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milk DISPATCH.
OCILLA, GEORGIA.
IRWIN COUNTY PUBLISHING CO.,
Proprietors.
A New York preacher says any
woman who opens her husband’s let¬
ters runs the risk of destroying her
happiness. But she has known that
all the time. She wouldn’t bother
with them otherwise.
It is proposed that no man shall he
eligible to a consulship who cannot
speak the lauguago of the country to
which he desires appointment. This
will be a very marked improvement,
and yet thore is one thing even more
important than ability to speak the
language, and that is the possession
of brains.
It is only very recently that atten¬
tion has been drawn to the fact that
America is likely to become the chief
eourcs of the world’s supply of coal in
the future, just as she has become the
world’s chief granary and the leading
supplier of iron and steel. Owing
largely to the increasing scarcity of
coal iu Europe the price of that com¬
modity abroad has been rising by leaps
aud bounds, and has almost doubled
in two years.
If, as recent letters state, a work¬
able deposit of coal has been found
within a few miles of Dawson City, it
moans a great deal to the mining in¬
terests of tho Yukon. The reports
say that 8000 tons have been taken
out ready for shipment, which is very
probably nu exaggeration. But the
presence of coal, even of comparative¬
ly poor quality, ought to result iu a
considerable reduction in the cost aud
difficulty of mining and living in the
country, observes the Engineering
aud Mining Journal.
’fhe 1900 Census Superintendent
-offers the popular language a new
word—median. Heretofore it claimed
only an anatomical and an entomo¬
logical usage. Now the necessity of
^statistical science has given it a tech¬
nical numerical meaning. Given a
sequence of 99, the number 50 would
represent the “median;” that is to
say, there are as many numbers of the
sequence before it as after it. The
“median” age of the people of the
United States is 21 years. Thore are,
that is, a3 many people in it who are
older than 21 years as there are who
are younger. This is quite a differ¬
ent thing from the “average” age of
the people of the country, which is25
years. If all new word usages were
as sensible as this there would be no
objections offered.
The old saying that “cotton is
king” weut out of favor years ago, and
iu the corn belt of this country there
is a firm belief that “corn is king.”
If this belief is true King Corn will
Jo well to look to it that his crown is
on straight, or it may fall off. The
new claimant for the kingship of trade
is oar coal pi^duct. The initial sale
of a little lot of two million tons of
Alabama ooal to Europe via New
Orleans is merely the first trickle of a
stream in its neural bed. At Pitts¬
burg a single tc^takes twelve hun¬
dred thousand tons of the sooty cargo
to the mouth of the Mississippi. The
Eastern seaboard will get its share of
the trade by the new railroads recently
reorganized into shape for business.
Germany cannot supply her own de¬
mands. England is short of coal.
Every step in colonial expansion and
naval activity and world-power rivalry
moans more coal consumption, aud the
only source of supply with a surplus
seems to be iu the United States.
The bulletin recently issued by Dr,
Andrews, Superintendent of the pub¬
lic schools in Chicago, calls attention
to the faot that the apparent dullness
or inattention of pupils is quite fre¬
quently duo to defects ia sight or
hearing. Such pupils will struggle
along against these physical disadvan¬
tages without disclosing their nature,
and the low marks they receive in
daily reoitations and final examina¬
tions are directly attributable to these
imperfections. Ia the boroughs of
Manhattan and Brooklyn, New York
City, these defects are ascertained by
medical examination, and ample pro¬
visions are made to place defective
children in the most favorable loca¬
tions for seeing and hearing. In Chi¬
cago these disabilities must be located
so far as possible by the teachers,
and whenever found the pupils, ac¬
cording to Dr. Andrews’s suggestions,
must be properly cared for in a way
that will give them equal advantages
with children that are physically per¬
fect.
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Old Sol’s Face Will Be Obliterated
By the Moon.
PHENOMENON WILL BE INTERESTING
Astronomers Are Making Great Prepar¬
ation* For Observation Date
Is May £8.
A ,, Washington r , . special . , snys: The
forthcoming total eclipse of the sun on
May 28 is attracting world-wide atten¬
tion, and astronomers everywhere have
long been making preparations for ob¬
serving and photographing the phe-
nomen on. Besides making the usual
time observations, interest largely cen¬
ters in photographing the corona, the
coronal streamers, the spectra of the
chromosphere, and particularly the
celebrated flash spectrum appearing
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THE PATH OF THE ECLIPSE THROUGH THE UNITED STATES.
both at beginning and end of totality.
Fortunately it will be possible to wit¬
ness the phenomenon from many sec¬
tions of the United States.
The Johns Hopkins University ex¬
peditions to observe the solar eclipse
will work in unisou with the United
States Naval Observatory and under
the supervision of the latter. The ob¬
servations of the Naval Observatory
will be divided among five parties. At
Pinehurst, N. C., there will he four
astronomers from Washington, under
the direction of Professor Skinner; the
Johns Hopkins party, and a party from
the Coast and Geodetic Survey, under
Professor G. A. Bauer. At Griffin,
Ga., there will he one Naval Observ¬
atory party, consisting of Dr. L. S.
Mitchell, of Columbia University;
Professor Henry Crew and Dr. Tatall
of the Northwestern University of. Vir¬
ginia, and L. E. Jewell ot the Johns
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POSITION OF THE PLANETS.
Hopkins University; Professor S. J.
Brown, Astronomical Director of the
Naval Observatory will conduct obser¬
vations at Barnesville, Ga. The col¬
leges and universities of the country
will be well represented. Expeditions
will be dispatched by Harvard, Yale,
PRICE OF FLOUR TUMBLED.
Chattanooga Millers Get Mail an<l Reduce
Price Fifty Cent. Per Barrel.
The cut of 50 cents on the barrel of
flour made by one of the Chattanooga
mills Thursday created a stir in the
city Friday and several hundred bar¬
rels changed hands at the reduced
price, the millers limiting sales, how¬
ever, to any one dealer to ten barrels.
The cut grew out of a misunderstand¬
ing between the mills, a combination
having been formed some time ago to
keep up the prices. One miller re¬
duced the prices and the other in a
rage cut 50 per cent lower.
BROTHER KILLS BROTHER.
They Were Partners In Business and Had
a Disagreement.
At Arlington, Ga., Thursday night
in the store of J. 8. Cowart & Bro.,
the former in defending his own life,
shot to death his brother and partner,
J. W. Cowart. The two brothers have
been engaged in the turpentine, lum¬
ber, general merchandise and exten¬
sive farming business there for a num¬
ber of years. A business misunder-
s'anding arose between them.
Columbia, Princeton, (lie University
of Pennsylvania, the University of
Virginia, the University of Chicago,
etc.
On May 28th the circular shadow of
the moon cast by the suu upon the
earth, and about eighty miles in diam¬
eter, will come sweeping across the
American continent, from New Orleans
to Capo Henry. Along the centre of
the path traveled by this swiftly mov¬
ing shadow the sun will be completely
hidden for a period of about two min¬
utes, More than track forty miles away, on
either side of the the eclipse will
be partial, not total.
An eclipse of the suu that will be
visible can occur only when the moon
j g new> At that time she passes ex-
actly between the earth and the sun.
According to the calculations of Pro¬
fessor Lumsdon, the round black
shadow of the moon, like a great arm,
will sweep in out of space some time
after sunrise iu the morning of May
28th. This gigantic arm will come in¬
to contact with the earth somewhere
near the Revilla Gigedo islands iu the
Pacific ocean. With tremendous ve¬
locity the shadow will rush toward the
maiulaud and will enter Mexico, near
Corrientes, at a speed of more than
one hundred miles a minute. In eight
minutes it will have crossed the Rocky
Mountains, and by 7:30 central or 8:30
eastern time it will have crossed the
Gulf and entered Mexico. Then on it
will pass, over its selected path, until
it is lost again in space.
The period of totality of the eclipse
varies at different points along the
track. At the Rocky Mountains the
spectacle will last but about thirty
seconds, and at New Orleans the peri¬
od will have been lengthened thirty-
seven seconds. At Union Point,
Greene county, Ga., the center of the
path for the United States, the time of
totality will be 92 seconds, while
those who are at the Atlantis coast,
just south of the city of Norfolk, will
be able to continue their observations
for 105 seconds.
REEVES MAKES CONFESSION.
Deputy Auditor of the Island of
Cuba Admits of Wrong
Doing.
A special from Havana says: W. H.
Reeves, deputy auditor of the island
of Cuba, made a confession at mid¬
night Frid.yy and gave up $4,500 given
to him by C. F. W. Neely, the arrested
financial agent of posts at Havana, to
perform certain services the day he
left. General Wood and the postal
inspectors refuse to disclose the na¬
ture of the confession, barely admit¬
ting that one has been made, It is
claimed that $1,400 more will be re¬
covered.
General Wood says that the report
from Muncie, Ind., that nearly $2,-
000,000 worth of stamps have been
printed there and sent for distribution
to Cuban postoffices can be regarded
as a canard.
It is believed now that the whole
story is known and that the amount of
the defalcation will fall bet ween $100,-
000 and $125,000.
Hoppstad In Possession of Methuen.
Lord Roberts telegraphs the Lon-
don war office as follows: “Kkoonstad,
May 18.—Methuen entered Hoppstad
Thursday unopposed. Generals Du-
prey and Daniels and forty men have
surrendered.
ENVOYS HEAR THE NEWS.
I!oer» Now Visiting IT. Are Informed of
the Belief of Mafeking.
The first intimation of the relief of
Mafeking which came to the Boer en-
voys now in this country was convey¬
ed to them by a reporter of the Asso¬
ciated Press, who boarded the con¬
gressional limited, upon which they
were being conveyed to Washington,
as it passed through Baltimore. Abra¬
ham Fisoher, who acted as spokesman
for the party, read the dispatches from
Pretoria and London carefully, hut
without show of emotion.
“I have no comment to mako at this
time,” he said.
STRIKERS SENT TO JAIL.
i Two Get Terms of Six and a Half Months
For Contempt of Court.
In the United States district court
at Little Rock Friday, Judge John A.
Williams imposed a jail sentence of
six months and thirty days uyon Guy
Miller and Alden Hayes for contempt
of court in boarding a street car and
interfering with the non-union motor-
man and conductor who were cm-
ployes of the court receiver now oper-
ating tho street car system.
! j GEORGIA NEWS ITEMS
Brief Summary of Interesting
Happenings Culled at Rand cm.
Cott.on Growers* Convention.
The cotton growers’ convention
held at Macon the past week was one
of the largest convocations of repre¬
sentative planters and business men
ever held in Georgia. The convention
was called for the purpose of effecting
an organization of the cotton planters
which would enable them to secure a
better price for cotton. Five hundred
delegates were present, representing
every oounty in the state, and com¬
posed of planters, warehousemen,
manufacturers, merchants and law¬
yers.
The convention was addressed by
Hon. lloke Smith, Hou. Pope Brown,
president of the State Agricultural
Society; Hon. J. F. Hanson, Harvey
Jordan, Jacob Haas, I. B. English and
others. Mr. Smith in his address said
in substance that the value of the
south’s cotton crop is further reaching
in its effect than any other product of
the soil, its aggregate annual value
being over §300,000,000. He stated
that during the last one hundred
years the money paid for the cotton
raised iu the United States amounted
to 815,000,000,000, of this amount
811,000,000,000 was received for cot¬
ton exported. He said that in fifty
years the consumption of cotton had
increased from 2,500,000 bales annual¬
ly to 18,000,000 bales annually, an in¬
crease of 700 per cent. He advised
the farmers of the south to organize so
as to control the marketing of their
crop on such a basis as would secure
to them its real value.
The convention concluded with the
organization of the Georgia Cotton
Growers’ Association, aud elected
Harvey Jordan president, F. M.
Longley vice president and N. R.
Hutchinson secretary and treasurer,
aud an executive committee, composed
of three representatives from each
congressional district.
The plan upon which the work of
organizing the farmers is to bo effect¬
ed was referred to the committee on
organization and the executive com¬
mittee jointly—the convention ratify¬
ing in advance any plan that might be
adopted.
Macon was chosen as permanent
headquarters of the association.
* * *
Edwards* Nomination Confirmed.
The nomination of Harry S. Ed¬
wards, the novelist, to be postmaster
at Macon, was confirmed by the sen¬
ate a day or two ago. The withdrawal
of opposition of Senator Bacon made
this action a certainty. During an
executive session the nomination was
called up and on motion it went
through. It is not- known when Mr.
Edwards will take charge of the office.
Astronomers Pleased.
Professor W. W. Campbell aud As¬
tronomer C. D. Perrine are very much
pleased with the favorable surround¬
ings they find at Thomaston for the
establishment of the Lick observatory
station. They find that the site upon
which they are now erecting the build¬
ings, constructing towers, spreading
tents and installing the many and va¬
rious pieces of astronomical parapher¬
nalia, while but a very little higher
than any other in and around Thom-
aston, is still the highest of any along
the entire shadow path of the eclipse,
and is, therefore, the most desirable
and suitable point from which to make
observations of the changing phenom¬
ena of the eclipse to be found along
the entire belt of locality.
A "Battlefield** Reunion.
An enthusiastic meeting of the At¬
lanta committee appointed to take
charge of the big reunion of the
veterans of the blue and the gray to
be held in the trenches of the battle¬
field of Peachtree creek was held a day
or two ago in the room of the Atlanta
Business League.
The first work done was to select a
name under which the committee
would work, After some discussion
it was decided to use as a caption,
“The Atlanta Battlefields’ Reunion.”
Athens Will Issue Bonds.
By a vote of the citizens of Athens it
has been decided to issue bonds to the
amount of $30,000 for the purpose of
improving the sewerage system of the
city. The final vote was 325 for issu¬
ing bonds and 7 against it.
At the next meeting of the city
council the method of floating the
bonds will be decided upon, and they
wil j j sgue d immediately. The
bonds will bear 4 per cent interest,
payable annually, and will be excel-
lent investments,
This Issue Important.
The supreme court of the state has
consented to receive the briefs of all
counsel in Georgia on the right of a
municipality to impose a business tax
on street railroad companies. The Sa¬
vannah case, the Savannah, Thunder¬
bolt and Isle of Hope railway against
the mayor of Savannah will be taken
up by the court for hearing, and as the
case involves the general right to im¬
pose a business tax on railroads, the
court is willing to hear from all parties
interested in the decision. It is under¬
stood that a 'number of briefs will be
filed by the counsel of eeveral muni¬
cipalities.
New Trial For Lucas.
The supreme court of the state has
reversed the judgment of the superior
court of DeKalb county in the case of
Will Lucas, sentenced to the peniten¬
tiary for life after being convicted of
the murder of Robert F. Davis on the
night of May 12, 1899, The judgment
of the DeKalb county court lias been
reversed solely on a point of Inw that
the judge failed to charge the jury on
the subject of oonfessious. Under
the decision of the supreme
court Lucas, who was under life
sentence in the penitentiary, will
be restored to his former status in or¬
der that he may be given a new trial.
In reversing the judgment in the
Lucas case the court of last resort
makes the following comment:
“The failure in the present case of
the trial judge to instruct that ‘a con¬
fession alone uncorroborated by other
evidence does not justify a convic¬
tion,’ ” is the causo for a new trial.
The supreme court upheld Judge
Candler in every other point in the
case, and the confessions referred to
were those of Pendley and Bankston.
The appeal was urged before the su¬
preme court on April 16th by Solicitor
fcimsey, of the Stone for Mountain Lucas, Green cir-
ouit, and the counsel
& McKinney and IT. C. Jones, The
points in the case were gone over in
full and as it was carried up on an ex¬
ception to the decision of Judge Can¬
dler iu overruling the motion for a
third trial, the failure of the court to
instruct the jury on the subject of con¬
fessions was particularly brought forth
by the defense.
Covington Is Booming.
Covington is to have auother cotton
mill to cost 8100,090. The money is
all up, the machinery bought aud con¬
tracts for brick and other material let.
The officers are: T. 0. Swann, presi¬
dent; O. S. Porter, vice president and
general manager; W. 0. Clark, secre¬
tary aud treasurer. Messrs. J. F.
Henderson, N. S. Turner and Dolph
Starr are on the board of directors.
These six gentlemen own the entire
stock of the company. The mill will
be erected on the site of the county
poor farm and the work will be rushed
to completion by October. The Por-
terdale mills have just been completed
at a cost of over 8750,000 and pros¬
pects seem bright for Covington in a
business way.
The killing of Robert F. Davis, an
old farmer living near Decatur, oc-
curred on the evening of May 12th of
last. year. He was shot late at night
as lie stood in a room of his house, the
bullet presumably from a winchester
piercing through the window and in¬
flicting a mortal wound.
DISCUSSED PJSTOFFICE BILL.
Senate Devotes an Entire Day’s Session
to the Measure.
During practically the entire session
of the senate Thursday the postoffice
appropriation bill was under consid¬
eration. The measure was read and
all of the committee amendments were
agreed to except that relating to the
extension of the service.
This created some debate and was
being discussed when the measure was
laid aside for the day. Mr. Wolcott,
chairman of the committee on post-
offices and post roads, vigorously at¬
tacked the committee proposition to
appropriate $750,000 for the pneu¬
matic tube service, declaring the ex¬
tension of the service was unnecessary
and the appropriation a waste of pub¬
lic money. Mr. Maeon, of Illinois,
quite as vigorously supported the
proposition.
TO PAY WAR LOSSES.
Important Bill Relating to Civil Struggle
Passed In House.
For the first time since the civil
war the house Friday passed a measure
to pay Confederate soldiers for losses
growing out of the civil war. It was a
bill introduced by Mr. Cox, of Tennes¬
see,to pay the Confederate soldiers who
surrendered at Appomattox for the
loss of horses and other personal ef¬
fects taken from them in violation of
Lee’s capitulation to Grant by which
officers and men of Lee’s army were
allowed to retain their baggage, side
arms and horses.
The bill originally carried $200,000,
but the specific sum was stricken out.
ATLANTA MARKETS.
CORRECTED WEEKLY. —21
Groceries.
Roasted coffee, Arbuckle $12.80. Lion $11.80
—all less 50c per 100 lb cases. Green collet*,
choice 10%o; fair 0c; prime 8(®9c. Su¬
gar, standard granulated. Now York 5^.
New Orleans granulated 5j^c. Syrup,
New Orleans open kettle 25 (<p 40c.
mixed, choice, 20 @ 18c; Salt, dairy
sacks $1.30@$ 1.40;do bbls.bulk $2.25; 100 3s
$2.90; ice cream $1.25; common ti5<S)70e.
Cheese, full cream 12<® 13c* skims, ll(a>ll%<3
Matches, 05s 45@55e; 200s $1.50@1.75; 30cs
$2.75. Soda, boxes Gc. Crackers, soda 5c;
gingersnaps 5^c. Candy, common cream
stick G)£c: fancy 12® 14c. Oysters, F. W.
$2.20@$2.10, L. W. $1.25.
Flour, Grain anti Meal.
Flour, all wheat first patent, $4.90; second
patent. $4.25; straight, $3.80; extra fancy
$8.65; fancy, $3.50; extra family, $2.85.
Corn, white, 59c: mixed, 58c. Oats, white
40c; mixed 37c; Texas rustproof 40c. ltye,
Georgia $1.00. Hay, No. 1 timothy, large
bales, $1.00; No. 1, small bales, 95c;
No. 2, 90c; Meal, plain, 55c; bran small sacks
$1.00 Shorts 81. Stock meal, 95c per 100
pounds. Cotton seed meal $1.10 per 100
pounds. Grits $2.90.®$3.00 per bbl; $1.30(5)
$1.40 per bag.
Country Produce.
Eggs active at Hatter, Fancy
Jersey, 18®20 ■; choice 15(®18e; fancy
Tennessee 18@22>^e; choice 12®15. Live
poultry, in demand: hens 25® 30e; fry 25@
30c, spring broilers 25 ® 30c, good .sale.
Ducks. puddle, 15 @ 18c, Pek-
ing 22t£®25c, Irish potatoes, 75@85e
per bushel: Sweet potatoes, !'0®sil.00. white yams 60
®70c, pumpkin yams Honey,
strained G@7c;in comh 8®9c; Onions $1.25
per bushel, $2.50 @ $3.00 per bbl. Cab¬
bage, Florida stock, green, 2}^®3c pound.
Dried fruit, apples 5®6c; 5®7, peeled peaches 0®7c.
Figs 6®7c; prunes peaches
15@10.
Provisions.
Dinar side ribs, boxed half ribs
7>^C: rib bellies 7%@8^; 11}£@13%; ice-cured Lard, bel¬
lies 9*^c. quality Sugar-cured 8 %>y. second bams quality 7%@8>£a,
best
compound
Cotton.
Market closed steady; middling 8%c.
MAFEKING RELIEVED
London At Last Hears Glorious
and Welcome News,
BELEAGUERED SINCE LAST OCTOBER
Baden-Pnwell mul HU Idttie Bund of
Defender* Get Hitfh Praise
For Their Succeftft. ma
Advices from London state that■
dispatch of the Associated Press ail
nouncmg the relief of Mafeking wal
posted outside the Mansion House
Friday and the news rapidly spread.
A large crowd collected and quickly
all the streets in the neighborhood
were resounding with cheers.
The war office at 9 o’clock had an¬
nounced that no news had been re¬
ceived, but at 9:40 the lord mayor,
Mr. A. J. Newton, in his official robes
of office, announced the news to the
crowd outside. The lord mayor was
accompanied by the lady mayoress to
the front of the Mansion House,where
an immense portrait of Colonel Baden-
Powell was displayed, beariug the in-
scriptiou: “Mafeking Relieved.” .
The the attendants were waving
union jacks, the lord mayor briefly ad¬
dressed the assemblage saying:
“I wish your cheers could reach
Mafeking”—
Here the speech was interrupted by
redoubled cheering and the singing
of “Rule Britannia,” after which the
Lord Mayor remarked: .
“We never doubted what the end
would be or that British pluck and
courage would conquor at last.”
The masses of people outside the
Mansion House soon grew to such hi-
mension that the police were compell-
ed to divert all traffic, omnibuses,
through the side streets. The
iug is now incessant. The news
also announced in special
editions and the tickers in all of
resorts. The enthusiasm outrivaled
scenes which followed the relief
Ladysmith.
The dispatch of The Associated
Press containing the news of the
lief of the long hes'eged place
sent to the house of parliament,
it created a great deal of
in the press gallery and lobbies
soon began to be circulated among
members of the house of commons. ®
London’s millions spent half
night in tiie street, and even at
o’clock Saturday morning troops afl
young men promenaded, singing
cheering, and there were crowds
front of the Marlborough house,
clubs on Pall Mall aud the war
and in Parliament square, waving
and joining m the national airs.
This sustained bellowing aud
roar of hundreds of thousands ainaH
the Englishmen who ceases for a i«B
ment to be an actor aud
merely an observer. Sober, phleg-
matic London was beside itself with
emotion.
CLARK’S APPOINTMENT
Bj Acting Governor of Montana
flay Not Be Approved By
flinority.
A Washington special says:- The
senate committee on elections decided
at its meeting Friday morning to
the resolution declaring “that William
A. Clark was not duly and
elected to a seat in the senate of
United States by the legislature of
state of Montana. The vote in the
committee was 6 to 3. Those who
voted in favor of pressing the resolu¬
tion were Chandler, Hoar, McComas,
Caffery and Turley.
Pettns, Harris and Pritchard were
against further proceedings on this
line, taking the position that the an¬
nouncement by Senator Clark of his
resignation brought an end to the
matter and placing it beyond the juris¬
diction of the senate. This, they
claim, is in line with all precedents.
Mr. McComas first voted with the
minority, but afterwards changed.
Under the notice given by Senator
Chandler this resolution was to have
been called up Saturday, but owing to
the fact that it was a broken day with
the Grant monument exercises before
the senate, it was decided that it
should go over until Monday.
A DOUBTFUL REPORT.
Rumor Current In London of Big Engage¬
ment Kraal Fan.
The British relief column fought the
Boers at Kraai Pan, thirty-seven miles
south of Mafeking on Tuesday, ac¬
cording to a telegram received Wed¬
nesday night at Lourenzo Marquez
from Molop, 100 miles north of Ma¬
feking, accepted in Lon¬
The intelligence is
don with some reserve because it is
difficult to understand how the news
could have been so quickly put on the
wire at a place 132 miles from the
3cene of the engagement.
POSTMASTER AND CLERKS JAILED.
E. P. Thompson and His Assistants
Lodged In Jailed at Havana. Cuba.
Warrants were issued in
Wednesday evening for the
E. P. Thompson, the Havana postmas¬
ter; W. H. Reeves, deputy auditor
of the island, and Edward Moya and
Jorge Mascaro, Cuban clerks in the
stamp department, and all were soon
lodged in the vivac, or the tombs of
Havana. This was done under the ad¬
vice of the postal inspectors who had
just arrived. It is considered now that
Reeves is equally guilty with Nedjji