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THE TOCCOA NEWS
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL.
VOLUME XIX.
h / AN AUTUMN SONa j
For awhile put work away, \ -j
The very winds keep holiday. y i
Cornel Let us breathe the eager air, \
Above the world of cark and care,
Upon the mountain top.
The rustling leaves the roadway spread
With puce and russet; gold o’er head,
Orange and green glow in the sun,
W hose rays through clouds their way have
won,
To touch the mountain top.
The merry rushing stream doth flow,
Across the path as up we go.
In the wood plays at hide and seek,
Laughs to itself at each new freak,
Bings of the mountain top.
And sudden through the twisted trees,
A blue and purple land one sees,
Misty and faint, as in a dream,
Through which there winds a silver stream,
We near the mountain top.
And now at last we throw us down
Upon the rocky root-fast crown,
Which towers aloft ’mid shine and shade,
While at our feet the world seems laid,
Far 'neath the mountain top.
A new world this of calm and peace.
When hearts grow light and troubles cease,
And larger ways than ours we see;
A little nearer heaven are we,
High on the mountain topi
— IF. It. Winslow, in Youth's Companion.
AT THE JUNCTION.
BY EMMA A. OPPER.
“I’m worn out I” Isabel cried, throw-
rag herself into the easiest chair in her
younger sister’s room, half laughing and
wholly vexed.
“What?” said Carrie, vaguely.
She stood at the window, looking
down upon the customary panorama of
a good-sized summer hotel—the pretty
view, the wide lawn, the rustic seats,and
the tennis court and the croquet ground.
“Mrs. Mitchell, of course,” said Isa¬
bel, warmly. “She's been at it again.
It's absurd, Cad—it’s ridiculous I She’s
talked about nothing and nobody but
that nephew of lier’s since we’ve met.
Her nephew I What do I want with
with him? I shan’t speak to him when
he comes.”
“But supposing he is nice?” said Car¬
rie, enoouragingly.
Carrie was fifteen, aud mild dispo-
Bitioned.
“Nice!” Isabel’s very pretty face was
flushed beyond its usual warm brunette
coloring. “He’s horrible, and I know
it; and I’m just sick to death of him.
His looks and his age, and his education
and his habits, and his money and his
business, and his yachting and his shoot¬
ing and his driving—I kirnv them all, I
know them thoroughly, and I know
them in detail!”
“But you know why she does it,”
Carrie ventured, soothingly.
“Why?” Isabel demanded.
She knew why, and therein lay her
wrath.
“Because she has taken such an awful
fancy to you.”
“Idout want her taking a fancy to
me -’
“But she's nice and agreeable, Isabel
—everybody thinks so,” Carrie protested,
“Well, and she thinks there’s nobody
like that nephew of hers that’s coming
and of —” i
so course
“So she wants me to marry him,”said
Isabel, scorn in look and gesture. “She
wants me to be dazzled beforehand, pet-
rifled by all his advantages and posses-
eions and utter perfections, and then
when he conies to fall straight in love
with him, aud follow him around smirk-
inglji and say ‘Yes’ before he’s got the
question out of his mouth!”
“Butit’s a compliment, Izzy,” Carrie
pleaded, laughing. “Mrs. Mitchell is
paying you a great compliment. Why,
she thinks you perfect. She told
mamma—’’
“But she needn't be trying to dispose
of me to her nephew or anybody else,”
said Isabel, less warmly but with coldde-
cision. “Of me! Why, it’s atrocious!
Me to be labored with for hours about
6ome horrid, strange man, and bored to
death I Me to be badgered and perse-
cuted, and then presented to him for
leisurely irspeotion and approval, and—
I can’t talk about it, and I won’t; nor
think about it. Mrs. Mitchell is too bad.
As to her nephew, I know lie’s abomina-
ble—I feel it. I shan't look at him
when he comes. I don’t think I shall
allow myself to meet him at all,” said
Isabel, calmly.
Carried swallowed a giggle.
“What’s his name?” she wondered.
“James Osborne.”
Isabel’s tone wa3 frigid.
“When is he coming?"
“In two weeks. Don’t mention him
again. I’m going for a drive, if Caesar
and the dog cart aren't in use, and strug¬
gle to forget about him. Will you go?”
No, Carrie had engaged to make a
fourth at a feminine tennis game.
She watched her sister with gentle
smiles as she snatched her hat—a mar-
velous, broad, beflowered affair—threw
on her jaunty blazer, and marched off,
her head haughtily high. ♦
Carrie supposed that it was allowable
for a queenly girl, with starry, dark eyes
and rich, dark roses in her cheeks, and a
wonderfully cut mouth and chin, and a
naturally high-headed manner—that it
was fitting for such a person to be easily
displeased and proudly resentful, and
altogether prettily unreasonable, when
she chose to be.
And Carrie felt some pity for Mrs.
Mitchell and her ill-fated favorite
nephew, James Osborne.
Isabel sought the hotel hostler. No,
the dog-cart and Ciesar the handsome
chestnut, were free; and fiv* minutes
later the hostler was standing m staring
admiration to see the prettiest girl the
Claremont House had boasted for many
summers, driving off in the nattiest rig
it could produce.
The day was fine, and Isabel s spirits
rose with every rod down the winding,
grass-edged, bough-shaded road.
She looked eagerly and enjoyingly
Ibis way pad that, far and near, and
vmiled and hummed and admired every¬
thing, and was glad she had thought of
coming.
Her rebellious annoyance as to Mrs.
Mitchell’s obnoxious relative sank peace¬
fully into past; the taint frown which
had lingered in her brown eyes disap¬
peared by gentle degrees.
Where was she? She had driven con¬
tentedly on and on, till things began to
look unfamiliar. It was charming her,
though.
She keep on, up a curving road, till
the whistle of a locomotive startled her.
A clump of balsams hai hidden the rail¬
road, upon which she presently came
plump. A short train of care was just
pulling away, not from a station, but
from bare loneliness.
“Oh t yes—McGoon Junction,*' Isabel
mused. “Have I come four miles?”
It was not entirely lonely at McCoon
Junction, though, on a second inspec¬
tion.
Rather a remarkable sight saluted Isa¬
bel’s gaze.
A young gentleman, clad well and
correctly, from his pale-brown derby to
his shining shoes, was holding converse
with a native in soft hat and muddy
boots and checked shirt, and a trunk
stood between them.
Isabel forgot her dignity and stared.
The chestnut, feeling the laxity of the
reins, and apparently affected by a like
curiosity, almost stopped. And the na¬
tive promptly came forward. What he
said, as near as Isabel could ascertain,
was’
“Hir
But the yotlng gentleman followed him
hastily, withi
“I beg your pardon!”
She halted.
“Be you lrom the Claremount
House?” the native demanded, abruptly.
But his companion supplied the ele¬
ment of suppliant respect, He lifted his
hat and looked apologies.
“I’m so very sorry—” he began.
“I am,” said Isabel.
“Reckoned so, reckoned that air was
a Claremount House turnout you got.
Wal, this feller's bound for there, but he
didn’t seem to know enough to git there,
lie got off here to the Junction, bag and
baggage, goodness knows what fer—”
“I’ve explained,” the young man re¬
monstrated; mildly^ His eyes sought
Isabel’s m smiling, droll appeal. “I had
au idea the train was not yet running to
the’Claremount Station—”
“It was runnin’ three hull weeks ago,”
said the native.
“My time-table says,” ‘continuing to
Claremount from such date as shall be
appointed,’ and that’s a little vague,”
said the young man, firmly. “I didn’t
suppose that the date had been ap¬
pointed."
“You might ’a asked,” said the na¬
tive, with sternness.
“Yes, I might,” was the meek re¬
sponse.
“Where did you reckon the train was
a-goiu’ to, anyhow, when she pulled out,
and you a-standm’ here?”
“I didn't know, I didn’t imagine it
was to Claremount.”
He was crushed, wilted; but his
twinkling eyes were on Isabel, whose
lip3 were quivering in a smile. They
laughed.
“llumph!” said the native, with open
scorn.
“Don’t be hard on me,” said the
young man, timorously. “I’m not used
to the steam cars.”
The native softened to a grin,
“I’ve never been off the farm till this
year,” the young man pursued, his ex-
pressiou pensive, “But we had a mid-
tiling good onion crop,and I thought I’d
strike out a little. I got all mixed up,
though, on the steam cars. The tooting
scares me. aud the way the care rattle
aud—’’
“Let up!” said the native, reddening
a little under his tan, while his grin
broadened. “Meb’oe I was rather
rough spoken. But land! think o’ any-
body's gettin’ off here to the Junction
without no stage nor nothin’ to meet
'em. Why, there ain’t no house within
quarter of a mile, there ain’t.”
“If you will assist me in getting my
trunk on my shoulders, I will set forth
for the Claremont House at once, then,”
said the victim, gravely,
Isabel was laughing almost mirthfully.
It struck her, some time afterward, as
being strange that she had not driven on
with iudifference and dignity—her
proper course, she afterward reflected.
But she sat frankly absorbed in the
unique humor of the situation—candidly
interested aud sympathetic.
Beside that, Isabel was not accustomed
to being immediately well impressed by
young men; but something there was
about this one that gratified her exacting
tastes.
Looking at him reflectively, while she
appeared to be looking at the native, she
came to the astonishing conclusion that
it was everything about him—his good
looks, his well bred air, his cleverness of
tongue, his good nature, his ready humor,
his gentlemanly attitude of deep respect
toward herself.
she cast her pretty eves down, for fear
s h e should smile jpoo' frequently and
brightlv.
“Wal, guess it needn’t come to that. ”
said the native, restored to good humor,
“j stopped ye, miss, to find out whether
you can’t be so ’bliging as to sendsome-
body round here fer this trunk when vou
g i t back to the Claremont? You hain’t
no objection?”
“None,” said Isabel, sweetly. “I’ll
be glad to be of use. It is an awkward
situation.”
“I am too grateful to you both to be
able to express myself in coherent
words!” the young man cried, fervently.
“I owe you a debt I can’t repay. It was
good of you to thmk of it earnestly,to
the native, “and good of you to con-
sent/’ warmly, to Isabel.
“But ’—his humorous twinkle re-
turned; he looked anxious and coaxing,
stammering and reddening the while-
“but why can 11 go with you and give
the older? I don t beheve my trunk will
walk away.”
The native coughed X and chuckled.
“Jio, ’twont. can keep an eye on It
TOCCOA. GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 14, 1891.
from where I’m choppin’ yander, an’ I
will.”
He shook hands with the object of his
displeasure, and winked his impudent
congratulations.
Isabel moved to the other side of the
seat, and the martyr to his own heedless¬
ness stepped in. He took the lines with
a practiced,easy air,and rested one elbow
on his knee, and gave himself to the oc¬
cupation of entertaining his rescuer.
Her eve3 looked forth darkly from the
depths of her flowery bighat; her cheeks
were beautifully pink, and she was smil¬
ing.
The loveliness of the day seemed to
have increased, the sunlight lay in glint¬
ing yellow bars, and the breeze was re¬
freshing, and the scent of many road¬
side flowers was sweet.
Carrie was just finishing a set; Mrs.
Mitchell was reading on the piazza.
She threw her book into an oleander tub,
and gave a high-pitched little shriek as
the dog-cart came up the drive—a
shriek of joy.
“There you are!” said Isabel’s passen¬
ger, jovially.
And he sprang to the ground, entwin¬
ing Mrs. Mitchell in a strong arm, and
gave her two sound kisses.
She was a portly, comely woman, in a
highly becoming lavender challis gown
with black ribbons—a handsome and
distinguished looking matron.
“Jim!” she cried, repeatedly and
blissfully, “how did you happen to come
so soon? You said in two weeks. And
where did Miss Hatton come across you?
I can’t understand it! I never heard
of anything so delightful—never.
She was beaming at them all. And
Isabel was widely staring.
“I got through with the work that
was keeping me, and came right along
to my dear aunt,” said Jim, gallantly.
“Aud about Miss Hatton—this was how
it was.”
He told the tale. But it was doubt¬
ful whether Mrs. Mitchell heard it. She
kept one hand on Isabel’s and the other
on her nephew’s shoulder, and looked
the picture of happiness.
“f don’t know why you're giggling
so, C id,” said Isabel, severely, half an
hour later, mtbe privacy of her room.
She wa3 putting on a white dress for
dinner.
“I—r—because, you know,” Carrie
murmured, faintly, and giggled again.
“People alter their opinions, don’t
they?” Isabel demanded, fastening a
flower in her belt. “Besides, I didn’t
have an opinion. How could I? I’d
never seen Mr. Osborne. It was preju¬
dice simply—unreasonable prejudice. I
don’t know how I could have been so
absurd. I—1 ought have been glad to
hear about him 1 He is very agreeable.
I like him very much indeed,” Isabel re-
marked, looking flushed and very pretty
as she walked away.
“And he likes you,” Carrie mused,
with emphatic strength of certainty.
And added, with far-seeing shrewdness:
“How—how tickled Mrs. MitchelL will
bet”
Poorly-Shod Children.
James B. Carnwyl, of England, was at
the Tremont House on his way home
from South America. “If the people in
Chili wore the same kind of shoes now
that they did twenty years ago,” said Mr.
Carnwyl, “Balmaceda would still be rul¬
ing over them. The soldiers could not
have made the marches they did under
General Canto around Valparaiso. As
late as 1874 most of the people you would
meet in the street in Valpariso wore no
foot covering at all. Soldiers and
officials of the lower class had a foot
covering consisting of a sole of beef hide
not tanned and fastened to the foot by a
lace made of the same material running
through holes clumsily cut. The well-
to-do middle classes wore shoes laced up
the front, with wooden soles pegged on
in a clumsy manner. At that time the
city of Valparaiso possessed but four
shoemakers. Three of these made custom
work and the other made ordinary work
to send into the interior of Chili and to
Peru and Bolivia. To-day there are
more than 1000 good workmen, among
them there is scarcely a score of the first
rank.
“By the way, a poor shoemaker in
Chili made a peculiar discovery in a pe¬
culiar way. On August 14, 1S88, a dyke
burst in a river at Valparaiso and flooded
the whole business section cf the city.
In speaking of the affair this shoemaker
said to me: ‘Out of every evil there’s a
little good, for after cleaning up my store
all I could find in it were five bull frogs
of a gigantic size, the smallest weighing
five pounds. After killing them I en¬
deavored to remove part of the skins by
soaking them in alum and was well paid
for my trouble. “Chinese mules” were
made of the skins, and they were very
supple and as easily worked as kid.
Finding-a ready sale for them, other
frogs were obtained and similarly used.
They aie called little elephants here.’
Th&t poor shoemaker made a special
traffic in those frog skins, as they were
found to be well adopted for the manu¬
facture of pocketbooks and wallets. To¬
day he is a rich man—a fortune made
out af nothing but frog skins .”—Chicago
Herald.
Two Glaciers in Wyoming.
Wyoming boasts two glaciers equal in
surroundings and beaten only in extent
by the famous icy formations of the old
world. The first is found in the ascent
of the highest ol the three Teton Moun¬
tains just outside the National Park in
Fremont County. It was discovered but
a few days ago by W. O Owen, a civil
engineer visiting that section for pleasure.
It is of a smooth surface except for a
few great seams. The second giacier is
Sent geol^^ '
gatioQS have beea cut short b aa oMer
taking him t0 Ca i ifornia . Thu Ro „ “ k '
Mountain freak ia oa cload Peak fo rt
miles from the town of Buffalo, aud at
t oa theice fidd Jobnsoa i ooked
dowa a sheer twelve hundred feet . A
basin filled b seepage gives this glacier
a lake attachment .^-Chicago Herald.
Russia is behaving in a very WMrlUri
manner,
THE WIDE WORLD.
GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND
CABLE CULLINGS
Of Brief Items of Interest From
Various Sources.
Dispatches of Friday state that prairie
fires are doing great damage in South
Dakota.
The river Neva, in Russia, is blocked
with ice, and navigation is consequently
suspended.
The Bank of Spain has raised its rate
of interest on loans on government stock
to 4J per cent.
Thomas Fortune, colored, ha3 received
a verdict for $825 in a suit against a
New York saloon keeper, who ejected
him from the house and assaulted him.
Between two and thre£ thousand hands
employed in the moqiittte carpet mills,
Yonkers, N. Y., were thrown out of em¬
ployment Saturday by the shutting down
of the mills for two weeks.
Miners in West Newton, Pa., mines
w ent out on a strike Friday for the rein¬
statement of three leaders in the late
strike. The company refuses to take the
leaders back. Three hundred men are
out.
The Walton architectural iron works
at Cincinnati, one of the largest manu¬
factories of the kind in the west, as¬
signed Monday afternoon. The assets
are given by the secretary as $90,000;
estimated liabilities about the same.
The treasury department, at the re¬
quest of Secretary Blaine, directed the
New Orleans customs colhetor to
extend the usual courtesies to Mrs.
Montt, wife of the Chilean minister,
who arrived there Thursday morning.
Advices of Friday from Boston, Mass.,
says that a run is being made on the
D’Falippos Italian bank, on North street.
The bank had some money deposited in
the Maverick bank, but is perfectly sol¬
vent. The depositors are all Italians.
The court of claims has dismissed the
petition in the case of the state of India¬
na against the United States. This is a
suit to recover 2 per cent of the proceeds
of the sale of public lands in Indiana in
connection with the national or Cumber¬
land road.
A Washington dispatch of Thursday
sayB: Mr. Mason, the commissioner of
internal revenue, is going to Louisiana
and Texas for the purpose of making a
personal inspection of the operation of
the sugar bounty clause of the tariff act.
cigars Eight hundred and fifty boxes of choice
were seized at the New York cus¬
tom house Thursday. The cigars were
on board the City of Alexandria, a
steamer which arrived from Havana.
The owner of the cigars was not named.
District Attorney Gilchrist is prepar¬
ing to prosecute leading anarchists who,
during the memorial parade on Sun¬
day in Chicago, detained the United
States mail by arbitrarily refusing to al¬
low government mail wagons to cross the
line of march.
A cablegram of Thursday from Dublin
says: All the employes of the late Charles
Stewart Parnell on his Avondale estate
have been dismissed, and the sawmills
and Arklow quarries, which also belonged
to Parnell, are to be sold. Only the
family mansion is to be retained.
A cable dispatch from Rome, Italy,
says: It was announced Saturday that
the pope is suffering from cerebral
mia, due to old age. His condition
remarked causes grave apprehension. He recently
to the archbishop of Rheima
that he thought the end was near.
A New York telegram of Friday says:
Not for years has the supply of drinking
water for the city been so low. nor has
the danger af a genuine water famine
been greater than at present. Commis¬
sioner Gilroy says that if there is no
heavy rainfall soon the water would only
last fifteen or twenty days more.
As a result of the democratic victory in
Iowa the hope that the prohibition law
will be soon repealed; the Union stock
yards in Sioux City announces that it
will soon begin the construction of a
large brewery there. It is also asserted
that two breweries, which have been
idle for several years, will be started up.
A dispatch from Bracebridge, Ont.,
says: A hunter and trapper, named
David Allen, residing in Magnetawan
district, started out to examine traps
about a month ago and never returned.
Un Monday ins body was found In a bear
trap. The trap had closed upon his
wrists, and he had slowly died of starva¬
tion.
A Paris cablegram of Thursday says:
It is reported that the Russian ministry
of finance has made overtures to the
Bank of France for the purchase of silver
bullion to the amount of 100,000,009
roubles. This is wanted by the Russian
finance mimstry for coinage into roubles
for state redemtion of Polish treasury
obligations.
A dispatch from Brooklyn, N. Y., says:
One hundred men were working Satur¬
day night at the navy yard on the Chi¬
cago, Miantonomah and Atlanta, and
passes were issued for as many more for
Sunday. This is said to be the first time
since the late war that workmen have
been employed on war vessels in the
Brooklin navy yard on Sunday.
A dispatch of Friday from Columbus,
Ind., says: There is no more prospect of
rain than there was two months ago, and
everybody views the situation - with
alarm. Wells, streams and ponds are
completely dry iu entire sections, and
since the fifties nothing like this has
been known. In mtny inland towns,
like Charleston, water is being sold.
A dispatch of Friday says: The strike
that has been in progress at the tinplate
department Stamping of the St. Louis (Niedring-
house) declared Co.’s mill has been
efficiently off by Ivory Lodge
Amalgamated and Association of iron and
steelworkers all men, including im-
ported and skilled laborers, have returned
to wore. Messrs Nndnnghouse ex-
press themselves satisfied with the settle-
meD ’
Two buildings in the business _ center
of the city of Akron, O., collapsed Fat-
urday afternoon. One building was oc-
cupied by Herrick & Son, crockery, and
the other by 8. B. Lafferty, bakery,
About a dozen people on the streets were
more or less severely hurt. "Whoever Is
buried in the wreck is beyond human
help. Twenty people were in the store at
the time of the collapse. Loss $75,000.
A Pittsburg, Pa., dispatch says: A
member of the auditing committee ap¬
pointed to investigate the office of Mayor
Wyman, of Allegheny, stated Moiday
afternoon that a resolution would be pre¬
sented. committee at charging the mee^hig ai ot Wyman, the general
<yor and
the chief of the department of public
safety, Murphy, with perjury and cm-
bezzlement. The resolution will also
instiuct the city solicitor to institute
criminal proceedings against them.
A dispatch of Fad ay from Leadville,
Cal., says: A terrific explosion occurred
at the heading to the Rusk Ivauhoe tun¬
nel Thursday night where nine men were
at work. Bob Wilkinson was torn into
atoms. Gus Johnson died in one hour,
and Jack Scott had both eyes torn out.
1 hree others had their legs broken and
were internally injured, while three oth¬
ers were bad ! v bruised, but not seriously.
The explosion was caused by one of the
men striking giant powder in one of the
shafts with his drill.
A Washington dispatch of Thursday
says: The secretary of the treasury has ask¬
ed the solicitor for an opinion as to whether
the government has a good case against
the Memphis and Little Rock railroad for
duties on a large amount of railroad iron
imported at New Orleans prior to the or¬
ganization of the so-called confederate
states, and which was released by the lat¬
ter authorities to the railroad company
without the payment of duties to the
United States or to the confederate state
authorities.
The firm of Thomas Dana & Co ,
wholesale grocers at Boston, Mass., dis¬
solved Thursday owing to the Maverick
bank complication. The younger mem
bers hope to continue the business,
backed by. outside capital. It is said
that of $400,000 borrowings of Dana <&
Co. lrom the Maverick bank, Dana re¬
ceived only $100,000. The rest was re¬
ceived by the company, which will pay
in full. Examiner Ewer reports that
there is now $2,500,000 in cash in the
Maverick bank vaults, and collections
are still coming in. Much of the paper
in assets will prove available and mar¬
ketable.
TRADE REVIEW.
Dan & Co.’s Report of Business for
Past Week.
Business failures occurring throughout
the country for week ended November
6th, as reported by R. G. Dun & Co.,
number for the United States 223, and
Canada 43, or 366, compared with 255
the week previous. For the correspond¬
ing week last year the figure, v» ere 215.
The failure of a widely known bank at
Boston (the Maverick) was a striking
event of the week, but has caused aston¬
ishment rather than disturbance. The
withdrawals of money from New York
to fortify Boston caused higher rates, 6
per but cent against 3 per cent weeks ago,
supplies continue to come steadily
from Europe. The Bank of England
does not change its rates, though losing
gold largely, and the official treasury re¬
port shows the addition of $33,000,000
to the actual circulation of all kinds in
October. Crops are moving freely, so
that it seems scarcely possible that any
important monetary disturbance should
arise at present. It is also a reassuring
fact to eastern capitalists aud investors
that the western elections have resulted
in the complete defeat of those who ad¬
vocated wild financial schemes. So that
their power in the next session of con-
gres is likely to be mueh diminished.
Reports from all parts of the country
shows that business, though interrupted
somewhat by the elections, has been
healthy and large in volume. At Boston
the failure of the Maverick bank caused
some uneasiness, but business continues
steady and healthy. No lack of con¬
fidence is seen, and money is easy. The
only cities reporting monetary pressure
are Omaha and Savannah, The iron in¬
dustry, in spite of the lowest prices ever
known for some products, shows no de¬
spondency, and the demand for manu¬
factured iron and steel does not diminish.
Trade in dry goods looks a little better.
The recent decision as to worsteds open
the way to largely increased imports.
Trade in cottons is not just now equal to
last year’s, but for the whole season thus
far it has been considerably larger.
THE GRAIN MARKET.
Speculation has lifted wheat If, though
western receipts cont nue enormous. Ex¬
ports for the wtek thus far are about
equal to those of recent weeks. Corn
has declim d half a cent, with somewhat
increased receipts at the west, and cotton
an eighth with very heavy receipts at
southeru ports. Oil, pork, products and
hogs are somewhat lower, but coffee is
half a cent hight r.
The general average of prices are a
shade lower for the week, and markets
are less embarrassed than usual by cliques
maintaining artificial prices. Iu the
main labor is well employed, with few
controversies about wages. Throughout
the country collections seem to be fair
for the season, and on the whole grad¬
ually improving.
--
CHILE’S NEW PRESIDENT.
Admiral Montt Elected as Head of the
Republic.
The London Times of Friday publishes
a dispatch from Santiago de Chile, which
says Admiral Jorg Montt has accepted
the nomination for the presidency, sub¬
ject to his not being expected to follow
any political programme, but accepting
only the acts and votes of congress as an
expression of the national will.
that A Admiral later dispatch from Valparaiso says
Montt has been unanimously
elected president of the republic of
Chile. .
ONE FINGER AND A QUE.
^ Powder Mill Explodes, Blowing
Three Men Into Eternity,
T he Giant Powder works at Clipper
Gap) Ca l., blew up Saturday, killing
three men and seriously f wounding £ onfe
boy Jame3 Hamilt0I wag bIo n to
atoms, finger. nothing being found of him but
one A. H. Han, a Chinaman,
was killed, and only his que found,
Joseph Pepper, a resident of Santa Cruz,
died from injuries, and Bert Hicks, a boy,
had his skull fractured. Many build-
ings were thakeu down and ruined-
THROUGH DIXIE.
HEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEFLY
PARAGRAPHED
Forming an Epitome of Daily
Happenings Here and There.
The large dry goods firm of Weiss
Bros at Galveston, Texas, made an as-
lignment Friday, The assets are about
five hundred thoustnds dollars; liabili¬
ties, $450,000.
The grand jury at Richmond, Ya.,
Monday, found two indictments against
W. S. Dashnell, real estate agent, for
forging the name of W. J. Lowry to two
negotiable notes for $1,600.
Snows are reported along the Alle¬
gheny mountains, from Pennsylvania to
Virgiuia. The earliest snows in years
fell Thursday at Charlottesville, Va., and
four inches at Winchester.
A Florence, Ala., dispatch says: The
batik of Florence failed Friday morning
to open its doors. The officers refuse to
make a statement, and the assets and lia¬
bilities cannot be ascertained.
A Charleston, S. C. dispatch says: T.
J. Reynolds, colored ex-state senator
from Beaufort county, was convicted of
defraniiing pensioners. There are sever¬
al other casts of similar character pend¬
ing against him.
The round-house of the Cincinnati
Southern Railway at Lexington, Ky.,
caught fire Saturday morning and was
entirely consumed. It contained five lo¬
comotives, three of which were ruined.
It will be rebuilt of brick. Loss, $25,-
000 .
The Chattanooga Elevator and Grain
company made an assignment Monday
for the benefit of its creditors. The lia¬
bilities will be about $6,000, and the as
sets were considerably more. Hard times
and general failure of collections are the
cause of the disaster.
On Thursday night incendiaries burn¬
ed a three-thousand-dollar wooden
bridge across the Richlaud creek in
Giles county, Tenn. The bridge be¬
longed to the county, but a turnpike
company had recently been granted the
right of way over it, and the people
objected to paying tolls.
San Francisco wants the next national
conventions, and on Thursday Mr, II.
DeYoung was authorized to offer any
inducements, even to the extent of de¬
fraying nil necessary expenses, lhat
would bring the republican convention
to that city. The same iffer will be
made to the democrats later.
The court of sessions convened at
Charleston, S. C., Monday. It promises
to be a long and weary term, as there are
upwards of a hundred and forty cases on
the solicitor's docket, including seven
cases for murder, and one already con¬
victed murderer, Levelle, who slew his
wife two years ngo, to be resentenced.
Cochrane, Fulton & Co., distillers and
wholesale liquor dealers at Louisville,
Ky., made an assignment Friday to the
Louisville Trust Company, Labilities
and assets cannot be learned within r.ny
satisfactory approximation, but are sup¬
posed to be about equal, and to reach
nearly half a million. The commercial
rating of the company is $500,000.
A Charlotte, N. C., dispatch says: The
jury in the case of the Motz boys for the
murder of their cousin, S un Motz, re¬
turned a verdict of acquittal, Friday
afternoon. This trial, which has been
progressing at Shelby for the past week,
has not been excelled in interest by any
previous one from the fact of the promi¬
nence of the parties interested.
Near Luraberton, N. C., Thursday,
Edward Pittman, a well-to-do negro,
was on his farm with his wife, picking
cottOD, having left locked in his house
three children, the oldest aged seven
years. The house caught on fire and
burned like tindet. The only remains of
the children found were the skull and
four bones of the oldest one.
Michael Kelly, better known as The
O’Kelly, a well-known politician, died at
Charleston, S. C., Thursday. He is said
to have been the only politician in
Charleston who never wanted a public
office. He was an all-around politician,
owing allegiance to no party and used to
write political rquibs for the papers
cracking a head wherever he saw one.
A fire, Friday morning, destroyed most
of the buildings and material of the
Berkley Phosphate Company, at Ashley
Junction, S. C., seven miles from Char¬
leston. The insurance on the plant is
$150,000, of wtich amount $92,000 is on
the acid chamber, which is saved, thus
leaving $58,000 on the butned property.
The actual loss is estimated at between
$40,000 and $50,000.
Quite a sensation was created in
Charleston Monday by the publication of
a dispatch from Ottawa, announcing a
rise of $2 a ton oa Canadian phosphate
rock, and intimating that this rise signi¬
fied the collapse of the Florida phosphate in-
boom. A large amount of capital is
vc._l.ed by Charlestonians in Florida phos¬
phate enterprises, and these people do
not credit the statement.
A Nashville dispatch says: The miners
in the Coal creek district are still in a
ferment. Their releasing the convicts
does not 6eem to have satisfied them, and
unless other demands made by them are
conceded by the operators, a big strike
may occur. Friday the men employed in
the Thistle mine, which is operated de¬ by
the East Tennessee Mining company,
manded a check weighman to be put had on
Saturday morning. The company no
opportunity to act, and the men walked
out at once.
A Chattanooga, Tenn., dispatch the of
Friday says: Mis. Alice Miller,
young wile ol a railroader, is under
arrest for forging four notes of $5(J0 each,
aud obtaining the money on the same.
One of the notes bore the forged signa¬
ture of George W. Ochs, manager of the
Tradesman , on which paper Mrs. Miller
had been employed previous to her mar¬
riage. She was sent to jail in default of
$1,000 be*mentally bond. The woman is thought to
unsound, as no reason can
be assigne d for her actions.
The man who complains that his cows
are unruly can safely be set down as a
poor farmer, and very often he is a cruel
one, who deserves punishment. Most
unruly cows ve made so by hunger,
NUMBER 45
PREFERED DEATH TO DISGRACE
Two Busted Bankers of Berlin Blow
Out Their Brains.
An Associated Cress dispatch to the At ¬
lanta Constitution from Berlin, Germany,
states that a sensation was caused in ti-
minc.al and social circles in that city Sat¬
urday by the Friedlander collapse of the banking in-
stotiun of & SHnimerfiekl.
The usual scents of excitement among
depositors anxious to secure their money, firm,
occurred around the offices of the
and the effict upon the creditors may be
imagined when announced that the had¬
ing partner of the concern, together with
his son, Lad committed suicide. The
failure is associated with the recent sus¬
pension of Bankers Hirehfield & Wolff.
As the facts in the case de-
veloped, it appeared office that in the
father and son met iu their the
back at an early hour in the morning aud
discussed the crisis in their affairs. Af¬
ter talking over the matter, pro and con,
they concluded that, as they wire hope-
ltssiy embairassed, they would die. It
is understood that this resolut on to take
their own lives was due, in a great meas¬
ure. to the fact that their ainst on a
criminal charge was impending. Hav¬
ing nrrivi d at the decision that death was
prcfferable to arrest and disgrace, both
father and son shot themselves in the
head, Usifig revolvers.
The firm has been in existence for a long
time, and held a good position in the fi¬
nancial world. It had a solid reputation
as who a steady-going house. Its middle customers,
belonged chiefly to the empire. cLs- 1 ,
were scattered throughout the
The police took charge of the firm’s office,
and have placed seals upon the safes.
The census of the Navajos of Califomi»
shows the tribe to number 16, 102, while
their nei ’hbors, the Moquis, number 1839.
Seventy scholars are iu attendance at the
agency school. The Navajos are 1,500,000 a very sheep, ric i
tribe of Indians, owning over ami 10,-
over 1,000,00 ) horses and ponies over
000 cattle. They aiso have several thousand
t a». ......... —
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RICHMOND & DANVILLE R-R.
Atlanta and Charlotte Alr-Llne Diilslon.
Condensed Schedule of Passenger
Trains, in Effect Aug. 2nd, I89f.
NORTHBOUND. No. 38. No, 10. No. 12.
» abWhn- tike. Daily. Daily. Daily.
Ly. Atlanta (E.T.) 125 pm Sooeo<c'o«ooocccoo~j-i S£8«:;S£#S8*5S»8S2S888BSgSS3BSSKSS8 iiiiliSSlililSSSillllllllllllll 111111111111117111111ieiiliSIli
Chamblee .............
NorcroBB...............
Duluth................
Suwanee........... ....
Buford................
Flow.-ry Branch........
Gainesville.. 2 02 pm
Lula....... 3 14 pm
Bellion.....
Cornelia....
Sit. Ai y....
Toccoa...... 4 02 pm
Westminster —
Seneca ..... tolo
Central.....
Easleys..... —
Gb eeimlle .. 6 05 pm ,(.l*-MCOOOe>StOtCtO>-<-.
Greers......
VVeilford....
Span Clifton........ anburg... 6 57 pm
Cowpens......
Blacks!) Gaffney
nrg
Grorer.
King’s Mount’n
Gastonia.......
Lc >'«yc 11........ 0 )
ISellemont..... OlO'
Ar. Charlotte...... 9 10 pm
SOUTHBOUND. No. 87. No. 11. No. 9.
Daily. Daily. Daily.
Lv. Charlotte...... • 35 am 1 65 pm 2 50 am
Bellemont..... ........ 2 18pm 3 15 am
LoWfcll......... ........ 2 28 pm 3 26 am
Gastonia....... ........ 2 41 pm 3 43 am
King’s Mount’n ........ 3 06 pm 4 17 am
Grovt r......... ........ 3 20 pm 4 33 am
Blacksburg .... ........ 3 30 pm 4 43 am
Gaffuey....... Cowpens...... ........ 3 49 pm 5 02 am
........ Ill pm 5 27 am
Clifton........ ........ 4 15 pm 5 31 ani
Spartanburg... Wt Ilford........ 11 39 am 4 32 pm 5 48 10 am
........ 6 11 pm 6 am
Greers......... ........ 5 31 pm 6 28 am
Greenville...... 12 3C 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 56 am
Toccoa........ 2 25 pm 8 50 pm 9 35 ain
Mt. Airy....... ........ 9 25 pm 10 10 am
Cornelia....... ........ 9 30 pm 10 15 am
Bcllton ........ ........ 9 50 pm 10 88 am
Lula.......... 3 14 pm 10 02 pm 10 41 am
Gainesville..... 8 86 pm 10 28 pm 1111 am
Flowery Branch 10 49 pm 11 81 am
Buford........ 11 03 pm 11 46 am
Suwanee....... 11 17 pro 11 59 am
Duluth........ 11 29 pm 1212 pm
Norcross ........ 11 42 pm 12 24 pin
Chsmblee...... 11 54 pm 12 35 pin
At. Atlanta (E. T.) 5 00 pm 12 30 am 1 10 pm
Additional trams Noa. 17 an 1 18—Lula ac¬
commodation, daily except Sunday, leaves At¬
lanta 5 30 p m, arrives Lula 8 12 p m. Ketnrn-
ing, leaves Lula 6 00 am, arrives Atlanta 8 50
a m.
Between Lula and Athens—No. 11 dailv, ex¬
cept Sundav, and No. 9 daily, leave Lula 10 05p
m, and 11 40a m, arrive Athens 1205 am and
140 pm. Returning leave Athena, No. 10
daily, except Sunday, and No. 12 daily, 7 20 p m
and 8 80 a m, arrive Lula 9 20 p m and 10 30
a m.
Between Toccoa and Elbert on—No. 61 dai¬
lv; except Sundav, leave Toccoa 12 55 pm
arrive Elberton 4 45 p m. Returning, No. 60
daily, except Sunday, leave sEllerton 5 45 a m
and arrives Toccoa 9 15 a m.
Noa. 11 an 1 12 carry Pullman Sleepers be-
tween Washington and Knoxvi le fia. Salisbury*
and Nos. 9 ani 10Pullman Sleeper between At¬
lanta and New York.
On No. 11 no change in day coaches from
New York to Atlanta.
Nos. 37 and 38, Washington and Southwest¬
ern Vestibuled Limited, be tween Atlanta and
Washington. On this train an extra fare is
charged in connection $2.00 with first-class tickets,
not exceeding over and above usual Pull¬
man charges to any information point. to local and
For detailed as
through time tables, rates and Pullman agents, Sleep¬
ing car reservations, confer with local
or address, L. TAYLOR, L. L. McCLESKEY,
JA8. Ag*t.
Gen’l Pass. Ag’t. Div. Pass.
Washington, D, a HASS, Atlanta, Ga.
W. H. GREEN, SOL.
Gen’l Manager. Traffic Richmond, Manager, Ya.
Washington, D. 0.
0. P. HAMMOND, Atlanta, Ga.
Superintendent,
LEWIS DAVI8,
ATTORNEY at law.
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will practioe in th« oountias of Haber-
shaiff and Rabun of til* Northwesters
Circuit, and Franklin and Banks of the
Western Cirouit. Prompt attention will
be given to all business entro stedfco him.
The collection of debts will have spt-G-
ial attrition.
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