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VOLUME XX.
RICHMOND&DANVILLE R. R.
Atlanta and Charlotte Mr-Line Division.
Condensed Schedule of Passenger
Trains, in Effect Jan. 17th, 1802.
NOR THBOUND. No. 39. No. 10. No. 12
eastern time. Daily. Daily. Daily
Chamblee (E.1.) 1 25 pm
.
Norcross....... Duluth........
Toccoa......... Kuwanoe....... Lula.......... Bellton........ Cornelia....... Westminster Buford........ Flow Gainesville..... Ml. Airy....... ry Branch 11 11 11 11 pm WtCtfiHM-OCOO
..,
Seneca ........ 1
Eaaleyg........ Central........
Greenville..... am
6 05 pm
Greers......... Wellford.......
Spartanburg am
6 57 pm
Clifton........
Cow pens......
Gaffney.......
Grover......... Blacksburg..... am
King’s Mount’n
L' Gastonia.......
Bclleinont..... 'Well........
Ar. Charlotte...... 9 10 pm
SOUTHBOUND. No. 37. No. 21. No. 9.
Daily. Daily. Daily.
Lv. Charlotte...... 9 45 am 1 50 pm 2 20 am
Bell moot..... 2 12 pm 2 42 am
L"W' 11......... 2 23 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
Gaffney....... Blacksburg .... •• 3 26 pm 3 53 am
3 45 pm 4 10 am
Cowpens...... Clifton........ 4 10 pm 4 42 am
4 13 pm 4 45 am
W Spartanburg... Ilford........ 1143 am 4 27 pm 5 00 am
........ 4 50 pm 5 23 am
Greers......... ........ 5 09 pm 5 42 am
Greenville...... 12 36 pm 5 34 pm 6 10 am
Easleys......... ........ 6 07 pm 6 38 am
Central........ ........ 6 55 pm 7 30 am
Seneca......... ........ 7 22 pm 7 57 am
Westminster.... ........ 7 41 pm 8 17 am
Toccoa........ ........' 8 19 pm 8 55 am
Mt. Airy....... ........ 8 48 pm 9 23 am
Cornelia....... ........ 8 52 pm 9 27 am
Belbon........ ........ 9 16 pm, 9 49 am
Lula.......... ........ 9 18 pm 9 51 am
Gainesville..-... 3 41 pm 9 42 pm 1C 16 am
Flowory Buford........ Branch ........ 10 00 pm 10 40 am
........10 17 pm 10 52 au
Suwance....... ........ 10 33 pm 11 04 am
Duluth........ ....... 10 45 pm 11 15 pm
Norcross...... ........10 56 pm ll 28 am
Ghsmblee...... ........11 08pm 11 42 am
Ar. Atlanta (E. T.) 5 05 pm 11 45 pm 12 20 pm
Additional trams Nos. 17 anl 18—Lula ac¬
commodation, daily except Sunday, leaves At¬
lanta 5 30 p in, arrives Lula 8 12 p m. .Return¬
ing, leaves Lula 6 00 a m, arrives Atlanta 8 50
a m.
Bet ween Lula and Athens—No. 11 daily, ex¬
cept and Sunday, anil No. 9 daily, leave Lula 8 30 p
in, 11 40 a m, arrive Athens 10 15 p m and
12 20 pm. Returning leave Athens, No. 10
daily, except Sunday, and No. 12 daily, 6 20 p m
anti 6 45 a m, arrive Lula 8 05 p m and 8 30
u 111.
Between Toccoa and Elberton—No. Cl dai¬
ly; except Sundav, leave Toccoa 100 pm
arrive Elberton 4 40 p m. Returning, No. 60
daily, except Sunday, leaves Elberton 5 00a m
and arrives Toccoa 8 30 a m.
Nos. 9 an 1 10 carry Fullmau Sleepers be¬
tween Atlanta and New York.
Nos. 87 and 38, Washington and Southwest¬
ern Yestibuled Limited, between Atlanta and
Washington. On this train no extra fare is
charged. Through Pullman Sleep era between
New York atul New Orleans, al -o between
Birmingham. Washington aud Memphis, via Atlanta and
For detailed information as to local and
through time tables, rates and Pullman Sleep¬
ing car reservations, confer with local agents,
or JAS. address, L.
Gcn’l TAYLOR, Pass. W. A. TURK,
Atlanta. Ag’t. Ass’t.Genl. Pass. Ag’t.
Ga. Charlotte N. 0.
C. P. HAMMOND,
W. H. GREEN. Superintendent. Atlanta, Gi.
80L. HASS,
Gen’l Manager. Traffic Manager,
Atlanta, Ga. Atlanta, Ga.
LEWIS DAVIS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will practioe in the counties of Haber
•ham and Httbun of the Northwestern
Circuit, and Frauklm and Banka of tht
Western Circuit. Prompt attention wil T
be g'ven to ail business cutrusted*to him.
The collection of debts will have sped
ial attention.
GRAIN STATISTICS.
Their Disti l button as Reported by the
Agricultural Department*
The March report of the distribution
of wheat aud corn by the slatistican of
the department of agriculture at Wash¬
ington nukes the 9toek of wheat in the
growers’ bauds 171,000,000 bushels, or
2b per cent of the crop, 63,000,000 of
spring wheat and 108,0( latter 0,000 in of winter
wht at, much of the states which
have pr ic ic tlly no commercial distribu¬
tion, but enteting iut<> loed consump¬
tion for bread and seed. This is the
largest re.-erve ever reported, that of the
larg' st previous crop of 1884 being 169,-
000,000 bushels.
Exports from July 1st to March 1st
were 164,000,000 bushels, the fail seed
SG 000,000 bushels, consumption appar¬
ently 200,000,000, but the larger propor¬
tion is taken for consumption is propor¬
tionately greater than in spring and sum¬
mer. The assumed consumption from
March 1, 1891, is 300.000,000 bushels for
a populati estimated n of 64.300,000.
Ttie quantity of corn in
farmers’ hands is 860,000,000 bushe’s, or
41.8 per ceut. of the crop. This is the
largest proportion ever reported, that of
1889ex epted, which was 45.9 per cent.,
or 970,000,000 bushels. The seven prin¬
cipal states have a surplus os 146,000,000
bushels, or 41 per cent, of their product,
against 667.000.00C The from the great *mp
of 1889. proportion merchantable is
the larg- st ever reported—88.5 per cent.,
against 85 7 two yiars ago.
THE COSTLY YOUTH.
He culled six evenings in the week.
And made the coal and gas bills climb,
Till her pa and tna n way did seek
To bring this costly youth to time.
They gently asked him there to board,
He came—aiul right here comes the
rub—
Their other ox he quickly gored.
Bv going nightly to his club.
—{New York HeraW.
THE TOCCOA
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL
COMFORT OF THE FIELDS.
What would’at thou have for easement after
grief.
When the rude world hath used thee with
despite,
And care sits at thy elbow day and night.
Filching thy pleasures like a subtle thief!
To me, when life besets me in such wise,
'Tig sweetest to break forth, to drop the
chain,
And grasp the freedom of this pleasant
earth.
To roam in idleness and sober mirth
Through summer airs and summer lands, and
drain
The oomfort of wide fields unto tire l eyes.
By hiils aud waters, farms and solitu ia*.
To wander by the day with wilful feet.
Through fielded valleys wido with yellow¬
ing wheat,
Along gray roads that run between deep
woods
Murmurous aud cool; through hallowed
slopes of pine.
Where the long daylight dreams, uu-
pierced unstirred,
And only the rich-throated thrush is
heard;
By lonely forest brooks that froth and shins
In bowldered crannies, buried in ths hills;
By broken beaches tangled with wild vine,
And log-strewn rivers murmurous with
mills-
In upland pastures, sown with gold, and
sweet
With the keen perfume of the ripening
grass,
Where wings of birds and filmy shadows
pass,
Spread thick as stars with shining mar¬
guerite;
To hauut old fences overgrown with brier.
Muffled in vines, and hawthorns, and wild
cherries,
Rank poisonous ivies, red-bunched elder¬
berries,
And pied blossoms to the heart’s desire,
Gray mullein towering into yellow bloom,
Pink-tasseled milkweed, breathing dense
perfume,
And swarthy vervain, tipped with violet
fire.
To hear at eve the bleating of far flocks.
The mud-hens whistle from the marsh at
morn;
To skirt with deafened ears and brain o’er-
borne
Some foam-filled rapid charging down its
rock3
With iron roar of waters; far away
Across wiie-readed meres, pensive with
noon,
To hear the querulous outcry of the loon;
To lie among doop rocks, and watch all day
On liquid heights the snowy clouds melt
by;
Or hear from wood-capped mountain brows
the jay
Pierce the bright morning with hi? jibing
cry.
To feast on summer sounds; the jolted
wains,
The thrashing humming from the farm
near by,
The prattling cricket’s intermittent cry,
The locust’s rattle from the sultry lanes;
Or in the shadow of so:n 3 oaken spray
To watch as through a mist of liHit an l
dreams
The far-off hay-field?, where the dusty
team?
Drive round and round the lessening squares
of hay,
And hear upon the vvjod, now loud, now
low,
With drowsy cadence half a summer’s day,
The clatter of the reapars come and go.
Far violet hills, horizons filmed with shad-
OWo,
The murmur of cool streams, the forest’s
gloom,
The voices of the breathing grass, the hum
Of ancient gardens overbanked with flow-
ers;
riius, with a smile as golden as the dawn,
And cool fair Augers ra liantly divine,
Aud mighty mother brings us in her hand,
For all tired eyes and foreheads pinched
and wan,
Her restful cup, her beaker of bright wiue;
Drink, and be filled, and ye shall under¬
stand l
—Archibald Lampman, in Scribner.
THE LITTLE BLUE CAP.
ll!811131* month I was pay-
ic g a visit to my
i||§|||Tbey HHP friends, the Durands, simple
jlpjjlpyhonest were a
ffP\pf couple who
bv ' ecl near the banks
of the river, in a tiny
f|p|Si|^5r®nest, l^'^Bhouse, a meie bird’s
almost hidden by
wisteria and Virginia
creeper. Duraud’s hands bore the marks
of honest toil, for he had been a lock-
smith in his youth, and had by industry
and economy raised himself steadily un-
til he became the proprietor of a large
business, and secured a competency for
his old age. His wife, a quiet, gentle
creature, worshiped her husband, and
both of them wore on their faces an ex-
pression of sereuity, which betokened
ease of conscience and a life of peace,
Durand was past sixty years of age, and
his wife must have been fifty, yet m spite
their wrinkles and gray hairs, these
two treated each other with an affection-
deference which was a pleasure to
behold.
While we were engaged in converse-
tion just before dinner, Durand rose and
a drawer to take out some tride
he wished to show to uie. While
was turning over the contents of the
it chanced that a little cap, such
might have been worn by a doll, or
infant, fell to the floor. I noticed
it was made of coarse blue linen,
two bits of twine instead of ribbon.
a minute Durand looked at the little
affectionately, then as he laid it
away again, he said in a tone of
“That is a souvenir.”
Then we all three sat down to dinner
talked of other matters, but as soon
the repast was finished, and the little
of all work had put coffee upon
table, my friend said suddenly
TOCCOA, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1892.
“How much that baby-cap reminds
me of!” It was evident that he wanted
to explain his remark aud I begged him
to do so.
“It was a great many years ago,” he
said, after a pause, “for I was about
twelve years old. I was working in a
large factory, and I had a companion, of
the same age as myself, whom, on ac-
count of his ugly feature?, we nicknamed
Zizi Monkey-face. Ho was a sly, thiev-
ing, mischievious urchin, very much
given to filching tarts from the pastry
cook's counter, but a jolly little chap,
and full of pluck. He was so lazy that
he would have been turned out of the
factory had it not been tor the indul-
gence of the overseer, who had been a
friend of his father’s and who took an
interest in the boy for the sake of his
dead comrade. Monkev-face was au
orphan, and the only relative he had ever
known was the woman who brought him
up, a cousin of his mother’s. This wo¬
man was a fish peddler, a brawling, bru¬
tal creature, whose affection for her
young charge was manifested only by
blows. Perrbaps if he had known a
parent's love he would have been less
perverse.
One afternoon, the lad took it into his
head to run away from the factory, and
go vagabonding about with a gang of
young ruffians like himself. As they
were coming slowly home after night-
iall, they heard, to their astonishment,
the cry of an infant. The sound seemed
to issue from a long, narrow, dirty ally
which opened on the street, and at the
other end of which hung a dimly flick¬
ering lamp. After a short consultation,
the street boys ventured softly into the
passage, and one of them espied, behind
the door, a little bundle of rags which
struggled and wailed. He seized hold
of it, and the whole party rau into the
street, triumphant, stopping under a
lamp to examine their capture. It proved
to be a baby-girl a few weeks old,
wrapped up in a series of dirty cloths, a
poor little innocent abandoned to the
.charity of straugera.
A council was held to decide what
should be done with the booty, and the
young captors gave free play to their
mischievous imaginations. One 3aid to
put the baby back where they had found
it; another, to hide it in a half-empty
prune-box which stood at a grocer’s
door; a third proposed to climb
up to a second story balcony and
leave the youngster there, and
how astonished the people would
be next day! But Zizi Monkey-face
scouted all these ideas and declare-1 that
the baby must be given to the gypsies,
There was a band of these people near
by, who practiced jugglery and fortune-
telling,and instances of kidnappiug were
by no means rare.
Monkey-face’s decision was hailed with
enthusiasm, and ho claimed the right to
carry the treasure-trove in consideration
of his having made the plan.
“Give us the kid,” he said. The baby
had, all this time, been screaming
piteously, but it stopped suddenly when
Monkey-face took hold cf it, and while
he walked along with au air of triumph,
it fixed its great blue eyes upon his
ugly face, and smiled, at the same time
stretchiug its tinv " hands out as if to
cares 3 him.
delight, “She is laughing!” cried the boy in
“see how she looks at me.”
Then a new impulse seized him.
“I will not give her away,” he said,
“I will keep her myself.”
His companions protested indignantly,
but in vain, for as they well knew Zizi
Monkey-face had at the end of each arm
an argument so strong that it would bo
useless as well as unsafe to oppose his
wishes,
When he reached home with his
burden the fish peddler exclaimed
furiously.
“Do you think I have not enough to
do to fill your mouth, you lazy imp?
Take that brat to the police—quick
now I” Pif, paf! A box on each ear
showed the boy that she was in earnest,
and he fled from the house.
That night he did not return, aud the
next morning he was in the factory as
soon as it opened, for the first time in
bis life.
“Mr. George, ■’ he said timidly to the
overseer, i«a “how much will you pay me if
i * w"
“I have already told you, twenty
cents,” answered the man in surprise,
and Monkey-face worked indefatigable
until night. Tne overseer, amazed and
delighted at the change, paid the boy
for his work and gave him twenty cents
in advance, in order to encourage him.
That night Monkey-face was again
absent from his home, and his cousin,
the fish peddler, went to the factory the
next evening, lay in wait for him, and
dragged him home in spite of his strug-
gles, administering a thrashing on the
way. But it was no use; as soon as the
old woman turned her back to cook the
soup for dinner, the boy slipped out of
the house and did not return.
The factory overseer having been in-
formed of the state of affairs made np
bis mind to settle the matter at once by
finding out where Monkey-face spent his
nights, and for this purpose watched the
lad as he left the factory. Mr. George,
in company with one of the workmen,
followed the wanderer at a short distance
and observed him enter a bakery and buy
a small loaf of bread; next he went into
a dairy and came out carrying a bottle
of milk, and then turned his steps
towards a lonely deserted quarter near
the river. Suddenly his followers saw
him plunge into a muddy alley; the place
having no lamps was as dark as an oven,
but Monkey-face was dimly visible as he
stopped before a board fence. The next
minute he had scaled it with the agility
of the animal that was his namesake, and
was lost to sight.
The two men determined to discover
his hiding-place, climbed over the wall
and found themselves in a large vacant
lot, surrounded with weeds and rubbish,
but of Monkey-face there was not a
sign!.
At last they espied iu the farthest
comer, a low wooden shed which had
evidently once served as a fowl-house,
and through the cracks of which a faint
light was shining. They approached it
noiselessly and peered through a crack.
Great was their astonishment. In the
middle of the wretched hut, in which a
man would not have been able to stand
upright sat the young runaway, a candle
stuck in the ground beside hiai; ho was
gravely pouring milk into a feeding-
bottle, and in a corner on a bed of do’ed
leaves, a baby was sleeping soundly
wrapped up in an old blanket.
Zizi Monkey face transformed into a
nurse!
“What are you doing here?” asked
the overseer, throwing open the door of
the cabin suddenly, and the boy startled
at first by the intrusion soon recovered
himself aud answered slowly,
‘“Haven’t I got a right to have a little
sister?''
Then after a pause he added graudly,
“I earn twenty cents a day. That is
enough for U3 both, and we don’t ask
any one for anything!”
The narrator paused, smiled softly and
added:
“The next day the owner of the fac¬
tory being informed of the matter raised
my pay to forty cents—just double.”
“What?” I cried, “it was you?”
“Ah, I have betrayed myself,” said
Durand- “Yes, I was the young rascal
who was in a fair way to come to the
gallowc, and thauks to the blue eye3 of
that little girl, I become a good work¬
man, and afterwards set up for myself.
Now you understand wliy I keep that
little blue cap; she had it on her when
we found her.”
“And what has become of her?” I
asked eagerly.
The old man answered: “We have
never parted;” then smiling, he looked
at his wife and added: “Have we, my
dear?”
She smiled in return, but her eyes were
moist as she looked at hi n, aud under
her eyelids I saw a tear drop glistening.
—From the French,in Epoch.
Treatment for the Grippe.
Influenza is especially dangerous on
account of the complications that arise
from it, it follows, writes Albert Robin,
a French physician, that its truo treat¬
ment is to avoid the latter. These com¬
plications are pneumonia, pulmonary
congestion, weakness of the nervous
system and acidulous poisoning of the
blood.
To avoid such complications tho
patient should be kept rigorously iu beet
so long as there is the slightest fever or
the slightest cough. Warm aromatic
potions should be given, which induces
perspiration, and by sweating eliminate
*he toxic products that encumber tho
blood.
^ l iave determined, by the way, that
the sweat of a person suffering from in-
fluenza is twelve times more Wic thau
tbat of a P erson ia » DOrmal condition,
^ eab doses °? sulphate of quinine of
trom twenty-five to fifty centigrams
should bc S lvea three tirae5 a da Y* The
reason is , that large doses make tae
patient sleep profoundly and destroy the
fever, but have no action whatever upon
tbe P olsons circulating in the blood and
do not diminish their destructibility.
Small doses, on the contrary, given
frequently, render m re active exudation
and elimination of these poisons which
are the source of the ^Si¬
Antipyreuc, which is often recoin-
mened as a specific for influenza, should
be mistrusted. The mediciue depresses
the nervous system, closes the kidneys,
which are the principal means of elimi-
nating animal poisons, and consequently
it is more harmful than useful. To «ul-
phate of quinine should be added alco-
bcd * n 'moderate doses in the form of
port wine or grog.
It is necessary above all when fever
has disappeared and the patient wishes
to go out and resume his usual occupa¬
tions to insist upon a convalescence in¬
doors for from four to eight days, ac¬
cording to the seriousness of the attack.
Such ia the general treatment.
If influenza becomes localized and
affects any particular organ a local treat¬
ment should accompany this general
treatment. That is, of course, the
affair of the physician consulted, and
cannot be treated under the head of
general indications.—New York Her¬
ald.
Muscle Without Meat.
The generally accepted idea as to
meat eating being indispensable to physi¬
cal welfare is confuted by hundreds of
reports of personal experience, several of
them appearing in Food, Home and Gar¬
den. A Michigan vegetarian’s wife says
her husband is “strong as Samson, and
doesn’t know what it is to be sick.”
Another correspondent, “a vegetarian
for forty years,” although advanced in
life, “is exceedingly active and healthy.”
“The longer I abstain from the flesh-pots,
the less I feel inclined to return to them,”
writes a third; among other advantages
he finds that of more freedom from rheu-
niatism. A second instance of this pain-
ful disease is noted as due to “voracious
appetite for meat.” The most interest-
iog case is reported by Mrs. H. S. Lake,
Norwich, Conn., whose family bill of
fare consists mostly of fruit, vegetables
and bread of entire-wheat flour—no
other kind has been used on her table g
five years, and under thi 3 system her
health is steadily improved. What she
says further—in the appended excerpt—
shows that such diet is amply sufficient,
even under the double demand for sup-
port and growth:
“My son is seventeen, weighs 160
pounds, is six feet tall, well proportioned,
i a best of health and spirits, no bad
habit of any kind, and quite a musical
genius; can play on most anything that
blows with the mouth, and that without
any instruction. He is an engineer, and
has sole charge of the eDgme and boiler
for a large silk-ribbon manufactory. It
is quite amusing to see him strip up his
shirt-sleeve, display his well-developed
muscle, and say ‘That’s entire wheat,’
or often making nearly his whole meal of
bread and butter, take up a slice and
look at it with so much affection, and
say ‘That’s the humming stuff, mamma;
that’s what I grew up on.’ We are all
much happier and healthier, and we owe
all to right living. ’
NATIONAL CAPITAL
What is Being Done in Congressional
Halls for the Country’s Welfare.
PROCEEDINGS FROM DAY TO DAY BRIEFLY
TOLD—BILLS AND MEASURES UNDER
CONSIDERATION—OTHER NOTES.
THE HOUSE.
Thursday. —The house committee on
public buildings and grounds authorized
a favorable report on tho following pub¬
lic building bills: Brunswick, Ga $75,
000; Newport ,
niston, Aia., News, Va., $75,000; An¬
Alabama, $40,000. Mr. Herbert, of
tion reported the naval appropria¬
bill. Referred to a committee of
the whole.
Friday. —In the house, on Friday, on
tbe suggestion of McMillin, of Tennessee,
two hours on Saturday were set apart for
tbe consideration of private bills, and
house went into a committee of the
whole, (Mr. Blouut of Georgia, in tho
chair) on freo wool, and was addressed
by Mr. Stevens, of Massachusetts.
Monday. —After unimportant routine
floor proceedings in the house Monday, the
was awarded to the committee on
tbe District of Columbia. Measures re¬
lating to the administration of the local
government the day’s occupied the greater part of
session. The house then went
into committee of the whole on the army
appropriation bill. There was little op¬
position made to the measure, and Mr.
Guthwaite. ot Ohio, who had charge of
it, steered it cleverly through the legisla¬
tive breakers, but as the hour was
growing late, the committee arose with¬
out adjourned disposing of the bill, and tho house
Tuesday. to Tuesday. the
— In house, on' Tues¬
day, Mr. Enloe, of Tennessee,
from the committee on postoffices and
post roads, reported a bill to repeal the
mail subsidy act. It was placed upon
the calendar, and the minority was grant¬
ed leave to file a minority report. Mr.
Sayers, of Texas, presented a conference
report on the urgent deficiency bill, and
it was agreed to. As finally parsed, the
bill appropriates $469,641, being $41,227
more than was carried by the bill as it
passed the house, and $>3,244 less than
it carried as passed by the senate. The
house then went the committee of the
whole—Blount, of Georgia, in the chair
—on the free wool bill.
THE SENATE.
Thursday. —In the senate, Thursday,
Mr. Morgan offered a resolution which was
agreed to, calling on the president for
copies of the correspondence in regard to
the Venezuela awards since June, 1890.
Friday. —In the senate, Friday, Mr.
Stewart introduced a joint resolution
proposing a constitutional amendment
that, after 1897, no person who lias had
the office of president for the term of
four years, or any part thereof, shall be
eligible to that office within four years *
after the expiration of such term. Mr.
Srewart said th&t he bad been considering
what committees should properly have
jurisdiction of the subject, and that he
had come to the conclusion that it ought
to be referred to tbe committee on civil
service reform and retrenchment. He
thought an extension of the presiden¬
tial term was objectionable, because that
would make the stake too great and might
some time lead to revolution. The great
the advantage of the amendment would be
removal of all temptation on the part
of the president to use the appointing
power for re-election. The joint resolu
tion was referred to the committee on civil
service reform. The bill by Daniel, assent¬
ing to the privileges and grants given by
the states of South Carolina and Virginia
to the French Cable company was taken
up.
Monday.—I n the senate, Monday, a
conference was order d on the urgent de¬
ficiency bills, and Senators Hale, Allison
and Cockrell were appointed conferees on
the part of the senate. The senate at 2
o’clock went into executive session.
When the doors were reopened, after be¬
ing cl- sed for half an hour, the senate
resumed consideration of the postoffice
again building bill. At 4 o’clock the senate
went into executive session,
on motion of Mr. Sherman, and
at 5:25 o’clock adjourned until Tuesday.
Among the papeis presented at the open¬
ing of the day’s sesaoin was a protest by
the Baltimore conference of the Method¬
ist Episcopal church against the enact¬
ment of further oppressive legislation
against the Chinese people, as tending to
cripple the missionary work in China
through retaliatory measures. There were
also hundreds of petitions presented from
grangers praying for legislation against
gambling in “futures,” and on various
other subjects. Half an hour was occu¬
pied in the presentation of such petitions.
NOTES.
The tariff debate did not go on Monday
owing to other important business before
the house.
The committee on the judiciary, Mon¬
day, resolved to report to the senaie all
of the judicial nominations, including
the nomination of Judge Woods, of In¬
diana, with the recommendation that
they be confirmed.
by Georgia President, postmasters were appointed
the Monday, as follows:
Commissioner, Wilkinson county, W. B.
Etheridge; Haralson, Coweta county, M.
L. Stewait; Pearson, Coffee county, J.
E. Ricketson; Valalbrosa, Laurens
county, N. C. Chandler.
On account of the large number of
members who want to speak on the tariff,
the vote on the wool bill may be post¬
poned. It was expected that the vote
would be taken on the 21st. On the 22
the special order is the silver bill, bu“
only three days are to be devoted to that,
and then the tariff debate will goon, and
a vote will probably be readied by th
l?t of Apr 1.
Colonel Moses, of Georgia, ma le at:
argument before the committee ou pen
sions Monday in favor of a g ncra ! bid.
placing all the surviv rs of t‘ e Indian
wars upon the pension fis; at !rom eigh
to twelve dollars a month. The coni
mittca agreed to it and iu-trocted him to
draw up the bT>. It will be reporte 1 to
the house n xt Monday. Colonel Mos *s
says there are about four thousand ‘ot
diers and six thousand widows.
The president has issued a prociamatio
of r. eif-rockv with Nicaragua under the
terms of section 8 of the McKinley
act. Under this agreement the govern¬
ment of Nicaragua will admit free of all
duty fr< in and after April 15th, into a'l
ports of entry of that country certain
enumerated articles of merchandise; the
product of the Uni'ed Statis, in reci¬
procity for the admi-siou into the United
8 ates of articles enumerated in s ction 3
of the act.
The committee on territories has com¬
pleted the consideration of the bill for
the admission of New Mexico. The bill
will provide for the constitutional conven¬
tions to beheld next December,to be fol¬
lowed by the election for state oflic rs iu
April, 1893. The bill for the admission of
Arizona, will also be reported within a
few days. Both territories are democratic,
and when admitted into the bouse as
states, send four democratic United
States Senators.
TBE SOUTH IN BRIEF
The News of Her Progress Portrayed in
Pithy and Pointed Paragraphs
AND A COMPLETE EPITOME OF HAPPEN¬
INGS OF GENERAL INTEREST FROM DAY
TO DAY WTTH1N HER BORDERS.
The governor of North Caroliua on
Saturday, commuted the sentence of
Weightman Thomson, convicted of kill-
iug house. three persons and burning their
Thomson is not of sound mind.
On last Monday night the town of Mt.
Pleasant. Tenu., was visited by the most
destructive fire in tbe history of that
town. The principal business part of
the place was burned. L ss $30,000;
insurance unknown.
A conference of the southern passen¬
ger men will soon be held to make rates
for the Grand Army of the Republic en¬
campment. A mass meeting of passen¬
ger men will also soon be held to discuss
world’s fair rates.
The Hotel, Stanton, at Chattanooga,
Tenn., one of the largest hotels in the
south, was closed by attachment Satur¬
day afternoon. The amount of indebt-
ednees upon which suit is brought is
$16,000. All the boarders owing the
house were garnisheed to the extent of
their indebtedness.
A meeting of the women, held at
Charleston S. C., Tuesday, in the inter¬
est of the World’s fair, was rather stormy.
They began proceedings by requesting
several northern women, who we e pres
eut, to withdraw, and after a very hot
discussion, ended by appointing a com-
committee to endeavor to secure the re¬
moval of Mrs. J. S. R Thompson, lady
manager of the state at large.
A Nashville telegram reports that,
upon the application of the holders of
$500,000 of fi'st mortgage bonds, United
States Circuit Judge Howell E. Jackson,
on Saturday, appointed II. H. Taylor, of
Knoxville, receiver of the Charlotte,
Cincinnati and Chicago railway, known
as the three C’s, and which runs through
Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky and a
part of Tennessee.
The announcement of an important
deal in newsaper property was made in
Atlanta Saturday. It is the sale, by Col.
John II. Seals, of The Sunny South to
Messrs. Clark Howell, C. C. Nichols and
J. R. Holliday, of the Constitution. The
transfer will be made April 1st. The
terms of the sale are not given to the
public. ingly valuable The Sunny piece of South is an exceed¬
is the only distinctly newspaper literary prop¬
erty. It
paper in the south.
The alliance of Georgia seems to have
taken up the iuterest that the people
generally share in the movement to send
a Georgia exhibit to Chicago, and the
Rome alliance has passed resolutions en¬
dorsing the work most heartily and
pledging in the assistance of each member
it. This means that the farmers of
Georgia lands and are alive to the fact that their
agricultural resources must be
put on advertisement at the great Worlds’
fair, and it means that they are going to
do just that very thing.
Iu A dispatch from Newport, Tenu., says:
the later part of November Esquire
David Boyer disappeared and was not
seen again until last Tuesday, when his
horribly in decomposed remains were found
a well on bis farm with three bullet
holes in his clothing. Mr. Boyer’s
twenty-five year old son, Wash, who is
county superintendent of schools, fled as
soon as the body was found and hid in
the cave. His brother offered $500 re¬
ward for him, dead or alive, and late
Tuesday night he was captured. He is
now lynching. in jail, and there is strong talk of
Texas, Dispatches of Tuesday from Austin,
report that the senatorial situa¬
tion is taking more definite shape every
hour. The Mills men express themselves
sure of victory. A prominent member of
the house told a reporter that Mr. Mills
was goiDg through; that the members
had already made up their minds, and he
would be electe i on the first ballot. Tbe
Mids party claim 75 out of 106 in the
house, and they have such strength that
Governor Hogg and the administrat onists
who are supporting Mr. Chilton have be¬
come alarmed .
MISSISSIPPI’S COTTON CROP.
Preliminary Statistics of the Stated
Production Issued from Washington.
The census office has issued the pre¬
liminary statistics of cotton production
in Mississippi. The acreage of ootton in
that state in the ycara 1889-99 was
2,882,499, the number of linters; bales produced
1,154,406, not including average
yield per acre, four-ten ths of a bale and
total value of the crop to producers
$50,484,053. The figures reported at the
tenth census for the yeats 1879-80 were
as follows: Acreage, 2,106.215; number
of ba es, 963,111, and yield per acre,
forty-six-hundredths of a bale. No at¬
tempt was made at the tenth census to
ascertain the value of the cotton crop
which it reported, but it was estimated
by the department The figures of agriculture issued at
$38,223,060. now the are
subject to slight modification in final
report, which will also include cotton
seed and other br-mehes of cotton inves¬
tigation which the census office is en¬
gaged in.
NUMBER
NEWS IN GENERAL.
Happenings of the Day Colled from Our
■ Telegraphic and Cable Dispatches*
WHAT IS TRANSPIRING THROUGHOUT OCB
OWN COUNTRY, AND NOTES OF INTER¬
EST FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
The great miners’ 6trike iu England
went iuto effect Saturday. It is reported
that 80,000 men are out.
Dispatches report that the entire vil¬
lage of Edger, in Marathon couny, Wis¬
consin. was wiped out by fire Saturday.
A Constantinople dispatch of Monday
says great excitement has been caused
there by what the police claims 19 the dis¬
covery of a plot to assassinate the Sul¬
tan. Two men have been arrested.
A Washington dispatch of Saturday
say's: Government experts have discov¬
ered that there are a great many light¬
weight gold coins in circulation, made so
by about the “sweating process” by which
75 cents cm be extracted from a
twenty-dollar gold piece.
Ont., A dispatch of Tuesday from Ottawa,
says: Sir John Thompson, on be¬
half of the government, replying to a
question in parliament, said the govern¬
ment had no intention to arrange reci¬
procity of copyright between Canada and
the United States, as no necessity existed
for such action.
do, Dispatches of Monday Villa from Lare¬
epidemic Mexico, report that the typhoid fever
is making terrible ravages
among the people of that place, there
having been 230 deaths within the past
ten dav9. There is no decrease in the
alarming death rate, and the public hos¬
pital is filled with patients.
A telegram of Monday from Des Moines,
la., reports that the democratic members
of the house and senate have agreed upon
a caucus bill for a congressional re-ap-
portoinment of the state. The bill di¬
vides the state into eleven districts,six of
which in 1890 gave a democratic and five
a republican majority.
A dispatch Del., of Tuesday from Wilming¬
ton, siys: Thomas P. Bayard has
addressed an open letter to ihe democrats
of the country in which he takes strong
ground against free t-ilver coinage under¬
taken by the United States, solitary and
alone. He argues that bimetallism, if
practicable, cat> only be so through in¬
ternational agreement.
A Reading, Pa., dispatch repents that
since the lowering of the prices in the
market large consignments of southern
pig iron by rail for points in Lebanon
and Schuylkill Valleys have been the
subject of remaik. The iron comes by
the way of Hagerstown and ShippeDS-
bitrg aud is being shipped to a number
of points in this section.
A New York dispatch of Monday says:
The Sloss Iron and Steel Company has
been left out of tbe consolidation of the
big iron companies of Alabama aud Ten¬
nessee. After the deal w is concluded,
as of the everyone Sl< thought, President Seldon.
ss company, iosisted on con¬
ditions which the directors of the Ten¬
nessee Co t! and Iron Company refused to
grant, ami his company was left out.
The Rhode Island Republican state
convention met at Providence Tuesday
and nominated for governor D. Russell
Brown, of Providence; lieutenant-gov¬
ernor, Melville Bull, of Middletown;
secretary of state, G. H. Utter, of West¬
erly, the present incumbent; attorney-
general, 1*. W. Burbank, incumbent;
state treasurer, Samuel Clark, incum¬
bent. The administration of the presi¬
dent was emphatically endorsed.
A cablegram from Berlin announces
the death of the grand duke of Hesse at
1:15 o’clock Sunday morning. Another
cable of the dispatch dtath from London says: News
of tbe grand duke of Hesse
caused great grief at Windsor, where the
deceased was a great favorite. The queen
will send the duke of Edinburgh to rep¬
resent her at the funeral and may possi-
b v delay her own tour of the continent
as a mark of respect for the deceased.
A London cablegram of Monday says:
Flintshire, in Wale«, appears to be tbe
only place where the order of the Miners’
federation to quit work has not beeu
obeyed by the members of the associa¬
tion. The latest estimates of the num¬
ber of miners who are now idle place the
figure at 850,600. Owing to the closing
down of other industries because of the
strike fully 200,000 men in ether em¬
ployments have been thrown out of work.
A New York dispatch of Friday says:
The officers of the Richmond Terminal
Company will make no vigorous fight
against railroad the movement to place tbe Cen¬
tral in tbe bands of a permanent
receiver. They believe iu the first place
that the fight is being made by Mr.
R untree and other lawyers simply for
the purpose of making a reputation for
themselves personally. They likewise
say that a fight would be useless, because
it seems to them that Judge Speer has
already determined in his own mind to
appoint a permanent receiver.
LOUISIANA COTTON.
The Production of the State as Re¬
ported by Census Offiee.
The census office has issued the pre¬
liminary statistics of cotton production in
in Louisiana. The acreage in cotton
that state in the year 1889 90 was 1,270,-
885; the number of bales produced,
659 588, not including linters, and the
average yield per acre, fifty-two hun¬
dredths of a bale.
The figures reported at the tenth census
for the year 1879-80 were as follows:
Acreage, 864,787; number of bales, 508,
569, end yield per acre, fifty-Dine huu.
dredths of a bale. The figures now issued
are subjeet to a slight modification in the
final report, which will also include cot¬
ton seed and other branches of the rot-
ton investigation which the census office
is engaged in.
Farmers are plowing in nearly every
county in and some of them are
alrenat y planting oats and barley. If tbe
present mild weather in that State con¬
tinues, all crops will be in the ground a
month earlier than usual.
The iron companies organized to work on
theMonaba Range. Minnesota, represent be¬
tween *76,000,000 and *77,000,000 capital.