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Banks County Gazette.
VOL--11. NO.-39.
A collision-proof railroad car is among
the crying needs of the age. What is
matter with our American genius any
how, asks the Detroit Free Preu.
nggaii "'"li'ir.™-™ ■. -a;i=s=
Hon. J.. B. Baker, of Izard, lately in
troduced in the Arkansas Legislature a
hill “debarring women from filling posi
tions of trust and responsibility.
The latest proposition of the friends
of woman suffrage, heard by the New
York Commercial Advertiter, is to give
to all women the right to vote when
they support themselves by work.
There are now more than a hundred
women employed in the telephone ex
changes of Berlin, Germany, and it has
been decided to employ in the future
women only, for the reason that their
voices are so much more audible than
men’s.
Gold mining nowadays means a great
deal more than mere gold digging, the
Boston Trarucript rises to remark, and
the miner with a pick and shovel outfit ii
a very ancient number. The Lemhi Gold
Placer Company of Idaho began a few
days ago to construct a twenty-mile ditch
to convey water to its mines at Lemhi.
The ditch is to be ten feet wide at the
bottom, will require 6,000,000 feet of
lumber in its construction, and will cost
about $200,000. It is expected that
about six miles of the ditch will be com
pleted by June 1 next.
A nautical journal published on the
Pacific coast asserts that the Nicaraugua
Canal, if completed, will never be used
by sailing vessels, for a reason which ap
plies also to the Panama Canal. On
either side of Central America, in the
vicinity of the proposed entrances to the
canal, is a region of perpetual calms and
doldrums, and a sailing vessel would find
it exceedingly difficult to get into the
entrance on one side, and after being
towed through would have equal diffi
culty in getting away from the coast iu
to the region of trade winds on the other.
A sailing vessel going to San Francisco
from New York or Liverpool would, it
is declared, make a quicker passage
around Cape Horn than by going through
the canal. It is also said that but oue
sailing vessel has ever passed .through
the Suez Canal, and that was lost in the
Red Sea shortly afterward.
Since 1790 the increase in the popula
tion of American cities is one of the
most significant signs of our growth,
observes the New York Neun. In that
year, taking 8000 as a basis, there wero
six. In 1880 there were 286, in 1890
here were 443—an increase during the
decade of nearly forty-four per cent.
Orouped, the majority of people find
their homes on the Atlantic slope. Yet
while this shows a tendency .to mass
population and with it active enterprises,
it has not, as in the case of England,
been at the expense so far, of the coun
try population. “Should the migration
to the cities continue,’’ adds the Neun,
“it would be a subject of concern, but
r.the average of growth is fairly distrib
uted, and the tenement housos and slums
• £*f the great commercial centres are not
absorbing all the life-making influences
of the new people who are finding homes
. in our country.”
Remarks the Boston Transcript: “The
wtory of the tragedy just enacted in Hun
gary is one which, had it been wrought
put upon the theatrical stage, would
have been declared impossible. A sou
returns after long absence in America
with #3OOO in gold. He seeks his old
home, and as a stranger asks for food
and lodging. The mother is absent,
but the father recognized his son. They
embrace, and the son tells of his good
fortune. The mother returns after the
■ ion has gone to bed. Her husband
: speaks of the stranger, but does not say
he is their son. He will keep that sur
prise until the morning, when the sou
shall reveal himself to his happy
mother. The mother rises in the
night. She overhauls the stranger’s
baggage. She 3ee the gold. *Her cu
pidity is aroused. She grasps a knife,
cuts the stranger’s throat an I seizes and
hides the gold. When the father awakes
he discovers his son dead and in a pool
of blood. His cry of horror arouses the
mother who had expected her husband
would be a ready accomplice for the sake
of the plunder. The father gasps the
name of the victim. The murderess
utters a cry, reels aud falls dead. Could
anything,be more dramatic? Could any
thing be more terrible?”
HOMER, BANKS COUNTY, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3,1892.
ALLIANCE TALKS.
NEWS OF THE ORDER AND
ITS MEMBERS
Reform Press Comment and Items of
General Interest.
The sub-treasury is to the Alliance
what the hub is to a wagon wheel.—
Southern Mercury.
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The supreme question of the hour is,
shall manhood or money rule this repub
lic?—Alliance News.
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The Ocala platform—The bridge for
the bloody chasm—The shroud for sec
tional strife.—Nashville Toiler.
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Mr. Livingston, of Georgia, has intro
duced the sub-treasury bill in the house,
but the question will not be taken up at
present. The bill is the same as that
introduced last session.
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The principles advocated by the reform
press are the ones and we hope to soon
see the day when honest men will repre
sent the people in our legislatures and
congress and frame honest and just laws
that all can understand.—Standard Parm
er.
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A *
The open Alliance of Nebraska at its
annual State meeting adopted a resolu
tion unanimously, instructing the State
delegates to their annual National meet
ing, to vote for a permanent union with
our Order. This brings into OHr Order
one of the strongest and best organized
of all the American States.
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The Commissioners of Agriculture from
five Southern States met at Memphis,
Teun., a few days ago. They say that
we should reduce the cotton acreage 20
percent. We suggest a further reduc
tion of 20 per cent, from the salaries of
all officials who are overpaid. There is
an overproduction of salaries just now in
some places.—Progressive Farmer.
Recently the Russell county (Ala.) al
liance met and resolved that they would
not support any man for congress who
was not an allianceman; and also that no
candidate for county offices who was not
an allianceman, would get the support of
the organization. A meeting of the alli
ance will take place the day preceding
ihat of the county democratic conven
tion, and candidates selected and dele
gates idsti ucted to support them.
***
The third party convention of Lamar
county, Texas, has adopted a long plat
form, in which there is a financial plank
demanding the issue of $150,000,000 le
gal tender treasury notes, $50,000,000 to
be paid for the labor for public improve
ments, such as buildings, levees for the
Mississippi river, and securing or con
structing government railroads and tele
graphs; the other $100,000,000 to be
furnished the farmers at 1 per cent, to
take up the overdue farm mortgages, on
condition the farmer transfer the note
and mortgage to the United States to be
deposited in the treasury as collateral se
curity on the same terms as those on
which banks deposit United States
bonds.
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THE THIRD PARTY IN GEORGIA.
In a recent interview the editor of the
People’s Party Paper, published at At
lanta, Ga., says that the people’s party
intend running a full state ticket this
year. “We will elect our governor and
state bouse officials and elect members to
the legislature in a great majority of the
counties. Of course, I can only judge of
this by the reports that come into this
office. We requested the friends of the
cause to send us the names of voters
friendly to the third party movement,
and since October 50,000 names have been
sent in. We will nominate a National
ticket regardless of the action
of the Alliance convention in St.
Louis in February. That convention
may be dominated by politicians, just as
the selection of delegates to that conven
tion from Georgia was accomplished.
The third party men will withdraw and
hold a convention, if that convention de
cides not to support the People's party.
You see that convention will be composed
of Alliancemen and various labor organi
zations, and is not called entirely as a
third party convention. If they resolve
themselvis into a third party all right
and good, but if they do not that will
not interfere with the third party that is
now organizing.
The third party is a political party,
and will be composed of all parties who
believe in the doctrines set forth in the
Ocala platform whether he be an Alli
anceman, a doctor, lawyer, republican or
laborer. We are the peoples’ party and
will demand the relief that neither of the
old parties have accorded us. We will
hold our conventions and anybody can
be a member who is with us.”
PRINCIPLES.
The Progressive Farmer of a recent is
sue contained the following strong edi
torial which will undoubtedly meet the
approval of all true Alliancemen: The
Alliance organization in its sub, county,
State and national meetings have de
cided on a platform of principles. It is
a duty of every member to stand by these
principles, these demands. The Alliance
member who goes outside of the lodge
room to offer another plan, conceding
“for the sake of harmony” to any party,
a particle of these principles, deserves
the censure, and should receive it, of
every true man in the order. It seems
that the members have been duped long
enough with compromises to parties
without principles to back them. We
are surprised that a brother now and
then so far forgets himself as to offer a
compromise on any of our demands, es
pecially the Sub Treasury plan, the one
of all the demands (if made into a law)
which will undoubtedly destroy the
1 ‘power behind the throne” to oppress
us. We have written this much, notic
ing the occasional substitute offered by
some brother, behind which we can rec
ognize the “cloven foot” of an old polit
ical boss, who has by flattery or other
wise induced this brother to try his hand
in demolishing our leading princi
ple. It is well enough for our
enemies, and those of our week-kneed
brethren who are induced to act so in
discreetly, to remember that the sub
treasury plan is the real living issue, and
that the other demands are subordinated
to this one; and that the Alliance and
other labor organizations will stand by
it, and will have it or something better
made into a law, “world without end.”
We further say that no man i
North Csrolina will be voteu
for by the Alliance members who rh
to dodge this issue, and not align him
self with it. * * * No matter who
the man is; no matter how much he im
proves as a speech-maker; no matter how
much taffy is offered to the farmers
through these speeches, they are not go
ing to be blindfolded when they cast
their votes in 1892. What bosh,
and how ridiculous it founds for
a man to say he is with the
farmers, wishes them well, etc., and at
the same time when it comes to make
laws for their relief, his votes, his inge
nuity, his whole skill as a politician is
used to defeat these ends. Let the boom
ing business go on, and let those who
think they are fooling the masses by all
this clap-trap continue their foolishness.
The people are watching and waiting,
and when the time comes, the masses,
not the old political bosses, will name
the man. Brethren watch the booming
business through the partisan press.
ACTION OP THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OP
NATIONAL ALLIANCE.
The following resolution, also the ac
companying memorial, was unanimously
passed at the meeting of the State Presi
dents, recently. The memorial was print
ed in the Congressional Record:
“Resolved, That it is the sentiment
and desire of this conference of the
Presidents of the Farmers’ Alliance and
Industrial Union that the delegates for
the Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial
Union who attend the Industrial Confer
ence to be held in Bt. Louis, Feb. !}2d,
1802, use their influence and votes to es
tablish and perfect fraternal relations
with all labor organizations represented
in said meeting, with the Ocala demands
as a basis for a platform of principles,
and that such platform be presented to
the National Conventions of the Demo
cratic party, the Republican party and
the People’s party this year, with an ear
nest request that the principles involved
be engrafted into their platforms for the
coming national elections of 1892. But
that they carefully refrain from commit
ting our order as such to affiliation with
any political party or parties.”
Mr. Pierce asked and obtained unan
imous consent to have printed in the
Record the following memorial of the
Farmers’ Aliiance:
To the Honorable tho House of Repre
sentatives and Senate of the United
States in Congress assembled:
• Your memorialists, a committee elected
by the Supremo Council of the National
Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union,
under instructions on its behalf, would
most respectfully present;
That the universal and unparalleled
depression in all departments of our
great agricultural industry has impressed
the farmers of the United Btates with the
gravest concern and alarm. That despite
their fruitful soils, the favoring condi
tions of climate, their faithful applica
tion and courageous industry, and irre
spective of seasons and harvests, their
farms and the products of their labor
are constantly and steadily depreciating
in value. That the inspiriting hope of
competency and comfort, as a reward foi
their toil, is vanishing in their earnest
struggle for sustenance and tho preserva
tion of home. That patient, honest and
earnest investigation of this anomalous
condition of affairs has impressed the
farmers of the country with the solemn
conviction that the evils which are thus
clogging and paralyzing their energies
are largely due to discriminating inequali
ties in our governmental policy, and
which are the legitimate outgrowth of
partial and unfriendly legislation.
Your memorialists would further re
spectfully represent:
That in their organized capacity the
farmers of thirty-eight states and territo
ries of the Union, after long and earnest
deliberation and with remarkable una
nimity, formulated and adopted a declar
ation of principles (an official copy of
which is hereto appended) which they
believe, if enacted into law, would re
store agriculture to its true and just po
sition among the great industries of the
country, and would conserve the highest
and best interests of the public good.
That they respectfully, but most earn
nestly commend to the patriotic consid
eration and favor of your houorable bod
ies the justice and wisdom of enacting
such laws as will embody the principles
enunciated in the declaration referred to.
Your memorialists would respectfully
represent:
That they are specially charged to ask
the attention of your honorable bodies to
the great and urgent necessity for imme
diate legislative action for the financial
relief of the industrial and business inter
ests of the country. That they believe
that the present financial system of the
country is not only inherently defective,
but that it is incompatible with the
genius and spirit of our institutions, and
is in conflict with the fundamental grin-
ciples of our government. That they be
lieve that the system, born of the terrible
exigencies of a mighty civil war, purely
as a military expedient and necessity,
which, While it doubtless saved the life
of the nation in war, lias been demon
strated, under the test of experience, not
to be the system for preserving nnd per
petuating that life in peace. That they
believo that a sacred and stead
fast observance and mainten
ance of the powers and func
tions conferred upon the government by
the constitution for making, issuing and
controlling the money of the people is
absolutely essential to healthful and
symmetrical development in our material
progress, and that these powors and
functions cannot in any manner bo relin
quished or transferred without violence
to equity and justice and gravest peril to
the liberties of the people. That they
believe that the exclusive right secured
to the government by the constitution to
make money carrios with it the unavoid
able obligation and responsibility to sup
ply it in such manner and amounts as to
meet at all times the requirements of the
legitimate business cf the country and of
our growing country and trade. That
they believe that the exercise of the
legitimate and rightful functions in
the control of money would obviate
a recurrence of the ruinous effects of un
due contraction m volume, as demon
strated in the present depressed condi
tions which are paralysing the energies
of the people in all departments of indus
trial enterprise. That they believe that
all money should be issued direct by the
government direct to the people at a low
rate of interest and in sufficient volume
to meet the legitimate demands of the le
gitimate business of the country, on safe
und valid securities, and that it should
boa full legal tender for all debts. That
they believe that silver should have all
the rights in coinage and all the qualities
of legal tender which gold possesses. * *
L. L. Poi.k,
O. W. Macune,
Mann Page,
W. F. G WYNNE,
L. L. Featherstonk,
National Legislative Committee of theN.
F. A. and I. U,
ENCOURAGING OUTLOOK.
Dun & Cos., Gives a Bright View of
Trade Thorughont the Country.
Business failures occurring throughout
the country during tho week ending Jan.
22, as reported to R. G-. Dun & Co s.,
number for tho United States 274, aud
for Canada 64; total 328, against 330 last
week. Report from cities outside of
New York shows some increase in trade
as well as great confidence in the future.
At Philadelphia, increasing sales are seen
in dry goods; large orders reported for
nails, and general inprovement in hard
ware and better orders for iron have
caused additional furnaces to begin blast.
At Charleston some improvements is seen,
though large supplies of cotton are still
on hand.
THE PRECIOUS METALS.
The output of precious metals in 1891
has been surpassed in only two years, ac
cording to Wclls-Fargo’s statement,
amounting to #31,976,994 in gold, $60,-
014,004 in s lver, $18,201,063 in copper,
and $12,385,780 in lead. The Mexican
output of silver was $43,000,000. An
nual reports of many olher industries
show that the production in 1891 has
rarely, if ever, been equaled, and the
new year begins with no prospect of a
decrease in any important industry. The
reduction of rates by tho Bank of Eng
land from 3 J to 8 per cent shows tho con
fidence that prevails in foreign money
markets.
Reports from all money centers show
ample supplies, an easier market and, ex
cept at the south, a comparatively light
demand, with fair or good collections.
The enormous excess of exports still con
tinuing leads many to believe that more
gold must soon be imported.
The industries are remarkably well em
ployed for the season and the movement
of crops ia still large, and reports from
every part of the country express even
greater confidence then before in the
prospects for trade. The market for
products has been undisturbed by specu
lation, which is held in check by enor
mous supplies. Wheat advanced cents
and receipts at the west have been ligh
ter owing to the severe weather, but ex
ports continue large. Corn is coming
forward freely and has declined cents,
and the exports for the will probably be
heavy. Oats are a quarter lower, but
pork products a shade stronger. Oil has
declined one-half, and coffee advanced a
quarter. Increasing strength is reported
in marketp ior iron and steel products.
THE COTTON MARKET.
Speculation in cotton has taken cour
age from the fact that receipts have re
cently declined at some points largely,
and the price has advanced a sixteenth
during the week and a quarter since the
lowest point, 7f, was touched. Specu
lative sales last week reached 700,000
bales at New York, and the improving
market caused a better tone at many
southern points.
HOSPITALS ARE FULL
Of Unfortunates Wrestling with the
Dref led Grip.
Dispatches of f hursday state that the
hospitals ia the C.ty of Paris, France, are
crowded with patients >uffering from
influenza. The diseases prevails in a
most dangerous form throughout the city,
and the municipal authorities and assis
tance publique are making arrangements
to convert available vacant buildingsinto
hospitals. De Freycinet, minister of
war, will be asked to allow tbe barracks
on the outskirts of the city to be used M
infirmaries. There is a great increase in
the number of deaths resulting from the
dises.
A BIG CITY’S “PAY DIRT.”
FORTUNES MADE IN NEW YORKS
STREET SWEEPINGS.
A Privilege Worth Over SOO,OOO a
Year—An Army of Hag Pickers
—Garbage Pier Dweller.*.
The sweepings of the New York
streets support at least five hundred peo
ple. They are lodged, fed, clothed, ed
ucated and furnished amusements by the
drift from the street. The mud of the
city is pay-dirt to them. They make
more than the average gold prospector.
You ask “how?"
Years ago New York used to hire men
to “trim” the barges of the garbage
fleet, so that they wouldn't cupsize or
become waterlogged, or founder when
they dropped out from Sarnly Hook to
till up the Atlantio Ocean. It co3ts
the city something to get its little navy
ready to leave port.
By and by came along some mon who
said there was valuable brass in the city's
dust pile, and fine nuggets cf coal, and
precious bottles, rich rags, priceless old
shoes, and bones that were not to be
sneezed at. They offered to trim the
barges for nothing and board themselves
if the city would let them pick out all
the odds-and-cuds which they consid
ered valuable. The offer was accepted.
It was thought strango that they should
work without compensation at wbat had
hitherto been paid for.
The city’s sweepings was a gold mine.
Other men grew jealous of the privilege
of working for nothing, and offered to
pay the city if it,would permit them to
trim the barges, and fish for the valuable
debris from the ash-carts. New York
was only too glad to sell its broken glass,
old iron, wornout rubber shoes, battered
tin cans, etc., and it put this money in
its pocket, and let tho people who paid
for the privilege shovel the swoopin'*.
Two years ago a contractor paid $1127
a week, or $58,604 a year, for the right
to fish in the city’s garbage-pile. The next
contractor who bought the privilege paid
$1502 a week, or $78,104 a year. The
last contractor paid $1737 a week, or
the enormous sum of $90,224 a year.
The city’s navy has grown, and it now
comprises forty-nine mud-scows of the
most modem build and the most recent
improvements. None of them can go
twenty-two knots an hour, aud none are
armor-plated, but they are not surpassed
in number and style by tho navy of any
other city.
A big fleet of twenty -two of them put
to son every morning and return to port
every evening. They excite tho admira
tion of everybody, and aie known as the
“black squadron." The city owns
twenty-one garbage piers, from which
they sail.
One hundred and five men from sunny
Italy earned their living by sorting the
farbage for the contractor, who paid
90,000 for the privilege. As they all
have large families it was estimated that
the bric-a-brac on the mud scows sup
ported 500 m3n, women and children,
besides paying $90,224 a year into the
city treasury, and affording a handsome
profit to the contractor. Inasmuch as
the mon trimmed tho scows, performing
work which would have cost tho city
SIOOO a week, or $52,000 a year, the
garbage heap poured into the lap of New
York $142,224 a year. Few silver
mines in the West pay such dividends.
Nineteen pitrs in New York City have
people living in them. They are the
garbrge piers, and the people who have
snapped their fingers at tee tenement
houses and live rent-free are tho Italian
gentlemen who trim the garbage boats.
Their little homes beneath tho piers are
furnished with bright bits of carpet
taken from the garbage heap, and with
various odds and ends which they have
found there. Little pictures adorn the
walls; there are chairs and tables, and
each little home has a cheerful stove and
a singing tea-kettle. There are no pianos
and portieres as yet, but doubtless they
will come after awhile.
The janitors of the large office build
ings of the city enjoy a great revenue
from the unconsidered scraps of paper
which are thrown on the office floors.
These scraps are gathered up, put iuto
bags and sold. Some janitors receive
SSOO a year each from the sale of this
waste paper. Old newspapers bring
twenty-five cents a hundred pounds, or
$2.50 a ton. Ordinary book paper and
fine book paper bring one cent a pound,
or S2O a ton. Scrap paper sells for one
fourth of a cent a pound. During the
Civil War it brought ten cents a pound,
or forty times its present price.
It is estimated that at least 10, COO
men, women and children in New York
City draw their daily bread from the ash
barrels. They start out with bag and
hook at 2 o'clock in the morning,
whether in the soft, moonlit nights of
summer, or the bitter, cold nights of
winter.
Every ash-barrel on their route is ex
plored by them. No rag, bone, piece of
iron or lead escapes them. They gather
the rag in the street as it flies. By hard
toil each earns from fifty to seventy-five
cents a day. There are hundreds of rag
shops and junk shops in tho city which
buy and assort the rags.
It is estimated that not less than 15,-
000 peeple are engaged as rag-pickers,
junk dealers, clerks, bookkeepers, gar
bage-pickers, contractors, etc, in mak
ing a living out of what the psople of
New York throw away. It is claimed
that 50,000 people derive their living
from the dust heaps and ash-barreis of the
city.— Ntv> York Journal.
SINGLE COPY 3 CENTS,
RICHMOND l DANVILLE R. R.
Atlanta and Charlotte Ur-Uae Division.
Condensed Schedule of Passenger
Trains. in Effect Jan. 17th, 1802.
NORTHBOUND, No. 38. No. 10. „ .„
eastern TIME. Daily. Daily.
Lv.Atlanta (E.T.) 125 pm 850 pm 9 00am
Chamblee 927 pm 9 38am
Norcross 939 pm 9 52am
Duluth 9 51 pm 10 05am
Snwanee 10 03 pm 10 16am
Buford 10 17 pm 10 18am
Flowery Branch 10 31 pm 10 40am
Gainesville 259 pm 10 51 pm 11 08am
DuU 11 18 pm 11 93am
Demon n 21 pm 11 37am
Cornelia 11 46 pm 12 06pm
Mt. Airy 11 60 pm 12 11pm
Toccoa. 12 20 am 12 41pm
Westminster 12 58 am 1 22pm
Seneca 117 am 147 pm
Central 160 am 2 35pm
Easleys 218 am 308 pm
Greenville 605 pm 244 am 8 87pm
Ore?™ 314 am 4 07pm
WeUford 833 am 4 25pm
. Spartanburg 657 pm 354 am 4 60pm
Clifton 418 am 5 08pm
Cowpens 418 am 5 12pm
Gaffney 440 am 5 39pm
Blacksburg 501 am 6 00pm
Grover 511 am 6 11pm
King’s Mount’ll 5.28 am 6 30pm
Gastonia. 554 am 6 58pm
Dowell 6 07aui 7 12pm
Beltomont 814 am 7 24pm
Ar. Charlotte 910 pm 640 am 7 50pm
ROTTTHBOTTVn No. 37, No. 11, N0.9,
oUUiHBOUND. Daily _ | DaUy DaUj-.
Lv. Charlotte. 945 am 150 pm 220 am
Bellemont 212 pm 242 am
Lowell 223 pm 252 am
Gastonia. 285 pm 804 am
King’s Monnt’n 800 pm 827 am
Grover. 8 16 pm 8 48 am
Blacksburg 826 pm 353 am
Gaffney 845 pm 4 10 am
Cowpens 410 pm 442 am
Clifton 4 13 pm 4 45 am
Spartanburg ... 11 48 am 427 pm 500 am
WeUford., 4 50pm 523 am
Greers 500 pm 542 am
Groenville 12 36 pm 534 pm 6 10 am
Easloys. 607 pm 638 am
Central 055 pm 7 30 am
Soneca 722 pm 757 am
Westminster. 7 41pm 817 am
Toccoa 819 pm 855 am
Mt. Airy 848 pm 928 am
Cornelia 852 pm 927 am
Bellton 916 pm 949 am
Lula 918 pm 951 am
GaineavUle 341 pm 942 pm 1C 16 am
Flowery Branch 10 00 pm 10 40 am
Buford 10 17 pm 10 52 am
Suwance 10 83 pm 11 04 am
Duluth 10 45 pm 11 15 pm
Norcross 10 66 pm 11 28 am
Chamblee 1108 pm 11 42 am
Ar. Atlanta (E. TANARUS.) 505 pm 11 45 pm 12 20 pm
Additional trains Nog. 17 and 18—Lula ac
commodation, daily except Sunday, leaves At
lanta 530 p m, arrives Lula 812 pm. Return
ing, leaves Lula 600 am, arrives Atlanta 850
a m.
Between Lula and Athens—No. 11 daily, ex
cept Sunday, and No. 9 daily, leave Lula 8 80 p
id, and 1140 am, arrive Athens 1015 p m ana
12 20 pm. Returning leave Athens, No. 10
daily, except Sunday, and No. 12 daily, 6 20 p m
and 6 45 am, arrive Lula 8 05 p m and 8 30
a m.
Between Toccoa and Elbcrton—No. 61 dai
ly; except Snndav, leave Toccoa 100 pm
arrive Elberton 440 pm. Returning, No. 60
daily, except Sunday, leave eElberton 5 00 a m
and arrives Toccoaß 30 am.
Nos. 9 and 10 carry Pullman Sleepers be
tween Atlanta and New York.
Nos. 37 and 38, Washington and Southwest
ern Vostlbuled Limited, between Atlanta and
Washington. On this train no extra fare is
charged. Through Pullman Sleepers between
New York and New Orleans, also between
Washington and Memphis, via Atlanta and
Birmingham.
For detailed information as to local and
through time tables, rates and Pullman Sleep
ing car reservations, confer with local agents,
or address,
JAS. L. TAYLOR, W. A. TURK,
Gen’l Pass. Ag’t. Ass’t. Genl. Pass. Ag’t.
Atlanta, Ga. Charlotte N. 0.
O. P. HAMMOND,
Superintendent. Atlanta, Ga:
W. H. GREEN, SOL. HASS,
Gen’l Manager. Traffic Manager,
Atlanta, Ga. Atlanta, Ga.
Thf.be are said to be five countie* in
Missouri and eleven in Arkansas, com
prising a strip of country 125 miles
square, that have no railroad oomtnuni
catioa with the outside world, and are yet
wonderfully rich in zino ore. This sec
tion of the oountry lies south and west
of the Memphis Railroad, north and west
of the Iron Mountain, south and east of
the St. Louis and San Francisoo, and
north of the Arkansas River. The zinc
carbonates of this region yield 83 per
cent., and the “jaok” 60 per cent, of pure
zino ore. A traveler, Mr. W. E. Win
ner, of Kansas City, says that he found
in the mountains a cave even larger than
the Mammoth Cave. Tho manner of life
of the people is extremely primitive.
They live in log-houses without windows.
Bacon is their main staple of diet.
Saloons are unknown. They seldom
work as long as they have food and to
bacco in the house. But they are virtu
ous, peaceable, and kindly disposed to
the stranger.
At tbe reoent International Congress
of Hygiene the comparative mortality of
persons in various professions between
the ages of 25 and 65 was rated as fol
lows: Ecclesiastics, 100; gardeners, 100;
farmers, 114; grocers, 139; fishermen,
143; cabinet makers, 148; lawyers, 152;
workers in silk, 152; mechanics, 155;
merchants, 158; clothiers, 159; miners,
160; shoemakers, 166; commercial trav
elers, 171; bakers, 172; millers, 172;
upholsterers, 179: masons, 174; black
smiths, 175; olerics, 179; road laborers,
185; workers in wool, 186; gunsmiths,
186; tailors, 189; hatters, 192: printers,
193; workers in cotton, 196; pnysicians,
202; atone quarry men, 202; binders,
210] butchers, 216; glassmakers, 214;
plumbers, painters, etc., 216; cutters,
229. brewers, 246; cab drivers, 267;
wine merchants, 274; potters, 804;
Cornwall miners, 831; weavers, 388; ho
tel boys. 897.
A wonderful .development has been
that of the ugiy waterproof to tho stylish
ackiutosh.M