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THE * TOCCOA NEWS
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL.
VOLUME XX.
RICHMf'jrfD & DANVILLE R. R.
AtlaoMuj charlotte ilr-Llne Division.
Condensed Schedule of Passenger
Trams, bn Effect Nov. loth, 1891.
northbound. No. 38. No. 10. No. 12.
EASTERN TIME. Daily. Daily. Daily.
I-v. Atlanta (E.T.) 1 26 pmi 8 SOpmjlO 10
'Ohamblee..... am
NorcroHB....... ........ 9 927pm 10 48 am
Duluth 39 pm It 01 am
Buwanee....... ........i 9 51 pm 1115 am
Buford........ 10 03 pm 11 26 am
Flow Branch ........[10 17 pm 11 40 am
Gainesville.,,.. ry ........10 31 pm ll 53 am
2 59 pm, 10 51 pm 12 14 pm
Lula....... ........11 Ittpm 12 42 pm
Bell ton........ ........il 21 pm.,i2 44
Cornelia....... l'll am
Mt. Aliy....... 45 pm
Toccoa........ L 1 1 ^ pni 115 Dm
J.2 , 20 1
Westminster... am 47 pm
Seneca......... 12 58 am 2 35 pm
Central......... 1 17 am 2 51 pm
Easlcya......... 1 50 am 3 40pm
Greenville..... 2 18 am
Greers.... 6 05 pm 2 44 am 4 4 ') pm
Wellford.. 3 14 am 5 09 pm
Spartanbtr 3 33 am 5 27pm
Clifton >•#... 6 57 pm 3 54 am 5 52 pm
4 13 am
4 18 am 6 tr Dm
....... 4 40 am 6 4 op m
jlaeksbnrg..... 6 01 am 7 00pm
Grover......... 5 11 am 7 12 pm
King’s Mount’n 5 28 am 7 30 pm
Gastonia....... 5 54 am 7 59 pm
Lowell........ 6 07 aui 8 12 pm
Bellemont..... 6 14 am 8 23 pm
Ar. Charlotte...... 9 10 pm 6 40 ;,m 8 50 pm
SOUTHBOUND. No. 37, No. 11. No. 9.
Daily. Daily. Daily.
Lv. Churlotte...... 9 45 am 1 50 pm 2 20 am
BelUmont..... L 2 12 pm 2 42 am
-well......... 2 22 pm 2 52 am
Gastonia....... 2 35 pm 3 04 am
King’s Mount’n 3 00 pm
Grov. r......... 3 16 pm
Gaffney....... Blacksburg.... 3 26 pm 3 53
3 45 pm 4 10 am
Cowpons...... Clifton........ 4 10 pm 4 42 am
4 13 pm 4 35 am
W. Spartanburg... Ilford........ 11 43 ami 4 27pm
5 £0 pm 5 23 am
Greers......... 6 09 pm 5 42 am
Greenville...... 12 36 pm | 5 34 pm G 10 am
Easleys......... Central........ 0 07 pm 6 39 am
6 55 pm 7 30 am
Seneca......... 7 22 pm
Westminster.... 7 41pm 8 15 am
Toccoa........ 8 19 pm 8 52 am
Mt. Airy....... 8 48 pm 9 18 am
Cornelia....... 8 52 pm 9 23 am
Bellton........ 9 16 pm
Lula.......... 9 18 pm 9 47 am
Gainesville..... 3 41 pn. 9 42 pm 10 12 am
Flowery Buford........ Branch 10 00 pmjlO 32 am
10 17 pm 10 45 am
Suwanco....... 10 83 pm 10 58 am
Duluth........ 10 45 pm 11 15 am
Norcross...... 10 66 pm 11 28 am
Chnmblco...... 11 08 pm 11 43 am
Ar. Atlant a (E. T. )| 5 05 pm 11 45 pm 12 20 pm
Additional trains Nos. 17 an 1 18—Lula ac¬
commodation, daily exoopt Sunday, leaves At¬
lanta 5 30 p m, arrives Lula 8 12 p m. Return¬
ing. leaves Lula 6 00 a m, arrives Atlanta 8 50
a m.
Between Lula and Attn ns—No. 11 daily, ex¬
cept Sunday, and No. 9 daily, leave Lula 8 30 p
m, aud 11 50 a m, arrive Athens 10 15 p ra and
daily, 1 30 pm. Returning leave Athens, No. 10
and 45 except Sunday, and No. 12 daily, 6 15 p m
0 a m, a. r>vo Lula 8 00 p m and 8 30
a m.
L'ctwccn Toccoa and Elberton—No. 61 dai¬
ly; except Sunday, leave Toccoa 2 00 pm
a rnve Elberton 4 40 p m. Returning, No. 60
daily, except Toccoa8*80 Sunday, leavesEllerton 5 00a m
and arrives am.
Nos. 11 an 1 12 carry Pullman Sleepers be¬
tween Washington andKaneas City via Birming¬
ham and Memphis, and Nos. 9 and 10 Pullman
Sleeper On between 11 Atlanta change and New York.
No. no in day coaches from
New York to A'lanta.
Nos. 37 and 38, Washington and Southwest-
c n Vestibnled Limited, between Atlanta and
charged Washington. lirst-ca-s On this train au extra fare is
on tickets only.
For detailed information as to local and
through ing time tables, rates and Pullman Sleep¬
address, car reservations, confer with local agents,
<>r
JA3. L. TAYLOR. W. A. TURK,
Gcn’l Pass. Ag’t. Div. Pass. Ag’t.
Atlanta, Ga. Charlotte N. C.
C. T. HAMMOND,
W. H. GREEN. Superintendent Atlanta, Ga.
Gon'l Manager. Traffic SOL. HASS, Manager,
Atlanta. Ga, Atlanta, Cia.
LEWIS DAVIS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will practice in the oounties of Haber-
»ham and Rabun of the Northwesters
Circuit, and Frankbn and Banks of the
Western Cirouit. Prompt attcfiMan wif
be given to all busioees ftatruetedUo l»m,
The collection of debts wffl have spec¬
ial attention.
JACKSON’S DAY.
A Banquet by the Business Men’s Asso-
ciation of New York.
The Business Men’s Democratic Asso-
ciatiou of New Y'ork city celebrated
Jackson’s Day with a banquet Friday
night. Speeches were made by Grover
Clovelar.d and Mr. Springer, of ‘Illinois,
Sivakitigou “The Issues of the Day,’’
Mr. Springer said among other things:
“I can state, without any fear of success-
fu : contradiction, that there is not the
slightest probability of a free coinage
bill becoming a law during this congress,
nor is it likely that any amendment of the
existing law will be made. If any meas¬
ure on this subject is passed it will be
one which democrats throughout the
country rau an i will cordially support. It
is p ss b’e that some such raeasure.accepta-
ble to democrats generally, may be agreed
upon and become a law during this ses-
siou of congress. In reference to public
(xpinditures, the democratic house of
representatives of this congress may be
relied upon for a record of rigid econ-
omy. This will not be another billion-
doilar corgress. A reduction of between
fifty aad a hundred millions a year by
th 1 present house of representatives may
be confidently expected as compared with
the appropriations of the previous con-
cress.”
THE DREADFUL INFANT.
Tommy—Mr. Wilkinson, ain’t you
Shaped just like other men?
Mr. Wilkinson—I suppose so, Tommv.
Why? Tommy—Papa ain’t exactly
says you be
square and Belle says you seem to al¬
ways ’round.
NOT ENCOURAGING.
Jack (about to propose)—Ethel, first- you
must have seen from the
Ethel—Of course; at least there is no
record that 1 was born blind, like a kit¬
ten.—[New York Herald.
A number of villages in purchasing North Schleswig,
Germany, have united in great
quantities of rye, which they sell at half
price to their poorer inhabitants.
ALLIANCE TALKS.
NEWS OF THE ORDER AND
ITS MEMBERS
Reform Press Comment and Items of
General Interest.
The Kansas State Alliance Benefit As¬
sociation saved its members three times
the cost of the State Alliance.
On * ** *
Alliance a capital of only $22,000 the Kan¬
sas $1,215,340 during Exchange did a business of
the last fiscal year.
The Labor ***
Tribune (Carthage, Mo.,
Ba y 8 * Good crops and close economy
can n °t of 6u pply the deficiency in the vol-
ume money, nor pay taxes or debts.
Some papers are shouting as if big crops
C ould bring money into circulation,
when the fact is impossible. Good crops
cause prices to fall for want of money
enough whereas to handle and hold the same,
if money was plentiful, it would
he called into use in handling the crops,
which would make large crops a blessing
in two ways—first, by the extra labor it
would em lploy; and, second, by the
amount o f money that would go into
circulation.
meeting of alliance presidents.
The presidents of the various state
alliances held an executive session in
Washington dispatches, a few days ago. According
to the meeting wat! somewhat
heated when the question of alliance po-
litical affiliation came up. A number of
other alliancemen who happened to bo iu
meetiug, Washington, but had no vote in the
were allowed to be present and
express themselves. It was agreed by
them that an attempt to transfer the al-
lianee vote of the country to any party
wou ^ result in the complete destruction
the order. A resolution was passed
unanimously calling upon the February
St. Louis convention to refrain from
committing The the alliance to any party.
resolution is as follows: “Resolved,
That it is the sentiment aud desire
of this conference of the pres-
idents of the Farmers’ Alliance
and Industrial Union that the delegates
from the Farmers’ Alliance and Indus¬
trial Union who attend the industrial
conference to be held in St. Louis, Feb¬
ruary 22, 1892, use their influence and
votes to establish perfect fraternal rela¬
tions with all the labor organizations
represented in said meetiug with the
Ocala demands as a basis and a platform
for principles, and that such platform be
presented to the national conventions of
the democratic party, the republican
party and the people’s party, this year,
with an earnest request that the princi¬
ples involved bo ingrafted into their plat¬
forms for the coming elections of 1892;
but that they carefully refrain from com-
mitting with our orders, as such, to affiiliation
any political party or parties.
***
NOT HIRELINGS.
In an extensive article on Alliance mat¬
ters, a correspondent in the Atlanta Con¬
stitution admits that the lodges of the
order are not as fu Jly attended as formerly,
accounting various reasons therefor, and
adds: “So you cannot judge the power
of the alliance in Georgia by the roll cal!
at the lodges, and to oppose the alliance
is to oppose an ud broken array of our
agricultural element. Abuse only
strengtheus them in their determination,
and poverty and oppression but drives
them the closer together. Our farmers
are not the untutored, irresponsible, vis¬
ionary fanatics that their enemies would
like to make the world believe. On the
other hand, they are liberal in their views,
are always open to conviction, conserva¬
tive and law-abiding. Since the alliance
was organized they have devoted great
time and care to a study of the economic,
questions that agitate the public mind,
and it would surprise an outsider to at¬
tend one of our alliance meetings
and hear uneducated men, just from
between the plow-handles, debate great
public issues, which you -would think
hs far removed from their under-
standing as are the poles. I assert that
the average alliancenian is to-day as well
or better informed in regard to the poli¬
tics of our country as is the average pro¬
fessional man; and they know as much
about financial questions as the average
banker or capitalist. There is no danger
of the alliancemen of Georgia being led
astray by designing and ambitious dema-
gogues. At this time I know that the
this section, P a Uy Has and not if a the ghost democratic of a show in
ma-
j orl ty in the house will give to the coun-
fi nancia l relief, aud show their will-
^goess to lift the burden from the backs
P e °pi e » J- n °t believe that the
new P art y command a corporal’s
ff uar ^ an Y county in Georgia. You
uever hear it even discussed at our alli-
a ° c ? gatherings, while the course of Col.
Livingston, and those of our alliance
congressmen -who went into the demo¬
cratic caucus, is universally commended.”
***
THE ALLIANCE NOT UNDERSTOOD.
Under the above headlines the Midland
Journal has a very comprehensive article
from which we extract the following:
The aims aud scope of the Farmers’ Al-
ba > in its several associations, and
uce
which separate branches are fast cousoli-
dating in our national body, are but
dimly understood by the general public,
w bo have been misled by the daily pa-
pers, either through design or ignorance
on the part of their editors. The gene-
ra i impression with outside parties is that
*be Alliance is a kind of farmers’ politi-
ca ^ P ar ty which will make nominations,
an( ^ if those candidates fail of election,
will speedily dissolve and be heard of no
more, that they, the farmers, have
some crude ideas about laws of finance
anu otner econoimo questions, wmen
are undigested and chaotic, which, if
attempted to be put into practice, would
utterly fail to work. The monopoly press
of the cities have been industrious to
spread this belief among the people and
create a prejudice if possible against the
Alliance. Many intelligent farmers who
draw all their information from the daily
press and flatter themselves that they are
well posted on public matters, are the
dupes is of in this misinformation. Tne Alli¬
ance no sense a political party, but
a co-operative brotherhood, in which ail
political parties are treated with impa r-
tiality, or rather not considered at all.
TOCCOA, GEORGIA. JANUARY 16, 1892.
t»ut in which alt economic questions arc
receiving a searching examination with-
out respect to what party may support
them The Alliance has au order of
business which is followed in its meetings
which never varies, and insures its worK
and proceeding to be unilorm, and mov-
ing toward the s tine point throughout the
country. Poli ical rffaiis are closely
scanned and the true inwardness of every
measure transmitted to the whole organi¬
zation from National or Supreme Council
down to every stib-Aiiiance in the coun-
try,divested of all party favoritism; each
measure being examined and dis- u^ed
whoilv on i*s rnei tour « th ii h* n‘
its being a party measure. By this means
members get a true knowledge of public
affairs, and are enabled to form aD opin¬
ion which gives them an independence
of thought and individuality which have
heretofore been unknown to the masses
of the people who have been domi¬
nated by a party bigotry which was
little better than a state of moral
and political servitude * * *
Reverses or successes of political parties
can have little or no effect on the con¬
tinuance of the Alliance, It will con-
tinue to enlarge the scope of its useful¬
ness and gain in power and influence
throughout the country. Its mission is
to undo the mischief that class legislation
has wrought, and have laws passed that
will stop iavoritism to tne money ana
monopoly clnssts—in fact work their
utter downfall and make it impossible for
the system of legal robbery to be pur¬
sued, which has over-ridden individual
rights for the past thitty years, by placing
the corporation above the citizen and
turning over the prerogative of gov-
eminent to the control of a bank-
ing and stock gambling class.
AN ADDRESS.
Below we give the address of the com¬
mittee on the St. Louis meeting in full:
To all citizens of the Uunted States
Greeting:—The undersigned have been
appointed a committee to issue an address
setting forth the object and purposes of
the great conference of producers which
has been called to convene in St. Louis,
on the 22d day of February, 1892. The
call for said conference originated with
the National Farmers’ Alliance and In¬
dustrial Union at Ocala, Fla., in Decem¬
ber, 1890, as follows: “This body gives
its sanction and call for a meeting to be
held about February, 1892, to be com-
posed of delegates from all organizations
of producers upon a fair basis of repre-
sentation, for the purpose of a general
and thorough conference upon the de-
mands of each, and to the end that all
may agree upon a joint set of demands
just prior to the next national campaign,
and agree upon the proper methods lor
enforcing such demands. It the people,
by delegates coming from them direct,
agree that a third parly move is nccessa-
ry, it need not be feared, that the next
session of this Supreme Council elect
delegates from this Order to represent it
in said national conference of productive
organizations for political purposes.”
Committees from the National Farmers,
Alliance and Industrial Union, the
Knights of Labor, the National
Citizens, Alliance, and the Colored
National Farmers’ Alliance and Co-oper-
ative Union met in Washington, D. C.,
January 24, 1891, and chose a national
executive committee, and fixed the time
for the coming conference at February
22, 1892, and instructed their executive
committee to decide on the place of
meeting and the basis of representation,
The call for the great labor conference
has since been ratified and accepted by
practically all farmers’ and laborers’ or-
aanizations. The national executive
committee met at Indianapolis, Ind., on
the 16th day of November, and fixed
the basis of representation, and ap-
pointed a committee to choose the place
of meeting. This show's the call to be
regular, people and scattered to be supported by millions
of throughout every sec-
tion of this broad land. A movement of
such great extent and popularity involves
great forces and must wield great power;
its causes, objects, purposes and methods,
therefore, are important subjects of con-
sideration. The causes are many, and
depend that have on combinations of circumstances
been transpiring for years;
many of them are to-day unnoticed, and
to attempt even a list of the causes
would be almost an endless task, but
prominent among the causes for this
great movement, causes which should
fill with alarm and concern every
loyal citizen of this government, are:
The rapid accumulation of the wealth
of the nation in the hands of a few,
and the general impoverishment and
discontent of the masses; a finan -
cial system that furnishes a volume
of money which at one season of the year
is so redundant that money is worth in
the metropolis only 1 per cent.
on call, while at another season it
is so inadequate that money ranges
as high as 188 per cent on call, thereby
entailing great hardship and distress
upon all classes as a result of instability
of prices. The general and widespread
belief on the part of the masses that the
government is administered in the inter-
est of a favored class (whether this be
true or not, the fact that such belief ex¬
ists is a matter of public concern) in
spite of the wise and just provisions of
the constitution. Boss rule methods and
the distribution of millions of corruption
money by political organizations, the
depressed condition of all productive
pursuits, the menace to free
government involved in the
shameful abuses of aggregated wealth,
using combinations of transportation
companies to control legislative and ju¬
dicial proceedings, the foreign invasion
which is received and allowed to exact
tribute on account of the unavailability
of American wealth in business, the
plainly visible wide separation between
the government and the people who seem
to feel that they are pushed aside for the
politician and lose a proper interest in
government affairs; that monster, the
mortgage, which is rapidly devour¬
ing the grandest liberties and and the independence
of the best people the
sun ever shown upon, and whose con¬
scienceless exactions must soon bring
on a climax of violence unless wise coun
sel shall prevail and the cause of justice
assert itself. These among the many
causes are sufficient to enlist the support
of all patriotic citizens in any laudable
effort to wrest American institutions
from such abuses and lestore them to
the foundations laid by the signers of the
Declare.ion Dpclara’ion of of Tndenendenc** Independence.
The object of the-coming meeting is,
under the blessing of God, to confer and
agree upon the wisest, fairest and most
just means of relief in the in
terest of the whole people, and to
announce a declaration of principles
upon which all are agreed to stand
and demand laws to carry out. For this
purpose every organization of producers
in this broad land is invited to send dele¬
gates and participate in the deliberations.
For the love of our country, for the sake
of your family, in view of your duty to
the prosperity, and pursuant of your re¬
sponsibility to God, come! and let this
be the second Declaration of Independ-
ence for the American people in which
instead of throwing off the yoke of a ty¬
rant king they liberate posterity from
threatened industrial tyranv and slavery.
The purpose of the meeting will be devel¬
oped when the delegates of the
people that assemble. It is Idle to suppose
they will adopt a set of demands
without making adequate provision to
enforce them. It is not lor this commit¬
tee to say what the purposes will be, but
it is the duty of this committee to urge
the intelligence, wisdom and virtue of
the land to participate in the delibera¬
tions and abide by the results of that
meeting.
C. W. Macune
Herman Baum garten, Committee.
Thomal W. Gilrctii,
John P. Steel.
DEATH IN THE MINE.
Dne ~ Handled Killed and Many More
Fatally Injured,
A report reached McAllister, I. T.,
from Shaft No. 5 of the Osage Coal and
Mining Company at Krebs that a terrible
explosion occured there at 5 o’clock
Thursday hundted evening, by the effects of which
two lives will probably be lost.
It was just before the day shift changed
off and came out of the mine for supper,
when a puff of smoke was seen to escape
from the mouth of a single shaft to the
mine, there and heard immediately terrifio following followed this
by rumbling was a if of rolling report, thunder.
a as
The men at the top of the shaft at once
sounded the alarm and made preparations
to send down a rescuing party, but found
that the mouth of the shaft had been
completely close up by the debris.
taxinq out the dead.
A Kansas City dispatch of Friday
says: Confirmation has been received of
the explosion at Krebs, I. T,, near Mo-
hundred Alhster, Thursday night. Over two
men were killed and a large
number fatally injured. The bodies
have already been taken out of the shaft
Thousands of anxious wives aud mothers
are eagerly watchiug each cage as it
comes to the surface hoping to see their
loved ones, only to turn away dlsap-
pointed. The explosion was caused by
firing a shot when gas was in the mine,
A LATEK account.
Twenty-four hours after the terrible
It f a t a l explosion impossible in to Osage mine, Krebs, the
was even estimate
number of victims. 'Ihe number who
came up alive after the explosion is still
unaet rmined andean be determined only
b ? a house-to-house canvass, which is
now From being made as rapidly as possible,
facts now at hand, it is believed
that the killed will number fully 100; the
injured 115, about one-half of whom will
probably die from the effects of their in¬
juries.
citement, .A dispatch intensified of Saturday says: The ex-
almost to insanity
because of the mine explosion, shows no
abatement. Since the disaster 5,000 peo-
pie have been congregated around the
shaft of the mine. Up to 2 o’clock Sat-
urday morning forty-eight dead bodies
h id been taken out of the mine and 100
injured, fifteen of whom died before day-
break. The remaining eighty-five mipers
a.e lying at their homes swathed in cot-
ton and vaseline up to their eyes with
their eyebrows, hair and finger-nails
burned off snd cooked flesh dropping
from their bones. The company has
ordered sixty five coffins and local under-
takers ordered a carload. All mines in
the vicinity have shut down and the
miners are aiding in the work of rescue,
while their wives, sisteis ana mothers
perform offices for the dead and to re-
lieve the suffering of the wounded. Men
of all nationalities are aiding in the work
of rescue—Americans. Irishmen, Scotch-
men, Polanders, Welshmen, Italians,
Swedes and all but negroes are at work.
A SILVER CONGRESS
Proposed to be Held at Chicago Baring
the World’s Fair.
A Washington dispatch of Saturday
says: There is going to be an interna¬
tional silver convention at the world’s
;air in Chicago in 1893. The plan is be¬
ing worked up by the leading democrats
of the two houses of congress, in order
that the silver question may be settled by
the remonetization of the white metal.
Tbe silver question is one on which both
parties are, to some extent, divided upon,
ihe democrats from the south and west
are for free coinage above almost all other
things. But there are a number of north¬
ern and eastern demoeratswho are as bit¬
terly opposed to free coinage as the south¬
erners are in favor of it. They are very
few, however, compared to the great mass
of the democratic patty, and there are,
perhaps, as many free coinage democrats
in the north as single standard goldbug
democrats, consequently a compromise of
some sort will be necessary.
AFTER THE CZAR;
Another Plot to Blow Him into
Eternity Frustrated.
A St. Petersburg, Russia, cablegram
of Sunday says: Two nihilists arrested
at Moscow imprisoned ,
are now in Fort-
ress St. Peter and St. Paul. It is said
there is evidence that they laid bombs I
with an electrical attachment under the
fine over which the imperial train was to
pas9 from the Crimea. The plot was
discovered through an anonymous letter
sent to a government official.
TOO MUCH MORPHINE
Admistered by His Physician Killed tlie
Khedive.
A * T London j l, of , Monday , r .
caoiegraai says: i
newspapers confirm the
th at the k] fdive died from the I
effects of , an overdose of morphine ad-
ministered by Salem Pasha, the native j
physician. i
THE WIDE WORLD.
GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND
CABLE CULLINGS
Of Brief Items of Interest Frdm
Various Sources.
George C. Neal & Son, dry goods mer¬
chants, Baltimore, assigned Thursday.
Fire in Jersey City, N. J., Monday
of* night $125,000.* destroyed property to the amount
R. J. Andorf & Bro., dealers in dia¬
monds, jewelry, tic., at New Y”ork, made
an assignment, Monday, with preference
of $12,500.
During the past week there have been
reported in Copenhagen 2,228 fresh cases
of influenza. During the san e time there
were 110 deaths from the dkeaie.
The Mark Lane l-x press, in its review
of the British grain trade, says the mean
value of prices during December was 5
pence below that of November,
A Boston dispatch says: On Thursday
William E. Russell was inaugurated gov¬
ernor of Massachusetts and bis address
read to the two branches of the legisla¬
ture.
The value of cutlery exported from
Sheffield to the United States during the
year 1891, was less than half the value
of that exported during the preceding
year.
The town of Larissa and surrounding
country, in Greece, were shaken by an
earthquake Monday. Almost simultane¬
ously hot springs appeared on Mount
Osza.
Ou Monday a boiler in the pork-pack¬
ing establishment of A. B. March, at
wrecking Bridgeport, Pa., exploded, completely
it. Two men were killed and
eight injured.
Dispatches from Paris state that the
influenza continues to spread in that city.
The record of Monday shows an increase
of seventy in the number of deaths re¬
sulting from influenza.
Cable dispatches of Wednesday state
that influenza is spreading in Yorkshire,
Dorset, Essex and Kent, England. The
disease is of a severe type, and many
deaths are reported.
The senate, in executive session Mon¬
day ratified the general act signed at
Brussels in 1890 by seventeen powers, in¬
cluding the United States, for the repres¬
sion of the African slave trade.
The First National bank of Muncy,
Pa., was closed Monday afternoon by
order of Bank Examiner Dengler. News
of the action of the bank examiner creat¬
ed great excitement in the village.
A dispath of Friday from Des Moines,
la., says: R. W. Lane, for eight years
treasurer of Tappanoose county, has dis¬
examined, appeared. Books in his office, as far as
show a shortage or $12,000.
A dispatch from Lowell, Mass., says:
A deputy sheriff placed an attachment
of $50,000 upon the property of General
Butler Friday. The attachment is said
to be the result of an action of tort
brought by Estes & Lauriat, Boston pub¬
lishers.
William McKinley, Jr., was inaugur¬
ated governor of Ohio at Columbus,
Monday. The occasion was non-partisan,
political friends and foes of the new
governor all joining with the utmost har¬
mony and zeal in the inauguration exer¬
cises and parade.
national A Washington dispatch says: The
executive silver committee is¬
sued a long address Friday night, declar¬
ing that continued experience demon¬
strates that there can be no adequate or
final solution of tbe monej question ex¬
cept by making silver equal with gold
ior money purposes; in brief, free bimet-
iallc coinage.
A dispatch of Thursday from Toronto,
Ont., says: The returns of the city elec¬
tion show that for the first time in the
history of Canada women have been elec¬
ted to office.- Mrs. Mary McDonnell,
leader of the Canadian woman suffrage
school movement, board being elected to the public
with two other ladies—Dr.
Augusta S. Gulleo and Mrs. Harrison.
CAN BE SILENT.
Witnesses not Obliged to Answer Self-
Criminating Questions.
A Washington dispatch says: It has
now become a settled law that witnesses
cannot be compelled to testify in any
criminal case where the answers might
tend to criminate them in any way, or
subject them to possible future prosecu¬
tion. It is held that the fifth amendment
to the constitution, giving persons the
right to refuse to answer questions which
might be used against them in
criminal cases, muse be construed
in its broadest sense. Such was the
effect of a decision of the United States
supreme court Monday in the celebrated
interstate commerce case of Charles
Counselman, appellant, vs Frank Hitch¬
cock, marshal of the United States dis¬
trict court for the northern district of
Illinois. Judge Gresham decided against
Counselman, and held him in contempt
of court for refusing to answer questions,
and it is an appeal from Judge Gresham’s
order that the case decided by the su¬
preme court came up. The court’s
ruiiug is that Judge Gresham’s order
n as erroneous, and that Counselman can
not be compelled to testify. It has been
said that the effect of the decisions by
the court that witnesses cannot be com¬
pelled to testify will seriously hamper
the interstate commerce commission in
he administration of the interstate com¬
merce act. The court's decision wis
unanimous,
BUYING FLOUR MILLS.
A Syndicate Getting a Strong Foothold
in Utah.
A dispatch of Friday from Ogden,
Utah, says: Joseph Clarke, representing
an English syndicate, has bought twenty-
three or all but six of the flour mills in
Utah. The transaction involves $1,800,-
000 for p'ants and $350,000 fors‘ock now-
on hand.
The Minnesota lumber seasoni u orer,
and the cut reaches 447,713,252 feet,
207,221,000 shingles and 97,697,600
j a th. This beats all records.
GEORGIA AT CHICAGO.
Northen Issues an Address
to the People of the Stale.
The following addnss,regarding a dis
play of Geotgia’s resources at the World’s
fair at Chicago ill 1993, has been issued
to the people of the state!
Upon the invitation. Of the citizen's of
Macon, the Get rgia Weekly December Press Asso-
ciati u held an extia session -1
to c< usi'icr the possibility of a creditable
display of Georgia's resources at the Co¬
lumbian Exposition, to be held at Chicago
in 15‘JO. This convention was largely
atteuded by repft Santa live members of
the press, who fully discussed and thor¬
oughly eudoised the suggestions subiBit-
ted to them. After de-
liberation, with a View o iu-
auguratc deiioitc plans to Kctl e the
exhibit, the convention appointed a state
executive committee, to consi-t of one
member from each Congressional district,
whese business it is to atrange the de¬
tails at d begin, at once, t uch iffo.ts .as
will best secure tlie purpose of the con¬
vention and advance the interests of the
State. The * xecutive committee, as con¬
stituted by the | rt-ss convention, nut in
the city of Macon, December 10. and
effected peimaneut organisation l»V elect-
oft in-the gov. rnor of flm State ehauman
he committee, aui W. W. Coll nr, of
Macon, secretary and treasurer. Under
instructions given by tt e convention, the
committi e arranged adding to increase member its selected mera-
b. isbip by one and cities be
f onuath of the towns mi
State that contains m> re than three
thousand inlabitafats. For the pur¬
pose of a more complete Or¬
ganization throughout the state, the oi-
diuaries of the several counties in this
state were requested to furnish to the
secretary the name of sonic public-
spirited'citizen in each county who would
agree to act as chairman of a coup y board
of diicctors, whose duty it will be to
sell ct two other suitable cit/. ns of the
county to constitu c, with li m, a county
board for the purpo-e of iccuriug funds
and exhibits for Georgia S display. The
committee further requested the cditoi
of each newspaper in the state to act as
a sp< cial representative of ilie \\ orld s
Fair movement, in Georgia, to open a
column for voluntary subscriptions, and
to urge upon the people from time to
time the necessity for PJ£* n P l
action in the matter These
appointments will constitu c H
active forces for securing funds and ex
hibits fi r Georgia’s display. If we have
the co-operation of the people of the
State, Georgia will be successfully ad
verti-cd to the world. If the p op e are
indifferent, the whole scheme will fab
and our State will lose the leadership o.
the South in progress and enterprise.
Under the direction of the executive
corami?tee. I w as instructed, as ,its chair¬
man. to ask the earnest, active a.d of all
.he people of the State in this worthy
effort. We cannot afford to be a’Stn.
from the gathering of States. In all the
history of our people there was never a
better opportunity to advertise the Stab-
in its products, its resources and its ad¬
vantages, so as to secure the up-building develop
of our various industries, the
ment of our agriculture, manufactures
and commerce, and thereby secure th-
increase of our taxable property and the
consequent distribution of the burdens of
government among a greater numb, r of
State interests. Not only will the di -~
Sdv'mise plav secure the proper illustration and
■ cut of the State but the ad¬
vertisement of the several localities, coun¬
ties and stetious of the State as such.
Any locality, county or section, or, in¬
deed any display special industry, can make its
special as a part of the aggregate
whole for the State and reap the benefit
of the advertisement of its special The
wares, products and advantages.
scope of this exhibition will not be
confined, therefore, to material display,
but extended to descriptive personal circulars,
pamphlets and such present l—
10D3 • b S may give to the people outside
,f the fctato a full and satisfactory
7 Cal be secured, trans-
ported to €hicago, installed in its
Sion place and properly cared for dunug the
1 without a liberal expenditure
of ur ds. The secretary of the executive
S ' hS "'"'. 1 to coo , y h b ute
u
With proper diligence and under proper
method-, this amount of money can be
easily s cured from the people of the state.
It must be understood that tne active
..gents in this work are necessarily con
fine 1 to those named by the commit e .
The couutv boards, by selection, m.
call to their aid any other citizen who
will wi wml' 1 "” 11
from time to time,to the treasurer, W . >» -
under^ufficienTbond^nd on "deposit un- di-
the
irate the enterprise of
the wealth and prognss of our
Sta'e, every patriotic cit z n should bring
to the help of the committee a worthy
contribution of his means and his ser¬
vices, under the hearty endorsement of
his go d will. Just as soon as the county
boards are well organized information
will be given them as to the means for
securing confributions in money and col
lecting exhibits. We hope to have our
full co-operation of all classes of the
people. W. J. Northen,
Chairman Executive Commit 1 ee.
BY THE CARLOAD
The Negroes Aj. Ljtying North
lina I™ 0ther Fle l ds -
A Raleigh telegrana says. Five carload
of negroes eft Saturday for Georgia and
South Carolina to work in the turpentine
fields. At least two thousand negroes
have eft tbe state in hundred the past by six days,
and are being hired by agents
fr-«m both states. Though this is in de-
finance of law, not a single arr st ha?
been made
NUMBER 2
THROUGH DIXIE.
OF THE SC! T TH BRIEFLY
PARAGRAPHED
an Epitome of Daily
Happenings Here and There-
It is stated that H. M. Bowden, the'
missing cashier of the wrecked First
bank at Wilmington, N. C., has
the past few days been seen at
The boiler in the Flower’s sawmill, at
Ala., exploded White Thursday and mora¬ three
ing, killing Engineer mill totally de¬
laborers. The was
A bill was introduced in the Virginia legal
Monday designating (Lee’s as birth¬
the !Pth of January
and the 3d of June to be known as
Confederate Memorial Day.
Columbia, S. C., will have an electric
railway and vastly improved elec¬
tric light service within the next ninety
days. 1 he electric light company and
the street railway have consolidtted with
a capital stock of $15,000.
A meeting of the creditors of W. C.
Bee «fe Co,, was held Monday in Charles
ton. Lewis J. Jcrvey, w T ho composed credi¬
the firm, was made agent of the
tors. The liabilities were stated to be
$221,000; nominal assets, $225,000.
A fire occurred in the Louisville and
Nashville shops at Decatur, Ala., Friday
ni.ht, with the result that the repair
Hiops are a total loss. The shop was ooo
of thfe most extensive in a splendid sys -
tern of Shops belonging to the company.
The loss is$4O,OO0, fully insured.
A large meeting of Santa Fe employes
was held at Gainesville, Texas, Saturday
at which resolutions were passed from not to
handle any freight that came or
went to opposition roads. A resolution
was also passed asking officials not to re¬
ceive suen freight for shipment.
Blacksburg, S. C., will soon have u
million-dollar company for the purpose
of manufacturing pyrites and sulphuric On.
acid from the adjacent mines. issued
Thursday the secretary of state a
commission to the company to be known
as the Carolina Sulphuric Acid Manufac¬
turing Company.
A Chattanooga dispatch says: On
Thursday,thejeommittee on condemnation
con denied 1,300 ucres of property within
the Chickamauga national park reserva¬
tion. This makes G,500 acres in all pur¬
chased. The policy of the board is to
c ndc rnn land as it is needed for improve¬
ments now being made.
A dispatch of Thursday from Raleiffh.
X. C v , says: This state has for the first
t me put convicts at work mining phos-
hate rock in New Hanover county. Sev¬
enty are employed there, the state receiv¬
ing a certain sum of each ton mined.
There will probably be a large increase
in the number of convicts thus employed,
as the developement of the phosphate
beds are rapidly increasing.
A ca-e of unusual importance was de ¬
cided Saturday, in the Birmingham, Ala.,
eircu t court, pr. cedent being established
for holding employes liable in damages and
for a failure to exercise due skill
diligence. The Woodward Irom Com¬
pany brought suit against a mechanical
engineer for negligence of duty, result¬
ing in the wreck of a mineral train. The
case was decided in favor of the company,
a d the engineer was found liable in
damages to the extent of $150. It is the
first case of the kind ever before the
Alabama courts.
A COSTLY CENSUS.
Superintendent of Census Porter Asks
for More Money.
A Washington dispatch says: Wed¬ Tho
acting secretary of the treasury on
nesday sent to congress a letter from
Robert P. Porter, superintendent of tho
census, accompanied by a deficiency esti¬
mate of $1,000,000 for continuing tho
work of the ce;.su«, which appropiia-
tion it is asked be made in
the urgency deficiency bill. Tho
letter of Supeiintendent Porter, which that
is dated December 29, 1891, says
the work of the census office is well ad¬
vanced, and that if the appropriation
a^ked for be made immediately it will be
possible to bring the work practically to
a termination by the close of 1892 or the
spring of 1893. Th.re now icmains
available only $144,562, and about two
hundred clerks have been furloughed.
The census appropriations thus far ag¬
gregate $6 400.060.__
THE MINERS WIN.
The Lessees at Briceville Agree to Give
Up the Fight.
A Nashville dispatch of Friday says:
The convict labor troubles have been
practically settled. The trouble arose
from convict labor supplanting free labor
at Briceville, and now the penitentiary with
leese.s have reached an agreement
the free miners. '1 he only concession by
the lessees is that convic s Bball never be
returned to Briceville. On their part
the miners agree to not interfere with
convicts now at Coal Creek and also to
allow the peaceable retnin of the convicts
to Oliver Springs. I* has been said all
along that there would be trouble if an
attempt was made to return the men to
Briceville. The agreement will be sign¬
ed, it is understood, at once and the
troups and extra guards withdrawn.
ANOTHER CONFERENCE
Held by Blaine and Montt Over the
Chilean Affair.
Secretary Blaine and Senor Montt,
Chilean Minister, had a long conference
at the former’s residence in Washington
Tuesday. It is rumored that Mcnnt has
received a copy of the report on the Bal¬
timore incident, and that he furnished
a copy to Mr. Blaine, but this report can-
^
I ago to make a full apology, but this also
j ac ^ 8 confirmation. All that is known
; about hia confercnce with Mr. Blaine is
■ was 0 f 6U ffi c j e nt length to keep
Mr Bluine awav trom the ca5inet meet-
t •
j ® -
j from FOR New the York season, to Great the shipments Britain of apoles
| amoun t to
837,391 barrels, as against 306,311 last year.