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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 charge of its duties to its customers. Desirable accounts solicited and all usual accommodations oxtonded. aug22-ly W. 11. HOWARD, Solti Owner. J. R. WIKLE, President. J. 11. VIVION, Cashier. Directors : J. R. Wiklo, .T. O. Wofford, .1. li. Vtvlon, L. S. Mumford, W. C. Bukor, Hiram Blaisdoll, .). A. Stover. • THE • First national bank OFGARTERSVILLE. <'artkksvili.k, Ga., May Ist, 1889. This bane is now ready for transacting any legitimath Banking business upon the most liberal terms and principles consistent witV absolute safety and protection to the interests of the bank and its customers. We, therefore tender our services to the public and solicit patronage upon tin i'orogoing sound basis, and will endeavor to make our business rdutions pleasani and satisfactory to all dealers ami our institution a real benefit to this city and the surrounding country. He.spoctfully, novU - tf J. H. VIVIOAI, Cashier. $5769.001N GQLiB ft $5759.00 AND VALUABLE PRESENTS TO BE CiVEN AWAY. THE WEEKLY ACE-HERALD GRAND GIFT DISTRIBUTIOX. I<*3o Splendid Clift*. Worth, SS7<MMX> to be Distributed March li*, 18HO. suiods the *ubsa-iL>er* of Thu Wkiiki.v Ahe-H rkai.h. 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Then subscribe without delay, aud get your neighbors who an-not subscribers to join you lou will get ths best newspaper for the farm and household. Its Agricultural Department leads nil the agricultural publications of tbe South. practical, comprehensive teanhiugs ACTIVE, ENERGETIC AGENTS ARE WANTED Mammoth Twelve Page Weekly Age-Herald, n rite for Bpecimen Copies, Agents'Outfit Blanks etc., and begin work at once. Address THE ACE-HERALD COMPANY, - Birmingham, Ala. Gerald GrifTiru • TIRE INSURANCE AGENCY.# Represents Leading Companies. july 19-ly John T. Norris. REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE. Office: Upstairs, First Door Below Howard Bank. novl4 Subscribe for This Paper I Brimful of ohotoo reading matter for everybody. * Kow 10 Tims}. Examine thia paper and end ui your subscription IT WILL PAY YOU! "... i PROFESSIONAL CAROS. J. M >Tccl, Attorney-at-Law. SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO litigation in real estate, in the ad ministration of estates of deceased per sons, and in cases in equity. ltT~ Office : On Public Square, north St. James Hotel. fel>24-ly Douglas Wikle, Attorney-at-Law. 1 PRACTICES IN ALL THE COURTS of tho Cherokee Circuit. Special Attention given to tho collection of '■aims anti the abstracting of titles. tW~ Office : In the Court House. novl4,tf J. 11. Mayfield, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Chronic Diseasos a Specialty. OFFICE east side Public Square. Cat tersville, Ga. aug22-Gm The Booz Hotel, IEUARTOWN, GEORGIA. I > ECENTLY ENLARGED. AMPLE 1-U accommodations for the traveling public. novl-t-tf Public Hauling. ECBERT MOODY. 13REPARED TO DO ALL KINDS _ of Hauling-- carefully, safely and guaranteed satisfaction. Moving piano, f-.'tO —heavy safes, etc., according to aoiglit; baggage, luc. flour, 15c.; guano, Ike.; household furniture, 25c. Cali for Egbert Moody. junel-ly # GQALi! # Call on us for good coal. 1 Hill weights reasonable prices A übroy &. McEwen, AOHNTB I'On CLEN MARY AND LEHICH COAL. novl4-tt' Real Estate! ALEX M. WILLINGHAM. I JARTIES HAVING REAL ESTATE L of any character for sale can do no better than by placing it in iuv hands. I 'vill pay strict attention to FARMING LANDS, CITY PROPERTY, MINERAL PROPERTY. All property placed in my hands will be ADVERTISED FREE OF COST tO OWrr, and every effort made to bring about a sale. ALEX M. WILLINGHAM nov2l-tf tPILBS, wrttfuj THe Dourant-flmeiican. 1.50 PKR ANNPM IN ADVANCE. KATES or ADVBBTItnttO. sracl. | Imo. S mos. | 6 me* j 1 year, One Inch, * 250 $ OBl J 760% 10 00 Twotnoher. SW 7 So] 10 001 13 00 Three Inch*#, is 00 10 00i 12 50 20 00 Four incite*, 00 12 BOi 15 Ofli 25 Oo Fourth coViaui. 700 15 fit- 1 23 00 40 00 HalT column, 11 00 20 OOi 40 OO; 00 00 Ohe column, 15 00) afi 00! 00 00| 100 00 Local notice* ten (vcU per line for llrst inner, 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.