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THE BULLOCH TIMES.
YOL. V-L NO. 27.
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^ T dark was when growing Miss
Martie, with her
basket on her
arm, came into
the corner mar¬
ket to buy her
Thanksgiving
dinner. The
Y* basket was ab¬
surdly small, but
Miss Mattie was
.-J little herself,
All. and when she
i set it on the
km high and stood counter blink
...., light, , ing in the bright
- the calf’s head at her elbow
- seemed to be grinning at them both.
“Well, Miss Mattie,” called out the
market man, in his hearty fashion,
“I see your miml is not set on a tur¬
key this time, but just wait till I start
this basket off for Cap’ll Lawson's and
I'll show yon the right thing—a
plump little duck I clapped into the
safe this tiie morning, thinking to myself
that’s’ very moral of a treat for
‘Miss Mattie.”
Miss Mattie looked embarrassed
and . rubbed ,, . her . forefinger , . ..
over a.imr’1 l^U-mSi^TEve. -iu“ ' w
rf her It was
a silver five-cent piece- and she had
' taken it with much heLtation from a
gi!en little store then of pieces, most of them
her she was a child. For
herself she could have got along very
well with bread aud tea, but somehow
'THE joys of thanksgiving.
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Soto jingling tumbling coins toto tossed P the ’heap about of
clashing, fingers, or
by the butcher’s greasy hor
nerhans into the pocket of that
rible apron with blood-stains on it.
Miss Mattie shuddered, but quickly
recovered herself to say, cheerfully:
“Oh thank yon, Mr. Simmons; but
don’t von think ducks are a sight of
troublo what with the stuffing and the
roasting and needing to he looked
after aud basted regular? I made up
01V mind to something simple, aud I
doM’t know anything that’s easier got
or more relishing than lamb chops,
Two iamb chops is about what I
thought of, Mr, Simmons. You know
me.”
Mr Simmons had not seen the
cent piece, but he understood just as
well as if he had, and he began to cut
the chops at once, talking all the time
to relieve his own embarrassment aud
assuring Miss Mattie that “if folks
only knew it-, there was nothing like ,
lamb chops to encourage your appe
tite and strengthen you up all over.”
. three
“Bat you’ll have to take
chops,” looking curiously at the money
Miss Mattie laid in his big and hand, change “or j
I'll have to make change, to-niglit. . I
is scarcer than hen’s teeth
You might have company unexpected, would
You know, and an extry chop
come in handy. ” laughed genially
Miss Mattie so slip
that the market man ventured to
a sweetbread and a bunch of yellow He
celery into the basket on the sly.
would have loved to put in the duck,
but that would have looked as if he
suspected her reason for not buying
. better
it, aud, bless you, he knew
than that. Some people have feel
are red ami
their bauds coarse and greasy.
Miss Mattie went very hai>pilj flown
the street. Bhe ha<i lighted her lamp
/ before sho. went out, and a cheerful
little ray smiled encouragingly at her
•- the
as ’ehe*- ccr?* to the gate. All
other windows in the weather-beaten
old house were black and empty ana
looked to the lonesome little woman
as if all sorts of- hobgoblins might be
peeping ont at her from the gloom be¬
hind them, for Miss Mattie’s neigh¬
bors had gone away on« Thanksgiv¬
ing visit and taken the whole family.
At least they said “the whole family,
but it the ’ very moment Miss Mattie
, of the fam¬
C ame to'the gate a member
ily was huddled up in a corner of the
doorway, cold, hungry and much per¬
plexed to understand what had become
of all his friends and why, in spite of
his pitiful plea, no one came to open
the door for him. He heard Miss
Mattie and ran hopefully to meet her
limping as he came, for he had a
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your folks have gond off td Thanks¬
giving and left you beeind. Well, if
I ever! How dreadful—thoughtless—
aud you a cripple besides!”
Tommy kept on crying, but he had
his eye on the door while Miss Mattie
was fitting her key, and the minute it
opened he darted in.
“That’s right, Tommy,” said Miss
Mattie; “just make yourself af home.
You and I’ll have our Thanksgiving
together. That extra chop will be
wanted after all, aud I’m going to
makeriz biscuits.”
She put away her bonnet and shawl
and hung the basket on a nail in the
back-room without even looking at the
contents, though Tommy Barnes
watched her keenly with a shrewd sus¬
picion which of something good, and a faint
hope nothing in his past expe¬
rience justified that he might come in
for a shave of it. Miss Mattie was ac¬
customed to Using alone, and she
scarcely thought of Tommy, as she
trotted about, setting bowl, the sponge for
her.biscuits in a pint putting a
little cup of broth on the stove to
warm for her supper, making her tea,
toasting her bread, and at last sitting
1 Vpatchwork eusYSon. Up
v , had , sat , quietly : t i
to this point . Tommy learned by v
by the fire, having folks should many
severe lessons that little
be seen and not heard, but when Miss
Mattie poured out the savory broth
the delicious odor was too much for
his fortitude and with one bound he
sprung into her lap.
'‘she put Tommy bread gently °n the ‘he bowl floor, of
crumbled some into
broth, cooled it carefully and set it
down for him to eat. „
“It’s pretty rich for me anyway,
s b e said, as she made out her supper
with toast and tea.
It was perhaps well for Tommy that
be took au early promenade next
morning around the back yards ot tiie
neighborhood, aud secured several
Valuable tid-bits, for Miss Mattie h
very fitUe to., offer him. She baked
her delightful little puffs of biscuits,
au j en j 0 yed them immensely, finding with
them lighter and more digestible
ou ^ butter. She read a Thanksgiving
and went abott trying to sing
j n n uttle chirrupy brought voice the a sma I
spaTr ow. She in
basket and flushed over the unexpeet
C( q treasuretroVe, but took it kindly as
a bit of neighborly goodwill. and me all
awee thread, white and plump of old
rea; ly f or eqpjiing, reminded her
yi,-s. Morrison, just beginning to si
np mid watch the people go by Joe
window. What a toothsome dai y
this would be for her, and what a de
Uglit that she should be able to take
it to her as she went to churcn, yes,
am j gome of the celery, too, for a rel
is b... The ehops-WBre transferred to a
p j ate 0 n the shelf, the sweetbread
wrapped in a fine old napkin and laid
ba rf c in the basket with the best half
D f (be celery, and the biscuits Miss
Mattie had saved for dinner,
“The cold bread will go just as well
with chops,” she reflected, and pre
, )ftre a for church with a glow of Uap
phi ess such as she bad not known i»a
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It helped to a real feeling of thank¬
fulness, especially when she thought
of old Mrs. Morrison, and how pleased
she had been with the unexpected
gift. She laughed a little to herself
as she returned to her own door after
service, remembering how when Sally
Morrison had commiserated her on be¬
ing alone Thanksgiving Day, she had
assured her she had company invited
—Tommy Barnes, from the next door,
who was spending a couple of days
with her, the rest of the family being
away.
“I hope't wa’n’t a sinful untruth,"
she said, smiling at Tommy, who lay
peacefully sleeping on the braided rug,
“but if old Miss Morrison had set in
to have me Stay to dinner, I Shouldn’t
a* known how to get away, and slie is
siich a talker."
With a long, clean apron dver her
best frock, Miss Mattie began cheer¬
fully to make her small preparations
for the Thanksgiving feast. Sho had
meditated leaving one chop for break¬
fast, but her walk and happiness had
made her hungry and she decided to
cook them all.
But where did sho put these chops
—she was getting so forgetful—she
could have sworn she put them on the
shelf—could she have left them in the
basket after all? Her perplexed eyes
fell from the shelf to the floor, and
there, just peeping from the wood-box
was the plate, and two small, very
small, bits of bone, gnawed quite clean
and white.
Ungrateful Tommy Barnes, lying
there in peaceful slumber, with those
precious chops rounding out your yel¬
low sides, if justice had befallen you
then and there you might not have
lived to steal again. But into the
midst of Miss Mattie righteous wrath
came the reflection that Tommy must
have been hungry, and the fault after
all was partly her own for putting
temptation in h\y a ,wav, “though how
of’his way than that shell, T'don't
really see,” she added, dolefully.
At that minute Tommy Barnes
waked trom his nap, transformed him¬
self into a camel, yawned in a fright¬
fully tigerish fashion, and proceeded the to
sharpen his claws on the rng,
sacred rug into which had been
braided some precious old garments
dear to Miss Mattie’s heart, It was a
straw too much to have insult added
to injury, and springing from her
chair, sho cuffed Tommy in such
vigorous fashion that three or four
lieartv blows found their mark before
the astonished sinner could withdraw
his claws and bound out ot the back
door, left ajar in the search for the
chops. At that instant a resounding
knock on the front door sent Miss
Mattie’s heart to her throat with a
sudden toap, as if justice were already
coming to take her in hand for unrea¬
sonable cruelty. peacefully
When Miss Mattie was
nattering about, unconscious of tho
cruel trick fate and Tommy Barnes
had played her, Mrs. Deacon Giles
was surveying her husband with a uis-
“You don’t mean to tell me, ” she
repeated, “that the minister’s folks
ain’t cornin’ at all, and you and me
has got to eat this big dinner alone.
Here. I stayed home from .church to
tend to it. Oh, you n»edn’t to look
if you thought it was a judgment.
_ Josiah I wouldn’t be such a hipper
crit as to pretend to be thinkin o.
spiritooal things when I was wonder¬
in’ if Sarah Ellen would remember to
baste the turkey. Seems to me they
might let us know sooner.’’
“Bat I told ye, mother, it was a
telegram come just before church.
You can’t regerlate telegrams like the
weekly newspaper, or stop folks from
dyin' unexpicted. ”
“Then, why didn’t you rush round
and get somebody else? Mercy sakes!
’Twon’t seem like Thanksgiving at
all anybody to ask
“Didn’t seem to be
but old Mis’ Morrison and Marthy
Ellison. I drove round by the Morn
sons, but the old lady was just b av * B
something relishing Miss Mattie
fetched in. They n»id they
her to dinner, but she had
one of them Barneses next door.
said the
wife, in a very disrespectful tone, ‘You
just drive straight back and bring
Marthy Ellison up here to dinner.
Tell her I don’t take any excuse, and,
if she can’t come otherways, Bhe CAD
bring lier comp’ny along* thoagli the
way them shif’less Bsrnesses impose
her is mortal shame. ”
on a learned
Good Deacon Giles had
docility in many years of experience,
and the double knock at Miss Mattie a
door followed as quickly as could be
reasonably expected. Miss Mattie at¬
tempted neither excuse nor hesitation,
but accepted her good providence witn
radiant delight. fetch comp , ny
“Mother said to yonr glaring
along,” said the’ deacon,
doubtfully about the small room. W e
heard you had one of the Barneses. I
kinder hope 'tain’t the cross-eyed one.
that stole my pears.” Mattie, laughing
“Oh,” skid Miss her
into the Uttle mirror, as she tied
bonnet, “he’s had his dinner and he s
[gone out.” eaten
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STATESBORO. GA„ FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 2fi, 1897.
hers also, but at Mrs. Giles’s hos
pitabie table, under fare the and genial pleasant influ
enoe of generous
old-time reminiscences, she told the
story of Tommy Barnes and the lamb
chops in a way that made the deacon
lose his breath with laughter. And
when she was tucked into the yellow
sleigh for the ride home, Mrs. Giles
stopped at the door to say:
/ i putsome bitsof bones and things
in a basket under the seat for Tommy.
Takas a sight of stuff to reely fill up a
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cat fur ’nough to give his moral princi¬
ples a fair showin’.”
Tommy was on the step waiting to
welcome Miss Mattie, which shows
his forgiving disposition, and, though
he got as much as was good for him
out of the basket under the seat, Miss
Mattie very wisely concluded that the
deny viie, roast chicken and cran
meant for ins liHItgtlt, 4L. Lave been
them in the cupboard, saying '. 0 d
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“This time. Tommy fair show
£-=3. our moral principles a Millbb.
Emily Huntington
O HEART, CIVE THANKS.
O heart, give thanks for strength, to-day,*
To walk, to rim, to work, to play!
For feasts of eye; melodious sound;
Thy pulses’ easy, rhythmic bound;
Ton servants that thy will obey;
A mind clear as the sun’s own ray;
A life which has not passed crowned, its May;
That al! thy being tuns is
O heart, give thanks!
Feet helpless llo that once worn gay;
Eyes know hut night’s eternal sway;
Souls dwell in silence, dread, encircling profound; round;
Minds live with clouds
In face of these, thy blessings weigh!
O heart, give thanks! C. Dowd.
—Emmu
The Housewife’* Holiday Plans.
Make the home bright and cheer
fal for Thanksgiving and Chuslmas,
writes a farmer’s wife.
so that the holiday will i! ifc,
weary from da’M
iH'fore'thfeYefijit sweeping,
siiuuld also he cleaned and stu|fcd*U
this time, in order to go-lBKthe Tins method oven
early the next day. ri»rn»8 of
gives a little time ou -th«
the holiday for the extra
reception of guests. and opoktng;tho
turkey and preparing
of the morning, so thaitm
really be found in
desserts, etc.
dotted here and there
mortelles and pressed
Will brighten the rooms
Thisis easy work for the’
pie, who always want to help
time. Have some green
table, if v<>n have no flowersm “ "M
use the handsomest plants ara
von/ window eolleetions. If BO
’mere is forthcoming, conceal
nary flower pot with evergreen .»r
autumn leaves. < ’hry firsi*qf
keep out of doors until the
December, and are effective afrdaJM*
tions, if one does not object to„
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odor.
Let me Thanksgiving' mx
SBPl tion at our first carnation
had only a few
blossoms, red and white ones. These J
,u; into a tall glass vase I stole frip
drooping sword ferns that
my one jardiniere. I placed. the v#4
upon a large antique pewter plattof,
louvered with a pretty doily and heaped
[with fruit, apples, grapes and banaok**
declared. „>
On De««rt Air.
Winthrop—“If Freddie ra going
spend Thanksgiving with his grand¬
mother, perhaps yon’d »»iter buy him
that tin horn.” B®
Mrs. Winthrop—“I spok* saidit to wonld
about it, my dear, bnt he
do no good to him, as grandmother is
deaf.”
A Sacking PI* For ThanksKlvlo*.
There are some old-fashioned peo
pie who prefer a sucking pig to turkey
at Thanksgiving, and to have thisuisli
in perfection an old saying goes weeks
the small animal must be three
“under a moon.”
Tho Kid’* Harvest.
Now he is a* pleased “ pleased can be,
-* And has no cause to sigh. “To
With all his heart he says: me
Thanksgiving time is pie.’ -.
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Tho Turkey on the W«U. %
) •J 1 S opening of the ch%pt
nni bu * :s * M,
i V 1 // The sere, leaves, yellow
l\ ■ Told beyond a
venture 7
m] 0 That Tbankjpgi
Bu W t a \r*m r .v cbfiaish
‘mb The fa UeTu. ■ ^|)
Ot et
9 ( ' pa
I It cry
long
For
1>hs very short anfS
It hung all plump ami
la the pantry ae*#®
for a day or two
And then was
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(jUEESf REGENT OF SPAIN PARDONS
THE FOUR UNFORTUNATES.
WAS ONCE CONDEMNED TO DIE.
DeLorne Has a Conference With Assistant
Secretary Day In Regard to Weyler’s
To!»aeco Decree.
Minister Woodford at Madrid has
telegraphed the state department that
the Spanish cabinet has notified him
that the queen has pardoned the Com
petitor prisoners.
The , state depart , ment now announces
that the Competitor prisoners were
turned over to General Leo last Mom
day and will be sent by him direct
to New York..
It is not doubted in W ashington , . .
that the prisoners aro liberated on
some such conditions as were imposed
in tho case of former prisoners, that
is that they will hot return to Cuba.
After their latter experience iu the
Cuban jails, it is not believed the
men will be disposed to vioiato any
understanding of this kind to which
they may rties. It is singular
that the iqen should have been for
fftuf clays Lee.tvithont iff’ the custody the fact of Consul having
General
fieewne generally known, but it is
supposed that Secrecy was observed
iu'arfler to secu*4 ijtciting departure from Ha
vana witbtmt trouble from
tljie extreme co wSrvative Spanish fac
tion I’flcre
w ere fc prisoners, namely,
Alfred O. Laboi the captain of the
Competitor, Gildea,^Bie a ilfeve of New Orleans;
WiUiam mate, a natural¬
ized citizen; On. elton, who claims , .
Kansas as his r.IMve state, and who
T ,? M*t ue I»i|HW®»tor ° ^^fteapondent; in the capacity Charles
.
claimed the , pih idh birth, but who
Dtatts hy vntihtefcon of the United
American vesseJ. I tig Bailing on an
The conditions}
Com B etrtor w,s o, under W b ie u the
1896, off .the Onyjptured April 25,
gaged m IanaiOgJj^ coast while en
gents have la^n o arms f or tbe insur
defense forced of into> the th^ “gen described. that they The
,-as were
then will by f exposition against
aboard the boat. insurgent party
a could naval mako courtmartia-bcy only were tried by
oLpoor a, before which they
oipally because showing, prin
the (Spanish lay their ignorance of
proceedings WG$ l nj*ge in which tho
their 4*0 conducted, so that
the and the imposition of
®^Hle»th “ sentence 1 was not a matter of
AlSjtliaipoini:., dtelomjtic ■ however, importance the as
iaMed .
Tkra® 16
ing wf of negotiations in
proluintj Cub •ec ri.ade by Wcyler
{( o.n atiou of tobacco
Thar*” “
lerfor tbt . Jl^egsitv Ge»e«l of|
fa^ ^ . ^ j of t o
cigar
iiloynieB iu - ^us bv giving era
»m| men,keep them from
insargen t ranks. It
V*a. M ^mon report, liow
Mt potent reason was a
#*>>4 Cuban cigar mak
Smtci, from whom
ftn }ia r8 w funds,
'SFESS10N READ.
“Jo ig at Trial of Arroyo’*
City of Mexico.
Ynsation Ipe trial of was the made polios in
- S _„. Inh City j of murder Mexico, of who Ar
the
, |>dnction of the general eonfes
jte inspector ol
J u .rkable , who attempt Buic ‘ de at ?’ self ,L‘
, “id falsely states that a
At ™Q mmo n people lynched
ff^hngptorney ^ < in a strong |
Sjg RUd for all the the execution of
jjjSfiistant prisoners
Chief of Detectives
one other minor prisoner.
tWai-ned »o«l Mis Horn*
*• ,oA by Hl» Friends.
Jduel between brothers Colonel at
^fcsbceu ..he Harris
cii Ip the sole topic
t m JJraW, that usually quiet
, Harris, who was so
died Haturday and
that; r Biindav Ix-side
' Sir K,s iff f ier, W. A. Harris,who
the battle wtis ut its
“’LwjdiscusBion r ft Braun, of the Baylor Icono
with
" the origin of t he trouble,
V anonymously Friday
lends guarded his resi
trouble occurred.
LENT TO VANCE.
• Maxonx of North Carolina
* '£*}• the Corner Stone.
from Asheville, N. C.,
I(truii.1 Master Moore, at the
j;Masons of North Carolina,
H&pecial communication of
'‘JKs ®>dge to assist monument in laying to tho the
of the
-JP States Senator Vance at
hies will occur early in
NA MESAKE.
l’wnl Silver Service
“P*»l Mentation Dearlng of City’. handsome Name- sil
a
h on behalf, and i» the name
Kens of Nashville, Nashville Term., at was the
|he gunboat Norfolk, Va., Monday
d at
took place on the
in the presence of the
my Commandant Far
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PLUNGED INTO A CREEK.
Train Wrecked and Burned-Only One
Death, But Many Injured.
Trnin 2 on the Kansas City, Fort
Scott and Memphis, which left Bir
mingham, Ala., Wednesday evening
i for Kansas City, was derailed west of
Walliford, Ark., at 3 o’clock Thurs
day morning. The combination coach,
into Spring river. The chair car and
sleeper were both consumed.
One passenger was fatally injured,
dying shortly afterward, aud about
thirty others more or less seriously
hurt. It is believed none of the fat
^‘V'is « f ast through train from
the south. Between Williford and
Hardy the Memphis tracks parallel
‘B® Spring river, a little stream run*
niug out of Mammoth Springs.
When near Williford the engineer
feU tUe tra in leap forward and found
that it had parted between the two
(la y coaches . The Ugt tbr(!e cai . a
bumped over the ties, the chair ear
aud sleeper turning over on their
sides aud the combination car finally
g 0 j D g into the river,
The engineer backed np the front
p B rt c f the train and the work of res
cue was immediately begun. The ter
ror of the passengers who had gone
down into the stream with the combi¬
nation car was heightened by cries of
alarm from the chair car and sleeper,
both of which soon took fire. The
intense darkness added to the confu¬
sion and it was some time before au
organized effort at rescue was put into
effect by the train crew and those of
the passengers who had been able to
extricate themselves without aid. The
passengers in tho burning cars were
luckily rescued before the fire had
reached its height, aud but few in
those cars were injured.
The wreck is the first one of a seri
ous nature in the history of the Mem
phis road, and according to the state
, aen t 0 f General Passenger Agent J.
E LookwooiI, Mr. Hoover is the first
passenger ever killed while riding on
a train on that road.
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REPORT OF SECRETARY BUSS.
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Document Show. Work of Interior »•
For r«t Y.«.
Secretary of the Inferior Bliss, in
his annual report.junao public
day night, submits estimates aggregat
ing 8156,532,419 for appropriation by
congress for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1897.
Discussing pensions he says 200,
000 pension claims are awaiting adju
dication aud it is estimated that 40 or
50per nutted. cent If of they these are will rapidly be finally adjndi- ml
^ated they will swell the pension roll
from $5,000,000 to $7,000,0 00. When,
however, these claims are adjudicated
and the first payments made thereon,
the amount of the pension roll will de
crease very rapidly, possibly to &125,
nnn or 8X30,000,000 the first year.
adian population of the
of tfioNew.
reh4v»tions, which eoataia
approximately 33,404,837 acres. Of
these, 4,545 have accepted allotments
of land which aggregate 644,147 acres.
Secretary Bliss says while the opening
of the Wichita reservation in Okln
hoina to white settlement would great
ly jiromote the development of that
country, yet, in view of the unsettled
condition of the questions affecting
their rights, until there is further leg
islation ho does not see how it can he
done without causing great injury and
distress.
To guard against this recommendation
is made tl»at tho Dawes commiHfiion be
authorized to investigate questions as
to their rights and claims aud report
recommendations from speedy and just
»Q Dement.
DISASTROUS l'RAlRIE FIRES.
Three Tlioinand Sheep Horned In Texas
Count!**.
A terrific prairie fire has passed
through Lubbock, Hale and Crosby
counties. Texas, doing great damage
to ,b e ranges.
It originated east of Crosby county,
burned eastward through Crosby be
fore a severe west wind.
The flames made a fire ten miles
wide, which traveled at great speed,
At least 400 Bquare miles of territory
were burned, Cattle suffered and
many were burned to death. Three
thousand sheep were burned in one
flock and many farmers lost all their
winter feed.
WHY DOORS WERE HAILED.
A sensation of «real Mnurnltude Crop. Ont
In Ktivannalii On.
A Savannah special says: The hot¬
test kind of sensation has grown o it
of the action of the chief of the fl e
department in nailing up the doors of
the city exchange a few days investigated ago.
The fire commissioners
the matter, and the chief said that his
reason for nailing up the doors was
because the city section offices had
been used at night by some of the city
officials in the entertainment of their
friends.
This statement has tremen¬
dous excitement among municipal offi¬
cials, and an investigation has been
demanded.
MOB AFTER MURDERER.
Xrgio Vntiml Lee’* Be»lU*nre and Killed
Him With An Ax.
A Columbia, B. C., special taken says:
Charles Williams, a negro, was from
to Sumter jail Saturday night
Carter's Crossing to prevent lynching.
He entered the home of \V. J. Dee
Friday night for the purpose of roll
ber”, an<I being determined, butcher
jjr. f bed with
cl I.ee in his an ax.
He says he had an accomplice. A
mob pursued the officers and prisoner.
DEiTH SENTENCEWr TEN.
Ur.nil of Trial of roller At Maxim fit,
For Murder of Arroyo.
The great trial of Arroyo’s Mon- mur¬
derers at Mexico City terminated
dav evening with the sentence of
death pronounced on ten of the police
officials and policemen concerned in
the butchery of the hapless wretch
whose audacious attempt on the presi¬
dent caused so profound a sensation. hours.
The jury was out over seven
The condemned men do not yet
to res lize their jierilous position.
IE!
BILL FOR REMOVAL OF
HOUSE IS DEFEATED.
RESULT WAS fi DECIDED SURPRISE.
A Bn«f Summarry of the Dally Proceed*
luga aud Routine Work In Both
Home and Senate.
One of the hottest, most sensation
al, and thoroughly interesting fights
ever witnessed in the house of repre¬
sentatives was brought about friday
in the contest between Decatur and
Stone Mountain for the possession of
the DeKalb county courthouse.
Decatur won under circumstances
seemingly adverse.
The fight was brought on by the
Stone Mountain faction who seemed
sure of au easy victory. Test of
strength in the vote to take up the bill
Thursday seemed to indicate that the
required two-thirds majority was in
favor of a removal of the courthouse,
A substitute bill, referring a settle
rnent of the question back to the peo
pie of the county, was offered and lost.
Then the other bill came np and a
sensation'was caused by the discovery
that the measure could not be put to
a vote because the proper legal proofs
were missing. No other business
could be transacted. Under the call
for the previous question, the only
thing before the house was the' vote
on this bill. For an hour and a liaif,
au exciting debate went on. All this
confusion was caused by the simple
fact that a newspaper containing a
copy of the advertisement of tho bill
had been lost or misplaced.
The Decatur people were willing to
accept the proofs at hand, and so were
the Stone Mountain people. But,
nevertheless, the debate went on and
the confusion increased. Finally* she
missing newspaper was discovered and
the bill was voted on. Tho result was
#5 Sknm^ to GO.
Mouniain had failed to receive
a constitutional majority and Decatur
„. flB secnro iu the possession of the
Immediately after the reading of
the journal in the senate Friday morn
j„ K Senator Stewart, chairman of the
'
committee on lunatic asylums, made
a repor t on \\ ie bill providing that j
fema ] e physicians be allowed to enter '
t i 1() competitive examinations for vn- j
oaneieR ou tile state asylum staff. The
report of the committee was favora
ble. j
,Senator Battle moved that the regu* !
) ar 01 .,i 0! . i which was the calling of the j
roll Le for the introduction w° of new matter
dispensed it b, and that the read- !
iu g of house bills favorably reported
on be read the second time. The mo
nrevaHed
jy, conclusion of fho reading of
matter. -Afier > senate w<
and „ confirmed
into executive session
Hon. B. B. Bower, judge city court of
Decatur county; Hon. F. It. larver,
judge of the Effingham county court;
]/. T. Shurley, solicitor of Warren
county court. of
On motion of Senator Stewart,
the 27th, tho senate adjourned until
12 o’clock Monday.
-
w.<! B ..<i*r’. ProeeeUiii*..
The entire day Wednesday in tho
house was given up to the university
Home routine business was trausactcil
and then the tight of the day on the
university hearing came up. trial
The university represented was on by Hon. N.
was ably president of the
j. Hammond, feat
b oa rd of trustees. Another
lire of almost sensationul interest,
in that it was not on the program, was
a speech by Dr. William H. Felton, of
Cartersville, introduced to the general
assembly as “the old man eloquent."
Tbe friends of the institution in the
house won a fight „ , . in • securing the „
hearing for the trustees. The m>' lse
had run counter to the winhes of the
senate and a sensational conflict was
promised. The house rcsoUitiou pro
videdfortheheariugbeforea eommit
tee of the whole. The senate i esolu
tion called for a joint session. Ibis
precipitated the fight
When the senate resolution came up
before the house it was sought to
amend it so as to fix the hearing for
Wednesday night. The time mention¬
ed in the resolution was 10:30 a. m.
That hour came and went while the
fight was still on in the house.
Then an amendment to this amend¬
ment, fixing the time for the bearing
at 11 o’clock was offered. This was
and carried amid applause.
There was then a
minutes and the trustees awaited the
result on the outside. Both houses
then convened in joint session and the
trustees, headed by Governor Atkin¬
son, were ushered into the hall They
were greeted with applause, and after
an introduction by President Berner,
of toe senate, Colonel Hammond be¬
gan his speech. done by the seriate
The first thing send the
Wednesday morning was to
house the resolution for a joint session
at 10:30 o’clock to hear the university
trustees. Pending the receipt of in¬
formation touching the address of the
house on the subject, the senate trans
acted routine business.
It was nearly 11 o’clock when a
message from the house announced
resolution had bee adopted , . .
that the r time
with an amendment fixing the at
11 o’clock. This was immediately
concurred in and the house was noti¬
These two bills were by
senate: Mr. Felder’s bill to expedite
habeas corpus cases; Mr. liases’ bill
prohibiting arresting officers from ad¬
vising or procuring se Cements in
criminal cases and fixing a penalty for
so doing.
| Thursday'* Routine.
I Along with the first business in the
house Thursday the West resolution
to limit discussion on the convict bill
from 11 to 1 o’clock each day came up
and after some discussion was passed. the
The house then took a nibble at
convict bill. A few more amendments
to the first section were pn Rented, all
of which were discussed without re-
BY THOS, A. McSREGOR.
suits, and then the committee ot the
whole reported progress.
The DeKalb court house fight ran
amuck of the convict bill and both
came to a standstill. An eftort was
made to secure the consideration of
the former lueaRufe at-the orhenafiA
the latter, and an interesting fight re¬
sulted. The convict bill gained the
right of way, however, and was under
*~ a durin * the r “ der of
| in Mr. the Gray’s senate prohibition the first bill business came up
as
Thursday morning, and after a brief
statement by the author, it went to a
vote. The bill prohibits the sale of
liquors in smaller quantities than one of
pint, and prohibits the drinking
liquor on the premises where it is sold.
The favorable committee report was
agreed to by a vote of 19 to 16.
The question then came up on the
passage of the bill and Senator Turner,
rose to favor it. It fell far short of
what he desired, but was in the right
direction, Senator Gray called for
the ayes aud nays and the vote was 20
to 17. The bill lacked only t'
votes of a constitutional majority,
The football bill came up and passed i
by a vote of 31 to 4. bill prohibiting
Senator Turner’s
tho shooting at turkeys and other
fowls for a prize, with chances stated v
on hitting the bird, came on an adverse
report, which caused some discussion,
The adverse report was disagreed to
by a vote of 21 to 14 and the bill stands
for a third reading,
Mr. Felder's hill to except the N. O,
and Ht. L. railway from the law pro v
train! .
hibiting the running of freight
on Sunday was fought , by Senate! Sen*
Turner. When the bill came up
ator Kilpatrick explained that it apJ
plied to railroads running through tit
state less than three miles, and sale
there were only six citizens who
be disturbed by the noise of the traihftf
8ntnr<ti»y In the Home.
An effort was made in the hono
,, Saturday *nd*y . in to defeatingAhfr-bill reconsider theaeti#BjS to remove —
*“® cotMfttmee of DeKalb county IMP H
Stone Mountain. The
S lt wa8 a TT 1 def t at for the Ht f
Mountam * foctlo »- T ^er« was f
a present and the motion to
reconsider received only 36 of the *#:,
J ote « ca4t - 'This ends the controvert
for five years at least, as no electisa
can be called before that time,
From now until the dose the h&M
wiil UolJ bv0 He8sio119 Th<
morning session will be from 9 nntill
o'clock, and in the afternoon from 3 te
5 ^lock. The house will now go U
Mork »“ earnest to settle the many im
P° rt * nt matters now under non
» 4o “
Saturday . , s session was a bn
^ great deal of routine busiu*
frausacted and a number of ^
measures were introduced. SI 3
vin of Richmond offered a b
of issue with wh
ho P eB to a test of the
ce “t. tax on the state banks.
Mr. Bartlett, of Paulding, pi
two const iiational amcS dm eu:
oimh ■■■■■ u i ...... t ms ___
legislature B to hold uni
sessions.
Monday , .
Mr, Calvin s mixed n
passed the house at Mom ay s *
The bill requires the woras ***
flour to be branded or mar«e< ”n ®
package containing a hlendingof w «
«<»»«• «> 1 ’ 1 cora “ fiS
what per centum L of the contents is
made from the food products of wheat
and from the food Prodnctsofgrsin,
other than wheat. I he purpose ol me
bill is to put purchasers on no lc '®
to what they are buying, wnetner
straight flour or mixed flour, -1
The following bills *****' °P '
td: An act for the protection of the
bicycle roads in the oounty of Wilkes, ^
an act making the condemnation of
land by counties the same as for all
corporations exercising the right of
eminent domain; amending the char- m
ter of the city of Waycross; establwh
ing a system of public schools for the
city of Culloden; amending the char¬
ter of tho city of Gainesville.
The senate passed the following local
bills Monday: To incorporate Mount
ville; to incorporate Ocilla; to incor¬
porate Pepperton— (Pepperton is in -
Butts county near a famous patch of
red pepper, from which a negro vil¬
lage called Peppertown took its rise—
later a cotton mill was erected be¬
tween Jackson and the red pepper vil- a
lap;e); amending the Lawrence villa
charter so that it shall be called a city
instead of a no
for a violation of the act); to extend
the corporate limits of DouglasviHe; in 5?^
to amend the charter of Douglas
the county of Coffee so that it shall
be called a city instead of a town; to
extend the limits of .East Rome; to
ameud the charter of Buchanan; to
amend the charter of Washing
Ga., so as to give the mayor a sa
of 8200 and the recorder 8250 if
council is willing.
ALL QUARANTINE ENDED.
Cltlxena or Alabama Free to go and Con w
Once Mote.
Beginning last Sunday at noon all ©
quarantine restrictions in Alabama, so
far as state authorities are concerned, 15
were removed and people are free to
go aud come. south of „ Mont¬ ,
One or twe counties bnt
gomery continue their quarantine,
it amounts to little.
Commencing Monday all trains out
of Montgomery to Mobile and New
Orleans were put on their old sched
ules. All others resumed some days
ago.
_________ REPORTS,
PARK COMMISSIONER
Chairman Boynton Show* That Battefh
tory Progr©** Ha* Boon Made*
V. Boynton, ~
General Henry and m “
man of the Chicamanga oommiaai
nooga National park of
submitted to the secretary
aunual report of the com*
showing that satisfactory progl
been made in the esfcabiishmah
Rr h ; rl accordance with existi;
RQ( ( t h e plan heretofore
(be war department, to the
No change seems required
m i 8S i on to be or
al) le. No new legislation
a ud no ineref.se of the »
uf (bat made 1 tr the cum”
I j g ue( .ded.