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GEORGIA BRIEFS.
Interesting Paragraphs from all
Over the State.
Press Day of the Georgia Chautauqua,
at Albany, notwithstanding the inclem¬
ency of the weather, was a grand success.
The Western and Atlantic rental for
March lias been $1,150.66 paid. It day, amounts $47.04 to
$05,000. Tb s is a
an hour and eighty cents a minute—a
pretty goood incline, $420,000 a year.
A movement is on foot to establish a
telephone line between Dalton and Chat¬
tanooga, and efforts Tviii be made to get,
Chattanooga merchants interested in it.
It is understood that it will run its wires
to Ringgold, Tunnel llill, Catoosa Springs
and Dalton.
Augusta is delighted at the fine pros¬
pects of getting the state fair in October.
If the efforts to get the fair are success¬
ful, it will be held iu connection with the
exposition, which will make a double at¬
traction. Augusta has made a fine offer
to get the fair, and the chances of her
getting it are good.
A negro peracher in Augusta says that
100 years ago that the people were all Baptists,
but since time many have fallen, and
that was the cause of the earthquakes,
epidemics and murders. He used also says
that the white Baptist folks to they go
down to the river to baptize, but now’
are so good they baptize in the churches,
where they can heat the water.
The most important testimony in the
McKee trial at Rome was that of Prof.
White, of Athens, who as a chemical ex¬
pert has few equals in the south. He
said arsenic was found in the stomach,
and his testimony was very clear and de¬
cisive on this point. Prof. White’s although tes¬
timony created a sensation, for,
it has been known that he analyzed the
stomach of the poisoned woman, the re¬
sult of the analysis has never before been
made public.
The citizens of Molena are considerably
agitated over the owenership of the real
estate upon which the town of Molena is
situated. The Richards heirs are about
to revolutionize things. Some little doubt
has existed all along as to the ability of
those in possession said to make legal titles,
but the matter was to have been sat¬
isfactorily arranged some time ago and
improvement went on. The attorney of
the orphans gives notice that they expect
to push their claim. The claim involves
750 acres of land, embracing the entire
business portion of the town.
A change has taken place in the de¬
partment of the principal physician of
who the penitentiary. appointed Dr. by H. V. M. Miller,
W’as Governor Gordon,
stepped down and out. Dr. W. O’Dan¬
iel, his successor, appointed by Governor
Northen, took charge of the office. Dr.
Miller, it goes without saying, has made
a thorough going and highly efficient of¬
ficer, and his administration has given
complete satisfaction. Dr. O’Daniel is a
prominent Allianceman, a physician of
acknowledged position, and will doubt¬
less prove an efficient officer. This is the
last of the state house officers affected by
the last election.
Sunday was an important day in Epis¬
copal circles throughout Georgia, it being
the day of elections for the parish officers
and for delegates to the diocesan conven¬
tion to be held May 16th at Christ church
in Savannah for the purpose of electing a
bishop. Bishop Thompson, of Missis¬
sippi, has been asked to preside at the
Savannah convention, and will accejit.
A number of names have been suggested
for the honored position. Among them
are Rev. Chauncey Williams, of Augusta,
Ga.; Rev. Dr. Lindsey, of Trinity church,
Boston; Rev. Dx. Rainsford, of New T
York; Rev. Dr. Gaylor, of Sewanee uni¬
versity, ; Rev. Robert S. Barrett, pastor
of St. Luke’s church, Atlanta; Rev. Dr.
Robert Gibson, of Richmond, Va.; Bishop
Wingfield, of California, and other's.
Judge A. R. Wright Dead.
Judge A. R. Wi-ight died suddenly
Tuesday, near Glenwood, his country
home, and apoplexy was the cause of his
death. The news of his demise will carry
sorrow to many, for one of the grandest
men of this day has passed away. Judge
Wright was in congress with Toombs, friend
Stephens and Cobb, the intimate
of all. During secession Judge AVright
was a leader. He and Mr. Stephens
stumped the state for Stephen A Doug¬ he
lass. As an advocate before a jury,
was was without a peer; as a surDassod political
orator, there was none who
him. With his death ends the life of
one of Georgia’s greatest men.
Cliicknmauga’s Encampment.
The location of the Georgia military
encampment for 1891 at Chickamauga,
(Crawfish Springs) Ga., by the Georgia
military advisory board will be a great
benefit to that aspiring and attractive
resort, and will enable it to bid advisedly
for the permanent encampment of Geor¬
gia’s militia. In speaking of the award of
the encampment to Chickamauga, the
Atlanta Constitution truthfully says:
“Chickamauga is one of the most beau¬
tiful places in the world. It is thirteen
miles from Chattanooga, on the Chatta¬
nooga, Rome and Columbus railroad, in
what is called McLemore’s c^ve, with
Lookout mountain on one side aud
Pigeon mountain on the other. The
scenery in the vicinity is wildly
picturesque. is Chickamauga. The famous Crawfish
Spring at It flows 30,
000,000 gallons another of water a day, "equal and just
beiov? it is spring of size.
The water is as clear as crystal flowing
over the rocks. For its historic associa¬
tions, no better place could been selected.
The federal and confederate losses on this
battlefield amounted te 33,000 men. The
government takes 7,500 acres for a na¬
tional park, and a surveying party is now
on the grounds. Over $ '00,000 have
already been appropriated.”
A Question of Tnx.
An authority on the handling of cot¬
ton gives out an interns ing fact regard¬
ing the giving in of taxes on held-over
cotton, the importance of which Inis not
been generally appreciated. “Ilure
never was in Georgia before,” raid he,
“near so much cotton left on the 1st ol
April in the hands of the farmois. s
being in their hands on the 1st of Ai 11
makes them pay the taxes on it. You
are going to see a kick all over the state
when they come to give in their property
for taxation. They have been advised to
hold their cotton, as much as possible,
and they have acted in c mccrt m that
direction. It wouldn’t help matters it
every bale in the state was sold on the 2d
of April—it is in the hands of the farin
ers on the 1st of April, and they pay the
taxes on it. The state and county taxes
will foot up, in the aggregate, a very
large sum to come from the farmers.
This is in the nature of an additional tax
upon them—something in excess of what
they usually pay, for they never before
adopted a general policy of holding back
their cotton until the 1st of April. Not
long auo the list of questions to be pro¬
pounded by the tax collector were
changed in the legislature, and this point
about held-over cotton is covered now.
The great difference this year, though, is
in the amount of cotton held as compared
with the average. Where a man pays if 1
tax on cotton ordinarily, he will pay if 10
this year, and in the aggregate this
amounts to a great deal.
Further Instructions.
An important order has been issued by
Governor Norttien relative to the pen¬
sions for Confederate widows, and is as
follows :
‘Whereas, The act of the recent gen¬
eral assembly, providing pensions for the
widows of Confederate soldiers, stipu¬
lates that each widow, entitled under its
provisions, shall receive $100, and tlie
general appropriation act sets apart
$60,000 to cover this expenditure; official in¬
“And whereas, There is now
formation in this department, furnished
by the ordinaries of the several counties,
making the number of applicants more
than 4,000; It will be impossible,
“And whereas, establish
under existing circumstances, to
any rules by which the money appropri¬
ated may be judiciously and properly
distributed until all the applications shall
be filed in this office and passed upon It is
under the provisions of the law.
therefore
Ordered, That payments of pensions will to
the widows of cenfederate soldiers
not begin until ample time has been
given to receive and pass upon all appli¬
cations. Of this, due notice will be
given through the papers and the ordi¬
naries of the several counties. The ordi¬
naries are respectfully instructed to ex¬
plain the provisions of this order and in¬
struct every applicant to send her proofs
to this department and await notice of
readiness to begin the payments.”
Judge Calhoun, of Atlanta, announces
that application blanks, setting forth tho
requirements in the affidavit made by the
widow applying, are now ready. In fill¬
ing out these blanks the widow must
swear that she is the widow of a soldier,
whose name must be given, with his com¬
pany, regiment and time of his enlist
O’MALLEY SURRENDERS.
The New Orleans Detective
Charged with Jury Bribing.
A dispatch from New Orleans says:
Dominick C. O’Malley, the notorious de¬
tective, who was charged with having
attempted to pack the jury in the Hcn
nessy case, and who mysteriously disap¬
peared when the crowd at Clay statue
and at the parish prison howling on the for memo- his
ra.b e 14th of March wis
b ond, created a sensation Friday morn
ing by surrendering himself. He drove
to tlie criminal court with his attorney,
Lionel Adams, and James Barry, ex
clerk of the criminal court, and gave
himself up to Chief Deputy Sheriff
Arnault. There are three indictments
against him, one as accessory to the
crime of bribing one of the tales jurors
in the Ilennessy case, one for perjury in
a suit in the civil court several years ago,
and one for attempting to procure the
commission of the crime cf perjury in
1882 in a suit of the state against himself
in the criminM court. Bail was fixed at
$3,000, and Barry signed for the whole
amount.
A YOUTHFUL CRIMINAL.
A Boy Makes a Big Haul From
the Atlanta Postofliee.
Several days ago $11,000 worth of
checks and notes for the Atlanta Na¬
tional bank were stolen from the bank’s
private drawer at the Atlanta postoffice
by a ten-year-old boy. On Saturday tbe
boy was arrested and $10,215.96 were
recovered. There are still several
other checks missing, which will run
the total up to $11,000 or more.
The drawer was out of order, and
could be opened from tho boy outside stood
by a little shaking. The
on the outside and took the letters
as openly as though he had been in the
employ of the bank.
A Labor Contest Ahead.
A cablegram of Sunday from Paris,
says: Everything indicates that the first
gr at miners' fight for eight hours a day
will begin in May. English, French and
German unions have selected B Igium as
the field upon which to decide the con¬
flict against the capitalists. The Belgian
miners’ congress resolved to leave the
duty of fixing the d rte of the strike to
the general council, and to delay the
strike, pending uarliamcn the seti ting of the suffrage
Question in .
STRIKERS KILLED.
TRAGEDY IN THE PENNSYL¬
VANIA COKE REGIONS.
A Mob Fired Into by Deputies
and Eleven Killed.
A special dispatch About2:45o’clock from Mount Pleas
nnt, Pa., says: Thurs
duy morning a mob cf about 500 men
berun rioting at the standard works,
They destroyed some of the company’s
property and then proceeded to cut tne
telephone and telegraph lines of the coke
company, so that uo warnings could be
sent to the people of at rioters, Morewood. About
3 o’clock a party between 400
an i 500 strong, marched to Morewood.
In the meantime the company’s employes
at the Standard works, hurriedly repaired
the telephone line and sent word to
Morewood that the strikers would at
tack the woiks iu three places, and had a
welt laid plan to destroy the whole plant.
Dcputy sheriffs were soon in readiness to
receive the attack. The men were di
vided into three parties. the Captain which Laver
having charge of big party was
placed; behind the gates of tlie barn
and stable enclosure. As tlie rioters
passed the company’s it, and raided store they made an
attack upon it as far as
they could, in brief time breaking win¬
dows and doing other damage. They
then marched to the barn en
closure, aud attempted to break down
the gates. They succeeded in doing
this, and as they entered, Captain Laver
called out to them to halt, or he would
lire upon them. Their answer was to fire
a rattling volley in tlie direction of the
deputies, none of whom were seriously
injured. Captain Laver then gave the
order to fire. Two volleys were fired be
fore tlie mob broke aud ran. Seven men
fell dead iu the public road, and a num
her were found wounded. The rioters
then broke up into small groups, and
made their escape in various directions,
A private dispatch received later from
Greensburg, says that eleven men were
killed and twenty-seven wounded in the
Morewood riot. The dead miners are all
foreigners.
MORE TROUBLE FEARED.
The Slavs and Huns are wild, and all
over the region the most intense excite
ment prevails. Great crowds are flocking
to Mt. Pleasant, and the highways are so
thickly peopled procession. as to almost resemble openly a
passing It is
declared by the strikers that they
will have revenge for their com
panions. They have, for the
being, transferred their attention from
the plants to will the kill. deputies, whom they the
vow they They say at
same time that the works will surely be
raised. AVord has been passed to the
strikers all over the region that the slioot
ing was without provocation; that no
violence was offered; and their anathemas
on hearing these reports are deep and
strong. Warrants have been sworn out
for the arrest of the deputies who did the
shooting.
Saturday’s dispatches say: The situa¬
tion in the coke regions has not materially
changed within the last twenty-four hours.
Troops have charge of the coke companies’
property, and the feeling prevails that as
long as the militia remain thei’e will be no
lawlessness.
VIEWING THEIR DEAD.
Friday and Saturday morning thous¬
ands of people viewed the bodies of the
men who were shot at Morewood. They
lay in the carriage house of Zimmerman’s
undertaking establishment. They were
stretched out side by side on a long plat¬
form. around which the crowd surged
S e ^ 11 glimpse of the dead men.
The scene in the morgue is one not often
witnessed. Of the thousands who viewed
the remains scarcely a man came in whose
countenance was not drawn and scowling
he gazed on the work of the rifles, and
hundreds of women vented their anger
and anguish in terms that could not be
mistaken. They were the miners, cokers
and their wives.
THE FUNERAL PROCESSION.
The special funeral train bearing the
bodies of seven victims of the Morewood
shooting left Mount Pleasant at 2:52
o’clock and arrived at Scottdale at 3:30
o’clock Saturday evening. The bodies
were taken off the train at the depot and
placed in three large road wagons. The
largo public square was not spacious and
enough to hold the great crowds
the delegations that arrived on the
regular trains. The fotcign element read
did not take kindly to the
wagons being used as hearses to bear
the rema ns of their countrymen to
their last resting place, and the coffius
were taken out and six of them were
carried to the cemetery, the distance of a
mile. The seventh was placed in a
hearse. Tho procession moved at 4
o’clock, headed by the Standard Miners’
cornet and Scottdale bands, both of
which played the “Dead March” the
entire distance. There were fully 8.000
people at the depot, but scarcely half
this number went to the cemetery,
and a large majority of those that
did follow the remains were Poles,
Shavs and Hungarians. American flags
were conspicuous, and a number of dele¬
gations carried banners. The workmen
nearly all wore badges and crape, and
when the coffins were lowered into the
large trench, twelve feet long and seven
feet wide, a number of workmen threw
their badges and crape on the coffins.
Though the town was overcrowded
with all elasses and conditions of people,
there was not the least disturbance, and
everything passed off in a manner credit¬
able to i he workmen. After the funeral,
a great mass meeting was held at Everton,
across in Fayette county. The speeches
were conservative in tone, but the men
wore <n"ouranted to icmain steadfast.
The io iionsibil>ty of the Morewood shoot
in.', Vice-President Ponna said, was on
the riinuld rs of the guards and thy coke
companies. _
AN AGREEMENT
Between the Jute Trust and
Alliance Representatives.
The alliance and the jute trust have
agreed upon the basis of future transac
tions in bagging. A maximum scale of
prices has been fixed, and, with free com
petition below the scale, the business
agents of the alliance have accepted the
proposition of the Cordage Bagging
company, factories representing all but one of the
that were formerly included in
the trust. The regulations began with
the national bagging committee, com¬
posed of Oswald Wilson, manager of the
Florida state exchange; AI L. Donaldson,
manager of the South Carolina exchange,
and AV. L. Peek, manager of the Georgia
exchange. At the recent meeting of tire
alliance state business agents at Birming
ham, all the cotton states were represent
ed except Georgia and North Caro
lina. Colonel W. L. Peek, of the
Georgia exchange, could not go because
of illness in his family. There Mr. Os
wald Wilson, the chairman of the inl¬
tional cotton committee, submitted the
proposition of the Cordage Baggage Com¬
pany and it was adopted by all the states
represented. The Cordage Bagging Com¬
pany proposes to guarantee a maximum
price of 0£ cents per yard for one and a
half pound, 6^ cents for one and three
quarter pound, 7) cents for two pound,
and 7if cents for two aud a half pound
jute basging, and agrees to meet compe
tition below this scale. They agree to
supply all the The jute alliance bagging the alliance
men want. business agents,
in accepting this proposition, agree to
take what jute bagging they need from
this source, always provided that it meets
competition and supplies the goods
promptly. As Georgia was not repre
seated proposition in the Birmingham meeting, the
same was submitted to the
directors of the Georgia state
exchange at a meeting" in At
lanta, The and it was unanimously accepted.
importance of this action by all the
state agents of the cotton belt but one is
very great. Even if the action does not
bind the Sub-Alliances, the recommend
ation carries great weight. AYhcn the
Alliance passed resolutions boycotting
jute bagging, there were few Alliancemen
who did not stand up to the fiat of the
order, though it cost them over a dollar
a bale. When they make a fiat which
relieves them of this extra cost, there is
every reason to believe that they will all
stick. It simply means that, by one
clever stroke, half the bagging for the
coming year has been sold in advance, on
terms mutually advantageous to maker
and consumer. The recommendation of
the business agents leaves the farmers free
to buy cotton bagging if they piefer, but
as the jute is cheaper, it is not likely that
many will now buy cotton bagging. One
of the directors was asked how this would
leave the southern factories which put in
machinery to make cotton bagging.
v . Their machinery was bought with a view
to conv rting it to other purposes,” said
he, “and they can do that now. They
have had a large sale at good prices, and
are not hurt.”
THE INDIAN IS AVERSE
To Enlisting in the United States
Regular Army.
News received at the war department bccing
Friday of the results of efforts
made by western army officers to carry
out the provisions of the army appropria¬
tion bill authorizing the enlistment in the
regular army of 2,000 Indian recruits is
very discouraging. The officers report
that the Indians will not enlist in the
infantry under any circumstances, as
they adhor walking. They will not enlist
in the cavalry except as scouts, because
they do not care to bind themselves to
five years’ service, nor to be subject to
removal to distant parts of the country.
Then, too, they want their women with
them, and a great majority of the bucks
are physically unfit for military service.
It is doubted whether a • single Indian
company can be recruited in the west.
The Morewood Riot.
Quiet reigned throughout the C 'ke re¬
gions Friday morning. No outbreak has
occurred sine’ the fatal raid of Thurs¬
day, and while the situation is still grave,
the presence of the militia has had a re¬
assuring effect upon the peop'e Two
regiments are now on the ground fully
equipped and prepared for action. Ad¬
jutant General McClelland and Brigadier
General Wyley are iu command and will
remain as long as there is any danger of
another raid. The uncertainty and fear
have proven an awful strain upon both
strikers and cit izen s.
Remedy For Mosquito ID.es.
A German chemist, after a somewhat
learned dissertation on the various kinds
of mosquitoes and their respectiv e char¬
acteristics and virulence, condescends to
give a useful piece of practical various informa¬
tion. He says that of the reme¬
dies recommended for mosquito bites
such as ; mmonia, oil of cloves, chloro¬
form, carbolized glycerine, etc., none
is better than ordinary soap. He is au
ardent naturalist and on his frequent
excursions in the country he invariably
carries a small piece of soap, with which,
in ease of a bite, he makes a lather all
over the affected part aud allows it to
dry on. He almost invariably finds that
the relief is instantaneous, and that all
pain soon ceases. Should it continue.
however, as sometimes happens, it is
only necessary to repeat the application.
—[Commercial Advertiser.
SOUTHERN BRIEFS
DAILY OCCURRENCES IN THE
SUNNY SOUTHLAND
Curtailed into Interesting and
Newsy Paragraphs.
A break in the levee south of Green¬
ville, Miss., is reported.
Thu cotton receipts to date in Augusta,
Ga , amount to 200,557 bales.
The superintendent of the census
places the population of California at
1,208,130.
The confederate veterans of Richmond,
Va., have decided to erect a monument
to General A. I*. Hill
At a meeting of the citizens of Rich¬
mond, Thursday death night, resolutions John¬ were
passed upon the of General
ston.
Falk & Bentschner, retail clothiers,
at Charleston. 8. C., made an ussigument
Saturday. Liabilities $50,000; assets,
$40,000.
The governor of Tennessee has applied
to tlie secretary of the treasury for the
refunding of the direct tax collected in
that state, amounting to $392,005.
Two-thirds of the town of Gretna,La.,
has been submerged by water from the
Ames crevasse. Many of the people from
the overflowed section are moving to
New Orleans.
The North Carolina legislature imposed
a tax of twenty-five cents per share on
the stock of the Raleigh and Gaston rail¬
way. It is now discovered that by an
error in engrossing the bill, the tax levied
is only twenty cents per share,
Lexington, N. C., is terribly wrought
up over the appearance of smallpox. Sev
eral cases in the worst stages of the dis-f
ease have developed there in the last few
days. Some of the citizens are leaving.
The city and town are iu a state of in¬
tense excitement.
Octavius Coke, of Raleigh, has been
appointed secretary of state by the gover¬
nor. Coke was born at Williamsburg,
Va., fifty-one years ago. He served in
the Thirty-Second A'irginia, was wounded
at Sharpsburg and Five Forks. In 1878
he made Edenton, N. C., his home.
The Louisville leaf tobacco market has
beeu featureless the past week. Sales
have been moderately large, consisting
chiefly of tobacco of an inferior quality,
with now and then a first-class hogshead.
All colorv and clean red hurley are very
strong, in fact slightly higher than last
week.
Peter M. Dox died at Huntsville, Al%,
Thursday night, in his 78th year He
was born in Geneva, N. Y., and served
in the legislature of that state. He
moved to Alabama in 1855. In 1865 he
represented Madison iu the revisional
constitutional ccTTOiffiaa. He repfa*
sented the eighth Alabama district in the
forty-first and forty-second congresses.
The St. Augustine, Fla., gas works
wore burned Monday morning. The fire
was caused by the giving way of a sealed
door in a tank holding decomposed
water, while it was being charged with
illuminating power from kerosene. The
entire plant, except the oil and charging
tanks and gas meter and generator, was
destroyed. The loss is estimated at
000; insurance unknown.
A Parkersburg, AV. Va., dispatch of
Friday says: There is considerable com¬
motion among the railri ad lines in this
state, and there are indications that the
Italians are avenging their countrymen by
the destruction of pronerty. Two at
tempts to wreck a last express on the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad were de¬
tected iu time to prevent the loss of life.
Three thousand barrels of sugar were
freed from bondage at the custom house
at Charleston, the duties, amounting to
$18,000, having been rebat'd, under the
recent act of congress. Of this amount
over 1,000 barrels were shipped to mer¬
chants in the interior of the state, and
most of the rest will go out at once. The
price of granulated sugar tumbled to 7
cents a pound at retail, a fall of 2 cents.
A SUGAR COMBINE.
Spreckles and the Havemeyers
Form a Trust.
cisco Dispatches of Thursday from San Fran¬
say: The combination between
Spreckles and tho Havemeyers is cm
pleted. Tne new organization is known
as the West Coast Sugar Refining Com
pany, and the nrran ement is that the
two local refiners shall work alternately.
When the American refinery is shut
down, Spreckles’ establishment will be
working, duty and vice versa The removal
of on sugar had li tie effect on the
prices listed. The prices of American
and California refineries were alike in
every respect. Both showed a drop in
prices of cube and crushed sugar of 5-8
cent, and 3-4 cent in dry granulated
sugar. Quotations on yellow sugars
showed a rise of 1-4 to 1 cent.
A RUSH IN SUGAR.
The Duties Being Rebated the
Prices Drop Accordingly.
A New York dispatch says: As Wed¬
nesday was the first of the refi ers getting
the benfit of the removal of duty on the
principle grades of raw sugar with which
the refined sympathized, there was much
more active busines- iu the lutter. Con¬
sumers in the country had held off the
past few days or bought close to
actual wants in order to obtain close ben¬
efits. Raw was reduced to 3£c net for
refining;. 3£c net for fine nine-six test
centrifugal; 2 13-16c to 2 15--6e lor mo¬
lasses, while refined was down to 5c for
cut loaf and 4$c tor powdered, and 4Jc
for granulated. IS