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OCILLi DISPATCH.
OilM.A, .GEORGIA.
•HENDERSON A HANLON, Publishers .
That Ceory that thore is nothing
in a name is going to be severely
tosted when people begin to eat adul¬
terated foods that are called by their
rea! names.
The average boy or girl has no use
whatever for geometry, algebra,chem¬
istry, physical geography, or ancient
history as studied in the average pub¬
lic school, says the Washington Post.
It is of the utmost importance that he
should know thoroughly the principal
rules of arithmetic, should be able
to spell correctly, write a good hand
and read and speak without mispro-
nouuclng words.
Our system gives a man a kind of
self-reliance, of ingenuity, of adapta¬
bility, which in the last war the Old
World wondered at, calling it respect-
fully “the power of initiative.” And
this, if a man ever does settle down
with his whole heart aud soul to one
job, makes him pretty good at it. In¬
deed, the American has found, as the
athlete finds, that the development of
his energies in any direction helps
bim in all others.
The total school enumeration of
Connecticut is 184,336, and tlie in-
crease of registered pupil was 2.71
per cent, in 1898, as compared with
1.7 per cent, the year before. The
r* eighteen “’“•“r shows **?•••*'* trom
years an increase
$1,144,245 to $2,159,591 in running
expenses, aud total expenditures for
school purposes in the same time have
from , $1,408,373 , AD to , $2,896,142. ononc-wo :
risen ,
The value of school property iu the
state is $9,879,922.
The railways of the United States
pay annually „ m . interest . , , on ,, their moi t- ,
gage bonds about $250,000,000 in
round numbers. They pay iu divi-
dends to their tookholders only about
one-third of this sum, ’ or about $87,-
iu the last for which fig- .
000,000, year _
ures are available. There are not
watitiug indications, however, that in
future the tendency will be to increase
the payments to stockholders, , , ,, aud ,
decrease those to the bondholders,
says the Engineering Mews.
Languages form over 62 per cent.
of the studies of the freshman in the
department of arts and sciences in
Cornell university, and over 52 per
cent, in the sophomore year, Lan-
guages, philosophy, history and po¬
litical science form 75 per cent, of the
studies of the freshman aud over 85
per ceut. of the studies of the sopho-
mores iu the same department of art
and sciences. It is obvious that “sci-
enoe” is the small end of this depart-
ment, although Cornell is often spoken
of as a scientific institution.
Tlie geologist's time of activity is
here. Like the bicycler and the grass-
hopper,he enjoys the summer months.
The science . of . geology . embraces , the ,,,
eft’ th, and everything connected with
the earth. This amounts in the end
to the universe and theories. The
geologist b ° has discovered manv inter-
-
esting things about the earth, and he
surprises a layman by the large way
he talks of things. He speaks of old
mountains and of young mountains,
like the Alps'; of the filling np of
oceans and of the making of new ones
by the crinkling of the earth’s sur-
face tike a baked apple’s skin. He
uses homely illustrations like this for
the masses to understand, aud, peer¬
ing over his spectacles, seems to hold
the world iu the hollow of his hand.
American genius aud industry are
competing successfully with European
labor in its home markets. Of the
$6,500,000 worth of American agricul¬
tural implements exported in the last
nine months Europe took $3,250,000
worth; of the bicycles sent abroad,
amounting to $4,000,000, Europe took
$2,750,000 worth, of the shipments of
builders’ hardware, valued at $5,500,-
000, European powers took $2,500,000
worth; exports of sewing machines
aggregated $2,225,000, of which $1,-
360,00<> worth went to Europe; and
$1,430,000 worth of the exports of
typewriting machines, amounting in
all to $1,684,000, went to the same
markets. Fifty per cent, of our ex¬
ports of furniture and lumber,’ two-
thirds of our exports of mineral oil,
four-fifths of our exports of cotton¬
seed oil aud nine-tenths of our exports
of sole leather were bought by Euro¬
pean countries.
success comes always to those who
believe in printer’s ink judiciously
* used. Let us have your advertise-
ment.
WITH A DESPERADO.
By Rev. William E. Barton.
A TRUE STORY.
N the days when I
was a student in
college I spent my
vacations in the
mountains ofKen-
^ £ t school, u c k y selling teaching
8 ^ books, and giving
occasional talks on
r\ Jt popular subjects of
to the parents
MM my school chil¬
dren. These so-
called “lectures”
tp M were the by what delivered schoolhouse called in
? was
(lilVij! fifil though “candle-light,'"al- the light
..,„ was mostly made
by pine torches in
the great open
gW fireplace,
The first of these lectures was on
temperance, a practical subject, aud
suited to the locality, for although
ij quor i 8 ma de aud too much is con-
sumed in the mountains of Kentucky,
there is no place of which I know
where there is a more strenuous aud
wholesome temperance sentiment. So
my lecture was well received in the
schoolhouse on Richland Creek, and
j wag i nv ited to deliver it again on
Horse Lick.
Horse Lick was eighteen miles dis-
n0Qn> haying dismigged gchool eftrly
for the purpose. A mountain preacher
met me by appointment on the way,
and rode the remainder of the dis-
tanoe with me. We were well mount-
ed 0Q ^ sturdy hor8e8> and the
r j de was pleasant, save as it brought
nearer the strange audience which I
bad rashly promised to address with
all too meagre preparation. It began
to grow | upon me that although I
mig t witw preaumpt ion give in¬
formal talks to the people about my
own schoolhouse, talks hastily pre-
pared aud necessarily superficial, but
? ot witho ' lt value th f.,° r ;
lgmal purpose, it was quite another p
thing to go to a strange locality and
attempt a formal lecture with the same
material.
However, on one point I felt toler-
ably strong—the part of lqy lecture
dead . w jtq, intemperance and
crime. In my own schoolhouse I had
used as the “awful example” the
well-known case of the then
desperado of the adjacent county, Pal
Seagraves. Every one in our although county
knew who Pal Seagraves was,
he preferred to do t the most of his
mischief in the nearest blue-grass
county, Madison, and when pursued,
to take refuge in the mountains of
Jackson itself knew all too much of
what he could do, but much as he was
hated there, he'was feared more, and
few ventured to turn him from their
door when he came np and asked a
night’s lodging, and perhaps a place
i u which to hide. So with the whole
county of Jackson for a hiding-place,
and more than half its homes open to
him, he rode in and out at will.
Pal Seagraves consumed more un-
colored corn whisky and killed more
men than any other man in that part
Kentucky. I never knew just how
mauy ^ men he had killed, ’ but the total
was gmal , Murder was a mftttei .
0 £ with hinx; sometimes he had
killed a man for no other apparent
purpose than to terrify a neighbor-
hood and make his name more potent.
Sometimes, so ran the explanation,
“he was jea’ drunk and didn’t keer. ”
| j£ 9 wa3 an excellent warning for use
in a temperance lecture in the county
where he was known by reputation
i only. He might not serve so well in
the county where he made his head¬
quarters. But that county was Jack-
son, and Horse Lick, to which I was
going, was there, in “the free State of
Jackson,” as it is called.
I eagerly asked my companion about
! Pal Seagraves^ for his possible pres¬
ence at my lecture would necessitate
radical changes in it, and I had no
time to make them. Much to my re¬
lief, I was informed that ha was gone
—gone, they hoped, for good. Being
hotly pursued by the sheriff for a
crime in Madison County, he was said
to have ridden away into a distant part
of .the State.
Immensely relieved, l gave myself
anew to thought upon that part of my
lecture, and material for it accumu¬
lated, as the road was eloquent with
tales of Seagraves.
“Right here,” said my companion,
“Pal Seagraves killed a man.” We
were watering our horses in a ford.
“Right where?” I asked.
“Right here. They were watering
their horses together. They had had
a fuss, and expected to shoot at sight,
and they met on yon bill, and the
other fellow got the drop on Pal. But
Pal begged him not to shoot. He told
him they were good friends. He
swore that he would stand ‘ by the
other fellow if the other fellow
wouldn't kill him, and he, feeling
good to have humbled Pal and to have
made him his defender, shook hands
with him. They rode down here and
watered their horses together, aud
while the other fellow was looking
down at his horse, drinking. Pal shot
him.”
Later my friend pointed out a double
log house, with barn across the nar¬
row road.'
“In that house and barn sis me n
concealed themselves and waylaid Sea- of
gvaves. They filled him so full
lead he hasn’t dared to go in swim¬
ming since, folks say. They thought
he would die, sure, but lead can’t kill
him.”
I remembered the incident, for I
had chanced to ride in the stage with
his mother on her way to see her son,
whom she believed to be dying. “My
Pally,” she called him, and told me
that she herself had named him
tine, “bekase hit’s a good Scriptur’
name." She was curiously proud of
her boy, although disapproving his
oriines; sorry that he did as he did,
but admiring his hardihood and power.
I had seen Seagraves himself once.
He had galloped by me, frightening
my horse with his reekless speed and
yell, and turning toward mo as he
passed a pair of fearful eyes. Whether
he was light or dark, wore a beard or
not, I could not recall, but I could not
forget those eyes, and I knew that I
should know him again if I ever saw
him.
By this time the thought of Pal Sea-
graves had well-nigh absorbed the lit¬
tle part of my lecture that was devoted
to other aspects of the liquor problem.
I had no thought of naming him, but
I knew that every one would know
whom I meant, and I was quite willing
they should know, inasmuch as he was
at a safe distance. And so the lecture
began. cultivating
I was a boy of twenty,
my first mustache, and the minister
who introduced me told the people
who filled the schoolhouse not to de¬
spise my youth, for, said he, “Ireckon
he’ll talk well, and I know he’ll give
you the best he’s got.”
I was through with my introduction,
and had started well upon the body of
my lecture, and had reached the topic
of intemperance and crime.
I had just got into this when the
door opened, and in came Pal Sea-
graves. He had a companion before
whom he was evidently minded to
show off, aud both were more or less
drunk. Respectful room was made
for them, and they sat well toward the
rear, but in plain sight, and their
coming sent a perceptible chill over
the audience, and worse than a chill
over me. I tried not to look that way,
but turn as I would to this corner and
that, I saw nothing but'those eyes. I
talked on from sheer inability to stop.
I could not forget what I had to say.
I could not change it. I had to go on.
I confess I tried to soften down
some of my illustrations, but it seemed
to me that every such attempt brought
the statement out in all the more un¬
compromising form, I grew almost
I soon saw that Seagraves recog¬
nized his portrait, and counted it a
good joke. He winked at his com-
panion and nudged him. Tlien he
laughed, first softly, then aloud, and
then a coarse, defiant laugh. This ir¬
ritated me and steadied my nerve
somewhat, and I began to say to my¬
self that he should hear the truth
about himself once, anyway. So I
gave myself more liberty, and went
straight ahead.
His laughing mood did not continue
long. He scowled; he scuffed his
feet on the rough floor; he made some
discourteous noises; and all the time
I talked on as if driven by fate, every
word sounding harder and more sting¬
ing than I had meant it to, even when
I supposed that he would be absent.
At length he rose aud started to¬
ward me, lie walking unsteadily, partly
because was drunk, partly because
such is the custom of human centaurs
when compelled to use their own legs. I
It was not because I wanted to that
looked him straight in the eye. I
could not help it. And I talked on
because I could not stop. Perhaps
my looking at him had an effect; per¬
haps he counted me small game; for
he turned on his heel and went out.
Many mountain schoolhouses have
no glass windows, but this one had,
and at one I soon saw the hideous,
grinning, angry, drunken face of the
desperado. There are few faces that
look well through a window at night,
but I am willing to affirm that no face
ever looked less attractive than his
did to me. It was plain that he was
undeoided what to do, for I could read
his thought in his drunken features.
At times he seemed tempted to shoot
me through the glass and again, he
remembered apparently that I was a
boy,' aud that to kill me would he a
little out of his line, and could do him
little good.
As before, I kept my eyes on him,
and every eye in the schoolhouse was
fixed with mine on that pane of glass.
His curiosity soon overcame him, and
he came in again, apparently a little
more sober, and partly restored to
good nature by the fresh air. And I
found means about that time to draw
my lecture to a close.
In that part of Kentucky the min¬
isters descend after a service, and the
people come forward and shake hands
with them. I was a sort of brevet
minister, and the preacher and I
stepped down. The first man to come
up and extend his hand, which he did
with a swagger, was Seagraves.
I took the hand which he extended,
and asked, “Will you tell me your
name, sir?”
He told me his name with emphasis
9
“Do you live about here, Mr. Sea-
7
graves?” I asked. It was a stupid
enough question, but it was all that I
could think to ask. To my surprise
it abashed him. He felt an apparent
humiliation that he had left it possi¬
ble for any mau to enter Jackson
County and not know his name.
Turning on his heel, he went out.
My friend, the minister, got to¬
gether a group of people to walk with
us to our stopping place aud protect
nfe in case of need. We passed tlia
ruffian, who was watching for us in
the shadow of the schoolhouse, aud
his attitude and a growling curse con¬
vinced my friends that the precau¬
tions were not unnecessary.
By the time Pal had taken one or
two additional drinks, ha appeared to
repent of having let me off so easily,
and came galloping up to the log house
where we were entertained. I had
gone to bed, and was making some
mental calculations of the thickness of
the walls when I heard his voice.
My landlord went out to the fence
aud reasoned with him. Pal demanded
that “thepreachers” should be brought
out. He wanted to see both of them.
If we did not come out, he would come
in and fetch us out. And there was
more talk of this sort, emphasized now
and then by the firing of a bullet over
the house.
My host pleaded the law s that govern
hospitality, and seemed to be urging
my youth in extenuation of my con¬
duct. Somewhat mollified, Pal at last
rode off, and as the light of the new
day was coming in, I ceased to wonder
if he would return again and fell
asleep. Pal
That was the last time I saw
Seagraves; but I was told a year ago
that he has settled down into a shift¬
less farmer, and “rides on his raids no
more.” About three years sinoe, his
nerve shaken and his aim less true,
he found himself with empty pistols
looking into the loaded barrel of a re¬
volver in the bands of a younger and
equally desperate man, and gained his
life by the hardest begging upon his
knees.
The stock in trade of such a des¬
perado is chiefly the fear which his
name excites. The power of his name
to frighten once broken, his poor,
sham courage oozes out, and Re stands
confessed a coward. I never knew a
ruffian who had not in him some patent
elements of cowardice. The swagger¬
ing and bluster of t\je desperado rarely
go with true courage, which, as I have
seen it, is almost uniformly modest
and at the root, moral.
Now, they told me, “Anybody can
kick Pal Seagraves around,” and
“When a fight begins, and you see a
man going through the brush to where
he’s tied-his horse, and hitting the
road right lively—that’s Pal!”—
Youth’s Companion.
WISE WORDS.
The greatest remedy for anger is de¬
lay.—Seneca.
Kindness out of season destroys au¬
thority. —Saadi.
Avarice is the vice of declining years.
—George Bancroft. ■
Curiosity is one of the foi’ms of
feminine bravery.—Victor Hugo. '
Behavior is a mirror in whioh every
one displays his image.—Goethe.
The last pleasure in life is the sense
of discharging our duty. Hazlitt.
They that will not be counseled cau- ;
not be helped.—Benjamin Franklin. !
If a man is worth knowing at all he j
is worth knowing well.—Alexander
Smith.
Life is not so short, but that there
is always time enough for courtesy.—
Emerson.
Fine sense and exalted sense are not
half so useful as common sense.—
Alexander Pope.
He is rich or poor according to what
he is, not aooordiug to what he has.—
Henry Ward Beecher.
He that overvalues himself will un¬
dervalue others, and he that under¬
values others will oppress them.—
Johnson.
AcEversity is sometimes hard upon a
man; but for one man who can stand
prosperity there are a hundred that
will stand adversity.—Carlyle.
No man is the wiser for his learn¬
ing. It may administer matter to
work in, or objects to work upon; but
wit and wisdom are boru with a man.
—John Selden.
Fatalities in Modern Wars.
The ratio of killed to wounded has
not become greater in modern mili¬
tary conflicts than in those of former
days. At Kunersdorf it was 1 to 1.9;
at Leipsic is was 1 to 2^, among the
British in the Crimea it was 1 to 4.4;
among the Frenoli iu the Crimea it
was 1 to 4.8; among the Prussians at
Koniggrate it was 1 to 3.6; among
the Austrians at Koniggratz it was 1
to 3; among the Germans in 1870-71
it was 1 to 5.4; in our own Civil War
it was 1 to 4, and in the Spanish-
American struggle it was 1 to 5.6.
In the late Spanish war the casual¬
ties before Santiago, from July 1 to
12, were a little over eleven per c&nt.
There were present for duty 858 offi¬
cers and 17,358 men. Twenty-twc
officers and 222 men were killed, and
ninety-three officers and 1288 men
were wounded.—New York World.
# Makes the Densest Forest Known.
California redwood, says a writer in
the National Geographic Magazine,
covers an area of about 2000 square
miles, lying in a narrow strip along
the Pacific coast, chiefly between San
Francisco Bay and the Oregon bound¬
ary. This tree is exempt from de¬
struction by fire, as it contains no
resin, but has in it much water, and
will not burn when green. It is a
cheap timber, worth $14 per thousand
feet in Eureka for the best. A red¬
wood forest is probably the densest
forest on earth, both from the size of
the trees and their closeness. The'
sun never shines about the base of
these trees.
RIOTERS SHOT DOWN
—
Bloody Conflicts Occur In
Valencia, Spain.
TROOPS TAKE POSSESSION
Mob Barricades Thoroughfares and Are
Fired Upon By the National Sol¬
diers—Hundreds Wounded.
According to advices of Sunday very
sorious disturbances are in progress
at Valencia, Spain. Under the orders
of the captain general of Valencia,
General Molto, the troops occupied
the streets Saturday morning and now
hold all the strategic points. At the
beginning of the riots the mob placed
obstacles on the street railway tracks
and stopped the cars, stoning the gen¬
darmes when they tried to remove the
barriers. Finally the troops charged
and the first shots were fired. Sev¬
eral persons were wounded. In one
case a bullet passed through a shop
and killed a man within. As the day
advanced, disorders increased.
Troops were stationed at some points
and the artillery was held in readi¬
ness. The rioters thereupon erected
barricades which the cavalry captured
only after fierce fighting, in which
many were wounded.
At 8 o’clock in the evening the mob
attacked a monastry and the brother
■who was acting as gate porter was
obliged to defend himself with a re¬
volver.
They then moved upon a jesuit
house, whioh had a narrow escape
from being burned to the ground, the
troops arriving jnst in the nick of
time to prevent the mob from setting
in on fire.
An enormous number of arrests have
been made. It is not known how
mauy were wounded.
At a late hour the generals held a
conference and decided to .continue
the military occupation of all points I
of vantage. !
The mayor of Valencia issued a
proclamation callhsg upon the people
to cease resisting the law.
The riots were renewed Sunday and j
the rioters stoned the gendarmerie in
barracks. It is reported that a captain
of the gendarmes was severely injured
by flying missiles.
PRESENT TO M. CAMBON.
Ambassador Receives Costly Loving
Cup From President McKinley.
President McKinley has presented
to the French ambassador, M. Cam-
bon, a superb silver loving cup in
recognition of the ambassador’s friend-
ly services in the negotiations which
restored-peace between the United
States and Spain. The beautiful tes-
timonial was sent by Seoretary Hay to
the French embassy, accompanied by
a note frem th' secretary iu which,
speaking for the president, he express¬
ed sincere appreciation for M. Cam-
bon’s considerate and disinterested
service, and tendered the loving cup
as an evidence of the esteem felt for
him.
The cup is of massive proportions
and chaste design and.the international
significance of the gift is shown iu the
blending of the French aud American
coats of arms. It stands about two
and a half feet high, with the top of
the bowl about ten inches across. The
outer service is silver, richly emboss¬
ed, while the inside is of hammered
gold. Around the outside of the bowl,
in raised old English text, is an appro¬
priate inscription.
WHEELER aOES TO MANILA.
Reported That General Will Soon Get
Orders To Sail.
A special to The Chicago Record
from Washington says that General
Wheeler will receive orders within a
few days to go to the Philippines.
Secretary Alger is quoted as saying:
“All that I can say about General
Wheeler at this time is that he has
asked to be sent to the Philippines.
What service he may perform there
will depend upon Major General
Otis.”
SWEETHEARTS FIGHT A DUEL.
Illinois Boy Declined To Marry and
Trouble Ensued.
A special from Arlington, Ill., says:
Charles Saltseman and Miss Kate
Horfoldsteimer fought a duel with re¬
volvers in a buggy near Beatonville,
Ill., Wednesday night,and the doctors
believe both will die.
The cause of the duel was the desire
of the young woman that Saltsemau
should marry her and the refusal of
the young man,who had been keeping
the company of Miss Horfoldsteimer
for mauy months.
POLICE ATTACKED BY MOB.
Gendarmes Fired Upon With Fata!
Results At Barcelona.
A special from London says : De¬
spite assertions to the contrary, riot¬
ing in Barcelona was renewed Wednes¬
day night. A mob stoned a number
of shops and were charged by the gen¬
darmes.
The mob fired revolvers at the gen¬
darmes, who returned the fire.
In the encounter three geudarmes
aud a large number of rioters were
wounded. Eighteen arrests were made.
SILVER’S CHAMPION J
AT GAINESVILLE <
Hon, W. J. Bryan Addressee Big
Audience of North Georgians.
A GUEST OP CHAUTAUQUA
Glowing Tribute Paid Nebraskan
By Governor Candler.
William Jennings Bryan spoke to a
2,000 people at the Gainesville, Ga., j
Chautauqua Wednesday at noon. He
was met at the depot by Governor
Candler and staff, Mayor Gaston and
a large number of citizens. He was
enthusiastically welcomed by several
thousand north Georgia people.
After an informal reception the party
filed into the crowded auditorium. Mr.
Bryan was introduced by Governor
Candler in a five-minutes speech in
which he beautifully introduced Mr.
Bryan as the providential leader of
the forces of the wronged masses
against the wronging classes. He
spoke of Luther, Calvin, Cromwell,
Napoleon, Washington, Jackson, Jeff¬
erson and Bryan as providential lead¬
ers raised up for emei gencies.
Mr. Bryan began his address in
compliment to the purity and courage
of Georgia’s chief executive aud from
this combination of virtues drew a ,.
lesson for American people and
preached a sermon on patriotism from
this text. His theme was “Pendin &
Problems,” and from this introducto¬
ry talk it was an easy step to the body
of his effort. He appealed first to
patriotism, then to partisanship. He
defined government as affirmative and
negative and from these premises took
np some cuirent “Pending Problems”
for discussion.
He alluded to the differences of
property owners and wealth producers
and opposed in an enthusiastic way
those who fought the income tax
issue. He alluded next to the money
question and adduced his favorite ar¬
guments for bimetalism and free coir-
age.
Lastly and more at length he touch-
ai ] in 7 question and opposed as
imperialistic the proposed republican
increase of the standing army to one
hundred thousand, and spoke for
nearly an hour against expansion and
against the drift of the government
policy from its foundation principles
as enunciated in the declaration of
independence.
Bryan made little attempt ator-
atorial display and less at wit. His
address was clear,compact aud logical
in form and cool and unimpassioned in
delivery. He was listened to with at¬
tention and cheered heartily time and
again.
At the conclusion of his Hand speech two
thousand people shook his as the
audience poured out of the ball.
The noted speaker, the governor
and his staff and other distinguished
guests of the city and the chautauqua
were elegantly entertained at luncheon
during the afternoon at Yonah hall.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
Various New Industries Established
During the Past Week.
Among the more important of the
new r industries reported during the
past week are coal mines in West Vir¬
ginia; two cotton mills in Georgia, one
each in South Carolina and Texas, and
a cotton and woolen mill in Virginia;
a cotton seed oil mill in West Tennes¬
see; electric light and power plants in
Arkansas, Louisiana, South Carolina
and West Virginia; a fertilizer factory Al¬
in Mississippi; flouring mills in
abama and Virginia; furniture facto¬
ries in Kentucky and North Carolina; a
gas machine company in Louisiana; an
ice factory iu Arkansas; kaolin mines
in South Carolina; a knitting mill in
Georgia; lumber mills in Alabama,
Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, North
Carolina, Virginia and W r est Virginia;
a natural oil and gas company in West
Virginia; an oehre mill in Georgia; a
railway motor manufactory in Virginia;
a sash, door and blind factory in North
Carolina; steel work* in West Vir¬
ginia; a stova foundry in Kentucky; a
telephone company in East Tennessee;
tobacco factories in Kentucky and
West Virginia; zinc mines in Arkan¬
sas and a ramie machine company in
Texas. — Tradesman (Chattanooga,
Tenn.)
MEMPHIS WILL REMEMBER.
Celebration of the Fourth Was Costly
To the Tennessee City.
July 4, 1899, will remain memorable
as furnishing a full share of excite¬
ment and disaster for Memphis, Tenn.
A day of activity in the employment
of fireworks in celebration of Inde¬
pendence day closed with a conflagra¬
tion entailing a loss of between $400,-
000 and $450,000, including the his-
toric Gayoso hotel.
Added to the monetary loss was the
probable fatal injury of ex-Fire Chief
J. E. Clary, the serious hurting of As¬
sistant Fire Chief J. V. Ryan, the
death of a negro in the American Bis¬
cuit company's plant.
NO POST FOR BISMARCK.
Kaiser Has Not Tendered Ambassa¬
dorship As Reported.
A special dispatch from Berlin says:
The officials of the foreign office has
em plwitically denied to Press the correspond¬ that Em¬
ent of the Associated
peror William has offered Prince Her-
bert Bismarck the post of ambassador
at Washington or any other diplomatic
post.