Fires and finance mix in Savannah and Georgia news
A wide array of items from the era. Savannah fires cost millions in losses while state matters loom. The Americas Bank declares a ten percent dividend as Henry Clews serves Alabama finances. A Macon Masonic Temple is under construction. a fatality near Fort Gaines is noted and a dangerous Macon fire prompts inspection. A collision on the Macon & Western line kills eight.
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Savannah
Iite
Macon
Henry Clews
Alabama
Americas Bank
Houston County
Arkansas
Iowa
John Jones
Americas
Charles Chrogan
Richard Cleghors
Call for a Georgia dog law to protect property and sheep
The Atlanta Herald urges enacting a dog law to safeguard citizens property rights and promote sheep raising. It argues vast Georgia lands could profit from wool farming with minimal winter housing and criticizes legislature for focusing on policing instead of this agricultural issue.
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Atlanta Herald
Georgia
Atlanta
Legislature adjourns delay. usury laws, onus for ads bill
Both chambers continue work as a Senate resolution delays a recess until July 22. A bill changes public sale advertising from forty days to one month and another measures repeal usury laws with a fixed interest rate. House denies new counties representation. per diem set at five dollars. A comic tale notes Rev. J W Hinton humor while presiding at Mulberry Street church. The U S Senator election looms with Stephens Gordon Hill and Col Fielder as potential contenders. A Keokuk inventor markets bellows for inflating rubber bustles drawing fashion interest.
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Senate
Rockdale
McDuffie
Douglass
Dodge
U.S
Stephens
Gordon
Hill
Col
Fielder
Atlanta
Governor's Message Summary of State finances and institutions
The Governor's Message outlines 1872 receipts of $2,101,340 84 and disbursements of $1,385,207 14 with a balance of $766,133 70 including the school fund. Public debt stands at $3,186,500, gold bonds of 1870 due 1890 amount to $2,598,000, and 1873 needs $1,418,935 with estimated receipts $2,085,939. Taxable property valued at $334,492,463, concerns raised over underassessment. State universities and colleges list enrollments, incomes, and expenses. land scrip sales yield funds to bonds and counties. Lunatic asylum and Deaf and Dumb asylum capacities, costs, and trustees are noted. Penitentiary discharges, escapes, pardons, deaths, and killings documented. Mortgage on State House and road-property inventories discussed. Georgia National Bank assets, depositors’ funds, and Alabama-Chattanoga Road endorsements reviewed. Printing accounts audited. additional appropriations and legislative considerations noted.
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State University
College of Agriculture and Fine Arts
Lanatic Asylum
Board of Trustees
Deaf and Damb Asylum
Academy of the Blind
Atlanta
Georgia National Bank
General Assembly
Acst
Alabama and
Chattanooga
Alabama
R. Hanleiter
The Proposed Refunding of the Cotton Tax
Washington editors discuss refunding the cotton tax declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. They oppose pro rata plans that would let claim agents and intermediaries seize funds and advocate distribution to bona fide taxpayers. Representative McIntyre pushes a pro rata bill to direct refunds to producers and states with congressional support growing.
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Supreme Court of the United States
Representative McKee
Mississipp
McIntyre
Georgia
South
Treasury Department
McKee
Congress
Southern press urged to inform voters on cotton tax dispute
A Columbus Enquirer note discusses a Georgia railroad charter and bonds tied to the Chattahoochee river project under Bullock era policy. European bondholders threaten suits if Georgia pays or reassesses the line, with talks of extending to Faula or Columbus if state-backed. A city committee monitors progress and weighs municipal tax burdens to gain broader commercial gains.
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Brunswick
Albany
Rancross
Bullock
Chattahoochee River
Kimball & Co
State of Georgia
Eufaula
Columbus
Columbus Enquirer
Death notice for Fitz Hugh Jones son of Caster W Jones
A 11 year old boy Fitz Hugh Jones son of Caster W Jones dies after the death of his mother in 1864. The bereaved parent laments the loss and recalls their close bond with touching religious sentiment and grief. The note ends with a resigned exclamation about the boy's death.
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Fitz Hugh
Caster W. Jones
Nomore
Pytroms
Bykuy 1
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