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THE NEWS. TOCCOA, GEORGIA. Which is the greatest wool consuming country in the world? It will surprise some to learn that France heads the list with a total of 190,000,000 kilograms consumed in 1887, England coming next with 180,000,000 kilograms, the United States third with 170,000,000, Germany fourth with 140,000,000, Russia fifth with only 80,000,000, and Austria-Hun¬ gary, Belgium and Italy with 40,000,000, 40,000,000 and 32,000,000 respectively. It is said, in the Pall Mall Gazette, that each year fifteen people out of every 1000 marry. Of each 1000 men who marry 861 are bachelors and 139 are widowers, while of each 1000 women only ninety-eight have been married be¬ fore, and 902 are Spinsters. Twelve marriages out of every 100 are second marriages. The average age at wliich men marry is about twenty-seven, while the average age at which women marry is about twenty-five years. The estimated cost of the projected ship canal between Bordeaux, on the Atlantic, and Narbonne on the Mediter¬ ranean, France, is $130,000,000. This vast undertaking—comprising, as it does, a length of some three hundred and thirty miles, to save a voyage around Spain of seven hundred miles—would have a depth of twenty-seven feet, in order to allow of the passage of heavy ironclads, and would require thirty-eight locks. The plan also contemplates a railway track alongside, so that by means of locomotive towage a speed of seven miles an hour could be maintained by day, and also by night by the aid of electric lights. The American Consul at Acapulco as serts that one of the reasons why tin United States fails to successfully com¬ pete with Germany and England foi the trade of Mexico is because oui manufacturers and merchants insist upoi endeavoring to sell by circular instead oi by sample, and also because we disregard the conservatism of Mexican buyers, who, once accustomed to buying things made in a certain way, cannot be induced to change to another article, no matter how superior it may be. In other words, hia advice is to consult the prejudices of the Mexicans and not attempt to impose American tastes and ideas upSft a people reluctant to accept them. “England has given to the world nc grander man than John Bright,” ob¬ serves the New York Voice, “and in his death there is no country that is not a sincere mourner. An orator without a superior, a statesman without a trace of the politician, a man in the fullest sense, a simple, sincere Christian, his name has been a tower of strength for every cause of freedom, liberty, progress, for half a century. Whether fighting the Corn Laws, opposing the Egyptian War, or separating from life-long associates and honored friends on the question of Home Rule for Ireland, he has ever acted in simple obedience to the great principles of justice and right as he understood them. Personal comfort or reputation has never influenced his actions. He was anxious to do simply and solely what was right.” A communication from Washington fitates that Captain Robert Platt, com¬ manding the United States Fish Com¬ mission’s steamer at Charlotte Harbor, Fla., has successfully hatched 3,500,000 eggs of the sheepshead—the first instance on record of artificial hatching of that important food fish. The success of this experiment will largely add to the useful¬ ness of the commission. Charlotte Har¬ bor and the little brackish streams and and bayous emptying into it, tbe edges of which are fringed with mangrove bushes, has long been renowned for the immense number of sheepshead to be found in' them. The curved mangrove bushes which dip into the water become encrusted with young oysters, upon which these fishes feed greedily at high tide, The late Professor Agassiz, who visited Char¬ lotte Harbor a few years before his death, stated at the time that, for its abundance and variety of splendid food fishes, it sur¬ passed any spot that he had ever known. Said an artillery officer recently: “I think the popular craze for baseball is likely to show good results in case this country should b.e involved in war *gain. I don t refer to the production of physical giants by the game itself, though of course that in its way is good for the race, but to the wonderful training the eves of not only players of baseball but of the spec¬ tators of the game also are receiving. In a baseball game all the eyes of the multi¬ tude assembled and in the two nines are constantly watching the course of the ball. The players particularly learn to calculate with infinite nicety the elevation and striking point of the sphere. The artillerymen at his piece is required to do work of much the same sort as this with his eyes. So when the artillery arm of the army has to be recruited, in case of war, I have no doubt that the base¬ ball player, and even the crankiest crank from the bleaching boards, will show special aptitude and eye training for the service of artillery.” The Farfc4ens have a horror of any epi¬ demic breaking out in their city during the coming summer and sellers, spoiling the exhibition season. So all street strolling players, circus performers, acrobats, peddlers, 'etc., jvhogo Uiey can to show Paris certificate must be vaccinated that the operation unless been a recently performed. SOUTHERN ITEMS. ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA¬ RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH. A.* ITFMIZED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOEMO ON OB IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. A fire on Monday destroyed the build¬ ings on Jekyl island, near 1 „ runswic . , , Ga., belonging to the club. Eire on Rocheblave and Perdido streets destroyed eight small frame houses and the Shiloh Colored Baptist church iu New Orleans, La. Joshua F. Ross, a well-known lawyer, of Gloucester C. II., Va., who was on bail availing a second trial for killing his uncle, Geo. Hughes, shot himself. The “seventeen year” locusts, although they do not come often to Tennessee, make a decided impression when they do come. Every bush and tree is laden with the pests around Sewanee. A great sensation was created on the exchange in St. Louis, Mo., growing nut ol the suspension of a dozen of the younger members of the board of trade for blowing toy whistles on the floor during trading hours. A negro w ho had committed burglary near Sunday. Columbia, La., W'as captured on While the sheriff was return¬ ing to Columbia with the prisoner,a party met them, and, taking the negro from the sheriff, hung him to the nearest tree. A freight train on the Chicago Bur¬ lington & Quincy Railroad was derailed two miles west of Macon, Mo. Five oil tanks exp’oded and burned sixteen heavily loaded freight ears. Brakeman Joe Klotz jumped and received fatal inj uries. Monday was observed as a public holi¬ day at various points in North Carolina. It was the anniversary of the Mecklen¬ burg declaration of independence. All the business at public buildings was suspended, and the banks closed, as it is one of the principal holidays of the fear. Dr. A. B. Ashw r ortb, a young physi¬ cian of Atlanta, Ga., was found dead in his office, aud a coroner’s jury on Mon¬ day decided that his death was caused by an overdose of morphine. His life was insured for nearly $10,000 which will go to his step-mother. Grand River, near Chiliicothe, Mo., is greatly swollen, and bottoms are flooded. Great damage and some los3 of life is reported. Three teams -and wagons were found lodged in the driftwood around the bridge at Jimtown, three miles southeast of the city. Warren Fench, of Newark, N. J., died whi’e bathing in the surf at Pablo Beach, Fla. He was seen to throw up his arms and sink while in water up to his neck, lie was subject to fainting fits, aDd it is supposed death was due to heart disease. The nineteenth annual stssion of the Colored Missionary Baptist Convention of Georgia was held in Atlanta, Ga. There were 52 associations, 1,500 churches and 167,000 colored Baptists represented. There were about 400 del¬ egates present. A large fire broke out on Wednesday in the large warehouse on the wharf of the Cape Fear and the Peoples’ Steam¬ boat Co., at Fayetteville, N. C. The fire made rapid headway, the warehouse be¬ ing stored with spirits of turpentine. The fire was incendiary. In the criminal court at Birmingham, Ala., Minnie Moses, colored, was sen¬ tenced to hang June 27th for highway robbery. Not a muscle of the woman's face moved as she heard the sentence pronounced, and she returned to her seat as unmoved as if nothing had occurred. E. J. Wilmoth, living in Atlanta, Ga., committed suicide on Wednesday, by taking two ounces of laudanum. He was a baggage master on the Richmond & Danville Railroad. He was despond¬ ent on account of an affection of his throat, which prevented his taking food. O. S. Burnes and Milow Parker, two prominent citizens of Hamilton, Ga., had a difficulty about a business trans¬ action on Tuesday. Barnes called Par- kar a liar, and the latter struck him. Barnes pulled out a knife and stabbed Parker in the side, inflicting a serious wound. All the passenger conductors on tte Decatur divisian of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad have been discharged, and the vacancies filled by freight con¬ ductors. No reason for the changes can be learned, but it is understood that similar division changes the are being made on every of system. The passenger steamer Johns Hopkins, belonging to the Merchants and Miners Transportation Co., caught fire while lying at Locust Point, Baltimore, Md., and was burned to the water’s edge. She had just arrived from Boston, Monday, and had taken aboard her cargo for the return trip. The East Tennessee farmers’ conven¬ tion met at Chattanooga, Tenn., on Tuesday. Abcut two hundred delegates were present, and the session promises to be one of great interest and importance to all farmers. Papers were read on for¬ estry, raising blooded stock, improved methods of larming and other subjects. A memorial has been presented in the Florida legislature, assuming to come from Cubans, who want independence, offering to pay Spain $20,000,000 for liberty. The Florida legislature is asked to initiate action in the United States in favor of the movement. A United States protectorate, is asked pending the pay¬ ment of the money. The Richmond & Danville Railroad system has just concluded a lease, which gives the Georgia Pacific division of that system a through line from Atlanta,Ga.,to Arkansas City, Ark., an important west¬ ern connection. This gives the Rich¬ mond & Danville system an unbroken line from tbe seaboard into Arkansas, and connection with Gould’s Missouri Pa¬ cific system. Two negro youths, Albert Bartlett and Henry Higden, engaged in an altercation at Americus, Ga., which reeulted in the killing of the latter. They fell out about a nickel, which one claimed the other owed him, and a fight ensued, during which Bartlett with picked up his a four- pound rock, and it dealt antag¬ onist a terrible blow on the back of his head, killing him instantly. A MYSTERIOUS DOCTOR. The negroes of Clarendon, Williams¬ burg and Sumter counties, North Caro¬ lina, have, for some weeks past, been iD a state of great alarm. They claim that there is a white man, a doctor, who can make himself invisible, and who, having done so, approaches some unsuspecting and negro, generally a woman, throws chloroform in the victim’s face. Next he proceeds to take from the insensible victim a bucket of heart blood where¬ with to compouud his medicines. The dead body is then hidden away so that it is never discovered. 8AMOAN AFFAIRS. SHIPWRECKED SAILORS COMING HOME— Will SUAWARROW WAS ANNEXED. The shipwrecked officers and crews of the United States men-of-war—Trent* n and Vandalia—leave Apia, Samoa, on the steamer Rockton for Mare Island navy yard. The Rockton arrived there from Sydney, and when she was first sighted out8 j,j e 0 f th e harbor, the Trenton and Vandalia sailors, who have been living barracks on shore since the storm, greeted her with of loud cheering. All ol the survivors the Vandalia, including g officers and 142 meo, and 12 officers aud 300 men from the Trenton, were sent aboard. Besides the admiral and his staff, ten officers and seventy-five men remain at Apia. The departure of the shipwrecked sailors is greeted with a feeling of relief, as Apia is not large enough to accommodate such a number of men without great confusion result¬ ing, and it lias been feared that sources of illness might break out in the town owing to the crowded quarters of the men. An Associated Press correspond¬ ent had a short interview with Mataafa. He said his people were greatly pleased with the advice published in the admi¬ ral’s proclamation, which and felt very grateful had for the interest the Americans taken in their cause. The present war was a great hardship to the country, and the people wanted peace. They had no desire to fight Tamasese or the Germans. He said he would like to sec the Ameri¬ can government declare a protectorate over the Samoans. He thought that was the best way to avoid trouble, as the na¬ tives were continually fighting among themselves, when consuls of the United States, Germany and England had equal power. The natives have succeeded in recovering the safe, containing $15,000, from the wreck of the German gunboat Eber. Native divers are still at work on the wreck of the Eber, making an effort to save the guns. The battery and other articles of value of the German cruiser Adler were taken ashore some time ago. The rudder for the Nipsic, which Admi¬ ral Kimberly had made under his per¬ sonal supervision, has been completed and placed in position, and it is probable that the Nipsic will start for Auckland as soon as the Alert arrives. The British man-of-war Rapid, which left Apia ten days ago, returned. Her captain re¬ ported upon his return that he had been to Suawarrow, a small island about 400 miles east of Samoa. He stated that the island was occupied several years ago by a resident of Auckland for the purpose of raising cocoanuts, and that at the lat- tei’s request the Rapid had gone there and raised the B:itish flag and formally annexed the island as a part of the Brit¬ ish posssseions. ELECTRIC EXPRESS. AN INVENTION WUICII PROPELS A CAN RIAGE TWO HUNDRED MILES AN HOUR. A new scheme of transportation is tc be introduced between New York and Boston, whereby large packages of mail and even cars containing passengers, can be whisked from one place to another, a distance of 200 miles, in less than an hour. This would be equal to a speed ol four miles per minute. An experiment with the new machine was held in Bos¬ ton in the presence of many scientists, including Prof. A. E. Dolbear, of Tufts college, who announced that he was thoroughly satisfied of the success of the system. The machine consists of a mag¬ netic car hanging from a single rail, where it follows a streak of electricity. With one horse power it is said that one ton can be thus transported a distance of 1,440 miles a day at a cost of thirty cents. This, in mail matter, would rep¬ resent 2,880,000 letters, and by this sys¬ tem packages of mail could be sent off every five minutes if necessary, thus pre¬ venting large accumulations. The sin¬ gle track is to be carried on tri¬ pods some distance above the ground, and the car will pass through coils of in¬ sulated wire at intervals. In the experi¬ ments the carriage exhibited was mount¬ ed on a wooden track, on posts about three feet high, with an ascent of six inches in fifty feet, and it ran on one wheel at each end. The scientific prin¬ ciple involved is said to be that by which a hollow coil of insulated wire will draw a magnet into itself, and in the aerial rail¬ way the car passing through a coil cuts off the current, which goes on to one ahead. CHICAGOS INSANE. THEY ARE TREATED SRUTALLY IN THE ASYLUM—BOODLERISM RULES SUPREME. At the inquiry as to the state of affairs at the Cook county insane asylum at Chi¬ cago, Ill., on Wednesday, Dr. Clevenger, formerly a member of the medical staff, testified, that it was impossible for a rep¬ utable practitioner disreputable or attendant to stay there. The most ones were the ones to stay, because they devoted more time to intrigue. Disreputable ones practiced a system of elimination of the better element by either physical violence or other means. “In 1856,” said he, “physicians who secured bodies at the asylum for dissection, told me the bodies were so covered with vermin that they had to be scorched before being put on the dissecting table. Once, in 1885, I heard the screams of pain, and running from my office, found two attendants standing over a patient, named Hertz- berg, who was bleeding profusely. I knew there was no use in making any complaint, as the attendants were sup¬ ported by John Cumming’s influence in the cojin ty board. Soon after they re¬ belled and refused to obey my orders. They secreted the bodies on which I de¬ sired to hold post-mortem examinations, and I could not get them for two or three days after they were buried. I published a statement, and the following night one of the attend¬ ants called me a vile name, and a few moments later a shot was fired down stairs. The bullet crashed through the floor and lodged into my bookcase.” “What is the matter with the institution now?” was asked. “It is under the in¬ fluence of boodlerism.”- BISMARCK WILL STRIKE. The “scene” in the German Reichstag between Prince Bismarck aud Herr Rich¬ ter is the sole topic of conversation in political circles. In consequence of Prince Bismarck’s remarks, the liberals have resolved not to attend the fruin- schoplien to be given by the chancellor. When Herr Richter uttered the exclama¬ tion which aroused the wrath of the chancellor, the latter, turning angrily toward the liberal members, and pointing his finger at them, saidl “I do not know what he refers to. but I regard it as an expression of hatred. You gentlemen have borne me for years. As a Christian, I can pocket it, but as chan- will tcellor, as long as I stand here, I trike a striker and insult an insulter.” GENERAL .NEWS. CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS, AND EXCITING EVENTS. NEWS FBOM EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STRIKES, fires, and happenings of interest. The yellow fever in Vera Cruz, Mexico, is very bad. Prince George, of Greece, has joined the French navy. through Forty-five persons lost their lives the floods in Bohemia. In the Illinois Home, the bill to pro¬ hibit the manufacture or sale of liquors was defeated. The coal miners of the Dortmund (Germany)region have again entered upon a general strike. King Emperor 'William, of Germany, treated view Humbert, of Italy, to a military re¬ on Wednesday. The Agawam Woolen Company’s mills, situated in Agawam, Mass., were entirely destroyed by fire. Internal Revenue Collector Webster, pf increased Iowa, states the sale that of the liquor prohibitory in law Iowa. A number of towns in Central and Southern Minnesota repor.s had frost Wednesday, doing some damage to veg- station. A newspaper of Munich has been con¬ fiscated and the editor arrested for pub¬ lishing a scandalous obituary article on Queen Maria, of Bavaria. The Lutheran Norwegian College, at Decorah, Iowa, was burned Monday night. The college was built by contri¬ butions, and was dedic ted in If 10. The Canadian government has received a cablegram from the imperial authori¬ ties, stating that work on the Pacific coast defenses will be begun this Sum¬ mer. The Parisians express great dissatisfac¬ tion over the fact that the American sec¬ tion of the Exhibition,and also a portion of the British sections, are closed on Sundays. Mrs. Folsom, the mother of Mrs. Cleve¬ land, was married in Jackson, Mich., Monday, to Mr. Perrin, a Buffalo mer¬ chant. Mrs. Cleveland was present. There was much secrecy about the affair. Mrs. Gladstone was on Wednesday presented by the Woman’s Liberal Fed- eraiion, of London, England, with a diamond brooch containing a miniature of Gladstone, copied from Miller’s por¬ trait. A terrific wind and rain storm, which afterwards turned into a cyclone, swept through the Lackawanna (Pa.) valley Monday. Many houses were wrecked, fences blown down, barns demolished and whole orchards ruined. Capt. James Chester, of the 3d artil¬ lery, United States army, stationed on Governor’s Island, N. Y., became vio¬ lently insane on the street. He was taken into custody and w r as turned over to the military authorities. Archbishop Feehan, in the presence of 40,000 people, laid the corner-stone of De La Salle institute, at Chicago, Ill., the first Roman Catholic institution in the West designated for exclusive use as a high school. The building will cost $ 200 , 000 . The steamships Cynthia and Polyne¬ sian, collided Wednesday, near Long Point, a few miles from Montreal, Cana¬ da. Eight lives are reported to have been lost. The Cynthia, Capt. Donald¬ son, was a freight steamer and was bound inward from Glasgow. The Polynesian was bound outtvard with freight and passengers for Liverpool. The British steamer, German Emperor, from London to Bilboa, ran into the British steamer, Beresford, from Hartle¬ pool for Bombay, while the latter was lying at anchor on Goodwin Sands. Boats were launched from the Beresford and succeeded in rescuing three persons from the German Emperor. Six men belonging to the German Emperor are missing. All the rest were saved. The elegant Caldwell hotel, just com¬ pleted at Birmingham, Ala., at a cost of $300,000, is to be sold at auction. A Monday meeting of the stockholders was held that afternoon, and it was found the company owed $50,000 in addi¬ tion to the bonded indebtedness of $150,- 000. The hotel is yet unfurnished. The hotel is the finest in the South, but has cost so much money in proportion to its size, it is doubtful if it ever pays interest on the investment. The counsel for Dr. W. T. Hodge, of Wake county, N. C., entered complaint in the office of the clerk of the superior court, in Raleigh, agtf&st alUftie rail¬ road companies in the state, forty in number, for failure to report their busi¬ ness, as required by law. The code re¬ quires every railroad corporation in the state to make an annual report to the governor of their operations, which re¬ port is required . to be verified by the oaths of the officers, and to be filed in the office of the secretary of the state. A storm of cyclonic character swept across northern Texas Saturday. The dwelling house of J. Aterbury, south of Bonham, was demolished, and his wife seriously injured. At Forest City, in Montague county, a school house was de- stroyed. Two children were killed and many seriously hurt and three are miss- ing. Another school house at Stephens- ville was blown down a few minutes af¬ ter school had been dismissed and two children somewhat injured. Great de¬ struction to crops occurred. The executive committee and the in- vestigation commissioner of the Colored Emigration lina,met Association of North Caro- The at Goldsboro Wednesday. objects of the meeting were to arrange for sending investigating commit- tees to Arkansas, Mississippi, Kan¬ sas and California, to ascertain the actual situation of affairs there, and to see what inducements or advantages those sections offer negroes who desire to become residents. Intelligent colored men will be sent to the states named, and will interview the governors and other prominent men, and see what can be dme. COLORED MEN APPOINTED. The appointment of John R. Lynch, colored, of Natchez, Miss., to be fourth auditor of the L T . S. Treasury, at W ash- ington, D. C., has created some excite¬ ment. The only other appointment from that state to an important office out of the state went to Hon. J. J. Spelman, a colored man, who goes a9 special agent of the Interior Department to Dakota. The three beautiful seacoast towns, being great Summer resorts for New Orleans, and Winter resorts for invalids from the North in Winter, viz.: Bay St. Louis, ha Mississippi Point and Peartington, and now vs colored postmasters, it is asser¬ ted that Lynch will secure the appoint¬ ment of a colored postmaster at Natchez. Eight clerks, of the eleven newly appointed credit postal Mississippi assigned to the of are colored men. SOUTHERN POLICY THE FARMERS ARE UNANIMOUS IN THU CHOICE OF COTTON FOR WRAPPING. A correspondent had a special inter¬ view with L. L. Polk, vice-president oi the National Farmers’ Alliauce, who re¬ turned to Raleigh, N. C., from th« con¬ ference of the Alliance and the Wheel at there Birmingham, Ala. Col. Polk says that was which some things done at the confe¬ rence, have not until now been made public. The re-ult of the conference was that the Alliance has for¬ mally declared that it would use only bagging made of cotton to cover cotton bales. It was also decided to give spe¬ cial notice to all members of the Alli¬ ance to sell no cotton seed, of the pre¬ sent crop, for less than twenty cents per bushel, and not to make any contracts for the sale of any cotton seed of the coming This crop until advised to do so. is directed at the cotton oil trust. The third matter which was arranged was for the supplying of all Alliances with school books and stationery at spe¬ cial prices. It was discovered that there is a trust composed of book publishers aud dealers, and this action was an at¬ tack upon this particular combination, which, it wa3 found, was putting a big profit upon its goods. Col. Polk says it has been stated that the vote on use oi cotton as a covering for cotton was not unanimous. He says this is false. Upon a call of the states, each delegate voted for it, and afterwards, to make the de¬ cision more emphatic, the convention, as a whole, voted for it unanimously in a rising vote, amid much enthusiasm. This is not an act of resentment, prompted by a feeling of anger on the part of the Al¬ liance, but it is (he laying of a founda¬ tion of a sys'em of manufactures which will utilize Southern textiles, Southern capital and energy, and Southern nulls, operated by Southern men. The action of the bagging trust in jumping upon the Alliance has opened the eves of the Southern faimers. There will be an am¬ ple supply of bagging for the use of the million members of the Alliance, and whatever affects that great order affects all the other farmers. All these matters were thoroughly discussed, and it was found, after the most careful investiga¬ tion, that it will pay to use cotton as a covering, It is the the greatest South, movement and ever inaugurated in sold no trust baggage will be or even handled. *The cotton is the cheapest textile, and the conference did not arrive at its definite conclusion until it was satisfied that it was the true pol¬ icy to utilize it for this specific purpose. i i WHISKEY’S EFFECTS. Barry Koehler, while crazy with drink, ran amuck through the streets of Joilet, Ill. In his course he shot and seriously wounded a young lady, Miss Della Hart. A cioivd gathered and began search for him among some freight cars. Just then a freight train moved past and at the open door of one car a man was seen. The crowd called out that it was Koeh¬ ler aud an excited policeman fired at him, inflicting a fatal wound in the head. Then it was discovered that the wound¬ ed man was not Koehler, but William Hansen, of Chicago, on his way to Oklahoma, and Koehler was captured the next morning. 3LACKSMITH1NG ! HORSESHOEING, Manufacturing and Repairing WAGONS, BUGGIES —AND— UW, IMPLEMENTS Of all kinds. J A BRETT & SON. fOCCOA, GEORGIA. ROBERTS HOUSE, TOCCOA CITY, GA., MRS.E. W. ROBERTS, Prop ‘ Mrs. Roberts aN > has charge of thi Railroad Eating House at Bowersville, Ga. Good acSumnv ‘ations, good board at usual rates iu first-class houses. LEWIS DAVIS, ATTORNEY AT TAW- TOCCOA CITY, GA., Will practice in the counties of Haber¬ sham aud Rabun of the Northwestern Circuit, and Frank!m and Banks of the Western Circuit. Prompt attention will be given to all business entrusted to him. The collection of debt3 will have spec¬ ial attention. RIAL - 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. McLAURY, TOCCOA, GEORGIA. Don’t Fail to Call On W. A. MATHESON, Who has Special Bargains in Various Lines of Goods. FINE DRESS 600DS I NOTIONS, HATS, ETC. —ALSO— HARDWARE OF ALL KINDS. Farmers’ Tools, Wagon and Buggy Ma¬ terial, Blacksmith's Tools, Hinges, Locks, Bolts, Doors aDd Sash. —everything in the— HARDWARE LINE, COOK STOVES, STOVE PIPE, AND WOODWARE, - ALSO - DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINES. TOCCOA. CA. NEW FIRM. M C ALLISTER & SIMMONS Have Just Opened Up With LARGE STOCKS Of HEAVY GB00EM1BS Bought for Cash by the CAR LOAD CONSISTING OF MEAT, CORN, FLOUR, BRAN AND HAY, Also, Large Stocks of STAPLE DRY GOODS, SHOES, CLOTHIN G, 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 ill Vs II 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 Tm We are able to afford superior inducements to our^Customers. MCALLISTER & SIMMONS, LAYONIA, TOCCOA, GA. GA. E. P. SHMPSOKT TOCCOA. GEORGIA <jY; illftilf And Machinery Supplies, Also, Repairs All Kinds of Machinery. Peerless Engihes** BOTH PORTABLE & TRACTION GEISER SEPARATORS Farmers and others in want of either Engines or Separators, will SAVE MONEY by using the above machines. I ain also prepared to give Lowest Prices and Best Terms on the celebrated ^ESTEY ORGANS.^ 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- cre you buy. Duplicate parts of machinery constantly on hand. YoTidg ig qivitK THAT JONN E. 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