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THROUGH GEORGIA.
BITS OF NEWS GATHERED FROM
OVER THE STATE,
Being a Summary of Interesting Hap¬
penings From Day to Day.
Alacon is preparing to have a great
celebration and jubiiee on July 4th at
Central Oitv park for the benefit of
th^ public library. At an enthusiastic
meeting of the projectors of the enter¬
prise organization was perfected under
the name 01 the Fourth of July Asso¬
ciation.
Airs. William C. Clarke, in behalf of
the indies of Newton county, has pre¬
sented to the state the beautiful win¬
dow which was used in the exhibit of
Newton county at the exposition in
the state building. The window has
been accepted by Governor Atkinson,
and is npw in ths state library.
* * *
Following upon the heels of the
state encampment of soldiers at Griffin
will be the convention of the Baptist
Young People’s Union, which will
carry quite a large throng of religious
young people to that city. The con¬
vention will Iu; in se-sion three days
and will bo very interesting.
* * *
A pretty wrangle over the division
of the rewards off red for the capture
of old man Taylor Delk has arisen be¬
tween the parties interested. These
parties are Detective Dave Looney,
VV. fi. Mehaffey and Jmi Hewitt, of
Atlanta, aud John Langford, who lives
in the country near Sonoia. The mat¬
ter will probably' he takon to the
courts.
The jury in the Criswell case at Jef
fcrrouville, brought in a verdict of
guilty, with a recommendation of life
imprisonment against Warren Criswell,
on trial, charged with train wrecking,
Criswell was as cool and collected dur¬
ing the trial as any person iu the
conrtroom. He was very attentive to
all that was taking place, but was
•never excited or nervous. The priso¬
ner was in jail when the verdict was
rendered. His counsel waived his
presence. Sentence was theu passed
jn accordance with the verdict.
Old Taylor Delk and his son. Tom
Delk, will not swung from the gallows
ou June 19th. A motion for a new
trial has already been made. The
noted prisoners are now in Fulton
county jail, where they will remain
pending the action of the courts. A
special guard has been pd&oed about
the noted prisoners and all escape h«6
been made impossible. The ceils in
which the mou are confined are in¬
spected four times daily aud every'
-safeguard has been thrown around
them.
President II. M. Comer, of the Cen¬
tral, Ihs received a summons from the
state railroad commission to appear
baicro that body on June 12th and*
produce the minute books of the reor¬
ganization, or any other books that
will ehow who owns the Central’s stock.
There is a well-defined belief that the
Southern owns it, and the commission
wants to make rule 1 applicable. Wheu
Uflked about tho matttr, Air. Comer
said he would be there, but as to what
he might, say, ho only replied: “Well,
the road’s there, and we’re operating
it. Isn’t that enough?”
Atlanta is steadily increasing in
population. Since the publication of
the new city directory at least ten
thousand people have moved to the
city and have taken up their perma¬
nent abode in Atlanta, When the city
directory for 1896 was issued the pop¬
ulation, according to the census taken
by the city enumerators, was placed
at 114,340. Adding ten thousand
names to this amount the population
of Atlauta today is placed at 124,349.
And steadily tho city climbs up the
scale of figures toward the 150,000
mark.
The annual camp of instruction for
the Georgia volunteers will begin in a
few days and the commands that have
been ordered to be in attendance are
making extensive preparations for the
occasion. The tour of duty required
for the present year is shorter than
nstiol on account of the small appro¬
priation made by the last legislature,
but ample time will be given for the
ordinary work of camps of instruction,
The days of iun aud frolic at camp
have passed aud the young soldier who
now ealists aud goe,s to Grifila with
his command expects to do his full
sliare of work, and vigorous regu a
tions have removed the attractiveness
of camp life from the tin soldier of
ten or twelve years ago.
Teachers’ Annual Meeting.
The annual meeting of the Georgia
Teachers’ Association, which is to he
held on Cnmberlan l island, from the
14th to the 31st instant, will be con¬
ducted on the grounds of the associa¬
tion with groat eclat. The first week
wfli be devoted to the general business
sessions, in which questions pertaining
to school legislation and the general
improvement of the 6tate will be dis¬
cussed.
A convention of county school com¬
missioners will be a feature of the ses
sion. The state school commissioner
has called them in annual session to
meet with the etatp teachers, and to¬
gether consult for the best interests of
the state. Among the lecturers will lie
Governor Atkinson and Dr. Carry.
On Sunday, July 19th, will be deliver¬
ed the annual sermon.
Ou Alondav, July 20th, will begin
the normal session of the association,
continuing two weeks. Dr. Curry has
given sufficient funds, added to help
elsewhere, to make this the mo3fc com¬
plete and comprehensive summer nor¬
mal in the south. There will be twelve
courses and nine instructors.
More Trouble for the Lessees.
Further trouble is brewing for con¬
vict camp No. 2, better known as
Camp Kramer, in Wilcox county, ou
account of the reported inhuman beat¬
ing of the crazy convict and two of his
fellows on Alay 8th by Whipping Boss
Price.
Several days ago Governor Atkinson
issued orders suspending Price and
commanding him to appear at the Capi¬
tol and show cau*e why he should not
be discharged for his cru-alty to the
convicts.
The governor has since carried the
matter further by issuing an order in¬
structing the lessees at Camp No. 2 to
appear before him on June 10th ut 9
o’clock and show cause why their lease
should not be canceled and the con¬
victs at that camp turned over to the
state.
The order was issued at the instanoe
of Principal Keeper Turner, who has
been to the camp and made a personal
investigation of the charge of cruel
whipping. The three convicts who
were beaten on Alay 8th are named
Williams, Marshall and Petersou;
These men will be carried to Atlanta
at the expense of the state to bear wit¬
ness iu the case.
The order is issued under n law
passed by the legislature in 1881, in
which it is provided that the whipping
bosses must be appointed and dismissed
by the governor and that the leases
shall be held responsible for their con¬
duct. The convicts at Camp Kramer
are leased by Air. W. B. Lowe, but are
working at present for the Gress Lum¬
ber Company. The arrangement
with Mr. Gress is made by Air. Lowe,
who is held by the state for the lease.
Dr. H. V. M. Miller Dead.
Dr. H. V. M. Aliller died at his
home iu Atlanta last Saturday after a
protracted illness.
With the death of Dr. Homer Virgil
Alilton Aliller, one of the most distin¬
guished of Georgia’s public man passes
away.
For fifty years ho has been actively
identified with public life in Georgia,
and in his prime was regarded as one
of the ablest men that the state ever
produced. He was the contemporary
and at times the political opponent of
some of the greatest figures in ante¬
bellum public life in the state, and it
is said that in his active political
career he never met a man who could
cope with him in public debate.
But though so highly distinguished
in public life, he was not less so in his
chosen profession of medicine, to the
study of which he brought all the
powers of mind of rare natural
strength, and adorned by long research
in the study of science aud literature.
Dr. Miller was born in the Pendleton
district of South Carolina in 1814, in
the stirring days of the second war
with England. His father, Alajor Gen¬
eral Andrew Miller, who was of Welsh
descant, moved to Georgia in 1820,
when Dr. Miller was only six years
of age, and settled in Rabun county.
On his mother’s side he was de¬
scended from the Cheri family, one of
the leading Huguenot families of
fckmth Carolina. It was from his
mother that he inherited most of that
rare culture and intellectual strength
which made him iu his time a giant
among some of the giant intellects of
his day. Mrs. Miller is said to have
been a lady of rare culture and piety,
aud he always claimed that it was to
the stimulating influence of her dis¬
cipline that he owed the formation of
his moral and intellectual character.
* * *
The Chicago Fiasco.
Commissioner Nesbitt in speaking
of the postponement of the Southern
States exposition at Chicago, said:
“We were all very much disappoint¬
ed at the the turn affairs took which
matte it necessary for us to temporarily
abandon the idea of the exposition.
Georgia was all right, and would have
made a splendid showing. We have
been organizing exposition club3 all
over the state, and had the other
states been as well prepared as Georgia
the scheme would have been a complete
success. When we got together at
Augusta, however, and compared notes,
we found that with the exception
of Georgia aud one or two other
southern states, the progress had been
very unsatisfactory. Tennessee,
which at the first meeting in Chicago
had been very enthusiastic about the
exposition, had backed completely
out. Major Thomas, of the Nashville,
Chattanooga and St. Louis railroad,
who had been an ardent promoter of
the enterprise, found that he would
Pave to give all ms spare time and en¬
thusiasm to the Tennessee Centenial
project, and othur prominent Tennes¬
seeans were iu the same fix. Besides
this, the fact that this year is the year
of the presidential election militated
against the exposition,and when we had
gone over the whole situation we found
that in the limited time at our com
mand it could not be carried to a suc¬
cessful issue.
“I still hope,” continued Colonel
Nesbitt, “that the scheme will be re¬
vived next year, wheu the people will
not be given up so entirely to politics.
It, of course, rests with the Chicago
people as to whether the movement
will be kept alive until that time, but
I, for one, believe that the idea will
yet be carried out. If the time ever
comes to revive the idea, and I believe
it will, Georgia will be ready, a3 she
was this time, to bear her part iu a
creditable manner and to make an ex¬
hibit second to none of the southern
states.”
TRADE CONDITIONS.
Bradstreet’s Review of Business for
the Past Week.
Bradstreet’s review of trade for the
past week says:
“General trade continues depressed
in almost all lines. Demand is smaller
than a week ago, and requests for and
offerings of commercial paper have de¬
creased. Alercantile collections con¬
tinue complained of, and the tendency
of prices, particularly of cereals,
gar, coffee, pork products, cotton and
cotton goods and iron and steel, con¬
tinues downward.
“At the south the more favorable
features are the rain which visited
South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama
with benefit to the crops, about one
sixth increase in the cotton acreage of
Texas, higher prices for resin and a
larger volume of business at Nashville,
Charleston and Baltimore. Nebraska’s
crop prospects were never better.
There is a moderate increase in the
demand for dry goods at Chicago, but
business there generally is disappoint¬
ing. The check to trade at St. Louis
is in part the result of delays in dis¬
tribution of merchandise on account of
the late storm. Unseasonable cool
weather and rain have interfered with
the retail trade in territory tributary
to Kansas City.
“Alay bank clearings, 1895, are
heavily reduced, reflecting the quiet¬
ness in trade and specalation. They
show not only a heavy falling off from
Alay a year ago, but are smaller than
the April total, something which
has ocearred only twice in thirteen
years. Total clearings at sixty-nine
cities for May aggregate $4,218,000,000
—a decrease of 13 per cent, from
April 1st this year.
“The total number of business fail¬
ures throughout the United States this
weMi, as reported to Bradstreets, is
236; compared with 227 last week; aud
236 in the first week of June 1S95.
“Makers of oottou for export are
doing relatively the best business.
Over-supply of cotton fabrics con¬
tinues to depress prices. Aluch woolen
goods machinery continue idle, and
sales of woolens for fall delivery have
not held up, as expected. Shoes con
tiuue firm, and factories report a large
number of orders ou hand, wnich
strengthens leather aud hides. Iron
and steel prices iu some instances are
resisting demands of combinations by
withholding orders, or nearby wants
for staple makes of iron and steel
have been over-estimated. Production
tends to decrease.
TALK OF BOLTING.
Sound NIoiscy Men of Illinois Hold a
Conference at Chicago.
There was a conference of gold stan¬
dard democrats from all parts of Illi¬
nois at Chicago Saturday to debate the
advisability of holding a “bolting”
-state convention.
A score of prominent men were made pres¬
ent. Ex-Congressman Forman
a strong protesting speech against the
bolting idea, which originated with
the Cook county faction, and urged
that the radical bolting step be de¬
ferred until after the Peoria sta*e aDd
Chicago national conventions of the
party have passed into history. It
practically agreed to send a contesting
uelegation to Chicago in July so as to
be prepared to have them seated if the
majority in the convention is favora¬
ble.
SpeakiDg for the gold demands of
Illinois and placing patriotism before
uurty in their estimation, the conferees
agreed that if the republican platform
hectares for gold aud the democratic
platform for silver, the gold democrats
will vote for the republican ticket.
If the republican money plank is not
satisfactory, the gold democrats will
name an independent ticket appealing
to all citizens of like sentiment to sup¬
port it. While they will uot “bolt
the regular ticket unless compelled to,
they decided to organize “honest
money ” clubs at once in every county
of Illinois so as to be prepared toboit,
and a permanent organization was ef
leeted with Charles A. Ewing, a Deca¬
tur banker, as chairman.
“Coin” Harvey’s Father Dead.
Col. Robert T. Harvey, aged 82,
father of W. H. Harvey, author of
Coin’s Financial School, died suddenly
at Huntington, W. Va., Friday night
from apoplexy.
VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS
Hold Their Stale Convention at Staun
ton—Platform for Bimetallism.
The Virginia democratic state con¬
vention assembled in Staunton Thurs¬
day and was called to order at noon
by Hon. J. T. Ellison, chairman of
the state committee.
The committee on permanent organ¬
ization submitted the name of Micai.i
Woods, of Charlottesville, as perma¬
nent chairman abd J. Bell Bigger and
Joseph Button, secretaries, These
recommendations were confirmed by
the convention.
Air. Woods, in assuming the duties
of permanent chairman, impressed
upon the body the importance of the
minority submitting to the domina¬
tion of the majority.
While waiting for the report of the
committee on resolutions, Senator
Alartin mnde a speech on the cause of
free silver. He was confident that if
all the democrats of the country were
inspired as those present they would
elect their president this year, and
one, he said, who would be in accord
with his party.
Senator Alartin said there were some
things upon which he differed with
his party, but there was never a time
when he was not in accord with them
on the money question, representative
Tucker in a speech strongly commend¬
ed Air. Cleveland as an honest, upright
democrat. This was heartily cheered
by the gold delegates.
The committee on resolutions sub¬
mitted the following platform, which
was read by its chairman, Senator
Daniel:
The platform declares adherence to
the principles of democracy as enunci¬
ated by Jefferson, Aladison, Alonroe
and Alason and the patriots of their
day; opposes “AIcKinieyism, which
proposes to tax the poor man for the
benefit of trusts and capitalists;” fa¬
vors a tax for revenue, limited to the
necessities of an economically admin¬
istered government; opposes “the re¬
publican party because, while profess¬
ing to protect our laboring men and
mechanics, it is in practice filling our
mines and factories with pauper labor
from Europe;” opposes a third presi¬
dential term and then declares:
“We are for ‘sound money,’ sound¬
est the world has ever had or can have,
the money of the constitution, the
money of the people, the money of
civilization through ages past and des¬
tined to be such as we believe for ages
to come.
“This sound money should consist
of gold, silver and paper redeemable
in silver or gold at the option of the
payer, the units of the whole mass to
be kept at parity by coinage rights
and equal legal tender function, the
only method by which the parity
of the two metals has been contin¬
uously and successfully maintained.
We hold to the use of both gold and
silver as the standard money of the
country and to the coinage of both
gold and silver without discriminating
against either metal or charge for
mintage. The immediate and com¬
plete restoration of the bimetallism of
mone y which existed in the United
“ 1873 is, in
State from 1793 to our
opimon> demanded bv the inter
egtg of commerce, manufacture
au({ ag rj cn i ture) which are alike
suffering from the continuous fall
of prices and the consequent embar¬
rassment of bankruptcy of those en¬
gaged therein, and in order to restore
it we demaud the full and unlimited
coinage of both silver and gold at the
ratio of 16 to 1 without waiting for
the assent or concurrence of any other
nation. It cannot be that this great
nation, the foremost of the earth in
riches and power, is unable to form a
financial system of its own, and
while we would welcome an interna¬
tional agreement that would settle the
vexed question, we are unwilling to
defer action or make the interest of
our own people dependent upon the
course of others.
“We warn our countrymen that un¬
less silver is upheld as- money of re¬
demption and sustained at a parity
with gold by equal privileges at the
mint and by equal tender func¬
tion a further contraction of the
enrrency and the further accumula
tion of public indebtedness will be in¬
evitable. We have S4 less per capita
in circulation now than we had in No¬
vember, 1893, when the Sherman law
was repealed, and fu the present
strained condition of our resources,
t*he deficits of revenue and the fall of
prices each further contraction of
money and accumulation of debt
would paralyze business, lower wages
and bring upon the country wide¬
spread panic and ruin.
“We hereby instruct all of the dele¬
gates from Virginia to the national
democratic convention at Chicago to
vote for a platform declaring for the
free and unlimited coinage of silver
and gold at the ratio of 16 to 1 and
for the candidates for president and
vice president who openly advocate
that principle,” adopted expressing
A resolntion was shall be
a desire that John W. Daniel
named by tlia national convention as
one of the members of the presiden¬ elected
tial ticket. The convention
as delegate at large to Chicago H. S. Job_ K. a
W. Daniel, W. A. Jones,
Alorrflon and C. A. Swanson.
The electors at larse chosen are:
James W Marshall and W. B. Aiell
;
waine.
J. Tayior E[[ mi
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muu of tne s: all;
tlOll gated Of to Wl«li« the e I,-,®”;' 1 *. «K
com t r lltt “f.
IS NOYV A
The Senate P asses
r 0 ar ‘d H ai
eleven The .e M W passed^’ ; a "';«»- by
to one, odds *
harbor hill over the ° e riv «
Thus the ofVen^sseVcL^ big biUbe^ 1 ^^
Late, » 8£ve *
Hill, of New Tork oi\S!^. 0iT «
Jersey, and Vilas, oi 3
ator Hill not only V M ed ^ 8
measure, but defended the a gain s t
in a speech. ae presid
pied about four honr § th ^ ote °«
favor of overriding the'v^ 1 *^
by Senators Dakota,’ Vest, Sherman ? of’^ p7 em
of South Eer r
Stewart of Nevada, flakier m““ &
trout .and Butler Norih 0
Speeches of
m favor of misW
veto were made ^SCEM by Sen**
Vil.. **
introducing amend the a joint resohL
..he president constitution ^
power to *
item in an appropriation veto a|
which the bill —a p Q ,
Now constitution of the state
York gives to the governor
that state. Mr. Pettigrew's
characterized the veto fpee »Z
of the which power as i3
past, had no place
president fres government. in He denounced]
him with utter severe terms, chaH,
cred oath an of disregard of his.
the laws, office, with ovenalii
the influencing congressmen ]
use of patronage, enriching 1
favorites at the public expense, aa
in fact, permitting no restraint but]
imperial will.
There was a group of more tu
twenty members of the house stand
seats in the while space the back vote of the in republic]
was PMp*
m. They showed a lively interest!
very
the matter, and withdrew as sootj
the result of the vote was annoiiJ
HANGED IV EFFIGY.
Congressman of Nebraska Made
Constituency Angry.
The most intense excitement
been engendered at Omaha and out!
the Kem, state of by the sixth action congressional of Congiessmj di
the
trict of Nebraska, in opposing, out]
floor of fha house of repre&eniuiiw
Waslji-ugtou, the passage of the trail
Mississippi exposition appropriatii
bill. Denunciation of his -policy
general and the wires have been ktj
busy conveying messages deploring!
action and demanding a reconsider
tion.
Sentiment antagonistic to the eol
greesmau found expression Saranii
night and he was Benson, hanged in suburb efcgy i| j
the citizens of a
Omaha, A crowd formed early in tfl
evening, raded the and, headed dragging by a drum, a dmnaj pj
streets, appropriate!
made of straw and
labeled.
Finally the effigy was strung up t<
pole in the public square and rid®
with bullets.
As a climax to the evening’s cut*
the straw man was cut aowu and l® 1
ed at the stake. In explanationo*
action Mr. Kem says: J
“I am contending for a puna?
higher than all the expositionM represent
earth, viz: The trnsfLoor, right to acu no u. J
constituency on purpose
will swerve me from my
this.” his inability t
Air. Kem refers to
secure recognition for a bill baring
focal significance.
GEN. LEE IN HAVANA
The United States Consul is *o w3 1
His Post of Duty.
General Fitzhush States Lee, consul vecenuj «Pj
pointed United vjq
at Havana, in succession to - 1
mon O. Williams, of duty Wednesday resigned, »n«J mo® *
his O Mascotte
CD mer «•»*
The steamer was met - by a er *
*
decorated tug, upon Sprmgen * p,
Messrs. Williams and
Burgess, Senor Zaldo. rep ^ t>of
the captain general, and - ^ the
the Ward line. The pany
Mascotte and extended a cu. -
come to General Lee. a0( l»
General Bradley T ‘. J °„ “ !»rga
of other America aC j a
number , r
crowd of people whar f^ e
ashore. On the ' wfr e s<>
respectfully. r hand
most end he j a
demonstrations &r j
some carnage, vith the ga a
footman in Senor Bog
was driven to the ^
where Mr. Williams rooms mr
secured a fine suite o
successor.
ARIZONA’S OEhECjAT
inter est of
GO to in the
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-: I eos fe# "
terf ^^ a
The democratic
tion of Arizona in se ’, V^ : ^
elected SiX 9te -
Monday convention,p . e a resold "
national . ^ 5 -
denouncing Fresiuent ta¬
naneial policy and *- w r il
free and unlimitea of 16 to cow^
the ratio
tne action of 0u ' a "
