The Calhoun County courier. (Leary, Ga.) 1882-1946, November 09, 1900, Image 6

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Calhoun County ARLINGTON, GA. Experiments made by German ph>- slclsus have shown that about 25 per <xfit. of nil school-children have some defect In their hearing. The work of the tropica! hurricane at Galveston lias lmd the direst results of any similar disaster In American history, and will be recorded as one of the* world’s great calamities. The Canadian French arc said to comprise over 23 pr cent, of the popu¬ lation of Rhode Island, and from 10 to 12 jx*r cent, of t he population of the other New England states- Consul-General Mason, at Berlin, states that the Bavarian government has experimented with American coal upoii Bavarian railways and finds It superior to German coal, but that the price renders Its general use at pre¬ sent hardly possible. A new law lu Massachusetts, to take effect on January 1 next, prohibits the use of arsenic In the manufacture of paper or textile goods. The problem of a substitute, therefore, is a matter of serious consideration for the paper manufacturers of the state. The chemists have discovered that the food value of cotton seed is much greater than that of wheat. The mon¬ ey value of the products from this standpoint per 100 pounds is as fl for wheat to $1.39 for cotton seed oil. Af¬ ter the oil is expressed the residue of the seed still has a great value in the form of meal or cuke as a food for cuttle. In a report just issued by the United States weather bureau on the thunder stomis of 1899 It Is stated Unit the wire clothesline was tin- cause of at least a dozen deaths last year. That number of women were struck by lightning and killed while taking clothes off’ the line. Professor Henry says that a wire clothesline ought never to lie permitted to come within ott feet of a dwelling. Much less should it be fastened to one corner of the house, as Is commonly done. lt Is said that the Japanese news- paper reporter has reduced the Inter¬ viewing brunch of his profession to a science. He wastes no time over pleasant Introductory remarks when assigned to interview a foreigner ar¬ riving In Japan, but proceeds at once to catechise the victim, beginning with questions us to the latter’s age, place of birth, etc., and gradually wringing from him the whole story of his life. The final question, according to a re¬ cently returned traveler, Is generally something like Ibis: “If anything of Interest has ever befallen you upon your travels at home or abroad, pleuse give me full information now.” Probably no modern discovery In natural history has appeared inore miraculous than the finding ol’ an ed¬ ible gum exuding from the bamboos of Central India at a time when the peo- pie arc suffering from their greatest l'amine. This substance is pleasantly sweet, occurs In white or brown stal- nctlform rods about an Inch long, and is found to consist mainly of sugar re- luted to, if not Identical with cane sugar. The strange appearance in the bamboo forests was first made known last March. The sugar differs from the bamboo manna of history, which is not a sugar, but a white, gritty body occurring Inside the stem of the plant, largely consisting of silica. A recent Investigation made with the purpose of discovering how a col¬ lege education affects the career of women is said to have revealed that three-fourths of the college girls marry men who are also college graduates, while only one-luilf of the non college girls get husbands with a degree. An¬ other discovery was that 65 pu euit. of the college women. 11s compared with 37 per cent, of the non-college women, marry what are call ul profes- sionul men. This is not quite the satne us saying that the learned ,<is terhood secure more than their pro¬ portional share of the best husbands, for there are no statistics at (nival to prove that professional men, as hus¬ bands. are better than other nun. but the showing for the college girl is certainly impressive In its way. Tro way. however, is open to nij.v than one Interpretation. Couiiinartial For Captain Hall. The navy department has directed Admiral Remey, at Cavite, to convene a court of inquiry to inquire into the charge of cowardice against Captain Hall, United States marines, preferred bv Minister Conger at Pekin. BY THE STREAM. The sunlight steal* between the leaves And flickers on the stream; The little minnows dart about Like shadows in a dream. . ' Bevond the shade the clover-field Is quivering with the heat, j But here the children’s water ripples feet. cool About the i ^ The leaves stir softly overhead: The shadows verge toward noon. And they will have to leave their play And go to dinner soon. —Katharine Pyle, in Harper's Bazar. ft J A MIDSUMMER DAY'S DREAM. % <■ > #*■ Ity Marian C. X.. Keoven. * 4. to ¥ ADGE started violently as her eyes fell on the pic¬ ture, well placed in the gallery, to catch the eye even of a careless passer-by. To catch It, and to hold It, with Its warmth and depth of coloring and its quaint tone, like that of a Valkg-Lled. “Nt. John’s Eve In Norway.” Madge would have known it at a glance, without that label 011 it. For an Instant she stood staring. Then, rather that her limbs failed under her than that she desired to sit down opposite the picture, she dropped upon the bench before it, her some¬ what shabbily gloved hands folded on her lap. Her dress was a little shabby, too. The long, black mourning veil tluug about her limply, as she pushed it back out of her way. To any passer-by she might seem but one of the crowd in the Corcoran Gallery on this free day. But Madge, the real Madge, was not here at all. She was yonder in the picture, in the midsummer night in the midst of the St. John’s Eve pro¬ cession. A year ago. Was It only a year ago?—it seemed a lifetime, back Into that happy Wauderjahr which ended so abruptly. It was on the homeward passage to America that her father had died, suddenly, of heart failure, It was said. But Madge knew lie had gotten ids death blow from the latest American paper which the pilot brought on board as they entered the bay, a pa¬ per lightly opened, and which con¬ tained latest particulars of the great i >an ie failure, sweeping clean away the ' fortune he had meant to leave his child. “A beggar”—-Madge, bonding over him, bad caught that last faint word upon his lips. “A beggar-” Madge straightened herself and knotted her hands about the little black silk bag which had carried her lunch 11lls morning to the office, and which was now bringing back in its mouth a bunch of field daisies bought from a street boy on the way up town. A beggar?—no. but never farther re¬ moved from that than since she had become a worker. But that Wauderjahr, in which her only work had seemed to be to work out her own happiness. The glamour of it was in her eyes, gazing back into the picture. How like one valley to another, sunk among those Scandinavian mountains. It might have been tills very one, into which she and her party had descend¬ ed, drenched with a sudden cloudburst on the mountain top. There was noth¬ ing for it but to borrow peasant cos¬ tumes nt the friendly guard below; and a bright color flushes up Madge’s face now as she feels again the eyes of the artist of the party upon her, as, with the farmer’s daughter, the three girls traveling together come out, and for a moment fall into line with the St. John’s Eve dancers troop- 1 ing there from the neighboring vil¬ 1 lage. 8he remembers it all; the artist’s eyes, ns be looked on; the speedy de- lection of the three make-believe vil- | lage girls; the merry stirs, the laugh- j tor and light repartee among the tour¬ ists; the gay village music; the farm¬ house glowing in the- background, its h'h chimney ending iu a cross, built high against the sky. How like, how like It was! But Madge’s thought broke off with a gasp. In one of (hose faces, half turned toward her, she had recognized bin- own, as In a looking glass. How well—too well—she remem- be red! The artist's eyes; no words of his. Few words had passed be¬ tween them, indeed, though for three weeks they had been meeting almost daily. Over those uncrowded routes the ways of sight-seers are apt to cross and re-cross; us had theirs from the time when, with an apology, he put an extra rug across her lap in the weird day-night when she sat on the deck of tlie stout citast steamer, watch¬ ing for the midnight sun off Norway, to that Eve of St. John, that midsum¬ mer eve, which ended it all. For while Madge slept in the queer little nest under the eaves, and dreamed her strange, bright, confused, little, inno- cent midsummer night's dream, in which fairies’ and peasants’ dances were intertwined in TItania’s train,and the artist was Lysander standing apart, looking on at It all, with his hands in his pockets and a cigar in his mouth, and that in his eyes. Madge’s color was flickering up Into her weary face again at that memory, and then it faded out; for while she slept her father had been revising his plans for further travel. That unlucky meeting on the mountain had damp¬ ened ids desire for northern travel. The next morning (when the artist had gone forward, with the tacit understanding that at the foot of a certain famous waterfall, deep in the mountain fast¬ ness, one might very well meet mid¬ summer friends again) over a rather late breakfast her father unfolded his 4 new arrangement to Madge. They would Retrace their way, and take the returning steamer on the morrow; and after all return home to America a little earlier. “Ater all. there Is noth- Ing much better than the home moun- tains and seashore for the summer weather, Is there? And then, hail h.™ „„ IW fur poor tittle 'latte. Her .ter, -vaa finished, she told herself. And, indeed It had been so very lit- tie of a story! Just a mere hint of a Sketeh (hat might have been made If she could have told her father! But what could she have told her father? r hat she wanted to climb and climb along tin- rough wild moun- tain ways, in the* wake of a man who had flung a spare rug across her knees In a bleak midnight sea wind; who lmd caught her once staggering on a slippery, rolling deck; who lmd Plucked a hit of mountain moss for her on the edge of an abyss; who had stood apart on a midsummer eve, on the edge of a village dance, with a cigar iu his mouth, and his eyes— Madge put a hasty hand across her eyes, shutting out the picture. What had she to do with pictures like that? lain dreams! Her part was not with dreaming, but with work-a-day real- 1\ ell, well, „ she , w ould ,, go home. Al- , though her home was a back build- ing room, and no one waiting for her lu She rose the more sloyly for the thought. She was turning toward the door of the main entrance, when sud- denly—was it with that strange sense of being watched, that sometimes moves one?—she turned around. And in his eyes—in his eyes the same look she remembered. While she stood motionless, he came up, and before she had recovered breatli, was shaking hands with her, qulte ns though they had met Iasi week. Instead of last year. But she saw him glance quickly at her mourning veil, which she gathered about her, her nervous hand strok- ing its folds. ‘‘I came to see the pictures,” she said, with an effort at ease. “I did not expect to see a--” ”x4n old friend,” he said promptly, filling up her slightest hesitation. “But I did.” “You?” “I came to see you,” he said, nod¬ ding at. tiio picture. “I tried iu vain to find you. So I was obliged to call you up there,to my own eye and yours. No stranger would recognize you. I took enre of that. But I had, at least, a forlorn hope that it might prove a clue. Every one sooner or later comes to Washington, you know, And sc it has.” “A forlorn hope, indeed,” she said, with the ghost of a little laugh, sad¬ der thau tears. ‘‘It is a pity it did not fail you. We were all so merry and happy that midsummer night.” • When 1 dreamed a dream,” he said,. “that is just beginning to come true.” lie drew her hand, with its little, worn, black glove, gently in his arm. “You won’t vanish so suddenly ngaiu like the vision of a dream?” lit said. At least, you will let me take you home? • £?lie did not answer at once, and he said, quickly; “Pardon me; but it is a year and three weeks for me since I have known you. I forget that it is not the same tiling to you. You must not lie angry with me if I bog that you will sometimes let me see you at your home.” She stroked again the folds of her veil, with a hand that trembled. “I have no home. 1—1 have noth¬ ing.” It was his voice that trembled. “Nothing but an old l’rieud,” lie said; “an old friend of a year and three weeks.” That was his plea, with a slight al¬ teration a little later. “Wo have been friends for a year and four weeks,” lie said. “How much longer do we need to wait to know each other better? I knew you, Madge, the first time that I looked into your houcst eyes. Why should we wait? Let me take all my life to make you know, better and bet¬ ter, how I love and cherish and-” “Obey?” areldy. “Obey my wife, when she bids me have my way—as she will now.”— Waverley Magazine. Civilization and “Ads.” The tendency of people to make use of the advertising columns of newspa- pers is a result of the progress of civ- illzation. Even the woman who wants a servant no longer h:\ugs over the back fence to ask the housemaid next door to find one for her, but adver- tises her need. The time is coming when a business establishment of any kind that shall not consider the con¬ venience of the public enough to use the advertising columns of newspapers will be regarded as belonging to the old horse-car period.—Mexican Her¬ ald. Clock of Tree Graces. Count Isaac de Comondo is the own- er of a white marble dock, which is ed to be worth $250,000. It is called the “Clock of the Three Graces.” The graces are connected by festoons of flowers, surrounding a broken fluted pillar, which serves as the base of a two-handled vase decorated with fes- toons of oak leaves. This vase con- tains the works of the clock, to the dial of which one of the nymphs is pointing with hor finger.—Kansas City Journal. Soldiers XVI10 Don’t Drink. In three British regiments—the Black Watch, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders aud the Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment—over half the men are total abstainers. 0 0 0 Legislative Melange# 0 0 0 0 Nomination. ,‘ Confirm.*^ v conttrmed • .. J * and ^oliStoi sent in by the g °R T°Ca8tellow, county court judge . , ^emO^sLn. solicitor city court of D K iu Coffee couuty. pi chard Hobb ju(1 city court * Wi!coXj BO l ic itor county court t x? v \ N< j Norm solicitor county court ()f J f puberty w . Williams, judge city court TattnftU count [ p P . Long 6 e y, J judge J city court of jjaGrange W , T Tuggle, solicitor city court of LaGrange j' hu p Cheatfie i d) j udge county oourt of WilkitlRoa CO unty. w F Eve j u d ge city court of Klchmond county . D. L. Henderson, judge of the county court of Dooly county, w . M , Weaver, judge of the county court Greane. P. P, Profitt, judge city court of Elberton P _ N> R am sey, judge county court G f Jefferson. Robert U. Hardeman, solicitor coun- ty courti of Jefferson, J ame8 P Clements, judge of county court of Irwin. R. W , Roberts, judge of the county court of Bahlwiu. The senate also confirmed the fol- lowing as trustees of the State Uni- versify; Clark Howell, for the state at large. A. O. Bacon, Sixth congressional district. D. B. Hamilton, Seventh district, May Repeal Dog Law. The dog law fight is to be revived. Two bills were introduced in the house Monday morning to repeal the cele¬ brated dog law of“Dewesof Randolph,” passed at the last session of the legis¬ lature. These bills were introduced by j Foster of Floyd and Stewart of Cal¬ houn. They provide for the uncondi¬ ; tional repeal of the present law, which | becomes operative in any county of the state upon the grand jury recom- j 1 mending its adoption. The law is very popular in some | sec ti ons 0 f the state and very unpopu¬ j lar in others. These bills will pre¬ cipitate one of the warmest fights of the session. Five Contests on File. Clerk Boifeuil]et received Monday / morni auother uotice of contest ov r a hou90 8eat maki * fiye colltests in ftU tbat tbat bod ' m be caUed upon to deoide at this e88 ion. The latest | notice received wa8 from W . A . Buch- auaD> who contests the seat, of Repre- sentative C. R. Narramore, of Early, The other contests, of which notice ] lag a i ready been received, are as fol- lows; W. E. Mann, who contests the seat of Representative W. II. Yates, of Catoosa. A. Wilson, who contests the seat of Representative E. J. Stafford, of Cam¬ den. Henry J. Strickland, who contests the seat of Representative Calvin Thomas, of Pierce. Thomas A. Brown, who contests the seat of A. S. J. Hall, of Fannin. All notices of contests will first go to the committee on contested elec¬ tions as soon as that committee is ap¬ pointed by Speaker Little. Will Tackle Income Tax. Efforts will be made at the present session of the legislature to pass an income tax law for Georgia, similar in its provisions to the late federal in¬ come tax law. Such a bill will proba¬ bly be introduced by the chairman of the appropriations committee, who will be Colonel Ed Wight, of Dougherty. It will come as a part of the general j tax will act, and the indications are that it pass. To Limit Taxing Power. Senator Chappell laid before the senate Tuesday his scheme to limit the taxing power of the legislature. His bill provides that after January, 1905, it shall be unlawful for the general assembly to impose a tax exceeding 1 five-tenths of one per cent, The bill provides that the question shall be sub¬ ; mitted to the people at the next geu- eral election, * » * Test Vote on Terminal. A test of strength on the Atlanta de¬ pot bill was made in the bouse Tues¬ day morning, and the friends of the depot bill came out with flying colors, notwithstanding the strenuous effort of * Mr. Hall, of Bibb, to stem the tide, The vote was 72 to 48. This was on the King substitute to Senator Allen’s resolution to appoint a joint committee of seven from the senate aud ten from the house to consider all questions af- fecting the depot problem. The King 8nb stitute made this committee a standing one, and conferred upon it tke power to send for men and papers, take ora l testimony and report in writing ° their findings. * * * A Good Bill. Mr. Park of Green introduced a measure providing for the admission of females to the textile department of the school of Technology. The devel- opment in cotton mill building in Georgia for the past few years has made this step imperative, and opera- tives in these mills will be in great de¬ mand in the near future. Wants Negroes to Pay. The senator from the 39th district, Mr. Bell, is the father of a proposition to make the negro pay for the educa¬ tion he gets. He sent in a bill Tues¬ day morning forbidding the appropria¬ tion of any taxes to the education of the negro except those paii by per¬ sons of his own color. Constitutional Convention. A bill was introduced by Mr. Ellis in the senate Tuesday morning to hold a constitutional convention on the fourth Monday in July, 1901. The bill provides tbat the election of mem¬ bers to the convention shall be held on the first Wednesday of the same month. This aetion ha3 been antici¬ pated for some time. ANNUAL REPORT Of Chief Engineer Wilson, Giving Estimates For River and Har¬ bor limprovements In South. A Washington special says: The im¬ portant subject of coast defense is the first consideration in the annual re- port of General J. M. Wilson, chief of engineers. Generally speaking he re¬ ports most gratifying progress iu the execution of the various projects during the last fiscal year. Because the re¬ port included the fiscal year only, the subject of the destruction of the Gal¬ veston defenses by the September hur¬ ricane is left for treatment in a subse¬ quent report. The estimates above $25,000 for the river and harbor work next year in the south are as follows; Inland waterway from Chincoteague bay, Virginia, to Delaware bay, $60,- 000; Patapsco river and channel to Baltimore, $522,362. Harbor,southeast Baltimore,$80,000. Potomac river,Washington,$200,000. Potomac, below Washington, $80,- 400. Rappahannock river, Virginia, $25,000. James river, Virginia, $390,000. Norfolk harbor,Virginia, $56,700. Waterway from Norfolk, Va., to the sounds of North Carolina, $29,870. Pamlico and Tar rivers, North Car¬ olina, $32,500. Cape Fear river, above Wilmington, N. C., $25,000. Cape Fear liver, at and below Wil¬ mington, N. C., $.200,000. Wiuyah bay, South Carolina, $525,- 000 . Santee river, South Carolina, $38,- 000 . Congaree river, South Carolina, Co¬ lumbia to Granby,. $50,000. Charleston harbor, $50,000. Savannah harbor, Georgia, $50,000. Savannah river, Georgia, $100,000. Doboy bar, Georgia, $30,000. Altatnaha river, Georgia, $26,000. Ocmulgee river, Georgia, $40,000. Cumberland sound, Georgia and Florida, $400,000. St. Johns, river, Florida, $400,000. St. Johns river, at Orange mills flats Florida, $40,000. Key West harbor, Florida, $100,000. Sarasota river, Florida, $37,500. Tampa bay, Florida, $137,000. Hillsboro bay, Florida, $175,000. Apalachicola bay, Florida, $41,000. Flint river, Georgia, $300,000. Chattahoochee river, Georgia and Alabama, below Columbus, $80,000. Pensacola barbor, Florida, $180,000. Coosa river, between Rome, Ga., and the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad, $450,000. Coosa river, between the East Ten¬ nessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad bridge and Wetumpka, $35,000. Mobile harbor, Alabama, $350,000. Black Warrior river, Alabama, $53,- 676. Warrior and Tombigbee rivers, $255,000. Tombigbee river, from its mouth to Demopolis, $200,000. HOVVELL TRIAL BEGINS. Indicted For Alleged Embezzlement of A. and W. P. Railway Funds. The case of Albert Howell, Sr., in¬ dicted for alleged embezzlement of $30,816 from the Atlanta and W T est Point railway, was taken up in Atlanta Monday morning. The defendant filed through his attorneys a demurrer to the indictment. The first paragraph alleges that the charge of conspiracy between Mr. Howell and Thomas J. Hunter is barred by the statute of limitations and should be stricken. The second paragraph says that the oourt in the indictment does not with sufficient particularity set out the sum charged to be embezzled within the statute of limitations, the indictment alleging the embezzlement of a certain sum, part of which was without the statute of limitations. Judge Candler overruled the objec- tion and ordered the trial to proceed. Some difficulty was experienced in getting a jury, each side being ex- ceedingly careful in regard to qualifi¬ cations. Mr. Howell did not appear to be in as good health as usual. He pleaded not guilty. It will be remembered tbat Thomas J. Hunter, co-jointly indicted with Mr. Howell, was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment on April 27th, 1900. Captain Hall to Be Courtmartiaied. The navy department has directed Admiral Remey, at Cavite, to convene a court of inquiry to inquire into the charge of cowardice against Captain Hall, United States marines, preferred by Minister Conger at Pekin. FAMILY TRAGEDY. Farmer Wilson Slays His Son-In- Law Through /Tedium of a Double-Barreled Shotgun. Thursday morning about 10 o’clock Wiley F. Wilcoxon, a farmer living seven miles west of Eatonton.Ga., shot C. C. Flowers, his son-in-law, killing him instantly. Wilcoxon used a shot gun, filing both loads, but only one took effect, in the left side of Flowers. Flowers has been living on Wilcox- on’s place for several years, managing the affairs of the farm and bearing the brunt of the burden. The killing was the result of a se¬ rious misunderstanding the two men. had a year ago or more ago, which, at the time, so Wilcoxon says, necessi¬ tated his giving up home and family and seekiug peace elsewhere. After being absent some time he returned several months ago, where he resided, apparently contented, until the terri¬ ble tragedy which transpired Thurs¬ day morning. It appears that Wilcoxon borrowed Flower’s gun to go hunting. After questioning particularly as to the manipulation of the gun, it being a breech-loader, and about the character of the cartridges with which it was loaded, he turned and walked away, ostensibly to go hunting. When twenty-five or thirty feet distant, he suddenly, and without provocation, contends turned and emptied the gun’s into the side of Flowers, who was still standing in the kitchen door. The deceased leaves a wife to mourn his untimely end. Wilcoxon was a confederate soldier, serving through the entire war iu the Third Georgia regiment. After the tragedy he was arrested. GERMANS ARE RELENTLESS. They Show No Quarter to Chinese Who Fall Into Their Hands. Considerable impatience at the mea¬ gerness of the news from China is finding expression in Berlin. The in¬ ference is that German censorship over such information is very strict. Letters from privates in China began to llnd their way into the Social Dem¬ ocratic papers showing that the Ger¬ man troops give no quarter. The Bremen Buerger Zeitung publishes a letter from a soldier in Pekin, who said he witnessed the following scenes: . “Sixty-eight captives, some of them not yet adults, were tied together by their pig tails, compelled to dig their own graves and shot en masse - ” Halberstadter-Volke-Zeitnng ( The prints a communication from Pekin, in which the writer says: ‘‘No prisoners are taken. All are shot, or preferably, sabered to save ammunition. On Sunday afternoon we had to bayonet seventy-four pris¬ oners. They had killed one of our patrolmen. An entire battalion pur¬ sued them and captured seventy-four alive. It was cruel. It was inde¬ scribable.” SHOT HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW. Hammond, Enraged, Empties Con¬ tents of Gun Into Wall’s Body. Thursday afternoon Jim Hammonc^ shot and killed Thomas J. Wall, a few miles below Elberton, Ga. The shooting occurred near Wall’s home. Full details have not been learned, but from the best information it seems that Wall was beating a negro tenant. Mrs. Wall, his wife, tried to stop him, and failed. She sent for her brother, Jim Hammond, who came, and re¬ monstrated with Wall. This seems to have angered Wall, and he made a rush at him. Ham¬ mond ran and was followed part of the way by Wall. Hamnnnd went to a neighbor’s, where he secured a shot¬ gun. He then returned and met Wall, who shot at him, but missed him. Hammond then shot Wall, the entire load entering the left eye, killing him instantly. Both men belong to good families, and were brothers-in-law. Wall leaves a wife and several children. Ham¬ mond has not been arrested. Wall was constable of his district. Status of Public Debt. The statement of the public debt shows at the close of business October 31, 1900, the debt less cash in the treasury amounted to $1,104,402,320, a decrease as compared with last month of $1,573,351. HOWELL PLEADS CHJ1LTY. Embezzlement Charge Reduced to Misdemeanor and Case Settled. Col. Albert Howell, Sr., plead guilty Tuesday to a misdemeanor in Judge Candler’s court in Atlanta. Solicitor Hill consented to a plea of guilty on condition the offense should be treated as a misdemeanor. Judge Candler can use his discretion in sentencing the prisoner. Solicitor Hill, in speaking of the case after the verdict had been render¬ ed, said to a reporter that the fact that Mr. Howell had not followed Hunter’s example in running away, and had made good the shortage had mitigated in the prisoner’s favor. LAWMAKERS IN “FRACAS.” Fight Takes Place on Train and Knife Does Bloody Work. Wednesday night’s special train from Atlanta carrying legislators and stopped senators t Forsyth, state fair at Taldosta, a and while waiting for a freight train to pa^s Senator Canu, from west Georgia, seriously cut and stabbed Representative Har¬ din, of Wilkes county, in a row on a car of the special.