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VOL. VII.
DUNN, N. C, FEBRUARY 1C, 1898.
NO. 5.
CO
UNION
Tetter. So.lt -Rheum and Eczema.
The intense itching and smarting, inci
dent to these disease?, is instantly allayed
ny applying Chamberlain's Eye and
Skin Ointment. Many very bad cases
hava been permanently cured by it. It
i3 equally efficient for itching piles and
a favorite remedy for sore nipples,
chapped hands, chilblains, frost bites
end chronic sore eyes. 25 ct3. per box.
Dr. Cadj'a Condition Powders, are
just what a horse needs when in bad
condition. " Tonic, blood purifier and
vermifuge. They are not food but
medicine and the best in use to' put a
horse in prime condition. Price 23
cents per package.
For Bale by N. B. Hood, Dunn,
K. C.
ProfesHionQl Cards.
James IT. For. - Edwaed W. Pod.
W. II. Young.
VOU 0 POU & YOUNG,
.Attorneys at Law,
LILLINGTON, N. C.
(Associated in the trial of civil cases)
in the Superior courts of Harnett Co.
J. C. CLIFFORD,
Attoruey at Law.
DUNN, N. C.
. Will practice in air the courts of the
State where services desired.
E. J. BEST,
.Attorney at Law,
DUNN, N. C.
Practice in County Courts of
Har
nett aud surrounding counties, and U.
S. Courts. Special attention given
collections.
I, II. M'LEAN, ;
Counsellor aud Attorney" at Law.
DUNN, N. C.
Practice in all courts. Collections a
epecialty.
IF.
E. JIUJICHISOJV,
.TONES BORO, N. C.
Practices law in Harnett, Moore and
other counties, but not for fun.
3 201y.
ISAAC A. JIURCHISON
Fayetteville, N. 0.
Practices law in Cumberland Har
nett and anywhere services are wanted.
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WILMINGTON & WELDOIIR.R.
AND BRANCHES.
AND FLORENCE RAILROAD.
.'undonsctl Schedule Dated Jan. 17th. 1898.
TRAINS OOIXO SOUTH.
Leavo AVeldon 11 52 am. 9 43 pm.
Arrive liocky Mount 12 55 am, 10 36 pm.
Iavu Tarboro 12 12 am. 6 01 p m.
Leave Hooky Mount 100 am, 10 36 pm,
45 pm. 5 40 am, 12 47 pm.
Loave- Wilson 2 20 am, 11 16 pm, 7 17 pm,
22 am, 2 37 pm.
LnHV6 Selma 3 15 am. '
Leave Fayetteville 4 47 am, 1 14 pm.
Arrive Florence 7 35 am, 3 15 pm.
Arrive Goldsboro 8 00 pm.
Leave Goldsboro 7 01 am, 3 20 pm.
Leavtt Magnolia 8 05 am, 4 24 pm.
Arrive Wilmington 9 30 am, 5 50 pm.
TRAINS GOING NORTH.
Leave Florenco 9 43 am, 8 15 pm.
, Leave Fayetteville 12 13 am, 10 15 pm.;
Leave Selma 1 47 am.
Arrive Wilson 2 35 am, 12 09 pm.
'Leave AVilmincrton 7 15 pm, 9 35 am.
Leave Magnolia 8 55 pm, 11 02 am.
Leave Goldsboro 5 00 am 10 10 pm, 12 05
am,
Lnavo Wilson 2 35 pm, 5 3S am, 1212 am,
1 1 2vJ pm, 12 oo pm.
Arrive Kocky Moilnt 3 29 pm, 6 15 am,
12 19 am, 11 57 pm, 1 40 pm.
Arrive Tarboro 6 4 am.
Leave.Tarboro 12 12 pm.
Leave Pocky Mount 3 29 pm, 12 49 am. .
Arrive Weldon 4 33 pm, 1 42 am.
Train on the Scotland Neck Branch Road
leaves Weldon 3 55 pm, Halifax 4 30 pm, ar
rives Scotland Neck 5 20 pm, Greenville 6 57
pm, Kinston 7 55 pm. Returning leaves Kins-
iou do am. ureenvuie 8 52 am, arriving
liaurax 11 18 am, .Yeldon 11 33 am, daily cx
rent Sunday.
Trains on Washington Branch leave Wash
ington 8 20 am and 2 30 pm, arrive Parmele
! 10 am and 4 00 pm, returning leave Parmele
v jj am niHt 0 30 pm, arrive Washington
1 1 oo air and 7 20 pm, daily except Sunday.
lrainJaves: TarDoro, N. C, daily except
Sunday 5 30 pm, Sunday 4 15 pm, arrives
Plymouth 7 40 pm, 6 10 pm, Returning leaves
Plymoutn daily except Sunday 7 50 am, Sun-
May 9 00 am, arrives Tarboro 10 Oo am and
11 00 am.
Train on Midland N. C. Branch leaves
Goldsboro daily except Sunday 7 10 am, ar
riving Smithfleld 8 30am.' Returning leave
Smithfield 9 00 am, arrives at Goldsboro 10 25
am.
Trains on Nashville Branch leave Rocky
Mount at 4 30 pm. arrive Nashville 5 05 pm.
Spring Hope 5 30 pm. Returning leave
Spring Hope 8 CO am. Nashville 8 35 am, ar
rive nt Rocky Mount 9 05 am, daily ecept
Sunday. . -
Train on riinton Branch leaves "Warsaw
for Clinton daily, except Sunday. 11 20 a m
and 4 15 pm. Returning leaves Clinton at
7 00 am and 3 00 p m.
Train No. 78 makes close connection at
Weldon for all points North dally, all rail via
Richmond, .
II. M. EMERSON,
Gen'l Pass. Agent.
J. 11. KENLY, Gen'l Manager.
T. M. EMERSON. Traffic Manager.
The rejection of the arbitration trea
ty was n calamity. Even if a defeat,
yet its friends should take heart, for it
1s a principle too -well grounded tc
wither and pass away. We have won
c very honor that vir can bestow. We
can blend the lilies of peace with the
laurels of war. Not in humility, not in
deprecation, not as a nation whose
palms have yet to be won, do we seek
this heroic and virtuous consumma
tion. Peace with arbitration would be
n blessing to mankind, a blessing and
likewise
people.
a guerdon to the American
One reason why the women tak
such a delight in shopping ii that ev
ery establishment furnishes them a
store of pleasant thoughts. - .
ENRIQUE DUPTJY DE LOME.
(Spanish Minister to the United States who has resigned beauo of the publication ol
a letter in which ha criticised President SIcKinley.)
THE BIRTHDAY
A Notable Celebration , by the Mar
quette Club at Chicago,
EX-PRES. HARRISON SPEAKS.
In Ills Speech He Said That Europe
Did Not Know Lincoln and the
South Hated Him.
The anniversary of the birthday of
Abraham Lincoln was generally ob
served on the 12th. At Chicago there
was a notable celebration by the Mar
quette Club, - ex-Pre3ident Harrison
being the speaker of the occasion at the
Auditorium Hotel. He said in part:
"In the broad, common-sense way in
which he did small things he "was
larger than any situation in which life
had placed him. Europe did not know
him. To the South and to not a few
in the Northern State3, he was an un
couth jester, an ambitions upstart, a
reckless disturber. He was hated at
the South, not onlv for his princinles.
I but for himself. The son of the cava
lier, the man who felt it to be a stain,
despised this son of the people, thi3
child of toil.
"He was distinguished from 'the
abolition leaders by the fairness and
kindliness with which he judged the
South and the slave-holders. He was
opposed to human slavery, not because
some masters were cruel, but upon
reasons that kindness to the slave did
not answer. 'All men' included the
black man. Liberty is the law of
nature. The human enactment cannot
pass the limits of the State; God's law
embraces creation.""
"Mr. Lincoln loved the 'plain peo
pleof whose ranks he came; but not
with a class love. He never pandered
to ignorance or sought applause by ap
peals to prejudice. The equality of
men in rights and burdens; jus
tice to all, a government by all the
people for all the people, was ' his
thought no favoritism in enactment
or administration the general good.
"He had the love of the masses and
he won it fairly; not by art or trick,
He could therefore admonish and re
a : :n. 1 1 -1 tt
Birain wiiq auinoriiv. ne was a man
who spoke to all men and was heard
Would there were more such ! There is
great need of men now who can be
heard both in the directors' meeting
and in the labor assembly.
"Qualities of heart and mind com
bined to make a man who has won the
love of mankind. He ia loved. He
stands like a great lighthouse to show
the way of duty to all his countrymen
and to send afar a beam of courage to
those who beat against the winds. We
do him reverence. We bless tonight the
memory oi .Lincoln.
At New York Addison F, Andrews,
son of the late Kufus F. Andrews, who
was surveyor of the port of New York
under Abraham Lincoln, presented to
the New York Press Club the pen with
which Abraham Lincoln signed the
proclamation of emancipation.
At the thirty-third annual banquet of
the Lincoln Association of Jersey City,
N. J. Senator John W. Daniel, of
V irginia, responded to ihe toast, 'Abra
ham Lincoln from the Southern stand
point. "
Died from Vaccination.
James Herbert Martin, son of Os
borne F. Martin, of Shelby, N. C. ,
died Feb. 10th, at II a. m. , with spasms
from vaccination. The child was one
year six months and ten days old.
Charlotte (N. C.) Observer.
Ensign Breckinridge Drowned.
A cablegram has been received at
Washington from Consul-General Lee,
at Havana, which says;
'Ensign J. B. Breckinridge, of the
Cashing, was washed overboard and
drowned a few hours . before the ar
rival of the vessel at this port The
bodv was recovered, and I am ar
ranging to have it embalmed and sent
home.
His remains will be interred at Lex
ington Kv.. his Lome.
WORLD OF BUSINESS.
A Much More Cheerful Tone to the
Southern Situation.
Bradatreet's commercial review for
the past week says in part: "What
might be regarded as a minor feature
in the business situation, though at the
same time conveying much to the in
terests involved is a quite general im
provement in the Central West and the
South, where the spring trade is re
ported opening in good shape. Less
favorable features of the week are the
slowness of spring trade in dry goods
to devftlopat New York and other east
ern centres except Boston, and the mild
weather in the Northwest rendering it
likely that retailers' stocks carried over
will be larger than earlier expected.
Although the advance in cotton has
been claimed to be too rapid, it has un
doubtedly imparted a much more
cheerful tone to the Southern business
situation and the situation , with iron
and steel has done much to add to the
confidence with which the trade out
lyok for 1898 is regarded.
"Business failures continue to make
favorable comparisons with previous
weeks and years, the total for the week
just ended numbering 278, against 301
in the corresponding week of 1897.
"Exports of wheat fall slightly below
last week's reduced total, aggregating
for the week 3,419,504 bushels, against
3,635,000 bushels last week, and 2,051,
000 bushels in the' corresponding week
of 1897..
"Corn exports show a gain, amount
ing as they do to 4,508,000 bushels,
against 4,104,000 bushels last week,
and 4,169,000 bushels in this week a
year ago.
"Bank clearings continue to point to
an immense business doing in the
country at large, in a total aggregating
tor the week 1,434,000,000, less than
per cent, smaller than last week."
TAKING OF TESTIMONY ENDED.
President Spencer, of the Southern,
' Declines to Answer Questions.
At Salisbury, N. C. , the hearing of
the case of the State of North Caro
una against iue ooutnern xsauway in
the North Carolina Bailroad lease was
resumed before Special Master!Craig on
the 11th.
President Spencer, of the Southern,
was examined regarding the earnings.
expenses anu omer aeians oi ine sys
tem; but declined to state the amount
of his salary or those of the other gen
eral omcers.
This ends the taking of testimony.
It. will be sent to Judge Simonton. of
the Circuit Court, for his decision to
whether there was a fraud in the making
to the Southern Bailway of the lease
lor ninety-nine years of the North
Carolina Bailroad, which belongs to the
State.
Sunday Hac Ing Defeated.
At St. Louis, Mo., after three days of
work, the national assembly cf the
League of American Wheelmen the
all-important question of local option
in the matter of Sunday racing was
again defeated. An amendment pro
viding that State divisions be granted
the right to determine for themselves
whether or not Sunday bicycle races
are to be permitted was introduced but
defeated by six votes.
Battlefield Park Bill Approved.
The Governor of Virginia has ap
proved the bill incorporating the Bat
tlefield Park Association, of Freder
icksburg and vicinity.
- : Against Home Quarantine.
The net result of the three days' ses
sion and extended deliberation of the
quarantine convention at Mobile, Ala.,
is a square declaration in favor of a
national and uniform quarantine system
that will make impossible another such
disgraceful exhibition as marked the
last yellow fever epidemic in the Souths
ern States.,
A Hotel Chartered.
The Swanannoa Hotel Company of
Asheville, N. C.
Capital 07,000.
has been chartered.
fiFTY-FlFTH CONGRESS.
Proceedings of Bun the Senate and
House Day By Bay. j
THE SENATE.
3)ThDat. In the Senate Frye, of
Maine, chairman of the committee on
ctmmerce, reported a f House bill,
authorizing the Secretary of the
Treasury either to purchaee or have
constructed a suitable revenue cutter,
fcr use on the Yukon river, Alaska, at
a cost not to exceed S40, 000. It was
passed. In the executive session Sena
tor Teller, of Colorado, occupied about
four hours in discussing the Hawaiian
annexatif n treaty. Beed denied that
he had changed his mind.
36th Day. In the Senate strong
Cuban resolutions were introduced.
Cannon wanted the United States to
serve notice on Spam to withdraw her
forces from Cuba and give that Bepub
lio liberty. Mason's resolution calls
upon the President to notify Spain
that the war must r". once cease, and
that the United States declare and
maintain peace on the Island. Allen
wanted the belligerency of the insur
gents recognized. ! -
37th Day. For more than three
hours the Senate chamber rang with
eloquent appeals in behalf of the Cuban
insurgents. Cannon, of Utah, and
Mason, of Illinois, being the principal
speakers. Mason in his remarks, urged
the President to take immediate action,
and Cannon spoke in support of his
resolution introduced the day before to
give Spain until March 4th to stop the
war. Hale made a cool-headed speech
nd had the resolution referred.
Butler, of North Carolina, presented an
amendment to the constitution, en
abling Congress to levy and collect an
income tax.
88th Dat. During the entire ses
sion of the Senate, the Indian appro
priation bill was under discussion.
The reading of the bill was completed,
and all of the committee's amendments
of a minor character were attached to
the measure. Allen, of Nebraska, en
livened the proceedings a few minutes
before adjournment by : making an at
tack upon Speaker Beed. Gen. Wil
liam Booth, of London, England,
founder of the Salvation Army "offici
ated as chaplain at the opening session
today. Mr. and Mrs. Booth Tucker,
tho son-in-law and daughter of General
Booth, were in the gallery during the
prayer. Previous to the meeting of
the Senate the entire party heUd a brief
reception in the Vice-President's room.
39th. Day;. The Senate passed the
Indian appropriation bill, after being
amended somewhat by Pettigrew, of
South Dakota. The bill carries nearly
88,000.000. Allen, of Nebraska, intro"
duced a resolution directing the com
mittee on foreign relations to inquire
whether the yacht Buccaneer, owned
by Wm. R. Hearst, has' been seized
and is being held py the Spanish gov
ernment. The resolution was agreed
to. 1
THE HOUSE.
39th Day. The House had un
der consideration the bill mak
ing appropriations for fortifications
and coast defences. Little interest
seemed to be manifested in the pro
ceedings, less than one-half of the
membors being present during the ses
sion. The bill was passed carrying $4,
144,912 against $9, 517, 141 last year.
40th Day. In the House there wa
more debate on the question of prosper
ity. The military academy appropria
tion bill was passed. The bill carries
$453,540, being $26,032 less i than the
amount parried by the current law.
41stDay. The House entered upon
the consideration of the Aldrich-Plow-
man contested election case, from the
fourth Alabama district. The majority
of the committee reported in favor oi
seating the Republican contestant, ou
the ground of conspiracy, an allegation
vigorously denied by the minority.
Mr. Plowman's plurality, on the face ol
the returns, was 2,957, The majority
revised the figures so as to give Aldricfc
a plurality of 342. During the early
part of the e ession the Senate amend
ments to the agricultural bill were dis
agreed to, and the bill was sent to con
ference. 42d Day. The House by a vote oi
143 to 112 unceated Plowman (Dean.) of
Alabama, and gave the seat to Aldrich
(Rep.) A special deficiency appropria
tion bill was passed carrying 200, 00C
for the payment of jurors' fees in the
United States Courts, and $175,000 for
witness fees. i
During the debate on the contested
election case of Plowman vs. , Aldrich,
Linney said the negroes in the South
were steadfast in their loyalty to the
Republican ticket. "As well expect tc
be able to shoot off the horns of, the
moon with a pop-gun," 6aid be, "as tc
make a Southern negro voluntarih
vote the Democratic ticket. "
43d Day. The House was in a verj
bad temper, and the whole session vai
consumed in filibustering against twe
bills of minor importance, and the othei
to make Rockport, Me., a subport o:
entry. Neither got further than en
grossnient aed third reading. Roll ial
followed roll call all day long, and par
tisan feeling reached a high nitch. Fin.
ally, when it became evident that nc
progress could be made with tho bill
presented, an adjournment was taker
until Monday. '
Vegetarians Ponnrt-a-.Hospital.
Vegetarianism has taken a stand in
England which entitles It to respect
from people who are not entire believ
ers in the doctrine. The restaurants
of the vegetarians are clean and they
provide a menu of reasonable variety.
One of the latest steps In the line of
the work has been the founding of a
vegetarian hospital, -which a writer In
the Ijondon Daily Chronicle describes.
It was started in 1895, though little
was said about It at the time, as the
founders did not wish to advertise It
until they were sure of its becoming
successful. It was to be for nonvege-
tarians, it being understood that vege
tarians are -never 111. Consequently
there was some prejudice to overcome.
It was also thought that there might
be difficulty in putting an invalid ac
customed to eating meat suddenly no
on a vegetable diet. But no trouble
was found, patients did as well as
could be desired, and the result has
been altogether very satisfactory. The
hospital authorities believe that the
general Increase of cancer is due to ex
cess In meat eating. Pine baths and1
nlassage treatment, with plenty of
fresh air, ate included In the hospital
regimen. New York Times. . '
; SNAP SK0TS AT THE NEWS.
Tlift South.
By a decisive vote in the Virginia
House the bill to re-establish the whip
ping post was defeated.
J. W. Rice was arrested at Roanes,
Va., charged with counterfeiting 5 cent
nickels. !
President ! Andrews, of Brown Uni
versity, will deliver the commencement
address at Wake Forest College, Mav
24. -
The North Carolina penitentiary will
put in cultivation 300 acres of rice land
near Wilmington.
Arthur Garvey, of Rocky Mount,
N. C. , had his jugular vein severed by
falling through a Dane of glass at Rich
mond, Va. He bled to death from the
wound.
At Camden, S. C, the jury in the
case of J. Hale Stephenson, a mer
chant, on the charge of assault ou Miss
fJesse W. Arrants, a 15-yeaf old girl,
last September, resulted" in a mistrial,
and Stephenson was admitted to bail in
the sum of -S3, 000.
The Atlanta (Ga.) Federation of
Trades condemn the movement for a
Southern Confederacy of Labor. One
of the principal reasons given is that it
will result in renewing the bitterness
and hatred caused by the late war and
will divide the country into factions.
Seven councilmen were sent to jail at
Covington, Ky., for contempt of court.
JohnW. Carroll, one of the wealthiest
tobacco manufacturers in this country,
died at his home in Lynchburg, Va. "
Near Wadesboro, N. C, a colored
girl, six years old,' was burned to death.
Savannah, Ga., has recently ex
perienced a disastrous fire amounting
to $25,000.
Kinston, N. C, raises 50,000 neces
sary to secure the building of a cotton
mill.
West Virginia is now producing more
high-grade petroleum than any other
State in the Union.
Postmaster J. H. Polk was murdered
and his store at Goodwin, Ga., robbed
by unknown assassins.
In the Virginia Legislature ft bill has
been passed incorporating the Fred
ericksburg Battlefield Park Associa
tion. At Lexington, Ky., a crowded stair
way gave" way, resulting in the injury
of ten colored persons, one or two of
whom are expected to die.
In revenge for being ordered to cease
his visits to his daughter, Peter Pieffer
was shot and killed by John Schofield,
at Louisville, Ky.
Two well-diggers at Lexington, N.
C, were entombed by the bricks of the
side giving way, and died before res
cuers could reach them.
A special from Chattanooga, Tenn.,
says that there are 1,000 cases of small
pox in Northern Georgia, Tennessee,
North Carolina, South Kentucky and
Virginia.
Firebugs ars getting in their work at
Wilmington, N. C. A few days since
three dwellings and one storehouse
went up in flames.
The Louisiana Constitutional conven
tion, at New Orleans, will amend the
suffrage laws and disfranchise many
negroes.
The Virginia State Senate, after cut
ting down the appropriation from $150,
000 to $100,000 ordered to its engross
ment the bill providing for enlarging
the cell accommodations of the peni
tentiary. The money is to come out of
future earnings of the prison.
Col. Thomas E. Moore, of Bourbon
county, Ky., has challenged Desha
Breckenridge, eon of Col. W. C, P
Breckenridge, to a duel.
Washington special says: The ma
jority report in the contested election
case of Thorp vs. Epes from the Fourth
Virginia district, filed in the House, re
verses Epes' plurality of 2,621, and
gives Thorp a plurality of 812. The re
turns from nineteen rejected precincts
in Petersburg and Lunenburg county,
where it is alleged the returns were suc
cessfully impeached, precincts at which
Democrats were judges of election, in
creased Thorp's plurality in the pre
cincts carried by him to 2,197,
The North.
State Senator Robert J. Hanby, of
Delaware, is dead.
Members of the Ohio Legislature are
investigating Toledo as a site for the
State Centennial in 1903.
George Jeffrey, a veteran soldier of
Chicago, 111., who inherited 20,000, has
strangely disappeared. ,
The New York board of health's esti
mate cf the population of the consoli
dated city gives'a total of 3,438,899.
The milling industry of the North
west is vigorously pushing the bill to
punish adulterations of flour.
Booker T. Washington, of Alabama,
was one of the speakers at the meeting
of the Armstrong Association, at New
York, on the 12th. This association is
for furthering negro industrial educa
tion and promoting the -work of Hamp
ton Institute. Ex-President Cleveland
was expected, but did not attend.
The United States now ranks fifth
among the naval powers of the earth.
Miscellaneous.
The steamer "Teese" sailed from Vio j
toria, B. C, on the 8th with 100 min- !
era for Klondike.
Warrants have been issued at Guth
rie, O. T., for seventy-three members
of the mob who lynched the two Sem
inole Indians recently.
The United States is said to have
had over 40,000,000 hogs at the begin
ning of the year 1897. Iowa alone hav
ing nearly 4,000,000.
The extensive milling industry of the
Northwest is organizing to secure fa
vorable action on the "pure flour" bill
introduced by Pearce, of Missouri.
At Hot Springs, Ark., Jack Ever
hasdt knocked out Eddie Donnelly in
the sixth round.
It has been decided to send ten com
panies of troops to Dyea and Skaguay,
Alaska, immediately for the purpose of
preserving order and protecting life and
property.
Washington Jottings.
The United States House committee
on labor has reported favorably the bill
providing for a commission to inquire
into labor, agriculture, etc.
A Washington special says Senator
Butler has had Hon. H. G. Ewart's
nomination to be judge of the Western
district of North Carolina postponed.
HI HMBJB
He Relates Some History of the
Creeks and Cherokees.
THE COURTSHIP OF JOHN RIDGE.
While Attending a Mission School lie
Fell In Love With a Beautiful Pale
Face and 31arrled Her.
Fragments of Indian history have ac
cumulated upon me of lato and as" they
concern the Creeks and Cherokees and
are of a romantio character, I am re
strained to record them. These two
tribes are our Indians and make up
quite a chapter in the history of Geor
gia, Alabama and East Tennessee. North
Georgia was especially th3 home of tho
Cherokees, for their chiefs lived near
Rome as far back as we have their
history, and the Creeks, of Muscogees,
as tbey are more properly called, lived
south of tho Tallapoosa river. These
tribes are not to bo classed with sav
ages, for they were of a higher grade,
and but for tho greed of the white man
would no doubt have continued to ad
vance in civilization and refinement un
der the lead of such chiefs as Rosa,
Ridge, Boudinot and Mcintosh.
Everybody is familiar with the story
of Pocahontas. .
Longfellow wrote a beautiful story
about niawatha and Williaru E. Rich
ards penned several pretty legends
about the Indian- girls of Tailulah
Falls, and so I will pen the story of
John Ridge and Boudinot as giveu to
me by .Airs. Ellen M. Gibbs, of Crystal
Laue, ill. tier mother. Airs, lavlor.
who died in 1878, wrote this remarkable
sketch in 18 1 7, when she was 70 years
of age, and left it for her children, who
had often heard her repeat it. By some
strange coincidence I have recently e
ceived a letter from a lady. Mrs. Vir
ginia Williams, of Bloomtield. Fla..
giving the ancestry of John Kosp,whose
grandfather was a Scotch r ef ugee named
McDonald. Ihe writer, Mrs. vVilliams,
traces ner lineage lick to the same
McDonald tree. Her motLer was . a
daughter of William Day, who married
Agnes MoDonald. Mrs. Williams
would like to learn more about Ross
and his parents and hopes this publica
tion may nttract tue attention oi some
one who can iuform her.
-1 m
Ana now comes a marked copy oi a
New York paper cailed fcabbath Beau
ing, in which John Ross, a son of the
old chief, appeals for preachers and
teaohers to come out to the Cherokee
nation and help to educate and train the
children in the Christian faith, and es
pecially to teach them in their Sundij
schools. This appeal is dated Decem
ber, 1897, and Mr. Ross' address is No.
101 Gold street, New York.
And here is the Vinita Leader, an
able piper, published in the nation,
and contains General Andrew Jackson't
letter to the Cherokee chiefs, written in
'.835, and which urges them to accept
the terms of the treaty and to move at
once to the territory assigned to them.
And almost by the eatno mail comes
an interesting and beautifully written
sketch of the present condition "of the
Muscogoes (or Creeks.) It is written by
Mr. W. W. Ramsay, of Mary ville, Mo. ,
a gifted and scholarly gentlemen who
is deeply interested m Indian affairs.
Other fragments have come to me and
if I do 'not abridge and compile and
have them published in your paper,
much valuable history of these Indiauh
will be forever lost.
But to the story
"In 1817 a foreign mission school
was established at Cornwall, Conn. It
iras. a charity school for Indians main
ly, though there were some white pu
pils there and some defrayed their own
expenses. Students from several In
dian tribes were there to acquire the
English language and a rudimentary
education. Some white children aUo
acquired the Indian language and went
out as missionaries to the tribes. Be
sides the Chlppewas and Choctaws and
Cherokees, I remember there were two
from the Sandwich islands.
"Mr. Daggett was the first principal
f the school and Mr. Andrews the last.
Every May there was a public exhibi
tion and the Indian boys spoke on tho
stage, fiistin their own languago and
then in ours. They, were genteel and
graceful in their oratory. They sang
songs in their native tongue, all wav
ing their hands in harmony with the
musi "3tey were never allowed to go
beyond the limits or into people's
houses without invitation. When tbey
visited us we laid aside our work and
entertained them.
"Among these students was a Chero
kee youth named John Bidge, the son
of a chief a very noble young man, of
fine form and features and a perfect
gentleman in his mannara and deport
ment. For two years ho was afflicted
with a hip disease. Whilo ho boarded
at Mr. Northrup's and Mrs. Northrnn
had the care of himr sometimes her
daughter Sarah, a sweet and lovely
girl, waited upon him. One day Dr.
Gouid, who was my cousin, said to Air.
Northrup: "John in about well. He
has no phvsical disease about him and
needs no more medicine, but he is in
trouble and you 4 had better find ont
what is the matter. '
"That afternoon while Sarah was
away her mother took her knitting and
went to sit and talk with John, While
there she took notice of his melancholy
and begged him to tell her what
troubled him so much of late. At first
he denied having any sorrow, but be
ing pressed told her that he loved
Sarah and knew that he could never
marry her, for he was an Indian.
'Have you ever mentioned it to Sarah?'
he asked. 'No,' said he, 'I dare not,
but how could I help loving her?'
"When Sarah came home her mother
eaid: 'Sarah, do you love John Ridge?
'Yes, 1 do, moth'er. she said. Then
came the family trouble. Mr. Northrup
at once took Sarah to her grandparents
in New Haven and begged them to weau
Sarah from her Indian lover to give
parties and introduce her to nice young
men, which they did, but it was all in
vain. She remained there three month
and seemed to be pining away in sileni
grief. Her rarents became alarmed
and brought her home. What was to be
done, for it would bean awful thing fo?
Sarah to many him. As a last reson
Mr. Northrup told John Ridge to go
home and 6tay two years, and if he got
entirely we! I he might come back and
marry Sarah. He did so and when the
time was out catne back accompanied by
his father. Major liitlge, the chief of
the Cherokees. They traveled . lu
princely style and were handsomely
dressed. I remember that Major
Ridgo's coat was trimmed with gold
lace.
"John nd Sarah were married and
went to the Cherokee nation to live, but
not as missionaries, for John had to
visit Washington iuite often totranHact.
business for the tribe. Sarah bad eer
vants to wait upon her au.' lived like a
princess in a large tvo-!tory dwelliug
"Not long after this tho little lown of
Cornwall had another tumult and great
excitement came into ita social liio.
There was fever heat when it was an
nounced that Elias J-oudiuot," who was (
Jphn Ridge's cousin, was about to'
marry Harriet Gould, tho fairest and
belt , educated girl in all that region.
She was the nearest perfection of any
girl I ever knew. She was the idol of
the family. Her brothers and sisters
had all married into the finest families
in the country and all lived well.
Kindred came from neighboring towns
to intercede with Harriet. Ministers
called and pleaded, but all in vain.
She declared the would marry him and
go with him to hia people- and be K
missionary.
"Harriet's greatest distress wa the
meeting with her brother Stephen, who
was nearest her age aud devoted to her.
She feared it would break his heart.
When he came she burst into i?rs and
refussd to see him. He went away and
did uot attend the weddiug, but atvr
it was over he came, and the next morn
ing ho waited upon them at breakfast,
and seemed in a measure reconciled.
But he could not see them married.
Boudinot was a very haudxome man.
He had a charming voice and wai a
splendid singer, lie was a very brave
and fearless man, for the roughs of the
town had sworn that he should never
ccme into it alive, and if he did, he
should never go out alive, but they
were awed by his presence.
"As a result, however, of these two
marriages the Cornwall mission school
was discontinued.
".Boudinot and is wifa went to tho
Cherokee nation, where two children
were born to them. Colonel Gould vis
ited them thore and wa well p.'eased
with their surroundings, for they lived
near by to Sarah Hidge and their chil
dren were all happy together and both
"families had all the comforts of life aud
many of its luxuries. The two Corn
wall girls had chosen most excellent
husbands and had not regretted their
cLoice.
"Boudinot ianglit school awhile at
New Echota aud published au Indian
newspaper (New Echota is near Cal
houn, in Gordon county). After tho
removal to the territory, in 183S,
Uidge and Boudinot lived about a
niile apart. Sarah nad three chil
dren and Harriett six, but died in giv
ing birth to the last. Boudinot then
went to Vermont and married Harriett's
cousin and she went to the territory
with him. After his assAAsination she
re;urned to Cornwall and the children
went with her and were distributed
among their mother's kindred, and
w re highly educated and minglod iu
FOiiil equality with the white peo
ple." The remainder of the narrative as
written by Mrs. Taylor and copied for
me by Mrs. Gibbs' relates to the story
of the assassination of Major Ridge and
John Ridge and Elias Boudinot, of
which 1 have told your readers in a
forxer letter and will not repeat it now.
Boudiuot's real Indian name was Kel-le-kee-nah,
but while at school at Corn
wall attracted the attention of Elias
Boudinot, a Philadelpl i i philanthro
pe, who adopted him and gave him
his name and left him a large legacy in
Ms will. His son, Elias C. Boudinot
became dlslinguished in' the nation.
He was born in Vanns Valley, near
Rome, Ga., in 1635, and died three
years ago at Fort Smith in Arkansas.
P. S. A friend writes complainiugly
and wants to know why I said in my
last letter tiiat Stonewall Jackson was
not so "brave" a man as Lee. I did not
-ay it. i cam so broad a man, but the
types got on a bender and made it
brave, and they also made Wm. Wirt
Van Wert, and they made protest out
of profert and .hey jumbled up things
generally. Uill Arp in Atlanta (Ga.)
i 'onstitntion.
Trying to Organize a Teantit Trust.
A Norfolk, Va., special says: 'VX II.
Small, has been endeavoring to form a
trust of all peanut factories, eighteen
in Virginia, and seven n the West. He
also contemplates, if successful, the
closing np of those factories not paying
or unnecessary. No steps have been
taken by the Norfolk operators, and
Mr. Small has gone to New York for
tha purpose, it is stated, of securing
soma firm there to undertake the work
of attempting to effect an organization.
c. F. & V. V. it tc ae
Judge Puruell has written his opiu -ion
in the Capo Feac aDd Ya'lkin Val
ley Pailroad case and mailed it to tba
United States Circuit Court of Appeals.
It orders a dual 6ale of the road that
i, a sale as a whole or in parts. It is
not a reversal of Jndgo Himonton's de
cision, but a modification, and is in
compliance with the terms of the mort
gage. It is aid the lia'timce bond
holders will api eal from it to the Uni
ted Mates Supreme Court. -Charlotte
(N. C.) Observer.
Shows a Healthy Iricrrnse.
At Southern trade centers, business,
s reported by the Chattanooga (Tenn.)
Tradesman's many correspondents
hows a healthy increase, with indica
tions favorable for still greater improve
ment when the spring M-asoa opens.
To Protect Renters.
The Bell Telephone Company has
filed with the North Carolina railroad
commission a $5,000 bond to protect the
telephone- renters in cae the lower rata
ordered by the commission holds. "
One by one the roses of tradition,
which have bloomed In historical nar
ratives, fade and fall. Once more It Is
declared that Admiral Van Tromp did
not hoist a broom at the masthead of
bis ship, in token of his purpose to sw
eep Lnglish vessels off the ocean. The
writer who labels the familiar tale aa
fiction Is an eminent authority In mat
ters pertaining to Engllxhi&toryL '