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The Morgan Monitor. VOL.II. NO. 42 $1 PEI! YEAR. FACES. In the eye that lights to meet us. and the fat 6 that smiles to greet us Are the shadow ot the future and the impress of the past; AuU the cheek that, in its dawning, flushed as rosy as tile morning, Shows tho outline of its beauty as it fades away at last. And the little chi Idron’s faces.—mid their dimples are the traces vi the maiden’s glowing beauty and of manhood's brow of care; Anil the prophecy of gladness, and the shadow of the sadness, io the thoughtful eye that gazeth, are they lurking ever there; But the faces that are nearest, and the faces that are dearest Are the true, the tender faces that our trust and loviug win: ihen, when comes to them the shading, when tlio roses shall bo fading. Like the vase, with light illumined, shall we see the soul wltlitn, —Anna Olcott Commelin. Hellene 01? Mycenae. By W. H. COMSTOCK, T last, Scott, we’re o u Homeric ground. I suppose K Olytemnestra su¬ m perintended the family washing for the lordly house of Agamemnon down r' yonder at that - brook, ” il Thus spoke one 1 of the two stalwart njrJjliSJSYW '/lr 3§idvl 1 and sun-browned who s, young men xvere seated be¬ neath an olive tree on the hillside just north of the site of ancient Mycenae,in the Pelopponesus. They were American students, who had finished their studies in Berlin, aud xvere noxv making a pedestrian tour through Greece and had arrived on a hot September afternoon at this famous place. This elevated position gave them an extended view of tho beautiful Argoiic Gulf, xvith a tall man-of-xvar riding at anchor in the oiling, from the mast of which the American flag floated, bril¬ liant in the slanting sunshine. At the foot of the hill on xvhiclx they xvere seated, across the little fields and or¬ chards where the peasants were busy xvith the harvest, they saxv 'a group of women at the brook in the -valley be¬ low. The young man xvho had spoken put his field-glass to his eyes. “By Jove, Scott,” he exclaimed, “T toll you these Greek women ate the handsomest in the world! Well might one of their great-great-graudmothers have kept two Nations in commotion for ten years! Do you see that tallest girl in the group? Look at her, I say —a form like a goddess! An ideal Helen of Troy!” Scott slowly took his pipe from 1ns month. Come now, Lyle, you’re raving again,” he replied. “Your neiv-dis- covered Helen is doubtless a goat-herd from that miserable village doxvn there, with a breath rank of garlic, and a soul as ignorant of sentiment as her garments are of soap.” “Well, Scott,” replied Lyle, with severity7 “11kank the Lord for one thing at least, and that is that nxy soul isn’t yet quite dried up xvithin me, till it has lost all poxver to see the beauti¬ ful, as yours lias. Come, let’s go doxvn to the x'illage and get something to eat.” There is a good hotel in the village of Kliarvati, where visitors to tho neighboring ruins are entertained. Here the Americans made a hearty supper of rye bread, mutton and tea. The harvest moon rose early and flooded the country with tier beams. The two students sat a long time be¬ fore the open xviudow of their room, xvhieh overlooked the xvlioie village. They had smoked in silence for an hour, xvhen suddenly Lyle pointed doxvn the road, and exclaimed in an excited whisper to the dozing Scott: ‘‘There she is again, as I live! Noxv look at her and take hack your-vile in¬ sinuation about, garlic and soap.” A young man and xvoman wove strolling sloxvly up the street. He xvas a swarthy, Greek dark-eyed fellow,iu the uni¬ form gf a soldier. Tho young girl at his side chauced to raised her face to tho searching moonlight, aud both the students xvere struck xvith her remarkable beauty. Her head xvas uncovered, and her luxuriant hair xvas combed low over her brow, and fastened in a simple coil at the back of her shapely head. Her face was purely classic in outline—such a face as the old sculptors loved to cut in marble— full of intellect and of passion. The couple walked leisurely up the street, evidently talking in the melodi¬ ous Greek; those light nothings that youth and moonlight inspire in ail languages. They paused before the door of the inn, and the txvo strangers were familiar enough with their speech to understand their parting “Good¬ night, Stephano,” and “Farexvell, Hellene.” "There, Scott; what do you think of her, noxv? See xvhat a superb creature you would fain have maligned!” ex¬ claimed Lyde. “Well, I must say,” replied Scott, “either the moonlight played us a trick, or she is a rather pretty girl.” Next morning the two students com¬ menced their explorations among the famous ruins. The region is replete xvith interest for the student, and as their daily intercourse xvith the people afforded opportunity for the study of the modern Greek—one of the chief objects of their tour—they decided to emend some time in the place. They itid not see Hellene again for several (lays. But Lyle did not scruple to find out xvhat he could about ber from the peasants. He learned that she xvas the grand¬ daughter of tho rich old landlord xvith whom they lodged. Her parents xvere dead, aud her education had been in¬ trusted to an old tutor, famous for his learning, who bad died the year be- tore, And soon, they said, slio was to marry Stephano, the young soldier, the son of a xvealthy neighbor, One afternoon the txx’o students were the resting in the shadow of massive walls, which form the entrance to those celebrated mins called tile “Tomb of Agamemnon;” They Were dismissing a fragment of pottery xvhicli they had just discov¬ ered, xvhen Lyle, looking up, saxv Hel¬ lene ing coining sloxx ly toward them, pick¬ here and there the late flowers and grasses, of their evidently quite unconscious presence. The ground over xvhieh she was advancing xvas strewn with blocks of breccia from the ancient walls, xvhieh made her progress often difficult, and tke.txvo friends watched with admiration the ease auxl grace of her movements, xvhieh brought out the fine lines of her agile figure. At length she raised her head and saw the txvo men with surprise aud point embarrassment, for she seemed oil the of flight. Lyle stepped forward, hat in hand. “Pardon us,” he said, “for startling you. Wo should have made our pres- ence knoxvii sooner, But xve have found a curious piece of pottery here, and xvere trying to determine its on- ’ gin. Will you look at it?” and he held out the fragment in his hand. Her first fright had vanished, but the girl stood regarding them xvith a look of indecision, xvhieh threatened to end the interview on the slightest occasion. But gradually a more con- ftdent expression took its place, and she asked: “Do you know Homer?” “No,” replied Lyle, “I can’t say xve know him vary wall, but. xve read ilim and have learned to love lilm. You Greeks have a great advantage over the rest of the world in reading Homer in your own tongue.” “Indeed xve do,” replied the young girl, _ her embarrassment rapidly dis¬ appearing, “but fexv of our country¬ men appreciate it. Yet some do, for all Greeks are not like those that go to America to get rich. There are still many xvho love the glorious language and traditions of our people. Oh, yes,” she continued,’ daintily taking the fragment from Lyle’s outstretched hand, “there are many such specimens here; I have a collection of them my- •self. ” A beginning thus made, they passed easily to other topics of common interest. The students found that this young girl xvas thoroughly trained in the literature of her country, as xvell as its history, and loved both fer- vently. An hour passed in eager converse. At the earnest request of the two students, Hellene finally consented to recite for them some of her favorite passages from the Iliad. She seated herself on a rook which had fallen from the gigantic ruin belaud her, and xvith the xvestering sun shining full on her beautiful face, glowing xvith the immortal xvords she spoke, she formed a picture against the background of those massive walls which would have xvon the admiration of a far less appreciative audience than the two listeners. When she had finished, the three walked back to the village together. For a fexv clays thereafter the Amer¬ icans saxv much of Hellene. They ex¬ amined the fine collection of antiques xvhieh she herself had made, and found her of invaluable assistance in several lines of study in xvhich^tliey xvere engaged. But no xvoman could long fail to see in Lyle’s every glance and tone, that wondrous something xvhieh women long and fear to look upon. A shy- ness and diffidence quite, contrary to her former frank and easy mariner, gradually interposed a barrier to their intercourse, till at last the students rarely saw her. Scott grumbled and olained Lyle for it all. It s only another case of your con- founded enthusiasm spoiling things, Uere 1 was nearly through with my to-be celebrated thesis on ‘Ancient and Modern Greek,’ and you knew the girl xvas my main dependence for the xvork, and yet, like a fool, you must go and fall in love xvith her, and put her to flight. Why can’t you study anything from a purely scientific standpoint? But Lyle’s dejection at Hellene’s avoidance of him at last became so utter tlmt even Scott xvas moved to pity. The disconsolate lover tried all in vain to have a word with the girl, She deftly thwarted his clumsy mas- culme plans until he became well nigh desperate. One evening xvhen this condition of things had gone on for several weeks, the two men xvere smoking in the little front room of the inn. The village had been quiet for some time when they heard a light footstep and caught a glimpse of Hellene as she slipped quickly out from a side door into tho moonlit street. Lyle rose with a look of grim determination on his face and folio-wed her. In a moment lie xvas at her side. “Hellene,” he said, "can’t POPULATION AND DRAINAOB. MORGAN, GA.. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 29 . 1897 . t wail with you—I have wanted to speak with you about something for a long time.” She made him no answer, and they walked on in silence together. The road led past the last scattering houses of the village, along the bank of the stream. It was bordered by gnarled old olive trees through whose branches a mosaic of light and shade Altered from, the nwott to the ground. A sleepy gurgle came now and then from the stream near by. Lyle stopped, took Hellene’s hand in his own, and Said: “Hclibne, yOn must kriow what I xtftut, trt tell ydd: Ytlxt liflOxt that I hive juki better than life, Don’t you see you’ve been killing me by inches of late? Why do you shun and avoid mo?” The girl's eyes were downcast fcr a moment, and he saw her bosom heave in quick sobs. Then she raised her face to his, and there were tears of a great joy in her glorious eyes. The lovers did not seo the crouching fig¬ ure fii the man, which glided away from the wall near by oil into the placid night, The next day Scott was hard at work all day on his Motes, In the early afternoon Lyle went aiono to visit a distant part of the ruins, where he was to obtain Certain measurements which had been forgotten. Hello ne sart him prtss from the iuu, and an ex.- pression of surprised anxiety dis¬ placed the radiance in her eyes. Lyle miles proceed ihe to rt village, lonely spot some two front and xvas bending over to examine a broken fragment of rock, when he was sud¬ denly seized from behind by a power¬ ful hand, and hurled backward on the ground with such force as to render him for a moment unconscious. When he opened his eyes his feet were tied, and his hands securely pinioned be¬ hind his back. Stephano Was seated on a rock nearby. The two men looked at Cnck other for a moment in silence. Stephano was calmly rolling a cigar¬ ette in his tawny fingers, and a mock¬ ing smile played about his month. Lyle could not long control his wrath. “You sneaking coward!” he cried. “Is this the way n soldier fights?” Stephano regarded him a moment, then replied, and his voice was low and melodious; “Yon Americans have a saying, I believe, that ‘all is fair in love and war,’ Yon came and stole the heart of my Hellene, the fairest girl in Greece. Did yon think you could carry her off so easily? All Greece, yon know, once fought ten years for one woman You should have been wiser; Now I’m gofttg to Cut the artery in your ami xvitn my ,in 8 . S i, point hero, and titbit I shall sit stilL. and see you slowly bleed to death!” “What, you infernal villain, do you mean to murder mo without a chance to strike a blow? If you have a grain of manhood in you, set me free and I will fight you in any way you choose.” “Control yourself, stranger,” an¬ swered Stephano, with maddening de¬ liberation. "There is no need of such excitement. You have brought this on yourself—you risked it and lost. Noxv take the consequences like a man.” With careful precision Stephano felt for the artery in the bared arm of his victim. A quick stroke, and Lyle felt the warm blood trickling down over liio tied hands. Stephano seated himself opposite and spoke as fol¬ lows: “Yes, this is an artistic xvay of deal¬ ing with an enemy—not a bungling job of a common assassination. This is the very luxury and refinement of revenge. Ah! My fine Paris, think of the Helen you are losing! Think of those eyes! Hoxv they look at one. Think of the kisses of those lips— nectar for the gods!" At first. Lyle’s soul xvas filled xvith a mighty surge of passion, together xvith a desperate resolve not to gratify the villain by any sign of fear or suf¬ fering. As his strength failed, he gradually became calmer. He heard distinctly the long-draxvn shrill of a locust, in the grass near by. He im¬ agined curious shapes in the clouds that floated high up in the blue vault. His truant thoughts recalled a yelloxv- cOwereil novel, xvhieh he had borrowed xvhen a boy and, hidden till he had read it through. He even smiled as he thought of the swaggering hero, bound and tortured by the Indians, yet making his escape by miraculous feats of strength and daring. He al¬ most laughed aloud as ho made a whimsical comparison of the story xvith his own condition. But his strength xvas going fast, Great blurs of darkness came and went before his eyes. He had almost lost consciousness, when he seemed to see Hellene suddenly appear, with Scott dimly visible in the background. The girl paused a moment, then with a bound like a tigress she sprang up- on Stephano, bore him to the ground and something in her hand flashed in the sunlight, Then Lyle felt his head raised and a handkerchief bound tightly around his arm. Several hours later Lyle was roused from his torpor by the fresh sea breeze, and the motion of the little steam launch xvhicli was rapidly mak- ing xvay out from the harbor to the great man-of-xvar in the bay. He found himself bolstered up on the cushions, beneath the stern awnings of the little craft, with Hellene seated „t his side. "The light of a deathless love shone in her lnstrons eyes. Scott stood by the hatchway, looking back toward the fast retreating shores of Greece. Lyle caught the words he xvas muttering to himself: “Yes—had to do it. Girl wouldn’t ; be left behind—lncky thing I knew 1 the Captain—big if they’d found j row him before xve got off. Ail on account i of the fool’s confounded enthusiasm- genuine never can investigate anything like a it scholar—alxvaya puts his foed m somehow.”—The White ED phant. FURTHER INTERESTING HISTORY OF NOTED INDIAN CHIEFS. DISCOVERS EXISTENCE OF OLD BOOK 'Wlaloil Throws tight tlpon tlio Subject An Old tddy In Tex ns Write* Id 'tvmiaui. ■ Now here is a book that is worth having. A book that, is 24x18 inches and weighs twenty-five pounds. It is sixty-one years old, and has 120 large size plates of the most notable Indian chiefs, each plate covering a page and being accurate aud graphic likenesses and all done in colors, with the fuss aud feathers and tribal ornaments and as finely executed in face and features as oil paintings. I did not know that there Was such a book or that, such Work Cottld be done -in those days. Each plate has a biographical memoir accompanying, which is in largo type, So largo ihat I can read it offhand Without glasses. This work Seems to likVc the bceii Indian compiled gallery from o( the records iii the war de¬ partment at Washington by Thomas M; McKenney. The book I have is the ptoperty of Ml’. David Black, of Al¬ Santa, and as ; it has cflxne down to him in the family, I did not suppose there was another in the state, but my friend Joe M. Brown tells me that his brother Elijah has it, and also another volume, which I wish to see, for this one lias neithor Ross nor Osceola. It has Ridge and McIntosh and other Greek and Chsfokee fiimriiis eliiefsi fluid Paddy Carr, the interprets, whose father wtts Scotch-Irieh and his mother an In¬ dian. I’’or many years he was in Gen¬ eral Jackson’s service and in govern¬ ment service, and got rich and invest¬ ed his money in laud and negroes, and owned eighty slaves when he died. A wax'in friend of his had a beautiful daughter Eiiddy’s named Ariadne, and when wife gave birth to twin girls he named one Ary aud the other Adny. This book lias a charming biography of Major Ridge, and makes him a very strong-minded and noble man. His likeness shows as much force and de¬ cision of character as does that of Wob- Bter or Calhoun, Indeed, Indian some of the speeches made by the chiefs in their long protracted discussions with the government are as pathetic, elo- fiiieiit Arid xinanswerdLD ns if they came from patricK Jlenry or nn, great orator. It is touching and tear¬ ful to read the pleading, poetical elo¬ quence of Black Hawk aud Keokuk and Tnstenuggee and Major Ridge and Big Warrior. Mr. McKenney was the government’s agent in all these trea¬ ties, anti declares their oratory to be a natural gift, aud no race of people could excel them. They spealc with¬ out (trt or effort, and roost of them had fl ibxv, soft, sweet and musical voice that gave fit expression to their earn¬ est pleadings. Ridge’s The account given of Major greatest embarrassment in contending with John Ross is very amusing. Ross w»m bitterly hostile to Ridge and his policy, and in order to alarm the In¬ dians he got a half-breed named CliRfles to pretend to come down from some far-off mountain with a message to them from the Great Spirit. Charles said: “The Great Spirit is angry with you. He tells me that you arc follow¬ ing tho customs of the white people; that you have already gotten mills and olothes aud feather beds and books and cats—yes, cats-and, therefore, the buffalo and other game are fast disappearing. The Groat Spirit is an¬ gry, and says you must cut short your frocks and kill your flult cats living axel in give ftoUsds, up your mills and and then your game xvill come back,” This excited the Indians very much, and they cried out that tho talk xvas good. Ridge nfose Willi anger in his face and voice and said: “The talk is not good. It is false. It did not come from the Great Spirit.” The Indians rushed upon him xvith fury and a xvild fight ensued, and some of his friend 9 were stabbed, but and Ridge xvas hiinse' tt ver.V f poxverful man defended The tumult xvith great courage. x as quieted after a time, and Jcsso Vann and John Harris and some old men brought about a reconciliation. There xvas much trouble all along those years. I hai-o a long letter from Mr. R. M. Edwards, a venerable lawyer of Cleveland, Tenn. Ho says: “In my youth I spent many happy days in fishing, hunting and playing with the Indian boys of the Ocoee dis¬ trict in east, Tennessee and among the many sad scenes of an uneventful life, one of tho saddest was to see my little play fellows start on their long and weary journey to the xvest. They left the most beautiful country I ever be¬ held. It resembled more a magnifi¬ cent park than a forest, owing to theii tribal custom of burning the xvoods tc keep down the undergrowth. * * * It is singular that so great a concourse of people—fourteen to sixteen thous¬ and—could be gathered up by force as it were and removed, going through Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana and Missouri. They crossed the Tennes¬ see at Blythe’s ferry, just below tho mouth of the Hiaxvassec; then crossed the Cumberland range at Pikoville, then to Bparta, Lebanon and Nashville; then crossed the Cumberland river, and next the Ohio arid Vincennes;tlien on to the Mississippi, xvliich they found frozen over, and had to xvait a month for the ice to break, and finally reach- Tallaqnah in April, 1839. “In the debates in congress great opposition xvas made to this treaty by John Q. Adams and Henry A, Wise, and it was stated on the floor by one of these men that John Hess was ar- rested by the state of Georgia and carried to Milledgeville and his house xfii§ Libbed of ton thousand dollars while he was goiid. The speakers very severely criticised President Jackson for his ingratitude to Ross, who served him so faithfully at the battle of the Horseshoe.” This old gentleman is full of memo¬ ries of those Indian times, and says that there is yet living at Charleston, Tenn., Mr. II, B. Henniger, who ac¬ companied the great cavalcade all the way to their home in the west And here is a characteristic letter ftom an old lady living in Myrtle, Tex. She says: “.Please excuse axl old woman for trying to write to you about those Indians that you have been telling ns of in The Constitution, and as I was boni and raised in the Cherokee nation, I will venture to tell you some things that may interest you. My father, Wan Thompson, set¬ tled at. the mission station on the Etowah (or Hightower river, as we called it.) My eldest brother, Perry Thompson, was the interpreter for the nation u long time. My father’s sister, Nancy, joined the mission when she was only fifteen years old. She followed them to the territory and keut ui) her mission work there, and spent a long and useful life, and died in her eighty-fourth year. When Boudinot was killed she was standing Oil the porch very early in the morn¬ ing rtnxf saw a man running as if for his life, and two men pursuing him. They soon caught him and killed him and ran away as fast as they could go. Slits hurtled to the tnan and found it was Boudinot.J families “There wero several who had Indian blood in their veins xvho did not go west with the tribe. The Lynch family xvas part Cherokee. Barelia Lynch married Lowry Wil¬ liams. I expect you knexv him. They had but one child aud she xvas named ClierdkeC. She married Robert Wylie, a son of Clark Wylie. 11‘emenl* ber a good many Cherokee chiefs and braves, but can’t spell their names for you. John Boss xvas not an Indian. His mother xvas a white woman and lie left her xip north when he came to tho nation and married an Indian xvife. John Ridge xvfts part Indian. I ex¬ pect your friend George Adair is of Indian blood, for xve liad txvo Adair families there. Black Wat and Red Wat. They wero cousins. When John Howard Payne xvas staying in the na¬ tion xve saxv him often. He named lxiy little sister Ann Payno. One of my sisters went to school with an In¬ dian girl named Lizzy Slioboot and she taught my sister to flxviui. The CW'nkeen Xiiompwv— called my father Connehana M*\ 1 ml wish™ me to prove my rights m tho nation as one of them, but I luivc never done so. His name is R. D. Ivie and lie xvas born in Laxvrenceville, Ga. We often see names in The Constitution that xve remember away back. Old Georgia is our dear mother, anil though xve ha ve been separated for sixty years, xve love her still. “ ‘Out of tho fullness of the heart the nloUttl speftltetli,’ and this is my oxcuso for writing to yoib “Mrs. R. D. Ivie.” Well, noxv, that is a good letter. Hoxv the chickens would come home if they could. Nest, comes tho advance sheets of "The Young People's History of Ar¬ kansas,” written by my friend E. Por¬ ter Thompson, noxv at Frankfort, Ky., but long a resident and editor in Ar¬ kansas. The chapter on Colonel Elias C. Boudinot is full of interest and makes him a very remarkable man. His father's name was Kelle-kee-nab, but New being adopted took by Elias Boudinot, of siiled Jersey, with Ridge his In name. l'cgard Boudinot to the treaty and Ross became his bitter enemy. Ross xxms a powerful vindict¬ Ihmiilildt ive and unscrupulous man. He had all tlnd Major Ridge and John Ridge assassinated. Colonel-Elias C. Boudinot xvas born near Rome,Ga., August 1, 1885, Ho xvas educated at Manchester, Yt. Iii 1855 he came to Fayetteville, Ark., and studied law xvith Hon. A. M.Wilson, xvas admitted to the bar in 1850 and soon rose to the front rank as an able lawyer and gifted speaker, In 1800 he became editor of The Democrat at Little Rock. In 1801, after the state seceded, ho and his cou¬ sin, “Stand Watie,” laised a regiment anil fought the battle of Elkhorn. He was chosen as a member of the Con¬ federate congress in 1863. After the battle of Elkhorn Ross deserted the Confederacy and assailed the southern Cherokoes for helping the south. Bou¬ dinot defended them xvith signal abili¬ ty and delivered such a phillipic against his treachery that lie was con¬ signed to inmfny. Some years ago Boudinot, by invi¬ tation of senators and representatives, delivered a lecture in Washington on the Indian race that made a profound impression. Judgo lialluin says of him: “Some years ago he married a beautiful and accomplished lady of Washington. He is an able lawyer, a polished and refined gentleman and is possessed of tho most fascinating con¬ versational powers. He has a most wonderful musical talont and one of the most charming voices ever given to men. ” Isn’t that splendid? T wouldn’t mind being that sort of an Indian. I have many more historic letters, but this will suffice for this time. I f have great rox-eronce for these mem¬ ories; they make up history that xvill soon pass into oblivion unless some¬ body records it. There is a house on tho hank of tho Oostanaula river two miles above Romo that J have refer¬ ence for. It was built by Major Ridge nearly seventy years ago arid is still a good old-fashioned two-story house. I It xvas built of hewn logs, but long afterwards ceiled inside and I weatherboarded. When I firBt it Colonel A . N. Verdery lived there. T. P. GREEN. MANAGER. Ho was the father of Mrs. Warren Akin, and she was married there to that eminent lawyer. Mrs. Akin's youngest brother was born in that house, This good lady is the mother of Judge John W, Akin and she still lives in our town and is full of many sweet and many sad memories. My observation is that women have better memories than men, especially con¬ cerning marriages, deaths, births and the social statistics of their youthful days. —Bill Anr in Atlanta Constitu¬ tion. SIXTY i*EW CASES ITiii Fevpr Itocord In New Orleans Wed¬ nesday-Six Deaths. All previous records as to the nil in- ber of new cases of fever in New Or¬ leans were broken Wednesday. Early in the evoning sixty new cases had been entered on the books of the board. At the same time there had been six deaths. Those had all occurred dur¬ ing the early hours. The flight from Montgomery con¬ tinues. Upwards of 500 refugees from Alabama’s capital are in Atlanta, Ga. The tables have been completely turn¬ ed, and those who were so violent in insisting on a stringent quarantine against Atlanta have been compelled to seek refuge within her gates. o'clock Montgomery’s board of health at 1 five Wednesday afternoon reported new cases and one death. The executive department of state has been removed to Birmingham. The department of agriculture is also there temporarily, and the convict de¬ partment lies taken its books to Speigners. Birmingham is now practically the southern terminus of traffic on (lio Louisville and Nashville. For fear of the inadequacy of the state quarantine the towns of Jacksonville, Auburn and Tuskegee, for which places a very large percentage 0 ? the refugees wero headed, have organized local quaran¬ tines. Selma, however, has the most de¬ termined quarantine of all. Every avenue into the central city is guarded. APPROVE SOUTHERN HISTORIES. Virgin I a ICx-Con federate* Want the Truth of Invents Taught. The Grand Camp of Virginia Con¬ federate Veterans met in Richmond and adopted the following resolutions: “Resolved, That only such histo¬ ries as fairly present the principles mid facts upon xvhieh is grounded pur American republic be used. In this spirit xve would recommend as Virginia histories, those by Mrs. Mary Tucker McGill and General “fLIilift United States, those of Mrs. Pendleton Lee, Rev. J. William Jones, Shinn, Hansel series and Holmes. Further, xve would suggest for its moral and patriotic influence as aux¬ iliary reading tho admirable life of General Robert E. Lee, by Mrs. Mary Williamson—in our opinion it might be adopted-—such is its clearness and verbal simplicity, as a current reader. < 1 We desire, also, to express our ad¬ miration of the recent utterance of the grand commander of tho Confederate veterans of Virginia, Col. John Cus- sous, in his tronchnnt arraignment of the south in his "Glance at Current History,” STOCKHOLDERS HIT HARD, Their Investment* In footed Southern Mutual May Come To Naught. Stockholders of theSoutliern Mutual Building and Loan association, which failed in Atlanta last February, have received tho report of the receivers, James A. Anderson and M.H.O’Byrne, shoxving the condition of that concern, anil the report makes it clear that stockholders xvill not receive more than 25 Tier cent of the amount paid in. The general report of Accountant !>. F. Moore, attached to tho letter of the receivers, shows assets of 1051,202.53 und liabilities of $879,208.66, leaving n deficit of $227,940,13. The real_de¬ ficit. xvill be much larger than this'be- cause most of tho items in the list of assets are worth considerably loss than their fuce value. BOHANNON ROBBERS FOILED. Gang Mn<l© Almost Successful Attempt at Jail Breaking. Bohannon and his accomplices were caught Wednesday night in an attempt "had to break jail at Dalton, Ga. They obtained a small steel saw and had cut seven bars in two. They bad three more to cut to get to the brick xvall. An hour’s work would have let them out of the cage. They did most of their xvork during tho day while it xvas rain¬ ing hard. At night the prisoners in tho cage appeared to be very jolly and sang for an hour. The singing, which was to droxvn the noise of tho saxv, aroused suspicion aud they xvere detected at xvork. There are twelve in Bohannon’s cage. All the car robbers are there except Kinneman and Morris, who uto in another cell. DALTON TRIALS RESUMED. Captain Peeples Fares Charge of Pur¬ chasing Stolen Tobacco. The car conspiracy trials at Dalton, Ga., were resumed last Tuesday, xvhen Captain T. J. Peeples xvas arraigned for receiving 8 boxes, 220 pounds, of stolen tobacco from tho Bohannon gang. Tho only two witnesses the state had to sustain the alleged transaction be- txveen tho gang of train robbers and Captain Peeples was Walter Bohan¬ non, chief of the car pirates, and a negro. the defense When the time came for no evidence wax introduced but the statement of T. J. Peeples, xvho denied the charges in toto. BRITAIN REFUSES TO TAKE PART IN NEGOTIATIONS. SALISBURY MAKES FINAL REPLY. Say* I tidin 'k Mints Cannot He Reopened. Bimetallism Is Thu* Turned Down and Silver is gldetraeked. A London cable dispatch says: Lord Salisbury, Wednesday night, sent to Ambassador Hay the reply of the Brit¬ ish government to the proposals of the American bimetallist special commis¬ sion, headed l>y Senator Wolcott. It is a diplomatically worded note. His lordship »nya that the govern¬ ment of Great Britain is not able to re-open the India mints at present. Ho regrets the inability to accede to the proposals of the American com¬ missioners. Great Britain having as great an interest as the United States and France in securing a stable par exchange for gold and silver and an enlarged use of silver. In these circumstances, continues Lord Salisbury, the British govern¬ ment does not see the desirability of an international monetary conference, but will bo pleased to consider auy other practical suggestions from the United States. Lord Salisbury incloses with the note a copy of the statement of Sir J. Westland, Lead of the financial de¬ partment of India, which was under discussion at the meeting of tho cabi¬ net council Inst Saturday which takes strong grounds against the reopening of the India mints. Ambassador Andrew White came from Berlin last Saturday. He has avoided publicity, but has had several conferences with Senator Wolcott. In the course of an interview xvith the correspondent of the Associated Press, Mr. White said that Germany’s action as to bimetallism will depend upon England’s. NO RECEIVER APPOINTED For the Southern K. and L. Association of Huntsville, Al». Tho mao of Mrs. M. L. Sfcraton ct nI. vs. the Southern Building and Loan Association of Huntsville, Ala., asking for a receiver to xvind up the company’s business xvas dismissed by Judge Bruce iu the United States court. The bill alleged tho to continued frauds upon its stockholders among xvhom were the plaintinffs. Attorney for the defenso adduced evi¬ dence shoxving the assets of tho South¬ ern to bo over n million dollars. O 11 convening court Judge Bruce asked tho plaintiff’s Attorn ys how much more time the case would con¬ tinue if heard to the end. They said they wanted three more days. Judge Bruce then announced that in the txvo days devoted to the caso lie had found the allegations in tho bill to be groundless. He then dismissed the case without argument. BRITONS ARK JEALOUS. Tln'y Say That. Wo Are Distancing Them In Iron Industrie*. The Pall Mall Gazette Wednesday afternoon, in the course of a long ar¬ ticle on American competition in tho iron and steel industries, says: “Today xvo find tho United States not only challenging our supremacy in neutral markets, but even obtaining a foothold in England. “The causes xvhieh are giving the United States such a favorable recep¬ tion are permanent aud everything points to tho United States remaining the cheapest steel-producing country in the xvorld.” OFFERED TO UNCLE SAM. Bethlehem Iron Work* Woul<l Sell Their 1*11111! To tli© Government. A Philadelphia dispatch says: Will¬ iam Wharton, one of the largest stock¬ holders of tho Bethlehem Iron Com¬ pany, confirmed the report that tho company has made an offer to sell its plant to the government. Mr. Wharton said ho understood tho Carnegie company had also made the similar offer, but doubted xvbethcr either of the propositions would ever amount to anything. WHISKIES OF BOOR QUALITY. Chicago I’d it I fd Detected In ftlgantlo liquor Counterfeiting Hchcine. Iu a musty and darkened cellar at No. 131 Sangamon street, Chicago, lawyers, detectives and constables have unearthed xvhat they claim to bo one of the largest liquor con 11 terfoit- ing schemes ever operated in this coun¬ try. hours’ xvork $25,000 iu After four counterfeit labels, representing nil the leading brands of liquor, bottles and oases were found. The loss to the liquor dealers and manufacturers through counterfeit has been nearly $500,000, and it may even reach a higher figure. DEAD JOURNALIST BURIED. Dana Funeral Services Were of Simplest Nature. The funeral services of the late Charles Anderson Dana xvere held Wednesday morning at the beautiful St. Paul’s Episcopal church, Glen Cove, Long Island, and the interment xvas in tho churchyard distinguished there. Hundreds of citizens xvere present, including many men and ■women whose names are prominent in journalistic and political cirolea.