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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 !Tl > r hrj -J L ui r HH 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