North Carolina Newspapers

The Chronicle, WELKESBORO, nI c.: r SAEI JONES IN CnABLOTTE. me Devotee of society Come In for a Pair Snare of Hie Attention. - ; cnalotte Observer, of 21st. r . : . - ' . A large and interested audience filled ' the auditoram in the Y.' M. C. ' A. building last night, when Rev. Sam P. Jones; lectured for the benefit of Bre vard Street Methodist church. He Bpoxe iort an nour ana a nan. ana v those who had heard hini before said it was the same old Sam. - V'T T HfnTioU Von . i niwvlnAij O TtCi. Jones, referring to him as, perhaps, the .most original and interesting platform speakek in America, if not in the world. -' As a prelude to his address, Mr. Jons v spoke of the wonderful growth and vigor of the city of Charlotte, evident is spreading herself. You are going out, ana, 1 am soiry to say, going down, : as deep as broad, with f air prospects Cpf an increase in the ratio of the down- ' :Mrl Jones announced as bis subject, "A Medley of Philosophy, Facts and Fun,&nd said, in part? ? ' 'Philosophy furnishes the best possi ble rule by which one can always do the best possible thing at the best" pos sible time. I am afraid a philosopher would feel mighty lonesome in this crowd. Now facts aire the most tremen dous things in all the world. They are - I have been a theory chaser and once I was a young fool, but I have turned my back on theory and am. relying on facts." .We have too many theorists in the ministry. I don't want a preacher to talk theology and, ecclesiasticism to me, but I do want him to tell about the grace of God and show me his works by his faith. ; I don't want adoctor to tell me about the theory of his profes sion, but I do want him to1 take me out to the cemetery and show me what he has done. The biggest fool in North Carolina is the man 'who will stand up ana argue against racts, but most of you wiu ao ix. Nowadays we pride ourselves on having a higher type of religion -than that enjoyed bv our forefathers. We ; unuf hikjul nnr fn nsrnrpmpnr, nnn aii- perior culture having relegated to- the rear the superstition and sentimental Bide of ..the religion of our faf hers. N And the country is overun by a horde r of little gimlet-headed preachers D. TV ' TTr fTVo "PK TVo A A - M's., A. 8.88., etc. We have left the old landmarks and run off after a lot - vf iemr arid nnr 1!W - A a Lnn , fcJ.J uuu ouAA u&Ci - TT c llAYC mC" uoupuiBia, NuiuuucauuoisiB, spini- ; uahst8 and Christian Scientists. Now I wouldn't hurt the feelinca of a CiVirist.- tian Scientist, for my father always tnlH irie never tn Ht. . rrirvnlo nr tn lnt - a fool, but I want to ask one question. Did God pass by Martin Luther, John Calvin, ; the Wesleys, Whitfield and - come down to Boston a few years ago and tell an old woman something that would enable her to put her picture on a spoon and sell it for $3?" - Mr.' Jones paid his respects to mod ern society in his accustomed vigorous manner, saying - he despised society 'because it jeata rthe 4 heart out5 of a woman as whiskey saps the life out of a man". . According to his assertion, there is not a greater tcurse on earth than the society woman. "When God gives a man a good wife and 10 or 15 :- children,' said the speaker, "that man is blessed,, but when the devil gives him a society Woman and, a poodle he is Mr. Jones reiterated some of, his fa r miliar anathemas against the politi- are responsible for most of the ill for tune that has befallen the country. -He declared that the two last national political campaigns were fought on false theories and! asserted that the peace and prosperity of this country depended solely and alone upon the " t. i . - i nonesiy, upngnmess, , sooneiy ana integrity of tiie people. In speaking j of Nvhat he was pleased to term some of the recent political fallacies, Mr. Jones Baid: "You" free silver folks, if you ; don't feel like fools, you don't feel nat- ural, : I feel sorry for you Democrats; I do indeed. ' I used to be one, but I'm well now. But T ain't a Bepublicau " any more than I'm . a negro. What are you Democrats going to run .. on next time?.. You have stolen' all -the . r plating ' xxuux mc x upuiisi piauurui , -hut I want to tell, von that von -'will ; never put a President in ' the White xxouse or get a majuniy in congress ' uiivu - - J VU - V v vuuouv doctrine and go back to the principles of Jefferson or Jackson You'll never - cret there so loner as you keep lollowine ' t : i-': r r: v. i xryu. -orjfttu uuu 1 xuuw uuw uj :"cet there. V but he's a miehty runner x OU nave naa.omy one rxesiaeni since the-war. and. notwithstanding the -fact m-r ' ' J-lIL- Jl ? -i Li 'TV J . i "... :;' the has done more for you than all ders, you've cussed Jbim . from 1 lilllHrrillTl . , i LIU IIIH.V vKL . Ul AkU. I- - TT . 1. 'X - heaven, .but you'll never get to Wash- goes down in death and blood and ruin, it will be under the scramble for omce. in Charlotte and put them in a : glass case, and - if. the devil . were to come . aiuug nun lyuK. &i me couecaon, ne would say, "Boys, that's ahead of any " thing I've gotJ' : - -J . ' which he several times expressed 1 the hope that his hearers ; would have no ..' MvUIiU UUUV1 0 WUlUiUg UlUiy iUi J ones took a whirl at the 20th of May " celebration in " this city and" the Elks. 'Poor old Charlotte he; said you've had another 20th ot May, land ; God pnly knows what this day rolls up every year, . xo-aay a saw scores ; 01 nngnt young men reeling along the " streets .miea to me nrim wun tneKinaoimean , whiskey they deal out in ' this - town. The! damnable, beer-guzzhng Elks had the town last year. If I were asked . to say whether my boy should ; join the Elks- or go to the ; penitentiary - -I would choose the penitentiary for him eveij time. In the "penitentiary ! he would be forced to learn habits. of sobri ety and industry, something v no ' Elk possesses. If any of you Elks don't like what I am saying, just come up her, you little devils, you. 'The'Elks were incubated by "an old brewer and hatched out m a beer keg. Mst of them ain't pipped yet; they are1 just running out of the bung hole. What do you say to that you pot-bellied Elk? An Elk who didn' t drink beer would be thejlonesomest little devil out "of hell Yoti don't have any trouble understand; ingj me, do you? ; I r f V ." " In paying his respects to the saloon business, Mr. Jones said: "Charlotte collects about $20,000 a year in licenses from the saloons. That sum, when; di vided among the people of this city, amounts to about 66 cents a head. Think of it! : You people in Charlotte are selling yourselves "for 66 cents a he d, when hogs are worth $10 each. Do a't you wish you were a hog? But then, I suspect the 66 cents is about all you are worth. . And you preachers arej bought at the same rate. The trou blej with you old deacons, elders and stewards is that you like the stuff your self es. You are drinking ifr, you old red-nosed devils." Mr. Jones, declared that the social woId was - worse thanv the political world. " Disobedience . of children to their parents,, cigarette smokingj-card-plaing and dancing were some, of the thihgs upon which he -touched. He declared that the boy who couldn't be sto sped from smoking cigarettes need ed ailing and that the girl who couldn't be stopped from dancing needed a mamniy. He said he. liked a horse that could make a mile in 2:30, but he preferred a girl who coulden't make more than a mile a week. n closing Mr. Jones spoke of the country's need of men rather than great industries, saying - the nation could never develop without men and women of strength and character. He clqsecL bis address with a beautiful peroration on the love of a mother, the moist lasting and beautiful thing on eaith. . , . The New Doctrine of Hell. Th,e Evangelist. What the utter failure of the human soul to find God will mean is not clearly revealed in Scripture. The teachings of Paul and John, following Jewish lilies, do not postulate anything but pu nishment until the "second death." Sin is death. Unrighteousness is its ovrn sure agony. Guilt is separation frm Our Father. Tnere is no lifev or peace save in love,' holiness and without which no man can see the Lord. More w4 cannot say. More need not be said, More is, as a matter of fact, not now prjeached from any Protestant pulpit, liberal or conservative, save the most ignorant, where the material hell still holds sway. - The life on the Bowery is Hell. The greed of Wall Street is Hell. The suspicions and criticisms of Christian brethren one of another are. Hell. We have Hell in our hearts, and only God's love can cast out Hell. That Hell should be an eternal disputant of God's sovereign redemption; that the Cross of Christ should not save to the uttermost, seems hardly possible; yet wte have no other message than to proclaim that unless men take the Father at His word they must remain in the far country and feed the swine, and that, every man goes to his own place. - Wrote as The Died. Knoxville, Tenn., May 21. The latest estimates as to loss of life in the Fraterville coal mine disaster at Coal vjreeK is zzo, inciuaing contract miners, day laborers and boy helpers. I At last reports 141 bodies had been removed from the mine. Not one per son has been recovered alive. The last find reported was that of IS bpdies in an entry. Five of the men had written letters before life had be came extinct. One of these letters gave the time of day it was written as 230 o'clock , Monday afternoon, thus indicating that these, and perhaps other entombed men, lived many hours after, the terrible explosion,- which occurred Monday morning at 7:30 o'clock. J The letters gave a general suggestion of the suffering that was undergone, indicating that the men were gradually bjeing strangled to death by the foul, gaseous air that was filling the mine. One piteously read: "My God for another breath!'' - I - Deserted, from the Navy Rather than Associate with a Negro. arlotte Otoserver. . . Officers Johnston and Crowell and Jergeant Orr yesterday arrested a white man named J. B. Ayers, who is a dej serter from . the United States -navyl he officers had been on the lookout for him for some time. Ayers is a Charlotte man and has a wife living Here. ' He was enlisted in this city by lieutenant Mitchell on the 29tn of last March. He served only a short time, deserting on the 29th of April while on the training ship Franklin, at Norfolk Va. t . I Ayers is a fine specimen of manhood and is quite intelligent. - He stated to an (Observer reporter yesterday, that he liked the navy all right, but that the officers had" made him . eat " and "sleep ext to a negro, and that being a South erner he could not stand it. .He said that he was under the influence of liquor when he left. . ' . I ; - . . . , I Dallas May 22The General Coh erence . ' of : the r Methodist I Episcopal Clmrch to-day 'elected Dr. E. Bi Hoss, ox j. en nesseee, ana lr . a .uoKe omiin, i Virginia, bishops. - Dr." Hoss ,is the tfrfliti'Wv', rt . V.w nffimnl nana' rf -TtlnOi Methodists published at Nashville.: ., Vr 1 6ILL.ABFS LETTER. ; . Atlanta Constitution. lt is a' fitting time, to tbinkr about volcanoes, earthquakes and other inter nal and infernal things" that are going on in the bowels of the"eartli.We'can seeTupward and outward : to 'the . stars and planets for millions and - billions of miles, -but the inside of this little world is all unknown. We live upon its crust and eat and sleep and dance and prance and fight and talk war and politics and trusts with no thought of how: near we are to the fires that are burning under us nor when they will break out and consunfe us all, ' as they certainly will Borne " time - -according to Scripture. Those infernal fires have been burning for thousands of years, and the. mys tery is, why they have not" burned .to the surface long before this. Where does the heat all go, and where are the escapes the chimneys for the smoke and the ashes and lava ? Surely these few volcanoes can't discharge it all. The word volcano, or vulcano, as it Used to be called, comes from Vulcan, the god of fire, and the ancients be lieved that the old fellow had his shops and furnaces down there, and some times when he blowed the bellows too hard the fire bursted out through a hole in some mountain and the melted rock spouted up and run over the tank and washed down in the form of lava, which is another Latin word and means to wash. Volcanoes are Vulcan'schim neys, and as .for -back as we have his tory sacred or profane these chimneys have had their periodic discharges. Some writers believe that-there was one of these not far from Sodom and Gomorrah, and those cities were des troyed just like Pompeii and Hercula neum, or more recently like St. Pierre in Martinique. A few years ago two of my boys took a- sea voyage from New York to Trini dad and stopped at all of those little islands and historic points. - They told Us of Martinique, where the Empress Josephine was born and lived until she was 15 years old and whose beautiful monument they saw. Unhappy lady ! The world is still weeping for her. They climbed the heights of this same volcano and looked down into its cra ter, for it was quiet and peaceful and had not had an eruption for fifty years. The island is small, very small, not quiet as large as Bartow county, but but had a dense and mongrel popula tion of 1 80,000 people chiefly Indians, negroes and Chinese. The whites numbered less than 10,000, of whom only 1,200 were French. Just think of it. Our county is about 25 miles square and is quite thickly settled and has 25,000 people while Martinique has seven times as many and most of them are negroes. These negroes were all slaves until 1848. The live chiefly on fruit and anything they can pick up or steal. My boys amused themselves throwing dimes into the water that was from 20 to 30 feet deep and the little negro boys would plunge in and dive to the bottom for the money and always got it. Then I got to ruminating about Vesuvius and Pompeii and Hercula neuni. I used to speak a speech about ancient Greece and Home and Thebes, and I always said Pompyeye and The bees, for that was right then, and so was Sisero for Cicero, but they have got new ways now and I don't know where I am at.' Vesuvius has been cutting up for more than two thousand years. It has had nine bad eruptions, but there are still people livingon its slopes and cultivating them. Its enormous crater is 2 miles around and 2,000 feet deep, and the accumulated lava some times raises its brink 800 feet during an eruption. When Spartacus, the gladiator, was besieged by the Komans he with his little army of seventy men took .refuge in that crater,7 for it was. quiet then, and killed 3,000 Bomans)who attacked them on its brink. The great orator, Cicero, had a beautiful villa at its base, but in the "year 75 A. D. old Vulcan fired up his furnace and belched forth fire and smoke and lava and ashes and buried those two cities sixty-five feet deep and changed the sea shore and the river so that their sites could not be found and when, found -by accident they were two miles inland. FOr three centuries excavations have been going on and of late with great energy and the veritable homes of the cultured people have been found filled with ashes and cinders that have preserved them all these centuries. T?hese homes and halls and churches and temples have been cleaned out and even the paintings on the walls have been re stored.. and the beatiful marble sculpture cleaned and renewed ust as it was when the awful8- calamity occurred. The celebrated sculptured figures of Laocoon and his sons strangled by a serpent was found there in perfect con dition. In some of these beautiful homes of the wealthy .the tables were set for a feast and in the temple were found the gold and silver adornments that are usual in such places. In the Temple of Juno there, were the corpses of 300 people who had fled" there for safety, but Juno was powerless and they allperished just as did the 3,000 at St. Pierrejwho fled into the Roman Catho lic cathedral. , '""V . . The fate-of all these cities was very similar, for it was not lava that des troyed them, rior at" St. 'Pierre, but a shower of 'cinders and ashes7and these are preservatives of anything that they encase. i'T; ; When we consider all such calamities a greatful and thoughtful people will be thankful to our Heavenly Father that we live in a land remarkably' free from calamity orr affliction; - No - volcanoes hang their threatening peaks over us or near us, no cyclones visit. us by day or. by night. Cadaverous famine does not - darken pur households with" its awful distress but-we live in peace and implenty and theHnes hay e,f alien unto us in pleasant places. ;v v-" ' r - f It is a fitting time now for those, who like to read romance that is founded on fact to take up that good old" book of Bulwer's, VThe Last Days of Pompen," and read it again. :-- . B11x Akp,. SOUTH NEEDS THE ORIENT. We must Hold the Philippines, Says Senator Prltehar. . ; , ' New York Sun, 22nd. Senator Pritchard. of North Carolina, and Senator McXaurin,;of South Caro lina', : met at DelmonicoV last night and i what they said to"the American Asiatic Association concerned the Cell ing of the 6outhX,rotfo Chinese" and other problems of state craft. Senator Pritchard was not on the toast list, but was asked to speak to "The President of the United States." He said: ; " ' v: Whiles! am a Southern man and in full sympathy, with the hopes arid aspi rations of the Southern people, it af fords me great great pleasure to say to you to-night that although the Presi dent of . the United States t hails from north of Mason and Dixon's line,it is his desire and honest purpose to do that which will promote" the welfare of every state in the Unim. While many are in doubt in this country as to the policy of the United States with respect to the retention of the Philippine Islands, I confidently believe hat in the end the good judgment of. the. American people will be that we shall retain those islands permanently. ' The great problem with which the Southern people have had to deal in the past has been as to where we could find an adequate market for raw cotton and the cotton fabrics of the South; and I want to say to you to-night that the only hope for the Southern people in that respect is in the Orient, and, in asmuch as the : Philippine Islands lie in the pathway to theOrient, I cannot for the life of me understand how any Southern man who has the good of his country at heart can for one moment contemplate the idea of relinquishing our jurisdiction over those islands. Once we restore law and order in those islands, as we certainly will do, in my opinion the trade with the out side world with the islands will treble, and the Southern peOple will be- the chief beneficiaries there of. Senator McLaurin said he represented the most intensely Southern of all the States now holding interests in common with New York. He said: . Before the war the South was almost purely an agricultural country. Now the manufacturer is coming down to the cotton fields,. and the planter puts his surplus money in mill stock. At no distance date the American planter and cotton manufacturer will control the market for American cotton and through that control and "dictate the terms upon' which the world shall be clothed with this great American pro duct. The day has passed when '-sectionalism can divide our politics,, business and commerce. ' " We understand that cotton growing and cotton manufacturing and all other Southern industries havea national and international importance and that ; the prosperity, of the South and the prosperity of the North are actually inter-dependent and indivisible. The United States has learned of late years that it needs an ever widening and expanding market for its products, and it has found an important foreign outlet among the teeming millions of the Orient., The. Asiatic market has come into the field as one of the most prominent factors in the .modern com mercial problem. . Arid yet just as we were profitably developing this, great market in China, a movement was in stituted which, if successful, would have neutralized all the good results, already obtained and paralyzed our trade with China. I refer of course to the recent attempt to enact a very drastic measure of Chinese exclusion. ; , Boer War Regarded, as Ended.. London, May 23. The Associated Press has every reason to believe peace in South Africa is practically - secured. How soon it will be announced depends apparently more upon the convenience of the Boer leaders than upon the de clination of the Boer government. The private and official advices received to night in London from outh Africa all point to-the same conclusion. The de lay is technical, and to end the long war seems to be the desire of both sides. For Revision of the creed. New York, May 22. The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church today adopted the report of the com mittee on creed - revision making changes in the. Confession of Faith. This action,which was practically unan imous, was taken with little or no debate. The changes proposed will now go to the various Presbyteries for ratification. " When the report was presented last Friday, a motion for its adoption was made at once, but the vote was deferred, until to-day. - "Mamma," said four-year-old Bobby, "what is that white stuff on my berries?" - "That is what we call whipped cream," answered nis mother. - . A few days later Bobby; dined at a neighbor's and;" being offered' some ordinary cream,' he 4 asked : ' "Haven't you folks got any spanked cream?" .1" j, "Mamma," said little Johnny at the breakfast table .-the." other, morning, "this is awful old butter, isn't it?". "Why do you think it is old, dear?" asked his motherr ' ' -: 'Cause,1 replied Johnny, 1 just found a gray-hair In it" ( m v 1 ;- r. - "f -'n - : - - --Sr. -- ' ' - w- . . - . - ' - From" all directions comes the ; news of glorious crops prospects save as to wheat and- oats. -.All the -farmers' say the weather is A'just right.", ' , 5 SECOND EttUJPTIOPT OF PELEB. - : . Much More Violent than First.Not a Itlvliis Unman Being Saw -: V What Happened. - v Fort-;De-France, Island ' of "Martin ique, May. 21t -Streams of ; frightened refugees have been' pouring into : Fort-de-Frahce from : all z the surrounding country. . These people" are not desti tute, but they are terrified." .? They want only one thing, -and jthat is to be taken "far away from this "island,",, with which, they say;- the gods - are - angry and which they will destroy by fire .be fore it sinks under the sea. The- con suls here and the officers,: of - the , war vessels in' the' harbpr. are waylaid '1y scores of persons ; crazed by fear and begging to be carried away . . . The -United States steamer 'Dixie, Captain ;Berry , from New-York, arrived to-day; after a quick and safe - passage. The Dixie began langing her enormous cargo of supplies early arid the store houses .on shore soon became cpngestea. This is the greatest difficulty of the ad ministration. "This morning the United States steamer Potomac, with the. com-? manders.of the war . vessels now here, went to inspect St. Pierre With : the greatestLaimcuity tne party succeed, in making a landing. The effects of the outburst of yesterday were temendous. The huge basalt towers of the cathedral were pulverized and the;, walls were hurled flat to the earth. The bombard ment of volcanic stones is not sufficient to account for this, and all evidences point to the passage of a furious blast of blazing gas, traveling at an enormous speed and with incalculable force, r The deposit of boulders, ashes and angular stones is enormous. Not a living hu man being saw what happened at "St. Pierre yesterday. This second eruption was many times more violent than "that which -effaced St. Pierre and swept its people from the earths Nor has all volcanic activity ceased. Vast columns of smoke and gas still pour from the great -crater. New fissures have opened on the mourr1 tain sides and are vomiting , yellow whirlwinds, which rush intermittently, now from one point and now from an other. Boiling mud is also thrown out at times in torrents that reach the sea and produce small tidal waves. The correspondent of the Associated Press has had an interview with M. Clercv a member of the Legislature of Martinique, who recently explored the vicinity of Mont Pelee. He said: "I started Friday last for Mont Pelee and accompanied by M. Telliamee Chancele, chief engineer of the sugar works, I reached a height of 1,235 metres with out difficulty, and was able to ascertain that the present crater is about , 3D0 metres in diameter. On the east it is overlooked 5y the Mont La Croix, the culminating point of .the island, hav ing an altitude of 1,350 metres, Which is completely crumbled and mined at its base, as a result of the volcanic action and might easily, collapse. - ' 'The ruins of the crater have very much changed in appearance and the heat where we stood was intense and the whole aspect of the mountain was terrifying. Stones fell around us, and we picked up large pieces of sulphur, which,-however, we were unable to re tain. The whole spot was charged with electricity, which became so vio lent that we were obliged to retreat. ' 'Our descent from the mount . was more difficult than our ascent. A blinding rain of ashes fell upon us, and the engineer was nearly killed by a large stone which fell near him. ; The recent rain of ashes and volcanic rocks weigtiing as much as 75 grammes, which have fallen here caused so much consternation among the inhabitants of Fort-de-France that those who have not left the city are anxipus . to do so, and large numbers are emigrating to the island of Guadeloupe, where it is estimated that 1,200 people trom Martinique have already sought shelter. - - Mr. Morton's Talk to Ills IJoys. Charlotte Observer. This, relating to J. Sterling Morton, Secretary of Agriculture in Cleveland's last cabinet, arid at the time of his death editor of The Conservative, of Nebraska City, Neb., was found in an exchange yesterdays , When liis wife died the late J. Ster ling Morton had erected over her grave a tombstone bearing the inscription : "Caroline Erench, wife of J. Sterling Morton and mother of Joy, Paul, Carl and Mark Morton." "Why did you put the boys' names in?" inquired a friend of him one day. "I took my boys out to the cemetery," said Mr. Morton, "and ; showed them their mother s grave. 'Boys,' I said, 'your mother is buried here. If one of you does anything dishonorable or any thing of which she would be ashamed if she were alive, I will chisel your name from her tombstone." Mr. Morton was ah extraordinary man remarkable for his ability, his force of character and his originality of thought and method. The incident above narrated of him was characteris jtic," in that the manner of imparting a lesson to his boys 'was so original. Than this there could have been no more : impressive- warning against staining their souls with dishonor,, no higher incentive to correct living. The story" is one which deserves to be read in the chools and which parents every where might well bring to the attention of their children. ; J A Memorable Day-at Fort de France. Last week there was a terrible, panic at Fort de France, of strange sights seldom seen in centuries.- - .The new eruption of "Mount Pelee had filled the heavens with fire, red-hot Stones had'set many houses aflame in the cityr which is ; tep miles from the Volcano, and a rain; of hot mud , and ashes made' breathing impossible. ' - . - . T - , " Absence may make the heart grow fonder, but so do presents. ' .. TH EGRO TOBTUBED AND BUBNED Awful ; .Death at Hands of a Mob Flrti Step W to Burn Out Eyes. :Longview, Tex., May 22. The. cul mination of . a man ; hunt -which has been in progress since last Saturday, was reached to-day, when Dudley Mor gan,- colored, who assaulted Mrs. McKee, wife of a Texas & Pacific fore man at T.ansins' Tex., was burned at "the stake near' Lanping. It was learned this morning that the negro had : been captured and was being taken to Lan-. great throngs V had gathered at the Lansing switch and looking over the ground decided to make ; arrangements to bum the "negro about a quarter of a mila-away-on .the.line of- the county road. The place of execution decided upon was an ;1 opdn plot, smooth and covered with grass, being hedged by high trees which formed an opening 200 . r-wm . m mm m -m w m m mm n yards wide ana suu yaras long. j. ne trees were literally lined with people an hour before the negro arrived. At 11 o'clock the train bringing the negro and his captors arrived , in Marshall, near which place he was captured and was met by a great crowd of people. - Many more boarded, the train at intermediate points and when it arrived at Lansing ... -j j j every car, wascrusueu auu cruwutsu. Waiting at Lansing was another- large crowd from: Longview and r the . sur rounding country.: The prisoner was 'taken from the train to the section house, which stands close to the, track, and positively identified by Mrs. McKee and several negroes-who worked on the section with Morgani The negro -was escorted by 200 men armed with Winchesters to the place of execution. As he was chained to the stake' he said he desired to make a statement. The crowd surged around him and those in charge tried in vaih to make-them stand back and keep quiet while the negro talked. : : The negro made a statement in which - he iTnT1ir!.t.P!fJ annt.hfvr hpcrn named Frank- ii.. o . lin Heard, saying he (Heard) was to get part of the money .which was to be stolen. " ' ' -:- Morgan confessed to' having com- m itted the "crime, and after being ! se curely chained to the stake with his hands and legs free, the members of mob began to take ties from a ; fare al ready started and . burn out his eyes. They held the burning timbers to his neck and, after burning his clothes off, to other parts of his body. " The negro screamed in agony. He was tortured in a slow and painful manner, while the crowd clamored for still slower pun ishment. The negro begged ; piteously to be shot. Mrs. McKee was brought to . the scene in a carriage accompanied by four other women and an effort was made to get the carriage close enough . for her to see the negro. The crowd was so dense, however, that it was im possible. - : C" Persons held each other on their shoulders, taking turn about looking at the awful sight. The negro's head finally dropped and the ties were piled around and over him. In half an hour only the trunk of the negro remained. As soon as the heat would permit parts of his skull and body were gathered up by some and carried away. As the fire died down the crowd took the two men who first caught the negtp and held them up over their heads, while they held their Winchesters in their hands and were photographed. 1 - Section Foreman McKee, husband of the woman assaulted, applied the match, to the faggots. Many women were" present from the surrounding country, but owing to the great crush they had very little" opportunity to see the negro until the heat had died down. The rail roads brought crowds to Longview June-j tion where they boarded trains for Lan sing. The engineer was forced at the 4 point of a Winchester to stop at the scene of the? lynching, however, and the mob disembarked. - -A New Rook Agent Elected. Dallas, May 23. The election of connectional officers absorbed the 'in terest of the delegates at to-day's ses sion of the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The election of senior and junior book agents to-day caused spirited contests. R. G. Bidham, of Georgia, was elected to succeed Dr. J. D. Barbee, of Nash ville, Tenn., as the book agent,; and D. M. Smith, of the firm of Barbee & Smith, was re-elected as junior book agent. H. M. Dubose was selected . on the first ballot for the position of gen- eral secretary 01 tne njpwortn ieague and editor of The Epworth Era. Dr. Lambuth was elected missionary secre tary with no opposition. At the after noon session, Dr. Winter, of Monterey, Mex., was elected editor of The Chris- " tian Advocate, and organ of the Church at Nashville, and Dr. J. J. Tigert was re-elected book editor and editor of The Review. - . , Railroad Requires Its Men to . Stay v Sober and-Pay all Debts. Chicago, May 22. Officials' of Athe : Chicago and- North western r Railroad have begun a campaign against the use of tobacco in any form by the employes of the passenger department .while on duty. " . The management "also has decided to . put an end to loose pecuniary practices. An assignment of wages by an employe . is prohibited and will be cause for his dismissal. ' - , - Rules of the most stringent kind are announced against the use of intoxi- cants, or , the frequenting of places where they are sold, subjecting offend- , ing employes to immediate dismissal. - . .It is learned that the Ohio River & Charleston Railway is now in eight miles of Bakeraville, Mitchell countys and it is expected it will be in two mile, . of -the place by July 1. It will not go any nearer than two miles, as it will turn up the river side.