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THE TOCCOA NEWS AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL. VOLUME XIX. E. *». JSIMPSOIST TOCCOA, GEORGIA tfwafA&mi m iaamtw * And Macbiriory Supplies, Also, Repairs All Kinds of Machinery. Peebles® Engines, BOTH PORTABLE & TRACTION Geiser Senarators & Shirt Mills Farmers and others in want of either Engines or separators, prepared will SAVE MONEY by using the above machines. 1 am also to give Lowest Prices and Lest Terms on the celebrated ^ESTEY 0RGANS.0* Cardwell Hydraulic Cotton Presses, Corn and Saw Mills, Syrup Mills and Eva porators. Will have in by early Spring a Full Stock oi White Sewing Machines McCormick Reapers, Mowers and Self-Binders Which need only a trial their Superiority. Call and see me ba¬ ere you buy. Duplicate parts of machinery constantly on hand. DttS. STARKEY & PALENS TREATMENT BY INHALATION. TRADE /MAR* REGISTERED* fo lEtf v XC2Q Arcli St root, Pa. for e-iMiaumpiIon, .\aihma, Hronclilila, lira, papula; Cntarrh, Ilay Fcvir, llrntlnrlir, Debility, HbemnatUm, Neuralgia anil all Chronic auit Norvoua Djsordera. •‘The original an 1 only genu ne compound oxygen been treatment,” I)r>. Starkey A P..leu have adjustment using for the last twenty years, is a scie.i- tili ■ of tho elements of oxygen and nitrogen magnetized, an 1 tho compound is so condensed and made portable that it ii suit all over tho world. Drs. Starkey .V Pa’on havo tho liberty to re¬ fer to tho following name l well known persona who havo tried tiieir treatment: Hon. Wm. D. K lley, member of Congrats, Philadelphia. ltev. Victor L. Conrad, Ed. Luth’n Observer, Philadelphia. Hev. W. Charles Gushing, D. D., Rochester, New York. Hon. Wm Penn Nixon, E I. Intor-Occan,Chi¬ cago, III. W. II. Worthington, Editor New South, New Yoik. Judge II. T. Vrooman, Qu nemo, Kan. Mrs. Mary A. Livonnore, Melrose, Massachu¬ setts. Mr. E. C. Knight, Philadelphia. Mr. Frank Sul.lull, mere ant, Phila. Hon. W. VV. Schuyler, Easton, Pa. E- L. Wilson, 833 Broadway, N..Y.,Ed.Phila. Photo. Fidelia M. Lyon, Wairaea, Ilawa i, Sandwich Islands. Alexander Ritchie. Inverness, Scotland. Mrs. Manuel V. Ortega, Frcauillo, Zacatecas, Mexico. Mrs. Emma Cooper, Utilla, Spanish Hondu¬ ras, O. A. j. Cobb, ex-Vioe Consul, Casablanoa, Mo¬ rocco. M. V. A'hbrook, Rod Bluff, Cal. «J. Mo >ro, Sup’t l’olioo, Bland ford, Dorset¬ shire Eng. Jacob Ward, Bowral^ Now South Wales. Ami thousands of others in every part of the United States. Results,” “Compound Oxygen—Its Mode of Action and is tlie title of a new brochure of 20C pages, winch gives published to all inquirers by Drs. full K’avkey infomiation ,V Paleu, as to this remarkable curative agent and a record of se veral hundred surprising cures in a wide range of chronic cases—many of them after be¬ ing abandoned to die by other physicians. Will be mailed free to any address on application. lte.nl the brochure ! DBS. STARKEY & PALEN, Ho. 1529 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. Plea-e ra nt on *fcis paper when you order Com¬ pound Oxygon. 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 NUMBER 16 . 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.