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GEORGIA NEWS NOTES.
Items of Interest Gatbered at Random
from All Dyer tie State,
There has been an increase of $1,209,
000 in the taxable property of Macon du¬
ring the last year.
Commodore William Hone, one of Sa¬
vannah’s best known citizens, and to
whom is ascribed the invention of the
Chatham’s famous artillery punch, died
at his residence in that city last Wednes¬
day from Bright’s disease.
the Mr. Sam C. Hodge, superintendent and Florida rail¬ of
Georgia Southern
road, has tendered his resignation to
General Manager Jeff Lane, to take effect
immediately. The office of superintend¬ abol¬
ent of the Georgia Southern will be
ished.
*
The committee, W. G. Raoul, T. B.
Gresham, Frank H. Miller, have made
their report to tne Southwestern stock¬
holders advising them to accept stock in
the new organization rather than oper¬
ate the Southwestern road, as one or the
other must be done.
*
At an election held a few days ago $50,- at
Newnan on the question of issuing
000 for waterworks purposes, 288 votes
were cast for bonds and 19 against. The
total registered vote wes 348. The elec¬
tion excited a good deal of interest and
there is much rejoicing over the result.
*
Judge Speer granted a temporary in
junction against the mayor and council
of Macon at the instance of W. L. Hen¬
ry and the Georgia Packing Company,
butchers. The council imposes certain
market regulations the which named conflicts parties. with
the interests of above
* # *
Major A J. West and Lieutenant Sat
terlee visited Camp Northen a few days
ago for the purpose of having some
changes made and the buildings of the
camp remodeled. They have done much
the grounds to improve the place,
both in appearance and for the comfort
x>f the soldiers.
*
There has been already delivered at
Powder Springs to farmers 600 tons of
fertilizers, and in all probability the
amount will run tip to 800 tons. The
amount in former years has been about
500 tons. One reason of this is that all
the cotton seed has been sold and not
much compost has been made, and farm¬
ers aie buying fertilizers for both cotton
and corn.
*
Another furnace will probably future. be
erected in Rome in the near It
will be similar to the one erected by the
Rome Iron Company. Mr. L. S. Colyer,
who has managed the furnace bondhold¬ 60 succes
fully, has made to the Rome
ers a proposition for the building of
another sixty-ton furnace, and the suc¬
cess of the first has been such that the
are giving the matter seri
jous consideration.
* v *
Upon the completion of certain deals
that are now on foot in Cherokee county
for some of her finest mineral biggest properties, and
there is coming one of the
best booms that north Georgia has ever
knoWn. The county has some of the
richest and most varied mineral deposits
in Georgia. The facts have been made
known to some leading capitalistic concluding enter¬
prises and they are now ne¬
gotiations that mean millions of money
and many splendid industrial plants
within a very short time.
Work will be begun at once on the
erection of repair shops at Atlanta for
the Southern Iron Car Company. A tem¬
perary structure will be put up now and
will be followed by a permanent build¬
ings. They will be large and will em¬
ploy 300 men. The company will send
100 cars to the undertake shops for the repairs work. as soon This
as they can has thousands of and has
company cars
long wanted to see a large car manufac¬
turing and repair plant established.
Chitting tired of waiting for such an es -
tablishment, the company determined to
build a plant large enough to repair its
own care. Later the plant may be turn
ed into manufacturing shops.
X
Carrol county leads the state in many
things, and one of these is in the number
of postoffices. According to the late post
guides there thirty-six postoffices in Car
•©11 county—three more than any other
sounty in the state has. Corroll also,ac¬
cording to the census of 1890, has nearly
double the nnmber of farms of any other
aunty in Georgia, The county has a
white population of twenty thousand,
•td there are more land holders among
th* above number of white people than
«&f other two counties in the state. In
tb* number of postoffioes and post roads, the
the number of farms, pretty girl*, children,
aunber of schools and school
Car»ll county leads Georgia.
• * *
Georgia at the Capital.
Tb* Georgia congressmen are being
floodsd with applications for office, and
there Is not one of them who is not in
daily receipt of a volume of mail from
his district from aspirants for office.
The congressmen are doing the best they
ana are working like beavers for
their constituents, but they are, of
course, helpless in providing as many of
their constituent* with office as they
would like uatil Georgia’s ad apportion¬ justed
ment of federal patronage is to
BULLOCH TIMES.
VOL. I.
a fair basis. The matter of justice rests
entirely with the departmental heads,
and it is, consequently, solely a mat
ter for cabinet consideration.
The thousands of offices in the
different departments presided over by
the members of the cabinet are theoreti¬
cally distributed among the states ac¬
cording to population, but practically
Georgia has had no showing whatever,
having been almost entirely crowded out
by the republican administrations. The
question of adjustment of the basis of
representation is now a big one in Wash¬
ington, and every Georgia congressman,
so far heard from, is heartily with the
Atlanta Constitution in its effort to se¬
cure just recognition for Georgia. They
feel this way about it for two reasons:
First. Because they know it is a mat¬
ter of justice for the state, and, Second.
Because they want to provide for as
many of their constituents as is pos¬
sible.
Attacking Wild Land Hales.
Another successful attack upon the
wild land sales made under a tax fl. fa.
issued by Comptroller General Gold¬
smith, has been made and the question small
growing out of it seems to be no
matter. This time the case is from the
superior court of Dooly county, and the
issue in the case was whether or not the
lands had been advertised the full time
required by law. This is a new point of
attack on the sales of Georgia’s wild
lands. It is a point, which having been
decided against the sale, will enter into
much litigation that will in all probabil¬
ity come from the southern part of the
state upon the validity of these sales in
the future. The case so recently decided
was argued under Judge Fish by Colonel
J. H. Hall and Colonel J. W. Haygood
for the plaintiff, who was Mr. Hugh A.
McLean. The defendants were Messrs.
Bedgood and Royal. The case seems to
have been one of unusual interest and
lasted several days at the last term of the
court for Dooly county. Judge Fish
charged the jury that if it appeared day
that the comptroller of that and
time, meaning Comptroller General Gold¬
smith, did not advertise the land in
day’s dispute for four weeks or twenty-eight
in the newspaper required sheriff by void. law,
the sale made by the was
The evidence the jury had on this point
was obtained from the dies of the Atlan¬
ta Constitution of 1875, it seems, and
from this it was found that the advertise¬
ment had not run the sufficient length of
time. The tax fi. fa. was issued in March,
1877. The case was decided in faver of
the plaintiff. This means that, if there
was no error in^the decision.of the court,
much of the wild land that went this
same way, will very soon change hands
in that section of the state. The case in
question will be brought before the su¬
preme court of the state and there will be
a continuation of the fight. If the evi¬
dence is as clear as it would seem from
the judgment of the court below, then
there is going to be a great sensation ex¬
ploded about the land the people live of cen¬
tral and southern Georgia on at
present.
The Agreement Signed.
Last Wednesday morning President J.
O. Waddell, of the Georgia Agricultural
Society, and Mayor 8. B. Price, of the
city of Macon, signed the modified agree¬
ment or contract between the city and
the society in reference to the rotation of
the state fair. The following is the
modified agreement:
Georgia, Bibb County—This agreement made
and entered into this the 22d day council of March, of
1893, between the mayor and the
city of Macon a corporation duly incorporated
under the laws of said state, and the Georgia
State Agricultural Society, a corperation <My
incorporated under the laws of said state:
Witnesseth, that, whereas at the held regular the
meeting of said mavor and council, on
7th day of March 1893, the following resolu¬
tion, amending the contract made and entered
into on the 4th day of April, 1887, by and be¬
tween the said mayor and council, Agricultural of the city
of Macon, and the Georgia State
Society was passed: State Agricultural So¬
Whereas the Georgia and committee
ciety, through ite president modify the contract
have expressed the a allow desire the to society to hold their
with city to
animal fair in other cities by the system of ro¬
tation, and, and wish of the
Whereas, It is the purpose
city of Macon to aid the society in its object;
now, therefore,
Resolved, That the present contract between
the city and the society be so amended as to
permit the society to hold their fairs in cities
other than Macon; that is to say, the society is Ma¬
shall bind themselves to hold their fairs
con each alternate year, beginning with 1898,
and that the society shall also bind themselves
not to hold their fairs in any city that will not
agree to not hold a fair of any kind in the year
in which the state fair is being held in Macon.
Further, that the fair of 1893 may be held in
any city selected by the society, but the Mir of
1894 shall be held in Macon, and in each alter¬
nate year thereafter until the contract with the
city terminates. -
In pursuance with the aforesaid resolution
and in testimony whereof, the mayor of the
city of Macon and the president of said society
hereby agree to the terms expressed the day aaA therein,
affixed their offielal signatures year
first above mentioned. signed and
The agreement was duly is up
attested. President Waddell very en¬
thusiastic about the future of the society
and the state fairs. He says that tfce al¬
ternating or rotating plan will arouse a
spirit of rivalry among the cities to get
the fair and see which can have the finest
exhibition. President Waddell further
says that he has received numerous let¬
ters from the executive committee and
members of the society praising Macon’s
magnanimous and liberal action id con¬
senting to the modified contract.
V V V
T» Geological Rocket.
The ste' geological board, at its meet¬
ing in A' rnta a few day* ago, witk one
sweeping stroke struck off the heads of
all three of the state geologists. They
were not only asked to resign, but were
literally turned out of their offices and
the keys are in the pocket of the vecre
tary of the board. This department of
state, important as it is, has been prac¬
tically abolished for some time, and out
STATESBORO, GA, THURSDAY, MARCH 30,1893.
of this act the most notable sensation
that has taken place at the state capitol W.
for many a loflg day evolves. Dr. J.
Spencer, the chief geologist says in effect
that he’ll not resign the office which he
has filled so well. Professor E. T. What¬
ley, the well-known assistant board. geologist,
sent in his resignation to the It
was a brief note and simply Profes¬ says
he resigns, nothing more.
sor Anderson, the other assistant geolo¬
gist, says that he doesn’t think that he de¬
serves such treatment, but in compliance
with the instructions of the board, he
handed in his resignation with the one
protest. The coup de etat was brought
about by the introduction and adoption
of a resolution dispensing with the ser¬
vices of the above Darned gentlemen.
When the resolution had been read and
agreed to be by the members of the
board. The secretary was instructed to
write the following letter and send a
copy of it to each of the geologists, which
he did:
Atlanta, G*., March 22.—Dear Sir: lam
instructed by the state geological board,
through Governor Northed as chairman, to ad¬
vise you of the action of the board at its meet¬
ing this morning. On moii on it was decided
by the board that, owing to t he want of geological harmo¬
ny among the members of th e state
survey—the chief and the two assistant geolo¬
gists—which want of harmony has rendered in
tffleient the work of surveying the state en¬
trusted to them, the resignations of the mem¬
bers of the survey should be asked for at once.
I am instructed iurther to ask that the chief
geologist hand their and each resignations of the at assistant meeting geologists of the
m a
geological board to he had at 3 o’clock this af¬
ternoon, March 22d. I have the honor to be,
sir, yours most respectfully,
Stanhope Bams
When this notification was handed Dr.
Spencer he made the following reply:
Mb. Stanhope Sams, Secretary State Geo
logical Board—Dear date, Sir : Your esteemed favor the
of this notifying me that owing to St
assistant geologists—which want of harmony
has rendered inefficient the work of surveying
the state entrusted to them, the resignations of
e m ^ er ‘ ° f ^ 8urvey * h ° uld f0C
at & once
Because of the want of harmony, mentioned
by you, and work the consequent inefficiency department, of a
portion of a of the geological
bothof which were the result of appointing
was responsib’e for—the incompetent work
I had already repor.ed. I wrote and
handed to his excellency tho governor, my
resignation wishing in which I gave from my the reasons
for to withdraw survey,
which was rendered relatively inefficient by
the policy adopted by the board itself. I
withdrew that resignation which I put into
the hands of the governor December 22, 1892,
SfrsiizsxsTSissrJt compliance svss;
decline to send in my resignation in
with the request of the board, made ‘his do morn
ing. It may be proper'o say that 1 not
recognize the right of the board to demand
my resignation, though I am aware that the
governor, the appointing power has the right
to retnove me for incompetency, inefficiency or
misconduct. That I am inefficient, in that my
work has been so, except as a result of the
SrWfpp SinxS.S.&'tt.t ad
be unfitted, I deny; that I am incompetent That
mits of easy di-proval by scientific men.
I have been cuiltv or misconduct, official or
pnvatqlahode^
J. W. SrBNCEH.
How the matter will end remains to be
seen.
REORGANIZATION TALK.
Drexel, Morgan & Co., Will Take
Charge of the Richmond Terminal.
The New York Herald in its issue of
Tuesday says: The leorganizing of the big
Richmond Terminal system of more than
eight thousand miles of railway by
Drexel, Morgan & Co., may now be said
to be assured. The plan is about Teady
and may be announced any day. One
of the first steps toward restoriBg order
out of chaos will be the appo intment of
a receiver for the Richmond and Dan
ville railroad, who will entirely represent independ¬ Drexel,
Morgan & Oo., and be
ent of either faction in, the company.
Samuel 8pencer, who is connected with
the banking firm, will be selected for
the position. is understood that Receiver Reuben
It
Foster will be the one to retire. Receiv¬
er Huidekoper will remain, but will act
in harmony with the proposed scheme & Co. of
reorganization. Drexel, Morgan
thus have complete access to the books
and all necessary legal steps can be taken
without interruption. There bad been
extensive preparations for the reorgani¬
zation before the banking firm found
their way clear to take charge. AU of
the prominent gentlemen who have been
associated with the management in re¬
cent times have willingly submitted te
questioning and be agreed suggested. to assist any
scheme that may
JUDGE DUBOSE TO BE TRIED.
The Committee Recommends That Im¬
peachment Proceedings be Began.
In the Tennessee house of representa¬
tives, Ive appointed Monday, the investigate special committee the charges of
to
against Judge Julias J. Du Bose, of
8helby county, submitted its report
which was to the effect that it was the
committee’s opinion that the charges
were sufficient for impeachment proceed¬
ings to be instituted. The committee
recommended that another committee be
appointed to have the charges •worn to.
Two motions were made, one to appoint
the committee the house suggested into committee and the of other the
that go a
whole to take sworn statements in sup¬
port of the charges.
Montana’s Silver Slatne,
The largest silver status ever known
since the world began, was successfully pounds
cast Saturday. Sixteen hundred
of sterling silver were melted in a cruci¬
ble at Grand Croat, the molten mass wan
poured into a large mold and Montana's
silver statue, "Justice,” of was the mi accom¬ It is
plished fact. 'Ilte cost statue,
stated, is $70,900.
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
Happeninss from Day to Day in tie
National Capital
Appointments in the Various Depart¬
ments—Proceedings of the Senate.
THE SENATE.
The numerous errors that have come to
light in the enrollment of the great ap¬
propriation subject bills of at discussion the last session for nearly form¬
ed the
an hour at the time that the senate was
in session Monday. More than ninety
such errors were stated Mr. Hale to
have been discovered by him in the na¬
val appropriation bill alone. Various
resolutions as to clerks of committees,
changes of rules, etc., were offered, but
not acted on, and the credentials senate adjourned Sen¬
till Wednesday. The of of
ator Allen, appointed Washington, by the governor read
the state of were
and laid on the table. Mr. Mc¬
Pherson offered a resolution, which was
referred to the committee on education
and labor, directing the commissioner fifty- to
make a report at the opening of the
third congress, comprehending of producing facts in
relation to the total cost
various iron and steel products, such as
bariroD, steel rails, etc., and of leading
articles of textile industry, and of other
articles, the cost of which may be ap¬
proximately obtained. Mr. Allison of¬
fered a resolution, which was referred to
the tographic committee on rules, permitting of certain pho
copies to communications be taken in the
ancient executive
fl| e8 j n the archives of the senate, for
Columbia. CX.
position. The resolution reported last Monday,
authorizing the appointment of five new
committee clerks (on the Geological Sur
I,ey, National Banks Forest Reservation
and Corporations m the Indiau District lands) of Columbia tak
Trespassors on and was agreed
en up in the senate Wednesday
*?• Mr McPher.on reported b.ck fro.
the committee on finance the resolution
by him at a previous session, directing
the commissioners on labor to make a
report 1 at the open X i ng Q f the fifty-third
congress as to . the cost of production of
iron and steel manufactures and of text
He fabrics, amended so as to authorize
a ] g0 (be finance committee to make fur
.he».
With power to send for persons and pa
pers. It was ordered printed and tendered laid
on the table. Mr. Manderson
xns resignation v as president r *• JT pro tem.
The resignation .. was on motion of * Mr. vc„
Sherman accepted. Mr. Cockrell offered
a resolution declaring Mr. Harris presi
<j ent pro tem. j t was agreed to, and
Harris e,co,ted b, lb
took the chair aim signed the oath of
office. The vice president having left
the chair temporarily, Mr. Harris ex
pressed his thanks for the honor con
ferred upon nun. On motion of Mr.
McPherson a resolution was adopted di¬
recting the secretary of the senate to
wait upon the president of the United
States and inform him that Senator Har¬
ris had been elected president pro tem of
the senate in place of Senator Manderson,
resigned. After an executive session, the
senate adjourned.
The senate was open
ten minutes Thursday morning, when,on
motion of Mr. Daniel, it proceeded offered to ex¬
ecutive business. Mr. Call a res¬
olution in regard to the commission to
inquire into the several executive resolution depart¬
ments of the government. The
declares that the provision of the appro¬
priation act providing for appointment representatives of
three senators and three
of the 53d congress, by the presiding
officers of the two houses in the 52d con¬
gress as such commission, is in deroga¬
tion of the constitutional rights, privi¬
leges, and prerogatives of each house, is
otherwise violative of the constitution
and absolutely null and void. The reso¬
lution was ordered printed and laid on
the table. After spending three-quarters
of an hour in executive session, the sen¬
ate adjourned till Monday,
ABOUT THE DEPARTMENTS.
Secretary Carlisle is advised that $500,
000 in gold was taken from the subtreas¬
ury in New York, Tuesday, for shipment ship¬
to Europe. This is the first gold
ment since March 11th.
offices The following will be raised named fourth-class the presidential post
to
class April 1st: Cloveport, Ky.: Randolph, Plain
view, Minn.; Blue Hill and
Neb.; Chandler, Edmond and Hennessy,
Okl., and Ripley, Tenn.
The following confirmations were
made by the senate Wednesday : Frank
B. Burke, attorney of the United States
district of Indian*; David T. Guyton,
marshal of the United States Northern
district of Mississippi; William H. Haw¬
kins, marshal of the United States dis¬
trict of Indiana.
Frank H. Thomas, of Michigan, has
been appointed disbursing clerk and su¬
perintendent of the postoffice depart¬
ment, vice Theodore Davenrort, resign¬
ed. Mr. Thomas held this office during
the latter part of Mr. Cleveland’s former
administration, der that and for some months un¬
of Mr. Harrison.
■
There are 2,170 postoffices iq Georgia
and something over ten thousand appli¬
cants for these plumbs. Naturally the
Georgia plexed congressmen are somewhat per¬
to make selections for each office
and when the applications come in by
the score in every mail, sometimes they
almost wish they were not congressmen.
A democratic congressman's life is any¬
thing but a happy one right now.
nominations The most important the of the Wednes- bach of
sent to senate,
*.y,w that of Horace H. Lurton, of
NO. 44.
Tennessee, to be judge of the sixth judi¬
cial circuit, vice Judge Jackson promot¬
ed to tho United States supreme bench.
Judge Lurton is the present chief justice
of Tennessee, and is regarded as one of
the ablest lawyers in the state. He is a
young man, !ess than fifty, and was en¬
dorsed by the bar and delegation of Ten
nessee.
Secretary Carlisle, Thursday, signed
vouchers to the amount of $250,120 in
favor of the world’s fair commission,
which is payable in souvenir half dollnrs.
The commission up to this time has re¬
ceived $1,020,120 of the $2,500,000 ap¬
propriated by congress The payable in sou¬
venir half dollars. secretary has
reserved $750,880 of the original appro¬
priation until proper security, as pro¬
vided by the United States, is given bj
the commission to the secretary of the
treasury.
Just before sailing for Hawaii Tues¬
day, Commissioner Blount had this to
say regarding the object of his trip: “The
public seems to have the idea that I am
loaded to the guards with instructions,
whereas, the plain truth is that I have
received practically no instructions from
president Cleveland tor any one else.
My mission is to investigate the whole
question of annexation; to determine the
sentiment of foreigners as well as of na¬
tives, and to conclude, 89 far as possible
from the facts, whether it would be ad¬
vantageous to this country to annex the
island.”
The senate Thursday confirmed the
following nominations: Theodore Run¬
yan, of New Jersey, as minister to Ger¬
many; Walter D. Dabney, of Virginia,
as solicitor for the department of state;
Edward B. Whitney, of New York, as
assistant attorney general; United James States C. Jen¬ cir¬
kins, of Wisconsin, as
cuit judge for the seventh judicial cir¬
cuit; Chas. B. Stuart, of Texas, thelndian as judge
of the United States court for
Territory; Abner Gaines, of Arkansas, as
marshal of the United States for the
Eastern district of Arkansas; Joseph W.
House, of Arkansas, as attorney for the
United States for the Eastern district of
Arkansas; Clifford L. Jackson, of the
Indian Territory, as attorney for the
United States court for the Indian Terri¬
tory; Ernest P. Baldwin, of Maryland,as
first auditor of the treasury; Thomas
Holcomb, of Delaware, as fifth auditor
of the treasury.
New Nomination*,
The president, Monday, sent the
following nominations to the senate:
James R. Eustis, of Louisiana, to be en¬
voy extraordinary and minister plenipo¬
tentiary of the United States to France;
Ihecdore Runyon, of New Jersey, to
be envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary of the United States to
Germany; John E. Riseley, of New
York, to be envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary of the United
States to Denmark; James G. Jenk¬
ins, of Wisconsin, to be United
States circuit judge for the seventh
judicial circuit; Walter D. Dabney, of
Virginia, to be solicitor for the depart¬
ment of state; David T. Guyton, of Mis¬
sissippi, to be United States marshal for
the northern district Maryland, of Mississippi; Ern¬
est P. Baldwin, of to be first
auditor of the treasury; Thomas Hol¬
combe, of Delaware, to be fifth auditor
of the treasury; Wade Hampton, of
South Carolina, to be commissioner of
railroads; John A. Dyson, to be post¬
master at Washington, Ga.
The president sent to the senate Wed¬
nesday another batch of nominations,
among which are the following: John
H. Sejmour, of Connecticut, to be com¬
missioner of patents; Silas W. Lamoreux,
of Wisconsin, to be commissioner of the
general land office; William H. Sims, of
Mississippi, to be first assistant secretary
of the interior; Edward A. Bowers, of
Washington, D. C., to be assistant com¬
missioner of the general land office; Henry
C. Bell, to be second deputy commis¬
sioner of pensions; Horace H. Lurton, of
Tennessee, to be United States circuit
judge for the sixth judicial consul circuit; Max
Judd, of Missouri, to te general
at Vienna.
A RICH FIND.
Workmen Engaged in Excavating Un¬
earth One Million Dollars In Gold.
A Durango, Mex., special of Wednes¬
day says: Workmen engaged in exci
rating for a new building to be erected
on the property of Francisco Ortiz, near
the palace hotel, came upon a large earth¬
en box buried about five feet under the
surface, Tuesday, which, upon being op¬
ened, was found to be filled with old
Spanish gold coin. The amount of the
treasure is not known $100,000. to the public, tut
it will reach fully A certain
percentage of the wealth must be turned
over to the general government. It is
supposed that the money was buried by
a Spaniard more that than time a century large colony ago, as ot
there was at a
them employed in working the rich mines
of that section.
A BOX OF DEAD PEOPLE
Found Floating with the Current ©1
the Missouri River.
A dispatch from ft. Joseph, Mo.,
states that zr&r&z Compton McCoy, a farmer re
the “Ti! **ar
•hooting on a sandbar Tuesday evening,
when he discovered a large dry goods
box floating with the current. He haul
ed the box to the shore and, breaking filled
it open, discovered that it was
with dead bodies, in an advanced stage
of decomposition, the remains being so
badly decomposed that identification
was impossible. those of It family is supposed of the re
mains are a
from fitt? Halo* 3S1SI four miles RortJi
Hty, last fall.
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Is the only Piano manufactured in the
South. Buy it nnfl keep your money AT
home. Made and sold by
MILES & STIFF,
ATLANTA, GA.
THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH
Notes of Her Progress and Prosperity
Briefly Epitomized
And Important Happenings from Day*
to Day Tersely Told.
The murder case of M. B. Curtitf
(“Sam’i of Posen”) will be taken up foe
its third trial in San Francisco in a few
days.
R. B. MacDonald’s distillery, mill,,
coopershop, dwelling house and office at
Falmouth, Ky., burned Tuesday night.
Loss $40,000; no insurance. He will re*
build at once.
The Pittsburg coal king aod turfman,
Captain S. S. Brown, has determined to
establish a breeding farm for trotting
stock in Kentucky. His farm will b*
located near LaGrange.
The majority of the church pastors ot
Raleigh, N. O., decided by reason of tha
fact that Moody, the evangelist, evangelist, wsd ill
not an ordained authorized
was best not to invite him to that city t«
conduct a meeting. The action has rais-*
ed a great etir.
The North Alabama Furnace, tha
plant of the Spathite Iron Company, afj
Florence, went into blast Tuesday even¬
ing. The furnace will make spathite City,
iron from ore found near Iron
Tenn. It is a new and valuable kind ot
ore, hitherto unknown in the south.
Truck farmers of South Carolina met
at Charleston Wednesday and took step!
for applying to the interstate railroad
commission for a reduction in rates oil
fruit and vegetables to northern points..
They have called on northern dealers to
assist them in making their application.
has Captain been employed Harry Jackson, special of counsel Atlanta^ by
as
the attorney general of the United States
to prosecute the Gate City bank case ot
cases if more than one grows out of tbo
investigation. He was already connected
with the case as bank council, but now
both are merged.
The nomination by the president o£
Hon. S. S. Sims, of Columbus Miss., as
assistant secretary of the interior, created
much favorable comment at Jackson, it<
being genera! iy remarked that Governor
SimB will adorn the position, should he
accept the same, as he has the ability to
serve in any station.
The railway commission of North Car¬
olina heard an important case at Raleigh,j
Thursday. It was the case of Ormond;
against the Richmond and Danville rail¬
way, the complaint being that the rail¬
way refused to refund the unused Goldsbo¬ portiousj
of two tickets from Winston to
ro. The commission ordered the railway
to refund.
Dr. P. W. Peoples, chairman of the
Central Davis Mooument Association,
has issued a call for the directors to
meet in the office of the secretary of
state, at Jackson, Miss., on Friday,
March 31st, at 10 o’clock a. m., to con¬
sider what disposition shall be nqade ossccia^ of|
the funds in the treasury of the
tion subscribed for the erection of a mon¬
ument to JefLrson Davis.
Official announcement having been
made by the Mississippi state land com¬
missioner that the state lands would be
put on the market April 2d, as prescrib¬ April;
ed by law, and it appearing land that commis¬
2d, falls oa Sunday, the
sioner announces that no applications andl
will be received or filed for lands,
no lands put on sale until 9 o’clock Mon¬
day morning, April 3, 1893.
The town of Purvis, Miss., on tbeNev#
Orleans and Northeastern railroad,fifteen
miles east of Meridian, was destroyed by
incendiaries Wednesday night. applied Shortly
after midnight the torch was to
five buildings in different portions of tho
town, and within two hours’ time almost
every store and residence in the placo
was wiped out. The people the ran panic
stricken into the streets and greatest
excitement prevailed.
The North Carolina railway commis¬
sion is placed in a very awkward posi¬
tion by the supreme court’s decision ms
the case of Mayo against the Westero
Union Telegraph Company. The court
decides that the commissou has author!*
ty to enforce penalties it may requir*
for failure to deliver telegrams within •
reasonable time. Tuesday the case et
Yopp against the Western Union for this
reason was dismissed for want of juris*
tion.
Bills were passed legislature,provld Thursday in tha| tbs
North Carolina and the ing speakeg
the speaker of the senate
of the house shall be in the line of sue*
cession to the gubernatorial chair in cast
of the death of the governor. In th«
senate bilia were passed lands ceding the jurisdic* Unite#
tion over certain to
States for the use of Chick*mauga pi* Naj
tional park, and creating the office of
vate $1,200 secretary to the governor at a salarj
of per annum.
KAIULANFS FAREWELL.
ghe Thanks the Great American People
for Smiles end Handshakes,
«. .. V iVtori* Kaiulani” has nro
gMSfim Store I lire this
I want to thank all tbore whose kindness
has mode my visit such a happy clasped, one. Mot only
the hundreds th??h£?bs?s£t of hands I.hs** n or the
feel tl»t whales^
happen* to me, I *haU never be a stranger te
you again. It was to the American people I
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