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THE TOCCOA NEWS
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL.
VOLUME XIX.
E. *». JSIMPSOIST
TOCCOA, GEORGIA
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LEWIS DAVIS.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will practioe in the oonntie* of Haber¬
sham aud Rabun of the Northwestern
Circuit, and Frank!<n ami Banks of the
Western Circuit. Prompt attention will
be g.ven to all business entrusted to him.
The collection of debts will have speo
ia\ attention.
VERY UNSATISFACTORY
to the Italians was Blaine's Last
Note to Rudini.
Friday’s dispatches say that the reply
of Secretary Blaine to Marquis di Rudini’s
last note ou the subject of the New Or¬
leans affair is the only important subject
of conversation and newspaper comment
throughout Italy. The full text of the
rep y reached Rome Friday, and Rudini,
3Iiuister Porter and other persons hold ¬
ing positions which would enable them
to express valuable opinions upon the
New Orleans dispute, -were besieged with
interviewers. The substance of opiuions
is that the controversy is in course of ad¬
justment. It is officially denied that
there is any truth in the report sent from
Rome to the daily Chronicle , of London,
that United States Minister Porter is
upon the poiut of departing from Rome
on a three month's leave^of absence.
RAISED THE WTNP.
Lenderman—Well, Mr. Richspouse,
did you speak to your wife about that
money I wanted? You said you could
raise the wind in that way.
all! Richspouse—Well, I did -but that’s
Lenderman—What's all?
Richspouse—The wind!
DUN’S REVIEW
Of the Condition of Trade for
the Past Week.
Ib G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of
trade says: “With better weather, there
is a visible improvement in trade and
collections, and while it is hut slight as
yet, the outlook for the future is gene¬
rally regarded as encouraging. Crop
prospects continue excellent; there is less
monetary stringency pressure at points where some
has existed, and in the chief
industries some improvement in demand
appears. The volume of trade continues
nearly as large in aggregate value as it
was a year ago, some decrease in quanti¬
ties of important products being balanced
by an advance in the level of prices,
which were nearly 15 per cent, higher
than a year ago, April 1st, and is still
more than 15 per cent, higher.
SHRINKAGE IN THE IRON TRADE.
The iron trade shows a greater shrink¬
age than any other, the decrease in char¬
coal iron production in March having
been 1,895 tons, and in all iron with cor¬
rections in the coke output, 21,363 tons.
Tho output is 65,311 ton'*, or 36 6 per
cent lower than a year ago. Spinners’
takings of cotton continue slightly greater
than a year ago, with exports very much
larger.
FAIR GROCERY TRADE.
The grocery trade at Philadelphia is
only fair; the glass trade is quiet, and
the demand for dry goods medium, but
the outlook for paints is better, and the
hardware trade is larger than at this sea¬
son In for two years, though at low prices.
nearly all trades these collections arc
slow. Business is improved at New
Orleans and Atlanta.
AN ADVANCE IN BREADSTUFFS.
In the speculative markets there has
been a general advance in breadstuffs,
hogs and lard, a decline in oil, and no
change in cotton and coffee. A larger
export demand, and reports of scarcity
abroad, lifted wheat 2^c to $1,191, with
sales of 46,000,000 bushels at New York,
and oats have risen 2 cents to 61 $ cents,
and corn cents to 82 J cents on small
sales. The actual scarcity of corn and
oats makes an advance easy, but of wheat
the receipts at western ports continue
larger than a year ago, and exports, until
very lately, have been much smaller. It
is noteworthy that, in all winter wheat
sections, the prospect is considered ex-
cep'ioually good aud the acreage is re¬
ported as largely increased. Raw sugar
has yielded a shade this week, but all
refined above granulated is a shade higher.
With breadstuffs an d vegetables un¬
usually high and wool about the same as
a year ago, cotton is much lower, drugs
and chemicals lower, iron and its prod-
uctsand the range of manufactured prod-
uets generally rather lower, notwith¬
standing an expansion circulation of during more than
$90,000,000 in the
year.
EXPORTS INCREASING.
Exports of merchandise are increasing,
and for two weeks at New York exceed
last year's by 18 per ceut. In March the
exports of cotton, breadstuffs, provis¬
ions, cattle and petroleum from all the
chief ports were in value $52,499,837,
against $52,766,262 last year, indicating
an increase in the aggregate of exports,
while heavy imports of sugar raised the
aggregate about $6,400,000 at New York
alone above that of the same month last
year.
Failures of the week number 217. For
the corresponding week of last year the
figur3 was 181.
L0, THE POOR INDIAN.
The Grip Getting in Its Work of
Extermination.
grippe Dispatches of Saturday report that la
is rapidly decimating the Indians
in the vicinity of Washington. At White
Bluffs nine died in one day, and at Moses
and Yakima reservations the death rate
is large. It is not so much the disease as
the treatment that causes the great mor¬
tality. into When afflicted, the Indians go
sweat boxes, and from there jump
into a cold stream of water, which results
in pneumonia.
THE DEATH RATE IN NEW YORK.
ending Mortality for the twentv-four hours
for the week at noon Saturday 1,347,' was 181. Total
was the largest num-
number for any week this Year Of the
last day's deaths 20 were from grip and
complications. deaths The total number of
from grip to date is 356.
If you want to reach the people vou
should advertise ip tide paper.
TOCCOA, GEORGIA, APRIL 25, 1891
UNCONQUERED,
High o'er the city’s roofs a storm-blown
gull-
Driven landward from the sea,
Battles against the winds without a lull,
Yet inland farther, ever back
Helpless is tossed with flying rack;
But, messenger of constancy to me,
I joy to see him facing ocean still.
As beaten souls through storm and night
May changeless face the hidden light
By heaven-sent power and strength of stead¬
fast will.
M. A.DeW. Ho u:e, Jr., in You th's Companion
“A LITTLE CHILD."
BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES,
It was a cheerless September afternoon,
the gray sky hanging Close to the salt
marshes, that Beemed to close up the
horizon, and tall reeds swaying in the
moaning wind.
A single sailing boat was heading for
the open sea, and Miss Nancy Dear¬
born, resolutely digging for clams on the
beach, looked out toward the dull, flat
landscape with a shudder.
Her niece, Fanny Sweet, was with
her. Both were dressed in strict accord¬
ance with their employment, in calico
gowns, with knit worsted jackets, and
scarlet shawls tied over their heads.
Miss Nancy was tall and gaunt. Fanny
Sweet—“Sweet Fanny,” as the girls of
the neighborhood jokingly called her—
was small and round and rosy.
The wind, which turned Miss Nancy’s
nose to a fine purple, only added a
fresher glow to Fanny’s peach-like
cheeks, - so unevenly does Dame Nature
dole out her gifts.
And as the two women dug diligently
in the wet sand, and piled their dripping
treasure-trove into the splint basket be¬
side them, a brisk dialogue went on.
“I, for one, shan't consent to it,” said
Miss Nancy. “It’s bad enough for you
to marry a fellow like Asa Litchfield,
with nothin’ but a mortgaged farm and
his own two hands, when you might
have Hebe Holt, with the whole rubber
factory at his back.”
Fanny’s cheeks were real peony color
now.
“I wouldn’t have Ilebc Holt,” she
cried—“not if he had all the money in
the—”
“That’ll do!” curtly observed Aunt
Nancy. “I heerd all that afore—no
need to repeat it. It’s bad enough, I’m
savin’, for you to make such a choice as
that, anyhow; but when Asa has the im¬
pudence to ask you to take them two or¬
phan young ’uns of his sister’s to bring
up, into the bargain, I say that’s the
last straw on the camel’s back!”
“I like children, Aunt Nanny!” |ll| t
“Get out!” sharply retorted the old
woman. “Children! meddlin’, torment¬
in’ little things! I don’t b’lieve there’s a
creetur livin’ that really likes children !
If Asa was to bring you a pair o’ young
rattlesnakes or a pair o’ catamount kits
in a basket, you’d say you liked ’em 1”
“But, Aunt Nancy—”
“Will you let me get a word in edge¬
ways?” peremptorily demanded Miss
Nancy. “I never see such a one as you
be to talk. What I want you distinctly
to understand is that I draw the line at
them young 'uns, and I refuse to give my
consent!”
“They have got to be provided for,
Aunt Nancy.”
“Well, where’s the poorhouse and all
the asylums we’re taxed to pay for?”
“Asa never would allow—”
“Neither will I,” said Miss Dearborn,
unearthing a whole colony of different
sized clams. “A I won’t hear another
wordl I’m sick o’ tbe whole busi¬
ness.”
A brief silence ensued, during which
Miss Nancy dug assiduously on, and
Fanny followed suit as well as she could,
stopping ever and anon to brush away
the tears that blinded her vision.
“We don’t seem to hev much luck, to¬
day,” observed Miss Nancy. “Needle
Beach ain’t what it used to be for clams.
I’d like to get enough for supper to-night
and a br’ilin’ for breakfast to-morrow
mornin’, and a mess to send to Widow
Clements, and—- My laws! what a gust
o’ wind that ’ere was! I guess, Fanny,
we'd better strike work if it’s blowin’
up from the east like that! There goes
my head-shawl! Quick—help me hoist
the basket outer the way o’ that big tidal
wave! I ain’t made no mistake in the
almanac, hev I—I don’t understand
this.”
Fanny Sweet abandoned the basket of
clams to its fate and clung to her aunt,
while at the same time she tried to drag
her shoreward.
“Aunt Nancy,” she shouted in the old
woman's ear, “it’s a squall! I knew
there was a black cloud coming up, but
I didn't think it would reach U3 so soon.
Let us run—let us make haste to the
Smuggler’s Hole! Quick, Aunt Nancy!
Never mind the clams and the spades.
It’s beginning to rain so terribly!”
Miss Nancy Dearborn was a woman of
genuine courage and spirit, but the
black sky, the rising surf and the howl¬
ing of the wind terrified her into rapid
retreat.
“Oh, why didn’t we keep a watch on
the clouds?” she bewailed herself, hold¬
ing desperately to Fanny’s arm, while her
gray hair streamed wildly from her un¬
covered head, and every step in the wet
sand became a greater difficulty. “What’s
goin’ to become of us? The last equi¬
noctial they had on Needle Beach lasted
three days and tore away—”
“This won’t last three days, Aunt
Nancy,” said Fanny, cheerily, as she
dragged the old woman under the shel-
ter of a ruinous log hut built up against
a beetling rock, where, according to the
voice of popular rumor, smugglers had
once made merry rendezvous, and where
the black mouth of a cave was said to
lead to the bones of drowned people in-
numerable. “But I shouldn’t at all won-
der if we had to stay here until the tide
made it unsafe to go back home to-
night. Don’t fret. I've got some gin-
ger cookies in my pocket, and there’s al
ways dry wood up against the rock. And
besides,” she added with a laugh, “I
know where Asa Litchfield’s fishing
friends keep thair matches in a
cubbyhole in the rock. "We can make a
fire and eat out cookies, and—; Why,
Aunt Nancy, what’s the matter? Why
do you scream so?”
For <wen as the two women pushed
their way into the hut; dlittle child,with
long yellow locks floating around her
like a sea-sprite, came running to them.
“Does it rain?” said she. ‘But it’s
nice and dry here. And Johnny is com¬
ing back when he’s caught some fish.
And I’ve got a basket of lunch here—
see?”
“Mercy on us, child! who be you?”
said Miss Dearborn, staring in amaze¬
ment.
‘I’m Daisy 1” musically answered the
sprite. who?”
“Daisy
“Johnny’s Daisy!” laughed thoehild,
a chubby four-year-old tot. “Johnny
left me here. He’s catching fish. He’ll
be back soon.”
“I hope to goodness nothin’ happened
to him!” said Aunt Nancy, with a groan.
“What’s his ether name, child?”
“Just Johnny,” 6aid Daisy, with a
puzzled lifting of her eyebrows,
“Is he your brother?”
Daisy nodded.
“I’m his little sissy,” said she, con¬
tentedly.
“And where do you live?”
“In the city, to-be-sure.”
Daisy “What city?”
stamped her small foot;
“The city,” said she. “Don’t you
know? The city, where every One else
lives.”
And then she snugged up to Fanny
and laughed aloud to see the flames burn¬
ing upward through the network of
driftwood which the girl had artistically
built up on the smoke-blackened hearth.
“Is the creetur’ a fool?” observed Miss
Nancy.
“I can say ‘Mary had a litttle lamd,’ ”
said the child, suddenly, smiling up into
Miss Nancy’s perplexed face, “and
‘Twinkle, twinkle, little star.’ ”
“Oh, yes, I dare say!” said the an¬
cient spinster, irritably rubbing the side
of her nose, ‘But where’s the use o’
teaching a child such jingle-jangles as
that, when she can't tell her own name,
nor where she lives! I’ve no patience
with folks. Fanny, that fire’s blazin’
up real good now. Put the little mite
in front on’t. She’s fairly blue with
cold; and I’ll open the basket and see
what there is for her to eat.”
But the child offered her poor rem¬
nants of dry sandwiches and bakers’ cake
to the two women.
“I—I’m not hungry!” said she, with
a quivering lip. “I wish Johnny would
come back.”
Fanny and her aunt exchanged pity¬
ing glances, and the latter middled little
Daisy el«se to h€F in tlifc cheerful fire-
shine.
“Don’t be afraid, Daisy,” said she.
“AVe’ll stay hero with you. It’ll be fair
weather pretty soon, and then we’ll all
go home.”
The storm raged pitilessly until sun¬
set. Black waves roared, hoarse winds
whistled, and sheets of spray came fly¬
ing up the beach like spectres.
Asa Litchfield, iu his stout-covered
wagon, came for the two women as soon
as the tempest had abated sufficiently for
a horse to make any headway against it.
“I reckoned likely you’d take shelter
here,” said he. “I am awfully worried
about you.”
He looked down at the child who lay
sleeping in Aunt Nancy’s lap.
“And what are we to do about the
little ’un?” said he. “Where does she
belong?”
“Why, nowhere!” said Fanny.
And she told the strange history of
the little waif.
Asa whistled under his breath.
“There’s been two wrecks below,”
said he. “One was an orange-boat from
Florida. Cut to splinters on the rocks;
but the cappeu an’ the crew managed to
get ashore all right. T’other was a lit
tie sailboat flung up on Rossiter’s Reefs
like a sheet o’ paper, with a yellow -
haired young chap all tangled up in the
riggin”’
Miss Nancy mechanically stroked
Daisy’s flaxen locks.
“Dead?” whispered she.
“Dead!” nodded Asa Litchfield.
“It must be Johnny,” said Miss Dear¬
born, her old lip quivering. Don’t let
her know.”
Asa turned away, with a lump in his
throat.
“The wagon’s ready,” said he. “And
if we calculate to get ahead of the tide,
we’d better be startin’ pretty lively.”
“Aunt Nancy, let me take her,” said
Fanny.
Tbe old woman drew back.
“No one shan’t touch her but me,” she
muttered, almost angrily.
And Fanny said no more.
Little Daisy slept that night in a trun¬
dle-bed which had been Miss Nancy’s as
a child and Fanny Sweet’s afterward.
And as the old woman sat reeding her
“chapter” by the fire, and heard the wind
shriek down the chimney and the waves
thunder along the beach, she whispered
many a secret prayer.
And toward daybreak, when the gale
shook the loosely-fitting fiont door like
touch of a human hand, she got up, and
creeping out into the hall, softly opened
it.
“Ef that’s you, Johnny,” said she,
“you needn't worry no more. She shall
be took care of!”
And after that, strange to say, the
wind suddenly went down, and the door
shook and trembled no more.
With sunrise the great storm—as it
was afterward known along the coast—
seemed to abate its rigor a little.
Aunt Nancy was up bright and early,
cooking ham and eggs and frying frit-
ters for breakfast. The fragrance of the
coffee already filled the room when Fanny
Sweet came in.
“Yes, I know,” said Aunt Nancy, as
s>he saw her niece's eyes turn toward the
open bedroom door beyond — “I know
jest exactly what you're thinking of, and
you may as well know what I’ve made
up my mmd to do. I’m goffig to keep
that pretty little girl and adopt her for
my own.”
*‘Oh, I’m so gladly cried Fanny,
into tears—she scarcely knew
“Yes, I be,” said Aunt Nancy, flqur-
the tin skimmer. “I never ha'd
one—not even you, Fanny, when you
was a little chick and your mother died
holt o’ me heart as she’s done. I
know I'm an old fool, and I know folks'll
laugh at me, but I don’t care twopence
for that; I mean to keep her; And,
Fanny—” f”
“Yes, Aunt Nancy
“I was sort o’ thinkin* when you’re
married to Asa Litchfield, and have them
two little gals come to live with you,
they’ll be lots o’ company for Daisy.”
Fanny’s eyes sparkled.
“Yes,’’said she, “they will.”
“And; Fanny—” 1*’
“YeSj Aunt Nancy
“Why couldn’t they come here right
rather sheepishly questioned
Aunt Nancy, “and stay a spell with me.
Daisy ’ll be lonely jest at first, and—”
Fanny threw both her arms around
Miss Dearborn;
“Yon are the dearest aiinty in the
world,” said she. “Now I feel free! to
tell you that Asa wants me to be married
right away—and Kitty and Rosy shall
come here while we are gone to Bridge¬
port for our wedding trip.” They
8o the arrangement was made*
never knew what Daisy’s other name was*
nor whether the fair-haired boy who per¬
ished in the great storm was in reality
any relation of hers. But at all events
she was never claimed; and her little life
brightened into a sunshine fancy’s that cast
equal light on Aunt fading
down hill of existence.
“I always knew there was a warm cor¬
ner in Aunt Nancy’s heart,” said Fanny.
“But I never could tell quite how to
reach it;”
“I guess the Lord understood human
nature better’n we dO;” said Asa Liteh*
field, in his slow way, “when *He took
a little child and set him in the midst of
them;’ — Saturday Night.
A Mohammedan Bunco Man.
In the East the confidence trick
presents its most picturesque aspect.
Among Orientals man cheats man in re¬
taliation for previous treachery, and the
priestly castes and their 1 satellite brother*
hoods or fakirs and astrologers, necro¬
mancers and prophets and wonder¬
workers in a hundred different lines of
business prey, upon the credulity of all
alike. The other afternoon Miss LaurC
Schirmer—I wonder if many of my
readers will remember this beautiful and
successful wonderfully gifted singer—told me of a
trick that iYas played in Con¬
stantinople not long before her de-
parturqHrom that capital. A holy man,
all ra£» himself in
town, and soon after Hiiifarrival it got
noised abroad that he possessed the
power of commuting silver into gold.
The crafty Mohammedan was charry of
exhibiting his art, but finally he visited
a Pasha's palace, where he received all
the honor due to so potent a person.
Bags of piastres were in readiness, and
each coin in turn that came into the
fakir’s hand passed out of them gold.
The JPasha had saw boundless wealth before
him and already given instructions
for some one to go to the United States
and buy up all the silver in our country,
when the man, as though disgusted with
mundane greed for filthy lucre thus ex¬
hibited, rose from his place and, in spite
of all entreaties, retired in high wrath.
Time passed, and the fakir was per¬
suaded to return to the palace. On this
occasion the Pasha was ordered to place
his silver in sacks on the backs of camels
and to send them a ten day’s journey,
stopping on the road only to pray, until
the tomb of the fakir’s father was
leached.
“But il any one,” said he, “looks into
the bags before the tomb is reached, the
silver will be changed to copper; if the
sacks reach the tomb unopened it will be
found to be gold.” So saying the fakir
departed to his own country. The Pasha
loaded his camels and they started; and
hardly a week had elapsed, when,doubt¬
ing the honesty of his visitor, he sent
messengers to stop the camels and search
the sacks. And when the bags were
opened, lol the contents were copper.—
Chicago Herald.
“Cutfin the Porpoise.”
“One of tbe best known characters
about the Hudson is a porpoise,” said J.
E. Walter, of New York, who is stopping
at the Southern “For twenty years be
has been seen there and now everybody
knows him as ‘Cutfin.’ This name bus
been given him by tbe rivermen and
New Yorkers, because his big dorsal fin
has been cut half way in some combat
with a rival at sea or by the attack of
some human foe. But ‘Cuffin’ is now
safe , at . , least . from , the hands of . man, for ,
he has become a univeral favonte of New
Yorkers and river men., who lavish at¬
tentions upon him. He is so tame that
sailboats can tap a few times with an oar
and he will come to the surface of the
water. He will come up within a few
feet of the boat, and a thousand oppor-
tunities has he given to fishermen and
excursion parties to kill him, but no
man’s hand is ever raised against this
remarkable fish. He is a powerful follow,
fully eight feet long. He has been known,
when accompanying fishing parties, to
swim around and drive fish to their neste.
No pilot on the Hudson is better known
than ‘Cutfin,’ and few are more highly
regarded 1 ”
Mr. Walter was a Captain on the Hud-
so " ^ or a p um ber of years. St. Louii
“
A. Wonderful Phenomenon.
The cells of the smallest plants, as
soon as they have assumed the green
color, assimilate their food from the at-
mosphere or rather from the carboniq
acid in the atmosphere and from water.
This is one of the most wonderful
phenomena of organic life, and our
greatest chemists have striven in vain to
imitate the process. Should they ever
succeed they would, as remarked by the
celebrated botanist, Ferdinand Cohn,
solve the first great social problem, that
is, the bread problem .—Chicago Tirrw.
GEORGIA BRIEFS.
Interesting Paragraphs from all
Over the State.
The Georgia State Sunday School asso¬
ciation convened at Columbus, Tuesday.
Thirty-three and 143 counties were represented,
president’s delegates showed were present. The
ifeport the association
to be in excellent condition.
The Georgia Teacher’s Association
holds it anuual meetiug iu Brunswick,
beginning April 28th, and closing on the
1st of May. Governor Northed, State
School Commissioner Bradwell, and per¬
haps will one or two other state house officers
attend.
Nn appropriation was made at the last
session of the legislature for completing
the rosters of Georgia troops in the con¬
federate army. So that none are coining
in now, the former appropriation hating
been exhausted some time ago. There
are still to be had fifteen regiments of in¬
fantry; fifteen regiments, nine battalions
and twelve companies of cavalry; six bat¬
talions and seven companies of artillery,
and four legions.
The Hawkins Zouaves, of New York,
Third gave a reception to the survivors of the
short Georgia at the Hotel Brunswick
a tidie ago. The visitors presented
their hosts with ad elegant silken flag,
Judge Langbein accepting it for the com¬
pany; Miss Lizzie Sneed made the pre¬
sentation; banquet Colonel Hawkins presided at
the and delivered an address of
sponded welcome; Colonel Claybourn Sneed re¬
for the Georgians.
A bill wiil be introduced in the legisla¬
ture for the thorough improvement of the
public roads of Whitfield county. One
plan issuance is to allow the people to vote upon
tlie of $100,000 of 5 per cent
twenty yean the bonds, with which to ma¬
cadamize most prominent thorough¬
fares. It is Understood that similar bills
are favored by other counties. The people
are stirred up on the road question. The
long rainy season through which they
have passed is likely to have a benefi ial
effect as far as the public roads are con¬
cerned.
The February railroad earnings of the Georgia
Central show a gross increase
over the earnings of February a year ago
in round numbers of $43,000, and the
net earnings show decrease an increase of $53,000.
There Was a in the operating
expenses $8,000. compared with last year, invest¬ of
The net increase from
ment shows an increase of $48,000,
making an increase' of the total income
of nearly $102,000. The gross earnings
for the last eight months of the present
fiscal year show an increase of $189,000
over the corresponding time last year.
In speaking of the cotton" cfop, Major
E. H. Butt, a well-known exporter of
Augusta, says: “There are over 8,000,-
000 bales in sight now, and by the first
of September something over 8,600,000
will have been marketed. Then 250,000
to 830,000 for bales will be held over by the
farmers will the higher prices. In this
they make a mistake, for I do not
believe cotton will be any higher next
year than it is now. Indeed, even if
their be a crop of but 7,500,000 bales
next year, the price will not go up, for
of this crop fuliy 1,000,000 bales will be
held over in the raw state by the factories
and at the ports, and this will prevent
high prices. Augusta’s receipts this sea¬
son will go to 275,000, the largest by
over 20 per cent in her history.”
The School Hook Question.
Commissioner Bradwell is correspond¬
ing about with all the state school commission¬
ers the school book question. He
Bends to each a copy of the resolution
passed by the legislature, and a let¬
ter which says: “In the performance
of this important duty imposed upon
ne by the general assembly of the
itate of Georgia, your aid will be
nvaluablc. Will you kindly inform me
what is the status of the ‘school book
juestion’ in your state? The details of
four experience and the results of any
ixperiment which has been made on this
ine by your state will be duly appre¬
ciated by the department of education of
Georgia.” Similar letters have been sent
to the superintendents of schools in a
number of large cities. “Then,” says
the commissioner, “before the evidence
is ready for the legislature I will be able
to show exactly what percentage goes to
the retail book dealers. It varies from
10 to 15 per cent of the last price. For
example, a book that costs the child $1
costs the publisher 8 1-3 cents. That’s
what the legislature has protested
against.”
A Peculiar Cane.
In the case of the Frank M. Hall Mer¬
chandise Company versus the Dahlonega
Company, limited, a suit for $11,000
now pending in the superior court of
Lumpkin defendants county, the attorneys for the
ask that the case be trans-
ferred to the United States circuit court,
0Q t ^ e g roun( j that the defendant com-
pany is a subject of a foreign kingdom,
“a corporation duly incorporated under
the laws of England, and a subject of
Great Britian.” In addition, the petition
contains allegations of prejudice and
local influence preventing a fair and im-
partial trial of the case before a jury in
Lumpkin county. Judge Newman granted
an remand order transfering the case. made A motion
to the case may be and the
rights of a subject of Great Britain to
transfer a case from the state to the
United States court, under the existing
treaties between the two countries passed
upon, as it is said that the statute pro-
viding for the transfer of cases makes no
direct provision for the subjects of
f °^'oradons°of ^ oth^strtiT ^
A rracraa.
Mr. Brosius, of Atlanta, inventor
the Brosius sewing machine motor, is
work upon a machine which, if
f u l, will revolutionize cotton ginning,
He has invented a ginning process which
will not break the fiber of cotton.
turns out an unbroken, silky staple beauti-
upland stains, island which is almost For as it
ful as sea cotton. years
I >een the lament of eastern spinners that
(be fibre was so broken. Mr. Brosius
matured a treatment for the u ngimic
which will cause it to come o k
^ccd whole, without a rea v iu k i aer.
Not only Hm; the process. wmcn by
condition
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it begins to rival silk. It I? claimed tliot.
the staple treated like this is W0ftl» from
ooe to two In cents the a ordinary pound more than Even cot¬
ton treated way. n
cent $40, a pound, the tire improvement sootb. The beauty is worth of
000,000 to is that it does
Mr. Brositf?’ invention not
necessarily do away with the gius iu use.
It Simply makes their way easy and per¬
fect. Fifty dollars added to a good
ordinary gin will equip it for this work
VETERANS INVITED
To Hold Their Annual Reunion
at Jackson, Miss.
A dispatch of Thursday from Jackson,
Miss says: Adjutant General William
, receipt of letter from Lieu¬
Henry is in W. Outsell, a commanding
tenant General
the United Confederate Veterans of the?
trans-Mississippi at Dallas, informing
him that he had written to General
John B. Gordon, commanding the
Association of the United Confcdet-
ate Veterans of the whole South,
suggesting that the entire association
hold its annual reunion in Jackson, com-
mencing June 3d, the date of the unvcil-
ing of th b confederate monument. He
savs to General Henry that he can depend
upon a large attendance from the trans-
Miasfesippi department. General Henry
will at once send the invitation, through
General Gordon, and on behalf of the
confederate veterans of Mississippi extend
them a cordial welcome.
RAILROAD THIEVES
Being Arrested by Wholesale.
Thirty-Six in the Gang.
A P.ttsburg, Pa., dispatch says and : Lake De¬
tective Cook, of the Pittsburg
Erie road, made the first five arrests of a
sang of railroad thieves, who, it is said,
have gotten away with fully $100,000
worth of plunder in the last three or four
years. Three of the leaders are in tht
Pittsburg jail and two others are in Mc¬
Keesport central station. Information
have been made against thirty-one others
who will soon be taken into custody. The
gang has been operating on freight trains
on the Baltimore and Ohio, the Pittsburg,
McKeesport aud Youghiogbeny, the
Southwest, Pennsylvania and Pittsburg
aud Lake Erie lines. One of the men ar¬
rested confessed, giving a full list of the
robberies.
A HALF MILLION IN ASHES.
A Disastrous Fire in Little
Rock, Arkansas.
Little Rock, Ark., suffered a terrible
loss by fi:e Saturday night, originating
in the dry goods establishment of Guss
Blass & Co., a building of four stories.
The firm carried a stock valued at $400,-
000, the largest retail dry goods house in
that section of the country. The build¬
ings occupied cn the south side by Lev¬
inson, wholesale liquors and cigars, and
on the north by Sweetman, florist, and
A. Kuttner, millinery goods, were also
destroyed. Not a wall remained stand¬
ing. Blass’ stock was insured for $200,-
000. The total loss will not fall below
$500,000.
The following are York some Cbaunccy of the iar*re M.
salaries paid in New :
Depew, President of the New 5 ork Cen¬
tral, $75,000; R. A. McCurdy, Presi¬
dent of the Mutual Life Insurance Com¬
pany, $60,000; II. B. Hyde, President of
the Equitable, $30,000; W. H. Beers,
President of the New York Life, $00,-
00(1; Frederic P. Olcott, President of the
Central Trust Company, $60,000; John
A. Stewart. President of the United
States Trust Company, $50,000 ; Richard
King, President of the Union Trust
Company, $50,000; J. W. Alexander,
Vice-President of the Euuitablc. $45,000.
It. is considered that the ovary of tho
average hen contains about GOO rggs;
twenty mature the first year, 120 tbe
second, 135 the third, and the rest after
that; so tbe second and third ycais arc
the best for egg product* ”
ATLANTA MARKETS.
CORRECTED WEEKLY.
Flour, Grain and Meal.
Flour—First patent $6 50 ; second patent family
$6 00 ; extra faucy $5 75 ; fancy $5 50 ;
$4 75. Com—No. 2 white 95c ; mixed 94c.
Oats—No. 2 mixed 70c ; white —c ; Kansas rust
proof $1.10 —c. Hav—Choice timothy, largo baleen
; No. 1 timothy, large bales, $1.05 ; cb ice
timothy, small bales, $1.10; No. 1 timothy,small
bales, $1.05 ; No. 2 timothy, small bales, $l.CO.
Meal—Plain 93c; bolted 90c. Wheat bran—
La r ge sacks $1 40 ; small sacks $1 40. Cotton
seed meal—$1 30 per cwt. Steam feed—$135
per cwt. Grits—Pearl $4 65.
Groceriea.
Coffee—Roasted—Arbuckle.s 25V*<J V 100 lb
cases; Levering's 25%o. Green—Extra choice
23>^c; choice 23c; good 21>£; fair 20c; common
18@19c- Hugar—Granulated 53^c; off 5%c; granu¬ white
lated 5^c; powdered cut loaf
extra C 4%c; yellow extra C 4%c. Syrup—New
O leans choice 48@50; prime 35@4(k!; 35(333; cotimou imi¬
30(235c. Mohsses—Genuine Cuba
tation 28@30. Rice—Choice 7%c; good
6%c; common 5%@6c; imported Japan 6@7c-
8'It—Hawley’s dairy $150: Virginia flats 75c-
Cheese--Full cream, Cheddar* 13c;
13V*c; Akim —-- White fish, half Lbls
$4 00; pails 60c. Soaps—Tailor, 100 birr,
75 lbs $3 00*3 75; turpentine, 00 ban*, 60 lbs
$200*2 25; tallow, 60 bars, (50 lbs $2 25a J 50.
Candles—Parafine llj^e; star 10c. Matches—
400s $4 00; 300s $3 00*3 75; 200* $2 00a2 75; 60s
5 grOAs $3 75. Soda—Kegs, bulk be- 1 lb pkgs
5c; cases, assorted, lbs 6%af>%c. % lbs 5%a6c.
Crackers—XXX soda 6^c; XXX butter
(i’^c; Candy—As'orted stick 8%c\ French
m xed 12%c. Canned g >ods—Condensed milk
$G 00a8 CO; imiCation mack -rel $3 95a4 00; *al-
mou $6 00*7 50; F. W. oysters $2 20*2 50; L.W.
$160; corn $2 00a2 75; tomatoes $1 75a2 50.
Bill potash $3 20. Starch—Pea 1 4*4c; lump
5%c; nickel pick ages $3 50; celluloid $5 00-
Pickles, plain or mixed, p nt6 $1 00*1 40; quarts
$1 50a 1 80. Powder—B fU, kegs $5 50; kegs
$3 00;% kegs $165. Shot $1 6 » per sack.
Proviafona.
Clear rib aides, boxed 7>^c ; ice-cared bel ies
8c Sugar-cured hams Italic, according to
brand and average ; California 7c ; breakfast
bacon 9 l /,o. Lard-Pure ;eaf 8^c; leaf
refined 6c.
connirr Prodnce.
Eggs 17al8c. Batter—-Western creamery 30a
B ^oulUT--Hen8 J 3’oa < , ‘^-*voung
12al4c^* 32
large 20 a 25 c*; small chicken* D
pgoitry—Turkeys 1 Tat 8c ; ducks 14c;
]•jc. Irish potato«$450a503per bbl. 8w<sei P?-*’
j^h^omnb "lOaiac. Onions l
'(j^bage $6 (K) per bbL
2a3e per lb. Alxneria grapes, S>0 lb
packages $6 50a7 50.
Cotton.
Market steady-—Middling 8%c.