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CLINCH COUNTY NEWS 4>! . if. RACE TROUBLE IN DARIEN Soldiers Patroi Streets of the Hclntosh Town to Preserve Order. DtPlIY SHERIFF KILLED IN DISCHARGE OF HIS DUTY Hundreds of Armed Negroes Massed in a Swamp and Ready For An Attack. The first blood of the Darien, Ga., riot was spilled Thursdav night, when Joseph Townsend, one of McIntosh’s . best and . most , influential . _ . . lost citizens his life from the effect of a shot from a gun in the hands of a brother of the negro Delagoi. Mr. Jos. Townsend and Mr.Octavius Tlopkins went out near Eulouin to the home of Heurv Ihil&grel,the negro now in jail at .Savannah, to arrest his two sous. Both of tin se negroes had taken aft.active part in the Darien riot. Air. Townsend remained outside the house while Mr. Hopkins went in. The lat ter found John Dclag.d and told him lie had come to arrest him and he had best eline4 give np. The negro seemed in- to do this for a moment, but changed his mind when lie saw Mr. Townsend outside in the moonlight. A gun wan handed him by a women and he immediately opened fire on the two officers. Mr.'Hopkins was struck iu thfe shoulder and Mr. Townsend in the nbaowen. Mr. Hopkins, though painfully wounded, was not complete- ly disabled, so he took Mr. Townsend in the buggy and hurried away for medical aid. Mr. Townsend expired in Mr. Hop km s arms before they reached p'aoe where they could rind a bed. Jit-gi-oi-B VlHHft 111 Sivamii. The negroos have practically de sorted Darieu proper and taken to the swamp. They aro now massed about twelve miles from Darien and have thrown ont pickets to guard against tbe whites. Word has been sent to Darien that the negroes will not to arrest. Several white families were sent away from Darien Friday to allow tbe men timo to tight. A detachment of soldiers were dispatched to tho Ridge, Darien’s swell suburb, to guard the residences there. Soldiers patroled the streets in Darien. Kiotors Removed to Savannah. day The morning towboat for “Iris” Savannah left Darien with Fri- tho j ! riot prisoners on board. It was | thought best to take them there for j safe keeping in order to avoid any j possible attempt to escape and for the further reason that the jail in Darieu v/ug getting uncomfortably full. While passing through a negro set- dement en route five miles from Darieu 1 HERTILLON CREATED MERRIMENT. The Noted Handwriting Expert a Witness In the I>reyfu« Case. At Friday’s session of the Dreyfus conrtmartial M. Bertillon, the noted, handwriting expert, who w as at the head of the anthroopometric depart- rneut of tbe prefecture of police of Paris, was called as a witness. . ! When Bertillon had concluded the first installment of his so-called dem- onstration of the guilt of Captain Drevfus, a prominent Dreyfusord re- ferred to him as “the fin de siecle CagUostro ” ' A remarkable feature of M. Bertil- Ion’s deposition was the heat and ex¬ j citement he put into what was expect¬ ed to be a calm, dispassionate exposi¬ j ! tion of his theories. He thundered, . shouted and wavedhis arms, as though j engaged in some terrible dispute. The Dreyfusards refuse to regard j him as anything but a quack. COMBINE OP GEORGIA MINES. | Southern Iron Consolidation Is Being Per¬ ! fected in New York. | A Birmingham, Ala., dispatch says: A new southern iron combination is being formed in New York by a con- solidatlon of the Cherokee Iron com- pany and the Western Mining com- pany, tho former operating in Chero- kee eountv, Alabama, and the latter at Cedartown, Ga. The concern will bo known as the Georgia and Alabame Iron company, and will bo capitalized $1,300,000. 1 at COTTON FIRMS COMBINE. Fourteen Mills Acqulrei! Bv tlie Continent- nl Trust Company of 11*11 imore. A Baltimore special says: The cot¬ ton consolidation, which is one of the most important industrial combine- tions of the south, has been completed and the fourteen mills acquired are now in the hands of the Continental Trust Company of Baltimore, tho syn- dicate manager awaiting their transfer to the Mt. Vernon-Woodbury Cotton Duck Cflmpany, which has been in-! corporated under the laws of the state i of Delaware, the permanent orguniza- i tion of which will be completed within the next few days when the properties will be taken over by that company, j HMa.es OfQoial Organ of Clinoh County. the Darien and Western train was fired upon. TRis is tho second time th ° l ™ in has been fir « d Qn - bn ‘ ,orku ' nateiT no one has yet been hurt, Judge gcalirook has boon generally commended for his promptness on calling a special term of court. Solio- dor Kenan has also beon quite active in getting the special term and othor- wlso u8J13tlu « tbe citizens. Colonel Lawion in Command. Governor Gaudier was busy all day Friday receiving and sending tele- grams in regard to the rioters at Da- Gen, where tho situation has assumed a much graver aspect than was at first thought. Governor Candler was determined at all hazards to prevent tho rioters Bom doing any further damage und used every precaution toward that end. * During the day he offered a reward SAGO for the capture of the negro John Delogal, who murdered Deputy Sheriff Joseph Townsend Thursday night. Early in the morning Governor Can- dler received a telegram from Sheriff T. B. Blount, of Darien, as follows: Please order Liberty Independent troop, to report to me, mounted, at once. Hitua- critical. One deputy killed; another id. T, 11. IIuocnt, Sheri IT. close on the hc-els of this message Lawton came a dispatch from Colonel asking that carbines and am- munition be shipped. Tho guns were sent by the Southern Express and the ammunition, 1,000 rounds, was sent later by a special messenger. Colonel Lawton has been with plenary power to u«t in any way he may soe fit and is in full command of the situation. All this in tho outcome of the riot- ous sitnntion that has prevailed iu Da- rien for several days following the nr- rest of one Henry Delegal for alleged assault on a white woman. Tho no- groes erroneously eonoeived the idea that Delegal was to be lynched and dropped posed everything to go to his sup- rescue when tho sheriff started to remove him to Savannah for safe- keeping. They surrounded the jail ami two hundred military came from Savannah to quell them. Tho duy following, arrests of rioters began and forty we*e jailed. FORECAST OP CARTER VERDICT. It Is Stated Iii Washington That The Captain Will Go Free. It is stated in Washington, on what is regarded authentic information,that “ agreement ... has been reached . , where- , by Captain Oberlm Carter is not to be . 8he(1 . , { . . h . ^g«ntie government P tlu * ^ ' H steal, according to the verdict of the conrtmartial, but , is merely , to . , be .ha- .. ™ 188od from the army and a nominal over t,ne 810 000 It 4 he will /,T be remembered \ 1 that Carter stole, according to the evi- dencc on which he was convicted, not less than 81,GOO,000 He will not be advertised in the papers of his town as ordered in the verdict, The statement that the Carter case wlil bfi Bett ' 8(1 ,tB enta ,, flnds . , ln plausible and ready explanation , . in Washington. It is accepted there as meaning a mitigation of the sentence pronounced by thecourtmartial against Captain Carter as stated. It will be recalled that the verdict of the eourtmnrtial was that CarteT “is guilty as charged” of conspiring with Green and Gaynor and other contract- f >rs to defraud the government of an amount wbicb the evidence adduced showed to be not less than one and one-half million dollars, ihe sentence was dismissal from the service of the United States, a fine of $10,000, a term five years in the penitentiary and that he he advertised in his native by public prints as a thief and a NEGROES FOR PHILIPPINES. )rc ,i Kegiment to He KnlUteil to Fight tlie Filipinos. As a result of the recent consulta- n between the president and Secre¬ Root, orders were issued Friday for the establishment of an regiment of volunteers, to ,e composed of colored recruits. . The field and regimental officers ill be white men. Th e headquarters of the regiment be McPherson barracks, Atlanta, a > work of recruiting will begin at once. The regiment is to be for duty in the Philippines. HOMKRVILLK. GA., FlUUAY. SEPTEMBER^. 1899. TENNESSEE JUDGES CONTEST Kigrht of tiie Leirislnturo To Kexuove Them From Oillce. Notwithstanding the fact that the supreme court of Tennessee recently sustained the legislature’s acts, remov¬ ing certain judges and attorneys gen¬ eral, Chancellor H. B. Lindsay, Judge H. A. Rogers and Attorney General P. D. Owens have seen fit to eta test the right of the legislature to remove them from offioo fo. ihe purpose of cutting down the number of judicial officers. Wednesday the eases of these three, originally begun in London county, vere tried in the court of chaucery ap¬ peals. The special chancellor in the lower court held that the acts of the legislature were unconstitutional. The ofBciala claim to have grounds differ¬ ent from those presented by the su¬ preme court in cases already decided. Ihe court of appeal has taken their cases under advisement. COl UIM AHTUI, PROCEEDINGS. Labor! Continue* to Bay Hurt* Weak I'oints In Prosoentioa'p Evidence. The session of the Dreyfus court- martial afc Rennes Weilueeduy was comparatively uneventful. The depo- sitious were not productive of any really thrilling incidents. Much of the time was occupied in reading the testimony of Esterhazy and Mile. Pais before the court of cassation, during which many of tho audience left the court. M. Labori again distinguslied him- self in laying bare the weak points of the evidence. He was less fieroe, however, than Tuesday, though quite aggressive enough to arouse tho latent hostility of the judges, which showed itself in various little ways. M. La¬ bori is no favorite, cither, with Major Carriere, the government's coramisary, and the latter makes no serious effort to conceal his feelings towards the lawyer. INJUNCTION CASE POSTPONED, liftht of State of Gtroi'itia Af-nlott Street Car Cumpnnlei Went Over. The caRe of the Rtato of Georgia ! against the Trust Company of Georgia and others came tip before Judge John : Candler at Atlanta Wednesday morn- | j iug. Shortly after the case was called Judge Candler said that as it has de- ! veloped that there are manyvdemmrers to the petition and answers to be heard, and as demurrers could not be 1 heard on their merits in vacation, he j ! would postpone the whole hearing un- til the third Monday in October, 1809. The state of Georgia seeks to enjoin the Trust company from carrying into effect the consolidation of the Atlanta Consolidated Street Railway company and Atlanta Railway company, which it alleges lias been made or iB about to be made under the name of the At- lauta Railway and Power company. The ground upon which the injunc¬ tion is asked is that this consolidation of the two companies is a violation of article 4 of the constitution of Geor¬ gia in that it lessens competition and encourages monopoly. TROOPS QUICKLY SENT. Gov. Candler of Georgia Promptly Kudu Impending Klot at Ilarlen, An Atlanta dispatch says: Governor Candler was notified by telegram at noon Wednesday of the imminence of a riot at Darien, Ga., and was urged to hurry troops to the McIntosh coun¬ ty town without delay. The dispatch received at the executive office stated that as the result of tho arrest of Hen¬ ry Delegal, a negro charged with as- rault, a mob of 400 negroes from the surrounding counties had assembled at Darien and held the town at their mercy. Governor Candler acted with his usual energy and discretion and in five minutes after the receipt of the telegram from Darien a dispatch from him was on the way to Bavannah to the commander of the First Georgia regiment, ordering him to Darieu with 200 men. The commander of tho regi¬ ment was instructed not to lose a mo¬ ment and, if necessary, to get a spe¬ cial train for his troops. BOUGHT 31A USE It BULLETS. English Firm Receives n I.arfo Order From Boers In Houth Africa. A firm of Birminlmm, England, has received an order far 14,000,000 Mau¬ ser cartridges for urgent delivery to South Africa. Secrecy is being observed as to the exact destination of the cartridges, but it is said that the Boers alone use Manser rifles iu that territory. OLD SUBJECT REVIVED. Question of General Wheeler'* Seat In Congress I* Up Once More, A special to the Chattanooga Times from Birmingham, Ala., says: “Since General Joseph Wheeler has been ordered to the Philippine islands a renewal of the discussion about de¬ claring vacant-his seat in the house of representatives from the eighth dis¬ trict has begun. The Montgomery Journal, which is looked upon as the organ of the state administration, wss the first to spring the question. This leads to the suspicion that it is sound¬ ing public opinion for the governor with a view^to his declaving General Wheeler’s seat vacant." TROOPS WELCOMED. President McKinley Greets Tenth Pennsylvania Volunteers, BOYS RETURN FROM THE PHILIPPINES 1 ‘ittsburg-, l*u., Mario Great Preparations To KocttivA Them and Occasion Is Made a Memorable One. '•At Pittsburg, Pa., Monday, with ciiry.ion booming, hells clanging, whis¬ tler shrieking, flags waving and mighty cheers from hundreds of thousands of , | throats the Tenth Pennsylvania vol¬ unteers were welcomed home, after mo. e thnji a year’s gallant service in tho Philippines, and the reception tendered the returning soldiers will ulwuys be remembered in Pittsburg as one of the greatest demonstrations of patriotism that has over taken place in this’ country. eifSzfe'ns vfsuid of $50,000 donated by tho and the surrounding towns permitted the committee which had the affair in charge to make lavish preparation for the home-coming and nothing was loft undone that would show the “fighting Tenth” how well their services for their eouutry in a foreign land were appreciated by the residents of their native state. The reviewing stand of President McKinley and his stuff of notables in Scheuley park was a magnificent work of art. Governor Stone opened tho exercises with a graceful speech. At" the conclusion of Governor Stone’s address President McKinley was introduced, and in the course of his address of wolcomo said: "i am glad to participate with the families, friends and fellow citizens of the Tenth Pennsylvania volunteers in this glad reunion. You have earned the plandils not alone of the people of Poiiusylvaiiia, but of the whole nation. Yon made secure and permanent the vietsry of Dewey. You added now glory to American arms. “You and your brave comrades en- curia.gad gagt^Hipi the other fields of conflict have map of the United States anA‘Extendedthe jurisdiction of icftti -liberty. The Eighth army corps in the Philippines have made a proud and exceptional record. "They were not serving the insur¬ gents in the Philippines or their sym¬ pathizers at home. They had no part of patience with the men, few in num¬ ber happily, who would have rejoiced te have icen them lay down their arms in tho presence of an enemy whom they ish had just emancipated from Span¬ rule and who should have been our firmest friends.” “Every stop taken was in obedi- enoe to the requirements of the con¬ stitution. It became our territory, and is ours as much as tho Louisiana purchase, or Texas, or Alaska. “A body of insurgents, in no sense representing tho sentiment of tho people of the islands, disputed our lawful authority, and even before tho ratification of the treaty by tho Amer¬ ican senate were attacking the very forces who fought for and secured their freedom. "These loyal volunteers in tho Phil¬ ippines said: *We will stay until tho hdme government can organize an army at and transport it to the seat of hostilities.’ plaining, "They did stay, cheerfully, uncom¬ and sacrificed; patriotically. They suffered they they fought and fell; drove back and punished tho rebels who resisted federal authority and who with force, attacked tho sov¬ ereignty of the United States in its newly acquired territory.” METHODISTS TO RAISE FUNDS. Interest In the “Twentieth Century Move¬ ment” Grows. ' The Methodists of Atlanta, Ga., will undertake to awaken an interest in the Twentieth Century Movement which proposes to raise $1,500,000 for Christian education. At the meeting of the Methodist ministers Monday morning it was re¬ solved to have a monster demonstation in the shape of a mass meeting. This meeting it was agreed should bo held at the Grand opera house Sunday morning at an early date, at which time all of the churches in tho city of this denomination will be closed, and the pastors and their con¬ gregations brought together. DR. DICKENS EXONERATED. A Female Patient Charged JMm With Attempted Assault. Dr. H. T. Dickens, who was charged with assault and battery on Mrs. M. L. Whitlock, several weeks ag*, was arraigned in court at Decatur, Ga., Monday morning before Judge John 8. Candler, and ho was quickly exone¬ rated of the charge by the jury. The alleged assault occurred on July 4th last. It will be remem¬ bered that on that day Mrs. Whit¬ lock started from her home near ■Tucker with Dr. Dickins, going to Norcross, where she was to become the patient of the physician. She charged that while in the buggy the physician attempted to assault her. NEGROES WANT PEACE. Situation In McIntosh Well In Hand and Quiet Is Being Restored. Barring arrests of eight of tl^mi ringleaders in last week’s riots in Darien, Monday developed but little excitement. The two ring¬ leaders surrendered to the authorities as a result of a between negro preachers and politi¬ cians and Colonel Lawton, the latter of whom suggested a plan of proce¬ dure. Following Colonel Lawton’s suggestions the negro committees sent for ringleaders an A la'er issued a cir¬ cular of some longth. This circular advises all negroes to exert themselves in favor of restoring peace and avoid all fear of excitemeut on account of the soldiers’ presence. One section in reference to the negro women iWio are at the bottom of all this trouble, reads: “Let every woman abstain from all words that may incite rashness or may be abusive. Let them stay at homo and by all means let every man see to it that no colored woman shall show her face at the courthouse or on the streets adjacent thereto during the coming session of the court. We em¬ phasize this and earnestly beseech all onr men to heed it. The respectable women of our race always remain away from the courthouse and others must now be made to do so.” When interviewed Monday night, Colonel Lawton said: “I apprehend no further trouble, but will keep the military here until after court merely as a precautionary measure. Tho negroes are now peaceable and after a conference with the leading negroos they issued their circular calling upon all negroes to keep quiet. I am satisfied the sur¬ render of the two ringleaders was the result of that conference and am posi¬ tive that tbe county is now practically quiet und there will be no further trouble.” It is the concensus of opinion that the situation has simmered down to a tedious wait for the special term of McIntosh court. Ho far there are sixty negroes to be tried with indica¬ tions of more arrests and surrenders to be made. SOUTHERN PROGRESS. List; of Now Inriutrirlo* ICntubllHhori the l’ast Week. The more important of the new in¬ dustries reported during the past week include a bridge and machine works in West Virginia; coal mines in Ken¬ tucky; copper mines in North Carolina; cotton mills in Georgia, Louisiana and Texas; a cotton and woolen mill and a crate and barrel factory in North Car¬ olina; electrical industries in Florida, Mississippi and Tennessee; flouring mills in Alabama, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia; furniture factories in Alabama and Georgia; gold mines in Georgia; a 150,000-bushei grain elevator in Texas; a $100,000 hard¬ ware company in West Virginia; a harness and saddlery works in Ken¬ tucky; an ice factory in Alabama; iron ore mines in Virginia; a knitting mill in Tennessee; lumber mills in Louisi¬ ana and North Carolina; phosphate mines in Tennessee; a planing mill in Louisiana; a telephone system in Ken¬ tucky; tobacco stemmeries iu North Carolina; a woolen mill in West Vir¬ ginia. — Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.) GOVERNOR CANDLER ELATED That IwperuUmc Race War In McIntosh County Has Boon Averted. An Atlanta, Ga., dispatch says: The news from Darien is of n very satisfac¬ tory nature at the state eapitol, and the governor was gratified to hear Monday morning that order was being rapidly restored and the danger of a race war was rapidly fading away. Inspector General Obeur returned from the seat of excitemeut, where ho was with the state troops. His report to tho governor was highly gratifying, and the governor feels that all danger has been passed, for the present, at least. THREE THOUSAND BALLOTS Kvqulvcri To Elect a Chief of Folic© In Selma, Ala. After balloting for four months, at regular and special meotings, the Sel¬ ma, Ala., city counoll Monday night elected D. P. Uptegraft, a printer, sixty years old, chief of police. A total of nearly 3,000 ballots were taken before any result was reached. GATHERED IN THE SHEKELS. Christhui All mice Camp Meeting In At¬ lanta Was Highly Sticcetgfiil. Eighteon thousand and thirty-two dollars was raised last Sunday at the Christian and Missionary Alliance eampmeeting at Exposition park, At¬ lanta, Ga. An even sixteen thousand was raised at the II o’clock service and at the 3 o’clock service an additional two thousand and thirty-two dollars was raised. A similar scene was never before witnessed in the loath, although many subscriptions far in excess of tho above donation has been a matter of record in the history of the Alliance. NO. 44. TIDE TURNS Handwriting Experts Testify la Favor of Prisoner. ,. 1 BERTILLON’S THEORY SCORNED f Cliaravay Changes Opinions He Entertained At the Former Trial of the Prisoner. Dispatches from Rennes, France, regarding the progress of the Dreyfus conrtmartial states that the balance of the evidence Monday, for a change, was in favor of Dreyfus. Five wit¬ nesses were for him and two against him. The most interesting testimony was that of Chief Handwriting Expert Charavny, who had come to declare ho had changed entirely his opinion, which, in 189G, was against and now in favor of Dreyfus, who, he affirms, was not the author of the bordereau. His candid confession of error was received with murmurs of satisfaction in court, which became discreet ap¬ plause, in spite of Colonel Jouaust’s patent added: disapproval, when he solemnly “I declare here on my soul and con¬ science that the bordereau was writ¬ ten The by Esterhazy. ” most important incident, how¬ ever, was Ooloue! Jouaust’s acquieB- cenoo to Major Carriere’s requesst that a rogatory ognunissioa be instructor! to take Colduel Du Faty de Clam’is de¬ position. The initiative came purely from the government commissary, Maitres Labori and Deruauge having no faith in the measure, because it al¬ lows Du I’aty do Clam to escape cross- examination, which is the only thing worth J. having in the present ii'cum- Bt urine I)u Fnt-y do Clam being a witness for the prosecution, Major Carriere will simply prepare ft list of questions which an examining magistrate will put to Du Faty de Clam at his resi¬ dence, ami nobody supposes that the witness will be very much embarrassed by the interrogatories. The central figure in the courtyard Monday, which is the meeting plueo for all the leading personages of the trial during the suspension of the ses¬ sions, was Captain Freystaetter, who was the subject of many flattering re¬ marks upon bis manly and soldier-like bearing. Indeed, the interest in him was so great that some poisons waited all night long outside the door of the court in order to obtain standing room in the rear part of the court-room, in (he hope of seeing him at Monday’s sitting, an impression having gone around that he might be recalled. Captain Freystaetter will not remain until the end of the trial, but will leave Bonnes in a few days. M. Faray-Jnvnl, the draughtsman, called by the defense Saturday to refute the testimony of Mr. Bertillon, the famous handwriting authority, re¬ sumed his testimony at the opening of the court, and with the assistance of a blackboard proceeded to show the fallacy of the calculation of M. liertil- lon and the latter’s unfairness in not submitting the handwriting of Ester- hazy to the same tests as the prisoner’s. He declared, however, that even if M. Bertillon had done so the results would not have proved anything. The witness, however, insisted that M. Bertillon had adopted a vicious method in only making a partial experiment. Continuing, M. Paray-Javal proceeded to show that the geometric regularities allegod by M. Bertillon did not in real¬ ity exist. He pointed out anumbor of irregular¬ ities in the handwriting of the borde- reau and said tfio same irregularities hazy’s wore particularly caligraphy. noticeable in F.ster- He also contended that the alleged irregularity of the key word “interest” was only approximate and proceeded to illustrate his argu¬ ment on the blackboard, showing that all M. Bertillon’s proofs applied as equally to Esterhazy as to Dreyfus. Finally M. * Paray-Javal declared that M. Bertillon’s measures to the word “interest,” which served as the basis for the whole system, were en¬ tirely false, and, therefore, M. Bertil¬ lon’s entire system “falls to the ground and no longer exists.” (Great sensation.) This witness, who had awakened the interest of his hearers, maintained that the bordorau could not havo been traced, adding that it was an utter im¬ possibility. In conclusion, M. Paray-Javal said amid luughtor that he thought M. Bor- tillon was a very intelligent man, but that his system was false and ho, the witness, was convinced that only self¬ esteem prevented M. Bertillon from admitting his error.