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F. Maldonado, a Peruvian traveler, who with 

 three of his companions was drowned in the 

 rapids, in 1861, Dr. Heath was the first white 

 man to behold the mouth of the Madre de 

 Dios. 



Lieutenant Bove has been unable to obtain 

 sufficient funds from the Italian Government 

 and people to execute his project of Antarctic 

 exploration, and has abandoned the object for 

 the present. He has undertaken instead the 

 exploration of the coast-regions of Patagonia 

 and Tierra del Fuego for the Government of 

 the Argentine Republic. Dr. Venciguerra ac- 

 companies him as zoologist, Professor Lovisato 

 as geologist, and Lieutenant Roncagli as eth- 

 nologist. 



GEORGIA. The vote of Georgia at the 

 presidential election in 1880 was 102,470 for 

 Hancock, 54,086 for Garfield, and 969 for 

 Weaver. The total vote was 157,525, and the 

 Democratic majority for Hancock over Gar- 

 field 48,384. the electors thus chosen were 

 required by the act of Congress to meet in the 

 Capitol of the State on the first Wednesday of 

 December ensuing, and cast their votes for 

 President and Vice-President, but, under the 

 State law, they did not meet until the second 

 Wednesday. Under these circumstances the 

 question arose whether the vote of the State 

 could be counted. The difficulty was finally 

 avoided by the joint rule of the two Houses of 

 Congress regulating the electoral count, which 

 provided that if it should appear from the cer- 

 tificate that the vote of any State was cast on 

 a day other than that provided for casting such 

 votes by act of Congress, pursuant to the Con- 

 stitution, the result of such certificate should 

 not be recorded until it should appear whether 

 the counting or omitting to count such votes 

 would change the result of the election. Under 

 this rule the vote of Georgia, in the joint con- 

 vention on the 9th of February, was not re- 

 corded in its order, and the result of the count 

 was announced as follows: 



The tellers report that the whole number of electors 

 appointed to vote for the President of the United 

 States was 369, of which the majority is 185. Were 

 the votes of the electors for the State of Georgia cast 

 on the second Wednesday of December, 1880, being 

 the 8th day of said montn, to be counted, the result 

 would be, for James A. Garfield, of Ohio, for Presi- 

 dent of the United States, 214 votes, and for Winfield 

 S. Hancock, of Pennsylvania, for President, 155 votes. 

 If not counted, the result would be. for James A. Gar- 

 field 214 votes, and for Winfield S. Hancock 144 

 votes. In either event James A. Garfield has received 

 a majority of the votes of the whole number of electors 

 appointed. 



A similar announcement was made respect- 

 ing the vote for Vice-President. 



The question of the constitutionality of the 

 Railroad Commission established by the Legis- 

 lature was settled early in the year by the 

 decision of Judge Woods in the case of Tilly 

 t>. The Railroad Commission, in the United 

 States Circuit Court. The main points de- 

 cided in that case are : 



1. That, independent of the Constitution of 1877, 



the right of railroads to establish their own' schedules 

 of freights and fares is subject to legislative control, 

 where such railroads are operating under charters ob- 

 tained since January 1, 1863 that is, since the adop- 

 tion of the code. 



2. That the Legislature, under the Constitution of 

 1877, not only has the power, but it is its duty, to 

 regulate the freights and fares of all railroads in this 

 State, no matter when incorporated, so far as to make 

 them just and reasonable, and to prevent unjust dis- 

 crimination. 



3. That to appoint a commission for that purpose is 

 not a delegation of legislative power, but is the em- 

 ployment of the proper agency to regulate freight and 

 passenger tariffs. 



4. That the act creating the Railroad Commission of 

 this State is not obnoxious to the Constitution of the 

 United States or the Constitution of Georgia, and is 

 therefore constitutional. 



A State Temperance Convention met at At- 

 lanta on the 4th of July, and adopted the 

 report of a committee which recommended 

 *' that this convention ask the General Assem- 

 bly to pass an act forbidding and prohibiting 

 the manufacture, sale, or furnishing of any and 

 all intoxicating or malt liquors, except for 

 medicinal, manufacturing, or sacramental pur- 

 poses, under proper restrictions. 



" That the manufacture and sale of all intoxi- 

 cating or malt liquors is a nuisance, an un- 

 equaled curse to the people and State ; but, 

 whenever any county, city, town, or militia 

 district shall or may desire to establish a dis- 

 tillery for the purpose of manufacturing intox- 

 icating or malt liquors, or to sell any malt or 

 spirituous liquors, they may petition the ordi- 

 nary of the county, who shall order an election 

 to be held as in case of election for members 

 of the General Assembly, upon giving thirty 

 days' notice thereof, at which election all the 

 qualified voters within the county, city, town, 

 or militia district shall be entitled and author- 

 ized to vote. That the tickets shall be in- 

 dorsed ' whisky' or 'no whisky'; and should 

 a majority of all the qualified voters living 

 within the county, city, town, or militia dis- 

 trict vote ' whisky,' then the ordinary or mayor 

 may issue license as prescribed by law. 



" That no law shall be passed modifying or 

 repealing any prohibitory or local-option law 

 now of force in this State. 



" That a permanent executive committee be 

 appointed by this convention who shall pre- 

 pare a bill embodying the views of this con- 

 vention, and that said committee be requested 

 to go before the Legislature and present the bill 

 and make known the wishes of this conven- 

 tion. 



"That the president of this convention he 

 chairman of the executive, committee. 



"That the executive committee be requested 

 to take charge of the temperance cause in the 

 State, and to adopt such measures as will best 

 unite the active efforts and co-operation of the 

 friends of temperance in Georgia." 



Among the resolutions adopted was the fol- 

 lowing : 



Resolved, That the convention is in favor of having 

 the question of prohibition so presented that any voter 



