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THE TOCCOA NEWS
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL.
VOLUME XIX.
life and death.
" eome the waves that lave the strand,
As go the winds that sweep the lea,
Bo come and go the faces strange,
And life is felt in all we see-
The life that chills,
The life that cheers.
Is seen and felt in ev’ry form*
But hearts that thrill
And souls that fill
M'ith love for all find love alone.
But more than form the spell that binds
In love or turns the heart awayy
Above the earthly types the soul
■May mount to God’s eternal day.
In essence there
The good and fair
Live on, live on, which come and go
1 he joys and fears,
'1 he hopes and tears,
That mingle life and death below.
As tides of light the shades of night
Forever chase from shore to shore;
So streams of life during in,
Dispelling dar’-^ ness evermore.
j 113 ‘Aght and breath,
Or gloom and death,
Accept, reject, just as you will—
Despair and death,
Or lasting breath,
The choice is yours—which law fulfllf
—II. N. Maguire in Boston Transcript.
,
CLARISSAS LECTURE.
BY AMY RANDOLPH.
“The‘Inconsistencies of Love,’” re¬
peated Jessie Jerniyn. “What a’funny
name! And how strange it seems to
have our Click’s name printed up in big,
fat, black letters at the Lyceum door,
with ‘Admittance fifty cents’ under it.
Wed, she always said she was deter¬
mined to make herself a career and it
seems she has succeeded. I wonder
bow much she gets a night! I only have
twenty dollars a month for drudging
uwny, six hours a day, at that miserable
district school in Turtle Valley. And
then think of tho delights of having
one’s name in the newspaper, and being
referred lo as ‘our distinguished towns¬
woman !’ ”
Jessie stood as if transfixed before the
big double doors of the Turtle Valley
Lyceum, her eyes wide open as two blue
moon*., her rosy lips apart. Harry Jer-
‘uiyi*., her towering at least ten inches above
head, also tcok note of the legends
inscribed on the bulletin-board in alter¬
nate red and black lines, with a full
complement of exclamation points.
I “I wonder how she does it?’” said he.
“I suppose it’s very simple,” observed
Jessie.
“Not so simple as you suppose,” said
the young farmer. “I know that time
l rose to address the Agricultural Club,
I felt exactly like a wooden dummy.
All my points had gone out of my head,
and I couldn’t think of a mortal word to
eay\ And Click is such a gentle, soft-
voiced little thing.”
Clarissa Courthope—Jessie Jermyn's
Cousin Click—had left her uucle’s
kindly roof at the age of eighteen, de¬
termined to make a name aud a liveli¬
hood for herself. She had stumbled by
accident, as it were, into the lecturing
arena. She had enlisted as “com¬
panion” to a strong-minded woman, who
addressed her sister women from the
rostrum, and on one occasion, in a soli¬
tary little mountain village, when Miss
Cackleton had unexpectedly succumbed
to an attack of hoarseness and influenza,
Clarissa had valiantly studied up her
notes and addressed tho assembled audi¬
ence in her stead.
She was so successful that thencefor¬
ward she had decided on the sword
wherewith she would open the world’s
oyster, and she had achieved the fruition
of her hopes.
Uncle and Auut Jermyn marveled at
her success. Harry shrugged his shoul¬
ders and observed that he never had
supposed so strong-midded a bird couli
have been nurtured in the old farm nest.
Jessie sighed deeply as she contrasted
her own slender earnings with the prices
commanded by the young lecturer; and
this was Click’s first return to the homo
of her girlhood. She had been an ugly
duckling in those days—a peg which
seemed to St neither in the square holes
nor the round ones—only “our Click.”
She was famous now, and all the rural
world was crowding to see aud hear her.
“I could write a lecture, Fin sure,”
said Jessie, half admiringly, half resent¬
fully.
i, “So could I," said Harry.
“Let’s try,” proposed Jessie.
“Nonsense,” said her brother.
But the idea lingered in his brain for
all that. Click laughed merrily at the
fancy.
“Anybody could write it,” said she.
“I’m not so altogether sartin o’ that,”
said the old farmer, patting his niece's
smooth, seai-brown head,^covered with
masses of shining braids.
Click was not pretty, but she had soft,
pleading eyes of the deeper wine-brown,
a good healthy color and teeth whiter
than new milk. Her dress, of plain,
black silk, fitted her like a glove, and
the narrow frill of lace she wore at
throat and wrists was of the finest val-
encienues, and fastened with a dead gold
bar.
“She looks a lady all orar,” r" 1 Mrs.
Jermyn, proudly.
“She is a lady,” pronounced the farm-
er. “One o’ nature's turning out.”
“Listen, Ciick,” said merry Jessie,
“Fve written a lecture. Do you want to
hear it?”
“I’m all curiosity,” declared Click.
And Jessie read it—a heterogeneous
jumble of fact and fancy, fun and senti-
ment.
“How would that do for an au-
dience?” cried the little school-teacher,
audaciously
“I am sure they would be amused,”
said smiling Click.
“And Harry has written one, too,”
persisted Jessie. “Where is it, Harry?
A regular burlesque—all about love and
its inconsistencies. You see there is
nothing to prevent two preaching on that
topic! On, it’s capital!”
“Don’t “Nonsense!” chatter. said Jessie Harry, 1” reddening,
“But it really is so funny! Come—I’ve
let Click hear mine; it’s only f-dr that
you should follow suit. Give it to me,
Hal; let me read it to Click!” coaxed
Jessie.
But Harry rose and went out of the
room ; he thought the joke,if joke it was,
had ( been carried far enough.
1 he next day was the day cf the Lv-
ceum lecture. All the Jermyn family
were to drive into the village to witness
the .oratorical triumph of their little girl.
Mrs. Jermyn had arranged for a cold
supper,served an hour earlier than, usual,
so that she and Grandma Jermyn might
have time to dress. The house was to
be locked up and left,for even Jeremiah,
the farm-hand, and Arabella, the bound
girl, were to be privileged to go. Jessie
came “Hal!” flying to her brother’s room.
she cried—“oh Hall Click
has gone! In the wagon with father and
mother! I thought you were going to
drive her with the covered buggy and
White Lightning?”
“No,” he said, curtly. “Why should
I obtrude myself upon her? I am going
to drive you!”
“Why?” repeated bewildered Jessie.
“Because you are Harry and she is
Click!”
“Is that such a very good reason?”
“Harry, you used to like herl”
“I like her now; but can't you see,
Jessie, that Miss Courthope, the popular
lecturer, is quite a different person from
our little Click!”
“No,” cried Jessie, “I don’t?”
“She is used to the cultivated circles
of the city,” said Harry. “We are in
another sphere. I thought of that when
you were reading her your little effusion.
She laughed; but are you quite sure that
there was not a certain ladylike scorn
mingled with her merriment? I, for one,
am very thankful that she had not the
chance to criticise my nonsense! I’m
sorry I wrote it Jessie!”
“But she has had the chance,” said
Jessie, coloring to the roots of her crinkly
yellow hair. That burlesque was so
funny I couldn't resist the temptation of
letting her see it I Oh, Harry, don't be
vexed with me 1”
lie bit his lip.
“What did she say?”
“I don’t.know. I put it on her dressing-
table before tea. She knows your writ¬
ing; she'll understand what it is.”
Harry gave a sort of groan.
“What a fool I was!” he said. “Well,
I suppose there’s no use scolding you,
Jessie!”
Jessie's lip quivered; she lookc'
timidly at her brother.
“Oh, Harry, have I done wrong?”
it Kiss me, puss. I dare say you
meant no harm,” he said, with a forced
laugh. “Come, let’s make haste, or we
shall be late. Stay, though; run and
get me that silly manuscript. I should
like to see it flying up chimney in a
stream of sparks before I go,”
Jessie, overwhelmed with tardy peni¬
tence, flew to obey his behests. Pres¬
ently she enne back, looking rather dis-
comfited.
“It’s gone, Harry,” said she. “I
can’t fiud it auy where. She must have
put it away.”
Once more the young man groaned,
then he laughed.
“Kismet!” said he, dramatically.
“Come, let’s go.”
Had he but known where his luckless
roll of manuscript wa3 at that identical
moment, he would scarcely have recon¬
ciled himself with such philosophy to
the decrees of “Kismet,” the unalterable.
At the eleventh hour, after Miss Court-
hope was already seated in the family
carriage, she discovered that she had
left the all-importaut lecture in her
room.
“Arabella,” she said, to the little
sewinginaid who stood gaping on the
steps, “run as fast as you can to my room
and get me the packet of written papers
on the table.”
“Yes, miss,” said Arabella; and off
she sped, proud to be ol use to the lit¬
erary young lady.
“Thar’s two on ’em,” said Arabella.
“I guess it’s the topper.uost one.”
Aud so Harry's burlesque was going
to the Lyceum safe inside Miss Court-
hope’s mink muff, while her own effusion
lay peacefully dressing-table. by the blue-satin pincush¬
ion on her
The building—no very spacious edifice
—was crowded with the literary and aes¬
thetic world of Turtle Valley. The squire
and his family, the parson and his eleven
olive branches, the storekeeper and the
mill hands crowded up against the dress¬
maker, the telegraph operator and the
genteel elderly ladies who lived in the
neat white houses, on the interest of
their money. In short, the indescrib¬
able conglomeration which one only sees
in an inland village. Miss Courthope
advanced graciously and gracefully to
the footlight-circled front with her roll
of manuscript in her hand—for it was
one of her idiosyncrasies to be unable to
dispense with written memoranda—and
opened it.
There was a moment’s silence, The
audience sat breathless; the lecturer
seemed stricken dumb, and in that awful
second, Harry Jermyn, whose eyes were
marvelously acute, recognized his own
writing in Clarissa’s hands, He half
rose; then sat down again. The con-
scious Jessie sat fanning herself. Tbe
good farmer and his wife stared with all
their eyes.
But Clarissa Courthope was equal to
the emergency. She fell back oa her
memory and her womanly skill in impro-
visation. If the audience did not get
precisely “The Inconsistencies of Love,”
they got something quite as brilliant and
amusing. After that first brief pause
there was no further hesitation nor lack
of utterance; and when at last she sat
down, the little lyceum rang with au¬
plause. Click!” cried
“Oh, Click! Oh, Jes-
sie, running into the miniature “green
room” at the side of the platform. “I’m
so proud of you!”
“I am very glad of that,” said Click,
wiping the dews from her forehead with
her cobweb of a pocket handkerchief,
“But the next time Harry wants to play
a practical joke on me, I entreat that he
won’t select the time that I am standing
before the most oritical audience that
TOCCOA, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 1 , 1891
could possibly be selected—one’s own
old friends and neighbors. It may be
very funny, but there is certainly a spice
of cruelty about it that—that—well, in
fact, it came very near unwomaning me,
if I may be allowed to coin the word.”
“I knew you were deeply offended,”
said Harry Jermyn “And I should have
LVofblTmoittwil
wag »
Miss Courthope colored and shrank
back from the sternness of his tone.
Jessie looked from one to the other;
then she caught at the manuscript.
“It’s my fault!” she exclaimed sud¬
denly. “All my fault, Click 1 I put it
on your dressing table for you to read.
I—I never thought of such a complica¬
tion as this. Oh 1 don’t blame Harry.
He had nothing whatever to do with
it.”
The crimson blood dyed Clarissa’s
cheek more deeply than ever. She hes¬
itat'd; opened her lips as if to speak,
and still remained silent. Harry rose
and left the room without further com¬
ment.
“Go after him, Click! Don’t let him
leave you in anger!” cried Jessie; and
Clarissa obeyed. Like a deer she sped
d$wn the hall, overtaking him just
where the moonlight streamed in white
glory through the cresent-shaped north
casement.
“Harry! I spoke unadvisedly I” she
faltered. “Won’t you forgive me?”
“Certainly. What. have I to for¬
give?”
But the tone wasfai from satisfactory.
She stood looking piteously at him. All
of a sudden she burst out crying.
In a second he had her in his arms,
clasped close to his breast.
“Click! My love—my love!”
“Oh, Harry! Harry!”
That was the wooing and the winning.
Certainly short—possibly sweet. But it
needed nothing more.
“Talk about the ‘Inconsistencies of
Love,’ ” said Jessica, who was the happi¬
est of little sisters, “here’s Click—haa
always declared she meant to marry a
city millionaire, and Harry has said that
a lecturing lady was his special detesta¬
tion. And Click i3 engaged to Harry
and Harry to Click; and the strangest
part of it is that they both seem per¬
fectly satisfied !”—New York Ledger.
The Supply of Coal Oil is Immense.
Concerning the facilities of the Stan¬
dard Oil Company to supply the entire
world on short notice, Mr. Dodd made
some startling statements.
“The Standard Company has now
over 25,000 miles of pipe lines,” said he,
“including local pipes which bring oil
from the wells to the main lines. Of
main lines, there are two extending to
New York, two to Philadelphia, one to
Baltimore, three or four to Pittsburg,
one to Cleveland, one to Buffalo, one to
Chicago, and a new one which is being
constructed to Chicago. These take the
oil to the refineries located at the termini
of the pipe lines. The amount of oil
running through these mains is about
2,940,000 gallons per day, or 70,000
barrels. Of this amount, fully one-thiri
comes to New York.
“Originally, oil was taken from North¬
western Pennsylvania only. Afterward
it was found in Southwestern New York
State. The production in those regions
is now light, tne largest finds being in
the vicinity of Pittsburg and points ex¬
tending into West Virginia. There is a
big oil field in Northern Ohio, but tho
oil is inferior in quality and of use mostly
as fuel, being transported to Chicago in
pipes for that purpose. A small per¬
centage of illuminating oil is obtained
from it, and one of the largest refineries
of the company is being constructed in
Chicago for the purpose of getting out
the percentage. An oil well rs never
quite exhausted. Small wells are still
beiDg operated in the region of the first
discoveries of 1859. At times we have
had 30,000,000 barrels stored in big
brick tanks, such as you see along the
Erie Railway, to the number of perhaps
thirteen thousand, in New York and
Pennsylvania. We have about 10,000,-
000 barrels stored at present.”—New
Fork Telegram.
Sensations in Hanging.
Captain Montagnac,who was executed
iu France during the religious wars, but
was rescued from the gibbet by a Mar¬
shal Turrene after having hanged by the
neck for nearly three minutes, said that
he had lost all pain the moment the trap
sprung, and even complained at being
rescued and taken away from a beautiful
light that defied description. Another
culprit, who escaped through the break¬
ing of the rope, said that after a second
or two of suffering a light appeared, and
across it a beautiful avenue of trees.
AU accounts seem to agree,in one par¬
ticular, at least, that the suffering is but
momentary; that a pleasurable feeling
immediately succeeds; that colors of va¬
rious hues start up before the eyes, and
that when these have been gazed at for a
limited space the rest is total oblivion.—
St. Louis Republic.
TTe Have Plenty Elbow Room.
A statistician says: “Few are aware
of the vast number of people that can be
placed on a small tract of ground. When
we speak of millions of men we are apt
to picture to ourselves an almost bound¬
less mass of humanity; yet 1,000,000
men, standing close together, each not
occupying more than four square feet,
could be placed on a patch but little
more than a third of a mile square. A
square mile will accommodate 7,965,-
000. The whoie population of the world
could stand on two townships.”
Water Lily and Snapping Turtle.
A snapping turtle not much largei
than a trade dollar suns his spotted shell
and salmon-colored neck on the leaves of
the Sierra Leone water lily in the Union
Square fountain, New York, and divide!
public attention with th* sparrows that
hop do«n there to bathe. Tbelily leave,
are fulls fourteeh inches in diameter and
ewtlj support the turtles .___.
Lhxcago 1 ime*.
CONVICTS FREED.
THE MINERS GET IN THEIR
WORK AT BRICEVILLE
By Swooping Down Upon the Stoek-
the Occupants.
A Knoxville, denn., dispatch siys;
At an early hour Friday night an attempt
was made to get through a business mes-
sage to Briceville. There wi.a no re¬
spouse to the telegrtphic signal. Th» n
the next station, and the next was tried,
until at last Clinton responded. The
operator there was asked what was the
matter. He looked out in the direction
of Briceville, and at once replied : “I ^ee
flected a great light, as of an immense fire, re¬
in the sky. The wire to Brice¬
ville is cut, and I can’t call it up.”
At once the suspicion arose, a moment
later to be strengthened into conviction
—the miners had cut the wires aud taken,
possession. Intense excitement prevail¬
ed, A telegram fiom Clinton read:
“Three thousand miners had gathered
around among the hills during the day.
As darkness came on they gathered in
little parties, these parties joining each
other, until four parties were formed.
As by a preconcerted signal they closed
in upon the camp.
They were halted by a guard, but he
was “There quickly silenced by the command:
are 3.000 of us here. We have
come for business. Call out your boss at
once and let us settle this affair.” By
this time there were n number of the of¬
ficers of the camp on hand. They were
disposed to resist. The discharge of a
thousand shots in the air convinced them
that the call was serious. The messen¬
ger blew a policeman’s whistle, and, in a
minute, coming in at a double quick,
theie were in sight hundreds of brawny,
determined-looking did but men. Not a word
they say, they had their Win¬
chester rifles in readiness. Reluctantly
the officers stepped out of the way.
The liberators came from every direc¬
tion, and, assembled in force, marched
on the stockade. Their first act was
blow up the magazine; the uprights of
the stockade were knocked off. Then
began a scene which beggars descrip¬
tion. The 150 convicts, who had been
awakened by the shots, were terrorized.
They were screaming for mercy, fearing
that the mob intended to kill them. The
miners closed in within a circle of about
one hundred feet from the stockade. A
detail was rent in, and the work of
breaking the shackles began. As fast as
they were freed they were told in no un¬
certain language, to get out, and it is
needless to say, they skipped out with
alacrity. There was a large quantity of
citizens’ clothes near by, which many of
them donned. When the last prisoner
was free the torch was applied to the
stockade, which, with the exception of
the norih wall and the rifle pit, was re¬
duced to ashes. Ten eight-room houses
and a large dining hall inside of the en¬
closure went in the general cor flagration.
At the lower end of the Coal Cieek
stockade the office building was burned
and the guard “shacks” demolished.
The interior of the convicts’ dining
hall, sleeping room, hospital ward aud
kitchen were filled with broken furni¬
ture, shattered glass and queensware.
The store of the warden, Jack Chumley,
was rifled, and about fifteen hundred
dollars’ worth of goods taken and de¬
stroyed.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT,
The citizens in Bricveille began to hear
Bquads of men passing through the place
on tht-ir way to the stockades between
eight and nine o’clock Friday night.
This was kept up for nearly an hour. It
was about 9:30 o’clock when 200 men
descended Walden’s ridge, approaching
the stockade from the east. They called
upon Warden Cross to deliver them the
keys of the prison. While this was go¬
ing on, the magazine was blown up, and
the stockade surrounded by 2,500 men.
Cross gave up the keys, and when the
141 vonvicts were released, they assisted
in burning and destroying the property.
TO THE CHUMLEY MINE.
The attacking party then moved on
the Chumley or Coal Creek stockade, and
a halt was made near there. Twenty-
five men were sent forward to demand
the surrender of the convicts. The men
kept Winchesters. up continuous volleys from their
duty, Only one guard was on
and he lost no time in obeying
The convicts were told to go, and many
ol them, as at Briceville, were given citi¬
zen’s clothes. When the convicts weri
liberated they plundered Chumlev’s store
and destroyed the stockade furniture.
The office building was accidently set on
fire by the overturning of a stove. The
mob then descended to the valley, where
they set off several dynamite bombs, and
fired a small cannon they had with them.
The racket occasioned by these dis
cliin-ges, theVmmunition together with the explosion of
stored at the Briceville
stockade, which the fire touched off-
created the impression among non us.--
ticipants that a small war was in progres-.
This, however, was not the case, as there
wa9 not a sing’c shot fired at any man or
any personal violence.
THE CONVICTS IN GANGS.
Saturday found the woods and fields
and railroad tracks around the two stock¬
ades g< nerously strewn with the striped
suits of the released convicts. Convicis
in gangs of tens aud twenties were wan¬
dering all over the surrounding country.
Sheriff Rutherford and deputies, of
Anderson countv, were busy all day
Saturday recapturing convicts, and the
sheriff wired Governor Buchanan that fcis
jail was about full.
The president of the Tennessee Co d
and Mining Company, whose stockade
wes the first attacked, was asked what
he proposed to do. He says matters were
in such shape at present he could give no
definite information, but he thought he
would hold the state to its contract. The
excitement has considerably abated.
A Nashville dispatch says: Governor
Buchanan and the state board of prison
inspectors held an informal conference
a’. 1 da outbreak, y Saturday but considering arrived the Brice- decis-
at no
* on as w ^at to do. The problem is a
knotty one Adjutant General Norman
® J*“ avs n °^he r “The scattered convicts to have the
Joy "mds aod the , mob has dmpersed
to their homes. Of cou se, we want to
vindicate the law, but the nuestiou i»
to g 0 a 5 ou j -phe improbability
of securing a conviction of any of the
lead, rs will not be taken into considera¬
tion. The law passed by the general as-
! semb’y, at its recent extra
se-sion, on the subject of
interf. ring with convicts, is in sub¬
stance this: That pe sons interfering
with .r relt asing convicts in jails, pris-
< m, mines or » Lew hire. 6ball be guilty
of a felouv, punishable by imprisonment
in the t ei itentiary, the principals for not
less than three Dor more than seven years,
and the accessories for not less than three
nor more than five years. About all that
cm be done is io prosecute the leaders
of the mob under this statute, but eveu
this would have no result, ns nobody
could be found to testify against them,
and there i< s\mpathy all over the state
with the miners in their determination to
resist an odious law.”
THE DOORS CLOSED.
Maverick National Bank at Boston
Fails lor Two Millions.
The Maverick national bank at Boston,
Mass., closed its doors Monday, The
losses are es minted at upwards of two
m llion dollars, which wipes out the re¬
ported surp us and undivided profits of
$1,0.10.000, the capital of $400,000 and
all of the 100 per cent assessment that
the shareholders may be called upon to
contribute. But as nearly a majority of
the shares were owned by President Pot¬
ter, some of which he had pledged with
a siviugs bank, etc., it is doubtful if the
lull assessments can be collected, De-
positors, however, should lose only a
fraction of their deposits. The irregu¬
larities of the Maverick bank extend
back over a period of more than two
years. The associated banks relieve 1
thedep sbors t > some extent by advanc¬
ing on their claim % which ac io', it is
said, will avert any disastrous effects
President Potter made an assignment
of his individual estate to Postmaster
Thomas Y. Hart ar.d Henry D. Hyde. It
is estimated that the properly cost him
$150,000. lie has, also, a very heavy
life insurance, the aggregate amount of
which is said to be in the i eighborhood
of five hundred thousand dollars. Outside
of his Cohassit propeity, his bonds and
his pictures, it is not known that Putter
has any property in addition to his in¬
vestments and speculative securities.
The Boston banks have voted to assess
themselves 3 per cent, of the amount of
their loans. This will ra>se about fmr
million dollars for the loan to the
Maverick bank depositors.
POTTER ARRESTED.
A later dispatch says: Asa P. Potter,
president, and Colonel Jonas II. French
and Thomas Daua, d rectors of the
Maverick National bank, w. re arrested
by the United States mar.-hal Monday
night. The warrants, it is understood,
charge them with embezzlement and
violation of the United States banking
laws, which foibid loans by a nation 1
bank to any single individual amounting
to more than 10 | er cent of its capital
stock. It is said Potter owes the bank
$1,200,000, French $800,000, and Du a
$400,000. The Boston and Maine rail¬
way had $400,000 on deposit at the time
of the failure.
TO GENERAL WICKHAM
A Bronze Statue is Unveiled at Rich¬
mond, Ya.
A Richmond dispatch says: The city
was filled Thursday inoming with
strangers, including confederate veteians
and military organization a from various
portions of the state, drawu t“gether to
unite in the demonstration in honor of
Brigadier General William Carter Wick¬
ham, a bronze statue of ’whom was un¬
veiled at noon. After an imposing mili¬
tary parade, H'»n. John Callahan an¬
nounced Governor McKinley as the pre¬
siding officer. Hon. John Callahan pre¬
sented the statue to the city of Richmond
and Mayor Ellyson accepted it
on behalf of the city, The
statue was then unveiled by William
Carter Wickham Renshaw, a grandson of
the general. Judge B. W. Lacy, of the
supreme court, introduced General Fitz
Lee, who delivered ihe oration. At the
conclusion of the oration, a military sa¬
lute was fired. The bronze figure is seven
feet high. It represents General Wick¬
ham in full uuiform, a brigadier general
of cavalry, booted and spurred. The pe¬
destal of grauite is nine and a feet
high. On the obverse of the die is the
inscription: “Wickham, soldier, states¬
man, patriot, friend. Presented to the
city of Richmond by his comrades in the
confederate army and employes of the
Chespeake and Ohio railway.” On the
reverse is the name, “William Carter
Wickham,” with the date of birth and
death.
THROUGH THE BRIDGE.
Tumbled an Engine and Four Cars, But
No LiYes Were Lost.
A dispatch from Danville, Va.,says: At
5:45 o’clock Monday morning an outgoing
freight tr£,in on the Richmond and Dan¬
ville railroad collided with coal cars
which were bein? pushed by a shifting
engine. Iron The collision occurred on the
bridge'across the Dan river, and the
shock was so great that one span of the
bridge was knocked off the abutment,
carrying with it the engine and four cars,
all of which fell twenty feet into the
river below. The water was shallow,
however, and the engine was not entirely
submerged. J. P. Wingate, engineer,
had his right arm broken and was cut
about the head; J. E. Royal, conductor,
right arm and left leg broken ; McKinnie,
cut about the body and injured inter¬
nally Will Quisenberry, brakemao, both
legs broken. -
THE WOODS BURNING.
Alabama Farmers Suffer Heavy Losses
in Fencing and Timber.
A Montgomery dispatch of Monday
says: Forest fires about a mile west of
Vernon have been burning since Thurs¬
day morning, and its pith is now about
a mile wide. Several farmers have suf¬
fered already great lo : s in the way of
fencing and timber lands, and there i-
rauch danger to residences and barns.
The flames have been fanned by a strong
.vind and have been beyond control
Another Sorest fire is reported in Coosa
county, spreading toward the river, the
tire burning hoi a s and barns on its way,
There 1 as been no rain in several
mouths.
THE WIDE WORLD.
GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND
CABLE CULLINGS
Of Brief Items of Interest From
Various Sources.
A London cablegram says: In the
court of appeal the Maybrick case Was
commenced Monday.
Dispatches of Sunday say that destrOc-
tive prairie fires are sweeping the ooun-
try between Monon, Ill,, ’ and Chicago.
a Simonson . & . _ Weiss . cloak , manufactur- , ,
ersatGreeaandCanaUtreets.New So Aork
Llab ,* htie9 eatlI ? ated at
$180,MO. nno The fl firm began business in
4 ‘
Patrick McDermott, McCarthyite can-
didate, has been elected without opposi-
tion to the seat in the house of commons
for no th Kilkennev, left vacant by the
death of Sir John Hennessey.
The treasury department, at the re¬
quest of Secretary Blaine, directed the
New Orleans customs colhetor te
extend the usual courtesies to Mrs.
Montt, wife of thu Chilean minister,
who arrived there Thursday morning.
The statement prepared at the treasury
department shows that thero was a net
incresse in circulation during the month
of October of $33,310,125, and a net
increase of $9,182,403 in money and
bullion in the treasury during the same
period.
The announcement of the failure of
the Maverick bank, which had $40,000
of the funds of the First National bank
of Damariscotta, Me., caused a run by
depositors Tuesday and the bank lias
temporarily bank suspended payment, The
is perfectly solvent.
A London cablegram says: Owing to
the fact that the employes of two firms of
bootmakers are striking, all London
bootmakers have agreed to declare a
lock-out. Five thousand bootmakers
were locked out Monday aud 20,000 will
ultimately be treated in the same man¬
ner.
President Potter, of the American bank
missioner was arranged before United States Com¬
Tuesday, Hallett, at Boston, Mass.,,
and pleaded rot guilty, llis
bail was fixed at $200,000 and that of
Jonas French at $100,000. Dana is out
on $60,000 bail.
A Dublin cablegram of Tuesday says;
The United Ireland prints another letter
from the late Mr. Parnell’s mother ap¬
pealing to Iiishmeu to vote for Parnell
candidates and adding that their great
rallying cry must be “Remember Par¬
nell and his murderers.”
A San Francisco dispatch of Wedn r sday
sa s: The following Chinese advices
have been received by the steamer City
of Bio Janeiro: Particulars of a serious
riot in the province of Fukien have
reached Hong Kong. The scene of the
trouble is Tehhua, which was attacked
and captured by 3,000 insurgents.
A cablegram of Monday from Constan¬
tinople reports that ravages of cho'era in
Damascus show an alarming increase.
The record for the week past shows 180
cases and ninety deaths. Owing to the
prevalence of cholera, Hodeida is in
neatly as bad a situation as Dsmascus,
but at Aleppo the plague has subsided.
The bark Liberia sailed from New
York Saturday morning with fixty-six
negro colonists for Liberia. Only thir¬
ty-three of them are adults. They go
under the auspices of the American
Colonization Society, which deftays ex¬
penses of passage and of maintenance
for several months after they reach their
destination.
The debt statement, issued from Wash¬
ing Monday, shows that the interest aud
ing non-interest-bearng debt decreased dur¬
October $4,025,527,this being brought
a'lout .by a reduction of $2,918 060 in
debt on bonds, the interest on which h s
ceased, and $1,109,467 in the debt bear¬
ing no interest. The interest-bearing
debt has actually increased $2,000. The
total interest-bearing debt outstanding is
$585,026,720.
Fire broke out in Lorillard’s tobacco
factory at Jersey City, N. J., Monday
morning, on the top floor of the old brick
building used as a drying room for to¬
bacco in the first process of manufactuie.
Fifty thousand pounds of tobacco were
stored there. It was worth $lo,000, and
was totally destroyed. The damage by
the fire to that floor was $10,000, and the
d mage to the building and the fl >ors
below was $25,000. The loss was en¬
tirely covered by insurance.
A Washington dispatch of Wednesday
says: Notices of intention to contest the
right to the seats of six members-elect
to the house of representatives in the
fifty-second congress, have been filed
the clerk of the house. They are as fol¬
lows: Noyes, republican, will contest
Rockwell’s seat from the twenty-eighth
New York; Miller, republican, contests
Ellio’t from the seventh South Carolina,
acd McDuffie, republican, contests Tur¬
pin’s from the fourth Alabama district.
Three other cases are from Pennsylvania,
where three democrats contest republican
seats.
THE DEPOT BURNED
And the Central Railroad of Georgia
is a Heavy Loser.
The union passenger depot at Macoh.
Ga., built in 1854, was burned to the
ground Thursday morning. The fire
started about 3.40 o’clock through the
carelessness of a clerk who attempted to
light a coal stove with kerosene. Twenty
minutes later the roof was falling in, and
the entire building was a mass of leap
ing, roaring flames. In a short time the
structure was in ashes. The loss will fall
heavily upon the Central railroad, being
at least $100,000. In the offices which
were located in the depot some of the
most valuable records of the roads were
kept. Several of the files containing
important papers were saved, but many
more went up in the flames. Some ol
the most important records of the road*
were destroyed. It will be much troubb
and hard work to restore the lost rec¬
ords, if it can ever be done.
Latcadio Heahs, the author of West India
romances and a former resident of Cincin¬
nati, the is now professor Japanese of a college damsel. in Japan
and husbanl of a,
NUMBER 44
MORE CONVICTS LIBERATED.
The Briceville Escapade He-Enacted at
Oliver Spring;.
Another dis >rttcti irom Knoxville,
Tenn., says: At 1 o’clock Mood iy morn¬
ing 200 mounted men cam • in frou» the
mountains and liberated 200 convicts
working in the mines at Oliver Springs.
8 » quietly whs it done that the people in
the towu knew nothing about what had
happened un il 0 o’clock in the morirng,
when they di-covered that the stock tdo
of the leeses was a mass of smoking ruins.
A'l of the short term prisoners were fur¬
nls hed Wlt h citizens clothing, cd, and with
exception of a few captu all are
now at large. This makes more than hvo
huudrcd p, f n it e „tiarv convicts turned
( ose , n th t loct , Utv ^ nce Friday even-
ing. £ It guardfat was generally r ported that tho
f( cc ,.f Oliver had bad been
larg ' V increased, and that an attack
upo , t | )e stockades would bo st »ut!y re¬
sisted. It does n»t appear, however,
that there was any resistance at all, aud
n0 one was hurt,
MAT VISIT NASHVIUUE.
It is fearred by s me that the feeling
against the lease system among the mi¬
ners, which is growing so rapidly, will
not be satisfied mitd the convict miners
are driven out of every branch prison in
the state. Indeed, a few prominent citi¬
zens have expressed a fear that the main
prison at Nashville is not cert dnly secure
from attack. There is considerab e
a ieasiness manifested as an attack on th*
prison, together with would a preconcerted
move of the couvictp, make very
serious busine s, as the prison is crowded
nnd the force of trnnrds not, large.
End of the Itata Cas e.
A dispatch from Los Angeles, Cal.,
says : The Itata case came to an end
Tuesday. Judge Rose, of the United
States court, rendered a decision grant¬
ing a motion to dismiss the case against
the defendants. The decision is a very
lengthy one.
RICHMOND & DANVILLE R- R.
Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line Division.
Condensed Soheduie of Passenger
Trains, in Effect Aug. 2nd, t89l.
NORTHBOUND. No. 38. No. 10. No. 12.
K AbTKUN TIME. Daily. Doily. Daily.
Lv. Atlanta (E.T.) 1 25 pm 7 20 pro 9 10 am
Cliamblee ..___ 7 59 pm 9 43 am
Norcross....... 8 11 pm 9 55 am
Duluth........ 8 24 pm 10 00 am
Suwacee....... 8 37 pm 10 17 am
Buford........ Brandi 8 52 pm 10 33 am
Flow ry 9 07 pm|10 49 ro
Gaine& ville..... 2 52 pm 9 24 pm 11 11 a m
Lula .......... 3 14 pm 9 50 pin 11 36 »m
Belliun........ 9 56 pm 11 40 am
Cornelia....... 10 25 pm'12 04 pm
Toccoa......... Mt. Ary....... 4 02 10 28 pm| 112 Vi 3s* 09 p u
pm 10 68 pm pm
Westminster ... 1139 pm 120 pm
Seneca ........ 12 Ilium 142pm
Central___-.... 12 40 am 2 85pu
Easleys........ 1 03 am 3 05 pru
Greenville..... 6 05 pm 1 33 ami 3 3<i pm
Greers......... 1 59 am 4 01 pm
Wellford....... 2 16 am 4 l9pni
Spartanburg... 6 57 pm 2 36 am 4 48 pm
Clifton........ 2 55 am 4 67 pm
Cowpens ...... 3 00 am 5 01 pm
Gaffney 8 28 am 5 21 pro
BlacK Bb urg S 46 am 5 42 pm
Grover.. 8 56 am 6 51 pm
King’s Mount’n 4 17 am 6 08 pm
Gastonia....... 4 50 am' 6 32 pm
L 'Well........ 500 am 1 6 43 pm
Bellemont..... 5 11 am 6 54 pm
Ar. Charlotte...... 9 10 pm 5 40 ami 7 20 pm
SOUTHBOUND. No. 37. No. II. No. 9.
Daily. Daily. Daily.
Lv. Charlotte...... 9 35 am. 1 55 pm 2 50 am
Bellemont..... ........ 2 18pm 3 15 am
LuWvll......... ........ 2 28 pm 3 26 am
Gastonia....... ........ 2 41 pm 3 43 am
King’s Mount’ll ........ 3 06 pm 4 17am
Grov- r......... ........ 3 20 pm 4 33 am
Gaffney....... Blacksburg .... ........ 3 30 pm 4 43 am
........ 3 49 pm 5 02 am
Clifton........ Cowpens...... ........ Ill pm 5 27 am
........ 4 15pm 5 31 am
Spartanburg... Ilford........ 11 39 am 4 32 pin 5 48 am
W< ........ 6 11 pm 6 10 am
Greets......... ........ 5 31 pm 6 28 am
* Greenville...... 12 SC pm 6 05 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
Lola.......... 3 14 pm 10 02 pm 10 41 am
Gainesville..... 3 88 pm 10 28 pm 11 11 am
Flowery Buford........ Branch ........ 10 49 pm 11 31 am
........11 03 pm 11 46 am
Suwanee....... ........It 17 pm 11 59 am
Duluth........ .......11 29 pm 12 12 pm
Norcross...... ........11 42 pm 12 24 pm
Chamblee...... ........11 54 pm 12 35 pm
Ar. Atlanta (E. T.) 5 00 pm 12 30 am 1 10 pm
Additional trams Nos. 17 an 1 18—Lula ac-
comm' klation, daily except (Sunday, leaves At¬
lanta 5 30 p m, arrives Lula 8 12 p m. Return¬
ing, leaves Lula 6 00am, arrives Atlanta 8 50
a rn.
Between Lula and Athens—No. 11 dailv, ex¬
cept Sunday, and No. 9 daiiy, leave Lula 10 05p
m, and 1140 a m, arrive Athens 12 05 a m and
1 40 p m. Returning leave Athens, No. 10
daily, 80 except Sunday, and No. 12 daily, 7 20 v> m
and 8 a m, arrive Lula 9 20 pm and 10 30
a m.
Between Toccoa and Elberton—No. 61 dai¬
ly; except Elberton Sunday, leave Returning, Toccoa 12 55 pm 60
arrive 4 45 p m. No.
daily, arrives except Toccoa9 Sunday, leave *ElLerton 5 45 a m
and 15 a m.
Noe. 11 an 1 12 carry Pullman Sleepers be¬
tween Washington and Knoxville via. Salisbury,
and Nos, 9 an! 10Pullman Sleeper between At¬
lanta and New York.
On No. 11 no change in day coaches from
New York to A* lanta.
Nos. 37 and 38, Washingt op and Southwest¬
ern Vestibuled Limited, he tween Atlanta and
charged Washington. On this train an first-class extra fare tickets, is
in connection with
not exoeeding $2.00 over and above usual Pull¬
man charges detailed to any point. local and
For information as to
through time tables, rates and Pullman Sleep¬
ing car reservations, confer with local agents,
or address, L. TAYLOR, L. L. McCLESKEY,
JA8.
Gen’l Pass. Ag’t. Div. Pasa. Ag’t.
Washington, D, O. Atlanta, Ga.
W. H. GREEN, SOL. HASS,
Gen’l Manager. Traffic Manager,
Waihin gton, D. O. Bichn?'>nd, Ya.
O. P. .HAMMOND,
Saparintendent, Atlanta, Ga.
LEWIS DAVIS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will practioe in the ooun tie* of Haber¬
sham and Rabun of the Northwestern
Circuit, and Frank! >n and Banks of the
Western Circuit. Prompt attention wii!
be given to all business entrusted?to him.
The collection of debts will have *p--o-
ial attention. x