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THE slave march.
Terrible Trials of Captives in the
African Coast Trade.
A Blow in tho Head Ends the
Troubles of the Weak.
<*Yes, I have seen the terrible slave
march,” said Mr. H. F. Moir, who for
many years has traveled abroad, spend
iag more or less time in Africa. He was
speaking of the sufferings of those cap
tives who carry great burdens across the
deserts in the African coast trade. Mr.
Jloir is a resident of New York State,
and last night in the lobby at the Grand
Hotel entertained a few friends with a
recital of some of his adventures.
“When the slaves are captured,” he
said, “they are taken to the headquar
ters of the east coast traders. There a
yoke is placed about their neck, and is
allowed to remain night and day with
out being once taken off. The constant
rubbing upon the neck chafes tho skin,
and gradually ugly wouuds begin to
fester under the burning African sun
ghine. The men who appear the
strongest, and whoso escape is
feared, have their hands tied, and
sometimes their feet, in such fashion
that walking becomes a torture to them,
and on their necks are placed the terri
ble goree or taming-sticks. The yoke is
a young tree with forked branches. It
is generally about five or six feet long,
and from three to four inches in diame
ter. One which I examined not long
ago w r as about twenty-eight pounds in
weight, but I am told that refractory
slaves are often placed in yokes weigh
ing fifty pounds or more. Through each
prong of the fork is a hole bored for the
reception of an iron pin, which, after the
neck of the slave has been placed in the
fork, is made secure by a blacksmith.
The opposite end is lashed to the corre
sponding end of another yoke, in the
fork of which another slave is held, and
thus the poor creatures have to march,
carrying besides this intolerable weight,
a load of provisions or ivory slung across
the center of the pole. Other slaves are
in gangs of about a dozen each, with an
iron collar let into a long iron chain.
“Are males alone of these captives?”
asked an Enquirer reporter, who was
one of the party.
“No, indeed,” said Mr. Moir. “Wo
men slaves are plentiful, A man with
any spirit can scarcely trust himself to
look at the starting of one of the cara
vans. I accompanied one which con
tained many women. They are all fas
tened to chains or thick bark ropes.
Ver y many of the women in the caravan
to which I refer, in addition to their
heavy weight of grain or ivory, carried
P H double their weight little brown babies. The
was almost too much,
Hand still they struggle wearily on
■ knowing too well that when they showed
■signs of fatigue, not the slaver’s ivory,
but the living child, would be torn
from them and thrown aside to die.
One poor old woman I could not help
noticing, she was carrying a baby boy
prbo should have been walking,
Ut w k° se thin, weak legs had evidently
giveaway; she was tottering already; it
|vas °ve—- the and supreme all iu effort of a mother’s
vain, for the child,
-r easi.y recognizable, was brought into
“ am P a coupLo of hours later by of
one
8U| ath hunters, who had found him on the
P - We had him cared for, but his
poor mother would never know,
ur ' n S three days’ journey out from
-aendwe death freed many of the cap
ives. it ias well for them; still
A wc
ou not help shuddering iu the
arkness as
we heard the howl of the hye-
59 a '° n S the track, and realized only
00 ^lly the reason why. The attach
lent of the children to their mothers
ufi the mothers’ determination
not to
e Parted from their children,”
ed the contin
Ion traveler, “combine to carry them
? "lth the slave caravan—that is, so
on g as their little logs
them.” poor can bear
“Ho " caa the slaves keop under
^finirdens? up
’ was asked.
9 ‘They do 1 0 not do it long,” was the
nswer. “1'hoy march all day, and
It . ^'hen they
r If aw ° ‘sorgho’ stop, p few handfuls
■hem, are dis ~ ibuted among
and lhia is all their food. As soon
L y 1)( ’ E in to fail* their conductors
’
‘I ac i those who to be
wl I L f ! U tc<1 and appear most
' d eal them a terrible blow
,
L7 na P c of the neck. A single
P the victims cry,
fall to the ground in the
i Pulsions Spires of death Terror for a time
th i' weakest with now strength,
at h| j | ut each time one breaks down tho ter-
SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS.
nble scene is repeated. A friend of
mine told me that once when traveling
in, Central Africa he was obliged to at
tach himself t o an Arab slave gang, and
that the drivers deliberately cut the
throats of those who could not march.
1 have also been informed, ” said Mr.
Moir, “that in Central Africa these
slave-drivers have been known to cut off
an arm or any limb with one blow from
their swords.”— Cincinnati Enquirer.
How the President Spends His Day.
The President divides his time so as
to have ample opportunity for rest, re
creation and w r ork. He generally rises
about 7 o’clock in the morning and
breakfasts with his family at 8.30
o’clock. He usually leaves the building
by the south door and indulges in a
stroll of half an hour about the grounds
south of the mansion. He then returns
to his office and by 9.30 o’clock is en
gaged in looking over papers and ar
ran ging his work for the day. At 11
o clock Senators and Representatives be
gin to arrive and they are received with
the utmost courtesy, patience and con
sideration.
At 1 o’clock the President, except on
cabinet days, descends to the east room,
where he always finds hundreds of per
sons, men and women, who are stran
gers in the city, waiting to pay thei r
respects. After dispersing this crowd
with many pleasant remarks, he takes
his luncheon and then returns to his of
lice, where he begins the real work of
the day, undisturbed by callers, except
by special appointments, as these three
hours are devoted to audiences granted
to cabinet ministers to submit the busi
ness of their departments and receive
directions. At 5 o’clock he usually
takes a long walk in the northwestern
section of the city, or a drive with Mrs.
Harrison and the ladies of his family.
At 7.30 o’clock the President joins
Mrs. Harrison and the ladies at dinner
in the family dining- room. Frequently
he invites some friend or official whom
he desires to meet in the less respected
and more leisurely surroundings of
informal hospitality. Later in the
evening the President passes his time
with his family, or receives visitors who
are entitled to call socially .—Pittsburg
Commercial Gazette.
The Dakota “Rustler.”
The Dakota “rustler” is the direct
product of the blizzard. He moves with
a quick, resistless force. He does not
rest for sleep or food. He knows no
weariness of the flesh. He has no doubts
or fears. He believes, and he is an in
spirer of faith. He will build a hotel of
300 rooms on a street-motor railway on
the blank prairie and wait for a town to
grow up around it. The town always
comes, if he be a genuine rustler.
Y r ou can’t tell by his looks, nor by the
cut of his clothes. His grammar is often
addled, and he makes a bib of his nap
kin at table. But when he turns himself
loose upon a project with money in it
the project projects. It looms. It
yawns. He keeps it ever in the way of
your eyes, and before you know it you
begin to see rainbows around it.
He cares nothing for money after it is
made. Ask, and it is given you. Tell
him a tale of woe, and out comes his
purse. He would moulder in a week
behind a desk or in a counting-room.
He is always on the lope. Today, he is
getting options on corner lots in Pierre;
tomorrow, he is building mills at Y r ank
ton. Then ho is off to St. Paul bull
dozing “Jim” Hill for more railroads,
or off to New Y'ork placing the stock of
a new loan and trust company. He is
interested in everything. He lets no
enterprise escape him. They’ll all pay,
he says, or all “bust.” There is no
middle line out there.
Diagnosing Disease by the Hair.
A Pittsburg doctor says he can diag
nose ailments by examining a single hair
of the patient. Two young men as a
joke, took him a hair from a bay horse.
The doctor wrote a prescription and
said his fee was $25 as the case was pre
carious. They were staggered but paid
the fee, and after they got out laughed
all the way to tho apothecary’s. The
latter took the prescription and read in
amazement: “One bushel of oats, four
quarts of water, stir well, and give three
times a day—and turn the animal out to
grass. ” Then the jokers stopped laugh
ing.— Chicago Herald.
His Complexion Confused Her.
Aggie—Oh, Mrs. Smith, who was
that Chinaman you were walking with
today? Oh! It
Mrs. 8.—Chinaman? was
my husband; he’s just had the jaundice.
WASHINGTON. D. C.
MOVEMENTS OF TUE PRESIDENT
AND U1S ADVISERS.
appointments, decisions, and other matters
OP INTEREST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
The President on Wednesday ap
pointed William Walter Phelps, of New
Jersey, envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary Germany. of the United States to
The President on Wednesday appointed
the following postmasters: William E.
Clarke, at Newberne, N. C., vice Mat
thias Manly, removed; O. D. Foster, at
Forbes, Fredericksburg, Va., vice Frank T.
removed.
The pension office on Tuesday made
requisitions upon the treasury depart
ment for $15,000,000 out of the appro
priation to be available July 1st. This
amount will be placed to the cred.t of
pension agents on the first or second of
the coming month. There are said to be
betweeu 8,000 and 10,000 first payment
vouchers awaiting the depositing of this
money.
The following postmasters of the fourth
class were appointed for Georgia on
Thursday: Lewis Cordele, Dooly. Ella Logue,
A. Harper removed; Owensby
ville, Heard. J. T. Wilson, D. W. Zacbry,
resigned; McLeod, Melville, Chattooga, August
W. O. Eatou, resigned; Stiles
Riley borough, Bartow, John E. Hammonds,
Milam removed; Camp Creek, M.
J. Smith, William Thomas removed.
An evidence of the fact that the ad
ministration will make a number of
changes the beginning of the present fis
cal year, has been furnished. Attorney
General Miller called for the resignation
of all but one of the attorneys who rep
resent the government before the court of
claims. These resignations are to take
effect on the 1st of July next. Among
those who will be cut off is cx-Represen
tative Wilson, of West Verginia. At
kins, who was once collector of customs
at the Savannah, is an applicant for one of
places which will be vacant.
Ex-Senator Bruce and Fourth Auditor
Lynch headed a delegation of colored
Republicans who waited on the Presi
dent Wednesday afternoon, and present
ed an address adopted at the Jackson,
Miss., conference, on June 13th, in re
gard to the political situation in the
South, and expressing the utmost confi
dence in the President’s policy towards
the colored people in that region. The
President thanked them for their confi
dence, and said that they could rest as
sured that he would do the best he could
towards all classes, lie commended the
conservative stand taken by them, and
said they would have his assistance in
every endeavor to improve their political
status.
Twenty-seven postmasters were ap
pointed by the President on Tuesday,
among them the following: Joseph H.
Manly, at Augusta, Me., vice L. B.
Fowler, removed; A. W. Shaffer, Ra
leigh, N. C., vice Samuel A. Ashe, re
moved; Hansford Anderson, at West
Point. Ya., the office having become
land, presidential; Louis DeLaRue, at Ash
Ya., the office having become
presidential; William Worth Logan, at
Woodstock, Va., vice J. II. Rodeffer,
commission expired; William II. Gibbs,
at Jackson, Miss., vice Wert Adams, de
ceased; Byron Lemly not having been
confirmed by the Senate, James E. Ever
ett, at Yazoo City, Miss., vice Claiborne
Bowman, commission expired.
A TRAGEDY.
GOV. NORWOOD, OF BIRMINGHAM, ALA.
AND TWO ITALIANS, KILLED.
Gov. Norwood, of Birmingham, Ala.,
contractor on the Cumberland Valley
extension, was murdered Saturday at his
camp near Cumberland Gap, by an Ital
ian, known as Tony Cravasso. Cravasso
and bis brother were bakers at the south
end of Cumberland Gap, and had sold
bread to some of Norwood’s men, and
had requested could him collect to hold the bills. men’s pay
till they their Nor
wood told them he could not withhold
men’s pay except on garnishee, and di
rected the Italians to a magistrate. Sat
urday they called on Norwood and
asked if he had their money. He told
them he did not have any money for
them, and walked out of the commissary
store and entered a cabin adjoining.
Just as he followed stepped in the door, him Tony,
w T ho had him, shot in the
back, killing him almost instantly. The
Italians escaped to the woods, but they
were captured Saturday night back in Ten
nessee. They were brought to
Kentucky Sunday, and were being con
ducted to the Pineville jail, when Judge
Lyuch took them in charge and gave
them a trial, resulting in the sending banging of
the elder Cravusso.and the of the
brother to jail. The officers started for
Pineville with the younger Cravasso, and
as they were traveling along the road, a
Winchester rifle cracked on the moun
tain side, and the prisoner fell in the
road a corpse.
KILLED BY A BURGLAR.
A burglar entered the house of John
Webber, at LaCrosse, Wis., Thursday
night through a window in the room oc
cupied by bis two daughters, Kate and
Lena. The girls were awakened wuile
the robber was searching their clothing
and Lena, the youngest sister, aged
eighteen years, attempted to escape. She
stumbled and fell ana before she could
arise she was seized by the burglar who
pluDged a knife £3 o her body, killing
her instantly. T C assassin then went
to the bed and made a thrust at the oth
er girl, who managed, however, to evade
the knife. The family were aroused by
the noise, but the burglar escaped.
HORRIBLE ACCIDENT.
MAKT lives lost bt a railroad colli
sion IN PENNSYLVANIA.
A triple collision of freight trains oc
curred near Latrobe, Pa., forty miles east
road, of Pittsburg, on the Pennsylvania Rail
about 2.30 o’clock Wednesday
morning. Thirty cars were wrecked and
seven persons killed, four of them un
known. A freight train, west bound,
left Latrobe and had just reached a
bridge aboitf; fifty yards west, when it
collided with an extra freight train com
ing in an opposite direction. Another
east bound treight was standing on a
side track on the bridge, and the wrecked
trains crashed against it, causing one lo
comotive and a number of cars to go
over the embankment into the creek, a
distance of fifty feet. Engineer Cald
well and his fireman wen supposed to
have been killed instantly. Their bodies
are still in the creek. Brakeman Miller w'ae
terribly crushed. The bodies of four
tramps were taken from the wreck.
There was nothing about their clothes
ride to identify them. They were stealing a
of and were coming west. The cause
the accident has not yet been learned.
A dispatch from Greenburg, ten miles
from Latrobe, states that a party of
about twenty-five workmen from Johns
town freight were stealing their way home occurred. on a
train when the accident
The wreck caught fire from lime and the
men were cremated. The story is not
credited, and Pennsylvania railroad offi
cials know nothing about it. Two men
injured in the accident were carried
to Pittsburg. One of them, named
Flannagon, says that he is a Johns
town laborer, returning to Pittsburg,
and that twelve persons were on the car
with him when the accident occurred.
He knows nothing of their fate.
The debris of the wreck was being rap
idly cleared away, and up to t 8 o’clock
Wednesday night ten bodies had been
recovered. Thirty-one cars went down
over the bridge, and are piled upon each
other in the water. A carload of lime in
the center of the train was the last to go
down, and it was scattered over a pile of
shattered cars. Then the debris took
fire. It is probable that thirty people
were killed in the wreck. The water in
the creek at the point where the acci
dent occurred, is about twelve feet deep,
and it is expected ten or twelve bodies
are in the bottom of the creek.
MRS. WHITELING HANGED.
THE WOMAN WITO POISONED HER WHOLE
FAMILY IN PHILADELPHIA.
Mrs. Whiteling, who poisoned her
husband and two children, was hanged
Tuesday morning in the jail yard at
Philadelphia, Pa. The drop fell at 10.07
o’clock, and the body was lowered and
removed at 10.41. The woman’s bearing
throughout the terrible ordenl was the
most remarkable exhibition of fortitude
and resignation to her fate. During tne
entire morning she never for a moment
showed the slightest evidence ofweakness,
and frequently expressed her pleasure at
the prospect of “meeting her husband
and children.” Several physicians who
were present at the execution, and who
have, more or less, frequently been with
the condemned woman since her incar
ceration, expressed surprise at the wo
man’s exhibition of calmness in meeting
her death, although they agreed in the
statement that she has at no time shown
any evidence of an unsound mind.
Physicians say her death -was instant
from strangulation, though the heart
continued to beat spasmodically for
sometime thereafter, The body
was turned over to Dr. Alice Ben
nett, of Norristown hospital, for the
insane, for an examination of the brain,
after which the body will be buried by
the side of the murdered husband and
children. The only witnesses of the ex
ecution were the sheriff and his deputies,
dozen prison officials, physicians, and about a
newspaper men. This was the
first execution of a female in Philadel
phia county. There have, however, been
in several Pennsylvania. women hanged in other counties
SIMON CAMERON DIES.
8nORT ACCOUNT OF A VARIED AND EVENT
FUL CAREER.
General Simon Cameron died at Lan
caster, Pa., on Wednesday, at the age of
90 years. He learned the printer’s trade
and became editor of a Democratic jour
nal at Harrisburg, about 1822, aftei
which he acquired a large fortune by
operations in rail, ads, banking, etc. In
1845 he was elected a senator of the
United States from Pennsylvania. In
1855 he separated from the Democratic
party and in 1856 supported Fremont
for the presidency, and was again
elected senator of the United States
in that year. lie was secretary of w T ar
in Lincoln’s cabinet from March 4tb,
1861, to January, 1862, and was then
appointed miuister to Russia. He re
turned home in 1863 and was again
elected to the Senate of the United
States from Pennsylvania in 1866. He
served several successive terms in the
Senate, and was a potent factor in the
politics of his state.
DEATH FROM SEWER GAS.
Thursday afternoon, at Kansas City,
Mo., Thomas Linquesf, John Winter,
John Best, Otto Albach and George
Schultz, were rnakinga sewer connection
at the corner of 18th and Flora avenue,
when, by mistake, Linquest knocked a
hole in the sewer vault. The escaping
gas overcame him and he died almost
instantly. Winter and Albnch jumped
into the ditch to rescue him, and they,
too, were overcome by the foul gas.
Winter died in a few hours, and Albacb
is in a serious condition.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOING ON Of
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
Frank Smith, of Smith Station, Ga.,
was struck by lightning Tuesday while
standing killed, in his store door and instantly
He leaves a wife and several
children.
The keeper of Bosa Grande lighthouse,
the near Jacksonville, Fla., has discovered
skeleton of John Cone, a young man
from Jasper, Fia., who w as drowned near
Punta Gorda last March.
issued Adjutant-General McIntosh Kell has
a call for a convention of the mil
itary of Georgia. The meeting will take
place at the capitol in Atlanta on Mon
day, the 15th of July.
Mrs. Ann M. Pierce, wife of the late
Bishop shine,” George F. Pierce, died at “Sun
near Sparta, Ga., on Wednes
day, at the age of 78. She was a nota
ble landmark of Methodism, a truly
grand exemplar of the religion she pro
fessed, and was universally esteemed.
The result of the local option election
in Harrisonburg, Ya., shows forty-tix
majority for license. The contest was
very polled. exciting and a large vote was
Two years ago the district,
voted dry by a majority of 291. Li
censed saloons will be opened in a short
time.
Three negroes and one white man
made their escape from the jail at Ir
wiuton, Ga., Tuesday. It will be re
membered that they made an effort about
three weeks ago, but the noise was heard
and the attempt failed. By some means
they tore the iron bars out of the window
in the back of the jail, and as the back
of the jail is partly concealed by a patch
of corn, the fugitives easily effected
their escape.
At Hawkinsville, Ga., on Thursday
night, Charley Horn killed Will Nich
ols. Both were colored, and about the
6ame age—fifteen years. They had been
to church, and while there had quarreled.
The quarrel continued after leaving
church. After walking some distance,
Horn pulled a paling off the fence and
struck Nichols on the side of the head
over the left ear, crushing his skull.
Nichols died within two hours. Horn
was arrested.
A vein of iron ore, nine miles in length
with an average thickness of seventeen
feet, has been discovered iu Red moun
tain, only a few miles from Birmingham.
Chemists and experts say it will make
Bessemer steel—in fact, has less phos
phorus than much of the ore now in use
in Pennsylvania for making steel. Ao
analysis made by chemists shows the ore
to contain metallic iron 45.87, silicon
22.18, will phosphorus 0.06. Several mines
be opened at once, and the ore fully
tested for steel making.
The safe in the railroad office at Buena
Vista, Ga., was blown open Monday
night, evidently by professional safe
blowers. They effected an entrance into
the office by prying the door open, then
boring a hole through the top of the safe
and inserting the powder. The force of
the explosion tore the bolts loose without
injuring the lock in the least. The bur
glars took nothing but the cash. Of
this they got about $60. The Central
Railroad loses $20, and the Southern
Express Company $15, and Mr. E. A.
Jackson, the agent, loses $25. No clew
whatever to the perpetrators.
S. Lieberman, a barber, who went to
Chattanooga, Tenn., about two months
ago from Cincinnati, suicided Tuesday
morning at the Lookout Mountain Point
hotel, taking a deadly dose of morphine
and chloroform, mixed. Lieberman
made all preparation for his rash act.
He went over town and paid up all his
accounts; left his watch, money and
several diamonds he wore with his wife,
telling her he was going on a brief visit
and was afraid he would lose them. He
went to the Point hotel, where he regis
tered for the night, and in the morning
was found dead in his bed. No cause is
iness assigned for his act, except that his bus
afloat was not good. There are rumors
that his domestic relations were
not of the most pleasant nature. His
wife is a beautiful woman, and they have
been boarding at Palace hotel.
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
A PENNSYLVANIA MAN KILLS UIS WIFE
AND HIMSELF.
Walter Hamp, a butcher from Lancas
ter, Springfiel Pennsylvania, murdered his wife at
then committed I, Illinois, on Wednesday, and
suicide by shooting him
self. About six months ago llamp’s
wife, after possessing herself of as much
of her husband’s money as she could get
hold of, abandoned her home and fled
with one Henry Doerr. About three
months ago they went to Springfield
and opened a butcher shop. They " were
located there by Hamp, and he put in an
appearance, visited his wife at her board
ing-house, and requested her to accom
pany him to a justice’s office, to sign cer
tain deeds. The justice went out for
£pw moments, and’ during his absence
Hamp fired three balls into his wife’s
breast from a revolver. Then turning
the weapon on himself, he fired a ball
into his own brain. Both died almost
instantly. »
NOT YELLOW FEVER.
A dispatch from New York says:
Surgeon Duncan, of the steamer Colon,
was discharged at 10 o’clock Wednesday hospital.
morning from Swinburne Island
He is the supposed yellow fever patient
over whom the recent excitement watt
raised,