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Spring Place Jimplecute
Carter cb Heartsell, Putolislxors.
VOLUME XV.
WASHINGTON NOTES
ITEMS OF NEWS PICKED UP AT
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Sayings and Doings of the Official
Heads of the Government.
The president has appointed Fitz
hngb Lee collector of internal revenue
for the sixth distriot of Virginia.
Matt W. Ransom, United States
minister, presented his credentials to
President Diaz, of Mexico, Thursday,
and was cordially received.
Minister L. A. Thurston has arrived
at Honolnla in company with Finance
Minister Damon. Being interviewed
Mr. on coming oiif of the cabinet meeting,
Thurston said that no ebango
whatever had taken place in his official
relations that he knew with of Secretary foundation Gresham and
no for the
newspaper statements on this subject.
Foreign Minister Hatch confirmed
that statement, adding that this gov¬
ernment had received no intimation
about it from Minister Willis.
Assistant Supervising Architect
Kemper has returned to Washington
after a trip to 'Atlanta, Ga., where he
went to look after the new government
building. He expresses himself as
eminently satisfied with the progress
of the work and says it will be com¬
pleted on schedule time, July 1st. Mr.
Kemper bubbles all over with enthusi¬
asm about the cotton exposition when
the subject is mentioned. He was
amazed, ho says, at the outlook and
predicts that it will be second to no
American exposition save the world’s
fair at Chicago. “It will be as great
an exposition,” said he, “as the Phila¬
delphia centennial of 1876.”
The Nicaraguan minister in reply to
a query says: “My country has no
intention of annulling the contract
with the Maritime company for the
construction of the Nicaragua canal.
On the contrary, we have every desire
to sec the canal built and by Ameri¬
cans. The contract has a number of
years to run, and if it is uncompleted
at the expiration of that time, there is
no doubt that an extension of the time
will be granted. If the company shall
fop any reason throw up the contract,
Nicaragua will, I am certain, grant a
similar concession to the United
States, if this country desires such
concession. ”
Great activity is being displayed by
candidates for the position of assistant
comptroller of the treasury, made va¬
cant by the death of Colonel Mansur,
of Missouri. Several of the officials
.
in the comptroller’s office and a num
• ber of ex-members of congress are as¬
pirants, although only two ex congress
men, Bynum, of Indiana, and Wise,
of Virginia, have form ”y filed appli¬
cations for the position. This is the
first important office to be filled since
the president’s letter on the silver
question was made publio, and it is un¬
derstood the soundness of applicants
on that question will be a controlling
factor in deciding who will receive
the appointment.
A bill recognizing the belligerency
of the Cuban revolutionists has been
prepared in Washington and will be
introduced in congress when that body
convenes in December next. It was
drafted at the suggestion of certain
representatives and senators who are
in sympathy with the efforts of the
Cubans to throw off the yoke of Spain,
and these gentlemen will use their in¬
fluence to pass it through both houses.
Such action on the part of the United
States would,of course, be of immense
service to the revolutionists. It would
result in the free shipment of arms and
men to the island in support- of the
insurgents’ cause and would give them
the moral and material support which
they so greatly desire.
It is positively learned at Washing
ton that public sentiment in Japan is
strongly turned in the direction of
taking possession of Hawaii. While
the native Hawaiians still constitute
the largest nationality, 34,000, to the
Japanese 25 000, the latter have the
largest number of male adults, being
20,000 to the native 16,000. There
can be no doubt that a small Japanese
squadron, with 1,000 troops co-operat
ing with the resident Japanese, could
easily overcome any resistance possible
for all the rest of the population of
Hawaii to make. The safety of this
government against an early conquest
by Japan must be in the protection of
■
United Failing ■
the States. in that,
appeal must be made to British pro¬
tection.
Olney on a Rehearing
Attorney General Olney filed in the
supreme court of the United
Wednesday afternoon a brief upon the
petition for a rehearing of the income
tax cases. It was not expected at the
department of justice or at the court
that the government would respond
to the notice by Mr. Guthrie of the
intention of counsel to ask a rehear
ing and to the courfsome surprise was
expreseed at the appearance of the
document. The attorney general’s
brief begins as follows:
“The United States respectfully
represents that if a rehearing is grant
ed it should cover all the legal and
eonstitutional questions involved, and
SPRING PLACE, MURRAY COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1895.
not merely those on which the court
are equally divided.
“1. Whether a tax on incomes gen¬
erally, inclusive of rents and interest
or dividends from investments of all
kinds, is or is not a direct tax within
the meaning of the iederal constitu¬
tion, is a matter upon which, as on the
original question, the government has
really never been heard. ”
Further Income Tax Orders.
Commissioner Miller, Into Tuesday
afternoon, issued au additional circu¬
lar to internal revenue collectors, in
which he says:
“Iu cates of incorrect income tax
returns now filed in your office you
will notify the persons who filed such
returns that they must appear within
a reasonable time, specifying the date
and place for appearance, and correct
or explain such returns, and that on
their failure to appear and make such
corrections you will correct and in¬
crease the amount of such returns,
stating the particular corrections
which shall be made and the amounts
by which said returns will be in¬
creased.
“Where persons and corporations
liable to make returns have neglected
or refused to make returns, and where,
in your opinion, false or fradulent re¬
turns have been filed yon will give
notice to the delinquents and to those
who made such falso or fradulent re¬
turns, to appear and show cause why
penalties shall not be assessed against
them. ”
Holidays in Postofllces.
The postmaster general has amended
the postal laws and regulutions regard¬
ing holidays. The amendment states
that postmasters may observe as holi¬
days January 1st, February 22nd,May
September, 30th, July 4th, the first Monday Day,' in
known as Labor De¬
cember 25th, and such other days as
the president of the United States or
the governors, in their resjiectivo
states, may designate as fast or thanks¬
giving days, or proclaim specially as
holidays. On other occasions their
offices can be closed only after permis¬
sion obtained therefor from the de¬
partment, to be obtained through the
first assistant postmaster genoral.
Upon holidays postoffices must be
opened sufficiently to meet fairly the
public convenience. Mails must be
made up and dispatched as on other
days. When a legal holiday falls upon
a Sunday the following Monday may
be observed, unless otherwise special¬
ly provided for by state authority.
FOR DOUBLE MURDER.
Durant, the Sunday School Teacher,
Is Bound Over.
Theodore Durant has been bound
over i'or trial by the coroner’s jury at
San Francisco, charged with the mur
der of Miss Williams and Miss Lamont.
The verdict was returned Friday.
The story developed before the jury
was of the most shocking character.
Theodore Durant was assistant Sunday
school superintendent of Emanual
Baptist church, of which the murderer
and suicide, Rev. Dr. Kalloek, was
formerly pastor. Miss Williams was
a pretty young girl of religious incli¬
nations, and Miss Lamont was yet
school girl, both being attendants of
this Sunday school, where they met
and became infatuated with the assist¬
ant superintendent.
Two weeks ago Miss Lamont myste¬
riously disappeared, A few days later
the mutilated body of Miss Williams
was found in the library room of the
church. Suspicion pointed to Durant,
and he was run down and arrested.
THE TREATY SIGNED
_
The Mikado Ratifies the Terms Agreed
to by the Commission.
A dispatch from Hiroshima, JapaD,
to the Central News says that the
mikado ratified the Chino-Japanese
treaty Saturday afternoon.
Advices from Berlin state that
The Chinese government has con
eluded a loan of 30,000,000 marks at
6 per cent interest with a syndicate
composed of the national bank, Fuer
Deutschland, Heydt & Co., and Beh
rens & Sons, of Hamburg.
kussia not satisfied.
A . semi-official . _ . , note . _ has been issued
. 0 be newspapers at St. Petersburg
to tbe effect that the Russian govern¬
ent . satl8fied th tbe
“ 18 ln n0 w, “ W1
uno “^ a P ane 8 6 treaty, especially , tbe
, lauH Priding for the of
® l cession
Ll0a ; To0 g. Russia, the note says, will
act with other powers m
P rotectln S the interests of Europe,
even supposing one of the great powers
does not share in such action.
KOHLSAAT TAKES CHARGE.
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lt > c Tlmes-IIcrald, of Chicago, Passes
Into New Hands.
The control of the Times-Herald
end Evening Post, at Chicago, has
passed into the hands of Herm.a H.
Eohlsaat, formerly publisher of the
Pilfer Ocean, and he has assumed
charge of the consolidated journal.
Mr- Kohlsaat secured 725 of the 1,000
$L00C> each by a number of
transiers. According to Mr. Kohlsaat,
lh e consolidated papers will be iude
pendent in local polities. On the !
monetary question it will be unaltera
bly in favor of honest money. While
generally independent in national
politics, the papers will be advocates
of protection to American industries,
“Tell tIxo Trxxtlx.”
STATE NEWS NOTES.
CULLED FROM MANY SOURCES
BRIEFLY PARAGRAPHED.
Happenings of General Interest to
Georgia Readers.
Augusta’s digest of taxable property
has been completed and shows a total
of $22,519,000 divided as follows:
Realty, $16,588,350; personalty, $5,
931,382^ The increase over last year
is$116,584, not a bad showing fora
dull year.
* • •
Governor Clarke, of Arkansas, has
signed the bill passed by the legisla¬
ture of that state appropriating $10,000
for a state exhibit at the Atlanta ex¬
position. The Iron Mountain rail¬
road will duplicate this amount.
Half a dozen gentlemen from Ne¬
braska were in Eatonton recently look¬
ing to the purchase of homes for fifty
families in that section. They were
shown the lands in the county by some
Eatonton gentlemen and seem favor¬
ably impressed with them. They, state
that they will probably make some
purchases. One of the gentlemen, it
is said, represents Governor Northen’s
immigration bureau.
From a reliable source, it is learned
that the recent survey of the outer bar
at Brunswick gives a depth of sixteen
and one-half feet at dead-low water,
making twenty-three feet at ordinary
high tide. This is two and one-half
feet moro than was shown by the pre¬
vious survey. Colonel Goodyear has
demonstrated that dynamite is the
proper instrument for deepening bars
of this character and the value of his
experiment will force proper recogni¬
tion from the engineering world.
* * *
Judge Speer, at Savannah, has ap¬
pointed President John Ii. Young, of
the Atlantic Short Line, receiver of
that property. Mr. Marion Erwin,
representing the Central National
Bank of New York, which has a $50,
000 lien upon the property, filed the
bill for receiver. The present owners
failed to sell the Atlantic Short Lino
to the Macon and Dublin for $250,000
and the receivership followed. It is
believed that the road will now be
sold.
A deed was recorded a few days ago
in the office of the clerk of Bibb supe¬
rior court from Alexander Brown and
W. G. Bowdoin, of Baltimore, convey¬
ing the Macon and Northern ruilroad
to the Macon and Northern Railway
company for the sum of $1,000,000 in
cash, bonds and past due coupons of
the road. The deed covers the road
from Macon to Athens, a distance of
107 miles, and all of its property, con¬
sisting of sidetracks, rolling stock,
rights of way, franchise, terminals,
etc., and 1,500 shares of the capita)
stock of the Middle Georgia and At¬
lantic road.
A call has been issued by the chair
man of the committee on arrange
ments for the convention of Georgia
manufacturers to be held in Atlanta
May 7th and 8th, to all of the manu
facturers, requesting their attendance,
The committee of Atlanta manufaet
urers appointed by the Chamber of
Commerce to call the convention and
arrauge preliminaries, has held regu
lar meetings, and the work is well in
hand. Subcommittees have been ap
pointed to attend to different details
and promote the success of the eon
vention. The secretary of the organ
izing committee, says: “The conven
tion will be well attended, and ex
pressions from more than 200 manu
facturers indicate that the delegates
will easily agree to main questions.”
* * *
The death of Col. James W. Scott,
proprietor and publisher of the Chioa
go 2’imes-Herald, will cause the deep
est sorrow wherever that prince of
newspaper men was known. Here in
Georgia his death will be felt as that
of a personal friend. He had always
manifested deep interest in the south.
An illustration of this is shown in his
friendliness to the exposition move
ment at Atlanta, especially as it was
manifested in the Herald's great
write-up of the enterprise and the spa
cial train by means of which he seat
tered thousands of copies of that edi
tion through the south. The Herald
was the first great northern newspaper
to give the exposi ion such reoogm
tion and the people of the south ap
Prolate the act and the spirit which
promp ec 1 .
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The Jonesboro Election Case.
The decision of Judge Richard H.
Clark at Atlanta in the Clayton county
el.ction ease has been affirmed by the
supreme court. The case was carried >
to the supreme court by Joseph E.
Brown, the populist candidate for
theriff. Trouble arose at Jonesboro
over the refusal of some of the local .
managers to count the votes and re
port it for consolidation with the re-!
turns from other preoinots. On this
account the vote of one precinct was
thrown out, changing the result of the
election. A mandamus proceeding was
instituted by Mr. Brown, but Judge
Clark, after hearing the case, refused
to grant the writ. The matter was
carried to the supreme court with the
result that the judgment of the lower
court was affirmed.
Cross Hills Against the Central.
The Central Trust company, of New
York, through Judge Henry B. Tomp¬
kins as attorney, has filed a cross bill
in the United States court at Savan¬
nah to secure a decree of foreclosure
against the Central Railroad and bank¬
ing company under the consolidated
mortgage of $13,000,000 for whioh tbe
Central Trust company is trustee. Of
these bonds $5,000,000 originally in¬
tended to redeem the tripartite bonds
are With the Central Trust company,
and $8,000,000 are deposited as secu¬
rity for the floating debt. The bill
alleges default on the interest amount¬
ing to $1,200,000.
The objec* of securing this decree of
foreclosure Is said to be to bring about
a sale of the property for the purpose
of reorganization on account of the
fact that the decree of foreclosure on
the tripartite mortgage is now hung
up in the United States supreme court
on an appeal by the Southwestern Rail¬
way company.
Insurance Companies That Put Money
in Georgia Securities.
Here are the insurance companies
doing business iu Georgia that have
made investments in this state. The
facts are furnished by Comptroller
General Wright and are given, as will
be remembered, in response to a re
quest of Governor Atkinson.
Many of the companies, both life
and fire, doing business in this state
do not invest in Georgia bonds and
Georgia securities. Of the fire oom*
panics, all are required to make a de¬
posit with the treasurer of $25,000, in
either United States bonds or Georgia
bonds. Many make this deposit in
Georgia bonds, probably because they
obu obtain these bonds at a less cost
States; than they'can the bonds of the United
so this purchase cannot be
properly classed as investment. Twen¬
ty-nine companies hold bonds in this
way.
iSRSt
charter from making investments in
Those Georgia securities or real estate.
companies that do invest here
are apparently well satisfied with the
investment. This is shown by the
fact that they have placed a good pro
portion of their investments here.
Of the life companies, the New York
Life leads in the amount invested,
having $1,416,660 in the bon,Is of
Georgia railroads, and $607,000 in
loans on Georgia real estate.
The Mutual, of New York, has $1,-
778,131 in state, county and city
bonds, and $103,550 in loans.
The Equitable Life has $1,250,000
loaned on Georgia real estate.
Other life companies that lend
money this way are: Manhattan, $30,
000 in loans; Maryland, $78,000 in
loans; Mutual, of Louisville, $184*806 $55,180
in loans; Penn Mutual, in
loans; Provident Savings, in real es
tate, $81,563, in loans, $38,000; Trav
elers’, $442,100 in loans, $67,675 in
bonds.
Those which make no investment in
Georgia in any shape are: American
Union, Brooklyn, Connecticut Mu
tual, Germania, Home, Life Insurance
Clearing Company, Massachusetts Mu
tual, Metropolitan, Michigan Mutual,
Mutual Benefit, Nederland, North
western Mutual, Phoenix Mutual,
United States, Union Central and
Washington Life.
The fire companies which have pur
chased Georgia bonds for investment
or have put money in real estate or
other securities here are:
The Aetna, with $25,000 in state,
county Home, or city bonds; the Atlanta
with $195,172 in bonds and
$348,400 in real estate; the Continen
tal, $100,000 in bonds; the Georgia
Home, with $265,826 real estate and
$473 ,772 bonds; German American,
$25,000 in real estate; Home, $50,000
bonds; Macon Fire, $53,243 real es
late. $94,000 bonds; Southern Mutual,
$207,000 stocks, $621,985 bonds; Sun,
$25,000 railroad bonds,
Those which make no investments
are:
American, Commercial, Union, Im
perial, Sou Liverpool, London Globe, Lon
Union, Assurance, Niagara, Norwich
North British and Mercantile,
England, Northern, Pennsylvania, Phoenix of
Phoenix of New Yoik, Queen,
Royal, Sun Mutual, Westchester, Lion,
Del
w«k O f*°g. ^»o<nat„ n (PhU
ford?, Germania Scottish Unioi and
Mutual Gllna Girard Folio’ «it Paul Fir« and Ma. "
rino William?’
Bremen /n.i Western Hanover Com"
v, nr£ 8 , y v * Hartford Tnanranne Lancashire,'
of orth America,
Mntual
I T is not so much what one says as
it is what one does that counts,
Cokbdpt methods are not near as
certain to win as honest ones.
a Year in Advance
GEORGIA'S SHARE.
SHE WILL PAY $85,000 OF THE
INCOME TAX.
Some Estimates Given by Collector
Paul Trammell.
Collector of Internal Revenue Paul
Trammell has telegraphed to Commis¬
sioner of Internal Revenue Joseph F.
Miller at Washington, that the total
amount of tax to be levied in Georgia
nnder the income tax law footed $85,
000 .
This is the amounts left under the
decision of the supreme court exempt¬
ing rents and municipal and state
bonds.
It is more of an estimate than an
actual figure—for when adjustments
are made and those things are taxed
which have not been properly return¬
ed, the total will foot up as high as
$ 100 , 000 .
It would seem from this that the in¬
come tax law was not completely kill¬
ed by the supreme court decision as
was The generally thought.
internal revenue department of
the various states have until the mid¬
dle of May in which to forward the
lists containing the names of taxpay¬
ers The to Washington.
commissioner’s office after ex¬
amining the returns, will send back
the amounts to be levied on the various
persons, and then the actual work of
collection will commence. Taxpayers
have until July 1 in which to pay the
income tax.
The amount of the tax as stated,
ranging from $85,000 to $100,000
will be derived largely from corpora¬
tions, which were not exempt by the
supreme court decision, and which
have to pay, under the law, a tax of
two per cent on their net incomes.
Salaries, railroad dividends and cor¬
poration profit were two things that
the tax came from.
RETIREMENT OF GEN. McCOOlt.
His Labors as a Soldier Ends Under
tlie Age Provision.
J™ »s! B-i:
da ^ fr °“ actlve Bervi ? e m tb « arm y
? r * le a °® P ro ^ 81on . - General
Mc r G«ok i was one of the most promi
nent ? ffl cers in the ate war. His
«associated with some of the
° 0< Bes battles of the war. He is
U0W at D env er - wbere be ba8 bee “
, 4 the department of the
Colorado since 1888.
is?, T- bora “ 0b “
00 A P™ 42, 1831 and is a member of
.^ ht , amo0fJ aunly of warriors, the
lag M ®° ook8 - )> He graduated
' rom tbe . “ dltar y academ y at Wert
^ lblrd lnt , . lu infantry . t 18 f- and regiment. . waa feigned He was to the en
gaged against the Apache Indians m
861 S’" was mstructor J 857 of i?’“ infantry d *5°“ tactics 18 * 8 at
P^te<l 3 ^ to In hrst December, lieutenant. 1858,he At was the
™ b ® J as WWt*
lrS hio regiment of
, . . 1 1, Wft ?
g a Jl d disbursing officer » at
Columbus r , , , He commanded his regi¬
a ®, s ba * e °f dbln >
and received • the ,, brevet of major m , the
U '8 U ar artn y or his services on that
°
1711. 01 , July, T 1 1892, 1 onn , he was
......, m 6 ma jor . general of volunteers, and
aCed 1U commaad th 0 Twen
,° arm y. 0or I’ 8 > with which he served
T> 0 r 7 8 vllIe otone river, Tullahoma
’
and , Cmckamauga. . He received the
, lbel tbe
° ^ tt ' re K"
* . March, r 1865, for
arm y services
U . errysville, and at the time
same
was breveted major general for cumu
® d gal ant servlcos durin 2 tbe war.
FIVE LYNCHED.
Two Men and Three Women Hung by
a Blob in Alabama.
Five persons were arrested Saturday
near Butler Springs, Alabama,charged
with the murder of Watts Murphy, a
young man and nephew of ex-Governor
Tom Watts. Of these two were men
and three women, all colored. Their
names are John Butler, Zeb Colley,
Bertha Greene, Alice Greene and Mary
Deane. Another negro man, who was
also implicated, made his esoape.
A posse, who had charge of the five
prisoners, started from Butler Springs
—a distance of about sixteen miles
from Greenville—with the two men
-and three women at about 10 or 11
o’clock Saturday night, with the ob¬
ject of placing them all in the county
jail for trial.
About 3 o’clock Saturday morning,
when the posse who had charge of the
prisoners reached a lonely place on
the road, voices came from both sides
of the roadway, commanding them to
halt. Seeing they were outnumbered,
and being threatened with death, the
guard promptly obeyed, when prob¬
ably a hundred men, with anms in
their hands, took the five prisoners
from the guards and then and there
hung the last one of them to limbs of
trees and left their bodies dangling in
that position.
Thk average annual rainfall over the
•whole earth is thirty-six inches.
N UMBER 13.
If You
ABE GOING TO
Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas,
Texas, Nebraska, Louisiana,
Colorado, Utah, California,
Oregon, Washington, Mex¬
ico, New Mexico or Arizona,
And will send me a postal card or let¬
ter stating where you are going,
when you are going, where
you will start from, how
many there are in your
party, what freight and
baggage you have,
I will write you or call at your
house and furnish you with
the fullest information regard¬
ing routes, lowest rates of all
classes, besides maps, descriptive and
illustrated land pamphlets, resort
books, Hot Springs guides, etc.
Cheap farming lands in Mis
souri, Arkansas, Kansas and
Texas.
A. A. GALLAGHER,
SOUTHERN PASSENGER AGENT,
Missouri Pacific R’w’y
and IKON MOUNTAIN ROUTE.
103 Read House,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
(JHARLES N. KING,
Attorney-at-Law,
SPRING PLACE, GA.
J # J. BATES,
Attorney-at-Law,
SPRING PLACE, GA.
Special attention to collections and
criminal practice.
y # L. WATTS,
Attorney-At-Law,
SPRING PLAGE, GA.
Prompt attention to all business.
L. HENRY,
Attorney-at-Law,
SPRING PLACE, GA.
Will practice in the courts of this and
adjoining counties.
J # S. FANN,
Dentist,
DALTON, GA.
Solicits VQUT lmfrnjiflo'n
JJcNELLY & HEARTSILL,
General Job Printers,
CLEVELAND, TENN.
Mail orders will receive prompt atten¬
tion. Send for prices and
samples of work.
JHOMAS J. BRYANT,
Livery Stable,
DALTON, GA.
I have bought the entire Livery
business of Calaway & Longest, and
solicit your patronage.
| J# P. BAGWELL, M. D.,
SPRING PLACE, GA.
Offers his professional services to the
people of this section and solioits a
share of the patronage.
W. ANDERSON,
Physician and Surgeon,
SPRING PLACE, GA.
Professional services offered to the
people of this section. Calls cheer¬
fully answered day and night.
J. A, PRICE, M. D.,
SUMACH, GA.
Will practice his profession in this
and surrounding country.
Will be at the Temple House on the
first Tuesdays in each month for the
purpose of examining and treating
Acute and Chronic diseases.
We have Money to Loan at 6 per cent.
On farm or city property in any sec¬
tion of country where property has a
fixed market value. Money ready f»r
immediate loans where security and
title is good. No commission. We
solicit applications. Blanks famished
upon request. ALLEN & 00.,
40-42 Broadway, N. Y,