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THE TOCCOA NEWS
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL.
VOLUME XIX.
E. P. SJIMPSOKT 9
TOCCOA, GEORGIA
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And Manhinory Supplies, Also, Repairs All Kinds of Machinery.
PEiBitiis Engines,
BOTH PORTABLE & TRACTION
Beiser Senarators & ShiiHe Mills
Farmers and others in want of either Engines or separators, will
SAVE MONEY by using the above machines. ] am also prepared
to give Lowest Prices and Best Terms on the celebrated
~1ESTEY ORGANS.!*
Cardwell Hydraulic Cotton Presses, Corn and Saw Mills, Syrup
Mills and Evaporators. Will have in by early Spring a Full Stock of
White Sewing Machines
McCormick Reapers, Mowers and Self-Binders
Which need only a trial their Superiority. Call and see me be¬
fore you buy’. Duulicate parts of machinery constantly on hand.
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Mrs. Manuel V. Orioga, B'reanillo, Z.icat cae,
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Mrs. Emma Cooper, Utilla, Spanish Hondu¬
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J. Cobb, ex-Vice Consul, Caaablanoa, Mo¬
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LEWrs DAVIS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will practice in the conntie* of Haber
•ham aud Rabun of the Northwestert
Circuit, and Fraukbn and Bank* of tht
Western Circuit. Prompt attention wil
be given to all business entrusted to him
The collection of debts will have spee
i&! attention.
STREET CAR STRIKERS
Make Things Lively in the City
of Detroit.
A dispatch from Detroit, Mich., says:
The street car strikers presented than a
stronger front Thursday morning at
any time during the trouble. The men
wire vxc- cdingly active during the night,
snd evidently persuaded all thoso still
remaining faithful to desert their posts.
The roads are closed up, only one trip
having been made on the Woodward av¬
enue road. The spirit of destruction was
also abroad during the night, and rails
were torn up in places. On most of the lines
in the city "on barricades of blocks in length
were put the rails during the night
Patrol wagons were kept going from
place to place, but as they appproached crowd
the scene of some disorder, the
disappeared. The police department was
totully unable to cope with the trouble,
as the men were dispersed in crowds all
over the city. A conference was held in
the afternoon between the police de¬
partment, the sheriff and the city rail¬
way < fficials, a;,d it was decided to
give the company the support of the
whole police department «nd the sheriff’s
force to enable them to run cars.
HTTniro lN K WS A . Nil T _ NOTF/S T _
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CONDENSED FROM TELEGRAPH
AND CABLE.
Epitome Of Incidents that Hap-
pen from Day to Day.
The weavers’striKe inLo idon ended
j , bave relu
work" lC " cavcrs a nc<
to
GoM coin to the amount of $500,00f
was ordend in New York Mon lay foi
shipniint to Europ .
1 he lufluetza epidemic is becoming oi
»od an a Lmctolinv, arnungly severe type in Yoikshiit
Liiglaiid.
lire in Phil delpbia Sunday destroyed
a one-half i\e story wilding L ss $201,000:
coin red by insurance.
The Paris May-day celebr. tions are
likely to prove a ridiculous failure in con-
sequence of the .quabbles of socialist
leaders.
The counting of the cash In the trees,
ore, which is always made upon the in
coming of a new treasurer, commenced
Monda y-
A di patch from the city of Mexico
states that Colonel Miguel Lopez, who,
it is said betrayed Maximilian to Juarez.
llcd bunda ’
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The manager and six men employed in
he iron works belonging to the Roth-
chikls, at Witkowitz, Bohemia, were
killed by an explosion Monday.
The governor of I\ nnsylvania on Fri-
day, nnde application to the treasury
department direct lor that state’s share of the
tax fund, amounting to $1,054,711.
Enos H. N-beckcr, of Indiana, as-
sumed the duties of United States treas-
un Nebraska, r, Monday. So did Lorenzo Ciounse,
of the new assistant secretary
of the treasure uLjM
A cablegram from Paris says: Meline,
presklent of the custom- committee of the
chamber of deputies, iu an interview
>1 onday, said that in spite of all free
tradc.attacks, he was determined to stick
to the protective tanff which he said,
will have the support of the chamber ot
commerce.
Worcester, Philip Louis Moen died at his home in
sixty-six. Mass., of paralysis, aged
He was president and treas¬
urer of the Washburn and Moen Manu¬
facturing Company, manufacturers of
barbed wire, one of the wealthiest con¬
cerns in the country and the largest of its
kind in the world.
The street car strike at Detroit has
ended in favor of the strikers, Tho city
railway company h id gangs of workmen
out tarly Saturday morning, restoring
portions of missiug rails and in other
ways getting the tracks ready for a
resumption of the regular S'rvice. The
board of arbitration met and perfected
their organization by electing two dis-
interested members.
Monday A Washington dispatch says: On
the attorneys for the publishers
of the New Orleans State* and the Mobile
Pegister and the Louisiana Lottery Com-
puny, made a vigorous effort to prevent
the postponement of the argument in the
ease against the newspaper publishers for
violation of the anti-lottery act, forbid-
ding circulation through the mails of
T ertlse .
rLringln T ’ r,” ’e.'t'ocSr S y P09,P0Ded a ! ;
b
The annual , meeting . of , the , American
Tract Society was held in M ashicgtou,
D. C., bunday m the First Congrega-
tional church. Ex-Justice Ftrong pre-
^ Brewe;^; td
Rev. William A. Rice secretary of the
societv The reDort of the "secretary
showed that the society had Nosed a sue-
cessful year ‘year on April" * 1st Its receipts
for the from all sources, including
both business and benevolent depart-
ments, were, in round numbers, $305,-
000.
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Von Moltke Dead.
A Berlin, Germany, cablegram of Fri-
day says: dead. Field Marshal Count Yon
Moltke is He attended the ses-
sion of the reichstag Thursday afternoon,
His death was very suffden. and the phy-
sioinns who were summoned announced
that it w®s caused by the fai urc of the j
heart. He died at 9.45 o clock p. m., ,
passing away quietly and pam essly
death h M caused great sorren- m liorhn.
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TOCCOA. GEORGIA, MAY 2 . 1891
DYINO OF LOVE.
Cover
Me over
With shower*
Of flowers;
Heap
i Them deep
’ My quivering,
Shivering
Body above.
For I’m dying of love.
Cover
Me over
With showers of flowers,
Cast
Them fast
My yearning,
Burning
Body above;
For that odor sweet
It is naught, I weet,
But the breath of love!
Cover
Me ove?
With lilies,
And daffodilies,
And roses, f
And their fragrant sister posies.
. Bain
Them amain
My lanquishing,
Anguishing
Body above;
Then, far from me flying
Leave me here lying,
Leave me here sighing,
Leave me here crying,
Leave me here dying—
Hying of love. __
—From the Spanish of Marie Doceo.
BESIEGED Bf AFGHANS.
As a soldier under two Goverments I
have fought Sepoys, Boers, Hottentots,
Maoris, Indians, Malays and civilized
white men, but for real, downright
ferocity and dogged peiseverance I give
the medal to the Afghans. Such a thing
as cowardice is unknown among them.
They are ready for a fight at a moment’s
notice, and they can stand the cold steel
and grape and cannisler longer than any
wKite troops I was ever opposed to.
They are fanatics to the last drop of
blood, and when an enemy fully believes
that death on the battlefield means eter-
nal praise for his name and eternal rest
for his soul, he becomes doubly danger¬
ous.
j a the march to Cabul, which wxm
i aure l a for the British arms only that
they might | be covered with the disgrace »
bad iplomacJ) wc found , h? Af han
en his own soil and on battlefields of his
own selection, and, though we could
drive him in every instancei each victory
cost us some of the best blood in the
English army,
One of our outposts, as the colnmn
^1““Egth , i 5 mdtoglp „*,£ ™pp°i2,' j’
„ as B Be m a to the t
covere d a strategic point. A detach-
ment of 100 men was kept there for fif-
teen days, being relieved every detachment! five days,
and I went out with the last
We werc all i n f ar ,t r y, and we had 100
rounds of ammunition for our muskets.
The post was not in the valley, cohered but
up among the hills, where it
three different passes, and it was a ter-
ribIy loneS ome spot. It was among the
ruins of an old temple, and the first com-
panies holding it had used the great
blocks of stone to build a fort. This
structure was about 100 feet square,
crowning a steep hill, and the walls were
about twelve feet high. Two sides of it
wer e the walls of the old temple, strength-
ene d a little, ’ and while it was a rude
affair a - as a fort , it was a stout and safe , re-
treat in case of a few men being hard
pressed.
The blunders made in that historic
campaign are too numerous to be re-
corded> The most i rapart ial historians
are a & eed that incompet ency ^ was the
]eadin ° fcature We b en at the
post . two . days when the ^ Captain , . m . com¬
mand took fifty of the men for what he
called a reconnoissance up one of the
passes to the north of us, and at the
same time sent twenty-five men on an¬
other fool’s errand to the east. TYe had
been put there simply and solely to
prevent the enemy from coming down .
the pass right at our door and entering
the valley. Wiat w„ beyond us d,d
notmatter. There was muttering among
the men as they were marched out, each
carrying twenty-five rounds of ammuni-
tion, and they called “farewell” to the
twenty-two of us behind, Half an hour
after they had passed out cf sight we
heard sharp firing to the north and east,
and not one single man ever returned to
tis. They were ambushed in the defiles
and slaughtered, just as might have been
expected.
On this very same day the main arrnv
decided to advance. A courier was dis-
patched to notify an outpost, but he
ne ver reached us, either turning back
through eoTcealed fcir or hnvintr hepn Ibout nirk-pd off
rifleman five
oHock in the afternoon the natives ap-
below ^ us, «■ 1 and -ge then ™ mbcrs we knew , both ab.iie what had ancj
happened; ^ indeed thev taunted us with
the anaibilation af our comrades , and
^ trave us thp npws that the main column
^ moved on and deserted u« \n old
years in the service, was in command of
us > an< ^ as soon as he fullv realized the
disaster whieh had come about he called
the men together and said:
“We have no choice in this matter. A
thousand men could not push their wav
down into tbe vallev now to try and
overtake the column." We must remain
and do what we can.”
“But what can we do?” asked a cor-
poral.
“Die!” replied the Sergeant. “That’s
what we were sent out here for. anv-
how. We are twenty-two to hundreds
and thousands. We'must kill as many
as we can and then laydown ourselves.”
There There wasn’t wasn’t a a glimmer glimmer of of hope. hope. We We
knew knew the the Afghan. Afghan. In that lono- boSiered and
bloody campaign neither side
with prisoners. If we captured one, ten.
lift?, ^ or a hundred it was pufl' H bamr!
, heJ ^ , eft derf M
marched on. It bne of our men fell
into their hands his head was lopped off
or a spear sent through him before he
could wink twice. They’d have the life
of every man, even if they yielded up
twenty lives for one. Some would fol¬
low on after the column, but hordes
would be left behind to harass the out¬
posts left along the line of communica¬
tion.
It stood us in hand to make good use
of the few hours left to us. The Afghans
were elated and excited and showed no
disposition to attack that evening, but
we knew the morrow would open a siege
which might last until there was no
longer a man to defend the fort. As
there were five days’ rations for 100 mem
the twenty-two of us had close upon a
month’s provisions. As for water, there
was a spring bubbling up within the
fort, and all the preparations we could
make consisted in strengthening the po¬
sition. During the night we built a
bomb proof, hauled in a large supply of
firewood, and not one of us got a wink
of sleep. Day had scarcely broken when
we found ourselves surrounded by at
least a thousand natives. The first move
on their part was to demand a surren¬
der. This was promptly refused, and
musketry fire was then opened on the
fort. We made no return, but avoided
the portholes as much as possible, cooked
breakfast, and most of the men slept until
noon.
I told you our fort was on the crest of
a steep hill. The earth slanted away
from it in all directions for about forty
rods before there was any cover for an
enemy. So far as musketry was con¬
cerned, they might blaze away for a year
aud not hurt any oue, but we knew they
would soon bring up field pieces against
us. There was only one spot where they
could plant the guns to get the proper
elevation on us, aud that was just op¬
posite the north centre of the fort, on a
little plateau forty feet above the traveled
frail. During the day we backed this
wall with other blocks of stone, and
made it as secure as circumstances would
permit, and when nignt came the enemy
had fired 5000 bullets at us without in¬
flicting the least damage. We hadn't
the lumber to build platforms around the
walls, but we had sufficient to build
three lookout stations at three corners,
and there sentinels took their stations
when darkness fell. What we feared
was a night attack with scaling ladders,
and that was exactly what they were
planning for. Instead of taking time to
make ladders, however, they made a
rush on us about 1 o’clock in the morn¬
ing with a detail of men, carrying long
poles to rest against the walls. The
sentinels gave us timely notice, and,
standing on blocks of stone so as to
bring us nearer the enemy as he showed
up on top the wall, we tumbled him off
with bullet and bayonet so rapidly that
he drew off in great confusion.
Thrt rttaek w.. a good thing for ,, s .
Th. 8 »™ »«•** th f c *•“«
°^ r ? C J ual strea ? tb , and therefore de-
to “T Wlth m °™ C * Utl0 “ \ n the
fut ^, an d ] t gave us the idea that our
co»ld be defended * gainst big
? dd ®’ Du " ng the n e xt day the Afghans
ke P fc u P f slow and irregular . fire against
. wasting then lead, and all the
US ’ Simp y
meU ’ except those on necessary duty
were Pitted dlsco to sleep red tbe When night of
eir apathy. ^ W ° Me plainly Y e . heaid “ them
_ the smaH trees the
C e8nug away on
, 8nd . the lde d kne
USiag Sp l ,’ an W
that they were gowg to . plant artillery , „ to ,
" se a f inst us - The artillery branch of
the Ameer , s service was very weak, the
g uns belu ff of h S bt calibre and the am-
mu “ ltl ° a geoeraRy poor, but no one
could doubt that if a gun b or two was
got . to , bear , on us, and , the ,, would ,,
enemy
keep pegging away, the shot and simll
would in time effect a breach.
We had above 6000 rounds of cart¬
ridges, as our slaughtered comrades had
left three-quarters of their store behind
them, and the Sergeant ordered us to
man the ten portholes on that side and
keep up a steady fire on the plateau. It
was firing at random in the darkness,
but we doubtless knocked some of them
over, and quifis certainly delayed the
work. When morning came we could
see that they had cleared the ground anrl
begun J to throw up ' a small fort to hold
th ? ()llr fi re bad , lriren them off
D h , ' h d bllIIet ? ,
of bou | bs mat3 ’n and d ua
bu , , jtt|e att ntion , Whc night fell
they set up their screens and worked be¬
hind them, and though our fire might
have inflicted some slight loss, it did not
prevent them from getting two guns in
position. They had an earthwork six
feet high to protect the gunners, and as
the Sergeant looked out aud saw what
had been done, he grimly said:
“Well, we shall have a few days less
to live.”
While we were at breakfast the gun 3
°P ened ^ re ^6 shot. They were
oaly forty rods awa Yi and y et tbe g ua -
ner y was so P 00r tbat the first nine sbots
thrown awaay. When they began
to str lke ’ however we realized the dam-
JB| u IndsZe "Z
mcie Daruer Inan sanasrone, ana
while , too , heavy to be hurled down, the
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flaked and crumbled under the impact.
We manne<1 the portholes and fired at
tbe em h razures ' aQ d i Q this way we
Recked, though we could not silence.
tbe ^ re ‘ ^h e y S ot th L guns trained 03
. ot d before night
0D0 P articu ar s P ' aQ
came W( ; knew tQat the v ^ ould breach us
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m two days more. As darkness closed
m tbeir hre wa3 \ US P! aded: Tbe T could
see the progress they had made, , and there
was no need of hurry.
We had with us a native born Yankee,
and early in the evening we noticed him
overhauling the piles of poles we had
dragged in for firewood. He at length
selected out four or five, which had all
the spring of American hickory, and
then unfolded his idea to the Sergeant,
It was simple enough, but no one but a
Yankee would have ever thought of it.
^ We e firs; firs; laid laid five five short short poles poles on on the the
ground and pinned them fast. Then,
three feet in rear of them we elevated
other short poles.about two feet from
the ground on crotches. When the eml
„f a long pole was put over one of these
b aar V f ^ W h .f h i ea an v b03rd ab ° ut
-
U«v * e'ds o°f “ pol«° 1 X n,a“c V 7opS
hst
to bend’em down, and we had a a^o. principle
made use of in war 1600 rears
In an hour we had the five ready and
playing away, there being plenty of
broken stone in the fort for amnmnition.
There was spring enough to the poles to
throw a five-pound stone sixty rods* and
we heard sounus to prove that we drove
the enemy from a dozen different posi-
tions during the night.
The guns opened on us early in the
morning, and then a funny thing took
place. It may seem almost absurd to
you, but I’m giving you only what was
officially reported when I say that with
our five spring guns, as you might call
’em, we actually drove the gunners out
of that redoubt and silenced their fire.
After a little practice we would get just
the right spring to send the stone soaring
away like a bomb, to fall upon their
uncovered heads. A jagged stone,
weighing falling from from one to live'pounds, and
f a height 5 of flftv A or silts J
feet , . is not , tp . , be despised . , They , tried .
to get a shelter over them, but with our
musketry fire at the embrasures, and our
rocks dropping from above, they had to
desert the redoubt. Whenever we found
a body of the enemy sheltered by rock or
thicket to fire on us we trained our
Yankee inventions on them, and they
had to withdraw.
After the failure of the artillery to
breach the walls the Afghans sat down to
starve us out. The idea was to wear us
out as well, and a fire of musketry was
maintained day and night. They
probably didn’t expect to do any great
harm by this fire, but they knew it would
keep us on the alert and annoy and
irritate. It did have that effect, aud they
harassed us further by threats of assault.
We on our part kept them dodging with
our missiles, and I have no doubt we
wounded a good many of them in that
way. They couldn’t make out what
sort of guns we had which fired without
noise and threw rocks instead of iron or
lead, and this puzzle was what prevented
them from carrying our walls by assault.
For thirty-six long days and nights we
were cooped up in that fort,not suffering
for food and drink, but a prey to con¬
stant anxiety, and then the second main
column came up from the coast and sent
us relief. In the fight in the pass below
the fort over 301) natives were killed,
and of the dozen captured alive every
mau of them expressed a desire to see our
strange guns before being disposed of as
prisons were. They were brought in-
side and permitted to inspect them, and
their curiosity was unbounded. They
were backed against the wall, not twenty
feet away, and shot to death even as
their faces still expressed wonder and
astonishment .—New York Sun.
Koch’s Consumption Cure.
It cannot yet be said that the exact
status of Koch’s remedy is fixed; nor
cau we even yet say with certainty that
this much-heralded cure is destined to
survive among established methods at all.
The most that is claimed for it by its
most ardent advocates is that it seems
capable of depriving the bacillus of the
material in which it thrives best—i. e.,
of disintegrating and destroying tuber¬
culous tissue. There has been no claim
that it has any direct effect upon the ex¬
istence of the bacillus, nor that it, hav¬
ing deprived the bacillus of its food,
tends in any way to remove that parasite
from the body, and thus to eliminate the
possible source of danger of subsequent
or more general infection. Under its in¬
fluence in some forms of local tuberculo-
sis—especially of the skin—it has been
shown that tissue which was of the very
lowly organized variety characteristic of
the disease has been at first in part and
then wholly replaced by a tissue of higher
organization, and one that is likely to be
permanent
In regard to tuberculosis of the improve- lungs,
therecanbeno question that
ment in the evifee patient’s improvement general condition
and also of at the
seat of the disease have followed the use
of this remedy. The general improve-
ment manifests itself by increased again in weight,
lessenintr of fever, appetite,
better sleep f?om The ocal chants improvement is
surmised certain to be ob-
served by auscultation and percussion,
together vmindimiMtwninthcseveritj
expectoration, of the cough and m the amount of the
and also a diminution in
the number of the bacilli in the expec-
toration or their complete disappearance
from it. This has not always been the
“cfa!id mo“ damaging r=sulS, in“^:
ing hemorrhage and even death, have
been brought about by it. In the treat-
ment of tuberculosis of the bones and
joints results seem to have been widely
different. It is certain that some cases
have been oenefited, aud equally certain
that others hive not .—Popular Science
Monthly.
Swamp Mosg.
The Albany Cultivator concludes that
oue of the beet and moat useful sub-
stances in connection with vegetable gar-
dening is swamp liable moss or become sphagnum. °shriv-
Any vegetables to
e ed by exposure will retain their fresh-
ness when packed in it. It has the ad-
va utage over damp sawdust in not being
liable to heat or ferment. It is lighter
and softer than sawdust, and is, there-
well adapted for packing celery m
winter. It is placed in a cool cellar in a
manner like the packing for railway con-
vcyance. The box in which it is to be
deposited, having a depth equal to the
length of the plants, is placed on its side
: ' in d then alternate layers of moss and
emery placed in it till full, when it is re-
turned to its position for keeping the
l ,lauts erect. After being tnus properly
1 ' ‘t-ked, the only care is to see that the
! !ilOSS "OSs is ^ kept kepi, moderately moderately damp, damp, auu when
v ater is to be used, apply it to the hot-
buns of the plants.
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More than 10,000 regular arrnv swords -!
■made in Cincinnati eve. v veaf.
SOUTHERN BRIEFS
&AttY OCCURRENCES IN THE
SUNNY SOUTHLAND
r Curtailed , .. TTTTT into Interesting *• and ,»
Newsy Paragraphs.
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On Sunday the steam r Carolina picked
Up Captain Monroe, the mate and oue
man of the schooner llazelded, At.antic
City f' r Norfolk, which was sunk in the
Bay ten miles north of Fortress Monroe
The conteact was awaded at Raleigh,
N. C., Saturday, for the construction of
the Raleigh cotton mils, of 10,000
.spindles The and 330 looms, to cost $2 10 , 000 .
eontract for a $75,000 phosphate
mill will be awarded early in May.
Mr. Smith, foreman of the c rding
room of the Clifton factory, at Spartan-
burg. S. C M died Friday from the «fleets
of a wound in the thumb inflicted by a
CQt fish about a week ago. Mortification
? et in «° ra P i(ll J thut the i.rm could not
b '
State r rp Treasurer „ r> I a.n • of , v North .wi Caroluia „.,i-
reports that over $11 000,000 of old s ate
bonds have be. n sent to the treasury to
be exchanged for new ones, and that the
$1 D f° W °f standing 13 °“'- V
500,000. The time for .efundmg has
y expire .
A Knoxville, Tenn., dispatch of Satur¬
day says: The much talked-of-strike among
the miners of the coal district of this
section has been settled. The men signed
a contract for oue year at the i-ame terms
as now in force. This affec s 7,500 men.
Many of the mines have been idle for
several days.
A dispatch of Friday from Middhs-
borough, Ivy., says: A rumor, which
cannot entirely be authenticated, pre¬
vails here to the effect that the Knox¬
ville, Cumberland Gap and Louisville
railroad has been purchased by the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad.
The line runs from this city to Knoxville,
and is owned by an English syndicate.
An accident at Tifton, Ga , on the
nold, Georgia Southern, in which Ada in Ar¬
a negro fireman, lost liis life, is
likely to keep the courts busy, as it ap¬
pears that Arnold had four living wives,
who will all enter suits for damages. At
least, four women claim to have been
his wives, and they want sums ranging
from $5,000 to $10,000 for Arnold’s
death.
The stockholders of the Rome Land
Company met in Chattanooga Monday
morning, and elected directors, who in
turn elected the following officers of the
company: S. H. Buck, president; J. N.
Coplinger, vice president; C. A. Lyerly,
treasurer. J. J. S ay was appointed
secretary by the president. The report
of the president was read and the condi¬
tion of the company is reported as satis
factory.
Memorial services in honor of General
Joseph E. Johnson, were held at Rich¬
mond, Va., Sunday evening in Mo: a t
Academy. The building was crowded.
Governor McKinney occupied a private
box. Lee Camp Confederate Veterans,
under whose auspices the services were
held, and the Pickett corps, were in uni¬
form. Col. A. W. Archer presided.
Pev. William E. Judkins and Rev. W.
W. Landrum conducted the religious ser¬
vices.
Eesponding tothe who invitation of Adju¬
tant General Henry, is also chief di¬
rector of the programme for the unvei ing
of the confederate monument, to occur
in Jackson, Miss., on June 3d, John B.
Gordon, general c mmander of the So¬
ciety of United Confederate Veterans, on
Saturday, wrote accepting the invitation
and stating that he has issued the nec¬
essary orders calling the annual meeting
of United Confederate Veterans at Jack-
80D > Miss, June 3 d, next,
Every railroad in Texas was represent-
ed at the meeting in Galveston, Friday,
<-° devise a plan to comply with the state
law > which goes into effect the 18th of
June > compelling all colored passengers
be provided with separate coaches.
Tbe P laD of W ’ F ; Siddons > master me-
of f tl tbe T International and Great
renrh mVr biwHviHM
crs as the number requ 1 ires.
The „ Tennessee state . , board , , of , pennon .
^ e I Sat i lr r^v ^ y ‘-S Ca P tal °. Ge< ”£ e B.
Pains'’of u C^SK^T
s° S of°Knoxville)’ana^ttomej^Gen- F^kl n’
Mw) 6
oral G W. Pickle present. CaptalnGnid
was elected president, and John P.
Hickman, of Nashville, secretary and
treasurer. After the transaction of
routine business, the board adjourned to
meet again June 6 th, and no communi-
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CAR WORKERS GO OUT.
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An Immence Mob Of 3,600 Men
on a Q DtriKc. cf-ito
Dispatch from Detroit says: Employes
0 f the Michigan car works to the number
c f about 3,500 went outon a strike Satur-
day afternoon. The trouble was undoubt-.
cdly precipitated by the success attend-
ing tbe strike of the street car employes,
Tile strikere demand nk hm jvork
of the works ^salXy a volley olatonL of stones was va, thrown thrown
and nearly every window in tbe building
was the”works broken. Tbe strikers proceeded to
of the Detroit Steel and Spring
Company and called on the men there to
strike. Before anything was accom-
,,]i s hed the special police of the concern
drove the strikers out. A shower of
bricks and stones shortly after crushed
through the wipdows of the moulding'
department of tbe works, injuring one of
t he men in charge and driving the others
away temporarily I wo patrol wagons
:ii ;rived at this juncture and the strikers
<li 3 perscd :
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Senator Chilton.
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Governor Hogg, of Texas, has aP
pointed Horace Chilton to th a vacancy
j in t h e United States Senate c ccasione i
b y the resignation of Senator Reagan.
Governor Hogg and Horace Chilton were
j ixirefooted printers’ devils together, toiled
! up together, studied law together, ami have went
1 1 ndmitted to practic i together
b;c “ h, '- lonK
NUMBER 17 .
THE MAGAZINE EXPLODED
the Destruction Was F^.r-
r»l-S«ven People Killed,
A cablegram from Rome, Italy, «*j»:
A pout 7 o’clock Thursday morning, a
tremendous Its foundations, explosion spreading sh^k terror this and city dm- tn
^“fr^ houses £££
rocked, pictures fell from the
walls, thousands of panes of glass were
broken everywhere, - crockery shattered,
furitore overturned, chimney* crashed
down upon the roofs, and, in some in*
jfances, toppled over into the street* be-
low. A cupola of the houses of parila-
meut, immediately after the explosiou,
shook violently and then collapsed with a
crash, which added still further to the
feeling of horror which had spread
through Rome. The scenes in the
streets and in houses after
this explosion have possibly never
bcRtfe been equaled in dramatic
during the history of modern Rome. All
the thoroughfares were strewn with
^ncks stones, splinters and other deliris
‘‘“''led thereby the force of the powerful
concussion which had caused Rome to
tottep on it> foundations . All houses
jthi ^ radill8 of a kilometer of the
fCeno of the explosion 1 were seriously
d 8 d T office, were dan gcv-
ousiy J wounded, ’ and fully J 130 civi-
lia w fee n tftken to the dilfer .
tn t hospitals, buffering from wounds
or bruises caused by the explosion,
When something like order had been
restored, the real cause of the explosion
became known. It was discovered that
the immense powder magaziue at Piazza
Panteleo, four kilometers from the city,
exploded, and that it had caused nn enor-
damage to a neighboring fort, which was
filled with soldiers.
The full amount of damage done is not
known at present, and, possibly, may
never be known, but all accounts agree
that the lo^s is very severe, the interiors
of many of the old palaces and churches
having suffered to a greater or les-.or ex¬
tent.
SEVEN LIVES WERE LOST.
Seven lives were lost by the explosion,
forty-eight persons were injured and 200
persons in the city of Rome were slightly
hurt. There were 265 tons of powder in
the magazine, but none of the new ex¬
plosive, balestite, w-as stored there. King
Humbert received an ovation on visiting
tbe hospital, where the injured are heing
cared for. anarchist Rumors origin that the without explosion
was of are foun-
dation. Thu official report says that in¬
quiries made on the spot tend accidental. to show
that the explosion was purely
’TWAS FINE OLD WHISKY,
But Contained a Draught of
Death-Dealing Poison.
A dispatch of Saturday from Denver
Col , says: Some months ago Mrs. Jo¬
sephine B. Bamaby, widow of J. B. Bar-
naby, a millionaire merchant of Provi¬
dence, R. I., took a trip to California for
her health. Mrs. G. S. Warrell, wife of
a Denver real estate dealer, accompanied
her. On their return, April 9th, Mrs. Bar-
naby found a package postmarked
“Boston,” which had arrived dur¬
ing her absence. It contained a
small flask of whisky with this
inscription: “With best wishes, accept
this fine old whisky from your friends in
the woods.” A few days later when
fatigued, both drank some of the liquid,
and from that time both ladies suffered
terrible agonies, Mrs.Barnaby slowly sink¬
ing under the effects of the terrible inter¬
nal bottle burnings of the poison which the
was afterwards found to contain.
Two days ago Mr 3 . Bamaby died, and
Mrs. Warrell is not expected to live.
A later dispatch says: The death, by
poisoning «<f Mrs. Jo-cphine Barnaby, of
Provide ce, It I., is the sensation of the
hour. The analysis of the pottion of the
liquid remaining in the bottle that came
by mail from Boston shows that tnere was
no whisky in it. nor any other kind of
alcohol. It was an arsenic 1 solution,
colored and perfumed. and Mrs. Worrall is
s -mewhat better, there arc hopes of
her recovery.
IT WAS MURDER.
In a / spec'al WinsJp. dispatch from Providence,
financial head of the
R B .rnaby Company, in spiking o!
Mrs. B irnaby’s death, is reported as say-
ing . “There was a murder. In my judg-
ment, the motive of gain inspired it, 1
am trustee for tbe Barnuby estate, and
P have n nuh T™* °\ T l
.
The Pravidencedetective,'have
pos«‘" .. th “ries as to the perpetra-
or *
THE KING’S REPLY.
A British Envoy Horribly Muti-
lated by the King of Gambia.
-Y cablegram from London reports that
England is likely to have another war on
bt r hands in Africa. The subjects o
the King of Gambia have recently been
depredating upon the property of the
British colonists. The British govern-
me nt sent an English official to the king
to notify him that himself and his people
mu3t behave or accept the consequeuces.
p or re pjy the king bound the envoy, cut
pieces ot flesh out of his thighs and
check, and Mat him back to the gover-
^"raa-cr*” king’s________ ___________________ Britfeb “unb<!.u
k aV e already ascended the Gambia river
avenge the outrage upon tbe envoy.
CLOSING UP THE WORK.
The Grand Jury at New Orleans
Will Report Soon.
A New Orleans dispatch of Thursday
ssys: The grad jury, after a short f>es-
non, during wlndi time quite a number
of prominent citizens appeared before
o be “’• ***Uth
lar’ce It is
said a number of names has l>een
furnished to them aud if these are in-
d i cted consequence of the affair, the
name of erery man fo und to have ass sted
in breftk j Qfr down tbe ; a u doore, will be
, jocluded. Th® present inquiry is about
the last chapter of the Hennessy esse, so
; j ar ag g rand j ur y j 9 eoncerned, and it
expected to close short y with a CLim-
I |)reben8i , e repott , nd Krera l more imiict-