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NEW SERIES -VOL X.--NO. 40. Wadesboro, N. C, Thursday, April 15, 1897. IV HOLE NUMBER 8 U
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Califurnian Incident In
of General V. S. Grant.
Ean Francisco Chronicle. ,
"I have not a cent to my name; will you
allow me to sleep to-night on that lounge?"
You need not do that," was the answer;
"here is a dollar for your lodgings."
"I am greatly obliged, but I will save the
dollar by sleeping on the lounge and
use the dollar for my dinner and breakfast."
So this man who was shabby and jenni-
less slept on a rickety old lounge in z. back
office in San Francisco and (for he had no
place in which to lay his head) the next
morning said he had slept well. lie added,
with a pleased look, that he bad saved his
dollar. Ten years later this shabby and
penniless man, having changed his fortunes
by his " own exertions and consummate
genius, received the surrender of General
Robert E. Lee, for the shabby man was no
other than Ulysses S. Grant.
The story was told a few evenings ago
by General W". H. L. Barnes to an assem- j
blage of army and navy officers, active and :
retired, representing the regular and the
volunteer service, mostly men whose beards
and hair have become silvered since they
threw their caps in the air, nearly thirty- I
two years ago, when Lee capitulated at'
Appomattox. The meeting was one of the
California commanders of the Military Or
der of the Loyal Legion of the United
States, and the occasion was designated as
a ?'Grant night." Speech-making was the
order of the evening, and it all referred to
Ulysses S. Grant, whose portrait; enwreath-
ed with American flags and crowned with
laurels, was suspended over the table on
which the repast was laid. !
The .two principal orators were General
W. H. L. Barnes and Bishop Newman, the
one robust and athletic, standing erectly,
his eyes sparkling with good health and a
keen enjoyment of tne occasion; the other,
equally well known as an orator through
out ttie United States, tall of figure, but
bowed somewhat by years. Both had new
stories of General Grant, which have never
previously been in print. Those told by
General Barnes were local and brought into
the consideration of tbe characteristics and
exploits of the great military leader a racy
touch of early California. The meeting of
the comraandery was held in the Occidental
hotel, not very far from that oflice where
the penniless Grant, dreaming not of fame,
slept to save a dollar that he might have
enough to purchase two meals and avoid
going hungry. The occasion and the local
ly gave realism to a story which, were it
not sober history, would be justly consider
ed as allied to Arabian romances to the
days of Al Raschid.
At the age of thirty-two," said General
Barnes, "when he (Grant) had attained the
rank of captain and while serving with a
battalion of his regiment in Oregon, he re
signed his commission After his resiana"-
tiou he caino to San Francisco, intending
to take passage by steamer for New York.
Captain Richard L. Ogden was at that time
a clerk in the office of the United States
quartermaster at San Francisco. Some
time after my ariival in California he told
me a story concerning Captain Grant, the
entire accuracy of which I have no reason
to question, which illustrates very clearly
the condition in which he was at that time."
Then General Barnes, who has been mak
ing a study of all that appertained to Gen
eral Grant, gave Captain Ogden's story for
the first time, which he (Barnes) recently
copied from Captain Ogden's diary, the
narrative, in which Captain Ogden's words,
running as follows:
"As i was aJaout closing (lie office a shab
bily Jdressed person came in and inquired
for Major Allen, quartermaster, who had
just left. 1 did not at first recognize him.
but on asking if I conld attend to his busi
ness with the maior he nroduc.ed a certifi
cate for per diem service on a courtmartiaL,
which, of course, identified him. The cer
tifii-ate entitled him to about $40, but it was
incorrectly drawn and virtually void, of
whicji fact I informed him, and also that
we were destitute of funds wherewith to
pay in any case, whereupon his counte
nance fell and a look of utter despair came
over it.
"Fie turned to leave the office, then hesi
tated a moment, and, turning back, asked
me if 1 would allow him to sleep on the old
lounge in Major Allen's room, 'for,' said
he, l have not a cent to my name.' 1 said,
'i.ou need not do that. Here is fl for your
lodgings.' lie replied, I am greatly obliged
hut, witn your permission, I will use the
dollar for my dinner and breakfast and the
lounge will save me the dollar ' So he
slept on the rickety old lounge and I found
him there when I went to the office early
in the morning, aud when I said, 'You had
a hard bed,' he said, 'Oh, no; 1 slept Well
aud saved my dollar.' "
Some accouuts of the straits to which
u tysses S. Grant was put on this occasion
of California interest has-been made here
tofore, but the lull particulars are, it is be
lieved, now told for the first time. A few-
days latter than this Grant had left San
Francisco, not to return again until he had
been the victorious leader of the army of
the. United States in the greatest war of
modern times, and president and fresh from
the honors which the crowned heads of the
world delighted to bestow upon him, once
more passed through the Golden Gate.
which he had last gone out of in penury.
"lie told me that the certificate," so runs
Captain Ogden's dairy, in continuance,
"was a matter of much importance to him,
as he had depended upon it to pay his steer
age passage east, 'and without it I can't do
it.' I was so struck with his look of de
jection that. I said, 'Well, I will cash the
certificate personally and can send it back
to Oregon for correction. His face bright
ened up all at once and, signing the usual
voucher, he said, 'lam greatly obliged to
you for this favor, and now I must go and
get my ticket.!
"It occurred to me that 1 could help him
In that direction, too, possibly, and said, 'I
will go to the office with you aud may get
yon some concession.' Walking over to the
Pacific Mail Steamship office I left him out
side, and, going in, explained the- case to
Mr. .Babcock. We were paying the coin-panv-
thousands of dollars for transporta
tion, and I frequently obtained concessions
tor orncers in the way of free passes for
their families; hence did not hesitate to act.
"Mr. Babcock, in his prompt, off-hand
way, said, 'What do you want?' 1 said.
'As near a free pass as you can give in the
cabin.' He called to the ticket clerk, Mr.
Havens, aud gave orders to issue a cabin
ticket on payment of the regular cabin
fare across the isthmus, which the company
had to pay for each passenger, which, in
his case, was tantamount to a free pass to
New Yor.k. - ; '
"I came out cf the flfSce and announced
ruy sui cess trCaitaiu Grant, who as a
matter of course was delighted, as the ar
rangement left him with some little money
( 15) in his pocket when he landed in New
York to get home with. Having occasion
to go to the steamer again to see some
friends off, 1 met the captain (Grant)
again and he showed me the nice state
room that had fallen to his lot, and said:
"This is a great luxury and what I did
not expect, and I am indebted to you for
it. The prospect of ever being able to re
ciprocate is certainly remote, but strange
things happen in this world and there is no
knowing.' "
With these prophetic words on his lips
Ulysses S. Grant sailed. Four years he
vegetated on bia Missouri farm. He was
always a dreamer and always a mystery.
He failed to make a success at farming and
went to Galena, 111., where' he attempted to
carry on the leather business with his
father. He was clerk and shop-keeper and
delivered with his own hands the goods
that he sold. When he had leisure, he
chopped wood for his own kitchen stove. ,
.The government of the United States
when the civil war broke out did not accept
his offer to take a commission in the army.
McClelland declined to give him a place on
his staff, lie recruited an Illinois regiment
and the governor of that state made him a
colonel in command of the regiment which
be had brought into existence. Then he
became a brigadier-general of volunteers,
and soon after, "as General-Barnes phrases
it, "this leather dealer who did bis own
wash and split his own wood, this listless,
sluggish, ineffective citizen upon his on
motion, was permitted to capture Fort
Henry and Fort Donelson with 15,000 pris
oners.
Amid the singular annals and reverses of
iose who have figured in tha world's his
tory as conquerors, there is no circumstance
more striking than that of the man who,
ten years later,' was the greatest of modern
generals, coming into San Francisco penni
less and hungry and hoping, at the best, to
be able to get in some way to New York in
the steerage of a Pacific mail steamer, the
full account of which is authentically given
in the foregoing. It ranks with the fact
indicated by Ulysses S. Grant when be is
reported to have said, "I had no fondness
for military duty and went into the army
because I thought I would prefer that to
the tanning business.
GRAIX USED AS FUEL.
FICKLE LOV'EB'S FATE.
TIIE PROFESSIONAL
FORMER.
KI
lie Is Not New, and lie la Always
a 'Hypocrite and Humbug.
heard the story from her own lipa.
Misb Woodlief is not tali, rather
heavy set. Her blonde hair was
dressed in such manner that it be
came her yonng face well. Yes," it
was a very young face and a pretty Monroe Journal
i - - v.. :l . : - l
iace, too. its, nwia a tenuua By and by the honest and well-meaning
face. A pair of large gray eyes f0ik, Gf ,ii narties in this country will learn
under heavy drooping lashes; these I that professional reformers are mostly hum-
low who Got Left Goodwin, the eyes were thoughf ul, sometimes as I bugs and rascals. Their only reform is to
Lucky Man. was Accented AT-1 you talked thev crazed at von as if re-form the lines that attack theoffices--
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thev wondered what it were an
lie Saw His AfBaneed Married
to AnotherA West Raleigh
' Romance Pretty Daisy Wood
tier was the Bride L. II. Jor
dan, Formerly Night Operator
at the C. V. Depot, Is the Fet
ter Only Five-Day Acquaint
ance. News and Observer, 8th inst.
"Better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all."
Thus sang and thought the poet
Longfellow in -his New England
home in years agoue.
But not so thinks one man in Ral
eigh this morning. He saw the woman
of his choice wooed bv another man
aud last night wed to him for weal or nervously
woe. I his limited lover is Mr. Li. H.
Jordan, the - telegraph operator at
Wadesboro, N. C.
It is a story of love, flight troth,
broken vows, "the other fellow" and
a woman's whim. A story truly
pathetic from one point of view, bu t
most absurdly ridiculous from anoth
er. Serious enough to the actors in
the play, unless it be the hero, who
finally carried off the fair bride but
full of side-splitting merriment for
about anyway. The smooth com
plexion, cheeks just tinged with red
aud lips a ruddy hue-that oval face
was perfect. Add to tbi3 a sott lisp
as she talked and a smile that show
ed a row of small white teeth, and
you have the perfect picture, .
bhe was dressed in some dark
material with lac about the should-
ers at whien sne pmieu ratner
a3 she talked of -the
two men that had been contending
for her affections. .
But always and always as she
spoke of the man who had forfeited
her conndence and Jove a grave,
pathetic Jook came into her eyes.
Did she regret her chioce? I
not say, thongh she Beemed very,
very happy as we talked of the cere
mony, which was to take place with
in the next half hour.
What strangely unexpected
the lines before the pie counter. Now and
hen men of sincere purpose arise, attack
the evils of the day or the century, and by
determined effort, overturn or stay them.
But such men are actuated by unselfish love
of right, not by selfish aggrandizement.
They never ask for places for self, they will
not accept emoluments, bnt with determin
ed purpose, sacrifice self for the principle
they uphold. You say there have been few
examples of such in the world's history;
there are fewer to-day than ever before.
"What is reform" as we see .the word
to-day ? It is a reproach, a by-word; men
sneer at it. Uonest men despise it, because
it is a sham. They despise still more the
hypocrites who profess its name.
Within the last eight or ten years a spirit
tf unrest has swept entirely over this broad
land. It was caused simply by adversity.
the spectators. And the moral of it strands appear in this web of life we
all is that the course of true . love weave from day to day,
never runs smooth.
Experiments Made by the Min-
nessota Farmers Corn Better
Thau Wood.
From Marshall, Minn., the New York
Advertiser has the following dispatch:
"The long cold winter of this Northwest
section, particularly of the Dakotas and
Eastern Montana, has developed many
new ideas in regard to where the future
supply of fuel for the prairie farmer and
other individuals of that section must come
from, and it is now quite definitely settled
that such supply sooner or later must be
raised upon the farm, for the farmer who
does not own any timber finds that his fuel
in one winter is a very costly item, wood
being anywhere from $6 to $8 a cord. When
the farmer lives away trom the timber belt
the supply must come by rail, whether he
purchases wood or coal. Both are very
expensive, and this year few farmers have
ready money. In fact, large numbers of
farmers can afford barely enough fuel to
keep their houses in a semi-comfortable
state.
'In the county of Lyon many people
have been experimenting with corn for
fuel, and they report it a much greater suc
cess than they had reason to anticipate.
They are so delighted with it that they
will henceforth use no other fuel.
"It cives out a very strong, regular heat,
as does good hard wood, and it lasts nearly
as long. . The maximum limits, however,
would be far better than any results yet
obtained, as the methods of burning it are
as yet very crude. There can be no doubt
however, that inventors will be equal to the
emergency and in due time create a nearly
perfect corn stove or special furnace which
will answer tiie usual requirements. As
soon as this is done the farmers and others
who are prepared to take advantage of the
benefits may cultivate their own fuel on
their own land and probably save 50 per
cent, by doing so. Two tons of com
would be equivalent to about one cord of
hard w ood if the corn were burned eco
nomically, and corn for fuel would not
need, by any means, the care that it would
when grown for fowl.
"The stalks and blades of corn can be
burned also, which gives a much greater
amount of fuel to the acre. They would
need to be cut into short lengths and the
remnants tightly packed together, having
the appearance of good-sized sticks of
wood, Jn order for them to produce a hot
fire and to last long in a stove or furnace.
But they will certainly pay for the labor by
giving in return a very hot fire..
"Besides burning corn regularly for fuel,
many persons have tried the experiment of
burning oats and wheat. Both of these
grains are reported as making most excel
lent substitutes for wood, the chief difficul
ty experienced being the trouble of putting
up the fuel in small and compact form con
venient for handling and burning. Oat
straw or wheat straw may be bound to
gether in small bundles or "logs" so as to
last for a considerable time. As it is now,
a farmer or individual in a prairie town
pays out S'SO for fuel in a winter. ; Most all
of it goes to railroads or syndicates and no
one in the vicinity is profited by it. In all
probability he could have saved $50 by
using" corn, oats or wheat fuel, or all three.
So he saves by turning his labor into money
and keeping his money at home to meet
other expenses. Though the raising of his
fuel may have cost him some time, he finds
that he has been the gainer and the actual
cash outlay has been possibly not to exceod
$5 in all.
The plot of this West Raleigh
melodrama for the heroine lives near
the A. and M. College begins back
some eight months ago. That is
when Miss Daisy Woodlief, of this
city, met Mr. L. H. Jordan, of
Wadesboro They saw one another
pretty often, and the acquaintance
soon ripened into mutual admiration
and the admiration into love. Mr.
Jordan proposed and was accepted.
This was in September.
The wedding day was set for Christ
mas. The natal day of the Christ
child came, but no nuptial ceremony
was celebrated in the West llaleigh
home. Jordan had "asked a con
tinuance of the case," as the lawyers
L. H. Jordan, the young man who
figures in the above romance was,
until about ten days ago, night oper
ator at the Seaboard Air Line depot
here. He is not now living here but
cau- I Adversity was caused by over speculation.
over confidence, over growth, public and
private extravagance. Financial disasters
followed, business was prostrated, and un
rest augmented. Right there the serpent
came in. He took the shape of the reform
er. He first set about to fan the name of
unrest. It spread into a conflagration of
distrust, suspicion, calumny aud hatred of
those in place. Having filled the public
mind with suspicion, distrust and lies, the
reformer, from township to nation, deman
ded to be put into office that its ills might
be rectified. He was put in, and made
things worse, and the soil is now being dug
iff supposed to be at bis home near for another crop of reformers. Such reform
Greensboro. The M. & L
ADDITIONAL COUNTY C03I-
MISSIONERS. '
say,
aud the fair defendant had
granted it. The date for the wed
ding was now in - March. March
came aud Jordan again plead pov
erty and asked for longer time to
prepare a home for the woman of
bis choice. This time the marriage
was set for June. Bnt the day for
that wedding will never come for
the girl married last night, and
married another fellow. His name
is R. C. Goodwin, a merchant of
Moncnre, Chatham county.
It was bnt last Thursday night
they met. Miss .VoodIief and Mr
Goodwin, at a musicale at Miss
Wootllief's home. Somehow iu the
crowded parlor they drifted together
like
"Ships that pass in the night
And passing speak each other."
The New Law Regulating the
Appointment or Minority Commissioners.
The General Assembly of North
Carolina do euact:
Section 1. Thatwheneyer as many
as twelve of any county (one half of
whom shall be free-holders) shall
make an affidavit before the Clerk of
Superior court of the county, that
they have carefully examined into
the business affairs of the county, as
managed by the board of county
commissioners, elected by the people
and they have ascertained that the
board of commissioners unlawfully
and wilfully, or being incompetent
have unlawfully and wilfully mis
managed the business affairs of the
county, or have unlawfully and cor
rnptly misappropriated or caused to
be misappropriated or misapplied
any part of the funds of the county;
theu upon hung such athdavit with
the judge of the district or judge
presiding:-therein, it shall be the
duty of such
as this has been going on in the world
from the beginning of recorded history. It
is only the neoriu ol letting tbe outs gel in,
of changing the men in place and power
for new ones, and in most cases, worse
ones. Such reform has been current in the
Chinese Empire and other Oriental ooun
tries in their myriads of broils and insur
reetions hundreds of years before the Greeks
were civilized or before Komulus struck his
brother dead for leaping into his low-built
walls. And had nofthe Greek and Roman
reformers shed torrents of blood and sap
ped the life from their countries before the
Anglo-Saxon race was created? Truly;
and through it all the story of the profes
sional reformers was that of the outs
against the .ins. The real reformers did
their work quietly and Vnthout reward.
I,ec the people learn that the professional
reformer is a hypocrite, generally a liar;
and then what reforms are needed may be
jHissible. Swapping masters amouuts to
nothing. ,
TIIE STRANGEST OF TOMBS.
BRYAN AND BAILEY.
They Dined Together and Agree
Upon (he Democratic l'olicy.
Richmond Dispatch.
Washington, April 7. Mr. Bryan is
the centre of attraction here now. The
people crowd everywhere to see hint. His
effort in the Supreme Court yesterday indi-
judge to issue a cita- cated the highest oider of legal ability
tion of said board of commissioners The court listened to him most attentively.
They talked of the most com- reauirinsr them to aDDear before him axuM'siuie a splendid impression.
monplace thiugs and as he listened af Bnch a time and Dlace as he mav Jrl'a tbis evening dined with Mr. B
to the lisping girlish voice he loved, uame, after havin? given them teu
loved madly. He asked to be allow
ed to call again the next evi
He told of his uew-borir love. She
answered him not that night or the
next, but Sunday evening she prom
ised to be his wife. In a girlish
voice she related the circumstances
of her former engagement and told
him her heart was as yet another's,
but her baud was his if he cared to
take it thus.
He took , her at her . word and
Tuesday the register of deeds issued
the marriage license. .Hardly had
it been doue when a young man
wealing a Walter-Henry coat came in
on the Seaboard Air-Lino and drove
at once out to Miss Woodlief's home
He went out a light-hearted and
happy-looking as any lover could.
He came back sad aud crestfallen,
breathing -out threateniugs and
slaughter.
It seems that soon after his arrival
he detected that all was notwell. "He
inquired the cause but got no satis
factory answer, until hnally a note
came. Xhis he insisted on seeine.
but could not for the girl tore it up.
tie lett in a rage, lhe girl follow
ed him to the gate and there told
him all.
She had promised to become the
bride of another and on Wednesday
night at b.cSO she was to be mar
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The only iilU to tkd wUD Uou' Samp&rm
lis
davs notice thereof stating the par
ticular act of acts constituting the
breach of duty complained of, which
shall be fully set forth in said af
fidavit, and answer the charges
therein made.
Section 2. That if such judge
shall be satisfied, after hearing the
charges, answer, exhibits and proofs
that the charges made &a aforesaid
are true then it shall be his duty to
appoint two honest and discreet
electors and citizens' of said county.
who shall be of a political party, dif
fereut from that of a majority of the
said board of Commissioners,- who
shall from their appointment and
qualifications by taking the oath
required for county commissioners-
be members of said board of com
missiouers in every respect as fully
as if -elected by the people and shall
ceutiune in office until the election
aud qualifications of their successors
of said board" of county commis
sioners.
Section 3. That all laws ' and
clauses of laws in conflict with this
act are hereby repealed.
Section 4. That this act shall be
iu force from and after it3 ratiSca-
tion.
Ratified this the 8th day of March,
A. V. ISO 7.
Bailey,
the newly elected Democratic leader of the
House, thus showing that the relations be
tween these gentlemen are most cordial
and warm.
Mr. Bailey is for Mr. Bryan's re-noinina-
tion, and has -so expressed himself. All
the talk indulged iu by the newspapers as
to any opposition he had toward Mr. Bryan
is unwarranted, aud circulated by those
desirous of injuring Mr. Bailey. Mr.
Bailey's supiorters for the leadership are
Mr. Bryan's wannest friends.
Besides, Mr. Bryan and Mr. Bailey are in
thorough accord as to the policy to be pur
sued by the Democratic party. Both are
opposed to pushing the tariff question to
the front, but favor keeping the financial
matter in the foreground, and making it
the issue iu the next Presidential election.
This will be the policy of the Democracy,
if Mr. Bryan and Mr. Bailey can cont.ol the
situation.
Erected by a Romanian Profes
sor Over the Body of Ills
Daughter.
Bucharest has perhaps the strangest tomb
ever erected In a civilized lano:, says xne
Xew York Tribune. It stands over the
embalmed ,body of Julia Hasden, a young
authoress who died six years ago. Her
father, Professor Ilasden, of the University
of Bucharest, believes be is able to commu
nicate with his lost child. He sits every
day for hours by the side of ber coffin, and
occasionally surprises bis fellow-scientists
by gravely quoting some remarks that she
has made him. .
The tomb is constructed, so it is claimed,
in accordance with plans outlined to tne
father by the daughter after her death. It
is in the Greek Cemetery. The structure is
of marble. Over the entrance and under
tbe name "Julia Hasden" is a niche filled
with her well-wont schoolbooks. As one
enters be is greeted by strains of unearthly
melody. At the entrance a huge slab of
black marble bears an inscription which
may be translated as follows: "Let those
who seek not knowledge pass by . this
grave, but those who fain would learn the
secret of life in death descend!"
The vault is paved with black and white
marble. Its walls are of the purest white
marble, with inscriptions in letters of gold.
These, according to Professor Hasden, are
remarks culled from the conversations he
has had with his daughter since her death.
nere and there ate quaint little triangular
stools. Close to the stairway stand two
handsomely decorated mirrors which for
merly adorned Julia Hasdon's boudoir At
t ie further end of the vault, behind a white
marble balustrade, is an exquisitely carved
sarcouhatrus containing the body of the
young gitl. The coffin is so arranged that
by drawing back a slide the broken-heart
ed parents may still gaze on the face of
their child. Two colored lamps burn con
tinually at eilhec-end of the sarcophagus.
In the centre of the balustrade stands a
beautiful bust of the young Rumanian
woman. It represents her as a handsome,
clever-looking girl, attired in modern even
ing dress. A white veil is drawn over it to
preserve it from dust, and at the waist nes
tle a few faded roses, held in place by long
satin ribbons that float to tbe ground.
They are the flowers and ribbons which
Juria Hasden wore at her last ball.
On the walis hang photographs of her at
various ages. One small water-colored
sketch, entitled "Son Dernier Jour
Terreste," (her last day on earth.) repre
sents her tossing on her deathbed, with fe
verish cheeks and sunken eyes.
On a table to the right iies a large alburn
a few books aud a block of black marble,
on which some lines of music are engraved
in gold; tne nucleus you mey iorni "a
melody" composed by Julia Hasden after
her death, and, listening to its mysterisus
tones, one could almost believe it an echo
from spirit land.
The mechanism which produces the
weird music above mentioned is apparently
concealed in the table Visitors are per
mitted to inscribe their names in the great
album, and its pages are full of touching
expressions of sympathy iu every language.
There is nothing grewsome in this re
markable tomb; the fresh air streams in
through the open doors, carrying with it
the perfume of flowers and the merry song
of the birds without.
Here it is that Professor Hasden passes
almost all his spare lime; it ;s no strange
thing to see him taking his coITee here of
a morning and smoking his cigarette be
side his child's coffin. His wife comes in
the afternoon and remains until late in the
evening,
"She's seldom alone," the old porter at
the gate will tell you (he speaks of Julia
Hasdeii as though she were alive.) "Poor
folks, it's a comfort to them and it don't
harm us. People's given up remarking on
it long ago." It is generally Lelieved in
Bucharest that -Professor Hasden's miud is
deranged on spiritualism. On all other
?3
E3
rrnni
Absolutely Puro.
Celebrated for its great leavening stren;
and healTtifnlnt ss. Assures the food aifrunst
alum and all forms of adulteration comiii"!
to the cheap brands. Koyal Bakinw
Powder Co., Xkw Yokk.
TIIE CHILDREN KE-MARRIED
Gov. Atkinson Son and J3r
Dyrd's Daughter, Aeeompain
ed Dy Their Parents, t;o to
('hattauooga, Where a Satia
factory Ceremony is Perform
ed. Chattaxooga, Tenn., April 11. J.hn
Atkinson, tbe 16-year-old son of Oov-
II
ernor W. Y. Atkinson, of Goria, vtrs
married to-day to Miss Ada Byid, the 16-year-old
daughter of C P. Byrd, of Atlanta.
'Ja., the Kev. Henry MclHniald, pastor of
tbe second Baptist church, of Atlanta, of
ficiating. There were present to witness
the ceremony, Governor Atkinson, Mr. and
Mrs. Byrd, the father and mother; Judge
Spencer Atkinson, of the Georgia Supreme
court, and Charles P. Northen, assistant
clerk of the Georgia Senate.
The trouble in' securing the necccssary
license was overcome this moniing, when
Mr. Bjrd notified the county clerk that bis
daughter bad his conset fo her tnarriage.ths
law of Tennessee requiring the cansent of
both parents to the. marriage of ither pnrty
if they ie under 17 years ofage. Th
youthful couple left on the aflf-rnoon train
for Nashville, where they will tpend their
honey moon.
Governor Alkir.son was seen by a
Constitution reporter and, speaking of
his son's marriage, said: "All's well
that ends well. Many ixople haie
married younger than they, and have been
happy, and I expect they will be. We
will do all in our power to assist tiie:n."
Mr. Byrd said when approached on the
ubjeet: "We have done what we ".een:et
nest under the circumstances. We only
objected on account of theirexlreme joulh-
fuluess."'
attended largely "by ladies. He
declared that he had no confidence
ried. In explanation of her conduct Buck Kitchiu On The Populist
Bhe told him- he had been false tol ' Party
her. He had not written reimlarlv 1 Raleisrh Press-Visitor.
1 1 3 . "1
aim iiau beiuoui come to see lier. n i.i. tt:i.i.:.. .
aj8 naaoeen Bet lortneir marriage of h-3 characteristic speeches at
UUV i yX-r uwVVIe.n we time Scotland Neck lust week, whieh.was
cw 1 1 vcii. ,i into iiictcuuiusr lo love
her he had been engaared toother
,i i. -i , i
g.i.a, auuii a umn sue loiu BID1 no. mn wlm -t.-o,,tfl nffioo Of
1 J ,1 L J 1 1 1 t t u I "- w vva .
uiu not ueserve ner love, tnougn ne fh 1)!irtlV8 in Nnrth fw
nt-i I 1 U-.tJ i 4. Al 1. . 'IT i I r
6U" u.tt?- "louS" bU wouiu not Jiua- he B;dJ tbe Populist party, the
..j , rarfu th w i f l hP h-A(l nffi ilIpiI
. I it tun luf r - cninnTtinf K . 1 ,1 I t J .
wu,uuu D vftllUii UC nUUlU HVI I A, ,oo Vw.rl Loco.ila i r if
nihis rival and have the thing out. n ot,hp. afinorilinty to ir8
itli tears in 1 " tr o..: t.t:.-: ii.,i.
i - ii l C- i 1 iiuuiuvis. lie ottiu xi uj.iuti uuuci.w
iii0ca ,omUiS tH.eoi woeto eyery the worst m.m in it aud Harry
Skiuner next worse. He declared
A Sonth Carolina Woman Shools
a RIack 'lau.
Lancaster, S. C, Ledger.
Lewis Stover, colored, who bears the
ssubriouet of "Blind Tiger," and is a worth
less, trifling loafer at Kershaw, was dam
gerously shot at that place last Wednesday
by Mrs. Almetta Key. The particulars of
the shooting, as we are given them, are as
follows: Afr. S.L.Gardner, Mrs. Key's
father, is an invalid at her home. The ne
gro had brought whiskey to Mr G., con
trary to Mrs. ' Key's orders. She told the
Dv-gro Tuesday to stay away from her
premises. He replied, rather impertinent
ly, that as long as Mr. Gardner told him to
eome he would come. She warned him of
the consequences if he brought whiskey
there again. Wednesday the negro return
ed. Mrs. Key or.le ed him not to come in.
but he walked right into the room where
Mr. Gardner was. Mrs. Key got her pistol
and followed after him and tired at him.
At the instant she fired lhe negro turned
and the ball penetrated his body just below
the shoulder blade. The wound is pro
nounced dangerous by the physicians, aud
may result fatally.
man be met. xnends advised hi ni
to go back and ask the girl to marry
him at once. He promised to da so
and yesterday he went to a house
near Miss Woodlief's and seut for
her to come-over there and talk over
the matter with him "The spirited
nttie woman relused to do this, re
plying that she would be glad to sec
Mr. Jordan at her home, bnt that
she could uot to go elsewhere to see
him. He went back to his room at the
Park l!ot.el and she has not seen him
since.
Last night she was married to Mr.
Goodwin. The ceremony was per
formed by liev. A'. L. Betts, pastor
of the West lialeigh Baptist church.
It was a quiet wedding, in the pres
ence of a few friends, at the- home
of her parents.
I . had a long talk with her half
an hour' before tbe cereimy and
there had been an abortion of justice
to the people of JSorth Carolina in
their efforts for nuancial reform and
be further declared in thunderous
AT EH II TIDE.
The restless tide is slipping away
Down and away o'er the yellow sand,
And the glist'ning seaweeds gleam aud
In- the shallow water beyond the strand,
sway
And the curlew, shrieking, flies home to
rest,
And a red sun sinks in the stormy west.
The dying sun a gleam doth throw
tones that the people will not long On the dreary hulks lying near thee shore-
submit to the rule of any race save
that of the Anglo-baxon. .
Dca't Tobacco Spit ud Sacks Yonr Life Awty.
If you want to quit tobacco using- easily
and lorevcr. bo mauo wen, strong, niug-neuo,
full of new life aud vizor, take Io-To-Buc,
tha wonder-worker, that makes wcuknieir
strony. -Many gain ten pounds in ten days.
Over 400,000 cured. Buy Ko-To-Bao of your
dru2rgi3t, undr guarantee to cure, ouo or
$1.00. Booklat and sainplo maile.l free. Ad.
Sterling Iteinedy Co., Chicago oriewl oik.
He "They say, dear, that people who
live together get to looking alike."
bhe "Then you must cousmer my re-
fusat as final." Detroit Free Press.
Brave barks were they in the long ago.
But they cross the ocean wide no more;
And the lide ebbs past them, away, away,
And the wind wails over the rock-girt bay
"Ob love, lost love, has to the tide of life
Been kinder to you than it has to me?
Have you learned how bitter it is to drift
In a rudderless bark o'er a sullen sea
Or have merrily danced without a care
O er summer waves iu the sunshine fair?
"I know not; only the night wind chill
Sighs over the lace of the restless deep
And safe in the harbor under the hill
The anchored vessels seem all asleep; -As
I wonder, gazing across the wave,
II sleep is sweet iu the. silent gravel"
, Whkx bilious or costive, eat aCascaret!
pnut."y cathartic, cure guaranty!. 15v., 25c.
CA.3CAr.KTs stimulate Ijver, kidneys and
powvis. .Ntntv kick on, wckeu or t'tii-e. 'Si'.
matters it is as strong as ever.
WIFE'S IlOXOtt AVE.VGEO.
Macon Printer Kills His
Wife's IiiKtiltrr.
JIACOS, Ga.. April 7. Charles Kcid, a
machine operator employed in the com
posing room of -the Telegraph, shot and in
stantly killed L. W. Halstead, formerly
business manager of the All.uita Commer
cial, and at the time of bis death an attache
of Cooper's circus, which has been giving
performances in Macoa for several days.
. The shooting was inside the tent to
night, just before the performance began.
and in the presence of many ieopie who
had gathered to see the show.
The cause of the killing was a gross in
sult offered the wife of Mr. Reid, at the af
ternoon oeriormance. The lady at once
informed her husband of the indignity
which had been put upon ber, and be
promptly started out in search of the in
sulter. It was not nulil nearly S o'clock
that he found him, and Halstead, who was
known to the circus people as J. V. How
ard, was found by Mr. Reid inside the
tent, which is pitched within a stone's
throw of the city hall. Mrs. Reid ointed
nut Halstead, or Howard, as the man who
H n sul ted her, and her hu.sband sent the con
tents of a shot-gun crashing into his liody.
killing him instantly. Keid surrendered to
the Chief of Tol ice, and is now locked up
pendii;gj.he Coroner's inqueit.
At'Ql'lTTED BY THE JURY.
Macox, G , April 8. The Coroner's
Jury returned a verdict of justifiable homi
cide at 1 o'clock this morning in the case
of Charles Reid, who shot and inslanlly
killed L. W. Halstead, an attache of
Cooper's circus, who grossly insulted
Reid's wife. Reid in all probability, will
be released to-day.
The Kljcu ol the TIuie.
Atlanta Constitution.
Our readers have no doubt
with interest tbe result of
municipal election in Chicago.
success ot the democrats were
re:i4
the
The
even
more overwhelming in Chicago than
in Cincinnati, and the result more
sist.inVant (ban the aggregate of
victories in Ohio.
But such comparisons are out of
place. The victories in Chicago, in
Ohio, in Michigan, in Wisconsin, iu
Connecticut, in New lork slate, aud
the amazing growth of genuine
democracy in ISew York city, are all
dflnite parts of one great movement,
and taken together, they show that
the reaction against rep ubl scan ism
bus taken the shape of a ground
swell. They show that the people
are arousing . themselves to the fact
that the republican party has de
luded theni with false hopes of pros
perity. .
Iu Chicago, the democrats, by way
of making their principles pkun, in
serted a free coinage plank in their
municipal platform. They did this
for "the purpose of making demo
cratic issues so clear that no voter
could misunderstand them. It wa
a challenge to the republicans and
bolting democrats. The democratic
caudidate polled more votes than all
his opponents combiued, and carried
the strongest republican wards.
The strength developed by the
democratic candidate shows beyond
all question that thousands of dem
ocrats who voted for ti e repiiblicaDS
last fall on the money question have
now discovered their mistake and
have takeu the first opportunity to
return to their party and its princi
ples. They were misled in tbe l--t
campaign; they were deluded by the
falsa arguments dinned in thfir ear
by the boiling leaders, and, .by
the false hopes of prosperity held
out to them by the republican lead
ers. But they now see their mistak
and have returned to their party.
It IVa a Cainpaigu fry.
Kinston Free Press.
The Legislature amended the
charters of Wilmington aud New
beru so that the Governor appoints
part of the aldermen of those cities.
Is that the boasted local self govern
ment of the Kepnblican party? If
the Government can be given power
lo appoint part of the aldermen of u
town or city, we see no reason why
he could uot be given power to ap
point"" all the alderman. 'of all the
tovn3 and cities in the State and
let one man run the entire State,
which would be oue-man power
not lienublicanisra in' theory, but
Kepublicnnism as partially practiced
in North Carolina,
Take tima to deliberate; but when
time for action airixs, stop thiukinj
eg i'.,-
the
and
Aiol DaitiMgett lor Murder.
Columbia Dispatch, lili. j. - .
A year ago Chas. T. "Williams was Lilted
in Blacksburg on the steps of tbe house i t
Mrs. Alice Anderson. M. K, IU-ese was
couviclod of the murder. It was allrgt-tj
that he had succeeded Williams iu the in
fections of Mrs. Anderson. PwJuig ait
appiil, Reese and a dozen other priomT
escaped fioiu juil. It was said he had
i0,00o, and he is Udieved to have gone la
Europe. "
Williams was married under the law
known as thti Lord CamrdxHi act. Hit
wife broughtsuit against estate fr
$10,000 dama:vs. The jury ga e tin; wmLt
$J,500. It is the first case of the kind 04
record iu this fctato.
Heard Ilia Own FuurrMl Ser
mon. Sidney Smith, of Arjo, Ga., who
died a few days eiuce, was the oldeet
and probably the uot eccentric mau
in the South. II is said to have
been oue hundred aud eihtetu year
of age at his death, lie realised
several davs before his dea:s? that
his eud was uear, aud at Lis rentrsc
his pastor, W. 'VY. liryun, a kUitxlL-t
uiiutater, preached his fun-jral, ta
which he listened atteuiheif
throughout, iutt
T-ers;tr' it