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I \ ^ > ?????? CASE THROWN OlIT. First Trial Results in Victor)' For the New Virginia Constitution. ? ANOTHER APPEAL IS TO BE TAKEN The Issue oS Colored Suffrage is to Be Fought to a Finish?the Outcome Will .Be Interesting. Richmond. Special.?'The argument in the soil of lir. John S. Wise to invalidate the tiew Virginia constitution, was resumed j:i the United States Circuit Court, Saturday afternoon, betoie Judge Waddill. Attorney.General Anderson sunk" for the Commonwealth, addressing himself largely to the point raised !*y complainants .ilia' t.he State was barred -from restricting .the suffrage a* it iiad done by the.reconstrui tion arts. He was followed by James Hayes, colored, of counsel .for.the complainants, ?\ho made a strong, plea, for the right* o/ iiis race. The court dismissed .baGi -suits, on the ground that it had no jurisdiction, the actions being against ihe State. An appv?al will be taken. All the questions of the Chief Justice indicated that vir'tualv every contention raised by com. plainants had been passed .upon adversely by the Supreme .Court. The decree of the Circuit Court of the United States in the proceeding to test the Virginia constitution as announced by Chief Justice -Fuller, is as follows: "In ihe Circuit Court of .the United States for the eastern district of Vir ginia. "William H, Jones <et .als. vs. .No. 7159. In prohibition: "Andrew J. Montague. Governor of Virginia, and others, constituting the board of State canvassers. "App'lcation for prohibition, vrchibiting defendants from -canvassing returns of tbe election held November 4. 1902. tor Representatives ir Congress or proceeding to act the .same and tor preliminary order suspending proceedings on the part of the State board * canvassers. The rule heretofore tutored herv-n is discharged, and preliminary order denied. Thic for .want of jurisdiction. The writ is not sought iu aid cf jurisdiction aJreadv acquire V, nor dors it appear that there is no other remedy. "The proceeding, in effect. Against the Commonwealth, which is net in any view an indispensable party, and cannot be made sucn; and the matte being political, cannot be dispensed .of In snot n nrr.cepdinjr ** Judge Waddill. who sal ' with ithc Chief Justice, concurred in the decree, but delivered an opinion of his own. ur follows: "In the Circuit Court of the Unite! ; States for the eastern district of Virginia. "Wm H. Jones et als. vs. Nu. .Tiail. In prohibition: "Andrew J. Montague. Governor .a? Virginia, and others, constituting the board of State canvassers. "Wir.iam S. Selden. et ale. rs. No. 538. In equity: "Andrew J. Montague, Governor of Virginia, and others, constituting the board of State canvassers. "Believing under the decisions of the .courts of the United States, by which , this co irt is. and should be governed, that neither of the actions now before the court can be maintained. I. for that reason, concur in the result arrived at by the Chief Justice, dismissing the same, and may, hereafter file a brief memorandum in writing, embodying ray views. "It is frankness, due, however, that I should say. that while I believe that this is the law. as settled by decision*, it does not entirely embody my personal views, as to what that la.v ought ?to be. 1 can but believe that as t.) rights arising under and guaranteed to mho citizen by th? constitution and Jaws of the United States injuriously affecting one hundred people, whether respectinp their property to their personal or political rights, and particularly the two latter classes, that they ought to be given a day in court, afforded an opportunity for a full and speedy hearing; and to that end. that technicalities forms and ceremonies should in large measure be dispense 1 wixii. speedy Jrr.rtiee afforded, and thp rights of tbe respective parties litigant ascertained." The State beard of canvassers met immediately after tiie adjournment of the Uaiied State* Court, this afternccn. ana awarded certificates to 10 i.ongressm< n rccntly elected, including Campbell Slcmp. Kepuolican. in the ninth -iistiict. whose majority was found on final canvass -of the vote to be 21S. A. certificate \va*> also issue* to Carter -Class. elected in the sixth dis^ trict. to fill the unexpired terra of tlie late Pew J. Ctey. Philadelphia Raids Illegal. Philadelphia. Special,?'The raids of trice dens, last week, by the inolice. under instructions from headquarters, were shown to be improperly conducted when Judge Audenreld today dis charged Louis Zimmerman ana nine women capibwod in the wholesale ewoop of disorderly houses. The discharges were ot the ground that the arrests had been illegal. CounseJ for the prisoners attw.-ked the legality of the arrrrsts.. which., the evidence (disclosed. were made tipon warrants containing none of the tames of the prisoner* Jr: custody. Shot Two. Providtpcc. R. I.. gj<M'ial.?Henry Crotchforft. an itinerant *egro banjo player, who&o home is believed to be in Washington. shot and instantly killed Eisie Lf.vle. colored, probably fatally wounded .Mabel Nixon, colored, nod then fire a shot into his .v$ n brain, dylnff instantly. Crotcbforrl wit t 23 yeans old. Jealousy hj said to haw been the motive for the iragody. PRESIDENT EXPLAINS < I Writes a Letter Showing His Position Regarding Negro Appointments. "Washington, Special.?The President ^ has sent the following communications ^ to a prominent citizen of Charleston, f S. C.: t "Personal. |-t I "White House. Washington, incjv. j J :?02. \ "Mv Dear Sir: I am in receipt of j ! your letter of November 10 and of one ] from Mr. . under date of Noveni- < ber 11. in reference to the appointment J of Dr. Crum as collector of the port of j Charleston. In your letter you make | certain specific charges against Dr. < '< I' Crum. tending to show his unfitness in ; * several respects for the office sought, i \ These charges are entitled to the ut- ; j most consideration from me and I shall < j go over them carefully before taking |i j any action. After making these charges ( you add. as a further reason for opposi- i J i tion to them. th2t he is a colored man, " I and after reciting the misdeeds that ! j I followed carpet bag rule and negro j j domination in South Carolina, you say ? j that 'we have sworn never again to 'l submit, to the rule of the African and i j. such an appointment as that of Dr. j Crum to. any such office forces us to 1 | protest unanimously against this insult i - , ..... 1 i to the White wood, ana you ami uiai > j you understood me to say that I would ] i never force a.ntgro on such a commu- j i nity as yours. ' "Mr. puts the objection of color 1 first, saying: 'First, he is a colored j man and that of itself ought to bar him from the office.' In view of these last > \ statements I think I ought to make clear to you why I am concerned and pained by your making them and what j j ! my attitude is as regards all such ap- ; 1 ! poiutments. How any one could have ; gained the idea that I had said I would j not appoint reputable and upright col- j, I cred men to office when objection was j ^ : made to them, solely on account of *. i their color I confess I am wholly unlf.ble to understand. At the time of my visit to Charleston last spring I had j ' made, and since that time I have made, a number of such appointments from , ; * several States in which there is a con- , ; sider:\ble colored population. For ex- < I iinpue, 1 made one such appointment in i 1 Mississippi and another in Alabama. ( I shortly before ray visit to Charleston. I , ^ j hud at tiiat time appointed two colored ( men.as judicial magistrates in me Dis- ; i trict-of Columbia. 1 have recently an- ' i nouneed another such appointment for j 1 New Orleans, and have just made one < | from Pennsylvania. The great majority j of my appointments in every State J have been of white men. North and South alike, it has been my sedulous ] endeavor to appoint only men of high , character and good capacity, whether j white or black. But it has been my consistent poliev in every .-State where | their numbers warranted it to recog- ' cize colored men of good repute and standing in making appointments to 1 office. These appointments of colored 1 j men have in no State made more than '< t a small nrooortion of annointmpnts T < unable to^ee how 1 can legitimate- | ly be asked to make any exception for \ .South Carolina. In South Carolina to | ] the four most important positions in J I the State I have appointed three men \ 1 and continued in office a fourth, all I j j r?f them white men?three of them orig- | : inally gold Democrats?two of them, as j ! I am informed, the sons of Confederate , 1 I soldiers. I have been informed by the M 1 citizens ?f Charleston whom I have ; ' 1 met that these four men represent a j ( ' high grade of public service. 1 "1 Jo not intend to appoint any unfit j ' ; men to office. So far as I legitimately j | can. 1 shall always endeavor to pay re- j I Sard to the wishes and feelings of the j 1 people of each locality, but I cannot , ] < < onseat to take the position that the ' < I door ox hop-?that the door of oppor- \ I ti'nity?is to be shut upon any man, no ! matter how worthy, purely upen the ' I grounds of race or color. Such an atti- 1 1 tude would, according to my convic- j s tions, be fundamentally wrong. If. as ' you hold, the great bulk of the colored j j people are not yet fit in point of char- j ] j acter and infiueare to hold such posi- j tions. it seems to me that it is worth | while putting a premium upon the cf! fort among them to achieve the char- \ ! acter and standing which will fit them j "The question of "negro domination' j ' does not enter into th? matter at all. ' It might as well be asserted that when ' 1 was Governor of New York I sought to bring about negro domination in J that State because I appointed two col- 1 ! o.ed men of good standing and char- < jfittei to responsible position?one of 1 them jo a position paying a salary i twice as large as that paid in the office i new under consideration?one of them J a director of the Buffalo Exposition. < ' The question raised by you and Mr. t j in the statements to which I refer, I is simply whether it is to be declared j 1 tyiat under no circumstances shall a ( man of color, no matter how upright 1 red honest, no matter how good a citi- 1 zer.. no matter how fair in his dealings t ail his fellows, be permitted to hold of. fice tnjaer our government I certainly cannot assume such an attitude, and 1 you tmn?t permit me to say that in my t view it is an attitude that & man 1 i should not assume, whether he looks at from the standpoint of the true interest of the white man of the South or of 1 the colored man of the South?not to s speak of aoy other section of the Un- j ion. It seems to me that it is a good i thing from every standpoint to iet the j colored man know that if he shows in ] marked decree the qualities of good citizenship?the qualities which in a ] white man we feel are entitled to re- l ward?that he uili nor be cut off from j nil hope of similar reward. < "Without any regard as to what my (hvilsion may be on the merits of this ( ; artJim'ar applicant for this particular j place. I fee that I ought to let you kn vr cJearlv my attitude on the far , broader question raised by your and , Mr. ; an attitude from which I have r.ot varied during my term of of- ( fice. "Faithfully yours, t "THEODORE ROOSEVELT. , "To Hon. . Charleston. S. C" SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL An international Warehouse. 7n an interview at New Orleans Col. ferome Hill of Memphis announeeu hat a company capitalized at $3,000,* >00 is to be organized to build and iperatc at New Orleans an internaional warehouse. Colonel Hill said hat it is proposed to make the com>any. so strong that its warehouse re eipts will be negotiable as collateral II 1110 uanus UI lliis ivnuu; Cijxu Europe. He said that the plan would ??rmit cotton to be stored at Nc.v Drloans instead of sending it to Liverpool or other foreign ports for disribulion to the marts of the world, de added: "The progress of our country has ???v tbled New York to become one of the irst moneyed centers of the world; Chicago dictates the price of grain ind provisions that feed man: Pittsjurg dictates the price of iron and ma! that move man, and this move s to make New Orleans the greatest otton market and distributer of that iroduct tnai clothes man. We will ihen have what goes to make all of ommcrce. to wit. what moves. what ecds and what clothes mankind. This, s commerce, the balance is but the lutside show."?Manufacturer's Reclid. Textile Notes. The Baldwin Manufacturing Co. will establish a textile mill at Baldwin, 'our miles from Elkton, Md.. the latter leing the postoffice address. Site has oeen purchased, and a stone building 50x300 feet will be erected to aceommolate .the machinery. About fortv people -will be employed in the complete alant. The character of the product nas not been stated a?. yet. but presumably it will be a cotton-cloth mill, as :he company has previously been engaged in weaving in Cecil county. Norfolk (Va.) Yarn Mills, reported CiJCJipui ai^u trial wtcr.a uj,u, uao lensed and will operate the plant ownid by the Lambert's Point Knitting Mflle. heretofore operated by the Norfolk "Manufacturing & Spinning Co., will manufacture wool-spun cotton rants. The company intends to add some machinery, and is in the market 'or Davis cb Fitrber cards and mules; second-hand 48-inCh cards in good conlition will si.lt. The Blue Ridge Hosiery Mills of Landrr.ru. S. C.. held a meeting of stockholders during the week in order :o consider enlarging the plant. It was derided that capital stock be increased 'rmi $20,000 to $40,000 in order to double the capacity, and immediate arrangements will be made to effect the betterments. Plant at present has thirty knitting machines in position, mil manufactures ccrtton seamless hosiery. Messrs. E. F. Adams. F. B. Norris. Z .1. Barnard. George Dashner. I. A. Baker, CI. B. Norris and H. E. Jones of Beleste. Texas, have incorporated the Perrin Cotton Mills, with capital stock jf $75,000. Their purpose is stated to ae tb-e manufacture of cotton yarns ind cloth, etc. No details as to plant Save been announced. Hucomuga Cotton Mills of Greensboro, N. C., "have been put in operation with fifty looms weaving. The full 144 looms are exported to be in tcperation svitnin another week. It was recently innounced that Caesar Cone ami associates had purchased this plant, R. L. Christie c? Colora. M&, hope.io organize his fiber-working ccmpsnv. mentioned last week, ay December 1. A plant for manufacturing suit eases, trunks, satchels and ca rving cases irom vulcanized fiber is proposed. Messrs. J. P. Thsnnan. J. L. Kenaedv, L. Fogg. J. F. Taylor and C. 3. Summers have incorporated the 3em Knitting Mills, with capital storl: cf $30,000. They have secuiou the slant of the Hanson-CraVley Company. E. A. Smyth cf Pels' r. S. C.. states lhat there is no foundation for the report. mentioned last week, that he and R. A. Lewis of Briton. S. C.. will build i cotton mill at StantonvFile. S. C. T. L. Gwyn of Elk Creek. Va.. con:emplates establishing a knitting mill ind is obtaining estimates on cost of a mall plant for producing S4-neea!e hosiery. Geo. I.. Neville. 602 Crawford street. Portsmouth., Va.. wants to buy 10.000 sounds of cotton waste. Lumber Notes. Messrs. Schumacher k. Boyce cf Cin innali, Ohio, will scon be in the mar ^et tor several carloads of yellow-pine tumtcr. The Gray Lumber Co.. which owns md operates two large saw-mills at Plnebloom. on the Brunswick & Western Railroad, is having constructed a hird mill at that place. The new mill vill be us-?d exclusively to saw boards ind will have a large output. The W. H. Guirl Lumber Co.. previ-1 lusly reported, has purchased a mill ;itc at Memphis Tenn.. and will erect l first-class lumber plant. About $125,K>0 will be expended, and the plant *111 be designed to manufacture quartered plain oak. cypress, hickory and ;ak wagon stock. The British steamer Aureola arrived it Gulfport last week, and will be load?d by the Reeves-Powell Lumber Co. cvith 2,000,000 feet of lumber. Lumber shipments on Friday last 'rom the port of Jacksonville, Fla., jmounted to about 2.000,00 feet, distributed as follows: Hopetown. 32.000 'eet; Nassau. 40,000 feet; Cayenne. 210.000 feet; New York. 1.350,000 f-rret; Baltimore 411,000 feet. The Baltimore Sash & Door Co. has et contract to Mclver & Piel at $12,000 'or the erection of buildings for its proposed factory. Equipment of marhinery will cost $60,000. The Camden Lumber Co. of Camden, 5. C., has been chartered, with a capital stock of $10,000. The officers of the :cmpany are J. H. Burns, president; hbenrv Savage, vice-president, and J. J. Workman, secretary and treasurer. A Charlottesville, Va.. dispatch says 'James Baker, secretary of the faculty of the University of Virginia for 20 rears, died last week aged 68 years." 1 , V ' :$ I BILL ARP. I $ _ . s A chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy writes to ms for a list of tiic Ccnrzia senators and represcnta tives who seceded in January, 1301, an ! also for a list of their successors ia the confederate congress. But few i.ien can answer these questions, and indeed the answer is hard to find in any book. But these women are after information that is worthy of preservation in their archieves and they will soon know more about the civil war than the men. Well, our state senators before the war were Robert Toombs and 3en. Hill. Toombs made a withdrawal speech which was grand and defiant. Our representatives were Martin J. Crawford. Peter E. Love. Thomas J. Hardeman. Lucius J. Gartrell, John W. H. Underwood. James Jackson. John Jones and Joshua Hill, who resigned. They are all dead. The members of the first confederate congress were Senators Ben Hill and Herschel V. Johnson. Toombs was elected, but had serious opposition and it irritated Him so that he refused to serve and later on Johnson was elected. Toombs said. "The manner in whien this trust has been conferred on me relieves me from any obligation to accept it." So he unsheathed his sword and I fifrVifintr Tho rpn ppiipn ta tives "Cut tv/ ? "V elected were Julian Hartridge, J. C. Munnerlyn, Hines Holt, A. H. Kenan, David W. Lewis. W. W. Clark. Roherl T. Trippe, L. J. Gartrell. Hardy Strickland and Augustus R. Wright. These are all dead. "Time cuts down all. both great and small." A letter from another chanter wishes to know the maiden names of the wives of the presidents and the names of the mothers of the presidents. I tell you these women are in earnest. For centuries their sex has be?n under the ban. You can't find a history of cyclopedia that tells anything about wives cr the mothers of great men. and yet it is the mother who makes the men. George Washington's father died when he was 11 years old and his mother trained him and taught him and planted within him all those virtues that made him great?and yet there are but few of our American people who know who his mother was. I have three sets of standard cyclopedias, but only meager mention is made in them of the mothers or wives of the president. Who knows anything about the mother of Webster. Clay or Calhoun? I have found the maiden names of all the wives of the presidents and the names of all their mothers except those of Zachariah Taylor. William H. Harrison. Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan. R. B. Hayes and Ben Harrison. Maybe they had mothers. Well, to begin. George Washington's mother was Mary Ball. His wife was widow Park Curtis, nee Martha Dandridge. John Adams' mother was Susannah Boylston. His wife was Abigail Smith. Thomas Jefferson's mother was Jane Randolph. His wife. Martha Wales. James Madison's mother. Fanny Taylor. His wife. Dolly Payne. That Fanny Taylor's brother was grandfather to Zacharv Tavlcr. James Monroe's mother. Eliza Jones His wife. Elizabeth Kortright. John Q. Adams had a grandmother Quiry. No mother is named. His wife was Louisa Johnson. Andrew Jackson's mother. Elizabeth Hutchinson; his wife. Rachel Donelson. Martin Van Buren's mother. Mary Hces; his wife. Hannah Hoes. William H. Harrison's mother not named; wife. Anna Symmes. John Tyler's mother. Mary Arinistead: w ife. Letitia Christian. James K. Polk's mother. John Knox; wife. Sarah Childress. Eachary Taylor's mother not named; wife. Margaret Smith. Millia.vl Filmore's mother was j Phoebe Millard; he never married. Franklin Pierce's mother not named; wife. Jane Appleton. James Buchanan's mother not named. He was a bachelor. Abraham Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks; wife, Mary Todd. Andrew Johnson's mother too poor and ignorant to name. His wife. Eliza McCarlc. educated him. U. S. Grant's mother. Hannah Simpson; his wife. Julia Dent. "R. B. Hayes' mother not named: his wife. Lucy Ware Webb. James A. Garfield's mother was Eliza Ballon; his wife. Lucretia Rudolph. unc-sicr a. Arinur s aiumer. .tiaiv<uii Stone; his wife. Ellen L. Herndon. G.over Cleveland's mother. Anne Meal; his wife. Frances Folsoni. Ben Harrison's mother not named; his wife was Miss Scott. William McKinley's mother. Nancy C Allison: his wife. Ida Saxton. Now, of course if a man can afford to buy the separate biographies of these men. though some have no4, been written, mo doubt he could learn more about their mothers and wives, but not very much. We know but little concerning the mothers of Milton. Shakes i pea:e, uowpcr. fowe, uray, jonnson. Hood, Burns, Moore. 3yron, Coleridge or any of the noted writers of England or Scotland. The idea seems to have been that women as a general rule were of no consequence?except to hear children and stay at home and nurse ;nem. But that is not the idea now. Women are coming to the front and claim a more notable position in history and biography. Mrs. Do. Burt, of Brunswick. has in press a book devoted exclusively to the mothers of the notable men of Georgia, the mothers of our governors and statesmen and ministers and military heroes, and I know she will do justice to them. Some time ago a friend of mine died and as he wis a man of some note, his son, who is growing old, wanted to answer Mrs. Burt's letter about his grandmother, and he told her he didn'tkniwanything about her?didn't even know her maiden name. He said that he never saw her, for she died when he wrb a child and he never heard his father say much about her. That has been the way, but it will not be much longer, for the elevation of woman to her proper position by the side of man and not beneath him, is rapidly coming on. This federation of v,-Oman's clubs will assert womaq's rights. This recognition of woman has gained ground rapidly since the war. Before thaf^ur school teachers were i i generally men and where we had H women as assistants they were import- L ed from the north. We had five in sue- i cession in our town. One by one they j got married and we sent off and got another. Our well-to-do widowers tcolc Pf a liking to them, for our girls wouldn't j marry a widower and our young men wouldn't marry a yankee school mistress. But since the war our own girls have gone to teaching and are found in ! every school room in the land. If they are more fit to teach our children than are the men. then why are they nof better paid, and why are they not mem- H bers of our school boards? I have known men to be elected on school boards who couldn't do a sum in the rule of three and din't know whether algebra was Latin or astronomy. Some of these same men are put on the committee to choose school books. School boards are not always elected for scholarship, but for sectarian influence m and because they have an ax to grind, jy But this is enough for one letter. I hope the young people will cut it out and paste it in their scrap books and Cl keep it for reference so that when they h are married and have inquisitive chil- g, dren they can answer these questions. w Every young person should have a ? j scrop book. One of our teachers was l not long ago asking her scholars about s' Washington. "Who can tell me some- tl thing about George Washington?" and tl one of the boys said: "He was born on jj Mount Vermont." A little girl said: tj "No. it was Mount Vernon." Another boy said, "He was named for the city " of Washington," and another said, "He a was the father of all the country chil- s dren," and another said, "He cut a B1 cherry tree down to get the cherries. . and didn't tell a lie about it and hip father never licked him for it. but that night he had the colic mighty had." it And here is a good kind letter of ij sympathy from a full-blooded Cherokee a Indian, who writes from the Indian Q j Territory and says he was born in ? ! Murray county and loves Georgia and ? | her people. He asks about the Howelis. e ! and says his father knew the old man a ; on the Chattahoochee and always said n i there was some good Indian blood in ' his veins. Well, they do look like it. I expect our Evan came sideways down t from old Powhattan. ju3t as my wife C ] came from Pocahontas. Hello. Cousin |i Evan; we are kin.?Bill Arp in Atlanta r Constitution. n Serious Shooting. Charleston. S. C., Special.?A special t to The News and Courier from Nich- e j olas. S. C.. says: "A serious shooting 11 occurred here about 5 o'clock Mon- c I I 2 ,' day afternoon, resulting in the almost , j instant death of Mr. Duston H. Sarvis, (. ; and the severe, though not serious g i | wounding of Mis3 Jody M. Burns. t Two shots were fired, but as to who i fired them it is not yet known. Miss I Burns states that Sarvis fired both j shots, shooting her first, then turning ^ ; j the revolver on himself. Sarvis was ;! about 22 years of age, and was en- r, gaged in the study of telegraphy here. ^ His home is near Loris, Horry county." . _ Cleveland Will Preside. j Philadelphia. Special.?Former Prcs iaent Grover Cleveland has accepted an 2 invitation to preside at a public meet- ^ i ing to be held here on December 11 in , j the interests of the Bureau Manual , : Training and Industrial School for Col, ored People. Among the other speak- 8 I ere will be former Postmaster General j f Charles Emory Smith. Col. A. K. Mc- f , Clure and Bco4<er T. Washington . E ^ News Notes. c A Baltimore dispatch says: Win. i Wiikens. senior member of the bristle and hair factory of Wm. Wil- | kens & Sons, died Sunday night at c his home in this city, aged 57 years. T I Mr. Wiikens had been in failing health nearly a year. The firm has a branch in \'pw Yor:; -nri flhiraco." 1 ! - - - ? " In New England and among rhe native-boru inhabitants the percentge is still lower. 1 per cent, in Massa- r chusetts. 1.5 in Connecticut. 2 per cent. C inNew Hampshire and 2.5 in Rhode Is- s land. E E. H. Rosebury and F. C. Turner of ^ J Mobile. Ala., have purchased the Baird * ! Lumber Ccf.'s plant in that city and or- j] i ganized the Enterprise Lumber Co. to c continue the plar.t. A hardwood band- ti saw mill will be elected in addition. w i e Ernmett Howard, for 21 years man- v ; ager of the Western Union Telegraph office in Memphis, Tenn.. has resigned and Philip G. Ktrn. of Louisville, has neen appointed to succeed him. Emniett Howard was a telegraph opera- '' i tor in the Confederate army. His ser | vice with the Western Union has been in ! continuous since the close of the war t C Old Home Week. m ' The children are coming home again! gc The old town stands at the door? i Homesick women and weary men, . She welcomes them all once more; j cl | "The rooms are all furnished and drest es for you! I We have been saving the best for you! The echoing hills have kept your name: ! Meadow and woodland are still the same I Lane and love-nook?nay. do not weep Nothing Is changed that our love coulcl Ri keep." bj The children are coming home to-day? ^ Ay. children, if twice two-score! R Men and women with heads of gray, q( tbo ^lii Miflrl'a h*>art nnce more! N Xover a word of how had you've been, ar How far you've traveled, liow sad you've been! . Door and heart are alike flung wide: c The mother's cheek Is aglow with pride; Pi The good you have done or have tried fr to do? These are the things she has heard of you. The children are coming home again? Hark to the names we knew! T1 The clear old love-names?Will and Ben ft And Mary and Dick and Sue! in Coming from half a world away, m (Glad to be far from the world away), Men and women, they all come back. Over the dusty or grass-grown track; aa And we know why the Lord of the un- da dellled ^ Said heaven is near to the heart of a child. C'O ?Anna Burnham Bryant in Boston pa Transcript. w, iftjisSifcv4.-': . la'; opositions May Be Made Looking: to Other Arrangements. . 1 JLOMBIA REJECTS ALL OFFERS. .v9 3 er Minister Informs the State Department That He Cannot Acceptthe Last Proposition of the United States. ?O?? Washington. Special.?The cabinet iceting was devoted almost exclusive? to the consideration of the status of te reciprocity with Cuba and theinal treaty with Colombia. Theitches that have occurred ill the neDtiations were discussed, as alsoere the prospects of settlementecretary Hay, while presenting the^ abject of the canal negotiations lo> le cabinet, was not able to repcrtlat any progress had been made dur- , S lg the past week. In fact, it appearslat the negotiations have come to a_ ead stop and while no such thing asn ultimatum has passed, the precise ituations may be described in the tatement that the Colombian minister ere. Concha, has distinctly Informed ae State Department that he cannot1 behalf of his government accept t?e-. ist proposition of the United Stateso has!s nf a rsnal treaty. The Itate Department has already let ite known that it has come to the endf its concessions, so the chances of renewal of the negotiations in thetear future are not very bright. This state of affairs will stimulatehe negotiations with Nicaragua and ,'osta Rica for the alternate route, bntt now appears that the diplomatic epresentatives of these countries arc tot disposed to allow themselves e used to coerce Colombia and thejr re therefore desirous of remaining i? he background until it shall be clearly stablishcd that no treaty can be madeetween Colombia and the United States. ? President Roosevelt laid before the abinet his annual message to Ccn Tess in complete forhi. It was sent o the printer Tuesday. Judge Wright Appointed. Washington, Special.?The President as decided to appoint Judge Francis I. Wright, now judge <Jf the Circuit nd Appellate Court of Illinois ,tcr the vacancy on the Court of Claims caused iy the death of John Davis. Judge Vright was primarily endorsed by the llinois delegation in Congress and fter his capabilities had been investi- j ;ated by the Attorney General it wa3 1 lecided to appoint him. Judge Wright 3 from the district represented by tepresentative Warner. He is a vetern of the civil war and a well known urist. Last summer w^ile at Oyster Jay, the President tendered the aplointment of judge of the Court ,of llaims to Senator McLaurin, of South larolina, but after some consideration ienator McLaurin declined the proffer, 'he President also announcer1 fills delsion to appoint Ashley M. Goulu. oC his city, as Associate Justice of the fUpreme Court of the District ot Co* ' } limbia. Virginia Preacher Located % Richmond, Va? Special.?Aftej^a sngthy debate the Virginia Conference emanded to the local ranks Rev. Robt. !. Garland, a minister of six years' tanding and without his request ranted him a location. It tos the pinon of a majority of eight delegates hat he is not adapted to the ministry. ' l resolution signed by Bishop Gran* erry and others inviting the General 'onference of the M. S. Church, South, 3 hold its next meeting in Richmond as adopted. The Conference also deided to meet next year in Charlottesille. AH Depends on Guatemala, Washington. Special.?Nothing has et been heard here from the Guatetalan government respecting the kiltig of Wm. Fitzgerald by Godfrey Huntr, Jr.. last Friday, in GuatemaJa ity. It is said at the State Departent that nothing can be done by this jvernment toward prosecuting Huntr and, therefore, it appears that uuss the Guatemalan government looses to act, the guilty parties will scape trial altogether. President's Thanksgiving. Washington. Special.? President oosevelt observed Thanksgiving Day r taking a long horseback ride into ie country. Accompanied by Mrs. oosevelt, his cousin, John Elliott, enerai L,eonara wooa, KODert H. N. . Ferguson, a former Rough Rider., id Douglas Robinson, he was drivenL the outposts of the city, where ~ irses were awaiting. At .night the resident had a number of personal * lends and relatives to dinner. Death of Col. Ochiltree. Hot Springs, Va., Special.?Col. los. Ochiltree died here at 1 o'clock lesday of heart trouble. He had been a sinking condition since yesterday orning and it is a surprise to hi? lysiclan, Dr. F. W. Chapln ,as well to others, that he lived until Tuesy. He was conscious in the morning it soon grew much worse and lost nsciousness again. He died without .in. Arrangements for his funeral 11 be made by friends in New York.