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THE TOCCOA NEWS
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL.
VOLUME XXL
CUIBONO?
"TVhat good hath life?”
Said cue who in the strife
No nobler portion sought;
But in the forum taught
Opinions do!or-hued
Unto the multitude.
Who shouted, frenzy-rife:
“What good hath life?”
“Let me li^e on? 1
Said one grown pale and wan
With generous deeds and true;
“Life hath for me to do
A labor that shall bring
Joy at its finishing.
Until another dawn
Let me live on !*
—Frank W. Hutt, in the Voice.
A PRODIGAL FATHER.
BY EVA W. M'GLASSON-.
HE turned
vously before the
high, thin mirror,
a tall, heavy wo¬
man, with sleek
gray hair, Her
gown was of black
* .tin alpaca made in a
y 'fflM byg° n e vogue when
ST A narrow held pipings
' sway and a
‘ lingering fondness
for crinoline lurked
in full skirt
it ft k breadths.
As she wheeled
in critical half cir¬
cles, the girl at her
side pulled and
patted the alpaca folds straight, the old
womau observing this process of adjust¬
ment with a look of helpless anxiety,
her elbows lifted.
“I won’t know a thing to say,” she
argued.
“Ob, mother 1 don’t get to worrying
again. You won’t have anything to say.
He’ll do the talking. You just sit up
and listen. Here’s your hemstitched
handkerchief with the initial. I’d hold
it like this.” She drew the stiff linen
into shape, hold it at tho centre with an
assumption of carelessness.
A candle on tho bureau with its rest-
less brush of flame painted in the oval
glass a sketchy picture of tho room, the
ceiling of which lifted like a tent. A
spot of rich blue deepened in tho home-
spun bed cover. Yawning darkly under
tho low side wall was a little hide-bound
trunk, tho dimensions of which were
exactly reproduced in the creases of the
alpaca skirt.
“You look mighty nice,” said the girl,
stepping away. She was young, with a
peachy face in tho round cheeks of
which certain little dimples were furtive-
ly tucked. Her hair, of the faint brown
which is shot with silvery reflections,
was coiled awkwardly, as if it had only
lately been coiled at all, and still yearned
to lie in the liangiug braids of girlhood,
“I hope my collar is even,” reflected
the other woman. “It isn’t that I care for
myself, Lizzie. I ain’t cared to dress
since—your father went away. I
wouldn’t think it looked just right. But
William's maw is rale dressy. I saw her
once at church. And so I want to ’pear
just as I know liow\ Only I do hope I
nevcr’ll hev to go through with any such
doin’s again! I do so.”
The girl slipped out a low gurgle of
laughter.
“I don’t reckon you will,” she said,
“seeing I’m the only daughter you got.
I don’t look to be asked for more than
once. Hush! Ob, mother, there's him
knocking right now !’’■
“You better go to the door. Give
rac the candle. I’ll light you down.”
Tho old woman, seeming to gather
resolution of despair, stepped heavily ou
the first step of the narrow stair. Lizzie
held the flaring taper aloft with a shak-
ing hand. Suddenly she caught her
mother's sleeve.
“Don’t say much about father. Will
knows he ain’t here.” She hung breath¬
less in the shadow of the staircase,
listening to the little bustle of entrance
just below. A young man’s voice stam¬
mered out a greeting.
“Right cold night,” he said. “Reckon
we’re going to have real cold weather by
next week.”
Lizzie, hanging against the deal cas¬
ing, heard the sitting room door shut.
From within a slow murmur of talk
came. The girl, wide-eyed and flush-
ing, crept down the steep stairs, slipping
into a room across the bit of entry.
A Young fellow whose boyish face
reduplicated in a les3 delicate tone her
own pink and white tints glanced up
from a book.
“Keep calm, Lizzie,” he said, teas-
ingly. “You look excited. I reckon
mother’ll say yes. You told her to say
yes, didn’t you? I expect she’il be easy
on him—a nice young man like Will
Raley. Only thing is she may forget
what you told her—,” he drew up,
warned by the tremor of his sister's lip
that this heart-stirring moment was not
a time for jest.
It occurred to him for the first time
how littlo she must be to him in the
future, this pretty sister of his whose
ways were appointing iu the room across
the hall.
“I’ll hats to see you marry, Liz!” he
exclaimed. “And mother—it’ll be aw-
ful hard for her. r/i he’s only got us
two. And she’s had * fearful lot to put
up with. Father—”
“She wouldn’t like to have you
breathe a word against him, E L” She
started as she spoke. Her mother was
pushing at the door. She came in grop-
ing a little.
“Go, L zzie,” she said in a labored
voice. “I’ve give you to him. He—
he’s po’rful fond o’ you. lie’ll make
you a good man.”
And as the girl flung toward her im-
pulsively, she made out to smile. Don’t
you mind me. daughter. He’s waitin'
on you—go on.” Shutting the door
upon tbe girl, she sat down heavily.
•‘Don’t feel so bad, mammy!’’ cried
the young man. “There’s no nicer fel-
low anywhere than Will. Well fixed
au i all. He could have had his nick,
lit i sever had eyes for any one but Liz
since he settled here a year back. She's
as sweet as a pink, but, mother, we’ve
got nothing. And know, then folks remem¬
ber—well, you father often¬
times—”
The woman at the hearth listens with
a quivering chin.
“I’m not saying a word against him,
mother.”
“Don’t you, Eddie!”
“I ain't, mother.”
“Because I—Eddie, he had his faults,
but he was rale good hearted when he
was himself.” The son set his lips.
“And since he went off I've often
studied that maybe I wasn’t as patient
a3l ought to been. I wake up nights
and get to studying over us being comf-
terble—you and with a good place in the
store Lizzie going to marry well—
when maybe he’s ’out a roof to his head!
It has been three years since he left—I
reckon he’s aged a heap.”
There was a high wind rioting out¬
side, muttering contempt upon the low
roofs of the village aud communing in
sharper notes with the stripped tree tops.
It had an almost human accent, varying
from a wild cry to the confused mur¬
muring of a feverish tongue. The sounds
of it have a strange significance to the
woman’s words. Ed’s face took a som¬
bre cast.
His father’s figure recurred to him,
clothed for the once in some thin shroud
of sentiment. Practically reviewed, it
Was the figure of a man who, in desert¬
ing his family, had conferred on it a
deep and lasting good. A tall man, as
his son remembered him, with a rollick¬
ing air in his long gray mustaches, a
disreputable uncertainty in the texture of
his slouched hat, and a varying thick¬
ness in his voice.
His son recalled the night of the old
man’s departure. There had been a
stormy scene. Unable to wring tribute
from his wife’s empty purse, the master
of the house had strongly expressed a
lack of satisfaction in his family ties,
lie had swung himself over the thres¬
hold, declaring an intention ot leaving
forever a family so unworthy a father’s
devotion. The family itself believed
the calm which followed his going would
be as Heeling as the odor of rye which
hung upon his menace. But as days
lengthened and no stumbling foot
sounded after night upon the door step,
it began to seem as if the old man’s
threat had not been merely a tactical de¬
vice.
The human growths be has tramped on
began to lift themselves, daring to
freshen in the sunshine. But they never
put into overshape the satisfaction which
enlivened them.
“Maybe if I’d been different to what
I was—more stern-like and pushing—
your father wouldn’t ever hev give way
to drink,” breathed Mrs. Hicks, staring
into the fire.
“No one could have been any kinder
than yon was, mother.”
“I was rale short to him the night he
went, Ed. You said some things, too.
that—oh, dear! I ain’t resignated to
think maybe he’s cold and hungry!
Ed pocketed his hands with a sudden
sense of gloom.
It was uot a pleasant fancy. He hated
to think even a stranger’s dog might be
abroad on a night when black skies
housed a howling wind and barren trees
wrung their empty hands to the stress
of it.
i n spite of himself he seemed to see a
leaning old shape buffeted by that raw
sweep, its gray beard mocked by bleak
gusts. The cheer of'the rag-carpeted
kitchen was like a bright stretch upon
which a series of dark pictures came and
went, pictures always of the same aged
figure, bent with a burden of shameful
years. It stretched out feeble hands,
begging bread of a hard-faced farer in a
city" way. It crouched for shelter in
some noisome door. It looked from
prison bars, it slept in hedges, always
with the peculiar pathos upon it of sias
long past aud bitterly atoned.
Lizzie’s soft laugh rang out in the
hall. There was a whispering, She
was bidding her lover good night.
Ed sat with his head in his hands.
His mother stared into the fire with a
gray face.
“Will’s goiug to eat Sunday's dinner
with us!” cried Lizzie, bursting into
the room, “Why—why, what’s the
matter with you two?”
“Wo just happened to get talking
about father. I wish I knew where he
is,” explained E l, striking away the
sombre panorama from his disliking
eye*.
But somehow the voiceless actor in
these dramas of woe had a peculiar
insistence. He was uot to be banished,
Measuring muslius in the store next
day Ed Hicks was constantly sensible
of a miserable presence, which went
through tho piteous enactment of the
night before.
“Perhaps he’s dead!” surmised the
youug man. “Dead—huddled under
the clods cf a pauper’s grave.” The
idea, carrying a weight of compunction,
ringed a new glory the round old Hick’s
brow. “I wish to Lord I hadn’t
spoke to him like I did the night he
left,” mused his son.
On Saturday night Lizzie had gone to
some neighborhood festival with her
lover. Ed, coming in late from the
store, was hanging his overcoat behind
the door. His mother stood shaking a
dipperful of com over the blaze.
“You set right down and eat this
it is hot. E Idie. I never see com
pop like it does—white as cotton.”
Ed stretched his hands over the stove,
watching the leap of the corn flakes,
Mrs. Hicks bent a glance of inquiry
toward the house front.
“That wasn’t a step, was it?” she de¬
bated.
A rap thundered upon the door panel,
‘‘Some of the boys,” said El. “I half
promised to look in on the candy pull-
ing at Howe's to-night. Reckon they've
come to—” he flung the door wide,
It disclosed a parallelogram of snow,
white earth, rippling along its upper
part with star facetted gray sky. A bare
sapling at the gate, the glow of a fire in a
window over the way, the ring and
clamor of a sleigh full of voting folks
passing iu the street—-all this mads an
TOCCOA. GEORGIA, SATURDAY. JANUARY 28, 189:!.
indefinite setting to the figure on the
step.
It was not a bowed, wretched figure
with hollow eyes and blowing strands of
ashen air. It was mean enough, in its
ragged clothes, a limp hat jammed over
its brow, but despite these signs of fallen
fortunes it stood uprighFaud rotund, the
mottled red of its puffy cheeks reached
out and rimming its heavy nose in
scarlet.
In the hanging, bibulous mustache*
hung the old Bohemian air. The eyes
rollicked. The unsteady knees had
something jaunty in their advance.
The prodigal had come home. He en¬
tered the house with a step of amiable
assurance, with anticipating the fatted calf
a tolerant nostril. He had doffed
the willows of exile for holiday green
aifl his marner was that of one who
realizes a certain delight in forgiveness,
“Yes, I’m back,” he conceded making
himself at ease in the rocking chair.
“This time ot year a fellow feels like he
owed something to his family, even if
they ain’t treated him just straight. I
never was a man to cherish ill-feelings.
Forgive and forget is my motto. Well,
Ed! you’re a big boy. Looking fine.
Whar’s Lizzie? Cute little trick, that!
Heh? ‘gone out.’ Well, I’ll be here
when she comes in. A man’s place is
with his folks. I’m going to bury by¬
gones.
His wife, brewing tea, holding up
bread to toast, was moved with anguish
that her heart had given no other token
of joy and gratitude than might be en¬
compassed in a cold sinking.
The prodigal, unaffected by the si¬
lence, the spasmodic remarks, the flush¬
ings and palings of the two who plied
him with remorseful attentions, rambled
cheerfully on. At 12 of tho clock he
announced himself “dead on his feet”
and ready for bed.
Just on the stroke Lizzie came, call¬
ing out some word to young Raley as he
shut the gate.
She came in, all the pretty color going
swiftly from her cheeks, all the frosty
brightness quenched her eyes at sight of
the massy figure greeting her iu a jovial
tone as daughter.
The three people who were left in the
room whea the new comer had yawned
himself off to bed, stood dumbly looking
at and away from each other. Lizzie’s
face, white as a white rose just unhooded,
struggled with tears.
“Will ’ll be here all day to-morrow,”
she breathed. “He—he’s never seen
father.” Ed wheeled round, holding
his lips in. Their mother, unfolding
them in a look of prophetic love, saw
what shame, what possible discomfiture
aud ruin lay for them m the dark face of
the future.
Her lips trembled and the water stood
in her eyes.
“It’s late,” she said. “Let us remem¬
ber all we got to be grateful for. Your
father aiu’t sick, or in want or dead.
He’s come home.”
“But there was no prayer in her heart
as she lay at Lizzie’s side, listening to
the girl’s uneven, sighing breath. When
she woke in the morning it was with a
sense of surprise that she had slept even
a little, had been able forau hour or two
to bind slumber upon her paining eyes.
It was full day. Lizzie was already
up and gone down stairs.
Across the panes a snow heaped beech
branch contorted itself like u stem of
rough coral. Behind it she saw a blank
sky which seemed to her to wear the
very look she felt her face assuming, a
look that must hide all hint of doubt and
fear.
She got up with, faltering kaeei and
went downstairs. They appeared strange¬
ly steep, a venturous descent for one
eye took a suggestion of unreality
from their very slope.
Lizzie was setting the table. Her
lashes glinted up a morning glance as
her mother unlatched the door. Then
she averted them quickly, with a look at
her brother.
“Your father ain’t up?” said Mrs.
Hicks, feebly, nearing the. stove. “Make
the coffee strong, Lizzie. He likes it
strong.”
“Mother,” said Ed, suddenly. “I—
I hate tell you!—but—he’s gone, father
has”—
“Gone?”
“Yes’m.”
“Oh just out som’ers! He’ll be in
against coffee boils.
She broke off, shaking, searching his
face for contradition.
“No, mammy. He won’t be back.
He’s—well, he’s taken my overcoat—
and several little things of mine—of
course he’s welcome to ’em—but he’s
gone for good.” His voice rang with a
stifled joy.
Lizzie’s eyes beamed under their cov¬
ert of lashes. In her mother’s counte¬
nance struggled a feeling that broke at
the lips in a short sob.
There was a moment’s silence, a mo¬
ment in which Mrs. Hicks felt her eyes
shine with the wild brightness which
like some minister of grace, the prodigal
had left in his train.
His wife looked at her children. Some¬
thing in her glance seemed to beg them
to disbelieve the rapture she could no!
banish from her face.
“We’ii have to comfort each other,”
3he said.—Fashions.
Why the Mulberry Isn’t Popular.
We have never seen any variety of the
mulberry in the markets of this city and
doubt very much if they would sell if
sent here. Many years ago the Downing
mulberry wa3 highlj-extoiied as a dessert
fruit, and white it is probably the best
variety in cultivation, it does not seem
to find its way to our markets, probably
because there are far better berries and
these less troublesome to gather and
prepare for the table. In picking mul¬
berries the stem always adheres firmly to
the frnit and this must be cut off with
knife or shears before the berries are
cooked or served on the table. Mul¬
berries are excellent fruit for birds and
children, but are not likely to be placed
in the list of “market fruits.”—New
York Sun.
One-seventh of the land surface of tbe
giobe is controlled by Russia.
AN AWFUL DISASTER.
Nineteen People Lose TPeir Lira
the Explosion of an Oil Tank.
I he Horrible Catastrophe Brought
About by the Wrecking of a Train.
A southwestern limited express west-
bound on the Cleveland, Columbus, Cin-
cinnatiandSt. Louis milroad, due at
Alton, Ill., Saturday morning, ran into
an open switch at Wann, four miles east
of Alton. The passenger engine smashed
a number of freight cars and oil tanks
and set the wreck ou fire. Engineer
in Ross, of the passer.ger eogiDe,was caught
the wreck aud burned to death, No-
body else was seriously hurt. Both trains
were burned up. Loss $100,000.
While a great crowd stood watching
the burning wreck an oil tank car ex-
ploded with terriffic force, enveloping
the spectators in a sheet of burning oib
Eight of them were instantly killed and
scores of them were frightfully burned,
a dozen of whom, at least will die.
Twenty-five that people were so badly burned
the a majority will probably die, and
total list will embrace over one hun¬
dred. A large proportion of the killed
are young men, students in educational
institutions. Hearing of the wreck,
hundreds of people from Alton and vi¬
cinity were attracted by curiosity to the
scene. And then occurred one of the
most awful disasters on record.
A SHOWER OF BURNING OIL,
A few- minutes past 12 o’clock there
was a slight explosion of one tank which
scattered debris on all sides, set¬
ting fire to the stockyard enclosures.
This produced the impression that the
danger of explosion was passed and
the throngs of bystanders rushed in to save
minutes stockyard from destruction. A few'
later there was a deafening re¬
port that shook the earth for half a min¬
ute and spread one sheet of seething,
burning within oil in nil directions. For those
the circle of one hundred yards
there was no escape. Their clothing was
ie*. burned and literally fell from their bod-
In a moment those who were uot dis¬
abled began ruuning hither and thither,
waving help. their hands and screaming for
Panic reigned for a short time un¬
til the uninjured recovered there pres¬
ence of mind to care for the afflicted.
Every house in the little village and its
vicinity was utilized for the dying and
wounded.
LATEIl REPORTS.
A special of Sunday from St. Louis,
Mo., says: Eleven deaths have been
added to the record of the csstistrophe
at Alton Junction since midnight (Satur¬
day), hospital aud fourteen of the injured, the
of the physician says, cannot recover,
seriously fatally injured all are more or les 3
burned about the limbs and
body, but the worst injuries arc the fear¬
fully burned heads and faces. All are
injured internally from inhaling the
burning flames.
CATTLEMEN RELEASED.
End of a Celebrated Case Out in Wy¬
oming.
Th<f A Cheyenne, Wyo., dispatch says:
case of the cattletn :n, who some
months ago invaded Johnson county for
the purpose of exterminating the so-
called rustlers, or cattle thieves, and in
the attempt killed two men named Cham¬
pion and Rae, and burned several build¬
ings and w'ere in turn coiralled by the
United States troops, was, on Saturday,
thrown out of court. The twenty-three
defendants’ dismissal was entered by
Bennett, the people’s attorney for John¬
son county and allowed. The ending, so
long anticipated, was brought about
by the action of the sheriff
of the county. He produced near¬
ly a thousand talesmen and said
he could find no more in town. He said
that he had uo guarantee of the expense;
could not get it from the Johnson county
people, and he did not cure to furnish
funds to summon veniremen from that
county. In open courthis grievance was
laid before Prosecuting Attorney Ben¬
nett. He agreed to tbe dismisal as
he said that he had no idea that a con¬
viction could be obtained. This affair
has involved an expenditure on both
sides of about $300,000. It has kept the
state in a ferment for nine months.
From Johnson county comes the re¬
port that the really bad men have emi¬
grated, and at the last term of court in
that county, several cattle thieves were
convicted. The men discharged Satur¬
day have been among the prominent cit¬
izens of the state but a number of them
must leave, so strong is the resentment
against them. Scarcelt, one of them
who has property in the north, has not
looked at it since last April. do Two of
tbe Texans who were hired to the kil¬
ling in Johnson county, died on the trip,
and two of them have since been killed
in the southern country.
MAKING FREIGHT RATES.
The South Carolina Commission Acts
Under the Sew Law.
A Columbia, S. C.f special says: The
railroad commission Saturday for the
first time exercised one of its powers un¬
der the new railroad law. It is in the
shape of an order fixing the joint rates on
fertilizers from Columbia and from
Charleston to stations on tbe Port Royal
and Western Carolina road.
When the Richmond and Danville road
had control of this road, these rates were
from from $2.40 to $2.54 per ton. The
Georgia it, Central having obtained control
of Agent Craig, at Augusta last week,
raised the rates from $2.40 to $3.70 on
the strength of a petition from the mer¬
chants in Charleston and Columbia. The
commission has made tbe joint rate from
$2.60 to $2.75.
Run on a Bank.
T >e Press Printing Company, of Lit¬
tle li ck, Ark., the iast concern of tbe
state, Liabilities, assigned $49,000. Wednesday morning.
the First National
bank being a preferred creditor Jor $20,-
090 The announcement of the failure
created a panic among the depositors of
the bank and a run was inaugurated but
was ch-eked Uy assistance from other
banks iu tlie city and St Louis.
IRON AND STEEL.
A Bulletin Report on the Mineral Re¬
sources of the Southern States.
A Bulletin report on the iron and
steel industries of the southern states,
was issued by the census office at Wash-
ingtoD, Thursday. There are twelve
states now engaged in developing their
mineral resources by the establishment
of rolling mills and steel works—Ala-
® eo W*> Kentucky,
fth iSv 0 "'v- T .enntssee,
Capital J'lf™ 1DVestl>d — m blfist flvnaces Virginia **> these The
states increased from about $17,000,000 in
1880, to over $33,000,000 in 1890;
in rolling mills and steel works,
from over $11,000,000 in 1880, to
$17,000,000 in 1890, and the pro¬
ducts of these works increased from
290,000 tons to 515,000, the increase be
ing exclusively in steel. There has been
a marked decrease in the forge and bloom
branch of the iron industry, resulting
from improved process s in rolling mills
and the extension of transportation facil¬
ities. Hence, the manufacture of bar
iron from ore by direct process has be¬
come the practically an extinct industry in
south. The total number of estab¬
lishments has diminished as a result of
concentration, but there has been an in¬
crease in thy output. The total number
of hands employed has diminished from
20,596 in 1880,‘to 18,688 in 1890,but the
aggregate wages have increased from
$6,201,000 to $7,628,000.
CHARLESTON ISOLATED.
Cut Off from Telegraphic Communica¬
tion with the Balance of the World.
Charleston is completely cut off from
all telegraphic communication north and
west. The only connections possible are
south to Savanuah and Jacksonville. The
Western Union wires arc down from
Florence to Charleston, 108 miles, and
for miles along the South Carolina road.
From Charleston to Augusta Friday
morning the regular passenger train on
the South Curolina railway was delayed
greatly by telegraph ..poles and wires
which were b’ow'u across the track, and
it was necessary to send a wrecking train
ahead of the passenger train before the
latter could move. The Postal Telegraph
Linemen Company’s wire* were also prostrated,
W'ere sent out to repair the dam-
ages, but the telegraph's manager says it
will take a week or ten days to get the
wires on the South Carolina line in good
workiug order again.
GOVERNOR ELIAS CARR
Installed as Chief Executive of South
Carolina.
A Raleigh special savs: Governor Elia 9
Carr and other recently elected state
fficers were sworn in Wednesday by
Chief Justice Shepherd. Notwith¬
standing the inclemency of the
weather a great crowd attend¬
ed the ceremonies. Many distin¬
guished men and many Indies were pres¬
ent. The inaugural address was con¬
servative in tone. Tho governor advo¬
cates the repeal of the ten per cent tax on
state bank notes, adverts to the agricult¬
ural character of Ihe population of the
state and urges legislation friendly to the
farming interest, and economy in the ad-
ministration of state affairs. The address
gives great satisfaction.
BISHOP PHILIP BROOKS DEAD.
Deatii Attributed to Heart Failure
Brought on by a Fit of Coughing.
Bishop Phillip Monday, Brooks died at Boston,
Mass., early liis death was
entirely heart unexpected and was brought on
by failure. He was taken ill Thu s-
day with a sore throat but nothing seri¬
ous showed itself until Sunday even¬
ing.
His physician then discovered diph¬
theric symptoms, and considered consul¬
tation ^advisable. Nothing serious was
anticipated. morning About the half patient past 0 o’clock
Monday was seized
with a coughing spasm which lasted a
few moments and his heart ceased to
b'.at.
FIVE MORE VICTIMS
Of the Oil Explosiou, Making a Total
of Twenty-One.
A special deaths from Alton, oil III., says: Five
more from the explosion at
Wann, occurred Monday, as follows;
Assessor J. N. McCray, of Upper Alton;
Charles Halter, of Alton Junction;
Thomas Houlihan, of East St. Louis;
Henry Weigant. of Wann, and William
Edwards, of Alton. The total is now
twenty-one. Sixteen others are eure.to
die of their burns, of whom four are
young boys. The total number of in¬
jured will never be known, so many
Wi re at once taken away By friends who
made no r port of tin ir identity.
LOCAL OPTION IN GEORGIA.
The Attorney General Makes an Im¬
portant Ruling in Regard Thereto.
At the last stresion of the Georgia leg¬
islature ihe local opti >n law was chang. d
so that counties could hold elections only
every four years instead of every two
yean*. Ihe question arose whether or
not this would apply to counties which
have recently held elections, or whether
the four years must be counted from
after the next election. The attorney
general has decided that it applies to all
couniies from the date it became a law,
and if a county held a local option elec¬
tion tl is year, it could not hold another
until 1896
DEMPSEY GUILTY.
He W as Indicted for Poisoning Non-
Union Men at Homestead.
A Pittsburg, Pa., special says: Hugh
F. Dempsey, district master workman
of District Assembly No. 3, Knights of
Labor, was found guilty as indicted, Fri¬
day. Dempsey was, in a measure, pre¬
pared for tbe verdict, and betrayed no
signs of emotion. He left the courtroom
and a crowd outside gathered about him
and offered their sympathy. His attor¬
ney said the verdict was a false one and
he would move for a new trial at once.
Ktposts from ail section* of Mex.c- i .-how
» great improvement in tOe corn croj 02 ;-
(•araa witn trial or rast yea; Furcnasas
twa Site Unde j state* wilt sinai
JUSTICE LAMAR DEAD.
Tie Final Dissolution Came Suddenly
ana Withont Warning.
Eml of an Eventful Career — Short
Sketch of Ilia Life.
Justice L. Q C. Lunar, of the I nked
States Maccn, supreme Ga., court, Monday died very suddenly
at stopping the home night. He was
at of W. II. Virgin,
his relative, and late Monday afternoon
took his overcoat and started out for a
walk. He had scarcely left the house
when he was met by a friend, aud re- .
turned to Mr. Virgin’s home where he
sat and talked cheerfully for quite a time
with hi9 friend.
Justice Lamar dined at 6:55 with the
family and seemed lo have a good appe¬
tite and seemed to be in a cheerful mood.
His friend, Dr. Lewellyn, who he had
met, left the house at 7:45 o'clock, and
in a few minutes the justice was seized
with violent pains and died shortly after.
Justice Lamar arrived in Macon about a
month ago, hoping to recover from an ill¬
ness which had attacked him iu Washing¬
ton. At that time he was suffering, and
Lis death was looked for almost moment¬
arily. Since his arrival, however,he seem¬
ed health to be seemed gaining in strength, and his
death greatly improved. His
him was and unexpected. Friends who had
seen knew his condition thought
he was on the sure road to recovery and
would within a few weeks be able to re¬
sume his duties on the supreme bench.
Bright’s disease with angina pectoris
was the direct cause of Justice Lamar’s
death and is given by the physicians
as being the chief complication in his
case.
AN EVENTFUL LIFE.
Lucius Quintus Ciuciouatus Lamar was
barn in Putnam county, Georgia, Sep-
tember 1, 1825, and after his father died
was taken to Oxford. Miss., where he
received part of liis education. He grad-
uated at Emory college, Georgia,in 1845,
studied law in Macon, and was admitted
to the bar iu 1847. In ’49 he returned to
Oxford, Miss., and for years held a pro-
fessorship in the University of Missis-
sippi. the practice He resigned, in and Covington, resumed
of law
Ga. He was elected to the legislature
in ’53, and iu ’54 Again returned to Mis-
sissippi and settled on his plantation in
LaFayette, being shortly afterwards elec-
ed to congress as a democrat. He served
from 1857 and 1860, when he resigned to
take a seat in the secession convention of
his native state. He cast his fortunes
w *th “l° s t cause and left the
army with the rank of colonel,
after having shared in many en¬
gagements. He was again professor
in the University of Mississippi, and
again took a seat in the house of repre¬
sentatives . IIo was elected to the senate
March 5, 1877. MarchS, 1885 Presi¬
dent Cleveland interior, appointed afterwards Lamar secreta¬ eleva¬
ry of the aDd
ted him to a seat on the supreme bench.
Justice Lamar was perhaps as prominent
a figure as any that has occupied a seat
on the bench of thet august body, but
for months back he has been almost too
ill to take more than a perfunctory intei-
est in the proceedings.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Indnstr.al Development in the Past
Week.
The review of the industrial situation in tbe
South for the past week shows that the contin¬
ued cold weather, and the consequent inter¬
ference with river navigation and with railway
traffic, has caused an unprecedented degree of
business stagnation. Industrial development,
though somewhat lessened, has made progress,
as is shown by the organization of the Coving¬
ton and Eidanger Company, at Covington, Ken¬
tucky. with $100,000 capital; of the Louisville
Snrburban Land Company, at Louisville, Ken¬
tucky, $40,000 capital; aud by the formation
of a $50,000 coat compauy mills’ at Southport, North
Carolina. Cotton at Jacksonville, At-
talla and Sycamore, Alabama; Home and Pa¬
nola, Georgia, aud Hender on, North Caroli¬
na; and Enterprise, knitting Mississippi; mills at Jacksonville, Florida,
and electric light com¬
panies at Selma, Alabjina. Waynesville, North
Carolina, aud Cuero, Texas, have been organ¬
ized, and a tobacco manufactory, with $50,000
capital, Montgomery chartered at Louisviile, Kentucky.
The Cooperage Company, capital
$50,000, of Montgomery, Alabama; ’and the
Wheeler Furniture Company, with $100,-
000 capital, wood-working of Houston, Texas, for are
among the plants reported
the week.
Thirty-three nw industries were established
or incorporated during the week, together impor- with
4 enlargements of manufactories, and 9
tan t new buildings. Among other important
new industries as reported for the week are
brick works at Richmond and Lexington, Ky„
a cm factory at .Selma, Ala., flour and Moun- grist
mills at Dixie, Ga., Advance and King’s
tain, N. C., and Aliev, Tenu., a foundry is re-
ported at Chattanooga, Tenn., and locomotive
and car works established at Selma, Ala. A
power epmpany was chartered at Belton, Tex.,
anda bedding company and an oil mill at
Waco. Texas.
A Tobacco factory is to tie ba it at Hender-
son, reported N. G.. and among the woodworking planing plants
for the week are saw, and
sbingle mills at Mobile. Ala., Clarendon, Ark.,
De Funiak Springs, Fla., Walter*vllle, Ky.,
and Edenton and Raleigh. N. C.
Water works are to be established at Cres¬
cent City, Fla., and Barnesville, Ga. The en¬
largements include a flouring mill at Abilene,
Texas, an ic; factory at Vicksburg, Miss., a
cotton mill at Enfaula. Ala., an l a carpet mill
at Carro lton, Ky. Among the new buildings
reported are busincsi houses at Houstoa and
Timpson, Texas, a hall at Conyers, Ga., resi¬
dences at Angus 1 a, Ga., and Richmond, Va.,
and a warehon eat Waltlionrvilie, Ga.—Trades¬
man (Cba'tanooga, Term).
CHOLERA IN GERMANY.
it „ „ Breaks , Out „ x , in an Insane , Asylum . ,
With Much Violence.
A special cablegram from Berlin, Ger-
many, says: The outbreak of cholera in
Neitleben lunatic asylum shows no sign
IS
reported. tbe outbreak The total U sixty-three. number of Nine- cases
since
teen have died. Professor Koch, who
was requested by Emperor William to
make an investigation into the causes of
tbe appearance of tbe disease, reports
that the river Saale, below the asylum, is
infected with cholera bacciili.
Space is Limited.
A Chicago dispatch of Thursday says:
Director General Davis has prepared a
statement showing that of 3,642,812 feet
of exhibit space in the w orld’s fair build-
ing only 214 470 remain i > in. assigned
to { X Hi L*ora-
NUMBER :>.
street sights In Berlin.
Speaking Frank of G. the Carpenter, Berlin street there sights, is
says no
place in the world where the people
work so hard for a penny and where both
women and men give you so much for so
little. At every corner you find men
with red caps who are kuowu as dienst
nan aud who will carry a letter or a
parcel to almost any part of Berlin fer
fix cents, aud you pass in every block
women loaded dowu with great two-
bushel baskets of meat and vegetables
which they are carrying home from the
market for about the same rate. There
ire flower peddlers everywhere and
diere is the old follow with toys who
lolls turkeys and monkeys made of wood
uul painted in ridiculous colors. While
•’(siting lay dropped the stock exchange the other
I into a beer hall for lunch
tud was getting away with a great mug
if beer between my bite's of cheese and
•ye biead when one of these fakirs came
up beside me and laid down on the table
» microscope. if did As he did so, he asked
no I not want to sec what kind of
•heese 1 had been eating. 1 held it up
:o the light aud saw in it through the
microscope uig the a dozen hundred-leg bugs as
which as largest potato bug, each one of
had horrible horns and great
:e**tli. He laughed as i shuddered and
pushed the cheese back and then offered
o sell me the microscope for twelve
jonts, but i was disgusted at having my
neal spoiled aud refused.
The most remarkable derelict mentioned
In the records of the hydrographic office has
been of Bermuda, sighted again nine lapse hun 102 Ired days. miles east She
after a of
is the record breaker of derelicts. She has
been an ocean wanderer for 625 than days, eight and
has averaged somewhat more
miles a day, coming over five thousand
miles.
RICHMOND 8 DANVILLE R R.
U Hiiidcliopcr nod Unihm Foster*
Receiver*.
Atlanta & Charlotte Air-Line Division.
Condensed Schedule of Pa»stn?er Train* In
Effect November 20,1892.
NORTHBOUND. | No. 88. j .No. 10. , ! No. 12.
Eastern Time. Dally, Daily. Daily.
Lv Atla .la (E.T.) 12 45pm! <120pm H 05 am
Ch.iubke ....!........ 952pm 8 40 nin
Duluth.......(........1013 Norcros*......j........loUSpm' pm! 852am (Ham
Suwanee.............. 9
Buford.......|........!0 10 37 23 pm j 9 15 am
Flowery Branch!........JO pm ‘ 9 28 am
Idpmjll 51 10pm! pm 9 12 am
Gainesville .. ,| 2 !0 (« am
Lula......... 2 32pm111 36pm! 10 27 am
Bdl ton........1........1138 pm i 10 30 am
Cornelia........... ...{1205am 1051 am
Mt. Airy......j........l2Q9ain: 10 55 am
Toceoa........!........ Westminster.. 1........ 1237 amj 11 I9un
Seneca.......!........ 117am 1156 am
■ 1 36an,. 12 15
Central.......j.....210am 20 pm
Easleys.......j........ 1 pm
2 42 am' 1 55 pm
Greenv.llo. ... 5 08pm 3 07am] 2 26pm
Gre rs.......j........ 3 35 am I 3 00 pm
Well for 1.....;........- 3 50 am 1 3 20 pm
Spartanburg.. Clifton.......!........j .1 OOOpniJ 4 4 09amj u6 ! 3 48 pm
am 4 03 pin
Gaffneys............. Cowpeiw............... 4 30 am anil 4 11pm
4 52 4 42 pm
Blacksburg Grov« ... 6 48 pm 5 09 am 5 03 pm
King’s r............... Mo’nt’n........I 518 554 amj 5 5 35 15 pm
ant pm
Gastonia.............j l-o*ell.......!........ 6 57 08 am! »m « 05 pm
j........ 6 20 pm
Bellenton .... ■ 0 17 am 6 32 pm
Ar Charlotte.....j 8 05pm! 6 40am 7 00pm
SOUTHWARD. 1 No. 37. , No. 11. No. 9.
j Daily, . Daily. Daily.
Lv. Charlotte...... 9 85 mu! t 60 pm H 20 pm
Bcllemont..... 1 25 pm 1- 42 pin
LovATl......... 1 33 pmlll j 12 5 02a>n i pin
Gastonia.......j........ 1 46 pin! pm
King’s Mount’n;........ 2 i: 12 28am
Grover....... 2 28 pm j 12 12 54 44 am
Blacksburg.. 10 48 am 2 37 pm; am
Gaffney..... ........j 2 55 pm; I 11 am
Coupons 3 20pm 1 £6an*
.... .... .... j
Clifton...... 3 23 pin '< 39 am
11 ........ 156
Spartanburg. 87 ain i 3 36 pm am
W.llford...... . 4 00 pm 2 la aiu
Greers....... : 1 15 pm j 2 85am
Greenville.... i‘i 28 pm 4 42 pin; 3 07am
Easleys....... !........j 5 14 pm; 3 35am
Central...... j........ j”......i 6 05 pm 4 4 38am 10 am
SCD6C(1 6 30 pm
Westminster....!........ 6 4-fpaij 4 58 am
Tocco.i........ j 7 28 pm 5 40 am
Mt. Airy.”....!........ J,.,. ....j 8 8 00pmj 03 6 O 15am IH am
Cornelia ..... .!!.!.!.! pm j 41
Bell ton ...... 8 26 pm 6 am
Lula......... |3 15 pm 6 2S pm 0 43 am
Gainesville..... 1........ 3 33 pm 8 53 pni| 7 7 07 26 am
Flowerv Branch 912 pm am
Buford............... j 9 ?4 8pmi pm! 7 7 38am 52am
Sitwanee...............i 9
Duluth................i 9 50 pm 8 C3 am
Norcros*.............. i 10 03 pin 8 14 am
Chamblee......!........’10 19 pm 8 25 am
Ar. Atlanta (E. TL) 4 55 pm ll 00 pin 900am
Additional trains Xcs 17 ant 18—Lula ac-
commodation, dailv except Sunday, leaves At-
ianta 5 85-p m, arrives Lula 8 20 p Atlanta m. Return- 8 50
ing. leaves Lnla 6 00 a m, aniv. s
ti m and9dailv,
Between Lnla and Adi ins—No. 11
leave Lula 8 30 p in and 10 35a m, arrive Atii-
f . n * jo 15 p in ami 12 20 p m. Beturning leave
Athens, Nos. 10 and 12 daily, 6 30pm and 8 07
a m, arrive Lnla 8 15 p nt and 9 50 am.
Between Toecoa and EHierton—Nos. 63 and 9
daily, - xeept Snn.lav. icave Toccoa 7 45am
and 11 25 a m, arrive Elberton 11 35 a m and
2 Sunday, 20 pm. Returning. Eibrrton No. 3 02 00 and 12 and da jy. 7 30 exeep a ni
leave p m
SJ ,a strive Toecoa 7 00 p m and 10 25 & in.
Nos. Hand 10 Pullman per between Atlan-
« a aI11 1 New York. Soutliwest-
Nos. 37 pud : 8 Washington and
cm V. stihnhd Limit* A, Between Near York and
Allan’s. Tbiorurh Pullman sleepers lietweeii
New York and Kew Orleans ansi l*»iwten New
York mid An.-tWa. also l«etween Washington
*nd Memphis, via'Allant* and Birmingham,
uniting betw-en Atlanta and B rniingbam with
Pullinsn aieepers to ami from Shreveport, I.a.,
vis Meridian i-nd ViefaJiffrg. No. 38 connect*
at Spartanburg with Pullman Sleep r for
Asheville. Sleeper be¬
Nos- 11 ati 1 12 —Pulitnan Buffet
tween Washington mid Atlanta.tmi-ing between
D-inviile and Greensboro with I’nllman sleeper
to and from Portsmouth aud Norfolk.
For de - ailed information as to local and
thtongh timefables, rates and Pullman sleeping ad¬
car refwr vation«. e-.nfer with loci agenis or
dress WICK,
W. A. TURK. K. H. F AUD
Oen’l I’m Ak’\ Ass’t.G n(. Pass. Ag’C
Washington, D. O. Atlanta. G*
J. A- DOD8GN, Superintendent Atlanta, (>*.
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ATrORNEY AT LAW'
TOCCOA CITY, QA.,
Will practice in the oountie* of Haber¬
sham and Rabun of the Northwestern
Circuit, and Frenkhn and Bank* of the
Western Circuit. Prompt attention wil T
he given to ail business entrusted*to him.
The collection of debt* will have spco
e .tx* il, v n