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71 TIMES.
VOL. VI.
• 'Chinamen are said to be landing a
Tampico, Mexico. Thence they make
their way into Texas.
An Italian engineer named Bocca pro
poses to construct a canal across the
Kingdom of Italy,connecting the Adriatic
and Tyrrhenian Seas, He estimates the
cost of the work at $125,000,000.
John Bull is now discovering to his
sorrow that the recent strikes are likely
to cost London her East Indian and Aus
tralian trade. The smaller English ports
will profit by London's misfortune.
The health of Lord Tennyson is now
completely restored. The aged English
poet may almost daily be seen frequent
ing the beautiful drives in the neighbor
hood of his home, while it is not unusual
to see him walking.
In order to replace the field laborers
who have emigrated to Mexico and
South America a company has been
formed in Havana to make contracts
with a number of workmen in Spain and
bring them to Cuba with their families.
Statistics prepared by the railroad
commissioners of Iowa show that in that
State alone, with 8000 miles of railroads,
952 brakemen were killed or injured in
1888 because of the use of the ordinary
link-and-pin coupling and the hand
brake on freight cars.
The Director of the Mint says that the
exportation of $70,000,000 in gold last
summer represents the money spent by
Americans in visiting the Paris Exposi
tion. He cites, in proof, the fact that
the Bank of France has gained $63,000,
t)00 during the same period.
A movement is on foot in St. Peters
burg for observing Sunday as it is under
stood in the United States and Great
Britain. It is said that 1200 St. Peters
burg merchants have already declared
themselves willing to keep their places
of business closed on the first day cf the
week.
The new dock at Halifax, Nova Scotia,
■was subsidized by the city of Halifax,
and the Canadian and British Govern
ments, to the merry tune of $600,000.
It cost a million, and being 601 feet in
length, can dock the longest steamship
afloat. It holds 8,500,000 gallons of
water and can be emptied in three and a
half hours. The greater part of the
dock was blasted out of tbe3olid rock.
A Russ i officer is sentenced to ten
years in Siberia and is put to work in the
mines. His sweetheart, a young woman
of wealth, follows and finds him —
wrists and ankles chained to his waist.
She marries him in that state, takes a
tearful farewell and returns to Russia.
The New York Sun. thinks it difficult to
make up one’s mind what moral this
happening points to.
One reason why F’rance, Germany and
Russia discourage ■ Immigration to the
United States is because foreigners who
cpme here soon drop into the English lan
guage and discard their own, thus mak
ing a loss of numbers to the other lan
guages. This feeble check will not de
lay the inevitable a month, declares the
Detroit Free Press. English as she is
spoke, it thinks, will be the universal
language of the world in time.
The first practical attempt to light
London with electricity has recently been
made in that city, which up to this time,
is far behind in this respect nearly every
fourth-rate town in the United States.'
Three great companies have been formed,
with an aggregate capital of $12,000,000,
and contracts have been secured by them
for lighting many of the principal
thoroughfares of the great city. The
mamiirmin charge for electric lights has
been fixed at sixteen cents an hour for
twenty lamps of sixteen-candle power.
Edison is preparing to unveii new
# invention. He
wonders in the world of
says in an interview: “I think it-possi
ble that men who are talking through
telephones may sec each other as well as
hear each other's voices. They may see
the expressions of countenances, see the
other fellow laugh over a good joke, for
instance. It will be as though you saw a
man's face in a mirror, It can be done
oclv through short distances, say within
the limits of a city and its suburbs, i
be done *
think. I am quite sure it can as
a matter of scientific accomplishment.bat
whether it can be made commercially
practicable is another thing. I do not
know vet, but I shall try to find out'’
BLACKSIIEAR, GA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER U, 1889.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS 1ROM EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STRIKE 1
TIRES. AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST.
The new lord mayor of London, Sir
Henry Aaron Isaacs, was installed in
office Satuiday.
The report of the murder of the mis
sionary, Savage, in New Guinea, is de
clared to be untrue.
The window glass manufacturers of
Findlay, Ohio, at a .ecent meeting, ad
vanced the price of window glass 15 per
cent.
The vote of Wyoming, on Wednesday,
on the adoption of the constitution, will
aggregate 10,000, with less than 1,000
against.
Master Workruau Powdcrly says the
Kuights of Labor are in bette r shape
than a year ago, the future brighter than
ever betore.
Cholera is still raging in the valleys of
tlie Tigris and Euphrates. During the
lust three months there have been 7,000
dentils from the diseuse.
Notices have been posted Ohio, in all grant- fur
naces in Mahoning Valley, unsolicited
ing all employes an incruuse
iu wages of tea per cent.
The report of the auditor of Arkansas
shows an increase in the value of real and
personal property in that state, during
the past year, of about $12,000,000.
The Volcano cf Colina, Mexico, is re
ported to be in a state of active eruption. and
Many houses have been destroyed,
the woods for many miles around are on
fire.
An exposition in a dynamite Spain, factory
near the town of liilboa, iu on
Thursday, demolished the building.
Four of the employes were killed and a
Urge number injured.
Fire on the river in Bedford, just be
yond the city limits of Manchester, N.H.,
Saturday', destroyed the farm buildings
of Samuel N. Dunbar. Two children
wore huri.ed to death.
A telegram has been received from
Z mzibar stating tl at tho report of the
massacre of Emm Bey relief exposition, had
under command of Captain Peters,
not been confirmed up to Saturday.
The poorer people of Johnstown, Pa,,
charge that in ttie distribution of the
relief fund for the suffeters there, most
of it was given to the wealthier people,
and tiny are very indignant about it.
News has been received that the Amer
ican ship Chesebrough, Capt. Ericson,
from lliogo to New York, has been lost
off the northern coast of Japan. Nine
teen of her crew were drowned.
The freight conductors and brakemen
of the Evansville and Terra Haute and
the Evansville and Indianapolis railroads
struck Wednesday. They claim they
are not receiving standard wages.
Advices from the Pan Handle coun
try and regions further north says thut
heavy snow now covers the earth and
there is every indication that the begin
ning of a most severe winter is at hand.
The Austrian bark Joseph II, sailed
from Providence, It. I., for Rotterdam on
Thursday with $100,000 worth of cotton
seed oil. This is the first direct foreign
cargo xhat has left this port for the last
half century.
It is reported at Zanzibar, Africa, that
the Masais or Somalis have massacred
Dr. Peters, the German explorer and his
whole party, except ose European and
one Samalia, who were wounded and
who are now at Ugao.
The official gazette at the city of
Mexico publishes a contract entered into
between that government and Francisco
Alfaro for the construction by the latter
of a railroad from the Kio Grande to the
Pacific coast.
The supreme court of Indiana has de
cided that natural gas is a commercial
commodity, and, consequently, the legis
lative act of last winter prohibiting unconsti- the
piping cf gas out of the state
tutional.
The emigration commissioners at New
York, on Friday, notified all steamship
companies that a head tax of fifty cents
each will be collected from them for
every alien that they will bring here.
This will include children.
Mrs. Mandia Morgan, who is said to
be an important witness for the prosecu
tion in the Cronin case, was sandbagged
in Chicago, 111., Saturday night, by an
unknown person, and as a result of the
blow is now in a dangerous condition.
George Tabler and Charles Bullard,
colored, and Harry Austin, John Billy,
Tom Wiige, Madison James, Jefferson
Jones, Sam Gaeus and Jamison Burris,
all full-blooded Indians, except Austin,
have been sentenced at Fort Smith, Ark.,
to hang January 7, 1890.
A remarkable revival has begun in the
penitentiary at Kingston, Ontario,
Between eighty and one hundred
of the leading cracksmen, lorgers
pickpockets, and men of that ilk,
have been converted. Hunter and Cross
ley, Canadian evangelists, are conduct
ing the meetings.
Exports of specie from the port of
New York for week ending Saturday,
November 9, amounted to $342,64i, of
which $10,426 was in gold and 332,035
in silver. Imports of specie which last week
amounted to $279.166, of $177,331
was in gold, and $101,836 in silver.
The United States grand jury in ses
sion at Baltimore on Saturday, indicted
eighteen of the one hundred and twenty
four N&vassa rioters for murder and be
fore the fact, the penalty for which it
death. Seven are charged aided as principals abetted
and eleven as having and
the murderers.
Bishop O’Dwyer, at Limerick, Ireland,
hns issued a pasiorui letter forbidding
the clergy of the diocese to grant »b*o
lution to any person guilty of boycottiug The
or pursuing the plan of campaign,
bishop retains to himself alone the right
to absolve such persons.
It is reported from Chicago that Dr.
Cronin’s clothes were found on Evans
ton avenue, about one hundred feet from
the catch basin in which the body was
found, Saturday afternoon. In them was
au account book containing Cronin s
name. Mrs. Conklin, with whom he
lived, identified them as his.
The state geologist of Ohio, says offi
cially that the natural gas supply in the
now f mous field in the northwestirn
part of thut state will not last for ten
years. In tlie eastern part of the state the
supply has been so nenrly exhausted
that tho manufactories have been com
pelled to return to tlie use of coal.
A program has been issued for a cele
bration in Baltimore of tlie anniversary
of the hanging of the Chicago auarchists.
It is long and violent. It closes: “An
archists, the day lias arrived for paying
homage to your comrades, to brand your
enemies, to promulgate your ideas, to
advance the stiuggle, to hasten the
victory.”
Fire broke out Saturday night in the
flour mill of the St. Paul Roller mill, at
St. Paul, Minn. Close by is a big elevu
tortor of tlie same company, which also
caught tire. A loss of $150,000, with
insurance of $100,000 is involved in the
mill and contents. The fire is thought
to have been caused by the explosion of
a lump in the shipping room.
The first sod of the Nicaraugua canal
was officially and formally turned on Oc
tober 22, amid I he bo iaiing of cannon
and the cheers of thousands of specta
tor. Work was really begun June 3,
but owing to some slight misunderstand
ing between Nicaraugua and Cos!a Rica
(which has since been amicably postponed. arran
ged), the formal opening was
The attention of George W. Childs,
the editor of tlie Philadelphia Lcd'jer, pub
has been called to statements
lished in several papers that he had ex
pressed the opinion “that tlie body of
General Grant will be removed from New
York.” Mr. Childs denies the report and
says that he has never expressed that such General an
.opinion or said in any form removed.
Grant’s body would be so
Dr. Mary Weeks Barnett of Chicago.
Hi., brought suit for Wednesday, $50,000damages in
the circuit court on
Frances E. Willard, president of tiie
National Women’s Christian
union, Caroline E. Buell tnd Esther
Pugh, for circulating false and defama
tory statements against the complainant,
concerning her management of tlie Na
tional Woman’s Temperance hospital in
Chicago.
A DISASTROUS FIRE.
PETERSBURG, 'VIRGINIA, HAS A $500,000
CON FLAG RATION,
Petersburg, Va., sustained tlie heaviest
loss by fire on Thursday it has
enced since the war. Flames weie
covered by policemen about three o’clock
in tiie morning, in the rear of tlie store
nf A. Iiosenstock & Co., or George II.
Davis & Co. Owing to the density of
the smoke, the officer could not tell in
which it originated. Soon flumes spread burst
out of Rosenstock’s frontdoor and
themselves with frightful rapidity. The
whole fire department responded, but
were unable to make much headway. The
buildings in which the fire started were
located in what is known as the “Iron
Front” block, and consisted of live stores,
each five stories high, and was the hand
somest in the city. The block was soon
u mass of flames which communicated to
buildings on each side and swept across
the street, consuming sixteen places of
business before they were stopped, The
stores burned on the east side of the
street are: J. H. Robert, furniture deal
er; 8. S. Brudgers, general commission
merchant; A. Rosenstock & Co., dry
goods and notions; Geo. H. Davis, whole
sale and retail dry goods and notions; M.
XL Davis & Co., wholesale and retail dry
goods and fancy goods; W. T. Plummer A
Co., wholesale and retidl hardware; T.
W. Price, wholesale und retail groceries;
Eppes Hargrave, grocer; G. W. Brooks,
stoves aud tinware. On the west side of
the street the buildings burned are thou;
of P. H. Steward & Co., carriage and
harness makers; Western Union tele
graph office; Odd Fellows’ hall; Young of
Men’s Christian association hall; store
A. J. Clements, boots and shoes and
leather dealer; law office of W. L. & T.
G. Watkins and Mayor Charles F. Col
lier; auction house of P. I. Seabury and
office of Wm. R. Nichols, coal dealer. and
Total loss is estimated at $500,000
insurance is estimated at $350,000. An
unfortunate occurrence was the killing of
Lieutenant George Crichton, of the po
lice force, by falling walls.
BOUGHT A BRIDE
AS OLD MAN GIVES $100,000 IN CASH
FOR A WIFE.
Jesse T Lovell, _, ,, seventy-nine . years old of
Caihoun county, Ill. and Mamie Isdell,
twenty-three years old, of St. Louis, Mo
were married a few days ago. It is said
the old gentleman is worth about half a
million dollars, and lives on a farm in
Caihoun county, III. His nephew Isaac
Fore , lives in St Louis, und Miss
Isdell, beautiful and accomplished
hire poor, Las been a sort of
companion and nursery governess
in Isaac’s family. The uncle recently
vivited his nephew, and became greatly
smitten with the young girl’s charms.
He paid court to her, and the affair, ac
cordiDgtothe story, culminated in a
cash offer of $100,000, which was ac
eepted.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
RIOUS FOISTS IS THE SOUTH.
A CONDENSED AOCOVNT OF WK.VT IS 001X0 OX OV
importance in tue soetueun states.
Miss Nellie P. Hunt, daughter of the
] ilte \y m j[ n, mt( 0 f Louisiana, ex
minister to Russia and a member of Gar
field’s cabinet, has been chosen private
secretary to Mrs. Levi F. Morton.
'1 lie Times- Democrat quotes cotton seed
and its products in New Orleans as fol
low s: Beed, $14 per ton; cotton seed
men), $19 to $20 per ton; oil cakes, $20
per ton; cotton seed oil, crude, 35to 28c
per gallon.
fight !t is between now said that tho last reported
tlie Hatfields and McCoys
in West Virginia never occurred, and
that tlie accounts of previous conflicts
between these factions were much ex
aggerated.
Ten men havo been arrested at Cleve
land Tenn., for passing counterfeit
feit.! money. have The operations of the through- counter
rs been very extensive
out that sec ion for several months past,
silver dollars being the principal coins
made.
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Murfrce, flic pa
rents of Miss Mary N. Murfreo, who has
become so famous as “Charles Egbert
Craddock,’’are now in Murfresboro,Tenn.,
renovating which they, and refitting tiie distinguished old home, to
with their
daughter, have returned to stay.
Two men armed witli Winchester rifles
were teen iu tlie vicinity of Irondale,
Wednesday Ala., eight miles from Birmingham, late
afternoon. Boon after dark
they robbed two citizens half a mile from
the town. One of the men robbed re
ported that one of the highwaymen filled
tint description of liubo Burrow, the
train robber.
The Kentucky court <>f appeals on Sat
urday affirmed the decision of tlie Pike
county court in tho Hatfield-McCoy case.
Valentine Hatfield, Pylant Mahoin and
Dock Maliorn go to tlie penitentiary for
life for the murder of Tolbert McCoy,
and Ellison Mounts will hang for tlie
murder of tlie girl Aliaf McCoy, tlie sis
ter of tiie murdered man.
News of a horrible double murder
comes from Johnston county, N. C. An
aged and respectable lady named Mrs.
Celia Brown resided in tlie country,
about four miles from Selma, witli her
little grandson eight years of nge. Sat
urday morning both were found mur
dered. They had been killed with a
gun. No clew lias been obtained to the
murderer and no cause for it can be as
signed.
The royal is composed chapter of King’s Daughters,
which of delegates from,tlie
various circles in the state, met at
Charleston, S. C., Sunday, and was very
sliinly attended. The slim attendance
was attributed to tlie publication in a
newspaper of a card, which was supposed
to huve been written by a prominent
King’s Daughter and in which tiie writer
urged tin: King’s Daughters to get up u
petition to Queen Victoria for tlie pardon
cf Mrs. May brick.
A COURT ROOM FIGHT
IN WHICH THREE HERRONS ARE KILLED
AND SEVERAL SERIOUSLY WOUNDED.
A dispatch from Lexington, Va., says:
“Reports received hero from Browns
burg, n small village of about 300 peo
ple, in Rockbridge county, fourteen
ini'es noitii of Lexington, state that that
village is in a high .state of excitement
over a terrible and bloody light between
lending men of the vicinity. Three
persons are dead or fatully wounded,
while a number of others are severely
injured. It seems thut Dr. P. J.
Walker, one of the most prominent phy- had
sicians und surgeons of the state,
threatened the life of Henry Miller, a
prominent and wealthycitiz.cn of Rock
bridge county, for an insult offered the
former’s wife. Miller had Walker ar
rested to keep tiie peace. Friday even
ing tho case came up in a nwgistrate’e
court, and the trouble soon started,
which ended in both sides droning thcii
weapons. Miller was killed, Dr.
Walker fatally wounded and Mr*. Walk
er, who was in court us a witness, wa*
killed. Dan and William Miller, sons of
the accused, were shot and dangerously
wounded. Samuel Beaver and others
whose names are unknown, are also in
jured.” A later dispatch wounded ssys: in “Dr. the
P. J. Walker, who was
Brownburg affair Friday evening, near
Lexington, Va., has died from his
wounds. Dave Miller is mortally
wounded, and his brother* George,
James and William implicated wife, in the
shooting of Dr. Walker and lbs are
in jail. Lvncning is feared.”
POLES COMING SOUTH.
THE- STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA INVITES
TUEIR IMMIGRATION.
Colonel Julien Alien, of Statesville, V
O., is making arrangements for a large
immigration of Pole- into NorthCarolina,
and sirs the prospects are good. of A Pol- the
ish priest will soon make a tour
state, accompanied by Col. Alien, with
this special object in view. It will be
the first movement of Poles to the South
Col. Allen says they will make good
citizens, and are industrious and well
trained. He expects that a large settle
rnent of them will he made «t High
Shoal, in Gaston county. There will lie
a large arr.val of Poles at New York
Baltimore in the next few months.
hundred families arrived at Baltimore
recently. Col. Allen, who was a noble
man iu Poland, has great influence over
them.
TERRIBLE BLIZZARDS.
COWBOYS AN1) TllKIIl HERDS FROZEN TO
DKATH.
A special on Saturday to the Denver,
Col., Republican from Dayton, N. M.,
says: “Unless the snow ntorin, which
has been taging for eight days, comes to
an end toon, next summer will show the
country covered with the dead bodies of
animals as thickly as was the old Santa
Fe trail in the sixties. The depth of the
snow is now not less than twenty-six
inches on a level, and in many places it
has diifted seven feet high. When tho
storm struck tin's section, seven largo
herds of cattle, numbering from 400 to
2,000, were being held near this place
awaiting shipment to eastern markeis.
The rain of a week ago was followed last
Thursday morning by lilizzatds of snow
and sleet, which sent the herds in a
southerly half direction. In vain did tho al
ready frozen cowboys try to cheek
the march of the herds, hut on (hoy
went through the increasing storm until,
finding it utterly impossible to hold the
rattle, the cowboys rode aside and let
them pass, and when marly dead rode
the exhausted horses into canyons, or
partially sheltered places, where they
passed many hours of misery without
food or tiro. Five cowmen are known to
he frozen lo death. Two Mexican sheep
herders have been found frozen to death.
Two men coming in report drifts in some
places seven and eight feet high, in which
there are hundiods of dead stock, many
with horns and heads nbovo the snow.
In otic drift thirteen were counted; in
another, ten. Borne of these were alive,
but tillable to move from their frigid
prison. Herds of sheep are and completely for
wiped out of existence, range
thirty miles from toivu is covered with
dead carcasses. It is estimated that 20
Ot 0 teiritory. sheep have perished Texlino, in thut part be- of
tlie At ten miles
low Clayton, two passenger trains huvo
been snowbound for tho week. Provi
(•ions are running out and passengers are
compelled to venture out in tho storm
and kill the cattle, quarters of which are
taken into tin* cars and roasted for food.
Tho storm is by far the worst ever known
in Now Mexico, and the exact, loss of life
and propel ty cannot at present lie esti
mated.
MOVEMENTS OF COTTON.
HEl’ORT (IK NEW (1111,KAN'S COTTON KX
CHANGE roll 1 -amt week.
The New Orleans Cotton Exchange
statement makes the cotton movement
over tlie Ohio and Mississippi and Poto
mac rivers to Northern American my I
Canadian mills, for tlie week ending No
vi mlier 9th, 48,837 bales, against 48,779
li st year, mid the total, since September
1st, 1,188,070, against 239,741 Inst
year; the total American mill takings,
North and South, for the first ten weeks
of tho which season, 517,883, against 674,863,
of 587.152; by Northern, 431,436, against
tlie amount of tlie American
cotton crop in sight, 2,670,680. The
statement shows a partial halt iu heavy
foreign exports, and tho excess, which
lust week was 410,575 bales, is now 869,-
573 over tlie total to thin time last year.
ft also indicates that the Northern mills
are still pursuing ahnnd-to-ruouth policy,
the deficiency in their takings for the
ten we eks compared with lust year hav
ing been increased to 125,716 bales.
i lie stocks uf the seaports and leading
interior towns have increased 189,374
bales during tiie week, reducing the de
ficiency, compared with tlie close of tho
corresponding week last your, to 30,642
bales.
COTTON OIL MEN
HAVE A MEETING AND FAVOR CHANGING
THE TRUST INTO A COKI'ORATION.
The committee appointed at the lust
meeting ot tho ceititieaie holders of thu
cotton oil trust to examine into its af
fairs and suggest a method for changing
the trust imo a corporate concern, met
at New York Wednesday, 'l'ae repoit,
presented and adopted after considera
ble discussion, was ou tlie basis of chang
ing the present certificates into stock,
which would be assured by the ilqiosit
of all securities owned by the trust with
the Central Trust company. 1 he new
stock will consist of $27,000,600 corn
moii and 815,000,000 six pur i ui/t now
cumulating preferred stock. The com
mittee reported thut through errors ol
judgment a loss of $277,110 had been
sustained and had been charged off 0 /
the books of tlie company. Mr. Flagler,
president, contributed $100,000 and J.
O. Morse, treasurer, $100,000 toward
making up the diliciency. The company
will be re-organized on the plan recom
mended by tue committee.
A GENEROUS GIFT.
\ HALT I MO HE LAD V GIVES JOHN HOPKINS
I'M VEIIBITy A CHECK FOB $100,000.
Mrs. Caroline Donovan, of Baltimore,
the widow of a New York merchant,
on Saturday presented to the John Hop
kins university a ( heck for $100,000.
y| rs Donovan expresses the preference
.
that it he ugftd to fouad a <hair of Eng
jsb 15tcrature> though if the trustees see
, t lo makt . otber me of , }ju they
,. ct nr , :or ,jj n „ to their best judg
mf . Ilt .j Mra Honovau made this money
h ,. r . iL f l)y fortunate investments. She
, )8(l already provil j ed for M 0 f her blood
r ,. Ut ives, and thus made her generous
ift uithout tausin> , family jealJusies.
CASH FOR IRELAND.
-
At the fortnightly meeting of the Na
tional League at Dublin, Ireland, on
Wednesday, it was announced that con
tributiona amounting to £8,000 had been
received from America since the last
meeting.
NO. G.
THE LEGISLATURE.
Bills Passed by lie Senate and House
of Representatives of Georgia.
A resolution for the relief of J. M.
Wilson, tax collector. Sanford bill, pro
hibiting lottery advertisements—house
amendment agreed to. Convict hire bill
—house amendment agreed to. Com
mon j chool law—the senate insisted on
its amendments. A bill to provide for
the erection of stock gaps; to amend the
certiorari law; to confirm the degree of
su[)erior courts extending tho charters of
churches and beuevoleut societies; to au
thorize tile trustees of the lunatic asylum
to appoint a marshal; to provide that the
clerks of court take the place of tho or
dinary when lie is disqualified; to amend
tho code witli reference ti the fees of
ordinaries by lidding c rtain charges; to
amend section 465 of Lite code in refer
elit e to the appointment ami discharge
of constables; to amend the tax act by
taxing traveling agents of insurance
companies fifty dollars; to incorporate
i’orter Mills; to repeal the act providing
assessors for Richmond county; to incor
porate t lio Americas and Jacksonville
Railroad company; to require millersund
dealers to stamp tho weight of flour or
meal on tho sacks, no person liable to
this except on full sacks; to establish
public schools for Hoeinl Circle; to incor
porate the Southwest Exchange and
invite Banking company; a resolution to
tho Woman’s Christian Temperance
Union to Atlanta next year; to incorpor
ate tiie Southern Travelers association;
to bank; incorporate tho Atlanta Dime Havings
to provide Itow jurors shall be
sworn; to incorporate the bank of Bmith
ville; to incorporate the city of Dcmor
est in Habersham; to authorize the gov
ernor to leicse the Indian Spring reserve;
to change the name of tho Wintervillo
and Hmithsonia railroad; a one mile pro
hibition bill for Biss church in Bibb.
A bill to incorporate the Covington and
Cedar Shoals railroad ; to amend section
11732 of the code; to amend the charter
of thi! Koine Street Railway company; to
incorporate the town of Emerson in
Barlow; to incorporate tho Dublin and
lilackshoar Railroad company; to incor
porate the Georgia Banking and Trust
company; to amend tho act constituting
the experimental farm; to change the
time of holding tho superior court of
Rabun; to incorporate thu Savannah and
Isle of Hope Railroad company; to
amend the Atlanta charter so as to allow
two readings of ordinances at one meet- read
ing, and to prescribe the number of
ings of ordinances; to amend tlie charter
of Ccdartown; to authorize the judges of
the superior court to hold special terms
to admit to the bar persons who have
diplomas from tho law schools of the
state; a joint resolution for adjournment
sine die at noon Saturday; a ponderous
bill to amend the charter of Brunswick;
to incorpouto tlie Athens Railway com
pany; House amendments to tho Macon
and Birmingham charter bill ugreed
to. A bill to prohibit the sale of liquor
within throe miles of the M. E. church,
south, at Blue Ridge, in Fannin county;
to authorize the mayor and council of
Columbus to extend the city limits fiom
time to lime by resolution. Tho exten
sion already granted by act of the
general assembly, The deficiency of
bill with the amendments
the senate finance committee.
A bill to amend the prohibition bill for
New Hope church, in Clarke; to estab
lish public schools in Marietta; to pio
hibit the sale of liquor in Monroe comity
after submitting the question to tho peo
ple; Monroe to prohibit between thu the sale 1st of of August seed cotton and
in
tlie 1st of February. A three-mile pro
hibitum bill for Macedonia Free Will
Baptist church, in Miller county. To
prohibit tiie sale of seed cotton in Pu
laski between August 15th and Decem
ber 24th; to amend the charter of Guy
ton; to amend section 1865, with refer
ence to tho commitment of lunatic* to
the asylum; to incorporate the State Sav
ings and Banking company; to amend
the game law of Bibb county; to incor
porate the Albany, Florida and Northern
Railway company; to prohibit false
weighing by common carriers; to incor
porate f tue Empire Building, Loan and
rost company; to amend the charter of
the Savannah Fire and Marine Insurance
company, so us to give them the right to
insure against cyclones, tornadoes and
hurricanes ; to amend the charter of Val
dosta; to incorporate the Augusta Rail
the way public company; debt to provide for refunding
of Atlanta; to incorpo
rate the Valdosta anil Ocean Pond Rail
road company. A stock law for Chatta
hoochee, except in the 1,107th and
1,J08th districts ot that county:
to prohibit hunting ou the lands of an
other in Wilcox, cast of the river, or on
Robert Bowen’s land. Owner of land to
post; to authorize the mayor and coun
cil of any city in Georgia to receive bc
queeta for cemeteries; to amend the at
tachment law; to amend the Cartersviile
Street railroad; to incorporate the Peo
ple’s Savings Bank of Rome.
The Tlouse adjourned Saturday, the
one hundred and thirtieth day of the
session. Their last work was the passage
of the Western and Atlantic railroad lease
bill. House and senate agree on July 1st
as the time for submitting the bids.
A MEXICAN BLIZZARD.
One of the severest snow and wind
storms in the history of New Mexico has
prevailed for the past three days, and
reports are coming in of great damage to A
ii>e stock on the northern ranges.
number of cowboys and sheep-herders have
have been lost, and it is feared they
perished. All trains are from five to
twelve hours late, and snow-ploughs the Raton are
kept in constant mountains. operation on
aud Glorietta