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TRIBUTE TO GRANT By Bon. Clark Howell at a Ban quet In New York City. “GEN. GRANT AS PEACE FACTOR” Occasion Was Annual Birthday Dinner of Grant Memorial Association. The Grant Monument Association of New York, which built the impos ing million -dollar mausoleum to Gen* ml Grant at Riverside Park, on the batiks of the Hudson, held its annual birthday dinner in the banquet room of ike Waldorf-Astoria hotel Saturday night, April 27th. About three hun dred guests were present, and the af fair wan a brilliant one. General Greenville M. Dodge, one of the vioe presidents of the associa tion, presided ss toast master. The first speaker of the evening was Con gieasßiun C. H. Landis, of Indiana, who responded to the toast “Grant.” Mr. liandis wi.h followed by Hon. Clark Howell, of Atlanta, Oa., editor of the Atlanta Constitution, on “Grant's Life as a Peace Lesson." Ki United States Senator William K. Chandler, o' New Hampshire, spoke on “National Qopfulneas" and Gen eral Joe Wheeler on the “Progress of Our National Domain During the Last Third of a Century." The speech of lfon. Clark Howell was a feature of the occasion. He as id: “I am nol unmindful, Mr. Chairman, thwt In payliw tribute t «> the man In lv>nor ms wh'imi memory went'* assembled hers (anight I Ain onvlroncd by circumstunces thiit. uiuiei Hoim conditions. would em karras* tho frank utterance* of rny own fx-nUinciitM and ulothu my word* with Import not their own “I come to apeak with you of the lessons from the Use of a leader and I *im of tho ueoii.e against whom his le srion* wore l»*d to victory and riround whom the wlhborlii* embrace of his Iron • r«n wee cloh«*<l in the grip of war. There 1h nearco it vjeU*-> in the southern states f hut Uu'-* wot aheliur In its bruised bosom riflueiant monuments to tin* triumph of (bat greet soldier -General Grunt. "But l h<yt* not oome to speak of the si«'«uuipfi diimuil* of wnr, which have righiVv placed hi* name Among those of til* giant warriors of the world. lam not to paint a picture of the mighty (bie that hw«*pt on him) on under bis mas terfu) iiirm-.tion until all who opposed w<e>e ov» rw)i**lim«J in tin* culmJLniitiug fl«Mul at It would 111 be’ome m* to exult In the memory of his triutn- Sibant Icadorsliiu of victorious hosts as they roturn<«i to Joyous homes under the atreetniua banners of victory. “It til natural and proper. Mr. Chair man. thst those who shared his synipo tbtes and dunxois. that thorn' and the sons of thom* who followed his famous h v ad In well fought battles, should keep for evi r bright tiio luster of his military fame, and should keep forever living tho meiikerUsi and incidents of his war re new n. ‘Tlwie who offered their bullet-ridden feottU)* ah bulwark* In the vain effort to stem the conquering tide of his cohorts bore testimony to hi* genius and his ccAirag* There Is not today In the frag mentary ranks of the beaten heroes who once wore tho gray a single soldier who would raise hi* arm to still the clivers those victories have won. But above the din of successful units, be !i«iiHi the garlands of glorious victories, i lieyoud the glad .ojzzms of a preserved rmtU'U w«UcomtuK its martial heroes home, the dirge of those homeless heroes who. after surrender, burled their nban <l* iuhl hopes with a cause forever lost. Id«ta mo turn from, this phase of that momentous life to another that is not trtiiiMK'h'd by the raucous blast of war. but which l* sou luted In the sweet and •nothin# song* of peace. There is no one familiar w ith the history of our coun try who Is not aware of the mighty part i»la\«Hl by GcuertU Grant In the epoch of the olvll war; but there arc few even rnuem his own • eoplo who realize the Intense Influence hi* life exerted In the epoch of peace. There l» not a school boy In knee-breeches v. ho cannot tell you what General Grant did to prevent the •iM'i'Cssful dissolution of the union: there are few statesmen who can tell you how much ho did to procure It* peaceful restoration “No service this groat chieftain over remtered our common country In his moat brilliant military achievements can equal the great good uceonutllihgi by him In his consistent campaigns for rac- Mtal peace. If there was genius In the pen that wrote the terms of uncondi tional surrender to the failing garrison at Kert Done’»on fliers was greater ge« ntu* still exemplified In the letter that nisiW possible the peace conference at tluuiptou Roads If there whs grandeur tn ibe scorching a word that sweat Vir ginia as n sea of flame. \ct grander still the huud too generous to take the strlck riM* sword of a great hut vanquished !»'*• If there was glory In the thunder • f sh* voice that threw the columns •f a mighty army Into th« shock of war. far greater was the glory of the tongue (hot {famed the message, horn of love. to a dUtaevared people, let us hay a inww’ • fc* tin* living reality of practical i%e utifeun and of porfeel pence. no man can the mighty power thst fra irrsai massage wrought In shaping the tU **Qi.y of a country then emerging from •he chaos and confusion of a civil war. U npok* th« patriot spirit of \merl> an uiit-m Without It n union of states wekdkmt In the forge of war ind held to gethor only bv the sword’ An empty imtokifv of union In all save name 1 A liWkM. without sympathy of sentiment; wUU at unity of heart, without a com iseit Inspiration The north a Ru* fa and the south her Boland England In Ihe northern heart and Ireland In ourt* ’•fc those w bo are familiar with the i« opic of the •'outh and with the *. v.di itou* leading to the four vonrs’ wa** It Is cm necessary to protest that the van mibd.' d south coaid never have plavod I'arth.tge to a * nattering Home Her pftvlc had breathed the inspiration of in dependence fr « the hi ls that cradled Washington «* d J* fTvrson and Bstt.-k Henry Jealous lu the preservation of whul they believed constttutior.al ar.d hereditary rigid*, they were prodigal In all that was required to maintain thess rights 'Tltwc southern ancestors of mine had nah rs w northern enterprise and thrift. Finding then the genial climate of the southern »lcpe wws b tier rultovl to the successful adaptation of negro s'sverv- an Institu tion Inaugurated by thei- northern boeth rvn—iius dal not hesitate to adept the U a flic, nor to uflllae an southern planta tion* t.he slavoa who had proved unprofit able property In northern fields. •‘Nor were the statesmen of the* south leas slow to profit bv tho uoUtkeai ex isrm/.*: est6tbli»?lio*l bv their contcmi>orArje« of the northern atatra. They with obueevant eve the birth of the doc trine of soccoalofi ns It sprung from the pro* of Now England and first claimed tffc- in Hartford, the Charleston of the first secession. They listened with grave Attention wii< n Quincy of Maana*hu>.ett*. In the tails c#f cortgreoa fifty vears prior to the southern sec« i.a.on. made the fust formed declaration of the right of seces sion In opooKitleu to the admission of fiOulHiarwi and w<*st l l 'lor id a :tf mate*, that ‘if this bill it is virtualiv a dissolution of this imori; It will free the ktat«*rt from their moral obligations and au it will Ik* the right of all so it will be the duty of Homo definitely to ur*njKtro for a secession— amicably, if they can. vio- UjAtly. Jf they must.’ *‘J mention these went*. Mr. Chairman. In no sprit of pride that the south had no c< rrw-.r on Hu* secesal i market, and in no .‘plrlt of for tho failure of the prin ciples once advocated bv the round-head* who were rockod in the ‘crtidle of the revolution.' and which iwlridples were manv years afttg*wards axJoptwl by the cavalier conv**ntlon of Charleston I cite them merely xls lmdderitn that p!a.v< d their part In »ha.p iur the conviction.- of the southern t* on e ooncornlm: ?*txite rights arid the right of secession—lssue* th*n off ring ample room for honest dif ference. but which have isa-n settled for ail tirnei to come bv tlu* covenant of the cannon, sealed bv the nation’s blood. •'lt wax the spirit of fraternity, em bodied in Uie Immortal message of Grant that conse rated that covenant and tvt iblished It* sar*r«xl arbitrament beyond a.r TK*<il. It was tlds spirit that (jonqmwed for* ver the doctrine of absolute state rights: this spirit that conquered forever the restless ghost of secession; thi* spirit that converted the invincible followers of lah and Stonewall Jackson into loval citizen* of a reim ted republic. Respon sive to the spirit of that message and stirred bv Its generous impulse, they soiKht the broad slvlter of the flag they once a salt lied, and Its sacred folds have healed the bitter wound* of war. “At Versailles, after Sedan. Germany stcod In the glittering paraphernalia of ar artnie.-d giant, with one hand on the tl.rjet »f Pari* and the other pointing to the hungry document demanding the most rr*« v llginus indemnity exultant vic tor ever cxa< t« d <tf prostrate vh’tlm. ' Not so at Appomattox! Instead of ox net lon»- libera IP v! Instead of Siberia— aic'iln the tranquil fields of home: again the music of familiar waters: again the chirp of the cricket on the hearthstone ar.d the melody of childrens’ prattle around the mother's knee! Instead of Rt- Helena Washington! Not Washington as the s* rung hold <»f an «rrn<*<l foe. but ks tlvA enrmon capital of a reunited corji trv. where victor and vanqalshed met on tmwil tonnj! of fellowship. Washington the cvupllAl ftxwn which, a few years later, a federal major, as preshtetit of the I'nited State*, wroto one «kty tho order Mfe'ikirur i.rlgndUv* scnerals ot the n«u*hew of Robert K. and tlie son of Ulysses H Grunt! "Inevitable Appomattox! Bettor that It had come sooner, slnco It had to come; but better for the greatness of our coun try that coming lute its bloody Held of battle was consecrated by the covenant of the republic’s peace! "It was singularly significant of the love of peace Inherent in the mini that its first public manifestation appeared when the fortunes <»f war had almost crowned lit* urnu with the laurels of success. The Hampton Hoads conference afforded the first formal expression of any effort to harmonise Ga warring sections. For four long years the best blood of both sections hud drenched the fair fields of the south when that conference was called to put an end to further fruitless sacrifice. The unfortunate failure in tho purpose of the conference between I’resident Lincoln, of the federal government, and Vice Presi dent Alexander Stephens, of the confed eracy, 1* familiar history to all; hut few know that to General Grant Is due the fact that the actual conference was made possible. "The official records of the war have but recently established the Important part played by General Grant in prevent ing an untimely abandonment of negotia tions and in paying the way for the ac complishment of an official conference. Seward had been to Fortress Monroe early in February, 1866, to meet Stephens and Hunter and Campbell, tho confed erate commissioners, under well-defined limitations from President Lincoln to con fine negotiations to what he termed the three Indispensable*.’ Major Thomas T. Eckert had preceded Seward on the same mission and under similar restrictions. "At tin* preliminary conference the con federate commissioners requested a con ference with President Lincoln at Wash ington. and Major Eckert replied that the conference could not proceed except un der the terms outlined in his instruction. The confederate commissioners, unwilling to negotiate for peace under prescribed llmttat ons, declined to proceed with the conference. "President Lincoln in submitting the correspondence to congress said that at this *tag«- •• l was about t » recall Seward and Eckert. when the following telegram from General Grant to the secretary of wa* was shown me.' "The telegram read: 1 am convinced upon conversation with Messrs. Stephens and Hunter that their Intentions arc good and their desire sincere to restore peace and union. I have not felt myself at liberty to express I'Vrii vii*ws of my own or to account for my reticence This has placed me In an awkward position, which l would have avoided by not seeing them In the first instance l fear now their going hack without am expression from any one In authority will have a bad influence. I am sorry that Mr. Lincoln cannot have the interview "Os this President Lincoln said to con gi o* a. " ’The dlsnati h of General Grant of argtxl my purpone. aml accordingly 1 telegraphed him foi.ows “Say to th« kvi tlemsn l will meat tlvem personally .it Fortress Momve as soon us I can get there "And he did *rt there, and at once, and the whole story of that i*‘iifervnoe in th»* rolling waters of Hampton Hoads, within hulling distance of scene where tron chvAs firat met in battle In the encounter of the Monitor and the Merrtmae, affords tho most Intervstlng recital of our un written history. "I have hoard from Mr Stephens's own Ups how the southern commoner, a dwarf lr. stature, but a giant In intellect, upon MNiehlivr the cabin of the boat stopped to unwind the coverings which protected his frail Ikhlv from the bl**ak .sea winds, and I lew. after ir.oves and comforters and i ; ,rf*s and greatcoats were removed, he was titt bv Prvadent Lincoln wUh the J aracte:i>: c greeting: "Wxll, Siei bens. J tint’s the Ilttbst nubl»in 1 ever saw froxn such a quantity of shucks.* • 1 have ston the half rtgretful patlios ;r. his wiuiderful eves as hr told how I4n evfin. animated by h:s strong love of ccuntrv. bai aaid to the cammUstomrs: Let me write tho one word, “union. * at the head > f ou- agreement and you may supply the rest.’ "The conference wc»a fruitless of p acti j cal r suits cn account of arisitonr lins-ta ti ns of i*'*w* r in prescribing the condi tu.ns of peact* But Mr Stephens bc t licvisi to the day of I.U death tlK*t had j the cominis -‘*n Uvn clothed with p.ca.uT ‘ > \o r. psc« wou.d have been accom • ulishcd vti a basis of union and of mu on.-*s*h>ns m-other details of dU j feretwe. "Perhaps so; ikxluis not! P«rhxos ,t 1 wus bos: that the war should drujc its crpei length along to its tragic culmina tion. Pcrba-Ds it wa* best that an issue born almost with the republic itaeif. and ti4.t had bapt its devote** In the blood of brother*, should only find its fitting death on th? bloody battle field. But long after the echoes of war have died away ar.d the efforts of th»- conference aj"e for gotten. the world of peace will do rever ence to the memory of the great soldier who. almost on the eve of final victory, sheathod his dread sword and stretched out iiu sword-arm with open hand to R*r peace! Jn the midst of the mad lust of war. leaving for Q time the Fader shin of exultant cohorts drttnk with vie trrv. himself to all by prolonging: the conflJf t for pronounced conquest, his voice, attuned to the roar of t>att!e, was rai?ed for peace. "And so. Mr. Chairman, while the iy*t t'e-scacred bosoma of our Houthrrn val leys bear unwilling testimony to the. deeds of this great soldur-r a* he marched be neath the flog of Mars, every hill that tremtfded to the thunder of his guns give* back the welcome echoes of his greeting: *i>t us have peace.’ "The lnortu of her people have caught and held the inspiration of the clarion call of fellowship and union. which, growing In strmgUi and volume as the vfnus go bv Is now the grand pcan of a nation’s peace. "When th** recent call to arm* brought wluntcr-rs to offer their lives in the com mon c ause of the un on against the patriotism of our people found quick expression in *ne response they made to the drum-heat *>f the republic, and the j sons of federal* and confederates alike tgiured out their heart’s blood in the com mon cause. None questioned loyalty ar.d patriotism of his comrade in arms, and northern boys and southern boys uiarrlied shoulder to shoulder under the Star* and Stripes to the mingled strains of ‘Dixie’ ar.d ‘Y ankee D<K>dle.’ Under the tn pical sun of Uu4»i and the I*h:li'>p;nes. they have borne between them the sacred ark of tho nation’s covenant, brave and trie and patriots alike, moved by the (emmon impulse of their country’s love and the eternal glory of its mission! "The peace that General Grant com- ; manded has come at last, and it is an abiding peace. "It Is the peace whose sacred benedic tion cast the halo of Its glory across the continent, when from amid the solemn forest sentinels of Mt. Gregor, the angel of death gently touched the summons of the Divine Commander. But it did not com© until the music of a reunited na tion's voice, attuned to the melody of sorrow, had fallen upon the eager ears of the stricken hero. "Picture him as he sat, wan and hag gard, surrounded by silent nature, arrayed In all the glories of summer splendor, waiting—waiting the inevitably The winds that had swept the historic battle field* of the south were laden with mes sage* of peace and sympathy from those who but a few years before had been en emies. "What visions must have come to him then! There, trooping up from the mists of the valley came the blue legions which had followed him across the Potomac; and here, down the hillsides, like an ava lanche, swept the grey. There was Sher idan and Thomas, and Meade and Mc- Clellan, and yonder—Lee and Jackson, and Gordon and Longstreet. The peal of musketry and tho roar of cannon rever berate in the valleys and the mountain brook* become torrents of blood. The J clash of arms and the fierce fire of the t conflict shakes the world! "But now the smoke of battle lifts, and the scane changes! There are green val leys ami happy homes where peace and contentment reigns. High above all floats the stars and strip»«—the emblem of a united country—stronger now than ever, and more deeply rooted in the affections of her people. "The peace he would have has come, and resting n* quietly as a babe on its mother’s broast, the listless eyes of a hero In war and a patriot in peaoe are closed and his soul takes flight to the great hereafter to Join the united band of other horoos of both sides as comrades in ever lasting glory and eternal companionship. "Ami when, u few days later, he wn« lowered to his last rest by hands which had been raised against him in war; when veterans who wore the grey stood in tears beside L.ose who wore the blue, it proved, indeed, that past issue* were but ghosts of dreams and that— " 'Brave minds, howe’er at war, are secret friends: Their generous discord with the battle ends; In peace they wonder whence dissension rose And ask how souls so like could e'er be foes.’ "The peace of u prosperous people per meates the land and lights all sections of the nation in its holy glow. Mason and Dixon’s line marks no mure trace in tHe geography of our common country than does the equator mark the silvery sur face of our southern seas. " ‘Let us have peace!’ A happy and contented people repeat the benediction and cry back to the great heart that now is stid in the peace that passeth all understanding. Thy peace is come!’ “ HANY WORKMEN KILLED. Powder Woi ks In Germany Demolish ed snd Hundreds Are .Mangled. One of the most disastrous explo sion on record occmred Thursday at the Electro-Chemical works near Greisheim, Germany, where smokeless powder is manufactured. Most of the boilers exploded. The noise was so tremendous that it was heard at great distances, including Frankfort aud Mayence. the factory immediately became a mass of ilame* and a northeast wind carried tho sparks to neighboring vil lages, where several houses were also set on tire. Eighteen cylinders, each containing about oue hundred-weight of smoke less powder, were iu the room where the explosion occurred. Fifty persons are reported to have beeu killed outright aud 140 injured. The exact number of dead and injured cauuot be determined uutil the list of employes of the chemical works can be compared with the sutviTors. baby was buried alive. Italian Man and Wife Bound Over on Heinous Charge. Tuesday, Girio Buttacavalo aud Francesca* Spinella. who were arrest ed in Yonkers, N. Y., charged with | burying a baby alive in a lonesome ! spot near the New York Central tracks at Hastings, were held for the N\ est chester grand jury, which meets on May sth. The prisoners refused to discuss the case, declaring they were not the parents of the child. Lumb?r-Laden Schooner Lost. The three masted schooner Emma C\ Kuowles, from Charleston, April 14, for Fall River, loaded with lumber, 1 capsized Thursday five miles off At -1 lantio City, N. J. CHARTER IS ASKED FOR NEW RAILWAY Project to Connect Atlanta and Birmingham. FIRST MOVE HAS BEEN MADE The Proposed Road Will Traverse Five Georgia Counties—Capital Stock of $500,000 Assured. Application bas been made to tbe secretary of state of Georgia for a charter for tbe Atlanta and Birming ham Air Line railway, to run from Atlanta to tbe Alabama state line, a distance of about sixty miles. Advertisement of tbe notice of ap plication for a charter is published in The Atlanta Constitution. Tbe road i« to run from Atlanta westward, with Birmingham, for tbe immediate future, as its western terminus. It is pro jected to go through tbe counties of Fulton, Campbell, Douglass, Carroll and Heard. Tbe application for charter was pre pared Wednesday by Messrs. King & Spalding, and the charter will be granted by Secretary of State Phil j Cook after the lapse of thirty days. Mr. J. J. Spalding was asked about the new road. “I am not at liberty now to state just who is backing tbe new line,” bo said. “We are actiug in good faith, however, as you will see from our ad vertisement, and I can assure you that the road is going to be built. The construction of tbe road is a certainty, and it will not be long before work is begun upon it.” It is understood that some one or more of tbe railroads entering Atlanta is back of the movement, but Mr. Spalding would give no confirmation of this report, except to say that he was at liberty to make no statement. While the petition for charter in Georgia gives tbe length of the pro posed railroad as only sixty miles, tbe object is to run through to Birming ham, and application for charter will be made in Alabama to that end. The amount of the capital stock of the new company will bo 8500,000, with the privilege of increasing it to any amouut necessary by a two-thirds vote of the stockholders at any meet ing at which a majority of the stock shall be repieseuted. The stock to be issued shall all lie common stock but the application for charter asks the right by a two-thirds vote of the stockholders present at any meeting to issue preferred stock, in such shape as may he directed by resolution. The charter will incorporate the company for 101 years and will locate its principal office in Atlanta. It states that the incorporators intend in good faith to go forward without delay to secure subscriptions to the capital stock of the company slid o construct, equip, maintain and operate the road as stated in the application. MANIAC RUNS AGUCK. Shoots Down In Cold Blood hour Fel low Workmen. One of the bloodiest tragedies in the history of Portland, Me., in recent years occurred Wednesday afternoon on the fourth floor of the building oc cupied by tbe New Eugland Telephone Company. The principal actor in the affair was George H. Brainerd, a foreman elec trician, who has been employed for the company for almost twenty years. For some unknown reason and with out the slightest provocation, while chatting with his fellow workmen he whipped out a revolver aud opened tiro on tbe party around him. He was evidently an expert marksman, for in a brief space of time he killed one man outright, fatally wounded another man aud probably fatally wounded two others. Then he made an attempt to kill Deputy Marshal W. A. Frith when the officer tried to place him un der arrest. Fortunes For fcxchange Seats. It is announced that four New York stock exchange seats have been sold for $65,000 each. One of the sellers was George T. Bonner. The names of the others have not been made pub lic. COURT MOUSE LYNCHING. Sheriff at Springfield, Tenn., Outwit ted By a Gob. Tuesday night a mob of 100 men forcibly entered the courthouse at Springfield, Tenn..took Watt Mollory, a negro, from the officers guarding him and hanged him from the court house veranda. As the rope grew taut with the weight of the negro’s body, each member of the mob fired a shot into the swinging body. Mallory bad fatally wounded .T. 11. Farmer, a white man. The sheriff heard that a mob was forming and se cretly moved the negro from the jail to the courthouse for safety. AFTER I XPR ESS ROBBERS. Alleged Highwayman Arrested and Jailed By Gacon Police. The police of Macon, Ga., think they have definite clues that will en able them to Cud the men who robbed the local express safe between Macon anil Gordon Thursday night. One muu is now ia custody. He has giveu two different names. The authorities say the ehaiu of rir cnmstauces ngamst him is very strong. The other man is being searched for. “PARKHURST CRANK” Jov. Candler of Georgia Scores Well Known New York Preach er In harsh Terms. A special from Savannah, Ga., says: Governor Candler does not believe in yaukec money for the education of the negro. Before leaving the city Tues day night he expressed himself quite freely on tbe subject, referring to the visit of the party of northern educators and millionaires. “I don’t think much of it,” said the governor, referring to the visit of the party in question. “This man Park hurst is a crauk, ns every one knoA’s who has followed his course. Booker Washington was the best man in that party. Washington is a good negro, aud is doing pretty good work. It is to his interest to get these northerners interested in his schools. He gets money out of them and I don’t blame him for that at all. “Dr. Curry, the Peabody agent, is a good man, but I don’t know much about the others. The negro colleges of the south do not need the aid of these northern people very much. Do you know that you can stand on the dome of the capitol of Georgia and see more negro colleges with endow ments than you can white schools ? That is the fact. We can attend to tbe education of the darky in tbe south without the aid of those yankees and give them the education they need most, too. “I do not believe in the higher edu cation of the darky. He should be taught the trades, but when he is taught the fine arts he gets educated above his caste and it makes him un happy. lam opposed to putting ne groes in factories and offices. WheD you do tliat, you will cause dissatis faction between the two races, and snch things might lead to a race war. The field of agriculture is the proper one for the negro. That is a broad calling and there is room enough for both races in it. “These yankees who die and leave their money to negro colleges do not understand the local situation. It may be right, however, for some of them to send their money back to the south in this manner, for in some cases the foundations of the fortunes that now exist in the north and the east were laid by the carpetbaggers of the south and the money should be coming back by this time. I recall but one instance where a northern white man has giveu to white colleges in Geor gia. That was Mr. George I. Seney, and I think he was inspired to do this because there was some southern blood in him, his grandparents having come from the south, if my memory is correct. “I am not surprised at Atlanta lion izing these people. They will lionize anybody in Atlanta. All comers are heroes in their eyes. You know they made a hero out of Sherman when he came there. Savannah, lam glad to say, is more conservative. It does not go wild over everybody that passes through.” GOOD FOR COLUMBUS. First Southern Town to Benefit By Tour of Philanthropists. The first fruit, of the visit made through the south by the party of ed ucators and philanthropists led by Mr. Robert C. Ogden fell to Columbus, Ga., when Mr. George Foster Peabody, of New York, a member of the party, gave practically §60,000 for the ben efit of philanthropic purposes. Through the superintendent of the public schools he gave §35,000 for building a Young Men’s Christian Association building, provided another 515.000 was rnised, aud a lot was se cured and sufficient money guaranteed to insure the reasonable running ex penses. Twenty thousand to a similar negro institution was given under like limi tations. Two thonsaud toward buying a lot not to cost over 810,000 necessary for the acceptance of the offer of Mr. Carnegie to erect a 850,000 public library. A 81,000 gift toward the industrial school of the Columbus public schools. Women’s Clubs Convene. The convention of Women’s Clubs of the South Carolina Federation was called to order at Greenville Wednes day morning by Miss Lonisa Poppen heim, president of the federation Oyer one hundred delegates reported, representing various clubs in tbe state. ELEPHA.NI KILLS TRAINER. While Beast Is Taking River Bath Me Drowns His Keeper. At Peru, Ind., Thnrsdav Henry Huffman, animal trainer with the Wallace circus, was killed by the elephant, “Big Charley.” The ele phant, while bathing in the Mississin ewa river, east of Peru, wound his trunk about Keeper Huff.uau and hurled him far into the stream. The keeper, nniujured, spoke to the great beast, saying,“Why, Charley, I didu’t think that of yon. Aren’t yon ashamed of yourself?” The next instant he was grabbed, thrown again into the river and held down until drowned by the forefeet of “Big Charley.” iGANY CATTLE FROZEN. Cold Sp.-ll In East Tennessee Causes Heavy Loss to Stockmen. A Knoxville special says: As a re sult of the present cold weather prom inent cattlemen estimate that 1 000 head of cattle have been frozen to : death in the East Tennessee mountains in the past week. Twenty-two inches of snow is said to have fallen. This freeze may affee*: the local beef supply in the fall. PARKURST REVIEWS SOUTHERN TOUR Gives Vent to Impressions From His Pulpit. H!S TALK SEMI-SENSATIONAL Refers In His Discourse to Criti cism of Him si If By Governor Candler of Georgia. The Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurot preached Sunday at the Madison Square Presbyterian church, New York city, on topics connected with his recent trip south. He also made an incidental reply to Governor Can dler, who was reported as having de nounced those northerners who took an interest in educational matters in the south. Dr. Parkhnrst a lid that the {.'arty of northern people who recently made the trip referred to did it not- dccause they had any special interest in the south as a distinct section, but be cause they were conscious of the uuity which makes the north aud south mem bers of each other. The conference held at Winston-Salem, in North Car olina, he said, was characterized by the utmost frankness on both sides, and yet from first to last not an em bittering word was spoken. Referring to Governor Candler’s criticsm, Dr. Parkhnrst said they would not have been made “had the governor of Geor gia, as did the governor of North Car olina, come into direct touch with the personnel of the conference, or for five minutes respired the atmosphere which the conference exhaled.” Deferring to the estimation in which the people of the south and those of the north hold the negro, Dr. Park hnrst said: “The southerner does not like the negro any better than the average northerner does, aud the two carry themselves toward the negro with just about the same amount of Chris tian consideration—only of the two the southern white man has perhaps this advantage, that he does not make quite so flamboyant a pretense of lov ing the negro as his northern confrere does. The southern white man dis likes the negro, and owns up to it. The white man in the north dislikes the negro and lies about it.” The preacher said further : “The indiscriminating act by which the negroes bad conferred upon them the right to vote was one of those blunders that it is not easy to escape from after it is once committed, but which it would seem we ought to have had northern statesmanship sufficient ly intelligent to prevent. “The counsel that both the north ern aud southern friends of the negro are now giving him is to keep quiet upon the whole suffrage matter, tc* keep out of politics, not. to talk about the constitution, not to insist upon his rights, but to attend industriously to the work of getting himself well ready—which he is not now ready for what God and the country and the future may have iti store for him.” Dr. Parkburst closed by the follow ing general reference to present condi tions among southern people: “The south does not altogether love us, but no one there hates us nearly as much as it would be perfectly nat ural for them to hate us. They arw all glad that slavery is done, they are all glad that they are in the union. They all glory in tho Hag. even while in tender bereavement they lay flow ers upon the graves of tho confederate dead. We beloug to them and they belong to us, and every deed of kind ness wisely rendered, every word of sympathetic interest prudently spoken, every new commercial rclatton and every interchange of hospitalities dis creetly arranged will be so much con tribution to that perfect readjustment of relations which shall make for the enrichment of our common history.” New Railroad For Texas. The contract for the building of the Denison, Bonham and New Orleans road was let at Dennison, Tex., Friday, the contractors agreeing to build the twenty-five miles of road complete by August Ist. LUDLOW SERIOUSLY ILL. Brigadier General Has Tuberculosis and Will Come llcme. A special from Manila says: Owing to his illness tbe appointment of Brig adier General Ludlow to be military governor of the department of Vis caya bas been revoked. A board of surgeons bas made an examination and reports that General Ludlow suf fered from an attack of grip and lo calized consumption, which has de veloped into a dangerous case of tn berenlosis. Geuernl Ludlow will return to the United States by the first transport. NEW MISISSL>FPI RAILWAY. A Line to Connect Columbus and Jack son Is Assured. - It now seems assured tha* the pro posed new railroad from .Tac«r,ou to C dnmbns, Miss., a distance of IGO miles, will scon bo built by eastern capitalists. An inspection of the route was commenced Sunday by Gen eral S. S. Bullis, the builder of the Gulf and Ship Island road, aud who is accompanied on the trip by Presi dent Enochs.