The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-08-15
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GEORGIA AGRICULTURISTS.

ATLANTA, IA, August Io.-IHe ASIi-
cultural Convention, of Georgia, in ses-
sion at Marietta, has elected Hon. L. F.
Livingston President for the ensuing
year, and will hold its next session at Co
lumbus. The general report was that
crops are excellent. Before adjourning
the following resolutions were adopted :
Resolved, That the Georgia State Agri-
cultural Society shall be represented at
the Anne rican Exposition, to be held in
London in 1886, in a commission of
three, to be appointed by the President
from its members, whose duty it shall be:
F'irst-To visit said exposition. to care
fully take notes and gather information
from all possible sources of all agricultu-
raj and mechanical matters, and to re
port fully on these subjects. Second
To inquire into and report upon the prog
ress of agriculture in England and on the
continent. Third-To aid, as far as posi-
BILE, in the establishment of direct trade
between European and Georgian ports.
wHTTNEY's DECISION ON THE CRUISERS.
NEW YORK, August 13.-Aaron j..
Vanderpoel this morning received from
Secretary Whitney an informal letter, in
which the latter stated that the Govern
ment ships would be finished in the
Roach yards by his men under his super
intendency and with the suggestions and
supervision by Naval Constructors Lor-
ing and Wilson. The latter would in the
meantime complete inventories and re-
ceive an appraisal of Roach's assets from
the board of five who will make an ap-
praisal. The schedule of assets and liza
bilities made by Roach are in readiness,
but may possibly be held until the con-
clusion of the government inventories.
The two inventories will doubtless then
be compared, and both will be placed at
the disposal of the board of appraisal.
OUT OF POLITICS INTO CATTLE-RAIsING.
PHILADELPHIA, August 13.-Articles
of incorporation for the Union Land and
Grazing Company were filed in the Office
of the Camden County Clerk to-day by
Benjamin F. Butler, of Lowell, George
M. RObeson, of Camden, and Oliver V.
Barrett, of Washington. The paid up
capital of the company is $3.50, 900, and
the object is to go into the stock-raising
business on q very extensive scale in
New Mexico and Colorado, where the
company own 400, 600 acres of breeding
and grazing lands. The object of the
company, as set forth in the articles of
incorporation, is TO buy, sell, and raise
cattle, build dams and canals for the ir
rigation of land, and do anything neces-
sary to carry on the business of grazing.
A prominent gentleman of Camden, who
knows the partners in the scheme, said
this morning that the idea was to breed
calves in New Mexico, and when they
were of sufficient age 10 drive the calves
to Craze in Colorado, where cattle grow
much larger and better than further
south.
YELLOW FEVER PRECAUTIoN IN TEXAS.
GALVESTON, August ia special
from Austin says: Governor Ireland to
day issued n proclamation reciting that
it has come to the knowledge of the ex-
ecutive that persons from Vera Cruz and
possibly other places in Mexico infected
with yellow fever are now entering this
State by way of Ell Paso and Laredo
and other points on the Rio Grande, by
railroad and private conveyance, in di-
rect violation of the quarantine procla-
nation of March 20, 1885. Therefore,
he declares that after to-day quarantine
shall be enforced on the Rio Grande
against infected places in Mexico.
Quarantine stations will at once be es-
tablished at Laredo and Ell Paso, and an
inspection will be made of all incom-
ing trains, and passengers en- trains run
ming out of the Rio Grande country will
be required to show their passport from
officers a. Ell PasO and Laredo, and to
show that they have not within twenty
days been in Vera Cruz or other places
infected.
MONSTER SHIP.
RoCKPORT, Me-, August 13.-The mon
ster ship Frederick Billing, the largest
craft with one exception ever built in
America, has been launched. She is
great four-mas1er, and her masts will
tower seventy feet above the Brooklyn
Bridge. Her tonnage is 2,62S, and she
is only tritle smaller than the Great
Republic. She is square-rigged. The
length of the ship is 291 feet, and from
the deck to the main truck is 1871 feet.
The main sticks of the masts are 90 feet
long, and are of Oregon pine. The
length of the fore and main yards is 90
feet each, and she will spread 200 yards
of canvas. The oak frame of the ship
came from Virginia, and her hard pine
planks from South Carolina.
Early this morning people from all
parts of the State poured into town to
witness the launching. The harbor was