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__ Jlappeilll)g8 . _ In the , btate Ol fT inter 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 *• ,crdicl 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. a < 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, * * * 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. — lilt IS Mil 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. IK lit till 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. —-— - 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 I 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.