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VOL. VI, NO. 2,111.
A GREAT DAY THIS.
Dupont Guerry and Judge Maddox
Spoke in Summervillle.
AND AROUSED GREAT ENTHUSIASM.
A Large Crowd From Over
Chattooga Heard Them.
DEMOCRACY WILL WIN HANDS DOWN.
Judpr Mad-dox'a Speech Was One of the
Best Ever Heard in Summerville.
Court in Session.
Summit rille,Ga. .September 11. —This
little city is full of people today, and
presents a metropolitan appearance.
Hundreds of country people are in town
attending court and trading with the
merchants. Court convened here yester
day, with Judge Henry wearing the
judicial ermine as gracefully as ever.
The Grand jury organized with Mr.
Cioero Cleghorn as foreman, and B. U.
Henry as the effiicent clerk. Judge
Henry's charge was one of the best ever
heard here. It was especially strong
and pertinent on perjury. He has re
ceived many compliments on it, and it
will result in good.
There were two great democratic
speeches here today.
Hon. Dupont Guerry was the first and
he was followed by Congressman John
Maddox—known through all this dis
trict as “Our John’’ Mr. Guerry was in
troduced in a complimentary manner
by Judge Maddox. He spoke from 12
until 1:30, and pleased every hearer.
He is a graceful talker, and put in some
splendid licks for democracy. He then
introduped Judge Maddox, who aroused
great enthusiasm. He spoke until
court convened, and not one tired of lis
- ten ng. It was a great effort —one of
the best speeches of his life, and demo
crats and populists alike are congrat
ulating him warmly. Several populists
have been heard to say that Maddox
was good enough for them, and they
would go back to the democratic fold.
His speechjwas a complete v.ndication of
dmcracy.and hejproved conlcusively that
populism could only result in wrecking
the country. He showed that while the
tariff bill may not be all that could be
wished that it was a long step in the
right direction, and infinitely to be pre
ferred to the McKinley bll. He
showed in a practical manner the ben
efit that had already accrued and
pledged democracy to continue its fight
for the people.
He handled Dr.Felton without gloves
and portrayed his record in a style
that provoked many cries of "Hurrah
for Maddox ”
It was one of "the strongest democrat
ic speeches ever heard here. This is
Judge MaddoxVold stamping ground,
and his friends were with him in large
numbers today. -All were enthusiastic.
If Judge Maddens, keeps up this lick
throughout the district —and he will
do it— populism will soon be a thing of
the past.
Chattooga county has always been a
demcratic strong hold,and this year it is
practically solid fer democracy.
TWO MORE UNFORTUNATE,
Quarreled With Their Lover* land At
temjited Suicide.
Atlanta, September 11.—Lula Single
to and Emma Jenkins, two white
women, attempted suicide in different
parts of the city tonight. Both are in a
critical condition. They had quarrelled
with their lovers. Well known men
were mixed up with the Singleton
woman and some of them may get to
shooting.
FIRE IN JOUNAL OFFICE.
The Taper Will Appear ax t'Miial Thin
Afternoon.
Atlanta, Ga., September 11.—Fire to
, night damaged the Evening Journal
offices SI,OOO. The paper will appear as
i usual tomorrow.
A WEEK OF PROGRESS.
tßnslne** Looking Up All Over the South.
The Trn<i««iiian'* Review.
Chattanooga, Sept. 11.—TheTrades
« Vian, in its report on the industrial con
jdtion of the r. .(th for the week ending
Sept. 10, says:
The record of the week is one of
steady progress. The ijon industry is
getting mor- active each day as fur
naces go into blast and outputs increase.
Stocks of pig iron are not increasing,
but prices continue to be very low.
The only cotton tie mill in the United
State- is now in active operation in
Georgia, and seems to be able to meet
■any ovmpetition. The building indus
try is growing active in all the southern
cities, and many edifices requiring for
their completion large investments of
capital are under way, or in preparation
for conttacts. The condition of the
crops continue satisfaetorv. RejMirts
as to the injury to cotton from boll
worms prove to have been much exag
gerated.
Reports have been received of 33 new
industries imestabiWi' d or incorporated
during the week, prominent among
them l>cing an oil mill at Temple, Tex.,
with $100,not) capital; the Automatic
Fire Extinguisher company, of New
Orleans, I, i., capital SIO,OOO, and the
Georgia Pebble Phosphate company, of
Atlanta, Git , with SBO,OOO capital. An j
immigration aid ass-iciution, with $500,-
000 capital, has been chartered in At
lanta, Ga.; the Eureka Manufacturing
Company, with $70,000 capital, will ou
tage in woodworking iu Houston, Tex.;
the Garrigua Boiler Cleaner company,
BaoitaJ A2O 00ft. hes batm cnartoTed in
THE ROME TRIBUNE.
luouisvuie, tvy.; tne currence Mining
company, capital $15,000 in Parsons,
W. Va., and the Tomlin-Harris Ma
chine company, with SIO,OOO capital in
Cordele, Ga.
It also reports canning factories at
Wellsburg, Va., and McMechen, W.
Va.; proposed chemical works, to em
ploy $400,000 capital, at Newport News,
Va.; electrical works at Henderson, Ky.,
and flour and grist milk at Cedartown,
Ga. Ice factories are tt> be built at De-
Land, Fla., and Moundsville,"W. Va.; a
fiber factory at Titusville, Fla.; a ma
chine shop at Abbeville, Ga., and wire
works at Little Rock, Ark. A shoe
factory is repdrted at Birmingham,
Ala.; knitting mills at Athens. Ga., and
Louisville, Ky.; a tobacco factory at
Henderson, Ky., and woodworking
plants at Abbeville, Ala., Cordele, Ga.,
Wilmington, N. C., Moselle, Miss., Co
lumbia and Nashville, Tenn., and
Burkeville, Va.
The enlargements for the week in
clude flouring mills at Glasgow, Ky.,
Kernellsville, N. C., and Columbia,Va.;
iron works at Morristown, Tenn.; cot
ton mills at Augusta, Ga., and Durham,
N. C., and electrical works at Key
West, Fla.
Among new buildings are a million
dollar hotel at New Orleans, and one to
cost $120.000 at Atlanta, Ga.; a city hall
at Tallahassee, Fla.; a courthouse at
Columbus, Ga.; a $150,000 jail at' At
lanta, Ga.; a $25,000 schoolhouse at
Waycross, Ga.; warehouses at Hender
son, Ky., and Weatherford, Tex.
TWO MAYORS IN TOWN.
That Is the State of AfTatTs Now Existing;
in Clermont.
Clermont, Fla., Sept. 11.—This place
is now enjoying the notoriety of having
two claimants to the mayoralty. This
condition of town politics obtains on
the following accounts:
Last June, at the regular annual town
election, Mr. H. L. Todd was elected
mayor without a single dissenting bal
lot. At the time of the election, and
for a week or 10 days thereafter, he was
in the northern part .of the state on
some business. Mr. Goodenough, who
was the. mayor, and who still claims the
office, says that because Mr. Todd was
not there to qualify for the office within
three days after the election, that Mr.
Todd is barred from assuming the office;
and on the strength of that technicality
he will not give up his claims as mayor
in favor of Mr. Todd.
Mr. Todd says the three days’ limit
does not bar him. and accordingly went
to Judge White of Tavares and took the
oath of office before the judge and now
claims to be mayor. The town council,
at their last regular session, almost
unanimously repudiated Mr. Good
enough’s claim as mayor and recognized
Mr. Todd as the mayor, and ordered the
town clerk to put their proceedings on
record. Mr. Goodenough does not recog
nize this proceeding of the counciL, hold
ing that it has no jurisdiction in the
matter. Both claimants say they will
fight to the bitter end.
A TEXAS OUTRAGE.
Cotton Pickers Have to Move in Croups,
for Protection.
Waco, Sept. 11.—James H. Johnson,
who, three weeks ago, married Emma
Cooley, a pretty girl of 15, lives with his
wife and her sister, Miss Eva Cooley, in
a tent on the Mosley plantation, on the
Brazos river, seven miles below Waco.
The family is engaged in cotton picking
and are in camp for that purpose. At
an early .i cu-two men called Johnson
out aud, draggging him away, beat him
into a condition of helplessness. They
then went alter the women and one of
them eaught Mrs. Johnson and outraged
her near the tent. Miss Eva Cooley es
caped by running and hiding under a
culvert, where she remained until day
light.
Johnson managed to get to Waco, and
returned with three officers, who arrest
ed C. F. Ely and J. W. Vernon, two
young tenant farmers who were also
engaged in picking cotton on the Mos
ley plantation. Both men were very
drunk .when arrested. James H. John
son, hte wife, and Miss Eva Cooley all
three identified Ely and Vernon as their
assailants. The men were locked up
for grand jury investigation, that body
being in session.
On the big plantations below Waco
hundreds of families are in tents pick
ink cotton, and the outrage has spread
consternation down the Brazos valley.
The pickers will all move together in
groups for mutual protection
UNDER ARREST.
Tho*e State Treasury Warrant* of Mi*si*-
*jppi Got the Governor Into Cot»rt.
Jackson, Sept. 11. —Held to answer
in the sum of SI,OOO to the charge of
feloniously issuing money in the semb
lance of United States notes.
That is the.condition in which Gov
ernor John M. Stone, Auditor W. W.
Stone and Treasurer Evans, of this
state, now find I hemselves.
The governor has anticipated his ar
rest, however, by employing Judge
Campbell, the most distinguished law
yer of Mississippi. to defend the state,
which, in reality, is the party in the
case.
.» v « >,u . .i„-;
Atlanta, Sept 11.—Owing to the
fact that it will be impossible to remove
fke government building from Chicago,
within the an: mist appropriated, and
impracticable to r. -tor.-. at any cost, the
architectural beauty of the’ building
when remove.l. it hi< l«. >n decided to
abandon the pm.j am) l> . r-—t a new
government exhibit . uiubn < upon the
grounds of the < ’otto > St..,t •< ;.nd Inter
national exposition.
•♦ei’viHiix ini Lines <t 1 heir King.
Berlin, Sept. 11.—Tae Frankfurter
Z«itung says that at Appalovatz, war
Nish, Servin. a mob recently threw
stones at tne railway carriage of King
Alexander as it. was passing, and the
king and his suite bad narrow escapes
£rum
KONE, (4A., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1894.
THE SILYERY LOCKS
t
Os Congressman Breckinridge Will Again
Shine In the House
SAY THESE GOVERNMENT CLERKS
Who Leave For Kentucky to
Help the Eloquent Colonel.
THEY DON’T TRAVEL ON FREE PASSES,
And Go to Kentucky Without Any ’Solici
tation, ami Without, the Knowledge
of Mr. Breckenridge.
Washington, Sept. 11— About 75 or
80 clerks employed by the Ifeasury and
war departments and the government
printing office have just left here over
the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad for
their homes in the Seventh congression
al district of Kentucky to lend their en
ergies to the support, of Colonel W. C. P.
Breckinridge in his coming fight at the
primaries on Saturday next for renomi
nation to congress.
At the office of the railroad company
the men were busy buying tickets. To
a reporter one of them said:
“You see, we don't travel on passes,
but pay our way- Another thing, we
go unsolicited by Colonel Breckinridge,
but of our owu free will and accord.
We intend to see his silvery hairs again
in the house of representatives.’’
Another party of about 40 government
employes will leave Washington Thurs
day with the same object in view. In
the party will lie several officials in the
departments.
MAINE’S ELECTION.
The Republicans Have Simply Swept the
State from Side to side.
Augusta, Sept. IL —The Republicans
regard the results of the state election
as the biggest victory they have achiev
ed since the birth of the Republican
party. The total vote for governor,
which two years ago was 130,000, was
reduced from 15,000 to 20.00'). The Re
publicans claim that Cleaver’s vote will
reach nearly 70,000. In every one of
the 10 counties of the state. Democracy
was defeated; Waldo county elect! 1
their whole county ticket for the first
time in many years.
Every city in the state has probably
gone Republican, which is something
phenomenal. The returns so far indi
cate that Johnson (Democrat) will not
get over 35,000 votes, against 55,000 cast
for him two years ago, and tins may be
reduced by later returns.
The Republicans have carried both
branches of the legislature, electing a
solid senate.
In the house of representatives, which
consists of 151 members—and which
two years ago stood H>< Republicans and
44 Democrats—the Republicans, it is
believed, have elected 110 members,
while the remainder who have been
elected are Democrats and Populists.
Among the Republicans elected to the
house is Lew Powers, of Houlton, who
will be the next speaker.
SUBSTITUTES SELECTED.
Democrats of Pennsylvania Meet in Con
vention at Harrisburg.
Harrisburg, Sept. 11.—The Demo
cratic state convention, recalled to nom
: inate two candidates for congressmen
I at large to fill vacancies on the ticket
! caused by the death of Hannibal Sloan
I and the declination of Joseph C. Bucher,
j met here. There were many delegates
’ absent, Allegheny county having pres
; ent but one delegate. The session was
i brief.
Thomas Collins, of Centre county,
and Henry S. Meyer, of Allegheny conn-
I ty, were by acclamation chosen to fill
the vacancies. Resolutions were adopt
ed deploring the death of Mr. Sloan and
indorsing the platform of the state con
vention in June, commending a consist
ent attitude of President Cleveland
oft tariff reform and rejoicing over the
repeal of the McKinley law. At 11
o’clock the convention adjourned.
A New Cmiihl Bond iwMue.
Paris, Sept. 11.—In an interview M.
Gautron, the liquidator of the affairs of
the Panama Canal company, stated th.r
the date of the new issue of bonds had
been postponed to Sept. 22, when se
curities to the amount of 30,000,003
francs will be offered. It was not prob
able. he said, that a technical committe'*
would be sent to the isthmus.
Ke.nit or a Druygl.t. Bldnilar.
Rockford, Ills., Sept. 11.—Coroner
Aagesen of this city was called to Ros<-o
to hold an inquest over the remains of
Mrs. A. C. Miller of that place.who died
very suddenly as the result of poisoning.
The lade hir 1 been sick for some time,
aud Dr. Hobard gave a prescription to
be filled, and it is alleged that the drug
clerk, in his haste, gave the man a mix
ture of <1 utdly poison which was given
the sick woman, and she died soon af
terward.
Tried to Kill n Print at the Altar.
Bucharest, Sept. 11.—During the
celebration of mass in one of the Catho
lic churches here, a lunatic, who bran
dished a long knife, rushed up to the
altar and tried to murder the priest.
He was seized and disarmed before he
eould do any harm.
Lightning Kill* One and Injure* Three.
Chicago, Sept. 11.—During the heavy
rain storm in this city, lightning struck
a steam dredge, killing Charles Kitter
and probably fatally Injuring Fred Si
iflous, who wereworking on the dredge.
Two other were struck but were
fidt badly hurt.
'IS BADJOR BRICE.
His Ohio Constituents Are Roasting
the Senator in Strong Terms.
THE DEMOCRATS OF STARK COUNTY
Tne Home of McKinley the
i First to Arraign Him.
COURSE IN CONGRESS CONDEMNED.
Some KeMolufion* That Set the Senator**
Friend* to Thinking That HU Fences
Need Looking After.
Washington, Sept. 11. —Senator Brice
is hearing from his Ohio constituents
concerning his course in the senate, aud
their messages are not of joyful accord.
Several Democratic county conven
tions in Ohio have lately passed very
significant resolutions regarding Brice
—resolutions which condemn him un
mercifully, along with Gorman, for
“blighting the councils of their brave
in the hour of their might.” The
staunch Democrats of Stark county, in
the home of McKinley, were the first to
arraign him, aad this is the way they
did it:
Resolved. That we view with keen re
gret and humiliation the action of Sena
tor Brice in taking a stand against the
Wilson bill as it came from the house.
While the result is a temporary victory
for the trusts. it is won by what should
be everlasting shame and disgrace upon
the abettors and accomplices of those un
lawful organizations. If any man elected
as a Democrat gives his vote in aid or en
couragement of a trust, he has sold his
birthright and is no longer worthy of his
party mantle or his paijty's support. Ev
ery effort should be made to show that
the Democratic party repudiate l ? the ac
tion of Senator Brice and his fellow con
spirators agal.ist tariff reform. Every
ligitiniate mea is should be used to con
sign them to tiie shameful oblivion which
their actions have invited.
A few days, later the Democrats of
Lorain county took up the refrain and
adopted a few scathing criticisms of
Brice, which were classified as resolu
tions.
To the ebullitions in these two coun
ties the friends of Brice retorted that
the fact was unimportant and far from
alarming to the senator's chances of re
election a year hence, as both Stark and
Lorain are strong Republican counties.
But the situation became serious when
the ’Democrats of Hemy county, a cita
del of the Democratic northwest, passed
resolutions of like tenor to those of Lo
rain and Stark.
Then the Brice adherents in Washing
ton woke up. They foresaw that a set of
condemnatory and ugly resolutions sim
ilar to those adopted in Stark might be
sprung on the coming Democratic state
convention. If such should be the case
the situation for Brice might tie peril
ous a year hence, and his friends are be
ginning to “hustle.”
No man in any party has more de
voted friends than Senator Brice. They
have not waited for him to summon
them. They have set to work vigor
ously to elect delegates to a convention
which ordinarily would be of no im
portance. They propose to head off,
choke off or scare off any attempt to in
ject anti-Brice resolutions into the con
vention which meets at Columbus on
Sept. 18. Those holding oflioe by his
good grace here in Washington hail no
idea of going to the convention until
the danger referred to became apparent.
Now they have relinquished all plans
for pleasure or vacation, and have
started for their respective counties to
head off the possible revolt against Mr.
Brice.
The legislature which will choose
Brice’s successor will not be elected un
til 1893, but he is too wary a politician
to underestimate the danger which
would attend unpleasant resolutions of
censure in a convention of 1894. That
the arrowed free trader, Frank Hurd, is
to be chairman of the convention; that
Tariff Reformer Neal and ex-Governor
Campbell are to take an active part,
does not argue in favor of Brice., and
yet he is apparently unconcerned and
careless. His followers contend that
those who are censuring him do not un
derstand his recent course, and that
when they do they will rise up and call
him blessed.
THREE MURDERS.
A Nebraska Community Wrought Up Over
Mysterious Killings.
Hay Springs, Sept. ll.—Within th
last three months three men have been
mysteriously shot down in the sand hills
in the southern part of this and Cherry
counties. But one man has been arrest
ed—Dave Tate—for the killing of Mr.
Morehfelt. Tate, soon after the killing,
went to Rushville, and while under the
influence of liquor made a confession of
the killing, and intimated that some
wealthy cattlemen hired him to do the
deed.
However, on the hearing he was ac
quitted. One of the ranchmen in this
county within the last week has been
notified through the mail that unless he
quits the hills he will be dealt with
summarily. People are aroused, and
are determined that life must be pro
tected, and a close investigation will fol
low.
11 , — —• •» •
three governors.
They Exprea* Opinion* in Regard to That
English Investigation Committee.
New York, Sept. 11.—Ida Wells, the
negro woman who has gained consid
erable notoriety by her tour through
England, where she has been engaged
in delivering a series of lectures upon
outrages committeed against her race in
the south, has succeeded iu getting the
English so stirred up m to send a com
riuttee over to this couutrv for the uur-
pose or invesngal ,'ag aim <r. im.me.ng
southern lyucliiugs.
Ujxm the arrival of this cor.uu.tl in
New York, The World teleg; i. ia.l re
quests to a number of souther i govern
ors for their opinions iu reg.ud to the
coming of this committee.
Governors Northeu, of (- rgin.
O’Farrell, of Virginia, and T/imau. of
South Carolina, resp.mlel, mil th J"
opinions are just out in th.it p:i;>?r.
Governor Northen is very i utsookni:
in his denunciation of tae in:r.>i
and suggests that the English coal.l ti:.d
plenty to engage them it the/ will i:i
vestigate certain outrages iu tii. ir ov.’.i
country aud “prevent by law the iuau
man sale of virtuous girls to lustful
men in high places, bang all such d. -
mons as Jack the Ripper, pimish as it
deserves the barbarious, wholes :le
slaughter of negroes in Africa by En
glishmen, who go there to steal then
gold; supply the necessities to prevent
bread and labor riots aud strikes, which
are wholly unknown to the people of
the south; Jeed and give employment to
the poor, as do the people of my section;
give to the oppressed Irishmen the
rights humanity demands; aud when
they shall have pulled the. beam out of
their own eyes, they may then with
better grace, appoint themselves a com
mittee to hunt for the moat that may
be j# our eye.”
The governor intimates that his peo
ple have been annoyed enough already
by outsiders, and advises these English
men to go back home.
Governor O'Farrell says: “Things
have come to a pretty pass in this coun
try when we are to have a lot of Eng
lish moralists sticking their noses into
our internal affairs. It is the quintes
sence of brass and impudence They had
better sweep in front of their own doors
before seeking to regulate us. We
might as well investigate English affairs
in India, her Whitechapel murders, her
Jack the Ripper’s slashings, the May
brick trial and her alleged injustice and
cruelty to this woman, her rapacious
colonial policy iu Africa and the degrad
ing effects upon the Chinese resulting
from her opiqm war. ”
South Caioliha’s governor was short
and to the point. He said:
“Englishmen are welcome to South
Carolina to learn the truth. They can-
I not investigate us from New York. I
| will afford them every facility to get at
i faits.”
GALLANT SWIMMERS.
Two Young Ladies Rescued From Drown
ing; at Atlantic City.
Atlantic City, Sept. 11.—Miss Sophie
Ashton and Miss Annie Thompson,
daughter of the well known Philadel
phia physician, went to bathe at the
point of the beach where the Great Egg
harbor inlet joins the ocean at Long
port, five miles from here. They were
carried out by the strong undertow.
Both girls are fairly good swimmers,but
it was all in vain that they struggled to
regain the shore.
They were rapidly becoming exhaust
ed when with all their remaining
strength they cried for help. There
was little hope they would be heard, for
Longport has no life guards and the
lower portion of the beach is usually
deserted. It so happened that Artie
and Percy Remington, sons of a promi
nent Longport cottager, were fishing in
the vicinity. They ran to the rescue.
Both are powerful swimmers aud im
peded as they were with their clothes,
they experienced little difficulty in
reaching the completely exhausted' and
drowning girls though none too soon.
The return journey taxed their powers
to the utmost.
When the shore was finally reached
the rescuers as well as the rescued girls
were so weak that they could not stand.
Percy Remington staggered into the
little village and told the story, A par
ty of friends hurried to the scene and
found the remaining trio so weak that
they eould not move. They were
stretched motionless on the sand. They
were conveyed to their homes where
Miss Ashton soon recovered. Miss
Thompson and Artie Remington were
so exhausted that it took some time to
revive them.
AP P R CACHINGi RE AC E.
King; Humbert and Pope Leo Bring; Drawn
into Friendly Relation* by Crispi.
London, Sept. 11.—Under thecaption
of “Pons Pontificis” the Pall Mall
1 Gazette prints an article with the object
of showing that Premier Crispi is rap
idly approaching a reconciliation be
tween the king aud the pope.
“Last Thursday,” the article says,
“Signor Crispi’s private secretary had
a long interview with Cardinal Ram
pola, the former being the first Italian
official who has visited the Vatican
since 1870.”
This visit, The Gazette asserts, began
a series of negotiations the results of
which are shown iu the pope’s prompt
establishment of an apostolic prefecture
in Massowah, immediately following
which King Humbert gave his assent to
the appointment of Cardinal Sarte, the
pope's nominee for the office of patri
arch of Venice, concerning which ap
pointment there has been prolonged dis
agreement between the Vatican and the
qnirnal.
The most significant of al), how
ever, is the act of Signor Crispi in goiv '
out of his way in his speech at Naples
to compliment Cardinal Sanfelix, t b e
rich bishop of Naples, und to .summon
church and state to join their forces
against a common enemy.
The presence of Cardinal Sanfelix on
the platform, says The Gazette, be
tokened a willingness of the pope to
come to terms.
A Big; Coke Combine.
Bluefieldsi, W.Va., Sept. 11.—Tw' -.
ty coke operators in the Po •ahout.t
field of We«t Virginia, have forme I :
company to lie known as the Flat Top
United Coke company, of Bramwell,
W. Va., and nearly all the other opera
tors in the field will join, thus pfacri
qaljy controlling the entire product,
which hVQMyV V?U B
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
A GREAT GATHERING
Ex-Confederate General John B. Gordon
Aroused Great Enthusiasm.
HIS ADDRESS TO UNION SOLDIERS
First Ex-Confederate to En- f
ter Hall of Union Veterans.
GREAT AND THUNDERING CHEERS
Greeted the Eloquent! Georgian, aid Hi*
Words of Friendship Foui t. x
Hearty Response.
Pittsburg, Sept. 11.—It was’well on
towards midnight when that, which to
members of the Union Veteran legions
attending the encampment and the
Pittsburg members of the organization
was, perhaps, the most remarkable
scenes since the close of the war took
place, when General John B. Gordon,
one of dhe leading commanders of the
Confederate army, appeared before the
vast number of federal soldiers and
raised his voice for the obliteration of
sectionalism and united America.
To say that the old Union soldiers
were responsive to Senator Gordon’s
plea, gives no adequate idea of the re
ciprocal feeling manifested by thun
dering cheers and hearty hand grasps
with which the ex-Confederate general
was received. It was the regular meet
ing night of the Union Veteran legions,
and the hall was thronged. General
Gor ton was the first member of the
Considerate army to ever enter the hall.
The great Crowd gave three hearty
cheers, after which General A. j. Pear
son, in seme happy remarks i oduced
General Gordon, whom man. present
“met” at th? surrender at Ap; nnattox.
General Gordon said: '
“I and all right thinking men of any
section would always admire men who
fought,”
Turning to the Union flags which
profusely covered the speaker's stand
he delivered a very eloquent apostrophe,
pledging his devotion aud that of ex-
Confederates of the south to that banner
and all that it symbolized. He ad
dressed the soldiers as comrades and
countrymen and every time the general
in his calm, deliberate tones, used these
endearing terms the audience was visi
bly affected.
At the end of his eloquent address
three tremendous cheers were given.
Corporal Tanner responded in an ad
dress of no less fervid eloquence, pledg
ing the respect and admiration of all
real Union soldiers who fought and suf
fered, for such loyal, patriotic men and
soldiers represented by General Gordon.
Corporal Tanner’s remarks were de
livered most earnestly and eloquently,
seated in a chair, the recent amputation
of his limb preventing him from stand- 1
ing. ;
The Veterans In Line of Itch.
The representatives of suw iving vet
erans of the Union gathered i. >m nearly
every state and territory marched
through the twin cities of Pr*-burg Mid
Allegheny and received the pl .udits and
homage of more than a third of the
1,000,000 spectators.
It was a glorious day. Pittsburg and
its sister city were early awake, and
hours before the divisions had begun to
make even a sign of forming, the streets
were uncomfortably packed
In both cities, as well as in nearly
every town within a radius of a score of
miles, there had been proclaimed a pub
lic holiday, and from Homestead and
New Castle. McKeesport and Braddock,
Beaver Falls, New Brighten and Con
nellsville the brawny iron and coke men,
with their wives and children, came
pouring in like a ceaseless torrent. Gen
eral business in Pittsburg and Alleghe
ny—wholesale as well as retail—was
was entirely suspended, and the streets
were free from teams, and the street
cars that crossed the line of the parade
were withdrawn until after noon.
As the route selected lay for the most
part over broad, spacious av ■■ ies and
thoroughfares, there was not 1 ig to in
terfere with the absolute pl< ire and
enjoyment of both partici <. .ts and
spectators.
Promptly at 10:15 o’clock *' trior Aid
de-Camp Silas Burton reporte I to Com
mander in Chief Adams and the first di
vision was ready to move. There was a
roar of cannon aud burst of trumpet,
and then the escorting platoon of jwlice,
the pick and pride of Pittsburg’s force,
and astride" of magnificent animals,
moved down Smithfield street, span
ning the roadway from curb to curb.
The mounted staff of the coimnander
in-chief moved in columns of fours. It
had as special escort General Lander
post 5, of Lynn. Mass., and the post had
in turn a mounted escort of nearly 200
local members of the order. By virtue
of seniority Illinois had the right of
line, but, in point of members, did not
make the appearance expected.
Carliftle Will Pay No Kounty.
Washington, Sept. 11.—Secretary
Carlisle has refused to pay the sugar
bounty to the Louisiana sugar planters.
In a letter to Senator Caffery he calls
attention to a paragraph of the new
tariff law repealing the bounty clause
of the McKinley law, and says whatever
may be the construction of this clause
as to the authority of the secretary of
the treasury to pay bounty on sugar ac
tually produced while the act of Octo
ber, 1890 remained in force, he thinks
it was clearly the legislative intention
that no bounty should be paid on sugars
■ r the repeal.
ratal ran from a Car.
.’ tTiMoxi), Sept. 11. —Captain John
T. Turner, for 10 years yardmaster of
the Richmond and Petersburg railroad
in Manchester, fell from the top of a
car and received injuries from which hfe
in A few hours.