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The State of Dade News.
VOL. IX.
KENTUCKY MORE PACIFIC.
The Outlook For a Peaceful Settlement of the
Difficulties is Favorable.
FULL TEXT OF THE PROPOSED AGREEMENT
By Which Both Parties Propose to Be Governed.
Troops to be Removed From Frankfort, and
Goebel Election Law Repealed.
Since the death of Governor Goebel
on Saturday evening, a chaotic condi
tion has existed in Kentucky. Imme
diately after the death certificate was
signed, Lieutenant Governor Beckham
was sworn in to succeed Goebel. For
a while it looked like civil war was in
evitable, but subsequent events have
given the situation a more hopeful as
pect.
Meanwhile the legislature (the Re
publican part of it) Is holding daily
sessions in London, where it was ad
journed by Governor Taylor. No quo
rum being present it adjourns from day
to day. The results of a “peace con
ference" between the opposing factions
held in Louisville Monday night, and
the probable outcome, is contained in
the following specials:
Louisville, Ky., Special.—The peace
conference, held at the Galt House
Monday night between seven represen
tatives of the Republican party and
seven representatives of the Democrat
ic party, resulted in the signing of an
agreement embodying seven specific
propositions, which promises a settle
ment of the party differences which
brought about two State governments
in Kentucky. The agreement is in sub
stnaee as follows:
First, that if the General Assembly
in joint session shall adopt a resolu
tion ratifying their recent action
adopting the contest reports seating
Goebel and Beckham, the contestees.
'V. S. Taylor and John Marshall, shall
submit without further protest.
Second, That all parties shall unite
in an effort to bring about such a mod
ification of the election law as will pro
vide for non-partisan electic#J boards
and insure free and fair elec ons.
Third, That the conditions shall re
main in status quo until Monday, the
General Assembly meeting and ad
journing from day to day until that
time. /
Fourth, That nothing shall be done
to hinder or prevent a joint session of
the General Assembly from taking ac
tion on the resolution.
Fifth, That the State contest board
shall meet and adjourn from day tc
day, until Tuesday, without taking any
action on the contests for minor offi
ces. This postponement Is suggested
in order that the cation of the General
News Notes.
The House of Commons has rejected
Ixrd Edmund Fitzmaurice’s amend
ment to the address in reply to the
speech from the throne, by 325 against
the amendment, to 139 in its favor, af
ter a notable debate.
State Department advices from Hon- j
olulu, dated January 24, report 12 new I
cases of plague and six deaths there
since January 17.
The Mexican Government has grant
ed concessions of 1,000,000 acres of
valuable mining land fronting the
Gulf of Mexico.
Millard T. Walker, a porn- mechanic,
and his father, at Omero, Wis., have,
fallen heirs to SIOO,OOO, left by a sup
posedly poor sister, at Oastleton, Vt.
Ninety-four persons died of sun
stroke In Buenos Ayres Sunday. The
thermometer registered 120 in th
shade, the highest ever known.
Board Abolished.
Columbia, 6. C.. Special.—The Stale
board of liquor control is to be abol
ished and the management of the dis
pensary tc be radically changed. The
Senate bill to provide anew system of
government was passed in the house
Tuesday, and (the Governor will ap
prove the act. The vote in the house
was 77 to 24. in favor of abolishing the
board. The action of the General As
sembly it the result of dissatisfaction
all over the State, caused by lack of
harmony in the present Hoard. There
were no charges of open dishonesty in
the speeches to-day, but it was plainly
asserted that the factional flghit among
the members of the board had hurt the
State-
j Assembly on the ratification resolution
| may be first taken.
i Sixth. That the State troops shall be
removed from the State capitol at once
though with all necessary precaution
for the public safety. This matter is
to be under the direction of General
Dan Lindsay, of Frankfort.
Seventh, That the Republican offic
ials of the State Guard shall have im
munity from charges of treason, usur
pation, court martial or any other of
fenses.
The agreement was signed by the
following: Republicans, John Mar
shall, Judge John W. Barr, Genera!
Dan Lindsay, T. L. Edelen, Dr. T. H.
Banter, David W. Fairlelgh, G. T.
Ballard.
Democrats: J. C. S. Blackburn, J.
C. W. Beckham, Sam J. Shackelford,
Urey Woodson, Governor McCreary,
Phil Thompson, Robert J. Breckin
i ridge.
The course of events in the immedi
ate future depends largely upon Gov
ernor Taylor. An important influence
in shaping the Republican policy, it is
believed, is the lack of support from
the national administration for the
coure pursued by Governor Taylor
since he assumed office.
Taylor’s Proposition.
Frankfort. Ky., Special.—The news
of the agreement reached in Louisville
was received with great relief in
Franksfort. Governor Taylor refused
to discus3 the agreement. He, how
ever. made the assertion that if the
Goebel law was repealed and an elec
tion law given to the people of Ken
tucky which would insure a fair and
honest count of the votes as cast, lie
would allow no personal ambition of
his own to stand in the way of a peace
ful adjustment of the troubles.
Peace or War?
FRANKFORT, Ky., Special.—Whe
ther it shall he war or peace in Ken
tucky rest with Governor Taylor alone.
The question has been in his mind all
day, and he declared that he has
reached no decision.
The text of the agreement reached by
the Louisville conference was brought
to him Tuesday morning by a commit
tee consisting of General Dan Lindsay,
T. H. Baker and T. L. Edelen. They
handed Governor Taylor a copy of the
agreement, were closeted with him for
a short time and then departed. As
they left the building Mr. Baker re
marked: “I hope and believe that the
entire matter will be amicably adjust
ed. More than this I am unable to
say at the present time.”
Notes
Forty wholesale fish houses at Bo.>
ton, Mass., have combined under the
name of the Boston Fish Company,
with an authorized capital of $5,000,-
000, with SIOO,OOO paid in.
General W. W. Averell, the last of
the great cavalry leaders of the Union
army in the civil war. died at Bath, N.
Y.. last Saturday, aged 68 years.
Indians, who refuse medical treat
ment. are dying in large numbers iu
the Colville Reservation. Washington
State.
Soldiers’ Home
Washington, D. C., Special.—The
house committee on military affairs
has acted favorably on the bill of
Representative Brownlow, to establish
a Soldiers’ Home, at Johnson City.
Tenn., to cost $250,000.
Cotton Duck Trust.
Baltimore, Aid., Special.—The stock
holders of the Mount Vernon-Wcod
berry Cotton Duck Company, met
Tuesday and re-elected the old board
of directors. Levi C. Bird, of Wil
mington, Del., and E. J. D- Cross, of
Baltimore, were elected to fill vacan
cies. The old officers were re-elected.
This company, which is capitalized at
$33,500,000, control's the mills of the
Mount Vernon Company, the Woodber
rv Manufacturing Company, the Laurel
Mills Company, the Franklinville
| Company, all of Maryland: the Green
! woods Company, New Hartford. Conn.,
! Tallassee Falls Manufacturing Com
i panv, Tallassee, Ala.; Columbia Mills
Company, Columbia. S. O.
TRENTON, GA„ FEBRUARY 8,190(1.
APPROPRIATION BILLS.
These Occupy the Attention of the
House of Representatives.
SENATE.
Thirty-seventh Day.—An effort by
Senator of South Dakota,
to discuss the Philippine question in
the Senate, taking for his text the res
olution offered by him Thursdav. was
of no avail, as he was met by a point
of ordfer which took him from the
floor. He had gotten only so far as
to charge that the great journals of the
country would not publish the facts
concerning the Philippine war when
the point of order was made by Sena
tor Gallinger and sustained by the
chair. Subsequently he offered anoth
er resolution on which lie will speak
next week.
Thirty eighth Day.—The Senate
committee on Porto Rico concluded its
consideration of the bill providing a
form of government for the island of
Porto Rico. The bill stands in all es
ti-an particulars the same as left by the
committee at its meeting last Wednes
day. The rate of duty provided for ar
ticles taken from the United States to
Porto Rico is 25 per cent, of the Ding
ley law rate.
Thirty-ninth Day.—Senator Caff rev,
of Louisiana, in a discussion of the
Philippine question in the Senate,
broke new ground in developing his
position as an anti-expansionist. With
the characteristic courage of his con
viction, he advocated: “Turn the Fili
pir.ictis loose as soon as we can get rid
of them. That would be better for
them, and infinitely better for us.’’ Mr.
Caffrey’s argument was mainly a dis
cussion of the constitutional question
involved in the Philippine policy. Soon
alter the Senate convened, Senator
Forsker. of Ohio, chairman of the
committee on Pacific Islands and Porto
Ric-o, reported a bill providing a form
of government for Porto Rico. Mr. Gal
linger, of New Hampshire, presented a
statement of the views of himself and
Mr. Perkins, of California, dissenting
in part from the majority report. A
bill was passed creating anew division
of the eastern judicial district of Ten
nessee. Mr. Gallinger gave notice that
at an early date he would offer an
amendment to the rules of the Senate
providing that all resolutions, when
introduced, should be referred without
debate, unless unanimous consent be
given for immediate consideration. A
resolution offered by Mr. Pettus. in
quiring of the Secretary of the Navy if
he had declined to supply to the Court
of Claims information relative to naval
court-martial, was laid before the
Senate. After Mr. Pettus. had dis
claimed any desire to reflect upon the
Secretary of the Navy, and in a speech
urged Congress to build up a great
navy and to provide naval officers ana
men, "head and shoulders above those
of every other nation,” the resolution
was passed.
Fortieth Day —A joint resolution, au
thorizing the president to appoint one
woman commissioner to represent the
United States and the National Society
of the Daughters of the American
Revolution at the unveiling of the
statute of Lafayette at the exposition,
at Paris, was passed.
A bill was passed to erect a pnulic
building at Selma. Ala., at a cost of
SIO,OOO.
Mr. Caffery. of Louisiana, then re
sumed his speech on the Philippine
quest ion, at the close of which fhe Sen
ate adjourned.
HOUSE.
Thirty-seventh Day—The House de
voted its attention to the Indian appro
priation bill. It got no farther, how
ever than the appropriations for Indi
an schools, where an effort was inau
gurated by Mr. Fitzgerald, of New
York, to permit the Secretary of the
Interior to contract with schools for
the education of Indian children where
the government lacks facilities. The
system of contract schools which has
been the cause of a big row each year
has been gradually abandoned, until
no appropriation is made for them in
this bill. It is claimed that present
Indian school facilities are inadequate.
Thirty-eighth Day.-The House pass
the Indian appropriation bill. It was
slightly amended in unimportant par
ticulars. An attempt to revive the pol
icy of making contracts with religious
schools for the education of Indian
children which has been gradually
abandoned by the government during
the last five years failed on the ruling
of the chair that the amendment was
out of order. The lattre part of the
sesion was devoted to eulogies upon
the life and public services or the iate
Representative Ermentrout of Penn
sylvania.
Thirty-ninth Day.—Representative
White, of North Carolina, rose to a
question of personal privileges to reply
to an editorial denouncing his course
in Congress printed in the Raleigh
News and Observer.
Mr. Robinson, of Indiana, under un
animous consent, paid a glowing trib
ute to General Lawton’s patriotic
I career from the time he left Fort
1 Wayne, as a boy of 18, to the time
when he died upon the battlefleld :n
I the Philippines.
Mr. Linney, of North Carolina, sub
i matted a report in the Evans-Turner
contested election ease from the fifth
Kentucky district, in favor of Turner.
Mr. Hitt, of Illinois, chairman of the
foreign -affairs committee, then called
up the diplomatic and consular appro
priation bill.
Fortieth Day—The Philippine ques
tion again occupied the attention of the
house. Mr. Williams, of Mississippi,
presented an argument against the
annexation of the Philippines, which
attracted much attention. It was de
voted almost entirely to the commer
2>EVOCKA.TIC.
cial aspects of the acquisition, 'holding
that the absorption of the islands
would ibe ultimately ruinous to the
.American producers of cotton, flee, to
biacteo, hemp and sugaT.
After some remarks by Mr. Smith of
Michigan, supporting the Boer side of
the South African contention, the
house at 5 p. m. adjourned.
MR. BRIAN QUOTES SCRIPTURE.
Enthusiastically Received at Hait*
ford, Connecticut.
Hartford, Conn., Special.—Wm. J.
Bryan reached this city Tuesday from
Massachusetts and was welcomed to
Connecticut by Alexander Troup, mem
ber of the Democratic national com
mittee, and other prominent speakers.
He addressed a mass meeting in colis
eum, in the afternoon. The coliseum,
capable of seating with comfort, 2,500,
was about Two thirds Tiilled. Before
speaking, the chairman introduced
him to W. 0. Barr, proprietor of the
Times, and one of the leaders among
the gold standard Democrats. This in
cident. was noticed with loud cheers.
Taking up the money question, Mr.
Bryan said: “I am more conservative
than Jesus Christ, who drove the mon
ey changers out of the temple because
they made it a den of thieves. When I
want to Ire severe I quote the Nazarene
who spoke as no man spoke and I quote
His words against the financiers of
Hartford: The wealth of riches chok
cth down the truth.’ ” Free silver oc
cupied most of the speaker’s attention.
Bryan in Pittsfield.
Holyoke, Mass., Special.—Col. W. J.
Bryan left Holyoke bound for Pitts
field. He was accompanied by Chris
topher T. Callahan, chairman of the
Democratic State committee, whose
guest he was over Sunday.
Pittsfield, Mass., Special.—The train
bearing W. .J Bryan was met here by
ex-Congressman John C. Crosby and
John H. Mack, of North Adams, who
escorted Mr. Bryan to the Wendell
House, for lunch.
North Adams, Mass.. Special.—W. J.
Bryan spoke here Monday night and
received a tremendous ovation, with
red fire and brass band accompani
ments. He spoke on trusts and im
perialism, and predicted the next cam
paign would lie the fiercest in many
years, though confident of the result.
Vnnderbllt Scheme.
New York, Special.—The Herald
says: It is the plan of the Pennsyl
vania Railroad interests and their
allies, as represented by President A.
J. Gasset t, to obtain, a voice in the
management of the Norfolk and West
ern. This is a part of the general
Vanderbilt - Pennsylvania scheme,
which has for its object an alliance of
all the railroads of the East having
seaboard terminals, whereby the East
ern rate situation will be so securely
held in the hands of the dominant
interests that railroads wars will be
impossible.
To Give Trouble.
Richmond, Va., Special.—A share
holder representing twelve shares of
stock of the Old Dominion Building
and I>oa-n Association, has filed a pe
tition in Chancery Court, of Rich
mond, asking for an injunction pro
hibiting the company’s being reor
ganized into a trust company, with
enlarged powers, as authorized by the
legislature, and asking for the appoint
ment of a receiver.
Armed With Wooden Swords.
Manila, by Cable. —Brigadier General
Kobbe’s expedition in the islands of
Luzon, and Samar, has occupied
permanently and garrisoned nine
towns, with the Forty-third and Forty
seventh regiments. This has placed on
the market 180.000 bales of hemp. A
thousand insurgents armed with rifles
and over 3,000 armed with wooden
swords, bows and arrows, were en
countered during the entire trip. The
tfoops killed fa natives. 11 of whom
had rifles.
Pearson to be Seated.
Washington. D. C., Special. —The
contested election case of Pearson vs.
Crawford, from the Ninth North Car
olina district, was decided Monday on
a party vote in favor of contestant
Pearson. A minority report will be
presented in behalf of Mr. CrawfoTd.
Telegraphic Briefs.
Snow drifts have blocked trains, and
the snow Is over a foot deep on the
level in England.
Prof. James, of the University of
Pennsylvania, is i Berlin to collect
material for a work on German politi
cal economy.
The Abarenda has sailed from Auck
land far Samoa
A New York woman routed a burg
lar with her trusty hut- pin. The
right to carry hat pins and at the
eanie time avoid complications with
laws against concealed weapons is
Another of the immunities very prop
erly enjoyed by the gentler *ex.
ARP ON ABBOTT.
—
Georgia Philosopher on the Higher
Criticism.
WERE PLENTY CF RESOURCES
m
Bill Differ# with Lyman Abbott in His
Remarks About the Authenticity
of Bible.
A great lawyer whose chief business
was to defend criminals was asked the
secret of hLs success, and he replied “It
is to deny everything and call for the
proof. ” New England agnosticism and
higher criticism of the scriptures seem
to ba\e a like maxim. The deeper a
man goes Into science the more Inclin
ed is be to call for the proof; especially
if he has more learning than brains,
and has to strain his mind to solve the
mysteries of life and nature.
I was ruminating about this, for I
had, just read the press dispatches that
Rev. Ly-man Abbott, who succeeded
Henry Ward Beecher, had in a public
address in Boston, declared that the
Book of Genesis was a myth—a legend
written before the flood by some un
known prophet—and that it was im
possible for Moses to have known ofthe
things that transpired 2,000 years be
fore he wus born, and he asks: "What
were his resources If they were not
legends and myths?”
1 know that it does not become me
to teach theology or the infallibility of
the scriptures, but it occurs to me that
if Mr. Abbott can undermine the Book
cxf Genesis he will overthrow the whole
structure of Biblical authority that
has withstood the wear and tear of
time for all these centuries. The
Biible is the standard of the ages—the
headlight of the nations, and it must
stand as a whole or fall as a whole.
The reverend gentleman professes to
believe in the new testament and part
of the dd, but if he is really a Chris
tian he must -believe as much of the
old testament as the Savior and His
apostles did. It was Christ who said
in the parable of Dives and Lazar us,
xf tih®y will not believe Moses and !
the prophets, neither will they believe
though one rose from the dead.” This
is that Moses who -predicted the com
ing of the Savior when he was giving
the taws to the children of Israel—that
Moses to whom God intrusted the
tables of stone that contained the com
mandments, and who wrote the most
beautiful eong in the Psalms of David
—that Moses who appeared in glory on
the mount while the Savior was trans
figured—that Moses of whom Paul said
he was faithful ais a testimony of those
things which were to come afVer. Re
ferences ame too numerous to quote— i
all showing that -Moses was the vice- i
gerent of the Almighty, and was a
prophet inspired by Him.
No, Mr. Abbott cannot uphold the
new testament and pull down the old.
He must sustain or demolish all. It is
the same old attack of science upon
miracles because they cannot be ex- j
plained upon any hypothesis of human i
reason; when the truth is chat Mr.
Abbott himself is a stupendous mir
acle, and cannot tell how he thinks or
where the power of thought or the
faculty' of memory is located, nor how
be can at will raise his hand or close
his eye; nor how he took form and
shape in his mother's womb. AJI na- j
tirre is a miracle; the Jeeves of the
trees, the color of the flowers, the
flight, of birds, the infinite smallness i
of matter and germs, the infinite mag- :
nitude and boundless extent of the ;
heavens and of space, and in all crea- i
tion there is nothing that has pride, j
vanity and self-conceit 6ave naan —an !
agnostic or skeptic or an infidel—“ The j
fool (only) has said in his heart, there j
is no God.”
I have recently visited the good old
ciity of Columbus and received Its hos- j
piitality and 'benedictions. It in just ,
my age, amd through all these years
has -moved steadily and surely forward,
manufacturing with serenity and dig
nity the character its cultured men ;
and women gave it in the beginning. :
How broadly beautiful it was laid out;
how bountiful is its shade; how green
the gras* on -its public grounds; how
beautiful the river that girdles it. Not
for a single year has there ’been any
retrograde in the manners or morals
of its people. Considering its climate,
society and prosperity I do not know
a city that I had rather live in. It is
already large enough for moral safety,
for Jefferson spoke a truth when he
said that great cities were pestilential
to good health and good morals. Of
eowse. we favor the increase of an- in
dustrial population that keep the
wheels ami spindles turning and the
wolf from the doorand the beggar from
the streets and if every city cared for
its operatives in the mills as Columbus
does, there would be no object lessons
of misery to be carried before the
legislature. I visited the yung men’s
club rooms of the Eagle and Fhenix
mills. Yes, club rooms for factory
boys where they can spend their eve
nings and read and write and bathe
and exercise instead of going to the
saloons. The beautiful library hos
2,000 volumes of standard books and
the reading tables aTe furnished with
the best newspaper and magazine
literature. I cannot enumerate the
pleasant and attractive features of
these rooms. They are all free or
nearly so to the factory boys w ho be
come members. Colonel Gunby Jordan
is the big-hearted promoter of this at
) tichment to the mills and the mill
j owners pay all the expenses.
Shakespeare says: “The evil that
men do lives after them; the good is
oft interred with their 'bones.” I would
reverse that excess ion, for good
deeds and their influence last longer
than evil ones and nowhere has the
succession of good citizenship proved
it more palpably than in Columbus.
There is still weak without ostentation
and hospitality without, a strain. Not
a shyster among her lawyers nor a
quack among her doctors. Not e fancy
preacher among her clergy, nor a
venal partisan among her editors. For
tunate city: happy people I—Bill Arp
in Atlanta Constitution.
AN ALASKAN HOME.''
How tho Family Gather* After the Day's
Work I* slyer.
An Alaskan hut is not the worst
place in the world —far from it, says
Self-Culture. Its interior consists of
a square floor of earth flanked on alt
sides by two wide ledges rising one
above the other like a terrace. On the
lower one rest the cooking, weaving
and fishing utensils, the knives and
needles, pots and pans. On the upper
ledge, with much display of wonderful
ly woven blankets, are the beds. In
the center of the room glows the fire,
the smoke groping its way out of a
hole in the roof. After the day’s work
is done and the stomachs of both peo
ple and dogs are full, the family gath
ers around the fire. Facing the door
sits the father, next to him the mother;
on one hand the sons and on the other
! the daughters, even to the third and
1 fourth generation, it may be. Beyond
these are the servants or slaves. Each
has his place, and takes it as a mat
| ter of course. Without, in the dark
ness, the dogs cluster about the door
and howl. The mysterious and im
placable sea keeps up its thunder. The
snow-capped mountains, with their
illimitable glaciers, lie just beyond.
The shafts of the northern lights dart
through the Bky like the harpoons of
a Titan, with incredible celerity. Is
it strange that, amid scenes so wild
and fearful, superstitions, also wild
and fearful, spring into existence? Or
can one be surprised that in an unlet
tered country, the storeytellers are of
mighty power, and tell tales that af
fright the children till they scramble
to the safe shelter of their mothers’
arms? When the family sings in
strange, broken, yet rhthmical meas
ures. the dogs howl louder than before,
and the women sway their squat bodies
back and forth unceasingly, keeping
their hands occupied meanwhile at
their tasks of weaving or braiding. The
men carve their spoons or cut curious
figures from the black slate. The
for the hand of one of the daughters
enters slyly and takes a seat with the
sons. No protest is made. The father
and mother go on with their little
tasks, the young girls giggle after the
fashion of girls the world over. And
the suitor, thus unrepulsed, contents
himself, thinking his case won. The
oldest among them chants some old
folk song, and the father rises. It is
the signal for good-nights. The ashes
are spread over the fire,and by the light
of a few fishes’ tails,dried for the light
ing, the family goes to bed, forgetful
of crashing bergs, or the mysterious
aurora, of the mountains where the
snow lies forever and alw r ay. So is
home made anywhere, where the spirit
of home exists.
Queer Chinese Bedrooms. ,
Chinese Ideas of comfort are noth
ing short of startling to luxury loving
Americans. The Chinese bedrooms,
even iu the homes of the well-to-do,
present many features which would
be unendurable to an American or Eu
ropean.
A Chinese bedchamber has no win
dows, is poorly ventilated and dark In
consequence, and is usually no larger
than a cupboard. The wooden bed
stead has no springs, nor does a mat
tress soften the hard boards. Usually
a wadded quilt suffices.
For pillows there are hollow square
frames of bamboo or rattan, or often
just a block of wood of the right shape
to lit into the nape of the uc-ck nud
give support to the head.
The furniture of the bedroom is of
the simplest. It usually includes, how
ever. au opium-smoking outfit, even if
the occupant be not a confirmed smo
ker. Any apparatus designed to facil
itate washing i.i considered superflu
ous. The Cuinaman does not wash
any more than he can help. If he
has bathed his face in a cloth which
has been wrung out in hot water be
considers himself ready for the first
and most important act of the day.
which is attendance at tb? family
?h-ine
The Government recognizes the im
portance of affording agricultural in
struction to the inhabitants of our
new island territories, and will at
onco proceed to establish stations iO
Puerto Rico, Cuba and tne Philip
pines, where the natives can receive
education in farm work and obtain all
the industrial information they are
found capab’e of assimilating.
Whether the plan succeeds or not, it
demonstrates the helpful disposition
of the Government, willing to take up
the white man’s burden to the fullest
extent wherever its authority reaches.
NO. 49.