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Atlanta, Ga., Saturday, Oct. 8, 1898.
POWERFUL NEW WORK OF
LOVE AND MYSTERY.
We have great pleasure in announcing:
that we have by Special Arrangements
Secured the Right to Issue in our Col
umns a New and Fascinating Work of
Fiction from the Pen of
MR. WILLIAM LEQUEUX.
THE WELL-KNOWN AUTHOR OF
“WHOSO FINDETH A WIFE.”
“IF SINNERS ENTICE THEE,”
“THE EYE OF ISTAR,”
“THE GREAT WAR OF 1S97,”
“DEVIL’S DICE,”
“GUILTY BONDS,”
“A SECRET SERVICE,”
&c. f &c.
Kir. LE QUEUX is one of the Leading
Novelists of the Day, and has Won a
Great Reputation for Thrilling and Real
istic Works of Fiction. The New Story
from his Pen is Entitled:
THE DAY OF TEMPTATION,
AND THE OPENING CHAPTERS AP
PEAR ON PAGE TWELVE THIS
WEEK.
Cotton Yield and Consumption
The receipts of the cotton crop at all
the ports of the United States for the
year ending September 1 foot up 8,769,360
bales, against 6,829,100 bales last year;
overland 1.237.813, against 940,482 last year;
southern consumption taken direct from
interior of the cotton belt 1.192,821, against
988.382, making tl\e ~e*ton crop of the
United States for 1897198 amount to 11,199,-
994 bales, against 8,757,946 last year, and
9,901,251 in 1894-95. The consumption by
the mills of the south, including woolen
mills that have used cotton, amounts to
1,231,841 bales, but of this 32,090 were taken
from out ports included in port receipts.
This total shows that the mills of the
south have used up 189,170 bales more
than during 1896-97, and that the south
has nearly reached the 1,250,000 mark
against consumption by the north of 1,-
875,000 bales.
Mr. Hester, the secretary of the New
Orleans Exchange, makes the increase in
southern consumption 378,500 bales since
1894-95. or 44 per cent in three years, while
he states that of takings by northern
spinners 412,000 remained in mill stocks,
against 75,000 a year ago, which would
make northern mill consumption 1,874,740
bales, against 2,040,000 in 1S94-95. a decrease
of 165.260 bales, or 8 per cent in five years.
If this is true, the total consumption last
year was 3,106.581 bales, of which 60.34 per
cent was northern, against 2,893,352 in
1894-95, of which 70.51 per cent was north
ern.
According to another authority the
stocks held by European mills amounted
to 770.000 bales, against 39S.OOO a year ago,
the American 499,775 against 79.696 a year
ago. the commercial stocks here and
abroad 1,641.000 bales against 6S5.G00 a year
ago, and other allowances leave on hand
for the coming year 3.031,000 bales. The
increase of 44 per cent in southern con
sumption during the past three years,
with a decrease of 8 per cent in northern
consumption in five years, is significant.
The New York Tribune regards it as not
altogether incredible that as much as a
seventh of the northern production has
been transferred to southern mills for a
single year, or. more strictly, a tenth of
the entire production. In spite of much
stoppage of works and embarrassment
during the last year, the northern mills
appear to have marketed one-twellth
less cotton worked Into goods than they
did in the year of greatest production in
the past. The south has been making
wonderful progress in the manufacture
of cotton goods and in competing with
the manufacturers of like goods in the
north during the past ten years. The
northern manufacturers have felt this
competition so keenly that quite a num
ber of them have either removed their
plants to the south or established new
ones here. The New York Tribune ac
counts for the effect of this “new compe
tition” as follows:
“For ten years or more the northern
mills have been adjusting their work to
meet the new competition from the south,
and have changed their machinery ma
terially and the quality of goods pro
duced. It may be noticed that the heavy
overproduction in print cloths at Fall Riv
er does not now represent the real condi
tion of all the mills, and everything tends
to show that the works producing goods
of the finer grades, not yet largely pro
duced at the south, have been making
satisfactory' progress.”
The southern manufacturers are meet
ing this competition, and in a compara
tively short time will be able to furnish
goods of equal fineness and finish as are
now put out by their northern competi
tors.
These figures do not augur a brisk de
mand and better prices for cotton this
year. The demand for cotton last year
was not such as to keep prices up to the
point of making cotton growing as pro
fitable as growing wheat and corn. When
planters practice the plan of raising their
own breadstuffs and provisions, they’ will
then make cotton growing profitable.
The steady’ recent downward tendency
in the prices of cotton culminated on Sep
tember 23 in the lowest price for spot
cotton known for many years, the quota
tion being 5.19 cents per pound, or four
points lower than ever recorded during
nearly ^ifty years. The New York Tri
bune points to the fact that “in Novem
ber, 1894, and again in February and on
March 1. 1895, the great crop of nearly 10,-
000,000 bales brought the quotation now
current, and after three years the south
raised a crop still larger by’ more than 1,-
200,000 bales, which would have depressed
the price quite as much had not consump
tion of American cotton here and abroad
materially increased. As it was, the pros
pect of another large yield to follow pre
vented recovery in prices, as usual, to
ward the end pf a crop year, so that the
average of daily quotations during the
last crop year was only 6.22 cents, against
6.43 cents during the crop year ending on
August 31, 1S95. It is the lowest yearly
average ever recorded since present meth
ods of grading and marketing have exist
ed. Back in 1848, though what was then
quoted as middling uplands sold at 5 to 6
cents at the beginning of November and
December and at 5 cents in May, the
average of monthly’ quotations w*as 6.6
cents, and in 1845, when such a quotation
as 4 to 7 cents was recorded in March
and April, the average of the monthly
quotations was 5.71 cents. If there is any
reason to suppose that the same grades of
cotton were represented, that year’s
average was the only’ one lower than that
of the crop year just ended. Probably
the range of prices for as good a grade
of cotton was at that time higher than
last year. But after such a depression,
with nearly 3,000,000 bales of old cotton re
maining on September 1 for consumption,
the prospect of another yield as large
brings not unnaturally the lowest price
ever quoted since 1848, and in the first
month of the crop year, before the move
ment has become large.”
Reason for Likes or Dislikes.
A close reasoner makes these observa
tions:
Our personal likes and dislifies are the
poorest possible guides we could have to
that which is worthiest of our likes and
dislikes. The real test is what we ought
to like, and not what we do like. This is
true of our food and drink, of our em
ployments and recreations, of our com
panions and associates, of our favorites
among painters or poets, sculptors or ar
chitects, romancers or essayists. It may
be that we are still under the influence of
our worthy selves, or of our lower na
tures, or of our yet undeveloped tastes,
and therefore do not perceive what we
should admire if our better selves had
proper play*. If a man says of a painter,
or a poet, or a prose writer, who is spo
ken of by another. “I confess his work
never got hold of me,” the question nat
urally suggests itself to the hearer, “Is
the trouble with the artist or with your
self?” If we like or dislike the work of
another, we should be able to tell what
is his strength, and what is his weak
ness, and why, therefore, it is that he
fails to attract us, or we are ourselves
sure to be still on trial as to the correct
ness of our personal standards of taste.
Gladstone’s Will.
The will of the late William E. Glad
stone has been probated. It shows that
his personal estate is valued at £59.506.
Mr. Gladstone's will was written by
himself in an ordinary memorandum
book. It is a document of about 2,000
words, and is a remarkable specimen of
penmanship. The second clause of the will
has reference to the funeral arrange
ments. and says:
“Commending myself to the infinite mer
cies of God in the Incarnate Son as my
only and sufficient hope, I leave the par
ticulars of my burial to my' executors,
specifying only that they be very simple
and private, unless there be conclusive
reasons to the contrary. And I desire to
be buried where my' wife may’ also lie.
On no account shall a lauditory inscrip
tion be placed over me.”
After appointing his sons as executors
the will charges the future possessor of
Hawarden to remember that, as the head
of the family, it will be his duty to ex
tend good offices to other members there
of, according to his ability and their man
ifest needs and merits.
The rest of the document leaves sou
venirs to servants and bequeaths to his
grandson. William, as heirlooms all pat
ents of crown offices held by the testator
and books and prints presented to him
by the queen, letters from the queen, etc.
The will bears date of November 26. 1S96.
“I’ve had an awful time,” said his wife
as soon as he got home. ‘The clothes
line broke, the baby choked on a tack
until he was blue, the cat got her head
fast in the cream pitcher and we h?.d to
break It off—the pitcher. I mean—the gro
cery boy sassed Mary Jane till she cried
and tried to scald him. and missed him
and took all the hair off the dog. and I
burned my thumb to a crisp and nearly
every woman I know on earth took this
day of all others to call.”
“Anything else today?” asked the dry
goods clerk, absently’.
The Demoralization of France.
It is Just twenty-eight years since the
capitulation at Sedan when the empire
of Louis Napoleon fell with a crash.
That fall was t'he result of the demoral
ization and corruption of the French ar
my and of the vast horde of office holders
and office seekers the empire cherished.
On this subject a fine writer says France
was honeycombed with fraud and every
form of dishonesty.
On the ruins of the empire the third re
public was erected, a military oligarchy,
to fact, with no more real freedom for
the people than was under the empire,
and with as little morality and honesty.
Every now and then some scandal in
officialdom comes to the surface, the
greatest of all being the revelations in the
Panama canal case, whldh smirched al
most every prominent man in political
life, coming near even to t'he skirts of
President Grevy himself—sufficiently
close, indeed, to' force his resignation.
Does there appear to be anything to
choose between the empire of Louis Na
poleon and the third republic of President
Faure? Does not the army underlie one
as it did the other, and is there any as
surance that the army now is one whit
better than flie army of twenty-eight
years ago? That army was swept down
by the German hosts as if they were
men of straw, but would the army of
today have a better fate? Who can tejl?
Amid the corruption that seems to have
invaded every other branch of the French
public service wihy should the army be
clean? And if the army is not clean, what
Chance will France stand in the “cata
clysm” that the czar would avoid, and
which France is doing her utmost to
bring on?
And now on top of all the railroad
frauds and Panama frauds In the past
comes the Dreyfus case, which incrimi
nates the army to a degree hitherto un
suspected and Shatters all faith not only
in the infallibility of the army but in the
truthfulness and honor of its highest and
most trusted officers. What must be the
"honor” of an army that requires perjury
and forgery for its support? And yet
Lieutenant Colonel Henry said for his ex
cuse it was for the “honor of the army”
that he had committed both of these
crimes!
What must happen to a nation that
produces men with such ideals and
places them in high command? Is it any
wonder that the stalwart old-time Repub
licans. who still shout vive la republique,
should say, “At present there is nothing
more to lose, not even honor!”
France stands by reason of the de
moralization of her people in the most
perilous position of any of the nations.
How she may be saved is the problem of
her own statesmen, but one thing is cer
tain, she cannot be saved by war.
Husband and Wife.
Some one says that when husband and
wife find that they can get along without
each other, they are in the gravest moral
peril. That way leads to earthly dark
ness and to eternal perdition. "I am a
practical man,” said one in our hearing,
"and the days of foolish sentiment are
over witfl me.” We caught the inner drift
of his meaning, which was that he had
settled down to a dull, commonplace view
of life, and had ceased to have any re
gard for those high and pure feelings
which alone can redeem a human habi
tation from being a mere pigsty and
transform it into an outer court of Para
dise. God have mercy upoi> the man who
does not esteem his wife's smile as the
supremest thing in the world, and God
have mercy on the woman who ceres for
anything else more than for her hus
band's approbation.
Good Suggestions.
I get the best of a good dinner by eat
ing it myself instead of waiting for some
one to feed me.
I find the best way to make money to
spend is to earn it before spending it;
then the spending of money has some
thing of royalty in it.
There is real joy In the possession of
fame when you have earned it honestly.
But when it is thrust upon you by acci
dent you are in a dilemma; you do not
know which way to turn lest you become
infamous.
My observation is that things we earn
are the best things for us, because in
earning them we have learned to appre
ciate their worth.
Be an earner in this life, and then you
will enjoy the good things of life. Eter
nal life is the gift of God, but in order
that we may enjoy it in this and in the
life to come we need to earn it by a life
of true and noble service.
Times are improving somewhat with
me. says a writer in the New York Wit
ness. and I observe that things go best
when I make them go. I have never made
much by waiting for some one else to do
my work.
From Homer to Banana Stand.
From teaching Greek in the realm of
higher education to running a sidewalk
fruit stand in Chicago, from interpreting
the immortal Homer to talking up the
trade in bananas, looks like a long jump.
Professor Saterlos J. Georgiodes has made
it and preserves his dignity.
The Chicago Ttmes-Herald notes that
Professor Georgiodes is a pure-blooded
Greek, a native of Sparta. If he were so
minded he could trace his ancestry back
to the lieutenant who stood at the right
hand of Leonidas in the pass of Ther
mopylae. He is a graduate of the Univer
sity of Greece. The beauties of his mother
BILLiffS SUBSTITUTE.
•‘A little nonsense now an<5 then
Is relished by ‘.he wisest men.”
This i6 Brown’s favorite quotation, and
he makes it an.excuse to cut a good many
capers around home and also is heard to
recite it w’hen he wishes to get away from
home to attend the frolics. When he re
turned from the store this morning I could
see a twinkle in his eye which I knew
meant something. A little later he got up
a big lot of wood and some nice kindling
and put in the box in the corner: a little
later still he slipped up to his old 'omarf
and punched her in the ribs and then
stroked her down and bragged on her
good iooke. and when she went to start
to the spring he took the bucket from her
and went himself, and then went to the
cowpen and held the calf and brought the
milk to the house. He couldn’t fool me;
I knew he was up to something, but to
save my life I couldn’t decide just what
it was. After supper he walked from the
dining room quoting the above, and then
in another minute he was standing with
his arm around his old woman telling her
that a big candy pulling was over at Jim
Rogers’ and that he must go and play the
fiddle just a little. Of course she didn’t
object. He had wmrked on her all the
afternoon just to this end, and she kissed
him goodbv when he started and mutter
ed “Bless his old soul” when she saw
him cutting the pigeon wing on his way
to the gate.
1 refused to go to the candy pulling,
but as Brown went across the field every
now and then twanging his fiddle it put
me to thinking, and I lived over again the
years that have long been gone and that
will never return. 'Of course it is just the
season for me to remember the old-time
shuckings when I once get to studying
and memorits so sweet cluster about them
that I study on but little else. I saw the
lightwood torches flitting along the paths
through woods and fields as they used to
flit, and then as I would shut my eyes and
lean uack in the rocker it seemed that the
same sweet melodies were being sung
again. Oh. those melodies! The genera
tions to come w’ill never feast on songs as
sweet as these, nor look upon crowds so
full of joys or free from the weighty re
sponsibilities of the thing called freedom.
As these crowds would gather from across
the fields would come in mournful plaint,
and yet no mourning there:
“Oh, Emma, dear, dear Emma,
From the Mississippi vale.
In all this wide world over
There’s none like Emma JWe.”
All these crowds were made tip from
the different plantations and each had its
“leader.” Their young masters would be
along with them to protect them from any
rowdy white man, and you may be sure
they would stand their hand among the
negroes. But there was seldom any
trouble. Everybody was there for fun
and frolic and good eating, and that was
surely there, and in my heart I believe the
negroes felt grander and freer than they
have ever felt since, and I am sure there
was less of resposibility. Listen, now. as
the mournful plaint of “Emma, dear, dear
Emma” is hushed, away from the north
will come:
“Old massa give me holiday-—
He says he’ll give me more;
I thanked him very kindly
As I shoved my boat from 6hore.
“Oh. my dearest May,
You’re lovelier than the day;
Your eyes so bright
They shine at night
When the moon has gone away.”
But listen from the river for the lively
tune. Even now I seem to hear the lum
ber of the poles and the chain upon the'
bottom of the old flat at the ferry, and as
the ferryman pulls from shore fifty voices
join—
Row away, row T !
O’er the waters so blue.
Like a feather we’ll float
In our gum tree canoe!”
As sweet a6 these songs sounded com
ing from across the fields, the climax was
at the corn pile itself. With two or three
hundred negroes around a corn pile as
large as a house, a “leader” would mount
on top and “call” w’hile the rest would
join the chorus. Those who have never
heard these corn songs could not be made
to understand just how they sounded, but
there will never again be anything to take
their place, I can tell you that, though I
am sure to fail in giving anything like
an imitation in a description like this. The
“leader” begins: “I will start the holler!”
when all the crowd fells, ‘iBugleloo”
somewhat thusly:
“I will start the holler!
Bugleloo!
I will start the holler!
Bugleloo!
Massa’s got a bugle!
Bugleloo!
A ten-cent bugle!
Bugleloo!
On and on this “leader” called” till
the crowd w’ould desire a change, which
was indicated very vigorously by ears of
corn whizzing loo close to the “caller.”
. I? the “leader” has sense he w’ill quit
as soon as the corn begins to pelt him,
and then another leader will get up. This
new “caller” would start something new
and never failed to liven up the crowd:
“Had a dog. his name was Zion!
Here Rattler, here, here!
Run a track as cold as iron!
Here, Rattler, here, here!
Oh. don’t you hear old Rattler cornin’?
Here. Rattler, here, here!
Cornin’ fast and comes a-hummin’!
Here, Rattler, here, here!
With such as this the night would wear
along and the pile grow smaller, till at
last, when nearly finished, the liveliest
time of all would start:
“Looking for the last ear!
Bangamalango!
“Looking for the last ear!
Bangamalango!
Round up me corn, boys!
Bangamalango!
Round up the corn, boys!
Bangamalango!
Then there was scrambling and joy be
yond measure, for the work was all done
and the time for frolic was at hand. The
crowd would gather around the owner-of
the corn and he was lifted upon the shoul
ders of strong negroes, who would move
off In front, the whole crowd following
and singing at the top of their voices. In
this way they would march around and
around the “big house.” thence to where
a bountiful feast had been prepared upon
scaffolds and then such a time wa» never
seen at any other feastings.
The tables w*ere alw’ays full to an
abundance and the negroes would eat
awhile and then dance and pat awhile.
Here would be a crowd patting and danc
ing. yonder would be a crowd wrestling
and boxing or showing feats of manhood,
there was sure to be some singing, and
back in the shadows from the big torch
lignts there would be seme younger people
courting just as other young folks court.
I love to think of those old-time 6huck-
ings. I love those old songs, and the old-
time negro will ever remain an object of
sincere admiration.
SARGE PLUNKETT.
tongue’s ancient literature enslaved him.
The study and teaching of ancient Greek
became his profession and for many years
he practiced at the American Institute in
Athens. One of his pupils there was Rev.
William Quinn, recently professor of
Greek in the Catholic university at Wash
ington, now visiting in Chicago. Later
Professor Georgiodes came to America
and settled in Boston. There he taught
Greek for five years, imparting knowledge
of the language, both ancient and mod
ern, to many eminent Americans, includ
ing congressmen whose names are scarce
ly decipherable from the professor’s pe
culiar English. One who studied under
him is now’ Professor Thurber, a teacher
of Greek at the University of Chicago.
Another is Professor Wheeler, who holds
a similar position in Columbia college.
New’ York.
Evil days fell upon Professor Georgi
odes. He gravitated to Chicago. Ill luck
continued. There came a day when he
had not the wherewith to pay the run
ning expenses of this life. Without means,
■without friends, without a trade, without
physical strength for manual labor and
without demand on his knowledge of
Greek, he thought, in common with many
of his countrymen, of setting up a fruit
stand as a temporary expedient.
Just about that time Professor Georgi
odes met Father Quinn. Father Quinn
himself is not rich, but he has, through
a friend, a bit of a “pull” in the city hall,
and was only too glad to help his old
friend to his modest wish. So it came
about that Professor Georgiodes was in
the office of Superintendent of Streets
Doherty recently and was given a per
mit for a fruit stand.
The Mad Race for Gold.
Let everybody read these sound views
from some brother editor;
There is more than mere myth behind
the story of Midas and his magic touch
which transformed everything into gold.
It represents one of the most widespread
human weaknesses. For that touch men
have throwm away their manhood and self
respect; they have lost the beauty and
dignity of life in their mad race for
wealth; they have narrowred their lives
down to the mere circumference of a dol
lar. And the more they can obtain at the
least cost the happier they are—something
for nothing.
The daily papers recently contained an
account of the great losses resulting from
listening to the oily words of one who
could bring gold from sea-water in pay
ing quantities. The results were apparent
ly unanswerable, but an accomplice, a di
ver, introduced some gold in quicksilver
solution into the receptacle lowered into
the sea. And yet, although it is known
that gold cannot be obtained from sea
water in paying quantities, there w r ere
hundreds of men who pursued this will-
o’-the-wisp. Hold before the average man
tlje bright button of some get-rich-quick
scheme, and in an instant he undergoes a
sort of mental hypnosis. He throws
sound business methods to the winds.
But the most startling disclosure is that
cool, calculating, level-headed business
men were induced to go into this bonan
za gold-mining scheme. Such men have
learned to know the value of money; they
would not think of buying a case of goods
about which they know nothing; they
would not think of loaning a penny with
out the best of security, they would not
countenance the slightest overcharge.Yet
they have sunk thousands in an impossi
ble scheme for extracting gold from sea
water!
Men flock about these get-rich-quick
schemes like foolish moths about a light;
they fall bruised and burned, but fly back
into the flame again. The day is past
when men are satisfied with a modest in
come and a steady, paying business. They
falsely believe that happiness and mil
lions are twin sisters. They are alw’ays
planning to do great things “when their
ship comes in,” but they are unwilling to
wait. While the sea is bringing in that
much looked-for ship they w’ill incidental
ly coin millions from its waters. They
never stop to see that it is impossible—
that vast returns cannot be gotten for
nothing. They pay the price of their
folly; but their experience does not de
ter others, and rarely deters them from
again embarking upon equally ridiculous
undertakings when some persuasive pro
moter winds them in his toils. The w’orld
is weak; it is ever dazzled with gold, and
will spend its last drop of energy in the
struggle to secure that coveted Midas
touch.
Individuality.
It Is forcefully said that all the great
questions of life come to man as an in
dividual. AH our deepest sorrows come
to us alone. We all pass nights alone in
our Gethsemanes face to face with the
awful majesty of sorrow as individuals.
Every moment of life is one of choice, of
decision, of weighing, of accepting, of
taking position, of revealing ourstandard,
of meeting issues as individuals. If we
would reform the world we must reform
the individual. Let us begin to perfect
that individual who is nearest to us—our
self. Let us put this individual into per
fect harmony in the three unities of in
dividual relation, and we have modified
the life of the whole world.
All nature is most beautiful recognition
of individuality. We see anything only
by the light that comes from it. the light
it Individually sends out, yet on all earth
and in the endless heavens the billions
of lines of relation between each object
and our eye are preserved perfect and
complete. So in each of the other senses
Nature recognizes individuality in all
things.
There was something beautiful about
that prayer of the Pharisee: "Lord, I
thank thee that I am not as other men
are.” But he should have thanked God
not that he was superior, or that he was
greater, or that he was richer, but only
that he was a little different; that he
was himself—individual.
TIMELY ANNIVERSARIES.
Some Cnrrent Selections From His
tory’s Broad Page.
October 9.
K3 B. C.—Aristotle, Greek philosopher nnd
tutor of Alexander tho Greet, died at
Chalcls.
1132—Richard in of England born at Fother-
lngny castle; killed at Bosworth.
UOO—Charles II of Spain signed his famous
will, boqueathlng his dominions to a French
princo, which caused the dreadful war of
the Spanish succession.
1726—Chevalier d Eon, whose sex was disputed
during hia career as a diplomat and who
dressed os a woman the last U2 years of his
life, was born in Burgundy; diod 1810 and
was then proved to have been a man
1780-Major John Andre, adjutant general of
the British forces In Amorlca, hanged as a
1782—The erratic General Charles Lee, English,
but a soldier in the American army, died
in Philadelphia; born in Cheshire 1731.
1808—A terrible cyclone devastated the region
lvlng on the north of tho gulf of Mexico;
over 2,000 lives lost In Louisiana and Ala
bama.
18C6—General Nelson A. Miles appointed com-
niandor of the United States army to suc
ceed General Schofield.
1807—General Neal Dow, a noted Federal wnr
veteran and the father of the prohibition
movement, died at Portland, Me.; born
1804. Joseph Proctor, a veteran actor, died
In Boston; born 1818.
October 8.
1674—Tho siege of Leyden was
raised by the Dutch, who
cut the dikes and brought
In their ships.
1068—Milos Blandish, Puritan
aoldler and hero of ro
mance, died in Duxbury,
Maas.; born 1584.
1800—George Bancroft, hlsto-'
rlan, born at Worcester,
Mass.; died 1891.
1880—Rembrandt Peale, paint
er, died In Philadelphia; oeo. BASCRorr.i
born 1778.
1886—Steamer Evening Star, bound from New
York to New Orleans, sank at sea, and 250
persons were drowned; a highly sensational
ocean tragedy.
1882—Adelaide Phillips, an American ainger of
noto, died at Carlsbad, Germany; born In
England 18113.
1884—Hans Makart, noted painter, some of
whose most celebrated works are owned in
America, died at Vi jnaf born In Austria
1840.
1896— William Morris, the English poet, died in
London; born 1864.
October 4. \
1743—Henry Carey, musician, anthor of '*God
Save the King," died In London.
1777—Battle of Germantown and defeat of Get*,
eral Washington.
18X2—General Jacob Brown defeated the Brit*
lsh at Ogdensbtirg.
1822—Rutherford Birchard Hayes, nineteenth
president, born In Delaware, O.; died Jan.
17, 1893.
1880—Jacques Offenbach, celebrated musical
composer, died at Paris; born 1819.
1895—Professor Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen of Co
lumbia college, well known as an author
and literary critic, died in New York city*
born 1848.
October 5,
1818—Edward Bruce, brother
of King Robert of Scot
land, was killed at Fagher,
Ireland.
1703—Jonathan Edwards, fa
mous Calvinistic divine,
was born at Windsor, Conn. I
1805—Charles (earl and later!
marquis) Cornwallis, Brit- ’
isli commander in North
America and afterward
governor general of India, tennyson.
died at Ghazipur; born 1783; surrendered!
at Yorktown Oct. 19, |781.
1813—General William H. Harrison defeated the
British and Indians at the Thames, On* i
tario; the noted chief Tecumseh was killed.
1892—Alfred Tennyson, Baron d’Eyncourt,
laureate of England, died; born 1800.
1894— Professor Vincenza Botta, a well known
linguist, died in New York city; born 1822.
1895— Professor Henry Maurice Willkorn, dis
tinguished German botanist, died.
1897— Bister Gonzaza, the oldest sister of char?'
ity in the United States, died in Philade)
phia; born 1812. .
October 6.
877—Charles the Bald, king of France, died.
1470—Edward V of England was born.
1773—Louis Philippe, king of the French in
1830-48, born at Paris; died 1850.
1821—Jenny Lind, later Mme. Goldschmidt,
great singer, born in Stockholm; died in
London 1887.
1830—Harriet Hosmer, sculptress, born at Wa«
ter town. Mass.
1833—Albert Deane Richardson, journalist and
author, born in Franklin, Mass.; assassi
nated ISO!).
1836—Charles X, ex-king of France, died at
Goritz, Styria.
1863—Frances Trollope, English author and
mother of T. Adolphus and Anthony, died;
born 1790.
1891—King Karl of Wurttemberg died.
1897—Sir John Gilbert, noted painter and illus*
• trator, died in London; born 1817. Over
6,000 deaths in a typhoon in tho Philippine
islands.
October 7.
1779—D’Estaing and Lincoln
repulsed, with terrible
slaughter, in their attack
upon Savannah; Count Pu
laski. the Pole, mortally
wounded.
1849—Edgar Allan Poe, erratic
poet and author, died in
Baltimore; born 1809.
1865—Negro outbreak on the
British island of Jamaica,
in the West indies.
1871—Beginning of tho great Chicago fire.
1891— Charles Stewart Parnell, leader of the
Irish home rule movement, died at Brigh
ton, England; born 1S46.
1892— Crespo, the revolutionary leader, over
threw the Venezuelan government.
1893— The American yacht Vigilant won the
first race in the contest for the America's
cup over the English Valkyrie by 5 minutes
43 seconds.
1894— Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes died In Bos
ton: born in Cambridge 1309. Andrew G.
Curtin, war governor of Pennsylvania,
died at Bellefcnte; born 1817.
1895— William Wetmore Story, distinguished
American sculptor and poet, died at Val*
lambrosa, Italy; born 1819.
1896— General Louis Jules Trochu, noted French
soldier, died at Tours, France; born 1315.
October 8.
1354—Nicolo di Rienzi, the famous Roman trib-i
une and reformer, murdered.
1672—Elizabeth Cromwell, widow of Oliver,,
died at Norborough.
1793—John Hancock, statesman and “signer,”
died at Quincy, Mass.; born 1737.
1821—Henry Cristoplie. talented but cruel gen
eral nnd later king of Haiti, killed himself;
born 1767.
1833—Edmund Clarence Stedman, poet, born in
Hartford.
1837—Charles Fourier, famous socialist, died at
Paris.
1860—Franklin Pierce, fourteenth president,
died at Concord, N. H.; born 1804.
1872—Remarkably rapid fire destroyed Hshti-
go, Wis., and nearly all its people, 600 or
700 persons. A forest lire broke out during
a drought, destroying over 2,000 lives and
millions in property.
1895— General William Mahone, a prominent
Confederate veteran and ex-United States
senator from Virginia, died at Washington;
born 1826.
1896— General George A. Sheridan, noted Fed
eral veteran, died at Hampton, Va.; born
1840.
1897— Rear Admiral John Brady Clitz, U. 8. N.,
retired, died in Washington; born 1821.
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