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About The Crawford County herald. (Knoxville, Crawford Co., Ga.) 1890-189? | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1892)
I •* h X $ III. THROUGH GEORGIA. Interesting Notes Gatherad From Here and There Over the State. a meeting of the congressional campaign committee at Washington, D. i £ Wednesday, the chairman was au | therized to appoint an executive com- I m ^. P e for all the states. Hon. Charles A Jtes was appointed a member of the Jfttee for Georgia. * * * ffn (jipifspatch fertilizer movement, according to from Savannah, is practically [over, and 95 per cent of what will be hold mis season has alr< ady been dis¬ posed of. Small orders are stragglingin now, but it is evident that the manufac¬ turers need expect but little further de¬ mand for their product. * * * The railroad commission of Georgia will now have to consider a question regarding from the merchants of Georgia, The merchants ex of cess baggage char_es. Macon have prepared Savannah, a petition, Augusta, and have sent copies of it to (Columbus ithe and Atlanta to be signed by met chants of those cities. [ The Armour have paid, and Swift under companies protest, the ol rtacon by “Lcense Lr tax of $500, imposed the State selling western beef. These com- femes have paid $1,000, and they pro¬ pose, with the companies in Atlanta, to ppeal the case for the Supreme court, t is claimed th A the tax is contrary to he interstate commerce law. If the [upreme court decides against the beef ben, then the price of western beif will k advanced. * According to a Knoxville, Tenn., dis- Btcb, it is given out that the Marietta »d North Georgia road is to be placed I |r its feet. Reliable authority is given the statement that arrangements have P ut been perfected whereby money will | Inds secured of the to receiver. take the It road is reported out of that tb« k Central Trust Company, ©fNefc r rk, has agreed to take the new bonds be the road to the amount of $3,000,009. scheme implies n;w and fast trains bra Louisville over the Knoxville, Cum- kland Gap and Louisville, via Knox- lie, and over the Marietta and North fcorgia to Atlanta. ■There is a possibility that President prison or Secretary Blaine will be at the lotch-Irish congress to be held in At- bta this month. The society has in- led President Harrison, ex-President leveland, lv. Secretary Blaine, Senator Hill, McKinley, Gov. Buchanan, ex Gov. Irapbell, [roiina, Senator Zeb Vance, John of N-rth Dal- |1, of Pittsburg. and Representative The invitations were boinpauied by letters fr>m President Governor prthen. prison and The Secretary invitations Blaine to were pre- pted by a committee consisting of Mr. W. Echols, of Pittsburg, a formeT prgian; Senator Colquitt. Senator Gor¬ in, Representative Livingston, and tpresentative John Dalzell.of Pittsburg. The Georgia, Carolina and Northen 11 not get its passenger schedule en Pte so soon as was expected, owing t" p recent rains. About the middle of kila ly local passen ger train will prob- be put on between Elberton and At- pta. The idea is to start it from Elber- p in the morning and bind the p ssen- p in Atlanta in the forenoon. Return Ethe trains will leave late in the after- pn, Ithe putting the passengers home early evening. A through schedule |ween Atlanta and Monroe will follow joon as practicable. The route from 'anta to Baltimore by way of Ports- 11 h and thence up the Chesapeake by ■ tular bay steamc-Ts, is expected to be a one when it gets fairly inaugH r Ral, *'oa«i Building in Georgia. . teorgia within few miles of came a all the states in new railway con- iction during 1891. It was a gratify- evidence of her progress. And it is e so to learn that she will maintain sume progress, if not exceed, this r* r - . Despite the financial depression, rapid 'rgia is going forward at a pace 'mining different Dew railway lines. Twenty- the roads in this state have “ °1 1,673 mdes of new track under T__jection I f or 1892 Each of these roads | 1 Then there will be some construction |j m ^ as ^ een overlooked in collecting data. j The Railway Asre and North- t F ern .Railroader has made full and a BE u - investigation of the new work a ' d under way in the several and it credits Georgia with 1,673 s of new road for the year 1892. Will Be a Grand Success. th Quartermaster General West and ROBERTA. CRAWFORD COUNTY; GA„ FRIDAY, APRIL 1. 1S92. Lieutenant Saterlce express themselves as being more pleased than ever with the encampment site that Griffin is going to give the state, and say it will be an ideal camp. Every day brings out more evi¬ dence that it is going to be the greatest success of anything of its kind ever be¬ fore witnessed in this section of the southern country. being The increasing inter¬ est that is manifested in no uncer¬ tain way, as the days go by, among the state volunteer forces; the generai awak¬ ening that is stirring every company, by the novelty of the new tactics recently adopted by the authority s; the organiz¬ ing of new infantry, cavalry and artillery companies, and the vigorous work that is being pushed forward with such a rush by the contractors at Griffin, on the en¬ campment site, all go to prove that Georgia soldiery is on the ascendant, and is going to show up most the grandly boys when the roll of the drum calls out on dress parade this year. Ocorgia Weather Crop Bulletin. The first issue of the Georgia weather service bulletin service has been issued by Director Morrill at Atlanta. These bulletins will be issued every week, and will contain a statement of the condition of the weather and its effect upon the growing crops. The report will be com¬ piled from reports received from a large number of agents stationed at various points in the state. Some interesting and valuable information is contained in the first bulletin out. The report says: The publication of the bulletins, of which this is the first, issue, remesents an attempt on the part of the national weather bureau to extend to Georgia th; advantages of a weekly statement of the current conditii ns of the weather and its favorable or unfavorable effects upon crops. Nearly three hunderd gentlemen representing every section and nearly evety county or me state have consented to co-operate by reoderiug reports from their various districts. These bu letins will be issued each Satuday and will cover as closely needless as possible the that pre¬ ceding week. It U to say they will seek the single end' of giving ju exact «i 3 truthful a statenumj; of existing condition as may be. * * * Confidence in the Central Fully Restored. Once more the Central railroad is on stable ground. The situation has cleared up, and confidence in it again prevails. Judge Pardee’s action in restoring the property to its directors meets with pub¬ lic approval. Hugh M. Connor, the new president of the company, is one of Geor- gia’s ablest business men. He was a di- rector of the Central several years prior to 1887, and he served on t sr ~ board again in 1889 and 1890. T rr a. policy ..f himself and associates will be to nake the Central an aggressive, inde- pendent system. Mr. Connor isthnr- nughly acceptable to the minority. The representatives of the the various interests held a long conference at Macon, and finally agreed upon an outline, which they submitted to Judge Pardee and Judge Speer. The New Y r ork credi ors wanted Mr. Connor for prei-idt-nt. They said that they had absolute faith in Gen¬ eral Alexander’s ability, fairness and hon¬ esty, but there were g >od reasons for conciliating the minority and working in absolute harmony. So General Alexan¬ der retired from the presidency. The judges named him first in the list of receivers, who are: E. P. Alexander, Joseph Hull, E. P. Howell, Janus SwaoD, J. Iv. Garnett, A.Vetsburg, Chas. H. Phinizv.II. T. Inman, George W. Mills, Henry It. Jacks n and N. B. Harrold. These receivers selected Mr. Conner as president. An election was ordered by the court for May 16th, and the Rich¬ mond Terminal’s block of 42,000 shares of Central stock was enjoined from vot¬ ing. It is reported that the Central’s board may be so organized within itseif before that time that an election will be unnecessary. President Conner will call a meeting of the directors at an early date, and several resignations may be handed in. The court gave the receivers power to filT vacancies m their own body, an(J w hen resignations are tendered,they win be fiUed by representatives of the cred i tors and minority stockholders, Who wi) | Q off) or who w jn be put on, . g uncertaiu noW( but changes are pre¬ dicted _ T h e receivers have expressed that a desjre fc(t reorgan j ze in such a way , be minority will be perfectly satisfied, Just received a beautiful line of spring goods in all lines and styles. Cheaper than any other house in town. Call to see them.— Wilson & Mathews._ goods W. W. Jordan is offering all kinds at astonishing low prices, The Herald and the Constitution * 1,ou SOUTH h BRIEF " - The News of Her Progress Portrayed in Pithy and Pointed Paragraphs --npf- AND A COMPLETE EPITOME OF HAPPEN¬ INGS OF GENERAL INTEREST FROM DAY TO DAY WITHIN UEB, BORDERS. A Jackson, Miss., dispatch of Satur¬ day says: The legislature has finally re¬ fused to make any appropriation for an exhibit at the World’s fair, the alliance members having voted almost solid against it. The interstate commerce commission finished its investigations at At!anta,Ga., Saturday. No deeisiori'has been given in any of the eases considered and it may be a month or more before the commis¬ sion’s judgment is known. Their ses¬ sions in Atlanta were largely attended by the railroad men. A dispatch of Monday says: Mrs. C. K. Smith, wife of a white laborer living on a farm near Holly Springs, Miss., has given birth to six babies, all boys, well developed and weighing in the aggre¬ gate forty-five pounds. The mother and babies are doing well. They have been named Lee, Jackson, YanDorn, Grant, Sherman and Buell. The state prohibition convention at Raleigh, N. C., adjourned Saturday. Delegates were chosen to the national convention at Cincinnati, June 29th. It was decided to establish an organ in the state, and a fund was raised to defray the expeuses of ex-Governor St.. John to lect¬ ure in North Carolina next summer, It was decided also to put a state ticket iu the field. A suit of unusual interest to investors was filed in chancery at Chattanooga Wednesday. Under the state law, all land companies are taxed $500 per annum. The companies declined to pay the tax, and about twenty companies organized to fight it. The present suit is a test case, in which the county of Hamilton is plantiff, and the East Chat- tanouga'Lanci €ornpkuy%nendftata. Telegrams of Saturday state that the Seaboard Air-Line appears to have taken a notion to make liie lively for its com¬ petitors. Notice has been given that at the end of thirty days the Seaboard and Roanoke and the Raleigh and Gaston will withdraw from the Southern Passenger Association. As the Georgia, Carolina and Northern has now gone into the as¬ sociation, the trouble that the future holds for the Richmond and Danville The incornantore . . of the Norfolk, Wit- wr . 1 ”*' 0 - and Charleston Railroad Com- and opened met A the k book, of subscription ' Sf""? to the capital stock of the company. Oue hundred thousand dollars was subscribed on the spot, and that amount will be in¬ creased to $10,000,000. The stock- holders then had a meeting and elected a board of directors, and the board of directors immediately held a meeting and elected officers for the company. Six hundred and fifty negroes left Memphis, Tenn., Saturday morning for Oklahoma. They will make the journey in wagons and on foot. It is expected that one thousand more will leave for the same place in a day or two. The exodus is not directly Cl, ue lo the late lynching. The matter ha been talked of before, but the lynching and the action of the colored mass meeting advising all who could to leave, precipitated and caused many to make up their miuda to go who perhaps would not otherwise have done so. A dispatch from Macon, Ga., state* that J. It. Whiteside, of Atlanta, was in that city Tuesday as attorney for the New York Security and Trust Company, which holds a mortgage ou the A’scon and Bir¬ mingham road as trustee to secure the payment of $1,940,000 bonds. Iu the mortgage there is a clause providing that de whenever env of the interest is in fault, the whole amount shall become due. Interest is now behind, and Mr. Whiteside made application to the court to foreclose the mortgage. Judge Miller allowed Mr. Whiteside’s claimant to come in in the general bill and not as special creditor. A decree was Hied in the United States court at Charleston, S. C., Saturday di¬ recting tho railroads iu the state to pay into the court the amount of taxes based on the old assessments, and directing the cterK or me court to turn the money over to the state. The suit grew out of an att mpt on the part of the state authori¬ ties to ra'se railroad assessments, which was resisted. The railroads made a ten- der of taxes based on the old assessments but the state refused to receive the mon¬ ey. Subsequently the state applied receive to the courts to bo allowed to it. AU th- roads the have state taken from out iujunc^oDs levying restraining The matter will be heard on their property. in April. COUNTERFEITERS CORRALLED. I A Quartette of Young Men Canght Shoving Bogus Coin. that A dispatcn from Gadsden, Ala., states during the last few days merchants of that city have h ive detected counter¬ feit money in circulation but could not remember who pas ed it. Ou Saturday Frank Head, Johu White, Bob Btehus and Toir. Wade were in the city and were detected ia the act of passing the spuri- ous coin. Deputy Sheriff Melton got after t cm and they fle 1 to Attalla, where they were agam detected uud placed uu- der arrest They were subsequently bound over to await the action of ti e Unite 1 States grand jury. It seem* tha the voung men formed a company m d Head and Bnchus made the mone and Wa f e and White passed it. They all Uvc at Walnut Grove, and c me ol good families. Wade is a son of Etowah’^ representative. Hon. G. B. tVade, who i also a Baptist preacher. Bachus is a son of the late Warren Btehus, formerly ol Gadsden . White and Wade were allowed bond in the sum ol $5,< 00 each, which they soon made. Head and Bachus were required to make u $7 000 bond each, which they fai ed to do, and were p ace in the Gadsden jail. The exact place where they make their money is not known, but an t ffort is being mude to es-te the place, when the molds and itab-s will be des<rov«>d. The old stand of McCrary & Jor¬ dan in Roberta formerly run by II. D. McCrary and W. \Y. Jordan is now occupied by W. AY. Jordan alone. Mr. Jordan is an enterpris¬ ing young merchant, with plenty of zeal to keep his business always on a boom. He has just received a new and complete stock of Dry Goods, Family Groceries, Hardware &c., and is offering the same at prices that will surprise the public. Those who are in need of goods in his line should not purchase eh»e- where before seeing his stock . Fetch Sub-Alliance in the county i reporting to me in Knoxville on lie first Tliurs lay in April noxt, will be require I to pay 15 cents for ach meml er instead of 10 cents as li is been required here-to-fore. The v xtra 5 cents will be paid to the Na¬ tional Alliance. S. B. Causey, Co. (Secretary. You can fool all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time but you can’t fool all of the people all the time, The wise, prudent, careful and economi¬ cal buy their Dry Goods, Groceries, Shoes, Hats, Notions, etc. from W. I. Powell. Go to see him, he will treat you right. _ A fine line of new and stylish Clothing just received direct from factory. From the cheapest lo a Dude’s Outfit at prices that will as¬ tonish you. Call and inspect them and you will be pleased with what we have to show you.—Wilson & Mathews. Teachers County Institute will be held in Knoxvillfe on the second Sat¬ urday in April next, it being the 9th day of the month. All teach¬ ers in the county both white and colored are required to attend. Exercises will begin promptly at 9 o’clock a. m. II. F. Sanders, c* s. c. Powell is the leader in low prices. Just received a lot of spring goods which I will sell at prices that defy competition.—\Y. I. Powell. The Herald and the Atlanta Con¬ stitution, both one year, for $1.50 at this office. Bargains! Bargains!! Wilson & Mathews are offering bargains in all kinds of goods.__ If you want to save money buy Dry Goods, Notions and Groceries from W. I. Powell. NO. 10. CENTRAL RESCUED And Placed in the Hands of the Geor¬ gia Directors, A CONDITIONAL DECISION RUT NO PERMA¬ NENT RECEIVER WILL BE IN IT. A dispatch of Monday five nvnutei afternoon 3 o’clock, from Maf'on says: At to tho Central rai road case was decided in a conditional manner by Judgo Pardee. The decisioo is that the ro id shall be placed in the hands of the Georgia di¬ rectors as temporary receiver, and that the 42,000 shares held in New Y'ork shall not be voted. The decision is regarded as a happy will termination of the case, one that place this magnificent property where it belongs and take it from the hands of the wall street manipulators Major Bacon concluded his masterly argument for the complainants and as he took hi» seat Judge Pardee and Judgo Speer* without leavmg their srat<, held a short consultation which lasted but a few minutes, and when Judge Par¬ dee straightened up and began to talk every one in the crowded courtroom bent forward to hear his decision. In refer¬ ence to the claim that this couit did not have jurisdiction in tho case, he decided against it, as this was an instance where the minority stockholders had come into court asking that their property, which was being wrecked by the majority stock¬ holders, be protected. necessity in He thougnt there wa9 no passing upon the validity of the lease at this time, as the property was in th® hands of the court. In referring to the 42,000 shares of stock held by the Wall stre< t crowd Judge Par¬ dee decided that it could not be legally voted as it was held by a competing com¬ pany as he felt satisfied that so long as this voting power was held by a foreign company, the court could control the vot¬ ing power, the holders of the stock and retaining the right to sell it or to draw dividends upon it, recognizing the large interest" held outside the minority st -eihroldeis, ttie eefurt difl ubt teftl dis¬ posed to damage the property, but it felt that the minority stockholders had right* that must be had protected. the conclusion, The court come to said Judge Pardee, that a modified re¬ ceiver would protect the minority stock¬ holders, and yet would not have the (fleet of damaging the property. Judge Pardee then stated that if it would be satisfactory to the attorneys on both sides the court would sign an order enjoining the Central Railroid and Banking Company from voting the forty- two th us ind share* of stock held by the Richmond and Dmville in fu'ure elec¬ tions, directing the property to be turned over to the Georgia direct ts of the com¬ pany. who should hold it out and manage it for the court as temporary receiver® until the court was ready to dispose of it, with the understanding that the court would dispose of the property as soon aa soon as the legal board of directors could be chosen. The judge announced that an election would be ordero 1 as soon as it c. uld be legally held. The attorneys on both sides express themselves as perfectly satisfied with the order which the court indicated would be passed. GENERAL ALEXANDER RESIGNS. After the court adjourned the board board ol directors of the Central met, a full being present. General E P. Alexander, president, tendered his resignation. Mr. M. H. Comer, of Savannah, was elected as director to fill the vacancy caused by the failure of General Sorrell to qualify. General Alexander’s resignation having been accepted, Mr.Comer was nominated ti fill the vacar cy of the president of th® board and was immediately elected. Th® e ection of Mr. Comer was well received, He is oue of the ablest financier® in the state and it is understood that hi® election was in accordance with the wishes of a large number of the creditor® of tRe road. It is understood that th® changes in ihe board will result in a re- organiza ion of the company and will greatly enhance the value of the stock. A tive steps will be taken at once to put ou foot a plan to take the road out of th® hands of the receivers nnd put it on ® solid financial basis. Other changes will probably be mad^ ou the board, and a mnch more cheerful o itlook is shown already for Central se» cur i tie*___ W. v?. Jordan win take pieasnre in showing you his new stock ot goods. Bargains at Powell’s. Buy your groceries from Powell and be made happy. Buy dry goods and groceries of W. W. Jordan, His prices • are commensurate with the times.
