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trai Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia is somewhat of an unknown quantity. Now, when almost everybody is trying to forget that there ever was such a litigation and receivership, some new order appears in court, or there is some argument over an intervention, and the old subject is again brought before the public mind. Two orders signed by Judge Don A. Pardee of this circuit and the petition upon which they are based were filed with the clerk of the United States court here yesterday. The first of these matters was the report of Special Master George W. Owens, who, with Special Master A. E. Buck, sold the Central Railroad and Banking Company properties at public outery. The report was filed by Special Master Owens alone, Col. Buck being out of the country as minister to Japan. The report stated that of the $2,000,000 bid $50,000 had been paid over to the special master, in addition to which there had been turned over to the $8,000,000 consolidated mortgage bonds of the Central Railroad and Banking Com. pany with accrued coupons amounting to $1,250,000. As there was $1,950,000 left of the $2,000,000 bid, this left a credit of $243.75 for. each $1,000 bond. Judge Pardee's order ap proved the report of the master commiseloners, and directed that Mr. Owens enter a credit or dividend of $243.75 upon each of the bonds with coupons attached, after which they are to be turned over to the Central of Georgia Railway Company. Another petition was from the Central Trust Company of New York, répresenting the consolidated mortgage of the Central Railroad and Banking Company, under
