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—PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT— HAMILTON, GEORGIA. r THE LEGISLATURE. BILLS rASSED BY THE SENATE AND HOUSB OF REPRESENTATIVE3. A bill to amend the charter of West End; to allow the mayor and council of the city of Milledgeville the right tc elect three assessors; to submit a consti¬ tutional amendment providing caption of that all bills on first reading only the shall be read, unless such bill shall be ordered engrossed; to tax railrouds for county purposes. A bill to prescribe the process of in¬ dictments and special presentments against corporations; to make it penal for persous in weighing incorporate cotton to the use untested weights; to of bank of Blakely; to prohibit the sale liquor within two miles of Braswell acad¬ emy, in Morgan county; to incorporate the Ocean Pond and St. Mary’s Short Line Railway company; to prohibit the destruction of game in Colquitt county; to incorporate Thomnsville; to incorpo¬ rate the citizen’s bank, of Eastman; to incorporate the town of Adell, in Berrien county; to better protect the lands in the 785lh district, known as the “tick ekillett,” in Schley county, so as make to pre¬ the vent stock running at large; to birthday, 19th day of January, Lee’s a public holiday; to amend section 534 oi !he code; to provide when liens and transfers shall take effect as against third parties; to amend the charter of the Tra¬ ders bank, of Atlanta; to change the Laton ton ami Macheti railroad to the Mid¬ dle Georgia and Atlantic railroad; to es¬ tablish the office of state bank examiner; to incorporate theToccoa banking com¬ pany, with a capital of $50,000 to $100, 000; to amend the charter passed of Colquitt; to amend the act recently reduc¬ ing the number of trustees of the State university and fixing their compensation at $4 n day and mileage, so as to cut out the compensation and leave only actual expenses to be paid by the state; to in¬ corporate the town of Richland, in Stew¬ art county; to incorporate the Georgia Investment and Banking company; to amend the law constituting the board of pharmacy; to prohibit the sale or manu¬ facture of liquor within four miles of Independence church, in Wilkes county! to prohibit the sale or manufacture ol liquor within four miles of Pope’s chap¬ el, m Wilkes; to prohibit within the sale and oi manufacture of liquor two two-third miles of Moore’s Grove Baptist church, in Clarke county. A bill to amend the act establishing the eily court of Newtmn; to Railroad iucotpo tho ThoniusviUo and Suburban company; to prohibit the .vale of cotton need in Jasper county in quantities less than five hundred pounds loth; between Au¬ gust loti, and December to regu¬ late the vale of liqu >r in Wilkes county; to establish a dispensary in Oglethorpe county for the sate of liquors for medici¬ nal purposes, the grand jury to appoint the seller; to prohibit the sale of liquor within three miles of Union Baptist Church in Spalding county; to create the office of county solicitor for the county court of 'Wayne, the solicitor to be appointed by the governor; to change the 11 me of holding court in Screven county; to incorporate the Citizens’bank of Kustmiu; to ihicud the charter of the Fulton County Street Railroad com¬ pany; to iin oiporate the Catoosa Hail road company; to incorporate the Washington and Lincoln Railroad com¬ pany. A three-mile prohibit.on bill for Orchard Bill; a bill prohibit night Spalding the sale of farm products after in o 'Uiity; a three-mile prohibition in Cabin's bill dis¬ lor TV tin to; i IJapdst Church trict of Spalding county; a bill to iu cor pornte the Paulding County Building amt Loan Association; to prohibit the sale of intoxicating, spirituous or malt liquors or bitters in any quantity within four miles of upper and lower Coal City churches in Bade county; to incorporate the Union Point and Klberum Short Line Railroad company; to incorporate the Woodvilie, IVntie'ld and Oconee Valley railroad; to incorporate the town of Waycross and to eon or additional pow i-rs; to incorporate the Dalton and Ste vete on Railway company; to regulate the sale of liquors in Teltair county; to amend the act creating a board of com¬ missioners of roads and revenue for Fay¬ ette county; to amend the charter of the city of Athens; to authorize the munici¬ pal courts of the city of Athens to iuv pose fines to the amount of $500, or to sentence for a term of twelve months; to amend an amended charter of Mays ville, Ga.; to authorize the trustees of the Second Presbyterian Church, Colum¬ bus, Ga„ to sell certain lands held bf them for church purposes; to amend the charter of La Favette . Walton county. RAILROAD ACCIDENT. A COLLISION IN WHICH FOUR PEOPLE ARE KILLED AND TWENTY BADLY INJURED. The St. Louis express which left Al bany, N. Y,, Friday night, met with a bad accident about two miles east of Palatine Bridge at about midnight. The first section broke down and stopped for repairs. The rear brakeman was sent' back to signal the second section, but for Borne reason failed to perform bis duty. As a consequence, the second section telescoped into the first section, which was made up of the baggage, mail, ex¬ press and three passenger cars, packed with the people, end. Four and a Wagner sleeper on dead bodies have been taken out of the sleep¬ er, and twenty others who were in the ■leeper were seriously injured. SOUTHERN NEWS. ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA< RIO US POINTS IN THE SO UTU. A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOING ON Of IMPOUTANCE IN THE SOUTHEKX STATES. Ex-Confederate General D. II. Hill died in Charlotte, N. C., on Tuesday. Every gambling house in Mem¬ phis, Tenn., was closed Wednesday night on warrants issued by the judge of the criminal court. Fifteen miles of track have been laid on the Columbus Southern railroad. The work is being pushed with great rapidi¬ ty, and trains will be run into Cussetta, Ga., in a few days. One of the largest charters ever granted to any corporation in the south, was granted by the superior court of Georgia, by which the Southern Home Building and Loan association, of Atlanta, Ga., was incorporated, with authority to do business in Georgia or any other state. The authorized capital stock is $20,000, 000 . The statement is now made at New Orleans upon what appears to be good authority, that irregularities have been discovered in what is known as the “baby” bonds, commencing at number 102,000. Nearly all of the “baby” bonds above 102,000 are fraudulent. The de¬ falcation already in sight will reach more than 1,200,000. An executive reward of two hundred dollars was offered by Governor Taylor, North Carolina, for the apprehension Carthy, who of J. N. Carter, alias Jim stands charged with the murder of Wal¬ ter Chatham, in Horry comity. A re¬ wind of one hundred dollars wan offered for John Cox, a negro, who is charged with having committed murder in Jones county. The Chattanooga, Tenn., Times, pub¬ lished reports from seventy-five of ninety six counties comprising the state of Ten¬ nessee showing an increase of value of real and personal property of twenty-six million dollars over assessment of 1888, and an increase of one hundred million over the assessment of 1886. An increase of one hundred million dollars in taxa¬ ble* in three years is unprecedented iu any state in the union. The State Farmers’ alliance of Florida met at Jacksonville on Wednesday. The principal object of the meeting was to make Jacksonville a wholesale market for Florida raised cotton, the building of a cotton warehouse there, and the start¬ ing of fruit and vegetable and canning factories. Incidental to these is tire building of a cotton factory by Jackson¬ ville capital, a company being already organized with $10,000 subscribed. The Mayo Bridge & improvement com¬ pany was chartered m the circuit court at Richmond, Va., on Saturday. The objects are to run a toll bridge and between other Richmond and Manchester points over tho James River and else¬ where. Also to construct steam, elec¬ trical, horse and other railways, to erect buildings, mills, etc., to furnish gas and electric light, to utilize water power, etc. The capital stock is to be from $50,000 to $100,000. It is reported from Savannah, Ga., that spirits of turpentine has dropped off in iho last few days. Buyers are a little hopeful at the decline, but sellers smile and talk of the matter at 50c. October have sold at 41c and 46e. Just now there is considerable stock on hand, 12,- 300 casks, 3,000 more than on the same day last year. The receipts to date are 123,000. which is 17,(00 more than the receipts during the corresponding period lust year. M. Bateman, a member of the North Carolina alliance, has made arrangements to be married on the iir.-t of October at the state fair to be held at Raleigh, dressed in garments made of cotton bag¬ ging. He took that way of showing h:s detestation of the jute bagging trust. His wedding in public in liis snow-white garments will attract a great crowd, and will tie very novel. The governor will be asked to perform the marriage cere¬ mony, assisted by tho chaplain of the state allia- ce. At a meeting of the Memphis, Tuesday, Tenn. Cotton Exchange, held on the resolutions adopted by the New twenty-four Orleans convention fixing a tare of pounds and sixteen pounds on bales covered with jute and cotton bagging respectively, were unanimously rejected. It in that was recommended that factors market tier in warehouses all cotton covered bales separately from jute eovered bales, and that it be sold upon its merits, separate and apart therefrom. The managers of the Alabama state fair, to be held near Birmingham, $2,300. lust week sold the bar privileges found, for passed Since then an act has been by the legislature several years ago, pro¬ hibiting the sale rniue of liquor iu Jefferson within three miles of a coal county, except in incorporated towns. The fair grounds are three miles from Birmingham and within one mile of a coal mine, and, as the law has never been grounds, repealed, no liquor can be sold on the FOURTEEN CENTS. A GOOD TIME FOR FARMERS TO HOLS THEIR COTTON. The London Tines correspondent that nt Preston Bays: “There is a prospect American cotton may yet touch seven pence a pound, and that a fortnight’* stoppage in October will be secured to punish thousand the Liverpool ring. One thousand hundred spindles and many looms are stopped in North and East Lancssbire, and notices have been giver of more extensive stc^pa^es.” A TOUR OF INSPECTION. THE CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICAN DEL¬ EGATES TO BE SHOWN AROUND. A train of Pullman cars, which, in its appointments and arrangements for jour ney.is believed to be without a precedent in the history of railroading, will leave Washington, D. C., on Tnursday, bear; ing representatives of American nations to'the international conference to be held next month at the national capital. The party, as guests of the goveram nt, ara to be taken over a large section of the United States, in order that they may see and appreciate, to some extent, the vast resources of this country. Congress, at its last session, authorized the secre¬ tary of state to invite delegates from all South and Central American nations to a convention to be held in Washington, November 14th, for the purpose of discussing reciprocal, commer¬ cial and financial interests of the countries represented, the and appropriated convention. $125,000 for Under this ex penses of the authority, and as preliminary to the convention, the state department organ¬ ized this tour of commercial and manu¬ facturing cities of the United States, with the prime object of showing the visitors the great natural resources of the country. The Pennsylvania Railroad company agreed to undertake tho task of arranging and dairying on the details for this unprecedented trip. It is unique in at least two respects, namely, in that there will be no change of cars through¬ out the entire distance of 5,046 miles, and this will be the first known instance where railways have permitted an entire train, with its own engine, crew, etc., to pass from other roads over their Hues. The train will pass over the main lines of thirty different railway corporations, Maryland, passing through the states of Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Counecticutt, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wis¬ consin, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri and Kentucky, twenty in all. A crew of twenty-six men will be re¬ quired to run the train which, as it stands, represents a cost of $150,000. A FATAL WRECK. AN ENGINE CRASHES INTO A PASSENGER COACH—FIVE PEOrLE KILLED. A frightful disaster to a suburban pas¬ senger train occurred Tuesday night in the southern outskirts of Chicago, Ill. The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific tram, which left the main depot for Ulue Island, w.as crashed into by a freight train at the Lake Shore and Pan Handle crossings near Eighty-seventh street, Englewood. The passenger train was at a standstill, one coach projecting contain¬ over the crossing. Into this coach, ing about sixty persons, plunged the freight train/ The wreck of the passen¬ ger coach instant and complete. the When a thorough search through debris bad been made, it was found that three women and two men had been killed outright, aud a third man was in a dying condition. Three other persons were seriously injured. The five dead were conveyed to Englewood morgue. Kelly, The list of the killed is: Mrs. J. McKinzie, Fred Huebuer, Mrs. Brown and an unknown woman, all of Washing¬ ton Heights. Those most seriously in¬ jured are: Gus Mulcany, fatally hurt; Miss A. K Steele, Antou Shuberg and Parker Harden. The wreck appears tc be entirely cue to the almost criminal carelessness of the engineer of the Height train, who disregarded signals, and is supposed to have been drunk, at the time. WILL BE REVOLUTIONIZED, A SCHEME FOR THE RESTORATION OF ARID LANDS IN THE WEST. Major J. W. Powell, chief of the geo¬ logical survey, arrived in Chicago Thursday on his way to Washington. Major Powell said: “We visited North and South Dakota, Montana, Washing¬ ton Territory, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Ne¬ vada, California, Arizona, New - Mexico, Texas, Indian Territory, Kansas, Colo¬ rado, Wyoming and Nebraska, or every state aud territory in which there are arid lands. We held eighty meetings and beard over two hundred witnesses. The arid land that can be irrigated include and thus made productive, will the larger portion of each state visited, in all over 100,000,000 acres. The work of the committee will be advisability the preparation of of a report upon the con¬ gressional appropriations for surveys in the arid districts. There is not much doubt that such appropriation will be made. I do not believe Congress will ever take in charge the construction of tho ditches and reservoirs. Whoever does it, when it is done, it will revolu¬ tion ize the West.” BIRMINGHAM'S REPORT. FOUR MEN KILLED—TWO BY ACCIDENT AND TWO MURDERED. A dispatch from Birmingham, Ala., says: Death reaped a harvest in Jefferson county Friday. During the morning George Estes got caught in the fly-wheel oi the rolling-mill at Gate City, and was beaten to peices. W. Benton, an em¬ ploye of the Pullman Car company, was walking backwards behind a car in the Georgia Pacific yard. The car was dis connected and moving slowly, and he was trying to stop it with a crow-bar. He fell across the track and his body was cut in twain. Deputy Sheriff King Vann w is shot and instantly killed by John Steele, a negro, and four hours later his murderer was overtaken by a posse aud his body riddled with bullets, fhs mur dered deputy was one of the most popu lar officers in the county. GENERAL NEWS. CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS, AND EXCITING EVENTS. NEWS FROM EYEBYWHEBE—ACCIDENTS, STRIKE!, I IRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST. Ex-Surgeon General Joseph Beale died in Philadelphia Tuesday. An extensive strike of dock laborers has begun at Rotterdam, Holland. Landore steel works, at Swansea, Eng¬ land, have been destroyed by fire. Five persons were drowned Friday in pond near Fall River, by the capsizing of a boat. The Temple of Heaven, at Pekin, con¬ taining the dragon throne, has been de¬ stroyed by fire. A number of branches of the National league in the counties of Waterford and Tipperary, Ireland, have been suppressed. The Baltimore Sugar Refining compa¬ ny has been incorporated. Capital stock $1,000,000—10,000 shares at $100 each. A boiler explosion occurred at a saw¬ mill in Berlin, Pa., Wednesday, and John Pritz, Edward Fritz, Oliver Ross, David Ross and David Baker were killed. The firm of Gibson, Parish & Co., of Chicago, III., was forced to apply for a receiver on account of the embezzlement of $39,000 by Harry F. Clifford, their bookkeeper. The New York Daily Graphic, which has for some time past maintained a fluttering existence under financial diffi¬ culties, has ceased to exist. The last number was issued Tuesday. A dispatch from Marion, Ind., say3 that the prevalence of dipththeria there has caused such alarm that the public schools were ordered to be closed Tues¬ day for one week. About a dozen deaths have occurred. Fire at Buckley & Douglass’ mill at Manitee, Mich., Wednesday afternoon, destroyed over a million feet of lumber and three hundred feet of docks and tramw'aye. The loss is estimated at £125,000. General Samuel D. Sturgis, U. S. A., died at his home in St. Paul, Minn., on Sunday. He graduated from West Point, in 1S4G, along with George B. McClellan, Stonewall Jackson,Stonemau, Pickett and many other famous soldiers. On Thursday morning flames broke out in Emery’s big soap factory, at Ivey Dale, Ohio, and soon got beyond the control of the department. The large buildings were completely gutted, and it is estimated that the loss will be in the neighborhood of $125,000. A boiler used in a quarry at Wrights ville, Pa., exploded with terrific force Saturday. Mrs. Lerniei Barnes was killed instantly. Her head was blown from her body. Her husband had his skull fractured and cannot live. A small building was blown to atoms. A cable dispatch from London says: The deficiency in cotton stock strength¬ ens the corner which has now assumed a serious aspect. It is reported that the chief operator in the corner has made arrangements to send the bulk of cotton tendered him to Havre, and thus starve the Liverpool market. Early Thursday morning, Laflin & Rand’s powder mills, at Cresson, three miles below- Fottsville, Pa., blew up. The explosion was terriffic in force. Three workmen were killed and a num¬ ber of other workmen injured. Nearly all the window glass in Cresson was shattered, and the concussion was sensi¬ bly felt in Pottsville. Lewis Bros. & Co., dry goods com. missiou merchants of 88 Worth street, New- York, whose failure was announced some time ago, have just made their formal offer to their creditors to comt promise at 57^ cents on the dollar. Creditors to whom the settlement has been presented have all expressed a will¬ ingness to accept the terms and have the firm resume business. A story reached London from St. Pe¬ tersburg - Russia, which recounts that , departure for just previously to the czar’s Copenhagen, a chest of dynamite ex¬ ploded at Peterhof station. The station was badly wrecked and a railway signal man killed. It is fully believed it was the intention to have the explosion take place when the czar passed through the station on his way to the train, but through some miscalculation, it occurred before the time of bis majesty’s de¬ parture. A HUGE JOB. THE PRINTING O.F THE TESTIMONY IN CON TESTED ELECTION CASES. The government printing office, at Washington, D. C„ has just completed the immense work Of printing testtmony in contested election cases, which wii; come up for settlement before the fifty. first congress. The following are tht titles of cases: Chalmers vs. Morgan, Mississippi; Langston VS. Yenoble, Yir ginia; Waddell vs Wise Virginia; Po sey VS. Parrott, Indiana; Miller VS. Ei l»tt, South Carolina; Bowen vs. Buchan an, \ irginia ; kernaghan vs. Hooker, Mississippi; ' Threet VS, Clark, Alabama; Atkinson . ., . vs. t> Pendleton, , -n- Vest .. tt" \ irginia; • • McDuffie VS. Turpin, Alabama ; Hill vs. Catch.ngs, Mississippi; Goodrich vs. Bulloclt, Florida; Eaton VS. Phelan f Tennessee: Mudd vs. Coynston, Mary knd; Featherstone vs. Cate Arkansas; McGinnis va. Anderson, West Virginia, Smith vs. Jackson, West\irgmm. The total number of pages in the entire work is 15,554, which, at 3,000 ems to the page' (solid brevier), amounts to 46,662, 000 ems, DARING ROBBERIES. TRAINS “HELD UP” BY HIGHWAYMEN At THE MUZZLE OP BE VOL VERS. The Mobile train and Ohio held south Wednesday bound pas- § | senger was up 1 morning by train robbers at Buckatunna, 9 Miss., a station seventy miles north of Mobile. Just before the train left Buck-p atunna, two men mounted behind the f f tender of the train, and climbing over, covered the engineer and firemen with : s their revolvers, and ordered them to pull 9 out, and to slop at a bridge two miles below Buckatunna, and to plice the train so that the express and mail car should be on the further side of the bridge from the rest of the train, the bridge being a trestle over a deep creek. The engineer put the train just where the robbers wanted it. When they reached the place, a third robber ap¬ peared. These three men made the engineer and fireman go with them to the express car, and the messenger was made to open the door and dump the contents of the safe into a canvass sack/ but noticing that he was not closely watched, he shoved some of the I money aside, so that about a thousand dollars was hidden, the robbers getting $2,700. All this money Railroad belonged to the Mobile & Ohio Company. Alongside the express car door was a pile of $70,000 government money en route to Florida which the robbers failed to no tice. After securing their booty the train was ordered to pull out at once, which it did, and the robbers disap peared. The Mobile & Ohio road offers $1,000 reward for the arrest and convic tlon of the robbers. STILL ANOTHER. t At a late hour Wednesday night, ai the north bound Santa Fe train was pull ing out of Crowley, ten miles south of Fort Worth, Texas, three men boarded the train and two others jumped on the locomotive. The two on the engine 1 placed pistols to the heads told them of the eer and fireman and to stop. One of the men then got into the express car and ordered the messenger to show them the money. He pointed to three bags of Mexican silver. One of the men ripped open a sack and shoveled the sil¬ ver out of the door, while the other one threw out the other sacks. They toold two packages said to contain "$5,00(J each, but overlooked three or four pack¬ was! ages for Fort Worth. The englueer then, made to move on. THE AMERICAN CONGRESS i DELEGATES EROM CENTRAL AMERICA ARB THE FIRST ON THE GROUND. A distinguished and significant list oi ■ visitors to this country arrived at they port of New York, early Tuesday* del-J morning, on the City of Para, being egates to the coining international con-* I gressfrom the various Spanish-American countries. The delegates were: Dr. Ju-B anto Castellanos,delegate from Salvador;® Dr. Joaquin Arrieta Rossi, attache, and j Sameul Vadioeso, secretary; Senior Juan V i Francisco Yelarde,delegate from Bolivio; Alcibia Desvnlarado and Mariano Velar do, attaches; Geronimo Zelaya, delegate from Honduras, and E. C. Fiallos, secretary. In reference to the coming congress, Senor Zelaya, the delegate from Honduras, said: “Our people are very enthusiastic this international congress, aud expect 1 many advantageous results from it. We wish to develop our mining and agricul tural interests, but our mines are what we want to see in operation railroads as soon as possible. We need and an en largemeut of our commerce with foreign countries, especially the United States. All relations classes with in our country people.” desi^| closer your B ANK ST ATE MEN T. Following is a statement of the asso¬ ciated banks at New York for the week¬ ending Saturday 28th: Reserve decrease.. .... ........$1,043,600 280,600 Loans decrease......... ........ xj Specie decrease........ ........ 1,424.00C ;| Legal tenders decrease. ......... 330,700 Deposits decrease..... • «♦ • • ......... 2,844.200 f Circulation decrease.. ......... 14,200 ex-l The banks now hold $938,700 in 1 cess of the 25 per cent. 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