CAUCASIAN
v.. i.. X III.
RALEIGH. NORTH'' CAROLINA, NOVEMBER 29, 1900.
No 61
JENATOR
CHANDLER
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I ANSWtR TO .HIS OPPONENTS.
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'To the I'm-l-unt. W,.Htnn'tin.''
Willi tlti-f-n ord Senator Chand
I ' i' rluMHii li'i'thy pumphh-t, whlcn
h' H ciri'Uluting In Nt?V 1 1 a. 1 1 1 1
-iiip-, in a ii h v r to charge-
tl, .it hive Ivt-ii mud' imuinst him.
Mi- (niving it hard tlht tor n-el-c-tinii,
t.ut privuto advice indicate
th it he lus a ciiaiin to win out.
I here not yet U-en any conceri
t i;it ion hiiioii his opiHirn'iits, and
there is no oiw of t li-m whom th
lU'piihlii-itiH of tin- Statu really whh
to end to tin Senate.
For tunny years Mr. Chandler ha
l-"i the inveterate foe of the rail
roads to N'ew 1 luinjishire. More
than twenty-live years ug.., to quote
h;s ow n language, he liegan to op
pose the system if free iaxNe-i, not
knoinwliy 0, )) people of the
State should pay their fa ren and 3,000
ride free, as a eoni pen-nation for con
trolling the olities of the Slate. He
liu.s fought for an ind"iendent fyn
tem of railroads in New Hampshire,
instcrtd of having the State form a
url of a larger system mainly exist-,
ing onisido of State iMiundaries. lie
tost both tights when the hglxlature
inad tree passes legal, and when
1 ho consolidation he oposed was av
eonipli'hed in lsO. Since then he
has labored just as earnestly to over
throw this legislation, Hud has pro
tested in t!e vigorous manner of
whn h ho is i-Hpahl', against the un
due waiennj' of tvk mid the arbi
trary iiicrrn.se of freight ami passen
ger i ales, lie has advocated the
building of hrtric roads in onler to
sta'ilish i oin pet it ion, and, llrst.last,
and all the time, he has tried to di
vorce New llatupdiire politics from
what he calls railroad domination
HAS UrK.V a LOSIXO 11GIIT.
It has leen a losing light. Chan
dler tells of his struggles and ac
knowledges his defeat In his own
characteristic way.
"As to the railroads of the coun
try outside of New Hampshire," h
says, ' I have entertained the name
views and pursued the same course
(.faction; always struggling against
vast illegal combinations and the
abolition of railroad eomietit ion.
Whenever consolidation has made
headway. 1 have tried to secure suf
tlcicnt governmental regulation and
control. All these tilings in State
and iiatUiu have been done by nie
solely in devotion toduty, unselti.sh
Iv, I trust, and certainly without any
bac or improper motive whatever,
or any mrioual animosity against
any railroad owner or manager.
lt must b.) admitted that my ef
ferts have not Ueu very fruitful in
cither l hu State or the uationd hWd.
The New Hampshire system of rail
roads is gone. Consolidation han
come; eouiinlition is extinguished;
the iMiwer of the railroad coiuuii-
si.ni to control rates in advance has
gone; Mock has Ken watered by
mauv millions of dollars; the Stat-
nreived nothing for its rights in
th' Concord Railroad; free jiassea are
universal and have been e.xpre-ly
legalized; and the railroad is the all
controliiug Hjlitical jwwer in the
S'ate."
POSlTPN ON TIIC HI1.VEK UUKSTION
Mr. Chandler's answer to the
charge that be has leen jH-rsistent in
hi.s eirorts to secure the re-establishment
of silver as standard money
through an international agreement
has already I teen given in brief in a
t-peciai dispatch to The l'ost, so that
it need not bo lejH'ated, except to
add that ho sxys his jKisition has
U-en inisi-eprcseiited by his accusers.
He points out that there a great
ditlVrenee Utveen Kepublican bi
metallism and l)t'iinx.Tatic silver
uioiioiiiciall'sm, and then t-ays:
"My jiersonal conviction as to the
bniot taiice in conned ion .with a re
aili in iiioe of the single gold stan
dard of an assertion of the desirabil
ity of the remonetization of silver
through tho action of the nations, in
the fare of an approaching national
convention and Presidential election,
I ct.uld not sati-fy by vtiting for the
uigie gold standard while only pay
ing that we would not preclude in
trn.r.ti.nml bitnetallisin. It was I
diiLcult iu-stion for each of the half
a dozen Reputdicau Si-nators who
bad been the most ardent ami radi
cai r.imetaiuts to decide for him-
1 honor and resect those who
were sati-il. d with savintr that we
did not 'preclude the accomplish
ment' of bimetallism and did uot
insist that we should say that we
still de-ired it. Hut I could not con
cur with them. Senator Aldrich, lu
the abundmce of his friendship and
the kindest manner, before the last
vouj wan taken on u rfereoc
i-m, urgel rut, to vote for lUiadop
'ion. I told Llm that I had thjujrht
ovr the que-tlou many hour; that
T aa conscious my peniiueLice might
l'e me my re-etertlon Uitbebeoate,
but that I euuld not chaiiK?. consist
ently with my view of political
ud ubllc duly.
"Ii 1h Uuh u truth frankly to
vow that ihone view have ao
-luw changed. The recent vast init
put of gold from tUu mines, lncre
u.g the Hiockj of metallic money
aiwi allowing alxiiulajit lut-H there
on of piijr mouey; th m.gtdneeul
tMlauee of trade In Uir of tUe Uol-i.-d
Slate-; the unparalleled propr-iiy-t.f
tiiociiuutry, the uopatrlotlc
attitude of th Demxrailc party axid
the extreme utteraoce of Mr. Bryan,
have given to Mr. McKlnley an easy
victory. Is our overwhelming
lit leal wer to be used to ostracise
ltepulilicaiis, however fw they may
be, who xtill believe that it Ls deslr
able that the nation of the world
sho ild agree upon some fixed ratio
between gild, the money of the
uioHi enlightened nations,' and sil
ver, the money of India and China?"
FA YOKED THE WAR WITH SPAIN.
Senator Chandler glories In, in
stead .if denying, the fact that he
favored a war wlttiHpalu as tho on
ly uieans by which Cui couid be
treed from Mpaulh control. "It L
true," he nays, "that I earnestly la
Ixirei for an lmmeiliat-i declaration of
war. I believed It to he the Inherit
ed duty of the Anglo-Saxon race In
the Uuiled States to terminate the
wicke t colonial rule of Spalu in Cu-
ba. 1 had impatiently waited
three years for an opportunity per
sonally to do something in perform
ance of this imperitive obligat on."
Then he quotes a prophecy made by
him in 1HHH an to the outcome of
such a war, and says that In view of
the glorious realization of thin proph
ecy, it the llepu I1 leans ot New
Hampshire deem his attitude a suf
ficient reason for condemning him,
"I shill bo proud of any t-enaltv
which, for this reason, may be in-
fl ctsi upon me."
The Unparalleled Century.
Cbrlatmas Huccess
One hundred years ago! What
remarkable story the panorama
if the closing century reveals! In
1800, our country was a pluoky
fl. dgeliog, healthy, vigorous, ardent
in hope, high In resolve. Our total
copulation was les that 5,500,000
(Jermany and Britain each had four
times our number, 8 pain twice as
mny, and even little Portugal ha I
is big a family of sons and daugh
ters as Uncle bam. West of the
Mississippi, all was wilderness
We had thirteen little states and
few cities of prominence . except
Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore,
Boston, and Charleston. The en
tire revenue of the United States
government under oar first admin-
stratlon was only $4 500 000. while
It now costs annually $98,100 413
33 to defray the expenses of the
government of Ureater New York
Washington waa then a new settle
ment. with nly a few thousand
population, and had been only late
ly made the capital. The total
wealth of the country was roundly
estimated at $200 000,000, or a very
little lest than forty dollars per
capita.
ClieapeKt Railway Fares.
The cheapest railroad fare, next
to a ' pass, ls the emigrant fare
from European ttussla to Siberia
in order to induce peasants to set
tie In the eastern districts of Siber
ia the Russian railways have Is
sued tickets, gooa for a family of
any site, from any part of Europ
ean Russia to Tobolsk, at two ru
bl s From Tobolsk to any part
east as far as Vladivostok or Port
Arthur the price is lour an t a half
rubles. Hence, for not quite seven
rubles, or about $3 50, a whole set
tler's family can travel about 4,000
mile . This arrangement has been
made upon the personal suggestion
f the czr, who expects great r -ules
from the extraordinary In
due. ment-. Moreover, he hopes by
tuts scheme to divert the stream
ot emigrants from the United
States and to utilize these forces
for bis own empire.
M blister Sells Whiskey.
The Ashevllle Gazette says that
T.J. Frlsbee, a practicing physi
clao, minister of the gospel, lawyer,
justice of the peace, and In '91 the
nominee of the Democratic party
(or the legislature in Madison coun
r.y, has been found guilty in the
Frderal court oo a charge of Hav
ing sold whiskey without license
It was done In the regulation way.
The "moonshine" would be left on
the oide of the hill and the man
who wanted the whiskey would gt
the Jug and leave the money in its
Dine . The sentence wai imprison
ment for three mouths aud $200
and costs.
Slie Lassoed a Wolf for Teddy.
Oklahoma City Dispatch.
Agnes Marshall, said to be the
original of Bossy Braoder, la Hoy t's
"Texas Steer," naa sent a won nme,
stuffed by berself, to Governor
Theodore Roosevelt aa a gift.
The skin belonged to an animal
which she lassoed some time ago
while out riding with her slater.
She is a daughter of Colonel Zach
Mulhall, cattle king of Oklahoma,
and general lite stock agent ot the
Sc. Louis & San Francisco Railroad.
Machines Displace Farm Hands.
In England daring the past few
vears.lt is claimed. 140 320 farm ia
borers have been displaced by ma
chinery, while the making of the
latter, It ls asserted, required only
the labor of 4,600 men for one year.
A conservative estimate places
the grape crop in Chautauqua coun
ty, New York, at 7,000 cars, against
6,000 oars last year.
PAPtl fROIf COTTOK 8IC0 HULLS.
!
Trm MMnfMttHic Klot to bm lic4
U 11m CMloa HM
Atlanta, Nov. 2t. The Journal j
y that plaiut have been coasum- j
niateil here for the erect lou often
pLint for the manufacture of cotton
deed bulls Into paper of different
tern Jen. itohert Thomas, of New
York, at present in thia city, says
t hat the a heme Ls being backed by
iLtt National etew Company, with
fO.UOU.ovO capiUl, and that work
will be begun In ulting up the
plaula lu about 8o days.
He naj( he U abo hacked by the
Standard Oil Cnuipany. " It l-i the
lntentiou to have the factories well
scattered turouithout the cotton bell
and they will extend from Texad to
North Carolina. The plants will j
run with a capacity of from 125 lo
200 toa-j eacti month. ;
W ill They Violate Tfcotr froaiM Ala
Hk-kory Timej-Mercury. .
Will the next Legislature give to
the taxpayerx of 'the State free
speech, free ballot and a fair count?
Toe Democrat have promised It.
The best men of all parties demand
it. Tney promised to do so In the
campaign of '94, and violated their
promise. If they v lot ate that
promise now, then there will tie a
revolution iu North Carolina politics.
In that case Congress will be excus
able in protecting American citizens
in their rights. Why not protect
them in the States of the union &h
well a in foreign countries? A
party that h afraid of honest elec-
llfiy-jtions is unworthy the confidence of
the ieople.
Turkx 7 Won't lbtcoftaize oar Coaaal.
Constantinople, Nov. 24. The
Porte has definitely rejected the re
quest for an exequator for a United
Htates consul at Harpoot. This re
fusal is regarded by the United
States legation as a direct violation
ot treaty right; and consequently,
dexplte the refusal, Dr. Thomas H.
Itorton, who was appointed by
President MeKinley eome time ago,
to establish a consulate at Harpoot,
has been directed to proceed to his
(NIHt.
The expected visit of the battle
ship Kentucky to Smyrna is believed
to telate quite as much to this mat
ter as to the indemnity question.
Hiui ASUr
Take Waco
Bar Kooou
la Wtmtoa
Winston-Salem, N. C, Nov. 22.-
Met-srs. H. Clark Brown and Arthur
Penn, white men, members o
prominent families of Martinsville,
Va., got into a shooting scrape with
a negro named Will Hunt in a bar
room here this morning. All of
them had pistols and they had un
loaded them when the firing ceased.
As a result of the trouble .Penn car
ries three balls two in the left leg
and one in the right wrist. He is
in the hospital. It is thought the
negro was shot, but he made his es
cape. He is a dangerous charactor.
Accused of Rifling Hank Letters,
Winston, N. C, Nov. 24. Post
otfice Inspectors today arrested W. O
Iteeco, nineteen years old, at Crutch-
tleld, this county, on the charge of
rifling five registered letters sent to
a Winston bank. The young man
has been assistant to his grandfather
in the post-ornco at Crutchfield. He
was taken before a United States
commissioner at Wilkesburo and
gave $1,000 ball for a hearing. His
father and grandfather are his bonds
men.
Street Car IJne Tied Up.
Key West, Fla., Nov. 23. The
ent I re street ral 1 way system of Key
West is completely and indefinitely
tied up by the strike. All ot the
cars have been run to the sheds and
locked up The cigar workers have,
in meeting, officially endorsed the
action of striking molormen and
conductors and will give them fin
ancial aid. The company threatens
to withdraw from the city, it is al
leged, and all negotiations thus far
to bring about a settlement have
been futile.
Nine Hundred Men Jocked Out.
Chicago, Nov. 24. Labor troubles
that have been smouldering for some
time at the Piano Harvester Manu
facturing Company's plant at "West
Pullman culminated yesterday In a
lockout of 900 workmen. Notices
had been posted announcing a sus
pension of work for an indefinite
period. The plant was shut down
Itst July, but work was resumed
again the day after election.
France Votes $7,000,000.
Paris, Nov. 23. The Government
will ask the Cnaraber to vote a credit
of $7,000,000 to cover this year's
deficiency. Of this 680,000 francs
will be spent to cover the cost of the
recent banquet to the Mayors o
France as the exposition authorities
refused to pay for it. The rest wil
go to pay for Chinese and Algerian
expeditions.
Monitor Renamed Nevada.
Washington, Nov. 22. Monitor
No. 8. formerly known as the Con
necticut, built at the Bath Iron
Works. Maine, has been renamed
the Nevada, in honor of the grea
silver State.
"Nigger Baby and Nine Beasts,"
a new book by a new author, issued
by a new publishing concern, sweeps
tresh as a wind from the West
through the whirl of holiday leaves".
NEWS FROM
THE WAR.
WJEK.S MAKE THE BRITISH
EHS HUSTLE FUH THE IK
LIVES.
PRESIDENT KRUCCR IN EUROPE.
iut ni Boca CoU4
CmwmXrj Qjfml FrMk to
BrlUak
t&mmx la
lMurdr-9ota Amu
Crusted.
The Sooth African war reports show
considerable ac ivity on the part of the
Boers, and a gradual relinquishing of
British authority in the Trans v sal re
public Karly last week Lord Roberts
waa thrown from bis b"rse and receiv
ed severe injuries which may prevent
him from taking active command in
the field for some time
An outpost held by the British near
Balmoral was surprised by the Boers,
and six British soldiers were killed
five wounded, and one officer and thir
ty men made prisoners.
A report from Masrn, Basutoland
Nov 22, states that President Steyn
and General DeWet with 1,000 men tra
versed the British lines near Alexan
dria and attacked a British podtion,
subsequently retiring to the Orange
Free State
A London special, Nov. 21, guys:
"The Star, commenting to-day on
the rep rt that General Botha, with
his commando, is ciosa to uewetsoorp,
regards the news as most disquieting,
and says :
"We have heard many strange and
unverified ttories, but one thing we
know, that French was pursued all the
way from MirtcMeburg to Staoderton
and gvt through the terrible neck ot
the mountains only by the skin of his
teeth "
Proceeding, The Star suggests that
General Botha pursued the Briti b,
marched south and joined hands with
General I e Wet, and that thus Bloein
fontein is endangered and the Ornge
Free State will have to be reconquered
before the subduing of the Transvaal
can he oommenced."
An American who has just returned
from the Transvaal, gives the following
interview:
'I see that some of the pmpers in the
United States are condemning Presi
dent Kruger because he left, and are
declaring that he ran away and desert
ed his'people," said a member of the
corps. "Let me say that I know i'
was only after President Steyn of the
Orange Free State, Gen Botha and
State Secretary Keitz kept at him for
several weeks that he finally consented
t lemve He insisted upon going to
the fighting front and doing his share.
He refused to believe he was too old
and unable to withstand the hardships
He left oniy because he was told by a'l
the other leaders it wa the best thing
he could do, and he did it then only
under protest
"We were well use 1 by the Boers.
They gave us good fat d, the best they
had, offered to pay us wages, and wnen
we left paid our fares here and gave
each man a few pounds for pocket mo
ney. "Don't let them make you believe the
war is over, or that it will ever be over
until the flag of the 1 ransvaal flies over
free country. The Knglisb never can
win l ne uoers can ana win seep up
the present system of warfare indefi
nitely. "No more loyal ana patriotic people
ver lived in tiistory. and they regard
n i sacrifice too great if for the welfare
of their litt e republic
I be English are gett ng desperate
and are resortin to the dum dum hu -lets
See here, 1 picked thee up on
the veldt a ter a skirmish with regular
British troops," tnd the trooper took
from bis pockets several cartridges of
the "dum dum" pattern."
President Paul Kruger, of the Trans
vaal Republic, arrived at Marseilles,
Prance, last Thursday. His arrival
was greeted with great enthusiasm and
rejoicing by the French people. In his
reply to the address of welcome of the
Presidents of the Paris and Marseilles
committees, President Kruger said:
I bedeve EngUnd, had she b sen bet
ter informed, would never haveconsen
ted to this war and since tbe expedi
tion of Jameson, who wished to seize
tbe two republics, without the necessi
ty of firms: a rifle -not. I nave never i
cea e to demand a tribunal f arbitra
tion, which cp to now ba always been
refused.
"The war wared on us in the two Re-
oublics has reached the last limits of
barbarism. During my life I have had
to fight many times the savage of the
tribes of Africa, but the barbarians we
have to fight now are worse than tbe
others. bey even urge the Kaffirs
aga nstus They burn the farms we
worked so oara to construct ana tney
drive out our women and children
whose husbands and brothers they have
killed or taken prisoners, leaving them
unprotected and roofless and often
without bread to eat. But whatever
they may do, we will never surrender.
we will nghc to tne ena. uur great,
imperishable confidence reposes in the
Eternal, in our God. We know our
cause is just, and if the justice of men
is wanting to us, He. tbe Kternai, who
is Master or an peoples, ana to wnom
belongs tne tuture, will never abandon
us.
'I assure you that if the Transvaal
and tbe Orange Free State must lose
their independence it will be because
all the Boer peopl) have been destroy
ed with their women and children "
The declaration that the Boers would
not surrender dispelled at once any
impression tbtt Mr.! Kruger Intends to
accept a compromise from the British
Government. Bis announcement was
greeted with a roar of cheers and cries
oi Vive arugeri -"Vivelahberte!"
Vive les Boers!'
SOUTH AM KB ION KXBIIXION CKCsBSD
The rebel forces rat Buenaventura,
t Columbia, have been completely crush
ed by tne Colombian government
troops, who cspiured three cannons
and two generals. General Alban, the
Governor of Panama, personally direc
ted tbe operations from on board the
British s'eamship Laboga, seized by
the Colombian authorities and saved
tba situation thsre.
rex tyxAircu eiuttir.
IOMl
FtjMd for EftaMio.
An DthualaaUe plea fur a wld
oxteDBloa of rarai trm delivery it
mad la the annual rprt of W
Johoaon, first aaiataot poat
tnaater geoerai, aaya the Atlanta
Confutation. II eayi that the ex
crmordlnary development of this
system daring the past tweiv
month under th atlmulua ot ap
aroprlatloas of f 150,000 for the fla
eai vear 1699.1900. and f 1.75,000 for
ha flacal year 1900-0L hi conrUalve
a ahowlng that her-after It moat
oe a permanent and expanding
reatcra of the postal admlolatra
I non. i ne arvice can nor be ex
i ended aa awirtly aa congreaa ma
; direct, or aa tba means permit; un-
ill It covers all those portloasot the
1 Unit d States sow rsacbod la whole
jt in part by the more primitive
methods of the postal service, which
have comedown to ua almost with
oat change from colonial times
This change Mr. Johoeon believes
can be effected without exces-lve
cost to the government.
TfcofcUM act CHMd m Kzploalon of
Gunpowder M Bajboro.
New Bkrk, N. C, Nov, 23. De
tails of the powder explosion in the
store of J. K. Rice & tiro., at Bay
oore, Pamlico county, have been re
aeiv d acd are as follows:
The x plosion occurred Wednes
dy night about seven oVioek. Tar
prominent citints of Biyboro-H
v?. Cornel), J. W. Kice and M. L.
Ball anoe were in the store as a
quantity of powder was being weigh
ed out. Two open kegs of pwdn
stood on the counter aod twelve and
a half pounds had been placed in
the weighing pan, when some on
lighted a match to see the figures
The powder in th pan became igni
ted and exploded. It was some ti ¬
tle time before woat had occurred
could be understood rwaea these re
sal s were noted.
Tne three eitiz ns mentioned were
fooua to be quite severely burnee1
about the fac-, and tne whole interi
or of the atore was more or less bro
ken up, the end being blown on-.
The two kegs of powdtr were blowu
off the counter and neither of them
exploded, fortunately, as no one
would nave survived Had they igni
ted. The building is qaite a large
one, the telephone exchange being
an the second floor. Tne lady op
erator was thrown from her chair,
but was not injured. It was un
doubtedly a very narrow escape
(rum a complete datiucioa ot th
nure building1 and the Iom of fou
more Urea.
Kiiled by Ills Caiupflre.
Huntington, W. Va., Nov. 22.
Prof. Marshall Hawkins, accompa
nied by a party of young men of tbi
county, went out last eight for a
coon hunt. Ab ut midnight, becom
ing cold acd weary; they set flie to
a dead tree standing in the wood,
and lay down in the hae to awau
the dawn, and all wr Boon asleep.
The fire burned rapidly, and a
large limb burning in two, fell upon
Prof. Hawkins, one of the party,
crushing his skull and cauaine in
stant ieath. He was well known
throughout the county.
Ctiier or Police of Norfolk Hue tbe May
or For aio.ooo.
Nkwport News, Va , Nov. 22
Late this afternoon Chief of Police,
S J. Howard, filed iu the Circuit
Court a suit airatnst Mayor A.. A
Moss for $10 000. claiming damages
for alleged cefamation of character.
Tbe suit grows out of charges filed
by the Mayor against the Cniet, in
an tff irt to remove him. Tbe May
r alleged, among other things, that
the chief was aware that certain des
ignated lewd women and saloon keep
ers were violating the law, bnt re
fused to arrest them.
Storm Destroyed Over 9100,000 Worth
or Property at Colorado Sprin.
Colorado Springs, Col , Nov. 22.
The losses to property from yes
terday's storm am mot to $100,000,
divided as follow : Business section
of the town, $10 000 ; Colorado Tele
phone Company. $15 000; KUetric
Power Company. $10000; Western
Uaion, $5 000; Postal Telegraph Co.,
$5,000; Colorado and Philadelphia
Reduction Wrrks, $10,000; balanee
soattenng. No loss of life has been
reported.
Cattle. King a Raving Maniac.
. Naw Yobk, Nov. 22. W. F. Mel-
lie, former president of the National
Bank at Pocatello, Idaho, and "cat
tie king" of the Snake River that
State, is now a raving lunatie. tbe
result it is tho o gut, of being sand
bagged in Caicag a week ago. He
was taken to Morritown, N. J-,
heavily ironed today, a ad was cm
mitied as a private to the 8ate Hos
pita! for the iossne at Mollis Plains.
- Fifteen Years For Murder.
Wilminotoh, N O, Nov. 23 In
the criminal court here today Jnde
Moore sentenced J antes Wells, (eol )
to fifteen years in the State peniten
tiary for murder in the . second de
gree. . Wells killed another negro in
a dance hall here about one month
ago.
A Thrifty Tree.
The Salisbury 8un claims tbe follow
ins: for a tree in its county :
"Last spring- a younjr sprout shot up
in the woods and In this short time has
crown to be eighteen feet high. It i
without limos ana tne leaves grow at
tbe end of stems that oome oat of the
body. The leaves are thirty-one inch
es wide and as many inches long and
their stems are twenty-Ove incbes long
"The tree is eight inches at tbe
ground, and has a smooth, green hark.
it has been visited by hundreds of peo-
t
te. none of whom ever saw anything
ike it before."
The Southern Railway has pur
chased the Louisville, Evansville
St. Lonis Rrailroad, by which H
trains an entranee into St. Lotus
The price paid was 4,00,000.
TKIT ATI TCI I COL'S ftZX
AltaMfWt, - C. fife
AfW a 4Jrck.
Columbia State
4 apt Murray, a Purt Koyal tar p lot
who has followed IL tea alaceboifeoud
and visited nearly etrry secUoa of the
nabltable globe, is full of laUrUof
reainicecc of bappeoiags to distant
Uodsln which be participated Tbe
Id pilot U food of relatloc aa iorldeot
which occurred near Calcutta. India
The ve-sel ubich he cooimaod.d, a flue
c ipper ship, i wrecked lea tf bv u
ia tbe Bat of Ken cai aud all hao-'s,
ave hloielf and two cocupauioAS ho
exceeded in reaching ! re in i;e
ip gig. w re toc Tbe three ex
aautd men inmeditrlv sought food
nd shelter and while thus empluyed
came upon au iinuivu wooden ioisge
which they corrro ly surmised to be an
Indian idol. Night was tit on tbem and
the tired men bivobaced nearby sod
their attention was sown attracted by
the appearacce of a ncore of low cau
diudoos, each vt whom carried ia fcn
oands a sav. ry dish which he pi teed
beiore tbe inanimate god. After ea b
native bad deposited his offering with
profuse si os and wrd they departed,
tnd when the hungry sailors were sat
isfied that their strange visitors had
retreated for the night they greedily
devoured tbe bounteous repast intend
ed fur the idol Murray and his com
panions remained in the neighborhood
or several days subsisting nigatly o
tbe offerings brought by tbe Hindoo
is a tribute o their god atid rem lining
ooncesled io the day time.
Oae nisrbt abour 10 days after their
-hi pw reck two natives suddenly sir
prised tbe three men while tbey were
m the very act of making their usual
meal and a fight ensued The native
proved no match for the resolute and
t 11 armed Americans and soon beat
an ignominiou retreat, leaving tbe
latter complete masters of the situa
tion. The captain and his companions, fear
ing thtt the natives would return in
force and massacre tbem, made their
way to Calcutta, where) they secured
pasnaff in a homeward b und vessel.
Some 15 yars rubsequently Piot Mur
ray recognized in Captain Cole, of tbe
i-hip Kirkum, wh eh called here for a
-anro, one of hi old companions in the
xciting encounter in far off India
The recognition was mutual and the
two men were delighted to renew their
acquaintance after the lapse of half a
generation.
Plead Ills Own Case.
Columbia, 8. C , Nov. 27. John
L. OutKS, a white man, was tried for
murder at the lsst term of court lor
Greenwood. When the case was
called Judge Bennett asked Outzs If
be had any lawyer. The defendaot
replied that he had not; he had not
the means to employ . legal talent
ana wouia preter not having any
aj pointed by the court. lie would
couduct his own defence, he said.
The defendant managed his case
with great adroitness, and question
ed hi witnesses to such advantage
that the solicitor found himself with
out a case to work on, and requested
the jury to bring in a verdict of not
guilty.
Preached to Moonaliluera.
Winston Sentinel.
Oo tbe train from Dauvllle
to
Martinsville a few days ago were a
number of moonshiner, returning
from Federal Court, at Danville.
fltv W. H. Brook, pastor of the
Christian church at Martinsville,
was alo a passenger, on his return
from Richmond. He took advan
tage of the opportunity and preach
ed the whl-key men a powerful and
forcible sermon, and no doubt
brought bouiH conviction to those
men, eome of whom. It Is said, had
uot heard a sermon before In their
lives.
Full Dinner Pall Punctured.
Nonconform ist.
A somewhat dubious symptom of
the promised four years more of the
full dinner pail is to be found In the
circumstance that the National Steel
Company at Steubenville, O , has
announced a cut in wages ranging
from 20 to CO per cent, together
with a twelve-hour day. It was
not expected that all ante-election
promises would be fulfilled, but this
Kteubenville proposition really seems
to be unseemly ho soon after the
balloting.
The Penitentiary Cure.
DakVle Ree-rd.
If wnat some ot tbe newspapers
say 'S true, there should be eome
more Indictments at next term of
Federal coorr, for Intimidation of
voters at the November election.
Nothing but the penitentiary will
stop such methods. The qnleker
the better. The president should
suppress Imperialism In North Car
ollna Onr Democratic AnM-Im
perialista will no donbt aid blm in
tbe good work.
Horses Shipped to China.
San Francisco. Nov. tS The repre
sentatives of tbe German government
wtM were here for some ten weeks to
nspect h rsen shipped to hina. have
left for China Their payments while
here amounted to over 1,150,000, all in
German fold marks t hree thousand
or more horses were shipped from this
port during tbe last rnree months.
Chicago to Ilave Hotel for Deatl
tute Strangers.
Ch'-cago, Nov. 23. For the relief
f destitute strangers In Chicago,
Mayor Harrison will ask tbe city
council to establish a municipal ho
t at a cost of $20 000. It will have
300 bedrooms and be open to poor
men of good character.
Traitors.
m
Times Mercury.
The Democrats charge that it waa
the traitors In their party that elec
ted McKlnloy. Yec. It waa these
same traitors that swelled Sim
mona majority to 60,000 In this
State. It was these traitors that
swelled Aycock's vote In August
over Bryan's In November. Tral
tors are ' halo fellows well met1
when tbey do the bidding of the
town rings, the servile tools of the
maonina.
AIASTT BU1IACL
Mr.
Htm Ua
M
ts Twwiktr AfW TWSa.
Co!mbta.H C.fUoord
Mo day awraieg Mr. B W. aader
oo. a rat esaaa tfm aaaapUis. M ,
U'j&ed Into Law a, ft C, and rris
teredate eof the leading buardiag
Monday aT eeoooo Mia JaUa Aaa
Uaeberger, of Oetoe!, arrived. i
purMit of her 'sJUag. a treir
sleaJady.aou reglaterieg at lb mo,
place, aked for a room TuraUf
bebeid Mr. B W . Abdersoa. a4 twe
I airs of eye tnl In admiring glaac
t boe present My that fcefur as
er ruur h4 elapoed tfce two tad met
sod " lipid bad gut in Lit l:tU arrew
1 be fulluwing ruornlna tb frei.
tie ol bus be brtmf Ll Mia Lteeb-r-irer
lu Columbia Mr. Aodervm aud
denly remeoibereJ that be bad aa ur
gent engagement ia oiutnbia, too and
un lb way there were tao pevpU wlib
but a -ingle idea.
V tea Colombia i reactted Mies
LiKeOericer w-.et to a buaxdiri: buw
wr Andentoa went fur a ootAxy pub
no. He foubd Judge .'. II. rlyno
La-t eteaicg last before dark Mr
Ibdersoa and Mi Uneberger wore
happily wed and seemed o happy that
the drew oo small attention wIm-d tbe
new of tbeir romance spread.
MrkiM ifvuaa IVkU EUas M.D.r
Philadelphia North AmerU-an, IVth.
Jamert Hamilton, of 42V VIin
rftreet, suddenly ltxt the uwer .f
prh Hat unlay while eating. II
U conaciou and perfectly rational.
but his IIpM are Mealed.
When he went into the New
airy lUxtaurant, at 116 North
SUth htrwt. hhortly tiefore mid
night on Saturday, he waa at talka
tive a any patron in the place. He
ordered a lf Mew and a cup of f-
ft and chatUd with the waiter who
served him.
He started to eat hi lunch with
apjiarent relish. Ten minute later
he was stricken dumb. The waiter
found him with hit head noting un
the table. He thought he had fall
en asleep and tried to arouse him.
without success. He was perspiring
freely and when half aroud made
vain efforts to sfieak.
Patrolman Kelly, of the Fifth
street station, sent him to the hospi
tal. There effort! of the hyslclarw
to make him talk proved furtlln.
He nodded and made known his
wants and gave information as to
i , , .
effort to help tl dtctw?, but his at-i
tempts at anlnuatlnn were as crnle
as tho-L 5-j hvl never rHwn hw
to I
Wen tern 1'opullMt Iajeri (iln-
ln.
Ameriian NonconformlHt.
Bryanlsiu and Crokerlsm wont
mix. Reform trimmed with gold
lace Is not a pretty thine. Bryan.
with all the gold bug against him.
was stronger than he was with half
the yellow democrats In his favor.
For every goldbug he got he lost a
true man. The immense lncreawof
the vote for Debs and Wool ley Hhows
that reformers are more plentiful
than ever but they are not hunting
spoils under the black flag of Tam
many hall.
The Nonconformist MUpportd
Rryau In spite of hUnhady surround-
lugs. It i not ashamed of its course.
It has no apologies to make. II
supported liryanism, but it did uot 1
aud it never will lavo; the demo
cratic party.
We do not mourn over the election
as one not to be comforted. We
are feeling very well, thank you.
Whatever Is is right. God moves
in a mysterious way his wonders to
perform.
This election U probably a death
blow to fusion. That will be a
blexHed good thing, don't you know?
It will probably csuho a new align
ment of the reform forcea. That
wont be a bad thing, either. It will
unite the men who agree on prin
ciples and drive away every nun
who has joined us for the sake of
spoils.
Good bye, Mr. Croker, a long
good bye to you and all your kind.
Charleston to Get the Dewey
Arch.
New York Nv. 23. Work was
upended on the tearing down of
the Dewey arch today, as a result of
a Ti qot bv the management of tba
8 uth Carolina aod West Iodia Ex
position, of Charleston, S. C. This
xposition is ached aled to take plaee
iu 1901 and the management has ex
pressed a williorses to remove the
areh from New York to that South-
rn city.
Mr. W. K. Rhode a Homicide Maalac
Fayetteville, Nov. 22. Much
sympathy has been awakened by the
lamented case of W. L. Rhodes, a
well-to-do farmer in the northeast
em part of this .county. A few
months ago the Illness of his wife
completely unhinged his mind, and
he attempted suicide. Inflicting on
himself very serious Injuries with a
knife. After brief treatment at
Raleigh he was discharged as reoov
ered; bat a day or two ago the homi
cidal mania again took possesaloti of
him, and he made a furious attack
on his wife, being finally overpow
ered by his father In a fearful strug
gled He was broaght here and com
mitted to JsiL until he can be sent
to tbe asylum.
Three Ship Loads of Emigrants.
CURUSA, Nov. 23. Thrca stea
ers have aai'ed front this port sntt
in three days for the United State-'
having on board 2,750 emigrants.
Reporta from farmers to the La
bor (VimmlsS'oner aay In 39 conn
ties the average Increase this year
la 12 percent In value or farm
lands. In three counties a decreaae
la reported.
STAMP TAKES
DOOMED.
ways ami mlans nwuiT-
TKfcS liKCWES THAI
STA3IP TAXES SHOULD
nr. humckd.
IHI ftOFll Will IfiOICI AT 1111
ACTIO!.
a-s Wa. i.
a U tk
Wtiaiagtvi Poet.
it bs Ua defltiUJy deetded by
lb K .publican araUu of tae way
bd oitkit emoiiiLoe that ta the Mil
'or tbe redoctiua ot war taiUoa the
fliotB alasop daUoa wdl be atJ-
t h d:
Oj baik checks.
i telegrams.
Uj esprest reeeip's.
Oa warehouse reoeipi.
Oa rnpriUry artleles.
It is iaU i-osaibl that aoae ad -di'ivn
will t made to this list be
fore lb proposed law is frasscd for
e ntdratioa by the f all committee
on Haiarday, lctsbr 1 t. The Lai
oo ttamfers of sto ks wil stand aa
tiliue'afu is determined by the
o wh eh baa b a brogh by
D aren" S. V. hite.ia New York,
and the ineread ti oa ber is alo
to b lrft nniuQcbeJ, it spite of the
prersnre which aas ten broaght to
bear npou tbe msnittee to repeal
it The brewrre will, ia all proba
oil.y, earry the fl(ht into Coacrwaa.
The action of the committee will
rrBJova tbe moat anaoyirg and troa
olti )is of the stamp tea, although
the ti on morgags, note, deeds,
tic. s ill remains as on of the aoare
s of tovenne against which mueh
eom plaint is made.
Commissioner Wilson, of the la
teraal Revenue Horeaa, was before
th eouimittee mb time yestetday.
giri. irT-ri.ti'o 'icftiLii
ff.cttf ti. ndaetia ot-c-rtAla
scheme, and alto as to tbe am on at
of revrcuw raid by pcrt.osS f U.
piMkt iv,;ucu iiu prsposea tv
retnce.
Lte ye stetdsy afternocr, Meaara.
Payn, Da sal', aad Hopkins were
eonstitattd a sab-eommutee to draft
tbe repeal bid. The romaittea has
aade sorb satisfactory progress with
the bill that only details now rem si a
o be considered. Tae members ot
tbe committee, after adj inrnmeat
Yesterday afternoon, raid that they
believed there would be no d.fienlty
when the bill was ptewnted in fall
committer or in the I loose, eithsr
among Dsmoerata or Repobheaos.
Altbooch they have oot eonsolted
the Uruiocratie members, tt is under
stood, fr m information soma of the
K. publican members have, that tte
Democrats do not intend to make
any fetlus ofposttioa to tbe meas
ure. Tne neeipts from tba war revenoe
act for the first four moe'fcs f lb
present fiscal y ear were $38 398.&V1.
VICTIMS OF TNE 8TQKU.
L
ttoporta
XV,
K44 Tkl XI
wm K 1114.
Nahvlll, Tennn Latest reporta
from the districts swept by Tues
day's storm sliow that eeven perMooj.
loKt tbeir liven In Williamson county-One
more death, that of Clayton
Tucker, ha occurred near Columbia,
making the total In that afctioa
w(nty-four.
Three member of the hill family
at Walnut lAke, Tunica county.
Mbnirthippl, were killed.
Clarence Thompson, living near
ninth, MLw., was carried away by
the wind and no trace of him has
been found.
In Arkaaa six dead and twenty-
five injured have bnen reported.
The victims are principally negroew.
Prnnaylvanla Women Clean tba
Streets.
A novel sight was wi to eased oa
fferson street one morning last
weak, says a Readies. Pa., errew
pendant of the Philadelphia Nona
An rlean. For soma time the street
had been in a filthy eoodition. and
th city authorities have given the
matter no attention. The wossen of
tba loeality decided to taaeh the city
fathers an or j set lesson- A broom
brigade of sixty women was formed,
and a lady captain aod two lieataa
aata were appointed.
At the word of command the wo
a . a
men. wearing son Donaets ana
aprons, and armed with broom,
moved into tbe street and began op
erations. Ia leas than aa honr th street waa
thoroughly cleaned. While the
sweeping was in progress a number
of men offered to a sift, bnt were told
it waa "vomaVs day. We are dome
hat yon ma eonid not do, said
tho leader.
radlaa oa ta Va of
San Diego, CaL, Nov. 24. Hun
dreds of Indians on tbe Mesa Grande
reservation are reported to be on the
verge of starvation because of the
failure of their supplies ofmantanlta
berries and acorns, doe to drought
Last Jane.
In the Criminal Court at Wil
mington Friday, Judge Moore sen
tenced James Mills, colored, to fif
teen year la the State peniten
tiary for murder In tbe second de
gree. Mills killed another negro
In a danoe hall Id Wilmington
abont a motUa aqo