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THE GEORGIA RECORD. PubliHhetl Weekly Every Saturday 4OS The Grand, Atlanta, Ga. subscription: One Year SI.OO Six Months 50 Three Nfontbs 30 One Month 12 Printed at 116-118 Loyd St. Advertising Rates given upon appli cation. Remit in stampa, cash, money or ex press order, or bank check. Address all letters to The Georgia Record, 408 “The Grand,” Atlanta, Ga. CHARLESTON REUNION. Concerning the Confederate reunion at Charleston, comrade W. G. Whidby furnishes the Georgia Record with the following: Every Confederate Veteran who at tended the great reunion at Charles 8. C., remembers the unstinted hos pitality of the people of that famous city. Recently the executive commit tee of the U. C. V. there held its last meeting, in adjusting the accounts of that reunion. The treasurer, J. Orin Lea, submitted his report, showing that he had received and paid out, for that reunion, the sum of §18,884.45. The report was received with thanks, and ‘he auditing committee reported that the account was carefully kept, and correct in every detail, and that they recorded their sincere apprecia tion and thanks for his kindly offered services, for the faithful performance of every duty imposed upon him, and for his watchfulness and care of all expenditures, materially thereby as sisting in the grand success of the re union. Mr. Lea has been the treasurer of the city of Charleston for many years, and is deservedly popular for his ur banity and correctness in the discharge of his duties. Mr. Lea served in the Confederate army as sergeant major of J. H. Blount’s cavalry of Georgia, and has relatives living in Georgia. His old comrades rejoice that he is so hon ored in his later years, and being worthy of the honor, he still maintains the high character of the Confederate veteran. The “Record” Pleases Readers. Mr. O. D. Booth subscribed, and 'h.'uA"tirlY<'. “Il WB.'bVu'b-pkper.-’' - Capt. Ed. C. Murphy reads The Record, and says: “I like the lively get up of the paper.” Col. H. M. Patty says: “The Geor gia Record” is a lively paper. I like it and wish it success.” Mr. H. P. Richards, at Bolton,sends a list of subscribers, and speaks in highest terms of the “Record.” Many Confederate veterans read “The Georgia Record, ” and they say “we are pleased with the paper.” Captain Alex Mattison, reads it, and says, “I am pleased with “The Geor gia Record; it is a bright and spright ly paper.” Mr. Charles A. Read writes: “I like your paper, “The Georgia Record,” very much. Put me down for one years’ subscription. ” Within the last few days we have heard and received many favorable expressions about the “Georgia Rec ord.” We quote a few of them; Major W. G. Whidby subscribes for one year and writes: “I like the “Record” very much. Wishing you great success, I am, yours truly.” A gentleman said, “I like the ar raugemmtof short items of news un der the topical headings. It states matters intelligently and succinctly. It gives news in a nutshell.” We appreciate such favorable re marks about “The Georgia Record.” We request our friends to help us to extend the circulation of “The Geor gia Record.” A lady said, “I am pleased with “The Georgia Record.” It gives news so clearly, and is a clean paper, ■without ugly or distasteful stories of scandal, and everything in it is so nicely arranged, in order. I like it.” DEATH OF A GOOD MAN. Our Friend, W. C. Munday, Esq., Gives Us This Item. The death of Prof. J. G. Calhoun, ■which occurred at Preston, Ga.. sev eral days ago, removes one of Geor gia’s most useful men. Prof. Calhoun was a gallant soldier, an excellent teacher, and a chivalrous gentleman. He was strictly a teacher of the “old school,” believed in ruling his school and if necessary, with the rod, and yet he had a winning faculty which gained the love and respect of all his pupils. Among his pupils may be found some of Georgia’s most successful business and professional men. It is estimated that during his forty years as a teacher, he taught more than three thousand pupils; and there is now a movement on foot by them to erect a monument to perpetuate the memory of their teacher and friend. VISITORS TO THE CITY. Mr. L. E. Gay, a wealthy planter of Cuthbert, Ga. Hon. L. F. Livingston is at the Robertson Sanitorium, on Capitol ave nue. Captain Lee Hudgins of Chamblee, Ga., paid a visit to The Record office this week. Mr. Walter Thomas, the newly elected superintendent of public schools of Toccoa. Mrs. Ida Freeman and sister, Mrs. Timmerman of Augusta, Ga., spent several days in the city this week. Mrs. George H. Crump, of Augusta, Ga., is spending some time with her daughter, Mrs. W. H. Vannerson, at 177 Angier avenue. A Social Entertainment. Mr. J. W. Pope, member of city council as representative of the seventh ward, gave an elegant and delightful entertainment on last Monday evening to a number of his friends. The even ing was most pleasantly passed in social conversation. The supper was a happy feature of the entertainment. Those present were the host, and his guests at table were: Dr. J. W. Nelms, Capt. G. J. Dallas, Mr. J. M. Hunni • utt, Mr. Luther Z. Rosser, Mr. J. D. Frazier, Mr. Frank Baker, Dr. T. D. Longino, Mr. Lucien Harris, Capt. J. 8. Dozier, Mr. Ovid Stewart, Mr. Ed M. Mathews, Mr. Ed. V. Carter, Mr. S. W. Wilkes and Judge Robert L. Rodgers. The menu was excellent, and the sparkling wine and wit, and aroma of fine Havana cigars, made a fine relish for the splendid supper, with a toast of the guests for their best wishes to the host for his health, happiness and prosperity. It was a very pleas ant reception. FILIPINOS ARE WELL FIXED. Prospects of Ending War at an Early Date Are Not Bright. In Manila, according to latest dis patches, talk of the ending of the war deals not longer with weeks but with months and even years. Among the mass of people there, military men anti foreign residents, there is but one opinion. The whole effort of the insurgents was to hold off the Americans until their ally, the rains, came. In this they have been as successful as they could have hoped. Unless affairs take some unforeseen turn, the Filipinos will w ksil-wvA’tr fresh spirit and a replenished stock of arms and ammunition. One ship load of arms, it is learned on good authority, has reached them within the last week. Os money, the leaders of the insur rection have no lack. They control the resources of a large and exceed ingly rich country, and even though no crops were harvested for several years they could still obtain enough cash and supplies by impressing to their use the treasures of the cnurch, the storehouses and farmers and man ufacturers and funds of private indi viduals—a System of levy which they have long enforced to considerable success. All the ships coming and going into the ports recently opened to trade pay heavy taibute to the in surgents. PENSION - COMPLETED. General Wilder DUbursed 52.000.000 In the South For the Quarter. The United States pension office at Knoxville, Tenn., has just completed the payment of pensions for the last quarter. General John T. Wilder, pension agent for the southern states, has disbursed §2,000,000 for the quarter. Annual payments in the southern states amount to about eight million dollars. Genera! Wilder dis tributes pensions to the following states: Tennessee, Oklahoma Terri tory, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida and Indian Territory. INDIANS ATTACK A TOWN. Three Hundred Yaquls Swoop Down Up on ft Defenseless Burg, A dispatch from Chihuahua,Mexico, tells of an attack on the town ofCutn uripa by a band of about 300 Yaqui Indians. The place Was without military pro tection, but the Mexican citizens bar ricaded themselves in their houses and resisted the attack for fen hours, when the Indians withdrew. Several houses were burned by the Indians, and five men and one woman were killed. It is thought that a number of Indians were killed and wounded. BATTLESHIP READY FOR TRIAL. The Alabama Will Be Tested For First Time By Builders. A Washington dispatch says: The navy department has been notified that the battleship Alabama is so far along that the builders trial will be made Monday, when she will leave Cramps ship yard for a trip down to the capos and back. MANILA NEWS IS DOCTORED Our Losses Said to Be More Than Otis Will Admit. GENERAL DICTATES DISPATCHES “Newspapers Are Not Public In stitutions” Says Gener al Otis. A cable dispatch from Manila, via Hong Kong, states that the Fili pinos appear to retain much more of a fighting spirit than might be expected after their recent San Fernando expe riences and General Lawton’s drub bings in the south. After giving up San Fernando with a feeble struggle they entrenched themselves at Angeles, working for several days and pressing non-combat ants into the work, thus saving the armed men for the fighting. They engaged Lieutenant Colonel Smith’fi regiment and the artillery warmly for four hours, maintaining one of the most stubborn resistances of the cam paign. But the Americans are indebt ed to the usual poor markmanship of the Filipinos as well as their own strategy for their small losses. In the province of Cavite, where it was supposed the rebels had been scat tered and demoralized beyond recuper ation, they have assembled an army of several thousand men, distributed among the important towns from the lake to the bay. After the San Fernando engagement the rebels attempted to deter the Americans from a further advance northward by menacing the railroad communication. Several hundred of General Pio del Pilar’e men crossed the Rio Grande between the American outpost towns and threatened Baliuag, Quingua and other places, with small American garrisons, while, during Sunday and Monday nights, smaller bands tried tear up the railroad at several pointsjbetween Bigaa and Ma lolos. ; In the brushes between the Fili pinos and the during three days the A mete cans lost several men, w iUSo was heavy. Os these engagements the Associ ated Press correspondent was permit ted to send only an adequate dispatch, dictated verbatim by Major General Otis. The censor writes stereotyped official phrases and adjectives into the dispatches, tending to magnify the American operations and to minimize the opposition. General Otis says newspapers are not public institutions, but private en terprises, and the correspondents are only there on suffrance. All reports from the rebel territory agree that the scarcity of food is in creasing and that the rebel command ers at Aparri and other points refuse to obey Aguinaldo’s orders in regard to closing the ports held by the rebels against American ships and say that any ship bringing stores will be wel come. Several ships from Manila are now at such ports. Hundreds of people come into Ma nila daily and return to the rebel lines with food and other commodities. The guards stationed along one road re ported that five thousand persons passed through the lines in three days and that forty-five tons of rice were carried out in small parcels, on the same road, in ten days. Much of this undoubtedly goes to aid the rebels, but the authorities permit this traffic from motives of charity towards the women and children, who are un doubtedly suffering. General MacArthur is establishing municipal governments in villages north of Manila. The mayor of Ba liaug, the first town where General Lawton established the same rule,who was supposed to be one of most friend ly and trustworthy of the natives, has been placed in jail, charged with ar ranging with the rebels for an attack on the town. The American troops have been withdrawn from aW that part of the country which was half cleared of rebels in the operation of the Ameri cans in June last. DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEES As Appointed By Chairman Stone Will Be Announced Shortly. A special to The Memphis Commer cial-Appeal from St. Louis says the announcement of appointments on the executive, ways ana means and print ingcommittees of the national demo cratic committee will be made in a few days by ex-Governor Stone, who is acting chairman of that body. Governor Stone is at present send ing letters to members of the national committee notifying them of their ap pointments. As soon as he receives acceptances he will make public the complete list of appointments. HOPE FORJIREYFUS Labori Rasumes Management oi Oase Before Courtmartial. TESTIMONY WHICH TURNS THE TIDE Lnbori Draws Ont Adinlaalona Favorable to His Unhappy Client. A cable dispatch from Rennes, France, says: Maitre Labori, leading counsel for Dreyfus who was murder ously assaulted August 14th, was pres ent in court Tuesday morning. His appearance was the signal for scenes of extraordinary enthusiasm. Dreyfus entered the court room soon afterward and having saluted the judges, turned to M. Labori with out stretched hand, a smile of keen pleas ure lighting up his pale and usually impassive features. The lawyer took the prisoner’s hand and shook it warmly, whereupon Dreyfus gave him another look of gratitude and took his seat -in front of counsel’s table with his back toward them. Colonel Jouaust next read from a paper an address to M. Labori, the tone of the president being quite sym pathetic. The lawyer made an impassioned reply. He was deeply affected and his voice was clear, though not so strong as befoi-e he was shot. He was nerv ous and excited and swayed to and fro as he delivered his reply. His hearers were profoundly impressed. The incident considerably fatigued him and he sat down flushed and hold ing his side. He afterward once or twice nervously twitched his fingers and an expression flitted over his face as though he were suffering. The first witness called was M. Grenier, the former prefect of Belfort. His testimony was favorable to Drey fus and distinctly hostile to Ester hazy. Major Rollin, of the intelligence department, was asked by M. Labori during the course of the former’s testimony how a certain document of a later date than Mercier’s ministry came into General Mercier’s posses sion. Mercier said it was not his bus iness to explain, but counsel insisted, asking whose business it was. Finally M. Labori asked Colonel Jouaust to request General Mercier to explain. The general arose and said he declined to answer. M. Labori insisted, but -still wstfused. to -answer. afir? Major Carriere, the government com missiary, supported him,on the. ground that the examination was entirely up on a matter which ought not, in the interest of the country, to be discuss ed publicly. M. Labori then declared in a loud voice that he would reserve to himself the right to take the necessary meas ures to obtain the desired information. The next point was made by Drey fus in his reply to Major Rollin. The latter had remarked that all the prison er’s papers were seized when his rooms were searched in 1894, and Colonel Jouaust said that certain papers from his text book, the school of war, were found missing. To this the prisoner retorted: “Not in 1894, my colonel.” A former secretary of the war office named Ferret testified to seeing Drey fus prying into their officers’ work during their absence, and the prisoner replied excitedly that Ferret’s state ments were concoctions by a former minister of war, which caused a sen sation. Then in a cooler manner the pris oner made a statement explaining the difficulties in the way of a civilian, such as Ferret, entering the offices of the general staff. General Gonse thereupon presented two letters to the effect that the writ ers, both of whom were civilians, ob tained easy admittance to the offices. Dreyfus retorted that the regula tions were very strict in this respect, and that, therefore, some persons jere guilty of gross breach of discip line. M. Demagne here scored a hit by adding if the entry in these offices was easy, anybody could procure the in formation Dreyfus is alleged to have obtained so surreptitiously. The next witness, Lieutenant Col onel Bertin, who was the head of Dreyfus’ office in 1894, showed him self to be a most virulent enemy of the prisoner. He had evidently learn ed his testimony by heart. REED RESIGNS AT LAST. Ex-Speaker Notifies Governor of Maine That He Will Retire. The resignation of Thomas B. Reed, representative in congress from the first Maine district, was received by Governor Powers at Augusta, Maine, Tuesday. Mr. Reed will move to New York to engage in the practice of law. Since his return from Europe it has been said that the ex-speaker would not re sign from congress, but would remain on the floor as the republican leader against the McKinley expansion policy. The resignation, therefore, sets at rest various rumors. DEWEY AT NICE; WELL RECEIVED Frenchmen Accord Admiral the Greatest Honors. IMPRESSION MADE WAS MARKED Hero of Manila Denies Report That He Was Slighted at Trieste. A cable dispatch from Nice, France, says: Thursday morning, Admiral Dewey, accompanied by Flag Lieuten ant T. M. Brumby and the United States vice counsel at Nice, returned the visit made by M. Granet, prefect of Alpes-Maritimes. The visitors were shown through the rooms of the prefecture, the former palace of the kings of Piedmont. The party then called on General O’Farrell, the acting military govern or, whom Admiral Dewey thanked for the permission he had received to land and drill his men at Villefranche dur ing the remainder of the cruiser Olympia’s stay at that place.'' Tho Americans also called on Naval Commissioner Duval, whom Admiral Dewey thanked for the port facilities which had been granted to his vessel. The admiral asked M. Duval to trans mit his thanks to the maritime prefect at Toulon for sending cruisers to sa lute the Olympia on her arrival. The inhabitants of Nice gave Ad miral Dewey an ovation as be passed through the streets. He returned to Villefranche at noon. Admiral Dewey expresses regret in regard to the incorrect reports con cerning hii reception at Trieste. He says it was courteous and hearty, the minister of marine coming especially from Vienna to greet him. “Not only myself,” added the Amer ican admiral, “but every one on board the Olympia received every possible attention.” Admiral Dewey created a marked impression while in Nice, all those who saw him being struck with his extreme amiability and modesty. GEORGIA’S QUOTA OF OFFICERS Appointed By th© War Department For New Regiments. Georgia’s full quota of officers for the new regiments for service in the Philippine campaign has been ap pointed by the war department. A number of appointments were made Thursday, and these, together with the two of Captain J. W. Ken drick and Second Lieutenant W. O. Thornton, complete the list for the state. The following were the appoint ments made Thursday: For captain, J. S. Powell, late cap tain company C, Third Georgia. For first lieutenants, John H. Bos ton, of Marietta, first lieutenant of company D, Second Georgia; Harry C. McCool, late first lieutenant of Third United States volunteer infant ry, and H. J. Stewart, of Rome, late captain of company D, Third Georgia. For second lieutenants, Troup W. Whitehead, late first lieutenant com pany K, Third Georgia; Paul W. Har rison, late second lieutenant company H, Third Georgia. STORM RECORD APPALLING. Latest Reports Say That a Hundred Lives Were Lost Alone Coast. A Norfolk, Va., dispatch says: Ac counts in many respects conflicting continue tocome in from the Albemarle and Pamlico sound region and the coast from Hatteras to Bodys island, in which section the greater number of casualties occurred as a result of the great storm of August 15th to 18th inclusive. It is now thought that the total drowned will run close to 100 if it does not overreach it, while at least on the islands in the vicinity of Portsmouth fully sixty to seventy houses, four or five churches and numerous stores, barns and warehouses were either washed away or damaged beyond re pair, and as a result numbers are homeless and destitute. QUAKER REPUBLICANS MEET. Selection of Ticket Shows that Quay Fac tion Was Dominant. The following ticket was nominated by the Pennsylvania republican state convention at Harrisburg Thursday: Supreme court judge—J. H. Brown. Superior court judge—J. B. Adams. State treasurer —Lieutenant Colonel James E. Barnett. The only discordant note in the convention was sounded by Sen ator William Flynn, opposing the plank in the platform indorsing the appointment of United States Senator Quay by Governor Stone. A roll call was taken on the adop tion of the platform as a whole and it was adopted by a large majority.