of the center, showing the natural re GEORGIA STATE ALLIANCE.’ T&e Sixth Annual Meeting ot the Order at Griffin. f ss )\ COSTA rica’s DISPLAY of ores. sources of the country. The stones range along the whole gamut of value from the cumbersome lumps of iron to bits of precious metals. The woods are stub-ends of logs, polished and varnished to high degrees nnd in a debt, or even able to meet its obliga tions, the country will forge to the front. It is blessed by nature most lavishly. Its greatest need is men, and men with money. Draped in the colors of the country, the interior of the building is devoted exclusively to business. There are no elaborate reception-rooms nor offices with magnificent furniture. Dr. Guz man, Costa Rica’s Commissioner, re tained only a corner for himself among the animals and birds, and silks and dyes that his country has sent. The gallery makes the circle of the build ing, with great slashes of color hang ing in the arches. Shields and bronze groups of soldiers, and zealots rushing with blazing torches are among the decorations. Many photographs of almost topless mountains, endless jungles and handsome girls from the far South, adorn the walls, with here and there oils executed in peculiar ways. BIRDS FROM COSTA RICA. Sarsaparilla grows in Costa Rica and along with a wealth of other shrub bery this medicine is shown. It is interesting, since the average visitor has never seen sarsaparilla out of bot tles or the soda fountain. Extending down the side of the long structure are a score or more cases containing bottles and jars of plants and herbs used in medical practice. Barks, bean6, roots, leaves, branches and pulverized woods are in a bewildering profusion until it looks as though na ture had grown a remedy for all the real and imaginary ills of body and flesh. Not even the old family “doc tor book” can relate a disease for which Costa Rica does not grow its balm. The Proceedings Briefly Summarized. Important Questions Discussed. The State Alliance met in Griffin Wednesday morning. The body was called to order at 10 o’clock and the roll of counties was called and ninety- six were represented; subsequently, however, others came in. Then the report of the executive committee was read by its chairman. Hon. Felix Cor- put. The report dwelt upon the de pressed financial condition of the country and cited it as a cause of the loss of interest among the alliancemen and a .decrease in membership. It urged the members to be up and doing and rally the old-time enthusiasm which has, to a great measure, died out. The report showed that $630 had been paid out for lectures, which was one-fifth of the income. Last year there was in the treasury about $9,031; this year only $3,866, a de crease of $3,165, and that from that had to be deducted the expenses of the present convention and other expenses, so there is about a balance on hand of $1,000. Last year the mem bership was about 18,194, this year 9,372, a decrease of 8,000. Up to De cember was the greatest decrease, there being then a membership of only 7,705, but now there had been an increase above that of 1,567. Enthus iastic speeches were made by different members exhorting the alliancemen to aally. That with only 500 men an army of several thousand had been conquered, nnd although the member ship had decreased 8,000 in one year they must not be discouraged but take on new zeal and determine to conquer. AFTERNOON SESSION. At the afternoon session speeches were made by C. C. Post and others. President J. O. Waddell, of the Geor gia State Agricultural society, also addressed the convention in regard to reforms in agriculture. He believed in the principles of the Alliance, and if conducted right much good could be accomplished. Good already had been done, and greater things were in store if only adhered to right. A resolution was introduced nnd passed, which states that it is the sense of the state alliance of Georgia, now assembled, that congress do not unconditionally repeal the Sherman act. Colonel Peek also introduced a reso lution that whereas the banks were being organized to buy the cotton crop with certificates issued by the clearing houses, that the state alliance issue certificates with which to pay off their debts. Colonel W. A. Broughton said that the farmers are in a better condition than they have been since the war; better crops, less debts and better every way, and he attributes the good condition to the alliance. He is san guine. president Ellington’s address. The principal feature of Wednesday night’s session was the address of President Ellington. “I congratulate you to-day,” he began. “This is the sixth time thnt our great brotherhood in the stato of Georgia has met in an nual session. Looking back over these six years and remembering the struggles and trials, joys and sorrows, through which we have come—how we were sometimes filled with hope and at other times almost overcome with despair; remembering how some step ped aside and out some, weak and fai nt hearted and weary; others, who, Ju das like, betrayed us; remembering also that by the side of the road over which we have come are many graves, sacred to us because they are filled with our dead heroes; remem bering all this, I can but congratu late you, the order, the cause in which wc are engaged that out of it all and through it all we have brought our honor without a stain, and the cause so far, triumphant as to have com pelled the world to take notice and the politicians to attempt to excuse themselves for the wrongs done to the common people of this country. I congratulate-the cause and you that instead of being scattered and broken and hopeless as our enemies hoped and predicted, we pause for counsel today upon the same road over which we have been marching for the entire time of our existence. We may speak without shame of those who have died in the cause.” He paid tribute to L. L. Polk, who had been called to the highest office in the gift of the alliance and said he was faithful ever afterward in every de tail. Mr. Ellington said ho had spent near his entire salary for hotel bills and railroad fare in lecturing over the state. He called the executive com mittee together and they determined to put in the field district lecturers. This had been done and the entire state, excepting the eleventh district, had been thoroughly canvassed. Here lie outlined the policy of the Alliance. He wanted them to put Al liance over party, but said that they could do nothing in a party unless they could dominate it. He recom mended the purchase of a state organ, and wanted Li ring Issues bought and j secure Mr. Tom Irwin as the editor, I with Mr. Teavy as associate; the con- I stitution be so amended that three ! sub-alliances may form a county alii- ] auce; also that the lecturer make a j close study of the financial condition. Paying tribute to the power of the ' alliance he closed his speech by saying thgt he believed the alliance to be the 1 best, if not the only means, throngh ; which the work can be accomplished. ! “Believing this,” he said, “I have j dedicated my enegies, my life, my all; xnd by it I will rise or fall.” stockholders’ meeting. A meeting of the stockholders of the Alliance exchange was held Tuesday minute, could continue one hundred ; e vening, and was continued Wednes- | and eighteen million vears (118,000,- nesday morning. The body on as- 000) without exhausting all the com- j sembling at once began the discussion binations of the game, the total of j buying an organ. Colonel Peek, of which is 248,528,211,840!—St. Louif ! Con . vers > introduced a resolution to Republic. purchase an organ, and the debate be gan. Colonel Corput was opposed to the plan, as were also a great many others. The opinions of various dele- MAIN EXHIBITION HALL IN THE COSTA RICA BUILDING. variety which is simply marvelous. The forests are yet practically virgin, the natives alone being large consu mers and the uses being largely thoso for heat and waste. Long on timber, Costa Bica is short on a market for it, and thus the very best sells at almost ridiculous prices. Hides of almost everything from snakes up are shown, those of the fur tribes being most numerous. The country has not much use for warm garments, and it is curious that nature in its wisdom filled the south woods with pelts for Arctic coats. The birds with densest plumage always pant where the sun is fiercest, and thus it happens that Costa Bica has songsters with feathers a yard long, and other birds with plumage rivaling the rain bow in brilliancy. They are in the National Building in great profusion, and arranged as found in the jungles. Some look like jokes, with spindling legs and bodies too heavy for them, and others are built ou graceful lines with most wonderful beauty. One end of the gallery is a long-distanco landscape, and the blue sky and white clouds are helped out by stuffed birds nailed to the canvas. This is realism in art with a vengeance, but since the aim is to show the birds and not the landscape the criticism hardly stands. Like all the neighboring States and Kingdoms, Costa Rica raises coffee and challenges the world to equal its pro duct in quality. To prove its value great silver tanks have been arranged to cook samples, and when the build ing was opened all visitors were given long draughts of the fragrant mixture. For this purpose the end next the north had been reserved. Thus all the departments of the country's varied business relations are exhibited, the Government sending many things from the National Museum. There are cases of coin and script of the country, displays of all the articles imported, silken wares and sea weed products made by the natives. Everything about the place suggests commerce, and that is exactly why the country came to the Fair—to boom its export relations with the rest of the world, and particularly with this edge of it. —Chicago Herald. Mathematical Combination Wonders. If you want to know to what mazy depths mathematics can take you just begin to figure on combinations and keep it up industriously for an hour or two. One of the most wonderful l examples in this line, perhaps, is that relating to the various combinations in dominoes. Doctor Bein, a Frank- | fort (Germany) mathematician of in ternational reputation, has calculated j that two persons playing the game ten ] hours a day, and making four moves a Great Britain received 10,057,606 letters from America last year. discussion at times was exceedingly lively. After a long session which lasted till near 11 o’clock, a vote was reached and the resolution to buy a state organ fell through. On calling the stockholders of the exchange to order Wednesday morn ing the purchase of a state organ was again taken up and Colonel _W. L. Peek introduced a resolution to re consider the action of the body the night before and substitute a motion for the purchase of the paper outfit. The resolution stated that the state exchange conld appropriate money not exceeding the amount of $15,000 to be used in connection with funds from the state alliance for the pur chase of a state organ, the charge of buying and management being left in the hands of the board of directors of the exchange and a committee ap pointed by the state alliance. An other debate then ensued. On a vote of 205 to 396 the previous action was repealed and the state alliance author ized to buy ah organ. A fight was made to abolish the ex change. Great dissatisfaction has arisen on account of the funds con tinually sinking until there is not half of the original capital remaining. Colonel Corput led the fight for the abolishment of the exchange, and Col onel Peek opposed him in favor of continuing. Both sides had strong followings, and it was a long time be fore a vote conld be reached. How ever, after a long and spirited discus sion, in which nearly every member delivered his opinions, a vote was taken and it was decided to continue for an other year. THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. The board of directors of the ex change were re-elected, and are as fol lows : President, W. A. Broughton; business manager, L. S. Ledbetter. Other directors—First congressional district, W. A. Woods; second dis trict, C. W. Simons; third district, W. A. Wilson; fourth district, D. B. Wells; fifth district, J. T. Davenport; sixth district, W. E. H. Searcy; sev enth district, L. S. Ledbetter; eighth district, W. A. Broughton; ninth dis trict, H. P. Riden; tenth district, J. T. Lingo; eleventh district, S. A. O’Quiun; state at large, W. L. Peek. At 10 o’clock the stockholders ad journed -and the State Alliance was called to order. SECOND DAY. The first business of importance on assembling Thursday morning was the election of officers. President Elling ton was nominated and elected without opposition. L. O. Jackson, of Deca tur couuty, was elected vice-presi dent, Mr. Ivey was re-elected secreta ry, and so was Mr. Broughton as treasurer. State Lecturer S. A. Walker was re-elected, Assistant State Lecturer Edenfield, of Screven, and chaplain Davis were also re-elected. At 9 :45 o’clock the morning session adjourned and in a body they march ed t the depot and took the Georgia Mid* md and Gulf railroad for a visit t > tli j Georgia agricultural experiment station. The officers of the experi ment station kindly received the dele gates and took them over tho entire farm, where many things new and in teresting to them were shown and ex plained. The body was more than pleased with their visit. At 12 oelock the delegates boarded the train and re turned to the convention hall. The trip was pleasant and profitable. When the hour of 2 o’clock had ar rived the delegates had assembled. A general discussion took place in regard to the per diem. The committee on constitution and by-laws made its re port and it brought out an enthusias tic discussion. They recommended that the executive, judiciary and cre dential committees be abolished, and that the president be authorized to appoint an advisory cabinet. The mo tion being to amend the constitution, j required a two-thirds majority, and 1 this they got. This places the policy of the Alliance in the hands of one man. The question of electing delegates to the national convention was taken up and resulted in the election of G. H. Ellington and Tom Winn from the state at large and W. Y, Carter, of Hart, and Jake Daviette, of Polk, from the state alliance. The committee on salaries made its report and rcommended a general re duction in all salaries from the presi dent down. The secretary’s salary was recommended to be cut from $1,000 per annum to $600. The district lect urers were to receieve $3.00 per county and be allowed two days for a county. The finance committee were recom mended to receive $2 per day and traveling expenses, while actually en- ! gaged in the work of the alliance. The report met with bitter opposition. However, the recommendation of the committee of salaries was adopted and the salaries of all the officers have been reduced gTeatly. The alliance believes in a government economically admin istered. The question of adjournment came up and it was decided that the body should hold a night session, the first part of which would be devoted to business, and then the doors would be j thrown open and a public speaking would be made the order. The meeting was organized with George T. Murrel in the chair and W. Y. Carter, j of Hart, as first speaker, fol- j lowed by Mr. McGahee, of Eden field and Mr. Walker, the state lectur er. The addresses all were on govern ment reform. The convention closed at 10:30 j o’clock, the place of meeting next year being left with the president. notes. The matter of purchasing a state or gan on the part of the state alliance j and exchange has been left on the hands of a committee from the direct ors consisting of Messrs. Ledbetter, Peek and Searcy and one from the state alliance with T. E. Winn as chair man. The joint committee will meet in Atlanta at some time to be agreed npon and discuss the matter. Among other important matters de cided upon was the creation of three sub-alliances into a county alliance, as reconi "ended by President Ellington. Alfc dues remitted. All dnes to the state and county alli ances were wiped out and a new, clean sheet is made. Alliances were not ex cluded on account of dues, but all were admitted into good . fellowship and a large increase is expected. A resolution was adopted to raise a jnemorial fund for the purpose of GEORGIA HEWS DOTES. erecting a monument to L. L. Polk, the former president of the national alliance. Col. W. A. Broughton "is chairman of the committee and will be .. . . . a n - i. j rr glad to receive all moneys for that NOlES Oi uCDEFSl IfllCrCSt PlCxCu UP purpose, which will be forwarded to .» n thp ofotp the central committee. A collection : fill Ulul lliu Ulfllu. will be taken in every county alliance , . . . Secretary Smith has appointed Mr. The exchange has filed suit in the \Feston Patterson, of Macon, registrar Atlanta city court against J- • G f the land office in Oklahoma. His an<1 Y ^ j Lelgh salary will be $3,000 and his residence for S2o0. The suit is on a bond given jn OntLrie. by Messrs. J. H. Wynne, J. J. Wynne, i * * Zachry, W. C. Leigh and G. B. There has been a decrease in the Everett to secure the payment of five value of taxable property in Washing- thousand dollars. - * J — - ODE LATEST DISPATCHES. ton county the past year. Nearly five-sevenths of this decrease was in property owned by the colored people. represented by Messrs. Minter Wimberly, A. O. Bacon and John Walter Robinson. • * * Brunswick is being regaled by the possession of a petrified human form, an arrival from St. Simon. Patrick Kearins, of Shamokin, Pa., a relic- | hunter, has been searching among the historic spots on &>t. Simon for curios, and his search was rewarded by the finding of a well-preserved relic of a former race. In his peregrinations, Kearins came upon an Indian mound, which he proceeded to excavate, and found this petrified human figure. It is evidently that of an Indian, is about six feet in height, and the contour of body and feature is excellently lifelike. AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. AMs of Goyernment and Routine of He Happenings of a Day CironicM in Brie! and Concise Paragraphs And Containing tie Gist of the News From All Parts of the World. Advices of Thursday from Wash ington state that the improvement in the condition of Representative Oates, of Alabama, continues The Frost Yeneer Seating company, of Sheboygan, Wis., assigned Thurs- day. The assets are $300,000; liabil ities, $100,000. The assignee will con tinue the business. The Bank of Albany,Mo., suspended Wednesday, owing to inability to realize on its loans and securities. The statement gives the assets as $110,000; liabilities, $80,000. The death of Judge Logan J. Chip- man was announced at Washington Thursday morning. This removes one of the ablest democrats in the country. The house adjourned at 2 o’clock as a mark of respect. The Standard Wagon Company, at Cincinnati, one of the largest concerns of the kind in the west, made an assign ment Thursday morning to Grant Burroughs for the benefit of creditors. Tight money market is given as the cause of the failure. The Oliver Iron and Steel Company at Pittsburg, one of the largest steel con cerns in the country, went into the hands of a receiver Thursday. The capital stock is $1,600,000, the indebt edness is $700,000. The company em ploys 4,000 men. A fire at Atlantic City Thursday morning destroyed the city hall, the grand opera house and a portion of the train shed of the Pennsylvania | railroad. The loss is estimated at ! $75,000, with not over $5,000 insur- ; ance. The fire is supposed to be of I incendiary origin. I The steamer Lahu which arrived at j New York Thursday night, brought ■ 672,055 pounds of gold from South- ; hampton and 1,047,500 francs from : Paris; 57,570 pounds consigned to the ! Canadian Bank of Commerce is in transit to the Bank of Nova Scotia, of j Chicago. 1 A dispatch from Selma, Ala., says: Captain Phillips, of the Dallas Dra- 1 2:00ns, received orders from Governor , Jones Wednesday night to hold his jommand in readiness to march to the i Jcene of the trouble in Clarke county, it a moment’s notice. More trouble is feared from the Meehamites and the Rate troops may be necessary to end it. ’ A Paris cable dispatch says: French 1 and Italian working men fought in Aigues-Mortes, dpeartment of Gard, Thursday. The fight began in the streets at noon and was carried on :n- termittantly for nearly two hours. The police made repeated efforts to restrain the men, but were not strong enough to restore the peace. Ten men were killed and twenty-six more were wounded severely. The New York Herald's correspon dent in La Paz writes that there is a serious crisis in Boliyia on account of the fall in the price of silver. Mine owners are threatening to stop opera tions. In order to prevent this the government will ask congress to auth orize the collection of import duties in gold hereafter and to remove the existing export duties on silver. The intense newspaper rivalry in Chattanooga resulted in The News sending a special representative to Cincinnati to investigate the Amick treatment for consumption. The Times had reported sensational cures through it, which the News assumed to ques tion. Thursday The News acknowl edges Amick’s discovery is all it is claimed, and admits the cures he is daily effecting are indisputable facts. The creditors of Josiah Morris & Co., of Montgomery, Ala., held a meeting Thursday to formulate plans for re-opening the bank, and the committee appointed to examine the condition of the firm’s affairs present ed a report, which was received with enthusiasm and unanimously adopted. Ont of 650 creditors more than 300 signed the agreement, provided in the report, their claims aggregating about $1,000,000. All will sign and the bank will resume. TO MOVE THE STAPLE. A Plan of the Atlanta Banks to Pro- Tide the Currency. The associated banks of Atlanta, The citizens of Harmony Grove are trying to settle on a new name for the thriving little town. The “Grove” doesn’t suit them. It sounds toe small. They will probably settle on calling it Harmony City. Among some specimens of different stones received by Professor Yeates, state geologist, from his assistants in the field, is a specimen of white mar ble that looks as though it will work up for the finest sort of statuary. It is perfectly white and a superficial ex- The summer schools of theUniversi- | !lm ination suggests that it will do for ty of Georgia closed a few days ago af- | due statuary, duieh marble is scarce ter having completed a verv successful m this country. The recent statement session of six weeks. The different j Professor leates^ would examine departments were largely attended and ~ great good has been accomplished. According to the Enquirer-Sun Co- j lumbus seems to have lost much of her old-time interest and enthusiasm | in the military. The Columbus Guards, it appears, are gradually going to pieces. Only a few of the “old boys” are left. the coal fields himself was in error. He will go to the gold fields himself nnd investigate the gold area. That part of the state is anxious to find out the value of the precious metal which is buried among the mountains. The assistants who are in the field are making good headway. Chatham county’s digest shows an increase in the taxable valuations for the city of Savannah and Chatham county is $30,850,000 in round num bers. The largest amount returned by any one individual or estate is $320,- 000 by the De Renne estate. * * * The Amcricus Times-Recorder says; Joe Massceis recently shipped a car load of watermelons and pears, and went with them. He carried $45 with him to pay expenses. He returned j with $20, minus watermelons and pears, which he gave away, at least he sold them so low that he did not real ize the freight paid out. The clerks in the comptroller gen eral’s office were badly frightened when the digests of tax returns were receiv ed from Sumter and Bartow counties. Combined these counties show a de crease in the value of taxable property of over a million dollars. Sumter county shows a decrease of $896,776, and Bartow county adecreaseof $514,- 192. * * * The legislature at its next session, which begins in October, will have to do something with the county chain- gang system. Some legislation relat ing to the control of the chaingang prisoners will be brought before the general assembly. Most likely Gov ernor Nor then will touch on the sub ject in his message and make recom mendations to the legislature. * * * The Sam Jones tabernacle meeting will begin on Wednesday, August 30th, and continue for ten days. There has been consideration as to whether or not the meeting would take place this year, but the people of Cartersville were equal to the emergency and in mass meeting assembled resolved that nothing should stand in the way of a glorious tabernacle meeting. The state railroad commission met at Atlanta a few days ago and heard petitions against the abandonment of a station on the Sam road and for re lief of cotton factors at Rome and Co lumbus. The petition in regard to the station was from residents around Louvale, which is above Lumpkin. The road makes a sharp angle at each of those points and it has been resur veyed and the direction the line is to take leaves the present station of Lou vale off on one side a mile or more. In the petition against the removal of the station it was stated that the communi ty about the present station subscrib- | ed $25,000 to the company’s stock and that the neighborhood right around the station has been built up on belief that it was to be a permanent depot. In reply to the petition the road show ed that it would he much cheaper to build the proposed cut off, thus short ening the line. The decisions in both eases were reserved. Notes of Interest Concerning the Peo« pie and Their General Welfare. A number of sawmill and timber men along the line of the Georgia Southern and Florida railroad intend to plant the pine lands on which the timber has been cut in peach trees and Tnrpentfne Operator* Meet. The turpentine operators of the state held their annual meeting at Savannah Wednesday, about 100 being in attend ance and over 500 stills being repre sented. They met to discuss the situ ation which, in view of the monetary stringency, is not promising. They reccommended the adoption of a reso lution that the naval stores producers suspend working all old boxes during the remainder of the season. The resolution, after some discussion, was unanimously adopted. The operators will work only virgin boxes, which will result in cutting down the crop 15 per cent. This means a reduction of 25 to 30 p r cent in the entire crop, as the product up to date is over 15 per cent short of the average. The cause of the dull season has been the tre mendous falling off in domestic con sumption, which has been the result of the monetary stringency. These causes have operated to make prices too low to pay the producers a profit on their product. The suspension was recommended as a remedy and it is hoped and believed that it will affect the market advantageously at once. The Tax Itate Will Not Be Increased. Although the digests of the tax re turns from 127 of the 137 counties of it i the state show that the tax values of grape vines. These lands, after being j property have decreased $8,364,000 cleared of timber, would sell for fine prices if orchards and vineyards are made to flourish on them. This would be putting fine land to a new and most excellent use. * * * Hon. James Griggs has been ap pointed by Governor Northen, judge of Fataula circuit. The vacancy was caused by the resignation of udge James Guerry. Colonel Griggs was solicitor general of the circuit, which embraces the counties of Terrell, Randolph, Quitman, Clay, Early, and Miller. Ex-Senator E. H. Sheffield, of Early county, was appointed solic itor general to fill the vacancy thus made. According to present indications the Macon banks will not issue clearing house certificates for the purpose of l r o"m‘tales' on moving cotton. The Macon banks and warehousemen say there is no need of them, for they will have plen ty of money with which to move the crop. There may not be money to hold the crop, but there will be a suf ficiency to move it. Therefore, clear ing house certificates will not be nec- At a recent meeting of the Colored Tariff Reform Club, in Atlanta, Moses Bently, of Atlanta, and A. A. Gordon, of Macon, were chosen to represent Georgia at the convention of the na tional colored democratic clubs, to be held in Washington ou the 24th, 25th and 26th of August. The Georgia delegates will both attend and repre- sinJS last year, the tax rate will not be increased, as has been stated in a number of publications. This an nouncement is made from the comp troller-general’s office. The officials at the state capitol have been very much disturbed over the constant decrease in the value of taxa ble property as shown by the digests received. When the first returns were received by the comptroller-general, it was estimated that the decrease would not be less than $15,000,000, and might possibly be $20,000,000. Later returns showed that the de crease would not be over $10,000,000, and it was upon this estimated de crease that the statement that the tax rate will not be increased is based. The appropriations for this year amount to $2,647,492. The estimated basis of $453,000,000 of property returned at 4.60 mills, and S705.940 which the state receives from other sources, will amount to $2,648,087, or $595 more than the appropriations. To the estimated receipts can be added $70,000, taxes due by railroads since last year. The railroads which owe the state are in the hands of re ceivers and it was necessary to obtain an order of conrt before the taxes could be collected. These orders have been obtained and the money will be available for this year’s appropriations. In 1892 the tax rate was 4.85 mills and the appropriations amounted to $2,- 736,150, while the receipts were $2,- 792,442. As the reports of the gradual de crease in the value of property were it lit- / por/ sent the negroes of Georgia in this creaHe m L Ga., will be^asked to P™™ 1 ® “ e f“ s : mOY e me nt 0 f their race in behalf ; rece ived it was stated that to obtain the tax rate, for moving the cotton crop of the im- tariff reform, mediate section, which will be on the * * * market in the course of a few weeks. , The plan bv which it is proposed to Atlanta a few days ago witnessed move the 'crop is to issue clearing the navelty of a meeting of negro tar- house certificates, which will answer iff reformers, convened to endorse Mr all the purposes of a local currency, pro-! Cleveland’s financial message, and vided a sufficiency of currency should which resolved that inasmuch as not be on hand at that time in the there seems to be a general degree- ; b„l, oi Atlanta. It i. vert ptobabl. . »«». upon he recon that the banks will have currency. the money necessary, 4.60 mills, as made by the last legisla ture, would have to be increased. As nearly all of the digests have been re ceived it has become apparent that the rate will not be raised. Gold on the way. The sum of £550,000 in gold was ident Cleveland, be it resolved, that it withdrawn from the Bank of England \ t a meeting of the chamber of com- i be the sense of this body to heartily Wednesday for shipment abroad. Of merce held' Mondav, a meeting at endorse the plan of re lef for the peo- this sum £495,000 was for the ship- -K-bieh nearlv all the nrominent bnsi- t>le, and as such that we recommond m ent to the United States and £55,000 8Ct for Montreal. The Bank of England ’Peedily ln this direction. j, charging a premium on eagles and * * * i is holding bar gold at a higher rate. The celebrated Tarver case is not The gum of £430,000 was shipped for I yet ended. It has been in the United New York on the North German ■ States courts in one shape and another Lloyd steamer Labn, sailing from about eighteen years. An appeal is Southampton, and the White Star about to be made in it from Judge Hjjg steamer Brittanic, sailing from j Speer’s court to the court of appeals, Liverpool. The Lahn took the bulk and the result will be awaited with 0 f tha shipment, great interest. The appeal will be made by Colonel W. E. Simmons, of Gwinnett, and Mr. Marion Erwin, of aeon, representing the New England Mortgage company. The Tarver side ness men matter was carefully considered. — SHE CAME NOT. Her fairy-like fingers swept over the key board— Her fingers so shapely and slender— ‘’Oh, mother, come back to me!” softly she sang, In a voice, Oh, so soulful and tender! In vain from her lips came the yearning refrain, In vain were a daughter's fond wishes. For her good old mother was out in the scullery Washing the supper dishes. > " —[Chicago Tribune. Everybody should read the paper and keep up with ihe times. Always keep posted oc all public mat ters, to be able to do this subscribe m w- c The Senate Finance Committee, Thursday, agreed to report favorably a bill for the unconditional repeal of the Sherman act. The president Tuesday sent to the senate the nomination of Owen J. H. Summers to be United States attorney for the northern district of Florida. Colonel Oats, of Alabama, who was thrown from a cable car last week is quite ill, so much so that the chaplain of the house offered up a prayer Tues day morning for his recovery. The decision of tho court of arbi tration in the Behring sea matter ap pears to give general satisfaction at the state department and to tho mem bers of the senate committee on for eign relations, which committee had all those questions in charge when the treaty was before the senate. A poll of the house has been practi cally completed by canvassers in the interest of the anti-silver faction, which is said by one of the leaders to show an impregnable majority of 27 in favor of the unconditional repeal of the purchasing clause, as provided in the Wilson bill. The committee on finance by a prac tically. unanimous vote Tuesday morn ing decided to report favorably the bill introduced Monday by Mr.Yoor- hees, providing for the issuing of cir culating notes to national banks to the par value of government bonds on de posit to secure circulation. The committee on rules of the house has decided upon several changes iu the rules. They will be reported to the house before the silver debate has been completed, and with general con sent will be ordered printed. No action is to be taken on them, however, until the debate on silver has been finished. The finauce committee of the senate, at a meeting Tuesday morning decided to hold daily sessions, beginning Thursday, during which time they will endeavor io reach somo conclusion on the silver question. Senator Voorhees subsequently notified the senate of this action and asked authority to sit dur- ng the session of tho senate. The senate finance committee will report a bill allowing national banks to issue currency to the par value of their bonds on deposit. The leading advocates of this bill express the opin ion that the senate will pass it without delay. Should it become a law it will add fifteen or sixteen million dollars to the circulating currency of the country. The first meeting of the house com mittee on rules of the fifty-third con gress was held Thursday morning. All the members were present and but lit tle progress was made. Only that tion of the rules relating to the posed increased membership of mittees was considered at the meeting. The committees affected are those of the ways and means, appropriations, judiciary, banking and currency, coin age weights and measures, interstate and foreign commerce, rivers and har bors and agriculture. The superintendent of the Philadel phia mint has received instructions from Washington to push the small gold and subsidiary silver coinage as rapidly as possible, and if need be to have the mint worked after hours to get the specie out. Advices of Mon day from Washington state that the stock of small gold coin is getting de pleted and the above order to hurry the coinage is to fill up the hole that is being made. The work will bo com menced at once and the eagle, half eagles, silver halves and quarters will be soon rolling out by the thousands every hour. The publication of-cire details of i,lie- breach of promise suit filed against Mr. Breckinride, of Kentucky, Satur day morning was the gossip of all Washington Sunday. Indeed it has occupied public attention, even to the exclusion of the financial question. Mr. Breekenridge himself faces tho matter boldly. His fellow members are awaiting the results. Should the charges made by Miss Pollard be prov en, the Kentuckian will undoubtedly be ostracised,notwithstanding his long and useful service as a member of con gress. But his colleagues are disposed to with hold a verdictuntil he has made a full answer. Senator Gordon’s Bill. Senator Gordon, of Georgia, intro duced a bill in the senate Tuesday morning suspending the ten per cent tax on state banks for six months, and addressed the senate in behalf of it. “I do not claim,” said the senator, “that it is a panacea for all our ills, but I believe it would stop the panic in fifteen days. The city of Savannah is the chief cottpn point in our state. Its banks require money to move the cotton crop. This bill will enable one Savannah bank to issue notes to the amount of twenty per cent on its capital stock, and the other six banks would endorse it and six hundred thousand dollars at least would be thrown into that great cotton center. This would be as good money as is in circulation in the United States and would be ac cepted by my people. Our banks are now not able to even get their own money. This temporary currency will remove the embargo against our own cotton crop. It would be equal to a ship load emptied into the state.” Routing Desperadoes. A special of Friday from Jackson, Ala., says: The counties of Clarke, Choctaw, Wilcox and Marengo ar« stirred to the highest pitch at th« murderous doings of the notorioui Meachamites, and between four and - five hundred men are in Meaeham beat for the avowed purpose of wiping on! every member of the gang and aveng ing the murderous wrongs perpetrated npon the good people of the countiei named. Minister Blount Arrives. Among the passengers on the steam- Bhip Gaelic, which arrived at San. Francisco Tuesday morning, were James H. Blount, American minister to Hawaii, Mr. Yang, the new Chinese ' minister to the United States, and ex- Miniftcr to Japan Frank Coombs. in
