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Bailie of Hie Yalar Fought by
the Jnpanrs mid Chinese in
-.JS94. .
The battle of the Yalu , fought on Sep
tember 17, 1894, is the only rnodernsea
fight w'hereiu the new weapons were em
ployed and yet the conclusions drawa
from it are singulary unsatisfactory. Ow
ing to the character of contest -and the
limitations imposed upon foreign naval
officers the lessons except in the reasser
tion of the unquenchable vitality of the
great underlying principle, the supreme
importance of battleships were not such
as would have been taught by a conflict
between two great Western powers,
Giveu the same fleets wich different civ
ilizations controlling, many vexed prob
lems of tactics and construction might
have been solved; however, no Western
powers could more have emphasized the
value of sea power and the necessity of
preparing in peace for the demands made
by the sudden, sharp and short warfare
of modern times. Two fleets were enga
ged, the Japanese, consisting of iwelvt
ihips, the Chienese of ten, and these in
eluded coast defense vessels, armored
cruisers, protected cruisers, cruisers, gun
boats, and a very few torpedo boats. Ad
miral I110, the Japanese Commander-in-chief
flew his flag on the Matsushima, and
Admiral Ting Ju Chang, gallant and spir
ited officer, carried hi3 on the Ting Yaen.
The day was beautiful, bright haze res
ting over the smooth water, and flocks of
clouds drifting high against the blue of
the upper skies. The official account of
the battle shows that smoke was dis
covered by the anchored Chinese fleet
to the southward about 10 a. m. aDd that
Admiral Ting got his squadron u nder way
in line of battle. The two battleships
were in the centre.the smaller ships on the
flanks, anJ the to torpedo boats and
their consorts rested at a considerable
distance under cover of the fleet. At slow
speed the Chinese vessels steamed to
meet the approaching ships of the Japa
nese moving forward in column of ships.
The first squadron.consisting of the Yos
hino.Takachino, Akit.Sushiina, and Nan-
wa, in the lead. At hrsc tnese vessels
headed for the centre of the Chinese line,
bu ton approach they gradually altered
their course so as to cross its front and
pass beyond and around the Tight wing.
A similar evolution was performed by the
main squadron, which consisted of the
Matsushima, Chiyoda Itsukushima, Hash
idate, Hiyel.Fuso and Akaji.
From the Japanese' fleet the Chinese
vessels appeared to be formed either in
an irregular line or en echelon, and it
was recognized that the Ting Yuen and
the Chen Yuen were in the center, with
the sister ships Ching Yuen and Chin
Yuen, Lai Yuen, and King Yuen on ei- 1
ther side, and the other inferior ships on
the flanks. During the approach tw j
Chinese "ships were seen on the port
bow, well, off the right flank. When the
leading vessels were still separated by
6,000 yards the Chinese opeued fire, but
their adversaries kept on silently until
they were distant 3,000 yards when, si
multaneously, they opened and sustained
a most vigorous fire. It is unnecessary
to go into the details ot the engagement,
though it may suffice it to say that the
Japanese doubled their enemy's line and
got them between a cross fire; that the
Chinese fleet was ' scattered, her
other ships bolted, in a flurry of fear, and
that a murderous, most devastating as
sault was made upon the Chen Yuen and
the Ting Yuen by five of the heav iest Jap
a nese Vessels. , ' ;
COMMANDER MCGIFFIN'S STORY.
The story of th's fight has been told
by the late Philo McQiffin, an officer, for
merly of the United States Navy, who
had taken service with the Chinese. His
graphic story as told at the War Col
lege, and in the pages of the Century
Magazine, is one of the most vivid and
important contributions made to the lit
erature of the -subject. He was second
in commander of the Chen Yeun, and was
caught in the seething volcano of flame
and fire when the Japanese doubled oe
the line.
"We were thus," he describes in the
Century article, "between two fires. As
the principal squadron turned and al
tered its course, the two Chinese iron
clads turned also, keeping bows on to
their van, the Chen Yuen preserving
her station and distance from the flag
ship, as indeed, she continued to do
throughout the battle. The Japanese
willingly bear witness that the two
ironclads preserved their formation and
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that the Chen Yuen, by her movements
and gunpractice, covered the Ting Yuen
when in straits, and in, fact, prevented the
fleet from suffering annihilation instead
of its actual heavy loss. The principal
squadron now seemed to ignore the four
smaller Chinese vessels and its five ships
steamed around our two ironclads.pouriDg
in a storm of shell. Time and again
fires broke out but, with one notable ex
ception, the flames were subdued without
much trocble. Some of the enemy's ships
used melinite shells, the noxious fumes
from which could at once be distinguish
ed from those of powder.
"As the principal squadron circled
around us the range va'ied from 2,000
meters (nearly two miles) to perhaps 1,-
000 meters or even less. At about 3 o'clock J
the Matsushima closed upon the Chen
Yuen to about 1,700 meters and we fir-d
at her, from one of our 12.2-inch gun3, a
steel shell of five calibers (5xl2.2-i iclies)
length, having a bursting charge of near
ly ninety pound i of powder. The Japa
nese flagship was struck by this missile,
and as a burst of flame arose from her,'
tol lowed by a great cloud of white smoke,
aiding her entirely from view, our guns'
crew yelled their satisfacti n. This shell,
indeed, wrought fearful havoc. From the
Japanese report it totally disabled the big
13-inch Canet gun and swept the decks.
Several charges of powder for this gun
had been massed on deck, and these, ex
ploding, gave the gunners a true 'hoi it
with their own petard.' By this one shell
forty-nine officers and men were intant
ly killed and over fifty wounded; the gun
nery Lieutenant was blown into the sea,
his cap and telescope being all trace ol
him ever found on the ship.
"The immediate result of the engage
ment was by no means decisive, for the
Japanese fleet hauled off for repairs, and
the next day the Chinese steamed and
limped into Port Arthur. The victory
in the end was undoubtedly with the
Japanese, for they had driven their ene
mies from the ea and kept them penned
in. a . harbor, where subsequently they
fell an easy prey. The outcome of it all
was that Japan, by the signal results of
an inderisive battle, was able to impose
the terms of peace, and gained, to some
degree, the odjects with which she she
had begun the war."
MODERN BATTLESHIPS.
All this leads up to the question of how
ships are prepared for battle and what
is the dull routine out of which the ener
gies are secured. It is first of all organ
ization, then persistent drill, both of which
must be based upon sea training and ex
perience that experience on the open sea
which teaches coolness in emergencies,
fertility of resources, and preparation for
the unexpected. The points to be con
sidered in getting ready for ac.ion are to
prepare the battery and battery sup
ples, to clear the decks for the passage
of the ammunition and the free movement
of the crew, to secure unobstructed areas
of fire for all guns and torpedoes, to take
precautions against fouling the screws, to
secure successive means of efficiently
steering the ship in case usual appliances
are disabled, to reduce to a minimum
danger from splinters and fire, to local
ize, and be ready to repair injuries below
and near the water line; and to insure
means of warning and escape to those
below. In preparation: for combat many
articles will be thrown overboard,
and iu forming barricades or shelters it
must be borne in mind that the penetra
tion ofmodern bullets is so great that ham
mocks and furled sails or awnings, even
when well wetted, afford only slight pro
jection. Splinters are dreadful accessories
to hostile shots, and fire i3 to to be dread
ed no less than torpedoes.
In the detailed instructions it is prot
vided, first of all, that evrey prisoner mus
be released. This, of course, means delin
quents of the crew. Then all gear and
rigging must be secured, all railings and
ladders on the upper decks mutt be, un
shipped, and all anchors be unstocked
when these masses of metal interfere
with the gun fire. If in the sea, cables
are unbent and sent below or so dispofed
as to give additional armor protection
Such boats as are kept at. the davits are
thoroughly secured, and around them are
wrapped sails or awnings to check the
flight of splinters. It may be at times
necessary to cast adrift all boats, securly
moored to each other, or if on soundings,
anchor them, with the chance of recover
ing them sub equently.
SOME DETAILED PRECAUTIONS.
' Hatches must be covered with gratings
and battle plates, all skylights be nn-
stripped, and in every way no single ob
ject left exposed which may prove harm
ful to the ship's company if hit. Special
precautions are taken to clear the screw
or screws of such debris or line9 as might
foul them, and various and many are the
extemporized agencies employed for this
purpose. Spare tiilers are supplied, and
in the battleships whtre no human inge
nuity could shi; one of these massive
forgings in the heat of the fight, extra
tackles and appliances are made ready to
assist a possibly damaged rudder. Leak
mats ere provided, the fire hose of the
ship is connected up. and led up, and no
wiser order or provisioa can be made
than to keep the fire pumps going from
the beginning to the end of the fight
Gun3 are prepared with aK the repair
ing and serving tools necessary; tackles
are hooted, and ammunition hookeb on
ready f ,r h isting, and where the protec
ticn is such, certain definite announts are
kept cl jse at hand notably for the sefvice
of the rapid fire and machine pieces. All
ammunition hoists are attended to and
turret systems aid mounts, whether
hydiaulic, pneumatic, steam or electrici
ty, vigorously tested. Gun and division
tubs are filled with water for the sponges,
and drinking water is supplied to every
gun, in every magazine, and in the fight
ing taps. Kinge finder? and indicator
dials are connected up, torpedoes are.
loaded i 1 the tubes, cots and chairs are
rigged for towering the wounded, the
sick bay and temporary hospitals are
made ready. The men are sent half
stripped, to the guns, the order to com
mence firing rings out, and then, to quote
a celebrated General, 'Hell breaks loose."
Uncle Maui Has Never Been
Whipped.
Mexico Two Republics.
Speaking of war prompts the reflection
that Uncle Sam has been uniformly suc
cessful every time he has appealed to the
sword.
In the 123 years of his existence he
has waged five wars the war of the rev
olution, the war of 1812, the war with
Barbary States, the Mexican war and the
war for the Union. The various brushes
he has had with the Indians were mere
incidents. In every one of these wars
the stars and stripes have been triumph
ant. In the war with the Barbary States
Uncle Sam was a long way off from his
ba?e of supplies, and the Barbary Statts
were backed by the moral support of
Great Britain, arid yet Uncle Sam
cleaned up those pirates so thoroughly
that the Mediterranean sea became as
free from their attacks as is one of the
American inland seas. The war of the
revolution and the war of 1812 were
fought against tremendous odds, and yet
the United States won. In the same
period, or since, the beginning of the
United States' independence, England
has carried on six wars, two of which
that of the colonies and the war of 181 2.
were lost by her. France lost two wars
in the same period, the war with the al
lied powers and the Franco-Prussian
war. Prussia, out of five wars in that
period, lost two. Austria lost three, Rus
sia two and Spain every one she under
took except the ten years' war in Cuba,
which she never did admit was anything
more than an insurrection, and which
she quelled by false promises.
Uncle Sam is not likely to break hisv
record of success in the impending brush,,
if the brush comes.
Why It Would Xot lu.
New York Journal.
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road man.
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transferable,. an' so I can't trade it for
a drink of whisky."
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The Offices Designed to be Taken
by the Different Types of BomI.
Exchange.
A torpedo boat is used to destroy war
vessels, particularly battleshios, and tor
pedo boat destroyers are made to destroy
the torpedo boats, as theii name signifies.
Torpedo boats are small vessels fitted
with powerful engines that drive them
through the water at a high rate of speed.
They are lightly constructed, and carry
small arm3 in addition to their torpedoes.
The torpedo boat destroyers are larger
than the torpedo boats, and in their con
struction, as in the smaller boats, every
thing is sacrificed so that their powerful
engines will be able to send them through
the water at a great rate of speed for a
short distance. Their arm iment is suffi
cientlj powerful to disable or destroy the
torpedo boats when they come up with
them. Torpedo boat destroyers carry no
torpedoes. Their efficiency depends on
their speed and their guns.
Battleships are fighting ships, and they
are classified according to their arma
ment. A battleship is used for bombard
ing forts, and for d )ing heavy fightiug
work. A gunboat is a sn.aH battleship,
and after a battleship has partly demol
ished a fort the gunboats, on account of
their light draught, iuu in close to finish
the work or protect the other vessels of
the fleet while marines are being landed.
Cruisers are commerce destroyers, or, in
other words legalized pirates. They do
not carry as heavy guns as battleships do,
and they have speed enough to overtake
trade ship3 of the enemy.
Torpedo b ats attack big ships usually
at night. VYhen these destructive boats
are being speeded they bury themselves
in the water, and almost all that can be
seen of them is a streak of foam. They
are painted a color that is not distinguish
able on the water, anl the most perfect
range-finders will not distinguish them
sufficiently for the guns of the big ships
to be trained on them. They approach a
war ship head on, thus presenting as
mall a mark as possible, and take a zig
zag course. Wnen within striking dis
tance which is about. 600 yards, they
launch their torpedoes aad get away. In
the daytime they steam along under the
protection' of a battleship, keeping the
batdeship between them and the enemy,
and when a favorable opportunity arrives
dart" out and make their attack. Tbey
are s i lightly constructed that if the boat
they attack can hit them, the torpedo
boats are ruined. At night time the big
vessels keep their Fearcblight at work
to discover the torpedo bats and thus
to protect themselves.
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Possibilities of Torpedo Bonis.
Commander Bradford, a torpedo expert
on duty at the torpedo station at New
port, R. I., who was before the Senate
committee on Foreigh Relation , on
March 30, was asked by Senator M rgan
to state briefly the danger from the Span-
h flotilla of torpedo boats and torpedo
boat destroyers, and replied:
'I am not as much impressed as
many naval officers with the dangerous
character of torpedo boats and torpedo-
boat destroyers. They are frail craft, be
cause everything is sacrificed to speed,
and weights are kept down for that rea
son, and very thin plates are used in
their construction, very light frames, and
they arc easily deranged. I may say
they are boats of possibilities rather than
of probabilities.
"Under ceitain conditions they are no
doubt very formidable. Their chief value,
in my opinion, is in preventing block
ades, if in ports that are attempted to be
blockaded. They choose their own time
of attack, and of course the most favora
ble tine. They are previously groomed
up for the occasion, evey thing in readi
ness, and they slip out to a vessel outside
and try to get in their work. At sea,
with a squadron, they are so liable to ac
cident and so often deranged that the
chances of being effective, in my opinion,
are slight.
"I understand that the present flotilla,
crossing from Spain, have been disman
tled. That is to say, the torpedo tubes
and guns carried on the upper deck have
been taken off and are being brought
over by the convoying stean er, whch is
a converted cruiser. That adds to their
seaworthiness and stability. Without
those they are completely helpless, shorn
of any power. The destoyers are sup
posed to be capable of ramming the
small boats and destroying them that
way. If within the destroying radiu3 of a
fleet, of course they can be used in the
same way as in a blockade. For instance,
the port of Havana is about ninety miles
from Key West or Tortugas. They have
high speed. They can slip out at night,
get in their work and return under cover
of darkness, and, vice versa, our own
could do the same work. Wo happen to
have no destroyers and our torpedo boats
have f mnd it rather rough work crossing
the gulf strem between those ports."
The Xuvj Beady lo Do lis Duly,
Bui Xol KxpectiiiK w Wnlk-Over.
Newton Enterprise.
The following let'er was recently re.
ceived by Mr. Frank J. Long, of Catawba,
from his brother, Lieutenant A. T. Long,
and by courtesy we are permitted to print
it:
Fortress Monroe, Va., April 2, 1893.
Dear Frank: We have just arrived
here to-night when I received your letter.
We left Philadelphia Friday rrorning
and came diiectly here to join Commo
dore Schley's fleet. The S'iadronat
Key West under Captain Sampson con
tains the majority of the ba'tleship? and
will probably be called upon to do the
heavy fighting on that coast. This squad
ron is called the flying squadron because
it contains the fastest ships in the navy.
The Minneapolis is the fastest one and
both she and the Columbia have three
pDpellers and are built for commerce
destroyers that is they have great speed,
light battery and no armor at a'l. The
Brooklyn is an armored cruiser, that is
she has speed, heavy bat'ery and light
armor protection. -Tre Massachusetts
and Texas are battleships and are the
best fighting ships. They have very
heavy . batteries and thick armor. The
cruisers are cipected to run away from
any thing they cannot fight to advantage,
while the battleships are expected to fight
anything. If this squadron should be
kept for the defence of this part of the
const in the event of war it would be be
cause it can move quickty from one
threatened port to another and we un
fortunately haven't sufficient ships to pro
tect our coast. Should the fleet of our
enemy approach any part of this coast it
would be our duty ti try to prevent, it
reaching any port. Don't think for a
moment that we (the navy) are crying
for war. We know too well the condi
tion of afFairs and how unprepared we
are, owing, largely to the fact, that a
great many people wh 1 now w'uh war
hae heretofore been opposed to a navy
and would not appropriate for it. Now
we need it badly and would give a great
deal to have it. If war comes I thi:ik the
sentiment of the navy is to obey orders
and do the best we can with what we
have and above all do our duty; and
don't thiuk it is going to be a "walk-over,"
for Spain has some good ships and they
are a brave people and we would cer
tainly receive some hard knocks. This
ship is over 7,000 tones displacement and
is 423 feet long and the full complement
of officers and crew is about 4T5 men.
Battery is one 8 inch, two 6 inch, and
eight 4-inch rifles, twelve (5-pound and
two 1-pound qiiic'4 firing guns.
Your brother,
Andrew T. Loxg.
KTBKMiTII OF TIIK AKHY.
Now Includes About 2,500 O Hi
rers a iid 25,000 Men, About
Iluiriiie Spanish. Strength in
4'uba.
Haltimore Sun.
The strength of the United States Army
for many years has been fixed at 25,000
men, exclusive of officers. These were
divided into ten regiments of cavaliy,
fivejpf artillery and twenty-fiveof in
fantry. J mirSC 2
Recently this arrangement was upset
by the law creating two additional regi
ments ot artillery, which has increased
the force by about 1,200 men.
Of the infantry there are 833 officers
and 12,588 men, of the cavalry 433 offi
cers and 5,868 men, and of the artillery
384 officers and 5,000 men. in addition
549 officers and 2,700 men were on the
general staff, .sigual corps, cadet corps,
hospital and ambulance corps.
If war follows the present crisis it is
likely that General .NWritt will tahe ac
tive command of the troops in the field,
as next in rank toGeneral Miles. Although
a West Pointer he is another who won
rapid promotion iu.the Civil war. When
it bruke out he was a second lieutenant
of cavalry. When it ended he was a
major-general of voluat.-ers, bis com
mission even ante-dating that of General
Miles. Most of his reputation rests upon
brilliant cavalry dashes with Sheridan,
he and Custer being that leader's chief
aids.
Estimates of the number of Spanish
troops in Cuba vary, but according to the
best information there are about 50,000
fit for active service, nearly double
the strength of the United States army.
Rhnmatisni Cured.
My wife has used Chamberlain's Pain
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and I can recommend it as a splendid
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Mr. Cuyler is one of the le&dins mer
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prominent men in this vicinity. W. G.
Phippin, Editor Red Creek Herald. For
sale by . A. Hardison.
ThelVaviiI Outfits of the I'nited
Stales and .Spain Compared.
Says The Chicago Times-Herald, in
commenting upon th5 respective naval
outfits of the Unite 1 States aud Spain:
While the facts for exact comparisons
of seapower are alwavs difficult of
ascertainment, the concensus of opinion
among disinterested naval experts is to
the effect that while Spain is strong in
armored cruisers and torpedo boats, she
is very weak in what are known as the
modern ship of the battle line. Her
fighting strength practically -consists of
only one modern lirstclass battleship,
the Pelayo; the old-faihioued broadside
battleships Vitoria and Numancia; the
armored cruisers Infanta Maria Teresa,
Almirante Oquendo, Vizcaya, Princess
Iliturias, Cataiuna, Carlos V and Cristo
bal Colon, also twenty-three uninnored
cruisers, eleven gunboats, seventeen tor
pelo boat destroyers and eleven torpedo
boats of the first class. Although it is
claimed by competent naval authorities
that the Pelayo is the only one of the
lot that can be considered a modern bat
tleship, her displacement is 1,300 tons
less than that of the United States bat
tleships of the Indiana class, and could
not' approach either the Indiana, the
Iowa, the Kearsage or the Kentucky in
effectiveness. In fact, there appears to
be little doubt that the Indiana would
make short work of the Pelayo. The
Cristobal Colon and the Carlos are the
only other Spanish sea fighters that could
make any sort of a defense against the
guns of thi New York or the Massachu
setts. They are fine new steel-armored
vessels, and carry powerful batteries.
Spain is also reported to have bought the
armored cmis-er Gulseppe Garibaldi from
Italy, and has for some time been trying
to buy the armored cruiser Carlo Alberto.
Against this array of naval strength the
United States has the magnificent and
formidable first-class battleships Iowa,
Indiana, Massachusetts, Oregon, Kear
sage and Kentucky, with the . Alabama.
Illinois and Wisconsin rapidly approach;
ing completion; one battleship ' of the
second class, the Texas; the armored
cruisers New York and Broklyn; the
protected second-class cruisers Minne
apolis, Columbia, Cincinnati, Boston,
San Francisco, Charleston, Marblehead,
Detroit, Olj-mpia, Baltimore, Chicago,
Philadrlphia, Montgomery, Newark,
Lancaster, Raleigh and Atlanta; also fif
teen gunboats, six double -turreted moni
tors, one ram, oue dynamite gunboat
and five torpedo boats. In addition to
these we have the two armored cruisers
recently purchased from the Brazilian
government and, according to dispatches
from Rome, the government has recently
bought three Italian torpedo boats."
One i I H ! nl I.ee.
(Jen. Forsyth in Harper's.
I took my first and last look at
the great Confederatf chieftain
This is what I saw: A finely formed
uiaa apparently about sixty years
of agp,well above the average height,
with u clear, ruddy complexion
just then suffused by a deep crimson
flush, that rising from his neck over
spread his face and even slightly
tinged his broad forehead, which,
bronzed whare it had been e.xposed-
to the weather, was clear and beauti
fully white where it had been shield
ed by bis hat deep brown eyes, a
firm but well-shaped Roman nose,
abundaut gray hair, silky aud fine
iu texture, with a full gray beard
and moustache neatlv trimmed and
not'Ovenong, but which nevertheless
almost completely concealed hi
mouth. A splendid uniform of
Confederate gray that had evidently
seen but little service, winch was
closely buttoned about him, and tit-
ted him to perfection. An equUitely
mounted sword, attached to a gjl 1-
embroidered Kussia-leather belt,
trailed loosely on the floor at his
side, and iu his right hand he carried
a broad brimmi'd soft gray hat, en
circled by a golden cord, while iu
his left he held a pair of buckskin
gauntlets. BooUd and spurred,
still vigorous and erect, he stood
bareheaded looking out of the open
doorway, sad-face and weary; a sol
dier and a gentleman, bearing him
self in defeat with an all-unccn-scious
dignity that sat well upon
him.
Success "His success in a financial
wav has been something marvellous."
wYes" "Yes, sir. I've . often heard
him tell how, when he came here, filteen
years ago, all he owed in the world was
a dollar and a quarter, and last week he
failed for a million." Detroit Journal.
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A correspondent writes The Obsever
of a conversation in the sm-iking com
partment of a train on the Western North"
Carolina Uailn ad Friday night, and from
his letter the following ex'ract is made:
After some stirring up by Col- V. H.
Hardin, of Muiganton, Chawman Cald
well, t-f the railroad commissioi, vent
ed his wnth, anl made sundry ungra
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Blunderbuss."
" We are at daggers' points," declared
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with. A Tew days ago I went down to
seebim. He said, after some discussion,
I will demand your resignation. After
a liitle more talk, he said: I want your
resignation right now.'
" 'Put it down in black and whtesays
I.
"'And then you are going to give it to
me?' he asked.
"'No, I won't,' I says. 'You had a
chance 10 git it, when I made a tender
but I withdrew that tender, and now you
never will get it.' "
Mr. Caldwell said he had no idea the
governor wosild succeed in ousting biui.
Chairman Caldwell has employed coun
sel A rmfield & Turner, of Statesville.
Important linub I'jtse Decided.
Chatham IJecord.
The Supreme Courf, on last Tues
day, decided I he "bank" suit from
this country in favor of the plaintiff.
This is an unusually important case,
involving the liability of directors
of national banks.
It is an action brought by Mrs.
Sophia A IIouston,of Ore llill,against
L rank W. 1 uorton and others, as
directors of the People's Bank of
Fayetteville which failed and went
into the hands of a receiver in Jan
uary,1891. The plaintiff alleged
that, by ths false statement of the
banks' condition published by the
defendants, she was influenced to
buy eleven shares of the capita!
stock of the bank, w hich stock be
came worthless through the gross
negligence of the defendants. The
case was tried at the last fall term of
Chatham Superior Conrt.and judg
meat was rendered in favor of the
plaintiff for the full amount she had
paid for the stock and interest there
on. from this judgment the defendants
appealed to the Supreme Court, and
that tribunal has now affirmed the
judgment aud the plaintiff will at
last get her mon?y.
Ilislorie, Sot I'rophelie.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
An Old-Timer Simpkins was given
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a distinct "W" marked on it.
"That must refer to the Spanish war."
"That's what impkins thought until
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