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THE NEWS. TOCCOA. QBORGIA. WASHINGTON, D. C. MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT AND IIIS ADVISERS. APPOINTMENTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATTERS OF INTEREST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. The president has appointed John G. Watts, of Virginia, marshal of the west- ern district of Virginia. President Harrison says that be in¬ tends to call Congress in extra session for about the middle of October. The President on Wednesday ap- pointed William Walter Phelps, of New Jersey, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the Luited States to Germany. the The President on Wednesday William appointed E. Clarke, following postmasters: vice Mat¬ at Newberne, N. C., thias Manly, removed-, O. D. Foster, at Fredericksburg, Va., vice Frank T. Foil)-s, removed. The following postmasters of the fourth class were appointed for Georgia on Thursday: Cordele, Dooly. Ella Loguc, Lewis A. Harper removed; Owensby- ville, Heard. J. T. Wilson, D. W. Zachry, res’gned; Melville, Chattooga, August McLeod, W r . O. Eaton, resigned; Stiles- borough, Bartow, John E. Hammonds, Riley Milam removed; Camp Creek, M. ,T. Smith, William Thomas removed. The president has appointed Frederick Douglass, of District of Columbia, to be minister resident and constpl-general of the United States to Hayti; Daniel M, Raimdcll, of Indiana, to be United States marshal for the District of Columbia, vice A. A. Wilson resigned, and Captain Meredith, of Chicago, chief of bureau of engraving and printing, vice E. O. Graves, resigned. Specifications, just issued by the post¬ master-general, for the guidance of bid¬ ders under tho next contract for postage stamps, provide for two series of stamps of different sizes—one of them being the size now in use, the other about one- third smaller. The color of the two cent stamp is to be either carmine or metalic red, the latter being the color in use when the change to green was last made. On Monday, First Assistant Secretary Chandler, in the contest for the posses¬ sion of a tract <4 land in the Gaine.vil e, Fla., laud district, between Senator Wilkinson Call, and a coloreel man named Robert Swain, decided adversely to Senator Call. The ease has been pending in one form or another for many de¬ years, and there have been several cisions in it—one by Secretary Teller, in favor of Swain, and a subsequent one in favor of Senator Call. Au evidence of the fact that the ad¬ ministration will make a number of changes the beginning of the present fis¬ cal year, has been furnished. Attorney General Miller called for the resignation of all but one of the attorneys wdi o rep- resent the government before the court of claims. These resignations are to take effect on the 1st of July next. Among those who will be cut off is ex-Represen tative Wilson, of Wist Verginia. At¬ kins, who was once collector of customs at Savannah, is an applicant for one of the places which will be vacant. Ex-Senator Bruce and Fourth Auditor Lynch headed a delegation of colored Republicans who waited on the Presi¬ dent Wednesday address adopted afternoon, and present¬ ed an at the Jackson, Miss., conference, on June 13th, in re- 41 aid to the political situation in the South, and expressing the utmost confi¬ dence iu tho President’s policy towards the colored people in that region. The President thanked them for their confi¬ dence, and said that they could rest as¬ sured that he would do the best he could towards all classes. He commended the conservative stand taken by them, and said they would have his assistance in every endeavor to improve their politicul status. ENGLISH CAPITAL, BUILDING A TOWN IN KENTUCKY—BUYING MINERAL LANDS. A distinctively new era in the souths iron and steel history is marked by th« organization of English companies, com¬ posed of leading iron and steel makers oi Great Britain,to bui d extensive steel and iron work?, including four furnaces,steel rail mill, rolling mill, etc., and a new town at Cumberland Gap, on the divid¬ ing lino between Tennessee and Ken¬ Middlesborough, tucky. The name Kentucky, of the town and for is to be ovei a year the work of buying mineral lauds, preparing for railroad connections, etc., has been vigorously but quietly pushed by the American association (limited), which is the name of the parent company. Over four million dollars in cash has al¬ ready been paid out, and upwards of six¬ ty thousand acres of mineral land pur¬ chased, and over seven million dollars have been pledged for new enterprises. In addition to contracts for four new fur- naces, steel works and rolling mills, pipe works, etc., to cost in the aggregate §8,000,000,thi re will be a $750,900 hotel and sanitarium, in which many of the leading physicians of Europe and this country are interested, three hotels to co>t $2('0,000, four coal mines represent- ing 1^500,000, and a $505,000 tannery. tHher enterprises, including electric light and gas works, saw mills, brick yards, railroad shops, etc., have been ar¬ ranged, and tho total investments already secured aggregate ten million? of dollar* in cash. LOSSES AT JOHNSTOWN. TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE LOST, IS THE ES¬ TIMATE MADE BY THE BUSINESS MEN. The time keepers in the Cambria of¬ fices estimate that from 400 to 500 of their workmen in the Gautier aDd Cam- bria Iron works were lost, Counting the women and children dependent upon them, they put their loss of people at 2,000. They estimate the entire loss of le at 10,000. Mr. Haws, fire hrick manu.acturcr, thiuks this gue-s is about rignt. He believes at least 500 strangers were m town at the time of the flood, About ,00 deposit books of the Johns- town the depositors Savings Bank are reported lost by or their heirs. There were $774 000 on deposit, and much of this is the property of people having no work of the sub-committee at Johnstown, whose report of the liv- mg and dead was given out Saturday, does not give satisfaction The list'is ,4oo survivors and 1,194 drowned. The morgue lists show that over 3,000 have buued. GENERAL NEWS. CONDENSATION OF URIO US, AND EXCITING EVENTS. NEWS non EVEBYWHEEE—ACCIDENTS, STBIKE*, FIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OP INTEREST. William HeDry Wood, president of the Alabama Mining company, dropped dead in his office at 7 Nassau street, New York, on Wednesday. Queen Christina, of Spain, ascended 1,000 feet in an army balloon on Friday. It was her first ascent. The balloon was chriatened “Maria Christina.” Large quantities of gold coin from South America are passing through Ant¬ werp for Russia and Austria, the same as during the Franco-German war. Maria Mitchell, the noted astronomer, died at Lynn, Mass., on Friday morning. She was for a great many years a mem- ^ er Q f faculty of Vttssar college. in Thursday at Llma 0 while paying a wh eat bin, which was being drawn off into a car, Ben Marks and Judson Horton, two young boys, were drawn into the chute and smothered to death. Thirty-six buildings, with a large quantity of machinery, were destroyed by fire at Luneburg, Berlin, Sunday. Loss, 12,000,000 marks. Six hundred workmen are thrown out of employment. The new cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul, the seat of the Roman Catholic diocese, of Providence, R. I., was con¬ secrated Sunday. It is a large sand¬ stone structure, and has been eleven years building. Tunis Lnbee was hanged in the county jail, at Patterson, N. J., Thursday morn¬ ing, for the murder of his wife. The murderer wrote a farewell!etter,in which he forgave everybody, and expressed the hope that everybody would forgive him. The fourteenth annual four-mile eight- oared race between the crews represent¬ ing the universities of Yale and Harvard was rowed Friday evening at New Lon¬ don, Conn., and was won by Yale by six boatlengths. Official time: Yale 21.30, Harvard 21.55. A dispatch from London, England, says: One person was killed and two dangerously injured by a balloon, in which they were making an ascension, catching in the machinery gallery at tho Paris exposition grounds Sunday, and detaching its fastenings. The new rules providing for trading in petroleum futures went into effect on Thursday at Pittsburg, Pa., and com¬ pletely upset things at the petroleum ex¬ change in that city. The brokers did not seem to understand the new system and but little business was transacted. Mail advices from west Africa confirm previous reports of shocking privations to which Stanley, the explorer, has been subjected. turned It is stated that his his hair has snow white; that clothes are rags, and that he Is without shoes, being obliged to use skins to cover his feet. At Johnstown, Pa., Acting Surgeon Foster, of the Fourteenth regiment and the laboring camps, reported Wednes¬ day morning that within the last twenty- four hours forty-nine laborers were taken seriously sick with symptoms of typhoid fever. Many of them cared were sent home, and others are being for in the hospital. The official vote of the recent election in Harrisburg, Pa., as received and com¬ puted at the state department is as fol¬ lows: For the prohibition amendment, 286,617; against, 484,644; majority against, 188,027. For the suffrage amend¬ ment abolishing poll tax qualification, 183,371; against, 420,324; majority against, 236,952. Joliet, Ill., has of a happy son of St.Cris¬ who pin in the person John Ryan, on Friday won the international prize of $500 offered by the “Boot and Shoe Jour¬ nal, ” of Boston, for the best essay on boot and shoe making in all its branches. Every state in the Union contested for the prize, together with Canada, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. A terrible accident occurred Wednes¬ day morning at Bledsoe, on the Chesa¬ peake & Nashville railroad, running from Galla'in to Scottsville, Ky. The passenger train due at Gallatin at 11 o’clock jumped the track, and the pas¬ senger and baggage cars went down about sixty feet. About eight persons were seriously injured, and several child¬ ren were more or less hurt, John T. Robbins and Henry F. Hall, trading under the firm name of the Rob¬ bins & Son Iron and Steel Manufacturer.*, Beach and Vienna streets, Philadelphia, Pa., failed Wednesday. The liab.lities are said to be $120,000, and assets $70,- 000. Most of the firm’s papers are held in Philadelphia, the Kensington National bank being creditor to the extent of $14,300. One of the gieatest failures in the his¬ tory of the noithwest occurred Wednes¬ day at St. Paul, Minn. The Eureka Im¬ provement ing assignment Company, of that city, mak¬ an with liabilities between $600,000 and one million dollars. As¬ sets have not been estimated. Most of the outside creditors aie in Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and New York. The company was engaged in land deals and an electric motor enterprise. A large cave near Hermosa mining camp, sixty miles from Las Cruces, N. M., has been opened up, and rs interior is lined with veins of almost pure silver. It had for years escaped the eyes of old prospectors because there was nothin^ about the cave to indicate mineral. It is now thought the cave will exceed in rich - uess the famous Bridal Chamber cave at Snake Valley, N. M., from which over $500,000 in silver was taken, Exports of specie during the week ended June 29tb, amounted to $3,416,- 580, of wrhich $3,047,610 was in gold and $868,970 silver. Of the total exports, $2,611,951 was gold and $340,215 was silver, went to Europe; $2,611,000 in gold bars goiDg direct to Paris, and $435,659 gold a.d $278,755 silver to South America. Imports of specie for the week amounting to $357,650, of which $309,448 was in gold and $48,202 in silver. master “RedNosedMike,”whomurderedpay- MeCluie and the stable Hugh Fiannagan, in October boss, last, was hanged Tuesday morning at Wilkesboro, He gave to one of the clergymen who attended him a confession of his crime, covering fifty-two pages Italian manuscript. been The confession has not vet fullv translated, but he admits hav- ing killed both McClure and Flannagan, though he asserts that he acted under compulsion, NOT YELLOW FEVER. --- A dispatch from New York says: Surgeon discharged Duncan, of the steamer Colon, was at 10 o’clock Wednesday- morning from Swinburne Island hospital. He is the supposed yellow fever patient over whom the recent excitement was raised. HORRIBLE ACCIDENT. ICAKT LIVES LOST BY A RAILROAD COLLI¬ SION IN PENNSYLVANIA. A triple collision of freight trains oc¬ curred near Latrobe, Pa., forty miles east road, of Pittsburg, on the Pennsylvania Rail¬ about 2.30 o’clock Wednesday morning. Thirty cars were wrecked and seven known. persons killed, four of them un¬ A freight train, west bound, left Latrobe and had just reached a bridge about fifty yards west, when it collided with an extra freight train com¬ ing in an opposite direction. Anothei east bound treight was standing on 8 side track on the bridge, and the wrecked trains crashed against it, causing one lo¬ comotive and a number of cars to go over the embankment into thg^reek. a distance of fifty feet. Engineer Cald¬ well and his fireman were supposed to have been killed instantly. Their bodies are still in the creek. Brakeman Miller was terribly crushed. The bodies of four tramps were taken from the wreck. There was nothing about their clothes to ride identify them. They w T ere stealing a and were coming west. The cause of the accident has not yet been learned. A dispatch from Greenburg, ten mile3 from Latrobe, states that a party of about twenty-five workmen from Johns¬ town were stealing their way home on a freight train when the accident occurred. Tne wreck caught fire from lime and the men were cremated. The story is not credited, and Pennsylvania railroad offi¬ cials know nothing about it. Two men injured in the accident were carried to Flannagon, Pittsburg. One of them, named says that he is a Johns¬ town laborer, returning to Pittsburg, and that twelve persons were on the car with him when the accident occurred. He knows nothing of their fate. The debris of the wreck was being rap¬ idly cleared away, and up to 8 o’clock Wednesday night ten bodies had been recovered. Thirty-one cars went down over the bridge, and are piled upon each other in the water. A carload of lime in the center of the train was the last to go down, and it was scattered over a pile of shattered cars. Then the debris took fire. It is probable that thirty people were killed in the wreck. The water in the creek at the point where the acci¬ dent occurred, is about twelve feet deep, and it is expected ten or twelve bodies are in the bottom of the creek. WONDERFUL MONSTROSITY. A CHILD WITH TWO HEADS—-ALIVE WITH NO INDICATIONS OF DYINO. The parents of this curious freak of nature are Mr. and Mrs. Jones, who live about five miles north of Kempton, in Tipton county, Indiana. They are young married folks, probably about 30 years of age, and this is the mother’s second con¬ finement, the first child being two years old and nothing abnormal about its de¬ velopment. TUe monstrosity, for such it is, and a wonderful one, too, consists of a single, continuous body, on each end of which is a well formed head. It is provided with four arms and four legs, which are also well formed and about the normal size and shape. The arms are located at the proper place and on natu¬ ral shoulders, one pair at each cud of the long body, but the lower limbs protrude outward each side at the middle of the elongated being. The two heads face the same way, and the legs are so attach¬ ed as to extend at right angles from the middle of the sides of the body. There is but one umbilicus, that being on the anterior surface aud middle of the body, showing that the entire form has been nourished through one and the same cord during the entire period of embryonic life. There is a duplicity in so far as there are two heads, two pair of limbs, two sets of genital organs and that the voluntary movements of the two portions are not in conformity. On the other hand, there was but one umbilical cord, and tt.e junction of the two halves presents no line of original separation to prove that the being lias been joined together from the start. One half of the creature may be sleeping while the other is awake, and at such times it is noticed that one leg on each side conforms to the other vol¬ untary movements of the end of the body nearest to them, or, in other words, the two legs on the same side of the body are not controlled by one half. The entire length of the body from head to head is about two feet, and the weight of the creature is twelve pounds, figures which show ample size and weight for two healthy children. Up to the pres¬ ent writing the babe or babos is or are enjoying good health, and the mother, a sm ill sized woman, is doing very well. A HUMAN FIEND. A WOMAN SAID TO HAVE POISONED HER HUSBAND AND TWO SONS FOR MONEY. Mrs. Lizzie Brenan was arrested at caused Holyoke, Mass., on suspicion of having the death of her husband and two ic. sons by poisoning their food with araen- The Brenans had six children, and Mrs. Brenan succeeded in insuring the lives of all, including herself and her $2,000, husband, for sums ranging from $300 to the policies being made payable to herself. The husband, Michael Bren¬ an, died about ten months ago under suspicious circumstances, James Bre- nan, a son, died suddenly about six weeks ago. She supposed his life insur¬ ance had been increased, but on claiming it at his death, she found the increase had been made by mistake in policy of his brother Thomas. It was Thomas’ tu n next, and he died on Thursday. Thomas was taken violently sick about two weeks ago, and went into the coun¬ try, where he rallied. On returning home to board, he was taken sick again and died in great agony. All medicines hive been seized by the officers, who be¬ lieve Mrs. Brenan deliberately poisoned the members of the family. HANGED TO A TREE. A KENTUCKY MOB STRINGS UP A MAN WHO IS CHARGED WITH MURDER. A mob went to the jail at Shepardsville, Ky., ^ at 1 o'clock Wednesday morning aud demanded of Jailer Bowman thesur : render of Thomas Mitchell and Charles Ardell, confined there charged with the murder of a pedlar named Joseph Lavine. Bowman refused to surrender the mm and took his stand in front of the door with a shotgun, declaring he would kill the first man who tried to pass. Mrs. her Bowman, hearing the threats and fearing far” husband would be killed, ran ward and gave the mob the keys, big- ting Bowman not to provoke them. The leaders then unlocked the doors and went to the cell where the prisoners were ■onfined. The jailer followed, beggiDg them at least to spare Mitchell, who he believed was innocent. They yielded to his intreaties,'telling Mitchell he might Bowman they took for him his life, the and binding to woods, about mile and a half from town, anil, bung to a tree. SOUTHERN NEWS. ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA¬ RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH. A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOING ON OF IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. A new postofficc has been established it South Atlanta, Fulton county, Ga., with Luther S. Price as postmaster. In Dawson, Ga., a number of boys are the frequently seen peddling frog’s legs on streets, which are readily sold at ten cents a leg. Frank Smith, of Smith Station, Ga., was struck by lightning Tuesday while standing killed. in his store door and instantly several He leaves a wife and children. The keeper of Bosa Grande lighthouse, near Jacksonville, Fla., has discovered the skeleton of John Cone, a young man from Jasper, Fia., who was drowned near Punta Gorda last March. Adjutant-General McIntosh Kell has issued a call for a convention of the mil¬ itary of Georgia. The meeting will take place at the capitol in Atlanta on Mon¬ day, the loth of July. On the premises of C. C. Hallman, near Spring Place, Ga., has been discov¬ ered a quarry of very fine black marble. Mr. Hailinun sent a sample of the rock to had the Chattanooga and Marble proved works, be and it polished, it to very fine. Reports from Charlotte, N. C., say that the recent heavy rains has done no small damage. Bridges over creeks and rivers are gone and low lands crops nre greatly damaged. The rain is said to have been the heaviest known in western North Carolina in some years. Mrs. Ann M. Pierce, wife of the late Bishop George F. Pierce, died at “Sun¬ shine,” near Sparta, Ga., on Wednes¬ day, at the age of 78. She was a nota¬ ble landmark of Methodism, a truly grand exemplar of the religion she pro¬ fessed, and was universally esteemed. David A. Nunn, the new internal rev¬ enue collector at Nashville, Tenn., cre¬ ated a commotion by appointing a negro to one of his best places, a thirteen liun- dred-dollar position. The appointee is 8. W. Crosthwait, for some years princi¬ pal of one of the city schools, and an in¬ telligent negro. Ralph Graves, professor of mathemat¬ ics at the state university, attempted to commit suicide at Raleigh, N. C., on Sunday, by cutting his throat bad wit i a pen-knife. He had been in 1 ea'.th lor months, and at times showed symptoms of derangement. Hen signed his work at the university last February. A disastrous fire occurred at Savannah, Ga., Monday night, involving a loss of over $100,000. When the fire was rag¬ ing firemen had ascended on ladders, when a wall of a building fell suddenly, killing John Weir outright and injuring H. P. Goodson seriously and Richard Hart perhaps fatally. Ed Paceiti, Messrs. Lipinski, Davis, McEvoy and Strobhar and Maurice Butler, were badly wounded. Natural gas was struck Monday neat Cordova, Walker county, about thirty miles west of Bumingham, Ala. It has a pressure of sixty-five pounds to depth tha square inch, and was struck at a of 700 feet. It was discovered on the property of the Cordova Coal and Coke Company, and the experts in charge of the work say there is no doubt of the gas existing in paying qualities. The First Georgia regiment will meet in annual reunion at Perry, Houston county, Ga., on the 7tli of August next. Governor Gordon has been invited to at¬ tend and deliver an address, and Gener¬ als Johnston and Andetson have also been requested to participate in the cere¬ monies. When the First Georgia was organized it numbered fourteen hundred hundred men; only about four arc now living. At Hawkinsville, Ga, on Thursday night, Charley Horn colored, killed and Will Nich¬ the ols. Both were about same age—fifteen years. They had beer to church, and while the re had quarreled. The quarrel continued after leaving church. After walking some distance, Horn pulled a paling off the fence and struck Nichols on the side of the head over the left ear, crushing his skull. Nichols died within two hours. Horn tvas arrested. A vein of iron ore, nine miles in length with an average thickness of seventeen feet, has been discovered in Red moun¬ tain, only a few miles from Birmingham. Chemists and experts sty it will make Bessemer steel—in fact, has less phos¬ phorus than much of the ore now in use in Pennsylvania for making steel. An analysis made by chemists shows the ore to contain metallic iron 45.87, silicon 22.18, phosphorus 0.06. Several mine? will be opened at once, anti the ore fully tested for steel making. SIMON CAMERON DIES. SHORT ACCOUNT OF A VARIED AND EVENT FUL CAREER. General Simon Cameron died at Lan¬ caster, Pa., on Wednesday, at the age of 60 years. He learned the printer’s trade and became editor of a Democratic jour¬ nal at Harrisburg, about 1822, after which he acquired a large fortune by operations in railroads, banking, etc. In 1845 he was elected a senator of the United States from Pennsylvania. In 1855 he separated from the Democratic party and in 1856 supported Fremont for the presidency, aud was again elected senator of the United States in that year. He was secretary of war in Lincoln’s cabinet from March 4th, 1801, to January, 1862, and was then appointed minister to Russia, He re- turned home in 1863 and was again elected to the Senate of the United States from Pennsylvania in 1866. He served several successive/ terms in the Senate, and was a potent factor in the politics cf his state. A MOCK MARRIAGE FOUND TO BE GENUINE--CONSEQUENT TROUBLE OF THE PARTIES. Mr. J. Fletcher Marcum, of Cattles- burg, and Miss Laura Duke Smith, oi Lexington, attended a social gathering in Ashland, Ky., and a young minister and the county clerk were among the guests. After awhile some one suggested a mock marriage, and Mr. Marcum and Miss Smith volunteered to be the bride and bridegroom. The county clerk was appealed to and made out the license, and the minister performed the cere- mony. Nothing more was thought of the affair until it was mentioned to a lawyer, who declared ihat the marriage was a legal one. This view is accepted as correct, and the make-believe bride and bridegroom are intensely distressed, To add to the complication, Mr. Marcum was engaged to an estimable young lady of Ashland. The courts will have to be appealed to for relief. “NOT GUILTY.” m'dow, wno Kir led pawson, in chables- ton, 8. C., GOES FREE. The last day of the McDow trial wai one ___of intense excitement and interest. Not even on the day that Dawson’s body was found lying in the office of his mur- derer was the community so worked up. The crowd in the courtroom was some¬ what m xed in character. Nearly all the clergymen in the city, including Bishop Northrop, were there, and leading citi¬ zens of all professions were scattered around in the crowd. McDow came iuto court ns usual and sat through the argu¬ ment and the charge of the judge with his usual confident stare. He looked, however, a little less chipper than he did during the examination when Marie Bur- deryon was telling the story ofhershnme and his disgrace, and he did not smile quite so frequently save, perhaps, when his eyes rested on the seven negroes in the jury box. Judge Kershaw charged the jury, who retired to their room at about 1 o’clock. Judge Kershaw’s charge wa? short but to the point. The follow¬ ing extracts will give a fair idea. After defining the various grades of homicide, he said: “I can find nothing in the law to assert that a man’s home extends more protection than an office, except that only those having n right can enter the house, but the office being public to If certain extent, any one can enter it. the young lady’s connection with the Dawson family was such as she describes, it was a high duty for him to divert her from wrong, an l if he went into the of¬ fice as her guaidain, he is not to be re¬ garded as a trespasser. A man, after legally entertng an office, may, by offen¬ sive conduct, become a trespasser. An¬ gry words are no excuse for homicide. The accused is not the judge of the ne¬ cessity of taking life, but the jury are the judges on this point.” Shortly after two o'clock it was announced that the jury had agreed upon a verdict. The verdict was ‘‘not guilty,” an announcement that was received with applause by the negroes and McDow’s white friends. They had been prepared for the verdict. They knew the negroes on the jury would never convict him, and the worst they apprehended was mistrial. As soon as Judge Magrath had written out a motion for the di-charge of the prisoner, and Judge Kershaw had signed it, the sheriff removed his deputy from beside the dock and told the prisoner he could go free. Then his friends pressed around him with congratulations. Ho was driven to his house on Rutledge disguised street. The negroes rejpiced the verdict. in an They un¬ manner over regard it as a victory over the white race—a retaliation for Dawson’s editorial on the Pickens lynchers. HORRIBLE FIND. SIX CORPSES FOUND IN A HOUSE OF ILL REPUTE IN PATERSON, N. J. Details of the finding of six asphyx iated bodies in a den kept by Godfrey Gerlade at 47 ltyle avenue, Patterson, N. J., on Friday night, are revolting. Three of the victims were young gir'g less than twenty years old. Their names were Bella and Sarah McNally, sisters, and Emma Wright. Another Woman, Kate White, was about twenty-four years old. Gerlade, the seventy-year old keeper of the resort, had evidently died hours before the others succumbed. The body of an unknown Turk, aged about, thirty years, was found in a better state of preservation than the others. Broken china and toilet articles literally covered the floor, and filth abounded everywhere, as all had evidently been crazed with drink and had a drunken brawl. Evidently somebody tripped over the rubber tube which conveyed the gas from the iron pipe to the gas range. The windows and doors of the house were fastened. The undertakers and etnbalmers were overcome in preparing the bodies, which were conveyed first to the fat and hides works of freeholder McCrane, and then to the city pest house, where they now are. The house where the bodies were discovered has been the scene of two suicides and one murder prior to Friday’s ghastly find. The most touching incident connected with the af¬ fair was the frantic efforts of the mother of the McNully sisters in attempting to see the believed bodies of her daughters, whom she to be virtuous. KILLED BY A BURGLAR. A burglar entered the house of Juhc Webber, at LaCrosse, Wis., Thursday night through a window in the room oc¬ cupied by his two daughters, Kate and Lena. The girls were awakened while the robber was searching their clothing and Lena, the youngest sister, aged eighteen years, attempted to escape. She stumbled and fell and before she could arise she was seized by the burglar who plunged a knife into her body, killing her instantly. The a'sa^sin then went to the bed and made a thrust at the oth¬ er girl, who managed, however, to evade the knife. The family were aroused by the noise, but the burglar escaped. A RUINED CITY. A special from Durango, Col., Monday afternoon a fire broke out in southern part of the city, and in an credible short time the flames, by a strong wind, spread in every tion, leaping from building to building, until half of the town was in ashes. The fiie was extinguished after the total struction includes of tight business blocks, all the principal business and churches, and a portion of the dent portion of the town was also de¬ stroyed. The loss is estimated at 000, with light insurance. The origin the fire is supposed to be incendiary. FATAL RAILROAD WRECK. The 1 mited express, which left Boston at 11 a. m., via Boston and Albany road, was ditched just outside the city limits Saturday afteinoon. Three persons were The killed and several badly injured. killed are, Miss Mary A. Brigham, of Brooklyn, N. Y., who has recently been elected principal of Mount Holyoke sem¬ inary, at South Hadley, Mass. Clareuce May, drawing car conductor, thoujbt to belong at Stamford, Conn. The third person killed was the baggage master, but his name could not be learned. DEATH FROM SEWER GAS. Thursday afternoon, at Kansas City, Mo., Thomas Linques.t, John Winter, John Best, Otto Albach and George Schultz, were making a sewer connection at the corner of 18th and Flora avenue, when, by mistake, Linquest knocked a sole in the sewer vault. The escaping gas overcame him and he died a instantly. Winter and Albach jumped into the ditch to rescue him, and they, t o, were overcome by the foul gas. Winter died in a few hours, and is in a serious condition. NEW FIRM. M°ALL1STER & SIMMONS Have Just Opened Up With LARGE STOCKS Of HEAVY GKOCEBIE Bought for Cash by the CAB LOAD f 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- j\j 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. ES. !*• SIMPSOM TOCCOA, GEORGIA- Ml! j] And Machinery Supplies, Also, Kepairs All Kinds of Machinery. FEBBEEi SNoniBS, 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 <*IESTEY 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- cre you buy. LoDlicate Darts of machinery constantly on hand. TOCCOA MARBLE WORKS. The U.iderstgn ’d is Prepared to Furnish MARBLE, ■0 I 5^0 Of All Kinds and Styles from the r 9 plainest ?t elaborate and lowest and costly. prices, up All to work the , m •jjk delivered, set up and satisfaction guar- •n m anteed. Call at my yard, examine C?, |§ samples and learn prices I efore pur- I'J J g chasing elsewhere. Address, L. COOK, TOCCOA, iOB£RTS HOUSE I TOCCOA CITY, GA., MRS.E. W. ROBERTS, Prop Mrs. Roberts nls > has charge of th< Railroad Eating IJ use at Bowersvillq Ga. Good aceumnv *alious, good board, at usual rates in first-class houses. BLACKSMITHING 5 Manufacturing HORSE-SHOEING, and Repairing WAGONS, BUGGIES —AND— FARM IMPLEMENTS Of all kinds. J“ EETT & “CRANSTON” Cylinder Presses EIGHT RUNNING IN ATLANTA AND GIV¬ ING ABSOLUTE SATISFACTION. The best press f°r the money ever built. For Prices and Terms write Godson’s Printers’ Supply Depot, ATLAS IA, C»A. Everything Office U-ed in a Printing or on a Press, no matter by whom advertised or manufactured, for sale by Dodson’s Printers’ Supply Depot, •A-T-L-A-NTJV . GA* 1 t LEWIS DAVIS, ATfOPNEY ATL.AW. TOCCOA CITY, GA., I Will practice in tlie counties of Ilaber* sham and Rabun of the Northwestern Circuit, and Frankl n and Banks of the Western Circuit. Prompt attention will be g.ven to all business entrusted to him. The collection of debts will have epec- ial attention. REAL - ESTATE. CITY LOTS, Farm and Mineral Lands In the Piedmont R. gion, Georgia. Also Farms Orange Groves, Fruit and Vegetable for sale in Florida. Address J. W. JVcLAURY, TOCCOA, GEORGIA. Don’t Fail to Call On 1 MOTSON, Who has Special Bargains in Various Lines of Goods. FINE DRESS GOODS, NOTIONS, HATS, ETC. —ALSO— HARDWARE OF ALL KINDS. Farmers’ Tools, Wagon and Buggy Ma¬ terial, Locks, Blacksmith's Tools, Hinges, Bolts, Doors ami Sash. —EVERYTHING IN THE— HARDWARE LINE, COOK STOVES. STOVE PIPE. AND WOODWARE, -ALSO- DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINES. TOCCOA, GA.