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Tllii LEGfcl LATDRE.
G-KOKC.IA SOLON’S MK.F.T IJT KEG
IRAK SESSION.
Proceedings of the Senate and House
Presented In Brief.
Mr. Hodges, of Bibb, said a few
days ago that the passage of a Mil to
take from the general assembly the
election of he supreme court judges
was bu “the opening wedge that
would uUimatdy result m the election
of all the judiciary by the people. Mr.
Flemming;s bill was passed and Enday
a hi ! was introduced by Mr Houston,
of DeKalb, which sustains Mr. Hodges
in his decision. Mr. Houston s bill
wus introduced last session and killed
bu the passage of the .supreme cour
bdl has encouraged him in the belie
that it will be successful this time. It
provides for the election of all supe
"°™ t 3 a d «f and att< ? rney g eaer -
als by he electors , of their respec ,ve
judicial circuits at the general elec
tions The terms of these officials
shall begin on the first day of January
following the general election
and any vacancy that occurs
by reason of death resig
nation or other causes shall be filled
by appointment ot the governor for
the n'nexpired term. I he appointee
shall hold office until the first day of
January after the general election,
when the governor will be required to
give thirty days’ notice of a special
election, which will be held for the
purpose of electing a successor. The
term of office is to be four years. This
is an amendment to the constitution,
and if passed by the requisite legisla¬
tive majority Aill be submitted to the
peojde at the next general election.
Mr. Battle, of Muscogee, who is chair¬
man of the railroad committee, intro¬
duced several important measures in
the house Friday, with reference to
the Western and Atlantic railroad.
These bills were introduced in accord
auce with suggestions made by Special
Attorney Wimbish in his report re
cently made. They are as follows: To
provide for an official survey of the
Western and Atlantic road and for the
filing of maps of the same; To repeal
an act granting a right of way to the
Cincinnati Southern railway where its
route adjoins that of the W. and
A. railroad; a resolution ratifying and
confirming provisional settlements
piade by tho governor and attorney
general concerning certain rights of
the Western & Atlantic railroad; a res
olution to appropriate $1,800 as com
pensation to be paid the special com
missioners for the adjudication of con
trovorsios affecting the Western and
Atlantic railroad; a bill authorizing
an agreement to be made with the city
of Atlanta affecting the use of Wall
street. Almost the entire session was
oonsumed in the discussion of a reso
lution by Mr. Hurst, of Walton. This
resolution provides that the Georgia
legislature declare impolitic and un
constitutional any attempt on the part
of congress or any otber legislative
body to pass a measure which looks to
tile union of state and church. Mr.
Hurst made ft long argument in de
fense of the resolution, and was fol
lowed by a number of others on either
aide. The debate was long, and re
suited finally in the indefinite post
pouemout of the resolution. Upon
motion of Mr. Bush, the anti-bar
room bill was made tho special order
for Tuesday. Only one bill was pass
ed. That was to extend tho corporate
limits of the town of Waynesboro. •
Tho session of the house Saturday
was very brief. There was only a very
emall house presout. Nothing of im
portanoe occurred. Upon motion of
Mr. Hurst, the resolution introduced
by himself—declaring the sense of the
general assembly as antagonistic to
any movement which looks to or may
result in the union of church and
etate, was considered, and Mr. Hurst
offered the following substitute:
“Resolved by tho house, the eenate
concurring, that or* anv movement either
in this state in the United
States tending towards the union
of church and state is depre
oated and condemned, and in our
opinion is contrary to the prinoipleifof
our government nud the constitution
of the same.” The following bills
passed: To authorize the town coun
oil of Hogansville to issue bonds; to
provide for the appointment of a clerk
of the county court of Effingham
county; to repeal an act, approved
February 17, 1877, authorizing the
ordinary of Spalding county to keep
fils records, etc., at a place other than
ble courthouse; to regulate and fix
the office hours of the treasurer of Ful
ton Battiehill. county; to incorporate the town
of
Among the bills introduced in the
house Monday morning was one by
Mr. McCurry, of Hart,authorizing the
president of the senate or speaker of
the house to exercise executive power
of governor in case of death of the gov¬
ernor. Another was by Mr. Polhill,
requiring all corporations, stock com¬
panies or individuals operating street
car systems in the state to provide sep¬
arate oars for colored passengers.
Several local bills were introduced,
read one time and referred. The most
important one was as follows: To char-
ter the city court of Laurens coun¬
ty; To transfer Steward county from
the Southwestern judicial circuit to the
Pataula circuit, and one for the relief
of the North Georgia Agricultural
College. Beginning Wednesday the
house holds two daily sessions, the
second session beginning at 3 o’clock
in the afternoon. A resolution by Mr.
McCurry for two sessions was passed,
the regulur order of business to be in
order. Mr. Brauan’s bill amending
the garnishment law of the code, was
*5?
^ ideft tfaat one . half of the ex
* over $25 mon th
flhaH be 8nbj£ct ^ to garni8bm ent.
Tte ori inal easure 8tabjec ted all of
the to garui8hment . The pre
ious ^ ordered aDd the
8ubstitvoted dowD . The bill was
loBt _ M Brannan gave notice of a
motion to ^consider Another spe
ciftl order wag b ht It wa8 Mr.
Broyles’ / measure, which amends sec
tio 1675 A of the code relating to for
ejgn f ^ ration8 owniIJg “ m ore than
5 )0Q ac of Jand jn G orgia . The
bill went over until Tuesday under
unflnished bu8ineB3 . T he following
bllls were ed; To ameIld the act
ineo ati f Cairo in Thomas coun
t To ameI d the cbarter of OamiHa,
Mitcheli county, 4 regulating the sale of
hquor8;Seiia re8oln ti 0 u to relieve
, he 8ftvannah fitreet railway Q f taxes
for 1894 ' sincc the rail had beeQ
sold to the electric street railway and
taxes paid thereon for that year; Bill
making the bank of Blaekshear a state
depository. At noon the senate and
house convened in joint session to hear
the address of Prof. Bradwell, presi¬
dent of the State Normal School at
Athens. Prof. Bradwell was intro¬
duced and spoke on the history, mis¬
sion and need of the normal institute.
His address was an appeal for an ap¬
propriation of $12,500 for the school,
which is badly in need of funds for
support. The address was listened to
with attention.
The senate at Friday’s session agreed
to the bouse resolution to meet Mon
at 12 o’clock and hear an address
frota President S. D. Bradwell, of the
state normal school. Colonel Brad
speak of the need of an ad
ditional appropriation to carry out
the objects of the institution. A large
number 0 f bills vrere disposed of upon
whioh adverse reports had been made,
The bill introduced by Senator Boyd
to adopt and make of force the code
of l aws prepared by authority of the
last legislature by Judge John L. Hop
bins, Clifford Anderson and John B.
Lamar was passed. The code will be
printed in three volumes and sold at
cost by the state librarian. Other
hills passed as follows : Bill by Sena
tor Keen, to regulate the toll of rice,
limiting the toll to one-sixth; To
amend the constitution so as to en
lar g e the exemptions from taxation
touching all buildings erected for and
used as a college, incorporated acade
n, y or ot ber seminary of learning, or
church property.
There was scarcely a quorum in the
senate Saturday, but a large number
of bills were passed,nevertheless. Sen
ator Osborne’s bill, amending the gen¬
‘ rftl railroad law of 1892, was passed.
The bill amends the law by striking
out the word “ten,” where it occurs
in tho ninth and eleventh lines of the
fifteenth section of the act, and insert
iug in lieu thereof the word “twenty.”
The law was, under the railroad law
of l 892, that no two roads should be
constructed within ten miles out of a
town or city. Senator Wilson’s two
bills relating to admitting written
instruments in evidence were passed.
The y are to authorize any written
instrument to be admitted in evi
deuce when the subscribing witnesses
are dead, insane, incompetent, inae
cessible, or being produced do not re
collect the transaction, Other bills
passed were as follows: Repealing that
section of the code preventing couuty
authorities in this state to hire misde
meaner convicts to private persons;
To create a board of commissioners of
roads and revenues for Twiggs county;
To P rotect the cemetery reserve in the
city of Macon; To authorize justices
of the P eace and uotaries publie of
state to preside in districts other
ttan tll0se *bey were elected or ap
P oin ted to, where the justices or nota
ties are disqualified to preside; To au
th orize the judge in the superior
oourt of thi8 state in an y caae of
8eduction or divorce, or other case
where th e evidence is vulgar or ob-
8Cene > to bear and try the case after
clearing the court of all or any portion
of the aud >e“ c e; To amend the general
railroad law of the state > approved at
the 1892 session of the general assem¬
To amend section 1291 of the
code of 1892 regulating the furnishing
of election blanks to justices of the
peace and notaries public; To amend
the barter of the city of Dalton; To
authorize the mayor and aldermen of
Savannah to condemn property for the
Purpose of beautifying the streets; also
create a board of fire commissioners
for Savaunah.
Senator Venable introduced a reso
lution in the senate Monday morning
askiug that congress appropriate a suf
ficient sum of money to build a drive
way from McPherson Barracks into
the city of Atlanta, and from a point
on that road to the McPherson monu¬
ment. The resolution was unani-
mously adopted. Senator Harris, of
the third district, introduced a bill
extending the jurisdiction of county
courts in suits on contracts,
The following measures were
passed: To make more specific the
crime of barratry; To require
banks chartered under the laws
of Georgia, when the capital stock
ie impaired, to make the same good by
transferring the surplus or undivided
profits to the capital stock; to allow
spectators excluded in cases when the
testimony before the court is obscene
Senator Broughton has introduced
three important railroad bills The
bills are not introduced to interfere
,,th the Southern K.ilw.J
rV“S“„" di.crimin.ting £
other railroad from
against connecting lines, by refusing
to haul their cars. These bills provide
suitable penalties for this class of dis
crimination. The bill of Senator Mon
ro, to amend the garnishment law so as
to make all wages over $2 per day sub
jeet to garnishment, was the subject of
a lively debate. Senator Monro made
a strung tight for his measure, but he
could not curry the bill through,
Senators Boyd, Harris, Beeks and
Mercer opposed it in able and con
viuciug speeches, and the bill was lost,
MURDERING CHRISTIANS.
_
Butcheries, Riot and Pillage Contin
ues in Turkey.
Word was received at Boston by
mail Monday morning at the rooms of
the American board that there had
been a terrible uprising among the
Moslems at Oorfa, a station of the
Central Turkey mission. Christians
and a few Moslems had been mur¬
dered—in what proportion is not
stated. Pillage and murder occurred
all day on October 28th. The prem¬
ises of the mission of the American
board were surrounded by armed
Christians. The only missionary at
Oorfa is Miss Corinna Shattuck. of
Louisville, La. *
NORTH GEORGIA CONFERENCE
Closes Its Labors at Elberton—The
Next Session at Dalton.
The session of tho North Georgia
Conference ended at Elberton Mon¬
day night, when the venerable Bishop
Keene announced the appointments for
the ensuing year. Before the reading
of the appointments the bishop spoke
of the graudeur of the work of the
miuistry and the opportunity of the
young men who enter the sacred call¬
ing.
It was decided to hold the next ses¬
sion of the conference at Dalton,which
place sent a strong invitation to the
body to accept the entertainment of
that city.
IN BEHALF OF CUBA.
Charles A. Danna Addresses a Big
Mass Meeing.
The cause of Cuba’s patriots was the
topic at a big mass meeting held in the
hall of Cooper Union at New York on
Tuesday night. The meeting was un¬
der the auspices of the Jose Marti club
of Cubans. Dr. Henry Lincoln Win¬
ter introduced the Hon. Charles A.
Dana, who was a personal friend of
Marti, as chairman of the meeting.
He eulogized Mr. Dana ns the undy¬
ing friend of Cuban liberty. Mr.
Dana was received with a veritble
whirlwind of applause, the entire au¬
dience rising and cheering again.
TO SUCCEED MAHONE.
Virginia Republicans Meet to Select
a New National Committeeman.
A conference of members of the
Virginia republican committee was
held at Petersburg Wednesday for the
purpose of choosing a successor to the
late General William Mahone, as
leader of the republican party in the
Old Dominion. As a result of the
conference it is probable Colonel Wil¬
liam Lamb, of Norfolk, will be named
as Virginia’s representative on the re¬
publican national committee and Ed¬
mund Waddill chairman of the state
committee.
LAMONT’S REPORT
Regarding Expenditures for the Army
and Navy.
The report of Daniel S. Lamont,
secretary of war, opens with a sugges¬
tive tabular statement of insufficient
congressional appropriations. The ac¬
tual expenditures for the last fiscal
year were $52,987,000, while the esti¬
mates of the department for the next
fiscal year run up to $51,945,000, thus
indicating a probability of a much
larger deficiency than was experienced
this year.
THE WORK OF WRECKERS.
The Preble Station Disaster Laid at
Their Door.
It has developed that the wreck of
the New York and the Philadelphia
night express on the Delaware, Lack¬
awanna and Western railroad, at Pre¬
ble station, at 10:05 o’clock Sunday
night, was the result of a most delib
erate plot on the part of persons un
known. A reward of $5,000 has been
offered for the detection and convic
tion of the wreckers,
_
There are some exceptions, but as a
rule, when you have nothing to say, it
is best to say it silently.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Electricity is likely to be adopted to
run Brooklyn Bridge cars.
Silver is cleaned at the shops by
.pressing the piece against a rapidly
revolving wheel made of Canton flan
nel in many plies.
They are making a chain at a Bel¬
gian factory to be twenty-five miles
j ong- j t wi u hardly be able to sustain
its own weight, 6S0 tons.
Q Louis > 8 new Cit Hall hag been
declared unsafe by reason of blow
hoIes in cast iron columns, and the
CQst f alterations will be heavy.
^ £ 2
toting the strength ol building
tenal. for this country and Europe.
The diatoms, single celled plants of
the seaweed family, are so small that
3000 of them laid end to end scarcely
suffice to cover an inch of space on the
rule.
At present England, Holland _ and
Belgium all use Greenwich time. The
legal time throughout Germany has
recently been defined to be exactly
one hour fast on Greenwich time.
a com pl e te skeleton of a moa, or
diornis, the gigantic ostrich-like ex
tinct bird of New Zealand, and of the
New England sandstone has just been
discovered in a New Zealand cave.
The penny-in-the-slot telephone
does not please the druggists of Chi
cago, and most of them positively re
toe to h.ve it The telephone, « it
is, is too useful to their customers.
The world’s supply of copper in
1894 was 319,391 long tons, of which
North America supplied 175,290 tons.
The United States continues to be the
, heaviest . , contributor , to the English i,
market.
A new alloy, known as “gold steel,”
is said to be meeting with favor among
Sheffield manufacturers on account of
its beauty and durability. It is a
composition of bronze and aluminum,
and is peculiarly adapted for cutlery.
A pneumatic vehicle tire carrying
materials for its repair in its interior
has been patented by Messrs. J. F.
and E. P. Forbes, of Halifax. The ma¬
terials are in the form of slender
strips, filaments, rings or the like, and
arranged so that they may be drawn
outward into a puncture of the tire.
A steam pipe capable of resisting
very high pressure has been patented
by a Glasgow engineer. It consists of
a copper tube around which is wound
steel wire, especial care being taken
to insure perfect contact between the
two metals. Soldering is effected by
immersing the whole in a fusible al¬
loy whose melting point is above the
temperature of the superheated steam.
A Nail iu the Snake’s Tail.
William Reidy, residing near Liver¬
more, tampered with, a rattlesnake on
his ranch a few days ago and came
near losing his life for his fun.
Reidv’s children had seen the snake
enter a hole in the ground and told
their father. The hole was not suffi¬
cient depth to hide the reptile’s en¬
tire body, and several inches of his
tail protruded. Reidy pinioned his
snakeship with a stick, and then pro¬
ceeded to drive a nail through its tail,
with the expectation that the snake
would sting itself to death when it
found it could not get away. Mrs.
Reidy held the snake’s tail down with
a stick while the nail-driving opera¬
tion was going on, but the snake did
not like the proceeding and drew its
head from the hole as quick as a flash.
The woman screamed and dropped the
stick, and the snake was free to double
on itself, which it did, and darted its
fangs into Reidy’s hand. The snake
glided away and Reidy hastened off to
hunt a doctor. He started toward
Livermore on the run, and had gone
two miles when he reached the ranch
of a man named CunDingham. The
latter hitched up a team and put the
whip to his horses to hasten the in¬
jured Reidy to a doctor. The hand
was rapidly swelling and was very
painful, and by the time Dr. Gordon
was found ^the bitten member had
swollen to several times its normal
size, and the swelling was reaching far
up the arm. Heroic treatment
stopped the work of the poison, but
he still has a very bad hand and arm,
and will have cause to remember the
rattler for many a day.—San Francisco
Chronicle.
To Prevent Potato Blight.
The so-called blight of potatoes is
due to a fungus which penetrates the
plant all through, from the leaves
downward into the roots, and then
into the tubers 'there, causing the
black rot of this plant. The germs ot
the fungus come in the air or they
may be m the soil. In either case they
begin their mischief on the leaves, on
which the fine, silky threads of the
plant may be seen by a common mag¬
nifying glass. Then is the time to de¬
stroy the parasite, which is done by
spraying the plants with a solution of
four ounces of copper sulphate (blue
vitriol) in two gallons of water; six
ounces of lime is slacked in the same
quantity of water; the two liquids are
then mixed and strained, and a gallon
more of water is added; the liquid is
then sprayed on the leaves. If half a
teaspoonful of paris green is added
and stirred, the liquid will kill the po¬
tato beetles at the same time.—New
York Times.
Wonderful Escane
Mrs. M. A. Owens Falls Down a Long
Flight of Stairs and Kills
Her Child.
Ladies meet with many accidents ■
descending stairs-the result bein* S
We S 0, \ worse > but we
s down escape^eatb a fliSt of unUl^H t^° ther her
child and T ueatD until our atten
H ,
* We » he,^ngusge= ta s
A
OV\ ,N\ my confinement'I
;! iY\ down Ml
l)/ a lono- flio-ht nf
/ w liYV stairs and killed
^ ) j)U \^—> ~1 pi i \\ ?£ild. unborn J know
a— ■ this, as I never
crA. I Jjj] t terward° Vea *"
\ could t«1
was out of po
Jjbeing sition. Upon
i exam*
\ fe a »ti n e d by
yl Blipa iSahL^ . ° Ji^ysi- &
j) L^g=£/V'^*' renounced
hey decided,
favorable and I s y m Ptoms were
so was in no pain; could
® feT^rSL'S'S"i‘ a heartily, rest well and was doing
with instructions that they be advised
promptly t of any unfavorable symptoms.
had, without the knowledge of any one
except my husband, been for some weeks
usl ?£ Mothers Friend” with great
relief and could see no reason ^ whv f
should nQt continue itg US6) and
Now came a long time of suspense and
waiting for developments. To the sur
prise of all I continued to do well, and
got along better than I ever did before
when enciente, although every one, in¬
cluding the physicians, feared the ter¬
mination would be fatal.
time Eight weeks and two days from the
I fell, natural labor came on and
the child was taken away in the usual
manner, and to the surprise of all, I was
found in better condition than ever
before at any previous confinement.
I had continued to use ‘Mother’s
Friend’ up to the last hour, and exper¬
ienced so little trouble that when the
time came was unaware of it, and the
nurse had to make me undress quick
and get in bed. I said to myself, “this is
the work of ‘Mother’s Friend,’ and I
am having an easy time,” as on previous
occasions I suffered tortures for hours
before.
Everything was so easy and rapid
that the physicians Always had before only time I had to get
in the house. trou¬
ble with my breasts, but this time I had
none, as I used ‘Mother’s Friend’ on
them as directed. I had them drawn and
dried without any inconvenience. You
must not forget that it was eight weeks
and two days from the death of the child
before confinement, and I suffered less
and was stronger than ever before on
such an occasion. My physicians and
friends, marveled at my escape.
I know that “Mothers’ Friend” saved
my life, and hope every expectant
mother will use it. It robs the final
hour of terrible suffering and leaves her
stronger and makes recovery more rapid.
I have learned of marvelous results
where only one bottle had been used, but
the sooner “Mothers’Friend” is begun
and the longer used, the better for the
mother when the hour arrives.
The Bradfield Regulator Co., of At¬
lanta, Ga., will mail free to any expect¬
ant mother their little book containing
valuable information and voluntary used tes¬
timonials from ladies who have
“Mothers’ Friend” with happy results.
It can be obtained of any prominent
druggist in the United States.
.Knew How It Would Be.
The simplicity of children is some
times hard to fathom. In the follow¬
ing case, for instance, reported by an
exchange, was the boy’s innocence real
or affected?
He had brought home his monthly
school report, which made a poor
showing. unsatisfactory,” said
“That is very
his father as he looked it over, “I am
not at all pleased with it.”
“I knew you wouldn’t be,” answered
the little boy. “I told the teacher so,
but she said she couldn’t change it.”
Youth’s Companion.
She Obeyed Orders.
“I thought you had a good girl,
Mrs. Bloom?”
“I had.”
“What became of her?”
“I told her to get up early and
dust. ”
“Well?” dusted.”—Detroit
“She got up and
Free Press.
Defined.
Teacher—And what is meant by
keeping the Sabbath holy? to think
Ethel—It means—it means oh,
of something you would like to do,
ever so much, and Sunday.—Indianapolis then not doing jt
’cause it’s
Journal.
Naturally.
“Mamma,” said the little girl at the
flower show, who had absorbed during
the evening a glass of lemonade, a
quantity of clear cider and some g rape
juice, “I wish you would buy me ft
drink of water. I want something to
unthirst me.”—Chicago Tribune.