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VOL. VII, NO. 35 MAXTON, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL G, 1893. 01. GO A YEAuT
la Canada they call thi3 couatrj "The
States." Then why, asks the New York
Independent, may not tho riddle of a
name for our people be solved by calling
us "States-men?"
'fhe Courier-Journal learns that Pro
fessor Wiggins lays tho biame for the
cold weather, the ctnlera and the rest of
the ills with which the earth has recently
been afflicted on the conjunction be
tween Jupiter and Mars.
. A mathematician, who evidently ha?
abundant leisure, ha? been figuring, re
lates the New York Nsws, on the size
of the mortgage wc should now be
carrying if Columbus had pledged this
country for the coat of his outfit.
Starting with the a3U"nptioi that the
expenditure cost Isabella $40,000, he
adds interest compaundca every six
months. At the present time the
amount foots up nearly 271 quadrillion
dollars. Taking the population of the
United States at 65,000,000, the little
obligation reaches nearly 417 million
dollars for each inhabitant. It is con
sequently a great relief to know that
Columbus never set foot on North
America. It would be very embarrass
ing to have a musty mortgage for that
dizzy figure presented, with the cui
tomary notice of foreclosure.
.' The New York Advertiser says: "Be.
ginning with Grant's second inaugura
tion in 1373, a period of twenty years,
during which six Presidents have been
inaugurated, the 4th of March fell oa
pleasant days only twice. The 4th of
1873, was a bitter cold and blustering
day. There was neither snow nor rain,
but the temperature was so low that
death reaped a large harvest among
those who participated in the parade.
The 4th of March, 1877, when Hayes
was inaugurated, was a miserably damp,
pneumonia-breeding day. The 4th of
March, 1881, when Garfield was in
augurated, and the 4th of March, 1835,
when Cleveland was first inaugurated,
were both pleasant days. Mr. Harri
son's Inaugural address was delivered
in the midst of a pouring rain, and Mr.
Cleveland's second oath of office was
taken while the snow beat upon his
bared head. There is no sort of justifi
cation for the retention of this date for
this important ceremony. It will always
be made a spectacle. Surely it is not
necessary to slay the people to celebrate
the change in the administration of a
Republican Government. Let the date
be changed in the interests r( hutoAniliy,"
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A BLUEBIRD'S SONG.
To simple souls, ofttimes in simplest ways,
Come sweet surprises that we scarcely
know why
Made glad with sudden brightness dreary
days,
Or seta rainbow in a stormy sky.
A smile, perhaps, from some dear passer-by,
A word, unsought, of sympathy or praise,
A way-side Cower, a flower -like butterfly
The veriest trifle has its spell to raise
Some drooping heart to whom God bids
it speak -
And 1 who heard but now ali unaware
That bluebird's rapture thrilling on the air
1 know its meaning is not far to seek;
To me faint-hearted, fearful, onee again
The Father sends a message not in vain.
- Mary Bradley, in Harper's Bazar.
STILTS MORGANS BLIZZARD
TILTS MORGAN had
lived three winders
in Dakota without
once having seen a
blizzard. He had
come to have his
doubts about the ex
istence of such a
thing. To be sure,
he often read in the
Eastern papers that a
blizzard had swept over his State and
had done all sorts of dreadful things.
But it had never come his way, and he
firmly believed that theso stories were
the malicious inventions of dishonest
newspaper correspondents in the pay of
railroads and town-site companies
anxious to divert immigration from Da.
kota. Stilts used to inveigh against
these cruel stories bitterly. To mention
the word 'blizzard" in his presence was
the signal for such a storm of protest as
suggested that if he had never actually
encountered cne he kept the possibility
of it always with him.
Stilts was "proving up" on a claim
not far from the city of Watertown. He
kept a grocery store in the city, but ieft
it early every afternoon in charge of his
brother so as to be able to sleep on his
claim. He had to walk four mile3 across
the prairie, but he argued that the
walking did him good, and it became at
last a very simple matter. He left town
one afternoon in February, a little later
thau usual, but still in ample tiui'j to
reach his shack before dark. It had
been a warm, beautiful day. The sua
had blazed out of a perfectly clear sky,
and, although the air was sharp, every
body had gone around with his top-coat
on his arm, if, indeed, he bad bothered
with it at all. Stilts knew that the
weather changed quickly sometimes,
and he never ventured on his long walk
without plenty of protection. So he
took his coat with him a heavy, old
time buffalo with his arm looped over
it and his hands in his trousers pockets.
Nothing momentous is apt to occur
nowadays in a walk across a Dakcta
prairie. The Indians, wolves, builalo
and everything else of former interest
have gone forever. Gophers shoot around
through the grass, but gophers are as
small of account as sparrows in New
York or turkey buzzards in Trinidad.
Now and then a jick-rabbit would rear
himself on his hind legs, point his long
ears toward you and bound fleetly away.
Sometimes a coyote would bark shrilly
far beyond in the distance, and it might
be possible to catch a glimpse of him,
and once in a great while you might
stumble on a colony of dogs. But when
all these incidents had occurred the pos
sibilities of the prairies were exhausted,
and you were left to your own resources
for entertainment. In this aspect of his
case Stilts was fortunate. He had little
to think of, but he possessed the rare
faculty at will of not thinking at all, and
wouia move on, mile after mile, without
being conscious of anything.
On the February afternoon I men
tioned Stilts was thui occupied, that is,
he was plodding along mechanically
with his mind in a condition of simple
repose. Suddenly, and as if awakened
from dreamless sleep, the thought ap
peared in his mind that he was cold. It
had probably been there quite a while
before he perceived it, for now that he
did perceive it, he seemed to recollect
in a dim sort of way that he had been
for some time uneasy. lie reassumed
control of his mental operations and
loosea aronnd him. Something queer
was in the air. When he last noticed
things the weather was clear, sunny and
warm. Now it was very cold, and the
chill seemed to deepen profoundly every
instant. The northern and eastern skies
were a dead gray in color, and the south
ern and we&tern wore a sickly red hue.
Ine atmosphere was strangely
and thick. There was no
Tisible, and yet it could
have gona down. Stilts was
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presseu. ne seemea to ieei tnat soma,
thing dreadful was about to happen.
He began to take his bearings. Less tnan
a third of a mile in front of him he saw
his shack. For an instant he 'could
make it out plainly, and yet, even as he
looked, it seemed to become indistinct.
Half way between him and the house
there ran a deep coulee, and he fixed the
spot with his eyes where he wanted to
strike it. These observations, from the
particular second of time when he first
thought he felt cold, had certainly con
sumed no more than three minutes, but
now the entire dome above him was
leaden, the shack was lost to view, and
by the time he had got his big coat on
and buttoned up he was sensible of a
quick motion of the air and a distant
but rapidly approaching poi?e, The
sky, or rather the atmospheric cone
within which his sight was limited,
seemea to darken and close ia on him.
At one point just over his right shoulder
and apparently a stone's throw distant
in the air, there was a black knot about
the size of a cannon-ball. It looked as
if it were spinning around and whirling
darkness and confusion far in all direc
tions. "God save me!" gasped Stilts. "I do
see a blizzard nowl''
Stilts was not his real name. I don'i
think I ever heard his real name, but it
doesn't signify, anyhow. Everybody
called h'm Stilts on account of his ab
normally long and thin legs. He was
tall, but his body was not well propor
tioned. The most of it was legs, and
long as they were they lacked weight
and muscle. It enrue like a flash into
Stilts's mind that if he ever let tha'
twirling black knot strike him it would
carry him so far and turn him over sc
often that even if he got away from it
auve ne would have lost his bearings
completely and. would have no notice
whatever as to the direction in which to
walk. All the stories he had heard oi
read about people gettiag lost in tht
snow came surging upon him. He re
membered one case where a man started
out in a blizzard to close his barn door,
and perished in a vain effort to find it.
Another, where a man and his young
daughter left a church building in
which, with others, the blizzard caught
them, thinking they could surely reach
their home on., the other side of the
street and only a lew doors below the
church. They were found dead in the
snow not ten feet from the fence that
inclosed their house. Stilts threw him
self on his stomach, flattened out and
dug his fingers and toes into the ground
fiercely.
He did the right thing and did it not
a moment too soon. The noise which
had directed his attention to the black
knot had become a startling thunder,
wild flurries of snow darted and spread,
and in another instant th blizzard
broke I Ten million demons surcharged
with fury could uot have made a wilder
uproai, or produced a more fearful force.
The luckiest thing that ever happened to
Stilts in all his life was his thinness at
that moment. He held himself down in
the cured grass and trembled. Stiff as
he was with cold, the perspiration ol
fear wet his face. How long he lay ht
did not know, but he knew the snow
was heavy on him and he began to b
afraid of losing ronsciousness. Thf
wildest passion of the storm had passed
of that he feit certain. But it still
raged and roared. The snow fell in lit
tle flakes that struck his face like whip
snaps. He could not see a foot in front
of his eyes. He was afraid, indeed, tf
open them, and ventured to do so onlj
for a second now and then. He rose
slowly, testing his strength against the
storm with every movement until at last
he stood upright with hi face set, hs
was sure, directly towards his little
shack, one-third of a mile away.
Stilts had heard about the tendency
of a man in walking, without visible
marks to guide him, to move in a circle,
and he argued that there was danger of
his missing the shack while being very
near it. As the thing had been ex
plained to him, the muscles of the right
leg being stronger and more vigor
ous generally than these of the
left, it was a circular move
ment toward the lett. He concluded,
therefore, to strike out for a point to the
ri"-ht, or north of his shack. The wind
had also to be taken into account. Its
natural effect would be to throw him to
ward the left. Considering these facts,
he began to move as swiftly as he dared,
having due regard to the necessity of
controlling the direction ot every step.
But it was not really swift. The wind
caught him, almost turned him and stiff
ened every muscle. The cold was un
thinkable. The biting, whipping snow
seemed to raise a blister on every point
of surface it struck. He could not turn
from it lest he changed his route. He
went forward a dozen steps, beating
airainst the wind, and then paused in ex
haustion a dozen more and paused
again. He asked himself a thousand
times. Would he never reach the coulee,
even? Again and again he was sure he
had lost it, sure he wa going any other
than the right way. But as last he
thought he felt his footsteps descend
ing, and now he was sure of it. Down,
down, down he went, slowly but firmly,
the force of the storm growing less with
2very'step. He was at the bottom of the
coulee 1
Stilts had been thinking all kinds of
things since he saw that black knot, and
the thought which passed on him hard
est was that his time had probably come.
His mind was choked with memories of
his boyhood in Kentucky, of his mother,
who was as goods a woman as ever
moaned a life into the world, and as he
stopped for breath in the coulee, with
the blizzard howling above him, he tried
to recall the prayers she had taught him,
but to save his soul he couldn't. He re
membered the long meter Doxology, but
as he said it over softly to himself,
"Praise God from whom all blessings
flow," it didn't seem appropriate at
least just yet. The only other verse h
could bring back were the lines:
Where is the little boy minding his sheep?
Under the hay-mow, fast asleep.
It wasn't a prayer, and Stilts knew it
wasn't. But he had never gone through
the operation of making a prayer for
himself, and, indeed, he had a vague
Tinfinn that to be efficacious prayers had
to be mde by a duly authorized perggn.
He said to himself that if ever he got
out ot this alive, he would go to some
bady who knew one and get it and com
mit it to memory. But what to do now
distressed him. ne tboiijht and thought
and thought, but only to dad himself
repeating again and again:
Where is the little boy min liox his sheep?
Under the hay-mow fast asleep.
"Well," said Stilts, gathering himself
together to begin the ascent, and to face
the storm anew, "I can't help it; it's all
I know; it's the best I can do, and if it
won't go, why, so much the worse for
me." It somewhat comforted him,
however, and he felt better for saying it.
The ascent to the top of the coulee
was performed with the expenditure of
almost all his remaining strength, and
when Stilts felt himself on the level
prairie he moved slowly and feebly. He
was conscious that "lis body was stiffen
inir, that he no longer felt keenly, and
that it was a question how far he could
go without falling. This he attributed
tothefearlul cold rather than to fatigue,
and he began to3winghis arms, to jump,
to pound his legs, and to do everything
that would aid the circulation of his
blood. He kept on and on until he felt
sure he must be very near his shack, and
then hope began to fa'. I him. lie could
see nothing, hear nothing, but the wind,
feel nothing but the sav.vje snow. Still
he walked, holding his hands out
stretched before him, and uttering short,
low moans of despair. Suddenly he fell.
He had etumbied. He moved his numb
hands about in the snow. "It's my
wood-pile T' cried Stilts; "I am saved !'
It was his wood pile, but there were
as many possible directions in which his
shack might lie from the wood-pile as
there were points of the compass. He
figured the thing out, though, with nr
little judgment. If he had cxns in a
reasonably straight line from the coulee
o the wood-pile the shac'v was about
thirty feet to the right. He turned aud
paced oil the thirty feet, thiity-live,
forty but he did not strike the shack.
Then he faced directly about and paced
his way back t. the wood-pile. Having
got it again, he started off a second
time, somewhat more to tiie right.
Again he failed and again he returned.
Ho made live journeys back and forth
from the wood-pile, not daring o move
save in straight lines from and to it, his
courage runuing higher at each start and
failing deeper at ea'cri'rctuia. But the
sixth trip gave him his life. He fell di
rectly on the squared log that serves
him for a door step.
Stilts opened his coat, and reached
his still hand into its inside pocket for
the key of the padlock that fastened his
door. It took him an age to find it, and
a weary, weary time to get it in the lock.
But when, at last, he turned it and re
moved the hasp, leaned against the
heavy door, staggered into warmth and
safety, and fell upon his bed in the
corner, he said, faintly, "I'll say over
them iines again before I drop off to
sleep. It's a wheat farm to a whisp o
straw that they was what saved me !"
New York Tribune.
Whole Town Destroyed:
Wilmington, Del The chief of the
fire department of this city received word
that the town of Galena, with about
eiht hundred inhabitants, near Chester
town, Md., was oa fire and requesting
assistance. A later dispatch was ieceived
saying the town had been wiped out.
About two hundred houses were total
ly destroyed and several persons severely
burned while fighting the fire. No lives
were lost. As no railroad nor telegraph
oflice is in the town, it is impossible to
rret further details. The houses, which
were frame were neat and substantial,
and built close together. The town con
taioei several agricultural implements
shops and had a large school-house. The
largest retail stoie in Kent "county was
located at Gelena.
Why One minus County is Small.
In examining the map of the State of
Illinois the question is often asked how
it happened that Putnam County was
founded so small. This is the reason
given by the Virden Record' A num
ber of years ago Putnam County em
braced all the territory now in several of
the adjoining counties, and had a Mem
ber of the Legislature. Whenever the
citizens of a portion of this district
would object to any of his actions the
representative would introduce a bill
waking another county of that particu
lar territory. This plan he followed for
several years, till all that was left of the
original county of Putnam wa3 four
townships, and this he continued to
represent until he died.
General Smith. Buried.
Sewaneb. Tenn. The funeral o!
General Edmund Kirby Smith took pi act
Friday morning at 12 o'clock. A special
train of six cars arrived from Nashville
with nearly 500 veterans and two com
panies of State troops. The funeral was
of a military character. A beautiful
floral tribute was presented by the stud
ents of the University, of which the late
General was a professor. Telegrams ol
condolence have poured in from all parts
oi the United States, showing the esfeem
in which he was held .
BIS BLAZE IN GLOUCESTER.
Nearly All the Town Destroyed by
Fire.
West Poirt, Va. A bij fire in the
night destroyed the town of Gloucester
Courthouse. Two large stores, the tele
phone office, the poitoffice and all their
contents were consumed. The building
were partial covered by insurance, Ori
gin of the fu-e is yDkowa,
PALMETTO CHIPS.
News and Notes From Here, There &
Everywhere in South Carolina.
Street cars will be running at Floreace
on May 1st.
Commissioner Kirkland figures out the
interest on the direct tax refund to be
f 35, 000.
The Columbia city council refuses to
bid for the State Girls' College. The
bids now stand Spartsnburg $43,000,
Rock Hill $60,000, Chester, $5o,000.
Judge Simontoa disnvssed the cross
bill which had been filed by the Gsorgia
Construction Comp my against the bond
ho'ders of the Carolina, Knoxv.lle and
Western Railroul Company.
One of the signs of increased prosper
ity of the Columbii, Newberry anl Lau
rens Railroad, is that ths tolls on the
United Spates mail hive grown from
f 600 laat year tt nearly $6,000 this year.
Gen. Elias Earle, a native of Green
ville, but more recently a resident of
Florida, a veteran of the Mexican and
last civil wars, died on Tuesd y.
D. II. Traxler, the State dispensary
commissioner, is in Columbia preparing
to commence business, and, as the Sta e
expresses it, "the government bairoom
is to I c located in the agricultural hall
building."
On the 12th of May unless executive
clemency or natural death interposes
Alfred Crosby, Isiac Crosby, Isaac
Yonguc, Martha Yonguc and Eiisha
Yongue, all found guilty of the murder
of Anderson McAlly, together with Joe
Brannon, already under sentence of death,
and all colored, will bj huug at Chester.
The farmers in the Etta Jane section
are planting large crops of suar cane
this year. Though they say thy have
mu:h of the old crop of molasses over,
they expect to keepayetr's supply ahead.
The Italians who have been working
in the South Carolina phosphate mines
arc returning to sunny Italy.
Governor Tillman has wri-ten to Senator
Srr.jthe authorizing the use for the phos
pha e exhibition at Chicago of such part
of the South Carolina exhibit that is now
at the Augusta Exposition.
E. L. Roche had a consultation
with the phosphate men of Charleston
last week in relation t the phosphate
exhibit to be made at the Columbian Ex
position at Chicago. Great progress is
beiog made ia collecting specimens and
making other final arrangements for the
proposed exhibit.
The Kershaw Manufacturing Co.' new
$250,000 cotton factory at Camden is
rapidly neariDg completion, and the
spindles will Boon be in operation.
Charleston's commerce in 1891 ran to
almost the clear hundred million mark.
While she fell off some in the year 1892.
in common with the trade of the whole
country, due to depressing causes un
iversally prevalent, her legitimate rate of
expansion is exemplified in the remark
able increase of exports and imports from
$13,807,673 in 1890 to $21,837,470 in
1891, or $8,049,797, or thj amaziDg fig
ure of 60 per cent, in a single twelve
months.
THE ATLANTA SENSATION.
Some Gate City Bank Directors in
Very Ugly Position.
Washington, D. C. It is authorita
tively ltarned at ths department of
justice that special counsel Henry W.
Jackson, employed in the Gate Cify Na
tional Hank case of Atlanta, Ga., has not
been removed, but any further action on
his i art in the case has been suspended
until Attorney General Olney and Sec
retary Carlisle of the treasury department
nirrce upon the course to be pursued.
Tho Gate Citf National Bank case, . s
far as information reaches here goes, ha
assumed a very peculiar phase. The
bank Thursday, in the opinion of th
treasury officials, is in a position to open
its doors and pay off every dollar of its
indebtedness caused by the defalcation of
Red wine, its cashier, but there is said to
bi come disagreement as to who shall
constitute the board of directors, and for
that nason principally the bank has not
b?en reopened.
On the other hand, it intimated that
fcveral of the old directors are open to
the charge of having wrongfully taken
money from the bank. This view is
siid.to be held by Special Counsel Jack
son, who was formerly attorney for the
bank. Qtn. Jackson's son, it will be
recalled, committed suicide shortly after
Redwine's defalcation, and in some way
not clearly indicated the suicide of young
Jackson was connected with Redwine's
defalcation. Gen. Jackson, special
counsel in this case, was naturally very
much grieved at the suicide of his son,
and the intimation unofficially thrown
out here is that Gen. Jackson has become
overwhelmed with grief and has made
very wild statements and insinuations
against some of the old board of directors,
so gave in character that the Government
has been called upon to stop further ac
tion on his part in the case, until a most
thorough and searching investigation of
the bank's condition can be made.
Chicago Eats Texas Strawberries.
Chicago, III. Four hundred cases ol
strawberries picked ripe in Texas and
shipped in a new refrigerator arrived
here Wednesday in quite good condition.
This shipment was an experiment, and
consignees are so will satisfied that they
will continue to receive small fruits from
Texas throughout the season.
Tom Watson Gives TJp His Contest.
Augusta, Ga. - Reports come to the
press from Thomson, Ga., Thomas
E. Watson's home, saying that Watson
has abandoned his contest for the seat of
Msjor J. C. C, Black in Congress.
NORTH CAROLINA SQUIBS.
Newsy Gleanings from Cherokee to
Currituck.
New Hanover'n new court house, which
is said to b? by far the handsomest in the
State, will soon be ready for occupancy .
A lodge of Odd Fellows which vn
organized in Statesville more than a yer
ago, with a good memberehip, has gone
out of business.
Governor Carr has offered $200 reward
for the atrest of J. M. Benson, treasurer
of Harnett county, official information
having been received that Benson 1ms
taken $2,400 f the county fund and fled.
It is reported :hat Captain Cbarlei
Price, who is attorney for the Richmond
and Danville railroad, has succeeded in
compromising nearly all the suits brought
against the company on account of - the
Bos'ian Bridge wreck.
A bank, an opera-house, and a railroad
are three things that will probably bo
added to the improvements of Lumber
ton during the year 1893.
Mayor Fishblate, of Wilmington, has
instructed the chief of police t notify
his officers to arrest all persons they hear
using profane and vulgar language on
the streets.
There are twelve North Carolina stu
dents at Harvard University, Massachu
setts, and several of them "stand way
up." Of these eight are graduates of the
University of North Carolina.
The North Carolina committee on colo
nial exhibits for the Columbian Exposi
tion has called upon all citizens in that
State to lend their aid in furnishing por
traits, glaso, china, silver and historic
documents as bt lunging to the colonial
and revolutionary period.
Ten students of the medical clasi in
the Leonard medical fchool of Shaw
University, colored, at Raleigh, bave
graduated. Some of them are foreign
ers, one or two being from the Congo
Free State, and having been pent nt the
direction of the King of the Belgian.
VIRGINIA HAPPENINGS.
The Latest News Items in the Old
Dominion.
The growing wheat crop in the Valley
of Virginia doe not present a promising
appearance.
A new town, 1o be named Dawson
City, is being laid off on the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad, near Cherry Run.
A new bank has been organized at
Norfolk wih $250,000 capital. It will
be calkd the Norfolk Bmk for Saving &
Trust.
The Chesapeake and Ohio R.rlroad
Company will construct a road up th;
Onyandottc river in order to re'.ch some
coal dep sits
Robert Stevens, a venerable citizen of
Louisa county, was killed by being
caught under a falling tree.
A millionaire Colorado miner and a
Bc'gi-in repr sent tive of a company are
oa their way to Virginia with a view to
investing iu gold properties in Fluvanna,
Goochland and Fauquier counties.
The fruit trees and strawberry patches
around Norfolk are blooming on the truck
farmland the green stuff, under the
warm rains, is looking very promising.
The season will be late owing to the se
vere freezes of January, but the truckers
all believe the outlook is very favorable
for a large yield of evtrythiog and a
profitable season ahead unless the cholera
scare cu's off the markets. The green
peas never looked prettier at this time of
the year and only a heavy breeze will
spoil a fine crop.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
The Latest Happenings Condensed
and Printed Here.
Joe Bond, colored, was convicted Fri
day at Appling, Ga., of the murder of
Louis Shank, also colored, last Decem
ber. Dr. H. C. Hornaday, a well-known
Baptist preacher of Atlanta, died at Mon
tezuma, Ga., Thursday. He had been ill
a long time.
The Campbell jGlass and Paint Com
pany's establishment, in Kansas City,
Mo., was completely destroyed by fire.
Loss $120,000; icsurance $100,000.
Mike Chambers, in jail at Sacramento,
Cal., has confessed that he is the man
who murdered Fred Fetterman some
months ago at Huntsville, Tenn.
The Pennsylvania board of pardons
has recommended pardons for "Abe"
Buzzard, the notorious Welch Mountain
outlaw, and James S. Dungan, the
wrecker of the Bank of America, Phila
delphia. The Philadelphia, Admiral Gherardi'f
flagship, the Baltimore, the Yorktown,
the Vesuvius and the torpedo boat Cush
ing sailed from New York Frirday for
the naval rendezvous at Hampton Roads.
The Chattanooga Bar have sent to
Governor Turney their endorsement rf
Judge W. K. McAllister, of Nashville,
for appointment as Judge Lorton's sue -cessor
on the State Supreme Bench.
Fate of Six Fishermen.
Proviscetown, Mass. The fishing
schooner Ada K. Damon lost six men on
Tuesday. They were setting trawls from
dories when a snow storm shut them
from view, and they were not seen again.
Three dories and one dead body blew
ashore between Nanset and Welfleet.
Hard Times in Atlanta.
The chief dry goods dealers of Atlanta,
Ga , will reduce the wages of all cleiks
33 per cent, on April 1st, and this re
duction will continue throughout the
summer, and longer if trade does pqt
j improve,