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eating Import.
Verdict For W.VOOO.
The trial of tho suit of Mrs. Marion
Daw, of Atlanta, against the Western
Railway of Alabama for $20,000, came
to an end at Columbus last Saturday.
After bing out two hours the jury re
turned a verdict for $5,000 for the
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Model Farm It Will Be.
The agricultural department of the
"University of Georgia is being worked
up to the highteststate of efficiency by
Professor Hugh N. Btarnes, who oc
cupies tho chair Of agriculture.
Professor {Starnes has set to work to
make of the university farm a model
farm indeed, and he is succeding in
his efforts. By next fall he will have
the farm in tine shape and will be
ready to utilize it thoroughly in the
work of teaching the young men prac
tical agriculture.
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Telephone Bines to Be Kxtmnded.
A conference was held in Dahlonega
a few dnys ago by Colonel II. P. Far
row-, now engaged in building a tele
phone line from Gainesville to Porter
Springs, and the board of directors of
tho Dahlonega Telephone company,
recently organized and incorporated
1o build a line from Dahlonega to
Gainesville which conference resulted
in a consolidation of the two lines,nnd
within sixty days Porter Springs and
Dahlonega will be in telephone com
mumcation with the „ woild, ., which , . , will
open up a new era in these mountains.
Kolil Pardon<*(l.
Charles Itoid, the slayer of S. i
R. j
it Halstead, who has been servings
three-years’ sentence in the state peni
tentiary camp at Chickamanga after
conviction in the Bibb county court
of manslaughter, has been pardoned
by Governor Candler. A strong effort
has been made for the past six months
by a number of prominent citizens of
Macon and that community to obtain
a favorable action on Reid’s case from
the pardon board, and a day or two
ago the commission finished a review
of the case, recommended the pardon
of the prisoner nnd forwarded the
papers to Governor Candler. The |
governor took action at once. j
Sword For Lieutenant Brumby. j
The movement begun by a number
of his schoolmates, to present Lieu- !
tenant I. M. Brumby, of Georgia, with '
a handsome sword, is meeting with
great, favor in all pai ts °f the state.
Nearly all of the states have honor
«d their living heroes of the war with j
some nothing such but presentation, fit that Georgia and should it is j
present Dewey’s flag lieutenant with a j |
sword that will show the esteem in !
which he is held by the citizens of his j
state. I
It was thought ,, to make , the amount j
subscribed uniform and all of the sub
scriptions have beeafl. Subscriptions
have been coming in at rapid rate from
all over the state, and it seems to be
the desire of every one to have a hand ;
in honoring Lieutenant Brumby
Tt, is thought that Lieutenant Brum
by will be home m the course of two
or three montlifl, ftn<l if sueli is the ,
ease tho presentation of the sword
will probably be made when he arrives
on Georgia soil.
State Fair Note*.
Work on the premium list of the
forthcoming State Fair is being vigor
ously pushed, and the book will be
completed in about a week. Anybody
who desires a copy should drop a pos
lal card request for one to the fair sec
retary, Mr. T. H. Martin, Prudential
building, Atlanta. Mr. Martin will
take pleasure in sending it.
The owner of the fattest calf in
Georgia can packet a cool two hundred
dollars by exhibiting it at the state
fair next fall, for that is tho amount
offered in premiums by a couple of
private firms, for the fattest call. Be
sides this, other substantial sums of
money will bo given for fat. stock of
various kinds. And it might possibly
prove a handsome investment for the
owner of fine cattle or stock of anv
kind to spend a penny for a postal
card and use it to write Secretary Mar
tin for a copy of the premium list.
Two prizes, of $50 and $25 respective
ly, are offered therein for the best pen
of fat cattle—not less than five head,
and to weigh 1,000 pounds each, and
to have been bred and fattened by the
exhibitor.
The poultry exhibit will be one of
the largest and most interesting ever
seen, not only in Georgia, but the
south. The breeding of fine chickens
lias grown in recent years to be an im
mense industry, nnd the time is com
ing when these thoroughbreds will
supplant the ordinary common chick
ens upon everv farm. For tliev aro to
the feathered “world what tho blooded
horse is to the equine family, and even
more -for the thoroughbred chicken is
hardier, more prolific and better to eat
than liis mongrel brethren, and so more
valuable from every standpoint. The
Agricultural Society wants to show the
farmers and thereby inaugurate among
them the fashion of raising them in
stead of the common chicken.
At a meoting of committees from
Camp Walker and Camp 159 of Con
federate Veterans, held at Atlanta, the
proposed state reunion to be held
during tho state fair this fall was
cussed aud arrangements made to have
as many delegates present at that time
as possible. Chairman R. L. Rodgers
suggested that the delegates from the
two camps represented who attend the
reunion at Ch%il#*tou be requested to
announce the date of the state reunion
in Atlanta and nrge all delegates from
this state to bo present. The com
mittee decided to confer with the state
and city commissions on tho fair and
y, e i r co-operation and assistance
in making tho reunion a success. On
motion of Secretary J. W. Goldsmith,
Camp A, Wheeler’s Cavalry, was in
vited to meet with the committee from
Camp W n-kev and Camp loJ.
Circular Better To Ten oilers.
State School Commissioner Glenn
circular , letter to all .. the
has sent out a of be
*°«nt 7 «J»°ol commoners
questions for the examination to be
sent as soon as they are arranged. The
circular letter is also of interest to
teachers and the commissioners rela
five to the payment of salaries and the
sending m of itemized accounts,
BIr Reward For K-mltli.
Governor Candler has increased
from $200 to $500 the reward offered
for the arrest of Si Smith, murderer
0 f w. B. Bell. Thomas M. Bell has
deposited $500 in the state bank of
Gainesville as a reward for the arrest
of smith, the citizens of Cleveland
have offered $75, and the Mason lodge
of Cleveland offers $25. This makes
$1,100 offered for Smith’s capture,
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Small Comfort For Stockholder* of South
ern Mutual B. – B. Association.
when the Southern Mutual Building
an( j j j0au association failed two years
Q fj 30 ro j )or t of the receivers showed
ities to tho amount of $879,208.6G,
and ftfl8et8 to the amount of $051,-
262.53, or a deficiency in the resources
of $227,946.13. in
Since the business has been the
^and-s of the court there has been col
j eeted $ 12 7,287. The receivers have
paid out $76,827.63, leaving a cash
balance on hand of $50,459.87. Of the
disbursements, $35,395.36 was to cred
it.ors other than shareholders; $19,
041.30 was for taxes, insurance pre
m iums and repairs, and $22,390.97
was f cr expenses, including salaries,
oonusel fees, court costs and similar
items.
Whether the shareholders of the
association will get any dividend on
their stock will depend largely on the
construction of the law in the case by
the supreme court, The members
who had given notice of withdrawal,
under the terms of the associate u’s
by-laws, claim that they are creditors
an d ought to be paid in full before
other members get anything. A test
ease will probably be decided by
Judge Lumpkin at Atlanta May 22, so
that and appeal mav be made to the
jjigh ooni q.
Judge J. A. Anderson, one of the re
reivers, stated that it was impossible
tell now what the stockholders
wonl(1 get< H e said:
<<if {foe members who have given no
^ ce withdrawal are classed as cred
iters, and. my opinion is that they
ought not to be so classed, the other
shareholders will get very little, may
be nothing. If the claims of the with
drawing members are not sustained all
of the stockholders mav get 25 per
(>(mt on tll0 amonnt tbe v have paid in.
Tn onler to make tliat payment it will
be nece8SltVT for ns t o have on hand
abon t four times as much as we have
at pre8ent , or a b on t $200,000.
A petition was presented to Judge
Jmmpkin Saturday morning bv Judge
Ande rson and Mr. M. A. O’Bryne, the
receivers. The petition asked that
direction should be given about the
rigbtf , of withdrawing members, the
liabilities of borrowers, the necessity
of making all the stockholders parties
and the question of securing interest
0 n the $50,000 on baud,
The receivers stated that their re
ceipts had been confined so far to four
states, as follows: Georgia, $96,-
726.69; Alabama, $8,628.07; Missis
gjppj, $5,818.82, and Florida, $10,-
113,42.
Hallways Now Combined.
The last payment of the Trust Com
pany of Georgia to the stockholders of
the Atlanta Railway Company for the
the latter property was made a day or
two ago.
J. J. Spalding represented the stock
holders of the Atlanta railway and re
ceived u check for tho last payment.
The combination of ihc two systems is
j now complete, organization
Ill a few days the. of
the new company, which will probably
be known as the Atlanta Railway and
Power Company,will bo completed and
the two systems of street railway will
he under one system.
CAPTAIN CARTER’S CASE.
Judge Advocate General’s Office Preparing
Answer To a Brief.
j A Washington dispatch says: Colonel
Barr ami other officers of the judge
m B enorn - s office have been
j "orking for several days preparing an
a,1RV?e v a brief which has been sub
ted _ to tlie attorney general iu the
liu,
ea ^? J- a P* ain ^ utter,
; Ibis . brief contains a large number
| of fruited pages, but it is not signed,
j an< t l 'r 1 11 " °^ lcer8 oi t * le " ar Gepart
I ,nent uot kno " " bom il "
prepared.
NO CHURCH DAYS
I Are Recognized By tlie Atlanta, Ga., Board
j of Erl unit Ion.
j Atlanta’s board of education met iu
secret session Thursday afternoon and
| acted on several important matters. session
The committee on the open
! question submitted an adverse report,
I which was adopted,
The committee on religious privi
! leges submitted a majority report,
, which calls for the marking of pupils
when absent from school on church
calendar days. This report was also
adopted.
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DEPARTMENT ORDERS W ATSON TO
MANILA TO RELIEVE HIM.
DATE OF HIS RETURN NOT FIXED.
A Ten-Thousand-Dollar Banquet To Great
Sailor Is Now Heine Arranged
For In New York.
A Washington special says: The
navy department has selected a suc
cessor to Admiral Dewey to command
the Asiatic station. Orders were issued
Monday detaching Rear Admiral Wat
son from command of the Mare island
navy yard and ordering him to report
to Admiral Dewey at Manila to re
lieve that officer when he feels that he
can be spared there.
Rear Admiral Kempt, at. present on
waiting orders, has been instructed to
succeed Admiral Watson in command
of the Mare island navy yard.
It. was stated at the navy depart
ment that Admiral Dewey will come
from Manila direct to New York when
he returns to the United States. How
ever, it is added the admiral will not
start until the commission of which be
is a member has completed the work
it has undertaken, at least so far as it
relates to the restoration of peace to
the islands.
The reason for bringing the flag
ship Olympia to New York instead of
having her come to San Francisco,
where she was built, is said to be pri
marily because Admiral Dewey desires
to make tho passage on his own flag
ship, but also for the reason that the
Mare island yard threatens to be over
whelmed with repair work as soon as
the numerous vessels of Dewey’s fleet
begin to return to the United Slates.
The Olympia is in need of over
hauling, being away from her home
station longer than any of the vessels
in the Asiatic fleet and has suffered
than usual hardship during . her
more
absence.
Costly Banquet Proposed.
Admiral Dewey has cabled to New
York his acceptance of an invitation
to a banquet to be given in his honor
by 100 prominent citizens.
Thirty-seven citizens already have
announced their intention of subscrib
ing $100 for a banquet in honor of the
great admiral, and there is no doubt
that the list will be filled by the other
63 necessary to make tho 100 men and
the $10,000 planned for. arrive,
When Admiral Dewey does
which it is believed will not be until
late in August or early September,
there will await him, in addition to
the civil celebration which will be
most elaborate, a banquet, the most
splendid ever prepared for an oflirtK
President McKinley and Secretary
of the Navy Long will be invited to
the banquet Whether or not they
will attend is another matter.
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
Li*t of N«w Industrie* Established the
Past Week,
The more important of the new in
dustries reported during the past week
include a box factory in West Vir
ginia; brick and tile works in North
Carolina; coal mines in Arkansas; a
round bale cotton gin in Texas; a
large cotton mill in Virginia; a cotton
seed oil mill in North Carolina; two
flouring mills, a furniture factory, a
50,000 hardware company in Tennes
see; lumber mills in Kentucky, North
Carolina and Virginia; two natural
gas and oil companies in West Vir
ginia; a $10,000 ochre mill in Geor
gia; a $40,000 rice mill in Louisiana;
a salt works in West Virginia; a sin
gletree factory in "West Tennessee; a
woodworking plaut for electrical sup
plies in North Carolina; telephone
companies in Texas, North Carolina
and West Virginia, and a windmill
company in Texas.—Tradesman (Chat
tanooga, Tenn.)
FORTY-EIGHT THOUSAND MEN
Of tlie Cuban Armv Will G«»t a Slice o
tlie Three Million Dollars.
A special from Havana says: Forty
eight thousand will be used as the
division in fixing the shares of the
soldiers in the $3,000,000 allotted by
the United States government to be
divided among the Cuban troops.
KICK AGAINST -MORMONS.
Cuattanooga Ministers Protest Against
Their Meeting 111 Auditorium.
The first public Mormon meeting
ever held in Chattanooga assembled
Sunday night in the city auditorium.
Tlie public was invited. Addresses
were made by the two apostles who
were attending ths conference of pres
idents of the southern mission beng
held in the city.
Some little excitement has been cre
ated because of a protest made by some
of the Christian ministers against the
city authorities for allowing the city’s
auditorium to be used for this pur
pose.
A COMBINED PROTEST
To Be Made Against Continuation of War
In tho Philippines.
Another meeting of citizens opposed
to the continuation of war iu the Phil
ippines is to be held in Chicago before
the end of the month.
Invitations to attend are to be issued
to all the governors and senators who
have gone on record as being opposed
to the fighting iu the Pacific islands.
Arrangements for the meeting are
now being perfected.
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BARTOW MAN VISITS THE CLAS
SICAL CITY OF ATHENS.
SCENES REMIND HIM OF OLD TIMES
Quote, a Sentence of I.atln as Appropriate
To Changes Old Father Time
Has Wrought.
“Tempora mutantur etnos mutamur
in illis.” I am now in Athens, the
Classic City, and must quote some
Latin to be classic, too, and show that
I have not forgotten my alma mater.
“The times have changed and we
must change with them,” said the
Latin poet 2,000 years ago, and this
maxim is more striking now than it
was then. The changes are more rap
id and more radical. Old Franklin
college, within whose unpretending
walls I walked and studied and ex
panded my youthful mind, has grown
to he an university and we old men
are straining our minds to keep up
with the new order, the widening of
mental and physical training which is
now offered to our boys. Dr.
Time was when we thought that
Church and Professors McKay, Wad
dell, Leconte, Jackson, Stevens, Hull
and Nahum Wood knew all that was
worth knowing in this sublunary
world; when there was no higher
honor than to be a Pbi Kappa or a
Demosthenian orator or to be chosen
as a junior orator of one of these
societies. Time was when to be in
love with a lovely Athens girl was in
itself a liberal education, for they
were fair to look upon, refined in man
ners and fascinating in conversation.
There were only ft score or two of them
then, and they had the pick of 160
students,young men of the best families
of Georgia and her sister states, and
half a hundred new ones coming in
every year. Just think of it; what a
blessing to girls is the proximity of a
ma]e eol!e „ e or a university. But by
arj q by there comes along a female
college in the same town or city and
then they boys liave an equal chance.
My visits to this Classic City have
been few and far between. I do not
suppose there is a soul living here now
who was here in 1834, when I first saw
the little embryo city. My parents and
my brother and I stopped over night
at the old Sledge hotel as we jonrney
ep from Boston to Georgia in a car
riage. We went to Boston by sea from
Savannah, but came back all the way
by land in a private carriage and never
crossed a railroad. There was none to
cross. My next visit was eleven years
later, when I came to enter the sopho
more class. Two mules at tandem
pulled our little car from Union Point
.forty miles to Athens. There were
common passengers below and a score
of uncommon ones on top, for they
were college boys, and as such pre
fevred to ride high, just as college
boys do now. With what fear and
trembling we went through the exam
ination that was to determine our fate
whether we were fitten to enter or
only fitten to get fitten.
It was a thrilling and momentous
ordeal, but we survived it. What
awful majesty appeared in Dr. Church’s
classic features and in the quick glances
of his dark and piercing eyes. He was
from New England, and after he came
south married a sister of our Judge
Trippe, a beautiful woman and the
mother of five of the most beautiful
daughters ever seen in one family.
They were queenly. These ynnkee
school teachers all mated with our
southern girls and didn’t mind owning
a few negroes any more than so many
horses or cows, especially if they came
with the wife’s patrimony. Old Judge
Warren got his that way, but it cut
him off from his yankee relations.
Nathaniel Be,man was another distin
guished yankee teacher, but whether
he became a slave owner or not I have
not learned.
My father was a yankee school
teacher, but didn’t get any slaves by
marriage. He bought some, however,
and that created a coolness among his
northern kindred. It took those yan
kees a long time to acquiesce in slav
ery unless they came down south. Old
Bill Seward tried to marry a Putnam
county girl who had about a hundred,
and because she wouldn’t have him he
went back north nnd raised a howl
about slavery. Josiah Meiggs, another
Connecticut yankee and a grandson of
Return Jonathan Meiggs, was the first
president of this college and held his
place for twelve years. I think that
he, too, married a southern girl—a
sister of Governor John Forsyth. Next
came .Moses Waddell, an educator of
great renown.
lie married a sister of John C. Cal
houn and educated him and Legare
and Pettigrew and other notable men
before he became president. After
that he had for his pupils many of the
great men of Georgia, including Ste
phens. Toombs, Howell Cobb, John
son, George Pierce and the Crawfords.
And there were giants in those days.
Some folks say there aro just as great
men now, but there are so many more
of them that they have become com
mon and do not attract so much atten
tion. Maybe so—yes. maybe so.
The poet says, “I feel like one who
treads alone some banquet hall de
serted,” and so do I when viewing
these classic halls and meandering in
the shade of these classic trees. All
of my preceptors save one have passed
over the river.
All my college-mates save perhaps and a
dozen have followed them, if
Swedenborg divined the future state
correctly they are going to school
again in anoiner world, Some of
them who were dear to me have left
children or grandchildren who greet
me kindly for their father’s sake.
Fond memory recalls the Churches,
Dawsons, Ferrells, Howards and Bol
ing Stovall, whom I loved, and there
was the gentle Henry Timrod, who
was as lovable as a timid school girl.
How often did we see him brushing
the dew from off the upland lawn
alone or taking liis evening strolls
without a companion, but always kind
and gentle. Wo little dreamed that
he was even then nursing poetic
thoughts and breathing the sweet
harmonies of nature. Poor boy. How
(lid our hearts bleed for him when
long after we learned of his sufferings
and liis sorrou s.
Where now are the solid men of
Athens who gave it character and dig
nity as they moved among their peo
ple? Where is Lumpkin and the
Cobbs, the Hulls and Mortons and
Thomases? Where the Newtons and
Albon Chase arid John W. Burke,
whose marriage I attended? Where
is Dr. Nathan Hoyt and Dr. Reese
and Dr. Crawford Long, the discoverer
of anesthesia? Where are all the sweet
girls who sang in the choirs of the
churches and did not veil their faces
from us as we sat in the gallery and
feasted upon their beauty? It is said
that a song outlives a sermon, and so
those sweet girl singers still live in
memory, though the preachers’ elo
quence was soon forgotten.
And where is old Sam, the janitor,
who rang the college bell and kept our
secrets and brought us ’possum and
’taters and other luxuries by night
after the tutors had gone on their
grand rounds and all was quiet on the
Oconee? Where is Hansel, the baker,
from whom we purchased ice cream or
cakes for our evening walks,and where
are all the pretty girls we used to meet
or passed on the way to Cobham? I
remember that it was here I first saw
and heard Toombs and Stephens,Will
iam C. Dawson and the Doughertys
and Bishops Pierce and Elliott and
other eloquent statesmen and divines,
These men were my ideals—my stand
ftrd of southern manhood, honor and
intellect, and it grieves me to
that the standard has been lowered
since the close of the civil war.
I am no pessimist, but it is easy
to see that methods and means
are tolerated now that were
not then—methods in the fo
rum, in the legislative halls, in poli
tics, in business and in the pulpit.
But still there is much good that has
come along witn tne uaa ana m every
town and city and community there
are more good men and women than
Abraham could find in Sodom. Athens
is still the central seat of art and learn
ing, of good morals and good manners,
and the pride of our state, and that cit
izen is not to be envied whose love of
learning and whose reverence for his
tone virtue does not gain force as he
ponders upon her history of a hundred
years.—B ill Akp, in Atlanta Consti
tution.
SOLDIERS* HOME AT AUCTION.
Historic Property Near Atlanta, Ga.
Brought Only Si8,000.
A dispatch from Atlanta, Ga., says:
The Soldiers’ Home property was
knocked down to Mr. Joel Hurt for
$8,000 at public outcry Tuesday morn
ing.
The sale will have to be submitted
to Judge J. II. Lumpkin for confirms
tion. As the trustees refused $12,500
for the property recently at a private
sale, they will probably ask the judge
not to confirm the result of the action,
Mr. Hurt said he had no intention of 1
buying the home when he went to the
sale. He said he bid merely to help
the sale along, and he had no idea tho
property would be knocked down to
him. However, he has no complaint
to make with the trade, and stands
ready to pay the price promptly if the
court takes favorable action.
OTIS LOCATES GILMORE.
Notifies Department Tliat the Prisoner!
Are Faring: Well. j
The following cablegram was re- j
aeived at the war department Tuesday i
night:
“Manila, May 2. —Adjutant General,
Washington: List prisoners iu hands
insurgents just received shows Lieu- | !
tenant Gilmore and seven enlisted
men navy lost from Yorktown and six j
enlisted men of army; three of the six ,
wrongfully arrested in January before I
hostilities commenced; all reported tc ,
be doing well. Besides the above,two
men in hands of insurgents; South
and Captain Rockefeller still unac- 1
counted for. Otis.”
FILIGRANE WINS HANDICAP.
Carries Off Purse of Metropolitan At Mor- i
ris Park.
A New York dispatch says: Racing
in real earnest for 1899 begau Saturday j
at Morris park. When the time came
for the Metropolitan handicap there
were at least 20,000 people at the
* rack -
Shortly before 4 o’clock the candi- i
dates for the Metropolitan, fonrteeu
in all, were sent out for their final ,
furlong through the stretch and every
one was full of life. The closing of
the betting showed Filigrane a consist
tent favorite all the way through. The
race was hotly contested but Filigrane
went under the wire two lengths to the
good.
WELL KNOWN WRITER WEDS.
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Richard Harding Davis Marries Miss
ciarke, of Chicago.
Richard Harding Davis, of New
7 ork, writer, and Miss Cecil Clarke,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Mar
shall Clarke, of Chicago, were married
at Marion, Mass., Thursday, Rev.
Percy Brown, of Roxbury, Mass., of
ficiating. The number of guests was
limited to eighty-four, the seatiug ca
pacity of ths chapel. j
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ALABAMA SENATE PASSES Bin
REPEALING CONVENTION ACT.
BOTH HOUSES ADOPT THE MEASURE
The Antl-Kepealists Made a Vigorous nnd
Strong Fight, But Were Un
successful,
A Montgomery special says: The
bill repealing the act which provided ' a
^ or the bolding ot * a constitutional ,», .
convention in Alabama, after having
passed the house last week, passed
the senate Monday evening by a vote
of 19 to 12, every member of the senate
being in his seat and voting.
For several days it was a foregone
conclusion that the repeal bill would
become a law, but tho opposition to it
was so determined and so aggressive
that the tension of popular anxiety did
not relax until the vote was taken
Monday night. The actual vote on
the passage of the bill was 18 to 13, but
one senator changed his vote from no
to aye in order to move a reconsidera
tion.
The anti-repeal majority of the demo
cratic state executive committee met
during the day, in obedience to the
call of Chairman Lowe and made one
final effort to defeat the repeal by pro
posing the following to the advocates
of repeal:
“1. That the democratic state execu
tive committee submit to the qualified
white voters of the state the question
of convention or no convention, to be
voted in a primary held by said com
mittee, the majority vote of the white
voters in the regular election in July.
“2. That the said committee shall
invite all white voters to participate
in said primary who will agree to
abide the result of the primary,
“3. That said committee shall pro
j vide representation at the ballot box
I for supporters and opponents of the
j constitutional Several objections convention/’ to this proposi
j
tion were found. If the white people
voted against the convention in the
! primaries as the repealists insisted
j they would another special session of
j the legislature would be necessary to
repeal the act on the statute books
providing for the holding of the July
election.
The senate was in continuous ses
sion from noon until after 6 o’clock.
More than half the senators spoke,,
several of the speeches being exceed
ingly able ones.
The result is a great winning for
Governor Johnston. Both of the fed
e ral senators, most of the congress
men and the state committee united
in a vigorous fight against the execu
tive on account of his open advocacy
of repeal. Johnston is charged with
being a candidate for the United States
senate. If he is he has undoubtedly
made a great winning, as he has con
trived to line all of his opponents, or
probable opponents, up together and
win out over tbe combined lot of them,
PANIC NARROWLY AVERTED.
Rev. Jones Predicts Sudden Deaths in His
Sermon and a Woman Faint*.
Sam Jones, in his revival meeting
at Louisville, Ky., Monday night, be
came very drastic. After relating
several instances of sudden deaths in
towns in which he had preached, he
said:
“There will be deaths in Louisville
within thirty days that will startle the
town from center to circumference.,
God will punish you, and the awful
words I now speak will come back to
you with shocking vividness.”
The audience sat spellbound when,
at the close of the statement, a woman
nea r the platform fell headlong to the
ground in a dead faint. She was taken
Lome in an ambulerice.
Many thought the woman had fallen
dead and a panic was narrowly averted.
PROTEST FROM CHINESE.
Legation At ■Washington Objects To Tm
migration Laws Enforced In Cuba.
The Chinese legation at Washington
has made a strong protest to the state
department against the extension of
the Chinese exclusion act to Cuba,
this having been one result of a recent
executive order extending the immi
gration laws of the United States to
Cuba and Porto Rico.
TRICK OF REBELS.
They Run a Train Within Plain Sight of
Otis’ Men, But Escape.
A Manila special says: The Fili
pinos surprised the “United States
forces at San Fernando with a daring
trick on Mondav.
A railway train with an engine at
each end ivas run almost to the Amer
icau outposts aud in plain sight of the
town,
Before they could be reached a gang
of natives sprang off the train, tore up
several lengths of the railway trac'--,
boarded the train again and steamed
away so quickly that there was no op
portunity so capture the raiders.
PRISONERS CLAIM IMMUNITY.
Federal Convicts at Raleigh Refused to
Work and Were Whipped.
The Washington Star publishes a
complaint from a number of federal
prisoners incarcerated in the state
penitentiary at Raleigh, N. C.
The prisoners were ordered to work
at some brickyards eight miles from
the prison aud refused to comply,
claiming immunity under the law from
labor outside the prison walls, where
upon they were flogged.