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THE NEWS.
TOOOOA, GEORGIA.
SOUTHERN BRIEFS.
ITEMS OF G RE A T INTEREST TO
INTELLIGENT PEOPLE.
NEW ENTEBI’RISES—railroad perils—heavy
BAINS—GOOD CHOPS ASSURED—WHAT THE TEL¬
EGRAPH REPORTS—GENERAL NOTES.
ALABAMA.
A boiler explosion at the Bessemer
Rolling Mills, on Tuesday, killed Dave
Ballser and a man named Davis.
A trade was closed in Birmingham for
the purchase, by New York and New
Orleans capitalists, of 100,000 acres of
coal and ore lands in the vicinity of Col¬
linsville and Fort Payne.
Georgia.
Chas. Hindall and Steve Jackson were
drowned in the Chattahoochee river at
Columbus while bathing. Both boys
were about 16 years of age and of good
families.
Glenn McCord, of Atlanta, who was a
witness in the case against Kddleman for
murder, and through whose testimony
the prisoner was freed, was convicted on
Thursday of perjury.
Niue will companies of the 4th U. S. Ar¬
tillery take }>ost at Atlanta in a few
days, and a- many young (Southern men
are among its officers, the society belles
are in a flutter of excitement. Property
in the vicinity of the new barracks bus
jumped up amazingly said iu value. Post
“Hancock” is to be the finest bar¬
racks of any in the country.
The finding of a big pit in an unfre¬
quented part of Peter’s Park in Atlanta
on Tuesday, led to an investigation by
the hidden police. The bound fact with w as developed, iron that
a box bands and
containing valuables, had been buried
there by burglars several years ago. The
thieves served out their imprisonment,
came back, dug up the box and escaped
with it.
An effort has been made -by the alli¬
ance men to induce the cotton factories
in Columbus to put in machinery for the
mnnulacture them of the cotton fear, bagging. however, Most of
express that the
farmers will not stand together, and as
yet it is not settled that any of tjiern will
make the venture, The West Point
mills, it is said, have already agreed to
manufacture the bagging of cotton.
Atlanta celebrated Easter Sunday by
having the greatest fire in the business
portion of tho city, since the burning of
the Kimball House. The property de¬
stroyed was a six-story brick building
on the corner of Alabama and Pryor
streets, owned by Capt. Harry Jackson.
The lire originated in the paper ware
house of Wellhouse & Sons, and was ac¬
cidental. Many lawyers occupied a por¬
tion of the building. The losses foot
up $125,000 and the insurance was but
$75,000. Sparks from this fire commun¬
icated to the roof of the rectory of St.
Philips church (Episcopal) several blocks
away and the building was
KENTUCKY
largest P. N. Burger of Natural Bridge, the
merchant in Rockbridge county,
has failed for $100,000.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Fifty thousand dollars was subscribed
in Raleigh for the building of a cotton
factory.
In Gaston county, at a cotton mill, a
row occurred between six young men.
Robert Pinckney and Samuel Evans were
badly cut in the melee.
The funeral of Mrs. Toeodore B. Ly¬
man, wife of the Protestant Episcopal
bishop were held at Raleigh on Monday.
Her body was taken to Baltimore, Md.,
for burial.
R. McNeil, who last year shot his former
sweetharfc, Miss Ida Hoc, at Carthage,
and who so near escaped lynching, was
that nequited by the court upon the ground
the shooting was accidental.
A suicide occurred Sunday in Bertie
county. \V. J. Bishop, a man o‘f per¬
fectly sound mind, went into an orchard
and blew out bis brains with a gun. No
cause whatever can be assigned for the
act.
William K. Vanderbilt, worth $50, -
000,000, will build near Asheville the
most magnificent private residence in the
South. Some mouths ago be began the
purchase of property near Asheville, and
now owns 4,000 acres, on which he will
shortly erect a mansion. The cost of the
estate when completed wUl be over
$1,000,000.
Reports won brought to Raleigh on
Sunday by negroes from near Clayton,
Jolnisou county, that the house of a
negro who had been especially active in
inducing ed negroes to emigrate, was invad¬
by masked and unknown men, and
the negro so beaten that his condition is
considered critical. The house of a
astic negro preacher, who was also an enthusi¬
ardvocate of the exodus, was also
visited tho same night, it is stated, and
that he was beaten.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The Council of Administration of the
Department authorized of Georgia, G. A. R., has
the formation of a post of
white soldiers of Charleston. There is
already which a post of colored men in Beau¬
fort is attached to the Department
Charleston, of Virginia The post just formed in
is composed of some of the
best men of the city.
F. W. Macusser, a Northern man who
settled in Charleston after the War, but
who has always voted with the whites in
the state-elections, says he saw President
Harrison iu ‘Washington, and that the
removals and appointments will com¬
mence on the 1st of May. The Presi¬
dent, he says, intends to ignore the ol^
party leaders and appoint young Demo¬
crats and Republicans to office in the
state.
TEXAS.
The movement inaugurated bv the
Confederate Austin Statesman, in aid of the Austin
Home, i$ rapidly taking
shape. all It is universally commended by
classes of citizens.
Considerable ^ ., ,, excitement .. , exists . , m El
Paso, over the city government contest,
Krakaner, who the Republican contestant,
refuses forcibly took charge of the city safe,
to disclose the combination.
The Tennessee oi*
rate committee the Southern
Passenger Agents’ Association, at its re-
cent meeting, .tie resolved Li that <Wtv
both
continued. This mens that after April
24th, parties of ten or more are not to be
allowed the reduced rates usually granted
to such parties, 3 °
OKLAHOMA.
GREAT RUSH OF EMIGRANTS
INTO INDIAN TERRITORY.
*E FJIOMISED LAND SETTLED AT LAST—BACK
BT LOCOMOTIVE AND HORS6—TBS tOWN OF
GUTHRIE STARTED—SEVERAL KILLINGS.
hotels Early breakfast were the rule at the
and restaurants in Arkansas City,
lamation Kan., on Monday, the day that by proc¬
of President Harrison, Okla¬
homa was opened to settlement, and the
streets leading down the slope to the
ing depot were thronged with men, all travel¬
in one direction, but everyone diff¬
erently ly nothing equipped 1 , some carried absolute¬
in their hands, evidently
for thinking they could go through better
Very not being handicapped by weights.
many had blankets, several had
satchels, down and some men were so loaded
with implements that if they had
any idea of taking part in the mighty
foot race they would probably abandou
it in the course of a few hours. But a
marked characteristic oi the crowd was
the great number of spades and axes
carried. . Of guns there were quite a
number, but the persistent rumors as to
disarming tory, doubt every one entering the terri¬
no led to several being left
behind. Several men were knocked
down atnl more or less hurt. The com¬
pany's arrangement to prevent a general
rush to one train was to so arrange mat¬
ters, that no one'could know which train
could pass fi:st, and the secret had been
admirably kept. The newspaper corres-
pondents had, by prior arrangements, all
met and w r ere all waiting for the promis¬
ed signal to guide them to their car of
the first train. It had become generally
known among the members of the surg¬
ing crowds, that the pi ess car would be
attached to the first train, and the mo-
ment the door was opened, a wild rush
was made to it, and it was hard work for
the actual correspondents to get aboard.
Capt. George Cooper, the celebrated
boomer, hud been promised the honor of
pulling out the first train with engine
No. 267, and the lucky man was assisted
by Harry F. Livingston, who runs the
engine regularly. His fireman was B.
T. Rodgers, and the conductor was B. C.
Peck. The locomotive was attached to
the press car and then rapidly switched on
to one of the side trains in waiting.
Then the trip south commenced, amid
shouting have and cheering. There could
not I-eon less than 5,000 men w ho
had failed to secure seats, although
a score of flat cars had been
fitted up with plank seats, which
were crowded with eager boomers.
Two men got on the cowcatcher of the
locomotive, but had to be removed. On
a latter train, Tiowever, a man rode the
whole journey of eighty-nine miles on
the cow-catcher. After the train had
got clear of the yard limits, a young
fellow made a rush at the press baggage
car, and it was thought he w r as run
down, but he had succeeded in swinging
himself upon the truck, on whichhcrodo
28 miles, without getting hurt. Thero
Among w r erc only two ladies on the train.
the other passengers were 180
members of the Arkansas City Old Sol¬
diers’ Colony. These rode to Seward
and then tramped six miles to the land
they desired, and where they propose to
start a Grand Army post and start some¬
thing in the way of a town. The conductor
collected 1,024 tickets on this train.
The road runs nearly due south to the
state line. Except that there were largo
numbers of spectators on the lookout,
there was no incident of special interest
between the time the mighty shout went
up at the depot and the ariival at Chi-
locco, just inside the Indian
The northern and central portion of
the Cherokee strip is one vast prairie,
absolutely level and abounding ni evi-
dence of fertility. Nearer, there is morel
timber and the grass is less rich and
plentiful, farming. but all the strip is good for
The enormous bunches of cat¬
tle presented a grand spectacle, but tho
number of dead animalp seemed very
large. At one place there must have
been at least 200 carcasses lying close to¬
gether. At Red Fork station, twenty-
live miles from the line, a halt had to be
called, as the cattle train was blocking
the road ahead. In less than five min¬
utes, the second train caught up, and
halted but a score of yards behind. It
was now ufter 11, and all hope of reach¬
ing the line by noon was abandoned,
though so good time was made subse
quently that the boomers became more
cheerful again. The train on start¬
ing passed the long cattle traiu
uuloadingat the stock yards. In nearly
every car there were dead and dying
steers. At least one hundred carcasses
had been dragged out. Every aperture
in the baggage car had to be closed to
exclude as much as possible of
the unbearable stench. The train
had now got well up with the rear
guard of the boomers in the wagons.
These were making the very best of their
chance, and running their horses at a
lively gait. The land continued to get
more and more rough and hilly,
and scrub oak more
whistle noon from precisely there was a loud
the engine, answered by a
shout from the train, and they were in
Oklahoma at last. Before the train had
crossed the line fifty yards, a man sprang
off, regardless of the danger. He fell
pretty heavily, but was on his feet in a
few seconds, collected his baggage,
which he had thrown out ahead, and was
turning sight. sods before the train was out of
For quite a little distance, per¬
haps half a mile, no other settlement was
noted. Horsemen were seen in the dis
tance, and wagons were also pressing on
towards the better land further south.
On the summit of the ridge, a little to
the east, two horsemen were seen racing
and urging their steeds to tbeif utmost.
Considering of quite that the character, land passed through
was a poor far below
the average of Oklahoma, this points to
the conclusion that there must have been
nearly enough boomers within the terri¬
tory to take up all the best claims before
any law-abiding boomers had crossed
into it. When the word to advance was
given at the north line, the boomers
started forward at various rates of speed.
All who desired to locate auywhere near
the track in the north end of the terri¬
tory found themselves forestalled.
Some turned back in disgust, and others
pushed further on into the interior.
g^ewTadoption, TM process of securing the iots, as in
is simple in the ex-
treme. First of all, a stake is driven in
the ground with or without a placard
placed ^ for the DRme of the claimant,
Then the new owner paces off the grou d
1x6 proposes to occupy for a residence < r
J^ness house. about the There lft vlu is f at ? least u '° a charm
801116 people . -
V conteuted themselves
^ c lairaants Icrty ^ »n.l a fifty, fair but of most where of the the
" treet8 + ° U ^ t to u and lef U he necessary
s P a ce for them. After determining the
location of the corners of the lots, some
prudent claimants took the additional
precaution of digging a trench to denote
the street line. Others placed stakes oi
flags at the corners. Others agaiu turned
a sod, or dug a hole, the idea being that
any work being done on the lot secured
it. Altogether, ten traius got iu before 3
p. m., and making due allowance for
those that went on to Oklahoma
City, there must have been at least
6,000 people in Guthrie three hours
• after the territory was legally open for
settlement. It was wonderful the man¬
ner in which disputes among the new¬
comers were settled in this early part of
the proceedings. Sometimes half a dozen
men Would pounce on a lot simultane¬
ously, or nearly so. Each would com¬
mence to stake out, but after a little
while a general agreement would be
come to, every applicant but one would
lush off and secure an undisputed lot.
The number of soldiers present is
large enough to insure order. Capt.
Hayes and his company of cavalry,
who escorted the settlers to the border,
rendered them most valuable service.
He induced the Santa Fe road to permit
him to lay planks beside and between the
tracks of the railroad bridge and get em¬
igrants over. A soldier with a red flag
half a mile from the east end of the
bridge, prevented any trains from ap¬
proaching In spite until the bridge was clear.
of the precautions, a woman and
two children and a number of cattle were
drowned at the bridge.
Thieves were busily engaged at work
on the trains and many a poor boomer
was fleeced of his all. There were no
less than fifty professional thieves under
surveillance by detectives—among them
“Crooked Legged Baker,” who did an
active business in the “lightning change
act” in Pennsylvania in 1885. The
mayor of Arkansas City issued a procla¬
mation permitting stores to be kept open
Sunday for the convenience of boomers.
They were well pntrouized. A disturb¬
ance took place at Purcell, between rival
land speculators and their adherents, in
which revolvers and Winchesters were
fired freely, but without any serious re¬
sult. A special from Guthrie says, that
three men who took claims were foully
murdered by claim jumpers. The name
of their assa lants and the victims could
not bo learned. A vigilance committee
is scouring the country in search of the
miscreants, lynched who, it is said, will be
at once, if cauaht.
VERY LATEST.
Guthrie city continues to grow rap¬
idly. 700 Tuesday night there were over
tents pitched, and thousands of peo¬
ple walked what about all night, while others
took rest they could on the ground
and around the depot. Before Guthrie
had been invaded for un hour, the new
population found itself confronted with
the a grave shape though unforeseen difficulty in
The of a veritable water famine.
trains were mobbed as they pulled
up, and every drop of drinking water
consumed. Then there was a rush to
the railroad water tank, Then some
enterprising the creek abd individuals peddled filled buckets at
w r ater among the
crowd at five cents a glass, This water
was clearer than from the tauk, but it
was banks very unpleasant. Two of the new
secured locations, but one of them
had to go half a mile behind the laud
office before he could find a vacant lot.
Tlio Guthrie House (hotel) opened busi¬
ness with thirteen tents, and managed to
provide very fair accommodations for a
limited number. Twenty-eight Land
lawyers had their shingles out in quick
tune and did considerable business in the
way of advidng town lot seekers. While
a crowd Was waiting at the depot the
word was passed around that there was
“spiked cider” (n town. There was a
rush to a tent from which a man was
slightly serving outvery sweetened, weak whiskey and water
and which he do-
scribed as apple cider. The soldiers did
not interfere, except to give the enter-
prismg jointist a liberal
As night came on a military guard
I n,,rl i Un d /^- C *
^ « T n ^L or ^ 1S ."
soun, on the other side of Cottonwood
ree was caught by a posse of thirty
men from Guthrie, twelve miles north of
e c ? refused to surrender,and he
was killed at a volley. Reference to the
Five iSS?hiS hundred n Ji M men T“ C in - ^ Arkansas V - City
have pledged themselves to go over to
the Cherokee strip and stake claims, and
let the consequences be what they may.
The fertility of this strip, so useless to
the Indians, has been remarked upon
heretofore. There seems nothing
unreasonable in obtaining it at
once, and to do so will avert a
great trouble that now seems inevitable.
The number of boomers and others who
have selected Oklahoma City for a loca¬
tion is not eo large as at Guthrie, but a
very substantial Mart has been made to-
ward establishing a really solid city.
Over 3,000 persons have made arrange¬
ments for the immediate erection of
business and residence houses, and art
now at work on them. Martin Colbart,
a wealthy half-breed Chickasaw Indian,
who deals largely in cattle, was killed
on the eastern boundary of the
newly opened territory by a man
named Nolan from Purcell.
Conductor Grady has a ciaim near Okla¬
homa City. While his train was running
twenty miles an hour, he leaped from
his caboose and struck his claim. His
brakeman ran the traiu into the yards at
Arkansas City, and the last heard of
Grady wras, he was still on his claim
awaiting the arrival of his train. Brake-
man Charlie Danvers jumped from his
train, swam the Cottonwood river, and
took a claim A sixty-room hotel will
be shipped from Kansas City and ready
for business at Guthrie.
YELLOW FEVER.
Marine Snrgeou-General Hamilton, of the
D. hospital service at Washington,
C., was informed on Tuesday by the
president of the board of health of San¬
ford, Fla., that a case of yellow fever
existed in that city. Dr. Hamilton says
that every precaution has been taken to
prevent the spread of the disease, and
no Commissioner danger is apprehended.....Health
Stewart of Baltimore, Md.,
received a dispatch from Surgeon Gen¬
eral Hamilton, of the marine hospital,
notifying him that at Santos and Rio,
two ports from which the coffee import¬
ers of Baltimore receive almost all of their
coffee, the yellow fever is raging with
greater violence than ever before. The
doctors at Rio have become so much
alarmed at the prospective loss of the
commerce of the country that they now
call the disease a ‘ ‘occe&so pernissioso ,”
hoping fears that proposed the new name will allay the
of tourists..
ALL RIGHT!
that A the dispatch from Victoria announces,
that staling schooners going from
port into Behring Sea this season
“will be armed, and will not tamely
submit as heretofore to piratical Ameri¬
can cutters.”
OYER THE GLOBE.
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CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS ,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
CHANGE'S PERIL—STRIKES—THE WESTERN BOOM
—deaths of eminent men—accidents, fires
and suicides.
Murat Halstead is critically ill.
The new cruiser Yorktown, was put
In commission.
A slight shock of earthquake was felt
in Cairo on Tuesday.
Lord Brownlow will succeed Lord
Londonderry as viceroy of Ireland.
The Duke of Edinburgh is prostrate
from board fever, and is returning to England
on the Alexandria.
At St. Paul, Minnesota, on account of
(he strike, four policemen are required
on each car to keep it running.
The municipal government of the City
of Mexico will remove from the streets
telegraph, pol<£. telephone and electric light
The President appointed M. D. Wick-
esham, of Alabama, to be United States
attorney for the Southern district of
Alabama.
A force of Soudanese attacked and de¬
feated a party of Egyptiansfrom Suakim,
tvho were building a fort at Port Hailib.
The Egyptians lost ten killed and
wounded.
A telegram received in New York says:
“Passengers and crew of the steamship
Danmark landed at Azores; 340 of the
passengers on the steamer Missouri bound
for the Philadelphia. The rest to follow by
next steamer.”
Postmaster Henry G. Pearson, of New
York, died on Sunday. Mr. Pearsop’a
death was from hemorrhage, caused by
panccr of the stomach. He was forty-
live years of age. His death occurred on
ding- jthd thirteenth anniversary of his wed¬
The Spanish Catholic Congress meets
iu Madrid. Cardinal Cenavides will
[preside and 1,600 clergymen and laymen
will be in attendance. The object of
(the Congress is to pronounce in favor of
[the restoration of the temporal power of
the Pope, and the entension of the in¬
fluence of the church in the schools.
The steamer Everett, a raft boat be¬
longing to the Burlington Lumber Co.,
was sunk‘at the head of Otter Island,
board Iowa, and five of the sixteen persons on
Ion her were drowq^d. to Burlington The Everett from New was
way
Boston Bay, when she was struck by a
terrific gale and sunk in twenty feet of
water.
There was serious rioting in Vienna,
Austria, arising out of the strike of the
train car drivers. The Workmen in sym¬
pathy with the strikers blocked the
streets and overcame the police. A force
of cavalry had to be called out to quell
the and disorder. large number Mauy persons arrested. were The inured
a so¬
cialists side with the strikers.
' The prefect of police in St. Petersburg,
Russia, discovered the existence of a
[nihilist attending plot the to funeral assassinate of the Gen. czar Pauker, when
minister of Rhodes. The czar was im¬
eral. mediately warned of not to attend the fun¬
A number persons charged with
in-rested. beiug implicated The nihilists in the intended plot have been
to use
dynamite on the czar,
The French ambassador at Brussels
informed Prince De Oliimay, Belgium
minister of foreign affairs, that the
meeting of the Boulanger committee in
Brussels impressed the Paris government
unfavorably. The cabinet thereupon
sept an official to the hotel at which
jefal Boulanger is stopping to warn the gen-
that he must leave Belgium of his
jexpel own accord, or the government would
him.
Miun Capt. ^ Blacklen, just of the British steamer
ota arrived at Tilbury on the
Thames, from Baltimore, reports that on
the 4th instant in latitude 45 degrees, b 18
Jongitude 87> 50 W . ho passcd a lifcboat
pablted white with the words “Dan-
markj Co pe u hagen,” in black letter on
tb>e ste rn. Pieces of cigar boxes were also
iu the-boat. There was every appear-
* lllce that the people who had been aboard
had beeQ taken
The steamship Missouri, with 365 of
the people from the wrecked steamer
Danmark, arrived at Philadelphia, Pa.,
on Monday, All were well on board
with the exception of three persons, who
iare imark’s ill but doing well. All of the Dan-
passengers look hearty and bright,
and show no signs of the hardships
[which they must have necessarily en¬
dured. Nearly all the immigrants are
bound for western points, and they will
[be tion. forwarded direct for their destina¬
West Depere, Wis., was almost swept
out of existence by a fire Sunday. The
conflagration woodenware began in the Merswinkel
factory, and thence spread
rapidly till many houses were in flames.
There was a strong wind blowing, and
all attempts to subdue the fire proved
unavailing, despite the the efforts of the
people from country, who came in
and formed a bucket brigade. About
the same time an incendiary fire was
started in another part of the town, and
the towns of Fort Howard and Green
Bay were telegraphed for uid. They re¬
sponded with engines and men, and
worked all night to subdue the fire. The
losses aggregate $250,000.
The biggest and fiercest fires New
Yorkers have witnessed in this genera¬
tion, swept the east bank of North river
clean from 59th street. It destroyed
property, valued at nearly $2,000-
000, belonging to the New York Central
railroad nnd at least a half million dol¬
lars worth of lard, flo r, and the like,
belonging to other the persons, Chicago notably, N.
K. Fairbanks, great lard
merchant. It also destroyed two big
elevators of the A. A: V., of the Vander¬
bilt system, a big brick Luilding stretch¬
ing from 59th to GOth street, and occupi¬
ed jointly by fhe Fairbank lard refinery
and resin stook and property of the New
York Central system. One man was
killed in his hcadloug flight from the
3re at the first outbreak. A number
were injured jumping building. f om the windows
af the burning
YELLOW FEVER.
(^•hM timore, Md., from' Wo .r“Ba h ,:
J.metro via Ba,
badoes. reports tho yellow fever as terd-
ble at Santos and Rio Janeiro, the num-
ber of deaths at the latter port reaching
WENT DOWN.
The Britmh bark “Wandering Min¬
strel,” whicn sailed from Honolulu De¬
cember 10, 1887, has been heard from.
She was wrecked at the Midway islands
Febroar/ 8, 1888. The orew escaped.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
M0 YEMEN T 8 OF THE PRESIDENT
AND UIS ADVISERS.
NOTR8.
Sir Julian Pauucefote, the new British
minister, has arrived in Washington.
Secretary of Agriculture liusk has dis¬
charged eighteen men employed in the
seed room of his department.
The resignation of Nicholas M. Bell,
superintendent of foreign mails in the
post-oflice department, has been accept¬
ed by the post master general.
The President 1 ai appointed the fol¬
lowing commission to negotiate with the
Sioux Indians in Dakota: Gen. Geo.
Crook, U. S. A., lion. Charles Foster, of
Ohio, and Hon. William Warner, (com¬
mander-in-chief of the G. A. It.), of Kan¬
sas City, Mo.
Paul Van der Voort, of Nebraska, has
been appointed superintendent of mails
at Omaha, Neb. Henry A. Thomas, of
Massachusetts, has been appointed Mass., su¬
perintendent of mails at Boston,
vice Peter J. Hughes, resigned. Thom-
as bas had fifteefl years’ experience in the
mail service.
Rear Admiral Kimberly has forwarded
to the navy department a report from
Chief Engineer Kirstedt, stating that the
engine of the Nipsic has been tried and
worked well. The propeller is consider¬
ably bent, and its effective area much
reduced. The report says that the ship
cau be moved by steam if required.
Among the Easter remembrances sent
to the White House was a mammoth sugar
egg for Baby NcKee, President Harri¬
son’s grandchild. The gift came from
Baltimore and w r as as big as a basket.
The baby’s name and “Easter, 1889,”
were inscribed upon tho egg. ! brough
a glass in one end a scene from Mrs. Bur¬
nett’s “Little Lord Fuuntleroy” may be
seeu. Another memento from another
member of the family was a hen and
brood of chickens, all done in sugar and
very life-like.
The United States Supreme Court, in
an opinion rendered by Justice Bradley,
holds that the law of limited liability of
steamship companies applies to cases well of
loss of life and injury to person as
as to cases of loss or injury to merchan¬
dise or goods. The case in which this
opinion was delivered wras that of John
II. Butler, Nathaniel Beach ct al, appel¬
lants, vs. the Boston and Savannah
Steamship Co., growing out of the loss
of the steamship City of Columbia, near
Martha’s Vineyard in 1884. The decision
of the Circuit Court of Massachusetts
fn favor of the steamship company was
affirmed.
GLADSTONE’S MAN AHEAD,
An election was held in Rochester
England on Tuesday, to fill the parlia-
mentry seat made vacant by the resig.
nation of Col. IIughes-Hallett. The
balloting the resulted Gladstonian iu favor candidate, of Mr. Hug
gesset, who
polled for 1,655 votes against 1,580 votes
Mr. Davies, the liberal unionist can¬
didate.
ILAOKSmiTHlNS !
HORSE-SHOEING 3
Manufacturing and Repairing
WAGONS, BUGGIES
— AND--
FARM IMPLEMENTS
Of all kinds.
JAP,RETT & SON,
TOCCOA, GEORGIA.
ROBERTS HOUSE,
TOCCOA CITY, GA. f
MRS. E. W. ROBERTS, Prop
Mrs. Roberts als > has ch arge of th<
Railroad Eating House at Bowersvillq
Ga. Good accomnv rations, good board
at usual rates iu firs! class houses.
LEWIS DAVIS,
ATrOE^NEY AT lu AW
TGCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will practice in the counties of Haber¬
sham and Rabun of the Northwestern
Circuit, and Frank I n 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.
BEAL - ESTATE.
CITY LOTS,
Farm and Mineral Lands
In the Piedmont It. gion, Georgia. Also
Orange Groves, Fruit and Vegetable 1
Farms for sale iu Florida. Address
J. W. ttcLAURY,
TOCCOA, GEORGIA.
Don’t Fail to Call On
W. A. MATHESON,
Who has Special Bargains in Various
Lines of Goods.
FINE DRESS ROODS,
NOTIONS, HATS, ETC.
—ALSO—
HARDWARE OF ALL KINDS,
" S1W B HTJ [a '
S^’
*—evekything in the—
HARD W A R £ L. I N E
COOK STOVES, STOVE PIPE,
AND WOODWARE,
- ALSO -
DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINES.
TOCCOA. CA.
NEW FIRM.
MCALLISTER &
Have Just Opened Up With LARGE STOCKS Of
HEAVY HBOCEHIBS
Bought for Cash by the
CAB UMB 9>
CONSISTING OF
MEAT, CORN, FLOUR, BRAN AND HAY,
Also, Large Stocks of
STAPLE DRY GOODS, SHOES, CLOTHIN G, Etc
We Carry a P ull Line Of
Stoves, Hardware, Furniture, Mattresses.
We Have Just Received
Old HICKORY and White
WAGONS 3
-IN---
CAR LOAD LOTS
itttti itttii mm. lit ill* in.
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
FOR i
We are able to afford superior inducements to our^Customers.
MCALLISTER & SIMMONS,
LAVON1A, TOCCOA,
GA. GA.
EL P. SIMPSON y
TOCCOA GEORGIA-
And Machinery Supplies, Also, Kepairs All Kinds of Machinery.
Peerless Engines,
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
«<1ESTEY 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-
ere you buy. Duplicate parts of machinery constantly on hand.
XoTicftj ib iiKHB'BY cuvBK
-TIEEA-T-
JONN E. REDMOND
WILL SELL YOU PATTERNS TO
f)o YotiY Owi) Yhintir^,
Iu any Size wanted, from Two Inches up to Sixty four.
Write to Him and get an Estimate of All Kinds of Graining,
Sign and House Painting, Varnishing, at
ROCK BOTTOM PRICES.
He gives Agents an article with which they cm make more money thin they
ever made in all their lives. With these goods Agents can make from $1 to $9 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 a ! so furnish Gold and Gilded letters, Emblems and Graining Umhs,
Mortars and Pestles for Druggists. I furnish Wire Danner Signs, and make a
specialty of Post Boards for the country. Address
JOHN E. REDMOND,
TUGALO, G-A.
TOCCOA MARBLE WORKS.
The Undersigned is Prepared to Furnish If A It L T. h,
j, Gmtottssoiuiits
Vm If a % Of All Kinds and Styles from the
Mk'M plainest and lowest prices, up to the
most elaborate and costly. Ail work
L delivered, set up and satisfaction guar-
wau*^ 'm | anteed. Call at my yard, examine
'oeM ifSpvi samples and learn prices before pur-
chasing elsewhere. Address,
BBS L. !P. COOK,
TOCCOA, CA.
Orders for Fancy and Plain
*-
Job Printing receive prompt at¬
tention at this office.