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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 ]j fe) w i t h lots of beef and cabbage and 3 £v\ J $ §1^V~I X .***»*»»*»•***"** •V^l n »*> rt ^ | g | BL yE J >i Iff v-Cx ^ jp I 'v C N X. x X The kr TTunsi/da./ j: Fu l* / 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— -V s m ;; fit? T $? f '~ 3 *** i **tr^§ – KKAALS OF KAFFIR HELP ON A BOER FARM. 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. *v/ i jiSShf®/V wm ’ r.‘ er n xxr i if j •>( _~-T— gfe gg-m -v- wa W} w ~=-sr li M m – S3* • / ;t *- __ * 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, rn “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 I -r . I ■I O CHURCH AND PARSONAGE TYPICAL OP 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 s’ 'f « tF" i I® 5, m . 'i t m iimiih ii S ’imuwhvwil} 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, Do you want an up-to-date, live newspaper—one that will keep you posted on affairs at home and abroadt You will answer the question affirma - tively by sending us your name and subscription for this paper for a year at least six months.