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10 CAPTURED A REDCOAT. Deed of One of the Warren Girls April 19, 1775. A Trooper Was PulUd from His Horse by Her And Handed Over to Her Neighbors for Safe keeping. Lydia Warren, born hi Wntoriown, | 7, 1745 was <»nv of fourteen cliil-1 <ii«*n of I’liiiipims and (trace (HustinguP WaiTP.i. H.inl of the fifth genu ration of <hw. ndori.lis of John Warren and Mar-. git rot, ins wife, who arrived from Eng- I land in 1630. and settled nt Watertown. She was a woman of strong jMTsonali- 1 ty ami powerful physique, and evidently , «*!!<• to wii .in people instinctively turned in any emergency. Il< r narrative of Iho capture by herself | of a British regular on the memorable I'.Hh of April, 1775, aa related in lifter years to hen rehutivos, of whom tlie writer’* mother was one, a.n<l living whh her some years, is substantially as fallow’s: It was a. warm, sunny day. All the nlde-b«Mli<‘d men were away, as tlie ob- i jent, of the movement of the British troops was well understood. Her hus ba.nd, David Baiwird, wab out as a| “minute man” She saw the sunlight flash on the arms and equipments of Pitcairn a men as they parsed on their way to Lexington mid Concord, <Tlie wriior was at first, disposed to doubt the historical accuracy of this statement, but bno since been assured that n detachment of British di<l pass through Waitertown that, day.) Her house was oft the main road, and the latter part of the day some of h< r neighbors came running crying out „ I’ariKird! There is a red coat coin-ng. T his was her usual term for die British regula ra. She ran out. to the main wtreet fl nd livre, hailed in the midst.s of a group of women and old men, was *i British sol dier on horseback, who was inquiring his way to Boston. It seemed to be the impression, from Ihe fact that, he was mounted, that he was a messenger, sent either with a report or for n-iuforce nnovts. J t was slated that, hi* wus wound(*d, but I. .w - r when' is no-! ' k. »wn. In commun wMt others whose friends or relatives had responded to the “alarm" Mis.. Barnard had lelt. great ninety, which iiiiereased as the day wore on aitld minors of J>.(i lighting drift' d buck. until Iho feeling of onspous. Imanie nlm.el nnbcrablc. 'Hie sight of the hated red cont of one of th" authors, presumably o' all ths trouble, was more than her Yankee si nd Warren blood could bear. Stopping through the group she giasp ed the horse’s bridle with one hand mid ordered die soldier to dismount; he not ole-x-iing. to pull him from the saddle with the other was but the work of a in.cnonl. Shaking him vigorously, "You villiitn!” she exclaimed. “how do I know but what von have been killing some of lu . folks?" lie protested that he had not fired a slmt. M I "i.it mo see your cartridge box. said she and opening it. found several miss l, .' Al this she shook him still more violently, and. her anger increasing, she grasped his sword In sm h a threatening manner that his fears overcame him. and falling down on his knees he begged | for his life. "Begged like a Hamper," said she in relating ft. She was some- I what noted for her terse mid apt ex- ' pressions through life, ami some of her remarks at this time, as quoted in after yoi’.rs. were better suited to that occa sion than to repent now. She finally gave her prisoner in charge of those wlmm the affair attracted to the scene, and ho was taken to the far-| (>rn for safekeeping. The horse she turned loose ia a pasture some distance kick of her Im |<". The saddle she threw on die potalo heap hi the cellar. The h<>r«e xvas afterward returned to bis I owner "one Stedman." of Cambridge. The British pickets as they came along in the morning found the horse left by tiis rider, who had been sent out with I the "alnirin.” The prisoner was subse que’iilv exdhiinged for one of our mon. Divid Barnard, her husband, died during the revolution, and she married j secondly lion. Aaron Wood. of Boxford, j a justice of the peace and quorum, a number of the general court, when it I sat at Watertown and elsewhere, one of the governor's councilors, etc. Mr. Wood died in 1791. and hi,* widow mar-: rival Benjamin Spofford, of Boxford, she i being his second wife. She survived her ; last husband. In alluding to the affair of the 19th of April in later years she was wont to i say “that she never saw a man that she , thought she could not have handled." She belonged to a musical family, and possessed an uncommon taste in ballad singing. Iler local repute was such that a Watertown man. when she was about to set up housekeeping, offered to make ail her wooden ware, which was no in eonsiderable item in those days, and take his pay in her singing, working evenings at her home, with the understanding that she was to sing different songs each night. This offer was accepted and the bargain fulfilled to the letter. Her last years were spent, with her nephew, i’hineas Barnes, and in the house now owned and occupied by Benjamin S. Barnes in Boxford. ] may not be amiss to state that whatever doubt might be entertained of the prowess or courage of a woman to capture a soldier under the circum stances. it can lie said that no one who was personally acquainted with the heroine in later years ever had tshe slightest scepticism as to her case. Tile writer feels that he is not mis stating when he says that, as a rule, the Warren blood, wherever found, has been a synonym for ability, courage and patriotism, it has had representatives in ••very war since John Warren first trod American soil. From the storming of the Narragahsett fort in 1G75 to “Bunker Hill" and beyond, five of our heroine’s brothers taking part in the latter battle. William Barnes Dorman. • Boston, April 17, 1893. THAT UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE. Brussels, April 21. —The Belgian sen ate has approved the compromise grant ing universal suffrage accompanied by plural voting, based on education and property, as adopted by the chamber of representatives. By the Belgian consti tution the power of making laws is vested in the 'chamber of representatives aud the senate. CUSTER'S ItATTLI.FIEI.U. Homo Al iMippr.lion.ioni. ns to tbn Field and Engagement Corrected. Tn n comnmnlcatlmi addressed to tlie editor of the Cincinnati Tribune, a gen tleman who lias made nn examination of th<' battlefield whore Clio brave Gen. Gustor and his men lost their lives, en deavors to correct a misunderstanding regarding the place where thut dreadful conflict occurred. He says: I have lately seen in yottr city ft • liromo representing the field xvlu-re Gon. George A. Custer lost his life in May, IS7O that is such a gross misrepresentn of that memorable field, and yet so in hnnnony witli flic popular impression noneimidng it. that I feel moved to offer a few words of correction find explana tion. It was my good fortune, a few years ago, to phkh over the entire extent | of the field, and to view lit in nil its oharaoteristies. In this journey T was accompanied by the surgeon stationed at. Fort Custer, and ho had not only boon over the field ninny times, but n few days before my visit had passed carefully over it In company with Gall, the Sioux chief who really <-omman<led the hostile Indians in the fight—Sitting | Bull l>eiiig a “medicine man" rather than :i military lender. 'ITio expedition was under the com mand of Col. Terry, now serving as colonel of the Seventh cavalry, wiitih Custer ns lieutenant-colonel, and Reno as major. Custer and Reno, with de tachments of the command wore in ad vance of Terry and should not have brought on an engagement before the arrival if the hitter but discretion, th'it “hotter part of valor." is not always pre •• nt when most required. Passing southward up the Rosebud they present !y crossed by turning wostwanl toward the Little Big Horn. Arrived nt a place where two small streams (branches of tihe Litt.c Big Horn) have almost a com mon origin, but reach the principal stream by quite a different angle, the In dians were found to be eneampol in a beautiful valley beyond the river. I looked upon this valley in the bright ness of springtime (it. was on May 30) made especially cheerful by fields of com mid oats mow in their hopeful in fam-y. and Ihoughit I had seldom seen a more lovely snot. There had been from the beginning an entire miscalculation as to the strength of the Indians engaged in this movemeni‘ and this was what led to Hie teitrible disaster. t'nder the appndiension th' 1 * the eamp might be sun>rised and a de cisive battle quickly gained. Cuwto and Ueno deiidis] not. to await the arrival of Terry. Reno accordingly passed down one of these small streams, flowing al most diris'tly eastward, crossed the Lit tie Big Horn '" I engaged the Indians in the open valley. He soon found that the in.sk of driving the Indians or even holding his position against them was utterly imisissible, ttirmsl quickly by the right flank reeixissed the river and as cended the fi",.of a cliff that seems iir pas a.ble. where he intrenched liimseF and successfur.y resisted th'" further as saults of t’he onemv. Custer followed the other stream, which flows northwesterly, keeping back of the rugged hills along the river, and reaching the Lillie Big Horn from six to leu miles below where Reno had first crossed. This stream, in its progress is divided, the parts gradually diverging from each other, and flowing on either side of a gently ascending ridge, known in mountain parlance as a “hog's back.” The ridge is not only gentle in its as cent lengthwise, being highest next the river, but its sides slope gradually. At the river end it is somewhat more ale rupt. but being entirely free from fol iage one may ride over every part of it wilh entire comfort and convenience. It was oil this ridge that. Custer was met by tin- Indians. Still mistaken as to their numbers, and not knoxving that Reno had been driven back. Custer and his men pressed on to the’r death. It was not an ambush in a deep ravine, into win-h they were drawn by strategy, j while Indians rushed upon them from : tlie erevti .s of the rocks mid the almost i impenetruble fastness of the mountains, i The field was much more open than is usually the case in Indian, warfare; it was simply the overwhelming numbers that made the disaster so eoundete. The first, effort of the Indians was to stampede Cinstiter’s atnunition horses, and being successful in this. they, had matters largely their own way until the I melancholy end. The entire ridge, a full •mile in length, is marked as the scene of the massacre. The Irndy of L ent. J Crittenden xvas found ami is buriesl > alnios* at it* beginning. M dwny t’.ipt. ! Keogh and his faithful baud showed oven in death the cmnn'etoness of their military diseiplme. But the determined i spirit of Custer led him onward Io the farthest and highest point. where, the monument that commemorates this j event now stands, ft will bo wondered i why Reno was ignorant of Custer s tilus ' saero. The explanation i« that the inter i veiling space is occupied by still more lofty and rugged mountains that xyere then supposed to be impassable Such ‘is not the case, as 1 passed over the distance quite comfortably on horseback, ‘the elevation prevented seeing from one !to the oilier. Thon, until the Indians be came alarmed by evidences of the ap- . qu-oneh of Terry. Reno was engaged, also , |in a death struggle of uncertain issue. , When the fighting ceased, and Indians no longer appeared in sight, ho feared I I some sort of treachery, ami crept forth l cautiously. Finding no enemy, .these] {investigations were continued until the : heights wore reached, from which he , could look over to the place where lay I the fallen chieftain and his valiant band. | lAt first, the ridge was thought fi> be ] {covered w'th white stones, but the ob-| I jeets proved to be the unde forms of the ] i.sbdn Visitation proved that the Imdies I imd not onlv been stripped of all raiment I but shockingly mutilated, with the sin gly except ion of that of ( aster, whose I courage and chieftainship commanded • the respect even of his sax age murders. I'n ic Virtue of the Teacher. -Since the d ”-s of Aristotle and his predecessor. Blato. there bus. I tlfuk. been no great ethical or political writer who has ig ,Vir.’d xvli.it I nriy perhaps call the civic value of •'ducation. Soerytes himself (if • .i.-od, the "Themms" i* good authori ty) in n passage which is possibly fa milmr to vou, as it is quoted by Roger in "The Schoolmaster, enun ciated the opinion that "no one goeth about a more gmslie purpose than he is mindful of the bringing up ot Ins own and other men’s children. 'VI hat great er or better service, says Cieero, can i we render to the State than by teaching and educating the youn? St Chrysostom, setting the seal of Christian 'authority to the judgment of the refined pagan world. exclaims; “There is no greater art than this of ed ucation. for what is equal to the power of disciplining the character and mold ing'the understanding of a youth?” I {do" not knoxv in recent times a more I starring answer than that of I.aconlairO. {the famous Dominican, to the court of peers in France, who asked him what . ] his profession was. when he replied { i simply. “A schoolmaster." unless it be J the answer of his friend, the Comte do Montalembcrl. the noblest specimen. I sometimes think, of the modern French iaity. to the same question. "A school master and a peer of France.” Nay, it was but the other day that a’lenrned and humble man of science, xvho will live in moral history as having doclnnsl that he ■ had “no time to make money," began . his xvill with the modest xvords. so great ,| in their modesty. "I Louis Agassiz, teacher.” —The Contemporary Review. For Malaria, Liver Trou ble, or Indigestion, use BROWN'S IRON BITTERS THE AUGUSTA CHBONICLE. APRIL 20, 1893. ELEANOR KIRK. 09R Greene Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y., April 21, 1893. *ls everybody on top of this gren ; round earth sick or sorry? What is e mat ter with these complaining soiils? Are they what they imagine tlienmelves to be, or do many of them bormul trouble? Is it because they have bwsi reared to expert, shadows that they neveflb turn to the light? I These qm-stions are askrtl ii< all sin cerity, for since trying to my renders that the avoidance ors cure of sorrow or pain lay largely xxith them selves, there have hewn more Aeports of misery than ever before. / "Suppose you have a son Aho, lu spite of all your striving, all yolnr tears and prayer*, inalets upon drinadhp <nd es» rousing and disgracing his/family- what would you do with th/tt trouble, or wouldn’t you call it a trduble? Do you think you could put yodr head calmly on your pillow at night And go to sleep, not knowing what your b.*st beloved was doing, or xvhnt would b > the result of the night’s duudpation? No, my dear Mrs. Kirk, you could not, for you have a, loving heart, and you wouldn't lx* any better able to manage s’ucb a situation than any other mother.’? The above communicatjmn is a pretty fair sample of the kind of letter that my attempt at mental eomfiprt and healing has inspired. Now in the first plaiie, who said I would be any better alle to manage a drunken son than any olMer woman? I didn’t. No one ever heaill qic make such a remark, for such trolble seems pecu liarly awful. But 1 c4jn truly say that I have found out a fevw things that may be of some use even t<» mothers in such extremities. / To begun with, no mother can have a healthfully pe.rmanent.Jinlluence upon her child until she owns l/erself, and the wo man who yeops and i supplicates is very far from being an independent individ ual. Emotion never controlled anything yet, bis-ause it is itself uncontrollable. Indeed I do not beliewe that two men out of one hundred were ever turned from evil ways by tears, supplications or lec tures. And now I am going to say some thing xvhich 1 never said befon*. and which may shock some of our sensitive sufferers. When a mother has used her best influence to rear her child in the way she desires him to travel, arid he jumps over the fence, preferring the bogs and brambles and shady places, she should decide at once that his develop ment is not possible in any other way. For some inscrutable reason he must be torn and hurt, and . to all appearance have his mnuhood entirely crushed out of him in the process xvhich must be necessary to him, oij he wouldn't pass throiig-h it. The God! in the man cannot be destroyed, and though it may take a longer time, and be a harder lime, to gut this growth through such ways than those the mother would choose, one thing is sure -he will onq day reach the goal, because no soul tha Go.| has created can lull. short of ultimate development. There is comfort and philosopliy in this thought, and I am sure it is true. So let our troubled mothers look up, and as they grasp this idea, help will come. It will change their attitude toward their straying children, and will have in it a regenerating power. 1 have sisoi such effects and know whereof I speak. "Appreciative Reader" tells me that she bus spent more dollars than she xvonld Cairo to see a list of, on various hair-growing preparations and she has never seen anything so perfect in its re sults as Miss Mary Seamon’s simple re cipe for which she paid 25 cents, and which will save her many dollars in the f 111 u nu A Yes. 1 knoxv it. wjrs exactly xvhnt it. pretended to be because I had tried it. It stopped my hair from falling out in stantly, and is a splendid preventive against gray hair. It. is pure, simple, honest, mid ellicaeious, and because I know it to be so, 1 said so. it does not cost. $1 a year to make, and Miss Sea mon’s address is 451 Gates avenue Brooklyn, N. Y. To tlie readers xvho have been inquir ing abiut pretty amt stylish wash dresses for themselves and their girls, 1 ant pleasisl t«> say that I can heartily recom mend the “Toils du Nord" and the "I’nrkhiil Zephyrs.” a.s the handsomest and best wearing fabrics ever put. upon the market. These goods come in every variety of color, shade and pattern. There are de cided plaids and stripes, and those u it so imirkxsl. There are tiny cheeks—just next very fashionable—in all colors, and the loveliest plain materials in the most esthetic shades. There are blues and grays, and lilacs, and brown from lightest to darkest, and all tints betxveeu. In short, there is every color and design to suit every possible figure and com plexion. Goxxms made from either of the above mentioned fabrics will be' as fashionable this summer for the street. | as for the home or the country hotels or ■ boarding houses. City girls from ten to l sixteen are having these gowns made with wide shoulder ruffles. This style inakes a xvrap unueeessary. Their elders have adopted the fashion very largely | also, for the mountains and the seashore. I For street wear in the city-, small capes |or ruffles of lace xvill be xvortt. The | I’arkhill Maunfaeturing Co., through I Denny. Foor & Co., their selling agents. ] have contributed a great many dress {patterns to the Press Club Fair which j will be held the whole me*;h of May in the Grand Central I’alaee, New York. These gomls. 1 am proud to say. will be exhibited and sold at the Woman’s Press Club Booth, of xvhich I am the eha’rman, ELEANOR KIRK. Col. 1.. J Allred Writes. I am in mv seventy-third year, and for fifty years I have been a great suf ferer from indigestion, constipation and billiousness. 1 have tried all the reme dies advertised for these diseases and got no permanent relief. About one yyar ago tlie disease assuming a more severe and dangerous form. I commenced using Dr. 11. Mozlev’s Lemon Elixir. I gained twelve pounds in three months. My strength ami health, my appetite and my digestion were perfectly restored, atid now I feel as voting and vigorous as I ever did in my life. L. ,1. ALLRED, Door-keeper Ga. State Senate. State Capitol, Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 5. ’9l. Mrs. N. A. McEntire writes from Spring Place. Ga.: For many years 1 have been a great sufferer from indi gestion, sick headache and nervous pros tration. I tried many remedies, but got no permanent relief until I used Dr. i Mozle.v’s Lemon Elixir. I am now in I better health than for many years. My {daughter has been subject to chills and i fever from her infancy. I could get noth : ing to relieve her: the Lemon Elixir has restored her to perfect health. Sold by Druggists. 50c. and SI.OO per bottle. Prepared bv Dr. H. Mozley, At lanta. Ga. THE SLAUGHTER CONTINUES. Stroudsburg, Pa., April 22.—The slaugh ter on New Wilkesbarre and Eastern rail road continues. Yesterday a blued tired by miners engaged in grading a track at Yatesville at the other end ot the line resulted in the death of three xvorkmen, one Itlaian and two colored men. This makes the total killed, by blasting and dynamite principally, txventy-txvo. Con tractors have paid as high as Jl.aUO dam ages for lix’e. HONORS TO THE NAVY’S SECRETARY. The Dolphin Sails in Amidst Thunderous Salutes. The Columbus Caravals Have Arrived at the Roads. The Italian Cruisers Honor their Sovereign's Jubilee. Fort Monroe, Ya. Apr'l 22.—Secretary Herbert's expected arival early this, morning put every ship in the Roads on the lookout for the Dolphin and her distliiguished passenger, but at 10 o’clock the hour at which he was expected to tench here, the Dolphin xvas not in sight. Today is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the marriage of the K'ng and Queen of Italy. In honor of this event x-very warship here was dressisl this morning in gala array, rati up the beautiful green and yellow colors of King Humbert, and as eight bells simultaneously struck on all ships cannonading commenced that continued incessantly for ten min utes, during wh’ch time all the vessels were firing salutes at once. The fire was rapid and loud enough to shake every building on the reservation. The scene this morning in the Roads is the most beautiful of all marine pictures that has been presented since the first day of rendezvous. From the main of every American and foreign vessel floats a large flag of Italy and from the end of those ships that have jibliooms up the forestays running along the yards and down <*olor liillmrds of spanker, are thousands of flags, eonspieuons being the Italian colors. The ships were dressed rainbow fashion and yard-arm Style, and xvith the different shades brought, strongly out by the warm sun shine, the picture of these tlrrty-three vessels was enticing. Before 10 o'clock the Spanish admiral started to make his rounds of official calls upon the admirals who visited him yesterday. His first call w:rs upon Admiral Gberardi. He next called upon the English, French and German ad nr nils. On hoard nil thp flagships the Spanish admiral xvas rrts'iveil with the display of his country’s flag at the mainmast, and a salute of fifteen gun". These ceTx'monk'H Wert not over when the outlines of the Dolphin were seen two miles away coming into the Ronds. I’rom tlie blue pennant she flow, xvitb its four xx’ihite stars, it was knoxvn that the secretary of the navy was aboard. For a time the noise attending the visits of the Spaniards ceased, and all the ships /urtirtl their attention to the distin guishisl arrival. Through the line of xvar ships the beautiful official yacht camo, and as she reached the beam of the flagship Blake, the American ensign xvas broken out. by the Englishman, and the secretary’s salute of seventeen guns was fired gun for gun. The Dolphin re turned it as she steamed slowly along. Gliding by the Baltimore. San Fran cisco, Noxvark, Philadelphia and Chi cago, she xvas saluted by a heavy fire. The marines were draxvn up at present arms, all officers standing on the quar ter dis k uncovered, and the bands play ing "Iluil Columbia.” The Holl and Frigate was the next foreigner to welcome the wcretary, and so down the entire line of ships she sailed, receiving thunderous salutes on all sides, returning them gun for gnu, and at every different salute floating to the breeze the flag of the country she was honoring. Rounding the French mid Italian ves sels nt the extreme end of the fleet, sb turned and retraced her tracks to th anchorage just off Hyge'a wharf an near the flagship Philadelphia, xvher her anchor xvas let go. From the tun the Dolphin entered the avenue betxvee the fleets, until anchorage she was keeping up mi incessant fire from he riipid-fire guns on her forecastle as sh responded to the salutes of first on shiii and then another along the shores A great throng gathered mid cheered at the magnificent sight as the national formalities were enacted. A dozen barges from nearly all the ships in the harbor started today in the rats' for the international trophy of fered by the citizens of Norfolk—a hand some silver vase. Somewhat sore over their defeat last Wednesday, the Brit ishers sih'iit ull day yesterday in select ing a crexx- that should carry off the prize and when the twelve athletic fel lows from the Tartar pulled off from their ship this afternoon, they went on their way to the sound of clxeers mid hand-clapping from half a thousand ! broad-chested subjects of Queen Yicto ] ria. It did look for axvhile as if they xvere to win. Through the rolling and tumb ; ling waves their barge cut its way to 'the head of the procession, urged not i only by the hardened muscles of brawny i arms, but by the energetic gyrations of the coxsxvain in the stern. The course I was a mile and return and xvith three- I quarters of the distance covered the {Britishers were in the lead. "Hurrah.” shouted the sailors who crowd 'd the sides of the "Blake." { They shouted too soon. As the end of the course opposite the San Francisco xvas neared the San Francisco crew which xvas close n second gave a mag nificent spurt mid amid a veil that ran like mi electric current along the entire line of American ships, passed their English rivals. I The Chicago, the second crack crew of our navy, bent their backs and quick i ened their stroke so that when they I tossed their oars at the finish they were second in the race just behind San Fran cisco. xvah the white-shirted English men third. Hoxv the siren of the San ! Francisco did belloxv, like a bull; how the girls on the docks xvnved their handkerchiefs, and how the men shouted .until their throats xvere hoarse! ! The Germans with their pennant trail {ing in the water came in fourth, and i the Dutchmen in their quaint boats xvere next. The other foreigners came j trailing in a long procession. The San Francisco men have now xvon I six races since the rendezvous began. At sunset the colors on all the ships were loxvered mid saluted with twenty one guns in honor of the xxodding an niversary of the queen and king of Italy. Secretary Herbert remained on the Dolphin during the day and this evening be gave a dinner to the flag officers of the fleet. The Dolphin presented a gay appearance and the dinner xvas the choicest the markets afforded. The baud No mineral water will pro duce the beneficial results that follow taking ONE or more of “BEECHAM’S PILLS” with a glass of water immediately upon arising in the morning. Painless. Effectual. Covered with a taat.lo’S, soluble eoattng. “ Worth a guinea a box."—Price only 24 centa. Os alt druggists, or n box will be malted on receipt of 2.ICU. In stamps by B. F. Allen Co., 365 Canal St.. New York. , of the Philadelphia furnished the music. The ladies in the secretary’s party on the Dolphin xvere entertained by the ward room oflicers of the Vesuvius. The week xvhich closes tonight has been a charming introduction for the foreigners to the social side of Ameri can life, and they will leave here on Monday with genuine regret. Dances, dinner-parties mid other entertainments have been as frequent as the booming of the cannon. At night the Hygeia Hotel has been as gay as any European resort. Admiral Gherardi today arranged the order of the combined fleet as it xvill sail to New York aud appear in the re view. The port column will be headed by the Philadelphia, the flag ship of Admiral Gherardi. commander in chiet, the Newark. Atlanta, Sun Francisco, Bancroft, Bennington mid Baltimore, of Admiral Benham's squadron, uud the Chicago, Y’orktoxx-u, Charleston, Vesu vius aud Concord of the second, or Ad miral Walker’s squadron. Then xvill fol low the Argentine cruiser. Ninth of July, under command of Rear Admiral How ard; Holland man-of-war Van Speyke, • apt. Aniens; the two German vessels Kaisrin Augusta and Seeadbr, under Captain Bushel, with Miautonomah bringing up the rear. At the bead of the starboard column will be the British fleet, with Vice Admiral Hopkins us com mander in chief, and consisting of the Blake, as flagship, Australia, Magieienne ami Tartar. Russia will come .next with Vice Admiral Koznakoff, comman der in chief, in the flag ship Dimitri Donakio and General Admiral and Ryuda. France xvill follow with Rear Admiral deLibrnn as commander in chief in flagship Arethuse-und Hussard, and Jean Bart following. Italy will come next under Rear Admiral Magnaghl, with the Etna -and Giovanni Bausan. Spain will follow under Rear Admiral Gomez Y. Ixmo, with three vessels, the Infanta Isabelle. Reina Regente and the, Nueva Espana. The rear of the column will be Brazil with the rear admiral as commander in chief, in the Aquidaban, and accompanied by the Tiradeutes uud the Republica. THE EVOLUTION Os medicinal agents Is gradually relegating the old-time herbs, pills, draughts and veg etable extracts to tne rear ami bringing into general use the pleasant ami effective liquid laxative. Syrup of Figs. To get the true remedy see that it is manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only. For sale by al! leading druggists. THE AKMY BILL. It ts Now Apparent that the Government Wi I Be Defeated. Berlin, April 22. —So little interest has been taken by the members in the pro ceedings of the Reichstag during the tveek that three times within the past six days the session could not be con stituted owing to the lack of a quorum. The house has interest in nothing ex cept what the result would be on the decision of the Army bill. Nobody doubts the defeat of the government: the ques tion is how many votes Chancellor Von Caprivi, after long intrigue with the Centre and National liberal parties, xvill be able to secure. The house comprises at present three hundred and ninety four members, three seats being vacant. Out of these the Chancellor relies upon getting the support of (15 conservatives, free conservatives, 41 national liberals. 17 Poles and ton Reichsparte, a total minority of a hundred aud fifty-one against compant opposition amounting to 243 votes and made up of Centrists, Freessinnigi, Socialists and other fac tions. Even should the chancellor bo able to secure the votes of the small number of Catholic dissendents follow ing Hueneme they would uot suffice to avert defeat. The party leaders are ac cepting dissolution as inevitable mid are assidious in their preparations for the elections, but for Huenernes connection xvith the chancellor tlie Centrist leaders would already have agreed upon the fornl of the electoral manifesto which has received the adhesion of the bulk of the party. HE KILT.ED THREE. Alexandria. La., April 22.—Ait Rosa { station, St. Landrey parish, Charlton IV. ■Harvard, yesterday, in a quarrel, shot and seriously wounded Owen Heath. Russell and John Heath pursued Har vard xvith guns and were themselves { shot, Russell being killed and John fa tally wounded. '' V. f * - -r.'/ * *•: , MAGNETIC NERVINE. xf* 5 ,s sold with written 7'" -wS?i /! \-’®i’J'“ z 'i guarantee to cure Mfsi BBSS £'•• J fulness.eausedbyex '•-’'<<'-5'- cessiveuseotOpium, Tobacco and Aleo- • BEFORE - AFTER- sioi ths Brain, causing Misery, insanity and Death; Bi.rrencsa, Impolicy, Lot Power in either sex. Premature Old Axe, Involuntary Losses, caused by over-indulgence, over-exerdon of the Brain and c-rorflc? Youth, ? gives to Weak Organs their Natural Vigor and doubles the joys of life; cures I.'icorrhcea and Female Weakness. A. month’s treat ment, in plain pack.;ge, by mail, to any address. $1 tor box, 6 boxes SV With e very S 5 order we give a Written Guarantor to cure or refund the money. Circub s free. Guarantee issued only by our ex clusive agent. L. A. GARDELUE. wholesale and retail d mg.ci st. sole agent, 6112 Broad . St., Augusta, Ga. COnniTTED SUICIDE. Fir. Charles E. Staples Took His Own Life Yesterday Morning. He Ended His Existence Down on the River Bank. It Was Caused by His Being $674.86 Behind In His Account. The suicide of Mr. Chas. E. Staph'S yesterday morning was a sad shock to his ma tis' friends aud the whole com munity. Mr. Staples for several years past has been the Augusta agent for the Green wich Fire Insurance Company of New York, and for about u year the company has realized that ho was short in his accounts but to what amount they did not know. Two days ago Mr. Sherrill, of Atlanta, special agent for the Insurance com pany was sent to Augusta to examine into the matter and see if a settlement could be reached. It seemed thut Mr. Sherrill xvas unable to find Mr. Staph's and telegraphed hw company to that effect, receiving in niy sxver a message xvhich stated, find Miz Staples if you have to employ a deteJ tive. Mr. Sherrill then wrote ft note to Staples and sent, it doxx-n to his at 200 Ellis street, stating that did not come to the office and, make statement he would have'to institute legal proceedings against him. The note had not reached its destina tion when the news of the terrible trag edy was spread thnoughout the city tliat wiped out all the earthly accounts of Chas. E. Staples and ushered him be fore a higher tribunal. At about 10 o’clock in the morning Mr. Staples left his home without tell ing any of his family where ho xvas going and the next that they heard of him was that he was lying on the river bunk near the end of Houston street with a bullet hole through his brain. He shot himself about 10:30 o’clock and Mr. Chas. Dillman who was near by at the time hearing the report of the pistol ran to him to find that the I bullet had entered on the right side of j the head and passed clear through. ■ that he xvas in a dying condition then. 1 Policeman Hill was notified and at once ordered a hack and had the unfor- , lunate man removed to the city hos pital where he died in a short time after his arrival, without regaining conscious ness. On his person xvas found a. letter ad dressed to his wife and the following note which was read at the coroner’s inquest: "My sGth birthday and twenty fifth anniversary of my marriage.” "Sitting here on this, my 50th birth day and 25tli anniversary of my mar riage. what have I left to look back upon? Life's a failure; the world too hard for me. There is no end except in death. I have tried, I have worked so hard all my life, and this is the end. Oh my God! forgive me for tny misdeed. I do know that I have tried so hard, strug gled so hard: worked, xvorkisl and done all that 1 could. 1 have to reflect in only, that if there was anything more that I could have done I would have done it. May any one who is any xvay interested in this give a favor to my xvife and little daughter. God bless them aud help them! They arc more to me than anything in tills world. Oh. this is our silver anniversary. What of it? No money, no friends, hounded flown by all that should have remt'mbered us and that should have made all pleasant. Where is the difference? May e. good God forgive all—l do not know. Is the special agent here today? I do not know or I ditnot much dire. I have trfied iodo what 1 could for the best and to do all that I could. If there is nothing more I am done. As David said, I had rather fall into the hands of God than i man. Oh, man, made in God's own im ' age. whore art thou that thou art l tempted to judge thy fellow men? I had rather be judged by-God than .man. God is just. Is man always, just? I do j not know.” By his incoherent note it can be seen j that he took his own life on the anni- I versary of his 5G natal day which was also the twenty-fifth anniversary of his wedding day. which makes the end doub ly sad and pathetic. Coroner May held an inquest at the hospital anti the coroner's jury re turned a verdict which stated that the deceased came to his death by a gun shot wound and in their opinion it was suicide. Mr. Sherrrill states that Mr. Staples was st;74.BC> short in his accounts with the company, but that at no time had they pressed him or threatened to pros ecute h:m but on the other hand they | xvere extremely lenient and desired to { assist him out of his trouble as far as j they possibly could. The funeral of Mr. Staples will take ■ place this afternoon at 3:30 o’clock from { his residence at 209 Ellis street and the I folloxving gentlemen xvill act as pall bearers: Capt. Geo. Adam. Capt. Chas. E. Coffin, Capt. Frank Ford. Messrs. B. T. Lowe, W. L. Blatt, J. T. Newbery I and IV. H. Crane. The Confederate surviviors will at- ; tend the funeral in a bady. Webb Lodge. No. I(>6. F. and A. M., i of which the deceased was a member, j will also attend the funeral tn a body. Mr. Staples xvas an active and pop ular member of the Survivors Association and a brave and true soldier haviug gone through the war as a member of ■ the Clinch Rifles. The deepest sympathy of the whole community is extended to the grief stricken family in their hour of sore 1 trial-