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About The Advocate-Democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 3, 1897)
THE! LUHT. •'Open the window. Mother dexr. •* And lot breathe the fragrant air * That blows tn from tiio garden where The flowers bieom. And let me hear The chorus of the birds that sing Within the trees, for it will tiring To my faint heart a little cheer. Please, Mother dear— It seems so close and hot tn here.” She raised the window. Full and free The gun-kissed air enme streaming in Upon Ills face so pale and thin; nrlee Tim song of birds—la raptor ms and then Fell on his ear. He smiled, The eyelids closed; In* slept again, The mother holding tenderly hand, The outstretched For well she seemed to understand. “Open the shutter. Mother dear. It’s growing dark I cannot see. Let in the light it close 1 me. That 1 may feel your presence near, bet In the sunlight from t he sky— T The light thilts pure and free. Hint May see vour fnee again. Bend near— Ah. there's tho light! Cood-bye, dear mot her—good—goou night,” Tlo- light had cn;;,n tlic radiant light Of angels bending o'er him low, The light which but tho dead can know, IVliich guides the soul upon its flight To tit at far land of peace and rest; The Heavenly light which, last and Illumines through the darkest Independent. night. —James C. ChalliHs, in THF 1UIj WRONG ' V UUi>U (TR V;L i:V DULY I.K .'O.V. JTrS HA jSlrfi: WITH tainrht ' ■ am a Tho uro n’s Y oung Ladies’ K- a Baminnry w h c n 1 Thorndyek Fur¬ ring t o n xv a a cashier of the First National »Omm- Bank. Lila was both young and pretty, and, as the bank was just around the cor¬ ner from the rfbnunnry, it often hap¬ that Mr. Farrington walked from school with her, to tho un¬ disguised chagrin of her lover, John He met (hem one afternoon iu Feb¬ slipping along over tho icy pavement, and talking gaily together, John had gone out of his xvay on purpose to walk home with Lila, but came too late; and, when he met her, half a block from the seminary, lean mg on Farrington’s arm, ho passed on with a bow that was verv * still and for ma) * “Confound tho fellow!” ho muttevod, as he glanced bank at Farrington’s stylish figure, » I What does Lila moan hy kiting him dauco attendance on her every day?” Tho cashier of the First National xvoro on this occasion a handsome brown chiuokillu overcoat and a stylish Derby hat. In one hand he carried a cane xvith a head of beaten silver, W ..r . . ' moi m TlilU Gogance; Mr. Thorndyek Farrington was just then oblivious to epithet#. called that evening, Lila When John know iu a minute that ho was out of sorts. “See here, my little girl,” ho said, soberly, “I wish you wouldn’t let that fellow, Farrington, walk home with you so much.” “Noxv, John, don’t be silly!’’ "I don't, like him. Lib. lic«ide S . I xvouldu t want any man to walk home with you as lmtoh as he does.” “Well, John Cuuningham, if you aren't perfectly absurd!” “Idon't think lam,” ho said, flush ing deeply. “,Some one asked me this morning why I’d let that fool of a Far rington cut me otti. I don’t like such innuendoes, Lila.” “What perfect nonsense, John!” “Nonsense or not, I don't like it!” he said, with some spirit. “Lila, I am going axvay to-morrow, and I want you to promise me that you xvon’t nl- j low .Farrington to walk home with you i any more.” “Yon nro going away to-morrow, John!” she echoed, “To Washing ton?” “Yes,” he said, slipping his arm around darling!—to her. “I am going to-morrow, j be gone two months, under-1 per haps. But if I succeed in this taking, all this Lila, there waiting, xvill aud be an end be to j | weary we can j married at once!” “Humph!” she said, saucily. “It. takes two to make a bargain.” “ Yes—but xv e two are one! Don’t trifle xvith me, Lila, l can't bear it. ; This hope lies too near mv heart.” | ' “I did not mean to trifle, John.” “I don’t think you ever mean to) hurt mo,"’ be said, gravely; “bntsoir.e- | ! times yon do. I know I am jealous, Lita, but I can’t help it. It is nil in j vain that I strive against it, and when I think of that fellow Farrington, I— | it makes me xvrctched'” “But what can I do, John? I can't iusult the man bv * telling him he can’t walk xvith me.” “Your woman's xvit will serve you. Lils. I never snxv a girl yet ’Inu couldn’t get rid of an admirer, if she saw fit.” “But suppose I don’t want to get rid of him?” “Lila!” “Well, John? I think vou ’ might trust ” me more. “I do trust vou. Bat I tell you it makes me unhappv to jsee you xvith that fellow, and 1 think that ought to be sufficient!” “I suppose I might go home the back wav.” she said, musingly. k\ “If vou did several times. would soon see that you v ere trying to avoid him •’ “But 7o» n the • 'ek w»t is bo* rid!” He took her pretty, perverse iittle face between his hands, and lifted it so that he could look at down into her eyes. “Darling.” he said, softly, *‘,iO ii just to' please me. “Well I will' But you're a perfect tyrant, John Cunningham!” cried, ' And yon are an angel!” he ranturouslv “Lila, you shall never regret tho little things you do to please me. 'They make me love you till the more.” fol¬ John went to Washington the lowing morning. Two weeks dragged themselves away, and then something unexpected happened to shorten his sojourn in Washington. His purpose was accomplished with less difficulty than ho had anticipated, and in full realization of his fond hopes,he hurried back to Tula. He had not written her, because he wanted to take her by surprise, and she never dreamed lat*e of his coming. It was rather one evening when he ran up the steps and pulled the bell. There was a bright light in the par¬ lor, and John leaned over to peep through the lace curtains into the room. much “Pshaw!" lie exclaimed, with vexation us Jte saw a gentleman sitting with bis back toward the window. “There’s somebody there! I’ll go right ou up to this sittibg-room. ’ little col¬ The door was opened by only a servant ored girl, who was the that tho Weirs kept. “Hush—sh!” John said, warningly, ^ be a iuto lhe lmll . “Don’t toll any one I am here. Katie.” ’ The little girl retired under cover of a broad “l wonder who is in there!” reflectively, as lie stepped up to the hat-rack to identify the hat and »-«U'»i There was a cane '■»«»« with a V'"T- beaten-sil¬ , ver bead lying across the top of the rack, and under it a brown overcoat hanging beside a Derby hat. John’s face changed its and expression, ns he took down the hat, saw in side of it an embroidered band marked, “T. W. F.” “Thorndyek Farrington!” he mut¬ tered, xvith quick resentment, and just then he heard Lila’s voice raised to a key somewhat higher than ordinary. “John is so fearfully jealous!” she said, “I don’t know xvlmt to do xvith him!” “Why do yon put up xvith it?” was the query, in a loaer tone. “I cannot ... , bear to see you subject o ie ' V1 such a man, darling. I xx is i x oil x. ou < * me put a stop to it ' a,u G ou, l? “ rn myst , said Lila. lean (stum "any ongei. I bai'o fully made up nix mm< <> Jlta ' ofl our engagement. heard John heard this; but he no more. Tho floor seemed to heave like the xvaves of the ocean; the light in the hall grew suddenly dim, aud lie gasped for breath. His first inst inct was to get out of tho house. He staggered toward tho door, and doxvu tho stops, like a drunken miui. exclaimed, “What was that?” Lila as she heard tho front door bang. mvJ* autlui oiJ. John! Did yon rea ly think . xvas saving ali that?” “Of course I did!” he nns- ered, tremulously, and then ho folced his arms around her, xvliile his teas wet her glossy hair. “Darling,” she said when siio had let him hold her there in silence for a long, long time, “never doubt me again, no matter xvliat happens.” “I never will,” he ansxverel, sol¬ emnly. “I ought to have gonti right to you for an explanation. My jealous nature made me the easy victim of a ! mistake. Ob, Lila! If I had lost you by * my own precipitancy!” yon!” she said, “What if I had lost xvith a shudder. “And Harry, through your death!” “Thank God, there is no danger of that! I shall got xvell, the doctor eavs, and—and, Lila, I xvisli you would bring Thorndyek to sec me.” Harry xvas discharged, of course, and at the end of two months, John was able to be about. Meanw ie, he changed his opinion of tho ca- tier of | tho First National, xvhom xvhenevw he a lowed dis i to walk homo xvith Lila posed to. long that Lila But it was not very felt the need of an escort. She left Madame Thouron’s iu May. aud iu June she and John were married. Harry Weir aud Thorndyek Farring¬ ton were groomsmen at the wedding, and they do say that the latter is go¬ ing to marry John’s sister. Snake Overcomes c«w.~7 V a ' . On a farm belougiLgto . ono *f the townsmen of St arnica,-Penn., a year ago since, a cow was noticed making repeated aud furious charges at a dense thicket. An nivestigatnki by the owner of tlie animal snowed tuat j she was fighting a big b.acksaate and . trying to stamp it to ueai i w Ur hex fore feet. The thicket was an isplatei clump of laurels, aud the snake did ! not seem disposed to leave it am) trust j its life in the open country. j Finally the cow lowered her head ! and attempted to impale the snake cm ' her horns, la an instant the snake sprang on the cow s head and coiled itself about her horns. The cow was dazed for an instant and then set off j ou a ran, occasionally ground, kneeling but to rub herself against the she was unable to rid herself of her en emy. seemed fi all ^ The cow “ J that all her efforts were useless, and j set off at a full gallop. The men the farm made an effort to follow her and turn her back, xv hen cornered she would charge everything in light. Occasionally the snake would half twist itself and its ffeidxvonU p.uy before the cows eyes. On tte eoo ca-ions the poor animal would with terror and go backward in endeavor to escape from the snake, Finally the poor r brute dropped rr sheer exhaustion and panted jWi. snase was immediately dis patched, . and on being test measure in length.— . found to be over six New York" I’ress. i 4. - visible . , . hall, but no o ue xva • “I guess it ”\vas the wnd, sha ob served, as she xi'out back to her seat; and Johu’s brief visit xvas uot dis covered. But the next day there came to her a note, saying: I take this opportunity of releasing you from an engagement xvhich lias grown irk HOmotnyolI You nro free to favor xvhom . y OU will, Mr. Thormlyok Farrington not excepted. May you have *%SKS53a more happiness «|}» ft ”l,»”d! f0U1)J you out p 0 forc it v,-as too late, John Cunninoham. In the afternoon John xvas sitting :.n his office, trying to makeup his mind whether ho would go to Panama or Alaska; all he knew xvas that he could not stay where lie xvas. As ho sat there, with liis util! gaze fixed upon the floor, Harry Weir came in, looking flushed and indignant. “See her, Cunningham!” no said, laying his right hand roughly on John's shoulder, “what the deuce do you mean by acting iu tuis xvay. What right had you to send such u note to Lila?” feet, and threw Johu struggled to his off Harry’s hand, “Because,” he said, bitterly, “your sister is a heartless, unprincipled flirt!” cried, both, “You’re a liar!” Harry and xvith one stout bloxv ho sent John staggering back over the chair, xvhieh fell to the floor xvith a crash, and Johu ou top of it. With one faint, cry that was hah a groan, John fell bank in _ a limp, sense less heap upon the floor. As Harry saw John lying there, xvhite and unconscious, his anger gave way to horror. “Great heavens,” be cried, falling on bis knees at John's side, “1 have killed him!” Half frantic at his own violence, lie summoned aid, and John Cunningham xvas taken home, not dead, but seri ously injured. straight story, and the Harrv told a law lmd its course. He was placed under arrest, to await the result of John's injuries. From the prison he xrrote a note to his sister. “Dear Lila,” he said. “I did not obev vour injunction, for I could not keep mv hands off Cunningham. The thought of you made me forget your earnest prayer that I would not molest him. I knocked him down, and I fear he is fatally injured. Forgive me, aud break this to mother as gently as yon can.” Half an hour after this note reached her, Lila loft the house xvith a face ilia. xx- a s xvhite death, aud eyes that were shadowed by dark despair, It was not to hex brother iu prison that she went first, bat t > John Onu uincbaia wlio Iut back upon a bank of pillows, pale and suffering. “Is is he ne going poiuj, to die’” Lila asked. with ashen bps, as the doctor passed her in the hall. “No,” the doctor answered, ‘•but his back—” “Broken?” she gasp;!. “No, not so bad as that; bo a sprain It may bemont Lila and heard was no kneeling more. Sheha.Jed dowi-" lover’s bed . “John, John!” she sobbed.A sorry!” aligl?‘ l> n As he opened his eyes a ' his face. \ lT:u0 Against his will the look of Io‘ back, and he murmured: “Lila!” Her arms were about him an instant. . “Johu, dear!” she cried, _ her face in the pillows, while she ’ 0 ' with convulsive it, did you?” sobs, “you d| 10 mean “Did you mean it, Lila?" gravely. “Did I mean what?” “What you said to Mr. IV n last night. I was in the hall, 1 td heard you.” ‘lj “John, dear, you are c dreaming.” lis “No,” he said, turning ax ‘i '»t head, with a look of pain. * to surprise you, and X slipped he hall. I—I heard what you s;. ut me. I saw Farrington's ove ju the rack. Oh, Lila! why did »e ceive me?” 1 “I “John,” she said, impress! do not understand a word of tJ “Thorndyek Farrington calf on you last night, Lila.” “He did not!” “I saw his cane and ov^rcV “John!” she cried, with i ri - inspiration, “did that misle • That was his hat and overco .e and , rT Harry went skating , ,. nigh . ■, ee last, and Harry got into an ' You have misjudgedThorndye and |' iU8e He saved Harry’s life, Harry was ail wet he loa ,n T brother his hat and overcoat vear home. Ah for the cane, lie apiesent of that a n wont week oirn ag he t at IP _ Then nami your night? ’ John said, laintly. “No; I have not seen him J went away.” say—” “But I heard you - ' “What did you hear, Johu “You said, ‘John is so 111 jealous. I don’t know what t° him!’ You said more, too. dou remember the words, only 1 1 dared that you were going to your engagement with me, ai~ rippled fro Lila t A joyous laugh nssW 1116111 lips, but she checked it bered John’s condition. “Dearest,” she whispered, ni * in over him till her soft against his bearded one, “I v ing aloud. I xvill show you in xvhich those very xvord oCcur Harry took cold, in spite P^ e cautions, and the doctor orJa “t to stay in the house. I anf“ y by reading aloud last r.igM. ou ' or teacher of ( 10n got that 1 was a « Like Mr. Orator Puff, I tones to rav voice.’ One The Experience of People in an In¬ diana Town. m SHAKEN OUT I j.- Ia! A Tbree-T<m Engine M as Torn lo Fragments anil Every Living Animal Killed Instantly. Audersouviile ... (Ay. , A special from j to the Louisville Evening Post says Chesterfield Indf.. was ai ' most wiped . off the map „ y> try v me the explosion of eighty quarts of uitro-gij c erine which had been brought over land from Montpelier and placed in an open held .... half . ,, a mile .. fioui town -o n. Marion, Mausey ami Earn Maguno were working gas wells near by when the explosion occurred. Mausey was blown fifty feet, but not fatally injured. Maguire was thrown a hundred feet in the air and badly lacerated, but will recover. Mr. James Cold’s house. 800 rods distant, was blown to pieces, lbe explosion tore a hole in the ground down to the water line, and so tar it is learned, it was spontaneous. torn to frag¬ A three-ton engine living was animal ments and every was killed, instantly. The little town oi Chesterfield is a mass of ruin, everj 7 house being moved from its foundation, windows shattered, doors smashed in, every light put out and the plastering ; q 1£ q, en from the walls. Several- people were shaken out of bed. AtDalesviile, two miles distant, and at Yorktown, fi ve miles distant, the damage was almost as great. that injured and it is a miracle none were killed outnght The ju r of tho explosion [ was felt iu all directions 101 fif een miles distant. The gas in the well wa9 blown out and a workman named Cooper lit it and caused another explosion, in which he was fatally burned. The damage cannot be esti mated. A FEARFUL TYPHOON. One of Uio Worst Disasters Ever Re¬ ported from the Southern Ocean. A dispatch from San Francisco, Cal., says tho typhoon xvhich sxvept over the Phillipine Islands on tile Cth of Octo¬ ber, xvas the cause of ono of the xvorst disasters that has been reported from the southern ocean in tnauy years, if not fn the history of that section of tho world. Thousands of lives xvere lost, including many Europeans, and the damage to property was appalling. The difficulties of getting news from tho islands is great at any time, and owing to the remoteness of some of the provinces visited by the hurricane, all details of the storm did not reach 1st of November. The steamer Gaelic, from the Orient, brought letters and papers xvhich con¬ tain accounts of the ravages of the tidal 1V8V0 a mr rhe-xvmds, --£i*?*rtt! towns xvere swept and blown axvay. Fully 400 Europeans were drowned, and it is estimated that nearly 0,000 natives perished. inland nearly The sea at Samoa swept a mile, destroying property valued at several million dollars and causing xvholesale deaths among the natives. INDIGENT CUBAN-AMKRICANS. Gen. Lee Says There Are 1,C07 in the .Island. Consul General Lee has mado a re¬ port to tho Secretary of State, in xvhich he says there are 1,007 American citi zens in Cuba dependentupon charitable assistance, They have been partly provided for out. of tho $.70,000 appro¬ priated by Congress. (leueral Lee says that in making provision for tho relief of these citizens more than $1,7:00 a week must be expended. Ho has drawn $'E,0 00 of tho sum appropriated, of which txvo drafts for $5,000 each were draxvn last month. He expresses the opinion that a considerable tirno mnsi elapse before the iudigeuts will be self sustaining. Visible Supply of Cotton. Secretary Hester’s weekly statement of the world’s visible supply of cotton shows an increase compared xvith last xvefck of 234,104bales, as compared with last year as 230,3(53. He places the to¬ tal x isible at 3,445,51(5 hales against 2.211,33(5 last week and amount 3,G75,38J^last 3,45,526 year. Of the former bales are American. Not a Pipe of Peace. At as Mount xf mint Sterling S»terI.n of Ky Kv JIB. J.»e Em- g brey, a farmer, was shot and killed by his tenant, L. A. fchu.l. iiiejquai re ffid over a division of the tobc.o co crop._____ ___ _____ y asr Death From Hydrophobia, Tr rues t E^^sieker, a farmer, died hydrophobia at the Baptist Sani + ar ; uu jYn St. Louis, Mo. He was bit ten bv a a Q g iu September. His death was iT j direct contradiction to the ropu lar impression that death by hydropho bia is always attended "ith sufferings The ^^“ f^lv Wk'like fUd no a dog . uot sul j er His one a more for company than for * * Bryan Endows a College Piizw „ . William J. f^ n Missouri ^ a e essafon . ^ i - }* the ‘ . r Colonial Residence Burned. A private telegram from toQ coun t v . on the eastern shore states that the handsome col -j resiJeace 0 f Lieut. Edwin S. Jaeob , pr. h N., retired, has been to the ground. Lieut estimates his loss at $75,000. -------------- ximO Piy * 1 heir DebK ' *„ The Secretary *, of tne . , neasuix „ rr uas ia sued aa order that cierss receiving stated salary must pay tneir debts - -' TRADE REFORT. No General Improvement, Says Brad street’s Review. Bradstreet’s weekly trade report for the past week, says in part: ‘Not withstanding the appearance of a de¬ mand for holiday specialties at some points in the South, at Chicago. St. Louis and in the tributary thereto, general trade throughout the country has shown no general improvement. the Most favorable reports are front territory west of the Mississipsii river and north of the Missouri and Kansas, where colder weather has stimulated demand at the interior and country merchants have been buying with com p ara ti ve freedom, “The Eastern cotton goods industry continues depressed. Consumers eyi dentlv do not intend to buy extensively t uatil tbey be!ieve the price Competition of rav - co ton is ready to advance. from Southern mills—more particular!y who overproduction by manufacturers produce a single staple— and unueines the existinf? Iarge stocks and heaviness of prices? Converters manufacturers of cotton yarns are sit lines representing seasonable distribu¬ tion are manufacturers of woolens, clothing, shoes and jobbers of fancy groceries. At 1 ....... Philadelphia there * is a check iu demand for products in lead¬ ing textile lines and arrangements Iron are making to run on shorter time. and steel have not been iu as active demand as expected, and are lower, notwithstanding furnaces and nulls are supplied with orders sufficient to carry them well into next year. A favorable feature is found in advances in wages of operatives in various industrial lines. “There are 235 business failures re¬ ported throughout the United States, compared with 235 last week. There are i.T failures reported from the Do¬ minion of Canada, compared with 31 last week.” m.; Si :\ / ***$&&£r 1 HENRY A. HICKS. The newly elected General Master of the Knishts of Labor is A. Hicks, of Nexv York. Ibis Mr. Sovereign the only past workman iu the order of the Labor. All others who have (Li bisnfiHU cm th.V ex- — from the order or died. Air. has beon at the head of tbebudd unions, connected with the Knights Labor, for nearly ten years. He is of tho State congress of dis¬ aud local assemblies of Nexv York xvas a national committeeman for his in the People’s party. Tho report the secretary of the order of Knights Labor shows the society to be in a condition. The report of betxveen the members and of¬ of tho order xvere strenuously de¬ but there seems to have been a lively scramble for supremacy in choosing of the nexv officers. NEGRO BURNED TO DEATH. lie Killed a White Man and Paid tha Penalty on a LlghtxvoOrt Knot Pyre. A special from Wilmington, N. C., say s that ou Thanksgiving Day, Nathan Willis, a colored man living near Town Creek, Brunswick county, xvas arrested on the charge of murdering a young white man by- the name of Stephens. Stephens xvas found in the vicinity wound of \Yample, N. C., xvith a gunshot in the back. A mob xvas raised by the farmers iu the country near the Waccamcxv river. Willis xvas takou from the sheriff', car¬ ried into the woods aud chained be¬ tween txvo pine trees. Lightivood xvas then piled around him aud he xva3 burned to death, thus suffering death to pay tho murder, penalty suspicion for his crime. After tho at once rested on the colored man who had been seeu in neighboring communities xvearing some of Stephens’ garments. He had also been seeu driving tho ox¬ cart in xvhich the murdered man xvas last seen alive, and H-D in money xvas found ou his person, that, it xvas sup¬ posed. he took from his xTctiui’s pock¬ ets. The officers carried Willis to Con xvay jail, Horry- county-, S. O. Cuban Autonomy a Fact. Madrid, Spain.—(By publishes the Gable}—-The royal de¬ Official Gazette crees, granting autonomy to Cuba and Porto Rico, thus removing the anxiety that had begun as" to be experienced on all sides tne result of the govern¬ ment’s vetieene* aud unexpla ned de¬ lay. Dr. Doriand Dead. Rev. Dr. Luke Doriand, of Hot Springs, N.’ C.. founder of the Doriand University, Hot Springs, died at the home of his eon, Chas. J. Doriand, in Springfield, Ill, aged 83 years. 8 |io\v in Nebraska. Snow i* piling up in .Nebraska, and great damasre to cattle is feared, as ice covers the ground. The Girafte Broke Its Neck. The Atlantic Transport Company’s gteamer Massachusetts, xvhich left Nexv Yor k on November T' for London 1 carrying - as a mx^o tn- -.rt—. * pa.t t Barn urn ana Bai*ey ^ menagerie ana show ’ arrive., off Gravesend at tee rnoiith of the Tuames on tue^Ith. u ceil on tee first three Jars she had a smooth t assage. A dispatch from Gri;v ^ o „ d says tbat the giraffe died of a broket; uei-k on t!:e night of the Gth. j j, Rr horses, including Eagle, also sue cuinbed. LEASE CASE AT COLUMBIA, Came Up On Questions of Contempt and Was Removed to Special Master Craige. The Xortli Carolina lease case was Judge Simonton at Columbia. C., on the 23th. The proceedings held upon the certifications of blaster Craige, of the refusal a number of witnesses to testify ai the hearings had before him. Hon. A. C. Avery, Capt. W. H. Day and Col. Philip W. Avirett appeared for the Governor and the North Caro¬ lina Railroad and ex-Secretarv John G. Carlisle and Mr. F. H. Busbee for the Southern Railway Company. After a prolonged and bitter argu¬ ment by Col. A virett in favor of order in" the witnesses to testify, and a brief reply l>y jMcssrs. Busbcc hdu OstilisiG, Judge Simonton held that it was impos¬ sible for him to pass upon the questions of contempt and competency unless the record of the whole case was before him. He thereupon ordered the case to be remanded, to Mr. Craige, who v.il now hear the evidence ot the Southern Railway, after which the parties charg¬ in'- fraud will be allowed to oner fui ther evidence, and budge Simonton will then hear the case. The deteuuants, Russell and others, claim this as a vic¬ tor v, while the Southern Railway peo¬ ple are also reported as very well satis¬ fied. . ____ AX OUTRAGEOUS A Negro Arrested for Stealing a Mule Shot to Death by a Mol). Jerry Johnson, a negro, xv as lynched by a mob near Screven, Ga. He was in charge of officers and was being taken to jail at Jessup, A crowd of men rode up to the officers and demanded the prisoner. The negro was riddled with bullets. Johnson had been arrested for stealing a mule. Usual Penalty for the Nameless Crime. An unknown negro was killed bv. lynchers near Blackshear, Ga. H 1S bodv xvas riddled with bullets. TMe negro outraged Miss Ilebie Davis, the 17-year-old daughter of Eli Davis, a farmer living seven miles north o, Blanckhear, while the xvas alone in her home. TOCO A LOO UNIVERSITY BURNED A Negro College in Mississippi De¬ stroyed By Fire. Fire broke out m the dormitory oi the Tougaloo Negro University at Tougaloo, Miss., and despite the he¬ roic xvork of the students, the builcungs xvere < juickly burned to the ground. The fire was first discovered in the third story and is supposed to have defective flue. f For¬ originated tunately the from students a xvere ail at piayei meeting, so no olio was six'teachers injured, loi.y three students and their entire personal effects, ino is estimated at .j?2u,000. The amount insurance is uot kuo^ n, as nil placed from the office of the sionnry AsRociat! !i, niN exvYor _ . BRYAN IN POLllICS FOR LIFE. Whether He Shall Again Run for Of lice is Unknown. William Jennings Bryan intends tc remain in politics until he dies. Noi long a go it was reported that Mr. Bryar was about to retire. Congressman Gaines, of Tennessee, heard the story and xvroto Mr. Bryan about it. Mr. Bryan replied: “The’newspaper item is uot true. I expect to remain in poli¬ tics all my life. Whether I .shall ever run for office again, depends on cir¬ cumstances.” FELL 105 FEET AND LIVES. Is Only a Litile Iiurt-- V Painter’s Experience at Keidsviilc. The Ed ha Cotton Mills, of Reiusville, N. C., is having its 12-5-foot smoke¬ stack repainted by a young man named Colo, a professional stack painter oi Greensboro. While engaged in this xvork Cole lost his hold, near the top >f tho stack, and fell a distance of IE feel to the roof of tho boiler room. There were no bones broken and ho seen: - : be only a little hurt, saying he will gel out aud finish the work. ——— Convicted of Criwihaal Assault. Frank, alias Dad Meine, has been convicted at Newport, Ky.,of criminally assaulting Mrs. Win. Gleason, October 6th, and sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary. CTuxtou and Greer have previously received the same sen¬ tence for the same offence, and all will, no doubt, receive twenty years each. The defendants belonged to a gang that insulted ladies, and the outrage on Mrs. Gleason xvas such that lynch¬ ing xvas averted only by the transfer of the prisoners to Maysville, Ky. Found Guiity of Immorality. A t Danville, Ya., the Methodist Con' ference committee charged xvith. the trial of Bev. AI. S. Watts, of Middle -ex circuit, for immorality, made its report, xvhich finds the accused guilty, and ex¬ pels him from the ministry and mem¬ bership of the Methodist church. Coun¬ sel for Mr. Watts gave notice of an ap¬ peal to the general conference. The Middle of*thc-Readers. The national organization committee of *.he middle-of-the-road Populists held a meeting in Ht. Louis, Mo.. and gave out an address setting forth tho chief features of the platform in the next campaign; it will bold a meeting in January and asks the People’s party committee tq,meet with them. To Print $48,000,000. Assistant the secretary Director Yanderlip has authorized of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing Treasurer to print aud deliver to^the L. S. m,m. Sit,000,000: 1 >00 ', - a f n ^ lIo silver -T rs: certificates States $24,000,- notes 000: treasury Oi. §G,(k)0,000. George Gould Advances Salaries. It is announced from rt. Louis, 3Io , that -Uhrse as J. a Gcnld. Thanksgiving of prt Mr. the Mi; i. a { j}x c railroad svstera has it; a l along the line 1,1 • er c.^ns.
