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THE TOCCOA NEWS
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL.
VOLUME XIX.
E, I». SIMPSOKT 9
TOCCOA) CEORCIA
And Machinery Supplies, Also, Repairs All Xinds of Machinery.
Prebless Engines#
BOTH PORTABLE & TRACTION
Geiser Senarators & ShiiHe Mills
Farmers anft others in want of either Engines or separators, writ
SAVE MONEY by using the above machines. ] am also prepared
to give Lowest Prices and Best Terms on the celebrated
<xlESTEY 0RGANS.t»
Cardwell Hydraulic Cotton Presses, Corn and Saw Mills, Syrup
Mills and Evaporators. Will have in by eo 'y Spring a Full Stock of
White Sewing Machines
McCormick Reapers, Mowers and Self-Binders
VVhich need only a trial their Superiority. Call and see me be-
ore you buy. Duplicate parts of machinery constantly on hand.
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I’biladolpira. K Victor
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New York.
Hon. Win Penn Nixon. El. Intor-Ooean.Chi¬
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W. H. Wor hington, E Htor New South, New
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Mrs. Mary A. Livei more, M. lrose, Massachu¬
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Mr. E. C. Knight, Ph ladelphia.
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J. Moore, Sup’t Polioe, Blandford, Dorset¬
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LEWIS DAVIS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will practioe in the countie* of Haber-
«h&m and Rabun of the Northwestern
Circuit, and FraakLn aud Banks of the
Western Circuit. Prompt attention will
be given to all business entrusted to him.
TUe collection of debt* will have spto
ial attent ion.
SOUTHERN CATTLE
Will Be Rigidly Quarantined
Against by Missouri.
Governor Francis, of Missouri, has is¬
sued a proclamation ordering a strict
ounrantine agaiust southern cattle, on
unt of splenetic or Texas fever whid,
the l lilted States department of agricul-
ture declares is prevalent south of the lice
from the north'rn border of the Indian
Teiritory aud thence east to the Blue
Ridge Mountains. All cars carrying cattle
from those sections and entering Missouri
must be labelled “southern cattle.” All
stock yards at which such cattle are un-
lcaded > hall be considered infected, and
must, therefore, be set apart for the ac-
commodatiou of “southern cattle.”
They Play at Law Makiug.
The people of Japan evidently can’t
get enough of a good thing. They are
so hugely pleased with their new Parlia-
c ment that a number of citlkeas in Tokio
have established a mimic Legislature of
their own. The proceedings of the real
Parliament are followed minutely, and
the members discuss the same subjects.
—Brooklyn Citizen.
BUSINESS QUIET.
Dun & Co.’s Report for the
Past Week.
R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of
trade says: If the news is good news, as
concerns tho condition of business at this
season, the outlook is fairly satisfactory.
It is a season of transition and uncer¬
tainty, and every w r eck that passes with¬
closer out distinctly untoward events brings
the new and probably large crops
of next summer, and lessens the chance
that dustrial intervening disaster, financial, in¬
or commercial, may prevent a
revival of all business.
Trade has been rather quiet and hesi¬
tating, as is natural at this season, and
there is rather more complaint of slow
collections, bad but throughout the northwest
weather and the bad state of country
roads supply an explanation. The out¬
look for coming crops continues excep¬
tionally good. It has been a week of un¬
healthy speculation in some products,
owiDg to the desperate efforts of power¬
ful combinations to force prices on which
they c in unload without less. Wheat
rose to 116J on Monday, and at 115J is
still 2 cents higher than a week ago. sales
hero having been 73,000,000 bushels;
aud, corn, with salis of 78-j 35,000,000
bushels, has risen 4^ cents to cents,
while oats, at 59$ cents, nre less than 1
cent higher. Pork products advance,
and coffee and oil a 6nlall fraction each,
while cotton is a sixteenth lower. The
general average of prices reached its
highest point this year on Aionday, and
though now a fraction lower, is still 1
per cent above last week, but manufac¬
tured products do not share in the ad¬
vance, except in a few cases.
EFFECTS OF THE STRIKES.
Threatened strikes in the building
trades cause some uneasiness, nnd some
strikes in textile works result, on the
whole, unfavorably to employers, while
some of the great coke producers have
attempted to resume at a reduction of
wages, the result being yet uncertain.
Coal agents have changed schedules to tit
the fact that recent quotations have been
fictitious, and new 7 prices are 15 to 25
cents higher than a year ago.
At Boston money is easy and trade dull
because of the weather, but large orders
for lumber promise active building. At
Chicago dry goods, clothing and shoes
are dull, though the sales exceed last
year’s for the same week, and receipts in
wool are considerably incieased, while
there is a decrease in flour and lard, and
a decrease of one-half in dressed beef,
At other northwestern points trade is
fair, though much affected by the
weather and the state of the roads, but
slow collections are the rule. New r Or¬
leans finds trade only fair, but cotton re¬
ceipts increase. Sugar is dull, moiasses
stronger and rice firm. Trade at Savan¬
nah is holding its own, but at Jackson¬
ville is dull, the orange crop having been
marketed. The outlook for vegetables is
good.
The stock market has been exceeding¬
ly dull, but, on the whole, stronger, the
avetage price of stock being about <W
rents per share higher than a week ago.
The prospect fo.r peace among the rail-
roads does not grow brighter, however,
anc * s ig D6 of rate cutting are frequent.
Business failures, throughout the coun¬
try United during last week, number for the
States 228, Canada 28. For the
corresponding week last Spates year the figures
were 217 iu the United and 26 in
Canada.
WRESTLING WITH THE GRIP,
__
Gpeat increase of the Death
R naie f in . phipflo-n v. rue ago.
Friday’s dispatches say: Because of the
grip, which prevails to an alarming ex-
in Chicago, the death rate is increas-
tug, and undertakers and coffin manufac-
turers have all that they can do to keep
U P with the rush of business. The de-
paitment of health was notified of 804
deaths within the city limits last week,
That is about 100 more than during any
one week of the grip epidemic a" year
ago. But this week's mortality will dis¬
close a worse condition of public health
of the second half as compared with the
first half week's death roll.
ANY MAX' CAN DO IT.
Goldbags (looking out at the tene¬
ments)—Alas! It must be very hard tu
be poor.
Wentmah—On the contrary, it's easy
to be poor.—[American Grocer.
TOCCOA, GEORGIA, APRIL 4, 1891
PtFORPtIA avVJ lEY. D1V1LI O.
Interesting Paragraphs from all
Over the State.
Macon is moving for a grand trades
display in the spring.
It is more than probable that a bill will
be introduced at the summer session of
the legislature giving Dawson permission
to issue bonds to the amount of $5,000
for the purpose of building a new city
hall.
District Attorney Marion Erwin has
written and had published in pamphlet
form a history of the Dodge county con¬
spiracy case, recently tried in the federal
court at Macon. The book is entitled,
‘‘The Land Pirates.”
Air. Samuel H. Rumph, of Fort Valley,
baa an income from his peach orchards
that amounts to over $60,COO per year.
Good peach lands can be obtained in the
best peach-raising sections of Georgia,
and on lints of railroad where the ship¬
ping facilities are excellent, for from $8
to $20 an acre.
Air. J. A. Carroll, a farmer living near
the line of Fulton, in DeKalb county, has
lost two horses and is about to lose
another on account of the animals having
eaten castor beans. Other horses in the
neighborhood have died and are dying
from the same cause, Air. Carroll has
delivered some of the beans to the state
chemist, so that they can be analyzed.
A tri-county fair consisting of Catoosa,
Walker and Dade counties has been sug¬
gested and the citizens hope to secure it.
The enterprising farmers of these three
counties are interested in the fair, and
they are working hard to make it a suc¬
cess. Other counties iu the state are also
discussing gaining the tri-county idea, which is
in popularity.
Rails on the Alacon and Dublin and
Savannah railroad have been laid into
Jeffersonville. This will place Macon in
close connection with the county seat of
Twiggs, benefit which will of course he of great
to both places. Regular daily
train service will be established between
Macon and Jeffersonville by April 5th.
It will require only about one hour to
make the trip.
The attorneys on both side* are making
elaborate preparations for the McKee case
at Rome. Intense public interest is felt
in this case aud it will throng the couit-
house. Iu the meantime the prisoner is
taking life as easy as possible at the jail.
Her cell has been transformed into a small
and elegantly appointed drawing room,
and the oder of roses and violets greets
one as he enters the jail. Airs. McKee is
confident of an acquittal.
An important meeting of the real estate
exchange of Augusta w r as held a few days
ago. The members discusssed at length
the notification that the banks had served
upon them, refusing to further collect
rent notes that are generally deposited in
their hands for collection. After a full
discussion of the matter the resolution
was adopted that the exchange would
make for application at the next legislature
a charter to establish a savings bank
of their own.
The Hancock fanners have not. planted
much of their crop, but they intend to
get up the best county fair this year ever
held iu middle Georgia. That means a
great deal, for Hancock was the pioneer
county in her section for fairs, and no
county ever had better. The board of
directors of the Hancock Fair Associa¬
tion met at Sparta a few days ago, and
acted throughout without unanimity and
enthusiasm. Hon. Seaborn Reese was
elected president, and S. D. Rogers sec¬
retary .
Alessrs. Goodyear, Ullman and others,
prominent Brunswick, capitalists have and business men
of returned from a trip
to Cincinnati where they went to consult
President Felton and Vice President
Fink of the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia. They are working to have cer¬
tain things put on foot by the East Ten¬
nessee to advance Brunswick as a ship
ping port. These gentlemen say they
are much pleased by their trip, and that
they have been met in a most liberal
spirit by the East Tennessee officials.
E. E. Stanley, who died recently at
Alilledgeville, it is said, had the reputa¬
tion of having killed two men in duels
on the same day. He was a very old
man, and the duels were fought sixty
years ago. At the time of the duels he
lived on the line between this state and
Alabama. He got into a controversy with
a man named Halton and was challenged.
He killed Halton, ana cn the same day
Halton's second challenged him, and the
second duel took place a few hours after
the first one. Stanley was again success¬
ful. He was a peacefully disposed man.
A dispatch from Raleigh, N. C., which
told of the action of the North Carolina
legislature in ordering the establishment
of a normal and industiial college for
white girls, and making an annual ap¬
propriation of $10,000 for its support, has
created some interest in Georgia, as it
was also stated in the dispatch that the
college was assured of a liberal and per¬
manent help from the Peabody fund. It
is argued that if this North Carolina col¬
lege can obtain permanent help from the
Peabody fund for its normal department,
the Georgia Industrial college should also
receive aid from the same source.
It has been suggested that the citizens
of Columbus should purchase the site for
the new government building there, so
that the entire appropriation of $100,000
can be expended on the building itself.
They would thus secure a complete and
magnificent building, aud one in every
way in keeping w.th the growth and im¬
portance of Columbus; whereas, if from
$35,000 to $50,000 is paid for a site, the
building cannot be so fine or s > credit¬
able. It hss been further suggested that
in order to la'se the purchase money for
the site a special tax be levied for one
year.
More Pension Figures.
Circulars have been sent out to the or¬
dinaries of the state asking them to re¬
port to the executive office the number of
widows in their counties of confederate
soldiers. From seventy-eight counties
reports have been received, showing that
there were 2,444 widows of confederate
s ddiers among the people. This would
make an average of 31 widows to each
county. Taking this es a basis; there
w ould be 4,247 widows in the state, and
as they each are to receive $100 if they
prove themselves entitled to a pension, \t
will require $424,700 to pay their pen¬
sions.
Trouble on the CenCral-
Reports of Thursday say that the trou¬
ble on the Central read is more aggra¬
vated than ever. The officers of the road
are authority for the statement that some
400 cars are on its tracks in and around
Atlanta, which they are unable to move.
The Western and Atlantic road has from
200 to 250 cars strung along on side
tracks all the way from Chattanooga, all
of which are consigned to the Central,
but cannot be accepted. The other roads
have an aggrevate of about 125. The
trike, of course, is largely responsible
f< r this state of affairs, coming as it did
at a time when the yards had not fully
recovered from the crowded state caused
by the recent, long-continued and heavy
rains. The men trom Savannah are good
men and experienced, but they have
scarcely any knowledge of the local yards,
and are, of course, iu comparative con-
fusion. The road’s officers say that mat¬
ters, instead of improving, are daily
growing worse.
It Would Pav.
There is some talk of establishing a
ferro-manganese furnace in Rome, The
raw material is being produced at Cave
Springs, in Floyd county, and in regard
to the value of a furnace of this kind at
Rome, a Cave Springs correspondent fur¬
nishes the following facts: “There are
but two ferro manganese furnaces in
America—one at B' ssemer, Pa., (Carnegie
Bros.) and the other at Chicago (the Illi¬
nois Steel Company). The freight to
Bessemer from this place is $4 10 per
ton; to Chicago $4.05 per ton. Say that
a ton of ferro is required in Chattanooga
to make steel, and that the
freight back from Bessemer to Chatta¬
nooga would the same as the freight on
the raw material from this point to Bes¬
semer, nnd then it will take three tons of
ore to make one of ferro; then the ] ur-
chascr in Chattanoogo will have to pay
$16.50 per ton freight to carry our ores to
Pennsylvania to be converted and re¬
turned to him lor use.” It can be readily
seen from the above what a saving a fur¬
nace in Rome would be. Rome is cen¬
tral as to the maganese belt, with ample
railroad facilities to get both the ore to
the furnace and distribute the products.
THE SOUTH IS GROWING.
New Industries Established for
First Three Months of 1891.
The Chattanooga Tradesman's report
of new industries established in the
Southern States during the first three
months of 1891 shows a total of 853,
against 837 in a corresponding period of
1890, and 612 in the corresponding period
of 1889. The figures for the quarter show
a healthful and steady growth in the
South’s material development. During
the three months there w 7 ere established
in the Southern States six agricultural
implement works, six barrel facto¬
ries, twelve boot and shoe factories,
three breweries, one bridge works,
two car works, ten canning
factories, forty-five cotton and woolen
mills (Georgia leading with twelve,
nearly £^>utli Carolina other eight, southern Texas seven, being and
every state
represented) and improvement fifty-eight large develop¬
ment companies orga ti-
ized, thirty-one electric light companies
organized, twenty-two flour and grist
mills, forty-seven foundry and machine
•hops, nine blast furnace companies,
seven gas works organized, twenty-eight
Ice manufacturing plants, fifty-three
mining and quarrying companies incor¬
porated, four nail works, eight oil mills
five potteries, one rolling mill company,
fifty-three street railway lines incorpo¬
rated, twelve tanneries, thirty-two woodworking water
works chartered, 141
plants and seventy-nine miscellaneous in¬
dustries.
The phosphate excitement in the south
is shown by the fact that thirty-two new
companies were organized during the
quarter, nineteen of which were formed
in Florida. Extraordinary activity in
railroad building in the" south is evi¬
denced by the fact that during the three
months ninety-three new railroads com-
panies were incorporated, of which thir¬
teen were in Virginia, thirteen in North
Carolina, twelve in Georgia, ten in Ala¬
bama, seven each in West Virginia,
Texas nnd South Carolina, and eleven in
Tennessee. Present indications point to
continued activity in the southern states in
all industrial branch, s, nnd the ensuing
year gives more fi ittering promise of sub¬
stantial development in manufacturing
growth than any previous year.
COVERED WITH SNOW.
Severe Storms in Kansas—Rail¬
roads Blockaded.
Dispatches of Wednesday f.om Kansas
state that the worst snowstorm of the
season is raging in that state. The crews
of a’.l trains that have been ab’e to reach
Kansas City have woeful tales to tell.
The country from eastern Kansas to Den¬
ver has disappeared under an immense
fall of snow. At Junction City the snow
is five inches deep; at Hayes City, twelve
inches. A b.ting wiudstorm is whirling
the snow into great dr ifts and the railroad
tracks everywhere have disappeared from
sight.
A dispatch from Atchinson says that
the Central branch division of the Mis
souri Pacific is not moving a wheel on
account of the snow blockade. Several
trains have been caught between stations.
A snow plow was started out, but a« fast
as it cleared a pathway the snow drifted
in behind it aud the attempt was aban¬
doned, leaving the plow engine to die in
the drift.
Alabama's New Road.
The last general assembly of Alabama
appropriated $9,000 for the survey of a
lailroad to connect the waters of the Ten-
nessee river with the gulf of Mexico
Ex-Governor Seay. State Senator John T.
Milner and ex-Senator R. T. Simpson
were appointed a commission to locate
the route and have the survey made. At
a mee ing of the ci-mmission in Birming¬ make
ham-Wednesday, ft was decided to
the survey between Florence and Mobile,
going through the Warrior coal fields,
from north to south, and through the
following counties: Cobert, Franklin,
Walker, Jefferson, Tuscaloosa, Pickens,
Hale, Marengo. Clarke, Washington and
M rbile.
NEWS AND NOTES
CONDENSED FROM TELEGRAPH
AND CABLE.
Epitome of Incidents that Hap¬
pen from Day to Day.
Nelson P. Reed, editor of The Pittsburg
Commercial Gazette, is dead.
I he sash, door and blind manufacturers
of Chicago have formed a general organi¬
zation.
Prince Napoleon’s will has been opened.
He left everything he possessed to his son
Louis.
Eighteen Lynn, Mas"., druggists were
ai rested Friday, charged with violating
their liquor license.
Arbucklc, the millionaire coffee mer¬
chant, died Friday- His remains will b<
cremated in Pittsburg,
There are over 1,C00 ca es of grip ic
Dubuque, has la, Almost every house ho d
one or more victims.
The cattle market in Kansas City
reached its highest point Saturday since
the winter of 1882 and 1883.
The Nebraska Democratic State Press
Association has requested the governor to
sign the maximum freight biil.
Three men were killed in a wreck on the
Philadelphia miles aud Re d og railroad, two
from As u land, Friday night.
1 he steamer Anglia sail from Gibral¬
tar vivors Thursday for New York with the sur-
of the wrecked steamer Utopia.
The LittDfield Stove company’s foun
dry, at Albany, N. Y., burned" Thurs¬
day. Loss, $75,000; insurant e, $48,000.
Some of the most imposing buildings
on Main, the principal business street ol
Little Rock, -Ark., were destroyed by fire
Saturday. Loss $100,000.
Corradini & Co., bankers and merchants
of Leghorn, failed Thursday. Liabilities
20,000,000 francs. Other firms are im¬
plicated in the failure. '
A break occurred Thursday in the
Conm-llsville coke strike by several large
mines resuming work. The resumption
is at a ten per cent reduction in wages.
The Reading Iron Company on Friday
notified its 2,000 employes that, owing
to the continued depression iu the iron
trade, a slight reduction in wages will be
made on April 1st.
It is probable that one large building
for the accommodation of special state
exhibits at the world’s fair, instead of
two score of similar exhibits in separate
buildings will be set apart.
About one-half of the force of non-
union compositors on the Philadelphia
Press walked out of 1he office Friday
night after their demand that the fore¬
man be discharged had been refused.
Steam pumps have been put aboard the
United State steamship Galena, at Gav-
head, Mass , and an effort will be made
to pump her out to enable the wreckers
to save material from the low&r hold.
It is learned at the department of state
that there have been no negotiations, as
reported, with Switzerland for several
years directly upon the subject of an ar¬
b.tration treaty between that country and
the United State*.
Dr. William D. Gentry, of Chicago,
claims to be possessed of a microbe of
la grippe, the first ever captured or
heard of. The little wriggler is impris¬
oned on the glass of Dr. Gentry’s micro¬
scope, and lias been carefully inspected
by many.
Orders were issued Thursday from
General Merritt’s headquarters, in St.
Louis, to begin enlisting Indians in the
regular army. The Indians are to be en¬
listed for fiye years and are to receive the
same pay as whites and negroes now in
the service.
The ship-building firm of William
Cramp & Sons ended negotiations Friday
for the purchase of the gieat Port Rich¬
mond iron works of Morris & Co. Bv
this purchase the Cramps secure the
largest iron works in the country, and
adjacent to their own shipyard.
Friday A Birmingham, Ala., dispatch or
says: R. L. Robin c on, upon ap¬
plication of the stockholders, was ap¬
pointed receiver of the St. Clair Coal
Company. The property consists of
valuable coal fields and the Ragland fur¬
$ nace properties. He gave bond for
10 , 000 .
The secretary of the treasury,on Thurs¬
day,' received a report from Immigrant
Inspector Layton in regard to the case of
the Hungarians employed in the con¬
struction of a railroad at Pocahontas, Va.
lie says he found nothing that could be
construed as a violation of the alien con¬
tract labor law.
A special from Gallup, N. M., says:
Three men were killed Saturday morn¬
ing in the Caledonia coal mine. They
were fixing when a track in one of the main
entries, a huge rock fell upon them,
crushing out their lives. It is the worst
accident that has ever happened at Gal¬
lup.
A local passenger train on the Chesa¬
peake and Ohio railway ran into the rear
of a freight train in a tunnel seventy five
miles east of Charleston, W. Va., Friday,
and both trains were wrecked, Fne
broke out and the entire passenger train
was consumed, Several p rsons were
slightly injured.
The secretary of the treasury has stop¬
ped the payment of thedraft for $769,144
drawn in f vor of the governor of In¬
diana in settlement of the claim of that
state under the direct tax act. This ac-
tion is duet a the discovery that there is
an unsett ed liability on the part of In¬
diana amounting to $47,000.
The proprietors of job printing offices
in "Washington have been notified by the
tvpographical union that a higher rate
wages must be paid demand for a less number advance of
houro’ work. 1 hey an
from 40 cents to 42^ cents per 1.000 ems
and that hours of labor be nine instead of
ten hours. A strike is probable.
Zoe Gayton, the actress, who started
from San Francisco several months ago
to walk to New York on a wager, ar¬
rived in that city Friday night, seventy-
three days ahead of time. She is said to
have walked the distance of 3,393 miles
in six months and twenty days, for which
she wih receive about $1,400.
L ncle Sam’s signal office bulletin shows
that during the past week the weather
was colder than uml east of the Roekv
Mountains, the departure from normal
average daily temperature in tire gulf
states and upper Mississippi valley being
about six degrees. Wist of the Rockies
the weather was warmer than ordinary.
A Washington dispatch of Friday says:
The 41 per cent loan, of which little"or
more than $.'50,000,000 is now outstand-
ing, will matnre September 1st, next-
Treasury officials say there will be no
trouble whatever in meeting it, and that
it was regarded as a matter of so little
concern that it was not thought necessary
to bring it to the attention of congress.
A final settl.ment of long dispute be¬
tween boss carpenters and journeymen of
Chicago was reached Friday evening,
when the associations met and ratified the
agreement joint signed Saturday last by the
conference committee. The United
Carpenters’ counc 1 met last flight, aud
the agreement was gone over clause by
c'ause, each receiving careful considera¬
tion.
The postoffice department ha? made an
important decision with reference to the
bond to be accepted from letter carriers
throughout the country. Hitherto it has
been the rule to accept only bonds from
priva e individuals for the faithful per¬
formance of carrier’s duties, but hereafier
and reputab’e trust company, in good
financial standing, will be accepted on a
surety bond.
A combination of all the larger brew¬
ing establishments of Philadelphia into
one concern is now contemplated. The
working capital of the combination is to
be $15 000,000, and the plan of opera¬
tion will include the issue of bonds di¬
vided into preferred and common stock.
Five million dcfllars of this is to be
place I on the market, but the remainder
will be held by the combine.
The treasury department at Washing¬
ton issued a circular Friday announcing
that it is prepared to settle claims under
the Bowman act for stores aud supplies
taken and used by the United States
army, upon the certificate by the attor¬
evidence ney general, that, after examining the
taken by tl e court of claims, be
claims, he finds no ground to move a
new trial or that such a motion has been
made and denied.
CLEVELAND WRITES AGAIN.
This Time on the Doctrine ol
Tariff Reform.
Ex-President Cleveland has written a
letter to the Indiana tariff reform league,
the closing paragraphs of which are as
follows:
“You will not, I hope, think it nmiss
if I suggest the necessity of pushing,
with more vigor than ever, the doctrine
of your organization. I believe that the
theories and practices which tariff reform
antagonizes ere responsible for many, if
not all, of the evils which afflict our peo¬
ple. If there is a scarcity of the circulat¬
ing medium, is not the experiment worth
trying as a femedy of leaving the money
in the hands of the people, and for their
use which is needlessly taken from them
under the pretext of necessary taxation?
If the farmer’s lot is a hard one in his
discouraging his struggle for better rewards
of toil, are the prices of his products
to be improved by a policy which ham¬
pers trade in his best markets and in¬
vites the competition of dangerous rivals?
Whether other means of relief may ap¬
pear necessary to relieve present hard¬
ships, I believe the principle of taiiff
reform in promises the most important aid
their satisfaction, and that the con-
tinaed and earnest advocacy of this prin¬
ciple is essential to the lightening of the
burdens of our countrymen.”
A CLEVER COUNTERFEIT.
A Dangerous Two-Dollar Bill in
Circulation.
A sensation has been caused at the
treasury department by the discovery of a
counterfeit $2 silver certificate so nearly
perfect in all its parts as to be almost im¬
possible of detection, Heretofore all
counterfeits of our paper currency have
been readily detected by the failure to
imitate the character of paper on which
the government notes are printed, which
is so arranged that each part of it form¬
ing a complete note contains a small silk
thr. ad running through it lengthwise.
This paper is for the first time almost
perfectly imitated in the counterfeit just
discovered.
They Were Slick.
At Barnum, 11!., two saloon keepers
have a new scheme for evading the li¬
quor law. Duriug the holidays they had
constructed a saloon building in sections,
so that it could be taken apart aud stored
away. Recently the cistrict court
granted an injunction against the saloon*,
and the other night the proprietors-took
down their building and ttored it away
in a warehouse, so that when the sheriff
of Webster coun v comes to serve the
injunction he w 11 find no saloon.
“The Bible on Wall Coating,.”
“And behold if the plague bo in the walls
of the house with hollow streaks, greenish
or reddish, then the priest shall go out of the
house to the door of the house and shut up
the house seven days. * * * And ha shall
cause the house to be seraph within round
about, and they shall pour out the dust that
they scrape off without the city into an un¬
clean place.”
This matter of looking to the sanitary na¬
ture of wall coatings seems to be considere 1
of much importance of late. A supplement
to the Michigan State Board of Health con¬
demns wall paper and kalsomine for walls,
and recommends Alabastine as being sani-
tary, pure, porous, permanent, economical
and beautiful.
To each of the first five persons in every
city and town, who write the Alabastine
Company of Grand Rapids, Michigan, giv¬
ing the chapter containing the above pass-
age of scripture, will be sent an order on the
AlabastiDe dealer in the town for a package
° ; Alaba-tme, enough to cover fifty square
T ards of wail two coats ’ tinted or white -
To test a wall coating, take a small quan¬
tity of it, mix in equal quantity of boiling
water, and if it does not set, when left in
the dish over night, and finally form a stone
like cement, without shrinking, it is a kalso¬
mine, and dependent upon glue to hold it tc
the wall, the feature so strongly objected to
by sanitarians.
Continuing this sanitary wall-coating re¬
form the Tribune offices have been nicely
decorated with Alabastine. The effect is
pleasing, and the rooms are very sweet and
clean .—Detroit Tribune.
NUMBER 13 .
SOUTHERN BRIEFS
DAILY OCCURRENCES IN THE
SUNNY SOUTHLAND
Curtailed into Interesting and
Newsy Paragraphs.
Ex-Governcr John McEuery, of Louis¬
iana, is dead.
The trial of Mrs. McKee for the mur¬
der of Airs. Wimpee was begun at Rome,
Ga., Monday morning.
The strike on lhe East Tennessee be¬
gan Sunday at the yards in Atlanta. The
brakemen and firemen are contending for
the standard rate of wages.
The official statement of Schwartz «fc
Co., the failing bankers of Louisville,
given out on Thursday, show the assets
to be $57,553; liabilities $802,863.
The government will investigate the
alleged cruel treatment of Hungarians
employed by contractors on the Norfolk
and Western railroad at Pocahontas,
W. Ya.
A dispatch of Thursday from Bristol,
Tenn., says that D. C. Morrison, depui
circuit court clerk of Scott county, Vir¬
ginia, under Charles M. Carter, is a
forger to the amount of $30,000, more or
less.
The Tennessee sena'e, on Thursday,
rejected the bill appropriating $25,000
for a state exhibit at the world’s fair.
The house, however, passed a bill allow¬
ing county authoritii s fair. to appropriate
money for exhibits at the
burg, A special Va., of Saturday from Alartins-
W. says the worst snowstorm
that has ever occurred in that section of
the country has just ceased. It lasted
forty-eight hours, and it is supposed that
about six feet of snow has fallen.
Dispatches of Saturday from Win¬
chester, Va., say that snow has been
falling there for thirty-eight hours and
has reached a depth of over two feet and
in some places nearly three feet. Coun¬
try roads arc impassable, It is the
severest storm for thirty years.
A dispatch of Saturday from Asheville,
N. C., says: Two disastrous landslides
Lave occurred on the Spartanburg branch
of the Richmond and Danville railway,
and through traffic has been discontinued.
The track is covered to a depth of forty
feet for a distance of a quarter of a mile.
Governor Buchanan, of Tennessee, on
Saturday, appoined George W. Ford, of
Knoxville, to be commissioner of labor
and inspector of mines, and the senate
confirmed the appoinment. Mr. Ford is
a shoemaker of Knoxville and secretary
of the Cential labor union, Knights of
Labor and Farmers’ and Laborers’ Union.
A. Falk & Son, large wholesale and
retail dealers in clothing, in Savannah,
are financially embarrassed. On Friday
the National bank of Savannah foreclosed
on a mortgage for $19,000 and took pos¬
session of the stock. Other mortgages
have been entered up, making a total of
$59,200. The firm has always rated high
jecently, and had an extensive business.
A Raleigh, N. C., dispatch of Friday of
says: There are hundreds of inquiries
the governor and regarding the refunded
direct tax, some holders of receipts
and some newspapers intimate that the
the money ought to be on hand now. The
delay is at Washington and is unavoid¬
able, for every stub of the tax receipts
must be copit d and copies sent to the
governor. This work is now being done
as rapidly as possible.
The distilery and winery of the Gal-
leges Wine Company, at Irvington, Cali¬
fornia, one of the largest establishments
of the kind in the st te, was seized by
revenue officers last week, on account of
frauds alleged to have been perpetrated
in the unlawful use of untaxed brandy.
Tbc plant seized comprises extensive
buildings, all the utcnsLs and appurte¬
nances of the business and between 300,-
000 aad 400,000 gallons of wine and
brandy.
The Marietta ar.d North Georgia strike
was settled Saturday. And the engineers
and firemen who left the road Alarch 10th
last will return to work. So will the
members of the brotherhood committee
who presented the grievances of tho
engineers to the receiver, Air. Glover.
Receiver Glover had a conference with
Assistant Chief Youngson. B th gen¬
tlemen manifested quite a conservative
spirit and in less than a half hour a com¬
plete understanding was reached.
MARY WASHINGTON’S TOMB
Was Offered for Sale, but the
Scheme was Frustrated.
A Fredericksburg, Va., di patch of
Saturday says: George V/. Sheppard,
who owns the ground on which the tomb
of Mary Washington, mother of G. orge
Washington, is situated, gave to Colbert
& Keitley, real estate brokers, an option
on the property. The l rokers i.t once
advertised the tomb for sale at public
auction in Washington. This aroused
indignation, and Sheppard notified the
brokers that he could not give a clean
title to the ground. Th< reupon they
withdrew their advertisement and insti¬
tuted suit for $20,000 damages. A deci¬
sion was rendered in favor of Sheppard.
A PROSPECTIVE DEAL
Whereby English Capitalist Will
Invest in Tennessee.
A Nashville dispatch of Saturday says:
It js learned, on good negotiating authority, that an
English syndicate is for the
purchase of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and
Railroad Company, the largest corpora¬
tion of the sort in the south, and that the
chances are in favor of a great deal being
consummated. The prospective pur¬
chase! s have plenty of money behind
them, as they have deposited £2,000,000
in the Eank of England for the develop¬
ment of the new town of Kimball, in
Sequatchee valley, which they have
bought.
_
The Dog Died.
A young man named Burton, residing
in Edgefield county, and S. C., attempted to
poisou Friday his mother morning, the by rest dosing of the
family the
breakfast with strichnine. The mother
suspected breakfast something wrong, before serving and tried it.
the on a dog
The dog died.