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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, (>*. * C. a m _ bfivVlO ^ ia , . p r%AV/IQ UA YlOi 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