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CHE NEWS.
TOCCOA, GEORGIA.
l HE WORLD
AT LARGE.
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»OPE OETTIN** HER ARMIES AND NAVIES INTO
COXDmON—THE LABOR YIELD—-PROGRESSIVE
BETNO AGITATED.
The American refinery of San Francis-
>, Cal.. w,ts formally sold to the Eastern
ugar Trust on Monday.
The German printcis of New York
ity announced on Sunday, that they
r ould demand $’3 50 a day and go on
. trike if refused.
The Council of S ate, at a meeting held
a )uke Luxembourg, of resolved to invite the
Nassau to become the regent of
Luxembourg.
Rev. James McCosh, ex-president of
, Princeton college, N. J., is lying at his
■ome in Princeton very ill from pneunio-
ia, following an attack of bronchitis.
Thomas C. Williams, a wealthy tobac-
onist, M. Rosenbaum, a wealthy dry
pods veil known merchant railroad and Peter lawyer, V. Daniel, died a
at
Richmond on Tuesday.
While Father Agostino was preaching
n the St. Carlo church, in Rome, Italy,
* bomb was exploded. Great excitement
ollowed and several women fainted,
>ut the preacher continued his sermon.
The eldest son of the late John Bright,
■vbo is a liberal unionist, will contest
.he seat in the House of Commons for
, ;he central division of Birmingham,
' Eng., made
her. vacant by the death of his
at
; Postmaster General Wanamaker made
■ sis first public utterance on Sunday in
| Philadelphia, Pa., on the questiou of
; nigh license and prohibition. He de-
ilarcd in favor of the consti-
rational amendment, and exhorted tho
, mdience he addressed, to work, pray and
' eote for it.
Sir John Lubbock has presented a
aalf-holidav bill before the British Par-
, liament, which proposes that whenever
two-thirds of the shopkeepers in any
given district vote for a half holiday on
the some district one day each week, all the shops in
shall be closed at 2 o’clock
on that day.
The closing episode in the record of
the steamer Haytien 11 public as a trader
lietween Boston, Mass., and Hayti oc¬
curred Tuesday, when the craft was sold
at auction for $41,000. The purchaser
is William Lewis, of New Bedford, who
will lit the Republic out for Behring’s
sea and the Arctic ocean as a whaling
supply steamer.
On Monday a fire broke in the Glencoe
Iron Works of Armsbell & Co., at
Young-town, Ohio, and spread through
the building so rapidly that in half an
I hour flames ihe then entire conunuuicated plant was in ruins. The
i to the iron
works ot Brown, Bonnell & Co., destroy¬
ing one of their warehouses and an en-
gine house. The loss will reach $100,-
000 .
Judge Alexander McCue, ex-asristant
treasurer of the United States,died at his
home in Brooklyn, N. Y., on Tuesday.
Judge McCue was stricken with paraly¬
sis on the 20th of March, and has been
confined to his home ever since. He was
appointed Solicitor by President Cleveland to be
of the Treasury, which office he
held until a year ago, when he was made
assistant treasurer in New York.
At a meeting of Central Labor Union,
in New \oik on Sunday, a communica¬
tion was read purporting to come from
Jay G< u’d, through Washington Davis,
railroad contractor, stating that “Mr.
Gould was willing to hand over to the
Union $11,000,00 j in gold, with interest
from 1869, if the Central Labor Union
would be willing to adopt the plan for
co-operative industry proposed by Mr.
Gould.”
The recent hurricane in the South
pacific ocean swept over 1,200 geograph¬
ical miles, embracing in its track the
Heivey and Society groups of islands.
The American ship, Red Cross, from
New S*>uth Wales, for San Francisco,
was driven ashore at Barutonga and
wrecked. The crew was saved. The
American ship, Ada Owen, was wrecked
v at Ouara. Her crew was sayed. Wreck-
| I age New from South the Wales, British for ship San Suakim, Francisco, from
was seen at Aitutaki. No doubt the
> crew perished.
A hurricane started on Tuesday in
Aberdeen, Dakota, and continued all
day. Roofs were blown off the Park
' Place hotel and other buddings. The
•toi m in several places had the added
| tern t r Volin, of fire. Yankton, Dak., reports
.at a station on the Northwestern
Rad, w as burned. A thousand tons of
hay were burned, and all the barns in
| the place. The tire invaded the large
cattle corral and forty or fifty cattle were
I b. dly burned, the rest breakiug through
ihe enclosure and escaping. The de-
: etruction was caused by a prairie fire.
The French Chamber of Deputies, by
& vote of 30G to 236, rejected the Senate’s
proposal to prostcute summarily all
officials. papers guilty of libelling government
I M Cocarde says that Gen.
Boulanger bring warned Tuesday that
the government was preparing for a
coup, into arranged so that he would not fall
the government’s bauds and loft the
city. The police Cocarde', are mystified. “The
adds “will appear
when duty tequiris him. It is our im-
pression perhaps toat he has hidden temporarily,
in Brussels.”
OUR SHIP DISABLED.
The British steamship Falshall, B n
nett, from Cape Verde arrived on Wed
nesday at Pensacola, Fla. She reporte
that she latitude passed the U. S. warship Brook
lyn in hundred 23.41 north. and longitud
63.30 west, one thirty-six
days from Honolulu, proceeding undei
sail with shaft broken. Assistance was
declined. The crew all welt. The Fal
shall provis oned the Brooklyn, taking
her mail, and departed amid the cheer>
of the tars.
A WOMAN’S COLLEGE
In accordance with the action of the
trustees of Columbia College, that insti
tution will probably soon have a sistei
college for women. Hitherto, the youm:
women who have attended Columbi
have had limited privileges, and wen
not given degrees. It was decided t»
uli the new seat of learning Barnar-
•, ns a testimonial of respect tc
Inerable Dr. Barnard.
SOUTHERN
Callings.
liEWSY ITEMS MOST INTEREST¬
INGLY BRIEFED.
ACCIDENTS ON THE RAILROADS, ETC.—DEATH OF
FBOMINENT PEOPLE—TEMPERANCE, SOCIAL
AND RELIGIOUS ITEMS.
ALABAMA.
The new 120 ton furnace at Gadsden
passed into hands of Eastern capitalists
on Monday, A Boston syndicate closed
n trade for 30,000 acres of timber and ore
lands, and will begin the immediate
erection of an extensive wooden and tool
factory. A $200,000 cotton factory is
being negotiated for.
A committee representing the Ameri¬
can Packers and Preservers Association,
which is simply a trust, is looking for a
location for a factory in Birmingham.
The principal fruit packing and preserv¬
ing firms of the country have organized
a trust which they call the American
Packers and Preserving Association.
“Yes, I cut the nigger’s head off and
I’d do it again.” This was the admis¬
sion made by Jane Simmons, a negro
woman, when she was arrested in Blount
on head Sunday. The woman had cut off the
of a negro named Dave Brooks, a
miner, with an ax. The crime w-as
committed at Orconta, a small tow r n on
the Birmingham Mineral Railroad, about
thirty-five miles north of Birmingham.
“That is the man,” said Mrs. J. U.
Lundy on Wednesday when Jim Will¬
iams, alius Ben Elgy, was brought be¬
fore her. Mrs. Lundy was able to leave
her room for the first time since she was
assaulted by this negro, two weeks ago.
The negro was brought out of jail and
taken before Mrs Lundy, in order that
his identification might be complete.
As soon as she saw- the negro’s face, she
exclaimed: “That is the man.”
Some of the doctors of Birmingham
are stirred up over the recovery of a ne¬
gro from what seemed to be a well de¬
veloped case of hydrophobia. J. E.
Browm, a colored man, had a small dog
that was attacked by a strange cur, and
in defending liis pet, the negro was bit¬
ten slightly iti several places. Last
week Brown’s dog showed signs of hy¬
drophobia, and w-as killed. Monday,
Brown himself became violently ill, and
developed He symptoms of hydrophobia.
night grew it worse rapidly, and on Monday
six required the combined efforts of
men to tie him on the bed. The
doctors applied the usual remedies to re¬
lieve the man’s sufferings, but they were
surprised ing better when Wednesday, he appeared to be'grow¬
on and will no
doubt recover.
AltKANSAS.
John Chambers was tried in Texar¬
committed kana on a charge of highway November. robbery,
near Bassett last
Chambers and a pal named William Ball,
engaged to work their for a Mr. had, Giles, ami
learning that employer on No¬
vember 1, come into possession of sev
eral hundred dollars, they held him up
iu the road as he was en route home and
relieved him of his money. The jury
found a verdict of guilty with twenty
years in the penitentiary. He has been
identified ns an ex-convict from Georgia,
and received the verdict with a light
laugh.
GEORGIA.
Henry Johnson, a watchman of tlic
Western «fe Atlantic Railroad, w r :ts killed
on Tuesday near the Emma street cross¬
ing in Atlanta.
A negro in East Dougherty dyed a
five dollar Confederate bill green and
passed it off on young Mr. Gregory, of
Columbus. He is bunting for him with
a constable.
the Evangelist Culpepper is stirring up
sinners in Columbus. He preaches
at St. Paul in the morning and at St.
Luke at night. Several stores are closed
daily to allow their clerks to attend the
services.
The safe of the Sandersville postoffice
was blown open aud robbed on Wednes¬
day. The safe front was literally blown
to pieces, and the debris covering the
end of the room. The money in the safe
did not amount to $100, but a number of
valuable papers, useful only to Postmas¬
ter Roberts, were taken.
Atlieus is to have a new daily paper.
The paper will be an eight page morn¬
ing daily, and will contain the Assoc¬
iated Press dispatches and special cor-
respondence. It will be edited, in all
probability, by Col. Albert R. Lamar,
of Macon. The Athens Evening Chroni¬
cle is to be merged into the new daily,
thus leaving the city with two first-class
papers, both morning.
Thomas Woolfolk, in confinement at
Macon, on Tuesday made a display of
that temper some time exhibited by him
during his recent trial. When Jailor Bird-
soDg entered that part of the jail where
Woolfolk is confined, he asked the jailer
to let him out in the corridor, The
jailer told him he should come out iu a
few moments, but because the jailer
would not let him have access to the
corridor immediately, he flew in a violent
rage and became very abusive and pro¬
fane, and his curses could be heard in all
parts of the jail.
The trial of Hardy Hamilton, charged
with the murder of the Chinaman, Joe
Lee, was concluded in Rome, Ga., on
Wednesday. The evidence made out a
clear case of cold-blooded and atrocious
murder, whose only motive was robbery.
Several silver dollars, stained with blood,
were introduced in evidence. The money
belonged in to the Chinese, and was found
Hardy Hamilton's trunk, The case
was given to the jury, and they a'verdict returned
in a very few minutes w’ith of
guilty. The jury did not recommend to
mercy and the penalty will be death.
A man who registered at the King
Hotel, at Stone Mountain, on Monday
t ight, as Charles Thompson, of Atlanta*
was found early Tuesday morning along-
-ide of the railroad track with a bullet
hole in his head, and his skull crushed.
Near him was a burglar’s “jimmy,”
rth ch had been used no doubt to batter
out his brains. He had been seen in
company with A. D. Reviere, of Gwin¬
nett county, and Reviere was arrested on
suspicion. that The had general impression is,
the two planned a robber?,
quarrelled about it, and the murder was
the consequence.
MISSISSIPPI.
The announcement of the bagging
trust has aroused the planters of Missis¬
sippi, the Farmers’ and fifty delegates, representing
Alliance in t wenty-five coun¬
ties of Mississippi, have been in session
in the Senate chamber in Jackson, dis¬
cussing a plan to establish bagging fac¬
tories in that state. These delegates
passed a resolution to build a bagging
factory farmers in Jackson, and the agents of the
have already begun the work ol
raising funds for this purpose.
north cAitotm.
Gombroon, Senator Vance, who is at his home.
near Black Mountain, though
luffering from nervousness, is being
very much improved by rest and the
mountain air.
Governor Fdwle has issued a death
warrant for the execution of Eli Ward, a
negro burglar, at Jackson, Northamp'on
County, jail May 30. Ward set fire to the
His recently and is now in jail at Halifax.
execution will bte public and will be
the fourth during the present year.
The colored people in the Kinston sec¬
tion are wild over the matter of offices
under President Harrison. They are as¬
pirants for places to be made vacant by
turning out Democrats, and in addition
to employing a special instructor, are
Grace. Bending their petitions to the Throne ol
daily, They hold prayer meetings
and ask that the hands of the
President may be laid upon them, and
that their services may be required by
the government.
A large party of negroes left Raleigh
on thus Tuesday for Arkansas. Attempts
far in the more eastern and southern
counties to induce the negroes to emi¬
grate, have proved an absolute failure.
The labor agents are hard at work to in¬
duce them to go to Kansas, Arkansas oi
California. It is now believed that the
exodus has almost ended until in the late
Summer, when it will become more ex¬
tensive and far more systematic, as it will
then, it is claimed, be under the auspices
and control, to a great extent, of the
state immigration association.
KENTUCKY.
Deputy Marshal Russell Wireman
raided some moonshiners at the Cross
Forks of the Kentucky river, in Knott
county, and captured ten prisoners.
These he lodged in jail, and then went on
another raid with four bailiffs. They
arrested J. Draughn, J. Adams and Jesse
Cium, and started back to Prestonburg.
They had only gone a short distance
when twelve men, armed with Winches¬
ter rifles, stepped out from behind some
rocks and opened fire on Wireman, their
bullets being apparently directed at him
alone. The officer returned the fire with
his rifle, as also did the special baliffs
and several rounds were exchanged. One
of the bullets struck Wireman in the
head, and he was wounded in several
other places. Two of the attacking party
were killed. The men who committed
he murder are supposed to be the same
ones who fired upon Deputy Marsha]
Greer and were indicted during the Feb¬
ruary term of the U. S. court at Louis¬
ville.
LOUISIANA.
Thomas Rigby, one of the wealthiest
men in New Orleans, and for many years
resident of the Vicksburg & Meridian
Railroad Co., died ou Sunday, a^ed
ninety years.
TEXAS.
The Texas legi lature has just passed a
bill, leasing the old cvpitol building at
Austin for ten years, at five dollars lei
annum, to the board of directors of the
National Confederate Home. Under the
state constitution, the Legislature can-
not md appropiiate money for the purpose,
the most ;t could do was to leas* out
he old eapitol bu Ming to the directors
>f f
VIRGINIA.
Fire in Manchester on Monday, de-
-troyed a cooper shop belonging to Dun-
ap&McCauce; tools, implements and
two houses, tho property of J. R. Ten¬
nant; a frame dwelling house of A. B
death, and a frame home of B. Funnel-
‘y.
The sales of leaf tobacco in the Dan
ville marktt in March were 3,016,549
pounds, an increase of half a million
pounds over last March. Sales since
the beginning of the tobacco year wert.
12.405,660 pounds, a decrease of 5,000,
000 pounds. The sale of s amps for
manufactured tobacco for March shows
an increase of $18 250 over March of last
year.
WEST V1HGINIA.
Detectives Baldwin, Robinson and
Wallace, coal police for the Elkliorn re¬
gion, Mercer couuty, went to Tug river
on Wednesday to arrest a desperado aud
moonshiner, named Will Moran. A
fight ensued and Moran was killed; not,
however, until he had wounded serious¬
ly all thteeof the detectives.
As a freight train on the Baltimore &
Ohio main line reached the bridge over
Hart’s creek, eighty miles east of
Wheeling on Monday, Engineer Kus-
sack noticed that the bridge was burn¬
ing. It was too late to check the train,
and he and his fireman, with one brake-
man, saved themselves by jumping.
The next instant the locomotive oroke
through the bridge, which was weakened
by the lire, and, followed by fourteen
cars, fell into (he creek bed, where burn¬
ing timbers from the bridge set fire to
the cars and they were burned, Two
tramps lost their lives.
A BIG CROWD.
The Musical Union, of New York is
endeavoring to prevent the landing there
of strolling bands from Europe. Almost
every incoming German steamer has ou
board a score or more of muicians, who
have been in the habit of coming here in
the Spring and returning in the Fall with
the money earned during the Summer.
It is urged that such immigrants come
within the provisions of the foreign con¬
tract labor act, but heretofore they have
escaped detention by swearing that they
came as individuals and not as bauds
under leaders. When the steamer West-
ernland arrived Wednesday at New York,
of irom Antwerp, La- Superintendent Simpson,
the ding Bureau at Casile Garden,
discovered ihat there were no less than
four hundred musicians on board, nearly
all of them having spent the Summer in
New* York and vicinity f >r years past.
WHIPPED THE FIGHT.
After a vigorous fight in Oskalousn,
Kansas, the female candidates for city
offices won the day by sweeping mrjori-
ies. At Cottouwood Falls,. Kans-as,
the ladies were also triumphant, Mrs.
Minnie Morgan being elected mayorwith
all ihe members of the council of her
sex. The contest for the mayoralty at
. eaven worth lay between D. R. Anthony,
Republican, and L. M. Hacker, Demo¬
crat. Susan B. Anthony, sister of the
for Republican candidate, worked her ically
him, but Hacker was electid by
about 2,500 majority. Nearly 4,000
women voted during the day. most of
them casting their ballots for Hacker.
AUTHENTIC NEWS.
A letter from Henry M. Stanley, dated
Smuputuri, September 4, 1888, ha*
reached a friend of the explorer in Edin¬
burgh, Scotland. Stanley says he is well
and in good spirits. He met Emin
Pasha on the shores of the Albert Njan«
za. They were together for twenty-six
days. When Stanley left Emin Pasha,
the latter was in good health. Sit
Francis Dewinton, president of the Emin
Bey relief, says the letter from Stanley
will make fire newspaper column*.
MATTERS IN
WASHINGTON.
OF COURSE, A CHANGE BEGETS
A CHANGE.
— CONGRESS.
With the adjournment of the Senate
bn Tuesday, alt the nominations sent tc
it are confirmed, with the exception ol
Eugene Schuyler as Assistant Secretarj
of State, and Murat Halstead as Ministei
to Berlin. There are no nominations
hanging fire, and everything was closed
up. The special session h as been re-
markable in one thing, and quite differ¬
ent from nearly all other similar special
sessions to confirm the appointments ol
newly elected presidents. It is not t
current to reject thing in history for the Senate
in administration. any appointments so early made
a new
Mr. Stewart, of Nevada, introduced
into the Senate on Monday* a resolution
which caused a good deal of comment.
It was in regard to the death of John
Bright. ceased’s It spoke in eulogy of the de¬
character and of the regret of
the Senate in hearing of his death, and
also referred in grateful terms to the
sympathy which Bright evinced toward
the Union side during the late War.
Several members of the Senate said that
the resolution, while objectionable in its
general terms, dealt with a subject with
which the United States has really noth¬
ing to do. It is of a foreign character
entirely, and the policy of the United
States is to keep its hands off such mat¬
ters entirely. It is hardly probable it
will be pushed, or, if it is, that it will
be passed. Quite a discussion was had
upon the nomination of delegates to the
Congress in of American Nations, to be held
objection Washington next Fall. There was
to them by the Democrats on
the ground that the commission was
almost unanimously Republican in poli¬
tics, and that if their report was to have
the weight before the country and with
Congress, be it ought to have, there should
a parties. more equitable division between the
two The President sent the fol¬
lowing James nominations to the Senate:
M. Huston, of Indiana, to be
treasurer of the United States; Ellis H.
Roberts, of New York, to be assistant
treasurer of the United States at New
York: William F. Wharton, of Massa¬
chusetts, assistant Secretary of State:
George H. Shields, of Missouri, assist¬
ant attorney-general, vice Zach Mont¬
gomery, United resigned; Captain George B.
White, States navy, to be chief
of the bureau of yards and docks in the
department of the navy, to fill
a vacancy; L. Bradford Prince, oi
Santa Fe, N. M., to be governor of
New Mexico; Louis A. Walker, of Hel¬
ena, Mon., to be secretary of Montana.
The Senate confirmed the following nom¬
inations: L. Wolfly, to be Governot of
Arizona; Louis A. Walker, to be Secre¬
tary of Montana; James W. Huston, of
Indiana, to be Treasurer of the United
States; Ellis H. Roberts, of New York,
to be Assistant Treasurer at New York
City; Edwin H. Terrill, of Texas, to be
Minister to Belgium ; J. T. Abbot, to be
Minister to the United States of Colum¬
bia; and numbers of postmasters, among
them II. J. Cooper, at Tampa, Fla.
NOTES.
The Secretary of the Interior, on
Wednesday, approved the location of th«
route for fifty additional miles of railroad
to be built by the Rock Island Co. in th«
Indian Territory.
With the belief that Gen. Rosecrans
will not be asked to resign from the
office of Registrar of the Treasury, there
was a report at the state department on
Monday, that Gen. Longstreet would,
within a short time, bo named as minis¬
ter to Constantinople.
The three officers mentioned as likely
to succeed Adjt.-Gen. Drum of the
army are Cols. John C. Kelton, William
D. Whipple and Chauncey McKeever.
Col. Kelton, however, as the rauking
colonel of the corps, is considered most
likely to secure the coveted position.
Gen. Harrison will go away for a ten
days’ or two weeks’ rest. He unfolded
his plans to a senator on Tuesday, saying
that he was worn out, and must have re¬
lief from his incessant attentions. Where
he will go the President did not say, but
he believes that the adjournment of the
Senate and his departure occurring to¬
gether, will have the effect of scattering
the clamorous crowd which has been
there since the inauguration.
The Signal office reports, that in the
Gulf States, the general effect of the
weather was favorable for the planting
of corn, cane and rice, which is about
completed, and for cotton planting,
which is now in progress. More rain is
needed in Texas and Alabama, while some
injury resulted from heavy rains in por¬
tions of Mississippi. Reports from Ten¬
nessee and Arkansas, indicate that the
fruit crop is in good condiiiou and up tc
the present date has not been injured by
frost.
The immediate relatives of those who
lost their lives in the great storm in Sa¬
moa, will be entitled to pensions under
the general law. The pension is $6 per
month for a seaman’s widow, and $2 pel
month for each child under 16 years ol
age. special Congress will probably also pass a
act making reimbursement for the
effects and baggage of officers and men
lost in the wrecks. This wras done in the
case of the Huron, which went down on
the Hatteras coast about fifteen years
ago.
Assistant Secretary Thompson, of
South Carolina, finally retired from the
Treasury Department on Tuesday, and
his successor, Col. Batcheller, assumed
the duties of the office. As a mark of
appreciation of their former chief, the
prominent officials of the Treasury gave
a dinner in honor of Mr. Thompson and
his colleague, Judge Maynard. Secre¬
tary of the Treasury Windom presided,
and Mr. Thompson, as the honored
guest, sat on the right hand of the pre¬
siding officei.
The ten delegates that are to rep¬
resent the United States at the In¬
ternational Conference to be held at
Washington this Fall, will have plenty
uf interesting and impoitant work to do.
The nations represented will be th«
United States, Mexico, the Central and
South American Republics, Hayti. San
Domingo and Brazil. The conference
was suggested by Mr. Blaine in 1881,
and amoDg the subjects will be propo¬
sals for the establishment of internation¬
al arbitration, uniform coinage, weights
and measures, customs and tariff-, and
plans for the more frequent and conven¬
ient interchange of commerce.
Corporal Tanner, the new Commis¬
sioner of Pensions, is creating some
thing of a sensation in his bureau. When
he entered upon his duties he announced
the Democrats must go. A clean sweep
at once meant chaos and confusion in
the business of the Pension Bureau, but
the new commissioner declared that he
meant what he said. His friends coun*
selea moderation, but the corporal “isn’t
built that way.” He prepared to revo¬
lutionize matters immediately, and made
so much fuss about it that it came to the
of the Secretary the Intel % idr.
ears of
The result w as Secretary Noble’s order,
on bureaus Tuesday, to the effect that heads Interior of
and other officers of the
Department would not call for resigna¬
tions except by his direction.
TELEGRAPHIC-
The German man-of-war Olga, wrecked
in Apia bay, has beeu floated.
The cruiser, Charleston, at San Fran¬
cisco, Cal.* is almost ready for sea.
Forty houses were unroofed in Balti¬
more, Md., on Wednesday by a storm.
Bridgeton, N. J., was visited houses by a aud se¬
vere windows cyclone on Wednesday,
being blown down.
Xenia, Ohio, is excited over the at¬
tempt of a mob of negroes to lynch Sher¬
man Jackson, who stabbed Frank Law-
reDce to death at a dance.
The sugar crop of Cuba this y f, ai
shows a decrease of between 45 and 75
per cent. The falling off is attribute
to the cyclone of September.
It is very probable that peace will soon
be declared in Hayti. Negotiations are
going on between Hippolyte and Legi¬
time that may lead to such an end.
The whole country around Blunt,
Dak., is being devastated by prairie fires.
One fire driven by a sixty-five mile gale,
burned everything in its path, including
human beings.
The switchmen in the Erie yards at
Buffalo, New York struck on Wednes¬
day. The men went out because threi
of their number were discharged ten
days ago and not reinstated at their de¬
mand. Their places are being filled as
rapidly as possible.
A freight train on the Chicago, St.
Louis & Pacific railroad, near Centreville
Ind., became detached from the engim
at back the top of a long, second high grade, smashing and ran
into the section,
the locomotive and nine cars, !8>x
tramps in a half loaded car were badly
hurt, and two were killed.
Minn., Reports were received at St. Paul, the
of a bad railroad wreck on
Northern Pacific, near Missoula, Mont,
A passenger train ran into a freight and
Green, the freight fireman, and twe
tramps who were stealing a ride, were
killed, and some others injured. The
accident was caused by a misplaced
switch.
In the Reichstag, on Wednesday, the
naval the German secretary, warships referring in the to the loss of
recent hur¬
ricane at Apia, Samoa, said that the re¬
port of the German officer in command
there did not show that the lives or prop¬
erty of Europeans were endangered and
he was sure that the British warship
the Caliope would had not have left, Samoa if
position the been critical, He an-
nouuced that government intended
to replace the wrecked German vessels
as soon as possible, as the United States
government was about to send three
cruisers to take the place of the Ameri¬
can -warships that had been lost.
HURRYING THINGS.
The Navy Department is making every
effort to secure an adequate representa¬
tion at Samoa. Orders were sent out
Monday to have the Richmond, Alert
and Adams sent to Apia at the earliest
practical moment. The Alert is at Hon¬
olulu, all ready to sail when she coals,
and can reach Samoa in a month or forty
days. The Richmond is at present in
river Rio De La Plata, on the east coast
of South America, and must go around
Cape Horn. The Adams is under repair
at Mare Island, California navy yard, and
ten days or two weeks will serve to com¬
plete additional the repairs, and after a few days
is consumed in taking in
stores and coals, she may sail on her voy¬
age, which will take about a month.
The Yantic, now at Brooklyn, N. Y.,
will be ready to sail in a week, probably
to relieve the Richmond. Renewed in¬
structions have been sent to San Fran-
c sco to hurry forward the preparation of
the Charleston, and every effort will be
made to get her guns and carriages trans¬
ported overland at the earliest possible
moment A graceful tribute from English
nav» 1 officers was contained in the fol¬
lowing cable received by Secretary
Tracy: “Gibraltar—To the Secretary of
the Navy, Washington: The officers of
the English channel fleet sympathize
with the American navy on the terrible
loss of life from wrecks at S.-moa.” To
this message the following reply was
made: “ Admiral Commanding He*
Majesty’s Channel Fleet, Gibraltar: Ac¬
cept for yourself and officers of your com¬
mand my grateful acknowledgement, in
behalf of the United States Navy, for
your mesiage of sympathy and good-will
occasioned by the recent disaster at
Samoa, Tracy, Secretary of the Navy.”
LABOR MATTERS.
About 1,200 of the 2,000 earpeuters in
St. Louis went on a strike Monday morn¬
ing. The causes which led up to this
action were the demands of the men for
hour an eight-hour standard day and forty cents per
as wages. The bosses
seem to have generally conceded the
eight hour day but are divided about the
wages, many of them being unwilling to
give more than thirty cents an hour.
The men are firm in their position, and
as the boss carpenters decline to recog¬
nize the demands of their former em¬
ployes, a bitter struggle is probable....
The Framers’ Union submitted its agree¬
ment to employers in New York City
for an equalization of wages in the city
and in Brooklyn and Jersey City—an
agreement forty binding employers to pay
cents per hour for day work and
double price for overtime and Sunday
work. About twenty-five of the largest
shops have given in, but in some shops
the proposition was refused, and many
men went out.
ELECTIONS.
A victory for the Democrats was the
result of Tuesday’s election in Chicago,
had HL Over heard 200 precincts, from, showing out of 390,
been a majority
thus far of 6,428 for Crogier, Democrat,
for mayor. Predictions give Crogier
the election by 8,000 to 10,000 over
Roche, Republican. Two years ago
Roche carried the city by 20,000....
The municipal election in 8t. Louis,Mo.,
passed off quietly. One hundred and
twenty-two out of the one hundred and
fifty-two precincts, give Noonan (Dem.)
for mayor, 22,417; Butler (Rep.) 21,169;
Noonan’s plurality, 571.
EXCITEMENT IN CANADA.
Quebec branch of the Evangelical
Alliance decided to affiliate with the-
Dominion Alliance aud endorse the peti-
tion to the government to disallow the
Jesuits’ estates bill.
FAKES AND FREAKS.
Origin of the Curios of Dime Mu*
seuuis and Side Show*.
“The American people like to be
hambugged.” As with P. T. Bamum
so with the managers of the “fakes,
freaks and follies” class of dime mu¬
seums, side shows, and traveling stores, let¬
this truism is indelibly stamped in
ters of gold on the corner-stone of their
existence. Were it not for this phrase
of public character their profession
would be in vain.
The “legitimate” as well as the “ille¬
gitimate” business is found among dime
museums and low-price shows, and there
are those who do what they advertise
and work on general business principles, the
although they may not appeal contribute to to
higher tastes and do not
the culture which Matthew Arnold look¬
ed for in vain among Americans. A
rather confidential dime museum man
not long ago was led by a Springfield his
Republican reporter to talk about
brotherhood, and the facts here set forth
are maiuly as he described them. He
had in his “exposition” a snake-charmer,
an Abyssinian beauty, a bodiless woman,
and a two-lieaded calf (stuffed). The
museum was in a tent about thirty feet
in diameter and the curios were arrang¬
ed around the sides. Two or three stretohed glar¬
ing sheets of canvas were
about the entrance to depict what the
show contained. To be sure the snakes
on the illustration were thirty feet long,
while the realities were thirty inches,
and the calf was the represented Abyssinian as and espec¬ the
ially lively, but fairly portrayed,
bodiless woman were
except for an amount of physical beauty have
which the originals could never
possessed. The account of these attractions which
the proprietor gave was delightfully asserted,
naive. The snake charmer, he
was the daughter of a real Indian charm¬
er who was brought over with by Barnum.
She became enamored a concert
ticket-seller, and, as he had ambitions
to start a museum, married her, and
their only ohild was then office doing lot the in
“snake act” on the post
Springfield. The fakir said that the
mother really had power over snakes,
but that the daughter used toothless
snakes and chloroform. “She is, how¬
ever,” he said, “very fond of snakes,
and would sleep with them if I would
Princess let her.” Irymi, The “Abyssinian described beauty,” 23
was as
years old, a uative of New York, and de¬
scended front poor but honest Irish
parents. At the age of 17 she was em¬
ployed to scrub floors in a New York
Bowery dime museum, and there learned
the secret able of bleaching stand her hair and
being to make it services. upright.
She was paid 85 a week for her
The bodiless woman was the fakir’s wife,
who had formerly been a charater
dancer in a variety show. The man said
that there had been a time when the
“bodiless woman act” had been a whole
show, aud that he bad been able to coin
money. The calf, or the remains of
what had once been a calf, he asserted,
was a legitimate curiosity which he had
bid in at an auction sale of curios for
83.50. He said that his whole outfit
cost 858 and his salary list was from 817
to 825 a week, with his other expenses
about 840 a week, and his receipts were
from 815 to 835 a day. “We don’t lay
up nothin’, though, because when we
lay off we have to go with the boys, and
we all buck the tiger a bit, and, of
eourse, in the long run, that beats us.”
endure He told of and many said hardships they they had to
that stranded are always
afraid of getting away from
home. Very few of the so-called freaks
•are what they seem, and are “doctored”
in a more or less ingenious way. Men
are all the time doing some strange
thing simply to get a job to pose for a
wonder, as tney are too lazy to work.
In the United States there are ove.
two hundred fiat rual, benevolent, so
cial, insurance, political, religious, tem
perance and other secret orders, Fol
lowing is the official membership o
some of the more prominent Americai
organizations: Freemasons, 600,000
Odd Fellows, 530,000; Gland Army o
the Republic,380,000; Knights of Pythi
as, 210,000; Good Templar.-,200,962; An
cientOrderof United Workmen, 191,876
Knights of Honor, 121,756; The Roya
Arcanum, 80,000; Improved Order o
Red Meu, 64,000; American Legion a
Honor, 61,064; Knights and Ladies os
Honor, 49,200; Sons of Veterans, 47,000
Ancient Order of Foresters, 38,539
Daughters of Rebekah, 3.3,858; Knight*,
of the Golden Eagle, 30,000, and Ordei
of Clioseu Friends 29,271. The totk
number of Masons in the world is esti¬
mated at 4,000,000. The total number,
of Druids in the world is 67,000.
]\ToTlC$ 1$ SsJf^SY
■THAT
JONN E.
WILL SELL YOU PATTERNS TO
©o Youf Owr\ ©hiptki^,
In any Size wanted, from Two Inches up to Sixty four.
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Write to Him and get an Estimate of All Kinds of Graining,
Sign and House Painting, Varnishing, at
ROCK BOTTOM PRICES.
you * will I also receive furnish by return Gold mail and free Gilded samples letters and Emblems fullj? and Graining Graining Ccmb* LcmM
Mortars and Pestles for Druggists. I furnish Wire Banner Signs, and make
specialty of Post Boards for the country. Address
JOHN E. REDMOND,
MARBLE WORKS.
The Undersigned, Is Prepared to Furnish MARBLE,
Pi
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STRICKEN DOWN.
Edwin Booth, the tragedian, wa*
stricken with paralysis during his appear
ance in “Othello,” at Rochester* N. Y.,
on Wednesday night, and is dangerously
ill. Mr. Barrett later appeared before
the curtain and announced that Mr.
Booth had sustained a partial stroke of
paralysis, and feared that it was the be¬
ginning of the end. Booth was taken ifl
upon second the stage during the last scene in
the act. He became unsteady,
reeled and fell, and had to be assisted off
the stage by those near by. The doctor
expressed the fear that Booth had sus¬
tained a partial stroke of paralysis.
Fort Lewis, La Plata County, Col.,
is said to be the highest military post in
the world, being 8,500 feet above sea
level. At present there are six com¬
panies cavalry, of infantry with and two companies
of twenty one officers sta¬
tioned flie-e.
BLACKSMITHING,
HORSE-SHOEING,
Manufacturing and Repairing
WAGONS, BUGGIES
—AND—
FARM IMPLEMENTS
Of all kinds.
JARRETT & SON,
TOCCOA, GEORGIA,
ROBERTS HOUSE,
TOCCOA CITY, GA-,
MBS. E. W. ROBERTS, Prop
Mrs. Roberts also has charge of tin
Railroad Eating House at Bowerevill^
Ga. Good accomm* rations, good board,
at usual rates infirsi-class houses.
LEWIS DAVIS,
ATTOFNEY AT LAW.
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will practice in the counties of Haber¬
sham and Rabun of the Northwestern
Circuit, and Frankbn 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 the Piedmont R- gion, Georgia. Also
Orange Groves, Fruit and Vegetable
Farms for sale in Florida. Address
J. W. f&cLAURY,
TOCCOA, GEORGIA.
Don’t Fail to Call On
V. A. MATHESON,
Who has Special Bargains in Variou*
Lines of Goods.
FINE DRESS ROODS t
NOTIONS, HATS, ETC.
—ALSO—
HARDWARE OF ALL KINDS.
Farmers’ Tools, Wagon and Buggy Ma¬
terial, Blacksmith's Tools, Hinges,
Locks, Bolts, Doors ami Sash.
—EVERYTHING IN THE—
HARDWARE LINE,
COOK STOVES. STOVE PIPE,
AND WOODWARE,
-ALSO-
DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINES.
GA.
GrimMltiuuitt
Of All Kinds and Styles from tfc*
plainest and lowest and costly. prices, up All ts work
most elaborate
delivered, set up and satufaetioa guar¬
anteed. Call at my yard, exasalus
Maples and learn pricas before pttf*
abasing stsswfasrs. A d dr—,
L. p . cook, OA.
TOCCOA,