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0C1LLA, GEORGIA.
HENDERSON & HANLON, Publishers,
The czar’s Finnish subjects will
help along his disarmament scheme
by emigrating. The only trouble thej
find is in knowing which country i;
most unlike Russia.
Dr. Carroll reports that the people
of Porto Rico want a territorial civil
governrneut as soou as possible. They
ought- to have it, and doubtless will
have it, as soou as it seems practicable
to give it to them. But that is a tusk
for Congress. The administration has
nothing to do but to continue the mil-
itary system until Congress acts,
Oar expoits of manufactured goods
average $1,000,00** a day. There were
204 working days during the first
eight months of the current ti.-cai year,
aud during that time the total exports
were $207,000,000. This wa- a gain
of $25, Out), 003, or 14 per cent, over
the corresponding period of the pie-
vious year.
A London bookseller has just been
sentenced to nine mouths imprison¬
ment for selling indecent French
books, in spite of his counsel’s plea
tli a book iu a £ 0 ; eigu tongue could
not corrupt the morals of her majes¬
ty’s subjects. Though this was the
first suc-c-s 1 ul proseoution ou record
where the book was not in English,
the court would uot allow an appeal.
Dreyfus is uot the only one who
suffers by the way things are run in
France. M. Lordlier, the private
.Secretary of Colonel Henry, who com-
nutted suicide, has followed his mas-
ter’s example. If this sort of thing
goes on the Dreytus case will be
-quoted 1 in the statistics along ° with
guff. small-pox aud other , deadly , ms- ,.
eases. And it begins to look as if the
friends of Dreyfus are not. those to
whom the disease will prove the most
deadly.
The possibilities of the invention of
liquid air are to the present view li.u-
itless. Steamers and engines and fly-
ing machines can carry their liquid air
machines with them ami manufacture
their fuel from the atmosphere as they
Coal and other expensive fuel
can be kept for ornamental parlor use.
and liquid air engines generating elec-
tncity will supply all the nea.iug and
lighting of the world. Instead of
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our force, we shall draw ou the com*
paratively limitless heat of the sun.
It may be that we shall in an iafiui-
tesiwal degree accelerate the cooling
off of the world; hut that is a subject
none of us is quite altruistic enough
to worry about yet.
An interesting side issue of the in-
teruational differences centring in
Samoa is the known but futile ambi-
tion of Germany to secure possession
of the Tonga or Friendly islands,
which are small but numerous, and
lie some 350 miles southwest of the
Samoan group. Germany’s threat to
annex these islands furnishes circum-
stsntia! evidence of her desire to out-
wit Great. Britaiu aud the
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British action,in sending a ciuisei aud
reaching a thorough understanding
with the king, appears to have settled
German schemes. The natives of the
Friendly Islands, being Christians
and dominated by missionary influence,
are much more readily dealt with
than are the Samoans.
The skill of maritie architects and
the ingenuity ..... of science have-for . ,
first-class steamers at least—con-
quered most of the dangers of
the sea. But the danger of colli-
siou in fog aud darkness remains
a fearful hazard of the most skil-
navigator. lkare . hope
fnt is now
that, this danger also may disappear,
thanks to the labors of an ingeniou*
inventor. The government has search¬
ing! v tested a new instrument called
the eophone—meaning “sounding
down”—by the use of which au opera-
tor may precisely determine the di-
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or distant it may be. It is believed
that with such instruments in use the
man on the bridge, in thickest fog 01
densest darkness, need never be in
doubt as to the ,, direction or distance .
of'an approaching ships whistle
the roar of breakers, and need never,
therefore, suffer collision or run his
ship ashore. If the device shall prove
to be all that the gover me H’s expeus
think, its itiveuiiou is one of the best
gifts of our time to ocean travelers.
!f y-iu liare something to sell, let
the people know it. An advertise¬
ment In this paper will do the work
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THE SOUTH DOOR.
BT MABOABKT B. KOKEBSOK.
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jfflEjjsjjBMp ftoSiSEItiMK T last it was fin-
| isked and it was
j such a fine, con-
| .’ venient barn,
j 1 m if all such respects, a model that in
ffigfjfri'y Giles Hewitt felt
// his excessive
Milt® \V ll\ pride iu it a per-
feotly justifiable
i|§||pgygii|§¥ thiu S- A-H he
strolled about in
this sultry July
"■ “ ’ 1 morning, survey-
ing it from all
points of view, he could uot restrain
his oft-repeated encomiums, “Admir-
able! Admirable! Fine! None bet-
ter in the country,” then, as he spied
Esther, his wife, looking for early
apples in the orchard below, he called
iu his soft, slow voice, “Come up
here, Esther.”
The call troubled her. She had no
time to spare, as this was a very busy
morning, crowded with work, and the
girls, Ria and Ella, were engrossed
with preparations for a picnic at
Point o’Rocks, on the lake, that af¬
ternoon. As for the barn, how thor¬
oughly she knew it, from the shining
cow that served as a weather vane to
the foundations. It had been the
staple of Giles’ conversation for
mouths, and she could not tell how
man y times she had meekly followed
in his wake to survey its conven¬
iences.
“Esther, do you hear me?” The
soft voice was distinctly peremptory.
Giles Hewitt always expected his
| women folks to come at his bidding,
I ! red As&aokaTs^nd wenTreluouItij;
! “I want you to see how well these
doors , work now, said Giles, leading „
the way to the rear of the huilding
framed! , u Tf It ^| always anC struck V ' V ,„ her , with • A' a ‘
sense of loveliness quite inexpressible
in words. She "drew a long sighing
breath as she looked on wood aud
meadow dimpled dells and swelling
tills, church spires rising wlntely
Mo a silvery ribbon!
: No rtkward a blue lake glittered like
a jewel in au emerald setting, and in
the west a circlet of hills vanished
Jehcately like a dream into the so.tly
I 1 ‘*w 0 w ^beaniifull” she said “It
j r?8ts me just to look I could
j sit here and look just look for
hours Oh, Giles, 1 u louse on y
1 £ Lss
door '
, “The house is in the best place,
Esther, sheltered from the north
,
j winds. I don’t understand why you
I are always saying that.”
She sighed. “Yes, I know, ^ but
such a view is food and rest. Oh, I
: know you think me silly. Yes, I am
j truly glad you have suoh a big, con-
venient barn, so many nice labor-sav-
j ing things about it; it must be good
I to have things as you want them;”
■ she began to pleat her apron hemner-
vously. “I xvas thinkiugtkat now the
] barn j 8 finished and all the crops so
j promising and the hay 9 ll ?P * s 80
large, that you will be willing to let
me have the door out through the
south side of the kitchen. You know
i b ow long I have waited to have it
1 done?”
She looked so wistfully meek, stand-
!
been a self-assertive woman—no one
knew that better than Giles, Never-
theless, he felt annoyed aud angered.
He had not called her up here to dis-
! cuss her whims.
I “You know,” she went on, “I just
^nt a common door with a glass sash,
aud then I’d like a little stoop run¬
ning to the end of the house. I could
do the churning out there, and lots of
little chores—the kitchen is so small
aud hot—aud it won’t cost much,
Johnna oa i cu | ated he could do all I
wanted for forty dollars.”
“Johnson!” his tone was distinctly
I angry.
“You see, Giles,” she pleated the
apron over aud over, quite flustrated
at liis perceptible annoyance; “it was
1 wb en he came down to the house one
da y for a drink of buttermilk—and
you know what a baud he is to joke-
lie said, ‘This is a sort of unhandy
kitchen, Mrs. Hewitt; you’d better
move up to your husband's barn and
; have it airier and handier.’ Then I
I told him how I wanted a door cut
through on the south and we talked it
.La
Gi[ eg| too vexed to listen further. “I
I never knew such a gadfly as you are.
1 You get an idea in your head and harp
eteri.ally ‘Door! Door! Door!’
You oan’t think or talk anything else;
ard U0W) after all the barn has cost
and the necessity for economy, one
would thiuk you would have some
common sense. But, you are aRoval?”
He sneered as if thus branding her
signified that her people had been ex-
travagant and wasteful. Then, noting
the quivering of her lips and the tears
welling beneath her lids, he was more
angered than ever and went on irate-
ly: “For forty years my mother used
that kitchen and I never heard her
complain, but some women want the
world, and having that, would cry for
the moon. Don’t you say door to me
again.”
She turned away without a word
and went down the hill to theorohard
bars. She wiped her eyes before she
took up the apples and trudged back
to the house. The girls must not see
the tears.
“Mother is a long time pioking
apples,” said Ella Hewitt, as she
frosted a tempting cake just baked for
the picnio.
“Probably pa has called her to who tag
him about the barn,” said Ria,
was deftly slicing pink ham for sand¬
wiches. ‘That barn is the bub of his
universe just now—has been for six
mouths. He houses his cattle better
than his women folks. Isn’t this a
flue, light, airy, haady kitchen ?”
“Very, for a man of his means,” said
Ella vexedly. “I’m just ashamed of
such a gloomy, unhandy little pen. it
See the walls—rough boards that
never pays to clean, two miserable,
tiny windows, stuok so high up you
oan’t see out of them, and a cellar
trap door in the middle that takes up
a good quarter of the room; no water in
brought in; and the well way down
front of the house; not a single con-
venience to make work handier or
easier, and poor mother has had to
put up with it all those years! why
doesn’t pa have that door cut through
for ber?”
She shrugged her pretty shoulders,
“Say, do tell me if this ham is thin
enough. I want my sandwiches to be
first class.”
Giles Hewitt was distinctly taciturn
at the dinner table that noon, and in
view of his lowering countenance the
meal proceeded in unpleasant si¬
lence. Immediately after dinner he
made ready to drive to Hoyt with a
load of grain. It was second nature
for Esther to anxiously wait on him
when he dressed to go anywhere. She
always put out his olothes, brushed
them, tied his cravat, saw that he had
a clean handkerchief, but to-day he
told her coldly to go about her work,
he would help himaelf. Presently he
came into the kitchen where she was
washing the dishes to blacken his
shoes. Phew, hot it was, and how
darK that little corner where the
cracked square of looking glass hung,
beforo which he fumbled with his
j oravat!
Esther stood at the sink with her
j back to him, and just opposite the
! tra P door was a ^e cross chalked
on the rough wall boards, marking
* where she wanted the outer
dcor ut- Somebow the sight of the
innocent mark angered & him again, P
She seemed , to , , have chalked , it f a
purpose, and he went out slamming
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gJ^Tookin^ver^ „ n a in nil in
^ " £ pretty and dainty
. q simpl !aw sa nd big hats and
quite overflowing with the pleasuar-
t(i i Pflve
* J 0 ® * J , . f , ’ , rln'thft dishes
j „ pen Bently, “but we
*
had ^ make reftdy See> the Warren
< toys are driving in the gate now.
^^olfowed to'take" a"look? a
fond> proud look aftel . them as they
rode awa y with their cavaliers.
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i higher and higher in the tube ou the
| s t oopj the fowls went with drooping
; wingg and gaping beal-.s, the cattle
g^ght grateful shade and ruminated
j n gba u 0 w pools, the house dog dug a
g rave behind the currant bushes in
w bieh he lay panting with lolling
t on g lle) vegetation shriveled and
w jit e d, the earth was cracked and
baked; but by and by clouds gath-
ered j n the west aud gusts of wind
oapr jciously swirled the dust and
caU g b t up sticks aud straws in elfin
dauce s. An old farmer driving by
ca u e d to a man digging a ditch in a
field, “I gue 3 S the dry spell is broken.
^ shower is coming up.” The lie
j ag b ed his wet, jaded team so as to
d jgtance the storm if possible.
A gloom almost appalling settled on
the landscape, the bees flew to the
hives, the cattle snorted and raced
about, frightened at the rolling of
thunder and the shooting of javelins of
fire from the jagged clouds.
There was a going in the tree-tops,
a strange, distant murmur of millions
of rain drops advancing with the swift¬
ness of a mighty host.
“I wonder if Giles shut the barn
door?” said Esther, burying out; then
there was a thunder-clap that seemed
to shake the universe to its founda¬
tions, and a blinding, swirling deluge!
It was four o’clock when Giles Hewitt
jogged homeward. Dixey aud Topsy,
his big black mares, resented being
held down to a sober gait and tossed
their heads aud snorted as they
splashed through puddles. The clayey
mud caked the wheel-rims, streaked
the spokes aud clung in tenacious
blobs to the hubs. Everywhere were
signs of the storm’s havoc, aud Giles
was conscious of certain ugly misgiv¬
ings lest the new barn, the pride of
his heart, might have suffered; but no,
as he turned a corner he saw it sil¬
houetted on its hill, dominating the
landscape, the shining weather-vane
all agleam with reflected glories of the
west.
He breathed more freely now aud
critically scanned his neighbor’s
fields to see what damage had been
wrought. liis white
When he came in sight of
frame house he wondered to see a num¬
ber of people in the yard. Then he
said, “By George, if the old elm hasn’t
been struck. What a shame!”
Dan Conly, his neighbor, hurried
to meet him as he turned up the drive.
His face was ghastly. What on earth
ailed the man?
“Isay, Hewitt”—he clasped hi*
hands mechanically as he called—
“stop a minute—hold ou—I want -to
tell you—God Almighty! man, how
caul? The lightning struck—-Esther’s
dead! Whoa there!” catching the
reins that fell from Hewitt’s palsied
hands and leaping to the seat beside
him. “Lean on me! There! There!
You had to know it. God! but it’s
rough."
Kind neighbors stood aside in silent
groups as Giles Hewitt tottered into
the room where Esther lay.
Oblivious of spectacles he fell on
his knees beside her with an exceed¬
ing bitter cry.
“Esther! Esther! You are not dead!
Speak! Look up! Yon were always
good, Esther. You were never un¬
reasonable. You shall have that door
made. You shall, I say. Somebody
get Johnson.”
Crazed with shock and anguish lie
stroked her cold hands. “Speak to
me, Esther, speak to mo. Do you
want the door?”
Some of the neighbors left the room
weeping. In the next room Mrs.
Couly rocked hysterically back Riid
forth.
“The Lord knows I can’t stand it
to see a man going on so,” she cried.
“It’s just awful. I says to Dan, says
I, ‘Break it to him gently, Dan, kind
o’lead up to it;’ and there; he’s just
gone and right out with it and shocked
him crazy. Hark! there he goes again,
talking senseless-like about a door.
He’s clean out of his mind!”—New
York Independent.
A CREM ATION IN SIAM.
The Variety of tlio Funeral Festivities In¬
dicates the Departed’s Dank.
If there is any time when the Siam¬
ese may be said to hold sports, it is at
a notable cremation. Ordinarily the
dead of Siam are burned at a glial
common to all who cannot afford the
considerable expense of a private con¬
flagration; and when the wood of the
funeral pyre has been consumed the
body is well roasted, aud the attend¬
ant vultures are given a chance to
clean the bones. Those who can af¬
ford it build the funeral pyre within
their private walls, where festivities
are held during the burning, aud in¬
vitations issued to friends, that they
may come and behold the honor paid
their dead. The bodies of those in¬
tended for private cremation are em¬
balmed, and usually • kept for some
time—often many months. One Siam¬
ese gentleman, when inviting me to
the proposed cremation of his brother,
informed me that the distinguished
deceased had been awaiting combus¬
tion for a year. The extent aud char¬
acter of the festivities on such an oc¬
casion depend entirely on the length
of purse of the deceased’s remaining
relatives. But as some people gauge
the social importance and erstwhile
political “pull” of a departed brother
by the number of carriages his friends
muster at the funeral, so also in Siam
the variety of the funeral festivities
marks the wealth and status and the
grief of the bereaved family.
On the afternoon or evening of the
appointed day the guests asssemble
and witness the simple ceremony of
the yellow-robed priests of Budlia.
Subsequently the nearest male relative
fires the pyre, and then, while the
flames crackle and the late lamented
hisses and imps like a green pippin on
a spit, his grieving family and friends
grow merry over the cakes and sweet¬
meats and wines, while men hired for
the occasion perform at several games,
and even, on rare occasions, do some
little running and jumping. The game -
nearest approaching one of skill is a
sort of fence play with short sticks
fastened to both arms. Once in a
while one sees at these human barbe¬
cues a kind of boxing, the art of which
seems to be in parrying with the arm
and open hand the thrusts that never
have any serious intention of landing.
—Harper’s Weekly.
Blue Doses at Last.
The blue rose, which, with the black,
has so long been the subject of horti¬
cultural research, has, it seems, quite
unexpectedly made its appearance in
a Continental garden. Ilizanlik, in
Bulgaria, whence the rarity is reported, oi
is a district renowned for its attar
roses, and consequently the flowers
are grown on a very large scale. The
owner of the blue rose is M. Staut-
cheff, who when visiting his collections
one day noticed on a bush that had
hitherto produced blooms of a pale
rose color five greenish-blue roses of a
hue recalling the delicate tints of the
turquoise. Samples of the soil wherein
this rare plant has grown have been
sent to the chemical laboratory of
Sofia to be minutely analyzed. It is
known to be rich in lime, ammoniac,
salts of copper and oxide of iron.—
London Post.
The Dead Irishman.
Some Irish body-snatchers had
rifled a grave, and hid their booty in
a corner of the churchyard, when it
occurred to a half tipsy fellow, who
had been watching them unobserved,
that it would be pleasanter to be
driven back to the nearest town than
to walk. He accordingly secreted the
dead man under a hedge and lay down
in his place. He was duly transferred
to a cart; but, when about half the
journey was over, one of the men who
had touched his hand screamed to his
friend, “Good God! the body is
warm!” Hereupon, in a deep voice,
the supposed dead man remarked;
“If you had been where I’ve,been for
the last two days, you’d be warm too!”
In a moment he was left in full pos¬
session of the vehicle!—From Sir M.
E. Grant Duff’s Diary.
An Elecftic Head Dress.
At a dance recently given by the
“Bachelor Maids,” a society of young,
women at Bryn Mawr, Penn., a prize
was offered for the most brilliant and
inexpensive head dress. It was won
by Miss Gertrude Sousleigh, whose
hair was decorated with three minia¬
ture incandescent lights, while a
fourth sparkled in her corsage. A
small battery, which she hail con¬
cealed among her clothing, supplied
the power, and as the wires were
thickly covered, she was just as safe
as her rivals, who shono resplendent
in diamonds.
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DIFFICULTIES ABOUND
Our Boys Inthe Philippines
Have Hard Times.
THE HEAT IS PROSTRATING
Morong In Possession of the Americans.
General Lawton Searching
For Major Truman:
Advices from Manila under date of
June Gth were to the effect that the
American forces have occupied the
peninsula and General Hall’s column
is encamped at Morong. |
Major Truman, marching across the 1
Binaugouan, found it impracticable to
form a cordon, and the insurgents,
with the exception of a hundred or
two, escaped through the mountains
after General Kio del Pilar, dragging
their battery by buffaloes at night. A
few, however, may be trapped. |
The Washington troops have return- ,
ed to Pasig, but the program of the
other troops is uncertain. i
The present expedition shows the
difficulty which is encountered by an :
army which must depend upon wagon I
trains in catching barefooted bandits
in their own mountains, and all alone,
is nroof that the rebels do not intend
to ~fight battles. General Hall and left
Santa Teresa Monday morning
marched twelve miles to Morong, up
and down rocky hills and through
woods and swamps.
Scores of men fell out, owing to the
extreme heat, and were left to follow
as best they could. The head of the
army arrived at noon, having exchang-|
ed only afiw shots with insurgents on !
their way. Groups of stragglers fol-
lowed all day, but the force was 200 j
smaller than when it started. The 1
almost thirty-six hours with¬ I
men were
out rations and it was considerable of
an achievement for them to cover the
) -
ground they did.
En route to Morong the Americans
met flocks of lilipinos and flags of
truce, many of them young men with
the bearing of soldiers. Many dis-
carded uniforms were found in the
houses, apparently those of soldiers
who had escaped by changing their
costuiqes from“insnrrecto” to“amigo”
and walking boldly past the army
which had expected to corral them. !
Few were found about Morong.
General Lawton, on board a gun-
boat searching the coast for Major
Truman, stopped at Binangonan, op-
posite Morong. The natives immedi-
ately ran up a flag of truce, but a
delegation in canoes put off and
greeted the Americans with the usual
protestations of friendship. j
AGED WOMAN TESTIFIES |
As To Horrible Treatment Received At
Hands of a Brute.
The trial of Grant Bell, charged
with criminally assaulting aged Mrs.
Lumpkin, was proceeded with at Ce- 1
dartown, Ga., Tuesday. Mrs. Lump-
kin told to the jury the story of the
assault and the closest possible atten-
tiOD was paid her recital, which at
times w T as dramatic and hysterical.
The aged lady almost broke down
when the climax of her struggle was
reached and members of the jury,
spectators, lawyers and court officers
shed tears without an effort at re-
straint. Those who witnessed the
memorable scene say that no such j
touching and impressive sight was |
ever enacted in the Polk county court
house.
Grant Bell, the defendant, made a
statement ih which he asserted that he
was innocent of the charge.
SATISFIED WITH HENDERSON.
The New York Republicans Indorse
Iowan For Speakership.
A conference of republican congress¬
man of New York state to decide on a
candidate for the speakership for the
house of representatives was held at
the Fifth Avenue hotel Tuesday and
resulted in a decision to support David
B. Henderson, of Iowa.
The conference went into session
behind closed doors.
CHAriBERS IS SAFE.
Samoan Commission Has No Power To
Remove Chief Justice.
A Washington dispatch says: No in¬
formation has come from any official
source to the effect that the three con¬
suls and the chief justice at Samoa
were to be relieved.
The impression prevails among the
officials that Mr. Osburne, the Ameri¬
can consul, has been fortunate enough
to avoid making enemies at Apia, and
he is believed to be obnoxious neither
to the German nor the British elements.
As to Chief Justice Chambers, the
Samoan commission it is said, has no
power to remove him.
THEY BOOMED BRYAN.
Democrats of District of Columbia
Have Enthusiastic Meeting.
The democrats of the District of
Columbia held an enthusiastic meet¬
ing Monday night, at which . many
speeches eulogizing Bryan and ind ors-
ing him for the next president was
made.
There was forwarded to Mrs. Will¬
iam J. Bryan, of Nebraska, a fine
marble bust of her husband, for pre-*
sentation to her on her birthday.
SPEER ADDRESSES LAW CLASS.
WpII Known Jurist Discusses Status
ol the Negro In the South.
The baccalaureate address delivered
to the law class of Mercer university
at Macon, Ga., Wednesday morning
by Judge Emory Hpeer was remarkable
in the selection of the question dealt
with before such an audience. Judge
Speer devoted his whole time for half
an hour to an enunciation of his viaws
on the attitude of the white people of
the south, and especially of Georgia,
toward the negro, as the result of the
commission of the many awful crimes >
against white women.
The speaker said that the punish¬
ment of the criminal must be kept
within the bounds of civilization and
within the pale of the law and the
courts. The contrary course, he said,
is debasing and effective only in de¬
laying final correction and prevention.
In emphatic tones and gesture Judge
Speer said:
“I solemnly assert before this dis¬
tinguished audience, with a full knowl-
edge of the import of what I say, that
the crimes that have so inflamed the
white people of this country against
the negro race are foreign to these
people, whom I have known and loved
«»>ce my childhood, and whom I will
know and love until my eyes are closed
death. The negroes themselves
most assist the whites m hunting down
arresting the outcasts in order
that the J ma Y remove the onus of the
that they are in sympathy,
Jh* country constabulary districts force should of the be state made in
e ®° lent \
The judges of the superior courts
be selected from the highest in-
telligence and moral character of the
a ‘ a ‘e. Rewards should be promptly
offered, rnd above all things, that aec-
tlon of the ™ d e which provides
a K a 'ust any expression of opinion by
a and l^Age which in charging expression in criminal constitutes cases, an
on which the supreme court
“ust grant a new trial should be re¬
P ealefi -
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CONFLAGRATION IN AUGUSTA.
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Property To the Amount of $250,000
Destroyed By Flames.
Augusta, Ga., was visited by a con¬
flagration Wednesday afternoon in
which $250,000 worth of property was
wiped out, ,
The fire 8tar ted in the drug store of
D aven p 0 rt & Phinizy. A negro was
m i x j n g a po t 0 f venus turpentine,
Fire got ln tbe pot and the flames
8pread 80 rapidly that emplovees in
t he front part of the store barely had
time to escape,
The flames made quick headway and
in a short white the following stores
aud stocks were burned out:
Kress & Co., five and ten-cent store,
i OS s$10,000,insurance$7,000; Lamkin
& Co ; groce rs, loss $7,000, insurance
|s t 000; Thomas & Barton, musical in-
8 t rU ments, bicycles and furniture, loss
$24,000, insurance $24,000; Alexander
Drug Company, loss $17,000, insurance
$12,000; Davenport & Phinizy, loss
$o 4i000 , insurance $22,000; Stulb &
Co.’ liquor dealers, loss about $5,000,
insurance about $3,000; Smytlie A
Co., china store, loss about $7,000,
insurance$7,000; William Schweigert,
jeweler, loss very slight, fully covered
by insurance. The buildings burned
w r ere valued in the aggregate at about
$150 ,000; insurance about $75,000.
Besides these there were a number
smaller losses, as tbe upper stories
0 f 4be Duiltlings were used as offices,
making the to tal losses in the neigh-
borhood of $250,000.
Savannah and Macon were tele-
grap bed to for assistance and the Cen-
tral ra ij road ], ad spe cial trains in
readiness to bring engines and hose
when word wa8 8ent tba t the fire had
ex bausted itself. During the height
of the excitement 10,000 rounds of
cartr i d g e s in the armory which was
also burned began to explode and for
a b 0 ut an hour there was an incessant
fusilade of shots that sounded like a
rea j battle,
CUBANS BEING PAID.
Over Orie Thousand Have Received
Pro Rata—-Bogus Certificates Sold.
A special from Havana says: Colonel
George M. Randall paid 193 Cuban
soldiers Tuesday at Jeruco and re¬
jected 44 others. This makes 1,347
Cubans paid by Colonel Randall.
It was discovered that four Cubans
were selling fraudulent certificates of
service in the Cuban army, charging
$4 each for them. This so enraged
several soldiers who had legitimate
discharges that they badly beat the
sellers of the bogus certificates.
REDUCTION IN ORDER.
Governor McSweeney May Cut town
the Constabulary Force.
A Columbia, S. C., dispatch says:
While there is some talk of a reduction
of the constabulary office to about
thirty or forty, there is no cliauce of
anything being done immediately.
Governor Ellerbe himself had been
urged to reduce the force to fifty men,
but declined to do so.
Governor McSweeney at present has
no thought of abolishing the force al¬
together. However, be proposes to
consult with other officials iu regard
to the reduction and that will unques¬
tionably result.
SHOT HUSBAND ANlTwiFE.
An Alabama Negro Commits a Cold-
Blooded Double Murder.
One of the most outrageous and 1
brutal murders was perpetrated small Mon¬
day near Pearson, Ala., a sta¬
tion on the M. & O. railroad, twenty
miles south of Tuscaloosa, when Alex.
Hill, colored, Bkot and killed Mr^
yard Rufus of Hubbard their home. and wife inBMMfH|H
rel Tlio tragedy was the resul^H
over wages.