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THE TOCCOA NEWS
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL.
VOLUME XIX.
TH E OLD DWELLING.
Bee how the dwelling tumbled to ltd fall—
The wondrous house of life, now leased to
death.
How softly in and out mores the light
breath.
And gently in the tender-memoried hall
ftpeakg the IrlVed owner, noon beyond recall!
In the fast closing windows glimmereth
A dying glory, as when sunset saith
Good night, sweet dreams, and faith and
hope to all.
Thus, full of enterprise and joyous trust,
Perched on a ad), serene and plumed for
night,
A dove will pause while ruin round it lies.
So, too, dear soul, although thy home bo
dust,
Yet thou, thyself, now free as morniug
light,
Canst find another home, ’neath other
skies.
Charles IT. Crandall, in the Atlantic.
MY SOLDIER.
BT MAI:Y KYLE DALLAS.
Wc had been dancing. My aunt's
young people were very fond of dancing,
and, in fact, she was herself.
There in the West, they always had
a very jolly time, and I, as a guest, had
been made a great deal of, and my aunt
had especially enjoined Captain Duncan
to “devote himself to me.”
He certainly had obeyed her. For
two or three weeks we had been walking
together, riding together, dancing to-
gether. until it was as natural a thing to
eay “Lucy and Captain Duncan,” as
though we had been engaged to each
other.
And now, on this evening, which was
a more important occasion than usual,
ho had never once left my side, nor had
I wished him to do so.
He was. best of all to me, that big,
hnndsome fellow, with his upright bear¬
ing, who had cotnc down from the fort
on leave, and who was a real soldier, not a
make-believe one for parade day, such as
we had in Edgecliff. ,
I forgot everything else when he was
with me, aud I had never been so happy
in my life; only at night sometimes, re¬
morse seized upon mo between winking
and sleeping, and I cried bitterly, think¬
ing how Dick-. But no matter for
that just now. I am at ray aunt’s ball
and wc have been dancing, and now as
he led me otit upon the big veranda, and
wrapped me well in my cloak that I may
not catch cold, and has kept his arm
About me longer than necessary, in doing
«o.
The great vine that drapes the porch
throws flitting shadows over us, but the
moonlight kisses his black curls, and I
can see the glow of his eyes, and the
crimson of -his lips under his dark mus¬
tache, and I am sure he can see my face
by the way he looks at me.
From the houso the regular beat of
the music comes to us. Oh, how well I
remember it all, and every word he said
to me—every word.
“Lucy, I am going back to tho fort
to-morrow, that is why I speak sooner
than I ought. I have not known you
long, but I believe that when love
comes to a man, it comes out of ambush,
as an Indian does—without warning. So
it came to me as I saw you—yes, as my
eyes met yours. You are tho only
woman I have ever loved or ever shall
love; can’t you like me a little? If the
red imps do not get my scalp in this
skirmish for which we are looking, will
you be my wife?”
He drew me closer to him, he pressed
bis lips to mine, and all my heart weut
out toward him, aud however much he
loved me, it could be no more than I
loved him.
And then suddenly, all that I had lor-
gotten rushed back upon me, as the
water comes roaring ra at a broken dam,
and I cried oufc:
“Oh! Captain Duncan 1 Don’t—
don’t! You mustn’t kiss me—you
musn’t talk to me. I am engaged to be
married. My promise is given, ray wed¬
ding day is set, and Dick is true to me
—and I cannot—1 cannot!”
He had dropped my hand, he had let
go my waist, he stood at a distance from
me, with so cold a look that my heart
stood still.
•‘Man was never so mistaken in
Woman,” he said. “You are engaged to
be married, you love another man, and
vet have led me on as yoji have done.
What was your object? Do you esteem
it a triumph to win a man’s heart only to
break it? Enjoy it then. I hope that a
poisoned arrow is marked for me out on
the plains there, for lifa has lost all its
value. Good-bye.”
He was gone. I could not call to him
to come back. I could not cry out for
all the world to hear, “I am engaged to
another man it is true, but I love you.”
For a moment I thought I should die
of tbe agony I suffered; then the moon¬
light grew faint, the sound of the music
altered to a wail, I stretched out my
hands as a babe does to the mother who
has left it alone, uttered a great cry, and
fainted away.
And now to explain how all this came
about. To do this I must retrace my
steps a little.
I was my sister's bridemaid when she
was married. She was just eighteen and
the eldest of the family, and I was not
much past sixteen.
There are women of sixteen, and chil-
dren of sixteen.
I Was a child in feeling and a woman
in looks, for I had grown up tall and
slender, and with a manner which my ad-
mirers allied “queenly” and my detrac-
tors “airish. ’ -
People usually treated me as if I were
years older than my age, and I, for my
part, felt that, if Kitty, with her little
tip-tilted nose and dimpled cheeks, could
aspire to Therefore', the dignity of wifehood, I
might. as Richard Gardner,
who was the bridegroom's best man, engaged was
of the same opinion, I speedily
myself to him, and afterward’, in Ameri¬
can fashion, “told my mother," who
cried a little, aud she told my father,
who said that it was “the most absurd
thing he ever heard o£, ’ but made no
aerious objection to Dick, “since Lucy
Jras set on marrying.” ______ _
I was of more importance now that I
wore Dick’s ring.
My parents grew used to the thought,
and talked about furnishing a house for
us, and the day was set, at what we con¬
sidered a cruel distance of time.
And we should have been a common¬
place couple enough, without any idea
that life might have held anything better
for us, ’ ut that an aunt of mine who
lived in a Western town, insisted upoa
my paying her a visit, “before,” as she
expressed it, “I tied myself down, for
life.”
The result the reader knows.
Captain Duncan had joined the house
party. I had forgotten my duty to Dick
for awhile,and by remembering it at last,
had sent the man I really loved from me,
believing me a heartless flirt.
The cry I gave when I fainted,brought
some one to my aid.
They talked about the heat, and the
delicacy of New England girls, and I
was put to bed by ray aunt and cousins.
The next day I was ill, and it made
me no better to hear that Captain Dun¬
can and the other officers in town had
gone to the fort, expecting trouble with
the Indians.
There are more anxious hearts in the
house—for two of my cousins were en¬
gaged to officers—when we heard that
the fighting had begun. But happily no
bad news came to Flora or Helen; and
one day two happy girls came dancing
into the house with letters in their hands.
The trouble was over for the time, and
their promised husbands had written to
them.
“Here is a postscript that I did not
notice,” said Flora, after reading hers
three times. “Oh, how dreadful! Cap¬
tain Duncan is killed, and Jack says that
if he had wished to throw his life away,
he could not have acted more recklessly.
Every one loved him. The mourning at
the fort is general—”
“Lucy is going to faint again!” my
aunt cried, running to me. bittefry. But I did
not faint; I only wept And
no one wondered. Even an engaged
girl might weep for so gallant a soldier.
“And so devoted as he was to i jou,
Lncy,” Flora said. “If it had not eeu
for Dick, I used to think something
might come of it.”
Little they knew what had come of it,
or what an aching heart I carried home
with mo.
. “I’m ashamed that you should go to
them looking like that,” my aunt said,
as we parted. “Dick will never forgive
me. I suppose our air is too strong for
you.”
“Oh, once she gets to Dick, she’ll be
all right,” my Cousin Flora cried.
So they jested; but I knew that though
I should keep my secret to myself and
marry Dick when the time came, I should
never be “all right” again—never the
happy girl I used to be.
“Oh,” I sighed a thousand times upon
the weary journey home, “oh, if he had
but known that I loved him, if he had
not died, believing me a heartless, cruel
flirt, I could bear it then, and wait to
meet him in heaven.”
But still amidst my sufferings, I vowed
that Dick should never know that my
heart had for a moment swerved from
him. I had done harm enough already.
They did not expect me home so soon,
and no carriage waited at the station for
me, and it seemed to me that it would
be a relief to walk, and tbe shortest and
pleasantest way was, after one had gone
a block or two, to strike across a park
which was used by all tbe place for fes¬
tivals and picnics, and by the children
for a playground. But now it was
autumn, and quite cold, and late in the
afternoon and it surprised me a little as
I reached the heart of the wood, to see
two people sitting in lover-like fashion
upon a bench that stood there. As I
stood still, curiously shy about passing
them, as people often grow in moments
of great depressicyi, I recognized them.
One was Lilly Bell, the beauty of the
town; the other, Richard Gardner, my
betrothed husband. The wind, swept
their voices toward me.
“I am the most miserable man alive,”
I heard Richard say. “I will keep my
promise to her, of course, but I can
never love her. I thought I did until I
knew you, but it was merely a boy’s
fancy.”
“You ought not to talk so, Mr. Gard¬
ner,” Lilly answered. “She is awfully
nice.”
“Yes—a*good girl, and true to me, or
I would not make the sacrifice,” Richard
answered. “As for you, you do not
care, I know that.”
“I must not care,” Lilly answered.
“We have been foolish, I knew you were
engaged-” her voice trembled—she
paused.
As for me, 1 felt no anger, only a
strange pity fey them and for myself, and
for all lovers. I allowed impulse to guide
me, and the next instant stood behind
them, a hand on the shoulder of either.
“Dick,” I said, “I have heard every
word, and I am glad I have, for I am as
weary of our engagement as you can pos¬
sibly be, and if you will take this ring
from me and put it on Lilly Bell’s finger,
you will lift a load from my heart.”
I drew off my glove as I spoke and
placed the ring in his palm. He only
said: “Oh, Lucy!” but he saw in mv
face that I spoke the truth, and I walked
away and left them to do as they pleased.
But once out of sight I cried a little;
it was so strange to find that I was not
necessary to Dick, so tragic to know that
I had refused the man I loved in order
to keep my promise to one whom it had
grown to be a hatei chain. In my de-
pression it almost seemed possible that I
might reach home to find that no one
there wanted me. However, that was
not so, as I knew when the cry went up
and down the house of “Lucy has come!”
and they held me in their arms and
gissed me and wondered at my paleness,
and bethought them how to make me
rosy again. Still
Yes, they loved me at home. I
felt ro changed, so spoiled somehow, so
different from the L uc y who had gone
away, that I burst out sobbing again,
frightening them all, and mortifying
rnyself, for I knew that wheu they knew
alwwas over betweep Dick and ipe, they
would think that 1 was wretched about
TOCCOA, GEORGIA, JULY 25, 1891
that, and I was trying to calm myself
when a servant entered.
“A telegram for you. Miss Lucy,” she
«aid.
At the words my heart stood still.
What I expected, I do not know, but I
snatched it from her hand, and while
my mother signed the messenger’s little
book, tore open the envelope and read
these words:
“So glad. Know you will be; must tele¬
graph, will Captain Love. Duncan living. Auxtie.'’ WoundeJ,
recover.
I burst into tears again, but this time
for joy, for he was living and I free,
and of one who loved me so well I need
have no fear. And I would write him
the very truth and let what would come
of it.
And waat has come, dear reader, is
our wedding day, for he answered the
letter that I wiote in person, and to¬
morrow I return to Fort Bennet, proud
and happy to be a soldier's wife, and
Lilly, I am glad to say, has married
Dick .—New York Weekly.
A Mother’s Devotion.
The loving devotion of a mother to her
child is almost as enduring as the heavens
above, and is not to be compared with
earthly things. This fact has many times
been exemplified, and the extreme hard¬
ships undergone last week by Mrs. Nancy
Sixkiiler, mother of the two Dunnawas
boys who w’ere hanged at this place Fri¬
day, was only another substantiating in¬
stance of this assertion.
After learning that the principal chief
had refused to pardon her boys or com¬
mute the death sentence, the old lady
was wild with grief, and determined to
go to the chief in person and make a last
appeal to him for their lives. The dis¬
tance from Mrs. Sixkiller’s home in Go¬
ing Snake district to Chief Mayes’s resi¬
dence on Grand river is not less than
ninety miles. Although an aged aud
feeble woman of seventy years, she made
this long journey afoot and alone.
And all in vain!
Her pleadings with the stern old chief
came to naught, and the heart-broken
mother was back at this place the day
before the hanging so that she might be
with her doomed boys during their last
hours on earth.
When she left her home, Mrs. Sixkiiler
had on an old pair of shoes, but when
she arrived in Tahlequah her feet were
bare, torn and bleeding, and she was in
an utterly exhausted condition, caused
by her grief, hunger and fatigue. She
had waded creeks and climbed mount¬
ains until her shoes were worn completely
from her feet .—Fort Worth (Texas)
Gazette. *
Cure for Insomnia.
It has been found in most cases that
insomnia is caused by disordered stom¬
ach. Between the stomach and the
brain there is a close communion, and,
when one is out of order, the other is not
only apt, but sure fo be. Worry will
unsettle the stomach, as indigestion will
inflate the blood vessels of the brain.
Recognizing this, medical men are now
ordering the use of hot water internally
and externally. Before going to bed,
the person so afflicted should bathe the
lower limbs in hot water—as hot as pos¬
sible. This is for the purpose of draw¬
ing the blood from the head, for when
the blood vessels are inflated they press
against the skull, and fears, apprehen¬
sions, and a dread of going to sleep re¬
sult. But with the hot-water application,
the blood is circulated and the pressure
relieved. Next the sleepless one is ad¬
vised to drink hot water, with the juice
of a lemon or a little table salt added.
This will settle the stomach and distrib-
bute tbe gases. There will, of course,
9 ome times when the het water will not
have the desired effect, or it may be slow
in its curative effects. But do not be
impatient if it will not put you to sleep
to-night, though it did last night. Per¬
sist in the application, and as the pre¬
scription contains no “deadly drugs” you
can afford to wait, for by so doing a per¬
manent cure is sure to follow— Argo¬
naut.
Europe’s Greatest Restanrant.
“The Chaumiere,” Moscow, Russia,
is the most luxurious and elegantly ap¬
pointed restaurant in Europe. The large
dining-hall is a huge winter garden, with
feathery and blooming mimosa as a back¬
ground for the exquisitely served tables.
In the middle of this unique restaurant-
garden is a great marble fountain where¬
in trout and other delicately flavored
members oi the finny tribe swim in deep,
clear water. When a guest orders a fish
for his dinner, he is forthwith conducted
by the head-butler to this novel aquarium
and is requested to select the fish most
likely to tempt his fancy. A long-handled
silk net is then given to him, and he can,
if he pleases, catch his fish with sports
man-like' zest and dexterity, a teat which
materially adds to his enjoyment and
general appreciation of tbe dinner he is
about to eat. Russians, who are very
fond of flowers, do not relish a repast
when the table is not one mass of fra¬
grant blossoms, and nowhere else in
Europe does one see such gorgeous table
decorations as in St. Petersburg or Mos¬
cow. Thousands of rubles are often spent
for rare orehiis to adorn the board of
some wealthy boyard, and at the dinnei
given some time ago by Prince Narish-
kine to the diplomatic corps at St.
Petersburg, tbe flowers in the dining-
hall cost over $18,000.— Argonaut.
The Tanniu in Tea.
The tannin present in tea is absorbed
by suitable animal substances, such as
horn shaving*, dried albumen, hide clip¬
pings, and the like. It is preferable to
add the material to the tea in the dry
condition before the infusion. But it
may also be added to ir fusion, or the in¬
fusion may be passed or filtered through
a layer of tbs substance. The quantity
of animal substance to be added to the
tannin-containing material must be de-
termined by tbe amount of tannin cou-
tained in it. In the case of tea the pro-
portion may vary from one to two parts
animal substance to ten parts of tea.—
scientific American..
ALLIANCE TALKS.
NEWS OF THE ORDER FROM
ALL SECTIONS.
Items of Interest to Alliance-
men Everywhere.
The Nebraska Alliance lins grown from
70,000 to 110,0J0 since last election.—
Atchison Patriot.
***
The Thedford, (Neb.) Tribune , says:
“The people are no longer interested in
party for party success or party suprem¬
acy, but they are more diretlv interested
in that party, without regard to its name,
that is advocating measures that arc
favorable to their own material interests.
***
Alliance mass meetings will be held in
North Carolina at the following times and
places: Kings Mountain, Wednesday,
July 29th; Maxton, Thursday, August
6th; Rocky Mount, Saturday, August
8th; Charlotte, Wednesday, August 27th.
President Polk will be at each of these
appointments, and Jere Simpson, of
Kansas, and other prominent speakers
will take part in the meetings.
***
A state convention of the North Da-
kato Farmers’ Alliance was held at Grand
Forks several days ago. New officers
and delegates to the next, national
ventinn were elected, the constitution
and by-laws were revised, and resolutions
the were adgpted declaring for prohibition,
Ocala platform, government contiol
or ownership of midn lines of railroads,
uniform text books, free coinage and the
taxation of options.
***
Pacific Union Alliance (San Francisco,
Cal.) says: “To break the yoke of the
railroad and let the oppressed go free is
the great mission of the Farmers’ Alli¬
ance. It proposes to move at once upou
the enemy’s works, and it will win. The
moment the attention of the people is
diverted from the dead and buried issues
of a generation ago and centered upon
the vital questions of the day, victory
will come like an electric flash.
***
Dublin (Texas) Progress says: “The
leading newspapers throughout the state,
as well as a multitude of similar lights,
are just now discussing the third party
movement in chorus. As to what effect
this third party, lately organized, will
have on national politics we arc unable
to surmise, but the cause which gavo rise
to its organization will be fre-h in the
minds of the laboring people of this
country until the reforms for which they
have so long been praying are obtained,
***
The Baltimore American says that the
National Farmers’ Alliance will hold their
encampment in Maryland.near Baltimore,
and the annual encampment ®vill be held
there every year certainly for the next
five years, and it is probable that the site
will be purchased and the encampment
located there permanently. This year’s
encampment will be held in September.
About 200 acres of land will be needed
for the encampment, and an auditorium
will be erected which will seat 12,000
people.
*
* *
The Southern Mercury (Dallas, Tex.)
say's: “Loyal alliancernen everywhere
have reason to feel encouraged, especial¬
ly in Texas. The order is gaining in
time numbers in rapidly, and it is, for the first
its existence, practically a unit
upon the demands of the National Alli¬
ance. The membership in every nook
and corner of the state are wide awake,
and in many localities men unknown
upon the stump or forum are challenging
the enemies of our order to debate the
points at issue. Ere the kalends of Jan¬
uary, 1892, nearly every county will be
able to furnish a competent exponent of
our principles, w ho will be able to meet
the average political bummer on the hust¬
ings successfully. _
***
BOOK ADVICE.
The advice of many political journals
to farmers to let politics alone and attend
strictly to farming is more a tribute to
the importance of agriculture than it is
to its representatives. There is little
danger that a majority of good farmers
will allow their farming interests to suf¬
fer through devotion to politics. But
for many years politics have suffered be¬
cause farmers have not given them due
attention, and farmers find that, -while
they have left politics exclusively to the
politicians, their interests suffer with
those of the entire community. It is the
interest of everybody as well as of farm¬
ers that those who in two-thirds the
s ates have a majority of the votes and
pay the bulk of taxes, should exercise
the influence which rightfully belongs to
them in the affairs of state and general
governments.— Exchange.
***
THE KANSAS WAY.
The Progressive Parmer , (Baleigh)
||ys: “Kansasis maintaining her repu¬
tation as a “hustling” State. We learn
from the daBy press that over 200 masi
mietinffs were held by the peopL on the
4th of JVy. In each o e the or e hundred
and six countits of the State h d mass
meetings. The People’s Party endfraed. was
everywhere enthusiastically
I he demand for speakers cou’d not be
supplied—many forced of the speakers eting were dur¬
to be at two or three m
ing the day. The feature of a 1 the con-
grt-s-iond meetings were hug: banners
telli g tie three crisis in the nation’s
history* The first was in 1776 when the
Declaration of Independence was made,
the second the abolition of chat tie s av-
ery, the third would be in 1892. the abo¬
lition of industrial slavery through the
Peoples party. When the people of
Kansas move they move all together and
with all their might
***
Dr. Macune was interviewed by the
Atlanta Constitution a few days ago, and
being questioned 8S to his opinion of the
third pnrty replied:
“The Farmers’ Alliance will never
enter a third parly or any other { arty.
It is a band of neopie organized for pro¬
tection, not politics. It is seeking to
fight injustice done tho e who belong to
it, and all wanted is ju-tice. Now if
justice cannot be gotten wi h cither the
republican or democratic party in rule, a
member of the alliance will simply vote
for those who will give him justice.
Every member of the alliance may be¬
lieve in the Ocala platform, and vote for
men who believe with him, but that’s an
individual matter. It isn't the Farmers’
Alliance. The alliance is composed of
democrats, republicans and other
people all fighting for justice.
If every member votes the democratic
ticket, it doesn’t mean that the Alliance
has joined itself to that party, A man
can oe an allianceman and belong to any
political party he wants to. If every third
member of the alliance joins a
party, he does it as an individual seeking
justice for himself and his fellow-men.
I believe that the time is rapidly comiDg stand
when all the alliancernen will
square on the Ocala platform, and if no
party gives them this or something better the
they will leave any party for it, If
members vote with a new party it will,
Merely be a method of obtaining an ob¬
ject, that object being justice.”
A
* *
The following extract is from a speech
delivered recently in the hall of the
house of representatives at Atlanta, Ga.,
by Hon. Thos. Watson:
“We want these unjust laws, by which
one set of men get rich at the expense
of another, removed, and we are deter¬
mined to have them removed. Why we
■^ant them removed is laid down in the
Ocala platform, and then it contains the
princ pies of the land-loan bill, which is
to loan ths money of the government to
the farmer just as it loans to the banker,
giving him an equal chance in the race,
and emiclt those who indeed briug pros-
pi rity. They talk to me about overpro¬
duction ; that the peopie have too much
land, and all that. Why, fellow citizens,
you cannot open a newspaper arty day
without your eye falliug upon pitiable ac¬
counts of houseless poor, and starving
poor, and these rich protected man¬
ufacturers keeping an armed band
of hired Pinkerton men to
shoot down these poor creatures,
who have a very natural resentment
against the foreign scabs who are im¬
ported to take their places. The Scotch¬
man cannot compete with the protected
manufacturer, the Frenchman cannot
compete with him. Why? Because they
have put on a protective tariff How to protect does
the American workman(?).
the manufacturer do it? By importing
these miserable wretches from Europe
and consigning them to the most revolt¬
ing slavery. That is cunning, and you
fa mers are told that you must not go
into politics to right this gigantic evil.
* * * We must demand our rights in
a way to let these people know that we
want them, and we want them bad.
THE SOUTH BOOMS.
Developments in the Industrial
Line for Past Week.
The Chattanooga Tradesman , in its
weekly review for the week ending July
18th, reports fifty-four new industries,
five new buildings, six new railroads, in¬
cluding one electric road, one extension
ar.d one street car line. Among the most
important new industries established
are the following: Brickworks at Au¬
gusta, Ga., GosheD, Va., Rock Hill, S.
C., and Velasco, Tex.; a clock factory
at Danville, Ky.; canning factories
at Keuka, Fla.; and Somerset,
Ky,; development companies at
Charleston and Florence, S. C.,
Marion, N. C., Louisville, Ky., and New
Birmingham, Tex.; flouring mills at Clin¬
ton, S. Milan, Tenn., and Renner,
Tix. ; a furnace at Clinton, Tenn., and
foundries and machine shops at Winston,
N. C., Louisville, Ky., Huntington, Ark.,
and Staunton, Va. Glass works with
$200,000 capital are reported at Wheel¬
ing, W. Va., a quarry company with $1,-
000,000 capital at Louisville, Ky., and
mining companies at Covington, Va.,
Gainesville, Ga., Wadesboro and Ingle-
side, N. C. Phosphate companies have
been chartered at Gainesville and Tampa,
Fla., the latter with $2,000,000 capital, a
cotton seed oil mill at Hallcttsville, T< x.,
and a company for mining salt at New
port, Ky. Cotton mills are established at
Bennettsvilie. S. C., Graham, N. C.,
Petersburg, Va.. and Washington, La.,
a knitting mill with $50,000 capital av
Durham, N. C., and a pine fiber factory
at Eastover, Ga. Waterworks arc to be
built at Belton, Tex., and Wrightsville,
Ga. A cooperage company is reported
from Mincola, Tex., a furniture factory
Sh<ffield, Ala., lumber mills at Atlanta,
Tex., capitalized at $100,000; Grace,
Aik., Jacksonville, Ga., and New-
bernc, N. C .; sawmills at Annadel,
Tenn., Coucordia, Ivy., Elkton, Va., and
Newport, Ark., and a si-sh and
door facto’y with $50,000 capital at Lotf-
isville. Railroads are chartered at Hub,
N. C., Knoxville, Tenn., and San Anto-
uio, Tex.; an eleetric line will be built
at Columbus, Ga., a street car line at
Ocala, Fla., and an extension at Mem¬
phis, Tenn. A business block to cost
$90,000 will be ejected at San Antonio,
Texas. ; school building at Greensboro,
N. O., and Talledega, Ala., and new
jails at Corpus Christi, Texas, and Deca-
tu^ Ala.
A FAMILY CREMATED.
Their Remanis Found in The
Ruins of Their Home.
A telegram from Clay City, III., says:
Monday morning all that remained of
Robert James’family, living three miles
east of here, was found in the ruins of
the house, which was evidently burned
during the night. The family consisted
of the hust and, wife, son and daughter,
and a grandchild. It is thought that
either the son or father had murdered the
family, set fire to the house and com¬
mitted suicide. The son was addicted
to liquor and had threatened to kill the
family, and the husband was subject to
fits of insanity.
American Artists Honored.
The judges at the international art ex¬
hibition »t Berlin, Germany, have
awarded great gold medals to the Amer¬
ican artists, Forbes, Stanhope Shannon
and McEwen, who were among the ex¬
hibitors. Waterhouse, an American ar¬
chitect, has also b<en awarded a great
gold medal. Stewart. Bridgemen and
Story, American painters, and Pettie and
Stone, English artists, were awarded
small gold medals.
E. SIMPSOM 9
TOCCOA, GEORGIA
mmxtm m
And Manhinory Supplies, Also, Repairs All Kinds of Machinery.
Peebless Engines 9
BOTH PORTABLE & TRACTION
Oeiser Senarators & ShiiHa Mills
Farmers ana others in want of either Engines or separators, wni
SAVE MONEY bj using the above machines. 1 am also prepared
to give Lowest Prices and Best Terms on the celebrated
«IESTEY 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 tlrial their Superiority. Call and see me bo-
ore you buj. Duplicate parts of machinery constantly on hand.
BUSINESS REVIEW.
Dun & Co’s Report for the Past
Week.
K. G. Dun’s trade review says: Busi¬
ness failures occurring week ended July
17, number for the United States 244,
C»uada 30, a total of 274, against 247
Inst week. Business clearly grows some¬
what more active, although midsummer
dullness is still the rule. At eastern
cities there is noticed more demand for
manufactured go>>d, with larger sales of
materials. At the west trade is enlivened
by the large yield of winter wheat al¬
ready harvested, and by the very bright
outlook for other crops. At the south,
however, though crop advices are also
favorable, no improvement appears in
business, which is duller than usual,
even for the season, and at some points
is pronounced quite unsatisfactory.
There is a remarkable increase in the
production of pig iron, almost to the un¬
precedented figures of last year. The
sudden increase in production is not in
all respects a favorable symptom. A
corresponding improvement in the de¬
mand for manufactured products is yet
seen, and stocks unsold at only a part of
the furnaces are now recorded tfs amount¬
ing to about four hundred and eighty
thousand tons, showing a very large in¬
crease, particularly in coke iron. Unless
the demand rapidly improves th<Pmarket
must soon weaken so far as to test severe¬
ly the ability of some of the concerns to
continue production. wheat, dressed
The receipts of
beef, wool and hides at Chicago
show a great increase, and new wheat
comes in liberally, 85 per cent of it grad¬
ing No. 2. At Nashville trade is fair,
but dull at Memphis, unsatisfactory at
Little Rock, falling off at Savannah aDd
sluggish at New Orleans, though a better
demand is seen for cotton. At Jackson¬
ville trade is better, with crops in good
condition. The collapse in wheat specu¬
lation has come with a fall of 8 cents
during the past week but corn is scarce
and 3± cents higher. While oats have
declined about one cent, pork and hog
products are higher. Coffee has risen is ^
cent and oil the same, but cotton un¬
changed and the general course of prices
has been downward, as is uatural at this
season, the fall during the past week
having averaged nearly $ of 1 per in cent.
The money markets are generally fair
shape and collections fair for the season.
A FIEND INCARNATE.
Horrible Murder of a Young
Lady by a Rejected Suitor.
A dispatch from Hanover, N. H., says:
As Miss Cristic Warden, accompanied by
her mother, her sister, Fannie, and Louise
Goode', was returning on foot to their
home, located one mile fiom the village,
at a late hour Saturday night, Frank
Almy, about thirty years of age. jumped
into the road in front of them, aod seiz¬
ing Christie by the arm, said: “I want
you!” The mother and si tcr attempted
to defend her. Almy fired at them, but
missed. They ran for assistance. Then
Almy dragged his victim into the bushes
from the road and shot her twice through
the head, one shot tearing out her left
eye. When help arrived, the girlw<a
de id, and her body was stripped of nearly
every article of clothing. Almy bad fled.
Mi«s Warden was a beautiful and most
estimable young woman about twenty-
five years old, a ai.d graduate popular of the teacher. state
normal school, a
Almy was a former employe of her father,
and his attention to Miss Christie had
been repulsed. The town of Hanover
offers $500 reward, and Miss Warden’s
father pffers $500 for the murderer.
IT EXCITED CURIOSITY.
How the Building of a Wall
Engendered Trouble.
A Dallas, Tex., commissioner’s dispatch of Saturday
says: LastfaU the comt of
Dallas county contracted with S. L.
James to build the new courthouse at a
cost of $366,100, Jame< built a wall
around the premises, which caused so
much suspicion on the part of the inhab¬
itants of the county that one of the
county commiss one s has been badly
beaten, and the policeman in charge was
almost f tdly shut, the trouble in each
instance gr«wiu.£ • ut of morbi 1 curiosity.
Matters c une to such « crisis recent.y
that James, the e -u tractor. turne i oyer
ihe job to the c >iumteioner- less 13 i»-f
cent of the who e eo_t act retained t>v
the county.
NUMBER 29.
RICHMOND & DAfiVILLt KK.
Atlanta and Charlotre Air-Line Division.
Condensed Schedule of Passenger
Trains, in Effect May lOth. 1891.
NOIUnBOUND. No. 38. No. 10. No. 13.
KASTEKN TIKE. Daily. Daily. Daily.
Lv. Atlanta (E.T.) 1 25 pm 7 00 pm 5
Chamblee..... 7 33 pm S
Norcross....... 7 45 pm 2
Duluth........ 7 57 pm B
Suwanee....... 8 08 pm 111111111111111111B53BBB33B
Buford........ 8 22 pm
„ Flowery Branch 8 3ft pm
G»ino«ville..... 3 01 pm 8 55 pm
Lula.......... 3 23 pm 9 23 pm
Bellton........ 9 26 pm
Cornelia....... 9 52 pm
Mt. Airy....... 9 56 pm 11
Toecoa......... 10 26 pm
Westminster... 10 07 pm
Seneca ........ 11 30 pm
Central........ 12 10 am
Easleys........ 12 39 am
Greenville..... 6 05 pm 1 04 am
Greeri......... 1 30 am
Wellford....... 1 46 am
Spartanburg... 6 57 pm 2 07 am
Clifton........ 2 26 am
Cowpens ...... 2 30 am
Blacksburg..... Gaffneys....... 7 00 am
3 20 am
Grover......... 3 32 am
King’s Mount’n 3 53 am
Gastonia....... 4 20 am
Lowell........ 4 33 am
Bellemont..... 4 44 am
Ar, Charlotte...... 9 80 pm
SOUTHWARD. No. 37, No. n. No. 9.
Daily, Daily. Daily.
hr. Charlotte...... 7 55 am 1 40 pm 2 30 am
Bellemont..... 2 02 pm 2 57 am
. L /welL........ 2 11 pm 3 08 am
Gastonia....... 2 22 pm 3 22 am
King’s Mount’n 2 44 pm 3 53 am
Grover......... 2 59 pm 4 13 aiu
Gaffneys....... Blacksburg.... 3 3 08 25 pm 4 24 am
pm 4 43 am
Cowpeus Clifton........ ...... 3 3 48 pm 5 5 15 10 am
51 pm am
Spartanburg... 9*55 am 4 12 pm 5 32 am
Wellford........ 4 39 pm 5 57 am
Groers......... 5 00 pm 6 10 am
Greenville...... 10 50 am 5 33 pm ft 47 am
Easleys......... 6 07 pm 7 16 am
Central........ 6 55 pm 8 10 am
Seneca......... 7 22 pm 8 38 am
Westminster.... 7 42 pm 8 58 am
Toecoa ........ 8 20 pm 9 35 am
Mt. Airy....... 8 55 pm 10 10 am
Cornelia....... 9 00 pm 10 15 am
Bellton........ 9 26 pm 10 43 am
Lula.......... 1 32 pm 9 30 pm 10 46 am
Gainesville..... 1 50 pm 9 52 pm 11 11 am
Flowery Branch 10 15 pm 11 31 am
*~ ifhrtf ........ 10 30 pm 11 40 am
suwanee. 10 44 pm 11 59 am
Duluth .. 10 56 pm 12 12 pm
Norcros* 11 08 pm 12 24 pm
Chamblee 11 22 pm 12 37 pm
Ar. Atlan ta (E, T.) 3 25 pmjll 59 pm 1 15 pm
Additional trams Nos. 17 and 18—Lula ao-
oommodation, daily except Sunday, leaves At¬
lanta 5 30 p m, arrives Lula 8 12 p ra. Return¬
ing, leaves Lula 6 00 a m, arrives Atlanta 8 55
am.
Between Lula and Athens—No. 11 daily, ex-
oept Sunday, and No. 9 daily, leave Luia 9 35 p
m, and 1060 a m, arrive Athens 11 35 p m and
12 50 pm. Returning leave Athens, No. 10
daily, except Sunday, and No. 12 daily, f 00 p m
and 8 30 a m, arrive Lula 900 pm and 1030
am. Elberton—No*. snd
03 Between dailv; Toccoa Sunday and leave Toccoa 11 61_ 45 am
except arrive Elberton 3 35 and 915
and 4 20 a m, daily, p m
a m. Returning, Nos. 60 and 62 except
Sunday, leav%Elberton 2 45 p m and 5 45 a no,
arrive Toccoa 7 10 p m and 915 am.
Nos. 11 and 12 carry Pullman 81eep:rs Nos. and bo-
tween Washington and Atlanta, and 9
10 Pullman Sleeper between Atlanta and New
York.
On No. 11 no change in day coaches from
New York to A'lanta. Southwest¬
Nos. 37 and 38, Washington and
ern Vestibuled Limited, between Atlanta and
Washington. On this train an extra fare is
charged on first-cla-s tickets only. local and
for detailed information as to
through time tables, rates and Pullman Sleep¬
ing car reservations, confer with local agents,
or address, L. L. McCLE*KEY,
JA8. L. TAYLOR, Pass. Ag’t.
Gen’l Pass. Ag’t. Div.
Washington, D. C. Atlanta, Ga.
W. H. GREEN. C. P. HAMMOND,
Gen’l Manager. Superintendent.
CETWPS DAVIS,
mOPNEY AT LAW.
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will practice in the counties of Haber¬
sham and Rabun of the Northwestern
Circuit, and Frankl n and Banks of the
Western Circuit. Prompt attention will
be given to alt business entrusted to him.
The collection of debts will have spec¬
ial attention.
Ir is stated upon good authority that dur¬
ing June the number of persons who com¬
mitted suicide throughout th? United States
ranged between sixteen ani seventeen hnn-
draJ, the majority of then bein» between The
the ages or twenty an i thirty-Sve self-slaugh¬ years.
causes which lei to this wholesale
ter were failures in business and love affairs.