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THROUGH GEORGIA, bits of news gathered from OVER THE STATE, Being a Summary of Interesting Hap¬ penings From Day to Day. The Wagner Palace Car Company will shortly put on a sleeping and chair car line between Atlanta and Charleston by way of Augusta. This will be the first entrance of the Wag¬ ner company into southern territory east of the Mississippi. Last Saturday the ten days’ racing meet under the auspices of the Macon Jockey Club, closed. The meeting: has been a successful one and the club will continue as a permanent organization. The horsemen have been well pleased and season races' may become a dis¬ tinction of the city. The members of the rifle team who represented Georgia at Sea Girt, N. J., and won the trophy in the inter¬ state match, have received the an¬ nouncement from the office of Adju¬ tant General Kell that they had all been made sharpshooters as a recogni¬ tion of their success and that the sh irpshooters’ badges had already be -ii sent them. The wholesale paper box and bag manufactory of Wellhouse & Sons, in Atlanta, being the largest in the south, was almost completely destroyed by fire the past week. The flames raged for several hours and left the plant of the concern in ruins. The loss is esti¬ mated to run from $80,000 to $100,000. The cause of the fire is unknown. The most plausible theory is that it result¬ ed from a gas explosion. The deputy clerk of the superior court at YVaycross has recorded two very important matters. One is a deed of sale and conveyance of the lands of the Waycross Lumber Company, the Clarke Lumber Company, the Augusta Lumber Company and the Blawick Lumber Company to the Southern Pine Company, of Savannah. The other is a mortgage of the above lands to the New York Security and Trust Company for $400,000. The deed covers thirty-five pages and the mort¬ gage eighty pages. It is reported that the Georgia Cen¬ tral reorganization committee has se¬ cured control of the bondholders’ pool of the Augusta and Knoxville railroad, and that there will be no bidders at the sale of the Port Royal and Western Carolina, of which sys¬ tem the Augusta aud Knoxvilie is a part. The total issue of the Augusta and Knoxville bonds is $630,000 and the upset price is $850,000. This sale is advertised for November 20th. The Georgia Central reorganization com¬ mittee claims that the upset price of the Augusta and Knoxville is out of all proportion, as the road could bo built for less than $600,000. Colonel M. C. Fulton, a distin¬ guished son of Georgia, died a few days ago at his home in Decatur, Ga. His death was a sad blow to hundreds of his friends o.ver the state. He was a prominent person during his life time in political circles and his death was the end of a remarkable career. It was while living in Columbia county he was sent to the senate as the repre¬ sentative of his district serving during the years ’59 and ’60. He always took an active interest in politics especially in the Farmer’s Alliance and Georgia State Agriculture Society. He was in a number of the alliance campaigns and was recognized as one of the lead¬ ers of the association. In Georgia educational circles he was a prominent man, and many are the advantages the educational circles have derived from his suggestions and work. * * Fruit Growers Not Satisfied. On Tuesday, the 12th of November, the Georgia Fruit Growers’ associa¬ tion will assemb'e in the city of At¬ lanta and tackle the freight rate ques¬ tion again. The fruit men say that on account of various causes the past most bountiful crop was not as profitable to growers as it should have been, and that the causes underlying this met wili be ferreted out and such measures as the convention may deem wise adopted and arrangements made to carry them into effect. taat will ... be Among the problems those considered at this meeting are of railroad rates and service, refriger ation, improved methods of marketing and distributing the crop, the auction system, standard packages and many other important subjects. The pres ence of every grower in the state is so Iicited whether he is a member of the association or not. Can’t Get a Posse. The governor has offered a reward of $150 each for the arrest and deliv ery ef the Zeigler brothers to the sheriff of Screven county. Tho broth ers, it will be remembered, killed Sheriff Brooker and then retired to their homes and defied arrest. A let¬ ter was received from the newly pointed sheriff by the governor. He states that lie'summoned a posse to go with him to capture the men, but that the people summoned refused to obey, and there was no way that he could see to make them obey. The matter was referred to the attorney general, and he took the position that the sheriff was right. The legislature two years ago passed a bill providing pen¬ alties for non compliance with the or¬ ders of the sheriff in times of riot, but the law does not include other casts. So the offer of reward was made. It Is believed that this will lead to the capture of the men. Matters of Legislation. There is, of course, great interest just now in state house circles on the approach of the second session of the general assembly. The officers of the different departments have been kipt b W for weeks preparing tne necessa¬ ry statistics and in compiling tneir re¬ ports to the governor and the govern¬ or himself lias retired temporarily to the mansion so that he may be able to get his message in shape. There is a good deal of talk about the probability of the passage of some sort of a school book act. The pres¬ ence in Atlanta a few days ago of the county school commissioners was prob¬ ably responsible for the renewed agi¬ tation of the question. While the com¬ missioners themselves touched upon it only incidentally, they talked a good deal with one another about the prob¬ ability of a change and there seems to be a strong sentiment in favor of the passage of the bill introduced in the last house by Mr. West, the chairman of the committee ou education. This was on the line of the uniformity of text books and was vigorously, though quietly fought by the representatives of some of the big publishing houses. The perfection of the election sys¬ tem of tho state will be one of the most important matters which the legislature will consider. The neces¬ sity for an improvement in election methods has for some time been ap¬ parent. There has been much discus¬ sion on the subject, but it was not un¬ til the first session of the present legislature that the first step was taken. That came in the shape of a general registration law. A general election bill was introduced and there is no question but it will be passed in some shape at the coming session. The two bills—the registration and the election—come hand in hand and the first step Had was, of course, the registra¬ tion. there been scheduled any general elections for this year the legislature would doubtless have pass¬ ed an election bill; but, as it was, the members of that body deemed it wiser to first enact a general registration law and give that an opportunity of being tested; and then follow it with the necessary election legislation. INTERESTING ANNUAL REPORT Is That Submitted to the Governor by Commissioner Nesbitt. The annual report of Hon. R. T. Nesbitt, commissioner of agriculture, has been completed and sent in to Governor Atkinson. It is a valuable document for the farmers of the state and shows that Georgia has made great progress since last year in the way of agriculture. Mr. Nesbitt Among other things says: conditions of the agricultural The interests of the state are fairly good. While the cotton crop will fall far short of that of last year, the food crops, such as corn, peas, potatoes, eorgham, sugar cane and rice are unusually good, and there are more hogs to fatten than in many years previous. Though the cotton crop is short, the price is better than it was last year, and on the whole the farmers of the state are in better condition than they have been for several years past. Each year there is more attention given to diver¬ sified better preparation of the land, more terracing and a more judicious use of commercial fertiliz¬ ers. All tbese I take to be improve¬ ments in our agricultural condition, each one a sign post pointing the way to assured independence and prosperi¬ ty among our farmers. . The dairying industry is growing steadily, and bids fair to soon become g • nee. A large number creameries have ’ been established . ^ the t twe i ve months, and a of tbese have met with suc ^ Where difficulties have been en ^ tered the promotors should close not in¬ abandon their e jf or ts, bnt by Tes tigation discover the leaks, stop „ which there would be success P heretofore there has been fail ur ^ thig connection p de em of butteriue it proper mentioD that quantities sold in this otber compQ unds are butter, to the great detriment ‘ their products. { ^ dflirymen and Unlegs ]aW8 are passe d and stringently enforced to put a stop to these decep¬ tions, the result must be to cripple and probably destroy the dairy industry of ouJ , s t a te. 1 do not object to butter . Qe and jj be comp ound8,most. of which y coDS i d er both healthy and palatable, bu ^ j earnestly protest against their be j U g so ld under false colors. They gbou j d either be sold on their merits, or not at all, and it would be a simple net of justice to the farmers if the leg¬ islator e,j5VOukl enact a law to this ef¬ fect. There has been an enormous in crease in this branch of farming in the past few years, and especially in the growing of peaches, the shipments of which have reached this year several hundred carloads, with the prospect of a large increase year by year for some years to come. The shipment to northern markets of grapes, plums and pears is also steadily increasing. ,,,, The different , fruits, . together . .. with ... melons and the berries, bring a large amount of money into the state, and it ... the ,i railroads I,, wou.d onlj give more reasonable rates of freight to distant markets the fruit industry would rapidly become — »d would bring large amounts of money to our people in the dull summer months. -------—-- GROWTH OF THE SOUTH. The Industrial Condition as Reported for the Past Week. Favorable to southern . reports as in dustrial conditions during the past week indicate that the large specula- 1 tive , movement . ■. cotton ,. , has , kept , .,. the in market very active. Good judges be lieve that cotton is really worth from g, tn to o, Ji cents, Because ot n f the tne short snort crop, the reports as to which are more unfavorable from day to day. Iron is is steady strndv anil and less ess active active, The ihc salts and deliveries have prevented any ac cumulation of pig iron in southern furnace J yards, ’ and the visible supply 11 J is not in excess of the regular wants of the trade. Reports are current as to large additions to the number of furnaces in the Birmingham district, and furnaces continue to blow in, the furnace capacity not seeming to lie lar¬ ger than is required. Active specula¬ tion in southern iron is much less no ticeable than it has been, and the reg¬ ular trade is - doing a very large busi¬ ness. Coke and coal axe steadily in demand. A firm coke and coal market is taking all shipments as sent forward, and the great bulk of business is based on favorable con¬ tracts. Textile mills are renewedly active. The week’s report contains reference to a $500,000 cotton mill at Newport News, Va., of three addi¬ tional ones to a cotton mill plant near Atlanta, Ga,, a $150,000 mill at Aus¬ tin, Texas, a large mill at Rome, Ga., a $50,000 cotton and woolen mill at Cedar town, Ga., and a woolen mill at Atlanta, Ga. AmoDg the important new industries established or incorporated during the week are the Marietta Paper Manufac¬ turing Co. at Marietta, Ga., capital $150,000; the Consumers’ Brewing Co. of Norfolk, Va., also'with $150, 000 capital, and the Planters’Commis¬ sion Co., limited, of New Orleans, La., to engage in molasses reboiling, capi¬ tal $100,000. The Calhoun Cotton Seed Oil Co., capital $100,000, has been chartered at Piedmont, Ala.; the Perfection Cigarette Machine Co,, capital $50,000, at Richmond, Va. ; at oke, Va., with $50,000 capital; the Columbia Guano Co. of Norfolk, Va., capital $25,000; the Allen & Cram Machine Co. of Raleigh, N. C., and the Tazman Oil Co. of Lynchburg, Va., each with $10,000 capital. There is also reported a large brew¬ ery at Waco,Texas, a distillery at We tumpka, Ala,; an electric plant at La Fayette, La., and flour and grist mills at Cushman, Ark., and Waverly, Tenn. Ice factories are to be established at Hammond, La., Galveston and Hills¬ boro, Texas; woodworking plants at Woodstock, Ala., Carey, N. C., and Salem, Va., and water works at La Fayette, La., Greenwood and West Point, Miss. The enlargements include a cotton mill at Raleigh, N. C., a silk mill at Fredericksburg, Va., and waterworks at Charlotte, N. C. Among the new buildings of the week are business houses at Macon, Ga.; a $40,000 club house at New Orleans, La.; court houses at Paris, Tenn., to cost $40,000, and at Galveston, Texas, to cost $375,000, and hospital buildings, each to cost $10,000, at Galveston, Texas, and Richmond,Va.—Tradesman (Chat¬ tanooga, Tenn. SOUTHERN COTTON MEN Invited to the Meeting of New England Cotton Men at tlie Exposition. Southern cotton manufacturers have been invited to attend the sessions of the New England cotton manufactor ers next , week. , mi The following r 11 letter has been addressed to them: “Boston Mass Oct. 14tb, 1895.— To the Sooth,,» Cottoo Mwofctor. ers. Gentlemen: The nlty-nintn meeting of this association will be held jn f the lae auditorium ™ium on on the me grounds of the cotton exposition, Atlanta, on Thursday and Friday, October 24th and " 25th. lou are cordially invited •__i a. to otfond the sessions and participate in the dts cussions trusting that such an affilia tion will be of mutual VwhTipfit b to all interested in the cotton production and manufacture. Yours truly, S. M. Goon ale, C, H. J. WOODBTJBT, President. Secretary. i>-* * t o' -w »•* an iaea locg overlooked and trodden under foot as a useless stone suddenly sparkles out in new light. BILL ARP’S LETTER. HE AND HIS FOLKS TAKE IN THE EXPOSITION. ^ hey Spent a Day at the Show and Enjoyed it Immensely. The world’s fair was a grind show. Wo did not see i , my wife and I, but some of the family did and the talk and tell of it lasted six months. It was the greatest show that ever was on earth. But it was too btg .a show for a day or a week. My folks say they nev.r got through with it and had to hurry over what they did see. The fair at Atlanta is big enough for me—big enough for my time and my com “j JJTS.'E? thiug else to talk about beside* the missionary meetings and the grandchildren and the flow ers that I havent put in the pit. Yes, I took her down last Wednesday. It took right smart of preparation, of course, for she had an idea that- the people would all expeet her and ob serve her outfit, and she lias great respect for public occasions and for herself, too, and so her paraphernalia had to be revised and remodeled. She knows how poor I am and said it would cost too much for her to go, but I told her she sh P"! d S°» broke n f a "; 1 a11 “ v friends a i ld relations. These maternal ancestors, who, for thirty and for - y years, have served t he Lord and their country in the infantry service and foiled day and night in raising children, nurs lng aild sewin i? a,ltl carln & for offspring slHV(?g t0 ,i est inj and the curse that was put on Mother Eve—never without a little child that was too young and helpless to take care of itself never with a day or a night that "as free-from a „ xie t y , they should have a good time in their last days if there is a good time for anybody in this sublunary world. They are like the heroes who came from the war. They are like Paul, who said, -I have fought a little good fight.” But Paul would have known a more about fighting if he had been a family man and had to get up in the night when he was almost dead for sleep and walk the floor in his night gown with a teething child in his arms and singing, “Hush my dear; be still and slum¬ ber,” or “Oh, where shall rest be found, Best for the weary soul.” Paul had a hard time, but lie never gradu¬ ated in the fighting business. He was too smart to pnter the infantry service. My wife was almost afraid to undertake the exposition—afraid she would get tired and worn-out tramping around, hut like all mothers she lets the youngest child persuade her. The older ones have scattered and gone and some of them we fear are weaned, but the youngest of all the Hock is here and she is not weaned. She was twenty-one child her yesterdav but and is married and has a of own, she is not weaned. Oh, no; she is still our comfort and brings us sunshine every day. Just think of it. Ten living children an 1 the youngest has passed her twenty-one. The oldest is clean out of sight. He is almost as old as I am and has sons who have graduated and gone towork. Oneof them, who lias my name and my birthday, is an elec¬ trician at the exposition. Ha escorted us round and when we were askol to register our names in a book, I wrote mine in full and ho took tho pen and just wrote “ditto,” and we went on. We got safely into tho grounds, my wife and I and our youngest daughter, who was'celebra¬ ting her birthday, and began the grand rounds about 9 o’clock in the morning; We stopped long enough.to take a bird’s eyo view of the situation—to look at the panorama and to locate the particular buildings. I was the chaperon, for I had been there before, and so I pointed out everything b fore we began the perusal. “I “There is the government building,” said I. wish you could spend half a day there. That Smithsonian exhibit is just magnificent. There is the woman’s building; there is ilie liberal arts; there is the agricultural building and there is the machinery; over there is the Mid¬ way. In every church, you know, t lie devil has a pulpit at the rear end and the Midway is his pulpit here.” we on I had Iwo shawls and a basket, of lunch and some other traps to carry, but that was all right for a while. I will carry anything on such occasions I carried those paraphernalia until 1 o’clock, when we got to a place where we could eat up the lunch and leave the shawls and the etcetera. We took it in by slow de¬ grees. Sometimes I was in the lead like a pilot; sometimes I was behind like a shepherd dog. I am very docile on such occasions. Sometimes I would sit down somewhere and wait till they got done looking. I had no trouble anywhere except at the fisheries. The crowd was very thick there and most of them were niggers and white folks and the passway is narrow. “Gen¬ tlemen,” said I, “please don’t crowd this lady —she is my wife,” bnt they paid no more at tention to me than if I was a common man and I reckon I am. If I could have called back twenty years I would have knocked one fellow a rod and taught him some manners. Those fish are just beautiful, but I just have like seen sheeps head down at ClearWater them. I have seen them all around a palmetto post sucking the barnacles and they were so thick you could uot see *hrough them. They wouldent notice a hook wiih the most tempting bait on it. bnt I could take a grain or a gigpole and strike it down amongst them and kill half a dozen at a stroke. It took us an hour to get through the government building and we did not see it all to our satisfaction- That alone is a.great show. Our paternal government has been good to us aud the Smithsonian institu¬ tion carried out the will of that noble English¬ man who left a million dollars 1 for the diffu-ion of knowledge among men. The preface to the catalogue says they would have sent us much more if we had had room for ir. Since Smith son died many other institution. philanthropists Lots of have left money to that great money in various.-urns, from $5,000 up to a quarter of a million- Say what you please about people tho northern people, they are the greatest then die und on earth to make big fortunes and leave them to some charily or some beneficent cause. Just think how this Smithsonian insti tution has grown. They have now a library of 37,000 volum s on scie ntific subjects- A museum of 30,000 j historical collections ot coins and meda g . 1,2:9 musical instruments, 3,r/)0 i-peci mens of pottery and porcelains. 1,390 chemical products, 3,300 textiles, 423,000 specimens of SSl^^SS^SSSSSS^! j f aboriginal pottery, of which men3 0 some C ame from the Indian mounds in Georgia; 13, 000 mammals, 73,000 birds, 58,000 birds’ eggs and negts . 34 .000 reptiles. 125,000 fishes, SlO.OuO moUagkBi 113,006 6 10,000 insects, plants, 520,000 252,000 marine ani ma i 8) fossil modern plants, 25,0.0 minerals. 03,000 geological spec miens aud a zoological park of 162 acres with a ll the wild American animals. It is twice as j ar „ e as the largest animal park in the world, Over five million people hav • visited that insti tutiou in the last twelve years, jj ow , j ns t contemplate what a wonderful insti¬ tution that is—and it«ss all ours. Not many of us down here can see it all, but it is a big thing for us to see a part. It things. expands and broadens us to look upon for these Of course i mean intellectually, otherwise my wife and I are broad enough. In fact, our broadness in ierferes with our alacrity and I had to sit down cwts ^ em anr j 8aw Florida in all her giory. His building looks like an Egyptian pyramid und is covered with pebble phosphate. Next we visited the art building, where ail the 8n® paintings are. I couldent tell a fine painting from a common one, but I did like the bull {ifdit and the old woman reading her Biblp by candle litlit. My wife, went into raptures typer some others, but they made no impression ©a me. I wish t was smarter-more endured wad more esthetic. I saw a painting in New York oner that cost A. T. Stuart $60,000—md t wouldent have given a hundred dollars for si, I can get up more internal inspiration from* v.ew from Lookout mountain or a sunset scene at Clear Water than from all the paintings ia the world. By, and by we got Jo the Costa Rica building-, where our Florida n ece is queen of the realm, and there we got coffee and hoi waffles and spread our lunch and had a good time, ft is the pleasantest place to rest that is upon the grounds. Clara Mi or is at your fret and toe view ali around you is charming- There ira heard the exquisite music of Gilmore’s ImhjxI and wondered if there could be any sweeter music In heaven. Fiom there wo journeyed to tile agricultural and manufactures and liberal arts buildings, and by this time my wife -was tured and surrendered upon the steps. She had seen enough for one day, and sail she wished she was at h. me. The mind has to have time io digest things just like the body. We urged her to go up to the Midway and shoo tan chutes and ride on the scenic railway, but an, she said she had shot enough and seen r-noergh and would wait tor some other time to see ;i>© rest. ‘'Won't you take n boat, ride on Clara. Meer?” But no, the collapse had-come. We went back to Costa Rica and sat clown and lis¬ tened to more music and saw the electric lights turned on and were happy- By half-pant 7 o’clock we were back to the city ami I feasted them at Durand’s hospitable, table up the wind¬ ing stairs. What a delightful effect, good oys¬ ters and beefsteak and delicious coffee do have upon both mind and body. We alt got back home at 10 o’clock that night and there were lights in the window for invited even the little girl had kept awake to see if grandma came j&ril how she liked the fair. She bad already bae® there on the children's dav arid wan ed to gr> again and show her grandma mund, but sim eonldcnt. But we will all go again before it- closes, stay a week.— Bill Ann in Atlanta'Constitution. NEWSY CLEA TiNGE. Business keeps on booming-. Florida has 2351 pensioners. England lias an Anti-Puritan League. The Socialists poll 1,800.000 votes in (K many. Last Paris. September was the hottest in 150 yarns In The pear crop in Georgia this your was tin* largest on record. France is a very heavy piirihaserof Ameri¬ can wines this year. An enumeration just completed shows 327,072 voters in Indiana. Cholera is spread ingseriously in tha south¬ western provinces of Russia, The Atlanta Exposition will have a Cuban independence Day during-November. The interference of the Mormon Church in politics has created excitement in Utah. English manufacturers have been buyi ng - Montana wool and are bidding for more. tom. Oysters have been dise'ovored on the bot¬ of the United States battle ship Toxaa. It la estimated that 700 Armenians warn killedln the recent riots in Constantinople. Turkey. The jail nt Bridgeton. N. J., now contains twenty-two prisoners charged with Ohio icon stealing. They say that the Atlanta exposition medals may bo issued before those of th® Chicago fair. The crop of pampas plumes around f-biata Barbara, Cal., will aggregate littlo ovor» million this year. Hie Spanish Government has ordered fiff. 000 Mauser rifles in Germany for the use of the army in Cuba. t It is proposed to establish at or near Kan¬ sas City, Mo., a home for superannuated or worn-out preachors. The St. Paul (Minn.) School Board recent¬ ly decided to prohibit married women from becoming school teachers. A Paris syndicate will probably fumisfe Spain witli a substantial loan to carry on tb© war in Cuba a little longer. Grantsburg, Wis.. lias over 500,000 bushels of potatoes to market this fall and can only get fen cents a bushel for them. The America’s Cup contest of 1890 is prac¬ tically arrauged, and under the same term* that were accepted by Lord Dunraven. Tho Rev. P. F. Stanford, who was once* slave, has been installed as pastor of til® Garrison Memorial Church. Boston, Mass. A colored clergyman preached to a white congregation in Alicetown, Ky., on a late Sunday during a temporary illness of the pastor. None of the Central or South American Governments will take the initiative ia rec¬ ognizing the belligerency of the revolution¬ ists of Cuba. The United States battleship Mainehas been put into commission. She was bogus® in 1890, and cost *2,400,000. She can do 17.75 knots an hour. The United Slates Government has mate application to the Fisheries Department of Canadian Government for a supply oi Uah ova for the Great Lakes, that A dispatch from Albany, N. Y.. announces a certificate of iueorporation bus bee® filed with the Secretary of State by the Kid¬ ney Stew Club, of lla. iem. Now President York City, Wilson) of the Health Board, ot reports that anli-toxine has reduced the death-rate in cases of dipthers® and croup nearly forty-four per cent. Five trn as of land, aggregating 420,000 acres, in Southern California, have just been bought by a syndicate for colonization pur¬ poses. The laud consist mostly of Dig ranches. Tho first moose of the season iri Maine was shot by Benjamin j’.-i ft. of Boston. It was a line buck, standing fully six feet high anil weighing nearly 1200 pounds, with antlers showing a spread of forty inches. Electric motors may soon replace the eu irines at present used in “shunting” trains at the terminals of the Brooklyn Bridge, and U the electric system of propulsion is a success '.here it will entirely suppiaut the pceseot •.■able. The chain gear ou safety bicycles is to b® supplanted henceforth by a metal ribbon made from a steel analogous to that used in piano wire. Orifices are cut at regular intervals in the ribbon which engage th® sprocket wheel. IViH Not Be Plough. A. B. Plough, vice-president and general manager of the St. Paul and Duluth railroad, was seen by the Asso¬ ciated Press representative in regard to the report that he had been ap¬ pointed manager of the Central Rail¬ road of Georgia and denied it flatly. You find yourself refreshed by presence of cheerful people. Why not ionfer that pleasure on others?