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TOCCOA, GA., APRIL 29, 1832
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.
The Virginia legislature adjourned
sine die, on the 22 d inst.
The President has nominated John
W. Arnold to be postmaster at
Columbus, Ga.
The Georgia State Sunday School
Convention will meet in Savannah on
Wednesday, thc 17th May.
Fifty two lodges were represented
in the Grand Lodge, Knights of
Honor, of Georgia, which recently
convened in Columbus.
Governor Colquitt lias returned to
Atlanta after an absence of some
days at the Hot Springs in Arkansas
for the benefit of his health.
A terrible cyclone and storm visit¬
ed the suburbs of Ma.'on ar.d neigh¬
boring country on Saturday night
last, by which a large amount of
property and several lives were lost.
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The steamer ‘City of Sanford* was
burned about five miles above
Jacksonville, Fla., last Monday, on
the St. John s river, and nine persons
perished in the flames.
James II. Walker, of Milner, is
the name of thc lawyer who was
recently convicted of subornation of
perjury in Pike superior court and
sentenced to five years in the State
penitentiary.
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It is rumored that Captain Thomas
Garrett, late train-master on the A.
and C. railroad, has been tendered
the supcrinUn lency of the Macon and
Brunswick railroad, and that he will
probably accept.
The town of J/onticello, Miss.,
twenty miles east of Brookhaven, was
visited about 12.15 p. m. on the 221,
by a desti active cyclone. The town
was completely destroyed, only three
houses being left, which are dwellings
on the outskirts. Nothing like it was
ever seen in that section. Ten
persons were killed instantly'—five
white and five colored.
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It is said that the remains of
President Lincoln are not inclosed in
t he marble sarcophagus which stands
in thc vestibule leading to the tomb*
as has been generally supposed, but
are buried under a portion of the
immense granite pile forming his
monument, and are. now' in a state of
complete petrifaction, the form and
even the features of the dead presi¬
dent being preserved.
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A special Washington dispatch
dated the 24th, to thc Atlanta Con¬
stitution, says:
‘*Y r our correspondent here has
positive information that Mr. Hill’s
condition is exceedingly critical, and
that hi« friends may prepare for the
worst at any moment. Ilis wound is
still uuhealed, and he can eat no solid
food. He is very much depressed,
and will scarcely take the liquid food
that his attendants prepare for him.
I am iuforrned that his physicians
have said there is no hope for his
recovery beyond the mifaculous cures
that are said to have been affected at
Eureka Springs, where he has gone
attended by bis two sous and his \
wife.
While very much depressed, Mr.
Hill is represented as being perfectly
resigned to the worst.
The greatest interest is manifested
in his case here, and the anxiety with
which any news from him is looked
for indicates that those best acquaint-
ed with the case expect decisive
results at no distant day.
The deepest sympathy is ex-
pressed by leading men of bath j
parties, aud it is conceded on all
sides that the senate has lost the
most, eloquent orator it has had since
the days of Clay*
A gentleman who is acquainted
with the details of Governor Brown,s j
case, tells us that a great deal j
depends on the effect of the senator's
rcsentVacation in thc wnrni belt,
;e felt the liveliest uneasiness when
Brown left Washington, and
has heard nothing yet of a definite
character. It was his opinion that
senator's lung was affected, and
that unless the course of the trouble
was checked by the present trip, it
would liecome very serious.
THE ELBE ETON CONNECTION.
Augusta Chronicle.
The railway meeting is to taAe
place at E’.berton, on the May sale
day, and not at Washington, as we
mistakenly stated yesterday. The
correction of the error gives us
occasion to express the further
opinion that it would be a good thing
to have a meeting at Washington as
well as at Elberton, although a
different day should be selected. The
people of Augusta are in earnest
about securing this important railway
connection, and it is equally desira¬
ble for Washington and Elberton.
To close the gap between these two
places would not cost a great deal.
The distance is short of 20 miles,
and, at the rate of construction of the
Augusta and Knoxville line, not
more than $150,000 would be re¬
quired to build the road. This sum
ought to be easily raised, seeing that
the country to be opened will be
most valuable to the commerce of
Augusta.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, D. C., Hpril 24th, 1882.
The last week has not been an cs
pccially good one for Robeson, as the
House acquitted itself by practically
sitting down on*one or two of his pet
•schemes —especially the navy recon
struction job. There would not be
so much objection to the Navy bill
if it were at all certain tha^ money
appropriated for that purpose would
be honestly expended. • All Ameri¬
cans feel more or less ashamed of
the position we occupy among the
Nations as a maratime power, and
would be willing to see it somewhat
improved. But this condition of
affairs is as much due to Robeson and
his course as Secretary of the Na.v
as to all other things combined and
there is a feeling that he is not the
proper person to manipulate the wors.
of building up. The present scheme
is believed to be a job, and as such it
has been in exceedingly bad odor.
There is one thing Robeson can do
and have his own way about it—he
can run the Speaker, and, at the pres
ent rate, if he dont run him into the
ground, politically speaking, before
the end of his term 1 shall be disap¬
pointed. In fact it is as good as
done already. No speaker has ever
been so unpopular or made such an
unmitigated partisan ass of himself.
The Shiphcrd investigation has
taken something of a diflerent turn
this week and promises after all to be
somewhat interesting, Shipberd
himself, who has for the time disap¬
peared from the scene, has made the
impreesiou here that he is a smart,
quick wilted person, who may or may
not be telling the truth, but who is
clever enough to make what he says
look like the truth. His half confi¬
dences and his refusal to testify on
many most important points weaken
the force of what he has revealed so
far that unless he can hereafter
substantiate the material poiufcs by
other evidence than his own what he
has said will amount to but little.
He has been, on the whole, too smart
tor tlie committee, which, in the
beginning, was not much inclined, so
far as the republican part of it went,
to discover more than it could help,
They have curiously missed the real
object of tlie inquiry, whether pur-
posely or through dullness it is not
easy to say. It may be that by the
time this is in print we shall have
got at something really important.
The difference between thc two
republican Senators from Peunaylva*
nia and their followers is, so far as
appearances now go, irreconcilable,
Senator Mitchell says openly that he
intends from this time forth to fight
Don Cameron either iu or out of the
party* Gov. Curtin has urged upon
the democratic senators that the wise
policy of the democrats in the Senate
will be to stand by senator
in voting on the President’s nomina-
tions. As a matter of policy from a
p!»rfy standpoint there can bn no
question of this. But the practice of
many of the tie mot* fa tic senators is to
permit personal consi leratsons to
outweigh party advantages, and soruc
of them will doubtles continue to
prefer Don Cameron s dinners and
lunches, and conclude that it will not
pay them to help widen the breach iu
the republican party of Pennsylvania
at the expense of giving them up.
President pro tem Davis, of the
senate, is too big for all the chairs
in the chamber and had, a day or
two ago, his third breakdown since
he became a member of that body
7’he trouble with the Illinois senator
is that he forgets an ordinary chair
cannot sustain the four hundred-
pound mass of flesh which belongs to
him. He ought to follow the example
of the late Senator Dixon II. Lewis,
and only use cha>rs specially con
structed to stand the strain. Judge
Davis, who had put another senator
in the big, strongly-braced chair
which he occupies as presiding officer
of the Senate, had been strolling
around to stretch his legs, and pas-
sing by the chair which belongs to
senator Brown, of Georgia, and is
abundantly able to hold his weight
one hundred and twenty pounds, he
took a notion to rest himself. He
san/j into the chair, and the chair
sank to the floor in broken pieces,
w/iieh were strewed all over the Judge
as he lay sprawling. As he scrambled
to his feet with a sense of injured
dignity fresh upon him he saw that
senator Butler, of .South Carolina,
who occupies the next seat, was
smiling broadly, and his ear caught
the whisper of some one on the other
side styling him the Jumbo” of the
senate. He was so indignant
he stalked around the senate chamber
several tim^s, and then, becoming
little more composed, he selected
another chair after a critical inspec¬
tion and deposited himself in it.
Senator Butler went over to him
mollifying purposes, but the Judge
waved him olf and declined to listen
to him. On the lastoocasiou that he
bursted through a chair Mr.
who was then in the senate, chuckled
audibly, and he would not take any
notice of him fer a week after.
Phono.
ii LOOM ING li R K WSTK R.
The Eccentric -Esthete or the
Cabini.t of Arthur.
Washington special to Chicago Times.
One member of President Arthur's
cabinet is doing all he can to make
himself unpopular with the leading
men of thc capitoi. Mr. Brewster’s
eccentricities at first merely elicited
a smile, but now that the attorney
general is developing each a reputa¬
tion for affectation his unpopularity
is almost universal in Washington
official and social circles. In the first
place, Mr. Brewster annoys nearfy
every one by his absurd presumptions
in connection with the office that he
now holds. No one who ever held
the position of attorney general of
the United States wa 3 so thoroughly
happy and pleased with it as the
present incumbent. It is said of him
that he never makes a move in the
department or prepares a decision
that he does not immediately send it
offto the newspapers to be published,
and that his career as a cabinet officer
hag thus far been one long continued
POSING BEFORE. THE PUBLIC
It is in society life, however, that
Mr. Brewster has incurred the great¬
est dislike. Everyone coucedes his
ability as a lawyer, however much his
clerks may dislike his velvet coat and
ruffles at his desk at the department,
Mr. Brewster were a man of perfect
ta $te, he would dress and conduct
himself in such a manner as to attract
as little attention as possible to his
terribly deformed face,* but almost
everything he does or directs to be
clone is wdth the view of centering
attention upon himself. His ridieu-
i ous carriage, emblazoned with a coat
G f arms the size of a pie-plate, aud
the embroidered trappings of his
horns, also covered with armorial
bearings, have long been the laugb-
ing stock of the town. Mr.
Brewster is not a descendant of
particularly distinguished people. No
one would think of bringing it up
against him, however, were it not for
his ridiculous assumptions. In society
he commits the unpardonable crime
of not being punctual at dinner
engagements. Probably there is no
higher crime Vr.own in W; -* hv.rfon
saeiety than for a man to he
late at a dinner ;
Yet it is Mr. Brewster's custom to
delay his arrival fully three quarters
of an hour beyond the time when the
guests are requested to be at the
table. At a dinner recently given by
Alexander H. Stephens, in honor of
the attorney general, the hour set for
dinner was half past six. All of the
guests were promptly in Mr. Steph-
ens'parlors at the time designated
with the exception of Mr. Brewster,
Half an hour passed and no Mr.
Brewster and no message. Then, to
explaiu his absence, Mr, Stephens
said : -Evidently Mr. Brewster has
been detained ; and, gentlemen, 1 will
not ask you to wait any longer. The
guests then sab down at the table.
Fifteen minutes afterward the door
was opened and a colored servant
announced with a great flourish : ‘The
attorney general of the United States.’
Mr. Brewster entered with the air of
a favorite actor appearing before au
admiring audience in a popular rale,
his costume
was elaborate, and peculiar enough
for a masked ball His coat was a
high cut, long tailed dress coat of
the ancient pattern, made from blue
cloth, nearly a sky-blue, and trimmed
with brass buttons. His waistcoat
was white and covered with gold
chains. Ground his neck was a tie
wound many times, after the fashion
of Beau Brumtnel. His shirt was
ruffled elaborately, the ruffles on the
sleeves descending to the first joint
of the fingers. Ilia trousers were
blac/L His shoes were patent leather
pumps, ornamented w-ith huge silver
buckles. This singular costume,
taken in connection with the hideous-
ly deformed face of the newly arrived
guest, created a raarAed sensation.
The attorney general glanced at Mr
Stephens in his most supercilious
affected way, and said: ‘Ah, Mr.
Stephens, you must really excuse me
for being so late ; but the fact is,
MY YOUNG SECRETARY,
who looks after all my social affairs
and invitations, assured me that your
dinner was at half past seven. 1[ it
had not been for his error I should
not have kept you in waiting.’ Mr.
Stephens, who is one of the plainest
simplest mannered men, accepted Mr.
Brewster’s apology in good faith. But
there were? unfortunately for Mr.
Brewster, at the table several gentle-
men who had been invited, and heard
him sing the same sang with slight
variations.
Shortly after Mr. Brewster’s arrival
111 t ‘ : ® Ct U’, a very interesting story
was printed to account for the
deformity of his fec.\ It was said
that lie had been a youthful hero, who
had plunged into the fire to rescue a
young sister, who would have been
burned t<5 death had it not been for
his bravery, and in this act he
received the terrible scars that have
made him such a marked figure
through life. A prominent Philadel¬
phian says that this story is only one
of Mr. Brewster’s phasings, as there
is no truth in it; that when an infant
in the arms of a nurse, who had
quarreled with a friend, Baby Brew¬
ster was dropped into the fire. The
deformity was simply thc result of
misfortune.
The abovo is given as a mere
illustration of a thousand and one
eccentricities of the new attorney
general. There are quite a number
of public men who are so exercised
at Mr..Brewster s assumptions that
they have ventured to criticise the
attorney general to the president,
but they have received verj r little
encouragement there, as the presi¬
dent naturally does not hear of the
most ridiculous of Mr. Brewster’s
attempts to startle the Warhington
public, and, having confidence in his
ability and integrity, he is perfectly
willing to put up with all his
peculiarities.
GEORGIA’S BRIGHT EXAMPLE.
Texarkaim Democrat.
The legislature has tac/cied the
railroads by as many as two or three
bills, the object being the regulation
of passenger and freight rates, and
to prevent odious discriminations
against towns, cities, etc. Wherever
the subject has been legislated upon,
the courts have sustained the law;
the freights have bten equalized and
reduced, as well as passenger fare,
Georgia, as she always docs, took the
lead in the good wor k, and everything
under the mission is jr«\rking
most. admirably. It was said vvhen
the law was passed creating thc
commission to supervise the rates of
fare and freight, that it would prove
a finisher to railroad building in that
state. The result has wonderfully
put at fault all those prophets of ill.
More and grander enterprises have
been undertaken since, than ever
before. The fact is, the cheaper the
rate of travel the more travel there
will be, thus what is a losshyreduc-
tion of rates, is more than cornpen-
sated for by increase of travel. We
. may expect the same line of argu-
ment to prevail here that was used
there, and with a similar result we
dare believe. Any how, it is worth
the experiment, and we honor thc
pluck of those who are not afraid to
maAe the venture. It is a contagious
legislation, for since Georgia inaugu¬
rated tlie law of supervision, several
of her sisters have gallantly followed
in her wake.
LOOKING INTO TORNADOES.
TIIE SIGNAL SERVICE BUREAU INVES¬
TIGATING THEIR CAUSES AND FRE¬
QUENCY.
Washington, April 18. —General
Z/azen, the chief signal officer, is
paying much attention to the subject
of tornadoes, with a view to obtain-
ing so clear a knowledge of thi 3 class
j j 0 f storms that some of their evils
ma y be mitigated. Hll who live in
regions that are liable to be often
visited by these destructive winds
will be interested to £now that already
Sergeant Finley is about to start out
to investigate the trac£ of the storms
which swept over Michigan, Iowa,
and Illinois on the 6 th inst. Sergeant
Fiuley has done some veyy valuable
work on this subject. Last year the
signal service issued, as one of its
professional papers, a very important
monograph on thc character of the
storms of May 29 and June 30 1879.
The paper was very elaborate, and
there is now ia press another profes-
sional paper by the same writer,
which contains a tabulated statement
of 609 tornadoes and some generali¬
zations from their facts, with some
suggestions as to the methods that
ought to be pursued in the investiga-
tions of the storms. The 6 u0 storms
cover a period of eighty seven years,
and the whole country. Their exam
ination leads to the conclusions
tornadoes occur most frequently in
summer, and in the month of June
They haye occurred, however,
frequently in April and July, and in
May and September than in August.
Kansas is the Mate that has been
most afflicted, and that notwith¬
standing the fact that the period
during which tornadoes have visited
has been comparatively short. The
State has had sixty two tornadoes
from 1859 to 1881. Illinois has had
fifty four from 1854 to 1881. Mis-
souri has had forty four from 1814
to 1881. New York ha, had
five from 1831 to 1881. Georgia,
thirty three from 1804 to 1881; Iowa,
thirty one from 1854 to 1881 ; Ohio,
twenty eight from 1823 to 1881;
Indiana, twenty seven from 185^ to
1880. The States and Territories
that have had only one each from
1794 to 1881, are Colorado, Califor
nia, Indian Territory, Nevada, New
Mexico, Montana, Rhode Island,
West Virginia and .Wyoming. Thc
storms occur most frequently from 5
to 6 in the afternoon, although there
is no hour of the day that has been
entirely free from them.
The average width of the path of
destruction is 1,085 feet, and the
storm cloud runs with a velocity of
from twelve to sixty miles. The
wind within the vortex sometimes
attains a velocity of 800 miles an hour,
the average velocity being 392 miles.
JUMBO CARESSES THE OTHER
ELEPHANTS.
New l'ark special to Chicago Tribune.
Jumbo was introduced to two
his fellow capti\es this morning.
Guarded by Newman ^nd Scott, and
trailing a massive chain attached to
his hind leg, he was led out upon the
track of the hippodrome. The doors
leading to the menagerie were thrown
open, and Gypsy and Prince, two of
the largest Of the herd of twenty one
elephants, were led in. Mr. Barnum,
the keepers and a few attendants
curiously . . watched . , , the i, ,. , 5V ITU hen
___ meeting.
the elephants caught sight of each
other they breathed hard, elevated
their hn<?e oar^ and whisked their
tails. Gypsy ami Prince appeared
dumbfounded at the huge monster
before them. Jumbo trumpet ! joy¬
fully and showed himself inclined to
be sociable, He approached the
others, and. putting out his long
trunk affectionatefy, caressed them.
They responded in like manner. 2’he
three encircled one another like a
huge boa-constrictor in mid-air.
Jumbo’s eyes glistened and his tail
wagged with satisfaction. At the
afternoon performance Jumbo was in
so good condition that he was allowed
to maAe his first public appearance
on the track. Then Ji.mbo was
unfastened, and willingly followed
them. He evidently looked on the
baby with scorn, for he did not
vouchsafe the little quadruped the
slightest notice, but Queen he evident¬
ly regarded with interest. lie fon¬
dled her with his trunk, and appeared
inclined to begin a flirtation. The
Jumbo mail from England still
continues. Several packages of
Jumbo paste were received, together
with cards and letters addressed
simply to Mr. Jumbo, New York.
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