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The Fayetteville News
VOL. 2.
FAYETTEVILLE, GA„ I'lliDA Y, OCTOBER 11, 188!).
NO. 11.
THE LEGISLATURE.
UNFORTUNATE JOHNSTOWN
■OiLS PASSED BY THE SENATE AND HOUSI
OF REPRESENTATIVES.
A bill to amend the charter of Colquitt
in Wilcox county, and provide for the
election of a mayor and aldermen; a
icuco law for certain portions of Thomas
couuty; to incorporate the Brooks Al
liance Banking company; to amend the
• charter of Mucon so as to authorize the
collection of $50,000 per annum on li
censes and business; to prohibit the sale
of liquor within five miles of Towltown
Methodist and Christian churches in De
catur county; to repeal an act to provide
two weeks sessions of Marion county su
perior court; to authorize the holding of
an election in Terrell county to determine
whether bonds shall be issued; to estab
lish public schools in Dawson county;
to authorize the county comurssioners
or the ordinaries, where there arc no
jjych commissioners, to hire convicts to
other counties; to incorporate the town
of Shady Dale, in Jasper couuty; to
amend the act prohibiting the sale of
cigarettes to minors by inserting before
the word “tobacco” the word “cigarette;”
to provide for the drawing of juries in
the superior courts; a game and fish law
for Bullock county; to require the regis
tration of voters in Bullock county; to
prohibit the sale of liquor near Rock
Spring Academy and Cove church, in
McWilliams’ Cove, Walker county; to
incorporate the Stevenson, Sand Moun
tain Dalton Railroad; to prohibit the
sale of liquor near St. Mary’s masonic
institute and the Chickamauga Baptist
church in Walker couuty.
XW to incorporate the Merchant!
and Traders bank, of Brunswick, with a
capital of $100,000 to $250,000; to au
thorize the commissioners of the town of
Louisville to purchase from the Louis
ville academy a tract of land for sanitary
purposes, lor a price not to exceod
$4;u00; to incorporate the Kansas City,
Chattanooga and Port Royal Railroad
company; to amend the act establishing u
board of county commissioners of Miller
{Bounty; to amend the act regulating the
storage Of fertilizers in Covington; a res
olution to authorize the purchase of foes
hundred copies of the Van Epps digest,
for the use of the state library and offl
cers, and for distribution, the price no
to exceed $5 a volume; a three mile pro
hibitiou bill for the Baptist church, it
the town of Homer, in Banks county^
a bill to amend the road law of Carlton
county; a bill to amend the charter of
the Merchants’ Bank of Macon, so as to
make each stockholder liable to an
. amount double their subscriptions, not to
exceed cue-teath the capital stock of the
bank; a bill to incorporate the Bain-
bridge, Lake Douglass and Suburban
Street Railroad company, with u capital
of $50,000 to $100,000; a bill to amend
the act establishing an academy in Louis
ville by increasing the number of trustees
to twelve; a bill to amend the charter
of the Rome railroad, so that
it may extend east to the South Car
olina and west to the Alabama line;
a bill to incorporate the Rome, Subligna
and Northern Railroad company, or
dummy line, with a capital stock ol
$100,000. A resolulion authorizing the
governor to appoint a commission of
three to investigate the oyster industry
and report what legislation is necessary
to its advancement; a bill to incorporate
the Banking and Trust company of Mil-
ledgeville; a four-mile prohibition brll
for Wildwood Baptist Church and Mor-
ganville Methodist Cnurch in Dado
county; a bill to incorporate the South
ern Loan and Banking company with a
capital of $100,000 to $500,000; a one-
mile prohibition bill for (Juity Baptist
Church and Union Methodist Church in
Gordon county; a bill to repeal that sec
tion of the Loganville charter which re
quires $1,000 license for the sale of in
toxicating liquor; a bill to amend the
charter of Midway meeting house, so ai
to change the time of the termination of
the offices of the selectmen; to amend
the act establishing the city court of Co
lumbus in regard to solicitor’s fees; to le
galize and regulate the lease or condi
tional sale of rolling stock to railroad
companies; a bill to require assignees of
failing or insolvent debtors to give bond.
The amount, to bo fixed and the bond
approved by the ordinary. If thq as
signee fails to give the bond, a majority
of the creditors shall have power to
choose au assignee who shall give bond.
If the assignee shall not qualify within
ten days alter the execution of the deed
of assignment, the sheriff shall tako
charge of the property in the interim and
at the end of the ten days turn over tho
property to the original assignee; a bill
to prohibit the sale or barter, or exchange
of seed cotton in Muscogee between tho
15th of August and the 15th of December
without the written consent of tho
owner of tho land whereon it was grown.
In New Zealand, where rabbits are a
great pest, they are poisoned with malt,
sown in furrows, as turnip seed would be
sown; they feed at dusk and in the early
morninc.
MANY PEOPLE SCNFEIUNG FOB WANT OF
PROPER CLOTHING AND SHELTER.
With the thermometer about the freez
ing point there is a great dcai of suffering
at Johnstown, Pa.f these nights ljy peo
ple who are impropeily ohcltered and
poorly clad. The relief money, which
was intended to supply tlieir necessities,
even if paid at once, will conic too late
to be properly applied in providing
against the blasts of winter. Clothing
that was on hand when the commissary
department shut down lias been trans-
fered to the Red Cross society, by whom
it will be distributed to the needy.
There have beer, a great many deaths
there within the past week and most ol
them have been superinduced by ail
ments contracted in the flood. In the
Red Cross hospital there arc twenty-twe
cases of typhoid fever.
MARSHAL NAGLE AGAIN.
THE STATE COURT OF CALIFORNIA DE
BARRED FROM TRYING HIM.
The grand jury of San Joaquin
county, Cal,, has presented its final re
port concerning the case of Deputy
United Btates Marshal Nagle. It says
the facts show that the killing of the
late Judge Terry was intentional and
deliberate, and while the accused should
he tried under stale laws, he was taken
from the power of the state by a process
onenating from the United States circuit
court. The report continues: “The
United States circuit court has decided
that Nagle cannot be tried by a state
court. Essentially for a like want ol
jurisdiction, from which it is fair to
conclude he cannot be tried in anv court
THE L. Sl N.
ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDER*—
ELECTION OF OLD OFFICERS.
The annual meeting of the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad stockholders, was
held at St. Louis, Mo., on Thursday.
President Norton and Directors J. D.
Probst, Wm. Mertens, August Belmont,
Jr., J. M. Horsey and A. Marcus, of New
York, were pre-ent ns stockholders, rep:
resenting, tinough proxy, other directors
and Loudon nnd New York stockholders.
The issue of thiiteen million dollars of
new stock was confirmed, only one
stockholder, a woman, owning fifty-four
shares, objectii g. The directors of the
road met and re-elected the old officers.
The bonded indebtedness is $115,726,060,
au increase of $1,680,000; gross earning!
$16,500,306: net. burnings $0,273,310.
THE 8AME OLD STORY.
THE BOOKKEEPER OF A CONNECTICUT FIRM
ARRESTED FOR EMBEZZLEMENT.
Charles S. Pratt, confidential book
keeper, secretary nnd cashier of the H.
Wa les Linen (Jompiny, of Meriden,
Conn., was arrested on Thursday for em
bezzlement. Pratt’s embezzlement
amounts to over $10,000, covering various
periods since 1882, nnd was accomplished
by false entries mainly on pay rolls. The
affair has caused a profound sensation, as
Pratt was an officer in several local or
ganizations, treasurer of tho First Con
gregational Society and a city alderman.
He confessed his guilt to his employ
ers, saying: “It is the same old story of
living beyond one’s means. I am a
thief.”
A Wonderful Lake.
Tho greatest wonder in the Sta‘o of
Iowa, and perhaps in any State, is what
is called tho “Wa.led Lake,” in Wright
County, twelve miles north of the Du-
bnque and Pacific Railway, and 150
miles west of Dubuque City. This lake,
says a writer in the Burlington Hawk-
aye, is from two to three feet higher
khan the earth’s surface. In some places
tho wall is ton feet high, fifteen feet
wide at tho bottom, and five feet wide
on top. The stones used in construc
tion vary in weight from three tons
down to 100 pounds. There is an abund
ance of stones in Wriglit Couuty, but
surrounding the lake to tho extent of
live or ten miles there are none. No ono
can form an idea as to the means em
ployed to bring them to tho spot or wlio
constructed it. Around the entire lake
is a belt of woodland one-half mile in
width, composed of oak. With this ex
ception the country is a rolling prairie.
The trees must have been planted there
it the time of tho building of the wall.
Ill the spring of tho year 1856 there was
i groat storm, and tho ice oil tho lake
broke tho wall in several places, and flu
farmers in tho vicinity wore compelled
lo repair the damages to prevent inun
dation. The lake < ccupies a grand sur
face of 2,800 acres,with a depth of water
is great as twenty-five feet-. The water
is clear and cool and tho soil sandy and
loamy. It is singular that no ono has
been ab’o to ascertain whore the water
comes from or where it goes, yet it is
ilways clear and fro.-li.
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