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THE TOCCOA NEWS
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL.
VOLUME XX.
BLOWN TO ATOMS.
Miraculous Escape of a Honse Full of
People.
A terrific explosion of natural gas, in
which a fine residence was destroyed, two
churches partially demolished and about
ly fifty houses damaged, in which the fami-
of Judge John 8. Brasseehad a marvel-
lous escape from d* ath or serious injury,
occurred about 6:30 o’clock Mondiy
down Ijancaster, O. The judge was in hi% study
stairs, in his residence, a twenty-
room t rick structure in the center of
town, when the explosion occurr d, while
his family were in bed. The house was
leveled to the ground, aDd Judge Bras-
see was thrown about one hundred f et
onto a street car track, where he was
afterwards picked up in a dazed condi-
tn>n. Mr*. Brassee and two daughters
and two sons were in bed on the second
*v°° r ”r ^ son8 were burled 150 feet into
the Lutheran churchyard, while the
w'men were CHught by the falling roof,
,y wer ’’ rescued twenty minutes later,
anu were fouud to be cut and bmis*d.
lf:ro we ' e ^ our servants, who luckily
n-caped with only cuts and bruises. Re-
inarka tile to relate, none of the people in
the house were even seriously injured,
hi; loss financiall y will be qu ite heavy.
A kooi.ish fox was caught in a very
oild way in Glastonbury .Conn., recently.
tie had a very long and bushy tail, and,
maybe, was extremely vain of it, for ho
swishe ! it from side to sido instead of
bounds trailing it along the ground. A pack of
chased niin, and to elude them ho
?ried to bolt through a barbed wire fence;
hut somehow that tail curled itself about
a barb and the fox was us fast as if the
jaws of a steel trap him. Au hour later
the hunters despatched him.
In Juno last a tree on the farm of
Mortimer Hamilton, in Jackson County,
lnd., was blown down and pressed into
tho earth a large snapping turtle. Some
•lays ago tho limb which imprisoned the
turtle was removed and tho animal
crawled, apparently unhurt. During all
that tiino it had existed without food or
water.
RICHMOND&0ANVILLE R. R.
Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line Division,
Condensed Schedule of Passenger
Trains, in Effect Nov. 15th, 1801.
NORTHBOUND. No. 38. No. 10. No. 12.
VASTERJi TIME. Daily. Daily. Daily.
Lv. Atlanta (E.T.) 125 pm 8 50 pm 1111111111111111111111111111111
Chamblee ..... 9 27 pm
Norcross....... 9 39 pm
Duluth........ 9 51 pm
Suwanee....... 10 03 pm
Buford........ 10 17 pm
Flow ry Branch 10 31 pm
Gainesville..... 2 59 pm 10 51 pm
Lula.......... 11 18 pm
Bell ton........ 11 21 pm
Cornelia....... 11 45 pm
Toccoa......... Mt. Airy....... 11 50 pm
12 20 am
Westminster... 12 58 am
Seneca........ 1 17 am
Central........ 1 50 am
Easleys........ 2 18 am
Greenville..... 6 05 pm 2 44 am
Greers......... 3 14 am
Wellford....... 8 33 am
Spartanburg... 6 57 pm 3 54 am
Clifton........ 413 am
Cowpens...... Gaffney 4 18 am
Blacks!) 4 40 am
org 6 01 am
Grover.. 5 11 am
King’s Mount’n 5 28 am c»
Gastonia....... 5 54 am
Lowell........ G 07 am 00
Bellemont..... 6 14 am CO
Ar. Charlotte...... B 10 pm G 40 am CO
SOUTHBOUND. No. 37, No. 11, No. 9.
Daily, Daily. Daily.
Lv. Charlotte...... 9 45 am 1 50 pm iggiiiiiiiiigyiiiiiiiiggiiigia
Bell mont..... 2 12 pm
L will......... 2 22 pm
Gastonia....... 2 35 pm
King’s Mount’n 3 00 pm
Grov r......... 3 16 pm
Gaffney....... Blacksburg .... 8 3 26 pm
45 pm
Cowpens Clifton........ ...... 110 pm
4 IS pm
Spartanburg... W Ilford........ 11 43 am 4 27 pm
5 f 0 pm
Greet 8......... 5 09 pm
Greenville...... 12 36 pm 5 34 pm
Easleys......... G 07 pm
Central........ 6 55 pin
Seneca......... 7 22 pm
Westminster.... 7 41 pm
Toccoa ........ 8 19 pm
Mt. Airy....... 8 48 pm
Cornelia....... 8 52 pm
ltellton..... 9 16 pm
Lula.......... 9 18 pm
Gainesville..... 3 41 pm 9 42 pm
Flowery Branch
Buford........
Suwanee....... 10 33 pm 10
Duluth........ 10 45 pm 11
Norcross...... 10 66 pm 11
Chamblee...... 11 08 pm 11
Ar. Atlanta (E. T.)
Additional trams Nos. 17 an I 18— Lala ao-
conmi. dation, daily except 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 Athens—No. 11 dailv, ex¬
cept Sunday, and No. 9 daily, leave Lula 8 80 p
m, and 11 50 a m, arrive Athens 10 15 p ra ana
1 35 pm. Returning leave Athens, No. 10
daily, except Sunday, and No. 12 daily, 6 15 p m
and 6 45 a in, arrive Lula 8 00 p m and 8 80
a ni.
Between Toccoa and Elberton—No. 61 dai¬
ly; except Sundav, leave Toccoa 2 00 pm
arrive Elberton 4 40 p m. Returning, No. 60
daily, except t-mnday, leaves Elberton 5 00 a m
and arrives Toccoa 8 30 a m.
Nos. 11 an t 1‘2 carry Pullman Sleepers be¬
tween Washington and Kan;-as City via Birming¬
ham and Memphis, and Nos, 9 and 10 Pullman
Sleep*r between Atlanta and New York.
On No. 11 no change in day coaches from
New York to A'lanta.
Nos. 37 aud 38, Washington and Southwest-
ei n Yestibuled Limited, between Atlanta and
Washington. On this train an extra fare is
charged on first-case tickets only.
For detailed information as to local and
through time table?, rates and Pullman local Sleep¬
ing car reservations, confer with agents,
or address, TAYLOR,
JAS. L. W. A. TURK,
Gen’l Pass. Ag’t. Div. Pass. AgH.
Atlanta. Ga. Charlotte N. O.
C. P. HAMMOND,
GREEN. Superintendent Atlanta, Ga.
W. H. SOL. HASS,
Gen’l Manager. Traffic Manager,
Atlanta Ga. Atlanta. Ua,
LEWIS DAVIS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
T 0 CG 0 A CITY, GA,
Will practioe in the counties of Haber¬
sham and Rabun of the Northwestern
Circuit, and Franklin and Bank* of wfL me
Western Circuit, Prompt at'eaHon :
be given to all bust Ene*» ent-rustedreo hfeat
The collection of debts will have spec¬
ial uiteulion.
ALLIANCE TALKS.
NEWS OF THE ORDER AND
ITS MEMBERS
Reform Press Comment and Items of
General Interest,
RETRENCHMENT NEEDED.
In his speech before the honse some
days ago, on the Holman resolution pro¬
vidiug f r retrenchment in expenditures
M r _ Livingston, p.esident of the Georgia
State Alliance, among other things said
that f rom one e nd of the land to the
other, t, ere existed to-day more destitu-
t on and distress than had ever before
oeen known in the history of the country,
lt wag time for congress to call a halt in
the making of unnecessary and reckless
appropriations. The cause of this dis-
tress was h large increase in taxation,
which to-day was five times as much as
it w«s in 1860. How could the produc-
er9 of the country live under such a sys-
tem 0 f taxation? While the rate oftaxa-
tion had been increasing, the price of
products Lad had been decreasing. Cotton
gone down from 10 cents, 1860,
to 61 cents, in the city of Au-
gusta, Ga. What had gone down
in proportion? The legislation
of congress had increased taxation, and
had decreased the means of paying it.
Was it not time that the farmers and
laborers should be beard on this floor?
The resolution offered by the gentleman
from Indiana, [Mr. Holman] not only
contained sound democratic principle,
but it wag honest and statesm>m-like.
He did not see how any gentleman,
whether he belonged to the first, second
or ti ird party, could do aught but sup¬
port it. The people were looking with
their eyes and listening with their ears
for some sign of relief from this congress.
Would they r ceive it, or would they be
•jent word, as they had been sent during
the last twenty-five ye *rs, ‘‘work on and
we will take care of the government.”
Tne passage of this resolution would en¬
courage aud the workingmen of the country,
he gave it his earnest support.
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THE SUB-TREASURY BOILED DOWN.
Under the above headline the South¬
ern Alliance Farmer says: This one
pi nk in our platf< rm has caused more
contenton among the old party hack?
than all the rest of our demands. It has
bem the great drawback to our woul-be
democratic friends. They view it with
a perfect horror, a system which w ould
ruiu the country at once, they say. Ob,
yes, they will tell you, we can take the
rest of yonr platform, but the sub-treas¬
ury, we can’t staud it. Ihese same par¬
ties and papers who prate against the
sub-treasury, know simply nothing
about it. They liave been fighting the
air and have not succeeded in making it
very lurried with common sense, The
sub-treasury system boiled down
and shorn of detail is simply
this: The government should issue
direct to the people, upon good security,
a sufficient amount of currency, at cost,
to do the business of the country upon
a cash basis.
This is all there is in this demand, and
who can object to it? Would it benefit
the merchaut, the lawyer aud the doc¬
tor? Certainly, if the people who sup¬
port these professions are benefited.
There is no reasonable objections that
any honest man can urge against the sub¬
treasury system. Everybody had rather
do a cash than a time business, for in the
end both the customer and the mer¬
chant are ruined when the credit
system is adhered to. Then let us all
join hands for the sub-treasury system
which means a sufficient volume of
money direct from the government to the
people at a low rate of interest. All
men can stand on this plank except those
inter sted in robbing the people through
our present financial system. This is the
main plank in our Ocala demands, and
one that the country must have. Let us
accept nothing as a compromise, but in¬
sist on having the government to control
our financial system instead of national
banks and plutocrats.
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AN OFFICIAL COMMUNICATION.
Special Notice to all Alliancemen:
The Supreme Council is session unan¬
imously p-tssed the following resolution:
“Resolved, That the brethren of the
entire order be requested to set aside and
observe the first meeting in January each
year in every sub-alliance in the United
States as National Alliance Day, and that
npon that d'ty they read and discuss the
national demands, and the sub-abiance
lecturer and others deliver addresses in
behalf of the national propaganda fund
for the distribution of approved alliance
literature, and that the sub-alliance sec¬
retary take up a collection in behalf of
the said propaganda fund, and forward
same to the national secretary at Wash¬
ington, D. C.”
This resolution is far-reaching in its
effect, and is commended to the careful
consideration of the entire order. 1 he
following questions and answers are here
derstanding presented iu erd^r to give a better un¬
of the Propaganda fund and
the national alliance day :
What is the object of the national alli¬
ance day ?
Ans .: It is to concentrate the thoughts
and attention on one day in the begin-
ning of the year upon national alliance
work and national issues, and to secure
from every member of the order such
contributions as he or she may be able
and willing to give toward assisting in
the educational work of the order.
How may national alliance day be
made interesting, useful and instruc-
Ans: ? By D each , . member . giving such
new facts as he may possess as to the his-
alliance tory of our objects of the reading order, and singing dis-
songs, and by
cussing the demands.
What are the demands of ihe order?
Ans: The following is a correct copy
of the demands as amended at India-
nanolis* a."
"I We demand the abolation of
national banks.
“b. We demand that the government
•hall establish sub-treasuries in the sev-
eral states which shall issue money direct
to the people at a low rate of tax, not to
exceed two per cent per annum, on non
perishablc farm products, aud also upon
«»!«««*, wilb---- limitation,
TOCCOA, GEORGIA, JANUARY 30, 1892.
upon the quantity of land and amount of
money.
“1. We demand that the amounl of
the circulating medium he speedily in¬
creased to not leas than $50 per capita.
“2. We dmand that congress shall
pass laws as will effectually prevent the
dealing in futures of all agricultural and
mechanical productions, providing a
stringent system of procedure in trials
that will secure prompt conviction, ana
imposing such penalties as shall secure
the most perfect compliance with the law
“3. We condemn the silver bill re¬
cently passed bv congress, and demand
in lieu thereof the free and unlimited
coinage of silver.
“4. We demand the passage of laws
prohibiting alien ownership of land, and
that congress take prompt action to de
vise some plan to obtain all lands now
owned by foreign syndicates, and that
all lands held by railroads and other cor¬
porations u-ed in exc' ss of such as is actually
and needed by them be reclaimeo
by the government, and held for actual
settlers only.
“5. Believing in the doctrine of equal
rights to all and special privileges to
none, we d' mand—
“a. That our national legislation shall
be so framed in the future as not to build
other. up one industry at the expense of an¬
“b. We further demand a removal of
the existing heavy tariff tax from the
necessities of life that the poor of our
land musthave.
“c. We further demand a just and
equitable system of graduated tax on in¬
comes.
“d. We believe that the money of the
country should be kept as much as
possible in ihe hands of the people, and
hence we demand that all national and
state revenues shall be limited to the
necessary expenses of the government
economically and honestly administered.
“6. We demand the most rigid, honest
and just 8t«te and national governmental
control and supervision of the means of
public communication and transporta¬
tion, and if this control aud supervision
dues not remuve the aliuses now existing,
we demand the government ownership
of such means of communication and
transportation.
“7. We demand that the Congress of
the United States submit an amendment
to the constitution providing for the
election of United States Senators by di¬
rect vote of the people of each state.”
What is the Propaganda fund ?
Ans: It is a special fund composed of
donations for the purpose of assisting the
alliance educational work. It is in
charge of the Propaganda fund com¬
mittee, which is composed of the presi¬
dent and secretary and the executive
board of the order. The regulations
governing it are that none can be paid
out except by unanimous consent of the
Propaganda fund committee. At regu¬
lar intervals the secretary publishes in
The National Economist all receipts and
disbursements of this fund. All litera¬
ture purchased with this fund must be at
cost, and all services rendered by officers
or fund others in handling or disbursing this
or any of its literature, must be
without pay. Every effort is to be made
to every dollar do the most possible good.
To what use is the Propaganda fund
applied?
Ans. and To leaflets the purchase of pamphlets,
tracts ing alliance explaining and defend¬
bution literature principles and to the distri¬
of to reform and other
papers for publication, and sometimes to
paying the actual expenses of a lecturer
on some important occasion when the
lecturer cannot be made self-sustaining.
There is a demand for information in un¬
organized sections, and there is a great
demand for rerorm literature in an sec¬
tions.
Does this Propaganda fund correspond
to the campaign funds of the political
parties? does
Ans. It not in any sense of the
word. Campaign funds, as used in poli¬
tics, represents monev paid by capitalists
to dominate the administration after the
party have succeeded, and it is distrib¬
uted largely as boodle for corrupt pur¬
poses. Its object is to perpetuate ma-
chane domination. The Propaganda
fund i3 mote nearly represented by the
manner in which the Irish fight for lib¬
erty has been conducted. r \ he expenses
have be«n met by donations from those
devoted to the cause of liberty. Our
battle will soon be raging, our cause is
is an embodiment of right, jus ice and
equity, we strive to emancipate produc¬
tive labor from the money power to op¬
press and thereby prevent the enslavement
of posterity. Every person who assists
in this cause is a hero. Let each give as
the Lord has prospered him.
How should remittance to the Propa¬
ganda fund be sent?
Ans. Address a letter to J. H. Turner,
239 North Capitol street, Washington,
D. C., and tell him the amount of your
donation, and who it is from, and inclose
him the money either in postal note,
money order, or registered letter. Then
address another to C. W. Macune, chair¬
man executive board, 241 North Capitol
street. Washington, D. C., stating what
amount you have sent Brother Turner,
snd give a short report of your meeting
and what resolutions you have passed,
and the name and number of your alli¬
ance, aud the name and postoffice ad¬
dress of the president, secretary, lecturer
asd chaplain.
L. L. Polk,
J. H. Turnbr,
C. W. Macune,
J. F. Tillman,
Alonzo Ward all,
Propaganda Committee.
CYRUS FIELD DYING.
After a Braye Fight Death Mast Soon
Relieve Him.
v r am „ . a Saturday . ,
sa 5_ 9: n Cyrus w W. Field , ? is - rapidly sinking
and will not hye> until daylight
C fT W ' wh f e Sad e ° d has at ‘
f tract ? d s ." ca widespread sympathy, comes
m ? f a every farail generation y whl ^ h \ for s had nearly us f a “ four OU3 cen- ®«»
tunes. The first American ancestor oi
cam ? to Boston shortly after
the l andl,! g of the Mayfl wer, coming
froraa family in England or il-ustrious
re P utat ‘oo- From him the Field family
traced direct descent.
A newly-arrived immigrant from Eu-
rope got a sentence of nineteen years in a
kSSSiS* 1 *
NATIONAL CAPITAL
THE FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS
AT WORK.
Daily Routine of Both Houses Briefly
Outlined.
THE HOUSE.
Wednesday. —The house, on Wednes¬
day, after the introduction of a few bills,
finding itself with nothing to do, ad¬
journed until Thursday.
Thursday. —No business of import¬
ance was transacted in the house Thurs¬
day.
Monday— The information furnished
by the press that the president wou'd on
looked Monday send to congress his anxiously
for message relative t<> the Chilean
troubles, had the effect of bringing to
the capitol a large number of visitors.
At precisely noou Speaker Crisp ascend¬
ed to the chair and his colleagues, with¬
out he regard to party, warmly greeted dm
as reassumed the reins of authority,
laid down so long on account of sickness.
The chaplain in his prayer feelingly allu¬
ded to the death of Justice Bradley.
During Pruden, the call of the state?, Mr.
one of the president’s secre¬
taries, appeared at the door of
the house and was announced by the as¬
sistant doorkeeper. He delivered the
message of the chief executive relating
to the Chilean troubles, and the call hav¬
ing been suspended the message was im¬
mediately laid before the house. The
buzz of conversation which usually per¬
vades the chamber was instantly hushed
and every member dropped the work
upon which he was engaged and became
an attentive listener. The spectators in
the galleries evidently appreciated the
gravity of the situation, and there was
none of that noise which so frequently
interrupts the deliberations of the house.
THE SENATE.
Wednesday. —When the senate met
Wednesday, Senator Walthall was in his
seat and received congratulations from
his fellow-senators of both parties on his
re-election. Senator George entered the
chamber while the business of the morn¬
ing hour was in progress. He also was
warmly congratulated. After the intro¬
duction of several bills the senate took
up the calendar, the first eighteen bills
on it being for public buildings.
Thursday. —After the introduction
of a few important bills in the senate
Thursday, Senator Sanford made a long
speech in favor of the land loan bureau.
Monday. —At noon Mr. Pruden, one
of the president’s secretaries, appeared
at the bar of the senate and delivered
the message in relation to Chili, with a
large package of copies of the corre¬
spondence on that subject. At 12:55,
when the morning business was com¬
pleted, the vice president presented the
message, and it was read.
NOTES
Representative Bankhead, of Alabama,
chairman of the committee on public
buildings and grounds, says that bills for
new buildings and improvements to the
amount fore of $27,000,000 are already be¬
the committee.
The senate committee on privileges
and elections had under consideration
Thur-day morning the contested Florida
election case of Call vs Davidson, and
decided by a unanimous vote to rec ;m-
mend that Senator Call retain his sea’.
Senator Gallenger on Thursday pro¬
posed au amendment to the interstate
commerce act to allow all railroads to
grant passes to newspaper publishers for
printing advertisements, and for other
services, as well as to their respective
editors and actual employes.
The senate committee on privileges
and elections held a meeting Saturday
afternoon and decided by an almust unan¬
imous vote to report in favor of Duboi?
in the contest of W. H. Claggett for the
seat United now occupied by the former in the
States senate. The committee
also decided by a unanimous vote to re¬
port in the case of Senator Chilton, of
Texas, that his appointment had been
regular and in accordance with law and
precedent.
Assistant Secretary Spaulding, of the
treasury and department, was before the ways
means committee of the house Satur¬
day and made a statement of the financial
condition of the treasury. He presented
a long array of fi ure?, showing the com¬
parative receipts during an i expenditures of the
goveunment the past year or two.
The Secretary stated that the estimate of
the river and harbor improvements next
year was $46,000,000. He also stated
that at the close of last month the trea¬
sury bad paid upwards of $1,000,000 in
sugar bounties.
Mr. Stanford addressed the senate
Thursday in advocacy of the bill intro¬
duced by him on December 22, to pro¬
vide the government with means suffi¬
cient to supply the national want of a
sound circulating medium. The bill
proposes an issue of the United States
circulating notes to the amount of $100,-
000,000, and such additional amounts
from time to time, as shall be necessary
to meet the requirements of the act, to
be lent (under supervision of the land
loan bureau) to owners of agricultural
lands to an amount not exceeding half
the assessed valu ition of land, at the rate
of 2 per cent interest, Mr. Stanford was
followed by Mr. Peffer, in a long speech
in favor of the bill, which was afterwards
laid aside.
The Associated Press, after adjourn-
ment, interviewed upwards of a hundred
senators and representa ives concerning
the President’s message on the Chi ean sit-
uation. The senators were much more
cautious and about commenting on the mes-
sage the probable ou come than
members of the house. But it was evi-
dent that party considerations did not
bind the members of either house in their
views, and that a decided majority was
willing to sustain the president in
upholding, vigor, with firmness and
the position taken by this govern-
ment. Many of them, in expressing
their views, said it seemed to them that
the United States had, in some respects,
perhaps, but not acted altogether,in the right,
they said they had no doubt that
much should be done by Chili, and that,
in the end, she would comply with most |
of our demands. Of the message itself,
the opinion of democrats and republi¬
cans alike was that it was a strong pre¬
sentation of the case.
A FAT FEE.
$50,000 for Legal Services in the Cele¬
brated Gaines Case.
A New Orleans dispatch of Wednesday
says: Mr. E. LaB urin is a noted law¬
yer who received $50,000 for his services
as master of chancery in the celebrated
Gaines case. This was the largest fee
ever received by a lawyer in Lousiana.
His report in this case was approved by
the judges of the United States circuit
court and subsequently affirmed by the
United States suureme court.
THE WIDE WORLD.
GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND
CABLE CULLINGS
Of Brief Items of Interest From
Various Sources.
A cablegram of Thursday from Madrid,
Spain, says: An anarchist uprising is re¬
ported at Renda, Malaga. Troops are
being hurried to the scene.
The street car s'rike in Pittsburg con¬
tinues. Friday night the strikers at¬
tacked every car that went out of the
shed. Several arrests were made.
After being out three and a half hours,
the jury in the famous criminal libel suit
of Senator Quay against the Pittsburg
Post brought in a verdict of guilty Fri¬
day.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis, who was elected
States an honorary vice president of the United
Daughters of 1892. in New York,
has accepted the honor and been enrolled
as a number.
A Chicago dispatch says: The site
for the Chilean government building at
the world’s fair was approved Monday.
It is on the main driveway. Sites for
seven other Central and South Ameri¬
can governments were also approved.
A St. Petersburg cablegram of Friday
says: Slobodskoi, During service in a church at
in the government of Viatka,
the roof gave way and fell upon the wor¬
shipers beneath.. The wreckage was soon
cleared away, when it was found that
fifty persons had been either killed or
injured.
whole Dispatches of Thursday say that the
of the Rio Grande frontier is cov¬
ered with snow, the first time ever known.
Mexicans Suffering among the poorer classes of
and among United States troops
has been intense for the past few days.
Several commands of United States cav¬
alry in the field are without comfort and
conveniences.
“Colonel” Pickett Nelson, who claim¬
ed to be the tallest man on earth, died at
Baltimore, Md., Thursday. His body
measured eight feet five inches in length.
In life he claimed to be eight feet one
inch tall, and to weigh 387 pounds.
After death his frame relaxed and be
came four inches longer than it had been.
Nelson was a colored man.
The funeral services over the remains
of Cardin il Manning were held in
day. Brompton oratory, at London, Thurs¬
The admission to the oratory was
by ticket only, for it would have been
utterly impossible for the structure to
contain one hundredth part of the vast
crowd desirous of paying a last token of
respect to the dead prelate.
Fire broke out Thursday afternoon in
the five-story brick building, No.
20 West Fifteenth street,New York City.
It spread to No. 22 East Fifteenth street,
and also to the Lincoln bank building,
Nos. 1 and 3 Union square, at the Four¬
teenth street corner. It was under con¬
trol at 3 o’clock. The loss is very heavy,
falling upon a large number of business
houses.
A London cablegram of Thursday says:
The city is wrapped in a dense and al¬
■which most impenetrable fog equal to that
preva led about Christmas time,
and which caused much loss of life and
incalculable money damage. Traffic is
greatly impeded, and so dark is it that
the use of electric and gaslight is resort¬
ed to throughout the city in houses,
shops and factories.
The general assemb’y of the committee
on revision of the confession of faith in
session at New York completed its Work
Thursday. Chapter 11, treating of the
universal offer of the gospel, which has
been a bone of contention during the
latter days of the committee’s session,
that was adopted in a condensed- form. All
now remains is to submit the report
to the general assembly.
A Washington dispatch says: The net
gold in the treasury Thursday including
bullion, is $119,749,286, being a loss of
over six million dollars since the 10th in¬
stant, and a loss of over ten million dol¬
lars since the 1st instant. Receipts from
customs days at New York during the first
twenty of January were $8,336,042,
being the $681,513 less than receipts during
corresponding period of last year.
A London cablegram is to the effect
that the anarchists who were arrested at
fValsail on January 7th and others who
have since been taken into custody were
again in the Walsail police court Thurs¬
day. One of the prisoners is named
Slaughter. evidence that The police claim to have
he was concerned in the
Chicago Haymarket massacre, and that
he was the prime mover in the present
conspiracy.
Ferdinand street branch of the Boston,
Mass., Electric Light Company was de¬
stroyed by fire early Saturday morning,
The loss is estimated at $200,000. The
property destroyed consisted of twenty-
four dynamos, valued at $5,000 each, five
150 horse-power engines, one 100 horse-
power engine and one 300 horse-power
engine. Ten minutes after the fire was
discovered the main floor fell with a crash
and carried with it valuable machinery,
^ ... dispatch , from , Indianapolis, _ .. lnd., T j
sa y a: Delegate conventions in thirteen
congressional districts of Indiana on
selected a state committee,
Eleven of the members are outspoken
* or President Harrison, while Heming-
’^ ao i district, and Hanna, of
twelfth, have agreed not to antag o-
nize E ,m . In every district resolutions
T ere P assed endorsing the administra¬
tion, and in nine out of thirteen districts
resolutions were pissed declaring the
president for renomination.
THROUGH DIXIE.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEFLY
PARAGRAPHED
Forming an Epitome of Dally
Happenings Here and Thera.
factory Twenty car loads of flour milled at the
of Koerler Bros., St. Louis, ar¬
rived at New Orleans, Thursday, by the
Illinois Central road, Tnis is the first
lot of a c msignment of cars of this staple
which is bound for Galway, Ireland. It
will go via the steamer Plucy, from New
Orleans.
A Bristol, Tenn., dispatch of Monday
S'ijs: Dr. Baker the wife poisoner,
convicted of murder last August and
S( ntenced to hang, will have a new trial.
Talton Hall, the murderer of ninetv-nine
men, will be tried at the same time, in
Wise county, Virginia, a hundred milen
from Bristol.
A New Orleaus dispatch says: Nearly
$50,000 worth of property belonging tf.
the New Orleans aud Southern railroad,
went up in smoke early Thursday morn¬
ing. The company’s round house was
six destroyed together with a locomotive,
passenger coaches, two freight cars
aud one flat car, which were in the build-
ing.
Colonel R. T. Nesbitt, commissioner of
agriculture of Georgia, has been very
much pleased recently to have sent him
several resolutions from the county alli¬
he ances, endorsing his general course since
has been the commissioner. The
Dade county alliance, the Harris county
alliance and the Muscogee county alliance
have recently sent in very strong resolu¬
tions endorsing Colonel Nesbitt.
A Jackson, Miss., dispatch says: The
members of the Mississippi legislature
who were present Thurslay were polled
as to their presidential preferences, with
the following result: Grover Cleveland,
53; D. B. Hill, 42; A “western man,”20;
alliance, Campbell, 1; B >es, 1; President Polk,
1; one for Hill on the ground
of availability; one favors’s tactics, but
wants Cleveland for president.
A destructive fire occurred in Norfolk
Va., Thursday morning in the cotton
district, including the building occupied
by Messrs, Jones, Lee & Co., J. B.
Harrell & Co., Harrell Bros, and the
American Peanut company, at the foot of
Commerce street. The loss is estimated
at sixty thousand dollars on buildings
and contents, including 5,000 bales of
cotton, and 1,000 bags of peanuts. In¬
surance, $40,000.
A Chattanooga dispatch says: Quite a
little flutter of excitement was caused in
this city Thursday by the announcement
that the Chattanooga Southern railroad
had been put into the hands of a receiver,
and Newman Erb named as receiver.
Contractors 6ued the road for money due
for building, aud the receiver was ap¬
pointed. C. E. James, against whom
the East Tennessee recently instituted
preceedings, is president.
The first woman to suffer the death
penalty on the gallows in North Carolina
since the war, was hanged Friday at
Dallas. Caroline Ship was condemned
to be executed for infanticide. She dis¬
played great coolness while on the gal¬
lows, and stood quietly while the rope
w as being fixed about her neck. She
talked eight minute?, reaffirming her in¬
nocence, and declaring that a man named
Mack Farr committed the crime.
Erskine college, located at Duo West,
Abbeville county, South Carolina, was
burned Friday morning, only a few
benches, desks and blackboards being
saved from the wreck, The library,
containing over two thousand valuable
volumes belonging to the theological
seminary of the Associate Reformed
Presbyterian church, was destroyed, to¬
gether with the college library and fur¬
niture. The loss is over twenty-five
thousand dollars, and no insurance.
A Jackson, Miss., dispatch of Saturday
says the chapter in the new code of laws
prepared by the commission, raised by
the constitution, and which is now be¬
fore the legislature for adoption, regu¬
lating the sale of liquor, is headed “dram
shops,” and is very s'ringent in its pro¬
visions. Liquor is not alio wed to be sold in
connection with any other business, and
hotels cannot have saloon attachments
unless they have upwards of will thirty
room?. The lowest license cost
11.000 in the country and $2,000 in a
city, and a two thousand-dollar bond is
required for compliance with the re¬
quirements against selling liquor to mi¬
nors, drunken men, etc. The license
can only be obtained upon the petition
of freeholders. The liquor men from all
over the state are in arms.
FEVER AMONG CATTLE.
Secretary Rusk Issues a Notice to
Railroads and Stockmen.
A Washington dispatch of Wednesday
says : Secretary Rusk has issued a notice
to managers and agents of railroad and
other transportation companies, stock-
men and others interested, that splentic,
or southern fever exists among cattle in
a described area, which includes nearly
all of the territory lying south of
and including the states of and North Texas,and Caro¬
lina, Tennessee, Arkansas
the Indian Territory. From February
15 to December 1, 1892, no cattle are to
be transported from this area to any por¬
tion of the United States, north or west
of it, except by rail, for immediate
slaughter, and when so transported cer¬
tain stated rigid regulations are to be
observed.
HOSPITALS ARE FULL
Of Unfortunates Wrestling with the
Dreaded Grip.
Dispatches of Thursday state that the
hospitals in the city of Paris, France, are
crowded with patients suffering from
influenza. The diseases prevails in a
most dangerous form throughout the city,
and the municipal authorities and assis¬
tance publique are making arrangements
to convert available vacant buildings into
hospital*. De Freycinet, minister ol
war, will be asked to allow the barr cks
on the outskirts of the city to be used a«
infirmaries. There is a great increase in
the number of deaths resulting from the
disease.
NUMBER i.
CHILI APOLOGIZES.
THE UNITED STATES SUPREME
COURT CAN DECIDE
Or Some Neutral Nation Can Arbitrate
the Matter.
A cablegram of Monday from Santiago
de Chile says: The Chilean govcmmenl
has sent her reply to the ultimatum ol
the United States. The reply is in effect
as follows:
Chile agrees to withdraw the offensivi
note sent by Senor Matta to all Chilean
ministers «broad, and acknowledges that
its issuance was due to an error of judg¬
ment.
Chile also withdraws its request for the
withdrawal of United States Minister
Egan.
A FAIR PROPOSITION.
In addition to this, the Chilean gov¬
ernment, in i s answer, proposes that the
affair of the attack on the Baltimore Bai¬
lors in Valparasio, be submitted to the
abitratiou of some neutral nation.
THE SUPREME COURT CAN ARBITRATE.
If this proposition is not acceptable to
the United States government the Chi¬
lean government suggests that the matter
be submitted to the decision of the
supreme court of the United States.
WILDING TO ARBITRATE.
The correspondent of the London
Times at San Diago, on Monday tele¬
graphed to that paper that it is understood
that Chili has agreed to submit her en¬
tire differences with the United States to
arbitration
ENCOURAGING OUTLOOK.
Dun A Co., Givos i Bright Yieir of
Trade Thorughout the Country.
Business fai urea occurring throughout
the country during the week ending Jan.
22, as reported to R. G. Dun & Co.,
number for the United States 274, and
for Canada 54; total 328, against 339 last
week. Report from cities outside of
New York shows some increase in trade
as well as great confidence in the future.
At Philsdelphia, increasing sales are seen
in dry goods; large orders reported for
nails, and general inprovement in hard¬
ware and better orders for iron have
caused additional furnaces to begin blast.
At Charleston some improvements is seen,
though large supplies of cotton i re still
on hand.
THE PRECIOUS METALS.
The output of precious metals in 1891
has been surpassed in only two years, ac¬
cording to Wells-Fargo’s statement,
amounting to $31,975,991 in gold $60,-
614,004 in s Iver, $13,261,663 in copper,
and $12,385,780 in lead. The Mexican
output of silver was $43,000,000. An¬
nual reports of many oiher industries
show that the production in 1891 baa
rarely, if ever, been equaled, and the
new year begins with no prospect of a
decrease in any important industry. The
reduction of rat's by the Bank of Eng¬
land from 8J to 3 per cent shows the c n-
fidence that prevails in foreign money
markets.
Reports from all money centers show
ample supplies, an easier market and, ex¬
cept p.t the south, a comparatively light
demand, with fair or good collections.
The enormous excess of exports still con¬
tinuing leads many to believe that more
gold must soon be imported.
The industries are remarkably well em¬
ployed for the season and the movement
of crops is still large, and reports from
every part of the country express even
greater confidence than before in the
prospects for trade. The market for
products has been undisturbed by specu¬
lation, which is held in check by enor¬
mous supplies. Wheat advanced 1J cents
and receipts at the west have been ligh¬
ter owing to the severe weather, but ex¬
ports continue large. Corn is comiDg
forward freely and has declined cents,
and the exports for the will probably be
heavy. Oats are a quarter lower, but
pork declined products a shade stronger. Oil has
one-half, and coffee advanced a
quarter. markets Increasing strength is reported
in for iron and steel products.
THE COTTON MARKET.
Speculation in cotton has taken cour¬
age from the fact that receipts have re¬
cently declined at some points largely,
and the price has advanced a sixteenth
during the week and a quarter since the
lowest point, 7f, was touched. Specu¬
lative sales last week reached 700,000
bales at New York, and the improving
market caused a better tone at many
southern points.
JUDGE BRADLEY DEAD;
He was Arbitrator to Decide the Hayes-
Tilden Presidential Contest.
A Washington dispaten says: Justice
Bradley, of the United States suprem-
court, died Friday morning. His re
mains will be enteired at his forme:
home, Newark, N. J. The supreme
court adjourned for the day after the an¬
nouncement of death, without transact¬
ing any business. He will be chiefly re¬
membered for having been the main fac¬
tor in deciding the Tildea-Hayes presi¬
dential contest.
HIS possible: SUCCESSOR.
The prevailing opinion will at Washington
is that the president appoint Attor¬
ney General Miller to succeed the late
Justice Bradley. Ex-Senator Edmunds,
of Vermont, is considered a possible se¬
lection. However, should the appoint¬
ment go to Justice Bradley’s circuit,
comprising Pennsylvania, Delaware and
New Jersey, Chief Justice Baxton and
Judge Mitchell, of the supreme court oi
Pennsylvania, are prominently men¬
tioned .
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TEXAS COTTON PLANTERS
Disgusted With the Situatiou and
Future Outlook.
A dispatch of Monday from Dallas,
Tex., says: At least 80 per cent, of the
cotton crop has been marketed and it D
thought that not more than ten per ceDt
remains at the gin hou-es. The planter?
have lost heavily upon it and are dis¬
gusted with the situation and the outlook.
They loudly protest that they w n’t plant
more than half what they did last year.
The price now obtai; ed is two c nts be¬
low the actual cost of production per
pound.