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STATE news ITEMS
CULLED FROM MANY SOURCES
BRIEFLY PARAGRAPHED.
Happenings of General Interest to
Georgia Readers.
Hon. Hoko Smith, secretary of the
interior has purchased a lovely home
on Milledge avenue in Athens and
will during the summer season, live in
that classic city
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... , , tames ,. , irom tne . ex
A committee oi
position board will run tne Atlanta
Journal on at. valentine s uay, tne
procee* si o e\mi n .V 8
t0 necessa 6 __ y ir , oVi y thnt +Vio ,-« n «
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rig anc a rae ive.
The will of the late Senator Joseph
E. Brown and the four codicils to it
have been proven in solemn form be
fore Ordinary Calhoun at Atlanta.
The will of the late Judgo Erskine was
also proven in solemn form. His es
date, which was not a very largo one,
waa left to his daughter, Mrs. AVard.
An election for officers for the Bruns
wick naval militia has been ordeied to
take place on the 11th, to select the
new officials. It is to be known as
Company A, Naval Reserve, Georgia
Volunteers. It has 39 members, and
they are to be equipped at once. This
is the first company organized under
ths law authorizing the formation of
three naval reserve artillery compan
ies and one naval reserve torpedo oom
panv.
The Argentine Republic has appro
priated $25,000 for their exhibit at
the coming exposition. A letter re
seived from General Avery, the expo
rition commissioner sent to that coun
try, contains this information. The
first appropriation made by the Ar
gentine was $15,000, but later it was
increased to $25,000. From clippings
taken from papers published in South
America and forwarded to President
Collier by General Avery, it is be
lieved that Nicaragua and Honduras
will both have large exhibits at the ex
position.
The citizens of Donglas are rejoio
ing at the prospect of having a rail
road in the near future. The iron is
to be purchased at once and within
the next sixty or ninety days, the
whistle of a locomotive will be heard
in the town for the first time. Some
of the enterprising citizens have taken
hold of the matter, and they have de
cided that the county seat of Coffee
shall be without a railroad no longer,
This road will have its terminus at
Douglas, and will tap the Brunswick
and AVestern railroad at McDonald’s
mill.
The trial of AV. J. AVhitehead in
Watkinsville, charged with attempting
to assassinate Dr. E. AV. AVare, has
resulted in a mistrial. This is the
third time the case has been before
the courts and it has cost the county
$22,000. Dr. AVare was shot from
ambush several years ago and the evi
dence against AVhitehead is only cir
cumstantial. This last trial has sue
ceeded in getting two witnesses in jail
for perjury. Bill Smith and Bob
Griffin, both colored, swore that a ne
gro named Palmetto was near the
shooting at the time it occurred and it
in was South clearly proven that Palmetto was
Carolina.
The S r.„d w „ t Chatham count,
fias concluded its investigation of the
convict camp officials for allowing con
victs to freeze and become frost bit
found nlw to W t have y ' 0U suffered £° f * he with ?° nv frost ! ctB ™ bit- e
hi -f™ Ur ° f wh ? m are Iaul UP
^be grand jury recommend
0 Ibo guards be given discretion
in 811f emergencies to avoid cruel ex
posare of the men, and that officers of
intelligence, humanity and prudence
oe imployed, to whom such authority
ay >e intrusted. It was further rec
ommended that no convicts be per
the bit-cr'cold father PlftCeS dimnS
AVhen will the election in the tenth
district be held? That is the question
being much asked these days, as the
Month of Alarch draws near. It is
being asked not only in the counties
comprising that district, but through
out the entire state, as naturally a
great deal of interest will be felt all
over Georgia in that election when it
comes. In accordance with the agree
ment made with Air. AVatson, Con
gressman Black has tendered his resig
nation to take effect the 4th of Alarch.
But the date of the election will not
na fixed until Alarch 4th, and until
then the only thing for both sides to
do is to wait.
In quiet way, which was all the
wore effective perhaps for that reason,
• syndicate of the lumber interests of
Georgia and Alabama were formed in
was not intended to reach the daily
exoept through its first publica
tion in lumber newspapers. But the !
trust will uot be ooulined to Georgia ;
ttm * Alabama. These two states will j
be branch lodge of which '
a mere one
will include every state in the south
which grows long leaf pine. Fat pine, j
to use the common term, only grows
in the south Atlantic and gulf states,
and, of oourse, the trust will not go
ab ° ve Mason nnd D,xoa ’ 8 Iine -
The answer of B. A. Denmark, the
Savannah and Western railroad aud its
receipts to the petition of the Macon
and Dublin railroad, which is seekiug
to condemn and secure a right of way
thirty-five miles in length on the Sa
Vftnmih , nd Western’s proposed route
from Macou to Sftvannah owne d by the
Central railroad, has been filed in the
United States court at Savanuub. This
ri 8bt of way has lie»n graded and it
would be a matter of economy for the
Macon and Dublin to secure it. The
ground is that the Central has no right
to hold this right of way against a
competing line under the constitution
of 1877. The answer holds that the
court has no jurisdiction on account of
the fact that all parties concerned are
citizens of Georgia. It states also that
the complainant has no right or equity
to the relief p ra yed for.
Road Congress Officials.
The executive committee of the
farmers’ national congress aud agri
cultural parliament, irrigation con
gress and road parliament having con
firmed the appointment of sub-officials
By Alajor AY. G. AVhidby, assistant
secretary, they are now authoritative
ly announced. They will receive their
commissions in a few days and serve
during the entire sessions of these
bodies, from October 7th to 19th, in
elusive:
Sergeant-at-arms, Colonel AVilber
force Daniel, of Augusta, Ga.
Doorkeeper, Captain F. L. Hudgens,
of Clarkston, Ga.
Postmistress, Aliss Grace Brasing
ton, of Cincinnati, O.
Pages, John Clark McAIichael, son
of Rev. J. C. AIcAlichael, of the Chris
tian Index; Arch Avery, Jr., son of
Thomas C. Avery, Atlanta; AVarren R.
Neel, son of Professor C. M. Neel, of
the Georgia Alilitary institute; Keith
Bassett Muse, son of Airs. Belle B.
Aluse, of Decatur; Lem P. Hudgens,
son of Captain F. L. Hudgens, of
Clarkston; James H. Goldsmith, son
oi James M. Goldsmith, and AVillard
AVashington Whidby, son of W. G.
AVhidby, of Stone Mountain.
BAD EFFECT ON TRADE.
The Week’s Business Review—Cold
Weather Restricts Orders.
Bradstreet’s trade review says:
“Extremely low temperature, visited suow the
and high winds have
greater portion of the country the
past week and exercised a marked in
fluence by restricting orders received
by jobbers in all staple lines. But
they have tended to stimulate purchase
of seasonable goods.
“General trade at larger eastern
centers remain unchanged. Pkiladel
phia reports continued free sales of
dry goods. At Baltimore bills sent
south and southeast have been paid
more promptly than expected.
“Among southern cities Chattanoo
ga reports that the volume of trade
there for January, in spite of the
range of prices, is equal to that for
1894. In contrast is a decrease in all
lines at Augusta, with commercial col
lections unsatisfactory. Business has
fallen off at Atlanta, but at Savannah
the situation is unchanged, with job
bers cautious as to opening accounts,
A fair volume of business is doiDg at
New Orleans, but collections are poor,
S?’'^ O ^? m O ”Src^^ef- Richmond, 0 r“:
te(J from Mem his>
Charleston or Galveston,
“The damage by the Florida freeze
was exaggerated. b A large portion of
the orftn had already been
marketed. The late crop and that held
j or higher prices was caught and de
B troyed. Some young trees were hurt,
bu j. G j d g rove8 we re practically unin
j ured H lo8se8 feI1 on larg0
growers> A good but small crop is
expected this year. Eesults of Florida
naval stores and phosphate industries,
truck and berry f arm i ng are said to
h–V– been fallly satlsfactor y-”
WASHED INTO THE SEA.
Houses at South Bay, Capo Breton,
Wiped Out of Existence.
Telegraph advices received from
South Bay, Cape Breton, state that
the place has been wiped out of exis
tence by the storms of last week. The
property washed into the sea includes
fish houses, wharves, boats, stores and
fibhermen’s dwellings. No lives were
lost, but several families living on the
beach were rescued with great diffi
culty and saved nothing, but the
clothes they wore. that the
Green Cove reports storm
was the most disastrous over known on
that coast. Boats and fish houses
were nearly all swept out to sea or
wrecked on the beach. No mail has
been received since February 2d, and
there is no telling when the roads will
be cleared.
SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS.
CONGRESSIONAL
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WIIAT THE NATIONS’ LAW-MA
KERS ARE DOING.
; The Proceedings of Both Houses
Briefly Epitomized.
THE SENATE.
The credentials of Lucien Baker as
senator from Kansas for the term be
ginning March 4th next were presented
to the senate Thursday. A termination
to the spirited incident the other day
between Mr. Mitchell, of Oregon, and
Mr. Harris, of Tennessee, occurred
when the former presented an explan
ation of certain sugar bounty claims,
Mr. Harris, looking rather serious,
spoke of his objection the other day,
but said he would not renew it. Mr.
Mitchell said he was glad to hear the
senator admit that h © had
made a mistake. It loo ed for
a moment as though the sparks
might fly again, but Mr. Har
ris rose to reply and then sat down
again, evidently ready to let the per
sonal incident close. Mr. Mitchell
said the sugar bounty claims had
brought out a difference of opinion of
the claims. There were two proposi
tions submitted. One was to pay in
full, the balance of the bounty earned
up to the passage of the new tariff act,
which repealed the bounty. The other
was to pay one half of the bounty for
the year 1895, since the passage of
the act. The <8 bounty would
be about $15,00 O 000, and the
claims for one half would be $7,500,
000. The total of claims before
and after the tariff act would thus ag
gregate ardf about$6,000,000. Mr. Blanch
democrat,of Louisiana, said these
estimates were mere conjecture. The
sugar producers questioned their cor
rectness. Mr. Cockrell, democrat, of
Missouri, chairman of the appropriu
tion committee, protested against hav
ing these bounty claims “dumped” on
the appropriation committee. Mr.
Mitchell and Mr. Pasco declared there
was no disposition to shirk responsi
bility or to “dump” the question on
the appropriation committee without
action. The claims were finally re
ferred to the appropriation committee,
Two very important communications
from the president were presented to
the senate Friday and were referred to
their appropriate committees. The
first notified congress that as a pre
caution against its failure to give leg
islative aid to the treasury, arrange
ments had been made for a 4 per cent
“coin” bond, to run thirty years, at a,
premium which would make the actual
interest 3f per cent, but coupled with
the condition that if a 3 per cent
“gold” bond were authorized by
congress within ten days, they would
be substituted for the 4 per cent
bonds, thus saving $539,159 in act
ual interest and saving $16,17-1,770 in
interest for the full term of thirty
years. Without any comment, but
with an apparent sense of the ^napor
tahee of the president’s representa
tions, the message was referred to the
committee on finance. The other
message of the president attracted
equal attention and gave rise to con
siderable discussion, after which it
was referred to the committee on for
eign relations. It had reference to
the death sentence imposed on the
persons convicted of engaging in a
revolutionary movement in Hawaii.
The diplomatic appropriation bill,
with the amendment as to the tele
graph cable to Hawaii, went over un
til Saturday.
The senate decided Saturday, by a
vote of 36 to 21, that the amendment
to the diplomatic and consular appro
priation bill for the construction and
maintenance of a telegraphic cable
between the United States and the
Hawaiian islands was ib ordei under
the rules, and immediately afterwards,
by a similar vote, it adopted the
amendment, and then passed the bill.
At 3 o’clock a set of resolutions
were presented by Air. Ale
AJ.illan, republican, of Alichigau,
and were adopted, expressing the
profound sorrow of the senate at.tho
death of his late colleague, Mr. Stock
bridge, and suspending the business
of the senate to enable his associates
to pay their tribute to his high char
acter and distinguished public ser
vices. Eulogies were delivered by
Senators AlcAIillan, Frye, Jones of
Arkansas, Cullom and Burrows—Air.
Stockbridge’s' eaccessor in the senate.
As a, further mark of respect the sen
ate, at 4:05 o’clock p. m.j adjourned
until Alonday.
The credentials of Mr. Hoar for an
other term in the senate beginning
March 4 next—the fourth term for Air.
Hoar—were presented to the senate
Afonday by his colleague. Air. Lodge.
Air. Davis, republican, of. Alinnesota,
submitted resolutions from the legis
lature of Alinnesota, characterizing
the railroading pooling bill as an effort
to “legalize a gigantic trust,” and re
questing the Minnesota senators aud
representatives to work against the
measure. Resolutions were presented
by which the legislature of both Kan
sas and Alinnesota expressed them
selves in favor of the election of
United States senators by direct vote
of the people. The senate agreed to
the conference report »n the bill for
the removal and settlement, of the
southern Ute Indians. Seuator Hill
introduced a resolution declaring that
coin bonds shall be payable in gold, if
the government cannot maintain the
parity between gold and silver.
THE HOUSE.
The house has discussed plans for
financial relief three days, and refused
by decisive votes to pass any one of
them. When the committee of the
whole, at 3:30 o’clock Thursday after
noon. eon el tided its sessions, throe
propositions were reported to the
house for its action—tno original
Springer bill (known as the admmis
tration bill) proposing the issue of
$500,000,000 3 per cent fifty-year gold
bonds, as amended by the committee
of the whole; thp substitute proposed
by Mr. Reed, authorizing the issue of
two-year 3 per cent certificates of in
debted ness to meet current defiencies
in the revenue, and bonds to cover the
deficiency in the gold reserve with
an amendment proposed by Mr. Bry
an. of Nebraska, reaffirming the dec
laration of the Mathews resolution of
1878, to the effect that coin obliga
tions of the government are payable
in standard silver dollars at its option;
and the substitute of Mr. Cox, demo
crat, of Tennessee, containing a re
babilitation ol state banks with an
amendment proposed by Mr. Cobb,
democrat, of Alabama, expressly de
dining to confer the right to issue
bonds upon the secretary of the treas
ni T* Mr- Bryan s amendment was re
fused—yeas 127, nays 169 and then
Mr. Reed’s substitute went the same
way by a vote of 109 to 187. This
was nearly a party vote, the populists
and democrats on one side and repnb
licans in favor of the substitute. The
amendment proposed by Mr. Cobb
to Mr. Cox’s substitute was voted
down viva voce, and the substitute
itself received but 65 votes in the af
firmutive to 184 in the negative. Mr.
Cox’s request for a yea and nay vote
was not supported by a sufficient num
her to secure it. By the unexpectedly
large vote of 159 nays and 97 ayes the
house, upon a division, refused to or
der the engrossment and third read
ing of the amended Springer bill,
which announcement was received
with applause. A vote by the yens aud
nays somewhat reduced the majority
against the bill, it resulting yeas 135,
nays, 162 ; present and not voting 4.
The house Friday entered upon the
consideration of the legislative, exec
utive and judicial appropriation bill
for the year ending June 30, 1896, but
made little progress. The messages
from the president announced the sale
of bonds and the protest of this gov
ernment against the execution of the
court martial sentences upon citizens
of the United States who engaged in
the recent revolt in Hawaii, were re
ceived and referred, the former to the
committee on ways and means, the
latter to the committee on foreign re
lations. A senate bill was passed ap
propriating $10,000 for the relief of
the poor of the District of Columbia;
also fourteen private pension bills,
The usual Friday night session for the
consideration of private pension bills
was omitted by unanimous consent.
The proceedings of the house Satur
day were devoid of any exciting epi
sode or the transaction of any business
of general interest of importance,
Some progress was made with the con
sideration of the legislative, executive
and judicial appropriation bill. The
amendment of Mr. Bartlett, democrat,
of New York, to make the personal
clerks of members of the house annual
employes instead of sessional, which
was the pending question, was
agreed to in committee of the
whole by a vote of 124 to 53.
At 3 o’clock the business of the
house was suspended and the members
listened to eulogies on the late Myron
B. AVright, representative from the
fifteenth district of Pennsylvania,
Messrs. Scranton, C. W. Stone, AV^an
ger, Hicks and Grow,of Pennsylvania,
made addresses. Messrs. Smith, of
Arizona, aud Covert, of New York,
also spoke. At their termination, the
house adjourned until Monday.
The senate amendments to the Chi
cago public building bill were agreed
to by the house Monday. The Den
Aor mint bill was called up by Chair
man Bland, of the coinage weights
and measure committee. Mr. Pence,
populist, of Colorado, spoke of the
advantages to be gained from coining
gold at the Denver assay office,because
large quantities of'gold are mined in
the surrounding country. In reply
to questions from Mr. Dingley, repub
iican, of Maine, he explained that the
officers Would be given the same com
pensatianreceived by those at the Car
son City, Nev., branch mint. It was
agreed that a vote should be taken on
the bill during the day. Mr. Somers,
democrat, of AATsconsin, was, at his
request, relieved of duty on the com
mitte on public lands, and Air. Cam
enitti, democrat, of California, ap
pointed to fill the vacancy. The house
then went into committee of the whole
and resumed the consideration of the
legislative appropriation bill.
Parliamentary Election.
A London cable dispatch says: Mr.
Fardell, conservative, was elected to
the house of commous for Paddington
Saturday to fill the seat made vacant
by the death of Lord Bandolph
Churchill. He was not opposed.
FROM WASHINGTON
NEWSY ITEMS PICKED UP AY
THE NATIONAL CAPI TOL.
Sayings ami Doings of the Official
Ileurls of the Government.
AVlien congress convened Alonday
morning it had exactly eighteen h gia
- -
ative days left. Quo of these will ... be
long, extending from Saturday, March
2d, until noon Monday, March 4th.
Yet, for purposes of general legisla
tion, the session practically expired
last Thursday, when the vote was
taken which killed the administration’s
gold bond bill.
Postofflee Appropriations,
The postoffice appropriation bill for
t be y ear ending J Hue 30, 189(3, has
been reported to the senate from the
comm ittee on appropriations. As
p asse( | by the house it carried a total
$89^442,998 and the senate commit
tee made a net reduction of $105,614.
>p be appropriation for railway postal
car 8erv ice is increased by $100,000
ond f be appropriation for that eervico
($3,205,000) is to be under the direo
tion aud at the discretion of the post
maeter general, all conflicting laws be
ingrepcaled. The item of $196,614 for
“special facilities on trunk lines from
Springfield, Mass., to Atlanta and New
Orleans by way of New Yolk and
Washington” is stricken out. These
were only important changes.
Th« Tro»tv eaiy rhnn*r««l ^nangeu.
The senate in executive session,
Tuesday afternoon, reconsidered the
Japanese treaty and made the change
1,118 cx ° w 1C a 1 u 1011 w a 8 cr
ed some days ago . by the state depart
“ ‘. lH e + ut £ athe l ,ro ^amended ' UC( 11 1
sb ™ !tl be wRhin the power of eith^
? 6 c ou rac ing par ies oa roga
after twelve months notice. Inas
a8 tbe treat y doeB not «° int ^
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W1 lin e power
the tt United States q* to aborogate the
® onv en ion c ore l wen in o opera*
u ,n ! f con 1 lon H 6 apane
llllster . represented would be
f mam
es yun air x> e governmen o a
P an - ^e urged that the treaty be recon
BU e re "f 111 aiuem men c ange
80 . i a + 1 c °, u 1 6 a >r ^R a e R
twelve . months only . after , the same had
een m °P era lon -
Agreement to Take the Bonds,
Unless congress in ten days passes a
law authorizing the issue of gold bonds
bearing 3 per cent interest, running
thirty years, or otherwise relieves the
treasury in the replenishment of the
gold reserve, Secretary Carlisle will,
by direction of the presidant, sell 4
per cent bonds to the amount of
$62,400,000 for gold. Arrangements
whereby this can be done and $65,
000,000 in gold be received for the
bonds have been perfected, and the
contingent contract was signed Satur
day. This official memorandum of
the transaction was made public at
the treasury. It is as follows: “The
contract was made with Angust Bel
mont – Co., of New r York, on behalf
of Messrs. N. M. Rothschild – Sons,
of London, and J. P. Morgan – Co.,
of New York, on behalf of J. S. Mor
gan – Co., of London, and themselves,
and provides for the delivery to the
United States of 3,500,000 ounces of
standard gold coin of the United States
to be paid for in United States 4 per
cent bonds.
“A large number of other banka
and financial institutions are inter
ested in the transaction, but their
names are not mentioned in the con
tract itself. The department does not
know in what proportion the various
parties are to furnish the gold coin or
reive the bonds, as this is a matter for
arrangement between themselves,
“By the terms of the contract the
parties are to bear all the expenses of
bringing gold from abroad and they
are, so far as it lies in their power, to
exert their fipancial influence aud make
all legitimate efforts to protect the
treasury against withdrawals of gold
pending the complete performance of
the contract. No bonds are to be de
livered except in payment for gold ao
tually delivered. In view of the pos
sible failure of legislation in congress,
negotiations have been pending for
some time at AVashington and abroad
and the terms of this contract are the
best that could be procured with a coin
bond. The contract was drawn up by
Attorney General Olney and secretary
Carlisle, and submitted to J. Lynde
Stetson, counsel for the bankers.,
H. Clay Evans’ Answer.
Hon. H. Clay Evans, republican
claimant to the governorship of Ten
nessee, has filed with the speaker of
the senate his answer to the petition
filed a few days ago by Air. Turney,
the present incumbent. The answer
replies to Air. Turney’s allegations of
fraud in tlifi gubernatorial election
and gives Air. Evans' reasons for his
claim that he was elected over Mr.
Turney. . __
The Age-Herald Sold.
The Birmingham, Ala., Age-Her
ald, the only morning paper in the
city, was sold at receiver’s sale Mon
day to Frank P. O’Brien for twenty
thousand and ten dollars.