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THE LEGISLATURE.
Bills Passed by he Senate and Houst
of Representatives of Georgia,
The House adjourned Saturday, the
qUC hundred and thirtieth day of the
srsrirth- Their last work was the passage
the Western and Atlantic railroad lease
hV\. House and senate agree on July 1st
.s the time for submitting the bids.
A, resolution for the relief of J. M.
WiIso Q . wx collector - Sanford bill, pro
hibiting lottery advertisements—house
amendment amendment agreed to. Convict hire bill
.-house agreed to. Com
mon chool law—the senate insisted on
its amendments. A bill to provide for
the erection of stock gaps; to amend the
ceQiiorari law; to confirm the degree of
•saperior courts extending the charters of
churchss and benevolent societies; to au
thorize the trustees of the lunatic asylum
M appoint a marshal; to provide that the
derk 9 of court take the place of the or
dinary when he is disqualified; to amend
ihe code with reference to the fees of
ordinaries by adding certain charges; to
.mend section 463 of the code in refer
ence to the appointment and discharge
,of constables; to amend the tax act by
traveling agents of insurance
rm panics fifty dollars; to incorporate
Porter Mills; Richmond to repeal the act providing
.assessor? for county; to incor
porate the Americus and Jacksonville
j tail road company; to require millers and
dealers to stamp the weight of flour or
tagai on the sacks, no person liable to
this except on full sacks; to establish
public schools for Social Circle; to incor
porate the Southwest Exchange and
Hanking company; a ’resolution to
itmte the Woman’s Christian Temperance
Tuion to Atlanta next year; to incorpor
ate the Southern Travelers association;
to incorporate the Atlanta Dime Savings
bank; to provide how jurors shall Smith- be
sworn; to incorporate the bank of
wilieg to incorporate the city of Demor
es£ in Habersham; to authorize the gov
ernor to lease the Indiau Spring reserve;
to change the name of the Wintervilie
and Smithsonia 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
3732 of the code; to amend the charter
of the Rome Street Railway company; to
incorporate the town of Emerson in
Bartow; to incorporate the Dublin and
BlackAiear Railroad company; to incor
porate the Georgia Banking and Trust
company; to amend the act constituting
the experimental the farm; superior to change the of
timeof holding court
Rabun ; to incorporate the Savannah and
Isle of Hope Railroad company; to
amend the Atlanta charter so as to allow
two readings of ordinances at one meet
ing, and to prescribe the number of read
ings of ordinances; to amend the charter
of Cedartown; to 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
a resolution for
sine die at noon Saturday; a ponderous
bill to amend the charter of Brunswick;
to inesrpoate 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 ihree miles of the M. E. church,
south, at Blue Ridge, in Fannin county;
to authorize the mayor and council of
Columbus to extend the city limits from
time to lime by resolution. The exten
stoa aiready granted by act of the
general assembly. The deficiency
bill with the amendments, of
the senate finance committee.
A bill to amend the prohibition bill for
New Hope church, in Clarke; to estab
lish public schools in Marietta; to pi 0 -
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 the 1st of August and
the 1st of February. A three-mile pro
hibition bin for Macedonia Free Will
Baptist church, in Miller county. To
prohibit the sale of seed cotton in Pu
laski between August 15th and Decem
ber 24th; to amend the charter of Guy
tou; to amend section 1855, with refer
ence to tha 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
weighing Railway company; to prohibit false
by common carriers; to incor
porate tuc Empire Building, Loan and
irust company; to amend the charter of
the Savannah Fire and Marine Insurance
company, insure so as to give them the right to
against cyclones, tornadoos and
hurricanes; dosta; to amend the charter of Val
to incorporate the Augusta Rail
the way company ; to provide for refunding
public debt of Atlanta; to incorpo
rate the Valdosta and Ocean Pond Rail
road company. A stock law for Chatta
hoochee, 1,108th except in the 1,107th and
districts of that county:
prohibit hunting on the lands of an
other in Wilcox, east of the river, or on
Robert Bowen’s land. Owner of 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 the Peo
h-es 11 ink of
bank statement.
dated Following banks is a statement of the week asso
at New York for the
ending Saturday, November 9th:
fteaerve decrease. ,.., ....$ 1 , 881,326
Loans increase........ • • « * * « • •
.... 1,618,200 573,100
tenders increase....... ....
Deposits decrease...... decrease .... 2,574,600 472.700
* Mulatto ...
1 a increase.. 5,100
It seems to be a settled fact that a large
’"Kiy of colored colonists will bo given u
tract of land by the Mexican Hoyenliueut.
POLES COMING SOUTH.
THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA INYITE8
THEIR IMMIGRATION.
Colonel Jnlien Allen, of Statesville, N.
C., is making arrangements for a large
immigration of Poles into NorthCarolina,
and a*\s 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 wili make good
citizens, and are industrious and well
traiued. He expects that a large settle
ment of them will be made at High
Shoal, in Gaston county. There will be
a lajge arrival of Poles at New York and
Baltimore in the next few months. Five
hundred families arrived at Baltimore
recently. Col. Alien, who was a noble
man in Poland, has great influence over
them.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
R10 US POINTS IN THE S 0 UTH.
A CONDESSMD ACCOUNT OF WHAT 18 OOINO ON OF
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
Miss Nellie P. Hunt, daughter of the
iate Wm. H. Hunt, of Louisiana, ex
minister to Russia and a member of Gar
field’s cabinet, has been chuseu private
secretary to Mrs. Levi P. Morton.
The Times-Democrat quotes cotton seed
and its products in New Orleans as fol
lows: Seed, $14 per ton; cotton se*d
meal, $19 to $20 per ton; oil cakes, $20
per ton; cotton seed oil, crude, 25 to 28e
per gallon.
It is now said that the last reported
fight in between the Hatfields and McCoys
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 sec ion for several months past,
silver dollars being the principal coins
made.
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Murfree, the pa
rents of Miss Mary N. Murfree, who has
become so famous as ‘'Charles Egbert
Craddock, ’’are now in Murlresboro,TenD.,
renovating which and refitting the old home, to
daughter, they, with their distinguished
have returned to stay.
Two men armed with Winchester rifles
were teen in the vicinity of Irondale,
Ala., eight miles from Birmingham, late
Wednesday they afternoon. Soon after dark
robbed two citizens half a mile from
the town. One of the men robbed re
ported that one of the highwaymen filled
the train description of Rube Burrow, the
robber.
The Kentucky court of appeals on Sat
urday affirmed the decision of the Pike
court in the Hatfield-McCoy case.
Valentino Hatfield, Pylant Mahom and
Dock Mahom go to the penitentiary for
life for the murder of Tolbert McCoy,
and Ellison Mounts will ha ig for the
murder of the girl Aliaf McCoy, the sis
ter of the murdered man.
News of a horrible double murder
comes from Johnston county, N. C. An
aged and respectable lady named Mrs.
Celia Brown resided in the country,
about four miles from Selma, with her
little grandson eight years of age. Sat
urday morning 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.
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
siimly 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. Maybrick.
Nutmegs.
Tho nutmeg is the innermost kernel
of the fruit of a small tree that grows
about thirty feet high. It is a native of
the East Indies, but it is cultivated in
other tropical lands. It lias a small yei
iow flower. The fruit is small and peach
like, but with a smooth surface, and
turns yellow when ripe. The exterior,
a thick, fleshy husk, dries up and cracks,
disolosing the nut. The outer covering
of this nut is what wo know as mace. It
is red at first, but turns to a light brown
when dried. Next comes a hard, shin
ing shell, and inside that is the nutmeg.
The tree bears about the eighth or ninth
vear from the seed. The mace is taken
off and dried in the sun for one day, and
for eight dai s in tho shade, then d nnp
oned with sea-water and pressed in bags.
The remainder of the nut is very thor
oughly dried, when the shell is broken
and the nutmegs are assorted, the host
ones being exported. They are first
pickled in lime-water, then left to sweat,
and finally } acked for shipment, ihe
i^nantrn.if,mens, the best S-3-' ftie^vou. an
inch long, pale brown
the surface, with red sti in the gray
interior.
Make Yourself Solid.
ajl aud bunions,chilblains,
chills cramps, corns, is sign that
pnileDsv } and jaundice, it a
you are not well, but. are liable to die
any minute, Pl ‘and y
vearin advance thus makeyouraelf
solid for a good obituary notice. Dans
ville (V. Y.) Breeze.
COUNTY NEWS.
BROKEN CABLES.
Searching for the Severed Wires
in Midocean.
How Injuries are Inflicted Upon
Cables.
Ae location of a cable break is very
accurately determined by process
kuown to electricians and by an instru
meat which disclosjs how far an clec
tncal current, started on a given line of
wire, travels before it meets with inter
ruption. The calculation of the dis
tance to the break made on this side the
At antic can be checked and confirmed
by a similar calculation made on the
other side, although such a confirmation
is scarcely necessary. After having
found out how iar from land the break
is, the only other thing the captain or
navigator of the cablo steamer wants to
know is in what direction that distance
is to be traveled; and as the course of
the cable is perfectly well known from
the fact that when the cable was laid
accurate observations were taken by the
cable-layers, and records made, the
cable si earner starting out to do the re
pairs can steam directly over the spot
where the break is located.
Of course when the statement is
made, it is not at all meant that the
location can be determined within
a few inches or a few feet, but it can
be determined within a very limited
area, so that the grappling for the ends
of the cable do not usually extend in good
weather over a period greater than two
or three day3, and sometimes does not
last even so long as that.
The grappling irons are immense af
fairs attached themselves to cables manip
ulated from the deck of the steamer, and
are plunged downward and dragged
over the bottom of the ocean. When
the cable ts finally grappled, the fact
is made clear at the steamer end of
the line by reason of the strain to
which the grappling-iron is subjected,
precisely as a fisherman knows that he
has a fish on his hook by the in
creased tautness of the line. The only
difference is that in the case of the
grappling-iron the strain is revealed by
an instument on board the steamer
known as the When
this instrument reveals the presence of
such a strain as the grappling of the
cablo would bring about, the iron is
hauled up with the cable at the end of it.
The repairers always calculate to
grapple the cable about tea miles away
from tho point at which the break has
occurred. If tho irons grappled the
cable too near the end, the cable would
slip away long before it reachod the
deck of tho steamer. In some instances
no break has occurred at all, and elec
trical communication hai been inter
rupted perhaps by the destruction of the
insulated covering of the cable, or by
some defect of a similar character, so
that when the grappling-iron appears at
the surface of the water the entire length
of cable comes up with it. The break
is then spliced, or the defects remedied,
and the rehabilitated cable is consigned
once more to the bosom of the mighty
deep. Of course many times it is not
possible to determine exactly what the
cause of a cable break has been, but
usually the trouble is that the cable
has been laid too taut, and it ha3
broken or been damaged in a serious
way l.y reason of tho immense strain
resulting on this excessive tautness.
The consequence is that, whenever a re
pair is made in midocean, tho repairers
cut away all the twisted and strained
cable in the immediate neighborhood of
the break, and do away with all possi
bility of taut ness by putting in twenty
five to fifty miles of new 7 cablo. This
may meander down the side of a sub
merged Mount Washington, or may curl
quietly up in the basin of a Mohawk
Valley, but, whatever it does, there is
no clmnco of the cable breaking in that
particular spot again irom being drawn
too tight.
Outside of this, cables are frequently
damaged by tho anchors of vessels,
g s pj nr , vessels chiefly, which anchor for
t j lc p Ur p 0Se of carrying on their fishing.
Accidents of this kind occur of course
near the shore or on the banks of New
fouudland. Tho anchor becomes en
tangled with the cable, and, rather than
spend tho time toccnrj to got it treo,
the cable is dragged up aud cut and the
vesse i proceeds on its way. Simply to
avoid a little trouble tho captain of a
vcs9el ™ 11 P ut * cabl ° company
in for thousands of dollars of expense.
Tho situation is recognized by the
cable companies, and they have a stand
ing offer to indemnify any vessel for
the loss of an anchor, and they pay out
large sums of money every year on this
score . It will bo seen that there is no
possibility of verifying such claims, and
the consequence is that false claims for
damages havo undoubtedly boon put in
and unscrupulous captains havo col
lected money for anchors which were
never lost.
Another source of trouble to the
cables are the icebergs. These icebergs
floating down from the arctic seas fre
quently extend beneath the surface of
the ocean for many hundreds of fath
oms, and the base of the passing ice
berg catching the cable bears it onward
and finally snaps it in two. The bot
tom of the ocean varies in depth in a
very marvcllom way, right in the path
these icebergs usually take. Off
the banks of Newfoundland the
bottom is reached sometimes at
so inconsiderable a depth as 75 to 100
fathoms. What this distance is may
bo estimated when it is stated that,
roughly speaking, there are 1000
fathoms to the mile. But from the
point where the depth is 100 fathoms
the ocean bottom goes down the side of
a mountain to 2500 fathoms, or two miles
and a half, within a very short distance.
Perhaps the bottom rises up again and
the cable hangs between the two sub
m« g ed mouotam top,, and .hi, iceberg
coming along quietly picks up the loop
thus formed and carries it onward until
the strain results in an absolute rupture.
—New York World.
Medical Virtues of Onions.
One day I was taken with chills and
headache, signs that my old enemy, ma
laria, was on hand. My quinino box
was empty, and I was looking forward
to a restless, sleepless night. In des
peration I peeled a raw onion and ate
it, and then went to bed, with warm
feet and an extra comforter, when,
presto! I was asleep in five minutes,and
awaked in the morning free from ma
laria and ready for the day’s duties.
Our homely but strong friend will be
appreciated in time as a medicine, and
if agriculturists would turn their atten
tion to raising a model onion, with the
strong scent taken out that taints the
breath so unpleasantly, families will be
putting their “pills” in the cellar by the
barrel, and the doctors would take to
onion farming. The onion acts as a
carthatic and diuretic, and may help to
break up a cold or lessen the bad symp
tom-. Said a doctor: “I always storo
a barrel of onions in my cellar during
tho fall. We have them cooked twico
a week, and whoever of the family is
threatened with a cold eats some onion
raw. If this vegetable were generally
eaten, there would bo no diphtheria,
rheumatism, gout, kidney or itomacb
trouble.
“But bless you! the young men and
women are afraid to eat them. One
young man went so far as to say to me:
‘If my wife ate onions I would* get a
bill of divorce.’ ”—American Garden.
Not so Many as He Thought.
The captain of one of the lake steam
ers has a hare-lip and an impetuous
manner of speech. On his last trip he
had a consignment of one sow and a
litter of six pigs for Manitawoc. As he
wa3 in a hurry to leave port he started
for the agent as soon as the boat drew
alongside the dock. “Go’ sow an’ six
pigs to unload, hurry up! ’ The agent
shouted back all right and disappeared
uptown to engage a force of men and
enough lumber to build pens for a
thousand pigs. In half an hour he re
turned with his lumber and men to find
the steamer had left the dock and the
“sow and six pigs’’ were corralcd on
the pier. The agent is now saving all
the hare-lip stories . he hears to tell that
captain when he returns to Manitowoc.
lie is going to get even somehow.—
Chicago Herald.
To Cut Through Florida.
The great project of cutting a ship
canal across the peninsula of Florida is
revived by the incorporation of a com
pany for that purpose, with a proposed
capital of $60,000,005. It is
that this passage, if opened, would save
from 800 to 900 miles in tho voyage be
tween New Orleans and New York, and
nearly as much to European ports, and
great stress is laid on the safety of tho
route compared with the dangerous nav
igation around tho Keys of Florida,
where statistics show that the losses for
eleven years prior to 1872, amounted to
$22,000,000. — Railway Age.
SCHI.EY COUNTY.
Eehley Couoc7 i* composed of 1 eritory cu*
•* trem Sumter, Marion and Ma< on oountiM.
14 wa8 orffani, ° 1 in 18C6 ar ‘ d nHra ‘ d f r ° e
'
the old Colonial Gove, nors of G, nrg 1 ; Gov
ernor Schley.
Its location is Southwest-Central. Area 180
square miles. General features, hilly, inter
spersed with level plat ear. The soli is very
lertlle all over the county, but varies in color,
some places being? red clay, some dark brown.
' ery sticky in wet weather, some pebbly and
some sandy, under-laid with clay subsoil.
Cotton, corn, sugar-cane, oats, peas, pota
toes, pumkins, melons, rice, wheat, rye, bar
ly, peanuts and chufas; peaches, pears,prunes,
pomegranates, plums, apples, apricots, quin
ces, cherries, grapes, mulberries, strawberries,
raspberries, goose berries, beets, cabbage, cu
cumbers, squashes, tomatoes, turnips and oth
er field, orchard and garden products, grow
here to perfection.
The fence corners, waste places in old field
and forest, abound in all kinds of wild fruit,
such as blackberries, blueberries, gooseberries
whortleberries, May haws, black haws, plums,
cherries, crab apples,persimmons, fox grapes.
Winter grapes, muscadines, ohinquepins.
hickory nuts and chestnuts.
Besides the native crab, crowfoot and other
grasses, many of the best varieties of import
ed grasses do well here, especially Barmuda,
herds, blue and orchard grass.
The no fence law prevails in the county, yet
stock raising is rapidly becoming one of the
leading industries of the county some of the
finest horses In the South are raised here, and
the rich golden butter and sweet country ham»
that are daily brought to market by the far
mers of Schley, could not be beaten anywhere,
Cotton Is the money crop of the county, but
SS
sections for their meat and bread. Nearly ev
ery farmer in the county makes plenty of corn
and bacon for home consumptions and many
of them make a surplus to sell. No particular
attention is given to poultry raising, yet the
people have all they want for home use and*
one man with ahorse and wagon keeps busy
the year round hauling chickens and eggs f refm
Schley county to Americus.
The health of the county is excellent, the av
erage elevation being near two thousand feet
above sea level and drainage is generally good
an epidemic of any diseases, was never known
here.
The farminir people of Schley are inteligent
cultivated and refined as any agricultural peo
ple In the world. The county Is dotted with
school houses and churches, and a half grown
person who cannot read and write Is seldom.
If ever met with, and of the negro race most
of them sinco freedom can read and write.
CEITML--:--HOTEL.
Under New Management.
The Central Hotel, at Columbus Ga., in
fast becoming a great resort for
the traveling public.
This hotel has been thoroughly renovated
Inside and out and put in first-class order, and
the faro, as well as the accommodations, is all
that could be desired. This hotel is centrally
located, large rooms, well ventilated and fur
nlshod in modern style. Polite and attentive
servants. The table supplied with all the del
icaclesof the season, making it a most popu
larresort for drummers and the traveling
public generally.
GEORGE W. DAVIS
BARBER
Shop east side court honse square. Hair cut
20 cents. Shave 10 cents. Shampoo 25 cents.Sat
isfaction guaranteed.
‘W'ILL FARRIS
BOOT 11 SHOE-MAKER
Repairing done with neatness and dis
patch.
Prompt attention given to all orders.
Shop Southeast corner of public square.
Ellaville Ga.
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