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The Morgan Monitor.
VOL. II. NO. 35 SI PER YEAR.
KLONDIKE.
Over the mountains and far away,
In the regions of ice and snow,
Many a pilgrim is trudging to-day
With a heart lull of hope and shouting
“Yo-ho
For Klondike!”
Over the mountains, beyond the plains,
Where the great river winds to the sea,
Many a pioneer jingles his gains,
And sings iu ft frenzied ecstasy—
In Klondike’,
Thousands and’thousands of miles away,
In the land of the polar bear,
Many a man is digging to-day,
Only to find that there’s nothing there¬
in Klondike!
At Seafoam Lodge.
33y HELEN FORREST GRAVES,
HERE must be no
other boarders
taken,” said Mr.
McCorkindale. ‘ ‘I
stipulate for that. ”
“Oh, there will
, be none!” said Mr.
ing ___________ Dewey, the hoard¬
and real estate agent, nibbling the
end of iiis pen. “I know Mrs. Sweet-
clover very well—-a most respectable
widow, in reduced circumstances—and
1 know all about Seafoam Lodge, a de¬
lightful place, on the edge of the
ocean, where a man can’t help being
healthy.”
“Very well,” said Mr. McCorkin¬
dale. “Lot her know that I consider
the thing a bargain. I will send my
trunks ou Monday of next week.”
Mr. McCorkindale had been aum-
mering nt the Adirondacks, and had
found that mountain breezes, blade
flies and dried pine-needles didn’t
agree with him. He was now resolved
to try the seaside. And he went home,
well pleased with the bargain he had
made.
Now, Mr. Dewey was in a partner¬
ship—Dewey dovetailed & Salter—and so neatly
together were the arrange¬
ments of the firm, that Mr. Salter, who
dined at half-past twelve o’clock, came
to “keep office” exactly at the hour in
which Mr. Dewey, who dined at half¬
past one, took up his hat and cane to
depart. And scarcely had Mr. Salter
lighted his cigar, and settled his chair
back at exactly the right angle of the
wall, than in came Miss Mattie Mil¬
foil, a blooming young old-maid, who
gave lessons in swimming at the Aqua
Pura Academy.
“1 want board at the seaside for a
month,” said she. “At a place, please,
where there are no other boarders.
Prices must be moderate, and surf¬
bathing is a necessity.”
“All,” said Mr. Salter, bringing his
chair down on its four legs at once,
< i the very place! Mrs. Sweetclover,
a
client of ours, has taken Seafoam
Lodge, cn the New Jersey coast, and
has a clean, light-, airy room to let,
with good board, no mosquitoes—”
“Yes, I know,” said Miss Milfoil.
“Just let me look at her references.”
The references proved satisfactory.
Miss Milfoil struck a bargain at once.
“Let Mrs. Sweetclover expect me
on Monday,” his she said; and Mr. Salter
pocketed commission with inward
glee.
“Anything doing?” Mr. Dewey
asked, when he came back from din¬
ner, with a pleasant oleaginous flavor
of roast pork and applesauce about
him.
“I've let Mrs. Sweetclover’s room
for her,” said Salter.
“Hello!” cried Dewey; “I let it,
this morning, to old McCorkindale!”
“And I’ve just disposed of it to Miss
Milfoil,” sputtered Salter. “Why the
deuce didn’t you enter it on the
books?”
“A man can’t think of everything,”
said Mr. Dewey; “and I was going to
enter it when I came back. ”
“But what are we to do now?” said
Salter.
“Nothing,” said Dewey. “Ten to
.one, one of the parties won’t keep the
contract. We’re not t-o blame, that I
can see.”
And Mr. Dewey, a philosopher after
his way, arranged his bulletin-board
anew, and sat down, a human spider,
to await the coming of any flies who
might be disposed for business.
Mrs. Sweetclover, in the meantime,
had swept and garnished Seafoam
Lodge, until it was fresher than a cow¬
slip and sweeter than roses.
She had decorated her up-stairs
room with China matting, fresh 111US-
lin curtains, and dimity covers to the
bureau and dressing-table.
“I do hope I shall be able to let it!”
said Mrs. Sweetclover, with a sigh.
“But there are so many seaside lodg¬
ings this year that—Dear me! here
comes a gentleman and a valise up the
beaeh-road, aud as true as I live, he’s
making straight for my house!”
“Have my trunks arrived?” said
the gentleman—“name of McCorkin¬
dale.”
“Sir!” said Mrs. Sweetclover.
“I engaged the room through
Dewey & Salter,” said Mr. McCork¬
indale, “last week.”
“It’s the first I’ve heard of it,”
said Mrs. Sweetclover, all in a flurry.
But you’re kindly welcome, sir, and the
room is quite ready, if you’ll be so
good as to step up stairs.”
“Humph! humph! said Mr. Mc¬
Corkindale, gazing around him with
the eye of an elderly eagle. “Very
clean — tolerably airy—superb view
from the windows. Upon my word I
like the look of things.”
‘•‘Do you think the apartment will
suit?” said the widow, timidly.
“Of course it will suit!” said Mr.
McCorkindale. “Here is a month’s
board in advance—ten dollars a week,
the agent said. Y 7 ou may serve din-
ner at one o’clock. Blue-fish, roast
Many a husband, many a son,
And many a father, too;
Many a man who is dear to some one
Is climbing the glaciers, leading through
To Klondike! <
Many a mother and many a wifo
And many a one that is dear,
I s dreaming to-day of a happier life
And hopefully waiting to hear
Frym Klondikel
And thousands and thousands of golden
And hopes,
many a dream that is fair
Are destined to die on the frozen slopes
And find their graves out there
In Klondike!
—Cleveland Leader,
clams, lobster-salad—any of p
sort sea¬
food you may happen to have. I don’t
eat desserts. And now I’m going out
to walk on the seashore.”
Mrs. Sweetclover looked after him
with eyes of rapture.
“The boarder of all others that I
would have preferred,” said she. “I
am in luck! I thought yesterday,
when I saw the new moon over riiy
right shoulder, that something fortu¬
nate was going to happen.”
But Mrs. Sweetclover had not
stuffed the blue-fish for baking, when
a light, firm foot-step crossed the
threshold, and Miss Milfoil stood be¬
fore her, in a dark-blue serge dress,
and a sailor hat of black straw, while
across her shapely shoulders was
slung a flat black satchel, traveler-
wise.
“Mrs. Sweetclover, I suppose?”
said she.
The widow courtesied an affirmative.
“I am Mattie Milfoil,” said the lady.
“I rented your room, last week, of
Dewey & Salter.”
“Dear me!” thought the widow.
“Ain I dreaming?”
“I like the situation very much,”
continued Miss Milfoil, looking at the
curling edges of foam that crept up the
beach at the left-, and then at a lnur-
muring grove of maple trees at the
north. “I shall probably remain here
until Christmas, if I am "suited!"
“But the room is let already!” fal¬
tered Mrs. Sweetclover, at last recover¬
ing her voice.
“Taken already!” repeated Miss Mil¬
foil. “But that is impossible. I have
taken it. ”
“There’s some mistake at theBoard-
ing Agency,” said Mrs. Sweetclover,
almost ready to cry. “It's been let
twice; aud I never knew of it until
this moment. Oh, dear! oh, dear! It
never rains but it pours!”
“But what am I to do?” said Miss
Milfoil.
Mrs. Sweetclover’s faded eyes light¬
ed up with a faint gleam of hope.
“I’ve only the eligible apartment Oil
the second floor,” said she; “but it
you don’t mind tlio garret, there’s a
nice, airy room finished oft’ there, with
two dormer windows overlooking the
ocean-”
“I’ll look at it,” said Miss Milfoil.
Sho looked at it, and she liked it,
and she straightway sent to the village
for her trunks, unpacked her books,
her work-basket, her writing-desk and
her portable easel, arranged some sea¬
weed over the mantle and made her¬
self at home.
Mr. McCorkindale, going upstairs
from the dinner table that very day,
heard a sweet, clear voice, singing the
refrain of some popular ballad, from
the upper story.
“Eli!” said Mr. McCorkindale. “Is
that your daughter?”
“It’s my lady boarder, sir,” said
Mrs. .Sweetclover.
“Look here,” said Mr. McCorkin¬
dale, stopping short—“this won’t go
down!”
“What won’t go down, sir?” said
the bewildered landlady.
“No other boarders taken, you
know,” said Mr, CorkindaJe. “That
was “I’m my express stipulation.”
Sweetclover, very sorry, sir,” said Mrs.
“but—”
“And I’m not going to be trifled
with!” said Mr. Corkindale. “Either
she or I must go!”
“Couldn’t it be managed, sir?” said
the landlady, half terrified out of her
senses.
“No, it couldn’t” said Mr. McCork¬
indale.
At this moment, however, Miss Mil¬
foil herself made her appearance on
the scene, tripping down the stairs in
a quiet, determined sort of way, and
facing the indignant elderly gentleman
as he stood there.
“What’s the matter?” said Miss Mil-
foil.
“The matter,” said Mr. McCorkin¬
dale, “is simply this. I have engaged
my board here, on the express under¬
standing that I am to be the only
boarder.”
“I see,” said Miss Milfoil. “And I
am in the way. ”
Mr. McCorkindale was ominously
silent. *
“But,” said Mattie, with an engag¬
ing smile, “if I promise to be very
quiet, and to refrain from annoying
you in any manner whatsoever—”
“It would make no difference,” said
Hr. McCorkindale. “I object
young women.”
“But,” cried indignant Mattie,
“suppose I were to object to middle-
aged gentlemen on no better pretext?”
“You are perfectly welcome to do
so,” said Mr. Corkindale, stiffly.
“You see, I am an old bachelor.”
“And I am an old maid!” pleaded
Mattie.
“It makes no difference—no differ¬
ence at all!” said Mr. McCorkindale.
“I am sorry to disappoint you, Mrs.
Sweetclover, but-”
“Stop!” said Mattie, resolutely.
POPULATION AKTD BRAmAaE,
MORGAN, GA., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 10 1897.
“Mrs* Sweetclover, if either of you!
boarders leaves you ; it is I* I came
last, and I occupy tlia least remunera¬
tive room. I will take my departure
on the noon-train to-morrow.”
And Mattie went back to her room
and cried a little; for she had become
very fond of her pretty little room
already.
“At all events,” said Mattie to her¬
self, “I will get up before daylight to¬
morrow morning, and have one good
swim in the surf. ”
She supposed, when she came out
the next day, in her dark-blue bathing-
suit and the coarse straw hat tied
down over her eyes, that she would
have the coast clear, But she was
mistaken. Mr. McCorkindale was
paddling, like a giant purpoiso, in a
suit of scarlet and gray, among the
waves. He had always wanted to learn
to swim, and here was a most eligible
o pport i imty. i
Pie don t see me,” said Mattie, to 1
lierself, the shade as sh crept of the cautiously rocks. down If lie j
in AV
did, I suppose he would issue a pro-
clamation that the Whole seashore
longed to him. But I hope there is
room enough ,y for us both in the Atlan- 1 |
..
And Miss Milfoil struck out scien-
iflcally, gliding through the waves
hl e a new variety of fish with dark- ,
blue scales and straightway forgot
al^ C about the troublesome old bach-
It s very strange, . „ said i, Mr, Me-
Hi’ reW Vmg TlT 1 * 1 d
™ I nt“ steam paddle-wheel, l , I j
A AW log floats but I can seem to
manage it without the help of my
arms and legs. I always under- _
ve ,
stood that swimming was a very easy
business, but-Pouf-ah-h-whust-1 !
sh-sh! Help! help! Pouf-f-fl Pm |
drowning! The undertow is carrying j ,
me out, and I can’t help myself!
Whush-sli! Oh! ah! help! he-e-e-elp!”
itself And Mr. MoCorldndale’s voice lost |
in a bubbling cry, ’ while the deaf 1
old fishermnu ” |
upon the shore went on
whistling and mending his net, aud
the solitary individual, who was pick¬
ing up shells with his back toward the
surf, never dreamed but that the stout
gentleman was diving for his own
amusement.
But Mattie Milfoil, cleaving her
way steadily through the waves, per¬
ceived in a moment that something
was wrong.
Mrs. Sweetclover fainted away when
they laid the boarder on a pile of
blankets on her kitchen floor.
She was one of those nervous ladies
who always faiut away at the least
provocation.
Bst Mattie had all her senses about
her; aud, thanks to her courage aud
presence of mind, Mr. MeCorkindale’s
life was saved.
“What is that, rattling on the stairs?”
he feebly inquired, as lie sat up, the
next day, in an easy-chair, with a cur¬
ious sensation, as if a gigantic bumble¬
bee were buzzing in his head, and
cataracts pouring through his ears.
“It’s Miss Milfoil’s trunk going
away,” said Mrs. SweetclovUr, with a
sniff of regret.
“Tell her not to go,” said Mr. Mc¬
Corkindale.
“Sir!” said Mrs. Sweotclover.
“Ho you think I’m going to turn
the woman who saved my life out of
doors?” puffed Mr. McCorkindale.
“But I thought you objected to wo¬
men.” said Mattie’s cheerful voice out¬
side the door.
“I’ve changed my mind,” said Mr.
McCorkindale, with a fluttering sem¬
blance of a smile. “A man is never
too old to learn. And I mean to learn
to swim next week, if you will teach
me.”
He did learn. Miss Milfoil taught
him. And the old bachelor and the
old maid spent their month at the sea-
side, to use Mrs. Sweetclover’s expres¬
sion, “as quiet as two lambs.”
“I declare,” Mr. McCorkindale pen¬
sively observed, on the afternoon be¬
fore his term was up, “I shall be very
lonely after I leave here!”
'‘You’ll be going hack to the city,
you know,” cheerfully observed Miss
Milfoil.
“But I shall miss you!” said the
bachelor.
“Nonsense!” said Mattie.
“I wonder if you will miss me?”
said Mr. McCorkindale.
“Well—a little,” owned Miss Mil-
foil.
“Did you never think of marrying,
Mattie?” abruptly demanded Mr. Mc¬
Corkindale.
“Very often,” she answered, calmly.
“And how is it that you never have
married?”
Mattie laughed.
“Because I never found the right
one,” she said.
“Just my reason, exactly!” said
Mr. McCorkindale. “But I think I
have found her nt lust—and it’s you,
Mattie!”
“Is it?” said Miss Milfoil, coloring
and smiling.
“Don’t you think, if you were to
try mo, I might suit you—as a hus¬
band?” ho asked, persuasively.
“I don’t know,” whispered Mattie.
“Try me!” said Mr. McCorkindale,
taking her hand in his; and sho did
not draw it away.
How brief a time will sometimes
suffice to turn the current of a life¬
time! That month at Seafoam Lodge
made all the difference in the world to
Mr. and Mrs. McCorkindale.—Satur¬
day Night.
Ancient Ornament* Found.
Many gold ornaments have been
found in a tomb in the Etruscan Cem¬
etery at Votulonia, making the dis¬
covery one of the most notable of re¬
cent years. A necklace, eight large
clasps, two largo earrings, some hair¬
pins and other articles of jewely, to¬
gether with a sword, are among the
objects. The treasure will go to the
Florence Museum.
The original manuscript of Sir Wal¬
ter Scott’s “Lady of the Lake” was
sold recently in London for *5400.
1
ETHNOLOGICAL FACTS REGARDING
INDIANS AND WHITES.
ZZ3 1 pa pa m . . m
The Red Man, Though Doing: Rapidly
Decimated, J* Well Fixed and
Happy Withal.
Not. long ago some Writer from the
wost told us that white people wore
marrying Indian girls more frequently
tllftH ovel . be f 0 re. • ‘Indeed, ” lie said,
« tho dusky mft idens seem to prefer
the pale faces to their own race and
co j 1 or »»
This provokes me to write a letter
about Indians fot* the speehtl pleasure
aud i, ene flt of our yoiing people. Boys
and girls like to read about them, I
know but most 0 f the Stories that np-
pear avo more romantic than true.
Jie nilhfon'the Ohiekahonlmy'“river)
nbout thirty miles below Richmond
and we we were wore sh sliowrkthe owfi JoA v tl,e very very stone stone on
whioh Captain Smith laid Ids
]lead fol . rovlmttau’s club when
ibe beautiful Pocahontas rushed
wiIdIy in fl,e circle and threw her-
“If upon his bosom and saved his life.
About the stone I have my doubts, hut
it ia historieaIly A h . ue that Powhattan
Hved the n tUat bia da llter 1 a
i , *-,r i, T i ! nclct t 1 ' '' sale John -r
^ > “ 7-, ’ e fts , l le 111 h letter to the
’ >*
0 10 J ^K'and , says, “at the minute
1011 R 10 hazarded the
°" k of bel 0 ' v " bnUn f
afterwards married John
^ ith V r fatherR consent, and
V’J!. union camethe Randolphs
< f Virginia, . and a little strain of that
same Pocahontas blood flow's in my
wife’s veins, and she is proud of it,
and loves to tell the story to her nu¬
merous and lovely offspring. That
little strain isn’t bigger than a cam-
brio needle, but it lias never lost its
strength. She would make a right
good Pocahontas now if anybody in that
she loved was in danger, fact, she
has some Indian traits still lingering
iu her bosom, and should have been
named Indiana when she was chris¬
tened.
But it seems that ever since Poca¬
hontas married a white man the In¬
dian maidens of all the civilized tribes
have been willing to do the f nmo
thing. It is well known that the
daughters.of the Creeks and Cliero-
kces in Georgia always said yes when
a good-looking white man proposed
marriage; but such unions were not
hasty nor deceitful; they had to bo in
earnest and from honorable motives.
If an Indian maid was betrayed by a
designing white man, he could hardly
escape for the whole tribe became
avengers of blood. Her virtue was
her dearest ornament, and if she lost
if- the third finger of her left hand was
dismembered at, the second joint, and
that left her shame always visible.
Now it seems to be settled by the
men of science that the Indian belongs
to the Caucnssian or white race, or
else he is aboriginal and is a race of
his own. He is neither Mongolian,
Malay nor negro. He was first found
hero on this continent, just as the
negro was first found in Africa. As
the elephant was found in Asia, the
kangaroo in Australia and the llama
in Peru, so the Indian maybe a native
of the manor born, for geologists say
that this continent is the oldest by
several thousand years. But where
he came from or how he got here is a
question too deep for me. The exist¬
ence of Aztecs in Mexico is still an un-
solved problem, and who were the
mound builders is a matter of doubt
and speculation. One thing, however,
seems certain, that the race is doomed
to extinction, The command “be
fruitful and multiply” does not belong
to them. According to the United States
census reports, in 1853 there were in
the United States and territories 400,-
764; in 1800, 339,421; iu 1870, 313,712;
in 1880, 306,543; in 1890, 248,253.
Of these 58,806 are classed as civil¬
ized. The Chorokees and Creeks were
sent from Georgia to the Indian Ter¬
ritory about sixty years ago. The
former then numbered near 15,000;
they number less than that now. What
is the matter with them? They have
fine lands, both for pasturage and cul¬
tivation, and the bounty of the gov¬
ernment would nearly support, them.
They have good framed houses to live
in an d have as good school houses and
churches as our country people have
in Georgia. They are classed as civil¬
ized, aud dress just like white folks,
and cook and eat as nourishing food
as we do. What is tiie matter? J
asked one of their educated ministers.
“God knows,” said lie. I mingled
with their people and talked with them.
They did not seem to be sad or dis¬
tressed about anything. It was not
that the children died before maturity,
but that the mature died faster than
children were born to take their
places. The exception to this decline
of the race seemed to be in the families
where white men had intermarried with
Indian maidens. These unions were
prolific of children who were healthy
and handsome, and always bred after
the mother, having her cinnamon
color, her straight black hair and high
cheek bones. There is no apparent
mixture of blood as that which appears
in the mulatto who is the half breed of
whites and blacks. But these Indian
types weaken in succeeding genera¬
tions of quadroons and octoroons, and
if ever the tribes are saved from ex¬
tinction, it will be by this increasing
amalgamation with the white race.
These unions do not sqoui to shock
the sentiment of mankind as do tin. 1
unions of whites with negroes. Even
Vaslav college wotilcl not be horror
stricken at llio discovery of an octo¬
roon among her pupils, Indian *tfi*
defit-S may bo fotind in many of otif
effilleges and arfe not rejected at hotels
or boarding lioiiSfes or theaters iri or
churches or on railroads, Stiiuti of
the tribes, as in the Creeks and Cher-
okees, their features, their beauty and
their traits of character approximate
the Anglo-Saxon. Schoolcraft, who is
the highest authority, says their feat¬
ures ble; are regular, their expression no¬
the last they dogree, are taciturn and stoical to
cunning and watchful,
persevering in the pursuit aud re¬
vengeful iu the destruction of their
enemies, favors, hospitable and grateful for
a close observer of natural phe¬
nomena; his temperament poetic and
imagination; and his simple eloquence
of great dignity and beauty of expres¬
sion. Many of the women avo really,
handsome, and their skiu is thinner,
softer and smoother than is the white
race’s.
Boudinot was a very handsome, im¬
pressive him Wan even in liis old age. I
met at Fort Smith some years
ago, He was educated at Princeton.
He was a Cherokee and itas both in
Vann’s Valley, near Rome. His mother
was buried Oil a hill that overlooks
Cave Spring. When but a lad he was
taken west with the tribe in 1837. Not
long after that he was sent to Phila¬
delphia to school and was adopted by
Elias Boudinot, a wealthy philanthro¬
pist, and took his name. AVhila he
lived ho stood high as a learned and
eloquent advocate, and was the agent
and ambassador of the tribe in all
matters connected with the United
States government, lint now those
tribes do not have to send their chil¬
dren so far away to get an education.
What our government does is always
well done, and handsome school houses
are found all over the territories. In
1877 the policy of educating them
was organized and $20,000 appro¬
priated. In 1880 it was increas¬
ed to $75,000; in 1885 to $992,000,
and in 1890 to $1,864,568. I reckon it
is two or three millions by this time.
And besides this large amount, the
different, religious societies of the
United States giv.e largely to the
cause, the Roman Catholic church
giving having near half a million annually
and charge of more schools
than ill the other denominations put
together. Then, again, just think of
the land they have got—160 acres to
each head of n family, 80 acres to each
child 18 years old and 40 to those
younger. Just think of all the old and
decrepit ones being supported by the
government and all the young ones ed¬
ucated free. Why, it would seem that
with all this fraternalism and private
benefactions a child is fortunate to be
bom an Indian. The wards of the na¬
tion, whether rod or black, are having
a good time.
There was an old song that was sung
by a lazy vagabond, and it said:
Oli, r wish I was a goose
All forlorn, all forlorn;
Oil, I wish I was a goose,
Eating corn!
Rut now the song for our thousands
of tramps to sing is:
“Oli, 1 wish I was an Indian.”
It used to he that in our college
text-books that population increased
in proportion to the comforts of life
that the common people enjoyed. Tliif
theory fits the southern negro multiply pretty
well, for they continue to
like rabbits, iu spite of all the barbari¬
ty that the Boston Transcript accuses
us of, hut it does not fit the Indian,
nor does it fit the average Boston fami¬
ly, that never has more than two child¬
ren and wouldn’t have any, hut for
somebody to inherit the estate. Rut
the Hartford, Conn., Times knocks tbo
blackout, and goes further in defense
of the south than our own papers ami
and preachers. Verily there are many
men of many minds.—Biu, Anr in
Atlanta Constitution.
NOTED CRIMINAL CAUDIT.
O'Hara Enjoyed Six Yenr* of Freedom
After Rrenking Jail.
Eugene O’Hara, alias Joe Bates,
alias James Brown, forty-two years
old, burglar, highwayman and des-
porado and probably murderer, who
cut, his way out of Jefferson Market
prison at New York six years ago, and
who has been hunted ever since, was
recaptured Sunday by detectives.
After Ills escape O’Hara, with an-
other fugitive from justice, Joe Btrau-
nhan, made his xvay to Colon, from
which place they Inter proceeded to
Europe, where they committed a series
of liousebreaks and other serious
crimes.
SULTAN AND CZAR CONFER.
Report Tlial; a Mutual Arrangements lias
llcen Agreed Upon.
The Constantinople correspondent of
'The London Standard says he is cred¬
ibly informed that the sultan has been
in direct communication \vR -zar
and the making the correspondence! of mutual .-' >unodin by
in. -...gcmentu
which the sultan agrees never to use
his influence against Russia in Central
Asia and the czar pledges himself to
uphold Turkish rights in Eurojie.
CONSUL LEE COMES HOME.
Ifo liifs Leave of AUkchch From Statu
Ifcpj.rt nil'll!.
General Fitzhugh Lee, tho United
States consul general at Havana, ac¬
companied by his son and private see-'
rotary, embarked Saturday afternoon
on hoard the Ward line steamer Segu-
ranca bound for New York.
When questioned as to his apparently ,,
sudden departure from Cuba. Gener-
a! Lee raid his leaving Havana hod no
significance. He was simply availing
hiftiftelf oi a leave oi absence granted
kirn by the state department.
T. P. GREEN: MAN AGER.
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BODIES RECOVERED IN A TERRI¬
BLY MUTILATED CONDITION.
CAUSED BY COAL BUST EXPLOSION
Tlio Dcnth List, May R*?a<*l» a Score—Res¬
cuing Parties Organized to
Search the Wreckage.
At 6 o’clock Friday evening a terri¬
ble explosion of coal dust occurred in
the old Sunshine mine, owned by the
Colorado Fuel and Iron company,
twelve, miles from GlenWood, Col.
Latest advices state that twelve bod¬
ies have been recovered, and so great is
the excitement that it cannot be learned
whether there are any more in the
mine or not.
Rescuing partios were organized at
once aud began an exploration of the
mine, while great crowds surround¬
ed the entrance.
The bodies taken out, were in a 1 iot>
Hbly mutilated condition.
Following is a knowns list of names of those
killed, so far as Antoine Mar-
taltono, George Dannon, Lunin Raki,
Joe Martini, Joe Casa Grandi, John
Jenneni, Potosi, Antoine Eppice, Theodore
John Andriani, Emil Andriani,
Francis McCloud.
FLORIDANS PROPOSED CANAL.
Artldoii of Incorporation Have Detfft Pllod
In New York City.
A Now York dispatch states that nr-
tides have been filed with County
Clerk Ptlrroy for the incorporation of
the Florida Trans-Fenlnsnlar Ship Ca¬
nal Company. The M. chief incorpora¬ Freeman
tors are Robert Caffal,
IL Baldwin, II. Bolet Peraza, consul
general for the Greater Republic of
Central America in this country; T'hos.
F. Cromwell and Francis P. Fleming.
The capital is $75,000,000.
The projectors have in mind the
building of a ship canal and railway
to connect the Atlantic with the gulf.
The new canal will bo of sufficient
capacity for the passage of ocean go¬
ing vessels. Consul General Peraza,
in speaking of the project, said:
“The new canal will he of great ad¬
vantage In defense of country in ease
of an international war, as well as be¬
ing a great commercial benefit in case
of peaeo. It. will shorten the time for
vessels going to Texas or Mexico by
three days. The waters around the
southern coast of Florida are very
treacherous, owing to the numerous
currents. All this danger will be done
away with.
“Wo expect that 15,000,000 tons of
freight will pass through the canal
each year, and even light tolls on lliis
will make the enterprise pay. We
have applied for the charter, and will
probably get it next month. As soon
us it, is issued wo will begin work.
“Mr. Caffal, our civil engineer, has
already surveyed the ground, and all
arrangements have been made to push
the work.”
The consul general further said that
the harbor of St. Augustine would bo
the eastern entrnneo to the new canal.
The width of the waterway will lie 200
feet through its entire length, and it,
will be deep enough to allow the largest
ship to jiasH through. It will proba¬
bly he about five years before the canal
is finished.
PEARLS IN ARKANSAS.
River* Lined AVlth People In
Hunting the Little Trenail re*.
A special from Helena states that
the pearl hunting industry, which has
been exciting tho whole country, is
spreading all over that end of the
state. The St. Francis river, from the
mouth of the river to Jeffersonville, is
lined with white people anil negroes,
all engaged in unearthing and prying
open the richly laden mussel shells.
One man exhibited a small bottle of
them taken from Phillips bayou, a
tributary of the St. Francis. They
arc darker than the ordinary pearls of
commerce, lmt are handsomer shaped
j and of good size, All the chain of
lakes in the hitherto impenetrable St.
Francis river bottoms are full of these
pearl-hearing mussels, and should
they prove to he valuable the whole
country will presently he engaged in
tlio business to tho detriment of crop
gathering.
STEAMER RUN INTO.
Tli« City” Htruck by Unknown V«>h-
hH and Her StiArliourd Ktove In.
A Now York dispatch says: The
Ocean Steamship Company's steamer
Gate City was run into at 2 o’clock
Friday morning off 1 Egg Harbor light
by a large vessel, the identity of which
is not known.
'J’he (late City’s starboard side was
stove in just above the waterline and
abaft the engine, a large seetion of the
deckhouse also being broken. The
steamer loft Savannah for Now York
on August 31st with twenty-one pas¬
sengers.
In the confusion following tho col¬
lision the othor craft drew off without
having been made out distinctly.
VEST MAKERS STRIKE.
Five ThoiiHAfiil of Them Demioiil An In-
Creaue of WiiRe*.
At New York, Friday, vestmakers to
the number of 5,000 went on strike for
; higher wages. The strikers are affili¬
ated with the Hobrew Trades and So-
cialistic Labor Alliance of the city and
vicinitv /'
Ha o{ the strikers are women,
TUe demand ] H for an advance of tweu .
t to twentydive per cent iu ,
THROUGH GEORGIA.
Hereafter Columhs people will get
their Montgomery and Birmingham
mail regularly. An order from Super¬ it
intendent Terrell requires that being be
thoroughly fumigated before
sent out. The mail has been largely
withheld on account of the smallpox
scare.
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Georgia is to have a fish hatchery.
At Washington during the last session
of emigrefm Senator Bacon started a
movement 1 which is going to result in
the establishment of one of these val¬
uable institutions In Georgia. A rep¬
resentative of the ils'.h commission is
now on his way to Georgia to select a
site, and in this fact many peCwlo ought
to ho interested.
» * *
The official report of Mr. Phil G.
Byrd, special inspector of convict
camps, lias been attacked by Mr. H.
B, Moore, superintendent of J. It.
Allison A Co.’s Pulaski county camp,
at. which, according to Mr. Byrd’s re¬
port, a convict was beaten to death,
dragged feet forward through the
woods, and buried in stripes and
shackles. Mr. Moore denies that state¬
ment in toto and declares Mr. Byrd’s
report on that camp to bo false.
The ranch talked of Horse-Swappers’
State Convention will meet, in Coving¬
ton, on the 21 st, day of September and
remain in session three days. Tlio
object of the convention is to elect a
president, vice president aud other
officers. Every horse-swapper in
Georgia has a special invitation to at¬
tend and those in attendance will be
entitled to a vote at the convention in
any and all matters brought before
the union.
Judge Littlejohn has rendered a de¬
cision in the petition for an injunction
brought, by the citizens of Americus
to restrain the Georgia and Alabama
railroad from removing the general
offices to Savannah, refusing to grant
the injunction, and the railroad com¬
pany is thereby victorious so far. A
mandamus was granted and the case
will lie appealed to the supreme court,
pending which the general offices will
remain in Americus.
Tlio split in the ranks of the state
republican party is becoming more se-
rioiis as tlio moment for the final crisis
approaches. The contesting factions
are now far apart on the question of
party organization and tho indications
all point to a call for an early conven¬
tion for Hie purpose of electing a new
chairman. Mr. Walter Johnson, the
present chairman, remains obstinate
and refuses emphatically to issue the
call of the men who are fighting for a
new organization.
Tho decision in the Flanagan ease
lias been indefinitely delayed and the
lime when it will bo decided is a mat¬
ter of conjecture. The attorneys have
placed the papers in the hands of
Judge Gaudier aud he will take ample
time to come to a conclusion. The pa¬
pers are so numerous and Jong that it
will take much time for their perusal.
Flanagan was condemned to hang on
I ho 25th of August, hut the motion for
the now trial was filed and has aotod
as a supersedeas and stayed the execu¬
tion.
The first prohibition election in the
history of Muscogee county occurred
last, Saturday and passed oft' quietly.
While the day was not altogether de¬
void of unpleasant features, yet, con¬
sidering the issue at stake, the election
was a remarkably quiet one. Tho
election resulted as follows: Against
prohibition, 1,724; for prohibition,
942; anti majority 782. The county
precincts gave a slight majority to the
antis. The votes of about 400 negroes
were challenged by the prohibitionists.
If all are thrown out tho result of the
election would not bo changed.
Hon. Hewlitt Hall, chairman of the
penitentiary committee of the house of
representatives, has called n meeting
of that body for the 21st of September
for the purpose of considering the
problem which confronts the legisla¬
ture in the dispositi m of the convicts
at the end of He present lease, which
will expire April 1, 1899. The com¬
mittee will also consider the question
of placing tlio misdemeanor convicts
under tho inspection spstem of the
penitentiary department ns recom¬
mended by Governor Atkinson and
Governor Northern.
The county commissioners of Geor¬
gia are already responding to the call
sent out for a state convention by the
Fulton commissioners. Many com¬
missioners have already replied to the
invitation to meet iu Atlanta ou Bep-
tember 10th and the commissioners
are enthusiastic about the proposed
gathering. The business of tho meet¬
ing will ho to discuss the convict
question, the question of improving
the roads of the several counties in the
state, tlio question of providing police
protection in rural districts, sanitary
questions and others of interest and
importance to every county in the
state.
Solicitor C. D. llill at Atlanta issued
a with warrant a few' days ago for assault
intent to murder against Bud
Fuller, the man who is charged with
leaving his helpless child in the woods
to die. Sheriff Nelms has been re¬
quested to hold Bud Fuller pending
mi investigation liy the grand jury.
Solicitor iliil will go before this body
at their next session and have Fuller
indicted for assault with intent to
murder. The solicitor is very posi¬
tive that he can indict the man on this
charge. He has made an investiga¬
tion of the charge. He has made an
investigation of tlio ease, and says
that a felony of the deepest type has
been committed.
