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VOL. IU.
QR0UGH GEORGIA.
iterestinjr Notes Gathered From Here
and There Over the State.
After July 1st Augusta will be entirely
urn __inited by electric lights. Th * city
luncil h» s awarded the contract to the
L-usta Electric Light is for aud five Motor Com-
iy. The contract years.
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■The jag controller general ; s engagid in
fc out the new tax d pest aad tax
■ts Id torix receivers. It is quite capitol a task
the shipping cellars of ihe
Wre offered busy scenes for the p ist
hf days. *
■The TcnnviUe institute and all othei
■bools in Georgia receiving money for
Ipp.rt, with- will ut paying have to fees let hereafter. children enter Such
i em
bs the decision of the s’ate school com-
[issioi.er Thu-sday. Th-* it does ruling is very the
kportant, bearin ' as upon
aeration of every school in Georgia.
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■he first of the annual county insti-
Be 9State will be held in Albany. On Mon-
School Commissioner Bradwell
Bbined Kols the following counties, this the
of wh'ch will meet to hold
Bt Buitt. annual institute; Berrien, Biker,
Dougherty, Earlv, Lee, Mitchell
■Worth. The institute will be held
jB'banv, Bh the week beginning Monday,
28th.
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ie report of the oil inspectors for the
have been made for February. They
[the following amounts collected in
lor the month:
la Di trict........ .....$361 59
Biah District....... ..... 286 79
IbiiB District....... ...... 54 T9
I • District......... ..... 20 13
I District........... ..... 73 93
jta District......... ..... 122 42
ital $919 6.5
[lay Furl^w sent out the last tax digest
afternoon, and the tax receiv-
[11 [oards t?oon of be equalization abroad in all tbe will counties, play
an
pant part in the work this year,
t is expected that their revision
bise the valuation of real and per-
broperty as much as $50,000,000. the
t they ruse the valuation of
|rs, they will sometimes lower that
Crs, so that lands side by side will
ie same tax.
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p probable that Hon, .Judson Clem-
fhe tree new commission, member will of the sit interstate with that
lor the first time in Atlanta on tbe
ptant, when the cases mide by the
la r»ilroad commisdon, under the
pd shod haul clause, will be taken
t’hairman Trammell received notice
pay that the interstate commerce
ssion will sit at the United States
'room in Atlanta on the 24th of
I to try the seven cases made by the
a commission.
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pt $90,000 has gone out up to date
[old hw soldiers of the confederacy
pensions. Colonel Tip Harri
[e state’s morning pension ’till agent, night is writing kept
[<>m peks for the old maimed veterans,
|t of about the 3,000 1,500 who have are been booked paid for off
de happy- Comptroller General
been given power of attorney
re it many of the soldiers, and
|f the work of mailing their checks
his office.
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ly two thousand criminals are at
[present k f the around the penitentiary Colonel
Ihe state of Georgia. figured
lumbers principal keeper has and find
for his report
p aggregate 1,818. Of this num-
[•°ne [amp, are that women, operated and they by Colonel are all
l iu Elbert county. There is not
[white nhe woman in the peniten-
convicts are as a rule cared
l attentively by the lessees, and
hut little sickness in the camps.
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put General Kell has ordered 150
Pm the government to be sent at
[the N other encampment requisitions at Griffin, their needs and
known. as
Georgia is allowed by
ernment prnl ordinance $1,157.16 for supplies
M stores. The money
in down right cash, but the
hhowed to get supplies from the
lent of war to the amount named,
e has 215 tents already, and with
h e ^L° Des encampment hills
Griffin will . be faiily dotted with
[ er boy»’ white homes.
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Pepartment of agriculture has
I the system of fertilizer inspec-
lewhat this year, and it is impos-
| Ittovement tna * te an of accurate fertilizers comparison last
year,
ROBERTA. CRAWFORD COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 18. 1892,
but from the number of tagsordered, it is
calculated that about tw. hundred thous¬
and tens have been sold airea :y this sea-
son, and the number by the close of the
business will be in the neighborhood of
two hundred and fifty thousand. Geor' Th s,
as agaiust 306,000 ions inspected in
gia la-t year, shows a falling off ol about
17 per cent.
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The school children of the s'ate have
gone to work in dead earnest to raise
their share of the money necessary tc
have Georgia represented at the World’s
fair. Some of them have already sent
checks to Governor Northen ’or amounts
which they have collected. As an iucen
tive to work up an interest among tin
children to c rry out this work Governor
Northen promts d that each subscription
list with the nam s of these c itdren
contributing to the fund sh' uld be filed
away with the archiv s of the state un><
kept for future generations to notice a
an evidence of pride and loyalty among
the Georgians even before they get out o
school.
Col. J.B. Gorman, who was appointed
chairman of the agricultural committee
from Georgia to the world’s fair recently,
speaking of the great agricultural exhibit
that, he intends to get up for Georgia,
said he had no doubts atall of the succe s
of the undertaking since Georgia is one
of the greatest agricultural states in the
union. Col. Gorman is very much in
earnest about the work, and seems con-
fid nt that it is not going to fail. He
s.ys Georgia can show up as attractively
as any state in the American union, and
i e is not ready yet to believe that loyal
snd progressive Georgians are going to
allow this great opportunity to escape
hem.
Representative Moses, of Coweta, went
before the river and harbor committee at
\Y(Shin'jt"D, Wednesday morning in tin
interest of an appropriation river navigation to . pen In uj
the Chattahoochee to Heard
tween West Point and Franklin, iu
mv'tov. M--. Comst- rk, the chi f of n-G
neers had made a report to the committee
again-1 any appropriation tor this pur¬
pose. Col. Moses bad to contend against
this, but he r^ade a splen id argument,
declaring tl t the people along tne river
bid thems lve spent $20,060 cn the
work, and th*i congress should recognize
this, and at lea^t approp iate an amouut
< qualto that which the p.ople h is spe it.
There is a strong probability that c >n-
will take favorable aettoa ia the
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Again a • n, the question as „„ to whether atRrtfKpp the the
colored companies am >ng the state
unteer force can enter the camp or not
hflscome upfor setternent The Aug .sta
battalion, n colored com, any » anxious
to enter and have written to t a djutant
general aski g if they m\\ \ n "®* e ' ed
nmong the so.diers m the Grifhn en p
n.ent. Genera! Kell «rote in rep!y that
they could not hope to be allow- d m the
encampment this year since the ap o-
priation was so small, many of the white
companies would have to
sented, and some perhaps crowded out
entirely unless the advisory board cou
manage to make ends meet with ntor
*atisfaction and ease th m is now prom-
sed. The negro soldiers of the state
will for this reason have to be left out
this year.
No Politics
Governor Northen has been informed
by Secretary Collins, of the state world’s
fair committee, that a number of ordi-
naries in the counties applied to for in-
formation locking to th- organization of
on
upon to oppose the world’s fair. “Now,
there is no politics in the work to get
Georgia represented at the Columbian
n xposition,” said Governor Northen.
•> ‘To me it seems that this is one question not
far removed fiom politics. We arc
trying to tax the people -or the money;
nor arc we attempting to take money
from the state treasury to carry an
it from Georgia to Chicago. We are sim
ply going before the people for voluntary
subscriptions. W r e are simply appealing
to tbe pride and patriotism of our pro-
gressive people of Georgia,
Commissioner Bradwell’s Decisions.
State School Commissioner S. D. Brad-
well has been laying down the law to a
considerable extent to the county
of e lucation lately. Several little differ-
* chool^commissioners have him recently for decision been
appealed and brought and he to has in many in-
and judgement, talked plain law talR io
stances from Camden _
boards. A case came up which it was
county a few days ago, ia
found that teacher was declared by tue
a to hold a
county board to be ineligible the common
teacher’s place any longer in
schools. Although she had s oo
the examination required, and was
graded as a “first grade” teacher,
and although she had taught suc¬
cessfully it seems in the schools for more
than one term, just because the charge
of insubordination was brought against
her, the board declared that the county
school commissioner should not engage
her to teach any longer in the county
schools. After investigating the case
thoroughly, Commissioner Bradwell
ruled that the countv board over-leaped
its authority and power in making any
such rule. The case is a broad one, and
an important decision is that rendered by
Commi’sioner Bradwell. S railar cases
Irequently arise, and the ruling is there-
lore all the more interesting to educators
in Georgia.
The Railroads Losing Money.
There is not n railroad in Georgia of
prom nence that has done the same
amount of business this season, according
to the latest reports, as was done last
seasou. The reports for January have
been filed, and they show the following
amazing facts: ’92. Jan. '91.
Jan.
Central $176,667.99 $309,140,53
Richmond aud Danville
(A. & C.)...... 52.741.09 72,375.99
Geo gia railroad .. 116,7; 0-74 193,088:11
W. & A.......... .. 116,600.30 167,000.84
'lhe Atlanta aud W>st Point’s last re-
port on file is for last October, and the
gross earnings were |63,356 44. compared
to $54,800 for the corresponding month
the year before. This is the only favor-
able comparison to be found on the
bo>ks.
The East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia in November, ’91, earned $221.-
498.47 and for the same month one vear
before the earnings were $226,303.37*
But worst of all the Western and At-
iantic shows up between gross earnings
and net earnings. A clear Io*s of $81,-
320.69 is shown for the month of Jnuu-
ary, ’92, and a gain of $11 45 was all
that was cleared the same month a year
before that,
The following table of net earnings or
profits is interesting:
Jan. ’92. Jan. 91.
Centr'd........... ..$5l,59i50 $'152 215 74
It. & D. (A. & C.) .. 25,OM 94 71 36,771 94,964 42
Georgia........... 18,983 05
It L seen that the business of all the
roadshiis fallen off cons deiablvthis vear.
GRAIN STATISTICS.
Their Distribution as Reported by the
Agricultnral Department.
The March report of the distribution
of wheat and corn by the statistican of
l , ment of agriculture at Wash-
j t<m m ^ands * es th o stock of wheat in the
- 171,000,000 bushels,
| or
V the crop, 03,000,000 of
sprm an d 108,060.000 ^ of winter
^ ^ ^ . q ^ which
have pnc jc iUy no commercial distribu-
tj b „ t entei ing into loc ri consump-
tion for biead and 9ee d. This is the
s( . re „ erVf , ever repor-ed, that of the
, ? gt previous l crop of 1884 being 169,
OQ( 000 bu he . g
Exports ^ from July 1st to March 1st
were 64 0 o 0<0 oo bushels, the fall seed
36 0 00,000 bushels, con-umption appar-
200,000,000, but the larger propor-
tion igtaken for consumption is prop.>r-
tionatelT ^ greater than in spring and sum-
^ assumerj ^sumption bushels trora for
March 1, 1891, is 300.000,000
a populati n of 64,300.000. in
Tl.e estimated quant it j' of corn
^/mers’ hands is 860,000,000 bushe s or
41.8 per cent of the cr0 P‘ 1 ^ 1 ' 1 * **
*^s1t proportion evtir ireported hat of
1889 ex epb-d, which was 45.9 per cent.,
against 85 7 two w ars ago.
SUED THE EDITOR.
q ot> j ones> 0 f Alabama, Wants $30,-
Damages from a Newspaper,
MoBtgom , ry A u., dispatch says:
weekGoveroor Thomas G. Jones
iQ8tituted tbree civil lib I suits against
Franfe u^itzell, editor of the Alliance
fixinjj ^h tfae dHraages at $10,000 in
^ e ^lUnce Herald in the its
|agfc - sgue continued j {s attack upon
governor, and, on Friday, the latter
swore out three warrants again-t Baltz *U
for criminal libel, Baltzell was arrested
and gave bond.
SENATOR MORRILL DYING.
He is the Oldest Man in the Senate,
Bping Eighty-two Years of Age.
a Washington dispatch of Monday
says: Senator Morrill, of V- rmont, the
oWegfc mM in tbe seB ste. beiDg ci.hty-
two yearg Q f agC) j s jp with pneumon a.
HJg many fn enc u fear he cannot recover,
He hag , >een H mem ber of the s« nate
twcn ty-fivc years, end is knuwn as the
father of the senate.
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What is Being Done in Congressional
Halls for the Country’s Welfare.
PROCEEDINGS FROM DAY TO DAY BHIEFIiY
TOI.D—BILES AND MEASURES UNDER
CONSIDERATION—OTHER NOTES.
TnF, house.
Friday. —In the house, on Friday, on
thesuggestion of MeMillin, of Tennessee,
two hours on Saturday were set apart for
the consideration of private hills, and the
house went into committee of the
whole, (Mr. Bloun of Ge rgia. iu th<-
chair) on free wool, and was addiessed
by Mr. Stevens, of Massachusetts.
Monday. —After unimportant routine
proceedings in the hous ■ Monday, the
floor was awarded to the committee on
the D strict of Columbia. Measures re¬
lating to the administration of the local
government occupied the greater part of
the day’s session. Th” house then went
into committee of the whole on the army
appropriation bill. There was little op
position made to the measure, and Mr.
Cutbwaite, ni Ohio, who had charge of
it, steered it cleverly through the legisla-
tive breakers, but as the hour was
growing late, the committee arose with-
out disposing of the bill, and the hous”
adjourned to Tuesday. Tues¬
Tuesday. —In the house, on
day, Mr. Enloe, of Tennessee.
from the committee on postoffices and
post roads, reported a bill to repeal the
mail subsidy act. It was plared upon
the calendar, and the minority was grant-
ed lenve to aie a minority report. Mr.
Sayers, of Texas, presented deficiency a conference bill, and
re P" rt on t,ie urgent
U was agreed to. As fiually pa-sed, the
blU appropriates $469,641, being $41,227
more than was carried by the bill as it
passed the house, and $.3,244 less tbau
it carried ns passed by the senate. The
house then went the committee of the
whole—Blount, of Georgia, in the chair
—on the fr e wool bill.
Wednesday. —When the tariff debate
was taken up in the house Wednesday
Mr. Brvan, of Nebraska, took the floor,
and delivered a speech that will make
him famous. He spoke for nearly three
hours being requested, after his limit of
one hour, to go on by members of both
sides. There was not a dull sentence
nor a dull word in the entire speech. Not
a man left his seat the whole time. It
was a magnificent effort, perfect in every
w av. Nothing like it has been heard on
the floor of the h’>use for twenty years.
Men who have served in con¬
gress from ten to eighteen
years say they have never heard a tariff
speech to equal it. No effort of Carlisle,
Morrison, Mills, or any of the recognized
tariff or tors, ha* ever touched it. His
argument was simply unanswerable in
every particular. At the opening of
congress Speaker Crisp thirty-one appointed Mr.
Bryan, who is only years
of age, as one of the new men on the
ways and meat s committee. Mr. Bryan
wanted it, and when the speaker talked
with him a few moments he diseoverod
that he would make no mistake to so
recognize the young man. To the aver¬
age member, however, the appointment
was a surprise, but now, since he has
demo strated his fitnes* hailed for with the delight place,
his appo n ment*ls
by democrats.
THE 8BNATE.
Friday.— In the senate, Friday, Mr.
Stewart introduced a joint re-olution
proposing a constitutional amendment
that, after 1897, no person who has had
the office of president for the term of
four years, or any part thereof, shall be
el gible to that office within four years
after the expbati -n of such term. Mr.
8 ewart said th»t he had been considering
what eormniitees should properly have
jurisdiction of tbe subject, and that he
bad come to the conclusion that it ought
to be referre 1 to the committee on civil
service reform and retrenchment. He
thought an extension of the presiden¬
tial term was objectionable, because might that
would make the stake too great and
some time lead to revolution. The ureat
advantage of the arnendmeot would be
the rem -val of all temptation on appointing the part
of the president to use The the joint resolu
p .wer for re-election.
tion was referred to the committee on civil
service reform. The bill by Daniel, assent¬
ing to the privileges and grants given by
’he sta’es of South Carolina and Virginia
to the French Cable compauy was taken
up
Monday. —Iu tbe senate, Monday, a
conference was order d on ihe ur.ent de¬
ficiency bills, and Senators Hale. Allison
and Cockrell were appointed The conferees on 2
the part of the senate. senate at
o’c’oek went into ex cutive session.
When the doors were reopened, after be
ing cl sed for half an hour, the senate
resumed consideration of the p >stoffice
building bilL At 4 o’clock the senate
again went into executive session,
on motion of Mr. Sherman, and
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at 5:25 o’clock adjourned until Tuesday.
Among the papa s presented at the open¬
ing of the day’s sessoin was a protest by
the Baltimore conference of the Method¬
ist Episcopal church against the enact¬
ment of further oppressive legislation
against the Chinese people, as tending to
cripple the missionary work in China
through retaliatory measures presented There were
also hundreds of petitions from
grangers praying for legislation against
gambling in “futures,” and on various
other subjects. Half an hour was occu-
pied in the presentation of such petitions.
Wednesday. —In the senate, Wedne*-
day, Mr. Hale, from the committee on
naval affair*, reported a bill for the battle con-
struct ion (by contract) of three dis-
ships of from 7,500 to 10,000 tons
p’ac ment, two armored coast defen-e-
vessels, five gunboats of 800 to 1.200 torn?*
displacement, aud eight first-class tor-
pedo boat*. Three million dollars is.
appropriated for their construction and
$1,000,000 for their armament, and.
$500,000 may be expended in referred torpedo
experiments. The bill was to.
the committee on approp >riati»ns. TJio
calendar was laken up and the bills dis-
posed of as follows: To extend to the
port of St. Augustine, Fla., the privi¬
leges of the first and sevenih sections of
the act for the immediate transportation the
of dutiab’e goods. Passed, For
investigation of the claim ' for fuel used
by the army for property in Chattano >ga
known as “Cameron Hill.” Laid aside
without action.
notes.
The tariff debate did uotgo on Monday
owing to other important busiue*, befor#
the house.
The publication of Mr. Cleveland's
letter to General Bragg, of Wisconsin,
Tuesday morning created much gossip
about the capitol.
Mr. Oates of Alabama, by request, ha*
introduced a bill in the lious; to issu*
$1,060,000 to each of the congressional
districts of the country for the purpose
of enlarging the national banking sys¬
tem.
The committee on the judiciary, Mon¬
day, resolved to report to the sena'e alt
of the judicial nomination*, including In¬
the nomination of Judge Woods, of
diana, with the recommendation that
lh< y be confirmed.
Georgia postmasters were appointed follows:
by the President, Monday, as W. B.
Commissioner, Wilkinson county,
I' theridge; Haralson, Coweta county, M.
L. Stewait; Pearson, Coffee county. J.
E. Ricketaon; Valalbrosa, I.aureus
county. N. C. Chandler.
Colonel Moses, of Georgia, made au
argument before the committee on pen¬
sions 3Ionday in favor of a general bill,
placing all the survivors of the Indian
wars upon the pension ii»t ut from eight
to twelve dollars a month. The com¬
mittee agreed to it and iu-tructed him to
draw up the bill. It will be reported to
the house next Monday. Colonel Moses
says there are about four thousand sol¬
diers and six thousand widows.
The president has issued a proclamation
of reciprocity with Nicaragua under the
terms of section 8 of the McKinley tariff
act. Under this agreement 'he govern¬
ment of Nicaragua will admit free of all
duty fr< m and after x\pril 15th, into all
ports of eutry of that country certain
enumerated articles of merchandise; the
product of tbe United States, in reci¬
procity for the admission into tbe United
S ates of articles enumerated in section 3
of tbe act.
The senate, on Wednesday, confirmed
the nomination of Mr. Clements, of
Georgia, as interstate commerce commis¬
sioner. He will be officially notified and
sworn in within a few days. His first
active duties will, perhaps, be in At¬
lanta, where the commission goes next
Thursday. Mr. Clements has many
friends in Washington and from them he
has r< ceived hearty- congratulations. As
his position is practically a life one, he
will, perhaps, purchase a home at the
capital.
Mr. Oates, of Alabama, on Tuesday
submitted tT the hoU'e the report of the
julictary comihittee, to accompany a bill
to change ihe naturalization laws in many
particulars and to make naturalization a
matter purely judicial in its nature to be
Tied by a suit in court. The report say»
in part: “The loose manner in which
aliens have been naturalized in many
places of late years has been most shame¬
ful at d in utter disregard of lhe require¬
ments of our laws, as they are entirety too
liberal and inefficient in their provisions.
The naturalization of aliens recently ar¬
rived from abroad, and knowing nothing
of our institutions and governfbent just
before election, with a view to making
votes, has been resorted to in sew ral lo-
c ilities. It states where only a declara¬
tion of intentions to become a cifciz-n is
the essential qualification of the alien to
make him a voter, the greatest and most
unblushing violations of the spirit of the
law have been perpetuated.
Two centuries and seven different met
claim tbe invention of gunpowder