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Thursday
July
15, 1897:
WHOLE NUMBER 85
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ReorU or a Tiotcd Slsnrpslsocter
After lie Uad Slain SJxiy
Kex in as Jlany MJaiHes, Lec
Coutciautifd ISssn to Slop Re
ward i S3,900 Offered for
Hirst, Eci He Wks Keyer Caj
taretSStiJi SItIisc
Jackson', Dispatch to B.-)Stcn Adver
tiser. '-: ; .
One of t be most remarkable men oti earth
to-day is Latuar Fo:Haine. Of H!eii2in
iitiht, spare but sinewy, bigh cheek bones,
denoting courage and recklessness, gray
eyes that 'are dreamy and wistful wlieujtbe
tenipcrameut is calm and in repose, b'ut
blazing with a furious Iij;bt nnder the ex
citement of aj-ecoilection;. hands that-are
delicate as a woman's iu construction, bat
twisted and gnarled from tbe hard me
they lave been put; a. voice (bat is musi
cal' and soft, Hps thin and straight cut, and
aJieavy growth of iiair and beard th3t are
just be;iuniar; to be' streaked' with gray
these are tlte iiistinguiched physical cliar
ae't.eristic8 of Laaiar Fontaine.
'-ThocRii with a weight of 5? years piled
upon his shoulders, p.nd with the scars of
6? bullet' wounds marking his Slight frame,
he is neither bent nor misshapen. Mr.
Fontaine's adventurous life btsan at the
early sge of 10 years. Ho was captured by
ihe: Carasuancbe Indians, in Texas, and
home oil by th.'se savages to their retreat
ia the vicinity of what is now Wioux City,
la. ; For four years they kept him captive.
Then the band made its way to New Mexi
co, and he escaped across 750 railes of, sun
baked desert. .
An uncle, Mirabeau Lama, was then
Press Jon ( of the Tcsas .Republic. lie re
inairfcd. with his uncle at Austin two years
and then was transferred So the care of an
other relative still more fanious Commo
dore Maury, who mapped the trackless sea
For Diore than 10 years he was the amanu
ensis of this great sailor, accompanying
him on all his voyages. From 1-57 to I860
ilr. Fontaine was secretary of the Ameri
can legation at Nicaragua. -'..His kinsman,
President Lamar, was United States minis-:
tcr to that country during most of that pe
riod, lie was at Nicaragua -when-the war
broke out in the United States, and he has
tened home to throw bisnself into that con
flict. .
. lie bears 'with him on his travels a certifi
cate froia -(Jen. R. E. Lee testifying that
Fontaine shot ami killed S3 Federal soldiers
in 60 minutes, a:xi another from Stonewall
Jackson couched irj this startling language:
"I lieiievs that during his service with me
as sharpfchooter Lamar Fontaine killed
more of .the enemy than were killed by any
cauif-any in my command."
Fontaine began as; ecout and courier for
Stone wall Jackson. Jle served in the same
capacity witj Geaa. Stewart and Joe John
son, aud a short while with Lea. lie took
part iu 27 pitch battles, 5S skirmishes,, and
over 100 "individual skirmishes," as he calls
them lie is known in all branches of the
Confederate service as "the best marksman
with either rifle or revolver in either army,
lie was wounded 07 times and IS times his
lungs wera pierced. Twice his heart was
grazed, and these f-ersiehes caused that or
gs.ii to go enlarge that skillful physicians
who examine him without knowing hw his
tory will declare that he is liable to die ia
:M hours.
It was at ib battle.of Waterloo Bridge,
ia August, lo2, immediately prior to the
second battle of Manassas, t'-'!1' (jcn. Lea
witneaeest Fontaine's remarkable fete of
killing "SOywikees in fr minutes." ' Stone
wall Jackson was ffankk.g Pope. Jack
son's sharpshooters had possession of a long
frame house, and bad leen pouring death
into Pope's rants f ir an hour or. wore when ;
Lee rode up. With, his neldglass Oen Lee ;
was enabled to get a good view of the men
as Fontaine picked them ost for slaughter.
A battery was pcuriug a constant stream of
fire into the building occupied ly the Con
federate sharpshooters. "Train your glass
on No, l and gun No 1," Fontaine said to
the commander, "and yon will sec him jump
into the air and another man will have to
take his place at the gun." In tli way
Fontaine picked out l is men for Gen Lee
and didn't mi.'S one of them. When ha had
sixty Lee told him hj quit the deadly work,
"Doesn't your Conscience ever hurt you
when yea do work of this kind?'' inquired
the general of the sharpshooter. Fontaine
smiled. V "'Why. Gotieral," he replied,
' When I enlisled ia.tine army, it was with
the Tinders! am! :ng. that I was pxpfed to
Ivhl S5 nisny of ti;e enemy as I could.- If
I had any- conscientious -scruples about it I
would quit the army. Don't you expect us
to kill ?" - : - - ;
Beyond doubt the most remarks bhv feat
accomplished by Fontaine during the war
was carrying of dispatches and percussion
caps to the wieaguered army of I'emberton
at Vicksburg when tliat city' was being
stormed by the Federate.- Memphis was
in the hands of the enemy, aud Fontaine,
acting as a spy, and in disguise, had beeu
there for a month picking up what infor
mation he could for the benefit of General
J. E. Johnston.
One day there came a summons for him
tfl reiunt k Johnston at onee. Simultane
ously the Federals got 'know lodge of Fon
taine's orders and his presence in Memphis.
The desire to captura so shrewd a spy and
expert sharpshooter had become so. great
that a reward of ?20,C0o was offered for him
dead alive. Troops were despatched to
cover all the roads leading south in the
hope of intercepting and either capturing
or killing Fontaine. Uat he avoided them
and reported on time to hfcs general at Jack
son for orders.- The orders were for him to
carry despatches and 40KX) musket caps
through the Federal lines and into the city
of Vicksburg.
AH of ths approaches to (he city were
controlled and carefully guarded by the
Federal. And (here was a reward of $20,-
000 -out' for -Fontaine. In complete dis
guise Fontaine passed through the Federal
lines in a small canoe and delivered his
despatches and caps safely to General Pem
berton. After spemiiiig three or four days
in Vicksburg lie undertook the return trip
to Jackson with despatches from Pember-
ton to Johnston.
It was while coming out of Vicksburg he
met with' his most exeit!ng,ad venture. He
floated -down the river at night to a poin
about eighteen rniies below Vicksbnrg. lie
pfoeaitil a horse, and riding in the direction
of Jackson he had to cross the Big Black
river. lie "ude into a. guard at one of the
ferries, in a twinkling of an eye ISO rlfei
were leveled itt him. lie 'spurred his horse
m l the frightened animal piuuged straight
aitepd. ' ' .."'- .
Tbrt'e l ul'e'f. shuck Fontaine. Two of
tlieni sb attend his -right leg and arm the
ither psmclr;Hd his left breast... lie clung
to his hote and kfpt la.slimg the animal
with what strength was left him. ftran:reiy
fnoueh the Fedends did not pnr2tip1f,ni.-
THE EQUAliITV CF ilKX.
Baltimore Sun. "
On July-4, 1770, the Congress of the Thir
teen United States of America formally
promulgated the Declaration of Independ
ence, that immortal instrument !penned for
the most part by Thomas Jefferson, of Vir
ginia, although it was nominally the work
of a committee composed of Sir. Jeifergon,
John Adams, of Massachusetts; Benjamin
Franklin, of Pennsylvania; Roger Sher
man, of Connecticut, and Robt. R. Living
ston, of New York. -Yesterday was the
one hundred and twenty-first anniversary
of that momentous event iti American
history.
"We hold there truths to be self-evident,"
wrote the trainers of the declaration, "that
all men era created' equal; that they are
endowed by .(heir Creator with certain un
alienable rights; that among these aic life,
lihertj- and the pursuit of happiness,"
These are noble words and constitute ithe
essence cf political philosophy from the
point cf view of a liberal democracy living
unler republican institutions. It is true
that negro slavery existed at the time the
declaration was formulated and continued
m existence for nearly a century after
ward. It is almost impossible to reconcile
slavery even in its most human form with
the assertion that "all men are created
equal," and that among their unalienable
rights is "liberty" and the "pursuit of hap
piness." But the authors cf the Declara
tion of ladepedenee were' addressing men
capable of self-government, an impossibil
ity with the negro slave. As the assertion
of a great moral truth, however, the declar
tion cf man's freedom of birth and his
equality under the laws of God cannot be
challenged successfully in many vital par
ticulars. Men are born into the world free to make
the best of their environments according to
their capability, mental and physical. The
dullard cannot, of course, become a great
thinker or scientist or man of business, but
he can make the effort, aud the only obsta
cle in his path w ill be such ;ns are placed
there by ls natural " inferiority. lie may
have rreat wealih or be able to enlist the
support of the most powerful Influences,
but there will be no royal road to learning
for him and lie must stand or fall according
to his own strength iu the battle of life. -It
maybe true in some instances that the race
is not always to (he swift or the battle to
the strong. But the exceptions are tare.
The swiftest runner will reach the' goal
abe td of his competitor, if he is in full and
free possession of bis faculties, while "the
stronger force will overcome the weaker if
it is free to act in accordance with the dic
tates of wise generalship.
While ali men, therefore are born free to
make the most of their opportunities they
ail stand upon the dead levet of equality in
a fundimentaljpartjcular, obedience to what
is recognized as the divine volition and the
consequences of disobedience. Some men
are endowed with greater gifts of intellect
or physical strength, some were born with
silver spoons iu their mouths and go
through life accompanied by every luxury
and advantage that wealth can give and
yet they arc as amenable to that simple law
which recognize as the divine volition as
the poor fellow w ho first law the light of
day in a hovel and spent the balance of his
liie there. No man can violate the funda
mental law without pain, and obedience to
that law is as necessary to happiness in the
case of the millionarie as in that of the
pauper. A man cannot steal and be happy
any mere than he can do murder and enjoy
a peaceful life. Whoever has the burden of
a crime upon his shouideA must suSer
the weight. As in the case of the 'lecalogue
and the common law, so also with nature's
laws, lo depart from her wise injuctions
and restrictions is to woo pain.
Every man who would be physically and
mentally sound must confirm to nature's
law. Over indulgence iu food, in drink, or
intellectual excrement will assuredly bring
misery. F. very man !s free to give way to
intempcEauce iu all three respects, so long
as he does not make a public nuisance of
himself. But the pains and pen?.!!i"s which
he imposes are unavoidable. The great and
the humble, the learned and liie ignorant,
stand upon the sama level, none ia exempt
from tlte workings of the law. it may be
that we learn wisdom and appreciate hap
piness by occasional infraction of the law,
for, as Foe we'd says in one of hi3 sketches,
"positive pleasure is a nitre idea. To be
happy at any one point we raat have suf
fered at the same. Never to stuter wou'd
have been never to have blessed.' Tbr-t
is an admirable reflection if we learn
wisdom by experience, but it gives little
comfort to the dyspeptic, to the taeniae and i
to the man whose physical powers have
Collapsed. I
This freedom and equality, which "is the
birthright of every man, extends to the I
grave and thrcagh eternity, if the theolo
gians are not ail wrong. What we sow
hers we shall hereafter reap, jnst as crime
here brings Its punishment under the law
of man, and interperance and debauchery
result in suffering and poverty. We wiu-t
all die, and the debt w hich every one must
pay to nature puts us all on the plane of
equality, while the Scriptures teach us that .
every one is freo to accept the gift of eter
nal life hereafter by the exercise of faith
and good works. We are, as Poo argues,
created in the same condition of incom
pleteness. Death is the metamorphsis
which all must undergo to be made com
plete. The statement that all men are created
equal has always been regarded in (his
country as the assertion of a profound po
litical truth. It was a protest against "the
divine right of the sovereign" to impose
oppressive, bunions upon his subjects. Bat
it was also a declaration of the brotherhood
of man, and in this sense it is an inspira
tion to those who are struggling for recog
nition in the battle of life, while it is a sol
emu admonition to those w hobavc been born
great, have achieved greatness or have
greatness thrust upon them, that they
stand, so far as birthright i3 concerned,
upon the seme level' of humanity. There
can be no "classes" and no "masses" in a
government of which the Declaration of
Independence Is the foundation stone.
Every man is born a sovereign, and will
continue to boa sovereign as long as he is
able to govern himself. Erery sovereign is
born a subject, for he must render obedi
dier.ee to (tie laws, without which we should
have anarchy and finally chaos. So then
Jefferson V. immortal line, "all inen are
created equal," has a world-w ide signifi
cance. It is an assertion ofhaman.gov
eieignty"..and yet a recognition of human
weakness as well. . If some rise to great
ness and others live in obscurity or fall by
(he way, none ner rose superior to (he
law, human, namrai and divine, and all
tittd lii'-ir onahtal ievei et List in thai uni
versal leveiier the grave. , -
OFFICES MADE HB3LE YOiJ
WAIT.
RET, IK. IMCK TOTED
ISO.
So Experience Rcqalrfrd A Few.
gaiaplcs Are Sudnsltted, Jns!
EuoogSi Vj'orU te Fool the
D"ar People" Rut There are
Others ana They Will be Put
on Exhibition fioou.
News and Observer.
"Economy! ' Economy!!" was the cry of
the Populisjs during the early days of their
existence.- "Reduce the salaries of public
officers and abolish all ofticc-s not absolute
ly necessary," was (heir demand uutil they
got into ouice themselves.
Thia. was the burden of their calamity
and song with its variations furnished a
gymnasium on which cfiice-fcuuting Popn
listf exe.rcisedJ.i3 vocal plant for some four
years or more. Then by the inscrutable
ways of an even more isssrntabia Proi-dencc-1
hey were given the votes of govern
ment conjointly w ith the Republicans a'sd
now what do we see? ,
Roth wnat was to be expected and what
was not. The Republicans are by open
profession spoilsmen. They ara in politics
for what there is in it. Tney beheve in
taking ail the ol2es in sight and making
ar.d paying big salaries t everybody. They
make ho denial of this. But the Populist
office-seeker at the declaration of sne.h a
doctrine, holds up his handy in holy horror
until begets into office, and then he out-
Joota the most ardent Republican looter.
Take for example (ho Agricultural De
partment. New offices have been created,
high salaries paid and the money wasted at
a rate never before dreamed of.
For instance, one little clerkship at f80 a
month, in the office of the Director cf the
Experiment Station, has been divided up
into three parts at a combined salary of
S-3,400 a year. Mr. F. A. Bowen was secre
tary to the Experiment Station and chief
fertilizer clerk under Dr. Battle at $720 a
yenr. Mr. J. H. Felix, of Alamance, is
now secretary to the 'Experiment Station at
$v!00 a year, with an assistant, Mr. Sam
Meore, of DupTin, at a salary oi f(500 a year.
Mr. Hill K. King, of Onslow, is chief fertil
izer clerk at a salary of Jd.OCO a year, with
an assistant, Mr. F. G. Kelly, at a sulary of
$000 a year. -
This is a fair sample of the juggling that
has beeu done to reward henchmen End
heelers for their party services and at the
same time, fool the "dear people."
Here is another, just about as bad, though
it goes a little higher up in the scale of of
fices: Mr. Bruner's works as secretary, at
a salary of JI,8C0 a year, lias been divided
up into three offices at a combined salary
S4.5C0 a year. J. L. Ramsey, as secretary
(o M:e Commissioner of Agriculture, gets
fl.S-JOa year; "Frof." E. G. Butler, as sec
retary of the Board of Trustees of the A.
and M. College, gets Sd,t, and "Prof.." J.
J. Briit, as auditor of the Experiment Sta
tion, at a. salary of f 1,404.
Of course in some instances another little
slice is taken off some other man's durv and
and given to tiiesa sinecure holders in order
that they may at least seem to have some
thing to do.
But certainly in ths ca?e of Mr. James
Allen this cannot be said to be true. A
brnmi new otiice mailing clerk was cre
ated for him at a salary of f 1 ,000 a year and
he performs precisely the duties heretofore
performed by a little negro boy working
four days iu a month at 25 cents a day, nn
der the direction and with the aid of the
two fertilizer inspectors. Now there are
practically no other other duties at this
time of the year, for these inspectors to per
form, except mail the Bulletin once a
mouth and tabulate the crop rekirns once a
month. And yet so onerous are tbe.;e du
ties to these strong, healthy men that the
Board took compassion on them and hired
?sir. Allen to mail the Bulletin at j salary
of l,t;fl'J. . Ilia work during the month if
it consists, as it is supposed to do, only of
mailing tha Bulletin amounts to little
more during the tnoth than does that of
the mailing clerk of the News and Observer
every day.
But then Mr. Allen holds a public office
and the taxes of (ho farmers of North Car
olina pay3 iris salary. What matters it
whether he hna any duties at all or not? Is
he not a true Reformer ttnd good party
man, and ought not all such lobe reward
ed? -Then there's little Ned Shore, for whose
appointment his nnc'.a introduced & resolu
tion in the Board and followed it up with a
pitiful plea. lie's a little ix-y in knee
pants, and good enough boy, too, thsy say.
But he's hardly the man for usher at the
Museum, "'bat can he explain to visitors?
He eeems to think bis-duties consist princi
pally in turning; through the register antl
examining things for his own sati.nf action,
leaving visitors to take care rf themselves,
'lie succeeds a most worthy young man
named Smith, who has a widowed mother
Smith received ?-S5 a month and was a most
capable and industrious young man. Shore
gets $30 and up to date has been almost
wholly ornamental anil cseful very little
These are a few samples of Radical
economy, if they do not suit others can be
furnished on short notice.
Viiil Ho Explained I!i Vote,
Te-Sresiilenl KIIro, or"Tria
Ity . Collects ISatl Addressed
the RoekiugUavi District Con
ferouce oa 'CIirI.-Hn Educa
tion," and Had Attacked St Ate
Institutions Sir. I'ase Voted
A&InKt Extendius Dr. liilo a
Vote of Tisks.
CbsiloUo Observer.
Maxtor, July 7. The monotony
of the District Conferen
LXTRAOHDISARY (itMt E!
EERY.
EIE
ASSAILED HEX.
It ISO.
II Alt-
Otic r tb Jlost Slmjnlar fasn
In All the History or I2aulc
Wrccklnp
Commenting on the case of Louis Oa'.iot,
who was convicted in the United States
Cricnit Court at New Orleans Tuesday of
abstract iing and misappropriating the
moneys of the Union National Bunk, of that
city, the Picayune says:
"This case is one of the most singular in
the history of bank w recking. The L non
National Bank was cleared of its money
and utterly wrecked by two. bookkeepers
who never in the course of business hail any
opportunity to harlie any of. th bank's
money. These two ingenious robbers had
hatched up a scheme, and, throngtt the aid
of some -con federates on (be outbids of the
brink, were able to sweep it clean of tfvery
dollar iti the vaults liefore the actual situa
tion was discovered, ar.d when an empty
treasury made manifest t't.e fact that the
jp.r.k hail been raidt-d, the most labored and
paitif'.tl resea-reb.es had (o be- made before
lie caa-e and manner cf thu leak could be
discovered.
"The method by which the bank was r .b
bed was briefly this: One of the eon Toler
ates. Louis Gallot, fur instance, mad.; oc
casional small money deposits in the ba;:kt
and so became know n to the bank s oiliciRis
as a depositor. U is account was kept by an
'individual bookkeeper who had chart;" of
individual accounts alphabetically, f mm A
to K inclusive.5 This party kept Gallot's
account. When Gaiiot's checks were pre
sented for payment the teller would ask the
bookkeeper if Gaiiot's accouut was good
for the amount claimed. The account was
falsely declared to be good.
"The money was then paid, but it was
iot charged to Gaiiot's account. There
was no evidence on the ledgers of (he bank
(hat such money had be-n paid out, and it
was supposed to be in the bank's vaults.
The other individual bookkeeper who had
the accounts of depositors from L to Z also
had his confederates on the outside, and
between them all tha bank was robbed of
more than $tie0,000, with noentrieon the
b-.wks to show (ho absence of (he money
"This abstraction of the bank's money
had been in progress for years under the
eyes of the bank's other officers, w ithout
discovery. The official government bank
examiners came in due course at frequent
intervals and examined the condition of the
bank and found nothing wrong.
"Bat a bank cannot carry on business
forever without money, aud this fact ws
finally realized. Ia September, 18v, a
panic in (ho money market caused
a withdrawal of despo.-dts from tne
various banks in the city. The bank
officers at once made preparations to meet
tha situation, and tln-y naturally count
ed their money and mastered their resour
ces. When the president of the Union Na
tional went to count ids money he was as
tonished to find that it was gone, and not
the scratch of a pen to show whither. He
closed his bank and notified the authorities
at Washing- After a cliuieult and te
dious search, aided 1 y tho er.nfes.sism. c-f
Po'drkev-per Lec'e, the system upon w hich
t"e ibt cries lr-ul ! ceu conducted was re
vealed nod the guilty parties discovered.
Nevertheless the crimes were mo thoroughly
concealed that it w as with the greatest dif-
An IndfsnapoJt Preacher Dc
nounceM the Ex.Presideut frein
the 2'ulpit.
Indianapolis Dispatch, 5th.
There was an r.nusttal scene in
the Central Avenu? Jlethcdist
Church on SunJay night vben Dr.
C. E. Laslsy, the paster, attacked
ex-President Harrison because of his
n?seciation with the Citizens' street
Railway Company for cheap fares.
Gen. Harrison is oue of the corpora
tion's lawyers. Mr. Lasby stiid:
'Could Jefferson or Patrick Henry
or George Washington return to us,
would thev not crv out against euch
unjust exaction? Aud can any one
irr.agine the President of street
j railroad whose act i til Value ia
000,000, Inst whose watered, stock
and bonds have a value of .'.0')0
000, approaching George Washing
ton and offering Liui '20,00l to
justify the greed of the corporation
and defend its iniquitous actions
from the common people? When
shall statesmen ouce more consider
the rights cf the people superior to
the glitter of gold and nnselSshly
devote their taleuts iu behalf of the
public good?"
The pastor's remarks were applaud
ed by his congregation, w hich is one
of the largest and most fashionable
in the city.
re proceed
ings wa-3 broken by a lively incident
which occurred ia the closing hours
of the .Conference recently held
here by the ministers and lay del
egates cf the Eockiugham district.
Dr. Eilgo, of Trinity College,
delivered hid well-known address on
"Chrictiau Education" in eloquent
.language and his usual fiery spirit.
He drew sharp . contrasts between
State institutions and - denomina
tional school., representing the lat
ter as conforming to the teachings
and denominated by the spirit cf
Jesus Christ, while the former ac
knowledged no king but Caesar.
A resolution was offered highly
endorsing the speech, and tendering
the thanks of the Conference to the
eloquent orator for his masterful ad
dress. A motion to adopt the reso
lution was decided by a rising vote.
One minister, Rev. Jesse H. Page, of
Aberdeen, boldly stood alone "until
he was 'cone ted", in the negative.
Subsequently, iu giving hi3 reasons
for his vote, he defined his position
so clearly and emphatically as to
leave no room for misunderstanding
it. Without attempting a full re
port, I will give a few things which
he said:
"I have several times listened with
pleasure to Dr. Kilgo on his favorite
theme Chistian education and
while 1 admire his brilliant talents
and eloquent speech, and personally
hold him in high esteem as a broth
er, I wish to say plainly that every
oue of his speeches which I have
heard Jias been marred to the nau
seating degree by his perpetual, ill
timed and ill-tempered flings at. our
State institutions. I, for one, am
ashamed and sick of it-, and intend
here and now to wash mv hands
this whole matter. Let it be known
iu all our borders, f rota the moun
tains to the sea, that there ia one
Methodist preacher iu the Confer
ence who, us a citizen of North Car
olina,' is proud of the noble record
made by our State University, aud
the grand work she has done iu the
cause of education during the 100
yeffrs cf her existence sending out
from her haKs a long line of ylus
trions men, who have filled with
credit and honor the highest posi
tions of responsibility in this great
country of ours. Provident Alder
man find those who have chstrgo of
of our State schools are neither iufi
dels, athists nor "unenlightened hea
then but are high-toned, cultured
Christian gentlemen, who deserve all
honor for the great work they are
doing for our beloved State and
country. To he explicit, let me say
that if I had a eon to le educated, I
would just as soon trust his moral
and religious training in the hands j buy anything except hats, shoes, ! aim" W to one nearer, and it id ew
of E. A. Alderman as J. C. Kilgo. sugar, scfice a".:l the few things they j (tenth- necessary for railroad o";cers
If-this be treason, make the moet could net make or ruue tit Ik-me. , to ascertain not only that iigiials are
She said.f hat while the women cf tiK'J prrpeily given." but that they are
country had largely abandoned the ' actual!" audible where thev should
Ussctetely Pare.
flvulty that the proofs h
I'd be Obtained
upon which to base an indictment. Colomb.
the bookkeeper who whs G allot V eonfiVier
ate, escaped arrest and trial by suicide.
IiPBsou a Elfouomj'.
ft recti vilie Reflect.-: r.
An ircideut occurred here on Sat
urday which we feel almost safe in
jign;sr i;rli'5T!ij' Incident.
A singular incident that took vlace
on the Central Vermont Pailroad
some time ago, 6ays the New York
Evening Post, show s how many con
ditions require to be observed in de
termining the existence of a very
simple fact with scientific accuracy.
One of the divieiou superintendents
of that road received repeated com
plaints that a certain crossing the
prescribed eignals from the locomo
tive .were' omitted. The, engineers
were reproved and warned, although
they all protested that they bad nev
er neglected their duty. Finally,
since, of course, the matter might
prove a serious one at any time for
the railroad, the superintendent de-
i termined To' yet his own evidence.
and, privately-stationing himself in
a suitable position, he saw a loco
motive approach and pass without
w histling or ringing the bell. 'On
that locomotive, however, there hap
pened to be one of the railroad de
tectives, who mitde up his mind to
look into the matter for himself,
and who actually blew the whistle
aud rung the bell with bis own
hiiuup. When the enpi-riuteudent
returned to write the discharge of
the
en si titer, he was eon-
saying is without a paralied in this 1 1 fronted with the evidence of the de
countrv. A lady came to town that ! tective. To end the matter, thev
nay ana nmue some pure nases at oue
of our tores. . She says she ba3 been
married 19 years, hss lived ail this
time within four miles of Greenville,
her family numbers ten persona
bnt thia was the first time she had
ever ten in a store and purchased
an article. When questioned more
fndly she stated that she had made
at home ail the cloth her family
needed, that her husband raised his
own supplies, that they never hud to j son at a distance w hen they are in-
both went to the spot and found
that from arertain jxiut they could
see thepuil of fdeara at the whistle
and see the bel! iti motion, but heard
no SDitn 1 frcm either. An expert
was cailcd in, who rc-eommenued the I liirihoii
removal of a piece of forrest, which Salisbury Word
being done, the signals Lfwune, au
dible at t he crossing.
Professor Henry lor.? ago showed
Cclebroted for its great leaven ins: strepyfV
and healtlifn loess. Asurestlie fixl aatin.-C
ahun and t-.ll forms of adulteration commci
to the ch-ap brands. ituYit. B.fc.is
Powder Co., New Yokk.
The Sevr Aaaelzazuatioii.
Richmond Times.
Col. J. P. Austin, late chairman
of the Populist party iu Fulton,
county, Ga., declares that that "party
is disrupted beyond redemption, and
that its members will all return ia
good time to the ranks of Democ
racy. "Populists cannot go to the Re
pnblicn party," says Colouel Austin.
"The Republicans are opposed ta
almost everything in which a Popu
list believes. I do not place any set
ef men above the Populists in de
voted to party so long as the party
appeared to have a mission and &
chance to fulfill it. I regret to see
the unfortunate condition whick
have grown tip. I regret to see the
old party's strength broken and ob
serve it going to pieces, liat thouga
it failed in accomplishing it3 pur
pose, it unquestionably had its in
fluence v.ith the Democrats. They
saw our party grow to a voting
strength of 3,000,000 in five years
and the Cleytlandites could not
withstand the pressurs from the bi
metallic forces.
"Now, if all the people who are
at heart opposed to the single gold
standard will stand, together, tiny
can sweep the county, and I belie te
they will do it.
We do not know Col Austin, and
his name is doubtless new to the rea
ders of the Times, but he is a wise
man and he knows a political truth,
when he sees it. The Populists left
the Democratic party originally
because (here vias no place in that
party for men who believed in the
doctrines of Populism. Put when
the Chicago convention adopted a
ropulittic platform, and ofiered t
carry into effect the pet theories of
Populism, the occupation cf the
Populift party was goue, and th?
paray soon saw that it had no busi
ness to exist ae a separate organiza
tion. Col. Austin is right. Tho Pop
uliVs have converted the free silver
j contingent of the Democratic party
into pa.rti.taus of their own faith and
amalgamation is logical and inevitable.
The Cars.
that sounds may be heard by a por-
A Reported Case or Wlfe-Swtcp-piug
in BSiickell.
Bristol (Tenn ) Courier.
A rather unique and startling state of af
fairs was revealed in a case in court in
Mitchell county, N C, recently. Some par
ties were arraigned on the charge of forni
cadou and adultery, and it turned out that
while in a sense they may have been guilty,
in another they were innocent. The evi
dence showed that merely the trading liber
ty of the mountains had been exercised and
that the parties involved 'had considered
it a matter of no conscqne...c to the public
It appeared from the evidence tnat one
mountaineer had of his own free will
swapped hi3 wife and seven children to a
neighbor man of the mountains for his wife,
a musket and a raoolj bull. The parties to
the deal were perfectly sincere "in" what
(hey did and entered npon life in a new re
lation without a thought of violating any
law. The man with (he other fellow's
wife and the musket and (he bull as his
own was happy because he felt that in the
transaction his conditionhad been bettered,
wT.ile the man with the wife and children
to spare felt ditto and no lack of com
pany. ,:
"WiraN bilious or costive, eat a Cascart
candy esti.ariic, cure guaranteed,!Oe., t5c.
"I havon't stopped to count the
loss I am to suffer for taking this
position""-and giving utterance to
these sentiments. You had before
you this morning the question of set
ting off a mission in a lonely, deso
late section of our district. It may
be that this field of labor ia b-ing
prepared especially for me be it so,
1 will stand boldly for my honest
convictions, whatever it may cost.
"We cannot build up our schools
by trying to tear down others, aud
the institution whose managers are
guilty of this ungodly practice, how
ever much mon-y may back it, is
doomed to certain failure. 'Ephra
im should nc,t envy Judah, and Ju
dah should not c-uvy Fphraim."
?j'-'7?,;,
W know the great cure hv Hood's Sar
saparill t are genuine becne tha people
themselves write about the:... ..
Are. much m l.ttte; :;ways j-y q r n
ready, efjeient, satistac- i'J n p
tory ; p revert colder fever. j5""r : tj n
cure all liver Ills, sj k head- '., U U
Rcho, jnunrii'-e, eon.t'.pittiiin, rr'ce 25 -fint$.
'lha mi It fills t$ tune witU UotxPt c;,ir.!p,r:il
It Seems flra2t.
l'hiladeiphia Record. - "
Th priie-f.g'iting gangs who went to
Neva-la (.) see (he battle between Coibett
and Fifaoimnif ns were carried safely to
their destination and brought safely back;
but (wo trainjoads of Chribtian Endeavcr
ers, carried on (he same railroad, were
wrecked, on tho same day, with horrible
details of loss of life and maiming. What
ever other discrimination, (here may be in
the management of railroads, or in the ihs
pensttio.ns of Providence, it is certain that
there is one rule for the w icked and the
righteous iu this world. The careless rail
roader lets h's carelessness full v. ith even
handed indifference npon the just aud the
unjust.
practice of making cloth she ha kept , be.
it up and found that she could easily
meet the needs of her family in that
particular. She did this to help her
husband along and to help him pay
for his farm.
The merchant was verv mnch im-
A nc-Fyet Com KrrgMlion.
O'Ncil, Neb., Di.-pak-h.
Rev. Reuben IWnckim, paster of a
negro church near O'Neill, is urg-
Errr!ody Pays 80.
Crvnr;.! Candy Cathartic, the rrnst r--n-derful
mi d'cU discovert" of tin itre, p eas
ant anil t-efrcpltir.cr u tho t-i'e, act, pen! 'y
and positively cn kitr,ey. lirer i:d 1.o-t !,
claiishur Ih'; pnMrs vrcra. flJsii,l co!i!.
j CHi Hi htvuiucbe, tevpr, buhii n : rnoRlbv.iion
. and hi io,isnen. P :. buv iw.-l trv iv lm
. of V. C. C. t-i-ii ir; 10. -'.", Mi i-f M'!. s4jij utid
.'K'tarautwd to cu-e by all t!m gists,
ing tlte members of the flock to put
pressed by the woman's statement 0Iit one of tbt ir e-ves and many are
complying wun ins wishes. Jeack
im himself practiced what he preach
es come lime ngo.
Inflammation has also effected the
remaining one seriously, and he is
nearly blind and will probably be so.
It is his claim that the Lord 'ap
proves of one-eyed men in the twenty-second
and twenty-third verses in
the sixth chapter of Matthew, Jin
I which it is sfatcll that "if thine eve
le single then shall thy whole body
be filled with light."
The pastor has placed the wroug
and told her he desired to present her
with a dress as a reward for her in
dustry. He is well acquainted. with
her husband and knows from his
habits she had made a true state
ment of their manner cf Jivin.
The man never buy3 what, can be
made at home, and what he does
buy" is with cash.
Such cases as this are so rare as fo
be remarkable. It was not a jrood
day for the country w hen the mm-io
of the spiuniug wheel aud loom of
our mothers and grandmothers wns'j
! ....: ii. . . . . 1...
hushed. Could there be a return' of j "
11.. t.t : .- . .,n
(4iose times when the farm produced l,iU netm. ,aju..t iui.oh
what the famih consumed and the
good women made what was worn
yoti would hear of fewer mortgages
on the farm and tiie hard times
croaker would lose his occupation.
It Never Kilts.
Nashville Sim.
A South. Carolina editor was id ruck re
cently by .lightning, but not seriou-dy hurt.
Possibly it w-as the sort of chained light
ning they manufacture - asnoi::; tlx? Fast
Tennessee i:oat'!.iins. It r-mici sines .ans
but iK'vw-r ki'.H.
him blindlv literaHv.
Dr. Lee S . Stevenson, of Xevr
Yttrk, w ho v. asin the city last night,
told the World of a verv distressing
occurrence on th Western train netir
Marion last evening. A lad" from
St i'esvilic was taken suddenly ill on
the train au I Dr. Steveascn, wht
wasu'soon this train, was summoned
to relieve her. lie w at once that
she was in a critical conditio:'.
After administering opiates to the
lady Dr. Steveusan found that sIkj
was on the verge of premature con
ception. The chili, was delivered
on tho cars, but it was not thought
that the mother would live natil ti e
train reached Statesvillo. She was
removed from the train at Statesville,
bnt Dr. Stevenson stated that he did
not think she could live throngli
the cijrht.
.K"r trv a 1 -. t ixi." . .,f'-Tf t!i
The "onrorij standard, speaking of a cer
tain Populist tuiper of this Mate, say that
il "vloe.-i not bidii-ve (he row law makes a
tsx payer liable to line and imprisonment
Ur failure to nay taxes; does v.nt lielieve
ti.e law is anything niore thrn the IVnw-t-rats
bad; does nit believe Atbrtiey Oen-
cral M alscr admitieil ll.e fact, or that Ite i
knew what he was Udl.ing about if he did.
The ledger -f the; re- rding rtigel no doubt
coiita'ns the record td the ra.'of a goil
immy gentlemen wlodM not S'li?veii 1 1:?
trtttii of th Christian rclig'nn If I they
wik up iu ht-i I . hen the j rt ' dr c'o-s t
Sndiind t'.:s populist eUttr h" win l-:i - J
h g.tt j-':d nj're fi.-.ni. he U. iiw ' bar- j
l:J!e Obv-rtcr. I
Nix People Xturuetl by Iucentlie
ry Fire.
LorisvLLK,Ky.,Jnly 8. An Even
ing Post special from Pineville, Ky.,
says: Ilugli Joeson and family of
five, wholitt'd 15 miles northeast of
this place, were burned to death.
Tuesday uight, being unable to es
cape from their cott;;ge wbi'di was
fired over their Leads. Tlte t'oad are
Hugh JiK'Son, the father; Mary
Joeson, his wife; Fannie Jisoi, a
daughter 14 year.3 old; John Joeson,
a sou tCn years old; a daughter S
year? old; Maggie, a daughter ftc
year.i old.
Tho remains of !' six were fonml
in the debris. The lire w as Uridmild
edly of incendiary orin and th
Pk'H county ofiicers are taking stop
to discover theguilly pty or parties.
if ai wat t " cit,t uvii(tv .sit
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