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An effort will be made by influential
women in New York to send one of their
number to sit in court whenever a womac
Is tried, in order to give her the pro¬
tection that women so much need under
such circumstances.
The origin of the word *• baccarat” Is
greatly troubling the etymologists.
They cannot discover its root or its
items, and in the most lately published
English dictionary it is frankly put down
U of unknown derivation.
A fall of about thirty feet between
Lake Superior aud Lake Huron at Sault
Bte. Marie gives probably one of the “
greatest water powers in the world,
is to be utilized on tho Canadian side by
a race and on the American side by a
canal 1000 feet wide and giving 236,
000-horse power of force. Around this
prophetically observes the Boston Culti¬
vator, will inevitably grow a great manu¬
facturing city whenever the country
around is sufficiently settled to sustain
it.
The Leprosy Commission in India
is making some interesting discoveries
as to the origin of the disease and meth¬
ods of suppressing it. In one instance
it found a family that had been leprous
for five generations. The females of the
family remain apparently free from the
taint until about fifteen years of age,
and are usually very attractive. As they
get married about twelve the taint is
spread to other families, and the plague
has thus been carried through an exten¬
sive district.
Archibald Forbes, tho famous war
correspondent, has a poor opinion of
the present rank and file of the British
army. He does not despise sturdy little
men, whom he thinks are likely to
prove better all-round soldiers than the
big fellows. “But,” he asserts, “your
narrow-chested, herring-bodied, under¬
sized gutter weed is pure trash on a
campaign; you cannot make decent
‘cannon fodder’ of a creature of this
sort, and it is of creatures of this sort
that our ranks to-day are full.”
“Ministers have their trials,” observes
the Chicago Herald , “but they know
how to bear them without wearing out
prematurely. , , Tne necrology of Andover ,
Theological Seminary for 1S90 showed
that of the forty-six graduates who had
died .wo were o.er ei.et, o t ,ge,
one of them ninety-seven, nineteen were
between eighty and ninety, fourteen were
between seventy and eighty, and only ^
one was under . fifty. The average age
was seventy-six years and eight months,
No wonder that life insurance agents are
friendly J to clergymen.”
Athanasius, the brigand who cap¬
tured a train in Turkey the other day,
seems to be a picturesque and gentle
ruffian of the operatic sort. He is de
scribed as very handsome, about thirty
five years old, dressed with scrupulous
To TV the women 4 on the r hite tram °f“ he behaved d “ k -
with grace and gallantry, assuring them
that he warred not with the fair sex. He
treated his captives with much consid¬
eration, and when a kid was stolen gave
them the meaty bits and was content to
pick tbe bones himself. In a letter
which he wrote to a Greek newspaper in
Constantinople he said he meant to keep
$10,000 of the ransom for himself, di¬
vide $14,000 among his six associates,
and give $12,000 to the poor. He fur¬
ther requested that the messenger con
veying the money should be authorized
to spend part of it in buying seven
woolen shirts, tobacco, cigarette-papers,
six revolvers, six atnbir cigarette hold
ers and six pocket-kuive3 for the use oi
his band. When his captives were re.
leased he kissed them and gave each ol
them $25 for pocket-money. It would
be almost painful to hear that this
romantic robtjer qualified himself for a
brigand by serving as a waiter in a res¬
taurant, if it were not for the general
air of burlesque about the whole affair.
It appears now that there were only seven
bandits in a’l, and there is something
more than a suspicion that the ex-waiter
and his “pals" were simply the agents
of some rascally Turkish officials.
THE LEGISLATURE.
GEORGIA'S LAWMAKERS HARD
AT WORK.
The Proceedings from Day to
Day Briefly Summarized.
THE HOUSE.
Tuesday. —The special order of the
day which was the garnishment bill was,
on the account of its imperfect condition,
recommitted to the general judicia¬
ry. The bill was recommended favorably
by substitute, the title of which as
amended by the committee was “a bill
to amend section 3554 of the code of
1882, which exempts from process of
garnishment the wages of journeymen
mechanics and day laborers, by making
50 per cent of such wages subject to gar¬
nishment, and for other appropriate purposes.” Mr.
Huff’s resolution to $6,000 to
supplement the contingent fund was
passed. About twelve thousaud dollars
of the sum so appropriated was expected
necessarily in paying amounts due for
taxes on the Western and Atlantic rail¬
road in the state of Tennessee. It seems
that this sum has diminished the contin
fZ eat fund until it is about exhausted.
The resolution provides that $6,000 shall
be appropriated as a supplement to this
fund for 1891. Mr. Sibley’s bill to pie
vent and punish fraudulent entries in
horse races was passed by a good major¬
ity. The bill is intended to prevent
gambling and swindling in enterin :?
horses at races under assumed names an
false records. Mr. Ryal’s bill, which
amends the code so as to change the passed. sal¬
aries of the county treasurers wits
It provides that no salary shall exceed the
cum of $2,000. and that all fees collect¬
ed in excess of that sum shall be paid the
into the school fund of
county wherein collected.
A bill was passed to amend an act to
prohibit cock fighting or betting thereon,
and to prescribe a punishment for the
same; a bill which provides for the pay¬
ment for live stock killed to prevent the
cpread of contagious diseases, especially
that known as glanders, was made the
special order for Wednesday, Other
house bills passed were as follows: A
bill to incorporate the North Augusta
Railroad company; a bill to provide for
a new charter for the town of East Point,
in Fulton county; to amend an act to in¬
corporate the town of Leary, in the coun¬
ty of Calhoun; to incorporate the North¬
western Banking company of Harmony
Grove, Ga.; to incorporate the town of
Moultrie, in the county Stillville, of Colquitt; in the to
incorporate the town of
county of Jefferson.
Wednesday.— Wednesday was quite
an interesting day in the house. The
early part of the session was devoted to
the introduction of new matter, and
some interesting measures were placed
before that body. A sensation was created
by the introduction of a bill by Repre¬
sentative Oattes, of Muscogee, calling
for an investigation of serious charges
against certain members. The resolu¬
tion begins as follows: “Whereas
charges are being circulated over
the state that during the race for
United States senator at the fall term of
this general assembly as many as eight
rae mbe ra the legislature offered their
votes ( for . sale; and, whereas, said report
i s a reflection upon the general assembly,
resolved, etc.” Mr. Montgomery, of
Ta yl° r county, at the request of his con
alliancemen in other parts of tne state,
introduced a stay law bill. The meas
H t101 re ? P r of °7^ff all i '°. debts r , a , sus P within e . n ®i. on of the collec- state
f r0 m the first of October next, un
til the first of November, 1892.
^ provides d that no real or personal period. shall
J? ! e ™ 0n for debt dur in S thilt
and under no consideration . is the L arrest
or imprisonment of any person allowed
during that time for failing to meet obli¬
gations, even though it they may be able to
do so. Iu fact, relieves all indebted
be persons.for required that to meet time, and obligations they will what- not
any
soever except money due for taxes. The
bd ! a l so P rov ides that the statute of limi
of which was to prescribe who shall be
entitled to the benefits of the pension
laws of the state. The first section pro¬
vides that no confederate soldier who
owns or whose wife owns real or personal
property over the Value of two thousand
dollars, or who has a salary or income of
more than six hundred dollars per an¬
num, shall be entitled to any benefit un¬
der the pension laws. The second sec
tion provides that no widow of a con
federate soldier who owns property worth
over two thousand dollars shall be enti¬
tled to a pension under the pension laws.
A bill was introduced to limit the num¬
ber of elections which can be held under
the local option act, provided each of
such elections be against the sale. Mr.
Oattes, of Muscogee, also introduced a
measure which provides that, after three
elections have been held, tho results’ of
■which have been “against the sale,” and
another election shall be held with the
same result, no other election can be held
in such county at any time, if notice be
given as provided by the final act prior the to
such election, shall be upon
subject. Mr. Williams introduced a bill
to amend the constitution so that Au
usta might incur a debt not to exceed
600,000, for the purpose of protecting
the city from the floods of the Savannah
river. The following bills were board passed of
by the house: To establish a
commissioners of road and revenues for
Lumpkin county; to increase the com¬
pensation of the county commissioners of
roads and revenues in Liberty county; to
prohibit all persons from hunting on the
enclosed land of others in the county of
Mitchell; to locate the office of tax col¬
lector of Laurens county; to establish a
registration law for the county of Liber¬
ty; to repeal the act of March 20, 1874.
which reduced the bond of the sheriff of
Liberty couuty; to incorporate the Bank
of Southwest Qeorgia; to incorporate the
Citizens’ Banking and Trust Company of
Thomasville.
Thursday. —The measure which pro¬
vides for a board of tax equalizers shortly was the
special order and came up, after
the house had been called to order. The
measure is an important one for the entire
state. Senator Lane, of the sixteenth
district, is its author, and it has already
passed the senate. The amendments
which the house added to the bill were
concurred in by the senate, The first
section of the bill begins as follows: “Be
it enacted by the general assembly of
Georgia, That the commissioners of roads
and revenue, or in case there are no such
commissioners, then the ordinaries of the
counties of this state, shall, on or before
the first day of April next, and annually
thereafter, appoint five upright and
intelligent citizens, whose place
of residence shall be in different
localities in said conuty, all
of whom shall be freeholders of their
counties, who shall constitute a board of
equalization for said counties, of ail prop¬
erty, in real and counties.” personal subject When the to taxa¬ bill
tion their
wns called, a lengthy discussion arose
over some of its features, but
it was fianally passed by a vote of 112
to 45. It now needs only the governor’s second
signature to become a law. The
special order#.hen came up for considera¬
tion. It was the biH of Dr. Chappell, of
Laurens, to provide fer tho payment for
live stock killed to prevent the spread of
contagious diseases, especially that known
as glanders, and for expenses incurred by
the provisions of this act. So much op¬
position wns encountered that the bill
was indefinitely postponed. The bill
providing federate Veteraus’ for the acceptance Home, at Atlauta, of the Con¬
was
read a second time. The bill has been
favorably recommended by the financial
committee, who have carefully consider
ed the measure. Mr. Cutts, of Sumpter,
is the author of the bill. On motion of
Mr. Huff it was made the special order
tor next Wednesday. A bill to amend
the law relating to and bigamy
was put on its third reading lost,
Mr. Huff has introduced a measure to
make additional appropriations for the
fiscal years 1891 and 1892, and to supply
deficiencies in several appropriations The for
the support of the government.
money is needed to pay the incidental
expenses ot the adjourned session of the
general assembly; to pay for stationery;
to pay Clerk Hardin and Assistant Secre¬
tary Cabaniss, of the senate; to supple¬ railroad
ment the printing fund of the
commission; to repair the executive man¬
sion, $1,800; to supplement the fund to
pay the widows’ pension; to pay the
Western and Atlantic railroad betterments
commission. These are necessary ex¬
penses, and the bill will be acted on im¬
mediately. Speaker Howell committee appointed
the house portion of the to
investigate the charges that several mem¬
bers offered to sell out in the senatorial
race. Mr. Oattes was appointed Tram¬ chair¬
man, and the others were Messrs.
mell, of Whitfield, and Barrett, of Pike.
The committee will proceed with the
work of investigation at once. The fol¬
lowing bills were passed: and Transportation To incorporate
the Ludale Milling
company; to provide for the payment of
jurors who may be summoned, although
they were not sworn; to amend an act to
create a board of commissioners for the
county of Morgan. Several new bills
were read first time and adjournment was
bad.
Friday.— At the opening of the house
session Mr. Berner, of Monroe, introduc¬
ed the following resolution: “Resolved,
by the: house of representatives of Geor¬
gia, That it is the sense of the house
that the passage of a stay law would be
unwise, and would be detrimental to the
best interest of the state.” Mr. Bernei
said he was willing to leave the reso¬
lution to the house without saying a
word in regard to it, and moved its im¬
mediate adoption. The vote was called,
and one solid unanimous
tinlnff KcH i f tv™ G ? nh °i M P l bl11 ,e m0VCa P™,
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fi'- e of . live 1 . stock
killed to prevent * the spread or contagious
d senses, be reconsidered. After a brief
discussion the yeas and nays were called
tb .® “l ot *? re coRsider, the call was
‘ he blU was restored to its
diJluu ai M r T' u d V 7 w V a! d C 0D ° f ,UtrO - 6 ? t0 -
duced a bill to prohibit K-u the sale ot ’M liquor
on th* capital grounds, also to prohibit
the sale wffhia three miles of the capital
building. A bill has been introduced to
ppropriate the sum of $3,000 annually
to the State university for the support of
ihe North Georgia Another Agricultural railroad college bid
at Dahlonega. freight charges which
railroads to regulate the the shall be
in state
authorized to make on shipments between
points in this state when such shipments
ure on two or more connecting lines, was
introduced. A bill to repeal article 11,
section 1. paragraph 2 of the constitution
so as to allow new counties to be created
was prerented by Mr. Brinson, of Burke,
lhe following house bills were passed: and
lo incorporate the Marietta Trust
Banking company; lo incorporate the
Warren County * air Association; Incor
poratmg the South Atlantic railroad,
senate amendments concurred in ; Senate
substitute for bill to amend ihe laws for
the protection of the oyster industry;
To incorporate the town of Orabi in the
county of Dooly; To incorporate the
To incorporate the bank of Jug Tavern;
To amend an act to prescribe the method
of granting license to sell spirituous
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liquors in Effingham county; To amend
the charter of the Washington and El
berton railroad; To repeal an act to con¬
firm au ordinance of the city council of
Augusta to create a sinkiug fund, passed
March 10, 1877; To establish a system
of public schools in the town of Wash¬
ington, Qa.; To incorporate the Wash¬
ington Loan and Banking Company; To
authorize the city council of Augusta to
appoint the orderly sergeant of police,
clerk of the recorder’s court, to confer
certain jurisdiction in certain cases and
to confer certain jurisdiction upon the}
recorder’s courts, to authorize the city to
take stock in certain railroads, Railroad to au¬
thorize the Savannah Valley
Company to cross the Savannah river,
to provide for the registration of the
legal voters of said couuty aud for othei 1
purposes. Saturday.—A bout oae-third of the
members were absent, many of them be¬
ing away on leaves of absence and the
regular order was dispensed with, by
resolution, and the session was devoted
to rending senate bills the first and
second time, and house bills the second
time. However, a few bills were intro¬
duced, and some of them were of quite bill
an important nature. Among them a
to au horize the judges of the superior
courts of the state in any cose of seduc¬
tion or divorce, or other case where the
evidence is vulgar or obscene, to hear
and try the case after clearing the court¬
room of all or any portion of the audi¬
ence. Mr. Hull introduced a bill to
authorize the governor and treasurer
to issue bonds and negotiate the
same for the purpose of raising
money with which to pay off an amount
of the public debt maturing in the year
1892. The bill authorizes the issuing of
bonds to the amount of $300,000, each
to be of a denomination of $1,000, and
they are to mature January 1, 1922, and
are to bear interest at a rate not exceed
ing 4^ per cent. Mr. Huff also intro
duced a bill which makes it unlawful for
the guvernor, any judge of the supreme
court, or of any superior court, city or
county court, any ordinary, mayor, sher¬
iff, alderman or any public officer to ap¬
point public or office to assist in po-ition appointing of to anv
or trust or
emolument over which he may have any
control or any interest whatever, any
person related to him within the fourth
degree of eonsanguiuity or affinity.
THE SENATE.
Tuesday.— In the senate. Tuesday,
the bill incorporating the town of Cus
seta, which passed Monday, wa9 on mo
tion reconsidered and again put iu the
hands of the committee. The : ules were
wspended and the bill of Senator Smith,
which to a great extent repeals the lien
of attorneys on the recovery and permits
the plaintiff to make such a statement of
the case as will prevent the attorney from
prosecuting the case for his fees, was
taken up. Its author moved to disagree
but on a call of yeas and nays, the mo¬
tion was lost by a vote of 31 to 9. During
the debate a resolution was brought in
from the house asking the concurrence of
the senate, in a joint session, to be held
at 11:30 o’clock for the purpose of hear¬
ing an address by the Hon. Patrick
Calhoun on the subject of deep water at
Savannah. Some opposition was shown
to the time selected, on the ground that
it would interfere with legislation, but
the resolution passed almost unanimously.
The senate then went into executive
session and the following nominations
were confirmed: County judge of Early
county, G. G. Oliver; County judge
Macon county, J. W. Haygood; County
solicitor Pulaski county, C. R. Warren;
County judge Warren county, William
Pitcher; County judge Burke county,
H. H. Perry; County solicitor Burke
county, Seaborn II. Jones; County solici
tor Wilkes county for full and unexpired
term, J. 8. Barnett.
"Wednesday.— The bill by Mr. relating Ryals,
of Chatham, amending the laws
to oyster beds was read the second time
and recommitted. Most of. the day’s
session was taken up in the introduction
of new matter. A resolution introduced
by senator Nunnally, recited the contin
ued illness of the attorney general, pre
venting him from attending to the duties
not more than $2,000, wns referred to
the general judiciary. Among g the bills
read was the house bill by Mr Goodwin,
of Fulton, amending a°s the charter of the
city of Atlanta so to authorize the
issuing of $500,000 of bonds. The reso
lution of Mr. Oattes, of Muscogee, that a
joint committee of five, three from the
house and two from the senate, be ap
pointed to investigate the charges that
eight members of the general assembly
had offered for sale, or permuted to be
offered for sale, their votes during the
pending election of a United States senn
tor last fall, was received from the house,
and on motion of Senator Terrell was
concurred in. The special order of the
day was the bill by Mr. Baldwin, of Ran
dolph, to prohibit physicians or prescrip
tion clerks in a drug establishment from
pursuing their profession or calling, who
may become intoxicated from intoxica
ting liquor or opiates, and providin',
that upon conviction of violating the
act. they shall be fined not less than $200
nor more than $500. It was taken uu
and a lengthy discussion ensued, which
resulted in the bill being recommitted to
the committee on temperance. The bill
and the amendment by the house, grant
ing a charter to the North Side Electric
Railroad Company, of Augusta were
taken up. Ail the amendments were
agreed to except one, which provided
that the charter should be forfeited uu
less five miles were built in five voars
Senator Warren stating that the line
Conyers, am^diog tho charter of tbe town o
o’clock Friday passed. Adjourned until 10
morning
Tni/RSDAY.—'The specl&l order of the
day, the bill by Senator Beck entitled an
act for tho punishment of pools, the trusts evi¬
and conspiracies, and relating to
dence in such cases, was taken up.
Senator Beck made a strong argument in
favor of the bill, and it was passed. the bill The by
amendments of the house to
Senator Lane, of the equalization thirty-ninth, pro¬
viding for a board of of real
and personal property subject to taxation
were agreed to. A bill for prohibiting Jefferson
the sale of seed cotton in
county during certain seasons was intro¬
duced. Also a bill to amend the charter
of the Suwanee Canal Company. The
bill to amend section 4625 of the code,
so that one-third of all streams shall be
kept opon for the passage of fish, was
passed. The substitute for the bill by
Mr. Ryals, amending the laws relating to
oyster beds, was road and passed. The
bill by Senator Culver amending section
4362 so that all executions must be in
private, wa3 read the third t me and put
upon its passage, but was finally tabled
by a vote of 18 to 17. Senators Warren
and Beck were appointed on the joint
committee to investigate the members charges of
of corruption against eight of
the general assembly. Adjourned until
10 o’clock Friday morning. Culver
Friday. —On motion of Senator
the bill to require proprietors of public
gins to keep a record was reconsidered
and referred to the committee on general
agriculture. The bill to amend section
3940 of the code, so that compensation jurors in the
city courts receive the same
as jurors in the superior court, was Tead
the third time and pa-sed. The substi¬
tute of the general judiciary for the reso¬
lution of Senator Nunnally, reciting the
illness of the attorney general employ and au¬
thorizing the governor to an as
sistant, in substance the same as the ori
ginal resolution, was passed and trans
mitted immediately to the house. Other
bills passed were ^as follows: To re¬
quire the registration of voters in Jas¬
per county; to change the time of
holding the superior court of Lee county;
To amend section 3409 so that the officers
of the lodges of the various mutual aid
and insurance societies are made agents;
To amend the code so as to make it a
misdemeanor to sell intoxicating liquors
on Sunday in any house whether open or
not; House bill preventing the working
of engineers and others in charge of
trains more than ten hours in the twenty
four; To incorporate the town of Lyerly,
in Chattooga county; To amend
section 6, 16 D., so as to make
it apply to all new roads opened; council To au
thorize the mayor and general of
Atlanta, to fix a salary for the marshal and
clerk instead of fees or to arrange it as
they saw fit; To amend the charter of the
town of Hampton; To incorporate the
town of Dexter; To provide a registrati an
law fer the county of Chattooga, making
the justices of the peace the registrars;
To provide & registration law for Quit
man county; To amend the charter of
Athens; To extend the Indian Springs
and Flovilla railroad, by substitue, to
prescribe how the road shall enter the
state reserve. By unanimous consent
Senator Vincent introduced a bill, The
bill was to amen d the law passed at this
session to prohibit the sale of spirituous
liquors within three miles of any church
or schoolhouse, so that the same shall not
apply to original packages of more than
ten gallons. Referred to the commit tee
on temperance. Ad journed until 10
o’clock a. m. Monday, the
Saturday— No session of senate.
DEATH OF MRS. POLK,
The Venerable Widow of Our
Republic’s Tenth President.
A Nashville, Tenn., dispatch says
Surr unded by a few loving friends and
relatives, Mrs. Jos. K Polk, relict of the
tenth Pr< sident of tbe United States, de
parted this life at 7:80 o’clock Friday
morning, peacefully and quietly, iu full
possession of her mental faculties. Mrs.
Polk had been iu perfect health until last
Wednesday evening, when, on returning sudden”
from a short drive, she was taken
ly ill, from which she never rallied. Had
she lived until the 4th of September next
nz £
ten. The cause of her death was simnlv P 7
exhaustion resulting throughoS from old a«e
The bells the city are
mournfully tolling, and svmpithv Z aud
regret are heard from the mas "he of the
people as they gaze upon bulletins
announcing (he demise of the honored
and beloved lady who 3pent her years
among the people she loved so well" nobS and
who nsp six. cted her as one of the ^
of her •
SPURGEON CONVALESCENT.
He Says the Lord’s People
Would Not Let Him Die.
A Londou ablegram of Friday says:
Mr Spurgeon is able to sit up for a brief
period daily. he will His be friends now seriously
hope that able to reoccupy
his pulpit. His weakness is still very
great and his progress is necessarily very
slow. The delirium has ceased. He him¬
self says that the Lord’s people would
not let him die; ihat their prayers kept
disease him alive. His hold physicians state that his
retains a that threatens to
withstand every remedy. The best pro¬
gnostication at present is that it will be
many mouths before lie will be able to
preach.
Blown to Atoms.
An explosion of the boiler of the elec¬
tric light works’ engine, at Bushviile
Ill., occurred at midnight Tuesday ni<rht cW
demolishing the electric light house
plctely, and killing engineer Van Winkle
and au unknown man, supposed to be a
farmer.