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TERRIBLE. BLIZZARDS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.
MO VEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT
AND HIS ADVISERS.
APPOINTMENTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATTERS
OP INTEREST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Tlio secretary of the treasury has ap
pointed L. G. Jeffers superintendent of
constiuition of the federal buildings at
Birmingham, Ala., vice Shepherd, re
moved. •
President Harrison, on Tuesday, ap
pointed Warren G. Sayre, of Wabash,
Ind., a member of the Cherokee com
mission, to succeed J. F. Haitriuft, de
ceased. Mr. Sayre wns speaker of the
Indiana legislature in 1887.
A new steward has been secured by
the president for the white house. This
time the choice has fallen upon a Scotch-
Irishman. Philip McKira. For many
years McKim was steward at the Metro
politan Club, of Washington.
Dr. Green, president of the Western
Union Telegraph company, is preparing
a reply to Postmaster-General Wana-
maker’s schedule of rates in accordance
with the dtrections of the executive com
mittee.
Monday afternoon the president issued
his proclamation declaring that the con
ditions imposed by congress on the statt
of Washington to entitle that state ta
admission to the Union have been rati
fied and accepted, and that the admis-
si n of sai l state into the Union is now
complete.
Nothing has developed at the State de
partment respecting the case of Br-State
Treasurer Burke, of Louisiana, although
it was reported that Burke was ou his
way to Honduras. It was further stated
that if this was true, it would only be
the most natural thing in the world, for
two reasons: First, some Louisiana peo
ple, Burke among them, probably have
secured very valuable concessions in
mining and otherwise m Honduras, and
it would be to his interest to go there
and work them; second, there is no ex
tradition treaty with Honduras.
In the case of Goode Simouds vs. the
Piedmont Air-Line company, in which
discrimination in the payment of rebates
ou commutation tickets is charged, the
interstate commerce commission has
granted leave to the complainant to
amend bis petition, which was granted,
by substituting the Richmond and Dan
ville Railroad company in place of the
Piedmont Air-Line as defendant. The
case will be postponed to allow defend
ant time to answer... .In the case of the
Holly Springs Compress and Manufac
turing company vs. the Kansas City,
Memphis and Birmingham railroad com
pany, relating to rates on cotton, an
amended complaint was on Saturday
filed and the hearing of the case, previ
ously set for hearing November 14th, has
been postponed to allow defendant the
usual time for answering.
November cotton returns of the de
partment of agriculture show a remark
able variation in the condition in differ
ent localities. In North Carolina and
Virginia the season has been very short
and excessively wet, and the crop seri
ously injured by long continued rains in
the season of blossoming. Tennessee
reports injury to the crop by wet
weather, lack of cultivation, and early
frosts during the past month. In these
states the crop is much worse than that
of last year. Elsewhere the crop is
comparatively late, especially from South
Carolina to Alabama, with a large growth
of weed. In the lowlands early frosts
have injured crops east of Mississippi,
while the uplands in the southern belt are
still green. West of Mississippi, in a
large portion of the cotton area, there has
been no frost. The weather for picking
has been remarkably favorable, assuring
the gathering without waste of all that is
opened in excellent condition. Indica
tions of the yield per acre, by county cor
respondents, are about three per cent
higher than last year. So much still de
pends on future killing frosts and sunny
weather for opening and gathering that
the result cannot be known very closely
until alter Christmas. There has not
been severe general loss by caterpillar
and bollworm, though the damage in
some localities has been serious.
WILL RESIST.
THE CHEROKEE LIVE STOCK ASSOCIATION
don’t want to “vacate.”
The Cherokee Live Stock association
held a meeting in Kansas City, to con
sider Secretary Noble’s declaration that
they mu3t vacate the “strip” by the first
of January next. The meeting was not
public, but it has been learned that the
sense of the meeting was tbnt the secre-
rary’s order would be resisted, and it
was determined to take legal steps to
that end. The association, said one of
the members after the meeting, does not
propose to renew its lease, but simply de
sires to hold its present lease until its
teruj’natiou in 1894.
THE AVERAGE WEIGHT
OF COTTON BALES OF DIFFERENT STATES.
BASED ON RECEIPTS TO DATE.
The New Orleaus cotton exchange has
published statements derived from other
eachaages as to the average weights of
cotton bales in their respective States,
-based on receipts so far. The report, by
sections are: Texas, 534 24-T00 pounds;
Louisiana, 498 80-100; Alabama, 500;
Georgia, 498 71-100; North Carolina,
and Tennessee, etc., 501 47-100. Com
pared with the September weights, tha
overage of the cotton belt for the months
together is 10 42-10(1 pounds per bale
lighter.
COWBOT8 AND TIJEIR HERDS FROZEN TC
DEATH.
A special on Saturday to the Denver,
Col., Republican from Dayton, N. M.,
says: “Unless the snow otorm, which
has been raging for eight days, comes to
an end soon, next summer will show the
country covered with the dead bodies of
animals as thickly as was the old Santa
Fo trail in the sixties. The depth of the
snow is now not less than twenty-six
inches on a level, and in many places it
has drifted seven feet high. When the
storm struck this section, seven large
herds of cattle, numbering from 400 to
2,000, were being held near this place
awaiting shipment to eastern markets.
The rain of a week ago was followed last
Thursday morning by blizzards of suow
and sleet which sent the herds in a
southerly direction. In vain, did the al
ready half frozen cowboys try to check
the march of the herds, but on they
went through the increasing storm until,
finding it utterly impossible to hold the
cattle, the cowboys rode aside and let
them pass, and when nearly dead rode
the exhausted horses into canyons, or
partially sheltered places, where they
passed many hours of misery without
food or fire. Five cowmen areknitwnto
be frozen to death. Two Mexican sheep
herders have been found frozen to death.
Two men coming in report drifts in some
places seven and eight feet high, in which
there are hundreds of dead stock, many
with horns and heads above the snort'.
In one drift thirteen were counted; in
another, ten. Some of these were alive,
but unable to move from their frigid
prison. Herds of sheep are completely
wiped out of existence, and range for
thirty miles from town is covered with
dead carcasses. It is estimated that 20,»
0C0 sheep have perished in that part of
the territory. At Texline, ten miles be
low Clayton, two passenger trains have
been snowbound for the week. Provi
sions are running out and passengers are
compelled to venture out in the storm
and kill the cattle, quarters of which are
taken into the cars and roasted for food
The storm is by far the worst ever knows
in New Mexico, and the exact loss of life
and property cannot at present be esti
mated.
A COURT ROOM FIGHT
IN WHICH THREE I*ERBONS ARE KILLED
AND SEVERAL SERIOUSLY WOUNDED.
A dispatch from Lexington, Va., saysi
“Reports received here from Browns-
burg, a small village of about 800 peo
ple, in Rockbridge county, fourteen
miles north of I.exiDgton, state that that
village is in a high state of excitement
over a terrible and bloody fight between
leading men of the vicinity. Three
persons nre dead or fatally wounded,
while a number of others are severely
injured. It seems that Dr. P. J.
Walker, one of the most prominent phy
sicians and surgeons of the state, had
threatened the life of Henry Miller, a
rominent nnd wealthy citizen of Rock-
ridge county, for an insult offered the
former’s wife. Miller had "Walker ar
rested to keep the peace. Friday even
ing the case came up in a magistrate’s
court, and the trouble soon started,
which ended in both sides drawing their
weapons. Miller was killed, Dr.
Walker fatally wounded and Mrs. Walk
er, who was in court ns a witness, was
killed. Dan and William Miller, sonsol
the accused, were shot and dangerously
wounded. Samuel Beaver and others
whose names nre unknown, are also in
jured.” A later dispatch says: “Dr.
P. J. Walker, who was wounded in the
Brownburg affair Friday evening, neat
Lexington, Va., has died from his
wounds. Dave Miller is mortally
wounded, rind his brothers George,
James and William implicated in the
shooting of Dr. Walker and his wife, are
in jail. Lyncning is feared.”
COTTON OIL MEN
HAVE A MEETINQ AND FAVOR CHANGING
THE TRUST INTO A CORPORATION.
The committee appointed at the last
meeting of tho certificate holders of the
cotton oil trust to examine into its af
fairs and suggest a method for changing
the trust into a corporate concern, met
at New York Wednesday. The report,
resented and adopted after considera
te discussion, was on the basis of chang
ing the present certificates into stock,
which would be assured by the deposit
of all securities owned by the trust with
the Central Trust compauy. Tho new
stock will consist of $27,000,000 com
mon and 815,000,000 six per cent now
cumulating preferred stock. The com
mittee reported that through errors of
judgment a loss of $277,111) had been
sustained and bad been charged off on
the books of the company. Mr. Flagler,
president, contributed $150,000 and J.
O. Morse, treasurer, $100,000 toward
making up the difioiency. The compauy
will be re-organrzed on the plan recom
mended by the committee.
THE P..PER8 MISSING.
DOC UMENTB NEEDED TO COMBAT ‘ 'BOODLE”
CLAIMS DISAPPEAR.
It was announced at Chicago Friday
jvcniDg that important papers were miss-
„ng from the state’s attorney’s office,upon
which the county had largely depended
to combat the old “boodle” claims, ag
gregating $250,000. They are needed
chiefly to fight the bills of Contractor
Kellogg, ex-Warden Varncll, cx-Com-
missioner Fray and the American Stone
and Brick Preserving company. It is
said that unless the missing documents
are recovered it may result in the loss of
many thousand dollars to the coun^v.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
RIOUS POINTS' IN T1IE SOUTH.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS OOINO ON OF
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHEHN STATES.
Miss Nellie P. Hunt, daughter of the
late Wm. H. Hunt, of Louisiana, ex-
minister to Russia and a member of Gar
field’s cabinet, has been chosen private
secretary to Mrs. Levi P. Morton.
Tho Times-Democrat quotes cottou seed
and its products in New Orleans as fol
lows: Seed, $14 per ton; cotton seed
meal, $19 to $20 per ton; oil cakes, $20
per ton; cotton seed oil, etude, 25 to 28c
per gallon.
It is now said that tho last reported
fight between the Hatfields and McCoys
in West Virginia never occurred, and
that the accounts of previous conflicts
between these factions were much ex
aggerated.
Ten men have been arrested at Cleve
land, Tenn., for passing counterfeit
money. The operations of the counter
feiters have been very extensive through
out that section for several months past,
silver dollars being the principal coins
made.
A dispatch from Sacramento, Cal., on
Monday says: Frank J. Lee, who ac
companied Sam Jones, the revivalist, to
this city last winter as his private secre
tary, is now locked up in the city prison
ou a charge of burglary.
Mr. and Mr3. W. L. Murfreo, the pa
rents of Miss Mary N. Murfree, who has
become so famous as “Charles Egbert
Craddock, ’’arc now in Murfresboro,Tenn.,
renovating and refitting the old home, to
which they, with their distinguished
daughter, have returned to stay.
The Kentucky court of appeals on Sat
urday affirmed the decision of the Pike
county court in the Hatfield-McCoy case.
Valentine Hatfield, Pylant Mahorn and
Dock Mahorn go to the penitentiary for
life for the murder of Tolbert McCoy,
and Ellison Mounts will hang for the
murder of the girl A.liaf McCoy, the sis
ter of tbe murdered man.
News of a horrible double murder
comes from Johnston county, N. C. An
aged nnd respectable lady named Mrs.
Celia Brown resided in tbe country,
about four miles from Selina, with her
little grandson eight years of uge. Sat
urday morniDg both were found mur
dered. They had been killed with a
gun. No clew has been obtained to the
murderer and no cause for it can be as
signed.
Tbe well known case of Charles E.
Cross and Samuel C. "White, defaulting
president and cashier, respectively, of
the State National bank of Raleigh, N.
C., was finally disposed of Monday l>y
an opinion rendered by Justice Harlan in
the United States supreme court. The
effect of the decision will be to compel
Cross and White to serve out the term
for which they were sentenced.
The royal chapter of King’s Daughters,
which is composed of delegates from the
various circles in the state, met at
Charleston, S. C., Sunday, and was very
slimly attended. The slim attendance
was attributed to the publication in a
newspaper of a card, which was supposed
to have been written by a prominent
King’s Daughter and in which the writer
urged the King’s Daughters to get up a
petition to Queen Victoria for the pardon
of Mrs. May brick.
POLES COMING SOUTH.
THE STATE OF NORTII CAROLINA INVITES
THEIR IMMIGRATION.
Colonel Julien Allen, of Statesville, N.
C., is making arrangements for a large
immigration of Poles into NorthCorolina,
and says the prospects are good. A Pol
ish priest will soon make a tour of the
state, accompanied by Col. Allen, with
this special object in view. It will be
the first movement of Poles to the South.
Col. Allen says they will make good
citizens, and are industrions and well
trained. He expects that a large settle
ment of them will be mado ut High
Shoal, in Gaston county. There will be
a large arrival of Poles at New York and
Baltimore in the next few months. Five
hundred families arrived at Baltimore
recently. Col. Allen, who was a noble
man iu Poland, has great influence over
them.
OUT OF PRISON.
GEOEGE FRANCIS TRAIN WILL EXPOSE
THE WICKEDNESS OF BOSTON.
George Francis Train was brought be
fore Judge McKim in the probate court
at Boston, Mass., on Monday morning,
where testimony was givco by several
witnesses as to liis mental condition.
After hearing the evidence and argu
ments of counsel, Judge McKim gave his
decision that Train was not insane enough
to be confined in nn asylum, but evidently
of unbalanced mind, and therefore nol
properly held in durance for debt.
He was therefore discharged. Mr.
Train says he will not go back to
Now York until ho has laid bare tho
wickedness of Boston.
A MEXICAN BLIZZARD-
One of the severest snow and wind
storms in the history of New Mexico has
prevailed far the past three days, and
reports are coming in of great damage to
live stock on tho northern ranges. A
number of cowboys and sheep-herders
have been lost, uad it is feared they have
perished. All traius are from five to
twelve hours late, and snow-ploughs are
kept in constant operation on the Raton
and Glorietta mountains.
THE LEGISLATURE.
Bills Passed by he Senate and Honse
of Representatives of Georgia.
A resolution for tbe relief of J. M.
Wilson, tax collector. Banfordbill, pro
hibiting lottery advertisements—house
amendment agreed to. Convict hire bill
—house amendment agreed to. Com
mon school law—the senate insisted on
its amendments. A bill to provide for
the erection of stock gaps; to amend the
cer||orari law; to confirm the degree of
superior courts extending the charters of
churches and benevolent societies; to au
thorize the trustees of the lunatic asylum
to appoint a marshal; to provide that the
clerks of court take the place of tho or
dinary when ho is disqualified; to amend
tho cede with reference to the fees of
ordinaries by adding certain charges; to
amend section 403 of the code in refer
ence to the appointment nnd discharge
of constables; to amend the tax ant by
taxing- traveling agents of insurance
companies fifty dollars; to incorporate
Porter Mills; to repeal the act providing
assessors for Richmond county; to incor
porate the Americus and Jacksonville
Railroad company; to require millers and
dealers to stamp the weight of flour or
meal on the sacks, no person liable to
this except ou full sacks; to establish
public schools for Social Circle; to incor
porate the Southwest Exchange and
Banking company; a resolution to
invite the Woman’s Christian Temperance
Union to Atlanta next year; to incorpor
ate the Southern Travelers association;
to incorporate the Atlanta Dime Savings
bank; to provide how jurors shall be
sworn; to incorporate the bank of Srnith-
ville; to incorporate the city of Domor-
est in Habersham; to authorize the gov
ernor to lease the Indian Spring reserve;
to change the name of the Winterville
and Smi-thsonia railroad; a one mile pro
hibition bill for Bass church in Bibb.
A bill to incorporate the Covington and
Cedar Shoals railroad ; to amend section
373il of tho code; to amend the charter
of the Rome Street Railway company; tb
incorporate the town of Emerson in
Bartow; to incorporate the Dublin and
Blacksbear Railroad company; to incor
porate the Georgia Banking and Trust
company; to amend the act constituting
the experimental farm; to change the
time of holding the superior court of
Rabun; to incorporate the Savannah and
Isle of Hope Railroad company; to
amend the Atlanta chartor so as to alUn
two readings of ordinances at one meet
ing, and to prescribe the number of read
ings of ordinances; to amend the charter
of Cedartownjto authorize the judges of
the superior court to hold special terms
to admit to the bar persons who have
diplomas from the law schools of the
stute; a joint resolution for adjournment
sine die at noon Saturday; a ponderous
bill to amend the charter of Brunswick;
to incorpoate the Athens Railway com
pany; House amendments to the Macon
and Birmingham charter bill agreed
to. A bill to prohibit the sale of liquor
within three miles of the M. E. church,
south, at Blue Ridge, iu Fannin county;
to authorize the mayor and council of
Colnmbus to extend tbe city limits from
time to lime by resolution. Tbe exten
sion already granted by act of the
general assembly. Tbe deficiency
bill with the amendments of
tho senate finance committee.
A bill to amend the prob-bitiou bill for
New Hope church, in Clarke; to estab
lish public schools in Marietta; to pio-
hibit the sale of liquor in Monroe county
after submitting the question to the peo
ple; to prohibit the sale of seed cotton
in Monroe between tlie 1st of August and
the 1st of February. A three-mile pro
hibition bill for Macedonia Free Will
Baptist church, in Miller county. To
prohibit the sale of seod cotton in Pu
laski between August 15th and Decem
ber 24 m-; to amend the charter of Guy
ton ; to amend section 1855, with refer
ence to the commitment of lunatics to
the asylum; to incorporate the State Sav
ings and Banking company; to amend
the game law of Bibb county ; to incor
porate the Albany, Florida and Northern
Raftfl^y company; to prohibit false
weighing by commou carriers; to incor
porate the Empfre Building, Loan and
Trust company; to amend the charter of
the Savannah Fire nnd Marine Insurance
company, so as to give them the right to
insure against cyclones, tornadoos and
hurricanes; to amend the charter of Val
dosta; to incorporate tho Augusta Rail
way compauy; to provide for refunding
the public debt of Atlanta; to incorpo
rate the Vgldost-a and Ocean Pond Rail
road company. A stock law for Chatta
hoochee, except ia the 1,107th and
1,108th districts of that county:
to prohibit hunting on the lands of an
other in Wilcox, east of tbe river, or on
Robert Bowen’s land. Ownerof land to
post; to authorize the mayor and coun
cil of any city in Georgia to receive be
quests for cemeteries; to amend the at
tachment law; to amend the Cartersville
Street railroad; to incorporate tbe Peo
ple’s Savings Bank of Rome.
The House adjourned Saturday, the
•ne hundred and thirtieth day of the
session. Their last work was the passage
of the Western and. Atlantic railroad lease
bill. House and senate agree on July 1st
ns the time for submitting the bids.
BANK STATEMENT.
Following is a atatemept of the asso
ciated banks *t New York for the week
ending Saturday, November 9th:
Resorvo decrease $1,881,326
Loans incroase 1,618,200
Specio increase 673,’l00
Legal tenders decrease 2,674,600
Deposits decrease 472,700
Circulation increase sjioo
E. B. Stewart
Has opened a Branch Store at
No. 97 S. BROAD ST.,
Where he keeps a full line of
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
LIQUORS.
All orders received here or at the old
Store,
1(17 WEST PETERS STEEET,
Shall have prompt attention.
I make Corn Whisky. Peach and
Apple Brandy a Specialty.
Mv Prices of Corn Whiskies are:
Spring goods of 1885—4 yrs. old. .$2 00
“ “ 1886—8 “ ..1 $5
’■ “ 1887—2 “ ..1 75
“ “ 1888—1 “ ..1 65
Sour Mash 1 45
4 Gallon Jugs. 10 cts. Ail others at 1$.
cents per gallon.
I have Corn
Whiskies & Bran
dies made in the
mountains of N«
Georgia-not made
by steam, but in
old : fashioned cop
per stills.
Give me a sample order
or call and examine
my goods.
Mr. J. M. Wilson, who is and old cit
izen of Fayette, will he glad to wait ob
you at
No. 97 S. Broad Street-
ATLANTA, GA.
G.B. STEWART.
