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DAVIS MEMORIALS UNVEILED
Exercises Were Conducted by Daughters
of the Confederacy.
CEREMONIES IMPRESSIVE
Parade Headed by Fitzhugh Lee.
A Great Day at Richmond,
Virginia.
Thursday was another great Confed
erate day in Richmond, Va., tho oc
casion being the unveiling iu Holly
wood cemetery, under the auspices of
the United Daughters of the Confed
eracy of the memorials in Hollywood
to President Jeffersou Davis and Miss
Winnie Davis.
The Daughters held a brief business
session of their convention Thursday
morning, during which various re
ports were rend and Mrs. Davis was
made honorary president of the state
chapters of tho Daughters. In the af
ternoon the Daughters, in carriages,
were escorted to Hollywood by an im
posing procession, consisting of Con
federate camps and military, General
Fitzhugh Leeridiugat tho bead of the
line.
A vast crowd had assembled on the
hill overlooking the Davis plat in the
cemetery and immediately ou the arri
val of the parade the ceremonies were
opened with prayer by the Rev. James
Smith, D.D., who was on Stonewall
Jackson’s staff and who threw himself
between his general and the line of
fire while Jackson was being borne
from the field wounded.
In tho Davis plat au easy chair had
been provided for Mrs. Davis, so that
as the drapery fell she would face the
statue over her daughter’s tomb.
Floral Ca!it«(l«riitft Flajj.
Over the grave of President Davis
was a beautiful floral confederate flag,
the blue and red being worked in i.n
inortelles and the white in chrysanthe
mums. The staff rested on a base
around which smilax wound. After
the prayer, the governor, Hon. J.
Huge Tyler, gracefully introduced
Hon. B. B: Munford, the principal
orator of the occasion, who paid a
beautiful tribute to Miss Winnie Da
vis, Mrs. Davis, President Davis and
the “lost cause.” On the conclusion
Mr. Munford said:
“Nor can I forbear illusion to
the grateful fact that something
in the character of Winnie Davis,
in the untimely ending of her gen
tie life, has served to hush the
note of sectional discord and
strengthen influences that make
for peace. Old-time hatreds were
forgotten in the sorrow which
made us all akin. Union veterans j
stood as a guard of boner around
her bier, and generous contribu
tions of sympathy and help came
from both sides of the Potomac
to erect this monument.”
The next speaker was Hon John H.
Reagan, postmaster general of the
Confederate states, and tho only sur
viving member of Mr. Davis’ cabinet.
Ho was introduced by Hon. J. Taylor
Ellyson. Judge Reagan spoke very
briefly, his remarks being confined to
au eulogy of his chief. He said in
part:
“Mr. Davis possessed a com
bination of great qualities, rarely
equaled and uovor surpassed. And
in addition to these great quali
ties he possessed the most unsel
fish character I have ever known
and tho most human and merciful
disposition, with a gentleness in
domestic and social life which
commanded the admiration aud
respect of all who know him. And
to all these he added the charac
ter of a devout Christian.
“While the cause of which he
was the highest, and truest repre
sentative failed of suocesp, he car
ried to his grave a sincerity of
respect, an enthusiastic devotion
of the people he served and rep
resented, unsurpassed by any ever
shown to any successful hero or
conqueror.”
General Fitzhugh Lee was then in
troduced aud delivered nu eloquent
address in which lie made beautiful
allusions to Mr. and Mrs. Davis and
Miss Winnie.
(TLUUiES OF FRAUD.
A Confusion of Claims and Counter Claims
In Kentucky.
A Louisville dispatch says: A con
fusion of claims and counter claims,
to quiet which the official count, or
perhaps a contest before tho legisla
ture, will be necessary, is all that is
left of Tuesday's election. Above it
all vehement cries of fraud, commit
ted or contemplated, are heard.
Each side claims the election of the
ticket by a plurality of about 4,000,
and presents figures to back up the
claim. These figures in some conn
ties vary widely, and it is impossible
to tell which side, if either, has aecu
rate figures.
WORK OF WRECKERS.
A Train Is Ditched and Three Persons
Fatniij injured.
The Michigan Central train No.310,
from Toledo to Detroit, was ditched
between Alexis and Vienna, Mich.,
about 8 o’clock Thursday night. Three
persons were fatally injured.
The accident was the result of a de
liberate piece of work by unknown
train wreckers and happened at a
point just beyond a short trestle.
Following General Lee’s speech,
Dr. H. M. Clarkson recited an ode,
1 he Daughter of the Confederacy,
and Jefferson Davis Hayes then draw
the veil from the monuments to Mr.
Davis and Miss Winnie. The former
is a bronze statue of tho Confederate
president. The latter is a marble
tigura of the angel of grief, the hand
extending a wreath she is about to
place on the grave.
After these ceremonies, a monument
to Jefferson Davis, Jr., was uuveiled.
SILENCE SS OMINOUS
Dearth Deartn of Of Wnr war Mpwo JNleWS Hanc-po causes
Gloom In England.
CHANGE, HOWEVER, MUST SOON OCCUR
General Buller’g Forces A vf> Scheduled To
Arrive At Durban Within
Ten Days.
Advifces of Thursday from London
were to the effect that scanty and
conflicting news from the seat of war
and the fact that General White has
not yet said a word about the alleged
fighting around Ladysmith, are again
producing a feeling of gloom.
It may be that General White has
sent news and that General Buller has
thought best to keep it to himself.
Indeed, this is the version that is
beginning to be believed, as it is held
to be impossible that the news of
heavy fighting brought by Kaffirs in
such circumstantial detail can be
wholl . ,, y groundless ,. If T , tins .... be so, it
18 ominous, for there could be no
« r ™ nd for concealing favorable news,
^ cannot be long, however before
“ cbang “ occur8 ' General Bullet s
fo r ,f 8 W \ U >oon arrive . at Durban, and
" lU . P robftb1 / be S in * be ad ; m ’ lce to
[he relief of Ladysmith about , Novem
>e r
The , _, Boer", if .... they ever entertained , . . ,
tb * ldea o{ “ ™ al invasion of Cape
Gol , °7> baV8 VrobMy uow abandoned
and W1 ! 1 de l ot8 their whole energies
to reducing Ladysmith They have
only a few days ,n which to do this,
Tbe faot lbat ^ are rather inactive
Scales that they are waiting for
"ometniug which they feel sure will
J nat, , 7 theu ' do a 7' The latest dis
patches , seem to hint that the garrison
18 about to retire furtber ^uthward.
To Shell Pretoria.
Orders have been received at Wool
wich and Davenport for the mobi
lization of a siege train, which, it is
supposed, is intended for the purpose
of shelling Pretoria. The force man
ning it will approximate to the
strength of eight batteries and will
consist of thirty-two officers and 1,104
non-commissioned officers and men.
Its armament will be thirty howitzers,
fourteen 6-iuch guns, eight 5.-ineh and
eight 4-iiioh guns, the whole train
weighing more than 3,000 tons. This
will bo the first employment of a mod
ernized siege train by any European
army, and the progress of the reduc
tion of the forts by Lyddite shell fire,
a preliminary to storming by infantry,
will be watched with interest and cu
riosity by all professional soldiers.
Thrme Fargo Steamer* Clmrtorecl.
Three large steamers have just been
chartered at Liverpool to couvoy the
10,000 troops of the division which
Lord Wolseley announced Wednesday
would bo mobilized. The transport
Arawa has been further delayed by a
disarrangement of her electrical plant,
The disabled Persian will transfer her
troops to tho Goth, which will leave
Southampton next Tuesday.
SCKLKY RUCK IVES* •'ait OK'
S’ojttiln-r Admiral Asuinu»s Command of
South Atlantic Station.
A 'Washington special says: Admiral
Schley received his final orders Thurs
day from tho inn v department to hoist
his flag on the Chicago at New York
on the 17th instant, assuming corn
maud of the south Atlantic station.
PUGILIST WELL PAID.
*T« ffriot» Rocvivod $*3JM>00 Fot* His Victory
Over > liar key.
A New York dispatch snys: James
J. Jeffries and Thomas Sharkey were
were rewarded Thursday forpouuding
each other in the recent bout. They
received their share of the gate re
ceiptn. the total receipts of
It is said that
the fight were $66,848. According to
the articles the fighters received two
thirds of tho amount, or $44,564. As
the winner, Jeffries received 75 per
cent, amounting to$33.432. Sharkey’s
; share was $11,141.
Jeffries’ share of the receipts is the
largest ever received by a prize tighter
LONG TERM FOR WARNER.
Au Aged Hank Wrecker Sent Up For
Twelve Year*.
In the superior court at Northamp
ton, Mass., Thursday, Lewis Warner,
aged sixty, who wrecked the Hamp
shire County National bank and the
Hampshire Savings bank by embez
ziing $500,000, was sentenced to a
term in the state prison of not more
than twelve years nor less than nine
years, the first day to be in solitary
confinement.
THE REAL BOERS AT HOME
Simple, Primitive Ways of the People
of the Transvaal.
You will hear diver i answers as to
what kind of people the Boers are.
The more short-sighted and intolerant
travelers may say that the Boers are a
dirty lot who don’t use table napkins,
illiterate set of brutes who never
heard of Kipling, an utterly unrefined
people whose knowledge of art is nil;
in short, a backward, stupid, tiupro
gressive, half civilized set who are too
thick-headed to kn<rw they are stand
ing in the path of that Juggernaut car,
civilization, and must iu the end be
crushed beneath its wheels.
It is a mistake to take Paul Kruger
and his surrouudiug politiciaus as
types of the Boer. Also it is a mis
take to take the dweller in.the towns
as typical. To unearth the real Boer
one must seek the wide and solitary
veldt, the hidden valleys, the distant
hills, and there, on his farm, draw him
out and study him. Your true Boer
despises the town. He is essentially
an agriculturist and a hunter. He is
extremely conservative, and witli
strangers brusque and taciturn, but if
he finds you are harmless ho can be
very hospitable. He does not drink
deep. He is religious,with a gloomy,
stern religion which makes him be
lieve, as did the Covenanters, as much
in the Old Testament as in the New.
He is moral. He does not believe in
divorce laws. He marries early in
life, and is convinced the highest
blessing is an abundance of children.
H§ is sturdily built, as a rule, thanks
to his way of life, which is the same
as that of his father and his ancestors
f ot . , nan y geuerations- an open-air
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milk. He is a good horseman, and a
remarkable marksman. He under
stands that the man who can shoot
straight and without excitement
makes, nowadays, the best soldier.
He fears God and loves his country,
but cannot understand the need of a
taxgatherer. He is, iu fact, the back
woodsman of last century iu the
United States, come to life again in
Africa.
At the first hint of gray in the East
ern sky, at the first crow of the cock,
the farm household is up and stirring,
and breakfast, with the usual strong
coffee the Boer loves, is over by the
time the sun rises. The men are out
and about at once, looking after just
the same chores as on an American
farm in the West, save those who are
off to replenish the larder by shooting
a springbok,a hartebeest or some such
species of deer. The women have
plenty of work about the house. The
genuine old Boor farm furnishes it
self every necessary to its occupants.
The furniture is often made by the
farmer, or he has great, unwieldy,
carved chests and bureaus which have
come to him from his ancestors. He
can make ki3 own shoes. His women
dress and weave his own sheep’s wool
and make their aud his clothes from
it. There is almost nothing he needs
to bnv. He does not care a rap for
nec)Uies or collars or store clothes,
and a full beard is fashionable. All
h e really has to buy is farming imple
ments, aud of these he prefers the
primitive sort, though enterprising
agents have introduced such things as
mowing and other machinery.
During the day he works leisurely,
content to make a living out of the
ground. He dines heartily at noon
and sups heartily at evening. His day
hardly difl’ers from that of any farmer
in auy country, only, if lie sings at
his work, it is likely to be a psalm
that lie" sings. He smokes a great
deal while he goes about—a habit de
rived from his forebears iu Holland,
Ho is fortunate in having no winter—
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no frost, no snow, only the dry sea
son, when his cattle suffer, and the
rainy season, when the rivers and
ponds are flooded,
His house and barns are iow aud
roomy—simply furnished as to the
house rooms. The great featherbed
is usually the most noticeable feature,
unless, perhaps, he glories iu a little
harmonium for his daughter to pick
out hymn tunes on of a Sunday. Just
before the sun goes down, at a time
which varies very little all the year
round, tho Boer calls his family to
gether, and they have household
prayers and pious siugiug. No lights
are needed, or if one is, it is an old
fashioned lauthorn, or, more likely, a
rush dip, floating iu a cup of home
made tallow. Ere the daylight has
fairly gone tho farmer has bolted the
door and everybody is in bed.
He has no amusements, according
to European or American lights.
Knowing nothing of theatres or pic
ture galleries, he does not want them.
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BOERS GATHERED FOR THE LORD’S SUPPER, PIETERSBURG.
He bardly ever reads anything save
the Bible, and that is a sacred duty,
and with stammering and difficulty.
The hunt is his chief sport, for big or
little game, and there is keen rivalry
in the display of trophies. Also be
has one favorite sport of mueh the
same kind—the shooting matches.
Three or four times a day he goes
to Nachtmaal, which is equivalent to
the Scotch Fast Day or Lord’s Supper.
In the little market square of the
nearest little burg there will stand a
modest whitewashed building like a
barn. This is the church for the dis
trict, and here at stated periods the
farmers gather from all about. They
don’t take their families to hotels,
though some may stay with friends,
but drive (he two or three days’ jour
ney in the big white-canvassed wagon,
drawn by from twelve to sixteen fat,
white-horned oxen. They make camp
near the town in a meadow probably
by the stream, and live in and under
the wagon during the Nachtmaal,
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“OUTSPANNING.” A BOER FAMILY BEST
ING AT THE CLOSE OF A DAY’S TREK.
cooking for themselves the food they
have brought along. The congrega
tion gathers, during this time, clay
and evening. Their neighbors meet
between whiles aud gossip and per
haps transact a little business. They
would not belong to the human family
if, of course, the lads and lasses did
not walk and'talk and court and ex
change vows. These are the great
outings, the picnics, of the year, and
small tradesmen and peddlers are on
hand with kniekknaeke aud trumpery
to sell to the young folks, so that,
outside the services, the meeting is a
kind of fair. Sometimes also* there
may be a wrestling match or jumping
match between young men, in which
all, old aud young, will take a deep
interest.
So the Boer farmer and hunter pur
sues his even way, as his people have
ever done, and if what he considers
the accursed gold had never been
found iu his land, he might so pursue
it to the end of the chapter. It is to
be feared, however, that
capital and railroads aud telegraphs
aud lightning-rod agents have broken
up his idyllic life forever, or, rather,
will soon do so. It was not, however,
all peace. As the American ‘back
woodsman was continually on his guard
against Indians, so the Boer is ever
ready to take the field against a kaffir
tribe or the British.
Then the plough aud the hoe are
laid aside, and the rifle is cleaned
carefully, but not now for a pleasant
hunt after game. The call to arms is
simple; mobilization is piimitiro.
There is no squabbling about volun
teering, or enlisting, or drafting. Ex
cept the women, the very old and thd
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THE TRANSVAAL.
very young, everybody responds, even
boys of thirteen and fourteen—but
the average Boer boy is a pretty stout
and healthy lad, and has been taught
to shoot since he was ten or eleven,
Each man takes his horse and his rifle
and proceeds to the rendezvous of bis
district. The pastors are with them,
and with prayer and psalms the
iarmer-soldiers march out to- defeud
their country.
Testing the Faith of Man.
George Mantelli, said to be a dia
mond merchant from Auckland, New
Zealand, was in Cincinnati, O., a few
days ago. He has been on a trip
around the world, having visited the
South African diamond fields on his
journey. He says that a new process
is being invented in Auckland by
which the Australian diamond can be
cut. It is customary to cut diamonds
with diamond dust, as everybody
knows, but the Australian white dia
mond has proved itself impervious to
ordinary diamond dust, and as it is so
hard it cannot be cut, its immense
beauty as a precious stone remains
dormant. The Auckland inventor has
found a rock that is harder than the
Australian diamond, and is succeed
ing in crushing the hard stone by
means of the still harder one. With
the dust of the Australian diamond
he is to polish and cut the stone itself.
This story will be believed by those
who believe such stories.—The Jew
eler’s Circular.
A Kuslirnnffer’s Armor.
The accompanying illustration is a
photograph of the amor used by Ned
Kelly, the notorious Australian bush
ranger. Kelly, having been in his
more peaceful days a blacksmith, says
the London Strand, manufactured
armor for himself and comrades from
old boiler-plates, and to such good
purpose did these protective coverings
serve them that for two years the gang
defied all the efforts of the police of
Yictoria to capture them. They were
at last surprised, and many of them
shot whilst drinking at a hotel; not,
however, until $400,000 had been
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AUSTRALIAN BUSHRANGER’S ARMOR.
spent by the Government in its en
deavors to stamp out the gaug. Ned
Kelly was tried and executed in Mel
bourne jail, and his armor, which
shows many marks of police bullets, is
at present in possession of the Vic
torian Government.
Marriaare inducements.
Whatever induced you to marry
me, anyway, if I am so distasteful to
you?” ire asked fiercely.
“I think it was the advertisements, „
she said.
“The what?”
“The advertisements. The house
hold bargains, you know.* I thought
it would be so lovely to go to the de
partment stores and buy icepicks for
nine cents, real eigbt-cent dippers for
only one cent, and all that sort of
thing. Of course I had no use for
that sort of stuff when single.”—
Furniture Worker.
Pay of a Prison Warden.
Kansas pays the warden of her peni
tentiary $2500 per annum, out of which
comes his living expenses, and her
penitentiary contains 940 convicts.
Illinois pays the warden of the Joliet
penitentiary, with 1300 prisoners in
his keeping, $3500 and provides his
living. Minnesota, vvitti 529 convicts,
gives the warden of the Stillwater
prison a salary of $5000.
AKENTUCKYCONTEST
Seema to Be a Foregone Conoln
sion From Latest Reports.
BOTH SIDES CLAIM THE VICTORY
Ropublicnna Confident, While Goebel
Democrats Are Rejoicing Over
Result of Klectlon.
A special of Wednesday from Louig.
ville soys: No matter what result the
faC0 of the returna of Tuesday’s J elec ^
tion ihow that a contest is likely to
occur. Additional returns continued
to show Republican gains, and basing
an estimate upon the normal complex 1
) . on ot - the P recincts ...... still unreported,
indicated a plurality of 6,000 for W.
S. Taylor for governor.
The belated returns were mostly
from mountain counties which are
strongly Republican. The eleventh
district, which in 1896 gave McKinley
a plurality of 19,000, is %nly about
half reported. Eleven out of niue
teer counties in this district give Tay
lor pluralities aggregating 12,062, in
dicating that the Republicans have
carried the district by about the same
figures as in 1896.
The Goebel people cling to their
claim of a plurality of 5,000 in the
state, these figures being the estimate
made by the nominee himself.
In view of the probability of a con
test over the vote for governor, the
following statement, made by Chair
man Long, of the Republican cam
paign committee, is significant:
“The legislature is close, but I
think we have.lost the house. From
semi-official returns from all counties
except twelve, and careful estimates
from these, we have carried the state
by 8,000 plurality for Taylor.”
In the event of a contest it will
come before the legislature. This is
the case only with the offices of gov
ernor and lieutenant governor. The
law covering this point provides that
a board for determining a contest for
governor shall be chosen in the legis
lature by lot, the senate selecting
three and the house eight members,
The decision of this board is not final
nor conclusive. It must report to the
general assembly, where further action
may be taken.
The developments bring the legis
lature into prominence because of the
propability that it ultimately will.have
to determine who is to be the next
gove rnor of Kentucky.
TRUST COMPANY ENJOINED.
Decision Favoring State of Georgia
In Case Against Street Rail
way Companies.
At Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday, Judge
John S. Candler of the Fulton supe
rior court rendered his decision and
opinion in the case of the state of
Ge n ° rgla aeekmg . *° . en > . om . the ,, m Trust
Company of Georgia, the Atlanta Rail
way and Power Company, the Consol
id ate d Street Railway j Company s and
the Atlanta Railway Company from
perfecting an alleged consolidation for
the purpose of killing competbion and
thus forming a monopoly of street rail
way interests.
Judge Candler’s decision enjoins the
Trust company from selling or trans
ferring any of the stock or bonds of
the two companies in its possession, to
each other, or to any other person,
claiming the object of such a transfer
would mean the sonsolidation of the
two companies into one company.
The companies are also enjoined
from taking up their tracks or discon
tinuing reasonable schedules without
obtaining the consent of the city and
county authorities.
The application for the appointment
of a receiver was denied. Both com
panies, however, are permitted to op
erate a system of interchangeable
transfers, and make physical connec
tions with rails if the public is to be
subserved by such.
Judge Candler states in his decision
and opinion that the suit was right
fully brought, aud that a consolidation
for the extinction of competition was
begun and practically perfected. The
injunction will he in force until a jury
can decide the case.
TEN OF CREW PERISHED.
Schooner William HI. Bird Was Complete
ly Wrecked In October Storm.
News has just been received that
the Philadelphia schooner William M.
Bird, from Charleston, 8. C„ to New
London, Conn,, was wrecked in a
hurricane off the Frying Pan shoals,
N. C., and ten of the cr–sv, including
Captain Barrett, perished.
TOTE IN QUAKER STATE.
A* Usual, Pennsylvania Rolls Up Biff
Republican Majority.
In Philadelphia, Tuesday, the total
vote cast was 152,333. The registration
was 218,354. The contest on the state
ticket was over the office of state treas
urer, and Colonel James E. Barnett,
Republican, had 69,543 plurality over
his Democratic opponent, William T.
Creasy,
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