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MILES & STIFF 29 Marietta Street, ATIjAJXTTA, GA. Hill! Grade Pianos and Organs. FULL LINE SHEET MUSIC. Terms and Prices Right. ^"Send for Catalogue. 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. ....... —*■1 ° r '"^ ' 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 »/. «* ■ ‘t.,™ 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 ... * 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. Ihffi! knxious ^ J Mr 9 Frank if Colonel America t>cr of tl p ersona J j y 1 ? e « w ” e ne *,ere h *, io8C . . 0n wl c ® a ec ‘ a ? a "J THE MONEY IN __ 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^~ > WfflpT)* tinned, ^coiU | 4ired Bering crape* - *amond g nk, K au s bepi Mr. from ]%| f L was sented the con tions. day gation at the is over t* ceed 3 i cutive Vest and i of made 38 to by, 31 cratic seu, paired, claimirgli |i right to The senaji tijy ceedec business. £ o’clock, sire to »c resolutio Friday a and th« The if n VickBlu| Thetc master) linety-si resigij r ij four by i postmas lour yea 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., _ 1 Mhaej of-radian ™ I* the only Piano manufactured ip the iS uth. Buy it and keep jmir money at noMtt. Made and sold by MILES & STIFF, 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| ^