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one of the richest pieces in the pail, he
Bad:
•• *lt is good. Gayden. but they have never
struck it as well as we did.’
“The next 1 heard of the old man he was
dead."
The Battle of Louk Ago.
This narrative may make liii»-r«*sting the
story as to how Battle branch came by its
name, as told by one of the participants,
who still lives near by at an advanced age.
“You see,” said he. "that when the rush
was made here upon the departure of the
Cherokees, the stream now known as Battle
branch was regarded as one of the richest
In the whole country. Claims upon it were
disputed right along by dozens of contest
ants, and as there was no law by which
they could be settled, it resolved itself down
into a question of the strongest man. Fin
ally it became necessary for miners to band
together in cliques, according to the state
,'rom which they cam*. The Georgians.
Tennersceans. South Carolinians and North
Carolinians were as so many different colo
nies. each eager to defend the rights of
one of their members. Great ill-feeling fol
lowed. One day in May of 1831. two men
had a fight growing out of a claim on the
branch. The cause of each was espoused by
the Georgians and Tennesseeans respective
ly, the North Carolinians generally siding
Jll.
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Rock Broken Up by the Uttle Giant at the
Hand Mine.
With the Tennesseeans, while South Carolina
Was disposed to Georgia. In the afternoon
a general battle took place, in which there
was charge and retreat and renewed charge
several times. First one side would be in
possession of the disputed territory and
then the other. Shovels, picks and fists
were the weapons used. For two days there
Was such a scene of bloodshed as was proba
bly never witnessed before, not to be ac
companied by hiss of life.
"Rumors brought news of the pending
battle to the Dahlonega colony of miners.
They were compose) of the same elements
as those engaged In the fight. For several
hours it looked as if a sympathetic war
would break out, but little coun
sels prevailed, ami it was de
cided to send a d. legation to Battle branch,
compose*! of two representing each of thi?
four states involved. Two Kentuckians
who were present were permitted to join
the d legation as a sort of balance. For
nearly a day the Dahlonega miners awaited
the return of the 0 a«-e commission. The
delegates returned in about as had a condi
tion as the men whom they had been visit
ing Om by on» they addressed the wait
ing crowd, describing the battle to suit the
prejudices of the speaker. The upshot of it
all was that some men coujd set- out of lioth
eves'; some out of one. and some not at
all. while arms and legs were broken g» n
erally. The Kentuckians wound it up by
declaring:
"If oid Kentucky had a-been than, the
devil would h-been to play."
Ever after the mine was known as Bat-
Th.- mine v/y* !• ism cyrat
■r-'Wby ,fr.'\\.*'Gl McNelley. of The Dahlon -
ga Nugget, and maintains its character as
one of the best in the whole belt.
Colonel Criasom Talks.
Orv* of the best informed men in T.ump
kin county is Colonel frisson, who worked
as a miner in tJs .days of the intrusion
and after. He is brimful of incidents of
pioneer miner life in Georgia. Colon* I Cris
son. in quite an interesting conversation.
"On one occasion several wagons had
drove in about wh re Dahlonega is now lo
c-ited. being headquarters for the diggers.
One wagon drove down on Duncan's branch
lr the afternoon, perhaps Thursday, and
among the H amster's barrels was a ten
gallon keg of extra fine whisky. Next
morring it was missing, and on Saturday
morning it was found in a man's tent some
two hundred yards on the branch below,
covered with pine straw and his blank-ts.
The news spread like wild fire that a man
hid been stealing and that the whisky was
conceal d in his tent. Ry Sunday morning
a crowd of several hundred miners had
grth« red there. The prisoner and keg wer»
brought before the assemblage. Quit:? a
nuanl r of men spoke on the case. Some
were for whipping, sor.x- for cropping and
branding, and others in favor of banish
ment. About this time a tall man got up.
raising his hands above his head and spoke
s »ming to agree well • cough with previous
speeches, then paused and said: ’I wish to
make .m inquiry before making up my mind
I •• whisky ••>!'“ Wli udoaens of voices
cri. 1 out that it was. ‘Let us try omm of
ll.' s.; i II . • -I t. The keg was empty.
•Well, then, I move to fill up with wat r
and lay it on the prisoner's shoulder and
pro.i-.-d to march to headquarters and
thence it be honorably discharge d.’ All
agree-i that it was legal business, the
. <! of perfected 1 guilty.
•'ln the thirties gambling was a legal
I vsiness because no law had been enacted
against it. There were many profession.-, I-
Ists here. Samuel King owned an animal
of considerable fieetness. and would bet
any amount on her. He had beat every one
that had run against her, when a man
named Hanesworth. a Tennesseean, came
to Dahlonega, bringing with him several
race horses. Among them was a small
pray pony. King heard of this celebrated
Sportsman, but knew nothing of the sleepy
looking pony, and was willing to run
against any horse of the lot, except the
•White Sheep.' as King called it. There
being ra -e tracks here -WO yards in length.
Hanesworth agreed with King to add
forty yards to the track, making a full
quarter of a mile, and he would give King
thirty feet and run the 'white sheep'
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against his mare, and bet him SSOO, King
was to ride his own mare, and a twelve
year-oid negro to ride Haneworth's Sheep.
The two principals went to the end of the
track. The limping pony was led
down. King and Hanesworth walked to
gether, and a man that used to time for
King was practicing the mare. The negro
placed the pony on the end of the track
and mounted. The pony dropped his head,
until Hanesworth stepped up and took
hold of the bridle, when he 'peartened’ up
and didn't look like the same horse, but
looked more like flying than running. King
was watching the maneuvering, and when
he saw this he exclaimed, ‘I am took in!
and he was. King's mare was of no more
value.
"Those were days producive of queer
things. In the early thirties the Tennessee
wagons continued to come, and while they
brought a great deal of whisky and bacon
they brought some flour. One bright moon
light night while many of the boys were at
headquarters, a man named Garvice, they
called him Dong Jerry, who was over seven
feet high, while hanging around the wagon
yard, stole a barrel containing about fifty
pounds of flour, and took it about half a
mile down the branch to his tent. Next
day it was found, and now what should lie
done with a man that would steal the like
of that? They hoisted the barrel and put
it on Jerry’s head and marched him to
headquarters to have his trial. They were
determined to punish him, and they did.
They set the barrel on top of a big stump
four feet high, the barrel being three feet
more, in all seven feet high, and lifted
Dong Jerry on top, and he stood there
three hours in the hot sun.
“In the summer of 1830, an old Tennessee
hoosier drove a six-horse team into head
quarters and as usual, loaded with whisky
and bacon, and he brought with him a
son of his wife, a ‘galky’ looking nlneteen
year-old young man, whose grandmother
lived ten miles south of the Chestatee river,
on their way here the old man had bought
a horse and left it with the man from
whom he had purchased for the son to
take h'ome on his return, which was the
next day after they landed. The son start
ed one morning and the following morning
the finest horse of the old hoosier’s team
was missing together with a saddle. To
any party or pa -ties capturing the thief
and hanging him and returning the horse,
the Tennesseean offered a barrel of whisky.
About a dozen boys, who were lounging
around the wagon yard, had their bottles
filled and started on the track of the horse
thief, crossed the Chestatee and soon lost
the track. They returned to camp early
next morning. Another party started,
crossed the river and found the track.
About this time a young man riding a fine
Worse appeared. They arrested him, tell
ing him that he had stolen the horse, to
which he answered in the affirmative. The
drunken crowd was so rough that the poor
ignorant young man could give no further
answer. They re-crossed the river and
brought the horse to headquarters and
■topped the rogue at the foot of the hill
south of the wagon yard, skinned hickory
bark, made a rope and soon had the laddy
going up to the limb of an oak tree. Just
at this time the wagoner and the man
that carried the horse on came up. The
old fellow called out at the top of his voice,
•It’s Bill; be steady!’ Ami they did hold
steady, his feet off of the ground. He
hurried up and. putting his hand on the
victim, said: ‘lt’s Bill, my boy—come
down.’ The bark was slackened and the
young man dropped to the ground, limber
as a rag. The old man called to him, ‘Are
you dead. Bill? Tell me if you are dead,
for. by hell, I am squandered.' Dife re
turned, and the lad began to breathe, then
the old gentleman said. •Bill, did you get a
peep at the better world while ye were outT
Some one spoke out, ’Let us go and get the
barrel of whDky.* The old man said,
‘Downright expensive. Bill's neck and
barrel of whisky for the horse. All right.
Quick sale, short profit. Big business gone
up.’ 1 reckon it was.”
The Female Miner.
In a taiK with” Colonel Price he told me
the story of M4r. Ruth Perdue, afterward
Hampton, wlw was a noted miner. It was
no C‘_usnal. thing to see women engaged in
pan mo.ing. but the most noted of them
all was Ruth Perdue, who took care ot
her claims with all the vim ot a man.
Her husband dying, she married another
miner named Hampton. They heard such
glowing stories of Caiif rnia that they <!•--
c’ded to go there. Reaching St. Joseph,
Mo., they secured a wheelbarrow, into
which alt their belongings were placed,
and taking hold of the handles alternately,
they made their way across the plains.
Years afterward they came back, and
Avnt Ruth died at a ripe old age.
That much gold is secreted by miners
and farmers in the surrounding country
admits of rio doubt. Captain Hall has in
his safe SMO in ones, fives and tens, which
were made in the ) iahlonega mint A man
living in the northern part of the county
drew this money from the mint in 18WJ.
took it home ai d buried it. There it has
lain fcr thirty-four years. Two weeks ago
the owner had occasion to buy a farm,
when he went into his garden and dug
up his buried treasure with which he paid
for it.
"There are many such cases in the coun
ty,“ said Captain Hall, "and it is doubtful
if the full amount will ever be made
known.” P. J. MORAN.
COTTON CONTEST
Will close on August 15th. No
jruesscs will be received after that
date. If you haven’t guessed do
so at once.
IT IS ALMONT A MIRACLE
T'lmt Everybody on the Train Wiim
Not Killed.
St. Louis, Mo., August 3.—The most re
markable feature of last night’s attempt
at train wrecking at Eureka, Mo., was the
escape of the entire train and 183 persons
upon it from absolute destruction. The
desperadoes, who were undoubtedly ac
complices of the fellow with whom Ex
press Messenger Ferguson had a tight,
forced open a car of dynamite that stood
on the side track below the station at Eu
reka and stole two big dynamite cartridges,
that were intended for heavy blasting in
quarries and mines. Each cartridge was
capable of tearing to pieces tons of solid
rock. They were placed by the dastardly
bandits on the rails, the intention being
to destroy the train and plunder the richly
laden express car and probably the pas
sengers.
It is a miracle that the entire train was
not hurled to destruction, for the mis
creants who attempted to wreck it. placed
the cartridges within a few feet of a ear
which contained ten tons of dynamite. Then
they secreted themselves and waited for
the train that was due to arrive a few
minutes before 10 o’clock. The train left
St. Louis at 8:30 o’clock and was only a few
minutes behind, the delay having been
caused by the shooting of the express mes
senger by one of the robbers. When the
forward whee's of the engine rolled on the
cartridges there was a terrific explosion,
which lifted the machine from the tracks
end tore the massive pilot from the bolts
riveted to the engine. All rhe forward
part of the engine was wrecked and twist
ed. and although It was able to carrv the
train a few miles beyond, it was so badlv
wrecked that another engine had to be
procured.
EARTIIQI'AKE IV CALIFORNIA.
Sharp Sliocks nt Lom Anwrles and
Other PlnecM—A Large Meteor.
T.os Angeles. Cal., July M.—This city was
shaken by an earthquake last night at
9:11 o'clock. The direction was from north
east to southwest, though most of the
movement was more of an upheaving than
of an undulatory character. It was a
sharp shock, but did not do much damage.
At Santa Manors and San Pedro a tidal
wave was looked for. but no indication of
one was noticed. At Acton there were three
distinct shocks, the most severe ever felt
in that region, but no special damage is
reported.
A peculiar feature of the shock at that
place, however, was that immediately after
the vibrations ceased » large meteor similar
to the one which attracted attention Fri
day night here was seen to fall to the
north. It appeared to be an immense ball
of fire rapidly moving from the zenith to
the north.
DR. TALMAGE'S TOUR.
THE EMIXFXT DIVINE WRJTFF OF
HAMJII’B EX-QUEEN.
Both Royalists and Annexationists Condemn
Oar Attitude in Hawaiian Affairs.
Hawaiian Politics a Conundrum.
(Copyright, Louis Klopsch, 1894.)
Honolulu, June 18, 1891.—The chamberlain,
come to invite us to th? residence of the ex
queen, had suggested 11 o'clock that morn
ing, as the best hour for our visit. We ap
proached the wide-open doors through a
yard of palm trees and bananas and cocoa
nuts, and amid flowers that dyed the yard
with all the colors that a tropical sun can
paint. We were ushered into the royal
lady's reception room, where, surrounded by
a group of distinguish d persons, she arose
to greet us with a cordial grasp of the hand.
The pictures of her hardly convey an accu
rate idea of her dignity of bearing. She
has all the ease of on? born to high posi
tion. Her political misfortunes seem in no
wise to have saddened her. She spoke fre -
ly of the brightness of life to any one dis
posed to meet all obligations, and at my
sugg stlon we found in life chiefly what we
look for, and if we look for flowers we find
flowers, and if w. ; look for thorns we find
thorns, she remarked, “I have found in the
path of life chiefly flowers. I do not sec how
any one surrounded by as many blessings
as many of us possess could be so ungrate
ful as to complain." She said it was some
thing to be rememb red thankfully that for
fifty years there was no revolution in the
islands. She has full faith that the provis
ional government is only a temporary af
fair, and that she will again occupy the
throne.
She asked her servant to show me, as
something I had not seen before, a loyal
adornment. Nnade’ up from the small bird
with a large name, th? melithreptes I’a
citica. This bird, 1 had read, had under its
wing a single feather of very exquisite col
or. The queen corrected my information by
saying that it was not a singl ■ feather, but
a tuft of feathers from under the wing ot
the bird from which the adornment was
fashioned into a chain of beauty for the
neck. She spoke of her visit to New ) ork,
but said that prolong d illness hindered her
from seeing much of the city. She talked
freely and intelligently on many subjects
pertaining to the present and the futur■
1 was delighted with her appearance and
manner, and do not believe one word of
the wretched stuff that has been written
concerning her immoralities. Defamation
is so easy and there is so much cynicism
abroad which would rather believe evil
than good, that this queen, like all the
other rulers of the earth, has been beaten
with storms of obloquy and misrepresenta
tion. George Washington was called by
Tom I’alne a lying impostor. Thomas Jef
ferson was styled an infidel, and since
those times we are said to have had in
the United States presidency a blood
thirsty man, a drunkard and at least two
libertines, and if anybody in prominent
place and effective work has escaped, "let
him speak, for him have I offended. After
an exchange of autographs on that day in
Honolulu, we parted.
President Dole Greets Ilia Guests
At 1 o’clock Chief Justice Judd came
to the hotel with his carriage to take us to
the mansion of President Dole. It was
only a minute after our entrance when
the president and his accomplished and
brilliant lady appeared with a cordiality of
welcome that made us feel much at home.
The president is a pronounced Christian
man, deeply interested in all religious af
fairs, as well as secular, his private life
beyond criticism, honored by both political
parties, talented, urbane, attractive, strong,
and fit for any position where conscien
tiousness and culture and downright
earnestness are requisites. It was to me
a matter of surprise that at a time when
polities are red-hot in the Hawaiian islands
and President Dole so very positive in his
opinions on all subjects, i heard not one
word against him. Hawaiians and for
eigners are alike his euldgists. When 1 re
ferred to the tremendous questions lie and
his associates itad on hand, he said it was
remarkable how many of the busy men of
these islands were willing to give so much
of their time, free of all charge, to the
business of the new government, and from
what he beflieved to be patriotic and Chris
tian motives. The president is a graduate
of William’s college, Massachusetts, and
when 1 asked him if his opinion of Presi
dent Hopkins, of that college, was as ele
vated as that of President Garfield, he re
plied: “Yes! I think, as Garfield did, that
to sit on one end of a log. with President
Hopkins on the other, and talk with him
on literary matters, would be something
like a liberal education."
The president’s wife is a charm of loveli
ness, and is an artist withal. Her walls
are partly decorated with her pencil. And
though under her protest, as though the
room was unworthy a visit. Chief Justice
Judd took me to her studio, where she pass
ed much of her time in sketching and paint
ing. The ride I took afterward with the
president and Chief Justice Judd allowed
me still other opportunity of forming an el
evated opinion of the present head of the
Hawaiian government. The cordiality with
which we had been received by the pres
ent ruler and the former queen interested us
more and more in the present condition
and the future happiness of the Sandwich
islands.
llenrlnK Both Sides.
Aware of the different ways of looking
at things and of putting things, I resolved
to get the story of Hawaiian affairs from
opposite sides. Me have always taken
it for granted that two and two make four,
and yet two and two maybe so placed as
to make twenty-two. The figure 9is only
the figure 6 turned upside down. There
are not many things like the figure 8-the
same whichever side is up. The different
accounts 1 hear present are reports from
different standpoints.
i had opjtort unity of earnest and pro
longed conversation with a royalist, edu
cated, truthful, of high moral
character, born in these islands, and of
great observation and experience. The fol
lowing conversation took place between
us:
Question—"Do you think the ex-queen a
good woman?”
Answer—"l have seen the queen very
often. 1 have been one of her advisers,
and my wife has been with her much of
the time from childhood, and has seen her
morning, noon and night, and under all cir
cumstances, and neither of us has ever
witessed anything compromising in her
character. She has made mistakes, as all
make them, but she is fully up to the stan
dard of the world’s rulers. She is the im
personation of kindness, and neither my
wife nor myself, nor any one else, has
ever heard her say a word against any one.
In that excellence she is pre-eminent. In
proof of her good character I have to state
the fact that there is not a household in
Honolulu that did not feel honored by her
presence. If she had been such a cor
rupt character as some correspondents have
represented her, I do not think that the
best men and women of the Hawaiian is
lands would have sought her for guest and
associate.”
q. "Do you think she has been unjustly
treated 9 ’’
A "I do. She has been most infamously
treated. M hile our Island was at peace,
and with n.» excuse for interference, the
United States troops were landed. A group
of men backed up by the United States
minister and troops, formed a cabinet and
chose a president, and sent a committee
to the palace and told the queen to leave
Out of sorts!
take
Brown’s Iron
Bitters.
the place. It was another case of Naboth's
vineyard. The simple fact is that there
were men who wanted the palace, and
the offices, and'the salaries. From affluent
position she was reduced in position until
she had to mortgage the little left to her
to pay commissioners to go toW ashington
and present her side of the case. As 1
said she made mistakes, but she was will
ing to correct them, and in a public mani
festo declared that she was willing to
retrace her steps in the matter of the
'new constitution.’ She had as much right
to her throne as any ruler on earth has
a right to a throne; but by sharp practice,
when she was unsuspecting, the United
States troops drove her from the palace,
took possession of the armament, and
Inaugurated a new government.”
The Royalist View.
Q. “If the choice of royalty or annexa
tion were put to the vote of the people,
what do you think would be the decision?"
A. “The queen’s restoration by a majority
of at least ten to one. We who are royal
ists are without exception in tavor ot
leaving these matters to the ballot box.
In the United States the majority governs
and the majority of the people of the
Hawaiian islands ought to have the same
privilege of governing.”
Q. "Are the Hawaiians property holders
or nomads?”
A. "They are property holders. They
have their homes. They have a practical
interest in public affairs. Moreover, they
are for the most part intelligent. You
can hardly find a Hawaiian born since 1840
who cannot read and write.”
Q. “What do you think is the most pro
voking item in the condition of your coun
try?”
A. “It is that a professed friendly power
has robbed us of our government. All the
nations of the earth consider that your
nation has done us a wrong.”
Q. "Taking conditions as they now are,
what do you think had better be done, or is
that a hemispheric conundrum?”
A. "It is a hemispheric conundrum. Our
queen is dethroned, and her palace and her
military forces an» in the possession of her
enemies. While I cannot see any way in
which the wrong can be righted, she has
such faith in the final triumph of justice
that she exp cts to resume her throne. Her
estate, as well as her crown, taken from
h r,she deserves the sympathy of the whole
world. 1 b lieve in republics for some lands,
and monarchies for others. One style ot
government will not do for all styles of
people. A republic is best for the Unit d
States, a monarchy for the Hawaiian is
lands.”
Thus ended my conversation with the roy
alist.
The Republican Side of tl e Case.
But I also had the opportunity of learn
ing the other Sid,? of tills question from a
spirited, patriotic and honest annexationist,
and asked much the same questions that 1
had asked the royalist.
The following conversation betwe.n the
annexationist and myself took place:
Q. "Do you think the queen is fit to
reign?”
A. “No! By her signing the opium li
cence ami the bill for the Louisiana lottery
and by other acts she proved het self unlit
to govern.”
Q. “Do you think that the present con
troversy would be relieved if the question
in dispute were left to the votes of all the
people of the island?"
A. “No' The Chinese, the Japanese and
the Portuguese would join with the natives
and vote down the best interest of the Ha
’ waiian islands.”
Q. "What do you think of the present at
titude of the United States government with
respect to the Sandwich islands?”
A. “Most unfortunate. We are waiting
for change of administration at Washing
ton. Mr. Cl veland bus unwisely handled
our affairs. We want an administration at
Washington which will favor an annexation
and your next presidential election may set
tle our island affairs and settle them in the
right way.”
Q. “What is the present feeling between
royalists and those in favor of the provis
ional government?”
A. "Very bitter and becoming more and
more dangerous and great prudence and
wisdom will have to be employed or there
will be bloodshed.”
Thus ended my conversation with the
annexationist.
A.s I said in a previous letter, without tak
ing the side of royalists or annexationists,
the Hawaiian islands will yet be a republic
in itself. What an amazing thing that
after all the trouble the United States
government has had with the Chinese popu
lation now within our borders, trying this
and that legislation to suit their case, any
American statesman should propose by the
annexation of the Sandwich islands to
add to our population the 22,000 Chinese and
the 12,000 Japanese now living in those
islands. If you want this addition of 34,000
Chinese and Japanese, had we not better
import them from China and Japan?
From what I have seen and heard in
this, my journey, I have come to the con
clusion that it will be a dire day when the
American government hopelessly mixes it
self up with Hawaiian affairs. It would be
disaster to them and perplexity and use
less expense to ourselves. "Hands off,” and
"mind your own business,” are in this case
sentiments that had better be observed by
English, German and American govern
ments.
One lloueHt Man.
Dear Editor: Please inform your readers
that if written to confidentially, I will mall
in a sealed letter, the plan pursued by
which I was permanently restored to health
ami -manly vigor, after years of suffering
from nervous weakness, night losses and
.< shrunken parts.
I have no scheme to extort money frern
any one whomsoever. I was robbed and
swindled by the quacks until I nearly lost
faith in mankind, but thank heaven, I am
now well, vigorous and strong, and anxious
to make this certain means of cure known
to all. Having nothing to sell or send C. O.
D., 1 want no monev. Address,
JAMES A HARRIS.
Box 6'2. Delray, Mich.
FOUR WERE KII.I.ED.
The Lomn by Wednesday Mghi’s Fire
in Clileaaro Wna 51.190.000.
Chicago, Iff., August 2.—Today's revision
of the results of last night's fire in the
lumber district places the total loss at
$1,190,000. The total number of men thrown
out of work by the fire is 2.200 ami the
destruction was so complete that it will
be weeks before most of them can ne
given work bv the firms who suffered.
The list of casualities so far as known
is a sfollows:
Dend.
LIEUTENANT JOHN McGINN, of the
firebcat Geyser, burned; died at county
hospital.
WILLIAM: WOLLENFEL. m Union
avenue, struck by a cap blown from en
gine 25, knocked into the river and drown
ed; bodv recovered.
UNKNOWN MAN, knocked into the river
and drowned.
UNKNOWN BOY, seventeen years old,
burned to death.
The injured are:
Edward Burns, pipeman, burned; will
recover.
Captain Ryrije, engine company 15,
struck in the eye by stream of water;
will lose an eye.
Captain Fa reel, fireboat Yosemite, over
come by smoke; will recover.
John Gary, pipeman, badly burned about
face, body and arms.
Peter Phelan, pipeman, overcome bj' heat
and burned.
Lieutenant Daniel Murphy, book and
ladder company, knocked insensible by fly
ing brick.
J. I’. Flaherty, fireman, hit by swinging
hose, knocked into the fire and oadly burn
ed; will recover.
Otto Richter, fell from lumber pde, two
ribs broken and injured internally; may
die.
Firemen Killed.
Philadelphia, Pa., August 2.—Two firemen
were killed and five injured in a fire today,
which destroyed the mill building at Ran
dolph ami Jefferson streets. The loss will
aggregate $35,000; fully insured. The build
ing was situated in the heart of the mill
district. The names of the two firemen
who were killed are George Geyster and
George Dickie, and they died on their way
♦/» tfie hospital.
ARP AND THE A. P. A.
JHLLBASNO USE FOR BIOOTED SE
CUE! ORGAJiIZATiOXti.
They Are Dangerous to the state Little
Aleck Fought the Know Nothings and
Broke Them Up iu Georgia.
Our farmers are going to be in a bad
fix next winter. They wont have any
nubbins to feed the steers on. I never saw
such big fine corn nor so much of it. I
never saw such fine cotton in Bartow coun
ty nor so much of it. Our farmers made a
fine crop of wheat and oats, and they will
make a big crop of sweet potatoes. The
gardens are fine, the cattle are fat, and
the chickens are juicy. A kind providence
and diligent work beats the alliance and
all its signs and grips and passwords and
resolutions. I see that some farmers in
South Carolina have recently passed a
resolution that they will not sell their cot
ton seed for less than 29 cents a bushel.
If they mean by that to put them back in
the land, it is good, but it they mean to
force the market price, it is as foolish as
our state alliance at Macon, that a few
years ago resolved that they would hold
their cotton until it brought cents a
pound. But farmers generally have quit
such foolishness and have fallen back on
hard work. They had some fun, and a
few of their leaders gut into ottice but the
masses never got their hands in the sub
treasury nor their cotton and grain in
government warehouses. 1 never knew any
good to come of Uiese secret-class associa
tions, except where they are formed tor
charity. Tnuse formed for political pur
poses are a menace to good government,
and an insult to outsiders. t remember
when the know-notning party came into
being and for a few months hovered over
the country like a dark and- threatening
cloud. Those who did not belong to it
felt subuueu and alarmed lor they' did not
know who they were nor whom to talk to
m confidence. Some mornings we would
find the sidewalk spotted with
ted paper triangles that meant
a secret meeting somewhere that nignu
If a municipal election came off the know
no. hings never said a word, but when the
ballots were counted men were elected Wau
were not candidates. Outsiders stood
ugnast. Many would have joined but
were not wanted nor Invited. “Put none
but Americans on guard tonight” was the
patriotic shibboleth, and no foreign-born
citizen need apply. Protestant preachers
were all in, but—no priests nor Roman
Catholics. But soon tne power of money
begun to be felt and some ot the worst men
were nominated for office. About tnai
time Aleck Stepnens had waked up to the
situation. lie stumped tne state against
tite new parti, and so keen was his invec
tive, so masterly his arguments, that good
men everywhere dropped out of it, and
their candidates were defeated. It was
withering and tragic to see the nttle giant
Hash iiis dark eyes and hear him scream;
"How now ye secret, dark and midnight
hags! What is it ye do? A deed without a
name.” Yes, a parly without a name, a
party that darkenetn counsel without
knowledge; a star chamber that would po
litically guillotine LaFayette and Baron de
Steuben, if they were here; a party that
designating hypocrites and disappointed
demagogues originated for their own ag
grandizement.
Well, he killed it in Georgia. Ot course
he had help and co-operation, but he was
the eaiet executioner.
Let me see. Tnat was about fortv tears
ago, and now that same old party has
come io lite again under a new name—uie
A P A.’s—and its vilification Roman
Catholics is just like it was then. Ine
papers sent me from Duluth and Kock
island teem with slander and lies 1h« >
declare the Roman Catholic I'oests to oe
libertines and the convents bagnios,
and the editor of the Duluth pa
ner boldly charges that the cells in
the basement of the convent in Duluth
were built to imprison the nuns who te
fused to submit themselves to the priests.
The Duluth paper says that the assertions
that the Shermans were Roman catholics
is an infamous, slanderous lie and uut n
Rosecruns, McClellan and McDowti.
McCiennard were Roman Catholics they
were utter failures as commanders, that
out of the 141.090 Catholic Irishmen m the
union army, over 100,000 of them d<-.-e.tec,
and that it was Roman Catholic influence
that caused the assassination of Lincoln
and Garfield. They are awful mad with
Mr. Cleveland fur attending high mass on
the death of Carnot, and denounce the pope
for sending old Jeff Davis his apostolic
blessing The anathemas in these papers
are fearful, and 1 don't see hew they can
keep up the lick. When I was young 1 read
a book called “The Awful Disclosures of
Maria Monk.” Maria was an escaped nun
from a Roman Catholic convent in Mon
treal, and her pitiful story was as start
ling as is that of Ida Wells on the southern
people. She sold 250,0<M copies in a little
time, and was a great heroine in the best
society of New York and Boston. But by
and by the whole story was disproved by a
committee of Protestant clergymen in Mon
treal, and Maria had to retire as a fraud
and an impostor. But she made a snug
fortune to retire on, and that is what Ida
is trying to do. Tne fools are not all dead
yet, and she knows it.
But no party can ride into power on tne
waves of persecution, especially religious
persecution. The A. P. A.'s will only make
the Roman Catholics stronger and more
zealous. They are strong now. They can
stand alone, even in a sectarian war.
The pope and the cardinal and
archbishops have recently made
a declaration against the liqui r traffic that
will have a wide-spread influence for gooa
government in this country. 1 wonder what
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Duluth will say about that. But persecu-
Uon bovcotting, exiling, disqualifying lor
Mnriiecal and the Jews, but Haman was
hung and 75,009 of his confederates were
ti°on th of the Ve ßoman Catholics? K a |her
that they vote tne democratic ticket and
is about .b..sum
JU"'? bSS“I3S "r .S’VemiUd m
aS? capacity i fa Protestant can be ob
tained to do the work required. \ he ® e
A? Then!
“ftmfort n in°any way Jefferson" said
that error ceases to be dangerous ''.hen
reason is left free to combat it—and there
IX was a time when reason was as
free and as intelligent as it is now in the
United States. The whole thing is a repub
lican scheme, but it will not work in the
south. Our people are getting hard to fool
■with bait that does not hide '^ oo « Kp
Killed Bis Friend.
Columbus, Ga.. August I.—Young Cham
bliss. stenographer at the Empire mills,
this city, and Jim Corbett, collector for
the Bee Hive store, had a pleasant tussel
this afternoon at the mill. Chambliss
struck Coibett rather severely in the eye,
which nettled him. Corbett struck Cham
bliss a blow over the heart with al) of his
power. Chambliss fell to the ground and
expired in a few moments. The deceased
was about eighteen years old and it is
stated had suffered with a heart affection.
Corbett is about twenty years of age and
is deeply distressed, as the boys were
good friends.
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