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THE TOCCOA NEWS
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL.
VOLUME XIX.
■JO A CLOUD.
Under the the bending mountain skies
I lay, with half-shut, dreamy eyes,
In the sweetest morth of spring,—
IVhen a little cloud came, so soft and white,
It seemed but a fleecy streak of light,
Or the flash of an angel’s wing.
I had marked the mountain’s fitful mood,
Its tall head wrapped in a flame-red hood,
Or its base in a misty shroud;
But through all its cliffs where sunbeams
played.
And in all its shifting light and shade,
'I here was nothing like the cloud.
^o fair, so far, it seemed to float,
N ith the airy grace of a white-winged boat,
And the deep-blue sky for a sea.
It might have been that an angel crew
Were voyaging the distant blue
With the Idiot of Galilee.
O winsome ship of the upper sea,
M ttered thought looks up to thee,
In th supernal place,
\u i kings thine airy decks to tread,
I i >y cloudlun I-charted course to thread
Through realms of trackless snace.
In vain does blinded science ;uess
The ti nre of tiiy dewy dress
IV itii earthly mechanism
1 view tt B through another glass,
An i make thy borrowed beauty pas3
Through Fancy’s finer prism.
But, ah ! 1*0 cloud-com pel ling Jove
W ill hear the prayers I breathe above
To stay thy wayward flight;
And while I strain tny yearning eye,
Ihy trailing banners through the sky
Are bidding me good-night.
— H iltiain Wee Sims, in Lippincott.
A WIFE’S TRIUMPH,
UY SHIRLEY RROAVNE.
“I don’t deny but what I was considera-
bly surpiised to hear of Joe’s marriage,”
said Mr. Ailesbury, sitting in his wheeled-
chair in the suushine. “I didn’t know’s
lie had no such idee in his head. But
everything happens for the best, and the
old place is clean run down for want of
a nice stirrm’ housekeeper. Berenice
Stubbs charges a dollar an 1 a half a
week, and wants the washin’ put out, at
that. Things didn't go this ’ere way in
the life time of my secon 1 departed—no,
nor yet while my first was livin’. I’m
willin’ now to confess that I was sort o’
turnin’ over in my mind the idee of ask¬
ing Pantheon Jones’s widder if she’d
any objections to share my solitary lot;*
but this marriage o” Joe’s puts things iu
a different light. 1 wasn’t sartin but
what lie was going to be an old bachelor.
1 do hope his new lielpnu te can riz bread
and Hanning cakes, and soft soap. Bere¬
nice Stubbs never made soft soap. She
was fairly ruining me vvith bar soap
boughten at the store. And there’s all
my two deceased pardners’ calico goAvns
upstairs, in the blue paper trunk, Avaitin’
to be made patchwork of. Of course
she’ll be handy with the needle, or Joe
wouldn’t hcv selected her.”
And Mr. Ailesbury chuckled at the
prospect of “the good time coming.”
“Is this my ucav home, Joe?”
r l he bride stood iu the clean-scoured,
wliitewaslied kitchen, looking around in
u bewildered sort of way. She Avas slight
and small, Avith large blue-gray eyes,
and a delicate complexion. Her travel-
ing dress was of the soltest pearl gray,
ami she wore daintily fitting gray kid
gloves, aud boots so tiny that it almost
seemed as if the grass of the door-yard,
like the harebells of Sir Walter Scott's
poem, must, have “risen elastic from her
tread.” Her stahvart husband, stand-
mg beside her, looked doAvn with beam¬
ing pride on her miniature beauty.
“Why, yes, pet,” said he. “Isn't it
like what you had fancied?’’
The bride laughed hysterically.
“Not in the least,” said she. ‘ ‘But I
dare say 1 Avas absurdly fanciful.”
“I guess,” said old Mr. Ailesbury,
“that Mrs. Joe had better change that
finicky dress for something plainer, and
help Berenice Stubbs with the supper.
Berenice is sort o'plagued with neuralgy
to-day."
“She's too tired to do much to-night,
father,” said Joe.
“Tired! What's she done? I don’t
call it hard work to go rid in’ in the rail¬
road cars. Do you?”
Berenice Stubbs, a hard-faced female
with a waist like the town pump, and
sharp, twinkling eyes thatched with
sparse white lashes, regarded Mrs. Jo-
seph Ailesbury with scant favor.
“Don't look a bit as if she could
worry through a day's wash,” said she.
“These small folks is powerful wiry
sometimes,” said the elder Ailesbury.
“My lir^t dear deceased Avasn't no taller
than Mrs. Joe—but my! what a hand she
was to turn off work.”
When Mrs. Joe came in from the gar-
den after tea with a bunch of clover
piuk< in her hand, her father-in-law Avas
ready to accost her.
“Now you're here, Mrs. Joe,’’ said he,
“to sort o’ see to things, I’ve told Bere-
nice Stubbs she can go home for a half a
week, and I'm curious to fiud out what
sort of a housekeeper you'll make.'*
Mrs. Joe looked helplessly at her hus-
baud. .
“I dare say she'll turn out a capital
housekeeper, father,” said he. “But you
won’t find out about it at present. I’m
going to take her to Welland Falls to see
Cousin Simeon Ailesbury. Her mother
used to know Cousin Simeon years ago. ”
“What, all that Avay?” * croaked the
farmer.
Joe nodded.
“TraA’eling’s dreadful expensive.”
“Well, it costs something,” admitted
Joe.
“And you’ll bare to stop overnight at
some tavern.”
“Yes.”
“It seems to this'is me,” growled the o7“J
man, “that all a senseless waste
of money. You’d both of you a deal
better settle down and go to work.
didn’t go mooning around the couutry
when I married my dear deceased first,
nor vet my dear deceased second. Life
is made for work, not for play.”
“Time enough for that, father,” said
the reckless Joe. “A man doesn’t cet
in married—ordinarily, life-time.” dftener than once
a
Mrs. Joe drew a long breath ot relief
when she found herself out from under
th< farm-house roof.
“Joe/’ said she, “I’m afraid I’m going
to be an awful disappointment to your
father.”
“As long as you’re not a disappoint¬
ment to me,” he retorted, laughing, “it
doesn’t so much signify.”
“There must be a deal of work in that
house—four cows, a hundred turkeys, a
flock of sheep, a poultry yard full of
Leghorn fowD, butter, eggs, cooking,
washing, baking, scrubbing—” .
“How do you know all this?” asked
he.
“Miss Stubbs told me. Oh, Joe! why
didn’t you marry Berenice Stubbs?”
“Look in the glass, little girl, if you
want that question answered.”
“But I am so useless. A'ou should
have seen Miss Stubbs look at me when
I said I didn’t know liow to make bread,
and that I never had done a washing in
my l ie.”
“You’ll easily learn, Ellie,”
“Do you think I shall, Joe?” A little
cloud, “no bigger than a man’s hand,”
came over the pearly framkness of her
brow. “Did your mother wash and bake
and brew?”
“Presumably she did. But I don’t re¬
member her; she died young.”
“Was she your father’s first dear de¬
ceased?”
Joe nodded. 5 ?i. V
’
“What was the»other one like?”
“Tall and pale, with a cough, and
a habit of taking.wintergreen-seented
snuff.”
“Would you like'me to take ( to win-
tergreen snuff?” she ^queried.
lie laughed.
“It hardly seems, dear, a3 if„you
could belong to the same race as those
two he. poor, pale, drudging,.woman,” said
“Do all' farmers’ Avives die early.
Joe?’
Joe did not answer. ^He was’un¬
folding the paper to read the latest news
by telegraph.
Cousin Simeon Ailesbury was the vil¬
lage doctor, a pleasant old man Avith a
bald head and a genial smile.
Ellen Ailesbury made friends , Avith him
at once.
“You are very like your mother,
child,” said he. “She always remiuded
me of a little mountain daisy.”
Ellen’s lip quivered. 1
“I am glad you speak solkiudly tome,
doctor,” said she, “for—for somehow
since I came to the old f arm-house^I feel
as if I Avere a fraud.”
“A fraud, my dear 1”
The bright tears sparkled/now. (said f
“I was brought up to teach,”
she. “I can do nothing about the
hoc^e. And Joe’s father seems to expect
me to be the maid-of-all-work. Of
course I can learn. I’d do anything'to
please Joe. But it’s hard to thinkVone
is such a disappointment.”
“Humph!” said Dr. Ailesbury,^“I’ll
speak to Joeabouc that.”
And that afternoon when Ellien and
Mrs. Dr. Ailesbusy Avere gone to/look at
a pretty cascade in the woods, the
old man had a longttalk with ?his cous-
jn’s son.
At the end of the week . Joe went back
to the Ailesbury farm,
“Well, I’m glad ye’ve got ^ through
gallivanting,” said the old man, with a
long breath of relief, “All the farm
Avork is behind, and Berenice Stubbs
ain’t worth half what she used to be. I
hope your wife is prepared to take right
hold of the butter and the poultry
and—”
“No, father, she isn’t,” said Joe, val¬
iantly. “Ellen isn’t very strong, and
she has never been used to the hardships
of farm life.”
“What did you marry her for?”
snarled the old man.
“To be my companion and friend,
father, not my drudge and seevant.”
“Your mother warn’t above work.”
“My mother Avas dead and buried, sir,
at the age of thirty—worn out, a3 all
the neighbors tell me, by the hardships
of her life. Your second wife, too, was
a victim of the Moloch of work. I don’t
intend to lay ELlen in the churchyard at
tbeir side.”
Mr. Ailesbury ’s broAv darkened. .
“I Avon’t have no one in the house who
don’t earn their board,” said he.
“Very well,” said Joe. “We’ll rent
the little Barrow house down Locust
Lane. It will be handy to my work at
the carriage factory, and Ellen shall have
a strong servant to help her Avith the
house.”
Old Ailesbury started up forgetful of
his infirmities.
“Joe,” said lie,brandishing liiscrutch,
“if you’ve been such a.fool as to^marry a
mere \vax doll—”
Just here his foot slipped; he fell, a
dead, heavy weight, his head against the
sharp edge of the table. The sentence
was never finished.
‘A month!” cried the old man,) in a
cracked voice, “a month since I had
that fall! Then I must V been out of
my mind. I must have had a fever.”
“Well, I guess you just have,” -said
Berenice.
“Aud who took care o’ me?”
“Mrs. Joe, to be sure. Nigbtl-ani
day. I ain’t no haud at nursin’'sick
people, and there was a hull week some
one had to sit up all night with you. ’
“But that slim, pale-faced cretur
never done it?”
“Y'es, she did. She said you was
Joe’s father, and there was somethin'
about your eyes an’ .forid, as you laid
asleep, that rem inded. her o’ him. And
she woulda’ leave you a minute.”
“God bless her!” said the old man,
turning his face away, with a curious
thrill at his heart.
“Joe,” said he, when his son came in
a lew hours later. “I’ve been very
sick?”
“Yes, father. ’
“And they tell me I nearly died. ’
“They tell you the truth, father.’
‘‘The doctor says if it hadu t. been for
your wife I d 'a’ been under the church
sod by now.” v
-
“I believe it is so. father.
TOCCOA, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 17, 1&91
- “Joe, ehe’s an angel 1”
“Don’t I know it, sir?”
“Joe, I’m sorry I said all them thing!
about her. Do you suppose, Joe, she'd
stay here if I’d hire a gal to do all tht*
rough work?”
“We have planned, sir, to move into
the Barrow cottage, and—”
“But you mustn’t do that, joe. 1
can’t feel to let her go,” urged the old
man. “All the luck would go out of
the house, once the door closed on her.
Ask her to stay, Joe. Tell her—”
The door opened softly. Ellie her¬
self came in.
“Father, do you want me to stay?”
she whispered.
“God knows that I do, child!”
“Then I’ll stay.”
That self-same evening Bereuice
Stubbs was engaged to remain perma¬
nently as house-worker and general fac¬
totum.
“Yes, I'll undertake all that,” said
she. “Mrs. Joe mayn’t know much
about housekeeping but there’s lot’s be¬
sides housekeepin’ in the world. Mrs.
Joe can do things I can’t.”
And Ellie took her place as queen ol
the little home kindom.
“Y'our wife must be a wonderful per¬
son, Joe,” said the squire, next week.
“Your father is never weary of singing
her praises, and Berenice Stubbs never
heard a Avoid in her disfavor. Aud of
all the people that I know, your father
and Berenice are the hardest to please.
Pray, is Mrs. Joe an enchantress?”
“Well, I rather think she is,” said
Joe.— Fashion Bazar.
Ninety Miles an Hour.
A mile in 30 4-5 seconds or at the rate
of over ninety miles an hour is the fast¬
est run ever made by a railroad train.
This unparalleled feat was accomplished
the other day on the Bound Brook rail¬
road between Neshaminy Falls, Penn.,
and Langhorne by engine No. 206,
drawing two ordinary coaches aud Presi¬
dent McLeod’s private car “Reacting,”
Avhich is equal to two notches in "weight.
Other mile3 were reeled off with speed
as astonishing as this crack mile, and at
the second of the “fly” the world’s
record was broken. The fastest mile
Avas scored in 39 4-5 seconds. The fast¬
est five miles in three minutes, 26 4-5
seconds. The fastest ten miles in seven
minutes, twelve seconds, averaging 'forty-
three seconds per mile, The occasion
for this race against time grew out ol
some good natured chaffing that took
place at Judge Green’s, dinner to the
Farmers’ Club at the judge’s residenca
in Easton. William M. Singerly was
telling Mr. McLeod, the President of the
Reading Railroad Company, that for
thirteen years he had been making it a
diversion to time fast railroad trains, and
that he had rarely traveled faster than
fifty seconds. The result of the conver¬
sation Avas that President McLeod made
preparations for yesterday's speed trial
and invited Mr. Singerly and a number
of friends to ride on the train, consist¬
ing of an engine aud three cars. The
engine Avas No. 206, of the Wootten pat¬
tern, burning anthracite coal, It has
five feet eight inch driving Avheels, and
is one of the ordinary patterns of fast
engines in use on the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad. It was built at Read¬
ing, Penn., and stands to-day as a tri¬
umph of the skill of American meckan-
ICS. The locomotive was handled by
Engineer John Hogan, and the fires
Avere looked after by Oscar Feshnev.—■
Washington Star.
Sago.
The native name of sago palm in Bor¬
neo is “rumbiah.” These palms grow
from twenty to fifty feet, generally along
the banks of rivers and iu swampy land.
There are two kinds—Melroxylon Lcevis
and Meh'oxylon Rumphii. The latter is
especially favored by nature by being
naturally protected from its incessant
enemy and devourer the Avild pig. It is
armed with strong long spikes, and in
cultivating sago nothing but good
strong fences will keep out these bur¬
glars of the forest, for where they art
bent on sago it takes a good deal to stof
them out. Sago is a leading feature in
Borneo; seven-eighths of the supply tc
Europe comes from that couutry. Three
trees supply more nutritive matter than
an acre of wheat, and six trees more
than an acre of potatoes, The sago is
obtained from the heart of the palm
in the following manner: Just befoie
tlie terminal spike of the inflorescence
appears, which grows to four or five feet
in length about six or eight years after
planting, the palm is cut down at the
root, divided mto lengths to suit the
manipulator, each length split in two,
when the pith is scooped or dug out
with bamboo hoes, a thick skin or rind
only being left. The pith is placed in
mats over a trough or canoe by the
waterside, and, water being constantly
poured over it and trodden out by the
natives, a rough separation of thestarchj
matter from the pithy wo ody matter is
arrived at, and the former runs off into
troughs below, while the latter remains
0 n the mat for pigs, etc. The raw sago
i s so ld to the Chinese, who put it through
many washings it°finally and send it to Singapore
an d thence reaches England.—
J Vew York Herald.
The Old Paint Brushes.
“What becomes of all the old paint
brushes?” I heard a curious individual
ask a New York piainter of prominence
recently. The answer was a revelation
to me, as it will be probably to many
readers of the Republic. “They ara
gathered up here in New York,” was
the reply, “by one individual, who visits
all the shops regularly aud buys them on
the same principle that the rag-picker
buys old rags. He takes them to his
shop, soaks them in a chemical prepara¬
tion and bleaches them. He then sells
them to the tooth-brush manufacturers,
who make them up into tooth-brushes of
the finest and most costly brand.”
The Gossiper does not tell this story
for the purpose of make teeth cleaning
uapopular, and he hopes that ladies with
beautiful teeth will continue on the best
of terms with their tooth powder and the
little machine with which they apply i/;.
— St. Louis Republic.
ALLIANCE TALKS.
NEWS OF XHE ORDER FROM
ALL SECTIONS.
, items of Interest
1 to Alliance-
men Everywhere.
EXTRACTS FROM THE REFORM PRESS.
The Alliance Sentinel (Rogers, Ark.)
says: “Let the Farmers Alliance and
Industrial Union wake up and put on llu
whole armour in behalf of the whole peo-
pie. The doctrine of the Alliance • is a
declaration in behalf of ali the people. It
is a doctrine that must be pressed to the
front, to the end that the oid ideas, pur¬
poses and policy of partyism mav be over¬
thrown, peaceably at the ballot box
Bossism has done its work, aud it is now
for the people to come to the rescue, and
secure good government for all.”
The Alliance ***
in Virginia is progressing
very satisfactorily vigorous iudeed. During the
past year a campaign of educa¬
tion has been conducted, with the usual
beneficial results. Harmony and unity
have been the distinguishing features of
this effort, and the brethren throughout
the State are reaping the reward which
fellows such action. The State officials
have been earnest, hard-working and
persistent, and have conducted the affairs
of the Alliance in an intelligent, conser¬
vative manner. Bright prospects and
rapid advancement await the Alliance in
Virginia.
The Farmers’ Alliance Journal (Balti¬
has more, Md.)says: “TheFarmers’Alliance
a grand and noble mission. Let it
not be perverted nor driven back from
the line of its duty. That mission is not
necessarily the establishment of sub¬
treasuries nor any other pet schemes, but
the education of its members in ecouomic
questions and relief from the burdens
borne by its member?. Financial reform
should be its watchword, and it should
be ever ready to profit by the wisdom of
others as developed in the discussion of
questions pertaining thereto.
***
The Milton, (W. Va.,) Star says: “The
idea of a partisan press withholding any
favorable Alliance news from the masses
in the hope that it xvill inure to the iujury
of the organization, is just as mea’n as it
will prove futile. The various State an-
nual meetings as they are being held dis¬
close the fact that the growth of the Al¬
liance still continues phenomenal. Thou¬
sands of sub-Aliiances and several States
have been organized during the past year.
The older organizations are increasing in
numbers where the material has not all
been exhausted. Better still, the mem¬
bership is daily growing more determined
to have at all hazards relief from moneyed
oppression.
The National Alliance (Houston, Tex.)
says: “A feature of the lust two or three
Aveeks has been the number of dormant
alliances revived, The principle of life
once instilled never dies There is that
in true alliance principles which once
seen is never forgotten. The final perse-
vereace idea is a fixture in the alliance. It
will be very difficult even to get enlight¬
ened fdliancemen to vote all the money
to the speculators and national bankers,
and poverty and degradation to their own
families. No, they used t > do that, but
they know better now. 'They may be be¬
hind with their dues, and not in good
standing in the alliance, but they have
seen the light and will never forget it.”
*
The Alliance * *
inColifornia has become
the wonder of the organization. Its
rapid through substantial growth, its
quick perception of the aims and pur¬
poses of the order, and there idiness with
which it has fallen into line and entered
the contest with all the vigor, intelligence
and determination of the older organiza¬
tions, is a marvel to all who give it a
moment’s consideration. The brethren
ot that great state have set an example
tire vyorthy order. of emulation California throughout is day the en-
to one of
the bauner Alliance States. Its officers
are of the highest rank, vigorous, faith
ful and intelligent. They have done
their work grandly and weli, and are en¬
titled to the reward which should follow
such action. The Alliance press of the
State has done a great work and is
worthy of all praise. Taken as a whole
the Alliance of California should have a
position in the front rank, among the
most inportant states.—Economist.
*
The Alliance Vindicator (Sulphui
Spriugs, Tex.,) says: “As there is so
much said about the cost to the govern¬
ment to own the railroais, we give some
figures below so every man can under¬
stand for himself. Many of our opposers
say it would cost at least ten billion dol¬
lars to buy the roads. Now let’s sec.
There are about 160,000 miles of rail¬
road in America. No well-informed man
will contend that they cost over an aver¬
age of $20,000 a mile, which would mako
their cost only $3,200,000,000. The
savings that government ownership
would give in carrying the mail and re¬
ductions in officers’ salaries and cutting
down thousands of useless officers, lavv-
yers, consolidated dep ds in tOAvns and
other matters, to say nothing of reduction
in rates, would pay that amount in
twenty years. The government could
reduce traffic one half, which added
would pay for them in about five years.”
*
7k *
WHY NOT THE SUB-TREASURY PLAN?
Because, with this crop of 550,000.000
bushels of wheat, it would put $150,000,
000 more into the pockets of the farmers
and yet wheat not cost the consumer one
cent more on the bushel.
It would never do to have such a plan
in operation. Because it would give the
Southern producer fully $75,000,000
more on the, cotton crop and yet cotton
cost the mills not a cent more per bale—
lifting untold mortgages from those
southern plantatiops.
It would never do to let the toiling
people open such a doonvay to prosperity
and independence. Because it would
distribute $10,000,000,000 of the accu¬
mulated bank wealth and stock Avealth
over the great level of anxious human
hearts—to lift them into an atmosphere
n>w wholly unknown.
It would never do to encourage such
wild aud-crszy dreams as that.—Indus¬
trial Union, Creston, la,
***
The Alliance Advocate (Uouisville,
Teun.) says: “Time was when the po
pie were sovereign in this country, but
now let a man but expre-s a difference <*f
opinion from those who have set them-
selves up as dictators of our governmeut,
and the old party press unite in branding
him as a traitor, a crank,or an anarchist,
Time was when the advice of the farmer
was nation, sought in the council chambers of the
and peace and plenty prevailed in
the land; but now the farmer is used
merely as a tool to serve the interests of
Wa’I street’s hireling*, and his attempts
to regain his rightful position are regard
el as “dangerous” by the powers that
b ■, and no expense, no intrigue will b *
spared to defeat the will of thepe>ple.
Such a condition of things cannot last,
It is impossible for a republican form of
government to exist under rule of moneyed
aristocracy. It is but a single step re-
moved from a monarchy, an 1 that step is
being shortened with each and every sue-
eeeding administration.”
The Toiler (Nashville, Tenn.,) says:
“Thomas Jefferson was an advocate of a
arge circulating medium. He advocated
1 volume of $200,000,000 when the pop-
illation was less than 8,000,000. At the
same ratio to-day we should have a vol-
time of over $1,600,000,000 instead of
toss than $400,000,000. Now the alii-
t nce and many others dema id an in-
creased volume of the currency, and we
are constantly met with the
argument that it is undemo-
erotic. Jefferson was always
Democrat, and he wanted full legal ten¬
der notes, issued by the government,
without the intervention of banks, and if
the Democratic party of the United
Stat s would go back to the old party of
Jefferson, Jackson and Calhoun they
could sweep the country, But|they must
•iivest themselves of the Wall street in¬
cubus that holds them down. Thecoun
try must have more money aud less
misery. The question is one of more
vital importance than all else, and the
Democratic party can not allow it to be
side tracked by any little side issue.
*
The Bevier * *
“Farmers, (Mo.) Appeal says:
now is the time for you to
build up your Unions. Turn out and at¬
tend your meetings regularly and help to
make them pleasant and instructive.
Don’t stay at home when you know that
duty and patriotism demands your pres¬
ence at the Union to aid those who are
working zealously for the cause. There
are quire many questions and matters that re¬
your attention and the proper place
to discuss them is iu the Union. Don’t
forget that the causes that led you to
organize still remain, and it will require
years of constant and steady warfare upon
the oppressors of labor, before they can
be removed from power. The enemies
< f progress aud reform are watching you
closely and hail with delight and pleas¬
ure every move that has a tendency to
influence you to^become indifferent to¬
ward the Order and its principles. It is
your duty to watch them as diligently as
they watch you. They are constantly
forming plans aud schemes to bned dis¬
sensions in your ranks iu order to dis¬
rupt and destroy the organization, and
nothing would piease them more than to
see you forsake the Union and abandon
the work so well begun. If you relax
your efforts and fall into the trap that
your vigilant merciless foes have pre¬
pared for you, the privileged classes,
ever ready to take advantage of your
apathy and indifference, will pursue their
devilish schemes of robbery and extortion
more aggressively and arrogant y than
ever. Stand by the Union, then, it is
your only hope of salvation.
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Alliance (Tallahassee, Fla.) says:
“ The malignant attacks recently made
upon L. L. Polk, the national head of
our order has aroused the righteous in¬
dignation of all true and loyal Alliance-
men. Does the refutation of these vile
and unfounded assaults give full repa¬
ration for the injustice done and the
damage intended? Must the Avhole time
and attention of Alliance be engrossed in
defending the character of its member¬
ship from calumny and abuse? Is this
great brotherhood to become content
w>th simply a disproval of the charges
that are now constantly filling up the
columns of the partisan press? Are the
instigators of this unholy crusade to for¬
doors ever go unAvhipped ol justice? Have the
of the tribunals of justice been
closed against the admission of this sub¬
missive and long-suffcriDg people? Are
they to be falsely and foully assailed with
impunity? Has civil and criminal re¬
dress for slander and libel been wiped
from the statute books of this country?
This floodtide of vituperation, this vile
practice, has been carried too far. It is
high t'rne that a stop was put to it. An
appeal to the courts Avhich stand open
to the humblest citizen must be resorted
to. It will have a salutary eff ct in de-
tering evil doers from their vile practice
of defamation.
Public opinion should frown dovrn and
place under the ban every newspaper that
becomes a party in such an unholy war¬
fare. It must be very evident to every Alii
anceman that when tlnse damaging Officials, re-
ports are put afloat against their
which have no foundation in truth, it is
meant as an attack- nnnn .“M nnitv
ol
be resented by them as such. So far as
the policy of this paper is concerned, we
now give notice that it will always be
sssks-S and it shall condemn the acts of
never
the Alliance or its officials until there has
been a regular investigation by the proper
procedure as provided for in the consti-
tution and laws of the order. We intend
to hold up the hands of our officials
through good aud evil report, and we
intend to stand by the order in its en-
tirety through weal and through woe.”
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alliance demagogues.
One of the pet phrases of the State
press is “the demagogues who lead the
Alliance” and the “office-seekers in
charge of the Alliance.” This is stated
in earnestness and faith by some Avho be-
lieve it; by others it is simply a part of
their tactics in politics which they have
been using for twenty years. Whoever
opposes office-seeker them is a demagogue, and every
who has not their indorse-
ment is a bad man from Bitter creek,
The people ought to know that the Alii-
ance of Alabama is its own boss and its
own leader. There is no man who can
, lead 1 ,, the AlIifiDce .... . . the path it .
except in
nas iaia om. There is no man m the
order who does not know that he can not
doit. The officers of the Alliance are it*
accredited agents, to do its will and push
* ts purposes. While doing that they w,!l
the encouraged line 7 but when they vary from
some candid and zealous brother
will tap them on the shoulder and kindly
admonish him. The Alliance is
founded on principles; and these
unpretentious ^ and rank aud file members,
seem to be not particularly bright,
know about as much about it as anybody,
ouc can k'ad them off fr m the prin-
ciples, and whenever a so-called leader
S et8 the there i- very little doubt
that he will be admonished and looked
aftrr without delay. But these brethren
who have been put in the offices, have
been chosen on account of tlacir ti lelity
to the cause aud the capacity they have
shown for the work, and they do not re-
quire much looking after; but if any of
them should begin to bobble or to run off
on a tangent they would very soon find
that they are servants and not bosses.
The press of Alabama is giving is self very
uonwessnry concern in its admonitions
to the Alliance about its demagogic
leaders might and < Iliee seeking members. ^It
take a very cursory view of the
gentlemen it is commending as statesmen
and pinks of perfection and find overv
one of them cither an office-holder or an
aspirant. It is awful bad for these Alli-
r.nce fellows to seek office, but these oth-
or gentlemen were born with a title to
one for half of their lives.—Alliance
Herald (Montg. ni ry, Ala )
’T'T-I 1 Txl_j E AA/1 YV \AJ T
li/Li YY WivLlDi
GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND
CABLE CULLINGS
Of Brief Items of Interest From
Various Sources.
The Olympic theater at St. Paul, IVIinn.,
was burned Friday. Loss, $100,000.
In a riot in Rio Janeiro Friday, several
persons were killed and many injured.
Q leen Victoria will raise to the peer¬
age the Avidow of the Right Honorable
William Henry Smith.
The Olivet & Roberts Wire Company,
of Pittsburg, Pa., on Friday made a re¬
quest to its creditors for an extension.
By an accident on the Hudson River
railroad, near Hyde Park, N. Y., Satur¬
day, Arthur Small, fireman, and two
brakemen Averc kil ea.
II. S. Mann & Co., dry goods dealers,
Rochester, N. Y., failed Friday for $100,-
000. H. B. Clafliu, of New York, is the
largest creditors, $20,000.
Fire in New York Thursday destroyed
a five-storv broAvn Hone mansion, at 101
Fifth avenue, owrd by Mrs. Haywood
Cutting. Loss $200,000.
A cablegram of Saturday says: It is
estimated that no fewer than 22,000,000
peasants in Russia are norv destitute and
must be taken care of for the next ten
months.
The extensive planing mills, factories,
Avarehouses, ihcds, etc., composing the
p!ai t of Messrs. Meel & Wampler, at
McKeesport, Pa., Avere completely de¬
stroyed by fire Sunday.
A Avrcck occurred on the Albany aud
Susquehanna railroad Thursday near
Binghampton, N. Y., by the second sec¬
tion of a train running into the first sec¬
tion at a cuive in the road. One man
was killed and several injured.
At the annual reunion of the New En¬
gland survivors of rebel prisons held at
Worcester, Mas 1 *., Saturday, a committee
was nppointel to frame resolutions deny¬
ing the published statement of the late
Jefferson Davis, that northern prisoners
in southern prisons were treated no worse
than the exigencies of war demanded.
A desperate attempt was made to hold
up a south bound passenger train on the
’Frisco road, 100 miles north of Paris,
Texas, at 3 o’clock Sunday morning.
Several shots were fired. Conductor Carr
knocked one of the robbers down with
his lamp just as the man Avas preparing
to fire with his pistol in the conductor’s
breast.
Exports of specie fr<>m the port of New
York for the week ended Oct. 10th,
amounted to $838,217, of which $5,730
aa as gold and $832,617 silver. Six hun¬
dred dollars in gold and all the silver
went to Europe and $5,130 in gold Avent
to South America. Imports $3,754,494, of specie
during the week amounted to
of which $3,735,602 was gold and $18,-
892 silver.
The October report of the statistician
of the depirtmect of agriculture at
Washington relates tc yields per acre of
grain and the condition of corn, pota-
toes, buckwheat and tobacco. Estimated
average yields are: Wheat, 15 bushels;
oats, 29.3; barley, 25.8; rye, 14.4. The
condition of the corn crop is 92.5;
buckwheat, 92.7; potatoes, 91.S; to-
bacco, 9o.o.
A* a meeting Thursday at Lansing,
^ich , of UiC &tate Farmers’ AII.ai.ee,
th .<\ fo „ lowl “? resolution , was adopted
without a dissenting voice: Resolved,
Tha‘ we, the Farmers’ Alliance and Indus-
endorafl tnal ^xi, the 0U Ocala n ° f i tlie platform , fl ate ° f and J A C J further n ?u D ’
declare to the oppressed toilers of Amen-
at sSSHS the Clnclnnatl conference. 153 *
Dispatches dated September 27th,
which reached london from Amoy, a
seaport town of China on the island of
the same name, announce that there has
been serious rioting forty miles from the
town of Amoy The population hundred of Amoy, thou-
amounting to about three
sand people, is in a great state of excite-
ment. The riot was caused by fiscal
abuses. Se\’eral mandarins and other
officials were killed by the rioters The
riots have have been uuclled.
Her Name is Ruth.
Ex-President Cleveland in answer to
aQ inquiry regarding the name of the
newcomer in his house, said:
“We have settled on a name and it is
Ruth. This wss the os me ol Mts. Ceve-
land’s grandmother and has always been
especially . liked by her.
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000 were a ires tea for crimes committed un-
derjfche influence of intoxicating drinks.
NUMBER II
DID NOT MATERIALIZE.
ine ^"OPOSea LOttOIl beed Trust
Falls Through.
A meeting of the planters of sea island
cotton was held at Charleston, S. C.,
Thursday. It was attended by most of
the planters on John’s, James, Ediston
and Wadmalow island, the area were the
Carolina long staple is cultivated. Afu r
a full discussion, it was decided that the
plan to combine in order to prevent the
sale of sea island cotton seed was imprac-
ticable, and the project was therefore,
abandoned. In the d suission
it was stated that during the past
session a new variety of cotton had ap
peared, which was grown from green
seed, and was entirely distinct from Sea
Island, but which, nevertheless, had a
staple of from one to one and a half
inches. The opinion was expressed that
in a few years the variety would formida-
bly compete with Sea Island. This ends
the attempt to form a combination
against the sale of Sea Islnnd cotton seed,
which is purchased in South Carolina by
long staple cotton groweis of Geoigii
aud Florida for planting purposes.
THE EARTH QUAKED.
Many Buildings Damaged and
People TerriDly Frightened.
The heaviest earthquake shock ever
felt in California was experienced at 10:30
o’clockSuuday ed night at Napa. People rush¬
iuto the streets in their night clothes
in great excitement. Chimneys toppled
over; several buildings were shattered
and badly shaken up. Drug s ore fix¬
tures suffered greatly, bottles being
thrown from the shelves to the fl >or and
other damage done. The Masonic tem¬
ple building was shattered. At the stat-i
insane asylum great excitement prevailed,
the patients being almost uncontrollable.
It is reported the building was cracked
and other damage done.
RICHMOND & DANVILLE R- R.
Atlanti and Charlotte Air-Line Division.
Condensed Schedule of Passenger
Trains, in Effect Aug. 2nd, 1801.
NORTHBOUND. No. 38. No, 10. No. 12. *
EASTERN TIME. Daily. Daily. Daily.
Lv. Atlanta (E.T.) 1 25 pm 7 20 pm 9 10 am
Chamblee..... 7 59 pm 9 43 am
Norcros8....... 8 11 pm 9 55 am
Duluth........ 8 24 pm 10 06 am
Suwanoe....... 8 37 pm 10 17 am
Buford........ 8 52 pm 10 33 am
Flowery Gainesville..... Branch 9 07 pm 10 48 »m
2 52 pm 9 24 pm 11 11 am
Lula.......... 3 14pru 9 50ptn 11 36 am
BeT.ton........ 9 56 pm 11 40 am
Cornelia....... 10 25 pm 12 04 pm
Mt. Airy....... 10 28 pm 12 09 pm
Tocooa......... 4 02 pm 10 58 pm 12 39 pen
Westminster ... .......11 39 pm 1 20 pji
Seneca ........ .......12 01 am 1 42 pm
Central........ ....... 12 40 am 2 85 pm
Easleys........ Greenville..... ....... 1 03 am 3 05 pm
6 05 pm 1 33 am 3 30 pm
Greers......... ....... 1 59 am 4 01 pm
Wellford....... ....... 2 16 am 4 19 pm
Clifton........ Spartanburg... 6 57 pm 2 36 am 4 43 pm
....... 2 55 am 4 57 pm
Cowpens Gaffney....... ...... ....... 3 00 am 5 Oi pm
....... 8 28 am 5 24 pm
Grover......... Blacksburg..... ....... 3 46 am 5 42 pm
....... 3 50 am 5 51 pm
King’s Mount’ll 4 17 am 6 08 pm
Gastonia....... 4 50 am 6 32 pm
Lowell........ 500 am 6 43 pm
Bellemont..... 5 11am 6 54 pm
Ar. Charlotte...... 9 10 pm 5 40 »m 7 20 pm
SOUTHBOUND. No. 37, No. 11. No. 9.
Daily. Daily. Daily.
Lv. Charlotta..... 9 35 am 2 50 am
Bellemont..... 3 15 am
Lowell......... 3 26 am
Gastonia....... 3 43 am
King’s Mount’n 4 17 nm
Grover......... 4 33 am
Blacksburg.... Gaffney....... 4 43 am
5 02 am
Cowpens...... Olifton........ 6 27 a-u
5 31‘ a in
Wellford..... Spartanburg... 11 39 am 5 48 am
6 10 am
Greers...... 6 28 am
Greenville... 12 3C pm 7 00 am
Easleys...... Central..... • t 7 25 am
8 10 am
Seneca...... 8 38 am
Westminster. 8 53 am
Toccoa..... 2 25 pm 9 35 am
Mt. Airy.... 10 10 am
Cornelia.... 10 15 am
Bellton..... 10 88 am
Lula....... 8 14 pm 10 41 am
Gainesville..... 11 11 am
Flowery Branch 11 81 am
Buford........ 11 46 am
Suwanee....... 11 59 am
Duluth........ 1212 pul
Norcross...... 12 24 pm
Chamblee...... 12 35 pm
Ar. Atlanta (E. T.) 5 00 1 10 pm
Additional trains Nos. 17 an 1 18—Lula ac¬
commodation, daily except Sunday, leaves At¬
lanta 5 30 p m, arrives Lula 8 12 p m. Return¬
ing, leaves Lula 6 00 a to, arrives Atlanta 8 50
a rn.
Between Lula and jl’
1140 am, arrived bens 12 05 a m »nd
140 pm. Returning leave Athens, No. 10
daily, except Sunday, and No. 12daily, and 7 20 v> ni
and 8 30 a m, arrive Lula 9 20 pm 10 30
a ^
tween Toccoa and Etberton-No. 61 dai-
ly; except Sunday, leave Toccoa 12 55 pm
^^^TcxSoa^is 'sjindayfleave rEirerton’5 45°a
am.
No9 . n an , U carry Pullman Slaepen be-
tween Washington and Knoxvi le vi.i. Balmbury,
“
On No. 11 r.o change in day eoachee from
NewTork to A lanta. *
Nw. 37 and 38, Waehingt on and Southwest-
Limited, between Atlanta and
not exceeding $2.00 over and above mp usual Pull-
man charges to any point. -
j ng car ,eservations, confer with local agent*,
or address, L.L. McCL^KEY,
JA3. L. TAYLOR, Dit.
GenWju^Ag L q
^ ^ GREEN, SOL. HASS,
Gen’l Manager. Traffic Manager,
Washington, D. C. Richmond, Va.
O. P. Superintendent, HAMMOND, Atlanta, Ga. .
LEWIS DAVIS,
ATTORNEY at law
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
P™**? in th e
, f
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Western Circuit. Prompt entrustedvo Attention him. will
oe g ven to ali buai> e»»
The collection of debts will have up*-©-
«' atte it ion.