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THE TOCCOA NEWS AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL. VOLUME XIX. E. P. SJIMPSOKT 9 TOCCOA, GEORGIA A ¥ 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. 0n5. STARKEY 4 PALEN t treatbient by inhalation. Tkade MARK- RECISTCRCD* T R5 e bf ¥ >620 Arch Street, lPlvilcui’a. I’cl. • or Put ■umiMlon, Authmn. 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Schuyler, Easton, Ta. E. L. Wilson, 833 Broadway, N. Y.,Eil.Phila. Plioro. Fidelia M. Lyon, Wairnea, Ilawa i, Sandwich Islands. Alexander Ritchie. Inverness, Scotland. Mrs. Manuel V. Orioga, B'reanillo, Z.icat cae, Alexico. Mrs. Emma Cooper, Utilla, Spanish Hondu¬ ras, C. A. J. Cobb, ex-Vice Consul, Caaablanoa, Mo¬ rocco M. V. A^hbrook, Red Bluff, Cal. J. Moore, Sup’t Polioe, ltlandford, Dor*et- ahire Eng. Jaoob Ward, Bowral, New South Wale*. And thousands of others in every part of the United States. “Compound Oxygen—Its Mode of Action and Results, is the title of s new brochure of 20C pages, which published to all inquirers by Drs. full S'arlfey info.niation A Faloii, gives as to this remarkable curative agent and a record of several hundred surprising cutes in a wide range of chronic cases—many of them after be¬ ing abaudonod to die by other pbyBioians. Will be matlo.l free to any address on application. Read tbe brochure ! DRS. STARKEY & PALEN, Ho. 1529 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. riea>e m 'nt on <Kis paper when you order Gom- pouud Oxypon. 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 _ i-/ IT v 1 LU, - 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 ’ - 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. -- 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. » 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 • 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 - 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. ---—-- 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. -- 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- ------ CAR WORKERS GO OUT. - 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 : __________ Senator Chilton. - 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-