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CmoWR WHITE HER.
HOENIX-CITIZENS HOLD MEETING.
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A special from Cotambia state* .that
thsre ha* baan more bloodshed is
Greenwood county, Booth Oaroliaa,
and aling Ita borders in tha aiatar
county of Abbarltla, but none of it
( can be laid to the door of the white
* men who wreaked anmmary rengeanoe
;. Upon the blacks last week.
A negro woman was shot through
and through and is supposed to be
■ mortally wounded. The woman was
in her own house, whioh stands near
the point from whioh unknown parties
fired upon Private Miller, wounding
him so serlonsly, on the day of the
^'riot. The woman, Eliia | Goode, was
beside her invalid daughter and a
child when three white men came
' along and began to fire indiscrimi
nately through the walls of the house.
. It is supposed that they thought oer-
r tain negroes they had been after were
' .' In the house. The woman and others
saw,- the men, bat do not know yrbo
they were. ■. ^* i
The people held a mass meeting at
PIpBnix and adopted a series of re-io-
lutions, whioh are of particular inter
est. They read as follows:
Besolved, That we, the citizens of
Phoenix and surrounding country, in
mass meeting assembled, desire to ex
press our deep regret at the loss of
life and bloodshed that has occurred
in this vicinity during the past few
days, and to call attention to the faot
that this section has always beon
noted for the high moral character of
its people, its psaoeful, law-abiding
disposition, and the friendly relations
thnt have heretofore existed between
the races;
Resolved, That the evidence of
negro as well as white eye-witnesses
to Tuesday's riot agrees that the first
hostile attack was made by Thomas
' Tolbert and certain negroes, and that
the first shat fired was the one that
killed .1. I. Rthridge, and was fired by
a negro. We regret that deluded
negroes have had to suffer the penalty
for misdeeds committed as a result of
the influences of white men, whose
greed and selfishness has led them to
act the part of enemies to both the
white and colored people of our coun
try.
Resolved, That we hereby express
our firm conviction that the deplora
ble troubles through whioh we have
just passed are attributable solely to
the evil influences exerted by John R.
Tolbert, Rhett Tolbert, Joseph W.
Tolbert, Thomas P. Tolbert and
Robert H. Henderson, and we believe
their further residence in Greenwood
county or its vicinity will tend to im
peril the lives and property of both
the white and colored people, and we
earnestly hope that they, will choose
to remove themselves and .their evil
influences elsewhere.
"Resolved,' That a committee of
safety be appointed, who shall be
asked to suggest and put into opera
tion suoh measures as will best insure
peaoe and the protection of life and
property; that we desire to assure the
colored oitisens of this community
that we will to the best of our ability
protect them so long as they are in
the discharge of their duties and in
the exercise of their rights as peace
ful and orderly oitlzens, and that we
condemn all assaults of negroes by
white persons."
Immediately following action on the
above resolutions, the following in
formation was read from Elias Tolbert
and aooepted as such:
To the Oitisens of Greenwood
County—Heretofore I have acted as I
have from a sense of high Christian
duty,from pure oonsoientious motives,
not from a desire for any oflloe or the
emoluments of oflloe.
“I have tried to do my duty to my
country as I knew it, my ohuroh and
school. I have never shirked my duty
as I saw it. I tried to do my duty as
a fifteen-year old aaidier boy in the
Seoond South Carolina oavalry, com
pany I.' If there are any old soldiers
present belonging to my old command
they ean testify to the fact that I was
always found at the front.
“I find that in many things I made
mistakes; that the two races cannot act
together in the formation of a govern
ment and that the oonntry should have
white supremacy; that the Anglo-Saxon
abould predominate, and hereafter I
intend to stand shoulder to shoulder
with the white people to do all in my
power to have a government that will
protect every one alike, but let it be
made by the white people. I solemly
promise to do all in my power and
shall hevtHy oo-operate with them in
doing this. E. ti. Tonnww.”
EXPLOSION follows fire.
nar Mea. Killed and Others Badly In
jured at Haaever, Mass.
Fire in the general store of 0. A.
Stearns at Hanover, Mass., Friday
was followed by a terrific explosion,
whioh blew out the sides of the build
ing, killing four men. . .
Over a dozen people were injured,
principally among them being Stearns,
the proprietor of the store, who had
one arm and leg broken, his shoulder
crushed and has considerable burns-
SPANIARDS ARK DELAT.
Wo MsstlRf of tho P«m« Commission Woo
Hold Monday.
A Paris speoial says: There was no
joint sessions of the peace commis
sions Monday. Secretary Moore, of
the United Slates commission, re
ceived from Secretary Ojeda, of the
Spanish commission, a note saying
that the Spanish commissioners had
found it impossible to prepare their
memorandnm for presentation, and
asking if the United States commis
sioners would be inconvenienced if,
owing to the late arrival from Madrid
of expected data, the Spaniard* would
request that the next meeting be de
ferred until Wednesday.
Secretary Moore replied that the
Amerioan commissioners were quite
ready to accommodate the Spanish
commissioners ia this matter, and the
joint session was, deferred until Wed
nesday.
Importance wjjb attached to this de
lay, it being regarded as indicating
that the Spanish commissioners are
preparing for a final stand in the ne
gotiations and it may be now definite
ly stated that they will not sign a
treaty whioh yields to Spain no more
for the Philippine islands than has
thus far been offered or indicated by
the Americans.
Should ^tha latter announce that the
United StAtea ia only willing to reim
burse Spain for her paoiflo expenses in
the Philippine islands, the Spanish
commissioners will reply that their
mission ■ is finished. Should % this
occur it is possible the Spaniards will
also suggest a suspension of negotia
tions through the commission and the
■ eanmption of negotiations between
Madrid and Washington.
The attitude of the Spaniards is ex
plained by the faot that the members
of the Spanish commission have polit
ical allianoes and personal responsi-'
bilities to constituencies and the na
tional creditors of Spain whioh re
strict them- to certain lines, whioh is
as far as the ministry at Madrid cares
to go. __
COMPLICATIONS MAT ARISE
UnlffRi MoiIcrii Authorities IteleuBO sn
American Prisoners Illegally Held.
A Washington speoial says: The
state department is making strong
efforts to aeoure the release of the
American, Temple, who is in a Mexi
can jail on tbs charge of murder com
mitted in the United States, and it
has instructed Mr. Powell Olnyton,
United States minister to .Mexioo, to
address himself direotly to the Ameri
oan foreign oflloe on that anbjeot. Tho
principle involved in the case is re
garded of the highest importance, for
if Temple is held for trial by the Mex
ican authorities it will amount to an
admission on the part of the United
States of the right of Mexico to exer-
oiss extra territorial jurisdiction over
Amerioan soil.
Substantially the same claim was in
volved in the celebrated Gutting case,
which came near causing a,breaoh of
friendly relations, and it arose again
in the more recent case of Leonard
Pacheo. Gutting was released by the
Mexican government only after trial.
Pacheo was released, but not on our
demand, and in no case has the Mexi
can government surrendered ita view
that it hsd a right to try a person in
Mexioo for an offense committed in
the United States. Gutting was in
jail for several months and Pacheo for
two years.
It is not at all probable that any
suoh delay will be permitted in the
Temple case.
On Sunday last James Temple, a
conductor on the Mexioo and Arizona
railroad, was attacked by some Mexi
cans and in defending himself shot
one of them at Juan Arvalla fatally.
This occurred about 2,000 feet north
of the international boundary line.
PECK BRINGS MESSAGE.
HEALTH FOR TEN CENTS!
FONTNE FAMILY.
your
I And my whole family received relief
from tho first.smuli bos we tried. I
certainly reooiumoudGAflCAftfSTOfor
the cured they make end trust they
will find a pi acc In eveiz home. Yeuv*
for success." Petma Webb, Jr.,
Palm Grove Are., McKeesport, Ft.
FOIOMLDREI.
MKSffcSSS
a tablet, and ory for more,
he most nleasaift medicine
rtried. TheThAverouad a
t place In my home."
Boniii,'Vtut&lScUj, I nd.
FOR FILES. .
brought on by constipation with
which I was afflicted for twenty
vears. I ran across your 4
in the town of Nowoll, la.,
found anything to equa
day 1 am entirely freo fro
feel like a new man." G. ■>. wans.
1*11 Jones 8t., Mourn City, la.
FOR OEADACNE.
■ssnr'Mtvcrctf
Uwy are tho best medicine we have
•var had In the house. Last week my
wills was frantic with headache for
two daysi the tried some ef your
0A80ABKTN and they relieved tho
naln In her head almost Immedlrtety.
Wflfboth recommend Caeca rote."
due. BTRhRroan.
Pittsburgh Safe A PeimsItCo.
FOROADOREATH.
CANDY
CATHARTIC
FMMMTMTIM.
seven years placed me In this torrlblo
condition} I did everyth lag f heard
of but never found any relief until 1
began using CA8GARETB. 1 now have
each movement} It le suck n relief."
FOR BIURNSRESS
CURE CONSTIPATION
10c.
25c. 50c.
ALL
DRUGGISTS.
GOLD
KMBONBOX
FREE
re tit Ion and biliousn
npletcly cured. He<
Bnw. a. Manx, Albany, IV. Y.
FOR WORMS.
• “Vcrr,.—™
aklng tv
"A 1 "!
ri -.ure has caused my bad health for
the past three years, f am stUI tab-
jfflwgSBS*
Oro. vr. nowLRa.Bai
FOR DYSFEFSIA.
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— Mm in its v
peardd,. _
constipation for some time, but after
taking the first Cascarei I have gad
S o trouble with this aliment We
annot speak too highly of Gasea-
reta." Fred Waathan,
•u
pm
ABiy Abie who will mail the direction alfp~ ’ outM'iMeW tfSUBg:
T wll ■ MKTS, or two direction slip* out of tvoUe boxen to ttw manu
facturer fl address AAfll ORTA IM absolutely PhIe, anold-platod. bund-
1 far a Indr > dm. I ns table. »• e hand, and oonvenlent meptaclo for that
er itimnlnnt and intmtlnal tonic. OABOAHKT8 Candj cnuianlo.
YOU WILL RE RELIRNTED
are so mild, so fragrant, so palatable,
ao pleasant, jet positive, la their ac
tion. thnt they form too only proper
laxative for ladles, children, and tan
household In general. Any one uaabto
to obtain direction slips as above, by
purchasing from their druggists^ send
sin and digest i
rca 1 began takl
and since them I have steadily lim
e roved, until I am as well at lever
as la my iifk."
Davit* M.Muarav, Wewark, a
FRR LAZY LIVER.
duces constipation. 1 found CASCA*
RETS to bo all you claim for them,,
and secured such relief the first trlsl
that I purchased another supply and
was completely cured. I shall only
bo too glad to- recommend Gascareto
whenever tha opportunity If pre
sented." J. A. SMITH,
MMusqnehanna Are..
Philadelphia, Fa
FRR RAR RLOOD.
Binpe taking- thorn
purified and my c
proved wonderful]
better in every wi
Proeldent FAure and M. Brleaon Send
Hlgheat Regards to McKinley.
Ferdinand W. Peek, commissioner
general of the United StateB to the
PsrU exposition, who arrived in
Washington Sunday nigbt, called upon
President McKinley Monday and gave
him a brief aoeouut of what had been
accomplished at Paris.
President Faure, of France, and M.
Brisaon, the late prime minister, had
charged Mr. Peok to convey to Presi
dent McKinley their highest regards.
Mr. Peok said that the intentiou of
t-'iis country to eVect a monument to
Lafayette in Paris was pleasing to the
French people and had gone far to
ward helping him in hia work.
IS DREYFUS DEAD!
Iish Raport Widely Circulated Bat Nat
OAclally Confirmed.
It is reported in Paris that Dreyfus
ia dead. Tha rumor is understood to
be based upon a mysterious telegram
received from Colmar,capital of Upper
Alsace, signed by au unknown corre
spondent.
So far as can be ascertained, there ie
no official confirmation of the report.
The father-in-law of Dreyfus dis
credits it. He says he has received
excellent acoonntB from the Colonial
office quite recently as to the prison
er's health.
TIN PLATE COMBINE UNDER YVAY.
Promoter. Declare That Everything I. Id
Reartlne.. For Signing Agreement.
All the potent interests in the tin
plate industry are now getting togeth
er in the formation of a combination
whioh ia to be capitalized at $50,000,-
000. The promoters of the combine
have been in Pittsburg, Pa., for sev
eral days and their success has been
such as to justify the statement that
the market will soon be in control of
those signing artiole of agreement.
On the Western Cattle Range. It la Don#
With Olochllhe Regularity.
On the bonndiesB eattle ranges in
the western part of North Dakota and
ensteru Montana the speotacnlar beet
round-ups are done with the regularity
of olookwork. System and order are
pru-eminent. Regular oirouits are
drawn. A foreman superintends the
whole. Central piaoes are designated,
and here the cowboys drive the herds,
where all marketable oattie are separ
ated and driven to the nearest rail
way station and shipped, while the
defective and nnmatured are turned
baok to the hills.
How many cattle aro in a largo range
herd? Between 1600 and 2000. How
many oattie are on the Western ranges?
About 76,000 head. Within these
figures are history and romanoe. Here
it life in its primeval state. The
drawing-room man is not conspicuous
by his absence. Here the nnconth
cowboy revels in his element, and the
craok of the rifle makes sweet mnsio
to hie ear. Bnt the glamonr is rapidly
passing. The bellow and roar of
trampling herd* will soon cease. Now
all is oonoentrated life and activity.
No longer the snn rises and sets on a
hundred scattered herds browsing
contentedly upon the plains. The
desert splendor ohangos anew and the
Virgilian oowboys ride on in the
panoramio round-ups. Bronzed faces
glow and voioes rise in oadenoe from
morn to morn, frdm noon to night.
The valee are dark and the hills are
light. Around the appointed mesa
wagons the exhausted sons of the
saddle eat the supper, smoke the pipe,
tell the story end drop off to sleep.
Pig Fooled the Dog.
Here is a true tale of a dog and a
pig. They were both passengers on
the same ship, and quite warm friends.
They need to eat their cold potatoes
off the .same plate, and but for one
thing wonld never have had any
troublo. This was the faot that the
dog had a kennel and the pig had
none.
Somehow the pig got. it into his
head that the kennel belonged to
whiohever could get into it first, so
every night there was a race. If the
dog won he showed his teeth, and the
pig had to lio on the Boftost plank he
eonld find. If the pig got in first
Toby oould sot drive him out.
One rainy afternoon the pig found
it rather unpleasant slipping abont on
deck and made up his mind to retire
early. Bnt when he reached the ken
nel he fonnd the dog snug and warm
inside. "Umph!" ho said, but Toby
made no reply.
Suddenly an idea flashed upon him,
and trudging off to where their dinner
plate was lying, he oarriea it to a part
of the deok where the dog oould see
it, and turning his book to the kennel,
began rattling the plate and munoh-
ing as though he hod a foast before
him.
This was too muoh for Toby. A
good dinner anil he not there! Piggy
kept on until Toby had oome round in
front of him and pushed his nose into
the empty plate.
Then, like a shot, he turned aronnd
and was safe in the kennel before
Toby knew whether there was any
dinner on the plate or not.
There is not a moment without some
duty.—Cicero.
Whatever is worth doing at all is
worth doing well.—Chesterfield.
Observe your enemies, for they first
find out your faults.—Antisthenes.
The superior man is slow in his
words' and earnest in hia oonduct.—
Confucius.
A doeile disposition will, with ap
plication, surmount every difficulty.—
Maniiins.
Never do anything oonoerning the
rectitude of whioh you have a donbt.
—Pliny.
There is no genins in life like the
genius of energy and aetivity.—D. G.
Mitchell.
Attempt the end, and never stand
to doubt; nothing so hard but searoh
will find it out.—Herriak.
The lie indireot is often as bad and
always meaner and more eowardiy
than the lie direot.—Ballou.
Ooonpation is one great souroe of
enjoyment. No man, properly oeou-
pied, was ever miserable.—L. E. Lan-
don.
If we did but know how little some
enjoy the great things that they pos
sess, there wonld not be mnoh enxy
in the world.—Young.
The chief ingredients in the com
position of those qualities that gain
esteem and praise are good nature,
truth, good sense and good breeding.
—Addison.
Flower Worship.
From the notes of a traveler in In
dia, we 1 learn some very interesting
foots in regard to the worship of flow
ers as prootised by the inhabitants of
Bombay.
A Persian, in passing, stops before
a oertain flower, and stands with his
faoe bowed over it as if half in trance.
His face is full of adoration, as if within
the heart of that flower he saw some
strange and supernatural vision. And
after standing thns for some length of
time, it appears that. the vision has
been fulfilled, and then he spreads his
mat and sits before the flower until
sunset. Then he prays before it, and
after that he folds his mat and goes
home.
Again he oomes on the following
night; and, repeatedly, eaah night in
succession, until the flower fadeB, and
bringing his friends with him.
Guitar or late-playing seems a part
of the oeremony, and there they sit
offering ap their worship in melody
and in prayer; and after their prayers
are done they still remain, sipping
wines and chatting until toward the
dawn.
^Finally the flower dies, and then,
by way of a very impressive finale,
they all suddenly arise before the
flower, serenade it, and then depart.
flannelling a Warship.
The total cost of the lanneh of a
modern battleship often amounts to
over $10,000. About five tons of tal
low and over a ton of oil and soft soap
are used in greasing the ways—that
is, the slip down whioh the cradle, in
whioh the vessel is placed, glides into
the sea. —- . .
Facts Abont Water.
There are some strange features
about water. For instance, the more
mnscalar a man is, the more able to
take oare of himself on land, the hard
er it is for him to keep afloat. Fat
men and women—all, not the fat ones
in partiodlar—float readily.
It is possible to float ten honrs.
A man has been known to stay un
der water fonr minutes, forty-six and
one-half seconds.. Another man swam
218 feet under water. The 100-yard
record in a tank is one minnte one
seoond. In open water one minute
seven seconds.
A man swims faster under water if
ho oan see no light, under-water rec
ords ore made witti the eyes closed.
By the eleotrio- kemostat of Lawson
Tait bleeding is arrested without the
use of a litagnre.
Hiftnan beings have six musoles to
eneh eye, that they may.move it on
either side.
The plaoe of the old magnesium
flashlight, whioh has done good servioe
to the photographer, is abont to he
taken by a flash wand of great brilli-
anoy and ease of adjustment.
Heretofore it has been possible to
dissolve gold only in a mixture of
strong aoids. In Liebig’s Annalen der
Ohemie, Professor Zsigmondy now
describes a way he has discovered of]
dissolving gold in distilled water.
The faot that skeleton remains o]
elephants are so rarely found in c u
port of Africa is explained by an
plorer, who states that as soon ai
bones beoome brittle from olii
fluence they are eaten in
by various rnminant ojn, '
It is now praetii
by scientists that lii
producing sound, anXtl
to the color of textur* o!
npon whioh it falls, '
greater or less. GAo
sonnd best in a req[li]
light also thrown tt],
will prodnoe an andibl
Importance of
(1) Earache, howevl
signify disease that,
terminate in loss of hi
life itself. (2) Beenrri
children is almost al
with lymphoid hype
pharynx, depend on it;
nent'impairment of the fnu|
ear is prevented only by e.
oal treatment of the “ade;
Aoute inflammation of the
may be frequently aborted,
treatment—mostly of a
tive character—be admi
and with precision. (4
obtained, by'the seeo:
pert examination of thi
made, and proper snr;
applied to relieve intri
snre and possible invol
mastoid eells or intraoraj
Failnre at this stage to
knowledge as possible
tion of the middle ear ii
leet.—Hinkel, Buffalo
nal.
Two Kindi of Human
The Right Hon. Ceoil
who has just reached th
five, refused to enlist wi!
the disastrous expedition itoj
Gordon had, a year or
been at the Cape and be|
friendly with the future Fn
was at this period that
Rhodes the story of the.
roomfnl of gold made to h|
Chinese Government.
“What did yon do?” askei
“Refused it, of course,”
ply; “what wonld yon have
“Taken it," was Rhodes’s bi
characteristic reply, “and as
more as I eonld get. Yon can’t ear]
ont big ideas nnless you’ve enoug!
money to do it with.”—San Francisoo
Argonaut.
A Dwarf 'Soldier.
The smallest soldier in France is
Louis Bernadot, of Lnret, who is only
twb feet fonr inches in height. He is
a’dworf, with a slight mustache. When
he presented himself to draw his num
ber ont of the oonsoription hrn it was
disoovered that his head did not reach
to the top of the table on whioh the
urn was placed, so a gendarme held
him np by the collar to enable him to
pnt his hand in the urn.
In the pnblio schools!
heat hoUdays have been
by law.' The well-known faotl
brain cannot work properly wheJ
heat is excessive has been recognil
there, and the ohildren are dismiss!
from their tasks whenever the therm]
meter goes above a oertain point.