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jj NEWS IN BRIEF. interest Gatlsrea at Haidon a ill over tie State. I Korthen has apn ointed Hun. I , r of Chattooga eouuty, succeed fnr . 1892 for Fulton . f F Se taxable The property tax digest to be K ami [grease $52,345,972. This up ^$4,574,879. ^plaints \xssssr of the Georgia s >9 state lion. complains of new rates of bus southern and eastern „ cotton to Rad esta blisbed by the Southern Steamship Associaiion for the seas n. It is claimed that ling discrimination has been used , Columbus. Aluminum Plant for Rome. „ been mad for the have ■ cements extensive Aluminum plant of an will be located in Ibe plant the railroads have ime, where All portant concessions. neces- abun eria ; can be obtained in - - ... Floyd county. Tne factory will abant five hundred dollars worth mum per dav whe t first started, it is expected to double this ca jt will be shipped to eastern for the present. Augusta HerciH says that the Lowers of southwest Georgia sold ,,p for $200,880 net, and that of Northern money is now circu a that region. About the same k we presume, was lost for want png, evaporating _ and distilling fses’to iMarahallvilie work up sho the uld surplus double pro- her ] next y ar by utiliz ng what she ship. She should also bore an i ^11 and not depend on Monte ir pure water. * >i= * has been broken at Savannah istructim began on the Macon, ;| ,n i Savannah railroad from Sa¬ U to Dublin. Engineer Dunn steadily states I will be prosecuted it. When any effort to rush ted this road will be the shortest rom Savannah to Macon, 164 miles, [our miles Dublin are now and in the operation ■aeon L to company well. The road, when finished In through Chatham, Bryan, Bul B’attuall, L, Emanuel, Montgomery, Twiggs and Bibb counties. Ilessw zaeTchants of Savannah who Insurance amounting to about three I I dollars met a few days ago to against the recent increase in the pf insurance in that city, ranging B to 80 per cent of the old rates, itions were adopted requesting a race with a committee of the rn Jjsociation aud a committee pointed for that purpose and to b ind with insurance companies not f compact and see what arrange can be made to place insurance bem. Other business men will be ted in the movement at once. Mer are determined not to submit to :rease if it can be avoided. F students who attended the Geor ormal College at Athens, passed plowing Ksioos: resolutions at the close of FjlvetJ, ofthe Georgia That we, normal the teachers college, and express stu Ipnciation and gratitude to Governor sn for his successful efforts in behalf of tr education and the elevation of the raiid we tender him our cordial support 1 D8 °f this great state and claim him as wdel governor.’ solved, That we, who have attended the i of the Georgia normal college, fur. her ?eMion the legislature of our state at its ission to take such steps as will perma establish aud equip this normal school tat we believe to be one of the most im it and pressing educational works in ia.” a ■om the 6th to the 10th of September f be in session at Atlanta one of ■most important conventions repre the manufacturing interests of the PQ States ever held in the city. This •Dization is known as the National As lition of Stationary Engineers, and is posed fleam of engineers in every branch of P>aal organization engineering profession. The franch is composed of lo pmerable associations in all cities of any size in the United States. Py state and territory in the union be R presen ted, there being upwards of P f undred and forty of these branch rfpmzations. f The obj ct of the asso oa 13 be development and elevation f e methods and practice of the en¬ tering P,° knowledge business, and for the dissemi n among its members Ris particular line. * , Georgia at Chicago. - ' e * orld’s fair committee for Geor [®J nes a a few days mining held and a meeting account in ago, on *k of* ecur \ ’ n nterest g a mineral ma nifested exhibit in the for w or ,j a’s fair, the following s resolu were passed: anLi?’ !! ei mee ^ this committee. committee will not ■!iolv n “ as a e <> That every member of this r» v - com r “Sources “,„ eTer of y the person state interested be and they in the min are heie- by requested t<» forward at one ail miner* specimens which they desire ■ xhibited at the World’s fair at Chicago to Hou. R. T. Nesbitt, commissioner of agricultui e of the state of Georgia, at Atlanta, Ga. Resolved, 3 That if a sufficient quantity of minerals a-e not sent to be exhibited at the World’s fair at Chicago that whatever is sent be placed upon exhibition in .he agricultural de¬ partment of the state of Georgia. Resolved, 4. That we can ot too stronglv urge and impress upon the people of Georgia the great importance of taking advantage of this exhibition to advertise to the-world the great resources of the state. Georgia Crops. A ccor d ing -u* v* nattier bureau port rnr Tndphst week an excess of rain and want of sunsh ne the crop prospects in the northwi st section of the state are rather discouraging. There is little change in the condition of cotton, and the outlook is generally poor. But little cotton has opened in this portion of the state. Fodder pulling has been retarded by the wet weather, aDd it is now firing and drying up on the stalks of the early crop. Fruit and melons are about gone. Northeast Section—The weather was highly benefic al to nearly all crops. About the average amount of rainfall, heat and sunshine, was received, and everything is in a much better condition. Cotton is doing fairly well on r d lands but it is shedd'ng at an alarming rate on gray and sandy S"il Reporters es imate the crop to be < fif from 25 to SO per cent. Corn is in good condition, but fodder pulling is only begun in some of hese counties while in others it is nearly finished. Caue is b ing cut in some places and the mills are already at work. Sweet potato s and peas ar*- looking well. West Section—IL avy rains, accompa¬ nied by an exc ss of heat, seem to have been general over theen ire section. Cot¬ ton, although very poor, is not shedd’ng as much as it was last week. It has been impossible to s>ve fodder on account of the wet weather, and in some portions of the sect! n 90 per cen f of it st 11 remains on the stalk The general condition of corn is good. Fruit is about gone. Ail of the smallet crops are doing very well. Centra! Section—Warm, rainy weather has prevailed during the eut re week. Although cotton picking was commenced on a few plantations, yet it has not be¬ come general on account of the excessive rains. The bolls are rotting in many places. Fodder is nearly alt pulled, but it has been damag d in places by rain. A large yield has already been harvested. With a few excep’ions the yield of corn will be above the average. An abundant yield of potatoes and [teas is expected, and a large crop of turnips bus been sowed. Eastern Section—Very encouraging re¬ ports are received from this section of the state. As a rule all crops have im¬ proved very perceptibly under the influ¬ ence of a seasonable amou t of rain, heat and sunshine. Cotton is opening rapidly and picking is in progress. From the pres* nt repot ts it is thought that the shortage will not be as great as in other sections, A large amount of folder has been secured and a good crop of corn is expected. All small crops, such as peas, potatoes and turnips are very good. it Rice is in good condition and some of is being cut. Section—More damage has Southwest been caused in thus counties than in any others in the state. Rain has been fall¬ ing continuously for several weeks and the outlook is very gloomy. Cotton is seriously damaged on nearly all planta¬ tions, and rotting is very general. Quite a number of bales have been marketed but a large percentage of them were stained badly. Cane is good, but potatoes have a poor appearance in many p aces. South Section—The rainfall, though about normal, was badly distributed. Cotton is still reported as in poor condi¬ tion, and there are numerous complaints of rotting. Rust is also quite gen -ral in some localities. Corn is very good and ready to be gathered. A good yield is expected. Potatoes, peas and cane have been injured as much as other crops. Southeast Section-The rainfall, though about the average, was mostly in the form of local showers has which improved were badjy in distributed. Cotton most portions of this sec,t ion, though where heavy rains fell the growth was retarded and rust appeared. The pick¬ ing of early cotton has been in progress between the showers. Potatoes and cane are excellent. BARON HIRSCH TO VISIT US. He Will Come to America Sometime in September. 1 Baron Hirsch, who is perhaps the mos liberal and philanthropic Hebrew living, will visit America in a few weeks. He will sail from France about the middle of next September. The purpose of hii visit is to further and promote the planf he has in view for assisting the persecutec and unfortunate members of his race There are many Russian Jews in this, country, and many of them are in strait¬ ened circumstances. It is benefit principally Jews the object of Baron Hirsch to the who have thus been driven away from ineir homes by the tyranny of Russian despotism. North Carolina at Chicago. Dr. Battle, director of the North Caro liua state experiment station received on Saturday a very important order from the United States agricultural collection depot of all to secure grains for it the choicest Caro¬ and other cereals grown in North lina for the above department’s exhibit at the world’s fair, and in connection with it will secure specimens for the state’s own exhibit. Both collections are to embrace every county in the sta e and will number probaoly over one thousand specimens. The farmers will in reality make both displays at no expense what ever to them and their names wiil in all cases anoear on their exhibits. TELEGRAPHIC GLEANINGS. Tie Hews ol tie WorlS Contaisei Into Fitly aud Pointed Parairapls, Interesting and Instructive to All Classes of Readers. Casey’s refining works, Brooklyn, N. Y., were totally destroyed by * fire Tues day night. nn on tt the n Australian l. ... . r . , coan Newfield w s Monday. was wrecks Eleven , , of the crew were drowned. The supreme lodge Knights of Pythias has decided upon Washington City as the place for the next encain ment. Anderson & Co., manufactu era and dealers in carriages and agricultmal im¬ plements, Port Huron, Mich., failed Monday. Assistant Secretary Crounse, of the treasury having department, will resign shortly, been nominated for governor of Nebraska. Pennsylvania Iron Works,at Lancaster, Pa., started to work Monday, alter two mouths’ idleness. The puddlers accept a reduction of 35 cents a ton. W. R. Brooks, of Smith’s observatory, Geneva, N. Y , announces to the Har¬ vard college ■ bservatory the discovery <>f a new comet found by him August 28 h. The death of Rev. Wm. II. Wit hing¬ ton, the oldest Harvard graduate, oc¬ curred in Jackson, Michigan, Thur-day. He was 94 year* old, and graduated from Ha vard in 1821. The American petition in favor of the release from prison of Mrs. Maybrick.aDd which contain” the names of Mesdumes Hanis'm and Blaine, was presented t > Queen Victoria Monday. A big delegation from North Carolina and V rginia waited upon Superintend¬ ent Hahn, of the speakers’ bureau <if the republican committee in New York, Tuesday, to obtaiu the aid of efficient speakets in their states. A . New , T York dispatch says: Pierre Lorillard, on Thursday, engaged Jocky Willie S mins to ride for him during the season of 1893 at a salary of $12,000, and -r, Dr. n G. T L. rr Knapp signed , S. ,, J. T Doggttt . to ride for the Oneck stables at a salary of $8,000. Presid-nt Harrison arrived i« New York Wednesday morning and left again without more than a half dozen peoble be ing able to get t-ight, of him. It reqirred considerable manoeuvering and ordering and counter ordering to accomplish the feat, but it was accomplished. A London cablegram of Thursday says : Home Secretary A squuh, at the request of the Ir sh members of pirliament, has consented to take into consideration the question of the lease of the Irish convicts now serving in the prison under convic tion of having been connected with dynamite plots, A Fall River, Mass., dispatch says: Counsel for Lizzie Borden and the state made arguments Thursday before Judge Blaisdell, reviewing th« testimony given. The court w >uld not release Lizzie Bor - den, but held her to awuit the action of the grand jury. Th» accused was or dered to the county jail lor trial at the November term. cial session Wednesday morning for the purpose of declaring a strike. As this organization embraced 90 percent of the car service the strike, if declared, will resu t in a complete tie up of all the lines. Their grievance is the discharge of three conductors without trials. A cablegram of Sunday from Berlin, Germany, states that radical newspapers condemn the proposed military bill and demand the legal two years’ service sys¬ tem. The liberals also are preparng to oppose all military votes unless the con¬ cessions are made. The situation threa¬ tens a renewal of the crisis that atteuded the introduction of tLie Septennate bill of 1887. A Kansas City dispatch of Thursday says: It is stated that a wholesale dis change of the pisseDger train comiuctor on the Santa Fe and other railroads will be inaugurate 1 at once and will continue until every one of the old men has been di missed. The reason for dismiss d is believed to be the re-ult of the investiga¬ tion which developed that all conductors were car ying passengers for less than regular fare and pocketing the amount charged. BIG FIRE IN AUGUSTA. Prominent Business Firms Burned Out—The Chronicle’s Misfortune. At three o’cl ck Saturday morning, fi e ►Tore m^AugUBuf Boxes’ 1™ rdture house Ga. Before .he fire was extingui-hed the Alexander’s Drug and Seed Co.’s building and stock, Feming & Boxes’ furniture store, Thomas & Barton’s music house, the Chronicle building and pl.nt and por tions of Dorr’s tailoring establishment and Delmonico’s restaurant were burned These buildings wer all on Broad street and in the midst of the b-st business portion nortion of 01 the me city cu,y. The lo«s is $250, 000, and the insurance *,-,-000 f 175 00 0 The ’ ' , Chronicle lost its ent r . p ant am - thing except books and the files of titty vears years. The lDeLQron Chronicle wi 1 not miss an issue, however, ha g arrange 0 the J , ments to print paper .emp • another office. Ihw • '* the ‘-b^st h t Augusta ever had. Rebuilding will com men on at once. TWENTY DAYS’ QUARANTINE Will le Enlerai on all Immigrant Slips Il Oar Gmrment. A Circular Issued from the Office of Su¬ pervising Surgeon General. A Washington disp tch says: Presi de " t H f« s ™ «nd party reached Wash jngtou from New Yor* Thursday morn ing and were at once driven to the exec ut ive mansion. The presiden.’s unex pe( . t ed return to the capital at this time was due to his desire to consult with members of his cabinet as to what furtner measures if any, should be ad’ pted by he government to prevent the introduc¬ tion of cholera into this country. TWENTY DAYS’ QUARANTINE. At the request of the president, Assist¬ ant Secretary Spaulding, of the treasury dep trtuient, and Dr. Wyman, eurgeou general of the marine hospital, met the president and nrnnb rs of h s cabinet at comereuce at 11 o’clock Thursday morn ng Afhr an hour’s deliberation it was decided not to issue a proc amation at this time, but to issue a special ciriular n stead. The circular was issued by direction of the pre-ide"t. and is as fo lows: “Treasury Depar ment, Offi-e of Sitpervi-ing Hospital Surgeon General United states Marine service.—Washing on. D C-, Sept "uber 1.—To Collectors of Customs, M dioal Oftie rs Marine Hospital Service, Foreign Steamship Compa¬ nies, State and Local Boanls of He ltli: It hav¬ ing been officially declared that cholera is pre¬ vailing in various portions of Russia, Ger¬ many and Frunce and at c rt in ports in Great Britain, as well as in Asia, and it having been mad- to appear that im¬ migrants in large numbers are coming in o the United S ates from the infected districts, aforesaid, and that they and iheir personal effects are liable to intr >duce cholera into the United States, and that vessels conveying them are thereby a direct menace to the pub¬ lic health; and it having b> en turth r sh wn that under the laws of the several s ates, quarantine detentions may be impo<ed upon to these ve-seb a sufficient length of of time insure against the spreading contagious disea-es, it is hereby ordered that no v ssel from any foreign teener port carrying immig ants s)l8lI |, e admitied at any pot of the United States until the said vessel shall have undergone a quarantine detention of twenty days-unless such detention is forbidden by laws of the state or regulations mide thereun ( j 0( ,— an( ^ ^i, gre ter number of davs as m iy b fixed in each special case by the state authorities. w be raade t i 10 atl bject 0 f special eonsidera tion upon due application to the department.” Wy The circular is signed by Walter United man, supervising general of the States marine hospital service; t harlcs Foster, secretary of the treasury, and ap¬ proved by the president. will stop immigration . The practical eff et of this twenty days’quarantine ci cular it is believed will step immigration fr m Europe for the time being and thus will be brought about a result which the popular mind believes to be desirable at this time. The steamship companies, it is argued, will not care to bring immigrants to this country and support them for a long period before they are allowed to land,as tmeh traffic would be very unprofitable, days’ The declaration of the twenty qunr antine will be a notice to the foreign gov ermnents that immigration for the present is not desirable. GEORGIA WEALTH AND TAXES. The Tax Rale This Year Will be 4.85 Cents oh $100. Georgit’s tax rate will be 4.85 mills for this year. The rate was fixed Tues¬ day by Governor Northen and Comptroller General Wright. The state has to raise $2 245,000 by taxation this year, and it baa $462,000,000, in round numbers, to levy taxes on. To determine the rate was a question of division. Of the total taxable property, $42,000, 000 is returned by railroads and street railways. 1 hree counties l ave not made their returns—Chattooga, Dougherty and Sumter—but last year they returned $12,284,000, which added to the $4<)8, <)07,0U0 for this year by the other 134 counties makes $420,000,000 of taxable property exclusive of the r ilway prop¬ erty. Last year the tax rate was 5 08 mills on the dollar. The rate for this ySkr is .23 of a mill, or nearly a quarter of a mill, less than last year. Two latge items in the S' ate’s expenses for the coming y< ar will be $590,000 tor state schools and $585,000 tor pensions, these two items and $99,000 more awarded the old lessees of the state road for betterments ran the rate up last ye ir. Were it not for these large appropria¬ mills. tions the rate would be only 2 For general purposes exclusive of the schools and the pensions the new tax rate is lower than it has ever been since ihe war. LETTER FROHMHR. rpniVT MR CLEVELAND CLEVELAND Commending a Colored Democratic Worker Herbert A. Clark, a colored man of , Columbus, Ohio, rem ntly prepaid an Pres.- ar tide in reply to some criticisms on dent Cleveland, p-esenling an argument t o show from his standpoint why colored voter s sh.m d support the ex president. Copies of the articles were seat to tne two candidates and Cl»rk is in v ceipt of the following acknowledgement: “I have received your letter of the 2!st in £3 stant ES with ffihfn clippings which you enclos-d and t most satisfaction. lam we 1 satisfied that in time to come yonr con- 8cionsn eae of having done something to benefit, in a practical w y, our colored fellow citizens, will be abundantcompensation for the effort, you are making in support of the democratic cange> Assuring yon that I fully apprec ate yonr expressed de.ernunation to labor lot the truly, ^ of the dmocraijcpnnmples^^ your. ^ THKODGHOOT THE SODTH. notes ol Her Progress ail Prosperity Briefly Transcribed, Important Happening^ from Day to Day Tersely Told. A news special of Tuesday says: An¬ other attempt is being made to form a consolidation of the tobacco warehouses of Louisville, Ky. The Jellico and Birdeye Coal Company have awarded the contract for building rdlroad from Jelico, Tenn., to Ky , to the Chattanooga Con¬ struction Company. The bovcott on the Marietta and North railroad has been declared off by the S utherti Passenger Association. Hereafter all lines in the association will give that road ticket repres ntation. The Alabama board of health, through president, Dr. J. T. Searv, of Tu-ca has petitioned President II irrisou to stop foreign immigration to this coun¬ try till the ctiolera epidemic ceases. A Knoxville, Tenn., dispa eh says: Commissioner Ford was acquitted at Coal Creek Wedne-day. The indictment against Alleman was withdrawn, All prboners have now been tried. There are twenty seven in jail here and a num¬ ber at Clinton. Many arc out on bond. A cl arter was granted Thursday by the secretary of state to the East and West Railroad of Georgia. This line is project'd to run from Sparta, in Han¬ cock county, Ga., to White Plains, in Greene county, and to D ivisboro, in Washington county. The road will pass through the counties of Wa hington, Haneock and Greene and will be about fiftv miles in length. The capital stock is $30,000 with the privilege of increas¬ ing it to $500,000. A Knoxville dispatch says: A promi¬ nent official of the East Tennessee, Vir¬ ginia and Georgia railroad states that Major Henry Fink has telegraphed South¬ Mr. E B. Stahlmnn, commissioner ern Railway and Steamship association, that after considering the matter he is ready to sign the names of the Cincinnati Southern and the Alabam i Great roufch ern railroads to the new agreement offer¬ ed by the association. This ends all dif¬ ferences existing between the lines in the association. A Nashville dispatch of Tuesday siys: Judge Caldwell has called a sp cial ses¬ sion of the county court for September 12th to consider the question of submit¬ ting to the p ople a proposition to sub¬ scribe $350,000 to the cap tal stock of the lenmssee Midland railroad, This special s sson was called up m the peti¬ tion of President S. J. Moss, of the Mid¬ land, who pioposes, in the < vent this amount is subscribed, to complete the road from Perryville to Nashville by De¬ cember 25ih, 1883. The road is now in operation from Perryville to Memphis. GOV. TILLMAN WINS. He Carries Sonth Carolina by Over Ten Thousand Majority. Dispatches from Columbia state that in Tuesday’s primary elections Governor Tillman carried South Carolina by a ma¬ jority variously estimated at from ten thousand upward, and the entire reform ticket goes through with him. Returns have been very slow in reaching Colum¬ bia and Charleston, but the latest report* show that, while the conservative strength is far greater than two years ago, Governor Tillman still bus a majori¬ ty, which must be very gratifying to him and his supporters. The comparisons made with the vote two years ago need some explanation. At that time. General Haskell ran as an independent democrat against Governor Tillmitn, the democratic nominee, nnd Tillman’s majority was 44,- and 331. The race between Tillman Sheppard is strictly withiu party lines, and, of course, nothing like the majority over Haskell was expected all this that time. his Governor Tillman has (loae friends have claimed, and Tuesday’s pri¬ maries emphasize his great strength with the people of South Carolina. the conservatives gave it up. The conservatives concede the state to Tillman by about teu thousand majority, but claim three conservative c mgrt ssmen —Brawley, in the first; IL mphill, in the fifth, and Johnstone in the third district. These are present members. Shell, alli anceman, in the four h district, is also re¬ elected. The vote on prohibition was general, but there is nothing definite as to the result yet. The country vote is conceded to be Iarg ly Tillm mite. LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE Ot the Prohibition Candidate for the Presidency. An Indiau.poli. t. lcernm or Thumd,. Slot of 01 OMifornT.“Sd,« L.nrorma canuiuaie fur ^^LZt ^urse for !!u°b c t on the'liquor The i ett( r o f first de ounces dted Zd ^ J ii ■ umnin 8 ' rlit to the l £ ^ On the subiect ] f aaV9 J . *nc nnancia fina jfti question , estio m our o i p.anorm D ; at f 0 rm . is bn fly and burly stated and broad enough to satisfy all reasonable men in these words, ‘the money of the country gbould consist of gold, silver and paper.’ A.*o, th-.t tnnt it it o. b • ‘issued issued bv oy the toe trovern- govern ment on y.’ It should, of cour- , oe in sufficient quantity to meet all demands iUld the volume to be so increased and a(J j ugted M at al , time8 to re8pon(i the q[ tfac couutry