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minority ever saw tha inside of the building. The crash wan terriils md the lino was o long that it ran away iuto unexplored back strap's lev#nd the sta'a, war and navy building. The IdUiilonls of Washington ate still figuring on tbo hrrghta from the conclave. Most of them are faiily well satisfied with the tesol'9. The liverymen have made a fortune and are thank n! after the chaste maiiisorof liverymen. It was left for o Stn Francisco man to strike tha best opportunity. When the conclave was held in that city he was running a small job printing of fice and was over tun with card print iog for the knights. These cards have Masonic emblems and tlie name ot the knight and the designation of bis eom maadry. The cards Cost about twen ty cents a bendred and (be kuigbts are glad to get them during the con clave, printed, (or three dollars a bun tired and upward. The San Francisco man brought two email pie.-sss with hitu, and in less than ten hours after ha opened up he hud two incai job of fiees running presses turil 3 o'clock in the morning, lie claims to have 25.000 dsllars on the week, and it looks prohablo. He simply printed cards by the ton. Sj much for grasp iug au occasion. The president has been deluged dur ing the pant week with inquiries as to whether Us is or is not a Mason. The same question lm.v been pat. by mail several bundled times during the last lew months and to each a letter his been written; stating that the president is not and never has been a member of any secret organization. Indeed, by sc ilia chance there is uo Knight Temp lar in the cabinet, and only two of the members are even Masons of any de g ,<e - The size of the crowd during the couoi iveis seriously estimated at about 100,000 to 125,000 people. This leaves it, despite reports to the contra ry, less than halt as largo as that is the city during inauguration. P< r haps the uniform good uatute and ab set'ce or noise aa-i druukunass made the number i-eun smaller thin the howling, disorderly mcb that disting uifehed Pres. Harrison’s in augur atiou with iie presence. The society net idea that Mrs. Bar risoia woahl to a great extent relm qui’-li the office of first lady ol the land to Mrs. Morton, is shattered by the semi official scat uncement that Mrs. Harrison will enter into the swim, so to speak, up to her neck. The Mor ion millions aaa the Mug society cul rure and tiro magniliceat face ol Mrs. Morton will not bo allowed to over rule Mrs. Harrison, People who have good dinners and old wine will be disap pointed. A Slearabeat Story. Desperate Work of a reckless Pi lot—Risking the Lives of Hun dreds of Passengers—A Great Tragedy Prevented by a Coura geous Captain. I knew “Cant. Jim Maginnis” i.nd worked for him—remarked a ua:e of the ancient days—and I c nee saw him cool headed and cour ; geous under the most trying cir cumstances. It was in 1861. The Rose R/jU class mid Julia Roan, l oth splendid boats of their class— f tern wheelers, good carriers and 4 ast —left Little Rock tor Memphis v.thia an hour of each other, the understanding being that the boat that reached Mem oh is first should A. have a day in tho Adams Mail line. Bofh boats were loaded with Con ■federate soldiers. The trio down file Arkansas was without special event, except everybody on beats learned fhat a race was orfand nat urally look great interest. Bofh boats went through the “cut oil',” entering the Mississppi by way ot White river. Then tha real race began. Across her bow. Just as the Douglass came out of White river the Roan was straightening out up the Mississippi. Tha Dyug lass had to land, and the delay gave the lioan about one hour’s start. It was just a little afternoon. Bill Reilly was the pilot on the Douglass, Capt. Jim standing one watch himself. Bill was at the wheel when we started up the Mississippi, and he said he felt sure of overhauling and passing the Roan before supper. And he did overhaul her, bill he did not pass her, for the simple reason tint her pilot—l don't know who he was —wouldn’t allow her to be passed. When he ran up close enough to make it apparent that we could pass excitement on both boats be came intense. The soldiers espe cially took a lively interest, and those on our boat set up a cheer. Those on the other hurled back a yell of defiance. Less than two miles ahead was a chute into which only one boat could enter, and the pilot on the Roan realized that if wo entered the chute first his boai would be practically out of ihe race, and !hey would have to trail in be hind us and run slowly. He decid ed on a desperate scheme to pre vent us reaching the chute first. Pulling hi* wheel hard down, he turned his boat around at right aw- gles with the stream an 1 ran squarely across our bow, passing not ten feet ahead of us. Reilly saw the clanger, and did just what the Roan’s pilot intended he should do —stopped the boat, and backed to avoid a collision. It was a desper ate trick, and placed several bun dred lives in jeopardy, as, had the Douglass not backed, she must in evitably cut lire Roan in two amid ships, and both boats would have gone down where the water was so deep that even the smokestacks would have been covered. It had the desired result, however. By stopping and backing we lost time enough to permit the older b>at to get into Iho chute first. Reilly was mad, and he lei it be known. Th© soldiers were mid, tad in their rage they hurled curs es at the soldiers on the other boat, wh® responded with cheers and jeers. Capf. Jim was asleep. Bill Reilly decided to stick to the main channel, and not follow the Roan through the chute. The result was that we ware about five or seven miles behind when we caught sight of tiie Roan again. He was the commander. Mean time watches had changed and Uapt. Jim was at the wheel. Reil ly explained to lum what had oc curred and told of the excitement among the soldiers. The Douglass gradually crawled up on the Roan until about 10 o’clock, when wo were less than a mile behind, with the width of the river between the boat*. The Douglass had demon strafed superior spaed but the no an evidently bad letter water on her side of the river, with less current to contend with, so that they were about on equal terms, Thus (hey ran along until nearly midnight, when 11-dlly again.came cu watch. Several times during the night the boats had run quite close together, and all night excite meat ran high. When Reilly took the wheel Capt. Jim cautioned him to keep the width of the river between the boats, if possible, and to bo very careful, and then retir ed. Ilis wife was on the boat, and she sat up reading after the old man went to sleep. About 1:30 o’clock she heard shouting and cheering, and looking out saw that the Roan was coming toward our side of th® river. She reused (lie captain, and he jumped up and looked out. In an instant he saw hat we wero nearing another chute, and the situation was exact ly as at the time the iioan had cr >ssed our bow. Without waiting to put on his clothes he sprang on the guards of the cabin deck, and, catching himself up, and m less time required was standing on the hurricane deck clad only in his un dershirt, drawers and socks. Close beside him was the captain of the Confederate troops, while the sol diers completely filled the upper deck. It was evident the same desper ate game was going to be played by the Roan’s pilot, and it looked as though Reilly was going ie run her down. Capfc. Jim gave the ord er to stop and back. Atlha syme instant the Confederate captain pulled his revolver and pointed it at the pilot on the Roan. The scene was a wiid cup; Ml tbs soldiers on both boats veers yelling and enuring like fiends, great showers of spaiks were pouting from the chmueya of both boats like fountains of fire, and the conditions were good for one of the most sensational Itagedie? eVst en acted. Capt. Jim was perfectly cool. Seizing tbs wrist <f the officer tvi h the pistol, he jerked the arm down ward and she ok the revolver from hie grasp. Quick as a flash another of ficer &e’zed the pistol and pointing it at lleilly, oar own pilot, thouted to bioi to run her down, coupled with the ih'aat: “I will blow your head off if \ou stop this boat.” Before the words were out of his moHth Capt. Jim lauded a blow un der his ear, and be fell ro the dt 'k like a s.tunmd ox. Ac the same t>rne he commanded lleilly to stop hot in such tunes that enforced obedience, and the Roan glided by so closely that her wheel threw water over our loroastle. Again, the scheme worked, and the riuau got the advantage of the chute. We went round the island, but wi woo the race jnst the same Wn*n e reached the Ueuil ot lire cbu'e the Roan was nowhere in sight, and we liey--. d'd over take her, which re. med a it ■le mysterious, until she came int" Memphis about Bitten hours behind Uf-, and we It-artted she heft been rli.ek ,>n a bar in the chute. —f Wt. Louis Q!ob<j-I eraocrat. It costr more to bo miserable than ir.a'd mke u perfectlp happy, The wild oat- of yoath are surj to gtow into the biiais of maukood. 0 IK/ 1 Sq Son* HARMONY GROVE, GA. DEALERS IN O 'vdvVwVy VWj, uwi U Also Sue Line ot Hardware, Tinware, Crockery and Gla3sre, Family Groceries, Flour, Meats, Etc. Car stock is Complete and we are fully prepared to satisfy our Cus tomers in respect to styles and Qualities. Everythin" sold for prices far below any evpr made in this or sriv other MARKET .IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA. Besuie to Call and see as be tore purchasing elsewhere. The oldest Firm in this section. 1!) isia a B&sdl 3 Jlssl gfia tjQ ''<& Wa e DEALERS IN Dry Goods, Olothiag 1 flpSF*Notions, Fancy Goods, Fine Millinery, Groceries and General Merchandise. Give us * Call when in HARMONY GROVE. SS3 S?3 SB * A ® Hardman & Comp y, HARDWARE And CUTLERY, Liao of Stoves, Tinware, Agricultural, Implements, E-c., can rot be round in better Quality and Durability, Elsewhere. We also have in stock a fine line ot gun a and pistols, and we are tfio only house iu Harmony Q rove ■ par psv a Licence to sell Pistols and Cartridges. (Jail and s=*s ns. D* £$ Eft S3 SS 65 RH rags Ana Msaicincs. N Families must ha-*-o Castor Oil, Spirits Turpentine, Pills, Mustard and Com position Powders, Liniments, Hor>e and o’at‘le Powders, isarßa jiaiiila and other Patent Medicines. Before buying such supplies, call on Dr. V'. D. Lockhart at the Harmonv Grove Academy, j£3il@ Ana V HARMONY GROVE GA. .1. H. Wa’ker, A. B . Principal, Ohas. ,M. Walker, A. 8., Assistant. Jliss Annie Hurst, ISecoud Assistant. Mrs. L A. MoSmith, Music Teacher. And Continues Thirty-Eight Weeks: Two Weeks Vacation Christmas. RATES OF TUITION: Flr\t Grade— Writing, Orthography, Reading and Arithmetic $1 JO Second Grade. Embraces same topics as first grade, and Gram mar, Geography ami Composition - 00 Third Grade. Languages, Higher Mathematics, Rhetoric, Chemis try, Physics, Etc. o * Music, 00 Incidental Fees, FallVerm 20 cents, spring Turin, 30 cents. AH patrons allowed full benefit ot Common School Fund. Board can be had iu the best fannies at eight to twelve dollars per month. Hn mernv Grove has, by taxation, built a large and commodious buck building, ‘the school will be thoroughly equipped with patent desks, black boards,'"comfortable recitation seats, maps, globes, apparatus, and eyery mod 'rn. improvement for successful teaching. This school, with a lull corps of g<y>') teachers, with comfortable building and ruolern improvements commend ! itself to the paten's of Harmony Grove and surrounding country. We most respeotfiWly solicit the patronage of the citizens of Banks Conity. For tunLcr information address JH. WALKER, Harmony Grove, oa.