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The Massachusetts Legislature has
pe8Bea , , . aw pro , idi ... ing . the erection . ot ,
buildings over 185 feet in height above
the street, except in the case of grain
Blevators, sugar refineries V, steeples / ’
.__ towers, and , purely , ornamental struct
ares
The Emperor of Japan has declared
himself an enemy of duelling. In a re¬
cent decree he ordered that every man
who wno accnted accptea a a challenge cnauenge should snoui be fined e
heavily and imprisoned from six months
to two years. Any one wno causes a
auel auei is is suhiert subject to to the the same same law law Insult- insuit
Lag a man who has declined to fight on
the field of honor is also punishable.
As stated in a report of the British
_ Board , of , _ Trade, , the United TT .. , States sent t
to British ports in 1890 504,391 cattle
and 384.646 sheep, while Canada sent
83,588 aa k«c cattle and 121,309 191 sheep. This
is an enormous increase in trade since
1877, in which year the United States
exported to British ports 11,523 cattle
and 13,120 sheep, and Canada 7630 cat¬
tle and 10,275 sheep.
Women doctors are becoming so
numerous in England that there is com¬
petition for the appointments in hos
pitals. When the Government decided
to supply , women doctors in the hospitals
for Mohammedan women, there was a
call for a limited number of women
physicians. So many applied for the
position, declares the New York Adver
User, that it will be a serious task to
select from the number.
The New York Advertiser observes:
Italy’s “fatal gift of beauty” has brought
upon her many woes. Whether it was
California’s fatal gift of her “glorious
climate” that brought down upon her
those fatal hordes of Chinese we cannot
tell. But her woes never end, it would
seem. Backed by Federal legislation,
she is on the point of stemming the tide
of Celestial immigration. But now we
learn that the Japanese have found her
out. There are now said to be 5000
Japs in California; a number soon to rise
to 20,000.
The recent outburst against the Prince
of Wales is, says London Truth , proof
positive that loyalty in the old sense ol
the word has ceased to exist. The
Queen is respected as a woman, but not
as the descendant of a line of Kings.
The monarchy rests upon the fragile basis
of the good conduct of the occupant oi
the throne. As a principle it has already
disappeared. It has become a mere ques¬
tion of expediency whether we shall have
a King or do without one. Kingship
will last out my time, but it is doomed.
Whether England will get on better oi
worse for being a republic, I do not
know; but a republic England is likely
to become before fifty years have ex¬
pired.
Thirty thousand tons, or two thousand
carloads, of staff will be used in the con¬
struction of the main buildings of the
Exposition at Chicago. It has been de¬
cided that all of the buildings will be
faced with this material. Staff was in¬
vented in France about 1876, and first
used in the buildings of the Paris Expo¬
sition in 1878. It is composed chiefly
of powdered gypsum, the other constit¬
uents being alumni, glycerine and dex¬
trine. These are mixed with water
without heat, and cast in molds in any
desired shape and allowed to harden.
The natural color is a murky white, but
other colors are produced by external
washes, rather than by additional ingre¬
dients. To prevent brittleness the ma¬
terial is ca3t around a coarse cloth, bag¬
ging or oakum. The casts are shallow¬
like, and about half an inch thick. They
may be in any form—in imitation of cut
stone, rock, faced stone, moldings, or
the most delicate designs. For the low¬
er portions of the walls the material is
mixed with cement, which makes it hard.
Staff is impervious to water, and is a
permanent building material, although
its cost is less than one-tenth of that oi
i**rble or granite.
Charles Kittleberoer, of San Fran¬
cisco, was laid to rest a few days since in a
coffin which was given to him four years
ago as a birthday present.
THE LEGISLATURE.
GEORGIA’S LAWMAKERS HARD
AT WORK.
The Proceedings from Day to
Day Briefly Summarized.
TI111 house.
Saturday.- On motion of its author,
the school book bill « as reconsidered by
I tbo house. By unanimous consont, the
i biU by Mr> Crowder » of Monroe, which
| and requires firms agents doing or. business persons, this’state corporations
( i in to
j make returns and pay taxes, was set as
! the special order for Tuesday. This
1 makes two special orders for Tuesday,
one of whicli is the acceptance of the
confederate veterans’ home. A bill
which provides for an amendment to the
cbarter of the cit v of Austell,was passed.
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Also. the bill to amend an
net and incorporating the Merchants’
Farmers’ hank so as to authorize and
ern P 0Wer said bank to receive deposits as
a savings bank was passed. Mr Flem
j ming, of Richmond, introduced a bill by
request of some of his constituents,
I which makes it unlawful for any firm or
corporation or individual to work its
employes more than ten hours in every
twenty-four. The bill is an extreme one
in its provisions, as it prohibits the mak
c °ntracts with any laborers or em
P>oyes whatever, even of cooks, nurses,
butlers, farmhands, etc., for their servi¬
ces longer than ten hours a day. Mr.
Calvin, of Richmond, introduced a reso¬
lution to provide for the appointment of
a joint committee on the part of the gen¬
eral assembly to attend a meeting of the
I Savannah River Improvement Associa
j tion at Augusta in November. The res-
1 olution provides that this committee
shall serve without expense to the state.
The remainder of the session was devo
ted f ° reading bills a second time,
aud nothing of importance was done.
| | Monday— Newspapers formed the sub
ject of two interesting measures in the
j house Monday. The first was entitled
an act to ma ke it unlawful lot- any pub
' publhfan^ others, concerning
or the innocence or
guilt of any defendant in any crimnal
: case, contrary to the sworn evidence in
said case. I he second bill makes editors
of newspapers responsible for all cards
or communications de appearing over a
allows nom plume. Any editor who
any curd or communica¬
tion to be published, which either
directly or indirectly reflect upon the
character or business of any one, over a
nom de plume, is made guilty of a mis¬
demeanor. A bill was introduced which
provides ofiers. for the selection of jury com¬
missi Mr. Holbrook, of DeKalb,
introduced a bill to provide for the or¬
ganization of a criminal court in each
county of the state upon recommenda¬
tion by the grand juries. The resolution
thorize by Mr. William?, of Richmond, to au
the governor to appoint three
competent attorneys to revise and codify
the criminal laws of the state, and to
make a report to the general assembly
for approval, came up fora third reading,
but was referred, after some discussion,
back to the judiciary committee,
The bill to make tax collectors in all
counties of this state, which contain a
population of seventy-five thousand or
more, ex-officio sheriffs in certain cases
and to allow them to appoint deputies,
came up for a third reading and was
passed. It does not go into effect until
January, 1893. The bill to amend sec
tion 3331 of the code was also passed.
The section in question is to be amended
according lien to the bill priority so as to give the
of attachment over that of
an ordinary judgment obtained on a suit
filed after the levy of attachment. The
resolution by Mr. Ivey, of Thomas, to
pay the members of the house and senate
mileage to and from the capital from
this adjourned session of the general as¬
sembly, was morning. set as the special order for
Thursday A large number of
new house bills were read first time.
The following bills were passed: Bill
to amend section 4441 of the code rela¬
tive to hunting and fishing on the lauds
of others; Resolution to refund to W. C.
Wright $50 paid for a license lo sell
liquor, which holding was not the usei; Bill to change
the time of superior court in
Dodge county; Resolution for the relief
of Mrs. Martha M. Humphries, widow of
Ledford Humphries, an ex-confederate
soldier; Bill to revise, amend and consol¬
idate the acts creating a board of com
missioners for Decatur county; To amend
section 473 of the code so as to require
constables outside incorporated towns to
give bond for $200 instead of $500, as is
now required; To amend the charter of
the Fairmount Valley Railroad Company;
. To amend an act Athens. incorporating the Ex¬
change bank —The of entire
Tuesday. session was
taken up in the discussion of the vete¬
ran’s home bill. It came up as the spe
cial order of the day, just after the jour
nai had been read. The bill provided
for an appropriation, called and Mr. the Reid, chair of
Putnam county, was to
by Speaker Howell and the house re
solved itself in .o a committee of the
whole. Many brilliant speeches were
made in favor of accepting the home,
while the views of some of the members
were in opposition to the measure. No
conclusion was reached, however, and
the bill was laid over as unfinished busi
ne«s until Wednesday morning.
Wednesday.—I mmediately on the
opening of the session, the house again
took up the veteran’s home oill.
More speeches were made both for and
agamst the bill, at the cone usion of
which Mr. Humphries, of Brooks,
moved that the substitute of Mr. Chap
pell and the original bill be reported
back with a recommendation that it do
not pass. 80 The tuoti >n prevailed bill by a
vote of ayes, GO nays. The was
so reported Fleming, to the how. On motion and of
Mr. of Richmond, too ayes
nays were called. Those who favored
the report of the committee, which was
adverse to the passage of the bill ofc the
substitute were Messrs. Ander
son, Atkinson, of Columbia, At
kinson, of Cows ta, B-skin,
Bennett, Brown of Forsyth, Brown of
Harralson, Bryan, Burge, Cagle, Camp
bell, Cason. Chapman, Davis of Burke,
Dennard, Devore, Dismuke, Dodson,
Bush, Baldwin, Barrett, Clay, Cooper,
Craigo, Ethridge, Faust, Glover, God
ard, Griffith, Hall, Hand, Harris of
Quitman, Harris of Washington, Han
cock, Heard, Hill of Cherokee, Hendrix,
Hogan. Holbrook, Holzendorf, Davis of
Burke, Hill of Meriwether, Humphries, Maxwell,
Edenfield, Everett, Ivey, Lane, Johnson,
Merrett, Harris of Catoosa,
Jones, Kemp, Montgomery, Sapp of
Chattahoochee, Keni.»n, Mason, Mann,
McDonald of Banks. Mat hews of .T f.
ferson, Meeks, Mitchell, Monroe, Wil
Nash, Odom, O’Niel, Parker of
kinson, Parkam, Papno, Peacock, Peeples,
Pearson, Rainey, Sapp of Mitchell, Sears
Sibley, Singufield, Smith of Butts,
Scruggs, Stokes, Strickland, Tatum,
Thorton, Thompson, Taylor, Tramwell,
Underwood, Walker, Ware, Wells oi
Marion, Mitzell, Whatley, Wheeler,
| Wright, Young. Total 94. Those who
favored accepting the home were: Bax
ter, Berner, Boifieulett, Branch, Broad¬
nax, (Jliftou. Brinson, Berney, Calvin, Chappell,
Crowder, Cutts, Dunwoody,
Gardner, Fleming, Goodwin, Davis of Lumpkin, Hen¬
Gilbert, McAfee, Harper,
derson. Holtzclaw, Huff, Ingraham, Har¬
rison, Hartridge, Lark, Lumdsen, Mobley,
Mostly, Morton, Norman, Oattes, Rem
bert, Turner, Jackson of Heard, Jen¬
nings, Kimbrough, Lark, Leslie, LeCoute
Mattox. Martin, McDonald of Sumpter,
Merriwether, Parker, Perry, Whitfield, Phillips,
Pope, Rued, Roberts, Ryals,
Williams, Wisdom, Wylly, Wooten, Seay,
Smith of Decatur, Smith of Greene,
Sharpe, Swain, Turner, Wells of Lee—To¬
tal, 62. The bill was lost, after a gallant
fieht. The opposition even voted not to
receive the Soldiers’Home as a gift to the
state without any conditions attached.
Following is the substitute offered by
Dr. Chappi-li, of Laurens, as amended by
himself and Mr. Huff, of Bibb. The sub¬
stitute tenders the home unconditionally,
and many of the opponents of the bill
who said they would vote for such a
measure failed to vote for this: “Where¬
as, Thetrustrees of said home have ten¬
dered to the state 114J acres of land and
its appurtenances, situated near the city
of Atlanta, known as part of the
“Schultze place,” fully described in a
deed thereto from Emmy Vonda Hoya
Schultze to the committee on location of
said home, recorded in book L 3, page
398. records of deeds, in the clerk’s office
of Fulton superior court, and afterwards
conveyed to said jjjome., upon which is
located a building designated as the Con¬
federate Soldiers’ Home of Georgia,
which land and building have cost about
the sum of forty thousand dollars, and
were paid for by contributions from
citizens of Georgia, and others, and said
land has, since its purchase, largely in¬
creased in value, and continues so to in¬
crease, for the benefit of such ex-confed¬
erate soldiers as may need the benefit
thereof, for such period as, in the discre¬
tion of the legislature, may be justified
or required. The entire property to
belong used, sold to the state, in fee simple, to be
or disposed of as the general
assembly may deem best; therefore. Sec¬
tion 1. Be it enacted by the general as¬
sembly of the state of Georgia, That said
property so tendered be, and the same is,
hereby accepted, to be held as one
of the public institutions of the state
until disposed of above provided.”
... .The house met again at 3 o’clock.
By unanimous consent a number of bills
were introduced and several passed.
Captain Seay introduced a resolution to
fix the session from 8 o’clock to 1 o’clock
on Monday, Wednesday aud Friday, and
do away with the afternoon session. A
substitute was offered for this resolution
that the house meet on Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays at 9 o’clock
and adjourn at 1 o’clock to meet again
at 3 o’clock and adjourn at 5 o’clock.
This substitute was adopted. A bill
was introduced to abolish the office of
principal physician of the penitentiary of
the state of Georgia. The following
bills were passed: To incorporate the
Americus Transit Company;To repeal an
act from prohibiting hunting any ffshing person the or penons
or on lands of
another in the county of Telfair; To
amend an act incorporating the Bank of
Smithville; An act to incorporate the Mad¬
dox & Rucker Banking Company; To
authorize the grand jury to fix the sala¬
ry Henry of the judge of the county court of
county; To establish a system of
public schools for the town of Toccoa
Cfty; To incorporate theFairburn Bank¬
ing Company.
TnK SENATE
Monday. -The following new biUs
were introduced in the senate Monday*
A bill to require a license to be paid for
the privilege of carrying a Winchester or
other long range rifle of any character,
except by the militia of the state; To in
corporate the town of Hapeville; To
abolish the office of county treasurer of
the county of Monroe. The following passed*
bills were read the third time and
To amend the charter of the Suwaneo
Canal Companv; To amend the act in
corporating the Cincinnati, Georgia to^incor- and
Florida Railroad. House bill
porate the town of Moultrie, in Colquitt
county. ing Adjourned until Tuesday morn
at 10 o’clock.
Tuesday.—T he bouse rules were
suspended P and 8enator Goldin, of
th e thirty-eighth district, mtro
duced a bill to repeal section 3910a of
the code, which refers to the appoint-
rLS’S”“SMrlJX commissioner from
appointment of one
each militia district, who shall hold the
office for four years, half of the coruuiis
sioners being appointed by the judge
every two years The special order, who
Senator Beck’s bill to give persons
are injured by railroad companies a lieu
on the property of the company, was
discharged. The bill by Senator
Vincent to amend the act passed
at this session prohibiting the sale of in
toxicating liquors within three miles of
any church or schoolhouse, so that the
same shall not apply to the sale by the
manufacturer in original packages of not
less than ten gallons, was put upon its pas
sage. On a chII for the yeas and nays,
the bill passed by a vote of 25 to 11. On
motion of Senator Cabaniss the house bill
by Mr. Morton, of Clarke, providing taken and for
a dispensary at Athens, was up
passed by a vote of 33 to 2. Other bills
passed were as follows: A bill fo au
thorize the city of Augusta to provide by
ordinance for a registration of voters in
each ward of the city, for a registry clerk
in each ward, to limit the time for regis
tering and closing said registry, and to
regulate the same; To authorize the
county commissioners of Fulton county
to refund to P. R, Johnson $250, paid
for liquor license; To prohibit, after
notice, hunting and fishing on cer
tain lots of land Decatur county.
LIVELY TIMES
Expected When the Indian
Lands are Thrown Open.
A dispatch of Sunday from Guthrie,
Oklahoma, says: Recent information
concerning the opening of Indian lands
has caused an influx of people here that
is surprising. Boomers are arriving
with wagons of every description,
headed for the Iowa and Sac and Fox
reservations. When the president’s
proclamation is issued throwing open
the lauds for settlement there will be a
scramble almost equal to that which took
place on the opening of Oklahoma. Ev¬
ery conceivable specimen of humanity
has put in an appearance. Gambler
and missionary elbow each other, equally
anxious to be among the first when the
order for invasion is proclaimed. build fiatboats Some
have gone so far as to
with which to cross the streams. Others
have houses on wheels, stocked with pro¬
visions, ready to move at a moment’s no¬
tice. On the line which extends from
Cimmaron to South Canadian, a distance
of sixty miles or more, are encamped
thousands of homeless people, anxiously
awaiting the president’s proclamation. while and
The southern negro, northern
red Indian mix under the United States
marshals’ surveillance unconcernedly, but
when the order to move is given there
will undoubtedly be trouble.
LINTLESS COTTON.
A New Discovery Which Prom¬
ises Wonders.
H. T. Ferguson, a prominent has planter
of Spartanburg county, S. C., suc¬
ceeded, after several years’ patient variety exper¬
imenting, lintless in producing which promises a new of
cotton, production to com¬
pletely revolutionize the of
cotton seed. Mr. Ferguson has been ex¬
hibiting a stalk of his new variety. It
contains about thirty bolls, seed, each com¬
pletely filled with large which,
when ripe, are black, resembling much
in appearance the seed of
sea island cotton, The seed pro
duce themselves every year. Mr.
Ferguson has taken much pains to per¬
fect the variety, and this year he will
have enough seed to plant the entire
state. The estimated yield of average
land with moderate cultivation, is 400
bushels to the acre. It is as easily gath¬
ered as the ordinary cotton, but must be
gathered will just as the bolls crack, hundred else bush¬ the
seed seed drop the out. Four
els of to acre is equal to several
sacks of guano as a fertilizer. And the
cost of raising 400 bushels is nothing in
comparison with the cost of commercial the yield
fertilizers. Mr. Ferguson says
of oil is about one-third more than ordi¬
nary seed.
THE VICTIMS BURIED.
Last Sad Chapter of the Park
Place Horror.
A New York dispatch says: A long
row of black coffins stood in front of the
morgue Friday morning. On each was a
plate with the inscription, “Died August
23, 1891,'’ and the number of the box in
which the corspe was placed after being
taken from the Park place ruins. The
last identification was made Ihursday
night. Mrs. Kate Barry came to the
morgue and identified the body marked
No. 29 as that of her husband, William
Barry, thirty-five years old. Shortly
after 10:30 o’clock thirteen hearses drove
up to the gloomy building, and the last
awful reminders of the catastrophe were
carried off to Evergreen to be buried
there in a grave at the city’s expense.
THE ROBBERS CAPTURED.
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The Leader Makes a Full COIl
fAooinn
mu i u, iVn h L C en x i XpreS8
f at t oluers, Qe last, t ™t week were
‘; a P t ? red Tuesday. The leader of the
2°, h 18 & ^ J n ° Q UDg a ‘ 0l 'f ^. hornton 8 >
aew8bu tc h er on the ,, Central , road. Thorn
h„odf°wS'writ 1°“ co ^ 8 csslo part “’ °/ d . lr ^ t '
M 1 ' .WhM 1 1 a “ ou n t? d to
$950. Thornton gave the names of f his ac
P llcesthe robbery as Safford and
These men were located by the
f latete n ^^hinrFthi anded
y
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the wide world.
GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND
CABLE CULLINGS
Of Brief Items of Interest From
Various Sources.
The American Bar Association com¬
menced its first day’s session at Boston,
Mass., Thursday.
Charleston, Ark., was visited Tuesday
by a $50,000 fire. The courthouse and
records were burned.
Up to Wednesday morning sixty-two
bodies had been recovered from the ruins
in Park place, New York.
Wednesday’s dispatches state that an
agreement bus been reached between the
Lake Eric and Western railroad men and
the officers of that compuuy, and the
men are returning to work.
A dispatch of Tuesday from Little
Rock, Ark., reports great damage being
done to cotton in Pulaski county by the
army woms. The damage already done
is estimated at 20 per cent.
The auditors of the Chicago, Milwau¬
kee and St. Paul Railroad Company have
found a shortage of $15,000 on the
books of George S. Osborn, the elevator
superintendent, who suicided.
A cablegram of Wednesday from China
says: Cholera broke out on the steamer,
Namchow, which sailed from Singapore,
with 800 coolies for Pen Sing market,
and over sixty of the coolies died with
the disease, and their bodies were thrown
into the sea.
An Indianapolis dispatch says: In ac¬
cordance with the policy decided upon
by the state board of tax commissioners,
bankers representing each of the three
classes of banks—national, state and pri¬
vate—were arrested Wednesday evening
for refusing to deliver to the board the
names of their depositors and the amount
to their credit on April 1st.
A Washington dispatch of Thursday,
says: Bank Examiner Campbell, in a
report to Acting Comptroller Nixon, says
that the present indications are that the
Farley National bank, of Montgomery,
Ala., which closed its doors a few days
ago, will resume business. The deposi¬
tors and stockholders, he thinks, win not
lose a cent.
A dispatch of Monday from Haverhill,
Mass., says: Chick Bros., shoe manu¬
facturers, have discharged all their in¬
ternational union help, owing to inability
to arrange a new price list. The old list
expired July 1st, since which time un¬
successful efforts have beeu made to fix
upon a new one. The firm is willing the to
pay the old prices, but will not grant
advance asked for by the workmen.
Fifty-two well to-do colored men ud
der the leadership of Q. H. Waterford,
of Memphis, Tenn., left Kansas, City,
Mo., Thu isday for Oklahoma, where
they will await the opening of the general Indian
lands soon to be thrown open to
settlement. These negroes are from vari¬
ous parts of the South, and expect to
found a colony of their own in these lauds.
It is expected the colony will ultimately
number 100,000 members.
Assistant Secretary Crounse at Wash¬
ington, has issued a circular to customs
officers as follows: “In all cases of seiz¬
ures of spirituous liquors made an account
of violations of the customs laws in states
wherein local laws forbid the public sale
of spirituous liquors, collectors will here¬
after hold the articles seized and report
each case to this department for such
action as will not contravene local stat¬
utes.”
The Pennsylvania prohibition state con¬
vention met at Harrisonburg, Wednesday,
and adopted a platform having twenty
planks. W. W. Hague was nominated
lor auditor general, and George Drayton
for state treasurer. The first five and
concluding four planks of the platform
are devoted to phases of the liquor ques¬
tion. The remainder touch upon labor,
sufferage, naturalization, education, civil
service, taxation, monopolies and and im¬
partial denunciation of the democratic
and republican parties.
A dispatch of Thursday from Caldwell,
Ivans., says: All day Tuesday this town
was enveloped in a cloud of smoke, com¬
ing from the Cherokee strip. The action
of the administration in allowing the
Cherokees to hold cattle in the strip has
so incensed the home seekers that a meet¬
ing was called, and although it was hold
with closed doors, it is now known that
it was held for the purpose of calling vol¬
unteers to burn every speir of grass in
the Cherokee strip. These volunteers
took their departure Monday night and
scattered in all directions, and the work
of Tuesday is only the beginning of what
will be done.
FAIR PREMIUMS.
$150,000 for Live Stock at the
World’s Exposition.
A Chicago dispatch of Thursday says:
Chief Buschannejhas premiums in announced his sched¬
ule of the live stock de¬
partment of the world’s fair. 1 he direc¬
tors have and, appropriated in accordance $150,000 for this
purpose, with an or¬
der from the board of control, a scheme
has been arranged for a division among
the various classes which are expected to
compete. The scheme, as presented to
the executive committee, proviJes for
hor>es, about $52,000; for cattle, about
$30,000; for swine, about $20,000; for
sheep, about $15,000; for poultry and pet
stock, about $ 10 , 000 ; for dogs, about
$4,000, making a total of $131,000. This
leaves a contingent fund of $19,000,
which has been reserved by Chief Busch
anne for use as premiums in case it is de¬
sired to admit classes of animals not in¬
cluded in the present schedule.