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The basket was ah- piM** R Miss surdly Mattie small, but jJ was little herself, J,f and when she w set it on the A \ mm high counter uml stood blink- light, the calf’s head ing in the bright at her elbow “nm'Vir* \ <■ Miss Mattie, grinning called at them out both, the , tnai Let man, in liis hearty fashion, “I see your mind is not set onn tur- key this time, hilt just wait till I start tins Basket off for Cap’n Lawson’s and I’ll show you the right thing—a plump little duck I Clapped into the sam this morning, thinking to myself that’s the very moral of a treat for Miss Mattie.” Miss Mattie looked embarrassed and rubbed her forefinger uneasily over a small coin that lay in the palm of her hand under her glove. It was a silver five-cent piece, and she had taken it with much hesitation from a little store of pieces, most of them given her when she was a child. For herself she could have got along very wdl with bread and tea, but somehow THE JOYS OK THANKSGIVING, »fc: wmMm m IIM m -jEf ) m >-&■ It. 0.3. w -2- ✓ 1 fii 81!§§i^ V S HU A V s 7) ii V pw w WimWl mi pm ®§I £ i W&h iMm / MW A I. ^>1 m • ■Li •A* m =. c I fer it seemed a dishonor to all her happy Thanksgiving; past not to have something special on and so she had a feel- ing of real pity for it, lying there warm and snug in her palm, and so soon clashing, to go tumbling into the heap of by jingling coins tossed about the butcher’s greasy fingers, or perhaps into the pocket of that hor- riblo apron Avitli blood-stains on it. Miss Mattie shuddered, but quickly recovered herself to say, cheerfully: “Oh, thank you, Mr. Simmons; but don’t you think ducks are a sight of trouble, Avhsvt with the stuffing and the roasting and needing to be looked after and basted regular? I made up my .loin mind to something W’. simple, aud I kno „ easier got or more relishing than lamb chops, Two lamb chops is about what .1 thought of. M, Simmons. You know there's only me.” Mr. Simmons had not seen the five- cent piece, but he understood just as w ell as if lie had, and lie began to cut the chops at once, talking all the time to relieve liis ow n embarrassment and assuring Miss Mattie that “if folks only knew it, there w as nothing like lamb chops to encourage your appe- tito and strengthen you up all over.” “But you’ll have to take three chops,” looking curiously at the money Miss Mattie laid in liis big hand, “or I’ll liRA'e to make change, aud ebauge is scarcer than lien’s teeth to-night. You might have company unexpected, would you know, and an extry chop come in handy.” Miss Mattie laughed so genially that the market man A'eutured to slip a sweetbread and a bunch of yellow celery into the basket on the sly. He would have loved to put in the duck, but that would have looked as if he suspected her reason for not buying it, and, bless you, he knew' better than that. Some people have feel- ings, though their feces are red and their hands coarse and greasy. Miss Mattie wont A v erv happily do WI1 the street. She had lighted her lamp before she went out, aud a cheerful little ray smiled encouragingly at her as she came to the gate. All the other windows in the weather-beaten old house w ere black aud empty aud looked to the lonesome little woman as if all sorts of hobgoblins might be peeping out at her from the gloom be¬ hind them, for Miss Mattie’s neigh¬ bors had gone away on a TbauksgiA'- ing At least Aisit they and said taken “the the whole v>hole family, family^ but at the very moment Miss Mattie came to the gate a member of the fam¬ ily was huddled up in a corner of the doorway, cold, huugry and had much become per- plexed to understand what of of all his friends and why, in spite his pitiful plea, no one came to open the door for him. H 3- heard Miss Mattie aud ran hop stiff limping as he came, for he had a leg. said Miss “Why, Tommy Barnes,” Mattie, stooping to pat his rough ye*- lot* head, “you don’t mean to say * tmfbrfn efaf your folks have gone off to Thanks- giving and left you beeind. Well if I ever! How dreadful_thoughtless_ and you a cripple besides!” his Tommy kept on crying, but he had eye on the door while Miss Mattie was fitting her key, and the minute it opened lie darted in. “That’s right, Tommy,” said Miss Mattie; “just make yourself at home. You and I’ll have our Thanksgiving together. That extra chop will be wanted after all, and I’m going to make riz biscuits.” Bhe put away her bonnet aud shawl and hung the basket on a nail in the back-room without even looking at the contents, though Tommy Barnes watched her keenly with a shrewd BUS* picion of something good, and a faint hope which nothing in his past expe- rience justified that he might come in for a share of it. Miss Mattie was ac- customed to being alone, and she scarcely thought of Tommy, as she trotted about, setting the soonge for her biscuits in a pint bowl, putting a little cup of broth on tire stove to warm for her supper, making her tea, toasting her bread, and at last sitting down by the table in the little green chair with a patchwork cushion. Up to this point Tommy had sat quietly by the fire, having learned by many severe lessons that little folks should be seen and not heard, but when Miss Mattie poured out the savory broth the delicious odor Avas too much for his fortitude, and with one bound Le- sprung into her lap. “Bless me,” said Miss Mattie, “if I hadn’t clean forgot you, and you half- starved I dare say. There, get down, j j never could abide cats around my victuals.” She put Tommy gently on the floor, crumbled some bread into the bowl of broth, cooled it carefully aud set it down for him to eat. “It’s pretty rich for me anyway,” she said, as she made out her supper wit h toast and tea. it was perhaps well for Tommy that ; \ ie took an early promenade next | mo rning around and the back secured yards several of the j neighborhood, Mattie had va i dable tid-bits, for Miss very he/cMightM little to offer him. She baked little puff, of biscuits, enjoy letter eel them immensely, llnding tbera and more digestible with- out butter. B*. «£ u a little chirrup- Sought voice like a brown sparrow. She iu the small basket and flushed over the unexpeet- ed fveasuretrove, but took it kindly as a bit of neighborly goodwill. The sweetbread, white aud plump and all read y for cooking, reminded her of old Mrs. Morrison, just beginning to sit up and watch the people go by the window'. What a toothsome dainty Diis would be for her, and w hat a de- light that she should be able to take her as sbe Avent to church, yes, aud some of the celery, too, for a rel- j s h. The chops Avere transferred to a p i a te on the shelf, the swet ibread wrapped in a fine old uapkin and laid back in the basket Avith the best half 0 f the celery, aud the biscuits Miss yjftttie bad saved for dinner. “The cold bread will go just as well with chops,” she reflected, and pre- pftr ed for church with a glow of hap- pjness such as she had not knoAvn iua i on g time. L_—-—— This Face all So Glum, o O’® 0 t> o e v • j < • v 0 o Pi * ® 9 \ T ; II j § \ N>\ * Cut it and sanee it and give us all some, From lean skinny Joe to Tom Fat: For ’tis Thanksgiving Day and this face all so glum, for hat. Was never cut out one Sherwood. —Thomas TOCCOA. HABERSHAM COUNTY. GA.. FRIDAY, NOYEMBER 36,18!)7. ^ helped to a real feeling of thank- fillness, especially when she thought of old Mrs. Morrison, and how pleased she had been with the unexpected gift. She laughed a little to herself as she returned to her own door after service, remembering how when Sally Morrison had commiserated her on be- ing alone Thanksgiving Day, she had assured her she had company invited who Tommy Barnes, from the next door, with her, was spending a couple of days the rest Of the family being away. “I hope’t wa’n’t a sinful untruth,” she said, smiling at Tommy, who lay peacefully sleeping on the braided rug, “but if old Miss Morrison had set in to have me stay to dinner, I shouldn’t a’ known how to get away, and she is such a talker.” __. With 4l clean a long, apron over her best frock, Miss Mattie began cheer- f tt Hy *° make ^ er small preparations * tbe Thanksgiving fea.st. She I or had mef litated leaving one chop for break- fast ’ but ber waB * an(1 happiness had made her hungry and she decided to cook them all. But Avhere did she put these chops —she was getting so forgetful—she could have sworn she put them on the shelf—could she have left them in the basket after all? Her perplexed eyes fell from the shelf to the floor, and there, just peeping from the Avood-box was the plate, and tivo small, very small, bits of bone, guawed quite clean and white. there Ungratefut Tommy Barnes, lying in peaceful slumber, with those precious chops rounding out your yel- low sides, if justice had befallen you then and there you might not have lived to steal again. But into the midst of Miss Mattie righteous wrath came the reflection that Tommy must have been hungry, and the fault after all Avas partly her OAvn for putting temptation in his nay, “though how anything could have been further out of his Avay than that shelf, I don’t really see,” she added, dolefully. At that minute Tommy Barnes waked from his nap, transformed him¬ self into a camel, yawned in a fright¬ fully tigerish fashion, and proceeded to sharpen his claws on the rug, the sacred rug into which had beeu braided some precious old garments ( ^ ear Hiss Mattie s heart. It u as a sb'aw too much to nave insult added injury, and springing from her chair, she cuffed Tommy in such Augorous fashion tuat three or four hearty blows found tneir mark before J iie astonished sinner could Avithdraw his claws and bound out at the back door, left ajar m the search for the chops. At that instant a resounding knock °n the front door sen xliss Mat ie 9 heart *? he \. throat ^ lth a sluWen , lea P’ a3 11 i aatlce " eie airead , Y coming to take her m hand for umea sonable crue.ty. NY hen Miss Mattie was peacefully Peering about, unconscious of the ue llc * a e T 1 " P>^ ed >>«. n as aius eying er 11 1 ‘'1“^“^ minister'^ tell me ” she repeated, "that the folks «>«’* » u . .»>>*'/<>" me ^^ tend to it. Oh, you needn’t to look as Josiaii if you thought it was a judgment. I Avouldn’t be such a hipper- crit as to pretend to be thinkin’ of spiritooal things when I was wonder¬ in’ if Sarah Ellen would remember to baste the turkey. Seems to me they might let ns know sooner.” “But I told ye, mother, it Avas a telegram come just before church. You can't regerlate telegrams like the weekly newspaper, or stop folks from dyin’ * unexpicted.” “Then, why didn’t yon rush round and get somebody else? Mercy sakes! ’TAvon’t seem like Thanksgiving at all--” “Didn't seem to be anybody to ask but old Mis’ Morrison and Marthy Ellison. I drove round by the Morri¬ sons, but the old lady was just having something relishing Miss Mattie had fetched in. They said they invited her to dinner, but she had comp’ny; one of them Barneses next door.” “Fiddle«ticks!” said the deacon’s wife, in aA*ery disrespectful tone, “You just drive straight back and bring Marthy Ellison np here to dinner. Tell her I don't take any excuse, and, if she can't come othenvays, she can bring her comp’ny along, though the way them shif’less Barnesses impose on her is a mortal shame.” Good Deacon Giles had learned docility in many years of experience, and the double knock at Miss Mattie’s door followed as quickly as could be reasonably expected. Miss Mattie at¬ tempted neither excuse nor hesitation, but accepted her good proAndence with radiant delight. ‘ ‘Mother said to fetch your comp’ny along,” said the deacon, glancing doubtfully about the small room. “We heard you had one of the Barneses. I kinder hope ’tain't the cross-eyed oue that stole my pears.” “Oh,” said Miss Mattie, laughing into the little mirror, as she tied her bonnet, “he’s had his dinner and he's gone out.” ” that he had She didn’t say eaten Devoted to Southern Progress and Colonization. her * also, but at Mrs. Giles's hos- pitable table, under the genial influ- ence of generous fare and pleasant old-time reminiscences, she told the story of Tommy Earnes and the lamb chops lose in a way that made the deacon his breath with laughter. And when she was tucked into the yellow sleigh fot the ride home, Mrs, Giles stopped at the door to say: “I put some bits of bones and things in a basket under the seat for Tommy, Takes a sight of stuff to reely till up a sj/ /// mm. iTTT’i"'* 1 " m it Wmm m ’A / ■ I E&gtipl > : mm Mill jggpill 56 ! ess ■WS BP? 1 5/ Wmm ’ “SHE AVAS TUCKED IX THE YELLOW SLEIGH.” cat fur ’nough to give his moral princi¬ ples a fair shouin’. ” Tommy Avas on the step waiting to welcome Miss Mattie, Avliich shows his forgiving disposition, and, though he got as much as was good for him out of the basket under the seat, Miss Mattie very wisely concluded that the mince pie, roast chicken and cran¬ berry sauce could hardly have been meant for his delight, so she locked them in the cupboard, saying de¬ cidedly: “This time, Tommy Barnes, I’ll give your moral principles a fair show¬ ing.” Emily Huntington Miller. O HEART, GIVE THANKS. O heart, give thanks for strength, to-day, To Araik, to run, to work, to play! For feasts of eye; melodious sound; Thy pulses’ easy, rhythmic bound; Ten servants that thy will obey; A mind clear as the sun’s own ray; A life which has not passed its May; That all thy being thus is crowned, O heart, give thanks! Feet helpless lie that once were gay; Eyes know hut night’s eternal sway; Souls dwell in silence, dread, profound; Blinds iive with clouds encircling round; In face of these, thy blessings weigh! O heart, give thanks! —Emma C. Dowd. The Housewife’s Holiday Plans. Make the home bright and cheer¬ ful for Thanksgiving and Christmas, Avrites a farmer’s wife. Plan the work so .that the holiday will not find you in the kitchen every moment or find you weary from overwork. Pies, puddings, cake and bread may be made two days before the event; sweeping, dusting aud decorating may occupy the day previous and the turkey or chicken should also be cleaned and stuffed at this time, m order to go into t le oien early the next day. This method gives a little time on the morning of the holiday for the extra toilet and the reception of guests. Boasting the turkey and preparing and cooking the vegetables will take up the remainder of the morning, so that no time can really be found in Avhieli to prepare desserts, etc. Garlands of evergreen, dotted here and there with wild im- morteHes and pressed autumn leaves, will bngnten the rooms wonderfnny. This is easy work for the young peo- pie, Avho always want to belli at such a time. Have some green upon the table. If you have no flowers in bloom, use the handsomest plants among your window collections. If no jardi- niere is forthcoming, conceal the ordi- nary flower pot ivith evergreen or autumn leaves. Chrysanthemums keep out of doors until the first of December, and are effective as decora- tions, if one does not object to their odor. Let me describe the table decora¬ tion at our first Thanksgiving six years ago. I had only a few carnation blossoms, red and Avhite ones. These I , U i into a tall glass vase with some drooping sword ferns that I stole from mv one jardiniere. I placed the vase upon a large antique pewter platter, covered with a pretty doily and heaped with fruit, apples, grapes and bananas. The base ofvaseAvas almost concealed, and the result charming, as my guests declared. On Desert Air. Winthrop—“If Freddie is going to spend Thanksgiving with his grand¬ mother, perhaps you’d better buy him that tin horn.” Mrs. Winthrop—“I spoke to him about it, my dear, but he said it would do no good to him, as grandmother is deaf.” A Suclilng Pig For Thanksgiving. There are some old-fasljioned peo¬ ple who prefer a sucking pig to turkey at Thanksgiving, and to haA-e this dish in perfection an old saying goes that the small animal must ba three Aveeks “under a moon.” The Kid’s Harvest. Sow he is as pleased as pleased can be, And has no cause to sigh. With all his heart he says: “To me Thanksgiving time is pie. - ’ The Turkey on the Wall. iHE opening of the chest¬ nut burs, The leaves, yellow and sere, Told beyond a perad- m venture A That Thanksgiving Day was near. ted But, fancy. to my childish The surest sign of all, Of the nearness of few Thanksgiving, Was the turkey on the wall. It plainly told the story That Ave had not long to wait, For the path from wall to table 1* :ts very short and straight. It hung ail plump and golden In the pantry near the door For a day or two before the feast. And then was seen no more. 1 i Qt EEN REGENT OF SPAIN PARBONS THE FOUR UNFORTUNATES. WAS ONCE CONDEMNED TO DIE. DeDoine Has a Conference With Assistant Secretary Day In Regard to Weyler’s Tobacco Decree. Minister Woodford at Madrid has telegraphed , , . . the state , department , x X XL that x the Spanish cabinet has notified him that the queen has pardoned the Com- petitor prisoners. The state department now announces that the Competitor prisoners were turned over to General Lee last Mon¬ day and will be sent by him direct to New York. It is not doubted in Washington that the prisoners are liberated on some such conditions as Avere imposed in the case of former prisoners, that is that they will not return to Cuba. After their bitter experience iu the Cuban jails, it is not believed the men will be disposed to violate any understanding of this kind to which they may be parties. It is singular that the men should have been for four days in the custody of Consul General Lee without the fact having become generally known, but it is supposed that secrecy was observed in order to secure departure from Ha¬ vana without exciting trouble from the extreme conservative Spanish fac¬ tion. There were four prisoners, namely, Alfred O. Laborde, the captain of the Competitor, a native of New Orleans; William Gildea, the mate, a natural¬ ized citizen; Ona Melton, who claims Kansas as his native state, and avIio Avent on the Competitor in the capacity of a newspaper correspondent; Charles Barnett, of British birth, but avIio claimed the protection of the United States by virtue of his sailing on an American A’eSsel. The conditions under which the Competitor was captured April 25, 1896, off the Caban coast Avhile en¬ gaged in landing arms for the insur¬ gents lia\ r e been often described. The defense of the men Avas that they Avere forced, into the exposition against their will by the insurgent party aboard the boat. They Avere tried by a naval courtmartial before Avhich they could make only a poor shoAving, prin- cipally because of their ignorance of the Spanish language in Avhich the proceedings were conducted, so that their conviction aud the imposition of the death sentence was not a matter of surprise. At that point, hoAvever, the case as- sumed diplomatic importance. May Revoke Weyler’s Decree. Senor Duimy de Lome, the Spanish minister, had a long conference with Assistant Secretary Day Thursday morning and it is believed that the i Spanish government is voluntarily about to remove another troublesome factor from the field of negotiations in ■ revoking the decree made by Weyler prohibiting the exportation of tobacco { Cuba The reason set up by General Wey- ler for the order was the necessity of keeping in HaA-ana the supply of to- bacco necessary to run the domestic 0l . ,8 ar fac , fV . les a ? d i x, thu ?’ i b y giving • • em- ployment to AvorKmen.keep them from drifting into the insurgent ranks. It was a matter of common report, how- that another potent reason was a (legire to cri xiSited le the Cuban cigar mak- ers in tlie States, from whom the insurgents drew funds. SUICIDE’S CONFESSION READ. Sensation Sprung at Trial of Arroyo’* A . profount ^eher, sensation In Cl yofMerlco Avas made in ^ course of t le tna of the police officials of the City of Mexico who ar 8 charged with the murder of Ar- r °7°> ^7 production o the con es- 81011 ol * be ate ins P ec t 01 ' general of ? ohce ’ Velasquez r who suicided. It is a most remarkable attempt at self- justification, and falsely states that a mob of the common people lynched Arroyo. The prosecuting attorney in a strong argument pleaded for the execution of a death sentence on all the prisoners except ex-Assistant Chief of Detectives Cabrera and one other minor prisoner, BROTHERS BURIED TOGETHER. Editor Brann IVarned and His Home Guaided by His Friends. The bloody duel between Colonel Gerald and the Harris brothers at Waco, Texas, has been the sole topic of discussion in that usually quiet city. Editor J. W. Harris, Avho w as so terribly wounded, died Saturday and his body was buried Sunday beside that of his brother, Wk A. Harris,who was killed while the battle was at its fiercest. Editor W. C. Brann, of the Icono¬ clast, whose discussion Avith Baylor nnixersity Avas the origin of the trouble, was warned anonymously Friday night and friends guarded his resi¬ dence, but no trouble occurred. MONUMENT TO YANCE. Grand Lodge of Masons of North Carolina Will Lay the Corner Stone. A special from Asheville, N. C., saps that Grand Master Moore, at the request of Masons of North Carolina, will call a special communication of the grand lodge to assist in laying the corner stone of the monument to the late United .States .Senator Vance at Asheville. The ceremonies will occur early in December. HONORED NAMESAKE. Feoj*le of Nashville Present Silver Service To Vessel Bearing City’s Name. The presentation of a handsome sil- ver serA’ice on behalf, and in the name of the citizens of Nashville, Xenn.,Avas made to the gunboat Nashville at the navy yard at Norfolk, Va., Monday morning. The ceremony took place ol main deck in the presence of the ship’s company. Commandant Far- quhar and other officers of the yard, with a number of lady guests, wit- ues-ed the presentation. PLUNGED INTO A CREEK. Train W recked and Bnrnfd-Only Onn Death, But Many Injured. Train 2 on the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis, which left Bir- mingham, Ala,, Wednesday evening fo 5 Kansas City, was derailed west of Walliford, Ark., at 3 o’clock Thurs¬ j day morning. The combination coach, ft“tauTth’ into Spring river. n ^'MnSoa^V'." The chair car and sleeper were both consumed. One passenger was fatally injured, dying shortly afterward, aud about thirty others more or less seriously hurt. It is believed none of the lat¬ ter will die. I ^°- 2 is a fast through train from the south. Between Williford and Hardy the Memphis tracks parallel Spring river, a little stream run¬ ning out of Mammoth Springs. When near Williford the engineer felt the train leap forward and found that it liad parted between the two day coaches. The last three cars bumped over the ties, the chair car and sleeper turning over on their sides and the combination car finally going into the river. The engineer backed up the front part of the train and the work of res¬ cue of was the immediately begun. The ter¬ ror passengers who had gone down into the stream with the combi¬ nation car was heightened by cries of alarm from the chair car and sleeper, both of which soon took fire. The intense darkness added to the confu¬ sion and it was some time before an organized effort at rescue was put into effect by the train crew and those of the passengers who had been able to extricate themselves without aid. The passengers in the burning cars were luckily rescued before the fire had reached its height, and but few in those cars were injured. The wreck is the first one of a seri¬ ous nature iu the history of the Mem¬ phis road, and according to the state¬ ment of General Passenger Agent J. E. Locswood, Mr. Hoover is the first passenger ever killed while riding on a train on that road. REPORT OF SECRETARY BLISS. Document Shows Work of Interior De¬ partment For Fast Year. Secretary of the Interior Bliss, in his annual report made public Thurs¬ day night, submits estimates aggregat¬ ing $156,532,419 for appropriation by congress for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1897. Discussing pensions he says 200,- 000 pension claims are awaiting adju- dication and it is estimated that 40 or 50 per cent of these Avill be finally ad- mitted. If they are rapidly adjudi- oated they will swell the pension roll from $5,000,000 to $7,000,000. When, hoAvever, these claims are adjudicated and the first payments made thereon, the amount of the pension roll will de- nnn crease Ar *-*0 ,,? er or Y $130 ra £ 11 000,000 ^ Y’ P® 8S1 the * first ^25,- lbe ’’ total Indian year, _ United , population of the : States exclusive of the New ioik Indians and the five civilized tubes, approximates If <,178, located on 1/7 reservations, Avhich contain 33,404,837 acres. Of oMan of land At Avhich L aggregate 644,147 acres. hecietary Bliss says while the opening of the Wichita reservation in Okla- homa to Avhite settlement ivould great- ly P lorn °t e the development of that country, yet, in vieiv of the unsettled condition of the questions affecting their rights, until there is further leg- islation he does not see how it can be dono without causing great in]n and distress i I o guard against this recommendation is made that the DaAves commission be authorized to inA'estigate questions as to their rights and claims and report recommendations from speedy and just BO tlement. DISASTROUS PRAIRIE FIRES. Thre „ Thousand Sheep Burned in TeiB9 Counties, a terrific prairie fire has passed through Lubbock, Hale and Crosby counties> Texas doi great damage to the ranges . originated east of Crosby county, burned eastward through Crosby be- fore a severe wesfc wind . The flames made a fire ten miles vide, Avhich traA-eled at great speed. At least 400 square miles of territory ! were burned. Cattle suffered and many were burned to death. Three thousand sheep Avere burned in one flock and many farmers lost all their winter feed. WHY DOORS WERE NAILED. A Sensation of Great Magnitude Crops Out In Savannah, Ga. A SaA'annah special says: The hot¬ test kind of sensation has grown out of the action of the chief of the fi 'e department in nailing up the doors of the city exchange a feAv days ago. The fire commissioners investigated the matter, and the chief said that his reason for nailing up the doors Avas j because the city section offices had been used at night by some of the city officials in the entertainment of their lady friends. This statement has caused tremen¬ dous excitement among municipal offi¬ cials, and an investigation has been demanded. MOB AiTER MURDERER. Negio Entered Lee’s Residence and Killed Him With An Ax. A Columbia, S. C., special says: Charles Mill tarns, a negro, was taken j to Sumter jail Saturday night from j Carter’s Crossing to prevent lynching. He entered tue home of W. J. Lee j Friday night for the purpose of rob- bery, and, being determined, butcher- ed Mr. lee iu his bed Avith an ax. He says he had an accomplice. A mob pursued the officers and prisoner. DEkTH SENTENC E FOR TEN. Kcsuitof Trial of Police At Mexico city For m order of Arroyo. The great trial of Arroyo’s mur- derers at Mexico City terminated Mon- j dav eA'ening with the sentence of j death pronounced * on ten of the police orticial s aud pc l icemen concerned in t he butchery of the hapless wr :ch whose audacious attempt on the presi- dellt cansed HO profound a sensation, Xhe j arv wa9 out ovel seven hours. The condemned men do not vet see m to realize their perilous position. T be (r lawyers entered an appeal. SUBSCRIPTION' HATES: tl.OO A YEAR. !U1 US HER FIGHT. BILL FOP. REMOVAL OF COURT¬ HOUSE IS DEFEATED. RESULT WAS A DECIDED SURPRISE. A Brief Stimmirry of the Unity Proceed¬ ing! and lloutlne Work In Both House and Senate. One of the hottest, most sensation¬ al, and thoroughly interesting fights ever witnessed in the house of repre¬ sentatives was brought about Friday iu the contest between Decatur and Stone Mountain for the possession of the DeKalb county courthouse. Decatur won under circumstances seemingly adverse. The fight was brought on by the Stone Mountain faction who seemed sure of an easy victory. Test of strength in the vote to take up the bill Thursday seemed to indicate that the required two-thirds majority was in favor of a removal of the courthouse. A substitute bill, referring a settle¬ ment of the question back to the peo¬ ple of the county, was offered aud lost. Then the other bill came tip and a sensation was caused by the discovery that the measure could not be put to a vote because the proper legal proofs were missing. No other business could be transacted. Under the call for the previous question, the only thing before the house was the vote on this bill. For an hour and a half, an exciting debate went on. All this confusion was caused by the simple fact that a newspaper containing a copy of the advertisement of the bill had been lost or misplaced. The Decatur people were willing to accept the proofs at hand, aud so were the Stone Mountain people. Bnt, nevertheless, the debate went on and Hie confusion increased. Finally the missing newspaper was discovered and the bill was voted on. The result was 85 to 60. Stone Mountain had failed to receive a constitutional majority and Decatur was secure in the possession of the county site. Immediately after the reading of the journal in the senate Friday morn¬ ing Senator SteAvart, chairman of the committee on lunatic asylums, made a report on the bill providing that female physicians be allowed to enter the competitive examinations for va¬ cancies on the state asylum staff. The report of the committee Avas favora¬ ble. Senator Battle moved that the regu¬ lar ordor, which Avas the calling of the roll for the introduction of new matter, be dispensed with, and that the read- i j n g 0 f Rouse bills faA-orably reported j on be read the second time. The mo- j ti on prevailed. At the conclusion of the reading of bills for t’*ft second time the roll avus e ft i,l e d for the introduction of new matter. After this the senate went i nto executive session and confirmed Ho “* B ’ B ' ^ city court of Decatur county; Hon. F. R. Tarver, j judge of the Effingham county court; : e. T. Shurley, solicitor of Warren ’ ! county court. Q n motion of Senator Steivart, ol the 27th, the senate adjourned until ! 12 o’clock Mondav. j Wednesday’s Frocecdings. ; I The entire day Wednesday in the house Avas given up to the university. Some routine business Av as transacted and then the fight of the day on the i university hearing came np. The university Avas on trial aud was ably represented by Hon. N. J. Hammond, president of the board of trustees. Another feat¬ ure of almost sensational interest, iu that it Avas not on the program, was a speech by Dr. William H. Felton, of Cartersville, introduced to the general assembly as “the old man eloquent.” The friends of the institution in the house won a fight in securing the hearing for the trustees. The house had run counter to the Avishes of the senate and a sensational conflict Avas promised. The house resolution pro¬ A ided for the hearing before a commit- tee of the-whole. The senate resolu- tion called for a joint session. This precipitated the fight. When the senate resolution came up before the house it was sought to amend it so as to fix the hearing for Wednesday night. The time mention¬ ed in the resolution Avas 10:30 a. m. That hour came and went while the fight was still on in the house. Then an amendment to this amend¬ ment, fixing the time for the hearing at 11 o’clock was offered. This was put and carried amid applause. There was then a bare margin of 6 minutes and the trustees awaited the result on the outside. Both houses then convened in joint session and the trustees, headed by Governor Atkin¬ son, were ushered into the hall. They were greeted with applause, and after an introduction by President Berner, of the senate, Colonel Hammond be¬ gan his speech. The first thing done by the senate Wednesday morning was to send the house the resolution for a joint session at 10:30 o’clock to hear the university trustees. Pending the receipt of in¬ formation touching the address of the house on the subject, the senate trans- ac ted routine business, d was nearly 11 o'clock when a , message from the house announced . that the resolution had been adopt £ j with an amendment fixing the time at j n o’clock. This was immediately concurred in and the house was uoti- fied. j J These two bills were parsed by the sena te: Mr. Felder’s bill to expedite j prohibiting habeas corpus arresting cases; officers Mr. Hawes’ from bill ad- A’ising or procuring se tlementa in criminal cases and fixing a penalty for so doing. Thursday's Routine. ' Along with the first business in the j , u°u« e Thursday „„ , the .. West . resolution , ,. ) to hm '\ ‘^nssionou the convict b.U j j and after ]} to some 1 ° C discussion Ock ea< ‘ h d:,v v as eaule passed. "}> I T1 *. e tb e “ took a at tbe bl K A . few more a mendments 1 to the first section tvere pre sented, all ' ^hich were discussed without re- NO. 2. suits, and then the committee of the whole reported progress. The DeKalb court house fight ran amuck of the convict bill and both came to a standstill. An eflort was made to secure the consideration of the former measure at the expense of the latter, and an interesting fight re¬ sulted. The convict bill gained the right of way, howei'er, and was under discussion during the remainder of the day. Mr. Gray’s prohibition bill came np iu the senate as the first business Thursday morning, and after a brief statement by the author, it went to a vote. The bill prohibits the sale of liquors in smaller quantities than one pint, aud prohibits the drinking of liquor on the premises where it is sold. The favorable committee report was agreed to by a vote of 19 to 16. The question then came up on the passage of the bill and Senator Turner rose to fai'or it. It fell far short of what he desired, but was in the right direction. Senator Gray called for the ayes and nays and the vote was 20 to 17. The bill lacked only three N votes of a constitutional majority. The football bill came up and passed by a A'ote of 31 to 4. Senator Turner’s bill prohibiting the shooting at turkeys and other fowls for a prize, Avith chances stated on hitting the bird, came on an adverse report, which caused some discussion. The adverse report was disagreed to by a A^te of 21 to 14 aud the bill stands for a third reading. Mr. Felder’s bill to except the N. C. and St. L. railway from the law’ pro¬ hibiting the running of freight trains on Sunday was fonght by Senator Turner. When the bill came up Sen¬ ator Kilpatrick explained that it ap¬ plied to railroads running through the state less than three miles, and said there were only six citizens who could be disturbed by the noise of the trains. Saturday In the House. An effort Avas made in the house Saturday to reconsider the action of Friday in defeating the bill to remove the courthouse of DeKalb county from Deeatur to Stone Mountain. The re¬ sult was a second defeat for the Stone Mountain faction. There was just a quorum present and the motion to reconsider received only 36 of the 88 votes cast. This ends the controversy for five years at least, as no election can be called before that time. From noAv until the close the house will hold two sessions daily. The morning session will be from 9 until 1 o’clock, aud in the afternoon from 3 to 5 o’clock. The house Avill now go to work in earnest to settle the many im- portant matters noAv under considers- tion. ►Saturday’s session was a busy one. A great deal of routine business was transacted and a number of important measures were introduced. Mr. Cal¬ vin of Richmond offered a bill for state banks of issue with Avhich he hopes to make a test of the 10 per cent, tax on the state banks. Mr. Bartlett, of Paulding, proposes two constitutional amendments, oue of Avhich Avould place members of the legislature on a salary of $250 per • annum instead of the per diem. The other seeks to strike the 50 days and leave the legislature to hold unlimited sessions. Monday's lloutlne. Mr. Calvin’s “mixed flour” bill passed the honse at Monday’s session. The bill requires the words “mixed flour to be branded or marked on each package containing a blending of Avheat flour and corn meal, so as to show Avhat per centum of the contents is made from the food products of wheat and from the food products of grain, other than wheat. The purpose of the bill is to put purchasers on notice as to what they are buying, Avhether straight flour or mixed flour. The following bills were also pass- td: An act for the protection of the bicycle roads in the county of Wilkes; an act making the condemnation of land by counties the same as for all corporations exercising the right of eminent domain; amending the char¬ ter of the city of Waycross; establish¬ ing a system of public schools for the city of Culloden; amending the char¬ ter of the city of Gainesville. The senate passed the following local bills Monday: To incorporate Mount- ville; to incorporate Oeilla; to incor¬ porate Pepperton—(Pepperton is in Butts county near a famous patch of red pepper, from which a negro vil¬ lage called PeppertoAvn took its rise— later a cotton mill was erected be¬ tween Jackson and the red pepper vil¬ lage); amending the Lawrenceville charter so that it shall be called a city instead of a town—(there is no penalty for a violation of the act); to extend the corporate limits of Douglasville-; to amend the charter of Douglas in the county of Coffee bo that it shall be called a city instead of a town; to extend the limits of East Rome; to amend the charter of Buchanan; to amend the charter of Washington, Ga., so as to give the mayor a salary of $200 and the recorder $250 if the council is Avilling. ALL QUARANTINE ENDED. Citizpnft of Alabama Free to go and Come Once More. Beginning last Sunday at noon all quarantine restrictions in Alabama, so far as state authorities are concerned, were removed aud people are free to go and come. One or twe counties south of Mont¬ gomery continue their quarantine, but it amounts to little. Commencing Monday all trains out of Montgomery to Mobile and New Orleans were p«t on their old sched¬ ules. All others resumed some days ago. PARK COMMISSIONER REPORTS. Chairman Boynton Show* That Satiafae- tory Progress Ha* Been Made. , General Henry Y. Boynton, as chair¬ man of the Cbicamauga and Chattp- has nooga National park commission, submitted to the secretary of war the annual report of the comrrission, showing that satisfactory progress has been made in the establishment of the park in accordance with existing laws aud the plan heretofore adopted by the war department. 1 No change seems to the park com mission to be required or to be &dv' aide. No new legislation is and no mere*sr of the ..i tl.ut made i sr the current is needed.