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THE CRAWFORD COUNTY CORRESPONDENT. % James M Richardson.- Proprietors W Russell Branham, i THANKSGIVING DAY! With grateful heart* let all give thank*. All lands, all stations, and all ranks: And the cry comes up along the way, For what shall we give thanks to-day? For peace and plenty, busy mills, “The cattle on a thousand hills,” For bursting barns, wherein is stored The golden grain, a precious hoard; , Give thanks 1 For orchards bearing roey fruit. For yielding pod and toothsome root, And all that God declared was good In hill or dale, or field or wood: Give thanks 1 For water bright an I sweeet and clear, A million fountains far and near. For gracious streamlet?, lakes, aud rill* That flow from everlasting hills: Give thanks! For summer dews and tiratly frost. The sun’s bright beams, not one ray lost. For willing hands to sow the see.) And reap the harvest, great iudeod: Give thanks! For hearth and hone—love’s altar Area— For loving children, thoughtful sires; For ten ler mothers, gentle wives. Who fill our hoarts an l bless our lives: Give thanks? For heaven’s care, life’? journey through, For health and strength to dare and do, For ears to hear, for eyas to se) Earth’s teauteous things oa lan I m i sea: Give thanks! -M. A. Kidder. BESSIE’S THANKSGIVING. BT KATE M. CLEARY. MOST diffident and modest knock it was. Perhaps because <3@m it was so very diffident, so very modest, irritated all the more the peculiarly alert nerves of Mr. God trey Kirke. “Oh, come in, 0 come in 1" he cried. An elderly woman entered the room. She had n small, pale withered face; a kind face, though, pleasant, gentle. * She was dressed in a worn dark gown. The net fichu, crossed over her slender shoulders, was clasped by an old-fash ioned medallion. “To-morrow will be Tliaoksgiving eve," she said; “I wished to know if I might prepare for the day after.” An originally handsome apartment, this in which the old man sat, and it bad been handsomely furnished. Kow both the room and its belongings bore the mark of creeping poverty, or ex treme peuuriousnest. The master of tne house, seated by the center taole, seemc 1 to share the character of the room. He, too, bad been handsome once. Kow be was expressive only of age and in digence, from the threadbare collar of his limp dressin'-gown to the tips of his thin and shabby slippers. ’'Prepare what I" he growled. “Why a turkey, sir; or a pie, or—or a bit of cranberry-jauce, sir—” He looked so fierce, her words died in her throat. “Turkey! And where do you sup¬ pose I can get the money to spend on turkey! And pie! To make us all sick, and bring doctors and doctors’ bills down on me! And,” with a sniff of “cranberry sauce—the skinny stuff! No, Mr*. Dotty. A bit of bacon and some bread will bs good enough for poor folks like us—good enough.” His housekeeper, for that was the un enviable position Mrs. Dotty occupied in Godfrey Kirke’s household, resolved to make one last appeal. a _• *>} T k W a I— 4 » H is “OH, COHR ut. COME in!” HE CRIED But I thought perhaps oa account of the child,” she began. . U. fft ask for her, did II right 1 to adopt her. What * to make such a poor If by marrying Tom Bar¬ thea cc bas to die here, v* her girl! Eh! She's an I tell you; that's ail. An ex Rv Lord help murmured us, but he's the gottiag rss thsa ever!" dosrnrightdtt- wesson, with • bang that sras xctfui, t 1 ** slammed the door behind httte thing. Of wss a clad is ill shout u She wss an sorrowful. dslicste fsntarss hod a _ The 5 ?srisf.r«r?ji tjtz “Yes; and I—heard." “Oh, don’t—don’t mind, deart” said Mrs. Dotty, soothingly, putting a hand thst looked like wrinkled ivory on the girl’s arm. “He is just a cross, soured, lonely old man.” • *1 do mind t” Bessie passionately cried. “Oh, I do! I sha’n't stay here! I aha’n’t be an expense to him any longer. I will go away somewhere!” She broke down in a fit of bitter weeping. “Xow, Miss Bessie, dear, you mustn’t cry that way; you really mustn’t. I loved your mother before you, and I love you.” But the poor, little, old comforter was almost crying herself. Years before, the Kirkes were the people of wealth and position in that part of the country. But one trouble after another had come upon the house. First, the wife of the master died. Maud, the daughter, married a man whose only crime was poverty. He was a frail, scholarly man, quite unfitted for a fierce struggle against advene fortune. He fell ill and died. A year later hie wife followed him, leaving their child to its grandfather, Godfrey Kirke. To the latter had come the Anal blow when htt only son Robert, hie hope and pride, had run away to sea. Then in the house, which since the death of the mis¬ tress bad been a cheerless arid dreary place, began a rigid reign of miserliuejs aud consequent misery. Bessie broke from her friend and ran upstairs and into her own little bare room. There was no fire in the grate, though the day was cold with the pene¬ trating damp of a wind from off the ocean.' She went to the window and stood there looking out across the flat brown marshes, to where the waters tossed, greenish and turbulent. “A horrid day,” she said, with a shiver, “but it can’t be worse out than in.” She put on a short old Astrahan jacket, a little felt hat and a pair of much-mended cloth gloves. Then ahe went quickly down and out. The dusk, the dreary November dusk, was filling the room wnen the old man, plodding over his accounts, laid down his pencil and rang the bell. Mrs. Dotty responded. Mr. Kirke kept but one other servant (if Mr*. Dotty could correctly be termed a servant), and ah* absolutely refused to enter the protest¬ ing presence of her master, "Tea!" “Yes, sir.” The meek housekeeper withdrew. Ten minutes later she drought in a tray on which were tea, bread, butter, two cups, two saucers ami two4»late*. Mr. Kirke poured out his tea, shook a little of the sugar he was about to use back in the old aiiver bowl, added carefully a few drops of milk and cut a slice of bread. “Butter has gone up three cents in the last week,” be said. “I can't afford to use butter." So he munched his bread dry, with a sense of exaltation in bis sell-imposed penance. lie would not open the poorhouse-door for himself by using but¬ ter. But, somehow, toe rank tea tasted ranker than usual. Surely the bread was sour. And the gloom outside the small circle that the lamplight illumined seemed singularly douse. What was wrocgl What was missing? Wha* was differeat? He paused, htt hand falling by htt side. The child—as be and Mrs. Dotty had always cailod her—the child was not here. She used to slip in so quietly, take her seat, and when her meager supper was over, glide away just as softly. Yea, little as he noticed her, she was generally there. He rang the beli sharply. “Where is she?” heaskei Mrs. Dotty, when she popped in her mild old head. There was no need to pirticularize. searching Mrs. Dotty cast a swift, leak arout d. “isn’t ah* here!" Without waiting for a reply, she turned and ran up the stairs to Bessie's room. There she knocked. No answer. She opened the door, went in. The room was empty. Hastily she descended the stair*. “Shs is mjt in, sir.” “Where is thef” “I don't know, sir.” Impatiently Godfrey Kirke pushed hi* chair back from the table. “You ought to know, it’s your busi¬ ness to know. But it doesn't matter— it doesn't matter in the least.” Down to Hanna in the kitchen went j Mrs. Dotty. I “Did you Miss Bossier “Yes’m. Pawin' westward a couple • of hours ago—yes’m.'' “Ob!” j Bessie Mrs. had Dotty probably breathed a to relieved Bose Dever's sigh. gone The Devers lived almost a mile *"**• “P would most likely stay these over night, tnn Voirtt'k* lfr_ Ctrk#‘« hull 1 “Ho, sir. why she went out!” “Do you know “I suspect, sir." “Well, speak up.” conversation “8he overheard our to¬ day.” itr “What of “Nothing of it,” with a vert angry flash from very faded eye«, “except that she vowsd she would be an expense to you do longer.” * “She did, ehr “She did.” “Well,” grimly. “I hope shs won't!” The child had a sulky it. Shs wss probably at the house of Shs would return when her tantrum hod off. All tha bs toll himself. Stilt hs sot in his lonely room till long after mid sight, listening, listening. When hs finally want to bed it wss to roll sad moan ttiUdaylight, 1a tbs vagus before Thanksgiving ~ ~ did not re ^ • fog. a yhdl. ROBERTA, GA M f|V > « r tt ~4A j CC ■>fi, \m. smoky, blinding fog, began to creep up from the Atlautio. “If you don’t mind,” said Mrs. Dotty, making her appearance with a shawl over her head, “I’ll just run over to Devers’ and see what is keeping Mist Bessie." “DoI” he answered. She had spoken as if the distance were not worth considering, but it was quite a journey for her. When she returned ahe looked white and scared. “She isn’t there —hasn't been.” “Hark!” said Godfrey Kirke, holding up one lean hand. “That is onlv the carrier with the flour.” “Ask him if he has seen her!” Mrs. Dotty went into the hall. Almost instantly she returned. “He has not. He says there is the body of a young woman at the town morgue.” “What!” Godfrey Kirke leaped from his chair. “He says that the body of a young girl was found in the East Branch to-day.” Godfrey Kirke sank back in his seat. Mr?. Dotty smiled a hard little smile to herself as she closed the door and went away. Sue knew how many friends Bessie had. She shrewdly suspected if she were not found at one place she would be at another; and she was malici¬ ously and pleasantly conscious that she had given the hard-hoarted old man a genuine scare. where she had left Long the latter sat him. Thinking. For the first time in years he was thinking, sadly,.seriously, solemnly. Th&n'sgiving-eve! In his wife’s time the honse used to be gay and cheerful on that night, so filled with com¬ fort and bright anticipations, so odorous with the homely fragrance of good things in the kitchen, so delightfully merry with the brisk bustle attendant on the mor¬ row’s festivity. Now it was desolate, dreary, darksome with depressing and unutterable gloom. Whose fault was it! His' decided Golfrey Kirke, as savagely relentless to himself in this moment as he would have been to another. His! o , ,J 0 _ A n HE BAD TRB WKAPOK IS HtS RAND. when his devoted wife bad drooped and died under his ever-increasing arrogance, dictation. Hist when Maud married the first mao who offered himself, to escape from her father * pretty rule. HU! when Robert ran away to escape the narrow obligations and unjust restrictions laid upon him. His! whon the child his dead daughter had left him could no longer endure hU brutality, or accept from him the scant support he so grud gingly gave. Htt fault—all htt! In those lonely hour* the whole relentless truth dawned upon him, as such truths will dawn, in most bitter brilliance. He dropped htt heed on htt hands with a groan. looked around the dim, shabby He room. He looked at the dying fire in the grate. He wondered o! what use would be to him now his twenty-thou¬ sand in bonds, htt eight hundred acres of meadow land, the money ne had out at interest. He rose in a dazed kind of way, a shadowy purpose taking definite¬ ness in htt mind. He wished be had been better to Besse; he wished—but what was the use of wishing now? There could be but one satisfactory answer to all htt self-condemnation. A shot from the revolver in the drawer yonder.that be had alwaya kept la readiness for possible burgisn. H e rose. He moved toward the table. Htt figure cast a fantastic shadow on the wall. The tears were streaming down htt cheeks. There might be thanksgiving for bis death, though there could never have been any for htt life. Hark! He had the weapon ia htt hand. He started nervously. Wm that Bessie’s voice! He tamed, dropping the revolver with a clatter. Yes, there she wee, no*, three fort away, fresh, fair, damp, emil Nt thing,” she said, “It it the queerest coming toward him as she spoke, “I felt—badly—yesterday, and I went over QHr. IS? and »£.jou she wanted me to stay 7 over a note. At km she seat the boy with it, but he last it, and only told her so this afternoon. As •no* si I hnew^that I started horn* alone— although Dicky *ras no Mtter. He “Ys»r said Godfrey Kirke. was Iktcsuir with an unusual degree of in --... “And to-night, when , I urns almost . here, (Kelsons’ i* <?»«*• *«• ■**■» *"? you know,, I got lost .. the teg. Her gramUather regarded her in ML What mods be pais rbeaks so bright! What ■ MM gray eyas! he^ A f^d who sms end-uml brought Hors bs hi” tbsboU “ B shmtt" “Fmbsrl* ineoek other'. Than they clasped •Tm from tbs for good. father. And I chanced to find my little niece Bessie lost out there in the fog. A young lady, I vow! And I was think¬ ing of her as a mere baby yet! Just think! She tells me Charlie Kelson wants her—” “No? Well, Charlie is a fine fellow. Ho can have her—a year from to-day.” So now you know why the Kirke homestead is dazzling with lights and flowers, and why it resounds with laugh¬ ter this Thanksgiving; why old Godfrey i 0.0 “robsht!” "father!” wears a brsnn-new suit, and s flower in his buttonhole; why Robert, in his rightful place, looked so proui and pleased; why dear, busy little Mrs.Dotty beams benignly; why Bessie, gowned in snowy, shining silk, thinks this is a lovely old world after all; why Charlie Kelson is so bltssedly content, and why in each and every heart reigns supreme Thanksgiving.—The Ledger. Thankaglvln; Roast Pig. Take a choice fat pig six weeks little old, not younger, though it may be a older. Have it carefully killed and dressed, and thoroughly washed. Trim out carefully with a sharp, narrow-bladed knife the inside of the mouth and ears, cv.t out the tongue and chop off the end of the snout. Rub the pig well with a l mixture of salt, pepper and pounded - sage, and sprinkle it rather liberally with red pepper, and a dash outside, too. Make a rich stuffiQg of bread crumbs —corn bread stuffing is de rigeur for pig, though you can put half of one ami half of the other inside of Mr. Piggy if somebody insists on loaf bread stuffing. If you use corn bread, have a thick, rich pone of bread baked, and crumble it as | soon as it is coot enough to handle, sea- 1 son |{ highly with black and red pepper, 1 sage, thyme, savory marjoram, minced onion—just euough to flavor it, and plenty of fresh butter; moisten it well with stock, cream, or even hot water. Stuff the pig well and sew it up closely. If you have a tin roaster and open tire, the pig will be roasted by that much better. If you have not, put the pig in a long pan and set it in the oven, and j begins leave the stove cook, door gradually open until cloung the the pig to poor, ao that the cooking wilt not be done too fast. The pig must be well dredged with flour when put in the |>an. Mix some flour and butter together in a plate, and pour about a quart of hot water in the pan with the pig when it is put on the fire. Have a larding-tnop in the plate of flour and butter, and mop the pig frequently with the mixture while it U roasting. If a roaster is used, set it about two feet from the fire at first, but continue to move it nearer and nearer as the pig cooks. Baste it frequently with the water in the pan bet ween whiles of mop. piog with flour and butter. To be sure the pig is done, thrust a akewer through the thickest part of him; »f no pink or reddish juice oozes out it is done, and ought to be a rich brown all over. When the pig is done |>our the gravy in a saucepan auil cook it sufficiently. This will not be necessary if the pig was cooked in the stove oven. The pig's liver may be boiled in well salted water, pounded up, and added to the gravy, which should bs very savory and plentiful. The pig should be invariably served with baked sweet «otatoes and plenty of good pickle and sauce, either mushroom or green pepper catsup, for despite his toothsome new, roast pig is not very safe eating without plenty of red peppsr.— Good Housekeeper. An Informal Ripest. “I suppose,” said Mr#. Brown, “you would like me to wear a new dress at n,;, Thanksgiving dinner you are uoing to g i Te J - ."Can't afford it,” growled old Brown, . tjLM „ yo „ h JT e the turkey well dressed you will pas* muster."—Judge. The Thanksgiving Turkey. As Taanksgiring Day wails* down this way ]"!» strutting turasy is ill at « l as »< as tbs turtay of Job,” says bs; ’Tonga mad untit to sat, you ear. And a turkey imasr d I ttma ru be. ** Caave for Thantrgirimr. andsy-school Twseher - •• WiUie, bad anything during the week ^ M sMctaOy tassxful fort” vtTi!ls«_“Yes’m, Johnny Podgets sprained his wrist and I licxed him for t ^ ^ yesterday.”—Burlington Tree Press A Thesfht Fsr iheSeaten H( m , store of blastings ibare ly b By Upon ah thagMasm tea poor a snare. that gifts proas* havebowa b* Em Will thanksgiving Tommy’s Dream on Thanksgiving Mgk a*. ,■* THE CHEAT STRIKE ENDED, And Mills at Homestead Hare Begun Operations Once Mora A Large Number of the Strikers are Given their Old Plaees. The great Homestead strike, or lock¬ out, was brough to an end Sunday morn¬ ing at a meeting which was presided over by Richard Hotchkis?, the new chairman of tbe strikers’ advisory board. Secretary Killga.ion, Vice President Cor ney and Treasurer Madden, national i fl¬ eers of the Amalgamated Association, were present. The lockout had reached its 144th day. Its history is known the w >rld over. 1 he vote that opened the Horn' stead Steel works to Amalgam¬ ate! men stood 101 ayes to 91 nays. The meeting was a red hot one all the way through and at one time looked ns if Burgess Hollings hcad would have to assert his official au¬ thority to prevent a serious conflict. Charges aud counter charges were the order of the dsy. News paper reporters were excluded, but the infornnti >n is re¬ liable that those wishing to dee sre the mill open barely su receded in carrying their point. Now that the agony is over, the men are not backward about expressing their opin ous of the men who have posed as leaders, confidently promisi g victory when they knew for a certuinty that the battle was hopidcss’y d, lost According to Superintendent Wo. than eight of tbe Homestead nine work?, not more or hun¬ dred of the employees will be able to se¬ cure emp'oyment. The fact that the men would return to work ha* put the people of than the town in a happier frame of m ud at any time during the lockout. Business men especiady feel that the town will soon re¬ sume its former activity. There were six hundred applications for work du¬ ring the day. Although many were turned away because their positions had been taken by new men, they have good reason to believe that in a short time nearly an the men will be back again. The mill y«rd i’ full of old iron and scraps ami it ?eems to be no secret that the comp toy is as well pleased as the nieu that declared the strike off. has, to a certain extent, been Sev eral am ilgsmated men are known to have applied for tin ir ol I p sitions and so far a? leam d none were refu ed. Men charged with rioting h-ive been given plants notwithstanding the company's former dec! -rqtion. foreman The di-charge company has notified tbe to only incnin.x tent men to make room for tbe oh! m n The incompetent list wa» found to If large, judging from the number of old men !>ei >: l a'ten back. DISASTROUS STORMS Sweep Over .Several Western Slates Doing Considerable Damage. A Chic-go special says: The iff ct of Ike stenn of Friday and Friday u gbt i? evident in the iuterruptiou of telegraphic communication with the w<st Hero in Chicago the wird blew at the rate of forty to fifty miles per b< ur at time? thr ugh the night. Neither of the telegraph cun panic? has wires work ing Himix to St. Paul. Miunea|»o is, Duluth, City, or Kansas point?. Communi¬ cations wiris Ksus s City is irregular, and at time? cut off al’ogetlier. The storm extended from Illinois west to the Rocky mountains, *< u ! h to the Indian Territory and norhto the Canadian lioe. All tt-Ii-oraphic communications within this district is ahsolutiy cut off, and it is impi ?? bie to more than conjecture ihe amount of damage done. lU'KHICAliK AT BAI.TIUOKR. A Baltimore dispatch says: A hurri¬ cane of unusual violence swept up Ches¬ apeake havoc bay nt buildings noon Friday, and played with along the watet front of tbe harber and with vessels moored thereiu. Tbe wind reached the velocity harbor of sixty miles an hour. Tbs was well tilled with vessels of every class, acd a gn at deal of damage was done to them. An immense grain elevator, railroad, belonging to tbe Northern Central in Canton, was consid¬ erably damag.-d, the wind shaking the great building until wide cracks appeared in tbe walls. No estimate of the loss by the hurricane is given, but it will neces¬ sarily be large. THE STORM IX INDIANA. Dispatches from English, lod., state that • tornado of forty-eight hours* du¬ ration iocreased in force early Friday morning and wrecked nearly every win¬ dow and chimney in tbe town. The fronts of revere! business bouses were blown in and there were several narrow escapee from death. Two hundred huge forest trees were uprooted. AFTERNOON PAPERS Organize the “ Southern • Afteraaen Press Association.” Representative* of practically all after¬ noon papers in the south, met at Savao n ah Saturday, and Association. organised the The Soutbern Aftern on Press papers represented were at follows: The Slates, New Orleans; tbe Tribune, Galveston; the News, Chanonsoga; the Sentinel, Knoxville; the New*, Macon; the Journal, Atlanta; tbe Mobile; Metropolis, the Journal, Jacksonville; Mont¬ The News, Memphis; the gomery; tbe Scimetsr, News,’ Augusta; the Press, Savannah; Richmond; the New?, Baltimore; tbs Butte. The Ledger. Norfolk; t*>* Times, Loutt viiie; the Public Ledger. Memphis. It tt the intention of each paper ia tbe as¬ sociation to net as locality its news where representative it i* pub¬ lor the city *r.d lished. ___ ADVISORY BOARD DISBANDED. Increased >amber si Application* tor Wart st tbe Mill*. A special of Tuesday from Homestead. P* says: The official existence of tbs strikers' fan#? is advisory board was end¬ ed at a meetiag held Monday night. Applications for reinstatement in tits mill* continue in increased numbers The Steal? to be iBriiMd to bs comiderate acd it is now thought proba strikers We that will a much be larger ployed proportion than it of the re-? m wn* thought possible. A SHORT COTTON CROP. Six Million Bales Is the Figure Ar rived At? The Charleston News and Courier ha? had an (xhaustive examination made of the condition of the cot bn crop of the aou'b, ex' < nding over the entire belr, and on Saturday publish'd show the that fg' suit of its work. The rt ports tbe crop is short far beyond the caicnia tion of a!! experts, who have shows thus that fat fig ured on it. It further tbe greater part of the crop has been picked and rushed to msrkct and that the late top crop will amount to practically noth¬ ing. From these reports, which come from tbe commissioners • f agriculture of the vari- us states, and from trustworthy newspa.s-r*, it appear? the crop will scarcely exceed ? x million bales. The Columbus Enquirer-Sun say#! “Cotton fields in this and adjoining sec¬ tions are almost en irely bare. It is a conservative g-atement to say that fully nine-tenths r.f the crop has bren picked andmaikelel. A few of the large and more wealthy planter? have their cotton in diffe.cnl warehouses awaiting a further advance, which is confidently expected. Sunil faim rs have, with scarcely an ex cepthm, tkfiigh' disposed of thei- fully crops, and it is sife to ?ay seven-tenths of rite < r p h i? been sold. The yield in some sections is conceded to be 50 per cent leas than that of last year; in others, about A5 per c-n’. The average de create in yield may be put at 38 pet cent.” The Memphis Appeal isya: “It is e ti mattd by conservative men that the crop in the Memph s territory, west Tennes see. Arkansas and Mississippi will be fully 40 per cent less than that of last year. large This showing is due not only to a decrease of acreage, but to various o:her causes, sraong wh'cli may be men¬ tion tbe disastrous fl iods which prevail¬ ed in the spring n ATkausii? nul Missis¬ sippi. Tbe floods pievenled the farmers putting in any coCon on their best lands. Cold, wet w-tstber La? been prevailing throughout ibis section for the last two weeks and complain s are general among printers that ibe dnniage to the cotton is general ther, from. The top crop will prove an aim >st tot*’, f i!ure, owing to ibis weather, as immature boils are re¬ ported to Ite decaying. I( is probable that from 50 to GO per rent of tbe crop in this territory has been marketed.” E. Craighead,correspondent at Mobile, telegraphs that the cotton crop o f Ala¬ bama i« placid at 850.000 hairs. Lending members of th ■ Mobile cotton exchange estimate the crop short by 40 per cent, and that half of tbe crop ins been sold. Other r parts from the cotton belt agree thst the crop is from 34 to 40 per cent abort and tha’ the • u k of the crop gathered has ulrea ’y been marketed. Secre ary Hester’s weekly New Orleans cotton statement shows a *rill greater drop in tbe movement of cotton during the past week, tiic di fireticy days compared yearling wi’h seven conc*|K.nd.us hale?, of litis la^t upward of 140,000 makes the dec ease for the first eight on day* of November 329,308 bate* from la-t vesr. EDITOR OCHS TALKS. Me Replies to Statements ionrernlng the Southern Associated Press. The New York Recorder, iu its issue of Saturday, printed the following from Chattanooga, Tenn.: “The publication is ihe New Vote Times that tbe proprietor of Tim ('hatuu.-ogsTinus It dis¬ gruntled and will likely withdraw is without from the tbe Honihem Aa*oci*t«l Prre, slightest foundation. persistently ite •'I have for the past ten dsy? slined to receive the reports of the Xew lor It dsv Awo. istsd The Honthern Pnaw, though Auocuted tend red Pres? to me has every no member more loyal than myself. "There wss every effort made to create a inn ttnous spirit in the Southern Associated Pres?, bat it tm ed of iis purpree- The t>>nthern As¬ sociated Pres? ha* in i s membership every daily newspaper of North and Houlh Gtrotina,Florida. Georgia, East Tennessee, Alabama, M a-ra-ippi and I,om4.»na that has heretofore teorive?) tiro New Vert Associated Press to ws, paying there¬ for Sisnooo per annum. "Tire Son:lorn Aaroriated Tre»# have, by of con - tract, control in th* »t«t * mentioned, ali news of Ihe Uuited Pro.ee, and the Western As¬ sociated Pros?, and throu.Ii these two organi saiicta, tire two principal f *t > i,n news agen crej. The proprietor* and publishers of sou b <ro daily their nowspap relations r» had with every the uuprjrtenity Nn York As¬ to runlmoe sociated Pr as, aaj on terms they oonid th-ui * elves dictate, ami they choae to decline a'( oTir.nree. It is soppe-t that >ker know what tiny are The atom, all b.-iog successful bn? ins* uiea. members of tire Soo berc Aws'iat cd Press bear no iil wilt to the Xew York baaocratsd meat that Press, incudes, bn! witn joined acccp’ions the more hardly worth menuooitu'. every daily new .pa¬ per irons Seattle to B*rg»r. and from the lakes •o the gnir, to put s atop to arrangements which enabled seven New Tors dritrr? to control tbe new* of tbe conotry and ciact whatever pay they dsmat.ded. "Tha door tt open to ilro New York Associa¬ ted hr**e to come in on equal term? with the mod fry. red. Tne Somber.i Assoeiand I’tc?e hope* that its former X'ew York thrir City aa-ociates may soon real ze the folly of . Hurts to stop tbs progressive move, ihst for a w,.Drier, was no* commerced years ago.” (SigncJ) ADol.ro 8. Ocas. Chairman Kx. Corn. Somb. Asa. Press THE INAUGURATION. It Will he Conducted oa the Plan of Eight Veers Ago. A tYsshinginn dispatch of \Yvda<s?l»y •aya: L n ling democrat* of the district, after a conauiiati. u with Senator G«r h»ve decided to recommend that the plan adopted eight rerun ago, when Cleveland was Wetted, be fallowed on the occasion of he aeeocd inauguration. Ths plan in •abstsnee, is the .election by the uational democratic committee of fifty citl ■ent < f the District of Columbia to take charge of the ceremonies outside of the capital. A (Meting Tuesday aight pre¬ pared such a lint, headed by t'o!. James G. Barret, who preaided over the inau gnrtl otamities eight year* ago. The Hat was sent to Chairman Hamiy, of ths national democratic e? m<nittt«. for ap -.__ ___ ■ itaiseippi's Ft rare*. A Jsckson. ilies.. specie, of Sunday •ay?: Return* in the secretary of state’s office from all the cona’ies. rxcspt Coho atm, give Oieve-stui 33.965. Weaver 10, MO. Harrison 1.573, B dwell $10. Oeve land's plurality over Weaver, 29,715; Carreiand belated 1 ? majority will over all, Ceveland 27.432 The couaty place e phiraHty at about VOL. I. NO. il. THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH. Notes of Her Progress and Prosperity Briefly Epitomized , Important Happenings from Day to Day Tersely Told. A San AntoDio special of Saturday says: Encsrnacion Gazzi, brother of the famous filibuster, Catrino Gairia, has been released on f'2,000 bail. GarZS is the Mexican who was captured at Key West. Fla , tome weeks ago. At the annual meeting of the Confed¬ erate Survivor’s Association of South Car¬ olina at Columbia, officers were elected and a resolution was adopted requesting organize the counties of the state to county associations with tbe purpose lat¬ er of terming camps of the United states veterans similar • to those existing throughout the south. The Philadelphia furnace at Florence, Ala., was lighted Saturday nighf. This furnace is the property of the Florence Cotton and Iron Company, owned aPd controlled by Philadelphians. It is tbe largest and beat equipped furnace in the south. The furnace has just completed «xtensive repairs. A new era of pros¬ perity has been inaugurated in Florence. On Saturday eighteen thousand pounds of dynamite and other lush grade Houston explo¬ sives were sent to Fort S m target range, two miles east of San An¬ tonio, Tex is, where General Dryenforth’s rain-making experiments are to be made. It is expected that a train of explosives the three miles long will be laid for first test. The weather is clear, and the barometer shows no indication of rain. A tpecial of Friday to The Los An¬ geles, Cal., Express states that there is much excitement and alarm caused in northeastern Arizona by the threats of a band of Kavajoes under Chief Black Horse of going to p ar against the whites. A ropiest has been sent to the troops, but General McCook thinks that the troops arc not necessary and believes a little ex¬ ercise of caution will prevent a hostile outbreak. The census office has made a pro limi nary repnrt on the manufacturing during indus¬ the tries of San Antonio, Tex., past decade. In 1890 the number of in¬ dustries reported at San Antonio was 25; number of establishments reported, 43: with invested capital of f 1,548,362. Num¬ ber of hands employed, 907; reciivinc $615,125 in wages. The cost of mate rial? used was $831,185 and the value of tbe product $2,13?, 266 The steamer Rosa Lee. from Astport, burned at the wharf morning, at Mtmpnis, Tenn., officer early Monday An awaktm-d the p.s-enceis and all above the dock and thirty below got out safely. It is thought that four laborers, who were in a state of intoxication, were burned to death. Tbe steamer cost $70. 000, and was in the cotton trade. • The less is complete. Insurance, $27,000. Her manifest consisted of 897 bale* of cotton and 2,009 sacks of cotton seed. The outgoing Western and Atlantic passenger train leaving Atlanta at 11 o’clock Sunday night was wreck¬ a short distance from tbo city. The wreck was a bad one, smashing cars and tearing up the track. Fortunately no was killed. Engineer Squires wss found to be pretty badly hurt, as was al¬ liis fireman. One or two of the pas¬ were bruised up. The disaster was due to train wreckers. An iron band was found fastened about one of rails. It was near the spot where a was wrecked a year ago in tbs way. A Columbia. 8. C, dispatch says: It was ascertained Sunday that steps are being taken to abolish the historic South college, an institution which ia alma mater of a host of distingutted that the state has produced. The col¬ lege is dear to thousands of South Caro¬ and this announcment will be re¬ with untold regret, and there undoubtedly be a hard struggle to : a it. The superintendent of educa¬ in his aunual report to be submitted the general assembly, recommends that college be closed and that the build¬ be converted into a normal learned college that te r both sexes. It is also a in accordance with this recommen¬ has been prepared and will be in¬ troduce in the legislature. IMPORTANT DECISION Affecting Southern. Railroad? by the Iiiter-lnte Commerce Commission. A Washington special of Saturday say*: The interstate commerce cotnmis sion ha?, in an opinion l»v Commissioner Visr-y, announce I its decision in the cases brought l»y the Geetgia railroad commission agaro-t th Cincinnati. com-j New. Orleans and Tex** Pacific Railway pans, the Lr-uisville tied other Xashrilk' railroad Rai!| anC way company and i areiunsbip tines, sewn cases au-l in £li, shorter; in . solving rat e? f -?_Luc "ffaVKM r hauls from i'”"" mar Noith : nt?. Atlantic sr.d '.''roitlra^^^H pert* to potnt^W cth<=i sho?l southern territory. The long and haul clause of the inteistate com mere! law tt construed by the commission il the light of more than five years* heretofc-1 opersl tion of the law and decisions J rendered by tbe commission and »’ courts. ^ SETTLING TILDEN’S WILL. The Trsstee? Sute?m«n and Cobh* Relative? to Terms. of the T«| M A New York special of Friday r-^H The tru*’w« of Samuel ) Ti!den atu^Hj that a wfilemrii’ iu ;»<? n thi-ir. relatives will hs« icon • ".te? arrived „ ? and -?■: -•?•• urirtH ?n.H| ; •• idea, establishing * Idu-vi y and leadiH room in the city for the »■*!■.cation young m p. to Ire'k-r wn as “The titdS Trust.'' is now actually iu eight, anl needs on*y official endorsement. Uod?l the agreeittin . one-thirlol the origin?! room* nmOGBt for library and reading purposes is released. Tin- Mira wiil ag¬ gregate- $2,006,000. the annual iiHerrst on which wilt i. $.'-<> 000 T he tt«te*.e» accept.?! ihe compromise nod pr |> we i« use the inter. »t i the at«r t? i evatrm piafed by tire will.