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iEORGIA NEWS ITEMS
Interesting Happenings In the
f?tate Gathered at Random.
Truitt*# Cotton
Mr. George W. Trnitt, of Tronp
county, who antagonized ihe mill esti-
mate last year by cue which only miss-
ed the truth by a few thousand halos,
is again in the Hold.
“I figure ont,” said he, “that the
crop bo now coming into market will not
over 9,250,000 hales. This is tbo
maximnm. There are conditions aheal
of ns which may pull even this eiti-
mate down
“For 19012 w-e w,ll again have a
short crop. The exodns of negro labor
to engage iWother callings, the indif-
ferenee whiniralways fs seizes upon them
when there plenty-in the land, will
keep the crop down. The desire of
land owners to increase their acreage
will be more than offset I y the failure
of the negroes to work.
•Aiitugtrt Mill# Shut flown.
The King and Sibley Mills, Angus-
fa’s ftvo largest cotton factories, have
been! temporarily shut down. They
will >levote two weeks to n ak ng some
repots and hope that in this time the
priceol cotton goods may have changed
so a, to have enabled them to rim
again without serious loss.
Oijg ^ini* Stork Exhibit PromUwl.
feature of the Southern Inter-
stall, fair, to be held in Atlanta, lint
bas r,i ( imUittle attention during the
past eJ^Hpriuterest OumB■;« and one that bids fair
eiven^Wsimilar to aud
faivsBll feature.! at former
be the Mock exhibit. Already
njqdfctions pri^leut have been received from
^Kr breeders aud stock raisers
nil the Country for every inch of
su^kom staRef on the grounds, ill be bnilt if nec«s-
RKf^ockaien o w to aeeom-
Ib'clfl,, who wish to exhibit;
ieorg »’* “Noble Example.*'
T. A Cl l«^er just received from Mr. L,
nbertm, chairman of theoxecuj-
tive rosimittee of one hundred in New
York, fays; “Ibe noble example olf
OeorgAis wo* becoming au inspiration t^)
our in other parts of the country.
We argnow seeking to orgauizi more
than ofo northern slate essentially on
thi ’ I’' an -
Y farther extract says: “The pros-
pc it i>the coming llie harvest is far from
natiM fiAory , wanted, emaciated
peasant farmer*, tbeir men being
dead, Jfpve not been .able to properly
}>refit*, their lands. In many in-
stu they nnvfc not »»e< n to
procure the proper seed in proper
quantities. This condition necessitates
crops far below the average. Ami now
I*, “PI*"*, ,hat drought may return.
There can bo no doubt that the situa¬
tion after next November will bo in¬
tensely 'distressful.”
Faction# Most A%r ce.
Chairman F. G. duBignon, of the
Democratic state executive committee,
rays that Chatham couniy comes with¬
in the receut provisions of the state
Committee with regard to organization.
i'llalham has been unable to get a new
executive committee so f.ir, owing to
‘ho disagreement between the local
factions, which has been quite bitter,
Mr. duBignon informs tho
of both factions that they must edmio
fo somo agreement within the nextjfew
.lavs, and if they fail to do eo, lie {rill
K.rder au election held for the purpose
-f selecting an executive committee.
Bo far the local factions havo been; nn-
able to come anywhere near an agree¬
ment.
i ,
America, xiay Build Plant,
Unless the A irginia-Carolina Clfem-
icai company decides to operatej its
fertilizer plant in Americas a local
company Mauds ready to build bnc.
The splendid plant which was built
mid operated by a home company was
sold to tho great gu mo trust. A (tear
ago one of the buildings was burned
and since that time the plant h - , n
closed down aud much of the machine-
jy removed to Macon.
To Cate For Troup*# (Irave.
S< me days ago the Young M cn's
Business League of Dublin inaugnrat-
,-,l a movement to exhume the remains
of Governor George M. Troup, which
are buried just over the line of
1,aureus in Montgomery county , .and
riinter them in Dublin.
To do (his the consent of his njear-
est relatives was necessary It. and alii J but
o,ii , as gwen . assen . . * o V' . F _ ' *! uB • !"
ues a P le 0 11 I,," [Tt 8 0 o *- In 0< A J )r (f 1B
congussmeD, can o , s f i nl, o
fierals e preseu and a other ie prominent re n erni cit . zjjus 8 to
TJ o\erno c ias
nl«*be ,n n ^
A! Dnbf _Jr )a . '
, pijope
Ie tax
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113.50.
( H»n. #»lil P. Shannon P>-»<1.
Hon. Jolm P. Shannon died at El-
berton disease, Sn lie nday morning of Bright’s
had been ill for some
months, but his death was not etpect-
*o soon, He retired Saturday night
baling died »bo>tt as well as usnul.
rather suddenly at 2 o'clock
Sunday morning, Shannon
Colonel was born in Elber-
ton in 185) and has been ono of El-
barton's most prominent and beloved
Mi*ens., dentlal He was at one time a nrosi-
elector of the eighth d.strn it,
* "be* 1,e flrst Cleveland Tl,,a was a Candida h,s nl o for
*l mo - »«* ” y l>°-
M* 1 °«oe. Three years ago he was
? f * he Kn ’S b,B
of n ° nor ,°. f the l!n,,e<1 SlBt, ‘ ! '- B!,tl
I* , reC8 f ^ was re-elected to (hat
|P OB1 ;,, 'iou,
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Ntlii ml I Jo i*d ISM*
The finance committee of the Mon¬
roe oily council met nnd opened
the hid* for the purchase of the issue
of $10,1)00 school bonds. Inquiries
had been made by bond people over
the country and ranch interest was
manifested in the sale. There were
'"•A'’* bh’s handed in . to the commit-
tc< ’- an< ' of * b "“ ) 1,10 1,1,1 <> f Mr. R ihy
the Roblneepi, of At aotn, was found to be
highest, offering a very handsome
premium on the C per cent bonds.
i Fanner.® ta Btrct.
Th-i Cotton Grower-’ Protective As
rociatiou of Columbia county will
met t and organize at Appling on Sep
teruber 2Dlb. Four fifths of the farm-
<*rs of tho comity are expected to nt-
tend. There will also be a delegation
from the Augusta exchange and board
of trade. Also a delegation from Thom-
Colujmh a county is ono of the tavg-
est c >tton growi.ij counties in tho
> tatc.
T»rt>ior To Sprnk lit Amorim®.
lion, John II. Trayor, Populist
nominee for g irornor, will speuk in
Americas on the 27th iusf.
HEAR AT OTHER POINTS.
Number of Victim# of Storm nnd Flood
OuUliie of City of Galteiton,
Following is a revised list of people
killed in the gulf coast storm otttside
of Galveston:
At Arcadie, one; at Alvin, three; on
Choco | ato C reek, four; at Mnrvil,
, hree; on Mustang Creek, one; Area-
n , ne j AngletoD, six; lirookside*
^ wo . Columbia, f°u r » Dickinson, ten;
#t Hitchcock, 42; League City, three;
flt Morgan Point, two; at Patton, 23;
Ruint an t 0# 21; Rosenberg, 19; Rich-
mondf 18; nt Sandy Point, eight; at
SeBbrook(1) 13; at Virginia Point, 13;
Mos „ ing Section, 15; at Velasco, five.
ar „ id tot> , 2 10.
10 SHIELD A “FRIEND.”
fthottago of *20,01)0 1# Found Aftor Sul-
rldo of n Hunk Teller.
A shortage of $20,009 in the Union
National hank at Chicago was discov-
ered Monday through an investigation
prompted by the suicide Sunday of
i, }eo r e° ,, S Forbe _ , *; ■••’Her . of the bank, .
'
I,(,r bc8 , wro,< a farewel no,e to hlB
IU0, 1 lcr 1,1 nhich , , he said.
- i
w,.* weak and let the one I con-
f" 3 ”*' 1 ni ? beHt fr,e “ a « et mto
f ou jl °- 3 , havo " ot hnn R,nce
1,16 of September and do not , know
where lie is,’
fi orbe * 80,0 crlm -> tbo bank officials
, be ' lev<1 was 111 coverln * “P ,bo ac
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C0 | ln ' B of ,bo ‘‘to 01 " 1, ri;,cre<1 t0 ’
/ GUEAT IMUTAIX RECLINES.
/
KijglnnU Tlnwlly S,>ml. an Answer t« line-
.tan Proposition to Quit I'ekln.
A London dispatch of Thursday says:
“Great Britain's reply to tho Russian
proposition for the evacuation of Pekin
was sent two days ago, and, as the
Associated Press forecasted, Great
Bi priior itain declines to evacuate Pekin
to receiving satisfactory gnnran-
from the Chinese government for
U|e“fnlfillment I of certain conditions."
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(wrnegie Rives Check For $10,000.
Tbe Carnegie Steel company, at
P ttsbnrg, Ta,, has contributed $10,-
Of 0 to the fund for the relief of Gal-
vc stop storm offerers.
* ORDERS rf NO! 777u ISSUE! am
.
I - Ch«ffre Withheld
b>» ,r «' ,,on « *® and
I ^rivi" ln Chine.. Aff.»ir« Averted,
A Washington special says: The
ctisis that was near at hand Wednes-
(layover , ,, the evacuation ,• proposal , of; , .
the Russian government has been
averted for a time at least, and the
diplomatic side of the matter has be-
come again « the object J of attention.
Th6 oHer to (}encral chaffee to
leave at once, which was expected in
gome quarters, did not itmie Thurs-
lay. Instead, earnest efforts are
making to arrange the preliminaries
f or (He negotiations which are expected
finally to settle the Chinese troubles,
SOUTHERN BOOKS SELECTED.
fconth CuroUna Htata Board of Education
Make# Clean Sweep.
The agitat on for southern ...... books for
southern children has had an effect on
South Carolina state hoard of edn.-
and in adopting books to be
in the public schools till July 1,
it has made a clean sweep. A
Ya., firm gets the contract
^Stories. famishing all the readers and
UHL ma ll of these books are by southern
^■s and the special history provided
Kns, indorsed by the Confederate
who have taken a lively in-
this matter. No L other books
hso selected can 1 used in the
K>f the state.
ADEL. BERRIEN COUNTY, C.A., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 2!. 1900.
LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE
Formulated by Hon. W. J. Bryan and Transmitted
To Chairman Richardson, of Democratic Noti¬
fication Committee— Its Germane Points.
Following arc the germane features
Mon. W. J, Bryan s letter accepting
(he Dembdratio nomination for presi¬
dent which was given out Monday:
Lincoln, Nr», September 17.—
Hon. James D. Richardson, Chairman,
and Others of the Notification Com¬
mittee of the Democratic National
Convention—Gentlemen: In accept¬
ing Ibe nomination tendered by you on
behalf of the Democratic parly, I beg
to assure honor you of my appreciation by of
the great conferred upon me
the delegates in convention assembled,
and by the voters who gave instruc¬
tion to delegates.
I am sensible of the responsibilities
which test ttpou the chief magistrate
of so great a nation, and realize tho
far-reaching effect of the questions in¬
volved in the present contest.
Iu my letter of acceptance cf 1896,
I made the following pledge:
“So deeply am I impressed with the
magnitude of the power Vested by tho
constitution In the chief executive of
tho nation and with the enormous in¬
fluence which he can wield for tbO
benefit or injury of the people, that I
wish to enter the office, if elected, free
from any personal desire, except Ibe
desire to prove worthy of the confi¬
dence of my countrymen. Human
judgment is fallible enough when un¬
biased by selfish considerations, and,
in order that I may not be tempted to
nse the patronage of the office to ad¬
vance my personal ambition, I hereby
aunouuce, with all the emphasis which
words eao express, my fixed deteftnina*
tiou not, under any circumstances, to
be a candidate for re-election, iu case
tins campaign results in tny election.”
Further reflection aud observation
constrain me to renew adopted this pledge.
The platform at Kanstis
Oily commands ihy cordial and un¬
qualified approval. It courageously
meets the issues now before the
try, nnd states clearly and without
ambignitv the parly's position on
every question considered.
by a convention which assembled on j
the anniversary of the signing of the i
declaration of candor, Independence,it independence breathes ]
the spirit of nnd
patriotism which characterizes those,
who, at Philadelphia in 1776, prownl-
gated the creed of the republic.
Having in my notification speech
discussed somewhat, ut length the
paramount issue, imperialism, and
added some observations on militarism
and the Boer war, it is sufficient at
tbi< lime to review the remaining
plonks of the platform.
TtttisT questions;.
The platform very properly gives
prominence to ibe trust question. The
appalling growth o! (luring combinations in
restraint, of trade the present
administration, proves conclusively lacks
that (ho Republican party either
the desire or the ability to deal with
the question effectively.
INTERSTATE COMMERCE.
The Republican party bas
tently refused to comply with tbo ur¬
gent request of tho interstate
merce commission, for such an en¬
largement of tho scope of the inter
state commerce law as will enable the
commission to realize the hopes arous¬
ed by Us creation. The Democratic
party is pledged to legislation which
will empower the commission to pro¬
tect individuals and communities from
discrimination, and the public at large
from unjust and unfair tiausporfation
rates.
tfie financial plank.
-ppo platform reiterates the demand
contained in. the Chicago platform for
n n American financial system made by
tho American people for themselves.
The purpose of such a system is to
restore aud maintain a bimetallic levol
0 f prices, nnd in order that there may
g 0 „ 0 uncertainty as to the method of
rog t or j D g bimetallism, the specific de-
c i nra tinri in favor of free and nnlimit-
ed coinage at the existing ratio of 16
to 1, independent of the action of otk-
er nations, ib repeated.
Now the Republican parly, for the
'’ of mP the ' °P double el, ly abandons standard, its and adyo-
cacy m-
dorses the monetary system which it
ha „ 80 0 ft en an d so emphatically con-
detuned. The Democratic party, on
the contrary, remains the steadfast
INDIANS THREATEN TROUBLE.
p,., in Colorado xfen.c. Hetil.iw In San
M.gu.-i c«n,ir.
An Indian outbreak is threatened in
San Migncl county, Colorado, accord-
ingt0 a *i ifpatc h received by Governor
Thomas Monday. The information Avas
contained in a letter from the poetmaa-
ter at Cedar, Col.
The governor sent a telegram to the
secretary of the interior demanding
that steps be taken to protect the set¬
tlers.
Telegrams to Indian agents and
game wardens asking them to investi¬
gate affairs at Cedar were also sent by
the / governor. The nearest troops are
t Duche8 ne. Utah.
Price of Coal Advances.
The effects of the anthracite coal
miners' btrifce have already been felt
j n Chicago. Every dealer in the city
raised the price Monday from S6.25 to
57, This is only the beginning of
what is expected if the strike continues.
,,0O<! from ^ Galveston 0r l l ’ sUtes that . the ..
News
city now has a fairly good water ser-
vice, will have eleetno hghts in part
of the business portion at once and
that * f«w street cars are running.
ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM.
advocate constitution, of the gold and is silvef coinage
of the and nut willing
that other nations shall determine for
us the time and manner of restoring
silver to its ancient place as a standard
money. The ratio of 1(1 to 1 is not
only the ratio now existing betwoou all
ilio gold and silver dollars iu circula¬
tion iu this country, n ratio which even
tho Republican administration has not
attempted to change, but it is the only
fotio advocated by thoso who are seek¬
ing to reopen the mints,
The demand for a constitutional
amendment providing for the election
of senators by direct vote of the peo¬
ple appears for the first time in a
Democratic platform. New eoudith its
have made it imperative that thepeoplo
be permitted to speak directly in tbo
selection of their representatives in
tho senate.
The platform iudorsos tho principle
of direct legislation. This is already
applied to the more important ques¬
tions iu nation, stnto and city.
The platform renows the demand
for arbitration between corporations
nnd their employees.
I Cnnhot too strongly emphasize the
importance of tho platform recom¬
mendation of the establishment of a
department of labor,with a member of
the cabinet at its head.
The Chinese exclusion act lms prov¬
en an advantage io the country, and
its continuance and strict enforce-
ment, as well ns its extension to other
similar races, are imperatively neces¬
sary.
The party expresses its pride in the
soldiers nnd sailors of ottr wars, and
declares its purpose to deal generously
with them aud their dependents. A
liberal policy is natural depends and necessary
in a government which on its
citizen soldiery, instead of a largo
standing army.
. The Democratic party is in favor of
the immediate construction, owncr-
*bip nnd control of the Nicarnttga
onnnl by tbo United States,
T here will bo a popular acquiescence
11 the demand for home rule, and a
territorial form of government in
Alaska nnd Porto llico. Both are en-
to local self-government and
representation iu congress,
The recognition contained in both
'ho Democratic and Republican plat-
fo. ms of tlio right of the Cubans to
independence principle removes the general
involved from the domaiu of
partisan politics. It is proper, liow-
over, to consider whether tho nccum-
jdisliroent of this purpose can be
safely entrusted to tne Republican
ar af, cr it has to tho allure¬
ments of the colonial idea aud aban¬
doned its earlier faith in the natural
and inalienable rights of man.
The reasons given by Washington,
Jefferson and the other statesmen of
that early days in support of the doc¬
trine we should maintain friendly re¬
lations with all nations, hut enter into
entangling alliances with none, are
even stronger today than they were a
hundred years ago. We cannot con¬
nect ourselves with European nations,
and share in their jealousies and am¬
bitious without losing tho peculiar
advantage which ottr location, our
character and ottr institutions give us
in tho world's affairs.
The doctrine enunciated by Monroe
and approved by succeeding presi¬
dents is essential to the welfare of the
United Stales.
By iuadv'.rtcnce the income tax plank
agreed upon by the resolutions com¬
mittee was omitted from the platform
a? read and adopted. The subject,how¬
ever, is covered by the reaffirmation
of the Chicago platform, and 1 take
this occasion to reassert my belief iu
the principle which underlies the in¬
come tax.
iMrnnuniSM.
The subjects, however, treated in
this letter, important as each may seem
in itself, do not press so imperatively
for solution as the question which tho
platform declares to be the paramount
issue in ibis campaign. Whether we
shall adhere to, or abandon those
ideas of government which have dis¬
tinguished this nation from other na¬
tions and given to its history its pecu¬
liar charm and valne, is a question the
settlement of which cannot be delayed.
No other question can approach it in
importance; no other question demands
such immediate consideration.
CREMATED IN NURSERY.
Six Sal%'atIon Anny l’eoplo Lose ThoJr
J.iv'e# In a Fire at Cincinnati.
A branch nursery of the Salvation
at No. 403 East Front street-,
burned Monday evening
six persons were killed, two fatal¬
injured and four serionsly injured.
the dead bodies were burned to a
AH the victims and thoso injured
in the nursery, except one,
Hawkins, who went to the res¬
of his orphans. There wore twentty
the nursery on the upper floors at the
of the fire and eight of them es¬
without injury.
THE I. 0. 0. F. GRAND LODGE
Hold# 11# Pf-venly-Sixth Commnnicatlon
In Richmond, Virginia.
The seventy-sixth communication of
the sovereign grand lodge, Independ¬
Order of Odd Fellows, commenced
Richmond, Va., Monday. The at-
was large, the enthusiasm
and the weather perfect. The
bids fair to be the most suc¬
in the unnals of the great or^
BILL ARP’S LETTER.
Passing Away of Friends Causes
Bartow Man to Ruminate.
THREE GAVE UP LIFE ON SAME DAY
Tliey Were Colonels Moore, Mynatt nnd
l>r. Goetclilu. Alt GOiiil Hea.
How like a Imtlerlly onr thoughts
flit from flower to flower feeding upon
the ever-chauging mental foods.
Sometimes they soar to heaven or nes¬
tle among tho stars, but their home is
here among our people, our friends
and kindred nnd tho concerns of our
daily life. Who has not wondered
how he canle to bo thinking of this
thing or that and traced it back to
somelhiug wholly irrelevant, but lead¬
ing it on by shadowy Hues. But a lit¬
tle while ago I was sadly thinking
about the sudden death of three
more of ray good friends—friends
whom I loved and everybody loved
who knew them. Mr. Moore, of Au-
tmrn; Colonel Mynatt, of Atlanta, and
Dr. Goetchius, of Home, left ns on
the same tho day. They were good men
nnd world was made better by
their presence.
Goetchius, I was thinking especially ajbotit Dr.
the preacher, whose jour¬
ney and destination was so suddenly
changed, for lie had bought his tickot
for Tallulah Falls, there to spend his
vacation, and was to take the train at
3 o’clock. He rose from his bed at 2
and at 3 ho was dead and his spirit
soaring heavenward. Then I thought
about Mrs. Barbauld's lines thut fit so
well!
“Ltfel we linvo been long together
In pleasant and In cloudy weather;
'Tls hard to part when friends aro dear,
Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh or tear.
Then Steal rtWny—giVo llttlo warning;
Choose thin') own time,
Say not goodnight, but in some brighter
Him o
Did me good morning.”
Then I ruminated about that, won¬
derful woman. How she was the first
to write story books for the children
nnd hymns for the church aud how her
1 fc children was spent-in tlio schoolroom among
lire that she loved. And then
I recalled thut beautiful hymn thatsho
wrote:
“How blest tho rtghteou.i whon ho dies,
When sinks tho weary soul to rest.
How mildly Imam tho closing eyes,
How gently heaves the expiring breast.”
And then I thought of the words of
Balaam, Upon which tlmt hymn was
founded, “Ohl may I die the death of
the righteous and may lily last end bo
like His.”
Aud this reminded me of those other
words of Balaam? “What bath God
wrought?” That was the first mes¬
sage sent over a telegraph wire. It
was sent from Washington to Balti¬
more by Miss Anna Ellsworth, the
daughter of the commissioner of pat¬
ents. She had been very kind to
Professor Morse and bo had promised
that she should send the first mes¬
sage. This was sent on the 24th day
of May, 1844, and two days later Balli- the
second messago was sent from
more to Washington, announcing that
James K. Polk had been nominated
for president. I
I remember all this, for was in
college then. But still the people were
incredulous and waited for the mail
train to bring (ho news. Then I ru¬
minated on the hard lot of great in¬
ventors, and how Morse spent all of
his small estate and received but little
encourngoment, beiug so utterly poor
that he had to go without food at times
for twenty-four hours, and how lio
pleaded with congress for three years
in vain for an appropriation to help
him perfect and build a line to Balti¬
more—and bow at the very last, when
he was in despair and had given up all
hope, congress did at midnight, on the
last $30,000, dav of the session, Ellsworth liass Hie bill
for and Anna came
runn ing to him in delighted haste aud
told him the good news. What an
agonizing life he had led during all
these yearB, for he had been refused
help nt home and had been to England
and to France fn search of it and found
it not.
jssitras i. “r —
it was refused and he was constrained
to sell to private parties, en invention
that Boon came to be worth one hun¬
dred millions. But he died full of
years and full of honors, aud even
France made him a donation of 400,-
000 francs. What a wonderful man—
perhaps the greatest all around that
ever lived—-for he was a painter of d>s-
tinotion and renown, the pupil and
Ihe peer of Allston and West and fhe
city of Charleston was hi* best friend
and patron and has now bis portraits
of Monroe and LaFoyette. He war a
sculptor, an architect, a philosopher
and a poet, and would have-, reached
the top in all had he not become so ah
sorbed in harnessing the U ;htning. As
a matter of course he was kept in litiga¬
tion several years and other parties
tried to steal Ins invention, but the
supreme court of the United States
did finally affirm everything that ho
claimed. He died in 1872 in his eighty-
first year. rested for awhile
Here my thoughts Goetchius
and then returned to Dr.
and the many other friends who havo
gone before and have left me almost
alone. How fondly onr minds cling
to the friends of onr mates—aud youth—onr
schoolmates and college
every now and then wo hear of an-
other who has dropped out gf jine,
nnd liko tbo barber in n barber shop,
>>ld Father 'litno .wki-pers "next.'*
My dcnr old friend Jim Warren still
lives to greet me whon I come and so
does Chess Howard and Dr, Alexander
and his brother and Evan Howell.
Then I recalled the grand and bcauti-
fnl words of Ingalls spoken in his
eulogy ''The on Senator Beck.
right to livo is, in human
estimation, the moBt sacred, the
most inviolable, the most iualieu-
nble, The joy of living in such
a splendid and luminous day as this
is inconceivable. To exist is exulta¬
tion. 'To live forever is onr anblimest
hope. To know, to lover to achieve,
to triumph, is rapture; and yet wo urn
all under seutence of death. Without a
trial or opportunity of defense, with
no knowledge of the accuser or the
nature and causo of the accusation;
without being confronted with the
witnesses against us, we have been
summoned to the bav of life and con¬
demned to death. 'There is neither
exculpation nor appeal. The tender
mother cries passionately for mercy
for her first born, but there is
no clemency. The craven felon sul¬
lenly prays for a moment in which to
be aneled, but there is no reprieve.
The soul helplessly beats its wings up¬
on the bars, shudders and disappears.
“But the death of a good man is
not «n inconsolable lamentation. It
is a strain of triumph and he may ex¬
claim with the Roman poet, 'Non
omnis Moriar,’ and turning to the
slleut and unknown future can rely
with just and reasonable confidence
upon that most impressive assurance
ever delivered to the humau race, ‘He
that beliavoth in me, though he were
dead, yet shall ho live and whosoever
liveth aud believeth in me shall never
die.’ ”
Mr. Ingalls might have added one
more shadow to his dark picture of
death by saying that he not only con¬
demned ub without trial or witnesses
or an accuser,but the pitiless old rascal
would not even give the date of our
execution nor the manner of it. We
are to die, that is certaiu, but when
or how or where we know not. Think
of Dr. Goetchius, dressed at 2 o’clock
with pleasant anticipations of a rest at
Tallulah, amid Ibe sound of falling
waters that soothe the soul, blit with¬
in au hour ho was a kelploss, lifeless
corpse.
Senator Ingalls was a gifted man —
not a word painter, but a thought en¬
graver. For years he was our enemy
and harbored prejudice against onr
people, but after be had visited Texas
and studied the negro and his raeo
traits, he returned homo and declared
that he was unfit and unworthy of
freedom or any political franchise.
But enough of this. Now let me
add that up to this date I have re¬
ceived oue hundred and seventeen
copies of the poem that I asked for,
and the number increases with every
mail. They have come from every
southern state. I began to write
pleasant Words and thanks to those
who have troubled themselves to please
me, but I have had to stop, for uiyold
eyes are weak and mv hand gets tired.
I can only thank them all at once ami
say how grateful I am that so many
know what I did not know. It hum¬
bles my pride and tnkes away some of
my vanity.
Some of my scattered friends give
the authorship to Miss Flora Hastings,
Queen Victoria’s maid of honor, and
some to George D. Prentice, and oue
to S. S. Proutis, but the largo major¬
ity are correct in naming Charles
Mackay. He was born in Perth,
Scotland, iu 1812, and during our
civil war was the American corre¬
spondent of The London Times. He
easily stood first among the modern
English poets, and was the author of
many prose works.—Btnn Anr in At¬
lanta Constitution.
BLOODY WORK CONTINUES.
Vanatlcisl Chinos* Keep Up Wholeaal*
Murder of Missionaries.
A London special says: All the cor¬
respondents in Cl-iina are sending ter¬
rible stories of the wholesale massacre
of missionaries and native Christians.
It is asserted that during July between
15,000 aud 20,000 converts were mas¬
sacred in the northern provinces.
Large numbers of missionaries are
still unaccounted for.
Native reports are subject to the
most careful scrutiny, with the result
that although there mny lio some
aggeration, it is impossible to doubt
,n
»—««
Committee Canvasses Wetnrns of the Re¬
cent Primary Xn South Carolina.
A Columbia special says. The state
executive committee Friday night can-
vft88C d the returns of the late primary.
>L vo te for governor was 88,775,
ftt) Governor McSweeney’s majority
OT i r Colonel Hoyt was 13,951.
.GoU'riN James Tillman received 18,-
g(;2 votes than Colonel Sloane
f 0 /]\cj tenant governor. J. H. Wliar-
,j e / ea ted W. D. Evans, present
^ c ihairin% of 'he railroad commission,
'jbAcarborough Lieutenant Governor B,
g. ^>ngre»s defeats James Norton
f or by 1,071.
IiA&KAWANNA MINERS OUT.
Anticipate tho Great Strike Order By
Thi««
A special from Scranton, Pa., says:
On Friday, three days before the strike
order went into effect, 15,000 of the
30,000 miners went on a strike; twenty-
one of the ninety-seven collieries were
forced into idleness and by noon Bat-
urday nearly all of the collieries of
the Lackawanna region were one by
one forced to suspend, until only a
few of them were doing anything at
all and these few were badly crippled
by shortage of hands.
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NO. 30.
PURSES OPEN
TO GALVESTON
People of the Connfry Vie With
Each Oilier In Extending Help.
CASH ANB PROVISIONS POUR IN
Condition of City Is Still AppalHngf
and Unearthing of Dead Bodies
Continue—Anarchy Ended.
From all parts of the United States
and many portions of England many
thousands of dollars ore pouring into
Houston for the relief of Texas’ desti¬
tute storm sufferers. Train loads of
provisions nnd clothing are also hurry¬
ing towards Galveston, and those of
tho refugees who have arrived in
Houston are being made as comfort¬
able a s possible. Estimates of tho
number of dead still vary.
Mayor Jones, of Galvoston, main¬
tains his opinion, given earlier, Hint
tho number will be no less than At*
thousand. Property losses are mount¬
ing higher ns further details arrive
and somo estimate for the city of Gal¬
veston reach as high as twenty million
dollars. There are 25,000 liomeles.
people iu tho city to be taken care of,
nnd it is a question whether Galveston
can or will rebuilt. There seems to
be n disposition on the part of the
leading citizens, howover, to start res¬
olutely where tho storm left off and
raise a new city from tbo ruins of the
old.
Tho military is patrolling the streets
nnd looting has been given a set-baek.
Several additional cases have been re¬
ported where vandals have boon shot
down while robbing the dead, but
troops aro rapidly gaining contxol of
the lawless demont.
Though tlio city appears to be piti¬
lessly desolated, the authorities and
the comme.rcinl and industrial interest#
aro sotting their forces to work nnd s
start has at least been made toward
tho resumption of business on a mod¬
erate scale. Tho liquor saloons have
at least temporarily gone out of the
business, aud every strong-limbed man
who has not bis own humble abode to
lock after is beiug pressed into service
so that, first of all, the water service
may bo resumed, the gutters flashed
and the streets lightod.
The further the reapers dig in the
ruins the greater becomes tho increase
in tho list of those who porished as
their homes tnmblod about tbeir heads.
On the lower beach Thursday a search¬
ing party found a score of corpses
within a slight area, going to show
that the bulwark of debris that lies
straight across the island conceals many
more bodies than have already been
accounted for.
Volunteer gangs continue their work
of hurried burial of the corpses they
find on the shores of Galveston at tho
many neighboring points where fatal¬
ities attended the storm. It will
probably bo some days yot, however, have
boforo all the floating bodies;
found nameless graves. Along the
bench they are constantly boing wash¬
ed up. Whether these are those %bo
were swept out into tho gulf and
drowned, or ore simply the return
ashore of some of those cast into the
Hca to guard against terrible pesti¬
lence, there is no means of knowing.
The city still presents the appear-
ance of widespread wreck and ruin.
Little has been done to cleaT the
streets of the terrible taugle of wires
and the masses of wreck, mortar, slate,
stone aud glass that bestrew them.
In various parts of tho city the smell
of decomposed flesh instances is still apparent.
Wherever such are found
the authorities are freeiy disinfecting.
Ex-Millionaire a Bankrupt.
David D . Mackey filed a petition in
b k * t f in the United States court
at Evansville Thursday. HU4.iabdi- * £
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BANNA ADDRESSES H00SIERS.
Senator Oreeled lly Audience or 5,000
At M.Iplii, Imllanft.
Benator Marcus A. Hanna addressed
the Republicans of the ninth congres¬
sional district of Indiana at Delphi,
Saturday. A large crowd had assem¬
bled at the train and a procession es¬
corted the senator to the courthouse
square, where be addressed, an audi¬
ence of about 5,000 people. Congress¬ chair¬
man Charles B. Landis acted as
man of the meeting and introduced
Benator Hanna, who was greeted with
great applause.
Mobile Citizens Contribute.
The Mobile cotton ex o sub-
scriptiona for Gnlvestoq r tut-
ed to 8580, and the pah
tiou to §1,515, without »n \Bi
beiug done. The revenue ter
norm has been ordered from Mobj
Galveston.
_ Sends Tn
Governm#**
Tho 3a vy department lit
tbe gunboats Bancroft, no
London, Conn., and the tu|
ft t Pensacola, Fla., toi proof
veaton, Tex., to furnish wt
f((0 to >U« 9tom sufferers,
