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VOL. 12.
CHINESE EDICTS
r-n CX3
Sincerity of Imperial Government
IfUIII/lvU HnnhfA/l DV Rv DipiOIUalb. Hlnlnmifc
AMERICA MAY BE HOODWINKED
Report Conics 1 hat the Orientals
Have Voluntarily Begun Pun¬
ishment of Boxer Leaders.
A London special says: Beyond a
on ruber of imperial edicts, which
throw into still worse confusion the
complicated Chinese situation, there
was little in Sunday’s news to arrest
attention From Shanghai comes an
unconfirmed report that the allies l isve
eeizei* Shan Hai ICwan,
All tho news w itli regard to the edicts
emanates from Shanghai. According
to these advices, in addition to the
edicts ordering Grand Councillor Knn
Kang to off.T oblations before the
coffin of Baron Von Ketteler and *l\e
edict directing that Li Hung Chang's
entire plau be followed in regard lo
the punishment of the princes and
liigh ministers of state respon&iBle for
tho anti-foreign outrages, -__' and the
•decree ordering tbit funeral Ik. oners
Be paid in Pekin nod Tokio to the
1 cumins of Englyama Akira, the 111 ur
. ..
dcrod chancellor of the Japanese lega¬
tion, Emperor IvwaugSu ha. addressed
further letters to tho oztr and Hie mi¬
kado rcuewiug his request for their
aid in the pence negotiations.
Various pinions are expressed as to
*hc importance of the edicts and Hie
ssineerity of the Chinese. While those
•edicts have promulgated, however,
feverish war preparations arc still ro-
poite.l from Shanghai, and riew ap¬
pointments havo beeu made to the
Chinese army and navy.
“The Chinese Official Gazette lias
resumed piiblicatu in, says the Pekin
correspondent of ’ 1'h he London Morn¬
ing Post writing September 2'th,
“and contains an <>rd. r directing the
Pekin officials to follow the court un¬
less their duties In re prevent them
leaving.”
enins son its otnt svoofbtiosb.
Important :ws reached Washing-
ton 4 . hatorday u afternoon, which .... in itself ,,
tends to advance materially the efforts
for a final settlement. China has an-
s'cptcd the suggestions of the United
States contained iu the answer to the
German proposition, and liai heg-^n
voluntarily the punishment of the re
actionary CH ae leaders who were
responsible for the Pekin outrages
Tim department of Btalo was informed
by Consul General Good now, atShang-
hai.tUalSheug.Cliiuesc director of
ways and telegraphs, has handed him
a decree of the emperor and empress,
dated at Talgii.m, September 25lh,
Mauling their ministers for euconrsg-
ing the boxers. The edict orders the
degradation of four princes and do-
prices Prince Tuan of his salary and
official servants. He is to he brought
for trial before Hie imperial clan court,
It will be recalled that in onr answer
the stafo department was careful to
state that while it did not believe in
demanding the surrender of the Chi-
neso ringleaders as a condition price-
.lent to negotiations, it was resolved
firmly, as Secretary Hay had said in
his note of July 3d, that in the end
the guilty parties should he hold to
tho uttermost accountability The
Chinese government has taken this in
timation to heart, and perhaps hasten
ed in iis action by the recent manifes
tatious of dissatisfaction by the United
States government at the reported pro-
iiiotion of Prince Tain, already has
iwgnn the paniHUracnt of Jnm ana tho
other Chincftc leaders who are held
guilty.
r.URSIA WITHDRAWS FRoM FEKI.V.
.... , . . .
r r.kin ki n on ’! September s TteTlT o -> 0 - the ,rr Russian a
comrnander General Lincvitcb, an-
minuetd the mini. -i.nto withdrawal
from 1 Skin of the look of the Russian
troops and the legation, there will
remain a mixed force of rbont 2,000 to
represent Rnssia.
MAX¥ WORKING AT GALVESTON.
•--
Nvarij- Two Ttions.nd Mf. Aro Knaagod
In Cte.rln* »>.»«.*.
Nearly two thousand men are cn-
gaged at Galveston clearing the streets,
removing debris and disposing of.lend
bodies. twenty-five bodies were re-
covered Wednesday and thirty-five
ltinrsday._
rbilariMnlnaN fiift to t>n]TPK<on
citizens’ e/ perraoncut “a relief com
Ph <■!«»“ ph bas voted JL $20
■ im
H TIia romiHonna f
f
Road Officials Adjourn.
meeting of the executive officers
of the westernroads adjourned
Chicago Thursday after failing to or-
gsnize the four territorial committees.
Considerable progress, however, was
made in the matter of agreeing to ter¬
ritory.
Fx-Polfceroan a Robber.
At Savannah, Ga., Thursday, Ex-
jliceman J. B. York was convicted
kie fcof$200. superior court of robbing A.
He was sentenced to
T HE ADEL NEWS.
M’REE DENIES CHUMS.
Superi n tended t of Lowndes Cou nty
Chnlngang Says Edmondson
Has Sprung Boomerang.
In an interview with Mr. McRoo, one
of tho nnperinteudeute of the Lowndes
«*«•<* a*, chaining, referring to
°* Mr. J. YV. Edmondson,
the attorney of Quitman, against the
Lowndes county ebaingang, an account
nf of * which hinh Vma has ,nst i. appeared , in . u tho pa-
pers, he said, among other things:
“The charges are btlt x boomerang
aud the motive of Mr. Edmondson is
concealed. The truth is, Mr. Edmond-
son is a brother-in-law of Mr. M. Brice,
owner and proprietor of the Brooks
county ebaingang. Mr. Brice lias a
contract with some counties for tho
misdemeanor convicts and recently in
one county we made a contract with
some misdemeanor convicts, agreeiug
to pay their tinea aud let them goto
Kinderton and cook with ns, rather
than be confined at Brice’s camp under
the feutence.
“Mr Prico learned of this and Mr.
Edmondson, his attorney, came to our
place and stated that he had been ei -
ployed by Mr. Brice, his brother-lti
law and proprietor of tho Brooks Cottu
ty i-haingang, to investigate tho mat
ter and get those men away from
place hi cause, lie said, we had inter
fered with him wlieu we paid
tho fines, as he wanted the
convicts at hia works in Brooks
county He was short of laborers
We explained our contract with them
aud what wo had done. He was given
access to them and wo find that ho did
his utmost to induce them to leave our
place, and they refused to do so.
“Ho also claimed that I 10 was repre¬
senting some relatives of parties ha
insisted wore illegally restrained of
their liberty, not in tho Lowndes
county ehaiugaug, nor by any of its
superintendents, hut by Mr. W. 8.
McHoe, w ho does not work nny con
victs but works freo labor aud con
ducts a farm adjoining oars, and when
assured that they worn not legally re¬
strained he said that if allowed to see
the laborers on the McKee place, and
they were illegally restrained, ho would
not he making charges and bringing
habeas corpus proceedings to test these
questions, lie accordingly was allow¬
ed to go alone among the employees of
W. 8 McUcc, and wo are assured by
the negroes that I 10 sought to induce
theiu to leave by offering a better posi¬
tion to them, and if they would meet
him at Corbett's bar in Valdosta lie
would give them money to go and gel
the position he referred to—Brice's,
"lie succeeded then iu getting only
R >x out of the crowd aud three of this
nnni b or , failing to meet him in Val
dosta, returned to work at McKee’s
place. Unsatisfied, Mr. Edmondson,
in order to get these servants away and
get them w here ho could offer
them f uflioieut inducement to leave
their employment, filed habeas corpus
proceedings fora uuttibor of women
and children and they were carried at
once before the city court of Valdosta,
where the case Was trio 1, Mr. Edmond-
* ou appearing aud representing his
case.
“Before tho trial was over Mr. Ed
loondaoii stated to the court tho weak
ne,,B of his contention and judgment
"'“i* rendered against his clieut for the
cost, nnd declaring them not legally
restrained, lint Edmondson succeeded
and then in decoying away with theso him servants, carried
he and a party
them to Brooks county. Everything
ft t the county gang, or at onr place,
has always been open to inspection by
the prison commission, county com¬
missioners and grand juries, and is
now.”
CHINAMEN KEPT ON BOARD.
C*ptnln nf VesRftl Refused to f.ct Crew of
Oriental* hund In Hnvannah,
Tlio steamship Eltrickdalo arrived
at Savannah with twenty-nine China-
men in the crew Health Officer
Brnnner delunn(lefJ tbat Uiey be ma(Jo
to sleep ashore in accordance with the
city ordinance tp«
Pantnin Sionnrt ?‘ 0 * f r1/>ctin«.l te f <rteo !,,.*
Chipamea into the cart of , tho city,
exchision'ict" 0t ,aD<l thom
undcMho under the exclusion act.
4ho treasury department ad used
the collector of tho port that the (Anna-
men must not he allowed to leave the
vessel, and gnar.ls were stationed
aboard it to sec that they do not get b
on #bore _
INTOLERANCE CONDEMNED.
Teller County,Colorado, Xlemocral*.Ailnpt
irong i«,out.>n».
„ 1,0 ielltr Lolo., Demo-
cratic convention, and the Democratic
club of Victor adopted the following
rc(c l u tions unanimously: and
.* whereas, Governor Roosevelt
party were not received in Victor with
the tolerance and courtesy -date,therefore, due to tho
T ““ “■* '’"Tm
o! \ icioT- 12 convention af^cmhled,
and disavow all responsibility for the
disturbances.”
YON KETTELER’S SLAYER
-
Conrt.nartiaie.i at ivki.,, lint Sentence x.
Deferred For Good
Advices from Pekin state that the
_ Mancha r assassin of . Baron T> von Ket- .
telcr was tried by conrtmartial Thurs-
<la L new evidence was preaented
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ADEL. BERRIEN COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY. OCTOBER 5. 1900.
GE0KG1A NEWS ITEMS
Brief Summary of Interestinf
Happenings Culled at Random.
Tiilk of ft New lliillrcmtl.
Bnmor(l nro rife in regM(1 Eaton- , he
Building of a now railroad from
ton to Hiloam, Green county, By way
of the sU « of tho old Lon « f * 0 '
tory, on the Oronee rivet 1 . AY bo is at
, h «W k of (bi , movei when it win be
built and other details connected with
it, is uot known. It is said, though,
that in tho near future work on tbo
road will begin,
Arbitrators chnneo Vatu*,
Tim arbitrators '"loo of appointed to system’s assess
^e lr,le the Plant
Property in Georgia have returned
,lleir rp P nr t to Comptroller General
W - A - "’right, Under this assess-
mcn *> which is final and binding on
both the road and the state, the value-
tiou placed on tho property in ques¬
tion by the comptroller general is
slightly reduced in each ease, while
the fignrea originally offered by the
Plant system ate materially increased.
The fact of general interest about
the arbitrators’ report, however, is
that they have, without authority, al¬
though probably unintentionally, gone
ahead and raised and lowered as they
saw fit valuations on certain Plant
system properties that were not in
ontroveray. - lower¬
In oucinstnnce the board lias
ed to less than half the the Value placed
on them by the road all sido tracks
of the Savannah, Florida and Western,
the Wiiyeross division, the Brunswick
and Western branch and the Charles¬
ton anil Western branch. All side¬
tracking on tho lines are valued uni¬
formly by the arbitrators at $ 2,000 per
ihile, whereas they have always iu the
past been returned, somo of them, at
twice and three times that valuation.
The Gainesville branch, the Monti-
oello branch, tho Albany branch and
the Junction branch, all of the Plant
system, in rognrd to wliioh no contro¬
versy whatever had arisen, havo all
boon changed in value by the arbitra¬
tors, some being appraised at a higher
and soma at a lower figure than here¬
tofore.
The qncstion now arises, will the
changes iu tho valuations suggested by
tho arbitrators in the easo of property
where the stnte anil the Plaut system
were thoroughly agreed, ho allowed to
stand? Comptroller General Wright
is satisfied that the changes were made
under a misunderatAiiding, and on this
belief, lie refused to express an opin¬
ion as to wether or not, tho changes
would be allowed to stand.
I>«»j»/»rti»i«iit Shows Lftrffn Revenue.
The annual report of Commissioner
of Agriculture O.B. Htevcnsfor the fis¬
cal year ending October 1st will show
that the net income of the state from
the agricultural department is upw ard
of $87,000.
The income of the department of
agriculture is derived from two sources,
the inspection of fertilizers and the
inspection of illuminating oils. From
tho former $25,492.48 has been real¬
ized during the year now closing, which
is the largest revenue, by several thou¬
sand dollars, ever obtained through
the inspection of fertilizers. The net
income from this source last year
amounted to only $15,833, or practi¬
cally $ 10,000 less than is shown for
the present year. the froai
The decided gain to state
the inspection of fertilizers is due, of
course, to the fact that more of the
manufactured product has been in¬
spected than ever before, but also it is
accounted for in the fact that Co mrnis
sioner Stevens obtained his fertilizer
tags at a remarkably low fignre and
has given constant attention to this
department of his work
“The law provides,” said Commis-
sioner Stevens, “that tho net revenuo
from the inspection of fertilizers shall
8 ° with the revenue from oil inspcc-
'ions to the common school fund of the
state, I T think, .. . * however, . that it ahould
go to the education of the
c * a88e8 ' *° ^e P 00 P' e who use fertili-
ers from which the income is derived,
,.g 0 f a - nH my department ts
corned the year has been a successful
one for tho state, as is shown by the
ne t revenue from its two sources of
j ncome> ar ,d p am thoroughly satisfied
wj(h the showing that has been made.”
... * * *
A.k Only Hair Par-
The members of the general conrt-
martial which recently tried several
cases at Savannah met Saturday night
and decided to accept from the state
Qn , hal( tb(1 pay allowod by law for
their services. Instead of $5 a day
wb j ob they are allowed they will re-
ce j ve on ] y $2.60. This action was
due to some criticism on account of
the great expense attached to tho
courtmartialand to a desire to help
military canae in the state. This
does not apply to the judge advocate,
Lieutenant D. C Barrow Jr nor the
Z&rzsSrA mg nve memoen oi Si Si? ,[ Lieu- ow-
ssitsst. , „ T <r .
SOD Captain C. H. Richardson and
» Richter.
Lieutenant George
■«•? '«»*"- T ”«
A reward is offered by the executive
department for the arrest, with proof
to convict, of Ik© Ttlgglo, OI Wftlton
county, . barged with the murder of
William ftpellmra ‘ m that county on
Jannf , ry 16 h Th# amonnt of reward
was flr.jd by Governor Candler at $150,
RD(1 )t ig believed tbat Tuggle, who is
said to be now in tbe neighborhood of
his crime, will soon be oaj?i nre d-
One man, who was chai ned with he-
ia * acce ’ aor * t0 ,he “nrd> of Spoil
ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM.
man, has already been tried and sen-
tenced therefor to the penitentiary for
life
t*re© I.ltlraFy Cdrh«r-fctttne Lnl<L
With interesting exercises the cor¬
ner-stone of the Carnogio library was
laid at Atlanta Saturday. The exor¬
cises took place on tho site of tho new
building,corner of Forsyth and Church
streets. The foundations of tho new
building were decorated in the nation¬
al colors and presented apretiy scene.
Tile various municipal departments,
members of the general conned, state
and aounty officials, prominent repre-
trades «"Uov« »t mo professions and tho
a id a Inigo conoouiso of citi-
’tens generally were present. The pu¬
l'd* of the public schools aud their
-cHollers were in evidence in largo
iitiubors.
in Inr.r C In Fofttpofif'd.
The hearing in the ease of the boun¬
ll ty, dispute between Gwinnett and
all comities, which was sot by see-
einry loud of Slate October Phillip Cook for last
iy, 1st, has been post-
ned mdr finitely at the request of
i|6 counsel for ilall.
It. will he remembered that Under a
’ nrv 7 recently made of the line run-
ning hetweea Gwinnett and Hall, the
utter county is given posesston of sev-
oral thousand acres of laud formerly
in dispute. I ho survey, which would
otherwise have gone oil record os de-
scribing tho true ami legal line, lias
oceii excepted to by the officials of
Gwinnett at their request Secretary
oolc, who is tho final arbiter in conn*
iy Boundary disputes, hiifl agreed to
pass on the survey,
llun til on Will Occur tit Augusttn,
Major General Clement A. Evans
has issued a general order concerning
the coming reunion of tho Georgia
division of confederate voterans, which
i» to ho hold iu November, at Augusta.
In Hi is order lie urges that each camp
in the division shall adopt a badge and
tako to tho reunion 11 distinctive ling
or banner.
Scute ltatilut.
In the Franklin superior court, at
Carftosville Hie past week Heury Davis,
colored, charged with assault upon the
person of Georgia Tribble, a small
colored girl of about twelve years of
age, was convicted and sentenced to
hang Nov, 9th. The crime, it is al¬
leged, was committed on tho Utli day
of August. The defendant is about
fifty-five years old, and hasn family of
grown children.
Mftffitn'* Street Fnlr n Suocomi.
Tho street fair at Macon the past
week wns an unqualified success.
Nearly every one seems to have been
satisfied with the show and it is un¬
doubtedly conceded the greatest suc¬
cess that Macon has ever scored
along this lino. The visitors wore loud
in tlieir praises of the Maconitos for
their hospitality and seemed satisfied
that they had been givon more than
money’s worth.
ELECTIONS IN ENGLAND.
Chnmlxtrlulit In Returned In Nomination*
For lionise of Common's.
A London special says: One hut!*-
dro 1 and sixty-seven constituencies,
returning one-fourth of the member¬
ship of the house of commons, made
tlieir nominations Saturday.
Sixty-six candidates wero returned
unopposed. The ministerialists aggre¬
gate 69, liberals 5 and nationalists 2.
Among tho interesting personalities
on tho government side returned with¬
out opposition Wyndhara, wore Joseph Chamber¬
lain, George tho parlia¬
mentary secretary for the war office,
and Charles T. Ritchie, the president
of the board of trade.
INSURGENTS ATTACK OUTPOSTS.
American*, Bowe»«, Fnt a Stop to Their
Activity In Short Order.
Advices from Manila state that on
Monday , night ... (Sept. ,o . n,. 24) •
„ vigorous ..... in-
"urgent attack* were made upon the
Tjiiitccl States outpofltn in the district
noftr Zapote Bridge, Las Pinas, Para-
n a qu e> Bacooi nnd Inins, two miles
0I , th of Manila, tho sceno of the
i*.„i,tin£r last October.
j t i„ estimated that the rebels num-
bore d 40 O and they were armed with
riflps- The inhabitants took refuge
in tlia churches. The Americans have
ainB0 energetically B _„,iL„ dispersed the euo-
k,lllD __, a " d wonnd,n e an. M?’
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TO DEPORT CHINESE.
Six Oriental* at Jacksonville, Fla.,
Go I Inch to China.
United Htates Commissioner
ell, at Jacksonville, Fla., lias
final disposition of the cases of
Chinamen regarding their
in accordance with the exclusion law.
He orders them Hoported to China
the order has been forwarded to
treasury department. Horr
Unitod States Marshal will
company tbo Chinamen to San
cisco. Upon arriving nt New Orleans
the prisoners will be taken into
custody of the railroad agents, who
bonded by the government to trans¬
port such prisoners across the country.
WILL KEEP THE FLAG.
1 Io „ G ° . A . c . mp vvm R^-ra
C o..r-n<.r.,t« KmW.m.
reunion of Crocker’s Iowa
brigade at Keokuk a proposition to
return to the at ate of South Carolina
tbe flag which Colonel J. C. Kennedy,
now 0 f the national home at Milwau-
tec, captured on tbe Columbia, was
unanimously voted down and tbe flag
will remain in tbe rooms of the Iowa
Historical Society, at Iowa City,
BILL ARP’S LETTER
ChaTacteristios of the Into Simon
Peter Richardson,
OLD MAN WAS A GREAT READER
Wlttlnhi Flutist Much lMujtuttuo Itt l'o-
ruslng Biography of Quntiit
1’ivuchrr.
1 have not found more entertaining
reading in a long time thnu the
"Lights and Shadows of Itinerant
Lifej" being the autobiography of Dr.
Simon Peter Richardson. For fifty
years he was ou the go from tho Blue
Ridge to Key West, from Dalton to
Brunswick aud all the intermediate
country. He knew more people and
was known by more than any man of
his day. Ho was original, unique, fear-
less, honest in his convictions and
ready ' at all limes to maintain them.
j hl u eVct . ^ni.dnlned, noVpr dirked a
duty, traveled thousands of miles on
i lorB8 p 80 k and sometimes on font,
crosae ,l swamps and forded streams at
p j s peril, wns foil and sheltered by the
po „ r- What faith, what zeal, what
diligence, and all for what—asetfseof
,l u (y and his love for the Master and
the Master’s work. No earthly reward
gained of expected, for he And hia
fnttiily often suffered the pinching* of
poverty and oven the calamity of hav
iug his house burned aud all its furni¬
ture and his Wife and children had to
sleep in the barn upon the cotton seed.
But he never faltered aud wns al-
wnys aggressive. Ho fought a good
fight aud kept the faith. Ho would
have succeeded in nny of the learned
professions and acquired both mental fame
aud fortune, for he had great
force, quick perceptions, personal mag¬ evil
netism nnd wns n holy terror to
doers.
Mr. Lucien Knight has reviewed
the little hook with charming and
truthful words. An he snys, there is not
n page hut shows tho genius, the faith
and the liumili’.y of the man. 11c was
not bound through prejudice or early
training to any creed, but made ilia
own and oven dared to impugn the in
consistencies of John Wesley. His an¬
tipathy to Calvinism wns intense.
The hleft of mankind being responsi¬ him and
ble for Adam’s sin shocked
lie would have stricken tile words
“original sin'’ nnd “totol depravity”
from every creed nnd prayer hook.
The doctrine of lost infants provoked
his bitterest sarcasm.
But these things arc not in the hook
to any invidious extent nnd it contains
hut ono sermon, and (hat is in the
appendix. The charm of tho hook is
the recital of his experience ns an
itinerant—the lights and shadows of a
busy life and his mingling with the
great men and ministers of the olden
time, for ho was side by sido with
such men ns Judge Longstreet, Bish¬
ops Fierce, Faine, Andrew, Capers,
Soule and Kavanaugh, with Drs,
Boring, Means, Parks, Evans, An¬
thony and Glenn, with Lovick Pierca
and Allan Turner,and in natural men¬
tal power and pulpit force ho was their
peer. The hook will make you weep
and laugli by turns.
Relating his first experience in 1840,
when he left Dublin for his circuit, he
says: “That night I was sad as the
grave, for I had just waked up to the
realities of my situation and felt con¬
scious of my inability to moot tho ex¬
pectation of the church. After supper
I went oiit in the dark to pray, kneel¬
ing in the corner of the fence. Tho
dogs found mo and I was forced to got
on top of the fence. From there they
chased me to the shed that was built
over the potato banks. Tho harking
of the dogs aroused tho hoys and they
came running with a torch, shouting,
‘We’ve got him! We’ve got him!'
supposing that I was the same negro
who
T >00Q egci)rt «| mc to the house,
am id cotivulflionB of Biu/?Bter. and the
young lady thought I was intensely
green.” administer the
He refused to snera-
m ent to anyone who sold or drank
whisky At a revival once a church
member, who was well off but very
stingy, began to shout with great ve-
bemence, nnd Simon Peter stopped ordered his
exhortation and poremptorily
him to stop or leave tho church, ; for no
* sl . who had . ,
^ , , ^ . , . . " t .
“"I “ J
not paid his quarterage. days During re¬
construction a federal captain
forbade him to preach unless he would
piny for the president, “And so I
prayed that the Lord would take out
of him aud his allies the hearts of
beasts and put in them the hearts of
men or remove them from office. Tho
captain never asked mo again to pray
for the president. I have never been
convinced that we did any wrong in
seceding or fighting, and I can seo
no good reason now why we should
not do it again.” original sin, ho
Speaking of that all the says: chil¬
“Mr. Wesley declares
dren are born under the displeasure of
God and are subjeetto spiritual, natu¬ is
ral and eternal death. This to me
a horrible doctrine. ” Speaking solemn of re¬
vivals, lie ssys: “A revival is a
farce that doos not produce a radical
reformation. Faitli without works is
a low form of Calvinism that has
quietly stolen into Methodism and
paralyzed her power.” of 1880
When the earthquake came
tho doctor was preaching at people a camp- be-
meeting and says: “The
came much alarmed and we had no
trouble in getting mourners to flock
to the altar.”
A Campbellite preacher got into a
a dootrinal controversy with Simon
Peter, in Augusta, and Dr. Landrum
took it up. Simon Peter says: “Brother
Landrum is a very lovable man and a
very popular preacher, but in hia ser¬
mon he is like n pig in a ehinn shop.
Ho Used invectives and personalities
and took in Catholics, Episcopalians,
Presbyterians and Jews, and stirred
up the town. He sent mo a note and
two of his sermons. I replied that I
was running Are down at St. James
aud had no time to look after bis
waterworks, but when my revival
closed I would tako him in out of the
wot and linug him on the fence to dry,
then set liirtt afire and tako him into
the Methodist church.”
But this is enough of the book.
Those who expect to read it would not
like for me to anticipate too lunch.
Wo had the good doctor stationed
hove for two years and it was always a
pleasure to meet him and converse
with him, for ho w as great of heart and
great of mind. 1 never heard him say
a foolish tiling, and hardly ever make
a commonplace remark. Ho was a
profound thinker and Ui's torse, vigor¬
ous expressions reminded me of Bos¬
wells Johnson.
1 seo that Dr. Hobins lias edited the
book and that it is published at Nash¬
ville by the Methodist bouse, but I do
not know the price. It is good rend¬
ing from the preface to the end.
Two Mississippi girls have challenged
those Alabama girls to answer the fol¬
lowing Bible enigma. It is a good
one and kept me pondering for a day
or two. 1 can’t neglect the children
and lliis enigma will perplex the
preachers, too. I have lost or mislaid
ihe verses sout to me, but the follow-
lug is 111 substance tbo same:
God made Adam out of dust,
But iu Hi. wisdom made mo first}
He made my body all complete.
But gave mc neither hands nor feet
No living soul in me did dwell.
Nor I doomed to heaven or hell}
But later on old AUam camo
And gave mu what Is still my name.
And later still God chose to give
A living soul In to live.
In course of time Ho did reclaim
That soul and left mc Just tho same
As when first made- without a soul,
And now 1 -roam from polo to polo,
A boon to man, though out of sight,
For in rny death I leave him light,.
~Uii.ii Am* In Atlanta Constitution.
REPORT ON GALVESTON STORM
Is Sent to IVnaliliiffion Weather Bureau
lly Forecast Officer Cllno.
Tho weather bureau at Washington
has received from its local forecast
offloial at Galveston, I. M. Oiine, a re¬
port on the great hurricane of Heptero-
ber 8 th. The report is romarknble in
several respects. It gives a complete
scientific record of the great storm,
with a Biiccinct aocount of tho damage
done, a map of the ruined area of the
city and records of tho meteorological
instruments at tbo station up to tho
timo they were destroyed by the hur¬
ricane. Mr. Cline was ono of the
sufferers by tho disaster.
RACE TROUBLE IN FLORIDA,
Km'loiis Row Htftctw llotwcen Whiles and
ISltick<t nt Miiyiioit
The town of Mnyport, Fla., at tho
mouth of 8 t. Johns river, twenty miles
from Jacksonville, is reported to be
full of excitement nnd a conflict be¬
tween the whites and blacks is immi¬
nent. The trouble is confined to the
hundreds of men now engaged in the
construction of docks and railway
tracks,
Tho trouble began to brow 011 Sun¬
day last when a negro, Henry Tillman,
had a misunderstanding with one of
the wliito men, which culminated in a
desperate fight between the two.
HOBSON REITERATES DENIAL,
While In lVftHliInjjftfMi He Atf’iln Disclaim*
Intend' d Il< Herd Ion on Dewey.
Lieutenant Richmond P. Hobson, of
Merrimao fame, who has just, returned
from his work in the orient, passed
through Washington Wednesd ay on
Ilia nay to Alabama to visit relatives.
While at tho national capital denials Mr.
Hobson again reiterated his ( of
any intention to reflect upon the work
of Admiral Dewey's fleet in his Van¬
couver interview concerning the inju¬
ries sustained by tho Spanish fleet.
P0RTD RICAN FEDERAL*
I’nn IteAi.Intten* AnilluMng Tlieinii-lTO*
With the Democratic l*»rty.
The federal party, at its convention
at Cagnas, Porto Rico, Sunday, passed
resolutions affiliating itself with tbo
Democratic party in the United States.
A cablegram from W. J. Bryan and J.
K. Jones, chairman of tho national
Democratic committee, nrging harmo¬
ny, was read.
Munoz Itivera made a speech in
which he opposed tho administration
on tho ground that the Foraker bill is
unsatisfactory, and tbo Porto Ricans
desire a more independent form of
government.
INDEPENDENT OPERATORS KICK.
They Protect A^nlnnt the IO Per Cefit
c inti Ion Mftflc to Miner*.
Scranton’s ... independent , , coal , opera-
tors camo back from the Wilkesbarre
conference with blood in their eyes,
They declare they .will not join in the
proffer of a 10 per cent increase unless
the coal carrying companies agree to
reduce their tolls or, to bff exact, allow
them 60 per cent instead of 00 per cent
of the tidewater selling price for thoir
product. making 10 cent
'Hmy are not per on
tlieir investments, they declare, and if
have to increase vages 10 per
cent it will practically wipe out their
of
NO. 32.
CONGER IS INFORMED
I
Our Minister In China Now Has
Instructions From Washington.
KNOWS CONTENTS OF OUR REPLIES
Ho Is Also Mciie Awnre of Order to l
fee to Iteduoo Our Fore* to is
Donation Guard.
A Washington special of Thursday
says: Minister Congor has been ad¬
vised by tho state department of tho
suhstanco of the replies made by this
government last Friday to the govern¬
ments of Germany, Russia aud China
respecting Ciiiua, whiefi clearly indi¬
cated to him the general nature of the
instructions he is to receive. Moreov^
by this time he is informed of the
orders issued to General Chaffee to re.
diice his force to a legation guard.
Tho noto to China specifically poip*»
cd out the lines on which this govern¬
ment will issue its instructions to itll
minister. Tho document itself is in
course of final approval, Acting Sec¬
retary Hill having completed the draft"
some days ngo and forwarded it to the
president Jt wns tho belief of th«
stnte department late Thursday after¬
noon that tho actual transmission of
the instructions would be carried out
very soon, probably within twelve
hours.
It is said that the text of tho instruc¬
tions will not bo given publicity hut at
present for diplomatic reasons, general
there is no concealment of the
scope of tho docufiient, which iB on
the lines laid down in the three notes.
In this connection it is said at the
ftate department that Mr. Conger will
put these negotiations in motion with¬
out nny purpose of acting for any gov¬
ernment other than the United States,
although the government keeps in
mind that tho United States is but one
of the several nations mntnaliy inter¬
ested in obtaining a common end, and
it is hoped that the efiect of Mr. Con¬
ger’s making a beginning toward ne¬
gotiations may ho to induce other
powers to follow. At the same time
the government has never assumed to
lay down any mandate as to the course
to bo followed by all or any of the
otbor powers.
It is believed that the state depart¬
ment has alrondy taken stops through
Minister Wu to impress upon the Chi¬
nese government the nndesirability of
the appointment of Prince Tuan aa
grand secretary and the painful im¬
pression this appointment has created
throughout this country. The effect
of his appointment if persisted in, it is
Raid, might he to retard Boriously the
final negotiations, or in fact any nego¬
tiations at all.
Tho government feels that it is
much re-euforeed in its present posi¬
tion by the noto from Li Hung Chang
in which ho gave positive that ho assurance had suffi¬ to
the United Slates
cient authority to protect all American
interests and would seo that this au¬
thority was exercised. The govern¬
ment now looks upon this assurance
as a guarantee which mnst be faith¬
fully performed as n condition prece¬
dent to even the establishment of re¬
lations with Li and Prince Ching.
If the appointment of Tuan prom¬
ises in any manner to obstruct the
performance of this pledge, then it
would be cloarly violative of the guar¬
antee laid down and would warrant
tho immediate withdrawal of Mr. Con¬
ger from further relations with the
Cbineso envoys. So it appears that
much more depends npon what Tuan
what he has done.
CtlAFFKK AT TIEN TSIN.
Advices from Tien Tsin September
24th, via Taku, September 25tb, state
that General Chaffee lias arrived and
with the staff officers of dif¬
ferent departments with a view of es¬
tablishing a wiutfer base in the vicinity
of Tion Tsin. Ho paid a visit to Tong
ltn, making a general inspection. The
present plan is understood to be tenta¬
tive and based upon the possible The re¬
tention of the existing foroe.
plan contemplates placing the troops
under canvas outside tho city. to Li
Geueral Chaffee paid a visit
Hung Chang and informally discussed
the outlook for a settlement. It i#
understood he proffered an Amerioan
officer to accompany tho viceroy to
Pekin.
A "SYMPATHY” STRIKE.
Three Hundred Coal Creek Miners Re^
fuse to Conti tine I.ahors,
A special from Goal Creek says
about 300 miners nnd day laborers «a-
ployod by the Coal Creek Coal Com¬
pany went on a striko Tuesday nigh*
nt 0 o’clock. day la¬
The men demanded that the
borers he given an increase in wages,
which would make tbeii pay eqniijg
lent to that of laborers employe
other ci .panics in the Coal an!
Jcllico district ft«e<l
The dcmpaii A to grant the
in cross furtlj * agreed iau a general rise of
71 P "' ‘ it. 0 pon afc th*
Jot lira (Ofifircnlo , some days ago
PRICE OF SILVER ADVANCED.
Govern ment Will y til Cent* Pe*
st.
Owing to tbo •dv&> ! in the price
of silver, Director of s Mint Roberta
has increased the prj(f i paid by
tbe government of rchased
from 65 to 57 cents a ounce.
present ^ ^ cl
The government at pm
only such silver as is contained in
deposits from the Klondike and c
gold producing sections.