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THE % TOCCOA NEWS
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL.
VOLUME XX.
RICHMOND & DA NVILLE R. R.
Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line Division.
Condensed Schedule of Passenger
Trains. In Effect Nov. 15th, 1891.
NORTHBOUND. No. 38. No. 10. No. 12.
» AhTRBS TIME. Daily. Daily. Daily.
Lt. Atlanta (E.T.) 125 pm,' 8 50 pm oocca>-j-ij-»-ao>»cje»a>cii»»>*w*o»ot-*i--‘e-tou>*Se-!-!-*ELoo
Cliambleo..... ....... 9 27 pm
Norcroas....... ....... 9 39 pm
Duluth........ ....... 9 51 pm
Suwanee....... .......10 03 pm
B uford........ .......10 17 pm
Flow ry Branch .......10 31 pm
Gaine«ville..... 2 59 pm 10 51 pm
Lula.......... .......11 18 pm
Bell ton........ .......11 21 pm
Cornelia....... .......11 45 pm
Mt. Airy....... .......II 50 pm
Toccoa......... ....... 12 20 am
WetUminster ... ....... 12 58 am
Seneca ........ ....... 1 17 «m
Central........ ....... 1 50 am
Easleys........ ....... 2 18 am
Greenville..... 6 05 pm 2 44 am
Greera......... 3 14 am
Weil ford....... 3 33 am
Spart anburg... 6 57 pm 3 54 am
Clifton................ 4 13 am
Cowpens .............. 4 18 am
Gaffney............... 4 40 am
Grover......... Blacksburg............. 5 01 am
5 11 am
King’s Mount’ll 5 28 am
Gastonia....... 5 54 am
Is ’Well........ 6 07 am
Bellemont..... 6 14 am
Ar. Charlotte 9 10 pm
SOUTHBOUND. No. 37, No. 11. No. 9.
Daily. Daily. Daily.
Lv. Charlotto...... 9 45 am 1 50 pm 2 20 am
Belli mont..... 2 12 pm 2 42 am
L Well......... 2 22 pm 2 52 am
Gastonia....... 2 35 pm 3 04 am
King’s Mount’n 3 00 pm 3 27 am
Grov- r......... 3 16 pm 3 43 am
Blacksburg .... 3 26 pm 3 53 am
Gaffney....... 3 45 pm 4 10 am
Clifton........ Cowpens...... 110 pm 4 42 am
4 13 pm 4 35 am
Spartanburg... W Uford...... 11 43 am 4 27 pm 5 00 am
5 £0 pm 5 23 am
Greets....... 5 09 pm 5 42 am
Grocnville.... 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
Toocot...... 8 19 pm 8 52 am
Mt. Airy..... 8 48 pm 9 18 am
Cornelia..... 8 52 pm 9 23 am
Belltou .. 9 16 pm 9 45 am
Lula.................. 9 18 pm 9 47 am
Game^ville..... 3 41 pm 9 42 pm 1C 12 am
Flowery Branch........ 10 00 pm 10 32 am
Buford................ 10 17 pm 10 45 am
Snwanee............... 10 S3 pm 10 58 am
Duluth............... 10 45 pm 11 15 am
Noreross.............. 10 56 pm 11 28 am
Chmblee.............. 11 08 pm 11 43 am
Ar. Atlanta (E. T.) 5 05 pm 11 45 pm 12 20 pm
Addit oual tra ns Nos. 17 ant 18—Lula ac¬
commodation, daily except Sunday, leaves At¬
lanta 5 30 p ni, arrives Lula 8 12 p m. Return¬
ing. leaves Lula 6 00 a m, arrives Atlanta 8 50
» m.
Between Lula and Ath- ns—No. 11 daily, ex¬
cept Sunday, and No. 9 daily, leave Lula 8 30 p
m, and 11 50 a m, arrive Athena 10 15 p m and
1 30 p m. Returning leave Athens, No. 10
daily, except Sunday, and No. 12 daily, 6 15 p m
and 6 45 a in, arrive Lula 800 p m and 8 30
a m.
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, oxcept i-unday, leaver Eli ertou 5 00 a m
and arrives Toccoa 8 80 am.
Nos. 11 an I 12 carrv Pullman Slepprrs be¬
tween'Washington and Kansas City via Birming¬
ham and Memphis, and Nos. 9 and 10 Pullman
Sleeper between Atlanta and New York.
On No. 11 no change in day coaches from
Njw York to A’lanta.
Nos. 37 and 38, Washington and Southwest-
e> n Yestibuled Limited, between Atlanta and
Washington. On this train an extra fare is
charged For detailed on first-cans information tickets only. local and
as to
through time tallies, rates and with Pullman local Sleep¬
ing car reservations, confer agents,
or address,
JAS. Gen’l L. TAYLOR, W. A. TURK,
Pass. Ag’t. Div. Pass. Ag’t.
Atlanta, Ga. Charlotte N. 0.
C. P. HAMMOND,
GREEN. Superintendent Atlanta, HASS, Ga.
W. H. SOL.
Gen’l Manager. Traffic Manager,
Atlanta. Ga. Atlanta, Ga.
LEWIS DAVIS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will practice in the oounties of Haber-
•ham and Rabun of the Northwesterc
Circuit, and Franklm and Bank* of tht
Western Circuit. Prompt attention wiT
be given to ail business entrustecfco him
The collection of debts will have spec
ial attention.
The Crazy Ball.
device Street pedlers have a new catchpenny
on their trucks that is quite an
amusing thing for old as well as voun g
folks. They call it the “crazy ball,
and it is well named. For ten cents you
can buy one of these things and see the
laws of gravity defied. It looks like an
ordinary wooden ball, about tho size of
a tennis ball, but you can’t roll it in a
straight line to save you. Of course the
secret of tho thing's queer actions lie in
the fact that it is loaded on one side.
This makes every movement of the ball
eccentric. It will roll up hill of its own
accord, and it will refuse to roll down
hill. If you try to roll it from you it
will perhaps start out all right and then
turn around and roll hack, or maybe it
will go off sidewise and describe a wobbly
circle around you. All its movements
are jerky and spasmodic. Give it to a
kitten to play with and the chances are
that the kitten will go mad, while a baby
will cry with vexation over its eccentrici¬
ties. A grown person who is not up in
spherical geometry will assure you that
it is wonderful. It is not. it is only
some sharp fellow’s way of gathering in
the diiites. Nevertheless ere long the
city will he flooded with these “crazy
balis.”—[New York Herald.
woman’s ancestor.
Alice—Do you believe man sprung
from the ape?
Jumbo—No; from but I believe woman
sprung a mouse; in fact, I’ve seen
her do it.
HELD TUB LIGHT.
“Mr. Lightemup, you said you once
officiated in a pulpit. Do you mean by
that that you preached?”
“No, your Honor; I held the light for
the man what did.”
“Ah! The Court understood you dif¬
ferently. It supposed that the discourse
came from you.”
“No, sir; I only throw’d a little light
on it.”—[New York Press.
THE MAGICAL DOOR.
There’s a door in the wall of the ages—
A door that no man sees;
For the Angel who writes in the Book c-f
Time
Is the keeper of the keys. " .
Once in the year it opens,
At the solemn midnight hour,
When the children steep, and the old slocks
keep
Awake in the tall church tower.
And then, as it swings on its hinges,
IV hoever might peer inside
Would catch a glimpse of the centuries
That behind in the silence hide.
Egypt and Rome and Tyre,
All in that mythical placo
Where the old years rest that were once pos¬
sessed
By the wonder rul human race.
The shadowy door swings open,
And a pilgrim enters in,
Bowed with a twelve-months’ strugglo
In this world of strife and sin.
Waft him a farewell greeting;
He will pass no more this way—
This weary year who must disappear
In the haven of Yesterday.
The door still swingeth open,
And outward another comes,
With a stir of banners and bugles
And the beat of friendly drums;
His hands are full of beauty—
The cluster, the song, the sheaf.
The snow-flake’s wing, and the budding
spring,
And the foam on the crested reef.
This is the New Year, darlings,
Oh! haste to give him cheer.
Only the Father knoweth
The whole of his errand here.
This is the New Year, darlings;
A year for work and play,
For doing our best, and fortrusting the rest
To the Maker of night and day.
—M. E. 8angster,in Harper’s Young People.
“STRANGER THAN FICTION”
BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES.
R8. TUCKER set
down the milking-
pail with an em¬
phasis that made
(p the pearly fluid
spatter up into her
face.
“There,” said
she. “Didn’t I
always tell you
so?”
Gideon Tucker
went stolidly on
plucking a fine, fat
duck for market.
“You’re ’most
always fellin’ of me something,” said he.
“It would be kind o’ queer if some of
your say-soes didn’t come true.”
“Things couldn’t help happening,”
said Mrs. Tucker, “with that old sunken
well right iu the middle of the medder.
You had your best cow lamed there the
first year we bought the place, and Dr.
Dupont’s hired man liked to broke his
neck there—”
“Just come short of it,” said Gideon.
“Anyhow, he had no business short-cut¬
ting it across my pasture lots. But there,
Fanny, ’tain’t no use your scoldin’. I
always calculated to fill up that well
when I got time. And I’m sorry as you
be that the schoolma’acn sprained her
ankle there. She’s a nice girl, and she
helps to support that old aunt o’ hern
out West, an’—”
“It was all my own fault, Mr. Tuck¬
er,” broke in a sweet, cheery voice.
“It's just as you said about Dr. Du¬
pont's hired man. I hadn’t any business
crossing your lot, but I was in such a
hurry, and it’s an eighth of a mile
shorter than to go around by the main
road.”
Miss Ritchie,the village schoolmistress,
stood there in the doorway, leaning* on
a roughly-improvised crutch which
Harry Wait, the carpenter, had made
her.
Her cheeks were pale, and there was
a look of suffering on her brow, even
though a sort of forced smile had been
summoned to her lips for the occasion.
“La, me, Miss Kitty!” said the far¬
mer’s wife, hastening to bring a rush bot¬
tomed kitchen chair. “Y'ou do look
clean peaked out. Gideon, go down sut¬
ler an’ bring up a glass o’ cold root beer
right away.”
“I can’t do it, Mrs. Tucker,” said
Kitty, sinking into the chair, “It’s no
use trying.”
“Can’t do what, Miss Kitty? ”
“I walked to the schoolhouse this
morniDg,” Miss Ritchie answered, “lean¬
ing on my crutch and resting by turns.
And I’ye walked so far on my way back.
But I feel sick and faint, and I can go no
further.”
“There! ” said Mrs. Tucker, tragically
apostrophizing her husband as he stood
at the head of the cellar stairs with a
stone bottle of home-brewed root beerm
his hand, “see what you’ve done! ”
“Twarn’t me!” stuttered poor Gideon.
“Miss Kitty ’ll hev to give up her
school,” added his wife, “and all through
you!”
Kitty could not but smile,even through
the paffi of her stinging limb at Gideon
Tucker's rueful face.
“Oh, it isn’t so bad as that! ” said she.
“Or at least I hope not. I mean to keep
my school if I possibly can. And I'll tell
you what my plans are. You know that
old house under the locusts?”
“What!” cried Mrs. Tucker. “The
Ritchie Ruin?”
Kitty winced a little.
“Yes,” said she, “I suppose it is a
ruin. The grass is growing up through
the kitchen floor, and the shingles have
all rotted away on the north siae, and T
don’t suppose there's a pane of glass left
in any of the windows. But the doors
are sound, and the roof dosn’t ieak to
signify. Henry Wait says it could be
made quite comfortable with & few pine
boards and a pound or so of nails, so
long as the weather don’t turn cold; and
if Mr. Tucker would allow me to live
there this fall—” **. . ...
“Tain’t fit for even foxes to live in!”
cried Sirs. Tucker, hurriedly.
“Why,” more slowly spoke her spouse,
“I was ealkilatia’ to store my pumpkins
TOCCOA. GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 13, 1892.
an’ cabbages there; but of course
you’ve took a notion to the place—”
“I was bom there, Mr. Tucker,” said
Kitty, in a low voice, 44 Long before
father and. mother were obliged t* sell
the old place. Long before poor old
Aunt Kuhamah wandered away and went
to her relations out West. ’
.
“Yes,” observed Mr. Tucker, nervous-
ly scratching his head; “and until I get
your Aunt Ruey’s signature to my title
deeds, they won’t be wuth more’n so
much waste paper. At least so Lawyer
Goodrich says. For she had some sort
of a share in the property, sane or crazy.”
Miss Ritchie colored.
“rather sold the farm to you, Mr.
Tucker, ’ said she, “and it's business
my
to see that the transaction is legal. Aunt
Ruey is coming back.”
“Eh!” cried the farmer and his wife,
in chorus.
“I had a letter from her yesterday,”
said Kitty. “That’s one reason I am
here to-day. The cousins in Ohio won’t
have her any longer. She is getting
older and more eccentric every day, and
they say—what is quite true—that it is
my business to care for her. And the
poor thing expects to come back to the
old Ritchie farmhouse just as if she had
left it yesterday! So if Mrs. Tucker
will lend me a few articles of furniture,
I’ll try to make the place habitable
for her.”
“And you’re kindly welcome to ’em,
my dear,’’said the farmer’s wife. “There’s
plenty of solid old furniture up in the
garret, that we can rub up with a little
oil and make decent. And it’s our
business to help you all we can, seem’
it’s Gideon’s fault—”
“It’s nobody’s fault!” quickly inter¬
rupted Kitty Ritchie, ‘And if the
trustees raise my salary, as they talk of
doing, if that extra class in mathematics
is started, I shall soon be able to pay a
little rent for the piece.”
“I guess we shan't dun you much for
no rent, Miss Ritchie,” chuckled Tucker.
“An’ you’re welcome to the milk of the
red cow if you an’ the old aunty want
it. A cow’s a dreadful help in house¬
keeping'
Miss Ritchie thanked them and went
on her way, limping slowly along.
“I’d a’ hitched up old Jack and took
her the rest of the way home,” ohserved
Tucker, as he stretched his neck to look
after the departing figure, “if I hadn't
a’ seen Harry Wait's carpenter wagon
cornin’ down the road. An’ I guess I
ain’t one to spoil sport.”
“’Twon’t never oe a match if Kitty
Ritchie shoulders the burden o’ that old
crazy aunt o’her’n,” said Mrs. Tuc*er.
“A man can’t be expected to marry a
whole madhouse l”
“I guess Kitty’s worth it!” declared
Tucker.
“She is a good girl!” said his wife.
“And there was one time folks s'posed
she was goin’ to be an heiress—when the
old sea captain uncle came home with
the prize money that he gained in the
war.”
“I don’t believe there ever was any
prize money!” said Mr. Tucker, reSum-
ing his task of denuding the plump duck
of its feathers. “There!”
“I know there was!” nodded his wife.
“Mrs. Ritchie showed it to me herself.
All gold eagles; tied up in a shammy
bag, with a leather shoe string. The old
captain give it to her for nussin’ him
through that fever.”
“What’s the reason you never said
nothin’ about it before?” questioned
Tucker.
“Mrs. Ritchie made me promise not to
tell. She w-as afeared o’bein’robbed.”
“And what ever came of it?”
“That’s what nobody knows. Jest’s
like’s not old Eben Ritchie put it into
that iron-mining’ consarn that honey¬
combed Blue Mountain' and never done
no good. Or p’r’aps he invested it in
lottery tickets. He never had no judg¬
ment. Now, don't you go to chatterin’
about this, Gid Tucker. Mind, I’m un¬
der a promise to the poor old creetur
that’s dead and buried,”
“Some promises is better broken than
kept,” said Gideon.
But Mrs. Tucker knew that the secret
was safe with her uncommunicative
spouse.
Meanwhile, the builder’s wagon had
stopped before the old, one-storied ruin
of the Ritchie house, strongly silhouetted
by the red smoulder of the September
sunset.
“Kitty,” said young Wait, stealing
his aim coaxingly around her waist, “you
can’t live in an old shell like this! Give
up your false pride, love I Let me make
a home for you.”
Kitty bit her lip.
“And have it said.” said she, “that
Henry Wait was the only one of the
Wait family that made a bad match!”
“I don’t care what people say.”
“Ido.”
“Kitty, let’s go to the parson to¬
night ! Let’s be married I”
Kitty shook her head.
“Not until I’ve saved up enough to
buy a decent outfit,” said she. “Not
until I’ve paid the last debt that poor
father owed.”
“I’ll pay ’em, Kitty.”
“No, Harry, you won't. I can be as
unselfish as you are!” cried the girl.
“Ob, hush! Who is that?”
A board in the old floor had creaked
softly, a shadowy little figure had come
forward with a sidling motion, into the
light.
“Be you Kitty?” asked a soft, high-
pitched little voice. “Is this home? I’ve
come a good ways, and I’m sort o’ turned
round.”
“It’s Aunt Ruhamah!” cried Kitty.
“Why, how came she here! And all by
herself!”
■'“It’s a good ways,” repeated the old
woman, shifting her flat traveling bas¬
ket, “and I’m sort o’turned round. But
I followed sister Sarah all the way. She
went before, an’ she beckoned. I fol¬
lowed her here. And she’s gone out to
the old well. I’m sort o’ feared to Toi¬
ler her into the high, wet gra33, but
she keeps a-beckonin’, and I guess I’ll
have to go!”
She started for the door, passing her
hand in a confused fashion over her fore¬
head. _ __ ___________ j
“What does she mean?” asked Harry
Wait.
“She mehns mother,” said Kitty—
-“mother that has been dead and buried
these fifteen years.” • *
“Don’t you see her a-beckonin’?”
piped the little old woman—“just there
bv the old well? We never could get
Eben to put up a curb there, and sister
Sarah was alwaysafeard somethin’ would
happen.”
“I see the tall grass waving,” said
Kitty, “and a cloud coming over the
surface of the rising moon, and that is
all."
“It’s sister Sarah,” said Aunt Ruey,
pushing resolutely ahead; “and she
wants me. Why, Kitty, do you mean to
tell me that you don't know your own
mother?”
Kitty sent for Harry Wait the next
day. ’•
“Harry,” said she, “do you want ta
do something for me?”
“I want to do everything for you,
Kitty. ’
“That’s ^ nonsense!” (But she laughed
and colored nevertheless.) “I want you
to put a curb around that old sunken
well. Aunt Ruey keeps wandering out
there. She declares that mother stands
beckonjing her and leaning over to look
in. And it’s as near to bring out water
from there as to go to Hemlock
Springs.”
“I thought the old well was dried up
long ago,” said young Wait.
“There’s water there. I see it shine
and sparkle. And Mr. Tucker says he
will dig it out anew and stone it up it
you’ll build a curb. It will be handy for
the cattle, too.”
“Yerv well,” nodded Wait. “Any
time Gid Tucker’s ready, I am.”
Mrs. Tucker came a few days later tc
the first husking bee of the season, full
of excitement.
“Hev ye heard?” said she.
And Mrs. Bradley, the buxom hostess,
made answer:
“We ain’t heard nothin’new!"
“If I hadn’t heerd it with my own
ears an’ seen it with my own eyes,” said
Mrs. Tucker, “I never should ha’ be-
lieved it. But it’s true!”
“What’s true?” breathlessly demanded
Mrs. Bradley.
“Miss Ritchie's come into her fortune,”
said Mrs Tucker
“What!” cried all the TuctfeJ company.
.-Iu f ,dsaid Mrs. "Tta
o.d captains prize money. I know»d it
must be somewaere. And it was taere
all the time!”
“Where?” questioned the company,
with one accord.
. -Wedged . nr , behind the big , half-way ,,
stone in the old sunken well, where they
used to lower the creatn-pail to kee;i it
cool "eagerly spoke Mrs. Tucker “In
an old tin box rusted clean tnrougn, and
toed Bp in the same identical shammy
bag that Mrs. Ritchie once showed me
years an’ yea-s a^o. She must a’ put it
there herself, to keep it out of her hus-
band’s hands, that time he had such a
notion o’ puttin’ everything into minin’
shares an’lottery tickets, an’ died afore
she had a chance to tell anybody where
it was. Gideon he discovered it, fixin’
up the new stun wall.”
Mrs. Bradley gave a start.
“Don’t ye know,” said she, “poor old
Aunt Ruey always stood to it that her
sister Sarah was standin’ there by the
well, beckonin’ to her? She declared
that sister Sarah went afore her all the
way from Ohio. ”
“Yes,” said Mrs. Tucker, in a low
voice. “And when Gideon got to the
house, there was Aunt Ruhamah settin’
by the fire, with her knittin’ work in her
hands, jest for all the world like she was
asleep, but stone dead. And wasn’t it
lucky she signed them title papers o’
Gideon’s last week? And Kitty’s cry¬
ing fit to break her heart. Kitty can
be married now whenever she pleases.
There ain’t nothin’ more to wait for.
And who knews,” she added, looking
timidly over her shoulder at the gray
shadows of the gloaming, “but that
Aunt Ruhamah saw clearer than we do,
and sister Sarah, Kitty’s mother, was
really beckoning on the edge of the old
well?”
“Ah!” said Mrs. Bradley, “who
knows?”—Saturday Night.
The New Year Iu Japan.
The Japanese New Year comes at the
same time as ours, but instead of cele¬
brating but one day, the Japanese observe
the first three days of January. Indeed,
in certain localities even six days are
observed. During the holidays, public
offices are closed, and very little business
is transacted, all classes of people devot¬
ing themselves to enjoyment, and spend¬
ing much time in making and receiving
New Year's calls.
Arrayed in gay holiday attire, the
people go from house to house wishing
one another “Shim new omedetto gozai-
mazu,” which means, “May you have a
happy New Year.” The callers are often
attended by one ot more servants who
carry bamboo baskets laden with gifts,
for it is the custom to leave presents with
one’s friendly greetings. The presents
are usually inexpensive articles for every-
day use. It is customary to bestow more
costly gifts upon one’s relatives and
intimate friends dunng the closing days
of the old year.
During the holidays the streets present
a most festive appearance, for houses are
elaborately decorated and everybody
locks gay and hap^y. The decorations
remain for fifteen days, aad consist in
many cases of evergreen arche 3 over the
doors. Red berries and yellow chrys-
anthemuras are interwoven into these
arches, and purple cabba 7 es are also
used. The Japanese think the cabbage hou£-
highly ornamental, and use it as a
plant F and at funerals. The cabbages J?
are said to look like large purple , rosettes
in the decorations. -
Straw ropes are twisted into fanciful
shapes, and interspersed with ferns, and
lanterns and Japanese flags are also much
used in decoiating. The flag of the
Suarise Kingdom is a large red sun on a
background of white.—Forward.
The laws of heredity are curious is
their working. _______
THROUGH DIXIE.
NEWS OF __ THE SOUTH BRIEFLY „
PARAGRAPHED
Forming: an Epitome of Daily
Happenings Here and There.
An anti-Pinkerton bill was passed in
] ] H*e New York assembly Thursday,
A. H. Leonard on Monday formally
j accepted the republican nomination for
governor of Louisiana.
j Two men were ki I d and six injured
: in an tccident at the Sloss furnace, near
Birmingham, Ala., Thursdav.
Fitzsimmons, the Pittsburg thief and
, murderer, committed suicide Thursday
at the parish prisou, New Orleans.
Shanklies’s Fifty-three horses at Wood ward and
; sale in Lexington, Ky, Mon-
day, brought $158,735, au average of
$2,957.
The drygoods firm of W. &A. Moses,
one of the oldest and larg st lioust?s in
Oxford, Ala., made an assignment Satur-
day, for the benefit of its creditors gen-
erally. R. P. Thomas is the assignee,
The meeting of the committee having
charge of the reorganizing of the South
Carolina railway was held in New Y T ork
Monday. New second mortgage 0 per
cent, issued. twenty-years-gold bonds will be
A dispatch from Coal Creek says the
miners attacked the garrison Sunday
niu'ht, and fighting at long range follow¬
ed for twenty minutes, with no casual¬
ties on part of the garrison. AU quiet at
the latest reports.
A business block in Memphis, Tenn.,
bounded by Main, Union, Second and
Monroe streets, in the heart of the dry
goods district of the city, was destroyed
by fire Monday. The loss will reach
$1,000,000. No lives were lost.
A Chattanooga dispatch of Saturday
says: In the recent Belt road deals,
$100,000 Charley J. James managed to scoop in
for his share of the spoils. He
mana 8 ed to Ret out of the company, and
® a «y people are curious to know what he
made m lhe £ ame -
A N «shville dispatch of Thursday
says: The Cincinnati d vision of the
Adams Express Company has dropped
twelve men found to be members of the
Brotherhood of Express Messengers. It
~ **
A dispatch of Thursday from Pine-
ville, Kv., says: The Turner and Par-
t n facti ns have had uno her clash, and
this time one of the Turner gang was
The man kille i was G' orge
house sharp, son of old Kirk sharp, at wh se
Turner and his gang have been
making headquarters,
A Knoxville comply dispatch says: The new
un5on trU9t h id, a mortgage
on the Knoxville electric railway for some
$350,000. On Saturday the trust corn-
pany filed a bill in the fed ral court ask-
ing a receiver, declaring that the corn-
panv is insolvent, as it had defaulted its
interest on the bonds,
A dispatch from Dallas, Tex., says: On
Saturday the commissioners’ court of Dal¬
las county filed suit against Harry Broth¬
ers, hardware dealers, in the sum of
$100,000, damages sustained in the burn¬
ing of the Dallas county courthouse in
January, 1890, caused by a defective
heating apparatus pnt in the building by
the defendants.
A Charlotte dispatch of Thursday says:
In his confessions, Boyd, the wrecker,
told of having been employed last June
on the Carolina Central road, and of hav¬
ing tried to wreck a train on that road
lated during that month. This was not re¬
in his confessions, because it had
not then been confirmed. An investiga¬
tion made by the Carolina Central au¬
thorities shows that Boyd’s story of his
connection with that road and the at¬
tempted wreck is true.
A Louisville dispatch says: Judge John
Ritter, cashier of the deposit bank of
Glasgow, Ky., which failed a few days
ago, is a defaulter and insane. He was
found to be in debt to the bank $25,000.
Judge Ritter, besides being one of the
representative citizens of Barren county,
is one of the most widely known men in
that section of the state. When the
failure of the deposit bank was announced
as imminent, Judge Ritter took prompt
measures to turn over to the bank all of
his property.
A Dallas, Texas, dispatch says: A
case of very great importance to the
commercial world was deciued in the
district court of Dallas county Monday.
It has been held by the supreme court at
one time, that the effects of a non-resi¬
dent in the hands of a custodian were
not subject to garnishment. In this case
the plaintiff and defendant were both
non-residents, but the jury found a ver¬
dict for the plaintiff and gave him the
effects of. the defendant which were held
by the custodian under garnishment.
This definitely settles than question.
BLAINE NOT IN IT.
He Writes a Letter Declining the Pres¬
idential Nomination.
A Washington dispaten of Sunday savs:
Blaine is out of it, and will not be a can-
didate for the republican presidential
nomination. He has written a letter to
Chairman C’arkson, of the republican
national committee, staring that his nam"
not be presented to the conven-
tion.
THE LETTER IN FULL.
Washington, February 6.—Hon. J. S.
Clarkson, national chairman of the Republican
committee—D<-ar Sir: I am not
a ca didate for the presidency, and my
na p)6 will not go before the Republican
national convention for the nomination,
^ make this annt uncement in due season,
To thosa who hive tendered me their
su PP ort * “? ncere t hanka ’ and am
grateful for their confidence fi Th y
will, ’ I am sure, make earnest efforts m
the approaching conte8t> * hich ia ren¬
dered specialty important by reason of
j n dus rial aad financial po icies of the
decision government being at stake. The popular
of these issues is of great mo¬
ment and will be of far reaching conse-
quence. Very sincerely yours,
James G. Blaine.
The consniTipt 00 of lobsrera is iteadii?
increneing.
JUMPING FOR LIFE.
Fearful ~ Holocaust iu a Hotel-Tlnrty
People Probably Dead.
A disaster, appadmg in tiorrior, bring-
ing to mind the terrible occurrence in
Park Place, still fresh in public mind,
occurred in New York
early Sunday morning. The Hotel
Royal which has stood for more than
a quarter of a century at the
southeast corner of Sixth avenue
and Fortieth street burned to tho
ground and a large number of people
Were burned, suffocated or crushed iu the
ruins. At the time of the disaster there
were nearly one hundred and fifty guests
in the hotel. The hotel employes all
told numbered seventy-five. Of this num¬
ber of people five thus far have been
found dead, six in the hospital and rixty-
tnree have been reported alive.
ONE HUNDRED MISSING.
One hundred are still mbsing. The
number of dead probably will not ex¬
ceed, at the later estimate, thirty per¬
sons. The scenes are heartrending, and
appaled even the firemen and police
men. who are used to terrible scenes.
HALL’S WARNING
To Alliancemen Regarding the St. Louis
Convention.
A Jackson, Mbs., dispatch of Wednes¬
day siys: Wm. S. McAllister, chairman
of the national anti-sub-treasury alliance,
has promulgated the following paper from
U. S. Hall, a member of his committee to
the members in Missouri, and makes it
general:
Hubbard, Randolph Mo.,Feb. 1, 1892.
To the Members of the Farmers' and La¬
borers' Union of Missouri:
Brothers—Be on your guard. Do not,
allow yourselves to be committed, oi
compromised or entangled politically.
The meeting that is to be held in St.
Louis, Mo., on the 22nd of this month,
under the so-called authority of the
Farmers’ National alliance, is for that
sole purpose.
We did not allow that body to dicta e
to us how we should v«>te nor to commit
or bind u* by recommendat on or other
wise to any political par y, and any at¬
tempt to do so is without authority, and
is a violation cf every principle ol ou
order.
(Signed.) U S. Hall
COTTON LOSSES BY FIRE.
An Interesting Letter to the New
Orleans Cotton Exchange.
President Walter C. F o**er, < f lhe
New Orleans cotmn exchange, h s ad¬
dressed a letter which has been published,
■ o the co lector of the p rt ol New Or¬
leans, in answer to a circular letter of the
treasury department sent to all cotton
fires, and d,reeling that .he reports be
nude for prosecutions of all violati ons
of the law. President Flower, in a long
array of statistics, shows that out of
20,000,000 bales of cotton received at
New Orleans in the last ten years, only
35,000 bales were partly damaged. He
says cotton firo losses from
ill causes since 1882 were only
$509,000 out of $1,000,000,000 of
total value, equal to $1 in $2,000.
DR. M’KENZIE DEAD.
He Was the Acknowledged Greatest
Physician of the Century.
A London cablegram ot Wednesday
night ■•ays: Sir Morell MacKenzie, the
greatest iered physician, is dead, lie had uf
from bronchitis and asthma, fal¬
lowing his recent attack of influenza.
His illness, however, it was consider, d.
had taken a favorable course. His death
was quite sudden.
The career of Dr. MacKenzie as a
physician is a striking example of the
force of genius. He early displayed
great analytical and surgical power, and,
when yet qu te y< ung, was regarded by
the seniors of a jealous profession as their
equal. His fame traveled from England
to all parts of the world, where his name
came to be regarded as an authority in
medicine.
MORE DISCHARGES
Of Express Messenger Brotherhood
Members.
A St. Louis, Mo., the dispatch of Friday offi¬
says: cers Despite denials of local
of the Adf-ms Express Company, it
is positively asserted that said several belong dis¬
charges of oi l messengers, to
t» the brotherhood, have taken place
during the past few days. On the Ohio
and Mississippi, between St. Louis and
Cincinnati, five messengers were dis¬
missed, while others are expecting their
walking papers every minute, Of the
six messengeis on the Louisville and
Nashville, between St. Louis and Louis¬
ville, only three of the old men remain,
and two of the four running between St.
Louis and Ilendertoi, Ky., are out of
employ me t
GARZA STILL ON DECK
And Giving Trouble on Both Sides ol
the Rio Grande.
A Washington telegram of Saturdaj th<
says: The G.rza movement alont;
Mexican border is giving the officials o!
the war department considerable troubh
just at present. No secret s made oi
their disappointment that Garziisstil
it large in the American teiritory, anr
ha' his operations c moot be coDfin* c
exclus v-ly to Slexican territ ry. Garz
nd his followers re known to have re
>.e ve i aid and -ympatby from the Mexi
can residen s in toe vicinity of Ri<
irande, and the fact ih it the Unit *
S.ates troops are unable to capture th*
evoiut ion sts is, >n a 1 rge me .sure, at
rtbuted te the deception practice! upoi
.hem by ihtse people.
IRISH puss.
Charles Lamb made some famous
»uns, and his mantleseems to have fallen
ipon his namesake, Chark-s Lamb
venney. journalist dining at
he The house popular of friend, aud was by chance
a
<:Ta.lowed a bit of cork with his wine,
rhich gave him a severe coughing ti’.
“Take care, my friend,’’ said tiis next
neighbor, with a very brilliant attempt at
vitticlsm, “that’s not the way to Cork.’
“No,” gasped the sufferer, “its the
way to kill Kenney.—[London Truth-
X UMBER 6.
SLUMBERING SONG.
Tbe mill coes toiling s’ow’v aroun 1,
with steaflv an ! so’enm creak.
And my little one hears in the kindly sound
The voice of the ol-l mill speak;
While round and round those big white wing
Grimly anJ ghostlike creep.
My little one hears that ths oi l milt sings,
“Sleep, little tulip, steep!”
The sails are reefed and tho nets are drawn,
And, over his pot of boer,
The fisher, aaainst the morrow’s dawn,
Lustily maketh cheer
He mocks at the win s that caper along
From the far-off dimerous Jeep,
But we—we love their lullaby soag
Of “Sleep, little tulip, sleep f’
Shaggy ol 1 Fritz, in slumber sound,
Moans of the stony mart—
To-morrow how prou Uy he’ll trot you
around
Hitched to our new milk cart*!
Ana you shall help me blanket the kin?,
And fold the gentle sheep,
Anl set the herring a-soak in brine—
But now, little tulip, sleep I
A Dream-One comes to button the eya3
That wearily droop and blink,
White the old mill buffets the frowning skie3
And scolds at the stars that wink;
Over your face the misty wings
Of that beautiful DreaauOne sweep,
And, rocking your cradle, she softly sings,
“Sleep, little tulip, sleep!”
—Eugene Field, in Chicago News.
PITH AND POINT.
Musical conductors beat their way
through the world by scorer—Pittsburg
Dispatch.
The grocer who gives sixteen ounces
to the pound is a model in his weight.—
Chicago Times.
Good looks go a long way, but finally
the paint wears of and there you are.—
Galveston News.
Cabbie—“I understand that you lost
the steamer for Europe.” Stone—“Yes.
My wife had to go back for anothci
hairpin.”—Cloak Review.
When doctors disagree, they do not
forget to charge for the time they spend
in argument that precedes disagreement.
—Kate Field’s "Washington.
A man is like a po-tage stamp. When
he is badly stuck on himself, as it were,
he is not worth two cents lor any practi¬
cal use —Chicago Triouue.
It is difficult for tue average man to
heir sa d that man was made in God’s
own image witaout feeling that he is tne
man referred to.—Boston i'rau-cript.
she _"I wouldn't marre the best man
r*” for me * It n~T was beca ea i e n i r thought ls that
would that I proposed to you.’ —
^ ew Nora. Press.
Batcher (to artist)—“I’m not quite
satisfied with the portrait. The ri^ot
side of the chest should bulge soine-
-what—that is w T here I keep my pocket-
book.”—Flicgende Biaetter.
“Why weary ye me,” cried the housewife
grim,
‘•With such a wild pack of lies?”
“I do so beaaze,” said the mendicant slim,
“Bekaze of aiacx of pies.”
—Indianapolis Journal.
Old Gentleman (stepping out on car
platform as car stops at a way station,
and sniffing the fresh air)—“Isn’t this
invigorating?” Brakeman (shifting his
quid)—‘ No, Peekskili?”—Drake’s Mag¬
azine.
Mr. N. Peck—“I think you would bo
ashamed to wear the hair of another wo¬
man on your head.” Mr3. N. Peck—
“Shame yourself, for you wear the skin
of another calf on your feet.”—Brooklyn
Eagle.
“Are you pretty weii acquainted with
your mother tongue, my boy?” asked the
school teacher of the new scholar.
“Yes, sir,” answered the lad, timidly,
“Ma jaws me a good deal, sir.”—The
Comic.
“I have heard,” said the Western
schoolmistress, addressing her class of
girls, “that some of you are in the habit
of using slang. Is it so?” Some
blushed, some looked indignant, but
none ventured to reply. “If any of you
have acquired such a habit,” pursued
the schoolmistress, with a severe look,
“all I’ve got to say is, you've got to
shake it."—New Yoix Press.
Spider Web Silk.
There are a number of animal fibres
other than that of the silkworm which
have been tested at various times in
weaving. Practical attempts have been
made by different persons to weave tho
web of the spider, but tne spider’s web
is so much finer than the web of the
silkworm that such efforts have attained
no mercantile importance. The web of
the spider bears the same proportion to
the web of the silkworm in strength that
the latter does to a broomstick, explains
the Cincinnati Commercial. The spidei
makes thousands of strands. In spite of
all the impediments in the way of weav¬
ing it, many yards of spiders’ silk have
been woven, and an entire dress of this
silk was presented to Queen Yictor.a
a number ot years ago, when experi¬
ments were conducted on a somewhat
excensive stale in weaving the web of
one of the tropical spiders, which pro nise
more than do our ordinary spiders of the
temperate zone. But tue experiment
was finally abandoned.
Another creature which has furnished
exhibits of silk to curiosity huuters is
“pinna,” that weird siik weaver oi tae
ocean, which weaves a byssus of stlien
threads, by wh.cu it attocaes its 3nell to
the rocks. This is a hu^e moilusk which
is found in the Mediterranean. The s;ik
of the piDna cannot beco ae of practical
importance, because ot tae difficu.ty of
promulgating the creature, or o: obta u-
ing sufficient material r mi i:. Anotaer
difficulty in the way of toe aotical use
of tins silk of the sea lies iu c nor.u it.
Like most things of tiie oje.ui, it resi-.ts
all efforts to d\e it.
One Sunday’s census of church at¬
tendants in Liverpool, England, gave
63,000 out of a population of 500,000.