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GEORGIA SOLONS MEET IN REG
ULAR SESSION.
Proceedings of the Senate and , House „
Presented in Brief.
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A resolution , . was introduced . , , „ arl in ■ the
house Thursday by Mr. Johnson, of
Hall, to have the , governor direct the
attorney-general to investigate the
consolidation of the railroads in Geor
&£? Ttl'c" proceed
discourages a monopoly, to
against such a corporation. The res
olution seeks to have the general
assembly investigate particularly the
consolidation into the Southern rail
way system of so great a.portion of the
railroad interests of the state and
asks that the governor instruct the
attorney-general to investigate and
hono concurred in the, eu»te nraend
ment to the house bill to allow the jury,
,n all cases except the great cajutal
crimes, to reduce the offense to a mis
demeanor, and if the judge concurs in
this recommendation to punish as in
tho case of a m.sdemeanor Thi
measure is tho senate a substitute fora
befoTit dorsementof the code commissioners
was taken up in the senate,
The bill was debated at considerable
K^bms^ere 7 fntroduced^ ZTjt
peal an act incorporating the town of
Hayune; To authorize the comp
troHer general to reopen the
matter of assessment of taxation
of the property of the North High
land Railroad Company; To amend an
act incorporating the town of Madi
son; To provide compensation for the
commissioners of Thomas county. The
house was in an uproar for a time du
ring the morning’s session. Mr. Me
Daniel’s bill to change the county site
of Fannin county was the occasion and
Mr. McDaniel’s speech the direct
cause. Tho bill was finally passed,
The railroad committee submitted
their report. r The scalpers’ bill was
requested to be withdrawn by the
member who offered it; also the bill to
make the roads issue mileage books.
The committee reported favorably on
Brannan’s bill to put sleeping cars in
the hands of the railroad commission¬
ers. The report of the investigating
committee on the corruption charges
was submitted and read. The nature
of report has already been published.
The consideration of the bill to re¬
lieve the supreme court has taken an in¬
teresting turn. The bill was sent to the
geueral judiciary committee, and by it
referred to a sub-committee of five.
This sub-committee by a vote of 4 to 1
reported back in favor of the bill as
originally drawn by Mr. Fleming to
put the election of tho supreme
judges in tho hands of the people.
The general judiciary committee, thou
by a majority of two, voted to sustain
tho decision of the sub-committee.
About this time, however, other mem
tiers of the committee arrived and the
decision was reconsidered. This time
by a vote of 11 to 9, tho bill was so
amended as to vest the election ot the
judges in tho legislature. In this
shape it was reported back to the
house Friday. A minority report
was submitted to leave the bill
as it originally stood and let the peo
pie elect tho judges. This so-called
minority report is really a majority
report, for since tho decision by the
committoe, other names have been
added, so that the minority report is
signed by 18 members of tho commit
tee, while the majority report has only
11 names signed to it. Most of the
morning’s session was consumed in
the discussion of Mr. Giles’ bill to
amend the constitution so as to allow
the legislature to direct that a verdict
may be found in any court in the
state by a majority of not less than
two-thirds of the jury. There was a
long debate ou Ibis bill. The bill was
reported upon und, failing to get the
requisite majority, was defeated. Mr.
Broyles, of Fulton, introduced a bill,
to amend the city charter of Atlanta
by providing for the election of an ad¬
ditional police commissioner. This is
aimed at the present deadlock situa¬
tion in the police board. It pro¬
vides for an election by the new
cpanoil that comes in next January.
(July one bill passed the house during
t&e day and that was a senate bill to
amend an act incorporating the city
of Cartersville. There was another
squabble over the bill to abolish the
county There oourt of Gwinette couuty.
was considerable debate ou the
subject and the Lour of adjournment
finally arrived before the settlement of
the question. A telegram was read in
the house addressed to the geueral
assembly by the North Georgia Con¬
ference of the M, E. church. It was a
resolution asking them to pass the
Bush bill^ The senate then adjourned
until Monday.
Some time ago the house passed a
resolution asking Hr. Hopkins, of the
State Technological school, to report
to it the best methods by which poor
boys could work their way through
the Technological school. Saturday a
communication was received by the
house and read in answer to this query.
Hr. Hopkins states that the commis
sion and faculty have often had this
^ f conmiltation al)d that it
jj UH always been their most earnest en
deavor to find a way in which the good
benefits of the institution could be ex
^ gr clagses of young
^ As yet, however, they had ar
^ fcatisfactory conclusion,
A resoIu t io n by Mr. Reagan,of Henry,
^ nnanim0 usly adopted which makes
< h « of thohon.,
session hereafter instead of 10 o’clock.
After the introduction of a batch of
new bills the house adjourned until
had a bu8y Be ssion Mon
J morllin „ Btld measures were dis¬
^ Btartling rapidity. Local
^ thfj or(]er the day and not
^ J thafc ^ £ {qt ^ actjoa fai]ed
A bi which was introduced
se¬
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wd| knowDi tho nniver .
hoWs 3100 ,000 dollars worth of
with , he Btate . 8 indorsement,
bear interefjt at g per cen t.
^ the principal reli
of thfi institution for maintain
&uc hftH tfae further attrac ti ve qual
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income of the university. A number of
other importan measures were intro
f nced. The following bills were read
po»te“the Mo»«e Kan and Banking
1 “ 1 1 -Y ’, amen d
cL f^. er . the Savannah
Bank and Loan Company; To amend
a “ a ^ authorizing ho board o f
commissioners . of the town of Wash
to sell bonds; lo provide for
the change of name or of the principal
office of any corporation; To amend
the charter of the town of Dawson, lo
Inhibit hunting and fishing on the
lands of others in Appling county, To
prohibit the sale of hquor in the town
of Defeoto ; Foesta ,} Ib i a ci y oour a
Brunswick for Glynn county, To m
corate the town of ARo in the counties
of Habersham and Banks; lo limit the
jurisdiction of thecity court of DeKalb
in civil cases to the value of $100; lo
incorporate the town of Douglass in
Coffee county; To establish a city court
in the county of Coffee; To provide
for tho election of the county commis¬
sioners for the couuty of Berrien; To
repeal an act for the protection of
fish in the waters of Berrien county;
To create a board of commissioners of
water for the city of Savannah; To
create a board of fire commissioners
for the city of Savannah ; To incorpo¬
rate the town of Braswell in the coun¬
ty of Paulding; To authorize and em¬
power the mayor and council of Deca¬
tur to provide for the registration of
every business or trade in said city;
To amend the charter of Roberta; To
amend the charter of the town of
Meigs . so as to allow the city to issue „„
u ’ r tl >e sa e of liquor; To estab
a new charter for the town of
Calhoun; lo create the office of
commissioner ot public wor.es for
Bio city of Savannah , To amend
a <> act creating a board of road
and revenue commissioners for the
county of Catoosa; To fix perma
nently the title and status of a piece
of ground on the northeast corner of
South Broad and Abercorn streets in
the city of Savannah; To provide a
system of pubhc schools for the town
of Oxford m Newton county To au
‘home the mayor and council of Bow
naan to issue bonds; Resolution au
thonzing and directing the attorney
general to re-open the assessment of
the Postal Telegraph and Cable com
pany.
A good portion of the time of the
senate was taken up Thursday in read¬
ing local bills the second time, The
senate passed the bill of Mr. Brown,
of Pulaski, to incorporate public
schools iu Cochran. The bill of Sen
ator Roberts to prevent corporations
from ooutracting with their employes
so as to relieve corporations from dam
ages by reason of accident, was not
passed Wednesday, as reported, but
was laid on the table. Thursday moru
ing the bill was taken up and was the
subject of considerable debate. The
present law allows railroads and other
corporations to make contracts with
their employes, whereby, in consider
eratiou of the employment, tho em
, lo R ree ? aot . to . , ho J ,, d t he cor P ora
P J e S received ;
tion liabie for any injuries
while in their employment. made A num¬
ber of able speeches were for
and against the measure. On the pas¬
sage of the bill the yeas were 24, nays
12 .
The senate was engaged almost all
the Morning Friday in reading house
bills the second time. Most of tbem
were of a local nature. The following
bills were passed: To amend the
charter of Carrolton; To reincorporate
the town of Elberton; the resolution
of Senator Bussey To relieve J. D.
Lang, tax collector, of Terell county;
To change the time of holding the fall
term of Irwin superior court. Senator
McGarrity introduced a brill to levy
and collect a tax on the amount of
money paid in by any person
or persons in this state for life in
sura nee policies. This bill simply aims
to reach the amount of money invested
in .ife insurance. The resolution to
pay Hon. Columbus Blair, of Bouglass
county, for last year’s session came up
and it met with decided opposition
from Senators Snead and McGregor.
Mr. Barnett drew the salary last ses¬
sion as the sitting member, he being a
populist. The committee on elections
at the beginning of the present session
decided Mr. Biair, a democrat, was en¬
titled to the seat, and Mr. Barnett was
ousted. The populists hold Mr. Bar¬
nett was wrongfully deprived of his
seat, and that Mr. Blair is not entitled
to the pay of last session. All of the
populist members of the senate voted
against the resolution and the demo¬
cratic members for it. The resolution
was passed. The bill to pay tales ju¬
rors the same as regular jurors was
passed, and when the governor signs it
it will be the law. Senator Mercer
introduced a bill making it a felony
for any officer of any corporation or
person to charge more than eighteen
per cent for the use of money, and
under the punishment not less than
one or more than five years.
The senate had its bands full of bills
ready for final action Monday morn¬
ing and it went to work and in a short
time passed the following bills: To
provide for certain legal publications;
To authorize the voters of Carrollton
to hold an election on the question of
issuing bonds; To allow the commis¬
sioners of Chatham county to purchase
roads owned by private parties; To
amend section 1978 of the code, relat¬
ing to landlord’s liens; To abolish ap¬
peals from the police court of Savan¬
nah; To amend the charter of Boston,
in Thomas county; To organize a park
commission for Savannah ; To fix a time
for electing the clerk and sheriff of the
city of Savannah; To organize a board
of police commissioners for Savannah;
To authorize policemen of Savannah
to make arrests ouiside of the city
limits; To extend the jurisdiction of
Savannah for sanitary purposes; To
extend the jurisdiction of the police
court of Savannah; Bill creating a
public school system for Cartersville.
The bill introduced by Senator Monro
to place county and municipal chain
gangs under the control of the gov¬
ernor and lhe penitentiary depart¬
ment was made the special order for
Wednesday. Senator Tatum says his
people are tired of camp hunters.
The game is so plentiful in Hade
county that hunters go there and
spend weeks at a time. His bill pro¬
poses to stop this practice.
The governor has signed the Dodson
insurance bill, which had already passed
both houses, anti it has now become a
law-. The bill does away with the
three-quarters clause which all the fire
policies have contained.
Iu reply to the joint resolution for¬
warded him at Washington, Hon.
Hoke Smith has accepted the invita¬
tion of the legislature to address them
on Tuesday, December 3d.
,TRAIN WRECKERS AT WORK.
A Smash-up on the New York Central.
Two Men Killed.
The deliberate wrecking of fast mail
train No. 6, eastbound, on the New
York Central, was accomplished about
three miles west of Rome, N. Y., at an
early hour Tnesday morning. The
wreckers had broken open the com¬
pany’s toolhouse nearby and obtained
a wrench and crowbar with which
all the spikes and fishplates from
two opposite rails on the south¬
erly track had been removed.
The two released rails were left in theii
places on the track. As the train,
comprising four mail cars and three
sleeping cars, came along, the loco¬
motive left the track, bounded over the
ties and fell sidewise into a ditch
twelve feet deep on the south side of
the track.
The first two mail cars shot over the
engine, the first one landing fully sev¬
enty-five feet from the point where the
engine left the track. The second and
third mail cars came together in a “V”
shape and the wreck of the engine lay
in the open space between them. Hn
der the second mail car, pinned down
by a pair of trucks and ctone dead, was
found Engineer Hager..
Robert Elliott, a tramp, died after
being removed from the wreck,
The first two sleepers were partly
turned over and tb/* last one remained
on the tracks. Strange to say, the
two loose rails had not been thrown
from the road bed. the last car rock
ing upon them. There were fifty pas¬
sengers in the three sleepers and not
one of them was hurt.
M. AND N. G. SALE.
Bid In by the Representative of the
Construction Creditors.
The Tennessee division of the Mari¬
etta and North Grorgia railroad, 106
miles, and including the bridge across
the Tennessee river at Knoxville, was
sold by Special Master H. H. Taylor
Saturday afternoon to R. T. D. Law¬
rence, of Marietta, Ga., representing
the construction creditors. Mr. Law¬
rence’s bid was $330,000, a sum largely
in excess of the upset price.
WOMEN AND B ABES
BUTCHERED WITHOUT MERCY
BY SPANISH SOLDIERS.
A Probability That the Murderers
Will Be Sentenced to Death.
Colonel Fernando Fegueredo, the
Cuban leader, of Tampa, Fla., is in re
ceipt of a letter from Havana, giving
details of atrocities which were com
mitted by Spaniards in Matanzas pro¬
vince.
Colonel Melino, who commands a
Spanish ed regiment, recently encounter¬
the advance guard of Gomez’s army
in Matanzas, and was defeated. Whil«
soldiers under Melino were in retreat,
they met a group of women and child¬
ren near a little town called Cayopino,
As the soldiers passed, one of the wo¬
men made a sneering remark about
the Spaniards. The remark was over¬
heard by the soldiers and so enraged
them that they butchered everyone of
the women and children. There were
ten women and about a dozen children
in the group.
The letter says that the Spaniards
after shooting down their victims,
stabbed them with bayonets, inflicting
the most horrible wounds. One baby
was killed at its mother’s breast, and
the bullet that passed through the in¬
fant, also passed through the mother.
Colonel Melino made no report of the
butchery, but it happened that two of
the women murdered were wives of tha
Spaniards engaged in the sawmill bus¬
iness at Matanzas.
When they learned how their loved
ones had been slaughtered they sent
De Campos information of the horrible
affair and demanded that Colonel Me¬
lino be punished. It is stated that He
Campos has ordered that Melino be
eourtmartialed, and it i3 thought the
butchers will be sentenced to death, as
the massacre is condemned as bitterly
by Spaniards as by Cubans.
MURDERERS BURN THE BODY.
In a Desperate Attempt to Hide Their
Dastardly Crime.
The most dastardly murder in the
history of crime in South Carolina
was committed near Cokesburg, twelve
miles north of Greenwood one night
last week.
Miss Narcissa Bagwell, a young lady
of respectable family, while on her
way to Greentvood to take the train
for the Atlanta exposition, was robbed
and killed and her body burned in an
old barn of fodder in the field.
The coroner’s jury of inquest has
cansed John Richards and Thomas
Watts, colored, to be arrested on cir¬
cumstantial evidence pointing to their
guilt. Watts has confessed to being
a partner in the crime but lays the
burden of it on Richards.
Great indignation and excitement
prevails and there was immediate dan¬
ger of a lynching bee. The opinion
is now that the law will be allowed to
take its course. The prisoner says
that they killed the woman for her
money and that no outrage was at¬
tempted. Thirty dollars in money and
some jewels were obtained. One clew
to the guilt of the negroes was the fact
of their spending before.the too much money.
Evidence grand jury maket
the negroes desperate characters.
D. B. Hill on the Lecture Platform.
Senator Havid B. Hill,of New York,
made his western debut on the lecture
platform at Milwaukee, ou Tuesday
evening.
ATLANTA MARKETS.
COBBECTED WEEKTjY.
Groceries.
Boasted coffee 22.10 w 100 tb eases. Green
—Choice 21%; fair 20c; prime 19c. Sugar—
Standard granulated 5c; off granulated -■
New Orleans white 4%c; do. yellow 4%c.
iTyrup— New Orleans open kettle 25<g80c; mixed
12%(®20c; 80@65c; sugarhouse 20@35c. Teas—Black
green t0@50c. Bice—Head 6c;
choice 5%c. Suit—dairy, sacks, $1.35; do. bbls.
$2.25; Full ice cream 90c; common 70c. Cheese—
cream U@ll%c. Matches—65s 50c; 2 00s
$1.30@$1.75; Crackers--Soda 300s $2.75. Soda—Boxes Gc;
5%c; cream 7c;
ginger 6%;tancy snaps 8c. Candv—Common stick
W, 12@!2%. Ovsters -F. W. $1.80:L.
$1.30. Powder—Bifle $2.71. Shot—$1.30.
Flour, Grain and Meal.
$4.25: Flour, first patent, $4.70; second patent
ly straight $3.70: fancy $3.60; extra fami¬
$3.35. Corn, white 45c; mixed 44c. Oats,
white ----- 1 33c; mixed 30c. Bye,
No. Georgia 75c. Bariev, Georgia raised 85c. Hay,
No. 1 timolhv, large bales SI; small bales 95c.
2 timothy, small bales 90c. Meal, plain
43:; bolted 40c. Wheat bran, large sacks 75c.
small sacks 77%c. Shorts $1.05. Stock Meal, $1
Cotton Seed Meal 85c per 100 lbs. Hulls, $6.
per ton. Peas, 75c bu. Grits $ A 75.
Country Produce.
?0@22%c; Eggs 16@17c. Butter—Western Creamery,
Georgia fancy Tenn. 15@18c, choice 12%.
keys 10all%c 10@12%c. Live poultry—Tur¬
chickens, # tb; hens 25@27%c; spring
poultry—Turneys 12%a22%; ducks 18@20c. ducks Dressed 12(1
4; chickens 15@16c; Irish potatoes—
Burbank ■ $2.00(32.50 10@13%c, bbl; 50a60e $ bu.
Tennessee $
bu. 40@50c. Sweet potatoes
10(ff45c fi bu. Honey—Strained 8@10c; in
the comb 10®12%c. Onions 75o bu; bbls. $2.
Cabbage lal%c.
Provisions.
Clear rib sides, boxed 5%o; ice-cured bellies
9c- Sugar-cured hams !0%@12%c; California
Sc. Breakfast bacon 10%. Lard—Best quality
6 9£c; second quality 6%c; compound 5%c.
Cotton.
Local market closed steady; middling 7%.
I reportThat 1 h Lt 8 dr° Uad
animals since they May J Waed ,°® 2 -< C
Van Branm—That informal
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Dmwiddie—How d news.
out?” ° make t
Branm —Foundered bark
Fitts.-urg Chro P icle and Tel egrap s.
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The Haw Side.
Mie number class was
little Erma r»r l,/"^
was sent to the 1
to write the number ten in kbo l
She wrote it backwards, « ,•!
boy, who was watching when V » 1
claimed, “It’s rfjrht^J attest
-the not
one wants to be on the haw
of the naught.”
Clothier—Were you pleased with
overcoat which I sold you?
have Customer—Oh, yes; all my
worn it.
Customer—Every Clothier—Well, think of that) J I
ihe next smaller time, after a
one had to take ij
BUgg Pusleigh deserves great erJ ti
for his success in life. He
boy. rf)an se “
poor
Blagg—Hoes be, indeed? Let!
tell you that Hustling deserves
more credit. He rose from a
boy.—Eoxbury Gazette.
Gastric Oyspsps
And const!]
troubled mei
over a year. I
worse and eo
& t hardly perform
»1 household da
jtlk 1 I had severe n
in my stomach
peciallyatnigti
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Physician !
mo “ ths witl
1 avaih I resortej
-'J* (. Hood’s Sa
rllla, and having taken six bottles I
from all distress in my stomach and a
longer troubled with dyspepsia.” Mas.
gakjst Fr-NNEE, Indian Falls, N. Y.
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The Greatest fledical Discovei
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KENNEDY’S
Medical Discover
DONALD KENNEDY, OF ROXBURY, MAS!
Has discovered in one of oar comm
pasture weeds a remedy that cures ev<
kind of Humor, from the worst Scroll
down to a common pimple. hundj
He has tried it in over eleven
cases, and never failed except He has in twoeaj
(both thunder humor). now
his possession over two hundred cer
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ol Boston. Send postal card lor book
A benellt is always experienced from
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when the right quantity is takfin.
When the lungs are affected it ca?
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week after taking it. Head the label.
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