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wlTflt f if GtT m ri- ifl (I JAMES C. BOYLIN, Publisher. The Wadesboro Messenger and Wadesboro Intelligencer Consolidated July, 1888. PRICE, SI a Year. NEW SERIES-VOL II..-N0. 36. Wadesboro, N. C, Thursday, March 17, 1898. WHOLE NUMBER 889 Extreme Weakness Chronic Diarrhoea for Years Feet and Ankles Swelled and Blood , ... Was Out of Order Cured by " Hood's Sarsaparilla. ; - "I was troubled with chronic diarrhoea for eight years and tried everything I was told was good for it, but no medicine did mo any good. I kept up all the time but was so weak I could not do anything. If I walked a few hundred yards I would be out of breath. My feet and ankles swelled very badly and I had about given up all hope of ever being well. I read 'about Hood's Sarsaparilla, and, knowing my blood was out of order, decided to give it a fair trial. I have now taken nine pr ten bottles of it and several bottles of Hood's Pills, and T am perfectly well." Mrs. S. Aw Wakd, Battleboro, N. C. Oarsa-parilla - .......... Is the Best in fact the One True Blood Purifier. Sold by all druggists. 51 ; six for $5. Hnnrl'c Dillc are the best after-dinner UU rllli pills, aid digestion. 25c y t-5kIi'BE!'NE'rT. Jno. T. Bennett . " o Ckawfosd D. Bknnktt. . Bennett & Bennett Attorn eys-atLawf fra bod's Wadtisboro, N. C. Last room on the right in the court house. Will practice in all the courts of the, State. Special attention given to the examination and investigation of Titles to Real Estate, drawing Deed3 and other instruments, Col lection of Claims, the Managing of Estates for Gv.ardian3, Administrators and Execu tors, and the Foreclosure of Mortgages. Will attend the couj-ts of Stanly and Mont gomery counties. Prompt attention given to all business in trusted to them. W. F. GRAY, D. J). S., (Office in Smith & L anlap Building. Wadesboro, North Carolina. Will be at Morveit first Tuesday in each month. 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PANSIES, NASTURTIUMS YAv''r SWEET PEAS, one Pkt. of 1 J each variety for only C ft ft ?T' mod ll df.nof Tb Prttndl 0 lliUI Invading fre copy of 1888 Catalogue and Floral Culture, HISS C. I. UPPWCOTT, lit Sixth tUwt So., HlDOtepolU, Hfno. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM Cleanse and beautifie the hair. Promote luxuriant srowth. Never Fails to B eetore Gray; tLa.iv to its xoutoiui voior. Cures scalp diseases & bair falling. gOc.and tl.Wat Drugeias C'apt. Feral Makes a Statement -The President of the Span ish Court of Inquiry Says the Destruction of the Maine Was Due to an Accident Which Con Id Sot Possibly Have Been Foreseen The Condition or the Wreck; as Reported by Spauish Rivers. Havana, March ii. Today Captain Peral, president of the Spanish naval court of inquiry into the cause of the Maine disaster, granted an interview to the correspondent of the Associated Press, whom he authorized to say that it was the first and only interview he had given any newspaper on the subject of the inquiry. Captain Peral speaks ex cellent English. With him in the naval court is Lieutenant Salas. He has pow er to call in for consultation any army or navy engineer or expert on explosives or marine building. He has twice called in such, and will do so again when nec essary. Captain Peral said: "Our divers are at work examining the hull of the Maine. Great difficulty is experienced, owing to the deep mud in which the hull is buried, and the con dition of the wreck forward amidships. The wiiole forward part of the ship is a mass of iron and steel debris. We have hoisted up much of it, but in the mud it is not always possible to tell what part of the ship, armour, deck, beams or stan cions are found, the explosion so changed their positions. . We think we have located the ram or prow, but not in the position supposed. The forward turret, moun ing two large guns, was blown clear of the hull into the water on the starboard. We shall continue our work and try to examine the hull forward down to tlTe keel. It is possible that we' may propose to the American authorities to raise the hull by means of the floating dock brought from England and now in Havana harbor. :" We cannot believe there was an ex ternal explosion of a torpedo, for the to I Ansr311 A torpedo; follow ing the line of least resistance, must have blown a great hole in the mud at the bottom of the harbor. No such hole was found. A torpedo must have thrown a 'large mass of water into the air if ex ploded at a depth of only 25 feet or so, at least have produced a" wave reaching the other ships and the shore of the har bor. We have examined everyone on shipboard or shore who saw the explo sion, but no one can be found who re nWrked an upheavel of the water or big wave. "A torpedo explosion always kills fish in the vicinity. No fish were killed by the Maine disaster, as-shermen who have known the harbor for many years testify. To produce the effects noted in the wreck a torpedo would have to be of enormous size, fully 150 or 200 kilos. "I am therefore of the opinion that the explosion occurred within the ship. I know and respect Captain Sigsbee, and I believe the American regulations affect ing naval, conduct, which I have read and found admirable,' were carefully ob served; but some things unforeseen are bound to happen in any navy. "I have been reading of the explosion on the English ship Dolerel, which the English believe was caused by chemi cal combustion in the paint used for quick drying. I have also read an Eng lish account of shells that were found burst open because of hardening points that split and produced heat, thus flash ing the powder in the interior of the shell. "As I have said, I do not believe there was any carelessness on the part of the officers of the Maine. I do believe that there was an accident which could not possibly have been foreseen. Such is my judgment at present, with the facts that are in possession of the court. When our court of inquiry decides, its judgment will be in accordance with the best evidence that can be procured. We are having plans, diagrams and drawings of the wreck made as fast as the divers are able to give us definite informa tion; Captain Peral was most courteous dur ing the entire interview. He illustrated some ot the poins he made by - ink sketches ou the desk before him. He spoke as a judge would whose mind was ready to weigh any evidence brought be fore the court over which he presided. It should be borne, in mind that this is the first and only interview . he has given, any one. Captain Peral requested this correspondent to make it known that he had granted the interview in his unofficial capacity, and not as presideut of the Spanish court of inquiry, which the law forbids. , STATU OFXORT1I CAKOL.IXA. - Ansox County. -Superior Court Office of Clerk. The creditors of the estate of Daniel P Johnson, deceaiet, Are hereby notified that a social proceed in? has been institu ted in said court before the clerk thereof, by W. j. Little and others, in behalf of all the creditors of naid estate against W; It. Johnson and J. ?: Jones, the executors and he heirs at law ami devisees 01 saw ie- Jont. for the purpose ot ascertaining the iliiOIS ouiMaiiumu aamai nam rsimc and of making assets to pay the same. The i reditors are hereby notified to file the evi dence f their claims witii the undersigned clerk of said court, at his office in the court house at Vailesi)oro, on or before the ?th tin v of April. 1'.3.- February 8th, 18OS. J0I1N0. llcLll'CIlLlX, (,!rV nf S'i'ifrior Ponrt. SPANISH DIVKKS DECIETFUI.. hardly raise a small wave. A detona tion of gun cotton in the open air makes a mark its own size in steel or blows stone to fragments. In the water a' tor pedo itself would not be felt at any greater distance. It requires the resist ance of a solid body and would be dis sipated in water or mud. This disposes of the wave theory, and the affecting of the shore or. boats in the harbor." As to the hole in the Maine.the expert in question makes the most important state ment that the Maine drew 28 to 30 feet at the time of the explosion an I had about 10 feet of water below her bottom to the sur face mud. On the port side, where the United States divers are now at work, there is a present 47 -feet of water. "May not this be the hole," he says, "which Captain Peral says could not be found.' If it is, the hole was more than seven feet deep when the explosion took place, and has been greatly filled with mud since. As to the finding of dead fish, the United States court of inquiry has not seen a solitary fish since it began work on the wreck. The bodies recovered from the Maine have no been touched by fish. Some of the fishermen in Havana testily that there were no fish inside the harbor, the waters being too f mi tor them. Some times they come part of the way in duriDg the day, but all go out at night. Further, as to the alleged discoveries of Spanish divers reported to Captain Peral, five American divers have been working on the port side of the wreck on an average of seven hours each per day, for nearly three weeks, in a space 50 feet wide. The Spanish diveis have never been inside the wreck all, neither have they ever been on the port side, devoting the short hoar which they have spent under ws.ier to the starboard side forward and outside the hull. Recently, to their own surprise, they brought up two can3 of ammunition for the six inch guns not exploded. . They dropped them back when the light of the surface showed they were unexploded, and what their nature was. Further, the Spanish diver3 often go down only long enough to wet their suits, aud then come up and hide behind a blanket on the barge, where they sleep or rest for a couple of hours, and then go ashore and report that they cannot see anything in the mud and water. They could not have found the ram of the Maine, since they have not been down in the locality of that part of the wreck. They have not located the turret with the ten-inh guns, though the spot has been pointed out by Captain Shard, in charge of the wreckers, where there is only 16 feet and should be 26 feet. This spot is outside the hull of the starboard side. It is probable that the turret is there, partly buried in the mud. All of these facts are known by the United States court , of inquiry, having been elicited in the , examination of those in a position to know. The" expert interviewed by the correspondent' ex presses the belief that the Maine was blown up by what is known as a New pert station torpedo, or something of the same nature. This engine of destruction is the joint product of the labors of Com mander Converse, commander of the Montgomery; Lieutenant Comminder McLean, now in command of the torpedo station at Newport, and Senoir Lieuten ant Holman, ordinance officer of the Maine, at the time of the explosion. The Newport torpedo can be planted from a small boat, and the expert believes" that this one was exploded by being struck on the port side or the Maine forward of amidships a? she swung to her moorings. He thinks this more likely than that wire-? laid from the shore, a3 the. wires, if laid for any length of time would sink deep in the loose harbor mud. It would be singular if it should prove that the Maine was blown up by a torpedo in the invention of which one of her principal officers, Lieutenant Holman, bore a no table part. All of the above statements of fact and surmises come from authority upon which the court depends for much of its evidence, and is given to the correspond ent without re.-ervation except as to the name and rank of the giver. THE SEA POWER. Children and adults tortured by burns. scalds, injuries, eczema or skin diseases may secure instant relief by using De Witt's itcn llazel halve, it is the great Pile remedy. James A. iiardison. luuder Water Hardly Long Enough to Wet Their Clothes Brought Two Cans of Unex- : ploded Ammunition to the Surface, and Dropped Them The Hole That Capt. Feral Says Could not be Found Au American Oflicer Shows Up A Lot of Spanish Trickery. Havana, via Key West, March 12. It is impossible to secure direct from Ha vana anything in refutation of Captain Peral's statement of yesterday, regarding the views of the Spanish court of inquiry as to the Maine disaster. However, an American officer, who is an expert, says in effect, and his words are worthy of weight, as he knows absolutely of what he is talking: "I am a graduate of the torpedo school, and have studied the ef fects of torpedoes and mine3 from obser vation and experiments. "A torpedo exploded at a depth of six feet would throw a column of water 100 feet into the air; at 12 feet deep 10 feet in the air. arcl at' 30 feet denr would Laid an Egg With a l ull Formed Chicken in It. Greenville Iteflector. Mr. F. Harris lives near Fort Barnwell, in Craven county, having moved there from Pitt about the first of the year. Fri day afternoon he came in the Reflector of fice and said that he waunted to tell us an item for the paper. When invited to proceed, he said that on Tuesday last one Of his hens laid the most wonderful eg? he had ever seen or ever heard of. The egg whea laid had the i head and neck of a chicken protruding from one end, looking like it was being batched. The shell was intact, and closely ntteu about the neck ot the chicken, which was dead He said that he was positive that the egg had just, been laid, for as soon as the hen lelt the nest cackling, one ot his chil dren ran there and found it, and as the nest had been watched it could not have gotten there in any other way. He has kept the egg to substantiate the proof of his story. If true this beat3 all the chicken wonders yet produced. I have been afilicted with rheumatism for fourteen years and nothing seemed to give any reliet. 1 was able to be around all the time, but constantly suf- lering. xiiaa tnea everything l could hear of and at last was told to try Cham berlain's Pain Balm, which I did, and was immediately relieved and in a short time cured. I am happy to say that it has not since returned. Josh .Edgar, Germantown, Cal. For sale by J. A Hardison. Just try a 10a box of Cascarets, the finest liver ana Dowei resuiaior ever maae. 1 m ji tin 1 3 s 1 1 i vr? Should be In every family medicine chest and every traveller's grip. They are 'nvaluable when the stomach PHI s out of order i cure headache, biliomnpsa, and ail liver troubles. Mild aid I:vnjt. : Naval natties Ancient and JTIoderii. Baltimore Sun. w The first naval battles of which we have any authentic account are those de scribed by Herodotu3 and Thucydidea. Salanais Is famous for the victory of the Athenian fleet over the fleet of Xerxes, gained as much by tactic-3 a? by superior courage. The repulse of the Persians was followed by the establishment by the Athenians of a maritime empire, em bracing the islands of the Egean sea and Greek colonies, in the coast land3 ot the present "Turkey in Europe" and along the coast of Asia Minor. Predom inance in Greece itself was disputed with the Lacedaemonians, with the result of a war lasting many years, which ended in the destruction of the Athenian po wer. The war, as planned by Pericles, was to be a naval war. Athens was strong in number of shirs and ruled the Eastern seas. The naval engagements were in numerable and upon the whole favorable to Athens, uatil the strategic scheme of Pericles was discarded and foreign en terprises involving the large u33of troop3 such is the expedition to Sicily were entered upon. The narrative of Thucy- d'des shows that the same general prin- iples of naval strategy applied to the use ot triremes, or lonir warnips pro pelled by oars, as afterward applied to sailing vessels and now apply to steamers, and control of the sea wa3 as much an instrument of empire in ancient times as now. The follies of the Athenian de mocracy, with he gradual growth of the sea power of Sparta, led to the decisive defeat of the Athenian fleet at Aegos Po tamos, not far from Constantinople in B. C. 405. In the Punic wars there were notable ngagomeat3 between Roman and Car thaginian fleet", which resulted in Rome's aining control of tha western p irtion of the Mediterranean. In the second Punic war Hannibal was forced by this fact to march through Spain and cross the Alps by at interior route instead of striking across the sea. Roman power at sea al so prevented his being reinforced ade quately from Africa, and almost wholly cut him off from supplier. It prevented his brother, HasJrubal, from bringing him help and kept his alliance with Mac edonia from proving useful. The value ot sea power in breaking the e iemy's line of communications is illustrated in the ultimate failure of Hiuuibal- The battle of Actium. fought by An tony and Octavius Caesar on the west coast of Greece, was oae of the decisive battles of the world. In the samj neigh borhood was fought in 1571 the decisive battle of Lepinto, between a Turkish fleet and the combined fleets of the Chris tian states of Europe, led by Don John of Austria. From this engagement dates the great decline of the Ottoman power. The battle of Navarino, in 1837, between a Turkish fleet and a fleet of the Western powers, decided the fate of Greeoj. One of the most famous nivil events of modern times was the destruction in 153S of the Spania'a Armula, saat by King Philip to cover an invasion of England from Flander3 by the Prinze of Parma. The Spanish fleet numbered 129 lanje vessels, or 150 altogether. It carried 10,- 295 soldiers and 8,460 sailors', besides rowers. The Prince of Pat ma had a flo tilla of boats to land his 35,000 soldiers at the mouth oCthe Thames. To oppose these forces the English had 30 large ves sels and about 150 small one, with some 13,000 sailor3. On July 3J the Armtda was seen standing up the channel in the form of a crescent seven miles long. Next day and fv.r a wet-k after there was des ultory fighting, the English avoiding a general engagement, but inflicting severe lo3se3. On August 6 the Spanish flet anchored at Calais and its commander urged the Prince of Parma to begin cross ing to England. But next day the Ar mada was scattered by meins of fire ships, ana, on the 8;h, Drake attacked it while in disorder, killing 4,000 men and disabling many ships. The remaining 120 ships attempted to return to Spain by the North sea, but only 54, with soms 10, 000 men aboard, reached homs. The nival hi3tory of th3 last throe hundred years is a history of English wars with H lland, France and Spiin. Holland in 1650 held the place as carrier for tha world now held by Englanl, and for half a century disputed with England the control of the sea. Their naval bat tles are innumerable. In 1667 Di Ruyter ascended the Thames, and the smoke of English ships fired by the Dutch fleet was seen in London-. . For over two weeks he held the mouth of that river. But the English finally won, and the mastery of the sea ha3 been almost con tinuously held by the English for the last three hundred years. The French and Spanish, however, often disputed the British power, and a bare -enumeration of the naval battles England has fought with these powers would fill a column of the Sun. Luck favored this side aud that, but the general result has bean that the French and Spanish emerged from their war3 with their fleets sunk or in British bands. One of the notable fights was the ii.de cisive engagement off Port Mahon in 1756, the hief result of which was that Admiral Byng was tried and shot for not fighting with enough spirit. A mora important engagement was that fought in the West Indies in 1733 between De Gras3e and Rodney, in which De Grasse was captured,, with most of hi3 ships. Much interest attaches to the battle of the Nile, in IT8D, in which the Fj&ach fleet was annihilated by a British fleet under Nelson, with the important result that Napoleon's communications with France were destroyed. The French army in Egypt was thus placed in a diffi cult position and ultimately lost. More interesting still was the naval campaign, continued over a year, which 1 resulted in the defeat of Napoleon's plan for the invasion of England and in the Villeneuve at Trafalgar by alBritish fleet under Nel3on. Napoleon's scheme was to unite three French fleets built and assembled at Toulon, Brest and Roche fort in the West Indies and to bring them thuj united secretly to the English Channel to cover the crossing of an army of invasion which he held in readiness. It was expected that the English would be puzzled by the movement to the West Indies and would get their ships so scatteied in distant parts of the world that there would be no force left in the Channel strong enough to resist the French fleet or prevent the invasion. But the plan miscarried. The vessels in Brest could not break the English block ado. Those from T'oulon a id Rochefort escaped and went t" the West Indies, but Nelson sailed after them and returned in time to thwart their movement upon the Channel. The result was that Napoleon gave up the projected invasion and hur ried his army away to Ulm and Austerlitzr NeTson attacked the combined French and Spanish fleets at Trafalgar in 1S05, since which time no European power has successfully withstood the British sea power. The fall of Sebastopol illus trates its far-reaching effects. By means of her fleet England and her allies, were able to plant men and guns at the point of action faster than Russia could convey them over land. The first principle of strategy "to get there first with the most men" -was thus conformed to, and Rus sia's enormous resources were of no prac tical U3e to her. The introduction of steam power does not alter the principles of strategy. It only makes naial officers the more independent of wind and tides. LAWS TOUCH I XU F.KKXTS. UELXICS- WAtt IS ItOLI TO tout: Col. Jenkins Has Seen the Sign in the Corn Itlades, Which Siii Has Always I'rOved Infallible. Elkin correspondence of the Statesville Landmark. The war question is settled in this neighborhood, or at least it is settled that there will be war, either between the United States and Spain or between the United States and some other uation. Col. John Jenkins, keeper of the bridge be tween Elkin and Jouesville, says he has noticed the signs of war in the corn fields for the past two years. He says the corn blades are split into three prongs at the end, aud that each prong is the shape of a sword vith a keen edge. This means war, and the three prougs menn that the war will continue for three yea.. Col. Jenkins is an old soldier of the sixties and knows whereof he speaks. His great grandmother noticed the same signs before the Revolution, the blades then having seven prongs, and his father noticed it before the war between the Yanks and Johnnies, the blades having five prongs. Many other farmers have noticed the same signs, but didn't know it meant war until so informed. Th colonel has no objection to another war, though he is marching toward his seven tieth mi'.e-post and his hair would shame the snow-drifts, yet he is as straight as an arrow and his body is apparently as lithe as that of a boy of eighteen. He is ready to enlist "just any time," provided they will let him do his fighting on laud. His Oii Majority. Cincinnati Enquirer. ' When this town was organized," said the early settler of the little Western, town, "I was elected Mayor by a major ity of only one vote." "Pretty closa shave," s.i'td tli2 new comer. "Oh, tolable. But there was only five votes in the town then." Chainberlaiu's Cough Itemedy. This remedy is intended especially for coughs, colds, croup, whoopngi cough and influenza. It Las become famous for its cures of these diseases, over a large part of the civilized world. The most flattering testimonials have been received, giving accounts of its good works; of the aggravating and persist ent coughs it has cured; ot severe colds thathav yielded promptly to its soothing effects, and of the dangerous attacks of croup it has cured, often saving the life of the child. The extensive use of it for whooping cough has bhown that it rob that disease of all dangerous conse quences. It is especially prized by moth ers for their childien, as it never fails to effect a speedy cure, and because they have found that there is not the least dauger in giving it, even to babies, as it contains nothing injurious, bold by J A. Hardison, Some oT the Results It We Rtt - osuize the llelligerency of the Cuban Republic. Xew York Sun. Though this nation has not outlined its policy in regard to Cuba, the Maine incident aside, there is a belief more or less general that the first step to be ta ken would be the submission to Con gress of all the facts in the possession of the administration in relation to the rev olution and possibly a recommendation that the belligerancy of the Cuban re public should be recognized. There is more difference of opinion about what the recognition of the bel ligerency of the insurgents means and what rights it would guarantee to them or give them than about any other ques tion now tinder discussion. Here, brief ly told, is what the accepted books on international law say about it: A neutral nation shall not lend money to a belligerent. It shall not sell to it any munitions of war or any warships. A nation 'is bound to use due diligence to prevent the luting: out, arming or equipping within its jurisdiction of any vessel which it has reasonable grounds to believe is intended to cruise or carry on war with a power with which it is at peace, such vessel having been especial ly adapted in whole or in part within such jurisdiction to warlike use. It shall not suffer or permit either belligerent to make use of its ports or waters as the base of naval operations . against the other, or for the purpose of renewal or augumeutation of military supplies or arms or the recruitment of men. That is to say, if the United States recognizes a belligeiency of the insur gents it could not lend money to them, it could not sell them war supplies or warships, it could not permit their ships to remain in our ports except in stress of weather or to make repairs any longer time than is necessarv to take on board provisions (which may include coal sufli cient only to permit the return of the 'vessel to one of the insurgents' ports if they have one). But the individual is net r-o bound The law is that between the belligerents and the individual 110 legal obligation can be said to exist. An individual Cit izen of this country may lend money to the insurgents. That is a matter of business. Woolsey says: "The private person, if the laws of his own State or some spe cial treaty does not forbid, can lend money to the enemy of a State at peace with his own country, or can enter its service as a soldier without involvin tlie government ot ins country in guilt." hnow, anotner great autnonty, says: "As to the munitions of war an applica tion of this same rule sems logical. The ollowing quotation from Thomas Jeffer son gives the past and present practice of that nation as to individuals: 'Our citizens have always been free to make, vend and export arms. It is the con stant occupation an I livelihood of some of them. To suppress their callings, the only means, perhaps, of their existence, because a war exists in foreign and dis tant countries in which we have no con cern, would scarcely be expected. It would be hard in principle aud impossi ble in practice. The law of nations, therefore, respecting the rights of those at peace does not require from them such au internal derangement of their occupa tion. It is satisfied with the external penalty pronounced in the president's proclamation, that of confiscation of such portion of these arms as shall fall into the hands of the belligerent power on their way to the ports of their ene mies. " So, it would seem, the insurgents would have the right to purchase here all manner of munitions of war aud ship them subject only to the risk of capture by the Spanish. The recognition of belligerency would also give to Spain and to Cuba if it gets a navy, the right to hold up American ships whenever they meet them and search them for articles contraband of war,, aud if those articles are destined for the use of the enemy to the ship holding them up, that ship has a right to confiscate the articles . and any other things in the ship's cargo that may be long to the consignor of the munitions of war. When bilous or costive, eat a Cascaret candy catharlic, cure guaranteed, 10c, 25c. What ss fi cott's mulsion? It is a strengthening iooi and tonic remarkable in its f lesh-f orm- inc? properties. It contains Cod- Liver Oil emulsified or partially digested, combined with the well known and highly prized Hypo phosphites of lime and Soda, so that their potency is materially increased. Wlist Will Bt Do? It will arrest loss of flesh and restore to a normal condition the Infant, the child and the adult. It will enrich the blood of the anemic will stop the cough, heal the irrita tion of the throat and lungs, and cure incipient consumption. "We make this statement because the experience of twenty-five years has proven it in tens of thousands of Cases. Bt sunjrcu get SCOTT'S Emulsion, 50c and $1.00, H drerjists. SAW A PLAY BATTLE. Senator I'roctor and Col. Par- leer Tell or Opera Bon ire War in Cuba A Few Insurgents De leated Awful Condition or Re- i concentrados Has To Re Seen In Order to be Understood. Special Dispatch to Baltimore Sun. Key West, Fla., March 10. Senator Proctor and his companion, Col. SI. JI. Parker, of Washington, both of whom hwe returned from an extended visitor to Cuba, left Key West for Washington to night. Both the returned Americans gave an amusing description.of a "battle between a company ot apanish cavalry ana a handful of insurgents, which took place while they were on a train near Matan zas, aud which they say was undoubtedly prepared, opera-bouffe-like, for their es pecial benefit. Before reaching the Matanzas, station they noticed that the telegraph wires were cut and slight obstructions were put on the track to impede their progress. On a hill in the distance they could see silhou ettes of a dozen Cuban insurgents out lined against the sky. In the valley Spanish cavalrymen had started toward the rebels, but were brought to a sudden halt by bullets from the enemy. The distance was too great to hear the sound of the shots, but the smoke from the Cubans' rifles told what was transpiring, lne bpaniards Halted ana lormea a hollow square, while the officers sought safety behind some convenient trees Meanwhile the insurgents withdrew into the dense woods, and the Spaniards re turned to the station in time to meet the train and receive the congratulations of the commander of the district. All this by-play struck Senator Proctor as amusing war tactic 3. A Confederate veteran who accompanied the party asked the Spanish officer in command why he had not given chase to the in surgents, as there were not more than a dozen of them. The Spaniard's reply was characteristic that there were more than a thousand more behind the hills The story is told that each member of that Spanish cavalry troop has already received a medal in commemoration of his bravery in the "battle." Mr. Proctor said he had a good oppor tuuity to see the condition of affairs on the island. He visited the provinces of Pinar del Rio. Matanzas and Santa Clara. Of the condition of the people, Mr. Proctor said he could add nothing to what was already knowu of their suf fering and starvation. He was gratified to find relief supplies being distributed in the way to do the most good and at comparatively small cost. He spoke in high terms of the energy and ability of Mr. Elwell, agent of the Cuban relief committee, and of the work of Clara Barton. Mr. Proctor added that while not himself a specialist in charita ble work, he had been much interested in the way supplies sent from America are being distributed and was impressed with the efficient manner of the work He had been shown many courtesies by the Spanish officials, and among these officials lie had not observed any marked anti-American feeling. Colonel Parker was more outspoken regarding the condition of the starving Cubans. Not half the horrors of that land, he said, had been told. In Matan zas he was officially informed that fifty seven hundred persons had died of starvation there during the last three months. Visiting one place where recouceutra dos were herded; he saw three die dur ing the few minutes he was there. He found the same condition existing in other parts of the island. No efforts, he said, were made by the Spanish govern ment to feed the reconceutrados. The government had herded them in cities and towns and left them to subsist on charity or starve. The hospital wards are oercrowded with these wretched people, while the public parks and boulevards swatm with others equally as desperate. The dead, who are too numerous to receive prompt and proper burial, are strown every where, the whole making a picture of ghastliness beyond imagination, and Col. Parker says, "rendering the crime of concentration the crowning shame of the nineteenth century." Royl make the food pare, wboleoiB mmd deUclM. K t FflVDER Absolutely Puro TO PROTECT 'WILMISGTOS. Submarine .Mines Sent to tort Caswell They Will be Placed iu the Channel 01T the Uar. - Wilmington Messenger, 9th. Yesterday a large shipment of subma rine mines, wnicn arrived nere oy uie Atlantic Coast Line, were sent to Fort Caswell on the steamer Wilminton. These mines'' are big round torpedoes and are shells of iron, each loaded with 500 pounds of dynamite. They are 33 inches in diameter, and each of them weigh sev eral hundred pounds. - These mines will be kept at Fort Cas well and are intended to be planted in the channel of the bar in case of emergency. They can be planted in no time and will sprout if need be. They will be connect ed with wires to an electric battery in the fort, and the touching of a button will cause them to explode with terrific effect. Any one of them would play havoc with a big ship. In the event of war with any other power a net work of these mines will be placed in the channel. The shipments of munitions to Fort Caswell yesterday wa3 just the beginning. We learn that a large number of other mines, powder and projectiles are ex pected at any day. We are informed that this is but carrying out the plan when the fortifications at Fort Caswell were pro jected a couple of years ago. A II API? WOMAN sr. h; A Strange Ocath iu ?adkiu. ilkesboro llusller. From a private source we get the following information of a peculiar and sad death in Yadkin county the latter part of last week: A few days ago Coleman Wade, a young, prosperous merchant, had an at tack of pneumonia and his physician had given up all hope for his recovery he was too weak even ' to take any nourishment. At the time above re ferred to his sister was watchiug him. All at once he sprang up in the bed in au excited manner and asked her what it was he saw. She told him there was nothing. He replied that there was that the devil had come after him, aud sprang on the floor and ran under the bed. the called the physician and tried to pull him from under the bed, but they were unable to do so; as he had his hands clasped around the post, they then rolled the bed from over him and, in attempting to get under a chair, he got his head between two rounds, and in struggling while in that position be broke his ueck before he could be extricated, dying almost in stantly. m A thrill of terror is experineed when a brassy cough of croup sounds tlsroniili the house at mutit. Bui t lie terror soon changes !o relief utter One Minuie l ough Cure lias been administered. Sate and Harmless for children. James A. Hardison. We are anxious to do a 1 it tic good in this world and can think of no pleasanter or better way to do it than by recommending One ilinute t'ou.uh Cure as a preventive of pneumonia, consumption and other serious luiit; troubles tiiat fullow neglected colds. James A. Hardison. How Daniel Webster Was Hired Out. Of course, Webster was in demand by those who could afford to pay for his services, says the Koston Herald. A sharp Nantucket man is said to have got the better of the great defender of the constitution in an amusing way, however." Ha had a small case which was to be tried at Nantucket one week in June, and he posted to Webster's office in great haste It was a contestwith a neighbor over a matter of considerable local interest, and his pride as a litigant was at stake. He told Webster the particulars, and asked what he would charge to conduct the case. "Why," said Webster, "you can't afford to hire .me. I should have to stay down there the whole week, and my fee would be more than the whole case is worth. I couldn't go down there for less than 11,000. 1 could try every case on the docket a3 well as one, and it wouldn't cost any more, for one case would take my time for the entire week, any way." "All right, Mr. Webster," quickly responded the Nantucketer.-here'syourf 1,000. Ytfu come down and 1 11 fix it so you can try every case." Webster was so amused over this proposition that he kept his word. He spent the entire week in Nantucket, and appeared on one side or the other in every case that came up for a hearing. The shrewd Nantucketer hired Daniel out to all his friends who were in litiga tion, and received in return about $1,500, so that he got Webster's services for noth ing and made a good profit to boot. m aii Don't annov others by your conslnng, and risk onr life by nes lectin it a cold. One Minute Cn:i :'i (' ( --. - ' writes to Dr. Ilartinan and Tells Hiiu What .Makes Her So. Mrs. Lucy Lee, of Naples, Tex., had almost come to the conclusion that the blessing of health was uo longer hers, nnd so wheu she re gained it, her happiness was almost too great for words. She writes as follows: "I am well now and am enjoying good health, better than ever be fore in my life. 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