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rHE NEWS. TOCCOA, GEORGIA. PICTURES OF WASHINGTON. MANY CHANGES BEING MADE AMONG OFFICIALS. NOTES. R. B. Talbert was appointed post¬ master at Greenwood. S. C. Postmaster-General Wanamaker ha: established an inviolable rule, that no postoffiee shall from be kept in a saloon, oi any room which a saloon may be entered. Rear Admiral Thomas H. Patterson, ington (retired), died at his residence in Wash¬ on Wednesday, from exhaustion consequent G9 of upon long illness. He was years age. Wm. Attorney General Miller has appointed E. Haisen, of Kentucky, as special examiner in the Department of Justice, ■vice Mr. Fisher, resigned. Mr. Haisen is » well-known resident of Covington. By direction of the President, the Sec¬ retary of War has ordered that the new- be military post near Denver, Colorado,shall known as Fort Logan, to honor the memory of the late Gen. John A. Lo¬ gan. The Secretary of the Navy on Tuesday convened a courtmartial to meet at the Washington trial navy yard on Monday, for of Lieut. Commander Book, of the Pinta, who left his ship in Alaskan waters without permission. Dr. J. H. Kidder, of the Smithsonian Institute, in Washington, died on Mon¬ day, from an attack of pneumonia. Dr. Kidder served as a surgeon in the navy until he resigned about twelve years ago; since which time he had been connected with the scientific branch of the govern¬ ment service. ployes Secretary Rusk finds the roll of em¬ of the Agricultural Department so largely in excess of the resources for the current there will year be that, until after dismissals June 30th, far more than appointments, In the seed division alone, eighty of the employes have been dismissed. The Department of State stated on Wednesday, cerned the three treaty powers con¬ in Samoan affairs—England, Ger¬ many and the United States—have reach¬ ed an understanding by the terms ol which they will each keep but one wax vessel at Samoa pendiug the termina¬ tion, of the Berlin conference. The detail for the court-martial which the is to try Major Armes, a retired officer of regular army, has been made. The general officer charge of conduct unbecoming an and a gentlemen is supported by specifications alleging the false arrest of a Capt. Bourke, of the Washington po¬ lice force, and malicious charges against the same officer, improper newspaper publications and defamatory letters, and finally a cowardly and disgraceful violent public assault upon Governor Beaver. Armes’ friends claim he i« crazy. The Washington anniversary of the American Tract Society was celebrated in the Church of the Convent at Wash¬ ington on Sunday. Justice Strong pre¬ sided. Rev. Dr. Sherer, secretary, read an extract of the year’s operations, show¬ ing the total receipts (one agency being estimated) at $290,000 ;t he expenditures a little short of that sum. About 150 new publications were added. Printing done in New York in 30 languages, and abroad in 150 languages or dialects. Donations and legacies, about $75,000. Over forty- five million pages of tracts were distrib¬ uted gratuitously. About 200 colporteurs are employed, and over $10,000 sent abroad in cash and publications. Maj. Marcus A. Reno died in Wash¬ ington the on Monday. Iu 1876 he was with 7th cavalry in the battle of Big Horn, in which Custer was massacred. Because he failed to cross the river and go to the rescue of Custer, charges of cowardice were preferred against him, *aud he was tried by court-martial, but honorably ac¬ quitted. From this time dates his down¬ fall, which has been almost as rapid as his promotion. He became dissipated, and while drunk, insulted the v/ife of an officer at the post where he was stationed. Charges of couduct unbecoming an offi¬ cer and a gentleman were made and lie was dismissed from the army April 1, 1880. By an act of Congress condoning the offense because of his past record anil promises of better couduct, he was re¬ stored to his rank, but he again disgraced himself and was cashiered. FIRED ON US. A. Capt, Bucknam, Stubbs, of the schooner Carrie which arrived at New York on ‘Wednesday from St. Domingo City, reports that when off Saona Islan.i, at about noon, he sighted a vessel seam¬ ing distant towards his vessel j,from land, then six or eight miles. The craft proved to be a Dominican war vessel. She laid her course to intercept the Bucknam, but could not do so owing to the strong breeze then prevailing, and fell astern half or three-quarters of a mile. When nearly in the schooner's wake, much to the surprise of the crew she fired a shot which struck the water only a few yards from the Buckuam’s stern. She then gave chase, but with a good.breeze the schooner soon distanced her. After keeping up the chase for about two hours, she gave it up and, putting her about, steamed for land. What errand was can only be conjectured, as the Bucknam was far outside of their jurisdiction and on the high seas, where they could have no legitimate right to overhaul her. The American flag was flying it at the schooner’s peak all the time, having been hoisted as soon as the steamer was made out to be a war vessel. THE IRISH MOVEMENT. The municipal council of the Irish national league on Tuesday in New York, discussed the attitude recently as- sumed pointed by minister Patrick Egan, Chili, recently* ap¬ to and Alexan¬ der Sullivan, in asserting the existence of treachery amoug some Irishmen to the Irish national cause. Resolutions were adopted, requesting Charles Stewart Par¬ nell to appoint a committee of ten, “whose standing and character shall be a guarantee of their impartiality and good faith,” the to make a thorough investi¬ gation of charges. “JACK** AGAIN- The body of a boy named Steinfatt was found at an early hour Monday morn¬ ing The on a road near Hamburg, Germany. abdomen boy’s throat had been cut and his moved. ripped open aud his entrails re¬ The body was otherwise shock¬ ingly mutilated. It had been evidently laid on the road throughout the night. SOUTHERN BRANCHES, LOPPED HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE . KEW ENTERPRISES—MOVEMENTS OF RELIGIOUS BODIES—AFFRAYS, MISHAPS, ETC.—INDUS-* TRIAL ITEMS—NOTES. ALABAMA. Gilbert Lowe, one of the negroes arrested last week, charged with the Meadows murder, on Monday made a full confession, corroborating the con- ! e-sion of Ben Elgy. Lowe says Elgy, himself and the other two negroes now in jaii murdered uud robbed Meadows, and that all were equally implicited. A spirited meet ng of white Republi¬ cans was held in Birmingham on Wed¬ officers: nesday, a id organized by chosing these Ex-Governor W. H. Smith, president;L. E. Parsons, vice-president; Robert Burlier, Montgomery, secretary. The organization has an executive com¬ mittee composed of two members from each congressional district and a vice- prcsideut in each county. Resolutions were tion, adopted favoring white immigra¬ home protection, Federal aid to open rivers and harbors in the state, and the organization of a Republican Pro¬ tective Tariff League. DELAWARE. The House passed on Wednesday, with only one dissenting vote, the Davis high license bill, which hts been sub¬ mitted for the Pickett mixed high li¬ cense and local option bill, which has been pending for over two months past. The Davis bill fixes the license fee at $500 for cities of 10,000 inhabitants and over, '800 for towns of 2,000 and over, and $200 f< r rural districts. * (•’l.dKOIV. # Two Morman elders who had located in Glaseock county, were waited upon at Gibson by a committee of citizens and warned to leave at once. They left. The Arkwright Cotton Mills, in Savan¬ nah, valued at $100,000, were destroyed by fire on Tuesday, The fire originated in the engine room, and was caused by an overheated journal. Joshua Burtz ard W. C. Houston, of Atlanta, have been arrested on a charge of conspiring to liberate Reveire, the Store Mountain murderer. They have carried on an employment bureau in At¬ lanta for some time. The Atlanta Street Railway Co., has been bought by the syndicate that owns all lhe other street railroads. Dummies find new cars will now be put on, and all ihe modern improvements introduced. 1 he Peters’ estute formerly owned the railroad just sold. Col. S. A. Darnell, the commander of Blue ltidge post, G. A. R., of Jasper, lecently appointed U. S. district attor¬ ney in Atlanta, has appointed Gen. Wil¬ liam Phillips, of Marietta, as his clerk, arid raised the salary from $1,200 to $2,000. Gen. Phillips was a Confederate oldi< r, and was formerly the assistant •tis rict attorney under Mr. Hill. Three prisoners escaped from the jail ii Decatur some time between Sunday mid night and Monday morning. They moved a stone weighing 2,000 pounds. The prisoners were Sam Cullin, white, and John Chandler and John Hill, second m groes. floor They were all confined on the of the jail and succeeded in getting away without being observed by any one. The DeKalb jail is built of large heavy stone, each one of which is from four to five feet long, three feet wide and about one foot thick. Col. Evan P. Howell, editor of the Constitution of Atlanta, and Henry W.| -iraiiy, of the same paper, with the au¬ thority of Col. Wm. Lowndes Calhoun, president of the Fulton County Confed-j crate Veterans, have started a subscrip-j tion to erect a Confederate Home in Georgia. Already $20,000 has been sub¬ scribed, and several soldiers who fought on the Federal side have sent in liberal donations. Governor Gordon, who in¬ augurated a similar movement five years ago, when he was residing in New York, has gone into the movement with his usual enthusiasm, and no doubt his plau inaugurated five years ago, will be adopted. At a meeting of the Executive Com¬ mittee of the Piedmont Exposition com¬ tion pany on Monday, the following resolu¬ State was passed: “Whereas, the Georgia Agriculture Society have declined to recede from their date of opening their fair, which date is in conflict with the period decided upon, and publicly announced nearly a year ago, by the Piedmont Exposition company for hold¬ ing its Exposition in 1889. Therefore, Resolved, That the Piedmont Exposition Co.,do adhere to its original date, and that the Exposition be opened on the 7th day of October next, and close on the 2nd day of November.” MARYLAND. Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, has issued a circular letter to the Catholic clergymen of his diocese, directing that a special meeting be held in all the churches April 80th, the hundredth an¬ niversary ol the inauguration of George Washington as president of the United States, and that the church bells be rung for half an hour as au expression of joy and thanksgiving. The Louisville Bridge & Iron Com¬ pany’s machine shops were completely destroyed by fire on Tuesday, causing a loss of $90,000. The shops were in a one 400 feet story corrugated iron building about in length. The fire is supposed to be incendiary. NOItTH CAftOI.INA. In Swain county, a white man named Sparks was instantly killed, He tackle was rolling logs on a flat car when the gave way and the hook was thrown violently against bis face, tearing away one side of it and fracturing hi* skull. A great number of letters are being received by their former employers in North Carolina, from the negroes who left the Goldsboro section for Kansas. All the letters beg for money with which to purchase tickers to the old homes. The letters are pitiful in their pleading for help. All of them say that the writers only pray for one thing, and that is to get home again. The particulars of a disastrous fire at Smithfield, the county seat of Johnson county, were received at Charlotte. In all, sixty buildings were destroyed* twenty-eight has being business houses. The town only a population of about a The thousand, and has no fire department. fire originated in the wheelwright shop of 8. R. & J. A. Morgan, and, blown by a gale of wind, soon reduced the entire business portion of the town to ashes. SOl’Tn CAROUNA. At Leesvillu, a town two miles north of Batesburg, the maishal arrested a drunken Irishman and put him in the guard night house for safe keeping. During the the guard house was consumed by fire, and the poor unfortunate was roasted alive. He is said to have been a sewiDg machine repairer, and his name is supposed to be John Doyle. The Rivers’ Bridge Memorial Associa¬ tion of Ktarse will hold its annual meet¬ ing in about one month. Gen. Rusk now a member of Harrison’s cabinet, will be invited to deliver the memorial address. Gen. Rusk was brevetted brigadier gen¬ eral in 1865, about one mile from the as¬ sociation’s cemetery, for bravery in the battle of Salkehatchie, as a Federal sol¬ dier. Another victim has met her death in the now famous Hunter’s wharf dock, in Charleston. Mrs. Fickenberg, a white woman, drowned aged sixty years, was found in the dock. The general im¬ the pression is that she suicided, although coroner’s jury rendered a verdict of accidental drowning. Mrs. Fickenberg is the sixth victim who has peiished in this dock within the past two years. The place is lonely and unlighted. The dock is filled with pluffmud of the char¬ acter of quick sand. Of the six victims three committed suicide, and three are supposed to have wandered overboard and have been caught iu the treacherous mud until the flood, tide covered them. VIRGINIA. Further reports of damage by the re¬ cent storm are coming in, and show that the loss of oyster vessels on both bay and seaside is much larger than at first supposed, and the loss of life correspond- ing greater. Three bodies were washed ashore near Cape Charles Wednesday, one of which was that of Capt. Chan- nock, of Eastville. A fatal wreck occurred on the York River branch of the Richmond & Dan¬ ville Railroad, near West Point. The heavy rains washed out a culvert and a part of the dam between the tank pond and the river, and an engine and seven freight cars plunged into the washout. Two men, a colored brakeman and the fireman, a young man named Durvin, were buried under the cars and killed. The reports which are coming in from Norfolk, Princess Anne and Nansemond counties, show that serious damage was sustained in these counties from the storm and tides. In many localities cat¬ tle and other property were destroyed by the extraordinary high tide. The pota¬ to crop in the trucking sections will be generally the seed injured the by water, which will rot in ground. TELEGRAPHIC. The steamship Chattahoochee, of Savannah, Wednesday, Ga, arrived in New York on three days overdue and pretty well stove up. She encountered one of the heaviest gales ever experi¬ enced on the Atlantic coast, and came near being wrecked. Another attempt to wreck the west¬ bound limited vestbule express on the Pittsburg, road, Ft. Wayne & Chicago Rail¬ which passed through Canton, Ohio, about midnight on Wednesday, was made near Louisville, at the same place thbt the attempt to wreck the same train was made the night before. The committee appointed in Sydney, New South Wales, to investigate the dis¬ covery of Pasteur for the extermination of rabbils, have made a report that upon experiment, they found that the rabbits which had been inoculated with the vi¬ rus of chicken cholera, or which ate food which had been infected with virus died, but that the disease was not com¬ municated by one rabbit to another. Lord Lonsdale, a British nobleman, who made quite a stir in social circles in New York about a year ago in connec¬ tion with the divorce suit of Violet Cam¬ eron, an actress, and then went on a wild goose chase of Arctic exploration by himself, has just been heard from. He lies at Kodiac, Alaska, with a broken arm, hausted, arriving there starving and ex¬ and says he is disgusted with exploring. Rev. Sam Small conducted one of the most exciting temperance meetings of the prohibition campaign at Pittsburg, Pa., on Wednesday night. He was de¬ nouncing the liquor dealers vigorously, as wealthy “law-breakers,” when Jacob Kellar, a liquor dealer, objected. “He is one of them,” cried a man in the audi¬ ence. “You’re a liar,” cried Kellar. The latter became demonstrative, and was ejected from the church amid great excitement. Resolutions were passed requesting reuewal the court to refuse Kellar a of license. One old lady became so much excited that she rushed up to Ivellar as he xvas leaving the church, and struck him in the face with her fist. An eastbound train on the Santa Fe and California was just leaving Lorenzo station, which is fifty miles from Chicago, on Wednesday when an accident occur¬ red. Attached to the rear of the train was the private car of J. E. Hart, mayor of Brookline, Mass., and a director of the California Central road. The party in the ear consisted of Mr. Hart and his son, Henry Robert Hart; his niece, Miss Winslow; a porter, known only as Harry, and a cook. Just as the train was pull¬ ing out of the station an.extra fast stock train, following, ran into- the rear of the passenger train at a good speed, demol¬ ishing the private car and damaging tho freight engine so that a large quantities of steam escaped, scalding those whJ had escaped from the effects of the crash] The killed were : Miss Winslow, Henrvl Hart, the porter and' the cook. J. F. Hart ami his wife were badly scalded. DETERMINED BOOMERS. he officials of the Santa Fe Railroad are busy investigating the story that the boomers concealed in the woods of Okla¬ homa, had banded together for the pur¬ pose of destroying the railroad bridges, in order to obstruct the influx of home¬ steaders until the men concealed in the country could make perfect their cluims. It appears that the boomers in hiding are despeiate. They have selected and watched their claims for years, aud they now fear that the new comers, with the assistance of rapid transit, may get the best of them. The Santa Fe railroad has 400 cars already engaged by parties who desired household gcods removed. The crowd has increased at Arkansas City, Kansas, to such proportions,that persons who get their mail at the free delivery window at the postoffice are compelled to form into a procession, and then it is frequently five or six hours before they can get to call for their mail. COTTON. Tee increase in amount iu sight as compared with last year, is 62,299"bales, the increase as compared with 1886-87 is 447,9S3 bales, and the increase over 1835- 86 is 494,201 bales. rr'TTT'' AJLIll/ (jrXijh/Al n Tir i rr WORLD OUTSIDE. EPITOME OF MOST INTEREST¬ ING MATTERS. OREAT LABOR AGITATION—SPRING STORMS— DEATHS OF PROMINENT PEOPLE—ACCIDENTS. FIBES, SUICIDES, ETC. William Henry Smith, first lord of the British treasury, is to be raised to the peerage. of Dispatches houses from India says hundreds have been destroyed by tire at Surat. The loss is placed at $1,000,000. Police Officer Woodville, of Chicago, HI., was shot Tuesday morning by a bur¬ glar, whom he was chasing. He will die. Good order prevails at Panama. The troubles which were learcd on account of the stoppage of work, have not oc¬ curred. Sir Charles Russell has consented to act as arbitrator between Vandeleur and the Clare tenants in Ireland and their landlords. His decision is to be bind¬ ing. The Berlin Reichstanger announces,that Count Yon SchelleDdorf retires from the that ministry of war at his own request, and he will be succeeded by Gen. Verdy Du Yernois. The immigrants on board the Red Star line steamer Nordland, which was in the collision off Beechhead, with the schoon¬ er Carrie Dingle, and fvhich put into Southampton lo land. for repairs, was forbidden Henry L. Stanley’s letter to the Royal Geographical Society body was read at the meeting of that in London, Eng¬ land, on Monday. He describes at length the various devices by which the natives endeavored to prevent the advance of the expedition. The freight houses of the Boston & Lowell division of the Boston & Maine Railroad, situated between Lowell, Minot and Nashua streets, Boston, Mass., -were burned on Tuesday evening, only a por¬ tion of the walls remaining. The loss will be $500,000. It has been discovered that, owing to the faulty construction of a New Jersey law recently passed in regard to city governments, Trenton will be without a mayor for three weeks, and that the newly authorized fire and police com¬ missioner cannot be appointed. Jacob Sandt, the eminent commander of the Hugh DePayn committed commandery, suicide Knight Templar, at his home in Eaton, Pa., on Monday, by hanging. The act is believed to have been due to melancholy over the return of an old sickness. He was in the gro¬ cery business and one of Eaton’s most re¬ spected citizens. There was some little excitement in Chicago, IU., political circles that about a de¬ cision of court to the effect Brighton Park, a suburb, had been annexed to the city proper and should have participated in the late city election. The Republi¬ cans, who were defeated, will try and have the election declared illegal. In the British House of Commons on Monday, the lord advocate introduced a bill providing for local government in Scotland. The bill creates county coun¬ cils, the members of which are to be elected by the householders. All the boroughs, with a population of less than 7,000, will be merged into the counties, the others will be self-governed. The town of Fairburg, 111., has been quarantined on account of the prevalence of scarlet fever. There are more than twenty cases of the disease in the little town, and six deaths have occurred. The families, in which the disease pre¬ vails, are and not permitted provisions to leave furnished the premises, committee appointed are by the them by a town board. A large meeting of farmers was held at Anderson, Ind., on Tuesday, r.nd pledges were made, to pay no more than 15 cents per pound for trust binding twine, and not in any manner to patron¬ ize any merchant offering such twine for sale at a greater price. The farmers de¬ clare they will bllow their hogs to eat the wheat in the fields before submitting to the twine trust. At the closing session of the Mormon Conference held in Salt Lake City, on Tuesday, George O. Cannon read the statistics of the church, which are, 12 apostles, 70 patriarchs, 3,719 high priests, 11,705 elders, 2,069 priests, 2,292 teachers, 11,610 deacons, 81,809 families, 115,915 officers and members and 49,302 under eight years of age—a total Mormon population of 153,911. Capt. Couch, the Oklahoma leader, ar¬ rived in Winfield, Kansas, on Tuesday from Oklahoma. He says the soldiers have scouted the Oklahoma country, and about everybody without authority to remain has been driven out. Nobody is allowed to alight from a train no h ngei than the train stops at a station. The Bank of Guthrie, I. T., with a capital stock of $50,000 was organized. A few months ago burglars broke into the residence of John Reilly, of Wilkes- barre, Pa., chloroformed the family and stole nearly 81,000. On Monday, Father O’Hearn, pastor of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic church, handed Reilly $700, which he said had been given him that evening by a prominent man, and who had told had made a confession to him, the story of the robbery. The story is a secret of the confessional. FATAL DISEASE. The terrible mortality of Rio Janerio, Brazil continues. Rio appears to he rap¬ idly progressing toward the condition of a pest house, aud the deaths aver¬ age 150 a day. The epidemic is no longei yellow fever, which disease, indeed, ia rapidly declining, but au uncompre¬ hended malady, termed there “pernicious attack,” which strikes down its victims, almost wholly males, suddenly, and proves fatal within a few hours. No age or condition is exempt. Brazilians a:e as liable as the most recent immi¬ grant, and on one day forty-five persons perished from it, yellow fever contrib¬ uting the comparatively small contin¬ gent of twenty-four to the day’s mor¬ tality. AGAINST CIDER,, An interesting liquor case has just been decided at Mount Pleasant, Iowa. The defendants were tried on the ordinary liquor had, selling indictment. The witnesses as shown by the evidence, bought cider in the defendant’s restaurant; the question was, whether or not cider is classed with intoxicating liquors. Judge Travers ruled that while cider is at first a non-intoxicant, the it became intoxicating in course of time. DlACKSMITHING J HORSE-SHOEING I Manufacturing and Repairing WAGONS, BUGGIES —AND— FARM IMPLEMENTS Of all kinds. J&RRETT & SON. TOCCOA, GEORGIA. ROBERTS HOUSE, TOCCOA CITY, GA-, MBS. E. W. ROBERTS, Prop Mrs. Roberts als) has charge of tin Railroad Eating House at Bowersvillq Ga. Good accomni' lations, good board, at usual rates in first-class houses. LEWIS DAVIS, ATTORNEY AT LAW- TOCCOA CITY, GA., Will practice in the counties of Haber¬ sham and Rabun of the Northwestern 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 spec¬ ial attention. RIAL - ESTATE. CITY LOTS, Farm and Mineral Lands In the Piedmont Ri gion, Georgia. Also Ortnge Groves, Fruit and Vegetable Farms for sale in Florida. Address J. W. f&cLAURY, TOCCOA, GEORGIA. Don’t Fail to Call On W. A. MAT1ES0N, Who has Special Bargains in Various Lines of Goods. FINE DRESS HOODS F NOTIONS, HATS, ETC. —ALSO— HARDWARE OF ALL KINDS, Farmers’ Tools, Wagon and Buggy Ma¬ terial, Blacksmith’s Tools, Hinges, Locks, Bolts, Doors and Sash. —EVERYTHING IN THE— HARDWARE LINE, COOK STOVES, STOVE PIPE, AND WOODWARE i - ALSO - DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINES. TOCCOA. GA. Poet Riley’s Sign painting' D.irs. I have wondered a good many times how many peopie in Warsaw, Ind., writes S. B. McManus to the New York Sun , remember when James Whitcomb Riley was a resident of that place. It was in the spring of 18? 0, when I was reading medicine there and Riley was in town filling an engagement, or engage¬ ments, handy painting this window signs. He was at sort of thing, and did some nice jobs. Later, he with a very deft and cunning hand, made drawings for his poems, which were as full of artistic strength and quaintness as his “Old Swimmin’ Hole” is full of poetry. About this time the Indianian printed some little things of mine—picturesquely little, some of them, from a literary standpoint. But out of charity or to encourage me, or to get rid of me, the rhymes were printed, and one day Riley and I were talking about them while he was painting a sign of the boss jewelry store, near Mr. Wynant’s drug store. In a mild, friendly way, he was a trifle envious of my success in getting into print, and i posed beside him while he painted the “IiY” in jewelry, as a person whose literary standing was assured. When he had made a marine blue period, he took off his apron ana gether we went over to little the Wright House to¬ to see a bit of rhyme which he said he had there. He wanted my opinion and criticism on it, and as I had more opinion and criticism to give than anything else, I was willing to bestow it even on a sign painter. raley read the poem. It was called “The Argonaut,” and, inexperienced as I was, I knew that only a poet and a genius could have written it. I was unstinted in my praise, and I knew the Hoosier poet was born and was only waiting the recognition of the public, which in a few years it so magnificently and munificently gave. After this episode an abiding and deep-rooted friendship was the result. I have met him since then, and have read about all that he has ever written, hut nothing ever pleases me so much— no “reading” I have ever heard of his— pleased “The me as well as that little poem, Argonaut,” read one raw spring day up in a cold room by a curtainless window in the Wright House block, A DEADLY PIPE. Robert Schideler and wife, of Manson, Iowa, were driving to town on Tuesday when a spark from Schideler’s pipe ig¬ nited the clothing of his wife, and as the wind was blowing a stiff gale, she was enveloped in flames in an instant. Terror stricken, she jumped from the buggy on one side did and her husband on the other. He all in his power to quench the flames, but to no avail. The grass took fire around them and Mrs. Schideler was completely enveloped in a fiery shroud, and died before her hus¬ band’s eyes. The New York Press informs its read- ers that the TheosophicaJ Society of Philadelphia has dispatched two dele¬ gates to Hindostan to search for the grave of Buddha. If those delegates should attempt to enter the jungles of Nepatu in the midst of the rainy season, they will probably find a grave of some sort before the end <4 May. NEW FIRM. M C ALLISTER& SIMMONS Have Just Opened Lp With LARGE STOCKS Of HEAVY GROCERIES Bought for Cash by the CAB LOAD 9 CONSISTING OF MEAT. COEN, FLOUR BRAN AND HAT. Also, Large Stocks of STAPLE DRY GOODS, SHOES, CLOTHING, Etc. We Carry a Full Line Of Stoves, Hardware, Furniture, Mattresses. Bed-springs* We Have Just Received Old HICKORY and White HICKORY WAGONS > ---IN-- CAR LOAD LOTS mi itwtiii, sm Our New Stock in this Line is Complete, Embracing' all the Latest Styles. We invite our Friends and Customers to call and Examine our Stock before Purchasing elsewhere. Having bought all the above Goods We are able to afford superior inducements to our|Customers. MCALLISTER & SIMMONS, LAVONIA, TOCCOA, GA. GA. E. SIMPSON y TOCCOA. GEORGIA- tit iiiittiit Aud Machinery Supplies, Also, Kepairs All Kinds of Machinery. Peerless Ungihes % BOTH PORTABLE & TRACTION GEISER SEPARATORS Farmers and others in want of either Engines or Separators, will SAVE MONEY by using the above machines. 1 am also prepared to give Lowest Prices and Best Terms on the celebrated <KIESTEY 0RGANS.t» Cardwell Hydraulic Cotton Presses, Corn and Saw Mills, Syrup Mills and Evaporators. Will have in by early Spring a Full Stock of White Sewing Machines McCormick Reapers, Mowers and Self-Binders Which need only a trial their Superiority. Call and see me be- oie you buy. Duplicate parts of machinery''constantly m hand. XoTlCs} IB GflViJK ■THAT- JONN E. REDMOND WILL SELL YOU PATTERNS TO ©o YouY Owp ©kiptip^ * In Size wanted, from Two Inches Sixty four. A any up to Write to Him and get an Estimate of All Kinds of Graining, Sign and House Fainting, Varnishing, at ROCK BOTTOM PRICES. He gives Agents an article with which they can make more money than they ever made in all their lives. With these goods Agents can make from $5 to $8 a day. This is no Northern humbug. Inclose a two-cent stamp for postage, and you will receive by return mail free samples and full particulars of the business. I also furnish Gold and Gilded letters, Emblems and Graining Gtiabt, Mortars and PestleB for Druggists. I furnish Wire Banner Signs, and make a specialty of Post Boards for the country. 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