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THE TOCCOA NEWS
VOLUME XX.
EVERYBODY’S GARDEN
All -
ong tbe , u waypjde . is everybody's gar-
rJr*' anere the wild ,, rose blossoms through the
summer days;
Bounded bv fitl,l fences, and ever stretch-
ing onward.
It is God’s own garden. For it give Him
praise. 0
’Tis gay with goldenrod,
There blooming grasses no J,
And sunflowers, small and yellow turn ever
in to the sun;
Quaint darkey-heads are there.
And daisies wild and fair.
Tn everybody’s garden, each flower’s the
loveliest one!
All aln.w ti, 6 Way8Kle ' S everybo1jr ’
8 « cr '
den’
Come out and gather posies; the very air
is sweet.
Come out, with hearts of gladness ye big
and little children,
Into our Father’s garden, male for
our
strolling feet.
/ I he flitting butterfly,
The fragrant winds that sigh.
The tiny c’ouds that hover above us in the
blue,
The bird’s song high and clear,
Make heaven dravv more near;
In everybody’s garden the world once more
is new!
—AV ilJiani Z. Gladwin, in Christian Union.
ATTHR RANCHO DEL FUEGO
RY- GERTRUDE ATHERTON.
T was so hot that
4 * even lift the their dogs did
not heads
h to bark at the ap-
t j\ proaching horse-
V. '9 J men; they lay with
& swollen tongues
hanging over their
Y teeth, occasionally
quivering in feeble
“ protest at the
pre-
3?~ si vailing battalions of
1 insects which short-
cn the life of the California dog. The
adobe soil cracked anew under the piti-
less sun, the whitewash on the outer
walls of the big adobe house arose in
blisters. The undulating line of brown
bills which encircled the Rancho del
r uego were dim under the materialized
neat; the creek was dry; the little brown
huts of the rancheria in the willows were
silent as tombs; even the Indians were
taking their siesta.
" r » cd hi ’ t !’ ed ,nd rec'i.
il .ioiH SP T ° r I
As •
vnooL ? ’ the ,C corral .'T , 2 lie , ‘ roused a
bade hhu “a *' 86 ?
steed Ar ,l i ?? C °T l or ot t he
ho^ h„o c n„ Hi 7 .
Valero to T, P T rC
e„w . ? n»d without ,, , the
ceremony of knocking mto the coolness
adotl adobe w^ walls T the r ' climate , e T e was “ ,he that f e . thl of , ck a
fsofa a so a e tn to n lest , C0 ; ,ntr and V await IIe /!r the ffhiB awakening ! elf0n
" e8tB - ITehl ‘ d
Uken datum^ hL ? ! A M '? the
hot O? y n?VA er r m > ackness
of the tbe night, for f there would be no
Yvas°urAL tW °r W L kS HUd h bUS l DeSa
land na g ,n ,1 A S®,?” a xr XcW E ° g *
‘ est ; Ifc ! ent biui t0 8 lee P- As lu: 8 »ept
be snored and in a few moments some
one ought have been heard moving
L OU 10 A "* 3 ’ nd thC
thm h door set midway m a wall n some
three feet deep.
The door opened and a girl entered
and stood gazing with an expression of
unmistakable repugnance at the sleeper,
secn r,cnT'V, m Cahfornia r CaU - y before , r 1C and in the 1 ° ° early ft ? U
f b ^ ack S .°5 hair fbo that Amerman hung braided occupatmu; to the dense hem
of her white gown, eyes large, black,
with a light iu them that suggested an
U " l 7 a ’ e ra{ ! 11 ,t - V ‘ > 1 iau tf es > dci1 ’
cate features, a full, red mouth and white
skm a figure lithe graceful; about the
whole an indefinable atmospheie of hope
and sparkle and capacity for happiness,
bhe looked anything but happy, how-
ever, as she gazed at the strong, shrewd
features of the sleeping visitor. Her
gaze may have been magnetic, for he sud-
denly opened Ins eyes, then rose hastily
andgree edher with manners as good as
though less profuse than those ot the
caballeros who had adored her since she
had lengthened her frocks.
“Do not think me rude,” he said. “I
did not wish to disturb any one, aud I
am afraid the heat overcame me and I
fell asleep.”
“I am glad you sleep,” she* said with
graceful but unsmiling hospitality. “No
one should be awake when it is so hot.
bhe took one of the , ugly , , horse-hair
chairs, he another facing her, and for a
moment they gazed defiantly.* silentiy at each other,
both somewhat
“It no is proper I all you alone like
this,” she said finally. “But I have
reason so I do it. And,” scornfully,
“my father no care so much, I suppose,
because is you. Now. I tell you whattee
1 want. I beg you, 1 go on my knees, si
you like it, to no come here anv more
and ask my father si you cau raarrv me.
I no love you at all. Never I can love
you. I love—always I have love_An-
tonio Rivera. lie no have the moneys
now; the Americanos take ad, but my
father letting us marry si you no coming
aud spoil all. Ay, seuor! Go! Go! No
maka me so sorry 1” She leaned forward
and clasped her hands, the tears splash-
ing; she was a charming picture.
The American regarded the floor for a
moment, let his eves dwell on her once
more, then shook his head
“No,” he said. “You are the only
woman I ever wanted, dear Dona Amata,
and I cannot give you up. I have the
less scruple, because I know that you
will be far happier with me than with
your idle, shiftless Spanish lover—”
But he was not allowed to proceed,
Dona Amata sprang to her feet and beat
her little hands clinched together.
“No say one word by him!" she cried,
her voice choked with wrath, her eves
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL
» ,. . __ N wor<3,
TT* ? Say 0Dtf You
* h,nk not man hay e tae right to living si
be no can make the moneys? Before the
Americanos . coming we have plenty
moneys and live happy 5 but now you take
a11 * You are very—how you call him?—
smart. You lend my father the moneys
and make hini si g n the paper to give you
the ranchos si he no can pay. We never
sign the paper, one for the other, Al-
ways when we lend the moneys we trust,
and alwa y* we are pay. But you have
the heart like the stone. And because
have been bad year, and the cattle die,
aud my father no can pay, you make me
pa J- You have fine chance’ and you tell
him, ‘Give me your not,°never daughter, never
mind si she hate me or mind
si she break the heart or not,'give her to
me and I give to you your land.’ Oh,
bad ’
you are man.”
He had risen and listened to her out-
burst unmoved. When she paused for
breath lie replied, “My dear Dona Am-
ata, I at least am aiming to benefit some
oue besides myself. You say that I am
a bad man. What will you thi nk of
yourself when you see your father beg-
gared, living on charity in an Indian's
hut? I say nothing of the fact that
your delicate hands will probably have
to cook his beaus. Now, be reason—
able.”
“Oh, I hatcha you,” cried the Tno girl
with another burst of grief, “and
want marry old man.”
“Old man! Why, my dear seuorita, I
am only forty.” He looked at her
amusedly; he was certainly not old
enough to be sensitive.
“But it is very old to us,” sobbed the
girl. “I only am eighteen and Antonio
no is more than twenty-two. When
our mens are forty they are very stout
and have the complexion like coffee, so I
no can think is young. You,” spite-
fully, “no are stout because you work
all the timemaka the moneys.”
At this juncture another door opened,
and an old man entered the room. A
black silk handkerchief was knotted
about his head, he wore short clothes of
green cloth decorated with laYge silver
buttons. He was very stout, and even
his features seemed to have relaxed un¬
der the enervating influence of the Cali-
fornia life of that period. His black
eyes were a trifle bleared, his indefinite
featnres wore a somewhat testy expres-
sion as he glanced from his daughter to
her suitoi.
“Don James Cunningham, I am glad
to see you,” he said, slowly. “What is
the matter? I tell her to marry you and
she do it,” and he brought his cane
d °"' a fnthe hare floor.
r °k «“>«*»
filial , rebellioniforthe u- , Brst time u her lrfe.
V ‘ m Tl A “ tom “- Ay ’.
Antomo, Antonio! and she flung herself
!‘* Xm thc sofl ‘ a,,J mto T,olent 9 ° b -
... “n , ui
10 " »V° .“T J } '°
asked w, the old man of Cunningham
“She certainly does not seem to ap-
Prore o'oxb but you know the perver-
sity of woman, Don Pedro, and I assure
r\ husbands-and m0r Z sons 1 "L 1 , ’ 1 make thebestof
C li TT HC L h 0 ,° ,^ b e ° Ve r L, tlCk ' [ efractor r UPOU y "
; a laUght ,* ♦ r r d raiS1D? - , A Q \\ armS
’
bore into her own room and laid , her ou
th L bed ; Hetheu wen J«> ut a nd returned
Lf “ * her " mdow T "LV w,thm mches he of
“Now,” he said in Spanish, “here
bou will stay and have nothing to eat
but bread andL water until thou marryest
?u°-\ think ATt that I will C A, Dn A be ngh left " m ' sitting - D09t in th the ° U
r J> ad tbat tbou mayest marry a man who
sleeps m a hammock al day and gambles
all night? Thou art like a silly child to
refuse to marry a man who can make thee
‘ A a qU eCU - s P° k t n ''’
He returned f a to the sala, locking the ,
d «or behind him followed by the sobs
and shrieks of his daughter. “Ay,
nmericordia! Ay, infeliz de nu Ay,
senor! Santa Maria I banta Dios! Ay!
‘ v ’A * A '-'
- -
‘‘She marry you, „ said ., Don Pedro.
“Now you stay here, no? for few days
til all is settle, then can marry and have
be through
Cunningham spent the next few days
hstening to his prospective father-in-
law s reminiscences of bullfights, horse
racing, religious processions, climbing
the greased pole, catching the greased
pig by the tad as it ran, the balls that
lasted a manth, all the various distrac-
tions of Arcadian California whose sun
was forever set. The young men of the
house secretly sympathized with their
sister, but approved of their father's
course in view of prospective plenty.
One of the vast ranchos had been sold
several years before at an absurdly low
figure to au American in order that the
eldest son of the house, since dead,could Another
gratify hia political ambition.
bad gone for American taxes. Still
another had been “squatted” upon, and
although the law had promised the
forcian redress it was tardy of fiulfiliment
anii the squatters were tilling the soil
and making it yield in an astonishing
manner. The two remaining ranchos
left were mortgaged to the American
Cunningham, and when he handed them
back they would willingly let him man-
a £ e them, having the greatest respect for
bis hard American sense.
Mean while, Amata sobbed and starved,
lover serenaded her the first mid-
»ighf, but went to Los Angeles the next
day and forgot to return for several.
For three days the spirited Californian
was obdurate; then her delicate, luxur-
ious stomach Liegan to cry out for the
dainties to which it was accustomed. As
the pangs grew sharper she became pos-
itively terrified, never having felt physi-
cal suffering before, and not knowing
what awful end it portended. She
begged pitifully for cerne con ajo, at
least for just one enchilada, a solitary
dulce, but her father was equally obdur-
ate. and she had no mother to plead for
Her - She was also horrified to observe
that she was growing less pretty. Her
cheeks were hollow, her eyes had great
black stains beneath them and stared
pathetically from her colorless face,
“God of my soul!” she thought, “I shall
be an old hag at twenty .' 1
TOCCOA. GEORGIA, SATURDAY. JUNE 18, 1892.
0n the fifth dav she succumbed, A
week later she was married. The next
day Mr. Cunningham foreclosed the
mortgages.—San Francisco Examiner,
A . Wonderfully ... . f .. Dramatic .. Scene. _
Benjamin Brewster* afterwards attor-
ne y-g en eral of the United States, was
some ? ears a "° the central figure in a
vvonderiully dramatic . scene in a Phila-
de’.phia court. Mr. Brewster's lace, it
* je remem bered, was frightfully
scarre d by an accident in his youth. He
was extremely sensitive cf his facial mis-
fortu ne, but never referred to it himself
uor an y bls thousands of friends
ever ask him its cause. The trial referred
to was a bitterly contested affair, and
Brewster at every point got so much the
best of the opposing counsel that his
leaflin g adversary was in a white heat,
* a denouncing the railroad company this
law J' er wit h bis voice tremulous with
an S ei > exclaimed, “This grasping cor-
P oratlou i s as dark, devious and scarri-
in its methods as is the face of its
cb i e f attorney and henchman, Benjamin
Brewster!’ This violent outburst of rage
an<i cruel invective was followed by a
breathless stillness in the crowded court
room that was painful. Hundreds of
pitying eyes were riveted on the poor
paired face of Brewster, expecting to see
hirn spring from his chair and catch his
heartless adversary by the throat. Mr.
Brewster slowly arose and spoke some-
thin " like thts to the court: “Your
honor, in all my career as a lawyer I have
never dealt in personalities; nor did I
ever feel called upou to explain the cause
physical misfortune, but I will do
so now. When a boy—and my mother,
God bless her! said I was a pretty boy—
when a little boy, while playing around
an open tire one day with a little sistei
just beginning to toddle, she fell into the
roaring flames. I rushed to her rescue,
pulled her out before she was seriously
hurt, and fell into the fire myself. When
they took me out of the coals my fact
was as black as that man’s heart.” Tht
last sentence was spoken in a voice whose
rage was that of a lion. It had an elec¬
trical effect, and the applause that greeted
it was superb, but in an instant turned to
the most comtemptuous hisses directed at
the lawyer who had so basely insulted
Mr. Brewster. That lawyer’s practice in
Philadelphia afterward dwindled to such
insignificance that he had to leave the
city for a new field.—Boston Transcript.
The Power of the Rivers.
The possibility of utilizing the current
of our rivers t0 furnisU w „ „„ sh
ha, often been a subject of speculation.
There are lew minds which hive not rec-
ognized the immense benefits that would
accrue from such an achievement if it
were possible; but tbe majority, both
lay and expert, have been accustomed to
«™opt the difficulties flow*, presented by the
„„ reli ability of the the variation of
the height of the rivers and the slight
fall as practically insuperable from the
e n<nneerino- noint of view
An expert who refuses to be tied up
by precedent, however, declares his be-
b ef that these difficulties can be over-
come. It says that it will be done half
a heDCe ’ a Ad the generation ° of
tifty years from now will s tand amazed
at wastefulness ot this day. The
methods bv which he would harness the
f w^cTgenerate < electridty'to diltdb-
j be
j uted for power and light all over the
, vicinity-ilo not appear to be as inher-
entlv improbable as those by which any
of tbe inventions of the past were made
SUCC essful did before their success was
demonstrated by actual practice,
Without waiting for the grand chil-
dren of the next generation to achieve
this advance, it is safe to say thattheen-
gmee r who can make it work iu the
present d will coufer an imraen8e ben .
efit< It will create a zone of cheap elec .
trie power and light along the bank of
J everj river and stream with a living cur-
I : rent, and revolutionize a great many of
the existing industrial institutions. It is
hard to draw a limit to the changes that
might not take place—when this power
is successfully utilized.
But we fear that any invention of this
sor t will have to depend for its success
on adventitious aid to ^ prevent the shrink-
age of streams ia sum er to a beg „arly
eighteen incbe s or two feet in depth
with no current worth speaking of.—
Pittsburgh ~ Dispatch,
Piltin? Snakes Against Rabbits.
A good deal of attention, writes a
South Australian correspondent, has been
bestowed upon the subject of rabbit de-
struction, and some astounding sugges-
tions have been received from various
parts l of the world. The last should suggestion
that „ nuorber of carpet
be let loose among tne rabbits, which
would, it is asserted, be speedily
eaten up by the reptiles. When from
five feet to six feet long they are able to
; eat two or three rabbits at a meal, but
when fifteen or sixteen feet long they
are able to eat six rabbits. Anticipating
mquiiy as to what would happen if the
snakes became more numerous than rab-
bits, he proposes that carpet snakes of
one kind only should be used, and after
eating all the rabbits the snakes would
then proceed to eat each other. —Boston
Transcript.
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The Summit of Epicurean Pleasure,
The unfortunate who has not caught a
nectarine in its best stages has the sum-
mit of epicurean pleasures yet to aspire
to. It wants to be perfectly ripe, and
then allowed to shrivel just a little in
the sun. The man who got off the sen-
tence that “doubtless the Lord could
have made a better fruit than the straw-
berry,but certainly He never did,’’would
be ashamed of himself could he once
get a bite of a perfectly manipulated
nectarine. There is difficulty in fruiting
them on account of the curculio. The
smooth skin is attractive to this insect
pest. Someday the man who has con-
quered the curculra in the plum and
made plum growing immensely profit-
able, will try his hand on the nectarine
also.—Meehan's Monthlj.
NATIONAL CAPITAL
What is Being Done in Congressional
Halls for the Country’s Welfare.
PROCEEDINGS FROM DAT TO DAT BBIEFLT
TOLD—BILLS AND MEASURES UNDER
CONSIDERATION—OTHER NOTES.
THE HOUSE.
Tiiursdat. —Immediately after the
reading of house journal and the refer¬
ence of sundry senate bills the floor was
accorded to the committee on judiciary.
Fridat —The only business transacted
in the house Friday was the few bills
authorizing the construction of bridges
over navigable rivers. Among these
were a bill authorizing the Mexican Gulf,
Pacific and Puget Sound Railroad Com¬
pany to construct bridges across the Ala¬
bama,Warrior and Tennessee rivers, Ala¬
bama, and a bill authorizing the construc¬
tion of a bridge across the Tennessee
river in Madison county, Alabama. The
house took the usual recess till 8 o’clock,
the evening session to be for the consid-
eretion of private pension bills.
Monday’.— In the house, Monday, on
motion of Mr. Peel, cf Arkansas, a bill
was passed providing that Indian cliil
dren shall be declared to be citizens when
they have reached the age of twenty-one
years, and shall thereafter receive no
support from the government, provided,
that they have had ten years of indus¬
trial asked training. Mr. Otis, of Kansas,
consent for the present considera¬
tion of the resolution reciting improper
conduct on the part of Secretary Noble
and Commissioner Carter in regard to the
Maxwell, New Mexico, land grant—said
conduct being alleged to be in pursuance
of a conspiracy entered into some years
ago by Stephen B. Elkins and J. A.
Williamson—and asking for a special
committee of seven members to inquire
into the matter. Mr. Payne, of New York,
objected, and the resolution was referred.
The floor was then accorded to the coin
mittee on the District of Columbia.
What is known as “District Day” is never
a drawing Programme in the house, there¬
fore, the second and fourth Mondays in
a month are honored with a very small
attendance and proved no exception to
the rule. Absenteeism and indifference
ruled supreme. After the passage of a
few local measures, the fortifications ap¬
propriation bill was taken up, but no
final action was taken. A few public
land bills were passed, and the house ad
journed.
Tuesdat. —On the opening of the ses¬
sion of the house Tuesday morning the
death of Representative Stackhouse, of
South Carolina, was announced. The
deputy sergeant-at-arms was notified to
make arrangements for the funeral, and
the house, in respect to the memory, of
the deceased, adjourned.
THE SENATE.
Thursday —There was even fewer re
publican senators present at the opening
of Thursday’s session than there has been
since the exodus to Minneapolis set in,but
among the half dozen were Sherman,
Morrill and Manderson. The chair was
occupied by the vice president. The first
thing proposed and agreed to was that
adjournment be had till Monday.
Monday.— The first indication of the
Democratic movement on Chicago was
the granting of leave of absence to Mr.
Voorhees by the Senate Monday morn¬
ing. The pension appropriation bill
with amendments was reported back from
the committee on appropriations and
placed ou the calendar. The bill intro¬
duced by Pfeffer on the 26th of May to
increase the currency and provide for its
circulation, to reduce tlie rates of inter¬
est aud to establish a bureau of laws, was
taken from the table and Pfeffer address¬
ed the senate in explanation and advocacy
of it. There is a section in the bill pro
viding for loans, at one third of one per
cent a month, by a bureau of loans for
less than twelve months, on security of
personal property, whenever any state
shall have provided warehouses for agri¬
cultural products, such as cotton, wheat
and tobacco, and for manufactured arti¬
cles that will not deteriorate by storage
for a few months. Much of Mr. P effer’s
speech was in denunciation of usury,
which he said was breaking down the
republic. The people, he said, were in
earnest about that matter. The republic
would go down unless the people overe
saved, and there was no way of
saving them except by destroying
the great evil of usury. This bill
was on that line. It was suggestive and
helpful, and at least deserved the consid¬
eration of the senate. Mr. Chandler ask-
e d Mr. Pfeffer whether he considered the
fi uestion of the constitutional power of
congress to lend money on real estate and
ff*' r } c }* *l? r A P ro ^ducts. Mr. Pfeffer said
at ne had examined the constitutional
aD e e that con-
-. ect lorlt t0 le
au y .^ a
tn ; , “ ?^
’ 0
minlnor the rites vrhieh freights r o-,i
charge for the carriage of his”speech or pas-
sengers. bilfwent At the close of the
over without action Mr Mc-
Pherson gave notice of his intention to
address the senate next Wednesday on
and the bill Mr. for Morgan the free coinage of silver,
gave notice that he
wou'.d do so Tuesday, as he expected that
there would then be a quorum in thesen-
ate. The senate, at 2:35 o’clock, ad-
journed.
Tuesday. Immediately on the «.ssem-
bting of the senate Tuesday morning the
death of Representative btackhouse was
announce and the body’adjourned as a
Jg ° 1 e Jeceased Ul ' :C 2 bel¬
NOTES.
Neither house 3 beiu» i*. session Fuel¬
day, ’ members of both houses devoted
m u C b Q f their time to talk about the
Chicago j convention
T , „ntfno , ^ ^ i*' r* °
n ,i» r
has been awardei to MacGr int o?
Charleston ’ ’ S C *’ on his bid of $10 * ^ 833 '
., .
* °.^ eUe Rt * e r a ' ur -' ', e ~’
x , . rh^ttinorili’ »
f or the Public buikW ofl-ohonTk’
Teno , the lowest bein" that Chattanooga'
Blackburn & Co. ’ of ° at
$7 '
t 298.
In the Louse Mond ay. ■n motion of Mr.
Oates, of Alabama, a bill was passed ap-
pr. printing $2,2b0 lo tbe Mobile anti }
portation Railroad of paroled Company confederate for the trans- priso¬ j
ners.
By authority of the president, two I
small islauds located .u the main channel
of the Matanzas river at St. Augustine, i
Fla , lyiii£ eist of and opposite what is
known a? the old power-house lot, have
been reserved and set apart for military
purposes.
Tlie pension appropriation bill was re¬
ported to the senate Monday from commit¬
tee $146,737,320, on appropriation. Ic carries a total of
which is an increase of
11.9i2,284 over the house bill and $327,-
200 less (ban the estimates. The bill as
n ported exceeds that of last year by
$11,522 3(!3. The principal increase over
the house bill is $11,907,634 for army
and navy pensions.
A special of Saturday from Washing¬
ton says: Amid the talk of congratula¬
tions at the White house, in political cir¬
cles Friday, the name of Chauncey M.
Depew was upon every one's lips, and
the president himself struck the keynote
by a n mark concerning the yeoman
service j erformed in his behalf by the
di>t>nguisiicd New Yorker. It would
not be much of a surprise if Depew be¬
came the successor of Blaine.
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, in the
senate Thursday took occasion to refer
to the split iu the democratic party in
his state. He said that it was induced
mainly by the poverty and affliction
which had followed the demonetization
of silver. The democratic party, it was
true, had not had the power to correct
that evil. He wanted, however, to warn
his fellow democrats, when they were
preparing for the' coming presidential
campaign, to remember Alabama, and
that the}* might lose ihe electoral vote of
that state in a certain contingency.
BIG BLAZE AT BALTIMORE.
Several Vessels Damaged aud 5,000
liales of Cotton Destroyed,
The big warehouse of the Bay Line of
steamers, at the fcot of Union dock, Bal¬
timore, took fire Tuesdiy afternoon from
an unknown cause, and within five min¬
utes Stored was inside a roaring mass of flames.
the warehouse, which is
several hundred feet long, were between
five hundred and one thousand bales of
cotton, several shiploads of rosin in
barrels, and a great number of hogs¬
heads of molasses. The inflamma¬
ble nature of the contents of tlie
warehouse caused the blaze to
spread with lightning-like rapidity.
The big four-masted schooner Augus¬
tus Weil, the steamer Caroline and a
number of other vessels lay. at the pier
when the fire broke out. The Caroline
caught fire, but the tugs made a desper¬
ate fight to save fl*ames her. '1 he schooner Wirt
was The wrapped in in a few minutes.
heat from the burning warehouse,
together with tbqt of thc weather, was
terrible on the firemen and several
dropped at the hose pipes.
The loss will approximate $1,000,000.
The fire is thought to have oiigiuated
from spontaneous combustion among the
cotton. None of the vessels lying at the
clocks were totally destroyed, because a
tugboat drew them into the stream,
where the fireboat, Cataract, and streams
from the tugs saarnd them from total loss;
but several fine vessals were badly dam-
ag< cl. Among these were the
steamers Caroline and Gaston, schoon¬
ers Wesley O iver, Mamie Howard,
William Wirt and Augustus Weil. The
latter had jusr arrived with 1,200 tons of
ice. All the top hamper of the schoon¬
ers named avas burnt d off and the hulls
damaged. The Bay Line warehouse was
totally destroyed with its contents, in¬
cluding 5,000 bales of cotton and over
one thousand, two hundred barrels of
whisky, intended for foreign shimnent.
GEN. STACKHOUSE DEAD.
He Was an Alliance Congressman from
South Carolina.
General Eli B. Stackhouse, a member
of congress from thc sixth district of
South Carolina, and a prominent member
of the Farmers’ Alliance, died in Wash¬
ington City at half past one o’clock Tues¬
day morning. He w-as one of the party
that accompanied the remains o f the late
Colonel L. L. Polk, president of the
Farmers’ Alliance, to Raleigh, N. C.,
last Saturday. Mr. Stackhouse returned
to Washington Monday morning. He
went to the house of representatives,
which is only one block from his resi¬
dence, and at two o’clock went home
to luncheon. He complained of a
slight attack of indigestion, but seemed
to be in good sprits. He remained at
home for a while, but returned to the
house before adjournment of that body.
Representative b ate, of Arkansas, a mem¬
ber of the Farmers’ Alliance, who has
rooms in the hotel where Mr. Stackhouse
stayed, says that the general did not re¬
turn to the hotel for dinner. About 12
o’clock Tuesday night Mr. Cate was call¬
ed to the rooms of Mr. Stackhouse aud
was told that he avas dying. A physician
was immediately summoned, but before
he arrived Mr. Stackhouse was dead.
The only persons at his bedside when he
died were his son and Representative
Cate. His remains ovill be taken to Little
Rock, S. C., for interment.
England at Chicago.
A London cablegram says: On the
supplementary vote in the house of com-
m ins Tuesday, granting £10,000 to the
royal world’s fair commission, A. C.
Morton (liberal), member for Peter¬
borough, asked if intending exhib¬
itors were satisfied w th the arrange
ments made by the commission, ."ir
John Gorst, financial secretary to the
treasury, replied that the vote was in¬
creased to £60,000, in order to give free
space and render the exhibit worthy the
United Kingdom. Mr. Morton said he
hoped the government would do its utter¬
most to make the British section a great
succeis. "1 he vote was agned to by the
house.
Commissioner of Agriculture.
Judge John T. Renders n announces
his candidacy for Commi-sioHer of Agri¬
culture for the state of Georgia.
It will be remembered that Judge
Henderson filled this position acceptably
for fourteen years up to November, 18G0;
and now, complying with the urgent re¬
quests of his friend*, he has a:ain en¬
tered the race and has become a candi¬
date for the same position.
HEWS LN GENERAL
of the Day Culled from On?
Telegraphic and Cable Dispatches.
IS TRANSPIRING THROUGHOUT OUR
OWN COUNTRY’, AND NOTES OF INTER¬
EST FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
The Crescent Manufacturing company's
mills, of Hartford City, Ind., were de
stroyed by fire Sunday. Loss, $150,0)0;
$75,000.
A dispatch of Tuesday from Provi¬
dence, R. I., says: Nelson W. Aldrich
re-elected United States senator to¬
The vote was Aldrich 64, David
39.
A cablegram of Tuesday from Con¬
stantinople broken states that the plague has
out in Mesopotamia. It is
thought to be cholera, which, traveling
east from Persia, has entered Asiatic
Turkey.
It was reported in Washington Mon¬
day that George V. M sscy, of Wilming¬
ton, Del., bad been tendered the office
of jus! ice of the United States supreme
court, made vacant by the death of Jus
tice Bradley, but the report has not as yet
been verified.
The pr< sbytery of New York met in
New York city Monday. The new trial
of Dr. Briggs, on the charge of heresy,
was decided to be impracticable during
the summer, but it will teceivc the at¬
tention of the presbytery when it reas¬
sembles in the fall.
The total visible supply of cotton for
the world is 3,756,674 bales, of which
3,026,074 is Americau, against 2.667,696
and 1,991,896 respectively last year.
Receipts of all interior towns, 14,552
bales. Receipts at plantations. 18.807
bales. Crop in September, 8,853,529
bales.
A New York dispatch of Monday says:
Rachel Elikant, of Cezescowicz, Austria,
a passenger on the Dutch steamer Peca-
land from Amsterdam, was removed by
the health officer to the smallpox hospital
on North Brothers island, suffering from
the dread disease. The steamer was at
quarantine for disinfection.
The whole business portion of Rock
fort, Mo., burned Sunday. The fire
started at noon and, fanned by a strong
wind, spread with such quickness that it
was impossible to check it. It stopped
only when it had cousumed everything
in its path. Sixteen business buildings
were destroyed. Loss, $ 75 , 000 .
A cablegram from Paris says: As
President Carnot Yvas leaving Long-
champs Sunday between double lines of
troops and police three well-dressed mer.
hooted at him, shouting, “Wooden-
head,” and giving utterance to other
abuse. They spoke with a foreign accent.
Before they could be arrested the crowd
had nearly lynched them.
A Minneapolis dispatch of Saturday
says: The first thing done by the nation¬
al committee after adjournment of the
republican convention was to unanimous
ly choose J. S. Clarkson as temporary
chairman of the committee and D. E.
Young as temporary secretary, The
committee will meet at Washington, June
27, when a permanent organization will
be effected.
An earthquake shpek, lasting nearly
thirty seconds, was felt at Santa Anna,Cal.
Tuesday morning. The vibrations were
from east to west. The same report
comes from River Side, Cal. The shock
must have been felt on two continents,
as a cablegram from Athens, Greece, says:
Several earthquakes occurred in northen
Greece Tuesday, the shock being special¬
ly noticeable at Thebes.
A dispatch of Monday from Guthrie,
Oklahoma, statis that a party of thirteen
deputy marshals returned to that place
Sunday night from the pursuit of thc
Red Rock train robbers. They have
given up the chase. They followed tlie
robbers 250 miles and were oblidged to
give up, their horses giving out. The
thieves had the route marked out and
were furnished relays of horses.
All the governments of Europe, with
the single exception of Piussia, have
either formally or informally accepted
the invitation issued by the president to
participate with the United States in a
monetary conference looking to a more
ex ensive use of silver money, A favor-
able response from Russia is confidently
expected. Thc time and place for the
conference have not yet been settled.
Cable dispatches from Madrid state
that terrific thunder storms prevailed in
various parts of Spain Sunday, and
heavy loss of life and injury by light¬
ning is reported at Melia-, in the prov¬
ince of Orenses. The parish church was
struck while worshipers were attending
mass. Ten were killed and twenty-eight
seriously injured. At Muccenles, in the
province of Valladoliet, a church w-as
struck and five were killed and ten in¬
jured.
A dispatch of Sunday from Topeka
says: The people’s party (Farmer^’ Al¬
liance) of Ivan-as, will probably nomi¬
nate Jerry Simpson, member of congress
from the seventh Kansas d strict, for
governor. There is a bitter tight in al¬
liance ranks over the nomination, and
Jerry Simpson will be sprung as a dark
horse in the hope that he will secure the
nomination and heal all factional differ¬
ences.
A statement is going the rounds at
Washington, which is said to come from
a reliable source, that a petition is in
course of preparation which will be cir
culated among the labor unions of the
country calling upon the n itional repub¬
lican committee to withdraw the nomi¬
nation of Mr. Whitelaw Reid on the
ground that he has ever been an oppo¬
nent of organized labor, and that
name on the ticket would cause a verv
great loss in labor votes to the republican
ticket.
A special from Chicora, Penn.,
about midnigh', Monday night, fire
out in a restaurant in that town
bly from natural gas. The water
gave out almost immediately and on ac
count of the intense .dry weather
buildings burned like tinder. To
the progress of the fire, buildings | w r
tern down by the hook and ladder
pany ani several blown up with
mite. One hundred buildings
NUMBER 24.
burned, including the postcfficc. Many
families are homeless It is thought no
1 ms were lost.
A stateme: t Las been recently pub¬
lished showing the cindiiion. acreage
and probable yield of the various crops
in Kansas. This statement shows tno
gerated reported and damage t > Kmsas crops In exag¬
the at prt? nt premies 10 one
of most prosperous in the history of
lie state. The yield of winter wheat is
estimated at 58,386.208 bushels, an lu¬
cre se over last year of 3,415.514 bushels.
Spring wheat 4.827.168. increase 2.4 47.
209 bushels. Corn 137,347.720 bushels,
decrease 2,016,286 bushels. Oats 13.
961.100, increase*!,036.657 huslie s.
CHICAGO'S BIG STORM.
Lives Lost anil $100,000 Damage
to Property.
A Chicago dispatch siys: Monday af¬
storm did much more destruct¬
work than was at first reported. At
seven lives were lost in Chicago and
and fifteen person* more or less
while it will probably take $ 100 ,-
to repair the damage done by the
Considerable damage was done
huge democratic national wigwam.
canvas roof was torn to shreds and
have to be replaced with one of tim¬
Homeopathic Convention.
The forty-fifth session of the American
institute of homeopathy was opened at
Washington Monday. The general re¬
port of the bureau of organization, reg¬
istration and statistics showed that there
had been a general advance in homeo¬
pathy, all along the line during the year.
The reports stated that there are in the
United States forty general and thirty-
nine special homeopathic hospitals, at
which 31,294 patients were trea'ed last
year. The death rate was 3.31 per cent.
It was also shown that there are in the
United States fifty-five homeopathic dis¬
pensaries and thirty homeopathic jour¬
nals.
RICHMOND & DANVILLE R R.
Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line Division.
Condensed Schedule of Passenger
Trains, in Effect May 15th, 1892.
NORTHBOUND. No. 38. No. 10. No. 72
I ASTERN’ TIME. Daily. Dail y. Daily
Lv. Atlanta (E.T.) 1 40 pm 8 50 pm 8 05am
Chamblee..... 9 24 pm 8 40am
Norcrosa....... 9 35 pm 8 52am
Duluth........ 9 47 pm 9 01am
8uwanee....... 9 57 pm 9 loam
Buford........ 10 10 pm 9 28am
Flowery Branch 10 24 pm 9 42am
Gainesville..... 3 03 pm ]0 45 pm 10 03am
Lula.......... jl 13pm 10 27am
Bellton........ 1 15 pm 10 30am
Cornelia....... 1 ‘1 42 pm 10 Slam
Mt. Airy....... 1 1 16 pm 10 55am
Toccoa......... *2 20 am 11 19am
Westminster... ?2 57 am 11 56am
Seneca 1 1 17 a in 12 15pm
........
Central........ 1 50 am! 1 20pm
Easleys........ 2 18 am 1 46pm
Greenville..... 6 08 pm 2 44 am 2 11pm
Greers......... 3 14 am! 2 42pm
Wellford....... 3 33 am 1 3 OOj.m
Spartanburg... Clifton........ 7 04 pm 3 54 am; 3 23pm
4 13 am 3 40pm
Cowpens ...... 4 18 am' am 3 44pm
Gaffney....... 4 40 amj 4 09pm
Blacksburg..... 5 0! 4 27pm
Grover......... 5 11am 4 37pm
King’s Mount’n 5 2S am! 4 55pm
Gastonia....... 5 52 am 5 20pm
Lowell........ 6 05 am 5 31pm
Bellemont..... 6 16 am 5 39pm
Ar. Charlotte...... I 9 10 pm 6 40 am 6 00pm
SOUTHBOUND. No. 37. No. 71. No. 9.
Daily. Dailv. Daily.
Lv. Charlotte...... 9 45 am 1 50 pm 2 20 am
Bellemont..... 2 12|<m 2 42 am
Lowell......... 2 23 pm 2 52 am
Gastonia....... 2 35 pm 3 01 am
King’s Monnt’n 3 00 pm 3 27 a in
Grovtr......... 3 16 pm 3 43 am
Blacksburg .... 3 26 pm 3 53 am
Gaffney....... 3 41 pm 4 10 am
Cowpens...... 1 10 pm 4 42 am
Clifton........ 4 13 pm 4 45 am
Sparianbnrg... 11 43 am 4 28 pm 5 00 am
Wi- Ilford........ 4 50 pm 5 23 am
Greers......... 36 5 5 09 pm! 6 5 42 10 am
Greenville...... 12 pm 35 pm! am
Easleys......... 6 09 pm 6 38 am
Central........ 6 34 pm! 7 7 58 10 am
Seneca......... 7 17 pm i ani
Westminster.... 7 35 pm, 8 17 am
Toccoa........ Airy....... .......j .......I 8 8 40 11 pm pml 8 9 55 30 ani
Mt. j am
Cornelia..... . .......) 8 43 pm 9 33 am
Bellton........ .......| 9 05 pm 9 58 am
Lnla.......... .......j 9 07 pm :10 00 am
Game will^..... 3 41 pm 9 33 pm JC 28 am
Flowery Branch .......; 9 52 pm, 10 48 am
Buforrl........ .......10 ;7 pm l l 02 am
Suwanee....... .......| id 23 pm II 15 am
Duluth........ ...... 1 10 34 pm 11 25 pm
Norcross...... .......110 45 pm j i 1 37 am
Chamblee...... 505 .......J pm|II .0 3 56pm; 11 1225 49 am
Ar. Atlanta fE. T.) i pmi pm
Additional ira na Nos. 17 an 1 18— Lula ac¬
commodation, daily except Simdi. leaves At¬
lanta 6 15 p m, arr.vcs Lula 9 00 p m. itetnrn-
ing, leaves Lula 6 00 a m, arriv. s Arlanta 8 50
a rn. 11 dailv,
Between Lul l and Afh ns--No. ex-
cept Sunday, an ! No. 9 dai.y, leave Lu'a 8 15 p
m, and 9 35 a m. ar. iv ■ Athens 10 00 p in an !
1120 am. IP-turnin : h-ave Athen», No. 10
daily, except Sunday, and No. 12dai:y, 6 15 ,tm
and 7 07 a m, arrive Lula 7 55 p m md 8 5C
am. Elbe/ton—No. dajp
Between Toccoa and 61
lv; txcept Snndav, leave Toccoa 1140 am
arrive Elberton 3 20 p m. Returning, N». CO
dally, except Sunday, leave tElberton 5 __ 00 a ni
and arrives Toccoa 8 39 a m.
Nos. 9 an 1 10 chit. Pullman Sleepere be¬
tween Atlanta and New York.
Nos. 37 and 38, Washington and Southwest-
ern Yestibuled Limited, between Atlanta and
Washington. Throng 1 1 Pu lman Sleepers be¬
tween New Y’ork and New Orleans, al o between
Washington and Memphis, v a At! inta and
Birmingham. Ob-ervat:on car be: w en Wash¬
ington and New Orleans.
Nos. 11 and 12, Pullman Buffet Sleeper be¬
tween Washington and Atlanta.
For detailed information as to local and
through time table-, rates and Pullman Sleep¬
ing car reservations, confer with local agents,
or address.
JAS. L. TAYLOR, W. A. TURK.
Gen’l Pass. Ag’t. Ass’t.G nl.l’-*ss. Ag’t.
Atlanta, Ga. Charlotte N. C.
C. P. HAMMOND, Ga.
Superintendent Atlanta.
W. H. GREEN. >OL. HYSS,
Gen’l Manager. Tr flic Manager,
Atlanta, Ga. Atlanta, Ga.
LEWIS DAVIS,
iTTOPNEY AT LAW
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will practice in the counties of Haber¬
sham and Rabun of the Northwestern
Circuit, and Frank!.n and Banks of the
Western Circuit. Prompt attention wii :
be given to all busioesa entrusted*to him.
The collection of debts will have speo-
ia 1 attention.