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THE TOCCOA NEWS
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL.
VOLUME XX.
Thk southern part ot Washington
County, Indiun Ill., is said to be peculiarly rich
in relics, which may be found on
almost every farm. The banks of the
Elkhorn, Locust, Boaucoup, and Mud
Creeks, which flow through the region,
were once favorite camping-places of the
red men. Among the relics which have
been ree cntly ploughed up are a battle-
nxe of hard flint, pink in color and
weighing sir of pounds, which is now in
the possession Mr. George Martin, of
Nashville, III.; a pipe-stern, embellished
with raised scroll work, a great variety of
arrow and spear-heads, and an axe-head
of green stone. Moro interesting than
the remains of the Indian tribes is an
oddly Farmer shaped piece of stone which a son
of Halbert ploughed up on the
bank of Locust Creek about a month
ago. the Observing some faint lettering
upon stone, he carried it home, and
when it was washed, the inscription stood
out: “D. Boone. 1785.” Above the in¬
scription, which seemed to have been
made with a knifo or some other Bharp
instrument, was the faint outline of a
rude attempt at picturing an arrow, and
above this an indentation the size of a
lurge beau. It appears to be a bona-fide
relic of the great lmnter, Boone, who
made several hunting trips to southern
Illinois, and passed through the country
when lie moved west from Kentucky.
Nor more than halt a milo from Port
l'enn, Delaware, in a sheltered copse be-
tweon two tidewater streams flowing into
Delaware Bav, there are within an area
of five ueres more than fifty dugouts, or
rude earthen houses, used by the Indians
of the region moro than a century ago.
I he* mounds are fast disappearing, but
the earth thereabouts abounds in arrow
heads, tomahawks, and other Indian rel¬
ics, while tlie bones of many savages lio
buried hard by. .Some of the neighbor¬
ing farmers hold the land that was grant¬
ed to them in the earliest colonial days,
and ouo of the oldest inhabited houses in
tho l nited States, a substantial brick
structure, is still standing near Port Penn
and in good repair. Probably three-
fourths of tho white inhabitants aro de¬
scendants of colonial settlers.
RICHMOND & DANVILLE R-R.
Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line Division.
Condensed Schedule of Passenger
Trains, in Effect Nov. ISth, 1891.
NORTHBOUND. No. 38. No. 10. No. 12.
KABTEBN TIME. Daily. Daily. Daily.
Lv. Atlanta (E.T.) 1 25 pm 8 50 pm
Cliambleo..... 9 27 pm 10 48
Norcross....... 9 39 pm 1101
Duluth........ 9 51 pm
Suwanee....... 10 03 pm
Buford........ 10 17 pm
Flow ry Branch 10 81 pm
Gainesville..... 2 59 pm 10 51 pm
Lnla.......... 11 18 pm
Bell ton........ 11 21 pm
Cornelia....... 11 45 pm 111!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mt. Airy....... 11 60 pm
Toccoa......... 12 20 am
Westminster ...
8eneca ..... oiabca€ncfOfOii^i$srfbCocoooiofc3H-i-*
Central........
Easleys........ am
Greenville..... 6 05 pm
Greers.........
Wellford....... am
Spartanburg... 6 57 pm am
Clifton........
Cowpens ......
Blacksb Gaffney org
am
Grover.
King’s Mount’n
Gastonia.......
Lowell........
liellemont.....
Ar. Charlotte......
SOUTHBOUND. No. 37. No. 11. No. 9.
Daily, Daily. Daily.
Lv. Charlotte...... 9 45 am 1 50 pm 2 20 am
Belle mont..... ........ 2 12 pm 2 42 am
Lowell......... ........ 2 22 pm 2 52 am
Gastonia....... ........ 2 85 pm 3 04 am
King’s Mount’n ........ 3 00 pm 3 27 am
Grov> r......... ........ 8 16 pm 3 43 am
Blacksburg Gaffney....... .... ........ 8 26 pm 3 53 am
........ 3 45 pm 4 10 am
Cowpens Clifton........ ...... ........ 4 10 pm 4 42 am
........ 4 13 pm 4 35 am
Spartanburg... 11 43 am 4 27 pm 5 00 am
W< Ilford,....... ........ 5 5 50 pm 5 23 am
Greers......... ........ 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......... ........ 7 22 pm 7 57 am
Westminster.... ........ 7 41 pm 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.. c ... ........ 9 16 pm 9 45 am
Lula.......... ........ 9 18 pm 9 47 am
Gainesville..... 3 41 pm 9 42 pm 1C 12 am
Flowery Branch ........ 10 00 pm 10 82 am
Buford........ ........10 17 pm 10 45 am
Suwanee....... ........ 10 83 pm 10 58 am
Duluth........ ....... 10 45 pm 11 15 am
Norcross...... ........ 10 56 pm 11 28 am
Chamblee...... ........11 08 pm 11 43 am
Ar. Atlanta (E. T.) 5 05 pm 11 45 pm 12 20 pm
Additional trains Nos. 17 and 18—Lula ac¬
commodation, dailv except Sunday, leaves At¬
lanta 5 30 p m, arrives Lnla 8 12 p m. Return¬
ing, leaves Lula 6 90 a m, arrives Atlanta 8 50
a m.
Between Lula and Athens—No. 11 daily, ex¬
cept Sunday, and No. 9 daily, leave Lula 8 80 p
m, and 1150 a m, arrive Athens 10 15 p m ana
1 80 p m. Returning leave Athens, No. 10
daily, except Sunfiay, and No. 12 daily, 6 15 p 8 30 m
and 6 45 a m, arrive Lula 8 00 p m and
a m.
Between Toccoa and Elberton—No. 61 dai¬
lv; except Sundav, leave Toccoa 2 00 pm
arrive Elberton 4 40 p m. Returning, No. 60
daily, except Sunday, leave t Elberton 5 00 a m
and arrives Toccoa 8 30 am.
Nos. 11 an i 12 carrv Pullman Sleepers be¬
tween Washington and Kansas City via Birming¬ Pullman
ham and Memphis, and Nos, 9 and 10
Sleeper between Atlanta and New York.
On No. 11 no change in day coaches from
New York to A’lanta.
Nos. 37 and 38, Washington and Southwest¬
ern Vestibuled Limited, Detween Atlanta and
Washington. On this train an extra fare is
charged For detailed on flrst-cass tickets only. local and
information as te
through time tables, rates and Pullman Sleep¬
ing car reservations, confer with local agents,
or address, TAYLOR,
JAS. L. W. A. TURK,
Gen’l Pass. Ag’t. Div. Pass. Ag’t.
Atlanta, Ga. Charlotte N. 0.
C. P. HAMMOND,
Superintendent. Atlanta, da.
W. H. GREEN. SOL. HASS,
Gen’l Manager. Traffic Manager,
Atlanta. Ga. Atlanta, Ga.
LEWIS DAVI8,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
T00C0A CITY, OA.,
Will practice in the oo unties of Saber*
sham and Rabua of tke North vr«at«£E
Circuit, and Fraukhu and Banks of the
Western Circuit. Prompt m
be given to all ha/frum
The eelletotea efoebte have spen
ial attorn.
MY BABY AND L
My baby and I hear the winter wind moan
Around our snug dwelling in drear under¬
tone-
But sheltered so warmly, we fancy no fear,
Though daylight is fading anl night time
draws near.
For papa is coming home.
My baby and I in our easy chair rest,
His arms cound my neck and his head on my
breast;
The fire light shines on his face, fair and
pure.
And bright with expectancy, for he is sure
Th <t papa is coming home.
My baby aud I, through the short fleeting
day—
I with my work, and he with his play—
Have happily waited for twilight to fall
To bring U3 the brightest, best hours of all,
When papa is coming home.
My baby and I! Thou, Source of all Light,
Should we first reach the mansions wherein
is no night,
Oh, may we pause at the heavenly gate!
And, looking back, see, as wo joyfu ly wait,
That papa is coming home!
—Virginct Franklyrt , in Harper's Bazar.
ROMANCE OF A CIRCUS.
RY ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE.
II ; T ’clock was about of one four of
life the warmest July
days I ever knew.
The news foims,
O which the fore-
r a t man had been
holding open for
\ the latest bit of
1 crime or casualty
...r^or scandal that
*i might happen
(STAiriTHijWW! p* within little or Western without
our
city of ten thousand sweltering souls,
were at last locked up firmly and sent
below.
Here and there I had been giving them
a few finishing touches, and as I turned
to wash my inky hands at the hydrant,
the big press in the basement began to
rumble and clack, while the chatter and
scuffle and the shouts of the carriers,
who were waiting down there to receive
their papers hot*from the press, rose
higher and higher, until it seemed that
instead of one “devil” we must have a
horde of them, and that they had con¬
verted the basement into an inferno.
It had been a bard day. I returned to
the little office in front and sank wearily
into my chair. Since eight o’clock, in
as few clothes as decency permitted, I
had been staggering through slipshod
copy, obscure telegraph, and. villainous
proof.
The intolerant heat had demoralized
everything. The compositors had worked
at their cases half clad and more than
half asleep. The city man had come in
with a meagre half-column, and dropped
into a chair, wholly exhausted. The
messenger boys had dragged back and
forth with the despatches, and it was
evident from the latter that the men at the
wires were getting through their work
fn the same manner. Yes, it had been
a very hard day, harder than usual.
By-and-by a boy’s clear voice in front
shouted, “Evening Trib-une! Exening
Tribu-u-u-ne /”
The paper was out at last. The hard
day was enced.
The burning sun had slipped down be¬
hind the big hotel opposite, and the peo¬
ple were beginning to stir about on the
red-hot pavement that for over two hours
had been nearly deserted. Later,
crowded street cars began to pass, and
soon the sidewalks were full of humanity
coming from the same direction. The
afternoon performance of The Great
Eastern Combined Menagerie and Circus,
whose tents were pitched in tne out¬
skirts of the city, was over.
I was putting on my hat to leave
the office, when a rather tine-looking,
although somewhat emphatically dressed
man. wearing a very large diamond stud,
stepped briskly in and approached me
with extended hand. Tim meaufc a
complimentary mention of something or
somebody, but I took it silently.
“Editor of the Tribune , I believe.”
I assented with a nod.
“Forbes is my name—Manager of the
Great Eastern Combined Shows. Our
afternoon performance is just over. Your
advertising for us was very satisfactory.
We should be pleased to have you wit¬
ness our entertainment this evening.
Show bigger and better than ever. Look
me up. Be glad to show you through.”
Then, as he hurried away,he pressed two
narrow strips of pasteboard into my
hand, which I accepted with a sigh,
knowing that this called for a three dol¬
lar notice in to-morrow's issue. Our city
circulator came in just then, weary and
miserable, so I gave him one of the
passes; and after supper, when the air
was a trifle coder,I walked out to where
The Great Eastern covered some half a
dozen acres of ground.
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rMNCBSS LOUISE, FINEST LIONESS IN THE
WORLD.
It was th« same old story. The eager
and motlsy crowd; the flare of the kero¬
sene torches; tb? hoarse voices of the
fakers; the red wagon where the man
sells tickets so rapidly that he doesn’t
TOCCOA, GEORGIA, JANUARY 1892.
always give quite enough change; the
smaller tents of the side shows, with
their flaming representations of the fat
woman, the boa-constrictor,and the two-
headed demon of the South Sea; and, in
the centre of all, the big double canvas,
with its circle of cages and its group of
elephants and camels in one part, and its
immense tiers of seats and its three
rings and race-course in the other;
while here and there about you stand
the silent men whose daily lot it is to
put up and take down aud pack and
move this wonderful affair, and to at¬
tend to the thousand and one menial
duties connected therewith—the “white
slaves” gathered from the gutter, from
the farm, from the prisons, from every¬
where, whose every aim in life has been
merged into the one instinct of sullen
obedience. Some among them, attracted
as boys from the quiet walks of life by
the tawdry tinsel, awakening to find it
a sham and a mockery, ashamed to re¬
turn to their homes, have lingered on
until they are no longer capable of be¬
ginning another life.
As I loitered along the cages inside,
wondering whether the tiger, the zebra,
the mountain-goat, and al> the rest were
not thinking of their native jungle and
plains and mountains, and despising this
gaping crowd and these flaring lights, I
felt a touch on my arm. It was Mr.
Forbes, the manager.
“Ah! glad to see you. Great show,
haven’t we?”
“Yes, it is certainly very extensive.”
“Take vour time; plenty of time. Per¬
formance doesn't begin for twenty min¬
utes yet. Rhinoceros; only living one
in America. Cost three fortunes and as
many lives to get him. Lioness and
cubs. Look playful, don’t theyl Prin¬
cess Louise; finest lioness in the world.
Elephants—forty of them; more than all
other shows combined. Scipio, largest
elephant in America; very gentle. Booth,
Hannibal, Marcus—all fine elephants,
and gentle. Griffin, very large elephant;
very savage. Don’t go too close. Easily
provoked; very treacherous. Men all
afraid of him; killed two already.” And
so on, in hort graphic periods.
By-and-by I went to where the crowd
was now hastening, and took the re¬
served seat to which my ticked entitled
me.
The grand entree came on, with its
whirl of color and its brilliant equestrian
figures. Then there followed so rapidly
performance in each of the three rings
at once that one must have more than
one pair ot eyes to see it all.
In one a Japanese juggler is . throwing
knives; in another a pair of contortion-
ists are twisting themselves in astonish-
ing combinations. Directly m front and
far above me, a large handsome woman
is walking a wire. There is something
about her face that attracts me. I say
to myself that she is made up, and a
nearer view would probably show her to
be .coarse, dissipated-looking, and ill-
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THE ELEPHANT ATTACKED HIM FURIOUSLY.
favored. Still, I watch her; there is
about her a different look from the
others. Another is watching her too.
It is one of the “white slaves,” of which
there are a number hurrying hither and
thither resplendent in greasy red uni¬
forms. He is standing a little to one
side gazing up at her intently. I cannot
see her face, but as she finishes her act
and swings dowh from the dizzy height,
he steps quickly forward, aud I notice,
or I think I notice, just for an instant,
that as he takes her hand, apparently to
assist her, there is a glance exchanged
between them, and a look of kindness
that is almost a smile come3 into her
beautiful face; while her hand lingers in
his,after her feet have touched the ground,
a moment longer than seemed neces¬
sary. Then she trips away, and the man
summoned to another quarter, is gone
too.
The manager is passing, and I beckon
to him.
“Who is the lady that has just finished
the wire-walking?” I ask.
“Mademoiselle Lester. Magnificent,
isn’t she? She gets five hundred a week.”
“And the man that helped her down?
That one at the end—coming this
way.”
“Oh, Josh! Josh Morgan, one of the
canvas hands. Good fellow. Been with
us two seasons. Worships The Lester.
All that keeps him.”
“I should like to know more of him. ”
“Not much to tell. Joined us at
Evansville. Ran away from the farm.
Dazzled by spangles and gauze like lots
of others. Got his eyes open in about
three days. Would have quit if it hadn’t
been for The Lester. Spoke a few words
with him one day. Saw he was green
and innocent, and pitied him. That
fixed him. Been her slave ever since.
Last winter when we laid up, and The
Lester was gone, never drew a sober
breath. Keeps pretty straight now, but
has bad spells. Never lets anybody else
help her down. Boys calls him Lester s
pet. Very kind heart aud pitie3 him,
that’s all.”
That was all. He did not need to tell
me more. I saw only too plainly the
story of the farmer boy dazzled by tin¬
sel and gauze, awakening to find it all a
sham, and his portion of it a cup of de¬
gradation. Resolved aud yet ashamed
to return to the farm. Overcome with
remorse and disappointment, when sud¬
denly the fairest of those enchanters,
whom he has heretofore beheld only as
from an immeasureable distance, stoops,
and with a few magic words has east
about him a spell that he cannot undo,
or wish te undo.
I would not like to assert that The
Lester is a good woman. It is quite
probable, in fact, that she is not. It is
more that probable that she smokes,
drinks whisky, and uses bad languages.
And yet, while these things are much,
they are not all of life. From within
her woman’s heart there creeps out a ray
of kindness that to the crushed manhood
of Josh Morgan has become a beam of
glory.
The next morning the old routine be¬
gan again, and Josh Morgan and The
Lester were forgotten. The days
crowded rapidly upon each other, and
August, hotter if anything than July,
was upon us.
One afternoon the telegraph was com¬
ing in and the forms were rapidly fill¬
ing, everybody was working in light at¬
tire, although we had become by this
time somewhat accustomed to the tem¬
perature. As usual, we were holding
the .columns open for the latest bit of
sensational news.
“Forms all full; no more space,”
called the “devil” at my elbow. At the
same moment a messenger-boy laid a
sheet of telegraph tissue before me. I
glanced through it hurriedly.
FATAL ACCIDENTS.
“Two “Martinville, Col., August 14
fatal accidents occurred in the
Great Eastern Combined Shows at this
place to-dav. During the afternoon per-
formance, tight-rope Madame Lester, the celebrated
walker, made a misstep and fell,
receiving injuries from which she died in a
few minuets. Later in the day, one Josh
Morgan, a canvas hand, in some mannei
provoked Griffin, a lar ;e and savage ele¬
phant, who attacked him turiously, killing
him almost instantly. Madame Lester was
one of the best-known artists in her profes¬
sion. drinking.” Morgan is supposed to have beer
I called hastily through the open door
to the foreman; “Here, Mortl Don’t
close that form yet. Take something
out. This has got to go in!”— Harper'i
Weekly.
Queen Victoria’s Private Secretary.
Sir Henry Ponsonbv, Queen Victoria's
Private Secretary, writes Edward Wake¬
field to the Pittsburg Dispatch , is a smart,
well-preserved military-looking man of
sixty-six, always dressed with exquisite
taste, though with a good deal of style,
and possessed of such polisned manners
and such a suave and dignified bearing
that nobody can help being strongly at¬
tracted to him. Like all tne persons
most clogely atta ched to the Queen, he
j g p 03r jy p a id f or the work he doe 3 . He
receives altogether about $10,000 a year,
wilh a house rent free at St . j ame 3 * s Pal-
ace, and, of course, free quarters where-
cver the Queen is,
But he nas a considerable income of his
own,and his wife has means; and their po¬
sition at court has advantages altogether
apart from pecuniary one3. They are in
the very inner circles of the best society
without any of the burdens of grandeur,
and their children have excellent pros¬
pects in life open before them. Their
eldest daughter, Alberta Victoria, the
Queen’s godchild, made a brilliant mar¬
riage quite recently, and the presents that
poured in from all quarters, even from
several European sovereigns, were al¬
most equal in splendor to those of a royal
wedding. The Queen herself made a
special journey to London to attend the
ceremony—a thing she has seldom
done—and the first name witnessing the
marriage of the Private Secretary’s
daughter in the register of the Guards’
Chapel is the bold, stiff signature of
“Victoria R. & I.”
A Tremendous Barley Farm.
“We have now secured 250,000 acres
of land in North Dakota for barley farms,
and next spring we will send thousands
of German emigrants to that State from
Ohio, West Virginia and Indiana,” said
Colonel O. M. Towner last evening, as ha
discussed the future of this great North¬
ern State. Colonel Towner is manager
of what is best known as the Barley Syn¬
dicate of Chicago. During the last two
or three months the com iany has suc¬
ceeded in securing 250,000 acres of land
in North Dakota, on which it is proposed
to place German farmers to raise barley
for malt purposes. These lauds have been
purchased in Nelson, Norman, Towner,
Ramsey, Steele and Bottineau Counties.
It is the opinion of the managers of this
company that barley can be most success¬
fully grown in that State, and they have
the conviction of their belief sufficiently
to purchase these lands and to send out
emigrants from other States. The Ger¬
mans are chosen on account of their
knowledge cf barley culture for this pur¬
pose. These emigrants will not be ten¬
ants, but owners of the land, it being
sold to them on easy terms. The crops
will be bought by the company and
shipped to ail points where there is a de¬
mand for barley for brewing purposes.—
St. Paul Pioneer-Press.
Peat is a Yegetable.
Peat is a vegetable substance, con¬
sisting of root3 and fibres in different
stages of decomposition, acquired from
the growth and partial decay of various
aquatic plants, and is found a3 a kind
of turf or bog in low swampy situations,
sometimes in beds of great depths. It is
always more or less saturated with water,
which totally unfits it for any profitable
use in vegetation while in its natural
state. When thrown out of its bed and
dried it is often used for fuel, or as an
absorbent, or for composting with ani¬
mal manures. In the United States it u
p u t little known south of the State o.
jfew York. Some bogs are found in
the north part of the State, in New
England, and west and north to Iowa,
Minnesota and Canada. There are im-
mease bodies of peat in Ireland and
Scotland, where from its carbanaceous
quality it is extensively used as fuel.
Darwin says that in the southern Hemis¬
phere forty-five degrees marks it3 nearest
approach to the equator.— New Tori
World.
Liverpool is the largest shipping port
in the world, then come3 London aud
then New York.
WAR IS IMMINENT.
HOSTILITIES WILL BEGIN UN-
LESS CHILE APOLOGIZES,
Which She Probably Won’t Do--Active
Preparations by Both Sides.
A Washington di-patch of Friday says:
A very large war cloud is hovering over
Washington at present. Indeed, every
indication now points to war with Chile.
So far the little South American republic
lias given no official intimation that she
intends to offer an apology. President
Harrison has determined to wait no
longer, and unless Chile is very quick to
make the amende, she will find a score
of American war vessels in her waters
within less than thirty days.
IN FAVOR OF WAR.
The president called his cabinet to¬
gether Friday morning to discuss the sit¬
uation. Ail the members were present,
and all, except Mr. Blaine and Mr. El¬
kins, were decidedly in favor of war un-
less Chili makes an immediate and hum¬
ble apology. Mr. Blaine and Mr. Elkins
found that the president aud other mem¬
bers were so decided in favor of prompt
and decisive action on the part of our
government that they said but little in
opposition to the views expressed by Mr.
Harrison. The president notified the
members of his cabinet that he intended
to send the entiie Chilean correspond¬
ence, accompanied by a special message,
to congress at once.
Saturday’s dispatches are to the effect
that everybody in Washington wh'se
opinion is worth anything believes that
war between the United States and Chile
will be declared l>y the former within a
week. “There is but one thing that can
prevent a declaration of war by this
country within a very few days,” said
prominent republican, Saturday, who is
on intimate terms with the president,
“and that is an immediate and humble
apology on the part of the Chilean gov¬
ernment for the outrages perpetrated
upon the American seamen at Valpa¬
raiso.”
Indeed, in a nutshell this expresses the
opinion of every one in Washington, re¬
gardless of party, right now. Chile must
apologize at once, or else there will be
war, and it will not take many moments
for the geography of South America to
be changed in regard to one country.
The president and all those intimate
with him have but one opinion now.
That is that Chile does not intend to
apoligize. and that this government will
be forced to the necessity of declaring war
upon the little South American republic.
CHILE IS OFFNSIVE.
Indeed, the news from Chile indicates
that her people are more anxious for war
than peace. The Chileans are an arro¬
gant and brave people. They have an
idea that they can sink the United States
navy to the bottom of the pacific ocean,
if it attempts to enter Chilean waters
upon a mission of destruction. Believ¬
ing this, no one doubts but that the gov¬
ernment is determined to make no
amends.
The navy department is massing our
war vessels near Chile as rapidly as pos¬
sible. Admiral Walker is now at Monte¬
video with the Chicago, Atlanta and
Bennington. The Concord is also on
her way to Montivido. The Yorktown
is at Valpariso. The Boston is at Calao,
Peru, with the Charleston the San*
Francisco and the Baltimore are at San
Francisco. Besides these, the new ves¬
sels, the Essex and the Yank tic, are at
Montivideo, and several others of our
old ships are at or near San Francisco.
It would not take long for the United
States to mass a score of vessels in or
near the Chilean waters.
The " newspaper correspondents of
Washington, like the officials of the gov¬
ernment, feel quite sure that war will be
declared against Chili within a very short
while. Beiieving this, a number of them
are already endeavoring to get permission
to be allowed to go down to Chili on one
8, our war vessels as war correspondents.
A CURIOUS OUTCOME
A curious outcome of the present agi¬
tation was the publication Saturday by
the war depaitment of a convention
framed as long ago as 1864, to which the
United States and Chile have since signi¬
fied their adhesion. In view of allega¬
tions that have been made to the effect
that the Chileans practice inhuman bar¬
barities in war, such as massacreing pris¬
oners and wounded men, and mutilating
deads bod es, it may be reassuring to our
soldiers that this is a convention “for
the amelioration of the wounded in armies
in the field.” By some oversight the
convention was never before publish¬
ed. It guarantees the neutrality and
protection of ambulance and hospital
corps, and provides that wounded or
sick soldiers shall be entertained and
taken care of without regard to nation¬
ality. It also contains ample provisions
for the succoring of wounde l and wreck¬
ed sailors, and in brief throws around
humane combatants every po-sible guarantee of
treatment in the event of their
being wound d or captured.
THE DEAD PRINCE;
Special Funeral Services to be Held
Throughout the Kingdom.
A London cablegram says: Saturday
the coffin containing the remains of
Prince Albert Victor were removed from
Sandringham which house to Parish church,
adorned was with draped with crape and
flowers. The prince of
Wales and his family attended service
there Sunday. Special funeral servicts
will be held throughout the country, and
many notables will attend those to be
held at Westminster abbey and Chapel
Royal in London. All sermons heard in
London Sunday contained references to
the affliction which has befallen the
royal fam ily.
_
LINDSEY DECLINES
To Serve as Interstate Commerce
Commissioner.
A Washington dispatch eays: Judge
Lindsey, of Kentucky, whose nomina¬
tion was recently sent to the senate as
interstate commerce commissioner, called
upon President Harrison Saturday morn¬
ing and declined the appointment. The
president, however, insisted that he
should accept it and urged him to do so.
It is not will believed, withdraw however, b*8 declination. that Judge
Linds y
STATUS OF TRADE
For Past Week as Given by Dnnn h
Co.’s Agency.
Business failures occurring throughout
the country during week ended Jan. 16,
as reported by R. G. Dunn & Co., num¬
ber, for the United States, 287; Canada,
43; total, 880, against 485 last week,
eight days.
It was suggested two weeks ago that
exports in December were likely to be
extraordinarily large. Preliminary re¬
ports just issued indicate that the exports
in that month were probably the largest
ever known, for, while no increase ap¬
pears in cotton and exports of provisions,
cattle and oil were slightly less than a
year ago, a gain of $20,100,000 appears
the in breadstuffs, making a net increase in
principal items of $17,540,854, or
nearly 28 per cent, indicating that the
aggregate exports for the month will
probably exceed $116,000,000 against
about $98,000,000 last year, when the
amount was greater than it had ever been
in any month.
The exports of flour increased E0 per
cent, and exports of wheat 15,600,000
bnrhels against 4,800,000 bushels last
year, while the exports of cotton are 48,-
000,000 pounds greater in quantity
though no increase appears in value,
owing to low prices. Mhese enormous
exports overshadow all other features in
the commercial situation. They insure
large supplies of money, if ever needed,
but at present the markets are every¬
where well supplied, except at southern
points, and better supplied there than a
week ago.
THE IRON MARKET.
Another fact of large importance is
that the iron output was not diminished
in December as is usual, owing to the
stoppage of furnaces during the holidays,
but was 188,082 tons weekly agamst 188,-
185 December 1st and 167,599 a year ago.
The depression of busiuess at the south
on account of the low prices of cotton
still continues.
Breadstuffs have been much weaker
since the publication of the government
reports and wheat has fallen If cents,
corn If cents and oats f of a cent. Ex¬
ports and receipts continue large, though
colder and less favorable weather, to some
extent; restricts the movement. Coffee
i3 unchanged and oil has advanced 3
cents. Cotton fell to 7.37 cents during
the week, the lowest price for foriy-three
years, but has since recovered to 7.56
cents, though receipts and stocks are re¬
markably large. Depression at the south
is not relieved by the talk at the cotton
conventi m, and probably cannot be in
any which way is except by free sales of cotton
now held for higher prices.
THE MERCURY FREEZES.
Even Spirit Thermometers Register
Thirty to Fifty Degrees Below Zero.
A dispatch from St. Paul, Minn., says:
Thursday night was probably the coldest
of the season. The mercury went down
until it froze in many localities; in fact,
all through the northern part of the
state. In Manitoba, North Dakota and
in the Canadian northwest the tempera¬
ture langed from 30 to 50 degrees btlow
zero on spirit thermometers. In St. Paul
it recorded 20 degrees below zero at the
weather bureau, and in various parts of
the city the thermometer recorded from
5 to 10 degrees lower.
At 9 o’clock Friday morning it was 48
below at Pembina, in the northern part
of North Dakota. Fergus Falls reports
secutive 30 below, morning this bein^ with the the sixteenth below con¬
mercury
zero. Bismarck reports the tempera¬
ture at 24 below, St. Vincent 40 below,
Moorhead 28 below and Winnipeg 42 be¬
low.
A NEW COMBINE;
Two Big Railway Traffic Assoclatioua
Consolidate.
The consolidation of the Southern
Railway and Steamship Association with
he Southeastern Mississippi Friday Valley Asso¬
ciation which whs effected makes
a vast traffic organization. Heretofore
each association has had its own classifi
cation, and freight which was in one
class in the Southeastern Mississippi might Valley be in an-
>lhtr class in the asso¬
ciation. This was confusing to shippers.
And then perhaps there was cutting on
exchanged traffic. All this will in future
e avoided through the consolidation of
the two associations. At all events there
were more good reasons associations. for th/s simple
maintenance of separate Col¬
onel E. B. Stahlman, who was choseD
commissioner of the consolidated aasocia
tion is a railroad man of exceptional abil
ty.
THE DUKE IS DEAD
An Heir Apparent to England’s Throne
Passes Away.
A London cablegram, in announcing
the death of Prince Clarence, Duke of
Avondale, says: When the so'emn tolling
of the great bells in St. Paul’s cathedral
were heard Thursday morning they con-
veyed to everyone within hearing of their
deep mouthed booming the fact that had the
Duke of Clarence and Avondale
passed away. The bells in St. Paul are
never tolled save od the occasion of the
death of the heir to the throne, and
therefore no further information was nec¬
essary for the people of London to make
them aware that after a gallant struggle
the duke had finally succumbed.
The announcement of his death caused
far less commotion in London ihan was
expected, but this was, no doubt, due to
the fact that nearly everybody had given
up hope Wednesday, and believed thai
death was sure to claim the duke.
KILLING OFF GARZA’S MEN.
Two Hundred and Fifty Suspects and
Revolutionists Shot.
Dispatches of Friday from Rio Grande
City state that the Mexican military of¬
ficials have sent out a list of persons who
are suspected to be the leaders in the
revolution. A number of whom are al¬
ready under arrest. On the list appears
the n .me of Kuiz Sandoval, the Mexican
revolutionist and general, who the Mexi¬
cans think is implicited in this movement Orleans,
and who is known to be at New
wheie he is in business of such magnitude and
that h; could not afford to give it up
attempt another revolution.
NUMBER 3.
COLD AND INFLUENZA
Both Seem to be Haring Their Owu
Way in the Northwest.
A Chicago dispatch of Saturday says:
Specials from various portions of the
state indicate that the prevailing cold
wave is one of the most severe of any
in recent years. At Vandaiia ihe ther¬
mometer stood 16 degrees below; Dan¬
ville, 16 degrees; Fairbury, 18 decrees.
At Fairport, in the northern part of the
state, the mercury went down to 30 de¬
grees, city, and at Belvidere, another north¬
ern 22 degrees degrees was reached. Dixon
diate reports 21 below, with no imme¬
prospect of a change to warmer
weather.
From several points an alarming in¬
crease of influenza is reported as one of
the results of the cold snap. Singularly
enough there have been no fatalities re¬
ported on account of the extreme cold.
The death rate from grip, however,
seems the greatly increased, especially among
more aged persons.
DRAWING TO A HEAD.
Affairs at Coal Creek May Yet Ter mi¬
nute in Bloodshed.
A convict Knoxville dispatch of Friday says:
The and state militia forces at
Coal Creek are each being increased al¬
most daily. Whether this means immedi¬
ate fight or not no one can tell. It is evi¬
dent to a casual observer that unless the
guying ceases on the part of the troops and
the miners that bloodshed must follow.
The accidental killing of a colored con¬
vict Thursday 1 y a soldier lia3 caused
-ometktng of a mutiny in the couvict
camp and the miners look at it as an out¬
rage on humanity and are discussing it in
a siri’tis manner. It is positively an¬
nounced that no convicts will be re un ed
to Oliver Springs. The miners were
paid off Siturday and if trouble results in
the near future it will be within fifty
bouts.
THIRD PARTYITES
Will Put Oat a Regular Ticket in Louis*
iana.
The central executive committee of
the people’s party, better known as the
third party, held a session at New Or¬
leans Wednesday and called the statecon-
v^ntion to meet at Alexandria, February
17th next, when a full state ticket will
be put in the field headed by Colonel
Ihomas J. Guice, national lecturer of the
Farmers’ Alliance, who so persistently
sion fought the Lafayette combine in the ses¬
of Farmi rs’ Alliance at Lafayette
when it was adopted. He is a strong
advocate of the third party movement.
THE GIRLS OUT.
Big Strike in a Collar Factory in Troy,
Hew York.
8ix hundred angry collar girls and two
or three hundred men and boys, employes
in the big factory of Cluett & Oo., at
Troy, N. Y., went out on a strike Fri¬
day. The cause of the outbreak was the
substitution of starching machines, e ;eh
of which may throw eight girls out of
employment. One inclusive the miss threw
a handful of mud at building. This
was the signal for a general fu-ilade, and
in a few moments the handsome trio of
shops were fairly plastered up to the sec¬
ond story with mud, and the situation
grew so serious that the entire police
reserve was called out.
Government investigations seetn to in¬
dicate that the total sugar crop in the
United States this year will be in the
neighborhood of 500,000,000 pounds.
ATLANTA MARKETS.
CORRECTED WEEKLY.
Groceries.
Coffee—Roasted—Arbiickle’s 19%c $ 100 lb,
choice cases Lion 19X C ; Levering’s 19c. Green—Extra
21c; choice good 19c; fair 18c; com¬
mon I6)£c. Sugar—Granu'at ed4%c; off granu¬
lated —c; 4)^c; powdered 5%c; cut loaf 5%c; white
extra C New Orleans yellow clarified
4j^c; Orleans yellow extra C 4c. Syrup—N<-,w
choice 48@50; prime 35@40c; common
30@35c. Molasses—Genuine Cuba 35@38c; imi¬
tation -22@25. Teas—Black 35@55c; green
40@60c. Nutmegs 75@80c. Clove* 25<&30c.
Cinnamon 10@12%c. Allspice 10@llc. Jamai¬
ca ginger 18c. Bice—Choice 0@7c; good
6c; Salt—Hawley’s common 5%@6c; dairy imported $1 50; Virginia Japan 6<5|7c. 72Vic-
Cheese—Full cream, Cheddar* 12cJ/£; flats
13c; t-kim —--White fish, half bbls
$4 00; pails 60c. Soaps— Tallow, 100 bars,
75 lbs $3 00*3 75; turpentine, 60 bars, 60 lbs,
$200a2 25; tallow, 60 bars, 60 lbs $2 25a2 50.
Candles—Psrafine 12c; 75; star lOJ^c. Matches—
400s $4 00; 300* $3 00a3 200* $2 00a2 75; 60s,
5tkc; 5gro88 $3 76. Soda—Kegs, bulk 5c; do 1 lb pkgs
cases, 1 lb 5%c. dol and Y t \b% 6c, do%lb
6/£c. Crackers— XXX soda 6J^c; XXX butier
HJ^c; XXX pearl oysters 6c; shell and excelsior
7c; lemon cream 9c; XXXginger maps 9c; corn-
hills 9c. Candy—Assorted stick 6%c; French
mixed 12%c. Canned goods—Condensed milk
$6 00a8 00; imitation mack*-1el $3 95a4 00; sal¬
mon $6 00a7 50; F. W. oysters $2 20a--; L.W.
*110; com $2 00a2 75; tomatoes $1 50a2 25.
Ball potash $3 20. Starch—Peatl 4%c; lump
5%cf Pickles, nickel plain packages mixed, pints $3 50; $1 celluloid OOai 40; quarts $5 00.
or
$1 50al 80. Powder—Rifle, kegs $5 50; kegs
$3 00; % kegs $1 65. Shot $1 70 per srok.
Flour, Grain and Meal.
Floor—First patent $6 00; second patent
$5.00; extra fancy $4.75 ; fancy >4 50; family
$3 50a$4 00. Com—No. 2 white 58;; mixed 56c.
Oats— Mixed 44a--c; white 48c; Kansas rust
proof 53c. Hay—Choice timothy, bates, large bales,
95c; No. 1 timothy, large 95c; choice
timothy, small bales, 95; No. 1 timothy, small
bales. 95c; No. 2 timothy, bolted small bales, 85c.
Meal—Plain 60c: 58c. Wheat bran—
Large sacks $J 05- small sacks $1 07. Cotton
seed meal—$1 30 per cwt. Steam feed—$1.35
per cwt Grits— Pearl $6.0.
Coantrv Produce.
Eggs 25c. Butter—Western creamery ■
25a30e ; choice Tennessee 18a20c ; other grade*
10al2%c. Live 25a27%c; poultry—Turkeys 8al0c chickens, per
ib; bens young
large 18a20c ; small 15al8c. Dressed
_ 12%al4c;ducks 14a!5c;chiek-
poultry—Turkeys _5 Irish $2 00a $2 25 bb!.
ens I0al4. potatoes, 50c bu. Honey-Strain¬ per
Sweet potatoes in the comb per 10al2c. Onions $2 51*
ed 8al0c; bbl. Cabbage l>£a2c lb. Grapes,
3 00 per per
$850al0.00c per keg.
0 PrevtsJens.
Clear rib side*, boxed 6%c; ice-cured bel
lies 8%c. Sugar-cured hams Ual2c, according
to brand and average; California 8c; break¬
fast bacon 11c. Lard—Pure leaf —c; leaf
1 %; refined none.
Cotton.
Market steady.—Middling 6J-4O.
Bagging and Ties.
Bagging—1% lb 6c; 1% lb 6tfc; 2 Ib 7c; 2*
7*c Ties—$1 40.
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