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GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
Sews of the Two States Told in Para
graphs.
Newt From This Week’s Big Blow In
Florida—Suicide of a Prominent Citi
zen of Marietta—Families From West
Virginia Coining to Augusta by
Wagon—A Sensational Damage Suit
on Trial at Atlanta.
GEORGIA.
Harry Hodgson of Athens, has recently
secured a position on the New York Even
ing Telegram.
After an illness of only a few days,
Mrs. L. W. Walton passed away at Au
gusta Tuesday. She had lockjaw.
The colored Free Will Baptists of Daw
son have bought the old Methodist church,
and their Ilrst payment of SIOO on It has
been made.
Jahn Edwards' dwelling house at Buch
anan was totally destroyed by fire Tues
day. Nearly all the contents were saved.
The Insurance was 1400.
At the conclusion of the services at the
Methodist church Sunday morning, I. Min
der, one of Dawson’s Hebrew citizens,
united with the church and was baptized
by Dr. Scruggs.
Eighteen divorce suits have been filed
for trial at the October term of the su
perior court at Augusta, Several cases
are from Carolina, in which state there
is no divorce law.
The large lumber manufacturing com
pany of Findlay, operated by E. E. Bail
ey, agent, went into the hands of a tem
porary receiver Friday. C. H. Everett of
Vienna was appointed temporary re
ceiver.
In addition to tile car load of lemons
handled by the Georgia Southern and
Florida a few days ago, another car load
passed through Macon over the Southern
railway one day last week. The last was
the first car handled through Macon.
At Athens a day or two ago a negro
named Peek committed a vicious assault
with a five- pound shoe last on another
negro named Jackson, using him up bad
ly, because, he claimed, Jackson con
jured him into marrying an old negro
woman.
W. C. Ward, a prosperous farmer, liv
ing two miles east of Carnesville, lost his
stable and contents by fire Monday morn
ing. He lost a liorse and mule,sa large
lot of fodder and hay, farmings tools, a
buggy and wagon. His loss is s7no, with
no insurance. The origin of the fire is
unknown.
Ann C. Minor filed a suit in the superior
court at Macon Wednesday against W. N.
Fleetwood for $6,000. She claims to have
sold the defendant ciertain property at
the corner of Cherry and Sixth streets,
taking three notes f0r,52,000 each as part
payment. She asks to have her mortga
ges foreclosed.
A company is being organized at Bu
ford for the purpose of doing a general
mercantile, manufacturing and tanning
business. The capital stock is to be $lO,-
000, most of which has been subscribed.
The company is composed of good bus
iness men, such as James P. Pharr, D.
F. Verner, M. S. Garner, T. A. Maynard,
It. L. Shadburn, J. F. Espy and others.
It seems that hydrophobia Is rampant
in Terrell now. Several cases have been
reported recently, the latest being that
of a calf on A. W. Breedlove’s place about
three miles from Dawson. The calf was
bitten by a dog several days ago and
symptoms were shown In a very few
hours. The calf would try to hook
every body. The same dog bit seven fine
hogs and they all died.
For some time the advisability of hav
ing a federal court in connection with the
new postoffice building in Rome, has been
discussed by the people of that section of
the state. That It would prove a great
convenience and saving to the people and
the government there can be no doubt.
At present those having business in the
federal court either as witnesses or prin
cipals. are compelled to go to Atlanta,
thereby incurring a loss of time and con
siderable expense.
Passengers on the Mallory steamship
Rio Grande, which arrived at Brunswick
Monday, report seeing afloat at sea a
great lot of miscellaneous boxed goods,
seemingly the cargo of some wrecked ves
sel. The goods Included all sorts of gro
ceries and canned goods, ami among the
miscellaneous articles, the most notice
able was a boxed-up piano. The Rio
Grande picked up a large quantity of the
groceries and canned goods, which were
found to be In good condition. Where the
goods came from Is not known.
Barnum & Bailey's show failed to per
form at Amerlcus Tuesday. The larger
part of their trains did not arrive from
Macon unitl noon. One train arrived at
8 o’clock Tuesday morning, and It was
then announced that there would he no
show, as they were unable to get out
of Macon on account of the weather.
Thousands of people came Into Amerlcus
Tuesday morning in spite of the rain
storm, and the noon trains from all di
rections brought In great additional
crowds, who were sorely disappointed.
)Y. J. Craig, estate administrator of
William J. Cranston of Augusta, w ho died
last December, has entered suit against
the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Com
pany of Newark. N. J., for *5,000. Mr.
Cranston was insured for that
and his policy was in force at the time
of his death, but was In the custody of H.
Hentz & Cos. of New Y’ork, but not as
signed to that firm. After Mr. Cranston
died, Hentz & Cos. surrendered the policy
to the Insurance company, and the family
of the deceased have received none of
the benefits.
Several families of farmers of upper
West Virginia have determined to rettle
In the neighborhood of Augusta. They
have put the Young .Men's Business
League on notice, by letter, that it was
their desire to settle in that neighborhood.
They are making ready to start and are
to make the entire Journey In their wag
ons, a large caravan of which will be
formed. Secretary Boykin of the league,
has the matter in charge. That is, these
prospectors have given him the duty of
locating them. He is now looking about
for a suitable site.
At a meeting of the city council Thurs
day night it was decided to submit at
once, to the legal voters of Dawson the
question of issuing bonds for the purisoe
of building, or buying, a system of water
works and putting In an electric light
plant. The election will occur on Nov. 14,
and if bonds are Issued, two-lhirds of the
qualified voters of the city will have to
give their consent through the ballot box
on that day. The amount of bonds which
It Is proposed to issue is $35,000, hearing
six per cent. Interest and payable In ten,
twenty and thirty years.
Augusta H raid: In March, 1592, as an
experiment three branch offices for the
sale of stamps were established in the city
by the postolfice authorities. These offices
have done an astonishing amount of bus
iness. Dr. Banknln. on lower Broadway,
was given charge of one of them; Dr. Car
ml< hael. In Woodlawn, another, and the
third to Dr, Smith, In Harrisburg. The
stamps are furnished to the offices by the
postofflee. and they ar. paid a small sal
ury for handling them. Dr. Uanknin has
sold since he was in charge of one of the
offices over jx.uou worth of the sticky pa
per* In 189.’ the sales amounted to $3,131;;
In 1893, $3,721, nnd so far In '94, the year
commencing with April, has taken in on
stamp sales $1,687. Dr. I'anknln took th.
position In ord. r to benefit his drug trade
anil has found that It is beneficial to him.
The other stamp offices have not been as
w ell patronized as Dr. Panknln’a has, but
have nevertheless turned in a neat sum
of money to the postolfice authorities each
month.
Thomasville Times-Enterprise: A young
woman in Georgia, who has a turn for
mechanics, has Invented a wonderful
trunk. At first glance it appears very
much like any other traveling trunk built
on the American plan, and almost porter
proof. On investigation, by pulling a
strap hero and snapping a spring there,
the trunk doubles into itself and Is no
larger than a hat bo*. By further ma
nipulation It will telescope fiself Jnto a
bulk no larger than a large valise, to be
strapped and carried about most handily.
We noticed the other day an allusion in
a northern paper to this Georgia Inven
tion. It is not generally known perhaps
that Miss Florence I.eonard, a most
charming young lady, now a resident of
Leary, Ga., is the inventor of this highly
useful traveling appendage.
Atlanta Journal: A damage suit, in
which some sensational allegations are
made, Is on trial In the city court before
Judge Van Epps Wednesday. It Is that
of G. W. Dickerson against Silas H. Don
aldson, George W. Donaldson and F. F.
Sentell for 16,000 damages. The trouble
It Is alleged, all grew out cf a debt
amounting to $1.50. Here is the story
Dickerson tells: He owed Silas Donald
son $1.50, which he was unable to pay. On
the 16lh of September, 1893, he was passing
along the public highway attending to
his own business, when Mr. Donaldson
drove up, seated in a two-wheeled cart.
He made Dickerson face about and walk
In front of his horses contrary to Ills
wishes and In an opposite direction to
that In which he desired to go. Mr. Dick
erson knew that Mr. Donaldson was a
convict guard, and that he always carried
a pistol and he was afraid to refuse to go
where he ordered him to go. After go
ing some distance, Donaldson turned him
over to F. F. Sentell, another guard, who
also kept him In frent of him, as Sentell
always carried a pistol. He was marched
down the road to a culvert where Mr.
George Donaldson was in charge of a
gang of convicts. He was armed with a
double-barreled shot gun and pistols, and
like the others, he talked very roughly to
him and kept him a prisoner against his
will and without due process of law
among the convicts for more than an
hour and ho was not released until his
father-in-law came up and paid the debt
of $1.50, when he was permitted to leave.
Donaldson denies this and says it is a
fabrication from beginning to end.
Marietta Journal: Our community was
profoundly shocked on last Friday morn
ing when the news was circu
lated that Captain James G. Hughes
was dead. About half past 3
o’clock Friday morning his wife
and daughter, Miss Dora, heard from
their bedroom two pistol shots, and then
came groans. They went down stairs to
the room of Cupt. Hughes, and he was
not there. They saw the back door open,
and going out at it, on tho back veranda,
they discovered the prostrate form of
Capt. Hughes in his night clothing. At.
his feet lay his pistol, while an escaping
groan indicated that he was dying. His
daughter grasped his hand, and twice he
opened his eyes, and then closed them in
death forever. Doctors had been sent for,
but when they came they could not give
back the vital spark. Neighbors who had
heard the shots came rushing to the house
only to view the heart-rending scene with
grief. On examination it was found that
a bullet had entered his right breast and
penetrated his heart. The pistol picked up
at his feet was his own. and had two
empty chambers, apparently recently
fired. Capt. Hughes had been suffering In
tensely from rhuematism and an old gun
shot wound received In the late war as a
federal soldier, and he failed to get alle
viation by the use of any remedies for the
time being. His family believe that he
heard a burglar and went out to see about
it, and shots were exchanged andffhat he
received the fatal bullet from the pistol of
an unknown night prowler. The coroner's
jury did not sustain in their verdict this
theory. Capt. Hughes has been residing in
Marietta nearly ever since the war, and
was highly respected by our people. He
was born in Ireland nearly 54 years
ago. He came to America when a young
man. He enlisted in the federal army dur
ing the late war from New York. He was
severely wounded during a battle and was
ever afterwards a sufferer from the
wound, causing him to limp when he
walked. For sixteen years he was super
intendent of the National cemetery at
this place, and for four years or more he
was postmaster at Marietta under the ap.
pointment of President Harrison. Since
giving up the postofflee hero, he has been
engaged in representing the New York
Life Insurance company.
FLORIDA.
J. B. Wallis of Atlanta has bought an
interest in the Peruvian Phosphate Com
pany of Tampa.
The northeatern storm struck DeFuniak
Springs on the evening of the 7th inst
and continued until late in the night of'
the Bth. But little damage was done.
Some fences were blown to the ground
and many trees, but fortunately no
houses.
Tillman Crouch, a young man employed
in Kohn, Furchgott & Co.’s store at
Jacksonville, tried to commit suicide
Wednesday night by the laudanum route,
hut used no discretion in measuring the
dose, and Is still in the land of the liv
ing. t
The total VRlue of the crop of Florida
Rock Island sheeps' wool sponge, gath
ered between Jan. 1, 1894, and Oct. 1
1894, according to a tabulated statement
by John K. Cheyney, manager of the Ati
clote and Rook Island Sponge Company
amounted to $82,000. Of this $21,000 was
paid for sponge purchased at Tarpon
Springs. The remainder was sold In Key
West.
A fearful storm visited Mayo Tuesday
night and did great damage. Fences and
trees were blown clown and the roads can
scarcely be traveled except on horseback
C. H. Knight s new store, the handsomest
building in Mayo, was totally wrecked
Crops, especially cotton, are greatly in
jured. The rain, which fell In torrents
all night, has swollen the lukes and water
courses enormously.
Tampa, after Get. 15, will have two
sub-stations of the Tampa postofflee
one to he known a* Station “A,” at the
corner of Seventh avenue and Fourteenth
street, and the other Station ’lt,” oh Main
street, near the corner of Francis avenue.
These sub-stations will be provided with
facilities for tho transaction of money or
der and registry business and for the sale
of postal supplies. The order for their
establishment was made out to-day by
First Assistant Postmaster General
Jones.
A few more such storms ns the one of
Tuesday, und there will be little left of
the old Sul.-Tropical Exposition building
at Jacksonville, as the building has al
ready been damaged badly. The smoke
stack of the engine house Is laying flat
on the ground, whole yards of stucco
have fallen from the outer walls, scores
of Kilt -ses Were blown out of the sides and
roof, along the walls In the interior are
numerous eav.s-ln, every rain Hoods the
building and rots the flooring nnd timbers
and half of the tin roof over the annex
where the swimming pool is located, has
been torn off and carried to the ground.
At Midway Wednesday safe-blowers en
tered the store of J. W. Ferrell by boring
through the rear door, and proceeding to
his Iron safe blew It open with a dynamite
bomb. They took between S6OO and s7l*l ~i
1 ash. During the night the heaviest wind
und rainstorm of the year was raging,
un.l lind.-r cover of this the safe robbers
jdd their work. Hcurrhlng parties w< re
| dispatched In ull directions, hut us yet
THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1894.
“Unde Jerry”
As the ex-Secretary of Agriculture, late Hon’
Jeremiah Rusk, was affectionately styled by
thorr *■'•'l knew him best, was a highly
edur; 'ed aan. It would be senseless to say
that h was not educated, simply because he
never weat through college. He is one of
that tong list of self-educated men of which
our country Is so justly proud. No other
land can boast of so honored a list of
self-made men. Deprived of the educational
advantages which the more favored enjoy,
such men make the most of their
opportunities, and by their
High-Minded Spirit
Of Independence and Indomitable
perseverance climb to the highest rounds of
the ladder of success and fame.
Ex-Secretary Rusk did not inherit his wide
knowledge of agriculture and practical
farming. He acquired it by studying nature
and reading the proper books.
There is not a boy in Georgia today, having
the ordinary allowance of intellect, who may
rot make himself felt as much in the world as
did Mr. Rusk.
Good Books
Are the best friends that eny boy can have.
Through them he may become the daily
companion of the greatest minds that the
world has ever known. All that their wide
experience has taught them they are ready
to tell to the boy who reads.
In the ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA
the greatest scholars oi this generation
have not only given their best thoughts, but
have carefully gathered, classified and
condensed the best which the great men of
all ages had to offer to the world.
Whet! ex-Secretary Rusk was a boy It
would have cost him
A Small! Fortune
To purchase the ENCYCLOPA J!A
BRITANNICA. and had he been able to
purchase it. he would Indeed have possessed
the greatest reference library then known to
man, but it would have been meager compared
with the great ninth edition, revised and
brought up to date, aa It is in the new edition
now sold at introductory prices to subscribers
, of THE CONSTITUTION.
We say that every Intelligent boy living In
Georgia today has a better opportunity to
become a great man than did the Hon.
; Jeremiah Rusk, for any boy can earn and
1 save ten cents a day. and that will buy the
best library In print.
The Constitution,
Atlanta, Ga.
Call and see samples at the local office,
101 Broughton street, Savannah, Ga.
nothing has been found either of the mon
ey or the men, except an old one-armed
tramp, who is held on suspicion. The
work of the burglars has all the Indica
tions of being done by perqpns who well
understood what they were doing. The
total iosis to Mr. Ferrell will hardly be less
than SI,OOO. Nothing was taken except
cash.
By far the most severe storm that has
visited that section within tho memory
of the oldest inhabitant passed through
Bronson Tuesday night. The wind was
from the southwest and at times reached
nearly cyclonic proportions. About three
miles of railroad was washed out and
lish houses, the city hall and a number of
residences and business houses have been
blown and washed down. It Is reported
that the water came up in the depot,
which is fen feet above the high water
mark, and that the tide came out as far
as Sumner, six miles from Cedar
Keys. There are eighty-seven wash
outs on tho railroad track between the
No. 14 tank and Sumner, a distance of
three miles. The damage to oranges,
cotton, sugar-cane, etc., In that section is
considerable.
Carfabelle has just pased through one
of the worst gales ever experienced. It
was a regular West Indian tornado. Sat
urday night the wind freshened up from
the northeast and Sunday all day it blew
unusually brisk. Monday morning all
small bouts went up the river, and at 2
o’clock the wind increased to a gale. As
night came on it increased in fury till
about 9 o’clock, when it was at its worst,
blowing at least 75 or 80 miles an hour,
and the tide rose twelve feet above the
high water mark. Wednesday morning
ail was fair and bright, so far a.u the ele
ments were concerned, but all the boats
amounting fo twelve or fifteen in num
ber, save tho Alice and tho Addle, were
ashore, some total wrecks and others
aground. The drift of logs and lumber
did great damage to the small boats.
All the shanties on the river bank have
been washed away, about fifteen houses
blown down and the river bank from
the railroad depot, up the river, for a
mile and a half Is one total wreck of
lumber, logs, barges and boats. The dam
age is at least sin,uoo. The three-masted
schooner Grace Brady dragged her an
chors in the gaie and Is now ashore near
Pickett’s bar. The Norwegian bark Lln
sey took all her upper top musts down
and Is safely riding at her anchors, as is
also the schooner Morse.
J. D. Shepherd, who was Indicted by
the grand Jury at Orlando Tuesday for
killing his brother-in-law, Luther Walker,
was arraigned before Judge Broome iii
the circuit court Wednesday. He pleaded
not guilty. The Judge denied a motion for
change of venue, hut granted a motion
for continuance of the case until the first
Monday in November. Tho accused is a
well known sawmill man, whose place of
business and home are a few miles from
(It Undo. He has a wife and four children,
the latter ranging In ages from 4 to 21
years, his wife being a sister of the man
he killed. Shepherd committed the mur
der on Sunday morning In April last.
Walker had frequently chided Shepherd
for alleged cruel treatment of Ills, Shep
herd's, wife, and they had engaged In
several quarrels over the matter. On the
day preceding the murder, Walker had
procured a warrant for Shepherd * arrest,
und the latter was bound over to keep the
peace. The next morning, Sunday. Shep
herd sent for his brother-in-law to come
over to his house to talk the matter over,
Intimating an amicable adjustment of the
trouble, hut when Walker approached
his, Shepherd’s, premises, the latter came
fiotn behind Ills house, and leveling H shot
gun, di*< barged Its load Into Walker’s
tody, ineiuntly killing hint. The accused
Is of un enenlrle und irritable disposition,
and It Is understood that Ids lawyers will
make Insanity the Use of defense.
TILT OF THE PRELATES.
Full Text of the Cards of Bishop Nelson
and Vicar General Xeiley.
Erom the Atlanta rG*. i Constitution.
The following animated correspondence,
bearing on a question which is now agitat
ing the public mind, will be read with in
terest on account of the prominence of the
two principals and the well known ability
of each.
The American Protective Association
movement is now engaging public atten
tion from Maine to California, and in poli
tics has assumed the proportion of a re
vival of the old know-nothing wave, which
made things lively before the war and
which plunged actively into more than
one political campaign in Georgia.
Bishop Nelson, who writes the first of
the two following cards, is the head of the
Episcopal diocese of Georgia, having suc
ceeded the late Bishop Beckwith. He was
called to Georgia from Pennxlyvanla,
where he resided until a little more than
a year ago, when he became Bishop of
Georgia.
The Very Reverend Father Kelley, who
replies to Bishop Nelson, is well known
in Atlanta as one of the ablest of the
Catholic clergy of the south. He is vicar
general of the Catholic see of Georgia,
and came to Atlanta about eight years
ago, having been assigned by Bishop
Becker to the Church of the Immaculate
Conception in Atlanta. He came to Geor
gia at the same time that Bishop Becker
was transferred from the bishopric of
Delaware to that of Georgia, the bishop
transferring Father Kelley with him, and
afterward making him the vicar general
of the state. He is a master of the art of
controversy, and can hold his own with
the best.
Bishop Nelson's communication, when
received by tho Constitution, was given
for reply, to Father Keiley, in order that
both might appear simultaneously, and
that the. public might have the benefit of
each presentation at the same time.
Tho controversy is thus put:
BISHOP NELSON’S CARD.
“Editor Constitution: From the begin
ning of the movement until now I have
read carefully and with interest every
thing which has appeared in your valued
columns on the subject of the American
Protective Association, including the ad
mirable strmon of Dr. Hawthorne in con
nection with the appointment of Mr. Pat
rick Walsh and its hearing on this new
organization which may he, as is pre
dicted, ephemeral merely. Hut short
lived organizations sometimes do a great
deal of good or the other thing.
“I have also read, yes, studied, the se
ries of articles in the same line appearing
from time to time in the North American
from the pen of Bishop Doane. Mr. I.ath
rop and prominent Roman Catholic, clergy.
The last notice which focused my pur
poses to the situation is the report of Mr.
Patrick Egan’s letter submitted to the
executive national republican committee
in New York, which you published on
Oct. 6, page 1, colurtm 5.
“For the clear comprehension of those
w-ho read, I wish to state that I have
never belonged to any sort of secret so
ciety or order in my life, that I never shall
so connect myself; and that so far from
approving the line of organization, the
plans, purposes, methods, language or ma
chinery of the American Protective Asso
ciation, I most heartily abhor them.
“But it is perfectly clear to me that
whether, ignorantly or unintentionally,
every speech oh writing in reference to
this society has completely missed the
point of the whole business. Not one has
touched on the philosophy of the move
ment, and it is high time you and all
public teachers were given the op
portunity to hear the other side,
whether it is a pleasant sound or one that
is harsh, grating and discordant.
“1. The American Protective Association
has as its underlying philosophy certain
great rights and Unties, the one set of
whtdh have been, refused, the other left
undone. It Is an emecute, produced by
causes which have been barely touched
upon. Hopes of justice frustrated, the
assured protection of citizenship under a
national constitution having proven a
dream, the separation of church and state
of that same constitution having been
basely violated by our legislatures from
the highest to the lowest, the rights of
four-fifths of American citizens being con
tinually denied to please the remaining
one-fifth, and to secure those votes, this,
sir, I submit is the secret which has not
been told. These have produced the se
cret fires of which the work of the Amer
ican Protective Association is hut the
smoke. The American Protective Asso
ciation Is nothing more nor less than a
single manifestation of American citizen
ship goaded to frenzy by festering woes,
liberties bartered, and the Infamous traf
fic which has gone on for years in our
national capital, even to the point of trad
ing in the souls of those pitiable wards of
the nation, and crowning the country's
splendid (?) achievements with the red
men, after having taken away their lands
and goods, by selling them for adherents
of a foreign church and for the still
further Increment of the same vote which
already exercises th most dispropor
tionate sway in American politic*
"The American Protective Association,
therefore, and thousands more who have
taken an oath in the secret chamber of
lludr own hearts alone, will not vote for a
Homan Patollc for a political office of any
sort under the sun. But It is an oath
against oath—that Is all. An honest Ro
manist (there are plenty of them) will not,
a dishonest one need not deny, for It will
disprove nothing, that by consistency
with his profession,with loyalty to his con
victlons and by a solemn vow he is bound
to consider his church first, last and all
the time. This position persistently main
tained has had Its effect, but it has had
too much effect. The fact has been over
looked. which the conscientious Romanist
does not and cannot admit, that the relig
ious liberties of must in
this country be preserved, but above all,
that in America favoritism In the dis
pensation of the rights of citizenship w ill
not be permitted and that the subsidizing
of any denomination by tho United States
Congress is high crime and misdemeanor,
for which every member who is a party
thereto should suffer the penalty of his
head, arid the abettors thereof be ex
pelled.
“Let Intelligent men look Into the stnte
of affairs in Washington and then at the
American Protective Association, and
they will know 'what draws the tears,’
nay, that is woman’s language; they will
know why people who cannot he led to see
because they have too often been de
ceived before, a better way, turn to pro
scription. boycott and other Illicit forms
of nrotost.
“I do not hesitate to say that for every
act of unkindness, every objection of
fered, every insult received, Roman Cath
olics, not Individuals, but as a body, nnd
they arc a body, have none to hank but
themselves.
“Yet hear Mr. Egan utter that incom
parable falsehood: ’They have never
sought In the pHst, nor will they ever
seek in the future, any more than that
equity to which, under the constitution
of their country, they are entitled.'
“Is It possible that Mr. Egnn doesn’t
know the purpose of the establishment of
that machine called 1110 ’Bureau of Cath
olic Indian Missions,’ as prominent anj
more busy than any department of the
United Statin government. That the
w hole time of Father Stephan, one of tho
shnwdest and brightest of Jesuits, Is al
ways ’on the bridge?’ Can It ho thut Mr.
Egan has not heard that In ten years
his church has received for her ser
vices (?> to the Indians only the trilling
sum of $2,366,110, receiving last year alono
$3ii9,53.'>, while all other schools for In
dian:!, sectarian and national, received
hut $156,310, and that even after vigorous
protest an appropriation of the nation's
monoy was again made this year? Doesn’t
Mr. Kgun know that un appropriation of
$58,000 or more In government lands, hear
Washington, was passed by the last con
gress for Gonzaga college? That the
Providence hospital, controlled by the Ro
man Catholic church, has hail a quarter
of a million dollars of public money in
the past few years? Doesn’t he know' that
no sollrdtors for money are allowed in the
government departments except Roman
Catholic nuns? Has not any one told
Mr. Egan that In ten years Roman Cath
olic Institutions In the city of New' Y'ork
have been supported by taxation in the
sum of $5,528,733?
"Poor, ignorant Mr. Egan! You would
better recall that letter. The American
Protective Association have the figures
on you, and a largo part of the remain
ing 48,000,000 people of the nation have
their eyes upon you and upon others,
even If you do throw sand. And whether
it is by the American Protective Asso
ciation, which, of course, cannot ac
complish all its objects, or by the sound,
sober, steady remnant of the American
people, this agitation will continue until
the nefarious system of our congress in
supporting sectarian institutions will be
compelled to cease. If Mr. Egan and
his people will retire from their demand
for financial support, well. But if not,
the seed is sown which will grow tares
and thistles for the man of unholy greed
who dares tread on American soil.
C. K. NELSON.
"Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 8.”
FATHER KEILEY’S REPLY.
“Editor Constitution: Ever since pub
licity has been given to the alms and
methods of the latest revival of know
nothingism, the American Protective As
sociation, I have been of the opinion that
we Catholics should leave to our Protest
ant friends and neighbors the condemna.
tion of this anti-Christian and un-Amcrl
can organization.
"I am persuaded that our people are on
the whole a fair-minded and honest peo
ple, and this persuasion has reached the
stage of conviction when I have seen Pro
testants, with no sort of sympathy with
the Catholic church, condemn In ringing
words this secret, oath-bound and intol
erant aggregation of narrow-minded bi
gots.
“That unfortunately there have been
exceptions to this rule is notorious, and
yet the petty weaknesses of human na
ture afford a reason for, or at least some
palliation of this action. Our country
has afforded the outside world the spec
tacle of a class who would scarcely be
tolerated elsewhere—men, who, in search
of notoriety, or to revive a justly wan
ing popularity, will sacrifice principle to
expediency and fan the flames of religious
prejudices by violent abuse of the Cath
olic church, the pope and the Jesuits. Un
fortunately, neither the spirit of our age
nor the existing good feeling among men
is sufficient to suppress these fanatics,
who fondly dream, as the Ephesian of old,
who placed the torch to Diana’s temple,
that their names will be recalled by pos
terity, even though linked with recollec
tions of deeds perpetrated or attempted
against hallowed Institutions.
“I have fondly hoped that here in Geor
gia there would not be found a man of
position who would or could forget the
sacred memory of one, who it seems to
me, but yesterday was among us—weak
and frail of body, a cripple confined to
Ids chair, with scarcely vitality enough,
one would think, to sustain life lor a
day; but with a spirit as indomitable as
ever the good God placed in human tene
ment, the patriot, the statesman, the
American commoner, the Protestant Alex
ander H. Stephens, who, half a century
ago, gallantly fought and nobly won the
battle of freedom against oppression, tol
erance against bigotry and genuine
Christian charity against anti-Christian
know-nothingtsm.
"I am proud of my Virginia birth, and
I love my adopted state, and I thank
God that Virginia had a Henry A. Wise
and Georgia an Alexander H. Stephens.
For, to these two men Is due, under God’s
providence, the stemming of the tide of
know-nothing fanaticism, whose path w r as
marked by riot, arson and murder. The
modern American Protective Association
is neither more nor iess than a revival of
know-nothingtsm. Its aims and methods
are identical, and the disastrous conse
quences of the one will be repeated in the
other, if the ignorant and the lawless of
to-day are instigated by appeals to the
passion and prejudices to deeds of vio
lence. The American people have con
demned know-nothlngism, and they will
yet put their seal of condemnation on its
legitimate child—the American Protec
tive Association and its aiders and abet
tors.
“I depart to-day from the path to which
I had marked out for myself in this mat
ter, and my change is due to a communi
cation which elsewhere appears in this
paper, and which, to my amazement, was
written by the Protestant Episcopal bish
op of Georgia. Bishop Nelson is almost
a stranger among us. He was welcomed
when he came, as one whose effort and
aim would be to promote and foster the
true end of Christianity—peace and good
will among men.
“He has, on the contrary, in this letter,
sent out to the world with all the weight
attaching to his official position, a de
fense and Justification of the American
Protective Association. His letter will
likely enough soon appear among the doc
uments with which the country is being
flooded from the central offices of the
Orange revival at Washington, D. C.
“Bishop Nelson declares, nevertheless,
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that he has no sympathy with this organ
ization, while, at the same time, he gives
them public aid and comfort.
"He has enjoyed the singular satisfac
tion of reading all the literature at his
command which has treated of the Amer
ican Protective Association, and discov
ering thertn a fatal blindness on the part
of the writers. It is true that some of
these writers are men whose names are
guarantees of eminence, ability and re
search; but have all, as the bishop
of Georgia modestly declares, missed the
fact patent to him alone, that there is
a philosophy In the American Protective
Association. I know there Is
bigotry, intolerance!, mendacity, fraud
and forgery- In it, but its philosophy does
not yet seem entirely outside of some of
these attributes. Not a statement made
by Bishop Nelson has not heretofore
found place in American Protective Asso
ciation literature.
“We Catholics and Protestants have
been living together in peace and good
fellowship, recognizing sincerity where
each differ, and striving to put in practice
the lesson of tolerance and charity, and
the bishop of Georgia warns his people
that the American Protective Association
are justified because, through the machi
nations of Catholics, ‘hope of justice
frustrated, the assured protection of citi
zenship under our national constitution
having proven a dream, the separation of
church and state of that same constitu
tion having been busily violated by our
legislatures from the highest to the low
est, the rights of four-fifths of American
citizens being continually denied to please
the remaining one fifth, and to secure
their vote.'
“And this justifies Bishop Nelson’s
friends in registering in their hearts a
vow not to be a candidate for town con
stable! For the good bishop tells me
that this disreputable organization is ‘a
single manifestation of American citizen
ship goaded to frenzy by r fostering woes,
liberties bartered, and the infamous tiaffic
which has gone on for years in out na
tional eapitol, even to the point of trading
in the souls of these pitiable wards of the
nation, and crowning the country s splen
did (?) achievements with thp red men.
after having taken away their lands and
goods, by selling them for adherents of
a foreign church, for the still further
environment of the same vote, which ex
ercises the most disproportionate sway in
American politics.’ I would like to re
ply to this charge, but I honestly have
not the faintest idea of Its meaning. But
this I do understand; yhe American
Protective Association, therefore, and
thousands more who have taken an oath
in the secret chamber of their own
hearts, alone, will not vote for a Roman
Catholic for a political office of any sort
under the sun. But It Is oath against oath
—that Is all. An honest Romanist (there
are plenty of them)'—l thank you, bishop
—‘will not; a dishonest one need not deny
(for It will disprove nothing) that, by con
sistency with his profession, with loy
alty to his convictions and by solemn vow
he is bound to consider his church
first, last and all the time.’ .1 trust, bish
op, you will regard me as an honest Ro
manist. As such I declare that un
church teaches me to render to God the
things that are God's, and to render to
Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and I
have never taken nor administered to
others a vow to consider the church
first, last and all the time.’ But, If the
bishop means that I consider the Catholic
church a much greater institution than
any line of government In the world, 1
plead guilty, and to those who differ with
me. I beg leave to quote the words of two
of the bishops of my church, recorded in
a book which the bishop holds in as much
reverence as I do: 'lf it ha Just in the
sight of God to hear you rather than God,
Judge ye.’ (Acts: IV., 19.)
“Is not the bishop's reference to a 'for
eign' church rather unfortunate? Is not
the Protestant Eptsoopaal church In the
United States the offspring of the church
established by parliament in England’
And assuredly England is a foreign coun
try, yet I would not designate my Episco
palian friends as adherents of a foreign
church—though in truth a Catholic
church must be foreign in tho sense of
fostering children in every clime.
“Now, what are the charges on which
these rather rhetorical statements are
based?
“1. The appropriation of moneys by con
gress to Indian Catholic schools.
“2. Appropriations In New York to
Catholic charitable Institutions.
“3. Catholic sisters begging for the poor
—a large proportion of whom arc non-
Catholics—in the departments In Wash
ington.
"Suppose all those are established
facts, is my genial friend, John Colvin, to
he defeated for a position on tho alder
manic board of Atlanta?
“As to Catholic Indian schools, I merely
say that our government supports the In
dian schouls, no matter what denomina
tion teaches them. It has been declared
In congress by distinguished protestant
senators that tho Catholic schools are the
best conducted. If tho priests, sisters
ami brothers of the Catholic church huve
gone to the far north and west and taught
the Indians, it was an open Hold then
Our schools have more than 4,001 pupils
and the government distributes the funds
pro rata among the various religious bod
ies according to the number of pupils
But Is a poor Romanist In North Caro
lina who wants to he a cross-roads post
master 10 he ruthlessly turned down bv
the appointing power because Homo poor
woman In gurb which denotes a life de
voted to the alleviation of human woes Is
teaching tho Indian boy u and girls to doff
the trappings of suvage lUe and lit them
selves for civilization? *
Is u man, I ask In all seriousness, a
true exponent of American freedom who
seeks to deny to hts fellow man any right
or privilege because of his religious belief’
As to New Yonk bequests, I must again
ask the question. 'What has that to do
with Georgia politics?’ I am not famil
iar now with the exqet data, but soms
thirteen years ago this same charge was
made by a minister of one of the protes
tant sects, and I made an official investi
gation, and from this I discovered that
more money was then appropriated for
non-Cotholic than for Catholic charities;
that for tliirty-one years the number of
Catholic charities aided by the state was
exactly twenty, whilst the non-i'aiholtc
ones receiving state aid numbered 127.
This aid Is given to a glass who would in
state Institutions, be far greater expenso
to the taxpayers. Must I, in my Inmost
heart, resolutely vow never to vote for a
Methodist because my friend, Dr Hop
kins, is receiving state aid, as president of
Technological school?
“As to the exclusive privilege accorded
the Little Sisters of the Poor of begging
in the departments, I know nothing. They
never ask whether one who seeks shelter
is a Christian, a Jew or an American Pro
tective Association member. I do not
know If this exclusive privilege be given
them, but assuming it to be correct, what
has it to do with the voting for a Catholic
who wants to run a eemeteryi or become a
member of town council?
"I do not refer to Gonzaya college, sim
ply because, like the bishop, I am not in
possession of both sides of the story. I
will obtain the necessary Information and
lay it before your readers.
“An amusing display of antl-Catholin
zeal occurs in the latter part of Bishop
Nelsoji’s queer letter. The bishop speaks
of good old Father Stephan as ’one of the
shrewest and brightest of Jesuits.’ I was
told some time since by an elderly female
of strongly defined prejudice: T always
knowed them Jesuits stole Charley Ross.’
“Father Stephan may be shrewd, and
may bo bright. That is simply a matter
of opinion. I do not consider him as emi
nently bright, nor particularly shrewd.
But one thing I know—he Is not a Jesuit.
Why was this brought into the letter?
“In conclusion, I ask: Is Bishop Nelson
an authorized exponent of protestant
thought and feeling? I do not believe it.
I prefer to believe that Gov. Stone of
Missouri, more nearly represents anil
more truly expresses the views of a major
ity of my non-Catholic fellow citizens.
And Gov. Stone says:
“ ‘I am disgusted with the very little
ness of this thing. I grow impatient when
ever I think of it. I am not a Catholic. By
birth, education, belief, I am protestant.
1 am not called upon to defend the Cath
olic church. I am not concerned about it.
But I believe In fair play and honorable
dealing. And this I will say to these lat
ter-day political bigots, who would make
aliens of thousands In their native land
because of religious convictions, that
many of the most Illustrious names In
American history were communicants of
the Catholic church. Among the signers of
the declaration of Independence, and
among those who have made Immortal
names in art, literature. In the cabinet, on
tho forum, on the bench, and on the mar
tial field, were men who died rejoicing
In the faith of that great church. To blot
their achievements from our history
would be to remove many of its bright
est pages and disfigure it almost beyond
recognition. This crusade against a large
class of our citizens—as intelligent, en
terprising, moral and reputable as any—
because of their church affiliation is an
unspeakable disgrace to our civilization. ’
"There spoke a patriotic American.
Compare Gov. Stone's utterance and
Bishop Nelson’s card.
"I thank you, sir, for the courtesy of
your columns to defend my loyalty to
American institutions.
"Benjamin J. Kelley, V. G."
AN ODD COINCIDENCE.
Introduced to the Descendants of Two
Murderers Centuriss After tho Crime.
From the Pall Mall Budget.
That astonishing colncldennes do occur
—events against which the chances are
thousands or millions to one—ls n matter,
we may almost say, of everyday expe
rience. Here, for example. Is one which
happened to myself a week or two ago.
I was Introduced to a'gentleman named
Hackstoun—l must apologize fer uslns
real names, but the point of the anecdote
Bps In them—and, learning that he came
from Flfeshlre, I asked him whether ho
wns descended from Hackstoun of Rath-
Hlet, who was a prime mover In the
murder of Archbishop Sharp of Magus
Moor, Yes, he was lineally descended
from that worthy, and 1 was Interested to
find that he espoused his ancestor*
cause, and even hesitated to describe tho
little occurence as a murder. .
Only a few days afterward I happen*®
to meet a friend In a rullway carriage, ‘®
company with a gentleman whom I h®
never seen before, and whose name vt>
unknown to me. Something occurred w
remind me. of Hackstoun, and 1 m,> ”"
tloned having met him, and spoke of ih’j
delicacy with which his ancestor ha®
held hack from the actual slaughter,
cause he bore a personal grudge again*
the archbishop. “He looked on,” 1 .;
"while Balfour of Burley did the Jo 1 ’
My friend turned to the other gentlant** 1
and usked, “Are you any relation of ■’“{
Mr. Balfour?". "Yes," was the reply. *
uni lineally descended from him "
any mathematician calculate for me tn
rhaneoa Ihut, not In Flfeshlre, not •
Heolland, hut In London, I should tin
wllhln a few days two direct descend#®
of the two ringleaders In this *
happy, far-off thing.” this murder wr '
occurred 430 miles away and 315 >’** rs **