OUR RALEIGH LETTER.
WUCH ENTHUSIASM OVER THE CEN
TENNIAL CELEBRATION.
Commissioners of Deeds and Notary Pub
lie Commissioned Republican Con
cres tonal Candidates Urged to
Withdraw la Fayar of Third
Party Candidates Tha Races
at Eorllnrton Fair.
MESSENGER BUREAU, I
Raleigh, N. C Oct. 12. J
To-day military commissions were
Issued to the following officers of the
Third regiment: W. S. Thomas and J.
E. Smith. Lieutenants Company G; J.
W. Keats and P. 1. Pay lor, Lieuten
anta Company I; G- W. Pritchett,
Lieutenant Company B.
Col. John S. Cunningham, one of the
Governor's aides. Is here to-day and
tells me he will be one of the party of
officers which will accompany Goi ernor
Holt to Chicago, leaving next Mon
day. . J
The cotton pickers are cow at their
busiest. This season 35 cents per 100
pounds is the price paid them in this
section.
The Supreme court files opinions in
the following cases, all save one, of
which are from the First and Second
districts: Brown vs. Lamb, Pasquo
tank, no error; State vs. Green.Craven,
affirmed; Bell vs. Howerton, Edge
combe, no error; E!y vs. Davis, Pas
quotank, affirmed; Winborne vs. New
8ora, Hertford, affirmed; Bergern vs.
Insurance Co., .Beaufort, no error;
Ginsburg vs. Leach, Hyde, no error;
State vs. Shoulders, Bertie, appeal d Is
missed; Shaffer vs. Hahn, Beaufort, no
error; Hood vs. Sudderth, Caldwell, no
error; Manufacturing Co, vs. Wilcox,
Pasquotank, no error; Manufacturing
Co. vs. Gray, Craven, in favor of plain
tiff; Navigation Co. vs. Williams, Hert- j
ford, affirmed; Temple vs. Commission- j
era, Pasquotank, affirmed.
Justice Avery remarked a day or two
ago that while none of the cases at this
term of the Supreme court were of ex
treme public Importance, yet in several
there are very interesting legal ques
tions involved. .
Mr. T. K. Bruner, commissioner of
exhibits at the World's Fair, left to-day
for Rutherford county, to make some
special collections. Gold ores will form
an interesting, and certainly extensive
part of this State's display.
Though $500 in cash prizes is offered
military companies in the prize drills
at the Centennial celebration here
next week, yet it is said that not an
entry has yet been made. This is sin
gular and it shows a lack of interest
in the troops. In 1884 many companies
competed for the t300 prize at the ex
position here. There must be some
well drilled companies in the State
Guard, and it was naturally expected
that a half dozen at least would com
pete. The, Republicans here, who are al
ways doing plenty of talking for the
Third party, are now stating that they
believe the great efforts the Third par
ty is making to get seats in the Legis
lature will give the latter party the
balance of power in that body.
Your correspondent hears that Mrs.
Lease, who stumped this State with
Weaver, has been offered $5,000 by the
Renublican National committee to
make speeches in the North and West
on "Southern outrages." There are
grounds for belief that this offer will
be entertained.. Of course Mrs. Lease
has been working for the Republican
party in this trip through the saoutu.
At Cary, a town nine miles from
here, there was a double wedding this
morning, the brides being the .daugh
ters of Mr. P. H. Guess. Miss Alice
married Mr. W. H. Nelms, of Chase
City, Va., and Miss Effie married Rey.
John E. White, of Wilson. It was a
home wedding, and several Raleigh
people attended it.
Centennial services will be held in
several churches here next Sunday in
honor of Raleigh's first hundred years.
These services will, at the Church of
the Good Shepherd, be quite elaborate.
Congressman Branch left here to-day
for the First district. He speaks in a
"very bright way cf the Democratic
prospects there.
The necrro newspaper here to-day
says: What has Chairman Eaves
done, or what does he propoee doing
for his ticket? It is safe to affirm that
not one-fourth of the Republican voters
of the State know anything of the
ticket and less of the nominees." Some
negroes out in Oberlin, near here, said
yesterday they had never heard of
Furches. The newspaper also says
editoilally: "It is a pleasure to us to
know that the way Is open for our sup
port of many very excellent gentlemen
on the Democratic ticket."
Raleigh Is to have another very elab
orate chrysanthemum fair during the
present month.
Inquiry was made to-day regarding
the condition of State Botanist Gerald
McCarthy, and it is said he is doing
quite well, though badly hurt.
Messenger Bureau, )
Raleigh, N. C. Oct. 13. f
The only thing talked of here now is the
centennial. There is enthusiasm and inter
est shown which are a credit to Raleigh and
the State. Really it is a State affair, though
Raleigh assumes the entire burden of it.
The city appropriated 2,000. Of course
more than that sum will be expended by
private citizens. Here are the "events' of
the centennial, which really continues four
days. Tuesday morning historical, indus
trial and civic procession; evening at Stron
ach's auditorium, special exercises, includ
ing the address by Hon. Kemp P. Battle and
reading of the centennial poem by Capt. C.
B. Denson. Wednesday evening, grand dis
play of fire works and centennial germ an,
the latter given by the Capital club in its
beautiful ball room. Thursday, germ an by
L Allegro club. Friday, centennial ball, at
Stronach's auditorium. Of course there are
various events during all these days to at
tract visitors. Each day there will be a per
formance by the "Wild West Show,' con
tinuing two hours. The colored people are
taking a lively interest in the centennial,
and will have several floats. The gentlemen
in charge of the celebration are among the
leading people here and they have done a
really wonderful work. All the decorating
materials to be had have been bought. For
horses the demand far exceeds the supply.
Country people will be, here by thousands.
The railways are preparing to do anim
mnj hnsinpjs For once the matter of
politics is for a week to be placed in the
background. It will be a blessed rest. The
procession on Tuesday will be precisely half
a mile in length. ,
The following commissions were issued
xom toe executive uepanmem io-uay:
Commissioner of Deeds, Ed H. Cloud, of
Philadelphia, Phil. A. Iloine, of Chicago
and William F. Robb, of Pittsburg; notary
public, K. J. Baker, of Harrellsville.
It is announced that C. C. Pool has with
drawn as the Republican Congressional
nominee in the first district. The "fusion"
organ here thereupon calls on Republicans
to support Riddick Catling, the Third party
nominee. The same paper declares that
Saunders, the Republican nominee in this
district, must drop out and throw the party
influence for Stroud, the Third party man.
C. P. Lcfckey and A. M. Long, the Republi
can nominees in the Sixth district, are also
called on to stand back and give their party
aid to Maynard, Third party nominee.
The, fusion organ, of which Mr. J. C.
Logan Harris is editor, says editorially:
"Tne most remarkable and ablest canvass
ever made of this State except that of Judge
Settle in 1870 is being made by Mr. Marion
Butler. How the Republicans do love and
admire the Third party folks!
There will be a pleasant feature of next
week's celebrationthe singing by several
thousand people of "The Old North State."
Ten thousand copies of the song haye been
printed for distribution that day.
The races at Burlington fair yesterday
were excellent. Capt. B. P. Williamson,
who attended them, returned here to-day
and gives some of the points. The yearling
race was won by J. II. Harden's Lynn (by
Clay's iiamiltonian), nail mile, best two in
three, time 1:51, 1:40. The race for the
three minute class was won by Harden's
Norline, (by Norfolk), time 2:42, 2:44, 2:47.
The race for 3-year-olds was won by L.
Bank's Holt's Gregorian, (by St. George),
time 2:474, 2:44. In the 2:50 class , Norline
was again a winner, time 2:37, 2:34i, 2:32J.
In the 2:35 class the State record was low
ered. L. B. Holt's Alice Beriew (by Charlie
B.), making the heats in 2:32, 2:31 and 2:31.
In the 2-year-old race Capt. Williamson's
Star Belle (by Franklin Chief), won in 3:00,
3:02.
Governor Holt to-day said that he antici
pated a pleasant visit to Chicago. He also
stated perhaps his daughter, Mrs. A. W.
Haywood, and Mrs. R. It. Cotton, would ac
company the party. Col. W. H. Williams
of the Governor's staff will not be able to
attend, but Col. Thomas W. Strange, of
Wilmington, will go, making a party of ten
officers. Miss Janie Andrews, daughter of
Col. A. B. Andrews, will go.
COLORED BISHOPS FOR CLEVELAND.
Bishops Drown and Hood Tell How
They are Going to Vote In Tills
JElectlon A Sensatlou in Point,
cal Circles.
Nafhville, Tenn., Oct. 11. There was a
stir in political circles here to-day when it
became known that Bishop John M. Brownt
of the African Methodist Episcopal Church,
a resident of Washington, had announced
his adherence to the Democratic party and
advised all his Church to do the same.
Bishop Brown has been a strong factor in
the Republican party's work among the
negroes heretofore, and he has changed his
politics because of the settled conviction that
his race has nothing to hope from the Re
publican party. In conversation to-day he
said he did not believe it was to the interest
of the negro to ally himself solidly to any
one political party. Such a course destroyed
his influence. So long as a party was sure
of the negro vote, that party would have no
respect for the negro or the negro's wishes.
The negro must begin to vote for that party
from which he has most to expect.
Bishop Brown has written an open letter
to the members of his church, in which he
discusses the question of which candidate
the negro should support. He says:
"For nearly thirty years we have done all
we could to make the Republican party sue
cessiui. w e nave voted ana some ot our
people have died for its progress. But now
the question is being asked by a large num
ber of us, how are we being benefited by our
adherence to it? The chalice is put to our
lips but it is made to vanish before one com
fort comes to us.
"Our men are sometimes nominated for
oflice, their names sent to the Senate, but
before the the Senate has time to act the
name is withdrawn." .
He then contrasts this with Mr. Cleve
land's course in nominating Mr. Matthews
for Register of Deeds in Washington and
his insistence on the nomination until he
was shown that the Republican Senate
would not confirm him. Of Mr. Cleveland
he says:
"Not long ago he spoke most kindly of our
people and urged kind treatment toward
colored citizens. I was told by a gentleman
in New York at one time Chief of the
Indian Bureau, a man of wealth and social
position, a Democrat, a Southerner by birth
and education and an ex-slave-holder that
he had been assured by Mr.Clevelandthatif
is elected President he would prove himself
as true to the interests of colored men as
any man who might be elected.
"The question comes to us, what is our
duty m casting our ballot, if we vote at all?
For Mr; Cleveland or for the person who
has no pronounced opinion for the colored
man only on election day? It is not .social
equality we ask for, but we do ask that we
be treated fairly.
"I now, appeal to you, dear brethren, to
think before you act, and do not act so as to
engulf us in other and more severe difficul
ties. If you cannot consistently vote for
Mr. Cleveland, then stay away from the
yoting precinct. The time has come for us
to act, and act decidedly.
? Jonx M. Browx."
Bishop Brown says he has talked with
many intelligent negroes and finds much
feeling in the matter, all taking his view.
Bishop Hood, of Georgia, has also stated
that he will support Mr. Cleveland.
Dial ne Pleases Republicans.
White Plains, X. Y., Oct. 15. Promi
nent Republicans who were at Ophir farms
last night where Blaine delivered a short ad
dress, returned to New York this morning
Among the party were Chauncey M. Depew,
Wm. Brookfield, chairman Republican State
Executive committee and Pat Egan. De
pew and the other gentlemen said they were
pleased at the way Blaine had come out for
the ticket. Depew said no Republican
could now have anv ground to doubt that
Blaine was anxious to do all in his power
to secure the election of Harrison and Keid
Blaine had assured them that nothing but
his impaired health prevented him taking
an active part in the canvass. Chairman
Brookfield said he believed Blaine would be
heard from again in a public political speech
before the campaign closed, if his physical
condition would permit.
The Sun Will be Hid.
Washington, Oct. It. Mr. Morrison, of
the Nautical Almanac Bureau of the Gov
ment, says that the most important astron
omical phenomenon of the year will be the
partial solar eclipse on the 20th of this
month. If the day be clear the partial
eclipse will be visible throughout the whole
of North America, except the extreme West
of Alaska, and that portion of the continent
which lies west of aline drawn from the
northwest corner of California to the north
shore of the Bay of Tehauntepec, in South
ern Mexico. The eclipse cannot be total
anywhere, as the moon's um bra xloes not in
tersect the earth. As seen from Washington
the eclipse will begin October 20th, 12:04:24
a. m., and end at G:04:54 p. m., standard
time. A little more than three-fifths of the
sun's diameter will be obscured.
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LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.
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THE GERMAN MILITARY BILL
CREASING DUTIES
IN-
Serere Storms on the British Coast and In
the Gulf of Mexico Changes Impend-
lnc In the Dominion Cabinet At-
tacked With Cholera In an Opera
House Cholera Reports at St.
.Peterkbnrc and Hamburg.
Los pox, Oct. 15. Ihe Berlin l'ot in an
"inspired" article announces that the duty
on tobacco will be raised from 85 marks to
115 marks; on beer it will be doubled and
on spirits raised from 50 to 55 marks; that
Bourse transactions win oe taxed 3U per
cent., and that it is proposed to provide the
money required to carry out the military
bill by imposing a tax on home grown to
bacco.
! Hamburg, Oct. 15. Official returns for
yesterday place the new cholera cases at 18,
ana deaths at o. At Aitona d new cases
and 1 death.
St. Peteks-bukg, 'Oct. 15. Eleven new
cases of cholera and 3 deaths were reported
in this city yesterday. Ninety-seven cholera
patients are still in the hospital.
Kome, uct. io. ine recent neavy rains
have created a flood in Lake Como. The
lower parts of Como are inundated and the
villages along the shores of the lake report
considerable damage. The towns of Billagoi,
Tremezzo, Managgis. Varenna and other
lake side towns are all sufferers by the flood.
The weather is how improving.
Bid a Pest, Oct. 15. While a performance
was in progress in the Opera House last
night a woman in the gallery suddenly be
came very ill, and the attention of the audi
ence was attracted by her moans and
struggles. It was discovered that she had
been attacked with cholera. In a very short
time the audience was in an uproar. They
rose from their seats en masse and a panic
ensued. In the mad scramble to escape
many persons were badly bruised. It was
some time before the woman was removed
to the hospital.
Ottawa, Ont., Oct, 15. Changes in the
Cabinet are impending. T. M. Daly, M. P.
of Selkirk, Manitoba, will shortly be sworn
in as Minister of the Interior, succeeding E.
H. Dewdney, who will become Lieutenant
Governor of British Columbia. Sir John
Thompson will become Premier upon the
retnrn of Sir John Abbott from England,
He will be strengthened by W. R. Meredith,
the present leader of the Conservative oppo,
sition in the Legislature and A. R. Argus,
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.
Berlin, Oct. 15. Copyright. Public at
tention here is chiefly directed to the mili
tary bill, which not a single journal except
the government organs support. The recent
pretty general belief that a crisis was im
pending in the Prussian' Cabinet, arising
from a divergence of views in regard to the
bill has become greatly modified. Even the
opposition now admit that there is little
ground for any such belief. At a meeting
of the Prussian cabinet no active opposition
was offered to the measure. TLe ministry
accepted the bill on condition that thefextra
expenditure involved be borne by the empire
and not Prussia alone. The assurance of
Chancellor von Capri vi on this point ap-
Kared to be satisfactory to them. Miguel,
ussian Minister of Finance, from whom
the strongest opposition to the measure was
expected, contented himself with explain
ing the financial results of the bill. ,
The Radical journals sarcastically! com
ment upon what thev term the submission
of the ministry. The Vossisohe Zeitung
says that the cabinet did not have -time to
examine and discuss the bill and that Chan
cellor von Capri vi has now been revenged
for the rebuff lie received over the Primary
Education bill. The Centre Dartv! still
maintains a show of opposition, but there is
no lack of evidence that a large section of
that party wrill support the Dill if slight
modifications are made. In regard to the
Emperor's attitude, it is stated on excellent
authority that he was at first reluctant to
waive his objections, chiefly on account of
the great increase in expenditures. ; The
Chancellor, however, with much insistence,
converted him to the opinion that the pro
posed changes were absolutely necessary on
political grounds.
The prospect of the bill passing; the
Reichstag has been improved by a report
that the Government has decided to concede
to the parliament the right to fix annually
the peace footing of the army. If the time
of service is also reduced to two years, it is
not unlikely that the bill will be supported
by the Conservatives Free Conservatives,
National Liberals and Centrists which will
suffice to ensure a Government majority.
Next week the bill will be submitted to
the Bundersrat, which is expected to speed
ily adopt it, as all the German Governments
are acquainted with and have approved of
its contents. The Cologue Gazette, which
is the best authority on the subject,
has published certain details of
the bill from which it appears that the
measure specially provides for an enormous
increase in the artillery branch of the ser
vice, putting it greatly in excess of the
French artillery, which since the French
military reorganization has exceeded the
German.
Although Emperor William spent the
greater part of his visit to Vienna in shoot
ing and sight-seeing he found time to have
several lengthy private conversations with
that those interviews were chiefly devoted
to a discussion of army reorganization.
Emperor William, it is said, obtained Em
peror Francis Joseph's assurance that the
lessons taught by the German experiment
would not be ignored by Austria. The lat
ter is really quite as much interested in the
question as Germany, seeing that, two
years service largely prevails in the Aus
trian army on account of the last army
bill, which increased the yearly conscrip
tion without proportionately augmenting
the peace effective.
It reported that the meeting arranged to
take place between Emperor William and
the Duke of Cumberland, atSchonbrunn, to
discuss the question of the Brunswick , suc
cession fell through, owing to ex-Queen of
Hanover persuading the Duke of Cumber
land not to go. The Duke is in a quandary.
Queen Victoria advises him to renounce his
claim to the throne of Hanover, while his
own mother vehemently opposes the re
nunciation, which would be against his
father's dying wishes. If the Duke follows
Queen Victoria's counsel, it is thought
probable that his eldest sou wilLbe allowed
to succeed to the throne of Brunswick,
though he himself would only be allowed
the usufruct of his father's immense wealth.
City of Mexico, Oct, 15. A terrible hurri
cane is raging along the entire coast of
Gulf of Mexico. Many of the vessels lying
in the port of Vera Cruz have dragged
their anchors and the French steamship St.
Germain is in imminent danger of becoming
wrecked. It is rumored that one ship has
been sunk. As yet the steamers of the
Ward line have held to their moorings.
Many buildings along the coast were de
stroyed last night by a heavy gale.
Loxdox, Oct. 15. The storm that set in
over northern England, Scotland and
Wales night before last, threatens to cause
as much damage as some of the phenomenal
gales which passed over the country last
Autumn. Telegraph lines are down in ev
ery direction ana communication with some
coast towns is greatly interrupted. Tidings
of disaster continue to be received and loss
of life by shipwreck is beginning to be re
reported. Five fishermen were drowned in
the Frith of Froth by the capsizing of their
boats. A French lugger blew ashore on the
Island of Guernsey and all the crew drowned.
The rivers Derwent, Rye, Ayr, Caldre, Don
and others are ont of their banks and are
doing a great deal of mischief. Stock is be
ins driven off all low grounds as a precau
tion agaiast drowning and starvation.
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The Conrt Ilonse at IlIlIncton Des
troyed by Fire Iladlcal Harangues
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Dcxx, N. C, Oct. 15. Special. The
court house at Lillington was burned this
morning at 4 o'clock. Most of the books
and records saved. The fire is supposed to
have been the work of an incendiary.
Moody and Purnell made speeches here
yesterday to a small crowd, mostly negroes.
Their crowd discouraged them. Not a cheer
was heard from the audience. Neither of
the speakers touched on the issues. No man
could j miss the mark further than Mr
Moody, candidate for Lieutenant Governor.
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Serious Charze Aeetnst Poatoffiee Offl
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Raleigh. N. C, Oct. 15. Spkcial.
Your correspondent to-night had an inter
view with Chairman Simmons and was in
formed that postoffice officials have been
guilty of the robbing of mails in their desire
to serve the Republican party. Simmons
specifically states that September 23rd he
sent each county chairman a sealed letter
containing instructions in regard to registra
tion under the new election law. Having
reason to believe his mail had heretofore
been robbed in transit, he addressed a letter
to each chairman inquiring if he had re
ceived his letter of the above date, with in
structions that all Democrats be properly
registered.
WASHINGTON CITY NEWS-
The President IT! ueh Depressed
on
Account of the Condition of ITln
Harrison Wr. Blaine's Exprce
. loDor)iiipathT.
Washington, Oct. 15. The President
is
very much depressed in spirit to-day at the
steady decline of Mrs. Harrison and no
longer attempts to give attention to public
affairs. To-day, for the first time this week,
he asked to be excused to all callers and the
regular afternoon reception was omitted.
The entire family
are
now here with the
R. McKee, who is
single exception of Mr. J
expected in a day or two.
Washington, Oct. 15.
communicated through
Mr. Blaine
Secretary J.
has
W.
Foster to the President an expression of his
deep sympathy with him on account of
Jklrs. Harrison s dangerous illness.
President E. Benjamin Andrews, of Brown
University. Providence, R. I., has been ap
pointed by the President a delegate from
the United States to the International Mon
etary conference, in place of President F. A.
VV alker, who was compelled to decline his
appointment. President Andrews is a rec
ognized authority on political economy and
kindred questions, being the author of a
standard work on economics and has made
a special study of monetary questions. In
politics he is a Democrat, but is best known
in educational and scientific circles.
Washington, Oct. 15. Ex-Secretary Blaine
is expected to return to this city next week
accompanied by his family and will take up
his abode for the winter, j The Blaine resi
dence on Lafayette Square, is being pre
pared for the arrival of its occupants.
A RrrHl Outrage.
Wilson, N. C, Oct. 15. News has just
reached the ears of your correspondent of a
great outrage which occurred on Thursday
of this week. On that day Mr. J. D. Lee,
an of Messrs, Branch, Briggs Co.,
r tliio va! o rr tiro o onnf Aiit ? n - 4-t-A nAiinfuir '
eighteen miles to see a man named Harris
Boykin, who owed the store an account.
He returned last night pretty badly beaten.
His head bears a scalp wound, his eyes are
black, and his face and body badly bruised.
He told the following story:
ine man he was alter was not at home
so he stopped at Frank Finch's gin house to
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Webb and A. S. lunch, Isam Jordan and
two ouier xneu caiut; out, ami eiitfaiieu ie
in a conversation, it turned tq
politics and Jordan asked Lee: "How4
about the Third party. Lee replied "Oh;
d the Third party. I am here on busi
ness, and don't want to talk politics." He
was at once told he must, and upon refusing
was set upon by the party of four men,
armed with sticks and knives. Lee drew a
revolver and fired one shot before he was
knocked senseless and the revolver taken
from' him. He was then severely beaten.
Two negroes succeeded in rescuing him,
harnessed his horse, put him in his buggy
and started him home.! He was waylaid by
Jordan and another man, dragged from his
buggy and again beaten, before he had gone
one mile. He was unable to reach home
until last evening, when he related
the circumstances of the outrage.
The cowardly perpetrators will be prosecu
ted. The feeling here,, runs high. Tbat .a
3uiet, peaceable, law-abiding citizen can be
ragged from his buggy in- hroad daylight
by a gang of cowardly desperadoes and
beaten within an inch of his life because he
dare stand for Democracy, arouses the in
dignant, protests of all good men. It makes
the blood boil to see Mr. Lee and hear him
describe the assault. The scene of this
snameiui altair is located in ash coun
ty and is a Third party hot-bed. All
of Lee's assailants are Third partyites. It's
the talk of the town to-day.
Fatal Roller. Explosion.
.Portsmouth, Ohio, Oct. 15. Two boilers
in the rolling mill of the Burgess steel and
iron works exploded this morning. The
building was completely wrecked. Richard
Fleming, fireman, was killed outright. Geo.
B. Resslen, an employe, had his back broken
and his skull crushed and has since died.
Twelve others are seriously and some proba
bly fatally injured. A score are more or
less injured. The shock shook the city and
many windows were broken. At the time
400 men were at work in the mill and the
mammoth rolls were thrown twenty feet
from their foundation. The boilers were
said to be old and very much patched up.
The loss is estimated at 10,1)00. x
Telesrrapbletparba.
Denver, Col. Oct. 15. Incoming reports
all note loss of life and property from the
snow storm. Half a dozen more deaths are
reported and sheep and cattle , perished in
the storm. k
St. Locis. Oct. 15. At -the Southwestern
Railway and Steamship association yester
day it was announced that the association
on October 21st will put into effect the new
inter-State cotton fates, averaging an in
crease of 10 per cent. 5
Raleigh, Oct. 15. C. C. Pool, Republican
nominee for Congress in the First North
Carolina district has withdrawn in favor of
J. J. Gatling, People's party candidate.
Richmoxd, Va., Oct. 15. The military of
this city, consisting of infantry, cavalry and
artillery, who recently gave a number of
exhibitions of the "Battle of the Crater" be
fore an immense audience at the State Fair
grounds, have determined to repea the per
formance at the World's Fair in Chicago.
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CORRECT ACCOUNT OF THE JOHN
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Mobile, Ala., Net. 15. On Wednesday
last there was so vigorous a demand for the
particulars of the lynching of the negroes
who murdered Richard L. Johnson and his
beautiful daughter Jennie, at Davis Ferry
Friday night October 7th, that special cor
respondents of a number of papers manu
factured details suitable to the occasion,
stating that after hanging the men and rid
dling their bodies with bullets, the mob
burned them, the roasting proceeding while
one of the victims was yet alive. The local
ity was so distant from a telegraph station
that it was impossible for these details to
have been communicated at the time, and it
is not surprising to learn that they are for
the most part false.
i
i Friday night Johnson was killed at his
front gate and his daughter killed in the
house while she was playing the piano
me nouse was then set on lire and con
sumed, Johnson's body being previously
placed tnerem. Saturday morning Handy
Packer, Jim Packer, Moses Johnson and
Moses Jones, with several other negroes.
were arrested. Handy Packer made a state
ment which convinced the crowd that his
brother Jim Packer and Moses Johnson
were guilty.and a proposition was made that
the two be lynched, but wiser counsel pre-
vaiiea. ine two men were taken Dei ore a
magistrate where both asserted their inno
cent ana were duly charged and com
mitted to i ail at Monroeville, twenty miles
distant, wuere tnev arrived Saturday night
During the day blood was found on the
clothing of Moses Jones, and an ax with
blood and hair on the eye was found in the
yard of Bnrrell Jones, Moses' brother
Thereupon Moses Jones was rearrested
and also Handy Packer, because his evi
dence had not hitherto implicated Moses
Jones.
i Handy Packer then made a full confes
sion. He said that on the morning of the
murder he, Moses Johnson, Moses Jones
and Jim Packer agreed to kill Richard L
Johnson and get his money. They arranged
the details and met that night in the woods
about 300 yards from Johnson's. They ad
vanced to Johnson's gate at H o'clock. Handy
and Jim l'acker were set to watch the road
side m each direction and the other two
called Johnson to the gate. As soon as he
came up Moses struck him with an ax and
Moses Jones and Moses Johnson went into
the house. Packer claimed that he and his
brother remained outside all the time. He
did not know what happened in the house,
and heard but one scream from Miss Jennie.
The two men ran out very quickly and all
four departed, much scared and without any
money. They recovered, their courage in
half an hour, however, and returned.
They found Johnson had crawled ten
feet towards the house and died. They took
up his body and carried it into
the house depositing it in a room different
from that in which Miss Jennie lay dead.
They all four set fire to the house and
awaited to see that it was burning well be
fore they departed. Handy Packer and
Moses Jones were sent to Monroeville jail
Tuesday, arriving there at 8 o'clock at night.
Jim Packer and Moses Johnson were, then
questioned and the answers they made con-
( jM,yt M
any violence had been offered to the young
iaiy.
; The news of the confession spread rapidly
and Wednesday morning early -UU0 men
gathered and consulted near the jail in Mon
roeville. They called on the Sheriff and
Jailor J. D. Foster for the keys of the jail.
but he replied that he had sworn to do his
; duty and would not surrender the prisoners.
1 ine moo at once tore down ine ience sur-
! rounding the jail and broke in the jail
door Thev orernnwprw Kns-fpr jiik took
the keys of the cells from him and soon had
possession of the four negroes. The people
were very much excited, and some proposed
to start a bonfire and throw the negroes into
it, but the leaders said that the men should
be taken to the scene of the crime. At 7
o'clock the procession started in the direc
tion of Davis Ferry. At Gratom's bridge
over Flat creek the patience ot the mob
gave out, however, and they decided uion
the immediate punishment of the four
negroes. The doomed men were marched
twenty yards up the road and stationed in
line, their hands tied behind their backs.
Then the order was given to fire and every
fun was discharged. The negroes were all
illed instantly.- Their bodies were left
where they fell and were neither burned
nor mutilated. The oldest of the four
was about 10 years of age.
ITIr. Watson la Loeatd
One of the most interesting features of
American politics is the post mortem de
velopments of an exciting and interesting
campaign. When a candidate for oflice is
buried under a crushing avalanche of vox
populi there at once obtains a general de
sire on the part of the public to know just
how he feels about it. No matter how bad
ly the late aspirant for honors is beaten nor
how plain is the cause for his defeat, he is
always ready with an excuse which places
the blame where it doesn't belong. The
American public fully understands this, yet
at the same time they always expect to hear
from the fellow that is licked. "
' Ever since the Georgia election there has
been a disposition on the part of the people
to secure a liberal sample of the personal
thoughts of Hon. Thomas Watson, M. C.
Watson made considerable noise just prior
to the election. He was looked upon as the
managing editor of the revolution that was
about to revolt in Georgia and sweep the
Democracy of that State off the face 01 the
earth, but it appears that the Georgia news
paper correspondents have not been able to
locate Watson. However, those who de
sire to secure a fair idea of Watson's present
condition are not doomed to utter disap
pointment, urator nam, ne wan tne mar
velous fund of anecdotes, and also the
KnacK or aajusting tnem to tne issues in
volved in the Georgia campaign, tells the
following story to illustrate the case of
Watson:
- 13a De uoston s niuie wai sick, and a
neighbor advised him to administer calo
mel.
" 'How will I get it. into him?' asked
Babe.
" 'Put it into a ouilL put the quill in his
mouth, and blow it down his throat,' re
sponded the neighbor.
The neighbor met. him two or three
days afterward. Babe was as thin as a raiL
looked right green, and was all doubled up.
'What's the matter with you?' asked
the neighbor.
"tsape placed nis nand patneticaiiy over
his stomach, gave a sigh like a blacksmith's
bellows with a hole in it, and said:
; ' The durn mule blowed fust.' "
Orator Ham doesn't throw in amoral
with this story. It is not necessary. The
most careless reader will understand that
the Georgia Democracy "blowed fust," and
that's where Tom Watson's 'at'
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A PSYCHOLOGICAL DRUMMER.
How tin Saje He lias spiritual That
: TVlltt Mis WIT flnaidredaer
IMllee Awn. T
"I write no letters to my wife when I am
away, and I get none from her," naiJ Wal-j
ter Kipling, commercial traveler, now at the;
Lindell. "Correspomlence by mail i tool
slow and telegraphing costs too mucbJ
money. We have hit upon a plan thMsave
stamps and telejrraph tolls and is mure morcf
satisfactory. No matter what part of the1
world I am in I go home at 10 o clock everyj
nfcht and remain half an hour, yometimei
1? . 1 1 ... 1
longer. now uu 1 luainr 11. r-auy
enough. At that hour mv wife foen int
the sitting room, clones the door, places
two easv chairs vis-a-vis, fit down in one;
clones her eyes and ooncentratei her
thoughts upon me. I go to my room
at the hotel, turn out the lu'ht
close mv eves, concentrate mv thonrhbi
upon my home and especially upon my
wife, and presto! I occupy the easy chaif
in our little pitting room directly in front of
her. A perfectly intelligible conversation
ensues between us, although not a word i
spoken. She tells me how thing are voinr,
at home, whether the children are well,
about her own health, which has been drli
cate for years, her triaK hopes and fran.
We have had this mental telegraph in op
eration for two years past, and the scrvici
is constantly growing letter and more vtiv
factory. Ve have verified its accuracy a
thousand times, and rely upon it a im
plicit as others do on "the written inre.
Neither of us in a spiritualist, and we dis
covered our ability to communicate in tUi
manner purely by accident. St. wmn
u lobe-Democrat.
Am In Kins JottU.
From tbe Atlanta CooatitattoQ, CVl.
lit.
What about cotton ?
The recent rise in price and the unoue-
tionable decrease in yield that is showing up
as wie season ronies on tin luinin
serve to show that cotton will be kiinr yet
once more in the sunnv southland f i
Whether so or not, there is a ray of lioie
with it all Mitlicient to drive out all '
ness from the farmer's heart and licht 1T11
every rural home with comfort anl with
Jy.-.. : . . L
hat docs it mean, tins ne in the i nert
Is it a permanent rieorsiniplv n tM:jorary
fluctuation! Is it based on the lt-ritimate
scale of supply and demand?
Ihese are questions which the farnirn of
Georgia and the entire onth would li ke h
have answered by nome man in iwtion i
know whereof he speaks and hmuteiiou 'Ii
not to answer unless he. docs know. 1
The ntitition yesterday Miulit an in
terview with Mr. W. C. Sanders, of tln'l'irm
of S. M. Innian .t Co. Mr. Sandors thor
oughly alive to the cotton situation alay
and never speaks without deliberation an!
wise caution. I
When seen bv the ('mtitutioH ?ini :ilel
what he thought of the out look for tlw yield
of the present cotton crop, whether iV wll
be early or late as compared with lat year.
Mr. Sanders said: 1 f
In the first place. I will sav that I 11111! 11
strong teliever in the eenerally accepted Inv
lief that there is a shortage in the ottm
acreage, also a irreat decrease in the ue of
commercial fertilizers. I
'Besides this, on account of a ld lry'
spring the seed was late in germinating.
Again, on account of floods in the ax-stern
rivers the planting or rather replanting of
the inundated area was very late. ! Then
eanie the excessive August rains teixtiiir
still to retard maturity and not only this.
out wnat is worse, causing the sevMnn; of
much of the young fruit which cime 011
the plant from August lSth to SeptemlHT
10th, the latter date being as Iat a it i
through this fruit can tosjibly mature.
None of these conditions existed last vear
except in the complaint which did prevail
n some sections of slow germination of
seed which was overcome by a late and ojhmi
an. 1
"Putting these things together. I do mot
00k for a crop near so large as that of laj-.t
year s yield." - j
"Jiow much short of the last rrp do Vo'i
think this will be?" .
"1 would not like to name figure. :n there
are so many contingencies to which cotton
is subject, no one could hoK to make efn
reasonable calculation this eariv 111 the
season. For instance, a general killing frost
within the next two weeks would makej it
very short, while a warm. oien fall would
add to the crop."
"What is your idea of the amount of pM
cotton on the plantations brought over from
last year as mpared with the year befori-7"
"Mu infnrnmtinn i a tli.it ...,,,... I..
J v. ..m m . 1 ma. 11JV UUIVUIII III
. 1 1 . . .
ine nanus or tne planters and at Miiall
towns on the 1st ot September. .ri. Wa
200,000 to :jiJM,mxi bales less than on the lt
of September. and if this is tru it will
help to emphasize the difference betw
en
this and last year's c rop."
"How do the general prosinxt for
Georgia fanner apK-ar?"
he
"So far us J am informed this i ron id)e-
ing cheaply raised and gathered, but t do
not believe the present pri.H? for cotton li
remunerative to the farmer."
"Is there any talk among the farmert of
holding their cotton this year, and if tliey
do what effect will it have '"
"The experience of the last year or two in
holding has resulted so disastrously I think
there is btit little disiosition to holJ. and
but little ability to hold if there wa a will."
"What do you think of the present pricf."'
'I think cotton is cheap. We may, j of
course, look for fluctuations, each advance
carrying it toward a higher level of pricis."
Tbe llklnson T11.
Rome. Ga.. Oct. 15. Frank Wilkinson
made his statement to the Jury this. morn.
ing. He denied that there had ever been
any questionable intimacy between hiniW-lf
and Mrs. Jessie Stephens, and naiil thnt ! no
one regretted the tragedy more than he iid.
Had Stephens "not tried to kill him, Wilkin
son said, he would not have harmed him"
Wilkinson broke down several times during
his statement and wept like a child when
he finished. Three more witnesses were in
troduced by the prosecution whose testimony
wre naru against t iiainson an t ,'Jn.
Stephens.
u. a. mompson. Seymour. Ind.. wnU-s
"My sister Jennie, when she was a young
girl, suffered from, white swelling, which
greatly impaired her general health and
made her blood very Impure. In the spring
ishe was not able to do anything and could
scarcely get about. More than three years
ago she took three bottles of Botanic Blood
Balm and now she is perfectly xired."
- M. D. Lane, Devereaux, Ga., writes: ''One
summer, several years ago, while railroad
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with malarial blood poison that impaired
my health for more that two yean. Several
offensive ulcers appeared on my !e, and
nothing seemed to give termanent relief
until I took six bottles of ii. B. li., which
cured me entirely." j
G. W. Chandler, Red Fork, Ark., writes
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of without any permanent benefit until Bo
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After using six bottles the sores healed-
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