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VOL XV. STATE news items CULLED FROM MANY SOURCES BRIEFLY PARAGRAPHED. Happenings of General Interest to Georgia Readers. Ckipley is to have a $5,000 creame The" preliminaries have all been rv ‘' and the stockholders are en arraug ed thusiastio. The picked rifle team from the Georgia Hussars, Troop A, First regi me at, Georgia cavalry, won the match shot, which took place near Savannah j few days ago with the New Jersey guardsmen by 41 points. * * * Mayor Myers, of Savannah, has ap¬ pointed a large committee to be known BS the citizens’ industrial committee, the object of which is to bring manu¬ facturing interests to the city and to look generally after its industrial wel fare. The members of the orphans’ home committee of the Grand Council of the Bed Men of the state have selected a site at Austell for the Red Men’s or¬ phan’s home. Arrangements have been perfected for building the home this year. * * * Judge Emory Speer has appointed Messrs. William Garrard, George A. Mercer, Thomas M. Norwood and J. B. Sanssy, all of Savannah, a commit¬ tee to prepare suitable resolutions re¬ lating to the death of Judge Erskrne .and report to the court on March 4th. * * * The farmers of Spalding county do not seem to take kindly to the Mississip¬ pi cotton growers’ combination scheme if President Bailey’s failure to get them together is any criterion. So few were present on the day appointed ai the time for perfecting the final or¬ ganization that nothing was done. The people of Rome are rejoioing oxer the outlook for the successful termination of the negotiations in re¬ gard to the location of the big Massa¬ chusetts cotton mills in that city. It will be a big thing for Rome, espe¬ cially as an entering wedge for the lo¬ cation of other big industries that will follow in its wake. A big jail delivery occurred at Ma¬ con a few days ago. Tom Allen, con¬ demned murderer of Charles Carr; Ed Johnson, charged with murder; Joe Bosenl aum, diamond thief; R. A. Crus, charged with assault with intent to murder; and Ed Paul, burglar, all broke out of the Bibb oounty jail by prizing open a cell window. All of the priBioners were noted criminals and crooks. Carr’s relatives have offered a $200 reward for Tom Allen. Crus was afterward recaptured, but the others made good their escape. # * * Athens Lucy Cobb institute, founded in in 1858, through the efforts of General Thomas R. R. Cobb, and now one of the leading colleges for girls in the United States, will be represented kt the Cotton States and International exposition by as complete an educa¬ tional exhibit as ever was made on any similar occasion. As Georgia was the first state in the union to claim within its borders an institution of learning solely for women, the ladies of this in¬ stitute will strive to make the exhibit such a one as to reflect great credit npon our glorious old commonwealth. The old soldiers who are drawing pensions under the old law will be Vaid on the 12th or March. Blanks are being prepared by the governor’s secretary, Judge Richard Johnson, for pensions which are to be issued under the new law passed by the legislature its recent session. They will be the ready to be issued by the ordinary on 25th of March. When he issues them they will be filled out by the soldiers. After this has been done the pensions will be paid. This pay¬ out will be made about the middle of May. * * * In view of the faot that a number of -ormnlas for composting fertilizers have been recently offered for sale in the state Commissioner Nesbitt calls attention in his report for March to the fact that such sales are illegal un a less °d the formulas have been registered approved by the deportment of Agriculture and that the sellers are guilty of a misdemeanor. As a rule, the commissioner, such formulas Are of little value and the department 6 tands ready to furnish formulas that *re correct chemically and have prov en practically beneficial without cost. ♦ * * Considerable interest has been Awakened in gold mining in Cobb county la *he recently. The discoveries are western part of the county, Around Lost mountain. It has been Down for years and years that gold has existed there, and when men who Are now well up in years were boys gold was washed out along the branches .... a - [ | J ^ : ALES r -l pof EEKLY. CONYERS, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27. 1895. as an every day occurence. Recently some mining companies paid a visit to that section and were so highly pleased with the prospects that options have been secured from many of the farm¬ ers owning the land, and the work will be promptly pushed in prospect¬ ing and finding out if the gold exists in paying quantities. Fixed Charges too High. Receiver H. M. Comer, of the Ceu tral railroad, states positively that the present plan of reorganization has not been abandoned, but that steps are being taken looking to its modifica¬ tion so as to reduce the fixed charges under the new plan' to about $1,800, 000, and to have them remain station¬ ary instead of advancing as was for¬ merly contemplated. The fixed charges under the plan as it formerly stood were to begin at $1,900,000 and ad¬ vance at the rate of $50,000 a year un¬ til they reached $2,150,000. The main reduction, it is understood, will be made on the allotment of new securi¬ ties to the Savannah and Western bondholders. No changes whatever will be made, he states, in the allowances formerly made to the Southwestern and Augusta and Savannah railroads, nor will there be any changes in the proposed man¬ agement and operations of the prop¬ erty. The plan, he says, has the back¬ ing of some of the strongest financial institutions in New York. Georgia Chautauqua. The program of the seventh annual session of the Georgia chatauqua at Albany has been given to the public. The program is as follows: Monday, March 18th, opening special schools; Sunday, March 31st, annual sermon; Tuesday, April 2d, rallying day; Wednesday, April 3d, educational day; Thursday, April 4th, national day; Friday, April 5th, the grand concert day; Saturday, April 6th, the recogni¬ tion day. The opening sermon will be preached by Rev. George T. Dowling, of Bos¬ ton, Mass. Among these who will participate in exeicises of the assem bly are: Dr. M. C, Hazard, Hon. Lionel C. Laing, Rev. George B. Ea¬ ger of Montgomery, Rev. John Fern ly of Sewanee, Tenn.; Hon. G. R. Glenn, state school commissioner; Hon. Wallace Bruce, Rev. George M. Brown, field secretary for Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle; Profes¬ sor A. H. Merrill, of Vanderbilt Uni¬ versity ; Governor W. Y. Atkinson, Hon. Fleming duBignon, Rev. Warren Candler and others. It will thus be seen that the seventh session of the chautauqua will be full and running over with good things, and will be in no sense inferior to the six sessions that have passed into his¬ tory. Mrs. T. J. Simmons, of Eufaula, who so successfully oonducted the last chautauqua chorus, will have charge of that feature this assembly. The chautauqua is the greatest insti¬ tution of that section of Georgia, and is yearly growing stronger and more popular with all classes. To Examine Pharmacists. On the 18th of March there will be an examination in Atlanta by the state board of pharmacy of applicants for licenses to practice pharmacy. The examinations will take place at the state capitol, beginning at 9 o’clock in the morning. The state board of pharmacy, be¬ sides determining the efficiency of those who wish to practice pharmacy, have charge of the enforcement of the law against those who attempt to op¬ erate drug stores without properly the qualified men in charge, and also enforcement of the law against the adulteration of drugs. done much to The board has already decrease the sale of adulterated drugs in Georgia. The trifling sum placed at their disposal for this work by the legislature would seem many times too small to cover the expenses for the amount of labor required, the major part of it being done by the board gratuitously as a matter of pride in their work. Recent investigations by the board show a large amount of adulteration, which it is difficult to reach without increased funds. Tnis. is particularly the case where drugs are kept by grocery stores. An exam¬ ination of mustards show adulteration in the majority of them, and of eleven cream of tartars examined six contained no cream of tartar at all, and only three were unadulterated. The mer¬ chants are innocent purchasers of these goods and buy them, as they are a few cents cheaper than those of other houses, believing them possibly a lower grade, but never conscious that they are wholly substitutes, else they would not pav, as they do, five times what the abominable stuff is really worth, and can be bought for under its proper name. Hamner Sent to Jail. The preliminkrv trial at Lynchburg, Va., of Walker G. Hamner, the de¬ faulting teller of the Erst National bank, and R. H. Pannill, his alleged accomplice, was held before United States Commissioner Tinsley and re¬ sulted in the case being sent on to the grand jury, which meets March 13th. Neither Hamner or Pannill could give bond, and they were accordingly com¬ mitted to jail. WORK OE CONGRESS THE CLOSING DAYS BRING HUS¬ TLE AND HURRY. Brief Outlines of Proceedings of House and Senate. THE SENATE. A financial discussion was imminent when the senate met Tuesday, The rapid work done at the session Mon¬ day night had cleared away most of the formal matter preceding the im portant provisionfor issuing$100,000, 000 of certificates of indebtedness to relieve treasury deficiencies. The res¬ olution concerning the Mexican free zone, to include the entire length of the zone, was agreed to. Mr. Voorhees, from the committee on finance, offered an amendment to the sundry civil bill embodying the recent resolution of Mr. Wolcott for participation by the United States in an international monetary conference. The sundry civil bill was then taken up. Mr. Cockrell offered a committee amendment, which was agreed to, ap¬ propriating $4,000 to Colonel Ains¬ worth, chief of the bureau of records and pensions of the war department, to reimburse him for legal expenses resulting from the Ford’s theatre dis¬ aster. An additional $10,000 for heirs of two additional victims of the Ford’s theatre disaster was allowed. Mr. Berry, of Arkansas, spoke against the proposed committee amendment, re¬ ducing the appropriation for protect¬ $90,000 ing public timber lands from to $60,000. A letter from the com¬ missioner of the general land office was read showing the value of this ser¬ vice. Mr. Berry urged an enlarge¬ ment of the service and moved an in¬ crease. Mr. Gorman said the places in this service were well recognized as comfortable positions for “political fa¬ vorites.” “So gross was the abuse; so useless the offices,” continued Mr. Gorman vehemently, “that congress cut down the appropriation $40,000 and I regret to say the officer in au¬ thority exceeded that appropriation by $45,000.” After working until midnight Tues¬ day night, the senators were slow in arriving Wednesday morning and only a dozen were on hand when considera¬ tion of the sundry civil bill was re¬ sumed. The way was cleared for the long pending contest over the financial amendment to the sundry civil bill. It provides an issue of $100,000,000 of certificates of indebtedness of small denominations, bearing 3 per cent, in¬ terest, in order to meet deficiencies in the treasury, “I make a point of or der against this financial amendment on the ground that it is general legis¬ lation,” said Mr. Berry, of Arkansas. Mr. Hill, of New York, offered a fur¬ ther amendment that all treasury notes and United States notes, when presented to the treasury, shall not be re-issued, but cancelled. Mr. Mills, of Texas, rose to suggest that the point of order was of such importance that he hoped the presiding officer would submit the question to the senate. The vice-president ordered a roll call and called on the sergeant-at-arms to maintain order, Mr. Gorman then secured the floor and made a lengthy speech on the financial amendment. He concluded by appealing for action and not failing to provide for all emergencies. Mr. Mills spoke of the public abhorrence of a national debt. Lucien Baker, the new senator-elect from Kansas, was on the floor of the senate for the first time Thursday, and was introduced to his associates by Mr. Martin, whom he succeeds. Mr. Gallinger briefly addressed the senate at the opening of the session in favor of a plan presented by the Daughters the Revolution that a copy of the de¬ claration of independence be conspic¬ uously displayed in every postoffice. The deficiency appropriation bill was then reported by Mr. Cockrell, leav¬ ing only one bill—the naval—remain¬ ing before the appropriation commit¬ tee. Consideration of the sundry civil bill was then resumed. Mr. Pettingill offered an amendment appropriating $300,000 for seed for drouth sufferers of the northwest. After a short de¬ bate the amendment was agreed to—33 to 17. Mr. Bate, derm, of Tennessee, urged an amendment of $125,000 for the government participation in the Tennessee Centennial in 1896. Mr Hoar, of Massachusetts, ironically asked Mr. Bate for the constitutional authority for this amendment. Mr. Bate said it was the same authority that gave the government aid to the World’s Fair and to tbe Cotton States and International Exposition at At - lanta. Mr. Hoar again made the con stitutional querry this time to Senator HUrris who replied: If the senator from Massachusetts will meet me here on the 4th of July, I will give him a lecture that will serve him the balance of his life.” A point of order against the amendment was made by Mr. Cockroll which was sustained —31 to 15. Mr. Stewart moved to reconsider the amendment already adopted for partic¬ ipation in a monetary conference. He said France was the only country at present in a position to participate in such a conference with any prospect of fairness to silver. Great Britain al- ready had her ratio and Germany could readily do so. A conference would result ill another blow at silver. He, therefore, would propose another amendment to the proposition in¬ structing the United States delegates not to agree to any ratio short of 16 to 1. Mr. Wolcott, of Colorado, said he regretted this difference of opinion among senators from the silver states who had so long stood together; noth¬ ing but good could come from the conference. The senator from Nevada regarded this as auother scheme of the gold bugs. It was nearly midnight when controversy came fo an end, and the pending bill was open to amend¬ ment. MoBt of the amendments that were offered were objectionable to Mr. Cockrell, in charge of the bill; but, for the sake of getting on with the business, he allowed them to be adopt¬ ed—with the intention, evidently, of having them all defeated in confer¬ ence. Finally the bill passed, and tbe senate, at half an hour after midnsght, adjourned till Friday at 11 o’clock a. m. THE HOUSE. The house met at 11 o’clock Tues¬ day. Mr. Henderson, of North Car¬ olina, chairman of the committee on postoffices and post roads, immedi¬ ately called up tbe conference report on the postoifico appropriation bill, much to the disappointment of unani¬ mem¬ bers who were clamoring for mous consent to consider bills, The senate amendment providing that rail¬ way mail clerks hereafter appointed should live somewhere along the route to-which they are assigned; but that clerks heretofore appointed should not be required to change their residence was the Only question in dispute. The amendment was designed to destroy the effect of general order 379, issued by the postmaster-general requiring clerks to live on the line of their route. When the order was issued many clerks lived off their line, since then eight hundred have changed their res¬ idences. Mr. Henderson read a letter from the postmaster general earnestly protesting against the amendment. As it was evident the amendment would occasion some debate, Mi. Henderson withdrew the conference report in order to give Mr. Catchiugs an op portunity to present the special order giving until 3 oclock to the committee on labor, and Wednesday to the com¬ mittee on public building nnd grounds. Tho special order was adopted without division, and Mr. McGann, chairman of the labor committee, called up the national arbitration bill, entitled “A bill concerning carriers engaged in interstate commerce and their employes.” The purpose of the bill is to provido a board of concilia¬ tion, consisting of the commissioners of labor and the chairman of tho interstate commerce commission, whose duty it shall be, when a con¬ troversy concerning wages, housr of labor or conditions of employment arose between a carrier under this act and employes, seriously interrupting the business of said carrier, to put themselves in communication with the parties to said controversy, and shall use their best efforts by mediation and conciliation to amicably settle the same, and if such efforts should be unsuccessful, should at once endeavor to bring about an arbitration of said controversy by submitting the same to a board consisting of three persons, one to be chosen by the employes, one by the employer, and these two selecting the third. After some dis¬ cussion the bill passed the house with¬ out division. The speaker laid before the house Wednesday the president’s veto of the bill to pension Eunice Putnam. Mr. Cockrell, democrat, of New Jersey, moved concurrence in the senate amendment to the joint resolution prohibiting the importation of goods in bond to the United States through the free zone of Mexico. Mr. Crane, democrat, of Texas, vigorously op¬ posed tbe concurrence, which struck OUi the provision limiting the prohi¬ bition from any port from Laredo, Texas, to the Pacific coast. This amendment, he declared, would effect¬ ually prohibit the importation of goods through the United States into Mexi¬ co, unless the latter country abolished the free zone. But 12 per cent, of the goods remained in the free zone. He replied with vigor to the slander that the zone was the abiding place of smugglers and outlaws. Mr. Cock¬ rell’s motion was agreed to. Mir. O’Neill, democrat, of Massachusetts, presented the conference report on the pension appropriation bill. An agree ment had been reached, he explained, There was a large attendance on the Tuesday.night (most of them of minor lm portance) were presented and dis posed of, some by reference and some by passage The B en at « am(!nd “« nt « 0 f the bill to prohibit , . . the wearing of the sign of the Red Cross without per mission of the National Red Cross So ciety, was agreed to. They Want Him Recalled. A petition asking the United States government to recall Mr. Ryan, United States consul at St. John’s, N. F has been signed by a number of citizens. The petition also asks for ,b. reappointment », Thom.. S. Mol loy. WASHINGTON NOTES ITEMS OF NEWS PICKED UP AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Sayings and Doings of the Official Heads of the Government. A bill has just passed congress pro¬ viding for two new district judges for United States courts in the Indian Territory. For these two new judges must be appointed. The sundry civil appropriation bill was passed by the senate Thursday, its consideration having occupied the larger share of four legislative days. All of the amendments that were adopted in committee of tile whole were concurred in after the bill was reported back to the senate, almost all of them in a bulk. The appropriations committee has concluded its consideration ol the naval appropriations bill. The house bill is amended so as to provide for two battleships instead of three, and for six light draft gunboats and throe tor¬ pedo boats. There is also a reduction of $450,000 in the house appropriation for armor. The total amount carried by the bill is $29,000,000, a reduction of $2,639,000 from the total carried as it passed the house. The Anti-Lottery Bill. Speaker Crisp is daily receiving tel¬ egrams urging action upon the na¬ tional anti-lottery bill. These dis¬ patches are pretty evenly distributed, coming from Now York, Georgia, Louisiana, Kansas, Missouri,Nebraska and Colorado. The passage of the bill now on the house calendar is urged. Representative Broderick, who has charge of the bill, says he will do all he can to put it through, The whole matter rests with the speaker. It is certain that if Judge Culberson, chairman of the committee, would ask the speaker to give time for the con¬ sideration of the bill, the request would be grunted. But while it is true that that committee passed a resolution asking tho speaker to give time, it is also true that it sometimes happens that the speaker is told on tho quiet not to pay any attention to resolutions. Still Withdrawing Gold. Since February 12th the date tho first gold was paid in by the Belmont Morgan syndicate on account of tho recent sale to them of $62,400,000 gov¬ ernment bonds, $2,026,617 in gold bus been withdrawn from tho treasury in the redemption of United States notes and treasury notes. These withdrawal's have been made very quietly and have not attracted attention. The daily withdrawals, which it was hoped would cease on the gold re¬ serve being strengthened, have con¬ tinued so regularly as not to escape who the notice of treasury officials, have charge of such matters. Thurs¬ day the redemptions on account of withdrawals aggregated $75,251, nnd since February 12tii they have aggre¬ gated $120,000 a day. So far $36,- 814,342 in gold paid in by tho Bel mont-Morgan syndicate has been taken up in tho treasury gold reserve, which now stands at $83,048,762, or an in crease siuce February 12th of $42,000, 000 . Bonds Ready for Delivery. The last process in the printing ol the new bonds, that of numbering them, was begun Tuesday at the bu of engraving and printing, and the first batch is ready for delivery to the treasurer. Under the terms of the contract the treasury bears the expense of their delivery to all points within the United States, but not beyond the limits of the Ugited States. So far the syndi¬ cate has not indicated when they desire the bonds delivered, or where, and they will be retained in the treasury until such instructions are received. Whenever the syndicate in¬ dicate their desire, accompanying their instructions with the certificates of the gold they have deposited, bonds —registered or coupon—of the forwarded denom¬ ination asked for will be where they desire. New York will probably receive the first batch of the new bonds this week. It is probable, de¬ also, the treasury will be asked to liver the European allotment of the new Ronds, transmitting the bonds di¬ rect from Washington to London, the syndicate paying the expense of their ocean transit. The New Cab|net M&mber . ^ already predicted the president WikX'of^West^Virgfffia, “ p, *“ °' William L. Wilson is the best known COU ntry / in connection with his tar]ff ork in congr6B8 . He has been a tariff student since he first en tered congressional life life in m 1882 but but it was not until the present congress | that he became chairman of the ways and means committee, aQ d as such the official lead « r °* “ e P art J r - Prior to his electron to congress he had taken , l»«le part in politics excepting being a delegate to thedemocratic national convention at Cincinnati, and subse SToSS NO. 9. president of the University of West Virginin. This would have fixed Mr. Wilson's sphere of work had it not been for a political ruction and party split at his home in Charleston, West Virginin, which was settled by the op¬ posing factions nominating Mr. Wil son. The campaign was a hot ono and Mr. Wilson won by nine votes. Mr. Wilson was subsequently elected to six successive congresses. Ho received good committee assign¬ ments from the first, going on the ju¬ diciary, appropriations and ways and means. His experience shortly after the war as a professor of law in Co¬ lumbian college equipped him for work on the judiciary committee. In the four congressional erns of tariff changes, the Morrison bill, the Mills bill, the McKinley bill, Mr. Wil¬ son fook an active part. He did much of the work in constructing the Mills bill, and he and representative Breck¬ inridge started on a tour of platform speeches throughout the oast endors¬ ing President Cleveland’s tariff mes¬ sage. The two orators received hearty wcloome in Boston and New York and their eloquent speeches formed a me¬ morable event in the tariff discussion of the day. During the Mills-Crisp contest for the speakership, Mr. Wil¬ son cast his lot with Mr. Mills, and when Mr. Crisp won ho designated Mr. Springer, chairman of the ways and means committee. When re-elect¬ ed speaker, however, Mr, Crisp named Mr. Wilson chairman of the ways and means and in that capacity he framed the present tariff law. DELIVERED IMS LECTURE. Savannah’s Police Keep the Outsiders Moving. A Savannah special says: Joseph Slattery, the ex-priest, lectured Thurs¬ day night in the Odd Fellows’ hall. A large crowd assembled outsido tho hall, but tho protection was ample and no disturbance occurred. The police kept the crowds moving, and when¬ ever a knot of people stopped within a block of tho hall it was ordered to “move on.” Seven hundred people wero in tho hall and listened to the lecture, which was a discussion of the theology of tho Roman Catholic church, andan alleged expose of tho secrets of the confos sional. The lecturer dealt largely in ridicule and satire. In closing his lecture Slattery paid the demonstration was a blow to Cath¬ olicism in Savannah from which it would never recover. Hjs hearers, muny-of thorn, applauded this senti¬ ment, as they did also his statement that he had wired tho president of the American Protective Association, and that its organizers wero now on tho way to the city. Ho said ho was ready to take tho names of any who wanted to join that organization and send them in. TheTe is no concealing the fact that flattery’s appearance in Savannah has » created a strong anti-Catholio senti¬ ment among a certain class that has heretofore existed. It cannot, how¬ ever, be attributed so much to Slat¬ tery and his talk as to tho demonstra¬ tion of Tuesday night, of which ho, of course, was tho cause. That demon¬ stration, while it was serious and fore¬ boded much that is unpleasant, was ' not so bad as somo newspaper reports have made it out to lie. Chief of Police McDermott and othor authorities denounced as false the statements about there boing dynamite in the crowd that gathered around the Masonic temple. There was no con¬ nection between that crowd and the fires that occurred early the next morning. THE CENTRAL MUST PAY TAXES. .fudge Speer Has Signed a Decree to That Effect. At Savannah, Ga., Thursday Judge Speer signed decree in the case of the intervention of Comptroller Gen¬ eral Wright against the Central rail¬ road to pay taxes in ail the counties and cities "through which it runs tho be¬ tween Savannah and Macon, under acts of 1889 and 1890. Judge Speer has certified to the as¬ signment of error and the case will go before the supreme court of the United States, for which citation lias been is¬ sued for Comptroller Wright to appear before that court on October 14, 1895, to show canse why the order and de croc shonld not be changed. The Central claim* that such an assessment of taxes would bp a violation of the contract between it and the state con¬ tracted in its charter, and that the legislature under the United States constitution, is prohibited contracts. from pass¬ ing laws which impair A Big Mining Deal. John E. Smith has sold his one fourth in the Moose mine at Cripple Creek, Col., to J. K. Maynard, of Utica, N. Y. The amount of stock held by Smith was 162,000 shares $nd the price paid was at the rate of : oO cents a share, or $81,000 cash. Mr. Maynard placed the value of the min¬ eral in sight at $256,000. Dividends to the amount of $84,000 have been declared in the past twelve months This sale was the largest spot cash mining deal ever made in Cripple Greek.