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SHORT CROPS’
Consequently Money Is Scarce and Everybody is
Looking out for the Best Bargains. V •••
Nortti Georgia Cfieap Furniture House to tbe Rescue!
TWO MONTHS AGO EVERYBODY FELT ASSURED THAT THERE
would be an immense cotton crop gathered this Fall, and consequently all the
merchants laid in heavy stocks —“one of whom we are which.”.
Now, to secure as much of the limited funds afloat, the NORTH GEORGIA
CHEAP FURNITURE HOUSE has marked down all its goods to prices that
absolutely guarantees their sale.
BARGAINS IN FtlßNlTfclßE.
As kind Providence has rained out our bright cotton prospects, so the NORTH
GEORGIA CHEAP FURNITURE HOUSE has prepared to rain down Bar
gains in Furniture for the disappointed people.
As to the quality of our goods, why our reputation is made in that respect, and
the people have long ago deserted the foreign markets and now patronize the
North Georgia Cheap Furniture House —having come to the conclusion that it was
only a delusive idea that fine goods could not be had at home.
UNDERTAKING DEPARTMENT.
As usual our Undertaking Department is filled with a fine and well-selected
Stock of Caskets, Coffins, Burial Robes, Etc. All orders in this line will be given
prompt and careful attention. E. L. PEACOCK.,
Proprietor North Georgia Cheap Furniture House.
THe
Howard bark
0F Gartersville.
Bays and sells Exchange, available in all parts of the world.
Receives Deposits subject to check.
Issues Certificates of Deposit, payable on demand; or at a specified time, on
which interest is allowed.
This Bank having been tried in the crucible and having proven Us claim upor
the confidence of the public, solicits its patronage und promises a faithful dis
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Desirable accounts solicited and all usual accommodations oxtonded.
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J. R. WIKLE, President. J. 11. VIVION, Cashier.
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W. C. Bukor, Hiram Blaisdoll, .). A. Stover.
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OFGARTERSVILLE.
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tlon. For a longer time, lower rule*
It will pay you to advertise with us.
P- T. Barnum has made a sensation in
England. He has been interviewed in
railway carriages, at breakfast ami in
bed. The London newspapers describe
his habits, costume* and record his
movements. He is the biggest lion of
the “grandest show on earth."
There aro 1,400,000,000 people on
earth and all these, as some one computes,
could be gathered in a field ten miles
square or in 100 square miles of territory
and every last man of them reached from
one telephone. Who, exclaims the De
troit Free Prcie, says the world is over
populated when one book agent may ad
dress such an audience?
Maggie Shreiner, of Chicago, poured
kerosene oil on her husband aud then set
fire to it, burning him to death. Al
though she is serving a term of ten years
in the penitentiary, she is suing the
High Court of the Catholic Order of
Foresters in Chicago for 82000, princi
pal and interest on a death benefit of
81000, which she claims as a beneficiary
of the dead man’s estate.
Unele Sam's money bag* in the Treas
ury Department at Washington have been
saturated with the tear drops of heaven.
Recently the concrete roof was taken off
for repairs, and wheu the rain fell it
poured down on 87,000,000 silver dollars
stored in bags containing 1000 each.
Treasurer Huston thinks the moisture
will tend to- rot the hags and necessitate
a recount. An effort will bo made to
steam the moisture out of the bags.
An experiment in ocean time-saving
has just been tried by having the steam
ship City of Rome discharge her passen
gers at Milford Haven instead of at Liv
erpool on her' last voyage out. Milford
Haven is the extreme western point of
England, and it is believed that sailing
direct from New York to that point will
save from eighteen to twenty-four hours
in the passage. It is likely to become
the great point of sailing between the
two countries.
The Paris exhibition having closed,
Parisians are now engaged in contempla
ting the statistics and counting the gains.
It is estimated that 5,000,000 of French
people came front the provinces, and
that their aggregate expenditure in the
capital was $100,000,000. At least 1,-
500,000 of foreigners visited Paris and
the exhibition, aud spent 830,000,000.
Englishmen head the foreigners list with
380,000, Belgium coining next with
226,000, Germans third with 160,000,
and America a good fourth with nearly
120,000.
The interesting report of Inspector-
General Dumont, of the United States
Steamboat Inspection Service, presents
some striking figures. During the fiscal
year ended last June, over 6700 steamers
were inspected by his subordinates. The
total number of accidents resulting in loss
of life during the year was hut thirtv-two,
and the total death-list reached 301 ,out
of an estimated total of 550,000,000 pas
senger* carried on steam vessels during
the year. General Dumont modestly
credits the increased efficiency of the
Steamboat Inspection Service to the faith
fulness of his associates.
M. Eiffel, the builder of the great tower
in Paris, has recently invented a bridge
which promises to ‘‘fill a long felt want"
of the railroad companies. It is to be
used temporarily iu the place of the ordi
nary bridges when they have been dam
aged. It is made of steel, carries a
track, and weighs, with a length of 150
feet, about eighty-six tons. It can be
put in position from either end without
the aid of machinery or any preparation,
limply by human hands. At, a recent
trial in Paris many officers of high rank
Mid officials of the railways from several
Countries expressed their hearty admira
lion of it.
The King of Siam is a magnificent ob
ject in state attire. He glistens from
head to foot with jewels worth more than
$1,000,000. It is commonly reported in
Bangkok, the capital of that country,
that he has 300 wives and eighty-seven
children, though the exact figures have
never been given to his subjects. He
was a father at the age of twelve, and is
now ouly thirty-six years old. If he
lives a few years more he will be able to
assume the title of “father of his coun
try. ' The Kiug is a good fellow, fond
of a reasonable number of his children,
and very kind to his 800 wives. He is a
very progressive man and doge a
great deal o t good to clam.
CURRENT NEWS.
CONDENVtm FROM THE TELE
GRAPH AMD CARLE.
riIINOS THAT HAPPEN FROM DAY Tt) l)At
TKHorGHorT THE WORfctty tT’tt.El'
FROM VAtUOle wu heps
A levolutmn Las broken out in the de
partment of Cuseattan, San Salvador.
A disease resembling epizootic is prev
alent in Chicago. A number of horses
have died.
The main building of the Western col
lege, in Toledo, lowa, burned Thursday.
Loss $150,000.
A terrible thunderstorm passed over
New York state Thursday and considera
ble damage done.
I'ranee, acting in accordance with Eng
land, is about to recognize Hypolite as
President of Hayti.
The Pope has sent an autograph letter
to Don Carlos, congratulating him upon
his accession to the throne.
The citizens’ warehouse at Vasof* City,
Mass,, with six thousand bales of eottoU.
burned Saturday afternoon.
Carnegie's lower union iron mills al
Pittsburg, Pa., are closed down on ac
count of a strike of the puddlers.
Two old ladies, who were living by
themselves, near Syracuse, N. Y., were
found asphyxiated by coal gtis Thursday.
The Daily Netc, of London, Eng;,
says that Germany will send an Ironclad
to Brazil to protect German Colonists or
tlie Rio Grande,
The towh of Real, in Rifely, was shaker
by an earthquake Thursday. Severn
houses collapsed afad many persons were
buried under the rUins.
During the past ten months the imports
of woolen goons amounted in value tc
$47,167,488; against $44,010,890 during
the sable months of 1889,
Two youug men blew- out the gas in
their room at the Pacific hotel, Bethle
hem, Pa., Wednesday night, and were
found dead Thursday morning.
The Philadelphia Typographical uniot
lias voted to insist on their demand foi
increased wages, and the matter has beer
referred to the executive council.
The Wabash Manufacturing Company,
stationers, of Chicago, made an assign
ment Thursday. Liabilities s'loo,ooo. II
is claimed that the assets will reach the
same figure,
Edward P. Bftbst, general delivery
clerk in the Buffalo, N. A.. postofflee. has
been arrested on the charge of stealing
from the United States mails. He con
fessed his crime.
The steamer City of Berlin, from New
York for Liverpool, which arrived at
Queenstown Saturday morning, reports
passing two large icebergs in the track of
trans-Atlantic steamers.
A report comes from -St. Petersburg
that there is some disaffection in the
army, and that several arrests have been
made of officers who have given too free
vent to their opinions.
Alexander Beck & Son, carpet manu
facturers of Philadelphia, made an as
signment, Saturday for the benefit of their
creditors. The assignee estimates the
liabilities at $130,000 and assets at barely
SIOO,OOO,
The New York grand jury, on Friday,
made a presentment in regard to electric
light wires. It says the business of gener
ating and distributing electric currents
should be Investigated by the next legis
lature.
A dispatch received from Oporto, Por
tugal, Saturday, says thiit the ex-Km
press of Brazil, xvho lias been visiting
that city w ith Dom Pedro, died Saturday.
Her death is supposed to have resulted
from heart disease.
The Academy of Music, in the course
of erection at St. Louis, fell in a heap at
10.80 o’clock .Monday morning. Fifty
workmen were in the building. A num
ber of them are missing, and firemen art
at work searching the ruins.
Mr. Gladstone has received two hun
dred telegrams and five hundred letter?
congratulating him upon his eightietl
birthday, which was Sunday, the 29th.
The earliest telegram to arrive was from
the Prince and Princess of Wales.
The secretary of the navy has adopted
anew design for the Hag of the navy t<
take effect July Ist, 1891. It will he
applied to both the Hag and the union
jack of the navy, and consists of a rec
tangular arrangement of forty-two stars.
Let nils have been received of the se
rious ravages of scarlet fever and diphthe
ria in Campbell county, South Dakota,
forty cases being reported, twenty
six of which proved fatal. Other adja
cent counties also report several death?
from these diseases.
Intelligence has been received at Paris,
from Oboe, the French settlement on Ta
jurah Bay. on the east coast of Africa,
that two French missionaries who wert
traveling from Zeilah to Harrar, under es
cort of eight Greeks, were attacked by
natives and all the party were murdered*.
A terrible accident occurred on the
Frazier River road at Vancouver, British
Columbia, Saturday. Six young men, out
sleigh riding, were driving along the
road, when a tree fell, crushing the
sleigh, killing four of the occupants and
horses. The other two cscapcel with se
vere bruises.
Employes of Carnegie's Homestead steel
works, at Pittsburg. Pa., have been noti
fied by the firm that the new scale of wn
ges will go into effect immediately. The
advance tn wages will average about 1 i
cents per ton. These figures were given
by one of the workmen. A scale has not
been arranged, but will be be'ore the
month expires.
A Chicago dispatch, of Saturday, says:
States Attorney Lougnec-ker makes public
the information that he has secured con
siderable evidence against four or five
other men who were suspected of com
plicity in the Cronin murder, and that he
might, before long, take steps to have
them indicted and brought to trial. He
declines to mention their names.
The exports of specie from the port oi
New York last week amounted to $770,-
968, of which $64.349 was in gold and
$706,619 in silver, Of the total export
$704,892 in silver went to Europe, and
all the gold and $2,227 in silver went to
South America. The imports of specie
tor the week amounted to $170,438, ol
which $123,850 wa in gold and $16.00S
in silver.
Four hundred youths, composing 'hi
Chicago Press Feeders' umrin. struck tm
an atTvfture Of pay bn Monday. J hey
were receiving fiom $7 to $9 ii week. >o>‘
gave two hours’ notice of a demand lor
$10..#. Except in one instance, the _ de
mand was refused. The strike affects
only local and job printing offices. Ibe
employers decided to unitedly fight the
strikers’ demands.
Pay Clerk Jones, of 'hi' Government
marine corps, disappeared from AY aslntig
ton Christmas night, arid on examination
of his accounts snows them to have been
falsified and a default of $2,500 has been
discovered, Tlie matter lias been plac 'd
in the hands of the police. The loss (alls
on Major Goodloe, paymaster of the ma
rine corps, and his bondsmen. Jones
tried to create the impression that lie had
committed suicide, hut that is now
doubted.
At the last annual meeting ot the
American Public Association, at Brook
lyn, K, A'., it resolution was adopted
calling Upon officers of the United States
Marine Hospital Service to exercise the
same watchful vigilance to prevent the
introduction into the United States ol
persons suffering with leprosy, as it does
to prevent the introduction of yellow
fever, cholera, etc. tn accordance with
the tenor of this resolution. Surgeon-Gen
eral Ilamilton has prepared a series td
resolutions having this end in view. which
will be sent to the proper officials for thcii
guidance iu dealing with persons suffering
from this disease. The regulations have
been approved by the President.
BUSINESS REVIEW
THE WEATHER MAKES SEVERAL BRANCHES
OF TRADE VERY DULL.
R. G. Dunn & Company's weekly re
view of trade, says: A pause in business
is usual at the end of the year, but this
year the unseasonable weather and much
pressure for money at the Hast, makes
dullness border on the depression. While
the prospects for the future are generally
regarded with great confidence, the pres
ent state of the trade is not quite satisfac
tory, and in some sections of
the country delay of collections causes
fear of commercial embarrassments.
The holiday business lias been large at
nearly every point reporting. The move
ment of grain at Chicago continues equal
to that of last year to date, with an in
crease of fifty per cent, in beef products,
receipts of butter nearly doubled, and a
slight increase in lard, but some decline
in cheese, wool and hides. The grocery
trade reports a prosperous year, but very
light sales at present. The paper trade is
also light and collections there slow. At
Boston, ail the wholesale trade lias been
quiet, but sonic retailers report holiday,
sales ahead of last year. Woo] is inactive
but steady, and hides, leather and boots
and shoes moving fairly at unchanged
prices. The weak points of the situation
are those trades which are most affected
by two successive mild winters. The
anthracite coal trade is stagnant in
the absence of demand, and the situation
is almost without precedent. More than
half the Reading coal mines have closed,
throwing eight thousand miners out of
work, and it is stated that twenty thous
and miners are working on three-quarters
time. The bituminous coal trade is move
active but lacking ears. No definatc re
lief in the woolen goods business can b<
expected until prolonged cold weather
has caused a well-sustained demand, and
the clothing business in all parts of the
country must necessarily depend, to a great
extent, upon the weather. To a greatei
or less extent, many other kinds of busi
ness ate disturbed and sometimes put to
strain bv the absence of demand
incident to tlie season, and in all quav
ers the delay of collection is felt. On
be other hand, the iron business
'ontinuex to prosper. Prices arc very firm
it Philadelphia, and $19.50 is quoted for
lumber one. Rales of 35,000 tons steel
•ails are reported, with the price steady at
$35 east, and $86.25 at Chicago, Bar
jon is firm at 2 cents, and confidence in
be future is in all branches of the iron
uul steel business undiminished. In the
ipeculative markets there has been little
•hauge, except in corn, which has dropped
TV cents, with sales of 11,000.000 bushels.
Coffee a quarter higher, with sales of
only 160,000 bags, and cotton steady.
November exports, according to official
reports just completed, exceed imports
by the unprecedented sum of $34,403,716,
and at New York, in December, exports
show a decrease of 5.1 per cent., while
imports increase 23 per cent. But even
at this rate, the excess of exports for the
whole country would he over $10,060.000.
The treasury is so conducted as to sustain
the money market as easy as practicable,
and $3,200,000 Ims been paid out in ex
cess of receipts this week. But the move
ment of $70,000,000 cash from the treas
ury and banks to the west and south since
August Ist. makes the present stringency
by no means surprising. Business failures
throughout the country during last week
number, for the United States 249, Cana
da 39. Total 288 failures, against 342
last week.
HORSE THIEVES AT WORK.
A REGULARLY OH>. XXIZED BAKU OPERAT
ING IX TENNESSEE.
What amounts to a panic exists among
the farmers of Davidson and adjoining
counties in middle Tennessee. A splen
didly organized band of horse thieves has
been operating there for months without
let or hindrance. It is estimated that
within the last two weeks 200 horses
have been stolen and run into
Kentucky fastnesses, where it is next to
impossible tc follow them or the thieves.
Not one of these animals has been recov
ered. Gen. W. H. Jackson, of the famous
Belle Meade farm. Colonel John Overton
and the Cockerills are preparing a farm
ers’ association, which, with an abundance
of money to back it, will employ an ade
quate and competent force to annihilate
me robbers.
ANOTHER BUNKER HILL.
Pompous Engl.'sh Author—Mv a;ubi
t:on, sir 18 to be buried at Wes min -ter
Abbey, 1 emie tile great men of Enn
lauu s past 3
American Person—lndeed! Mine is
ti remain a ive and kicking among the
rwifcSto A ““ icaß PM ~
SOUTHERN NOTES.
tNTERESTIk'G IVjswS FROM Atl
POTNTB IN THE s'OUTH.
GENERAL PROGRESS AND
WHICH ARE HAPPENING BELOW ,M A-*
SON’S AND DIXON’S LINE.
The Tim-l)emoerat pronounces the
gravel roads of New Orleans a
mid far preferable to the shell roads which
were first tried.
.judge Kit AVafreilj one of Georgia's
most excellent and well-known journal
ists, after a long and eventful life, died id
Atlanta on SutuEddy.
Mr. Win. Watson, of Jackson, Miss.,l
lias closed a trade with n Memphis,'
Tenn., syndicate, selling ninety-three
Ihousand aeresof land in Sunflower county
for $197, 500,
A mould for a heavy casting, in ihd
Masher Machine company, Dallas, Texas,
while being filled with molten metal, on
Saturday, exploded, and nine luon were
badly burned; three fatally,
Saturday night, in Augusta, tia., the
branch of Commercial Travelers, reorgan
ized under anew charter of the Southern
Travelers’ association. The meeting Was
very large and enthusiastic, A full set of
officers were elected.
At Richmond, Vn., on Monday, Post
office Inspector G. W. Wilde imested
James P. Wright, a letter carrier in the
Richmond postoffice, charged with fob
bing mails. A portion of a rifled letter
was found on his person. Wright was
foimeiiy a Methodist minister,
The store of AV. T. Massey & Cos., at
Lineolnton, N. C., was burned Saturday.
The stock, valued at $15,000 to $20,000,
was a total loss. Seventy bales of cotton
stored in the basement were burned, but
licit loss is covered by insurance, The
brick building valued at SB,OOO was a
total wreck. No insurance.
The Kentucky legislature organized at
Louisville, Monday. Governor Buckner's
message shows the defalcation of Treas
urer Tate to be $174,094. After all
credits by sale of bis property are deduct
ed, and accounts yet unsettled will fur
ther reduce this to about $150,000, and
this amount is to be collected from his
bondsmen,
Mrs. Robert Tyler died in Montgomery,
Ala., Sunday morning in the seventy
fourth year of her age. In 1840 she mar
ried Robert Tyler, eldest son of President
Tyler, and upon special request of the
President and his wife, who was an in
valid, she presided as “lady of the white
house” during the first three years of
President Tyler’s administration.
A terrific explosion of gas occurred in
a two-story brick building, corner Elisian
Felds and Victory streets, New Orleans,
Monday, demolishing two buildings and
burying six persons beneath the debris,
but by the heroic efforts of the firemen
and police they were rescued without se
rious injuries. Many window glasses in
adjacent buildings were shattered by the
’force of the explosion.
The large saw-and grist mills and dry
kilns, belonging to the Greenleaf Johnson
Lumber Company, of Norfolk, Va., and
Baltimore. Maryland, situated at How
ards, in Bertie county, N. C., were en
tirely destroyed by tire Saturday, together
with large quantities of sawed lumber.
The property was worth about $75,000.
The origin of the tire is supposed to be
incendiary.
Fannie Bryant, tlie negro woman con
victed as the accomplice of Dick Hawes
iu the murder of his wife and children at
Birmingham, Ala., was on Monday sent
to the penitentiary to serve out a life sen
tence. Her ease was appealed to the su
preme court, but errors in the hill of ex
ceptions threw it out of court. The wo
man refused to make any statement before
leaving the jail.
Among the 266 acts passed at the recent
session of the legislature of South Caro
lina, was one to prevent and punish the
sale of cigarettes to minors. The gover
nor has signed the bill, and the 800 cigar
manufacturers and dealers iu Charleston
are now very much excited. It is proba
ble that all the dealers will adopt the
“drop a nickel in the slot"’ machine, for
the disposition of their cigarettes.
Christmas was observed in Memphis.
Tenn., in a manner, accompanied by two
atrocious murders. Early in the morn
ing the dead body of a negro, supposed
to be Dan Hawkins, Mas found under the
bayou bridge, with a bullet wound in the
head. At eight o’clock at night, Emmett
Pinkston, driver of a Main street car.
was stabbed to tlie heart by an unknown
negro and instantly killed. The murderei
in each case escaped.
A dispatch of Saturday from Needles,
Cal., says: On account of washouts on
other railroads wait of here, the Atlanta
and Pacific officials have been compelled
to return all Los Angeles passengers to
Albuquerque, whence they will be taken
by the Santa Fe route to Deuiing. and
thence to Los Angeles by the Southern
Pacific. .Washouts on the Mojave rivei
M ill be repaired in two days. Therefore,
passengers for San Francisco are held here
and at Barstow.
Mrs. Maria Louise Longstreet, consort
of Gen. James Longstrect, died at Gaines
ville, Ga., on Monday. Mrs. Longstrect
had been confined to her room several
months and bore her suffering patiently
ar.d with Christian resignation. Her
maiden name was Garland, a daughter of
General John Garland, of the United
States army, and a distinguished citizen
of Virginia. She was born on the 16th
day of March, 1827, at Fort Snelliug-
Minn., and was married to General Long
street in Lvuchburg. Va., on March Bth.
1848.
A sensation is brewing in railroad cir
cles at Chattanooga, Teuu., and a
general strike on the Cincinnati
Southern railroad is threatened by the
conductors and engineers. There Tias
been a local organization of the Brother
hood of Railway conductors formed there
lately, and the Cincinnati Southern rail
way company has discharged twenty of
their conductors on the charges of neg
lect of duty and insubordination. The
conductors claim that their discharge is
due to their having joined the brother
hood. No action has yet been taken.
Ten indictments for election fraud' at the
last Congressional election in the First Dis
trict of A’kens ia have bean found by the
United States Grand Jury at Helena.