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The Morgan Monitor.
VOL. IL NO. 32 *1 PER YEAR.
OUR LATTER DAYS.
I cloudy morning, and a golden eve,
Warm with the glow that never Ungers
Such long—
is our life; and who would pause to
grieve
Over a tearful day that ends in song?
The dawn was gray, and dim with mist and
rain;
Thero was no sweetness in the chilly
Doad blast;
loaves were strewn along tho dusky
Iftne
That led us to tho sunset light at last.
Taught by His love, wo learnt to love aright;
Led by His hand, wo passed through dreary ways
And now how lovely is the mellow light
That shines so calmly on our latter days!
—Sarah Doudney, in Sunday Magazine.
The) Magic Breastpin.
By L. E. Van Nooman,
HEN I saw that
was likely to rain all
day I determined to
visit my friend Azrnl,
?o who keeps the vortn
shop on Wardour
street, I had
eral holidays on hand
and knew of no more delightful wny
of spending an idle hour than iu look¬
ing over old Azral’s collection of vertu,
which had a great fascination for me.
The old man, who had taken quito
fancy to mo—probably because I could
appreciate his love for the bizarre and
antique—and who oven becamo quito
chatty at times, wa.s a venerable He¬
brew who boasted descent from David.
Contrary to tho traditional
istics of his race, he was frank
open-handed—-I had found him
generous.
A fine old fellow ho was, tall, majes¬
tic, with a long white beard
his breast; stately and slow in speech,
jpolite, but not cringing, with
solf-rospeeting courtesy which
gives us in Rink, the “Godmother.”
cannot soy why, hut he was my
picture of Aaron—ho had n sort
silent eloquence about him.
kith or kin, he lived in tho love of
relics, his, children he called them.
Aud a rare aud exquisite, but
ly diversified, family he had.
Tho shop, which was wedged in
tween a jeweler’s on one hand and
second-hand book-dealer’s on
other, was narrow and low, hut
tended back, soma distance.
shelves in the walls, on tables,
drawers were spread the objects of
passion iu the most enchanting
gard for the conventional modes of
rangement. Here a shelf of
Dutch faience showed stout
ters in bine and yellow, Next was
shelf from which gleamed arms
cutlery, swords, real Damascus blades,
of so magnificent a temper as to
of being bent in a circle. Here was a
bureau drawer full pf exquisite
carvings, crucifixes and amulets of rich
and varied workmanship sido by side
with diminutive Persian narghiles and
squat Chinese josses. Int.lio next was
agate from Japanese lapidpria, along
with wood fretwork ”
from Geneva ant
jot from Cornwall. Here hung a paint¬
ing of Cimabue, here ono of Guido,
there one of Benjamin West.
To examine such a curiosity shop
was my delight, and I often resorted
thero. He had lately bought a stock
of Moorish jewelry, and asked me to
examino it. I eagerly complied, and
while looking it, over saw a curious
breastpin that immediately attracted
my attention. A delicate little golden
heart hold together two swords crossed.
The swords were each about tkreo
inches long, one a Scotch claymore of
pure green gold, the basketkilt of tho
most beautiful lace-like arabesque
tracery of gold interwoven with silver.
At the end of the kaudlo sparkled a
tiny topaz, scintilating liko an impris¬
oned sunbeam. The other xvas an
Eastern simitar, with broad, slightly
curving blade and an edge of some
whito metal, possibly silver. At tho
cross-piece of tho handle thero xvas a
ruby, and at each end of the cross¬
piece a diamond of the purest water.
The heart boro two inscriptions, one
in Arabic and ono in Latin.
Tho Latin was “Gladii duo, cor
unum.” The whole thing had a rich
exotic look about it that stimulated
friend my curiosity. if I asked my veuorahle
I might buy it.
“No,” he said slowly—“no, that is
not for salo; but if you liko it I will
tell you its history.”
I replied that nothing would please
me better.
“That breastpin,” said he, “Is a
trust confided to mo. Last year I xvas
iu the Holy Land with my mother, in
Jerusalem. Once on a journey to visit
my kinsman, Javan, at Damascus, I
came upon a poor Turk half dead by
tho wayside. Ho had been attacked
and beaten by robbers so that ho was
dying. I got off my beast, and went
to him and tried to lift him up. He
attempted to speak. Bending close, I
caught tho question in Arabic:
“ ‘Art thou a Jew?’
“ ‘I am.’
“ ‘I had some faint hope that thou
xvert a Christian, a European, per-
ehaucc an Englishman.’
“‘I live in England, in London,'I
said.
“The dying man clasped bis hands.
‘Allah is good,’ ho whispered. ‘Do
thou lift my head up. I have a trust.
I xvill confide it to thee.’ Here his
breath came thick and I could scarcely
hear the words. ‘My father—made
me promise—to get this—to—Janies
—called Thurs—by — Lon—it—nay,
by the heard of the Prophet, I xvill tell
thee, ’ he cried, starting up ’it is—'
hut the spark of life was utmost out.
It dickered, nnd he had only strength
to put his hand into his bosom and
’Tis an old tale, belovod; we may find
Heart stories all around us just the
same.
Speaktothe they sad, and tell them God Is kind;
Do not tread the path through which
we came?
Our youth went by in recklessness and
haste,
And precious things were lost as soon as
pationtly gatuod;
Yet our Father saw the waste,
And gathered up tho fragments that re¬
mained. «
partly drew it forth again whon
began to glaxo his eyes. ‘Allah Ale-
bar I’ ho murmured faintly, and
spark went out.
“Ho had taken from his breast that
jewel; the parchment around it said;
‘James Tkursby, Singleton Cross,
London, England,’ and I must de¬
liver it to James Tkursby,” The old
man paused.
"My wife’s father was James Tkurs¬
by!” I exclaimed, excitedly. “He
has been dead those ton years, and
Singleton Cross is our home.”
“Then if thou art really his rela¬
tive thou hast been blest of fortune.
Mine eyes would rejoice to behold thv
wife.”
The next day I brought my wife with
me to see tho venerable Hebrew.
“Daughter,” said he, after we had
presented indisputable proof of our
connection to James Tlmrsby, and
given documentary evidence of my
wife’s genealogy—for the old man,
friendly as ho had been, was cautious
about giving up hia trust,, and in that
ho was, of course, justifiable—“and
so, Tkursby. my daughter, thy sire was James
Then I have fulfilled
trust,” and he handed her the beauti¬
ful jewel.
Once at home we were all
with eagerness to examine it
closely. I held it up to tho light.
I did so tho handle of the
pressed against my hand, and
tho swords uncrossed. They had
set at angle of about twenty degrees,
and now they wore at right angles.
was them astonished, perplexed. I tried
gut back to their original
tion, but they were firm. What
it mean? I turned the pin around in
every conceivable way, pressed every
part for secret springs, but no solutiou
of the puzzle offered itself. Much dis¬
appointed I laid it down, and my wife
took it and began to examine it.
In picking it up the point of the
cl«) and more pressed against tho table,
her finger rested on the hilt of
the simitar. Immediately there was
a click as before, hut—mirabile diotul
—the jewel did not assume its original
form, but tho simitar opened like a
box split lengthwise. That is, there
were now two scimetars precisely
alike, each one half as thick as the
first one, joiued by a most perfect but
entirely invisible hinge, and inside
was a tiny piece of very, very fine
parchment.
the Trembling with eagerness I opened
parchment. Ha'—something writ¬
ten but in Arabic. YVhat a shame I
But no; I would show it to my friend
the Jew. He would interpret it for
me.
1 looked longingly at tho claymore
and tried to open it. I sot its point
on tho table and prossod its hilt. No
result! Then I remembered that when
tho simitar opened tho point of the
sword touched the table and my wife
pressed the hilt of the former weapon.
I believed I had found the secret,
betting the points of tho Saracen
weapon on the tablo I touched the
basket hilt of tho tiny claymore.
Magic! Open flew the sword. In it
waB a paper or parchment liko the
other, hut—triumph!—in English.
And this is what it said (I had to use
a magnifying “In glass to read it):
the Name of God. Amen!”
Then followed the regular logoi for¬
mula of an English will, bequeathing
to James Thursby or his heirs the sum
of $90,000 sterling, to be found de¬
posited in the Bank of England. It
was signed “Noureddin Aga,” and
witnessed with long Turkish names.
Then followed the namo of a prom¬
inent London business house as agent
of Noureddin, and in whoso name tho
deposit had been mado.
founded To^ say is that to put I was it utterly mildly dumb¬
deed. very in¬
It read so muoh like a fairy
tale that I ulmost looked to see the pin
take xviiigs aud fly off. As for my
wife, she acted as though she was be¬
witched. Wo sat staring at each
other in silence. She was the first to
speak.
“Stephen," sho said, “I think—”
but hero there carno a voice from tho
door. “Where’s Sue?” it said, and
my wife’s elder half-brother appeared.
No sooner, however, had ho glanced
the table than lie stopped short and
excitedly: “Whore did you net
,,,,, W o are just . recovering from , the
it gave us,’ said I, laughing,
• but 1 ho „1 had X • X- his
it in hand , , , before . I
spoken saying as lie picked it up,
Tins is xvorth a fortune to you.”
Su 0 >n s Mr pnse.
What is it, Arthur?” she asked
lei I us about it; we
t understand
As I thought, he said, as he
the document in English. i
“Arthur, said his sister, fretfully,
Poi'ur .ation and dhoinaoei.
MORGAN, GA„ FRIDAY. AUGUST 20. 1897.
“hoxv can you keep us In Buob sue*
pease?”
“Well,'* replied Arthur, ‘‘it's rather
a long atory, but you shall have it as I
got it from your father. The Tbursbys,
you know, are A very old family; They
date back further than the Ooliqiiest.
The Jarl MaiisC Thursbigh, for sd if
was originally spelled, is said to have
been a Norwegian, who came to Scot¬
land some time about the year 1000
A, D, His grandson Magnus was a
knight in the First Crusade, Hd
fought under Hugh of Vermandoig at
the battle of Antioch, Curing a
desperate charge Magnus' heavy Nor¬
man horse stepped on a wounded
Turk and crushed his foot.
“In the heat, of battle Magnus could
not stop for one man, though he did
remark the noble countenance of the
Moslem over whom ho had ridden.
But after the 'Turks had been driven
back, and he, like a true knight, was
caring for the wounded scattered over
tbo plain, ho came across this satne
man. Magnus cared for him, nursed
him tenderly, and they struck up quite
a friendship. Noureddin, the Turk,
was a man of affluence and nobility
of character. Before they separated
they taking exchanged Magnus’ weapons, heavy Scotch Noureddin clay*
more, and Magnus the simitar of the
Moslem.
time “They Magnus mot being again ot prisoner, Ascalon, The this
a
chivalrous Mussulman treated him like
a prinoo and had two jeweled breast¬
pins made by a Damascene artisan,
showing a sword crossing n simitar
ovor a heart of gold. Each took one as
a keepsake, and solemnly swore—a
strange compact it was—that whon the
male lino of either failed all the earth*
ly possessions of that house should go
to the la.*t surviving member of the
other’s family. Where did you got
this?”
I explained to 1dm all I know of it.
“I see,” he said, “the Turk must
have been the last of his house. I
have no doubt he had all his properly
arranged in this way by bank deposit,
iu accordance with the oath of hia an-
ceator made 800 yeara before.”
Thero is nothing more to be sai<l ex¬
cept that I went to the bank,and found
everything all correct, and my wife
heiress to £00,000. My old friend the
virtuoso I did not forget, hut made
him a present of the next stock of cur¬
iosities I came across, As for tho pin,
it is guardod with great care and vener¬
ation, and brought out only on state
occasions.—Arthur’s Home Magazine.
About Tea.
The ancient way of preparing tea
familiar was not with very it, appetizing to those
but “what tho eye
does not Bee the heart can not grieve. ”
Tho mode of packing it, in China, was
to have tho natives tread tho leavos
into the boxes with their naked feet,
and, as Chinamen’s feot are not al¬
ways those scrupulously clean, the effect ou
who saw the operation was not
favorable. They used to say that
saner kraut was paoked in a similar
manner amongtho German families of
Pennsylvania, but that was probably
slander. At auy rote, it is believed
that tea packing is now carried on iu
a cleanly manner.
There aro hundreds of different
kiuds of tea, aud the best undoubtedly
goes overland to Russia. When tea
arrives at. the London docks it is sont
iu sealed vans to warehouses uptown,
emptied out on large floors and
bulked, so as to makejtke samples
even. The tea is then put back into
the chest, nmd all the members of the
tea board or the tea trade are allowed
two ounces from every pauco!, whioh
makes a large quantity in the aggre¬
gate. Four days in the week there
aro public Sales, Which often amount
to 30,000 packages at a time, Thero
aro regular tea testers employed at
large salaries to test the samples.
Some of these experts continue thoir
work during the entfre day. If they
swallowed tho tea they tested they
would drink a hogshead during the
twelve hours. Tho tea toster must
have tho digestion of an ostrich, the
strength of a lion and tho nerve of an
elephant to endure what ho has to
undergo day after day.
.Philadelphia’s Franklin Statue.
On the spot where Benjamin Frank¬
lin stood xvhen ho sent up his kite to
“xvrest tho lightning from the skies,”
and where he later laid the cornor-
stono of the old University of Pennsyl¬
will bo shortly ereoted a hand¬
bronze statue of the philosopher,
a gift to the city from Justus (J.
It will stand on the
plaza, on tho spot recently
by the removal of the Lion
Tho statue xvill be in bronze
heroic proportions, representing
seated on a colonial chair,
in the loose robe which is
to him in ono of his most fa¬
portraits. From tho pedestal ou
the statue will rest tho latter
rise to a height of nine feet, and
half proportion will ho about ono aud
life size. John J. Boylo, the
who lias been commissioned
do tho work, xvill have the model
in a short time. Tho cost of
piece will not he loss than $10,000.
Record.
Cat Cowed by Rats.
Fletcher & Co., of San Diego, have
bothered with rats. Recently
Fletcher took to tho store one of
pet cats; a huge fellow, apparently
able to take care of himself.
the store was locked up for the
clerks pussy opened was a prisoner. When
up in the morning
was still a prisoner, but he was
I,y his claws and teeth from
ceiling; there was considerable
missing from bis hack, and ono of
hind legs xvas badly chewed,
rats, each the size of one kitten,
too many against one cat Dm
of two kittens. Hence pussy’s ro-
to the roof.-Han Diego '(Cal )
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ERRORS IN STORY OK MISSION¬
ARY BUTLER CORRECTED.
SOME ANCIENT GEORGIA HISTORY.
UrtrtoiV StiRf? 'fells ot tlic TrbuhUs Lxpt?-
Hfenfced tn OfetMitg Indians fn
lien v«' the Sirtfci.
That, is a pretty and pathetic story
that my young friend Fred Govan
wrote about tho missionary, Dr. But¬
ler, and his wife. No doubt but that
it is founded on fact, and ho probably
got his data from Some very old man
who still lives near Coosftville, a little
village twelve inilea below Rome, I
was interested in the story, because
when I was a lad that same Dr. Butler
was imprisoned in tho county jail at,
Lawrenceville, where my father lived.
Another missionary, by the name of
Worcester, was imprisoned with him,
amt thoir offense was their refusal in
lake the oath of allegiance to the state
of Georgia or otherwise to leave the
Cherokee nation. They were suspected
of Using their unfluence to render ths
Indians dissatisfied with the treaty
that required them to go west, John
Howard Payne, tho author of “Home,
Sweet.Home,” was also a suspect, and
was arrested and taken to Milledgo-
ville to he examined. Those were hot
times iu Georgia, especially north
Georgia, foi' Gwinnett was a border
county, and we children could almost
see Indians squatted among the chin¬
quapin hushes or behind the trees Ofv
tho road to the mill. YVe knew they
were just ovor the Chattahoochee river,
and that some white people over there
had been murdered by them. Indians
were as much a terror to us as ghosts
and runaway negroes. The new gran¬
ite jail had just been completed, and
nine Indians were the first prisoners.
They all escapod within a week. They
took up a stone in the floor and bur¬
rowed out like moles or rabbits.
I never heard until Govan wrote it
that Butler was dragged to Milledgo-
ville with a rope around his neck, not
am I prepared to believe that much of
the story, He and Worcester were
arrested at New Eehota (in Gordon
county) and brought mounted to Law¬
renceville and tried before Judge
Clayton, who was Mrs. Henry Grady’s
grandfather, a learned, humane and
incorruptible judge. They had the
best, of local counsel, Elisha Chester,
also a native of Connecticut, and they
had the renowned William Wirt as an
adviser, and they had the president,
John Quincy Adams, on their side.
John Marshal, the chief justice of tho
supreme court, issued his mandamus
to compel Judge Clayton to release the
prisoners, hut lie refused, ancLa collis¬
ion seemed inevitable between the
I'sited States and the slate of Georgia.
I think that Mr. Govan’s informant is
mistaken, for Butler had lots of friends
—powerful friends - and John Ross,
the chief of (he Cherokees, was hack¬
ing him. Doubtless he was a good
man, but, he was stubborn and fanati¬
cal, and dech ved lie owed no alle¬
giance except to tho American board
of foreign missions, and to God that
-
it, was his duty to teach Christianity
to the Indians, and he, would continue
to do so.
Both these men were convicted and
sentenced to the penitentiary for four
years. When they arrived at Mit-
ledgeville Governor Lumpkin kindly
advised them to take the oath or agree
to leave the state, and if they would
do either he would at, once pardon
them. They refused and wrote to the
hoard of missions for advice. That
hoard commended thoir refusal and
again urged Wirt ami Sargeant to resort
•<> the supreme court. But those emi¬
Governor nent lawyers advised an acceptance of
Lumpkin’s offer. So they
accepted and were pardoned—and my
father always said they returned to
Connecticut. He knew them and had
many conversations with them, and
gave them good advice, for lie, loo.
was n New England man. And Imnco
I am surprised to learn from Mr. Go-
van that Butler returned to his mis¬
sionary work nml died near Coosaviile
and was buried hy the side of his wife.
In fact, I never knew before that ho
hail a wife; but, of course, the inscrip¬
tion on her tombstone settles that.
Mr. Govan gives Butler the Christian
name of Elonez, hut the records in the
state archives show his name os he
himself signed it to he Elizur.
It is, however, an interesting nnd
pathetic story and very great men
figured in it, both stato and national.
The conflicts between the state and
the Cherokees and the United States
continued for 12 years and ended only
xvith tho exodus of 1838. Several
treaties wore mado made only lobe
broken. Ross and Ridge, the two
chiefs, could never agree upon terms,
and they had their followers. When
Georgia coded Alabama and Missis¬
sippi to the United States in 1802, th#
consideration xvas that tho United
States should extinguish the Indians’
title and remove them beyond the
Mississippi river. The federal gov-
ornment, was so slow in trying to do
this that, after waiting and urging nnd
entreating for 20 years, the state got
impatient and demand* d action. Tho
Ross party declared they xvould not go
at all, hut finally agreed to code their
lands for $20,0(10,000 and 7,000,000
acres of land. This price was consid¬
ered beyond reason, and the Ridge
party finally reduced it to $5,000,000
7,000,000 acres and $000,000 for
in breaking up and trans¬
porting their very limited household
goods. It is astonishing how many
notable men it took to effect
the removal of the Creeks and
CherckeSS from Georgia. In
over (lie records tec find that
James Jackson had {rouble with
Creeks; cofiliriiied wliO; after ikeit they had made
treaty, depredations, aid
and lie upbraided them
forward a long list of damages,
they amounting to $110,000, whioh he said
must ‘Give me
paper,” sab 1 tlife chiefi "and I will
people make a than longer account agaliifd
that.” But
Troup and Gilmer ami Lumpkin
the most serious troubles, and
complications Adams, brought in
Joseph atnl Jackson. John
Forsyth Story, Andrew William Pickens, Wirt,
0 ;
Scott and General Gaines—all of
took an active part in the negotiations.
This General Gaines was a friend
Jackson military companion of General Andrew
in the Indian wars, ami
the husband of Myra Clark Gaines,
who had the long and famous lawsuit,
against, Fort the city of New Orleans.
Gaines, and in Georgia, was named
for him, I suppose that Gaines¬
ville was
Then thero were many notable In¬
dians aud halfbreeds, such as John
Ross and Alex McGillivrnv. William
McIntosh, Chilly McIntosh, all
Scotch descent, The descendants
the Boss family and the
family are domiciled in the
kee nation, and still are
ill the tribes. They are all well
cated, and 1 am not afraid to say
the McIntosh girls are the most
tiful specimens of womanhood I
saw, that is to say, except some.
Moore’s Lalla Rookh was not to
compared to them. They are the
hallbreod children I met in the nation
nil ) did not have an excess of
cheekbones,
Now, although these Cherokees,
15,000 will in bomber, went west
their and 4,000 of (hem died oil
the way, yet, it was a good move for
them and they made a good trade
$5,0t)0,000 and 7,000,000 acres of
land—the finest, lnnds on the conti¬
and nent, beautifully wooded and watered,
what is worth stilhniore, they
in peace with the outside world. Hero
they were always in conflict not only
with the whites, but with them Helves,
for they had two chiefs who <1 id
work in harmony, for ono was n
Scotchman and the other was not.
Sidney Smith right, said that Scotchmen
were the generally hut when wrong
wore and wrongest people in the
no argument could turn them.
Tlio word “scotch," “scotch the
wagon," came from their stubborn -
ness. Bnt they were true to faith and
to principle. Every signer of tho
Mecklenburg declaration of independ¬
ence in 1775 was a Scotchman, er as
they are now generally called, “Scotch-
1 1 ish, ” that Is, Scotchmen who removed
to the north of Ireland. It is very
strange that so many of them came to
this wild country and mingled with
tho Indians and married their daugh¬
ters. There were the Rogers brothers
on the Chattahoochee who took Indian
wives. They were good men, good
citizens and well educated. My wife
when a girl used to visit their girls aud
was fond of Them. Yon can toll a
Scotchman as far as you see them, for
•hey all have auburn or light hair and
blue eyes and florid complexions and
arc believe generally tall and straight. I don’t
that George Adair is full-
blond on both sides, though lie has all
of their good qualities except, their re¬
ligion. I am only a half-breed my¬
self, which is all the better for my
wife, for as it is she can make me do
as she pleases and I can make lies- do
as she pleases, too, so it’s all right and
peace reigns in the household.—B ill
A np in Atlanta Constitution.
Popocatepetl's Rabbits.
One would hardly look for a new
species of rabbit, high up on tho sides
of a great volcanic mountain. Yet,
Dr. O. IT. Merriam has recently de¬
scribed just such an animal, which
was discovered at an elevation of 10,-
000 feet, on the flank of Popocatepetl,
the “mountain that smokes,” near the
city of Mexico. It is remarkably
small, does not jump like an ordinary
rabbit, bnt runs on all fours, possesses
no tail, lias short, ears, and lives on
grass covering the slopes of the moun¬
tain below the region of snow and
volcanic sand.
Coat’s Milk as Food.
It, is known that xvhile the coxv’s
milk contains some 12.44 per cent, of
solids, the goat's milk has 1(1.79 per
cent. But the best feature of
the latter product is accounted to ho
its adaptability to the feeding of in¬
fants, also its immunity from the dan¬
ger of carrying the germs of tubercu¬
lar disease, the goat as a foster moth¬
er not being liable to tuberculosis. I t
is claimed, too, for this milk that it, is
hotter in feeding power and much
ensier of digestion Ilian that of the
coxv, tho reason being probably tho
extreme minuteness of tho fat parti¬
cles; for this reason also the cream
does not rise so rapidly, and thus the
milk contains almost the sumo amount
through the day. Cream rises most
rapidly in the first, few hours that
milk is kept, hence in feeding an in¬
fant, or invalid upon coxv’s milk it will
he seen that tho cream will he in
greater tho proportion at, the beginning of
day, and the food approximate
more to skimmed milk as the day ad-
uanoes, tho variation being quite
enough to derange an infant’s digest¬
ive organs. Another point in favor of
goat’s milk is the portability of the
animal producing it, in caso of the
change of the child’s residence. All
trouble and danger in changing tho
dairy supply are, of course, obviated
Ly the use of a goat, its removal be¬
ing a simple mutter.—New York Tri¬
bune.
T. P. GREEN,-MANAGER.
i I
WINERS AUK RESTRAINED FROM
MARCHING AND CAMPING.
BLOODSHED MAY BE THE RESULT.
Strikers Will Holy Ovdi PH #if ttoart and
Avv«>M» Will rolliiYv, Cnuitlng Spriodtt
Complications.
A Pittsburg special says; Sweeping
mid far reaching injunctions now fig¬
ure in the coal miners’ strike in the
Pittsburg district. The developments
"f Thursday tended to make the situ¬
ation a strained one ami It appeared
that a crisis was near at hand.
Tho strikers have demonstrated that
their assemblages, marches aud mis¬
sionary the work have materially affected
land output of the New York and Cleve¬
Gas Goal company, while at, the
same time public sympathy lias been
enlisted in their cause.
The sheriff’s proclamation, issued
two weeks ago restraining the men
from assembling aud marching, has
been a dead letter and the marches
have been continued daily. No dis¬
turbance of any kind has occurred,the
officials of the miners contriving
tlirough tho n liole time to keep thoir
men within peaceful bounds.
A preliminary injunction was issued
Thursday by Judges Collier and
Htowo, which now brings the matter
to the county courts for settlement.
The order includes President Batch-
ford and Lee Pierce, of the United
Mine A\ orkers of America, and Presi¬
dents Dolan and Warner, of the Pitts¬
burg District Mine Workers.
The hearing of the case and the de¬
cision is looked forward to with much
interest. The miners and their offi¬
cials claim that they are keeping
within the law and have the right to
assemble in peace and demonstrate to
the world that they are being wronged
by a rate of wages that keeps them
constantly at tho point of starvation;
also that they have a right to use their
presence and influence among men
who aro militating against their in¬
terests Ly continuing at work.
The New York and Cleveland Gas
Goal Company, on tho other hand, as¬
sert, that the marches and assemblages
are unlawful and a menace to their
employes, many of whom, they say,
aro willing to work provided the strik-
ers matter remain from away, Looking at tho
this standpoint, the com¬
pany made its radical move in tho
courts to bring about a condition un¬
der which the company can operate its
mines.
The bill for an injunction against
the United Mine Workers’ was tiled in
the county courts about noon hy coun¬
sel for the New York and Cleveland
Gas Goal Company. The defendants
,named are (lie United Mine Workers
of America, Patrick Dolan, president;
Edward McKay, vice president; Wil¬
liam Warner, secretary and treasurer,
and others.
Judge, Collier granted a preliminary
injunction restraining order and en-
joining the defendants from aKwem-
filing or marching or encamping in
proximity to the mines and houses of
the miners for the purpose by intimida¬
tion, menaces, threats and approbii > 1 IB
words, of preventing the miners of the
plaintiff from working.
It further restrains the defendants
from inducing or compelling any oni-
ploye or miner to quit work.
A hearing was fixed for August Ifith.
The injunction is regarded as the most
sweeping yet issued. President Dolan
expressed surprise when informed that
it had been granted, and added:
“It will make no difference to us.
YVe will not break camp and will go
right along as usual until the matter
is tested in the courts. Wo will stay
there regardless of every judge in Al¬
legheny county, and if they try to en-
force the injunction they will have to
build more jails to accommodate the
men.”
If the strikers continue their marches
in the morning, as they now say they
will, in defiance of tho injunction,
capiases will bo issued for the offend¬
ers Should on thocharge of eontemptof court.
tlic injunction lie enforced, the
strikers’ camps around tho DeArmitt
mines will soon be extinct.
The strikers, though excited over
the turn of ovents, are in no xviso dis¬
heartened. Developments at Cannons•
burg ore being watched closely.
MAIL QUARANTINED.
Fotichafl from Afnfmimi Town* Wftli<> 1 <l
from Colutnbiift, On,
Until further developments no mail
xvill ho forwarded from Montgomery
or Birmingham, Ala., to Columbus,
On., on account of the smallpox Bcaro.
The Columbus authorities recently
quarantined against the two Alabama
cities, and gave orders that no mail
should Lo received at the Columbus
postofflee from either of the places
until it had been fumigated.
It developed that that tho postofflee
department has no funds available to
meet the fumigating expenses and the
superintendent of mails has given or¬
ders that no mails shall he forwarded.
BANOVAS* WIDOW OBJECTS.
Premier's UetimliiH Not To II. (Intel Upon
Ity I lie Public.
A Madrid dispatch states thatSenora
Oanovas del Castillo, widow of the dead
premier, objected to his remains lying
in state and the admission of the public
to the mortuary chamber at the family’s
residence xvas stopped.
It is the intention of the government
to confer upon the widow the dignity
of a grandee of the first class aud a
pension of 30,000 pesetas.
COXEY FOR GOVERNOR.
Ohio roiiultHt* Hold a lied Hot Coaveiw
tloii In Columbus.
The Ohio populist state convention
opened at Columbus, O., Wednesday,
with Mr. Witt, of Cleveland, demand¬
ing more than five minutes ill which
to speak on charges affecting certain
middle-of-the-road delegates, who, ho
said, were there in the interests o f
Senator Hanna to keep the convention
from indorsing the state democratic
ticket.
The chairman refused Mr. With
more time and the delegates told him
to sit, down. Finally, Martin Orumm,
of Columbus, undertook to put him
down. Mr. Witt resisted Orumm.
George Iiiddle, of Columbus, seized a
chair to assault Orumm. Delegates
took the chair from Biddle. General
pandemonium prevailed.
E. M. Kerr and Orumm clinched
and were fighting when Policeman
Dail McManamy separated them.
Chairs were broken in the light.
All of the anti-fusion delegates were
seated.
Fusion was repudiated in a manner
so emphatic as to leave no chance for
controversy regarding the future pol¬
icy of the party. The convention, Ly
an overwhelming majority, severed the
alliance made a year ago with the
democrats on the free silver issue and
nominated a full state ticket.
Tho resolutions adopted reaffirmed,
the populist platforms adopted by
the Omaha and St. Louis conventions
of the party, and took issue on several
matters of local interest. At the after¬
noon session the following state ticket
was nominated:
For governor, Jacob Ooxey, Starke
county; lieutenant governor, Morris
Whitcomb, Tuscarawas county: su¬
preme judge, E. O. Pomeroy; attorney
general, O. A. Reider, Wayne county;
state treasurer, F. M. Morris, Auglaize
county.
The convention remained in session
until after (! o’clock, awaiting tho re¬
port, of tho investigating committee,
but it w’ns not forthcoming, and the
convention adjourned sine die, with
the understanding that the committee
would report to the slate central com¬
mittee.
UEOltUIA. A14IMCIJLTIJII!STH
Hold Th**ir Aiiiuml (limveuUon s»t. TyRtw
IhIimuI,
The Georgia Agricultural society
convened in annual session at Tyboe
Island Wednesday. Tliore wore fully
125 representative farmers present at
tho opening session.
The address of welcome was deliv¬
ered by Mayor Moldrim of Savannah,
and was responded to by Colonel J.
M. Midday, of Harris. Tho address
by President Brown was delivered
shortly afterward, after which the
convention adjourned until J oclock,
when Mrs. W. II. Felton of Cartors-
villo, Spoke on “Woman’s Work uu
the Farm.”
Dr. Ilape was re-elected to succeed
himself as secretary. When the mat¬
ter of flic proposed state fair was
reached Mr. Joseph Thompson in be
half of Atlanta, appeared with the
pledged subscription of that oily.
It was felt, however, that too short
ft time existed in which to prepare for
such an event aud it was decided to
call off the whole proposition.
iajwimks or juices ntaisyim;.
In Many ITohiph Thorn I* Absolutely
Nothing Whatever to Kill.
A PittHlmr# Hpecial of Wednesday
says: The latest movement of the
strikers indicates that the miners’
leaders have abandoned all hope of
drawing the coke region into tho strike
and have adopted a plan of using tho
cokers to assist tho strikers in a more
profitable way.
The headquarters of tho district of¬
ficials of the United Mine Workers in
Pittsburg are still besieged with ap¬
peals for aid from the starving women
and children of the striking miners.
Tho requests for help are away iu
excess of tho means to respond. In
many homes there is nothing but dry
bread to oat, and in some cases not,
oven tiiis.
Arrangements are being made for a
big labor meeting in McKee’s port
Saturday evening, which all the strik¬
ing miners in tho Turtle Creek and
Monongaliela valleys aro expected to
attend.
Colored Bishop Dies.
James Crawford Embry, bishop of
tho African Methodist Episcopal
church in South Carolina, died Wed¬
nesday at his home iu Philadelphia.
MAYORS AND COUNCILMEN
Will Hold >i National Convention In
Columbus, Ohio.
Columbus, Ohio, has been selected
convention as tlio place for holding the national
of mayors and councilmon,
which xvill lie hold Beptomber 28 to
October 1.
Tho programme of the convention
will cover all topics of interest to cit_,
officials, such as street lighting, garb¬
age, collection ami disposition, street
cleaning, franchise grants and reve¬
nues, puving, sewerage, xvuter supply,
police protection, otc.
ANARCIIISTS UNDER ARREST.
ItnUnii I'ollow Cliilin C'onuf inti vu Kvklence
of >tu International Plot.
A special dispatch from Milan says
that three anarchists were arrested
there Friday morning and that the po¬
lice seized u number of documents,
bombs and two explosives.
The documents captured hy the po¬
lice, it is further stated, include let¬
ters from Csesario Santos, the assassin
of President Carnot, and I’ietro Acei-
arito, who attempted to assassinate
King Humbert ill April last. Other
arrests are expected to folloxv.
