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VOL. 6.—NO. 30.
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
INTERESTING EVENTS AT HOME
AND ABROAD
Terrible Mutinies at Sea—Thrilling Expe
rience on the Barkentine Natal—The
Ameiican Bark Willington Aho
the Scene of a Bloody Encounter
—The Washington Star Office
Burned—Alleged Dynamite
Plot in Washington—
The Markets and
Other Matters.
New York, Jan. 29.—Capl. Endstrum,
of the Swedish brigantine Natal, which ai
rived here Saturday had a thrilling expe
rience with mutineers while on the voyage
from Boston to Bristane, Australia, in
volving the death of three persons, the ter
lible wounding of the Captain and lhe in
jury of others on board. The mutineers
first; bi air.ed the Second Mate and threw
him overboard. He was a son of Captain
Endstrum. They then attacked and twice
shot the First Mate Sylvanies, who
was in charge of the deck. At the same
time the ship’s carpenter went
below and attacked the sleeping Captain
with an adze. The blow, however, was
badly aimed, and only shattered the j iw
bone. The captain awoke and a struggle
ensued, in which he was badly cut in the
neck with a sheath knite. The first mate
then came to his aid and the carpenter fled
The mate and captain went on deck and
found the steward and two seamen, Taton
and Eefus, armed with axes and capstan
bars The Captain drew his pistol and the
mutineers ran forward and jumped down the
hatch. The scuttle was put on and battered
down, making them prisoners. The officers
then compelled the remaining seaman, John
son, to throw down his weapon and take the
wheel. After four days the hatch was
opened and the men ordered to come up
and surrender. They had a pistol
and began shooting. The fire
was returned, and lhe steward and carpen
ter were killed. Befus and laton then
surrendered. The first mate was stabbed
and shot again in this fight. The two sea
men were allowed the liberty of the ship,
there being no irons. On reaching Bris
bane thev were put under arrest, but were
released by the local authorities for lack of
evidence against them. The captain shipped
a new crew at Brisbane and sailed for New
York.
Plymouth, Jan. 29.—The American bark
Willington was towed into this port this
morning. The mate, who was badly wounded,
reported that a serious mutiny had occurred
on board in which the captain was killed.
DYNAMITE AT WASHINGTON.
An Alleged Plot to Blow Up the Capitol.
Cincinnati, Jan. 29 —The Washing
ton correspondent of the Times Star
writes that it is reported there, on ex
cellent authority, that a plot to blow
up the Capitol Building has been dis
covered, and is now being investigated.
The matter is only known to a few gov
ernment officials, and is being secretly in
vestigated.
The story is in brief that a woman em
ployed as translator in the State Depart
ment made this discovery some days before
the London explosion and communicated it
to a Democratic member of Congress. He
talked with a few friends about it, laying the
facts as she had them before them, and they
decided to put the matter in the hands of
the State Department for investigation,
which was done. The Department is now
at work upon the matter. What the details
are cannot now be made known.
DISASTROUS FIRE.
The Washington Evening Star Building
Burned.
Washington, Jan. 29.—Between four and
five o'clock this morning a fire broke out in
the Evening Star building, corner of Elev
enth street and Pennsylvania avenue. The
flames spread rapidly and the damage done
will amount to about SIO,OOO, exclusive of
two presses, one Scott press valued at $lO,
000, which is a perfect. wrec<r, the other a
Hoe perfecting jires-., the damage to which
is as yet unknown.
The origin of the fire is still in doubt. It
is supposed to have slanted either in the
press room or s ereotvping roo ii. There is,
however, a strong suspicion that it was the
work of an incendiarv. The press and ste
reotyping rooms, which were in the rear of
the building, are completey wrecked.
Everything i- fully insured. Temporary
quarters have tieen secured, and the paper
will appear as usual.
MURDERED HER FATHER,
An East Tennessee Maiden Slays Her
Sire.
Knoxville, Tenn., Jan. 28. —Bepo t
comes from Sevierville, the county seat of
Sevier County, that on Sunday even
ing last Willis Graham, a well-to-do farmer,
was shot and instantly killed by his daugh
ter Pollie, aged sixteen, whom he had for
bidden to receive the attention of a young
man named Elam Campbell. The father
had been away from home, but came in un
expectedly and found Campbell and his
daughter eating supper together. Graham
forcibly ejected the young man when his
daughter seized a rifle and shot him. She
and Campbell disappeared and have not
since been seen;
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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1885.
A MINE FIRED.
Burning with Terrible Fierceness—An In
cendiary's Work.
New Straitsville, Ohio, Jan. 29.—The
town was thrown into great excitement this
miming by the alarm of fire. It was scon
dtscoveret! that Plummer Hall Mine had
been fired. It is now burning with
terrible fierceness, and the entire
mine will be destroyed. It is
sa <1 to be valued at $20,000. The gas fioin
the fire is so terrible that it is uncomforta
ble to be on the streets. It is not known
who the perpetrators of the outrage are but
’ it is charged to miners.
New York Stock Market.
• New York, Jan. 28. —At 1:30 p. m. to-
■ day quotations were :
Union Pacific 4s ; h '
Missouri Paeltic 9-l’„ ;
Western Union Telegraph Co 57 ■„
Pacific Mail 51)]
’ Lake Shore til
- Louisville and Nashville 23X
Texas Pacific l-.'a
i Denver and Rio Grande 8...
Michigan Central 55
Delaware, Lackawanna <S West'll SSI'
. Northwestern 8I)L
St. Paul 72L
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy 118
Oregon Transcontinental 11-X
Northern Pacific 37)7
Kock Island 107
Jersey Central 33
Memphlsand Charleston 2s 1 2
East Tennessee, Va. & Ga (com) 3
East Tennessee, Va. & Ga. (pfd) SL,
Philadelphia and Reading 15?:,
Omaha (com) 25
Omaha (pfd) 85li
New York Central 86) 4
Kansas and Texas 15%
Erie lays
New York Produce Market.
New York, Jan. 29—Flour dull and
1 without material change. Wheat No. 2 red
winter 89 j for February. Corn No 2 mixed
. 51 for January. Oats No. 2 mixed 37 bid
. for February. Pork dull, mess sl3 25. Mo
, lasses nominal. Turpentine steady, 31.
, Bosin dull, strained to good $1 25al 30.
Sugar dull, refiued cut laaf Coffee
, steady, fair cargoes, 9}.
Chicago 'Change.
Chicago, Jan. 29.—Wheat opened slight
ly lower; February, 77Jc; March, 77 |c;
April, 78|c. Corn easier at 37j-c February;
37Jc March. Oats steady at 30j@31c May.
Lard steady at $6 90 March. Pork lower at
sl2 25 March. Bulk meats nominal.
Guilty of Murder.
Philadelphia, Jan. 29.—The jury in
, the case of James Kane, who has been on
, trial for several days for shooting and kill
' ing his brother, Andrew, in a saloon, at
■ No. 810 South street, returned a verdict
t his morning of guilty of murder in the
first degree.
A Fearful Blizzard.
St. John, N. F., Jan. 29.—There was a
fearful northwest blizzird hereTuesday. The
. ! whole cod-fishing fleet was at anchor on the
ground, and it is feared that twenty-three
boats are lost. From fifty to sixty fishermen
are unaccounted for.
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Probabilities.
Washington, Jan. 29 —For the South
Atlantic States fair weather in the northern
portion, partly cloudy weather and local
rains in Southern portion, variable winds,
generally northerly, and warmer weather.
Rumored Insanity of a California Million
, airs.
, San Francisco, Cal., Jxn. 29.—For
■ some days past rumors have been current
f here that the mind of Leland Sanford has
> become insane since lhe death of his son.
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Captain Couch Surrenders.
Caldwell, Kan, Jan. 29 —The latest
advices from the seat of operations in
Oklahama, confirm the surrender of Capt.
, Couch ana his party at Stillwater camp.
Telegraphing from a Moving Train.
New York, Jan. 29—A thoroughly suc
cessful experiment in telegraphing from a
1 moving train was made yesterday on the
- Harlem Bailroad.
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Horses Roasted Alive.
Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 29.—1 n - fire
1 j this morning in Smith’s stables for v five
horses were roasted alive.
A Celebrated Case.
Henry Fisher, an attorney, of Chicago, is
the plaintiff in a celebrated case involving
a fortune of $200,000, which has just been
[ ended in the courts at Point Pleasant, W.
Va., favorably for the plaintiff Henry G.
I Fisher, Sr., was one of the no’ed men of that
section —a shrewd financier and successful in
’ bu-iness. Henry J. Frh< r, the plaintiff in
I the case, it is said, unfortunately displeased
, bis father, and added to his displeasure by
; entering the Confederate army. He was
I promoted for bravery and won fame on the
’ field of battle. Fisher, Sr., just before
death, executed a will, cutting off his
son without a dollar. The testator had en
deavored to entail the estate in an accumu
lating trust before the investing of the trust
to a period beyond the legal limit. Fisher,
f Jr., brought suit to declare the will void as
to the disposition made of the property.
The legal lalent engaged in the suit em
. braced the best talent of the State, and the
case was conducted with remarkable skill
on both sides. Mr. Fisher will at once enter
upon his inheritance.
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Dentistry.
J. D. Lanier, 136 Broughton street, is de
voting special attention to Gold Work,
FIRE IN THE CAPITOL.
THE RECENT BLAZE IN THE HOUSE '
WING.
I
i An Excitement Equal to a Dynamite I
Explosion Everybody Thoroughly
Alarmed—A Mere Chance that the
Entire Building Was Not De
stroyed— Had it Been Night
a Terrible Catastrophe
Would Have R suit. <l.
Washington Special.
| If the House wing of the Capitol had J
been blown up by the dynamiters there
i could scarcely have been greater excitement
in that vicinity than there was this morn- ■
Ing just before the House was convened- ’
Those who were in lhe cnamber were Slid
denly startled by falling sparks. They came i
through the round, iron-ribbed ventilators I
and fell upon the seats. At the same mo
ment a cry of “Fire” was raised without.
A man who had been making the wearisome
trip around the circular stairway leading to
the top of the dome was seen wildly waving ,
his hands about and shouting to those below. .
The first impression of those who saw him '.
was that he was a raving maniac about to i i
cast himself overboard on the metal roof ,
beneath him, but the little cloud of smoke ,
which seemed to rise through the roof at the ,
foot of lhe flagstaff soon diverted attention .
from the informer to the real danger. .
“The Capitol is on fire,” was the shout. ,
It was taken up along the line of Congress- ,
men, journalists, clerks and visitors who
were just sauntering capitolward. Those
within were frightened half to death, and
thost without, seeing this panic, were equal- .
ly scared, thinking the whole interior in
flames. “ The library I ’ “The library !”
came from many lips. It was well known
that the great library was stored and jammed
wilh books anl pamphle s stacked in gre t 1
heaps and corded up in cords in accessible ! t
: places and presented an inflammable field ,
; for the fire fiend. People naturally thought I (
of that first. It was soon spread abroad, |
however, that the fie was in the file rooms, i (
j up under the roof, and that caused no abate- ;
I meet of the panic.
| There was found to be only a little iron I;
■ stairway, up or down which but one man !'
i could go at a time, and this was the onlv di- |
rect'means of getting up under the roof in
that vicinity. Dp this ladder went the !
most active policemen and clerks. Fortu
nately the fire had gaimd but little head
way The wooden platform at the foot of
the flagstaff was ablaze and in another min
ute the American flag which floats over the
people’s representatives would have been
wrapped in flames. The wooden portion of
; the roof within had burned away and the
metal roof was hot. The low ruom, in which
the fire occurred, is stored with the musty
records of the earlier Congresses, beginning
with the date of the last and great Capitol
fire when the British destroyed the libiary
’ and every public and private documem : ,
- they could find there. The air in this room
- was close and suffocating, while through the ',
hole in the roof a stiff wind sucked the fire I (
like a blast. The heat was intense.
The narrow stairway prevented any ini- i,
mediate checking of the flames, except ly '
removing the most inflammable substances, ! '
! loose papers, books, etc, from reach. These j;
were quickly hustled out by the excited ; ,
1 | clerks and policemen. In the course of two ,
, . or three minutes water was brought up in
buckets and the flames were extinguished j
It was, to own the truth, the merest chance
■ j that the whole House wing, if not the Cap- j
j itol, Congressional Library, and everything
r ' else, were not destroyed. A few minutes ;
t I more of a start or the breaking out of the ' !
same tire in this almost inaccessible place at j
s ' night, with the wind blowing as it did to- i'
; day, would leave nothing but the cracked .
walls of the grand marble structure to tell ~
the story. ' (
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, WISIEEN PRODUCE.
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■ i
' The Feeling on 'Change—Bulls and Bears I
About Evenly Divided—A Vari-ty
of Opinions.
Special Correspondence Daily Times.
1 | Chicago, Jan. 27. — While the volume of j 1
business transacted on ’Change is still very ! (
1 fair, yet there is nothing like the life and ; ,
activity of ten days ago. The buying furore |
appears for the time to have spent itself,
and speculators generally seem to be wait- 1
ing for some new incentive before taking 1
hold with vigor again. Local dealers are 1
still mostly inclined to the bear side on-
’> everything, many leading bulls being now;'
> ' “short” on the market, expecting to be able . '
I to buy back cheaper. Present holders, haw ’
■ ever, instead of getting discouraged and .'
■ letting go, buy more on every decline. Pe- ‘
I I ter McGerch and Wm Young are especially I s
1 prominent in this and must be already j
i heavily “long ” Hence the most persistent ; '
1 efforts to break the market are without ’
much effect, and many predict that should ’ 1
1 “shorts” commence to cover, there will be ; 1
1 another period of animation and higher ■ 1
! prices.
1 Wheat is still the centre of attraction and ■ ;
is very nervous. The movement at interior ;
points shows a decided decrease, Chicago, : 1
Minneapolis and St. Louis being the prin- ; '
cipal losers. There have also been a num- |
ber of rumors set afloat about damage to the I
winter crop, but most traders consider them
simply idle gossip. The plant has not yet
by any means passed the critical period, ; '
j but with the ground covered with snow, ‘
■ he must have wonderful power of vision who [
can see any increased danger now. The 1
; Secretary of the Minneapolis Exchange, I
| however, estimates that out of a crop of 1 1
I 63,000,0C0 bushels raised in Dakota and I
! Minnesota there have been fully' 50,000,000 ! !
■ bushels already marketed, although they ; 1
; have yet eight months until another bar- ' 1
i vest. This was the cause of the recent 1 1
advance made by millers there. Beports
from Kansas, too, say that wheat which
would not sell for over 35 cents a month ago,
and even to-day is not worth over 50 cents
to ship to this market, sells readily to their ;
home millers at 65 cents, all of which goes ■
to show that the grain in former hands is
giving out, and that a considerable portion
of the immense visible supply has in former
years constituted the invisible supply.
"Prices for the near future,” said Bodman,
. “depend upon how large lines the home
crowd already have out. 1 don’t think they
j will care to fight a bulge if they have to sell
' much at thise figures Should they attempt
‘ to draw out their winnings even now the
‘longs’ would make them pay high for the
I wheat.”
Lindblom, on the other hand, says: “It is
true wheat is low and the statistical situation
; bullish, but if foreigners continue to pursue
a hand to mouth policy our stocks may be
so large next May that they will overshadow
every other consideration and make specu
lators hesitate before they pay 30 per cent,
for tbe privilege of being bulls. Os course
this contingency is remote, and if stocks de
crease during the next ten weeks prices
should ailvince, but if they remain station
: ary, as seems probable now, a state of affairs
may come to pass that will make the value
of wheat very problematical.”
; Corn remains steady, and many traders
i consider it the strongest article on the list.
Beceipts are even below the recent average,
which was by no means burdensome. The
cash demand, too, continues liberal, so that
No. 3 and even No. 4 on track are bringing
within a trifle of regular No. 2 for May de
livery. Hence there is no inducement for
cribbing, and some dealers who usually
handle two to three million bushels per
year, say they have not cribbed a bushel.
Provisions rule firm, and seem inclined to
advance on light receipts of hogs and limited
offerings of product were it not that packers
at present oppose any such movement. The
cash inquiry continues good, both the home
and foreign trade buying freely, and while
shipments are not quite up to the recent
average they are almost double what they
were at this time last year.
A WOMAN TURNED TO BONE.
The Strange Disease Which Affected Miss
Stout, of Hynesdale, lud.
A special dispatch from Indianapolis,
Ind., says: At Martinsville, a village
thirty miles from here, there died, on Wed
nesday night, a young woman whose case is
of a unique and mysterious nature. The
lady, Miss Hannah Stout, was the daughter
of John Stout, a well-to-do farmer of
Hynsdale, in Morgan county. About twenty
t years ago, when she was three years of age,
' she was affected by a rigidity of the mus
( cles of the arm which was amenable to no
treatment. Instead of b ing relieved in
' the least, its severity increased and spread
' to other parts of tbe body, and was accom
pan'ed or followed by a stiffening of the
I j >ints and final r ssification of nearly all the
l j >ints in the body. But this ossification, or
unnatural deposit of calcareous or chalky
wafer, did not end with tbe s lidifying of
the joints.
Her affliction, though it steadily grew
w rse, did not confine her to her bed until
her fifteenth year, when sire became incapa
ble of any motion wiiate rer, and so she re
mained lor I lie last e ght years of her life.
About the same time the muscular tissue of
i h-r wl ole body began to be replaced by a
deposit resembling bone in its hardness and
weight The bones of the spinal column
were united firmly and inseparably into one,
the ribs were united by their connecting
tissues being turned to bone so that her
chest was a dense immovable box of bone.
All her breathing was done by the dia„
phragm and muscles of the abdomen. The
limbs, though small, were compact, as
though muscles, bines and sinews were all
united in one large bone. At the time of
her death there was little muscu’ar tissue
left in the body, and it is a great wonder she
lived so long.
Her mind was not apparently affected
her memory being astonishingly ready and
retentive. On one o n casion she recognized
a physician whom she had not seen for ten
years. Although calcareous degeneration is
frequent in some parts of the body, such as
the cartilage of the joints, which have be
come immovable for some time, the valves
of the heart and sometimes even in the
arteries, yet it is believed that there is no
case on record of so great an extent of bony
deposits as was manifested in this unfortu
nate girl. The body weighed nearly 300
pounds.
A Row in a Ball Room.
The Washington papers give particulars
of an unpleasantness which occurred
last Thursday evening at the house of Mrs.
ex>Senator Stewart, of Nevada, where a re
ception was being field. According to the
Post, Mr. Paul Holman, son of Congressman
Holman, of Indiana, had an engagement to
dance with a young lady, which the latter
declined to fulfill when she discovered
that the young man was under lhe
influence of liquor. At the young lady’s re
quest Senor Carlos de Castro, an attache of
the Venezuelan legation, agreed to act as
her protector, and he so informed Holman ]
when the latter insisted on the young lady
dancing with him, whereupon Holman re
sented the interference by striking De
Castro in the face with an opera hat,
which he followed up with blows with
his fist in the face of the foreigner. An
exciting scene followed, tbe shrieks of
the ladies being mingled with the shouts of
the principals and their friends. Holman
was finally gotten out of the house by his
friends and matters quieted down. On
Friday friends of De Castro waited on Hol
man, and the result was an apology, which
was satisfactory to the insulted party.
Revolvers in Paris.
The practice of carrying a revolver is now
very common in Paris. A gentleman be
longing to one of the most fashionable clubs
of that city said the other day. “I left the
club about 1 o’clock. There was no porter
in the hall and I did not know where my
greatcoat was, but I thought I should recog
niza it because I had left a revolver in one
pocket. Well, I touched twenty greatcoats,
and in all I felt revolvers, and I was still
searching when the porter entered and gave
me mine, which he had forgotten to hang
up.”
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SOUTHERN TELEGRAPH
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, FLANKING LIL’TLE BILLY MAHONE
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Receivers for the Southern Telegraph
C mpany Appointed in Each State in
i Opposition to the Little Virginia
Autocrat—The Company in
i Strong Hands and Full
of Life.
Augusta News.
An important legal and commercial mat
ter was consummated last evening in Au
gusta, in the appointment by Judge Henry
C. Boney of Chas. Z. McCord, Esq., as
receiver of lhe Southern Telegraph Com
pany for tlie State of Georgia. The appoint
ment was made by the Superior Court on
tbe motion of Hon. Bradley T. Johnson, of!
Baltimore, at the instance of the Merchants !
and Bankers Telegraph Company, of which
he is attorney.
This action is a movement in opposition
to the recent appointment of Senator Wm.
Mahone, of Virginia, as receiver of die
Southern, and grew out of the fact that lhe
Merchants and Bankers Company whose
interest in the Southern was imperilled i
by tlie Virginia proceedings, ascertaimd
that the legal effect of Mahone’s appoint
ment only gave him control of the compa
ny’s lines in the Eastern Virginia judicial
circuit. They thereupon instituted pro
ceedings at their headquarters in New
York and arranged for the appoinlment of
receivers in the interest of tlie Merchants
and Bankers for all the Southern States,
where the company had lines. The Mer
chants and Bankers company has had charge
of the Southern Telegraph Company
for some time, and tbe two have been
operated as one system until Senator Mahone
took charge as receiver. Now the control
will revert back to the Merchantsand Bank
ers, unless further legal proceedings can
stay the action of the State courts. It is
rumored that Judge Lochrane was preparing
such action ior the Federal Court in Atlanta,
last evening, when the object of Attorney
Johnson’s Southern visit was made known.
All the local offices of the Southern Tele
graph Company were notified last night of
| the appointment of Beceiver McCord for the
! State of Georgia, along with Messrs. E. B.
Newcomb and J. S. Smith for the Slates of
1 New York and Virginia.
Hon. Bradley T. Johnson, who is a dis
tinguished and eminent Southern man and
lawyer, is still in Augusta arranging the de
‘ tails of the receivership with Mr. McCord,
: and he goes from here to Alabama, where a
receiver for that State will be appointed.
His selection, of a well informed attorney
f and well equipped business man in the per
son ot Charles Z McCord, Esq., is highly
commended, and the efforts of the
I ; company to flank Senator Mahone
i will doubtless be appreciated and
j sustained. Especially is this fortunate ;for
ihe company, when it is known that tlie
Merchant’s and Bankers Company, of New
York is preparing to dispose of all the
j financial troubles of the Southern, and give
it a stronger and more business-like footing.
, I The service of the lines which is already
: I efficient and satisfactory, will be increased
■ and bettered, and with past embarrassments
! out of the way, the new system of telegraph
I lines promises much for the business men cf
l ithe South.
Tbe appointment of Beceiver McCord
will increase the popularity of the company
-in Augusta, and the managers in other
I cities in Georgia are reporting for duty
under the new receiver. He has continued
i all present officers, and to-day appointed
I Mr. J- H. Allen, the efficient and business
like manager of the Augusta office, as super-
I I intendent of all offices : n Georgia, and has
i ! instructed local managers to report to him
> at Augusta.
> Our Augusta contemporary is in error in
■ one particular. Mahone was not appointed
i Beceiver in Virginia. He, with other bond
-3 holders, brought suit against the company
> and asked for the appointment of a Beceiver.
' I But the various parties to the suit in Vir-
■ ■ ginia not being able to agree upon a Be-
) ! ceiver. the United States Court for the ,
j Eastern District of Virginia appointed a
person of its own selection, Mr. A. S. Boul
j ware, of Baltimore.
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INTER-STATE COMMERCE.
. I Ruinous Effects Predicted if the Reagan
Bill Shall Become a Law.
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Washington Special.
The Western Senators are beginning to
I realize the ruinous effect the mter-State
! commerce bill will have upon their inter
ests should it ever become a law. President
I Boberts, of tbe Pennsylvania Bailroad, in
| formed a Eepresentative that if this bill
should be placed on the statute books his
first step would be to submit to General
! Solicitor Scott one question, viz, whether to
abandon the through or local freight. He
said that the policy of tlie company would
J be topreserve its local freight, as there was
! more profit in short hauls; that if the rates
i from Pittsburg to New York were the same
as from Minneapolis to New York the pref
i erence would be in favor of the former, of
course.
He declared that under this law the great
cereal-producing regions of lowa, Minneso
ta, Dakota and the West and Northwest
generally instead of shipping their wheat to
the markets and receiving cash and com
modities in return would be burning it for
■ fuel and with no facilities for transportation
1 would soon be impoverished.
Eepresentative Washburn, one of the
' large flour manufacturers of Mineapolis, says
that the effect of this bill would be to break
up the intimate trade and traffic relations
’ between the interior and the seaboard; that
i if a barrel of flour can now be shipped for
1 thirty cents from Minnesota to New York
' and the same is the price from Buffalo or
I Pittsburg the Western producer will be un
able to ship his products at all.
The general sentiment among those who
understand the question is that this bill will
deal a serious blow to Northern capital in
the Southern Statts, as enterprise without
) markets presents no encouragement to in
vestment. A statement has been prepared
showing that American freights are far be
; low those of European roads,
S6OO A YE kR
THE ATLANTA HOME.
The StockholderH Have Their Second An
nual Meeting—A Good Showing.
, Yesterday the second annual meeting of
the stockholders of the Atlanta Home In
•urance Company, was held in the rooms of
the company, on Broad street. The con
dition of afliirs was shown to be highly
gratifying, and the management of the com
pany’s interests has been so excellent that
the old officer- were promptly re-elected as
' i follows:
i Officers —Bobert J. Lowry, President:
Joel Hurt, Secretary; John T. Hall, Book
keeper.
i Directors.—S. M Inman, B. H. Eich
-1 ards, B. J. Lowry, George Winship, T. G.
Healey, Henry Jackson, T. L. Langston, J.
H. Porter, Joel Hurt.
The report of Mr. Joel Hurt, the Secre
tary, showed some highly interesting facts.
The losses paid for the year were jonly $7,-
! 045 68. Tlie following summary of receipts
and disbursements was shown:
RECEIPTS.
Cash received by premiums 832,833 65
Notes received for premiums 2,825 24
Income from other sources 4,154 32
Interests on investments 9,225 31
Total receipts 849,038 52
DISBURSEMENTT.
Losses paid 8 7,045 68
Losses unpaid 750 00
Paid for reinsurance 2,557 03
Commissions to agents 5,399 5&
Salaries 5,282 20
General expenses 3,414 09-
Taxes 1,144 41
Increased assets 23,444 68
Total disbursements 849,038 62
The assets of the company are in cash
and safe securities, and everything is in an
exceedingly healthy condition. The com
pany has accomplished the remarkable feat
of paying ten per cent dividend to its stock
holders and also returning to its annual
policyholders ten per cent, of the premiums
paid in. This was done in the face of the
! protests of the local underwriters who have
I insisted that the Home had no right to make
. this return to its policy holders,as its practi-
I cal operation is a reduction of the rate of
insuranct. This is quite a victory for tbe
Home, especially in view of the youth of
| the company. The Home has been con
ducted on the idea of giving a reduced rate
I of insurance, and the payment of the ten per
! cent, to its policyholders is but the carry
ing out of its intention as originally ex
pressed Mr. Hurt, in his report, says :
Since it is the object of the company to
allow policyholders to share in the profits, a
I dividend of 10 per cent, has been declared on
all annual policies in force December 31,
1884, payab.e in cash twelve months after
date, or to be credited soonerupon premiums
due tbe company.
It is apparent from the gratifying loss
; ratio that the company is being patronized,
by the most trustworthy citizens ol the State.
, It has established a deserved reputation for
conservatism, promptness and fair dealing,
and we most confidently expect a handsome
increase of business for the current year, and
I to this end an active support from each anti
every stockholder is earnestly invoked.
This showing on the part of the Homs is
wonderful. It is the determined policy ol
the company to be extremely careful in the
matter of risks, insuring only men of char
acter and standing. A large amount of busi
ness has been and doubtless will be rejected
! on account of this line, but it will add to
the interests of the stockholders as well as
to the interests of those who are fortunate
enough to be the patrons of this sterling
Atlanta enterprise. The H'-me has the
' highest per cent, of assets to risks cf any
cjmpany doing bminees in Georgia.
Atlanta people will be specially interest
ed in the following resolution passed by the
stockholders yesterday:
1 ; Besolved, That it is tlie sense of the
stockholders of this company that the fifteen
per cent, slips attached to polices in Atlan
ta for deficiency in the fire department
should be discontinued, and that the board
j of directors of this company are requested
j to discontinue said slips in Atlanta home
! policies, but this resolution is not intended
to bias the members of the board in the ex
ercise of discretionary powers.—Atlanta
i Constitution, 28th.
A Premonition.
Leisure Hour.
Mr. Notcutt was a highly respectable In
dependent minister in Ipswich, the ancestor
;of a succession of minis’ers of the same
name, in the same town and church. Before
he was married, the lady to whom he was
engaged dreamed that she was, while going
; over a house which was unknown to ber—
■ and in a little room, a sort of linen-closet
which she had never seen—seized with a
violent bleeding from the nose, and all at-
j tempts to stop it were quite unavailing.
Shortly before her marriage, the happy
young girl was going over her future home
with Mr. Notcutt; she began to recognize the
house, and at last, coming upon a closet
i such as we have described, she exclaimed :
"Why, this is the very closet where I was
in my dream when my nose began to bleed!”
They were married; yesrs passed along;
she became a mother and a grandmother,
j Exactly 40 years passed away,but the dream
was not forgotten. One day while in the
■ very closet superintending the putting away
!of some linen, her nose began to bleed,
and continued to do so, without intermission,
■ All efforts were, as in the dream quite un
availing, and the old lady succumbed to the
' j hemorrhage, and so death visited the
’. manse.
’ j General Sherman’s Kissing Mistake.
1 It is a well known fact that General
Sherman’s eyesight is failing and that he is
; very fond of kissing pretty girls. He acci
’ dently wandered into a dressmaking estab
: lishment in St. Louis recently, and spying
’ a “dummy” mistook it for a pretty girl, and
in attempting to dummy, upset it.
’' sprawling on the floor. Bowing politely, and
; in some confusion he said :
“Beg pardon, miss. It was an accident, I
asiure you.”
Observing that the “young lady” made no
effort to risr, he remarked :
“Are you seriously hurt, miss? Ah, I see
you have but one leg ! Why in the dickens
don’t you apply for a pension? I’ll wri.e for
I it immediately!”
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