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XXV.
g COMING ECLIPSE
D'i SoI’j Face Will Be Obliterated
By the Moon.
PI00.HENON WILL BE INTERESTING
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time observations, interest largely cen
lets in photographing the corona, the
toroual streamers, the spectra of the
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THE PATH 0 ’ THE ECLIPSE TUItODGH THE UNITED STATES.
kft at beginning aad end of totaliiv.
loimnafeJy it will bo possible to wit
, ness the phenomenon from many sec
i tons ol the United Sjates.. _
1 fie Johns Hopkins University ex
' ffiiitious to observe the solar (eclipse
will work in unison with the United
States Naval Observatory and under
He supervision of. the latter. The ob¬
servations of the Naval Observatory
will be divided ainofig five .parties. At
finehurst, : NJ C.,- there will-'be four
astronomers from Washington, under
the direction of-ProfessorSkmner; the
Johns Hopkins party, and a party from
the Coast and Geodetic Survey, under
Prolessor G. A. Bauer. At Griffin,
Ga., there will be one Naval Observ¬
atory party, consisting of Dr. L. S.
Mitchell, of Cofumbla University;
Professor Ileuty Crew and Dr. Tatall
of the Northwestern University of Vir¬
ginia, ami L. E. Jewell of the Johns
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rosmos OF THE PLANETS.
Hopkins University; Professor S,' J.
wown, Naval Astronomical Director of the
vations Observatory at Barnesville, will oonduct obser¬
legee Ga. Tbe col
and universities of the country
*>H be well represented. Expeditions
be dispatched by Harvard. Yale,
PRICE OF FLOUR TUMBLED.
Chattanooga Millers Get Mad and Reduce
Price Fifty Cents Per Barrel.
The cut of 50 cents on the bajjrreVef
Sour made by one of the Chattanooga
■hills Tkufjday-. ereated a stir in the
city Friday and several hundred bar
fe P ! 9 changed hands at the reduced
f ice, the millers limiting sales, how
!I® The r . to any one dealer to ten barrels.
cut grew out of a misunderstand
jc? between the mills, a combination
“Wing been formed some time ago to
*c«p up the prices. One miller re¬
cced the prices aud the other in a
cut 50 per cent lower..
The Rockdale Banner.
Columbia, Princeton, tbe University
of Pennsylvania, tbe University of
Virginia, the University of Chicago,
etc.
On May 28th the circular shadow of
the moon cast by the sun upon the
earth, aud about eighty miles in diam¬
eter, will come sweeping across the
American continent from New Orleans
to Cape Henry. AloDg tbe centre of
the path traveled by this swiftly mov
ing.shadow tbe sun will be completely
hidden for a period of about two min¬
utes, More than forty miles away, on
eithey side of the track the eclipse will
be par tial, not total.
An eclipse of the snn that will be
visible cau occur only when the moon
is new. At that time she passes ex¬
actly between the earth and the sun
According to the calculations of Pro¬
fessor Lnmsden, the round black
isbadow of the moon, like a great arm,
Nvill sweep in out of space some time
^ufter sunrise in the morning of May
28th. This gigantic arm will come in¬
to contact with the earth somewhere,
near the Revilla Gigedo islands in the
Pacific ocean. With tremendous ve¬
locity the shadow will rush toward the
maiuljind and will cuter Mexico near
Corrientes, at a speed of more than
one hundred miles a minute. In eight
minutes it will have crossed the Rooky
Mountains, and by 7:30 central or 8:30
eastern tiino 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 frill 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 Friday end 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
Ijleft.: .-.General Wood and the postal
' inspectors' refuse to disclose the na
Hnrie 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 between $100,
000 and $125,000,
Hoppstad In Possession of Metliuen.
Lord Roberts telegraphs the Lon¬
don war office as follows: “Kuoonstad,
May 18.—Methuen entered Hoppstad
Thursday unopposed. Generals Du
prey and Daniels and forty men have
surrendered.
ENVOYS HEAR THE NEWS.
Iron's Now Visiting Us Are Informed of
IhB Relief of Mafeking.
Th& first .inclination of the relief of
Mafelfflig 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,
it passed through Baltimore. Abra¬
as acted spokesman
ham Fisober, who as from
for the party, read the dispatches
Pretoria and Londou carefully, but
without show of emotion.
“I have no'comment to mako at tms
time,” he said.
CONYERS. GA.. WEDNESDAY. MAY 23, 1900.
CAROLINIANS A UNIT
For W. J. Bryan and th9 Chicago
- Platform.
STATE CONVENTION IN COLUMBIA.
Palmetto Delegates Go to Kansas City
Instructed—Meet I ii" Entirely
Harmonious.
The South Carolina State Demo
cratic Convention in session at Co¬
lumbia Wednesday was karmoniouB
for the first time in n decade and a
unit for Bryan and the Chicago plat¬
form with added planks. W. F. Ste¬
venson, of Cheraw,presided. He con- i
gratulated the state upon the harmony I
in the democratic ranks.
The delegation to the national con- 1
vention was, after debate, instructed
to vote as a unit upon all matters. The
delegates are large are: Senator B. R.
Tillman, Governor M. B. MoSweenoy,
State Chairman Wilie Jones aud A.
C. Latimer.
From tho congressional districts:
First District—W. B. Wilson, Thom¬
as Talbird.
Second District —James H.Tillman,
C. W. Garris.
Third District—T. H. McCalla, W.
J. Steybling.
Fourth District—J.A.Mooney, John
Gary Evans.
Fifth District—T. A. Williams.
Sixth District—D. H. Taxler, T.W.
Bouchier.
Seventh District—J. William Stokes,
W ‘ B Gruber
The platform declares allegiance to
the national party aud demands reaf
firmatiou of the Chicago platform at
Kansas City. It condemns the flnau
c al legislation of the Republican par¬
ty as subservient to trusts and nation¬
al banks.
It decries the power of trusts and
the hvpocritical attitude of the Repub
Mean party, “using money stolen from
the people -J to debauch the ignorant °
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It denounces the foreign policy of
President McKinley, saying:
“The ‘benevolent assimilation’ of
the Filipinos has proven to be the
benevolence of murder and the assim
ilation of robbery. We denounce it as
an outrage to the commences of liber
ty-Ioviug persons. Free institutions
cannot long survive the destruction of
these principles upon which they rest,
ind the spectacle of subject peoples
held dowu by the bayonet aud robbed
by carpet baggers but foreshadows the
fate for our country unless the people
are aroused to our danger. The un
just war of subjugation now being car
ried on in the Philippines bv Presi
dent McKinley should be ended at
once »*
The platform demands a strict ad
heronce ou the part of the United
States government to the solemn
pledges by which congress promised
independence to the Cuban patriots.
The treatment of Porto Rico is also
condemned, and tho wise party lead
e ship of Bryan commended, “believ
iug that he will restore the lost pres
tige of the high office of president.”
Concerning England’s course in the
Transvaal, the platform says:
“Great Britain’s unrighteous course
deserves the condemnation of all lov
ers of self-government, and we de
nouDce the cowardice of the present
administration for not extending an
offer of its good offices to terminate
the unholy war of subjugation.”
Colonel Lawrence W. Youman made
a bitter attack upon Senator Tillman’s
record, but the convention, with the
exception of his vote, passed resoln
tions indorsing his policy in opposing
imperialism.
The convention passed resolutions
condemning the jute trust.
FIVE NEW BISHOPi
Blade By the African Methodist Episcopal
Church Conference.
The general conference of the Afri¬
can Methodist Episcopal church, in
session at Columbus, O., elected five
new bishops, as follows:
M. M. Moore, D. D., Washington.
Evans Tyree, D. D., Nashville.
C. S. Smith, D. D., Nashville.
C. T. Shaffer, D. D., Philadelphia.
L. J. Coppen, D. D., Philadelphia.
But one ballot was taken.
With the election of five additional
bishops the council now contains thir¬
teen, and all elected for life, Bishops
Turner, Arnett, Tanner,Gaines, Grant,
Lee, Salter, Handy and Derrick being
the former bishops.
PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY.
Law-Making Body of Church Meet* In
City of St. Loali.
The 122d annual session of the Pres¬
byterian general assembly, the law¬
making body of the church, began
Thursday at the Washington and Comp¬
ton Avenue Presbyterian church in
St. Louis. Nearly 1,000 commission¬
ers and delegates attended. The ses
siou, owing to important forfeight. matters pend¬
ing, will occupy a
SOLDIER BOYS
SLAUGHTERED
Filipino Force At Catabig Killed
Tweuty*Three Americans.
MACARTHUR SENDS IN REPORT
Department Waited Long Time
To Hear Details of the Un¬
fortunate Disaster.
The officials of the war department,
after waiting for nearly a week to hear
something from General MacArthur, at
Mauila ’ C0Bfirmat °>T of ^ P re88 re
P ort ot tho blooJ y threo dn y s ’ engage
ment at Catubig,which resulted in the
heaviest . loss of life the American army
has sustained in any one engagement
in the Philippines, cabled General
MacArthur Tuesday a request for infor¬
mation. The answer was recoived Wed¬
nesday confirming the press reports
and adding some interesting details.
General MacArthur transmitted a re¬
port from Henry T. Allen, a major of
the Forty-third volunteers, who com¬
manded the United States forces on
the island of Samar.
It appears that this force was divided
among several ports on Samar, and
while details are still lacking, it is be¬
lieved that this particular force, which
was besieged at Catubig, was com
nianded, not by a command officer,
' 3llt by a sergeant, either George or
Ha * 1 V b ‘ > th of ,' vh °“ were kille0 -
Catubig, . where the engagement t oc
curved, is a seaport town of nearly 10
000 inhabitants. General McArthur’s
cable message is as follows:
“Manila, May 18.—With reference
to your telegram of the 14th, the ru
morod engagement in Samar reported
“ cablegram of General Otis, May
4tb > ka s been confirmed by reports re
c<hv ®H bom Henry 1. Allen, For y
third regiment, U. S. V., commanding
Samar island.
“A detachment of thirty-five men
stationed at Catubig were attacked
April 15th by COO men with 200 rifles
and oue cannon. Our men were quar
ter d , . “convent, which , . , was ^ fired .
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“ ext da y by burning hemp thrown
i* 01 ** an adjoining church. e e
*f°bment attempted to escape by the
f 1 .Tf r, ^ en .filing into boat were
killed; 1 remaining men entrenched
themselves and held out two days
IoB e er ‘ faoin g most ad '' er8 e °‘ rcain -
atanoos * untl r e soused b -^ Lleu r . l eaa ? t
-Sweeney and ten men. Over 200 in
lhe attacking party (many of them are
re P or t ed as Having come from Luzon
lslaud ) are ^P^ted killed and many
wounded. Lieutenant Sweeney re
P or * s slreet covered with dead insuI "
£ e ?A?*... Killed—-Sergeants, , „ . ^ I us . ou T
.
George, Wm. J. Hall; corporals, . .
E<1 wards, John F. J. Hamilton, coo ,
B arton K He8a : mu8,c,an - ® urto ? R '
P rivat «f- Trefflie Pomelow,
Otto B. Loose, Stephen Apperttl,John
Noe‘11, John E. Kuhn, Ralph Z.m,
b ' d "' ard Bra,Ban - Choster A. Conklin,
W alt « r ^. ( J° lll “ s ’.^ J ‘ Kerins,Henry
Philip Satin and George J
SIa ck ; a!1 C0 “ pan y H ’ Fort y thlrd
. TT U. S. V.
r881 ® aeu W
“Wounded-Pnvates Lester Enstch- ,
worth. Harry C. Lee, M J. laron, J.
K. Clancy, company H. lor y-- ire
regiment, U. S. V.; Corporal W tte,
company H Forty-third regiment.
“Copy of Henry T. Allen s report
forwarded yesterday by mail Iloilo
(Panay) cable is broken by earthquake,
Difficult to procure “ore e ui elu¬
formation. MacAbthub.
GOV. SMITH DISGRUNTLED.
Saji Apt of Lieutenant Gevernor In Ap¬
pointing; Clark la a Disgrace.
Gov. Robert G. Smith, of Montana,
arrived iu Ogden, Utah, Wednesday,
onroute from the coast to Helena.
Relative to the appointment of Senator
Ciark to the United State senate by
Lieutenant Governor Spriggs, he spoke
in very vigorous terms of what he
termed “contemptible trickery.” He
“It is a disgrace, shame and hu¬
miliation upon the people of Montaua
and the senate shonld not act npon the
resolutions and show Clark that they
do not want him there, as he can take
the hint in no other way. ”
NEGRO METHODISTS
Hold Their Great Quadrennial Conference
In ColambQR. O.
The quadrennial conference of the
A. M. E. church opened at Columbus,
Ohio, Monday with over 400 delegates
present. After preliminary exercises
had been held and the auditorium ded¬
icated to religious services by Bishop
Turner, presiding officer, tbe quad¬
rennial sermon was preached by Bish¬
op A. M. Grant.
Bishop Grant traced the history and
growth of the A. M. E. church, and
imong other facts and figures pointed
out that the church had been growing
in membership at the rate of 34 an
hour daring the last four years.
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MAFEKING RELIEVED
London At Last Hears Glorious
and Welcome Njws.
BELEAGUERED SINCE LAST OCTOBER
Batleii-l’oivell mul HU Litt'o Bant! of
Uefemlerg Get High S,*raU«
For Tlielr Succor).
Advices from London state that a
dispatch of the Associated Press an¬
nouncing the relief of Mnfeking was
posted outside the Mausiou House
Friday aud tbe uows rapidly spread.
A large crowd collectod and tpiickly
all the streets iu the neighborhood
were resounding with olieers.
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 nows to the
crowd outside. The lord mayor was
accompanied by the lady mayoress to
the front of the Mansion House,where
an immenso portrait of Colonel Badon
Powell was displayed, bearing the in¬
scription: “Mafeking Relieved.”
The the attendants were waving
union jacks, the lord mayor briefly ad¬
dressed the assemblage sayin-r:
“I wish your cheers could reach
Mnfeking”—
Here the speech was interrupted by
redoubled cheering aud 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 di¬
mension that tho police were compell¬
ed to divert all traffic, omnibus: s, etc.,
through the side streets. Tho elieor
iug is now incessant. The news was
also announced in special newspaper
editions and the tickers in all of the
resorts. The enthusiasm outrivaled the
scenes which followed the relief of
Ladysmith.
Tho dispatch of The Associated
Press containing the news of the re¬
lief of the long bes-oged place was
sent to the house of parliament, where
it created a great deal of excitement
iu the presB gallery and lobbies and
soon began to be circulated among tho
members of the house of commons.
Londou’s millions spent half the
night iu the street, aud even at 4
o’clock Saturday morning troops of
young men promenaded, singing and
cheering, and there were crowds iu
front of tho Marlborough house, the
clubs on Poll Mall and the war office
and in Parliament square, waving flags
and joining in the national airs.
This sustained bellowing aud up¬
roar of hundreds of thousands amazes
the Englishmen who ceases for a mo¬
ment to be an actor and becomes
merely an observer. Sober, phleg¬
matic London was beside itself with
emotion.
CLARK’S APPOINTMENT
By Acting Governor of Montana
Day Not Be Approved By
Hinority.
A Washington special Rays: The
senate committee on elections decided
at its meeting Friday morning to press
the resolution declaring “that William
A. Clark was not duly and legally
elected to a seat iu the senate of the
United States by the legislature of tho
state of Montaua. 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.
Pettus, 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
tbe senate, it was decided that it
should go over until Monday.
TO TANGLE SITUATION.
Governor Smith Alto Appoints Senator
For Clark Vneancjr.
A Washington special says: The
appointment of Martin Maginnis
for United States senator by Gov
ernor Smith of Montana, has not
•hanged the status of the Clark ease.
The appointment of Clark is recogniz¬
ed even by his enemies as legal.
Unless fraud can be ean proven, the
last appointment was made only to
tangle the situation and the only ef
feet it can have will be the reference
of the credentials of both msn to the
committee and there pigeonholed u»
HI next session.
NO. 19.
BOER ENVOYS
ARE WELCOMED
Unofficial Reception In Their
Honor at Washington.
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS PRESENT
Patriotic Addresses Supporting
the Cause of the Burghers De¬
livered By Various Speakers.
An audienco, remarkable for its
size, sympathy aud enthusiasm, greet¬
ed the Boer envoys at the reception
given in their honor Sunday night at
the Graud opera house, Washington
City, under tho auspices of the con¬
gressional aud citizens’ committee.
Long before tho time for the meet¬
ing to opeu, the house was crowded to
suffocation and many were turned
away unable to gaffi admittance.
While official Washington was not
represented in any manner, there
wero probably thirty members of the
senate and tho house ocoupying seats
in the auditorium and on tho Btage.
Speaker Henderson was in one of the
boxes, and others present were Sena¬
tors Daniel of Virginia, Teller, Till¬
man, Pettigrew, Mason and Welling
ton, Representatives Shaffroth, Atwa¬
ter, Slayer, Glynn, Ruppert, Gaines,
Latimer, Lentz, Sulzer, Landis, Liu
uoy, Ryan, Greene, Henry of Massa¬
chusetts, Hay, DeArmond, Clark of
Missouri, Meirs aud Rhea of Ken¬
tucky.
Oue of the boxes, it was stated, had
been reserved for the president, a
committee having been sent to tho
white bouse with tickets of admission
to the opera house, but no representa¬
tive of the president’s official house¬
hold w-as on hand.
Chairman Sulzer, of the reception
committee, presided, ami a number of
addresses, all of them patriotic iu
character and earnestly supporting till
cause of the Boers, wero made, tb
speakers including Messrs. Fischer,
Wolmarans and Weasels, the Boer
envoys; Senator Wellington, Hon.
Bourke Cockran, of New York, and
Mr. Sulzer.
Chairman Sulzer was the first speak¬
er. After welcoming the envoys and
emphatically stuting that the occasion
was non-partisan aud non-political in
character, he said in part:
“England now and always lias been
the aggressor. The Boers will never
surrender their love of liberty. They
can only be oonquored by being exter¬
minated, aud England must not be
permitted to exterminate them and
steal their homes. Her criminal march
of devastation must and will bt
checked.”
The threo enjoys were introduced in
turn by Mr. Sulzer and eaeh of them
was given a cordial reception. Their
remarks were listened to with close at¬
tention. The audience gave a stand¬
ing greeting to Commissioner Fischer,
who told his hearers why the enjoys
had come to this country and what
they hoped to accomplish. His re¬
marks were very much iu keeping with
what he already has said iu published
interviews.
“We have come across the seas from
two different republics,” said he, "to
see whether here in the hearts of the
people of a greater sister republic tho
spirit of more than a hundred years
ago is still alive, whether the sentiment
that caused its people to take up arms
to obtain its freedom is strong enough
to reoognize the feeling possessed by
ns. We come to yon as a great liberty
loving peofile in whom the sense of
justice and fair play is strong, and
look to you to find a practical scheme
to obtain peace with justice.
“We oome to appeal to your people
and speak to you. as brother Repub¬
licans and to ask for a hearing, and
hope to obtain it. The reoeptions
which we have been given have been
most gratifying to us ever since we
have set foot on yonr shores. There
is no doubt, from assurances received
from all parts of the country that the
sympathy of the people is with us.
We look to you to help us, if possible,
and whether we get assistance or not
we appreciate the kindly feeling which
has been manifested for us.”
BUBONIC IN ’FRISCO.
Dread DUeme Develops In Chinatown
Hut Doctors Not Alarmed.
The board of health of San Fran¬
cisco has adopted a resolution declar¬
ing that bubonic plague exists in that
city. While there are no living cases
at present, there have been six deaths
during the past six months, and they
have decided to take precaution;
against the development and spread of
the disease.
A force of physicians went through
Chinatown Saturday to treat Chinese
with Haffkine prophylactic as a prs
ventive against the plague. The mem¬
bers of the board of health say that
there is absolutely no danger of the
development or spread of the disease.