Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-10-19

done his duty in the premises the responsibility
rests upon other shoulders Mr. Sam tells IIs
that q the globst is about sixteen feet long and
= enclosed by high fence, the enclosure be-
ing thirty-1ve feet square Everything Is in
perIect readiness. The prisoners, with the ex-
cepnon OF Joe King, are getting to be a little
e.lAlous ABOUT tneir souls, and have gone to
ferent"
The Monroe Advertiser announces the death
OF the Tasting negro, Perry Cooley, who was
connned In the county jail and lived for six
weeks without eating, and says: This is a
strange case; There is no doubt about this
man having lived six weeks, while confined in
JAN without food He positively refused to
Oake the food. The only reason he gave
Was tnaL ne old not want It, After much effort
Sheriff King induced him to take ice and wine
he would dip lump Of ice into the wine and
SUCK It. After six weeks he was persuaded by
promise or milk punch to take bite of beef
steak Then his appetite could not be con-
troiled as 1t had been, and he ate His stomach
was so dlsordered by his long fast however.
mat ne could not eat and digest as he needed
" 10 ana hence ne continued sick until his
sickness terminated finally few davs since
his was certainly the loagest fast on record
mere are IN the State of Georgia / ,236 Off
GERS OF all classes, gain OF pa since the last
adjustment in 1880 During the present year
there has been established fiftv-six new ofices
IN the State. The Presidential offices are
tWenty-seveu in number. In the flrst-class
these are three-Atlanta, Aug dsta and Savau.
aAlni oaCh Bobllng lnree thousand dollars year
Of the second-class there are four, gain of
one IN this grade. Athens coming up
from the third-class. The third-cass
~ nunoers 15 twenty, gain of one, also.
IN that grade, Wa hington having been pro-
mOJed 20 the Pres dental rank with a salary
OF Sl,SOO The largest single gain Of salary in
the state occurs at Madison, where three hun.
dred collars additional is secured. Four offices
get Two hundred dollars more. They are Balm
bridge, Cuthbert, Dalton and Rome Many of
the others secure a single hundred. Macon
suffers the heaviest reduction "a loss of five
hundred dollars being sustained. The only re-
ductlon of salary, aside from Macon, is at Mil
ledgevllle, where loss of one hundred dollars
occurs.n
The true reason why Georgia Railroad stock
mas been drawn from the New York Stock FIX
change Is not because, as stated by the North
american, the directors desired to be left free
10 water the stock whenever they choose to do
so,. but because it was an useless expense to
keep transfer agency in New York. Nearly
the entire capital stock-S4, 200. .0O0-is held in
Georgia by permanent investors the floating
stock being so small that sales were less than
l,OJO shares since it was listed more than a
year ago. The lease of the Georgia Railroad
was good one for its stockholders, and they
know the intrinsic value of the stock 1t is
now paying II per cent per annum quarterly.
Its debt IN bonds, nOn-mortgageabe (never
been mortgaged) and per cents, is 81. .327, 900;
STOCK, $4,O0UO0, and good assets of paying
roads IN its treasury of nearly S4 500,O
dividends paid to its stockholders cash from
october 10, 1856, to October 1, 1882 Sill. so per
share of 500 each. Under the lease no change
can be made to increase the stock or bonds of
the company. The surplus of $4,000 per year,
after payment of dividends and fixed charges
Is applied to the payment Of bonds as they
mature.