Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-02
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.


Reprssentative Robbie Gives His Views
an state Finances and the Funding
Question-Ths Brunswick Collector
ship Hunt-Rules Of FIOrida's Blind
and Deaf Mute Asylum.
GEORGIA.
j. C. Pitner, a well-known merchant of
Athens. who has been IN business for forty
wears. Is som D. retire to private life.
prohuuon's friends at Columbus will pc
t-al J1e City Council TO increase the retail
H.uor license 70 $4,000 per anuum. The
I..ru-e ls now $50
The officers Of the Athens Fire Department
v- doubtless stand next year az follows:
tu.r- Julius COheus Assistants, C.. ". Bald
Ur ant Charlie Cooper.
Vlt Lamar Cobb. Of Athens, has a COPY Of
-H.evpher used by the Confederate govern
uart IN sending kilograms and important
...ter-. IL was frequently changed, but ia
after years this mementO will be an interest
ln- relic Of the lost cause
There are already three candidates for the
position of Collector of the Port Of Brunswick
and more Iu the bushes. The office pays 900
ufr aunum- lf Col. Farrow should be ap-
pointed Judge Of the Federal Court this
month the Office may become vacant before
Cleveland i- uaugurated.
Athens BIHHer- WatcA5aqn; We learn that
several Democrats IN Athens have signed
petition t0 retain an old dyed-in-the- wool
ElIlcll ln Olhce. e shall insist on q clean
sweep. and are surprised that any Democrat
-FagIi consent 20 lend his influence to retain
iu power . man who aas alvays fought his
party 10 tIe death. Inat petition, however,
won't bs worth the paper It Is written on.
Henry Johnson, a white youth living in the
Northern Liberties. suburb Of Columbus. in
90 difficulty with hls brother on Monday, cut
hI- throat with a knife. The wound though
serious. is not considered fatal. The cause Of
the lticulty was one brother was trying 10
impose 0n one of the younger children Of the
family. when Henry, the elder brother in
q q
results.
some citizens, while out hunting few days
ago, found "a medium-size sOrrel horse lying
deal short distance from the main public
road leading from Haner to BeltOn The
horses throat was gashed and his right ear
cut of. The wounds were made with a
rOcketknife. from all appearances. The horse
had three shoes On him. The probability is
that some one has been murdered, and the
citizens are making q strict search to see If
they can ind the body Of anyone. There Is
no horse missing m the country, and no one
knows the one that rs dead.
Augusta EreHiHg NelCs The patent adver-
tising agent is a little late coming this year,
but, nevertheless, he Is here OF, rather. has
been here. He came some ten ;iays agO-twO
Of them-aud after quilting our honest mer-
chants, as usual, they fed the rancho. Their
scheme was circular advertising dodge. to
be placed near Brahe's corner, and to be run
bv clock work. In fact. Hoppfgarten had
been engaged to arrange the machinery, Cow
dit the printing, our merchants generally hit
ut the bat. amt every ythIng was lovely. The
sharpest trick they accomplished was to steal
their luggage from the Globe Hotel and beat
Capt. Brown out of their bills
Representative Robbie of Richmond county.
the second member Of the Finance Committee
has just been interviewed on the work OF his
committee and state monetary matters. He
said; We had some puzzling questions to
deal with. In the first place, there was over
S3.3O0OO0 in bonds to be funded. The idea was
% fund them at "a lower rate of interest than
the present 6s and rs. Georgia has never vet
HHrH gassAaf ssrEfh ht,r-
bonds In Northern markets since the Bullock
bonds were Tepudiated. The baby bonds and
the Nuttiug bonds were placed mainly among
our home people There are parties waiting
ON the money markets of New York who are
sore over the OutlaWed bonds, and who would
take advantage Of any straight or Of anv
to damage our public credit. So we had fO
provide for this funding operation with great
care, and To do this. with the ordinary as
well as the extraordinary expenses of the
State starIugUs In the face. made the problem.
The funding bill, as passed by the Legislature
and signed uy the Governor, provides Tor the
funding of s.. 4j5. i35. This amount includes
the last payment of the bond issue known as
the NuttIng per cent. bonds, $4,000, and the
outstanding per cent. baby bonds, SIS. OBS, in
amount. These bonds VIII Iall due next year
ami in the ordinary course of things would
be paid up; but We have thought best
% provide at present tor their continuance by
issuing new bonds lt was almost necessary
t1 10 this. The Treasurer, IN making up his
estimates of receipts and expenditures for
1855. places the deficit at s242,32l. 1t was to
meet this deficit and continue the building Of
-H- SEQ -tltol without additional tax levy
.'-t lLc General Assem- olT has provided for
..a f.-..-i.-.~ tgi- fiftez zczt year.
.ra ,aor an tui continued Mr.
E0Iut, --the.e o. now pen ling before the FL
-.Hrl tg....... hIll. which will come up
at the summer session. providing for the fund
ing of S3l0,oOl Of the interest upon the public
debit if necessary. THIS ls of course in case OF
emergency. and the emergency may arise.
The capitol bill provides for the apprOpria-
tiOn of SlS0,010 "A year from the Treasury sur
plus. without an lucrease in taxation. The
fact Is there is me- Treasury surplus. The act
providing manned Confederate soldiers with
limbs has cost s. 900 already. To continue
the state House construction Is most neCes-
surv. The contract has been signed: the work
commenced To stop now would be To impair
the DBL ligation-a most unfortunate step. To
increase taxation would be not only unfOrtu-
nate but unlawful. To put in the general
funding bill this 100000 interest might raise
90 question over the whole issue. The cOnsti-
tuition prohibits the bonded debt Of the state
being increased except 70 repel invasion, etc.
There were lawyers IN the House who con-
tended that this section merely inhibited in
Creaslng the debt beyond the limit Of
1S-7 when the constitution was framed.
AT that time the debt was 100000. In
1851 It is but 100000. To my
mind. however, II was clearly intended TO
prevent any increment at any time, and the
spirit OF that Instrument seems 10 be 10 pay
mp this debt as rapidly as possible without FUR
thcr liability or lncrement-sO that The bonds
fuuuinE the $500 O0Q Of interest are to be pro-
vided for i'm a separate bill and can. IN case Of
trouble. DE loated at home. The lower fund
ing rate saves the state, think, fully $4,000
per year. The law fixes the maximum rate
at per cent prominent tnancier Of Au-
gusta tells me he could float the new Georgia
bonds easily m New York at per cent. The
bonded debt has been reduced from Sll ,O00,0 goo
in 1871 TO s. 0oO. 600 1SSf. and only Sl,Q0OC0O
of this represents the sale OF any property
the Macon and Brunswick Railroad. In four
years our debt has been reduced Sl.5OO.O00. In
the year ISIS it was redt ced Sl69.50C, and in
lSS4 $3.50, ,000-a total Of S9i9.500 in two years.
There Will ue "a saving of $4,000 IN interest
pald IN lSS5 over iSS4 alone. l am satisfied,
too. that a more thorough system of county
tax assessments would increase the taxable
property OF the State fifty Millions