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VOL 15>,
Population
IS 76,295,228
Censas Figures Have DonMed ia
Last Thirty Years.
official REPORT MADE PUBLIC
c rowth For Last
Ten Years Was
Nearly 2i Per Cent— Figures *
hv *'
.y ct ates * For r- 1900.
A Washington special The
official says:
unouucenlent of the total pop-
imtffih tif the United States fur l90fi
is 78;$96,^0, of which fi 6‘»7* 90? are
lion to o be approximately the popolula-
used for apportionment pur¬
poses. There is a total of 134,158 In.
clians not taxed, The total population
in 1890, with "hick the
po pulation aggr. gate
of the present census
should be compared, was 03,059,750.
laking the 1890 ] opnlatton ns a l>a«if
there has been ft gain in' the popula¬
tion of 13,225,464, during tbu past
ton years, representing an increase of
nearly 21 per cent.
Following is the official annouuco-
ment of the population of the United
fotntes in lfiOO by states:
Alabumti, * 1,82=1,697
Aikans^S' 1,311 564
California..... .
Colorado...... . 1,483,053
Connecticut... 630*700
Delaware..... 908,355
Florida..... . 181,735
Georgia....... . 628,542
Idaho........ . 2,216,329
Illinois....... . 161,771
Indiana....... . 4,821,550
Iowa......... . 2,516.463
Kansas....... . 2,251,829
Kentucky.... . 1,469,496
Louisiana.... . 2,147,174
Maine.... 1,381,627
Maryland.... , . 694,366
Massachusetts . 1,189,916
Michigan............. . 2,805,346
Minnesota 2,119,732
Mississippi........... 1.751,395
Missouri 1,551,372
Montana. 3,107,119
Nebraska, 243,280
Nevada. 1,068,901
New . 42,334
Hampshire 411,688
New Jersey..., ,, 1,881,669
New York..... 7,268,009
North Carolina 1,891,992
North Dakota. 319,040
Ohio.......... 4,157,545
Oregon 413,532
Pennsylvania....'..... 6,301,365
Rhode Island 428,556
South Carolina 1,340,312
South Dakota. 401,559
Tennessee..... 2,022,723
Texas.......... 3,048,828
Utah.......... 276,565
Vermont...... 343,641
Virginia ....... 1,854,184
■Washington ... 517,672
West Virginia.. 958,900
Wisconsin..... 2,068,963
Wyoming..... 92,531
Total 74,627,907
TERKITOEIES, ETO.
Alaska (estimated) 44,000
Arizona......... 122,212 - *
District of Columbia... 278,718 v
Hawaii............... 154,001
Indian Territory...... 391,960
New Mexico.......... 193,777
Oklahoma 398,245
Persons in the service of the United
States stationed abroad (estimated),
1900, 84,400.
Indians, etc., ou Indian reserva-
tions, except Indian Territory, 1900,
145,282.
Total for seven territories, etc, 1900,
1,667,313; 1890, 552,965; Indians not
taxed, 89,541.
The Alaskan figures are^ derived
from partial data only, and a.l returns
for Alaska and for certain military or¬
ganizations stationed abroad, princi¬
pally in the Philippines, have not yet
been received.
Bulletins will be issued for the vari-
oua minor civil divisions m the differ-
ent states and territories as fast as
possible. The entire number, it is ex¬
pected, will be ready for the public
use before the first of January.
AFTER PROFESSIONAL MEN,
Many RAWyers, Doctors and Dentists of
Atlanta Failed to Fay Sperl *1 Tax.
An Atlanta special says: Unless all
indications point in the wrong direc-
tiou, there will shortly be a large
number of lawyers, doctors aud den-
tists urrested on mdictments for prac¬
ticing their various professions with¬
out having paid their professional tax.
The law provides a professional tax
B^^^mLotKer from all doctors, dentists, law-
■Ibtor, professional Stewart, men. has Tho list
iff A. P. a
v 100 who bave not paid this
for several years. rru ~
fjury me Mr. Stew-
has called upon
Rr this list.
IVE CHILDREN CREMATED.
- Awav From Hom« and the
F rents .
“ Happened-
X "i„g
a “z;
burned down |i in the
children iojmg -XrLras vc3
rSer away and
b.d f ».‘»
Sir ^■h^ighbor, S
THE ADEL NEWS . .■a*
Slew Bis son-in-law.
Farmer Wilcoxon Empties Ccn-
tent& bf DWuWle-Barreled Shot¬
gun Into Flowers’ Body.
Thursday morning about 10 o’clock
Wiley F. Wilcoxon; a farmer living
sevefi miles westdf EktofithniGri.shot
c. 0. Elowers, his son-in-law, killing
him instantly. Wilcoxon used a shot
gun, firing both loads, but only one
took effect, in the left side of Flowers.
Flowers has been living on Wilcox-
on’s place for several years, managing
(he affairs of the farm and heating the
hrttnt of the biirdeii;
Tiie killing wKs t§ ? HsHlt hf a
llotis misunuerstatiding the twb Jneil
had a year ago or more ago, which; ai
iaUd lue time', giving sp Wiico&pn snyPi ahtl neebssi-; faihilj’
nis np home
and seeking peace elsewhere. After
being absent some time he returned
several months ago; where he resided,
^P»Fehtly, cdntfelited; tintii the terri-
***•*« Tb ””-
It appears that Wilcoxon borrowed
Flower’s gun to go hunting. After
questioning particularly as to the
manipulation of the gun, it being a
breech-loader, and about the character
of the cartridges with which it was
loaded, he turned and walked ftway,
ostensibly twenty-five to go hlititilig; When
of thifty feet distant, he
Suddenly) and emptied without ghh’a provocation,
tUriletl atld the cbiltentf!
lhto tho Side of {’lowers; whd was still
fctttuding The in the kltchbn ieaVes dooh
his deceased Hwife tb mburn
(thtihiely etui. AVilcoioii was a
thb.entire confederate soldier, serving through
war After in the Third Georgia
regiment. thS tragedy he was
arrested.
KAISERM APYICE TAKEN.
Gcrmam Olve No Quarter and Chinese Are
Slmi^hlored Indiscriminately.
Considerable ifniende at the Mea-
gefness of the nfews from Chinft is
finding eStpfession lb Berlin. Thb in-
fetenfie is that German cfehsorship
Over stich information is vei-y strict.
Letters from privates in China began
tb find their .way inlb the Social Dem-
bbrfttlij pajpord phbiViiig that tho Ger¬
man troops give no quarter. The
Bremen Buerger Zeitung publishes a
letter from a soldier iu Pekin, who
said he witnessed the following scenes:
“Sixty-eight captives, some of them
not yot adults, were tied together by
their pig tails, compelled to dig then-
own Thb graves Halberst&dter-Voiko- and shot en masse;*/ Zeitung
prints A communibation the from Pekin,
in which writet 6ays:
,s No prisoners are taken. AH are
shot, or preferably, sabered to save
ammunition. On Sunday afternoon
we bad to bayonet seventy-four pris¬
oners. They had killed one of our
An entire battalion pur¬
sued them and captured seventy-four
alive. It was cruel. It was inde¬
KILLED BROTHElLUGLAWi
Hammond Fires Load of 8liot Intd
Thomas Wall) Near Klberton.
Thursday afternoon Jim Hammond
shot and killed Thomas J. Wall) a
miles below Elbeftonj Ga. The
occurred near Wall’s home.
details have not been learned,
from the best information it seems
was beating a negro tenant.
Wall, his wife, tried to stop him,
failed. She sent for her brother,
m Hammond, who eame) and re-
with Wall.
This seems to have angered Wall,
be made a rush at him. Ham-
ran and was followed part of
be way by Wall. Haramjnd went to
neighbor’s, where he secured a shot-
He then returned and met Wall,
shot at him, but missed him.
then shot Wall, the entire
entering the left eye, killing him
Both men belohg to good families,
were brothers-in-law. Wall leaves
w jf e and several children. Ham-
has not been arrested. Wall
constable of his district.
Public Debt Statement.
The statement of the public debt
at the close of business October
1900, the debt less cash ill the
amounted to $1,104,402,320,
decrease as compared with last
of $1,573,351.
CHASING WHITE BRUTE.
Attempted Criminal Assanlt on Young
Lady and Rope Await. Him.
Chief of Police Hill, of Chattanoo-
received a telegram Sunday even-
from W* P. Groover, town marshal
Summerville, Ga., stating that a
white man having a sandy pounds, light com-
plexion, weighing 160 thirty
vears of age, five feet eight inches tall,
with middle right finger ofl between
first and second joint, had attempted
to criminally assault a young lady at
Raccoon, Ga., and requested him to
send bloodhounds to the scene at once.
The chief sent tbe dogs, and later
learned that they had struck a trail.
GEORGIA LAWMAKERS FIGHT.
Disgraceful Cutting Scrape Takes plane
o.i Special legislative Train.
*•*>•** "■<**'“ r?* «•
, ,
stopped for at Forsyth, and while welting
a freight train to pass Senator
^U'ShirE^Xiatr
5 m 8* *
ADEL BERRIEN COUNTY, GA.. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9. 1900.
GEORGIA NEWS ITEMS
Brie! Summary of Interesting
Happenirlgg Culled at Random.
.. , .
u “tctiU court
u ad g e Don A. Farctfeb hkfided down an
opmionxm the report of Special Mds-
Robert C. Alston, in the receiver-
f U P case ° f th " Suu ! h e rn Home Build¬
ing and T Loan Association, i . at Atlanta,
with regard to the interventions of
Mrs. M. 0. Alexander and other stock¬
holders Of the bankrupt corporation.
Judge Hardee sustained to6 master's
holder finding to (He ilid effect that the stock¬
of *etf>rrfl elands stand
**non the same footing of priority; drid
that hotderfi in settling with borrowing stock-
a credit slioUld be allowed in
the nature of au anucipalot* dlviA®U d
amounting to 32 per cent, of the
amounts paid by said stockholders in¬
to the Judge l»»n fund of the association.
The pa^al ‘\tt would be rank
injustice to allow one class of invest¬
ors to be paid in full at the expense of
other investors equally innocent of all
fault In the matter.”
After quoting at some iehgtli from
the report of Special Master Alston,
the judge concludes:
“I is to be noticed that as a result the
Special for bad master, ibUns after dud liberal ihduilicifiiltiy deductions
su¬
tured liberit,! loans; and lifter making i Hry
estimate duds tildt for expense of admin¬
istration; therk ^ill be tejll-
l?.ed &.>9.93. for distribution thb sum of $301,-
It may be tliat this conclusion
IS aR .bVer-eatimate; but. it is, to be
hoped in t,he interest ox ilie .Uetlefi-
ciaries that it is the reverse. For the
matter he in hand, however,. I assume it
to substantially correct,”
TroliD Are Anxlou«.
Very deep interest is felt in the
outcome hibition of the Spalding county pro¬
case just ttitliefto argued the before Prbhi- the
stipfnme teoiirt.
bitionists hake won every cbntest be¬
fore the courts ittld atO confident of
doiijg so in ibis instance.
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Aged Woman Burned to Death.
Mrs. M. M. Cutter was burned be-
till semblance of a human being
Palmer, at the home of, ner b’rot|iej;, of Home; M. I L.
ten miles west at 4
o’clock- last Saturday morning. The
residence was a two story structure
aud Mrs. Cutter roomed in the second
story. The family barely had time to
escape when awakened. Mrs. Cutter
had tinlb t8 hs.64pp; biit went back for
something kiid fell aprdss uie bed
oVercomb by the siffoke. When the
body was fottnd in the ashes only the
trunk remained, Mr§; Cutter was
seventy-six years of age. It was fear¬
ed that the fire was of incendiary ori¬
gin, but officers investigated aud could
find no evidence.
Wants Appropriation For Asylum,
Mr. Howard, of Baldwin, has in¬
troduced in the house a bill to appro¬
priate $15Oj00O fdr lieW brtildings asylrtm. and tfc
furnishihgs At spend the state the
is proposed tb $75,000 first
year and $75,000 the following year.
*
Proposed Monument to Oilentnrpe.
At last the movement to build a
mbnuident to General Oglethorpe, the
founder of the colony of Georgia, at
promises to take some
Oglethorpe has been honored
by having numerous places and insti¬
named for him, but there is no
monument to perpetuate him in bronze
or stone.
Mr. Spencer P; Shotter, a wealthy
naval stores merchant of the city, be
lieving that something should be done
at once toward the erection of a monu¬
ment announces that he will head a
subscription list with $1,000, and
urged that the movement be taken up
and pushed to success. Mr. Shotter’s
subscription is unconditional, and it
will doubtless be followed closely by
othftrs. The Colonial Dames of Geor¬
gia have had such a mbvement fcfil foot
for some time, and bave collected a
small fund toward a monument to
Oglethorpe, but up to the present
their progress has been rather slow.
To Abolish State Camp.
It is probable that Mr. Flynt of
will introduce a bill in the
house Within the neit few days giving
back to the people of Griffin the prop¬
erly donated by that city for the state
encampment purposes, It seems to
be agreed that tbe state encampment
is dead, especially so in view of Gov-
ernor Candler’s strong recommenda¬
tion on this point.
It is believed, however, that the
military committee, to which the mat¬
ter will be referred, will recommend
that regimental encampments beheld,
instead of the general encampments,
as heretofore.
The property which it is proposed
to return to the citizens of Griffin is
very valuable and consists of about
200 acres of land together with a num-
ber of buildings,
Cremated In Jail.
The oity jail at Hazehurst was de- ^
stroyed by fire a few days ago. There
was only one prisoner in jail at the
time, and iu attempting to make bis
escape by burning a hole in the wall
he was burned to death. His name
wa s Luther Washington and he was
arrested for larceny. The building
- de r j e \
.
Postmaster Smy benefit ’ fi 0 ™, send-
nonnoe. for the ofthose , ,
Ei*; 4^wjU A,ashan
be
thrptigh tl)e TJnitgcj States mgus hhtil
ORE DOLLAR PER ARHUIH.
spring, the service being tlneqnal to
the task of carrying required bulky matter, as
dog sledges are to be used
over much of the routes, and their
carrying capacity is limited, Atlau-
tians wishing to send friends in Alaska
papers or mail parcels will have to de¬
fer such action until the winter is past
Mereev Wilt* Attain.
An Atlanta disnateh says: Another
battle of intellects and oratory, the
Grand opera feotase the arena, and still
the flag of triumph proudly floats over
Mercer University. Walter F. George,
Merger's representative, was awarded
the John Temple Graves medal in the
contest, thus adding another to that
Institution’s list of victories.
The second prize was awarded to
Mr. E. G. Sajnett, of Emory, who jjp-
iivated fions {j¥o one t heard of the in most Atlanta. eloquenkpPa-
*
Augusta Heady For Veterans.
ffenerul Clemeut A. Evans spent a
day the pasi^! 4 ?* * a Angnsta with the
Confederate reumion com- iee*)inal$-
iug final preparations for the approach
mg r eHnion of the Georgia division of
the l nitec^ Confederate Veterans in
'l6>h CU »S e, b v‘. r 3
G e E o S
prepdrlftioiie then those ttie being made
for the reception ol JerFe wmber
ti*rrtn/r , flitrfntr (.loodc wkn Tt'ifi
jr 1 * AiiD-nsia 5 rpnnion week *'
, n ,J.t ^
ff* * 8 .’ fh#»| thn | attention which
the hoAp^alffy^df . .... uffL the eitf •,= eftn a sliure sJPnro
? "/ jas ri$!nn if i T’h hYfUa nnst * no
table n reunion yet told I lN Georgia.
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biMlajithroplst De»s,
Carrie Wteeie, tht: w^H-known negro
womau who has for many years cthD
ducted a home for negro orphans near
Atlailt** stroke of died paralysis. a day or Sh* two ^as ago a,great from a
benefactress to her race and by a t mo3t
superhuman efforts, with but little
means of her own, she established an
orphftn s home Some seven or eight
*ea,rs ago; find iflgo^ bmrielfeBS fiegro
children ha^e been shfeltereS and lahen
“»edf. ,
For miiny _ years Carrie . Steele was „ a
stewardess at the uniofi depot m At-
lanta, and while holding that position
she made many friends among the
white people by her kindly attentions
to the ptibiie:
M T hen she resigned that pbsltiofi sbe
undertook tho establishment of the
orphan’s home. She raised the pub-
scriptions and built the home on East
Fair street, just outside the city limits,
Through heed her efforts the home has
efer kiiicfe bhiidteii, ulaintaltied, beefi and ban-
dreds of hafe saved
from siiffering and privatibii. wfeli the
Heroin race, aS as whitei
people in Atlanta, recognised tlife great
work she was doing and she nev#r had
to make a plea for assistance twiefe
when anything was needed for tho
home:
Reunion of Big Family.
One of the most remarkable family
reunions iu Georgia, numerically
speakiilgj at least) was that of Mr.
Thomfts Burdett) which occurred at
Oak GroVe the past week.-
The reunion was Composed entirely
of children, grandokildren and great
grandchildren, and 107 of them were
present. If they had all been present
there would have been 168. Besides
this a number have died, and had all
the living and those that have died
been on hand the total ntlmber of par¬
ticipants in the merry-making would
have been 203.
The day was spent in singing and
speech-making and was brought to a
Close with the very appropriate song,
“God Be With You Till We Meet
Again.”
Telephone Tax Fixed.
The plan of taxation of the Atlanta
Standard Telephone Company has at
last been arranged and the city coun¬
cil will be asked to adopt an ordinance
upon the matter. The company is to
pay about $800 in taxes this year
for the nine months that it will have
been in operation when the adminis¬
tration closes and next yeal‘ It will
pay about $1,000 to the city. This in
addition to the occupation tax of $50,
which is paid by both companies.
CHIEF 1)EVERY INDICTED.
dead of New York Police Department
tinder Serious Charges.
The most interesting development
in New York on the eve of the election
was the indictment found by the local
grand jury against Chief of Police Wil¬
liam S. Devery, on the charge of in¬
terfering with the work of State Su¬
perintendent of Elections John Mc-
Cullagh. Chief Devery’s bail was
fixed and arrangements were made for
hearing the case the day after election.
The indictment attracted a great deal
of attention in political circles. The
points involved appear to hinge upon
the rights of men to swear in their
votes when challenged by any of the
deputies of the state superintendent of
elections.
ALYORD , S FREEDOM BRIEF.
-
Defaulting Note•T«n«r i» Now Safely in
B r
Oily Magistrate J ™ la at . New ^
““« r ew
York discharged Cornelus L. A1 ^°5 d >
the defaultering note teller of the
First National bank, irom custody
Friday. The magistrate said he was
ed by a United States marshal and
befote United State. Ooe.rn.s-
*“^ t *dw» ta^iToVt
BILL ARP’S LETTER
Takes a Trip OvQr the Georgia
Road From Atlanta to Augusta.
HE RUMINATES ABOUT OLDEN TIMES
A "Slick” Scheme By Which He Came
Into Possession of Somo Kallrond
Stock In Ills Young Days.
On the Wing. — Some sad and some
sweet memories came over me as I
journeyed on the old Georgia Riilroad
from Atlauta to Augusta. It was the
first railroad I ever saw and traveled
on. Mv my goou good old om father miner was one of
original stockholdeis. He sa -
scribed go,000 end paid it as it was
Cft |} ed f or Iu those days roads were
hnilt OU bonds or questionable,
. . T ^ ’—•mas. There Cd» was no
m” tgageTbut *
eve.?
b.r. greet reverent* f«r rMjd. I
1V ? J |o L«wrenc e r,lle wmfd H wm
being built. Stone Mountain was out
neafSfr* depot, toft#4 find it was there I first
ventured to strain as I jour-
neyed to Athens to enter College.
How solemn, how inspiring wiis ftf«»4
j ^member that it stemed to
thkt the trees and fences and farms
and babitktlohS Wete all moving swift-
^ back ^ afdsi> wll j, e |h e train seemed
to bfe' Still afid quivering on its track.
I had the sairfe feeling the first tl time I
ever went up in an elevaitof. was
^ Gilsey House, in New Vork;
an d I was riot *onWiouS of going upV
but thought the hotel 3 rapidly do-
8cen ding into some subterranean CC*'»
lt 4 Young expermd^: people They nowadays do bave no
Bucb not re-
membe r the time when Cb*r« were no
ra ii roa d8 or telegraph, nor sewih? maUi-
mae bine§ or cooking stoves, or
e8 bt ^sl pens, fltld therefore they
can hoi Abf>rSci4tfe or be grateful for
the As blessings they enjof. Morirttain Tide! .
i |gft we neared Stone
l 00 PPoh lie bald. - majestic sum-
mit j waB carried o&cb in Mjtiorj td
the delightful days of my youth, wliefl
n e ar ly sixty years ago that mountain
was otir trtsting place, and boys and
girls joitrnbyed there and Sitteeti happy miles
from Lawrenceville sperit ji
day and while thefe and ou the wfi$
we reveled in love’s yoting dr6am apd
eye8 looked love to eyes that spoNe
a gaiD. I remember when there was
a tower on that mountain’s top—a tow-
er 1(30 feet high, whose slender top
did Sometimes tortch the clouds, and
R w ^ a built bt Aaron Cloud, whose
very name made him a fitting arehl-
,g 0 ' b j It was the first skysbrafje# eter
bui i t n Georgia.
I remember the delightful day when
a brunette lassie with hazel eyes and
Indian hair ascended those winding
stairs with me and as we sat together
on its dizzy pinnacle I thought I was
little nearer heaven than I had ever
been before. Under pretense of shield-
ing her from harm, I half enclosed
her with my arm and the palpitating
lace upon her bosom told me how fast
her heart was beating, and there al-
most in the clouds we plighted our
troth. I remember when one winter
night the storm came and the rain de-
scended and the winds blew, ond that
towel fell and great was the fall of it.
I remember when there was a fine
hotel at the base of that mountain and
oue night there was a ball on the spaci-
ous dining room,and “bright the lights
shone o’er fair women and brave men”
and for the first time I saw that queen¬
ly girl whom the boys called Becky
Lattimer, and whose dashing beauty
drew them to her as molasses draws
flies. Her father lived not far away, a
substantial farmer, and a few years
later “our Becky” became Mrs. Rebec-
ah Felton, the wife of the learned and
eloquent doctor of Cartersville. I re¬
member when that great solid mount¬
ain of granite seemed larger—yes,
much larger—'than it looks to be now,
for I was young then and nature had
not begun to shrink with me. Every¬
thing is smaller now and every year
gets smaller still. As Pope says of the
dying Christian, “The world recedes
—it disappears,” and so it will to
those who die of old age. Tom Hood
expressed it beautifully and patheti¬
cally when he said:
“I remember. I remember the fir trees
dark and high
I used to think their slender tops were close
against the sky,
But now I’m growing older and find it
little joy
To know I’m farther off from heaven than
when I was a boy.’
I remember that historical town
called Madison, where many of my
college matgs lived. They are all
gone now, not one is left to comfort
me in my declining years, It was
here I saw this railroad when I was a
boy of .fourteen, and it was completed
to Madison. What a sensation of won-
der and alarm as I looked at the huge
leviathan that eame puffing down the
track with a train behind it. My
father hftd to hol'd my band, for i
trembled lest it should jump the traca
a nd kill us all.
M father was proud of that road —
nd because he helped to build it.
e kept that stock for 12 yearswith-
out reoe i v ing a dividend. The stock
* D i£; u ;r»t
’ About that time
, h h P e a com-
reT0 l„tion_s eri,i._a panic
se “ 11 ‘to**** 4 ™ “ a
-
grieved ray mother, bat he 6i.il
there was no help for it. The
stock must go. I remembtr the
night ho cam* home and told my
mother that the stock was gone—he
had sold it to Judge Hutchins for 27
ceuts on the dollar—the stock that he
had paid 100 cents for twelve years be¬
fore. Father was sad and the tears
fell on mother's ‘cheek and none of ns
cared for stlppet. •
When father went back to the store
that night I sat dowu by mother’s side
and took her hand in mine. “Moth¬
er," said I, “you must not feel so bad
about that stock. Let me tell you a
secret. Last night I proposed to Oc-
tavia Hutchins j I asked her to marry
me, aud she said she would and we
have fixed the ttme-tlie 7th of March
—and in less than three months I’ll
get that stock back and it will be in
the family again. Now, don’t you tell,
but yon mustn^t cry any more,” and I
klssed her otPher cheek and said,
“Mother Mr. Shakes! eare savs
‘All’s well that ends well.’ ” But my
dear mo t be r was a woman , and wo-
manlike, she told an intimate friend
" hat I : aid about getting the stock
back, aud that friend told another wo-
man in confidence aud the confidence
*"’} T.?iol S Tte
Jodgo f V" Hot J.n. b
1 monraeu auu amrmuu, , ,
1U Y »tnck close to me, or she
was dreadful, y Lve, though she
denits it to this day. la due tune we
T*!*, dido niame d and were so b«ppy we
t want A any stock or anything else
hardly. ,trw days after our manlage,
ns I was passing his office, the stern
old judge called me in. Me unlocked
his iron safe, and. tnking out & paper
‘“hi to me, ‘I heard that you told
y° !, r goo<l mother that you were goiqg
'° starry Octavia and get that railroad
stock back. Did you tell her that? ’ I
was intensely ftliirffted, but, like George
WskhiBgton, I wPtlW not tell m lie.
* e ,’, A dlcl » “l d J i \
didn t mean it, I replied.^ I saw the
twinkle in hie eye. \t c l., saidhe, I
thought that if you were determined
Jo ha w it J had just as well Rive it
to # iJi®
certihcate wttu the transfer already
written. I don t know what ^ #ai 1, but
be enjoyed my embarrassment.
\> bat a Considerate man he was. 1
femerriber that a few months after he
8 * nft jf‘5?? ** TO1 ,y
U our P- no^5« We heard one morurng thdcM . talkitfg before We on got the *
^Jo nt steps and Jd 6 my fk«f w'fe “nM^mnater ao..«d me to
«i« '
< < , • t
7?, ‘ D ^ ‘Ji ^««,i in mmo nr>
•
.wY nts who
a< ong b viN .w ^ ltiiatf
* -
got married they „e Ifwi _e °
witn tier, lbat was tne usual mi -
mony of slave owners to leu c 1 ( rb -
ba d no use for them, and sent
hbm back u ith a kind
he i‘
f^coln f°. D ^ Cr ‘ set S f“£ lhkr« £ e free, ? r ® 0 «a ^ to' tellI the *
^ ntb > 1 am S lad of 1., l t y
al ways a care and an expense.
Now, while l write owe trai
reached Union Point aud J remember _
^ben we college boys used to take the
tandem mule train from here to
It was an all day journey,
f or ^ e ‘gbt hours to make the
f \orty miles but we rode on top and
bad lota of aad &•*'* of
things to eat that our mothers had
provided. “bout those Yes, good I love old to timesi ruminate "hen
everything had a roseate hue and we
wrote love letters to our sweethearts
and r 7 eled ™ 8 7*™* ^am.-
Akp 1u Atlaata Constitution,
Yellow Fcyer Case at Natchez.
The Mississippi state board of
health officially reports one case of
yellow fever at Natchez. The patient
is the wife of a Baptist minister. The
usual precautions are taken. Board
is now endeavoring to trace source of
infection.
Will Not Honor Kruger.
Amid considerable excitement the
lord mayor of Dublin at*a meeting of
the corporation ruled out of order a
resolution to confer the freedom of the
city to former President Kruger, of
the South Africau republic.
ANOTHER WASHINGTON’ SLATE.
Negro Dies in a L.ong Island Poorlion9e at
Reputed Age of 123 Years.
George Washington Freeman Hor¬
ner Green, a former negro slave, died
in the almshouse at Hempstead, L. I.,
Thursday at the reputed age of 123
years. Green is said to have been
born on a farm near Elizabethport, N.
J., on January 1, 1777. He was sold
to a Virginia planter named Horner,
by whom, it is said, he was sold to
General Washington.
GERMANY HAS PLAGUE CASE!
Sailor Arriving From South Africa Tg Now
Under Suspicion at Bremen.
A plague case has apparently devel¬
oped in Germany. A sailor named
Kunz, who arrived at Bremen October
27th on board the German steamer
Marionburg, from South Africa, has
shown suspicious symtoms and the
authorities have notified the bacterio¬
logical experts to determine whether
it is a case of plague. _ jg.>
BOERS STILL FIGHTING.
Eight Recent Engagements Reported to
Lontlon War Office By Eord Ropert*.
Lord Roberts in a dispatch from
Johannesburg, dated November 2, re¬
ports no less than eight fights at Gif-
different points, all unimportant, bnt
significant of the activity of the Boers.
Prisoners in the hands of the British
say the Boer losses in the fight with
Gen. Barton, October 25th, were 140
killed, wounded or missing.
NO. 37.
CABLE FROM CONGER
Minister Announces That Satis¬
factory Progress Is Made
REGARDING BASIS OF NEGOTIATIONS
The Question of Punishments and Several
Other Points Have Been Passed Up¬
on Uy Ministerial Corps.
Minister Conger’s last advices tc
the ,, state . , de , P artmeut . . indlcale . -• IH tko tbat , 8ftt *
^factory progress is being made by
the ministerial corps at Pekin toward
the arrangement of a basis upon which,
negotiations ° 8baU bo had with <he
Chinese government . for , a final „ . settle- ...
ment. The ministers have passed up-
on the question of punishments, and
a j ao upon sev eral other important
. . . . . V? - th
^
« ot l atloD8 ;. The results , have not , been ,
Th.'Ro’.Vi'.n minister). nnderstood
oa 8 «io»», and the proceeding. era h.r-
mornrn... 80 f„ tbo.0 have boen oon-
fined to the effort to secure a perfect
fl g rcCf o eI |t by all tbo ministers upon
tbfl baf ,j s c f negotiation, and up to
tb j 3 time no effort has been made to
j ea j t j; r ectly with the Chinese gov :
ei , imeoi< It is the understanding
the ministers themselves
bave ^ upon their programme,
tber0 lUf littie difficulty in secure
j n g jt s acceptailfre by the Chinese gov-
e rnmeut, which i.<, indeed, powerless
offer serious resistance to the unit-
e j demands of the
kcssia jukes dekial.
A special from St. Petersburg says:
Prince lvhilkoff, Raesiau minister of
railw authorizes the Associated
Presa ; o deny categorically the asser-
^ o{ ft leading German newspaper
tbafc Russia ig p i aan ing to construct a
railwav * from Samarkand to Hankown,
yift tu Kashagar valley> LakoKuku-
noy auJ the Wei Ho and Hoaug Ha
valleys, pr. any other route. He as-
gertg , bft t the intervening mountains
are a! i bat imosgsable and that such
line will cost billionsof dollars,though
it ib ^ may be built a hundred
yeara f rom now .
“Huesin,” said Prince Khflkoff,
f°*‘«9eTly Samarkand Contemplated a line from
to Tomsk, but she gave up
the project when the Chinese trouble
began. The direct branch line from
St. Petersburg to the Siberian railway
has also been abandoned for the pres-
e nt. The only line now in process of
constrtfct i on or planned is a line from
Orenburg on the Ural to Tashkent, in
g j,
yjt. it. Holloway, United States
consul in St. Petersburg, has recently
received many ^ inquiries regarding an
railro d for whicU America is
to supply the capital. Prince Khilkoff
gay3 tbot no suc h road is contem-
pi £ ate d. He thinks it probable that
nftutborized ageut s are operating in
th(j United States .
SOUTHERN ROAD SUED.
Person* Injured In Wreck at Belt Junc¬
tion Want Aggregate of 8W9.000.
Five persons who were injured by
the collision between two passenger
trains on the Southern railway on
June 14, of this year, have filed suits
against the company for injuries which
they allege they received when the
collision occurred. The suits aggre¬
gate $109,000 and were filed in the
city court at Atlauta, Monday morning
by Messrs. Hoke Smith and H. C.
Peeples, who represent all of the plain?
tiffs.
The collision on which all the par¬
ties were injured occurred one mile
north of Belt Junction, Fulton county,
at about 8.30 in the morning. One of
the trains was the Southern accommo¬
dation train, which was called the
Belle, and the other was train No. 12,
which was the fast passenger train
running from Atlanta to Richmond.
Both trains were running at a high
rate of speed, and the engines and
ports of the cars were demolished. It
was claimed at the time that a train
order which would have caused the
Belle and the fast passenger to meet
at Belt Junction was sent to the Belle,
but was not given to the fast passen¬
ger and it was allowed to pass Belt
Junction.
Olenn Jumped Bond.
L. Judson Glenn, of Atlanta, under
indictment for forgery, and who jump¬
ed a $300 bond signed by his sister in
another case, was arrested in Macon
and carried back to Ailauta and lodged
in jail. He registered at a Macon ho¬
tel as W. V. Price and wa3 arrested
later upon request of the Atlanta au¬
thorities.
_
Testimonial of Employes.
The employes of the AtlaiH
Railway West Point of Alabama railroad and thej(
hjo.fa ire_-£ettidHH
purse with- w to purchase
niffeent silve reLirfng Mr. Georg*
Smith, the president of t
roads. ^
FLORIDA’S POPULATION.
Official Figures as Given Out By Census
Bureau Are 528,543.
A Washington special says:
population of Florida as
announced Monday by the
bureau is 528,542 as against
in 187,170, 1890. 35 This is cent. an increase^
or per .
The population of Indiana as
ly aunounced is 2,516.462 as
2,192,404 ia 1890. This is an
of 324,058, or 14.7 per cent. ■