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VOL. 12. A PLEA FOR CHILDREN Dr. J, L, Ourry Addresses Georgia Legislators. IHS SUBJECT WAS “EDUCATION.” Favors Disfranchisement of Every Voter Who Cannot Rend Hls Ballot—Praises the St»w School Commissioner. T>r. J. L. M. Curry, the agent of the Peabody fund, addressed the eral assembly gen¬ of Georgia at noon Fri¬ day on the subject of education. 1 be two houses had convened in joint session for the purpose. A commit¬ tee from tho two bodies escorted the speaker in, who was accompanied by Governor Candler, State School Com¬ missioner Glenn and others. Dr. Curry said that the proudest boast of Georgia should be made of her state school commissioner, who waa one the best in the entiro country. Vie While represented no corporation. the lobbyist were abroad, no one had engaged tho members in be¬ half of the children of the state. Ho came to plead for these and for all of them. “What are you going to do with the poorer class of children?” he asked. “How are you going to educate them to make usefull citizens of them, and bow many are handicapped by their unfavorable environments?” The wealth of Georgia is not alto igether in material things, he said, but is more in these children who are in iho homes of those who sent the law- ntakers here to enact laws for them There was a waste of brain power in the stato. “Georgia has double the territory of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Con¬ necticut, and yet Massachusetts iu in¬ vention, in science, iu liternturo is far Rhead of this state in tho education of Sicr children. There they have a nine ’months’ school form, while here we Lave three or four. The average school a!tendance here is two or three years, while there it is seven years. Massa¬ chusetts gives $30 for the education of a child, while Georgia only gives $2 per child. Horace Mann did moro for this country than Daniel Webter, yet Mas¬ sachusetts erected 'a monumen to both. Man gave (hat state its admiral school system. Isn’t a Georgia child ns good as a Massachusetts child, and isn’t thore as much latent talent in your children to be developed? “The state can educate all the chil¬ dren at'half the price that the church or individuals can educate oue-fourth. of the children. “Talk about the paramount issue! I have been through many of these crisis, and yet we aro still going on. The confederate constitution is the most perfect instrument iu the world regarding political wisdom. It provided that the president should hold six years and be ineligible for re- election. Exalted citizenship ir. the remedy for the evils of governmental partnerships in private afl’airs iu vogue in our country today. •“Every school in the land should have industrial education:” Dr. Curry favored the disfranchise¬ ment of any voter who could not read tho ballot he put in the box, be be white or black. Some one bad said that this was an inherent right. This is an absurdity stuffed down the throrts of the people of this couutry, aud is done sim ply to justify negro suffrage. He was going to speak his mind aud not th ose of the members, and he expected to say some things that would not be Telish- ed by bis auditors. “The Republican party, to punish the south, gave the balance of power to the negroes of Louisiana, Missis¬ sippi and South Carolina by enfran¬ chising them and disfranchising many of the whites and then they establish¬ ed the Freedman’s bureau. “Some people say the negro is in¬ capable of education. If they will go with him to Spilman seminary, where everything is a neat as a pin, and which is in charge of such godly women if they do not think the negroes there capable of some degree of education they should go to their homes on the backs of jackasses.” “Shall Georgia settle this educa¬ tional problem for herself,” he said, “or shall it be left to others. We must uplift the negro or he will drag us down. No two such races can oc- evipy the same territory without fric- and it is duty to provide ., for , tion our “It all depends on the legislature as to the future progress of the state. Is educational legislation of this session to be generous and full, or niggardly ad hurtful? children should be •rgia’s en- L Ld compete A with the any menabers in the to it is ue weir convictions irrespective of r constituents, as the conscious- of d^y wel1 done ■would be their reward. 9 ’ est Wale iiilh'V*v ROBBERS. a Man In Ponce, At ll»e Volnt o’clock Wednesday night committed a o. T. Attuei p avl8 an a took they held up A - ^ deed was oom . ■Ked Iknm him Mam gtreefc. The women Ik on windows of a s nid “° de their e " _ DEL * ! i NEWS contractor in trouble Is Charged With Attempting to Bribe Governor Longino, of Mississippi. In Jackson. Miss., Saturday night J. E. Gibson, a prominent contractor from Logan&port, Ind., was arrested on the charge of attempting to bribe Governor Longino and secure his as* Biatance in capturing the coalr&Ct fot the new $1,000,000 YMipitol bfcilding. The arrest Wfts made at the instance of Governor Longino. Immediately after the alleged attempt at bribery occurred he emerged from his private office trembling with excitement, ex¬ claiming: “You have struck the wrong man; I can’t be bought.” and directed his private secretary to send for the chief of police to take Gibson into custody. Gibson was arrested a few minutes later at the Edwards house and nncer- ctnohiously hour bundled off to jail. An later he was given a preliminary hearing before Judge Fitzgerald and admitted to bail in the sum of $5,000. At the hearing of the testimony Gov¬ ernor Longino stated that he had re¬ ceived two visits from Gibson. Dur¬ ing the first visit he stated that a com¬ bination had been formed among St. Louis and Chicago contractors to cap¬ ture the state house contract, and he intended to fight their scheme, but would not give away details when the governor asked for facts. At the second visit, which occurred Saturday morning, so Governor Lon¬ gino states, Gibson offered him any sum of money he might ask for his as¬ sistance in capturing tlie contract, in¬ sinuating that the price of materials could be changed so that both would be able to make a considerable amount out of the deni. PRINTERS ON STRIKE. Union Men In Many Birmin^hAin, Al»., Offices Walk Out. All the union printers in tho job printing offices in Birmingham, Ala., went out on strike Friday morning. The strike was inaugurated for the purpose of enforcing the scale recently adopted by Typographical Union No. 104, and which the proprietors of the job offices refused to pay. The new scale calls for a minimum of $18 per week. The old scale’s minimum was $16, but no printing office in Birming¬ ham had paid less than $16.50, aud this was generally regarded as the min¬ imum. Iheprmters made some concessions, . so far as the daily newspapers are concerned, from their original de- mands, aud they now expect that the newspapers will adopt thoir scale. The printing offices affected by the strike are Roberts & Sou, Leslie Triutiug Compauy, Dispatch Printing Company. American Newspaper Uniou, Birmingham Courier and City Paper Company. TURK REMAINS STUBBORN. Sultan Still Refuse* Kxrquator to Oni Consul at llarpoot. A dispatch from Constantinople says: United States Charge d’Affaires Griscome called upon Tewfik Pasha, minister for foreign affairs to urge a settlement of the difficulty in relation to the granting of an exequatur to Dr. Thomas H. Norton, who some time ago was appointed by President Mc¬ Kinley to establish a consulate at Harpoot. The porte, however, is firm in its refusal to grant the request for an exequatur. In regard to the above a Washing¬ ton Bpecial says: The Turkish authori¬ ties having refused to grant an exe¬ quatur to Dr. Thomas H. Norton, to act as United States consul at Har¬ poot, the indications point-to some re¬ taliatory measures on the part of our government in the near future. A W AIT ING 1)E Y E LOPME N TS. Administration YVill Ret Chinese Matter Rest Until Other Rowers Act. The administration has adopted a waiting policy iu the matter of Pekin negotiations, says a New York Herald dispatch from Washington. No action has been taken upon Germany’s pro¬ posal to make the execution of the Boxer leaders a condition precedent to the continuance of negotiations. The president has decided, it is un¬ derstood, that this matter can well rest until further developments show what (he German and other govern¬ ments propose to do. VICTIMS MULTIPLYING. Death List Resulting From Cyclone In Tennessee Still Growing. A Nashville special of Thursday says: Latest reports from the districts swept by Tuesday’s storm show that seven persons lost their lives in Wil¬ liamson county. One more death, that of Clayton Tucker, has occurred near Columbia, making the total in that section twen¬ ty-four. Three members of the Ellis family at Walnut Lake, Tunica county, Mis¬ sissippi, were killed. In Arkansas six dead and twenty- five injured have been reported. The victims are principally negroes. GENERAL WHEELER IN BOSTON, As Guest of Grand Army Post II« Speaks Words of Patriotism and Unity. A Boston dispatch says: From his home in the south came General Joseph Wheeler to renew cherished associations with his Grand Army com- i | rades, of Boston, at the invitation of E. W. Kinsley, Post 113, Grand Army of before the Republic, and Wednesday night the comrades of the post as¬ sembled at Young’s, he spoke words of patriotism and unity. ADEL, BERRIEN COUNTY, GA„ FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30. 1900. BILL ARP’S LETTER Bartow Man Goes to Mississippi td Get ‘'Santa Claus ,, Money. HE RUNS UP AGAINST A CYCLONE tits AntllfHce at Bijjey tied ih Terror. Ills Mission liowsrer Ended Success! ally. Blue Mountain, Miss. —Some good people called me over here and I came. My wife said I had better go, for the winter was at band and the family needed clothes and she was obliged to pl&y old ftanta Claiis, ris usual, and provide some Christmas gifts for the children and grand Children. That is a good part of her life and happiness —pleasing the children. She never asks for anything for herself. She don’t have to. The girls tell me w hat she needs and I surprise her with it if I have the money, and if I haven’t I strain my credit and get it anyhow, Professor Lowery called me here to talk to his college girls, for he is ft noted educator and has 260 girls oiit here in the woods rind is building up an institution that is the pride of north Mississippi. He got four other towns to join him iu the call, and so I lectur¬ ed in Tupelo last Monday night to a large audience in a large house and found a warm welcome. It is w onderful how these old tow-ns are looming up and taking on new life. Twenty years ago I was in Tu¬ pelo and I thought it was pretty derid. I had only about 100 people out to hear me then, and this time there were near 400. Prosperity Uas done it. Ten cent cotton and a cotton mill has done it. McKinley had nothing to do with it. Last night I was billed for Ripley—a nice old courthouse town not far away. The evening betokened a storm and by night the lightning was flashing incessantly all around the horizon aud the thunder pealed heaV* ily. Couutry people became alarmed and hurried home, for everything seemed ominous of coming trouble. There seemed to be something in the elements that was brooding over us, and sure enough there was The courtroom was about half full of people who had dared to venture out to hear me. Suddenly the storm came with fearful fury. There was an awful roaring sound from the southeast that was like the sound of many waters. It hushed the audience into a solemn silence. I did not take the platform, but waited. Iu a few minutes some wild, excited messengers came rushing up the stairs aud called for the doctors add other help, for the cyclone had come and torn up everything in the suburbs and killed meu and women and children. The night was intensely dark, but the men rushed to tho rescue j n haste and the lecture programme was broken up in a twinkling. Every¬ body hurried to their homes or to the scene of the disaster. What an awful thing is a cyclone! What a merciless thing it is! How leaving swift^steuction 4 ta' itl t?ack. Happily it gives no warning, for the terror and apprehension would be worse than death. This morning we rejoiced to learn that nobody was killed, though many were badly wounded. Some houses were wrecked and blown away and many were un- roofed and some set on fire. One man was lifted up and carried away and thrown to the ground in the woods, with only a few bruises. How strange that so few people are killed bv a cyclone. It seems providential, ^nd this morning the question discussed at the breakfast table was whether God or the devil was the author of these terrible visitations. One said that the spirit of evil -was still on the earth and was ever con¬ tending against the spirit of good, and this spirit brought famine, pesti¬ lence, fires, storms and all disasters. Another said that all these things came fro n natural causep, and that neither God nor the devil had any agency in them. Another quoted from Job, where the Lord delivered him over to Satan, who was going to and fro upon the earth and walking up and down in it. He afflicted Job awfully, but was not allowed to take his life. Another quoted from the Savior’s words when He said: “Think yon that those upon whom the tower of Siloam fell were wicked above all people.' I tell you nay, but unless ye repent ye shali perish.” Professor John Fiske, a very great and learned man, has written a little book called “The Mystery of Evil.” I have read it twice and found but little comfort or philosophy in it. His ar¬ gument is that evil is ox divine crea- tion and designed to illustrate and exalt the good. That but for sickness we would not appreciate or enjoy good health. But for an occasional famine we would not eDjoy the blessing of abundant food, and but for sin we would not enjoy heaven. His book leaves you just where it found you, and the mystery is still unexplained. We know that God loves His crea¬ tures, and that is enough. Not a spar¬ row falls to the ground without His notice, and He did not wish to de¬ stroy Nineveh, where there were 600,- 000 people aud much cattle. “And much cattle.” That was always a very significant expression tome. Well, I nad to come here from Rip¬ ley by private conveyance. We had a good team, but the road was fearful, for it had rained nearly all night. Mr. Pitner, an old Georgian, bad the lines and did not anticipate trouble, but when we got to tho river we found the lowlands flooded on both sides for a quarter of a mile, and after we crossed the bridge the.horses plunged suddenly ORE DOLLAR PER ANNUM. and over it and up to the cushions,- and tor a lime were both alarmed fdr fear oU ebUabsfei But got out of it safely, and here 1 am with a v&- lise fnll of wet clothes and no change for tonight. Here I am at the college and will have to Stand Up before two or three bnndr«d prstty girls tHnight: h ortttndtely ME Lowrey is abottt my s\ie aud says he -Will lend me some garments while mine are being renew- ed at the laundry. Hard, hard, in- deed, is the contest for freedom and the struggle for Christmas money, Cyclones and floods are pursuing me and disturbing my tranquillity. But one fight, thing more may come which I can¬ not add that is a Methodist re- ribly viva 5 , in for like a cyclone, they are ter¬ Old earnest Simda and Peter aivays brei k me up. Richardson says in his book that the Methodists arc all fire and the Baptists dll writer, aud some others are all wind. I hope they won’t all come upon me at once. But I am still hopeful ahd trying to keep calm and serene. Tonight I shall be inspired with the presence of ’hese college girls and for an hour or so will be the cynosure of their bea»- whick J2S will mean the dog's tail, and so I be the dog’s tail of the fair astern- Tas bly. Professor Lowrey’s father the brave old soldier known us General cS,„*rrn 2 „ r hTS ** 1 burned near here, and I shall visit his ?iT°m i S ° fr °“ hore to Pontotoc, ti o oldest town , iu the state, where the lilt™ ?wit f i he C Cka8a T ftS ° 8 CR I ted ire(1, ® nd *. lrom ,he there I go 4 to N New Albany, AH and 1 from there to my own homo, where there is a "ays a lg in the window for me and many Wppy ones to greet me.- bum Arp in Atlanta Constitution. GRAVITY CONCEALED. True Condition of Czar of Russia I* Cos- slbly Being Withheld, From three sources of information, direct y connected with as many min¬ istries of state, the Sf. Petersburg correspondent of the Associated Press, Sunday, ascertained that imperial officials are becoming extremely pessi¬ mistic regarding tho condition of Emperor Nicholas, and assert that tho Livadia bulletins conceal the gravity of his illness. In spite of the notorious ease with which an alarmist rumor can be circu- lated in the Russian capital, many good judges believe that the chances of the ekar’s recovery are diminishing. One report says that the emperor, in addition to typhoid fever, with pec¬ toral complications, has brain lever, the result of the blow he received from a fanatical policeman during his tour in Japan; and it is even asserted in some quarters that trepanning has be¬ come necessary. ... big Checks ... , Iu , New „ Yor , _ . The snb-treaeury at New York, Wednesday, paid out $2,297,000 on deposit checks drawn for Australian gold deposited in the San Francisco / office . Of this sum $690,000 wa paidover the counter; the re- mflin(ler t hrough the cleari ng house. Pope Leo Reported ns Ill. A dispatch to The Temps (Paris) from Rome says the pope Wednesday visited the basilica of St. Peters and experienced such fatigue that he had to take to his bed. It is further claim- ed that he fainted twice. VAN WYCK HOLDS JOB, Oomno r Ito#,i "i‘ Mayor ef Nr.w York city. „ Gove riK>r Roosevelt has given out hls dec ' . s '° a 1U ^ application for the removal from office of Mayor A. Van ^ to remove ck ’ of N f, the w York mayor Clt on y- the deohn grounds f that, while he was undoubtedly a stockholder in the American Ice com- pany, there has been no proof that he wilfully violated the law forbidding a public offioer to be a stockholder in a corporation having dealings with uis municipality. AT COLORADO SPRINGS WenueBday’s Storm Destroyed Over SlOO,- OOO Worth of Properly. The losses to jroperty from Wed¬ nesday's storm at Colorado Springs amounts to $100,000, divided as fol- lows: Business sectiou of the town, $40,000; Colorado Telephone com¬ pany, $15,090; Electric Power com¬ pany, $10,000; Western Union, $5,000; Postal Telegraph company, $5,000; Colorado and Philadelphia Reduction works, $10,000; balance scattering. No loss of life has been reported. APPEAL FOR HELP Made By storm victim* in Little Town of LaGrangc, Tennessee. The people of LaGrange, Tenn,, have sent OUt an appeal for help. They say that all the business portion aud nearly all the residence portion of the town are in ruins and many of the inhabitants are left utterly destitute, They ask that contributions be sent to W. F. Hancock, mayor of the town. Male Crackers at Work. Professional cracksmen burglarized the Farmers’ bank at Orland, O. T., Wednesday night, and secured more thau $5,000. The robbers blew the safe open with nitroglycerine. Russia is primarily an agricultural eountry, and must always be such. Grain, vegetables, timber and cattle¬ raising, with their closely allied pro¬ ducts, are the mainstay of the Russian workman. But manufactures have In¬ creased of late years to an almost mar¬ vellous degree. GEORGIA NEWS ITEMS Brief Summary of Interesting u Happenings ■ Culled at Random. Subject to Condemnation, Judge Robert Falligant, of the sn- perior Coiirt at Siivahnahi haft ruled Company that the Postal has Teiegraph and Cable the right to condemn the right of way of the Plaut system in certain couuties in south Georgia for the purpose of erecting poles upon which to string its wires, State Geologist Iteporte. The annual report of the department of geology prepared by Professor W. S. Yeates has been issued and shows in a clear manner the value Which the department of geology has been to the state daring the past year; Especial attention is called to the restilts ac¬ complished; the number of big build¬ ings iu every part of the couutry that Georgia are now being construed out of stone. The attention now being paid by outsiders to the stoues aud minerals of Georgia is accounted af-r 1 s touching on -d all accurate of these bul- re¬ ZT* th * de P artm T * n t * J* ««»><*»• * ^ U’e ITn l ^ % Z „ tv , * , co '“ p,i,h ,u “TT “«■ Hunter* wust ray License. The Bibb county grand jury has re- commended the law prohibiting the Edridges trapping or killing of deer, wild turkey, or dotes for market on any lands in the County not owned by the man who does the killing dr tra; ping, The law becomes operative at once np- on this recomemiation. Any man, therefore, who wishes to engage in tho killing of such game for market must purchase a license an¬ nually at a cost of $25 per annum. GVeftt Good Will fte*ttlt. Tile rivers and harbors committee on an inspection of the Chattahoochee river, has completed its work in Geor¬ gia and has now gone to Montgomery. Congressman Adamson, who is a mem¬ ber of the committee, is convinced that great good will result to Georgia from the committee’s visit. He de¬ clares that the Chattahoochee will be vastly improved, and thinks it possible that the river will be made navigable to a point far above Columbus, Farmer* Holding Cotton. There are 18,000 bales of cotton in the warehouses of Columbus, and in¬ vestigation shows that over 75 per cent of this cotton is the property of farmers, and is being held for 10 cents, and in some cases 11 and 12 cents. Soma big farmers around Columbus who have hundreds of bales of cotton in the warehouses there are confident that cotton will go | to 12^ cents before another Crop is made, aud they are calmly sitting by, I waiting with folded hands for it to reach that Figure. * • * Respite For Fallow, q us Fellows, the negro charged with asaa 'Mt °f Miss Dollio Hood, near Harmony Grove soma time ago, and J ?°. w UIK '. er sea tence of death, in the aQ ts l al ‘, b& s been granted a thirty days , respite, and December 10th set * 0l ‘ t “ e argument for a new trial, Sentiment iu this case has changed considerably ^ and many believe that ie nogro is innocent, and that his l™* ie1 !’ Gus Fellows, is guilty ot stood was arrested and trial u but not until after he had been found guilty and sentenced to hang did he make the confession which threw the guilt upon his brother. Boss ’ 1 am mid Gns to a newspaper man. “When them white men threw the fifteen guns on mo I was afraid, of course, but I did not believe they would kill me, for God didn’t moan for me to die, me being innocent.” Reward For Murderer. Governor Candler has offered a re- ward of $150 for the arrest with proof to convict of the murderer of Eraaline Whitehead, the woman who was bru¬ tally murdered near Clark university, in the suburbs af Atlanta. The indi¬ cations are said to point directly to one Sims Harris as the murderer Harris has not been seen since the deed was committed. Klberton’s New Flour Mill. ^ ro ^ er flour patent mill will be soou erected in Elbertou, Messrs. H. an d D. P. Oglesby being behind the project. A $10,000 plant will be erected, with a capacity of from 100 to 150 barrels per day. It will be in operation by February 1st. Already farmers of the county are pay¬ ing more attention to wheat. Aldred Trial In January. Captain Aldred, of the Atlanta Zou- a ves, is to be brought before a corut- martial for trial on the charges alleged against him on January 1st, The de- tail for the courtmartial has been an- nounced by Governor Candler in au order issued for that purpose. The military court is headed by Colonel W. G. Obear, inspector general. Since the middle of September Cap¬ tain Aldred has been relieved of his command on account of the serious- ness of the charges, which involve mis- appropriation of funds and a viola- tion of two of the articles of war. It is probable that the same court that tries Captain Aldred will also in¬ vestigate the facts in the case of Lieu¬ tenant Watt, of the Fifth regiment, against whom charges were preferred by Colonel Park Woodward. Lieu¬ tenant Watt is charged with Conduct unbecoming an officer aDd a gentle¬ man and prejudicial to the good order and discipline of the service. The charges against him grew out of a rotr on a Peachtree car while the regiment was returning from Pied¬ mont park. * • 4 Walter Plead* Ignorance. Robert E. Waller, the brother-in- law of W. O. Bowden, whose reap¬ pearance caused in Columbus a day or two ago sttch a sensation, denies in the most positive find empb hatic wan- ner that he knew that Mr. Bewden was alive until his unexpected return home. Mr. Waller accompanied Mr. Bowden to Tybee and was with him at the time of his reported drowning. Mr. Bowden Was seeu at his home iu the country by a Columbus news¬ paper mflu and made a statement of how he eluded Mr. Waller. “The story of my disappearance is i very simple one,” he said. I “I wore two suits of clothes when went down to the beach with Mr. Waller that night. I pulled off both suits and slipped the new clothes Under my arm as I went into the water, unknown to Mr. Waller. I saw a large wave com¬ ing aud called out to Mr. Waller to look out after my clothes and carry them a little further up the beach. I saw biin sitting on a log. “I walked down the beach at an angle, concealed by the big ware, and came out about 100 yards below where I left the beach Waller did uot see me. He was either still seated on the log or else had gone higher up the beach, where he expected to meet me there. I did not want him to know of my movements, so I put on my new suit and went to the depot, where I took the first train for Savannah." SOtitllEJlN CONVENTION. Detail* For Ills: Industrial Meeting a* New Orleans Arrangi-d. The arrangements for the approach¬ ing session of the Southern Industrial Convention, which will open in New Orleans December 4th next, are all completed, and the attendance, judging from the enrolled delegates already reported, will bo the largest of any gathering for a similar purpose ever held in America. The list of subjects that will como before the convention cover almost every interest of the south and these will be discussed by some of the ablest men iu the nation. Cement Mills Combine. The Louisville Courier-Journal says that the fourteen cement mills located in the vicinity of that city and Jeffer- sonvilU*, Ind., which supyrly the greater part of the United States, have in contemplation the formation of a combine. Kruger Observes SabbaHi, Mr. Kruger passed Sunday with his family at the Hotel Scribe in Paris, observing the Sabbath in accordance with the customs of bis fathoiland. His apartments were closed to visit¬ ors. BOERS LOST HEAVILY. They Have Two Kntragementg With Brit¬ ish an<l arc BaUly Worsted, A special dispatch received in Lon- don from Middleburg, Transvaal col- onv.says that in the surprise of the outpost of the “Buffs” (Third artil- lerv) southwest of Balmoral, Novem- ber 10th, Boers lost sixty * men killed and wounded. The burghers, the dis¬ patch adds, simultaneously attacked a garrison of Fusiliers on Wilge river, but were beaten off with the loss of 120 men killed aud wounded. LANDSLIDE ENGULFS MINES. itncli Valuable Property Rained In West Virginia. A big landslide occurred north of Clarksburg, W. Va., Saturday morn- ing in which five of the largest coal mines were completely destroyed and several miners’ homes were shattered, No lives were lost because it happen- ed just before the time for the miners to enter for work. The loss will be many thousands of dollars. The slide completely changed the course of a large creek near by. SAMFOUD WILL TAKE OATH. Will Be Sworn In A* Governor of Ala¬ bama On December 1st. snerial from Onelika Ala savs: Governor Samford’scondition is much better. He will take the oath of office on December 1st. Further j Ians than that have not been arranged. He will not be well enough to go to Montgomery December 1st, but if be continues to improve as he has re- cently he will be able to sit up aud attend to any necessary affairs. DIVERGENCE DEVELOPS. Punishment of Prince Tuan and Others Cause* Division Amont Powers. “A serious divergence has arisen in Pekin,” says the Tien Tain corre- npondent of the London Daily Mail. “Japan, the United States, Russia and France favor demanding a milder pun- ishment thau the execution of Prince Tuan and the others, while Great Bri- tain, Germany, Austria-Hungary *nd Italy deem anything less than the Beath penalty useless. ALDRED TO BE TRIED. Governor Candler Refuses Bequest ol Former Captain of Atlanta Zonave*. An Atlanta dispatch says: The ac¬ tion of Governor Candler in refusing to grant a couv-t of inquiry in the case of Captain Aldred, of the At¬ lanta Zouaves, 4 against whom charges “the have been preferred, that officer is to brought shortly before a com’martial for trUi. NO. 40. TWENTY=SIX PERISH Steamer Olaf Is Wrecked and All On Board Are Lost. CREW NINETEEN; PASSEN6ERS SEVEN Disaster Occurred OIT th« Seven Island*. Shore* Are Searched For Missing Bodies. News was received in Quebec Satur¬ day afternoon that the 6teamer St. Olaf, which has been coasting between Quebec and Point aux Esquimaux, in the lower St. Lawrence, for the past two years, had become a total wreck off Seven Islands, and that all her crew was entirely lost. The first dispatch from Seven Is¬ land brought bnt very meagre news and it was only late in the afternoon that A. Frazer & Co., owners of the steamef, were informed of the extent of the disaster. Besides the nineteen men of the steamer's crew it was lenrn- ed that seven passengers bad also per¬ ished. The St. Olaf was an iron steamer of 305 tons and was built on the Clyde at Tort Glasgow in 1882. She was val¬ ued at about $40,000 and insured for about $20,000. The last uews heard of the St. Olaf up to Saturday was that she had left Sheldrake on Wed¬ nesday and shortly after the signal station dispatches reported rough weather with gales and snow, and it is supposed that during one of these gales the St. Olaf ran ashore on the rocks at the entrance of the Seven islands, as the dispatch states that she wan wrecked on Bonle island. As soon as the news of the wreck reached Soven islands a searching party weut out to attempt to rescue any of the shipwrecked people if pos¬ sible, but this was impossible, as every one aboard the vessel seems to have been lost. News was received late Saturday night that the St. Olaf was lying on the rocks, and at low tide two feet of her hull could be seen out of the wa¬ ter. The place where the steamer was wrecked is about seven miles off Seven islands and about 300 miles from Que¬ bec. STORMED REREL FORT. Daring Deed of Oar Boys In Philippine* In CiiiOnrlng Stronghold of Filipinos, A Manila special under date of No¬ vember 24th Bays: The fortress of the insurgent chief, Geronimo, at Pinau- ran, which the insurgents boasted was impregnable, was taken and destroyed Thursday afternoon by a picked force of tlie Forty-second and Twenty- seventh infantry and iroop G of the Fourth cavalry, under Colonel Tkom- son. Geronimoaud most of the rebels escaped. The leader has long harrassed the Twenty-seventh infantry, operating in the vicinity of San Mateo, Montalban and Novaliches. He was finally loca- tod at Pinauran, thirty-five miles consid- north of Manila. His position was ered the strongest in Luzon It was a fine stone fortress Burmounling a »teep hill eurrounded »>j “nyoBj.- The Spanish forces lost heauly iu at- tempting to take it. Colonel Thompson mobilized a thou¬ sand men at Montalban. The attack was made upon four sides. The ascentA were steep and the men climbed them by grasping the shrubbery. It was impossible for the eastern column to reach the summit, but the others ar¬ rived after three hours’ climbing, under fire from the fortress and the hillside intrenchments. The enemy’s force, numbering sev- era , h ur .d re< j f fled before the attackers reached the top. The Americans de- stroyed a thousand insurgent uni- forms, scores of buildings and large quantities of supplies and seized a barrel full of documents, Private Hart of the Twenty-seventh, 1 and Private Koppner, of the Forty- second, and the native scouts were killed, and twelve of the attac ing force were wounded. The insurgents casualties were not ascertained. California Storm Losses are $ 150 , 000 . The rain storms in California has caused about $150,000 damage to the crop of celery, much of which goes to the eastern market, SCARLET FEVER RAGES. Prevalent of the Disease In Mississippi cause* Health Board to Act. Mississippi 6tate board of health jj as addressed a letter to Governor Longino, falling his attention to the alarming prevalence of scarlet fever in several portions of Mississippi, and stating that the board is unable to take any steps to further spread, owing to tk« ttt^' *>"$ e 1 aB Thtj^T>oni» TOLfloi quaraut^O city NaCmcz on account of the^H of yellow^ fever reported from t place, owing to the lateness of tbs s son, and probability of a frost at early date., MONITOR NEVADA LAUNCHED Youngest Daughter of Congressman B telle Christened the New Warship. The United States monitor Neva in tonnage the largest governnj vessel ever built by the Bath T| 1 Works, was launched in that Saturday. The vessel was releJ and started down the ways in a nd manner by Miss Annie C. Boutl youngest daughter of Congress! Charles A. Bontelle, who chnst| her. ■ - xam