People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1895-05-03
ATLANTA, GA, FRIDAY MAY g. 1885

vim, of New York, the attorney for the
land owners. Before paying the
amount the War Department insisted
on the payment of taxes since 1S4S to
clear the titles to the property These
amounted to 50, 100.
Judge Thomas, assistant attorney
general for the postoffice department.
has issued fraud orders against the Pub
fishers Collection Agency, which CON
tinues to use the "so-called newspa-
per laws" to force collections. Post
masters at st. Paul, Pittsburg and
Chicago, where the company has Off
GERS, were notified to stop it's mail
matter
Harry Raymond, young crook who
recently drifted into Atlanta, entered
into plot to marry a certain young
lady of the city on condition of being
paid $500 in cash. The police, however,
happily discovered the foul conspiracy
in time to nip it in the bud.
In 1892 10000 horses were slaughtered
in Paris, three-fourths of which went
into sausages. An effort is being made
to force butchers to stamp all saus-
ages in which horse meat is used so
that the public will know what it is
eating.
A firm of manufacturers of time and
combination safe locks at Rochester
have been at work for the past six
months perfecting detachable combi-
nation lock to be used on strong steel
safes which have been adopted by the
| Southern and Western express COM
panies to guard against the depreda-
tions of train robbers and desperadoes.
The New York World says that if the
China-Japan treaty as outlined is rati-
| fed, it will bring American working
men in competition with 400, 900, 900
Chinese who can live on five cents per
day. The World thinks the opening
| of China to trade will be disaster.
United States Minister Willis of
| Hawaii has transmitted to Secretary
Gresham a number of sworn statements
| of American citizens who were arrested
| by the Hawaiian Government for COM
plicity in the recent rebellion, and
were permitted to leave Hawaii only
under promise not to return during
their lifetime.
Captain William H. Beanham, agent
of the Mill Creek nistillipg Company,
and member for the last six years OF
the NewOrleans board of police COM
missioners, committed suicide on April
25th at Long Beach, summer resort
on Lake Pontchartrain, while suffering
from nervous prostration. Captain
Beanham was very prominent in mill
tary and social circles over the entire
country.
Secretary Morton believes that he
has found way to made effective his
warfare on the distribution of seeds.
The appropriation for the purchase,
propagation and distribution of seeds
says las required by law" The law,
in it's turn, distinctly limits the pur-
chase and distribution of seeds to such
as are rare and uncommon in this
country Accordingly the Secretary
will be justified in restricting the APP
preparation to the purchase of rare and
valuable seeds, as expressed in the Ian
guage of the statute, and refusing to
purchase the hundreds of tons of ordi-
nary garden seeds, such as have been
distributed year after year. A few
thousand dollars would purchase all
the rare and uncommon seeds this
country could get, and their propaga-
ton would be part of the work of ex-
pertinent stations. After their utility
had been tested it would then be the
duty of the Department to distribute
them in such parts of the country
where they would be best suited for
cultivation.