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DIED IN HIS BOOTS.
The Chief Founder of the
Bald Knobbers Shot
AND ICNOMINIOUSLY WIPED OUT
Sketch of the Notorious linnet Which lie
Organized and Controlled—Their
llloody Conflicts and Unlr-
Ilreadth Escapes.
Ozark, Mo., August 21.—Captain Nat
N. Kinney, the founder of the Bald Knob,
ber organization and the boasted chief of
that secret order, died at Forsythe, Taney
county, yesterday morning, as he had
often said he would, “srilh his boot* on.”
The killing grew out of the Berry-Tny-
lor fend, which for two months has caused
the people of Forsythe to daily expect a
bloody tragedy. James R. Berry was a
• merchant of Forsythe, and George L. Tay
lor was a young attorney of that place.
About three months ago Berry left home
and was absent several weeks. On his
retum he claims to have discovered unlaw
ful intimacy between his wife and young
Taylor, and at once threatened to kill
Taylor. Both parties mutually agreed to
settle the affair at the next meeting with
pistols.
The next evening, about the 1st of July,
Berry and Taylor met on the public
square in Forsyth and exchanged seven
shots, the latter firing five times with a re
volver and the former twice. Neither
S rty was hit in thjs encounter. A few
yg after this shooting Berry had Taylor
and his wife arrested, the husband saying
in the affidavit that he had witnessed the
criminal intimacy charged.
ANIMOSITY AROUSED.
The affair by this time had excited much
hitter feeling between the friends of Berry
and Taylor, or the old Knobbers and the
militia. Berry had been an outspoken
anti-Knobber, or adherent of the militia
faction in Taney county, while Taylor had
been one of Captain Kinney’s favorite fol
lowers during the regulating reign.
Berry had been ordered to
leave Forsyth by the Knobbers,
and repeatedly threatened while the
secret organisation was nil powerful in
Taney county. Instead of leaving at their
bidding Berry transferred the guns and
pistols of his hardware store to his dwell
ing and notified the regulators that he
would give them a warm greeting when
they should come to molest him lie thus
braved the threatened vengeance of the
Knobbers and stayed at home through all
ths Sate disturbance in Taney enmity.
EFFORTS TO PREVENT MURDER.
The court saw the daDgerous situation
and ordered the sherifT to summon every
man in favor of peace and disarm the two
factions. This was done, and the court
then ordered six iqeq summoned as a guard
over Berry and Taylor during the trial to
prevent another encounter between the
enraged husband and his wife’s alleged
betrayer that gOemcd imminent. Two
AROOberaJind one member of the militia
party were summoned to guard Taylor,
and two militia and one Knobber to watch
Berry.
Before the trial of bi» wife, about three
-weeks ago, Berry and Taylor had another
ahooting encounter in Fonythe, and five
aliota were exchanged, and again without
Any blood shed. On the day following
this last Bhooting, the trial was opened be-
’ fore a justice of the peace at Kirbyville,
*ix miles west of Foray the. The friends of
both Berry and Taylor went to the trial
armed vo the teeth. Captain Kinney was
on the ground with Winchester rifile and
revolver, and the two old hostile factions
■eyed each other with vengeful glances
wailing only for a word or sign to bigin
the deadly work.
Captain Kinney was one of the guards,
and he sat with his finger on the trigger of
bis 'Winchester, while the Codrt heard the
lawyers argue a motion to dismiss the
charges on account of Berry’s incompelen-
cy to testify againBt his wile. The Court
sustained the motion to dismiss the case,
and Berry at once had Bill Miles, a mem
ber of the militia faction, awear out anoth
er information, reiterating the charge
against Mrs. Berry and Taylor.
Another day was set for the trial and
the crowd dispersed, every one expecting,
however, that the affair would end m
blood.
The Berry party charged Captain Kin
aey with holding a secret meeting with the
old Knobber followers and passing resolu
tions declaring that the militia faction
should not bring their arms to the next
trial. This rumor that Kinney was reor
ganizing the disbanded Knobbers in the
interest of Tsylor caused great excitement
among Berry’s friends, and every man who
had become involved in the feud went
armed and constantly on the alert, for the
knobber and militia feud has been revived
by the killing of the famous regulator
chief.
SKETCH OF THE “BARD KNOBBERS.'’
Like the “Regulators" and vigilance
committees of the Western and Pacific
coast States, the “Bald Knob” organiza
tion of Christian and Taney esunties, Mo.,
was farmed to punish a dangerous band of
murderers, outlaws and dissolute men gen
erally. From the close of the war to 1885
there had been thirty-eight wilful murders
in Taney county, and not one person had
been convicted. Murder, robbery, arson
and malicious mischief were rife, and hon
est men despaired of suppressing these
evils by ordinary process of law. The cli
max was reached when, upon the opening
of a Sunday school, a notorious
family named Cqgburn attended,
made blasphemous responses to the prayers
and announced their intention of prevent
ing further sessions. The people were in
dignant, but the authorities could do
nothing, no jury daring to convict the out
laws. A leader was wanted. A long series
of outrages was daily being added to, and
at this juncture appeared Capt. Kinney,
the owner of a large cattle ranch near
Forsyth. He called a secret meeting of
the people on the top of a bald ridge near
Forsyth, and there perfected the organiza
tion which subsequently became such a
menace to the liberties of the public in
that section. This little knot of men on
the bald knob of a spur of the Ozark
Mountains banded together for mutual
protection and solemnly took the following
oath:
ORIGINAL OBLIGATION.
“I do solemnly swear to use every effort
in my power, and at all times, to preserve
the dignity and good order of this com
munity by hunting down and bringing to
justice all criminals, and securing evi
dence against the same, and to be always
ready to assist and protect the county of
ficials in the discharge of their duty, and
in all cases to stand by the members of
this organization.”
The band rapidly grew in numbers:
grips, signs and passwords were used and
Captain Kenney was given almost absolute
power over the movements of members.
Their first act was to lynch the Taylor
brothers, young murderers and desperadoes.
The corpses were left dangling to a tree
bearing this notice:
“Beware! These are the first victims to
the wrath of outraged citizens. More will
follow. The Bald Knobbers.' 1
Soon the “Knobbers,” realizing their
united strength, went strongly into local
politics, ousting the old officials and be
ginning an investigation of the county
records. At this juncture the court house
and its contents were destroyed bv fire, and
the ex-officials organized a mifitia com
pany and sought the Governor’s indorse
ment. The ‘ Bald Knobbers," represented
their cose so strongly that he ordered the
militia cumpnuy to uuuauu. They re
fused to do so, and in September, 1884, nt
a Sunday school convention, the two fac
tions met, each man having two revolvers
and a shotgun. An armed truce was main
tained, and afterward thq “Knobbers”
d iminated the entire region,
TIIKIK itEiuK OF TERROR.
In March, 1880, Captain Kinney killed
one of the Cogburn boys, who lay in wait
near the church the Captain attended.
War was declared between the organiza
tions, the Knobbers speedily killed a num
ber of their enemies, and* with victory
came a great enlargement of their powers
and aims. Their influence was felt to the
Adcans&s line, and they passed sentence of
death on all who disobeyed their orders.
Executions followed in some cases, and in
others the victims were flogged.
A reign of terror began; tne robbers in
terfered in the private affairs of families,
and the horrible incubus, the unreasoning
rule of mob law waa fast* driving people
away from this beautiful section of tluv
State, when in December, 1880, the Slate
authorities took action and wholesale
arrests were made, 180 men and boys
being indicted by the grand juries of
Taney and Christian counties. Sixteen
of the cases were for murder in llie first
degree, and among those who pleaded
guilty was one Wilson, a Baptist minister,
who had aided in flogging a man named
Walker. In the majority of case* the
mnishment consisted of a light fine, but
n the case ot the Edens-Green murders
Chief Walker was sentenced to death.
The “Bald Knobbers” are taking an act
ive part in the present political canvass in
the Ozark region, seeking their revenge for
the disruption of their order, and Captain
declares that she found among the personal
effects of her mother securities worth $100,-
000, and jewels worth $25,000, ami noth
ing more. But the servants who were
present tell a different story.
IfThe nurse who prepared the body of the
dead woman for imrial declares, and is
supported in the statement by the others,
that she found the body encircled under
neath the clothes, by a belt of kid-kin,
which at the back bore a large pouch like
a “dress improver.” In this belt and pouch
were hank notes andsecurities amounting
to $10,000,000, or the whole of the missing
fortune. This the servants examined and
counted and handed over to Princes Korts-
chakoff. Moreover, they say that the prin
cess got a locksmith to open a safe which
she found in her mother s room and took
from it more than $1,000,000 worth of jew
els. This is ofiirmed by the locksmith him
self who did the job.
Princess Gortschakoff strenuously denies
it all, and has made charges of dishonesty
against the servants in order to |II T^H
their testimony. But her brother, Gregory
Stourdza, will press a suither. anil
the whole matter will be sifted in the
courts. It Is thought that if she sees* the
case going against her, the Princess will
fly to Russia and claim the Czar’s protec
tion, believing that that monarch would
not in any event allow the fortune she had
grabbed to go out of the empire and into
the hands of Roumanians, who might some
day use it against Russia.
signal of combat.
Last Wednesday the charges came up
again at Kirbyvitle before Justice Linds-
ley. Billy Miles appearing this time as the
witness against Mrs. Berry and Taylor.
witness against Mrs. Berry and Taylor,
The two factions went fully armed, but the
court had each man give hi* weapons to
the sheriff at the yard gate and an encoun
ter Vraa again prevented.
THE SHOOTING OF THE REGULATOR.
Bill Miles went to Fonythe on Monday
and entered Berry’* store for a drink of
water. Captain Khmeybad been appoint-
ed receiver ot me firm of Ccii),C<uiU: A
Co. a few days before by Judge Hubbard,
of this judicial circuit, under a suit which
was instituted by Mrs. Berry for the pos-
aeiwion of an interest she claimed toown in
the stock of goods. He was in the store
attending to the business when Miles
Stepped in. The latter says that as soon
as he entered the store Kinney accused him
of having sworn to a lie in the Berry'
Taylor trial last Wednesday. Mile* re
Insed to admit that he had testified falsely,
and Kinney then ordered him to
leave the place and started to draw his pis-
toL Miles was too quick for the Knob
ber chief and opened fire first. Five shots
in rapid succession jienelrated Kinney 1
body. The first shot waa aimed with such
iatal precision that the dreaded Knobber
leatder did not get his pistol levelled at his
antagonist and Kinnev fell to the floor
lifeless, with his pistol grasped in hi* hand.
Aa the crowd of men, attracted by the
shooting, rmhed to the door, Miles turned
•n them, covering the door with his pistol,
and held every man at bay until some of
bis friend* came up to witness that the
dead Knobber chief had also a revolver.
Pointing to that pistol Miles declared
that he hail acted in self-defence in shoot
ing Kinney. He was at once arrested by
the authorities and placed tinder guard.
It is thought that this is only tne begin
•sag of another reign of violence and
in Taney county, a* the old
TEACIIINU TUE SIGHTLESS.
Interesting Doings In tile College of Music
for the llllnd at Upper Norwood.
From the Pall Mall Gazette, August 2nd.
Day begins early at Dr. Campbell’s
College of Music for the Blind at Upper
Norwood, and at 8 o’clock the 100 students
all assemble for work in the various class
rooms, many of them having already had
a walk through the grounds, a game at
skittles, or a frolic of another kind, the
entertainments being almost as various as
those provided by any other school. In
one of the many class rooms I found a
number of small bovs and girls seated
round a long table, Busily bent on their
kindergarten work; some making mats of
colored strips of paper, others forming
figures with rinall wooden sticks, and
others again moulding all kinds of arti
cles in putty. “I ara making an apple,”
says one blind child, holding up a round
shiny lump; and “I am doing primrosses,"
explains another mite, lifting up his pa
thetic little face while guiding his little
hand to where a number of heart-shaped
iri mrose petalso are lying, Each of the
ittle ones is as busy as a bee, and bent
with evident interest on the work which
patiently he performs in darkness. Round
the walls run cases of every imagionable
kind of specimen from the world of nature,
by the aid of which object lessons are
given; prominent amon£ them are some
stuffed seabirds and a reindeer, too Irrge
to ho encased behind the glass doors.
In another room geography is being
studied on raised maps by a class of girls
under nblind teacher, and as the names of
the various places are called out the glid
ing of all the nimble fingers over the un
even surface of the map is momentarily
lb ly sound in tin- room. Then the
teacher questions.them regarding the pro
ducts oi different countries, and one pupil
along the paths an-1 up the many stair-
ises, but by little elevations or other
arks in the ground which the uninitiated
would never observe, they walk or run
along, and shortly are sitting around the
linmr table, using tlier knives and forks
lefily and decently, and evidently eating
their food with healthy enjoyment.
WELL PRESERVED MAMMOTHS.
explains the Borne and the use of cin
mon, holding up a small piece of browo
bark, which neither she nor her school
mates can see, but which she describes as
minutely as if her eves .were instructing
her brain. Another girl talks about cotton,
bleached and unbleached,demonstrating by
two pieces of material, whicli she holds
up alternately as she speaks of the one or
the other. Further on, an arithmetic class
is held, the calculations being made with
astonishing rapidity by tin- aid of small
octagonal pieces of lead, fixed into a per- nil ‘"
foratek metal slate, a contribance the in
genuity of which only dawns on the igno
rant outsider when listening to the clerr,
unhalting explanation of a diflicul prob
lem by one of the pupils, while her hands
are incessantly busy among the tiny pieces
of lead. Again, a class is reading in hig
books with perforated leaves, and glibly
the names of some heroes and demigods in
ancient mythology are read off. the linger!
meanwhile ouickly and surely feeling then
uwiujimuii VI nil *• viuci. iauu va|llUU
Kinney lias retained to the last hia won
derful influence over the thousands of his
adherents. He was a giant in stature, be
ing six feet six inches tall and weighing
200 pounds. He waa broad shouldered,
straight as an arrow, and active as he was
fearless.
A GREAT FORTUNE GONE.
Prince Mlchnel StounlziUs Ten Millions
Spirited Away.
The Stourdza inheritance lawsuit, says
the Paris correspondent of the Chicago
Journal forms the sensation of the day.
About four years ago Prince Michael
S'ourdza, one of the well-knowncharacters
of Paris, died. He used to drive about the
city in a curions gilded coach that re
minded one of the state coach of kings of
the last century. He was known to be
enormously rich, and at hia death there
was a great curiosity to know how
he had disposed of his fortune. His will
provided tnat his widow should enjoy the
estate *• long •« *h* lived, and at her
death it should be equally divided among
the three children, Gregory, Demetrius
and Princeu Gortschakoff. Gregory, the
eldest, is a Roumanian senator, and 'also a
general in the army of that kingdom, and
it is he who has taken the lead in the
present proceedings. Prince Michael was
known to have left a fortune in real prop
erty and other stable securities worth $<k-
000,0C0.
This waa easily found snd disposed of
according to the terms of the will. -But
he had also left another fortune of fully
$10,000,000 in cash, jewelry and securities
that coaid readily be turned into cash by
any one who got hold of them, whether
the rightful owner or not. And of this
fortune not a penny was to he found. The
minutest search failed to revtal even the
faintest trace of it. Prince Gregory ap
plied to the police and offered fabulous re
ward* for its recovery. All was in vain.
The $10,000,000 waa gone.
Atom a year later the widow of Prince
Michael died at Baden-Baden. Rhe had
been living there in seclusion. Her only
visitor had been her daughter. Princess
Gortschakoff, and she had not gone there
often. However, the princess had been on
more intimate and confidential terms
with her mother than either of her broth
ert hail been. Consequently, Princess
Gortschakoff was the only one*of the heirs
present at the deathbed of the widow. She
way across the page.
Here ia a clais bent on the study of geo
metrical problems, presided over by Mr.
G. Campbell, one of the most energetic
co-operators in the work of his blind
father. Into the surface of the square
boxes, covered with green felt, the boys
stick the small iron rods by means of
which they form the geometrical figures.
Down in the grounds the pupils are
meanwhile beginning to engage in their
sports and pastimes. In the big swimming
hath, one of Dr. Armylage’s gifts to the
college, some blind boys are splashing, div
ing and striking out with a right good will;
and to a question to the swimming maMcr
whether it is not very difficult to make
the boys overcome their timidity in
the unstable element, that gentleman
answers cheerfully: “They are afraid
at first, and it takes a little while before
they can be persuaded to let go of the sides
of tho stairs when they get into the water;
but after once they get over their timiditv
-*hey are not afraid of anything, and often
will do things which I myself should not
attempt
On the skating rink conple after couple
glide by in graceful motion, an electric
hell in one corner warning them wiiere to
turn; an occasional upset, such as happens
wherever two or three skaters are met to
gether, causes nothing but mirth and gay-
ety. A wondersul game of skittles allures
some of the girls; others swing, or tend
•heir liqhpioc «f gsrdec, of wRi-a —-K
pupil has one.
Round the corners blind cyclist* come
living in hot haste; on the lawn little bo
chaae each other nobly about; the pnrau'et
being guided by the aonnd of a bell heh
by the pursued. On another wide lawn
big lad throw* with pbwerful arm a gr. „
cudgel, drawing it back to him, after eacl
throw,_ by a line fastened to it, and bv
aome signs in which he U also enabled *
n i e ** nr * the distance thrown; a groat
girls, in pretty dark-bine gymnastic suits,
are going with the wonderful prec ision
through their studies in calisthenics, and
on the green lake emerge from under the
tree* and the picturaqne boathc-n-e tw
pretty boats mann-d each by *ix blind li
tie lads and one sighted person.
, »* r y important part of the institu
tion is the department whfre the pupil
are Uught pianoforte tuning, and in tb«.c
buay work-rooms, filled with all manner o.
mujical instrument*, a Urge number of
lad* are learning how to earn a living by
. . !. °‘ their fingers, combined with
the delicacy of their ear. In a corner of
these room* anme little boys are working
hard with hammer, nails and lane,
constructing flower frames, leu. . ami
other useful articles, proud!* d. 1 Bring
Now the bell aoiindi. for dinhciq »nd
from the wide grounds a stream of young
and merry people pours into the d'ining-
rooms. No guide i» there to lead them
One Hint Wm Cut up for Food 80,000
Years After Iturjul.
From tbe Corohlll Magazine.
Jt was not till the last year of the last
century that the first mammoth was die-
tombed from the tundra, to the complete
demolition of gisnts and antiquaries and
the profound delightof scientific inquirers.
In nSfl, at the very moment when a rash
young man by the name of Bonaparte was
upsetting the Directory and making him.
self incontinently into a first consul, the
people of Siberia were rejoicing in the
rare and unexpected luxury of a
warm summer. In the course
of this unexpected climatic
debauch a Tungusian fisherman in the
Lena district went out huntingone day
for mammoth tusks, and was surprised to
find instead a whole mammoth sticking
out visibly from a bank of half-thawed
mud. > Siberians stand rather in awe of
mammoths; they nre regarded ss in some
sort antediluvian, and therefore uncanny
monsters, and the fisherman accordingly
said nothing of his find to any limn any
where, but locked up the secret profoundly
in his own bosom.
Next year, however, he went again
stealthily to visit the suspicious creature,
and the year after that he visited it a
third time, and so on, until the mammoth
was at last fairly thawed out and fell on
the sandbank by the shore of the Arctic
ocean. Then the fisherman, seeing the
monster was really dead, summoned up
courage boldly to cut out the tusks, which
lie straightway sold, on business bent, for
tiftv roubles.to a Russian merchant. Ab
to the body itself, he thought no more in
any way about that, for the skin and flesh
being somewhat high, not to say unpleas
ant, were not in a condition to form re
markable commodities. However, he no
ticed that his monster was covered with
long hair and thick wool, and Uiat in gen
eral shape it roughly resembled his own
unsophisticated idea of nn elephant. Two
years later a wandering man of science
passed that way on his road to China witli
Count Goloykin. Hearing that a mam
moth had been unearthed,or rather noticed,
near tho mouth of the Lena, he turned
aside from the main path to pay his re
spects in due form to the prehistoric mon
ster. He found it, indeed, still recogniza
ble, but quantum mutatus ab illo, a bare
and mutilated elephantiue coiuse, with
scarce a fragment of lle6h clinging to the
bones of the huge skeleton. The fishermen
around had cut off the muscles from the
body in great slices to feed their dogs, and
tho wolves and bears had feasted their £11
on the frozen and unsavory meat of a for
gotten antiquity.
There is something positively appalling
to the idea of UkR strange beast, preserved
so fre.-h for 80,000 yearsjon the most mod
est Mart."H^on). tb A when once more dis-
in!'*!n i." tat wasslllflfit for lupine fond,
and for the matter offthat was verv proba
bly cooked and eaten in port by tne unso
phisticated Tungusiads themselves in per
son. But though most of the flesh has dis-
apjieaied the skeleton still remains almost
intact, held together in places by the un-
decaved ligaments; the huge aye* yet stared
wildly from their capacious"sockets, the
brain was uninjured within the heavy
skull, one ear hung unhurt from the side
of. the head, retaining its long tufts ot
bristly hair and as much of the
skin had escaped destruction as ten
could carry away to
gether. The ske’eton was taken to bt,
’etersburg and there set up in the museum
of the Imperial Academy. It has been
frequently sat or stood for its portrait
‘m e to various artists, and i s counterfeit
resented in black and white forms; in
act; the common mammoth of tho ordinary
wood cuts almost ail of which are taken
from this earliest, the best and most per
fect specimen. The only doubtfnl point
about the beast is the tusks. They were
purchased as was supposed, from the Rus
sian merchant who bought them from their
original discoverer, bnt whether he sold
them that fitted equally well has never
been quite satisfactorily determined.
A Scotch View.
From tbe London Truth.
A North Briton writes to me anent the
Pope’s last letter to the Irish Roman Coth-
olic bishops:
The complete separation of the Scotch
pie, no less than the Scotch nobility,
n the Church of Rome in Knox's time
WHY SOME OF THEM ARE NOT PURE.
Tee absolute purity of the Royal Baiting Powder is a
fact not questioned by anyone; but the questions are fre
quently asked: Why do not other manufacturers, also, put
up pure baking powders, free from lime, alum, and other
adulterants ? Is it a fact that the Royal is the only pure
and wholesome baking powder made ?
There are three classes of these articles: The cheap
powders which are made of alum and are concededly
poisono'us; the phosphate powders containing from 8 to 12
per cent, of lime, which is an ingredient of the phosphate
used in them, and inseparable from it; and the cream of
tartar powders.
The cream of tartar baking powders, to which class
the Royal belongs, to be pure must be made from abso
lutely pure materials. The ordinary cream of tartar of the
market contains lime. The Royal Baking Powder is made
from cream of tartar specially refined and prepared for
its use by patent processes by which the lime is totally
eliminated. There is no other process by which cream of
tartar can be freed from lime—made 100 per cent, pure—in
quantities practical for commercial purposes. Other bak
ing powder makers, not being able to obtain these chem
ically pure goods (which are used exclusively in the Royal),
are dependent upon the cream of tartar of the market,
refined by the old-fashioned methods, by which it is im
possible to remove the lime and other impurities.
These are the reasons why the Royal is absolutely
pure, while other baking powders contain lime or alum.
The absolute purity of the Royal Baking Powder not
only renders it more perfectly wholesome, but its freedom
from all extraneous substances makes it of higher leaven
ing strength and effectiveness.
O’GORMAN & CO.’S
^IMMENSE FALL STOCKS
IS ON THE WAY
Two Hundred and Ninteen Invoices, Received
in the Last Few Days, Say So.
SUMMER GOODS GIVEN AWAY NOW
FALL GOODS COMING.
is a cause of wonder to all who give the
subject a thought. RomanCatholic writers
have unjustly ascribed it to the greed
of the nobility. In point of fact, that class
did not and had not much to gain by
ou-ting bishops and abbots, the Scotch
never having been so liberal in bequesta to
the church as the Anglo-Norman ariitocra
cy of England. The quarrel between Scot
land and the Power on the Seven Hills, to
which Andrew Fairaervice so much ob
jected, may be traced in its remote causes
to the time *f Bruce. A bishop ST
Glasgow, who was a saintly prelate,
was, on the complaint of King Edward,
censured by the Pope, and threatened with
excommunication f..r having given B.uicc
absolution five days after he slew Red
Comyn. The Popes were against Wallace
and Bruce, and for the Eng ish party in
Scotland. The bishop of Glasgow above
named had to choose between patriotic
duly sr implicit otw.ti.-ne* in the hnlv
see. He elected for the former, and, in the
face of the papal rescript preached that
the national cause was, m his mind, a
more holy one than ;he deliverance of
Jerusalem from the infidels, and that,
before any Scotchman undertook a
pilgrimage to the Holy Lind, he
was bound in the aijght of heaven to
help Scotland to maintain her indepen
dence. England, being • wealthy country
relatively to Scotland, was favored by
Rome until her sovereigns proclaimed
themselves the heads of the Anglican
church. Meanwhile, Scotland was alienat
ed, snd finally shook off not only papal su
premacy, hut*everything that reminded her
of the Pope’s power. TBe example which
site gave should act as a warning to
Leo XIII whenever he receives a visit
from the Duke of Norfolk or any other
emissary of the lory government.
Let Him Alone.
Prom tit* New Orleans Picayune.
Lieutenant Schufeldt is organizing an
expidition to search for Stanley. Now is
the time to begin the formation of an expe
dition to go in search of Schufeldt.—[Phil
adelphia Inquirer.] It is about time to let
Stanley search for himself. Explorer* are
peculiar. Old man Livingston, who was
not writing a book, never thanked any one
in civilization for hnnting him oat, and
breaking up his dark and dizzy harem.
The past week waa evidently a busy
one with Mr. O'Gorman and his New
York buyers.
The great stacks of invoices opened in
the last few days tell of their work.
Our business for the past two seasons
has assumed such large proportions as to
make us feel profoundly thankful to the
trading public for tbeir liberal patrouage.
We have endeavored to merit it by furn
ishing the trndc with the cream of the
dry goods market, and selling at prices
that would enable all to buy.
Oar facilities for doing business are
equalled by few and surpassed by no es
tablishment in this country.
Mr. C. L. O’Gorman’* reputation as a
close buyer and excellent taste in matters
of dry goods, is well and favorably known
to the trade.
Every month this year has he been in
the northern market in search of novelties
and bargains for the trade.
Besides this, we keep an expert always
in New York to take every advantage the
market affords.
Air. O'Gorman requests us to say to the
trading public that he is buying the largest
stock the firm ever carrbd; that
He has bought only the choicest goods
the market affords—many novelties and
more BARGAINS than ever was offered
the trade.
HANDKERCHIEFS.
Just received 600 dozen Ladies’ Em
broidered Handkerchiefs, the lovliest
styles and at lower prices than ever heard
of in Macon.
100 dozen Ladies’ White Embroidered
Handkerchiefs, pretty styles and very
sheer, at 15c.
Think of buying a pretty Embroidered
Ilanderehief at 16 rents.
100 dozen Ladies’ Colored Embroidered
Handkerchiefs, same quality as above,
only 15 cents.
100 dozen Ladies’ White Embroidered,
very sheer, fine quality and warranted
every thread linen, at 25 cents. The moat
wonderful bargain on record.
100 dozen Ladies’ extra fine White Em
broidered, bcautifnl design, ail linen, at30
cents; cheap at 60 cents.
100 dozen finest quality in Embroidery
Handkerchiefs at 50c., 75c. and $1.00;
worth respectively 75c., $1.00, and $1.50.
This is certainly a fine opportunity to lay
in a supply of pretty handkerchiefs cheap.
Ladies, don’t you miss it
DRESS GOODS.
Yesterday was another great Die*
Goods Day.
Our 40-inch AU-Wool Dress Goods it
32)c..haa conpMf captivated the city-
| The great bargain counter -is crowded
In conclusion, he say*: “We will make every day, and "every one that looks buy*.
lt ( . or l . he b . . . 40-inch Ail- Wool Dress Goods at 32Jc. I*
This simply means that competition
wilt have to hump lively to keep up.
5.DM11ER GOODS GOING.
The prices we offer them at this week is
a sufficient inducement to close oat every
yard b fore Saturday night. Listen to the
prices which justify *us in making the as
sertion.
a temptation that tbe ladies cannot resist.
To-day we offer
38 Inch .Tricots at 40c.
WASH GOODS.
1,000 yard* of Pert Shire Lawns, beauti
ful goods, in dark colon, at 4c., worth 8c.
2,500 yards of 34-inch Batiste, at OJc.,
real value 10c
10 pieces of pretty Zephyr in solid colon
will be closed out at fije.
6.000 yards 6f 30-inch Linen delude file-
worth 10c.
3,000 yard* Chnmhray 8c., worth 15c.
1,000 yards Striped Zephyrs, lovelv
goods, at 10c., worth 20c.
2.000 yards yard-wide Linen do lnde at
10c., cheap at 20c.
All finer grades in Mulls, Persian and
Servian Lawn, Linen de Dacca* and Linen
de Paris at prices which wiUtinsnre imme
diate sale.
HOSIERY.
W* have more Hosiery than all of
Macon combined.
We have bargains, too,'that others can't
duplicate.
100 dozen Mines' Fall Regular Made
Hose in black and colon at 15c., worth 25.
100 dozen Ladies’ Regular Made Hose,
fast colors, at 15c., cheap at 25.
100 dozen Ladies’ Fast Black and full
regular made hose at 20c. a pair, worth
•1- *C.
60 dozen Gents’ Lisle Thread Hose at
25c. a pair , worth everywhere 40c.
These goods are All Wool and esn t b*
duplicated elsewhere for less th»n50cents.
We keep more goods on onr bargain coun
ter than many stores have in their entire
business. You will find it to your inter***
always to come 11 headquarters.
14 FOR $1.00.
We will sell to-morrow 14 yard* of y»fd
wide Carlisle Bleaching for $1. Only one
dollar’s worth to a customer. ,
10 pieces of 68-inch Bleached Damask,
beautiful quality, at 50 cents. .
10 pieces of 68-inch genuine Turkey-red
Damask, color warranted fail, at 60 cents,
worth 75 cents.
O’Gorman A Co.’s Carpet DepartmentM
the “pride of tbeir buiineis.” sTie Urge**
stock of CtrpeU erer brought South. Over
400 beautiful pattern* to select from.
Ladies, your new Carpet* are at O’Gorman
A Co.’s. .
Parasols almost given away this wee*.
Price no object now. ,
O’Gormsn A Co. keep tbs best stock ot
shades, curtain poles and lace curtains ■
the city. . , .
15 pieces of 20-incb tursh silks, in W***
colon, at 65 cent* a yard, worth 85 cents-
■O'Gorman.A Co.'t car|>et trade has °P*?'
ed with a boom—17 fine carpet* sold *"
one day. Largest Carpet Hon«e; oon i
boy from '’small shops” but come to head
quarters.
Ladies,doa’t buy a tingle article of your
fall w.-tnirclie U-fnrr Toll our -!■<-■
The season is early yel snd tbe time lor
waiting will be short.