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1 Establisbkd 1860. Incorporated ISBB. V
( J. H. ESTILL, President. }
ON THE STOP ON SUNDAY
PARNELL SPEAKS AT CLARE AND
OTHER POINTS.
A Priest Makes a Futile Attwept
to Have Him Move On at Clare-Par
nell Declares His Opponents Incom
petent to Help Ireland—All Ireland
Must Declare Against Him Before
He Will Resign.
Kilkenny, Dec. 21—Messrs. Parnell ar.d
3cully, the Parnellite candidate for parlia
ment, left here at noon to-day and drove in
i closed carriage to Clare. They -wore ac
companied by a long proceasion of cars
5 lied with Mr. Parnell’s supporters.
Upon arriving at Clare the Parnellites
found a meeting proceeding opposite the
Catholic chapel, in support of Sir John
Pope Hennessy. When Mr. Parnell reached
She crowd, a priest, Father Walsh, address
ing Mr. Parnell, said: “These are chapel
rrounds. You must not speak here.” A
ocal farmer here interposed, saying the
ground did not belong to the chapel, that it
was Keogh’s field and that Mr. Parnell had
a perfect right to speak there.
Mr. Parnell invited Father Walsh
hear both sides. Arrangements had
seen made to hold a meeting in that field,
]e said, and it must procoed. Fathor
Walsh then requested everybody on his
tide to leave with him, and some few per
sons followed the priest and Sir Thomas
Esmonds, who was also present.
EASY ON THE PBIKSTS.
The meeting then organized and Mr.
Parnell made an address. He said that
although his party did not have all the
Mergy on his side, he had no harsh words
for any one of them. He desirod the people
to listen to the voice of the priests and to
reverence their position as priests. Yet as
laymen the people could not admit the
priests absolutely to control elections. He
proceeded, inveighing against the “trait
orous mutineers who were enfeebling
the party at the moat critical
moment.” He asked his hearers to con
sider his political past and look into his
innermost heart and say whether they
found any wrong there as regarded lus
guidance of the national policy. [Cries of
“.No.no.”] He could not look the assem
blage of his countrymen in the face if he
did not speak the truth.
JOINED BY HARRINGTON.
After some further remarli3, Mr. Parnell
concluded his tp ‘ech and, leaving Clare,
accompanied by Mr. Scully, drove six miles
to John’s Well, where another meeting was
held. While Sir. Scully was addressing
this meeting Timothy Harrington arrived,
and was received by the crowd with much
enthusiasm. Being called upon for a speech,
Mr. Harrington addressed the meeting. In
the course of his remarks he said that his
colleagues in America had been led astray by
messanges from this side of the ocean.
“Wo," he said, “regretting that the en
lightened majority of the party in parlia
ment bad taken a leader bound hand and
foot to the British statesman ask, how
much did you give for this man?” Nothing
was better calculated to shame aud dis
credit the party.
COPING WITH ENGLISH STATECRAFT.
Mr. Parnell spoke next. He reminded
the electors that they had to deal with En
glish statecraft, which was watching to
seize every point of vantage ground that
Irishmen surrendered. It was not a big
board o£ guardians for which Ireland con
tended, it was a parliament that would
fully satisfy the aspirations of
the people. To achieve this, the
people must stand by their
leader, and not leave Ireland to the incapa
ble persons who were trying to step into his
shoes. His opponents had elected an amiable
man—a quiet, good hearted soul. McCarthy
was the sort of man to ornament a quiet
and early tea party. [Laughter.]
GUARDIANS FOR m’CAP.THY.
His oppouerts should also elect eight
other men to take care of their lender; so
ho might be proud to find that it took nine
men to try to fill hi3 chair when his
enemies had succeeded in dragging him out.
lie knew every one of these men, and from
the depths of his heart he could
say that he thought he could
leave the destinies of Ireland safely
in their guardianship, he would cheerfully
and willingly step down and aside. Bus he
know such a thing was impossible, ad it
would be a coward’s part to leave his coun
try to be torn asunder by tweDty factions
contending for power and place." The men
opposing uim were not elected to sit in
judgment upon him. They had no
authority through the voice of the
people. Until Irelaud gave him his
dismissal he would regard himself
as commanding officer, carrying the na
tional banner through the ranks of the foe.
ICheers.] He believed Kilkenny would de
cide for them. If not. he would bo down
hearted, but would still hold aloft the fl ig
until every constituency in Ireland had had
an opportunity of declaring its judgment in
clear voice. [Cheers.] Mr. Parnell returned
to Kilkenny this evening.
PARNELL GOING TO PARIS.
Mr. Parnell goes to Avondale after the
election in Kilkenny, and will procoed
thence to Paris to confer with William
U’Brien.
Mr. Davitt made addresses at Gores
bridge and at Gowran to-day.
Hoaly, speaking at Baliyfoyle. askod
*f Mr. Parnell succeeds in ejecting the lifty
three McCarthyites to what pledge or plat
urrni wou!( l their successors be bound.
*> ould they be puppets deluding on the
personality of one individual? If Mr. Par
hell had been actuated by singleness of
purpose he could have fulfilled
his mission far more effectually
without dividing the country. He (Mr.
Mealy) would not accept the proposition
tout Ireland could find no political salvation
save in Pope Parnell the First.
At a meeting in Cashel, Tipperary, to
day, in which 4,000 persons were present,
resolutions in favor of Mr. McCarthy were
unanimously adopted.
THE APPEAL TO KENIANISM.
In his sjieech at Gores bridge, Mr. Davitt
said that if Bir John Pope Hennessy were
defeated, the Irish people would no longer
te able to count upon an alliance with any
English statesman. Mr. Parnell, he con
tinued, had in desperation appealed to
'he hillside men and to the fenian
sentiment of the courrtry. It would he
criminal folly for him or any other man to
nsk the young men of* Ireland to face the
overwhelming might of Euglan 1 in the
held. llr. Purnell iiimself would be the last
■nan to lead the way to this policy of mad
ness and desperation, aud ho was only mak
ing his Hppeal in the hope of snatching vic
tory in Kilkenny.
A SCRIMMAGE AT QI EENSTOWN.
Dublin, Doc. 21. —Timothy Harrington,
member of parliament, arrived last night
*n Cork iu company with the mayorof that
, V- A number of Parnellites bad intended
Kreet him w hen he landed from the
Aursnla at Queenstown, and bad organized
u torchlight procession in tits honor. They
■mused being present on the steamer's at -
rival; hut nevertheless they mode a
demonstration, asM-umiing on the quay ai 4
marching the streets with cheers for Parnell
•nd gr<a U , for Mr. iietdy. Finally ah dy
“■ti-Parnellites charged upon the
liJje iHofnittfl ffetog.
roraders and routed them, throwing the
torches into the harbor. The shindy was a
sharp one, and several were hart.
THE FEELING IN AMERICA.
Mr. Harrington bolds that a majority of
the Irish in America are for Parnell, al
though he says most of the daily newspapers
aud leading politicians are against him. He
says he thinks Parnell will not retire even
if liis candidate is defeated at Kilkenny,
whither Mr. Harringten will go himself to
morrow to assist his chief.
O’BRIEN MIGHT HAVE SAVED THE DAT.
Mr. Harrington at Queenstown said he
believed that if Mr. O’Brien had been at
heme or if Mr. Parnell had seen his way to
retire in accordance with the wishes of the
majority the present disastrous crisis
would have been avoided. He supposed,
however, that Mr. Parnell had good reason
for the course be had adopted. Mr. Har
rington further said that he regretted the
personalities in which both sides had in
dulged. He was surprised that Mr. Parnell
had descended to use scurrillous language
and hud applied offensive epithets to
his late colleagues. The unfortunate
split in the party. he said, had
frustrated the objects of the American
mission, which it would be useless to renew
at present, for while Irishmen were in their
present bewildered state they would refuse
to listen to the appeals of eitner party.
THE CHANGE OF FRONT.
Speaking at Cork, where the mayor pre
sented an address to him, Mr. Harrington
contended that, whether or not Mr. Par
nell’s action was right, those who, after re
electing him leader, sought to oust him for-
the confidence of the Irish people.
The English democracy, he declared,'would
support home rule, and it was only neces-
Bary to bring up to the scratch English
politicians, who would likely betray them
if disappointed in getting places after tho
general election. Mr. Parnell was not a
mere political leader, but rather the general
of a country leading his army to freedom.
However men might shake their heads in
the family circle, this was not a time to de
sert. him and with him Irish independence,
which was more valuable than Mr. Glad
stones intentions.
THE QUESTION OF MORALITY.
The question of public morality wes set
tled at Leinster hall and the seceders pos
sessed no programme or plan justi
fying their desertion of their leader.
Mr. Harrington said he was amazed at the
action of certain members of the McCarthy
ite faction in attacking Mr. Parnell from
that standpoint. He said ho could throw a
strong side light on their morality which
would astonisn the public. As for Mr.
Davitfs opposition, it was dishonest and
unpatriotic, and was simply au expression
of Mr. Davitt’s old enmity toward Mr.
Parnell.
GLADSTONE ON THE CRISIS.
London, Dec. 21. —Mr. Gladstone, in his
letter to Sir Robert Peel’s grandson (Speaker
Peel's son) who Is the home rule candidate
in Marvlebone district, says: “For the
first time since commencing in parliament
the struggle uuder O’Connell, the Irish
party, bent on a constitutional and effective
scheme for home rule, is looking to Great
Britain to pronounce judgment in the con
test between it aud a minority of the seceders
under I’anißH: The liberals of Great
Britain, who themselves, since 1882, had to
resist and overcome similar secession, will
not doubt which side they are to recognize
with tho name and trus title of “the Irish
party,” with its honorable tradition of
resistance to wrong. Assuredly, you enter
the field at a moment of extreme interest,
when the cause of wisdom, juktice and free
dom has claims upon all who love it, en
hanced beyond the ordinary standard.”
EYBAUD’d FIGHT FOR LIFE.
He Appeals His Case and Will Speak
in His Own Behalf.
Paris, Doc. 21.—Eyraud has appealed to
the court of cessation against the sentence
of death pronounced upon him yesterday.
Eyraud talked over the incidents of his
trial with his jailers in La Roquette prison
to-day. He expressed a belief that the jury
would have found extenuating circum
stances in his case if it had not boon for the
address made by M. Robert, coun
sel for Gabrieile Bompard. He said tbat
if ho should be granted another hearing he
would himself try to influence the court.
Gabrieile Bompard has been taken to St.
Lazare prison, where she will bo kept until
the time allowed for appeal expires.
A CANAL BURSTS ITS BANKS.
One Hundred Livos Lost and a Hun
dred Houses Swept Away.
Buenos Ayres, Dec. 21.—A disaster has
occurred at Oordovia, where the canal has
burst its embankments aud destroyed hun
dreds of houses. One hundred livos are
reported lost. Gen. Rcca, minister of the
interior, has gone to the scene to superin
tend measures of relief.
Manicaland'a Occupation.
London, Dec. 21.—1 tis semt-offieially de
nied that Lord Salisbury has taken any
steps for or against the British South Afri
can Company in regard to their occupation
of Hanicalaud.
Scotch Railroaders to Strike.
London*, Dec. 21. — The railway men in
Scotland at a meeting to-day decided to
begin a general strike at once.
IO DEFEAT INGALLS.
The Alliancemon of the Seventh Dis
trict Against the Senator.
Kansas City, Mo.. iJec. 21.—A special
from Wichita, Kan., says: “A convention
of representatives from the farmers’ al
liance of the Seventh Kansas congressional
district met here yesterday to take action
upon the election of a successor to Senator
Ingalls m the Senate. A resolution was
adopted instructing all farmers’ alliance
members of the leg slature from the Seventh
district to vote against Senator Ingalls and
work for his defeat. Efforts to secure in
dorsement for one or another of the candi
dates were unsuccessful."
CAR SHOPS IN FLAMES.
Tho Illinois Central Road Suffers a
Loss of $125,000.
Chicago, Dec. 21. —The paint simp and
repair shop of the Illinois Central railroad
was entirely destroyed by fire to-night. In
the first building were sixteen passenger
coaches, worth $3,500 apiece, at.d in tho
repair shop four o-xiohes nearly completed,
also valued at $3,800 each, fhe fire (topped
just ijofnre r.:ocbii;g a building containing
over $l5O. (XX) worth of patterns. The total
loss Is estimated at $125,000.
KICKAPOOS NOT KICKINO UP.
The Report cf a Ghost Dance on Tbelr
■ oservation Erroneous.
Kasha** Cirr, Mo., Dec. 21.—A special
from Oklahoma sayi: “There is no truth
in tho report tbat 1,000 Kickapoo* are en
gaged in a ghost douce in Indian tern
wry. There are oi.ly 800 Kirk apt** a u
told. and they art on Ui*:r i eiervatloo en
gaged in their usual peaceful pursuit*.
ÜbOlt iUiDdii| by other tribe* is almost
•euieiy stopped, end no alarm I* fete.”
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, DECEMBER 22. IBS>.
HOLIDAY TIME IN CONGRESS.
Both Houses to 61t, But Very Little
Will be Accomplished
Washington, Dec. 2L—lt is unlikely
that any positivo legislation will be
achieved In congress this week, and the
failure to take the usual holiday recess is
not expected to result in any measurable
advancement of the public business.
In the Senate the elections bill will prob
ably continue to engross attention, and the
list of prospective speakers now in tho
hands of the Vice President is large enough
to warrant the assumption that they will,
■if uninterrupted, consume the first three
days of the week. The possibilities
of interruption hinge altogether upon
the result of the negotiations now
in progress among the republican senators
upon tbe subject of the caucus financial bill.
If a harmonious understanding to support
this measure is reached, the elections bill
may be laid aside in its favor, and the dis
cussion in the Senate turn on unancial mat
ters until the day before Christmas, when
it is expected that a recess will be taken
until Monday.
In the Eouse.
Probable successive adjournments for
or three days at a time will mark the course
of the House during the the Christmas
season. No business of importance is ex
pected to be done, as so many members
have left Washing for heme that a quorum
can fcardiy be secured. The House was
prepared to take a recess for the customary
ten days or two weeks, but the temper of
the Senate, was found avorse
to this and at a meeting
of the wavs und means committee yester
day, when the Mills recess resolution was
considered, decided opposition was mani
fested to placing the House in the position
of desiring ton days’ holiday when the Sen
ate wanted to go on with its work.
To-morrow is district day and the Houso
will probably pass upon local legislation
until some measure is proposed upon which
a vote is demanded and the absence of a
quorum is thereby disclosed. Much other
days m tho week us the House is in session
will be devoted to comparatively unim
portant measures and to roll calls on motions
to adjourn
Several appropriation bills have been re
ported aud an effort may be made to pass
someone of these.
M’KINLEY’3 BONDED PERIOD.
The Resolution for Its Extension
Probably shelved.
Washington, Dec. 21. —The resolution
introduced several days ago by Congress
man Flower to extend the bonded period of
the McKinley tariff act, and which was
agreed to unanimously by the ways and
means committee, will probably go no fur
ther, although a majority of the House is in
favor of the resolution. The resolution was
reported to the House the other day, but as
several members desired to debate it Maj.
McKinley withdrew it and thus the matter
now stands. Representative Flower said to
a Gazette reporter’yesterday that petitions
were oomiug in every day from all parts of
the country from importers and merchants,
asking that the bonded period be extended.
“If unanimous consent could be ob
tained," said Mr. Flowor. “the reso
lution would go through in a min
ute, but there are some republicans
who are opposed to the resolution and
would object to its passage. Maj. Mc-
Kinley was very clever about the resolution.
He was opposed to it on principle but as a
majority were in favor of it he voted for
it, thereby making the action of the com
mittee unanimous. The opposition to the
resolution in the Houso is, no doubt, due to
the fact that some of the republi
cans have expressed the opinion that
to pass this resolution would be
an admission of weakness on their part and
a confession that the McKinley act was
rushed through congress without regard to
tbe consequences that have followed. If
the bonded period is extended it will to
some extent relieve the money market, and
what tho people want just now is more
money.”
CLOTURE'S POOR CHANCE.
The Last Vain Hope of Its Advocates
Among the Senators.
Washington Dec. 21.—The advocates of
a cloture rule among tho republican sena
tors have hit upon anew devico for putting
the rule through tbe Senate ala lieed,
if the time ever comes when tho democrats
have talked as much as all tho republicans
think they should. The scheme Is
to have the Vice President as
presiding officer of the Senate
submit the question of ordering the pre
vious question to the Semite aud thou to
count upoD the force of party spirit to make
all the republicans vote to sustain the de
mand for tbe previous question. The
trouble with thisschemo is that all the re
publicans cannot be united on any such
programme by caucus or conference. Tho
suggestion of it shows that the radicals
ha ve not teen able to get anybody to play
the role of Reed out and out.
WINDOM SEES DOUBLE.
Democrats Very Sure That There Will
Not be a Surplus.
Washington, Dec. 21.—Representative
Sayers of the appropriation committee,
who has made a close study of the estimates
submitted to congress, says: “If appropria
tions are made sufficiently large to carry
out the existing laws the current revenue
will not, in my opinion, be sufficient to
meet the current expenditures of the gov
ernment.” Notwithstanding this patent
fact laws are in process of passage which
will appropriate, it is estimated, some
$30,000,000 more; and yet Mr. Windom can
see a surplus.
WASHBURN MAY BOLT.
Harrison Trying Hard to Prevent Him
From Doing Like Stewart
Washington, Dec. 21. —Senator Wash
burn of Minnesota threatens to follow Sena
tor Stewart in an open denunciation of the
force bill. The President hearing of this
had Senator Washburn at the white house
yesterday, and lectured him on bis duty,
and specially on the necessity for omitting
his threatened spec h. Senator Washburn
made no promises, It is stated, and has not
os yet come to a conclusion in regard to
speaking.
A BKNATOhM SON FLBEB.
He is Said to Bv Carried Away
$25,000 of Hie Father’s Money.
Washington, Dec. 21.—Reports are in
circulation bare that a son of a republican
United .States senator has fled with $24,000
which bis father had put in bis hands to lie
used iu a real estate transaction. He had
preftoueiy got into difficulties with a coii
osru * Its which be hud b**u oGui.eeted,
and had caused his relatives a good deal of
trouble. __
A Sur Mr I lea in tWyria.
Vienna, Dee. iff. Mutaen hundred witt
ers struck at Fubosdnrf in Hiyrm
VERT SINGULAR VERDICT
RENDERED IN THE CABS OF A
BAILIFF WHO FROZE TO DEATH.
Steve Moore, the Foreman, Talks
About It-Charles West and George
Willis, Leading Lawyers in Chat
tahoochee Circuit, Jurors-The Ver
dict ie a Matter of Record—How
Moore Was Swindled Out of His
Christmas Dram How the Only
Witness Was Treated- Other Inci
dents of the Inquest.
Taylor County, Georgia, Dec. 21.
Recently I have had occasion to be in
Taylor couuty a great deal. No more in
teresting people can be found on the faoo of
earth than these. It Isa prosperous county,
rendered historic by being that in which
two of Georgia’s famous governors have
found homos. The people are home-like,
and they never let anew comer remain a
stranger long.
Butler, the county seat, isnuolj fashioned
town of 2,000 people—good, honest, warm
hearted people.
The court bouse is a two-story brick,
situ ated in the center of the town. This is
the great rendezvous for the countrymen.
Court week the old structure holds
very many rare characters. Rainy,
cold days, when farmers cannot work
and other people do not dare to leave a tire,
the court house swarms witii citizens from
the rural districts. Then follows a whole
day of story telling, joking and chewing
and smoking the weed. Tile street gamins
have learned to exjiect a treat on such days,
and they begin early ia the morning to
wedge in the court house, sitting on boxes,
light wood knots, etc., while tbe fun goes on.
Christmas times finds the town full of
countrymen. Tbe mayor throws the gates
open to them and they make the well;in
ring. This tale telling and joke cracking
ha* been la progress since I have beou here.
THE CHRISTMAS STORY.
It was a woird, drirziy day, when every
body had to wear an overcoat, to keep warm.
The ordinary’s office was chock full of people
aud business wus suspendod. Everybody
was smokiDg and everybody was laughing.
Steve Moore, a genial, typical countryman
witn mischievous eyes aud laughing coun
tenance, hud tho floor. Steve was talking
of the queer experiences of the county
bailiffs, when he suddenly seemed
to remember a funny experience, aud ho
burst out luugliing aud sta iqied his foot on
the floor. “But that coroner’s jury, when
obi man Bailiff Morrell froze to death, beat
all.” There was a general laugh, because
everybody seemed to remember the circum
stance. Steve dragged tue record out, and
putting his Unger on what be said was a
verdict, threw his head back and laiighed
again. “Well, that beats all,” bo said m a
tone of ridicule. “ Well, sir, I don’t see for
the life of me what I was stn ,ing nbout, to
write out such a thing as that." “Wasn’t
you drunk?" somebody asked. “Drunk?”
repeated Steve. “Well, do you reckon a
man ever got too drunk to knowhow to eat?
As many verdicts as I’vo made; then to go
and make such a thing as that. Bad as the
fellow who told some friends his wife was
well, when she’d been dead six weeks. I
forgo
there was another ripnle through the
crowd, and Bteve began: "it was the ter -
riblest, coldest weather I ever saw. No
mistake, it was ’sho ’nuff cold. Old man
Morrell came to town and got full as a goat,
and waddled ’long out’bout half past 4;
and that ’uz nearly night, you know. We
all saw him. and somebody said the old
man better mind. You know he was then
GO odd, and a better bailiff never called
from this court house. Why, we could
hear him almost to Geneva. But the old
man would drink. When he waddled
along out that Christmas evening, it was
the last seen of him alive. No, siree, he
could’nt stand the cold, and he wander,d
out into the swamp about a half n mile
from his house, and set down beside a pine
saplin’ aid thur he died. Right theie, by
li9 lone self. It did seem a pity, ’shore.
But it was tbe old man’s time.
THE SEARCH BEGUN.
“The family begins to getreul uneasy about
9 o’clock, seeing that he did not come in.
and they got torches and bega i to hunt for
him. It was sleetin’, and tlie ground was
covered with a tolerable do?p snow.
Buggies and wagons couldn’t hardly pa-s
’long the wool for the trees weighted
down hanging over it. But they couldn’t
find the old man. Old man iVilliums ’cross
the creek said he hoard some body hollerin’,
but be was afraid to go outside. Tbe hol
lerin’ didn’t last long, 1 reckon. The old
man must have beou savin’ his nrayars.
“iV ell, sir, tho next morning X happened
to be in town, and when I saw the boy
a cornin’ 1 said something’s the matter, ami,
sho’ ’nuff, there was. The old man was lost,
he said, and couldn’t ho found high nor
low. Well, Uncle Henry Teed dep
utized about eight or nine of us,
and Charhy West and George
Wiilis were among the crowd. Tbov’re
first rate lawyers now, practicing iu all the
courts, but they were two of the boys them
times. We got on horses and put out to
hunt the old man. Home said tbat he was
at 6orae of the neighbors’ houses. Some
said he was in town and fome said this
ami some said that, but I felt jest like tbe
old man had done bid good-by to these
parts. I thought I could see him lying with
his face all covered up with snow, his eyes
sunk in and his hands all doublod up. I
didn’t much want to lay first eye on the old
fellow, and somehow I kept being afraid I
would find him. The boys got pretty well
loaded before they could face tbe cutting
wind, but I didn’t know it. I had two now
bottles of Mill Creek I was saving for
Christmas night.
IN A DILEMMA.
"I know’d if I offered it to them the
liquor wouldn’t more’ngo ’round, and I had
bought it for special purpose. I wanted u
drink, but I hated to sneak off aud do it be
hind their tracks. I know’d one of tue
crowd was a preacher’s son. and I called
him aside and told him about my fix. 1
knew if anybody in the crowd didn’t touch
a drop it was him. He said 1 ivai all right;
that only one man in the crowd drunk
liquor. Laid be reckoned there never was
just such another crowd ever went
ou’, before iu such cold weather. Held it
was a pity, too, none of them drank. 1
asked him who it was that drank, und he
told me. When tho crowd collected ag.iu
I pull-d out my whisky and offered no me to
the jellow that I had been told drank, but
he kinder laughed aud said, 'No. I thack
you, not to-day,’ and tbo boys yelled,
•That’# a Sunday schorl superintendent.’ I
didn’t know ha'dly what to think, so to be
pmite I passed tbe bottle to the next man,
Dot thinking that be would drink, of
course." There waa a iaugii among tbe
crowd, and somebody naked, “ln<T he
drink?”
“brink ? No. He poured it down, Tbe
whole kit aud biiln’ of 'em dtue the ea am.
When they pae-ed (be bottle beck empty,
they kb der laughed aud looked hungry,
and f reached book and opeaed tbe ether
Little. After i hurt it It went like
otaer, te the totije who cou.d et leue i u
drop,
THEY FIND THE OLD MAN.
“We rode like cowboys all day long, and
night began to overtake us, and we were
afraid we would have to abandon the
search. We were coming back over the old
trail, aud had just crossed the creek, when
my horse gave a loud sm rt and jum)>ed
clean cross the path. I looked quick to the
side and there lay the old man, frozen to
death. He was lvi: g with his head turned
up and one nar:d grabbing a pine sapling.
He had worn the | iue sapling slick, try
ing to olimb up by it. Tbe ground
was all broken around him and his
but was plowed into tho snow. I hollered
out ‘Hero he is boys,' and wt got down and
circled around him. We built up a tire and
the coroner told us to rest and warm up.
Tne na<ty rascals then un and told me how
they fixed up the trick to steal my whisky.
After wo cracked jokea until 9 o'clock we
began the iuqueet. I was made foreman,
the boys said, because I had been so kind
about the liquor. Thors was no witnesses
except a colored well digger, who testified
that old man Morrell met him in the road
und chased him down into the swamp, whoro
lie got tost and never found his way out.
But the deputies imagined that the negro
knew moro about it, or they made out like
they did, and they questioned the darky an
hour and a half. They had him scared half
to death. They told him if they oould gut
half a chance they would hang him. They
asked the well digger if ho hn(l a wife, how
many children and, finally they wanted to
know if he was any kin to Morrell.
HOW THE VERDICT CAME.
“Wo suspended then and cracked jokes an
hour or two. All at once somebody asked
if we had made our verdict, and the coroner
pres od tne to hand it in. I was as funny ns
1 could be. Thor, warm fire had made me feel
plum good and I roared so 1 couldn’t hardly
write. 1 finally lold them I couldn’t think
how to word tne thing, and some follow al
lowod, ‘Jas make it out the old way.’ Haid
it was a plain rise; that the prisoner was
guilty.
“My thoughts flow off, and in a quiet mo
ment I wrote down something and handed
it to the coroner. I noticed he did not read
it, but chucked it in his overcoat pocket,
and ordered us to take the dead man up.
We caught hold, every fellow, and toted
him to his house and dressed him, and that,
night we buried him. It was sho-nuff grief
when wo toted the old fellow into the house,
wot and sobby and frozen. It wns a sad
night, and I tell you tho boys looked mighty
long-faced. It was a pity—and the old
woman, too—she was so old and so ragged
and gray. We asked her if she had enough
to oat. and she never would say anything
but ‘I don’t want to eat no more.’ ”
Than Moore's face lit up. and the boys
brightened up; for something funny wns
oomlsg. “And I’ve never thought,” he
said, “of them times, but I think of this
verdict." And he put fcis finger under the
lines and read slowly: "We, the jury, find
the prisoner guilty.” Z. D. R.
ATHOL ALL AFLAME’
Two Blocks Eurned and Several Fire
men Injured.
Athol. Mass., Dec. 21.—Tho most disas
trous fire ever known in Athol occurred to
day. The Masonic and Centrat blocks
wore completely destroyed—five merchants,
the postoffice, Masonic rooms, etc., being
burned out.
A. C. Porter, George Burnham, L. C.
Berry and William Connor, of Orange, fire
men, wero seriously injured by falling
walls. Perry probably fatally.
Alexander Mellon, foreman ot the Star
Hose Company, fell thirty feet from a lad
der, fracturing Ids skull.
THE LOSSES.
The property loss is 1135,000, and the in -
surance $78.000. Both blocks were owned
by Klisha Webb, of Petersham, and wore
valued at $45,000. His insurance is SIB,OOO.
Tbe other losses are; C. A. Carrtitb,
clothier, loss $25,000, insurance $13,500; Ji.
C. Cleveland, variety store. less
$9,000; insurance SG,OOU: postoffice fix
tures, loss $1,000; Masonic lodge, loss
$3,600, insurance $3,500; Hollis estate,
musical merchandise, loss SI,OOO. no in
surance; Smith’s shore, loss "SB,OOO, insur
ance $7,000; Fred Lord, druggist, loss
$7,000, insurance $5,000; B. F. Bai rus, pro
prietor of the Central house, loss $3,000, in
surance $1,100; W. W. Norton, dry goods,
loss $25,000, insurance $15,000.
CHINESE CRUELTY.
Salt Inspectors Burned Alive end
Execution!) Follow.
San Francisco, Cai-, Dec. 21.—Chinese
advices report tbe execution of sentences on
villagers near Shanghai, China, for the
cruel murder of fourteen salt inspectors,
and burning the bodies of tho woundod and
dead, iiast March these salt inspectors
made a raid ou the village. They wore no
uniform, nnd tbe villagers mistook them for
pirates. The inspectors seized a pile of
contraband salt, which they found by the
side of a house, and while removing it to
their boats (hoy were attacked by the vil
lagers and overpowered.
BURNED IN THEIR BOAT.
Nearly all were only stunned by the
blows, but a visit to their boat showed the
villagers that they had attacked govern
ment officers, and, fearful of severe punish -
ment, they decided to burn the boat, and
with it the bodies of tho two undar inspec
tors, to remove all traces of tbe
crime. Ho thoy carried the injured men
to the boat, and, despite their entreaties,
set fire to it and burned the whole. Tho
chief criminal was sentenced to decapita
tion, but committed suicide before tbe day
arrived, and according to the law his body
was exhumed and the head struck off, and
exhibited as a warning to the public. Four
others were straugled and four exiled after
heavy flues.
MORTGAGES NOT TAXABLE.
An Important Decision by the Su
preme Court of Tennessee.
Chattanooga, Tesn., Dec. 21.—The
supreme court of this state, sitting at Nash
ville, has rendered a decision in a cose
involving the payment of taxes on real
estate mortgaged. Tbe court was of the
opinion that u mortgage is not taxable, it
is not property, but simply incident to
secure a debt, and is not taxable. A mort
gage is not property, but simply a security.
The decision is important, os heretofore
mortgager have beou frequently taxed.
MISSOURI’S CONFEDERATE HOME.
it la to Be Eullt on the Grove Young
Farm Near Riggins villa.
Bt. Louim, Mo., Dec. 21.—-The confeder
ate home committee of Missouri held a
meeting here yesterday aad sclented Urn
noted Grove Young farm near lilgginsville,
Mo„ for the site of their soldiers’ home.
Fluids are being rained by private subscrip
tion, and the *ru tiott of the building* wdi
bo (’..miuenoed ae eott as tbe tilde to tbe
proparty <au he tranaferred.
Murderad by a Negro,
BHUtiSdiMAN, Ala., Urn. 21. Je turn itu*
eaii wo* killed, and Will sun Brows fatally
wtateaed by a dleottorgel negro at Beeoe
la r had eight. <u Aroatf, tha wtow,
WM pursued t r-day I n a prnm. ,
.LESTER’S CASH CRITICAL.
He Is Unconscious Much or the Time
and fcpeaks With Difficulty.
Atlanta, Oa., Dec. 31. —The news from
Attorney General Issuer is very discourag
ing. About 0 o’clock this evening Gov.
Northon received a dispatch stating that on
one side the judge is oompleteiy paralyzed,
and tbs doct ts entertain small hope of his
recovery. That tho state might not be
without legal advice at the present import
ant juncture, the governor telegraphed
Hon. Clifford Anderson to come at once to
the capital, and he is expected to arrive
here iu the morning.
THE STROKE.
Marietta, Ga., Deo. 21.—Judge Lester
remarked to his wife Friday, as he left for
Atlnuta, that ho had a peculiar ttugllng sen
sation in his side,but thought it would wear
°ff during the day. He was affected with
dizziness, aud on leaving the capital he at
tempted to draw some water to drink, but
found that he wns unable to use his arm.
Ho come to Marietta Friday afternoon, and
walked out home. Saturday morn
ing wlion ha attempted to leave
tho breakfast table Ini wns unable
to get up alone. lie went from
the dining room into his bedroom
and fell unconscious and baa remained
so most of the time since. One side of bis
throat is paralyzed and lie talks with diffi
culty. Occasionally he appears to bo con
scious, and when his mouth aud throat are
moist he can talk a little. Dr. E. J. Hetzo
of Marietta is attending him, and this after
noon had Dr. J. 8. Todd of Allauta iu con
sultation.
LOVE FOUND THH WAY.
Romantic Marriage of a f’avannah
Telegraph Operator.
Valdosta, Ha.. Dec. 21.—. John D. Mo
-I*4loll, a young telegraph operator in the
Savannah, Florida and W’estern railway
office at Bavannab, was married here
to-day to Miss Nona Ramsey,
daughter of W. H. Ramsey, Tile marriage
wus a surprise to every one, including the
young lady’s relatives, who were not ap
prised of it until Mr. McLallan went there
this morning with the minister und
made known his intent,ions. Tbe bride’s
parents seriously objected on account of her
nge, which is but 15. But this obstacle wns
overcome, and tho ceremony was performed.
Tlie groom’s bait man played a ‘harp trick
on tho ordinary. The ordinary wont to
his office without his spectacles,
und oould not see how to
fill the license out, and (ho best man filled
it out and did not tell the ordinary who tne
license was for until It was signed and in
his pocket. Tho license would have been
refused on account of the young lady's ago.
Tbe young couple left on the fast train for
Bavounah, their future home.
WAYNESBORO WAIFS.
Caught in a Oln-A Rtore Changes
Bands Twlos.
Waynesboro, Ga., Deo. 21.—Mr. Will
iam 11. Race, who farms the “Scales place”
and who will make about 1175 bales of cot
ton this year, bad a marvelous oscapo from
death on Thursday while supervising a cot
ton gin run by a 30-horso power bofiar nnd
engine. He was caught in the machinery
and was whirl'd nround, but possessing
great presence of inirid ho mode nn extraor
dinary effort to free himself and suc
ceeded. His clothes were torn from him
and his flesh was badly bruised.
Dr. Hugh B. McMaster has gone to the
bedside of hit wounded brother, Dr. Dave
MoMnster, form riy of Augusta, now of
Waycross, who jumped from the soconl
story of the Central Hotel while it was on
fire last Wednesday, and In the fall had his
leg broken or fractured very badly,
Mr. W. Pinkney Jones, who opened a
store hore lent fall, sold out to his mother-in
law some days ago and last week the entire
stock was bought by Messrs. Wilkins,
Neely <fc Jones, large merchants hore, who
sold out the entire thing, almost, In a few
days at cost prices.
A BLAZE AT TAMPA.
Fuller & Bona and Bpencer, Hender
son & Company Burned Out.
Jacksonville, Fla., Deo. 21.—A special
from Tampa to the Times-Union says: “At
4 o’clock this morning fire wo* discovered
in the wholosalo grocery and grain store of
Fuller & Rons, and, despite the efforts of
tho firemen, the building was entirely con
sumed, together with tho adjacent ware
house and livery stable of Spen
cer, Henderson & Cos. Fuller’s
loss is about $6,000, and his
insurance $3,000. Tho only goods saved
was one small lot of commercial fertilizer.
Hoenoor, Henderson & Cos. saved ail their
horses and mules and all their stock except
one carload of farm wagons. Their loss is
fully covered by insurance. During tho
progress of the Ure an attempt was made to
blow open Fuller’s safe, uud the supposition
is that burglars set fire to the building."
BAVED BY HIB CLOTHE?.
Four Suits on a Tramp -A Quilting
Tbat Warded Off Deatb.
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 21.—A tramp was
taken to tho hospital to-night terribly
bruisod and gashed. Ho overestimated his
agility in attempting to board an outgoing
train on the East TennosHee road, but was
unable, from the speed of the train, to draw
himself up and was dragged for some
distance before releasing his hold. He
was picked up on the edge of
town. He had on four coats and four pair
of trousers, and this quilting served as an
armor to save him from worse injury.
Baxley’s Ticket.
Baxley, Ga., Deo. 21.—At a meeting of
the citizens of the town last night for tho
purpose of nominating municipal officers
the following was the result:
For mayor, N. J. Holton.
For recorder, R. E. Hall.
For councilman, B. H. Patterson, W. C.
Parker, G. V. Tillman, D. R. Carter and
O. N. Hmitb.
The ticket will doubtless be elected la its
entirety without opositioa.
DEATH DESLING DYNAMITE.
Two Men Killed and Ten Injured In
Went Virginia.
Pittsburg, Pa., Dec. 81. —A special from
Wheeling. W. Va., says; “News has been
received hore of a terrible accident on tho
Norfolk and Western road iu Wayne
county yesterday. A gang of men had
been at work ou the ilu bla*tiug, and
several sticks of dynamite hail been placed
around the lire to thaw out. In some man
ner they were expi'Mied, tearing every
thing to plants in the immediate vicinity.
Two men were killed, an Italian and a
negro, whose names ore unknown. Tan
other* wareinjurad,several v*ry seriously."
A bhipwrecked Crew Reported.
Chahlemtor, H. 0., I>ec, 21,—Tire
schooner A nil is Woodbury arrived in Um>
road* here Ir an fisraooa this afttrnooi.
pit* Wdi be unable te reach the -Ity to
night. Hbe was pokj h f • *#, •*’< r
r'.te W** llJ ** or * “*** •** evhvoeer
J-4*n U, ttwuti, ir„ U on board
I DAILY, $lO A YSAJL )
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f WEEKLY, H.SS A YEAR. ’
j THE WATERS OF MKROM.
SCENE OF THE LAST BATTLE
FOUGHT BY JOSHUA.
Falje Confidence cf the Canaanltes of
the Inability of the Israelites to Cross
the Jordan- Parting of the Waters—
God’s Promise the All-Sufficient Ex
planation of the Victory.
Brooklyn, Deo. 21. Dr, Talmags
preached tho following sermon this morning
iu the Academy of Music in this city, and
again in the evening at the Christian
Herald service in New York. His text was
Jcshua iL, 5: 11 And whsn all these kings
weio met together, they came and pitched
together at tho waters of Morom to fight
against Israel.”
We aro encamped to-night in Palestine by
tho waters of Merom. After a long march
wo have found our tents pitched, our ilree
kindled, and though far away from civili
zation, a variety of food that would not
compromise a first-class American hotel,
for the most of our caravan start* an hour
and a half earlier in the morning. We de
tain only two mutes carrying so much of
our baggage e.s we might accidentally nivd,
and a leut for tbe noonday luncheon. The
malarias around this Lake Merom are so
poiEonous that at any other season of tho
year encampment, here Is perilous,
but this winter night the air is tonic and
healthful. In this neighborhood Joshua
fought his last great battle. The nations
had banded I homed ves together to crush
this Joshua, but uloug the hanks of these
water* Joshua left their carcasses. Indeed,
it is time that wo more minutely examine
this Joshua of whom we have, in these dis
courses, caught only a momentary glimpse,
although bo crossed aud recrossod Palee
tiue, and, next to Jesus, is,the most stirring
nnd mighty character whose foot ever
touched the Holy Land.
Mosei was dead. A beautiful tradition
nays the Lord kissed him, nnd in that aot
drew forth the soul of tho dying lawgiver.
He had beou buried, only olio Person at the
funeral, tho same One who kissed him. But
God never take* u man away from any
place of usefulna but he has someone
ready. Tho Lord does not go looking
around amid a great verioty of candidates
to find someone especially fitted for the
vacated position. He makes a man for
that place. Moses has passed off the stage,
and Joshua, tho hero, puts his foot on the
platform of history so solidly that all
the ages echo with the tread. He
was a magnificent fighter, but
he always fought on tha right aide, and he
never fought unlive Oml told him to fight.
He got his military equipment from God,
who gave him the promise at the start:
“There shall not any man bo able to stand
before thee all tho Jays of thy Ufa" God
fulfilled this promise, although Joshua’s
first battlu was with the spring freshet; and
tlie next with a stone wall; and the next,
leading on a regiment of whipped cowards;
and the next battle, against darkness, wheel
ing the sun and the moon into bin battalion,
and the last against the King of Terrors,
Death- -five great victories.
For the most part, when the general of
au army starts out in n conflict he would
like to have a small battle in order that he
may get his courage up and he may rally
his troops and got them drilled for greater
eon!]lets; but this first undertaking of
Joshua was greater than the leveling of
Fort Pulaski, or tho tbuixioring down of
Gibraltar, or the overthrow of the Bastile.
It woa the crossing of the Jordan at tha
time of the spring freshet. The snows of
Mount Lebanon hod just been molt
ing and they poured down into the
vnlley, uud the whole valley was a raging
torrent Bo the Canaanitee stand on
one hank and they look across and see
Joshua and the Israelites, ami thoy laugh
and say: “Ahsl aba! they cannot disturb
us in lime—until the frsshete fall; it ia im
possible for them to reach us.” But after
awhile they look across tbe water nnd they
see a movement tn tho army of Joshua.
Thoy say, “Wiiat’s the matter now? Why
there must be a panic among these troops,
and they ure going to fly, or perhaps they
are going to try to mnreh across the river
Jordan. Joshua is a lunatic.” But Joshua,
the chieftain, looks at bis army and cries:
“Forward, march!” and they H urt for the
bank of the Jordan.
One mile ahead go two priests carrying
a glittering box four feet long and two feat
wide. It is tbs ark of the covenant. And
they come down, and no sooner do thoy just
touch the rim of the water with their feet,
than, by au almighty fiat, Jordan parts.
Tho army of Joshua marches right on with
out getting their feet wot, over tho bottom
hi the river, a path of chalk aud broken
shells and pebbles, until they get to the
other bank. Then they lay hold of the
oleanders and tamarisks and willows
and pull themselves up a hank thirty or
forty feet high, and, having gaiued the
other bank, they (flap their shields ami their
cymbals, and slug the praises of the
God of Joshua. But no sooner have they
reached the hank than the waters begin to
dash and roar, nnd with a terrific rush they
break loose from tiieir strange anchorage.
Out yonder they have Btopped, thirty miles
ot distance they halted. On this side the
waters roll off toward tbe salt sea. But as
the band of the Lird Qod is taken away
from the thus uplifted waters—waters per
haps uplifted half a mile -as tbe almighty
hand is taken away, those waters rush
down, and Borne of the unbelieving Israel
ites say: “Alas, alas, what a misfortune!
Why oould not those waters have
stayed parted ? Because, perhaps, we may
want to go back. O Lord, we arc engaged
in a risky business, Those Canaauites
may eat us up. How, if wo want to go
back? Would it not have been a more com
plete miracle if tbe Lord had parted the
waters to let us come through, aud kept
them parted to let us go back if we are de
feated. My friends, God make* no pro
vision for a Christian’s retreat. He clears
the parh all the way to Canaan. Togo
back is to die. The same gatekeepers that
swing back the amethystine and crystalline
gate of the Jordan to lot Israel pass
through, now swing shut the amethys
tine and crystalline gate of tbe Jordan te
keep the Israelites from going
back. I declare it in your hearing to day,
victory ahead, water thirty feet deep ia
tbe rear. Triumph ahead, Canaan ahead;
behind you death and darknesiand woe aud
hell. But you say: “Why didn’t those
Cariaanites, when they hod such a splendid
chanoe—standing on the top of tho bank
thirty or forty feet high—completely de
inolish those ;ioor Israelites down in tbo
river?” I will tell you why. God had made
a i promise, and ho was going to keep it.
“Tnere (hall not any man be able to stand
before thee all tb* days of thy life."
But this Is no place for the host to step.
Joshua give* the command, “Forward,
march!" In the distance there is a long
&ro vo of trues, and at the end of tbs grovs
a city, it is u city of arbors, a city with
walls seeming to reach lif tbs heaven, to
buttress tbe very sky. It w tbe great
metropolis that commands the mountain
pas*. It i* Jericho. That city waa after*
ward taken by Pomr*y, end it was after
ward captured by Herod the Great, aud ii
was *ftrard raptured t*y th Mohana>
ni*daos; bu this campaign tbe l>Yd plans.
There shall be uo swords, no shields, no last,
teeing ram. There shall be only usse weapea
of war, aud tbat a raw’s horn. The te*r