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THE TOCCOA NEWS
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL.
VOLUME XX.
thanksgiving day:
With grateful hearts let all *ire thank?,
All lands, all station?, and all ranks:
And the cry comes up along the way,
For what shall we give thanks to- lay?
For peace and plenty, bu-iy mills.
“The catt'e on a thousand hills,”
For bursting hams, wherein is store 1
The golden train, a precious hoard:
Give thanks!
For orchards bearing rosy fruit,
For yielding pod and toothsome root,
And all that God declare! was goo 1
In hill or dale, or field or wood:
Give thanks!
For water bright an! sweeet an l clear,
A million fountains far and near.
For gracious streamlets, lakes, and rill;
That flow from everlasting hills:
Give thanks'.
For summer dews on J timfiy frosts,
1 he sun s bright beam®, not one ray lost,
For willing hands to sow the see l
And reap the harvest, great inderl:
Give thanks!
For hearth and ho ne-loves altar Hr*-
For loving Children, thoughtful sire.;
For ten ler mothers, genti. wives
Who fill our h earts an I bless our live;:
Give thanks?
For heaven’s care, life’s journey through.
For health and strength to dare and do,
for ears to hear, for eyes to sse
Earth’s 1 eanteou? things on lan 1 and saa:
Give thanks!
—M. A. Kidder.
BESSIE’S THANKSGIVING.
BY KATE M. CLEARY.
MOST diffident
a n d modest
knock it was.
Perhaps because
it was so very
diffident, so very
modest, irritated
all the more the
peculiarly alert
nerves of Mr.
Godfrey Kirke.
1 “Oh, come in,
0 \ ^ ^ come in!” he
cried.
An elderly woman entered the room.
She had a small, pale withered lace; a
kind face, though, pleasant, gentle.
8hc was dressed in a worn dark gown.
The net fichu, crossed over her slender
shoulders, was clasped by an old-fash-
ioued mcdalliou.
“To-morrow "trill be Thanksgiving-
eve,” she said; “I wished to know if I
might prepare for the day after.”
An originally handsome apartment,
Ibis in which the old man sat, aud it
had beeu handsomely furnished. Now’
both the room and its belongings bore
the mark of creepiug poverty, or ex¬
treme penuriousness. Yho master of the
house, seated by the center taole, seemed
to 9hare the character of the room. He,
too, bad been handsome once. Now
he was expressive only of age and in-
digence, trorn the threadbare collar of
his limp dressing-gown to the tips of his
thin and shabb/ slippers.
“Prepare what?” he growled.
“Why a turkey, sir; or a pie, or—or
n bit of cranberry-sauce, sir—”
He looked so fierce, her words died in
her throat.
“Turkey! And where do you sup¬
pose I can get the money to spend on
turkey? And pic! To make us all sick,
and bring doctors and doctors’ bills
down on me! Aud,” with a sniff of
disvust, “cranberry sauce—the skinny
stuff 1 No, Mrs. Dotty. A bit of bacon
and some bread will bo good enough for
poor folks like us—good enough.”
His housekeeper, for that was the un¬
enviable position Mrs. Dotty occupied in
Godfrey Kirke’s household, resolved to
m&ko one last appeal.
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“OH, COME IN, COME IN!”HECIUED.
“But I thought perhaps on account of
the child,” she began.
“The child—the child 1” he repeated,
irascibly, “I’m sick of hearing about
b er •’
Indignation made Mrs. Dotty quite
bold for once.
“She’s your own granddaughter, sir.
That’s what she is.”
“Well, I didn’t ask for her, did I? I
never wanted to adopt her. What right
had her mother to make such a poor
hand of herself by marrying Tom Bar¬
rett, and then ccme baci to die here,
and leave me her girl? Eh? She’s an
expense, I tell you; that’s all. An ex-
pense!” “The Lord help
us, but he's getting
worse than ever!” murmured the woman,
as, with a bang that was downright dis¬
respectful, she slammed the door behind
her. 1
“You—you, Miss Bessie!”
She started, as she looked up, and saw
Bessie Barrett standing so near her. She
was a slim, brown-haired little thing, of
about seventeen. She was clad in an ill-
made gown of coarse maroon cashmere.
Her eyes were large, gray, anl* just now very
sorrowful. Her lashes brows were
quite black. The delicate features had a
pinched look, and the pretty lips were
paler than should be tbe lips of one so
joung. ~
“Yes; and I—heard.”
“Oh, don't—don't mind, dear!” said
Mrs. Dotty, soothingly, putting a hand
that looked like wrinkled ivory on the
girl’s arm. “He is just a cross, soured,
lonely old man.”
“Ido mind!” Bessie passionately cried.
“Ob, I do! I sha’n’t stay here! I sha'n't
be an expense to him any longer. I w’ill
go away somewhere!”
She broke down in a fit of bitter
weeping.
“Now, Miss Bessie, dear, you mustn’t
cry that way; you really mustn’t, !
loved your mother before you, and I love
you.”
But the poor, little, old comforter was
almost crying her 3 elf.
Years before, the Kirkes were the
people of wealth and position in that
part of the country. But one trouble
after another had come upon the house.
First, the wife of the master died.
Maud, the daughter, married a man
whose only crime was poverty. He was
a frail, scholarly man, quite unfitted for
a fierce struggle against adverse fortune.
f * U iU T* died ; A ^ later J" 9
^^'ved M him . leavmg their child
o Rs grandfather, Godfrey Kirke. To
the lattCr had CO '° e tbe final bloW whea
lus only son Robert, his hope and pride,
had run away to sea. Then in the
house, which since the death of the mis¬
tress had been a cheerless and dreary
place, began a rigid reign of miserliness
aud consequent misery.
Bessie broke from her friend and ran
upstairs and into her own little bare
room. There was no fire in the grate,
though the day was cold with the pene¬
trating damp of a wind from off the
ocean. She went to the window and
stood there looking out across the flat
brown marshes, to where 4he waters
tossed, greenish and turbulent.
“A horrid day,” she said, with a
shiver, “but it can’t be worse out than
in.”
put on a short v old Astrahan
jacket, a little felt hat and a pair of
much-mended cloth gloves. Then she
went quickly down and out.
The du3k, the dreary November dusk,
w » s fidiug the room when the old man,
plodding over his accounts, laid down
pencil and rang the bell, Mrs.
Dotty responded. Mr. Kirke kept but
oae other servant (if Mrs. Dotty could
correctly be termed a servant), and she
absolutely refused to cuter the protest-
> u g presence of her master.
“Tea!”
“Yes, sir.”
The meek housekeeper withdrew.
Ten miuutes later she brought in a tray
on which were tea, bread, butter, two
cups, two saucers and two plates. Mr.
Kirke poured out his tea, shook a little
of the sugar he was about to use back in
the old silver bowl, added carefully a
few drops of milk and cut a slice of
bread.
“Butter has gone up three cents in the
last week,” he said. “I can’t afford to
use butter.”
So he munched his bread dry, with a
sense of exaltation in his self-imposed
penance. He would not open the
poorhouse-door for himself by using but-
ter. But, somehow, the rank tea tasted
ranker than usual. Surely the bread
was sour. And the gloom outside the
small circle that the lamplight illumined
seemed siugularly dense. What was
wrong? What was missing? What was
different? He paused, his hand falling
by his side. The child—as he and Mrs.
Dotty had always called her—the child
was not here. She used to slip in so
quietly, take her seat, and when her
meager supper was over, glide away just
as softly. Yes, little as he noticed her,
she was generally there. He rang the
bell sharply.
“Where is she?” he asked Mrs. Dotty,
when she popped in her mild old head.
There was no need to particularize. Mrs.
Dotty cost a swift, searching look
arourd.
“Isn’t she here?”
Without waiting for a reply, she
turned and ran up the stairs to Bessie’s
room. There she knocked. No
answer. She opened the door, went in.
The room was empty.
Hastily she descended the stairs.
“Shs is not in, sir.”
“Where is she?”
“I don’t know, sir.”
Impatiently Godfrey Kirke pushed his
chair back from the table.
“Y’ou ought to know; it’s your busi-
ness to know. But it doesn’t matter--
it doesn’t matter in the least.”
Down to Hanna in the kitchen went
Mrs. Dotty.
“Did you see Miss Bessie?”
“Yes’m. Piissin’ westward a couple
of hours ago—yes’m.’’
“Oh!”
Mrs. Dotty breathed a relieved sigh.
Bessie had probably gone to Rose Dever’s
house. The Devers lived almost a mile
awa J* - A - 8 a storm was blowing up she
would most hke }* sta * there over night.
as f sun 4 bou tlQ ‘ S t ?“ led ° °^* clock ^S . Mr afQ * ^ -^r l . rke 3 V* Dotty ^
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appeared bqiare him.
“Has the child come in?”
“No, sir.”
“Do you know why she went out?”
“I suspect, sir.”
“Well, speak up.”
“She overheard our conversation to-
f>
“What of it?”
“Nothing of it,” with a very angry
flash from vei 7 faded e ve5 > “except that
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she rowed she would be an expense to
you no longer.’’
“She did, eh?”
lt She did.”
“Well,” grimly, “I hope she won’t!”
The child had a sulky fit. She was
probably at the house of some neighbor.
She would return whea her tantrum had
passed off. AU this he told himself.
Still he sat in his lonely room till long
after midnight, listening, listening.
When he finally went to bed it was to
roll and moan till dayUght, in the vague
wretchedness of unhappy dreams.
Noon—the noon before Thanksgiving
eve,—came, went. Bessie did not re-
turn.
All forenoon it rained. Toward even-
iog tbe rain ceased, and a fog, a chill,
TOCCOA. GEORGIA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1892.
smoky, blinding fog, began to creep up
from the Atlantic.
“If you don’t mind,” said Mrs. Dotty,
making her appearance with a shawl over
her head, “I’ll just run over to Devers'
and see what is keeping Miss Bessie.”
“Do!” he answered.
She had spoken as if the distance were
not worth considering, but it was quite a
journey for her. When she returned she
looked white and scared.
“She isn’t there —hasn't beeu.”
“Hark!” said Godfrey Kirke, holding
up one lean hand.
“That is only the carrier with the
flour.”
“A* k h itn ^ he bas seeu her? ”
Mrs. Dotty went into the halt. Almost
instantly she returned.
“He has not. He says there is the
body of a young woman at the town
morgue.”
“What!”
Godfrey Kirke leaped from his chair.
“He says that the body of a young girl
was found in the East Branch to-day.”
Godfrey Kirke sank back in bis seat.
Mrs. Dotty smiled a hard little smile to
herself as she closed the door and went
away. Sue knew how many friends
Bessie had. She shrewdly suspected if
9he were not found at one place she
would be at another; and she was malici¬
ously and pleasantly conscious that she
had given the hard-hoarted old man a
genuine scare.
Long the latter 3at where she had left
him. Thinking. For the first time in
years he was thinking, sadly, seriously,
solemnly. Thanksgiving-eve! In hfs
wife’s time the house used to be gay and
cheerful on that night, so filled with com¬
fort and bright anticipations, so odorous
with the homely fragrance of good things
in the kitchen, so delightfully merry with
the brisk bustle attendant on the mor-
row’s festivity. Now it was desolate,
dreary, darksome with depressing and
unutterable gloom. Whose fault was it?
His’ decided Godfrey Kirke, as savagely
relentless tq himself in thU moment as
he would have been to another. His!
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HE HAD THE WEAPON IN HIS HAND.
when his devoted wife had drooped and
died under his ever-increasing arrogance,
dictation. His! when Maud married the
first man who offered himself, to escape
from her father s pretty rule. Hi31 when
Robert ran away to escape the narrow-
obligations and unjust restrictions laid
upon him. Hi9l when the child his
dead daughter had left him could no
longer endure his brutality, or accept
from him the scant support he so grud¬
gingly gave. His fault—ail his! In
those lonely hour9 the whole relentless
tiuth dawned upon him, a9 such truths
will dawn, in most bitter brilliance. He
dropped his head on his hands with u
groan.
He looked around the dim, shabby
room. He looked at the dying fire in
the grate. He wondered of what U9e
would be to him now his twenty-thou¬
sand in bonds, his eight hundred acres
of meadow land, the money he had out
at interest. He rose in a dazed kitfd of
way, a shadowy purpose takiug definite¬
ness in his mind. He wished be had
been better to Besse; ho wished—but
what was the use of wishing now? There
could be but one satisfactory answer to
all his self-condemnation. A shot from
the revolver in the drawer yonder,that he
had always kept in readiness for possible
burglars. H e rose. He moved toward
the table. His figure cast a fantastic
shadow on the wall. The tears were
streaming down his cheeks. There
might be thanksgiving for bis death,
though there could never have been any
for his life.
Hark!
He had the weapon in his hand. He
started nervously. Was that Bessie’s
voice? He turned, dropping the revolver
with a clatter. Yes, there she was, not
three feet away, fresh, fair, damp, stnil-
ing.
“It is the queerest thing,” she said,
coming toward him as she spoke. “I
felt—badly—yesterday, and I went over
to Mrs. Farnham’s to see if she could get
me work. I met Mrs. Nelson, and she
asked me to go home with her. Dicky
was ill, and she wanted me to stay over
night. She sent you a note, At least
she sent the boy with it, but he lost it,
and only told her so this afternoon. As
soon as I knew that I started home
alone—although Dicky was no better.”
“Y"es?” said Godfrey Kirke. He was
listening with an unusual degree of in¬
terest.
“And to-night, when I was almost
here, (Nelsons’ is quite two miles away,
you know), I got lost in the fog.”
Her grandfather regarded her in
amazement. What made he pale cheeks
so bright? What excitement bad
blackened her gray eyes?
“And—a gentleman who was coming
here found me, and—and brought me
home. Please thank him, grandpa.
Here he isl”
With an incredulous, gasping ery,
Godfrey Kirke retreated, as a big brown,
muscular fellow came dashing in from
the hall.
“Robert 1”
“Father 1”
Then they were clasped in each other’*
anna.
“I’m back from the aea for good,
father. And I chanced to find my little
niece Bessie lost out there in the fog'. A
young lady, I vow! And I was think-
ing of her as a mere baby yet! Just
think! She tells me Charlie Nelson
wants her—”
“No? Weil, Charlie is a fine fellow,
He can have her—a year from to-day.”
So now you know why the Kirke
homestead is dazzling with lights and
flowers, and why it resounds with laugn-
ter this Thanksgiving; why old Godfrey
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“ROBERT!” “FATHER!”
wears a brann-new suit, and a flower in
his buttonhole; why Robert, id his
rightful place, looked so proud and
pleased; why dear, busy little Mrs.Dotty
beams benignly; why Bessie, gowned in
snowy, shining silk, thinks this is a
lovely old world after all; why Charlie
Nelson is so blessedly content, and why
in each and every heart reigns supreme
Thanksgiving.—The Ledger.
Tlianksgivln; Roast Pig.
Take a choice fat pig six weeks old,
not younger, though it may be a little
older. Have it carefully killed and
dressed, and thoroughly washed. Trim
out carefully with a sharp, narrow-bladed
knife the inside of the mouth and ears,
cut out the tongue and chop off the end
of the snout. Rub the pig welt with a
mixture of salt, pepper and pounded
sage, and sprinkle ic rather liberally with
red pepper, and a dash outside, too.
Make a rich stuffing of bread crumbs
—corn bread stuffiug is de rigeur lor
pig, though you can put half ol one and
half of the other inside of Mr. Piggy if
somebody insists on loaf bread stuffing.
If you use corn bread, have a thick, rich
pone of bread baked, and crumble it as
soon as it is cool enough to handle, sea¬
son it highly with black and red pepper,
sage, thyme, savory marjoram, minced
onion—just enough to flavor it, and
plenty of fresh butter; moisten it well
with stock, cream, or eveu hot water.
Stuff the pig well and sew it up closely.
If you have a tin roaster and open tire,
the pig will be roasted by that much
better. If you have not, put the pig in
a long pan and set it in the oven, and
leave the stove door open until the pig
begins to cook, gradually closing the
poor, so that the cooking will not be
done too fast. The pig must be well
dredged with flour whea put in the pan.
Mix some flour and butter together in a
plate, and pour about a quart of hot
water in the pan with the pig when it is
put on the tire. Have a larding-mop in
the plate of flour and butter, and mop
the pig frequently with the mixture
while it is roasting.
a roaster is used, set it about two
feet from the fire at first, but continue
to move it nearer and nearer as the pig
cooks. Baste it frequently with the
water in the pan betweenwhiles of mop-
ping with flour and butter.
To be sure the pig is done, thrust a
skewer through the thickest part of him;
if no pink or reddish juice oozes out it
is done, and ought to be a rich brown
all over. When the pig is done pour
the gravy in a saucepan and cook it
sufficiently. This will not be necessary
if the pig was cooked in the stove oven.
The pig’s liver may be boiled in well
salted water, pounded up, and added to
the gravy, which should be very savory
and plentiful.
The pig should be invariably served
with baked sweet potatoes and plenty of
good pickle and sauce, either mushroom
or green pepper catsup, for despite his
toothsome ness, roast pig is not very safe
eating without plenty of red pepper.-—
Good Housekeeper.
Ah Informal Repast
“I suppose,” said Mrs. Brown, “you
would like me to wear a new dress at
this Thanksgiving dinner you are going
to give?”
“Can t afford it,” growled old Brown.
“As long as you have the turkey well
dressed you will pass muster.”—Judge.
The Thanksgiving Turkey.
As Thanksgiving The Day walks is down ill this way
“I’m strutting turkey Job,” at ease;
poor as the turkey of says he;
I “Tough gobble and unfit of to eat, pedigree, you see;
no more my
Lest some poor fellow should gooole me;
And a turkey nuzzard I think Til b?.
For the present, if you please.'
—Binghamton Repuoiicm.
Cause for Thanksgiving.
Sunday-school Teacher — “ Willie,
have you had anything during the week
to be especially thaukful for?”
Willie—“Yes’m, Johnny Podgers
sprained his wrist and I licked him for
the first time yesterday.”—Burlington
Free Press.
A Thought For the Seasou.
He in whose store of blessings there may b*
Bestowing, Enough, and yet gentle to spare,
with a charity,
By Upon all the the gladness poor a share. his gifts
Will thanksgiving that multiplied provide
have his own
Tommy’s Dream on Thanksgiving Nigh
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j THE GREAT STRIKE ENDED,
AM tin Hills a! Homestead Have Began
j Operations Once More.
! A Large y umher 0 f t ), e Strikers are
Given their Old Places.
The great Homestead strike, or lock¬
out, was brough to an end Sunday morn¬
ing at a meeting which was presided
over by Richard Hotchkiss, the new
chairman of the strikers 1 advisory board.
Secretary Killgadon, Vice Pre-ident Cor
uey and Treasurer Madden, national < ffi-
cers of the Amalgamated Association,
were present. The lockout had reached
its 144th day. Its history is known the
world over. '! he vote that opened the
Hcnvstead Steel works to Amalgam¬
ated men stood 101 ayes to 91
nays. The meeting was a red hot
one all the way through and at
one time looked as if Burgess Hollings-
head would have to assert his official au¬
thority Charges to prevent a serious conflict.
and counter charges were the
order of the day. News paper reporters
were excluded, but the informati n is re¬
liable that those wishing to dec are the
mill opeu barely su receded in carrying
their point.
Now that the agony is over, the men
are not backward about expressing their
opinions leaders, of the men who have posed as
when confidently promising victory
they knew for a certainty that the
battle was hopelessly lost. According to
Superintendent Wo d, of the Homestead
work®, not more than eight or nine hun¬
dred of the employees will be able to se¬
cure employment.
The fact that the men would return to
work has put the people of the town in
a happier frame of nrind than at aDy
time during the lockout. Business men
especially feel that the town will soon re¬
sume its former activity. There were
six hundred applications for work du¬
ring the day. Although many were
turned away because their positions had
been taken by new men, they have good
reason to believe that in a short time
nearly all the men will be back 'old again.
The mill yard is fnll of iron
and scraps and it seems to
be no secret that the company is as well
pleased as the men that the strike has, to
a certain extent, been declared off. Sev
eral amalgamated men are kuown to have
applied for tin it* ol i p sitions and so far
as learned r one were refu-ed. Men
charged with rioting have been given
places notwithstanding the company’s
former decuration. The company has
notified the foreman to di-charge only
incompetent men to make room for the
old ra n. The incompetent list wax found
to be large, judging from the number of
old men bei s-r taken back.
DISASTROUS STORMS
Sweep Over Several Western States
Doing Considerable Damage.
A Chicago special says: The <ff ct of
the storm of Friday and Friday n ght is
evident iu the interruption of telegraphic
communication with the w< at
Here i:i Chicago the wir.d blew at the
rate of forty to fifty miles per hour at
limes through the night. Neither of
the telegraph companies has wires work
ing to St. Paul. Minneapolis, Duluth,
Sioux City, or Kansas points. Communi¬
cations with Ivans .s City is irregular,
and at times cut off altogether. Toe
storm extended from Illinois west to the
Territory Rocky mountains, sou’h to the Indian
and uor.h to the Canadian line.
All telegraphic communications within
this district is absolutly cut off, and it is
impossible to more than conjecture the
amount of damage done.
HURRICANE AT BALTIMORE.
A Baltimore dispatch says: A hurri¬
cane of unusual violence swept up Ches¬
apeake bay at nooa Friday, and played
havoc with buildings along the water
front of the harbor and with vessels
moored therein. The wind reached the
velocity harbor of sixty miles an hour. The
was well filled with vessels of
every class, and a gnat deal of damage
was done to them. An immense grain
elevator, belonging to the Northern
Central railroad, iu Canton, was consid¬
erably damaged, the wind shaking the
in great the building until wide cracks appeared
walls. No estimate of the loss by
the hurricane is given, but it will neces¬
sarily be large.
THE STORM IN INDIANA.
Dispatches from English, lod., state
that a tornado of forty-eight hours’ du¬
ration increased in force early Friday
morning dow and wrecked nearly every win¬
and chimney in the town. The
fronts of several business houses were
blown in and there were several narrow
escapes from death. Two hundred huge
forest trees were uprooted.
AFTERNOON PAPERS
Organize the “ Southern • Afternoon
Press Association.”
Representatives of practically all after-
noon papers in the south, met at Savan-
nahSaturdav,and organized the Southern-
Afternoon Press Association. The papers
represented were as follows: The States,
New Orleans; the Tribune, Galveston;
the News, Chattonaoga; the Sentinel,
Knoxville; the News,Macon; the Journal,
Atlanta; The News, the Mobile; Metropolis, Journal, Jacksonville;
the Mont¬
gomery; the Scimetar, Memphis; the
News, Augusta; the Press, Savannah; the
News, Baltimore; the State, Richmond;
The Ledger, Norfolk; the Times, Louis¬
ville; the Public Ledger, Memphis. It
is the intention of each paper in the as¬
sociation to act as its news representative
for the city ai.d locality where it is pub¬
lished.
ADVISORY BOARD DISBANDED.
Increased Number of Applications for
Work at the Mills.
A special of Tuesday from Homestead,
Pa., says: The official existence of the
strikers’ fsmrus advisory board was end¬
ed at a meeting held Monday night.
Applications for reinstatement in the
mills continue in increased numbers.
The officials seem to be inclined to be
considerate and it is now thought proba¬
ble that a much larger propo rtion of the
strikers will be re-employed than t it was
thought possible.
A SHORT COTTON CROP.
Six Million Bales is the Figure Ar¬
rived At.
The C harleston News and Courier has
had au exhaustive examination made of
the condition of the cotton crop of the
south, ex end mg over the entire cotton
belt, and on Saturday publish d there-
suit of its work. The rt ports show that
the crop i* short far beyoud the calcula¬
tion of all experts, who have thus far fig¬
ured on it. It further shows that the
greater part of the crop has been picked
and rushed to market and that the late
top crop will amount to practically noth¬
ing. From these reports, which come
from the commissioners < f agriculture of
the various states, and from trustworthy
newspapers, it appears the crop will
scarcely exceed s x million hales.
The Columbus Etquirer-Sun says:
“Cottou fields in this and adj fining sec¬
tions arc almost en irely bare. It is a
conservative s’atement tossy that fully
nine tenths of the crop has been picked
and marketel. A few of the lar^e and
more wealthy planters have their cotton
in diffe.ent warehouses awaiting a lurther
advance, which is confidently expected,
Small farm rs have, with =c tree v an ex
ception, is disposed of theiv crops, and it
thought the site to say fully seven-tenths
of ir p his been sold. Tim yield in
some sections is conceded to la* 50 per
cent less than that of last year; in others,
about 25 per c ub Th** average de¬
crease iu yield may be put at 34 per
cent.”
The Memphis Appeal says: “It is <■ fci-
inatcd by conservative men that the crop
in the Mernph s territory, west. Tennes¬
see. Aikansas and Mississippi will be
fully 40 per cent less than that of last
year. This showing is due m>t only to a
large decrease of acreage, but to various
other causes, among vJrch may be men¬
tion the disastrous floods which prevail¬
ed in the spring hi Arkausns and Missis¬
sippi. The floods picvented the farmers
putting iu any eot’on on their b i st lands.
Cold, wet weather has been prevailing
throughout this section for the la«t two
weeks and complaints are genera! among
planters that the damage to the cottou is
general then from. The top crop will
prove au a’ni >st total f ilure, owing to
this weather, as immature boils r.re re¬
ported to be decaying. It is probable
that from 50 to 60 ptr cent of the crop
in this territory has been marketed.”
E. Craighead,correspondent at Mobile,
bama telegraphs that the £50,000 cotton crop of Ala¬
is placid at bahs. Leading
members of the Mobile cottou exchange
estimate the crop short by 40 per cent,
and that half of the crop has been sold.
Other ri ports from the cotton belt
agree that the crop is from 34 to 40 per
cent short and that the Lu k of the crop
gathered has already been marketed.
Secie’ary Hester’s weekly New Orleans
cottou statement shows a still greater
drop in the movement of cotton during
the past week, the d* ficieucy compared
with seven corresponding days of last
year being upward of 140,000 bales. This
makes the dec ease for the first eight en
days of November 329*508 bales frem laT
year.
EDITOR OCHS TALKS.
He Replies to Statements Concerning
the Southern Associated Press.
The New York Recorder, iu its issue
of Saturday, printed the following from
Chattanooga, Tcnn.:
“The publication in the New York Times that
the proprietor of The Chat tanooga Times is dis¬
gruntled and will likely withdraw from the
Southern Associated Pres', is without the
slightest foundation.
“I h ive for the past ten days persistently de¬
clined to receive the reports of the New York
Associated Press, though tend* red to me every
day. The Southern Associated Pres-* has no
member more loyal than myself.
“There was every effort made to create a mu¬
tinous spirit in the Southern Associated Pres* 1 ,
but it failed of its purpose. The Southern As¬
sociated Press has in i s membership every daily
newspaper Georgia, East of North Tennessee, and South Alabama, Carolina,Floiida,
and Louisiana that has heretofore received Mississippi
ilie
New York Associated Press news, paying there¬
for $150,000 per annum.
“The Southern Associated Press have, by con¬
tract, of control in the stats mentioned, of all
news the United Press, and the Western As¬
sociated Press, and through those two organi¬
cies. zations, The the proprietors two principal foreign publishers news agen¬
and of sou.h-
ern daily uowspap rs had every opportunity to
continue their relations with the Now Y’ork As¬
sociated Pr ss, and on terms they could th m-
selves dictate, and they chose to decline a![
overtures. It is supposed that thev know what
they are The about, all being successful bus ness
men. members of the Southern Associat¬
ed Press bear no ill will to the New York
Associated Press, but j lined the
movement that includes, with acceptions
hardly worth mentioning, every daily newspa¬
per from Seattle to Bsrgor, and from the lakes
to the gulf, to put a stop to arrangements which
enabled seven Now York ddlies to control the
news of the country and exact whatever pay
they demanded.
“The door is open to the New York Associa-'
ted Press to come in on equal tei ms with the
most far red. Tiie Southern Associated Press
hopes that its former New York City associates
may so m realize the folly of thdr * fforts to
t op the progr* ssive move, that for a wonder,
was not commenced years ago.”
Chairman (Signed) Ex. Com. Adolph South. s, Ochs,
Ass. Pies*.
THE INAUGURATION.
It Will be Conducted on t lie Plan ol
Eight Years Ago.
A Washingiou dispatch of Wedmsuay
iays: L aoing demoerais of the district,
after a consultation with Senator Gor¬
man, have decided to recommend that
the plan adopted eight years ago,
when Cleveland was elected, be
followed on the occasion of h:s
second inauguration. This plan in
substance, is the ^election by the national
democratic committee of fifty citi¬
zens of the District of Columbia to take
charge ol the ceremonies outside of the
capitol. A meeting Tuesday night pre¬
pared such & list, headed by Col. James
G. Barret, who presided over the inau¬
gural committee eight years ago. The
list was sent to Chairman Harrity, of the
national democratic committee, for ap¬
proval .
Mississippi’s Figures.
A -Jackson, Miss., special of Sunday
says: Returns m th- secretary of state’s
office from all the coun'ies, except Coho-
&», give Cleveland 83,965, Weaver 10,-
250, Harrison 1,373, Bidwell 910. Cleve¬
land’s plurality over Weaver, 29.715;
Cleveland’s majority over all, 27,482.
The belated county wilt place Cleveland’s
plurality at about 80,000.
NUMBER 4b
RICHMOND & DANVILLE R- R.
!■ \V. II nml Iteiibfii Foster
Receivers.
Atlanta find Ch&rl0tt6 Atf-Uae Division,
Condensed Schedule of Passenger
Trains, in Effect Oct. 16, 1892.
V i\^teunT nimmnrvn No. 38. ; No, 10.
' No.
isir Daily. ! Daily. .2
Daily
Lv. Atlanta (E.T.), 1 00 pm 9 20 pm| 8 (Warn
fhamlilee . ... .....! 9 52 pm 8 40am
Duluth........ Norcross....... . .... TO 03 pm! 8 52am
.....10 13 pm I 9 04am
Snwauee....... ..... 10 23 pm] 9 15am
Buford........ ..... 10 37 pm! 9 28am
Flow rv Branch .....;!0 51 pmj 9 42am
Gainesville......j 2 22 pm ill lOpmjlO 03uni
Lula......... . 2 4 > pm i; 36 pm TO 27am
Bell ton....... .;........11 38 pill! 10 30am
Cornelia...... . |........ 12 05 am 10 51 am
Mt. Airy...... 1 ........ 12 09 a in 10 55am
Toccoa........ . ........ 12 37 am T . 19am
Westminster .. . 1........ 1 17am| If 56am
Seneca ....... ......... 1 36 am 112 15pm
Easleys....... Central.... . |........j J ........i 2 2 42 10 am! 1 1 20pm 50pm
. ami
Greenville.... . j 5 24 pm! 3 68 am 2 15pm
Greers....... . |........ 3 57 ami 2 45pm
Wellford..... . j........ 8 55 ami am! 3 05pm
Clifton...... Spartanburg. . 0 17pmj 4 18 3 29piu
Cowpens • I........j 4 35 am 3 53pm
.... .:........: 4 40 am 3 58pm
Gaffney..... Blacksburg... . j .....! 5 00 am 4 20pm
.; 7 06 pm 5 15 am 4 37pm
Grover......... .......; .5 *?4 nm 4 46pm
King'- Mounfnj. ....... 5 38 ami 5 02pm
Lowell........j. Gaston 1 a.......j. ....... 6 00 am] 5 20pm
....... 610 am] 5 37pm
Bellemont.....!. ....... pmj 6 19 ami 5 46pm
Ar. Charlotte...... 1 8 20 6 4(t am 6 10pm
SOUTHBOUND. | fti"' i
Lv. Bellemont Charlotte.. ..! ..!........ 9 45 a in 2 1 50 10 pm! I 2 2 20 43 am
. pm am
Lowell..... .! 2 19 pm 2 53 am
Gastonia....... . 2 30 pm 3 04 am
King’s Mount’n .! 2 53 pin! 3 28 am
Grover......... !........ 3 07 pin] 3 44 am
Blacksburg .... 10 56 am! 3 16 pm 3 5t am
Gaffney....... j........ t........j 3 33 pmj pml 4 12 am
Cowpens...... !........ 3 58 4 40 am
Clifton...... 11 43 ; 4 01 pmj 5 4 00 45 am
Spartanburg-. am J 18 pmj am
Wellford...... 1 ........r 4 33 5 23 am
pm pm! 5 42
Greers....... i ■........: 154 am
Greenville.... 12 36 pm 5 24 pm 6 10 am
Easleys....... Central...... j .......j ! 5 6 45 53 pm 6 7 38 90 am
pm am
Seneca....... 7 11 pm 7 58 am
Westminster.. 7 30 pm 8 17 am
Toccoa ...... i 8 06 pm 8 55 am
Mt. Airy..... i 8 37 pm 9 30 am
Cornelia..... • B 41 pm 9 33 am
Bellton...... I,ula........ 8 22 9 9 07 09 pmj TO 9 58 00 am
41 pm 35 pm IC 28 am
Gainesville..... 3 pm 9 pm pmj am
Flowery Branch...... . i 9 55 10 48 am
Buford........!..... ___! .10 10 07pmi:l pmjll 02 15 am
Suwanee... 23 am
Duluth .... ... U0 31 pm U 25 pm
Norcross .. ... TO 45 pm 11 37 am
Chamblee..
Ar- Atlanta (E.
Additional trains Nos. 17an i 18—Lula ac¬
commodation, daily except Kmidav, leaves At¬
lanta 5 30 p ni, arrives Lula 8 12 p m. Hetnm-
ing, leaves I.uia 6 00 a m, arrives Atlanta 8 50
Between Lula and Atli -ns—No. 11 daiiv, ex¬
cept Sundav, and No. 9 daily, leave Lula 9 15 p
in, and 10 36 a m, arrive Athens 11 00 pm and
12 20 Jim. Returning leave Athens, No. 10
daiiv. and‘8 except Sunday, and No. 12 daily, 7 15 p m
07 a m, arrive Lula 8 55 p m and 9 50
Between Toccoa and Elberton—-Nos. 63 and 9
daily; except Sundav. leave Toccoa 7 00 a in
and 11 25 a in arrive Elberton 10 50 a in and
220 p m. Returning,No. 62 and 12 daily except
Sunday, leave i Elberton 4 00 p m and 6 00 a m.
and” arrives Toccoa 7 35 p m and 8 45 a m.
Nos. 9and lOPullman sleeper between Atlan¬
ta and New York. Nos. 37 and 88 Washington
and Southwestern Vestihuled Limited, Pullman between
Atlanta and Washington. Through
sleepers between New York anel New Orleans,
also between Washington and Memphis, via At¬
lanta and Birmingham. Buffet Sleeper be¬
Nos. 11 and 12—Pullman
tween Washington and Atlanta.uniting between
Danville and Greensboro with Pullman sleeper
to and from Portsmouth and Norfolk.
For de ailed information as to local end
through timetables, rates and Pullman sleeping
car reservations, confer with local agents or ad¬
dress HABDWICK.
W. A. TURK. S. H.
Gen’l Pass. Ag’t. Ass’t. Genl. t Pass. Ag t.
Washington, D. C. Atlanta, Ga.
J. A. DODSON, Superintendent. Atlanta, Ga.
W. H GREEN, SOL. HASS,
Gen’l Manager. Traffic Manager,
Washington, D. C. Washington, D. C.
LEWIS DAVIS,
ATTORNEY at law
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will practice in* the oountiea of Haber*
sham and Rabun of the Northwestern
Circuit, and Frank! n and Banks of th*
Western Circuit. Prompt attention will
he given to ali bus: *e«a eutrusted’eo him.
The collection of debts will have speo-
a' attention.
TESTING DIAMONDS.
Inexperienced People May Tell the
Real from Imitation Gems.
Ample testimony has recently appeared of the
in scientific papers confirmatory
fact that the hardness of diamonds is not
perceptibly reduced by cutting and
polishing. San Francisco One correspondent in of the hie
Call states that
early experience he was accustomed to
select a gem with smoothly glazed sur¬
face and after the stone was split in a
cleavage plane inclined at a rather sharp
angle to the natural face selected, this
split face being ground and polished. In
this way he was enabled to obtain at
several points short knife edges, which
gave superb results in ruling.
It was soon found, however, that after
ruling several thousand rather heavy lines
the diamond was liable to lose its sharp
cutting edge, and the experience became
so frequent that he was compelled to re¬
sort to the method now employed, that
of grinding and polishing both faces to
a knife edge. lie has one ruling dia¬
mond prepared in this way which has
been in constant use for four years, and
its capacity for good work has not yet
been reduced in the slightest degree.
G. F. Kunz, who took part in the dis¬
cussion on this subject, mentioned inci¬
dentally the that there is no difficulty in even
guishing most the inexperienced from person imitation distin¬
real the
diamond. If the stone scratches sap¬
phire it is without doubt a ifiamond,
whereas putting the gem into a flame
would not differentiate the diamond from
the white topaz, or the white zircon, or
the white sapphire, or the white tourraa
line, or any other white stone that is not
fusible. But the absolute and most
simple test for diamonds is to draw the
stone board sharply dark over a piece of unpainted
in a room. Every diamond
phosphoresces by friction.
A HEAVY snowstorm prevailed through
out th* Wastern States.