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GEORGIA HEWS NOTES.
Ileus cl Interest Hated at Ranim
tram All Oyer tie State.
‘•‘The growth of the phosphate busi¬
ness in southern Georgia and Florida,”
remarks one who knows, “has been mar¬
velous within the past four years.
Steamers putting in to Brunswick have
contracted in the past few months to
tiansport about 50,000 tons of phosphate,
a year’s work.”
Brooks county is certainly the banner
county for hog raising, as is attested by
the large amount of bacon sold by her
farmers to the merchants of Quitman. A
representative merchant of Quitman
bought over 500 pounds of hams at one
time from a faimer of Brooks and paid
33 5-8 cents cash for it. Who will say
that does not beat cotton?
.......
7 he
S °f l 1 ? ter .® st
see what new ,, of^hnse
business will attract the attention
"
Se greatest of all modern iutes railroad lhan£’ b•
federal court More
of these now could knit -write 2i nn inte eoV
story on ‘What I thJ t m a
railroads for the benefit of
holders ’ ”
Weather cron hnllpvin Hof^^4 ivrr. o.i h -° W8 D
exceedindv 0 all-over fine cond Z Ll A' ^a ^
weathej L the ?£ J A
poHed verv warm Hsii ^ ^
ing 85 decrees o? shnwpd .rwfVVT
portions the Vegetshlpii «tafp h.-v ^ to do
no damage. . )P « Sf°wtng
rapidly and in the south*™ a e tl0 n of
slight the state neaches ar* developed t 4 to . a
*rt*nV "under P e a 0 0r C0tt0D
planting are w»v y in ^ »r e s ^ , a P e
-
.
rwu_ . sa T ery strong
» movement in
a( ^ 0 Ptioa of
Siir„*ro* ^ ballot system. The grand
o*7 m eDde<1 18 ado P tioa ^ and in
ilipJr f n ™‘ t P^f s entments which
. » were
tralitn .mvU hS tdls reco P ara “ graph mend the appears: Aus
Thi<P .HAnln il iE l™ cg'shrture r. d rec of ?mmendits the state.”
P re ®® • meets the
lon general ap
nr*,-*] besnm*°.L« P® 0 ^ 8 and there will
w£tl? 8 ? Sor J 3 made to R®t the
nest g siature to adopt the system.
^ Ine work , of improving the
Grtffin encwnjv- JNr,
meat site at accor.dip« t-*‘;
beautified and improved. It is
Lcampments coins to be one of the prettiest military
to be found in the entire
country. The barracks will be moved
higher up the hill, and the rifle range
will be greatly improved. It is a solen
did place for the encampment and the
men who have the work in charge have
determined to make it all that it can be
made before they finish the work of im
prevement v '
* * *
The Rome Tribune wants the Geologi
cal board abolished and says: “The
governor has largely redeemed the
state’s interests, which were much dam
aged by tbe management of the geologi
cal board. We are glad that he has
taken the bull by the horns and decided
to publish the V'te geologist’s report
and save that much to the state from the
wreck of the department. If the gov
ertior had the whole would of the responsibili¬ afraid
ty in the matter we not be
of the result, and it is to be hoped that
the legislature, at its next session, will
do away with such useless furniture as
the geological board. A competent geo¬
logist can manage the business better.”
* * *
“That was a very important decision
that was rendered on Monday by the su¬
preme court,” said an eminent lawyer.
“I refer to tbe one which permits a note
given in Georgfa attacked and successfully payable in New the
York tp be on
ground of usury, if it bears more than
the New York statutory rate pf interest,
which is 6 per cent. . The New York
statue declares that all such contracts are
void and so every note given 6y a Geor¬
gia wan to a New York firm that bears
more than 6 per cent interest is really
void and can be defeated in a suit
brought on it in Georgia, or New York,
by pleading the New York law as a de¬
fense.” .■■■'■
D rer t r * e '.
_. Direct . trade , , so dear , to the south, vi- .
tal to her interest, need ful to the west
and of value to the whole union,, after
repeated partial victories, is steadily
moving to final success. 1 he Savannah
board of trade perhaps the south strongest had
commercial body in the ite
tenth annual meeting March 29»h, and
the able president, Captain D. G. Purse
thus officially reports o«. the ast great
step m the effort for direc trade, aa me
ly the organized plan of the trade bodies
of the south Atlantic P 01,1 ; 9 t0 8
southern exports abroad with some o
the vast volume of western stuff now go
ing to foreign lands by other routes.
After commending the agitation and em
phasizmg the aid given the move by the
Savannah exchange, I resident Purse
adds these strong words:
Appropos to this direct trad© movement
locking to the eut for its inauguration, comes
the recently started inquiry from the porta oi
Brunswick, Charleston and Savannah, in wha; con
vention assembled at Savannah, as to
Sss5p»',rs rHJi s
lantie ports. The railroads centering at these
ports are id full sympathy possible with the inquiry The and
are aiding it in every manner.
*ime*line of^ovcstigaUom^d H°dc«s
BULLOCH TIMES.
VOL. I.
improbable, to increase with changes cousiantlv this occurring
winter onr advantagi a, that fall and
ducts through may see a movement of western pro¬
the south Atlantic ports that
mh J be far-reaclitng in their commercial results,
and be the means of realizing through western
and not eastern influences the dream of south¬
ern statesmen and economists for more than
half a century—a self-sustaining direct trade
between the ports of the south Atlantic and
those of the great marts of the world bv direct
lines of sail or steam or both. Export of grain
added to the present phenomenal export trade
of Savannah, would soon draw to itself imports
for the west and make economical and practic¬
able an enlargement of it for the cities in the
Atlantic slope, when direct trade would be bo
longer a theory, but au accomplised fact.
Foster was born November 11, 1828, at
Monticella, Jasper county, Georgia. He
was graduated in August, 1847, at the
Lniversify University of of Alabama; Alabama; early early in in the the fif- fif
llams ^o^ted with the Hon Jcfe N. w5?
the present chancellor. In 1801
wh’ch l.T M office « he resigned J - UStice to of enter tbe the P« ace ,
^erate service con
in August, 1861, as cap
tain of Company G. Twenty-ninth regi
pent of Alabama volunteers. He served
in that capacity until captured at Nash
vilie on the 15th of December 1804, from
which time he was held as a prisoner
of war at Johnson’s island until his re
Iea8e ftnd return h om e in June, 1865
While in the confederate service he was
a PP oiDted as agister in chancery, but
di ° not enter upon the duties of the of
fice until reappointed in I860. After the
close of the war he was engaged in the
practice of the law for a short time with
the Hon. L. M. Lane, and subsequently
He was
a member of the constitutional conven
tion of 1875, and a membft of the leg
islature in 1876, and during the session
of 1878-9. Upon his election to the
legislature in 1876, he resigned the nosi
tion of register in chancery. In August
1880, he was elected chancellor of tbe
southern chancery division, then com
posed of twenty-two counties; he was
re-elected chancellor in 1886 and again
in 1892. He was one of the trustees of
the university of Alabama from 1876 to
1889, when he resigned. The decree of
L.L. D. was conferred upon him by the
A. & M. college in 1883. He died at.
his home at Clayton, Ala., on Saturday
the 28th of January, 1893.
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l ^jv.o 0im a V3jL--—» ‘into which P2iA will
company
do business in this state. The petition
was filed by Governor W. J. Northen, 8.
F* Woodson, R. J. Lowry, N. J. Osborne,
H. M. Atkinson, George W. Adair, H.
G. Saunders, W. H. Venable, J. F. Ga
tins, J. W. English, II. W. A. Hemphill, Hugh J.
G. Oglesby, H. Cabaniss, T.
Ionian and others, and its object is Laud the
organization of the Central Georgia
Development Company, which is certain
prove a powerful factor in the indue
trial progress of this section, and will
work wonders in middle Georgia. It is
understood that a number of Macon gen
tlemenlof the best financial standing will
be interested in the operations of this
company and that half of the capital will
be put up by Georgians and the other
half by northern capitalists. The prin
cipal office of the company will be in the
county of Fulton, and local offices will
be established wherever desired; but
said company desires to do bus
iness anywhere in Georgia. The
amountj of capital stock actually
paid in will be $60,000, divided into
shares of $100 each, with tbe right to
increase the eame from time to time
through the direction of the board exceed of
directors, to any amount not to
$500,000. The most interesting and im
portant feature of its operation, is to be
the planting and raising of all fruits and
vegetables in any and all counties of this
state and preparing the same for market;
the canning of all classes of fruit and
vegetables; the manufacturing of fruits
into jellies and preserves and the manu¬
facture of vegetables into sauces. An¬
other object is to establish crate and can¬
ning factories, packing houses, wineries,
etc. Tbe idea of tbe projectors is that
cotton culture as the leading industry of
the south must, “step down and out,”
and this feeling is almost universal at the
south—and that divi reified and improved
farm methods must take its place; that
food supplies must be raised at home in
stead of being imported from the north
and west—a constant drain upon l our
J ital _ and that fruit and tob CC o cul
vege * table raising fe and winemaking
to f extent> be made to supply hitherto, us
witb th t re ady m 0 ney which,
h southern pe0 F J pl e have looked to cot
ton alone to f p r uce .
Realizi % hat the tha plantations both capital must and be
broken J up nd t introduce
thtifty t]erg are W8nted to
new met jj od3 and a different system, the
& pro j J ec t or4 propose £,/ to purchase, lands sub
vl deand to settlers, in cen
tral Georgia, suitable for fruits, tobacco,
v j ne y ards 0 f truck farms. Their lands
w j p Re 8U ffii en tly far south to escape
the danger of frost and yet sufficiently
j ar i nor thto secure the requisite elevation,
cl mate> goil> etc . ( and thbs the owners
ab [ e | 0 t a j 8e f ru it and vegetables
to supply all, L btlt especially the eariy
markets j in n tb the north nor ih and and Fnrnn* Europe,
The scheme is not only entirely feasi
ble, but a most intelligent one, and is
boucd 4 0 he eminently successful, for no
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to ^he raising the Georgia. products As contemplated compared
tl^an central
with California, ^uit-growieg hitherto regarded as the
re ‘ teat section of the
STATESBORO, GA , APRIL 20.1893.
advantages country, Georgia otters inestimably better
in the fact that land is
cheaper and that no such thing as irriga¬
tion is necessary. In addition, Georgia
thousand'niiles^altnoB^u^^irect with them, and with the markets of Such Eu¬
rope. The establishment of direct trade,
soon to come, between Georgia ports and
Europe, is an additional factor in the
success of this enterprise. '*
About Cotton Acreage.
“Just because » greater quantity of
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* Constitution reporter a day or
J"* . I, now seems that the cotton
° .if p re8ent y eiir W ^1 he
!..? ,, »°“y 7 mor mor ® e than than R it . was was last last season, season, but but
rtillzer? insneeterL TV,..
the «hrea g e is hut slightly in- j
creased this year. In many regions of
ershfvn 1*^1 a cut down the ‘bat the farm- of
„ . .l m ark ^f. C,led ^
-pr ft the inspection - of much ^
CS t so
Tt I s eas,!v ex laine(1
nc8 of P -
j ? ( I ottoQ 3eed went
yJ ^ this . year, inducing . all of the
r„ r UrS ’P l Q y ^ t * B
r iem to se out
f) . ; ™ the ,
r f f, ‘ price went up to $25
temptation „ 7 n j f 0 P th er the ‘, on ' farmers This was to sell. a great The
‘ W “ ^ T° y ® f * h<m sold
° U ^ ave not enou gk |
on secc d * left i to pht under their
i.„™v, Cr °? S aS °i fertl '? e ^‘ ,9 0t t° D seed
t;l - / r ere 8 ^ ^ 0 J f 0 having ^ e been sold their out chief their corn fer
■ 3 /. cotton
eaSy to sec that would
; 7 J° ^ aa usua 8Ve ^ more ^ or their commercial corn planting, fertil
*t IS> 1D ^ measure, accounts for
r ,!i^ rea incrcaee in the sales of
I lze^s •. ^ ot P D !y this, the farm
tt'• ave ’,. !n many instances, exchanged
.A 8e ® d Jo r fertilizers di
rf •
t 10 1 ? cor ,“’ and In
8 * ,oun d j tba , t the increos
e co “ m cr clal . i fertilizers means,
«r« ° S a ° /®»! f . teD < ’ that cr0 P tho tbls , /armers f^r.
? , b ® b f e 8 christma8 J; ba . t tbe mcrease back of fertilizer yonder
i aw »y
.. he four
was times greater than ft
4^! ast y^r at tha^tjme and. h^W
hjiye^V
r
of gratff sown by the and
this year, and it becomes more more
evident as the years go by that the farm
era of this part of the south at least are
learning the lesson that has been taught
them by such long experience for good to live at
home. They are going a crop
of home products this year, and it is
truly very gratifying. Still another very
strong argument that the increase of fer
tillzer sales means an increase in grain
crops, not cotton, is that meat is so
high. Meat has gone up to wonderful
prices. It necessitates a much larger
corn crop than has heretofore been
planted The deduction is clear. It
means that the farmers see what is ahead
of them and they have been planting
much larger corn crops than they did
last year and the year before. It is a!to
gether wrong to believe that the cotton
acreage has been so vastly increased just
because the sales of fertilizers have been
so much greater than they were last year,
It is the opinion of the inspectors of fer
tilizers from this office, whose duty it
has been to go all over the'state to look
into this matter, that the cotton acreage
in the state of Georgia will be but little,
if indeed any greater this year than It was
last season. I am confident that this will
be shown up by the regular report of the
commissioner of agriculture when it is
compiled with absolute accuracy from
the reporters of the department all
through Georgia.”
BEHRING SEA MATTERS
Discussed by the Court of Arbitration.
The American Side Presented.
A Paris cable dispatch sais: Upon the
resumption of the sitting of the Behring
sea court of arbitration Thursday Mr.
James C. Carter continued the presenta¬
tion of the American side of the case
commenced Wednesday. He read let¬
ters bearing upon the question at issue,
sent by Mr. Blaine when secretary of
state to Sir Julian Poncefote, the British
minister at Washington, and commented
upon them.
At this point Senator John L. Morgan,
one of the arbitrators on the part of the
United States, inquired whether Canada
had approved the draft of a convention
before Lord Salisbury had made his sug
gestion relative to a ten-mile limit. This
qutstion was left* to a discussion, in
which Mr. Carter, Sir Charles Russell,
of Counsel for Great Britain; Sir John
Thompson, of Canada, one of the arbi¬
trators, and Senator Morgan took part.
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THE MONEY IN
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Two Hundred Thousand from the
City Bank Transferred.
Thursday afternoon Mr. Stone, th«
bank examiner in charge of the
City bank, st Atlanta, Ga., received in
structions from Washington to deposi
the money taken in by the bank, in th«
Atlanta National Bank.
Friday the money was transferred.
amounts to about $200,000 and it will
put again into circulation, which
Lein business in Atlanta very materially
- WdlNGTON GOSSIP.
H8PP i
M Day tfl Ctt? Hi tll6
.National Capital
Appoin.kts in the Various Depart*
meut’froccedings of the Senate.
THE SENATE.
commeg to inquire into that and other
iDg subject And quite a long and interest
ed dglle resulted, wfoich had uotclos
Hatli**?a»™«» ed win wht the the senate senate adjourned. adjourned. The
*! d r?»':
commits laborkfg men? A resoluS for a
dentin- to wait on the prosi
inform him that tbe senate
is reatte BgU o adjourn sine die, was offered
and to without queston; but sub
sequent!' a motion to reconsider was
called made by'Mr. Hoar and entered to be
for uj&n.hereafter. Mr. Hoar’s rea
son npving to reconsider was under
stood to le his determination, if possible.
to force f,legating 4e senate to take action in the
way of pLta^ Senator Roach, inv^sti- of
North Resolutions to
Rate Mr. Roach’s case and that of Mr.
Power, t|f Montana, were offered by
Scuators Hoar and Chandler and went
over wittfeout action. In pursuance of
the same purpose, Mr. Hoar successfully
resisted ; t motion to proceed to executive
business.
The democratic succeeded in forcing
nn execu five session Tuesday morning in
face of tl s\aon te combined republican opposi
tion. As 3o as Monday’s journal was read
a wasmsde/by motion proceed to executive business
Mr. Gorman and antago
nized by Jlfr. Hoar. The vote was taken
b y yeas ai|d nays,and the motion was car
voting ried—39 vA'ith t|o 161, the democrats. a strict party vote,Peffer
Iu offered the! senate, Wednesday, the resolu
tion by Mr. Call on the 20th of
March, fdeclaring that the committee on
judicially, finance,| naval foreign affairs, relations, military appropria- affairs,
tlommerce and interstate com- It
fine h consist of fiftefen |
Js taken up and Mr. Call
support of it. t .j
Call's spee<V^~
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the con
tions.
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paired,
claimirgli |i
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The senaji tijy
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business. £
o’clock,
sire to »c
resolutio
Friday a
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NO. 47 .
was anncunced to the caucus that the
president would complete the business he
has for the senate by the end of the week,
and it is believed that the senate will
then adjourn.
Thesenate made the following confirm¬
ations Wednesday: Hannis Taylor, of
Alabama, mininister to Spain; James S.
Fwing, of Illinois, minister to Belgium;
William Lochran, of Minnes* ta, commis¬
sioner of pensions; Louis C. Hughes, of
Arizona, governor of Ariz ma; also many
postmasters, among whom were the fol¬
lowing; Kentucky, Horace Ashton,
Flemingburg; Amos Vest, Mayfield,
Tennessee; Comie P. Priestly, Hunting
don, i James t T. m McCu-chen i Jackson , , Ar- *
kanaas, Robert A. Band, Mornllton,
Texas, John 1. Hurt, Orange.
The treasury department was advised
Thursday evening that six hundred and
fifty-seven Chinamen had arrived at Vic¬
toria, B. C., on the steamer Empress of
Japab, direct from Chinese ports. These
Chinamen are all destined for the United
States. The steamer Mogul also arrived
Thursdny at Tacoma, Wash., having on
board one hundred and fifty-nine China¬
men, one hundred and forty-seven of
whom claimed to be Chinese merchants
and entitled to land. Assistant Secretary
Spaulding sent telegraphic instructions Pacific
to the treasury officials at the
ports to exercise the utmost care to pre¬
vent the law from being violated.
The senate, on Tuesday, confirmed the
following nominations: Eben Ah xan
der, of North Carolina,minister to Greece,
Roumaniaand Servia; William T. Towns,
of Virginia, consul general to Rio de
Janeiro; James E Neal, of Ohio, con
mi at Liverpool; Q. O. Eckford, of Mis¬
souri, • consul at Kingston, Jamaica;
James M. Doobs, of Georgia, consul at
Valparaiso; William T. Thornton, of
Santa Fe, New Mexico, governor of New
Mexico; Charles E. Iugersoll, of Penn¬
sylvania, appraiser of merchandise, Dis¬
trict of Philadelphia; William Maize, of
Ohio, surveyor of customs for the port of
Columbus.
The President sent to the senate,
Tuesday, the following nominations:
Edward H. Strobel, of New York, to be
third assistant secretary of the interior,
vice William M. Grinnell, Connecticut, resigned;
Daniel N. Morgan, of to
be treasurer of the United Stafies, vice
Enos 1L Nebeker, resigned; Conrad N.
Jordan, of New York, to be assistant
treasurer of- the United States at New
York city, vice Ellis IL Roberts, resign
ed; Daniel M. Browning, of Illinois, to
be commissioner of Indian affairs; Frank
C. Arqfi iMi■■ tjjW^ Qf BMf W ashington. D. C.,
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ATLANTA. GA.
THE FIGHT IS ON.
Crisis in Central Railroad Affairs
Has Bees Reacted.
The Richmond Terminal People Ash
for Mr. Comer’s Dismissal.
A great surprise was sprung on the
United States court at Savannah Tues¬
day afternoon, when, without any warn
i»g whatever, Henry ( Crawford, of New
York) attorney for ho Ridmi0nd T erm
i na i addregged the court and stated that
he had just filed two motions. One
asked that Receiver Comer of the Cen
tral system be discharged and all con¬
tracts under the receivership be annulled
on the grond of illegality. The other
moved that the order of Judge Speer in
regard to the reorganization committee
authorizing aside loans to the Central be set
on the ground that said orders
• and were imprudent, irregular and erroneous
that the court had no jurisdiction
whatever in the cause to enter such
orders and that the same are entirely void.
These motions were filed under tbe
Rowena Clarke bill, which placed the
Central in the hands of a receiver.
The case of the Central Trust company
vs. the Central railroad had been called
before Judge Pardee and everything was
progressing calmly when these motions
were read and fell iike a thunder clap on
the lawyers assembled.
Judge H. B. Tompkins made an argu¬
ment for the Central Trust company,
asking the appointment of an independ¬
ent receiver for the Savannah and West¬
ern on the ground that it was a competi¬
tive system with the Central and had not
been properly managed by the receiver.
He was answered on behalf of the Cen¬
tral by the Captain interests Cunningham, Central who and said
that of the the
Savannah and Western were mutual and
affidavits were produced showing that
there was no competition except in con¬
junction with the same roads.
TAKEN BY SURPRISE.
This argument, however, became of
minor importance when the Terminal
people sprung their* motions. Mr. W.
G. d, Oakman, receiver, the and Terminal, Henry Craw
f or attorney for came
down from New York Monday night and
until the case was spriiqg no'one knew
anything about their mission,
had an air of mystery about it.
When Mr. Crawford addressed the
e QU rt and read the two mo
tions under the Rowena Clarke bill above
outlined. listen Judge Pardee straightened and up
to evety utterance every
------ was - intent - upon lh| ^