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VOL. XIII.
a THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
A®rs oi Government and Routine of
M House and Senate Discussel
>'otes of Interest Concerning the Peo¬
ple and Their General Welfare.
y[ r Wilson, of Washington, intends
to introduce a bill, which will estab¬
lish a postal currency of denomina¬
tions less than $1 and which will take
the place P reseut postal note
8 vstem of transmitting small amounts
of money. He has been consulting
with the postoffice officials as to the
host method to he adopted, and as
don as a feasible plan is formulated
. e will put in the bill.
The sub-committee on ways and
gieans of internal revenue, consisting
of Messrs. McMillan, Bynum, Mont¬
gomery, Hopkins and Payne, Monday,
heard Thomas C. Sherman, of New
York, on the subject of an income tax.
He would not have a tax on wages, sal¬
aries or the profits arising frqm busi¬
ness, but on the revenues from invest¬
ed wealth, rents, railroads, telegraph
and telephone and other corporations.
Senator Morgan, on Monday, re¬
introduced his bill of last session, pro¬
viding for the control of the Union
Pacific and Central Pacific railroad
companies. The bill increases the di¬
rectory of' the two roads to * fifteen
members each, five of whom are to be
chosen by the stockholders of the
roads and the remaining ten appointed
by the president of tho United States.
The directors are not to own stock in
either company and are to receive a
salary of $10,000 each and traveling
expenses to be paid by the railroad
companies.
The democratic members of the ways
and means committee hope to have the
tariff bill reported to the house within
a month, and to have it pass that body
before the holidays. This indicates that
considerable progress has been made
with the bill and that it is not antici¬
pated that on the schedules yet to ar
range very rnuch time is to be con
sumed, as it will be necessary to have
tho bill considered by tho full commit¬
tee nnd the republican members given
an opportunity to make a minority re¬
port before the bill is reported to the
house.
A Constitutional Amendment.
Representative Hall, of Minnessota,
has been preparing a constitutional
amendment, which he will introduce,
proposing a form of closure for both
house and senate. It is his idea that
the people would be glad to amend the
constitntion, so that a vote might be
reached in either house after a reason¬
able time. A part of his amendment
will be that no measure shall pass
either house, unless a majority of each
shall vote in favor of it. Mr. Hall
would require a roll call on every
measure that passes, no matter how
trivial, the same as required in the
legislatures of many states. , This
amendment, he does not think, will
pass at this session, but he hopes that
it may be the ground w ork of some
substantial reform in legislation,
('ailing- on flic President.
Several unconditional repeal senators
called upon the president Saturday
morning and expressed the opinion
that a compromise could be had. They
wanted to know if ho had ever given it
out that he would bo willing to agree
to a compromise. He replied, as he
has always replied to the former ques¬
tions of this character, that he stood
upon his message. In that he advised
unconditional repeal, and he still de¬
sired it. The senators who are op
posed to unconditional repeal still con¬
trol the situation. They can control
.it for weeks and months. It is not
probable that the two factions of the
senate will be able to meet upon neutral
ground for several days to come. The
night sessions haveffedi to too much
quickly. bad feelings Saturday for the s^naitors to recover wider
.they were
apart than they have been during the
oast week.
JJIr. Cleveland’s Promise.
At the cabinet meeting Friday after
complete discussion of all the phrases
of the senate situation, a compromise
proposition was agreed on to-fbe offer¬
ed by one of the repeal senators. It
Includes, as did the Hnrris amendment,
provision of the silver seignorage in
treasury, amounting to $53,000,600,
and thereafter,the purchase of 3,000,
000 ounces, until 90,000,000 ounces
have been purchased. This would
carry the purchase of silver
over the expiration of Mr. Cleveland,
a condition the silver men insist upon.
To meet the demands of the east a
proposition for the issue of $100,000,
000 of 3 per cent bonds is included.
There is still a question whether a pro¬
viso for the repeal of the tax omstate
banks and the redemption of notes of
all classes below $5 shall be added.
This is the administration’s compro¬
mise proposition.
The Income Tax.
Mr. BryaD, of Nebraska, who is a
member of the majority of the commit¬
tee on ways and means, is trying to
have a graduated income tax made a
part of the tariff bill. If it is not ac¬
cepted, he will present it to the house
in some form. The young Nebraska
statesman thinks he has solved what is
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0\xr Faitli: Pure Jetfersoiiian Democracy.
CONYERS, GA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1893.
considered the most objectionable fea¬
ture of the income tax imposition—
the inquistiorial feature. He would
have it made the duty of every
person liable to a tax upon his
income to go to the office and pay
it and not subject him to the
annoyance of paying agents of the
government, which has been suggested
as its disagreeable feature. He thinks
those who had no desire to avoid the
payment of tax would escape the in
quis.tion or annoyance. He will pro¬
pose a tax on all incomes above $2,50C
at the rate of 1 per cent., 2 per cent,
on $5,000; 4 per cent, on $10,000; fi
per cent, on $25,000 and 10 per cent,
on $50,000. His plan is to have the
postmaster in cities of 10,000 popula¬
tion or less to collect the income taxes
and in large cities a special income tax
collector to be appointed.
WIND AND WAVE,
Fearful Havoc in and Around Georgetown
South Carolina.
Nineteen Peoftle Drowned—The Storm
at other Points.
Special dispatches from Georgetown,
S-C., state that the West Indian cy¬
clone left destruction in its path at
that place. At 2 o’clock on the morn¬
ing of the 13th the wind was blowing
sixty miles an hour and the tide came
all over the water front. At 10 o’clock
it was harder, the tide reaching a
height of ten inches above the mark of
the hurricane of August 27th. The
whole water front was from one
to four feet under water and thousands
of dollars worth of merchandise
was damaged. The schooner Prosper¬
ity was blown ashore on South island
and will be a total loss. The Clyde
steamer Creaton rode out the storm at
anchor at North island. The islanders
suffered greatly and at Magnolia beach
thirteen whites and six colored per¬
sons are known to have been drowned.
The tide there rose four feet in ten
minutes and the waves swept the
houses from their foundations and the
initiates to their death. Two men and
a little girl are the only ones saved
Irom a total of twenty-two. They got
on top of a small building and drifted
to the mainland.
AT WILMINGTON.
A Wilmington, N. C., special says:
The oldest inhabitant was forced to
admit that the terrific outburst of
wind and wave that swept through the
city surpassed any storm in his day
or generation. Friday night was
stormy. There were fitful showers
and violent gusts of wind that fore¬
tokened the furious gale that followed
early Saturday morning, and that in¬
creased as the day wore on until the
climax of the big blow was reached,
near
The tide was the highest known even
in the memory of the oldest eesident,
beng sixteen inches above the high
water mark registered and recorded in
1853, which had surpassed all previous
known records, it is believed, since
the deluge. Many business houses
and dwellings were flooded, and ship¬
ping sustained heavy damages. No
lives are reported lost. The total loss
in the immediate section is about
$150,000.
The storm seemed to have spent its
ferce before it reached Savannah, Ga.
The city bore its usual appearance
Friday morning, scarcely The a tree or a
sign being out of place. indica¬
tions before the storm reached the
city were that it would be fat more se¬
vere than it was, as the wind at Titus¬
ville, Fla., on Wednesday, was fifty
six miles an hour and the swell on Ty¬
bee bar was the heaviest that has been
seen in years. But outside of a fifty
mile an hour blow, which lasted for
some ten or twelve hours, nothing of
moment has happened as a result of
the cyclone:
A STORM AT CHICAGO.
Dispatches from Chicago are to the
effect that the entire chain of lakes was
swept by a northwest gale whose se¬
verity has not been excelled for ten
years. Thnt there a large loss of life
now seems certain, but it may be many
days before it is known just how many
sailors perished. Sixteen vessels
wrecked thus far reported. The gale
in the immediate vicinity of Chicago
was not so severe as further down the
lakes where the gale is said to have
blown frem fifty to seventy miles an
hour. The only Iosp of life definitely
reported as yet is that on the yacht
Enterprise. It is almost certain that
her crew 1 were drowned.
IN NEW YOBK.
In the vicinity of New York City
and along the coasts of Ohio, a good
deal of damage was done and some
vessels were wrecked but so far as
heard, no lives were lost. Advices
from Buffalo state that the wind blew
there at the rate of sixty miles an hour.
Considerable damage was done and
several yachts are ashore. As far as
learned no lives have been lost.
OF tne ana ianas oi toe sournwest ano
west in I860, 3,631,381 acres and are now re bj
deemed to agriculture grazing
irrigation, but for every acre irrigated
there are 247 still unblessed by the tout!
of the water drawn from the mountair
highta.
A SHORT COTTON CROP.
Commissioner ot Agriculture Mitt’s
Report on the Staple.
The Acreage Increased but the Product
is tlic Same as bast Year.
Commissioner of Agriculture Nes¬
bitt says that Georgia’s crop of cotton
will be short of an average, although
the number of bales produced will be
about the same as that of last year.
The reason for this statement is that
the acreage throughout the state has
been increased over that of last year.
About three-fourths of the crop has
been picked in tho southern part of
the state, but in the northern part not
half the crop has been picked. The
condition of tho crops is due to the
variable weather in various portions
of the state. No top crop lias been
made in many portions of the state.
The following late reports about the
crop have been received at the agri¬
cultural department:
Franklin county: Cotton is opening
rapidly 1 . The crop will be gathered
earlier than usual. Corn is good on
both upland and bottom.
Walton county: Upland corn cut off
by drought. Bottoms injured by rain,
windstorms and overflows. Fifty per
cent of cotton crop picked aud farmers
selling freely to meet their obligations.
With favorable weather this crop will
be out by November 1st.
Wilkinson county: From rust and
storm will not be more than three
fourths of a cotton crop made in this
county. Now over half housed.
Hall county: Ninety per cent of
the cotton crop is now open in fields.
Corn crops are good on low lands.
Potato crop good. Tobacco only rais¬
ed for home consumption. High
price of meat made great demand for
stock hogs.
Warren county: There is no late
crop of cotton, that was destroyed by
August storms, hence the early crop
is nearly all open and two-thirds gath¬
ered. If the weather is favorable
there will be no cotton to gather after
October. The pea crop, though nev¬
er mentioned, is respectable—the best
crop we raise to the amount of labor
bestowed. Middle Georgia would not
be worth' living in without her pea
crop.
Oglethorpe eonnty: This county 1
will make the smallest crop of cotton
that it has made since 1888, compared
to acreage. There is at least 80 per
cent of the crop now open and being
marketed as fast as it is gathered.
Very little time devoted to sowing
oats.
Pulaski county : Cotton is all open
and 90 per cent picked, 75 per cent
marketed. Continual drought has
opened all that has or will mature.
On account of caterpillars and drought
no top crop this year. Farmers
have turned their cows on the cotton
fields and are sowing oats.
Mitchell county: Corn not as good
us last year in some localities. Cotton
not as good as last year, caused by too
much rain in the spring, rust or scald,
or both.
Gordon county: The fine weather
for gathering the cotton crop may
change the yield, from present ap¬
pearances. But little or no top crop,
and if dry weather continues it will
all be picked during the present
month. Corn is bound to be short.
Early county: Cotton nearly all
open and being rapidly picked.
Lee county: It is a well-settled fact
among intelligent farmers that not
more than one-half of an average cot¬
ton crop will be made, four-fifths of
which is already marketed. The cat¬
erpillars, boll worm and rust, together
with the July drought, have almost
broken every farmer in this district,
Newspaper reports to the contrary,
our section is in a bad condition.
Marion county: Cotton nearly all
open at this time. Some nearly done
picking. Very few holding their cot¬
ton. Corn not so good as it appeared
it would be. More rotten corn, and
more shuck on the corn than usual.
Peas, potatoes and cane never better.
Freedmen working well nnd behaving
becomingly.
Quitman county : Corn and cotton
are both short of last year in this
county. There is as much young cot¬
ton this year as last. At least fifty
per cent of the half-grown bolls have
not opened aud it is not thought they
will.
Clinch county: The rust has done
its work in cotton. The caterpillars
have made their appearance, though
too late to do any damage. Prospects
generally gloomy in all crops. The
grass has ruined it generally.
McDuffie, county: The cotton crop
will only yield 75 per cent of a full
crop. Cotton has made nothing since
July. Corn has rotted and the late
crop has been injured by storm and
rot. Potatoes, cane and peas made a
full crop. Good stands of turnips.
There will be an increase in the area
of wheat and oats.
Greene countv: Cotton is opening
rapidly. Ninety before per November cent of 1st. the crop The j j
will be out
yield of hay thi fall is wonderful.
Floyd cuontv: Cotton in a large part
of the county'will not reach 50 per j
cent. Corn has been cut ofl’by drougth.
me same can ne said oi sweet pota¬
toes. Hogs arc in good condition,
and would be quoted at 150 per cent
but for the scarcity of corn.
Clay county: The cotton crop is
nearly all open and at least 60 pci
cent gathered.
Upson county: Two weeks fail
weather has caused cotton to open
rapidly- 1 —about 80 per cent now open.
No late crop. Pea crop fine.
Paulding county: Cotton very
short. It is far ahead of picking.
Calhoun county: Caterpillars have
eaten up our prospective top crop .ol
cotton.
Coweta county: Cotton damaged
by wet weather and rust. Corn dam¬
aged by drouth and overflow. Poe
cron is short.
THE NEWS IN GENERAL.
Condensed from Our Most Important
Telegraphic Advices
And Presented in Pointed and Reada¬
ble Paragraphs.
The United States man-of-war Mohi¬
can arrived at Port Townsend, Wash.,
from Behring sea Friday night with
five officers and seventeen men sick
with grip. The Mohican put in for re¬
pairs.
A Paris special of Thursday says: It
is said semi-official ly that the Count
Ferdinand DeLesseps was suffering
from a stomach trouble which affected
him badly on account of his feeble¬
ness, but that lie was never in danger,
and has now fully recovered.
One of the most disastrous fires which
lias raged in Detroit, Mich., for ninny
years occurred Saturday evening on
Champlain street, a whole block of
business buildings on that street be¬
tween Brush and Benudien being com¬
pletely swept away. Doss estimated
at $200,000.
A London dispatch of Friday says:
A mysterious epidemic of diarrhoea
prevails in the Greenwich work-house.
Over 150 of the inmates are affected.
Two inmates of tho Greenwich work
house are already dead and others are
in a dangerous condition. Tho symp
tons are in many respects similar to
cholera.
A great sensation was created in
banking circles of Providence, II. I.,
Thursday by the suspension of Wilbur,
Jackson & Company and Sheldon &
Berny. These concerns were classed
among the strongest in New England.
The house of Wilbur Jackson, & Com¬
pany having been in existence a score
of years and standing a No. D
Fire broke out in the engine room
of the new Boston colliery at Potts
villo shortly after 0 o’clock Thursday
morning, communicating to the
breaker. In an incredibly short time
the entire structure, valued at $50,000,
burned to the ground. Three hun¬
dred nnd fifty men and boys were em¬
ployed and 150,000 tons of coal tho
annual output.
An unknown steamer was run down
and sunk in Boston harbor Friday
night, and many persons who were on
board were drowned, the vessel sink¬
ing so rapidly that it was impossible
to rescue them. The accident was
caused by the inability of the officers
of the respective crafts to see any dis¬
tance ahead, because of a heavy fog,
The New York Evening Post says
that the Valkyrie will bo laid up on
this side of the Atlantic for the winter,
Discussion of the result of the race
was very warm Saturday. Y’atehmen
were very decided in opinions about
the true results of the yatcli’s great
race in its bearing on the old contro
versy between kneel and centerboard
Bursting water dams in the territory
of Tepuca, Mexico, have caused great
loss of life on severul haciendas.
Twenty-four persons are known to bo
drowned. At Santa Inez, in the state
of Oxaca, tho town was inundated and
the town hall and many other build¬
ings were swept away. There were
similar disasters in other towns.
During the week ending October
14th 2,121,794 people paid to see the
World’s fair. It was the banner week
of the exposition thus far, and far ex¬
ceeded the attendance for alike period
of any international fair ever ho d. Of
this number Chicago day contributed
over 700,000, a greater crowd, perhaps,
than ever before congregated within
an enclosure.
The big schooner Minnehaha was
beached at Stark, ten miles north of
Onekarna, Mich., at noon Saturday to
save her from foundering in deep wa¬
ter. The seas soon overwhelmed the
wreck and drove the crew into the
rigging. Before.th’e arrival of the
life-saving crew# from Manistee and
Frankfort, the schooner went to pieces,
and six of the cretv drowned.
A London dispatch of Thursday
Bjat e 8 that ‘he creation of the Hon. U.
H - Tupper, Canadian minister of ma
rine and fisheries, a knight eommand
OI ot the or<lRr of St - Michael and St.
George, for the services in the Behring
sea arbitration, has been officially an¬
nounced. Some of the papers call at
tention to the fact that the Lnited
States have no reward of merit they
- aK bestow upon their delegates.
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
Tfee Drift oi Her Progress and Pros¬
perity Briefly Noted.
Happenings of Interest Portrayed in
Pithy Paragraphs.
For the 21 hours ending Thursday
noon the Bruswiok board of health re¬
ported eighteen new eases of yellow
fever.
The Manchester cotton mills, about
three miles west of Fort Worth, Tex.,
burned Thursday morning, Doss
about $300,000.
The official yellow fever report of
Brunswick Friday, shows forty-two
now cases and two deaths. This is
the highest number of cases yet re¬
reported in one day
Hon. M. T. Bryan, of Tennessee,
was unanimously re-elected president
of the Southern Interstate Immigra¬
tion Association by the convention nt
Chicago 1 Thursday.
President Hurt, of the Atlanta, Ga.,
Consolidated Street Bailway company,
has announced a reduction of twenty
per cent for conductors and motormen
to go into effect the first of November.
The reduction will only be temporary.
The trial in the habeas corpus pro¬
ceedings in the ease of the Bix soldiers
imprisoned for lynching Miner Iticli
nrd Drummond, was concluded in the
in the criminal court at Knoxville,
Tenn., Thursday and Judge Sneed re¬
served his decision.
The Supreme court of North Caro¬
lina has decided a case under the usu¬
ry act, holding that if a greater rate
than the legal one of eight per cent is
charged all interest is forfeited and
any payments made are to be credited
upon the principal.
A Memphis this dispatch says: A killing
frost in section Saturday night
did great injury to crops and vegeta¬
tion. The late crop will bo cut. short
20 per cent and in the lowlands, tho
top crop will be a failure. The frost
seems to have been general throughout
the Missisiippi valley.
Uriah Miller a prominent attorney
and politician of Memphis, Tenn,. and
one of tho charter members of tho
Tennessee Club, had liis name strick¬
en from the roll of practicing attor¬
neys Saturday iu the circuit court.
The charge was a failure to turn over
certain money, collected for a client.
A Baleigh dispatch of Thursday
says: The rolls of cx-eonfederato pen¬
sioners in North Carolina havo been
completed by State Auditor Furman.
There arc 2,035 mnlo pensioners and
3,904 widows of soldiers, Wilkes
comity leads in number of pensioners,
having 140. Nine counties lmvo over
A special from Vicksburg, Miss.,
says: Cotton and other tender vege¬
tation in the lowlands were nipped by
frost Mississippi, Sunday morning in this portion
of and heavy frosts are re¬
ported in northern Lousinna, where a
much lower temperature is recorded.
With drought and other causes tho
damage will be great.
Tho Kentucky and Indiana bridge
property'at Louisville, Ky., bonded
for $2,000,000, and owned entirely by
Louisville parties, passed into tho
hands of a receiver Saturday. De¬
fault of interest iu tho first and
second mortgage bonds, amounting to
$40,000, made this step necessary.
Judge Barr, of tho federal court, ap¬
pointed John McLeod receiver.
The North Carolina department of
agriculture lias made its October crop
report based on tho information given
by its 1,000 correspondents. The per
centage of the condition of the crops
are given as follows: Cotton, 70; rice,
81; peanuts, 87; corn, 84; tobacco,
70. This is the last report of the
year. The upland corn crop is fine.
Tho cotton crop larger is than that of
last year.
A Columbia, 8. C., dispatch of Fri¬
day says: Judge Gary has followed
Judge Hudson’s lead and quashed in¬
dictments against several person, for
selling liquor. His action is on the
same ground announced by Judge
Hudson. Judge Gary is entirely in
sympathy with the Tillman adminis¬
tration, having been one of the gov¬
ernor’s right-hand men in the cam¬
A special from Pulaski,Tenn., states
that The Commercial Bank and
Trust company of that city closed
its doors Saturduy morning,
having made an assignment.
John T. Allen, vice president and
Thomas E. Daly, a director of the
bank, are the assignees. Deposits
are about $40,000 and it is thought
depositors will be paid in full. The
county had a large amount of deposits
hi the bank.
Patrick Walsh, president of the
Augusta exposition and national com¬
missioner from Georgia to the world’s
Columbian exposition, invited the
national commission in session there to
attend the exposition in Augusta, which
opens November 14th and continues
until December 14th. Commissioner
Walsh’s proffer of a full measure of
proverbial southern hospitality was
well received and accepted with com-
NO. 38.
plimentary remarks in behalf of the
•national commission by Comniiesioners
Koaelie, McLows and McDonald.
A STORM ON THE COAST.
A Repetition of the Disasters of August
27tli Apprehended.
A Savannah special says: The West
Indian storm which reached here
Thursday morning nnd has boen blow¬
ing a gale of forty to sixty miles an
hour all day continued to increase in
fury, but up to dark had not dono any
very great dnmago right in the city.
The storm was reported at Titusville,
Fla., Wednesday night and then had
a slightly northwest direction.
The City of Augusta, which left New
York Wednesday, will meet the storm
off the North Carolina coast in about
tho samo latitude that the Savannah
was struck by tho last storm. Thera
are eighten vessels in the Tybee roads
and at quarantine, and the clmnoes are
that if the gale continues they will all
be wrecked, as in the cose of the last
blow. All the vessels in port nro seek¬
ing places of refuge.
FEARS for the sea islands.
No reports havo been heard from
any of the sea islands, but the proB
peet is that tho storm will undo all
that lias been done for them in the
way of shelter and that they will be as
bnd or worse off than they were be¬
fore. No reports of any fatalities have
yot been received.
SEVERE AT JACKSONVILLE.
The galo at Jacksonville is said to
have been the worst they havo had
there since 1881. Brunswick also got.
the brunt of it, but tho amount of
damage there has not. yet been loarned.
A Charleston special of Thursday
night says: Tho West Indian cyclone
is on us. Tho wires are going down
to the southward and there is trouble
to tho northward. At this writing the
wind is blowing in groat gusts at from
foTty to forty-live miles an hour. No
damage has been dono except tho
wrecking of telephone and electric
light wires.
Three tides have boon banked up,
and at midnight it is expected, unless
tho wind shifts around to the south¬
west, that tho eastern, southern and
western portions of the oity will be
under water. Neither of tho Clyde
steamers due Thursday havo arrived.
At this hour it looks like a repetition
of the cyclono of August.
TO THE NORTH.
Governor Nortficn Writes a Letter Tel¬
ling of the Horrors of the Plague.
Governor Northon has written a let
tor to the people of tho north to be used
by Mr. T. J. l’almer, of Brunswick,
who is going through the north and
east to get subscriptions for the Bruns¬
wick sufferers. The following is tho
governor’s letter:
X nndiTHtainl 'lmt Mr. T. .1. Palmer, of
Brunswick, businesa, is about to go to tli« north and east
on and that while there he will, by
request, present tho matter of the dire distress
of Brunswick before the people of those seo
tioiiH, to (tie end that som help may he render¬
ed tho sufferim, 1 people of that community.
The story of die suffering aud distress in
Brunswick as told in the daily press, has not
been exaggerated. The citizens remaining The half tuts in tho not been
told. plague
stricken town are shut in by strict sanitary
cordon and arc unable to leave tho place and
unable to support themselves, as there is no
money, no business, no food in the
city. Starvation faces the entire population.
Frost the the only people hopo, of is several months have distant, been
and while this s ate
generous, tho meaus of subsistence suit to the
city have been daily. inadequate and are being rapid¬
ly Unless exhausted something is Io king to tho
dor
speedy relief of these unfortu bad ate people, star¬
vation and death from food or from want
of food will plague. add their horrors io tho devasta¬
tion of the It would tie a work of pm
found chariiy if tho people of the entire coun¬
try, realizing tho destitution and suffering of
their fellow c tiz ns in Brunswick, would come
to their relief and aid science and the self
sacrificing devotion of nurses in rescuing this
city from apparent destruction.
I should bn glad to know that some move¬
ment looking to this cud js started among our
fellow citizens of tho north and east. Itespect
ruily, W. J. Northkn.
Governor of Georgia.
COMMENDING THEIR SENATORS
Citizens of Memphis Hold a Meeting
in Defense of Silver.
Following on tho heels of the recent
action of tho joint meeting of the
Me chants’ and Cotton exchange at
Memphis that condemned acrimo¬
niously Senators Bate and Harris, of
Tennessee, for their attitude on the
silver hill, now in the senate, a largely
attended mass meeting of leading citi
zens of Memphis and Shelby county
was held Thursday night to discuss the
silver question.
After lengthy ex-Congressman a Casey
consisting of
Young, Col. M. C. Galloway, E. W.
Carmack, Holmes Cummins, Thomas
Holmes, II. D. Greer and J. J. Du
pny, was appointed, who submitted
lengthy resolutions eulogiBtically en¬
dorsing the senators named and com¬
mending them for their faithfulness
and firmness in defense of Rilver.
Some of the speeches were especial¬
ly Bitter in their denunciation of Pres¬
ident Cleveland, who was character¬
ized us a s ave driver, cracking his
whip over the backs of the senators
and representatives in congress. The
meeting was composed almost exclu¬
sively of democrats.
It is a fact of curious interest that
twenty-four of the 6100 murderers ar¬
rested in the United States in 1690
were blind men. J