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THE NEWS.
TOCCOA, GEORGIA.
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Politically, according to close observ¬
ers, France is in a snarl.
The Indian youth are to be educated,
whether they wish it or not.
Up to the last few years, the growth of
population in the West had been rapid
enough to keep pace with railway exten¬
sion.
Emperor William, in his last speech
from tho thtonc, announced that deposits
in German savings banks had increased
by $50,000,000.
From having the dirtiest city in the
United States Pittsburg has become one
of the cleanest, the change being due
to the burning of natural gas in place of
coal.
A correspondent of the New York
World makes the discovery that the let¬
ter A appears in the name or every Presi¬
dent the country has had, except in that
of John Tyler.
That is a large flgme—$18,000,000,-
©00. That reoresents the actual value ol
the real estate of New York, and is an
increase of nearly 2.4 per cent, over that
of the previous year.
Some idea of how lar in advance the
monthly magazines are made up may be
had from the statement in the New York
Star that the March number ol Scribner's
went to press in January.
Leopold, King of the Belgians, has
never signed a death warrant, and, al¬
though the statute has never been re¬
pealed, capital punishment is practi¬
cally abolished in Belgium.
Apropos of the tremendous length of
»omc of the newest ocean steamships, the
Philadelphia Times remarks sententi-
ously: “The next vessel built by an
ocean steamship company will be a
bridge. ”
The New York Commercial Advertiser
says “The rapid growth of the West was
due largely to the emigration of South¬
ern whites to the new States, Nearly
one-third of the active colonists of the
West were Southern born men.”
The former Collector of the Port ol
New York aud later American Consul at
London, Gem al E. A. Merritt, tells a
Chicago reporter that the question ol
Canadian annexation is agitated even
more in England than it is in Canada.
lt is said that the supply or canoed
goods increases much faster than the
demand, notably iu case of tomatoes, ol
wh cli there were packed last year 79,.
6. 0,000 cans, whose cost to producers
was $6,000,000, and which will take
from cons «a little more thaa
$ 8 , 000 , 000 .
Tha .'ulgarlans are hardly up to the
modern ide ts of civilization. At balls
given by royalty the guests eat with
their fingers, wipe their hands on their
trousers or on their hair; when wearied
from dancing remove their shoes and go
about barefooted and conduct them
selves in many other ways which seem
strange to those accustomed to the usages
©f modern polite society.
It. is proposed to issue paper money in
Eng and of a denomination as small as
half a sovereign. The annual loss to
traders by the depre iation of gold coin
of that denomination is something like
$550,1.09, and it claimed that much" of
this would be saved were paper used.
The half sovereign is an inconvenient
and easily lost coin, which is another
argument in favor of paper.
The Manufacturers' Record, of Balti¬
,
more, is pleased to think that “every ¬
thing seems to indicate that the whole
South has entered upon what must be
called a ‘boom’ in the absence of any
better name for it. Enterprises are
being organi ed, we might almost say,
by the hundreds, and no one need be
surprised at any amount of industrial
activity during the next few months.”
One would think that all the wolves
in France had been killed before this,
but during the past year 701 of these
ravenous animals have been killed, for
which the Government paid $10,009 in
premiums. In 1887 700 wolves were
killed, and 900 the year before. Two
of the wolves killed last year had at-
ta ked human beings and upon these
two premiums of $40 were paid upon
each.
The United States is not the only
country where the par value of silver
coin is greater than its bullion worth.
It is said that there is nearly $500,000
of small silver in circulation in Eugland
which has been manufactured at a profit
by so-called “counterfeiters." The
gains of the manufacturers is said to be
as high as fifty to seventy per cent.,
whilo the coin is fully up to the standard
of purity.
The latest Missouri tragedy is one ol
the most remarkable in the annals of love
or murder. Having four daughters,
Henry Thomas could have spared some
of them. But when two young men
eloped with the two older ones he went
after them with buckshot, killing all
but one daughter. On his way home he
heard that two more of his girls had
eloped. These he soon recovered, but
before he could reach his home unkind
fate overtook him in the shape of a mob,
and the three daughters, besides having
no huBbanAa^wuu-n the loss of ja father.
SOUTHERN
CULLINGS.
ADJUST ITEMS MOST INTEREST¬
INGLY BRIEFED.
ACCIDENTS ON THE BAILBOADS, ETC.—DEATH O*
PROMINENT PEOPLE—TEMPERANCE, BOCIAJ
AND RELIGIOUS ITEMS.
AI.ABAMA.
At a meeting of the stockholders oi
the Birmingham Mining and Manufac¬
hundred turing Co., it was decided to build a
ton furnace at Gate City at
once. The company will issue $300,006
bonds The money to be applied tc
building the furnace and improving the
company’s property.
The stockholders of the Sloss Iron and
Steel Co., met in Birmingham on
f-how Wednesday. The reports of officers
that duiing the last twelve months
the furnaces of the company were in
blast a little less than one-third of the
time on account of building and repairs,
but after paying operating exp n-es, they
paid interest on the first mortgage bonds
f, This n< ? showing P er cent, on the i; come bonds.
and shows was a startling revelation,
that iron-making in the
Southern states is pr baluy the best pay¬
ing business in the South.
A shooting affray occurred at Bessemer
on ly Tuesday. John Avery sh't and bad¬
wounded Wesley Baninger and Ed
Whitehead. All the parties are white.
Avery and Barringer were formerlv part
ners in a barber shop.- Avery left there
several weeks ago, and then Barringer
opened a shop in the Grand Hotel. Tues-
day, Avery returned and demanded of
Barringer a half interest in the latter’s
new ed he shop. When bis demand was refus¬
barrel went off, and borrowed a double
shot gun, returned to the door ot
the shop and opened fire. The first load
struck Ed Wilson, an employe, in the leg.
1 he second was lodged in Barringer’s
back as he ran put of thejjoor.
GEORGIA.
Several colored men have applied foi
places us policemen in the reorganization
of the force at Atlanta.
H. F. Hover, an alleged anarchist,
who styles himself “Grand Worthy Sage
of the Co-operative Workers of Amer¬
ica,” is busy stirring up the ignorant
class of Atlanta’s colored people. He
comes from Hickory, N. C.
Governor Gordon decided the contest¬
ed election case of W. B. VanValken-
burg against J. J. Vocelle, for the office
of ordinary of Camden county. The
commission was ordered to be issued to
Vocelle, on the ground that VanValken-
burg failed to exhibit to the governor a
notice of contest in writing served upon
Vocelle in accordance with the law.
Clias. F. McCay, A. M., LL. D., died
Wednesday in Baltimore. He was once
a resident of Augusta, and his remains
were brought there for interment. He
was president of Franklin college, at
Athens, from 1846 to 1853, and resigned
to accept the presidency of the South
Carolina university at Columbia. From
there he came to Augusta iu 1858, and
became the cashier in the Augusta Sav¬
ings bank. He left Augusta in 1869 fox
Baltimore, where he has since resided.
Adam Eeck, an aged negro, died on
Wednesday, at his little home in Bell-
wood, just-outside Atlanta. Beck is said
to have been a miser, and is considered
one of the richest negroes about Atlanta.
He hoarded his wealth, his greatest de¬
light being counting his money and
talking about his possessions. lie was a
strong healthy man, and his death was
the result of a short illness. He leaves
no relatives so far as is known and made
no will. His property was estimated at
from $8,000 to $10,000.
The corner stone of the old Midway
church, in Liberty county, was relaid
Wednesday with notable ceremony.
From all over the county, and from ad¬
joining counties, men and women came,
despite the rain. Savannah was repre¬
sented by several prominent citizens.
Many former residents of Liberty county
assisted in the exercises. The old cor¬
ner stone, which was laid with such im¬
posing ceremony in 1852, was taken up
by the soldiers during the War, and the
treasure stolen, but the corner stone itsell
was recovered, and Wednesday it was
restored to its
John L. Adams, the alleged forger and
“faster,” died at Macon on Wedn >sday,
without the slightest struggle. He died
in his sleep. He had been sleeping very
peacefully when the watchess y his bed¬
side noticed a cessation of breathing,and
on examination he was found to be dead.
He had been conscious ail day. but spoke
but little, and then in a whisper so faint
that it could hardly be heard. He had
entered upon his twenty seventh day of
fastinar, and but for the great mental
pressure upon him, nature m «rht have
lasted several days lo ger. He was
greatly emaciated. Adams, during his
fast, expressed a desire that he be not
buried too soon after his death.
MISSISSIPPI.
The beard of mayor and aldermen ol
the city of Jackson, has fixed the price
for license to retail spirituous liquors
at $1,000 for the the' city, and for malt
liquors at $500 for state and $500
for the city. Under the old law the sa¬
loon tax did not exceed $400.
MISSOURI.
Sheriff Johnson, of Ozark, was
aroused from sleep by a disturbance in
the jail, which, on immediate investiga¬
tion by the officer, proved to be a general
fight among the prisoners. Since court
adjourned there last Friday, the Ozark
jail has been crowded to its utmost ca¬
pacity by the ex-Bald Knobbers and
other offenders who were committed foi
failing them to pay the fines assessed against
by Judge Hubbard, The whole
twenty-three prisoners were in a general
fight when Sheriff Johnson entered the
jail and commanded peace.
A burglar broke into the house of
Charles 8. Cryster, of Independence, by
using He forceps to unlock the front door.
was first discovered in the bedroom
of Mr. and Mrs. Cornell Cryster, who
had been aroused by some slight noise.
family, Thinking it was some member ot the
they were asked what was
wanted, and were told to keep still or
their heads would be blown off. Mr.
started immediately jumped out of bed
toward the burglar, when
the latter fired at him, but missed, the
bullet passing through the headboard of
the bed and into the bedclothes, where
was afterwards found. The robber
with over $5,000 in booty.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Rev. Byron Holly, rector of St. Phil¬
Church, of Atlanta, has been called
the rectoiship of Christ Episcopal
of Greenville.
At Darlmgton, Joseph W. James, a
white man, and Lewis and Robert
the two negroes, have been convict¬
of murder of James’ father,
NORTH CAROLINA.
At Goldsboro, in the course of an
affray in a barroom between Robert Ham
sind Joh'i Mehan, a man named Pearsell
handed Ham a kuife. Ham, with the
knife, almost disemboweled Mehan,
wuose injuries are very serious. Ham
so ne titne ago stabbed and killed Police
Officer Johnson, at Goldsboro, and is a
desperate man.
Letters received at Raleigh state, that
the negro exodusters, who have gone iu
such numbers from Dm bam to Missis¬
sippi, are not having such delightful
t Ruffin, mes as they looked forward to. Sam
Tom Holt and others went tc
Mississippi with the first of the large
parties. High discovered plots aud
exposed Holt them, whereupon Ruffin and
attacked High, and in a quarrel on
arriving in Mi ssissippi, Ruffin was shot
in the arm aid Holt in the leg. This so
exaspeiated the Durham negroes that
they eudeavored to kill High. The feel¬
ing Richardson, against him ran so strong that Mr.
the great cotton planter
who employed these laborers, to save
High's life, had him shipped away in a
box, labeled as merchand.se.
TENNESSEE.
A young contractor who was employed
by the Stone Portland Co., in Chatta¬
nooga, to open a new street, skipped out
wrth $555 of the company’s money, given
him with which to pay off the hands for
their week’s w ork.
VIRGINIA.
Two hot-blooded young society lights
had a misunderstanding at Lexington,
Forty-two on Monday, and settled it with a duel.
rounds were fired w r ith 32-
calibre Colt’s dueling pistols, but not a
hit was made. A love affair was the
cause of it.
W. Harvey Wilson, editor of the Daily
Record at Richmond, was arrested Mon¬
day charged with being about to com-
mit a breach of the peace by engaging in
a duel with Phil Shields, editor of tbe
Journal. The editors had a difficulty on
the street street some days ago, caused
by publication in the Law Journal which
Wilson thought cast a reflection upon
bis professional conduct.
WEST VIRGINIA.
The supreme court at Charleston de¬
cided in the Goff-Wilson gubernatorial
mandamus case that Governor Wilson is
entitled to hold over until such time as
the contest between Fleming and Goff
shall have been settled, or, in other
words, Goff is not entitled to the seat,
on the ground that returns were not de¬
clared by tbe legislature. The fight will
now be between Wilson and Carr on quo
warranto proceedings.
EDITOR MURDERED,
For some weeks, CapL F. W. Daw¬
son, the editor of the Charleston, S. C.,
News and Courier suspected that Dr. T.
B. McDow, a young physician, a married
man with an im-avorv reputation, had
been showing attentions to a y oung girl
employed as a nurse girl in Capt.Dawson’s
family. He asked die chief of police to
del: il a detective to shadow the girl,
stating that if she was honorably courted
he would have n uhing to say, but that
he did not desire his children to be in¬
trusted to a girl who was not strictly
honest. The detective accordingly
shadowed the girl. Ou Monday morn-
ing he saw her get on a Rutledge avenue
j-tr. et car, where she was soon joined
b Dr. MeDow, the murderer. The de¬
tective followed the pair for several
hours, at d submitted a report in writing
o the chief ol police, who communicated
iD details t > C’apt. Dawson on Tuesday.
Capt. Dawson 1 ft his office at 3:40 p.
m., aud was found murdered about 6:30
in the office < f Dr. McDow. His face
was found badly beaten and a pistol bullet was
in his lie; rt. It is supposed that
lie we it to Dr. McDjw’s to remonstrate
with him—a married man and the father
of several children—against his attentions
to his maid servant, and that Dr. McDow
shot him after the two had been engaged
dered in a scrimmage. The body of the mur¬
man had, in the meantime, lain
in the < lfics of the murderer, not one
hundred yards from h s own residenc.
Iter the murder, McDow disappeared
til 6:30 p. m., when he appeared at the
police station and surrendered himself.
CeDow is said to be tbe only doctor is
Charleston who is not a member of the
State Medic..1 Society. He married some
years ago the daughter of C. C. Ahrens,
a r ch retired grocer, and it is known
that the police have been asked te
shadow him several times. After mur-
d' ring his victim, it is said, Dr. MeDow
< ft ihe body, weltering in blood, lying
n the floor, locked his office door and
went out to a corner grocery shop.
There is evidence that he tried to bury
the corpse of his victim, but that in the
meantime suspicions bad got out, and
finally three hours after he had killed his
victim, he voluntarily surrendered
li nuelf to the police authorities.
C'apt. Dawson was a native of England,
but he passtd the greater part of his life
in the Southern States. Early in the
War, Commodore Robert B. Pegram, of
the Confederate Navy, was in English
waters in command of the Nashville.
Dawson asked him for passage to the
Southern States as he wished to join the
Confederate army. The gallant Dawson
on reaching the South went into the navy
and afterwards joined the aitillery branch.
He was on Gen. Longstreet’s staff in the
Knoxville campaign, and served with
conspicuous gallantry until the close of
the War. He was an intimate friend of
Gen. Lae, and was regarded by all as one
of the most chivalrous and gallant sol¬
diers and officers of the Confederacy.
PROHIBITION DEFEATED.
Returns from the New' Hampshire
election show' that the constitu¬
tional prohibition amendment has
been defeated by a decided majority.
Of the cities, Nashua apjiears the only
giving one voting iu favor of the amendment,
it 202 majority. Carroll and
Coos counties are the only ones that show
indications of having favored the amend¬
ment, although Grafton county may
show a small majority, but not the nec¬
essary two-thirds. If the -remaining
towns cast the same relative vote in com¬
parison already with that of last Fall as those
heard from, the total vote in the
state on tbe amendment will be about
16,000.
VESSEL SUNK.
The steamer William Coulman arrived
from Gonaives, Hayti, at New York on
Wednesday. She reports that the gun¬
boat Dessalines, of Legitime’s navy, ar¬
rived off that port and opened fire on
both forts at the entrance of the port.
The canonnading was continued for two
hours, but no particular damage was
done. The forts returned the fire, and
in a short time the Dessalines put out to
sea. The supposition is that three well
directed shots from the fort struck the
steamer. The general belief is that the
Dessalines has sunk with all on board.
The Dessalines foundered, it is said, off
St. Maries.
THE WORLD
AT LARGE.
PICK UPS HERE , THERE AND
EVERYWHERE.
EUBOPE GETTING HEB ABMIES AND NAVIES INTO
CONDITION—THE LA BOB FIELD—PROGRESSIVE
IDEAS BEING AGITATED.
ited The Salvation Army has been proh’b-
by the authorities from carrying on
its work in Berlin, Germany.
A cable dispatch from Aquamina, that C'apt. west
coast of & frica, states
Holmes, of the whaling bark Sea Fox,
an officer and servant, were killed and
five of the crew killed by the explosion
if a whaling gun bomb.
The Spanish government has received
dispatches announcing the loss of the
steamer Remus, which had a Spanish
military expedition on board. The vessel
was wrecked off the Philippine drowned. Islands:
forty-two persons were
The locomotive of a freight train on
the Mahoney division, of the Reading
Railroad ran off the track at St. Nicholas,
Pa., on Monday. The engine and twelve
cars were wrecked. Benjamin Walker,
firemah, was instantly killed, and Con¬
ductor Joslin Gillsner lias since died from
his injuries.
A sensation has been in Cashmere by
the unearthing of a plot against ’the life
of the British Resident. The discovery
was made through letters left by ttie late
premier of Cashmere. These letters re¬
veal the design on the part of the Ma¬
harajah to poison the British Resident,
besides other treasonable plottings.
A boiler thirty feet long iu the forg¬
ing department of the Cleveland, Ohio,
Rolling Mills in the Southern part of the
city, exploded with terrific force on
Monday. One half of it went five hun¬
dred feet west and the other half sixteen
hundred feet east. Several buildings
were damaged, two men killed and elev¬
en persons—men, women and children—
injured.
Henry Campbell, M. P., private secre- libel
of Mr. Parnell, has brought suit for
against the London Times. The case
has been set for hearing, and the trial
will probably take place in May. The
suit is founded partly on the opening
speech made by Attorney Geueral Web¬
ster in the case of O’Donnell vs. Webster
and partly on a leading editorial publish¬
ed by the Times on July 7th last. This
is the first of a series of suits to be
brought against the Times.
The will of Isaiah V. Williamson, the
dead millionaire, who died iu Philadel¬
phia Pa., recently, was admitted to pro¬
bate in the register of wills office. The
estate will amount to between $8,000,000
and $9,000,000 exclusive of the fund of
$2,250,000 for the mechanical school.
The collateral inheritance tax payable $400,- to
the state will amount to between
000 and $500,000, and the expense of
settling the estate will reach about
$750,000.
Indianapolis, Ind., now has a double
police force and two police headquarters,
and nobody can tell how they will secure
pay. The board organized under the
bill passed and organized by the Legislature, force. met Tues¬ This
day a police
force was selected the ni*rht before, and
included a number of officers of the old
force. Part of the men reported and
the were sworn in and in assigned to duty. All
men sworn arc Democrats, the
Republicans of the old force under declining to
accept appointments the new
board. The patrolmen of the new board
were instructed to avoid a clash with the
old force.
The steamer Cobean arrived in New
on Sunday, bringing news of a bloody
battle between-Legitime’s and Hippo-
litt’s forces, and the massacre by the
victors. Legitime’s men were to elated
over their success at Grandsaline that
they immediately commenced to pillage
the town. One drunken soldier shot
one of the prisoners for some trifling
matter. This was the signal for a gen¬
eral outbreak on the part of the soldiers.
They rushed at the prisoners, shooting
and stabbing them right and left, and
the undisciplined horde proceeded to
break into houses and smash furniture,
abuse the women aud behave generally
like demons, winding up the atrocities
by firing the town.
At Norwood, N. Y., on Monday, E. L.
Smith, cashier of the Norwood Bank,
was when alone Charles in the building post-office about noon,
Phelps, a clerk,
entered and asked for some stamps.
Smith stepped info the vault to get them,
when turned Phelps quietly closed the door and
the combination, locking the
cashier in. The robber then turned to
the money drawer and took all the paper
money that it contained—$278—leaving
several hundred dollars in silver. Mean¬
while, a customer entered the bank and
saw' w T hat had happened. lie heard the
cashier calling: to him from the vault and,
being instructed as to the combination,
released him. Phelps, who was arrested,
is a young man and a native of Norwood.
He has fallen into bad habits of late and
is said to have become an opium eater.
A mob of about 2,000 people gathered
in front of the city hall at Milwaukee,
Wis., on Monday, to await the airival of
Sam Yip Ja and Hah Ding, two China¬
men, into charged with inveigling little girls
their laundries. They were disap¬
pointed, however, as the' officers took
the prisoners to the court room at a very
early hour. The crowd was very keep'- noisy
but not violent, about fifty officers
for ing it in check. The crowd hung around
several hours, when it suddenly left
and proceeded in a body to the west side,
where they went to smashing in windows
and gutting Chinese laundries. At one
point an unlucky Celestial fcli info the
hands of the mob, who began yelling for
a have rope fared to string him up, and he would
badly but for the courage him^until of
one policeman, who protected
assistance arrived.
TELEGRAPHIC.
After a discusvon of less than half at
hour, the Rhode Island Senate, by a vote
of 22 to 15, passed tbe resolution re-sub¬
the mitting the prohibitory amendment tc
constitution. The resolution must
dow pass the Assembly to be submitted
to the people in 1890.
A nest of three boilers at St. Nicholas
Collieiy, near Mahonoy City, Pa., ex¬
ploded with terrific effect. One of the
boilers was blown five hundred yards,
another was hurled through a black¬
smith shop, and the other was torn into
fragments. The boiler house and black¬
smith shop were wrecked. Several per¬
sons were killed.
DESTRUCTIVE.
A German irtillery officer has discov¬
ered a new powerful explosive for shells.
It is manufactured from carbolic acid.
A SOUTHERN QUESTION. |
fTOlF TO PREVENT THE RISE AND
spread of yellow fever.
Dr. W. C. Van Bibber, a prominent
ffiysican of Baltimore, read Md., has before published the
i paper recently by him
lluittmoie Academy of Medicine, upon
he prevention of yellow feTer in the
"outh. Dr. Vau Bibber’s treatise is a
notable contribution to the literature of
he terrible scourge, and abounds in val¬
uable suggestions as to the best means of
guarding against its rise and spread. Ar¬
guments are forcibly presented methods, in and favof
>f improved sanitary quarantine a
nore enlightened system, of of
n Southern cities. Upon the question
proper sanitary conditions, Dr. Yan Bib¬
ber says:
“In 1881, a paper was read before the
American Public Health Association, at
their meeting in Savannah, Ga., uhder
the title of ‘Two Suggestions Concern¬
ing Healthy Buildings.’ The first sug¬
gestion made was ‘to build houses upon
arches or piers in low flat grounds.
Man has the privilege of building under
his own control. He must take the
earth as he finds it, but one style of
building may be more healthy, conven¬
ient, and salubrious in one situation than
another. Instead of springing the
houses out of the ground in low, flat sit¬
uations, it is better to interpose a stratum
of air between the house and the ground.
If the house be built well up off the
ground, and the earth paved beneath it,
with no enclosed yards, then continued
cleanliness could be easily maintained.
The surface ventilation of the air would
be one prominent advantage of this style
Df building; surface drainage, an easy
abatement of certain nuisances, with
consequent increased healthfulness and
comfort would be the result.
“If Macclenny and Jacksonville and
Decatur had been built in this way, and
had been kept according to the intention
of such a style of building, their inhabi¬
tants would have been saved the recent
epidemic. This plan of building the
houses well off the ground, upon arches,
columns or piers, with clean hard pave¬
ments of brick or concrete underneath
and around them, I regard with great
favor; it would not only be an improve¬
ment in itself, but would bring after it
many other improvements. The objec¬
tions which have been raised against it
are the expense, the inconveniences and
tiie danger from violent storms. The ex¬
pense might be a little heavier at first,
but if all did it, this increased expense
would soon be equally distributed—if
the house cost more to build, the work¬
men would get more for building it, and
in this ivay it would not be considered a
burden amongst the poor. As to incon¬
veniences, if there be any, they are not
worth balancing against the gain, and
habit would soon make it cease to be
felt. The danger from violent storms
could be overcome by the supports of
of chimney stacks sprung from the
ground, or by supporting towers or
beams, by means of which the houses
could be firmly secured, and all danger
averted.
“It is difficult for some minds to divest
themselves of the early bias which they
have had from infancy, from building on
the ground with cellars, and pits and
sinks. These are not suited to low flat
lands in a warm climate; a sufficient
standard of cleanliness cannot be main¬
tained in their presence, or where they
sxi-t. The question as to how high the
building-line should be) off the ground,
is an important one, if it ever comes to
be considered as a matter of statute en-
ic’ment.”
Upon the subject of the quarantine
of the future, Dr. Van Bibber says:
“Let us speak of the attractive quar¬
antine of the future. In this, you will
see four houses situated at a proper dis¬
tance from each other, in the most ac¬
cessible point of the state, built and ap¬
pointed in a manner not only to make
them most efficient for the comfort of
the sick and afflicted citizens and stran¬
gers, but to serve also as schools and
models to teach private citizens how they
can preserve amongst themselves con¬
tinued cleanliness and give no foothold
to preventible disease. The humblest
man in the commonwealth canaot then
plead ignorance as to how he should and
must build his house and manage his
domestic affairs, so as to preserve his
own health, not injure that of his
neighbor, nor impair the reputa¬
tion of his state. These four
buildings should have ample communi¬
cation with each other and the out¬
side world by telegraph, telephone, and
what other appliances the future may
have in store. Then no one who is quar¬
antined will feel himself isolated or
harshly treated. The visitor from abroad
and the denizen can alike receive and
send messages from and to all points.
“In these establishments, all knowl¬
edge of yellow fever is to be centered;
here the disease can not only be treated,
but studied under the most favorable
circumstances; and from them, all nec¬
essary rules for its prevention should
emanate. They should be under the control
of the board of health, who should be well
selected and thoroughly competent, and
they should see that nothing be homelike wanting
to make the establishment as
and attractive as the most agreeable re¬
sort.”
TKULY HORRIBLE.
, On Spruce Creek, a father with nine
motherless children, joined with a wretch
of a womau in attempting to destroy the
lives of his entire family. Frank Conk-
wright, the father of' the children, is a
farmer tragedy, in good circumstances, had stood well who,prior with his
to this
neighbors. Ilia children are from three
\ ears to nineteeu years old, and because
they had objected to their father’s bad
conduct, they bad been severely chas¬
tised by the use of the lash and driven
from home out into the cold, and often
into driving storms. This has been go¬
ing on since Conkwright lost than his wife,
an upright woman, more three
years ago. As tbe children grew they
protested the more, until tbe father,who
bad become desperate, joined with Sal-
lie Holden and her cruel brothers—Jim,
Bill and Noble Holden—in a plan to ex
terminate the entire family. A bot¬
tle of deadly poison was procured,
Jim, tbe woman’s brother, entered the
same room and crept stealthily to the
bed and administered a dose, first to a
little boy aged three years, and then to a
daughter Dine years old. These two
poisoned unto death, the fatal dose was
then mixed in molasses and the drinking
water to be taken into the stomachs of
the rest of the children at breakfast. The
boy died, and in tbe afternoon the
daughter was also a corpse, and in the
meantime tha other children, except the
eldest sou, aged 19 years, who was sus¬
picious of hit father, had taken the
poison. The neighbors ars justly enrag¬
ed, and nothieg short of heavy stone
walls and iron dears could protect the
prisoners from thewr%tb of an indignant
people.
MATTERS IN
WASHINGTON.
OF COURSE, A CHANGE BEGETS
A CHANGE.
congress. j
In the Senate, on Wednesday, a reso-
lution author zing the committee on
coast defenses to sit during recess and i
to employ a clerk. * as introduced and
referred to the committee on contingent
;Th id he t-Tof
to the cons.deration o i
ness, and confirmed the fonowiug nomi- m
nations: A. C. Mellette, go* «
Dakota; L. B. Richardson, secreta y
Dakota; Cornelius A. Hanford, ot
Washington Territory, chief justice of
the supreme court of the territory of
Washington; George W. Irvin, of Mon-
tana, marshal of the United States, for
the territory of Montana; Smilie N.
Chambers, of Indiana, United ^States at-
torney for the district of Indiana;
George S. Batchellor, of New York, as*
sistant secretary of the treasury, vice
Hugh S. Thompson, resigned; Albert G.
Porter, of Indiana, envoy extraordinary ,
and minister plenipotentiary United
States to Italy; John A. Enander, of
Illinois, minister resident and consul
general of the United States to Den¬
mark; Walker Blaine, of Maine,
examiner of claims in the
State Department. The confirma-
tion of Walker Blaine was out of
the usual order and made by unanimous
consent, as a compliment to his father.
The position to which he is appointed “law is
practically that of legal adviser or
officer” of the state department, and its
incumbent necessarily occupies espe¬ Sec¬
cially confidential relations with the
retary.
NOTES.
Judge Carey, solicitor of the Treasury
Department, 1ms tendered his resigna-
lion to the President, to take effect
upon the qualification of his successor.
E. P. King, of Atlanta, has been ap¬
pointed assistant railway mail superin¬
tendent at a salary of $1,600, and $4
per day for expenses. Mr. King was
appointed inson by his Postmaster-General Dick-
before retirement.
The President has accepted the resig-
nation of Judge Durham as first comp¬
troller of the Treasury, to take effect
upon the qualification of his successor.
It is expected that similar action will be
taken soon in the cases of other treasury
officials who have tendered their resig¬
nations.
It is reported that at a cabinet meeting
on Tuesday, the question came up as to
who should be appointed asistant ssecreta-
ry of the interior. Secretary Noble reques -
ed that his assistant be Cyrus Bussey, of
New Orleans, La., but President Harrison
objected on the grounds that he had select-
ed an Indianian for the ae position in the
person of Col. W. W. Dudley. Secreta-
ry Noble immediately interposed heated his ob'
jections, which led to a very dis¬
cussion, in which Mr. Blaine opposed
the President.
A SCOURGE
Dipther’a is a more destructive scourge
thin yellow fever. In the little town ot
Gallitzen. 2’C00, Pennsylvania, with a popula¬
tion of in the past four months,
more than one hundred deaths have ce¬
urred.
Where Cauliflowers Thrive.
It is not generally known that nearly
eight-tenths of all the cauliflowers which
come to this market are grown within a
belt of about thirty miles on Long Is-
land. I'rom South old to Eiverhead
almost every farmer is devoted to their
c ulture, the climate and soil being par-
tioularly adapted the to their development.
Tho past year product was much
more than sufficient to supply the de¬
mands of the cities, so little houses were
erected near the boys railway stations, and
scores of chore were set to work
cutting There up the usually flowers aud fun pickling
them. is great in the
preparation of the pickles, so there is
generally no lack of volunteers for the
work.
A somewhat singular incident in the
growing of this p lant is that in no other
locality on Long Island, or for that
matter in the New England or Middle
States, have the farmers met with any
success in its perfect production. Tbe
result is that Suffolk County has a
monopoly of cauliflower, which gives an
income of nearly $200,000 a year —New
York Times.
XoTld$ 10 GUViJX
■THAT
JONN E. REDMOND
WILL SELL YOU PATTERNS TO
f)o Youfi Owp
In any Size wanted, from Two Inches up to Sixty {our.
Write to Him and get an Estimate of All Kinds of Graining,
Sign and House Painting, Varnishing, at
ROCK BOTTOM PRICES.
■o
He gives Agents an article with which they can make more money $5 than $8 they
ever made in all their lives. With these goods Agents can make from to and a
day. This is no Northern humbug. Inclose a two-cent stamp for postage,
you will receive by return mail free samples and full particulars of the business.
I also furnish Gold and Gilded letters, Emblems and Graining Ccmbs,
Mortars and Pestles for Druggists. I furnish Wire Banner Signs, and make a
specialty of Post Boards for the country. Address
JOHN E. REDMOND,
PICKENS, S. O.
TOCCOA MARBLE WORKS.
The Undersigned is Prepared to Furnish MARBLE,
9,
r II
i OF,
Carnot as a Carpenter.
The President of France is a first-claw
carpenter, and can handle the saw and
plane as well as any mechanic. It was
at Chabanais, in the Charente, where his
father possessed a chateau, that he earned
the trade. Carnot, senior, insisted that
all his children should learn some occu¬
pation; “there is no telling,” he used to
sav; “you may want it some day, for
live in strange times ” So Carnot,
«e
was put to the bench, and, ac-
cording to his professor,one M. Delarge,
who is still living acquitted himself
most honorably. In memory of thi>
an JlwSktiime[ b“ t T S “o™
master cabinet demauded maker in the audienc Faubourg
^ an e of
the chief of the State, and received a
re ply to the effect that the President
h F F t0 n eet his old fellow-
* sh with him
w()rkman a n d talk op •
mt , e ^_ C 'neayo Journal.
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DLHwl»VI?ll D| A _ niCSMITHINGs ___ J
IlflDCET HUIlwEl~ CUflCTIMfi wVIUImIIwIX
!
Manufacturing and Repairing
W ixvJrUJN /\wra Dj BUGGIES
—AND—
FARM IMPLEMENTS
Of all kinds.
JARRETT & SON.
TOCCOA, GEORGIA.
ROBERTS ROUSE,
TOCCOA CITY, GA-,
UBS. E. W. ROBERTS, Prop,
Mrs. Roberts als > has charge of thi
Railroad Eating House at Bowersvillq
<q a . Good accoinnv ‘atioas, good board,
at usual rates in first-class houses,
LEWIS DAVIS,
ATTOPNEY AT LAW-
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will practice in the counties of Haber-
•ham and Rabun of the Northwestern
Circuit, and Frank! m and Banks of the
Western Circuit. Prompt attention will
be given to all business entrusted to him.
The collection of debts will have spec¬
ial attention.
REAL - ESTATE.
CITY LOTS,
Farm and Mineral Lands
In tbe Piedmont R' gion, Georgia. Also
Or»nge Groves, Fruit and Vegetable
Farms for sale in Florida. Address
J. W. t&cLAURY,
TOCCOA, GEORGIA.
Don’t Fail to Call On
V. A. MATHESOS.
Who has Special Bargains in Various
Lines of Goods.
FINE DRESS GOODS,
>i|kai||iuA nlQlIO^S. ■■ Flfi.
■ Hn ■ wj 1§ I VI
_ *Tqo_
HARDWARE OF ALL KINDS.
Farmers’ Tools, Wagon and Buggy Ma¬
terial, Locks, Blacksmith's Tools, Sash. Hinges,
Bolts, Doors and
—EVERYTHING IN THE—
HARDWARE LINE,
COOK STOVES, STOVE PIPE,
AND WOODWARE p
I-ALSO-
DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINES.
TOCCOA. CA.
tastes Si lute
Of All Kinds and Style* from th*
plainest and lowest pricee, up to thd
most elaborate and costly. Ail wofk'
delivered, set up and satisfaction goar-j
an teed. Call at nay yard, sxamine
samples and learn prieas before par*
ehamng elsewhere. Address,
L. P. COOK,
TOOCOA. OA.