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')', ClIAKLOTTE DAILY OliSEUVKlt, DKO.EJIBEK 1903. ' ,.;n i..' Fhe Last Ninety-Days North '' .;:- Reproduced by Permission chapter nr. ", fad Baffin His HlMtorr HI Our. ' ;;, ex-tec HI .Services General f : i Couch's Outrages After Peace bad ',V' Been Dertarcd--cneral Sherman's ' .-i J OutrageelIUi lublustimg Official V,-;' Iteport Army Correspondents Sherman In layctievlUe--Cornwal ..-f lis la Jnycttevlllc ColnoMemf of v Ptae--Cntreii In Mode The y ,' Negro Suffers Troop Coiu-rntrat : ,.v J lac Under General Johnston. 'K:'.''- In the first week of May. 1865, af lar tha final surrender of General Johnston's army, and after General Grant's proclamation of protection to 'private property. Major General Coach, with a detachment of ' soma twelve or fourteen thousand Infantry. -X passing up the main road from Ral ' alga to Greensboro encamped on a ' noble platatlon, beautifully situated on , . both aides of the Haw river In Ala mance county. Of the venerable own er of this plantation I might be par doned If I rave more than a cursory notice; for, as a representative of North Carolina, and " Identified for nearly fifty years with all that Is best la her annals and brightest In her V' reputation at home 'and abroad, no ;ClUn In the State Is regarded with ft) ore pride and veneration than Juiigo HuBln, His claims to Much dint I rit--., ,,' tioa. hasrever, are not to i- fairly exhibited within the limits of such a '. ' Veketch as this, though a reference to if hla public services will have u slsnl- - fleant value in my present connec ' r tlon. . .' Judge Kuffln was horn In 17 SC. '.' graduated at Princeton in Ihus, wu admitted to the bar In 1808. unit from ' ' the year 1811 when he first ri'prc- seated Hlllsboro In the Houw of om- - moiu to the present time. h.- Iuih been V " prominently before the people "f ur sitate, holding the hlgheKt omi-c wiih 1 0- 1 her gift with a reputation for learn 'V. lag, ability end Integrity unsurpassed jn our judicial annals. In th year V 3162. after forty-five years of brilliant V professional life, he resigned the chief Justiceship and amid the applause and "r' regret of all classes of lil fellow cltl "t'i .'ena, retired to the quiet enjoyment ' Ol an ample estato acquired by his eminent labors, and to the so ' eieTy of a numerous and Interesting : family. 'j , The Judicial ermine which Judge v Baffin had worn for so many years not only shielded lilm from, but ab lately forbade, all active partlclpa , HOB In party pollllrs. He was, how. err, no unlntercnted obaerver of the i "'; current eventn. He had been warmly ' eppoded to nullltlcatlon In 1832 and .. was a believer In the rights of peace able secession In T860. In prlvul , circles he combated both herenleH V' With all that IneKorahle logic which 'V, titer London Times declared to be ; characteristic of his Judicial opinions -Aea the law of master and slave. He ?garded the sacred right of revolu v tloa aa the remedy for tho redress of ' v rnenpportable grievances only. His opinions on these subjects were well known, when In ltl he, wan unex '' peotedly summoned by tho heglsla- ' titre of the head of the able dele ' ' , 'ntlon sent by the Rtate of th I'eace Coaveatlon at Washington. The ref v'lCrence to his course there, in the ' CHret of these sketches renders It un i, necessary to nay more at present. . Koiineat statesmen, how in high posi tion la the national coanclls, can testify to his sealoua and unremitting t labors In that convention to preserve ., ' and perpetuate the Uulon of the i fitates; and none, doubtless, will do so more cordially than the venerable .military chieftain who, slity years '"ago, was his friend spd fellow student V' Ita the office of an eminent luwyer In Petersburg. Judge Huffln returned home, din ' tilrlted and discouraged by the temiier displayed In the convention and Kill I jnore by the proceedings of Congrcas. lie still cherlahed hopes of recolcllla lion, however, when, without any can- vase by or for him, hu wuh elected to the convention which, on the twentl eth of May, t K C 1 , adopteil by a umtnl- "v'"' fnous vote, tht onlliihmu of scces- lon. Having given that voi h was not ('1the man to shrink from the reponsl , blllUes It Involved. In common with tv.eeery other reipei table citizen In the .'Male, he fslt It his duty to . m uur- rTr, V... . . 1. 1... m.. . .i...,, In our soldiery, ri( I-S .; ,k.V: ','., ' 1 , :.:. rT . . . : aaai wjum ww aav bth- a.i " Were In th battle flt-M, and hln fum- fly endured the privations, and pra tlced all the self denial common to ur people; theerfully dispensing with the luxuries of lifo and laboring u glduously for the relief of the army and the needy around them. Toward this most eminent and ven erable cltlz. n, whose name added Weight to the diKtilty and Influenc e of the whol i outitv." w hat was the poli cy Of Major General ouch, encamp-. Cd on his ground.. I., the piensw.t,"" ...,, : ; '' . tnonth of May- The plantation Sad already suffered from the dcprejittV tlons of Major 1 ;'! ral W lx-clsr s cavalry of the 'o,r. j.iatn army. in Its hurried transit t.ot i was reserstxl for General Con. h to aive it tb fin ishing touth. In a few i rils ten Miles of fencing Met. burned up. from ne end of tl to the otbei nl ait Mr of corn; not u sheaf of beat, net a bundle of fodd.r u.ih lift , tb army wagons were driv.n Into tin Cultivated fields and on hards and Meadows and fires were made niol. r the fruit trees, the sheep end bogs Were shot down and left to rot on the (round, and several thousand horses and rattle were turned In on the Wheat crops, then mst heading. All the horses, sev. nie. ii in number, were carried off and all the stock. An ap plication for protection, and remon atrance aga.nst want. to damage were tnet with Indlffrrem and contempt. l BUCI IM'll III. . IIUSI, .11 III .', Oeneral Hhermnn',4 subaltern officers .','1 lime or p. ai u it is natural io turn . te Oeneral Kbeimnn lilmseir. and In- gulre what was tb.- exarnpl). set by nim in ine pioi;r. s of Hie -great , ;r march.' He speaks for lilmmlf. and . u-lll I.I, ... .. . .,..1 nivwi y win .i o.i..r ii n iiiifiiriiitl . ,v', Wrdlct on su h a eumn.ing up "We consiimeii il.i . ..rn and fod- ( ' .Ar In the reuloo t,( .otlllttv llllllv I ' ,- miles on either nd.- i.i a lin.- from ' . ! lllanlk In 1,. .1 .. lu.. t. ' T' L Wr f .M ln.kH iiloi, i lol .Oi.ttru ,r,.i 'ifV - carried oft m..r than ten thousi, nd ,'',' horse and mules I estimate the j damage done to the Htate of ijeoign - at one hundred million dol..r-i. ..; , ' least twenty mlllionlollai .f .hiili ; - Inured to our aiKunlago and the re , tnalhder was simple wate and de- I gtructlon. (Official It e port ) VJ;i , Wmple people who undrstarid I (nothing of military net cssttic-.. miwt ;: ts permitted to stand sglmst at sui h . a recital, and ssk why was this. To "; what end? What far sighted pollcv . ' dictated such wholesale hav'ic7 lord ; Cornwallls a foreigner -aetlii-f fsv representative of lh mother coumry, V aeeklpg. to reclaim tier alienated chll ..dre. we have seen everywhere ans. I Ions to conciliate, generously active to . , apace the countrr as much as possl r tie,- tow preserve, it tor tha intoresN mt tha mother rountrf and cnfortlug ' . , I . . of - the War In Carolina ... j-.' of Mr. Cornell Phillips Spencer strict discipline in his army for, the benefit of the service. What changes have been affected In the morals of war by nearly a century of Christian progress and civilization since Lord Cornwallis'a day. An army in I ho middle of the ltth century, acting as a representative of sister HUtoi, ek ing ' to reclaim wayward sisters an army enlisted with 'the most extraor dinary and emphatic avowals of pure ly philanthropic motives thst the world has ever heard- an army marching through what It professes to consider as Its own country this army leaves a waste and burning track behind It of sixty milck wiuth! "O bloodiest picture In the book of Time! Sarmatla fell unwept, without a crime: Found not a generous friend, a pitying fo, Strength In her arms, not mercy In her woe! Dropped from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear, Closed her bright eye, and curbed her high curoer." The gay and airy pen and ink sketches, furnished to the Northern press by "our own army corretpend ents" of the exploits of bummer, tho Jocular description of treasure seekers, the triumphant records of fire, fam ine, and slaughter, served up tvlth ele gant illustrations, wood ruts In Har per's best style, and If likely to be a trllle too glaring for even radical Ken Blbllltles, toned down an. I mftilc- to auMume an air of retributive juHtlce by a timely allusion to the "wretched slaves" these interesting icpor's, piquant and gayly colored and sug gentlvc though they were, were yet dull and tame and faded In compan ion with the dismal reality. And all tills waste and desructlon It wIM be the verdict of posterity, even the calmed sense of the present genera tion will agree, was wholly 'uncalled for, wholly unnecsary, contributed In no way to the prosperous nod speedy termination of the '.nr, but added materially to the loose by the war of the general government, lit up tho fires of hatred In many a hitherto loyal Houthern breast, brutalize, 1 and demoralized tha whole Federal army, and was In short Inexcusable in evry aspex.-t upon tho determination to ex terminate Houthern people. W know that then? were men In the ''hurch and In the Rtate who openiv avowed such aspirations; but as to the great body of sober, IntollUeni and con scientious Northern people we do them the Justice to b llcvii thnt when the history Of tho V sr at tin Kouth comes to be truthfully wrlttcr. they will receive Itn r.-cor.j w"h Incred ulity and when belief In compelled, will turn from Is ehirlderlng. The smok.i o' burnin,' Oilumhlii and of tho fair villages and countless Plantations that lay In tho route, where for hundreds of miles many a house was lufl biasing, and not ii panel of fence was to bo seen, rolled slowly up our sky; and panic-stricken refugees, homeless and penniless, brought every day fresh t-iles of-hav: and ruin. Hy the 11th of March, Gen eral Hherman was In possession of Fayettovllle In our own Htat.v Th coincidences of th pl.m, nml the contrasts In the iruxlj of con ducting tho campaigns of lord Orn wallls and General Sherman, ire striking and suggestlvo to the KtuoVnt of history. Cornwall!! hesitated whether to strike North Carolina In the heart of the whig settlement be tween the Yadkin and tho Catawba or to enter among lilx frtendx be tween the Pedes an.l the Capo Fe.ir. and ultimately decided to accomplish both purposes. In January. 1781, Hlr James Henry t'raig captured Wilming ton, and on tho nineteenth of Febru ary Iord Cornwallls forced the pass age of the Catawba at Heattln's ford. General CchofTeld had possession of Wilmington when General Kherman, making a feint at Charlotte, captured Fayettevllle. In Lord Corn wallln's progress through Carolina ho met with every thing to exasperato him In the con duct of the people. On his first en trance Into Chnrlotte, Heptember, 1780, the whole British army was act ually held nt bay for half an hour by a, body of about one hundred anil fifty militia and n few volunteerx, commanded by Major Joxcph Gra ham, poKtcd behind the court hoime ami houHen ami commanded by Col onel Davie, who was determined to give his lordvhlp an earnest of what he might rpect In the Htate. Three , i neparste chaw of the HrltlMi I.e. ..I n t.A ..... I.... I ft... b.t 1. I . m 1 devoted men who retired at lust on I I elnT flanked by th. infantry. in Perfect order but with a loss of i i-ifvf n sniea aim wounneii, w nun me J Hrltlsh admitted Ions of fnrty-threo Killed and wounded. "When the Legion was afterwards reproached for cowardice in suffering such a check from no small a detail of m I II t In . they excused themselves by Maying that the confidence with which the Americana behaved inado them apprehend an ambuscade, for surely nothing of that sort was to be cx pected In an open village iM miil- i t....... i... . .... t . . . . V ..... V ... .L' , . ... as he modestly styles It. nnd It la well worth comparing with Tarle ton's and Mtedman's report of the ssmn. A more brilliant and morn au dacious exploit was not performed during the whole Hv: olutlonat y War A series of such annoyances, heading and dodging the Hrltlsh army at evvry step all through the country, gained for Charlotte the well-earned and en viable sobriquet of "The Hornet's i Ni'nl" and tho commander-in-chief : paid the whole region a compliment , la declaring that "Mecklenburg and Knwan were the most rebellious coun ties in America." Vet Cornwallls burned no houses here plundered no plantations. Ills' aim was very apparent to conciliate If possible, to teach the people (o look to him for protection and good gov ernment. To he sure he had not en Joyed the benefit of a West Point military training he waa evidently In profound Ignorance of the advantaged to he derived from the principle of "smashing thlnss generally," as he paused nlung; but ho was, neverthe less, (perhaps In consequence), n gentlcmnn, and an accomplished ststeamiin. as well as a t ousmninatn soldier. He well knew, "- who overcomes It v force, I ath veixome but half his Am to Fayettevllle and her lot In lb. M.. later days no such slight sketch is tbla will suffice for the slory. per. haps no town In the Houth had sur passed her in ths ardor and llbnrallty with which (after secession had be come the law of the State), she sup ported the war. She gave her bravest sons; her best blood was poured out like water In the cause of the Houtfl, and then she gave of her substance. Ths grace of giving had surely been bestowed upon the people of Cumber land without measure, for there seem e.l literally no end to their liberal Hy, For four years the columns of their papers had exhibited an almost weekly list of . donations, that In number and value would have done credit to a muoh wealthier communl ty. The ladies, as usual, were espe. dally active, and Indefatigable. And Why should, they not have been! i&r They were working. and for principle which these loved ones had Instructed them to cherish. Would -Jt not have been culpable in the last degree' for the women tf -the coanty to have remained even Indif ferent to the cause (good or bad) for which the men were laying down their HveaT Why ahould they not take'Joy fully all privations and all hardships for the sake of these' and soothe the agony of bereavement with the be lief that they who needed their cares no longer lying rolled In their bloody blankets In the bosom of Virginia, or on the fatal hills of Pennsylvania, had died In a good cause and were resting In honored graves? Who shall question'1 the oeurse of Jhe woe men of the Houth In this war, of dare to undervalue their lofty hero ism and fortitude, unsurpassed . In song or story? When I forget you. O ye daughters of my country 1 -your labors of, love, your oharlty, faith and patience, all through the dark and bloody days, lighting up the gloom of war with the tender graces of woman's devotion, and self-denial, und now. In even darker hours, your energy and cheerful submission in toll and poverty and humiliation when I cease to do homage to your virtues, and to your excellences, may my right hand forget Its cunning and my voice be silent In the dust! r . The people of Fayettevllle sup ported the Confederate government warmly to the last gasp, upon the principle that - united, the South might stand divided she certainly would fall. After the failure of the peace commission, the cltiaena met and passed vigorous war resolutions, calling on all classes to rally once more fn self-defense a proceeding which did more credit to their seal than to their ability to read the signs of the times; for rally or no rally, the fate of the Confederacy was al ready written on the wall. All these antecedents doubtless conspired to give Fayettevllle a 'bad character In the opinion of our Northern brethren, who, for their part, were bent on peace-making; and accordingly, when the hour and tho man arrived, on the 11th of March. 1866, she found she must pay the-penalty. A skirmish took pluce In Uie streets between CJeneral Hher maffs advanced guard and a part of General Hampton's cavalry, which covered the retreat of Hardee'a di vision across the Cape Fear. This, no doubt, Increased the exasperation of feeling toward this "nest of rebels". and the determination to put aH check to all future operations there In behalf Of the cause. In less than two hours after the entrance of the Federal forces so adroitly had every house in the town and Its guburba been ransacked and plundered that It may be doubted If all Fayettevllle, the next duy could have contributed two whole shirts or a bushel of meal to the reiref of the Confederate army. The Incidents of tho most memor able day, and for several days suc ceeding, would fill (and will fill) a volume; and as for the nights they were. Illuminated by tho glaro of blazing houses All through the pine groves for several miles around Fay ettevllle. One of the first of the "soldiers In the blue," who entered the town, rtccosted In the street a most distinguished and venerable rlergy miiny, Key. William Hooper. P. It., LI.. 11., more than 70 years of ag. the grandson of ino of the signers of the Declaration of Inde pendence und w ho, had suffered re proach for his adherance to . the I'nlon. and whose very appearance should have challenged respect and deferenct uccosted him as "d d rebel" and putting a pistol to- hi head, demanded and carried of his watch and purse. Houtherners cannot write calmly of such scones yet. Their houses were turned Into seraglios, every portable article of value, plate china and glassware, provisions And books wero carried off and tho remainder destroyed; hunreds of carriages and vehicles of all kinds Acre burned In piles; where houses were Isolated they were burned, women were gfWsly Insulted, and robbed of clothing and Jewvlry; nor were dark er and numetesH tragedies wanting In lonely situations. No, they hardly dare trust themselves to think of these things. "That way lies mad ness." Hut the true story of "The grest march" will yet bo written. Not the least remarkable of all these noble strategical operations was the fact that the black and white suffered alike. Nothing more strikingly evinces the critlro demor alization and want of honor tat prevailed. The negro whom they came to liberate they afterwards plundered; his cabin was stripped of his little valuable... as well as his matter's house of Its luxuries; his humble silver watch was seized, as well as the gentleman's gold repeat er. Tills policy 1m also modern, and due to the enlightenment of tho nineteenth. A good many years ago a grand liberation of slaves took place, where the leaders and deliver ers sanctioned the "spoiling of the Egyptians," but they hardly picked the pockets of freedom afterwards. During the month of March our centrul counties were traversed by straggling bodies of Confederate sol diers, fragments of the once powerful army of Tennessee, hurrying down toward Halelgh to concentrate under , General Johnston once more. In the villi hope of being able yet to effect something, Tennesseeans. Texans, 1. orgllans, Alabamlans, men who had been In every light In the West from Corinth to Perrysvllle, from I'errysvllle to Atlanta men who had left pleasant homes, wives and ehll ! dren, many of whom they knew were without a home to shelter them. "K"r the Macknen of nshei marked where It stood. Anil n wild mother'! scream o'er her Jamlshln brood;" Tho whole population of our town poui. il out to see tho war-worn men; to cheer them; to feed and shelter tin in The little children gathered! haiulfuls of daffodils "that take the! winds of March with beauty," and flung to them. What we had to eat wn gave them, day after day. Re peatedly the whole of tho family dinner was taken from the table and carried out Into the street, the chil dren Joyfully assisting. ' They were our soldiers, our own brave boys. The rn use was desperate, we knew the wrir was nearly over our delu sions were at un end, hut while w had It, our Inst loaf to, our soldiers a cheer and a blessing, with dim eyes, ns they rode nway. (To UK CONTINUED.) Mm t an Mill llnsk Corn at tl. Nohiesvillu Correspondence Indian' spoils News. Mrs. Laura Ann Owen, while cele brating her nlnety.flrst birthday an niversary, arone from the 'dinner In her honor and spoke of being In un usually good health for one eo 'far advanced In years, flhe.rald she be Iteved she had the strength to do the work she performed daily fifty year ago. . (some of her relatives questioned her ability to do this, which mad Mrs. iwen anxious io prove mat ah had not yet overlived her usefulness. Throwing ashawl over her head and shoulders and donning a pair of gloves, Mrs. Owen went to the farm and husked a row of corn around a thirty acre field without stopping to rest Hhe accomplished the (eat la only allttle longer time than aa act Ive man would have done the work, and she did not seem to be much fa tlgusd.- COBS CBACKEB'S COMMENT . ' .V. GIIASAY ' B HANOI IXSOtRECTtONr v. V i . ii.. , . i- i, SoclaJLSiartu'of , Two JTa1" a . To a- reck of Troublew-rfcicletf ' Jjt-adcv Spurs an ; Angular Maiden and a .1 tough House . Follows " The Maiden Throws Andirons and :, Tilings A " Fully-Developed Sucker . Operates In nutberford, County, V ' Tbla is to, inform1 a waiting pub 116 that Oraasy Branch Is in a state of Insurrection, i -On yesterday-one of Its best cltl sens was assaulted from ambush, and hit right-on a mule that cost Ths cause of war wag' a dispute aa to social auius of the parties. One of the nabobs of Grassy Branch gave a eocial function In his palatial residence, that . was three torjes long and tn-Jalf story high I mean the residence; not. the so cial function. f . ...... ..' The residence, further, warf adorn ed with a stick and clay chimney, and- had a door that .turned on wood en hinges. It also had genuine window sash In one window, It! which were a saddle blanket, two old hats, and a dismantled and . discarded pair of corduroy breeches. ' The roof was made . of clap-boards and- held, uowu or poiea. - One story was Inhabited by the family, the other, was occupied by a one-eyed mule, and the thirds by a cow. Another , dignitary of this clas sic region was Invited, together with hla adopted -daughter. He had - no pretenfloua castle like his rival, but owned four dogs and a shotgun. ' ' Several of tha bon-ton came out, dressed principally In gaudy colored clothes and brass Jewelry. The man who owneq .four dogs and a shot gun. also axolted the envy of the populace by wearing a watch that cost St cent. Two fiddles, a banjo picker and a murlcal artist that pounded a clevis, were the orchestra. The dancing was of rather a vigor ous type, but not noted for grace or sym me try. Tha society leader who wore the SS-cent watch wore two dragoon spurs, thinking they gave him a dis tinguished, military appearance; and further, to add to the poetry of mo tion. With hardly the grace that would be expected in executing a stately minuet, or a dreamy waltz, he "kick ed up" In a measure, and harpooned an angular maiden somewhere above the shoe tops, wild the rowels of his spurs. Hhe caWed him a sheep thief and a body-snatcher, and said he was no gentleman. He gallant ly retorted, calling her a glass-eyed squaw and a sassy heifer; closing by informing her she was no gentleman either. Hhe threw an andiron at him, and he threw a lantern at her. Her brother aalled in with the Jawbone of a broken wheel barrow, and one of the tother pai tlMunw smote a champion with a hauslng pestle. The host hero Interfered, and said that was what a blue-blooded aris tocrat got by having poor white trash around him. The hero of tho dra goon spurs said he was good as any body and that the host didn't have the manners of a goat. Strong men held them apart, but yesterday the hero of the knightly spurs was rid ing hla $37 mule, in quest of the captain of a brick-yard. As before stated, he was snow-balled with a four-tound fragment of a granite boulder, the mlasile taking direct and personal effect on his brlhdlc, "dom Inakcr" mult. The result was a week of old bones and no Insurance. ,The mule died hard, but . his owner hopes to meet him agate. .. - The next thing will be a magister ial trial. In that event, a decision from the dead muln would as nearly accord with law and evidence. Homebody said that a sticker is born every minute. One that is ful ly developed Is operating In Ruther ford county, which is. the .abiding place of freaks. Tnla gentleman Is a merchant by habit, one of the peri patetic species. Jje has a wagon as fearfully and wortderfully made as the historic one hosa Shay. He makes pilgrimages from the mountains clear into woutn aroiinu, ami hauls po tatoes, cabbage, onions and other garden a. He has been1 noted as a shrewd bargain driver, but got Into the tolls of a :cventh day Adventlst. This hair brained evangelist led him to turn from the droBa of the world and the deceltfulness of riches Ho admonished the mercantile crank that he oiixlit to offer all his filthy lucre to the Lord, and aaked how much ho had on him. The confiding trader told hltn that he had two hundred dollars. The evangelist told him to hand It over, as he would see the Lord first, and to proceed to exercise the girt of laying on hands and canting out devils. The deluded victim passed over the needful, and straightway began to try his skill at laying on of bunds and casting out devils. Hut his laying on of hands provoked ribald Jests 10 some cases and indignation In others. When he located satun and tried to cast him out. Lucifer asserted that hla house was his castle, and he left at no crank's bidding. , The result was his arrest and con flnement In the county homo. Being young and stalwart he was assigned the Job of chopping wood. Burning with zeal for his deputed mission he fled from the place and hunted more devils to cast out. He found the crop unusually good, but with the perversity peculiar to devil they failed to exercised. Ho per slsted in his hallucination till he waa placed In Jail. Hy gome cunning or other he escaped and Secured Colt six-shooter. He aeemd to think that thus equipped, aatan would find him Irresistible. A. number of tho constabulary force pursued htm, tell ing him to Htand and deliver. He pulled his 4-. blue-steel devil eradl- cator, and declared he would cast six devils out of hla pursuer. The officer had no gun arid didn't want to kill him. Ha tried to reason with him, but expostulations availed noth ing. Letor, the sheriff rounded him up and he was ngan placed In Jail. He waa sent from here, to the Insane asylum at Morganton, 'He waa placed with a squad on. the State farm, and again effected-hla escape. Orders bvo been sent,, out for hla rapture, but he Is still tt large. . . This RMtUr if mania 1 hard to fathom. The su' ict of tbla sketch Is said to be a shrewd trader and sane on every subject, except hie vagary as to cnitlug out devils and laying on of hnnds. Aa. to being re ligious, this is a duty wo. owe to our maker and humanity, . Hut there seem to be many spe cies of rellglngs frensy." I know peo ple who wll bore everybody with their fanatical opinions, and they seem sincere. ' Yet, If you differ front. them they are Intolerant, and seem -to think they would be doing God a service to burn dissenters at the stake, ' or make thMn writhe on the rack. This man,, doubtless; has" a kind of religious mania, and should be treat ed at the Htate hospital. Besides thla rase, I know several o there, who need treatment, soma of them preachers In fair standing. They are not ronflned to any one faith and order, either, COICf CRACKER. ' kereetarv Wilson, of ths TWirlmanl i Asrleulture. Is ths nestoe of ths Csblnai and. Is now the enly member who was one of the original group composing it at the beginning of Mr, HcKlnley'a ad f ( PATJUCK8 GREAT , riGIIT.' s ' " T.;- ...r. ',, ini ' 1 1 , - .,: . ., .f," IjJa Sentence Commuted to Mfe Im '.v piiNonment by Governor Hlgglns Mill Seeks vWlcetlon- Hla right .."tna Moat Remarkahta la the Coun u-v's ismu -vi-.-jr.". ' .'- . .." " Lawyer Albert TV Patrick has iron hla tight for - Ufa. Hia end will no( be In 4he-electric chair.? Before Gov ernor Hlggina gives up hla office as Chief jxcutlve of the State ha will -sign a commutation, of the death sen tence. Ufa ; Imprisonment v will ? be Patrick' ate. ', ur vt. Whether the commutation of the death sentence will be brought about without a 'further, (heating on the part - wf ... witnesses for, Patrick or whether ' a commission will be ap pointed y the Governor to- look Into the' mass of- medical and other ex pert testimony submitted to him re cently has not been fully determined upon. Governor - Higgles, however, will not permit, the-aentenee 'of the law In Patrlck'a case to be carried out, ,;. - v-m Patrick all. along haa declared that he did not want to have hla sentence commuted to life Imprisonment- Ha haa told hla friends and hla attorney that all he wanted wag-"justice," and if this waa denied him ha would rath er march to; the death chair. t "I will accept no' compromise." Patrick wrote to the Governor, Pat. rick haa not yet learned of the Gov ernor's decision. 1 Patrick' fight for life U the meet remarkable of Its kind' ever made in this country. No other person ha ever , been confined as long Jn a death house awaiting execution as haa Pat tick. For mora than four years and even months he har been living within the phadow of the electric chair. During that time he ha been present when ,eynteen pther unfor tunates were taken from their cell and marched along the narrow pas sage which separates the condemned cell block from the execution cnam ber. For more than four years Patrick ha kept upp hia fight for Ufe. Sev eral times he haa seen the deatr watch close in upon htm, he ha heard the State authorities as the were testing his electric current ir the room adjoining the one where hit cell was located. But. during all these trials Patrick haa never per mitted himself to be talked into the Idea that the end was really at hand, be on the contrary ha always kept up his struggle and In doing ao has surprised his keeper who have come to look upon him as the most remark able murderer ever confined In the Sing Sing death house. Patrick has maintained from ths day of his arrest that he had nothing to do with the death of William Marsh Rice, the Texas multl-mllllon-alre, for whose murder the condemn ed attorney Is now in the death house. Patrick has claimed right along that if Mr. Rice was killed It was by his former valet, Charles F Jones. But Patrlok holds that Rice died a natural death, that neither he nor Jones had anything to do with it; that the experts whom -the de fense called told the exact state ot affairs when they swore at the time of the application foe a new trial for Patrick that absolutely nothing was proved by the District-Attorney's ex perts to show that death was the re suit of chloroform poisoning, aa al leged in the indictment. His fight for life ha been an ex pensive one. It la said that more than f 100,000 haa been spent In the endeavor to save Patrick from the death chair. The man who haa stood by Patrick, who has supplied him with funds with which to carry on such a remarkable battle. Is John T. MUllken, of St. Lout. Mo., his brother-in-law. . , Mr. MUllken became convinced from the very outset" that Patrick was Inm nt of the charge of which Watdi The attention of irivestors and those Seeking a better field for their work and talents, is invited to Charlotte, her surrounding country and her neighbor ing towns. CHARLOTTE is the very heart of Southern activity. The progress of the South is now com manding the attention of the whole country. CHARLOTTE is a rapidly growing city with many attractive features. Its avenues for the gen eral distribution of manufactured goods over cpm- v peting railroads, its geographical position, the mag nitude of its tributary water power and consequent ec6nomy to the manufacturer in power, help and machinery, desirability of climate, making possible a low cost of lving, and moderate wages acceptable, and other superior advantages ;make it pre-eminently . the place for ,the" building.' of d great city. 1 For information, write' ; : " , THE GREATER CHARLOTTE fLUB, ' ' tit r nnttjrTTTT lliil ha was -accused. and volunteered, to aid hi relative with hi fortune. . . ' ., ..... a":.- TO DISCUSS UATE8 TO SOCTlC - Official iot ' Road Running Out M v Cincinnati Way fake Adjustment. New; Tork CoromerciaJ'i ";. 7f 8. Spencer, president of the South rn M. U. Smith, president 1 of - tha. Louisville A t Nashville, with ;W.'J. Murphy,, vlc president of the Queou 'V Crescent, and other official v of those line, have had a conference in Cincinnati wltfj the' Receiver: A Shippers' Association of that city rel ative to rate f rornj Cincinnati to Southern points, as compared with those to tha earn places from. East ern points The reduction sought were from I to SO centa.J v , This is a matter which, has been pending for about a year er more, im contention being; tbaV the railroad were practising discrimination. Thl haa always been denied on the vromul that the objectionable ratua could not well he changed because ttia boot between New Tork and . and Southern port 1 regulate - tiie rates; that If a reduction were made from Cincinnati these water line and rail road leading from the DH-t to tha Interior would tmmfedlatcly changs their schedule and th situation would remain unchanged Cincinnati would not be benefited, while Che railroad would lose much traffic. Thla argu ment haa been met with tha state ment that the coastwise steamers are controlled by tha railroads. This has been denied. . In speaking of the con troversy Mr. Spencer says: Ws have agreed to consider the: life Insurance Virpiia ESTABLISHED 1871 ' . The Oldest, Largest, Stongest Southern life Insurance to. Assets December II. LlsblUtVes December tl, 199 Surplus to policy-holder December Business in North Carolina Insurance In force December 11,' 1101 . Number of Policies In tore Deoeaaer 11. Number Death Claims paid In lid Death claims. Dividends, etc. paid Jo Pellcy-Holders In 1101 9 lU.4Ba.7l This is a regular Life Insurance Company, thartsred by the Ieg- Islature of Virginia, and has won the hearty approval and active, support of the people by Its promptness, and fair dealing' during the thlrty-flve years of Its operation, MOND, Va. J. 6. WAIKK, Pres. lOiarlolte. Office 207 S. Qiaittte . vr , wvm iiau , wvw Charlotte, N. 0. "- ', ' '' .'J----;'- .e'.' f . yv. t-ir. ..-' '.., .- " ir ti 1S. Ml arguments of Cincinnati for a read jusiment or ireignt rates ?o me ($outn- .,, : at the' same time, there are reasons why they may .not toe granted." ; ; y V . '."..Wanl M0-Pound Xttt&$$'C'i-A Fort Edward DHspatch to .Tha Nsw' York World. , .v; Iv -V-., r.- UWI "M Bllftll, VI UlSUVUSf Oi - ' widower, . advertised Jor a . wife : who ' 1 i, eould tip' the beam at ttOO pounds, i wa opnosea xo . race auictae, was .. s t charitably Inclined and could bake ; good bread.! No society .nutterfly. . !V . clubwoman, or pnystcai cuitunst need 'j ' , . . A colored . woman, dragging three M" '; -children, was tha first applicant. - One . ' buxum widow was up to requirement . : : in every respect but ' wslgth. She ', . v -traveled .several miles afoot, only tev" , be rejected. Marshall haa received j several more applications, but none tc-sf,.,' , satisfactory. . ; . '- ' -"v''.X Marshall Is related to members ef . - ' v . -tha German nobility. ' Becoming Of-; i -fended at his parents, he left his art ', . 1 luuinuu iivmv miu tvu iidvdi iu , - , . turn or glvaany; Information as to .$' HM WIIVIQMVVUW , t.w nvyt ' l. ' .' country, forty-two ..year ago.- - ... : . Marshall's wife .died several year ' v ' " :; ftgl w mm twi - ' rasvi uvi u v,m - , ; - vlsl ted her grave, raJ n or shine, end - -' 1 sobbed aloud for her return to life. ' . ''", una nignt. ne aisnierrea ner ooay, . t h; By the will Of the late Prof. James M. Hopplit, of Tale, lust -filed, he leaves,, besides many other bequests, to lntltu tlons tO.OOO te the Tale Art School, to be used for the establishment of . a profes- sorsnip in arcniieciure. . ' Company of f .81.47T3I l,t&4.1S0.ia tl, 10I .. .. .. aaM4.U .llMlMSl.e M.48 MIT 1101 BOMB OmCK IUCU. ii. t:PA6E,-Siipt. Tryon St 4 V ' ::'v - . , k . V-',, - cf .. i ji . ." .- ICS TOW . .-., ' . , r ' . 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The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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Dec. 2, 1906, edition 1
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