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THE TOCCOA NEWS VOLUME XX. EVERY day. Amiri the tumult of the street And ceaseless tread of restless feet; IV hat varied human forms we meet, Every day. Fome burdened with unwhispered woe; Sad secrets God aione can know; We see them wandering to and fro, Everyday. Fome seared by time’s decay or blight; With furrowed brow and fading sight, W ho haunt our feeet from morn till night, Every day. Home swayed by passion deep and strong, Enkindled by some burning wrong. Unheeded by the listless throng, Every day. The Inst of power, the greed for gain, Twin tyrants of the heart an l brain; W e see the ruin of their reign, Every day. The crafty ghouls that throng the street, Wearing the garments of deceit, d\ ho breathe to lie an 1 live to cheats Every day. And somo aspiring to be great, With beaming eye and heart elate, Fcorning the thorny thrusts of fate, Every day. The youth enthralled by some fond dream Or borne along on fancy’s stream, Believing all things what tboy seem, Every day. The aged tottering toward the tomb, No light to lift their rayless gloom, Nor hope their weary way illume. Every day. The rich and poor, the old and young. With silent lip or fluent tongue, And griefs untold or joys unsung, Every day. Thus in the drama of tho town Home tear a cross or wear a crown Until death rings tho curtain down, Every day. —D. B. Sickles. Vigilante Vengeance. A UNITED STATES SENATOR’S 8TORY. ENATOR SAN- ders, of Montana, is one of the most entertaining talk¬ ers in the Senate. A group of gentle¬ r5 men were sitting in Ill his committee room one day listening to his tales of the early history of I Montana, when the mining fever w as at M its height. The talk turned on the if different doings of *s m tho Vigilautes, of which Senator San¬ ders was leader. “Yes,” said the Senator, retrospectively, “I have assisted in a good many send- offs where a robber or murderer was launched into another world without the benefit of the clergy.” “ Were you present at the execution of the notorious Slade?”asked one of the gentlemen. the Montana Senator, “Yes,” replied “and 1 could tell you a story about that execution. That was the one instance where the gentleman whom we assisted in making his exit was neither thief nor murderer—or, at least, that was uot the crime for which he was huug.” “What was his crime?” again asked the pent e nan. “We executed Mr. Slade for treason —high treason against the Territory of Montana,” replied Sanders, thought- fully, “and thereby know,* hangs a tale. “As you 1 was chief of the Vigilance Committee, and we had sue- cessfullv engineered about forty or fifty hangings, w hen w e became imbued with the idea that a little more lawful form of government would be to the better iu- terests of our camp, \ irginia City, then having about 10,000 population. So, one evening, we gathered together on the outskirts of the town in an informal mass meeting, and proceeded to choose from among ourselves officers for our local government. Our organization was the simplest thing in the world, Wc would turn to one of our members and say, ou are a pretty square sort of fellow, and wc anew you to be as Straight as a string, so you shall be our Judge,’ aud to anotl er, ‘You are a heavy built e no and have plenty of grit. and you shall be ■ arson!. I was Dis- tiict Attorney bcc.u-e I had a smatter- irg of law, aud it was upon my afiu.l i- VitS I at all warrants were issued. It Etc - s;ran ,e in these cays to think of constituting a court in such an off- handed way and without the slightest ves: ige of Federal authority; but we did it, and our court was respected by all the citizens of Virginia City, Montana, That is, most of them all. For a time all went web, but after a while, when they wc were not hanging so frequently as before, the i aw less element grew bold- er and more asrgressive. “ Lite lea cr of this tough part of our population was Mr. Slade. I had known him for a long time and we were the best of friends, lie was warm-hearted and a powerful friend to those he liked, but a perfect devil to those who had incurred his displeasure. I have seen him come into a sale vu where perhaps fifty men were engaged in playing billiards, car ls, etc., aud insist that everything should stop at ot.ee and that they ail drink with him. lie would line them all up to the bar and generally had me next to him. He would raise his glass with tbe rest of them, would wait until they bad finished, when he would bring his glass on a level with his eye, aud aboui a foot from it, and stare, stare, stare at it with terrible iutentuc-ss for two or three minutes, Then suddenly he would raise the glass, dash it from him with terrific force at the mirror, the floor, the barkeeper, or anything that seemed to strike his fancy, anil draw his revolver and begin shoot- iDg indiscriminately. I would say to him, ‘Slade, give me that pistol,’ and in e minute he would baud me his gun and «uiet dewi* AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL. “I suppose I have done that same thing ten or a dozen times, I never could understand him at such times. He was not after any one with deadly intent. He simply seemed to be seized with a mad passion, which he could not con- trol. He was the recognized leader of the toughs, and bad about a dozen satel¬ lites always on hand to do his bidding. A favorite diversion of theirs was to dash down the mountainside from their cabin homes, load up at the first convenient salooD, and proceed to some house of pleasure, all the time getting drunker and drunker. In the morning, when the peaceful citizens got up, they would see a pile of logs, not one left standing, and a group of shivering and crying women. This scheme of demolishing houses was the principal pastime of this lawless crowd. “One morning, after we had organ¬ ized our court, news came that Mr. Slade and his chosen friends had spent a night at a disreputable house, and in the morning destroyed it as usual. We sent our Marshal with instructions to ar¬ rest Slade and bring him to court. In due time they both appeared, Slade peaceable enough, and very gentlemanly. After hearing the case, the Court im¬ posed a fine of $25, which was cheer¬ fully paid by the defendant, and he de¬ parted, inviting us all to come and have a drink. Not long after that Slade was again before us, charged with the same offence. This time the fine was doubled and paid with the same degree of alac¬ rity which had marked the previous payment. Slade did not seem to profit by these lessons, for he was frequently before us, and was each time fined a sum double that of the preceding levy. “On one occasion when the fine had reached the sum of $400, Mr. Slade said ho had not that amount with him, but would bring it in the next time he came to town. He acknowledged our power, and didn’t care for money, as he was a man who made it easily. Well, he came to town several times alter that, but did not offer to pay $400. It was not in his nature to long remain quiet, and soon he was again in trouble for a like offence. Our Marshal brought him to the court room, which was a portion of a groceiy store, with barrels of four and grain around the floor and bacon and hams sus¬ pended from rafters. We used soap boxes instead of chairs, and were not a very imposing assemblage. Mr. Slade came in peaceably enough, and stood quietly while the Court directed the Mar¬ shal to read the warrant. As the Mar¬ shal pulled out the document Slade, quick as a flash, sprang at him and jerked it out of his hands, at the same time level¬ ling a revolver at the heart of his Honor. It was all done in a second, and the six or eight henchmen of the tough had also drawn their pistols at the same time. ‘Now,’ said Mr. Slade, ‘I am about tired of this business. 1 am not going to be drained any more, aud I am not going to recognize your authority, nor shall I pay that $400. I shall hold you per¬ sonally responsible lor my personal safety, and it any of your committee attempts to touch me I will blow your heart out.’ “While he was speaking I was think¬ ing, and, before he had concluded, quietly turned and walked out, as if thinking of something else, I walked out on the street, aud the first mau I met was a member of our Vigilance Com¬ mittee. I explained the situation to him, and asked him to get on his horse and ride to a camp about two miles away aud tell the boys we needed them. He set off in post haste, and I turned back toward the court room. Just as I turned around I came face to la.ee with Slade and liis followers, who had walked boldly out ot court soon after I came away. ‘Come in and have something, Zanders, called the irrepressible. I said to him, ‘Slade, get on your horse, and A 0 home as fast as you can. “ ‘What do you mean? Why do you tell me that?’ demanded Slade, »< ‘Never mind what I mean?’ I re- plied; ‘get on your hcr-e and go ho ne.’ ‘»He didn't get on his horse and go home, but he got on his horse and rode a ff through town, bringing up at last at the court room. He was inciiued to be very proud of his defiance of the orders 0 f the Court, aud was insulting to his Honor, who was still there. He was swaggering around the store, when I happened to look out of the window and saw that the house was surrounded by armed men. The next minute they were m the room, and one of them was say- jo--. *\y e want you, Mr. Slade.’ He turned pale and weakened at once. A crowd of his captors surrounded him, ;UU 1 1 left him safe in their keeping. I went home, and was not there live min- utes when one of the vigilantes came up aud said: ‘Mr. Sanders, the boys have .ff,out concluded that they won’t he bothered with Mr. Slade any longer, and as there is no place to keep him safely, they are going to hang him whether the Court wills it or not.’ [ hurried to the court room and saw the Judge and the Marshal and several others, and after a conference we agreed that as Slade was bound to hang whether by our wishes or not, it was better to have him executed by order of the Court, aud thus preserve our hold on the com- munity. We sentenced him to death for high treason for inciting others to re- belliou aud for himself seeking to over- throw our form of government, When Slade heard of this he sent a messenger [or me to come to him at once and make speech in his behalf. I knew that it would be worse thau useless for me to do 3 o, and relused to go on a fool’s errand. Then he sent me to our Judge with a similar request, but the Judge, knowing that he was powerless to prevent the execution, declined to see him. So Mr. Slade was taken to a hill overlooking a gulch, and a noose from a gallows (used fb slaughter sheep) slipped around his neck and a barrel placed under him. Just as he was about to be swung off, the noise of a horse's hoofs was heard- and a mounted woman appeared in the dis- tance coming at a breakneck speed. It was Slade's wife; but by the time she arrived upon the scene, around which twe thousand paqple watt gathered, the TOCCOA. GEORGIA, SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 24, 1892. barrel had been kicked from under him, and Mr. Slade was no more. “That is the story of the execution, and a singular one it was.” During the recital of these stirring events Senator Sanders seemed to forget his surroundings and to be living over again the scenes which he was depicting to his interested listeners.—Commercial Gazette. A Friend. A London paper offered a prize for the best definition of a friend. This defini¬ tion gained the prize: The first person who comes in when the whole world goes out. The following are some of the best definitions submitted: A bank of credit on which we can draw supplies of condolence, counsel, sympathy, help and loTe. One who considers my need before my deservings. Tke Triple Alliance of the three great powers, Love, Sympathy and Help. One who understands our silence. A jewel, whose luster the strong aeid3 of poverty and misfortune cannot dim. One who smiles on our fortunes, frowns on our faults, sympathizes with our sorrows, weeps at our bereavements and is a safe fortress at all times of trouble. One who, having gained the top of the ladder, won’t forget you if you remain at the bottom. One who in prosperity does not toady you, in adversity assists you, in sickness nurses you and after your death marries your widow and provides for your chil¬ dren. The holly of life, whose qualities are overshadowed in the summer of pros¬ perity, but blossom forth in the winter of adversity. He who does not ad ere to the saying that No. 1 should cotm first. A watch which beats rue for all time and never “runs down.’ An insurance against misanthropy. An earthly minister of heavenly hap¬ piness. A friend is like ivy—the greater the ruin, the closer he clings. One who to himself is true aud there¬ fore must be true to you. The same to-day, the same to-mor¬ row, either in prosperity, adversity or sorrow. One who combines for you alike the pleasures aud benefits of society and soli¬ tude. One who acts as a balance in the see¬ saw of life. One who guards another’s interest as sacredly as his own and neither flatters nor deceives. A nineteenth century rarity. One who will tell you of your faults and follies in prosperity and assist you with his hand and heart in adversity. One truer to me than I am to myself. Color in the Hainan Yoice. A novel entertainment was held at the Drexel Institute, Philadelphia, a few evenings since for the benefit of the children’s fresh air fund. Professor D. S. Holman delivered a lecture on “Some Effects of Light and Sound Waves,” demonstrating with the aid of an instru¬ ment known as the phoneidoscope the lights and shadow's of musical sounds, assisted by the vocal taleut of Miss M. Virginia Peck, Miss Charlotte Mawson, Miss Kate Sheain, A. H. Darby and Charles Graffe. Professor Holman pre¬ faced his lecture with the statement that color exists alone in the eye of the 3eer. After a few experiments in chang¬ ing the colors of objects under a power¬ ful light composed of carbonate of soda, Professor Holman started in to prove, with the aid of the phoneidoscope, that the sound waves produced by the voice possess motion and color. When this announcement was made the audience held its breath iu expectation. A sheet similar to that used in stere- opticon entertainments was sti’etched across the stage, and what Professor Holman termed the mirror, upon which the-effects of the voice were pictured, was adjusted in the instrument and mag¬ upon the sheet. In color it was a dull, leaden gray, showing in bold re¬ lief upon the white canvas. Then four of the voices struck up a quartet, while Miss Sheain placed her pretty lipi to a mouth piece and saug through what very much like a speaking tube. The other end of the tube was connected the phoneidoscope, and her voice, in contact with the mirrors, was to the canvas, forming into most delicate shapes imaginable, at same time taking ail the variegated of the rainbow. As her voice rose or in volume the waves rippled across surface of the mirror in the most as¬ manner, while the audience to the echo. Tals was re¬ several times. After the lecture Professor Holman to a Record reporter the ap¬ miracle by saying that the so- mirror was merely a film composed soap suds. The voice, coming in with this surface, caused it to while the variegated colors were formed by the decomposition of soap film. The New Quarter Couaterfeitetf. A dangerous counterfeit silver quarter of the “vintage” of 1892 has made its appearance. The coin is iu imitation of one made at the New Orleans Mint this year, and the only difference is that the eagle, etc., on the reverse is a little too clearly outlined. The weights of the two coins, the genuine and the spurious, are the same. The only flaw is in the ring of the coin when it is dropped. “It is the most dangerous counterfeit I have come across iu ail my experience,” said a business man. “Its face is absolutely perfect, and the reverse is nearly so; the weight is just right, and so is the size. In fact, the only flaw is the ring, and the milling is slightly defective.”—Port¬ land (Me.) Argus. The duty on raw sugar in Germany has been removed and will now be levied ou the sugar as it leaves the f*c- MCKINLEY WAGES BREAK DOWN. HISTOr.T OP THE SMALL LIST OP BOGUS WAGE ADVANCES THAT NOW SUP¬ PLIES TWO PARTIES WITH CAMPAIGN MATERIAL — BRIEF FACTS IN RE¬ GARD TO EACH CASE. The Hon. John DeWitt "Warner, oi the New York Reform Club, has com¬ pleted his investigation of the twenty- eight cases where, according to the American Economist and other high tariff authorities, wages have been ad¬ vanced in protected industries since October, 1890. Trustworthy examiners were sent to each place to get the facts. Their reports were of such a nature that the Reform Club has published them as a number of Tariff Reform, and the New York WeekiyWorld gave them a full page. It will be remembered that the Re¬ form Club had prepared and published in the World and in Tariff Reform a list of nearly 500 wage reductions and lock¬ outs in protected industries since the McKinley act took effect. The protec¬ tionists who had promised higher wages with the McKinley bill and had been shouting higher wages ever since, began so get uneasy because they could uot tell anxious inquirers exactly where wage advances had occurred. They be¬ gan to search, feeling confident that wages must have advanced in many of the thousands of protected mills in this country. They sent out circulars to manufacturers asking them to report the per cent, that wages had been advanced in their mills since October, 1890. In this way and in other ways they got together what purported to be a list of wage advances. Apparently it did not occur to the American Economist editor (or if it did he was so anxious to publish the list that he did not consider the consequence of au exposure) that the man¬ ufacturers might misstate facts, perhaps to get free advertising, or, it may be, to attract laborers to their mills. The twenty-three cases of “wage advances” were published with a flourish in the American Economist. Republican papers were not slow in copying the list. At last McKinley had been vindicated aud the “free trade liars” silenced. But tne one great fault with the list was that it was short; indeed it was its brevity that betrayed it in more ways than one. It not only exposed the meager results of great promises, but it offered induce¬ ments to investigation which a more formidable list would have precluded. If the protectionists were attempting a game of bluff they should bave made a list of several hundred advances—so many that it would be a very big and very expensive piece of work to make inquiry in regard to all. But twenty- three cases were just enough to challenge investigation. If g. few of them could be shown to be incorrect, the already small list would be diminished so that even Republican editors would be ashamed to publish it. It was not ex¬ pected by Mr. Warner, when he began the investigation, that the whole list was a fraud and that he would, in the ma¬ jority of cases, get wage reductions for liis already long list. The following are the briefest possible summaries of the list, the quotations being from the American Economist’s list of examples of wages advanced under the McKinley tariff, showing increased per cent.: “1. Haskell & Baker Car Company, Michigan City, Ind., 10 percent.” Wages were reduced from 12£ to 25 cents per day in 1889, and restored 12£ cents in May, 1890. No change since the McKinley act took effect. “2. Wooster & Stoddard, Walden, N. Y., 5 per cent.” Strike in May, 1892, caused a read¬ justment of wages by which some got more and others less—total effect not certain. “3. Camden Woolen Company, Cam- den, Me., 10 per cent.” Four looms got a raise because they changed to heavier work; weavers earn¬ ings were not increased. “4. Rider Engine Company, Walden, N. Y., 5 per cent.” No advances in ten years, but reduc¬ tions of 10 and 12$ per cent, since 1884. “5. Hawthorne Mills Company,Glenn- ville, Conn., 15 per cent.” One man advanced from $1.15 to $1.25 in July, 1892, and nearly all of the 200 employes reduced from 10 to 20 per cent, since 1890. “6. Alfred Dolge, Dolgeville, N. Y., 20 per cent.” Alfred Dolge has for years had a sys¬ tem of encouraging employes to work for little and to expect more, by advanc¬ ing the wages of twenty or twenty-five cf his more industrious workmen a shil¬ ling at the end of the year. In" Febru¬ ary, 1891, forty or fifty received this advance but in February, 1892, no ad¬ vance whatever occurred and many em¬ ployes were disappointed. Numerous reductions each year fully offset these bunched and widely heralded advances. “7. Lake Superior Lumber Company, Sault St. Marie, Mich., 15 per cent.” No advance at all was made in this planing mill; report was purely for political reasons. Roxboro, N. 25 “8. J. C. Bass, C., per cent.” The two or three employes of this grist and saw mill never got less wages than now. The report furnished amusement for-neighbors. “9. H. L. Chapman, White Pigeon, Mich., 15 per cent.” One of the two employes here is an apprentice and had his wages advanced to 50 cents per day from 25 cents. •*10. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, Grafton, W. Va., 20 per cent.” No advances here, but the few that have not been discharged by closing of foundries, etc., have had their wages re¬ duced in the last year from $2.25 to ?1.57. “11. Wilkins & Close, Mayfield, N. Y., 15 to 25 per cent.” Mr. Wilkins says the report is false, as only the usual advances to new hands have occurred. “12. Close & Christie, Mayfield, N. Y., 15 to 25 per cent.” Same situation as No. 11. “13. Cantastota 'Knife Company, Can- tastota, N. Y., 10 per cent.” In 1891, by threatening to strike, the employes got back about 10 per ceDt. of the 20 pe. cent, reduction made four or five years ago. “14. New York Knife Company, Walden, N. Y», 10 per cent.” In April and in June, 1892, about two-thirds of the workers by hazing a union and by threatening to strike received advances ot from 7 to 10 per cent. A general reduction of 10 per cent, oc¬ curred in 1885, which the company promised to replace if Harrison was elected. “15. Tho r.aston Knife Company, Tbomaston, Conn., 10 per cent.” Same situation as at No. 13. “16. W. F. Epperson, Ladoga, Ind., 10 per cent.” Mr. Epperson’s reply to the Republi¬ can ietter sent him is being widely cir¬ culated by Democrats, Instead of ad- vancing wages he has had to shut dowu his heading factory part ot tho time. “17. Pittsburg Reduction Compauy, Pittsburg, Penn., 10 per cent.” Tho proprietor knew of no advances and was surprised that such a report was made. “18. Sultan Buggy and Carriage Company, White Pigeon, Mich., 10 per cent.” No advances, but more work for the ssme pay. “19. B. Howitzer, Chaseburg, Wis., 10 per cent.” Chaseburg has fifty inhabitants---"No Howitzer there. “20. Enterprise Manufacturing Com¬ pauy, Manhcim, Penn., 30 per cent.” The girls making socks aud overalls at $2.50 to $3 a week became dissatis¬ fied and were irregular at work. The firm advanced piece p rices 15 from 35 to 45 cents, and from 11 to cents per dozen. ‘ ‘21. Shaw Stocking Company,Lowell, Mass., 10 per cent.” The reduction by law of working hours from sixty to fifty-eight caused no re¬ duction of wages of day laborers, but piece workers may earn less. ‘ ‘22. Kings County Kniting Company, Brooklyn, N. Y., 5 per cent.” The ten or fifteen employes know of no advance. “23. Western Knitting Mills, Roch¬ ester, Mich., 15 per cent.” Four apprentices were advanced; many others of the one hundred employes re¬ ceived reductions from 15 to 12 Jr cents per dozen. “24. Western Knitting Mills, Detroit, Mich., 15 per cent.” Wages have not changed for eight years. “25. Langley «fc Davis, Oriskany Falls, N. Y m 25 to 50 cents a day.” Two foremen and one apprentice ad¬ vanced slightly; six weavers and one finisher reduced from 11 to 16 per cent.; wages “26. of other five employes unchanged. William. Carter & Co., Higk- lanusville, Mass., 15 to 50 cents a day.” Five of ninety employes were advanced to prevent them from returning to Eng¬ land. A few other changes in tho mills were made because new machines were introduced. “27. McCormick & Co., Harris¬ burg, Penn., 15 to 50 cents a day.” Forty laborers whose $1.10 wages were re¬ duced from $1.20 to last fall had the ten cents restored in June. Forty puddlers on February 15, 1892, were re¬ duced from $4 to $3.50 per ton. Eighty- live were thrown out in March, 1892, by the closing of one furnace. 4 ‘28. He (John DeWitt Warner) should not forget the 25,000 employes in tne Fall River cotton mills, who had their wages increased on July 11.” The legal change of hours from sixty to fifty-eight per week caused no reduc¬ tion of wages, because the employes were contemplating a strike to get back a reduction of 10 per cent in 1884. The Tariff a Tax. Senator James K. Jones asked the Hon. 0. R. P. Breckinridge, of the House Ways and Means Committee, to prepare for the Hon. W. L. Terry, of Little Rock, a statement of tho amount of tariff duties on a bill of goods bought by a representative furnished farmer. In reply Mr. Breckinridge an exhibit based on actual transactions between Mr. R. M. Knox, merchant of Pine Bluff, Ark., and Mr. D. W. Branch, a farmer, who bought the goods. Mr. Breckin¬ ridge explains that this is calculated upon the basis of copy from the books of Mr. Knox and upon the rate of taxes actually paid upon competing articles at the ports as provided by law. The bill, as it appears in Mr. Knox’s books, is subjoined: 1SS7. Article. Cost. Tariff. Jan . 26 To e&ssimere suit clothes............ $ 11 00 % 4 00 2 pair brogans, $1.65. 3 00 75 Feb. 5 1 bell collar......... 1 50 75 2 pair plow lines.... 70 16 1 pair boy’s brogans. 1 25 29 2 17 1 box axle grease.... 10 21 1 Avery plow........ 9 50 1 09 2 buck "boards, 50c.; 9 29 pounds nails. 6c... 1 05 1 bushel salt, 75c.; 1 pair misses’ shoes, 00 March $1.25.............. 2 . 8 1 pair shoes, $1.75; 1 pair hinges, 25c.... 2 00 1 yard waterproof., 75 26 1 pair brogans....... 1 60 2 yards calico, at 10c. 20 1 water bucket; 25c.; April 9 11 1 spool thread, 5c.. 30 22 2 hats, pounds nails, yard 6c.. 66 65c,; 1 lawn, 50c.......... l go 20 yards stripe, 12%e 2 50 14 yards calico, 10c.. 1 40 3 yards jean?, 50c.... 1 50 dozen thread...... 40 12 yards ticking, 25c. 3 00 1 set cups and saucers 75 June May 3 1 knife.............. 8 2pair men’s shoes... 4 00 1 pair suspenders.... 75 24 10 yards bleached do- July 25 me stics, 12%c...... £7.50, $9 1 25 2 suits ci’tbes, 16 50 5 2 yards oil cloth, 40c.. 8 I 10 yards gingham 10c. 1 00 1 curry comb and Aug. 19 35 brush.............. £3 5 yards bagginz, 9c.. 3 1 8 1 bundle ties' 81.50; 12 lbs. nails, 5c....... 38 Sept. S 14 lbs. nails, 5c....... 1 box axle grease, 10 lbs. soda, 10c....... 8 6 16 35 yards bagging, % lb. 8c.............. 2 S3 1 bundle ties........ 1 10 yards osnaburgs, Oct. 24 11c................ SS 1 suit jeans clothes.... 2 wool hats, $1 and $1.50.............. 2 8S8sl£SgS5!S 1 1 boy’s wool hat...... 10 yards worsted. 20c.. 13 yards worsted, 17c. 2 1 set plates........... 1 set goblets.......... 1 set knives and forks. tO 2 dishes, 40c an i 60c.. M 35 yards bagging. Sc.. lv 1 bundle ties..7...... 00 $101 50 $33 80 Protection aud Wages. “No intelligent advocate of a protective tariff claims that it is able of itself, to maintain a uniform rate of wages—with¬ out regard to fluctuations in the supply of aud demaud for the products of labor. But it is confidently claimed that protective duties strongly tend to hold up wages aud are the only barrier against a reduction to a European scale.”—President Harrison’s Letter. WAGES PER WEEK IN EUROPE. Free-trads Protected Blacksmiths....... England. Germany. Carpenters........ ..... 19.60 $4.00 Machinists........ ..... 9.75 4.11 Painters........... ..... 9.00 4.60 Masons............ .....8.92 4.82 Shoemakers....... ...... 8.00 4.07 Laborers.......... .....6.00 2.95 5.29 3.11 TELEGRAPHIC GLEANINGS. Tie Hews el lie World Coateed Into Fitly and Pointed Paragraphs, Interesting and Instructive to All Classes of Readers. The GreeDsbtm/, Pa., glass wo ks owned by Kuhn Bros., shut dowu for ar indefinite period Thursday, throwing C00 men and boys out of employment. A news sp cial of Thursday states tha: the British bark Hope has gone down a sea. Six of her crew of nine wen drowned. The lost men were all Welsh. A meeting of the stockholders of tin burned Metropolitan opera house in New York was held Friday, at which it was voted to sell the opera house with its en cumbrances and indebtedness at publi. sale. the National Switchmen of Nortl Amelien met in Dallas, Texas, Monda morning. More than three hundred dei (gates, many with their wives, represent ccl every lodge in North America were present. A news special from Loon Lake, N. Y., says: It was decided by Mrs. HarrisonV physicians Monday morning to comply with btr wishes to Ire t k u to Washing ton, and the trip will be undertaken at once if she continues to improve. dian A dispatch received Friday by the In¬ bureau at Washington from the Choctaw country shows that the situa tion there is a_ain critical; that many Jones men are dissatisfied with the peace agreement and are collecting in larg. armed bodies. A terrible boiler explosion occurred Saturday in Force & Dickinson’s stove null at Staples, a small village on tb< Leamington and St. Clair railway, four miles from Comber, Ontario. Seven me. were instantly killed. One fataUy injured and about twenty others more or less severely hurt. A New York dispatch of Tuesday says: The board of health’s 4 o’clock bulletin says: “No case of cholera in this city since the last bulletin. There is a sus pected case of a Chinaman, of No. 14 Mott street, who died to-day, and his body has been removid to the foot of East Sixteenth street for examination. At a meeting of the executive commit¬ tee of the ( harleston, S. C , board of health an order was issued quarantining the Clyde line steamers five days from their sailing date from New York. The average nnd the sailing regulation time is forty-eight horns consequently virtually amounted to three days’ quarantine of vessels from infected ports. A disastrous fire occurred Saturday morning N. Y. at the navy yard in Brooklyn, It broke out in the three-story wooden extension of the machine shops. In this extension was stored the machin¬ ery of the new cruiser, Cincinnati. It was totally destroyed. The flames en¬ tered to the two-story brick machine shop and caused much damage. The loss : s roughly estimated at $500,000. A news special from Portland, Ore., says: The principal business transacted at the session of the sovereign grand lodge of Odd Fellows Tuesday was the election of officers for the ensuing year, as follows: Grand sire, G. F. Campbell, London, Ontario; deputy grand sire, J. W. Stebbins, Rochester, N. Y.; grand secretary, Theodore A. Ros*, Columbus, O. ; grand treasurer, Isaac A. Shepard, Philadelphia. The largest conflagration that has ever occured on Long Island coa6t destroyed over one hundred frame buildings at Rockaway Beach Tuesday, and left about one hundred and sixty acres a mass of ruins. The loss will range between $600, 000 and $1,000,000. The burned district includes both sides of Seaside avenue from Long Island railroad track and about half a mile north from Seaside avenue. South A special dispatch of Thursday from McAllister, I. T., says: The recent trouble between thq Choctaw national and progressive parties is settled for the time being. Twelve of the Choctaws who did the killing have laid down their arms and surrendered for trial. The other three will give themselves up at once. The remaining armed men have agreed to lay down their arms and go home. The governor has promised pro¬ tection tolfoe prisoners who are in charge of officers of their own party. A new breech is an owl ewt- itretched wings of diaaoaAa NUMBER 38 . DEMOCRATIC ADDRESS To the Public Issued by the National Committee. The Democratic national committee has issued the following address: To the People of the United States—The democratic national committee congratulate the country on the remit of the n cent state elec¬ tions in Maine. Vermont and Arkansas. Ik Arkansas the combined opposition, after so many extravagant c aims, fell short by DVt r thirty thousand of the vote of the democracy alone. This has brought dismay to the com¬ bination in the south and its manipulators in the north. In Maine and Vermont the contest was conducted distinctly on national issues. The republican managers appealed for votes in these states on the gioundthat the “size of pluralities the would exert a great moral influence on campaign in other states,” and president.” that the poll be practicallv qnr vote for the Similar appeals summoned to their aid all the potent resources of their national organization with its exhaustless treasury aud its splendid With equipment of orators of national fame. every fav ring force at tlmr command except public opinion, with no organization opposed Bave those made up within the states by a minor¬ ity party which has been out of power for a gen¬ eration and which was unaided from triumph¬ without, tho campaign of our adversaries for a ant test vote in these states, so carefully planned has and so thoroughly and forcefully executed, ended in conspicuous disaster. Our friends everywhere are entitled to take fresh courage from these results. They mean that the strong tendency of public sentiment is with the democracy Mid tliai the people of the country are prepared to enforce, rather than re¬ verse, the verdict which they rendered in 1890, William F. Haiiritt, Chairman Democratic Committee. Don M. Dickinson, Chairman Campaign Committee. HER FEAR WAS PROBABLY GROUNDLESS. “I got an awful fright last night,” said Jennie.” “You did?” “Yes; when George was going away he took my hand to bid me good night.” ‘ ‘And you thought he was going to kiss you?” “No, I thought he wasn’t going to kiss me.”—[New York Press. TEMPTATION. He—Congratulate me. I have just re¬ sisted a temptation. She—What Mas the temptation? He—To propose to you. RICHMOND & DANVILLE R R- F. XV. Hnidekoper aud Reuben Foster Receivers. Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line Division. Condensed Schedule of Passenger Trains, in Effect Aug. 28,1892. NORTHBOUND. No. 38. No, 10. No. 12 FASTERN TIME. Daily. Daily. Daily t-v. Atlanta (E.T.) 1 00 pm 8 50 pm 8 05am Chamblee..... 9 21 pm 8 'lOarn Norcross....... 9 31 pm 8 52am Duluth........ 9 41 pm 9 04am Suwanoe....... 9 51 pm 9 15am Buford........ 10 05 pm 9 28am Flowery Gainesville..... Branch 10 16 pm 9 42am 2 22 pm 10 35 pm 10 03am Lula.......... 2 40 pm 11 02 pm 10 27am Bell ton........ 11 05 pm 10 30am Cornelia....... 11 30 pm 10 51am Mt. Airy....... 11 34 pm 10 55am Toccoa......... 12 00 am l'i 19am Westminster... 12 40 am 11 56am Benfeca ........ 1 00 am 12 15pra Central........ 4 40 pm 1 35 am 1 20pm Easleys........ Greenville..... 2 04 am 1 50pm 5 24 pm 2 27 am 2 15pm Greers......... 2 55 am 2 45pm Wellford....... 3 10 am 3 05pm Spartanburg... 6 17 pm 3 31 am 3 29pm Clifton........ 3 46 am 3 53pm Cowpens ...... 3 50 am 3 58pm Blacksburg..... Gaffney....... 4 13 am 4 20pm 7 06 pm 4 35 am 4 37pm Grover......... 4 46 am 4 46pm King’s Mount’ll 5 06 am 5 02pm Gastonia....... 5 35 am 5 26pm Lowell........ 5 50 am 5 37pm Bellemont..... 6 00 am 5 46pm Ar. Charlotte...... 8 20 pm 6 30 am 6 10pm SOUTHBOUND. No. 37. No. 11. No. 9. Daily. Daily. Daily. Lv. Charlotte...... 9 45 am 33233B3393B33B332BB33B33333S33 Bellemont..... 2 42 Lowell......... 2 52 Gastonia....... King’s Mount’n Grover......... Blacksburg.... 10 56 am Gaffney....... Cowpens ...... Clifton........ Spartanburg... 11 43 am Wellford........ Greers......... Greenville...... 12 36 pm Easleys......... i 25 Central........ pm HOOOOOtO®QOOOCCCD«J*d05 Seneca......... Westminster.... 8 17 Toccoa........ Mt. Airy....... 9 30 Cornelia....... Bellton........ 9 58 Lul%.......... 3 22 pm Gaiffesville..... 3 41 pm 1C 28 Flowery Branch Biplprd........ Snwance....... Duluth ........ Norcross...... Chamblfee...... Ar. AtHnta (E. T.) TOCCOA ANP ELBERTON. No. 63 No, 9 August 2$, 1892. (No. 12 No. 62 Mixed Mixed Mixed Mixed »-»►-* Lv.. .Toccoa. -Ar + 8 45 .+ 7 710 35p 724 ....Eastanoolee. •• f8 20 i | 7 39 tO ......Avalon...... f8 08 ! 6 55 8 02 *3 .....Martin’ 8 ..... 8 02 6 45 8 38 VO ......Lavonia..... : 13 6 15 9 f 0 ....Bowersville. •• 7 25 | 5 45 9 20 West Bowersviff*. 7 15 ! 6 29 9 40 .... noyston’s..... 7 00 511 10 07 .... Bowman’s •••• 6 35 4 43 10 27 .. .Dewey Rose. -• f6 18 4 20 10 50a Ar*. Elberton -Lv 46 00 + 4 OOp Nos. 9 and 10 carry Pullman Sleepers be* tween Atlanta 87 and New York. Southwest- Noi, and 88, Washington and Washington.' f-rn Veatibqjsd Through Litnjtcd, Pullman between Sleepers Atjanta and be¬ tween New York and New Orleans, also between Washington and Memphis, via Atlanta and Birmingham. Nos. be- l Hand 12 Pullman Buffet Sleeper tween Waehmeti i and Atlanta. For detail o tion as to local and through ing time fablfo, rite* and Pullman local Sleep¬ car reservations, confer with agents, r>r address. W. A. TURK, 8. H. HARDWICK, Gen’l Pass. Ag’t. Ass’t.Genl.Pass. Ag’t. Washington, D. C. Atlanta, Ga. J. A. DOD80N, Superintendent. Atlanta, Ga. W. H. GREEN, K>L. HASS, Gen’l Manager. Traffic Manager, Washington, D. C. Washington, D. C. LEWIS DAVIS, ATTORNEY AT LAW TOCCOA CITY, GA., Will praotioe in the ooumtie> of Haber- •ham and Rabun of the Northweatern Circuit, and Franklin and Banka of tht Western Circuit. Prompt attention wil : be given to all buaineaa entrustecPto him. The collection of debts will have spec iat atteutJbk — ar* rrr-’V- ... *