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THE TOCCOA NEWS
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL
VOLUME XIX.
Mountain Pines.
Bee, on the mountain top afar.
Those lofty pinnacles that reach
So near to heaven that a star
Burns like a taj>cr bright in each.
There, changeless all the seasons through,
That ereen cathedral lifts its spires,
The first to catch the mountain dew,
The last to hold the sunset tires.
Within Its aisles no sound is heard
While Summer’s service decks the nave;
Its altar knows no priest; no bird
Sings from the emerald architrave.
But when, wrapt in her shroud of snow,
Beneath the roof lies earth asleep,
A mournful music, measured, slow,
Wakes in the summit of yon steep.
That solemn dirge of Winter brings
The heart to ponder thoughts divine;
It is God’s harper strikes the strings
Stretched on the forest harp of pine!
—[Frank D.Sherman, in Boston Transcript.
My Little Apache Chum.
Never go chumming Avith an
Apache. You smile at such strange
advice? Well, 1 might have smiled at
it once myself. But avo arc all crea¬
tures of circumstances, and I Avas a
tenderfoot then, anyway. This is
how I chummed in with my littlo In¬
dian :
I Avas swinging my red and blue
clubs under tho pepper tree at tlio
back of the railroad station. This 1
did because 1 had a theory that exer¬
cise avhs good for a man living on a
desert. The lazy Mexicans, and most
of (ho Americans thereabouts, had no
ruddy glow on their faces. They
Avere all sallow. Wliat I Avantcd avhs
a ruddy glow.
My red and blue clubs circled about
A’cry prettily that day, and the ruddy
gloAV came; also a dripping epidermis
and a big desire to sit doAvn in tho
shade of the pepper tree and blow to¬
bacco smoke. The tree Avas a small
one. When the station tank ran over,
Avhlch was notoften, its roots received
a little moisture. So it grew sloAvly.
As soon as I dropped my clubs a
squeal of disgust went up from some-
Avlierc, and as 1 turned about I suav a
small, brown head dart behind a cac-
tus-lined rock.
I said nothing, but loaned back on
my seat, pulled my sombrero down
over my face, and shammed sleep,
Avith one-half closed eye on the rock
and the big cactus shrubs. No use.
You can never get an Apache out of
his bole that way.
Next day, Avith my beautiful exer¬
cise theory still bristling in my brain,
l turned quickly, while in the midst
of my club swinging, ami saw the
Avide-open eyes and gasping mouth of
the cuuningcst littlo savage 1 bad ever
beheld. He sprang about and lied be¬
hind the rock, but not too quickly for
mo to read “XXX Family Flour” in
large red letters on his back, llis one
short garment Avas a cotton sack, with
holes cut through it for his head and
arms.
“Come, Tads,” I cried, christening
him in that fleeting second Avitlr a
name that stuck to him all his life,
“out of that!” And I jumped behind
the rock, swinging an open hand that
did not grasp tho flour sack, as I had
intended it should.
Where was tho Avee savage?
Like a lizard lie had darted from
sight somewhere in that little patch of
rocks aud cactus, though there did not
appear to be cover euougli there to
conceal a jack rabbit.
“The spines must scratch him,” I
thought, as I looked at the prickly
cactus; but 1 did not know then how
Apaches put up witli such small irrita¬
tions. Not wanting to give the boy
unnecessary torture, 1 went back to
my clubs. ThroAviug my eyes about
again, 1 caught another fleeting
glimpse of thebroAvn head as it dodged
behind the rock.
Tads must have been disappointed
next day, for there ay as no club-
swinging under the pepper tree. The
duties of telegraph agent lay too
heavily upon me, and the sun lay too
heavily upon the desert. I suav Tads
* steal from his lair about two
aAvay
hours after my usual exercise time and
walk doAvn the sand-drifts with a de-
jected air, his one garment flapping
in the hot air.
A wild nature like Ills was proof
against sncli snares as the toothsome
confection, the golden orange, or the
mealy peanut. 1 found that out by
trial in the course of the next Aveek.
But an old jack-knife Avon him over.
That Avas something his Apache mind
could grasp. It was a greater delight
to him than tho red aud blue clubs.
SAYoru friends from that day Avere
Tads and I. His talk Avas a ridiculous
mixture of English, Spanish and
Apache, and his voice was throaty.
But I understood him.
Indian-like, he said little. It was,
therefore, easy to get along with him.
He would sit for hours on a high stool,
listening to the “tunk-lunk-tmik” of
my sounder. The telegraph was an
awful mystery to him at first, and it
squelched his imagination; but he
solved the problem at last, A man
away off over the mountains spoke
with his fingers to me and I spoke
back to him. That was his idea of it,
and it was not such a bad one either.
The hummings of the wires overhead
were the voices of the people with
ponderous lingers, but they were not
of this world.
IIoav the cowboys laughed when
they saw Tads and mo in the station.
“That tenderfoot’s a queer one,”
they said.
The despised Apaclie could not
crawl into their hearts—no, not if he
were 6-year old.
“lle’il steal everything the tender¬
foot’s got,” they pleasantly averred.
But lie did not.
When Tads left tho station of an
evening his little brown feet pattered
straight over the road to the Avickiuns
a half mile away. In time lie Avore
a narrow trail over to the huts.
“Bitty veil” Avas Avliat Tads Avould
grunt to me every day when he came
sli^’ly into the office and I greeted him
with a friendly “IIoAV-dc-do?” Then
he would shrug his shoulders in a Avay
that Avrinkled the three Xs into 6uch
beAviklcring folds that you could not
have read them unless you had known
wliat they Avere beforehand.
One day while lie Avas meandering
about the place, grunting quietly to
himself, lie upset one of my battery
jars.
“Tads,” I cried angrily, for the de-
88rt’s breath Avas hot upon me and was
irritating enough, let alone vitriol,
“you arc a little beast! Skip out of
here or I’ll take a stick to you!”
Then arose a great howl from Tads,
and lie kept howling until an Apaclie
woman came over the sands from the
Avickiups and gathered him in her
arms. She Avas his mother. She had
eyed me suspiciously, and walked
away Avith lior highly deni mstrative
burden.
Of course I regretted my hot
language and Avanted the little beggar
back again. It Avas so lonely there on
the desert The Avires Availed so
lieart-bi’okenly Avhile the sun beat
tlown so fiercely in the daytime and
the coyotes yelled so dolefully at
night, llow lie had crept into my
heart to be sure!
It Avas several days before avc Avere
on satisfactory terms again. Tads
wanted to be a Avhi*»e man. lie want-
ed to make “talk marks 3 ’ on “pupper*
with a feather—I sometimes used a
quill pen, be it remarked—and lie
Avanted to speak Avith his finger. Well,
I did manage to teach him a few let¬
ters from a railroad poster, and he
learned to drawl out “T-a-d-s” in a
droll way. With perseverance that
Avas really startling, I afterward took
him in an uncertain way through a
page or two of “Can You See the Fat
Ox,” and so on, Avlierefore his heart
Avas glad.
“I’ll be Avliite mans, heap sure,’’
lie declared in his bull-frog voice,
after lie had accomplished his Avonder-
ful feat.
Great distress racked Tads’ soul on
the fatal day AVlien the wickiup i AA’cro
taken down and the tribe mounted
their mustangs to go oA’er the hills.
The Apaches had to search all over
the station to find Tads. At last they
hauled him forth from under my
bnttk, screaming like mad. Of no
avail Avere his screams; of no avail
ay as his cry. “Mo van ter to stay w r id
him; me yanter be Avliite mans!”
Apaclie papas are unbending and
Apache mammas aro inexorable.
Away they Avhisked Tads, leaving be¬
hind him a tenderfoot Avith a queer
feeling in hie throat.
“Well, the boy lias the instincts of
a Avliite man,” I said, for I avus proud
of Avliat I fancied I had made of him,
“and lie’ll be a shining light among
those devilish people of bis. If avc
had a few more like him to put among
them, the Apache question A\ r ould set-
tie itself, and we could set our sol-
jjers to hoeing corn.
Then I took up the restless life of a
c i ty ma n, and a big and busy railroad
office claimed a good share of my at-
tention for the next ten years. Ytes,
it Avas fully that long before 1 again
set foot upon tho desert, Our train
stopped at the old station, llow the
pe pper tree had grown, to be sure,
Iu it3 s ] ia ae sat a cavalry sergeant
with half a dozen of his meu about
him. and in their midst were three
j n< jj au pr i S oners, Avho were being
taken to the fort to be shot,
They wero fierce looking fellows,
those three savages. There was one,
the youngest, avIio was a perfect de¬
mon, the soldiers said.
“Killed three womeu and two
babies down at Mustang Wash last
Tuesday,” said the Sergeant to me,
“just after one of them had given him
his breakfast, too. He’s a young one,
not more than seventeen, I should say,
but he ’3 [he worst red devil I ever
8aw .'?
TOCCOA, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 12, 1391
Gazing at the boy, a strange feel¬
ing came over me. The stolid face
was oddly familiar.
“iiis name? Blessed if i know,”
said tho Sergeant; “what do you call
yourself, young one?” lie asked, giv¬
ing him a not too delicate poke with
the toe of his boot.
“Me? My name is Tads I” grunted
the boy.
“Talks pretty good English for a
wild imp who has been over the Mexi¬
can border so long, don’t he?” asked
the Sergeant.
But I said nothing. — [The Argonaut,
Animal Voiecs.
In an interesting paper on the voices
of animals, J. P. Hodgdon, an Eng¬
lish elocutionist, stated that in the
mammalia the general structure of
the larynx is like that of man; th e
poAver and character of the sound de-
pending on tho different degrees of
development of the vocal chords and
the pecularity of the structure of the
vocal organs. The timbre or quality
of A r oice is remarkably distinct in the
different classes of animals, and also
varies in those of tho same class.
Lions and tigers Avith their magnitude
of chest, make a roar that tills the
ear Avith a sense of horror, the depth
of voice giving to tho mind the idea
of an enormous being.
The horse neighs in a descent on the
the chromatic scale, Avithout even omit¬
ting a semitone, being one of the
most musically voiced of animals.
The ass brays in a perfect octavo, aud
one of his ejaculations has been
copied by Haydn in his seventy-sixth
quartet witli great success. The bark
of dog is an instance of a voice ac¬
quired by domestication, much as the
trotting of the horse is an acquired
movement. An ape, o.ie of the Gib¬
bons, produced an exact octave of
musical sounds, ascending and des¬
cending :lie scale by half-tones, so
that perhaps it alone of brute animals
may be said to sing. The howling or
preacher monkey of South America
has a A’oico that can be heal’d two
miles. The giraffe and armadillo are
voiceless, Avith no vocal chords.
Tho chirp of the long-eared bat is
said to be the most acute sound pro¬
duced by any animal, and only five out
of six persons can hear it. In reptiles
the larynx is in rudimentary condi¬
tion. The crocodile and cayman
make a roaring sound. One kind of
frog has a sound bag, evidently acting
as a resonance chamber, on each side
of its mouth. The tortoise gives a
mere snuffling sound. Snakes have no
vocal chords, but produce a hissing by
expulsion of air through a narrow
opening in the glottis. Most fishes arc
mute, insects, such as crickets, grass¬
hoppers and bees, have been con¬
sidered more musicians than singers,
most of their sounds being caused by
friction of their Avings or legs to¬
gether against their body or by vi¬
brations of their wings. A grasshop¬
per of Brazil may be heard half a mile,
Avliich is “as if a man Avith a big
voice could be beared over the
Avorld.”
Bakers iu London.
There are fourteen thousand bakers
in London, of whom five thousand
aro foreigners, mostly Germans,
Foremen bakers get from $5 to $8 a
week, second hands from $4 to $5 a
week, third hands from §2 to $3 a
Aveck. Tho hours of labor range from
12 to 15 hours a day, and on Satur¬
days from 20 to 23 hours. Most of
the small bakers act as their oaa’h fore-
men. The majority of the bake houses
are miserable underground cellars,
overrun with roaches, mice and other
vermin. The cellars are so lll-vcntt-
luted and so unhealthy that the bakers
arc subject to a number ot special dis-
eases, all of which mav bo communi-
cated .o . 1,0 cousuiners of .he 'bread
they make, for they arc mostly dis-
cases of the skin, and the bakers in
these dens, as a rule, work stark
naked from their waists up, and tliero
is generally no accommodation of any
kiud for washing except in the knead-
ing tubs. —[New York Recorder.
Speed of Animals.
The sloth is by no means a small
animal, and yet it can travel only fifty
paces in a day. A Avorm crawls over
five inenes in fifty seconds, a lady bird
cau fly twenty million times its own
length in less than an hour, an elk cau
run a mile in one minute, an ante-
lope can run a mile in a minute, the
wind mule of Tartary has a speed even
greater than that, an eagle can fly
fifty-four miles iu an hour, while a
canary falcon cau even reach 750 miles
in the short space of sixteen hours.—
[NewYterk Advertiser.
The Secret of Beauty.
Miss De Plain—Doctor, what is the
gecret of beauty?
Family Physician (confidentially)—
Re porn pretty. — (Good News.
PRECIOUS PALMS.
Many Uses Found for a Vegetable
Gift of Nature.
It Furnishes Food, Drink,
Clothing, Beds, etc.
“One of the most valuable gifts of
nature to man is the palm, of which
the many varieties serve a number of
important uses that is really astonish¬
ing,” said Chief Gardener Saunders
of the Department of Agriculture to
a Washington Star reporter. “A Hin¬
doo poem enumerates eight hundred
purposes to which the Palmyra palm
alone is put. Among other things it
supplies paper for writing upon, an
intoxicating drink called “toddy,”
large quantities of sugar fruit and a
vegetable for the tabic when the plants
are young.
“Palm wine is also obtained from
the juice of the sago palm, which
yields excellent sugar candy when
boiled. The pith of the trunk forms a
large part of the food of the natives in
many parts of India. Ropes; brushes
and brooms are manufactured from
the fiber of the stalks. 1
‘ On the high mountains of New
Grenada, as high up al the lower
limit of perpetual snow) grows the
Avax plant. Its tall trunk is covered
with a thin coating of a whitish Avaxy
substance, giving it a marbled appear¬
ance, Avliich is scraped off and forms
an article of commerce. It consists of
two parts of resin and one»of wax,and,
when mixed Avith oiie-thiiil of talloAV,
it makes very good candles.
“Another Avax palm groAVs in Bra¬
zil. The young leaves are coaled Avitli
Avax, which is detached by shaking
them, and melted, to be finally run
into cakes. It is harder than beesAvax
and is utilized for candles. The upper
part of the young stem of this tree
yields a kind of sago.
“ The talipot palm of Ceylon lias
gigantic fanlike leaves, which Avlien
fully expaned form a nearly complete
circle thirteen feet in diameter. Large
fans made of them are carried before
people of rank among tho Cinghalese;
they are also commonly used as um¬
brellas, and tents are made by neatly
joining them together. They arc
used as a substitute for paper, being
written upon Avith a stylus. Some of
the sacred books of tlie Cinghalese arc
composed of strips of them.
“The gingerbread palm of Egypt
bears seeds witli mealy husks Avliich
taste very much like
“In certain localities the tree forms
extensiA’C forests and its roots spread
over the ruins of Thebes, one of the
largest and most splendid cities of tlie
ancient world. In South America
gro\A’s the Bussu palm, which supplies
a fibrous spatlie that, Avhen taken off
entire, is a ready-made bag, strong
and durable. The Indian keeps in one
of these bags red paint for his toilet
and silk cotton for his arrows. An¬
other bag he stretches out into a seam¬
less cap for his head.
“One of the most curious palms in
the Avorld is called the ‘Ita,’ and is
very abundant on the banks of the
Amazon, Rio Negro and Orinoco
rivers. In the delta of the latter it
occupies SAvampv tracts, which are
at times completely inundatecTand pre¬
sent the appearance of forests rising
out of the water. The swamps are
inhabited by a tribe of Indians called
Guaranes, avIio subsist almost entirely
upon the produce of the tree. Dur-
illg the annual floods they suspend
their houses from the tops of the tall
6tem8 of the palms. The outer skin of
the young leaves is made into cords for
hammocks, and the soft, inner bark
yields a nutritious farinaceous sub-
stance.
“Cocoa.. uU, .he fruit of a kind of
palm, grow wild on all tho islands of
Die South Pacific and Indian oceans,
having been disseminated by the ripe
fi'iids Avliich were washed aAvay by
Hie waves and afterward cast upon
far-distant shores. In this way tliou-
sands of coral islands have become
covered with the trees, every part
of which is put to some useful pnr-
pose. The outside husks of the nuts
yield the fibre from which the well-
knoAvn cocoa matting is made. Cord-
age, clothes, brushes, brooms and hats
are also manufactured from it,
and when curled and dyed it is em-
ployed for slutting mattress-
es and cushions. An oil is pro¬
duced by pressing the white kernel of
the nut for cooking. Stearine is rdso
obtained from it, which is burned in
lamps and made into candles. The
kernel is of great importune: as an
article of food and the milk affords an
agreeable beverage. When young the
nut yields a delicious substance rcsem-
bling blancmange. Combs arc made j
from the hard foot stalk, and the heart
of ihe tree serves as a vegetable like j
the cabbage, Sieves me inauufao-* j
tured from the fibrous network at the
base of the leaves, and both the flow¬
ers and the roots are valuable in medi¬
cine.
The Python and the Boy.
A story of unusual voracity and
daring on the part of a python has
reached us from Muka, says the Sawal
(Borneo) News. At Judan, a village
six miles from Muka, a man and his
sou, aged from ten to twelve years,
were sleeping in their house, inside a
mosquito curtain. They were on the
floor near the wall. In the middle of
the night the father was awakened by
bis son calling out. The lamp was out
and the father passed his hand over
his son, but found nothing amiss, so
he tiinw-d over and went to sleep
again, thinking the boy was dreaming.
Shortly afterward the child again
called out, saying a crocodile was
taking him. This time the father,
thoroughly aroused, felt again and
found that a snake had closed his jaws
on the boy’s head. He then pried open
the reptile’s mouth and released the
head of his son. but the beast drew the
whole of his body into the house and
encircled the body of the father. He
was rescued by the neighbors, who
were attracted by the cries for help of
the terrified couple. The snake when
killed was found to be about fifteen
feet long. The head and forehead of
the boy are encircled with punctur; d
wounds produced by the python’s
teeth.
An Earthly Paradise.
Professor George M. Grant, Avriling
of NeAV Zealand iu Harper’s Magazine,
says:
“One is tempted to ask, for what
other spot has the Almighty done so
much? For nowhere is tliero a fairer
land. Nowhere is labor so sweet, or
recreation more shared in by all
classes. Every township has its park,
race-course aud play-ground; the
cities have these and everything else
that can bo imagined. Picnics are
universal. Tho long summers and
bracing winters make open air amuse¬
ments delightful. Sports are taken up
eagerly, from coursing matches over
rough ground and pig-stalking, to
cricket, foot-ball and volunteering.
From the beginning generous pro¬
vision was made for schools and col¬
leges, the people—in the South Island
especially—hiiA’ing the spirit of the
men avIio colonized New England. No
one Avith eyes in his head can fail to
see that the NeAV-Zealander of today is
laying the foundations of a mighty
stale, though lie may not be able to
believe that one of his descendants is
likely to sit on a broken arch of Lon¬
don Bridge and sketch the rains of St.
Paul’s.”
Edible Nests.
Edible birds’ nests form an im¬
portant article of commerce betAveeu
the islands of the eastern archipelago
and China, where they are considered
to be quite a luxury. They are the
nests of a species of swallows, not
unliko the bird Avitli Avliich avg are fa¬
miliar; it is about four inches and a
half in length, Avith a great expanse of
wing. The nest, Avliich is small, is
found in vast numbers in the great
rock caves Avliich abound in some of
these eastern islands; they are formed
of gelatinous substances, nearly trans¬
parent, and now belieA’cd to be a
species of sca-weed. The nests, Avhicli
are so numerous as to be adhering to
one another, are collected by means of
ladders and ropes; it is after the
young are fledged that the nests arc
thus taken. Iu the Chinese market
thcy are sokl at sac h a high price that
tl can only be purc hascd by wealthy
person ,. They are used to thicken
rich soups and are considered to be a
vc ,., r nutritious food, Each nest
. , about , , . half ano»nce.-[Ch.cago .
XeAVS.
The First Glass.
Probably the first gl-.iss Avliich Avas
ever produced on earth, says the
Prophet in the Electrical Review, was
made by electricity. The lightning
tubes, Avliich are familiar to geologists,
are really composed of glass, having
been formed by the melting of the
eiiica in the sand, by a discharge of
lightning, Glass made w’ith natural
gas is advertised as of special quality.
It is possible that some day the conflict
between gas and electricity may be
extended into the glass works.
Wonderful Clocks.
An ingenious enthusiast claims tc
haA’e invented a clock which is driven
by the sun’s rays, and is supposed to
be tlie nearest approach to perpetual
motion. Another one say3 he has in-
vented a still more wonderful clock,
which is driven by the natural elec-
tricilv from the earth itself. One is
said to have been made fora w’ell-
known English judge, avIio is sup-
posed to admire tho invention very
much.—[New York Recorder:
THE WIDE WORLD'
GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND
CABLE CULLINGS
Of Brief Items of Interest From
Various Sources.
offer Minneapolis for has rejected St. Paul’s
a union of the two cities.
A New’ and damaging insect has at¬
tacked beets in California, grown for
sugar factories.
The postotlice at Keyport, N. J., was
entered by rob! ers Sunday night who got
away with £1,000.
The trades union congress, in session
and at Newcastle, is England, is a large body
attracting much attention.
The British bark Fiji, bound from
ed Hamburg to Melbourne, Las been wreck¬
on the rocks off Australia. Thirteen
of the crew were drowned.
Tho London 1'ime*, in its financial ar¬
ticle, Tuesday morning, says that a syndi¬
cate of European capitalists has offered
to advance the Chilean junta £500,000
with which to meet pressin ^ requirements.
A woman residing in London, Ont.,
assisted by her hu band, has been en¬
gage i in running Chinamen over to
Detroit. The plan adopted was to dress
the heathens in female attire and send
them over.
The immense storage warehouse of R.
C. Layton, at Nos. 63 and 64 South
street New York city, was destroyed by
fire Tuesday, entailing a loss of fully
£200,000. The building was of brick
aud five stories high and was well stocked
with spices and teas.
A dispatch received Saturday at the
Chilean legation in Paris from Santiago
de Chile, says that a provisional govern¬
ment of Chile has been constituted, and
that it will send a circular letter to the
powers and to all countries appearing
di posed to recognize the present admia-
istiatioa of Chile.
A letter was published in London
papers Saturday from the minister in
charge of Christ church, Jerusalem, say¬
ing that, on petition of native trades¬
men, the sultan has stopped the influx of
Russian Jews, and that he will not per¬
mit them to land in Palestine without a
special order.
The steamer City of New York arrived
at Queenstown Tuesday, having crossed
the Atlantic in five days, twenty-two
hours aud fifty minutes, equaling the
best previous eastward passage, She
carried the Japan mails, which left Yoko-
homa August 19th, aud New York Sep¬
tember 2d.
The Washington Post of Monday morn¬
ing says that private advices received
there state that General Hawley, of Con¬
necticut, has been offered the war secre¬
taryship, to succeed Secretary Proctor,
and that he is now at Cape May, confer¬
ring with President Harrison about the
matter.
A dispatch from Alliance, Ohio, says:
The most destructive storm ever known
here passed over early Monday morning.
Twelve houses and barns were struck by
lightning, aggregating a loss of $50,000.
The electrical display was bewildering in
its intensity. It is also reported that a
number of lives were lost.
M. T. Able, of Har rods burg, Ky., made
an assignment Saturday. liabilities Assets nomi¬
nally $300,000; unknown. He
is interested in Birmingham and Flor¬
ence, Ala., and Wichita, Kan., and is
supposed to have forced property to meet all his
debts, but was to the wall by
small creditors demanding immediate
payment.
A dispatch of Saturday from Santa Fe,
New Mexico, says: Frank Chaves, dem¬
ocratic sheriff of Santa Fe county for tho
past five years and ex-officio tax collector,
has tendered his resignation to the board
of county commissioners. He is short
$33,000 collected by him during several
years past, $20,000 being county funds
aud $13,000 territory funds.
MURRAY SLAIN.
The Notorious Outlaw Killed
by a Boy.
A Jacksonville dispatch says: Harmon
Murray, the notorious colored outlaw,
who has defied the authorities for nearly
a year and terrorized a wide section of
country, was killed about daylight
Friday morning by Hardy Early, a col¬
ored lad of seventeen. The killing oc¬
curred in a swamp near Archer, Fla.
Murray called on Early about 4 o’clock
a d ordered him to go with him to
Archer, where he said he was going to
“kill some crackers” and then leave
Alachua county. Ear’y did not Avant
to go, and said he had no gun, but Mur¬
ray took Early to the latter’s brother’s
house and ma le him produce a doubV -
barreled shotgun. Both barrels were
loaded with buck-hot, and Early put
fifteen more in each barrel. The two
then started toward Archer, having to
pass through a swamp on the w.y.
When they that got into the swamp Early
pretended he did not know the trail,
and asked Murray to lead. Murray
took the lead, and immediately Early
poured back the of contents Murray’s of head, both barrels killing into him
the
instantly.
A Newspaper Change.
The most important newspaper change
announced in Philadelphia for some time
occurred Monday morning in The Public
Ledger office. William V. McKean, for
more than twenty-six years managing
editor, retired, and was succeeded by L.
Clarke Davis in that capacity. Mr. Mc¬
Kean will continue on the staff of The
Ledger at full pay, aud will wiite occa¬
sionally. but will be relieved from the
responsibility of managing voicing the business
of the journal and its sentiments.
The announcement is made that George
W. Childs will himself hereafter be editor-
in-chief.
A Whole Family Suicides.
A cablegram from Paris say3 that a
whole family, numbering six members,
committed suicide Tuesday in that city.
The father and mother showed the way
by hanging adult themselve childr. 5 , and the others
who were n, imitated their
parents.
NUMBER 36
RICHMOND & DANVILLE R- R.
Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line Division.
Condensed Schedule of Passenger
Trains, in Effect Aug. 2nd, 1891.
NORTHBOUND. No. 88. No, 10. No. 12.
i ASTERS TIME. Daily. Daily. Daily.
Lv. Atlanta (E.T.) 1 25 pm 7 20 pm 910 am
Chauiblee..... 7 59 pm 9 43 am
Norcross....... 8 11 pm 9 55 am
Duluth........ 8 24 pm 10 06 am
Suwanee....... 8 37 pm 10 17 am
Buford........ 8 52 pin 10 38 am
Flowery Branch 9 07 pm 10 48 am
Gainesville..... 2 52 pin 9 24 pm 11 11 am
Lula.......... 3 14 pm 9 50 pm 11 36 am
Bellton........ 9 56 pm 11 40 am
Cornelia....... 10 25 pm 12 04 pm
Mt. Airy....... 10 28 pm 12 09 pm
Toccoa......... 4 02 pm 10 58 pm 12 39 pm
Westminster ... 1139 pm 120 pm
Seneca ........ 12 01 am 1 42 pm
Central........ 12 40 am 2 35 pm
Easleys........ 1 08 am 3 05 pm
Greenville..... 6 05 pm 1 33 am 3 30 pm
Greers......... 1 59 am 4 01 pm
Wellford....... 2 16 am 4 19 pm
Spartanburg... Clifkm........ 6 57 pm 2 36 am 4 43 pm
2 55 am 4 57 pm
Cowpens...... Gaffney....... 3 00 am 5 01 pm
3 28 am 5 24 pm
Blacksburg..... 3 46 am 5 42 pm
Grover......... 3 56 an\ 5 51 pm
King’s Mount’n 4 17 am 6 08 pm
Gastonia....... 4 50 am ^32 pin
Lowell........ 500 am 6 43 pm
Bellemont..... 5 11 am 6 54 pm
Ar. Charlotte...... 9 10 pm 5 40 am 7 20 pm
SOUTHBOUND. No. 37. No. 11, No. 9,
Daily. Daily. Daily.
Lv. Charlotte...... 9 35 am 1 55 pm 2 50 am
Bellemont..... ........ 2 18 pm 3 15 am
Lowell......... ........ 2 28 pm 3 26 am
Gastonia....... ........ 2 41 pm 3 43 am
King’s Mount’n ........ 3 06 pm 4 Dam
Grow r......... ........ 3 20 pm 4 33 am
Gaffney....... Blacksburg.... ........ 3 30 pm 4 43 am
........ 3 49 pm 5 02 am
Cowpeus...... Clifton........ ........ 411pm 5 27 am
........ 4 15 pm 5 31 am
Wellford........ Spartanburg... 11 39 am 4 82 pm 5 48 am
........ 5 11 pm 6 10 am
Greers......... ........ 5 31 pm 6 28 am
Greenville...... 12 3C pm 6 65 pm 7 00 am
Easleys......... ........ 6 33 pm 7 25 am
Central........ ........ 7 25 pm 8 10 am
Seneca......... ........ 7 53 pm 8 38 am
Westminster.... ........ 8 12 pm 8 58 am
Toccoa........ 2 25 pm 8 50 pm 9 35 am
Mt. Airy....... ........ 9 25 pm 10 10 am
Cornelia....... ........ 9 30 pm 10 15 am
Bellton........ ........ 9 56 pm 10 88 am
Lula.......... 3 14 pm 10 02 pm 10 41 am
Gainesville..... 3 86 pm 10 28 pm 11 11 am
Flowery Buford........ Branch ........ 10 49 pm 11 81 am
........11 03 pm 11 46 am
Suwanee....... ........1117 pm 11 59 am
Duluth........ .......11 29 pm 1212 pm
Noroross...... ........11 42 pm 12 24 pm
Chamblee...... ........11 54 pm 12 35 pm
Ar. Atlanta (E. T.)]5 00 pm 12 80 am 110 pm
Additional trains Nos. 17 and 18—Lula ac¬
commodation, lanta daily except Sunday, leaves At¬
5 30 p Lula m, arrives Lula 8 12 p m. Return¬
ing, leaves 6 00 a to, arrives Atlanta 8 50
a ra.
Between Lula and Athens—No. 11 daily, ex¬
cept Sunday, and No. 9 daily, leave Lula 10 05j>
m, and 11 40 a m, arrive Athens 12 05 am and
1 40 pm. Returning leave Athens, No. 10
daily, except Sunday, and No. 12 daily, 7 20 p n»
and 8 30 a m, arrive Lula 9 20 p m and 10 3J
a m.
Between Toccoa and Elberton—No. 61 dai¬
ly; except Sunday, leave Toccoa 12 55 No. pm
arrive Elberton 4 45 p m. Returning, 6J
daily, except Sunday, leave sElterton 5 45 a ni
and arrives Toccoa9 15 am.
Nos. 11 and 12 carry Pullman Sleepers be¬
tween and Nos. Washington l Pullman and Knoxville Sleeper via. between Salisbury,
9 an 10 AH
lanta and New York.
New On York No. 11 A' no lanta. change in day coaches from
to
Nos. 37 and 38, Washington and Southwest-
C’ja Vestibuled Limited, be tween Atlanta and
charged SATishington. in On this train an extra fare is
connection with first-class tickets,
not exceeding charges $2.00 over and above usual Pull¬
man For detailed to any point.
information as to local and
through time tables, rates and Pullman Sleep¬
ing car reservations, confer with local agents,
or JAS. address,
L. TAYLOR, L. L. McCLESKEY,
Gen’l Pass. Ag’t. Div. Pass. Ag’t.
W. H. AVashin^ton, D, O. Atlanta, Ga.
GREEN, SOL. HASS,
Gen’l Manager. Traffic Manager,
Washington, C. P. D. C. Richmond, Va.
HAMMOND,
Superintendent, Atlanta, Ga.
LEWIS DAVIS,
VTfOPNEY AT LAW.
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will practioe in the counties of Haber¬
sham and Rabun of the Northwestern
Circuit, and Frank I n and Banks of the
Western Circuit. Prompt attention will
be given to all busiicss eutjustecPto him.
The collection of debts will have sp o-
a! ntte.it ion.
CHILE RECOGNIZED
By Minister Egan at the Re¬
quest Uncle Sam.
A Washington dispatch of Tuesday
stys: So far hb Chile is concerned, the
department of state is much encouraged
by Minister Egan’s cablegram announc¬
ing the establishing of cordial relations
between himself and the provision <1
government. Officials at the depart¬
ment specially call attention to the face
that the provisional government in Chite
was not organized u .til the 4th instant,
and on the same day it was recognized
by the r merican minister, who had been
instructed by cable to do so. This ace
is i ot a formal official recognition, but it
is all that can be done by any nation at
this junc ure, and in the line with pre c-
dents of diplomatic practice.
WITHHELD FROM THE PUBLIC
Until it Can be Reported to tha
Governor.
A Raleigh disp-tch of Mond-y says:
It has been finally decided by the rail¬
way commissioners to make no report of
their findif g in regard to the l ife railway
Avreck at the Third cr ek bridge until
the regular annua! report to the govern¬
or. The commi s : on rs at first gave nut
that their finding would be given the
public. The present impre*sioa of ti e
commissi ntrs is that it i- improper 1 »
make ing a report to the public before mak¬
a report to the governor. A sec s
of the commission act provides that the
board ?hall act upon occisi n as arbitr -
tors, and a It port now woul 1 be pro-
judging the ca c.
SHE WANTED TO SEK.
“Sothis is the barn?” exclaimed ths
fair young girl Avho was visiting hei
country cousins.
“Yes.”
“Then do please show me the deal
little barnacles.”—[Juckre.