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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. O/ L/U IfTTII 1 IIljlVit 17T> \T li V Jj L’\\'U O. ^ it 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