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About Schley County news. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1889-1939 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 24, 1895)
GATE CITY GOSSIP. WHAT IS GOING ON AT GEOR GIA’S CAPITAL. Exposition Notes and Other Matters of General Interest. The jury of awards who are to pafs judgment, upon tho merits of the ek hibits that are displayed at tho expo sition have begun their work and will inspect every building and every ex hibit until their task has been acoom Xdished. Governor Atkinson has been kept busy for several days receiving con gratulations on the arrival at the ex ecutive mansion of a lovely girl baby, said to be the first ever born in the Peachtree mansion. The governor is happy, and he replies to all inquiries that Mrs. Atkinson and the little one are both doing well. The United States revenue depart ment is kept busy issuing whiskey tax stamps to the Georgia distillers. It is stated by the officials in the city that more stamps have been issued this month than in any month before. For several years there has been but little peach brandy made, hut it is now selling at a gre–t rate. Corn and rye whiskey are also being taken out of warehouse in unprecedented quan tities. *** Patrolman T. S. Grant has been sus pended from the police force pending an investigation of a charge of con duct unbecoming an officer to be made against him. He was arrested in a room at tLe Jackson hotel playing a game of poker with two other men. Tho officer will be tried by the board of police commissioners at a special meeting. Patrolman Hudson will be tried at the same meeting of the board for firing the fatal shot which killed a negro and wounded a white man last we The shot was fired at a fleeing *** Clan McRae Family Convention. On November 7th the Clan McRae from all the southern states will meet in Atlanta and hold a family conven tion. The indications are that several (hundred of the name from various states of the south will attend the meeting. All the McRaes in this country as well as Scotland have the same geneology and bear a striking family resemblance in personal ap pearance and traits of character. The name is numerous in nearly all the southern states and is much respected wherever known. There is much in teresting history connected with the Cian McRae in Scotland—interesting at least to those of tho name, and all who expect to attend the Atlanta meet ing may promise themselves a pleasant and profitable time. A. II. McRae, of McRae, Ga., will furnish any informa tion about the meeting. *** Georgia Manufacturers to Meet. The Georgia Manufacturers’ Associ ation will meet in Atlanta October 24. It will be the first meeting of the asso ciation since its organization and from information that has been received by Mr. T. H. Martin, the secretary of the association, the attendance promises to be very large. The association repre sents the nffinufacturing interests of the state aud has a large membership. In addition to the members of the as sociation, every manufacturer in the state that i6 not a member has been invited and many acceptances have been received. The meetings will be held in the auditorium at the exposi tion and will convene on the 24th and 25th from 2 o’clock until 5 o’clock each of the days set apart by the com mittee of tho exposition on ceremo nies. Thursday afternoon Governor At kinson will deliver an address of wel come, which will be responded to by Colonel J. W. Robertson, vice presi dent of the association. President J. F. Hanson will present the Georgia manufacturers’ building to the exposi tion, and President C. A. Collier, of the exposition, will respond in an ad dress of acceptance. Following the presentation of the building will be a business meeting of the association, and reports from the secretary, treas urer, chairman of the oommittee of ex hibits and chairman of the committdfe on membership will be heard. *** The Guard Indignant. The members of the Gate City Guard are indignant because of the announce ment made in the Associated Press telegram by Colonel John S. Candler, the commander of tho regiment, that the National guard would refuse to parade on Cleveland day for the reason that the arrangements were in charge of the Gate City Guard, which was not a member of the state military. It is freely stated on all Bides among the Gate City Guard and its friends that an effort will be made to have Colonel Candler courtmartialed. The members of the Guard say that they will have some of the finest com mands in the couutry in the parade with them oa President’s Day. They show a telegram from Governor O’Fer rail, of Virginia, in which he says that all the military of his state will be glad to bo with the Guard and thank ing them for the proffer of a special escort. In addition to this the Vir ginia regiment, 400 strong, will be on band, the cadets from the Virginia Military Institute, 150 strong, the Governor's Foot Guard of Connecticut, 150 strong, and the Atlanta Artillery, onc of the local companies in the ser vice of the state. The affair has ere ated much excitement among the local military men. 22d, in a special train over the South ern. He will bo quartered at the Ar ragon and will remain at the hotej ; during the afternoon. Mayor Porter King will give a dinner in honor of , the president at the Arragon Tuesday j night. Invitations are out already to prominent citizens of Atlanta to be present on that occasion. The president’s first publio appear — * a * »• morning, when a committee, Colonel W. A. Hemphill, chairman, from the nposltfon directory, will call at tho hotel and accompany him to Piedmont park. A number of military com pa- i mss will escort the party out Peach tree. Arriving at the exposition grounds at 11 o’clock, the president will address the people in the audito rium. Then the president and cabi- j net will go through the exposition buildings examining exhibits until 1 o’clock, when lunch will he served at the Piedmont club. After lunch the presidential party will continue the inspection of exhibits and other feat- j ures of the exposition until night, when a magnificent pyrotechnic dis play will be given in honor of the dis tinguished visitors. From the exposition grounds the partj will return to the hotel, whence, after a biief rest, they will go to the Capital City Club, where a brilliant reception will await them. This social organization, famous for the elegance of its receptions, has prepared to out do even the brilliant one tendered to Mr. Cleveland in 1887. Telegrams from southern cities in dicate that an immense crowd will as semble here to see the chief executive ana his cabinet. *** What It Costs. Mr. W. G. Cooper, chief of publici ty and promotion, has prepared a statement in reply to various inquir ies and to refute certain false rumors as to what it costs to see the exjjosition. Mr. Cooper says: “An erroneous idea is abroad to the effect that it costs a great deal to see the exposition. This is a mistake. You can see the exposition itself for 50 cents if you are over twelve years of age, or for 25 cents if you are under twelve. During the educational week, beginning October 25th, children up to eighteen years of age can see the fair for 10 cents. There is absolutely no charge to enter any of the exposi tion buildings. Various shows on the Midway heights will charge you from 10 to 25 cents admission, but that is a separate matter and does not belong to the exposition company. It is sim ply extra fun, of which you can take as much or as little as you please. Stories to the effect that water canDot be had on the exposition grounds are absolutely untrue. Water has been placed at various points all along the avenues and cups have been chained to the faucet, so that the wayfaring man, tho’ a fool, may get a drink of water. If yon are hungry and want a light lunch you can get a hot roast beef sausage, as fine as you ever tasted, for 10 cents, and you can get a glass of Jersey milk, as fine as you ever drank, for 5 cents. If you are fastid ious you can go to the restaurants and pay for your dinner anywhere from 25 cents up, according to what you or der. The restaurants keep all plain dishes and also all high-priced ones. At a popular lunch Rtand you can got hot buckwheat cakes or hot pancakes with maple syrup for 10 cents and a cup of coffee for 5 cents more. “You can get a room in the city for $1, or 75 cents where two persons oo cupy the same room, and this at a good hotel, just completed and with new furniture, all nicely kept. “Stories about extortion in Atlanta are ridiculously absurd, as any intelli gent person will discover when he visits the eity.” *** School Matters Discussed. The county school commissioners met in Atlanta last Wednesday morn ing, transacted a lot of business, affect ed a permanent organization, listened to an excellent speech from the gover nor upon the subject of education, wound up their business and spent the afternoon viewing the glories of the great exposition. The personnel of the convention was such as to show that the public schools of Georgia are certainly in excellent hands. The men who composed it were all representa tive Georgians and as its work devel oped it proved that they were thorough business men, not inclined to chase after any isms, but essentially practi cal. They were all on hand at 8 o’clock and wasted no time with preliminaries. SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS. The first matter that came up was the ; report of the committee on permanent , organization. The report organization, was favora- and J bio to a permanent suggestions for officers, in making its commissioner the state school wus roc- I ommended as ex-officio president aud the assistant state school commissioner ag ex-officio secretary and Ireasuter. It was provided that there should be oU o vice-president from each congres sional district, the executive oommitteo to consist of five members and a legia- i lative committee to consist of five schools that is offered to military com panics—1 cent a mile. 1 ho railroads through their ussociation declared that it was impossible to grant this rate ex- | cept for children under twelvo years old; hut it is left with each of the commissioners to take it up with the railroads with which they have to deal. : Commissioner Glenn read the report of the committee on legislation, which "> The first section provided , that , a , law should define a school month and that it should decide that to oonriat of twenty school days. This was adopted, The question of county line schools came up> and afte r considerable dia CUS8 i 0 n and the submission of several propositions it was decided to recom mend that children attend the Bchool that is most convenient to them, and should use the books adopted for that school by the proper authorities of the coun ty in which the school was located, Another section which caused quite a lively discussion, was that providing f or i 0( > a i taxation and tlio building up of local aid for the schools. The sec tion tion recommended recommended that that a a tax tax of of 3 3 mills mills be levied in ench county, the money to be retained in that county and add ed to the present school fund. It was argued by some of the commissioners that the people did not want any more taxation and that the trouble now is that many of them did not take ad vantage of the facilities offered them. But the advocates of local taxation prevailed, the roll call showing sixty nine in favor of it to thirty-nine against it. A committee was appointed to wait on Governor Atkinson and invite him to address the body. The governor responded and was greeted enthusiast ically. He made a strong speech in favor of the perfection of the school system of the state. He favored the additional county tax idea as not only providing money that was needed, but as bringing renewed and personal in terest to the support of the schools, He argued that it was the state’s duty to educate its children and that not only the primary education should be free, but that the higher education should be free to all of those who might desire to take it. The educa tional system must not be incomplete. He argued in favor of the local tax very strongly. Governor Atkinson was w armly applauded in hie utter anees. A paragraph of the report of the committee on legislation advocating that the county schools should handle their books direct from the publishers created a good deal of debate. After the body decided to recommend that the certificate of the county school commissioner should be sufficient. A resolution was adopted that the state school commissioner should pre pare a brief of his recommendations with regard to the increase of pay of the county school commissioners and should ask the legislature to fix a sal ary for these officials or to increase their fees. A motion to make the school age from six to twenty, instead of from six to eighteen, as it is at present, was j ost A motion was then made to adjourn this meeting for the purpose of per fecting the organization provided for in the report of the committee on or ganization ; but before this Avas done Commissioner Glenn spoke briefly thanking the commissioners for their presence, and saying that he believed the organization could be made of great value to the schools. Immediateiy after adjournment the formality of calling the members to gether again for permanent organiza tion was gone through with It was ; in ^ s,oner Glenn should appoint vice presidents. The executive comm tee, of which the state commissioner is ex officio chairman, consists of Mr. Den nis, of Putnam, Mr. Roberts, of Burke, Mr. Polhill, of Worth, Mr. Housael. of Polk, and Mr. Bernard, of Clark. The president is to appoint the legis lative committee. Brass Molders on a Strike. Tho remainder of the iron and brass molders employed in the foundries of the General Electric Company, in LynD, Mass., quit work Thursday. General Manager W. C. Fish said that the present strike might have a ten dency to cause the removal of tho Lynn works of the General Electric Company to some other place. Cabinet of Chili Resigns. A cable dispatch from Santiago de Chili, is to the effect that Chilian cabi net has resigned. COTTON TUJIBLES. I’AN D K M O NII' ,M IN THE NKW YOHK COTTON EXCHANGE. Fortunes Made and Lost Within a Few Hours. Monday was a day of intense excite ment on the New York cotton exchange, mam bulls with a long pole and northern bears knocked the persimmons during the day. The market opened over 30 points below Saturday’s official closing fig ures. The decline was accompanied by great excitement. January iutures opened at 8.54c against 8.8(io Satur day’s close. Wednesday last the same futures sold at 9.44c, or 90 points »l"7rtfft aleut to $4.50 per bale. Ihe lm mediate cause of the great smash w.b the open.DK doolmo ,n Ltvcrijoo market ot 10@ll-64d. I ns decline as a whole, however, has been occn woned by the reported collapse ot the bull campaign, which has been eugin eered from New (_ rleans for several months past. In the early afternoon January cot ton touched 8.27. Ibis was a decline of 11 < points from Wednesday, or equivalent to $5.85 a bale. In the early afternoon,however, conservative traders were counselling that there should be a reaction or serious results might follow. Some prominent V operators £ nre said . as uvers> A New - Orleans dispatch reported the failure of Lmmett – Buech, a cotton house there. Up to 1 o clock the sales on New York cotton exehauge aggregated for the day 600,000 bales—the largest on record. At 1:45 o’clock January’s price was 8.40. The tremendous break in cotton and the wild, unprecedented scenes on the floor of the cotton exchange were the talk of the street. Stock operators left their favorite speculative commod ities to discuss cotton and its down ward career. One of the best known cotton brokers iu the city, when asked to give an opinion on the market, said hurriedly: “The break bad to come, and was looked ior, but it was not expected ali at once. The truth is that the reac tion in cotton is taking place in days instead of months. This tremendous drop should have extended over two months. We are doing the business of liquidating in three days. The market, iu consequence, is in a co.udi tion little short of a panic, aud real values are not considered.” The New Orleans bull clique was last week reported to bo liquidating its holdings of cotton and this quick* eued the decline in the Yew York mar ket. Business was very heavy during morning and fluctuations were very violent. W ithiu thirty seconds the market moved five points. January, which had opened at 8.54, rallied to 8.65 and then weakened again with rallies to 8.60 and recovered during the first hour. Sales on open ca ^ "’ ere ou an enormous scale, When prices reached what appeared to be the bottom John II. Hunan, who l H(, ast hl 25,000 ^, became bales ot >u . annury 1 and at lought .*.^<7 wee I ack what he had sold at c< nt less, profits are reported tn >e eroi mous on the transaction. Mr. Inman is said tohaveclearedover$300,003 on the drop in cotton iu the past lour days, there was a report late in too day that the governors of the cotton ex i hango were investigating reports that t-everal cotton brokers made sales on the curb after the closing of the ex change on Saturday, and that they would be called to account for viola tion of the rules. BRECKINRIDGE SPEAKS. Appeals to Democrats to Stand To Kether lor the State Ticket, w c# P . Breck inridge made an ad ^ befofe a , andi ence at Lex Friday night. Mayor were present. J The speaker was re * tf n ^ though * not warmly greeted f - r ' hi eech> about au hour iQ ]en thj captivat ed tho audience, and he closed amidst great cheering. It was an able and shrewd appeal to democrats to stand together for the state ticket. TRAIN HELD UP, - But the Robbers Failed to Open the Northbound Safe With Dynamite., train No. 1 passenger Texas on the Missouri, Kansas and railroad was held up by two masked men near Temple, Texas., Wednesday night. The robbers uncoupled the express car from the train and com pelled the engineer to draw the car to a point nearly a mile away. They forced open the door of the express oar and UBed dynamite in an attempt to open tho safe. Their efforts were ineffectual. CORBETT ON TRIAL. Charged With Contemplating an At* S'latt on “Lanky Jlob.” Champion Corbett arrived in Hot Springs Friday morning at 11:20 from* his training quarters at Spring Lake and was nu>t at the depot by Sheriff Houpt, Manager Brady, Joe Veudig and other friends and the. officials of ’ the Florida Athletic Club. There was A great crowd of people at the depot to witness the *rr>vul of the party. suns Corbett, Brady and the sher- 1 t tbe court . At tliis juncture ^ Martin attorney for Corbett presented .» teml the court room and a 1 .. . . . h TT T eland Leatherman ^ . of the ( .bancerv ^ court of Garland °,pi ” ' ‘ 1 f r t nf Cnr nnmnldni hr Z CorS has f F?tzsiuim»us contest with one K )bert and has threaten arid iu about to commit «u a...ult . Bereon of the Robert tterv* Fitzsimmons which as g d 1)a is of a character en * • hu lif The ^prisoner netition of Corbett arraigned^before was granted and was , Tud<r0 ° Leatherman at about ‘ Yy witness to take the stand - di bv whose testimo ^ »i m *' the defendant mu d e an agreement to engage in a con t es t j n this city on October qnt with with one out Kobert Robert Fitzsimmons lit/simuion for lor a purse of $41,0( 0 under the auspices of the Florida Athletic Club. Before the testimony of Mr. Vendig was completed Attorney Martin re quested the chancellor to allow Mr. Corbett to depart for Little Rock, where he bad an engagement to show Friday night. The chancellor granted the request, but required the sheriff to send n deputy with him to see that he returned on tho morrow. The court then adjourned until Saturday at 1:30 o’clock p. m. Favorable to Sluggers. Chancellor Leatherman, after hear ing testimony Saturday evening, ren dered judgment that the act under which it is sought to prevent the prize fight did not constitutionally pass the legislature. The chancellor quoted from the state constitution, the legis lative records, the rules of the two houses of the legislature and from tho decision in the case of Smith against Campbell as a precedent to establish his conclusion. The judge concluded as follows: “The court holds that the contest is legal. The court finds that prize ’fighting is brutal aud an offense at common law ; that a party engaged in a prize fight will be guilty of a misde meauor at common law. The writ of habeas corpus is granted and the pris oner ordered discharged from cus tody.” comprehensive and This judgment is is an absolute declaration of the inva lidity of the legislative acts of 1891 and 1895, the first making prize fight ing and glove contests a felony and the amending act of 1893 a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of from $1,000 to $2,500. Corbett is at liberty and preparations are in progress for the great contest. After the decision had been render ed the attorneys for the state stated that they would appeal the case to the supreme court as quickly as it is pos sible to expedite the making of trans cripts. semi-officially that It is given out Governor Clarke, after hearing of Leatkerman’s decision, has decided to issue his proclamation warning the Florida Atheletic Club against further preparations nt Hot Springs and order ing the state malitia to hold itself in readiness lor immediate action. MASONS IN SESSION. Meeting of Supreme Council of In spectors General In Washington. The supreme council of the Inspec General of the thirty-third de ancient and accepted Scottish of free masonry in the southern of the United States, supreme council of the world, began a biennial session at the housn of the temple at Washington, D. C., Monday, and will remain in session a week. The lieutenant and acting grand commander, Thomas Hubbard Case well, of California, presided. The first business of importance was the election of a grand commander to suc ceed the late Philip C. Tucker, of Texas, who died in the house of the temple about a year ago. the south The question of merging wnich ern aud northern jurisdiction, after the was agitated ior some time death of Albert Pike, will not be brought up at this session. The Provincial Grand Lodge of the Royal order of Scotland for the Lnit ed States, although not officially re lated to the Scottish Rite always meets during supreme council week, as most of the members belong to the rite.
