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TIME TABLE IN EFFECT DECEMBER Hist, 1886.
Flag Stations are marked tbust
trains so ITT ft round —read down. trains NORTH bound—rend tip.
No. 1. I No. 5. | STATIONS. No. 2. - No. 6,t
7 55am! 8 10pm Lv Cincinnati Ar 642 pm 640 am
10 22 am! 11 20 pill Lv Lexington Ar 415 pmj 400 am
It 65 am 12 56 pm Lv Junction City Ar 242 pm 2 4ti am
630 pmj 9 15atn Lv Chattanooga Ar 750 atn 555 pm
650 pm. 935 am Lv Wauhuichie Lv 760 nut 565 put
+7 07 pm' +9 55 am Lv .. ..Morganville Lv +7 05 am ts 15 pm
25 pm 10 Mam Lv Trepton Lv 76 45 ant 456 pm
t742pmH062 am Lv Kishij/Fatvn Lv 661 am 467 pm
7 65 pm] to 4t am Lv.*. Sulphur Springs Lv| 620 hiii 4 25 pm
t 822 pm 11 17 pm Lv Valley Head Lv +5 50 am 355 pm
t 855 pm II 55 pin Lv Fort Payne Lv! +5 14 am 3 18 pm
19 39 pm! 12 48 pmjLv Collingsville. Lv| 125 am 230 pm
10 31pm 215 pm Lv Attalia Lv +6 62 am 125 pm
2 35 pm Lv S eele Lv 12 50 pm
2 58 pm Lv Whitney Lv 12 28 pm
11 59 pm 337 pm Lv Springville Lv 215 am 11 48 am
12 40 am; 422 pm Lv Trnssville Lv 163am11 02 am
140 am 535 pm|Lv Birmingham Lv *2 50 am 10 15 am
+6 06 pmjLv Wheeling Lv +9 37 am
+6 12 pm Lv Jonesboro Lv 9 30 ain
+2 46 am 659 pm Lv Woodstock Lv +ll 32 pm 851 am
+7 06 pm Lv Bibbville Lv +8 45 am
7 15pm Lv Vance Lv 837 urn
7 35 pmlLv Coaling Lv| I 8 17 am
7 54 pm Lv Cottondale Lv 1047 pm 806 am
347 am 815 pm Lv Tuscaloosa Lv 10 30 pm 748 am
+8 58 pm Lv Carthage Lv +7 12 am
■fit 20 pm Lv Akron Lv +9 30 pm 645 am
+5 08 am 952 pm Lv ELTAW Lv 9 11pm 620 am
632 nm 10 15 pm Lv Boligee Lv 849 pm 532 um
10 25 pm Lv Miller Lv 840 pm
547 am 10 32 pm Lv Epos Lv 835 pm 514 am
fi 05 am 10 56 pin Lv Livingston Lv 816 pm 453 am
625 am 11 15 pm Lv 7 York Lv 755 pm 430 am
+6 40 am 11 S 3 pm Lv Cuba Lv +7 38 pm 414 am
+7 02 am 11 55 pm Lv Toomsuba Lv +7 15 pm 351 am
740 am 12 30 am Ar Meridian I-v 640 pm 315 am
846 am 119 nin Ar Enterprise Lv 620 pm| 218 mil
300 pm 735 am Ar New Orleans Lv 10 40 am 800 am
12 55 am Lv Meridian Ar 2 35 am
5 05 am lAr ...Jackson Lv 10 05 pm
7 30 am Ar Vicksburg Lv 7 30 pm
2 40 pm Ar Mon roe Lv 12 20 pm
6 45 pm Ar Shreveport Lv 8 15 am
7 10 pm IA r Texas and I‘acillc Junction Lv 750 am
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TRENTON, DADE COUNTY GA, FRIDAY, MAY 20. 1887.
CURRENT TOPICS.
Plper types, of a large size, are now
made.
Aiielaiuk Nilson began life as a child’s
nurse.
The use of snails as food is increasing in
Ne,w Orleans.
M r. Washington is still white with snow
from top to base.
A Kisii with guilt eyebrows is caught off
the English coast.
Gk.ougia will celebrate her second Arbor
Day next November.
. Denver’s directory maker says the city
contains 80,000 people.
Russia is said to spend $200,000,000 annu
ally for her armament.
Detroit has more than 200 miles of elec
tripwires underground.
It is proposed to put 80,000,000 Russian
peasants back into serfdom.
A. Hoss is the name of a newly elected
justice of the peace at Peru, 111.
A iu uoi.ar seldom docs his work alone.
He generally has jimmy with him.
When Henry George lived in California
he was an inspector of gas meters.
An Omaha grocer gives away an original
poem w ith every cake of soap he sells.
In New York a policeman clubbed a
young man for performing on an accor
dion.
London has thirty-seven theaters, twen
ty-seven music halls and fifty-eight con
cert rooms.
An unknown quantity may be described
ds what you get when you buy a quart box
of strawberries.
Queen Victoria’s jubilee has been cele
brated with great pomp in Teheran, the
capital of Persia.
The Russian duty on iron and steel, and
on articles manufactured from iron and
steel, has been raised.
And now comes the report that Russia
and Austria are plotting against Turkey’s
European possessions.
Tin: old home of Aaron Burr is among
the property just purchased by a real
estate syndicate in New York.
Fiftv thousand copies of Mrs. Cleve
land’s photograph have already been sold.
The demand is about 200 a day.
Jay Gould’s purchases of Arkansas
lands, cover fully ten thousand acres, lo
cated in three different counties.
The Philadelphia Press says the college
curriculum now consists of a base-ball
guide, and Hanlan’s rules on rowing.
General Buckner’s admirers in Ken
tucky are going to make “Bolivar, Betty
and the Baby” their campaign slogan.
The bequests left Philadelphia by
Stephen CjiiftirU are now estimated to rep
resent a money value of over SIO,O >O,OOO.
The richest young man in Philadelphia
society is August E. Jessup. Ho is only
twenty-four, and has an income of $70,000 a
year.
In his ninety years Kaiser Wilhelm has
survived no fewer than seventy-two reign
ing sovereigns xvho were his contempor
aries.
The New York Senate has passed a bill
prohibiting the use of coal stoves in cars.
This is a good time to put such a law in
force.
Governor Ames, of Massachusetts, lives
in magnificent style. It costs him fully
$50,000 a year to keep up his Boston estab
lishment.
The University of Pennsylvania has de
cided that from the opening of next session
no cigarette smoking by the students will
be allowed.
A California court has decided that
when a man is taken ill at a hotel no extra
charge can be made for serving his meals
in his room.
The longest continuous railway run now
made is said to be that of the new Sarato
ga limited, from New York to Troy (148
milps) without stop.
The Inter-State Commerce Commission
has taken 700 pages of testimony relative
to the operation of the long and short haul
clause in the South.
“Kapioi.ani Kaptivates Kalifornia.
Kome, Kweenly Kanaka,” is the rapt way
in which the Boston Transcript addresses
the Hawaiian Queen.
One of the Albany (N. Y.) storekeepers
is a young girl fifteen years old. She
manages the store without assistance, and
pursues a growing business.
The Paris exhibition of 1889 will be post
poned till 1890, and will probably be aban
doned eventually on account of a lack of
co-operation by other countries.
Mr. Kilbride, Irish tenant, in this coun
try 7 with Editor William O’Brien, is worth
S2OO,(XX) and lives in a palace which would
rent in any city for SIO,OOO a year.
Duluth has among her citizens, Spring,
Winter, Summer, Breeze, Rainey. Dewey,
Frost and Snow, but claims that Mr. Cy
Clone has never visited the city yet.
The gifts of the late Wm. De Pauv, In
diana glass manufacturer, to the Green
castle (Ind.) University, which bears his
name, amount to more than $1,000,(XX).
St. Paul has a land syndicate which
gives land free to new manufactories lo
cating there, and they employ a salaried
agent to travel aud drum up business.
The probability that Sunday ball-play
ing in Illinois will be stopped by action of
the Legislature has thrown a damper on
the spirits of the amateur clubs in the
State.
In the list of letters advertised as re
maining unclaimed in the Perth Amboy
postoftloe is one addressed to “Ralyomi
halv Tolopsiz Alcmakovuz Malyasgd Doj
choruk.”
A woman, Mrs. Louise Daniels, has been
licensed as pilot of a Lake Champlain
steamer. Her examination, conducted by
U. S. Inspectors, is said to have been most
satisfactory.
Or the six million women in Brazil, only
half a million can read or write. And in
the remote districts, if a man has occasion
to leave home, he locks up his house and
puts his wife in a convent until he re
turns.
A contractor engaged on the grading at
Langheud’s coke works, at Fairchance,
Pa., on the Southwest railroad, is the
owner of a horse which possesses the re
markable growth of a flowing moustuohs
on iu upper lip.
Olft CANADIAN TKADE
Seriously Affected by the Intor-
State Commorce Law.
Orders for American Goods Witlid awn on
Account of Freights llonac Protests
Against the Suspension of tho “Hauling”
Clause.
Washington, May I(s.—The Department
of State has received and transmitted to
the Inter-State Commerce Commission for
its information, a letter from U. S. Consul
Twitchell, at Kingston, Can., upon the
subject of the inter-State commerce law
and its effects upon our trade with Cana
da. Tho Consul says: “Canada’s high
protective tariff, in which there is no pros
pect of reduction, has made mo
apprehensive from the first of tho
effect of the increased railroad
rates on imports from the United States
to thjs section of Canada. Since the 4th of
April these rates are shown by freight
bills here paid to have been increased from
twenty-five to one hundred per cent., with
no change on Canadian roads. After wait
ing thirty days for effects, I have made
a partial canvass of the importers of the
city of Kingston, with the following
result: Coal dealers are preparing to
bring from Nova Scotia coal
for all purposes where tho Nova
Scotia coal can be used; two factories
which have always used American coal
have put in their orders for Nova Scotia
coal. In hardware and pressed tinware. I
find orders have been changed from Amer
ican to Canadian houses on account of
freight. In groceries there is the same
complaint; products of countries outside
of the United States they now expect to get
by way of British Columbia and Halifax.
The unpleasant feature in connection with
my canvass has been the general expressed
desire to find how and where they may
make their purchases without coming in
contact with American railroads. With
the general national reaching out for
trade, it seems to me unnecessary to
prophecy what will be the effect upon tho
American manufacturer, wholesale dealer
and railroad by these general inquiries.”
The Commission has also received a peti
tion from a committee of citizens of
Newnan, Ga., protesting against the
suspension of section 4. 7he petition
says: “We respectfully submit that the
enforcement of the fourth section means
the growth of the smaller towns, means
more large towns and feaver large cities;
that the distribution of industries and pop
ulation among the smaller towns which
must follow the equalization of freight
tariffs will bring the consumer, the manu
facturer and the producer in close prox
ilty. and give to both thi> mflnnfaotm-nr
and the producer a home market, and se
cure the prosperity of all.”
FIFTY YEARS IN BED.
Death of a Daugh tj#of Governor Metcalfe
After Half accent urv ring.
Carlisle, Kuj May 16.—Mrs. Ithoda D.
Mdlvain, aged seventy-eight, aud for fifty
years confined to her bed from spinal
trouble, caused at child-birth, died yester
da v morning within a stone’s throw of her
home, Forest retreat, being the
daughter of Governor Thomas Metcalfe
and sister of Colonel Lon Metcalfe, at one
time a resident of Cincinnati, and who is
Grove Cemetery. Mrs.
the mother of four children
ai*l twice married before the age of tvveu
tymeven.
• Novel Reading Boys in Trouble.
Eau Claire, Wis., May 16.—Janies and
Wm. Murphy, aged respectively thirteen
and fifteen years, have been lodged in jail
here. They are accused of having derailed a
Wisconsin Central passenger train about
ten weeks ago between Eau Claire and
Chippewa Falls. Several trains had barely
escaped being wrecked several times in suc
cession when the company put armed
guards at the switch, since which time no
accidents have happened. The Murphy
boys had been reading dime novels.
Confederate Bonds.
Washington, May 16. —The solicitor for
the holders of Confederate bonds has
issued a circular which encourages the
hope that the next session of the U. S. Con
gress will allow the legality of their claim
against the U. !8. Government to be tested
by a suit in the Court of Claims. They
base their claims for damages ou tho
passage of the fourteenth amendment, by
which the Southern States were compelled
to withhold payment.
An Enterprising Capitalist.
Dodgf. City, Kas., May 16.—Hon. A. T.
Soule, of Rochester, N. Y., who built at
his own expense a canal nine miles long,
for irrigating purposes, at an expense of
*1,(MX),000, has announced his intention of
extending it so that one million acres of
land hereabouts will always yield a full
crop. He has donated *50,000 to the Pres
byterian College located here, and lias
bought the First National Bank for $75,000,
and also the Dodge City water-works.
Prohibition in Newcomerstown, 0.
Newcomerstown, 0., May 16.— The vil
lage of Newcomerstown voted on prohibi
tion to-day. The vote was larg' and the
excitement intense. The vote resulted:
For prohibition 127, against prohibition
110. All the church bells are ringing over
the victory.
Great Beef Contract with France.
Chicago, May 16. Edward Morris, of the
Fairbanks Canning Company, of Chicago,
cables from Paris to-day that he has con
cluded a contract for 1,500,000 kilos of
canned meat for the French army, anil
3,000,000 kilos for the navy. This is stated
to be the largest contract ever made with
an American firm by a foreign goveru
ment.
Swamp Lands Sales.
Washington, May 10.—Alabama has
Jiecn awarded $18,285 and Mississippi
$41,454 in damages resulting from the sale
by the U. S. Government of swamp lards
to pay the direct State tax.
DEADLY REPTILES.
Two Salamanders from Japan Whose Vory
Breath is J’oison.
New York, May 17.— About ten days ago
Chas. Reiche <fc Bros., dealers in animals,
received two salamanders from the interior
of Japan. These Japanese terrors have ex
cited great attention, not only because
they are the only ones ever imported into
this country, but on account of their
bad reputation. Any thing that they
touch is rendered poisonous. Water
in which they have poked their
noses becomes so deadly as to kill any
living thing that touches it. The renuta
tion of the salamander in regard to fire is
well known. It is believed that these ani
mals have many other bad habits, about
which tlioy are silent. On Sunday the two
warty beasts were left iu a shallow tub,
and yesterday morning both had escaped.
The larger of the two was found in a corner
of the room, and without much difficulty
was picked up on a cloth and put back into
the tub. The little one had left a
watery train in its flight which led
out of the door and half way down a flight
of stairs to a hole just big enough for the
creature to squeeze through. The wonder
ing salamander must have made a quick
descent to the cellar floor, where a young
black bear of great amiability of character
was chained to the wall. The fall prob
ably soured the salamander’s temper and
made him anxious to smash things, for
when the store was opened up yesterday
morning the bear was lying dead in its
corner, with froth about its muzzle
and its body drawn up as if it had died
with the colic. No marks could be found
upon the bear’s body and no autopsy was
made. That will come in due time to-day,
for every body wants to know j ust how tho
salamander gets in its deadly work.
The cellar of the store was thoroughly
searched during the day, but the lizard
■was not to be found. Last night a stream
of water was left trickling down into an
iron basin, in the hope that the pleasant
sound would attract the salamander, which
must be very dry indeed by this time. Tho
unfortunate part of the affair is that no
body knows whether the salamander kills
its victim by biting, spitting or merely
getting into the same county. This uncer
tainty makes the hunt peculiarly exciting.
O'BRIEN IN TORONTO.
Attempt of a Moll of Orangemen to Storm
the Speaker's Platform.
Toronto, May 17.—Mr. O’Brien arrived
in this city to-day and spoke this afternoon
in Queen's Park. The number present is
estimated at A crowd of Orange
men attempted to storm the platform, but
failing in this, to choke off all
possibility of Mr. O’Brien being
heard they kept up a continual din of
groaning, hissing, braying and cries of
“God save the Queen,” and “Rule Britan
nia,” and singing “The Boyne Water.”
Several bloody noses was the result. The
first demonstration came from a solitary
man at the left-hand side of the platform,
who stood upon the stump of a tree
and began groaning at the meeting
and at those on the platform as
though his life depended on the ef
fort. Near him was a woman wav
ing a green branch in her hand, and no
sooner had she seen the obstreperous
Orangeman than she ran the butt of the
twig down his throat, which effectively
choked off the disturber amid a roar of ap
plause from the crowd and “God save Ire
land.” A rush was made for the woman,
but she was among her friends, and a
surging wave of thousands drove back
her would-be assailants.
■ ♦ ♦—
Missouri Militia Disbands.
St. Louis, May 17.—Owing to the refusal
of the Legislature to appropriate funds
and give support to the militia, the First
Regiment resolved to disband. The Adju
tant General yesterday issued a notice
that at the request of the commanding
officer the First Regiment National Guard
of Missouri, headquarters at St Louis,
composed of eleven companies, was dis
banded, to take effect May 23. This leaves
St. Louis with the Busch Zouaves and
Light Cavalry Troop.
Sudden Illness of Ben Perley Poore.
Washington, May 17. —The veteran cor
respondent, Major Ben Perley Poore, was
taken violently ill at the Capitol this af
ternoon. The main trouble is kidney dis
ease, and at first resembled
paralysis. Tl* attack is very serious, if
not erit have been two con
sultations of physicians since he reached
the hotel. The attack was the result of
overwork and the heat.
France Must Take no Advantage.
Berlin, May 17.—The Krenx Zeitunfl and
the Berlin Post urge the necessity of Ger
many mobilizing her army in the event of
General Boulanger’s plan being adopted.
The Post further recommends the with
drawal of all the reserves and all horses
fit for war purposes from Alsace-Lorraine
for fear the troops may use what they have
learned from Germany against Germany
herself.
Higher Prices Will Even Things.
Helena, Mont., May 17. — Prominent
stockmen, just returned from a tour of
their ranges, report an unexcelled pros
pect for a fine grass crop. The losses of
cattle during the winter were large, fully
twenty-five per cent., but with better
prices in prospect cattlemen, they say, will
hardly feel it.
Fixed lor Life.
Louisville, Ky„ May 17.—Harry Boggs,
alias James Cain, alias James McGinnis,
was tried in the Circuit Court here this
morning for the theft of SSOO worth of dia
monds from S. Ledman & Son. The jury
found the prisoner guilty of the larceny
charged in the indictment, and fixed his
punishment at five years in the peniten
tiary, and also guilty of two previous con
victions of felony, under which his punish
ment was fixed at confinement in the peni
tentiary for life Boggs is a celebrated
criminal, aud was arrested shortly after
bis assault upon the Rev. St eve Holcombe,
of this city.
-NO. 13.
voi,. iv.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
The Gar Held Monument A Tribute from
the Army of the Cumberland to the
Dead Soldier anil Statesman.
[Special Correspondence.]
After four years’ waiting, the Garfield
monument is at last standing ill its ap
posnte 1 place in the capital of the Nation.
The Army of tho Cumberland, loyal to one
of its most distinguished Generals in
whose civil career subsequent to the war
they took lasting pride, has done its work
well. It is only frank and just to s;ty that
li id other army organizations been equally
prompt an! generous, we should long ago
have seen fitting honor paid in statuary to
General Grant; and had the people of the
whole United States been equally quick
to do honor to Lincoln, the effigies now to
be seen doing counterfeit tribute to him
would long ago have ceased to remind us
that this Republic has been peculiarly un
grateful to that hero.
Tho Garfield statue is heroic in size and
is cast in bronz?. The figure of tho dead
President is twelve feet high and weighs
two thousand pounds. This will be the
only standing statue of a President in
Washington. Garfield stands as if read
ing his ad Iross. In the left hand is the
pamphlet while the right rests on a draped
pillow. The head is thrown back as if he
was just on the point of making an em
phatic utterance. The figure is enveloped
in an overcoat, open and with long lapels
carefully folded back to show the under
coat. Tho left leg is advanced and ths left
foot projects over the edge of the statue’s
base.
Tbc pedestal is of Quincy granite. Near
ly every pedestal in Washington conies
from Quincy. It is unique in design, un
like any other statue foundation in the
city. The general form is that of a tre
foil with a circular column six foot high
surmounting it. One of the three faces
looks southwesterly down M iryland ave
nue; another looks northward, the other
up over tho capitol ground to tho Butler
House. Oil the west face there is the fol
lowing inscription:
• JAMES A. GARFIELD, i
: 1831-1881. :
The north faco bears the following in
scription :
: ERECTED :
: BY HIS COMRADES, :
: OF THU
: ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND, :
t MAY 12, 1887. :
The other face recites Garfield's public
stations, and reads as follows:
: MAJOR GENERAL OF VOLUNTEERS, i
; MEMBER OF CONGRESS, ;
t SENATOR :
: and
: PRESIDENT
: of the ;
: UNITED STATES :
: of :
AMERICA.
Those letters are raised above the surface
of the panel and are highly polished. The
panels are on the cylinder, and there is a
curious reflection of the light from tho let
ters making them fairlv blaze at times.
iglOM ieei
jHI |
TIIE GAKFIKLD statue.
On the three projections in the pedestal
are three bronze figures in classic style,
representing Garfield as student, soldier
and statesman. These figures are un
_draped and unclothed and lie recumbent
on the granite. They are eight feet in
height. There is consider ible criticism of
the use niado of classic baroness to illus
trate a modern statesman’s career. It
must be remembered, however, that up
over the hill in front of the capitol
George Washington is represented in
Grceuough’s famous statue as sitting
naked in a chair with a meager piece ot
drapery covering his legs. Mr. John
Quincy Adams Ward, the sculptor, is an
Ohio man, whose fame was greatly in
creased by his magnificent equestrian
statue of Governor Thomas which the
Society of the Army of tho Cumberland
erected iu Thomas Circle in 1874 at a cost
of $40,003. The Garfield statue cost $60,-
0K). The Government erected the ped
estal and paid for the recumbent figures.
These were put in place under the di
rection of Colonel Wilson, Superintendent
of Public Buildings and Grounds. Taken
all in all, this Garfield statue is one of the
finest pieces of sculpture in Washington.
It is original and has a life and spirit in its
treatment that easily distinguish Mr.
Ward’s work.
Placing this statue whore it is ought tc
draw some attention to the surroundings.
It is a pity the Botanical Gardens, just
across the street, can not receive lair
treatment. They are really a part of the
capitol grounds and should bo kept up on
a level with the latter. The dingy old
brick buildings, at d half-broken glass con
servatories are a disgrace to the city and
the Nation. The plants iu th“ hot-houses
are crowded together in a way to make it
a wonder that they grow at all. There ar j
palms seventy feet high that crowded their
tops against the glass roof and finally turned
And grew downward toward mother earth
again. The collection is au excellent one,
but Congress fails to afford money enough
to lake good care of iL