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TOLUMJS XX.
INDEPENDENCE DAY IN FAIRY-.
LAND.
The wee mid-summer fairies who dwell in
wood and meadow.
Although they be but tiny folk are pa¬
triotic toc»f
8o when they Heard the children say the
"glorious Fourth” was coming,
They met in solemn conference to see what
they could do.
But fireworks and powder, torpedoes, rockets,
crackers,
Are not for sale in fairyland, as you per¬
haps might dream;
At first the case seemed hopeless, but, after
weighty thinking,
Like clever elve-Americans they hit upon
a scheme.
First, beneath the branches they unfurled a
splendid banner,
Whose stripes were crimson salvia with
daisies laid between,
Fbrget-me-nots and blue-bells made all one
corner azure,
With stars of golden butter-cups, the
largest ever seen.
For crackers and torpedoes they snapped the
empty pods,
While puff-balls did their little best to
smoke with all their might,
And the elfin fete was ended with shooting
stars for rockets,
While Roman-candle fireflies lit all the
summer night.
-- —Lilian D. Rice in St. Nicholas.
> PULLMAN CAR WOOING.
CENE: Eastern-
bound Pullman car
at the Oakland
mole.
Time, 3:30 r. m.
Enter elderly
gentleman, carry¬
ing small valise and
large hamper. Fol¬
lowing him two
Si ladies, evidently
mother and daugh¬
ter. Daughter in
^ 1 dark blue traveling
i 1 ijl costume, with large
b unc h of violets
IPS' Ilf pinned to front of
her jacket, is a
pretty, slender girl,
of about nineteen. Both laden with flow¬
ers, books, and numerous small parcels,
which they deposit in section nearest
middle of car. The following conversa¬
tion ensues -
“Gladys, dear, I am really worried
over your taking this trip alone, Had
you not better wait a day or so, to see if
we can hunt some one up to accompauy
you?”
“Oh, no indeed, papa. It was unfor¬
tunate that Mr. Wilson wa9 taken ill so
suddenly this morning, so that Mrs. Wil¬
son could not go with mo this afternoon,
but you see I’ll have to start to-day to
reach Omaha in time for Clara’s wed-
diug, especially as I’m to be bridesmaid.
You aud mamma must not worry, lor I
shall get along all right alone.”
In the meantime other passengers come
in aud find their respective scctious. The
engine toots warningly. A few more
kisses and hurried instructions, and papa
and mamma are gone. The train inove3
off slowly at first, then with increased
speed carries her further and further
from the two worried souls she had just
left.
Gladys felt a little bit frightened at the
prospect of this, her first long journey
alone, and kept her lace turned toward
the fast-flving but unnoticed landscape,
for the blue eyes behind tfce long veil
were blurred with tears.
> Her thoughts flew back to her parents,
now on the way to their home in San
Francisco, She knew - how much they
would miss her—the only child—though
she was going to stay only a few weeks
with her Omaha friends. She thought,
too, of some one else who—well, some
one who was also left in San Francisco,
Finally, turning to inspect her fellow-
travellers, she thought the few men and
two fussy old ladies looked very unin¬
teresting. Thrown carelessly in the sec¬
tion opposite was a valise and a man’s
ulster, but the owner was net visible.
*She then turned her attention to the
books, candy and flowers packed up in
front of her. She read, smiled over, and
tucked away in her handbag the cards
and tiny sealed notes hidden in the candy
boxes or attached to the bouquets.
Time passed, and with a restless little
yawn, Gladys glanced at her watch and
found it after 6. The porter just then
announced that a stop will be made now
at Sacramento for dinner.
Gladys thought of the bother of un¬
packing the neatly-strapped hamper for
just one meal, disliked the idea of going
out at the station alone, then decided to
dine on candy, as she was net very
hungry.
At the moment a familiar form came
up the aisle, and in a second a tall, hand¬
some young man was standing near with
outstretched hand. A gleam of amuse¬
ment was in his dark eyes as he quietly
said. “How do you do, Gladys?”
A delicate pink colored her cheeks as
she shook hauds and answered him with
a surprised and rather cool. “Why,
Jack, where did you come trom?”
“From the smoking-room whero I’ve
been for the last three hours, ever since
I came in and found you so wrapped up
in the scenery you did not see me,” he
replied, moving some books away and
sitting beside her in the most matter-of-
course way.
“Where are you going. Jack?”
“To Omaha, Gladys.”
“What for?” asked she, suspiciously.
“Partly business—partly pleasure.
Business, to take care of you; pleasure,
to be with you,” he answered, concisely,
“Now, Jack, you know that is very
foolish, after—”
“Last night, when you refused me
again. being Yes, I foolish. know; but Was you see I can't I
help born so,
guess,” said Jack, resignedly.
Dead silence followed this for a about
two minutes. She looked steadily out
of the window, while he gaze 1 absently
at the bald head of a man a lew seats in
Dout.
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Then he broke the silence by leaning
toward her, and saying, in a very soft
and persuasive tone: “Gladys, won’t
you reconsider what you said last
night?”
Looking around nervously to see if
any one could hear, she answered: “No,
Jack—please don’t go over that again,
for it won’t do one bit of good.”
He looked disappointed; then picking
up her jacket said: “Well, we are almost
at Sacramento. Come, let us go out to
dinner.”
Gladys rose quickly, glad that she did
not have to dine on candy, after all;
and while helping her with her coat
Jack casually remarked:
“You have lots of flowers.”
“Yes, and these lovely violets—they
came this morning with no card at¬
tached; but I think I can thank you for
them,” looking up brightly at him.
A tender look came into his eyes as
he said, “Yes, I sent them, and I’m
much obliged to you for wearing them.”
“Oh,” said Gladays, rather coolly,
“I had no preference. They matched
ray dress so well—that is why I wore
them.”
“Yes, I see,” assented he as coolly.
“Those cream roses would not look
well with it at all, for instance.”
Poor little violets—that last remark
caused their dethronement, for the girl,
with a flush, hastily aud angrily detached
them, saying, “Come to think of it, the
roses would be far more effective,” and
pinned a few of the long-stemmed
beauties in their place.
Just as quickly Jack replaced the few
violets he had worn in his coat with a
rosebud that she had dropped, saying,
“Mine are withered, too.”
Gladys looked annoyed,but said noth¬
ing, and in five minutes they were hur¬
riedly eating dinner at the station res¬
taurant.
Afterward Jack amused and enter¬
tained her till the early bedtime, aLd she
slept soundly that night, feeling safe
with a friend so near.
Carefully looking from behind her
curtains the next morning, Gladys saw
that the opposite section had been
change l from “two beds ro two seats”
again, but Jack was not visible. Half
an hour found her dressed, waiting for
him to appear, a3 she intended asking
him to breakfast out of the well stocked
hamper.
Presently he came in, and after a very
slight hesitation, smilingly accepted her
invitation. He helped her unpack the
hamper and set theTable in her section,
and in a perfect gale of fun they began
their morning meal sitting opposite.
“This is fun, isn’t it?” says Gladys,
spearing for a sardine with a corkscrew,
for Jack, as company,was honored with
the only fork.
“Immense!” he assented, so emphat¬
ically that she laughed gleefully.
Emboldened by this, Jack, iu the act
of carrying a piece of cold chicken to
his mouth, leaned over and lowering
his voice and fork at the same time said
coaxingly, “Let’s breakfast together al¬
ways—shall we, Gladys?”
She smiled in spite of herself at his
tone and manner, even while a dainty
frown slightly marred her pretty fore¬
head, and she answered briefly and em¬
phatically: “Couldn’t think of such a
thing. Don’t be silly, Jack.”
“Oh, you cruel little giri!” said Jack,
dramatically, as he straightened up and
proceeded to eat the morsel on his fork.
Their merry little meal over, the rest
of the day passed in the usual routine of
a Pullman car. Jack was all devotion
from first to last. Reading, talking and
eating, with hasty little promenades
when there was any opportunity, was
the order of the day.
Gladys acknowledged to herself, after
bidding him good-night, that Jack was
a very pleasant companion—but she did
not want to marry him; no, indeed.
Jack Hollis had known and loved
Gladys Preston sioce he was a boy of
nineteen and she a little girl of four¬
teen. Ha had proposed and been de¬
clined several times, but knowing that
she did not dislike him and believing
that “everything comes to the man who
waits,” he was waiting, aud iu the
meantime wooing to the best of his
ability.
He was very much afraid she would
meet some other man during her visit
who would fall in love with her and win
her; hence his deep laid schme to travel
to Omaha with her. As for Gladys,
after her first surprise at seeing him on
board, she was so used to his never fail¬
ing devetion that she took his coming
with he. as a matter of course. It was
just like Jack, she thought.
The second morning Gladys arose with
a severe headache. With that and a
wretched night's sleep, she was worn out
and cross—undeniably so. She snubbed
poor Jack, who was all sympathy; re¬
fused the cup of tea he brought her
when they changed cars at Ogden, and
when the journey began again lay back
on the pillows he fixed in the seat for
her, and would have nothing to say to
him.
All day she suffered intensely,feigning
sleep most of the time to avoid being
fussed over by the sympathetic old
ladies.
How - Jack longed to Lake the golden-
brown head in his arms, and stroke the
throbbing temples! Toward evening,
when the rest of the passengers were out
at dinner, he asked her, with a passion-
ate tremor in his voice, to give him the
light to do so.
She was trying to swallow the tea he
had again brought in to her. Pushing
it away, she said angrily:
“Jack, you bother me to death.
Don’t ever mention that subject to me
again, for I will not marry you. Go
away and do not speak to me at all.”
Then the aching head dropped wearily
back on the pillow.
Jack paled, took the half emptied cup,
and walked silently out of the car. That
was the last she saw of him that night,
She bad her berth made up early, and,
utterly exhausted, soou fell into a re-
freshing sleep, from which she awoke in
tho night with her headache gone,
Her first thought was of Jack, and her
eyes opened wide with shame as she re-
TOCCOA, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1892.
membered her rudeness to the man who
had always been so kind to her. 9ba
recalled the pained, set look as he had
turned away the evening before, and re¬
solved to ask his pardon the first thing
in the morning, when, of course, he
would forgive her, and they would be
good friends again. herself again,
Morning found Gladys
sweet and pretty as ever; but no Jack to
be seen. He had not come in to take
breakfast with her, as she expected, so
she decided he mast have eaten at the
station which had been passed early, be¬
fore she was up.
After a loDely little breakfast by her¬
self, she settled down comfortably with
a book to read and wait for him to come
and make up.
The hours passed however, and still
no Jack. His traps were still opposite,
so he must still be on the train, probably
in the smoking room, where the other
men spent most of their time. She be¬
gan to grow very indignant at his ne¬
glect.
“To be sure,*I told him never to speak
to me again, but he knew I did not mean
it,” soliloquized Gladys; then tossed
her head and vowed she didn’t care what
he did.
At lunch time she saw him disappear
in the eating room without so much as
a look even in her direction. Shortly
after the train moved he sauntered care¬
lessly into his section. Meeting her
wondering eyes, he gravely bowed, then
taking a book he was to all intents soon
absorbed in in its contents.
Her heart seemed to sink a few inches
as she fully realized that he had taken
her hasty words literally and did not in¬
tend speaking to her. But pride came
to her rescue, and she was apparently as
much interested in her work as he was
in his.
The afternoon rolled on, and still they
read, never glancing at each other. As
the train drew up at the dinner station
he threw down his book, and without a
word to the girl across the aisle, went
out talking and laughing with one of
the men.
Gladys, who had not left the car that
day, timidly asked the old ladies if she
could go out to dinner with them, and
was promptly taken under their wing.
After dinner Jack stayed in the smoking
room playing cards.
Then, as the shadows darkened so
that she could not see to read, Gladys’s
spirits fell to lowest ebb. Turning to
the window, but seeing nothing of the
fast-darkening landscape, she gazed
steadily out with fast filling eyes. She
realized and confessed then to herself
how much she had missed Jack all day.
On the train flew into the darkness.
The car lamps were lit and berths were
being made up all around her. More
and more lonely and low-spirited she
grew. To-morrow morning would bring
them to Omaha, where her friends
would meet her. She would go one
way, Jack another, and he would never
speak to her again. The last thought
was loo much for her, aud by this time
she was crying softly but bitterly in the
corner, with her faee still turned to the
window.
Ah, Jack, deliberately staying away all
day from wilful little Gladys was a dip¬
lomatic stroke of yours!
Suddenly some one leaned over her
and said softly; “YVhy, Gladys, home¬
sick already?”
Startled, she turned quickly, and with
a joyful little catch of her breath dashed
her handkerchief over her eyes and an¬
swered shyly, “No, Jack, only lonesome,
and I—I’m sorry I was so rude yester¬
day. ”
He sat down, screening her from any
nrying eyes, and said very low, “Gladys,
darling, were you crying because
I’ve been such an unmanly beast to-day?”
The pretty head dropped lower—but
no answer. Jack glanced around; no
one was looking. Taking her hand, he
said: “Gladys, once more I ask you to
be my wife. If you say no I shall
never trouble you again, but shall take
the first train home from Omaha to-mor¬
row, a disappointed man. Which is it,
dear, yes or no.”
Still no answer.
“Say yes, dearest,” pleaded Jaek,with
his lips dangerously near the fluffy bang.
An almost imperceptible nod was all
the answer he got, but it seemed to sat¬
isfy him. Gently raising her head, he
stole a kiss, just in time to escape the
porter’s inquistive eyes as he came up,
blandly asking the young lady if she was
ready to have her berth made up.
BlushiDg furiously, the young lady
said she was ready; so pressing her hand
warmly, Jack whispered, “Good night,
love,” and left her, well satisfied with
the result of his journey.—Overland
Monthly.
lYonderfnl Insect Vitality.
It is a standing puzzle to the entomo¬
logists how frail little insects of the mos¬
quito and butterfly order can brave the
cold of an Arctic winter and yet retain
their vitality. The larvae of the milk¬
weed butterfly has been exposed to an
artificial blast sixty-eight degrees below
zero. Taken out of range of this arti¬
ficial blizzard and gradually “thawed
out" this same worm was able to creep in
less than a half an hour afterwards. But¬
terflies have been found flitting joyously
about in the highest latitude man has
ever penetrated, and the mosquitoes of
Alaska and Greenland are known to be
the healthiest specimens of that race of
little pests.—St. Louis Republic.
Taste and False Teeth.
It does not seem that the presence of
false teeth in the mouth would affect the
sense of taste, but some persons who
have used them say that their power is
greatly impaired by their presence; that
they cannot taste half as well as they
could before they began the use of the
plates. It is reasonable that it should
be so, for the faise palate covers the
roof of the mouth, and thus deprives the
user of a great deal of his tasting sur¬
face. At least one-half the tasting is
done with the palate, and when this is
covered it stands to reason that the
faculty of taste must be materially im-
paired.—New York Advertiser.
A CITY DESTROYED.
St. Mins, Few Fonndland, Nearly Ob¬
literated by Fire.
TWENTY MILLION DOLLARS LOSS— THOU
SANDS OF HOMELESS TEOPLE
AND 80ME LOSS OF LIFE.
DUpatches from St. Johns, N. F.,
state that on Friday last, abou- 5 o’clock
p. m., a stable at the head of Long’s Hill
blowing caught fire, and at the time the wind was
Rain a strong gale from the north¬
west. had not fallen for three
weeks and the town, buildings of wood,
except Water street, were extremely in¬
flammable. The adjoining h‘ uses rapid¬
ly caught and in a few minutes Long’s
Hill was a sea of flames. Human efforts
were Flying powerless to cope with the fire.
embers ignited houses huudreds
of yards to the leeward and so rapid
was the work of destruction that
there was not time to haul down
a sufficient number of houses
to make the fire break. The people seem¬
ed paralyzed. Water street was reached
by 8 o’clock. The market house, Com¬
mercial bank, Athenseura building, Tem¬
ple clubhouse, the Chamber of Commerce
cathedral, building, telegraph buildiDg, Anglican
lege, cost $500,000; Methodist col¬
Masonic temple and St. Patrick’s
hall all fell before the flames.
About 8:30 o’clock Waterside mercan¬
tile premises were attacked and shipping
begau to get out from the piers to the
middle of the harbor. The Angle-Amer-
ican telegraph office became untenable
about 8:50 o’clock p. m., and communi¬
cation with the outside world w is cut off.
The sea of fire which swept Witer street
rendered nil attempts at saving property
futile.
FLEEING FOR THEIR LIVES.
A few hundred people who had the te¬
merity to remain indoors fled to the rear
and escaped aboard boats and schooners,
that were waiting swinging to their lines
ready to drop out of danger. The air
was filled with blazing embers. The ter¬
rific fire swept Water street, which was
built of stoneand brick, but those build¬
ings fell almost ns quickly as the woo ten
structures. The Atlantic hotel and cus¬
tom house, more than one-half mile from
the stable, on the head of Long’s hill, fell
at 1 o’clock. Galway wharf, a tobacco
factory on Crookin’s premises, Terra Nova
foundry works, Mackay’s stores and
wharf, John Wood’s premises, Harvey’s
extensive establishment, consisting of a
bread factory, and the Costal Company’s
stores of and wharves were speedily things
the past.
Signal hill for a time caused a lull in
the storm, but the residents of rhe Amer¬
ican consulate, situated well up on the
hill, was doomed also. The large brew¬
ery and dwelling of John Lindberg, close
by, were included in the slaughter.
Having expended nothing its fury to the eastward destroy,
when there was more to
the fire began to edge northward, up the
slope on which the town is built. Coch¬
rane street, leading from the government
house to the harbor, the town’s hand¬
somest thoroughfare, fell a victim, only
a few dwellings at the top escaping. The
Methodist church on this street also es¬
caped. St. Patrick’s hall, owing to the
brave efforts of the Christian Brothers,
whose schools were established therein,
was for a long time considered .safe, but
such hopes proved vain. made and
Then supreme efforts were
successfully to prevent the fire from
creeping across to the Mercy convent,
which if attacked would have been the
cause of the destruction of Marks, the
town’s fashionable quarters, composed of
pretty cottages and substantial dwellings.
The Congregational church in this neigh¬
borhood could not be saved. Another
gallant stand was successfully made at
Rawling cross, at the head of King’s
road. The poor office, a large wooden
structure, west of the range of Military
road, was guarded, and if this could be
saved that fashionable boulevard was
safe.
The firemen by this time were pretty
well exhausted, but intelligent action on
their part and that of scores of spirited
young fellows, manning roofs and fight¬
ing the fire, proved victorious. Two-
thirds of the business part of the town
and one-half of the entire town and
three-fourths of the value of the town
has been oblitera'ed.
It is known positively that one man
and six children perished, but it is
thought that when the terrible excitement
that now prevails subsides it will be
found that the loss of life is much greater.
KILLED WHILE SLEEPING.
Horrible Fate of the Occupants of a
Pullman Car.
A terrible accident occurred at Mem¬
phis, Tenn., in the Newport News and
Mississippi Valley railroad depot at 5
o’clock Friday morning. A stone re¬
taining wall twenty-six feet high fell
without a moment’s warning, crashing
on to the tracks below. Six passenger
cars were wrecked, two of them being
completely buried under the thousands
of tons of rocks. One of these cars was
the Pu iman sleeper Swannanoa in which
Conductor Hogan, of New' Orleans; Con¬
ductor J. K. Hunter, of Chicago, and a
colored porter were asleep. The sleeper
was smashed flat. Never wai there so
complete a wreck.
It will take two or three days to reach
the bodies, and until then it will not be
known how many are dead. The cars
were side tracked, so no passengers were
aboard, but the conductors had two
friends visiting them, who were seen in
the car ai late Their as midnight by the yard
watchman. names are not known,
so inquiry cannot be made for them, and
their bodies may l*e in the car. The
wall was 500 feet long, 26 feet high,
feet thick at the base and 2$ at the top.
The maeonary consisted of blocks 2j
feet square. Three hundred feet of the
wall fell, pushed out from the centir bj
the bulging of the eaith, caused by the
unusual quantity of rain.
The English Elections.
A cable dispatch from London, eays:
At 2 o’clock Monday afternoon the total
returns received showed the election of
194 conservatives, 163 liberals, 27 liberal
unionists. 27 anti Parnellites, 5 laboritea
and 4 Parae Hites.
TRoopi FOR homestead.
Got. Pattison Details Eight Thousand
Militia to Assist the Sheriff.
A dispatch of Sunday from Harrisburg,
Pa., says: The entire division of
tional Guard of Pennsylvania, about eight
thousand men, has been ordered to Home-
stead to support Sheriff McCleiry in sup¬
pressing the trouble at that place. This
action of the governor wa»a token on re-
ceipt of the following dispatch:
Governor, 'PiTTSBrRo, July 10.-To Robert E. Fattison,
Harrisburg: The situation at Home-
stead has not improved and w.iile all is quiet
the strikers are in control and openly express to
me and to the public the determination that
the works shall not be operated uni ss by
!J, power, e w“r el TiL.A 1 have failed ft mi m e to akinR secure u11 a effortS posse in large , “ y
enough to accomplish anything, and I am sat-
isfied that no posse raised by the civil authority
can do anything to change the condition of
in further armed resistance and a consequent
loss of life. Only a large military force will
enable me to control nia'ter*. I believe if such
a force is sent the disorderly < lenient will be
?or ™'?.a issx
ance. William H. M’Cleaby, Sheriff.
Governor Fattison, as commander-in-
chief of the National Guard, at once is-
sued the following ordei :
George National R. Snowden, major general command-
rag Guard of Pennsylvania: Fut the
division under arms and move at once, with
ammunition, to the support of the sheriff of
Alleghany county at Homestead. Maintain the
peace and protect all persons in their rights un-
dor the constitution of tin state. Communicate
with me. It jbebt E. Fattison, Governor.
To Sheriff McCleary the following
telegram was sent:
Willirm H. McCl ary. Sheriff of Alleghany
county, eral Pittsburg: Have ord red Major Gen¬
George R. Snowden, with a division of the
National Guard of Pennsylvani 1 , to your sup¬
port at once. Fut yourself in communication
with him. Communicate with me further par¬
ticulars. Robert L. Patt son, Govt rnor.
General Snowden, with the adjutant
general and quartermaster go; eral, at
once proceeded to formulate orders for
the mobliz-.tiou of the Guard.
THE NEW8 AT HOMESTEAD.
Intense excitement was created at
Homestead late Sunday night by the an¬
nouncement that the Pennsylvania mili¬
and tia, 8,000 strong, had been ordered out
would arrive in Homestead. The
news flashed over the wires to the city at
11 o’clock p. m., aud a few minutes later
it had come to the ears of the strikers.
At first the report was received with in¬
credulity, but a few inquiries among
press it representatives convinced them that
was right. Some of the strikers were
at first d sposed to be a little defiant, and
there were occasional declarations that
even the militia would be opposed, but
when it was learned that the division or¬
dered out numbered 8,000 men, these
declarations promptly gave way to “Oh,
well, we have beat Pinkerton, anyway;”
“They did not dare to come,” and thus
consolation is found in the refl ction that
the most hated enemy of organized labor,
the Pinkerton guards, had been obliged
to confess defeat and give me the battle.
WILL WELCOME THE MILITIA.
Monday’s dispatches from Homstead
state that hostilities are over. At a mass
meeting of the strikers in the afternoon
it was decided by a unanimous vote, and
amid great enthusiasm, that the militia
should be welcomed to the city by brass
bands and other cereraouies appropriate
to the occasion. It was also resolved that
any striker who should hoot the militia,
or otherwise fail in proper lespect to the
state’s representatives should be ducked
in the river, and a committee was ap¬
pointed for that purpose. The burgess
was requested to invite all citizens hav¬
ing it no business in Homstead unwise to depart, as
was feared some and anarchistic
sympathizers with the strikers might
seek to precipitate trouble. All the lead¬
ers made speeches, and three brass bands
of the city tendered their services in the
welcoming doubts ceremonies to the militia. No
one that all will be peaceful hence¬
forth.
TRADE REVIEW.
Dun & Co.’s Report of Business for the
Past Week.
R. G. Dun & Co.’s review of trade for
week ending July 8 says: Business fail¬
ures occurring throughout the country
during the week number for the United
States 156. Crops are farther improved
and grain and cotton are weaker. Man¬
ufactures of all kinds are active, except
iron works as are stopped by the dispute
about wages, and trade is unusually active
for midsummer.
Sales of 10,000 tons of steel rails have
been made by eastern works, and the ag¬
gregate for half a year has been 860,000
with 560,000 tons actually delivered. The
prospects are that the Dew mileage for
the year will be only about 3,000 miles.
Bar iron is in heavy demand and struc¬
tural also, with an advance of about one
point. Nearly all the iron mills at Pitts
burg are closed, and pig iron is weaker,
while the glass works have stopped for
the summer.
At the south business is seasonably
dull, but steadily improving at Nashville,
and shows brighter prospects at Savan¬
nah, but very little improvement is seen
at New Orleans. Speculation has been
inactive, though 459,060 decline bales of cotton
have been sold with a of 1-lCc.
Receipts are still exceeding last year’s,
while the exports are fully maintained.
The treasury has been taking in more
money by $2,000,000 this month than it
has paid out, but large remedemptions of
notes have occurred in order to obtain
gold for export. The volume of currency
is now $1,603,000,000 against $1,620,-
000,000 in June.
In general, the cessation of labor trou¬
bles and sensible action by congress
would leave the situation exceptionally
favorable for the season.
No Vacancies.
A Washington d spitch of Monday
says: Secretary Tracy desires to have it
understood that there are no vacancies in
the ligt of cadet appointments for 1892
at the naval academy. He k somewhat
annoyed at the report emanating from
Annapolis vacancies. that there are congressional a great many
All the ap¬
pointments that can now be made within
the law have been filled, leaving the
secretary but six vacancies to provide
for. The person to fill these vacancies
have been selected and their names will
be announced in a few days.
the SOUTH IN
The News of Her Progress Porlrayei in
Pithy and Pointed Paragraphs
AI D A COMPLETE EPITOME OF HAPPEN¬
INGS OF GENERAL INTEREST FROM DAY
TO DAY WITHIN HER BORDERS.
A fierce fire raged in Louisville, Kv.,
f or - aV „ ral ra] noure hoursmomimr Sunday morntng in r the the
tanner loss 7 of W edding & Bros., involving
a of $200,000. Three men fell from
the fourth story window, overcome by
hoat and smoke, just J as a rescue was at
aand and seriously . ... mjured. , „ F.fty -
' were
thousand dollars was the insurance,
On account of Georgia havin" one
‘ ee 1 rt districted, Otorgta Will
t . for her soldiers this
g* more money year
from the general goverumeat than ever
before. Governor Northen, on Monday,
meQ t saving that Georgia «- would »?r this ^ year
. $11,331.0< instead of $ll,05<.lb
receive
whlch she received last year,
A Birmingham, Ala., dispatch of Mon-
[ ,ay says = T P e P re ‘ sent dood in the Big-
bee aQ d W arnor rivers following so close-
ly on the floods of Mav, is causing great
destitution and suffering. The citizens
have called called on on ri/o.o„no„ Governor Jones e for aid „j,i
ana askecl The him to invoke help from con-
gress. g ivernor’s reply urges it as
tlie dut Y llie commissioners’ courts in
^he several counties to act in such emer¬
gencies, but offers to issue a general pro¬
clamation calling on the people of the
whole state. He declines to call on cou-
gress.
The monthly crop report of North
Carolina was made up by the department
of agriculture Friday, based on returns
from nearly one thousand three hundred
correspondents, and shows the percentage
of condition of crops to be as follows:
Wheat 99, oats 95, corn 99, cotton $4,
Irish potatoes 103, peanuts 85, tobacco
91, sweet potatoes 90, sorghum 91. rye
93, grapes 90, hay 94. There is im¬
provement iu all crops. The. report on
fruit, gives the percentage as follows;
Apples 56, jveaches 52, and that on stock
shows cattle to be 95, sheep 91, swine
100, horses and mules 97. The condition
and supply of labor is put down as 88.
On application of the Bibb Manufac¬
turing Company, J. Kyle & Co., Chatta¬
hoochee National bank of Columbus, and
Friday George P. Swift, an order wus issued
morning by Judge Martin, plac¬
ing the Paragon mills at Columbus, Gi.,
iu the hands of a receiver. James P.
Kyle, present secretary of the company,
was appointed temporary receiver. There
are five mortgages against the mills,
amounting liabilities to over $60,000, and the total
are said to be $120,000. The
Paragon mills were built in 1888. They
have on hand $20,000 of manufactured
goods. It will be continued in opera¬
tion by the temporary receiver.
Suit has been filqpl at West Point, Miss.,
against the Georgia Pacific division of
the Richmond and Danville for $75,000
for being taxes for the years 1886, 1887,
1888,1889. The petitiou asks for taxes
for the state of Mississippi and for the
counties of Lowndes,' Clay, Webster,
Montgomery, Oktibbeha, Carroll,Leflore,
Sunflower, Washington and TuUehatcbm,
the total amount being $75,560, 1890,
1891 and 1892. When the road was first
proposed all the counties subscribed sums
ranging from $30,000 to $150,000, with
the understanding that the road should
pay taxes when operation commenced. It
is understood that the road will deny this
and claim that it was to be exempt from
taxes for a < «r ain number of years.
THE DREADED CHOLERA
Is Spreading in Russia Despite Heroic
Efforts to Check it.
Dispatches of Saturday from St. Peters¬
burg say: Despite the 1 Sorts made to
prevent it, the cholera has reacbei
Moscow, where the total absence of
sev.erage renders the situation most dan¬
gerous. Several passengers on board the
steamer Or noco, o uad from Astrakhan
for Niamma, died from cholera on the
steamer. Owing to the prevalence of
cholera at Baku, the government officers
have been transferred to Kashari. There
have been reported in Saratoff forty
new casts of cholera and eleven deaths
from the disease. In Astrakhan 112 new
cases have been reported. The hospital
record in Astrakhan is complete. At
Baku the c have been ninety-four deaths
outside of the hospitals, There have
been taken to the hospitals 179 new pa¬
tients, and eighteen more deaths have
occurred iu them. At T flis several new
cases and two deaths are reported.
COTTON BROKERS FAIL,
But a Big Syndicate Comes to Their
Rescue.
Isaac Cook & Sons, prominent . cotton
brokers of Liverpool, suspended payment
Thursday. A syndicate has been formed
to take over the whole interest in 110,000
bales of cotton. This cott >n will be un¬
loaded at the rate of 2,000 bales daily
until their interest is liquidated. A no¬
tice reading as follows was posted at the
rooms of the Liverpool Cotton Associa¬
tion :
“We deeply regret that owing to the
non-receipt of money due, we are com¬
pelled to susprnd “Isaac payment. & Sons.”
Cook
The failure has caused a sensation. Li¬
abilities are reorted to amount to £75
000 .
CYRUS FIELD DEAD.
Close of a Remarkable Career in the
Financial World.
Cyrus W. Field die I iu New York
at 9:30 o’clock Tuer-day morning. Mr.
Field was born in Massachusetts in 1819.
When about thirty-five years of age he
took up the study of ocean telegraphy
and he has been identified with the laying
of neariy every submarine cable of any
importance. He to k a leading part in
laying the cable in the Atlantic between
this country and Europe. Several medals
have been given him in recognition oi
his ret vices, lie was connected with sev-
. a ; great business enterprises in New
\ y or k arH l W ns at the head of several of
■ tk
m.
NUMBER 28.
RICHMOND 8JJ6NVILLE R. R.
Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Ltae Division.
Condensed Schedule of Passenger
Trains. In Effect May 15th, i392-
NORTHBOUND. No. 88. No. 10. No. 12
J ASTEBN TIME. Daily. Daily. Daily
(.▼. Atlanta (E.T.) 1 40 pm 8 50 pm 8 Uoam
Chamblee..... 9 24 pm 8 40am
Norcross....... 9 35 pm 8 5‘2am
Daluth ........ 9 47 pm 9 04am
Buwanee....... 9 57 pm 9 15am
Buford........ 10 10 pm 9 28am
Flowery Branch [10 24 pm 9 42am
Gainesville..... 3 03 pm jO 45 pm 10 03am
Lola......... 11 13 pin 10 27am
Bellton........ ,1 1 15 pm 10 30am
Cornelia...... 1 1 42 pm 10 51am
Tocooa........ Mt. Airy...... ,1 *2 10 pm 10 53am
20 an 11 ll'am
Westminster.. *1 ;2 57 am 11 56am
Seneca ....... 17 am 12 15pm
Central....... 1 50 am 1 20pm
Easleys....... Greenville.... 2 18 am 1 46pra
6 08 pm 2 44 am 2 11pm
Greers........ 3 14 all; 2 42pm
Wellford...... 3 33 am 3 OOmn
Spartanburg.. Clifton....... 704 pm 3 54 18 am 3 8 i.Spcs
4 am 40pnf
Coapens..... 4 18 am 3 44pm
Gaffney...... Blacksburg.... 4 5 01 40 am am 4 4 09pra 27pm
Grover......... 5 11 am 4 37pm
King’s Mount'll 6 2S am 4 55pm
Gastonia....... 5 52 am 5 20pm
Lowell........ 6 05 am 5 31pra
Bellemont..... 6 16 am 5 39pm
Ar. Charlotte...... 9 10 pm 6 40 am C 00pm
SOUTHBOUND. No. 87. No. 11, No. 9,
Daily. Daily. Daily.
Lv. Ar. Lowell Grover......... Wellford........ Greenville...... Easleys......... Bellem Blacksburg Gaffney....... Cowpeus...... Clifton........ Spartanburg... Greers......... Toocoa........ Gastonia,...... King’s Central Westminster.... Bellton........ Mt. Cornelia....... Lula.......... Seneca. Flowery Gainesville..... Duluth Norcross Buford........ Suwanee....... Chamblee...... Charlotte. Atlanta Airy....... ont..... Mount’n ........ (E. Branch ...... T.) 12 11 9 8 6 36 45 48 41 05 pm am am pm pm MOoSoOO^«0«OOOCDGB*1-a©0)CflOt^^l^hkW05CCCOb5h:iC 1 50 pm pm 11 SfeS3g588D88$888iSSS8Sfc88SifeSS6S$2SB8 .dDSDCiaDQDCSlBQOdnD^ODQSCSSoSECBa
Additional trains Nos. 17 an l 18—Lula ac¬
commodation, daily except Hunday, leaves AL
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. 11 daily,
Between Lula and Athens—No. ex¬
cept Sunday, and No. 9 daiiy, leave Lula 8 15 p
m, and 9 $5 a m, arrive Athens 10 00 p No. m and 10
1120 am. Returning leave Athens,
daily, except Sunday, and No. 12 daily, 6 1,5 p m
and 7 07 a m, arrive Lula 7 55 p m and 8 50
am. Elberton—No. 61 dai-
Between Toccoa and
lv; except Sundav, leave Toccoa 1140 a in
arrive Elberton 3 20 p m. Returning, No. 60
dally, except Sunday, leave 6 Elberton 5 00 a n>
and arrives Toocoa8 30 am.
Nos. 9 and 10 carry Pullman Sleepers bo-
tween Atlanta and New York.
Nos. 87 and 38, Washington and Southwest-
ern Vestibuled Limited, between Atlanta and
Washington. Through Pullman Sleepers bo-
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 and Atlanta.
For detailed information as to local and
through time tables, rates and Pullman Sleep¬
ing car reservations, confer with local agents,
or address, TAYLOR, W. A. TURK,
JAS. L. Ag’t.
Gen’l Pass. Ag’t. Ass’t. Genl. Pass.
Atlanta. Ga. Charlotte N. O.
0. P. HAMMOND, Ga.
Superintendent. Atlanta,
W. H. GREEN, ------ HOL. HASS,
Gen’l Manager. Traffic Manager,
Atlanta. (At. Atlanta, Un¬
UETVfTS DAVIS,
ATTORNEY at law
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will proctioe In the counties of Haber¬
sham and Rabun of the Northwestern
Circuit, and Frank! >11 and Banks of the
Western Circuit. Prompt attention wifi
he given te all business entrusted*to b ; m.
The collection of debts will have speo
ia‘ attrition.
HIGH WATER IN MISSISSIPPI
Doing Fearful Damage to Crops and
Railroads.
A Meridian, Miss., special dispatch of
Saturday says a nin< ty-foot bridge across
Okitibicha creek, on the Alabama and
Vicksburg railroad, five mites fr^m Me¬
ridian, was swept away Friday by the
freshet, together with several mdes of
track. Under the most favorable circum¬
stances the road could not be rendered
passable in less than three or four days.
The northeastern bridge over Sandy
creek is very shaky and will likely go
down. The Alabama Gr> at Southern
washouts north of the city, The
Mobile and Ohio haa serious washouts
nort h ari( j S outli of here and no
trains running. The creeks and rivers
are overfl >wiug, crops being destroyed.
GEORGIA’S POPULATION,
As Shown by the Latest Census Office
Bulletin.
The census office hai just issued a bul¬
letin showing that of the total population
of Georgia 919,925 are males and 917,428
are femal s. Th-re are 978,357 whites
ond 858,996 colored in the state.
Here is an interesting table showing
the total population of the cities in Geor¬
gia containing more than eight thousand
people, the numbers of whites and blacks
and the males and females:
Total population. Aggregate Total
Male. Female, white, co!.
Athene.......8,639 3,964 4,C75 4 505 4.154
Atlanta......65.533 31,351 34,182 37,416 28.117
Augusta.....33,300 15 315 17.985 17.395 15,905
Brunswick... 8.459 4.342 4117 4,527 3 932
Columbus....17.303 7.880 9,423 9.276 8.027
Macon 22,746 11,126 11,620 11,538 11 208
Savannah....43,189 20,729 22,460 20,211 22,978
The present prospect for the fruit grower
of California is favorable. The fruit crop in
the East is expected to be only about one-
half as large as usual. Although the outpuc
in California will be less than that of last
year, the size and quality of the fruit will be
improved so much The that it will command ad¬
vanced prices. value oi the fruit crop
this vear in California is estimated at *.£»,-
00',000.