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.‘jiwocih 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; “ROUGH ON TOOTHACHE.” Instant relief for Neuralgia, Toothache Faceache. Ask for “Bough on 15 and 25c. Ladies’ fine shoes in endless variety at Myerson’s, 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. * 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. r * + 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. » 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. “ROUGH ON RATS.” Clears out rats, mice, roaches, flies, ant oed-bugs, skunks, chipmunks, gophers. 15 Druggists. Hartford, Conn., Nov. 21, 1882. “I cheerfully recommend Hunt’s [Kidney and LiverJ Remedy. Have suffered from severe kidney troubles and intense pain. I am entirely relieved by Hunt's [Kidney and Liver] Remedy.”—Albert W. Handy, Superin tendent Pratt & Whitney Company. 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. ' ( t ♦ , WISIEEN PRODUCE. 1 I ■ 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.” ROUGH ON PAIN. Cures colic, cramps, diarrhma ; externally for aches, pains, sprains, headache, neural gia, rheumatism. For man or beast. 20 4nd 50c. Myerson sells Opera Slippers as low as 15c SOUTHERN TELEGRAPH » I , FLANKING LIL’TLE BILLY MAHONE I 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. 3 INTER-STATE COMMERCE. . I Ruinous Effects Predicted if the Reagan Bill Shall Become a Law. i —— 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? 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