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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. 4 ! / fj f ~f 4,:’ A n > /U ,f W' “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 ^ * 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 - 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! I f l o :> 31- ■ o 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 [/ft* ^ \\ ,u. t )) ( % r 0-0 «• “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 ' be m i a 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.