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THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION. XXII. ATLANTA, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 14, 1891. -TEN PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS GEORGIA'S CONGRESSIONAL REAPPORTIONMENT PLAN.

THE NEW By the Joint Subcommittee We present below a map of the new congressional reapportionment of the state of Georgia as agreed upon by the sub-joint committee from the senate and the house. This committee- was appointed by the general committee from both houses and has been at work on the matter for several weeks. Its report was substantially agreed upon Thursday afternoon, but a formal vote was not taken until yesterday afternoon. The joint committee from both houses will meet Monday afternoon to receive the report of the suboommittee. It is almost certain that the subcommittee's report will be adopted by the general committee, as the MURRA DON CALHOUN FORT.

DISTRICTS THAT UPON of the General Georgia--the members of the latter have kept in close touch with the members of the joint committee and have conferred very freely with them as the matter progressed, and likewise with the members of the house. As will be seen, there has been no change whatever in the seventh or ninth district. The fourth district remains as it is nOW, with the exception of losing Taylor county. The fifth district loses Fayette, Spalding and Henry counties, taking in no new ones. The changes in the other districts will appear below, and are more marked in the central and southern part of the state than in the northern, on account FANNIN HI A MAINTE MORGANTON RABUM HAP DAMIONEGA WHITE PIC dAS PER DAWSON A HALL ON GAIN BANKS FORSYTH CHEROKEE HAVE BEEN AGREED Assembly--The New District in Southeast Eleventh.

of the Altamaba river being made the di- somewhat in excess of the basis to losing riding line for the two districts bordering any of the counties of the district For on the' coast, Savannah being in one and the same reason the ninth district remains Brunswick in the other. as it has been. Brunswick is situated in the new district, The populations of the new districts are which, as will be seen, is by far the larg- as follows: district in area in the state, and which Population by Districts. est First .......169,800 has the smallest, population. Second district.

165,358 The population of the seventh district is Third district a ....161,658 the basis, which is Fourth district. considerably above Fifth 165,638 000, but this arises from the fact that the Sixth district 165,949 members from the seventh district were Seventh almost unanimous in their desire to have Eighth 171,101 it is. Ninth ...112,061 the district remain as They prefer Tenth ...163,758 that the population of the district be Eleventh RAILROAD'S. LINES IN OPERATION. I UNDER CONSTRUCTION: I Do HART THE NEW CONGRESSIONALHARDIER DISTRICT.S INDICATED BY.

"THE HEAVY BLACK ONES. CHEROKEE "THE HEAVY BLACK ONES. MILTON EL BEATON JACKSON MADISONE SON PAULDING INCT WILKES LINCOLN DOUGLAS 9 PAIR ON CAR TON COLUMB WARS EN HEARD JASPER EXON RICHMON LLO PART FRANKLIN COCK Spruce 10 FOR ONE JEFFER SON A WASHINGTON MONROE SOT MACONS SC REVEN HA TALB LOO I OT TONI WILKINSON JOHN SON DOUROUGH SWAINS TWIGG VEL TAYLOR BOUR 46 COGEE ENS STATE MARION HOW'S TON U. MAC ReP RED BLOT MONTGOMERY AMER A MOUNT VER NO EB 5 MO RAE AR-DEVILLE CuS ANNAL WILCO TEL FAIR LIBER 11 PLING FORT GAINE MORGAN WORTH I SA BEL SETON 000 SO BAKER EARLY BLACK SNEEZ MITCH C. bu PONT VILE HAR AT ON CAT AS.

TRADERS HILL SAINT HOMASYA, OLS MADISON BROKER BACKER ARRESTED Upon a Warrant Sworn Out by a Savannah Justice. NEW YORK, August Abraham Backer, who recently assigned for the benafit of his creditors, was arrested at noon today on a warrant sworn out by William D. Harden, presiding justice of the city court of Savannah, who charges him with defrauding him of debenture bonds of the Central Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia, valued at 700, and other certificates valued at $2,250. Backer was brought to the Tombs police court. When Backer was arraigned, Judge Harden desired a prompt hearing, but Backer's attorney was not ready, and the hearing was put off until tomorrow.

The prisoner was released in 815,000 bail, furnished by Frank Rothsshild, a Canal street merchant. The Two Governors Meet. RALEIGH, N. August Lumber River fair, at Red Springs, Roberson county, today, Governor Holt and Governor Tillman spoke, as did also General Stackhouse, of South Carolina. The attendance at the fair 18 remarkably large.

Senator Ransom will, day after tomorrow, address the confederate veterans a STATE SALES. SMI STATE SALES. ROAD STREET. (3) pe: story central interest. property ay handsomely to for house, nice home, near blocks from capitol, on achtree lot, shady and building.

$65 per will lent. mons siful 10 lots minutes near electric ride. car rill please you. and if sold in Park on easy terms. next Alexander street.

is best and nice. Party bargain anxious in value. on the street. cheapest Stral vacant lot improving or holding. unsurpas LIEBMAN rly 20) Peachtree CHANCES.

who up the bargains in will double his tim money lot 5-room 50x140, house, on all outbul ace 1 and 2 years. Borne st. on house, two 4-room and inted on Plum, running balance now at $43.50 per through easy. month Venient lot to 80x230, dummy to alley, Douse, per month. line; house.

line. lot 50x142, on Kelly bouse, all modern OR Forrest avenue, improve of the very no -third most complete house 10-room cash, house, balance lot easy. ace very near Whitehall st. 1 and 2 years. One ears ago, but is going Owner to mow pall and must sell.

A bargain house, lot 50x150, on Ince 1 and 2 years. Hood of corner ground Boulevard and Fair bargain; fronting Marietta bodes and Elliott sts. house, Alabama lot 12-room ened, which is assured, Vie ertv. This can be bought cheat rille, have some the noted gilt-edge prom rill rban exchange property. on a fair basis fo winter See about this ase com, for corner lot on Simpson $1,450, easy terms.

LAWRENCE HARRISON. NDRIX Ponce de Leon avenue; large very cheap. reet, near Forest arenas lot, never will be cheaper tween Peachtree and Calhos on Piedmont avenue at pest lot for sale on the Boule artland avenue. Rawson street. houses, Fraser street, ardson street.

Windsor street; also 000 on streets. planta, corner Nelson and trade, call to see (DRIX ate Exchange, Pryor Street Kim House. End) new 5-room house and leet car; price, $2,000. cash, room house, lot 64x125, $5,000. chtree road and Belt Line railee sides, fine spring and good cre.

End) corner Holderness close to street cars, which will ectric shortly. Natural grove, uilding sites, $3,000. aty limits.surrounded by streets, Ashby and Greens Ferry good shade, 50x197, $2,250. east front, 60x197, $2,700. middle Georgia, only mile on house, 55 etc.

Fine grove, 76 and miles from Atianta. land, sulphur and iron springs cash, balance in four annua er cent interest. AL ESTATE EXCHANGE, 8. Pryor street, Atlanta, Ga ER, Manager. RD, Secretary and Treasurer.

OWENS. venue, splendid 9-r residence; gian blocks, etc. Call for price. re, corner lot, with long lease at Where can you beat this? per month for good 5-F East x220 to alley. per month will buy good 4-r of 56x115.

and neat, on Irwin street; lot street, 3 4-r houses, renting reg per month. Luty, 50x200, only $3,000. lot 65x190, only $2,300. corner, 100x190. 50x156, $1,800.

ear car line, 40x100, $900. near Jackson; 50 per ly $800. ts, $300 each on installments! will soon run by these lots. st. 4-r gas, 50x100.

pt, 50x140. pod, fronting Bellwood high; can sell Monday for. $1,200 property can be subdivided and 600 per acre before Christmas if want stuff cheap. hth Broad, corner Alstaina TOL. HILL IS SOLID AS THE STATE OF NEW FORK FAR GOES.

INDICATIONS OF THE HOUR. P. Flower Will Be the Democratio for Governor--The InfluBoswell Nominee ence of Governor Hill. New YORK. August are still speculating--the republican newspapers newspapers, -over the possibilities and probabilities in connection with the nomination for governor of democratic York.

Pick up The Tribune, The Press, New Recorder, The Times, and some others of The the daily papers any morning and you And preand speculation run riot. Every coldiction ump, almost, gives one 8 new expression of and all of these binge about-Gov. opinion, arnor Hill. The fact that the state executive committee that Flower will be governor, and Agrees Speaker Sheehan lieutenant governor, shows Governor Hill's friends will be in that full ebarge and that he will control New York for years to come. The wildest of wild predictions is that which makes the governor his own successor.

There could be nothing more preposterous than that. Just why it has started, nobody can explain, except that some of the governor's enemies doubtless sought in this way to draw him into entanglements and complications which might injure him. That all such attempts futile and could be nothing else, must be are evident to anybody who studies the situation at all. The power total can injure David B. Hill weaken his on the politics of New York not only has not yet made itself manifest, but is not likely to at any time in the near future.

Governor Hill's position is certainly an unique one. since Tilden was at his strongest has such a master hand had hold of the politics of the Empire State. Governor Hills control is absolute. He is not only the kingmaker, but the king himself, and as it has been in all else, so in this matter of the governorship his word will be law. Mr.

Hill does to succeed himself. He is going to represent his state in the upper bouse of the national congress, and he will place in the governor's chair friend. In every move upon the political chess board his master hand is seen and those who thought he would stand for a third term as governor certainly knew little of their man. To say that he would have. had an absolute walkover for the nomination and in the election is but staling a self-evident trutheverybody who knows or pretends to know anything of the true state of affairs acknowledges that; but to take that position might have hurt Mr.

Hill the eyes of 'the people of the country at large, in view of the fight that is being bitterly waged against him by the republican and mugwump press. It might have been believed that retain the governorship was the only way Hill could keep his grip," as one of the mugwump papers put it, and Mr. Hill prefers to go to the senate and put in his man as gov. ernor. It is very evident that Roswell P.

Flower is Mr. Hill's choice, and that he will be nomimated. The fact that be is Hill's choice 1 insures his nomination and consequent election, though there may be Mr. Chapin and other good men as candidates. I notice in a recent interview that Smith 1 M.

Weed, who has been at Bar Harbor for some days with his family, declares that Mr. Flower will be the nominee. This is significant, for there is no shrewder observer or better-posted politician in New York than Mr. Weed. He says that Hill, Murphy and Tammany--the last two in consequence of the wishes of the first named, doubtless- will use all their induence for Mr.

Flower, and that he will be the next governor. Mr. Flower has no great personal following, though he is an able man aud a shrewd politician. He will go in as Hill's man, and the grip of the "silent man from Albany" will be as strong while he is in she senate at Washington as in the executive ortice at Albany. And what does all this signify of the presidency You ask the question--I try to answer it.

It signities, urst and foremost, that so far as New York is concerned, Mr. Cleveland will not be considered in connection with 1 the presidency. And Hill? Well, Mr. Hill is the only man who can answer that question. The situation is entirely in his hands.

I mean, of course, the situation so far as New York is concerned. If Mr. Hill wants the New York delegation to go to the next democratic national convention and cast its vote solidly for Hill, he has but to speak the word. If it does not go for Hill, it will go for some man for whom Hill is friendly, but the senator will head the delegation. Everybody wonders whether he wants it or whether he doesn't.

Mr. Hill would like to be president -is there aman in this broad land who wouldn't? And he may be some day, but it doesn't follow that will be a candidate in 1892. He may not he consider the times thoroughly auspicious, and it he does not his name will not be presented to that convention. Many people argue his acceptance of the senatorship means that he has abandoned his idea of being a candidate. That argument is based on the old superstition about nobody going to the presidency from the senate.

In my humble opinion, Mr. Hill cares little for superstitions and sentiments of that kind. It he is not a candidate he will have his own good reasons for his decision. With Mr. Cleveland, however, it is different.

If he is not a candidate it will be because he sees failure staring him in the face. The bitter fight his friends have made on Hill and almost every democrat of prominence in the state precludes the possibility of his having any strength in the Now York delegation. Without that delegation he cannot hope of nomination. This becomes more and more evident every day as advices from the north and west come in. The democrats of the west are 88 bitter against Mr.

Cleveland as are the ers of the south. Indeed he seems, outside of few personal friends belonging to the class of a shelved politicians, to have very few friends who can do him any good. That he has admirers outside of these, is also true. A many good many influential men who admire Mr. Cieveland for the courage of his convictions, are still very strongly of the opinion that it would never do to nominate him in the face of the disaffection of the great mass of the party, and he will not be nated.

As to whom the nominee will be, predictions are useless. Of two things I am certain, however: Roswell P. Flower will be the next governor of New York; and the nominee for president will be a man whose views are in accord with those of the rank and file of his party. And he'll have to beat the republican will be Benjamin Harrison. A GUILTY WOMAN THROWS LIGHT UPON THE MURDER OF HER HUSBAND WHO WAS SLAIN TEN YEARS AGO, And Confesses to Her Successful Separation of a Husband and Wife that She Might Appropriate the Former.

PIGEON RIVER, N. August domestic scandal, abounding in tragedy, has just been made public here by the confession of the guilty wife and mother as she lay upon her deathbed. THE MURDER OT BURTON PHARR. In September, 1878, Mr. Burton L.

Pharr, quite an influential citizen, fell by the hand of a neighbor of his, G. M. Smathers. Smathers was tried by the courts and acquitted, but the exact cause of the quarrel which led to the tragedy was never fully settled in the minds of the public. It was ten months later that the widow of the murdered man gave birth to a daughter (her second), that some whispered reports said she had not acted before the tragedy as she should have done.

SHE ROPES IN TAYLOR CHAMBERS. About two years after Mr. Pharr's death his widow rented her farm to one Taylor Chambers, who had just married one of the belles of the county. They soon disagreed, and a disunion was the result. In her confession the late Mrs.

Pharr stated. that she had conspired with Chambers's sister against his wife to pring about the separation. She farther states that he went away to an adjoining county, and that she followed him there, where she soon became the mother of a son by him. They then went to Texas, and remained there several years, coming back here four years ago, where they have since lived, purporting to have been lawfully mar ried. CONFESSES THE WHOLE STORY.

Within the last few days, when she found that she must die, she acknowledged all, and thus accounted for the death of her first busband, that she might enjoy the favors of Smathers. Some of her friends say she was frenzied, and that no credence should be given to her confession, while others of her friends believe it to be the whole truth, because it is borne out by the known facts, events for the foundation of such a story did really exist, and at the times specified, and the rumors afloat at the times mentioned were in accordance with her statements also. STRANGE ORDER TO HER DAUGHTERS. Besides, she told her two older daughters, who are, in spite of circumstances, nice and prudent young ladies, that they must not turn from her funeral to their former home, not must they ever live there with Chambers or call the place home again, 80 long as he lived there. This the girls did, and returned from their mother's funeral with their uncle.

The mother of the girls said that the younger of the two was the daughter of Me. Smathers, Pharr's slayer. It is not known yet what the two girls. will do, but Mr. Chambers, who still claims that he was married to Mrs.

Pharr, proposed to take them back and support them as he has' done heretofore. CHEERING THE GRAND DUKE. Frenchmen Give Alexis an Ovation-4 Departure for Vichy. PARIs, August Grand Duke Alexis has left this city for Vichy. The enthusiasm evoked by the visit of the brother of the ozar has lost none of its force by personal contaot of Parisians with the tall, fine-looking Russian admiral, and upon every occasion when he has.

shown himself to the public he has received greetings that have amounted to ovations. Despite his reluctance to be the recipient of official welcomes, there is no doubt, if the grand duke's face is an index to his feelings, that the spontaneous warmth of his welcome by the public has made a very agreeable impression upon him. The time appointed for his departure for Vichy had been announced in the newspapers, and consequently large crowds gathered along the route from the hotel at which he was stopping to the railway station. As the carriage in which the grand duke was riding passed along the streets, the crowds cheered him enthusiastically, and, as he smilingly bowed in response to the hearty greetings tendered him, the crowd broke out into cries of, "Vive la Russie, et la France," and le While the enthusiasm was at its height a break was made in the long line of people extending along the sidewalks, and as the grand duke's carriage reached the point of confusion, an old man, bent and decrepit, with his gray hair hanging in confusion about his withered face, his every appearance denoting that he was a native of the land ruled over by the "white czar," sprang. to the side of the carriage, and, raising his hat, and bowing low, threw into the lap of the grand duke petition, which, it was afterwards learned, was request for redress of some grievance from which the aged Russian was suffering.

The right of presenting petitions in this manner is one of the few rights possessed by Russian subjects, and the document was taken possession of by the grand duke. When the grand duke reached the raflroad station there was a repetition of the scenes of enthusiasm witnessed along the streets through which he had just passed, and as the train: which he took drew out of the station the last sounds of Paris that the grand duke heard were patriotic cries from the lips of the thousands of persons who had gathered to bid him adieu. THE COLONEL AND THE CAPTAIN. Have a Hostile Meeting Last Night in mingham. SECRETARY BLAINE'S HEALTH.

Mr. Fletoher Saye Mr. Blaine Will Live Many Years to Serve His Country. MINNEAPOLIS, August Fletcher, one of the republican leaders in this state, and leading candidate for the republican nomination for congress in this district, returned this morning from Pilgrimage to Bar Harbor, Maine, where he SaW and, had a long talk Mr. Blaine.

Fletcher is a New Englander and is an old, acquaintance of the republican chieftain. He said this morning that Mr. Blaine would live to, serve his country many years yet. The secretary, he declared, was not ill, but simply needed rest and the kind of rest he was getting. "In Darkest Russia." LONDON, August work entitled "In Darkest Russia" has met with a very good sale, and today a second edition was issued.

The book is devoted to an expose of the wrongs from which the Jews of Russia suffer, and the edition of today gives long list of to which the Hebrews in that a mabjected. THE NASSAU WRECKERS. Hovering Around a Distressed Vessel Like Sharks. KEY WEST, August Bolger, of the steamer Concho, from New York to Galveston, arrived this evening, and reports that the wrecked steamer Eldorado signalled him on Tuesday night a at 9:30, when he went alongside, bringing the steamer's mail to Key West. He remained alongside her four hours, during which it rained heavily, attended with thunder and lightening.

Captain Byrne boarded the Concho and stated that the pumps from Key West had broken, but expected to repair them sufficiently to pump the vessel dry by Thurs day noon, and enable them to come to Key West. The revenue cutter McLean and the wrecking schooner Era were the only vessels at the wreck. Captain Byrne has bravely held on to his ship and refuses to turn her over to the Nassau wreckers, who are hovering around like sharks. The crew and all hands ate working bravely. Kidnapers Exeeuted.

HAVANA, August 18. Hipolyt Gonzales Firmeln Pres and Bonitacio Valdesa, who been convicted of kidnaping, were here SOLID FOR GORMAN. The Maryland Farmers' Alliance Endorse Him. BALTIMORE, August13, Farmers' State Alliance adjourned sine die. The final action of the convention before its adjournment was the declaration, which was pat in the form of a resolution, that the Farmer's Alliance of the state of Maryland is in no way antagonistic to United States Senstor Gorman, and that ady publication that the farmers were opposed to the distinguished senator of the state was without warrant and had no toundation in fact.

Will Set Down Upon China. LONDON, August dispatch from Pekin says that it is evident from the action taken by the powers that they intend to compel China tO protect foreigners residing within her borders. Representatives of several powers there addressed a fresh joint note to the Chinese government yesterday in relation to the outrages perpetrated by Chinese mobs upon missions, and others in Yang Tie Kiang that China take immediate steps protect tres and property of foreigners. BIRMINGHAM, August For several months the Jefferson Volunteers have been having monkey-and-parrot time over the election of captain. Colonel L.

N. Clark, colonel of she-second regiment, was captain of the Volunteers when elected to his present office, and in that way is involved more or less perscnally in the dispute of the factions. Ill feeling sprang up between him and a former lieutenant of the company, J. Q. Cohen.

Several weeks ago Cohen was elected captain by vote which Colonel Clark and the adjutant general disapproved. DeW election WAS ordered. The Cohen faction walked out, and the balance elected T. C. Smithi captain.

The seceders claim this election as illegal, and talkof courts of inquiry and court martial have been indulged by both sides. About midnight last night Colonel Clark and Coben met on the street, and with the re mark, "Jack, rou have been lying abous me long enough," Clark drew a cowhide from his sleeve and struck Cohen. twice. The latter. caught the -colonel, and the witnesses say, shoved him against the wall and held him there till a policeman interfered.

Cohen did not attempt to strike the colonel, who was fined $50 by the recorder this morning. Damages Awarded Mrs. Henry. AUGUSTA, August the city court the jury gave Mrs. Mary Henty verdict of 63,000 against sthe Georgia Parailroad company for the killing of her son, Mr.

Mat Henry, year at Social Circie, while he uncoupling.