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THE TOCCOA NEWS
VOLUME XX.
RICHMOND & DANVILLE R R.
Atlanta and Charlotte Alr-Llne Diflsion.
Condensed Schedule of Passenger
Trains, in Effect Jan. 17th, 1892.
NORTHBOUND. No. 38. No, 10. No. *.2
CAfcTEUS TIME. Daily. Daily.
Daily
liT.Atlanta (E. j .) 1 25 pm 8 50 pm 9 00am
Chamblee..... 9 27 pm 9 38am
Norcrosa....... Duluth........ 9 39 pm 9 52am
Buwane®....... 9 51 pro 10 05am
Buford........ 10 03 pm 10 16am
Flow 10 17 pn. 10 18am
ry Br&uch ........10 31 pm 10 40am
Gainesville..... Lula.......... 2 53 pm;10 51 pm It 03am
Bellton........ ........11 18 pm 11 33am
Gornelia....... 11 ?.l peril 37am
Mt. Ai;y....... 11 45 pm 12 06pm
Toccoa....... 11 50 pm
WeHtminxter 12 20 am 12 41 pm
Beneca ... 12 58 am 1 22pm
Central........ ........ 1 17 am 1 47 pm
Eaaleys........ 1 50 am 2 35pm
Greenville 2 18 atu 3 08pm
..... 6 06 pm 2 44 am 3 37pm
Greers......... Wellford....... 3 14 am 4 07pm
. a 3 83 am 4 25,on
Clifton........ partanburg 6 57 pm 8 54 am 4 50pm
Cowpens 4 i3 am 5 08pm
Gaffney....... ...... 4 18 am 5 12pm
Blacksburg..... 4 40 am 5 33pm
Grover......... 5 01 am 6 00pm
King’* 5 11 am 6 11pm
Mount’ll 5 28 am 6 30pm
Gastonia....... Lowell..... 5 54 am 6 58pm
Bellemont..... 6 07 am 7 12pm
Ar. Charlotte...... 6 14 am 7 24j-xr
9 10 pm 6 40 am 7 SOpoi
SOUTHBOUND. No. 37. No. 11. No. 9.
Daily. Daily. Daily.
Lv. Charlotte...... 9 45 am 1 50 pm 2 20 am
Belli mout..... 2 12 pm 2 42 am
D .Well......... 2 23 pm 2 52 am
Gastonia....... 2 35 pm 3 01 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
Clifton........ O'owpeus...... 4 10 pm 4 42 am
4 13 pm 4 45 am
Bparfanburg Ilford........ ... 11 43 am 4 27 pm 5 00 am
W. 4 50 pm 5 23 am
Greers......... 5 0« pm 6 42 am
Greenville...... 12 36 pm 5 34 pm 6 10 am
Eas! jys......... 6 07 pm 6 38 am
Central ........ G 55 pm 7 30 am
Seneca,........ 7 22 pm 7 57 am
‘Westminster.... 7 41 pm 8 17 am
Tooooa........ 8 19 pm 8 55 am
Mt. Airy....... 8 48 pm 9 23 am
Cornelia....... 8 52 pm 9 27 am
Bellton........ 9 1G pm 9 49 am
Lula.......... 9 18 pm 9 51 am
Gainesville..... 3 41 pm 9 42 pm 1C 10 am
Flowery Buford........ Branch 10 00 pm 10 40 52 au
10 17 pm 10 arj
Suwanee....... 10 33 pm 11 04 am
Duluth........ 10 45 pm 11 15 pm
Norcross...... 10 56 pm 11 28 am
Chamblee...... U 08 pm 11 43 am
Ar. A tlanta (E. T.) 5 05 pm 11 45 pm 12 20 pm
Additional trams Nns. 17 an l 18—Lula ac¬
commodation, lanta daily except Sunday, leaves At¬
5 30 p m, arrives Lula 8 12 p m. Return¬
ing, loaves Lula G 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 30 p
in, and 11 40 h m, arrive At liens 10 15 p m and
12 20 pm. Returning leave Athens, No. 10
daily, except Sunday, and No. 12 daily, 6 20 p m
and G 45 a m, arrive Lula 8 05 p an and 8 30
a m.
Between Toccoa and Elberton—No. Gt dai¬
ly; except Elberton Sundae, leave Toccoa 100 pm
arrive 4 40 p m. Returning, No. 60
dally, and'arrives except Sunday, 8* leave * Elberton 5 00 a m
Toccoa 30 a m.
Nos. 9 an 1 10 carry Pullman Sleepers be¬
tween Atlanta and New York.
No*. 87 and 38, Washington and Southwest¬
ern Yostibuled Limited, between Atlanta and
Washington. On this train no extra fare is
charged. New York Through Pullman Sleepers between
and New Orleans, al-o between
Birmingham. Washington and Memphis, via Atlanta and
For detailed information as to local anl
through time tables, rates and Pullman Sleep¬
ing car reservations, confer with local agents,
nr hild I’Afla
JAS. L. TAYLOR, W. A. TURK,
Gen’l Pass. Ag’t. Ass’t.G.nl. Puss. Ag’t.
Atlanta, Ga. Charlotte N. 0.
0. P. HAMMOND,
W. H. GREEN. Superintendent. Atlanta, Ga.
80L. HASS,
Gen’l Manager. Traffic Manager,
Atlanta, Ga, Atlanta, tia.
LEWIS DAVIS,
ATTORNEY AT la AW
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will practice in the counties of Haber¬
sham and Rabun of the Northwesterc
Circuit, and Frankim and Banks of th«
Western Circuit. Prompt attention wil
be given to all bus Less entrusted**© him
The collection of debts will have spec
ial attention.
CRASHED TOGETHER.
Fearful Wreck ou-Ahe “Cotton Belt”
Road—Niue Lives Lost.
Data Is of i\ fatal heat endjc dlision on
the Cotton B It railroad reached St.
Louis at ».u early hour Satuiday morning.
The accident resul ed in the immediate
death of uiuo persons and the serious in¬
juring id twenty others, sonic of whom
wid probably die. The c dilsiun occurred
at. 7 o’clock Friday .Between right 350 m !es south
of St. L uju the stations pf
HumphreGoMe in » rk rasas. It
was caused by the civw of an irregular
passenger t.aia- d sobeviag orders, and,
ns a lesult, the engine of the passenger
train ran into* the engine of the
frieight. *A ll of the c rs of the p issen-
ger train were thro-vn from the track aud
upvt. The names of the dead are as fol¬
lows: Mrs. Octave Anderson, Amarillo,
Tex.; William Chrystal, of Denton, City*, lex.;
J. T. San-letsou, of Puree Mo. ;
Mrs. R. B. C.ark, uf Winchester, Tenn. ;
B. I). Groin toe, of Nashvi-le, Tenn. ;
Mrs. A. M. Menson, of Alabama; James
Morgan, of Menqriis Tenn.; bring
Nichols, firetna > of ftvight.
POLK’S WILL DECLARED VOID
And His Estate Will be Sold for Equa¬
ble Division.
A Na*hville dispatch of Tuesday says:
The will of ex-President James K. Polk
has been declared invalid, and his home
place, with his historic mansion and
tomb, being ab mt one acre in the center
of the city, will be sold and ihe proceeds
divided among fifty or more heirs at law,
who are scattered from New Yo’k to
California. President Polk, although a
fine 1 iwyer, attempted to establish a per-
uetuity,*and left of his place to deserving the state in of
trust for the use the most
tbe Polk family, and on this ground the
will was set aside. The place is worth
$50,000
_
Boston proposes to take half of all
earnings of its street railways above eight
par cant, .
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL.
The Philadelphia Farm Journal gives
this very sensible advice: “Let the boy
buy and sell occasionally. What he
loses in money he will gain in experi¬
ence, worth more than money.”
The total estimated investment iu elec
trical industries in the United States at
the close of 1891 was $700,000,000,
one-hall of which was iuvested in electric
light companies and electric railroad?.
Eugdshmen are increasing nearly seven
times as fast as Frenchmen. At the be-
ginning of the century France ha 1 n
population of 27,000,009, and England
16,000,000. Now the numbers ol each
are almost the same, or about 33,000,-
000 .
It is asserted that when the present
comprehensive plan of connecting all
England’s West India possessions bj r sub¬
marine cable is completed fully one-third
of her defensive fleet for the protection
of these colonies can be done away
with.
The League for Sunday Rest iuJFranc?,
established about two years ago, con¬
tinues to make steady progress, branches
having been formed in various towns.
Among its supporters are representa¬
tive men of every political aud religious
party.
Though the Falls of Minnehaha have
gone dry, Minneapolis, Minn., made ar¬
rangements to supply an artificial cat¬
aract there during the session of the Na¬
tional Republican Convention by laying
pipes to connect the raiL with the city
water works.
Every year travel through the Nation¬
al Yellowstone Park becomes easier, and
more is done for the comfort and con¬
venience of the visitor. The roads in
particular are greatly improved, and the
appropriations for roadmaking are judi¬
ciously applied under the supervision of
Lieutenant Chittenden, of the Engineer
Corps, United States Array.
“Cincinnati girls arc doing themselvei
proud this year,” announces the Louis
ville Courier-Journal. “One of them
has refused to marry a Count; and an¬
other, by sitting in a chair over a hole ir
her father’s sidewalk, has prevented the
planting of a hideous pole for electric
wires iu front of her home. Governoi
McKinley, in his next message, should
make especial mention of these young
ladies, aud congratulate the State ol
Ohio on its good fortune iu having such
daughters. ”
Tho walls of the Fleet and of New¬
gate in London, as well as of the Tombs
and of Ludlow Street, New York City,
Jail show, notes the New York World,
that prisoners delight in verse-writing.
Birchell scribbled some poor lines on the
door of his Canadian cell. Eugene Aram,
i real character as well as a hero of fic¬
tion. on the morning preceding his exe¬
cution wrote this:
Corn?, pleasing rest, eternal slu nber, fa!!;
Seal mine, that ojce must seal the eyes of
all.
Bat prison poetry has rarely, if ever,
been of such excellence as to warrant the
idea that poets in general ought to be
iu jail.
_
Every now and then a song-writer
dies or brings a copyright suit in court,
aud the world remembers about his ex¬
istence. It seems strange, soliloquizes
the New York World, that we know so
little of hymn-writers. Tae death of a
young Palmer, near New Haven, some
days ago, reminds hymaologists that the
Rev. Ray Palmer, of New Orleans, has
written some of the iuo3t beautiful
Americaa hymus. Heber and Cowpor
produce! hymns of a high order of liter¬
ary excellence, but the general lack of
that quality mu3t be admitted, however
unwillingly,in most of the verses pciutc I
in contemporary hyma-boo.es. Dr.
Rabert Lowry, of Piaiufield, N. J..wrote
“My Faith Looks Up to“Tass,” an l
Fanny Crosby “Pass Me Not, O Geatlo
Saviour. ”
It is natural for Chicago to attempt big
things, and it uow proposes to construct
at Jackson Park for the World's Fail
,, “the , largest fountain in tae wor.i.
The design, conceived by a New York
sculptor, is “of au apotheosis of iuo.le:u
libertv” ty r^nresent^d p t ~ d h~ fS C ! n .-lHi-i ab a a *
throned , on triumpnal barge,surrounded
a
by female figures in classic-draperies, Ou
the prow Time, blowing " a trumpet, is tc
staud. Go.umbias attendants a . are . to
represent art, science, industry, agricul-
ture aud commerce. The bar^e Z i a sun-
p Dosed to be dr i • vn bf bv et ri-rht at Swi-hojaea * w-1-
n
guided by as many stalwart riders. Tne.
basia of the fountain is to be 153 feet in
diameter, “and flanked on each side bj
"
columns i fifty at t feet i hign i u surmounted , by
eagles.” The water will be furnished by
a half-circle of dolphins in the rear of
lb. ^
which will surround Columbia s vessel of
state. Tae large figure? in the groups
will be twenty feet high, and the small¬
est twelve. The metal work is to be
done in Paris.
TOCCOA, GEORGIA, SATURDAY; MAY 1892.
lA V drl. A TTOM A Av/xt xxIj AT P \jJ\x A PTT a A ilMi A T
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. —Iu the house the third
party received recognition Thursday
rooming, and Mr. Watson sent up to the
clerk’s desk and had read this terse reso¬
lution, “That the committee on ways
and means be requested to report the
subtreasury bill. ” He asked unanimous
consent for its consideration, but Mr.
Bellzhoover’s demand for the “regular
order” operated as au objection.
After a fruitless call of the committee
the house went iuto c mmittee of the
whole, Mr. L ster, of Georgia, in the
chair. After several attempts to emend
the bill had failed the chair delivered
his decision ou the point of order made
against the amendment offered by
Mr. Bland of Wednesday for the
coinage of all silver bullion pur¬
chased, and now in the treasury, into
standard silver dollars, the cost of coin¬
age to be paid out of the seigniorage or
gain to ihe government the remainder of
the seigniorage covered into the treasury.
It was conceded, said the chair, that the
ajnendmeot chauged the existing law,
and therefore it would not be in order,
unless, being germane, it reduced the
amount covered by the bill. The clause
in the bill related to the recoinai>e of
abraded minor coins, and the amend¬
ment was germane to the subject-
matter of the clause. Did it reduce
.
amounts covered by the bill? The
mere fact that it struck from the bill
the appropriation of $100,000 for the re-
cotnage of minor coins did not reduce
the amount b cause it appropriated the
seigniorage, which might amount to
$2,000,000. It did not reduce the
amount covered by the bill and might
increase the expenditures. He sustained
the point of order and ruled out the
amendment. Mr. Bland then re-offered
his amendment with the proviso attach¬
ed to it, “That the cost: of this coinage
shall not exceed $93,000—$5,000 of
which shall be for the coinage of sub¬
sidiary silver, and $90,000 for the stand¬
ard silver dollar.” At ihe conclusion of
another long debate the chair said that
he had heard nothing to change his
opinion that the amendment was not.
germane, and he, therefore, ruled the
amendment, as modified, out of order.
Mr. Bland appealed from tbe decision,
but the committee sustained the decision
of the chair by a vote of 120 to 75. Mr.
Cogswell, of Massachusetis, offered an
amendment appropriating $1,016,445 for
continuing the work of the eleventh cen¬
sus. In a standing vote the amendment
was defeated by a large majori:y. The
committee then arose aud the house ad¬
journed.
Friday.— Once more Mr. Watson, of
Georgia, attempted to secure considera¬
tion of the nsdution requesting the
ways and means committee to report tbe
subtreasnry bill in the house Friday, and
once more the demand for the “regular
order” operated as an objection. After
the call of committees for reports, the
hou«e went into committee of the whole,
with Mr. Lester, of Georgia, in the chair,
on the sundry civil bill. After several
amendments had been rejected with little
debate, Mr. Dickerson, of Kentucky,
moved to strike out the appropriation of
$150,000 to enable the secretary of war
to complete the establishment of the
Chickamauga and Chatanooga Nation¬
al park. This also was lost, Mr.
Dickerson and Mr. Compton being the
only members who had anything to say
in its favor, while it was vigorously op¬
posed by Mr. Pickier, of South Dakota;
Mr. Snodgrass, of Tennessee, and Mr.
MeKaig, of Nebraska. The vote stood
thirty to eighty-eight. On the motion of
Mr. Cox, of Tennessee, an amendment
Whs adopted appropriating and $11,500 for
improving grounds fences around
the arsenal at Columbia, Tenn. Mr. Hol¬
man gave notice that, hereafter, the ap¬
propriations committee would insist that
the river and harbor contracts be provid¬
ed for in the river and harbor bill.
Mr. Kilgore raised a point of
order against the clause in
the bill appropriating $50,000 for
the preparation of the site and erection
of a pedestal for the statue of the late
Gen. W. T. Sherman in the city of Wash¬
ington. At the conclusion of a long de¬
bate upon a point of order, the chairman
(Herbert) said that he would like to over¬
rule the point of order if he could see his
way clear to do so, but he could find no
law authorizing tbe appropriation, and
was constrained to sustain the point and
rule out then the clause. Mr. Henderson, of
Iowa, asked unanimous consent to
reinsert the clause, but Mr. Kilgore
objected. Mr. Henderson then gave
notice that he would call the matter
up in the Rouse Saturday in the shape
of a separate bill, and ask unanimous
consent for its consideration. Pending
further action, the committee , . ,„
rose
The house took a recess until 8 o’clock,
the evening session to be for the consid-
er » tion of P riva l e pension bills.
Saturday.—I n tne house Mr. McMu-
Ian, of Te nnessee, from the committee on
rubs, reported a resolution that the hour
^ or tbe mee D n S df the house each day
shall be 11 o’clock. Adopted. The house
then went into committee of the whole,
Mr. Lester in the chair, on tho sundry,
civil appropriation bill. Mr. Forney, of
Alabama offered an amendment provid-
ing that the boardof managers of national
homes for disabled volunteer soldiers
shall spply the excess over $5 per month
of pensions of all inmates to the support
of the home—except where an inmate has
a dependent wife, child or parent. This
gave rise to a good deal of discussion ahd
was vigorously opposed. In advocating
lhe ame «? menfc ^ r - Snodgrass, of Ten-
cessee, said that the pension roil, which
. should be a roll of honor, had become,
ofwipg to the legislation of the republican
party, a roll of dishonor. Mr. Bland,
. congress, and attributed many of them to
the legislation of the fifty-first congress,
Mr. Forney’s amendment was adopted.
On motion of Mr. W. A. Stone, of Penn-
sylvania, the houvi adopted suggestion an amend- of the
ment, drafted at the
eovcrnment, accounting officers to cor-
net abuses arising from attempts on tbe
■art of court officers to increase their
; >es, the principal requirement being
hit prisoners shall be taken to the near-
■ t judicial officer of the United States.
A number of these amendments, having
the approval of the attorney general and
substituting salaries for fees to a large
extent, were offered by Messrs. Sayers
and Culberson, but went over.
Monday.— The house met at 11 o’clock
Monday with less than 75 members in at¬
tendance. Mr. Butler, of Iowa, made a
request for the consideration of the sen¬
ate bill to grant a pension to ex-Senator
George W. Jones, of Iowa. Watson, of
Georgia, objected. Then Mr. Watson’s
resolution requesting the committee on
ways and means to report the sub-treas¬
ury bill was adopted without objection
or debite. Mr. Watson, having achieved
his object, withdrew his objection to the
Joaes pension bill, and, on motion of Mr.
Henderson, of Iowa, it was taken
up and passed. Mr. Kilgore was
also in attendance, and his objection
was defeated by the request of Mr.
Bryan, of Nebraska, for the consider¬
ation of the bill for the erection of a
pedestal for the statne to General W. T„
Shermau. Mr, Bailey, of Texas, was also
on hand with his demands for a quorum
on the private bill called up bv Mr.
McKinney, of New Hampshire,und almost
three quarters of an hour elapse? before
a quorum appeared, and the measure was
pa-sed. The floor was then accorded to
the committee on the District of Colum¬
bia. A bill giving the district commis¬
sioners authority to supervise the man¬
agement of all street railroad lines within
the city was passed; also an amendent
running was adopted providing for all-night cars
at intervals of half an hour.
After passing a few more local bills, the
house adjourned.
Tuesday.— In the house Tuesday, Mr^.
Stewart, of Texas, from the committee on
rivers and harbors, reported back the
river and harbor appropriation bill with
the senate amendments thereto, with the
recommendation that the senate amend¬
ments be non-concurred in. Objected to.
The bill was referred to a committee of
the whole. The house then went into a
committee of the whole, Mr. Lester in the
chair, on the sundry civil appropriation
bill. The only actum of importance was
the decrease of the appropriation for the
Alaska boundary survey from $35,000 to
$10,000. Pending further discussion the
house adjourned and a democratic caucus
was announced for 8 o’clock Tuesday
evening.
THE SENATE.
Thursday. —The senate resumed con¬
sideration of the bill exempting American
coastwise vessels, piloted by their Ameri¬
can masters, or by a United States pilot,
from the obligation to pay stats pilots for
services not rendered. Mr. Butler op¬
posed the bill in tbe interest of pilots iu
the southern waters. He said they daily
aud nightly imperiled their lives to savo
the property of ship owners. Mr. Butler
offered an amendment repealing such
parts of the navigation laws as prevent
the purchase by citizens of the United
Stales of ships in foreign countries, and
their right to American registry and to Hy
the American flag. The amendment was
tabled. The river and harbor appropria¬
tion bill was then taken up, and Mr. Mc¬
Pherson made a motion to recommit the
bill with instructions to reduce the
amount 50 per cent. Mr. Dolph
moved to lay tbe motio a ou the
table, and Mr. Dolph’smotion was agreed
to. The clerk proceded with the rea ling
of the bill for amendment. A large num¬
ber of amendments reported from the
committee on commerce, a majority of
them increasing the appropriations, were
agreed to. Among them were the fol¬
lowing: Reducing the appropriation
for the harbor at Charleston, S. C., from
$300,000 to $225,000. Increasing the
appropriation for Cumberland Sound,
Ga., from $122,000 to $200,000. Re¬
ducing the appropriation for the harbor
at Savannah, Ga., from $425,000 to
$318,000. Reducing the appropriation
for the harbor at Mobile, Ala., from
$350,000 to $262,500. Increasing the
appropriation for Roanoke river, N. C.,
from $15,000 to $50,000.
Friday. —After a little routine business
the seriate on Friday resumed the con¬
sideration of the river aud harbor bills.
Mr. Pugh moved to take $50,000 from
the appropriation of $262,000 for Mobile
harbor and to add that sum to the ap¬
propriation of $150,003 for the improve¬
ment of B ack Warrior river. Alter a
long discussion, into which politics enter¬
ed largely, Mr. Pugh’s amendment was
agreed to. Some other minor amend¬
ments having been offered and acted on.
the bill was reported back to tbe
senate. All the amendments agreed
to in the committee w'ere concurred
in in -gross, and the bill was passed
without division, although Mr. McPher¬
son remarked a few minutes afterwards
that he had intended to ask the yeas and
nays. A conference was asked, and
Messrs. Frye, Dolph aud Ransom were
appointed conferees pn i the part of the
senate. A considerable number of bills
were, at the request of various - senators,
taken from the calendar and passed. All
interest ooiv, two or three
Uelng public building 'session bills. The senate
went into executive and, at 5:20
o’clock adjourned till Monday.
MondAy In the senate Mondav waJ Mr
Vest offered a resolution, which laid
on the table for the present, discharging
committee on finance from further
consideration of the house bill to put
wool on the free list and to reduce duties
on woolen goods and directing the com
m Rtee to report the bill back to the
senate for its action thereon. The senate
biil appropriating $50,000 for an eqaes-
trian statue of General Francis Marion,
at Columbia, 8. C., was taken from the
calendar and passed. The calendar was
then taken up. Among the bills f&^court passed
was the following: Referring to
0 f claims, the claim pf the Citizens’ Bank
Q f Louisiana for ppecie taken from the
bank by General Butler, with an atneud-
ment excluding the allowance of interest. aside"
3 o’clock the calendar was laid
aQ< i ., “unfinished business” taken up,
being the senate bill to provide for tbe
made for and against the bill. Pending
discussion the senate adjourned.
Tuesday.—I mmediately after opening
proceedings in the senate, Tuesday, tbe
calendar bills' was tnkeo tip and a large num—
for of disposed of. Among those
passed were the following: Approprlat-
i' g $300,000 each for public buildings at
Oakland aud i-an Diego, Cal.; senate bill
to submit to the court of private land
claims the title of William McGarrahun
to Rancho Panoche Grande, Cal. This
claim arises out of a grant made by
Manuel Micheltorena, governor of Upper
California,, to Vicente P. Gom z, in 1814.
and purchased by McG irrahan. It has
been before congress in one shape or an¬
other for many years. The calendar was
laid aside at 2 o’clock p. in., and the bill
to provide for the punishment of viola¬
tions of tbe treaty rights of
aliens was takeu up, Mr. Morgan
continuing his argument in a I
vocacy of the bill. At the c o-e
of his argument Mr. Morgan moved
with the assent of the committee ou for¬
eign relations, that the bill should go
over till next December. Debate on the
bill was continued by Messrs. Turpie,
Gray, Hiscock, George, Teller and
others. The matter finally went over
without action. Mr. Pettigrew, from
i he committee on quadri-centennial re¬
ported a joint resolution directing the
president to proclaim fouUhuudredth a general holiday
commemorating niversary the discovery :i n
of the of America o:i
October 12, 1892. Placed on the caieu-
d ^ir^ .The senate then adjourned.
• NOTES.
The senate, on Friday, confirmed the
nomination of B. F. Carter, postmr.ster
at Ccdartown, Ga.
President Harrison, on Friday, pro¬
claimed a treaty of reciprocity with Gua¬
temala. It goes into effect May 30th.
Baron Fava, Italian minister, was re¬
ceived in the blue room of the white
house Monday morning by President
Harrison.
There was a desultory discussion upon
the general subj ct of tariff legislation by
the senate finauce committee Tuesday,
but no c ffort was made to secure action
upon auy of the house tariff bills that are
now' on the calendar of the committee.
It appears that there is no probability of
an early report by the committee upon
these measures.
Mr. Mitchell, from the committee on
privileges and elections, on Tuesday, re¬
ported to the senate a joint resolution
proposing a constitutional amendment
providing for the election of United
States senators by the popular vote. He
said that the members of the committee
were divided on the subject and would
make separate reports. The joiut resolu¬
tion was placed on tbe calendar.
I iRepresentative Livingston, of Georgia,
has made a request of the committee on
rules to set aside one or two days for the
consideration of the sub treasury bill by
the house. It will be granted. There
is a disposition among all the members
of the bouse to bring the matter up and
dispose of it finally. When it does come
up, there can be no trimming. Members
will have to show their hands as being
squarely for or against it.
Tbe senate has made such rapid pro¬
gress with the regular appropriation bills
that but two of these measures, which
have been sent to it by the house, await
the action of the senate. One of them
—pension appropriation—is purposely
withheld in committee, and the other,
diplomatic and consular, it is ex¬
pected, will be reported to the sen¬
ate finished and business passedjat is once. The un¬
a bill to punish
violation of the treaty rights of aliens,
but the consideration of this measure
may be further delayed by the calling up
of one of the pending special orders.
There are three of these orders, namely:
The silk cultural bill, the bill to fix the
compensation of United States district
attorneys and the revenue marine trans¬
fer bf.il.
THIRD PARTY CONVENTION.
L. L. Polk Will Probably be Nomina*
ted for President.
The third party in North Carolina met
in convention in Raleigh Monday,
Seventy-five counties were represented.
was unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That this being the first reg-
ularly organized people’s party conven-
tion of the state of North Carolina, we
let this occasion pass without say¬
ing to the people of the United States
that in the person of L. L. Polk, we have
;the patriotic statesman, the Christian
gentleman, in whom we hare every con¬
fidence. His ability, integrity and pu¬
rity fully qualify him for any position in
the gift of the American people, and at
Omaha, Neb., in July we propose to pre¬
sent our valued citizen as a candidate for
the presidency.
The chairman of the executive com¬
mittee was directed to take immediate
action in having each congressional dis¬
trict represented at Omaha on July 4th,
and has issued an address to the people
of the state in behalf of the People’s
party. According to this address, coun¬
ty conventions are ordered to be held
June 11th and congressional conventions
June 16ih, and former to choose dele¬
gates to the latter and to determine
whether they will put a county ticket in
the field. The various , district conven¬
tions will elect four delegates and alter¬
nates to the Omaha convention.
The following are announced as having
been elected delegates from tbe state at
large to Omaha. Harry Bkinner, T. B.
Lons, Otho Wilson, George E. Hunt, A.
C. Shuford, D. H. Gill, A. J. Dally, N.
N. Seawell. The alternates are: P. II.
Massey, J. M. Bateman, H. Sears, C. N.
Jervis, Daniel Worth, B. H. Nichols, .7.
E. Piers< n, O L Swihson.
NEGROES THREATEN REVENGE
For the Numerous Lynching* in the
Sonth—Dynamite Discussed.
The Boston Republican printed by^-ool-
ored people in Boston, Mass., contained
ah article in last Saturday’s issue to the
effect that certain colored men ; of Cam-'
bri ige and Boston, belonging to secret
societies, have for some time b en earnest¬
ly discussing the numerous lynchmgs of
colored men in the south. According tc
reports, these men have l>eeo taking les¬
sons from the sociali-t* and Ru sians' ar
to tbe making cf dinamite bombs sne
other explosives, with which they pro¬
pose to return to the south and take re
venoe unless tbe outrages are stopped.
The men are bound together by a solemr
oath, and indignantly refuse to be clasei
fled as anarchists.
THE SOUTH IN BRIEF
The Hews of He? Progress Porirayal in
Pithy and Pointed Paragraphs
AND A COMPLETE EPITOME OK HAPPEN¬
INGS OP GENERAL INTEREST FROM DAY
TO DAY WITHIN HER BORDERS.
The democrats of Trimble county, Kv.,
have instructed for John G. Carlisle for
president.
Dr. J. mes II. Randolph, for a term of
years superintendent of the Florida’insane
asylum, died in Tallahassee Monday, aged
83 years.
N. B. Taylor, S. L. Moore and W. P.
Phillips, lightning lumber cutteis. were struck by
uear Suffolk, Va., Monday, aud
instantly killed.
The ninetieth annual commencement
of Salem, N. C., Female academy began
Monday with the baccalaureate sermon
by Rev. Dr. W. W. Moore, of Hampden
Syndey, Va,
A dispatch of Saturday from Deuuison,
Texas, says: Rewards for the arrest and
conviction of the murderer of the four
Dennison women the other night now
aggregate $5,000. There is as jet no
trace of the criminal.
A telegram of Friday from Raleigh, N.
Creports the assassination of R D. Mc-
Cotter, ex-member of the legislature.
He was way Lid near his home iu Pam¬
lico and shot dead. There is no clue to
the assassin and uo reason for the crime
as he was a quiet citizen, a farmer and
merchant.
A special of Monday night says a cy¬
clone swept through Bertie county, N.
C., wrecking all the houses on Wilev
Askew’s farm. It leveled the trees on
William Pritchard’s place. Some of these
fell on his house and crushed it, killing
one of his children instantly and breaking
the other’s back.
Carl Matson and W. R. Sherman were
arrested in Macon, Ga., a few days ago
charged with counterfeiting. On Monday
Matson made a clean breast of the affair
and took the officers three miles below the
city and showed them their little mint.
The dies, metal, etc., were secured and
will be used as evidence against the men.
A di-patch of Friday from Milan,Tenn.,
sajs: Two thousand pauels of wire fence
have been cut in this county by au organ¬
ized gang opposed to the wire fence law,
made legal by recent legislation. White
cap notices have been served on several
farmers that they will be tarred and
feathered and if necessary killed, if the
fences are rebuilt.
A telegram of Sunday states that a
tunnel on the Savannah and Wes'ern
branch of the Georgia Central railroad
was discovered to be on fire Sunday.
The tunnel is near the Coosa river, in the
Coosa coal fields, some twenty-five miles
southwest of Birmingham, It runs
through the seam of coal, and this to
gether with the framing was burning.
A Mobile telegram of Monday says:
Twenty-eight mules of the Mobile Street
Railway Company, aff* cted with glan¬
ders, have be< n isolated and eight killed.
Seven more have since taken the disease
and will probably be killed at oner. It
may be necessary to isolate all the well
mules, and if so traffic on the street rail¬
way will stop.
A Baltimore telegram of Tuesday states
that Colonel Charles Marshall, who
served on General Rob rt E. Lee’s stall
during the late war, has been invited by
the U. S. Grant post, Grand Army of the
Republic, of Brooklyn, to del.ver an
oration at the Memorial Day exercises at
Grant’s tomb. Colonel Marshall has ac
cepted.
Advices of Friday from K*-y West,
Fla., are to the effect that Garza, the
Mexican bandit, is positively in that city,
but be being kept in hiding pending
t J e £ cei .P fc of authentic inform .ti n from
the Mexican government as to the reward
t° r bls capture. He has not been ar-
y este d yet, and the local officers, who
k “? w those guarding Garza, refuse to
ta
A Nashville, Terfb., dispatch say^: The
jury in the case of Rev. George J. Liud
ner, on Friday, brought in a verdict of
guilty of obtaining money under false
pretenses, and he was sent enced to three
years in the penitentiary. Lindner is an
alleged minister of the Christian fnith.
who secured money on worthless checks
and pawned diamond rings which he had
secured from a jeweler to show to a
young woman, to whom he w,;s to be
married. He was captured at Savannah,
Ga. He will be tried on five *ther in¬
dictments.
The Atlanta paper hangers we t out
on a strike Friday morning. Som time
they ago arranged a scale of prices,and all
wall-paper dealers adopted it. Lately,
however, they say the dealers reduce d the
pay, and as they failed to res lore the scale
they ordered a strike. The strikers ela m
that wall paper costs the dealers ©nlj
four cents a roll, that their sede de¬
mands ten cents and twelve and one-h .11
cents a roll for hanging, and the dealers
charge customers thirty-five cents a roll
for the paper and hanging. They ini end
to start a co-operative store, and will re
dues the price on wall-paper to eighte n
cents a roll.
EXPLOSION OF FIREWORKS
Wreck a Building and Causes the Death
of Several People.
At 4:35 o’clock Saturday afternoon t ie
factory of the Etna Pyrotechnic Com¬
pany at Hartford, ConD., blew up with
tremendous noise, which shook tiiecity
and was heard some mile? in the country.
The contents of the budding flew high in
the air and were scattered in every direc¬
tion, some of the fragments being carried
a. mile or so from tho scene.. J. L. B.
Sibley was at the Body works paying off help.
His wa9 the first taken out of the
wreck. He was apparently killed in¬
stantly. Emma Tarbox, Emma Tregurisa,
a widow and dead Maggie Copen, employes,
were found hi the ruins, recogniza¬
ble only by their clothing. They were^
fearfully blackaned. George Ziusoth and *
one woman employed there are missing,
but will probably be found in the ruins.
A number of others were more or less se¬
riously hurt.
advertisement Advertising always this pays, just put an
in paper and sea.
NUMBER 21.
HOLD-UP IN FLORIDA
Robbers Again at Work—A Sus¬
pect Now in Jail Confesses.
A Jacksonville dispatch of Tuesday
Only one of the Monroe junction Or¬
is in custody. He i9 in
jtil and has confessed. The other
are not identified, but arc still
The authorities refuse to give tbe
name of the man who has confessed and
will allow no one to see him. He hns
furnished an accurate description of his
four accomplices and claims to have had
nothing to do with the killing of Saun¬
ders, the express messenger, and was one
the men who boarded the locomotive.
TIIEY TRY IT AGAIN.
A Gainesville special Tuesday says:
“Alfred Davis, engineer of the swith en¬
gine at the Savannah, Florida and Wes¬
tern yard, was held up by two white men
Tuesday morning nt 2 o’clock. They
first made inquiries about the departure
of trains. Then they asked wheiher or
m.t the train robbers had been caught
and what was known of them. Then
placing the’r pistols close to Davis’s head
they demanded all he had, which they
took from him. One wanted to kill him,
saying, ‘Dead men tell no tale?.’ The
other objected, but ordered Davis to and walk
off. Davis’s pistol was in the cab no
one was down ..there at tbe time except
the night telegraph operator, who finally
came up towm and told a policeman, his beat, but
the policeman refused to leave
to notify the sheriff, so nothing was
known of it until morning. Both men
were white and answered very closely
tbe published description of the authorities Monroe
junction train robbers. The
are searching for them with a venganec.
PASSES FOR THE EDITORS.
Further Courtesies Extended the Geor¬
gia Weekly Editors by the Railroads.
Mr. C h rles D. Barker, e arespon ing
secretary of the Geffrgia Weekly Press
Association, aunouners that in addition
to courtesies secur. d for members from
Colonel B. W. Wrenn, of the East Ten¬
nessee road, Colonel D. G. Edwards, of
the Queen and Crescent route, has ten¬
dered the use of his road from Meridian
to New Orleans, or Shreveport, La.
From either point connections Pacific railway, can bo
made with the Texas
which has tendered through their
general pas*eog»r agent, lion. G'stou
Meslhr, the use of their rood to El Paso
Texas, a distance of 1,203 miles more,
It seems now that the AI< xiean roads will
not extend courtesies. This being tho
case, an effort will be made to secure
transportation from roads ex ending into
southern California or Colorado. Mem¬
bers going on the excursion should notify
the secretary at once. R md-* in Georgia
.'will undoubted y furnish pa-sc- to Rome
to membe:s not having same and the sec
retary wi l serure sfr h if notifi ■ I in t me.
ANOTHER LEVEE BREAKS.
The Most Serious that - las Yet Oc¬
curred this Season.
A New Orleans dispatch says: A crev¬
asse occurred at 8 o’clock Sunday eight
on the Fesrer place, three miles below
College Point. This is regarded as the
most serious break that has so far oc
curred in the levees of the lo*er Missis¬
sippi this season. The water from it will
overflow a large part of St John the B<p-
tist’s parish, and greatly damage the Mis¬
sissippi Valley railroad. The crevasse
was caused bv a crawfish hole. At ten
o’clock Monday night ihe break was
forty feet wide. There is no material on
hand to repair the dam g *, and it is
hardly possible that ttnyih ng can be
done. Aid is being telegraphed, for in
every direction.___
ANOTHER LEVEE BREAKS.
The Most Serious that lias Yet Oc¬
curred this Season.
A New Orleans dispatch Sunday says: A crev¬ night
asse occurred at 8 o’clock
on the Fesrer place, three miles below
College Point. This is regarded as the
most serious break that has so far oc¬
curred in the levees of the lower Missis¬
sippi this season.- The water from it will
overflow a large part of St. John the B ip-
tist’s parish, and greatly damage the Mis¬
sissippi Valley railroad. The crevasse
was caused by a crawfish hole. At ten
o’clock Monday night the material break was
forty feet wide. There is no on
hand to repair the dam ge, and it is
hardly possible that anyth ng can be
done. Aid is being telegraphed for iu
every direction.
THE GLENN TAX BILL
Has Been Forestalled in so Far as if
Affects the Colnmbns Southern R. R.
The case of the Columbus Southern
road brought to test tbe constitutionality
of the Glenn railroad tax bill, in whicn
the supreme court of Georgia de¬
cided against the railroad and in
favor of tbe people of the State, has gone
to the supreme court of the Uni:ed
States. There is involved in tbe resdlt to
the people of the state 07. r three hundred
thousand dollars a year, which the peo¬
ple will save if the act be sustained i-y
that court. Hon. W. C. Glenn, formerly
of Whitfield county, now of Fulton, th<-
author of the bill, is a candidate for at¬
torney general of Georgia.
BLAINE FOR PRESIDENT.
He Will Get the Republican Nomi¬
nation if He Will Accept.
A special dispatch of Monday Blaine from
Washington says: Unless Mr.
writes a le ter, p sitively refusiug to ac¬
cept the nomination, be will be the re¬
publican nominee for president. That is
as definitely fixed as anything political
can b<* t and the possibil ties of his de¬
clining are aimo«t iofinitesirad. The
thiDg is indeed, fixed. A aerator who
is in a position' to know, if the future
can be foretold, i* reported ub' assaying that
there was no longer aDy d- about the
republican nom«”a’ion.
Will Benefit Orange Growers.
A Wa bington dispatch says: in 8ena‘or
Pasco, of Florida, submitted th- sen¬
ate Tuesday, a proposed amendment to
the agricultural appropri conducti .tio i bill appro¬
priating $5,000 for 1 g an invest¬
igation of diseases of the orangr and
other citrus fruit t-c-es, and their cause,
I and for experimenting as to their cure.