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Mu XVIII.
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CAltNESVlLLE, FRANKLIN CO., Li A., WKDNL
OVER THE GET-THERE ROADs
IVho will dare the road to There,
The There of glittering glory?
Rough it is as a Whitman ode,
Cruel it is as the Russian code,
Long it is as the devil's goad »
At loast, so runs the story.
There's never u flngor-post nor guldo,
Nor beast to bear your load ;
Bownro of the Reckless Rapid’s tide
And of Easy Swamp on the other side ;
Go slow and sure, for you cannot rids
Over the Get-There road.
What does it cost to get to There,
The There of marvelous mention?
Only a soul of smallest breed,
Only a life of grasping greed.
?“*' Another 1 heart h , right ' htch plight not need, heBd
s or or
But holds its own intention.
I saw one left to a loathsome post,
For that is tho Get-There mode.
One picked the purse of his wretched guest,
One trod rough-shod on a sweetheart's
breast,
Over the Get-Thera road.
What’s the share of those of Thero?
Why, every tasto is suited ;
Flaming fame or a ruling rod,
A sunny smile of the golden god,.
Or, may he, six by two of sod,
For that’s a point disputed.
There’s never a way to tell what’s true
■ Of that select abodo
Till you pass the wall which bars its view,
Over or under, around or through.
I don’t know how It is done, do you?
Most of us don’t, but some of us do,
Over the Get-Thero road.
Who, then, cares to get to There? •
Why, all, if truth be spoken.
Spite of each scornful gibe and sneer
There must offer a hearlsome cheer,
And can’t be worse than being here
By many a sign and token.
Then ho 1 for a tramp on the well-worn track,
Though rough as a Whitman ode
Or cruel as the Russian oode,
Or long as the devil’s goad.
Whatever it is, there’s nothing back,
It can’t be worse than a eul de sac,
So gird up your loins, pick up your pack,
And hey for the Get-There road!
—J. Edmund Y. Cooke, in New York Sun.
JASPER GREENE’S WOOING.
ASPAR GTtFRVF 1 .
dismissed the
_ driver when he
.ij'18^1. ^ reached the wharf
fW/Jtas. after crossing the
Ottawa at the Four
1 Corners and
1 — looked around for
'hf 1 — Daoust to carry
1 I ^ Labe his baggage lie’s up to in
old Daoust days of yore. But
was dead and therefore
could not come.
Millette put the heavy trunk on a
truck-sleigh and began to trot along
the wooden wharf. Then, when Mil-
lette paused for breath, Greene pushed
the old man aside and took hold of the
truck. “Say, Millette, I’ll w'heel this
up for fifty cents for you,” he said.
Millette rau panting alongside.
"Ah-h ze drole monsieur. I will pro-
vide for ze christening.”
Greene stopped short. “What,
another!” he said in pretended amaze-
ment. “How many?” he asked,
briefly.
“Twenty-seven,” rejoined Millette,
with ill-dissembled pride.
Greene stopped again and carefully
counted out twenty-seven cents,
“Here’s a cent each for your children,
Millette. Don’t stand still any longer
or you’ll get frost-bitten. I dare not
run the risk of having to provide for
twenty-seven orphans.”
Millette took the money with pro-
fuse thanks anil hurried off, leaving
Greene to go on to Labelled hotel
with the huge truck sleigh. By the
tirneJaBper procession gradually reached the formed Poafcf^tce the a
on
sidewalk to welcome him back to Mon-
treal. When Lily Labelle saw him
she came out and promptly gave the
children a holiday for the rest of the
day. Then she joined him at the head
of the procession. When they reached
the veranda the children gave three
cheers for Jasper and called for a
speech.
He waited for the crowd to disiierse
before he approached Lily, who stood
leaning against the veranda, an amused
look in her dark eyes.
“Are you glad to see me?” he asked.
“Come in to dinner,” she said.
“I’ll answer your questions—some of
them—afterward.”
Mrs. Labelle greeted him with a
kissonboth cheeks, while her bus-
band bowed with grave politeness.
Lily seated herself at tho upper
table; Jasper at once took possession
of Lily and held his prize against all
comers, especially the cashier of the
Four Corners Bank. The latter was
not easily disconcerted, but prepared
to demolish Jasper.
Miller, the cashier, asked her to go
foraBleighridethata(ternooli
“So sorry,” drawled Jasper. “Miss
Labelle has been engaged to me for a
sleigh ride for a year.”
The cashier, without waiting for a
reply, went angrily out. her
Lily raised her eyes from plate,
are you a "week before
time,*Jasper?” she asked.
“That’s the reason,” said Jasper,
indicating with a fragment of mince
pie on his fork the retreating f
the cashier. “If I’m only allowed one
sleigh ride a year, I don’t see why that
fellow should get ahead of me anil have
three a weeij. ”
“But your work, Jasper?”
“Oh, McQuire’s looking after that
forme. I explained to him that it
rather important to clear up matters
here, and , , Icame. „
so
Lily had not expected her coquetry
to become known. “It is so dull.”
m extenuation
Jasper commenced another mince
pie
“Don’t be afraid of it’s being dull
while I’m hero,” ho said, with sublime
self-confldenoe. “You promised me
one sleigh ride a year for seven years
if I wanted it, and I guess I’ll take this
year’s Lily to-day.”
pouted. Jasper smiled and
rumpled his yellow hair. •
“You’d hotter own up," he saij,
with unabated cheerfulness. “How
soon Lily can you be ready?"
was cowed. “Oh, in half an
hour and ran away to get her things
OU.
When Lily came down arrayed in
her most becoming furs Jasper smiled
approvingly. flowers'to “You only want some
be perfect,” he said.
Lily gave a little cry. “Ah, flowers!
But they nro impossible.”
“Not at all,” said Jasper, taking a
box from his pocket. “Nothing im¬
possible if you want it badly enough.”
Lily opened the box and gave an¬
other cry. “Orange blossoms !”. she
said.
“Yes,” answered Jasper. “From
Florida. People there stick the ends
in a potato to keep them fresh. Capi¬
tal dodge, isn’t it?”
lie took out the orange blossoms,
threw away the potato and pinned
them to her jacket.
“Now we’re ready to Btart. Stop a
moment!” and ho drew her back be¬
hind the curtain as the cashier drove
past on his way to the schoolhouse.
Lily began to laugh “It’s very
wicked of you, Jasper.”
“That will teach him to go sleighing
with my sweetheart,” said Jasper,
calmly.
Lily protested. ’Wou’ve no right
to say that, Jasper. I only promised
you a sleigh ride once a year for seven
years, and then if I liked you well
enough, then perhaps I might marry
you.”
Jasper was drawing on his sealskin
gloves. “That’s all very well,” he
said, “but we haven’t the time to waste
which those old biblical people had.
In seven years’ time I expect to be in
tho Cabinet.”
Lily followed him to the door, only ail
to recoil in dismay. “That!” was
she said.
“He’s not handsome to look at,”
said Jasper, drolly. “Rather three-
cornered and lop-sided. Still I don’t
suppose that cashier fellow' can over-
take a venerable ruin like this. ”
“« he does,” flashed Lily, “I’ll
change sleighs. ”
“Well, that’s fair,” gently asserted
Jas P er - “In you go. There isn’t
much fuss and feathers about the old
sleigh, but it means business all the
9ame '
Lil y was furious at being treated
b ' ce a child. Besides she had deter-
roijj f d to teach Jasper a lesson.
“KaUier like Deacou PlStt’s ser-
mons - The Y al ways hang fire at the
start,” said Jasper. “Now, we’U go
to Hawesbury by the river track. That
f ” ,low can see us coming. Ah, I
thought so. He’ll be down here in a
minute.”
Lil Y looked rather frightened as the
chestnut came along at a furious pace,
14 was evident that his driver resented
bein 3 maiie a f ° o1 of > and that there
would be a BceQe as H00a a8 be could
get hi » h °rse alongside Jasper’s
funereal quadruped. But no sooner
did that dejected animal touch the ice
tllan ho became a different-looking
horse altogether. His head wont up
aad tail out, at the ring of the
chestnut’s hoofs on the smooth ice
which connected the river with the
shore. Then Jasper loaning back,
waited until the chestnut was within
twenty yards and suddenly loosed tho
rcins -
“Why, w—what— said Lily.
“He’s running away, Jasper?”
“les, lies doing his level best,
sa *^ ^ as P er > aa bank seemed to
B P in b F- “ If ^ chestnut'catches us
you can have his master.
Jasper kept the black s head straight.
-That was all he could do with the un-
anageable beast. ‘You see, Lil,
he explained, “you ve been fooling one
°* n ? the top of your bent. Now
you )1 just take the chances of war.
1^ ,h° c<d ars ua d s hall have to give
m ’
-
“I won’t,” said Lily, stoutly, begin-
ning to realize the situation and how
Jasper had awakened to life under the
influence of jealousy. “Nothing shall
make me m-m-marry him. I only
drove with him because it was so dull
down here. That was all.”
“Chestnut’s coming up a bit, ” said
Jasper cheerily after another mile,
“Hope Baalbeo will hold out. ”
Lily gazed anxiously at the ani-
mated “ruin” in the shafts. The
chestnut was gaining. Then she
looked at the black horse.
“O-e-c-eouldu't you whip him? ’ she
asked.
“I could,” said Jasper, “but it’s
hardly fair. He isn’t the one that
should be whipped for this.”
Lily turned white. “You’re very
Jasper, but, I deserve it all.
Nothing shall make mo marry him.
pd rather go to tho bottom of the
river with you.”
As they neared Hawkesbury the
chestnut steadily gained. Jasper had
•succeeded in pulling the old black
back into his gait and began to
Suddenly he turned pale.
“flow far’s that fellow behind, Lil?”
he asked.
“Forty yards,” said Lil, in an
agony, quite lightly. “Lil,”
Jasper spoke you’d
be said, “did you mean rather
go to the bottom of the river with me
5han let that fellow catch up?”
“Yes,” said Lil, without hesitation,
do you mean, Jasper ?”
“This,” said Jasper; “I forgot the
thaw. Three hundred yards
ahead of ns the river’s split right
roes Shall I pull up?
Lily stood up in the sleigh and
looked round. She gave a little shod-
der and laid her hand on Jasper’s arm.
“Go on, Jasper,” she said; “i’ll
risk it.”
Jasperlookoddownforamomentinto
her white face. ‘‘I’ll pull up If you
wish, Lil. ‘Twill bo too lato
“No, Jasper, I deserve it. On
and—and if—if it’s to bo
She kissed him. A
“Hold tight," said Jasper, the old beffirt- black.
niug to pull tigA steadily on
Lil held to tho side of the
sleigh in an agi of grief. Then ho
lifted the blackjbi The tho leap, gave one
cruel slash witfr whip, there was a
crash struck of bre\j5(ng tho other ico side, as the stagger sleigh
on a
from the black. A convulsive pull and
they wero over and twenty yards be¬
yond tho widening chasm, with the
frightened cashier pulling up on its
brink.
When Lily recovered consciousness
she found horse bj in the manse parlors
at HawkesburyS Mght, Lil?” asked Jas-
“Are you all
per, cheerily. V
She clung to Vim aud hid her face
in his breast. »!■
“Was it all a ijfdaiu . jream?” gold ring from
Jasper took
his pocket.
“I don’t tlifck so,” he said. “I
wired down to wir. Watson yesterday
to expect us (vis afternoon. Now,
Mrs. Watson, si I’s all'ready.”
An hour hit, : tho funeral black
crawled lazily ( ick. Half way they
met the cashier 'his chestnut nearly
foundered and i mree able to stand.
“Thank God I’ ho cried, ns they
came in sight. , [‘I thought you were
mad.”
the “N-no,” old black. saidpJasper, * r N-no; I touching just giv¬ up
was
ing my wife a sleigh drive down to—”
“Y-your wife?” stimulat¬
“Yes,” said Jasper, again
ing Baalbeo. “Sorry wo couldn’t
wait for you.”
And tlio cashier fell behind—a long
way behind—again. —Chioago News.
Remarkable Instances of Antipathy.
Amatus Lcsitanus relates tho ease of
a monk who would faint on seeing a
rose and who never quitted his cell at
tho monastery while that flow'er was
blooming. Orfila, a loss questionable
authority, tells us of lion' Vincent, the
great painter, would swoou upon go¬
ing suddenly into a room in which
roses were blooming, even though he
did not see the Vultaid tolls of an
army officer whp-Vas frequently thrown
into violent coki«lsions by coming in
contact with tbcjityo jlower known as
the pink. OrfthC our authority on the
case of Vincent, The painter fcbove re¬
lated, also tells < l the case of a lady
forty-six who if present years o^agu, ' Ansi^id hat* and hearty, being
v jyaa
boiled with violent for any fits piJjnse, coughing, would be swelling seized
of the fa./j of •reason
for the etisuuig tw fnty-four hours.
Writing of these peculiar antipathies
and aversions, Montague remarks that
ho has known men of undoubted cour¬
age who would much rather face a
showor or cannoji balls than to look at
an apple! In Timmerman’s writings
there is an account I of a lady who could
not bear to tone either silk or satin
and who would .ft most faint if by ac¬
cident she should happen to touch tho
velvety skin of a peach. Boylo re¬
cords tho case of a man who would faint
upon hearing the “swish” of a broom
across the floor, and of another with a
natural abhorrenco for honey. Hippo¬
crates of old tells of one Nicanor who
would always swoon at hearing the
sound of a flute Bacon, tho great
Englishman, could not bear to see a
lunar eclipse and always completely
collapsed upon such occasions, and
Vaughelm, the groat German sports¬
man, who had killed hundreds of wild
boars, would faint if ho but got a
glimpse of a roasted pig.—Philadel¬
phia Press.
The Reason Why.
Counsel for the defence (to witness)
—“You say that on the night of the
attempted murder tho moon shone so
brightly that you could soothe bur-
glars in the room. Was your husband
awa ke at tho time?”
Witness—“I don’t know. ”
Counsel—“Was his face turned to-
ward you or not?”
Witness—“I don’t know.”
Counsel—“Wliatl you don’t know
whether his face was turned to you or
the wall?”
Witness—“No,”
Counsel—“jViy Lord and gentlemen
of the jury, you hear what this witness
says. She has declared the prisoners
to be the burglars who were in the
room, and yet she is unable to state in
what position her husband was lying
iu bed. Well” (to witness) “how is it
you don’t know?”
Witness—“I could not see."
Counsel—“Ha! ha! Just what I
thought, you could not see. You were
so positive in your recognition of tho
accused, aud yet could not see which
way your husband’s face was turned,
Explain that, if you can.”
Witness—“Well, then, sir, my hits-
band is so bald that in tho twilight I.
am unable to distinguish his foce from
the back of his head.”--Mauuhoimcr
Volksblatt.
"T'.' _
mieilisting lanieis.
Science contains an interesting ac-
count of the Tell-el Amarna, tablets.
These tablets, 320 innnmber, were dis-
covered by a fellah woman in 1887
among the ruins of the palace of
AmenophisIV., known as Khu-en-Aten,
between Missieh and Assiout, about
180 miles south of Cairo. They have
been found to contain a political cor-
respondence of the very greatest in-
terest, dating from some 3370 years
back. Many are from Palestine, writ-
ten by Princes of the Amorites, Phce-
nieians, Philistines, etc., the burden
of almost all being: “Send, I pray
thee, phariots aud men Lord.” to keep the
city of the King, my Among
the enemies against whom help is thus
invoked are the Abiri, easily recog-
nized as the Hebrews. Tho dates fixes
that of the Bible (I. Kings, vi., 1^ as
accurate
■/-$> vjm Mft J- i ■ •r
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Feariiil Effect.
The Crowd Wanted to Lynch a Negro
lint Were Summarily (lu cked.
One of tlio most dastardly crimes in
tho history of Boanoke, Virginia, Wednesday oo-
cured at about 10 o’clock
morning. Mrs. Henry S. Bishop, age
fifty years, a respectable white w oman
from Cloverdulo, eight miles from the
city, was enticed by a negro named
Thomas Smith from tho market where
she had eomo to sell produce, into
an empty saloon basement Tliero
she was beaten into insensibility
and robbed of her poeketbook con¬
taining less than $2. Tho woman was
left for dead, but managed to revive a
few moments later and crawled up to
the street where slio told her stpry.
The fiend had in the meantime escaped,
but was detected, from the description
given by Mrs. Bishop, boarding an
outgoing train. A colored man jump¬
ed on tho car, grabbed the criminal
and the two fell to the ground.
A crowd immediately surrounded
tho prisoner and threats of lynohiug
wero loud nnd frequent, Detective
Captain W. W. Baldwin seized the
man, and holding tho crowd at hay with
his revolver, started on horseback with
tho frightened negro behind him.
He rode to tho saloon whero tho
wounded woman had been remov¬
ed, and she positively imlentified him
He was then taken to jail.
HER SON RED 1’IIE MOB.
A crowd gathered around tho jail
and kept increasing as night approach¬
ed. At 5 o’clock, tho Roanoke Light
Infantry marched to the jail by orders
of Mayor Trout. Guards wero posted
and tho streets in the immediate vicin¬
ity wero cleared. About dark tho
crowd was increased by a hundred
from the vicinity of the woman’s home,
headed by Mrs. Bishop's son, a fire¬
man on tlie Norfolk and Western rail¬
road.
At 8 o’clock portions of tlio mob
battered at a side door of tho jail
where tho militia and Mayor Trout
had retired.
TEN KILLED AT THE FIRST FIBE.
The shooting was commenced by
the mob and the mayor was shot in
tho foot. Tlio militia wero then or¬
dered to return the fire and a volley
from twenty-five rifles was poured in¬
to the mob. Ten men were killed
outright and many wounded, some of
thcm.fstflllr
During the excitement caused by
the volley, the negro was taken from
the jail by an officer and secreted. The
dead and wounded wero removed to s
drug store and to the offices of near
physicians. The militia wore then
dispersed and left tho sceno ns quietly
as possible. Tho following is the list
of the dead and the injured ns far as
known at present:
TnE DEAD.
S. A. Vick, hotel proprietor; Will
Sheets, fireman on tlio Norfolk and
Western railroad Charles Whit
meyer, conductor on the Norfolk
anil Western railroad; Emmet -..... J
Small, of Northwest Roanoke; Geo.
E. White, a fireman on tho Norfolk
and Western railroad; J. B. Tyler, of
Blue Ridge; George White, shot
through the log aud bled to death;
W. Jones, engineer on tho Norfolk
and Western railroad; John Mills,
distiller, Back Crook; George Sc
of Vinton, mortally wounded.
Nincteon of tho mob were woil Hi,
igime of whom will die, Jl
siieeches wero made after thflffl
retired. Judge Woods, of 1 V
court, assured the mob that _
Smith had been removed from ✓
an( j accompanied two of tli a
throilch thu ioil to provo tho tfc* y.
his statement. The speeches did *
to pacifv the crowd But him
hung around the iail and adjacent
streets for several hours afterwards,
lnnny dispersing to search for the wi¬
creted prisoner. At midnight the
sceno had quieted down and no let.
ther trouble is expected.
lynched at last.
Later dispatches state that a squad
of twenty men took the negro Smith
from three policemen, just before g
o’clock Thursday morning, and hanged
him to a hickory limb on Ninth ave-
nue, southwest, in the residence sec-
tion of the city. They riddled the
body with bullets and left a placard
on it reading : “This is Mayor Trout’s
friend.” A coroner’s jury of business
men was summoned and viewed fl io
body of the negro, and rendered
diet of death at the hands of unk. Yn
men. i
After tho jury had completed lujds tlijlr
work the body was placed in the
of tho officers, who were nimbi." Ho
keep back the mob. Three ' A & M l
men tried to drag tho bodv
the streets of the town, hut f fljljL,
suadedto desist. A wagon
cured and the body put in. .
then conveyed to the b* "Jrii
Iioanoke, about one mile from tliT^ %o
of the lynching. i Jr
the dead body buhneii,
The dead negro was j
the wagon by a ropo about two n> tv *1-
red yards and burned on a pile o'
lumber. The cremation was y
ed by several thousand peoph
The mob threatened at one KIN
Imry the negro in Mayor Trov
Threats of vengeance have bee
made against the mayor o<
tia for attempting to mainlair
Captain Bird, commanding •* ;
litia, loft town. Major 'Trout i ,
disappeared,
A comm;! list. i ( ia
Tho following is a correct list oi fo
dead: S. A. Vick, William Sb Jk, •
Charles W. Whitmyer, E. J. B. John Tyler, Halls Ge* .* |
White, Hall,
George Settles, Those wounded am ; *
Seft. 2 llf <?3 NO. 39.
Vnl'rrNS:
- McGhee, F. Powell, O.
'Hun, , . ^lnnfi, George ?h, W. P.
Mayor II. 8. Trout, H. Camp-
bell, Edgar AVlialing, C. 55 . Figgatt,
0. P. North, O. II. Taylor, George
Hall. David Haggles, JV. E. 8parks,
N. E. Nelms, Charles Moton, E. J.
Small, William Berry ami Susan Doo-
litey, oolorod.
TRADE TOPICS.
Report of Business for Past Week by
Him & Co.
B. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of
trade says: There is no longer only a
miscroscopie or sentimental improve¬
ment that oannot be measured. Some
increase ih seen both in production and
in the distribution of prodnots. True,
it is small as yet, but after tho worst
financial htizznrd for twenty years it
is not to ho expected that all roads
ean bo cleared in a day. But all con¬
ditions, except at Washington, favor
a gradual recovery. Business goes on
in unquestioning confidence that
tho general desire of the people will in
some way prevail. Money has beeomo
abundant and easy at 8 per cent at
Now York on call and stagnant specu¬
lation fortunately favors greuter free¬
dom in commercial loans.
Monetary conditions favor a revival
of trade and industry. While renewals
are as large as ever, commercial loans
nro no longer unknown. Tho maturi¬
ty of largo western obligations has
brought hither unusual sums of mouey
from that section, but tlio banks while
retiring part of the circulation recent¬
ly taken out and some certificates have
not retired a largo proportion, keep¬
ing a weak eye on tho body of com¬
mercial indebtedness to niaturo in
October and November.
Foreign trade grows more favorable.
Gotten lias fluctuated much and it is a
shade stronger, though nothing ap¬
pears to warrant and estimate which
would reduce the world’s supply of
Ann rioan, including tlio quantity
carried over, within 500,000 bales of
the largest consumption ever known.
Tho industries are giving strong
proof that the consumption of goods
was not ns much arrested as many
feared when tlio collapse of trade and
manufactures came. While manufac¬
turers show extreme caution and de-
clino to start work without orders,
piling on goods at their own risk, the
improved financial conditions enable
them to accept many orders which
would have been or were refused weeks
ago, and actual orders are rendered
frequent by in the exhaustion directions. of retail The
supplies many
number of works resuming this week
lias been at least fifty-eight only wholly and
twenty-four in part, against fifteen
concerns mentioned as having closed,
and eight reduoing force. The gain has
been greatest in cotton, whero some
goods touch tho lowest prices ever
known. Tho industry which shows
the least actual gain is the manufac¬
ture of iron and steel, whero tho only
changes in price are downward, and
in spite of the great docrcaso in pro¬
duction, tho consumption seems to
have shrunk oven more. But even in
that branch a distinct increase is soon
in tho demand for a few products.
Failures for the week number 819
in tho United Statos, against 188 last
year, and in Canada 40, against 23 last
year. Only five failures wore for over
#100,000 each. The liabilities in fail¬
ures for the second week in Septem¬
ber wero but #3,042,129, against #5,-
819,098 tho first week.
A FRIGHTFUL WRECK
In Which Eleven People are Crushed
to Death,
A special from Kingsbury, Ind,,
says Eleven persons lost their lives
in a collision between a freight train
and the Toronto nnd Montreal express
on the Wabash railroad at that station
at 5:30 o’clock Friday morning. A
score of others are injured, many of-
whom will die. Tho freight was on a
siding west of tho depot, nnd was
hound cast. The first section of the
express train passed by on tlio main
I rack at 5:25 o’clock. It is said
that the brakesman supposed that
* b<1 Gain would not and ran
bm! ^ to open tlio switch. Before tho
ears had begun to move the second sec-
I ,on <d blK ^ express came west at
lbo rate of fifty-five miles an hour,and
b,dor, ‘ l* 10 brakeman could turn the
switch, dashed into the side track and
collided with the freight train. The
wreck was complete. The list of killed
is as follows: J. H. McKenna, Harry
1'rencli, ( liarh s Burbo, Miss Allice If.
E fiod , Miss Nellie B. 1 acker, Con-
d '*ctor James Ooultor, Engineer John
Green, Warren G. Rider, I . C. Aelle,
Master Lyons, James 1 •
Roundy.
It was the worst wreck tho. Wabash
road bus ever had. To add to^he hor-
rors of tho terrible collision,tho boiler
”* the passenger blew up, scattering
human bodies and car wreckage m a
directions.
Division Superintendent Gouldad-
mitted that tho freight brakeman, Her-
bert Thompson, was to blame for the
accident. He turned the switch iu
face of the freight engine and let
the passenger train goon the sidetrack
where the freight train was standing.
Fearful Flood in Japan.
A Son Francisco special soys:
steamshipPeru, Monday evening from
and Japan, brought the news to
3d. Tho Japan Gazette,
d August 20, gives an account of
» great flood in Fifu Ken. Three
hundred und four were drowned, und
B0,000 aro receiving relief. It saya
*l»o that 2,350 cases aro reported sick
and 447 dead.
* of Lubeck, Germany, is
The City pre-
paring to celebrate this year Ua 750th
anniversary. •
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS
The Drift ot Her Progress anil Pros¬
perity Briefly Noted.
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j Happenings of interest Portrayed In
Pithy Paragraphs.
I Tho board of health of tho city of
Selma, Ala., adopted resolutions that
no person passing through Atlanta,
Ga., shall bo allowed to enter Selma
while the epidemic continues at Bruns¬
wick and refugees nro received in At¬
lanta.
Tho leading colored men of New
Orleans hod a secret meeting Tuesday
night and Wednesday morning fur¬
nished the press with tho resolutions
adopted, A committee has been ap¬
pointed to call on the governor otonce
and ask for troops for protection
against tho reign of terror existing in
Jefferson parish, on tho outskirts of
the city.
A special from Brunswick says:
Mrs. Winkler died at ten o’clock
Thursday morniug from what is be-
lioved to be yellow fever. She only was
sick several days, but tho doctor
called a few hours before her death.
Thero is also a suspicious case on
.Teckyll island. Dr. Butts reported
two new cases, Lola Scott and Sarah
Bland, both mulattoes.
Mrs. Lottie Cummings was placed
on trial in the criminal court at Knox¬
ville, Tonn., for her life Wednesday
afternoon. She is charged with mur¬
dering her tcn-year-old step-son, Lou¬
is, on Juno 9th, prosent year. She is
accused of limiting tho child to death
with billets of wood, nnd after cutting
his throat, throwing tho mangled body
out of a two-story window.
Tho New Orleans limited train on
the Illinois Central road was held up
shortly after 11 o’clock Wednesday
night, just outsido tho city limits of
Gentralia, Ill., and in the battle which
followed between tlio robbers and the
train hands one of tho robbers was
mortally wounded and three of tho
train crew badly hurt. Tho thieves got
nothing in tho way of booty, but made
their escape.
By an explosion of gas in the largo
colliery, No. 11, of tho Lehigh and
Wilkeslmrro Coal compuny, at Ply¬
mouth, Pa., Thursday afternoon, five
men wero instantly killed and five
others seriously but not fatally in¬
jured. All of the killed were married
and leave families Tho explosion was
caused by a careless miner and his
lanqi. Tho mino is badly damaged,
but will not be lift* d to suspend
work.
A Brunswick special says: The fol¬
lowing resolution was passed by the
board This of health Wednesday:
board, Upon reports of prac¬
ticing physicians, officially announce
that no now cases of yellow fever have
developed in tho twenty-four hours
ending Wednesday noon, and during
the same period of time two cases pre¬
viously reported deaths, sick, have been dis¬
charged and no making now
but 17 cases under treatment.
A dispatch of Thursday from Baton
Rouge, La., says: Governor Foster
has written a letter to tho district at¬
torney of tho thirty-first judicial dis¬
trict, calling liis attention to the ne¬
cessity for prompt and vigorous action
in tho enforcement of tho law in Jef¬
ferson parish, and the taking of proper
steps to bring all the guilty parties
involved in tho murder of Judge Es-
topinal and the lynchers of the Ju¬
lians to justice.
The new route between Wilmington
and New Berne, N. 0., over tho Wil¬
mington, New Berne and Norfolk rail¬
road, is now regularly opened with a
double daily servico. Tlie distance is
eighty-seven miles, about one half of
tho distance by tho old route. The
road having just been completed, tho
schdeule is three and a half hours,
which will probably be shortened,
This road gives Wilmington entirely
now connection with a rich section of
eastern Nortli Carolina.
State Auditor Furman of Nortli Car-
linn states that the amount of state
pensions to ox-confederates this year
will approximate #100,000, and that
the increase in pensioners will about
equal the increase in tho amount of
the pension tax, so that the four class-
e g of pensioners will receive annually
#17, #34, #51 and #68, as they did last
year. Widows will get #7. All disa-
blod ex-confederate soldiers residing
in North Carolina now receive pen-
s ious. There are now sixty-three in¬
mates of the Confederate Soldiers’
home at Raleigh.
A Birmingham, Ala., special says. and
q'j mrg( j a y morning G. G. Wilson
<q. J. Davis were lodge in jail by
United States officers on ft charge of
counterfeiting. They were examined
, bound ovt . r to tll0 g ram ] j ury .
y. were arrested ill Sylacauga.
-when caught they had'a considerable
KUrn 0 f the spurious silver dollars in
their possession of the date of 1890.
v complete set of counterfeiting tools
W#B f oun( j > The dollars are a pretty
„ 00( j imitation, having a perfect ring
an( j a00( i appearance. Talladega and
ad j 0 inmg counties have been flooded
0 f j a $ e w jth these counterfeit dollars.
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A Booming New Town.
A dispatch of Tuesday from Gutb-
rie, Oklahoma, says: Ferry now land con-
tains 20,000 persons. AU the
adjoining the town site has been
staked off into lots, and tlio Cherokee
allotments at Wharton, half a mile
away, aro put on the market and
platted for town sites. Lots aro sell-
ing in prices at from #200 to #300.
Dozens of buildings aro five going weekly up.
Thero are three daily and coming,
newspapers in town and others
Advertise now, it will pay you.