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Watci-rn-r, -» iSS-4.
Curor Ich-. r »t. 1077
Ccrso dated with ;>w
Athena Banner, Bat 1832.
ATHENS. GA., FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER
$5.00 A TEAR
HIE SLEEP OF DEATH.
at.vU. Their second son, Alexander, was
born March tO, 1845. There is a story,
neither officially confirmed nor streuu-
| onsly denied, that he gave the blow to
r - , , ... __ _ his older brother, Nicolas, which caused
Cza., /Alexander III, Has Passed the latter’s death. It waa.accidental in
to His Long Rest. " j *ome rough “horseplay,” but it injured
the chest of Nicolas, and he died April
_ I 24, 1865, at the age of 22, and strnigbt-
HIS LAST DAYS' STAY ON EARTH. ; way everything was changed with Alex-
— — ander.
H«< Attended to important stete Matter* ! Nicolas vrw engaged to be married to
to iho V.ry Leot—Thrente ApMut the ] the Princess Dagmar, daughter of the
i.ir# <>r tho cnrrwiteh Here Already j Kingof Denmark and sister of the Prin
cess Alexandra, who married the Prince
of Wales. Nicolas was a man of kindly
disjiosition, and for a member of the
imperial Romanoffs of Rnssia possessed
of much culture. Alexander seems to
nave been a voang man of unusually
morose and obstinate disposition. He
was in love with the Princess Met-
chereki, who was one of his mother’s
maids of honor. She was a beautiful
girl, and Alexander had told her of his
passiou. Alexander II was not pleased
with this and sent his son away. During
his absence his sweetheart was forced to
accept an offer of marriage from Paul
Demidoff, prince of San Donato, and so,
when the elder brother died and it was
docidod that for reasons of state Alex
ander should marry the Princess Dag
mar, he made no determined opposition.
The marriage took place Nov. 9, 1866,
and although authorities conflict about
almost everything else pertaining to the
life of Alexander III there Is no doubt
that the married life of the couple was
almost an ideal one, notwithstanding
the unusual circumstances which led to
their uuiou. Czar Alexander II was
killed by a nihilist bomb March 13,
1881, and his sou succeeded him im
mediately as Czar Alexander IIL
During the years that he had been
heir apparent he seems to have neglect
ed no opportunity to fit himself for the
exalted and arduous duties that were
before him. Whether his design was
to so rule Russia as to make its people
happy and prosperous or simply to
strengthen the Russian throne is a ques
tion upon which there are vital and rad
ical differences of opinion. Certain it
is that he changed the policy of his fa
] ther, who had freed the serfs and had
Mit'ie and a Xntnbar of Arreata
llnVf Occurred.
London, Nov. 1.—A dispatch to The
Daily News from Yalta says the czar
died at 1:30 p. m.
The Official Messenger publishes the
following account of the czar’s illness:
The disquieting symptoms which
manifested themselves atSapala became
less marked in the early days of his
majesty’s sojourn at Livadia. The czar
was able to attend divine services after
striving there and was also able to
drive about. Then symptoms of weak
ness appeared,with failing appetite, loss
of sleep, weakening of the heurt’s ac
tion, increase of albumen and swelling
of the extremities.
On Oct 18, there was a return of the
czar's appetite, and on (Jet. 20 he was
able to obtain the necessary sleep which
produced a notable increase in his
strength and a reduction of the albu
men. The same day the qnoen of
« rcece nrrived and the protopresbyter,
} ather Iran, who offered up prayers for
the emperor, also reached Livadia. He
then received holy communion, which
insisted in trauquillzing his mind. On
Oct. 22, the emperor prayed with Fath
er Ivan. Princess Aiix.of Hesse-Darm
stadt, arrived that evening and by order
of the czar she was received ceremoni
ously with a guard of honor and with
the military band playing.
The meeting of the czar with Priiicefs
Alix, whom lie had long been craving
to see, strongly excited the patient in
■pito of the joy which the meeting
caused him, and his physicians feared
the effects of this excitement. But tha
night passed favorably. Thero was
continued oedema of tho feet on Oct.
80. which hindered free movement.
During all this time tho czar, in spite j in many ways indicated a desire to pre-
pf hi* suffering, did not neglect stat
business, but. at the urgent instance of
Lis physicians he handed over docu
ments relating to current affairs and
In ports requiring < onsiderahle examina-
>uu
s majesty,
important
tiers.
d that
tedi:i ta
‘riiicoi-s
er pro-
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bur
tion tc t! e czarewiteh. Ili
Jiowevt", de I the ::ioj.t
cases ai d • • -d ' • • Mr; - pa
It is
nil sopor, • • .p<u the it
ma. isp-e o . V r : tl
Alix are ;• . it v :* u
pos. >d since i) t.io <
the mar. • s.,. n. ! :a!:o )
riedly.
Conspire. At .ttl.efr. r
London.
rial dispute!,
ter burg, a
of the czHi-e
there. It i!
days past, the police have lieen actively
rnga .'ed in nnvsting nihilists. Among
those arrested are several students. The
police have also, obtained possession of
Incriminating evidence.
ell.
—Ace
tell lit
ollS :o aspe-
Iroin Sr. Pt -
onspirney against. I he life
ivitcii lias Is-eu discovere I
i added that, for several
t Alexander III, the recently deceased
czar of Russia, was tho son of the as
sassinated Alexander II, who was tho sou
of Nicolas 1, who was tho brother of bis
predecessor Alexander I and son of C.ra-
zy Paul, wlio was the son of licentious
Catliarino, whose husband was the stu
pid and brutal Peter III. Boyond this
tho genealogy is snbjoct to question,
but of tho soven imperial personages
here noted Peter III was dethroned and
imprisoned and finally murdered by or
der of liis wife. Catharine died in a fit
brought on by excesses. Crazy Paul was
murdered by a cabal of his nobles, Nic
olas I died of chagrin, and Alexander II
was blown into eternity by a nihilist
bomb. The family has always been ec-
oentrio.
Nominally tho imperial line begins
with Michael Feodorovitcli Romanoff,
whom the Russian nobles made czar in
1613 in sheer desperation over the pro
longed civil wars. He was only the sou
of an archbishop, but the nobles man
aged to trace some connection by mar
riage with Rurik, founder of the em
pire. At any rate, the horrible wars and
murders of the preceding century bad
left conflicting claims in snoh confusion
that there was nothing for it bnt start
anew, and so the Romanoff was made
emperor. His grandson was Peter tho
Great, who was succeeded by his widow
Catharino I, and after her came another
pare his country for a more liberal ad
ministration of the government.
The cause of popular education, wbicb
had received some encouragement under
tile father, was crushed by the rule of
tho sou; the press, which, though re
stricted, had a faint semblance of froe-
doui under tho old, was fcit-rod abso
lutely und r the now regime; Siberia,
L .d tnouirb always, boom. c. tb*> horror
of the century; tha Jews, wluiso lot
was never a pleasant one in P.ussia, be
came t:i<> subjects of the most malevo
lent perse 'a;ion.
With a private cit'aeu the presump
tion is for innocence i !l gui It is proved;
with a hereditary rn’-r tin chauct-s are
even, hut with an absolute ruler, espe
cially a Romanoff, the presumption is
always that ho is despotic. Wo may,
therefore, with perfect safety, reject all
the excuses made for Alexander III that
ho was kept in iguoranco of the horrors
of Siberia; that the real condition of
his subjects was carefully concealed
from him, and that he was only cruel
where it was a cruel necessity. That he
was a devoted husband and father is to
his credit; some of the worst persecu
tors have been sa The hard, cruel fact
remains that ho reversed all the liDerai
movements cf his father, gave the penal
latvs a sharper edge, treated Jows and
Poles with atrocious cruelty, adopted
the worst features of so called panslav
ism and to the very last quarreled bit
terly with his son for not being equally
bigoted and intolerant
He was most fortunate in his niar-
riaga Indeed the whole history of the
Danish royal family is the pleasantest
in the recent annals of Europe and is
delightfully colored with romanca King
Christian IX anil Queen Louise began
life in quite a humble rank compara
tively, for lie was merely the fourth son
of Duke William of Sleswick-Holstein,
but when the old royal line bocame ex
tinct tho great powers combined to ex
tinguish jealousy by making this youn
ger sou king of Denmark, and he took
the throne Nov. 15, 1863. His oldest
daughter is now Princess of Wales, and
his second tho widowed czarina His
second son is King George I of Greece,
and the other daughter and two sons are
most royally connected. So little Den
mark, largely because it is little and not
dangerous, is prolific of royalty.
Maria Dagmar became Maria Feodo
ronna when she married the czarowitz,
gave up her German Protestantism and
tecame a member of the Greek Catholia
church, and by all aocounts has intro
duced a much needed element of mild
ness within the blood of the imperial
era of confusion which ended with the _
accession of Elizabeth, daughter of Pe- | f ara n y ” fo r a^Tong'a~thousand c^tra-
ter the Great. Peter III was the son of dictions it is at least agreed that her
her sister, and as ho was the husband of
Catharine II it is assumed that the line
is regular from tho first Romanoff
through Peter the Great.
The Romanoff blood is (•fluted to a
son, the successor of Alexander HI, is
purely German-Danish and quite unlike
his father in farm and disposition. Five
children were bom to the czar and cza
rina—Nicolas Alexandrowitch, bom at
very fine strain by frequent intermar- | gt Peter8bnrg May 18i 1868 . George
riage with German princesses, and Alex- i Alexandrowitch, born May 9, 1871;
ander II married Maria, daughter of
the late Grand Duke of Hesse Darm-
that bo was the Lord’s anointed, rul
ing all Rnssia and her subject prov
inces by divine right, and that Jews,
Stundists. Meunouites and others Who
did not implicitly obey his directions
were in rebellion against God and de
serving of little consideration. The Ro
manoffs have always been given to a
sort of brutal devotion, and the natural
bent of Alexander’s mind was intensi
fied by the teachings of his tutor, M.
Pobiedonotsoff, in later years th6 much
feared chief of the holy synod of the
Russian church. Nevertheless he taught
his pupil morality, and it is claimed
that Alexander III was the only Euro
pean sovereign of his time who never
kept a mistress. He was frantically de
vout, and his views on education were
those of the Russian priests. As head of
the church he consistently opposed ev
ery form of instruction not controlled
by the priests.
Alexander III was a man of remark
able physical force. He stood 6 feet 4
inches in his stockings, and it is told of
him that he could take a silver coin of
the size of a dollar and double it be-
THU CZAROWITZ.
tween his thumb and forefinger. When
in 1888 his train was wrecked and a
number of persons were killed, it is said
ho saved those who were in the same
compartment with him from injur)- and
perhaps death by supporting a portion
of the fallen roof with his shoulders till
assistance came.
He was also an untiring worker, got
down to his desk as a rule by 8 a. m.
and w< tit resolutely through official pa
pers till 1 p. m. Then ho had a light
lunch and took recreation and read till
a 6 o’clock dinner He often wrote se
vere comments on the margins of papers
presented to him, and these were glazed
over to preserve them in the royal
archives. His favorite expressions were:
“Wfc:-.t a beast he G!” “They are a set
of hogs!” and tho like. Tho Russian
word “nezooteshitelno, ” which may be
translated “discouraging, ” was a fre
quent comment with him. Once he was
prevailed upon to allow a very s were
comment to be erased, “The council
thought to trick rue,” lie said, “but
they shan't, but may strike the words
out.”
He was a man of unflinching courage.
Ho proved this in tho last war between
Rnssia and Turkey, and though during
his entire reign he was in constant ex
pectation of being murdered he never
the Russian people.
Brave as Alexander HI was, the con
tinued danger of assassination finally
wore him out, tut it has many another
brave man. He narrowly escaped at the
funeral of his father. At another time
there was an explosion in the palace and
again a narrow escape. Finally occurred
the explosion on the railway to Moscow,
and the slightest of accidents alone pre
vented the whole imperial family from
being blown into eternity. After that
the czar lived very secluded for a long
time, and his only real satisfaction was
during bis long visit to his father-in-
law in Denmark. There he was the good
uncle to a lively gang of children, with
whom he romped and boated and ram
bled in the woods all day long.
After all, he died young, and new all
Europe is asking about his successor.
There is even more contradiction in tho
reports about him than in those about
his father. It is alleged that be is open
hearted, liberal and progressive, and
with equal force that he is too stupid to
have any marked characteristics and
will be ruled by his counselors and
priests. It is agreed, however, that he
is very devoted to his mother, temperate
and chaste and studious, and so it is
taken for granted that, so far as he is in
fluenced at all, it will be chiefly by his
mother and wife. A melancholy interest
attaches to the second son of Alexander
HI, the Grand Duke George. In his
youth he was delicate, but under the
active regime to which the princes were
subjected he grew vigorous and com
pleted the prescribed oourse of studies
and military exercises.
An accident, a fall while on a war
ship, injnred his chest, and be beoame
consumptive. Nevertheless he served as
colonel of an infantry regiment and held
sommand of an ironclad, and as a naval
officer started to accompany his brother
in a tour around the world. While in
Indian waters he fell from a mast and
injured his spine. He was ordered home,
Stopped awhile at Athens on account of
his health, and not improving there
'made a voyage to Algiers, but in vain.
He was sent to a region in the Caucasus
supposed- to be favorable to consump
tives, and it was soon admitted that his
case was hopeless. His father, disgusted
{at the liberal tendencies of tbeezarowita
•had designed to alter the!succession in
Flavor of his second eon, bu t instead tbe
second renounced his rights in favor of
tho third, Grand Duke Michael, who
cow stands nest to the czar.
J. H. Beadle.
HILL AT AMSTERDAM.
The Carpet Mill Owners Extend
the Cold Shoulder.
BUT THE W0BIEB8 WEBB OH HAND.
AFTER GEORGE GCULD.
The Missouri Court* Have Several Griew-
bpo s Aif lnst Hitn.
Jefferson City, Mo.. Nov. 1.—The
sheriff of Miller county has served no
tice on George J. Gonld, president of
the Missouri Pacific railway, for appear
ance in, tbe Miller county circuit court
to plead to two separate suits instituted
by the minority bondholders of the
bum mil Dnfandod the Tariff aa* Aik.
ad tha Tatars to Oiva tha Raw Order af
Things a -Chanea—Ua Was latsrraptsd
hy a Workingatan Who Aasarod tho
Sffaahar Thsy Won with Bite.
Amsterdam, N. Y., Nov. l.—The
visit of Senator Hill to this place and
the reception accorded him by the pro
prietors of the great carpet mills here
was in marked contrast to their action
towards Governor McKinley last week.
- Then the proprietors of the great car
pet and knit goods mills shut up their
establishments and told their thousands
ef employes to go and hear McKinley.
When David Bennett Hill came, the
people gave him a rousing reception, but
tbe carpet and knit goods manufactu
rers were conspicuous by their shsenoe.
Besides, they contrived to spread among
their workmen the understanding- that
it would be just as well if! they did not
join in the Democratic demonstration,
and many who would have liked to did
not. ~ Others who did were frequently
reminded of-their danger. Working
men standing on the curbstones shouted
to their fellows who were parading in
the streets, carrying Hill banners:
“Yon are carrying your colors pretty
high there, my boy; you’ll lose your job
if yon don’t look out.”
The Democratic managers here claim-
that the Republican managers, assisted
by the manufacturers, are trying to
stampede the Democratic workingmen
by a cry of hard times.
The city suffered severely during the
recent panic. Its thousands of mill op
eratives were idle for mouths and suf
fered great privation, but since the Wil
son tariff bill wont into effect the mills
have started np and are, running, not
only full time, bnt extra time. Hence
the calamity howlers are not malting
much headway, and a full Democratic
vote is promised.
Senator Hill reached here at 6 p. m.
Two thousand people met him at the
depot and cheered him to the echo and
added noise of firearms and the light of
fireworks one bonfires to their greeting.
A brass band led a column of 1,000
Democratic workingmen which esoorted
Senator Hill's carriage from the depot
to the Central hotel. All along the line
the crowds cheered.
Mr. Hill rocoguized that his hearers
were largely workingmen who had suf
fered during the recent panic, apd ad
dressed them particularly.! He said in
part: r T v,
“A high tariff does not necessarily
produce good wages, nor does a low
tariff necessarily reduce them. When
six men are looking for work from one
boss, wages are low; but when six bosses
Xenia Aloxandrowna, born April 6,
1875; Michael Alexandrowitch, bom
Deo. 5, 1878, and Olga Alandrowna, bom
Jane 13, 1882.
Of his children the czar, as a model
family man, was very fond, and many
stories are told of the methods be used
to adopt to give them pleasure. He was
veiy fond of amateur theatricals, and
ho was never happier than when get
ting up plays in which bis children were
to figure r.s actors. Like Charles Dick
ens, ho got an amazing auicuat of en-
jo) ment out of the details of improvis
ing play, wardrobe,' curtain nml ’every
rc. ’-sory out of qrdimiry materials and
In .the'face of serious rtifficnlnes. Be-
* sides his own children the actors almost
; invariably included tho elder children
at tbe court, young lads Who some day
might rule provinces—possibly king
doms—and yonng girls destined perhaps
to be the mothers of long lines of princes
and princesses.
In religion Alexander III was a thor
ough bigot He never ouoo doubted
minority uumuium.TB ui me , I _ , - , ••
Springfield, Warsaw and Sedalia rail- ,
way company, aggregating about $250,• | ‘ whwi
000. Mr. Gonkl was enjoying a hunt- ; wages disappeared,; industries suspend
ing expeditioli lienr Eidon, Stiller conn- 1 ®d. and fortunes were sank, came while
ty, when the sheriff served the-papers. ! country was enjoying the alleged
It is alleged, among other things, that kbsssmgs of an.exorbttanb tariff under a
Mr. Gould is guilty of a breach of con
tract.
Mr. Gould was also cited to appear
and show cause why he should not be
fined $100 per day from April 7* 1891V
for acting as an officer of the road in
question and an officer of the Missouri
Pacific at the same time, in violation of
the constitution of the state, \
hesitated to show himself to his people
when he thought the occasion demanded
it, and he oftentimes was ‘’accounted
even rash in his manner of doing this.
Foi instance, on several occasions when
members of bis honseliold died and not
ably when his English nurse passed
away, he attended the funeral services
like any common person, following the
hearse on foot It was his custoUFfie-
quently to drive a pair of horses over
the pnblio highways, the czarina and .
the whole family acoompanyiQg him in
an open carriage.
Perhaps the coronation of Alexander
IIL all of the ceremonials of which
were determined by himself, furnished
as good an illustration of his character
as any incident in his life. He did not
formally assume the crown until 1888,
two years after the assassination of his
father. Tbe oeremonies were held on
May 26 in the cathedral Church of the
Assumption within thp walls at the
Kremlin at Moscow, for though St. Pe
tersburg is tbe capital of Russia the
elder city, in deference to the patriotic
sentiment of old Russia, is still the cor
onation city. -r. .j , ~ ‘ * '* •*’ ‘
The czarina, or rather empress, for
the Russians do not notv use the word
! czar habitually, presented a remarkable
contrast to her massive husband. She
is slender and petite, quite beautiful,
and with a refined and rather pensive
air. She was long considered the best
dancer in the imperial! court and was
very fond-of the amusement. They had
various places of residence, the winter
palace being most noted, but both pre
ferred Gatchina, .ucoiwSt. Petersburg.
Whenever • they■ or: either of them ap
peared in public thero were tumultuous
demou6tra»iuns:of joy, for the masses cf
the Russian people- are. fanatically de
voted to theif'WhtteFathef, as they call
him. The nihilists come from a very
small section of - tiif fairly well educat
ed classes, 4nd even the advocates of re
form and a constitutional government
do not altogether include 10 per out of
Many Stnd.nt, Stricken. V
Middletown, Conn., Nov. 1,—About
i£ students of Wesleyan are suffering
with an epidemic which somewhat "re- [
sembles la grippe. The doctors pro
nounce it a form of malarial fever. In
one or two cases it has developed into
typhoid fever. Six students who have
been taken -with it have been sent to
their homes. The disease is also preva
lent in the town.
Republican administration. The great
Carnegie strike at Pittsburg occurred in
the very heart of Republican Pennsyl
vania, and in the very : industry winch
was most largely protected, in the tnm-
meroL.1892, whiiellRHarrison was
president. The great Chicago, Burling
ton and Quincy railway strike occurred
under a high protective tariff, and yet
the high wages the worjringmeu de-
the tariff questiin'.'and time wfll Vindi
cate our ’position. We must be patient
and not expectJissty conclusions. Rea
son and good sense, rather than mere
clamor, will determine Inis
Staffed river Killed by Hlffhwaymnn.
Nevada City, Cal., Nov. 1.—Arthur
Myer, driver of the stage running be
tween this place and-North Bloomfield,'
was shot and instantly killed-tty a high
wayman at Rook Creek. He refused, to
obey the orders of the robbor. vyho fired
at him twice. C. B. Bovee or Sierta
county, who was the only -passenger!
jumped from the coach and ran into tha
forest. i ' r _. v aoo ,
A General charged with Treason.
Vienna, Nov. I.—polish papers An-
nonnee the arrest of ’ an Anstrian gen
eral on the qharge of adUng-' to Russia
plans of Austrian lortiflcatfonsV The
papers say that Russia paid the officer'
1,000,000 florins for' the plans.
s»IT
senseless
election.
“The reliable, sturdy Mnd patriotic
Demooraoy of the interior of tkp state
may safely be intrusted with the result
in their section. They wili refuse tf >•
misled by bitter personalities; they trill
not believe the vile calumihattons fifths
allies of the ‘common enemy, And they
care little for local controversies in Mew
York and Brooklyn, iu whfeh they are
in no way identified. ” ,
A workingman interrupted the sena
tor to ask if ne oonld say a word. “Cer
tainly,” said Mr. Hill. Then the man
assured him that tbe workingmen would
JMMm. “ We know bur friend,"
■
HERp UtlTIMATE AIM.
Krs. Byen Mow Brings Salt to
- ' Hw {Btohsnd’# Property.
Chicago, Nor.: !.—Mrs. Anna H.
Byen of Pittsburg, hating obtained
ehktody'ofherdemejciipdjinsband, E.M.
Byers, brother and partner of A. M.
Byers/ tht Pittebntg iron king, and the
jnansgtmeq^of Iti* .affairs, her habeas
DAILY MARKET REPORTS’
Peter Kimberly. 1 who had her husband
Htti rin oharge- .lath' winter hafe been die-
.mBB#d,i«nhla«iJj xsdiKJxn , *
•ys she will sue
Prod "~ ” d Pr, T*S k J:-r
Chicago. Nov. 1.—Cash quo!
ms follows: Men pork.' SU. —
*i.7i. Short clear sides, boXed,
Cucisnati. Nov Pori
Lard, steam leaf.
Bacon, shoulders.
$7.1S. wort dear.
ov l'.—Pork, meas^ 1
$7». Kettle dried,
. $07*. Short rib
. $7.75.
Naval Stares.
Mrs. Byers' counsel ssys she trill sue
A. h*. Byers for $8CA«00 to property i»he
i claims beUmgs to bachusband, and will
euo Dr. Tollman for damages in keeping
JtwrJwrtaad. from, her, I .
1 iTSir - '.can’t Bang This Hqa,'.
-/ Pittsboro, Nov. l.—The. death sen-
tenoeiofJaaMa Newton Hill, the mar-
derer, in.-whose throat • there ’ is a hole
; Slavakram, Nov, 1.—Spirit* of turpenttto
opened and closed firm at ^8)4 for regulars. , , .
6rm an? unchanged arifctalS' i‘ of m dollar,dims been oommntcd
at a decline of » cents on. E. and F grades; to f qjBiCttM said
sales, 5 U)ubarrels recelpt^S'Tli barrels: A, it would be impossiblo'to Attf him.
H and C, $1 ft»; D. $1 05; * ® •» ^
■- f *i& H '
»M0- i xa'i!- & fVSJr thb rope wbuld chteli ih thb hole and
waft® poll the head off. • Hill was convicted
®f nwdering
;heny park u
Srm at &». Tar. .t.rm at tl.% Crude tur- nole in hit throw wi
Dentine remains liria: hard. $1.10,-soft, $1.M; by himfietf with A 1
kirgin, $1.71. I killed the wemaiLi
healed np. .
Wilmington. Nov. 1.—Rosin/firm; strain
ed, #5; good strained *1 GO. Turpentine is
firm.at 2*. Tar. .t.rm at 71.Hl. 1 Crude tl
Chicago Grsln and Froduea Futaraa.
Chicago. Nov. 1.
Si
Wheat—November....
Corn—November
Pork—.tannery
77145
m
Lard - January...; % # M
Lard—May 5 7 «0
Ribs—January $ goo
Maw York Cotton Futures. '
N*w York. Not. 1.
Cotton futures opened steady at a decline.
g iber ....... 5.4,
bar
ry ... . ;
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in Alle-
Tho
after he had
The wound never
They Bad Not i Item Bitten.
Abbkvillb, Alft., -Nov. 1.—Two sons
of John Brannon, of Henry county,
aged 10 and 19 years, were taken tick
last Sunday and seemed to be affi»ntad
with hydrophobia. They would bite
and gnaw at everything in their reach.
They continued to grow won « and both
died Monday within six ho irs of each
other. and 'wefe ttnrfed in one coffin.
None of their family knew -anything
« » about their having been bitten by omJt
3 nnliMl.
WILL Cfl ANGE THE MAP.
Discoveries on the North Bor*
der by a Frenchman.
PLEA8AHT COUNTRY TO LIVE IN.
la West far a Short May, bat Dl.ravarcit
Pt Baay loaecuraolaa That Ma ( hanged
Bis Fragrant and Sat Out to Maatify tha
Krmra Found ou tha Map* Whlah Ba
CarrUd with Hite.
San Franoibco, Nov. 1.—Count V. E.
Desaiuvillu, who spent fire years near
the mouth of the Mackenzie river, has
just arrived on the steam whaler Jean
nette. He brings uotes that will mate
rially modify the maps of that part of
the British possessions.
The count is a Parisian, 46 years of
age. He left France in 1883, aud went
first to Edmonton, Canada. There he
collected a two years’ supply of provis
ions and built a boat. When spring
came with two Indians he started to the
Mackenzie territory.
“I did not intend to stay any length
of time,” said the count, “bnt when I
got so far north and found that so little
was known of the country, I decided to
torn explorer. Iliad the best maps with
me, bnt I found many inaoouraoies in
them. These I corrected ss I descended
the great river of the north, and my
uotes will make material changes in tho
geographies.
“I expected to find the winters in the
north long, dreary aud wearisome, but
I was mistaken. I. liked them better
than the summers.
“There is no more ideal place for a
hunter than along the north coast of
North America. I found plenty to do.
Deer were plentiful, and while not
hunting I was studying language.
“I discovered that Esquimau lake is
mprely a chain of small lakes beginning
not far from the Maokeuzie river, about
800 miles south of the mouth extending
in a northeasterly direction, and empty
ing into the Arctic ocean near Cape
Bathurst.
“One summer 1 explored the delta at
the month of the Mackenzie, and I
found many inaccuracies in the maps
and charts. The great river itself is
some distance from the place unsigned
to it on the maps. New islands are
being formed at the month. When
Mackenzie discovered the river about
100 years ago he reported clear water
north of Holket island. Now he would
have to pass many islands north of that
island to fiud clear water.
“The river is a tremendous stream—
one of the greatest in the world. The
quantity of sediment it carries dawn is
enormous.
“The thermometer at the mouth of
the Mackenzie at times registers 90 de
grees in the 1 shade aud the heat is op
pressive. The mosquitoes are unbear
able in snmmor. They swarm in mil
lions. When the wind is from the south
they blaoken the air along the coast.
“One summer was spent exploring the
country west of the Mackenzie. I start
ed ont as soon as the snow left the
gronnd with two natives aud ascended
the Peel river as far as its source in tho
Rocky mountains. This was the wild
est country I saw. I ascended some
mountains over 5,000 feet above the lev
el of the sea, aud fouud little snow on
them.”
On this expedition little game was
met with, and the count ran out of pro
visions. The nearest cache was 90 miles
away. For two days the count and his
native companions traveled without
food. When they reached the caohe
they saw a large grizzly bear at the loot
of the tree in which they had placed
theii provisions.
The bear had traveled up the Rocky
mountains, aud must have smelled the
provisions. He was trying to shake
them out of the tree. Desainville got
olose erangh to shoot the bear before
the animal knew of his danger.
Count Desainville resently sent to his
relatives the first letters be has had the
ehance to mail in about five years. He
expects to return to France and write a
book.
•Y HIS BONES.
Ika Bcuor of A Suspected Incendiary Tin.
. I dleated After .Fire Years.
Henderson, Ky., Nov. Lj—Five years
since the Cincinnati gnu Memphis
packet De Soto was horned to the wa
ter’s edge in the middle of the night
near Owensboro. All her freight was
lo6t, but the crew and passengers es
caped. The cook, Thomas Stuval, it
was rumored, had spitefully fired the
steamer and fled. The present low
stage of the Ohio exposed tho wreck,
and persons contiguous to the locality
have been prospecting among the de
bris.
On Saturday the bones of Stuval were
unearthed, substantiating the olaim of
relatives that he had been burned with
the ill fated packet. His family, who
reside in Covington, Ky. t have been
duly notified, and will remove the re
mains to that city for final interment.
- The Sul* Against Squires.
Little Falls, N. Y., Nov. 1.—Ex-
Congressman William King of Minne
apolis, is here on bnsines* connected
with the suit brought by him and sev
eral citizens of Dion, N. Y., against
8enator Squires of Washington, in rela
tion to real estate in the state of Wash
ington-valued at $1,500,000. .The testi
mony of Floyd C. Shepard of Ilion, now
dangerously ill,was taken for the plain
tiff. The trial is set for NoY. 7 at Herk
imer.
Jill Tired of Living.
Birmingham, Ala.,. Nov. 1.—Anna
Antone, a German woman about 3$
years of age, committed snicide here by
fastening herself up in a closet and
hanging herself with a twine string.
She had tied the string oronud her neok
and then let the weight of her body
down upon it. When discovered sh«
was cold in death. The only reason fpr
her act was that-she was tired of living:
Aa Old Man Killed.
Walhalla, S. C., Nov. 1.—Thomas
Madden, an aged white man, was kilt
ed by Thomas Alexander, ayoungwhita
man, bear Salem, in Oconee county.
Wi« throat was ont from ear to ear. It
was done near Madden’s house, on tha
public road. Tha eauaa is not known.
IS FAR OFF SCim
Lives The Wealthy Father of|
the Suicide, James Shewed.
A DISAPPOINTMENT IN LOVE
Was l’i>iIonbledl,v the Can«e at Nhewen’s
Hash Art.—The Body Interred In Fetter**
Field.-The Father to be Communicated
With About Ills Son’# Sudden Heath and
the Burial.
Connected with the death of Jamea
She wee, the »tout-cutter, it a thread of
romance and interesting history.
Shewen same from Sootiand, and a
gentleman in tbe city who knew him
ssys that he is latisfled that in tha Old
Country the deceased owned considera
ble property in his own name.
He alao stated that Shewea’s father
was in wealthy circumstances anti was
highly esteemed in hie home is Scot
land.
Chief Oliver will communicate with
tbe father of the dead man in regard to
the disposition of hu son’s re males.
Meanwhile they will rest InOoonee,
Cemetery, where the/ were laid away
yesterday in potter’s field.
With no sorrowing relatives to look
after his dead body, the city took
charge of the funeral add hurried him
in the publio burying ground. j
Shewen was a very efficient stone
cutter, and bad been in Athens for sev
eral mouths at work on dillersnt build
ings. <
During his stsy hero hu had (alien in
love with one of the youog daughters
of the Clsssio City and had paid his
attentions to her quite: assiduously.
He would drink heart ly at times and
this caused tbe young lady to notify
him that ho must cease his visits to her
as she could not tolerate hit drinking. I
From that time he brooded over his
troubles very much and still imbibed
the deadly draught.
Wednesday he went to his work as
usual at the Episcopal Church ani
worked during the morning *> steadily
as ever. ^ ' I
He had very little to say to any sue
around him and was in a deep study all
the mnrning. At that time he must
have been contemplating the rash deed
that ended bis life.
At half-past one o’clock a marriage
occurred at the Episcopal church, and
as the bridal party passed by him and
into the eburoh, no doubt/visions of
what could never be in his esse arose
before him. ? ” i
The orange blossoms so .fragrant to
others were melanchQlly emblems to
him, and, and the future reached Us
darkest and gloomiest hue when be
pondered over tbe happy event that
was ceasing. —
He left his work about three o’oim k
and osine down town. That was the
last time his fellow-workmen saw him
in life.
Down to the river be went, beni.
upon destroying atie life he considered
not worth prolonging. As told in yes
terday’s issue, he went about tha sot
with cool deliberation.
Laying aside his good clothes, he
drew on a pair of old pants, and despite
the warning of Mr. Coker, who was on
the other aide of the river, waded into i
tbe water.
The cold stream did not deter him
from his deadly purpose and straight
on to his death he walked.
Inch by inoh his body became sub
merged, and just as the water reached
up to hie shoulders he cried out, “May
the Lord have mercy on my soul,” and
disappeared tieneath the water.
The water rolled onwaM iz 1Uoourse
and one me re hnman being had ap* 1
peered before tbe judgment seat of God
to answer ft r the deeds done in the
body.-" "
Away from home he had fall in into
dissipation and drink. The inordinate
desire for drink made him obnoxious
not only to those with whom be waa
thrown in eonteot, but disbarred him
forever from the realisation of his fond
est dreams ol wedded life.
ATTACK ON TILLMAN.
8«rloa» Chart; 1‘n Kroiijflit by Hr. Ssnpioi
Tops* / gainikt Mu* Governor.
Columbia, Nov. 1. — Dr. Sampson
Pope, the i jdepeiulent candidate for
governor, hmi issued an address, iu which i
he declares lie has gotten hold of Gov
ernor Tillman’i campaign plans and
that “they are enough to curdle the]
blood in your veins.” He .pays:
“B. R. Tillman, as governor, has tak- j
eu an oath t-> obey the constitution and *
laws of Soulk Carolina. . In the face of ,
this he h:.s instructed the county chair- 1
men of the Democratic party of this .
-state to see lo-it that a legislature favor- j
able to.hip. as..United .States senator
shall be elec ted, to defeat me as gover
nor and to oeeure the constitutional i
convention. His, instructions are to ad-1
mit hut one watt to the polls at a time,
to frighten i he negroes from the polls |
aud if necessary to use the .sheriffs and 1
constables a id call on the military. All
of these failing, to oohnt us out.
“I can'm‘{ ve this by at least two men :
to whom lie gave the instructions, and j
Way yet'go nfothe courts and do so. 1
What do you think of this? A sworn
officer—the lighest officer iu the stator-
forgetting h is sacred oath and descend- ’
ing to the level of a miserable partisan
^Dr/Ptopeileclareishe'has information
from every county that makes’ ’ -E "
to say that lie will “beat tha
10,000 to 30.000 votes,"