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WOMAN WHO AVON BULL RUN. Mrs. Greenhow, Washington Society Woman, Acted as Spy. In Harper's for March, William Gilmore Belmer, tells the true story of Mrs. Greenhow, a Washington woman of gentle birth who acted as a spy for the Confederacy and gave the information which resulted in the nintnrv rtf "Rllll RllTl VUlilCUCiaiC V IV.lui jr VI iJUii. "Washington lay ringed about with camps of new formed regiments, drilling feverishly. Already the press and the public had raised the cry, 'On to Richmond.' When would they start? Where would they first strike? It was on these two points that the Confederate plan of campaign hinged. It was Mrs. Greenhow who gave the information. To Gen. Beauregard at Manassas, where he anxiously awaited tidings of the Federal advance, there came about the 10th of July the message from Mrs. Greenhow. The message told of the intended advance of the enemy across the Potomac and on to Manassas via Fairfax Court House and Centreville. It was brought into the Confederate lines by a young lady of Washington, Miss Duval, who, disguised as a market girl, carried the message to a house near Fairfax Court House, occupied by the wife and daughters (southern born) of an officer in the federal army. Gen. r Beauregard at once commenced his preparation for receiving the attack, and sent one of his aides to President Davis to communicate the information and to urge the imediate concentration of the scattered Confederate forces. "But still the Federal start was delayed, and the prescise date was as indefinite as ever. It was during this period of uncertainty that G. Donelan, who before joining the Confederates, had been a clerk in the department of the interior, volunteered to return to Washington for information. He was armed with the two words 'Trust Bearer' in Col. Jordan's cipher, and was sent across the Potomac with instructions t6 report to Mrs. Greenhow. He arrived at tne very moment that she most needed a messenger. Hastily writing in cipher her all-important dispatch. 'Orders issued for McDowell to move on Manassas to-night,' she gave it to Donellan, who was taken by her agents in a buggy, with relays of horses, down the eastern shore of the Potomac to a ferry near Dumfries, where he was ferried across. Cavalry couriers delivered the dispatch into Gen. Beauregard's hands that night, July 16. > "And the source of Mrs. Greenhow's information? She has made the statment that she 'received a copy of the order to McDowell.' Allen Pinkerton was not wrong when he said that she 'had not used her powers in vain among the officers of the army.', "At midday of the 17th there came Col. Jordan's reply: ? " 'Yours was received at 8 o'clock t'< at night. Let them come; we are ready for them. We rely upon you for precise information. Be particular as to description and destination of forces, quantity of artillery, etc.' ''She was ready with fresh information, and the messenger was sent with the news that the Federals inr - . i intended to cut the Manassas Gap \ ' railroad to prevent Johnson, at Winchester, from reinforcing Beauregard. After that there was nothing to be done but await the result of the inevitable battle. She had don ; her best. What that best was worth was learned when she received from. Col. Jordan the treasured message: " 'Our president and our general direct me to thank you. We rely upon you for further information. The Confederacy owes you a debt.' "After the result of the battle became known, and she learned how the last of Johnson's 8,500 men (marched to Gen. Beauregard's aid because of her dispatches) had arrived at 3 o'clock on the day of the battle and had turned the wavering Federal army into a mob of panic stricken fugitives, she felt that the 'Confedt eracy owed her a debt indeed,' " Athens Bankers to Face Court. Athens, Ga., May 30.?Several new indictments have been returned by the Clarke county grand jury against officers of the defunct Athens Trust and Banking Company. J. W. Griffin, president, and R. H. McCrary, cashier, are charged with receiving moneys for deposit after the hank was in unsound condition. H. L. McCrary, uncle of the cashier and a director of the bank, is charged with having borrowed $14,816.10; President Griffin, with having borrowed $13,140, and Cashier McCrary, with having borrowed $4,836.10, all without the consent of the board of directors. Cashier McCrary is also charged with embezzlement, it being alleged that he is due the bank $111,548. Judge Charles H. Brand, in superior court, has fixed $500 as compenstation for Frank A. Lipscomb, temporary receiver of the bank. GLASS STILETTO IS IXYIBLE. Some Remarkable Weapons Carrier By Criminals in Europe. The ordinary Paris apache or hooli gan invariably carries a revolver and most of the murders which have recently horrified Paris have bee: committed with the ordinary sixshooter. The weapon which the police founc upon Prevost, who lay in wait for i bank messenger on April 2 last was a novelty. He and a friend namec Coulon planned to kill this messengei in a way which would be least likelj to attract public attention. Coulon carried a bludgeon witt which to stun the man. Prevost hac a medical syringe charged with thai most deadly of all poisons, prussit acid. He confessed that he meant tc squirt this down the victim's throat which would have resulted in his instant death. A pistol which renders the persor fired at unconscious without seriously injuring him was found upon a hooligan arested in East London ir October last. The cartridges contained a mixture of gunpowder, burned cayenne pepper and lycopodium, the fumes of which caused the persor fired at to lose consciousness. Very little originality is shown b.v the assassin. If he does not use a pistol or a bomb he has recourse tc an ordinary knife. In almost all political assassinations one of these three has been used. The only exception was Luccheni the anarchist who so brutally killed the unfortunate empress of Austria at Geneva. His weapon was a- file fixed in a wooden handle and ground to a keen point. This was afterward destroyed by the Swiss authorities. The "blackjack," a variation of the old-fashioned sandbag, is a favorite with the New York crook. "Silent talkers" is "another name given to these deadly weapons, one blow from which will stun the strongest man. Some three years ago a man was arrested in New York for the murder of an old woman, who had been caretaker in an up-town flat, and there was found in his possession a blackjack, of which the head was a leather pouch filled with small shot. The handle was of painted leather nine inches long. It weighed nearly two pounds. A somewhat similar weapon was taken from a man who is now in Sing Sing prison serving seven years for a murderous assault upon his employer, an Albany butcher. It has an iron ball for a head and a length oI steel wire rope for a handle. As diabolical a specimen of murderous ingenuity as ever was discovered by the police was found in the possession of a Chinaman, who had been working in a laundry in New Orleans and who was believed tc have intended using it upon his employer. It was a tiny stiletto, with a handle about as thick as a carpenter's pencil, and a blade four inches long . > J_A_J 01 glass, puiiueu as Jtvccuij as a needle. A tiny groove had been filed around the blade close to the hilt. Suppose it was driven into a man's body it would be certain tc break off at the groove and leave three inches of glass deep in his flesh. What is more the puncture would be so tiny that it would probably close at once and show no mark, not even a single drop of blood. A blind elderly woman who was found dead on the kitchen floor of her house in Manchester had been stabbed with a corn knife, which was found on the floor beside her. The murderer was never caught. And a surgeon's lancet was the weapon used by the maniac who, in the year 1900, stabbed no fewer than 80 people in the streets of Kiel, and before he was at last arrested caused a panic worse than that produced by the infamous Jack the Ripper. Perhaps the strangest weapon ever used for killing was an umbrella. In October, 1908, a man named Ernest Smith was found dead fn Chiswick High street. He had a punctured wound in the eye which had reached his brain, and which the doctors agreed had undoubtedly been caused by the steel ferule of an umbrella.? Pearson's Weekly. What Jolm Knew. The teacher of one of the classes in a school in the suburbs of Cleveland had been training her pupils in anticipation of a visit from the school commissioner. At last he came, and the classes were called out to show their attainments. The arithmetic class was the first called, and in order to make a good impression, the teacher put the first question to Johnny Smith, the star pupil. "Johnny, if coal is selling at $6 a ton and you pay the coal dealer $24, how many tons of coal will he bring you?" "Three," was the prompt reply from Johnny. The teacher, much embarrassed, said: "Why, Johnny, that isn't right." "Oh, I know it ain't, but they do it anyhow."?Philadelphia Record. BOISTEROUS CONVENTION I Of 1880 May be Surpfissed in Bitter- Oi ness at Chicago This Year. The coming Chicago convention is , expected to surpass in bitter and th ; boisterous demeanor even the famous m 1 convention of 1880, when a field of 6C - candidates opposed a third term for w< General Grant, which was ably and I remorselessly advocated by Senator m l Conkling, of New York, and Senator to ; Cameron, of Pennsylvania, great Re- ca I publican war horses- at the time. Re- ce i and 12 are reported to be for Sher- gi > man, but 45 ARE for Grant." of t Senator Lodge also recalls how w< 1 Senator Hoar, as presiding officer, mi made General. James A. Garfield, the pi' > presidential nominee of the conven- by ! tion, sit down and permit himself to on ' be nominated. to 1 The balloting had gone on and on ve i without result, but practically in all a the earlier ballots the name of Gar- es ' field had appeared with just one vote. Qi ' The fact attracted attention more and th more as it became apparent that the a convention was a deadlock between - the leading candidates and that a qu ' dark horse would be nominated. Now wi > Garfield was for the nomination of T1 f John Sherman, and was indeed an wi 1 active worker in his cause. ba "Next to what proved the last bal- of 1 lot," said Senator Lodge, "it was be- w< > coming apparent that Garfield would gl. ' be nominated. The vote for him had been climbing. Garfield, from the * 1 floor, addressed the chairman, deSc manding a ruling on a point of order. " 'What is the p'oint of order?' aske" Senator Hoar. 1 ".'That, a delegate cannot,' said e cu Garfield, 'figure in the balloting with- x i ty out his personal consent, and I refuse w to allow my name to be used. My 6D ' name is not in order and I make that , . . , to point. UI "But Senator Hoar, who knew, of ^ 1 course, that the nomination of GarW ( " 1 1 - ?; ~ Ko nlr f a 1161a Wets CUIlillig, SHU UICU uuvn. w ' Garfield: 'The gentleman from Ohm, ya se is not in order/ and as he said this ! he brought down his mallet with a ' bang, and soon afterward Garfield 1 was nominated.v?Washington corre- . 1 spondence Baltimore Advertiser. ; ^ ca i Telegraphs of the World. _ It is only about sixty years since vi< the introduction of the electric tele- he i graph, as the system was known in de ; this country up to its acquisition by ar the postoffice. The lines now in ex, istence are sufficient to go around the world 138 times. Put in other j words, they would reach the moon 16 times. The total number of offices is given at 130,000, with 160,000 apparatus, which send out annually 300,- an 000,000 dispatches. The English, CQ. we read make the greatest use of the telegraph, it being estimated that aci for every 100 persons there are sent st? out 194 messages. France follows, ?!lt- 1 r \T?v+ nnmao Flon. Willi ?<j?? uieasag, co. i^cai ?.umvu wum jg^ , mark, with 118; Eelgium, with 104, pa and Germany with 91. The record ac. telegram extended over 20,000 an words. Others of 10,000 are men- pe i tioned.?London Globe. be Editor Bok Fires "Turkey Trotters.'' PF ' saPhiladelphia, May 30.?The Curtis Publishing Company is without the ^ services of sixteen young women who V1< so far forgot the proprieties and rules ^ of that corporation as to indulge in the "turkey trot" on the third floor of the Ladies' Home Journal building. thi The sixteen were discovered at the an > noon hour engaged in this terpsieho- '<s rean specialty, much to the disgust Rc of Edward Bok, the editor, who or- fr< dered them "fired." ch The young women regarded Mr. so: Bok's action as not only an intru- a 1 sion, since they were enjoying their fe? * * - ? -x /N nc* ? i noon iuncneon at me time, uut ao cil an attack on their personal privil- po eges, and some of them say they in- of ] tend to ask Mr. Curtis to reinstate m* them. all In the meantime there will be no an more "turkey trots" "bunny hugs" or hil , "grizzly bears," at least while Mr. wt Bok is in the building. ea: * ' ' - *- ? '--rJi'J&Z:.. * puDiicans in wasnington who auena- qi r de that convention are recalling some ds of its scenes. One present was Sena- th 1 tor Lodge, not then even a congress- wl 1 man and scarcely known to fame, and de t probably those who saw him and also In * Senator Hoar at the time both the by temporary and permanent chairmen of that convention little realized that w] 4 E there was present a man, who after- Di ward was to embody that honor at su two Republican conventions, that at w< Philadelphia, which nominated Mc- ha Kinley for a second term, and that at SI Chicago which nominated Taft. es There were many, many ballots in ta the 1880 convention and Senator Conkling was ever the spokesman for th the New York delegation, and the way ce he announced the result was always sh spectacular, although always the ti< same on that account ever effective, la: "I do not recall the exact figures and names of the New York vote," th says Senator Lodge, "but Conkling's tr; announcement was this wise: sh "Five votes in the New York dele- dr 1 gation are said to be for Edmonds fo QUEEN MARY'S VEIL. ae Worn by Her at the Durbar ued at $30,000. The veil worn by Queen Mar: e Durbar cost $30,000, was onths in the making and requ I women to execute its wonde Drkraanship, says a London spe< If stretched on poles it w< ake a tent large enough to he ur soldiers?supplied with e1 mp need. It is the most mag nt veil ever worn by any Bri leen in India and shows what t ;rful lace making is being done e Irish peasants. It is hard to hich was more splendid, the \ srful jewels worn by the princes dia or the magnificent train v r the Queen Empress. When the costume of the Qi hich was to be worn at the Ini arbar was being discussed it ggested by her majesty that =ar the same veil and dress id worn at the English coronat le would not listen to any un sary extravagance for this im nt coronation. The women at court assured at if this Durbar was as mag nt as those that had precede^ e would need handsomer cor< >n robes than she had worn in I nd. She compromised by allo\ em to order her a new corona ain, with the understanding e be allowed to wear the s ess. The train certainly made r a new gown. It was an oi ven to the most skilled lacema] Belfast. Sixty skilled nee Drkers labored more than onths to make this magnifii ece of lace. The veil was desig ' the best designer in Belfast ily the most skilled were alio work on this masterpiece, il is about 12 yards long and gift from the wealthiest and h t born women in Ireland to t leen. Nobody knows exactly v e train cos-t, but $30,000 woulc fair estimate. The veil is a rose design, the lisitely fine roses being surrouc ith garlands of buds and lea le finest part of the work was c :th the needle and the hea ckground with the bobbins. M the work was so fine it had t< Drked with the aid of a magnif; ass. ? m ? )FFICFRS HURRY TO SCEJi arching for Women Charged i Beating White Children. Hampton, May 31.?Word reac ;re this afternoon of a difficulty rring at Camp Branch, in this c< , in which two young childrei r. W. H. Benton were severely b . by two negro women. The ai ok place this afternoon and i tderstood that considerable fee .s been stirred up by the act of )men in going into the white m rd and taking advantage of the nee of the children's protectors It IS stated on nign aumuruj large number of men have gon e scene and summary punishn anticipated in the event of pture of the two women. The si has gone to the scene with d< is in automobiles to prevent elation of the law. Up until a iur this afternoon there were velopments except that the offii e on the ground. ATTACKED B^TAXGRY BULJ D. Antley Perches on Bull's N to Save Himself. St. Matthews, May 31.?Scai d exhausted from a desperate unter with a Jersey bull this m< I, Mr. JoM D. Antley made a i tilous escape from death. The 1 irted on the offensive, without ghtest provocation, while Mr. 1 r was surveying the stock in sture. The bull raked his vie ross the front of his body mat ugly wound. Mr. Antley fin rched himself upon the neck tween the horns, displaying gi esence of mind, which probs red his life. Mrs. Antley rus with a hatchet and with this ti weapon Mr. Antley cowered lious beast, which was glad to ray in disgraceful flight. Finger in the Tobacco. Mr. J. A. Rogers, an employe* e factory of Statesville, N. C., S d Table Co., has for good reas worn off" on chewing tobacco. )gers had just bit off a "ch< )ra a plug of popular brand ewing tobacco when he noti mething in the tobacco resembl bone. And one may imagine jlings and indignation when >ser examination, he discovered rtion of a human finger in the p tobacco. Of course the finger ished, and dried, but it was a fin . right, cut off between the sec d third joints. It is now on Dition at the factory and tt ' ^ VioTTA oAftn ?4- POTT +VlOTT nQTl 7 11/ ua V C XI Ct*j VMM * sily quit chewing the weed. ~ J-.-i . : -v v . *. ' J 7 I 1 I Information 1 yr at - 9 ired cial! To "Hie Ptiblic?^_ ^ ::1 3um -It is sometimes Jfooess&fy^ta*. >use secure information relative to the", '?|7 financial standing or. integrity of ?,'sh" business concerns and,individuals' pon- S at distant points.- B-ffp f ; by ~ This bank has facilities for1 say securing such information for. its) con: patrons at no^expense.t ;sor?n You are given special'considerawhen borrowing money, if you ieea have an account at the bank and. can jian I always feel free to ask for advice was I or recommendation and the banker is ahB - - -* .HTiad fn +*>ia Viaat " ~ gJLSQ. "CO iU-I.IlJ.Dii g*wuw*?. w "**v . ? H A?ne If his ability. 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