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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