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SOUTHERN RECORD SUCCESSOR TO (St; Established “ 1890 1872 VOL. XXV. Blue Ridge & Atlantic Railroad > Time Table, No. 36. In Effect Tuesday, Sept. 8, 1896. NO 11 N o 12 Pass. STATIONS Mix eil Mon'y Dai ly, ! anti Except Sat’y S un ’y ! Lv Ar P M 5 Tallulah Falls 1 05 SS Turnerville 12 45 Anaindale . 12 25 85 .Clarkes ville 12 10 .. Demorest.. 11 50 S .. Cornelia .. 11 35 M Ar Lv A. M. W. V . LAURAINE, Receiver North-Eastern Railroad Time Table No. 2 Between Athens and Lula. 11 9 i |STATIONS, j 12 IO Daily. (Daily. Daily Daily P. M j A. M.lLv Ar. A. M P. M 8 15 11 05 1 W Lula N 10 50 8 00 8 32 11 22 Gills ville 10 33 7 43 8 46 11 30 Maysville 10 19 7 20 9 02 11 52 Harmony 10 03 7 13 9 17 12 07 ( Nicholson ! 9 48 G 58 9 25 S 12 15 Center 9 40 G 50 9 40 12 30 W Athens D 9 25 6 35 L M P. M. Ar Lv. A. M P. M I 1 9 12 IO Druggists and physicians’ labels printed in two colors for $1.00 per 1000 at the Record Job office. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. _(S|y OMilUid PebelaU of Paa.engee Teals*. Is Effect May 1st, 1898. Tea. Mo.lffFBt.Ml Vortfcbesnd. Xo.lt Mo. 8S Et Mo. 88 »aUy Dally. Baa. Daily. Lt. “ *' Atlaata, WfeiA....... Mereroaa Atlanta, C.T. S.T. 800a 9 7 80a........ 60 a 12 100 00 m p 6 fl 4 A a|* - 10 06 a........ 7 TU “ GaiseerlllS.. 1086 a 9 23 p 7 8 a - Lula.......... OeraelUk. 10 68 a 2 42 p 8 40 s Ar. ..... 11 26 a........ 1180 a........ 11 66 a 8 00 p uimsmmMs ** WeetminBter 19 81 m 4 08 * feeseoa 19 69 p *. 5 P 4 23 * Central 146 p : Sfcois' 4 69 “ Greanrllle... 9 84p I9ai. p....... 645 “ ■ Gaffsers..... (Spartanburg. 8 430p 87 p p........fl Til 87 * BlaoksDurf 4 88 p....... 7 85 - King's Mt"... .. 6 08 p p....... 7* “ Gastonia..... 896p........ p....... ....... t 20 hr. Charlotte.... 6 80 p 8 22 p 9 25 Ar.Greensboro . 0 69 p 10 48 p 12 10 Ly. Greensboro. 10 60 p....... Ar. Norfolk..... 7 85 a ...... Ar. DaayUl# 11 » p 11 61 p iU Ar. Richmond ... tttn 6 40 a Ar. WMhln * ton.. ... 9 85 p *• Baltm’a PRK. .. 11 85 p - Philadelphia. York ... 2 66 a - New a 28 * .,. ’• Vst.Ml Vm. So. 11 Southbound. Mo. 35 Mo. 37 Dally PallT. Dally. Lr. ftillaaeiphta. N. T..P. K. B. IS 15 a DUB'S *• 8 80 a • 65 - BalUmora.... 8 81 a 0 » “ Washington.. 11 16 a 10 48 Lt. Riohuond ... 12 01 m 12 01 at 12 lOnt JLy. iLyTKorfoSk. paarllla 4 0 18 P ltTOiTp 6 60 a 605 a • « Ar. Groensboro.. ...... >*• fl 60 a....... Ly. Oroonsboro.. 7 !W p 7 r. Cbarloita.... 10 00 p cnj»„... 10 49 p burg .. il 81 p " Geffae ys ..... 11 48 p * Spartanburg. 12 26 a 11 « OraaaTilU^.. 1 26 a P 'tilt “ Central............... “ Raneoa ....... 8 80 a p Kx. " WostnUnster. * Toocoa....... 8 26 p Sue - Mt. Airy...:. “ Oornalia................... ■ " Lala.......... 4 15 a 8 18 vv - Gainesvillo . 4 35 a 8 87 “ lhaford Norvross....., - - 6 25 a Ar. Atlanta, E. T. 6 10 a 4 56 V Atlanta. C. T. 1 6 10 a> a 66 -3 OON TRaOT f.v. ^ Dally E xcept Sun d ay. Atlanta, _ central time .......... fTSTi ** Atlanta.aaatarntime............. 12 20 a Ar. Nororoea, '* .............. 1 15 p Ly. Norcross, eastern time........... 8 SO p Ar. Atlanta, " 8 2?p ** Atlanta, central time.............. 2 20 p _________ “A” “P n “M" *'N” rxight. a. m. p. m. noon. Noe. 87 VoetiTSule and Si—Daily. Washiugton and South- •stern Limited. Through Pullman •leaping ala cars Washington, between New Atlanta York and and Montgom¬ New Or¬ leans. ery. and also between New York and Memphis. TiaWaabington, elaaa thoroughfare Atlanta coaches and Birmingham. between Washing- First Ion and Atlanta. Dining cars serve all meals ma route. Pullman drawing-room sleeping ear* oetween Greensboro and Norfo'k. Cloee con- ____ Mottos at Norfolk for OLD POINT COMPOST arriving Noa. 86 there and in 88-United time for breakfast. States Fart Mai] car and ©oaahos, through without change for of all classes. Pullman drawing »nS roo» room sleeping s>cpiuc cars between New York PSiay.SS?*- No*. lLSr. fcfl and 12—Pullman sleeping between Kicbmond ear* and Charlotte, vis Danville, bouthbound Nos. 11 and 87, northbound Nos. VttANlUV 8. GANNON. 3. M. CULP, Third V-P. St Gen. Mgr., Traffic M'g'r. w ifi a* TI® n&Af 011 * D ' C V c. H n. BjSunAcfr D ' a GvaTPat**. Ag’t , Ass'tGen’IPass. Ag^k. t Washington, D. C, Atlanta, Oa, D.M.SNELSOtY ©enlist. Office in Davis Building, Dov i r street. Tocco\ G \ Every d.y belief of emi- nent physician* that impure blood is tin by this fiunoos old household remedy an She 5 OUR LOW PRICES CAPTURE EVERYTHING THAT COMES ALONG IN THE WAY OF MONEY. Big Cuts on Suits Made to Order From Now Until June It wont pay you to send your Shirts to the laundry when you can buy a new one from us for what it cost to have one Laundried. We have the largest and best line of Hats, Underwear and Gents furnishings in town. Call on us for Silks, Embroideries, Midis, Lawns, Organdies and Ribbons. We have a nice assortment. It is not hard for us to sell goods at the extremely low prices we make, but lt is hard to keep them on hand. New goods arriving daily. Call on us and we will save you from 10 to 20 per cent on first class Merchandise. Yours till the “Battle’s Over.” RUSSELL, MULKEY a* CO. POPULIST NAME HOGAN OF LINCOLN. PEEK DECLINES TO RUN. For Commissioner of Agriculture and Thornton for' A I II j l General—Mcgregor fT l y * | State Chairman. 1 Hon. J. R. Hogan, of Lincoln) county, was nominated governor by the Populists Wednesday ot last week. Hon. Felix N. Cobb, of Carrol county, was nominated for attor¬ ney general, aud Hon. W. P. Glov¬ er of Bibb, was nominated for com¬ missioner of agriculture. The nomination for governor was a complete surprise, as it was the general opinion that Hon. W. L Peek would be nominated beyond all doubt. It was stated that it was the opin¬ ion of some of the delegates that Hon. Yancy Carter stood no chance for the nomination, and when a ballot was taken he was defeated by several votes. Col. Peek was defeated by two votes. The conference committee, com- d Q f , hree delegates from each congressional district, reported the of tf.e nominees, and the action of the committee was ratified by the convention, although some of the delegates wished to put Col¬ onel Peek’s name at the head of the ticket. The committee also reported the following resolution : “Resolved, That the executive committee be empowered to supply names of any gentleman they may j chief chink justice suitable as nominees for the and associate justice of I the supreme bench, and also to fill I any other position on tne state tick- !!“* beC ° me f ° r ‘ ,n > " * The resolution was adopted. This i T" S * b “ ’ f Mr ' ° r “ y other nominee, refuses to accept, committee will have full l»wer “/ Know Not What the Truth May Be, l Tell the Tale as ’Twas Told to Me.” TOCCOA, GEORGIA, flAY 27, I898. to appoint some one in their places instead of calling another conven¬ tion. NOW IT’S CAPTAIN YANCEY CARTER Commissioned _ . . By War Depart- ^ ment to _ Raise . of , ^ a company ^ immunes From Georgia. . V % ' a4, 'hington, May 23. The war tu.y' f - 3 >ent this morning commis- sior±-tod^iU y ,Carter a captain and has empowered fnVj°to raise a com- pany ot immunes. He will enlist his company from immunes around Savannah and Brunswick. Carter filed his application last week and left for Georgia Satur- day. This morning the papers were called for, his endorsements and qualifications examined and his commission made out. Georgia Letter. From the Miildleville (Mich.) Sun. Editor Sun.—I am in receipt of the issue of the Sun, containing my letter of a few months ago, and it looks so good in print (to myself) that I will venture one more letter, I am going to tell you about Tu- galo Valley. You know the Tu- galo river is the dividing line be- tween South Carolina and Georgia, From Toccoa to what is known as the Tarrett Bridge, is about six miles through some nice cotton country, and when you are accom- panied, as I was, by a pretty South- ern girl, the time required to make the trip seems all too short. Down in the Valley the land is much ferent from that higher up, being very rich and fertile. Michigan¬ ders who think they raise corn, should see some of the Tugalo Yal- ley ley corn corn fields. fields. And watermelons! ’nough said. We crossed the river and started up the Valiev on the South Carolina side and the scenery description. First the road winds about, down in the bottom lands, then up the side of lhe ”<“»“!”• i»“ "ide 1 enough for one vehicle and a cliff riEing above you on one side and a precipice yawning on the other side and way off across the valley below, rises another line of moun¬ tains. It is about five miles up the valley from Jarrett to Prather’s Bridge and the scene changes with every turn in the road. The Val- , ley . owned , . by planters, , who , is are always , cent . cot- prosperous, r ive ton does , not make , any difference ,. a them, for while it may cut down their pocket money, they can and do live, and live well on the p roduc ts of their plantations. They are t i le ar i s tocracy of this country, Xo say that you have spent a day on a Tugalo Valley plantation is £ 0 gay you f iad as fi ne a time as pos- s jble. We stopped our team in the middie of the bridge loathe to re- turn to Georgia and business. But to go to Tallulah Falls is a trip worth talking about, It is about sixteen miles, over mountains and through beautiful valleys. And when you finally reach your desti¬ nation, you are, so travelers tell us, among scenes which Scotland and Norway can show nothing in com- parison. It is grand beyond de- scription. It is not a ledge fall of i a small stream like Toccoa Falls, but it is a stream nearly as large as the Thornapple and for a mile more, it is just a succession of rapids, falls and whirlpools. There are the falls of Tempestu, Hurricane, Bridal Vail, and others, The In- dian Arrow' Rapids, where the stream narrows between its rocky walls and shoots on with the rapid- itv of an arrow. L’ Au Dore, where only last summer a man from .Atlanta fell over the precipice and lost his life. All these and more too. Standing at I Grand View one can look down a thousand feet and see buzzards soar- ing about away below him. In my ! anxiety to get to a certain table , rock on the side of the precipice, last summer, I foolishly crossed a ledge which I was afraid to re-cross when I looked back and saw what I had done. I had crossed on^ a ledge of rock not more than ten inches wide with a perpendicular wall of rock rising on one side,and on the other side—nothing. Had I fallen, I would have gone five hundred feet before I even struck a tree top. I only wish you could see the place instead of me trying to tell about it. The principal staple here is cot¬ ton, of course, and it is a sight to a Northern man to see a cotton patch. I do not know which is the prettier to me, the cotton in bloom or when the bolls are wide open and ready to pick. A cotton field in bloom is something beautiful, there are two colors. The first day the blos¬ som opens it is white the next day it is red and the third day the pet¬ als fall to the ground. When the cotton opens it is like snow all over the top of the plants. Cotton is all picked by hand. It is taken loose to the gin where the seed is sep¬ arated from the lint and the latter is baled ready for market. A bale of cotton is about five feet long, four feet wide and about three feet thick. After it is sold and before lt is shipped to the factory and foreign countries it has to go to the compress where the bale is pressed down to about one-fourth its origi¬ nal size. This is done to lessen the bulk and also to make it more se¬ cure against fire. Toccoa itself has one of the finest little cotton mills in the South. While the mills of New England are standing idle, our mill of 5,000 spindles is running full time. And there is a good reason for it. We are located where the raw cotton is produced and can buy it cheaper -than the New England factories. Then we can buy Alabama coal cheaper than they can buy the Penn- sylvania fuel. Not a negro is em- ployed at the mills, but white peo- pie are employed at living wages. The opinion which is so current in the North that southern factories are operated by negroes is a mis- take. With excellent railroad facil- ities our product finds a market as easily as does that of the eastern mills. The time is not far distant when Fall River must let its cotton mills go, for they cannot compete with those of the Carolinas and Georgia. And the Southern people are God’s own people. I came here nearly two years ago hardly know¬ ing a person in the state of Georgia. I found the people to be as kind, courteous and hospitable to a “Yankee” as their reputation of anti-bellum days ever gave them credit of being. The stranger within the gates of a Southerner is used like a prince. Let him behave himself and the far of the land is his. Visit a Southern home and no pains are spared to give you a good time, and at the same time every act of kindness is performed with such an easy grace that there can be no doubt of the genuineness of the hospitality. Let a Northern man come down here and the way he is used will make him forget that there ever was a Mason and Dixon’s line. A friend of mine in Cincinnati expressed my opinion exactly when he made this remark to me : “George, ain’tt hey royal people?” I cannot tell you anything about the colored population for North¬ erners (ninety-nine per cent of who know nothing about them) are nat¬ urally prejudiced in favor of the negro. I can only say that the ne¬ gro who has been raised in the North is not the negro of the South. Save for the color they are not the same race. To understand the Southern negro you must come south. There is no other way. Ask Mark Coydendall if that isn’t so. He has lived here. Another character which is in¬ digenous to this mountain country is the “moonshiner.” To the peo¬ ple at home he is a creature of ro- mance. But here he thrives. I meet a dozen of him every day. He has but one enemy and that is the U. S. revenue officer. And to tell the truth “Revenue” is none too well liked by any class of people SUBSCRIPTION’. ?i.00 A YEAR NO. 28 . here. It is the pride of a mountain gentleman to drink corn whiskey on which “never a cent of revenue has been paid, sah!” It is a standing joke in the North to comment upon the poor railroad service of the South, but that is a thing of the past. Some of the fin¬ est trains in the United States pass through Toccoa every day. We are located upon the main line of the Southern railway, which runs through trains from New York to New Orleans via Washington and Atlanta. And some of its trains are beauties. The Washington and Southwestern Limited, which passes here in the afternoon, some¬ times goes in two or three sections, the last of which is sure to be a solid train of Pullman sleepers and buf¬ fet dining cars, and the same road has a branch extending south for fifty miles. And from Atlanta it branches in all directions, so I can buy a ticket in Toccoa for any point in the south and lots in the north. This same road connects in Chatta¬ nooga with the “Queen & Cres¬ cent,” of which I spoke in my last letter, and one can board the latter at Cincinnati and go clean through to Florida or any point in the South without change. I guess I had bet¬ ter stop this or you will think I am writing a railroad advertisement, but I only wanted to refute the idea that we have poor railroad accom¬ modations in the south and quoted these two as being among the very best in the United States. I was in Atlanta last Monday and Tues¬ day and saw my uncle, Mr. A. J. Stokoe, and Mr. George Jackson. They were the first Middleville men I have seen in nearly two years. Needless to say I was glad to see them and loath to part with them when they started on north. Tried to get Uncle Andrew left but the confounded train waited for us. I was in Elberton, Ga., for the first time last Friday and Saturday. It is a beautiful little city of about 5,- 000 population, fifty miles south of here on the E. A. L. division of the Southern. There is some of the most beautiful cotton country along the road. Well, if you will excuse this long letter I’ll give way to some one else. Yours truly, Geo. L. Matteson. Toccoa, Ga,