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"'" a P||gSHRB .The Banner WitHGirc Ton All The News of Cfayers aud Rock dale Couniy. rs>rsiCNJfv>rM XXV. g COMING ECLIPSE D'i SoI’j Face Will Be Obliterated By the Moon. PI00.HENON WILL BE INTERESTING i,llltr8 Are Making Great Prcpar J J tron observa;loll— Date atious r„r Is May 38. * ■-— ' c • A Washington special-'says: The forthcoming total eclipse of the sim on j[ »8 is attracting world-wide atten jT evermore Lave Uon, and astronomers | 0D(? been making preparatromrfor (tffc serving and photographing'.-the phe Besides making the usual time observations, interest largely cen lets in photographing the corona, the toroual streamers, the spectra of the chromosphere, and particularly the celebrated -flush ^peofcrum^pp.eanng V ; i ••• l \M f«' c " y; } I! f tiV 4 £ t .»•••»«* fT * to“*“ '.«*»**^** >4 * 7 pi ^ v\ i : s^0<aw.*r N > Jlj 3u ' \ I \ *5 j ^ :•: *Evww) \ £? i * ^ ^ Arffi yr mr<i r / J o V i c ve V* ®fl fcC5U 4 jsr«e^ N XV a 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 ii* 1 mm =3 /^o9 03 \ IT- \ \\\ rrk 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 ° „ 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 . ° “ “ 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. ‘ ‘ ty. 01min h: om- Wjfll’flhm-fiil citfiflglofiua 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.