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Fitzgerald Leader. FITZGERALD, GEORGIA. —PUBLISHED BT— During the late semi-oenteninal celebrations at Salt Lake, one feature of the occasion was about as unique as the prearranged railway collision which rocently served to adorn a Texan holi¬ day. The General Garfield, an old lake passenger-steamer, was loaded with a quantity of dynamite, and towed out to a point about a mile from the pavilion at Garfield Beach. From the beach the guns of the Utah militia bombarded her until the dynamite ex¬ ploded and blew her into atoms. In spite of the fact that the Govern¬ ment is steadily disposing of its public lands to homestead purchasers there still remains something over 600,- 000,000 acres. To those who have given the subject little thought these figures are perhaps surprising. Up to the close of the last fiscal year the public lands of the Government were distributed among the various States and Territories as follows: Alabama, 532,339 acres; Arizona, 54,400,211 acres; Arkansas, 3,922,042 acres; Cali¬ fornia, 43,841,044 acres; Colorado, 4,037,204 acres; Florida, 1,797,662 acres; Idaho, 45,962,855 acres; Kan¬ sas, 1,046,589 acres; Louisiana, 845,- 020 acres; Michigan, 522,431 acres; Minnesota, 6,240,049 acres; Missis¬ sippi, 441,220 acres; Missouri, 497,- 764 acres; Montana, 71,432,917 acres; Nebraska, 10,669,353 acres; Nevada, 61,578,586 acres; New Mexico, 56,- 987.047 acres; North Dakota, 21,385,- 293 acres; Oklahoma, 8,105,238 acres; Oregon, 35,892,318 acres; South Dakota, 13,250,718 acres; Utah, 44,- 207,270 acres; Washington, 17,958,- 536 acres; Wisconsin, 454,107 acres; Wyoming, 49,341,588 acres, and Alaska, 369,529,600 acres." Of course some of the public lands em¬ braced in the foregoing distribution are altogether too wild and rugged ever to be converted into homesteads, but such tracts often find purchasers in railway corporations seeking to open highways of travel through the sparsely settled and unfrequented re. gions of the West. At the close of the last fiscal year contracts with railways covering 10,000,000 acres of land were pending. = r r : _________ c The report of First Assistant Post¬ master-General Heath on the recent free rural mail delivery experiments that were made in accordance with an act of Congress has been published. In order to make the trials of free de¬ livery cover all the conditions of the mail service they were made in twenty- nine States and on forty-four different routes. There is little doubt that a free rural delivery will be a success in the densely settled regions of the East. But it was essential to find out what would be its cost in the sparsely settled communities of the South and West, where there are few railroads and where the transportation of the mails is comparatively expensive. This bus been done. Experimental free rural deliveries were established iu the mountainous regions of Arkan¬ sas, in the back settlements of Illinois, along the rough banks of the Missouri, in the unsurveyed districts of South¬ west Kentucky, in the rolling uplands of Michigan and in the colored settle¬ ments of Virginia. Such diversified tests ought certainly to include all the problems of rural mail delivery, and naturally, therefore, they ought to throw light on tho question whether any general system of rural free de¬ livery is practicable. According to Mr. Heath, they indicate that the time has come when a free delivery for the country may safely be tried, Com- menting on the results of the experi¬ ments, he says: “According to the varying conditions of the country traversed, the rural carriers perform . their services on horseback or riding in buck-boards, buggies, two-wheeled carts or on bicycles. In some States they have to cross farms and pull down bars and ride over fields to de¬ liver and collect their mails. In no instance has auy serious complaint been made of this invasion of private rights. On the contrary, the co-opera¬ tion of the communities served has in every instance been cheerfully and effectively given. The farmers, at their own cost, have put up boxes a( the crossroads and at all othor con¬ venient places for the reception of the mails. The general results obtained have been so satisfactory as to suggest the feasibility of making rural delivery a permanent feature of postal adminis¬ tration in the United States, not im¬ mediately or in all districts at once, but in some gradual and graduated form.” Subscribe for this paper and keep posted on affairs in general. "HOLD FAST TO THE DREAM OF THY YOUTH’’-SCHILLER. Strive, O, ye fearless ones! Time brings relief from pain, Work for life's goal, not lie Dawn follows night, The thing you prize may close at Dire Disappointment’s chain drops link by hand; ” link; ' Dark clouds may round you roll, Might yields before the right, And Hope seemed veiled; Truth will prevail; Still let the dream of youth Hold to the dream of youth— Bido with your soul. Day-star most bright! —Addio B. Billington, in Chicago Times-Herald. The Last Sheaf. T had been a per¬ A l fect harvest day, sal’, the bracing, overhead air and sharp the and and sky P clear "A WfW iBfA blue Since as early a sapphire. morn- I “'rSsT ing s brilliance, h° ne the witli sun and steady had the 'west was still rud- S dy with its dying glow, when the moon rode out in queenly splendor. But instead of yellow corn or cluster¬ ing sheaves, it shone to-night on long stretches of bare stubble. A spell of dry weather had enabled the farmers to secure their grain with unusual rapidity, and even on the cold uplands of Fife there was not a single sheaf of standing corn. In the stackyard at Muiredge, John Cairns stood regard¬ ing his handiwork with supreme satis¬ faction. From his youth he had maintained his reputation of being the best stacker in the East Neuk, and though he was now in his sixty-fifth year, the row of neat stacks before him was sufficient proof that his hand had lost none of its cunning. How John Cairns and his wife man- aged to scrape a living off Muiredge was a problem often discussed among the farmers in the East Neuk, for be¬ sides being a bleak, cold-lying place, it consisted of little more than fifty acres. Yet they had struggled on for well-nigh forty years, since they had begun life together as man and wife. Three children had been born to them, the eldest a daughter, who had died in her girlhood, and two sons. The elder of the two had made an early and imprudent marriage with an out worker in the neighborhood, and thus handicapped in the race of life, had been forced to hire as a plowman, from which level he never afterward succeeded in rising. The younger son remained with his parents till his twenty-third year, when, filled with a burning ambition to seek his fortune abroad, he left his native country and emigrated to Australia, For a few years they heard from him at brief in¬ tervals, but in the end all communica¬ tion ceased, and they had not the re¬ motest idea whether lie still lived. Thus in their old age John and Kir¬ sten Cairns were forced to fight the battle of life unaided, and how hard the struggle was at times even the shrewdest guesser could not have gauged exactly. With the assistance of one hired woman, John had brought in aud stacked the whole of his grain. To¬ night they had been working late, and the old man, though worn out with his long day’s labor, was conscious of a strangely uplifted feeling for which he could not account. He wandered around the yard, counting the stacks over and over again, and wondering numbered if it could be be¬ cause they two more than usual that he felt so much elated. Then remembering suddenly that Kirsten would be waiting supper, he set off toward the steading with the last sheaf under under his arm, which, according to a time-worn custom, he always carried home with him. Its presence in the house indicated a miid ‘form of harvest festival. Kirsten was standing outside the kitchen door watching for him, an un¬ couth yet athletic-looking figure in the short gown and petticoat of the Scot¬ tish peasant woman. Her face was eager and careworn. Her shoulders bent with much toil, and her hands full of the restless movements of one who never knows what it is to beunoc- cupied. “Is that you, John?” she cried across the yard. “Aye, mistress, it’s me,” he ans¬ wered back. “I’ve been langer o’ gettin’ through thau expeckit, but the horses, pair beasts, begun to fail a wee, on’ we had to ca’ awa’ canny.” “Elspet brocht them in mair than half an boor syne,” she added. “I gaed ower to the stable to see that they got a bit extra fodder efter workin’ late; but what hae ye been aboot sin’ syne?” “Oh, I was jist lookin’ roun’ the yaird to ma’sure a’thing was richt,” he re¬ turned. “You should see what bonnie raw o’ stacks we hae, Kirsten; here’s the last sheaf, an’ a thumpin’ big ane it is. I dinna min’ o’ ever bringin’ hame ane like it, unless it was that ’ear oor Dave was born. Hae ye min’ o’t, wumman? We bad a graund hairst that ’ear!” “Ay, I hae min’ o’t,” she answered, turning away abruptly. “Come awa’ in to yer supper then; it’s been waitin’ this boor an’ mair.” A sparkling log fire filled the kitchen with a ruddy glow, aud when the light fell on Kirsten’s face, it was seen to wear a strangely troubled expression. The table was spread with the evening meal, a plate of home-baked bannocks, a bit of cheese, aud a bottle of ale. While John hung the sheaf on a nail above the fireplace, Kirsten filled out a cup of milk for herself from a jug which stood on the dresser. Then they sat down together, and ate their supper by the light of the log fire. “I’m tkinkin’ we’ll hae something ower for oorsels this ’ear efter we pay the laird,” began John, when he had quaffed off a glass of ale. ‘ ‘Ye’ve thocht that mony a time afore, guid man, yet we’re aye in the auld bit,” Kirsten made answer, soberly. “Ye’re no losin’hert, are ye, Kirs- ten? Ye’re weel eneuch, I hope? Ya’ve been workin’ ower hard this whilie back, I doot,” [he returned in one breath, and in the uncertain light of the fire soauned her face, eagerly. “Dinna pit versel’ aboot, John, there’s naething wrang wi’ me, only a body canna help their thoohts, an’it’s gien me a sair hert this day to see hard¬ ye tearin’ on as ye’ve been doin’ wi’ ly a meenit to draw breath. I wadna min’ sae muckle gin it was to bring ony guid to yersel’, but a’ the siller we’ve slaved for this last forty years has gone to the laird, only to help him to eairry oot his ill ends. It’s no easy believin’ whiles that the Lord is mind- fu’ o’ His ain, for the maist o’ His mercies seem to gang whaur they’re neither worked for nor deserved. ” “Hoots! wuniman, ye manna speak like that,” said John, still regarding his wife anxiously. She was a silent, reserved woman, who did not often give expression to her own thoughts, and this sudden outburst troubled him not a little. ’‘We’ve been bare eneuch whiles, I’ll grant, we’ve never wantit for meat an* claes, an’ a roof aboon oor heids. ” “Ye’re aye wearin’ the blacks yet that ye got when we were first marritt, John, an’ the last new goon j bad was when Leeby dee’d, twenty-five ’ear yne. We hinna even had the comfort in oor bairns that ither folk hae. Had Leeby been spared, things micht hae been different—a dochter’s aye a dochter to the end o’ her days. Jock was a saft chap frae the first, an’ I never expeokit muckle o’ him; he had his ain adae wi’ that wife o’ his an’ their seeven bairns, but oh, John! I can never get ower oor Dave. My hale hope was centred in him, an’ I made sure he wad bring honor an’ credit to oor name. I’d raither believe him deid than think he’d forgotten his faither an’ mither! It’s the terrible uncertainty o’t a’ that mak’s it mair than I can thole, an’ though it’s mair than five ’ear noo sin’ we heard ony- thing o’ him, my first thocht every mornin’ when I rise is, will there ony word o’ oor Dave the day?” “I often hae tliochts mysel’, Kir¬ sten,” said John, drawing his chair closer to hers, “an’ I’ve aye the notion that we’ll hear something o’ the lad¬ die afore we’ve dune wi’ this life. They were happy days when the bairns were a’ aboot us, guid wife! Whiles when I’m workin’ oot on the fields my lane, I fin’ mysel’ awa’ back i’ the past again, an’ a’ the troubles an’ chauges we’ve haen slip clean oot o’ siclit. Dae ye min’ the day, Kirsten, that we were mairrit doon i’ the Elie, an’ I brocht ye hame to Muiredge in a cairriage? Ye were as braw that day as ony leddy i’ the land.” “Aye, John, I min’ it weel,” she an¬ swered, and her eyes met his in a wistful gaze. “It was the only drive I ever had wi’ ye, but we’ve walkit mony a mile tkegitlier sin’ syne.” “An’ ye’ve never rued the day ye cam’ to Muiredge, liac ye’, Kirsten?” “No, John, lean honestly say I’ve never rued. Ye’ve been a guid man to me, an’ though I’ve a grudge again the place for giein’ us sae little back for a’ oor toil, it wad be like ruggin’ the moss frae a [stane to tak’ me awa’ frae’t noo. Wheesht! what na noise is that ootside? It was maist awfu’ like a mackine drivin’ up to the boose. There it is again, an’ it’s turnin’ to gang awa’ noo. I’ve heard tell o’ sic soun’s cornin’ to fonk as warnin’s.” “Dinna speak o’t, woman,” inter¬ posed John, hurriedly; then they sat in silence for a moment, regarding each other with anxious, troubled looks. Suddenly the handle of the outer door was turned with a sharp click, and before they had time to think, a tall fellow strode into the kit¬ chen. “Mother! Father! Thank God, you’re aye here yet,” he exclaimed, and his voice rang joyfully through the still house. “John! John! it’s Dave, oor Dave!” cried Kirsten, and springing to her feet, she stretched out her arms to her long lost son. John had risen also, even before she spoke, and grasping' the hand of his son, wrung it silently, his heart too full of gratitude to find speech. Kirsten’s face was radiant, yet the tears were coursing down her withered cheeks. “Oh, laddie, whaur hae ye been? Our herts hae been sail' for a sicht o’ ye,” she asked, scanning him from head to foot. “Ye’re weel put on, sae ye canna hae been ill aff—the laird kimsel’ couldna look ony mair the gen¬ tleman.” “I’ve made my fortune at last, mother, though it has been at terri¬ ble cost,” he answered. “Again and again I have been at death’s door with hunger and sickness combined, but thank God, for your sakes, have won the victory over all. It has been as I supposed, the different letters I wrote have never reached you. Being far away in an uncivilized place, I had to trust them to the care of others, who either forgot to post them or lost them altogether. Whenever I struck gold my first thought was to sell out and come home to the old country. So I have come—a rich man—you will not neorl to grind on any longer in this poor place, for I shall keep you in every comfort to the end of your days. ” “Davie, lad, this is a great day, a great day!” cried the old man, wring¬ ing his hand again. “I was sure something was gaun to happen, I'd sio a queer uplifted feelin’; an’ ye rnither too seemed wrooht up an’ oot o’ her ordinal’. The oorn’s a’ safe i* the yaird, lad, an’ ye’ve come back jist in time to keep the Maiden (the feast celebrating the ingathering of the corn) wi’ us. See, yonder’s the last sheaf, an’ as I was tollin’ yer mither, we hinna haen the like o’t sin’ the ’ear ye wer born, Ye brocht luck wi’ ye when ye come first, an’it’s come back wi’ ye rgain, though it dinna seem a wee wliilie syne that at Muir- edge, o’ a’ places, there wad be mair rejoicin’ the nicht than ony ither gate i’ the East Neuk.” “Aye, laddie, ye’ve made a new wnrnman o’ yer mither,’’ broke in Kirsten, who still hung about him, un¬ able to withdraw her eyes from his face for a single moment. “I’ve been at mony a Maiden i’ my young days, but I never felt mair like dancin’ than I dae this nicht.” ‘ 'You make too much of me, mother,” replied her son, laying his hand fond¬ ly on her bowed shoulders. “Yet you are not any more glad to see me back than I am to be home. It will not be my doings if ever I leave you again. Come, let us draw in close to the fire, and we’ll talk ovor all that has past, and see what plans we can make for the future.” “Aye, there’s muckle to talk ower, laddie, but somehoo it seems as if the sicht o’ ye was eneuch for me the nicht,” answered Kirsten, taking her old chair by the ingle neuk. “I hinna felt sae proud sin’ the day yer faithei asked me to be his wife.” “We’ve had a weary yokin’, Kirsten, or we got by wi’ the sawin’ an’ the hairst,” added John, “but the last sheaf’s brocht us the luck we’ve wearied for sae lang.” “Dinna say luck, John, put in Kirs¬ ten, with a quiet smile. “It’s the Lord’s daein’, blessed be His name.” —British Weekly. The First Cotton Mill. Several different towns in the United States claim the unique distinction ol having erected the first American cot¬ ton mill, but from the best information that caa be obtained it seems that the credit properly belongs to the town of Beverly, Mass. The circumstances leading up to this discovery may be of interest to our readers. Some two or three years ago .Mayor Rantoul of Salem, Mass., was invited to Pawtucket, R. I., to at¬ tend the centennial exercises held at that place in commemoration of the opening of the famous Slater mill. In sending out invitations to this centen¬ nial event the owners of the mill claimed it to be the first establishment of its kind over erected in tho United States. For some reason Mayor Ran¬ toul was unable to be present at the exercises, but being deeply interested in historical researches, he decided at his leisure to investigate the claims of the Pawtucket mill owners. This in¬ vestigation led to the discovery that the old cotton mill at Beverly, Mass., which was burned down in 1838, had been in operation for several years prior to, the establishment of the mill at Pawtucket, and that no less a wit¬ ness than General Washington himself could be cited in confirmation of the fact. It seems that General Wash¬ ington, while on a tour of tho New England states in 1789, made a visit to the old Beverly cotton mill, and was so impressed with the novelty of the spectacle that he devoted several pages of his diary to its description. This old diary is still to be found among General Washington’s papers. As the researches of Mayor Rantoul seemed to settle the matter beyond all controversy, tho residents of Beverly, Mass., have recently caused a hand¬ some tablet to be erected on the site of the old mill, commemorating the es¬ tablishment of the first enterprise of its kind ever inaugurated in the United States.—Atlanta Constitution. Bicycles Not Safe From Uglitiling'. Electriciaus, as well as bicyclers, are much interested in tho development of the death of Cotter Scott, a Chicago wheelman, who was struck by light¬ ning recently while hurrying home during a storm. Tho fatality was witnessed by several men who had sought shelter nearby. It seems that the lightning struck Mr. Scott ou the crown of his head, tearing his cap, shirt and coat to fragments and severe¬ ly burning his chest and abdomen. It has been generally supposed that the rubber tires of a wheel would tender immunity to tho rider awheel from an electric discharge, but as the tires are usually covered with a film of moisture and mud a conducting path is thus afforded which renders the otherwise non-conducting tires comparatively good conductors, and the accident shows that they are not be relied upon as adequate protection against the mighty electromotive force represent¬ ed in a lightning flash. Bicycle Itoailside Marriajjos. Mr. Stephen S. Pagenliardt and Miss Mary Lamont McKinnon left Lonacon- ing on their wheels, presumably for Wcsternport, Allegany county. About the same time Rev. C. Forrest Moore, Messrs. Lee Pagenliardt and James Woodward left Westernport on their bicycles. The two parties met and dismounted, and Mr. Stephen Pagen- hardt and Miss McKinnon were mar¬ ried by the roadside.—Baltimore Sun. Door For Furnaces, An automatic door for furnaces and locomotive boilers has a standard set on the end of a rod which runs through the floor and operates a level to raise the door and swing it back whenever the standard is stepped on. I PEOPLE WILE SELECT THE JUDGES AND SOLICITORS IN GEORGIA BY POPULAR BALLOT. HOUSE PASSES THE HOPKINS BILL. Berner State Banks Measure Passed In Senate—The Convict Bill Is Safe. The house at Friday’s session passed the Hopkins bill providing for the election of judges and solicitors by the people. It was an overwhelming victory. Only 15 of the 158 members present voted against it. The populist members voted solidly for the bill. The debate which preceded the vote was lengthy and spirited. A number of sharp passages occurred and several very fine arguments.were heard. The bill passed by the'house is the senate bill amended by the house com¬ mittee so as to provide for election on the state ticket instead of by circuits. The measure was sent immediately to the senate for concurrence in this amendment. The original school book bill was also passed by a vote of 103 to 37. This measure provides that county boards of education shall buy books directly from the publishers and shall furnish them to the pupils at whole¬ sale price less the cost of handling. The measure is aimed at the book trust, which, it has been charged, has done business through the teachers to their profit and the greater expense of the pupils. into line The populist members fell and voted to a man for the measure. They had made a fight on the amend¬ ment to elect by state ticket instead of by districts, but when that amend¬ ment was adopted they clung to the bill as a step in the right direction. The result was an overwhelming vic¬ tory for the measure. Only fifteen members voted against it—143 to 15, The Berner bill to test the law im¬ posing a ten per cent tax on state bank of issue was passed by the senate Fri¬ day morning by a vote of 32 to 8. Senator Atkinson concluded his argu¬ ment which was cut off Thursday at the hour of adjournment. He had the attention of the senate and was loudly applauded. Mr. Berner closed the debate. He said its purpose was to give some relief from that financial servitude which is written in mort¬ gaged homes and in the judgments of the courts. The house convict bill was then read and referred to the penitentiary com¬ mittee. The convict bill passed the house at Thursday’s session and was sent at once to the senate for concurrence. After weeks of wrangling and debate this measure, once killed and subse¬ quently revivified, received the sub¬ stantial majority of 93 to 70. The vote was announced amid tumultuous ap¬ plause from the majority. The bill was adopted by the house at Wednesday night’s session, having been considered by sections. The bill as it passed the house is, with two important amendments, the same as the measure drafted by the special committee of eleven. These amendments are in the character of the labor in which convicts can be en¬ gaged and in the reduction of the ap¬ propriation from $100,000 to $50,000. The hill embodies the following im¬ portant provisions: A farm for the women, juvenile and infirm convicts. The lease of all able-bodied con¬ victs to be employed in any in¬ dustry consistent with their physi¬ cal abilities, except in foundries, cot¬ ton factories and machine shops. State supervision of misdemeanor convicts. The whole system to be under the control of a prison commission which shall constitute a board of pardons. An appropriation of $50,000 to carry into effect these provisions. In the senate, Thursday, a motion was made to reconsider the action of the senate on the bill for a new regis¬ tration law. It is Senator Wooten’s bill, but Senator Redwine led the de¬ bate, favoring it as an improvement on the present registration law, which he considered cumbersome. It is an im- portant measure, virtually placing in the hands of the ordinary all the power and responsibility now vested in the resistrars. The bill passed by a vote of 29 to 9, receiving votes from both democrats and popnlists. The senate then took up the bill to give the state and the accused the same number of peremptory strikes iii criminal trials, and Senator Battle stated that it was one of a series of bills introduced in the legislature at the request of the State Bar associa¬ tion. The bill was passed by a vote of 23 to 15. Mr. Berner’s bill authorizing state banks to issue obligations payable in merchandise silver bullion to 50 per cent, of their capital stock and requir¬ ing the governor and attorney general to defend such issues in the courts came up on its passage. A lengthy discus¬ sion followed and before a vote was reached the senate adjourned. In announcing adjournment a mis¬ take was made, as the motion was for 10 o’olock Friday morning and thus cut out the Thursday night session. This left only five days to pass the convict bill. President Berner will seek to repair the loss by a joint reso¬ lution declaring Sunday dies non and fixing the date of adjournment on Thursday. Before the adjournment of the day’s session a communication was read from Rev. E. Pay son Walton, general agent of the Ontological society, who is at present residing in Atlanta. The doctor’s communication was in the na¬ ture of an introduction to a new school of philosophy to the legisla¬ ture. He claims the Bible as its author—it disclaims all partyisms as its religious bearings—that it expands the sphere of religious fellowship to universal or racial dimensions. The new system, he says, has been elab¬ orated by the late Henry James, of Massachusetts, and the Ontological society has undertaken the republica¬ tion of his works. Dr. Walton claims that among the most distinguished disciples of this school were Govern¬ ors Alexander H. Stephens and Her- schel V. Johnson, of Georgia, and ho wishes to inform the legislature and the publio generally that he is pre¬ pared to discuss the question should anyone wish further information con¬ cerning the Georgia branch, which is soon to be organized in Atlanta under his direction. The convict bill was resurrected in the house Wednesday morning. The motion to reconsider was made imme¬ diately after the opening of the ses¬ sion. It was the first matter sched¬ uled, but, by reason of the fact that the rules were displaced by the veto discussion, the bill was not taken up until 11 o’clock. In the two remain¬ ing hours the house made good prog¬ ress. Reform won a victory which was de¬ nied it in the first fight by securing state supervision of misdemeanor con¬ victs. The debate on this provision of the measure was lengthy. The vote in favor of the state supervision was 74 to 66. The measure was taken up by sec¬ tions. Seven were passed on and adopted. The eighth was under dis¬ cussion at the time of adjournment on a motion to strike out the entire section. The question of passing the anti¬ football bill over the governor’s veto came up and an hour or more was spent in the discussion of this matter. Speaker Jenkins held that it would re¬ quire 117 votes, which is two-thirds of the entire membership of the house,, to override the veto, and on an appeal from this decision he was almost unanimously sustained. His decision makes history, and establishes a pre¬ cedent which is likely to govern many future legislatures. The vote to pass the bill over the governor’s veto was 107, and the opposition mustered but 45. The senate Wednesday killed the bill of Senator Wooten, from the Fif¬ teenth, changing the registration laws. The bill provided that the tax collec¬ tors in the different counties of the state prepare lists of all voters who have paid their taxes. The tax collec¬ tors to furnish one of these lists to the county ordinary and the clerk of the court. They in turn to furnish one to each justice of the peace in every mili¬ tia district. The resolution of Senator Battle giving the governor power to convey the right to the Atlanta, Knoxville and Northern railroad to use certain prop¬ erty of the state at Marietta was passed. The cigarette hill, making the sale unlawful, was killed. A bill by Senator Carter giving sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, police officers and bailiffs the right to carry arms concealed, was taken up and lost by a vote of 21 to 14. Saturday’s Proceedings. The house convict bill was read the second time in the senate Saturday morning, and Chairman Phil Cook, of the penitentiary committee, called a meeting for 2:30 in the afternoon. The' senate spent the morning in rending and passing local bills, but there was one general bill which caused discussion. It was Mr. Ber¬ ner’s bill limiting the fees of receivers to a scale ranging from tw6 to eight per cent, according to the amount of money brought into court. and It was supported by Mr. Berner Mr. Gray aud opposed by Mr. Go- lightly. The favorable committee re- ' port was adopted, but the bill was- tabled temporarily because of thin at¬ tendance. At Saturday night’s session of the senate there was great difficulty in se¬ curing a quorum. From half past 7 o’clock to nearly 11 the doors of the chamber were locked and barred and nobody was permitted to leave it. On the inside . were eighteen members, and on the outside were doorkeepers with clubs. Other doorkeepers sim¬ ilarly armed were out scouring the town for some of the thirty-six ab¬ sentees, and in the gallery was a hunch of house members enjoying the scene. A number of the absentees were finally coralled, and the senate got down to work. Up to midnight they read house bills and passed a large number of local measures. hold The general assmhly will over one day after tho expiration of the present session. The senate resolu¬ tion provided for two extra days by declaring Sunday and Monday dies non, but this resolution was tabled by the house Friday night. It was called up again Saturday morning and amended so as to declare Sunday a non-legislative day, thus extending the session. It was generally acknowledged that there was not time enough ahead of the legislature for the transaction of all the business before it. The ex¬ tension even of one day would benefit the convict bill, the existence of which was otherwise threatened. Seven- bills were passed. Among them a bi by Senator Turner, to allow the use ox registration lists in legular elections to be used in intermediate elections' Another measure passed was a bill b Mr. Bennett, of Jackson, to authorizj suits against the state for acts of tbt Northeastern railway. This places ti Northeastern in the category with Western and Atlantic railway. \