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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