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VOLUME XX.
FATE AND LIFE.
ro her, Fate gave a stone in place of bread.
And yet she made no mo'.n,
But took her gift and smiling brightly, said,
“It is a noble stone.”
rhrough weary days her skilful hands were
turned
Unto the sculptor's arts;
Within her fine eyes, glowingly there
burned,
Hope’s fire within her heart.
And lo! one morn the sunrise did disclose,
Commanding, gracious, grand,
A marble statue perfect in its pose,
Carved by her steadfast hand.
■—Maude Andrews OhL
IN A SQUALL.
N the piazza of
■ui Thompson’s Hotel, at
the Highlands of
rntMi Navesink, a short dis¬
tance away, tat two
mt: young girls, just
bursting into the first
bloom of woman-
hood. One was a
blonde of the most refined typo. Silken
hair, of a soft, llaxen color, was combed
back plainly from her pure and white
brow. The arched eyebrows of faint
brown sat calmly above two of the se-
renest blue eyes in the world.
Her companion, Nellie Brown, was a
brunette of the type commonly called
dashing. Her hair was coal black, and
in some lights looked bluish. Her eyes
were almost black. Nellie’s lips were
full and ripe, but just a trifle com¬
pressed, telling at once of a strong, pas¬
sionate nature and determined will. Her
complexion was of that clear, warm hue
that shows the slighest movement of the
rich blood beneath it. Her cheeks were
never without a sparkle, and her lips sel¬
dom without a smile.
When Harry Wilson’s clear, manly
voice rolled up from the river brink, her
eyes danced and her lips quivered.
Blanche Hastings was not blind, and
just the slightest spasm of fear shot
through her heart as she thought that her
friend might become her rival in love.
Just inside the window, behind the
two young ladies and out of sight of
both, stood a young man with his hands
thrust deep down in his pockets, aud
apparently wrapped in deep thought. lie
was notahaudsome man. But George
Courtney bore in his face, with its frank
blue eyes and its corona of light hair, an
expression of marvelous siucenty. No
one ever heard him speak without being
convinced at onco of his truthfulness.
lie stood gazing, with a peculiar ex¬
pression, out though the half closed
blinds upon Nellie Brown. lie had heard
Harry’s song, and had smiled as he re¬
membered how often ho had heard the
same tones ringing out in the University
Glee Club, wheu they had been class¬
mates at Harvard five years before. Harry
was his oldest friend; and they always
managed to spend the summer together.
This year Harry had brought his yacht,
the Mystic, down to the Highlands, and
he and George were living at Thomp¬
son’s, where they made the acquaintance
of the two young ladies. Six weeks had
rolled by very speedily, and George
Courtney, hearing his friend sing, aud
seeing the effect the song had upon a
certain young lady with deep brown
eyes, was bVought very suddenly and
painfully face to face with the fact that
he was head aud cars in love with Nellie
Brown.
And giving vent to his feelings by a
long whistle, he strode away. At that
moment a splendid-looking old gentle¬
man stepped out on the piazza and
greeted the young ladies.
“Good-morning, my beauties; how
are you to-day?”
“Oh, uncle,” cried Blanche Hastings,
“how you startled us. We are both
splendid, and cnjoyiug Mr. Wilson’s
singing on the sly.”
“A brilliant bey, but no depth, I
fear. Now, If I were a youug lady,
George Courtney would—”
“Oh, pshaw!” cried Nellie, impetu-
ously; “he's too quiet, too lazy. A mag
to win my admiration, Mr. Hastings,
must be a man, not a statue. Now, Mr.
Harry Wilson, is full of life and dash.
He has vim. That is what I admire. I
want some one who can conquer me.”
“Well, well,” said Mr. Hastings,
smiliug, “such a man would be hard to
find; but I’ll wager that Couitncy will
come nearer to your ideal that Wilson.”
“Nonsense!” exclaimed Nellie, aud
turned away in pretended disgust.
llarrv Wilsou came laughing up the
walk in front of the house. He was tail,
slender and active looking; and in his
blue flannels looked the picture of manly
health and grace. Both girls arose to
greet him.
“Good-morning, laggards,” he cried;
“I’ve been up these two hours fondling
my beauty down there in the river. I
wait for nothing now but ray fair weight,
and here you sit, not ready to move
yet.”
“There, sir,” said Nellie, “you are out
of your course—that's nautical, isn’t it?
—for we have breakfasted and will be
ready to start in ten minutes.”
“But where's my super cargo? my
crew? Hello, aloft there! George,
where are you?”
“Here I am,” said Courtney, coming
out of the door, looking plain, but
strong, in his yaching suit. “I am all
leady, and on deck—not aloft.”
In a few minutes they were all aboard
the yacht, and in another the water was
foaming up around her cutwater, ani
two long, ever-widening ripples swept
away froth her bows.
“Ob, isn’t this glorious!” cried Nellie.
“It is delightful,” said Blanche.
“By Jove, though, we are going out¬
side to-day,” said Harry. “Do you
think either oi you will be sea-sick.”
“Sea-sick 1 Pshaw! I never was sea¬
sick in my life, and I'm not going to be¬
gin now,” replied Nellie.
“Then,” cried Harry, “we shall have
a glorious day. Just look at those little
clouds over there in the west. They are
massing themselves in one spot; we shall
hay* a splendid westerly wind before
THE
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL.
night, and can beat back from Rockaway
in two tacks, one to the Scotland light¬
ship, and thence to the hospital ship;
another tack brings the wind on our
beam, and gives us a straight run home.”
“How you do love the water,” said
Nellie, showing her admiration a little
more openly than was pleasing to George.
“Yes, Miss Brown,” replied Harry,“I
adore the sea.”
George smiled at Harry’s enthusiasm,
and Blanche, observing him said:
“Mr. Courtney, I don’t believe you
feel like that, do you?”
“Well,” replied George, slowly, as a
man weighing his words, “I don’t know
that 1 can talk like Harry, but I should
hate to see harm come to the Mystic’s
timbers. I’ve known her from keel to
weather-vane ever since Harry
her, and she’s a faithful craft.”
“There,” cried Harry, “you see my
boat has two lovers, and she’s shown
equal favor to both, and betrayed the
trust of neither.”
“There’s many a woman,” replied
Nellie, with great audacity, “that dees
the same.”
“How can that be?” asked Courtney.
“Many a woman has two or more
lovers who have never breathed their
minds to her, and by showing equal
favi*r to all, she betrays the trust of
none.”
“Ha, ha, 1m!” laughed Harry. George,
will you go below and see where the
lunch things are and set the table?”
As George started to carry out Harry's
suggestion, Blanche arose and said:
“Let me go, too; I’m sure I can bo of
assistance to you, Mr. Courtney.”
“Well,” replied George,smiling, “we
usually get along very well without the
aid of women on board the Mystic; but
I am sure that your skill will be of great
assistance to me, and I gratefully accept
your generous offer.”
That little complimentary speech was
not lost on Nellie; she was not in love
with George Courtney; but she knew
that he was with her; and she brooked
no rival, not even in the presence of her
nearest friend.
“Why, you have a genuine feast pre¬
pared; Nellie will be charmed.”
“Will she?” asked George, a little
eagerly; “Iarranged this lunch myself.”
“Yes,she will,” replied Blanche,look¬
ing straight into his eyes; “you take
great delight iu pleasing Nellie, don’t
you?”
“Why, certainly,” said George, look¬
ing a little embarrassed.
“I fear you are too anxious to please
her,” Blanche said, her eyes becoming
serious. “Pardon my speaking so plainly,
but I fear you would better think less of
her.”
“What do you mean?”
Blanche did not speak, but simply
bent her head toward the cabin door,
through which Harry could be plainly
seen bending over Nellie in earnest con¬
versation, while her eyes were fixed on
the seams in the deck.
“I am sorry I said anything,” said
Blanche, laying her hand gently on his
shoulder.
George took the little hand in his,and,
smiling gently, said:
“It is better that you told me.”
As he turned from her he glanced
through the cabin door again, and saw
Nellie looking at him with a peculiar
expression in her eyes. He dropped
Blanche'e hand hastily, and busied him¬
self about the dishes.
“All hands on deck to reef!” shouted
Harry, half an hour later.
George bounded up the steps, and,
throwing a keen glance around the
horizon, saw at once the cause of Harry’s
call.
The southerly wind was still blow'ing,
aud the boat was dancing merrily
through the water. Sandy Hook was
only a gray line behind her, and away to
the northeast, dimly visible above the
blue water, was Rcckaway Beach.
About two miles to the south the light¬
ship was rolling lazily on the swells,
and a few coasting schooners were
taking in their topsails. In the west the
clouds which Harry had mentioned be¬
fore starting were massed into a dense
black volume. The lower part of this
mass was heavy aud bluish. Along its
upper edge was a line of dark gray, and
in front of that ragged patches of vapor,
ashen in tint, were slowly creeping east¬
ward.
“George,” said Harry, “that looks as
if we should soon have a squall. Take
the helm, while I put a double reef in
the mainsail.”
“Will it be dangerous?” asked Nollio.
George looked at her before answer¬
ing. Her eyes were full of lightand her
face a little pale, except where two glow¬
ing red spots appeared in her cheeks.
He looked at Blanche. Her face was
white, but her lips were compressed, and
she looked calm.
“I do not wish to frighten you,” said
George, “but a squall is always danger¬
ous, and this looks like a bad one. Still,
I thiuk we shall get through this one all
right.”
The voung ladies made no reply, but
somehow this man's calm, deliberate
manner of speaking, and bis firm, fear-
less attitude inspired them with some-
thing like confidence.
“So there is something Nellie? strong some-
where in him,” thought as she
looked into his quiet face.
The blue-black cloud in tba west was
rising with terrible rapiditv. Alow,
humming sound was heard in the west.
Suddenly the water a mile behind them
became wrinkled aad gray, and patches
of foam anneared 0
In another instant the gaff, with all
the yards of canvas beneath it, came
rumbling down upon the deck. The
next moment the wind struck them.
Harry whirled the wheel around like
lightning. The boat spun l about upon
her keei, the fore. ,h win,, upon her
had to receive the squall over the boat's
stern, and so had heaStoit. to so clear around in
order to come up Tbeboom.
when it dropped on the decks, had
fallen a little to the starboard, and that
was the side which was toward the wi
u th® boat w®ot about.
TOCCOA, GEORGIA, SATURDAY. JUNE 25,
The wind caught the loose canvas of
the mainsail, and swung the boom across
the deck with great force. Harry turned
at George's shout, saw it comiDg, and
attempted to drop flat upon the deck.
He was not quick enough, and in an in¬
stant the heavy spar struck him on the
side of the head and knocked him sense¬
less over the side of the boat.
The girls screamed and sprang to their
feet; the boat careened and catne sharply
up into the wind. Harry sank out of
sight, and the next instant George’s form
cleft the surface. Nellie and Blanche
stood with ghastly faces, locked in each
other’s arms, and speechless with fear.
They thought only of the two men be¬
neath the waves, buried out of sight
under the storm-driven spume, I'o
Nellie’s eyes was visible a powerful
frame, instinct with every pulse of noble
manhood, and a calm, quiet face, that
had plunged into the waves to save the
man who had been a friend, but a rivaL
in love.
And then there came to her eyes a
sight that she never forgot. Less than
twenty-five yards from the boat, the
foam-covered waters parted, and the face
she was waiting for arose; then the
powerful shoulders and the sinewy arms,
one throwm around the motionless form
of Harry Wilson, the other cleaving the
water with giant strokes. The calm
gaze was turned toward her; their eyes
met; and in that supreme moment she
knew that he worshiped her, and felt
that she loved him.
“A rope!” he gasped.
A spare sheet was coiled on the deck.
Nellie seized one end, turned it a couple
of times around her waist, and then with
all her strength hurled the coil toward
George. It reached him, aud with a
smile on his face he grasped it.
“Pull!” he gasped.
Nellie needed no further instruction.
She tugged away at the rope iu sheer
desperation.
In a few seconds George had his bur¬
den at the gunwale.
He passed the end of the rope which
he held under Harry’s shoulders, and
gave it to Nellie.
“Hold that till I get in,” he said.
She obeyed, and, climbing over the
gunwale, he took the rope from her. In
another moment he had Harry in the
boat, and was pouring brandy down his
throat. Blanche had fainted on the
deck.
The shades of eveniug had gathered
around the Highlands, and Nellie Brown
was sitting on the piazza thinking some¬
thing of her escape of the morning, but
more of him who had played a hero’s
part.
“Miss Brown, I have come to say good-
by. I go away to-morrow.”
It was George who spoke.
“Go away to-morrow,” said Nellie,
slowly repeating his words, while a
strange feeling of fear crept into her
breast.
“Yes,” he said, “my mother has tele¬
graphed me to join her at Saratoga.
Good-by. I have spent a very pleasant
summer, and I owe much of it to you.”
He clasped her hand, held it a mo¬
ment, and then silently moved toward
the door.
Did his ears deceive him, or did she
sigh? He could not leave her thu9. He
turned sharply and went and stood be¬
fore her.
“Miss Brown, I am going away, but
before I go I cannot help telling you
that I am mad enough to love you
blindly. I have no right to, but I—”
“George!”
She was standing up, holding out both
hands to him, and even in the darkness
he could see the light in her eyes.
“I told you he was worth something,”
said Mr. Hastings the next morning.
But Blanche remained true to her first
impressions, and is now Mrs. Harry
Wilson.—New York News.
Where Lightning Strikes Oftenest.
From records in the statistical office at
Berlin, Germany, it appears that houses
with thatched roofs are struck by light¬
ning about seven or eight times more
frequently than ordinary slated dwell¬
ing houses. Country houses are also
more frequently affected than those in
towns. This is due to the greater amount
of vegetation in the country, plants hav¬
ing more power to induce destructive
discharges than other substances.
Though this is the case, there are, of
course great differences in electrical
characteristics of plants, which increase
in some and decrease in others the liabil¬
ity to destruction by lightning.
For instance, if the risk to the beech
be taken as one, that to a pine (fir or
spruce) is fifteen, to an oak forty-five,
and to most other deciduous trees like the
ash, sycamore, etc., forty. The compare
ative immunity of the beech is said to be
due to the fact that its leaves are fringed
with numerous short hairs which allow
the electricity collected in the substance
of those organs to escape quietly into the
air.
„ Rocks , and , soils also , have , great . influ- . _
on the J lsk b ? localities from
destruction by thunderstorms Thus, if
a hm f rock " b * taken as
OQe ’ tbat for a saad y 3011 ! s n l ae ’ aad for
natural moss or swampy land, eighteen
to twenty-two.
Durm ? a thunderstorm in . Scotland
heavy ram most frequently, and generally
occars 5 but la 80me P 8 ^ 30 * \ a S;
! and > aad m man y P lace3 abroad ’ had
13 43 common occurrence as rain,
and far more destruction to property is
fought by these little pellets of ice than
etc., b ? ^tmng; those parts, ^ mucb regularly so that insured crops
in are
lts p0 ^^ r ° eVaS
With regard to hailstorms ,. m Englanc .
a curlous fact 13 kn ?™’ bat caanot be
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<?one by lull is very coo.ider.blj
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P?« ^ ankee ° f W* Blade. a Smulir
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New York City averages ten fire alarm*
' -ry twenty-four hour*.
■ 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 went into com¬
mittee of the whole—Mr. Blount, of
Georgia bill. ,in the chair—upon the tin plate
The bill engrossed the time of the
house during almost its entire session.
Notwithstanding bill, the importance of*the
little attention was paid to the de¬
bate. The exodus to Chicago had begun,
and tho return from Minneapolis was
slow. The hall was practically d< sorted
throughout the sessiou. Mr. Bunting, of
New York, spoke for over an hour in
favor of the bill. Messrs. E. B. Taylor,
of Ohio, and Dalzel 1 , of Pennsylvania,
each occupied nearly as ipuch time in
opposing it. Messrs. Atkinson, O’Neill
aDd Huff, of Pennsylvania, each spoke
briefly against the bill, and Mr. Hemp¬
hill, of South Carolina, addressed him
self to the financial question, and urged
congress to enact legislation which would
relieve the people of the south from bur¬
densome legislation, under which they
the were bill now the suffering. house Without action on
Friday. adjourned.
—The couferees of the river
and harbor bill reported a disagreement.
The house adopted a resolution to insist
on the disagreement, and the bill was
again sent to the conference. The pri¬
vate claim bill, known ns the Sibley bill,
was then taken up. After a short time
spent in filibustering upon it, the house
came to the point, when no quorum
voted, and, in order t® escape from the
stifling atmosphere of the chamber, took
a recess uotil 8 o’clock, the evening ses¬
sion to be for the consideration of pri¬
vate pension bills. The house failed to
break its usual Friday night’s record.
Various efforts were made by the chamj >-
ions of private pension bills to bring
their measures before the house, but each
effort was unavailing, and the house ad¬
journed.
Saturday. —The house appropriation
committee on Saturday completed the
last of the appropriation bills. Just be¬
fore adjournment the general deficiency
ated was reported. The amount appropri¬
by the bill is $4,780,535, of which
amount $910,000 is for the census bureau
during the next fiscal year. During the
present session of congress appropriations
have been made to supply deficiencies in
appropriations for the support of the gov
ernment during the current and prior fiscal
years as follows: Act of March 8, 1892,
census, Indians, etc , $428,604; act of
March 13,1892, urgent deficiency,$1,228,-
636; act of March 18, 1892, department
of agriculture, $160,000; act of March,
1892, public printer, etc., $479,641; act
of June, 1892, pensions, $768,832; mak¬
ing a total of $9,985,273. The census
act of March, 1889, limited the cost of
taking the census to $6,400,000, exclu¬
sive of the cost of printing. There has
been already appropriated toward the
work, exclusive of printing, $7 825,000,
and the sum appropriated in the bill re¬
ported is $660,000.
THE 8ENATE.
Thursday. —Nearly all the senators
who attended the Minneapolis convention
were in their places in the senate Thurs¬
day morning, but the first action of the
body was to provide for adjounment till
Monday. Mr. Morrill addressed the sen¬
ate in opposition to the bill for the free
coinage of gold and silver. Mr. Stewart
took the floor as soon as Mr. Morrill left
it. Taking up and replying to some of
Mr. Morrell’s statements he said that the
utterance of such nonesense would be¬
come, he should think, “damnable iter¬
ation,’’ after a time. The press in com¬
mercial cities was,he declared,subsidized
and spoke only the language of the gold
power, which was itself an “arrogant
moloch.” The bill went over without
action. The house’bill defining options in
futures and imposing special taxes
on dealers therein was laid be-
fore the senate, and Mr. Wash-
burn moved its reference to the judiciary
committee. It had been expected that
the reference of this bill would provoke
a somewhat bitter controversy, but that
expectation was not realized. After a
short discussion it was referred to the
judiciary committee. Conference report
on the river and harbor bill was made by
Mr. Frye, who stated that an agreement
had been reached on all but two amend¬
ments—which were for a boat railway
around the dalles of Columbia river and
fora canal in the state of Washington, to
connect the waters of Lake Washington
with those of Fuget sound. After a long
discussion the senate insisted on its
amendments and agreed to a further con-
ference, and then the senate adjourned^
till Monday. Messrs. Frye, Dolph and'
Ransom were appointed conferees on the
river and harbor bill.
Monday. —The senate was in session
for four and a quarter hours Monday.
.Although the attendance was very small,
part of the time was given to the consid¬
eration of bills on the calendar, a part to
executive business and the chief portion
to a speech by Mr. Call in support of the
resolution heretofore offered by him for
an investigation of railroad corporations
and their interference in politics and elec¬
tions . Senators Chandler and Garl-
linger expressed their gratification, that
the investigatiop if authorized at all, as
they hoped it would be. would take in the
state of New Hampshire, the former as
serting that it would prove that Florida
was not the only state where the evil ex¬
isted, and the latter expressing the con¬
viction that it would only prove the
falsity of representations made by certain
persons in that regard. No action was
taken on the resolution and the senate
adjourned to Wednesday a In T the ousi- .
ne f 8 traD8 ff ed thftt wa9 of ? eD " al ’ nter -
„?AnSicL “noirere^rof the di4ver^
tL „!<£“& It m to subwHute
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The senate judiciary committee, to
which the anti-oytion bill wm referred
last Thursday, held its first session for
weeks Monday, and after considering the
measure for two hours, adjourned until
next Thu sday, when its consideration is
to be taken up again aud pushed to co »-
pletion. It is expected now that the bill
will be certainly reported next week.
In the senate, Thursday, Washburn, of
Minnesota, who has a bill similar to the
Hatch anti-option measure, moved that
the Hatch bill be taken from the tiblc
ami sent to the judiciary committee.
Th : s was done. Washburn is confident
his bill will pass. Other senators, equally
well informed, say that it will not pass.
A poll of the senate will be necessary to
decide this question.
The Appropriation Rill.
The history of the first session of the
fifty-second congress is practically made,
and it is probable that from now on to
the end of the session the eff >rts of both
branches will be confined principally to
the settlement of disputed points in the
appropriation bills, These measures
are really much farther advanced than
the simple statement of their parlia¬
mentary status would indicate to the un¬
practiced eye. By an extraordinary dis¬
play of energy the house has succeeded
iu passing every one of these bills ex¬
cept the general deficiency bill, and is
transferring them to the senate with such
rapidity as to tax severely tho working
capacity of the committee on appropria¬
tions of that body, consequently it appears
from the record tnat the senate is far be¬
hind the house in passing upon these im¬
portant measures.
No Reciprocity With Canada.
In a state paper sent to the senate
Monday an answer to the resolution of
Februrcy 24th last calling for informa¬
tion relative to reciprocity negotiations
with Cauada, the president sounds the
death knell of that project and plants a
mile post iD American history by delib¬
erately in effect recommendiug that con¬
gress proceed to retaliate upon the do¬
minion for its persistent denials of the
rights of American citizens, guaranteed
by the treaty of Washington in con¬
nection with the navigation of
C’anadiin canals. The failure of the
reciprocity negotiations is due to
the position taken by the Canadian rep¬
resentatives at their recent conference in
Washington with Secretary Blaine and
John W. Foster, which, in effect, was
that it would be “impossible for the Can¬
adian government, in view of its present
political relations and obligations, to ex¬
tend to American goods preferential
treatment over those of other countries.
As Canada was part of the British em¬
pire they did not consider it competent
for ihe dominion government to enter
into any commercial arrangement with
the United States from the benefits of
which Great Britain and its colonies
should be excluded.”
THE TITUSVILLE SUFFERERS
Arc Being Well Cared for—Incidents
of the Disaster.
The following is given out officially to
the public by the relief committee of
Titusville, Pa., and speaks for itself:
“The prompt and generous assistance
given to our afipeted citizens in their re¬
cent calamity by the people in all parts
of the country is most gratifying. It is
due to the publie that we make a state
ment of our condition as exactly and
correctly as is possible. Six days after
the calamity we have our relief commit-
tee* thoroughly organized and the distri¬
bution of food, clothing, bedding and
other supplies progressing with system,
and perfect order prevails. A large force
of laborers are employed in removing the
wrecks from the streets and in clearing
up the remains of houses. Fifty-nine
bodus have been buried, and there are
several persons still missing. We do not
need clothing, food or other supplies. Our
need will be for money to relieve these
who have lost by the fire and flood and
to repair the enormous destruction of
property. The district devastated by fire
snd flood extends through the entire
length of the city, for about a mile and a
half. Its breadth is from one-eighth to
one-quarter of a mile. The estimated
loss of property exceeds $1,000,000. Tne
losses fall chiefly upon the poor and the
laboring people. "Within the bounds
named there were more than 150 dwell¬
ings, as well as many shops, manufacto¬
ries and oil refineries, where the labor
was employed. The loss of personal
property in homes of the people was al¬
most the total loss, while very many lost
not only their houses and contents, but
the ground on which they stood. The
streets are, many of them, destroyed, and
the loss in this particular and in bridges
is very largo. Everything possible is be¬
ing done to alleviate the distressed, and
our people are recovering hope and spirit,
BIG WARRANTS
Issued by Governor Northen for School
and Pension Funds.
Georgia’s stale treasurer, on Saturday,
received from Governor Northen two
warrants covering disbursements of over
half the state’s revenue ior the year. One
for $910,564.10 covers the school drafts
for the past year, and another for $400,-
003 covers the amount paid out on wid¬
ows’ pensions. A third for $22,415 cov¬
ers amounts pail out recently to redeem
past due bon 1s which had not been pres¬
ented to the treasurer until a short time
ago.
It should be said iu this connection
that the $910,564 is not all the school
fund. The $200,000 poll tax, which
goes into the school fun:l is paid by
county tax collectors to the county school
boards and does not pass through the
state treasury. The school fund for the
year just closed was over one million,one
huadred thousand dollar-.
England at Chicago.
A London cablegram says: On the
supplementary vote in the house of com¬
mons Tuesday, granting £10,000 to the
royal world’s fair commission, A. C.
Morton (liberal), member for Peter¬
borough, itors asked if in'ending exhib¬
were satisfied w th the arrange
ments made by the commission. Hr
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
Ihe vote was *gn®d to by the
couee.
NEWS IN GENERAL.
Happenings of the Day Culled from Our
Telegraphic and Cable Dispatches.
WIT AT IS TRANSPIRING THROUGHOUT OUR
OWN COUNTRY, AND NOTES OF INTER¬
EST FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
The committee appointed at the Minne¬
apolis convention to notify President
Harrison ot his nomination, met in Wash¬
ington Monday at noon and discharged
that duty.
Oi Thursday the republicans of 'lie
seven !h Kansas district nominated Chester
I. Long for congress. The seventh is
Jerry Simpson’s district and Long is from
Medicine Lodge, Simpson’s home.
II. M. Loucks, of Huron, South Dako¬
ta, vice-president of the National Alli¬
ance, has gone to Washington to take
charge of the affairs of the organization,
the death of L. L. P.dk having vacated
the office of president.
A d spatch from Portland, Ore., is to
the effect that in the municipal election
Monday the fusion ticket, composed of
democrats and republicans was success-
cessful in defeating the straight republi¬
can ticket with the exception of two
councilmen.
A dispatch from New York says: Gold
coin aggregating $3,760,000 was on Fri¬
day ordered from the subtreasury for ship¬
ment to ta $3,350,000, Europe at once, making the total
go and the total for the
by week the $7,100,000. It all goes to Bremen
steamship Aller.
Di-patches of Friday from Mankato,
Minn., state that the latest developments
realize the gravest fears as to the cyclone.
The death loss will amount to at least
thirty, and seventeen bodies have been
recovered thus far, with huge territory to
hear from. The cyclone was one of the
worst that has ever visited the north¬
west. The greatest loss was about Wells
aud Minnesota Lake.
A dispatch from Galesburg, Ill., says:
Four men were killed aud twenty-five
more or less injurs d in an accident on
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
railroad Sunday morning. A construc¬
tion train on the Keitlisburg branch ran
into a drove of cattle three miles north
of Glades’on, and was ditched, The
engineer Was killed and his body buried
under the wreck, The other victims
were Italian laborers.
Petersburg, A cablegram of Tuesday from St.
Russia, states that drought
prevails in Poltava, government of south
Russia, and crops are blighting. A
daily spectacle is that of priests carrying
sacred icons, followed by throngs of
peasants pro; eeding to tho fields. Here
the icons are elevated aud surrounded
by kneeling groups of peasants. Pray¬
ers are then offered for rain. Sheep and
cattle are perishing for want of fodder.
A New York dispatch of Thursday
says: Several of the committee of union
printers w ho went to Minneapolis iu re¬
gard to the matter of transforming the
Tribuns composing room from a “rat” to
a union office, returned to the city
Wednesday. They say the matters in
dispute between Reid and the printers
have been satisfactorily adjusted, and
that a union foreman and union composi¬
tors will be put at work in the Tribune
office.
A New York dispatch of Tuesday
says: The City bank has demanded pay¬
ment from the Danville and Terminal
compares of the time loan of $100,000,
now over due, and has notified the re¬
ceiver that if it is not pai i the securities
as collateral will be sold at auction im¬
mediately. Receiver Huidekoper says he
has no authority from the court to pay
the loan, and it is expected that the se¬
curities will have to be sold. This action
by the City bank is expected to force a
receivership which is for the Terminal company,
endorser of the Danville loans.
A London special says: “Complaints
are made of the delay in the distribution
of the new Virginia bonds, and it is as¬
serted that there has been a quarrel among
the Olcott committee.” In regard to the
above it was stated iu New York Tues¬
day by George Ellis, s.cretary of the
Olcott committee, that the delay in the
distribution of the new Virginia bonds
was due to the Let that they were not
yet engraved. The old ones were being
sent out, it is said, just as fast as they
could be verified. There were $23,0 0,-
000 to be sent and not more than half a
million could he forwarded daily. It
was emphatically denied that there was
any quarrel among the Oicott committee.
A STEAMBOAT HORROR.
Her Boiler Explodes, Instantly Killing
Fifteen People.
A cablegram from Brest says: A terri-
bl3 accident occurred Monday on board
the new French cruiser, Dupuy de Lomo.
Orders had been given for a trial of the
machinery. White the trial was iu pro¬
gress the end of one boiler was blown
out. The fireroom immediately became
filled with steam and sulphurous suff>-
cating smoke, caused by the water reach¬
ing and extinguishing the fire under the
boiler. When the door was broken open
the men were found lyiDg on deck delir¬
ious from the agony caused by the
terrible injuries they have received,
some writhing in their convul¬
sions, their blackened and distorted
and fearfully blistered bodies, arm-
and legs presenting a sickening and hearts
rending sight. Several had bitten them¬
selves on their arms and hands and at-
tacked their equally unfortunate compan¬
ions and bitten them. Efforts were im¬
mediately taken to get the men out, but
the task was difficult, through the fact
that they were ab-olutely crazy with
panic anil attacked their would-be re u-
ers’ hands, feet and teeth. When
dragged out fifteen wore undoubtedly dying and a
number of others will die iD
a slioit time.
The Census Count.
The census bureau on Thursday finished
its last count of the population of the
country, according to the returns of the
eleventh census. The population, in¬
cluding Alaska and the Indians on reser¬
vations, is 62,979,766. These figures are
absolutely final, and not subject to
change.
NUMBER 25.
; RICHMOND & DANVILLE R- R.
Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Use Division.
i Condensed Schedule
of Passenger
Trains, in Effect Way 15th, 1892.
NORTHBOUND. No. 38. No, 10. No. 12
1 ASTERN TIME. Daily. Daily. Daily
Lv. Atlanta (E. T.) 1 40 pm 8 50 pm 8 05am
Ch&mblee..... ....... 9 24 pm 8 40am
Norcross....... ....... 9 35 pm 8 52am
Duluth........ ....... 9 47 pm 9 04am
Suwanee....... ....... 9 57 pm 9 15am
Buford........ .......10 10 pm 9 28am
Flowery Gainesville..... Branch ....... 10 24 pm 9 4.’an
3 03 pm j(i 45 pm 10 03am
Lula.......... ....... \ 1 13 pin 10 27am
Bell ton........ 1 15 pm 10 30am
i Cornelia....... 1 1 42 pm 10 51am
Mt. Ai y....... 1 ,1 46 pm 10 55am
Tocooa......... *2 20 am 11 10a in
Westminster... *2 57 am . 11 56am
Seneca ........ 4 17; i in 12 15pm
Central........ 1 50 am 1 20pm
F.aslevs........ Greenville..... 08' 2 18 am 1 46pm
6 pm 2 44 am* 2 11pm
Greers......... 3 14 am! 2 42pm
Wellford....... 3 33 am! 3 00,-in
Spartanburg.,. Clifton........ 7 04 pm 3 54 am] 3 i-Spro
Cowpcns 4 13 am; 3 40pm
...... 4 18 am 3 44pm
Gaffney....... Blacksburg..... 4 40 am 4 O'.ipm
5 01 am 4 27pm
Grover......... 5 11 am 4 37 pm
King’s Mount’ll 5 28 am 4 55pm
Gastonia....... 5 52 am 5 20pm
Lowell........ 6 05 am 5 31 pm
Bellemont..... 6 16 am 5 39pm
Ar. Charlotte...... 9 10 pm 6 40 am 6 <>0pni
SOUTHBOUND. No. 37, No. :i. No. 9.
Daily, Daily. Daily.
Lv. Charlotte...... 9 45 am 1 50 pm 2 20 am
Bellemont..... ........ 2 12 pm 2 42 ara
Lowell......... ........ 2 23 pm 2 52 am
Gastonia....... ........ 2 35 pm 34)1 am
Grover......... King’s Mount'n ........ 3 00 pm 3 27 am
........ 3 16 pm 3 43 am
Gaffney....... Blacksburg .... ........ 3 26 pm 3 53 am
........ 3 44 pin 4 10 am
Clifton........ Cowpeus ...... ........ 110 pm 4 42 am
........ 1 13 pm 4 45 » n)
Spartanburg... Wdlford........ 11 43 am 4 28 pm 5 00 am
........ 4 50 pm 5 23 am
Greers......... ........ 5 09 pm 5 42 am
Greenville...... 12 36 pm 5 35 pm I 6 10 am
Easleys......... ........ 6 09 pm 6 33 am
Central........ ........ 6 34 pm 7 10 am
Seneca......... ........ 7 17 pm 7 58 am
Westminster.... ........ 7 35 piu 8 17 am
Toccoa........ ........ 8 11 pm 8 55 am
Mt. Airy....... ........ 8 40 pm 9 80 am
Cornelia....... ....... 8 43 pm 9 33 am
Bellton........ ........ 9 05 pm 9 58 am
Lula.......... ........ 9 07 pm 10 00 am
Gainesville..... 3 41 pm 9 33 pm 1C 28 am
Flowery Buford........ Branoh ........ 9 52 pm! 10 48 am
........10 17 pm : 1 02 am
Suwanee....... ........ 10 23 pm 11 15 am
Duluth........ .......; 10 34 pm tl 2 5 pm
Norcross...... ........ 10 45 pm II 37 am
Chambleo...... ........10 56 pm 11 49 am
Ar. Atlanta (E. T.) 5 05 pni| 11 30 pin 12 25 pin
Additional trains Nos. 17 an 1 18—Lnla ac¬
commodation, daily except Sunday, leaves At¬
lanta 6 15 p m, arrives Lula 9 00 p m. Return¬
ing, leaves Lula 6 00 a m, arrives Atlanta 8 50
a m. •
Between Lula and Ath ns--No. 11 daily, ex¬
cept Sunday, and No. 9 daily, leavo Lula 8 15 p
in, and 9 85 a m, arrive Athens 10 00 p m and
1120 am. Returning leave Athens, No. 10
daily, except Sunday, and No. 12daiiy, 6 15 p m
and 7 07 a *m, arrive Lula 7 55 p m -uid 8 56
a m.
Betweon Toccoa and Elbe/ton—No. 61 dai¬
ly; except Sunday, leave Toccoa 11 40 a ra
arrive Elberton 3 20 p m. Returning, No. 60
daily, except Sunday, leavfttElberton 5 00 a ro
and arrives Toccoa8 30 am.
Nos. 9 and 10 carry Pullman Sleepers be¬
tween Atlanta and New York.
Nos. 37 and 38, Washington and Southwest¬
ern Vestibuled Limited, between Atlanta and
Washington. Through PuTman Sleepers be¬
tween New York and New Orleans, al-O between
Washington and Memphis, via Atlanta and
Birmingham. Observation car between Wash¬
ington and New Orleans.
Nos. 11 and 12, Pullman Buffet Sleeper be¬
tween Washington information and Atlanta. local and
For detailed as to
through time tables, rates and Pullman Sleep¬
ing car reservations, confer with local agents,
or address,
JAS. L. TAYLOR, W. A. TURK.
Gen’l Pass. Ag’t. Ass’t. Genl. Pass. Ag’t.
Atlanta, Ga. Charlotte N. O.
C. P. HAMMOND, Ga.
Superintendent. Atlanta,
W. H. GREEN. 80L. HASS,
Gen’l Manager. Traffic Manager,
Atlanta, Ga. Atlanta, Ha.
LEWIS DAVIS,
vTrOPNEY AT LAW
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will practice in the counties of Haber-
*ham and Rabun of the Northwestern
Circuit, and FrankEn and Banks of the
Western Circuit. Prompt attention wil!
be given to all bush-ess entrusted*to him.
The collection of debts will have »pto¬
tal attention.
THEY ARE RETICENT.
The Danville and Terminal People in
New York Have Nothing to Say.
A New York dispatch of Friday says:
Officers of the Richmond aud Danville
decline to say anything about the recent
developments concerning that road be
yond the fact that they have been served
with an order Irom Judge Bond. They
haV(J turn! d over the entire property of
the Richmond and Danville company
and its leased and controlled linei to
Receivers Huidekoper and Foster, who
have taken possession of the same as or¬
dered by the court.
Receiver Foster arrived at the New
York office Friday and at once took pos¬
session. He said that,as he had just taken
charge, he could imkc no statement be¬
yond reckoning that they should proceed
to manage the property, under the orders
of the court, for the benefit of all inter¬
ests concerned, and th it practicdly all
the present operating officers would be
reappointed by the receivers. suit,
The parties who brought the un¬
der which the receivers were appointed,
bad nothing further to add to the state¬
ments made in the cm plaint.
The order appointing the receivers au¬
thorizes them to pay unpaid vouchers,
p^y rolls and operating expenses, but
mikes no statement in regard to the in
lerest due July 1st, amounting to $700,-
000, and permission wi 1 have to be ob¬
tained from the court before this is paid.
Thb American notion of the Sultan of
Turkey indolence,and is that he lives a life of perpetual
that such a thing as a
practical idea ever entering his royal
brain is quite Impossible; but, judging
by a recent report, he must pos St‘SS
some friends ability that few of his Oriental
credit him with It is stated that
he is the inventor of a telegraph instru¬
ment, and that he is desirous of exhibit¬
ing it at the World’s Fair next year. It
will indeed be a novelty to see a tt-le-
graph instrument invented by a Turk
Australia has 759 acr** devotod tn bo*
culture.