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TOCCOA, GEORGIA.
Says the New York Voice: “Strikes
lire not so numerous as formerly. In
1888 there were less than one-half as
many such conflicts between employers
and employes as there were in 1886. The
parties are coming to respect each other's
ri8ht and might. There ha3 been a
steady growth of sympathy with the la¬
boring men, but at the same time a
deeper determination to uphold the laws.
The people are determined to see fair
play whoever gets hurl.”
The vault in which the body of the
Austrian Crown Prince Rudolph has
been interred is under the old Church of
the Order of the Capucius, in Vienna.
The coffins of eighty members of the
House of Hapsburg lie there, some of
them, notably those of the famous
Empress Maria Theresa, and of her hus¬
band, Francis, being of pure silver.
Among others are those of the ill-fated
Maximilian, of Mexico, and also of Na¬
poleon IL, Duke of Reichstadt, the son
»f Napoleon I., and of his Austrian
wife. Empress Marie Louise.
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The “most recent and most Infernal
hiumph of American ingenuity,” the
dynamite cruiser Vesuvius, which re¬
cently made a speed of more than
twenty-six knots over a two mile course,
is not a cruiser in the sense that some
believe she is Intended to be. She is
limply a floating gun carnage of high
speed and light draught. Hei chief
function will be that of rapidly convey¬
ing her novel battery to the point where
It can best be used. But England, the
New York Tribune thinks, is not goingto
allow the United States to take the lead
in war projectiles. She is about to build
several vessels, each to have a single tur¬
ret for a very big gun capable of crack -
ing, if not piercing, the armor of the best
protected sea going iron clad.
Benner, the Western business prophet,
whose predictions for some years have
been closely verified, now prophesies a
great boom in business during 1889 and
1890. These are the years in his estima¬
tion in which to reap a fortune, for their
wonderful activity will, he says, be fol¬
lowed by a panic in 1891. “I predict,”
he says, “that the price of iron will ad¬
vance, and the average price for the year
1889 will be higher than tho average of
1888, and I also predict that there will
be a wonderful advance in prices for
Iron, stocks and all products and com-
modies in the year 1890. All business
will be prosperous: it will be a year of
good crops—the boom year in the period
of activity. In the beginning of the
year 1891 business will be at its heigth—
a great business inflation—pig iron $50
per ton in the markets of our country.
I predict that there will be a panic in
the year 1891. The overtrading and
general inflation of business and expan
sion of credit and confidence will pro¬
duce the reeult.”
Some remarkable comparisons between
agriculture in France and the United
States are made below. The French
statistics are from the agricultural census
of 1882, while those of America are from
the census of 1880. Of course, says the
American Agriculturist, our population,
and probably the number of small farms,
has greatly increased during the last
eight years. The total number and
acreage of farms in this country has also
Increased marvelously since the last cen-
»us, but in spite of this it will take more
than another century for the same pro¬
portion of the United States to be classed
as improved lands as in the case of
France.
tYance. United States.
Population 86,905,788 50,152,850
Total area,acres.... 158,603,000 1,930,940,500
Acres la farms.....121,035,529 530,081,885
Number of farms.. 5,072,000 4,008,907
Average acres In
farms 88.17 134
Farms under 8 acres. 2,107,007 4,852
Farms of 8 to 10
acres .... 1,805,878 184,886
Farms of 10 to 20
acres............. 709,152 254,746
Farms of 60 to 100
acres.............. 727,222 1,864, SSI
Farms over 100 acres 142,088 1,800,585
Shall the noble remnants of the na¬
tion’s primeval forest*, which furnish our
timber and guard the sources of our
great rivers, be preserved? A compre¬
hensive and seemingly practical plan for
this vastly important consummation is
outlined in the latest issue of the Garden
and Forest. The propositions of this
plan are, briefly, the withdrawal from
sale of all forest lands still belonging to
the Government; the committal of such
lands, at least temporarily, to the care
and guardianship of the United States
army, and the appointment, by the
President, of a commission to examine
thoroughly into the condition of all the
nation’* forests, and their relation to the
•gricultural regions watered by the
streams having their sources there, with
a view to preparing a report on which
the Government authorities could work.
, The idea also includes a system of train¬
ing, under Government auspices, which
should in time provide a suffi-
| cient number of thoroughly equipped
foresters for the service. All this, Frank
Leslie's aver*, seems eminently fitting
and practicable, and the plan is certain
at least of careful consideration. France
and Germany have excellent armies of
foresters, but comparably no forests to
ipeak of. Portions of Asia have been
denuded into deserts. In the United
State*, if the proper steps are taken in
ime, the national forests at least may be
rreserved, and so managed as to perpet-
lally reproduce and flourish, while at the
ame time furnishing an abundant supply
if timbir?
SOUTHERN
CULLINGS.
NEWSY ITEMS MOST INTEREST¬
INGLY BRIEFED.
iccTDiarrs os the bailroxds, etc.—death o»
PROMTS EXT PEOPLE— TEMPERASCH, SOCIAL
AND RELIGIOUS ITEMS.
ALABAMA.
It is given out at Florence, that a con¬
trolling interest in the Tennessee Coal,
Iron and Railway Co., has been sold to
Abraham 8. Hewitt, E. Cooper, M. Mur¬
phy and others, of New York city. The
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railway Co.,
is the largest and wealthiest corporation
doing business in the South, being a con¬
solidation of the Pratt Coke and Coal
and Co., the Coalburg Coal and Railway Co.,
one or two other important compa¬
nies. They own millions of acres of
coal and iron lands besides the famous
Pratt and Coalburg mines near Birming¬
ham, also several important branches
and mineral railroads of Alabama and
Tennessee, besides large blocks of stock
of several of the principal furnaces in
the two states.
John Purdy, a resident of Clay county
returned only a few weeks ago from Ar¬
izona. Purdy is about fifty-five years
old, and his family consisted of himself
and five grown daughters. About two
years ago the entire family joined the
Mormon church, and last December they
went tc Arizona. The party were toid
that they could secure government lands
which were very fertile and easily culti¬
vated. Purdy says that when he reached
the promised land desert he found it was prin¬
cipally an arid with patches of
timber here and there. The unoccupied
land was less fertile than the red hill
side he had left in Alabama. Two of
his daughters were made the third and
fourth wives of one of the elders who
had accompanied them West, and the
other became the fifth wife of an elder
daughters nearly sixty years old. His other two
were assigned to elders who
already had five or six wives, but they
rebelled and returned to Alabama with
their father. Purdy says that young
women and girls are taken from their
parents and married to old and repulsive
looking elders who already have several
wives. After marriage, they became the
slaves of their husbands, and by the most
terrible threats they are prevented from
making any public complaint of their
condition. He further says that the
statement made by Mormon Elders in the
South that polygamy is not practiced, is
untrue.
GEORGIA.
No less than 160 applicants appeared on
Monday before the Police Board of At¬
lanta for the position of policeman.
Rev. Sam Small will make the race fof
congressman in the Fall. He has not
decided which district he will run in.
The young postal clerk, H. S. Moore,
Jr., who murdered Legislator James
Hunt, is on trial for his life at Atlanta.
Mayor Glenn, of Atlanta, has directed
the police to “regulate” the Salvation
Army because some citizens complained
of them.
Yardmastei Balter and Conductor
Lavender, of the East Tennessee Road,
were arrested on Monday at Macon,
charged with robbing freigh t cars.
Atlanta is going through the throes of
a rapid transit fever, and if plans now
projected are carried through, it will be
one of the best “railroaded” cities in the
country.
At the session of Dooly superior court
just closed, the grand jury discussed and
decided upon the erection of a new
courthouse at Vienna. A committtee
was appointed by the grand jury to pre¬
pare plans and specifications.
A railroad construction company was
organized at Savannah Wednesday. It
expects jected to carry through several pro¬
roads, especially one connecting
with the Americus, and possibly the
road now built from Atlanta to Fort
Valley.
Jordan Harris, a colored farmer,
caught a small negro boy, Erwin Cato,
setting fire to his kitchen on Monday.
The child, who is only eight years old,
had placed the firebrands beneath the
sill of the building when caught. The
boy is the son of a convict. Harris has
lost thousands by incendiaries.
Governor Gordon pardoned Charles
Johnson on Tuesday. Johnson was con¬
victed of manslaughter at the August
term of 1882 of Gordon county. He has
been confined in the penitentiary more
thau seven years, crediting him with
time for good conduct. Johnson killed
his best friend, under the impression that
he was an armed desperado, who had a few
moments before shot at him.
Maj.-Gen. Howard, U. S. A., who
commands the Atlantic district, told the
Savannah city council that President
Harrison remarked to him just before he
came South: “Look around and see
where I can do something for that flec¬
tion. I want to pay it some attention as
early the as possible.” of administration, That came direct from
head the and it
has encouraged the city to redouble its
efforts.
John Weathers, who killed his brother
last Christmas, was taken from Monroe
jail, and he goes up for three years. It
is a short service for the homicide of his
brother. He leaves a wife and several
small children in absolute destitute cir¬
cumstances, and all of his relatives are
poor people. Starving children and wife
in rags clinging indeed to a sad departing father in
stripes, was a spectacle.
F, C. Jones had an altercation with
a special policeman, Robert Walker, in
Albany on Wednesday. Jones had ad¬
vanced towards Walker in a threatening
manner, and some claim had drawn a
knife upon him, when the officer drew
hi* pistol and fired twice, shooting Jones
liceman through the fired, right number arm. When of little the girls po¬
a
were directly behind Jones, and they
were terribly frightened.
A collision on the East Tennessee road
on Tuesday, resulted in the killing of
the George Gillon, of a passenger engineer, and
wounding a freight engineer, and two
conductors, several trainmen four or
five passengers. The collision was be¬
tween a south-bound passenger train and
a north-bound freight train, and hap¬
pened near Stockbridge, and about
twenty miles south of Atlanta. Just
south and of Stockbridge, that there there is a side-track deep cut
near cut is a
known as Maher’s quarry track. The
freight the train reached the cut and side-track was in
act the of pulling occurred. into the
when collision Both en¬
gines were badly demolished. Four box
cars were splintered, George and the H. Gillon, mail coach the
torn dead to pieces. in Macon, and
engineer, was born
was about 27 years of age. The indica¬
tions are that the freight train was on
the passenger train’s time, The run out
on Tuesday was sot Engineer Gilion’i,
He toe* it to aesom&Qdfttt»friend,
ARKANSAS.
Ida Lynch started to drown herself by
jumping from the lower bridge across
the Arkansas river near Little Rock, but
a watchman caught her a3 she jumped,
his hand catching in her garter, which
was strong and thus saved her life.
LOUISIANA.
D. N. Cress was shot and instantly
killed by Dr. J. H. Watson, near Eulogy
on Sunday. Cress had openly threatened
to lull Dr. Watson on sight. They met
in a road when Dr. Watson fired the
fatal shot. Cress was a desperate man,
who was reported to have killed three
men. A large pistol was found in his
boot leg and a number of cartridges in
his pocket.
MISSOURI.
A well-dressed man, apparently about
50 years of age, went to the Hotel Parle
in St. Louis, accompanied by a good-
looking, neatly dressed woman, regis¬
tered as 8. M. Waite and wife, of Flor¬
ida, and the couple were assigned a
room. During the night, Waite drank a
great deal of beer and had his supper
served in his room. The next morn ng
the woman left the hotel and did not re¬
turn. Later, Mr. Waite was found in a
dying condition with a bottle of mor¬
phine near him. Soon after being taken
t > the hospital, Waite died. The police
are looking for the mysterious oman,
and the body of 4 S. M. Waite, of Flor¬
ida,” lies on a slab in the morgue uni¬
dentified.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Several Beaufort citizens have been
dealt with by the White Caps and are
staying at home nights. This is the
only county in the state in which the
White Caps have so far begun their
operations.
The State Convention of the Young
Men’s Christian Association, in session
at Wilmington, elected the following
officers: President, W. A. Blair, of Win¬
ston ; vice-presidents, M. M. Hall, D. G.
Worth and W. S. Pryer; secretaries, J.
B. Whittaker, B. F. Jones and F. S.
Harris.
Six cars, filled with colored people,
left Raleigh on Monday, en route to
Mississippi. The other bulk points of in them Johnston came
from Selma and
county. So far, some 12,000 have left
the state, but rather more than half have
gone to Georgia to work in the turpen¬
tine industry.
In Granville county, Spencer Weaver,
a half-witted white man, killed his sis-
ter-in-law by striking her on the neck
with a stick of wood. The victim was
Mrs. M. Longwis, who, having no home
of her own, spent a portion of her time
with her sister, Mrs. Weaver. She often
quarreled and fought with the man who
had killed her.
Fire was discovered in the basement
of the residence of Col. W. P. Canady,
sergeant-at-arras of the United States
Senate in Wilmington. In the room
where the fire originated, was stored a
lot of books saved from the fire in the
library in the basement three weeks ago.
Both fires are of incendiary origin.
Workmen were repairing Canady the damage in by
the former fire. Mrs. is Wash¬
ington, D. C., attending Mr. Canady, who
is very ill, and the only occupant of the
house was a watchman.
A warrant was issued at Franklin for
the arrest of Lee Lyons, a desperate
negro just out of the penitentiary. authority When
Officer Porter presented his
for the arrest, Lyons refused to be taken
to the magistrate before whom the war¬
rant was returnable. The officer sum¬
moned help and went back to arrest
Lyons, who stationed himself in a corner
of a room armed with a hay fork, and
said be would kill the man who put his
hands on him. He said that he had a
pistol, and under no circumstances would
he surrender. The officer used reasona¬
ble efforts to make him surrender and
stand trial, and finally, after remaining
with him two hours, attempted to put
irons on the prisoner. The latter struck
at Porter furiously with the fork, when
the latter ordered him to be shot, at the
same time firing on him himself. Six
bullets were nt once fired into Lyons,
from the effects of which he died.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
All Charleston is up and in arms for
Port Royal for the naval station. The
executive committee of the Chamber of
Commerce held a meeting on Monday,
Mayor Bryan indorsing Port Royal.
The yacht Oneida, owned by A. M.
Flagler, the millionaire, arrived at
Charleston from New York on Tuesday.
His married daughter, Mrs. F. H. Ben¬
nett, of New York, came on the yacht
and died during the voyage.
The Mount Pilgrim branch of the
Kershaw county Colored Alliance,
is in trouble. They have been trying too
thoroughly the to curry out the objects and the
attain advantages charges set forth $8.12 by
organizer, who only for
the charter of the lodge. This colored
alliance, was organized is in 1888. The
cause of the trouble the following no¬
tice, which a few days since was found
stuck up in the road: “We air Collard
Peple Expects to hang toGether, Mch 10,
1882. Notis: That this is to sho that
We Men of this Settlement has went to¬
gether this day an made a law an adopted
it, That not a man or woman is not to
struck a lick of work fer Willie Smith or
Colen, (meant for Collin Williams,) if
they do We is to Put one hundred liack
on his neakid skin and if their be one
found do eny work for ether one t f them
it is not no maybee so about that thing,
We will sho to go together put that hav
whippin on him or her because they
started to taken up peple cows some¬
thing never was now done hear before
this soon that sho that a mean neighbor
he is for that cause no one Shall not work
for him. you can work for eny one elce
that you wants to But do not work for
nuther one of them if you do we mean
to whip you sho as you lives You can
work for A. A. Huckabee or W. B.
Huckabee or W. T. Bell or J. L. Gettys
or for any one except Willie Smith and
Colen, Just because they have started
such lo tricks as that taken up poor pe-
ples cows a ready. Why i heard that
they took up 1 of frank3 cows so dont you
Work for them do we Will whip you Sho.”
The result of this notice was that
Willie Smith swore out a peace warrant
against as Alliance many members of the Mount
Pilgrim as he knew of, aud they
were arrested. None of them seemed to
think that they had done wrong, siyiug
that their charter, which was registered
in ity Washington, to make and D. execute C., gave laws them author- J
they among
hemselves, and consequently re-
•eived the charges against them with
miles.
TENNESSEE.
Hon. John R. Neal, member of Con¬
gress from the 3d Tennessee district, in
the 50th Congress, died on Tuesday at
his home, Rhea Springs, after an illness
of two months, of consumption of the
bowels.
McCurdi’s Hambletonian, record 2.26,
died at Gallatin of congestion of the
stomach. Pierce Howard, Miller & Co.,
had paid $2,000 for bis services in their
ttud for three moathi, Hit awaw U4
retort 190,000 for feta
MARYLAND.
William Driver, a colored man em-
ployed at the mill of J. M. Anthony,
near Denton, fell again-t a circular saw
on Monday. ODe of his arms was cut off
at the shoulder and he died 'within ten
minutes.
VIRGINIA.
Trouble is anticipated between whites
and blacks at Stony Creek, a village in
Sussex county, in consequence of ne¬
groes receiving alleged White Cap no¬
tices.
Rosanna McCormick, aged sixty-five,
an eccentric character, who redded by
herself, near Jordan White Sulphur
Springs, for many years, and who was
well known to thousands of people, was
found dead at home on Monday, lying
on fertilizer sacks and sheepskins. She
had a number of feather beds, but never
slept in them. She always wore long,
heavy boots, with pistols in them for
protection, died in rarely ever taking them off,
and her boots. She told the
fortunes of many a fair maiden and old-
time lady in the United States. A
number of handsome uncut silk dress
patterns were found among her effects.
WEST VIRGINIA.
Thomas Woods, who Lives near Torna¬
do postoffice, sent word to his step¬
mother, Mrs. Woods, that one of his
neighbors across the hill was sick and
wanted her to come immediately. He
concealed himself behind a tree near the
path to await her coming, and when she
approached, stepped out and fired a re¬
volver full at her left breast, the ball
taking effect just below the nipple.
Woods then shot her again in the neck
and afterward dragged her to a cliff near
by and dropped her to the ground below.
She recovered sufficiently to give an
alarm. She related the story of the
shooting, accusing Woods of being her
assassin and died afterward.
OCEAN DISASTERS.
The New York shipping men say that
the steamcT lost off the Virginia coast
was the Nanticoke, from Newport News,
Va., for Ruatan, Honduras, which was
loaded down to the gunwales. The sup¬
position is that the Nanticoke encoun¬
tered equinoctial could gales, and being dan¬
gerously loaded, make no-headway
and put back for Chesapeake bay. In
this attempt she probably foundered.
The pilot boat Edmunds reports at Phil¬
adelphia, Pa., that she picked up a
clinker-built whale boat in good condi¬
tion, bottom up, with “Conserva” mark¬
ed on her port bow, at Fenwick’s island,
bearing W. by N. 1-2 N., distant 16 to
18 miles. Four oars were lashed in her,
and a new painter and a new line on each
end, both of which were broken and
everything covered with fish oil, includ¬
ing the ropes The schooner M. B.
Steadson, of Provincetown, arrived at
Boston, Mass., on Tuesday in distress,
having been in collision. When twenty-
five miles east of the Highlands of Cape
Cod, the watch sighted a small fishing
schooner, slightly under their lee, and
quite close. No light was visible, and
*s the other vessel was on theport tack,
trying to cross, Steadson’s helm was put
hard up to round the stranger’s stern,
but it was too late, and the vessels came
together with a crash. Nothing could be
found of the other vessel after the col¬
lision, and it is believed she sank with
all on board.
A MADMAN’S CRIME.
W. A. Harvey, an accountant, of Tor-.
onto, was arrested at Guelph, Ontario,
for embezziug $4,000 from his employer.
He was shortly afterwards bailed out.
During the forenoon, Harvey purchased
a revolver, but what use he was to make
of the weapon was not dreamed of till
Tuesday evening, when, for some reason,
the chief of police visited Harvey’s resi¬
dence. The chief found the house was
locked, but by raising the windows he
made his way in. All was silent. He
passed through the kitchen and dining
rooms, looked in the parlor, and went
up stairs, where the first object he saw
was Harvey’s fair-haired daughter of
twelve years lying on the floor of the
front bed room with her head in a pool
of blood. A bloody hole in her head
told the means by which she met her
death. The chief raised the dead child
from its cramped position, and laid it on
the pillow. He then passed through the
upper hall, and in the back bed room
found Harvey’s oldest daughter lying
beside the bed also dead. In the clothes
room off the kitchen Mrs. Harvey was
found stretched at full length, wsth a
similar bullet wound. Harvey was ar¬
rested at Toronto, by Detective Black.
He was standing at the corner of King
and Yonge streets smoking a cigar when
arrested, and is undoubtedly insane.
TELEGRAPHIC,
John Bright died on Wednesday in
London. His end was peaceful and
painkss. He had lain in a comatose
condition for over a day. All his family
were present at his deathbed.
The machine shops and foundry of
MclDtosh & Hemphill, in Pittsburg, Pa.,
were totally destroyed by fire on
Wednesday. The total loss will be
$100,000, which is fully insured. The
fire is believed to be the work of incen¬
diaries.
A discovery is reported at Ensenada,
Lower California, which is said to be
filling the International Laud Co. with
dread. It is said that by a mistake in the
English maps Hidalgo, at the time of the treaty of
Guadaloupe the boundary line
between the United States and Mexico
was boundary placed too terminates far north, and that the
real on the Pacific
ocean at a point some distance south of
Ensenada.
SATISFACTION DEMANDED.
The Cologne Gazette , of Berlin, says
that neither criminal nor civil procedure
is applicable to the case of Klein in
America. It only remains for Germany
to bring the evidence against him before
the tribunal of Apia, including the
American consul. It may be assumed
that when Herr Stenbel, the newly ap¬
satisfaction pointed German will consul, be demanded arrives in Apia,
from
Mataafa, the king whom the United
States favor.
DUELS.
M. DeLonlay and Gerault Richard
fought a duel in Paris, France, on Sun¬
day. The former was slightly wounded
in three places. Richard had attacked
DeLonlay in a newspaper article, charg¬
ing him with plagiarizing the work of
M. Duquet.... In a duel with swords in
Rome, Italy, Deputy Cavallotte slightly
wounded Signor Carveto, under secretary
of the war department. dispute. The trouble
grew out of a personal
A SOLDIER FAINT8.
Paris, While dining in the Cafe Durand in
suddenly on Sunday, *eiied with Gen. Boulanger was
hrt to he cofcfeyrt a faiaUag fit, aud
oeae.
MAHERS IS
WASHINGTON.
OF COURSE , A CHANGE SN&ST&
A CHANGE.
UGNGKEflS.
The President seat the fotiewing W mwa-
inations to the Senate ea eavij
John Wicks of Wisconsin, to bs
extraordinary and minister plsttipotaa* Pesu^
tinry ot the United State* to
George B. Loriug, of Masaaohuseljs, ganarai
be minister resident and ©onsuj
of the United States to Portugal; Robert
T. Lincoln, of Illinois, tob# envoy extra¬ of
the ordinary United and States minister Great plenipotentiary Britain; Mu¬
to
rat Halstead, of Ohio, to be envoy extra*
ordinary and minister plenipotentiary
the United States to Germany; AUe«
Thorndyke Rice, of New York, to be en¬
voy tentiary extraordinary Ihe aud miaistex plenipo¬ Russia;
of United States to
Patrick Egan, of Nebraska, to be envo/
extraordinary and minister plenipoten¬
tiary of the United States to Chili; f
Thomas Ryan, of Kansas, to b« envo
extraordinary and minister plenipoten¬
tiary of the United States to Mexico;
Marion Erwin, of Georgia, to be United
States attorney for the southern district
of Carolina, Georgia; Tyre Glenn, of North
to be United States marshal fof
the western district of North Caro¬
lina; Andrew D. Cowles, post¬
Glenn, master at nominated Statesville, N. C.; Tyre
to be marshal
for the western district of North Caroli¬
na, is a native of Manna, Yadkin coun¬
ty, and was chief clerk in the collector’s
office at Greenville, under the last Re¬
publican administration. He is a broth¬
er-in-law of Judge Th-onaa Settle, of
Florida. Marion Erwin, nominated Uni¬
ted States attorney fox the southern dis¬
trict of Georgia, is a well known young
lawyer, of Macon, Ga., and a brothex-ia*
law of Col. Evan P. Howell, He was
clerk of the United States district court
at Savannah for four years, and was
United States commissioner at the same
time. He graduated from the University
of Georgia in 1875. His appointment
was recommended bv Representative
Brewer and other Republicans.
Among the nomination* sent to the
Senate by the President on Tuesday,
were the following: Robert Y. Belli of
Maryland, to be assistant commissioner
of Indian affairs; Charles W. Jones,
postmaster, Martinsville, Va.; Francis
E. Warren, of Wyoming territory, to be
governor of Wyoming territory; Benja¬
min F. White, of Dillon, Montana, to be
governor of Montaua; be Oscar M. Spell¬
man, of Arkansas, to marshal of the
United States for the eastern district of
Arkansas; Charles C. Walter*, e# Ar¬
kansas, United States attorney for the
eastern district of Arkansas. The Sen¬
ate, in executive session, confirmed the
following nominations: Zacariah Walt-
hon, to be United States attorney to the
Indian territory; Thomas B. Nowi«e, to
be United States marshal for Indian ter¬
ritory; James M. Shackleford, to be
judge of the Indian territory courts:
James Tanner, to be commissioner of
pensions; Scligman Bros., to be fiscal
agents of the naval department at Lon¬
don; and a number of postmasters,
among them, George L. Baratu, at Suf¬
folk, Va.
NOTES.
Mrs. Harrison has discharged every
colored servant in the White House, and
replaced them with white people.
Reports to the navy department from
Capt. Schoonmaker, commanding tht
warship commanding Vandalia, and Commander Mul-
lan, the Nipaic, both at
Apia, Samoa, confirm the telegraphic re¬
ports to the Associated Prete.
Gen. Longstreet, who has been quite
sick for some days, left for home on
Tuesday. 'i he general’* condition i*
more serious than his fr'euds are willing
to believe. A few days ago he con¬
tracted a severe cold, occasioned by hav¬
ing his hair cut.
A courtmartial was convened at the
War Department on Monday morning
for the trial of Maj. G. J. LjcBcktr,
corps of engineers, on charges arising
out of the failure of the aqueduct tun¬
nel. The charges have s : x specifications
which set out the faulty work in the
tunnel and failure of defendant to «xar-
cise due care in the suptrintendance.
The Secretary of War has proscribed
regulations governing Die issue of
for military instructions at colleges, un¬
der which each college or university
where an army officer is stationed, will be
allowed two 3-inch rifled guns of wrought
iron, valued at $450 each, two carnages
and appuitenances, 150 Springfield cadet
rifles and a corresponding number of
bayonet scabbards and appendages.
Collections of internal revenue for the
first eight months of the fiscal year,
ending June 30, 1888, were $83,364,211;
an increase of $2,603,744 over collec¬
tions for the corresponding period of the
last fiscal year. The collection* were as
follows: On spirits, 447,492,705, an in¬
crease of $2,508,712; on tobacco, $20,-
269,445, a decrease of $58,631; on fer¬
mented liquors, $14,982,445, an increase
of $137,284; oleomargarine, $557,086, an
increase of $67,934.
Postmaster-General Wanamaker on
Thursday issued an order assistant directing all
clerks in tho office of first post¬
master-general, and such as may be re¬
quired from other bureaus of the depart¬
ment, to begin work at 8:30 a. m. in¬
stead of 9 o’clock as heretofore, and t-o
remain at their dtsks until 6 p. m. in¬
stead of four. The clerks in the dead
letter office were also required to work the
from 8:30 a. m. to 8 p. na., until
work now in arrears in that divirion is
brought up.
James Tanner, of Brooklyn, N. Y., a
Union soldier, who lost both legs while
serving as a corporal of artillery during
the War, has been appointed commis¬
sioner of pension?. Corporal Tanner is
a strong believer in “spending the »ur-
plus,” and will no doubt adopt a liberal
code of procedure in adjudicating liberal pen-
ion claims. He is noted for bis
sjiirit in intercourse with Confederate*,
and has stood on ruauy aplaiftrui urging
a union of sentiment of the Blue and
the Gray. His appointment was opposed
by a great many, as he is oae of those
strong men who make warm friends and
bitter enemies.
No little dissatisfaction is felt amon^
the naval officers over the detail* of the
programme for the celebration of Wash.*
ington’s Inaugural Centennial bn New
York April 30th. According to ths pro¬
gramme, the army and navy are to figure
prominently in the demonstration. Maj.
Gen. Schofield has been selected to taks
charge of the military forces, and against
that selection no criticism is made, but
naval officers complain that their branch
of the service, which will make the ex¬
hibition of particular interest because of
its comparison of the old and new navy,
has been placed in charge of a retires
army officer,
Secretary Windom states that he has
aratkude to ask for the resignation of
Jueha picturesque figure office in American simply
history to retire from an
because the opposition party was tri-
am pliant at the last election. He says
that Rosocrans’ “services during the War
entitled him to the highest recognition, history
«d that his place in American
sOiouid not be looked upon from a politi- one.”
cal ' standpoint, * ' but from a patriotic
Co Loogrtreet T . wiU •„ no nn doaM rfmiht be M »p bd-
pointed to the collectorship of the po
Savannah, Ga.
Trouble between George A. Armes, a
retired officer of the army, living in
Washington, and those having charge of
the Harrison inaugration parade, culmi¬
nated on Wednesday in a scene in the
rotunda of the Riggs house. Armes
walked into the hotel and after a few
words pulled the nose of Governor Bea¬
ver, of Pennsylvania. The governor was
not hurt, but he was angry, and, steady¬
ing himself against the hotel counter,
be seized his crutch which served him in
place of one leg left behind during the
War, and aimed an ugly blow at bis ene¬
my. Armes dodged the blow and it
struck one of the pillars of the hotel ro¬
tunda. A second blow also missed its
mark, and the hotel policeman rushed
up. attracted by the noise, and placed
Armes under arrest.
Postmaster-General Wanamaker, act¬
ing upon the recommendation of Gen.
Supt. Bell, of the railway mail service,
appointed the following division super¬
intendents of the railway mail service:
W. B. Bigelow, first division, Boston,
Mass., vice George E. Dame, resigned; New
R. C, Jackson, second division, resigned;
fork City, vice W. F.Doolittle,
0. W. Vickery, third division, Washing¬
ton, D. C., vice Eugene Carrington, division, re¬
signed ; L. M. Terrell, fourth
Atlanta, Ga , vice B. M. Turner, re¬
signed ; George W. Pepper, ninth divis¬
ion, Cleveland, Ohio, vice F. B. Dodge, of
resigned. With the single exception
Mr. Pepper, the appointees named above
were disp'aced during the last adminis¬
tration. The men, who are now rein¬
stated have been for many years closely
identified with the railway mail service,
and its efficiency is largely due to their
ability aud energy.
The officers attached to the Navy De¬
partment are highly gratified at the in¬
formation which has reached them of
participation of the British authorities
and forces in the funeral of Admiral Chan¬
dler, who died in Hong Hong. More
than 700 Highlanders marched in the
procession and they were followed by a
thousand sailors attached to English
men of war, each having a crape band
on his sleeve. A company of the North¬
amptonshire regiment, marines, artillery,
ana marine artillery, proceeded the gov¬
ernor, and staff, heads of government
departments, consuls and a number of
re* dents who brought up the rear. The
service at the grave was very impressive.
Commander Duer called on Governor G.
William Des Voeux, Vice-Admiral Bea¬
mon, Gen. Cameron, Rear Admiral Maxwell
a d Colonels Craster and Robertson, and
lianked them for the marked and spon¬
taneous tribute paid by those officers at
the funeral of Admiral Chandler.
“THE BEAUTIFUL LAND. 9 9
The Oklahoma boomers are not alto-
>etlier aatUfied with what they have se¬
cured under the amendment to the Indi¬
an bill, but the territory thrown open to
Lena is Urge enough to make abigsta’e.
■ugr**sm»n Springer says that the
President’s ptoclamution will open up
. out 2.003,000 acres at once, and there
• til be 100,000 people on the lands with¬
in sixty date. The reports concerning
he character of the land are cor Hiding,
>ut the country abound Oklahom bc iHeo
•Tie iWauliful Lnnd.” a 1 - d ihe boomers
ay that it i« eve of the garden spots of
he fcoi.Vri'-nt
BOLD ATTEMPT.
Thirty-five out of 160 boys at the
House of Refuge, in Cincinnati, Ohio,
made a break for liberty on Sunday.
They were from ten to fifteen years old,
and were under four leaders, the chief of
whom was a negro boy. These boys,
when it came time for them to retire to
their rooms preparatory tor dinner, in¬
stead of doing so, marched in a body,
armed with baseball bats, to the fr&at
entrance, where they found four guards
stationed, and they used their bats and
rocks, aud broke several windows. The
noise attracted the attention of the po¬
lice, and fifteen officers were gent to the
place end the
TUECA-T
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Write to Him and get an Estimate of All Kinds of Graining,
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He gives Agents an article with which they oan make more money than they
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TUGALO t Q-.A.
TOCCOA MARBLE WORKS.
The Undersigned la Prepared to Furnish MARBLE,
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Qfi
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saved and stored away somewhere, being
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one night last Summer, by a robber gang
who burned his feet with candles, and
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conceivable to force him to disclos.
where his wealth was hidden, but io
vain. The old man never fully recovered
from the shock thus received, and heart
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BLACKSMITHING,
HORSE-SHOEING !
Manufacturing and Repairing
WAGONS, BUGGIES
—AND—
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Of all kinds.
JARRETT & SON.
TOCCOA, GEORGIA,
ROBERTS HOUSE,
TOCCOA CITY. GA-,
MBS.E. W. ROBERTS, Prop
Mr*. Roberts also has charge of tbs
Railroad Eating House at Bowersvillsi
Ga. Good accommo iations, good board,
at usual rates in first-class houses.
LEWIS DAVIS,
attorney at law.
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will practice in the counties of Haber¬
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Circuit, and Franklin and Banks of the
Western Circuit. Prompt attention will
be given to all business entrusted to him.
The collection of debts will have spee*
ial attention.
REAL - ESTATE.
CITY LOTS,
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In the Piedmont R< gion, Georgia. Vegetable Also
Orange Groves, Fruit and
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