Fonsion Agent W. C. Boiiton, of
has been fined $300 for charging
exhorbitant fees.
Delegates Jwill meet in Lexington
to-day to consider ajlaw for the betterment
of theroad system.
The Indiana supreme court has decided
that the apportionment acts of
1S79 and 1S01 are unconstitutional.
The GeorgiajSenate has killed the
bill acceptinglthe GeorgiaJHonie for Confederate
Veteransjas it gift to the State.
Sixty thousand of the new Columbian
sonvenir half dollars were shipped
from tho l'liiladelphia mint to New York
City.
According to Dun s review the t
merco movement atjthe end of the present
year, will,; be tho heaviest ever
known.
Thooth Congressional district, which
was one of tho doubtful districts of Mich
igan, has elected by a majority
of 1'2 votes.
Jesse II. Reed, (colored, who attempted
to shootfa brakeman for ejecting
him from a .traiu, waa hung by a
mob nt Milan, Tenn.
Congressman De'Armond, of Mis
souri, has introduced a bill providing for
mo election otune ipresuient ana vice-president
by a direct vote- of the people.
It is said that the Illinois Central
snq purchased the Littlo Rock & Memphis
railroad and will extend it via Hot
Springs an 1 Faris, Texas, to Fort Worth,
Texas.
It has juit been officially announced
that New York gave Cleveland a plurality
of 45,44'J. It will bo some time yet
before all the Suites are heard from.
A banquet will be given to
Stevenson at Anniston,
Ala., this evening.hThe following even
ing lie will be entertained nt Atlanta.
Near Klizavillo Joseph Washburne
was found dead with his throat cut. A
nephew named Rowland confessed to
having killed him during a quarrel over
a debt of 50 cents.
