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B’i A, M. DAmES.
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t I HERE’S no use put-
ting off the telling
/ \ of it any longer,
Maria, the planta¬
tion must go,”
“Oh, James,
no.”
“Yes, Maria; 1
have kept the
knowledge of it
from you as long as
I can, hoping against hope that some¬
thing might be done;-—some way found
out of the trouble. It would be cruel
to let it come on you all of a suddon,
with the notice to quit the home. To
quit the home! Think of it, Maria!
the home that has sheltered me all my
life, and you, since you came to me, a
happy and trusting bride, twenty-five
years ago. ”
“Ob, James, can nothing be done?
“No, dear; I have paid the interest
until it has eaten up all my ready
money- It would bo better to take
this money aud live on it as best we
can than to go on with the ruinous
policy of paying interest on mortga¬
ges.”
“But to think, my husband, that
you must lose the home of your child¬
hood ! Every part of it is dear to
you, I know. ”
She took his hand within her own
and tried to comfort him as much as
her overflowing heart would permit.
He raised his head suddenly, a light
coming into his eyes behind the tears.
“In tho kitchen, James, She
just would go to sea about the
potato pudding for your dinner. She
thinks no one oan make it for you
like herself.”
“And no one can!” declared the
father proudly. “Oh, Maria',”—the
knowledge of tho dread news he had
to tell breaking upon him with re¬
newed force—“this thing will kill
her.”
“No, James; she will take it better
than either of us, for there is a
strength in her young heart V that our
old ones do not know.”
“And where is Alice. ?”
“Sho went to spend the day with
Sarah Marston. The longer you de¬
lay telling her, James, the better it
will be. She will have only the less
time, theu, in which to make you
miserable.”
The father sighed. What a differ¬
ence there was between his two
daughters!
“Ob, father, haveyoucome at last?”
cried a delighted voice at that mo¬
ment. “I was afraid you were going
to wait until the pudding was cold.
Then it would be spoiled.”
“Come to father, dame, and let the
pudding wait, awhile at least. 1 have
something to say to you.”
She came, aud, despite her 13i
years, perched herself upon his knee,
and, throwing her arms around his
neck, placed her cheek against his,
rubbing it back and forth softly.
“Sing one of your kitten songs to
father, Damie,” he said, closing his
eyes. He would put oil telling the
bad news a little longer.
She cuddled down against him, put
her mouth to his ear and began to
sing. No one else could have heard
it. No one else did she wish to hear
it. It was for him alone—a love song
all his own—a song like the gentle
purr of a kitten, comforting, soothing,
yet a complete little song within itself,
and its words nestled down in her
father’s heart, each as a tiny song¬
bird, making a music of its own.
It was this loving, cuddling, kitten¬
ish way she had that had gained for
her the pet name by which not oniy
her father, but others called her—
“Little Dame Purraway.” Her real
name was Azalea, called for the flower
that crowns with such glory the gar¬
dens of her native State.
It seemed indeed a cruel thrust to
follow that purring heart-song of lova
and content with such dreadful news.
“O, father, must you really give up
your home?”
Her one thought was for him.
“Yes, Dame Purraway.”
He could say no more for the tears
that were ready to come.
“But it is not so dreadful since wo
can all go away together,” she said,
comfortingly. “Yes, we will be to¬
gether, father; only think of that,
and surely we can find some place to
call home. If it is only a oabin, and
you were there, father, it will be home
to me.”
Then Bhe snuggled still closer
against his heaving heart and purred
another love song in his ear. As they
were sitting down to the table Mrs.
Edgerton said suddenly: “Why,
where is Professor Puckaber?"
“O, the dear old professor,” said
the Dame, starting up from her seat.
“I know he is buried in stones and
bones and roots and such things at
this very moment, and not thinking a
thing of his dinner. 'Why, he would¬
n’t know if he hadn’t any all day longl
I must run and wake him up.”
Sure enough, the professor was sit-
ting in his room surrounded by what
would have been to unprofessional
eyes a most uninviting collection of
the specimens he had gathered tho day
before.
“Professor Puckaber 1 Professor
Puckaber! Professor Puckaber!”
called the Damo three times before
an answer came.
“Hey 1" said the professor without
looking up. .
“Dinner ! Come to dinner !’’
“Yes,antediluvian beyond a doubt!”
declared tho professor, absorbed in
the task before him.
“No, professor,” returned tho Dame
gaily; “the dinner isn’t antediluvian ;
it is rather a modern affair of Hopping
John (peas and riee), tomato pilau,
broiled fish, sweet potatoes and corn
bread. Do come, or it will be cold.”
Then she took him by the arm and
coaxed him away from his specimens,
marching off with him triumphantly
to dinner, for between the Dame and
the professor there was a genuine good
comradeship. He had been her
father’s classmate and was now his
best and closest friend.
“I noticed your father was disturbed
at dinner,” said the professor later
at afternoon to Azalea.
This went plainly to show that, al¬
though tho professor could get so ab¬
sorbed in stones and bones and the like
as to forget his dinner, he yet had eyes
for other things.
A cloud came over the bright face.
She stopped in the path where she'was
walking with the professor to look up
into his eyes, her own beginning to
grow misty with tears.
“Ho was disturbed. O, dear Pro¬
fessor Puckaber, as his best and dear¬
est friend, it neod not be kept from
you, 1 am sure. My father is about
to lose bis home."
“What? Bless my eyes!”
They were very bright eyes, despite
the years they had seen, usually shin¬
ing like stars when the professor took
oil his glasses But now they seemed
to be troubled with a sudden dimness.
“He only told us to day,” went on
the Dame sadly. “Oh, it is hurting
him so 1 He loves the place, for he
was born here and here every year of
his life has been passed. But now it
must go, for it is mortgaged,and thoso
who have the mortgages will wait no
longer.”
“What is the amount of the mort¬
gages?” “Three asked the professor.
thousand dollars.”
“A pretty good sum ! But the ease
isn’t as bad as I thought,” ho added.
Then he asked : “How long a time has
your father? That is, how long will
it be till the men come to claim the
place?”
“I think father said he had thirty
days.”
“Thirty days? Well, that is rather
short. But much can be done in thirty
days. And see here, Miss Azalea Ed-
gerton,” pushiug back his glasses, to
gaze at here with the most engaging
frankness, “you and I are the ones by
whom it is to be done."
“f, Professor Puckaber?”
“Yes, you, my Dame Purraway.”
“Oh,you surely are laughing at me !”
and there was a note of pain in her
voice. “What could I do? Oh, if I
only could 1”
“Of oourse you cau,” announced the
professor, decidedly. “Now listen,
Dame Purraway—by the way, that
was a quaint conceit of your father to
call you that— I am going to take you
into partnership. Puckaber and Pur
raway, how does that sound? Fine,eh?
Now hearken, Partner Purraway!
Well, I supposo you know, for I am
sure you have heard your father say,
the company by which I am engaged
sent me out here to locate some
valuable deposits. So far I haven’t
found them, that is to the extent I
hoped, though I think I’m not far
from the scent. But I want the help
of your younger and keener eyes.
Your father tells me you are the
greatest little woodsman in all the
country round.”
“Yes, professor,” she said, with
some pride. “I do know a great deal
about the pine lands of South Caro¬
lina ; the dearest lands in all the world
to me,” she added, her eyes shining,
“because I was born among them.”
“Aud about the ugliest,’’declared the
professor with candor.” That is the lob¬
lolly pine lands, and the poorest, too,
in themselves. Bat, if 1 am not mis¬
taken, Partner Purraway, there is that
in these same poor lands as will yet
make the fortunes of some of their
owners. I have my eye now on a par-
oel or two of land where I am sure the
treasure is, only I don’t want to locate
it here,” his eyes sweeping the rather
stunted stretch of forest that lay
around them. “Guess why, Partner
Purraway?” father’s
“These are my lands,” an¬
nounced the partner, pronjptly.
“Exactly. You’ll do for the part¬
nership, I see. Wideawake as to in¬
terests.”
'
“Cut this isn’t, by any moans, the
best part of tho land, professor.”
“I know it, Partner Purraway. See
that marsh over yonder ? Ugly, isu’t it?
and apparently of no value whatever.
Yet, if certain signs I can read serve
me fair, I wouldn’t give it for all tho
rest of the land put together."
“Oh, professor.
“That’s all true, Partner Purra¬
way.”
“Partner Purraway, of course you
believe in the Garden of Eden?”
The professor asked tho question at
they were standing on a slight rise of
ground at tho edge of the forest. All
around them were tho brown needies
of the pines, while in front stretched
theselfsau v marsh that had previously
received the profess* r’s highest com¬
mendation.
“Why, Professor Puckaber, bow oan
you “Well, over ask the question?”
yon never thought of it be¬
ing located around her, did you?”
She stared at him with opening
eyes.
“Of oourse not.”
“Well, there are those who believe
it fully, I among tho number,” lifting
his shoulders as though to bear the
full weight of the assertion. “Far
loo many evidences to doubt it. Tho
great Agassiz believes it with all his
soul. He fairly routed the scientists
who attempted to hold out against it.
Situation, topography, prehistoric re¬
mains, such as found nowhere else, all
go to show beyond doubt that—”
“Ob, Professor Puckaber, what a
grand azalea! Do look! Did you
ever see one in its first year growing
so luxuriantly? For it wasn’t here
last year. I am certain of that. I
know the woods too well. Tha birds
dropped the seed. Isn’t it a glorious
purple?”
“Purple? Purple?” repeated the
professor, “and growing luxuriantly
in \.ne year? and by tho marsh, too? I
say, Partner—”
But the partner didn't hear. She
had grasped the little grubbing hoe
and started away.
“I am going to dig it up to trans¬
plant in the garden,” she called to
him.
She swung the hoe with all the force
of her strong young arms. For tho
first stroke or so she had no trouble,
the blade sinking deep into the dark,
moist soil. But suddenly she encoun¬
tered something that gave her a great
deal of exercise. She struck and
pulled away at something, but it would
not yield. It couldn’t be the roots of
the shrub; it was foo hard. Besides
she had been careful not to strike near
enough to cut into these.
“Oh professor,” she exclaimed,
quickly, “1 do believe I have dug into
a pile of rooks ! but how could that be
about here, where there isn’t a single
one?”
She stopped, looking at him with a
deeply puzzled face.
“Bocks? What?” shouted the pro¬
fessor, starting and leaping down tho
slight inclipe in such a way his feet
almost went out from under him.
Then he actually snatched the hoe
from her hands—he, the polite and
gentie professor—and there, before
the astonished eyes of Partner Purra¬
way, he began to dig around the bush
like one possessed, even digging it up
piece by piece in his excitement. Tho
earth fell in showers and the partner
had a time protecting lace aud cloth¬
ing. Between snoh efforts she stared
in bewilderment atProfessorPickaber.
Had he lost his senses?
Suddenly he dislodged an oblong
raasRof hard, grayish substance, look¬
ing like rock, and yet not like it. Ho
threw it above his head with a shout.
“1 knew it would be found,” be
cried. “I said it 1 The marsh told it!
But I wasn’t expecting it here; rather
over there by the bend of the river.
Hurrah for you, Partner Purraway!
I knew your scent would prove the
keener of the two. Do von know what
you have dcuie for your father, my
dear?” taking off his glasses, his eyes
shining like suns; “well, you have
paid off those mortgages and a Bight
besides!”
“Professor Puckaber,” pleaded the
bewildered partner, “will yon please
tell me what yon are talking about?
What is it you have iu your hand?”
“Why, phosphute 1” cried the pro¬
fessor, looking at her as though he
though she ought to know. “Fertil¬
izer! the finest yet found on the Ash¬
ley, the Euphrates, by the way, my
dear. Never saw such a specimen be¬
fore I Oh, it’s grand 1” eves and fin¬
gers gloating over it.” “Tons of this
—and there are thousands of them
here—when ground in that big mill
the Etiwan company has just put up,
will not only release your father, but
make him a rich man.”
And so it proved. For, with the
forming of the firm of Puckaber &
Purraway the star of fortune of the
house of Edgerton had arisen, never
to go down again.—Chicago Record.
The Papal Succession.
Two hundred npd ninety-three Popes
have succeeded each other, and only
eleven of them, including the present
Pope, have reigned more than seven¬
teen years. Leo XIII. has reigned
nineteen years. Pius IX. reigned
thirty-two yearn, thereby stultifying
the popular superstition that no Pope
would reign more than twenty-five.
Leo owes his fine health and astonish¬
ing powers of work firstly, to his fru¬
gal up-bringing-in the Italian hills,
aud in the next place to his regularity
of life-long abstemiousness. Ho lives
on less than $2.50 a day.—New York
Mail and Express.
The “Tombs.”
A new prison, 45x186 feet, and 123
feet high, is to be built this year on
the site of tho old Tombs in New
York City. It is said that it will oost
$720,000, and that it will be necessary,
to sink the foundation 100 feet, since
the Tombs stands on the filled-in site
of the old Collect pond.
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SIXTEEN PASSENGERS ON THE
LEONA LOSE THEIR LIVES.
HERE PENNED UP BELOW DECKS.
Tho Fire Was Subdued In Time to Save
Others—City of Augusta to
the Rescue,
The Mallory line steamer Leona,
which left her pier at New York on
Saturday, bound for Galveston, took
fire at sea, put back and arrived in
port Sunday night with sixteen corpses
on board.
The dead wore thirteen steerage
passengers and three members of the
crew, who succumbed to a terrible fire
which occurred off the Delaware coast
Sunday morning.
Details of the horrible story are
meagre.
Those who are dead were penned up
below decks, and although frantic ef¬
forts were made by the officers of the
vessel to save them the fire had gained
such terrible headway before the dan¬
ger was discovered that all escape was
cut off.
The steamer carried in her cargo
many bales of cotton. It is not cer¬
tain how the fire originated, but when
it was discovered, it burst forth with
such fury that it was impossible to
reach the steerage. Even the steer¬
mindful age passengers apparently were un¬
of the danger, else the smoke
and flames had not reached them. The
saloon passengers were first aroused,
and in such a manner as to occasion
little alarm.
When it became apparent that the
fire had cut off the steerage passengers
the captain and his men poured great
quantities of water down the ventila¬
tor and heroic attempts were made for
the escape of those penned up.
Ill this way eight of the steerage
passengers made their escape.
The deAd steerage passengers are:
Bridget Sullivan; JL Caliane, Miss
Guzza, Mrs. G. C. Guzfeft, Miss Han¬
nah Solomonson, Mrs. Valiricks, Miss
Valiricks, Sophie Schwartz, Marie
Wade, two unknown children, and
two unidentified.
Of the crew: Alfred Hardy, waiter,
forty-one years old, New York; Alfred
Lang, waiter, nineteen years old, New
York; H. Hartmann, butcher, twenty-
seven years old, New York.
Captain Wilder was in command,
with First Mate Wallace and Second
Mate Sweeny assisting. The chief en¬
gineer was below with three assistants
and a crew of about seventy-five men,
including firemen and deck hands.
After a hard fight the flames were
finally subdued.
The surviving passengers were trans¬
ferred to the steamer City of Augusta,
of the Savannah line, which came
upon the scene in answer to signals of
distress.
ROBINSON STEPS DOWN.
AgricuKural Department Has a New Sta-
tistician from Nevada.
Henry A. Robinson, of Michigan, of
the agricultural department, tendered
his resignation to Assistant Secretary
Wilson Saturday.
Mr. Robinson is a free silver man,
and says he deemed it only right that
the administration should have the
office at its disposal. The office pays
$3,000 per year, and is protected by
the civil service law.
John Hyde, of Nebraska, now ed¬
itor of the year book of the agricul¬
tural department, has been appointed
to succeed Mr. Robinson.
DISASTROUS RESULT OF FIRE.
Horses Run Into a Railroad Trestle and
Wreck a Freight Train.
At Manning, S. C., Friday night,
fire destroyed Bradham’s ginnery, the
county dispensary with its entire stock,
Shradham & Thomas’ big stables and
two big warehouses, one full of ve¬
hicles.
Two horses from the stable ran
down the railroad and, becoming fas¬
tened in a trestle, wrecked the night
freight, pitching the engine in Black
river and wrecking three box cars. No
lives were lost.
Want Six Millions Indemnity.
A dispatch to The Morning Post
(London) from Constantinople says it
is possible that Turkey will demand a
war indemnity of over 115,000,000.
EMPRESS PROSTRATED BY GRIEF.
Death of Duchess d’Alencon a Heavy
Blow to Her Royal Sister.
A dispatch to the London Times
from Vienna, says: “Not until this
morning (Wednesday) had the empe¬ that
ror and empress of Austria heard
the Duohese d’Alencon was among the
victims of the Paris tragedy, Tho
empress was devotedly attached to her
sister and is completely overcome by
the bereavement.
The dinner which was to be given t:>
the queen regent and tlie queen of
Holland at the Chateau Lainz, where
the emperor and empress are staying,
has been cancelled.
The empress has been nnconsolable
over the loss of her favorite sister.
POSTAL CONGRESS MEETS.
About Sixty Countries Represented By
Delegates.
The Universal Postal Congress met
at Washington Wednesday in the great
hall of the old Corcoran Art Gallery.
About sixty countries, comprising
most of those in the postal union,were
represented. Korea, China and tho
Orange Free State, which are now out¬
side the pale of the union, had dele¬
gates present. Postmaster General Ga¬
ry delivered the address of welcome.
BIMETALLIC COMMISSION SAILS,
They Go To Confer With Head* of Enro*
[leiin Government#.
Ex-Vice President. Adlai Stevenson,
General .T. 0. Paine and United States
Senator Edward O. Wolcott, who were
recently appointed by President Mc¬
Kinley as a commission to confer with
the heads of European governments
relative to the holding of an interna¬
tional bimetallic conference, sailed
from New York Saturday for Havre on
the French liner La Touraine.
Before their departure Mr. Steven¬
son said that the commission would go
direct to Paris and, after conferring
with the French government, would
visit London, Berlin, Vienna and the
capitals of other European govern¬
ments.
He expected that much good would
be accomplished by the commission
and did not anticipate any trouble
in inducing the governments to ap¬
point delegates to the contemplated
conference.
WILL ABANDON CRETE.
Report That Greeks Will Gradually With¬
draw From the Island*
Advices of Sunday from Athens,
says: “The government has informed
the ministers of the powers verbally
that following the recall from Crete of
Colonel Vassos, twenty-fivo officers
and two companies of sappers, the
gradual withdrawal of troops from the
island of Crete will take place.
After a brief delay the powers will
offer to mediate between Greece and
Turkey. The powers will insist, how¬
ever, that Greece shall confide her in¬
terests unreservedly to their hands.”
The correspondent of the Associated
Press at Athens learns on the best au¬
thority that Greece has made a written
application to the powers, through
their representatives at Athens, for
mediation.
All the representatives have prom¬
ised in their replies to use their best
offices, except the German minister,
who has merely acknowledged the re¬
ceipt of the note from the cabinet.
The porte is inclined to support the
powers, with a view to the facilitation
of negotiations, but it declines to con¬
sent to an armistice, on the ground
that this would enable Greece to reor¬
ganize her forces.
GOV ERNOR TAYLOR TO RESIGN.
v. Chuff Eieentive Will Return
Tennessee’s
to lecture Platform. ■
A report is going tils rounds t,]iat
Governor Taylor will resign XffPVier
1st and again go on the lecture pkk-
form. Under the constitution Hon.
John Thompson, speaker of the sen¬
ate, will succeed to the governorship.
It is known that Governor Taylor
has contemplated this action and the
fact that he entered into the lyceum
convention with Hon. Henry Watter-
son, General John B. Gordon and
others some weeks ago seem to indi¬
cate that he will return to the lecture
platform, where he made ten or fifteen
thousand dollars per annum, while his
salary as governor is only four thous¬
and.
While the governor refuses to talk
for publication concerning the reports,
it is known that he has so made up his
mind, and has told several gentleman
that the reports were correct.
MINERS SIGN NEW CONTRACT.
A Reduction of Two and One-Half Cents a
Ton Is Accepted.
Representatives of the 3,000 coal
miners working for the Tennessee Coal,
Iron and Railroad Company at Pratt
mines and West Pratt, met with Gen¬
eral Manager G. B. McCormack, of the
company, in Birmingham, Ala., and
signed a contract for mining to begin
on May 10, 1897, and to extend to
July 1, 1898..
The minimum price to be paid for
coal mining will be 37$ cents per ton,
which is 2$ cents below what is being
paid now. adopted
The sliding scale was again
with No. 1 foundry pig iron, $7.50 per
ton, as a basis, and for every 50 cents
advance of 2$ cents per ton on coal.
The company agrees to abolish the
sub-contract system and regulate other
complaints in mining objected to by
miners. A representative from each
mine at the places named signed the
The miners working for the same
company at Blocton, Adger, Johns and
Sumter have refused to accept any re¬
duction and will not consider any new
contract until the expiration of the
prosent one.
DISPENSARY SCANDAL UP.
South Carolina Board of Control Begins
. Investigation.
The South Carolina state board of
control met at Columbia Wednesday
to air dispensary matters. An effort
was made to pass a resolution admit¬
ting reporters to their meeting, but a
vote on that question has not been
reached.
In the attorney general’s office a
dozen witnesses were examined and
many affidavits taken; three or four
of these are from employes in the dis¬
pensary, and are all to the effect that
Chief Clerk Scruggs obtained posses¬
sion of the key to the “contraband
room” and had a duplicate made with
which he opened the room at pleasure.
NEGRO METHODISTS MEET.
A New Georgia Conference Will Be Form¬
ed at Meeting in Macon.
A meeting of delegates from the North
Georgia.tbe Macon and Georgia con¬
ferences of the African Methodist Epis¬
copal church, met in Macon Wednes¬
day. proposed
It is to form a new confer¬
ence out of the Macon and Georgia
conferences. The memberssliip ot'
both has become so large that a 1 divis¬
ion is now thought advisiable.
BAYARD BANQUETED.
Ills Rondon Friend* Honor Him With a
Farewell Dinner,
The farewell banquet given at Lon¬
don Friday evening by the American
Society to Mr. Bayard, former ambas¬
sador of the United States, was attend¬
ed by 270 guests. Ambassador
The company included
Hay, Mrs. Hay and all the members
of the American embassay, the lord
bishop of London (Dr. Creigton),
Baron Bussell, of Killouen; the lord
chief justice, Sir Francis and Lady
Jeuene, Sir Edwin Arnold, Sir Henry
Thompson, Lady Randolph Churchill,
Lady Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Vivian and Miss Genevive Ward, the
actress. But there was a notable ab¬
sence of the majority of the best known
Americans residing in London.
Mr. Bayard had a cordial reception.
He brought with him the log of the
Mayflower, which he deposited in its
glass case in the reception room,
where it became the center of attrac¬
tion.
The dining room was prettily deco¬
rated with flowers and banners, the
stars and stripes and the union jack
being entwined about the arms of the
state of Delaware above Mr. Bayard.
The lord mayor of London, in a felic-
itious speech, proposed the health of
the president of the United States.
In response to a toast Mr. Bayard
said in part:
“There is nothing we desire to con¬
ceal except a strange skame-facedness
that tempts us to restrain the love
each feels for the other; but there
never should be a train of doubt as to
that affection between the heads of the
two countries. No man feels this
more than my il’ustrious successor. If
I was ever worth a button, you have
here a better button to put in my
place. I rejoice in my successor, for
he will be as fair as I have always
sought to be.”
OFFERED CASH FOR VOTE.
legislative Clerk Mistaken for Member By
Street Railway Bobby istist*
A sensation developed in the Illi¬
nois legislature Friday in connection
with the Humphrey bills by a reported
attempt to bribe a committee clerk,
mistaken for a member of the house.
A. L. Hamilton, publisher of the
West Chicago Journal and clerk of the
committee on live stock and dairy,
stated to representatives of the press
that he had been mistaken for Repre¬
sentative Flannagan by a lobbyist, for
the Humphrey bills and offered $7,000
to vote for them.
The Humphrey bills extended the
franchises of all street railways in Illi¬
nois fer 50 years and give the control
of existing reads and new franchises
to specially appointed cdfiynissions in¬
stead of to the boards of aldermen- eL-
the various cities.
CALL COMES DOWN.
Florida Ex-Senator Retires From Race.
Stockton Entered.
Ex-Senator Call, of Florida, with¬
drew from the senatorial race Friday
and most of his strength went to John
N. C. Stockton, of Jacksonville, a
member of the house who was elected
as an independent.
In nineteen ballots Call’s vote ranged
from 30 to 35, or from 10 to 15 less
than the number necessary to elect.
During most of the balloting State
Senator W. D. Chipley has run from
6 to 10 votes below Call, but in Thurs¬
day’s ballot he went ahead, and that
fact brought on the ex-senator’s with¬
drawal.
Friday’s vote resulted as follows:
Chipley, 37; Stockton, 33; Raney, 20;
Hooker, 3. Buford, 1.
GOLD WITHDRAWALS
A Subject of Discussion a Cabinet
Meeting.
The recent heavy gold withdrawals
was a subject of grave consideration at
Friday’s meeting of the cabinet.
Assistant Treasurer Jordan was
called from New York at the instance
of the president and was questioned
at length concerning these* heavy
withdrawals.
The president and Secretory Gage
expressed anxiety because of them.
They took them as indicative of the
probability of the gold speculators raid
making another systematic upon
the gold in the treasury.
Conference Committee Agree.
The conference committee of the
senate and house reached an agree¬
ment Friday on the Indian appropria¬
tion bill.
ATKINSON GUEST OF ELLERBE.
Georgia’s Governor Inspecting South Caro¬
lina’s Convict System.
Governor Atkinson was in Columbia,
S. C., Friday as the guest of Gover¬
nor Ellerbe.
Georgia’s chief executive spent sev¬
eral houris u inspecting the peniten¬
tiary, the hosiery factory within its
walls and inquiring into the details of
its management.
During the day the two governors
took a train for Camden, Kershaw
county, near where the big state farms
are situated, on a tour of inspection.
It is supposed that Governor Atkin¬
son is contemplating recommending a
change in the Georgia convict system.
TWENTY-NINE INDICTMENTS,
To Which President of Chicago Bank An¬
swers “Not Guilty.”
At Chicago, Friday, President Chas.
W. Spalding, of the defunct Globe
Savings bank, was arraigned in court
to plead to twenty-nine indictments
against him, mostly charges of embez¬
zlement.
He entered a plea of not guilty to
each of the indictments and was then
sent back to his cell in the county
jail.