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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. THE TOCCOA NEWS AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL. 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.