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The Morgan Monitor.
VOL. II. NO. IT.
A FUAYER,
Teach me. Father, how to gc
Softly as the grasses grow;
Hush my soul to meet the shock
Of the wild world as a rook;
But my spirit, propt with power,
Make as simple as a (lower.
Let the dry heart fill its cup,
Like a poppy looking up;
Let life lightly wear her crown,
Like a poppy looking down,
When its heart is tilled with dew,
And its life begins anew.
Uncle Tip’s Supper.
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By HATTIE WHITNEY*
N OU won’t fergit the
l roastin’-years. Uncle
Tip?” honey.’*
“Naw,
“Ner the simlins?”
“Naw, chile.”
“An’ you’ll dig a
big mess o’ sweet
potatoes to bake?”
‘ ‘Yas, yas, sugar. ”
“An* cook all the other truck jest
like I tole you, an’ hev over’thiug
ready percisely at six o’clock?”
“Yas, honey, yas.”
Uncle Tip Tucket, who sat on a
backless chair in the open passageway
between two log rooms, looked a little
bewildered and clutched at his scant
locks as if to hold onto his memory
ere it should give him the slip, as his
niece rattled off her brisk cateohism.
He wan a slow, amiable mail, with
mild, blinking eyes and wispy gray
hair.
’■•'i Tucket, his niece, was all
from her quick, black eyes
1 -patty laced into her
Her freshly
1 out around
smooth
borate
she
Tib
1 a
-na
*/* ot Vuiv:.
\V movement like pink
i room, a ana
1 ? her skirts rustling
o a-said so before,” she
jfiskly, unlocking a trunk
/ the lid of a box inside.
. ' t got any time to lose. I’ll
. oan-jh/ii my buff-border one; ail’ don’t
j-ou crumple it up an’ tie knots in it
like you done with yourn last Sunday.”
..The plump girl blushed, and sat
down upon the edge of the bed with
its blue and white counterpane anil
stiff, square pillows, and was promptly
pounced upon by Izora.
“Git up!” said she. ‘ ‘You’re a-
inussin’ the kiverlid, Susan.”
“Izory,” said Susan, as she moved
over to the window, “don’t you
Uncle Tip’d kinder like to go ’long to
the picnic, too?”
“Reckon so,” responded Izora, who
was giving her mind to the setting of
her white straw hut-, with its pink rib¬
bons, straw loops, huge, bobbing red
l ose and clninky bud, 011 tlie exact top
*-- f her head, where she secured it by
jabbing a long pin through it and a
strand of her hair.
“An’ I don’t see,” pursued Susan,
speculatively, “whut’d be the hurt.”
“Susau Tucket, air you a idit?”
demanded Izora, wheeling about.
“First place, who’d git supper? Ain’t
Gid Tompkins shore to be ’long with
me, an’ more’n likely Sam Bean with
you, an’ wouldn’t we hev to run
scootin’ ’round like hoppergrasses a-
cookin’ supper ’stid of talcin’ it easy?
An’ second place, ain’t that long-nosed
old maid Clementyne Plummins boun’
to bo there, au’ ain’t she got her yaller
cat-eyes onto Uncle Tip, ail’ lied ’em
there fer tlie last ten years? She’d of
snapped him up like a jaybird does a
bug, forty times over, ef it hedn’t ’a’
’#“!! fer me upsettin’ her plots an’
1 ipiu’ him out’n her way. He’s wil-
enough to be snapped up, an' once
’em at a picnic p!aym* ‘Sister
cbe an I\yo Tinkers, an’ they’d
god inside of a hour, I'll insure,
in’t kep’ ’em apart this long
git together at a picnic at
I do’no,” drawled Busan;
iey air that a-way. But
ley was to? fractious. Clementyne
/s ’•in mean ’most or Why,
run over her ef
the further you kin see,”
■a, scornfully; “not a
yer nose! Don’t Clem-
3r maw live alone, an’
•r maw live whurever
did, an’ wouldn’t she lie
things lively ’round this
An’ do yon an’ me want a
..g fsather-hed she’d of a step-annt-in- j
, er whutever be, a-runnin’
Gangs here?”
“I do’no,” began Susan again; "I—”
‘'You “I do,’’interruptedIzora, decisively.
ain’t got gumption enough to
pound sand. Come along; yonder’s
the sun, 'way up. We’ll be late.”
The fall was a very bountiful one
that year, and seemed to hold all the
sweetness of summer in its mellow j
clasp. Down in t lis out-of-the-way
corner of Missouri no sign of frost had I
yet appeared, and the sun was mild
and clear.
Uucie Tip Tucket stood in the log i
Teach me, Father, how to ho
Kind and patient as a tree.
Joyfully the crickets croon
Under shady oak at noon:
Beetle on his mission bent,
Tarries in that cooling tent,
Let me, also, cheer ft spot,
Hidden field or garden grot—
Place where passing souls can rest
On the way and ho their host.
—Charles Edwin Markham, In Scribner's,
“lean-to” kitchen, surrounded by the
generous offerings, freshly gathered,
of the rich, well-cultivated soil of his
thrifty garden, Great round, Cush¬
iony, Crimson potatoes; tomatoes; long, pink-
red sweet plump ears of corn
in .their silken, green husks; creamy
marrow squashes; translucent pods of
wax-beans; broad pods filll of butter-
beans; crook neck squashes and cucum¬
bers-, were piled about him in hunger-
provoking profusion. And still Uncle
Tip stood, with dismay in his face,
staring perplexedly at his vegetable
treasures.
“Did she say to fry the roastin’-years
au’ bile the tomotuses, or did she say
stchew the sweet ’taters an* make Soup
out’n the simlins, ef whut, beats me!
An* she’ll be madder’n a wet hen ef I
git ’em wrong, Wluit’s that?”
A ponderous step came up onto the
porch, and the Widow Plmnmiils,
otherwise known as Aunt Dorcas, ap-
peared at the kitchen door, with a
large, black sttnbonneton and a teacup
containing baking-soda in her hand.
The widow was stout and slow of mo-
tion, and she puffed some from the
climb up the steps,
“I’ve fetched back the sody Izory
loaned me,” she announced, setting
the cup down. “I was a-passin’ an’
’lowed it’d save another trip. Whut-
11 •- motfov TTe-’ie Tip? You
- - v,
-.am' how she sayed fer to cook it.
Don’t know no more’n that ole
mer rooster out yander how ter fix
tomotuses, ner beans, ner nothin’.”
Uncle Tip groaned, while
Dorcas unWed her black sunbonnet,
sat down and laug’“d until her portly
form fairly quaked.
“Uncle Tip,” said she, “f Jr.now
wliut Izory is, ^1 know wliat you air, fi
know whut cookin’ a meal o’ vittles is,
an’ I b’leeve I know whut my simple
Chrishen juty to a good neighbor-man
is. Now, you run an’ split me up
some good, dry kiu’lin’s, fill up tlie
wood-box, fetch me a bucket of water,
an’ I’ll liev ever’tliing goin’ before yo
kin bat your eyes twicet, au’ mix
pan of sody biskit in the bargain.”
The widow seized a gingham apron
of Izora’s, tied it about her ample
waist, rolled up her black calico
sleeves, and in a very moderate space
of time had the big coffee-boiler steam¬
ing, tho vegetables baking, stewing,
frying or boiling, according .to their
various requirements, a huge skillet
of ham sputtering on the stove and a
panful of bouncing big biscuits all
ready for the oven.
As for Uncle Tip, he was in au
ccstacy of delight, skipping about to
render what assistance he could, doing
the widow’s behests with gleeful
alacrity, ancl commenting upon the
proceedings with wonder and joy.
“Don’t it beat you,” he observed,
gazing upon the clouds of steam from
the various kettles and saucepaus with
fascinated eyes, “how slick tilings’ll
go when nuybuddy takes a holt ’at
knows how? Jest look at them tomo-
tuses a-bubbliu’ up thick au’ red, au’
smell them roastin’-years, an’ listen at
the ham a-sizzlin’—an’ them biskits!
Never seen sich big, nice, saft -lookin'
biskits—mind I tell ye.”
“I’m alius used to makin’ biskits
that a-way,” said the Widow, “’cause
i.i.- an’ Clementyne don’t ary one
much like crus’.”
“Ner me, neither,” said Uncle Tip
“Now,” said Mrs. Plummins at last,
a:, she sat the coffee-pot down on the
hearth, “hit’s mighty near time fer the
young folks to be polin’ along home,
I’ll fix the gravy, an’ then I reckon
you kin dish up when they git yere,
an’ I’ll be getting back.”
Uncle Tip’s air of pleased animation
vanished, and he groaned more dis¬
mally than he had before the widow
rescued him from his troubles.
“Aunt Dorcas,” said he, “I wisht
ye wouldn’t go ’fore supper—an’ I
wisht ye wouldn’t go atter supper_
an’fur as that goes, I wisht ye wouldn’t
go at all, 1 do fer shore. Look a-here,
Aunt Dorcas,” the little man continued
to rush on, as if, having given expres-
sion to his feelings, lie was unable to
control them, “I ain’t never »*; no-
buddy to hev mo sence pore Pamely
died; not but whut I’ve ’lowed some-
times ’at I’d kinder like to, V I hev
sort o’ cast a eye at Clementyne oncet
in awhile, but ’peared like es ef one
thing another ’ud keep a-liappenin’ to
spile it. Ever’ time I’d fix fer it
somethin’’ud up an’knock it in the
head; I couldn’t never git half a j
chaince to see her, an’ looked like I
never would. But after all, I reckon
Clementyne’s a leetle too young fer
me. Now you an’ me is purty closet
of a age; ’pears to me like es ef we 1
was plum suited to one another. I
know there couldn t no one suit me so
good a-makin’ biskits, an’ no one '■
AND DnAINAGS].
Morgan, ga.. Friday, December 3 , mi.
wouldn't chop kiu’lin’s an’ pack wntai I
ter you elieerfuller’n whut I would.
'Sposin' we’s to jino ban’s for good,
mo an’ you—will ye, Dorcas?”
deUbtu-rttion,* “Well,” Said Aunt Dorcas; with due
“bein' es you’re! sd
handy at gittin’ kin’lin’ an’ the like, j
an' we both take to the same kind of
biskits, good, an’ my 1 bookin' seems to ’* Suit |
you ed mdiit thiuk of it,
d„S:
widow around the w r aist.
“Looky yere, Dorcas,” said he, !
“don’t go an’ spile it by thinkin’ about
it. Let’s light right out over to the
minister’s yonder an’ be all fixed time I
the gals gits back. Somethin’ll hen- !
det shore, ef we put it off, mind I tell
you. Ain’t I told ye how I eeahluT.
oven git no courtin’ done? An*
tilings’ll git crossways somehow, ef
we wait a minute, I ‘most know,
Come, let’s run right over. ”
“But Clementyne,” demurred tho
widow, “She’ll git home from tho ’
picnic an’ be skeered to not find no ,
one there.’* I
. . ... the
“rihe 11 hev to pass right, by ;
parsonago on her way, said Uncle
Tip, “an’ ef we don’t see her our¬
selves!, We’ll get ’eul to watch fer hei
an’ tell her td come right over ’fore
she goes home. Come, now, sugar,
clap on yore bonnet an let s scoot
right oil; we’ll fasten the kitchen door
an’ run an git married an be bac.v m
time to dish up together. Oh, honey,
ef you don’t 111 be so mizzable 1.11
jest natclielly widow bust up and go to pieces. against
The was not proof
such eloquence as this.
Six o’clock came, and the girls, ar¬
riving punctually with their escorts,
beheld Aunt Dorcas emerging from
the kitchen with a great platter of
fried ham surrounded by rich red-
brown thickened gravy, while Uncle
Tip came skipping after, beaming be¬
nignly and bearing in each band a
plate heaped With the big biscuits.
The table was spread m the open pas-
sageway, and from the center thereof
arose a mountain ot corn, boiled on
the cob, the long ears even, white,
succulent, and extremely tempting
Alongsure stood a large yellow bowl
full of stewed tomatoes, thick, dark
red and fragrant with seasoning- of
i'<l tender cjreen peppers. A
"■■}) ^ lur d 1) ^ w g • Tiled
tomatoes, cucumbers i
dressing ' of vinegar,
,„er ' Tureens of
, «, | 1 ’ ...
’
J- beneath their
ci and erowiled
. oil-seasoned } i, am co i ored
.
squash. Plates ”
man a ,. y
baked s..-eot potatoes, bowls o-,f hav01 .y
succotash, and sections of ‘
do, „ 0 j d
crookuecks, baked to glazy perRjction «k
and piled upon platters, filled yel . y
space. The dessert of late-ripe,,,
carminc 1 velvet peaches and sweet 11 A
ted cantaloups seemed almost a supe\
fluity amidst the abundanoe of vegotS,
able luxury.
Miss Clementyne Pluiiimiiis was set-
uting the chairs about tho table with “
cheerful energy.
“Wafik up, ladies and gentlemen,
greeted lib ele Tip, jovially. “Leniii.c
first iuterilucc-ye to my wife, Mrs. Tip
Tucket, Widdei- Plummins that was,
and my darter Oiiementyne; an’ the 1
all pitch in an’ eat - -eat hearty. An’
ef this yere meal of yitfilcs does come
a leetlo grain ahead of time, hit’s a
Thanksgivin’ dinner an’s,upper all in
one to this ole boy, fer I’nT thankful
to a good, kind Providence, pi um from
head to heel, firstly for a migh ty good
wife, au’ secondly fer a might y good
supper. Now light in.” forward
The youug men stepped us
Uncle shook hands Tip finished his little speVch,
all around with a he*rtv
good-will, wished the newly marrfiod
pair “much joy,” and sat down to Uhe
table, according to the invitation. wifcj \
Susan laid aside her hat, and
placidly smiling visage kissed her new*
aunt and uncle and embraced Cieinen-
tyne with cousinly cordiality, took a
seat beside Mr. Bean, and helped lier-
sqj,f to a large ear of corn. Susan was I
not given to violent amazement under
any circumstances.
The host and hostess next seated
themselves, and in the slight attend¬
ing confusion, no one observed the
movements of Izora, who popped into
the left-hand room 4 pitched her hat
upon the bed, and stood grinding her
heel into the innocent rag carpet and
punching a hole in the plastering of
the wall with her parasol. Her 1 eyes
snapped.
“Talk of plum idiots!” she ground
out viciously, “I’d take first prize at
the biggest booby show over was—a-
plottin’ like I done to keep him from
goin’ to the picnic an’ meetin’ Clemen¬
tyne, an’ yere he’s stayed right home
and married Clementyne’s maw, slick
es a whistle, a million times worso’n
ef he’d a married Clementyne herself
—shucks take it! Why didn’t I keep
an eye out that a-way, ’stid of watchin’
Clementyne so closet? Well, Jzory
Tucket, bein’ you ain’t got the sense
of a good-sized June-bug, I reckon
you better go out an’ wish ’em much
joy, an’ eat your supper—an’ mind
yer own business from -
Farm and Fireside.
Subscribe for Tills paper and keep
posted on affairs in general.
RUSSIA’S WARNING UNHEEDED.
Proceeds to Invest 1,500,000 Murks
In 'Dargo (inns.
Advices from Constantinople state
in spite of the protest of the
Russian government which recently
intimated to tho porte that if any cou-
of the indemnity paid by
Greece should be devoted to tho exten-
sion of the Ottoman armament the
government would insist upon
a payment of the arrears of tho Russo-
Turkish indemnity, long overdue
Turkey great has German placed with Herr Krupp’
gunmaker, an order
for 150 large cannon at a total value of
marks.
t
PRESENCE OF RUKGtAtiS IN 1’OWN
DISTRESS THE PHILOSOPHER,
TRUMPS ARE ADEPIS JT THIEVING.
^-Kiluvatlon Elicits
nil Wcll-
-<01 lo Jem s ,, . 1 . b ins it,...
peaceable and honest town Lv cr since
beeri he no i isturhanod "? re f of 0 ‘Tfi the " prtblic 1 r’’T tram
qmlrty. During all that tune out .loots
not been locked at night nor bits
our chicken roOst been robbed by the
fowl invader. Tile presence of oitr
f.^tliful dog may have been our pro-
teetion, for there have been some few r
chickens stolen in these parts. Our
neighbor, Charley Patterson, suffered
some in that, way until lie bought the
old gallows on Which a man was bring
few 8 ag0 wd bni j t a chicken
houBe of tlle timber. Bince then lie
can ] iarc i]y get a darky to put chickens
in it by day> mnch loss to take them
ou j. by n i g j lb But our negroes in and
around Oartersville are a clever,indus¬
trious people and The ns honest, domestic as" mankind
are generally. servants
will take Some liberties with little
things that they think we won’t miss,
but they have and many good traits that
are a set-off, so we compromise on
general principles.
But now the burglars have come to
town and alarmed the whole commu-
. t j believe they f come ficm up l
lvh ere eve father. md thiug eome s
f eVen to bfl(1 The other
d ^ ft trnmp came to our house and
ed for some thing to eat. He was
f . , good looldng and l well dressed,
M 7 got h fi im uacb ftttd aske d
wber 0 his bome wa nml wllere
going b ^ . He smiled and sai.l ho
nQ ho e and was ,. aiHed in aa
or P“ . an asylum , upn° 1 ’'t-li n and Avas gomg
to Atlanta in search of work,
.. \ rr Iow do tra , u1 * ,, BalJ ., she , lf
J' 011 J, ’ -
y° u bave 110 mone y ?
“Well, I ride 011 the freights until
tUe y l ,nt me off >” ,ie sai,1 > “ alKl tlien 1
wait for another one and ride some
I am just taking a little trip now more,
to see the country.” fellows
There were two of these in
town and they took the rounds asking
* or something to eat and always got it.
My opinion is that they aw ^
caIiingfe ; S5 e Laii y hause S istopros-
pect the premises. The night aver¬
they were at our house burglars enter-
e d four houses and stole money. They
took S 9t) from under a sleeping man’s
fViillow ' and mailer sums from the
I'fiickets they of other entered men. three A houses few nights
and
♦ of k a liTie^mW- tt'sk:a /rom under a
banker’s pillow and the nte'.xt night a
watch and some money at \ another
place. They take no clotliing/nor any¬
thing to ent. They are white* folks, I
tell you, and are experts in their bus¬
iness.
Well, of course, tlie whole
ity is aroused and especially the women.
Mv wife is not a timid woman. Mhe is
more afraid of snakes than of men, but
sbe, too, got alarmed and made me
tho hammer and the screwdriver and
some bolts and nails and fix up every
door and window. She held the lamp
and watched me all round from room
to room, and I mashed a great blood
blister on my finger and it hurts yet.
When all was done to her satisfaction
and we got ready to retire, she sud¬
denly told me not to lock tho back 1.all
for. Uncle Sam had to come in
CrVsiderate t\ere in tho morning to make a fire.
woman! She knew that
! ain’t like to get up
out of A warm bed to unlock
the door. Reckon sbe thinks the
burglars woVblu’t be so impolite as to
come in at tl\« hack door. Bet they
don’t get anjJ haven’t watch from under my
pillow, for y got any. Forty
years ago UiSd? S 0 ** mine just that way
in old Dr. TIJompson’s hotel in Atlan-
to, and I ha vie never carried one since.
They got my andjsoine qfiockctbook, valuable too, and a
little money papers,
They were fromM^ north and were
very clever week men, con-'hftiwjqig, apl for in
a they sent me my pa-
pers hack through the mail hmd the
letter will was give postmarked back I’liiladetyhia. everything
a man
they can’t use. Bill Fort told mrii that
were a kind-hearted set of thiltyes
lie had known them to lean ouj
kiss a sleeping man after they life?
him. .,
No, it is white folks who are s : tenl-'\
ing these valuable things,"" Negroes
grit above chickens anil tur-
yet. I heard the other day of an
1 ,Id larky who prayed every night dur-
Christmas for the Lord to send a
to him, but the turkey didn’t
and so lie changed his prayer
arid asked the Lord to send him to a
turkey and his prayer was answered,
very night. A negro don’«hanker
gold watches. He wants some-,
to eat.
But now I want to know wliat, is all
racket about that they call co-ed-
I thought it was just another I
and would soon pass away, but it
to get bigger and bigger the
they talk about it. One would
there were no female colleges in
land and that the boys were get¬
all the education when the truth
is there are more educational facilities
girls in this state than for boys.
don’t know wliat it all means. Do
the girls want to mix with the boys
and improve them and be inspired by
them? T hen why should not the boys
clairn a similar privilege and go to the
.colleges Miliedgeville? arid to the girls’ iriiftts*
school fit If we fire'
going to bunch, let lift brinish the
whole concern and include the ttfjM-'
cultural attachments and let the girls
do some plowing if they want to. But
I rfeckoii its Jitst the new woman who
is contending fot tile absti'lH't right to
go to tlie university. Of eoiirsri they
won’t go, for their fiithefs won’t ltd
them fIs long ris the femrile colleges
are open at Macon find Aflieris find
LaGrange and Decatur and Rome find
other places. There is plenty of edu¬
cation for them there without the eo-.
Tins best mothers, I know, never fliSbfifit got
higher than a is high for the school girls and get
co-education to mar¬
ried young and go to raising children
1 chiokens. If they do that dil-
" *• will learn enough in a
ltige-bred l tillLllllv. •” t'appy as their been col-
o„ ’ve never
entirely sat is In such abstruse
sciences as chenns. astronomy,
tricgououletry, fluxions, _
rhetoric calculus,
Greek, and logic Were of any
use to the average boy, much less to
the girls. I went to college and my
wife didn’t, and I hiive to take a back
seat now sometimes. I mairied her
when she was only sixteen, but if she
bad spent four years in college she
would have been so smart she wouldn’t
lirivo had me, and I reckon I wouldn’t
have had her, for no prudent young
man will marry a girl who is smarter
than he is— it is dangerous, Pick out
your girl and take her young and co-
educate her yourself.—Bax. Arp in
Atlanta Constitution.
SOUTHERN HAULS PACKAGES.
Judge I’ihtIpo’s Decision Seems To Have
Settled the Whisky Case.
The decision of Judge Pardee, of
tho United States court at Atlanta,
seems to have settled the fight between
the Southern railroad and Bluthentlial
& Bickart, the Atlanta liquor dealers,
in reference to original packago law.
The Southern is now hauling the
goods of this firm into South Carolina,
and bottles packed in cases and shipped
in carload lots have been accepted as
original packages.
It is not known whether tho South¬
ern will continue the fight or not, The
local counsel of tho road have not been
requested by the officials to take any
further steps in the case.
NAIL MEN COMBINE.
Affection of Knfire Iron Trade Will lie
the lteBult.
Information from reliable sources in
Cleveland, Ohio, is to tho effect that
at the protracted past mt- 1 ’ng in attended v ,
|d .t-ui-ly i v j l ‘“‘n all the 11 - - big producers week, by
of wire,
wire nails and rods in the country an
,
agreement to consolidate was virtually
reached, only one concern remaining
to be induced to go in.
The combination will be the largost
ever attempted, and will affect tho en-
tire iron trade, In order to avoid the
fate of the old wire nail pool, the rod
mills will be included as well asa num¬
ber of steel producing concerns.
REMARK FOR HEROISM.
A Gold Medal 1’resented to William
laniigfonl For Saving Lives.
A gold medal was presented
day to William H. Langford, who is
clerk in the office of the Now
Central and Hudson River
company at New York, for saving
lives of the passengers in a
car in the recent disaster at Garrisons,
N. Y.
Tho presentation was mado in tho
presence of Dr. Chauncoy M. Depew
and the other railroad officials and
clerks at the Grand Central station.
Langford swam out in the Hudson
river to t-lie submerged fir andchopped
a hole in it, releasing/ iree men.
SENATORS FOR RECOGNITION.
<Juba AVill Ho Uphold By Upper IIouho
of Congreftg.
The New York World says that dis-
patches received from many louding
members of tlie United States sonato
indicate stormy times over Cuba as
soon as the senate meets,
Nearly a score of senators are reputed
to have already written resolutions
favoring either intervention by the
United States or immediate recognition
of tho Cuban belligerency.
Mules I „ orixli . . in . Flames.
D. R. Crawford of Laurens county,
S. C., lost his barn and stables, with
twelve mules, by fire Friday night.
TURKS ARE HUMBLE.
Czar Coinr* ; *' s With All tho Demand**
irlade Upon Him By AiiHtria.
Dispatches received from Mersena,
Asia Minor, announce as result of tho
d-chfi oii of the Turkish government to
1 ” demands of Austria for re-
iff, consequence of the ill treat-
of flerr Brazzafolli, the agent of
Austrian Lloyd Steamship Corn-
pauy at that port, and the subsequent
insults c-aiinplaiiied of by the Austrain
tlie'iT. the flag of Austria was
saluted a* Moridina by Turkish
with nil the ceremonial demand-
by the government of Austria,
BIG STREET’ RAILROAD SOLD.
,., ,. OBSl s-i«„ „r stock „t the
1'ltti.lmrsr M,at*nri.
Messrs. Alexander Brtnvii.^ Sons,
u syndicate of Baltimore,
New York, Philadelphia and
capitalists, have consum¬
the purchase of all tho stock of
the United Traction Company of
Pittsbnrg, Pa., amounting to $20,000,-
000 .
This will give them control of tie
latest street railway system in HUs-
bur 8 un ‘^ Allegheny, owning ard op¬
erating over 117 milesof electrii lines.
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IS THE MANIFESTO SENT OUT BY
CUBAN ASSEMBLY.
SPAIN ISSUES AUTONOMIC DECREE
ltotll Culul rintf Potto ltico Aro Included
In tlic lioyul {firtfit—Anx¬
iety Is Allayed.
The Cuban. constituent assembly,
which met recently at (janinguey to
remodel the constitution and elect ft
new president, issued a manifesto
which reached the office of the Cuban
junta in New York Friday.
The document is dated at Lahaya,
October 18, 1897, and is signed by
Domingo Mendez Capote, as president
of the assembly.
The document , , says that ... the nssen ,
bly jo oie atjouinu g l, othex ’. llt things. ..
duty to proclaim, among
1 o s l’ ei 1,1 a ' v ' > 0 I 1
. , ,
“ an onomy, no iing, * be *
that the Spanish Rovernment Spanish may
willing to grant that means
sovereignty S over Cuba shall be accept-
ed , , by the Vi Cubans 1 as „ a . settlement of
“Impendence or death is and shall
he the unalterable and sacred motto of
the Cubans.
“Tho Cubans have not resorted to
arms in order to obtain any political
measures which does not, once and for
all solve tho question. That is the
reason we will accept nothing short of
absolute independence. constitute
“It is our purpose to an
independent state, orderly, prosperous
and happy, over the ruin of a worn-
out colony. determined
“We are firmly to carry
on war until victory or death crowns
our effort.”
AUTONOMY GRANTED.
DeerecH for Cuba ami Porto llico (liven
Out by SpaiiifiH Government.
Advices from Madrid state that
Official Gazette published
morning the royal -decrees
autonomy to Cuba and Porto Rico,
removing the anxiety that had
to be expected 011 all sides as the
of tlie government’s reticent and
explained delay.
Article 1 explains the principles ,
tlie fiituie governments of the
islands.
Article 2 decrees that the
ment of each island shall he
of an insular parliament, divided into
two chambers, while a governor gener¬
al representing the home
shall exercise in its name the supremo
authorit y-,
Article 8 declares that, the faculty of
making laws of colonial affairs rests
with tho insular chambers anil the
governor general.
Article 4 directs that the insular
representation shall be composed of
two corporations with equal powers;
A chamber of representatives nml a
council of administration.
Article 5 provides that the council
of administration shall consist of
thirty-five members, of whom eight
shall .be elected and seventeen nom¬
inated by the government.
Article (i provides that the members
of tho council of administration must
be Spaniards, thirty-five years of age,
who were born in the island or who
have resided there continuously for
four years. It specifies numerous
officials, such as senators, presidents
of courts and of chambers of commerce
and other bodies as eligible to election
to tho council.
Article 7 to 14 inclusive deal with
nominations and the conditions of elec¬
tion to councils.
Article 15 empowers tho throne or
the governor general to convoke, sus¬
pend or dissolve the chambers with
an obligat on to reassemble them with¬
in three months.
CO N ST A NT I. N OR LB TH RE ATEN E D.
The Dowers Have Decided That Turk*
Must Kvacuute Crete.
The Rome correspondent of The
London Daily Chronicle snye:
“The report is confirmed that the
powers have decided to blockade Con-
*”-'>otin.»pIe in case Turkey refuses to
her troops from Crete and to
accept a European governor of the
island.”
TWENTY YEARS IN THE REN.
Meiner Was On* <>r a Party of Klglit Who
AfiftaulteU Mm. Gleason.
Frank, alias “Dad” Moiner, was
convicted at Newport, Ky., Wednes¬
day night, of assaulting Mrs. William
Gleason October 6th and sentenced to
twenty years in the penitentiary.
Claxson and Greer have previously
received the same sentence for the
same offense, There aro live others
to be tried for this offense and all will
no doubt receive twenty years each.
The defendants belonged to a gang
that insulted ladies, and their outrage
on Mrs. Gleason was such that lynch¬
ing was averted only by the transfer of
the prisoners to Maysville.
ESTRADA PALMA TALKS.
Delegate Says I'ropo.Dlon <if An
tenon. Will Receive No Condlil-vtlnn.
Toman Estrada Palma, the Cuban del¬
egate in New York, speaking on
the terms of the autonomy decrees
stid;
“These propositions were scorned
advance of the r presention. They
receive no consideration now.
Cuba, it is a< i‘ has been since
was bega n and will be until itends
or death.”
$1 PER YEAR.
ItEV. GIBSON VINDICATED.
North Georgia Conference “ 1 ’mKSc*'' Hl«
Character Without Trial.
There lurks an interesting story be¬
hind the arrest of the character of
Rev. J. T. Gibson by Rev. C. 0. Carey
in the North Georgia conference at
Athens Friday. The charge against
Rev. Gibson tvas that he had been
imprudent with women. There was
no trial, however, and Rev. Gibson
was vindicated, tho investigating com¬
mittee having reported a trial not nec¬
essary.
According to reports, Revs. Gibson
and Carey have not been on tho best of
terms for a number of years, Rev.
Carey, It is said, has been circulating
some reports about Rev. Gibson,
which prompted Rev. Gibson to de¬
mand an investigation at the present
conference,
The alleged indiscretion which Rev.
Gibsoti is accused of having commit¬
ted occurred in Rome three or four
years ago ween he was pastor of one
of the Methodist churches of that city.
It developed that the reports were ab¬
solutely false.
The matter has been much talked"
^ ^ ^ Uey 0ftrey> itis
said, has been largely responsible for
^ cir< , n] „ ti<>n ,, f tbe n>l>orU Kev .
Hibson has been very much worried on
this account and finally Rev? determined
make Carey prove
Rtfl t B meiits *
He then went to . Rev. Carey, n it •, •
Ttate.nent so is
^ and obtained n written
^om him to the effect he had never
It is
U(n , Gib?0 „ bas in
his possession certain affidavits from
responsible parties who swear Rev.
Carey did make such statements to
them concerning Kev. Gibson’s char¬
acter.
MILL MYERS AGAIN.
Detect!ves In Indian Territory Cl#^ to
Have Youthful Murderer.
Requisition papers were made out at
Atlanta Saturday for the return of
Will Myers from the Indian Territory
to Georgia.
From Muscogee, Indian Territory,
eamo the announcement that AVill
Myers had been located, arrested,
completely identified, and that he at
that moment was in the custody of
detectives who had traced the fugitive
murderer across the prairies, over hill
a nd dale, until he had been brought to
bay, and after an exciting piece of
j strategy, captured,
The papers wore made out by- !ioli&:
j ibv-r Hill and forwarded, bearing thjb
j governor’s tion signature. The identifica-
is said to have been made by a
detective who worked in Atlanta dur¬
ing the exposition who is now in tho
west.
LEE ALLAYS SUFFERING.
Coiimil Itcports That Them Aro Destitute
Americans la Culm.
Consul General Lee has made 11 re¬
port to the secretary of state in which
he says there are 1,(105 American citi¬
zens in Cuba dependent upon charit¬
able assistance. They have partly
been provided for out of tho $50,000
appropriated by congress.
General .Lee sajs that in making
provision for the relief of these citi¬
zens more than $1,500 a week must bo
expended, lie lias drawn $25,000 of
tho sum appropriated, of which two
drafts for $5,000 each were drawn this
month. He expresses tho opinion
Hint a considerable time must elapse
before tho indigents will bo self-sus¬
taining.
PARKHURST EXPRESSES REGRET.
ll«*formm* Was“lInBpi!akably Rail” to Find
Tammany In I’owvr In N<«w York.
The Rev. Dr. 0. il. Parklmrst, who
has been away since June, returned
to No w York Saturday on board the
steamer Adriatic. He said lio had
fully recovered his health and his ap¬
pearance bore out the statement.
Ho said that it made him “unspeak¬
ably sad” to come back to New York
and find Tammany in power.
{TURLEY SERIOUSLY ILL.
Floridian, No»v In Washington, „
Critical Condition.
A Washington special of Sunday
says: Colonel W. D. Chipley, of
Florida, who was operated on for a
carbuncle soveral days ago, is in a
very critical condition and it is feared
will terminate fatally.
Mrs. Chipley and tho colonel’s !-*>n
and daughter have arrived in tho city.
ARBITRATION NOT >YANTED.
Irishmen Send a Long edition to the
United States Senate.
A petition to the senators of the
United States was issued from the
headquarters of the Irish National Al¬
liance in New York Friday against the
adoption of tho proposed general
treaty of arbitration with England.
The petition will circulated by
the various councils of the alliance
throughout this country, the Ancient
Order of Hibernians and other Irish-
societies.
The petition says that tho advocates
the arbitration treaty here are the
American tories, descendants
the men who would have bunged
FLORIDA NEGRO LYNCHED.
Did Their Work and Departed With¬
out Attracting Attention.
Hicks Price, a negro charged with
a woman, was taken from
jail at Starke, Fla., liy a mob of
100 men and hanged to the limb
a tree. About fifty shots were fired
his body.
The mob gained entrance to the jail
pretending to have another subject
imprison, tben overpowered the
The work was done before the
realized the mob’s presence.