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Banks County Gazette.
VOLUME 11. NUMBER 37.
TO BENEFIT THE FARMER
WHAT THE AGRICULTURAL DE
( PARTMENT IS DOING
Gathering Facts and Making Experi
ments In Aid of Agriculture—
Grasses lor the South.
The Agricultural Department, writes
Robert Graves in the New York Arher
teier, spends $3,000,000 a year. Much
more than one-half of this sum is ex
pended in what might be called the prac
tical operations—in gathering facts and
statistics, in the purchase and distribu
tion of seeds and plants, for the extirpa
tion of contagious diseases of animals,
for the introduction of and experiments
with forage plants, for the inspection of
meats and animals intended for exporta
tion, and for the dissemination of infor
mation. There is very little abstruse
scientific inquiry. It isArue that the De
partment is instinct with science.
But all scientific, work has usefulness
as its aim. Investigations are carried on,
not for the mere sake of acquiring knowl
edgei, but with a view to its application
economically. Examples of this aie
found in the careful study made of the
habits and nature of the maple worm,
and in the use of appliances for its de
struction. A few weeks ago the Depart
ment was called upon to suggest means
of saving the shade trees of Cleveland
from destruction. The trees of the beau
tiful Forest City were being rapidly de
foliated. The same thing happened at
Lincoln, Neb., and in both cases the en
tomological division of the Department
was able to give practical assistance.
Professor Riley, the chief entomologist,
was asked a short time ago by a brother
scientist how he was getting along in his
study of certain insects. “I am not
studying them at all,” replied Professor
Riley, “because they are insects which
do not prey upon agriculture. All my
old scientific enthusiasm has been beaten
out of me by the necessities of my prac
tical work. I have no time for anything
scientific for the sake of science—the
chinch bugs, the maple worms, the
grasshoppeis and the other foe3 of the
farmers take all my time.”
The man who sneers at the bug
division of the Department does not im
peach its usefulness. The Hessians
brought their fly with them when they
came over to fight for John Bull.
George Washington beat the Hessians,
but the fly has been with us ever siuce.
Now the scientific men of the Depart
ment of Agriculture are making war on
him, and he will have to go. These men
are, in fact, the foe of all insects which
prey upon agriculture, and an example
of their mode of attack will be found in
teresting. The scale insect was ravaging
the orange groves of Florida. He threat
ened to devour the entire orange in
dustry of the State. Professor Riley
studied the scale till he became satisfied
that he was of Australian origin, and
that in his native State he waa troubled
with a parasite which destroyed him as
he destroyed the orange trees. A skilled
pcmologist was sent to Australia, the
parasite was found, he was brought to
America and propagated, and now the
parasite is making short work of the
scale pest.
Years ago it was the fashion to sneer
at the seed division, because Michigan
Congressmen insisted upon sending cot
tonseed to their constituents, and be
cause New York City Congressmen sup
plied their home friends with large
quantities of Early Rose potatoes. But
the seed division has done its good work
nevertheless. Three-fourths of the
wheat now grown in the United States
is of kinds introduced by the Depart
ment. The variety which has widest
distribution is the Fultz, a red winter
wheat, which originated in Pennsylvania
and was distributed <in 1871 and subse
quent years. The area now occupied by
it is four times as much as that devoted
to any other wheat. It produces one
fourth of the entire wheat crop of the
country. How many milliou dollars
better off the farmers are for this intro
duction of this excellent wheat it would
not be easy to estimate, but the benefit
has been enormous. The Fife wheat,
which is the great spring wheat of the
country, grown almost exclusively in the
Northwest, was introduced by the much
reviled seed division.
Just now the Department is making a
special investigation of the grasses which
will give best results in different parts of
the country. It was the transfer to Eng
land, in the seventieth and eighteenth
centuries, of some of the grasses of Mary
land and Virginia, which in large meas
ure improved the bullocks of merry Eng
land from four hundred pounders to fif
teen and twenty hundred. The South
needs needs new grasses as much now as
England did in the sixteenth century,
and for much the same reason. There
are sterile acres which should be re
claimed, and the Department is search
ing the world over—Siberia, India,
South America—for the grass which will
suit the soil and “stick.” There is a
grass problem in the West, too, where
close and continuous pasturage destroys
the short native grasses and leaves noth
ing in their place.
These are merely one or two examples
of what experiment and science are do
ing for agriculture. This year the De
partment has spent fifty thousand dol
lars experimenting with the making of
sugar, both sorghum and cane, and its
results bid fair to be worth many mil
lions to the planters of Louisiana and
the farmers of the West. In suppression
( ef pleuro-paeumonia and other con-
tagious diseases among cattle,and cholera
in hogs, the Department has saved mil
lions to termers and ranch owners. Dis
eases of plants have not been overlooked.
Science has been applied to answer the
question, what is “peach yellows?”
what is “pear blight?” what is “apple
scab?” what is that “vine disease,"
which goes through the vineyard like a
flame of fire? what is “rust” in wheat?
what is “potato rot?” what is “mildew?”
In these and countless other ways the
the Department is helping the farmer.
It maintains'forty-six experiment stations,
in which 370 trained, skilled men are
applying science all the time in all the
fields of agriculture. It is detecting
adulteration; it is promoting irrigation;
it il endeavoring to preserve old forests
and encourage by distribution of seeds
the planting of new ones; it is introduc
ing foreign fruits and nuts; it is encourag
ing the growth of fibrous plants
hitherto unknown or long neglected, and
it is making its work known to the
farmers of the couutry by a series of
publications which form the most ex
tensive library on the subject of agricul
ture kuown to the world. Its annual
report, which the unthinking once
made sport of, is now eagerly sought
by scientific men and economists
the world over as well as by the
farmer. The edition yearly printed,
400,000 copies, is the largest single ad
dition of any book published. Millions
of copies of other books aud pamphlets
are printed every year. All honor to
Uncle Sam. say 1, for his use of science
aud c.lueatiou in the uoliftiug of agri
culture.
WISE WORDS.
Presistent puffing ha3 filled many a
sale.
Avarice is the vice of declining
years.
That which is everybody’s business is
nobody’s business.
In this world the elect are very in
frequently elected.
The wires of opportunity transmit few
repeated messages.
A man of means, in extreme cases,
means a mean man.
It’s a wise dog that will chase only
the neighbors’ cats.
Behavior is a mayor in which ever one
displays his image;
One dosen’t need to get a skate on to
glide ou a banana peel.
There is no fool like an old fool, yet
we’re never too old to learn.
If you would abolish avarice, you must
abolish the parent ol it, luxury.
Wliat a man cannot believe can never
at bottom be of true interest to him.
The only really successful liar is the
mau who does it in a matter of fact way.
A wife who is only the soul of neat
ness should do a little materializing at
once.
A sweet, unselfish life, radiant with
usefulness, never grew out of a heartless
profession.
A rolling stone gathers no moss, yet a
mossback is without honor save in his
own country.
Time and tide wait for no man,
although the proper thing is to learn to
labor and to wait.
There is no surer sign of a had heart
than for a writer to find delight in de
grading his species.
No matter what his rank or position
may be, the lover ol books is the richest
and happiest of men.
Heaven sometimes hedges a rare char
acter about with uugainliness aud odium,
as the burr that protects the fruit.
Good books are always of use, particu
larly in a family which does not enjoy
the advantages of first rate schools.
A social life which worships money
and pursues social distinctions as its aim
is, in spirit and fact, an aristocracy.
Business is the rub of life, perverts
our aims, casts off the bias, and leaves
us wide and short of the intended mark.
Naval Flag Signals.
The red flag is a mark of danger, and
shows a vessel to be receiving or dis
charging powder.
A flag at half mast means that a death
has occurred, and hoisted union down is
a signal of distress.
A flag of truce is a white flag displayed
to an enemy to indicate desire for a
parley or consultation.
The yellow flag belongs to the quaran
tine service, and when displayed is a
sign of contagious disease.
A convoy flag is white, triangular iu
shape, bordered with red, and is worn
by raen-of-war when conveying merchant
vessels.
A church pennant is a white pennant,
without swallow tails, charged with a
blue Latin cross, hoisted at the peak,
during divine service, over the ensign.
A dispatch flag is a white, square flag
with five blue crosses generally known as
the five clubs; hoisted forward denotes
important and urgent special service
which must not be interfered with by
any officer junior to the one by whom it
was dispatched. —Atchison Globe.
The greatest conflagration of history
was the burning of Moscow in 1812.
The loss amounted to $150,000,000, and
30,800 buildings were destroyed. Next
in disastrous consequences came the
burning of Chicago, with a loss of $125,.
000,000 and the destruction of 17,490
buildings.
HOMER, BANKS COUNTY. GA.', WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1892.
ALLIANCE TALKS.
NEWS OF THE ORDER AND
ITS MEMBERS
Reform Press Comment and Items of
General Interest.
The Kansas Slate Alliance Benefit As
sociation saved its members three times
the cost of the State Alliance.
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On a capital or only $22,000 the Kan
sas Alliance Exchange did a business of
$1 ,215,840 during the last fiscal year.
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The Labor Tribune (Carthage, Mo.,
says. Good crops and close economy
can not supply the deficiency in the vol
ume of money, nor pay taxes or debts.
Some papers are shouting ns if big crops
could briug money into circulation,
when the fact is impossible. Good crops
cause prices to fall for want of money
enough to handle and hold the same,
whereas if money was plentiful, it would
6e called into use in handling the crops,
which would make large crops a blessing
in two ways—first, by the extra labor it
would employ; and, second, by the
amount of money that would go into
circulation.
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MEETING OF ALLIANCE PRESIDENTS.
The presidents of the various state
alliances held au executive session in
Washington a few days ago. According
to dispatches, the meeting was somewhat
heated when the question of alliance po
litical affiliation came up. A number of
other alliancemen who happened to be in
Washingtou, but had no vote in the
meeting, were allowed to be present and
express themselves. It was agreed by
them that an attempt to transfer the al
liance vote of the country to any party
would result in the complete destruction
of the order. A resolution was passed
unanimously calling upon the February
St. Louis convention to refrain from
committing the alliance to any party.
The resolution is as follows: “Resolved,
That it is the sentiment and desire
of this conference of the pres
idents of the Farmers’ Alliance
and Industrial Union that the delegates
from the Farmers’ Alliance and Indus
trial Union who attend the industrial
conference to be held in St. Louis, Feb
ruary 22, 1892, use their influence and
votes to establish perfect fraternal rela
tions with all the labor organizations
represented in said meeting with the
Ocala demands as a basis and a platform
for principle", and that such platform be
presented to the national conventions of
the democratic party, the republican
party and the people’s party, this year,
with an earnest request that the princi
ples involved be ingrafted into their plat
forms for the coming elections of 1892;
but that they carefully refrain from com
mitting our orders, as such, to affiliation
with any political party or parties.
NOT HIRELINGS.
In an extensive article on Alliance mat
ters, a correspondent in the Atlanta Con
stitution admits that the lodges of the
order are not as fully attended as formerly,
accounting various reasons therefor, and
adds: “So you cannot judge the power
of tho alliance in Georgia try the roll call
at the lodges, and to oppose the alliance
is to oppose an unbroken array of our
agricultural element. Abuse only
•trengtheus them in their determination,
and poverty and oppression but drives
them the closer together. Onr farmers
are not the untutored, irresponsible, vis
ionary fanatics that their enemies would
like to make the world believe. On the
other hand, they are liberal in their views,
are always open to conviction, conserva
tive and law-abiding. Since the alliance
was organized they have devoted great
time and care to a study of the economic
questions that agitate the public mind,
and it would surprise an outsider to at
tend one of our alliance meetings
and hear uneducated men, just from
between the plow-handies, debate great
public issues, which you would think
as far removed from their under
standing as are the poles. I assert that
the average allianceman is to-day as well
or better informed in regard to the poli
tics of our country as is the average pro
fessional man; and they know as much
about financial questions as the average
banker or capitalist. There is no dangt-r
of the alliancemen of Georgia being led
astray by designing and ambitious dema
gogues. At this time I know that the
third party has not a ghost of a show in
this section, and if the democratic ma
jority in the house will give to the coun
try financial relief, aud show their will
ingness to lift the burden from the backs
of the people, I do not believe that the
new party will command a corporal’s
guard in any county in Georgia. You
never hear it even discussed at our alli
ance gatherings, while the course of Col.
Livingston, and those of our alliance
congressmen who went into the demo
cratic caucus, is universally commended.”
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THE ALLIANCE NOT UNDERSTOOD,
Under the above headlines the Midland
Journal has a very comprehensive article
from which we extract the following:
The aims aud scope of the Farmers’ Al
liance in its several associations, and
which separate branches are fast consoli
dating in our national body, are but
dimly understood by the general public,
who have been misled by the daily pa
pers, either through design or ignorance
on the part of their editors. The gene
ral impression with outside parties is that
the Alliance is a kind of farmers’ politi
cal party which will make nominations,
and if those candidates fail of election,
will speedily dissolve and be heard of no
more, that they, the farmers, have
some crude ideas about laws of finance
and other economic questions, which
are undigested aud chaotic, which, if
attempted to be put into practice, would
utterly fail to work. The monopoly press
of the cities have been industrious to
spread this belief among the people and
create a prejudice if possible against the
Alliance. Many intelligent farmers who
draw all their information from the daily
press and flatter themselves that they are
well posted on public matters, are the
dupes of this misinformation. Tiie Alli
ance is in no sense a political party, but
a co-operative brotherhood, in which all
political parties are treated with impar
tiality, or rather not considered at all,
but in which ail economic questions are
receiving a searching examination with
out respect to what party may support
them. The Alliance has an order of
business which is tollowedin its meetings
which never varies, and insures its work
and proceeding to be uuitorm, and mov
ing toward the s ime poiut throughout the
country. Political affairs are closely
scanned and the true inwardness of every
measure transmitted to the whole organi
zation from National or Supreme Council
down to every sub-Alliance in the coun
try, divested of all party favoritism; each
measure being examined and discussed
whollv on its merits, without a thought ol
its uelng a par.y mt asur. By ihis means
members get a true knowledge of public
affairs, and are enabled to form an opin
ion which v ives them an independence
of thought and individuality which have
heretofore been unknown to the masse*
of the people who have been domi
nated by a party bigotry which was
little better than a state of moral
and political servitude * * *
Reverses or successes of political parties
can have little or no effect on the con
tinuance of the Alliance. It will con
tinue to enlarge the scope of its useful
ness and gain in power and influence
throughout the country. Its mission is
to undo the mischief that class legislation
has wrought, and have laws passed that
will stop favoritism to the money and
monopoly clnssi s—in fact work their
utter downfall and make it impossible for
th<* system of legal robbery to be pur
sued, which lias over-ridden individual
rights for the past thirty years, by placing
the corporation above the citizen and
turning over the prerogative of gov
ernment, to the control of a bank
ing and stock gambling class.
AN ADDHKSS.
Below we give the address of the com
mittee on the St. Louis meeting in full:
fo all citizens of the Uunted States
Greeting:—The undersigned have been
Appointed a committee to issue an address
sotting forth the object and purposes of
*,o great Conference of producers which
has been called to convene in St. Louis,
on the 22d day of February, 1892. The
call for said conference originated with
the National banners’ Alliance and In
dustrial Union at Ocala, Fla., in Decem
ber, 1890, as follows: “This body gives
its sanction and call for a meeting to be
held about February, 1892, to lie com
posed of delegates from all organizations
of producers upon a fair basis of repre
sentation, for the purpose of a general
and thorough conference upon the de
mands of each, and to the end that all
may agree upon a joint set of demands
just prior to the next national campaign,
min agree upon the proper methods for
enforcing such demands. If the people,
by delegates coming from them direct,
agree that a third party move is necessa
ry, it need not be fenced. That the next
session of thin Supreme Council elect
delegates from this Order to represent it
in said national conference of productive
organizations for political purposes.”
Committees from the National Farmers,
Alliance and Industrial Union, the
Knights of Labor, the National
Citizens, Alliance, and the Colored
National Farmers’ Alliance and Co-oper
ative Union met in Washington, D. C.,
January 24, 1891, and chose a national
executive committee, and fixed the time
for the coming conference at February
22, 1892, aud instructed their executive
committee to decide on the place of
meeting and the basis of representation.
The call for the great labor conference
has since been ratified and accepted by
practically all farmers’ and laborers’ or
ganizations. The national executive
committee met at Indianapolis, Ind., on
the 10th day of November, and fixed
the basis of representation, and ap
pointed a committee to choose the -plaoe
of meeting. This shows the call to be
regular, and to be supported by millions
of people scattered throughout every sec
tion of this broad land. A movement of
such great extent and popularity involves
great forces and must wield great power;
its causes, objects, purposes and methods,
therefore, are important subjects of con
sideration. The causes are many, and
depend on combinations of circumstances
that have been transpiring for years;
many of them are to-day unnoticed, and
to attempt even a list of the cause*
would be almost an endless task, but
prominent among the causes for this
great movement, causes which should
fill with alarm and concern every
loyal citizen of this government, are:
The rapid accumulation of the wealth
of the nation in the hands of a few,
and the general impoverishment and
discontent of the masses; a finan
cial system that furnishes a volume
of money which at one season of the yeai
is so redundant that money is worth in
the metropolis only 1 per cent,
on call, while at another season it
is so inadequate that money ranges
as high as 188 per cent on call, thereby
entailing great hardship and distress
upon all classes as a result of instability
of prices. The general and widespread
belief on the part of the masses that the
government is administered in the inter
est of a favored class (whether this be
true or not, the fact that such belief ex
ists is a matter of public concern) in
spite of the wise and just provisions of
the constitution. Boss rule methods and
the distribution of million* of corruption
money by political organizations, the
depressed condition of all productive
pursuits, the menace to free
government involved in the
shameful abuses of aggregated wealth,
using combinations of transportation
companies to control legislative and ju
dicial proceedings, the foreign invasion
which is received and allowed to exact
tribute on account of the unavailability
of American wealth in business, the
plainly visible wide separation between
the government and the people who seem
to feel that they are pushed aside for the
politician and lose a proper interest in
government affairs; that monster, the
mortgage, which is rapidly devour
ing the liberties and the independence
of the grandest and best people the’
sun ever shown upon, and whose con
scienceless exactions must soon bring
on a climax of violence unless wise coun
eel shall prevail and the cause of justice
assert itself. These among the many
causes are sufficient to enlist the support
of all patriotic citizens in any laudable
effort to wrest American institutions
from such abuses nnd restore them to
the foundations laid by the signers of the
Declaration of Independence.
The object of the coming meeting is,
under the blessing of God, to confer and
agree upon the wisest, fairest nnd most
just means of relief in the in
terest of tlu wholo people, and* to
announce a declaration of principles
upon which all are agreed to stand
and demand laws to carry out. For this
purpose every organization of producers
in this broad land is invited to send dele
gates and participate in the deliberations.
For the love of our country, for the sake
of your family, in view of your duty to
tbe prosperity, and pursuant of your re
sponsibility to God, come! nnd let this
be tbe second Declaration of Independ
ence for the American people in which
instead of throwing off the yoke of a ty
rant king they liberate posterity from
threatened industrial lyratiy and slavery.
The purpose of the meeting will be devel
oped when the delegates of the
people assemble. It is Idle to suppose
that they will adopt a set of demands
without making adequate provision to
enforce them. It is not for this commit
tee to say what the purposes will be, but
it is the duty of this committee to urge
the intelligence, wisdom and virtue oi
tbe land to participate iii the delibera
tions and abide by the results of that
meeting.
C. W. Maccne I
Hebman Baumoakten, r , ...
Thohal W. GtLRUTn, Comßllttee -
John P. Stkki.. 1
TRADE A LITTLE DUI&.
Dun A Co.’s Report of Business for
Past Week.
Business failures occurring throughout
the country during eight days since De
cember 81st, reported to It. G. Dun &
Go., number for the United States, 395;
Canada, 48; total, 435, against 820 last
wreek. The first week of the new year
has been marked by some striking events.
There has been an important decline in
the prices of wheat and cotton, which
have been held of late a little too high
for foreign estimates of value, so that
exports were somewhat checked. The
decline will bring out larger orders for
export.
FLUCTUATIONS IN PRICES.
Wheat has dropped sharply—BJ cents
for the week on sales of only 15,000,000
bushels, Oats also dropped 2} cents,
but corn rose an eighth, the large exports
actually exceeding those of wheat for
three days of the week, sustaining the
price. Pork products scarcely changed;
oil rose 2f cents, and coffee a quarter.
Cotton has dropped to the lowest price
since early in 1849, viz., 7.44 cents for
middling uplands. Receipts at the south
continue greater than last year, and,
though exports are also greater, the
stock accumulated and largely carried by
banks at various points has a depressing
influence. This affects trade throughout
the south, but the demand for sugar and
rice is strong and active, with slightly
better prices.
FAIR FOR THE SEASON.
Trade in other parts of the country
is fair for the season, the New Year’s
quiet not having entirely passed. Great
industries report no important change,
though in iron a large business is beiog
done, and the tone is improved. Some
improvement is seen in bar and plates and
fair business in structural iron.
The money market has been well sup
plied at New York, and other market"
throughout the north are easier. The
treasury has been disburs ng freely during
the week, and while the sales of stock on
foreign account have lifted the rates of
foreign exchange half a cent, the swell
ing exports appear to insure further im
ports of gold.
FROSEEOTe FAVORABLE.
In brief, the business prospects of the
country are remarkably favorable for the
beginning of the new year, excepting at
the south, and while the depression in
that lection may considerably affect
some trades and branches of manufacture,
the uplifting influence of the large
northern orops and of the unprecedented
foreign demand for northern products
give substantial ground for the great
confidence which orevails.
THE CAUSE OF GRIP
Is Explained bj a Son-In-Law of Dr.
Koch.
Dr. Pfeiffer, soe-in-law of the distin
guished Professor Koch, has discovered
the influenza bacillus, and has transplant
ed in in six cases with complete success.
He hss also discovered the original cause
of the infection. The bacillus of influ
enza is the smallest bacillus yt discov
ered.
SINGLE COPY 3 CENTS.
RICHMOND & DANVILLE R. R.
Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line Division.
Condensed Schedule of Passenger
Trains. In Effect Nov. loth, 1801.
NORTHBOUND. No. 38. No. 10. No. 12.
eastern time. Daily. Daily. Daily.
Lv. Atlanta (E.T.) 125 pm 860pm10 10 am
Chamblee 9 27 pm 10 48 am
Norcroas 989 pm 1101 am
Duluth 951 pm 1116 am
Suwanee 10 08 pm 11 26 am
Buford 10 17 pm 11 40 am
Flowery Branch 10 31 pm 11 68 am
Gainesville..... 2 59 pm 10 51 pm 12 14 pm
Lula n 18 pm 12 42 pm
Bellton 11 21 pm 12 44 am
Cornelia 11 45 pm 110 pm
Mt. Airy 11 60 pm 115 pm
Tooooa. 12 20 am 1 47 pm
Westminster 12 58 am 285 pm
Seneca 1 17 am 254 pm
Central 160 am 340 pm
Easleys 218 am 4 11pm
Greenville 605 pm 244 am 440 pm
Greers 3 14 am 5 09pm
Wellford 338 am 627 pm
Spartanburg... 657 pm 354 am 552 pm
Clifton 4 13 am 6 10 pm
Cowpens 4 18 am 6 15 pm
Gaffney 4 40 am 640 pm
.Blacksburg. 5 01am 700 pm
Grover 511 am 712 pm
King's Mount’n 528 am 780 pm
Gastonia. 5 54 am 759 pm
Lowell 607 am 812 pm
Bellemont 6 14 am 823 pm
Ar. Charlotte 910 pm 6 40 am 850 pm
SOUTHBOUND. Non. N0.9.
Lv. Charlotte. 945 am 150 pm 220 am
Bellemont 2 12 pm 2 42 am
Lowell 2 22 pm 2 52 am
Gastonia 2 35 pm SO4 am
King’s Mount'n 3 00 pm 327 am
Grovt r 3 16 pm 3 43 am
Blacksburg 3 26 pm 3 63 am
Gaffney 3 45 pm 4 10 am
Cowpens 4 10 pm 442 am
Clifton .... 4 13 pm 4 35 am
Spartanburg ... 11 43 am 427 pm 500 am
Wellford 5 50pm 5 28am
Greers 6 09 pa 542 am
Greenville 12 36 pm 534 pm fl 10 am
Easleys. 6 07 pm 638 am
Central 6 65 pm 730 am
Seneca 7 22 pm 757 am
Westminster.... 7 41pm 815 am
Toccoa 819 pm 852 am
Mt. Airy , 8 4Hpm 9 18 am
Cornelia 8 52 pm 9 23 am
Bellton 9 16 pm 945 am
Lula 9 18 pm 947 am
Gainesville 841 pm 942pm1C 12 am
Flowery Branob 10 00 pm 10 82 am
Buford 10 17 pm 10 45 am
Suw&neo 10 83 pm 10 68 am
Duluth 10 45 pm 11 15 am
Norcroas 10 56 pm 11 28 am
Chamblee 11 08 pm 11 43 am
Ar. Atlanta (E. TANARUS.) 505 pm 11 45 pm 12 20 pm
Additional trains Nos. 17 and 18—Lula ac
commodation, daily except Sunday, leaves At
lanta 580 pm, arrivm Lnla 812 pm. Return
ing, leaves Lula 6 00 am, arrives Atlauta 860
a in.
Between Lula and Athens —No. 11 daily, ex
cept Sunday, and No. 9 daily, leave Lnla 8 80 p
m, and 1160 am, arrive Athens 10 15 p m and
130 pm. Returning leave Athenß, No. 10
daily, except Sunday, and No. 12 daily, 6 15 p m
and 645 am, arrive Lula 800 p in and 880
a m.
Between Toccoa and Elberton—No. 61 dai
ly; exoept Sundav, leave Toccoa 200 pm
arrive Elberton 440 p in. Returning, No. 60
daily, except Sunday, leaves Elberton 5 00 a m
and arrives Toccoaß 30 am.
Nos. 11 and 12 carry Pullman Sleepers be
tween Washington and Kansas City via Birming
ham and Memphis, and Nos, 9 and 10 Pullman
Sleeper between Atlanta and New York.
On No. 11 no change in day coaches from
New York to Atlanta.
Nos. 37 aud 38, Washington and Southwest
ern Vestibuled Limited, between Atlanta and
Washington. On this train an extra fare is
charged on flrst-cass tickets only.
For detailed information as to local and
through time tables, rates ami Pullman Sleep
ing car reservations, confer with local agentik,
or address,
JAS. L. TAYLOR, W. A. TURK,
Gen’! Posb. Ag't. Bi”. Pass. Ag’L
Atlanta, Ga. Charlotte N. C.
C. P. HAMMOND,
Superintendent Atlanta, Ga.
W. H. GItEEN, SOL. HABS,
Gen’l Manager. Traftits Manager,
Atlanta, Ga. Atlanta, lia.
JACKSON S DAY.
A Banquet by the Business Men’s Asso
ciation of New York.
The Business Men’s Democratic Asso
ciation of New York city celebrated
Jackson’s Day with a banquet Friday
night. Speeches were made by Grover
Cleveland and Mr. Springer, of Illinois.
Speaking on “The Issues of the Day,”
Mr. Springer said among other things:
“l can state, withojt any fear of success
ful contradiction, that there is not the
slightest probability of a free coinage
bill becoming a law during this congress,
nor is it likely that any amendment of the
existing law will be made. If any meas
ure on this subject is passed it will be
one which democrats throughout the
country can and will cordially support. It
is possible that some such measure,accepta
ble to democrats generally, may be agreed
upon and become a law during this ses
sion of congress. In reference to public
expenditures, tho democratic house of
representatives of this congress may be
relied upon for a record of rigid econ
omy. This will not be another billion
dollar congress. A reduction of between
fifty aad a hundred millions a year by
the present house of representatives may
he confidently expected hs compared with
the appropriations of the previous con
gress. ”
INMAN RE-ELECTED
President by Stockholders of the It. k
D. Railroad Company.
At an adjourned meeting of the stock
holders of the Richmond and Danville
railroad company held at Richmond
Tuesday, James B. Pace in tho chair,
John 11. Itiman was elected president
and the following board was chosen:
Samuel Thomas, John G. Moore, John A.
Rutherford, Jas. Swann, Sam M. Inman,
James B. Pace, Calvin S. B ice, T. M.
Logan, C. M. McGhee, W. M. Stroug,
George J. Gould and W. J. Oakrnan.