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THE CLEVEL
PROGRESS.
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DHVOTKD TO TIIK MINING, AGRICULTURAL AND KDUOATIONAL [NTRRKST8 Of OLRVKLAND, WWTB OOVSTT AND NORTH KABT OKOKGiA.
TKRMB:— One Dollar Per Tear.
VOL//IT.
CLEVELAND, WHITE COUNTY, GA / FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1893
NO. 24.
Spring and Summer Campaign.
The rush to our storo during tho pnst throe months lms proven that tho public appreciate good goods lit
popular prices. In our Inst advertisement wo stated that .T. K. Murphy had been to Now York and purchased a lurgo
supply of Dry floods and Clothing while the market was low in price. Since making that announcement we have
Sold n largo portion of the goods advertised, but it will be seen by tho following prices, that many of tho best bar
gains still remain unsold:
Dross Goods Department.
Ill inch Henriettas, 20c. cheap at 25c.
“ “ 25e.
‘ 33c.
36 inch •* 28o.
■ 35e.
“ 35e.
‘ 50c.
40 inch all wool
Henrietta, 60o.
1 75c.
40 inch Tinp’ted all
shades Henriettas H7e.
‘ 1.25
40 inch Iinp’teil all
shades Henriettas 08c.
‘ 1.35
4*» in. French Sergo 98o.
‘ 1.35
Muck Dress Goods Department.
lb! inch Henriettas 28o. cheap at 35c.
35o “ 60c.
10 inch all wool
Henriettas 00c, “ 75c.
40 in. nil wool Im
ported Henriettas 75o “ 90c.
40 inch all wool Im
ported Henriettas S7o
46 inch all wool Im
ported Henriettas 1.10
40 inch silk warp 1.25
1
50
3.25
1.50
1.50
2.00
White Goods Department.
Checked Nainsook 8c, cheap nt 10c.
11 10o, “ 121c,
And so on to best goods made.
'White India I,awn 10c, cheap at 121c.
12ic, “ 10c.
“ “ “ 16c, “ 20c.
“ “ “ 26o, “ 35c.
And so on up to tho finest goods made.
Whito Persian Lawn 15c, cheap nt 20c.
“ “ “ 20c, “ 25c.
11 11 “ 25c, " 35c.
French mull in cream
and white 25c, “ 35c.
Frcuch mull in cream
and white 37c, “ 50c.
A lovely lino of Figured Mulls and
India Dimity ranging from 10 cents to
20 oonts, cheap at 16 cents to 30 cents.
Ginglium Department.
Dress Gingham 4 3-4c, cheap at 7c.
“ “ 71c, 11 10c.
“ “ 8jo, “ 121c.
“ “ 10c, " 131c.
And so on to Finest Zephyr Ginghams.
Silk Department.
22 inch Chinn Silk,
oil shades 48c, ohcnp at 75c.
24 inch Chinn SHU,
all shades 75o. “ 1,00
Handsome lino silks, all kinds and
shades at prices to ploajo,
Hlmchod Domestic Department.
1,500 yds. 33-in. Bleacliotl Domestic,
soft finish, short lengths, from 5 to ‘25
yards in a piece, at 0 3-io. HoIIh
everywhere at 10c.
Beautiful lino of 4-4 Blenched Do
mestics, in all qualities, at prices to
suit th<* times.
Check Domestic Department.
2,000 yds. homo spun Cotton checks
nt 6c, selling everywhere nt 0 to 7 o.
3,500 yards best quality 27 inch,
Athens checks, nt 7}e, cheap nt SJc.
[Shirt Department.
Gent’s whito uulnundried Dress
Shirt. 39c, sold everywhere 60 to 60c.
Gent’s white unlnundriod Dress
Shirt 50c, sold everwhoro 60 to 75c.
Tw enty hundred Linen Bosom Uu-
liuindred Shirts lit 75e, cheap at $1.00,
Ilantlkereliief Department.
50 dozen Children’s Hem-stitched
Handkerchiefs, with bo.tiers in fast
colors, at 24o, worth 8c. Ilnndsomo
line of Plain and Embroidered Hand
kerchiefs, ranging from 5c to 75c,
worth >ii least one-third more than
marked.
Clothing Department.
$20 Suit, all wool,
Imported, cheap at $20.50.
$10 Suit, all wool,
Imported “ $14.00.
$8 Suit, 00 per cent
all wool “ $11.00
A One line of Boys’ Suits and odd
pants also carried in stock. Tho cele
brated “Mother’s Frieud” hoys’ waist
from 35c to $1.25
In my grocery department I have many bargains to offer. FLOUR, MEAT and other heavy Groceries are
purchased in car load lots at cash prices, and inasmuch as l believe in quick sales and small prollts, the purchaser
always gets the benefit. I still continue to buy Produce, and pay cash.
SAME OLD STAND—WEST SIDE PUBLIC SQUARE.
J. E. MURPHY,
Gainesville, Ga.
CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOL,
CLEVELAND, GEORGIA.
Sprint; Term Begins January 2(1, 1893. Fall Term
Begins July 10th, 1893.
Tuition in all Classes nor Montli, $1.00.
In connection with the Spring anil Fall terms, will
ho taught the terms of the public schools.
For further particulars call on or address
ALBERT BELL, Principal,
Or ERAS. W. MERRITT, Assistant.
Sash, Doors and Blinds!
CLARK, RELL & CO.,
-Manufacturers anil Dealers in—
Sash, Doors, Blinds,
Mouldings, Brackets.
SIIINGbLES and LUMBER.
Also BE VVER anil DRAIN PIPE. Prices os low os tho lowest. Satisfaction
guaranteed.
CLARK, BELL & CO., Gainesville, Ga.
LOGAN & SON,
MANUFACTURERS OF
Buggies and Wagons,
CLEVELAND, GEORGIA.
Horseshoeing and Repairing Neatly and Cheaply Executed,
Advertise Now
It will Pay.
THE LABOR WORLD.
OniCAtto lmfl 400 union girl waiters.
Tilkhe are 18,000 union horaeshoers.
Indiana coal miners get seventy cents pot
Iod.
Women work hi Detroit (Mioh.) brick
yards.
In Spain factories and stores are operated
Huuday.
A non us order sent Chicago atid Northwest
ern telegraphers on strike.
Cotton weavers nt Denver, Col., make, in
some instances, only #1.80 a week.
Tiikuk are now over ISO cities In this
country having building trades councils.
Ward organizations of colored workmen
have been formed by the BociulJflts of Bt.
Louis.
A mono stevedores cotton Is regarded ns
the hardest to stow and railway iron ua the
easiest.
Within three years wo admlttod to the
American labor market 427,000 Huns, Italians
and Poles.
Charleston (8. C.) stonecutters struck bo
wman the boss would not pay for tools that
had been stolen.
Harness ami saddle workers will send ono
of their number to Europe to study tho in
dustrial question.
The wages of tho street mil way omployes
In Minneapolis, Minn., have been raised
twenty-eight per cent.
A switchman told an ludiuDapolls reporter
that ho had unsuccessfully covered (1000
miles in search of a job.
Cleveland (Ohio) policemen and flromen
have Joined the Knights of Labor despite tho
order by the city authorities.
. The Htnto Labor Bureau of Town furnishes
places at a cost of twenty cents per head.
Formerly tho private bureaus charged £2.
Many of thp working women of Mew York
City, especially those employed by
“sweaters’, receive less than two dollars a
week as wages.
“Dad” Leach, the founder of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen, 1ms been In
stalled in bis new home, provided by the
Order at Medulla, Mo.
In the New York jewelry factories wages
of girls per week are $8. Tho board and
lodging average in $4 per weok, and clothing
$1.25. The girls commence work at sixteen
and remain on an average ten years.
Baron Btumm Haliieno has nine or ton
thousand men employed in his iron works on
the Rhino and gives them tho kindliest care.
Ho will not permit ono of his workers to
fharry without his consent, for example, be-
sause, as lie says, “they would often make
fools of themselves.”
The most successful system of labor arbi
tration seems to bo that of Massachusetts,
which has been in operation since 1880. The
seventh annual report of tho Massachusetts
Board of Arbitration, recently issued, gives
an account of settlements of labor disputes
involving over $2,000,000 In wages.
Minnesota lias a law requiring merchants
nnd proprietors of stores employing women
to provide seats fbr them, but tho law is a
dead lettor. nnd the Trades and Labor
Assembly or Minneapolis 1ms asked tho State
Bureau of Statistics and Labor to Investigate
nnd furnish evidence against tho violators of
the law. ...
The American hen is a busy and use
ful fowl. There are 125,000,003 of
them, and they lay every year 0,000,000-
000 eggs. In Waterloo there is one
which is an expert in catching ruts. It
teases them a while nnd then releases
them. The owner of this remarkable
fowl lias observed that no rat ever comc9
the second time within reach of its claws.
A report comes from a Pennsylvania
tow’n of a fastidious hen that refused to
sit upon some colored eggs left over from
Easter. . . .
Woraon chemists are becoming more
numerous. v*
Gloves should harmonize with the
dress and hat.
If you would bo correct, tho veil
must, match tho hat.
Wedding presents should always bo
addressed to tho .bride.
White suedes are preferred to all
others for evening wear.
Some of tho haudsomest now capes
are lined with bright colored brocades.
Rueliiugs for the nook are very pop
ular, but tiro rather smaller and nar
rower.
Traveling wraps of gloria with hoods
are among tho private orders for the
season.
DresscB to the knee and drosses near
ly to tho ankle are both worn by little
misses.
George Sand used to take to sowing
to sooth her nerves when excited by
writing.
A tawny orange is tho latest thing in
ultra-fashionable notopaper. It is called
“Indian gold,”
Mahogany, ox-blood nnd the medium
and dark browns head the list of mod
ish street shades of gloves.
Queen Victoria's hand is not of fairy-
like proportions by any means. She
wears gloves of the size of 74.
Hashes of China crape or India silk
are draped iu soft folds about the waist,
and fall in long ends at. ono side.
Mrs. Bradloy-Martin expended $00,-
000 on hor daughter’s wedding to the
Earl of Craven iu New York City.
Buckings of gauzo or tulle, inter
mixed with white or colored feathers,
mnko exquisite garnitures for ball
dresses.
All shades of mauve, from palest wis
taria, through violet, to bishop's pur
pie, are shown in mat*yiuiH for gowni
and garniture formats,
Mrs. Laura do Fofeo Gordon, a well-
known Woman lawyer on the Pacific
const, has filed her application for the
Consulship nt Boiiolulu.
Tho_ nc^%»gt sleeves haVo ruffles.
These ruffles commence at the hand
oud oxtond to the elbow* This sleeve
is the old “bell” Bloevo revived.
Knnsus has an nMractivo, unmarried
young woman preafclior of tho Univers-
alist faith. Bile is a regularly ordained
minister and all eloquent apostle.
A collection;bf the work of native
Ceylon women.will be oxhibitod at. the
■World’s Fair, /Exquisite specimens of
Ancient wood curving will bo included.
A soH^thinvIrizz encircling the face
is g btiQPiiliftfl Tim long point in the
middlp of tkbjforehead is vory trying
to'iflbst file*#, bonsequontly little worn.
Marie Twainfc eldest daughter, Miss
Clara (JlonyjnB, not yet twenty, him
written a pliy of ipi allegorical charac
ter, whicliJjL/gtid to be entertaining
unl clever.'’itsi
While nnWi™-toed shoes aro scon in
the best shofMi they aro not by any
means mooting; with tho favor that
those who make a specialty of thum
would like to. tfeliove.
Medium tHal remains tho favorite
color for gdo 1
are sold this,
is more do
other colorB
Tho bond’
in Hlmdcs o:
and trimm;
elustor bom
of hummi;
eminence ril
Somo of t]
probability
Elaborately
usually fori
Draped wait
trimming ei
or mantle.
Gloves of
shown for
While otbor similes
|tho standard, anil there
, for it than for all the
Chined.
1 1880 in in fancy straw
on and gray with band
of eminence velvet,
of violets with aigrette
birds lirouuts. Ties ol
ln-vclvet.
be\y models suggest the
fthl) absence of wraps.
Qiiiod dress waists ore
plug's of this style.
puffed sleoves arc
bh,,without either cajiu
itely heavy kid ore
sts' use anil shopping
and driving ijjlbvik. They aro much
more BervicMple j than lighter ones,
rpuglit out especially
,rd service during ex
ist rings on bonnets aro
|0 front. They nro of
Jed ribbons, and tie bo-
1 tho old fashion. Now
I liftve strings of corded
all in finish and nearly
pplisked young women
1 salaries in New York
npiety women in tho
ayj the new books that
|(1 of, now works of art
jting attention, nnd iu-
jies in other lines,
to still good as regards
It hat have no longer a
be rejuvenated with
to. If there is a basque
; off ttnd corded around
clung. A folded bolt
i upon a well fitted lin
ing—reversvAnd sleeves of velvet, are
all that is ntMkenry.
’/Lloyd, formerly Miss
bio, is oho of tho most
homista of the day, and
fas die tor of philosophy
It/ of Zurich, Switzer-
irtiich only two women
pr<lod, Mrs. Lloyd is
1 chemistry at tho Uni-
eka.
Empress is a real “houao
eli ns may be, to all of
Wspont an hour quite
the Children’s Hos-
|le other day, taking to
1 tho unfortunates, and
1 plensuro by leaving
J gay pictures, put to-
bf her own little sons,
dy six years old.
HIGH ART CLOTHING!
—FOR—
Spring and Summer Wear,
The peop’o nre with in tho miniito wo put tho prico on our elegant lino of Now Styles.
Buyers Wnls.o Up ! ’Tis tlio Spring of ’08 I
Ti e op' iiing Months of our Fir.tSeason wo shall make you nil remember AS A REVELATION IN FINE GOODS
AND FAIR PRICES. Wo lire going t> do business with you becauso wo linvo just exactly wlmt you want, and our prices
sru s in ply irresistihlo.
Our Spring anti Summer Attractions Will Cause a Turnout.
Ruck quantities of Now Styles ns wo show in nil departments leave nothing to bo asked for. In quality nnd variety
out Fresh New Lim a nre strictly first-class iu every detail. We have the disposition, tho ability and tho E'ogant G )ud* to
please e very buyer who is seeking bargains iii the line of
MENS’ AND BOYS’ CLOTHING, HATS, CAPS AND GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS.
Our c >mplete assortment injures perfect satisfaction in the selection of Goods to satisfy individual tastes. You will
find our larue stock made up entirely of Goods that nro trustworthy, serviceable and tho best of their class. KVEHY-
'1HING GOES AT THE LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICE. Como and see how FAIR wo tro.it you, how well we will
Pi EASEy* u and how much wo will SAVE f«»r you.
LIPSTINE & HUMAN,
Arlington Block, Two Doors from l’ostolAcc, GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA.
WRECKERS OF HIGH PRICES AND SHODDY CLOTHING.
GEORGIA NEWS NOTES,
ems of Interest Gathered at
Tlio Savannah Prcso says that tho
advantage of locating cotton iiiUIh in
tlio hi,nth is apparent. Tho north ban
pl’iilly Well given Up the point that in
most grades of cotton spinning no
comp t it ion with southern mills can
ho successful.
...
A miiHH meeting composed of At
lanta's h ading citizens waa hold lust.
Tuesday for the purpose of incourng-
ing tlio manufacturing interests of
the city. The meeting was u very iqi-
tlmsiustic ono and will undoubtedly
result in much good.
, *
Tho now bniidings of the Georgia
factory lit Athens will soon be com
pleted nnd the iiiUIh bo in operation
again. Tho hew fnonory will ho only
two stories high, whereas tho old one
was three, but there will be more sparo
room iu the new building than there
was in tho old one.
The middle oliiHs of the students of
the Technological school, at Atlanta,
who have been under suspension for
two weeks, have boon returned to
school. They were suspended for go
ing on an excursion to Tallulah Falls
in disobedienco of an order of tho
faculty. The standing of tho hoys is
not affected by their absence from tho
college.
Tho crop prospects in all comities in
western Georgia aro fine. The late
rains have put tho farmers a little be
hind. Cotton is looking well, su is
corn and oiiIh. Farmers have com
menced harvesting wheat and they re
port il better crop than for any year
in the pnKt ton. Tho farmers are iuqv
py over the prospect of a good harvest
this summer nnd fall.
Unusual interest is felt in the ap
proaching exercises of the North Geor
gia Agricultural college. The eollega
bus spoilt n prosperous year and the
results are quite flattering. Faculty
and students have been in perfect har
mony and the classes have boon well
attended. Many old students nro ex
pected to hu present this year, and tho
hoard of visitors appointed to attend
includes some of the most distinguish
ed men of tho state.
Reports received by large fruit deal
ers at Savannah indicate that there
will bo only half n crop of peaches this
year. Tho largest peach growing dis
tricts aro around Tenniile, Gordon,
McIntyre and Oconee, and reports in
dicate that the crop 1ms been damaged
to such an extent by heavy rail]s and
hailstorms that the yield can he only
one-half of what it was lust year, nnd
many predict that it will ho much less.
Tlio Central is preparing to move.’),000
carloads of watermelons from its own
immediate territory. The crop of the
fruit is expected to ho fully up to the
average.
The stockholders of tho Atlanta
Short Line, or tho old Maoon and At
lantic, are taking steps to preserve
and complete their property. This
road was projected somo years ago on
the idea of constructing u short routo
between Macon and Savannah, to run
through a largo lumber district. Tho
original company failed, anil it is tho
intention of tho purchasers of the
property to carry it on to nn early
completion. Tho routo laid out is 167
miles between Macon and Savannah,
or just twenty-four miles shorter than
the present route by tho Central.
The board of trustees of Mercer uni
versity held a long and important ses
sion at Macon last Tuesday. Rev. J.
15. Gambrell, D. D., of Meridian,
Miss., was elected president of tho
university. Ho was telegraphed of
his election and was requested to come
to Macon immediately. There is great
satisfaction among tho trustees nnd
friends of Mercer generally at tho
choice of Dr. Gambrell. Ho is ono
of tlio ablest preachers in tho southern
Baptist church and one of tlio leading
educators of Mississippi, in every way
splendidly endowed for Meacer’s pres
idency.
City Attorney Davidson surprised
the Augusta city council at a recent
meeting with a check of $7,454.22,
coining to August^ aspurtof a success
ful claim of the G. B. Lamar estate
against tlio government fur cotton con
fiscated just, lifter tho war. The Into
G. H. Lamar gave $50,009 to endow a
negro hospital in Augusta, also en
dowed one in Savannah, the same to
collie from a claim if allowed by Uncle
Sum. Notice has been received that
part of the claim is allowed and Au
gusta’s part, is an stated above. If tho
statute of limitation does not interfere
more will follow, and the heirH in tlio
city will get n snug sum from Huh old
claim, which amounts to several hun
dred thousand dollars.
A peculiar story comes from tlio vi
cinity of Fugle Cliff in upper Walker
county. Several weeks ago a citizen
of that, community, J. W. Massey, was
very ill with fever. He wanted to bo
baptized and, ns this could not bo
done during hiH illness, he requested
that hh soon mi he died his body ho
immersed, Ho said lie had neglected
it during his life time and wanted his
dead body bapt ized us a lesson of warn
ing to tlio living. A few days ago lie
died and on tho day of the funeral nt
Hixou’s Grove Itev. \V. J. Drenuon
immersed the dead body in the pres
ence of a large crowd of people. Tho
body was (hell put back into the coffin
anil laid to rest in the graveyard.
Mr. W. W. Gordon, Jr., of Macon,
has just completed a compilation of tho
military Inws of forco in Georgia and
tho Work will bo given to tlio militia
within a few days. It is a work that
has boon needed, as tlio military stat
utes of the state have been amended
and re-amendeil to such nil extent tlint
they uro very inconvenient to refer to,
Mr. Gordon received a lottcr from
Lieutenant Hottorleo stating tlint tho
work is one which Inis long boon need
ed, nnd that ho will publish ail order
informing the militia of it ns soon ns
it is out. ITo says also that ho will
bring it to tho attention of tile advi
sory board at its next meeting iwl
that it would receive its endorsement.
There has been a dearth of develop
ments in regard to tho affairs of tho
broken Gate City bank at Atlanta for
a couplo of weeks, but negotiations
are pending between Venable Brothers
and eastern capitalists for a loan suffi
cient in amount to pay for tho Gate
City bank recently purchased by thorn.
It bus boon reported for a week or
nioro tlint tlio New York Life Insur
ance Company, from which the money
was first said to bo forthcoming, had
decided not to make this loan. Other
parties, however, have come forward
and expressed their willingness to lend
any amount of money necessary. It
is, therefore, not to ho supposed that
the trade will fall through, its con
summation is a mere mutter of time.
It is rumored that tho Wnyoross
Air-Lino railroad will bo extended
from Abbovillo, Ga., and that the
work will ho commenced at an early
date. It will connect with tho Way-
cross nnd Abbeville railroad. There
is no doubt now but what it will ex
tended to Fort Valley during tho next
two years. Tlio extension of tlio road
to St. Mary's is a possibility. Bail-
road men who have discussed the sub
ject say that when the road reaches
Abbovillo tho work on tho St. Mary’s
division will bu commenced at once.
It is believed that by nn effort on tho
part of the business men, this roml
could lie induced to pass through
Montezuma. A road direct from
Abbovillo to Montezuma would pass
through fertile and prosperous territo
ry and ho the means of bringing ad
ditional trudo to tho town, ns well as
lessen tlio distanco many miles to
Savannah,
Ordered to fhtnip.
Tho official order governing tho en
campment at Camp Northon has been
issued from tho adjutant general's
office- Ah has already been stated,
only half of tho stnto troops go to
onmp this year, hoounso of the small
appropriation made for the military.
Camp will bo held July 6th to July
26tli at the permanent camp Hito at
Griffin. Tlio organizations detailed
for duty at the camp of instruction
nre: From 12 o’clock m., July 6th, to
12 o’clock m., July 10th—Tho fifth
regiment, Georgia cavalry, mounted ;
tlie First battalion, infantry, Georgia
volunteers. From 12 o’clock m., July
17tli, to 12 o’clock m., July 26tli—Tho
First volunteer regiment, infantry, of
Georgia; tho Third regiment, infunt-
ry, Georgia volunteers ; tho Chatham
Artillery, pieces and carriages for ono
platoon, gntling gun, unhorsed; the
Atlanta Artillery, pieces nnd carriages
fol’ ono platoon, gntling gun, un
horsed. General instructions in de
tail are embraced in tho order.
Tin- Ilnllrnml Situation.
The complaints of somo of our rail
road managers in regard to tho low
riitea which the stnto commission com
pels them to charge is a very vivid'
illustration of the onso with which tho
human mind mistakes a method for n
cause. That the railroads aro not ns 1
profitable as they formerly were is un
questionably true. Their earnings
have been cut down and a great many
of them are going through the process
of liquidation that is involved in re
ceiverships; hut, under the circum
stances, it, would ho illogical in tlio
extreme to trace tlieir evils to tlio rates
imposed by the railroad commission.
Some of the lines that are ill troublo
have been needlessly involved. They
have been tho victims of circumstances
that bear no relation to low rates or
to a falling off' ill the volume of busi
ness. The commission's rates were in
force iu the eighties when the rail
roads were se prosperous that tluJir
condition suggested the building of
other lines. Under our railroad laws
—though wo do not say as tlio result
■of them—the railway mileage of tlror
state lias lmen largely increased, and
this mny have something to do with
tho special depression of which tbo
managers complain. Apart from all
of these tilings, however, it must bo
apparent to all who take tho trouble
to oottplo fact with experience that tho
railroads cannot ho prosperous when
the great farming interests— tho basis
of all prosperity—aro the victims of
depression. All these interests must
stand or fall together. They nro nil
tributary to each other, and among
them there is a subtle 1ml palpable in
terchange of prosperity. When tho
farmers aro compelled by legislation
against tho interests of tho wliolo peo
ple to pay a money tribute to foreign
farmers and to British bunkers, they
cannot bo in a very prosperous condi
tion, and tho depression that attacks
the products of their labor loaves doop
scars on all other lmssiness, and cuts
down traffic. Tlio railroads in Geor
gia and the south cannot prosper
largely while tho farmers nro shorn of
the profits of their labor. Our railway
managers would find it interesting to
study the financial question—Atlanta
t 'uunti/iitirin.
FARGO IN ASHES.
A Disastrous Conflngrntlon Sweeps
Whole Blocks Away.
Half of tho town of Fargo, Minn.,
was swept away by a disastrous fire
Wednesday. Tho lire Htartoil nt 3
o'clock iu a restaurant on Second
street. A strong wind was blowing.
At 4 o'clock tho fire had readied
tho Great Northern truck, ton blocks
north, gutting the entire district for
threo blocks oust to Broadway. A
strong fight wns made to prevent tho
flumes from crossing to tho west sidoof
Broadway, hut by 4 o’clock thoy had
crossed in severnl places. Telegraph
wires nro all burned, so that it was im
possible to reach Grand Forks or Hills
boro to ask for help. Probably two
thoiiHnnd people aro homeless. Nearly
all of tho principal commercial houses
of tho town were swept away.
A strong wind mado the fire travel
so quickly that hardly anything was
Bavod. The flames went through brick
buildings as easily ns woodon ones.
The loss will ho over $1,000,000, ns
praotieally tho entiro business district
in tho o ity was gutted.
Odil Freaks of Collectors.
A Jersey City man devotes himself to
the collection of doorknobs, old and now,
and claims a museum numbering over
3,COD samplos.
Nebraska bonsts proudly of a col
lector who gathers locks of tlio hair
shaved from tho bends of noted crim
inals when they enter tho penitentiary,
labeling and indexing them with great
care.
Philadelphia is the abiding plnco of a
collector of cast-off horseshoes, who will
ritk his neck to secure a prize iu the
street, and whoso house is decorated with
them in all sizes, shapes atid degrees of
dilapidation.
Boston cun nroduoo a collector whoso
specialty is old bricks, each having been
secured from souio historical local edi-
fico while it was being demolished, nnd
boing tagged with a resurao of tho his
tory of tho building from which it wns
obtniued.
A New Orleans person is a collector of
sugar samples, uud is believed to have u
flusk of tho granulated product of every
plantation in tho State, some being of
actual historical interest.