Newspaper Page Text
THE
a inter -ljlc!ssenger.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
-by
jjv. ixrxaci.
la the autograpApollection s^l of the Hto
Dr. Bailies, just in England, was a
full set of signatures of the signers of the
Declaration of Independence. This
brought $4250.
Russia is now rapidly constructing the
longest railway in the world. It is 4783
miles long, nearly twice the length of the
Canadian Pacific, and runs from Minsk,
on the eastern side of the Ural range, to
Vladdivo3tok, on the Sea of Japan. This
road will make England's position in
India very insecure.
The curious fact has just been brought
to light in Kentucky, learns the New
York Post, that from 1857 to 1853 the
State loaned money to individuals. The
interest from this source amounted to
$16,128 in 1857, to $21,179.32 in 1858,
to $26,528.10 iu 1859, and in 1860 to
$21,363.38. The State Auditor’s report
for these years shows that many promi¬
nent Kentuckians availed themselves of
means of relief from “the stringency
of the money market. ” The loans were
all called in 1861, and singularly enough,
both principal and interest were paid in
every instance.
New Orleans is at last to have a paid
fire department, announces the New
York Post, the city having been always
dependent on a volunteer service. A
particularly commendable feature of the
ordinance bestowing this long-delayed
boon on the inhabitants is the provision
that the officers of the Department shall
hold their positions during good behav¬
ior. The appointment of the Fire Com¬
missioners and of the Chief of the De¬
partment is a prerogative of the Mayor.
To this, the New Orleans Times -Democrat
objects strenuously, holding that it will
make the Department subject to the evils
of political influence.
The Illinois Legislature found it easy
enough to pass the law providing that
“no person, firm, or corporation shall
employ any child under the age of thir¬
teen in any store, shop, factory or man¬
ufacturing establishment by the day, or
any J period f of time greater than one
day, without . a certificate .. issued . by the
Board of Education that the labor of the
child is the only means of support iU of “an
aged , or infirm . „ relative.” , .. „ The enforce- ,
ment of the law has not, however, been
found so easy, learns the New York Post.
No one appears to be charged o with this
important matter, and as a consequence
the employment of children under the
prohibited age goes oa the same as ever,
Driving a speedy horse is so pleasant
and healthful a recreation, says Harper's
Weekly , that one is not surprised to learn
that Robert Bonner has spent $600,000
of his ample means in following the ad
vice his physician gave him thirty-five
years ago. The money has been used in
acquiring the fastest trotters in this
countrv, and consequently in the world,
and among ° his pets have been numbered
such equine kings aud queens as Dexter,
Edwin Forest, Joe Elliott, Rarus, Maud
S., and Sunol. No speedier collection
of horses than those on his farm at Tar
rytown ha? ever been gathered anywhere,
and it is doubtful if there ever will be
again, for few persons possess Mr. Bon¬
ner’s taste for fast horses, or the means
to gratify it so fully if the taste existed.
According to the Washington corres
pondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat
“the supposition that there is a large a
emigration from Japan to the United
States i3 without foundation. Instead of
20,000 Japanese being here, as is often
stated, the number is probably less than
4000. xnon For -c the decade i , , beginning . . with _
1861, when a solitary subject of the
Mikado ventured to come to the New
World, the immigrants numbered 218.
For the two decades ending June 30,
1890, the figures indicate an immigration
2491. Dating «ta .lave. end
ing May 31 of this year, 901 Japanese
landed on our shores. The increase from
year to year has been but slight, and if
no greater fer the years that remain of
the century, there is little danger of the
presence of a ‘horde of Japanese,’ so
I jmuch feared by some 1886 labor numbered agitators. 194;
The immigrants in
[ in 1887, 229; in 1888, 404; 1889, 604,
i and in 1890, 691.”
THE LEGISLATURE.
GEORGIA’S LAWMAKERS HARD
AT WORK.
The Proceedings from Day to
Day Briefly Summarized.
THE HOUSE.
j Saturday. —The house adjourned adjourned
b y a joint resolution, which
^tofeke the 2’clock train Friday for
Monday.— The defeat of the veterans’
home bill h is brought out another meas¬
ure, the intent of which is to pension home
those needy soldiers for whom the
was intended. In the house, Monday
morning introduced Mr. Monroe, bill of provides Calhoun that county, the
a that
county authorities controlling the fin¬
ances of any county in this state shall
through the certificate of two or more
resident physicians, find au indigent
confederate soldier, who from
wounds or disease contracted in the war
is unable to support himself, that
through the recommendation of two
thirds of the members of the grand jury
of his own country be entitled to a pen¬
sion of one hundred dollars per year.
This bill wss introduced to provide for
those confederate veterans that can’t be
reached direct, and for which the sol¬
dier’s home was intended. Mr. Graves,
of Newton, rose to a question of personal
privilege. He said he was an active
supporter of the bill to receive the vet¬
erans’ home, as was known by the mem¬
bers of the finance committee. He was
detained at home by sickness and the time
when the bitl came up for passage and
asked leave to have his vote recorded as
againsc the adverse report of the com¬
mittee and in favor of the bill. The re¬
quest was granted and Mr. Graves’ name
was so recorded. A large number of new
bills were introduced and read first time,
Mr. Humphreys, of Brooks, introduced
a bill to require the presidents of banks
to furnish the tax receivers of Georgia a
full and complete list of the names of
depositors and the amounts on deposit
by each. These lists are to be furnished
on or by the 1st day of April in each
year. The following bills were passed:
To incorporate the Savannah and Oconee
Railroad company; To establish a city
court for Dupont; To amend the charter
of the Middle Georgia and Atlantic Rail¬
road company; To incorporate the
“Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Bank of Geor¬
gia;” To incorporate the Georgia Bank¬
ing and Loan company of Atlanta. The
usual afternoon session was dispensed
with by a resolution by At. Lewis, of
Hancock. All the bills for a second
reading had been bills disposed the of, clerk’s and most desk
of the local on
passed at the morning session. This
practically left no work to come up be¬
fore the small attendance they would
have had. Accordingly the afternoou
was given to the committees.
Tuesday.—A n important raiboad bill,
and one which, if complained passed, will of, remedy
th f difficulties now was
I introduced in the bouse Tuesday. Dur
I j D g the recent session of the alliance
; convention a resolution was passed de¬
I nianding some action by the general as-
1 sembly, which would require the en
j forC ement of the constitution with regard
| to the formation of railroad combinations
' tending to defeat lessen competition.
or
| ™ s is ^ e outcomo of that resolution
i When the congres-ional . , apportionment
j bill by Mr. Gilbert, of Muscogee, was
I reached, the house immediately gave at
tention, fer it was not quite certain
whether there would be no opposition,
or whether there would be
j a very warm fight. Mr. Gilbert,
the chairmain of the committee,
| was known t° be dissatisfied at the dis
I position . of the fenrth and sixth districts,
and Mr. Whitfield, of Baldwin, had ex
pressed similar views. Mr. Gilbert arose
i 1° speak fer the committee, and an
nounced that he would support the bill.
It was then apparent that the bill was
’ not to have serious trouble. Several
I other speeches were made and the bill
wa ! Pf witho f * liss ^, t ‘ 0 S votc -
and, at the request of Mr. Gilbert, was
immediately transmitted to the senate.
The following is the disposition committee, of and the
counties made by the
sanctioned by the house: First Dis¬
trict—Chatham, Burke, Screven, Eman¬
uel, Bulloch,, Effingham, Bryan, Distric Tattnall,
Liberty, McIntosh. Second t—
Quitman, Clay, Randolph, Terrell. Cal
: houn, Dougherty, Worth. Early, Baker,
Miller, Mitchell, Colquitt, Berrien, De¬
catur, Thomas. Third District—Stew
; art, Webster, Sumpter, Lee, Dooley, Wil¬
cox, Schley, Pulaski, Twiggs, Houston,
Macon, Taylor, Crawford, Fourth D's
trict—Muscogee, Marion, Talbot, Harris,
Meriwether, Troup, Coweta, Heard, Car
roll, Chattahoochee, fifth District—
Fulton, Douglas, Campbell, Clayton, Waiton. De
Kalb, Rockdale. Newton and
Sixth District—Bibb, Baldwin, Jones,
Monroe, Upson, Pike, Spalding, District—tlaral- Payette,
Henry, Butts. Seventh
S0Di p au i ding) C obb, Polk, Floyd, Bar
tow, Chattooga, Gordon, Walker, Dade,
Catoosa, Whitfield, Muiray. Eighth
District—Jasper, Putnam, Morgan,
i Greene, Oconee, Clarke, Oglethorpe, Wilkes.
Madisin, Elbeit, Hart, Franklin, Towns,
Ninth District—Fannin, Union,
,
| Forsyth, Milton, Gwinnett, Jack
l son, Hall, Banks. Tenth Dis
I trict—Richmond, Columbia, Liucolu,
Jefferson. Glascock, McDuffie, Warren,'
Taliaferro, Washington, Wilkinson, Han¬
cock. Eleventh District—Glynn, John¬
son, Laurens, Montgomery, Dodge, Tel¬
fair, Irwin, Coffee, Appling, Wayne,
Pierce, Ware, Clinch, Echols, Lowndes,
Brooks, Charlton, Camden. The special
order for the day was then called. It
Wa( the revolution of Mr. Williams’off
Richmond, to authorize the governor to
appoint three codify competent iiitoineys to re¬
vise and the criminal luws of the
State, and to fix the amount <>f their
salaries. Thu resolution called for
salaries of $2,500. After the re-olution
had been read, Mr. Williams nd<Wsed
the house in regard to the bill. Au
amendment was offered to change the
amount from $2,500 to $2,000. Mi.
Wheeler called for the ayes and nays.
The call was sustained and the amend
ment was adopted by a vote of 130 to 1,
Mr. Wheeler being the only member to
vote against it. Mr. Wheeler then
offered another amendment, which
was to substitute $1,550 for
$2,000, and on this the ayes
nayes were called. The amendment was
adopted. amended. The resolution was then adopt
ed as So the revision of the
criminal laws will probably be begun at
an early date, provided the senate con
curs In the action of the house. Mr.
Baldwin, of Randolph, introduced paragraph a bill
to amend article 7, soction 1, 1
of the constitution of 1877, and the act of
October 9, 1885, amendatory thereof,
also the act approved November 4, 1889,
so as to include indigent coofedeiatr sol¬
diers in the aid therein extended. The
bill provides for the addition of these
words to that paragraph: “And to make
suitable prevision for indigent confeder¬
ate soldiers.” After the adoption of this
amendment by two-tliirds of the mem
hers of both houses, the amendment is to
be submitted to the people at the next
general election for ratification. This is
an important measure, and it seems that
the house is determined to provide
for the soldiers by some means or other.
Mr. Scruggs, of Rabun, presented a bill
which is intended to repeal an act to es¬
tablish a department of agriculture for
the state of Georgia, approved February
28, 1874, and all acts amendatory there
of. The act is to go into effect, if
passed, at the commissioner expiration of the agriculture. term of
the present of
A bill by Mr. Crowder, of Monroe, to
require the and agents of nou-resident engaged per¬ in
sons, firms corporations
the business of lending money in this
state to make returns and pay taxes, was
passed. Those showing they have paid
taxes in other states will be relieved from
the requirements of this act. A resolu¬
tion that general mileage be paid to the members
of the assembly, the principal
doorkeepers and the messengers of the
house and senate for the adjourned ses
sion was presented and passed.
Other bills passed were as follows: To
incorporate the Georgia Mineral Railroad
company; To provide for the removal of
obstructions from water courses and the
drainage of land in Jackson county; To
incorporate the Washington Grmite and
Loan company; To amend au act incor¬
porating comp/iy; the Abbeville and Waycross
Railroad To amend an act to
incorporate timNacoochee Valley Rail¬
road company/To cd^Lty; amend the liquor laws
of Wayne To incorporate the
town of Hoschton, in the county of Jack
son.
Wednesday. —The house, ou Wednes¬
day, agreed to a very important senate
bill, amending article 3, section 7, par¬
agraph 18 of the constitution which
reads as follows: “The general assembly
shall have no power to grant corporate
power and privileges to private compa¬
nies except banking, insurance, railroad,
canal, navigation, express and telegraph
companies, nor to make or change elec¬
tion precincts, nor to the establish bridges or
ferries, nor to chaoge name of legiti¬
mate children, but it shall prescribe by
iaw the manner iu which such powers
shall be exercise 1 by the courts.” The
amendment sought to be placed on the
paragraph, and to which the general as¬
sembly has agreed, strikes out the pro¬
vision iu the paragraph railroad, excepting naviga¬ bank¬
ing, insurance, canal, companies,
tion, express and telegraph
so that as amended the general assembly
will not have the power
to charter such companies.
The amendment further provides, that
“All corporate powers and privileges to
banking, insurance, railroad, canal, navi¬
gation, express and and granted telegraph companies the
shall be issued by secre¬
tary of state in such manner as shall be
prescribed by law.” A lengthy discussion
was indulged iu. Mr. Lewis, of Han¬
cock, offered to amend the bill t>y strik¬
ing out “secretary of state” and substi¬
tuting “the superior courts of this State.”
Mr. Lewis offered to amend by adding:
“If fer any cause the secretary of state
should be disqualified, prescribe then who the shall general
assembly shall grant
the charters.” He thought of obtaining that there
should be some means a
charter in case of the physical or other
disqualification of the secretary granting of state, these
and the absolute power of
charters should not be given to him alone.
The bill was passed two-thirds by a vote majority 136 to 11, in
having received a
both houses. It will become a law when
ratified by a majority of the peo¬
ple at the next general election. Mr.
Faust, of Oglethorpe, introduced the
following resolution, which will have a
tendency to hurry up the business of the
general assembly: “Resolved by the
house, That the committee of the
general assembly having those
matters in charge are hereby instructed
to consider such measures as are before
them at once, and to report to the house
by Wednesday, September the 9th, in
order that such bills may be disposed
of before abjournment. After same dis¬
cussion the resolution dommittee was passed.
The chairmau of the ap¬
pointed to investigate the disposition of
the land-scrip fund, appropriated by the to
the agricultural college general
government, submitted a majority report
in the house. The majority report was
sent to the senate.... The dog bill was
on for the afternoon session, but on ac¬
count of the slim attendance the fight
was postponed. The bill by Mr. John¬
son, of Appling, to require all furnish rail¬
road companies in the state to
equal accommodation on their '.rains for
wnite and black passengers, and to require
them to ride on separate cars, was taken
up and passed by substitute. 71u Home
bill, to estublisb a board of police com
nihsioners for the city of Home, came up
for a third reading. It was and reported sides nd
versely by the committee, both
were trying to dispose of it as they de¬
The question was kept open until
the hour of adjournment had arrived, and
the bill went over as unfinished business,
The following bills were passed: A reso
lution appropriating $500 to repair the
roofing of the capitol building; To pro
vide for the admission in evidence of
certified exemplifications of the records
and minutes of municipal corporations;
To amend section 4372 of the code so
that persons using indecent language in
'he presence of ladies can be bound over
to tbo superior court; To incorporate the
Washington and Middleton Railroad
Company; To amend an act ammendatory
of an act incorporating the Cincinnati,
Georgia and Florida liailroad Company,
THE SENATE.
Monday. —The senate was occupied
Monday morning with routine work.
Nothing of importance was done, but
many of the local measures before that
body were passed. The following is a
list of the bills passed: To incorporate
the town of Hardeman, in the county of
Dougherty; To amend the charter of the
city of Bainbridge, to maintain a system
of sewerage in the city; To amend the
charter of the city of Bainbridge, to lay
out and improve streets; To amend an
act incorporating the city of Bainbridge;
To give the council of the city of Bain¬
bridge additional power; To extend th«
corporate limits of the city
of Bainbridge; To amend sec¬
tion 1409 (1) of the code of Georg a,
regarding the practice of medicine wi fl¬
out proper license; To incorporate the
Reynolds Exchange bank; To amend an
act incorporating the bank of Smitk
ville; To authorize the clera of the board
of commissioners of roads and revenue
in Carroll tb administer oath, to have
a seal and provide a salary for said clerk;
To incorporate the Fairburn Banking
Company; To amend the charter of the
city of Atlanta regarding duties ana
liabilities of street railroad companies
To amend au act incorporating the Ala¬
bama and Atlanta Railroad Company;
To incorporate the Merchant’s
and Farmers’ bank, of Boston,
To incorporate the Atlanta, Am vicus
and Florida Railroad Company; To in¬
corporate the Maddox-Rucker Banking
Company, of the city of Atlanta; To
create a board of commissioners of roads
and revenue in the couoty of Towns. To
incorporate the Bank of Deinorest in
Habersham county; To amend an act
incorporating the Toccoa Banking Com¬
pany in Toccoa; To amend an act incor¬
porating the Merchants’ and Farmers’
bank; To incorporate the Jefferson
Street bank, of Madison, Ga.;
To repeal an act to abolish the
office of county treasurer of Monroe;
To fix the salary of the county treasurer
at $2,500; To authorize the board of
education to sell the school lot of Perry;
Ga; To change the Ninth Georgia regi¬
ment to the Third regiment; members To exempt of
from jury duty ceitain the
Oglethorpe Infantry; To change the
time of holding the superior court of
Dodge; To amend an act incorporating
the Home, Loan and Banking Company,
of Atlanta; To amend an act incorpora¬
ting the Exchange bank of Atlanta; To
incorporate the Atlanta, Southern aud
Western Railroad Company; To author¬
ize the city council of Augusta to ap¬
point the orderly sergeant of polic. amend etc; the
To revise, consolidate and
acts establishing a board of commis¬
sioners for the county of Decattr ; To
incorporate the Bank of Dlacl.shear; To
amend and consolonate the several acts
incorporating the town of Austell.
Tuesday. —Several bill were reported
on adversely and killed, after which the
body went into executive session and
confirmed the appointment of J. A. Ed¬
wards, county solicitor for Macon coun¬
ty. The following third-reading bills
were passed: To authorize the mayor
and council of the city of Dalton to can¬
cel and retire certain school bonds; To
provide for paying the counly comtnis
eiouers of Brooks county; To establish a
board of commissioners of roads and
revenues for White county; To make fax
collectors in all towns of this state con¬
taining a population of 75,000, or more,
ex-officio sheriff; To amend section 473
of the code of 1882; To reimburse
the state chemist for fees expend¬
ed by him iu making analysis of fertili¬
zers for 1890 to 1891; To amend an act
incorporating the Carrollton L. & Ry.
Co.; To incorporate the town of Bowers
ville, provide for elections; To amend
section 3703 of the code of ’82, fixing
the compensation of county treasurers,
providing that in no case shall the com¬
pensation exceed $3,000 per annum; To
create a board of co ' ‘ iouers of roads
and revenues for the county of Ware.
Under a suspension of the rules Senator
Culver introdued a bill to incorporate
the town of Culverton, and Senator
Nunnallv introduced a bill to amend the
constitution. Tnc special order of the
day was the bill to amend section 4144
of the code of ’82, and make it applica¬
ble to unenclosed as well as enclosed
lauds. This elicited a short debate,
which .resulted iu the bill beitig ameuded
and pass-d by a vote of 25 to 8. The
senate adjourned to meet at 10 o’clock
Wednesday morning. Smith _ intro- _
Wkdnesday. Senator
duced a bill providing that children liv
mg jn the state, and attending a school
outside the state, shall be entitled to
their share of the school fund, and to
provide for the paym< nt of the same,
Resolutions were Sinquefield p ssed, thanking
Messrs. Harris and for court
esies extended at Tenmlle to the general
assembly on its visit to Savannah. The
bill to incorporate the Louvale Milling
Transportation Company parsed - !
and was
The special order, the b'dl prohibitinir
physicians following and prescription calling, if addieted clerks from
their to
drink or the use of opium of any kind,
was called up and was productive There of a
good deal of discussion. was a
shower of amendments, some of which
completely emasculated the measure,
while others handicapped it. Senator
O’Neal offered an amendment adopted. modifying
the penalties, which was The
bill was finally passed by a vote of 23 to
16. Under a suspension of the rules, a
bill was introduced by Senator Cabaniss
to empower and authorize the city coun¬
cil of Forsyth to issue certain bonds.
Mr. Elliugton introduced n bill to pro¬
vide that all records, etc., of abolished
county courts be filed with the clerk for
future re'erence.
JUMP IN COTTON.
The Largest Crop Ever Raised—
A 15 Percent Advance.
Cotton is up, both in price and quality.
Iu price it has advanced 15 per cent, and
in quality, the lane quantity already mar¬
keted in Texas, averaged about middling.
Last year it was conriderrbiy below.
Taking both the improvement in the price
of middling, and the higher average price
on accouut of higher grade, the advance
is n heavy oue.
January opened Thursday morning at
9.02 and closed Thursday morning at
9.25. This makes an advance of about
a cent and a quarter within twenty days.
hesteh's report.
Secretary Hester, of the New Orleans
cotton exctiange, has completed the final
details of the cotton crop movement, the
principal figures of which were issued on
S pteiuber 1st. His introductory re¬
marks state that the cotton crop of the
United States for the year ending at the
close of August, 1891, is 8,652,579 b iles,
the largest crop ever grown by 1,341,275
bales.
In reference to the receipts at Ameri¬
can ports, Mr. Hester says that with the
enormous crop the movement in every
direction has been correspondingly heavy.
New Orleans has handled more cotton
than iu any year, but one of her history,
her net receipts exceeding 2,000,000
bales for the first time since the war, and
reaching within 50,000 of ihose in 1S60,
the largest ante-bellum year. Galveston
has passed the million mark for the first
time, and Savannah hus handled con¬
siderable more than a million bales, ex
cee ling all previous records.
The gross overland movement for the
year, alter deducting interchanges be¬
tween the different points of crossing and
reshipping into the cotton belt, has
reached 1,538,260 bales, exceeding last
vear by 184,870, and the year before by
181,689.
The heaviest gains iu the overland have
been at St. Louis, and points above, on
the Mississippi river, Railroads which show of Louis¬ an ex¬
cess of 237,OnO. out
ville are 95,000 bales ahead of last; year,
while Cairo, exclusive of through cotton
for St. Louis, is short nearly fety-two
thousand bales. Cincinnati and Virginia
points also show a falling off of 113,000.
FOREIGN EXPORTS.
The statement makes foreign exports
for the year: To Gieat Britain, 3,329,-
432; to France, 559,099; to the continent
and channel ports, 1,890,291; a total,
exclusive of Canada, of 5,778,822. The
excess in foreign poits over last year is
878,382, of which Great Britain has
taken 479,330; France, 80,362, and the
continent, 312,690. Th - report mentions
shipments of American cofon from New
York to Japan of 4,494 bales. Total
takings for American consumption dur¬
ing the vear were 2,632,023 bales, agsiiot
2,346,152. These embrace 2,027,362 by
Northern spinners, against 1.799,558 last
year, a gain of 228,104: and 604,661 by
Southern spinners, against 546,894 Iasi
year, again f 57 765.
MURRAY SLAIN.
The Notorious Outlaw Killed
by a Boy.
A Jacksonville dispatch says: Harmon
Murray, the notorious colored outlaw,
who has defied the authorities fer nearly
a year and terroriz id a wide section of
country, was killed about daylight
Friday morning by Hardy Early, a col¬
ored iad of seventeen. The killing oc¬
curred iu a swamp near Archer, Fla.
Murray called on Early about 4 o’clock
a d ordered him to go with him to
Archer, where he said he was going to
“kill s uiie crackers” and then leave
Alachua county. Ear'y did not want
to g*>, and said he had no gun, but Mur¬
ray took Eany to the latter’s brother’s
house and ma:e him produce a double
barreled shotgun. Both barrels were
loaded with buck h >t, and Early put
fifteen more in each barrel. The two
then started towurd Archer, having to
pass through a swamp on the way.
When they got into the swamp Early
pretended that he did not know the trail,
and asked Murray to lead. Murray
took the lead, and immediately Early
poured the contents of both barrels into
the buck of Murray’s head, killing him
instf.titly.
KOLB’S SUCCESSOR
Has been Appointed and a Law
Suit will Result.
A Montgomery, Ala., addointed dispatch says: Hec
Governor Jones Tuesday
tor'D. Lane, of Ath ns, commissioner of
agricultnre, to serve between the ap*
])( ,intive term, which Commissioner
Kolb is filling, and the first elective term
under the law making the office elective,
passed by the last legislature. The ap
pointment will precipitate a lawsuit.
Kolb’s friends stated that the appointee office
wou ld demand the transfer of the
aa d that Kolb would refuse, and force
Lane to resort to quo warranto proceed
i ugs to oust him.