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About The Rockdale banner. (Conyers, Ga.) 1888-1900 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 10, 1890)
Tie Bottle Bluer CQNYER&. GEORGIA. HEWS OF THE SOHTH BRIEF NOTES OF AN INTER¬ ESTING NATURE. PITHY ITEMS FROM ALL TOINT8 IN THE SOUTHERN STATES THAT WILL ENTER¬ TAIN THE READER—ACCIDENTS, FIRES, FLOODS, ETC. St. Mary’s church, at South Highlands, a Birmingham, Ala., suburb, burned on Wednesday night. Lost $5,000; lully insured. General Cadmus, of Alabama, w ho was recently injured by falling into an un¬ protected street excavation in Washing ton city, died Tuesday. Four members of a party of settlers from New Haven, Conn. ? were drowned by the capsizing of a sail boat on lake Tohopekaligas, Florida, Tuesday. On the 7th of January, 1891, the bank of Opelika, Ala., will increase its capital sto^k from $50,000 to $100,000. Both of Opelika’s banks are in a flourishing condition. ; The will of Henry K. Ellyson, late of the Richmond, V»„ Dispatch, was pro¬ bated Tuesday. The estimated value of the estate is $180,000. He leaves every¬ to his children. The Southern Lumber and Manufactur¬ ing Company, of Chattanooga, have made an assignment. It was announced Tues¬ day morning. Their indebtedness amounts to about $50,000. An Opelika dispatch ot Thursday says: The machinery for the new flour mill is arriving, and the building is nearly com¬ pleted. and It will bo one of the most hand¬ some substantial structures in the city. Dr. II. M. Wilder, of Charlotte, N. C., left Thursday evening for New York, where he goes to study Dr. Koch’s con¬ sumption treatment. with Dr. Wilder will lAing back him a quantity of the wonderful lymph for local treatment if it can be secured. The president, following on Thursday, sent to the senate the nominations: Mrs. Anita II. McKee, receiver of public moneys, at Jackson, Miss. Postmasters as follows: Georgia—Charles O. Force, Valdosta; South Carolina—John G. Gat¬ lin, Darlington Courthouse. Russell & Gibbon’s warehouse, at New nan, Ga., containing about 1,300 bales of cotton, was totally consumed by fire Tuesday evening. Only about one hun¬ dred Dales of the cotton were saved. The total loss is about $60,000, $40,000 be¬ ing covered by insurance. The North Carolina Baptist state mis¬ sion board met at Raleigh, Thursday, and appointed work in 100 destitute missionaries fields of to the carry on the state. Rev. J. L. L»wc, of Rocky Mount, was appointed to take charge of the Sunday School and colportage work. A dispatch of Thursdayjfrom Raleigh, N. C., says: More railway officials will attend the meeting of the Southern In¬ terstate Immigration Association at Asheville on the 17th instant than ever before assembled in the south. Secretary Patrick says that every road will be rep¬ resented. The American Fibre Association of New York began work Thursday on the foundation for a building for a paper pulp mill at Huntsville, Ala. The plant is to cost $80,000. Pulp will be made from cotton seed hulls, large qu mtities of which are furnished by the Huntsville cotton seed oil mills. A Chattanooga dispatch the United of Tuesday, says: Major Boyd, of States coast survey, and a corps of assistant-, arc busily engaged in locating the bound¬ aries of the 12,000 acre tract of Chicka mauga National park. The government has issued orders prohibiting balls from the removal of bullets and cannon trees, etc. The joint committees on corporations of the Alabama legislature, on Wednes¬ day, unanimously decided, after hearing all the facts and legal argument, that the senate bill authorizing the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railway to build the Tennessee and Coosa River railway east of Huntsville, be reported adversely, and said railway will be re quired to build south from Huntsville. The board of directors of the North Carolina insane asylum held an impor¬ tant meeting prepared at Raleigh on Thursday. An appeal was for action by the legishiture in regard to provision for more patients. The asylum was built for 204, and now has 296, A In spital is also asked for. Tho demands for the admis sion of patients are legislature more pressing is asked than ever before. The to appropriate each year a sum for the con¬ struction of the ueeded additions to the buildings. Rich Puyallup Indians. There are scores of Indians on th* reservation worth from $50,1)00 to $250, 000 each, and when the reservation is thrown open: by Gongvqjs, as it will be in a very few year*, there will be in Pierce County a dozen >br two of the richest Indians in 'the United States. Following are the names of some of the wealthiest Indians: Mrs. Joseph Douette, a 'full-blooded Indian widow, with' $250,000; Chris Laughlet, a widow, with 160 acres ano $60,000; Joe Coates. 160 acres and $80, 000, and the Coates family, worth $12S, 000 are some of the richest.— Fuga Hound Xewt. THE GLORGJA LEGISLATURE. DAILY PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE. GEORGIA’S LAW MAKERS AND WHAT THEY ARE DOING TO ADVANCE THE GRAND OLD STATE’S INTERESTS. the house. 25th Day. —The election of judges for the. Chattnhooch- eand Tallapoosa circuits and a solicitor general for the latter was the chief work of the Georgia legislature Wednesday. At 11 o’clock the joint ses sio-i met in the house for the purpose of holding the election, and after the read ing of the resolution calling the joint session, the business was at once taken up. Hon. J. H. Martin, of Talbot county, was elected to the judgeship of the Chat tahoochee c rcuit, recently made vacant by the death of Judge James M, Smith, llon. C. G. Janes, of the twenty-eighth, was given the new judgeship of the Tal lapoosa circuit. Mr. A. Ricbard.-on, of Folk, had a walk-over forsolicitor general of the new circuit and received 185 votes. The joint session was then dissolved. A resolution was offered in the house that a committee should be appointed to be known as the committee on the Western and Atlantic railroad, and that all mat ters . relevant , , to . the road , should , ,,, be placed i i in its hands The appropriation bill granting; $2,000 i or the contingent fund was read the third time and passed. Both the tax and appropriation bills were read the second time. Am ng the new mat¬ ter introduced were the following bills: „ J o amend the charter of Waycross. To ™ abolish the county court of latnall. To repeal the act granting registration laws for Sumter county. To exempt all Con federate soldiers from payment of poll tax and from road duty. To provide a system of waterworks for the city of Fort Valley. To provide for ti e completion of a roster of Georgia troops in the Con federate army; to provide and a sum other of money sufficient for that object pur poses. A bill to make drunkenness a crime. A bill to amend charter of Cot ton Mills’bank, at New nan. A bill to incorporate ihe Athens and Cornelia Railroad Company. Also a bill to have county commissioners of agriculture ap pointed in i ach county when recommend ed by the grand jury. A bill to prevent the buying or selling of farm products on plan of futures. A bill to authorize the several municipal corporations in Georgia to make their tax assessments and levies at any time after January 1st in each year and to provide for the distribution of the collections during the. year and for other purnoses. To warrant the issuance of $200,000 sewer bonds for Macon. 26th Day. -A resolution was intro duced in the house Thursday by Mr. Dismuke, of Spalding, for an adjourn ment sine die of the general assembly on the 15th of this month. The resolution was referred to the committee on ad journment. Mr. Boifeuillet, of Bibb,has succeeded in pushing his bill to make the state school commissioner elective by the people, through the house. Mr. Hand, of Baker, introduced a bill entitled, “An act to protect litigants against excessive attorneys’ fees and for other purposes.” Mr. Atkinson, of Coweta, gained the passage of his resolution providing for the appointment of a committee to be known as the Western and Atlantic Rail¬ road committee. There was a lively little tilt over the bill of Mr. Hill, of Chero¬ kee, granting abstract companies full right to copy county records, time provided give they give a contract at the to them free of charge to the counties in case the county books were ever destroyed or lost. The bill was temporarily tabled. A message from the governor, announc¬ ing the resignation of Judge Janes, of the solicitor general's office in the Rome circuit, caused a joint resolution calling a joint session to elect another solic¬ itor. It was held at 12 o’clock in the house. Mr. W. T. Nunnnlly, of Floyd, was the successful contestant. The following new bills were intro¬ duced : A bill to amend the act creating a board of commissioners of roads and revenues for Clinch county. To prohibit intoxfcating liquors being carried to and to drunkenness at churches. An act to fix and regulate the liabilities of all officers, agents, employes or others doing business for an insolvent, corporation in Georgia. The following bills were put on third reading: A bill to incorporate the Atlanta providing and Birming¬ ham. Passed. A bill for paying board of education in counties $2 per day, when working for the county. Lost A bill amending the corporat ing laws of the Merchants’ and Mechan¬ ics’ Banking and Loan Company. Gov¬ ernor Northern scut a message to the house announcing that Mr. D. W. Roun¬ tree had resigned the office of solicitor general for the southern circuit. 27tii Day —The new matter is all on the clerk’s desk of the house, according to the rule adopted by that body* of the legislature, which made Friday the last day for the introduction day of now entirely matter. Accordingly, the was spent with the nearly reading full of hundred new bills, of them and piled there were a on the table before the call of the roll of counties was finished. There are now nearly 450 bills before the legislature, arising session in the house, since those the introduced present began. Among Frida were several un ortant ones Among them arc the following: A bill rege¬ lating the sale of tax ii. fas. in Appliag county. A bill changing the time for holding Floyd county superior court. A bill to authorize the railroad coinmis siouers to appoint a civil engineer w host duty it shall be to insp ct the various railroads of this State in the interests of. the traveling pu lie and the employes of railroads, and for other purposes. To incorporate the town of Clarkesvillo. To amend section 1533 (C) ot the code r la- tive to the appointment of chemists and inspectors of fertilazers, by striking out the proviso that the salary of no in¬ spector shall exceed one-haif the fees re ceived bv him. A bill to create in each county a board of equalization of all personal and real property now subject to taxation. A bill to amend the act known fund for as the an act to make permanent of Georgia. the University A bill fixing the time for holding courts in the new circuit of Tallapoosa. A bill requiring all (A.ilers in fire-arms to apply for permission to the ordinary by January 1st, and pay a fee of $50, and to require such dealers to keep a record of all sales, who the puielms a, etc. To provide Richmond for the hiring of convicts in couniy. To enlarge t'e powers of the count* boards of education in this state, allowing.them the light to hire teachers by salary if they deem best. A bill to authorize guarantee companies and like corporations to become security on fi nds, A bill to repeal the fence law for the one hundred and thirty-third district of Me¬ Duffie county. A bill by request to have judges and 'solicitors appointed by the governor. THE SENATE. 25th Day. —Senator Zuchry took the netterments bull by the horns in the sen¬ ate Wednesday. He proposes a commis sion of five to be appointed by the gov ernor to be a board of arbitration, wh decision >shall be binding upon the ]( ’ i{ accepted l bv the legislature, Th( , re solutions , vcre re f er red to the com inittee on finance. The Twitty bill was then taken up in the senate agricultural committee. Col. Joe Warren, of Savan nah; Hon. W. II. Fleming, of Richmond ; Mr Louis Gho i stino f Atlanta; Mr. T. B. Xca]> of Atlanta and Mr . Jacob Haa;. of Atlant , argue d against the bill. Mr. Twitty the author of the bill, alone ‘ This concluded the v ko iu favor 0 f it. argument; but the hour for a join ... ses o{ the legislature having arrived, the committee adjourned io clock. meet a gain * hursdny morning at 8.30 o taken ost ol the time of the senate was up with the reading of hou?e bills a first time, and of house and senate bills a sec ond time. Only one bill was passed the one by Senator Williams of the first, to provide a general law for the amend mg oi railroad charteis. 26 th Day.—I lie Todd bill, te an i barroom bill, was killed again Thursday la tbl; senate. 1 his time it iras by a c e fusion of President Mitchell Ihe ruling was important for its special effect in is case, and important also as a parliament ury precedent Thei President’s decision was follows: ‘‘Under the senate rules 111 ‘bis case, the motion to reconsider must have been raadeon the day o ow W? notion sought to be considered. While the chair does not hold that the motion to reconsider might not have been properly postponed to some future day ‘bo chair is of the opinion, as no sue n ' 0 “. 0 ' 1 was mac ,: « and f a motmn to re consider must be made at a particular time, it is limited. That the mo¬ tion to take from the table the motion to reconsider, must come at least within the limit of time in which the motion to reconsider, itself, can be legitimately made.” Senator Todd introduced an¬ other temperance bill. Its object is “to make any person ivlio shall himself, or through an agent, sell or furnish any alco¬ holic liquors which shall cause the intox¬ ication of any person, liable to damage to any husband, wife, child, guardian or employer, or other person who shall be injured by such intoxicated person or in consequence of such intoxication.” Senator Ellington introduced a bill for regulating the rate of storage charged by niilroad companies in the state, and to prescribe the conditions upon which it can be charged, and to provide a method by which unreasonable charges may be contested. The Twitty bill was taken up in the senate agricultural morning, com¬ mittee again during the but no report was agreed upon. An important bill to prevent combinations and pools of insurance companies, m-ide with aview to lessening competition in the insurance business, was introduced. A resolution for the pensioning of confederate widows was introduced and passed. The following bills were put on third reading and passed: To regulate the sale of domestic wines in Effingham county. To amend charter of the city of Macon. To make an appropriation to supplement the contingent fund of 1890. To amend the registration laws ol the county of Worth. To incorporate the electric rail¬ way company of Savannah. Amending the act confirming certain ordinances of the city of Augusta. To repeal an act approved January 19, 1872, to this create a county court iu each county of state except certain counties named. To in coporatc the town of Cecil, Berrien coun¬ ty. To amend the act of 1874, granting a new charter to the city of Atlant i. To incorporate the Flovilla Banking Co. 27tii Day. —Another fight on the de¬ partment of agriculture was inaugurated Friday in the senate. The bill is by Senator Vincent, of the forty-fir3t. Its proposition is brief and to the point—to repeal the act of 1874, which established the department, and all acts amendatory thereof. The Ellington fertilizer bill passed the senate, practically without op¬ position, bills the vote being 34 to 1 Some •general and more local bills coine up every legislature, intended to protect the farmer against having his cotton stolen. The most sweep ng meas¬ ure of this kind ., tha: could well be devised was introduced by is _ Senator < l'odd. It “to prevent'the sale, of cotton, in the seed or lint, without the consent of the owner of the land upon which the cotton is raised.” It is a mis¬ demeanor to buy, as well as to sell with¬ out this written consent. Senator John s n, of the thirty-ninth, introduced an important t ill. It is a code amendment, ection 3554, to make only one-half of ihe daily, weekly or monthly wages of journeymen, mechanics aud dsy Li- borers exempt from garnishment. The Twitty bill was taken up again by the senate agricultural committee. One amendment was adopted, and then the bill was reported favorably. That amend¬ ment was made by the author of the bill, in lieu of all the amendments. That leaves the bill exactly as it is for amounts not exceeding $100, $200. For amounts exceeding but n t more than $600, 5 per cent attorney’s fees is allowed; and for amounts over $500, 2£ per cent. But in no case—no matter what the amount may be—shall an obligation to pay attorney’s fees, in addition to the interest specified, be binding unless a judgment is rendered! The bill to consolidate and amend the common school ws of the state, came up for a ird reading, It was ordered printed, and made tho special order for Wednesday. The following senate bills were passed: To Railroad incorporate the Southern National company. To incorporate the Bank of LaGrange. To incorporate the Merchants’ Exchange Bank a-d Trust company. To incorporate the Columbus investment company. To incorporate the Bank of Momoe. Amending the charter of the Contractors’ Association To in¬ corporate the Savannah Savings and Mortgage company. Amending the char¬ ter of the American Trust and Banking company. Savings Amending the charter of the Germania bank. To provide a system of public schools for the town o f Calhoun. THE STRIKING MINERS WILL NOT BE RECOGNIZED IN THEIR DE¬ MANDS BY THE MINING BOSES. All the large mine operators of Ala bama held a meeting at Birmingham, S£ a A‘, BS&SS5 broken a written contract and struck on the order of a Northern committee, they all signed the following agreement: decline ad- 1. That we positively mining. to vance the price of decline 2. That we positively executive to recog nize or confer with the com rnittee of the United Mine Workers of America. 3. That we will, in accordance with our past custom, always meet a commit tee of our own men, appointed differences by our own miners, to discuss any which may exist between us. The miners’ committee also held a meeting Thursday and decided to con tinue the strike. The furnaces of the Debardleben Coal and Iron Company go out of blast on account of the strike, and several others will shortly follow, WTio Votes in London. London’s new government rests upon a franchise so popular that practically is nobody who would care to vote ex¬ cluded. In the first place, all house¬ holders are enfranchised; and this in¬ cludes every man who rents a place for his family, even if it be only a small room in the garret or the cellar of a tene¬ ment house. It also includes those who live within fifteen miles of the metropo¬ lis, but own or occupy metropolitan quarters, for any purpose, worth a cer¬ tain very limited rental. Owners o'" prop¬ erty in London, no matter where they live, if British subjects, are entitled to vote. Widows and unmarried women who are householders, occupiers authorized or owners of property, arc also to vote for county councilors. The principal basis of the franchise is the household; and the chief disqualifi¬ cations are receipt of public alms and failure to pay rates that have fallen due. Any resident of the metropolis or vicin¬ ity who is entitled to vote is eligible to election. Furthermore, any British sub¬ ject who owns land in London, or who is possessed of a limited amount of prop¬ erty. no matter where he live-, may be chosen a councilor f the county of Lon¬ don. The fact of residence in one dis¬ trict does not disqualify, either in law or in the popular judment, for candidacy in another district.—[Century. Joyless Childhood. The streets of Antwerp, Belgium, are in paved with stone. What is striking the inhabitants at first sight is their small size. The Belgians are a short Their race and exceedingly said industrious. densely country is to be the most populated and in the Europe. Wages and in the are very low, on farms gar¬ dens the women do the same laborious work (and sometimes more laborious) that the men do. They are excellent gardeners and nothing is allowed to go to waste. In a sense they may be termed the Chinese of Europe. The children in Antwerp show the effect of the heavy monotonous life of their parents. They dress in clumsy, awkward garb which gives them an old man look, and they wear wooden shoes which prevent any of the light frisky movements of gamboling childhood. and simple _ Their games are few ; in fact they seem to believe they could were made to. work 113 soon as they stand, and their play bears the air of those who think they ought really to be doing something else. — [New York ■J ournal. New Use for Buttermilk. - * Dr. Stanley M. Ward states that he lias iouml fresh buttermilk very service able in relieving vomiting of various forms. The remedy is administered ice cold, in doses of about half a teaspoon ful, repeated every fifteen children or twenty with minutes. In tue w-c ot cholera inl'uituuL iy has often succeeded in quieting the stomach by interdicting everything else, and using a few drops of fresh ice cold buttermilk at intervals varying in len ;tu ace «rdingto the sever¬ ity of the case.—^Commercial Advertiser. TELEGRAPH AND CABLE. WHAT IS GOING ON In T u f BUSY WORLD. a summary op outside AFFAIRS densed FliOM NEWSY con¬ FROM UNCLE SAM’s DOMAIN DISPATCHES THE CABLE a-XII ly- h^vt BRINGS. rccoe " izri “ e re King Kalakua, of Hawaii, drived in San Francisco Thursday. The Bank of England has reduced rate of discount from a 6 per cent to 5 per cent. A Kansas 'City dispatch sa ys: Mrs. Armour’s $20,000 diamonds stolen here Thursday. By a wreck on the Chicago an 3 au„ railroad Thursday, Judge J. K Hiffle of Kansas Pekin, Ill., City, lost and their Fred lives. A. Sm,tk°r ’ °‘ The fine cut department of the Scat ten tobacco works, at Detroit, was iroycd by fire Wednesday. Loss Sinn'" 000. Two firemen were killed ai d two injured by falling walls. Albert H. Smith, the broker of New forging York, who certificates was recently of Lake convicted" of Wednesday, Shore stock, was, on sentenced to seven teen years in the penitentiary. A cablegram of Sunday from Cairo Igypt, says: The cotton association re’ ports the picking of the Egyptian cotton as finished, that the crop is good 0 f the yield is 3,750,000 cantares. lioldino- »* rendered *• N decision tw ",, ® bo " smenof „ • t f no . T lie . , u c u s — are linhle ha “® for for .f ^ son d’»r dut y the * Piling, . * - En>ni "^^ 1 at- ZI ^ ha, >ar who ^ ls P is a tch at the of Friday head of says: the German exp< dmon, has arrived at Lake Victoria , 1 he expedition had a Dumber of fi £ hts wlth Arab slave traders, but it was successful in all engagements. Three workmen on the Reading rail road were crushed to death Thurs ay by a coal train coming around a curve sud denly and getting them in between the train and a house, around a window of which a large crowd was gathered draw ing pay. A dispatch of Sunday from Yera. Cruz, Mexico, says: The hospital au thorities will give out very few reports to the press about yellow fever in that city. However, popular rumor has it that the disease is epidemic. The bishop of Yera Cruz is dying. The forthcoming report of the Secre¬ tary of the Interior will show th t from 1850 to 1890 there were patented and claimed by the subsidized raiiro d-, 51,- 377,340 acres of land, and about 7,000. 000 acres were patented in the same period for wagon roads, canals and river improvements, A special of Friday, from Pine Ridge agency, South Dakota, says the situation has not materially changed. The hostile Rosebud Indians sleep upon their arms, prepared constantly for attack. They have taken all they wish of the govern¬ ment beef herd, and burned the buildings and corrals. They are living high, and are happy. Delamatcr & Co., bankers of Mead ville, Pa., made an assignment Friday morning. No particulars are obtainable. George W. Delamater, the defeated can¬ didate for governor, is president. This bank is another deposito vof stab- funds, to the amount of !, 10 ,01)0, but State Treasurer Boyer says UiU shite is amply protected by bonds. General Schofield, at Wash baton, re¬ ceive l a tflegrain Thursday afternoon from General Brooke, saying that forty lodges of Indians who left Rosebud agency since the removal of the camp a ross White river to the edge of the “Bad Lanes,” have returned and that there were strong symptom* disintc gration, as about half of the Indians seem to be willing to come back to the agency. Pittsburg were Large business blocks at destroyed by fire Friday morning. 10 buildings destroyed were brick, seven stories high, occupied by E. Magi , cracker house; S. & W. J. Jenkin . wholesale tobacco house; Crea. Gralian. & Co., stove and hardware dealers, l H. Harris Engineer & Co., Samuel wholesale Evans dru and ?| 1 ^' live Chief the falling firemen were caught under wall. Standard I ^ famous suit of the Texas r ^ ton seed Oil factory, of Galveston, fire in t he early ^“ecompanie^has f against six different transferred m P been These ’ |op fi nal settlement. interest, J mise to prove P of unusual , is th cre about $200,000 and im “j but “ charges of conspiracy Heid ^ been developed against he mill, Bim the owners of , INSURANCE MEN - and south car leva xe OF N0KTH and organize. The general life insurance a .? eD ‘ s ° South Carolina he d a t . North and . J J * ^jf e *1luurance"Associa following officers t i o a" of ^ en the elected. Carolina®.’’ following ^ ^ •„ ’ of South Care prtsid n , • j) re wery. < f Norn’ ™ presidents; S. L. Adam* l ’ vice -.-J-etarv and trea iUrer ' \ b)ur . .a ’• 'appointed to b her b’S ? onv ‘ wag in J aD at Charlu , third Tuesday uary. bhcwbTm>w u
