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THE TOCCOA NEWS
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL.
VOLUME XIX.
THE VOICES OF EARTH.
We have not heard the music of the spheres,
The song of star to star- but there are
’
sounds
ttore deep than human joy or human tears
r^?ro‘“, ,n r ~ 7 1 2TSL nas 11 at
strain
The *i 16 r< annR ° , f tke .
8ea8 8U ^ e ’
might
nr tu„ r.'n i , | rr '* ,, ,>K „ °^’
a ar or ra ' n
r n >a t
a s >y m nutes in the summer night.
*f c the ** v °Ues of earth's secret s ul,
ering mystery from which shec roe;
o him who hears them grief beyond control,
Gi joy inscrutable without a name
wakes in his heart thoughts buried there,
impended
Before the birth and making of the world.
[Archibald Lampman, in Scribner.
COLONEL BRAINARD’S OATH.
\ A TRUK STORV.
The morning was lovely The sky
was cloudless. The air was sweet with
many odors. A soft, cool wind swent hv
now and then, shaking the shimmering
raindrops from leaf and tu-ifr nnJ ' k’oiwW
grass-blade. Vet, despite the sweet
placidity tho of the morning evidences of
terriblo storm that raced all the night
before was on every hand °
The little village of Marseille,
most conclusively hore witness to the f-iet
that a storm in all its furv had visited it
by its torn and twisted elms its mauv
houses without chimney-tops, its orchards
wherein tho half-grown fruit lay in wind
rows on tho short orchard grass, and its
fields of badly-lodged corn
Thc storm was tho universal topic of
conversation amon- the villairo noonlo
that morning. "’tollin''- Groups of meii their
heavy eyes of long hours of
anxious wakefulness, gathered on the
street corners, compared notes Each
told how the house shook and the beds
rocked when the wind put its great
shoulder against the house, how fright-
enod Hannah or Martha was how hi*
apple 'Splendid crop was a dead loss,’how that
piece of com of mine would
never straighten wfiat up again o^his^ittle in tho world
sir,” and trees domain
were down trees that he “wouldn’t have
taken a hundred dollars fori” And vet,
running of half-concealed through it all, was a little vein
tho wind had frolicked pride in tho fact that
their possessions. so roughly with
“Well, neighbors,” said a cheery-
faced member of one of these little
groups, “I think there’s a good deal to
bo thankful for. We can’t expect sun-
shine with gentle winds all the time. I
s’poso these great storms are just as
necessary in the spriii'>- ns ottr ‘clearing-up-fires’ are
Why just think how hot
it was yesterday forenoon! Then the
Lord sent a big storm, and all the dam-
age it done was to throw down a few
bricks and a few apples or so, and didn't
harm a hair of our heads. Now sec how
clean and fresh everything is to-day?
I tell you He’s pretty 1 good to us, taking b
it all round”
“You don’t believe that anyone i m a
anything do ' to do with last night’s storm,
you, Story?” queried a sarcastic voice
and a tall commanding lookinc- helrd man ‘
joined tho group. “Haven’t I a
f,.,m o ii i whid°bloweth i *1
whereTt that runs lisfcth?’ like this- ‘The bl ° Weth
”
swered°sturdi Tho other’s face flushed but nnothoi bn in
1 v‘And tiio this Ys
quotation from sumo uood old liook-
‘And He aroso and rehnlced the wind 1
said saut unto unto the the sea sea, peace, nenco be he still! still' And \„d
ealrn It'^God 8 ^ A1,mght 1 mi Irhtv V ’7^vind 8 wind ’ Cob f
Brainard” -
o7h“1aoVr»f£i i ben& mi ° “
K S i ” ed ,h
“Well then HisuinlKlnw J Si nnTn “ 7
barn last nhrht No v ’the
all to boar witness to thing that I
mlddv'cln",5 0 ™°. ,h “ t God AU
SS^aKboUX™,!• H
also, that Colo,tel Brainard will yet be
h'Srt ^ f hC th 1,0 haS ‘
° ' °“ SW ° m
“Don't Again came be that scoffing laugh.
so solemn about it, Neigh-
her Story I My barn will yet stand be-
fore your eyes, and I will build it too
strong for God Almighty’s J winds. Do
vnu AmaW honr nuiAHnr?"
*
Storv turned on his heel and
walked *
awuv
The town of Marshrille was halved by
a wide, deep, still-flowing river. The
largest half of the town was built on an
eminence on the south bank of the river,
The Brainard Place, ns it was called, was
built on the eminence on the north bank
of the river and at some little distance
from the village proper. And so, ns
there were no houses or buildings of anv
description to obstruct tho view, one
et in *1 o viUage -n streets . . and a look- , ,
ifL Tt' Vpi COU t ♦f ?p. he -S g eCOlldWee °° V e " °,
16 V1 “ agG a
were'dragging E unenSmous Jliekof
oxen
timber through the quiet streets.
“Hello. Brown!” shouted one of the
villagers to the teamster, “where's that
v- f e ]i ow croins-?”
“That’s for Colonel Brainard’s new
barn," woe the reply; and then every-
y ° S °°
ldte one
hfi A r'/ai^noi .t
° r 8
of the eveidnff L Sft Tt amhfr ha 1 nnf ^hfSod omwn
as 8kiS yet andPnw^nnSth for £ h Jih in! toe
0 Tf "
iimt tho timo makhu^Bmir when tho ct namhl.o, • fe".he f ii f’
vUlager8 getting
morrow and the news of the day 7
to carrv home.
“ Bovs !” called out the Colonel in his
bluff. hearty voice, “come up to the
‘raising’ to-morrow 1 I need a good
deal of up/ help about this one, I can tell you!
Come neighbors 1 Story, I shall
count on you anyway 1 You’ll he there,
* '
won’t you?”
“Not I, Colonel!” answered Storv,
seriously, obliged, but pleasantly. flying “ I’m just as
much but I ain’t in the
face of Providence this year.”
The “raising” was a grand
and all who attended it came bark with
the most vivid accounts of the strength
tbe new barn and tbe immensity of its
timbers.
| In a day or two afterward, Colonel
Iirainard again stopped at the village
j I can MT t *K<" you? *>» I want -M. to “ see — you .»« about here, a
j 1 little matter.”
Story rose to his feet and walked out
| to the Colonel’s carriage.
j “ What is it, Colonel ? ”
I Braiuard put his hand on Story’s
J j shoulder Well, and Story, pointed up the river.
j . “ I want you to see some-
thing, for of course you haven’t noticed
| it before; I want you to see that
up there on the Brainard Place ! What
do you think of it ? ”
“1 think it is a pretty strong one,
Colonel,” was the frank reply: “In fact,
I know it is, for I have been told over
and over again by the best of judges,
that from ridgepole to plate, and from
plate to sill, it is just as strong as huge
beams, iron rods and steel bolts can
make it; but, Colonel, you and I are
both lumbermen; and more than once we
have seen great tracts of timber, through
wb ‘ cb the wind had hewed itself a path,
and do you remember evor seeing a tree
Ieft 8ta » din g in an 7 ono those
l )atl,a? And did you over think of what
a tremendous force it must have been
that took bold of tbo8e bi g trees and
P u,,od thcm U P out o£ tbo £ ro,u,ld just as
quickly and easily asadentist would pull
a tooth? If I were you, Colonel, I guess
man 1 wo f u,d 8 btt,c * ak strength ® Jt a [ l against bac . k ’ a » the d “ mighty 0 .t Pjf
arm of the Lord!”
‘‘H you were me! said tho Colonel,
“But you’re act me Story,
and L Brainard, don t tako back any-
\ hU ^ l “OT °Sf n ‘ ^
losing side, . Brother Story! Don t forget
that! ”
As the days , went ,, by it .. , became evident ., +
that Colonel Brainard did not intend that
Amasa Story should have a chanco to
for S ot iL Evcr y time he saw Stor v be
^ -
nevet a ^ ed to remind him in tho most
offensive manner of the fact that the
barn still stood firm and strong upon its
btory, S undatio until “ s ’ time “ and rots wili the stand, timbers Brother and
out tho bolts!”
Alld htoi T wou l d answer cheerily:
“ The Lord bas S ot lots of P atieQc o,
'Vinter came on. ri Colonel . « Brainard . ,
and Amasa Stor ^ hoth f n S a ? ed j n evten-
?. lv ° umbc r in ^ operations in the great
forests m the 1 l northf,rn P art of theKr na ‘
tive State, and did not see each other
again for some months; hut with the re-
turn of spring, logs and lumbermen came
down the river.
Cdone „ . 1 , Brainard „ . , got , , home first n . He
wa8 ^the best of spirits. His winter s
' vork had brought him a great deal of
money, and naturally he felt rather jubi-
[ bad an 1 t - ^ ot As bome sooa be a3 made bo baa all T haste d that to bto ^' to
th go
*
“Hello Story! heshoutedas , soon ns
. b caught sight of Story cheery face,
« s
did you get home?
‘ Ju8 f com °’ Colonel! answered the
other . heartily. 1 “What s the news?
^ryholy “Pretty well, all well Story; up to pretty your place?” well; and
com e to think of it, neighbor, why didn’t
v°u inquire about the bam, ako? Don’t
for g et that bam, Story! I want you to
beep an eye on that barn,” said the Col-
? n<d .' vitb tho 8am0 old mocking inflection
in his voice.
fotten'all Story colored furiously. Ho had for-
about their dissension in his
joy Weing at getting home, and his pleasure in
his old friends; and to have his
frien dly inquiries met in this way, was
too bad. But, controlling his
temper, ' he answerod with something b of
an e ffort .
“No need of me, Colonel! The Lord
has got His eye on that ham fast
enough!”
.SStST-'S ’STS.
though the impression tliev made on him
d ^ d not hinder him from attacking his
'ictim every time he came within sound
0
on after this fashion
aball of red-hot iron. All the
tonaam " ,c u \ r
S'o nsM P “ Staten.:: Winding.
s " "° " “ But, « the
afternoon. a soft base Como into the .,r
n ^. so: " e flec v c, °" ds oreptoverthe face
- Now and then
tb ? there was a
a |. btt ! e ° f f ^ ind ■ i *
Late m the afternoon, a T bank , of . gray
^7 rolled up m the West,
I bere was nothing particularly alarming
“ bou ‘ ,llcm ; Jhey wore not dark or
lookm 5'. b "* T”? S, ” >pl:r »
m " SS o£ m l S X7“-i , bU i S ? n, °‘
how they seemed , , to bring with them a
d ™thI v st,linos, that settled down over
?'erythmg, fo d upon fold, and its
md “ e n<!e 7 as fe “ ** "vcnColonel Brain-
. f
Ho harnessed up h.s horse, and down ,
, ? to ? nnd
his friends were standing busilyf on the steps of
the vil i ape store, though quietly-
talking politics; and thus did not notice
until lie drew rein he-
them.
At the s »S bt of the Colonel, Story, who
happened abri to be speaker E at this the moment,
dreaded P t l7 the , sto sight PP ed of -. that y dark time mocking he
voice; but the Colonel did not mention
b [ s favorite subject as soon 4 as^he saw
»«* be
“Boys', I wiah you’d Somehow take a look at
those clouds yonder. I don't
like the looks of them.”
Of course everyone iustantlv looked
eagerly thl in the direction toward which
Colonel pointed.
“Don’t see anything alarming ^ about
««■»
38 th ough they were pretty near us, now
don't it?”
“Well,” said another judicially, “it
does seem so, that's a fact! And there's
one place right back of the village here.
that looks pretty dark. Do you see it? ”
“Story, what'do you think about it? ”
queried the Colonel.
Story gave one quick look at the
Colonel's face and tffi-n turr.al his face
back to the cloudy sky without one word
in reply. The Colonel laughed loud and
long. “Oh, hoi Brother Story, haven't
you
TOCCOA, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 19, 1891.
got a word to say? Come, it’s time for
you to own up beat! It's no time to hold
out any longer. I believe that every mat
that stood on that street comer that mom-
ing after the storm is right here now.
Do you remember what I swore, Story,—
'tg&ZESXX “I ** ^
remember!” came the answer; but
the speaker never took his eyes off those
silent clouds
“And I swear it again, right here,
face to face with those clouds you are
studying, Brother friend; Story. f Come, face
round here, inv hate to talk to
the back of a man’s head.”
Story never moved.
“Do you give it up?” went on the
mocking ber voice. “Of course, you remem-
what you said at the street corner
that morning!”
As one having ears hears not, Story
half-faced round. “Hush!” he said
sternly. Silence fell over the little
group; and through the stillness a
strange, low sound reached them. In¬
stantiy every man turned his eyes to the
west. “Look!” said Story, in a hushed
voice.
There was no need of the admonition.
Every eye was fastened on a little dark
cloud that had swung itself loose from
the rest. The strange, low sound deep-
ened. The Colonel’s horse pricked up
his ears, -worked his delicate nostrils
The affrightedly, then shuddered all over,
Colonel’s hand tightened instinctive-
ly on the rein, but he had no reassuring
word for the quivering animal that he
bad P ett fd from a tiny eolt. Somehow
his throat had become hard and dry. He
heard nothing but that weird sound, saw
nothing cloud, but that little swirling, black
It was forty years ago that the events
of 8t °7 happened long before the
word “cyclone with all its dread signifa-
? anco was f word, and they
happened, day also, in a State that to this
knows but little about those terrible
windstorms. But the terror of this
strange, grewsome thing, whose roaring
now filled the air, was sufficient of itself
to smite all color from the bronzed faces
of that group of lookers-on and chill
them to the marrow with fear,
Lightly,as a thistle-down, turning and
twisting, seemingly a plaything of the
air, south it bank sped of along over the fields on the
the river. At first it was
a round mass something like a huge can-
non ball, then shaped by viewless hands
it took on a funnel-shape; finally it
started straight as a line for the river
bank. A group of tall elms stood in its
way. The soft cloud touched them and
then swept on. A few ragged and mut-
Hated trunks pointed to the sky, branch,
twig and emerald leaf twisted away by
ruthless force. It swooped down on to
the river, which was full of logs. A
river man log-booms was standing on one of the
great at work. 1 he voiceless,
motionless lookers-on saw him face
round, and then tho next instant he had
desperately dropped into the water and was clinging
tothe boomstick, then the
cjoud cloud. hid lor him from one instant view they On sped turned the
then eyes from the cloud to the place
where they saw the lumberman. He was
safe, though his face, which was just
emerging from the water, was as white as
a patch of foam. Then they turned to
the cloud again
It sped up the river bank, aiming . as
straight as an arrow sped from a taut-
strung bow for the Brainard barn. The
soft cloudy mass reached it, and never
baited an instant as though hindered, but
b ghtly and steadily kept on its way. But
for all that, the thing happened that every
man had had a distinct presentiment
would happen,—of that great, solid-built
barn, not one timber was loft upon an-
other. Fulltothcraftorswithanabun-
dant harvest, with six great river-bat-
teaux piled around it, in the twinkling of
aa eye, barn and batteaux were snatched
away, and not a vestige of either left.
CoTonerCtaarf S” sTo^
swung around and faced each other,
There was too much of a terrible fear, of
“j? StS Ta
solemn awe in the eyes of the other to ex-
taheth away, who caa
W.r Him’" said the skeptic slowly;
Xf in gh Hi°^fi “"7^tland 01 Trln!
script,
Water an Anaesthetic.
A \ rather remarkable , ,, discovery A . , has just .
been made by Dr. C. L. Sleich, of Ber-
lin, Germany He was conducting ex-
permients with a view to determine how
weak a solution of cocoaine would prove
olhotmiouo as a local antes hot.c m minor
"P^tmns, when hostumbled on
tho fact that simple water mjected under
tho■ skin with a syringe rendered the flesh
at that point insensible to pain,
1 he effect of the water is to create a
slight.swelling resomb hug that caused by
thostmg b} h swelling of a gnat. 1 he space marked
'.’ ? for minutes, remains that msensib e to
pam some so incisions
can be made without causing tho slight-
est pain. The method of procedure P ?he poin? is
where very simple. 1 The skin at isTX
the injection is to be made
* hen tk8 P oiu f of
a 1 ravaz s^p fijied with .. distilled ]
water is inserted. ’Ihe synnge « slowly
^ a " d a bllster a PPears,
stmnar to that n caused n , by a gnat s sting.
the gellingdepend upon
X^^e^wit^X distinctly marked by
space the Winter is
insensible, and can be cut into without
causing pain. The pain caused by the
insertion of the syringe can be at once
allayed by spraying with ether.
To what extent this novel discovery
<»/»* «-ill prove of practical worth in surgery
«* determined. Dr. Sleich
made use of it m the case of a huge car-
buncle on the upper thigh. Afterthem-
|f ctl ^ n of °P watt e ? * b the v ^ doetor oss iaci810ns iaid the ^ car-
-
a f th ’ a f. d 8C °^P ed ? ut
^ J*?!* SHt d . ecla p ^ ag
of the wound. , In T the case mentioned the
cuts at once reunited and healed per-
tectl 7-
The words in common use by the ordinary
individual are estimated at from 1,000 to
3 000 .
THE WIDE WORLD.
GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND
CABLE CULLINGS
YT
Of Brief Items of Interest From
Various Sources.
The democrats carried the city election
in Meriden, Ct., Tuesday.
Report of the ravages of infiuenzi in
various parts of Europe are being con¬
stantly received.
An order was issued Monday ordering
all telegraphers on the Pacific system of
the Southern Pacific road to strike.
The new tariff bill introduced in the
chamber of deputies at Lisbon,Monday,is
strongly protectionist in character.
The Portsea Island Building Society,
of London, suspended Monday, The
estimated securities held by the society
amount in value to $700,000.
The amount of silver offered for sale to
the treasury department Monday was
726,000 ounces, and the amount pur¬
chased 250,000 ounces at 96 cents.
A dispatch of Sunday from Madrid,
Spain, says: The Epoca confirms the an-
nouncement that the loan of $50,000,000
has been arranged, to be issued ou the
30th instant.
that Sunday’s dispatches from Berlin say
the Scientific Journal Lich'strahlen
has been seized for commenting unfavor¬
ably upon the emperor’s recent remark:
“Suprema lex voluntas regis.”
A Washington dispatch of Tuesday
says: .Justices Brown and Lamar, of the
supreme court of the United States, are
confined to their homes with the grip,
which has also affected other members of
the court in a milder form.
A cablegram of Sunday from Brussells
is to the effect that the congregathm of
Mongolian missions at Ghent has receiv¬
ed news confirming the report that 500
native Christians have been massacred at
Patou district, and that all the Europeans
there escaped.
A cablegram of Sunday from London
states that the advisory board of the Vir¬
ginia state debt bondholders have de¬
clined to recommend that the holders ac¬
cept the American committee’s scheme
for the settlement of the claims against
Virginia.
A Cincinnati dispatch says: Articles
Association of incorporation of the Tobacco Growers’
were left for record in the
county clerk’s office at Covington Satur¬
day morniDg. The incorporators are W.
L. Scott, W. L. Piper and S. E. Hamp¬
ton, and the capital stock, $50,000.
A cablegram of Sunday from St.
Petersburg, officials says: The Russian polii e
claim to have unearthed a for¬
midable conspiracy to force the granting
of a national constitution. Within the
past few days many persons have been
arrested on the charge of being implica¬
ted in the plot.
The coi respondent of The London
Times, at Santiago do Chile) telegraphs
that the entire newspaper press of Chile
places the responsibility for the difficul¬
ties now existing between Chile and the
United States upon Egan, United States
minister. None of the papers make any
attack upon President Harrison.
The London Telegraph’s correspondent
at St. Petersburg says: Influenza has
assumed alarming forms here. Some pa¬
tients become mad and rush wildly
through the streets in violent paroxvsms,
then have fiver and utter prostration,
often followed by death. In other cases
there are typhoid developments.
A cablegram of Tuesday from Dublin
says: Michael D.ivitt ha3 issued an elec¬
tion address. He pledges himself, with
his colleagues, to endeavor to obtain such
measures of home rule as will satisfy the
aspirations of the Irish people and en¬
able their representatives to frame laws
insuring the fullest opportunities for the
advancement of the trade and labor in
terests of Ireland.
A New York dispateh says: Reports
were published Saturday morning that
the head of the man who exploded the
dynamite bomb in Russell Sage’s office)
has been identified as Henry L. Norcross,
of Somerville, Mass. It is stated a friend
of his visited the taorgue und identified
the head as that of Norcross. The father
and mother of Henry L. Norcross are
pow fully convinced that their son was
the man whose insane act in the office of
Russell Sage resulted in his own death.
THE SENATE.
A Number of Bills Introduced and
Referred.
Among the bills introduced in the
senate lowing; Monday and referred were the fol¬
For the monument to General
U. S. Grant in the city of Washington;
a bill amending the Chinese exclusion
act so as to require Chinese removed from
the United States to be sent to China, in-
stead of the country from whence they
came. It is provided further that the
burden shall be on any Chinese laborer
or person who shall claim the right to
remain in the United States to establish
such right; to repeal all laws discriminat-
ing against the circulation of state banks;
to Chinese prohibit absolutely United the coming of
into the States, whether
they are Chinese subjects or otherwise.
Mr Aldrich moved an amendment to the
rule regulating admission to the floor of
tbe senate. The amendment was adopt-
ed. The principal change is as to clerks
to committee and clerks to senators,
they are admitted when “in actual dis¬
charge provided of that their clerks official to duties, senators ” and “must it is
be regularly appointed and he borne on
the rolls of the secretary of the senate as
such.” The senate then went into execu-
tive session, when some nominations were
referred to committees, and, then, at 1:29
o’clock the senate adjourned till Tnesday.
Honoring Dom Pedro.
A cablegram of Thursday from Mad-
rid, Spain, stys: The government gave
orders that as soon as the train bearing the
remains of the ex emperor of Brazil from
Paris to their final resting place in Lis-
bon, entered Spanish territory every
honor due the exalted station the de-
ceased had formerly occupied should be
paid. These orders were strictly carried
oub
THE APPROPRIATIONS
Which Are Needed by Uncle Sam for the
Next Year.
A Washington dispatch says. Th'
comparative statement of estimates o
appropriations needed for the next fiscs
year, with estimates and appropriation;
for the current fiscal yesr, has been pre
pared by the courts and cleves, respectivi
clerks to the house and senate committees
on appropriations. This statement show
an excess in the estimates of the regular
appropriations for the fiscal year begin
ning July 1, 1892, of $9,522,852 as com
pared with estimates a year ago for tht
current fiscal year.
Similar estimates of the permanent
annual appropriations show a reduction
of $622,928. These appropriations fox
the current fiscal year, exclusive of the
deficiency which appropriations of $38,699,746,
of $29,335,598 was oa account of
pensions and of miscellaneous appropria¬
tions amounting to $4,271,531, was $482,-
047,394, which is $7,884,699 l.ss than
the amount estimated as necessary to be
appropriated for the mxt fiscal year.
These estimates and appropriations do
not include rivers and harbors ou which
the chief of engineers reports that $58,-
074,950 can be profitably expended dur¬
ing this year.
A comparison of the estimates for the
next fiscal year with the estimates of a
under year ago, which according to the several heads
the appropriations are made,
is as follows:
Agricultural, $3,360,995 for the next
fiscal year, an increase of $548,992 though
only $332,842 in excess of the current
year’s appropriation, this being due to
the fact that after last year’s estimates
-were priated submitted, $889,753 heretofore ap-
under the war department was
added to the agricultural ap¬
propriation bill, ou account of
the transfer of the weather bureau:
Army, $25,949,920; increase of $183,-
562. Diplomatic and consular, $2,138,
466; increase of $195,861. District of C< -
lumbia, $5,602,125; increBScof $151,910.
Fortifications, $9,386,607; increase o.
$1,902,284. Indians, $8,603,908; in
crease ot $1,756,999. Appro; riations foi
the current year, however, exceeded last
year’s estimates by $7,682,377, on
account of the rat fication iu the
appropriation bill of several In
dian treaties, and of the pay
ment of the claims of the Choctaw and
Chickasaw nations of Indians. Legisla
tive, executive and judical, $72,754,038 ;
an increase of $64,755; Military academy,
$506,320; decrease of $46,416; Navy,
$27,194,639; decrease of $6,131,940;
Pensions, $147,064,550; increase of$ll,-
801,415; Postoffice, $80,323,400; increa c
of $2,777,506. Su idry civil, $36,183,
955; decrease of $3 627,126.
A BOSTON BROKER
It was Who Threw the Bomb at Russell
Sage.
A sensational dbputch w T as sent out
from Boston, Mass., Friday, to the effect
that Henry L. Norrross, a note broker,
doing business at 12 Pearl street, Boston,
has hot Ixen sren at bis office since the
middle of the week, and other occu| ants
of his residence ?ay that lie was killed in
a railroad accide t ab nit that t me. New
York detect vi s were in the city trying
to identify the missing man as the mys¬
terious bomb thr rwcr in Rus-ell Sage’s
office. The detectives biought with
them a trouser button and por ions of
the trousers worn by the bomb thrower,
ns well as a pi”ce of h : s coat and por¬
tion of his underc’othing. These were
taken to Norcross’ residence and ‘he
underclothing positively identified by
Mrs. Norcross as belonging to her hus¬
band. On the troupers of the dead mm
were buttons bearing the print, “Brooks,
Tailot, B ston.’* Pieces of clothing wc-e
taken to Brooks’s store There it was pos¬
itively stated that the firm lv d made for
Heiiry L. Norcross, a coat of the cloth
presented a- d also a pair of trousers of the
same cloth as the other piece furnished by
the detective. The button was also iden¬
tified as a peculiar one used by this tailor
ing house. Henry L. Norcri ss has not
been seen in the city since the day before
on which the life of Bussell Sage was
threatened, fie Was about uv nty-e ; ght
or twenty-nine yens of «?<•.
STARTLING FIGURES.
Lowest Average Price Ever Paid for
Cotton.
The cotton returns of December to the
department of agriculture at Washington
relate to the average prices on plantations.
The complaint of unremunerative values
is general, and the declaration ib frequent
that the crop does not rettlrn cost of pro¬
duction. A feeling of discouragement
pervades the report, and'a disposition to
reduce the area is expressed. The plant¬
ation price, which is the actual rate for
cotton sold at agin, averages 7.3 cents
per pound.
For the five years preceding the range
was from 8.1 to 8.6, and averaged echoed nearly
8.4 cents. Th s decline is in the
record of export ition, which averaged in
October value of 8.9 cents, againstl0.il
cents for October The of last year, a drop of
12 per cent. state averages ate as
follows:
Virginia, 7 cents; North Carolina, 7.4; 7.4;
South 7.3; Carolina, 7.4; 7.3; Georgia, Mississippi, Flor-
ida, Alabama, 7.8;
Louisiana, 7.3; Texas, 7.0; Arkansas,
9.3; Tennessee, 7.3.
An almost unexampled season for har-
vesting is reported, with packing, gin-
ning and marketing far advanced. short, While is
the fibre is at many points it
clean and of good color,
THEIR NECKS SAVED.
A Confession by Which Ten Men Will
Escape the Gallows.
One of the mi st remarkable cases that
has ever come to light in South Carolina
developed Columbia, in the state supreme court at
the Thursday, and, as a result,
necks of the negroes under sentence
of death in Laurens county for the murder
of Thornton Nance, 6ome mocths ago,
will be saved. They were sentenced to
hang on O tober24th last, but the atter-
neys the appealed to the supreme court, and
the motion hearing of Thursday was to suspend
in the supreme court and
transfer it back to the circuit court. The
ground of this motion was the confession
of another negro, Henry Sarber, who was
alone recently arrested, to the effect that he
was the murderer,'
THROUGH DIXIE.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEFLY
PARAGRAPHED
Forming’ an Epitome of Daily
Happenings Here and There.
The legislature of Virginia re-elected
John W. Daniel, United States senator
Tuesday,
The Orleans rice mills, at New Or¬
leans, burned Siturdny night, Loss
estimated at $40,000.
The first annual session of the st ile
in temperance convention, of Virginia, met
Richmond, Tuesday.
John P. Richardson, one of the largest
and best known cotton planters in the
south, died at Dallas, La., Monday.
The epidemic of influenza in St. Louis
is becoming very pronounced, and hun¬
dreds of cases are under treatment.
Fire at Florence, Ala., Tuesday morn¬
ing broke out in the Stafford block and
spread through the entire row of build¬
ings. Loss $25,000.
Virginia, Congressman William Wilson, of West
president was on Tuesday night elected
of Richmond college by the
trustees of that institution.
charged Joseph McKay, in jail at Uklah, Cal.,
with stage robuery, has been
found to be the sou of Joaquin Miller,
the “poet of the Sierras.”
The anti-subtreasury men have post¬
poned their convention, which was to
meet at day Memphis on December 26th, to
some to be yet named.
The steamer Herbert, of Chattanoiga,
from St. Louis, was sunk Monday morn¬
ing at Florence, Ala., after having suc¬
cessfully passed through Muscle Shoals
canal.
Senator Call, of Florida, on Mouday
introduced a bill authorizing the secie
tary of w r ar to construct the necessary
buildings for a military post at St. Au¬
gustine, Fla.
The official returns, cast at the late
election for railroad commissioners iu
follows: Mississippi, show up on population as
McLaurin, 31,986; Sessions,
81,553; Askew, 31,475.
Fire Tuesday morning at New Orleans
destroyed Dumeron & Holme’s fruit
store and damaged adjoining buildings.
Loss, $20,000; fully insured. Fireman
Matthew Hannon was instantly killed bv
coming in contact with an electric light
wire.
A Nashville, Tenn., dispatch of Tues¬
day says: The monthly statemrnt of the
operations of the Nashville, Chat'anooga
and St. Louis railway tor November
shows: gross earnings $440,701,88, oper¬
ating expenses $266,687.11, net earnings
$174,014.77,
A Nashville telegram announces that
Charles Ne'son, the millionaire distiller,
died Sunday morning of congestion of the
lungs, after one week’s illness. He was
born in Hagerow-Mccklenburg-Schwerin,
Germany, July 4, 1835, and came to
America with his parents when fifteen
years old.
A Columbia, 8. C., dispatch says: The
anti-prohibitionists are rejoicing. Mon¬
day night the senate judiciary comm ttee,
to whom was referred the general piohi-
bition bill recently pas : ed by the house,
unanimously resolved to report ic b ick
to the senate with the recommendation
that it do not pass.
THE CHEROKEE STRIP.
The Commissioners are Unwilling to
Pay More than $8,000,000 For It.
A dispatch from Tablequah, commissioners I. I'.,
says: The United States
have replied to the proposition made by
the Cherokees in regard to the sale of the
Cherokee strip. The commissioners insist
upon all of the provisions of their former
proposition, ar.d positively refuse $8,000,000 to con¬
sider a price in excess of the
already effered. It was further pre posed
that if the Cherokees do not accept the
price offered ihem, it m y be agreed that
all the collateral questions will be settled
by the commission and the price be re¬
manded to congress for final adjustment.
FOREIGN COMMENT
On President Harrison’s Message to the
52d Congress.
A London cablegram of Wednesday
sajs; In commenting upon President
Hariison’s message, the Post notices,
with SitisfactioD, the absence of signs
of bluster towards foreign nations, and
says that if the message meets the ideas
of the president’s party, diminished. Mr. Blaine’s
cbancea have seriously
The London Daily News of Wednes¬
day says: The president’s me a sige
leaves nothing to be desired, either in
tone or temper. Mr, Harrison is less
exasperating than Mr. Blame, and cob-
sequently more statesman-like. He
would not speak so tenderly of reciproc-
ity if his protection policy was a sue-
cess. __
MILLS FOR THE SENATE.
HI* Teias Friends Boomlnff Him for
the Place.
A dispatch of Thursday from Galves¬
ton, Texas, says: The defeat of Roger
Q. Mills for the speakership has given
widespread support, it is said, to the ef¬
forts of his adm rers to elect him to U.
S. Senate. Governor Hogg has stated
that an extra session of the legislature
will be called in < M arcb or April. The
election of a succes-or to John M. Rea-
gan will be one of the duties of that body.
Senator Chilton holds his appointment
from the governor, and although a can¬
didate for e’ection by the legislature, the
friends of Mills are said to be confident
of electing the tariff reform champion.
EDMUNDS RETAINED
By Davidson in His Contest for Call’s
Seat in the Senate.
A telegram of Tuesday states that ex-
United States Senator Edmunds, of
Vermont, has been retained by Mr. Da-
vidson, of Florida, who is contesting
Senator Call’s seat in the Unitod States
senate. It is said he will do his utmost
to convince the senate th‘ - Call should be
unseated for David-on, who Edmunds
believes is entitled to the seat.
NUMBER 50 .
BRAGG’S SUCCESSOR
On the Interstate Commerce Cominis*
siou is Culberson, of Texas.
A Washington dispatch of Monday
says: Congre-sman CulhcrsoD, of Texas,
has accepted the appointment of inter¬
state commerce commis ioner, recently
tendered him by the president. He goes
iu as Bragg’s successor. For many years,
while the democrats were iu power, Judge
Culberson lias been chairman of the
judiciary committee, He has served
rixteen years in c mgress, nnd has always
been considered one of the ablest law¬
yers that ever served in the house.
A REVEREND FORGER.
He Gets in His Work ou Worthless
Checks.
A Nashville dispatch of Tuesday says:
George R. Lindner, Ph. D.. M. D , and
minister of Christ church, is a fugitive
from justice. Saturday last Rev. Lind er
gave worthb S3 checks to different firms
in Nashville to the amount of about $60<\
He also obtain three diamond rings from
a jeweler on*pretense of al!owing*a youeig
lady to make a sele tion. He has been
heard from in New Orlcms. It was
thought he was making his way to
Mexico
neia Arrested.
A New York telegram states that Ed¬
ward M. Field, son of Cyrus 'V. Field,
and partner in the bankrupt brokerage
firm of Field, Lindley, We Ichors Co.
ou Broadway, was arrested Monday bj
central otlice oefectives on ail indictment
charging him with grand larceny iu ihe
first degree. He was locked up at police
headquarters
It is a very common thing for a young
man to make a sudden resolve that ho
will be a great man, and then to spend
all his life waiting for greatness to come
to him. In order to erect a magnificent
palace, it is expedient to begin by dig¬
ging in the dirt for a foundation.
RICHMOND & DANVILLE R. R.
Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line Division
Condensed Schedule of Passenger
Trains, in Effect Nov. 15th, 1891.
NORTHBOUND. No. 38. No. 10. No. 12.
EASTERS TIME. Daily. Daily. Daily.
Lv. Atlanta (E.T.) 1 25 pm 10 10 am
Chamblee..... 10 48 am
Norcross....... It 01 am
Duluth........ 1115 am
Suwanee....... 11 26 am
Buford........ 11 40 am
Flowery Branch 11 53 am
Gainesville..... 2 59 pm 12 14 pm
Lula.......... 12 42 pm
Bellton........ 12 41 am
Cornelia....... 110 pm
Mt. Airy....... 115 pm
Toccoa...... 1 47 pm
Westminster... am 2 35 pm
Seneca ........ 2 51 pm
Central........ 3 40 pm
Easleys........ am 4 11 pm
Greenville..... 6 05 pm 4 4>pm
Greers......... 5 C9pm
Wellford....... a m 5 27 pm
Spartanburg... 6 57 pm am 5 52 pm
Clifton........ am 6 10 pm
Cowpens ...... 6 15 pm
Gaffney....... 6 ‘Opm
Blacksburg..... am 1 7 00 pin
Grover......... am 12 pm
King’s Mount’ll 7 50 pm
Gastonia....... 7 69 pm
Lowell........ 8 12 pm
Bellemont..... 8 23 pm
Ar. Charlotte...... 9 10 pm 8 50 pm
SOUTHBOUND. No. 37, No. 11. No. 9.
Daily. Daily. Daily.
Lv. Charlotte...... 9 45 am 1 50 pm 2 20 am
Bellemont............. 2 12 pm 2 42 am
Lowell................. 2 22 pm 2 52 am
Gastonia............... 2 35 pm 3 01 am
King’s Moant’n........ 3 00 pm 3 27 am
Grover...............'.. 3 10 pm 3 43 am
Blacksburg............ 3 26 pm 3 53 am
Gaffney............... 3 45 pm 4 10 am
Cowpens.............. 4 10 pm 4 42 am
Clifton................ 4 13 pm 4 35 am
Spartanburg Wellford................ ... 11 43 am 4 5 27 50 pm 5 5 00 23 am
pm am
Greers................. 5 09 pm 5 42 am
Greenville...... 12 36 pm 5 34 pm 6 10 am
Easleys................. 6 07 pm 6 38 am
Central................ 6 55 pm 7 30 am
Seneca................« ? 22 pm 7 57 am
Westminster............ 7 41 pm 8 15 am
Toccoa................ 819 pm 8 52 am
Mt. Airy............... 8 48 pm 9 18 am
Cornelia............... 8 9 52 pm’ 9 23 am
Bellton................ 10 pm 9 45 am
Lula ......... 918pm 9 47 am
Gainesville..... 3 41 pm 9 42 pru 1C 12 am
Flowery Branch........ 10 00 pm 10 32 am
Buford................10 17 pm pm|l0 [10 45 am
Suwanee............... 10 33 58 am
Duluth............... 10 45 pm 11 15 am
Norcross..............10 Chamblee..............11 56 08pm;H pm ] 11 28 43 am am
Ar. Atlanta (E. T.) 5 05 pm 11 45 pm!12 20 pm
Additional trains Nos. 17 anl 18—Lula ac¬
commodation, daily except Sunday, leaves At¬
lanta 9 30 p m, arrives Lula 8 12 p m. Return¬
ing, leaves Lula 6 00 a m, arrives Atlanta 8 50
* daily,
Between Lula and Athens—No. 11 ex*
cept Sunday, and No. 9 daiiy, leave Lula 8 39 p
m, and ll 50 a m, arrive Athens 10 15 p m and
130 pm. Returning leave Athens, No. 10
daily, except Sunday, and No. 12daily, 6 15 p m
and 6 45 a m, arrive Lula 8 00 p m and 8 30
a “; .™^p tween Toccoa and E1 berton-No. 2 61 dai-
lv t 8un dav, leave Toccoa 00 pm
arrive Elberton 4 40 p m. Returning, No. 60
daily, except tiunday, leave t ElLerton 5 00a m
and arrives Toccoa 8 30 am.
Nos. 11 an 1 12 carrv PuUman Sleepers be-
Sleeper between Atlanta and New York.
On No. 11 no change in day coaches from
New York to Atlanta. and Southwest-
Nos. 37 and 38, Washington Atlanta and
em Vestibuled Limited, between
Washington. On this train an extra fare is
charged on first-cass tickets only- local and
For detailed information as to Sleep-.
through time tables, rates and Pullman
ing car reservations, confer with local agents,
or address, W. A. TURK,
JAS. L. TAYLOR, Ag’t. Div. Pass. Ag’t.
Gen’l Pass. Charlotte N. C.
Atlanta, Ga.
C. P. HAMMOND, Atlanta, Ga.
Superintendent. SOL. HASS,
\y. H. GREEN, Traffic Manager,
Gen’l Manager, Atlanta, Ua
Atlanta. Ga.
LEWIS DAVIS,
attorney at law
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will practioe in the oounties of Haber-
aham and Rabun of the Northwestern
Circuit, and Frank! n and Banka of tht
Western Circuit. Prompt eatruate<?iO atteAi >a h.m. wil -
^ glvep to all baaioeaa
The collection of debts will have »pe
attention-
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