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Newspaper Page Texti HE TOCCOA NEWS AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL. VOLUME XIX. FREE FOR EVERY ONE WHO WILL TARE THE TROUBLE TO ASK FOR IT. THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1.00 PER YEAR. THE GREAT SOUTHERN WEEKLY, 151,000 WEEKLY, READ BY NEARLY A MILLION READERS. wr Agents make $25 to $100 per month working for us. Send for Outfit. Easiest paper in America to get subscriptions for.~^a SFAII SIX XA91 EM FOR MA91 FEE (ONES. Write on a Postal Card the names and addresses of YOURSELF and FIVE neighbors, and Sample Copies of The Ureal Southern W'eelily will be sent FREE of charge. No HOUSEHOLD SHOULD BE WITHOUT IT. “XOTIIl.Mi NCCCEEIW I.IKE SUCCESS.” The fact that more than ISO,OOO families read THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION every week is the best proof that it has no equal in America as a Family 1‘aper. Want of space prevents our mentioning all the special writers who will help to make the CONSTITUTION for 1831 the Best Weekly on Earth. 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Orders Will Receive Prompt Attention l GIVE US A TRIAL! Beside the regular contributions of the above TIIE CONSTITUTION has gone to a greater expense than any other American newspaper to secure contrilmtions from the most noted special writers of the world. For the Year 1891. COL. FRANK A. KERR, The Famous Correspondent will supply regularly Letters from Tlir Liirupeau Outer* on matters of special interest to American renders, and particularly to the Farmers of this country ; a study of Agri¬ cultural and Industrial Europe being the chief motive for his Trip to the Old World. HENRY M. STAXEEY, The CelBbrtUed African Explorer "ill be hear. 1 from during the year in a serie. of the most interesting articles ever published. THOM. A. EDISON, The Great Electrician and more than 4)n« Hundred other of the DBS. STARKEY & PALEN'S TREATMENT BY INHALATION. TRADE MARK' REGISTEriCD* •" : 1620 Arc la tStreet, F’liiL'id.’a, Pa* Tor fonaii million, Asthma. Bronchitis,Dys¬ pepsia, Catarrh, Hay Fever, Heartache, Debility. llheittnatiMii, Neuralgia and all Chronic and Nervous Djsordera. •‘The original and only genu'no compound oxygen been using treatment,” I>r j . Starkey & P.ileu l av; for the last twenty years, is a sciea- tifi • adjustment of the elements of oxygen and nitrogen magnetized, an 1 the compound is so condensed and made portable that it is s-'iit all over the world. Dra. Starkey k Pa'en havo the liberty to re¬ fer to the following name 1 well known persons wLo have tried their treatment: Hon. Wm. D. Kelley, member of Congress, Philadelphia. Rev. Victor L. Conrad, Ed. Luth’n Observer, Philadelphia. Rev. Charles TV. Cushing, D. D., Rochester, New York. Hon. Wm. Penn Nixon, E l. Inter-Ocean,Chi¬ cago, Ill. W. H. Worihington, Eliter New South, New York. Judge H. P. Vro-man, Qu nemo, Kan. Mrs. Mary A. Live;more, Melrose, Massachu¬ setts. Mr. E. C. Knight, Philadelphia. Mr. Frank Hiddail, merchant, Phila. Hon. W. W. Schuyler, Easton, Pa. L. Wilson, 833 Broadway, N. Y.,Ed.Phila. Fidelia M. Lyon, Waimea, nawa’i, Sandwich Islands. Alexander Ritchie, Inverness, Scotland. Mrs. Manuel V. Ortega, Fresuilio, Zacatecas, Mexico. Mrs. Emma Cooper, Utilla, Spanish Hondu¬ ras, O. A. J. Cobb, ex-Vice Consul, Casablanca, Mo¬ rocco M. V. Ashbrook, Red Bluff, Cal. J. Moore, Sup’t Police, Blandford, Dorset¬ shire. Eng. Jacob Ward, Bowral, New South Wales. Aud thousands of others in every part of the United States. “Compound Oxygen—Iis Mode of Action and Rosalia, is tko title of a new brochure of 200 pages, which published by Drs. Sfavkey & Palcu, gives to ail inquirers full inhumation to this remarkable curative agent and a record of uveral hundred surprising cures in a wide range of chronic cases—many of them after be¬ ing a bandoned to die by other physicians. Will be made I free to any address on application. Read the brochure ! DRS. STARKEY & PALEN, No. 1529 Arcii St., Philadelphia, Pa, Plea>e m nt on *l»is paper when you order Com¬ pound Oxygen. LEWIS DAVIS, ATTORNEY AT L,AW< TOCCOA CITY, GA., Will practice in the counties of Haber¬ sham and Rabun of the Northwestern Circuit, and Franklin and Bank-s of the Western Circuit. Prompt attention wiii be given to ail business entrusted to him. The collection of debts will have spco ial attention. CRASHED THROUGH THE CAR. A Falling 1 Boulder Wrecks a Passing Train. A Pittsburg, Pa., dispatch says: An immense rock, weighing at least 200 pounds, fell from Duquese Heights, Mon¬ day coach mnrniug, and crashed into a passen¬ ger on the Washington and Penn¬ sylvania express on the Pan Handle road. Miss Clara Fleming, aged 19 years, was killed: Miss Minnie Baldwin, aged 18, and J. F. Douahoo, aged 20, and another young man whose name was not ascer¬ tained, were badly hurt. The heavy rain loosened the rock, which fell as the train middle, was passing. It struck the coach in the wrecking it. THE FUNDS MISSING. The Arkansas State Treasury $40,000 Short. A telegram of Sunday from Little Rock. Ark., says: Investigation shows that about $40,000 belonging to the interna- tibual improvement fund, occumulated from the sale of binds granted to Arkan¬ sas by the United States government fortv tears ago, is missing from the state treasury, although reported on hand in ex-Treasurer W oodruff's report for the fiscal year of 1899. TOCCOA, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 21, 1891. most famous writers the world has pro¬ duced will make each number of the CON¬ STITUTION wortli a years subscri plion. It is ti e cheapest in price, the biggest t and best weekly newspaper published in the known WO rid. No household should be without its cllfr eer to the family fireside. It has some- thing please aiW interest every member of the f aimly. For the Father and Sons, it lias Ac i-ic-ii - 1 ur»l. liidiiHti-ial »nd PalillenlNews, Mtorics of sin- War anil Ailvnilnre. For the Mother and Daughters it offers “Woman’s Kingdom,” ‘'Children’s Depart¬ ment” and other specialties for feminine fancy. A **'. oV'au' .. i,tv!'i'apoTJfVn"'Tiv! ... J* ic American complete tin.....its of the world. It costs CO you will nothing do to see this great paper am d v ou yourself an injustice if you do not send for a sample copy. After you read it if *t 'noV'liave' .... in he’world y"u do to "subscribe for it. GEORGIA BRIEFS. Interesting- Paragraphs from all Over the State. Thomas Finch, age seventy-two years, and Miss Addie Chamblev, age thirty five years, were married in Calhoun last week. There is no abatement to the building boom in southwest Georgia. And every day ushers in new enterprises in the pro¬ gressive towns. Appropos of the statement that there are no lawyers in Echols and Charlton counties. The returns for 1890 show that Charlton has neither a doctor or a den¬ tist. Atlanta is preparing for another expo¬ sition this fall. The subscription com¬ mittee have already secured over half the amount needed to insure the success of the enterprise. It is very probable that a bill will be introduced at the summer session of the legislature to amend the charter of Daw¬ son so that the mayor’s salary can be in¬ creased from $200 to $500 per year, and provide for compensation for the aider- men. Now that Columbus has the money for a public building, the selection of a site is agitating the citizens, and is likely to give as much trouble as did the location for the world’s fair at Chicago. But Co¬ lumbus has the money, and that is the big part of it. The effects of the recent disastrous con¬ flagration in Vienna have been seriously felt by the people, but they have gone bravely to work to repair the loss. The burned block will be replaced with hand¬ some brick structures, which are now be¬ ing contracted for. There is no board of county commis¬ sioners in Lowndes county at present. Messrs. C. M. Williams and George Herndon, a majority of the new board, have refused to take up their commis¬ sions, and this leaves Mr. William Mar¬ shall, who has taken up his, in the minor¬ ity aud unable to act. The grand jury of Laurens county, in their general presentments, recommedded that her representative pass a bill placing the whisky license in that county at $10,000, which will practically amount that to prohibition, and also recommended the ordinary levy a tax for the pur¬ pose and build a brick jail with steel cells, to cost about $4,000. A New York dispatch of Thursday says: When ex-Governor Gordon, of Georgia, arrived at the Pennsylvania railroad station, in Jersey City, bound south, this afternoon, he found that h ; s peyket had been picked, and he had neither railroad ticket nor money to buy any with. Besides his ticket, he had lost $148. His grand hailing sign of dis¬ tress ticket brought him relief at the railroad office, and after putting the mat¬ ter in the hands of detectives, the gov¬ ernor continued on his journey without delay. The Macon lodge of Locomotive En¬ gineers claim to have a grievance against the Central railroad. They say that that part of the railroad’s contract with them relative to pay for over time has not been enforced, different and they claim that men in the branches of services have lost over $40,000 in the last three months from that cause alone. A committee consisting of a representative engineer from each division of the Centrel system was appointed to go to Savannah for the purpose of conferring with Manager Gabbet on this question. they Georgia is infested with Gypsies, and Recently arc causing trouble in many sections. Shylock,” a Gypsy, calling himself “John riding met a boy near Talbotton, who was a mule which belonged to Mr. Walter Baldwin, The Gypsy traded mules with him, giving the boy $10 to boot. The mule left with the boy was a very inferior animal, and the boy took him down to Taylor county and sold him for $8. He afterwards returned to Mr. Baldwin’s house and related the whole transaction, claiming that the Gypsy forced him to exchange, and afterwards frightened him iuto leaving by telling him that Mr. Baldwin would prosecute him for theft. Mr. Baldwin started in pursuit, overtaking the Gypsy, with his band, in Barnesville. $75 He recovered the mule aud in money for damages sus¬ tained. Information was received at the peni¬ tentiary department convicts Thursday of the escape of seven from the camp at LaFayettc, Walker county. The pris¬ oners, with assistance from an outside negro, overpowered the guard and escaped without injury to themselves. The es¬ capes are: S. F. Lucas, white, Decatur county, eighteen years for burglary; Mingo Melrose, black, Chatham county, life, for murder; Char¬ lie Martin, black, Meriwether coun¬ ty, ten years, for burglary; George Frank, black, Dodge county, life, for murder; George Wright, colored, William Talbot county, tm years, for burglary; Wilson, colored, Echols county, life, for murder; Bob Wiggins, black, Sumter county, life, for murder. The guard was first assaulted and knocked down by a free negro whose duty it was to carry steel from the works to the shop for and re¬ pairs. This negro has been arrested, an armed posse is pursuing the escapes. Coat of Our Legislature. Treasurer Bob Hardeman, on Thurs¬ day, completed his payroll for the last session of the legislature. The figures show what the legislature costs the state, and are as follows. The senate—Pei diem, $13,613; mileage, $1,372.80; ex¬ penses of committees, $290.74; total, $15,276.54. The house—Per diem, $40,- 210.50; mileage, $5,184.10; expenses of committees, $704.23; total, $40,098.83. So that a session of forty-eight days costs the state $61,375.37. The corre¬ sponding session of the last legislature cost $57,374.12. Judge Speer’s Reply. At the meeting of the house judiciary committee in Washington several days the ago, there were severe criticisms of federal judges for the suspension of sen¬ tences of offenders against the internal revenue law. The northern Georgia dis¬ trict, in particular, was singled out for attack, and Judge Emory Speer, of this district, who temporarily acted in that district cn the account of the disability of Judge McKay, came in for some severe and entirely unjust strictures for bis course in that (Erection. Judge Speer has sent a long dispatch from Savannah to the chairman of the committee, in which he states that he found the jail in an extremely filthy condition, and filled to overflowing with state and federal prisoners, many of the latter having been arrested for the most trival offenses, and never indicted. Epidemics of measles and other diseases prevailed among them, and out of simple humanity he released them on their good behavior. In con elusion he gives this timely advice: “Th committee can form no adequate concep lion of the suffering endured by the fed¬ eral prisoners in many state jails, and, before the power of the court to suspend sentences is wholly abrogated, I respect¬ fully submit that federal jai's should be provided where confinement will not destroy life or endanger health.” The Wesleyan Female College. Here is something that will interest every Mdhodist in Georgia, and ail friends of Wes'eyan Female College, no matter where they may be. The college belongs to the South and North Georgia conferences, long and bas been leased for a time to President W. C. Bass. President Bass pays the conferences so much money for the college and he op¬ erates it. If the attendance is large or small, that does not affect the price the conferences receive year by year. The attcudauce this year is the largest in the President history of the college. For several years Bass has been contemplating to cease leasing the college, partly on ac¬ count of his health and partly because he desired to go back to preaching. He uotified the board some time ago that he Would retire. Accordingly, the board trustees met in Macon to discuss the plan of operating the college after the present term. The question before the board was whether it should be leased, as at present, or be run by the board. The board resolved to continue th 3 lease sys¬ tem, and left with its local trustees the duty of m iking the best arrangement they couid and report at a later meeting of the board. The lease expires in June next. Fraudulent Pension Claim*. There were several pensions paid last year that won’t be paid this year, beause the claims are fraudulent. A case in point came up Thursday at the capitol. A man who lives now iu Jackson county has been drawing a pension since ’79 for the loss of an arm. lie enlisted in Com¬ pany B, First Georgia Regiment. His affidavit states that this arm was lost at the second battle of Manassas. By the merest accident iu the world this claim was F. M. brought Myers, to the attention of Captain of Atlanta, and others. They remembered the m in and the par¬ ticulars of the loss of his arm. He de¬ liberately shot off his hand in order to get out of the service. That was in August, 18Gi. Three affidavits to that effect—from two officers and one private in that command—are now filed away in the executive depart¬ ment, tion for aw aitiug the pensioner’s applica¬ is a pension this year. Still another case that of a man who lost a leg in a railroad accident at Jonesboro, and has been drawing a pension on the strength of the affidavit, vouched for iu due form, that lie lost his leg iu battle. Several other cases have been brought to the at¬ tention of the department, and the list is being thoroughly sifted; and it will be a very hard matter hereafter for a fraudu¬ lent claim to get through. Tlie IJctt, rments Claim. The claim of the Western and Atlantic lessees is $722,714.14, with interest. Nearly three-quarters of a million. The paper, which is a final and official and complete presentation of their claim for betterments, has been delivered to Col. N. J. Hammond, president of the com¬ ing mission. the The petition begins by recit¬ act of the legislature leasing the road to certain persons on De¬ cember peculiar 27th, iu the 1870. transaction, There and was the nothing state in occupied the position of ordination lessor the lease. They claim that one of the incidents of the relation of landlord and tenant is the right of the tenant to remove, during his term, his trade fixtures, and that the lessees could have removed all the fixtures anuexed to the sale for the purpose of operating a railroad, except such structure as had been placed as a substitute to a structure damage existing prior to the lease, provided no was done to the freehold. The structures that could have been so re¬ moved are marked in “Exhibit A,” at¬ tached to the petition, and consist of twenty-one squares and sidings, grading not included, that cost $63,618.80, and buildings in Atlanta at road a cost of $3,810; at other points on the and in Chat¬ tanooga, structures to the amount of $17,- 076, making the total $84,504.80. Fur¬ ther than that the company could have removed substituted st uctures, marked in “Exhibit B,” to the amount of $731,- 652.95, in the way ol rails and bridge work, and fences and other material, but as an offset to this the orig- inal structures in “Exhibit C,” to this amount of $323,669.30. Attention is called to the sp cifie act requiring of the legislature of October 24, 1870, the lessees to give bond to re¬ turn the roal in as good condition as when received, which act expressly recog¬ nizes the rights claimed by the petitioners. Based upon this the petitions.? claim the unimpeachable right to remove any and all fixtures, good provided condition the road was returned in as a as when leased, or even to sell the improvements on the leased premises. The petition cites the letter of President Joseph E. Brown to Governor Gordon referring to the rights of the company, with the fact that the Georgia legislature immediately afterwards, on October 24, 1887, denied most peremptorily the rights claimed in the letter, end directed the state to use the entire executive to prevent the removal of any of the property, and by duress interfered with the company’s rights in the matter. Further, the state, as landlord, treated the company’s property as its own, and even leased the trade fixtures, which it had a right to remove, to a new tenant on December 27th, 1890. The petition then sets forth the agreement between the company and the state, the former agreeing turned to allow the its property with to the be over to new lessee, distinct proviso that its claims were in nowise abandoned, but were to be upheld in the courts of the country, and that the state became bound by the agreement of that contract to pay petitioners the sura »f money which their property is reason- ably worth. The conclusion of the tion prays the finding and an award the indebtedness by the commission the sum of $722,714.15, besides interest, as the amount clue the lessees on question signed of rights and betterments. is by Joseph B. Camming, L. Brown, Boykin Wright, attorneys. STEEL MANUFACTURES. Labor Commissioner Wright’s Report Before Congress. The president, on Saturday, transmitted to congress the report of Carroll D. Wright, commissioner of labor, ou the co t of the production of steel and steel rails. The inquiry was directed by the view act establishing a department with the to ascertain the cost cf producing articles dutiable in the United States iu the leading countries where such articles in are produced, by the units of production, order to show the difference in the cost of production between this country and Europe, and the po‘siK bearing of these differences upon the tai.ff rates. The report covers three features, the first relating to the cost of production of the articles selected; the second, relative ciency to rates, wages, time, earnings and effi¬ of labor employed, and the third relatiug to the cost of living and the total earnings and expenditures of the men employed. The comparison of cost of materials used in the northern and south¬ ern districts of the United States shows a difference in favor of the South in the cost of ore and coal to be very great. The ore used in the northern district costs per ton an average of $4.40; cinder scrap, etc., $2 03; limestone, 79.8 cents; coke, $3,014, and coal $2,695. The cost in the southern district for ore is $1,513; cinder scrap, etc., $1,031, 70,01 cents; coke, $3,084, and coal, $1,500. The table shows the results of the in¬ quiry in as to the cost of producing steel rails thirteen establishments, two of them being in the United States, eight on the continent of Europe and three in Great Britain. In the United States, the net cost of materials was $21.10, at one establishment, and $25.11 at the other. The cost of labor was $1.64 and $1.38. The total c st at one. $24.79, and $27.08 at the other, On tne continent the cost of materials varied from $17.69 to $19.- 88; to cost of labor from $1.02 to $4.64 per ton. In three establishments in Great Britaiu the net cost of materials varied from $16.39 to $18 05; to cost of labor from $1.30 to $2.54. The totals therefore vatied from $18.58 to $21.90. The average earnings per hour for workmen ranges in the northern district from 9 cents to 18 oents; in the southern district from 11 cents to 13 cents; in Europe from 4 cents to 5 cents, and iu Great Britain from 5 cents to 10 cents per hour. DEATH OF ADMIRAL PORTER. An Eventful Life Brought to a Sudden Close. Admiral Porter died suddenly at 8:15 o’clock Friday morning at his residence, in Washington, D. (J. Death resulted from fatty degeneration of the heart, which relentless disease asser'ed its fatal fatal clutch upon him at Newport, R. I., last summer, when, contrary to the per¬ sistent advice of his physicians, he over¬ taxed his strength by taking violent ex¬ ercise, and was stricken down with a complication of diseases, including con¬ gestion of the lungs and dropsy. As soon as he could be moved with safety he was brought to his home in Washington and all means known to science and medicine resorted to for bis benefit, but to no avail, lie was a son of Commodore David Por¬ ter, who distinguished himself by captur¬ ing several British vessels during the war of 1812. Admiral Porter enteied the service in 1820, and had^been very pormi- nent in naval affairs since. Secretary Tracy issued a general order announcing Admiral Porter's death, and ordering that on the day of the funeral the navy department will be closed. Flags will be displayed at half-mast at all navy yards and statio: s, and ou board all ships in commission. The navy depart¬ ment will be draped in black, and all officees of the navy and marine corps days. will wear a badge of mourning for thirty WILL SERVE THEIR TERM. Dillon and O’Brien Voluntarily Surrender. Willim O’Brien, accompanied by John Dillon and Thomas P. Gill, left the port of Boulogne Sur-Mer, France, on Thurs¬ day, for Folkstone, and England. It is ex- pecied that Dillon O’Brien will be arrested the moment that they set foot on British soil in order they may be compelled to serve the terms of impris¬ onment imposed upon them sonflajponHis ing ago, by incite tjig Tipperary tenants court the Smifii-Barry ior conspir¬ to ofi estates not to pay rent. A later and dispatch O’Brien, from Folkstone their arrival says: Dillon upon at this place surrendered from Bonlogne-Sur-Mer, themselves vol¬ the untarily to police authorities there. THE LAST SPIKE DRIVEN, And the United States Connect with British Columbia. A dispatch from Fairhaven, Wash., says: The last spike in the track which unites the state of Washington and Brit¬ ish Columbia was driven at 11 o’clock Saturday, in the presence of about 3,000 persons from both sides of the line. The Fairhaven and Southern road forms the American line, and the new Westminster Southern the British Columbia. A tcle- gram was rcad from James G. Blaicc, secretary of state. A DISASTROUS BLAZE. One Hundred Thousand Dollars Worth of Property Destroyed. At 1 o’clock Sunday morning a fire broke out in the large dry goods Miss., house of S. Feld & Co., at Greenville, the stock of goods of ’which was being sold for account of the First National bank of that city. The conflagration visited one of the largest that has the city for years. Five stores and their contents were entirely consumed in hours. The total value will $100,000. NUMBER T. NEWS AND NOTES CONDENSED FROM TELEGRAPH AND CABLE. Epitome of Incidents that Hap¬ pen from Day to Day. The outlook of the doekors’ strike at London and Cardiff is most serious. The invitation of the United States to France to be represented at the world’s fair in Chicago has been formally ac¬ cepted by the president of France. The two farmers’ organizations of Ar¬ kansas have reorganized under one head. The ofder will hereafter be known as the Farmers’ Alliance and International Union of Arkansas. A meeting of the anti-Parnellites was held at Dublin, Ireland, Monday, with the object of organizing for the purpose of carrying on a campaign iu Ireland against by Parnell. that section of the Irish party led The Kansas house of representatives, without a dissenting vote, has passed a bill removing political disability from all persons who volunteered their services to the confederate states. The Kansas con¬ stitution now debars volunteer confeder¬ ate soldiers from the right to vote or hold office. The world’s fair directors have created the office of solicitor general. Con¬ gressman Butterworth, who is now secre¬ tary of the local board, will also assume the duties of solicitor general, to attend to the legal and legislative affairs of the board until his services are otherwise or¬ dered. A special from Johnstown, Pa., says: At 8 o’clock Monday evening all the lower part of the was city covered, and Iho rains. water is rising rapidly owing to the steady On the south side and in Cambria, houses are flooded and the people are getting but away in boats, as all the bridges one have been swept away. The third million pounds in gold of the 3,000,000 borrowed in bullion from the Bank of France by England duriDg the recent Baring-Argentine financial crisis, has been returned to the latter in¬ stitution. As in case of the first 2,000,000, gold was returned as received, there hav¬ ing been no necessity to open the boxes. A cablegram of Sunday, from London, says: The Shipping Federation has issued an ultimatum which declares that the dic¬ tation of the unions is unbearable, and that the federation will refuse to employ any man unless he pledges himself to em¬ bark on any vessel with which he signs articles, whether the remainder do or not. A dispatch of Friday from Ayer, Mass., says: president Hartwell has received a letter from the missing cashier, Spald¬ ing, in which he states that he began taking the banks’ money about four years ago, and that it was all lost in specula¬ tion. Examiner Gatchell states that the loss to the First National bank is appar¬ ently about $27,000. At the instance of the International Brotherhood of Railway Employes a bill has been introduced in the Massachusetts legislature providing for the election an¬ nually by the people of state railway commissioners, who shall have no rail¬ way stock or interests. They shall re¬ ceive $4,000 each per year, $500 each for tion traveling expenses and free transporta¬ over all roads. The Mayer mine at Scottsdale, Pa., was ret on fire Monday by a miner acci¬ dentally dropping & naked lamp at the bottom of the shaft, which is 100 feet deep. The lamp exploded, igniting the accumulated mine gas, which exploded with terrific reports and scattered flame in every direction. The mine caught fire, and the large shaft for ventilating the mine, was destroyed, and the interior of the mine seemed to be one mass of flame. No fatalities are reported. A New York dispatch says: The cash resources of the American Loan and Trust company were almost exhausted at one time Monday, and a check for a large amount presented for payment was re¬ turned with the statement that five days’ notice would be required on it. This under was a privilege of the with Trust Company, its agreement the depositots. Later in the day money came in from called loans and the check was sent for and cashed. A cablegram from London says: On Monday two expert bank sneaks robbed a clerk of the London branch of the Bank of Scotland of a leather satchel containing £11,590 in Bank of England notes. The clerk was waiting at the teller’s window of the National Province bank with his satchel beside him Ono of the sneaks attracted the clerk’s atten¬ tion and caused him to turn. The other sneak took the satchel and slipped away with it. The men made good their es- cape. special from Wes'minster, B. C.- A says: This city was visited by a con, flagratlon Monday which destroyed in the nieghborhood of $500,000 worth of property, and caused the death of John McUanuon, a member of the volunteer fire brigade. For two hours the firemen fought the flames, and were at last get¬ ting them under control, when an explo¬ sion in the rear of one store occurred. It broke almost every pane of glass within a radius of half a mile, and burst all the hose pumping on the fire. The committee of the general assembly of the Presbyterian church of the United States on revision of the confession of faith, after a very harmonious se s on at Washington city, lasting eleven days, con. pleted their work and adjourned Monday evening. The changes made have generally all met with unanimous approval. Its work will be reported and to the assembly in Detroit next May, by it referred to the presbyteries for their adop'ion of rejection. The changes made in the statements of confession have been of great importance, but have in no way impaired the integrity of the system or doctrine so long held by the house. NOT WHAT WAS EXPECTED. “Well, Kenniboy, whom do you love?*’ asked Ksnniboy’s father. of deep thought the After a moment answer came: “Kenniboy,” he said. —[HarpePg Young People.

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The Toccoa news and Piedmont industrial journal. (Toccoa, Ga.) 1889-1893, February 21, 1891, Home Edition, Image 1