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And Containing the Gist of the News
From All Parts of the World.
Last Sunday four churches of Ed
glewood, a 'Chicago suburb, took up
the question of increased tax on whisky
and adopted memorials to congress,
asking fot a $1.50 tax per gallon on
that liquor.
United States Circuit Judge Lurton
at Nashville, Monday, ordered the re¬
ceivers of the Chesapeake and Ohio
railway to pay the interest on the first
mortgage bonds of the road, due Feb.
1, out of the accrued earnings of the
road above running expenses.
Burglars Sunday night forced an
entrance into the American legation at
Borne. The thieves broke • open the
safe and desks of the minister and
consul-general, and then set fire to all
the papers in the office. A number of
archives were completely destroyed
and others partially burned.
A dispatch of Monday from Knox¬
ville, Tenn., says: The sixteen state
soldiers charged with the lynching of
Richard Drummond, at Coal Creek,
last August, will be put on trial at the
Anderson county court, at Clinton.
Drummond is the miner who was sup¬
posed to have assassinated Private
Laugherty, and who was afterwards
lynched by the soldiers.
In the district court at St. Paul,
Minn. K Monday, Judge Willis declared
the famous anti-ticket scalpers law un¬
constitutional, holding that the entire
act is controlled’ by unconstitutional
provisions. The case came up on the
arrest of C. E.. Corbett, a ticket scalper,
for the sale of a railroad ticket, with¬
out having a license and it will go at
once to the supreme court.
Not a single Ohio miner appeared at
Columbus Monday to attend the confer¬
ence called by the operators to consider
the wage question. The operators
were fully represented, but ao far the
miners have not been heard from.
The wage question seems to be further
from settlement than ever, and a re
sumption of work in the Ohio mines,
in the near future, seems very improb
.able.
A Savannah, Ga., special says: Re
ceivers Comer and Hayes Monday
turned over a certain sum, understood
to lie fifteen thousand dollars, as part
of the rental of the Augusta and Sa
vannah railway. The sum of the an¬
nual rental is about thirty-six thousand
dollars. It is believed now no divi¬
dend will be declared, and it is said
the Augusta and Savannah men are
not satisfied.
The case of the Columbus Southern
Railroad Company against the comp¬
troller of the state of Georgia was de¬
cided by the United States supreme
court at Washington Monday. It was
held that the act of 1879 distributing
taxes on transitory property of a cor
poration among different counties,
known as the Glenn tax act, was con
atitutional, and the judgement of the
court was affirmed.
The Darlington and Columbia dis
pensary cases came up in the supreme
court at Columbia, S. C., Monday.
Attorney General Buchanan read a
suggestion to the effect that there was
no utility in deciding on the constitu
tionality of the law at the time the
cases were brought to trial, as the law
had been changed, but indicated that
he was willing to have a decision as to
the constitutionality of the whole mat
ter.
A special of Sunday from Columbus,
-Ohio, says: Ex-Governor Campbell’s
friends have stated that he will be an
active candidate for governor in ’95
with a view of securing the presiden¬
tial nomination in 1896. It is claimed
by these friends that the machinery of
the administration is behind the
movement, and the fact that Campbell
dictated all of the federal appoint¬
ments in Ohio is quoted in support of
this claim.
A report was circulated in Knoxville,
Tenn., Monday that receiver Fink,
General Manager Hudson, Superinten¬
dent Vaughan, and other officials of
the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia railway system had gone to
Memphis for the purpose of closing a
deal which will give them control of
the Little Rock and Memphis railroad.
Should the deal be consumated it
would give the East Tenneese system a
mileage of over two thousand miles.
Dr. P. S. Henson, the noted Baptist
divine, in an interview, expressed em
phatic disapproval of the theological
theories presented in the lecture of
President Harper, of the Chicago
university. President Harper is re
ported to have stated that the story of
Cain and Abel is a myth, with no more
truth in it, so far as known, than the
story of the wooden horse that figured
in the capture of Troy, or the myth of
the mud walls and the enterprise of
Remus and Romulus as connected with
the founding of Rome.
Zurich, Switzerland, has been the
scene of a riotous demonstration. A
band of anarchists, carrying red and
black flags, marched to the Italian
consulate and affixed the flags to the
escutcheon over the door of the consu¬
late. The police interfered and a
riotous scpne followed, during which a
severe struggle between the represen¬
tatives of the authorities and the riot¬
ers took place. During the riot, many
people were wounded on both sides
and sixteen of the promident rioters
were arrested.
A DYNAMITE FEAST.
Horrible Tragedy Enacted by a Jeal
i oils Husband.
A cable dispatch of Sunday from St.
Petersburg, Russia, reports a shocking
tragedy of a most remarkable charac¬
ter at Vilna. Ivan Klakwitz, a cus¬
tom, officer of highly respectable con¬
nection, became convinced that his
wife was in league with a neigh¬
bor to aid the latter in a law suit
which was pending against him. There
was apparently no justification for the
charge. The law suit was tried in the
local courts last week and Klakwitz
lost. He addressed the judge in an
excited manner, and, after making a
rambling statement implicating his
wife in an intrigue against him, he left
the courtroom.
Later in the day, however, he pro¬
fessed regret to his wife for his base¬
less insinuations and hasty temper and
asked his neighbor and his wife to
dine with him en familie. Thinking
it better that a reconciliation should
take place the neighbor accepted and
a social evening was arranged for. At
dinner there were present Klakwitz,
his wife, his two daughters, aged nine¬
teen and seventeen years respectively,
a young son, aged eleven; his wife’s
mother and his neighbor and his wife.
The dinner passed off very pleasantly
until the third course, when Klakwitz
rose, and ordering some more cham¬
pagne to be opened, said that he
wished all present to drink a toast
to a special dish he had prepared as a
surprise for this agreeable occasion.
He then left the room, and within two
minutes returned, bearing in his arms
a large dish, covered with a dinner
cover, and placing it quickly on the
table, he lifted his glass on high and
shouted: “To our next meeting.”
He had scarcely spoken these words
when a dynamite bomb, which had
been hidden under the cover, exploded
and instantly killed every one in the
room, with the exception of the ser¬
vant girl and the youngest daughter—
the latter living, however, only long
enough to tell exactly what had hap¬
pened. The servant died within two
hours. The unfortunate people who
were the victims of this insane frolic
were simply blown to pieces and the
walls of the room in which they were
sitting were partly blown out. The
explosion was heard for half a mile.
WAITING FOR A FULL BENCH.
Cases on the Supreme Court Docket
A Washington special of Monday j
says: While the personal feature of
the vacancy in the supreme court in¬
terests the politicians most, it does
not approach in importance the ma¬
terial interests affected by delay.
Questions of constitutional law, upon
the decision of which hang great pro¬
perty interests are being held in
abeyance until a full bench can pass
upon them and naturally the litigants
are impatient under the enforced wait¬
ing, which has been protracted beyond
their expectations by the long debate
of the senate committee over the Horn
blower nomination and its final rejec¬
tion, which necessitates the selection
of a new candidate. There are now
twenty-two cases on the dockets of the
supreme courts, some of which have
been sidetracked since the beginning
of the October term, waiting th8 ad¬
vent to the bench of a successor to
Justice Blatchford.
MINERS IN CONTEMPT.
Sentenced to Three Day’s Labor for
Failure to Move.
Nine miners from Mingo mountain,
on the Tennessee-Kentucky border,
were sentenced to three days’ impris¬
onment for contempt of court at Knox¬
ville Friday. The company for which
they have worked is in the hands of a
receiver of the United States district
court. The receiver ordered them to
vacate tenement houses they occupied,
the miners having refused to go to work
at reduced wages. Ejectment notices
were served on them by United States
deputy marshals, but still they re¬
fused to move. They were then ar¬
rested for contempt. Certain mitigat¬
ing circumstances reduced the pun¬
ishment to three days and a severe
lecture.
Howard Was Disappointed.
Judge E. S. Hammond, of the United
States district court, convened court
at Jackson, Tenn., Monday to consider
the bill of exceptions and writ of error
in the recent trial of Rev. George
Fredrick Burgoyne Howard. It was
expected that the prisoner would be
brought from the county jail before the
court, which was well crowded with
the curious, but in this they were mis¬
taken. The judge stated that the court
could get along quite as well without
the presence of the prisoner, and so it
was settled.
GEORGIA STATE NEWS.
Interesting Cnllings for the Perusal of
the Casual Reader.
The color of the passenger coaches
on the Georgia road is to be changed
from yellow to that affected by the
Pullman people. The painters in the
shops at Augusta are already at work
on them and in *a few days the fast
mail will make its appearance in a new
and glossy coat.
* *, *
Uncle Jack Rich has been living in
Butts dounty and on the same farm for
more than a quarter of a century. He
has but one rule on fiance, which is
“get in more than you pay out.” He
never makes more than three bales of
cotton to the plow, and has doubled
his real estate in the last ten years.
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The old constitution of Georgia,
which several weeks ago General Phil
Cook brought to light, is calling forth
inquiries. " A few days the
ago gener¬
al received a request from a big south¬
ern printing house, asking for a pho¬
tograph of the old wax seal of state
which it proposes to put in a history
of Georgia now in process of publica¬
tion.
The Planters’ bank, of Ellaville, was
robbed Sunday night of $7,585 by
cracksmen. They drilled holes in the
safe and filled the holes with powder
and blew the door off. There is no
clue to the identity of the burglars.
The county commissioners have offer¬
ed $500 reward for the burglars. The
loss falls heavily on the town, as most
every one had some money in the
bank.
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Mrs. M. J. Burney, of Way cross, has
an oblong mahogany table which is
150 years old, and also a pair of pant¬
aloons worn by Captain John O’Neal
at his wedding during the revolution¬
ary war. Captain Perham has an em¬
erald ring, the setting of which has
been in the family 150 years and was
worn by his mother, w'hen she was a
child, to LaFayette’s reception at Bos¬
ton, on his return to this country after
the revolutionary war.
Mr. M. Nussbaum, one of Macon’s
most prominent business men, died a few
days ago from paralysis. The deceas¬
ed was born in Bavaria and had lived
in Macon nearly thirty years. He was
about sixty-five years’old. Mr. Nuss
baum was one of Macon’s best known
and most highly esteemed citizens.
For many years he did a large and
prosperous wholesale dry goods and
notion business. He became quite
w’ealthy and invested largely in real
estate in the city.
* * *
Judge John D. Stewart died at his
home at Griffin last Sunday night after
quite a long illness. He was in his
sixty-first year. He was very near to
death two months ago, and about the
first of December there xvas little hope
for him, but he rallied and survived
longer than expected; Judge Stewart
has for years been prominent in Geor¬
gia affairs. He was born in Clayton
county, three miles south of Jones¬
boro, on Flint river, August 2, 1833.
His father came to Georgia from North
Carolina.
The Seventh Day Adventists have se¬
cured a reduced rate from the Southern
Passenger Association for their con¬
vention that is to take place in Atlanta.
They claim that there are many more
people in Georgia of their faith and
creed than most people think. They
say that the convention will be largely
attended and that it will be very in¬
teresting to the outsider. The rate
they receive for their delegates to the
eenvention is the same that is allowed
all conventions by the association on
the certificate plan, which is full fare
going and one-third fare returning.
Rome’s new waterworks are now
almost complete and the city’s supply
will be taken from them within a few
W’eeks. Some criticisms on the work
and cost have brought out a card from
the waterworks committee of the coun¬
cil, giving in detail the appropriations,
expenditures and debts. It was shown
that the original estimate of $35,000
will not be passed. This small amount
gives the city a magnificent system
with inexhaustible supply of pure wa¬
ter. The reservoirs will hold 3,000,000
gallons, and the pumping capacity is
3,000,000 more each day.
A most remarkable case, and mirac¬
ulous as well is reported by Mr. A. J.
Vickery, who lives about three miles
from Hartwell. Mrs. Antvitch, the
wife of a German laborer living on
Mr. Vickery’s place, v* r as stricken with
a severe illness about twelve years ago,
which totally deprived her of the pow¬
er of speech, in which condition she
remained until the night of the cyclone
last summer, when the house in which
they lived was blown down, some of
the timber falling on her. She waB
then heard to utter some audible
sound, and about the 1st of December
last she suddenly and wholly regained
her vocal powers, and can. now talk as
well as she ever did. Mrs. Antvitch is
between fifty and sixty years of age.
This might be an interesting case for
the medical profession.
* * *
The Glenn Tax Act Sustained.
The supreme court of the United States
has formally sustained the law passed
by the Georgia legislature in 1889 by
which all railroads are taxed by the
counties through which they pass, just
like any other corporation or business.
There has been a hot legal fight over
it, but the state has been sustained in
all the courts, and the decision of the
supreme court makes it final. The
bill was introduced by Hon. W. C.
Glenn, of the county of Whitfield, and
is known as the “Glenn Tax Act.” A
large amount of money is now r due the
counties of the state under this act for
taxes during 1890-91-92-98. This will,
perhaps, amount to $200,000 per an¬
num, and is a low estimate of the
amount due. This, of course, increases
with time.
Georgia’s Own Railroad.
The history of the Western and At¬
lantic railroad, the only road the state
of Georgia owns, presents a study that
is interesting in the extremest sensfc.
Considering that the road was built by
the state outright, that it is own'ed by
the state outright and that every tax¬
payer in the state has an interest in it,
it is strange that so little is known of
its past, so little cared for its future as
the indifference of the average citizen
would indicate.
One would think that if the govern¬
ment owned all the railroads of this
country as the state of Georgia owns
the Western and Atlantic, it would be
the political question of every con¬
gress and the one theme talked about
among the politicians at home—in fine,
the one department of the government
that would be forever in the papers
and before the common people.
Not so with the Western and Atlan¬
tic under the ownership of the state of
Georgia. The road is known as any
other railroad is known. The men¬
tion of its name arouses more response
today in the heart of the stranger who
has ever journeyed over it because of
its excellent service than it arouses
pride in the heart of the average Geor¬
gian as a state institution. Some¬
how the old road is just tossed
out to a lessee now and then by the
Georgia legislature and is a matter of
no consequence to the citizen here and
there, so long as the rental is paid
promptly at the end of every month and
the property is kept in good condition
as it is kept.
To study the history of the old road
and learn the lesson of Georgia’s
growth, the lesson of Georgia’s history
and the lesson of Georgia’s bravery and
courage in time of war is peculiarly in¬
teresting. Away back yonder in the
forties the Western and Atlantic was
built by the state of Georgia. Since
that time it has been paying the state
nearly enough money to defray one
third the actual expenses of the gov¬
ernment. What a world of interest
there lies in this fact alone! The rail¬
road was finished to the city of Chat¬
tanooga in the year 1849. The distance
of the line between the two cities, At¬
lanta and Chattanooga, is 136.8 miles.
It traverses, for the most part, a
region of w r oiulerful resources. The
exuberant fertility of the valley lands,
and the abundance and variety of
minerals in the hills, ridges and moun¬
tains make northwest Georgia
thorough which it passes one of the
most noted sections in the United
States. The gross earnings of the
Western and Atlantic railroad for the
last twenty-five years have been:
1869 $1,138,300 63
1870 1,436,537 46
1871 1,397,742 60
1872 1,590,245 37
1873 t 1,430,790 31
1874 1,344,932 70
1875 1,147,618 27
1876 1,152,197 71
1877 1,135,648 1,111,174 49
1878 19
1879 1,113,014 83
1880 1,452,777 53
1881. 1,693.059 22
1882. 1,390,421 83
1883. 1,338,624 74
1884. 1,149,478 86
1885. 1,064,918 40
1886. 1,191,532 35
1887. 1,285,148 82
1888. 1,315,735 89
1889. 1,434,002 79
1890. 1,454,002 77
1891 1,625,195 02
1892. 1,462,780 39
1893. 1,308,941 94
There is scarcely a stretch of ten
miles on the line of road from Chatta¬
nooga to Atlanta that is distant more
than four miles from some deposit of
minerals that will repay working.
Among these are coal and iron ore,
copper, manganese, beauxite marble,
slate, tripoli, hydraulic cement, graph¬
ite, yellow ochre and gold. Of the pre¬
cious stones may be numbered garnets,
opals, amethysts, sapphire and dia¬
monds, all of which have been found
in a region pierced by this line. Its
agricultural and orchard products show
the greatest variety. It is a section
more thrifty than opulent. It is a
section where men gf limited means
may find desirable homes at a small
cost in a healthful climate,where there
may be such a diversity of employ¬
ment as to suit all ages, sexes, condi¬
tions and capacity.
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL'
Affairs of Gorenieut aid Hews of
tlae Departments Discussal
Notes of Interest Concerning the Peo¬
ple and Their General Welfare.
Wheeler H. Pecliham, of Hew York,
has been nominated for associate jus¬
tice of the supreme court.
The Wilson tariff bill merged Satur¬
day from the ordeal of amendments to
which it has been subjected the last
few weeks. The bill is now in its per
fected form, so far as the house can
perfect it.
Friday the judiciary committee of
the house, by a vote of 9 to 4, ordered
a favorable report on the report of
Representative Bailey’s resolution,
questioning Carlisle the right of Secretary
to issue bonds.
A Washington special of Saturday
says: The Kearsarge has been ordered
from San Domingo to the gulf coast
of Nicaragua in consequence of reports
that the Honduras Arabs were march¬
ing into Nicaragua.
Argument was heard before Judge
Cox, of the district supreme court,
Monday, Master on the application of Grand
Workman Sovereign and T. B.
McGuire, of the Knights of Labor, for
an injunction to restrain Secretary
Carlisle from issuing $50,000,000 bpnds,
as proposed in his recent bond circu¬
lar.
United States Minister Thompson,
at Rio de Janeiro, is known to have
been in active communication with
the state department during the past
few days. The navy department also
has some important dispatches from
Admiral Benham. Nothing can be
learned of the nature of the contents,
but it is believed that the gAsso¬
ciated Press Rio reports of efforts to¬
wards an amicable settlement are cor¬
rect.
Representative Amos Cummings, of
New York, has a scheme for a popular
bond issue, which he has incorporated
in a bill. He proposed that the secre¬
tary of the treasury shall issue not
more than $150,000,000 of bonds in
sums of $20 and such multiples as he
pleases, with interest at 3 per cent,
and redeemable at the pleasure of the
government after ten years. They are
to, be sold at the subtreasuries and
money order postoffices.
An effort was made by Mr. Robert¬
son, of Louisiana, to offer his amend¬
ment putting cotton bagging on the
free list in the house Saturday after¬
noon, but he failed to get recognition.
As the tariff bill now stands there is a
duty of 15 per cent, ad val orem on
cotton bagging. The southern men
are very much disappointed that they
failed to get in this amendment and
have it voted upon, for they believe it
would have been adopted.
Dr. M. Stalker, of Des Moines, la.,
was before the senate Hawaiian inves¬
tigation committee Thursday. Dr.
Stalker has never been a resident of
the Hawaiian islands, but he spent the
winter of 1892 and 1893 at Honolulu
and was there at the time bf the revolu¬
tion in January and when the Ameri¬
can flag was hoisted and the protec¬
torate of the United States declared on
the 1st of February. His testimony
was considered important, because he
was on the islands as a disinterested
and intelligent observer.
Sustained in Most Schedules.
The house has sustained the ways
and means committee nearly unani¬
mously in its bill. Though several
hundred amendments have been offered
few have been adopted, and all the
paragraphs of the bill with the excep¬
tion of the sugar schedule remain al¬
most intact. The house did not
like the sugar schedule, how¬
ever, and riddled it by repealing the
bounty, and placing all sugars on the
free list. The house overruled the
ways and means committee by chang¬
ing the date for the inauguration of
the free wool schedule. On the other
hand the house sustained the commit¬
tee in the contest made against iron
ore, coal, steel rails, * tin plate, agri¬
cultural products, lumber, salt and the
other; great staples.
Two Appi-cpriaton Rills.
The appropriation bills for pensions
and for the District of Columbia were
reported to the house Saturday by the
committee on appropriations. There
were no surprises in the recommenda¬
tions, although material reductions
from the expenditures of last voar were
made in both bills. The total amount
recommended for pension expenses for
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1895,
is $151,581,570, which is practically
in accordance with the last revised
estimate of the commissioner. The
total is $14,949,780 less than the
appropriation for the fiscal year of 1894*
which was $166,531,350, but is more
than the sum appropriated for pensions
in any year before 1833, when the amount
was $160,381,787 (including deficien¬
cies. ) The appropriation for the District
of Columbia, recommended is $4,927,-
194.97. Last year it was $5,413,233.91,
and the estimate of the district com¬
missioners for this year was $5,381,-
373.91. One-half of the district ap¬
propriation is paid by the government,*
the remainder by the district.
