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MOLLY'S KISS.
Have thirty years gone by, indeed, slnie she and I were young,
And skies were bright, and earth was now, and love its rondels sung?
It soems to-day I hear her sing as plain as then I heard,
Sweet “Afton Water" and "Ben Bolt," and "Maggie”—every wordj
And how her eyes grew tender, and how hope sprang elate—
For life was bliss with Molly’s kiss, down by the farmstead gate.
The moonlight o’er the fodder Helds still shines As bright as then;
The plaining of the whippoorwill yet ochoes down the glen;
And I suppose that lovers like to linger there as we,
Their eyes filled with the light that ne’er shone yet on land or sea;
But do they love as we loved then when we would linger late,
And life was bliss for Molly’s kiss down by the farmstead gate?
The world is filled with prosy things—there's little now to cheer 1
Gra-y hairs tell plain the time to leave off cakes and ale is hero- ’
Yet something of my youth returns when thinking how I hung’
Upon the words in "Maggie.” there—“when you and I were young-"
And, little one! how much I’d give to take from age and fate “’
One night of bliss with Molly’s kiss down by the farmstead gatel
—Will T. Hale,
RACING WITH FIRE,
fjiffq' u HE crossing train was a
\ vast prairie.
\ The single
line of rails
ran straight
Q as if it had
W.M been drawn
jSpjsj, with a ruler,
fro m one
horizon to
the other.
On each side
the coarse
^-8-.- grass, green
with the tint of spring, waved breast-
high, There was no sound except the
monotonous beat of the Wheels, as
they passed from one rail to the next,
mid the steady swish of the grass, as
it bent before the rushing wind of the
train.
I was sitting on the platform of the
observation car, with half a dozen
other passengers. The conversation
fell upon prairie fires, and each man
had his say.
“It was along in 1874, when this
road was a-building, and I was one of
the engineer’s assistants,” spoke up a
grizzled, hard-featured man who had
taken but little part in the conversa-
tiou. “We began at the western end-,
down by Bucephalus, and we had laid
out about forty miles of track in a
straight ^ line right across the prairie,
and had got to within, say, ten miles
from where we are at this identical
minute. It was an easy job, for we
just laid the sleepers down on the
ground and spiked the rails to them,
calculating to ballast the track when
we got good and ready. I had a big
gang of Irishmen under me, and we
used to average a mile a day of track
laying. One July .we had a strike
among the laborers, and all hands
■ quit work. I was down at Bucephalus
nt the time, and the chief engi¬
neer asked 1110 to take a locomo¬
tive over the line and see if the strikers
had done any damage before they
left us.
I started out in tlie morning with
nobody except, the engineer in charge
■of the locomotive, I agreeing to take
turns with him. in shoveling coal and
along watching the engine. We came
slow and easy, for the track was
too rough for any fast running, and
about, noon we got to where it ended.
There were 110 signs that the strikers
had meddled with the track, and ns it
was a had pretty hot day, Sam and I. after
we had our lunch, lay down
alongside of the engine in the shade
of the cab and took a nap.
“I woke up a little before 2 o’clock,
and as I was filling a pipe and making
up my mind to wake Sam and to start,
for home a big wolf bolted out from
the high grass and ran across the track
not two yards from us. His tail was
between his legs and the foam was
dripping from his month, and he was
making about as good time as any wolf
ever made before or since, He never
so much as looked at me, and when he
had vauished I called, Sam and told
him I had seen a mad wolf. While I
was speaking about a dozen prairie
dogs rushed past us, and then there
came another wolf and a couple of
hares. All of them were doing their
level best, and they paid no more at¬
tention to us than if we had been a
couple of corpses.
< . . What earth is the meaning
on of
this circus?’ says I. ‘Are those ani¬
mals just racing for the championship,
or is there somebody after them?’
Sam didn’t answer, tint I saw that
lie looked scared. He sprang up, and
climbing on his engine looked over the
prairie to tlie eastward. Then he sang
out to me to get into the cab quicker
tkau lightning, and started to open the
draught and set the fires blazing.
“ ‘Whatis it?’ I began to ask, as I
climbed into the cab. But I didn’t
need to finish my question. I could
see for myself what was the matter.
The whole prairie east of us, as far as
I could see, was in a blaze, and as
there had been a strong east wind all
day, and the fire wasn’t more than
three or four miles away, I calculated
it would be down on us in a very few
minutes.
“ ‘Hadn’t we better start a fire and
burn some of this grass off before the
fire gets here?’ I asked Sam. You see,
I had read about that way of stopping
a prairie fire, and knowing that Sam !
had been born and bred on the prairie, !
I calculated he would know all j
about it.
“ ‘No,’ says Sam. ‘Can't you see j
that the wind has all gone down here,
1 fire hough is? it’s Hold blowing a gale for where I’m going the j
on, now,
to open tall her running. out, and ’ we’re going to do j
some
tle, “AVith and the that engine he pulled'open started with the throt- big j
a
jump, as if she had just seen the fire !
and was badly scared. AVe went down
the track for about a mile at a pretty ;
good gait, and then we hail to sto;)
while Sam tightened a nut in the con-
necting rod. 1
,
“ ‘Do you mean to from the
run away
fire?’ I asked.
“ ‘I calculate to try it,’ said Sam,
‘since it’s our only chance, but I
nntch believe that we can run as
on this track as the fire can.
fire is coming on at the rate
miles ail hour, and' whether this en¬
gine will keep on on the 1-ail at
such rate as that I have my doubts,
Hullo! here come the Snakes,
“Well, W6 started 011 again,
over snakes by the dozen. We
lost about twenty-three minutes
stopping, but the fire seemed to
gained on us about half the
that it had been when we first saw it.,
and we were near enough now to
the crackling and the roaring of
flames. I saw the fire strike a big tree,
and if you’ll believe it, that tree
as if it liad been filled with gunpow¬
der, and vanished clean out of sight in
less than a minute after the leaves be-
gan to frizzle. The wind was
toward the fire, but we could see
the way the flames acted that a high
east wind was bringing the fire down
on us at an awful rate. The flames
would shoot up thirty or forty feet in¬
to the air, an cl Wave jiist as if they
were Catching hurrahing at the prospect of
us.
“Our engine was doing at least
twenty-five miles ail hour, and was
swinging from side to side and bump¬
ing over the joints—for we didn’t have
any fish-plates in those days—as if
she was bound to jump the track. We
had outrun the snake procession, and
the only live thing we could see was a
coyote who was loping down the track
fifty yards ahead of ns, without sc
much as turning his head to see what
was after him.
“ ‘How long will tlie track stand this
sort of thing?' says I to Sam, as he
finished shoveling freSll into the fire.
"‘Don't know,’says he. ‘It’seigh-
ieen miles from here to the Wachu-
setts River, and if we can’t get across
the bridge ahead of the fire there is a
fair chance that we won’t cross. I don’t
much believe that we will fetch the
bridge, but if we don’t it won’t be bo-
cause I don’t drive thishyer engine
for all she’s worth, AVe’ro dead men
if she jumps the track, and we’re dead
men if we stop short of the river. So
we might as well let her go and take
our chances.’
“Sam hung on to the lever and I
hung 011 to the edge of the cub win¬
dow. Neither of us could have kept.
our feet without hanging on to some¬
thing. I am free to say that first along
I was pretty badly scared, but when
the engine didn’t leave the track, for
all her slewings and jumpings, I be¬
gan to think she would carry us
through. fire didn’t gain So far as I could see, the
any on us, but then we
didn’t seem to be gaining anything
to speak of on the fire.
“Presently Sam swore in a genernl
sort of way, and sung out to me to
rake up the fire. I did so; and then,
supposing that something must have
dissatisfied him, I asked him what was
the matter.
“ ‘That coyote’s the matter,’ said
he. ‘We don’t gain an inch on him,
and I do most everlastingly hate to' be
beat by a coyote. Here! you take the
lever while I ile her jints a little. I’m
bound to beat that coyote between
here and the river or to pile up this
engine. I never see such an impu-
dent brute since I took to railroading.’
“AVell, Sam went out on the engine
with his oil can, and when he had
oiled her to his satisfaction he came
back and raked up the fire again and
fussed round with the gauges. He
seemed to have forgotten all about the
danger we were in, and to think of
nothing but racing with that coyote.
Pretty soon we could see that we had
gained a little on the beast, and Sam
was as cheerful as he would have been
if he had been sitting comfortably in
a Bucephalus saloon, Ho never so
much as looked back at the prairie
fire, that was as near as ever and as
bent on gathering us in.
“ ‘The ground is sort of loose and
swampy just below here, if I remem¬
ber right,’ said I. ‘AVill she keep the
track, do you think?’
“Sam didn’t answer me, for he was
leaning out of the cab and watching out”
the coyote. Suddenly he sings
‘Hurrah, boys! The coyote’s losing
wind. There ain’t ten minutes’
run in him, and we’ll be atop of
in less than that time. ’
“Just then we struck the
of the road that I had been speak-
of and, one side of the track sink-
a little too deep, the engine
the rails and struck out across
prairie on her own hook. Sam
I jumped at the same minute, and
when we picked ourselves up the en-
was lying on its side about a rod
from the track and the tender
trying to climb over the wreck,
“ ‘That there coyote’s won after all ’
said Sam. ‘He’s got a fresh wind, and
safe to make the river in time to
save his bacon. ’
POPULATION AND DRAINAGE.
MORGAN. GA.. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 12. 1897.
GEORGIA SENATE TURNS DOWN
MR; TURNER’S MEASURE;
THE VOTE RECORDED MS 23 TO 18
A Brief Summary of Each Bay's Fro-
ccodinga In the House ami
the Senate.
The legislature had a busy day Fri¬
day And many important measures
came before it,
The senate killed the Turner pro¬
hibition bill by a vote of 23 to 18.
Senator Turner, seeing that, the bill
WAs postponement drifting against! for him, moved a
further considera¬
tion of the bill. The motion was lost,.
The Vote to Sustain the report of the
committee, which wtts favorable to the
bill, was 23 to 18 against the report.
The bill was then put upon its passage
and lost, The following was the vote:
Culver, Ayes—Atkinson, Everett, Brinson, Brooke,
Llewellen, Flynt,
Gray, Kemp, Kflpatriek, McFarland,
Starr, T. D. Stewart, Thompson, Tur¬
ner, J, Y. Walker, Witoher, Wooten
—18,
ter, Nays—Allen, Battle, Blalock, Car¬
Gblightly; ObniAs, Cook, Dunwody, Goldin,
HAm, Hopkins, Hudson,
Stevens, Mann, Iledwine, A. Stewart, Sheffield, Shropshire,
J. Strother, Yan
Buren, B. F. Walker, Westmoreland,
Wilcox—23.
That the public interest had in no
way abated concerning the fate of Sen¬
ator Turner’s bill, which was made a
clean-cut prohibition measure by the
adoption amendment,Thursday, of Senator Kilpatrick’s
ed by the large was that fully evinc¬
ed the assemblage crowd¬
long before senate gallery Friday morning
the hour of convening.
No measure that has been intro¬
duced in the Georgia legislature in
rheenf years has attracted the wide¬
spread interest that has been mani¬
fested iri the Turner bill.
The house passed several important
bills, among them one requiring judg¬
ments to be recorded in the county
where subject real estate is situated
before they become liens against inno¬
cent third parties.
Another bill to make landlords’
liens superior to laborers’ liens was
passed after some discussion.
The call of the roll for new matter
brought out a number of bills, sev¬
eral of which are important. Mr.
Berry, the of Whitfield, proposes to re¬
duce salary of the railroad com-
iniSsitmers from #2,500 to $2,000; Mr.
ltutherford, the salaries of Walton, wants to cut
of supreme court stenog¬
raphers to $1,000 and reduce their
number from six to three; Mr. Bates,
of Murray, seeks to prohibit judges
from asking questions of wisnesses
in trials of fact; Mr. Thomas, of
Clarke, has a bill authorizing couuty
school commissioners to buy school
books and furnish them to pupils at
cost; and Mr. Blalock, of Fayette, pro¬
poses to reduce the fees of fertilizer
inspectors from $125 to $(16.66 per
month, and Mr, Duncan, of Houston,
introduced a bill to make penal the
running of excursion trains on Sunday
Mr. Stone, of Walton, introduced a
bill for a straight lease of the peni¬
tentiary convicts, and Mr. Armstrong,
of Wilkes, put in one for the inspec¬
tion of misdemeanor convicts by grand
•juries.
Tuesday's Proceedings.
Both houses of the legislature spent,
A dull morning Tuesday and both ad¬
journed before noon. In the house
the child labor hill, prohibiting chil¬
dren under 13 years of age from work ¬
ing in factories and similar institu¬
tions; was the special order of tlie
morning. By request discussion of
the matter was postponed for one week,
The Boynton local dispensary bill,
which provides for the abolition of bar¬
rooms, was temporarily tabled at the
request of ex-Governor Boynton, who
introduced it, pending tho argument
of tho prohibitory saloon Bush Bill
A resolution was adopted, after the
speaker had called throe times for a,
quorum, house declaring it the sense of tin
of representatives of Georgia
that United States senators should be
elected by the people.
A resolution was introduced by
Mr. Oliver, of Burke, providing that
the third day of June—the anniversary
of Jefferson Davis’ birth—be a legal
holiday, was temporarily tabled pend¬
ing action on a similar hill previously
introduced.
A bill was introduced by Mr Hen¬
derson, of Forsyth, providing for the
election of judges and solicitors-gen-
eral of the superior court. It was re¬
ferred.
Mr. Nevin, of Floyd, introduced a
bill entitled, “A bill to protect labor¬
ers, mechanics, artisans and others
from blacklisting.” The hill is in¬
tended to protect wage-earners from
boycott and collecting concerns.
A resolution offered by Mr. West,
of Lowndes, asking T)r. Warren F.
Candler, president of Emory "college,
to address tho general assembly on
November 9th, was unanimously
adopted.
I 11 the senate the Brinson bill was
tabled temporarily.
Thanks were extended the people of
Nashville, the railway companies and
the pullman Car company for courte¬
sies extended senators who visited the
Nashville Centennial.
After the transaction of less impor¬
tant business, both houses adjourned.
Wedn<*«1»y , i Proceeding*!.
Representative Blalock, of Fayette
county, chairman of the special com¬
mittee appointed under the authority
of a resolution passed by the house of
a < What’s the of talking about
use
him?’ says I. ‘Tell me what we’re
going to do. There ain’t any sort of
use in trying to run; I suppose?’
“Not the smallest grain,' says Sam;
That, fife is due here iii about fifteen
minutes, and we might as well sit
down quiet and wait for it.’
“I saw that Sam didn’t consider
that there was the least bit of a chance
for us, and you can imagine whether
I was scared or not.
“ ‘I did read once,’ Sam,
‘about chap who says
prairie a and chased was riding on the
was by a fire, same
a3 we are now. He shot his horse
and hipped the hide off and wrapped
himself up in it; The hide being
_
greeii, you understand; didn’t burn,
arid the man Same through till right;
It's a middling tough yarn, but. all the
same it’s a thing that might have
happened. I was thinking that if the
fire would wait half an hour till my
boiiel 1 tubes cooled down, I could pull
them out and wo Could get into the
boiler, the same as the man got ’into
his horse’s hide. But there’s rid rise
in signalling that fire to stop and lay
up on a siding for half an hour, just
to suit us, ’
“ ‘There’s water cto in the tender,’ said
I, ‘couldn’t head, WO Anything with that?’
“ ‘Your panlner,’ says Saui,
getting up And going toward the ten¬
der, ‘ain’t so far from being level.
Let’s “With see how much,water we’ve got,'
that he Planed 7 the water
tank and looked in, ‘We’re all right;’
says he, ‘You come along here and
get into that tank with me. We’ll put
the cover on when the fire reaches us,
and I expect we can stand it for five
minutes or so. It’s a scheme that lays
way-over that fellow’s horsehide game,
and I shouldn’t wonder if it turned
out. satisfactory for all concerned,
“The manhole was big enough to let
ft man through, and when Sam and I
got, into the tank and crouched down
in a sort of sitting position the water
about came just ten up to our chins, and we had
inches Of head room, Sam
pulled the iron cover part way over
the hole and said, ‘Now we’re pretty
certain not to be roasted; which that
fire is aiming at. It’ll be some satis¬
faction to get the better of it. ’
“ ‘I don’t see,” said I, ‘that we’re
bettering things very much by putting
ourselves in the way of being boiled
instead of roasted.’
“ ‘I don’t suppose,’ said Sam, ‘that
there is any great things to choose be¬
tween being roasted or b’iled or fried,
or, you might say, baked. But that
fire has sot its mind on roasting us,
and if we’re b’iled, it’ll be disappointed.
Besides, I ain’t so sure about the
b’iling. It’ll take some time to heat
up this water, and we may pull through,
after alb’
“Just then the noise of the fire
showed that it was getting close to us,
and a whiff of smoke came into the
tank. Sam prilled the cover on, and
says to me, ‘Just sit and take it easy.
There’s air enough here to last us for
some time if we don’t use it up talking.’
“I kept quiet, and said my prayers
to myself. The fire came down on us
with a whoop like ten tribes of Injuns,
and the top of the tank was hot in less
than no time. The roaring of the fire
seemed to pass on and away from us
but there was a tremendous crackling
going on that in our neighborhood, which
showed the fire was still around
US. We waited and waited, hoping
every minute that the fire would die
out and let us open the tank. The
water kept getting warmer and warm¬
er, and when I touched the top of the
tank, where the water didn’t reach it,
I burned my fingers. The air, too,
kept getting njore and more choky,
until I was very near my last gasp,
and Sam was about the same. When
I 10 couldn’t stand it any longer ho
threw off the cover and put his head
out. Then he broke into a big laugh
that was a little hoarse by reason of
the choking he had undergone, and he
climbed out of the tank, calling to me
to follow him, which naturally I did
without wasting time.
“Tiie prairie fire was miles away,
and tlie crackling which we heard was
made by the woodwork of the tender
ami the wreck of the engine cab,
which was all in a blaze. There
wasn’t anything to hurt us when wo
were once outside the tank, but if we
had stayed in it long enough we should
have been boiled without the least
doubt. AVe jumped down on the
ground, and stood there to see the
wreck burn, and with the exception
of my burnt fingers and a little hair
that was singed off the top of Sam’s
head, we were as cool and comfortable
as a man could want to be.
“AVe walked back to Bucephalus,
and I had considerable difficulty in
getting my chief to believe that Sam
and I had saved ourselves by hiding
in a tank. I was so well pleased at
my escape that it made very little odds
to me what he thought about it; but
Sam was that discontented at having his
engine beat by a coyote that nobody
could get a civil word out of him for
the next week.”—Pall Mall Magazine,
Tho Gulf I*earl Fisheries.
The value of the pearl industry lask
year on the coast of the Gulf of Lower
California amounted to $350,000; this
says the New York Sun, besides Hid
exportation of some 5000 tons of mus’
sel shells, tho value of which was csti
mated at $1,250,000. The pearl fish
iug, with appurtenances, forms the en*
tire occupation of the native popula
tion, and La I’az, which is tlie capital
for this trade in tho peninsula, existn
exclusively upon this industry. Untp
a few years ago only native diver®
were employed, and the greatest depth
to which they would dive was thirty,
five feet. But upon the introduction
of the diving apparatus a depth of 180
feet was accomplished, and, while
formerly the best divers could not re¬
main longer than two minutes under
water, a diver thinks nothing of stay¬
ing two hours at a depth of 100 feet,
although at a still greater depth the
stay is necessarily shortened.
representatives last February to in¬
vestigate the state offices, submitted
his report to the house Wednesday
morning. esting document. It was a lengthy ftnd inter¬
Representative Niles introduced a
bill whioh reads: From and after the
first day of September, 1888, the name
of the Georgia lunatic asylum shall
be changed to tile Georgia State Sani¬
tarium.
Mr. Barnwell, of Hancock, intro¬
duced a bill in the house providing
for the appropriation of #1,200 for the
Girls’ Normal school at Milledgeville.
The money is to be used in the pur¬
chase of fire pi'otection apparatus, two
typewriting blackboards, machines, fixtures for bath
rooms, Several maps and charts.
other bills of minor impor¬
tance were Introduced.
Ill the senate, Wednesday, Senator
Turner’s anti-barroom bill was the
special order of business. Senator
Kilpatrick offered an amendment strik¬
ing out all the dispensary features and
making it a prohibition bill straight
out. The amendment was adopted by
a Vote of 20 to 15. A communication
addressed to the president from the
Methodist Episcopal LnGrknge dis¬
trict convention was read in open sen¬
ate. The convention indorsed the
bill and prayed that it might become
a law. Senator Turner spoke over an
bill, horn- advocating the passage of the
lie quoted statistics showing
that the cause of the majority of criin 3
was directly attributable to strong
drink, The hill went over until
Thursday. On
motion of Senator Battle the
■senate went into executive session to
confirm the appointments sent in by
the governor.
Thursday.
both Thursday was ail important one in
houses of the legislature. The
senate spent the morning discussing
the Turner prohibition bill, Senator
Battle opposing and Senator Gray ad¬
vocating that measure. It did not
reach a vote, but the indications are
that the senate 1 r nearly equally divi¬
ded, with the chances in favor of that
bill or some modification of it.
The bill prohibits the manufacture,
sale and keeping for sale of intoxicat¬
ing liquors, fermented or distilled, in
the state, excepting in prohibition
counties by local option, and goes in¬
to effect in such counties when local
prohibition expires. The bill excepts
the manufacture of domestic wine,
without admixture of alcohol, from
grapes or other fruits grown l>y the
manufacturer, and also excepts the
salo of such wine for non-beverage
purposes in quart or larger packages.
Places for the sale or manufacture
of liquors in violation of the act are
declared nuisances, and violations of
the law are made misdemeanors tinder
code section 1039.
On motion of Senator Turner the
bill was made the special order for
Friday.
In the house, Thursday, the hill to
perfect in each county a record of Con-
ferate soldiers was passed by a good
majority.
The bill to mako the birthday of
Jefferson Davis a legal holiday came
up 011 an adverse report, but after
some spirited speeches the report was
almost unanimously disagreed to. ‘The
bill is expected to pass on third
reading.
The effectof the Blalock committee’s
report was seen in a bill by Mr. Cope¬
land to ablish the office of state geolo¬
gist and another by Mr. Swift to re¬
peal the university funding act.
Kxeculive Appointment*}.
Wednesday Governor Atkinson sent
the following nominations to the sen¬
ate, which were confirmed in executive
session: Spencer R. Atkinson, to be
railroad commissioner for the term of
six years from October 15, 1897;
James E. Brown, to ho state librarian
for the term of four years from Sep¬
tember 27, 1897.
The governor also named the follow¬
ing judges and solicitors of county
courts: Watt J. Pearsall, solicitor,
Colquitt county; Albert M. Deal, so
licitor, Bulloch county; F. F. Julian,
solicitor, Gwinnett county; J. W.
Harris, judge, Bartow county; Wal¬
ter E. Steed, judge, Taylor county;
Green E. Johnson, solicitor, Jasper;
E. J. Wynn, solicitor, Muscogee; Ru¬
fus W. Roberts, judge, Baldwin; John
A. Wilkes, judge, Colquitt; Walter A.
Wray, judge, Liberty; E.K.Overstreet,
judge, Screven; S. W. Sturgis, solici¬
tor, Pierce.
These appointments were immedi¬
ately confirmed by the senate.
Governor Atkinson has tendered the
seat on the supreme bench,which will
be vacated by Justice Spencer R. At¬
kinson, to Judge Samps Harris, of
Coweta county, and it will no doubt
be accepted.
Colonel Hal T. Lewis, of Greens-
MNETEEN SAILORS DROWNED.
Steamer Idaho Founder*! off Font; I’olnt,
On ring: a Heavy Hale.
The AVestern Transit Company’s
steamer Idaho, which left Buffalo, N.
■Y., Friday afternoon for Chicago, la¬
den with package freight, foundered
off Long Point, on Lake Eric, during
a furious gale Saturday morning.
The first mate and one sailor, who
reached the rigging, were saved by
the steamer Mariposa late Saturday
afternoon and reported that the crew,
numbering nineteen, were undoubt¬
edly drowned.
INSURGENTS IVIN A VICTORY.
G3iierHl Molina Defeated and Spanish
I,oh# Was Heavy.
A dispatch to the NeweYork Herald
from Havana says:
The rebels in the field aro very
active. On October 10 the Spaniards
sustained the most severe loss they
have met for some time. On the bor¬
ders of Matanzas province General
Molina was defeated by the insurgents
under General Betancourt.
DEMON INCARNATE TELLS HOW
HE KILLED HIS SISTERS.
HE WAS ARRESTED ON SUSPICION.
Ills Four Victims Were Foiled by Well
Directed Blows From Keen
Eluded Ax.
Af special from Montreal, Canada,
says; Thomas Nully, aged twenty-one,
years, an elder brother of the three
Nully girls and one boy, who were
murdered near Rowdun Thursday, was
arrested Saturday afternoon charged
with having committed the crime.
He at once made a confession in
which he acknowledged the awful deed.
Nully was taken to Joliet jail Sun¬
day.
Tom and the two older sisters had
frequently quarreled, and it appears
that on Thursday he had a row with
the eldest girl, Elizabeth. Words had
been succeeded by oaths and blows until
Tom drove his sister out of the house.
Then, according to tlie confession of
the crime made by him, he followed
her to the barn, threatening to murder
her.
The second Bister, Annie, arm'ng
herself with a keen-blnded ax, fol¬
lowed Tom, resolved to protect her
sister from violence, even if she had to
use the ax, Tom turned sharply
around, and before she was aware of
it, he came upon her. A brief strug¬
gle for the weapon was followed by
Tom wresting the ax from her hands
and striking savagely at her neck.
His woodman ski 1 ! did not fail him.
Tlie keen weapon was buried in her
neck and she, fell dead just as the lior-
ilied Elizabeth ran up to see what had
happened.
As Elizabeth turned to flee the mur¬
derer remembered her as the first
cause of his crime, and resolved to car¬
ry out Ilia original impulse of revenge.
He chased the shrieking girl to the
barn and struck her a blow with the
ax, foiling her as he had done poor An¬
nie.
Tom then returned to the house and
forced open the door, which the two
other children had barricaded, and
killed them as had the two others.
SHORTER HOURS OR LESS WAGES.
New Fnurlntid Cotton Mon Want National
Uabor Law Enacted.
It is announced nt, Fall River, Mass.,
that all but one or possibly two cotton
manufacturing corporations have sign¬
ed an agreement to abide by the re¬
commendations of a special committee
of the Manufacturers’ Association
which lias been appointed to take
some steps for an improvement in the
condition of the local cotton industry.
It is expected that a shut down or a
decided reduction of wages will be ad¬
vised. Some manufacturers are op¬
posed to a shut down, urging that it
will not improve affairs. They point
out that Fall River no longer controls
the markets and that it would simply
allow mills in other states to meet the
improved demand by running over¬
time.
This is particularly possible iu the
south, and the only remedy is believed
to be in securing n national law gov¬
erning hours of labor.
Some of the advocates of a cut down
who are represented on the committee,
favor a cut beginning with tlie treas¬
urer and which aliply to every em¬
ployee.
WHALERS It E-BOUND.
Eight' Vessels, With Many SouIh oii Board,
Are Shut In.
A special from San Francisco says:
The fact that eight whaling vessels
are nipped in tho ice at Point Barrow,
with nearly 200 souls on board, is cre¬
ating widespread apprehension along
the coast and particularly among mer¬
chants engaged in the whaling busi¬
ness and among sailors and their fami¬
lies.
The anxiety has become so great
that the trustees of the San Francisco
chamber of commerce have determined
to hold a meeting immediately for the
purpose of formulating a telegraphic
dispatch to he sent to the president of
the United States urging him to dis¬
patch a relief expedition to their rescue
at tho earliest possible moment.
CONVENTION OF STOCK GROWERS.
All A.sociutionH In Hie United Staten Re¬
quested To Send Representatives.
A dispatch from Denver, Col., says:
The national stock growers’ conven¬
tion, which has been under considera¬
tion for some time, was called Saturday
for January 25th, 26th and 27th, 1898,
by a joint session of committees from
the Denver chamber of commerce and
the Colorado Cattle Growers’ Associa¬
tion.
All stockgrowers’ associations in the
U nited States are to be asked to send
delegates, and breeders of fine stock,
government and state officials will also
be invited to attend.
SUFFRAGE GRANTED CUBANS.
Spanish Cabinet Decide*} to Give Them
the Ki^ht to Vote.
The Spanish cabinet has approved
measures for the giving to the inhab¬
itants of the islands of Cuba and Porto
Rico the same constitutional rights as
are enjoyed by Spaniards, for the be¬
stowal of the rights of suffrage upon
all who have attained the age of twenty-
live years, and for the same census
basis in municipal, provincial and par¬
liamentary elections.
$1 PER YEAR.
YELL01V JACK RETREATING.
Encouraging News From New Orleans,
Mobile and Montgomery.
There is a big improvement in the
yellow fever situation in New Orleans.
The number of new cases Saturday
were comparatively small and the re¬
cord of fatalities considerably lighter.
reported Many recoveries from the disease were
at the office of the board of
health during the day and tho people
are convinced that tlie backbone of
the fever has been broken, and in a
very short time tho plague will be ex.-
terminated altogether.
According to the board of health
there was also a big decrease in the
number of fever cases for Sunday,
and the situation was still further im¬
proved. Very few places are now
quarantined against New Orleans, anti
tlioro lias been a general revival in
business.
Recapitulation: Cases of yellow fever
Sunday, 13; deaths, 8; total cases of
yellow fever to date, 1,742; total
deaths from yellow fever to date, 236;
total cases absolutely recovered, 940;
total cases under treatment, 566.
A special from Mobile says: Tho
number of new cases of yellow fever
continues to fall off from last week’s
big average. The report for Sunday
is the most favorable since the first
week of the appearance of the fever-
four new cases, no deaths and eighteen
recoveries.
The report of the hoard of health of
Montgomery Sunday was the most en¬
couraging since the beginning of the
epidemic. There were no deaths and
no new cases.
Fuss Christian Modifies Quarantine.
At a meeting of the board of health
of Bass Christian Sunday it was de¬
cided to admit persons holding certifi¬
cates from health officers from Atlanta,
Ga., and all non-infected points. The
action was taken so as to allow a number
of anxious persons to get in, there hav¬
ing been 110 yellow fever in town during
the present epidemic. The town is
still maintaining a strict quarantine
against all infected points and will not
relax vigilance until there is absolutely
no further danger.
l’ass Christian is justly proud of her
record, being the only town on the
coast to escape the fever.
SEALING TREATY SIGNED.
United State*}, Itussin and Japan Como to
an Agreement.
A AVasliington special says: A con¬
ference between the United States,
Russia and Japan, looking to the joint
protection of the seals, was signed at
the state department Saturday.
It will require the ratification of tho
senate to become effective.
The text of the treaty will not be
given out by the state department un¬
til final ratifications are exchanged. It
is said, however, by those concerned,
that flio general purposes of the treaty
have been already outlined in the press
and it is likely that all of further in¬
terest that remains in tho document is
the exact nature of the additional re¬
strictions that arc to be imposed upon
pelagic sealing.
Later in the afternoon the delegates
again assembled at the state depart¬
ment and formally signed the proto¬
cols or records of the various phases
of the negotiations leading up to the
final agreement.
It is expected that the meeting of
British and American experts will
take place next week, according to the
original programme, unless there
should be some intervention from tho
British foreign offices, which is not
anticipated. Meanwhile the British
expert, Professor Thompson, who is
now in AVasliington, will be acquainted
with what has already been accom¬
plished by the government of tho
United States, Russia and Japan, and
with the terms of the treaty.
OFFICilI.S UNDER A If REST.
Government. Employe*} In Philadelphia
Charged With Conspiracy.
A sensation was occasioned in polit¬
ical and official circles at Philadelphia,
Saturday, by the placing in custody of
several city and United States govern¬
ment employes of prominence,charged
with conspiracy and the issuance of
fraudulent naturalization papers.
The men arrested are Eugene Lind¬
sey, clerk in the city prothonotary’s
office; John Merrick, assistant clerk
for the United States circuit court,
and Richard Merrick, father of the
latter, who is also a clerk for the United
States circuit court. It is stated that
other arrests "’ill he made. It is said
that naturalization papers were fur¬
nished signers for $17 apiece, and that
quite a number have been issued.
CITIZENS’ UNION DISSATISFIED.
Claim There Frauds in tlie Kleetion and
Will Investigate.
A New York dispatch says: The ex¬
ecutive committee of tho Citizens’
Union, which met Thursday night,
proposes to institute a series of prose¬
cutions against violators of the elec¬
tion laws.
The committee says it has evidence
of fraud practiced in the city on elec¬
tion day. It is also claimed that the
frauds are of such a gigantic nature as
to affeot the official returns to a mark¬
ed extent.
Chairman Reynolds says that some¬
body will go to prison before tho in¬
vestigations are completed.
HEAVY FROST IN MEMPHIS.
In Conneqnenco Quarantine of Other Sec-*
tiou*i Ih liaised.
A Memphis, Tenu., special says:
Yellow Jack was hit a hard blow Wed¬
nesday morning when the thermome¬
ter dropped to 40 degrees. Heavy
frost formed and there was ice iu the
gutters.
Immediately on receipt of this news,
which was telegraphed abroad at an
early hour, the state of Arkansas raised
quarantine, and Mississippi and Ala¬
bama followed suit.