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About Conyers weekly. (Conyers, GA.) 1895-1901 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 14, 1895)
The golden-rod is not nearly so pop¬ ular as the National flower as it used to be, notes the New Orleans Pica¬ yune. . _ The King of Portugal is trying to pawn his African possessions to some other European Power for a little ready cash, but the security does not Beem to be gilt-edged. It is now said by the New Orleans Picayune that that bald Chicagoan, who wants to have a suit of red hair was scalped in 1885 by a Comanche in Texas, and got $50,000 damages from the State for the loss of his hair. It was red, too. J. M. Barrie, the novelist, always writes with a dictionary at his elbow. “1 never look at it,” he says, “but it gives me confidence to know that it is there.” Kipling, on the other hand, ohce remarked that be “dredged the dictionary for adjectives.” Nearly all counties in the north¬ eastern portion of Kansas show an in¬ crease in population during the last ten years, while nearly all the coun¬ ties in the southwestern portion show a decrease. The explanation of the latter circumstance is easy—lack of water. The Chicago Record says: The day of pugilism is nearly over, There may be here and there one or two sur¬ reptitious and sporadic encounters and there will doubtless be no end of talk for some time to come, but the slugging match as a feature of the life of a civilized age is soon to go forever. Score one for London City enter¬ prise, exclaims the New York World. Reports some time ago had it that the effort to exterminate the rabbit plague in Australia through an epi¬ demic introduced by inoculation with ft deadly serum promised success. But it may be just as well if it’s a partial failure. A London firm proposes to take annually not less than 150 tons of dried rabbits at a reasonable price. By and by dried rabbit may be as common as dried fish. A new incident for a “tale of mys¬ tery” was the robbery of a ton and a quarter of silver on a London street, remarks the Atlanta Constitution. The men in oharge had for a few mo¬ ments left the van in which it was be¬ ing conveyed from the railway sta¬ tion, and when they returned it was gono. It is noteworthy that the inci¬ dent of robbery of a tug boat in a re¬ cent story called the attention of Lon¬ don bankers to the possibility of such piracy, and the practice of sending treasure by tugs was stopped. Some patriotic citizeu of Prescott, Arizona, in lauding his towu and State, and descanting on the wonder¬ ful riches of the region, declared that even the buildings of Prescott were iu part of gold. He was taken up on tho assertion, and a bet resulted. A few days ago an assay was made of sand¬ stone being used in the erection of some new buildings, and the stone showed $4 per ton in gold and twenty cents per ton in silver. It wouldn’t pay to mine the buildings of Prescott, but the boomer won his bet. . Says the Chicago News: “Two years ago England was afflicted with the ‘bun.’ The form of hideousness that is known ns a ‘bun’ is a wad or mat of hair, partly domestic and partly im¬ ported, worn by women as a sort of pillow for the lower part of her head and neck. Somehow or other a ‘bun’ or two managed to cross the Atlantio and find their way into the land of the inoffensive Canuck, and now we learn that Toronto is suffering from an epi¬ demic thereof, and that the disease is likely to break out in this coantrv. In the name of suffering humanity on this side of the line every possible precaution should be taken to prevent such a disaster. It would not be too much to demaud that the customs officials and the quarantine inspectors receive instructions to send back every ‘bun’ smuggling female that attempts to cross the border. The bloomer and the inflated sleeve are bad enough, but the beauty of the American girl is too sacred a thing to be smothered by a rush of false hair to the neck. Be¬ sides, think of the dire effect of the sight of a ‘bun* on a man who had brought on a fit of indigestion by a lunch of rolls and coffee.* THE LEGISLATURE. GEORGIA SOLO.N9 MEET IN REG¬ ULAR SESSION. Proceedings of the Senate and House Presented in Brief. In the house Thursday, Mr. Branan called up his bill which places the management and election of jailers in the hands of the county commission ers of roads and revenues, It was amended so as not to affect counties which have local legislation on this subject, and then passed. It Applies to counties wherein there are located cities of 64,000 inhabitants. The bill by Mr. Gray, of Catoosa, to make an appropriation of $25,000, to $10,000 next year and $15,000 the year follow¬ ing, to the state memorial board to mark by monuments or other suitable memorials the positions occupied by the Georgia troops that par ticipated in the battle of Chieka mauga, in the Chickamauga National Millitary Park, was brought up as a special order and passed by a vote of 90 to 42. Prolonged applause followed the announcement of the result by the speaker. Mr. Boynton, of Calhoun, introduced a most important meas ure to amend the constitution so as to prolong the sessions of the gen¬ eral assembly indefinitely and to pay the members salaries of $300 each per session. It provides a submission of the question to a vote of the people for final judgment. The bill was ordered engrossed. A large number of local bills were passed and the house ad¬ journed until Friday. At Friday morning’s session Mr. Boynton, chairman of the finance com¬ mittee of the house, moved a recon¬ sideration of the vote by which the Confederate soldiers’ measure was passed Thursday afternoon. A sharp discussion was precipitated, and on a vote the body refused to reconsider by a vote of 88 to 33. The special or¬ der then was brought up. It was a bill by Mr. Boifeuiilet to provide for the appropriation of $30,000 to be used by the State university to build and furnish additional buildings for the Normal and industrial school for girls at Milledgeville. The amend¬ ment of the committee suggested by the author, cutting the amount down to $25,000 was attached. The com mittee finally arose aud reported the measure and amendment to the house with recommendation that they pass. A vote was forced, resulting in their passage by a vote of 90 ayes to 52 nays. At Friday afternoon’s session of the house, Mr. Fogarty, of Richmond, introduced a resolution which author¬ izes the code commission of the state to purchase at a cost of $500 from M. Salem Dutcher, from Richmond, his digest of the constitution’s organic acts creating and changing the coun¬ ties, and the rules of the superior and supreme courts, of Georgia, and incor¬ porate the same in the state code. Several new bills were read and referred. The following bills were passed: To amend the liquor law of Habersham subject to a vote of the people of that county; To allow banks to increase or decrease their capital stock on a vote of a majority of the stockholders; To amend the act incorporating Forsyth ; To amend the code relating to the sale of property taken under execution from the city court of Savannah; To amend an aet amending the constitution, so as to allow pensions to maimed, blind, indigent and disabled confederate sol¬ diers; To appropriate $120,000 for pensions for 1895 and the same amount for 1896, rfind to define the proof, col¬ lection, payment, etc. At Friday night’s session of the house, a big batch of bills were passed. They were mostly of a local nature. The bill of Mr. Pittman, of Troup, which is a very important piece of leg¬ islation intended to correct the lynch¬ ing evil, passed the house Saturday and was sent to the senate. There were but ten votes against the bill in the house. The.bill in part is as fol¬ lows: Section 1. It shall not be law¬ ful for any person by violence, threat of violence or by any other means to hinder, obstruct or interfere with the sheriff, constable or their deputies, charged with the duty and engaged in the business of carrying out and ex¬ ecuting the sentence or order of court, after indictment and trial of criminals, while they nre in the custody of such officers. Section 2 Provides that when¬ ever any persons shall hinder, obstruct or interfere with the sheriff or other officers aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the officer charged with the custody and protection of the prisoner to make out a list of the per¬ sons so offending, and present them to the grand jury of the county having jurisdiction. * * * Any officer who shall fail to comply with the duties hereby imposed shall be suspended and his office declared vacaut by the governor. * * * And it shall be the duty of grand juries in all counties to investigate the facts aud make present¬ ment of the matters and things herein referred to, * * * and the clerk of court shall immediately transmit a oopy of such presentments to the gov¬ ernor. It shall be the duty of judges of superior courts to give the law of the act in sppcial charge. “Section 3 provides penalties by fine, chaingang or penitentiary, in discretion of courtj.! The bill got a unanimous report by the general judiciary committee of the house aud the bill iu a small house got 97 votes. The bill was immediately transmitted to the senate, A large number of other bills were passed. Mr. Johnson, of Hall, moved to re¬ consider the acrion of the house in re- gard to the bill to authorize and pro¬ vide for the payment or pensions soldiers to certain widows of Confederate who are on the invalid list, and appro¬ priating $20,000 for the purpose of providing for any new applicants. This was amended by striking out- the section making the appropriation. The house reconsidered and passed the bill. The effect will be that the widows of Confederate soldiers who have recently died will receive the same pension that their husbands received when alive. The house also reconsidered its action on the bill by Mr. Dennard, of Wil cox, “To make legal the sale of wild binds in this state.” Also the bill of Mr. Dempsey, of Butts, “To prevent the increase of the bonded debt of this state or ra sing the interest thereon, by repealing the act making the fund to the state university permanent,” and they were placed on the calendar. Saturday night when the night ses¬ sion of the legislature was adjourned the first hour of Sunday had arrived. They remained in session until late and passed many bills, When the clock in the legislative hall showed 11:27 o’clock the point was made by one of the members that by a decision of the supreme court of Georgia it was Sunday. After this time, however, one other resolution was passed, and when the house adjourned it was Sun¬ day. Mr. Branan’s fee system bill was the special order. It was not reached and will consequently not be reached at this session. Among the bills passed at the night session were: Bill to- amend an act to amend the school laws of this state by prescribing the qualifications of the members of county boards of education; To re¬ quire all infantry and cavalry compa¬ nies of the Georgia volunteers and the Georgia volunteers, colored, in this state to be attached to one of the pres ent existing regiments; To appropriate money to the state lunatic asylum ; To establish the city court of Laurens county. There was quite a tilt in the house Monday when the bills introduced by Senator Brand came up for action, One repeals the act creating the coun¬ ty court of Gwinnett. The other es¬ tablishes a city court for Gwinnett county. Johnson, of Hall, and Me Curry, of Hart, spoke iu favor of these bills, while Messrs. Peeples and Espy, of Gwinnett, spoke against them. They said that the grand jury had refused to recommend it and that the people of their county were op¬ posed to it. The vote stood, ayes 104, noes 35. The house reconsidered the bill to prevent the increase in the bonded debt of the state or the rais¬ ing of the interest thereon, After considerable debate the bill passed by a vote of 89 to 26. Mr. Dempsey’s substitute, repealing the funding act of 1881, making the income of the University of Georgia permanent, is a very important measure. As the law was, the trustees of the university could present to the governor any valid, mntured bond of the state, which might only be a 3| per cent, bond, and the governor would have to issue a bond to the trustees bearing 7 per cent interest and good for fifty years, which could be renewed. The trustees have already obtained $275,000 of these 7 per cent bonds. Mr. Dempsey’s substitute seeks to prevent the increase of this bonded debt. It does not in¬ validate the bonds already issued, but it prevents their renewal at the end of fifty years. Mr. Dempsey made a good fight for this bill, andf after reconsid¬ eration it was passed. The following other bills were passed: Resolution authorizing the governor and treas¬ urer to issue warrants on the treasury to pay indigent ex-eonfederate soldiers; To provide who may redeem real estate sold at tax sale; To amend the aet to authorize the issuance of circulating notes to banks and banking associa¬ tions; To regulate the sale of milk, butter and cheese in this state. This bill was recommended by the State Dairymen’s Association. At the night session several bills were passed and then it developed that there was not a quorum present. The rest of the evening, up to. a late hour, was spent in trying to get a quorum. The following bills were passed : To amend tbe general tax act for 1895 and 1896; To prevent the procurement of consignments of orchard, farm and dairy products, etc., by irresponsible parties; To regulate practice in the courts of this state; To make the name of the colored branch of the universi¬ ty, the “State Industrial College for Colored persons. ” The session of the senate was occu¬ pied some time Thursday morning in a futile effort to reconsider the bill lost Wednesday to prevent hunting and fishing on the uninclosed lands of an¬ other. A number of bills, mostly of a local nature were passed. The bill to reduce the fees of oil inspectors was passed. It ents off the 5 per cent, al- lowed themiu addition to their salary of $1,500. A bill to abolish the Jack son county court was the subject of u breezy debate. The bill was lost. The senate passed Senator Long’s bill to change the constitution of the state so as to create the office of lieu¬ tenant governor. He is to preside over the senate, and have a salary of $500, and in the event of the death or disa¬ bility of the governor, to exercise the powers of the governor. The bill to create the office of insur¬ ance commissioner and placing the duty in the comptroller general, brought on a spicy debate in the sen¬ ate Friday. The bill was defeated, which leaves the comptroller as insur¬ ance commissioner, and as compensa¬ tion the fees of the office as is now the law. A bill to prevent manufacturers of fertilizers to put up for sale more than one brand of fertilizer from the same formula, was passed. Other bills passed were the bill to establish a new charter for the city of Covington ; To prevent corporations from imposing any greater tax on insurance brokers than on agents of insurance companies doing business in Georgia. At Friday night’s session of the sen¬ ate the bill authorizing the governor to relinquish all claims on the Blue Ridge and Atlantic railway under the condition that they pay all county and state taxes andresume a daily schedule between Tallulah and Cornelia, was passed. Other bills passed as follows: To amend an act regulating sales of fertilizers in this state and to fix a method for determining the value of the same ; To incorporate the town of Douglas, in Coffee county; To author¬ ize the town council of Bowman to is¬ sue bonds ; To provide for the sale and lease of the Northwestern railway; To create and organize a board of tax as¬ sessors aDd receivers for the city of Savannah; To provide compensation for members of the board of roads and revenues for Coweta county. President Venable’s bill to levy an additional tax on the liquor dealers of Georgia for the purpose of establish¬ ing and maintaining an inebriate asy¬ lum w r as passed in the senate at Satur¬ day’s session. The bill levies an addi¬ tional tax of $26 on each saloon keeper every year. The bill introduced by Mr. Broyles in the house changing the charter of Atlanta was passed. Other bills passed were: To establish a new charter for the town of Calhoun in Gordon county ; To create a board of water commissioners for the city of Savannah; To amend the charter of the town of Camilla. The people of Georgia will be given another opportunity to give the su preme court the relief which is so bad. ly needed. Speaker Fleming’s bill submitting the amendment of the con¬ stitution to the people, passed the sen¬ ate Monday. It increases the number of supreme court judges from three to six. ' There is to be one chief justice and five associate justices, and they are to be elected by the people. The first'election of judges by the peo¬ ple will be held on the third Wednes¬ day in December, 1896. Other bills passed were as follows: To make an extra levy of $25 on the liquor dealers to establish an inebriate asylum in this state; To change the time for holding the regular quarterly term of the city court of Elbert county so that the same shall commence on the second Monday in February, May, August and November; To authorize the town council of Bowman to issue bonds; To incorporate the town of Alto in the counties of Banks and Haber¬ sham ; To relieve Mr. J. S. McGahee, of McDuffie county, as surety on an appearance bond; A resolution author¬ izing the governor to accept, in the name of the people of Georgia, from General James D. McBride, for pre¬ servation in the archives of the execu¬ tive department, one copy of his his¬ torical publication entitled “Import¬ ant Periods in the History of the United States,” and “The Seal of the United States and Seals of the Execu¬ tive, Judicial and legislative Depart¬ ment of the Government.” The senate met at 6 :30 o’clock Mon day evening, and after passing a num¬ ber of bills, adjourned to the banquet by President Venable at the Granite. The house bill of Mr. Broyles to amend section 1675 (a) of the code, prohibiting foreign corporations from owning more than 5,000 acres of land in Georgia, was passed, Other bills passed were •. To amend an act enti¬ tled an act to 'inc orporate the Savan¬ nah Bank and Trust company; To amend section 4928 of the code of 1882 relating to sales of property execution issuing out of the city co.urt of Savan¬ nah ; To incorporate the town of Bras¬ well, in the county of Spalding; To incorporate the town of Bat¬ tle HiB; To limit the jurisdic¬ tion of the city court of DeKalb county to cases exceeding $10 ; To au thorize and empower the mayor and council of the town of Decatur to pro vide for the registration and license of every trade, business, calling, avoca tion and ou^ profession tl prosecuted and curried within ,-corporal. 1 units of said town ; To repeal an act for the protection of fish in the waters of Berrien county; An act to be ec titled an act to fix the time and manner of electing the mayor and c< uncil of the town of Decatur and to fix the terms of office of said officers; To repeal an act creating a board of county commissioners for DeKalb county; To amend an act to . board , of , commissioners of create revenues for Catoosa roads and county. AN ADDRESS Sent Out By South Carolina R licans. ep „ b ^ The republican state executive mittee of South Carolina or,, address in has issued ed aa which it says : ‘ ’It has been well that question pan be regarded settled^!!!? 110 settled until it has’been that is on the basis of right and iJ tice If this saying be true, ' tainly the suffrage question Cet regarded definitely cannot h as settled by th recent enactment of our so-called stitutional convention, f C o n ' or no enact! f mined man can pretend that this ment is based either on right or ' tice. essence On of the contrary, injustice it is th wron/ 0 Xy and f being nothing less than an tempt to perpetuate cheating and C in elections by enacting it j nto the fundamental iaw of the state as fully admitted in the di.-cussion w it! author and chief advocate, B. by ^ This, indeed, R. man. was the openly avQ.wed purpose for calling the con¬ vention and that purpose it can hardly be denied has been faithfully carried out, and that, too, in clear and pal pable violation of the constitution and laws of the United States. “In announcing our purpose as re¬ publicans to resist the enforcement of this nefarious enactment in every proper and legitimate way, a brief re¬ trospect of our very anomalous polit¬ ical situation here in South Caro¬ lina may not be amiss.” ANOTHER SPANISH OUTRAGE. Two Gunboats Stopped and Searched A Harmless Fruiter. Two Spanish gunboats boarded and searched, off the north coast of Cuba, the small Norwegian steamship Morin gen, which arrived Tuesday from Baracoa, loaded with bananas. The Moringen sailed from Philadel¬ phia on November 17th for Baracoa, and the news of her departure was at once cabled by the Spanish officials at Philadelphia to Cuba and the war craft which patrol the coast were ordered to keep a good lookout for the fruiter. Five days after leaving the capes, and when in sight of Cuba, two Spanish war vessels appeared in sight and the sharp report of a rapid fire gun gave warning for the Moringen to heave to, which order was promptly complied with. Boat loads of men from one vessel boarded the fruiter, while two warships kept watch to prevent the escape of filibusters and the landing of war materials, which was supposed to be on board. After a thorough search nothing of a contra¬ band character was found on board and a certificate was given to the cap¬ tain of the Moringen to that effect, A protest was also forwarded by the ad¬ miral iu charge of the search, protest¬ ing against the ridiculous stories which are continually being sent to Cuba from Philadelphia. WILL AGREE UPON WAGES. A Probability That the Alines Will Adopt the Scale of the Operators. The miners’ delegation to the joint wage convention of miners and opera¬ tors held a secret conference at Pitts¬ burg, Pa., Thursday morning to con¬ sider the operators’ ultimatum of 64 cents per ton for the first three months of 1896, and 70 cents for the balance of the year. The miners want 74 cents for the entire year, but there was a disposition to accept the operators’ ultimatum and an amicable settlement is looked for, ATLANTA MARKETS. COBBECTED WEEKLY. Groceries. Boasted coffee 21.6 ) W 100 ft cases. Green —Choice 21c; fair 19%c; prime 19c. Sugar Standard granulated 5c; off granulated yellow 4,4 c. New Orleans white 4%c; do. Syrup—New Orleans open kettle 25 @ 30 c; mixed 12%@20c; sugarhouse 20@35c. Teas— 30@65c; green 20@50c. Bice-Head M; choice 5%c. Salt—dairy, sacks, 51 35; do. bbi«. $2.25; ice cream 90c; common 70c. ”“ e£ ®j!r Full cream ll@U%c. Matches—65s 50c; $1.3(’@$1.75; 300s $2.75. Soda— Boxes Crackers---Soda 5>£c; cream 1 ginger snaps 8c. Candy—Common * 6V: rancy 12@!2>£. Ovsters -F. W. 8hot-$h» \V $1.30: Powder—Rifle $2.7). Flour, Grain and Meal. $4.25; Flour, straight first patent, $3.70; fancy $4.70; $3.60; second extx& PJ**; *? ly $3.35. Corn, white 43c; mixed 43c. white 33c; mixed 30c. ---- „ Georgia 75c. Barley, Georgia rai-ed 85c- t ■ No. 1 timothy, large bales $1; small bales »'• No. 2 timothv, small bales 95c: Meal, P 43c; bolted 40c. Wheat bran, large sacks small Backs ””/.c. Shorts $1.05. Stock Meal, ** Cotton Seed Me*: 35c per 100 lbs. Holla,*’’ per ton. Peas. 75c per bn. Grits Country Produce, Egga20@21c. Butter-Western Crsametfr ?0@22%c; faucy Tenn. 15@18c, ch-iice_ ^^hens^@27 ducks 18@20c.Dk**" -c; Vg chick „ I18i j 2 V, a 22 %; ducks poultry—Turneys I2l£@14c; Irish po a_ 14; chickens 10(812%;, 40®45c % bu. Hom y—Strained 60e $bu; the comb iO@l2J4c. Onions ^ 75. Cabbage 1 1 4&2c. Provisions. Breakfast bacon 1 otf Lard— Best qnuif. 6 >£c; second quality compound 5/,c Cotton. * -/ Local market closed Steady; middling
