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THE VIENNA PROGRESS.
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TERMS, Ons Dollar Per Annum.
“HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY J1AY.”
JOHN E. HOWELL, Editor and Prcp’r.
VOL. XIII. NO. 28.
VIENNA, GA.. TUESDAY. JANUARY 29. 1895.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
STATE SEWS ITEMS
CULLED FROM MANY SOURCES
BRIEFLY TARAGRAPIIED.
Happenings of General Interest to
Georgia Readers.
A half million dollars has been ap
propriated for the erection of Savan
nah’s custom house and hundreds of
carloads of Elberton's granite will be
utilized in it. This contract is worth
between $12,000 and $15,000.
* * *
At an enthusiastic meeting of the
business men of Athens it was de
termined to send a committee to Low
ell, Maes., at once, in the interest of
Athens securing the mills that are
moving south. It was also determined
to aid tho establishment of a furniture
factory and a shoe factory in the city.
* » *
There was a meeting of the state ex
position commission at Atlanta a few
days ago at which the principal topic
of discussion was the building to hold
the state exhibit and the exhibit itself.
It was shown that $3,000, including
the sum of $1,000 given by the Expo
sition company, had been raised to
ward erecting a building.
* • *
The mining outlook for the year 1895
in Lumpkin county is unusually bright.
New works are being opened up while
operations at old ones are being re
sumed, and in the course of a few more
months many new mills will be com
pleted and hundreds of stamps will be
crushing the abundance of valuable
ore that lies in the old red hills and
hollows of Lumpkin county.
. * *
The city weigher reports the cotton
receipts in the Cartersville market at
about 8,000 bales uj) to this time, and
they will reach nearly 9,000 by the end
of the season. These are the largest
receipts ever known in the history of
the town, and, as cotton from the
county goes to Rome, Acworthand the
smaller places in the county, this is a
capital showing. The citizens are
awaking to the importance of Carters
ville as a cotton center, and are going
to make an organized effort to secure
a cotton factory.
* * *
A recent special from Washington
announced the critical illness in that
city of General James N. Bethume, of
Georgia. He is nearly ninety-two
years old and has had in many re
spects, a remarkable career. A native
of Georgia, he was the first editor in
the south to openly advocate secession.
He was also almost the pioneer free
trader in this country, having as early
as 1830, advocated “free trade and di
rect taxation.” At one time he was
attorney general of the state of Geor
gia. He moved into Virginia shortly
after the war and incidentally became
widely known as the original owner
of “Blind Tom,” the negro musical
prodigy.
* * *
One of the largest of the eastern
cotton mills will establish a $600,000
plant at Romo. This is practically a
certainty, though the details have not
been arranged. The agent of the mill,
who has been in the city investigating
for several weeks, will not allow it to
be announced by his authority. He
has secured several hundred acres of
land near the city, and the object is to
build a complete town, the mill to have
its own churches and schools. The
agent has visited eleven counties in
Georgia. He finally decided to reoom-
mend one of three counties, of which
Floyd was one. Then, after further
investigation, Rome was recommended
on account of its nearness to the coal
fields, its climate and the great amount
of cotton marketed.
* * *
United States Surveyor of Customs
J. D. Stocker, at Atlanta, has prepared
a statement of the expenses and collec
tions for the Atlanta custom house of
fice fo” the last six years. The state
ment shows that the collections from
1889 to and including 1894 were $56,-
989.85, and that the expenses of the
office for those years were $10,731.59.
The statement was prepared for the
.purpose of correcting a statement that
the expenses of the Atlanta custom
house h id always been greator than
the receipts, and he has given out the
above figures in contradiction of that
statement. He says that the Atlanta
customs office is one of the compara
tively few inland cities where the col
lections exceed the expenses, and that
any impression that the office was an
expense to the government is errone
ous.
* * *
Will Probably be Sold.
Within a few days there will be a
meeting of the trustees of the Confed
erate Home of Georgia. The fate of
the home will be decided at this meet
ing. It will doubtless be ordered sold.
There have been a number of sugges
tions made as to the successful con
ducting of the home, but none of them
were carried out. The money was do
nated and the home built. It was
placed on a plot of land, containing
120 acres. The home itself was erect
ed at a cost of $50,000. A tender was
made of this to the state of Georgia,
with the provision that. $15,000 per
year be contributed by it for the sup
port of the home. The offer was re
jected. The members of two succes
sive legislatures failed to see the mat
ter in the light that had been intended.
Untenanted, the handsome structure
was left. It is still uninhabited, save
hy a lone watchman, and instead of
footsteps ringing along the hallways,
echoes reverberate through the great
emptiness. Tho plan miscarried and
there is nothing left but the disposi
tion of the home. That it will be sold
seems certain. There is nothing else to
be done.
♦ * *
Georgia’s Volunteer Troops.
Tbe report of the adjutant general
has been finished, and is a complete
list of volunteer troops of the state.
Georgia volunteer troops (white):
Number of regiments, 7; number of
senarate battalions, 2; adjutant gen
eral’s department, 1; inspector gen
eral’s department, 1; judge advocate
general’s department, 1; quartermas
ter’e department, 3; subsistence de
partment, 1; medicai department, 14;
military secretary and aides-de-camp,
30; colonels, 7; lieutenant colonels,
7; majors, 13; adjutants, 11; quarter
masters, 8; commissaries, 9; inspec
tors of rifle practice, 6; chaplains, 5;
paymasters, 5; assistant surgeonp, 0;
captains, 65; first lieutenants. 60;
second lieutenauts, 77; total commis
sioned officers, 324; total non-commis
sioned officers, 599; musicians, 27;
privates, 2,106; total enlisted, 2,732;
aggregate, 3,056.
Georgia volunteer troops (colored:
Number of battalions, 3; number of
companies, 22 ; lieutenant colonels, 3;
majors, I; adjutants, 2; commissaries,
2; paymasters, 1; assistant surgeons,
3; captains, 18; first lieutenants, 16;
second lieutenants, 26; total commis
sioned officers, 77; total non-commis
sioned officers, 178; musicians, 11;
private.*, 872; total enlisted, 1,061;
aggregate, 1,138.
ALABAMA'S TAX.
Joint Committee Forms a New and
Equitable Assessment.
1 Montgomery, Ala., special says:
The joint committee of six, appointed
by the legislature to sit during the last
ten days of the legislature and formu
late a new and equitable system of tax
assessment for Alabama, will report,
when the law-making body recon
venes, the result of their labors in a
most interesting bill and one almost
totally different from the law now in
effect. The general plan of the bill is
as follows:
“1. The proceeding to collect taxes
is made against the property and not
against the owner ‘in rem’ and not in
person.
“2. The valuation of property is
taken from the taxpayer and put in
the hands of appraisers.
“3. There are in cities of over 1,000
inhabitants two men, appointed by the
city council, who, with th9 assessor,
shall value all property, and outside
of such cities tho appraisement is made
by the assessor and two citizens of the
beat, one appointed by the assessor
and the other by the commissioner’s
court. The city shall pay its apprais
ers, the county its. The assessor shall
receive fees only.
“4. The tax year is changed from
January 1st to October 1st. This gives
more time in which to assess and col
lect and puts the tax year with the fis
cal year.
“5. The assessment must be com
pleted by February 1st.
“6. The assessment shall be return
ed to the county board of equalization,
composed, first, of a man appointed by
the governor and paid by the state;
second, a man elected by the commis
sioner’s court and paid by the county,
and, third, the assessor, who get fees.
“7. A small annual franchise tax is
laid on corporations.
“8. No execution shall issue on a
judgement until all taxes are paid. If
such is brought on a note on which
taxes are unpaid the plaintiff shall re
cover no interest nor costs and no in
strument evidencing a debt on which
taxes are due can be given in evidence
until all taxes are paid and no power
of sale in a mortgage can be enforced
until the taxes are paid.
“9. There is a small increase in the
whisky and brewery licenses.
“10. A small license tax is laid on
cigarette dealers.
“11. The bill is non-partisan and
provides for representation of different
political parties in its machinery.
“12. A state board of equalization
is provided for.”
The bill is voluminous, comprising
some forty pages of foolscap. It con
tains numerous other provisions of in
terest. The committee has labored
faithfully upon its preparation for ten
days and it is believed to be almost
perfect as far as the needs of the state
are concerned. A conservative esti
mate is that it will increase the state’s
revenue about $200,000 and will fill up
the hole in the treasury in three or f eur
years.
REDUCE THE CROP.
GROWS SERIOUS.
The Street Car Strike at Brooklyn,
N. Y., Causing Trouble.
The situation at Brooklyn, N. Y.,
according to latest reports is growing
serious. The troops have been fired
upoD, attacked with stones, brickbats
and other missiles under cover of dark
ness and fog, yet they have heroically
faced the riotous mobs and the wonder
is that they withheld their fire a dozen
times under serious provocation. They
have discharged volleys over the heads
of crowds; they have jabbed the street
gangs with bayonets; they have done
everything but shoot people down.
The point has now been reached
when forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
The troops have been ordered to fire
upon any person seen throwing a mis
sile or shooting at them. Sharpshoot
ers have been detailed to pick off peo
ple on house-tops and in windows who
throw or shoot, from their sheltered
locations, at the troops, the police, or
the cars operated by non-union men.
The mobs do not yet appear torealizo
these facts. The citizens of Brooklyn
do not heed the proclamation of the
mayor, warning them to avoid crowds,
refrain from assembling in the streets
and in the vicinity of the car depot.
A small battle took place Tuesday in
which two men were killed.
TO CONFEDERATE VETERANS.
The Next Encampment to Be Held in
Houston, Texas, in May.
The following orders issued from
headquarters nt New Orleans announce
the next encampment of Confederate
veterans at Houston:
General Order No. 131—The general
commanding announces that the reso
lution passed at the late reunion, held
at Birmingham, Ala,, leaving the date
of the next annual meeting and re
union, which is to be held in the city
of Houston, Tex., to the general com
manding and the two department com
manders, they have unanimously agreed
upon Wednesday,Thursday and Friday,
May 22, 23 and 24, 1895, which dates
have been submitted to our post at
Houston and acquiesced in. By order
of J. B. Gordon,
General Commanding.
George Moorman,
Adjutant General and Chief of Staff.
Another Dividend Declared.
The comptroller of the currency has
declared a fourth dividend of 16 per
cent., making in all 65 per cent, in
favor of the creditors of the State
National Bank, of Knoxville, Tenn.
THE BALL STARTED TOWARD
CUTTING THE ACREAGE.
Colonel Broughton Appoints County
Presidents for Georgia.
The Georgia branch of theAmerioan
Cotton Growers’ Protective Association
has assumed the first stage of organiza-
ation. Colonel W. A. BronghtOD, re
cently appointed president for this
state, has named the county presi
dents that are to take the work of or
ganization up in their respective coun
ties.
Colonel Broughton has appointed a
president in every county in the state
except four—GlynD, Rabun, Towns
and Union. These counties are not
cotton producing counties, according
to the census of 1890, the statistics
•flowing that they are the only coun
ties iD the state of Georgia that failed
to raise a bale of cotton.
The duty of the county presidents is
to call a meeting of the cotton growers
of their respective counties, to be held
the first Monday in March. At this
meeting it shall be ascertained how
many of tho cotton growers of the
county will sign the articles of agree-
meent recently adopted by the conven
tion in Jackson, Miss., where the na
tional organization was formed. At
that same meeting delegates will be
appointed from each of the counties to
attend a state meeting to be held in
Atlanta the third Monday in March.
At the state meeting delegates will
be appointed to attend the next na
tional meeting, to be held in New Or
leans on the first Monday in April.
Thus the national association hopes
to achieve firm and substantial estab
lishment.
In brief the general terms of the ar
ticles of agreement are to this effect:
That each cotton grower signing shall
obligate himself to cut his cotton acre
age 25 per cent the coming year; to
pay an admission fee of 2 cents per
acre (this may be changed to a general
fee of 50 cents;) none of the obligations
to be binding unless 75 per cent of
the farmers of the signer’s county
shall sign, and 80 per cent of the cot
ton growing counties of his state shall
join.
The County Presidents.
The following are the county presi
dents for Georgia:
Appling—Leonard Miles, Baxley.
Baker—E. L. Hudson, Milford.
Baldwin—Rufus J. Roberts, Mill-
edgeville.
Banks—J. K. Thompson, Homer.
Bartow—W. H. Lumpkin, Carters
ville.
Berrien—F. M. Shaw, Nashville.
Bibb—R. E. Park, Macon.
Brooks—W. C. Ramsey, Quitman.
Bryan—R. H. Harvey, Clyde.
Bulloch—T. R. Tyndall, Rocky
Ford.
Burke—J. W. Sandeford, Midvills.
Butts—C. S. McCandless, Jackson.
Calhoun—J. L. Boynton,, Morgan.
Camden—Burwell Atkinson, Tar-
boro.
Campbell—W. S. Zellers, Palmetto.
Carroll—E. R. Sharp, Carrollton.
Catoosa—C. W. Gray, Graysville.
Charlton—W. O. Gibson, Folkston.
Chatham—G. M. Ryals, Savannah.
Chattahoochee—W. K. Wilkinson,
Cnsseta.
Chattooga—W. S. Kilgore, Chelsea.
Cherokee—J. M. McAfee, Canton.
Clarke—G. T. Murrel, Athens.
Clay — R. A. Turnipseed, Fort
Gaines.
Clayton—A. P. Adamson, Rax.
Clinch—B. E. Mattox, Homersville.
Cobb—R. T. Nesbitt, Marietta.
Coffee—John A. Fusseall, Kirkland.
Colquitt—George Newton, Moultrie.
Columbia—M. I. Branch, Bcrzelia.
Coweta—J. B. Goodwin, Newnan.
Crawford—L. C. Futrell, Roberta.
Dade—G. W. Cureton, Rising Fawn.
Dawson—R. B. McClure, Palmonr.
Decatur — W. M. Harrell, Bain-
bridge.
DeKalb—W. C. Whidby, Decatur.
Dodge—S. D. Eason, Eastman.
Dooly—J. H. Dorougb, Cordele.
Dougherty—J. R. Davis, Albany.
Douglas—S. R. Whitley, Douglas-
ville.
Early—Lee Hightower, Damascus.
Echols—H. J. Collier, Statenville.
Effingham—G. L. Wheitman, Guy
ton.
Elbert—L. H. O. Martin, Middleton.
Emanuel—G. S. Rountree, Swains-
boro.
Harralson—J. J. Polk, Poplar
Springs.
Harris—B. H. Williams, Hamilton.
Hart—T. W. Teasley, Hartwell.
Heard—A. O. More, State Line.
Henry—E. J. Reagan, McDonough.
Houston—G. M. T. Fagan, Bonaire.
Irwin—H. T. Fletcher, Ocala.
Jackson—W. A. Bell, Jefferson.
Johnson —J. E. Brantley, Wrights-
ville.
Jasper—Luke Campbell, Monticello.
Jefferson—R. A. Patterson, Wrenn’s
Jones—J. W. Barron, Round OeV
Laurens—J. R. Raggett, Reedy
Springs.
Lee—J. T. Ferguson, Ferguson.
Liberty—W. E. Fullman, Taylor
Creek.
Lincoln—J. R. Hogan, Agnes.
Lowndes—E. J. McRae, Valdosta.
Lumpkin—W. P. Price, Dahlonega.
Macon—W. H. Felton, Marshall-
ville.
Madison—David W. Meador, Dr.n-
ieisville.
Marion—D. B. Wells, Drainsvillo.
McDuffie—C. H. Ellington, Thom
son.
McIntosh—William Clifton, Darien.
Meriwether—John Caldwell, Green
ville.
Miller—J. W. Cowart, Colquitt.
Milton—Dr. L. L. Clements, Al- j
pharetta.
Mitchell—I. A. Bush, Camilla.
Monroe—T. W. Barrow, Boling-
broke.
Montgomery—A. G. McArthur, hfo-
Arthur.
Morgan—John T. Newton, Pen
nington.
Murray—P. McGhee, Woodit»wn.
Muscogee—H. P. Fortson, Colum
bus.
Newton—G. W. W. Stone, Gxfo- J.
Oconee—Earl Overby, Watkinsviflte.
Oglethorpe-^James M. Sir.ivh,!:: jitii-
onia.
Paulding—William Gray, Hiram.
Pickens—J. R. AlleD,Talking Rock
Pierce—W. M. Brown, Blackshear. !
Pike—J. T. Barrett, Zebulon.
Polk—Dr. D. L. Ledbetter, Cedar-
town.
Pulaski—J. P. Brown, Hawkinsville.
Putnam—W. L. Turner, Eatonton.
Quitman-William Harrison,George
town.
Rabun—No cotton raised in this
county.
Randolph—I. A. Martin, Shellman.
Richmond—James Barrett, Augusta.
Rockdale—W. L. Peek, Conyers.
Schley—J. B. Williams, Ellaville.
Screven—E. M. Parker, Sylvania.
Spalding—D. J. Bailey, Jr.,Griffin.
Stewart—W. S. Boyette, Lumpkin.
Sumter—E. C. Speer.
Talbot—R. Leonard, Talbotton.
Taliaferro—John Johnson, Craw-
fordville.
Tattnall—J. M. Collins, Collins.
Taylor—P. B. Griffith, Reynolds.
Telfair—W. L. Smith, Neilly.
Terrell—A. C. Hill, Bronwood.
Thomas—A. Q. Moody, Thomasville.
Towns—No cotton raised.
Troup—S. Tatum, LaGrange.
Twiggs—J. T. Vaughn, Twiggsville.
Union—No cotton raised.
Upson—B. G. McKenny, Thomas-
ton.
Walker—Gordon Lee, Chickamauga.
Walton—M. F. Hurst, Social Circle.
Ware—W. A. McDonald, Wares-
boro.
Warren—T. S. Johnson, Warrenton.
Washington—A. J. Holmes, Davis-
boro.
Wayne—J. W. Bennett, Jesnp.
Webster—R. S. Bell, Preston.
White—C. L. Franklin, Parks.
Whitfield—J. A. Longley, Dalton.
Wilcox—A. B. McRae, Seville.
Wilkes—J. W. Armstrong, Washing
ton.
Wilkinson—J. P. Bloodwortb, Gor
don.
Worth—T. L. Sumner, Sumner.
There are several counties in the
state that do not produce any consid
erable amount of cotton, but it was
deemed advisable by Colonel Brough
ton to appoint a president in those
counties just the same.
According to the statistics of the
census of 1890 the cotton grown in
Bryan county was only 684 bales,
Camden county 4, Charlton 268, Chat
ham 9, Clinch 822, Dade 59, Effing
ham 789, Fannin 13, Glynn 88, Lib
erty 615, Lumpkin 254, McIntosh 22,
Pickens 876, Ware 342, Wayne 461,
White 512.
CONGRESSIONAL.
SUGAR TRUST WINS.
A DECISION ON THE SHERMAN
ANTI-TRUST LAW
By the U. 8. Supreme Court In Favor
of Sugar Companies.
The important case of the United
States against E. C. Knight Company
et ah, appealed from the court of ap
peals for the third circuit, involving
the constitutionality of the “Sherman
anti-trust law” in respect of the viola
tions of the sugar trust, was decided
in the supreme court of the United
States Monday adversely to the con
tentions of the government. The suit
was begun in the circuit court for the
eastern district of Pennsylvania, and
was brought, in brief, to compel
the defenant companies—the Amer
ican Sugar Refining company, the
E. C. Knight Company, the Franklin
Sugar Company, the Spreckels Sugar
Refining Company and the Delaware
Sugar House—to cancel the contracts
by which the stocks of the last four
named corporations were sold to the
American company, through John E.
Searles, Jr., in exchange for American
company stock and that their several
stocks be returned to them, on the
ground that the transaction was in
violation of the act of July 2, 1890,
and that it effected a combination in
restraint of interstate commerce.
The circuit court dismissed ihe case
and the court of apj sals affirmed that
decision. Thereupon the United
States prosecuted its appeal to the su
preme court of the United States.
Chief Justice Fuller announced the
opinion and decision of the court.
After discussing the legal meaning and
effect of the term “monopoly,” the
opinion proceeded:
“The fundamental question is
whether, conceding that the existence
of a monopoly in manufacture is es
tablished by the evidence, that mo
nopoly can be directly suppressed un
der the act of congress in the mode
attempted by this bilk”
BORDEN LOSES HIS JOB.
Spain Relieves Him of His Commis
sion as Vice-Consul.
A cable message from Madrid, Spain,
to the Spanish minister at Washing
ton, directed him, by order of the
Cortez, to dispatch to Fernandina two
trusted officials in the consular service
to investigate the alleged filibustering
expedition recently uncovered at that
port and especially the connection
with it of N. B. Borden, the Span
ish vice consul. Under these instruc
tions the Spanish minister appointed
for this mission, Senor Petiento, con
sul general of the Spanish government
at Savannah, Ga., and Senor Rosenda
Torras, Spanish vice consul at Bruns
wick, Ga. The two officials arrived at
Fernandina Tuesday and their first act
was to relieve Mr. Borden of his com
mission as vice consul for Spain and
Fernandina. Bordon submitted grace
fully and appeared to be very little
concerned about the matter.
SENATORS SELECTED.
Vr.rious State Legislatures Name State
Representatives.
The senatorial action of the republi
can caucus two weeks ago was ratified
by the South Dakota legislature, Sen
ator Pettigrew being re-elected. Twen
ty three populism voted for State Sen
ator Crawford.
The Oregon legislature on the sec
ond ana decisive vote named Dolph for
senator.
Frances E. Warrc-n and Clarance D.
Clark, republican, were the choice of
the Wyoming legislature for United
States senators. Warren will serve the
long term.
Tho Texas state legislature has elect
ed Horace Gfliitou, democrat, to sno
wed Richard Coke as United Stales ;
SeRfUqr, i
WHAT THE NATIONS’ LAW-MA
KERS ARIjl DOING.
The Proceedings of Both Houses
Briefly Epitomized.
THE SENATE.
Minister Thurston, of Hawaii, oc
cupied a front seat in the diplomatic
gallery of the senate when the session
opened Monday. The galleries were
well filled in anticipation of a renewal
of the controversy over Hawaii, which
had begun Saturday. Mr. Frye, who
had precipitated the conflict, was early
in his seat with a bunch of papers be
fore him. Senators gathered in groups
during the routine proceedings and
discussed the action of the president
in sending a war ship to Hawaii and his
published statement. Mr. Lodge speed
ily brought forward the Hawaiian ques
tion by presenting the following reso
lution: “Resolved, That the sen
ate cordially approves the despatch of
a ship of war to the Sandwich Islands
on Saturday last, and is of the opin
ion that an American man of war
should be kept at Honolulu. Resolv
ed, That prompt measures should be
taken to promote the construction of
a submarine cable from San Francisco
to Honolulu and that no part of the
rights and privilges secured to the
United States and the Hawaiian gov
ernment should be abandoned or waiv
ed in order to enable any other gov
ernment to secure a foothold or lease
upon any part of the Hawaiian islands.
Resolved, That in the judgment cf the
senate, immediate steps should be
taken to secure possession of the Sand
wich islands by their annexation to the
United States.” Mr. Lodge asked im
mediate consideration of the resolu
tion. “Let it go over,” interrupted
Mr. Blackburn. The presiding officer
construed this as an objection and un
der the rules the resolution went over
until Tuesday.
In the house Tuesday on motion of
Mr. Henderson, February 16 was set
aside for paying proper tribute to the
late Senator Yanee cf North Carolina.
A bill was passed to amend the articles
of the navy relative to punishment on
conviction by court martial; also on
motion of Mr. Reed, republican, of
Maine, to grant an American register
to the Barkentine, James H. Hamlin.
The credentials of Mr. MeMillin, of
Michigan, for the term beginning
March 4th next, of the late senator
Stockbridge, was presented to the sen
ate Wednesday. Mr. Palmer’s resolu
tion in reference to bounty payment*
to Missouri militia was passed. Sena
tor Jones’ financial currency bill waB
introduced. Senator Smith, of New
Jersey, also showed up with a currency
scheme. He had a bill read which at
tracted much attention. It provides
for a non-partisan currency commis
sion of twelve members to make inves
tigations of fiscal questions and for an
issue of bonds to produce revenue for
the government. A new and practical
turn to the Hawaiian subject was given
by Mr. Hale, (republican, of Maine),
who introduced an amendment to the
diplomatic and consular bill, provid
ing $500,000 for the survey of a cable
route connecting the Hawaiian islands
and the United States.
There was such a meagre attendance
nt the opening of the senate Thursday
that Mr. Hoar called attention to the
absence of a quorum, and a roll call
was necessary before business could
proceed. Among the bills introduced
was one by Mr. Candler, to prevent
the tapping of telegraph wires used by
news associations. This is to prevent
the stealing of news.
THE HOUSE.
In the house Monday on motion of
Mr. Onthwaite, democrat, of Ohio,
Mr. J. D. Richardson, of Tennessee,
was elected speaker pro tem. during
the absence of Speaker Crisp, who is
at Asheville, N. C., for his health. On
motion of Mr. McRea, democrat, of
Arkansas, a resolution was adopted to
direct the secretary of the interior to
furnish an estimate of the coast of
surveying the lands of the Cher
okee, Creek and Seminole Indians in
the Indian Territory. It was ex
pected that Mr. Bontelle, re
publican, of Maine, would press his
Hawaiian resolution, but he was not
present, and Mr. Catchings, from the
committee on rules, presented a special
order for the consideration of the bills
for public buildings in Chicago, New
port, Ky., Brocton, Mass., Patterson,
N. J., Sonth Omaha, Pottsville, Pa.,
and Cumberland, Md.,which were fav
orably reported from the committee of
the whole August last.
The railroad pooling bill was favor
ably reported to the senate Tuesday by
Mr. Butler, democrat, of South Caro
lina. Mr. Chandler stated that the
report was unanimous, and gave uotiee
that when the bill was taken up he
would offer an amendment concerning
the submission of freight and passen
ger rates to the interstate commerce
commission. Mr. Allen, populist,
of Nebraska, presented a large
bnnch of petitions from citizens
of Alabama, claiming that they
were deprived of a republican form of
government, and asking the interven
tion of congress. Mr. Wolcott sub
mitted resolutions from the legislature
of Colorado, reciting the circum
stances of default in paying the Pa
cific railroad debt, and urging the cre
ation of a single government board to
secure the speedy settlement of the
government’s rights.
A reply from Secretary Carlisle to
Mr. Dingley’s resolution, calling for
information relative to the effects of
the inauguration of the Behring Sea
regulations, decided upon by the Paris
tribunal, which was laid before the
house Wednesday, drew from Mr.
Dingley a statement as to tho sealeries
situation. He declared that Secretary
Carlisle’s response showed that the
Paris regulations bad been a flat fail
ure. Although the government’s les
sees were allowed to take 25,000 males
from the islands, they had not been
able to find 16,000, vhile the Canadian
pelagic sealers had taken 60,000, most
ly females. In view of these fact*,
said Mr. Dingley, Secretary Carlisle
concluded that w ithin three year?, five
at the most, if the destruction went
on, the Alaskan seal herd would be
exterminated. The treasury would
lose a vast som of money and tun
world would be deprived of an article
of luxury and comfort.
In the house Thursday, on motion
of Mr. Shell, democrat, of South Car
olina, a resolution was passed provid
ing for an investigation by the com
mittees on public buildings and
grounds, of the office of the architect
of the capitol. The house then, on
motion of Mr. Sayres, went into a
committee of the whole and resumed
the consideration of the sundry civil
appropriation bill. The paragraph in
the bill, appropriating $25,000 for
general repairs in the customhouse at
Chicago was stricken out.
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES*
An avalanche broke over part of
Bardonericja, Italy, the soulhern ter
minus of the Mount Genis railway.
Eighteen Italian soldiers were buried
under it.
Rio Janeiro advices state that there
is considerable excitement there as to
the result of the accusations against
Peixoto, Castilho, Monteiro and oth
ers, presented by a congressional com
mittee
At Monnel Hilton’s sawmill, near
Alto, Texas, the boiler exploded, kill
ing four colored men, Tobe Richards,
Alex Lewis, Will Lewis and Abner
Lee. Alexander Hamilton, Richard
Lofton and Noah Miller were slightly
injured.
Twenty thousand dollars worth of
new machinery has arrived from Bos
ton, for the Sonth Boston iron works
at Middlesboro, Ky. The plant will
soon start np. It is the only gun and
ordinance plant in tho south, anti em
ploys 500 skilled workmen.
Two children playing east of San
Lnis, Potosi, Mexico, discovered a
cavern. Several men explored the
cave, revealing an iron chest, filled
with Sprnish gold coin, amounting to
between $250,000 and $350,000. It is
believed that the money was placed in
the cave by Franciscan monks.
G. H. Ramsey & Co., the oldest and
one of the most popular grocery firms
in Jackson, Tenn., have made an as
signment for the benefit of the credit
ors. E. A. Brooks, sheriff of Madison
county, was made assignee. The assets
and liabilities are not known. Slow
collections and the tightness of the
times caused the failure.
Augustus Potter, superintendent of
the Russell mills, Chiltonville, Mass.,
has left town and his accounts are in
bad shape. The company will proba
bly lose between $5,000 and $6,000,
and private individuals will lose heav
ily. Potter left for Boston, saving bj
would return at night. He has had
two fictitious names on the pay roll
for two years, on which he had drawn
$2,500 from the company. He bor
rowed money in amonnts ranging from
$100 to $700 from private parties.
TRADE TOPICS.
Bradstreet’s Report of Business for
the Past Week.
Bradstreet’s report on business the
past week says: With few exceptions,
commercial, financial and industrial
features indicate only a retention of
the improvement heretofore noted.
Among the more favorable phases of
trade is found a somewhat improved
demand for Bessemer pig iron and
steel billets, woolens, rubber goods,
shoes, hardware and, to an extent, for
leaf tobacco. Although steel and iron
have advanced a trifle from lowest quo
tations recorded, print oloths nave
gone down to a “lowest price on rec
ord.” London wool sales opened 5
per cent off, which affected prices here
unfavorably. One sontflern pig iron
company is reported to have taken an
order under $6, and woolen and cotton
manufacturers in eastern, central and
middle states declare prices are so low
and broken there is practically no
profit. General lines of cotton goods
are affected by conditions resulting in
depressing prints, and, although ging
hams are more animated and the de
mand for woolen dress goods is no-
ticable, domestic woolen dress goods
remain quiet, with little new business
for the mills.
Jobbers in Sonth Carolina and Geor
gia complain of slowness in mercan
tile collections and general trade
throughout the south, as at the west
and northwest, continues hampered
by unseasonable weather. Baltimore
reports that southern merchants con
tinue to hold off, as prices of almost
all staple lines “are lower than ever.”
The most favorable report from the
south is that the usual semi-annual
dividends have been declared by cot
ton factories, and that the latter have
fair orders.
WAR-LIKE DEMONSTRATIONS.
Patriotic Mexican Students Offer Their
Services as Soldiers.
After a very stormy cabinet meeting
at the City of Mexico Monday night,
President Diaz notified Guatemala,
throngh its minister, that he would not
concede one iota and Guatemala would
have to give in to Mexico’s demand or
suffer the consequences.
Other Central American representa
tives present at the meeting made the
statement to President Diaz that they
understood Mexico was trying to grasp
Central American territory.
President Diaz denied the assertion
and stated that Mexico would have her
rights and the boundary lines should
be as Mexico claims and that Mexico
had all the territory that she needed.
It looks as though the other Central
American republics were behind
Gantemala.
All the government students march
ed on the streets with banners shout
ing “Viva Mexico,” “Viva Diaz” and
“On to Guatemala.” They assembled
in front of the palace from 11,000 to
15,000 strong, clamoring for war and
pledging their support to President
Diaz. They were mainly composed of
students of the law and mining and
medical schools.
Mexico has been preparing for war
for some time, and has about 12,000
troops on the border. AH the officers
that have not been in active duty have
been notified to report for marching
orders.
Bill Cook on Trial.
Bill Cook, the desperado, was ar
raigned before Judge Parker, at Fort
Smith, Ark., Tuesday, and pleaded
not guilty to each of the three counts.
He is charged with robbery in two
counts, and with taking government
money in another count, _
CARS MUST RUN.
SO JUDGE GAYNOR NOTIFIES
THE C03IPANIES.
The Great Strike in Brooklyn Draw
ing to a Close.
A Brooklyn, N. Y., special says:
Justice Gaynor, of the supreme court,
handed down his decision on the ap
plication of Joseph Loader for a man-
damns to compel the Brooklyn Heights
railroad to operate its cars in sufficient
numbers to accommodate the travel
ing public on the Fulton street, Put
nam avenue, Green and Gates, and
the Tompkins avenue lines.
He signifies his intention of grant
ing a mandamus, the form to be de
termined on the argument of counsel.
Justice Gaynor’s decision in part is as
follows:
“It is my duty to declare the law of
this case. This railroad corporation
is not in the position of a mere private
individual or company carrying on
business for private gain, which may
suspend business temporarily or per
manently at pleasure. On the contra
ry, it has a dual relation, a public re
lation to the people of the state and a
private vote of its stockholders.”
“It must not be forgotten here,
though it may seem to be growing not
wholly forgotten elsewhere, that in its
chief aspect it is a public corporation
having duties to perform to the public
which transcend any obligation which,
in its private aspect, it owes its stock
holders.
“It has received franchises of great
value from the state and had conferred
upon it the state’s transcendant power
of eminent domain. In return it took
upon itself the performances of public
duties and functions, in tho perform
ance of which it is in law and in fact
not an independent individual or en
tirety, but the accounted agent of the
state.
“Though these principles are old
and inherent in the idea of the sov
ereignty of people, it would seem that
in the recent rapid growth of corpor
ate power and of the tendency to use
public franchises for the aggrandize
ment of individuals first, and for the
service and benefit of the public sec
ond, they have come to be somewhat
overlooked and need to be restated.
They have often been declared by the
highest courts of this state and the su
preme court of the United States.
“The duty of the company now be
fore the court is to carry passengers
through certain streets of Brooklyn,
and to furnish, man and run cars
enough to fully accommodate the pub
lic. It may not lawfully cease to per
form that duty for even one hour. The
directors of a private business com
pany may, as dictated by private
greed or motives of privato gain, stop
business and refuse to employ labor at
all unless labor come down to their
conditions, however distressing, for
such are the existing legal industrial
and social conditions.”
NELSON A SENATOR.
Minnesota’s Governor Honored by the
Legislature.
The two houses of the Minnesota
legislature, in joint session Wednesday
voted for a successor to Senator W. D.
Washburn. The developments of the
night previous showed that Mr. Wash
burn’s re-election was impossible and
his forces tried to throw bis strength
to ex-Congressman John Lind.
When the two houses had assembled
and were organized, the roll call was
had and Governor Knute Nelson was
shown to have been elected. Before
the announcement of the vote there
were several changes made by the
members and the announcement of the
result was:
Nelson, 102; Washburn, 3; S. G.
Comstock, 9; J. T. McCleary, 2 ; Ig
natius Donnelly, populist, 13; John
Lind, 1; William Mitchell, democrat,
4. Speaker Van Zant thereupon de
clared that Knute Nelson, having re
ceived a majority of the vote, was
elected senator for the six years after
March 4th next.
The governor was brought before
the legislature and returned his thanks
for tbe great honor conferred in a
brief speech, and the joint session ad
journed.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Condition as Reported
for the Past Week.
Reports on the inrlusTial oondi.ion of the south
for the past week i-h )'•» that there are signs of an
increase in general business transactions col
lections are well kept up and money is easier
limn it has been- Home grown supplies have
prevented the drain of money which in former
years has been s nt to the north and wea\ Tin
iron m .rket quotations do hot ihange, but the
demand is largo and there a e more inquiries
as to contracts fur future de.iveries and stocks
do not accumulate on the yards. Sne 1 making
in the soutli is attra ting more attention, and
it is reported that the Birmingham rolling
mills wilt establish a steel mill at Birmingham
and the DeBarJelebtn St el company one at
B seem r, Ala. The coal demand is somewhat
less active, owing to warmer weather, but is
still vei y large. IiTormation is r ceivt-d that
the lumber produc rs of Alabama, Georgia,
Louis ana amt Texas arerec iving more t rd r3
than for some months past, and that the export
luni er movement ia growing ae ive again.
Much attention conti nes to bo given to the
establishment of new cotton mil s. A mill
with $150,000 capital was chartered durin r 'be
week at Coin tibia. 8. C.; one to oat $100 00)
near Weldon, N. C ; $7 ,00 1 one at Wa.halla,
8. C., and o hers are report'd at Montgomery,
Ala., and Willard, Ga. Enlargements of cot
ton mills are reported at Mjutgomrry, Pied
mont and Tu-caioosa, Ala.
Among tt e forty-it nr new industries organ-
iz dor incorporated daring the w<ck rre: An
electrical company wi.h $1(10,0,10 capital at
C >rtcr-ville, Ga.; acid works to cost $60,000 at
Cedar’own, Ga.; a $50,OOU cotton compress at
Par s Tex., and one at Baton R nge La.: a
$50,000 shoe factoiy at Athens, (ia., and a
$2 : .COJ tobacco f ctory at Bock Hill, S. C.
There ia also reported brtek works nt
High 8p tngs, Fla.; canning factories at Berry
and Jowntey, Ga., Jack-onville. FL., Carters
ville, Ga . and 3 n it, V1.; elec rical 1)1 ill sat
Or.ando, Fla., and Dallas, Tex., aul flnr n l
grist mills at Birminglnim, Ala., Jonesdale,
Ark., Charlotte, N. C., Columbia, C\. F. rt
Worth, Tex., and ludisn Mills, W. Va. A tan-
n ry is to be built at Orlando, Fia. tobacco
factories at Dar ington 3. C-, and E zabetli-
town. Tenn.; a sugar r iioeiy at Wlii e- asle,
Li., and woodworking plants at Brewto.t, Alt.,
Canton, Ga., Dublin, ilia.-., and Lewisburg,
Tenn.
Water wo. k3 are to be erected at Springdale,
Ark., Way.iesville, N. C., and Clev-land, Teun.
The en'argements for the we k include an c-
factory at J ampa, Fit.; machine shop3 and
foundries et Birmingham, Ala., au l Alexan
iis, Va.; paint works at Cl un T x., am
w o ;w rking p ants at BirmiDgb->m, Ala., and
Memphis, Tenn.—iradesmau (Coa tauooga,
Dnn.)
It is better to incline to those who
advise than to those who forever praise
BILL ARP’S LETTER.
THE WEARY PHILOSOPHER HAS
FOUND A MECCA OF REST.
He Ruminates, Expatiates and Specu
lates on Human Ilappiuess.
The pious poet wrote:
“Oh where shall rest bo found—
Best for the weary soul?”
The happv-hearted Tom Moore wrote:
“Sweet vale of Avoca—how calm could I re3t
In thy bosom of shade with the friends I love
best.”
Everybody wants rest—rest from caro and
apprehension—rest from pain or overwork—*
rest for the mind and the body. Pope says:
“All the joys of sense
L;e in three words—health, peace and compe*
tence.”
It looks like we all have a natural"right to
these, and it is our fault if wo do not possess
and enjbv them. If a man is prudent lie will
have health. If lie is kind-hearted ho will have
peace. If he is frugal and industrious ho will
have a competence. There are many things
that war against these virtues. A man may
inherit disease or fall in tho way of pestilence.
Quarrelsome nabors may destroy his peace.
Thieves or robbers or fire may take away hie
competence, but these ate exceptions. " Tho
rale is still the same. In the great majority
•f cases the man who is uot liappy has himself
to blame. If it were not so we would have
mo: e pity for the unfori unate. Unconsciously
weharbi.r the belief that they brought misery
upon them-elves and so wo say if they danced
♦hey must pay the fiddler. I was talking to an
old friend from Baltimore about this and we
both agreed that the most universal cause of
misery was ill-assorted marriages. My friend
has travel -d in Europe for many years and haa
been a close observer of the manners and cus
toms and domestic life of different nations,
and says that wherever the mating of young
people is done by the parents the unions are
more happy than when they mate themselves.
Among the peasantry of Germany and Fi ance
it is universal for the parents to make the
match and they do it so judiciously
that in nine cases out of ten it re
suits in domestic happiness. In no other
country did lie fiud such fi ial respect and
obedience and such kind, considerate regard
betw-en husband and wife. The domestic life
of the Frencli and the German peasantry is
perfectly beautiful, said he. How is it in 5his
country. Of 100 marriages how many may be
called happy, congenial and wi ll advised. Look
around among your readers and count. How
many runaways, how many divorces, how
many grass widows, how many suicides, hoW
many drunken or unfaithful husbands, how
many opium eating wives, how many who
would separate if it were not for the children
or for fear of talk or scandal? When you trim
them all down to real happy marriages it will
be like the cynical old preacher who said that
“out of every hundred members of the church
fifty joined on a boom or to please their pa
rents or the preacher; twenty-five joined to ad
vance their worldly interests—the remainder
joined out of conscientious conviction, but of
tho whole hundred not more , than fifteen are
zealous, consistent working members. This i3
about the average of every Christian church in
this country and this 15 per cent preserves ihe
church and saves it from disintegration, just
like ten righteous men would have saved
Sodom. They keep alive its charities and move
its missionary work and set their light upon a
hill and so establish good government and ex
tend civilization. This 15 per cent of profe-s-
ing Christ ana are nevertheless the hope of a
sinful world.”
Just so there are, perhaps, not more than 15
per cent of real happy marriages, but there are
enough to illuminate the married sta e and set
it up b fore mankind as the highest ideal of
human happim ss.
And so Bob and I ruminate and expatiate and
speculate on human happiness just like we had
an idea of reforming mankind and making
everybody happy. We would if we could, but
we can’t: young people will continue to bo f >oIs
and marry in haste and repeiii at leisure. Rob
ert McCay is my old college mate. He and his
wife will spend the winter with us here and it
amuses the young people to see him and I get
dose together on the veranda and with our
feet on the ballusters and our pipes in onr
months talk and talk and smile and talk again.
Wo have already been over our college days
with their hallowed memories. We have
lamented the dead and counted
the living on our fingers- Robert
ia a brother of our o!d Professor Charles Mc
Cay. He and his wife have recently returned
from their travels and like the hunted hare
have gotten back to their old haunts and are
seeking their old-time friends. It is an in
structive pleasure to hear them tell of Berlin
and Leipsic and Strassbarg and Florence and
Rome—imperial Rome—where the best people
of all civiliz' d nations congregate. It is the
Mecca of all Christendom. It is studying an
cient and modern history without a book to lis
ten to lliem tell of ruins and paintings, and
sculpture and the manners and customs of tho
people. We have a happy family. All of its
members came here to rest—to renew their
vital forces and to escape tho hard win’ers of
the Piedmont region. The northern blizzards,
like the comet,still switch their icy tails around
this way. No more free zes have visited us, but
fire is comfortable at morn and night. My wife
and I and Mr. and Mrs. McCay are the pat--
riarchs--the balance wheel of the household.
The young folks want to run away with the
wagon sometimes, and we have to hold them
down. Mrs. Henry Grady is here with her
children, and she holds the fort quietly between
the old folks and the young. She is a smart,
graceful woman and a noble mother. Then
Mere is Mrs. Hill, a neice of “on' - Ben,” t }
tired, overworked teacher in the public schools
of Atlanta. She came here for rest, and it has
renewed her youth. I wish that all the tired
female teachers could spend their winter vaca
tions here. The men have bnilt their retreat
on Cumberland is'and, but the women have
none. Theieare no class of peop'e in the state
who have so much responsibility upon them as
the female teachers, and no class that are so
faithful to the trust. Then we have an invalid
maiden from Virginia—tho liveliest and loveli
est of all ( ur family. It would take a whole
college of doctors to tell when or where Miss
Annie is sick, for her merry, contagious laugh
is ne rn all over the house. May the good
Lord afflict us a 1 with that portion o’ her mal
ady. Then we have a swe -t girl graduate, not
song from the Lucy Cobb. Her rosy cli eks
and ruby lips and quick, glancing eyes, her
nimble, springy walk, her merry wit and repar
tee all indicate that jbe, &>o, is a very tired in
valid. But I think that Ms.-s Ruth is gaining
strength, for she w'ent out on the guif today to
tish for groupers and while the billows heaved
ho did she in kindred sympathy—well, they all
heaved excc-p- Miss Gu-sie Grady, and the only
reason nhe did not was because she did uot go.
Sensible girl and sensib c moth r. They took
■n 'immense lunch along but never touched it*
H»nry Grady, Jr., said that he had heard thifc
the way to prevent sea sickness was to fill the
stomach and keep on filling it, and so he t ufc
away two grap * fruit, half ad z n apples, a can
of ported ham, six rolls of bread, one box of
sardines, some more iiain end p c-kksand olives,
* tc., ad infinitum. Thev took aiong much
fis mig tackle, but none of the pirty wet a line.
Most of them laid down in the boa> and groan
ed and lamented their awful condition, and
swore off from ever hunting for groupers again.
A couple of handsome young m n, who are so-
called invalid, in m St. Louis, played the satel
lites to tbe girls and out of r< ciprccal courtesy
heaved when they heaved. The boat was away
our six miles in the gu f and was preparing to
anchor when the scene began. The poor cap-
»a f n wai di-tressed and alarmed. E ght l eav
ing invalids ami no help. 'They wer- sick-
awful sick. Some of them 1 i:l down in the
boat and groaned, ‘ O , my! Good Lord lieiy us!
Pleas , cip- in, take us home! Oh my poor
mother, will I ever see her again?” A beautiful
young widow <x laim d, in her agony, “Oh,
my darling child! I v.ili n ver go off and leave
her again!” Q icklv the captain f-hifted his
sails and steered f<>r the harbor. By this time
the empty passengers were chilled for it was
cold and getting colder The 3'oung men gal
lantly took off their coats and covered the girls
with them. Then they took the green gulf
shnk(8 and trembled—all except H nry, who
unbuckled bis be t and went to e«ting a ain.
Bv ; nd by they reached the placid waters of
the harbor and began t\> rally ti;< ir perturbed
spirits. The g od fh p i-hot like an f.rrow
through the pa 1 -* and ail sail was spread for the
hi me stretch; Just bef« re landing t!.e female
tongues assnn cd their normal condition an^L
their faces assumed a si>*kly smile, and f hey all
agreed to ktep the a S’ ir u dea! seejss and
made the captlib; pr- nr e not to TtHl. But
murder will out ai d I have reiat^V it j-isi as it
was icid to m . It was an ful time and
has completely painlvz d the grouper indus
try in this region.— Bihjroap in Atlanta Con
stitution.
SEMi-ciRcriiAR arches were first used
in the building of churches in 60S,