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THE BlACKSHEAH TIMES.
VOLUME XI.
STATE NEWS ITEMS
CULLED FROM MANY SOURCES
BRIEFLY PARAGRAPHED.
Happenings of General Interest to
Georgia Readers.
Ringgold is to have telephone con- and
nection with Chattanooga, Dalton
Chickamangn Park.
There is probably more home-raised
meat packed away in Stewart oounty
smokehouses at this time than in any
year since tho war.
The bt*.y council of Barnesville has
decide^ t 0 got out a pamphlet, puttiug
forth the advantages of the city and
surrounding country.
Chipley is to have a cheese factory,
Griffin is to have an addition to her
cotton factory and Valdosta is to have
a large pork packing establishment.
Other places throughout the state are
booked for various enterprises.
There are over 1,700 names on the
tax defaulter’s list in Columbia county
from 1877 to 1894, ranging from one
year up. If all the defaulters pay up
and register it will give the county a
suit vhich will be quite acceptable at
re.
Quito an acrerge is being Mfelntosh, planted in
Irish potatoes around end
all hope for a large yield and goo'll
prices. The LeConte pear trees are
looking well, but there looked are no bloc ms
yet. A good crop is for Ibis
season, and mauy think the severe
winter has been au advantage to them
and will destroy the blight.
The arrangements for tho Ocmul ?ee
Chautauqua for 1895 are being ms le,
and every indication points to a most
successful assembly. The manage
ment has been busy for the past few
weeks corresponding with lecturers,
educators, orchestras and elocutionists
in various part3 of the couutry,
contracts have been entered into which
insure au attractive, entertaining aud
instructive programme.
The most unique testament ever filed
in Chatham county was received by tho
ordinary recently. George W. S baf
fer, who died something over a week
ago, left on estate of ten thousand
dollars. Among other things he be
queathed several shares of Central
railroad stock to some of the charita
ble institutions and churches of the
city, providing that they should use
the income only and denying them the
power to sell or transfer it. At last
aceonnts Cential railroad stocks were
selling for $10 and dividends are not
looked for again.
The centennial of the Richmond
Hussars, of Augusta, will occur in the
early summer of this year, and will,
in all probability, be celebrated in
June. It has been pretty well settled
on to have a three days’ encampment
and to invite the other three troops of
the battalion, and possibly several
other troops. Prizes will be offered,
for the best shot, and this will be open
to Colonel W. E. Jones’ Sixth regi
ment of infantry, allowing each com
pany to enter five men. Also, prizes
Tl be offered for the best tilting
teams among the cavalry. All old
Hur ars, and particularly war mem
bers, will be invited to participate in
tho oentennial exercises proper, for
which a special day will be set apart.
A party of prominent Tennessee law
makers arrived in Atlanta a few days
ago and will spend several and days mak
ing a study of the revenue assess
ment laws of this state with particular
reference to court costs. They are
members of a joint oommittee from the
Tennessee house of representatives and
senate, appointed to make a complete
study of the conditions that confront
the people of that state with respect
to internal economics. Speaking of
the matter a member of the committee
said: “We came to Georgia to obtain
information on criminal cost laws, be
cause the amount paid out by the state
is so small. For instance, in Tennes
see we have paid out nearly $500,000
in four year*, while in Georgia yon
average $19,000 a year.
The city of Augusta has sold $88,000
of redemption bonds dated April 1,
1895, payable April 1, 1925, interest
at 4j per cent per annum payable
semi-annually. The bonds are of
$1,000 each. The purpose of the issue
is for the redemption of $88,000 7 per
cent bonds now outstanding, of date
X ’ due April 1,
1895, and the proceeds of this issue
are applicable to this purpose and no
other. There were twelve bidders,
but the bid of Mr. Coiden Rhind,
102.207 or $89,821.60 for the entire
lot, was the pne that got them all
Last rear the city issued a larger
amount than this time and each thou
sand-dollar bond brought
This year each $1,000 brought $1,-
GA.. Til MARCH 21 , 18 i>r>.
020.70, showing au increase of $12.90
on each thousaud-dollar bond. The
new issue is floated at 4 2-5 per cent.
William T. Adams, of north Geor
gia, was arrested a few days ago and
placed in Fulton- county jail on a
charge of attempting to defraud the
United States government by obtain
ing a pension to which he was not en
titled. Adams is about seventy-five
years old, aud has been a fugitive from
justice for nearly three years, the
crimo which it is alleged that he com
mitted, occurring iiv September, 1892.
Adams is charged with having imper
sonated Martin Crawford, a soldier of
the Seminole Indiau war of 1838, in
that he signed an affidavit that he had
entered that war s id served a suffi
cient length of time to entitle him to
a pension, but upo./ ’ ..estigation by
the pension department at Washing
ton, where the affidavit went before
the pension could be granted, it was
discovered that ‘ Adam’s declaration
that he was Martin Crawford was un
true and that he had never served in
the war, as claimed in tho affidavit.
Attorney Drown Discharged.
Attorney Julius Rrown has been re
moved from the attorneyship of the
Western and Atlantic railroad, and the
charging of fees against the receiver
is said to have been the cause. For
nearly twenty years Mr. Brown has
been the attorney for this road. When
tho road was under the management
of Hon. Joseph E. Brown, Mr. Julius
Brown was the attorney. When it
was placed in tho hands of receivers,
his father and Major E. B. Stahlman
were given tho appointment as re
ceivers.
Theso two gentlemen immediately
appointed Mr. Julius Brown as their
legal adviser. He, 4t is said, at the
time accepted the position with the un
derstanding that the amount of big
compensation was to be fixed by a
special master. This appointment was
made in 1891, and since that time, un
til his removal, Mr. Brown has held
tho position. During the period that
he acted aB attorney for the receivers,
$700,000 iB said tohave passed through
the hands of Major Stahlman.
Several weeks ago a special master
was appointed to fix the fee of Mr.
Brown for his four years’ services.
This special master is said to have al
lowed him on his claim $35,000, or 5
per cent of the total amount that was
handled by the receivers in the four
years. This amount is said to have
surprised Major Stahlman, and he at
once relieved Mr. Brown from further
service, and will, it is said, attempt to
manage his affairs without the aid of
an attorney.
Independent Farming.
The Atlanta Constitution says:
The losses of the Florida orange
growers during the recent cold spell
will cause them to turn their attention
to diversified farming. They should
now be convinced that while a cash
crop is a desirable thing it should not
receive their entire attention to the
exclusion of other crops. Nor is this
proposition confined to tho Florida
formers alone. It iB equally applica
ble to the tillers of the soil here in
Georgia. The necessity of planting
for ourselves rather than for others
has been forced upon our attention in.
more than one rude lesson, and it is
time for us to profit by our expe
rience. In order to hold our own
against occasional periods of hard
times we should first supply
our own wants from our
own farms. A cash crop should be
cultivated, but if everything is subor
dinated to it, our farmers will fre
quently find themseives without cash
and without supplies. The farmer
who would be independent should first
provide for the wants of his family
with diversified food crops. With a
comfortable living assured he may
then devote his spare time to a cash
crop to provide money for his running
expenses, but the living crop should
olways take precedence. This should
be the rule with our Georgia cotton
planters. They should plant first for
themselves and then plant for cash.
When a farmer produces everything
that his family and live stock eat he
is virtually independent of the mar
kets, and it will be no great task for
, him to produce a cash crop that will
supply him with enough money to
satisfy his modest wants.
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The h.jporters and Importers Jour
"IrLVuiwLk., the'beginning will
mark of a ne’wepochfor
the southern states of this republic,
Ever since the civil war of 1861-1865
the south his been in many ways,
handicapped inherindnsttial pursuits.
; But always enterprising aud energetic,
; she has struggled manfully again' 4 , the
stream, gainmg strength, courage and
nchee with each year, until at lasts
point has been reached whereshe^.
P^P*red to show to the world what
she has done and what she can yet do.
. It is interesting to know that the
ton states are a unit in this enterprise,
#nd they promise, in many respects, to
rival the world's fair at Chicago in the
! excellence, scope and character of
their exposition
1 ‘En passant,’it is worth remarking
that the world poaseases no educator
that is worthy of comparison with
these mammoth expositions. Manu
facturing and natural products from
all parts of the globe are grouped nnd
analyzed. Interchange of trade be
tween widely separated countries re
ceives an impetus which nothing else
would give it, and the whole world is
made wiser, better and richer and
bolder by the knowledge that is glean
ed, the methods that are learned, ths
suggestions that are formulated and
the histories that are told by the ex
hibits. The wool growers of Australia
meets tho cotton planter of the south;
the miuer ami farmer from Cape Col
ony rubs shoulders with tho mechanic
and the factory owner of tho new
world; tho merchant from Eng
land, France, Germany, etc.,
hobnobs with the merchants
from other quarters of tho globe, and
each of these sees in tho other not on
ly a purchaser and a consumer, but a
dealer aud a seller. In other words,
no sees a trader—he scents trade, and,
when all is said, trade, not gold, is tho
real basis of values. ’ World’s Fairs
are only exchanges on a largo scale—
rendezvous for the meeting of ex
porter and importer, and in the ex
change the exporter becomes an im
porter and the importer becomes an
xporter. Such expositions nre edu
cators, because they teach a man the
wisdom of being both, aud show him
conclusively where ho can find the
best markets for purchasers as well as
for sales.
HAYWARD SENTENCED TO HANG
The Murderer of Catherine Ging has
Three Months More to Live.
Harry T. Hayward, convicted of the
murder of Catherine Ging, has three
months to live. Sentence was passed
on him by Judge Seagravo Smith at
Minneapolis, Monday after a motion
for an arrest of sentence by Mr. Erwin
had been denied.
Jndge Smith agreed to examino the
grounds urged for a new trial on
March 28tji and then passed sentenco.
He said ho had no doubt whatever that
the verdict was a just and righteous
one, aud while he did not believo in
capital punishment, it was his poinful
duty to pass sentence in accordance
with the law. “The sentence of this
court,” ho continued, “is that you be
taken to the Hennepin oounty jail and
there confined until, after a poriod of
three months, a time bo fixed by the
governor of this state, you be taken
to the place of execution and banged
by tho neck until you arc dead, doad,
dead.” Harry listened calmly and sat
down without the slightest show of
feeling.
LADIES MANGE!) IT.
Issue of The Knoxville Tribune Con
trolled by Women.
Thursday morning’s issue of The
Knoxville Tribune was edited, man
aged aud controlled in toto by the lady
managers of the Tennessee centennial,
resident at Knoxville. The edition
consisted of thirty-six pages; about
20,000 complete papers being the num
ber required to All the orders received
by the ladies. One thousand were
sold to the centennial management at
Nashville.
The first half dozen papers were
auctioned off at fancy figures in the
corridor of the Imperial hotel. This
edition is probably the handsomest
aud most liberally patronized proceeds, paper
yet printed in the city. The
which are quite large, will be devoted
to preparing a worthy exhibit of
Knoxville and East Tennessee at the
state centennial in 1896, but will be
first used at the exposition at Atlanta
this fall.
STATE COMPETITION OPPOSED.
Tennessee Coal Operators Prepare a
Formal Protest.
A convention of the coal mining in
terests of Tennessee was held in Chat
tanoogalost Tuesday and was attended
by representatives from nearly every The
mining company in tho state.
meeting was called to protest against
the state entering the market us uu
extensive miner of coal to the detri
ment of individual enterprise and free
labor. S. B. Luttrell, vice president
of the East Tennessee Coal Company,
was elected chairman aud Colonel T.
H. Heald, of Knoxville, secretary. A
resolution was unanimously carried
that a committee of three appointed
by the chairman, should be sent to
Nashville to intercede with the legis
latnre in the interest of proper protec
tion of those interested in coal mining;
expenses of such committee to be
i prorated among the companies.
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to Get It
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WASHINGTON NOTES
ITEMS OF NEWS PICKED UP AT
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Sayings and Doings of the Official
Heads of the Government.
Marquis Imperial), first secretory of
tho Italian legation, oalled at the state
department Wednesday morning and
directed tho itteution of the officials
to the nows .rom Walsenburg, Col., of
the assassination of four Italians. He
asked that too good offices of tho state
department be used immediately to
prevent to . further killing of his
countrym^^.if
Secretary lerbort lias issued an or
der for tho'‘release from the naval
academy of Japanese cadet named
Takasaki, who desires to engage in
the war with Chinn nnd incidentally
got tho benefit of tho rapid promotion
now taking place in tho Japanose
navy. If Takasaki returns to the
Uuited Staten within a reasonable time
he will probu >ly bo allowed to rosume
bis present stitns at tho aoademy and
continue his studies there.
The Spanish minister at Washing
ton, Senor Maruaga, had rocoived no
reply up to Thursday noon from the
captain general of Cuba rogordiug the
firing upon tho American steamer Al
lianca by a Spanish gunboat on the 8th
instant. Honor Muruaga is satisfied
that tho moment the captain of tho
gunboat makes his report to the cap
tain general it will be in turn for
warded to the minister. When this
report is received it will be at once
laid beforo Secretory Gresham in or
der that be may be made acquainted
with the Spanish side of the case,
which will then bo cnrofully investi
gated.
Notice is givon by J. Pierpont Mor
gan & Co. and August Belmont & Co.,
syndicate managers, that they are now
prepared to exchange their full paid
allotment certificates for tho definitive
United Htates 4 per cent, bonds of
1925, upon presentation of the former
at the office of J. P. Morgan & Co., at
New York. Tho coupon bonds of
$1,000 can be delivered at once if
desired. Holders desiring registered
or coupon V . w* of smaller denomina
tions must deposit their allotment forwarded cer
tificates with the firm to bo
to Washington. They must also fur
nish particulars as to the denomina
tions required, and in the oaso of reg
istered names, in which the sumo are
to be issued. Bonds in coupon or
registered form will bo delivered at
any subtreasury in tho United States
without expense, at the request of the
depositor.
The Income Tax Case.
Tho arguments as to the constitu
tionality of tho income tax are con
tinuing. It will be some time, even
after they cease, beforo a decision is
rendered. If tho court decides
against the tax an extra session will be
inevitable. At the treasury tho clerks
are doing some mighty figuring on the
possibility of it being declared uncon
stitutional. They say that if this tax
cannot be collected, receipts will fall
behind expenditures $20,000,000 and
$30,000,000. Without that tax there
would not be enough revenue to run
the government through the fiscal
year. Nothing could be done in that
event but to call congress together in
extraordinary session, There is a
great dp«l of debate as to what the
decision of tho court will be. The
best opinion is, however, that there
will not be two votes on tho supreme
bench cast against the legality of this
tax.
To Be Open to Settlement.
In the early history of our navy the
policy of setting aside naval reserva
tions in the gulf country—Florida, estab
Alabama arid Mississippi—was
lished. This was done for the pur
pose of reserving for naval purposes
the live oak and other valuable
timber on them, then extensively
used in ship bnildiug. The change
in naval architecture and the prac
tical abandonment of wooden ships
made the longer holding of these res
ervations useless, and Secretary iler
bert recommended that they bo re
stored to the publio domain. Con
gresa approved tho recommendation
an ,] passed the necessary law, and
Secretary Herbert Thursday certified
the lands to Secretary Smith, who will
open them to settlement under the
) an( j laws. The lands in Florida are
not included and will be examined
further before being transferred.
The Coal Costs Too Mach,
After many years of dissatisfaction
°J eT * be P r,c ? tor 5 oal txact *']
he Panama T Railroad , company from
the United States war vessels, the
department has declined to have
^her dealing. “* at f DCern >
and will secure coal supplies from an
°ther«onrce. Heretofore naval ves
Bfe > 8 at wer e ob l « ed U ' « ,:t th « r
c,>a 1 l from the railroad , company at 4 811
i P** ton - T1,<: nav y department pro
tested that this rate was exorbitant,
j and contended that the fact that vessels tho
United States government kept
i at Colon to protect lld.t.onal the company’s
was reason why
the price should be reduced. The
company refused to lower the rate and
Secretary Herbert lias directed that
hereafter United States naval vessels
that would otherwise coal at Colon
shall go to Cartagena for the purpose.
Cartagena is only a day’s run from
Colon, and the department has made
arrangements to obtain coal there at
$5.50 per ton.
Gain of the Gold Itoservo—Receipts
and Expenditures.
The tronsury condition for a third
of Maroh shows that the receipts ag
gregated $0,025,000 and the expendi
tures $11,354,000, or au excess of the
expenditures over the receipts of
$2,029,000. An element of uneor
taiuty not heretofore entering into
treasury calculations has now to be con
sidered. It is the large sums of money
appropriated by oougross in the defi
ciency appropriation and sundry civil
appropriation bills. Many of these
items wore made immediately availa
ble, and the payment Mondny of $015,
000 on the “civil and miscellaneous’’
ucoounts shows that some of them have
begun to reach the cashier’s desk. The
customs receipts show a continued and
sustained improvement, being for the
fiscal year up to date $105,877,000, or
nearly umillion more than for the same
time last year.
Internal revenue receipts aro $5,000,
000 in excess of this time last year, but
improvement in both sources of re
ceipts must bo shown for the last third
of the fisoal year or government reve
nues for the entire HbcbI year will fall
considerably below tho estimates.
Gonsul Williams Not Yet Recalled.
There has been a spaoo of over a
week since the cable roport came from
Madrid that a cabinet council had
agreed to ask the roeull- of United
States Consul Williams at Havana.
Since then there has been no official
demand for his recall. Mr. Williams
has stated in Havana that lio had not
heard of the contemplated recall, and
yet tho Spanish officials at Madrid
have not denied tho original roport
that a demand for his recall had been
agreed upon. Under theso circum
stances officials intimato that tho re
turn of President Cleveland from his
hunting trip and tho recovery of Sec
retary Gresham from his attack of
grip will lead to o clearing up of tho
situation, os the absence of the two
ohiefs most concerned with diplomatic
affairs is regarded os explanatory of
the innotion oovoring sovon days since
the report first came from Madrid.
Spanish officials at Washington will
say nothing on tho subject either con
firming or denying tho report, but it
is believed they would take occasion to
dismiss the report if it was entirely
groundless.
Sibley and tl»o Platform Kndorsod.
Senator Stewart, at Washington, bus
received the following telegram from
Governor J. E. Joues, regarding the
action of the Nevada legislature:
“Resolutions endorsing Sibley and the
platform passed and approved this
day.”
NOT EVEN ON OATH.
I’rof. Smith Hays He Would Not Re
lieve Secretary Morton’s Assistant.
It has just become known that the
educational committee of the Tennes
see legislature, in sossion at Chatta
nooga, was treated to a tremendous
sensation during a star chamber ses
sion in whioh the state university at
Knoxville was under invo«tigalion.
The state superintendent of education,
Frank Smith, appeared before them
aud declared that ho would not believe
President Dabney, who is also assist
ant to the secretary of agriculture,
Morton, on oath. local
The professor testified that
trustees called'a meeting of tho board
without giving previous notice to the
trustees at large, arid then voted tho
president a leave of absence to accept
a high government position, etill con
tinuing his salary as president. Presi
dent Smith further charged that he
was present at a later meeting of tho
trustees with enough proxies to defeat
the board’s former action, > but that
tho right to vote these proxies was do
nied him in conflict with the institu
t - , j
Jzzssxs ssisss
especially on the recent introduction
of co-education. The fact that IW>
dent Dabney once disapproved of
Smith’s appointment to a chair in the
school given his charges a selfish col
oring. Neverthelass they havo pro
dueed a decided sensation. Hnporin
tendent Smith insists that Dabney be
made to r. sign as president of the uni
versity.
A. P. A. CONVENTION.
Delegate* to the Number of One Hun
dr**4 and Fifty Meet at Haglnavr.
The American Protective Association
ntate convention met at Saginaw, Mich.,
Tuesday morning, over 150 delegates
being present. Professor Waitwr Hires,
who last week stated that the organi
gation had gone to pieces, was not vis
ible and the delegates dubbed bim a
“mugwump.”
President Beatty said that bve had no
doubt that the first steps would be
S£. Protective Association strengtb would
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THE STRIKERS CONFIDENT.
They Consider Their Fight for Union
burg, «. Fa., — district is but one week n old
and there aro nearly two-thirds of tho
miners of the district at work at union
rates—69 cents per ton. I be s n ers
consider the fight practically vron, jn
they may yet hump up against some
adverse circumstances in the person oi
obstinate railroad operators,
The river operators have conceded
thB demands of the miners ami there
h ah been a general resumption of work
at all the river mines. All the river
craftfl are being loaded, and aw long ae
^||j| rnnh continue# .there will be work
no t only for the full number of river
ininerH, but alno for a large number of
extra men from the railroad mines.
On the other hand, the railroad op
erators refuse to pay more tbaji 55
cents per ton, and the majority of
their mines are idle. 1 hey claim that
' they are compelled to refuse orders
because they cannot fill them at prices
] quoted by competitors._
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