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GEOKGIA. 



GERMAN EMIGRATION. 



according to law on Tuesday, November 7th, 

 and resulted as follows: First District, John 

 C. Nichols, Democrat, 6,055 votes; James At- 

 kins, Republican, 3,884. Second District, 

 Henry G. Turner, Democrat, 7,794; Charles 

 Wessolowski, Republican, 4,406. Third Dis- 

 trict, Charles F. Crisp, Democrat, 4,121 ; D. 



B. Harrell, Independent, 329. Fourth District, 

 Hugh Buchanan, Democrat, 5,583 ; J. F. Pon, 

 Independent, 1,402. Fifth District, N. J. Ham- 

 mond, Democrat, 10,788; A. E. Buck, Re- 

 publican, 5,756. Sixth District, James H. 

 Blount, Democrat, 3,514 ; scattering, 26. Sev- 

 enth District, J. C. Clements, Democrat, 12,- 

 408 ; William H. Felton, Independent, 10,746. 

 Eighth District, Seaborn Reese, Democrat, 

 4,384 ; no opposition. For unexpired term in 

 Forty-seventh Congress of Alexander H. Ste- 

 phens, resigned, Seaborn Reese, 4,282 ; no op- 

 position. Ninth District, Allen D. Candler, 

 Democrat, 14,521 ; Emory Speer, Independent, 

 11,915. At large, Thomas Hardeman, Demo- 

 crat, 81,443 ; C. D. Forsyth, Republican, 24,- 

 930. The contests in the Seventh and Ninth 

 Districts were warm and excited. They were 

 the battle-ground on which was fought the 

 contest between the regular Democratic party 

 and the "Independents," the latter receiving 

 the almost unanimous support of both white 

 and colored Republicans. 



DEATHS. Several distinguished Georgians 

 have died during the year. Among the most 

 prominent were Hon. Benjamin Harvey Hill, 

 United States Senator; Colonel William Tap- 

 pan Thompson, for thirty years editor of the 

 "Savannah News," and author of "Major 

 Jones's Courtship " and other works ; William 

 M. Wadley, President of the Central Railroad ; 

 William L. Mitchell, LL. D., Professor of Law 

 in the University of Georgia ; and Colonel E. 



C. Anderson, ex-Mayor of Savannah. 

 MISCELLANEOUS. A singular question has 



arisen as regards the Southern Mutual (Fire) 

 Insurance Company, of Georgia. The com- 

 pany having accumulated a sufficiently large 

 reserve fund to give ample security to their 

 policy-holders, desire legal direction as to what 

 shall be done with the annual interest on the 

 reserve fund, if the surplus is not to be in- 

 creased in future. The profits of the business, 

 arising from premiums, are now divided annu- 

 ally among the policy-holders, and the question 

 is, how this interest is to be divided, whether 

 exclusively among those who are now mem- 

 bers as actual policy-holders, or those also who 

 have held policies in the past, but have severed 

 their connection with the company. The com- 

 pany has filed a bill praying the court to give 

 direction on these points. 



Edward Cox, who killed Colonel Robert 

 Alston two years ago, and was sentenced to 

 the Penitentiary for life, was pardoned by 

 Governor Stephens on December llth, in an- 

 swer to a numerously signed petition. 



The Art Loan Exhibition of the Young 

 Men's Library Association, of Atlanta, was 



a great success. The receipts amounted to 

 $4,400. 



Several Artesian wells have been bored in 

 Southwestern Georgia, where hitherto the sup- 

 ply of fresh water was neither abundant nor 

 of good quality. The deepest is at Albany, 

 570 feet, yielding thirty gallons per minute, as 

 clear as crystal and sufficiently cool. The tem- 

 perance movement is rapidly gaining ground. 

 Under the "local-option" law the sale of 

 spirituous liquors has been entirely prohibited 

 in over one hundred towns and villages, and 

 the people are much gratified by the result. 

 The law now requires all liquor-dealers in the 

 State to register in the office of the ordinary of 

 the county where they propose to do business, 

 and immediately on registration to pay the col- 

 lector the tax for the whole year. 



The question of paying the bonds pro- 

 nounced to be illegal and void by the General 

 Assembly, and the payment of which is ex- 

 pressly forbidden by the Constitution, has been 

 again mooted, but with no probability of any 

 attempt to reopen the matter being successful. 

 Nothing short of a change in the Constitution 

 could enable the Legislature to entertain the 

 question. Congress having made two United 

 States Judicial Districts in Georgia, Judge 

 Henry Kent McCay, former Associate Justice 

 of the Supreme Court (appointed by Governor 

 Bullock), has been made the judge of the new 

 court by the President. The appointment has 

 been approved by all parties. 



GERMAN EMIGRATION. The report of 

 the Imperial Commissioner of Emigration for 

 1881 states that the emigration for that year 

 exceeded the highest figures reached in former 

 years by fully 100,000. The total number of 

 emigrants from the ports of Hamburg, Bremen, 

 and Stettin, was 247,346, of whom 184,369 

 were Germans. The total number from Ham- 

 burg and Bremen alone was 245,898, who came 

 from the following countries : 



COUNTRIES. Emigrants. 



Germany 182,935 



Austria-Hungary 85,517 



Bussia 9,409 



Sweden and Norway 5,014 



Denmark 4,711 



Of this number, no less than 241,478 went 

 to the United States, of whom 179,507 were 

 Germans. Of other countries, Brazil received 

 1,654, including 1,211 Germans, and Australia 

 816 emigrants, of whom 745 were Germans. 

 Of the German emigrants, 98,510 left by way 

 of Bremen, 84,425 by way of Hamburg, and 

 1,434 by way of Stettin, in all 184,369, of whom 

 106,648 were males and 77,721 females. In 

 addition to this number, 26,178 German emi- 

 grants left by way of Antwerp, of whom 16,587 

 were males and 9,591 females. The largest 

 number of emigrants came from the eastern 

 provinces of Prussia, Pomerania furnishing 25,- 

 027; West Prussia, 23,045; and Posen, 21,315. 

 Among other parts of the empire which fur- 

 nished large numbers of emigrants are Hanover, 

 13,909 ; Schleswig-Holstein, 12,161 ; Mecklen- 



