The News and Observer.
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VOL. XXXVIII. NO. 49.
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THAT LUNCH AGAIN
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GOV. O’FERR \LL STILL
TH AT HE KNEW NO nil
OF THE NEGRO.
HE MAKES ATULL STATEMENT.
Says lie Knew there whs a Negro mem
ber ofthe Committee, but Understood
that he had Gone to Wilmington
from Raleigh—Col. Boyken Confirms
the S'atement of Gov, O’Ferrall—
Mrs. O’Ferrall did not Shake Hands
with Teamoh,
Richm -nd, Va., March 20.—When
Governor O'Ferrall was shown at two
o’clock this morning the telegram from
Boston containing the interview with
Senator Darling touching the treatment
aeoorded Teamoh, the colored member of
the Massachusetts Legislative Committee
who were received at the Executive Man
sion, he said:
“Senator Darling, I cannot think made
the statement contained in the telegram,
I never Lad the slightest intimation from
a human being that a colored man was
in the party. I talked with no one till
Wednesday, when a clerk from the rail
road office’came to me with a message
from Colonel Boyken that a business
committee of the Massachusetts Legisla
ture would arrive in Richmond the next
evening from the South, and they would
be glad to call on me. I replied:
“Very well, I will be glad to receive
them. I think it would be more courte
ous to receive them at the Mansion than
in my office, and will fix 2 o’clock Fri
day as the hour.’ I had no further com
munication with any one on the subject,
except I was informed that the commit
tee had arrived. A little before 2 o’clock
on Friday I went from my office to the
Mansion, my Private Secretary. Mr.
Chesterman, accompanying me. I left
Mr. Chesterman below, and went on to
my room above. Soon a carriage drove
up and stopped, but no one got out.
“Later three other carnages arrived.
The first carriage changed position and
1 did not see the occupants alight.
Pretty soon my doorman came up and
notified me that the gentlemen were in
the parlor. I went down with Mrs.
O'Ferrall, and as we entered the parlor
we were introduced to each member of
the committee, winding up with the
colored member. Not until I reached
Teamoh did I know,*nor had I the slight
est idea that one of the committee was
a colored man, and I was greatly sur
prised and embarrassed, but I concealed
my embarrassmeut as much as possible.
I was acting in my official capacity, arid
the committee were calling in their offi
cial capacity, aud I could not do other
wise than carry out the programme
“Light refreshments had been pre
pared, and I invited the committee to
the dining room, not thinking that
Teamoh would come. After the party
got into the dining room, I discovered
Teamoh and Mitchell with him. This
embarrassed me still more, but I con
cluded that as Teamoh was one of the
committee and Mitchell their friend, I
could not invite them to retire without
giving an affront to the other members
ofthe committee, aud in deference to
the feelings of the latter, and because 1
could not do otherwise without being
rude to them, 1 submitted and Teamoh
and Mitchell remained and partook with
them of refreshments.
“If my embarrassment was not appar
ent I succeeded in a most remarkable
degree in concealing it. Mrs. O'Ferrall
never spoke to Teamoh after she was in
troduced to him, but out of courtesy to
Benator Darling and the other gentle
men, remained and conversed with them
until they left the parlor.
“Senator Darling's statement that I
told him that I knew Teamoh was in
the party is absolutely untrue, and
I cannot thmk he ever made it.
If I had told him any such
thing he would certainly not have
spoken apologetically of Teamoh’s pres
ence at the Mansion, or have expressed
himself as he did to me at the peniten
tiary and on our drive. He and the
other gentlemen in the carriage with me
expressed their embarrassment in hav
ing Teamoh with them, and stated that
they had made every effort to shuffle
him off, but he would get back with
them.
“I feel greatly grieved in this matter,
and that my desire to extend courtesies
to a legislative committee of another
State was taken advantage of and I was
placed in a position to which I would not
have submitted for a moment if I had
not been acting in an official capacity.
“Os course Mrs. O’Ferrall did not
shake hands with the negro. When she
realized that Teamoh was a colored man
she bowed slightly, stepped back and
did not speak to him.”
001. H. M. Br.yken, Piissenger and
Freight Agent of the Seaboard Air Line,
through w hom the reception of the Mas
sachusetts committee by Gov. O'Ferrall
was arranged, said to day in referring
to the matter :
“Senator Darling, as did the other
white members of the committee,
impressed me favorably, and I,
like the Governor, cannot think the
Massachusetts Senator made the state
ment referred to him. But if he did
he made an entirely false statement,
for in his presence I expressed regret
at the negro’s advent and he remarked
to me that he as well as the other white
men on the committee, regretted it also,
and had all along the line regretted
having started South with Toamoh and
had hoped he was lost.”
“As the Governor said in the inter
view in this morning's despatch, he was
entirely ignorant of the negro’s presence
until I was forced to present him, after
hp b»<i lus into the mansion. 1
<\)n<-rcss yself that Teamoh would
1 ,. ’ 5 d therefore could not
...-nor.
“1 will say, however, that before leav
ing for Raleigh to accompany the party
to Richmond, I was aware of the’nigger
in the woodpile,’ but after reaching Ral
eigh was informed by the several white
members of the committee that Toamoh
had gone to Wilmington. N. C., and that
in consequence of that they had decided
to leave Raleigh at noon instead of 1:20
at night, thinking that by so doing they
would render him unable to overtake the
party. My telegram askiug the Govern
or to receive the committee and take a
drive with them was not sent from Ral
eigh until the matter had been fully dis
cussed.
“We were joined by the negro,” con
tinued Col. Boyken, “at Allen & Gut
ter's factory, and he was afterwards
given a carriage to see the city in com
pany with Mitchell, but when we en
tered the executive mansion we found
that Teamoh and Mitchell had preceded
us and had entered with us.
“On my presenting him, the Gover
nor’s embarrassment, as well as my own,
was very apparent. In fact the whole
party appeared embarrassed and the
white members of the committee took
occasion several times during the day to
express their mortification in being bur
dened with the negro.
“Mrs. O’Ferrall did not extend her
hand to the negro, but bowed slightly,
stepping back, and did uot speak to him.
The whole thing strikes me as attempt on
the part of the Northern press to stir up
a tempest in a teapot over the unwar
rantable intrusion of the negro.”
Mayor Richard M. Taylor, who was
with the Governor when he received the
committee at the Executive Mansion and
subsequently accompanied the party on
their drive to the Soldiers’ Home and
the penitentiary, when approached re
garding the matter, said:
“Gov. O’Ferrall has stated the case,
and in my opinion what he has said
should be sufficient to satisfy every one.
I see no necessity for my discussing it.
I will, however, say I am standing by
the Governor. lam satisfied he did not
know there was a negro in the party un
til confronted with him at the mansion.
I did not know it. When the situation
reached the point it did, the Governor
could not. in my opinion, in performing
an official function, and such it was,
have acted otherwise.”
Senator Lovenstein had been invited
by Col. Boyken to meet the committee
at the Mansion, but did not arrive there
until just as the party was leaving. He
said to-night he was not personally cog
nizant of what transpired in the Man
sion. Be went with the party on the
drive, and the two members of the com
mittee in the carriage with him expressed
their embarrassment at the presence of
the negro.
THREW THEM OVERBOARD.
Three Cubans With Money lor the Rev
olutionists Refused Passage.
Tampa, Fla., March 20 —On Saturday
three Cubans, Ricardo Fernandez, Abe
lardo Leona and another bought tickets
for an excursion to Jamacia.
When thev presented their tickets at
the South Florida ticket office, this morn
ing. they were told by the agent that he
had orders to take them up and pay
them the money back. He first got hold
of the tickets before telling them this
They went to the port and boarded
the Mascotte, tendering the money for
passage. But money was refused and
they were forcibly thrown from the
steamer.
It is known that these three men had
$50,000 for the revolutionists and im
portant papers for the patriots. By
some means the Spanish Vice-Consul
found it out and ordered their passage
cancelled. It is further known that one
of these is a brother-in-law of General
Marti, the leader of the movement.
Heavy Suow iu the West.
St. Louis, Mo., March 20.—The snow
storm in this vicinity has beeu general
during the past 24 hours. Reports from
Southern Missouri and Illinois show that
the storm has been severe in these sec
tions.
At Columbus, Ind., since this morn
ing a heavy snow storm has prevailed.
Street car travel has been stopped aud
railway traffic greatly impeded. The
storm is still raging and is the most
severe in years The snow is six inches
deep and is drifting.
At Percy, 111., a steady northwest
gale, with blinding snow and minute
particles of ice, is blowing at the rate
of 42 miles an hour.
Snow has drifted three aud four feet
deep in places, aud business is practi
cally suspended to-day.
A Blizzard ii: Virginia.
Roanokk, Va., March 20.—Roanoke
was given another touch of winter to
day. A regular blizzard raged during
the forenoon and snow continued to fall
all the afternoon and evening. North
and Western trains were slightly de
layed.
Snow Followed by Rain.
Fortress Monroe, Va., March 20.
A heavy snow storm set in at 9 o’clock
and continued until three, followed by
rain.
Negro Woman Lynched in Tennessee.
Nashville, Tenn., March 20. —A ne
gro woman named Harriett Taylor was
hanged by a mob near Petersburg, Lin
coln county, last night She was ac
cused of burning a house belonging to a
Mr. Bayless a few months ago. Particu
lars are meagre.
RAiSm* N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1895.
•3HII AST
NO YLL yesterhay.
The 4&lfcitiglou and Boston Teams
Wull Flay in North Carolina.
Columbia, S. C., March 20.—Rain pre
vented the Boston-Washington game
here this afternoon, and Managers Selee
and Schmelz took their collection of
Bean-Eaters and Senators and departed
with them for Charleston, where they
will play three games tomorrow, Friday
and Saturday. Boston left some of her
men here to get individual training,
while the rest of the team works the ex
hibition games in Charleston and Savan
nah, returning here to play three games
on the 28t,h, 29th and 20th inst. The
team will then started homeward, play
ing North Carolina and Virginia towns
en route. The Giants will arrive here
Saturday and play a game with liusie
and Meekin in the box. The outlook
forhhe successful organization of the
proposed South Atlantic League at the
meeting to be held in Augusta on Mon
day next, is flattering.
Jacksonville, Fla., March 20.—The
Giants did not play to-day. They will
play to-morrow if the weather is favor
able. Friday they leave for the North.
WRECK ON THE SOUTHERN.
The Southbound Vestibule Jumps the
Track, But No One Seriously Hurt.
Macon, Ga., March 20.—The south
bound vestibuled train on the Southern
railway jumped the track this morning
at 2 o’clock near Jackson, Ga., and was
almost completely wrecked.
No one was killed and all the passen
gers escaped without serious injury.
The engineer, whose name is not yet
ascertained, was badly bruised,
and the fireman, Ed. Roberts,
was very seriously scalded. Neither had
time to jump. The engineer put on the
brakes and this saved the forward
coaches from being crushed by the sleep
ers. All the coaches left the track ex
cept the last sleeper and all turntd over.
Dr. Rankin, surgeon of the Illinois
Central railroad at Chicago was on the
train and gave the wounds prompt atten
tion. Dr. Rankin’s hand was bruised
and no other passenger suffered more
severely than he.
The accident is said to have been caus
ed by the taking oat of a rail from the
track.
THURSTON RUFUSES TO TALK.
Senator Ransom Pays a Farewell Visit
to the Capitol.
Washington, March 20.—Tbe Hawai
ian minister, Mr. Thurston, still declines
to discuss the report that Secretary
Gresham has asked his government to
recall him. He maintains what is offi
cially known as “diplomatic silence”
with respect to the matter, and politely
but firmly refuses either to deny or
affirm the correctness of the story. No
person iu official life will discuss the sub
ject but everybody else who may be
assumed to have knowledge of it treats
the recall as an assured fact and some
trace th- cause of it back to Thurston’s
comments upon Blount.
Ex Senator Ransom, Minister to
Mexico, paid a farewell visit to his
friends at the Capitol to-day. He leaves
here for his home in North Carolina to
night, from where he will start for his
new post. His intention is to start for
Mexico on Friday next.
Tennessee’s Penitentiary Scandal.
Cincinnati, O , March 20.—A special
to the Post from Na-hville, Tenn., says:
“The penitentiary scandal is increasing
in magnitude and involving some of the
high State officials. Mr. W. H. Mitchell,
secretary of the Safe Deposit and Trust
Company, of this city, has testified that
he was paid $2,000 for perfecting the
sale of land on which the penitentiary is
to be built, and that he gave SSOO of this
money to Adjutant General Fite and
SSOO to C. C. Estell, president of the
Board of Railway T;.x Assessors ”
Lost Over SIOO,OOO Gambling.
Memphis, Tenn., March 20.—E. L.
Harris yesterday got process for the
arrest of ten of the best known gamblers
of the city, and took steps to recover
money he has lost in the local gambling
houses. He claims to have lost SIIO,OOO
in various forms of gambling in the last
two jears, which represents his patri
mony, which consists of estates in Miss
issippi.
A Cashier Commits Suicide.
Lawrence, Mass , March 20.—E. A.
Butler, cashier of the Arlington Na
tional Bank and an alderman, committed
suicide by shooting this morning. Mr.
Butler was taken ill a few weeks ago
with grip and has been suffering men
tally. Mr. Butler had been cashier of
the Arlington bank since its incorpora
tion in 1890, and leaves a widow and
three small children.
Norfolk and Southern Dividend.
New York, March 20.-—The Norfolk
and Southern Railway Company has de
clared a quarterly dividend of one per
cent., payable April 10. For the second
week of March the company earned
gross $221,898, increase $13,567 and
for eight months ended February 28th
of $264,302, a decrease of $2,038.
A Terrific Monsoon iu Texas.
Denison, Texas. March 20 —A terrific
simoon, filling the air with ijand, swept
over this section last night. Houses
were unroofed, trees blown down and a
great deal of damage done. It was the
most violent wind storm ever experienced
in this section. So far it is not known
that any lives were lost.
TO THE UNKNOWN DEAD
A BEAUTIFUL MONUMENT UN
VEILED ON THE BENTONS
VILLE BATTLEFIELD.
GENERAL HAMPTON THE ORATOR.
It Commemorates the Deeds of Con
federate Soidiers .lust Thirty Years
Ago and is Said to be One of the
Handsomest iu the Sonth--General
Hamilton’s Eloquent Address—The
Monument Unveiled by Thirty Young
Ladies in Military Uniform.
Special to News and Observer.
Goldsboro, N. C., March 20.
Thirty years ago yesterday there lay
dead and dying, on the field at Bentons
ville, near this city, which was fought
the day before between the left wing of
Sherman’s army and the remnant of
General Joe Jonhson's gallant troops,
several hundred of the immortal heroes
of the Gray. Among the dead was the
young son of General Hardee who saw
his first service in that fight, having
reached the command of General Hamp
ton, to which he bad been assigned on
enlisting, only two hours before the bat
tle.
This information was received from
General Hampton yesterday, who was
present at this memorable battle.
The Bentonsville Monument.
Sherman’s routed forces were driven
for refuge into this city, while Johnston
made only a feint at following them,
drawing off his troops in the opposite
direction toward Greensboro, hoping to
join and reinforce Gen. Lee in Virginia,
but he was cut off by superior numbers
of the enemv, and surrendered near
Durham, N. C.
To-day, thirty years after the chivalric
spirit of the South that never dies nor
forgets, made itself manifest on the
same field by unveiling there a beautiful
shaft of imperishable marble deeply im
bedded in the earth that holds the sacred
dust of the deathless heroes whose fame
it commemorates, and pointing heaven
ward whence their immortal spirits have
flown, and telling to the passing gener
ation “till the last syllable of recorded
time,” that the Southern people honor
the heroes of the Gray and the cause for
which they went to battle and to death.
The monument was unveiled about 10
o’clock this morning under the auspices
of the Goldsboro Rifles, and General
Wade Hampton was the orator of the
hallowed occasion.
The Goldsboro Rifles, Captain T. 11.
Bain commander, were present with their
two splendid batteries and in uniform
of gray, together with thirteen young
ladies of this city, representing the South
ern States, in military dress, who were
an especial escort of honor to General
Hampton, aud who unveiled the monu
ment, which is of white burnished mar
ble, appropriately inscribed, of broad
slantiDg octagon base, bearing the names
of 360 of those who died on the field,
and standing fifteen feet high, with a
marble cannon ball cap.
The ceremonies were opened with
prayer by Rev. J. W. Harper, of Kins
ton, and Gen. Hampton was gracefully
introduced by Mr. W. H. H. Cobb, ot
this city, a brave veteran, who saw ser
vice under him in the war.
The General’s address was one of the
finest of all the war orations, in splendid
spirit, true to the South, true to history,
true to the dead and just to the living,
without recrimiuation. His tribute to
the women of the South was sublime.
His pledge of the South’s fealty to the res
tored Union should bring the blush of
shame to her maligners everywhere. It
was eloquent, it was able, it was full of
pathos and feeling, it thrilled with in
spiration and fire.
General Hampton left this afternoon
for Fayetteville, where he will spend
sometime with his old time friend and
comrade, Col. Wharton J. Green.
The very inclement weather prevented
hundreds of people from attending the
unveiling who would otherwise have
been present. A large number of people
from Raleigh and other points spent the
day at Smithfield, being unable to reach
the battle ground on account of the rain
and the impassable roads.
Story of the Battle.
Bentonsville is a little hamlet in John
ston county, some 20 miles from Smith
field, the county seat.
The battle of Bentonsville occurred on
March 19th, 20th and 21st. General Sher
man was moving from Columbia toward
Charlotte and Fort Fisher and Wilming
ton had fallen, putting an end to all
blockade running. The arsenal which
had been constructed at Fayetteville by
the United States Government had also
been bestroyed by the Federal troops,
but it was as yet uncertain whether
General Sherman intended to take the
route through Goldsboro or through
Raleigh. Tnerefore General Bragg’s
troops and those of the Army of Ten
nessee were ordered to Smithfield, about
midway between the two places, and
Lieutenant-General Hardee was instruct
ed to follow the road from Fayetteville
to Raleigh.
General Hardee with his command
met Sherman at Averysboroon the 10th
and stoutly held his ground until, night
coming on, he withdrew his force and
retired toward Bentonsville. At that
point General Johnston had collected
15,000 men, March 19th and awaited the
onset of the enemy. The rest of the
story is told in General Johnston’s own
words in his “Narrative of Military Ope
rations During the Late War Between
the States.”
“As soon as General Hardee's troops
reached Bentonsville next morning, [l9]
we moved by the left flank, Hoke’s divis
ion to the ground selected by Generai
Wade Hampton, aud adopted from
his description. It was the eastern
edge of an old plantation, extending a
mile and a half to the west and lying
principally on the north side of the road,
and surrounded, east, north and south,
by dense thickets of black-jack. As
there was but one narrow road through
the thicket the deployment of troop con
sumed a weary time. Hoke’s division
was formed with its centre on the road,
its line at right angles to it, on the east
ern edge of the plantation, and its left
extending some 400 yards into the thicket
into the south. His two batteries, our
only artilleries, were on his right, com
manding the ground in front to the ex
tent of the range of the guns. The troops
belonging to the army of Tennessee were
formed on the right of the artillery,
their right strongly thrown forward,
conforming to the edge of the open
ground. In the meantime the leading
Federal troops appeared and deployed,
and, when so much of the Confederate
disposition as has been described had
been made, their right attacked Hoke’s
division vigorously, especially its left—
so vigorously that General Bragg appre
hended that Hoke, although slightly in
The House of' Mr. Harper, which was used as a Hospital.
trenched, would be driven from his posi
tion. He therefore applied urgently for
strong re enforcements. Lieutenant
General Hardee, the head of whose col
umn was then near, was diiected, most
judiciously to send his leading division,
MeLaw’s, to the assistance of the troops
assailed; the o’her, Taliaferro’s,
moving on to its place on the
extreme right. MeLaw’s division,
struggling through the thicket, reached
the ground to which it was ordered just
in time to see the repulse of the enemy !
by Hoke, after a sharp contest of half!
an hour, at short range. Soon after the |
firing on the left ceased a similar assault j
was made upon Stewart, whose troops,
like those on their left, had already ■
constructed breastworks. The attack
was directed mainly against Stewart’s j
own corps, commanded by Loring, and
Clayton’s division, by which it was re
ceived as firmly and repelled as promptly |
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
as that just described had been hy
Hoke’s.
“Lieutenant-General Hardee was them
directed to charge with the right wing-
Stewart's troops and Teliaferro’s division,
as they faced—obliquely to the left; and
General Bragg to join in the movement
with his brigades successively, fp«o»
right to left, each making the necessary
change of front to the left in advancing.
*****
“The action really ceased with the re
pulse of the attack made upon StcwartV
corps; but desultory firing was on*
tinued until night.
“Four pieces of artillery were taken;
but as we had only spare harnessed
horses enough to drrw off three, one tv
left on the field.
“The impossibility of concentrate**
the Confederate forces in time to attaafc
the Federal left wing, w hile in colnnre
on the march, made complete saceere
also impossible, from the enemy’s great
numerical superiority. One important
object was gained, however, that of re
storing the confidence of our troops, wire
had either lost it in the defeat at Wil
mington or in those of Tennessee. All
were greatly elated by the event.
*****
“Early in the morning of the ‘iOtfe
Brigadier General Law, temporarily com
manding Butler’s division, which wap
observing the Federal right wing, report
ed that that wing, which had been fol
lowing the Fayetteville road to Golds
boro, had crossed to that from Averjrs
boro, on which we were, about five miles
east of us, and was coming up rapidly
upon the rear of Hoke’s division. That
officer was directed to change front to
the left on his right flank, by which his
line was formed parallel to and fronting
the road, and near enough to command
it. In this position tbe usual light re
trenchments were immediately begun
and soon finished. Hampton prolonged
his line to the left to Mill Creek, with
Butler’s division, and Wheeler’s, whiah
had come up from the direction of
Averysboro.
“The Federal army was united before
ns about noon, and made repeated at
tacks, between that time and sunset,
upon Hoke’s division; the mest spirited
of them was the last, made upon Kirk
land’s brigade. In all the enemy was to
effectually driven back, that our in
firmary brought in a number of their
wounded that had been left on the field,
and carried them to our field hospitals.”
On the 21st, the skirmishing
was resumed with spirit by the
enemy with Hoke’s and McLaw’e
divisions, and the cavalry on the
left of the latter, and though about four
o’clock in the afternoon they broke
through our skirmish line they were soon
again repulsed and driven back. It was
in this engagement that Lieutenant Gen
eral Hardee’s only son, a noble youth as
16, charging bravely in the foremost
rank, fell mortally wounded.
These repeated successes, however,
had not been achieved bloodlessly. The
stubbornness of the conflict was illus
trated in the case of the First North Car
olina Battalion. This command carried
267 men into battle and lost 152. The
enemy lost largely in prisoners and 13
Napoleon guns. The Confederate loss
on the 19th was 180 killed, 1,220 woaad
ed and 515 missing;ina!l 1,915. OntheS®,
it was 6 killed, 90 wounded, 31 missing:
and on the 21st, 37 killed, 157 wounded,
and 107 missing: amounting in all three
days to 223 killed, 1,467 wounded, and
653 missing.
Sherman withdrew to Goldsboro,
where, three days later, he was joined
by the corps of Schofield from Kin stun
and that of Terry from Wilmington.
INDICTED FOR MURDER.
Twenty Men Held for the Murder* Ik
the New Orleans Labor Troubles.
New Orleans, March 20. —At 12:K
she members of the grand jury filed into
the court room aud as soou as the court
j could give attention to their presence,
the poll was ealled and the foreman pre
sen ted fiifteeu indictments chargisag
twenty men with murder committed on
last Tuesday morning in the Levee
i troubles. All nave been in custody but
- were released from the Recorders Conrt
I on bond.
All of the indictments contain clauses
I “And other persons who are not as yet
j unknown to the grand jury aforesaid,
| being workmen aud laborers iu the an
mystery and manual occupation of reß
i ng. placing and stowing compressed
j cotton on board of vessels at the port of
| New Orleans.” •