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HIS LAUGH WAS HIS FORTUNE.
An Arkansas Steamboat Captain's Jollity
Mado Him Famous.
"Ever hear of a man who made a
fortune out of his laugh?" said a guest
of the St. Charles as he looked over the
register. “I have heard of girls whose
faces were their fortunes, but I knew
a man whose laugh was positively his
fortune. That name—Sam B. Adams—
on the register there reminds me of ft
man who made a fortune out of his
laugh. His name was John D. Adams,
and he was the father of Sam, tho
gentleman registered there. John D.
Adams was a typical steamboatman of
Arkansas, and inaddition to his steam-
boating wab a planter of extensive
interests, and was connected with
other business enterprises. He was the
first man to run a steamboat up the
Arkansas River, and his name in that
State to-day is a synonyme for genial-
ity, courage and business success. He
was very successful, and his friends
used to attribute his success to iilB
wondrous laugh. It was not bolster-
ous, yet loud, and was so musical and
jolly that one could imagine old Kris
Kringle was personified in him.
Other river men would say that his
laugh got him all the Government
mail contracts. He would go to Wash-
ington, get acquainted with the man
who had charge of the contracts, and
he, like all of Adams's new acquaint¬
ances, would soon come under the in¬
fection of his magnetic laugh, and
form a genuine admiration for the
grizzled old steamboatman. He was
known at the hotel by everybody, and
was pointed out for years by a colored
porter, to whom he once gave a $5
gold piece as a tip in a fit of jollifi¬
cation over the closing of a big con¬
tract in his favor.
‘Amazing tales were told of his cour-
age and his steamboat experience-,. On
one occasion, when an accident hap-
pened to his boat and the passengers
became panicstricken, he calmed them
as if by magic by calling them child-
ren, and laughing at their fear—his
famous laugh impelling confidence and
mirth by its very melody and jollity.
He even used his laugh when very
much angered; but It was of a very
different character, and death lurked
behind it. In a steamboat quarrel with
three desperadoes once he denounced
them with a laughing accompaniment,
a cynical, chilling, dangerous kind of
laugh, his eyes glittering like a
snake’s, and liis forefinger on his re¬
volver, ready to dash out the life of
the first one who made a move. One
of the desperadoes said afterward in
speaking of the occurrence that he
never felt so queerly before in his life.
He said he felt as though the very
marrow in his hones was being fro¬
zen.”—New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Give Us Rest.
This is the prayer of tho nervous who do
not sleep well. Let them usb Hostetter’s
Stomach Bitters anti their prayer will be
speedily answered. Insomnia is the product
of indigestion and nervousness, two associate
ailments, soon remedied by the Bitters, which
also vanquishes malaria, constipation, liver
complaint, rheumatism and kidney com¬
plaints.
Man is made of dust—or at least some wives
think their husbands are.
How's This?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Props., Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Che¬
ney for the last 15 years, and believe him per¬
fectly honorable in al 1 business transactions
and financially able to carry out any obliga¬
tion made by their firm.
West & Thuax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo,
Ohio.
Walking, Kin nan & Marvin, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. internally, act¬
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken
ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur¬
faces of the system. Price, 75c. per bottle.
Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials free.
Hall’s Family Pills are tbe best.
Fits permanently cured. No fits or ne rvous-
ness alter first day’s use of Dr. Kline’s Great
Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottleand treatise free.
Dr. R. H. Kline, Ltd., 031 Arch St., Phila., Pa.
After six years’ suffering, I was cured by
Piso’s Cure.—M ary Thomson, 2i% Ohio Ave.,
Allegheny, Pa., March 19, '94.
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Kver Ketore.
“I was afflicted with catarrh and was in
such a condition that ,eve»y little draught
would cause me to take cold. After having
taken a few bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla
I have been strengthened and I am in better
health than I have ever been before.” John
Albert, 79 James St., Now York, N. Y.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Is the best—in fact the One True Blood Purifier.
Hoad’s Fills th - best family cathartic,
easy to operate. 35 cents.
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THE WORLD'S FASTEST RUNNER.
; Bernard J. Wefors, the New Champion,
Weighs 185 Pounds.
Of all the men who In running re¬
galia ever faced a starter on a cinder
track, Bernard J. Wefers, who a few
days ago broke the world’s record by
running the hundred yard3 in 9 3-3
seconds, probably fulfills best the re¬
quirements of an ideal runner.
With depth of chest that bespeaks
ample lung room, his lithe body tap¬
ers to the waist, and his world-beat¬
ing legs, strung with tendons of steel,
are of a minimum weight He has
nothing to carry save that which is of
eminent use to him in his task.
Perhaps the vital element, after all,
in a runner is “sand.” If Wefer's ree-
ord of victories over famous competl-
tors were not sufficient proof of his
grit, his face, with its square jaw, firm
set mouth, piercing eyes and. aggro
sive nose, should tell the story plainly.
He hails from Lawrence, Mass. His
fiectness was Inherited. His father
was an athlete of skill and a runner
hard to beat.
The present champion is but ’>3
years of age. and has been running
for four years. He is six feet tail in
his stockings and weighs 185 pounds.
When he first made his appearance on
the cinder track good judges saw no
future for him. His was a weight un-
heard of for a runner to carry. The
years that, have intervened have prov-
en that the critics did not know,
Unlike most runners, Wefers, in mo-
tion, Is straight as an arrow. His style
is very graceful, and with his long,
elastic stride, he seems to travel al-
most without effort. He gathers speed
as he goes, and is famed in the athletic
world as a strong “finisher.”
No picture could convey more of
tension and alertness than does that
which represents Wefers crouching for
the start, Every nerve and fibre is
him are strung like a piano wire. And
it is not for the gallery. He is prob-
ably one of the quickest starters in
the world. He never in a race has
permitted any competitor to pace Mm.
He takes the lead from the start, and
in the vast majority of his races has
held it with such display of speed as
has made the whole world wonder.
Another phenomenal thing about
this phenomenal man is that his mar¬
velous efforts do not seem to affect
him after the manner of most athletes
of his class. It is a familiar sight on
athletic tracks to see runners, after
breasting the tape, utterly collapsed,
and half carried to the clubhouse by
their friends.
Not. so with Wefers. After break¬
ing the world’s records he has amazed
tbe onlookers by jumping a jig on the
greensward for joy and trotting off
to the dressing room with the alacri¬
ty of a colt.
It will he a long day before anybody
sees his like.—New York Journal.
Cupolas Made of Paper.
Paper cupolas for building are re¬
markable for their lightness. A cupo¬
la of that kind consists of from twen¬
ty-four to thirty separate pieces, and
is produced over a wooden model by
pasting huge rolls of suitable paper
one over the other. Every separate
yieeo runs from the ba3e to the top
of the hemispherical roof of the cupo¬
la, thus foims a vauit-like strip which
is bread at the bottom and narrow at
the top.
For the production of these separate
parts of the cupola roll paper of very
good quality is used, which is first cut,
says the Philadelphia Record, into the
requisite length and breadth, thou
moistened and sretched over the wood¬
en model. Upon the first strip is past¬
ed another, also moistened, over this
a third, and so on until the necessary
thickness is reached. The moistened
strips of paper adhere firmly to each
olh*r and retain their concave shape,
and after being dried constitute hard,
resisting pieces, which are mado
weatherproof by oiling, polishing with
Lot irons, asphalting and varnishing,
and arc then put together in the shape
of a round cupola.
Will False Teeth Grow?
It is reported that a Russian dentist
has solved the problem of supplying
us with false teeth which will grow
into the gums as firmly as natural
ones. His method is to bore holes
at the root of gutta-percha or porce¬
lain teeth and also in the jaw. After
the tooth has been placed in the cavi¬
ty a soft granulated growth finds its
way from the jaw into the holes of
the tooth, which, he claims, gradually
hardens and holds the tooth in posi-
ion. A number of American dentists
standing at the head of their profes¬
sion have, however, declared that the
"’ussian’s alleged discovery is a fraud.
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HE WAS CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR
OF GREATER NEW YORK.
THE END CSME VERT SUDDENLY.
The Champion of .Ti-ffersonlan nomocr.vcy
Falls Under Strain of a Vlgoro.un
Campaign—The Son Substituted.
Henry George, author of “Progress
and Poverty,” and candidate of the
Jeffersonian democracy for mayor of
Q rea (- er jj ew York ' died suddenly at
_ . . .
o clock Friday morning a he
Union Square hotel in that city of
cerebral apoplexy.
j Q ft j. Cooper Union speech
acceptmg . the nomination . . for . mayor,
les ®*“ an a m °, a 8°. ' “ ' ■
“I I make . this . race tf it costs me
m 7 llfe - Tlns ‘ s a cal1 to “) ^ an<1 as
a good citizen I have no light, to dis-
regard ll ° n account of mere .personal
considerations.
Mr. George arrived _ at le bote
about 1 o clock in the morning. He
had just returned from several large
mass meetings m the boroughs of
Queens and Brooklyn. The work of
the night seemed to have told on him.
He complained of being tired, . but his
friends and relatives who waited on
him thought it was only the natural
fatigue that follows such hard cam¬
paign work as Mr. George has been
doing. Not long after reaching the
hotel be was stricken down.
Thus the cheers of the campaign
workers were suddenly changed to
sighs, for true to his word, Henry
George, the apostle of the rights of
man, died as he wished to die—in
harness fighting for the cause—toward
the close of the greatest municipal
political campaign the world has ever
seen.
Tho end was peaceful and he died
without pain. physically frail
Mr. George was and
the strain of an exciting campaign re¬
quiring speech-making at points many
miles apart, night after night, was
more than nature could stand.
He spoke at Whitestone at 8 o’clock
and made speeches at College Point
and Flushing before returning to New
York to speak at the Central opera
house. Mrs. George went with him.
All the halls in which he spoke were
filled and at College Point and Flush¬
ing crowds were turned away. At
Whitestone he drove from tbe railroad
station to the meeting hall at a gallop.
To the cheering crowds he said:
“I believe that' all needed reforms
are summed up in that pkilosopy—the
right of every men to eat., to drink, to
speak as he sees fit, so long as he does
not trench on the rights of any other
man. I believe that God, the Father,
can take care of His own laws—there
is no need for ub to get into trouble
trying to meddle with God’s laws, to
enforce them. If I am elected, and I
believe that I will be elected, I will
enforce the law upon the rich and poor
alike.”
Henry George was fifty-eight years
old, being born on September 2,1839.
He received a common school educa¬
tion 1881; “Social Problems,” 1883;
“Property in Land,” a controversy
with the Duke of Argyle, 1884; “The
Condition of Labor,” an open letter to
Pope Leo NIII., 1891; and a “Per¬
plexed Philosopher,” (Herbert Spen¬
cer) 1892.
In 1886 Mr. George was nominated
by tbe United Labor party for mayor
of New York, polling 68,000 votes,
against 90,000 for Abram S. Hew r itt,
the democratic nominee, and 60,000
for Roosevelt, now assistant secretary
of the navy, republican.
After his nomination for mayor by
the Jeffersonian democrats several
weeks ago, Mr. George made an ex¬
tremely active canvass, speaking sev¬
eral times every evening and working
from early to late at his headquarters.
The Son Substituted.
At 11 o’clock Friday morning the
Thomas Jefferson democracy held a
meeting and submitted the name of
Henry George, Jr., for the name of
his father, Henry George, as candidate
for mayor of Greater Now York. The
nomination was accepted.
Henry George, Jr., was born in
Sacramento, Cal., in 1862. Ho Was
educated in the public schools of San
Francisco.
COTTON MEN COME SOUTH.
Northern Manufacturers to Make Inspec¬
tion of Southern Mills.
About fifty members of the New
England Cotton Manufacturers’ Asso¬
ciation, which has just concluded its
annual session at Philadelphia, arrived
in Washington Friday and left at ouee
for a tour of the southern mill districts.
They go on invitation of the Southern
railway. principal
Nearly all of the mill dis¬
tricts will be visited, and the mills in¬
spected. Danville, Va., Greenesboro,
Salisbury and Asheville, N. C., Spar¬
tanburg, Columbia and Greenville dis¬
trict and nearly all the large mills in
South Carolina will be inspected.
DELK REWARD IS DUE.
Atlanta Detective. Claim the Money, But
“There Are Others.”
The sentence of old man Delk to
life imprisonment for complicity in
the murder of Sheriff Gwyn, of Pike
county, causes the long held up re¬
ward to fall due to his captors.
The money has already been claimed
by Detectives Looney, Hewitt and
Mehaffey, of Atlanta, but will not be
paid until the question of other- claim¬
ants is definitely disposed of.
MONTGOMERY’S NEW CASES.
Twelve Were Reported by Board of Health
Thursday.
The Montgomery board of health re¬
ported twelve new cases of fever
Thursday. There wore no deaths. All
of the new oases are in the infeoted
district.
The exodus has ceased, and there is
very much less alarm in the city.
The oitizens’ relief committee is dil-
ligeutly at work, and is accomplishing
undoubtedly a great deal of good.
Twenty-five or thirty families are be¬
ing cared for, and a number of indi¬
gent sick are being provided with
skilled nurses.
The negroes, with characteristic
sympathy, are sharing their part of
burdens, nursing the sick among them
and contributing their mite of money
to the general relief fund.
The New Orleans board of health
officially reported cases of yellow fever
Thursday at 65, deaths, 8; total cases
°f yellow fever to date, 1,386; total
deaths from / yellow fever to date, 164;
^ cage8 bgo , ute , y recovered( 68 g.
total cases under treatment, 539.
TORPEDOES NOT PRIMED.
As a Result a Big Naval Scandal is Pre¬
cipitated in Greece.
A profound sensation has been
caused at Athens, Greece, by a naval
scandal of formidable dimensions.
It has just been ascertained that all
the cartridges fitted to the torpedoes
during the war between Greece and
Turkey were not provided with per¬
cussion caps and fulminating mercury.
Hence, if the torpedoes had been
wanted they would have been perfectly
harmless.
The anti-dynasty newspapers are
making violent attacks upon Prince
George, of Greece, who was the com¬
mander of the torpedo flotilla.
The prince, who was a great favorite
with the masses previous to the war,
is deeply affected by these attacks.
CLAIM IS GUARANTEED.
Union Pacific Debt, Principal and Inter¬
est, Is Forthcoming.
Attorney General McKenna has fully
confirmed the statements heretofore
made by the Associated Press as to the
recent offer of the reorganization com¬
mittee and its acceptance by the gov¬
ernment, by which the full amount of
the government’s claim against the
main line of the Union Pacific road,
principal and interest, is guaranteed.
This amount is something in excess
of 858,000,000 and includes outstand¬
ing government bonds issued in aid of
the road to the amount of 819,076,512.
Of this sum $15,919,512 becomes due
on January 1, 1898, and $3,157,000 on
January 1, 1899.
GOES ON THE BLOCK.
Confederate Soldier's Home at Atlanta to
Be Sold November 10th.
The Confederate Soldier’s Home at
Atlanta is to be sold on November
10th.
At a recent meeting of the commis¬
sioners of the home it was decided to
advertise for bids for the property to
be filed on or before November 10th,
and an advertisement to that effect
was prepared.
The tract of 119J acres is to be cut
into five and ten acre lots, with a res¬
ervation of 19J acres with the home
itself, for which separate bids will be
asked.
The property cost $41,000 includ¬
ing a $3,000 building, and there is a
floating debt of $4,150 arising from
the expense of insurance and hiring
watchmen. The land has enhanced in
value since it was bought eight years
ago, and the property is considered
both valuable and saleable.
CAPT. PEEPLES CONFIDENT.
He May Go Free 'When His Second Trial
Comes Up.
The attorneys for Captain Peeples,
of Dalton, have made application for
a new trial in the case in which he
was found guilty, and fined $500. The
motion is pending and will be heard
in a short time. His new bond was
fixed at $2,000.
It is understood that when the hear¬
ing comes up Captain Peeples will
spring a surprise on the court; that he
has in his possession a letter from an
employe of a carpet house in Chatta¬
nooga, who will swear at the proper
time that he sold Drew' M. Peeples,
about the same time that Captain
Peeples says his son purchased it, the
new carpet now at his Lome.
TEXAS POPULISTS.
State Executive Committee Advises Alle¬
giance to Omaha Platform.
The Texas populist state executive
committee held two secret sessions at
Dallas Thursday, and it is learned
that the committee advises the party
in Texas to stand by the Omaha plat¬
form in national issues, but in state
affairs to support any movement to
redeem tho state from democratic ring
rule.
This is accepted by many as being a
bid to fuse in next year’s state cam¬
paign with all elements opposed to the
regular democratic organization on
itate, county and legislative tickets.
EVANS TO FOUND SCHOOLS.
Rich American In Paris Will Be a Phil¬
anthropist.
Announcement is made at New York
that Dr. Thomas W. Evans, the Amer¬
ican dentist of Paris, whose wealth is
variously estimated at from $30,000,-
000 to $35,090,000, will spend a part
of that huge fortune in founding and
maintaining educational institutions in
different cities of this country.
1 Dr. Evans left for Paris on the
French liner La Touraiue, which saih
ed for Havre Saturday,
DEATH RESULTS FROM A CONTEST
ON THE GRIDIRON AT ATLANTA.
A COLLISION OF TROLLEY CARS,
Voting: Man Killed In tho Wreck and
Many Others Receive More or Bess
Serious Injuries.
The football game between the Vir-
8i „,„ team, at Bri.biuo
Park, Atlanta, On., Saturday resulted
disastrously.
One of the Georgia players, Richard
Yon Gammon, of Rome, received in-
juries from which hediod at the Grady _ ,
hospital early Sunday morning.
After the game was over, a trolley
car, crowded with spectators of the
contest, collided with an outgoing car
from the city, resulting in the death of
* Carlisle, and the
a young man named
probably fatal wounding of Motorman
Reeves. Many of tbe passengers on
both cars were more or less seriously
injured. who
Many of the passengers saved their were lives
on the front platform almost
by jumping. Tho cars were re-
duced to kindling wood.
The reason young Carlisle was killed
was because he was standing in front
of the car, close to the motorman. He
was on the outgoing car.
All the passengers were shaken up
and quite a number of them complain-
of being a little sore after the collis-
j 01]
The two sad accidents east a gloom
over the entire city. This is the first
serious accident that has occurred in a
football game in Atlanta in many
years. held inquest
The coroner’s jury an
over young Carlisle Sunday and re-
turned the following verdict:
“We, the jury, impaneled and sworn
by J. R. Stamps, coroner,, to inquire
into the death of William II. Carlisle,,
hero lying dead, do find from the evi-
dence adduced that the deceased came
to his death from traumatic injury sus-
tained in collision of cars Nos. 31 and
46, of Atlanta Railway Company, ou
Cooper street, near Woodward avenue,,
and said death was due to negligence
of company. ”
Because of the shocking death of
their comrade the university plavers
are all bowed in grief. They have an-
nounced that they will play no longer,,
and that they hare disbanded. Many
of them declare tnat they will never
play another game of football on any
team or field.
The tragedy, which has never before
been equaled in athletic games in
Georgia, it seems almost certain will
be the end of the popular game in the
state; certainly it will be the end of
the game as it is played now,, if the
minds of the legislators do not change.
SUNDAY’S FEVER RECORD.
The Situation Seems to 15e M-ore Hopeful
at New Orleans.
Sunday was an encouraging day in the
yellow fever situation at New Orleans,,
but it is feared that the heavy rain
which has fallen will have a bad effect
on the patients and will cause many
more new cases to be developed. Cold
weather is expected to succeed the rain.
Following is a list of fever cases and
deaths reported for last Sunday:
CITIES. new cases* DEATHS.
Montgomery Highland New Bay Clintan........... Memphis......... St. Orleans...... Louis..... Park, Ala, 35 10 7 3 1 2 : OOIOOOO
Scranton......... Pascagoula....... Mobile........... McHenry......... Biloxi............ 11 II oi 2 0-10000
Totals 87 7
LANDING “GRUB” IN ALASKA.
Captain Kay Wires War Department at
Washington hf His HU Work.
A telegram was received at the war
department at Washington Saturday
from Captain Lay, dated at Yukon,
September 17th, saying he bail landed
six hundred tons of provisions there
to be freighted by dogs to Circle City
and Dawson wheu the river closes.
A STAUNCH CRAFT.
New Lighthouse Vessel' Worst
Storm Known* 0*v Coast.
Information has been received by
the lighthouse board at Washington
that the new lighthouse vessel No. 09,
which was recently placed on the dia-
mond shoal off 11 atteras, rode out tho
recent storm successfully.
Reports from stations along the
coast show that the storm was the
most severe in many years and tbe sue-
cess with which the new vessel rode it
out is regarded as proof positive that
the contention that no vessel could bo
held in that position through a heavy
gaie is not well founded.
NEW YORK CAMPAIGN OVER.
The I.a»t ot the Mui Meetings Were Held
Saturday Nlifht.
The Greater New York municipal
campaign practically ceased in all the
political camps Saturday. There were
final appeals made through the mails
to the voters Sunday and Monday.
There were a few parades Monday
night, but to all practical intents and
nrposes the campaign ended Sntur-
a y n'gbt, and the. result was left in
the hands of the 670,000 voters.
DEATH IN HORNING MINE.
Seven Men Bose Their T,lvcs In the Bowels
of the Earth.
The most fatal mine disaster in the
Lackawanna, or Wyoming, coal fields
since the Twin shaft horror at Pitts-
ton, over a year ago, was developed in
the fire which gutted the river slope
of the Delaware and Hudson Com-
pany’s Von Storch mine in Scranton,
Pa., Saturday.
At least seven men are known to
have been suffocated by smoke and
possibly ono other, a Polander, is
numbered among the dead.
The slope extends down through
three veins.
J00 aaJ tlle J a tter sixty feet from the
surface.
They had but two avenues of escape.
The shorter route was by way of the
slope which was a sea of flames for
|)e(lrly twe)ve honrs a(ld ; a yefc burn-
ing noar its foot, and the other route
was via cross cuts to gangways which
lead to an air shalf nearly a mile from
the spot where they were working.
Fire kept them out of the slope and
the smoke, which backed out and m . to .
all tbe workings, prevented escape
through all the cross-cuts.
The supposition is that the men were
suffocated.
NEW ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN
Of the Georgia State Library—Miss S. Y.
Jewett—Appointed by Gov. Atkinson.
The long and vigorous contest for
tbe position of assistant state librarian
yielded a victory last week in the ap-
pointnaent of Miss busie Y. Jewett to
that position. by
Miss Jewett was appointed (tov-
ernor Atkinson for tbe unexpired term,
made vacant by the resignation of Mrs.
Ellen Dortch-Lougstreet.
While Miss Jewett wns appointed
for the unexpired term, she is and has
been an applicant for the position of
assistant state librarian for the full
term, and her friends are very confi-
dent that she will be appointed for the
full term by the next state librarian,
to whom this power will be delegated
by the governor.
Miss Jewett has resigned an excellent
and permanent position in the state ed-
ueational department to accept the po-
sition G f assistant librarian. Of the
numerous applicants for this position,
none better prepared or fitted for its
duties could have been selected than
Miss Jewett. Her careful and efficient
discharge of the duties of her position
in the educational department demon-
strates her capability to assist in the
conduct of a department of state, and
her knowledge of public matters, her
efficiency and talent in liteiary affairs
make it quite certain that, if for no
other reason, the incoming librarian
will find her such a capable and help-
ful assistant that she will be retained
for the long term.
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TENNESSEE CENTENNIAL CLOSED,
After a Magnificent Display of Fireworks
the Doxology Was Sung.
Saturday, tbe last day and night of
the Tennessee Centennial exposition,
which opened its gates May 1st, was
well attended, about 30,000 people,
many of them visitors, being present,
There were no special features dur¬
ing the day, but at night, after a mag¬
nificent display of fireworks and con¬
cert, there was held the closing meet¬
ing in the auditorium, which was pack¬
ed, main floor and galleries.
It was the love feast had in com¬
memoration of the closing hours of
the exposition, in which all the people
of Tennessee evinced the greatest and
most loyal pride. delivered,
Numerous addresses were
sixteen guns were fired and then with
the doxology, in which the audience
joined in singing, the exposition was
declared closed.
GERMANY IS INDIGNANT
Over Arrest and Imprisonment of One o<
Her Subjects By Hayti.
Advices from Port Au Prince state
that serious trouble has arisen between
Hayti and Germany.
The German minister to that repub¬
lic, Count Scherwin, has hauled down
flag an d, according to current re-
t h r ee German warships ultimatum are ex-
peeted to back U p the
o{ that min j ster to Germany, demand-
j a g aUL indemnity for the alleged illle-
^ impri8omnen t of a German citizen,
affair bas caused considerable
excitement among tbe native popuia-
tion.
COTTON OIL MILLS BURN.
Georgia Cotton Oil Company Uose Their
Plant at Edge wood.
The Georgia Cotton Oil Mill com¬
pany buildings at Edgewood, a suburb
o( Atlantttj were completely destroyed
. fire between 3 and 5 o’clock Sun-
j a morning. exception of
Everything, with the a
few of the 8ma n er buildings, burned
to t b e ground, and the oil had satura-
ted tha buildings to such au extent
that no c b a rred timbers were left,
The bull and lint storage houses,
the quick steam boiler room, the fire
pmn phonse and the soalehouse were
the oneB gave j. The loss is estimated
at $117,000.
WEYLER MAY BE ARRESTED.
Ordered to Remain In Havana Until Re¬
lieved By Blanco.
A special from Havana says: Gen¬
eral Weyler has been ordered by his
governme nt in Madrid to remain in
Havana until General Blanco arrives,
This may mean that Weyler is to be
sen t home under arrest for refusing to
obey the order to give command to
General Castellanos. General Weyler
wan ted to sail two days before General
BJauco could reach Havana,