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, THE BULLOCH TIMES. YOL. V-L NO. 27. m & I m VL 3T h V \ 3 / 5 ^ T dark was when growing Miss Martie, with her basket on her arm, came into the corner mar¬ ket to buy her Thanksgiving dinner. The Y* basket was ab¬ surdly small, but Miss Mattie was .-J little herself, All. and when she i set it on the km high and stood counter blink ...., light, , ing in the bright - the calf’s head at her elbow - seemed to be grinning at them both. “Well, Miss Mattie,” called out the market man, in his hearty fashion, “I see your miml is not set on a tur¬ key this time, but just wait till I start this basket off for Cap’ll Lawson's and I'll show yon the right thing—a plump little duck I clapped into the safe this tiie morning, thinking to myself that’s’ very moral of a treat for ‘Miss Mattie.” Miss Mattie looked embarrassed and . rubbed ,, . her . forefinger , . .. over a.imr’1 l^U-mSi^TEve. -iu“ ' w rf her It was a silver five-cent piece- and she had ' taken it with much heLtation from a gi!en little store then of pieces, most of them her she was a child. For herself she could have got along very well with bread aud tea, but somehow 'THE joys of thanksgiving. BUl m ' : ^ IJU i jm im . I; l SR % isaga* mm [fiakr 5 us** V ** “ Kmtik a \ 5^1 Ay\ .» § ' - * ' ~- *-**»» — * A <4^ — Soto jingling tumbling coins toto tossed P the ’heap about of clashing, fingers, or by the butcher’s greasy hor nerhans into the pocket of that rible apron with blood-stains on it. Miss Mattie shuddered, but quickly recovered herself to say, cheerfully: “Oh thank yon, Mr. Simmons; but don’t von think ducks are a sight of troublo what with the stuffing and the roasting and needing to he looked after aud basted regular? I made up 01V mind to something simple, aud I doM’t know anything that’s easier got or more relishing than lamb chops, Two iamb chops is about what I thought of, Mr, Simmons. You know me.” Mr Simmons had not seen the cent piece, but he understood just as well as if he had, and he began to cut the chops at once, talking all the time to relieve his own embarrassment aud assuring Miss Mattie that “if folks only knew it-, there was nothing like , lamb chops to encourage your appe tite and strengthen you up all over.” . three “Bat you’ll have to take chops,” looking curiously at the money Miss Mattie laid in his big and hand, change “or j I'll have to make change, to-niglit. . I is scarcer than hen’s teeth You might have company unexpected, would You know, and an extry chop come in handy. ” laughed genially Miss Mattie so slip that the market man ventured to a sweetbread and a bunch of yellow He celery into the basket on the sly. would have loved to put in the duck, but that would have looked as if he suspected her reason for not buying . better it, aud, bless you, he knew than that. Some people have feel are red ami their bauds coarse and greasy. Miss Mattie went very hai>pilj flown the street. Bhe ha<i lighted her lamp / before sho. went out, and a cheerful little ray smiled encouragingly at her •- the as ’ehe*- ccr?* to the gate. All other windows in the weather-beaten old house were black and empty ana looked to the lonesome little woman as if all sorts of- hobgoblins might be peeping ont at her from the gloom be¬ hind them, for Miss Mattie’s neigh¬ bors had gone away on« Thanksgiv¬ ing visit and taken the whole family. At least they said “the whole family, but it the ’ very moment Miss Mattie , of the fam¬ C ame to'the gate a member ily was huddled up in a corner of the doorway, cold, hungry and much per¬ plexed to understand what had become of all his friends and why, in spite of his pitiful plea, no one came to open the door for him. He heard Miss Mattie and ran hopefully to meet her limping as he came, for he had a ■ nfti( | Miss ■■ your folks have gond off td Thanks¬ giving and left you beeind. Well, if I ever! How dreadful—thoughtless— aud you a cripple besides!” Tommy kept on crying, but he had his eye on the door while Miss Mattie was fitting her key, and the minute it opened he darted in. “That’s right, Tommy,” said Miss Mattie; “just make yourself af home. You and I’ll have our Thanksgiving together. That extra chop will be wanted after all, aud I’m going to makeriz biscuits.” She put away her bonnet and shawl and hung the basket on a nail in the back-room without even looking at the contents, though Tommy Barnes watched her keenly with a shrewd sus¬ picion which of something good, and a faint hope nothing in his past expe¬ rience justified that he might come in for a shave of it. Miss Mattie was ac¬ customed to Using alone, and she scarcely thought of Tommy, as she trotted about, setting bowl, the sponge for her.biscuits in a pint putting a little cup of broth on the stove to warm for her supper, making her tea, toasting her bread, and at last sitting 1 Vpatchwork eusYSon. Up v , had , sat , quietly : t i to this point . Tommy learned by v by the fire, having folks should many severe lessons that little be seen and not heard, but when Miss Mattie poured out the savory broth the delicious odor was too much for his fortitude and with one bound he sprung into her lap. '‘she put Tommy bread gently °n the ‘he bowl floor, of crumbled some into broth, cooled it carefully and set it down for him to eat. „ “It’s pretty rich for me anyway, s b e said, as she made out her supper with toast and tea. It was perhaps well for Tommy that be took au early promenade next morning around the back yards ot tiie neighborhood, aud secured several Valuable tid-bits, for Miss Mattie h very fitUe to., offer him. She baked her delightful little puffs of biscuits, au j en j 0 yed them immensely, finding with them lighter and more digestible ou ^ butter. She read a Thanksgiving and went abott trying to sing j n n uttle chirrupy brought voice the a sma I spaTr ow. She in basket and flushed over the unexpeet C( q treasuretroVe, but took it kindly as a bit of neighborly goodwill. and me all awee thread, white and plump of old rea; ly f or eqpjiing, reminded her yi,-s. Morrison, just beginning to si np mid watch the people go by Joe window. What a toothsome dai y this would be for her, and what a de Uglit that she should be able to take it to her as she went to churcn, yes, am j gome of the celery, too, for a rel is b... The ehops-WBre transferred to a p j ate 0 n the shelf, the sweetbread wrapped in a fine old napkin and laid ba rf c in the basket with the best half D f (be celery, and the biscuits Miss Mattie had saved for dinner, “The cold bread will go just as well with chops,” she reflected, and pre , )ftre a for church with a glow of Uap phi ess such as she bad not known i»a : 011 g time. This Face all 8° Glaun. 0 o o * o e © * 0 * 1 O . « *0 a • o I Cot it and sane, it and give os all some. From lean **'*‘2*5 “ Sherwood, It helped to a real feeling of thank¬ fulness, especially when she thought of old Mrs. Morrison, and how pleased she had been with the unexpected gift. She laughed a little to herself as she returned to her own door after service, remembering how when Sally Morrison had commiserated her on be¬ ing alone Thanksgiving Day, she had assured her she had company invited —Tommy Barnes, from the next door, who was spending a couple of days with her, the rest of the family being away. “I hope't wa’n’t a sinful untruth," she said, smiling at Tommy, who lay peacefully sleeping on the braided rug, “but if old Miss Morrison had set in to have me Stay to dinner, I Shouldn’t a* known how to get away, and slie is siich a talker." With a long, clean apron dver her best frock, Miss Mattie began cheer¬ fully to make her small preparations for the Thanksgiving feast. Sho had meditated leaving one chop for break¬ fast, but her walk and happiness had made her hungry and she decided to cook them all. But where did sho put these chops —she was getting so forgetful—she could have sworn she put them on the shelf—could she have left them in the basket after all? Her perplexed eyes fell from the shelf to the floor, and there, just peeping from the wood-box was the plate, and two small, very small, bits of bone, gnawed quite clean and white. Ungrateful Tommy Barnes, lying there in peaceful slumber, with those precious chops rounding out your yel¬ low sides, if justice had befallen you then and there you might not have lived to steal again. But into the midst of Miss Mattie righteous wrath came the reflection that Tommy must have been hungry, and the fault after all was partly her own for putting temptation in h\y a ,wav, “though how of’his way than that shell, T'don't really see,” she added, dolefully. At that minute Tommy Barnes waked trom his nap, transformed him¬ self into a camel, yawned in a fright¬ fully tigerish fashion, and proceeded the to sharpen his claws on the rng, sacred rug into which had been braided some precious old garments dear to Miss Mattie’s heart, It was a straw too much to have insult added to injury, and springing from her chair, sho cuffed Tommy in such vigorous fashion that three or four lieartv blows found their mark before the astonished sinner could withdraw his claws and bound out ot the back door, left ajar in the search for the chops. At that instant a resounding knock on the front door sent Miss Mattie’s heart to her throat with a sudden toap, as if justice were already coming to take her in hand for unrea¬ sonable cruelty. peacefully When Miss Mattie was nattering about, unconscious of tho cruel trick fate and Tommy Barnes had played her, Mrs. Deacon Giles was surveying her husband with a uis- “You don’t mean to tell me, ” she repeated, “that the minister’s folks ain’t cornin’ at all, and you and me has got to eat this big dinner alone. Here. I stayed home from .church to tend to it. Oh, you n»edn’t to look if you thought it was a judgment. _ Josiah I wouldn’t be such a hipper crit as to pretend to be thinkin o. spiritooal things when I was wonder¬ in’ if Sarah Ellen would remember to baste the turkey. Seems to me they might let us know sooner.’’ “Bat I told ye, mother, it was a telegram come just before church. You can’t regerlate telegrams like the weekly newspaper, or stop folks from dyin' unexpicted. ” “Then, why didn’t you rush round and get somebody else? Mercy sakes! ’Twon’t seem like Thanksgiving at all anybody to ask “Didn’t seem to be but old Mis’ Morrison and Marthy Ellison. I drove round by the Morn sons, but the old lady was just b av * B something relishing Miss Mattie fetched in. They n»id they her to dinner, but she had one of them Barneses next door. said the wife, in a very disrespectful tone, ‘You just drive straight back and bring Marthy Ellison up here to dinner. Tell her I don’t take any excuse, and, if she can’t come otherways, Bhe CAD bring lier comp’ny along* thoagli the way them shif’less Bsrnesses impose her is mortal shame. ” on a learned Good Deacon Giles had docility in many years of experience, and the double knock at Miss Mattie a door followed as quickly as could be reasonably expected. Miss Mattie at¬ tempted neither excuse nor hesitation, but accepted her good providence witn radiant delight. fetch comp , ny “Mother said to yonr glaring along,” said the’ deacon, doubtfully about the small room. W e heard you had one of the Barneses. I kinder hope 'tain’t the cross-eyed one. that stole my pears.” Mattie, laughing “Oh,” skid Miss her into the Uttle mirror, as she tied bonnet, “he’s had his dinner and he s [gone out.” eaten ?{; STATESBORO. GA„ FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 2fi, 1897. hers also, but at Mrs. Giles’s hos pitabie table, under fare the and genial pleasant influ enoe of generous old-time reminiscences, she told the story of Tommy Barnes and the lamb chops in a way that made the deacon lose his breath with laughter. And when she was tucked into the yellow sleigh for the ride home, Mrs. Giles stopped at the door to say: / i putsome bitsof bones and things in a basket under the seat for Tommy. Takas a sight of stuff to reely fill up a WWM m W/i 1 m?, HI s i I is pi! m m I M UKal “SHB WAS TUCKED IN THE YELLOW SLEIGH. ” cat fur ’nough to give his moral princi¬ ples a fair showin’.” Tommy was on the step waiting to welcome Miss Mattie, which shows his forgiving disposition, and, though he got as much as was good for him out of the basket under the seat, Miss Mattie very wisely concluded that the deny viie, roast chicken and cran meant for ins liHItgtlt, 4L. Lave been them in the cupboard, saying '. 0 d eidedlv: Barnes, 111 “This time. Tommy fair show £-=3. our moral principles a Millbb. Emily Huntington O HEART, CIVE THANKS. O heart, give thanks for strength, to-day,* To walk, to rim, to work, to play! For feasts of eye; melodious sound; Thy pulses’ easy, rhythmic bound; Ton servants that thy will obey; A mind clear as the sun’s own ray; A life which has not passed crowned, its May; That al! thy being tuns is O heart, give thanks! Feet helpless llo that once worn gay; Eyes know hut night’s eternal sway; Souls dwell in silence, dread, encircling profound; round; Minds live with clouds In face of these, thy blessings weigh! O heart, give thanks! C. Dowd. —Emmu The Housewife’* Holiday Plans. Make the home bright and cheer fal for Thanksgiving and Chuslmas, writes a farmer’s wife. so that the holiday will i! ifc, weary from da’M iH'fore'thfeYefijit sweeping, siiuuld also he cleaned and stu|fcd*U this time, in order to go-lBKthe Tins method oven early the next day. ri»rn»8 of gives a little time ou -th« the holiday for the extra reception of guests. and opoktng;tho turkey and preparing of the morning, so thaitm really be found in desserts, etc. dotted here and there mortelles and pressed Will brighten the rooms Thisis easy work for the’ pie, who always want to help time. Have some green table, if v<>n have no flowersm “ "M use the handsomest plants ara von/ window eolleetions. If BO ’mere is forthcoming, conceal nary flower pot with evergreen .»r autumn leaves. < ’hry firsi*qf keep out of doors until the December, and are effective afrdaJM* tions, if one does not object to„ • odor. Let me Thanksgiving' mx SBPl tion at our first carnation had only a few blossoms, red and white ones. These J ,u; into a tall glass vase I stole frip drooping sword ferns that my one jardiniere. I placed. the v#4 upon a large antique pewter plattof, louvered with a pretty doily and heaped [with fruit, apples, grapes and banaok** declared. „> On De««rt Air. Winthrop—“If Freddie ra going spend Thanksgiving with his grand¬ mother, perhaps yon’d »»iter buy him that tin horn.” B® Mrs. Winthrop—“I spok* saidit to wonld about it, my dear, bnt he do no good to him, as grandmother is deaf.” A Sacking PI* For ThanksKlvlo*. There are some old-fashioned peo pie who prefer a sucking pig to turkey at Thanksgiving, and to have thisuisli in perfection an old saying goes weeks the small animal must be three “under a moon.” Tho Kid’* Harvest. Now he is a* pleased “ pleased can be, -* And has no cause to sigh. “To With all his heart he says: me Thanksgiving time is pie.’ -. r . Tho Turkey on the W«U. % ) •J 1 S opening of the ch%pt nni bu * :s * M, i V 1 // The sere, leaves, yellow l\ ■ Told beyond a venture 7 m] 0 That Tbankjpgi Bu W t a \r*m r .v cbfiaish ‘mb The fa UeTu. ■ ^|) Ot et 9 ( ' pa I It cry long For 1>hs very short anfS It hung all plump ami la the pantry ae*#® for a day or two And then was i ’ - - ■ - - (jUEESf REGENT OF SPAIN PARDONS THE FOUR UNFORTUNATES. WAS ONCE CONDEMNED TO DIE. DeLorne Has a Conference With Assistant Secretary Day In Regard to Weyler’s To!»aeco Decree. Minister Woodford at Madrid has telegraphed the state department that the Spanish cabinet has notified him that the queen has pardoned the Com petitor prisoners. The , state depart , ment now announces that the Competitor prisoners were turned over to General Leo last Mom day and will be sent by him direct to New York.. It is not doubted in W ashington , . . that the prisoners aro liberated on some such conditions as were imposed in tho case of former prisoners, that is that they will hot return to Cuba. After their latter experience iu the Cuban jails, it is not believed the men will be disposed to vioiato any understanding of this kind to which they may rties. It is singular that the iqen should have been for fftuf clays Lee.tvithont iff’ the custody the fact of Consul having General fieewne generally known, but it is supposed that Secrecy was observed iu'arfler to secu*4 ijtciting departure from Ha vana witbtmt trouble from tljie extreme co wSrvative Spanish fac tion I’flcre w ere fc prisoners, namely, Alfred O. Laboi the captain of the Competitor, Gildea,^Bie a ilfeve of New Orleans; WiUiam mate, a natural¬ ized citizen; On. elton, who claims , . Kansas as his r.IMve state, and who T ,? M*t ue I»i|HW®»tor ° ^^fteapondent; in the capacity Charles . claimed the , pih idh birth, but who Dtatts hy vntihtefcon of the United American vesseJ. I tig Bailing on an The conditions} Com B etrtor w,s o, under W b ie u the 1896, off .the Onyjptured April 25, gaged m IanaiOgJj^ coast while en gents have la^n o arms f or tbe insur defense forced of into> the th^ “gen described. that they The ,-as were then will by f exposition against aboard the boat. insurgent party a could naval mako courtmartia-bcy only were tried by oLpoor a, before which they oipally because showing, prin the (Spanish lay their ignorance of proceedings WG$ l nj*ge in which tho their 4*0 conducted, so that the and the imposition of ®^Hle»th “ sentence 1 was not a matter of AlSjtliaipoini:., dtelomjtic ■ however, importance the as iaMed . Tkra® 16 ing wf of negotiations in proluintj Cub •ec ri.ade by Wcyler {( o.n atiou of tobacco Thar*” “ lerfor tbt . Jl^egsitv Ge»e«l of| fa^ ^ . ^ j of t o cigar iiloynieB iu - ^us bv giving era »m| men,keep them from insargen t ranks. It V*a. M ^mon report, liow Mt potent reason was a #*>>4 Cuban cigar mak Smtci, from whom ftn }ia r8 w funds, 'SFESS10N READ. “Jo ig at Trial of Arroyo’* City of Mexico. Ynsation Ipe trial of was the made polios in - S _„. Inh City j of murder Mexico, of who Ar the , |>dnction of the general eonfes jte inspector ol J u .rkable , who attempt Buic ‘ de at ?’ self ,L‘ , “id falsely states that a At ™Q mmo n people lynched ff^hngptorney ^ < in a strong | Sjg RUd for all the the execution of jjjSfiistant prisoners Chief of Detectives one other minor prisoner. tWai-ned »o«l Mis Horn* *• ,oA by Hl» Friends. Jduel between brothers Colonel at ^fcsbceu ..he Harris cii Ip the sole topic t m JJraW, that usually quiet , Harris, who was so died Haturday and that; r Biindav Ix-side ' Sir K,s iff f ier, W. A. Harris,who the battle wtis ut its “’LwjdiscusBion r ft Braun, of the Baylor Icono with " the origin of t he trouble, V anonymously Friday lends guarded his resi trouble occurred. LENT TO VANCE. • Maxonx of North Carolina * '£*}• the Corner Stone. from Asheville, N. C., I(truii.1 Master Moore, at the j;Masons of North Carolina, H&pecial communication of '‘JKs ®>dge to assist monument in laying to tho the of the -JP States Senator Vance at hies will occur early in NA MESAKE. l’wnl Silver Service “P*»l Mentation Dearlng of City’. handsome Name- sil a h on behalf, and i» the name Kens of Nashville, Nashville Term., at was the |he gunboat Norfolk, Va., Monday d at took place on the in the presence of the my Commandant Far mm mm 7 its PLUNGED INTO A CREEK. Train Wrecked and Burned-Only One Death, But Many Injured. Trnin 2 on the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis, which left Bir mingham, Ala., Wednesday evening i for Kansas City, was derailed west of Walliford, Ark., at 3 o’clock Thurs day morning. The combination coach, into Spring river. The chair car and sleeper were both consumed. One passenger was fatally injured, dying shortly afterward, aud about thirty others more or less seriously hurt. It is believed none of the fat ^‘V'is « f ast through train from the south. Between Williford and Hardy the Memphis tracks parallel ‘B® Spring river, a little stream run* niug out of Mammoth Springs. When near Williford the engineer feU tUe tra in leap forward and found that it had parted between the two (la y coaches . The Ugt tbr(!e cai . a bumped over the ties, the chair ear aud sleeper turning over on their sides aud the combination car finally g 0 j D g into the river, The engineer backed np the front p B rt c f the train and the work of res cue was immediately begun. The ter ror of the passengers who had gone down into the stream with the combi¬ nation car was heightened by cries of alarm from the chair car and sleeper, both of which soon took fire. The intense darkness added to the confu¬ sion and it was some time before au organized effort at rescue was put into effect by the train crew and those of the passengers who had been able to extricate themselves without aid. The passengers in tho burning cars were luckily rescued before the fire had reached its height, aud but few in those cars were injured. The wreck is the first one of a seri ous nature in the history of the Mem phis road, and according to the state , aen t 0 f General Passenger Agent J. E LookwooiI, Mr. Hoover is the first passenger ever killed while riding on a train on that road. - REPORT OF SECRETARY BUSS. - Document Show. Work of Interior »• For r«t Y.«. Secretary of the Inferior Bliss, in his annual report.junao public day night, submits estimates aggregat ing 8156,532,419 for appropriation by congress for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1897. Discussing pensions he says 200, 000 pension claims are awaiting adju dication aud it is estimated that 40 or 50per nutted. cent If of they these are will rapidly be finally adjndi- ml ^ated they will swell the pension roll from $5,000,000 to $7,000,0 00. When, however, these claims are adjudicated and the first payments made thereon, the amount of the pension roll will de crease very rapidly, possibly to &125, nnn or 8X30,000,000 the first year. adian population of the of tfioNew. reh4v»tions, which eoataia approximately 33,404,837 acres. Of these, 4,545 have accepted allotments of land which aggregate 644,147 acres. Secretary Bliss says while the opening of the Wichita reservation in Okln hoina to white settlement would great ly jiromote the development of that country, yet, in view of the unsettled condition of the questions affecting their rights, until there is further leg islation ho does not see how it can he done without causing great injury and distress. To guard against this recommendation is made tl»at tho Dawes commiHfiion be authorized to investigate questions as to their rights and claims aud report recommendations from speedy and just »Q Dement. DISASTROUS l'RAlRIE FIRES. Three Tlioinand Sheep Horned In Texas Count!**. A terrific prairie fire has passed through Lubbock, Hale and Crosby counties. Texas, doing great damage to ,b e ranges. It originated east of Crosby county, burned eastward through Crosby be fore a severe west wind. The flames made a fire ten miles wide, which traveled at great speed, At least 400 Bquare miles of territory were burned, Cattle suffered and many were burned to death. Three thousand sheep were burned in one flock and many farmers lost all their winter feed. WHY DOORS WERE HAILED. A sensation of «real Mnurnltude Crop. Ont In Ktivannalii On. A Savannah special says: The hot¬ test kind of sensation has grown o it of the action of the chief of the fl e department in nailing up the doors of the city exchange a few days investigated ago. The fire commissioners the matter, and the chief said that his reason for nailing up the doors was because the city section offices had been used at night by some of the city officials in the entertainment of their friends. This statement has tremen¬ dous excitement among municipal offi¬ cials, and an investigation has been demanded. MOB AFTER MURDERER. Xrgio Vntiml Lee’* Be»lU*nre and Killed Him With An Ax. A Columbia, B. C., special taken says: Charles Williams, a negro, was from to Sumter jail Saturday night Carter's Crossing to prevent lynching. He entered the home of \V. J. Dee Friday night for the purpose of roll ber”, an<I being determined, butcher jjr. f bed with cl I.ee in his an ax. He says he had an accomplice. A mob pursued the officers and prisoner. DEiTH SENTENCEWr TEN. Ur.nil of Trial of roller At Maxim fit, For Murder of Arroyo. The great trial of Arroyo’s Mon- mur¬ derers at Mexico City terminated dav evening with the sentence of death pronounced on ten of the police officials and policemen concerned in the butchery of the hapless wretch whose audacious attempt on the presi¬ dent caused so profound a sensation. hours. The jury was out over seven The condemned men do not yet to res lize their jierilous position. IE! BILL FOR REMOVAL OF HOUSE IS DEFEATED. RESULT WAS fi DECIDED SURPRISE. A Bn«f Summarry of the Dally Proceed* luga aud Routine Work In Both Home and Senate. One of the hottest, most sensation al, and thoroughly interesting fights ever witnessed in the house of repre¬ sentatives was brought about friday in the contest between Decatur and Stone Mountain for the possession of the DeKalb county courthouse. Decatur won under circumstances seemingly adverse. The fight was brought on by the Stone Mountain faction who seemed sure of au easy victory. Test of strength in the vote to take up the bill Thursday seemed to indicate that the required two-thirds majority was in favor of a removal of the courthouse, A substitute bill, referring a settle rnent of the question back to the peo pie of the county, was offered and lost. Then the other bill came np and a sensation'was caused by the discovery that the measure could not be put to a vote because the proper legal proofs were missing. No other business could be transacted. Under the call for the previous question, the only thing before the house was the' vote on this bill. For an hour and a liaif, au exciting debate went on. All this confusion was caused by the simple fact that a newspaper containing a copy of the advertisement of tho bill had been lost or misplaced. The Decatur people were willing to accept the proofs at hand, and so were the Stone Mountain people. But, nevertheless, the debate went on and the confusion increased. Finally* she missing newspaper was discovered and the bill was voted on. Tho result was #5 Sknm^ to GO. Mouniain had failed to receive a constitutional majority and Decatur „. flB secnro iu the possession of the Immediately after the reading of the journal in the senate Friday morn j„ K Senator Stewart, chairman of the ' committee on lunatic asylums, made a repor t on \\ ie bill providing that j fema ] e physicians be allowed to enter ' t i 1() competitive examinations for vn- j oaneieR ou tile state asylum staff. The report of the committee was favora ble. j ,Senator Battle moved that the regu* ! ) ar 01 .,i 0! . i which was the calling of the j roll Le for the introduction w° of new matter dispensed it b, and that the read- ! iu g of house bills favorably reported on be read the second time. The mo nrevaHed jy, conclusion of fho reading of matter. -Afier > senate w< and „ confirmed into executive session Hon. B. B. Bower, judge city court of Decatur county; Hon. F. It. larver, judge of the Effingham county court; ]/. T. Shurley, solicitor of Warren county court. of On motion of Senator Stewart, the 27th, tho senate adjourned until 12 o’clock Monday. - w.<! B ..<i*r’. ProeeeUiii*.. The entire day Wednesday in tho house was given up to the university Home routine business was trausactcil and then the tight of the day on the university hearing came up. trial The university represented was on by Hon. N. was ably president of the j. Hammond, feat b oa rd of trustees. Another lire of almost sensationul interest, in that it was not on the program, was a speech by Dr. William H. Felton, of Cartersville, introduced to the general assembly as “the old man eloquent." Tbe friends of the institution in the house won a fight „ , . in • securing the „ hearing for the trustees. The m>' lse had run counter to the winhes of the senate and a sensational conflict was promised. The house rcsoUitiou pro videdfortheheariugbeforea eommit tee of the whole. The senate i esolu tion called for a joint session. Ibis precipitated the fight When the senate resolution came up before the house it was sought to amend it so as to fix the hearing for Wednesday night. The time mention¬ ed in the resolution was 10:30 a. m. That hour came and went while the fight was still on in the house. Then an amendment to this amend¬ ment, fixing the time for the bearing at 11 o’clock was offered. This was and carried amid applause. There was then a minutes and the trustees awaited the result on the outside. Both houses then convened in joint session and the trustees, headed by Governor Atkin¬ son, were ushered into the hall They were greeted with applause, and after an introduction by President Berner, of toe senate, Colonel Hammond be¬ gan his speech. done by the seriate The first thing send the Wednesday morning was to house the resolution for a joint session at 10:30 o’clock to hear the university trustees. Pending the receipt of in¬ formation touching the address of the house on the subject, the senate trans acted routine business. It was nearly 11 o’clock when a message from the house announced resolution had bee adopted , . . that the r time with an amendment fixing the at 11 o’clock. This was immediately concurred in and the house was noti¬ These two bills were by senate: Mr. Felder’s bill to expedite habeas corpus cases; Mr. liases’ bill prohibiting arresting officers from ad¬ vising or procuring se Cements in criminal cases and fixing a penalty for so doing. | Thursday'* Routine. I Along with the first business in the house Thursday the West resolution to limit discussion on the convict bill from 11 to 1 o’clock each day came up and after some discussion was passed. the The house then took a nibble at convict bill. A few more amendments to the first section were pn Rented, all of which were discussed without re- BY THOS, A. McSREGOR. suits, and then the committee ot the whole reported progress. The DeKalb court house fight ran amuck of the convict bill and both came to a standstill. An eftort was made to secure the consideration of the former lueaRufe at-the orhenafiA the latter, and an interesting fight re¬ sulted. The convict bill gained the right of way, however, and was under *~ a durin * the r “ der of | in Mr. the Gray’s senate prohibition the first bill business came up as Thursday morning, and after a brief statement by the author, it went to a vote. The bill prohibits the sale of liquors in smaller quantities than one of pint, and prohibits the drinking liquor on the premises where it is sold. The favorable committee report was agreed to by a vote of 19 to 16. The question then came up on the passage of the bill and Senator Turner, rose to favor it. It fell far short of what he desired, but was in the right direction, Senator Gray called for the ayes aud nays and the vote was 20 to 17. The bill lacked only t' votes of a constitutional majority, The football bill came up and passed i by a vote of 31 to 4. bill prohibiting Senator Turner’s tho shooting at turkeys and other fowls for a prize, with chances stated v on hitting the bird, came on an adverse report, which caused some discussion, The adverse report was disagreed to by a vote of 21 to 14 and the bill stands for a third reading, Mr. Felder's hill to except the N. O, and Ht. L. railway from the law pro v train! . hibiting the running of freight on Sunday was fought , by Senate! Sen* Turner. When the bill came up ator Kilpatrick explained that it apJ plied to railroads running through tit state less than three miles, and sale there were only six citizens who be disturbed by the noise of the traihftf 8ntnr<ti»y In the Home. An effort was made in the hono ,, Saturday *nd*y . in to defeatingAhfr-bill reconsider theaeti#BjS to remove — *“® cotMfttmee of DeKalb county IMP H Stone Mountain. The S lt wa8 a TT 1 def t at for the Ht f Mountam * foctlo »- T ^er« was f a present and the motion to reconsider received only 36 of the *#:, J ote « ca4t - 'This ends the controvert for five years at least, as no electisa can be called before that time, From now until the dose the h&M wiil UolJ bv0 He8sio119 Th< morning session will be from 9 nntill o'clock, and in the afternoon from 3 te 5 ^lock. The house will now go U Mork »“ earnest to settle the many im P° rt * nt matters now under non » 4o “ Saturday . , s session was a bn ^ great deal of routine busiu* frausacted and a number of ^ measures were introduced. SI 3 vin of Richmond offered a b of issue with wh ho P eB to a test of the ce “t. tax on the state banks. Mr. Bartlett, of Paulding, pi two const iiational amcS dm eu: oimh ■■■■■ u i ...... t ms ___ legislature B to hold uni sessions. Monday , . Mr, Calvin s mixed n passed the house at Mom ay s * The bill requires the woras *** flour to be branded or mar«e< ”n ® package containing a hlendingof w « «<»»«• «> 1 ’ 1 cora “ fiS what per centum L of the contents is made from the food products of wheat and from the food Prodnctsofgrsin, other than wheat. I he purpose ol me bill is to put purchasers on no lc '® to what they are buying, wnetner straight flour or mixed flour, -1 The following bills *****' °P ' td: An act for the protection of the bicycle roads in the oounty of Wilkes, ^ an act making the condemnation of land by counties the same as for all corporations exercising the right of eminent domain; amending the char- m ter of the city of Waycross; establwh ing a system of public schools for the city of Culloden; amending the char¬ ter of tho city of Gainesville. The senate passed the following local bills Monday: To incorporate Mount ville; to incorporate Ocilla; to incor¬ porate Pepperton— (Pepperton is in - Butts county near a famous patch of red pepper, from which a negro vil¬ lage called Peppertown took its rise— later a cotton mill was erected be¬ tween Jackson and the red pepper vil- a lap;e); amending the Lawrence villa charter so that it shall be called a city instead of a no for a violation of the act); to extend the corporate limits of DouglasviHe; in 5?^ to amend the charter of Douglas the county of Coffee so that it shall be called a city instead of a town; to extend the limits of .East Rome; to ameud the charter of Buchanan; to amend the charter of Washing Ga., so as to give the mayor a sa of 8200 and the recorder 8250 if council is willing. ALL QUARANTINE ENDED. Cltlxena or Alabama Free to go and Con w Once Mote. Beginning last Sunday at noon all © quarantine restrictions in Alabama, so far as state authorities are concerned, 15 were removed and people are free to go aud come. south of „ Mont¬ , One or twe counties bnt gomery continue their quarantine, it amounts to little. Commencing Monday all trains out of Montgomery to Mobile and New Orleans were put on their old sched ules. All others resumed some days ago. _________ REPORTS, PARK COMMISSIONER Chairman Boynton Show* That Battefh tory Progr©** Ha* Boon Made* V. Boynton, ~ General Henry and m “ man of the Chicamanga oommiaai nooga National park of submitted to the secretary aunual report of the com* showing that satisfactory progl been made in the esfcabiishmah Rr h ; rl accordance with existi; RQ( ( t h e plan heretofore (be war department, to the No change seems required m i 8S i on to be or al) le. No new legislation a ud no ineref.se of the » uf (bat made 1 tr the cum” I j g ue( .ded.