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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. GENTfi W ANTED TO SELL AN EN TIRELY NEW BOOK The most wonderful collection o2 practica real value ar.d every-day use lor the people ev er publi ho- on the glode. A marvel of money saving and money earning for every one owing it, Thousand* of beautiful, helpful engravings shewing just how to do everything. No compe tition; nothing like it in the universe. When you select that which is of true Yalue sales are 6Ure . 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