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THE * TOCCOA NEWS AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL. VOLUME XXI. IWEETEN LIFE WITH KISSES, A good-bye kiss Is a little thing, With your band on the door to go. But it takes the venom out of the sting Of a thoughtless word or a cruel fling That you made an hour ago. A kiss of greeting is sweet and rare,'* After the toil of the day, Aud it smooths the^arrows plowei b care, The lines on the forehead you once cat lei fair, In the year;* that have flown away. 'Tis a little thing to say, “You are kind, I love you, my dear,’’ each night, But it sends a thrill through the heart, I find; For love is tender, as love is blind. As we climb life’s nigged bight. We starve each other for love's caress, We take but we do not give; It seems so easy some soul to bless, But we dole the love gru Igingly, less and less, Till ’tis bitter and hard to live. —Philadelphia Inquirer. THE SAVINGS BANK. BY BEBTROLD AUERBACH, OU know that I lost my father and mother in my infancy, and i that I had not a relative in the world. I was wild and thoughtless when I began my appren ice- S a \» ° Ck smith. My mas- ter was, on tbe other hand, a grave, re¬ served man, so that a very few words from him were important. When for the first time he paid me a week’s wages, he said: “Peter, you do not need more than half of what is due you; the other half I will set asido for the saviugs ‘bank.” And so it was. . On Palm Sunday, before mass, he went with me to the savings bank. My name was written in a huge register, and they gave me a book, on the first page of which was inscribed my name, aud on the second my deposit, seven crowns. I held my little . book lovingly, ami looked often at my name and the amount of my capital. I was so enchanted with this first opera- tion that I became avaricious. I reformed my habit of smoking, and gave myself no rest till 1 had another small sum to deposit. When I passed the bauk build¬ * ing, l would say to myself, “There is my good money bringing interest night and day. Very good. I will add to the amount.” Would that I had continued to talk alone to myself! But I soon couflded in a companion from the Palatinate, and whom for that reason we called the Pala- tin. To amuse myself on Sunday, I would take my book from its box, and would try to compare precisely how much a month my twelve crowns would bring me. The Palatiu, who was a skilful aecouutaut, told me exactly, aud then he began to make sport of the trifling amount, aud tossed my book into the air, exclaiming: “Look at tho fortune of the great capitalist, Peter Werner 1” The little book fell on my head, and seemed to me to have suffered Insult. I wiped it, put it back into the box, aud did not show it to my companion again. Just before Christmas there was a great fire in tho city. The building that contained the savings bank was con¬ sumed before aid could be brought. I was greatly excited when I learned that the registers of deposit were burned. The Palatin, however, laughed heartily. “You fool!” said he, “what are you cry¬ ing for? The city has guarantsed the de- posits made iu the savings bank. You have your receipt. The State must pay you. * This reflection reassured me. I showed my book to my compauion agaiu, and he told me that it was perfectly correct. That night, when we lay down side by side to sleep, he said: • ‘Peter, you and I can be rich, aud have nothing to do but see the world, and let our money work for us.” He added that we must both go to California, where the earth is full of gold. “Very good,'* I answered, “but who will give us the money to make the voy¬ age?” “Haven’t you your bank book?'* “You called it a trifle yourself.” “We will make something better of it/’ he said, striking a ught. “I have an idea. Get up and show me your book.” “Capital!”he cried, when I had havt given him my book. “Nobody will the slightest suspicion. ‘Received this day five crowns ’ Of ‘five crowns’ I will make ‘five hundred, and we will have the means of starting on our travels At these words I began to tremble. “My friend, said I, “tlrs ought not to be done. I will not permit it.” “Let me alone,” re oiled he; “I will ®how you how easy it is.’ A fatal curiosity awoke m me, and 1 said to him: “You can do it this way. Try it on another paper, or else you will spoil my book, and I shall lost the little I posses^.” hoped I he wouid not succeed, and tbit his failure would deliver me from m y guilty covetousness; and yet £ could have wished him to succeed. “Let me alone,” he sharply replied, “and do not make me angry; or else my band will tremble, aud L shall spoil everything.” chest, I crossed my arms on my and with trembling I watched him change tbe words written in my precious book, while it seemed as if my heart tyere bursting. Then he took a little knife »nd scratched out a few letters. I shiv- ered and yet I said to myself. “Now you are rich and able to grow richer.” I looked at what he had just written. “Received five hundred crowns." No- body could detect the least falsification i a these words, and the great register v&a buri.ea. We returned to bed. I already saw myself across the ocean, picking up nuggets of gold. I had a carriage with four magnificent horses, and a servant who offered me a beautiful meerschaum pipe trimmed with silver, while another poured my champagne. The next morning at the table I feared every moment that I might see an officer approaching to take me to prison, I was so much afraid of uttering an im- prudent word that I dared not reply im- mediately to any question. I no longer dared to carry money to the savings bank, but made long detours to avoid passing the building in which it had been reorganized. Gradually, however, I recovered a sort of tranquility, as I saw'ffhat nobody suspected what I had done. But when, on the approach of Christmas, ray master’s children began to dance around me one morning, say- ing, “We know something wo shan’t tell!” their voices pierced my heart like a knife. They knew tho surprises their father was preparing for our pleasure, and were delighted with their secret. On Christmas Eve, Counselor Men- ninger’a servant came running to our workshop. I was in the door-way. She said she had come for me, and that I must go at once with my tools to her master’s house. The counselor’s name had terrified me. Could my cffeuce be already known? I had decided not to use the book until spring, aud had never shown it. But I was afraid of everything. Nevertheless, I went with the young girl. She had a sweet, fresh face, ami the pure Christmas light burned iu her eyes. <‘My father was a locksmith," said sbe tt g t p e ter is our patron, and for many /to people the kev to Paradise fs the ke their money-box.” We arrived at the counselor’s housa, aud I was shown into a richly-furnished room. The counselor brought me au elegant case whose key was broken, and bade me open it. He then told Cath¬ erine, my guide, that he had other preparations to make, and bade her re¬ main with the locksmith. “It will be hard for you,” said I to Catherine, “to leave these beautiful rooms for some poor little home.” “I have plenty of time in which to make up ray mind to it,” she replied. “But you do not yet know everything. Living iu a rich dwelling, one soon learns that it matters little whether he is with a golden spoon or a brass one. The essential thing is to live in peace with a good conscience.” At these words I could no longer find the keyhole, and Catherine began to laugh at my lack of skill. At length, however, I opened the casket, and my eyes were dazzled by its contents. Upon a blue velvet cushiou glittered a set of diamonds. Catherine stepped to the door and called her master; but no sooner had he glanced at the casket than he rudely seized my hand, saying: “The brooch with the large diamond iu tho ceutre is gone!” I shook like a poplar leaf, and was about to throw myself on my knees, when I heard Catherine’s voice. “IIow can you think--” said she, “I was here!” “Be still! We will examine you too!” lie called to his wife, and then, turn- ing to me, said that he would search me, while his wife did the same to Cathar- ine. And seeing this honest maiden out- raged mvse'lf bv such odious suspicious, I yield- to his hands But I never ean longer^like wliat I felt at that moment ^en slavl I felt no a man or a but like some vile animal. An act of injustice had been committed me. Compared with this, the offence of which I was really guilty sc -mid but a petty 1 snd childish thing, My anger grew still greater when auother servaut suggested that Catherine might have hidden the diamonds in her hair, aud I saw the poor girl as pale as death with her braids all unbound. Ol course the counselor found nothing on Catherine or me. I remember in that parting I said to the young girl: “Be patient: I will make up to you all you have sufiered through me.” The affront I had suffered paralyzed conscience. I sought often to see Catharine, but successfully. She was afraid if we were seen together, it would fresh suspicion. One day, how- she met me with a joyful expres- sion, aud said: “God be thanked! We are nowcom- pletely justified. My master’s sister has writte l him that she forgot to put the into the casket.” “And is not the counselor going to ' “Hashed my pardont” me to do so,” she replied, “and asked me to do so for him. At same time she beggei me to harbor resentment because ot what had hap- to me. “You may have committed some se- fault, said she. "Accept what you suffered as an affliction.” I never had felt so happy before. I Catharine that I would yet be rich wouid give her a beautiful carnage, to four horses, and she prom- to be faithful to me, should I come her oa foot. The thing I had done seemed nothing in comparison with humiliation which I had suffered. Palm Sunday having come, I decided, the instance of the Palatin, to draw money, in order to try ray fortune in world and make Catherine my wife, wished the Palatin to accompany me the bank, but he refused. I entered the counting room. Cou P • Menninger wae there. At first ►-( was frightened, aud then the sight O X. gave me new courage. He was the man who had insulted me. While I waited the sweat trickled down my and mv book stuck to my fingers if it never could be sunken off. At last my turn came. The counselor put on his spectacles, and looked at my I could hear no sound but the verv 'monotonous ticking of the clock, heart “knocked hard against my side. 4 -You have beeu tm.t ccoaomicAl. TOCCOA. GEORGIA, SATURDAY. JANUARY 14. 1893. said the counselor, “Will you have coin or paper?” I said I would have paper, and ha gave me a little roll of notes on each of which was written, “100 crowns.” i trembled so that I could hardly hold these notes in my hands, and when he asked me if the right sura was there, I could oulv nod in the affirmative. Sud- denly he looked attentively at me. “Are you not the locksmith,” he asked, “whom I summoned on Christmas Eve?” “Yes,” said I. “I am delighted to see you again. I beg you to forgive my unjust suspicion of you, which must have caused you pain. It would give me great pleasure if I could render you a service. But what is the matter? Are you ill?” I fell on my knees, crying, “No, no; I am a scoundrel. Take back your money.” And I told him all. The counselor was a good man. Ho saw my despair, and spoke to me kindly My dangerous companion was obliged to leave the city. I was affianced to Oath- erine in the counselor’3 house, and he aided me to establish myself in the city. I ought to add that before I left the sav- ings bank I burned my little book.— From the German, in Romance. His Broom Overawed the Lious. An incident happened at Barr.uui <$ Bailey’s show after it took up its wintei quarters at Bridgeport, Conn., which shows to whafc danger an ignorant man will expose himself and how he may es- cape all injure. “Tody” Hamilton, the well known and. popular press agent of the firm, was asked i j for f work i by i a hulk- u ii mg big German named Ilans and as somebody was wanted to clean the cages of the animals he was engaged. He was told to clean the cages containing the lions, tigers, etc., thoroughly, both in¬ side and outside. The man set to work and Mr. Hamilton went about his busi¬ ness. He came back sometime afterward and was wondering what had become of tbe new hand, for he was nowhere to be seen. On making a closer search, Mr. Hamilton was horrified to see the man inside the cage with the five lions. Ho was going about his work iu a most me¬ thodical way, sweeping tbe floor vigor¬ ously with his broom which he occasion¬ ally “shooed” into the faces of the as¬ tonished lions whenever any of them came anywhere near him. The aminal3 were evidently so surprised at the man’s utter indifference to them that they kept huddled up iu one corner until Hans wanted to clean out that particular part of the cage. They were unceremoniously evicted with the help of the broom and they scampered around utterly forgetful of their proper dignity. Mr. Hamilton never expected to see the man come out alive, as he felt sure the animals would attack him as soon as he started to leave the den. He hastily got some of the older hands together and then ho or¬ dered the German to come out of the cage. The fellow wanted to finish his job and laughed at the idea of the ani¬ mals hurting him, but he finally obeyed orders, and got out of the cage without a scratch. What prevented the animals from tear¬ ing him to pieces is a mystery, for no- body dares enter the cage in which these particular lions are, as they are a sav¬ ago, unruly lot. The coolness of the deed must have utterly astonished the lions anc l hi 9 steady use of the broom, which was poked in their faces every now and J the cn y * hfui mu8t to have Wlth convinced soine uew them s P eoie3 that of animal * aud that under the circumstances <“a ™ the better part of valor Jt wa ? 30C f ta “ e befo ?f' 3 ma “ C0 ul ^ , be convinced of the great dauger he . had been in and persuaded to use the rakes that are always used for cleaning out , insides . . , of , the , cages. These ™. are pro- vided with long handles and the man using them can stand safely out of all 0 1 la = 1 , —New *■ orl£ 1 rib unty ^__ Longevity of Trees. Professor Abbott estimates the age of thc Woodbridge oak at about 2000 years, During the Revolutionary war Lafayette .mdWs »rm? rested uader its Itata. Its remains are now in the form of seats for tho Quinnipiac Club. An oak in M tfion County, Florida, is reported as measuring over ten feet in diameter and S - Jrea dm<a ® its branches over a diameter of 1 {eet> California A sequoia felled in Cala- verftS County had a diameter of fifteen feet at the height of 125 feet above the _ tll The German forestry report muke s the maximum age of European {ore3t trees to be nofc above 8 00 years, exceDt in rare cases The pine is stated S Stains Uw an a-e frequent^ of over 400 200 and the red birch at about 2 50 years. ‘ 0akg begin t0 deC ay at the heart when about 300 years old, the holly oak excepted, which aoes on to above 400. Scotch firs are known to live from 200 3 qq y ears> The sequoias, however, are estimated to have covered 2000 ars ._ St> Louis Globe-Democrat. • --- The Traui m v ' Once there were two tramps who were actually looking for work. In the course of their wanderings they came upon a pile of coal in front cf a palatial residence. Said the tramp with the inferior in- tellect: “Let us engage ourselves to stow away this fuel at a price of twenty- five cents. ’ “Nay, nay,” said the tramp of superior intellect; “let me go within and negotiate. And he did negotiate ana secured the job at a rate of fifty cents, of which sum he gave one-half to his companion to perform the necessary manual labor, reserving one-half unto himself for superintending operations. the inferior Whereat he of business ability, though be had received twice the amount of work he expected and at uis-oVn rate of compensation, lifted up his voice in wrath and swere by v&rious Cities that he had been bunkoed. Was m riabtf—-ladianapolia Journal. THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH Holes el Her Progress and Prosperity Briefly Epitomized And import aid Happenings from Hay to Day Tersely Told. Ti e. jail at Seims, Ala., was burned Tuesday. Loss, $20,000; insurance, $3,- 5oO. Nine prisoners were incarcerated at the time, but all were gotten out safely, p) r j p. chazel, one of the most prominent physicians of Charleston, S. t’.. died suddenly at his residence iu that city Sunday night, aged seventy-nine years, Blodgett’s Tidewater barrel factory and 500 barrels of rosin, on Marshall’s wharf, at Charleston. S. C., were burned Mot - day night. The ioss is about $15,000; partially insured. The firm W. J. & C. J. Julian, filed’ retail dry goods, Macon, Ga., have a deed of assignment for the benefit of their creditors. The liabilities will amount to abmit $40,000. and the assets to between $55,000 and $60,000. Fire, Friday, destroyed the Louisville and Nashville railroad carsheds and stock pens at New Orleans. Three pas- enger coaches and a number of freight cars, with contents, were destroyed, and others damaged. The loss is estimated at $75,000. „ Norfolk . „ and , Western , ranroad car at Portsmouth, 0., burned early f, UKda v truing. main building at - the machine shop, one locomotive and number ' of carg were totally destroyed. T he loss is estimated at from $40,000 to | 50 00i) Wcll insurt d. A Jackson, Miss., special of Monday says: Governor Stone's count of the money in the state treasury shows that it balances with the books. The cash balance on January 1st was $242,089.20, and tbe amount ou hand at the close of business Monday was $437,322.26. A special of Sunday from Austin,Tex., says: While Mills is the only candidate for the Texas senatorship, Governor Hogg may decide to enter tho race, and should he do so, he will beat Mills. Hogg is popular with the populists, and Mills is unpopular. Hogg’s friends are in the majority in both houses. William H. Pope, Teller of the City National bank, of Louisville, Ky., who on March 1st, 1890, absconded with $70,- 000 of the bank’s funds, was arrested at Starke, Fla, Friday. He has been pos¬ itively identified by Joseph Steltenkamp, agmt of the Louisville and NasliAille railroad, at Jacksonville, Fla. formerly of Louisville, W. S. Copeland, of the Danville Reg¬ ister, messenger for the presidential elec¬ tors of Virginia, arrived in Washington, Tuesday, with a copy of the certificates of votes cast for Cleveland and Stevenson at Richmond Monday. They were deliv¬ ered to Vice-President Morton. He is the first messenger to report at the capi- to!. Opelika, Alabama, is agitated from question. ad prohibition For six years she has virtually il a law, but great opposi- tion has developed against it, or the “blind and tigers” have petition about captured the city, a stroug has been got- ten up to the legislature to repeal the law and substitute a system of high li- cense. ^ ]^ ew Adjutant t) r i e ans dispatch of Tuesday 8ays: General Mormane has receive a instructions from John B. Gor¬ don to announce that after hearing the v i ew s of both sides, he decides it to be of unwise.to holdl make the any confederate change veterans in the time union . at f n g. Birmingham and it wul take re- place, as originally fixed, on the 19th and 20th of July. A Florence, Ala., special of Tuesday charge says: Captain Golthais, engineer in of the Tennessee river improve¬ ments, has been notified that his sugges¬ tion for one lock on Colbert shoals canal instead of two, has been accepted, The single lift lock will be the highest in the United States, having a lift of twenty- five feet. It will be three hundred and fifty feet long and eighty feet wide, Co tne r.a.^ir.eeated° lana can ” e ‘ ecurea> 0 " A Knoxville, Tenn., dispatch of Tues- says: H. M. McCorkle has been book- keeper for Maynes & Henson, wholesale aboe and hat house, for four years. They are out $14,300 by his speculations. The discovery was made Sunday when Me- Corkle went to one of the partners and con.essed a shortage, making a clean b r ® asfc of !t - It ]s the same old tale. He eambUn^in^fS^rfs ^ Sh ° PS ’ g “ c / f. At a recent meeting of ... the coiored . , peo- of Liberty county, Ga Styles the colored lawmaker from that county m ^emembe^ „ qrci t0 the Comers' S S Home bill It will cobred member from Liberty was a strong supporter of the bill for the acceptance of the Soldiers' Home, and that he made a very good speech in the house for the passage of the bill. T he Decatur, Chesapeake and New Orleans railway chartered to run from Nashville, Tenn., to Decatur, Ala., has been 6oId UD( j er foreclosure proceedings j n tbe federal court of Tennessee. The property resenting was its creditors bought by a committee rep- and will at once be reorganized and completed. Thirty- five miles of track were laid in 1890 and thirty-five miles additional,partly graded and bridged, leaving fifty miles yet to build between Shelbyville and Nashville, Tenn. A big railroad deal has been consum- mated in Savannah, Ga., by which tbe People’s Electric Light and Power Com- pany gets control of ten miles of electric railway now in operation in the city and of three miles of electric raiiway in course of construction, it having purchased the entire stock of the Savannah Electric Company, amounting to $125,000, and releasing & similar amount of bonds by a P e ]S, ISS of 'i e lta ./ own ^ ^ er to C tb€ f nt amount mortgage of $250 riigtit Fire at Charleston, 8. C», Friday *iestroyea tne Piedmont ferlilizei works with a considerable quantity o! cotton and naval stores on the wharf and in buildiues nearby. The losers are: Clement, Read & Co., fertilizers, $40,- $00, stock covered by insurance: Pied¬ mont Guano Co., buildings, $5,000; in sured for $3,000; Friday & Eagan, jetty contractors, blacksmith shop and mate rials, $1,000; East Shore Terminal Com¬ pany. four cars and track, $4,000; ma¬ chinery, Machine Piedmont and Guano, $5,000: wharf property about $1,000. CHAMPION PREVARICATOR Is tbe Author ot tbe Batanlle, N. c. Lynching Story, An Official Denial and Statement of its Source. A Washington special of Friduy says: The circumstantial story of the Bakers- ville lynching and riot, transmitted from Johnson City, Tenn., signed J. W. Hyams, immediately attracted attention by its apparent exaggeration, and tele¬ grams were sent both to the author of the original dispatch and to the adja¬ cent points in the south to secure verifi¬ cation. Hyams responded to the inquir¬ ies by furnishing the uames and other details, which seemed to confirm the statements made, but replied to requests for further authentication by stating that the roads to Bakersville were blocked and impassable. In the mean¬ time other means had been resorted to of ascertaining the actual facts, and Friday morning the following message was re¬ ceived from a responsible citizen of Johnson City: “Your telegram of yes¬ terday. -J. W. Hyams came here about one week ago from Cranberry, N. C. Was formerly a resident of Bakersville, N. C. Is now working here as assistant city editor of the Daily Comcc. Unable to say where he obtained his bloody story. Can now assure you it is untrue.” The story dated Marion, N. C., in pre¬ cisely similar terms to that from Johnson City, was telegraphed Wednesday to the western newspapers. The Johnson authority City man claimed to be ac'ing under of one of the exe¬ cutive officers of the Southern Associated Press. When that gentleman’s attention was called to the fact he denied all knowl¬ edge him of the imposter. correspondent For and denounced vious as an Wednesday several days pre- to the western newspa- pers had been advised of the expected trouble at Bakersville and had called upon the press associations for particulars, These were furnished bv a Johnson City man and along with the particulars came a demand for a remittance. Bakersville is inaccessible, being twen¬ ty-seven miles from the nearest railroad station or telegraph office, and it has been a work of extreme difficulty to se¬ cure an authoritative denial or confirma¬ tion of the reports of the alleged trage¬ dies. It, need hardly be said that this matter will not be allowed to rest here, but that prompt and vigorous steps will be taken to get at the real author of this im- ^ dispatch Still another from Johnson Citv confirms the above, except that it says Hyams is not connected with the Daily Comet. Asheville, N. C., dispatch says: Two correspondents sent by the Citizen t 0 Bakerville, N. C., Wednesday, re¬ turned Fiiday night worn out and dis¬ gusted, having traveled nearly one hun¬ dred miles with horses and in a continu¬ ous snow storm. They say there has been no trouble whatever at Bakersville, nor is there reason to expect any. THE ELECTORAL VOTE. The Way it Will be Annouuced to the Honse and Senate. Here is how the vote will stand when footed up by the tellers and announced by Vice President Morton to the joint session of the house and senate: STATES. Alabama...... in !!! 8 ” r: 1 Colorado...... “ i Connecticut... r. Delaware..... 3 ....... 4 13 • Idaho 3 Illinois....... 24 .... Jndiana....... 15; 13 . Kent 13.. 10 ^ cky ----- si...; Louisiana----- Ma^land..... Massachusetts 6 'Michigan «»• <30 Minnesota. Muatampi «•. <J* “=-• v^ ka * !!!!!! New Jersey............ New York ........ SJlSa " ’Ohio ............... SffiSd......... Oregon............... SSSto ‘.i!! i South Dakota....... A Tennessee........ exas ;;........ y ’.*.*. Viprinia, WashingtoiffflHHfl West ‘"-’’te Total The vote ^ t v„ ,. i < ^H %vag e electoral Q b j 0 wag a rance ^ Toterg> DeatT^B Selisloi Ker ua, - n ^ashineion - Wedctslar roomings Drrtrar-ted illness. W eaver. . . Harrison. Cleveland. CRISIS IN FRANCE. Tie French Ministry Resips Owing to Differences In tie Cabinet. Intense Excitement in Paris—A »w Cabinet to be formed. A special cable dispatch. Tues- day, from Paris, says: The French ministry has resigned owing to the differences in the cabinet ou the arrest of the ex-Minister of Works Baihut, and other matters. The greatest f. excitement prevails and people r 1 throng the streets. The police are out . in force dispersing the crowds. Presi- ident Carnot has charged Mr. Ribot with the duty of reconstructing a ministry. ft is openly charged that the President and M. Ribot are not in earnest in the Panama prosecutions and have no inten- tion of bringing the bribe-takers to trial and that the prosecution of DeLesseps, ing Fontaine, Cotton and E ffel will ba noth¬ more than a farce. AT THE CABINET MEETING. At the cabinet council held iu the Elysee, Tuesday, Premier Ribot announc¬ ed to President Carnot that he and his colleagues recognized that it was nec¬ essary to reform the cabinet. The min¬ isters thereupon collectively presented ther resignations to President Carnot and he charged M. Ribot ns stated, with re¬ constructing the ministry. THE NEW CABINET. The new cabinet organized by .Ribot is as follows: Ribot, premier an/' min¬ ister of the interior; Develle foreign af¬ fairs; Tirard, finance; Bourgeois, justice; General Loiziilon, war; Burdeau, colon¬ ies and marine; Dupuy, instruction; Niger, agriculture; Siegfried/-,ommerce; Yiette, works. The most notable dif¬ ference between this cabinet and its pre¬ decessor is shown by the absence of De FreycineVand Loubet. NORTH CAROLINA BRIEFS. Jiewsjr Notes and Gossip from the Old North State. date A Raleigh special of Friday says: The for the inauguration of state officers is fixed for the 18th instant. The North Carolina Commercial and Industrial asso¬ ciation, composed of members appointed the board ot trade and of the mayors at °f / towns time. in the state, will reconvene has same ne association petitioned the _ legislature to repeal the merchants’ purchase tax and to be served on books of issue. GOVERNOR HOLT’S MESSAGE. In the message cf Governor Holt sent to the legislature is a statement of the debt of North Carolina. There are $3,- 298,000 four per cent consols, and $2,- 720,000 six per cents, the latter secured by three millions of stock iu the North Carolina railroad, now leased for $180, 000 rental. All old bonds recognized as valid have been funded except $1,221,- 000, which, if funded,would increase the j^emor , recommerulsan , , , ^ extension of the t V? e * or those now expired an¬ 0 ier y eflr - The condition of state finan- ces ’ he sa y s > ,s excellent. He recom- mends the adoption of banking laws pro¬ viding for banks of issue in view of the possible repeal of the state’s 10 per cent tax. In the session of the legislature Friday the bills of importance introduced were as follows: To establish a department at the penitentiary for the criminal in¬ sane; to provide for a system of state banks of issue; to prohibit fire insurance companies tions. from forming tariff associa- The house made a new departure by deciding to elect a regular chaplain. A resolution was adopted instructing North Carolina senators and representa- [j™ the repeal 8 to Y se of f al the ‘ P^ 10 sible per cent, c ^rts tax to secure state ou h anl£8 - -------- THE BORDER TROUBLES. It Will Take Time and Hard Work t< Down the Bandits. A San Antonio, Texas, special of Tuesday says: In an interview here General WhtatoD, commander of the de- partment of Texas, said: “The bandits on the border M ill probably prove trou¬ with blesome, the as they are fully acquainted country and can elude pursuit by concealing themselves in dense chap- Third parel, and we have now in the field the enth cavalry and the troops of the 8ev- cavalry from Fort Riley, Kan. “Tcere are camps established^ tri- ous points along Bardie i (. ar L ^goid ps of "acock, : .will seeking ac- : !1 soon COMBINE. ^rWithdrawftl of a id Company. ^Trenton, N. J., eays: ■pal Central combine Railroad is brok- from it and l.-l.igh A alley f -i t he flon nis ud A. sVii NUMBER 1. RICHMOND 4 DANVILLE R R. W, ii iildt’koper mid Ktmben Foster* K rceivor«i. Atlanta \ Charlotte Air-Line Division. Condensed Si-iieduu >f Das* n<ei Train-* in Effect XovemU-r 20.1 -.ij NORTHBOUND. V t8 1 Eastern Time. Daily. . Dul Daily IjV At!a-»u (E r.);i2 4'-pm 920pi'i 8 05 am XowivIsm* Duluth.' |>ni 8 8 4) 51am sin Suwamv! .! ____10 13 i>n 91»4 am Buford.. .......11023 pn it 15 am How ... .......1037 pu 9 28 am ry Branch .......1051 pn 9 42 am Gainesville... 2 13 pm 11 10 pn 10 08 am Belitoii.,.. j ula !’ ,..., 1136pm! lb 27 am 1138 pm 10 30am Cornelia..... 12 05 an 10 51 Airy..... ..12 i ff am 10 ..■12 i 37 an i 17 19 am tkneva .. * 1 17 an i| 11 56 am .. 1 36 an i 12 15 pm Central..... i 1 20 pm Greenville. Easleys, 1 55 pm .!........j ‘ 5 OS pm; 8 07 2 26 pm Greers . 8 35 pm Welifor.l *{ Ki pin Spartanburg...! Clifton....... ........I GOQpmj t pm Cowpens......i........i 4 26 4 111! 4 so 4 Gaffneys.. Blacksburg ........ 4 2anil 4 •ni Grover.............. . t>48piUj 5 518 09 aiu 5 pin King’s aiu 5 Mo’nt'nj..... 3 54 am! Gastonia. is. Lowell. . o < rr& am pm Bc-Heroon J St i;> Ar Cha-' r/o/ S. /■- / Lv. Charlotte... 'It' Vpm u 20 pin Bellmiout.....!.... |’P>» “ 12 l” -’ Lowell.........’.......... Gastonia....... j - ?'Pn>; *5 pud 11 ’ 5:pm 1*2 am ....... 1 ’ 4 Grover.........j........ King’s Mount’n!.......j 2 2 28 12 pm pm I 7f CM 44 am Blacksburg ....{10 43 am ! 2 37 l ,ni ! !M 54 am Gaffney....... Wii 55 pin l 14 am ........ Gowpens ......j........; 20 pm 1 1 86 am Clifton........I........| Spartanburg... ill 23 86 pm 156 > 39 am 87 am pm am Wellfonl................ 00 pm 2 18 am Greers......... ......! 15 pm); 2 35am Greenville......! 12 28 pin j 42 pra •> 07 a in Easleys.........i........j 14 pm ••lioaiii Central........ Seneca.........j........j 1 ........i 05 30 pm 4 4 38 10 am pm 4 ..8am am Westminster....!........i j 48pm I 5 40 Toceoa........ 1 ....... (xa«i 28 pm sm Mt. Airy.... ‘ 00 Din! 6 15am Cornelia.... fi i8a*n Bellton..... xat 6 41 am Lula..........I 3 15 pm. „ 28 pn 6 43 am Gainesville.....! 3 33 pm 8 58 pm: 7 07 am Flowery Branch........j 9 12pnii 7 26 am Bn Suwanee..... ford...............| Q 9 24 8 pm i 7 7 38 52 am .......I .......! pm 8C8am am Duluth...... 110 9 50 pm < Norcross Chamblee.... .... ........ .......! 10 03 19pm pm j 8 8 14 25am am Ar. Atlanta (F>. T.)! 4 55 pm 11 00 pm 9 00 am Additional trains Nos 17 ant 18—Lula a<> coramodation, daily except snndtiv, Lavi At- la nl n 6 35 p m, arrives Lula 8 20 p in Kctnm- ing, leaves Lula 6 00 a m. arrive s / DJunta 8 50 a in. Between Lula and Atli ns No. II andOdail leave Lu’a 8 30 j> m and 10 35 a m, arriv ens 10 15 p in and 12 2ft »> m. Returning lca\ Athens, X<•«. 10 and 12 daily, 6 50 p m and H 07 am, ai rive Lula 8 15 p m and 9 50 a m. Between Toceoa and Ella rton Son. 63 ami 9 daily, except Simla' , leave Toceoa 7 45 a m and 11 a m 9 arrive EUw-rton 1» 255 a rn and 220 pm. Returning, XV>. 62 and 12<ia exeep Sunday, leave TtK-coa Eil>erton 3 00p and n 10 '2-i ■ < 7 30 a m and arrive 7 00 p in a. m. Xos. 9and lOPullmaii sl> ■ |»er between Allan ta and New York. Nog. 37 ami ?8 Washington and Southwest¬ ern Yrstibulod Limited, between No * \t.rli and Atlanta. Through New Pullman sleepers In-tween New Ne'v York snd Orle.*n , uu l lie: ween Yort c and Ausns’a, also be!ween Wash ngton and Memphis, via At Ian I an l B nninsham. uniting tetw.en Atlanta awl li raiiugliam with l’ullman sleepers to and from Shreveport, La . via Meridian and Viek-burj:. No- - s connects at Spartanburg with Pullman Shop r for Asheville. Nor- 11 and 12—Pullman liuftc; Sleeper be¬ tween Washington »th 1 Atlanta.uni in-^ between D mville and G;etnsb ,ro with 1 ul man sleeper to arid from Portsmouth aud N< rfull For derailed information as to local and thiough timo ables, rates and Pul’inau sleepiug ad car reservations, c infer with local ace.i s or dress W. A. TURK. S. H. I’AUD WICK. Geu’l Pass. Ag’i. Ass’t <■ nl. I’-i-s. Ag’t. Washington, D. C. Atlanta, Ga. J. A. DODSON. Superintendent Atlanta, Ga. W. II. GREEN, SOL. HASS, Gen'l Manager. Traffic Manager, .Washington, D. G. Washington, D. C. LEWI8 DAVIS, -VTIORNEY AT LA W T0CC0A CITY, OA.. Will practioe in the counties of Haber¬ sham and Rabun of the Northwestern Circuit, an'd Fran kin and Banks of tin Western Circuit. Prompt attention wf!' be given to all bush es# '*ntru»tc i’to him. The collection of de!>-» will h»r- »p » ial HttsAlien. ™ THE CENTRAL ATTACHED J-v Receivers lluidekoper and Fos er for Moneys Paid Out. lluideko: <-r and Reub Foster, A r nvilie, fi i:. *• < >f <■ io . i. lac E against *- ail 1 and * DauiTiijg « ‘ in, any, f Gee '60 a suit to recever $1,213.4 »4 for m = p lid ou ( \pe- d*. d o r i’u- ')->■ <>' : delf.-iid- tbe Central Railroad Company, in fi^ant's charging the cciued it;’* rt>‘ * n de moi n i in pay- ing™ -ther t 3 *f the defendant, be tween I)ec< n. 1891 and April 1. 1 892 GAS EXPLOSION In Which Three People Are Killed and Several Wounded. A Pittsburg Pa., special says: An ac¬ cumulation of natural gas in the cellar of a house on Sarah street exploded Sat¬ urday morning, demolishing a brick house. It killed Thomas Duffy, his wife and three-year-old daughter, and injured Duffy’s mneteen-year-old son and William Harrison . The latter had entered the cellar for some coal to start the morning fire, carrying a lighted lamp. An explosion followed which blew tl «• house ov< r his head. Populists Take Possession. A special from Topeka, Kan., says: The state government was formally sur rendered Monday to the new officers, all populists. The ecremonv took pW* in V tfce 1- ' 1 rtsplo|lfc«Ts«»._S ~ th* nr m .ohk *