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The Morgan Monitor VOL. II. NO. 20. SI PER YEAR. “CLEAR THE WAYI» Men of thought! be up and stirring Night and day; Sow the seed, withdraw the curtain, Clear the way. Men of action, aid aud cheer theta As ye may! There’s a fount about to stream, There’s a light about to beam, There’s a warmth about to glow, There’s a (lower about to blow; There’s a midnight blacknoss changing Into gray; Men of thought and men of action, Clear tho way. Once ihe welcome light has broken, Who shall say What tho uuimaginod glories Of the day? What ihe evil that shall perish In its ray? Aid the dawning, tongue and pen; Aid it, hopes of honest men; Aid it, paper—aid it, type— ! Aid it, for the hour is ripe; And our earnest must not slacken Into play; Men of thought and men of action, k Clear tho way. Lo! a cloud’s about to vanish. From the day, And a brazen wrong to crumble Into clay. Lo! the Eight’s about to conquer— Clear tlie way! ■With the Eight shall many more Enter smiling at tho door; With the giant Wrong shall fall Many others, great and small, That lor ages long has'e held us For their prey; Hen of thought and mon of aelion, Clear tha way! —Charles Maekay, '■A. *- fS. GOOD WEIGHT." N HOPE DATUXO. Jr ■ Jgggk ILIAN SNELL, v llfjll? % teacher first grado of the in ■xtr'» §j=* building No. 3, -g; jjg|g| ,t~ gl : (§M public schools of - ' Windsor, turned <l aickl y Horn tho k * ftckl50ftr< l where ^ on she had been wren swinging drawing a pert “Who on a spray of clover. firm is crying?” she asked, in a sweet, voice. “It is little Agnes Gregory, ” volun- leered a dimple-faced boy who sat uear ; Miss Snell crossed the room and bent over tho child. “Agues, what is it? Can you not Zell mo all about it ?” Sobs were Agnes’s only reply. Miss Snell kissed her gently, then went back to her work. When it was fia- is’ned and tho children all jirovided with work, she lifted the Sobbing child and tenderly carried her to the teacher’s desk. Here, somewhat zemoved from the curious little ones, Lilian sot about soothing her pupil. Agues was a pretty fair faced child of six. She had sunny blue eyes and her hair, a golden ohestnut, curled about her face and neck. Her cloth- ing was clean, but well worn, and Lil- inn noticed the gaping hole in the tiny shoo as welt as the thinness of the faded dress. Noticed it with a sym- pathetio thrill of tho heart that throbbed with something of the divine spirit of motherhood toward the chil- dren in her care. Agnes’s story was soon told. Her widowed mother hud had no breakfast for her little ones. “I don’t care so much about my- self, Miss Snell,” the child went on artlessly, “ ’cause I’m mamma’s brave girl, but when little brother Royce wakes up he will be so hungry, and he is only three years. He does not know he mustn’t cry.” A little more questioning and Lilian learned that someone owed Mrs. Greg- ory lor sewing, also that she hoped to have dinner ready when Agnes came home. Lilian looked out into the driving storm knew Mrs. of a Gregory, January forenoon. She and her heart ached for the pale young mother. Miss Snell was quick of thought and action. Ten minutes later Agnes was in the warm cloak room feasting on the dainty lunch Mrs. Snell had prepared for her daughter’s midday meal. The young teacher had written a note and a list of articles of food and was at tho door of the room across the hall. The teacher, Florence Fox, listened sympathetically to Lilian’s story and to the suggestion that her own twelve- year-old brother be called from tho sixth grade to deliver the note, “Of course Fred can go,” she cried, “And Lilian, you say you have written to Mr. Davis the circumstances and asked him for good weight. I’ll send an order to cousin Hugh for a half cord of wood, tell him the story, and ask him likewise for good weight.” A faint crimson finshstainedLilian’s cheek, but she warmly thanked her friend and hnrriod back to her work, Mark Davis was a stout, genial-faced man of thirty-eight. Ho tat in his office, his morning’s work at hfs books just finished. Through the open door he could see brisk clerks stepping about in the grocery store from which the office opened. There was an odor of spices, coffee, fruit and fish in the air. "Eight hundred dollars more profit this year than last,” tho grocer said to himself. “Somehow it don’t do a man any good to pile up money, when he has no one to spend it on.” Here his reverie was cut short by tho entrance of u clerk, who handed him an envelope, saying, “A boy just brought this.” Two papers dropped from the en- velope as he tore it open. The first was a list, including a loaf of bread, potatoes, crackers, dried beef and a &>w other articles. He glanced over metr4 opened the other. It was Lil- home, a l Ulv Bear Mr. Davis— A little girl in my room Is crying because she has had no breakfast, Her name is .Agnes Gregory, and her mother is a poor widow who lives on the third floor of 4 Hampton street. Please send tho things ordered at once. I wil! come in after sehool g?vo good weigh?' Truly’ vo^™’ ^ “liiuAu Snei/l.” Mr. Davis had been a friend of the Snell family for years, and it was not the first time that Lilian had appealed to him for holp in her charitable work. So that was not the reason that so strange a look came into his honest brown eyes. “Agnes Gregory and lives on Hamp¬ ton street,” he murmured. “It surely must be Margaret’s child. Good God I Margaret and her child wanting bread!” A half hour later Mark Davis was floor making his way up the stairs to the upon which Mrs. Gregory’s rooms were situated. His knock at the first deor was answered by a red-faced woman. “Mis’ Gregory it is you air want¬ in’?” she asked sharply. “And it’s no bad news you air after bringin’ her, I hope.” “I wanted to deliver some groceries a friend has sent her.” The clouded faoe cleared as if by magio. “Heaven’s bliesin’ be on your head then 1 Mis’ Gregory, she’s gone out, but I’ve her key here, and will unlock the door. That’s her by, and aswate child he is.” Mark looked eagerly at the pink and while faco of the boy. He held out a great golden orange, and little Royce spang for it, his childish laugh echoing through tho room. Then the grocer followed Mrs. Donavan to the home oi Margaret Gregory. It was a bare place, but clean and neat. Mark sighed ns he noted the signs of abject poverty. While the deliveryman was bring up the parcels, Mrs. Donavan volubly explained that Mrs. Gregory had gone to try to get money duo her. The warm hearted Irishwoman had surmised that for- tune was at low ebb with her noighbor, partly becauso of little Royce’M unu- sual fretfulness, which had been quieted by a hugo slico of broad aud butter. “She’s worked her precious fingers ’most to tho bone,” slie concluded, “but work’s searco, and I don’t know what’s ever goiu’ to become oi her and her babies.” The wood soon came. Florence’s half cord had been reinforced by a whole cord, perhaps because she had written her cousin that the needy widow was a protege of Miss Snell’s. As to Liliau’s order for groceries, Mr. Davis had added to it a sack of flour, a ham, coffee, tea, sugar, apples, cookies, cheese, canned fruits and moats, and a big bag of caDdy. Mrs. Donavan went back to her own room, and the wagons rolled way. Mark hastily built a fire, then sat down to think how best to explain the liber- he had taken. The baro room faded from his vision as he sat there. In its place came an old country garden overgrown with roses and clematis. Jt was June, and the air was heavy with the scent of many blossoms. By his side was a beautiful girl in whoso curls the Bull¬ shine seemed entangled. lie bent lower, and the rose-red lips of his companion murmured, “I love you, Murk.” Still lower his head sank un- til his lips touched the ones that had uttered tho sweet words, A start, aud he sat upright,glancing around him. That was ten years ago. He was poor then, and Margaret,beau- tiful Margaret Henson, had been tho only daughter of a wealthy home. So their engagement had been forbidden, They parted, vowing eternal constancy, A year later Margaret became tho wife of Vance Gregory, but it was not until months after that Mark learned of the treachery and deceit that had been employed to urge her to that step. It was too late then. There was nothing to do but to endure, Ho had known for some time that Margaret was a widow and lived in the city. He knew nothing of her poverty, To supposing that her means were ample, go to her now with a story of love had never occured to him. She knew nothing of what had parted them. He could not blacken the memory of the man who had been her husband, the father of her children, He sprang to his feet. Thero was no need of an explanation. He passed out, pausing for a final word with Mrs. Donavan. “TellMrs. Gregory the things came from the teaohers at No. 3.” “To be sure, Mr. Davis,” responded the woman, who had recognized Mark. “I’ll tell her all ’bout it. And may the blissin’s of all tho saints rest on your dear head!” Mark hurried away, leaving a shin- ing silver dollar in Royce's hand, It was only a few minutes after his departure that a thinly clad woman came toiling wearily up the stairs. It was Margaret Gregory. The woman who owed her was out of town. The needy mother had applied at several places for work, only to meet with refusal. Then she had gone to a store and begged for credit, but in vain, She had reached the end. There was but ono way open. She would ask Mrs. Donovan to give her children their dinner. When she had rested aud oonquered the bitter rebellion in her heart she would go out again and apply to the city for charity. Margaret Gregory was proud. She was already faint for the want of food., yet she turned in loathing from the thought ol a meal obained in that way. It would be worse than death, but death does not come at one’s call, and there were her babies, A dry sob burst from hor lips. She passed Mrs. Donavan’s door in silence, She must have a moment to herself before she could ask charity of one so poor as her kind neighbor. Hurrying on, she pushed open her own door, A bright firo was blazing in the cracked stove. Mrs. Donavan had prepared slices potatoes for tho oven and out ready for frying from the POPULATION AND DHAINAG33. MORGAN, GA.. FRIDAY, MAY 28 1897. ham. Tho open door of tho wood nlnset ”?? et showed snowed a » liinro nugo pile, niio wliiln wmio tho tno table Mas heaped high With food, Bor a moment she Btood gazing wildly around her. Then she dropped ?. ueved p her overwrought ^ nerves. ° f t0ar8 r °' The next day’s mail brought a letter from Margaret to Mr. Davis. Tho writer had gone to Miss Snell to thank her. From the young teacher she had learned of Mark’s connection with tho affair. It was an earnest grateful letter, blotted here and there with tear stains. She accepted his generosity, for her children’s sake she could not refuse charity. She referred to the friend¬ ship that had existed between their parents, but Mark was glad that she was too womanly a woman to ° even hint at tho relation they had once borne to each. When ho finished for reading the letter, his heart was light, he understood that Margaret knew of the treachery that had blotted tho sunshine out of his life. Mtwk went straight homo and told his aunt, who was also his housekeep¬ er, all about it. Mrs. Everts was knit¬ ting before the open coal fire. She was a bright-faced old lady with soft white hair and a serene faoe. When he had finished, she laid down her work and sat for a long time, gazing into the dancing flames. “The only daughter of my old friend, Rebecca Henson, in want of food,” she said, a note of pain in her voice. “Mark, you and I both have plenty of money. There is room in this house, aud in our heart, for Margaret and her babies. But she is proud. Go and ask her to come and sew for me. Tell her 1 am lonely and ask her to bring her little ones to brighten me up.” Mark bent to kiss the placid face. “Thank you, Aunt Elsie, I seo you understand.” A few hours later ho knocked at Margaret’s door and saw that years had changed her. The wild- rose bloom had faded from her cheeks, tears had washed the joyous light from her blue eyes, yet it was surely the Margaret he had loved, that stood be¬ fore him. She met him frankly and with un¬ disguised pleasure. Her voice trem¬ bled when she undertook to express her gratitude. Mark made light of the whole affair and insisted on talking of their childhood days. The fruit and nuts ho brought provod an open sesame to the hearts ot Agnes and Royce, and they were soon on the best of terms with the caller. Margaret wa3 very grateful for the offer of work. She hesitated a little over vitation, accepting Mrs. Everts’s kind in¬ fearing lest the children prove an annoyance. But when Mark drew a touching picture of the loneli¬ ness of his aunt she gladly consented to come. It was arranged that tho carriage come for the Gregorys the following afternoon. One morning, two months later, Florence Fox tripped across tho hall of No. 3 and entered Miss Snell’s room. “Of course, you arc going to tho wedding reception Thursday evening,” she began. “I think it such a lovely marriage, dou’tvou?” “Indoed I do,” Lilian replied warm¬ ly. “Yes, I am to go in the afternoon and help with the decorations. The whole house is to be in green and white, smilax, ferns, roses and carna¬ tions.’ Mrs. Everts says Mr. Davis cannot do too much for his bride, ‘our dear Margaret,’ the sweet old lady calls her.” “And I believe it all came about from your begging him to give her good weight,” “Florence cried, mer¬ “Ho is obeying your request in an extravagant manner. And Lilian is not that pretty pearl ring and tho beatific expression on cousin Hugh’s face the result of my efforts along the same lice of charitable work?” The bell rang then, and the blush¬ ing Lilian was spared the necessity of reply.—'Womankind. Worry anil Indigestion, It is so remarkably easy to offer the advice to persons whose lot is not altogether cast in pleasant places, and with whom things do not go well, to refrain from worrying, but how hard it is to follow this well-meaning ad¬ vice! None the less, worry is a fruit¬ ful source of many of the ills that flesh is heir to. It imprints lines on the face, and seams it with furrows, and has a most depressing effect upon the Btomacb. Tho worry and anxiety which depress tho brain prodnoe a semi-paralysis of tho nerves of the stomach, and the result is indigestion. Indigestion is a terrible enemy to temper, and this affects our happiness, and, of course, to health, for this affects our appearance. One unmis¬ takable sign of mental health is serenity of temper and a self-control that enables us to bear with equanimity and unruffled temper the trials and troubles of life, more particularly those arising from contact with soold- ing, irritating and irritable people. Coflec Blindness. Dr. Snaitken says: “It is well known that the Moors are inveterato coffee-drinkers, especially tho mer¬ chants, who sit in their bazaars and drink coffee continually during the day. It has been noticed that almost invariably when these coffee-drinkers reaok tho age of forty or forty-five their eyesight begins to fa’l, and by the time they get to be fifty years old they become blind. One is forcibly impressed by tho number of blind men that are seen about the streets of the city of Fez, the capital of Morocco. It is invariably attributed to the ex¬ cessive use of coffee.” Indian Ocean Sharks. Although the waters of the Indian ocean are filled with voracious sharks, the inhabitants of tha numerous isl¬ ands near Ceylon swim about in tho water with impunity, the sharks re¬ to molest them, while a would bo instantly devoured. ,1 AN EPISTLE TEEMING FULL OF “GINGER.” POLITICS MRKES PHILOSOPHER MHO Presidential Appointments .Stirs His Ire. The G. A. It. and t-lie Republican * Party Roasted. Horace said in one of life philosophic odes that* ‘anger is a brief-fit, of lunacy. ” Then I ain ready for the asylum right now, for I am mad—mad with McKinley, the and Buck, and Bullock,and Grand Army, and the Republican party, and everybody else who is try¬ ing to impose on our people. The Grand Army demands the publishing of a school history that will make southern treason odious to the genera- Hons to come. This is not the Grand Army for they are about all dead ex- cept the pensioners,but it is the grand do7t want General Grant said: “Let us have peace,” aud Lincoln said so, too, place. but these politicians are afraid of Peace would wet all their ammunition, It is a very late date to revive this cry of treason. The argument has been long since exhausted and now nothing is left but disgust and contempt for the political schemers who seek to perpetuate discord. Treason is a favorite cry among pretended pa- triots. Athaliah murdered the sons of the king and usurped the throne, and when the prophet ordered her to be slain she rushed forth and cried treasou, treason! When Patrick Hen- ry in liis first great speech denounced George the IV the judges cried trea- son, treason! Well, I reckon that Patrick Henry and Ben Franklin and Jefferson and Adams and Payne were the first traitors this country pro- dticed, and we don’t mind being in their company. In fact, we are proud of it. I get awful mad when I read the vile slanders of the northern pa¬ pers. The scriptures tell us to love there our neighbors, but, those fellows up not forbidden are not our neighbors, and it is to hate an army, is it? My contempt for that grand army is not limited by time or distance or the statute of limitations, but I had made up my mind to let them alone if they would let me alone. Of course there are some clever men Belonging to it justl ike there are some clever men in the Repnblicun party, but that don’t prevent, me from hating both of the and concerns categorically; as organizations, collectively derers, schemers and plun¬ and scalawags and slanderers run both. Nobody but an unprinci¬ pled politician would seek to put a negro in the postoffice at Augusta or in any other southern town. It is an insult to onr people, and thero is no excuse for it—no palliation. Of all the offices in the gift of the government there are none about which the people have such moral, social and political rights as the postoffiees. Every man and woman in the community sl-cild Vie consulted, if it were possible But as it, is not, then the public sentiment should be considered and the business men be consulted, and nobody should be appointed who would not be acceptable to a large majority of the people, In fact, thero should be no partisanship about, it. In a Democratic community a Republican who could not, get a majority vote should not ask for nor receive the office, but inasmuch as the rule now is that to the victors belong the spoils, of course we must submit. We in the south must take the best Repub¬ lican we can find, but no president who is a gentleman will seek to pnt a negro in this office and no politician who is a gentleman will ask him to do it. It is an office that emphatically belongs to the people of the communi¬ ty. No It concerns them and them alone. doubt but that DO per cent of all ihe letters and papers and money or- ders that go and come from Augusta are haps it is the pate of a politician, one who would circumvent God.” And it doesseem as if they become hardened I to all sense of the proprieties of life. A hundred years ago Sheridan wrote: “Conscience has nothing to do with politics.” Our people have been do¬ ing their best to think well of McKin¬ ley and esteem him as a clever,upright gentleman, but the fact that he enter¬ tains the idea of appointing Lyons to Augusta has wiped out all respect for him. The mugwump Democrats who voted for him have all become cross¬ eyed and can’t look you straight in the fa“e. Why did he single out that bright little town of Hogansville to in¬ sult her people with a negro postmas¬ ter? Why does ho not, appoint negroes to the northern towns where they claim there is no color line?—towns whose white and black go to the same school and sometimes intermarry. And now thero is another trouble here in Cartersville. A Michigan man moved here not long ago with his fam¬ ily and went into partnership with a negro blacksmith and they all lived to¬ gether on terms of social equality and oat at tho same table, and as the Mich¬ igan man’s children go to our public school he has been notified that they cannot go there any longer. So be has taken his children away, and says he don’t care a damn what cur people think and he will do as he pleases, for it is a free country. Well, that is hard on the children, but the time is not yet passed when the sins of the father will not be visited upon the children. He may conclude to send them to the colored school, ns that would be more consistent with his prin- ciples, but it is hoped that he will pack up and go back to Michigan. The line is drawn and will remain. Thirty- fonr years Rave passed sin.ce and there is no change, neither in tels nor chinches nor public convey¬ ancer or places of amusement. races would he content if it were for the politicians. As long as the ne¬ gro has a vote he will he made a fool of 1 y the candidates. They say that Lyons is moral and capable. Suppose that he is —he is an impudent idiot to want, to thrust himself where he is not wanted. No gentleman will do that, cither socially or politically, and no gentleman will help him doit. Thank heaven, we will now be rid of Buck for fonr years to come. I wish that more of his sort would leave the country for their country’s good. And now I think I feel better.—B ili, Am* in The Atlanta Constitution. A TAME WILDCAT. An Arizona Sheep Rancher Has Chosen a Dangerous Pet. * . sheep „ ^her , near Ash , , Fork _ , H ; Absuvc discovered ! f ' ' M f ts aiu b ««^stbAted, ; and p r r both u fo,, protector T r and T rompan- ywhere * ’ * ‘ * 1 big ’ 8trip f and 8pot A ed 7 ; ( *' *« rB llke Po *' Cuplne quills nml a tail as g!oSS , : v apd " Us ,n *■ * ,ndln ®» jungle tiger s Ho v d,dI bappetl t °„ take a f . ° , a h “. old P“8sy? replied Mr. A ” durta * V« con t U,t ? rv ‘ e w - “ hoep } 11 tel1 yox da } about *• 1 I '/as hording , on ® f’ and ft f din S on lh ? top ! ,f a ?>*• *J Dok ta> W “ “ Tocl ' s proJflct ‘ , ,1K fn,m ,lle cHffs ,el ° w ‘ 1 sa ' v a very lar , e e fei °' cious-ooking * wildcat. , She had tas- f!? tal fl " u om her S ( ® ?f ar8 t0 ‘ apd Slde was and ,ashing glaring hor at , rowlln angrily. ® S 1 stood star- t,e(J for a minute, and not having a f 1111 1 wa8 at a J oss to 1(11 ow "’hat to do ’ 1 8pled a h " se bowlder on the edge of a ledge right over this cat, and using all my strength I pushed It over. She was too quick for it and dodged. When I looked down again she had disappeared. “I concluded there must be a cave, and perhaps a nest of kittens, so I lay in wait a few minutes to see if the emt would make her appearance again. 1 was ready for her at this time, as I had secured a lot of rocks and intended to shower them upon her. I did not have very long to wait, for out she came looking fiercer than before. I let the rocks go, and that time there were too many of them for her to dodge. One struck her on the back and broke it, and after that I easily put an end to her. X then crawled down the cliff a short distance and peered over as far as I could, ar.d dis¬ covered there were two very small kit¬ tens in the cavern. 'Their eyes were not yet open. I made up my mind 1 would have them. It took me some time to plan how to got thorn, as the cliff waa almost perpendicular, it was with great difficulty that I finally captured my prizes. I took off my coat and wrapped it around them and started for home. When I readied there 1 laid them down at the base of a big juniper tree. My largo hound, Adam, came bounding up, and, to my sur¬ prise, seemed as pleased over my kits as I was. He at once began to lick them, and lay down beside them. The kittens crawled over him and seemed to think he was a good substitute for their mother. I gave them sheep’s milk, which they seemed to thrive on. They would He all day under the trees with the hound, and he would never let my shepherd dog come near them. They grew very fast, and we all be¬ came very much attached to my strange pets. “At sheep-shearing time we drove the sheep into Ash Fork. I packed the burros and made a box for the wild cats and lashed them on top. When we reached town that evening I let them out to run around the sheep shed. While Adam was eating his supper a large dog came in and killed one of the cats. Next morning as we were passing down the street, with Adam and the wild oat following we created quite a sensation. Some peo- pie were afraid of the cat—other’s were anxious to pet him, seeing mo caress him, but he objected to strangers and arch his back and spit furiously. “While we were at a saloon near the depot the passenger train came in. of the Eastern tourists came over to the saloon for a drink. just, poured out whisky all when they turned and saw the cat sitting there looking at them. started for the train on a run. whisky standing and not get¬ their change. I shall try to keep out of sight of tenderfeet after I don’t want to scare them to death, but the cat is all right and the pet I have ever had. I wouldn’t with him at any price. He is on coyotes, and keeps all those rascals away from our Francisco Examiner. A GOOD W'At TO IIANG. First Tramp—\\hat do they mean by bangin’ a man in effigy •’ (Second Tramp That's when they just string up a stuffed figure of him. goin’ First Tramp -Well, if l ter be hung I’d like lo have it done that way. Wore One Collar 250 Years. Near Essegg, In Slavonia, where eagles abound, ono ot them was shot last week wearing a svcel collar on which was engraved the partly oblit¬ erated coat-of-arms of a noble family of Slavonia and below 1646, prov- ; rl g ^at 250 years had elapsed since j,e was captured and collared.-Phiia- ddphia Ledger. T. P. GREEN, MANAGER. I ! FRUIT STEAMER PHASED BY SPAN¬ ISH MAN OF WAR. CULLED DOWN BY STORM OF SHOT The Hold-Up Was Attempted On the Out¬ bound Trip and tho Return. Captain’s Story. After being twice chased by Spanish gunboats and passing through a per¬ fect storm of shot, which splashed in the water across tho vessel’s bows, the British fruit steamer, Ethelred arrived at Philadelphia Sunday night, after a five days run from Port Antonio, Ja¬ maica. When tho Ethelred left Philadelphia May 12th, it, was the intention of Capt. >T. 1). Hftlt to accompany her, but lie was arrested as lie was about to go aboard. As it was, his invalid daugh¬ ter was a passeugor. It is supposed that the agents of the Spanish govern¬ ment in the city had notified the Span¬ ish authorities in Havana to watch for tho Ethelred in Havana waters. The first encounter with the Span¬ ish cruisers occurred off Cape Maisi, on the trip down. Just after dusk on boat Sunday without evening, May Kith, a gun¬ der lights shot out from un¬ the Maisi capes and crowding on all steam steered directly for the fruit vessel. After steaming for an hour without gaining an inch, the gunboat turned a search-light on the other vessel. All steam was crowded on the Ethelred, which was beginning to show the Spaniards a clean pair of heels, when a small white cloud of smoke belched from the cruiser’s side, and a second later a solid shot cut the water a half mile ahead of her bows. Then came a second and third shot, each nearer than the other. Captain Israel kept on his course, and after another hour’s hot chase,the Spaniards dropped from the race. The seeond chase happened last Thursday which in almost the same spot in the attempt to hold ihe vessel up occurred. Just as the Ethelred rounded Cape Maisi an immense Span¬ ish gunboat,of the newest type,started out from under the cape and gave chase. For two hours the chase was kept up, enlivened now and then by a solid shot, throwing up a sheet of white spray just ahead of the swift vessel’s bows. It began to look as if the Spaniard meant to chase the Ethelred clear to the Delaware capes, when another steamship was sighted aud tho big gunboat, steered off and gave vigorous chase to the newly discovered vessel. cbockett soiimrr death. Flnml Mu7.7.1« of Gun In IIIh Month and Rloir IIIm Mend Oft*. James P. Crockett, who is said he the second wealthiest citizen in De- Kalb county, Ga,, and who has always enjoyed the respect and esteem of that section, placed the muzzle of a double- barreled shotgun in his mouth Sunday morning aud blew bis head almost en¬ tirely from his body. The cause is shrouded in mystery. Some say it was mental aberration; others believe his poor state of health had something to do with it. Crockett had been ill for over six months, suffering with rheuma¬ tism. There was no cause for despondency or discouragement in his business af¬ fairs. Ever since ho started his little grocery store in Decatur, when Atlan¬ ta was fl ame swept by Sherman’s torch, his success has been unhindered. He later speculated in real estate, making a fortune of nearly $200,000, which he now leaves to his family. YOUTHFUL HANK THIEF CAUGHT. The If« Had Taken Found on Iflu Phthoii. Albert M. King, tho Boston hank messenger, who disappeared from that city a lew days ago with $30,000 of the bank's money, was arrested at Farmington, Ale., Sunday. King reached the place on a train from tho Rangeley lake region and was taken into custody immediately. When searched at tt jail all the money taken from the 'k as found in King’s pockets. AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY To Hold Golden Jubtlea in Philadelphia June lnt to 4th. The golden jubilee meeting of the American Medical association will be held in Philadelphia on June 1st, 2d, 3d and 4th, and promises to be not only the most important meeting ever held by this gre.at organization, bnt also the largest gathering of noted medical men ever before brought to¬ gether in the city. Apart from tho largo attendance of physicians from all parts of the coun¬ try, the numerous able aud interest¬ ing papers placed upon tho program insure a meeting of important scien¬ tific results. DEATH IN FLAMES. Two People Killed and Three Seiioimly ! ti,I lived I n a York Firo. Two persons were killed and three injured in a fire at New York Sunday morning in the four-story and base¬ ment brown stone building at 149 West Twenty-third street. Several persons narrowly escaped death. The dead are: Mrs. Catherine Mossway, 33 years, died at hospital from suffocation and burns; Beatrice Mossway, 4 years old, daughter of the former, suffoca¬ ted in her room. -? HISTORICAL CHURCH BURNED. Wan Flrnt I’<1 inco For Worship Built In Savannah By John Wesley. Christ church, t-lie mother of the Episcopal union in Savannah, the first and only church founded and built in America by John Wesley, tho founder of Methodism, before he left the Epis¬ copal church, the ground for which was ceded by King George III, has been destroyed by fire. The fire broke out at 12:30 o’clock Saturday night and the church was soon a mass of ruins. The cause of the fire was tho care¬ lessness of the porter who pumps tho organ. He keeps a candle back of his bellows gtiage at night so that he can read tho indicator. After the choir practice Saturday night he went away and forgot to put out this candle, which burned out and started the con¬ flagration. The church contained the records of Savannah and much of those of Geor¬ destroyed gia from 1810, the time when it was theso by a hurricane, and all were burned. The records be¬ fore that time were destroyed by the hurricane Tho original church was founded soon after tho settlement of Savan¬ nah. The first edifice was begun in 1713, but was not completed until 1750. In 170(1 it was destroyed by fire and was rebuilt, upon an enlarged plan in 1803. The next year it was partly de¬ molished by a hurricane and was not rebuilt until 1810. In 1838 the corner-stone of the pres¬ ent edifice was laid, the old church having been torn down, and the build¬ ing was completed in 1810. The founder of Christ church was Rev. Henry Herbert, who came over from England with Oglethorpe. John Wesley was its third rector, and on the site of the present edifice stood the rude chapel in which lie administered as chaplain to the colonists. It was in Christ church that the first Sunday school was established by John Wesley, nearly fifty years before Robert Ilaikes, who is honored as the founder of Sunday schools, originated the scheme of Sunday instruction in Gloucester, England, and eighty years before the first Sunday school in America on the Raikes plan was es¬ tablished. PREPARING FOR QUEEN'S JUBILEE London In Taking On a “Strictly Busi- nosH 1 ’ Aspect. London, according to advices, is al- rqpdy plunged into the queen’s jubilee preparations and for the next six weeks, it promises to lie the most un¬ comfortable city in Europe. Along tho route of the procession the fronts of the buildings are disfig¬ ured by hideous scaffoldings, prepara¬ like tory to building seats. Even churches St. Martin’s, in the fields, have been sold to speculators, who have al¬ most completely covered the edilico mentioned with building preparations, a little sign reading “Services as usual” being about the only indication left of the church proper. St. Paul’s cathedral is likewise disfigured by huge stands. The price of provisions lias already advanced and everything has at least doubled in cost. For the jubilee week several of the large hot ois refuse to make any definite arrangements for rooms, even to old patrons, until a week before the jubi¬ lee. Every person who has been able to do so lias let his or her house for the celebration and is preparing to flee to the country The fact is that every one in London is, to use a slang ex¬ pression, “op the make.” 110VSS MONUMENT IS DEDICATED. Blind Millionaire’** Gift to Confederate Veterans f« Accepted. The monument given by Charles Broad way Rouss, the millionaire Now York merchant, to Confederate Vete¬ rans camp was dedicated Saturday afternoon in Mt. Hope cemetery, in West Chester county. After the dedication the graves of the veterans of the southern army were strewn with flowers. After an hour the visitors returned to the city,where a reception was given to Mr. Rouss in the evening. The monument is the finest in the cemetery. It cost $5,000. It is Now England granite, sixty feet high on a base of ten feet. The pedestal is com¬ posed of only three pieces and is nine feet high. The following inscription is at the base of the monument: "Sacred to the memory of the heroic dead of the Confederate Veteran camp of New York.” WILL PARDON REI)WINE. Attorney ticneriil Hal Ordered Ills Case Reopened. A Washington special of Sunday says: Lewis Redwine, the wrecker o I the Gate City National bank at Atlan¬ ta, and who is serving a term in the Columbus Ohio, penitentiary, will b« pardoned. The attorney general has givon or¬ ders for the reopening of his case, which was closed when President Cleveland refused to grant the pardon upon the former application. This was done at the instance of Colonel Buck, who went to Attorney General McKenna to urge that action. LIST OF NEEDY AMERICANS. Connul Uee Places the Number In Cuba at 1,200 More Than tlie Estimate* A telegram was received at the state department Sunday morning from Con¬ sul Genera! Lee indicating that the number of Americans in need in Cuba is much larger than was supposed at first. The consul general says that the number may reach 1,200. The consul at Matanzas reports 250 there and the consul at fc-agua 450.
