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VOL. XXVIII.
1.. E OLD DACUERREOTYPES.
BY JOB LINCOLN.
Uj lii llic aUlo I founfl them, locked in th cedar chest,
Where ibo flow ere I rowos Ho full" I, which once were brave as the best;
Ami, lik" the queer obi jackets au*l the waistcoats gay with strlpos,
'i'ney tell of a wora-out fashion —those obi daguerreotypes.
Quaint little folding ease; fastened with tiny hook,
Seemingly made to tempt one to lift up the latch and look,
L nlngs of purple velvet, odd little frames of gold.
Circling the Jaded faces brought from the days of uid.
Grandpa and grandma, taken over so long ago,
Grandma's honuet a marvel, grandpa's collar a show;
Mother, a tiny toddler, with rings on her baby hands
l'ninted—iest none should notice—in glittering, gilded bands.
Aunls and uncles and cousin 3 , a starchy and stlfT array,
Lov*t' and brides, thou blooming, but uow so wrinkled and grny.
Gut through the misty glasses they gaze at me, sitting hero
Opening tn*? quaint old cases wjth a smile that Is half a teur.
I will smllo no more, little pictures, for heartless It was, in truth,
T>> drag to t!in cruel daylight those ghosts of a vanished youth.
Go hack t< your cedar oha;nh*r, your gowns and your lavender,
Aud dream, ’mid their bygone graces, of the wonderful days that wore.
—Saturday Evening Post.
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| A BOND OF SWEETNESS. |
-44 F awful sorry for MTss San
ders, ” remarked Mrs. Abijah
1 Smith, “oven if she is prouder
1 4 thau ein. I s'pose she cau’t
help that, though. All the Saude rses
was that way. Poverty and pride aiu’t
good bed-fellows, however.”
“That’s true as the Gospel,” re
turned Mrs. White, with whom Mrs.
Hmitli was spending the nfteruoon.
Husband was saying only yesterday
that Miss Sauders must find it pretty
hard hoeing. Hut she’s got so ranch
pride that she’d die before she’d have
anybody suspect she needed help. It’s
too bad she’s that way. Folks would
be glad to help her if she’d lot them.”
“Good laud! Don’t attempt to give
her anything!” cried Mrs. Smith in
alarm, “or she’ll treat you like she
did mo
“How was that?
“Well, the other day I happened to
inn in while she was eutiog her din
ner. She was awful upset, but I made
out I didn’t notice anything, though
it did make me feel bad when I see
she hedu’t nothing ou the table hut
tea and a fow crackers. A couple of
days later, I run over agaiu with a
custard pie I just made and t says to
her, says I; ‘Miss Sanders, I just
linished baking anc. 1 brought over one
of ray custard pies for you to try.
Mias Lo.vo gave mo a now recipe.'
Hho took it as nice as you please,
though I was dreadful afraid she
wouldn’t, and I was tickled to pieces,
but I didn’t let on. That was ou
Thursday and behold, my
name ain’t \huiry Smith if Miss San
ders didn't come over on Saturday
with the clegantest raised cake you
ever saw. The poor dear just made
mo take it, though she must have
btarved a week to make up for it.”
Addie White, who had been studying
her lessons for the next day, overheard
this conversation, and it made a deep
impression upon her. “Poor Miss
Sanders,’ she sighed pityingly, “I
wish I could help her.”
A few days later Addie paid Miss
ganders a visit. “Next Friday I shall
be twelve years olu, aud I’m going to
have a birthday party after school,”
she told her eagerly, “and I thought
it would be just fine if you would
make us some of your elegant cream
candy. We’ll need a lot of it, you
know, for your oaudyisso good every
body will want all they get. Will you
make me some?”
Miss Sanders hesitated and flushed.
Addie was shrewd enough to guess
that she was thinking of the expense
compliance with the request involved.
“Pleaso say you will,” she urged.
“Mother says you can come over to
our house in the morning and make
the candy while she is doing her bak
ing. Our kitchen is lots bigger than
yours, and everything is handy, and
there’ll he only one mess to clean up.”
Miss Sauders looked nt her rather
suspiciously. “Did your mother plan
ail that?” she asked solemnly.
“No’ora, I thought of it myself,”
returned Addie. “Mother didn’t
want me to ask yon at first, because
she said it would be too much for you. ”
“Oh, no! I like it,” answered Miss
Sauders, all her sus|Jicions vanishing.
“I’ll come over, then, Friday morn
ing, and make ycu ad the candy you
want.”
Miss Sanders kept her word, and
the delectable sweetmeats disappeared
down the throats of the Goshen young
people with remarkable rapidity.
The next day Addie brought a little
box addressed to Mr. Albert Evans,
Springfield, Mass., to the postoflico
and mailed it. A letter which Addie
sent to the same address read thus:
Pear Uncle—There’s the loveliest old
lady lives her**, hut she’s as poor ns poor
can ha, and she’s just n-s proud as she’s
poor, because her folks wore rich oncojbut
they’re all dead and she’s the only one of
the family that’s left, and she’s got no
money and there ain’t anything she can do.
Khe makes the finest cream candy you ever
st", and I'm sending some she made for
my birthday party, for you to try and see
if you don’t think so too. I’ve been think*
log that Sprlngtleid folks must eat lots of
candy, and why can't they eat Ml.ss San
der's as well us anybody’s else’*? If I have
her make some and send it to you will you
put It in your store to sell? Please do,
uncle, for she’s awful poor, anti I feel so
sorry for her. Don't toll anybody about
this; it must b> a secret between you and
me. Write unu v.;| (n0 j, 0 w many pounds
you want to begin vtth and how much you
will pay for It. Storing niece,
Addie.
“Bless her dear lu j!'' exclaimed
the head of Evans .v Cos?; Sen he had
finished reading this epistle “That
girl is always thiukiugof some scheme
to help other people.”
A few days later Addie put in an
appearance before Miss Sanders, her
face wreathed in smiles.
“Oh, Miss Sanders, something nice
has happened to you!” she exclaimed.
“To me!” echoed Mias Sanders in
amazement. “Why nothing very
pleaiant ever comes my way.”
“Well, you just listen and sec, re
turned Addie, gayly, drawing a letter
from her pocket, “It’s all because of
' Lilt candy you made for any party.
You know I’ve got an undo in Spring
field? He’s just lovely, and of course
I had to send him some ot my birth
day candy. This letter iB from him.
He wants to kuow whether ‘the person
who made that delicious, old-fashioued
cream candy’—that’s just exactly what
he said, interpolated Addie, looking
up from the letter and nodding her
head emphatically, as she saw her
listener’s eyes opeu very wide in
astonishment—‘would be willing to
give him the sale of it.’ Ho says be is
sure that he can sell a great deal, be
cause there are mauy people who will
pay a good price for pure, home-made
candy. He’d like twenty-five pounds
to start ou, to see if it takes as well
as he expects, and he’ll pay thirty
cents a pound for it, aud he sent the
tnonfty for it. There now I” concluded
Addie, triumphantly, “ain’t that
nice?"
Miss Sanders gasped. The tears
came to her eyes, but her heart
bounded with thankfulness. “Morey
on me! I nevor hoard of such a
thing!” she incredulously exclaimed.
"Don’t folks in the city know how to
make cream candy?”
“I s’pose they do,” answered Ad
die, “but not as good as yours. No
body can make it like you, everybody
says so. Yon’ll make the caudy for
uncle, won’t yon?”
“Why, yes, especially as he’s paid
for it already, at a good prioe, too,”
returned Miss Sauders. “But does
your mother know anything about
this?” she asked abruptly.
“Why, no. She was over to Miss
Smith’s when father brought me tho
letter, and I ran right over here the
minute I rend it,” answered Addie a
trifle uneasily. The old lady looked
much relieved at her reply. “I thought
perhaps it was your mother’s doings,
and I couldn’t bo beholden,” she said
apologetically. “I’ll start on the
candy the firt thing in the morning."
“And I’ll come in and help yon
after school. I want to see how you'll
get along.”
“Thank yon, dearie. I hope I’ll
havo good lack. I’m not used to
making so much at one time.”
Early next morning Miss Sanders
went to work ou the caudy. Sho
watched her kettles anxiously, but
luck favored her. Everything turned
out just as it should, though all her
pots and pans were pressed into ser
vice.
Addie, ivlieu she called after school,
found Miss Sauders flushed but happy
over her “beautiful luck.” Of ooursc
Addie tasted the candy, and pro
nounced it the best she had ever eaten.
Then she set to work, under Miss
Sanders’s direction, and the candy
was daintily wrapped, weighed and
packed.
Miss Sanders was very happy over
the result of her day’s work. She hud
labored like a Trojan, and she was
thoroughly tired out.
“I’ll just be ou needles and pins
till I find ont bow the candy suits,
and if yonr uncle will want any more,”
she remarked anxiously. Bat even
Addie did not suspect how eagerly the
old lady prayed that Springfield folks
would find her caudy to their liking
and she would be kept busy supplying
the demand. Eew Goshen people had
any idea how far along on tho road to
the poorhouse Miss Sanders really
was.
After the cooking utensils bad been
washed aud the kitchen tidied, Addie
went home with a light heart, and
wrote her nuole a letter which that
gentleman cherished as a treasure.
“Another letter from Uncle Alberti"
announced Addie, rushing in upon
Mlbs Sanders about two weeks later.
“Good news in it, too!”
“Yonr face tells that,” answered the
old lady, beaming. “But what does
ho say?”
“He says the candy sold twice as
fast ns he expected, and he wants yon
to make 100 pounds this time, and
seud it as soon as you can!” was the
gleeful reply.
“Land of mercy!'’ ejaculated Miss
Sanders.
“And he’s going to send yon a bar
rel of sugar aud a case of flavoring ex
tracts, at the wholesale rate,” con
tinued Addie, “and he’ll take the
price off what he’ll owe you. He says
that will be cheaper and better than
buying in small lots, for he expects to
have a demand for the candy right
along.”
“Did you ever!” again exclaimed
Miss Sanders. “Thirty dollars’worth!
What great candy eaters those city
folks must be!”
Miss Sanders was more than busy
after that. She hired a little girl to
nelp her, and orders for the candy,
which Uncle Albert judiciously adver
tised as “Cupid Cream Candy,” con
tinued to come so fast that she was
obliged to make regular weekly ship-
ments, and the demand is still grow
ing.
The dread of the poorhouse passed
away aud Miss Sanders beoame her
own cheerful self. Addio is allowed
to have all the candy she wants at any
time, and she and Miss Sauders are
the very best of frieuds.
“I do believe yon had more to do
with your Uncle Albert ordering the
candy than you ever told me of,” said
Miss Sanders to Addie one day. “Now,
didn’t you?"
And Addie blushed aud began to
talk about something else.—St, Louis
Globe-Democrat.
BEEF-KILLINC IN MANILA.
Novel ami Striking Scene* In tho Public
Ahbatoir of the Filipino Capital,
A visitor from foreign parts in the
city of Manila, whose sensibilities are
not too acute, will find it worth his
while to “drop in” nt the public
slaughter-house, in the place known
as Arroceres. This is on the river
hank to the northeast of Manila, and
is a much-frequented spot, where, be*
sides the slaughter-house, are located
the tobacco factories, the* botanical
garden, a Spanish theatre, and the
Kiosko, designed for public dances.
The proper time *to visit the
slaughter-house is about midnight,
for this is when the principal business
of the place is done. Owing to the
tropical heat, in which fresh meat be
comes putrid in an incredibly brief
period, it is necessary that the killing
of animals should bo dene a’t night
and the meat distributed at once for
immediate use. All this work is done
in the wide-spreading, low building
in the squaro at Arroceres.
When operations are at their height
the sceuo is picturesque in the ex
treme. Tho great majority of the ani
mals slaughtered are tlie large native
cattle, most of whom are brought here,
to cell the truth, not because of their
being in a specially fat and juicy con
dition, but because they have outlived
their usefulness elsewhere aud are
here to he converted into beef as a
last resort. The killing is done en
tirely by natives trained in tho busi
ness until they havo become experts.
Tho cattle are led in from the pens at
the side of the building and are held
by stout ropes over long troughs that
run up and down all through the
structure, and into which the blood
(lows when the animals are first struck.
The fatal blow is given with a large,
sharp knife in tho spinal cord, just
hack of the horns. Asa rulo one
blow is enough. Tho animal drops
without a sound aud scarcely a quiver.
It sometimes happens, however, that
ih© thru*}; miscarries aud the iB
only badly wounded, Then some
times a terrific and exciting struggle
ersnes before the enraged animal is
subdued and tho finishing stroke
given.
A specially novel feature of the pro
ceedings is tho rush made by the
native women and children, who are
always present in great numbers, to
collect the blood as it flows from the
freshly killed animals. This product
of the slaughter-house is greatly prized
by the natives and is served up in
various simple forms at their meals.
It costs them nothing except tho
struggle to catch it as it drips and
flows in the slaughter-house, and this
price mauy of the poorer class are
willing enough to pay. The scramble
for blood is not attractive to the casual
visitor, for the stuff gets spilled and
streaked around over tho hands and
clothing of the people, and the scene
is grewsomo enough. As soon as the
animals are killed tho meat is cut up
and distributed at once among the
local markets in all parts of tho city,
—Leslie's Weekly.
Great Fishing In Aliukn.
Fred Cox, who is visiting his
parents on the East Siuo, has been ou
Gravina Island, Alaska, for over a
year.
“Tho fishing there,” he says, “is
not excelled anywhere in the world.
I still hold that the red salmon are
different from most of the other spe
cies. They are red, male and female,
all the time, and are unlike tho sock
eye or any of the other kind iu those
waters. The Indians call them the
‘Koo-Hoo.’ I think the salmon urea
distinct species of themsolves. Fish
ing in the little creeks is immense.
Sometimes they run np the streams
so thickly that they actually dam up
the water. I have stood on the hank
of a little stream and pitched thorn
ont with a pole with a hook on the
end until I got tired. And they are
sweet and flue. I have stood ou tho
wharf aud watched them in the water
when they were in schools by the
thousands. The mass would look
like a great black cloud as they moved
about in the water. When they make
a dash up the little streams they fill
them so that the streams look like a
living mass of squirming fish, and if
their hacks were not so slick, I oould
walk across ou them.”—Morning Or
egonian.
Papa anil the Weather Alan.
They had heard a good deal of talk
about what the weather man says,
and they had formed some rather queer
ideas as to his identity, appearance
and duties.
“He lives,’ one of them was over
heard saying, “’way up in a tower six
teen stories high. I’m going to ask
papa to take me up to see him some
day.”
“Oh, I wouldn’t dare,” replied the
other “I’d he afraid.”
*‘l don’t believe he’d hurt a littlo
girl,” returned the first, doubtfully.
“Maybe he wouldn’t mean to.” Haul
the other, “but how could von he sure
some of the wind or ice or something
wouldn’t get away from him. And
then, think how fierce he must look!”
“I wouldn’t he afraid if I was with
papa,” persisted the first.
“Papal” returned the other, scorn
fully. “What could papn do with a
man 'most ten feet tall?”—Chicago
Post.
THOMSON. GA„ FRIDAY, MARCH 23. 1900.
GOLDEN SAYS
HE WILL TALK
And Tell All He Knows About the
Assassination of Goebel.
SPURNS TO BE CALLED COWARD
BoldStatementof Young Sergeant
Creates a .Sensation Through
out State of Kentucky.
A special from Lexington, Ky.,
says: Sergeant F. Wharton Golden,
the man alleged to have made incrimi
nating statements in the Goehel mur
der case, arrived in the city Tuesday
night in company with his attorney,
Smith Hayes. They oame from Win
chester.
Their movements have been kept in
tho dark and their presenoc was not
known until several hours after their
arrival. They did not register at the
Phoenix hotel, but it is stated Golden
went through the rear door of the Phoe
nix and subsequently to his room in
the hotel.
Another story is that they were mot
by a carriage aud driven to the home
of a Goebel Democrat. As tho hotel
clerk know nothing of their arrival ef
forts to find Golden proved futile.
Many rumors are in circulation.
One is that Golden is trying to get
away from Goebel influences, but he
is elofely watched. It is improbable
that he lias given them the slip.
Another l-umor is that he was in the
city for further conference with Goe
hel attorneys. '
Tho stories growing out of the con
ference between Sergeant F. Wharton
Golden, of tho Barbourville company
of state militia, and the attorneys who
ure managing the investigation of tho
assassination of Governor Goebel have
caused a sensation throughout the
state. Golden will be placed on the
staud by tho prosecution in the trial
of persons already arrested for alleged'
complicity in the assassination, but in
formation as to the exact na lire of the
testimony he is expected to give is
lacking. j
“I, will final! T can |nr fpyfrienfis
all the time,” Golden is reported as
saying, “but I must first be true to
myself. When the time comes J will
tell ull I know. Whatever else may
ho said about me I do not think I can
lie accused of being a liar, a coward
or a Democrat, aud I want it distinct
ly understood that I am not here un
der guard.”
The story is published that Golden
has divulged to the attorneys the
name of the man who fired the shots
that killed Goehel. The person men
tioned is a mulatto, who formerly
lived nt Winchester, was prominent in
the French-Eversole feud and is
known as a dead shot. This man is
now supposed to bo in the wildß of
one of the mountain counties.
Evidence that ho was in Frankfort
at the time of the assassination was
found among papers token from W.
H. Onlton, a clerk in the auditor’s of
fice, when the latter was arrested a
week or so ago on a warrant charging
him with being an accessory to the
m urder.
Among these papers were receipts
for hoard hills amounting to about
S3OO, incurred by eighteen men who
were in Frankfort for some time be
fore and at tho time Goebel was shot.
In one of those receipts the name of
the mulatto mentioned is given. The
receipt in this case is for money re
ceived from John Perkins by Bettiua
Pittman for the board of three men.
Perkins is a porter about the state
house.
BOTHAM’S BIG DEBT,
The Net Hondod Debt, of New York City
Kcaclie* the Hundred .’Million*.
Comptroller Coler has made public
a statement of the New York city debt
on February 3d. The total gross
funded debt was $304,195,859; the net
$2.58,312,484 and tho net bonded debt
$258,340,084. There were then besides
outstanding bonds of various corpora
tions now wholly or partly included in
the city of New York amounting to
$4,385,391.
OOM PAUL IS FIRM.
Kruger Say. Bneri Will Have fmlepen
dcnce or Hie In the Struggle.
A dispatch to the New York Herald
from Pretoria dated February 10th,
says:
"Yonr correspondent has just had
an interview with President, Kruger.
‘“This war was forced upon ns by
England, which has been misled by
Cecil Rhodes and the mining million
aires who want the country,’ he said.
“The Boers yielded as far as possible
until they saw that nothing but com
plete surrender of thoir independence
would satisfy England.
“ ‘Having been forced into the war,
the Boers will conquer or die.’ ”
Woman Kills Woman.
Miss Annie Strother, cashier in a
Chicago restaurant, and in
stantly killed early Tuesday morning
by Mrs. Charles Smith, wife of a
saloon keeper, for alleged alienation
of the affections of her liege lord.
Cable to Honolulu In Sight.
Tho senate committee on naval af
fairs has agreed to a favorable report
on tho bill to construct a cable line to
Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands,
REWARD FOR LYNCHERS.
Uovernor Candler of Georglt
Wants Members of Cobb County
flob Punished.
Governor Candler of Georgia is de
termined that tho perpetrators of the
crime at Marietta, last Saturday night,
iu whioli the negro John Bailey was
practically shot to pieces, shall be
brought to justice.
Mouday afternoon the chief execu
tive, in compliance with request of
Cobb county officers, issued notice of
a reward of S2OO for the arrest with
evidence to convict, of tho first mem
ber of the lynching party, and SIOO
for each subsequent arrest.
The mob which took Bailey out of
the hands of the law is believed to
havo been 150 strong, and while it is
not on record that any lynching mob
was ever captured eutirelv, Bhonld 100
of the lynchers be located and con
victed the cost to the state would be
$10,200.
Tho county officers of Cobb, or at
least some of them, requested the
governor to issuo a large reward for
the lynchers in tho hope of at least
bringing tho lenders of the party to
justice. Tho governor immediately
complied with the request, expressing
iu plain language his condemnation of
tho work of the mob.
The sheriff of the county anil his
deputies are understood to he hard at
work iu attempting to discover the
perjietrators of the deed, though un
der tho law they ennnot receivo the
reward, as they are sworn to do their
duty regardless of money offers.
Following is the order of Governor
Gaudier providing for a reward for the
apprehension of the Cobb county lynch
ers:
Mabch, 19, 1900.—Whereas, official
information has been received at this
department that on the night of March
17, 1900, in the county of Cobb, some
unknown persons committed assault
with intent to murder upon the person
of John Bailey, colored, by forcing an
entrance to tho jail and taking there
from the said Bailey and shooting
him; and
Whereas, the malignity of the crime
and the promotion of justice require
that tho said unknown persons be
brought to justice for the crime with
which they atand charged; it is, there
fore
Ordered, That the secretary of state
record aud publish n proclamation of
fering a reward of S2OO for the appre
hension and delivery, with proof suffi
cient to couvfct of the first of said un
known persons to tho Sheriff of Cobb
comity, and an additional reward of
SIOO for each additional one of said
unknown persons apprehended and
convicted of said crime.
A. D. Candour, Governor.
ALLEGED CONFESSION
Of Suspected Goebel Assassin Stlra
Frankfort—Trials Are Post
poned By Judge Moore.
Caleb Powers, John Davis and Wil
liam H. Culton, charged with being
accessories to tho murder of William
Goehel, were arraigned at Frankfort,
Monday, for trial before Judge Moore.
The commonwealth was not ready and
by agreement tho trials wore sot for
Friday. Ex-Governor John Young
Brown made a demand for a list of
witnesses for the commonwealth, but
this was refused by the prosecution on
tho ground that publicity might cause
some of them to avoid being sum
moned.
News of an nllegod confession of F.
Wharton Golden, of Barbourville, in
regard to the assassination of William
Goebel, reached Frankfort during the
day and produced a sensation.
Golden was formerly a guard at the
penitentiary in Frankfort under the
Republican administration and iB well
known. It developed that the police
and detectives have boen watching his
movements since tho day of the assas
sination on the theory that he kuow
something about it.
Commonwealth Attorney Franklin
and County Attorney Polilsgrove de
cline to discusß the alleged confession,
as did others who aro assisting in the
prosecution, though one went so far as
te say Mr. Golden will be one of the
most important witnesses introduced
by the state.
Some regret that the matter became
public so soon, as they fear it will not
nly make it dangerous for him to rp
turn to his home at Barbourville.
ATLANTA POSTOFFICE BILL.
Bon.’tl© Passe* the Measure ami Prospects
In House Are Bright.
The Atlanta publio building bill was
called from the calendar in the senate
Monday afternoon and unanimously
passed that body.
Tho bill carries an appropriation of
$500,000 for enlarging and otherwise
improving tho present federal building
in Atlanta.
The bill will be reported by the
house committee as soon as Colonel
Livingston returns from Georgia, and
the prospects are favorable that the
bill will soon become a law, and the
work on the building will begin during
tho summer.
Wheeler Talks of Guam.
General Wheeler called at the navy
department Saturday to consult with
Secretary Long and Assistant Secre
tary Allen, respecting the report he
was charged to make regarding the
Island of Guam.
A Lynching In Alabama.
Lee county, AJabama, had a lynch
ing Sunday, when Charlie Humphries,
a negro who had attempted to outrage
a young white girl, was canght And
shot by a number of white men.
JAIL DOORS SMASHED
Mob In Marietta Shoots Prisoner
In tho Publio Streets.
CHARGED WITH THE USUAL CRIME
After Firing About Fifty Shot* the Would-
Be Lyncher* Quickly
Dispersed.
At 1 o’clock Sunday morning a mob
of masked men, numbering about 150,
marched to the jail in Marietta, Ga.,
battered down the doors with crow
bars, rudely awakened John Bniley, a
negro charged with attempted rape,
marched him to the center of the court
house square in the very heart of the
city and fired fully fifty shots nt him,
leaving him for dead in the spot where
he fell.
It is not known who composed tho
mob. All or nenrly all were masked.
It is thought, however, that they came
from the country.
The crime which Bailey attempted
and which caused the assault on the
jnil is not often attempted iu Cobb
county, where in the past there has
been but little trouble with the ne
groes. •
The knowledge of what the negro
had attempted, however, stirred the
people of Marietta and vicinity as that
quiet country folk has not been moved
iu many years.
Thursday afternoon, shortly after 4
o’clock, while Miss Amanda Snell
grove, a young lady of Cobb county,
was returning to her home, which is
within a mile and a half of Marietta,
she was accosted by a negro man, who
made known his purposes in unmis
takable terms.
She sought to escape him, bnt he
seized her iu his grasp and she could
only struggle aud tight for her honor
ns best she knew. Evidently alarmed
by her screams and fearing that the
neighboring farmers might be attract
ed, the negro released his intended
victim and ran into the woods.
Miss Snollgrove, faint and sick from
her experience and narrow escape,
mndo her way to her father’s home
aud related her experience. Sundry
bruises about her head, throat and
body attested the violence with which
she had struggled while in the negro’s
grasp.
The relatives of the young lady im
mediately informed the sheriff of the
attempted assault and a posse within
a short time was scouring tho woods for
tho negro. Suspicion pointed to John
Belding Bailey aud at 10 o'clock
Thursday night his cabin wns surround
ed. He did not resist arrest, but pro
tested his innocence.
He wns taken to the Snellgrove
home, where a confrontation with Miss
Sncligrove ocrurred and her identifi
cation of him was complete. The ne
gro was at once conducted to the jail,
whoro ho remained until tho mob
stormed the place Saturday night.
SHAMROCK VIES WITH PRIMROSE
Green I.nrgely In KvUlence Throughout
Eiiklihkl On Bt. Patrick's Day.
A London dispatch says: Shamrock
day promises to vie with primrose day
in tho hearts of tho people, judging
from the enthusiasm with which the
loyalists all over the United Kingdom
celebrated. From Windsor castle,
whero tho queen observed the day by
wearing a sprig of genuine four-leafed
shamrock, to the east end of the slums
of London, nearly everyone sported
something in the shape of a green
flag. A word from her majesty has
turned the emblem of semi disloyalty
into a badge of honor and has made
the shamrock the moat prized of all
the plnnts iu the British isles.
By the queen’s older, the bells of
the curfew of Windsor castle honored
St. Patrick Saturday morning; Irish
airs played by the Grenadiers enliv
ened the qneen’s luncheon, and Lon
don’s mansion house floats a now Irish
flag, with the Union Jack in the upper
corner.
Most of the government officials
hoisted tho Irish flag and tho clubs
were similarly decorated, the officials
all wearing tho green. The lord chief
justice, Lord Russell of Killowen, set
the example in the law courts and all
tho judges followed his example of
wearing the shamrock below their
ermine collars.
PLATFORM MUCHLY DISCUSSED.
Action of WotiralUun. An Interesting
Topic at National Capital.
The platform adopted by the Demo
crats of Nebraska was much discussed
in Washington Thursday because of
its presumed bearing npon the na
tional platform. The fact that Mr.
Bryan, in some degree, outlined this
utterance of the Democrats of his own
state was sufficient cause for its being
much talked about.
The principal criticisms which were
made against it were by Republicans
and those Democrats who ore not rec
onciled to the Chicago platform.
PETITION OF PORTO RICANS.
Large Mass Meeting Held In Han Juun tn
Discuss Needs of Inlander*.
A large gathering of 10,000 people,
hoaded by the San Juan chamber of
commerce, assembled at the palace of
the governor general Tuesday to sub
mit a petition with reference to the
needs of the island. On behalf of
General Davis, Lieutenant Colonel
Hall, his adjutant general, assured
them that Porto Rico would receive
justico, and expressed pleasure at the
interest in the question. An account
of the proceedings will be transmitted
to Washington.
NO. 7.
A HOT BED OF
INSURRECTION
Has Manila, the Philippine Me
tropolis Proved To Be.
REBELS INFEST THE CITY
General Otis Finds an Abundance
of Troublesome Situations
Right nt Kin Door.
Adviece from the Philippines state
that General Otis considers Manilla the
most troublsotne center in the situation
there, just now. The insurgent junta
in connection with that iu Hong Kong,
growing active. The military authori
ties have been forced to put a stbp to
Mabini’s intercourse with the public.
The local and foreign press considers
his recent utterauces calculated to in
cite the Filipinos toa continued revolt
and prejudicial to American control.
Flores, who has just arrived iu Ma
nilla says he comes trusting to Ameri
can leniency, and that he would not
have dared come to Manilla if
Spain were yet in control. He cher
ishes the hopes and aspirations which
actuated him when in the field and de
sires to watch congressional action
upon the question of the Philippines.
The insurgents, he says, do not expect
to vanquish the Americans, blit are
maintaining a resistance with the idea
of forcing congress to accord them tho
best possible terms.
A number of representative insur
gent lenders from different parts of
Luzon have recently been in confer
ence in Manila. Some have been
placed under arrest, bnt tho Others
tliiiß far have not been interfered with.
Louis Spitzel, head of the fism of
Louis Spitzel & Cos., contractors to
the Chinese government, and himself
a suspected filibuster, came from'
Hong Kong to Manila last week and
was temporarily detained in custody
on suspicion. It is asserted npon good
authority that tbroo loads of arms and
ammunition have recently been landed
ou the east coast of Luzon.
Reports are current of active rebel
reorganization in the province of Mo
roug, where the insurgent leaders are
said to be assisted by prominent Span
ish residents. Inhabitants of this
province who are now in Manila have
been advised not to return to their
homes, but to remain undor the pro
tection of the Americans.
It is algo reported that the rebels
are reorganizing in the province of
Zambales under Macardo. Brigands
are committing atrocities in the prov
ince of Nenva Ecign, whero they have
murdered twenty natives and China
men. Eight other murders have been
committed near Tarlac, The Neuva
Eeiga insurgents are heavily taxing
local traders and farmers with the re
sult that business is paralyzed and
there is a general scarcity of food.
The funds for maintaining this
guerilla ivarfure are collected from
the various towns of the island, wheth
er occupied by the Americans or not,
even including Manila.
In the province of Albay the insur
gents have ceased harassing the Amer
icans, owing, it is reported, to a lack
of ammunition, but they continue rav
aging the country by burning and
looting. The natives are tiring of this
sort of thing and threaten to turn
against the marauders. Already the
townspeople of Legaspi, Albay and
Donzoi are slowly returning to their
homes.
Major Allen, of the Forty-third regi
ment, has been appointed military
governor of the island of Samar, whero
Lukban, the former leader of tho
rebels in that locality, is still in the
mountains.
Evidence acnmulates of the treason
and perfidy of tho municipal presi
dents in the provinces of General Mnc-
Arthur’s district. The presidents of
several towns in Lepanto and Union
provinces havo declined to continue
in their positions, saying that they do
not desire any further identification
with the Americans. Travel between
the towns garrisoned by the Americans
is becoming more dangerous. All
wagon trains must bo escorted by
heavy guards to insure their safety.
SCHLEY’S HOME FUNDS.
Committee Is Informed That Subscrip
tion* Are Ahnmlnnt.
At a meeting in Washington of the
national executive committco engaged
in raising funds for a home for Roar
Admiral Schley Saturday night Sec
retary Evans reported many favorable
responses to the circulars soliciting
contributions. Ho also reported that
absolute refusals to contribute to the
fund had been received from the naval
contingent on duty in Washington,
with ono single exception, that of Ad
miral Hichhorn, ami in some instances
the refusals wore accompahied by ad
verse comments on the committee’s
projeot.
CAUSED BY GASOLINE.
Five Persons Die of Injuries ntul Others
Are In Precarious Condition.
Five dead, one fatally and ono seri
ously injured, sesultcd from an at
tempt to start a fire with gasoline at
Columbus, 0., Friday night. George
White used the fluid ot James Wea
rer’s residence and on explosion fol
lowed, tho building was set on fire
aud tho inmates were covered vritb the
burning fluid.