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VOLUME
RICHMOND & DANVILLE RR.
Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line Division
Condensed Schedule of Passenger
Trains, in Effect Nov. 13th, 1891.
NORTHBOUND. No. 38. No. 10. No. 12.
eaktebn time. Daily. Daily. Daily.
Lt. Atlanta (E.T.) 1 25 pm OO 10 10 am
Norcross....... Ohambleo..... CT> 10 48 am
Dulnth........ a> 11 01 am
Htiwanee....... C5 1115 am
Buford........ .......10 03 pm il 26 am
Tlow .......1017 pm 11 40 am
ry Branch .......10 31 pm 11 53 am
Gainesville..... 2 59 pm 10 51 pm 12 14 pm
Bellton........ Lula.......... ....... 11 18 pm 13 42 pm
Cornelia....... .......11 21 pm 12 41 am
Mt. .......11 45 pm 1 10 pm
Toccoa......... Airy....... .......11 60 pm 1 15 pm
Westminster ....... 12 20 am 1 47 pm
Seneca........ ... ....... 12 58 am 2 35 pm
Central........ 1 17 am 2 54 pm
EaalevH........ 1 50 am 3 40 pm
Greenville..... 2 18 am 4 11 pm
6 05 pm 2 44 am 4 40 pm
Wellford....... Greers......... 3 14 am 5 09 pm
Spartanburg... 3 33 am 5 27 pm
6 57 pm 3 54 am 5 52 pm
Cowfrena...... Clifton........ 4 13 am 6 10 pm
4 18 am 6 15 pm
lilac Gaffney kab 4 40 am 6 <0pm
Grover., urg 5 01 am 7 00 pm
King’s 5 11 am 1 12 pm
Mount’n 5 28 am 7 SO pm
Gastonia....... 5 54 am 7 69 P m
L< Well........ 6 07 am 8 12 pm
Bellemont..... ft 14 am 8 23 pm
Ar. Charlotte..... 9 10 pm 6 40 ..m 8 50 pm
SOUTHBOUND. No. 37. No. 11. No. 9,
Daily. Daily. Daily.
Lv. Charlotte...... 9 45 am 1 50 pm 2 20 am
Bell rnont...... 2 12 pm 2 42 am
L w. 11......... 2 22 pm 2 52 am
Gastonia....... 2 35 pm 3 04 am
Grov King’s Mount’ll 3 00 pm 3 27 am
r......... 3 16 pm 3 43 am
Gaffney....... Blacksburg .... 3 26 pm 3 53 am
3 45 jim 4 10 am
Cowpenn...... Clifton........ 4 10 pm 4 42 am
4 13 pm 4 35 am
Spartanburg W ... 11 43 am 4 27 pm 5 00 am
Ilford........ ........ 5 50 pm 5 23 am
Greers......... ........ 5 0'J pm 5 42 am
Greenville...... 12 36 pm 5 34 pm 6 10 am
Easlova......... 6 07 pm 6 38 am
Central........ 6 65 pm 7 30 am
Seneca......... 7 22 pm 7 57 am
Toccoa Westminster.... 7 41 pm 8 15 am
........ 8 19 pm 8 52 am
Mt. Airy....... 8 48 pm 9 18 am
Cornelia....... 8 52 pm 9 23 am
Bellton .. „ .. 9 16 pm 9 45 am
Lula.......... 9 18 pm 9 47 am
Gainesville..... 3 41 pm 9 42 pm 1C 12 am
Flowery Buford........ Branch 10 00 pm 10 32 am
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
Chumblee...... 11 08 pm 11 43 am
At. Atlanta (E. T.) 5 05 pm 11 45pm 12 20 pm
Addit'onal tra ns Nos. 17 an ! 18—Lula ac¬
lanta commodation, daily except Sunday, leaves At¬
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 daily, ex¬
cept Sunday, and No. 9 daily, leave Lula 8 80 p
nt, and ll 50 a m, arrive Athens 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 m, arrive Lula 8 00 p m and 8 80
a m.
Between Toccoa and Elberton—No. 61 dai¬
ly ; except Sundav, leave Toccoa 2 00 p m
arrive Elberton 4 40 p m. Returning, No. 60
daily, except Sunday, leavosElberton 5 00a m
and arrives Toccoa 8 30 a m.
Nos. 11 an t 12 carrv Pullman Sleepers be¬
tween Washington and Kansas City via Birming¬
ham and Memphis, and Nos, 9 and 10 Pullman
Sleop< r between Atlanta and New York.
On No. 11 no change in day coaches from
New York to Alanta.
Nos. 37 and 38, Washington and Southwest¬
ern Vestibuled Limited, between Atlanta and
■charged Washington. On this train an extra fare is
on first-ca-s tickets only.
For detailed information as to local and
through time tables, rates and Pullman Sleep¬
ing car reservations, confer with local agents,
or address,
JAS. L. TAYLOR, W. A. TURK,
Gen’l Pass. Ag’t. Div. Pass. Ag’t.
Atlanta. Ga. Charlotte N. 0.
C. P. Superintendent HAMMOND,
W. n. GREEN, SOL. Atlanta, HASS, Ga.
Gen’l Manager. Traffic Manager,
Atlanta, Ga. Atlanta, Ga.
LEWIS DAVIS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will practice in the counties of Huber
■ham and Rabun of the Northwesterr
Circuit, and Frank! n and Banks of tin
Western Circuit. Prompt attention wil
be given to all business entrustecTeo him
The collection of debts will have spec
ial attention.
THE WEEK’S PROGRAM
In the House and Senate Promises to
be Uueveutful.
A ■Washington disp itch of Sunday
says: the week in c >ngre*s is likely to
be uneventful. Although b th houses
will reasemble Tuesday, it is improbable
that a quoiu n of congress will be pres¬
ent Dubers until the following day. TheCla;er-
contes’c i election case will come
up in the senate as unfinished busi¬
ness, and may consume sev.ral days
in its discussion; the Paddock pure food
bill is set down as tli^ next subject for
consideration, and a prolonged debate up¬
on the merits of the measure is inevita¬
ble. These ma ters will probably oc¬
cupy the a tendon of the senate
during the legislative week.
When the house reassembles, accord¬
ing to an understanding heretofore
reached, it will begin consideration of its
firs: election contest, namely, that of
Craig vs. Stewart, from Pennsylvania,
and it is possible that the contest will
last two days. The Indian appropriation
bill i9 unfinished business before the
house. Cons.derable progress wa 9 made
iu its considc ation during the two day
of the past week when it "was under dis¬
cussion. Any time in addition to one
legislative day devoted to the Indian
appropriation bill will militate against
the private bills which are entitled to
engross the whole of Friday when there
is not some latter of the privilege of
greater importance before the house.
Saturday is what may be termed an
“open day” i i the popular branch of
congress, that day. nothing b iug set down for
The democratic caucus is a part of the
programme for the week, and it is ex¬
pected that i-.i this caucus the parly pol¬
icy of th r nainder of th * session on the
tariff a d s iver questions will bedicussed
with vigor •-»*> 1 earnestness
The imperial Russian ukase prohibiting
the exportation of wheat from Russia has
thrown 25,009 men out of employment in
ani near O iessa, and has drivau a large
amount of shipping from the Black Sea.
THE TOCCOA NEWS
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL.
ALLIANCE TALKS.
NEWS OF THE ORDER AND ITS
MEMBERS.
Interesting Comments on the Situa¬
tion by the Reform Press.
Two hundred and fifty rub-treasury
a'li o ce democrats from all over the State
of Texas met in the auditorium of the
city ha 1 at Dallas. The purpose of the
arse bly was 'o take steps towards the
organization of Jeffersonian Democracy
or a government of the peop’e, for the
people and by the people. Ihe resolu¬
tions and platform adopt'd were in sub¬
stance identical with the Ocala demands.
***
Says the Southern Alliance Farmer:
“It i- only a question of time when the
people will eiict their own United States
Senators. This congress will not pass
such a measure, but the people will put
one there at the next election that will.
The p< op!e are tired of a house of lords
over which they have little or uo control.
r l he present discussion of this
w ll le-ult in much good. question
will The people
open their eyes to the fact that the
ser ate has been a natural fraud since its
organization, representing the interest of
the money power aud monopolies instead
of the people.”
The Truth (San Antonio, (Tex.) says:
Each reader must always remember that
it is not enough that he himself is con¬
vinced or thinks correctly, but it is abso¬
lutely necessary that a majority of the
voters in every state should be also Con¬
vinetd and got to vote right or our re-
t rm cannot succeed. If our reform does
not succeed our pocket will not benefit.
If our pocket does not benefit ourselves
and our families, they will go hungry.
It is therefore highly important, nay,
necessary that we be earnest in making
converts. Talk reform in season and out
of season at everybody at all times.
F.om now on every Alliance man should
con.titutc himself a reform propagandist.
The Alliance ***
Both the Tribune, (O’Neill, Neb.)
says: old parties are wasting
great chunks of sympathy for the Alli¬
ance because the Alliance Congressmen
refused to adopt any rule by which they
should all be compelled to vote together
bless upon any dear particular measure. Why,
your souls, that oue, man pow¬
er, caucus rule, was one of the things
which the Alliance was organzed to pro¬
test against. The caucus rule in Con
gress by which a few men in and out of
Uongress has been enabled to shape the
legislation of the country for the past
twenty-five years is the cause of the class
laws and special privileges which have
made millionaires and mortgages so plen-
xy¬
***
The People’s Economist (Thomasville,
Ga.) ^ says: The Alliance has no war to
make on any profession or class except
such as take away the fruits of the labor
of the people under the guise of law.
It seeks to place farming and farmers on
a higher plane, and when this is done the
country will be more uniformly prosper-
IIU8 The decadence of England begun
when the farmers of the sea girt isle be¬
gan to fall behind and to grow restive
under the unjust burdens they were bearr
ing. the Experience ought to suggest that
best time to forestall such results is
to take time by the forelock, and begin
the work of reformation when the pre-
the monitory symptoms appear. This is what
Alliance has sought to do.
The Messenger (San Miguel, Cal.) says:
Of all men the farmers are the most Con¬
servative; they are not visionaries nor
revolutionists, excepting in so far as the
revolution of political parties is con-
cerned. The Alliance demands a reform
that will bring back this government to
the principles upon which it was
founded. The constitution provides that
government shall be administered in the
interests of the people—the masses. But
it h&s drifted into the bunds of the poli-
ticians and capitalists, who run it in
their own special interests. In or ier to
ngain make this government a “govern¬
ment of the people” is why the farmers
have organized in Alliances. It is th< ir
aim to wrest the government of this
country from the grasp of professional
lists. politicians, corruptionists and monopo¬
***
The People’s Aid and Alliance Review
(Cincinnati, Ohio) says: Business men
sh< uld stop long enough to study the de¬
mands of the farmers before they decide
that the farmers are working against their
interests. What benefits the farmer ben¬
efits the business man. When the farmer
prospers the business man will share his
prosperity. Reduce the farmer to a mere
living and who would expect him to buy
luxurie-.? The demands of the farmer are
as necessary to the success of the merchant
as they are to the farmer. If any mer¬
chant will stop and think he will find
that the 15,000 failures of last year will
(each him that bankruptcy is coming
closer home every year, and that he has
no time to lose, nut should j >in the far¬
mers in forcing their demands to adopt¬
ion. We hope our readers will join us
iu promulgating this great project of
“unity” between the faimer, the mer¬
chant and the business men in general.
When fully consummated it will be a
grand thing. Why not?
The Alliance Herald (Montgomery,
Ala.) *ays: In the first efforts made for
relief of the people by the Congressmen
who are flooding Congress with bills,
why do not these wiseacres study the prob¬
lem and seek to remedy it? How will any
measures offered be capable of redeeming
90 per cent of the homes of farmers in
this county from mortgages? How will
any of them stop the robbery of the peo¬
ple by trusts, combines and syndicates,
which aggregate about two hundred and
fifty millions per annum? How will any
of them stop the robbery of the people
by taxatioo imposed by railroads to pay
dividends on watered stocks and bonds?
None of them try to meet tbe demands
of either of these factors in the problem.
Sincere efforts to meet these demands are
what the exigencies demand, No meas-
ure that is not based on a knowledge of
the problem and made to conform to its
TOCCOA, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 27, 1892.
demands will meet the requirement.
Two-thirds of the bibs introduced are
tubs thrown to the whale—bambooz ing
bumbuggery.
*.**
THE 8CB-TREA8URY
The sub-treasury plan is bound to be
heard in congress. All efforts to kill it
have been futile, and it stands to-day
the most intelligent exporent of financial
reform ever brougt t forward for adop¬
tion. It looks like it is bound to be heard
in political organizations, too. Some
weeks ago a Democratic convention in
Texas declared tha: a man who be¬
haved in tl e Sub-Treastry should not. be
admitted to a Dt mocr tic c nvent’on.
Another convention has just been held
and the Sub-Tre sury wing says it mus
be in their platform. They organized i
<t n<-w Democratic party called the ”Jt-ff
irsonian Democratic party. Y’es, the
Sub-Treasury nonsense(?) is bound to be
I card. It is one of the best things in
world.—Ex.
*
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IN THE SAME BOAT.
The hungry man in the city and the
ungry man in the country have the same
grievances, says the Cincinnati Herald.
I he city laborer working half time for a
pittance is in the s; me boat with the
faimer whose products don’t pay the
cost of production. The merchant fleec¬
ed by the real estate shark, the loan
shark, the trust shark, ihe railroad
shark, and through them is driven into
bankruptcy, evi’s that is a victim of the same
fanners in'o are transforming the mortga ed
tenar ts. The man who lives
by speculation; by collecting dividends
on watered stock; by absorbing the pro¬
ducts of honest toil without rendering
an ing equivalent, are the enemies of all liv¬
ing in city or country who ask for noth¬
except what they can earn by honest
effort. Stand together against your com¬
mon foe.
WAKE HP’
'Ihe Farmers Advocate (Charlestown,
W. Ya.) says: When the farmers owned
this country forty years ago, they con¬
trolled its legislation and rendered every
class of busine s profitable. In 1892.
when they own only 20 per cent, of the
wealth of the country, and every branch
of the government has passed out of
their hands, paralysis of business of every
character has followed, and it has be¬
come difficult for many to even obtain
subsistence in a land of plen¬
ty. Farmers, remember that the
reins of government have simply
passed out of your hands, but not beyond
yoiir control, if you make up your minds
to influence their management or regain
control of them. Isn’t your situation a
sufficient commentary on the wnmgs you
have endured, ere you wake up. Verily,
“a little more sleep; a little more slum¬
ber, and your poverty cometh as an
armed man.” Will you sleep on and
lose your heritBge?
*
* *
PLANT LESS COTTON.
The Cotton Plant, organ of the South
Carolina State Alliance, has this to say
about the necessity for a reduction in the
cotton acreage: “The convention of
cotton growers which met by appoint
ment last week in Augusta, recommended
a reduction of 20 per cent, in the area
planted. We trust that this recommen-
dation will be adopted by every farmer.
It is utter nonsense to talk or to think
about the probability of your neighbors
planting less while you plant as much
or more than you did last year.
The only way to reach the end propos¬
ed is for each farmer to covenant with
himself not to plant within 20 per cent,
as many acres as he planted last year.
line Any plan that proceeds upon a d fferent
is doomed to disappointment—dis¬
appointment of the individual farmer,dis-
oppointment and disaster to the country
at large. Let each individual realize
that there is no money but actual loss for
him in any acre above 80 per cent of
what he planted last year; and then act
like an intelligent business man.
*
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DON YOUR ARMOR AND FIGHT.
YVe sometimes hear it said that “Right
will win.” This not necessarily so by any
means; almost every day we see wrong,
tyranny and oppression trample right,
ruth *and justice under foot. But there
are conditions under which right will
always is win. What are they ? When right
ably and as pers stenly cl ampioned
and backed by as many supporters as
wrong, it will always win. In fact, right
will often win when backed by less
ability and persistency and inferior num¬
bers, but when the preponderance is too
great, ritiht goes down. A man’s cause
may be just and yet he may go down be¬
cause he has not the manhood and the cour¬
age to stand and persistenly fight for thq
tight world without end. Y>s, thrice
armed is he whose cause is just, but if
he fails to use the weapons and advan¬
tage which justice gives him, nine t mes
out of ten he will go down in defeat.
Now here is a leison for ihe members of
the Alliance and the other soldiers of re¬
form. The Alliance is right, but it will
not, cannot win unless w e fight for the
cause. Then let us, let every reformer,
every lover of right and enemy of wrong,
buckle on the arnv r of truth and fight
without ceasing. Y~es, tight as long as
wrong exists, and let every delay and the
appearance of every new wrong be a new
inspiration liberty.—The to the soldiers of reform and
perfect Caucasian.
THEY HAVE AGREED.
End of the McEnery-Foster Muddle in
Louisiana.
A New Orleans dispatch of Sunday
says: The compromise proposition sub¬
mitted to the two democratic centra! com¬
mittees by the joint conference committee
has been ratified by both sides. The
McEnery committee ratified the agree¬
ment Saturday night. There was consid¬
erable opposition by the Fosterites to the
measures offered, as it was considered
detrimental to the success of the fac¬
tions. However, the committee, by
unanimous vote, decided to accept
the agreement, and the McEneryites
are jubilant in conseqnence. The prin¬
sion cipal of point the of agreement and is tbe submis¬
McEnery Foster tickets
to the primaries, the winning ticket to be
the regular democratic ticket at the gen¬
eral election, the other to be withdrawn.
THE WIDE
GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND
CABLE CULLINGS
Of Brief Items of Interest From
Various Sources.
Edward M. Field was placed on trial
in the court of oyer and terminer, in
New Y'ork, Tuesday.
I he Illinois democratic state central
committee has decided to hold the next
democratic state convention at Sprinfield,
on April27ih.
The republican state convention ol
New Hampshire to nominate delegates to
the national convention has been called
to meet at Concord on April 27th.
A railroad train ran down a pleasure
parry at Hawkin’s st ition on the Penn¬
sylvania railroad Tuesday, and one per¬
son was killed and two others fatally in¬
jured.
The republican state general committee
of Nebraska, on Saturday, issued a call
for the state convention, to select dele¬
gates for Minneapolis, April 27th, at
Kearney.
D spatches of Tuesday state that the
snows in Spain, softened by the storms,
are rap dly melting, with the r suit that
floods in the provinces of Grenada, Mal¬
aga, Almeria and Cordova are increasing.
Colonel T. B. Simpson, who, it was
thought, had fled the country, has re¬
turned to Dallas, Tex., was arrested Fri¬
day and released on bond. He is charged
with embezzling $28,000 from the Scotch
Loan Company of Edinburg.
Dakota, A dispatch from Deadwood, South
ed decree says: divorce Judge Thomas has grant¬
a of to Mrs. James G.
Blaine, Jr., with the custody of her
child and $1,000 to pay the expenses of
the suit and $100 a month for permanent
alimony.
olis A dispatch of Sunday from Indianap¬
says: All the street car lines in the
city w T ere without men to operate them
during the day. The company made no
attempt and to stait cars throughout the city,
more than the usual Sunday quiet
prevailed.
Two children were burned to death in
a fire at McKeesport, Pa., Tuesday night
almost within reach of their father, who,
in his brave efforts to rescue his little
ones, almost perished amid the smoke
and flames himself, and it is not alto¬
gether certain now that he will live. A
third child was also probably fatally
burned.
A London cablegram of Sunday, says:
A large vessel, name unknown, but sup¬
posed to be a Spanish steamer, was
wrecked off Penzance, and it is feared
all hands are lost. A boat containing
six men from the vessel was capsized
almost immediately after leaving the
ship and all the men drowned. The boat
and a quantity of wreckage are coming
ashore.
A dispatch from Providence, R. I.,
says: The prohibitory convention made
the following nominations Mouday:
Governor, Alex. Gilbert, Woodstock;
lieutenant governor, S. Taber, North
Snaithfield; secretary of state, C. L. E.
Remington, Providence; attorney gene¬
ral, Thomas H. Peabody, Westerty; gen¬
eral treasurer, W. S. Brownell, of New¬
port.
A dispatch of Monday from Indianapo¬
lis Ind., says: The primaries for the
selection of delegates to the district and
state convention, which will choose dele¬
gates to the Minneapolis convention, held
throughout the state, everywhere result¬
ed in the choice of Harrison men as dele¬
gates. In but two counties was there
eveu the semblance of opposion to the
administration, and, in each of these it
was very feeble.
A cablegram from Salvador to the
Associated Press under date of February
23d, states that General Enriques was
killed by a body of Guatemalan soldiers,
together with a number of companions,
near the city of Zacapa, Guatemala, near
the Hon I uras coast. Enriques had been
unanimously proclaimed dictator of the
constitutional party of Guatemala, and
had, in consequence, incurred the active
hostility of President Barillas, who
alarmed the public by announcing that
Enriques was at the head of an insurrec¬
tion directed against the present govern¬
ment.
A Washington dispatch says: The
interstate commerce commission, on Tues¬
day, announced its decision of the case
of William H. Harvey against the Louis¬
ville and Nashville Railroad Company,
involving the giving of free passes
and free transportation. The commission
decides that the action of the defendant in
granting New to the members of the city coun¬
cil of Orleans and clerk of that
body,on account of their official positions,
free transportation as passengers over
all or some portion of its interstate lines,
violates the act to regulate corameree,
and is unlawful.
The Library block at Decatur, Ill., oc¬
cupied by the public library, Brown
Business college, Knights of Pythias
lodge, several manufacturing concerns
and private offices, was burned Monday
night, causing a total loss of $100,000.
The loss on the building was $50,000,
insurance $17,000. Among the heavier
losers were Smith, Hubbard & Co.,
manufacturing chemists^ loss $16,000;
insurance 5^ $12,000. Public library.
$10,000; insurance, $7,000. Half of the
books were saved. The remaining losses
were all for smaller amounts, and were
partially covered by insurance.
St. Louis dispatches of Monday state
that the first day’s session of the confer¬
ence of producers’ organizations declare leaves
no doubt that the body will for
independent political action. Every
xcierence to the subject was greeted by
the wildest enthusiasm, and the speakers
referred in a contemptuous tone to those
who hoped to get relief from the demo¬
cratic party. President Polk is square
out for independent action, and says
there are not enough people this in from the
United States to prevent body
declaring itself.
SHE WAS AN HEIRESS.
“I wonder why Dick Fortunatus en¬
courages his rich wife in dressing so
much like a man?”
“He wants to stand some show oi
finding her necket.”
LOOKED LIKE A DUDE.
But He Knocked Out the Record as
a Train Robber.
A dispach of Sunday from Rochester,
N. Y., gives a graphic account of ths
record. most daring attempt at train robbing on
drain No. 81, on the Central Hudson,
is known as the American companv’s
special, running between New York and
Buff lo, and carries only goods and
train property left shipped by that company. The
New York at 9 o’clock Saturday
eyeniug, o clock in and the was morning. in Rochester at 7.05
cars contain valuable Nearly all the
most express mat¬
ter. One car is known as the “money”
car, and in it is sent specie from the
United States treasury for western banks,
as well as money in process of
Y exchange T between the banks of New
ork and the ovest. Daniel T.
Mclnery was in charge of the “money”
car on the trip Saturday night.
Only one messenger was assigned to the
money car, as the work of billing was
light. The train left Syracus at 5 o’clock
Sunday Emil morning in charge of Conductor
Laas.
THE AIR WniSTLE’S WARNING.
When the train was near Weedsport
the conductor, who was in the coach,
thought he heard the air whistle sound
very him faintly. It was enough to arouse
to the belief that something was
wrong in the express car. Going out on
the platform of the coach he climbed on
the rail, and, looking through the hole
where the bell cord comes through, he
saw the upper part of man whose face be¬
low the eyes was concealed by a mask.
The messenger he could not see. He
his went back, set the air brakes and called
two trainmen, The three stood
leaning forward out from the platform, looking
Suddenly along the sides of the express
car. a man’s form appeared at
the side door of the express car, revolver
bullets whistled past their ears and a
voice was heard commanding them to
signal the engineer to go ahead or take
the consequences. The trainmen were
unarmed. The conductor told one of
his men to jump off, run back to Jordan,
and telegraph along the line to Roches¬
ter that they had train robbers on board.
This was done, and the conductor signal¬
led the engineer to go ahead at full speed,
thinking jump that the robber would not dare
to and would be captured at the
next stop. The train went to Port By¬
ron, her brakes were set again and the
conductor and trainmen went to the ex-
press car.
The car showed signs of a desperate
struggle. Money packages and jewelry
in were lying scattered about. Everything
the car seemed stained with blood
and Messenger Mclnery was lying bleed¬
ing from several wounds and almost un¬
conscious. The robber was no where to
be seen and was supposed to have jump¬
ed and made good his escape. The train
then went on to Lyons, the next stop.
Ihe news had spread all along the line
by this time and the station at Lyons
was alive.
well-dressed Among in others in the crowd was a
eyeglasses and young carrying man wearing gold
a satchel slung
by a strap over his shoulder. Now, it so
happened this that the trainmen had noticed
young man at the station at Syracuse
before the train pulled out, and they had
not se en him since, aud the question of
what he was doing at Lyons and how he
got there at once suggested itself. An
attempt was made to seize him, but he
pulled out two revolvers, held the crowd
back and backed across the yard until
he reached a coal train, the engine of
which had steamed up ready to pull out
for the west.
A MAN WITH NERVE.
He pulled the pin holding the tender
to the first car, and, climbing over the
coal into the cab, drove the engineer and
fireman out with his revolvers, and start¬
ed the engine. Conductor Laas and. one
of.the switchmen procured a shotgun
and freed the engine of the expresss and,
with the fireman and engineer, started in
pursuit of tbe fugitive. The Central
Hudson is a four-tracked road, and the
two engines, though both going west,
were not on tbe same track. The express
engine soon overtook the robber, who
suddenly reversed his engine and let his
pursuers of pass him, pouring a perfect hail
pistol bullets into the cab as his pur¬
suers went by.
THE BATTLE ON THE ENGINES.
Then the pursuers stopped and the
pursued went ahead. Another duel
ensued, the shot-gun taking part this
time. No one was hurt in either battle.
About two miles beyond the robber
found his engine was giving out, eo he
jumped the out at a crossroad and started
across country, going south. The
party on the express engine had returned
to Lyons, where the sheriff had organized
a posse, which started in pursuit. Mean¬
time, the farmers along the robber’s line
of retreat had alss turned out fully armed
in pursuit. The runaway was so closely
run that he surrendered and was taken
back to Lyons and lodged in .jail. He
gave his name as Cross, but it developed
later that the man was Perry Lyons,
formerly a cowboy, and later worked as
a railway brakeman.
THE STORY OF THE ROBBERY.
The story of the attempt at robbery,
as far as it can be gathered, is this: The
express messenger, be it understood, will
not talk.
Lyons boarded the train when it pulled
out of Syracuse and climbed on top the
express car. He Fastening was provided the with in a
hooked rope. hook
the slight corniced roof on one side of
the car, he let himself down on to the
other, and resting his toes on the edge
that runs along the car, he looked in the
glass of the side door and saw the ex¬
press mess eng er in front of odc of the
safe*, which was open, making up his
bills. He smashed the glass with his re¬
volver, covered the messenger and shout-
ei to him to hold up his hands. In¬
stead of doing this Mclnery reached
for the signal cord with one
hand, and for a revolver with the other.
A bullet smashed the hand on the cord,
but not before it had given the signal
that amused the conductor. Then Mc¬
lnery fired on the robber and put a bul¬
let through his coat. Then the robber
shot the messenger twice, once in the
right leg and once in the temple. He
climbed into the car and a desperate
struggle took jjlace, which did not eod
until the train was stopped for the first
time, near VVeedsport. It is evident that
the robber had climbed out on top of the
cars and remaine 1 tin re through the stop
at Port Byron until t ie train reached
Lyons. So far a9 can be lea ned the rob¬
ber secured absolutely nothing.
DAVID B. HILL
The Choice of New York for the Presi¬
dential Nomination.
The New York su.tc deinocra’ic con¬
vention met at Albany Monday and se¬
lected delegates to the national conven
tion at Ch'cigo. The result is that New
York’s vote will be cast i:t the Chicago
convention for David B. Hill. And sil-
ver is declared, equally with gold, t> be
the money < f the constitution.
The natiora! delegates and alternates
chosen were: At large, R mvell P. Flow¬
er, Edward Murphy, Jr., General Daniel
E. Sickles and General Henry W. Sio
cum. The alternates were Mantou Mar¬
ble, John Bigelow, Sidney Webster and
Alfred C. Chapin.
THE PLATFORM.
The report of the committee on reso¬
lutions submitted the following:
The democratic party of the state of
New York, in convention assembled,
renews the pledge of its fidelity to the
great cause of tariff reform and to the
whole democratic faith and tradition as
affirmed in our national platforms from
1876 to 1888, as well as in our state plat¬
forms concurrent with the opening of
Governor Tilden’s brief, and the close of
Governor Hill’s long approved and alike
illustrious service in the chief magistracy
of the Empire State.
The New York state platform of 1874,
declared gold and silver the only legal
tender; no currency inconvertible with
coin.
2. Steady steps toward specie pay¬
ments, no step backward.
3. The honest payment of the public
debt in coin; the 6acred preservation of
the public faith.
4. Revenue reforms; federal taxation
for revenue only; no government part¬
nership with protected monopolies.
5. Home rule, to limit and localize
most public jealously the few powers intrusted
to servants, municipal and federal;
no centralization.
6. Equal and exact justice to all men;
no partial legislation; no partial taxa¬
tion.
7. The presidency a public trust; not
a private perquisite; no third term.
8. Economy in public expense, that
labor may be lightly burdened.
The New York state platform of 1891.
We now, as then, steadfastly adhere to
the principles of sound finance. We are
against the coinage of any silver dollar
which is not of the intrinsic value of
every other dollar of the Uuited States.
We, therefore, denounce the new Sher¬
man silver law, undir which one-tenth
of our gold stock has been experted and
the silver ou'put has been dam ned up >,t
home as not only a false pre ense, but an
actual hindrance of the return to free
bimetallic coinage, an 1 as tending only
to produce a change fr m one kind of
monomentaliism to another. We, there¬
fore, unite with the friends of honest
money everywhere in stigmatiz ng then
Shevm n progressive silver basis law as no
solution of the gold and silver question,
and as a fit appendix to the subsidy and
bounty swindle.
The McKinley—worse than war tariff,
the Blaine reciprocity humbug', the
squandered surplus, advancing deficit,
defective census and falsified representa¬
tion, and revolutionary procedures of the
billion congress; all arc justly condemn¬
ed by the people’s great uprising last
November (1890); a verdict, which re¬
newed this year (1892) will empower
dam cratic statement to guide the peo¬
ple’s councils and to execu e the people’s
will.
The democrats of New York recall
with proud memory the inflexibly sound
finance of Governor Tilden, who not only
administered the sta'e government with
frugality, but who also, with unequaled
ability and unflagging resolution, de¬
manded a thorough reform of tar ff tax¬
ation, and likewise, with a statesman’s
energy and foresight, assailed the shame¬
less degradation of our greenback cur¬
rency, and led the democratic party in
pushing on compulsory republican ad¬
also vance to that current coin coin redemption, if not
to piayment of the same
where’o, as well, “the faith of the United
States is solemnly pledged.”
ALL SERENE.
The Coal Creek Troubles Have at Last
Been Settled.
The mining troubles in the Coal Creek
valley have at last been settled. The
Tennessee Mining company, which caused
the incident by placing convicts in its
mines, which action was followed by their
release in August and again in October,
has about concluded an agreement satis¬
factory all around.
The mines will be operated by white
free miners on the co-operative plan.
The capital stock of the company has
been doubled, and new stock will be
taken by the miners at Briceville and by
labor leaders in Knoxville, Chattanooga,
Atlanta and elsewhere.
The scheme has been approved in operation by all
concerned, and will be put
immediately. In a few days the military
forces may be safely taken out of the val¬
ley. Those persons who should kuow
best, say that there has been no use for
them for several months.
TO PATROL BEHRING SEA.
The Good Ship Mohican Will Vigilantly
Watch the Sealers.
A San Francisco dispatch of Sunday
6ays: The United States man-of-war
Mohican, will leave for the north next
month, taking in tow the Nipric, one of
the vessels wrecked at Samoa about three
years ago. The Nipsic will be yard. left at
Port Orchard, the new navy A
corps of men will be landed, and make a
preliminary survey of the ground, clear
the bush and put things in shape for the
construction of the yard. The Mohican
will proceed from Port Orchard to
Behring sea, to patrol the waters in the
summer and watch the sealers. The
Richard Rush and the Bear will change
s’ations th s season, the Rush going to
Point Barrow with supplies, and the
Bear going to Ounalaska to rendevous.
NUMBER 8
THROUGH DIXIE.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEFLY
PARAGRAPHED
Forming an Epitome of Daily
Happenings Here and There.
Governor Hogg, on Friday, issued a
proclamation convening the Texas legis¬
lature in extra session on March 14th.
1 h-' state d< mocratic executive com¬
mittee of Florida has named Juno 1st as
the day and Tampa as the place for hold¬
ing the state convention.
The Southern Biptist convention will
meet in Atlanta, Ga., in the early part of
delegates next May. There will be at least 1,500
and visitors present.
The Daily Florida Standard, w-hich be¬
gan publication at Jacksonville in July,
1890, and was the organ of the anti-Call
faction in the democratic party, suspend¬
ed publication Tuesday.
An inter-state football game was play¬
ed nt Atlanta, Ga., Saturday, between
the Athens, Ga., and Auburn, Ala., col¬
lege football teams, and resulted in a vic¬
tory for the Alabama boys.
All the banks in Charleston, S. C. f
paid their taxes Saturday, an amicable
agreement having been made with the
comptroller general whereby the banks
will pay on the valuations fixed by the
county board of equalization.
William B. Crawford, a prominent
farmer and cattle dealer, at Staunton,
Va., assigned Saturday. Liabilities, $15,-
000; assets. $30,000. The object of as¬
signment was to save individual creditors
and to save cost of litigations.
A Tuscaloosa, Ala., dispatch of Tues¬
day says: Bishop O. P. Fitzgerald, D.
I)., of California, bishop of the Method¬
ist Episcopal church, south, has accepted
an invitation to deliver the baccalaureate
sermon at the forthcoming commence¬
ment of the State university, June 26th.
A Bristol, Tenn., dispatch of Tuesday
says: The famous Dr. Baker is on trial
for wife poisoning. The 100 witnesses
are all well. Twenty-nine men came
from Bortetourt county, from which a
competent jury of twelve was selected.
The case has taken a different turn. Mrs.
Gilmer, the paramour and accessory to
the awful crime, has seemingly taken the
law into her own hands.
A Richmond dispatch says: The house
of delegates have passed the senate bill
retiring $2,500,000 in state bonds held
by educational institutions, and issuing
certificates therefor. The senate finance
committee reported a bill appropiiating
annually $30,000 or $150 per capita for
the Lee Chmp Foldirs’ Home. This
appropriation is made ui on condition
that the pr perty of the home shall re¬
vert to the commonwealth after a period
of not over twenty-two years.
A Raleigh dispatch says: On Tuesday
the representatives of the Postal Tele¬
graph Company appeared before the rail¬
way commission and urged it to take
some steps to secure properly qualified
operators to send train orders. It, was
set forth that many of the operators at
the railway stations are mere b us, with¬
out proper that knowledge of tehgraphy, and
that greatly increases the danger to
life and property. If the board has tha
power, it is asked to recommend to tha
legislature the desired action. The board
now has the matter under consideration.
A terrific fire broke out at midnight
Friday right in the four-story Weller
block in Louisville, Kv. The lower
floors were used as stares and the threo
upper as flats. Each floor was filled
with sleeping people, but all were rescued
by the firemen. It took fourt>en engines
and wa'er towers and five hook and lad¬
der companies to subdue the flames.
Losses: Wielschner, pianos, $10,000;
building, owned by Jacob Weller,
$10,000; Schaffer, confectioner, $1,000;
Fonda block, $10,000. Three fir, men
wt re hurt_
A LUCKY PROSPECTOR
Raised in a Moment from Comparative
Poverty to Affluence.
A Creede, Col., special says: Sunday,
as Prospector Brandt was wotking over
the Batchelder mountains he stumbled
upon a find which raised him in a mo¬
ment from comparative poverty to opu¬
lence. His find was a cavern, the roof
of which was vaulted and h inging witu
stalactites which showed croppings of
pure silver ore running $10,000 to tha
ton. This chamber is 50 fe< t wide, 200
long and contains enough ore on tLe
surface to make Brandt a millionaire.
Besides the silver the cavern contains
utensils, skeletons and remains evident! f
those of cliff-dwellers, but the antiqua-
tian discovery is lost in interest in t’ e
phenomenal silver find. Brandt reported
the find and the people went wild. Hun¬
dreds left for the cliff-dweller claim*, ng
it is called, at once. Brandt was offert d
$100,000 cash for the claim by a synd.-
catc of capi a i3ts, but be r fused.
CONGRESSIONAL JAUNT.
Representatives and Journalists YisR
the World’s Fair City.
world’s A Washington dispatch says: The
fair magnificently special, composing five of
the most equippel and
luxuriously road furnished trains ever put on
a by the Pullman Palace Car Com¬
pany, rolled out of the Baltimore and
Ohio station at 2:30 o’clock Friday afttr-
noon, bound for the city of Orcago.
The these distinguished passengers aboard
trains are to be the guests of th«
world’s fair city for four * ays,, and ar*
senators and representatives of the fif<y-
second congress, the foreign minis’^ rs
accredited to the Un ted States and fotfcj
of the leading journalists of t ie national
capital.___
DIAZ IS MASTER.
The Operations of Garza and His
Followers at an End.
A dispatch of Monday from the city of
Mexico says: A thorough inve ; tigat on
along the frontier shows that there is n .w
no danger of any upri-ing in Mt xico.
The Gaiz» bandits, wi o had been on r-
■ting on United -tatts territory appear to
have disbanded with n> likeliLo d of ve-
cr-ymizing.