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GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Items of More or Less Interest Con densed Throughtout the World. The prince and princess of Wales have reached Bombay, India. The soutihern conference on quar tantine and immigration met in Chat tanooga last week. It is rumored that Archbishop Francis :Bourne of Westminster, Eng 'land, will be made a cardinal. - .After a conference of government attorneys it was -decided to push the prosecution of the,beef trust cases. A test vote in the French senate -seemed to indicate that the bill sep arating churdhi and state will be pass ed. - General Trepoff has been removed as governor-general of St. Petersburg, and Premier <Witte promises universal suffrage. Chairman tTI. P. Shionts, in a speech to the hardware dealers' convention, told what he had done on the Panama canal. Sailors and troops at Kronstadt mu tineered and -after pillaging shoPs started several fires before being over whelmed by loyal troops. 'hie Alabama Commercial and In Idustrial association, in convention at Decatur, declared against the presi dent's rate-regulation plan. The anorning after their wedding 'Randolph C. Johnson, and his bride, of Perquimans county, North Caro lina, were found dead in their bed. Rear Admiral Prince Louis of Bat tenberg was welcomed to New York, and the combined *Anglo-American fleet foined in commemorating King Edward's birthday. Wlliam R. Hearst, who is contest ing the election of George B. Mc CIe!lan as mayor of New York, com pelled ithe election board to receive &1ae .8,ooo ballot boxes. A float in honor of President 'Roosevelt's peace efforts was con spicuotrs in the parade incident -to the inauguration of Walter Vaughn Mor gan as lord mayor of London. Col. and Mrs. James R. Branch parents of Midshipman Branch, who '( died after a fight at Annapolis, urged the president and Secreitary Bona parte to thorougibly investigate the cause. President Hegemnan of the Metro polIitan Life Insurance company, de clar"ed in effect before 'the legisla 'bye .investigating committee that his company had increased i,ooo times in value in 35 years. "ABSURD PIECE SPITE WORK." Says Mr. Cheatam of the Cotton As. sociation As to Report of Sec retary Agriculture. New York, November rI.-Richard Ch'eath'am, o~f Atlanta, Georgia, sec retary of the Southern Cotton asso ciation and who uncovered 'the dis closures being made in 'the govern '-ment cotton crop reports whereby of ficials and speculators were using ad vance information to bull or bear the c,otton market, is quot'ed by the Her eld as having last night severely crit icised the replort of the cotton crop is sued yesterday from Washington in which the condition of the crop No vember 1st was stat,ed to be 68.8. Absurd Spite Work. Mr. Cheatham, w(ho is stopping in the city, said among other things: "The mnos't 'absurd piece of spite work ever attempted was the issuing of the crop report Friday by Mr. Wil son, the secretary of agriculture. In this report 'he announced the condi tion' at 68.8. Now there is no sane man whoi ever saw a cotton stalk w1ho does n'ot know that on November ! and 'November 10 it i's not only far 'beyond the fruiting or Ibearing stage, but in nearly every case is entirely void of foliage of every kind. It has passed far beyond the increasing stage. Its condition, so far as con ditions are recognized in *ieports, is 'the same as on October 1 p'reviously. For. Secretary Wilson 'to make a re port 'on 'condition' of November 1 is 'to assist in the operation 'of the 'bear speculators to 'hanmmer down the price 'of cotton. "Shame, Shame, Shame!" "I say to Mr. Wilson, 'Shame! Sihame! Shame!' on 'him and the men who assisted him in this attempt at ste work against the cotton produc ers of. the south. It is a final effor't to 'get even,' and the attoptr will re s in sure iscomfiture for t:he de partment of agriculture before the session of the next congress is far advanced. That there will be an in vestigation of this .department by congress and an uncovering of mat ters now concealed by wh'ich all pre vious disclosures will pale into in significance, I do not for an instant doubt." The Southern cotton association in its bulletin of the crop issued 'on Oc tober 31 estimated the crop for 1905 at 9,446,341 bales, a smaller pr6duc tion than yesterday's estimate of 68.8 would promise. RECALLS TIMES OF 1876. Editor Wiliams, of Richmond, in a Reminiscent Mood. Tue'sday, November 7th, was the twenty-ninth anniversary of t,he end of Radical government in South Caro lina. Editor -A. B. .Williams, of 'the Richmond News-Leader, makes some interesting reminiscent remarks in oonnection with the event. He says: This is the twenty-ninth annivers ary of the final overtfhrow of the last o,f the rep.ublican reconstruction gov ernmenTrs in he south. It is hard to realize that we have many thousands of voters who were not born then and that -the -majority of the voters in the country could not vote on that 'day of portent, of dread and anxiety and hope. It alt seems so fresh, vivid and near to those wIho participated in the events of that -time. Those who were e in one of the three southern states -South Caroolina, Florida and Louis iana-which were 'the fiercest and most fearful batlegrounds, cannot un derstand and never will understand what that seventih of November meant. Its apporach was almost like the coming of the day of judgment, The white people felt that it marked the culmination. and would tell the re sult -of their final and supreme effort. They staked everything on ie is sue. IThey violated law with the knowledge that if they were bea:cen banishment, persecution and oppress ion intensified would come to them. They gave what money they hlad and Uhir time and labor 'with reckless podigality. For weeks and months the three states were anmed camps. The republican party in the ~country was ~fighting for its liife, .wlhile the democratic party was made desperate *by the first prospect and hope of vic tory in twenty years. In the southern states it was a death grapple .for su premacy between -dhie two races. In South Carolina 'there was no sleep anywhere the night 'before. The lws 'had been -framed by 'the 'republi can governments to make fraud easy. The day was to begin everywhere with a struggle for possession of the polls. Throught the, country Hamp ton's Red Shirts rode all night. Men in companies of fifties ,or hundreds were transferred from one county or township 'to another so that they might be strangers in tihe neighibor hood in twhich they were -to operate. There was firing with pistols 'and an vi cannon, blowing'of horns and yel ling 'from sunset to daybreak and in towns fires 'were kindled near each polling place and heav'ly armed men kept vigi1 so that they might make way for the early voters of their own side who might th-en be off in he saddle to v'ote eleswhere. Laws and restrictions 'were thrown to th?e winds. Even where United States troops were on guard the ogdadage that "blood is thicker than water" was proved triumphant'ly and enlisted men siped away from barracks and camps assumed citizens clotrhes and voted as industriously and frequently as the most zealous rwhite native. Nobody knows who carried South Carolina, or would Ihiave carried it with a fair viote, and nobody ever 'will know, and we suppose it 'was 'the same way in the >ther contested southern states. Un doubtedly thousands of negroes voted for Hampton for governor, some be cause they honestly realized that the old conditions were destructive, some from fear, some for affection, some for money. M'any 'of 'these vo'rers, wearing the red shirt and mounted, were escorted to the polls by pro tecting 'troops of 'wiite men, cast their ballots amid the curses and execra tions of people of their own color and 1 returned 'home to encounter ostracismt and persecution. In the low country and on the sea islands where the ne groes outnumbered the whites from en to forty 'to one negro voters, boys .d women 'wearing men's clothes r ing place to the other, snouting and singing and repeating without hin drance. Boil parties disregarded the '-i. 'orh asserted power whe-re they could. Some of the majorities rolled up were terrific from one point of view and albsurd from the other. That was a wild night-that sev enth of November, 1876. Democrats througlhbout -the country were crazy with joy for every -return leaping over the wires showed enormous gains and indicated the election of MTilden for president and the redemption of the South. While bon-fires blazed and jubilant crowds of democrats were, shouting themselves hoarse from the Atlantic to tfHie Pacilfic, just -before the dawn the subtle brain of one man in a back -office of the New York Times building gathered an audacious gleam of hope from study of the sfigures -and the famous telegram was sent to the Republican national chairman urg ing 'him to. "claim everything"--a tele gram which brought monthls of acute crisis and anxiety an-d forced us to the very brink of civil war. It was not until February that the question of the presidency was decided, after one of the bitterest and most intricate con tests of nerve and diplomacy the world -has ever known. Looking back now, we can feel that the decision was about -right. ThbIere was so much fraud and violence everywhere -that the real justice of the case is a matter of guess. The plain truth is that no body was elected, but by the guidance of Providente the common sense of the American people worked out a practical and saving solution of a very ,dangerous and inextricable problem. It was not until May, two months af ter Hayes' inauguration, that the final crash of the reconstruction govern ments came with the withdrawal of the federol troops. In :the intervals the state had been living under dual governments and in political anarchy, the peace maintained with thJe strong hand. Those times are gone by and we shall never see -the like again, thank Heaven. Thakksgiving Joys. The Almig'hty Father has blessed our southland, bountifully, this season. Our fields 'have yielded their in crease. Cotton is King once more, and is doing Ihis &liest to ma-ke the land simile under his beneficent -reign. Let us be glad. And rejoicing ourselves, do not let us forget the hundreds of little father less children gathered into our Or phanages. Let us make this year the best they ever had. Send good stores of corn, flour, meat, syrup, eggs and butter. Send money that an'swer'eth all ihwings. In our own plenty, do not let us forget to spread t.he .table of those who 'have nothing. It *was Job wiho said: "If I have eaten my 'morsel, myself alone 'and the Fatherless 'have not eaten thereed., then let mine arm fall from 'the sihoul der-blade and mine arm 'be lbroken from ithe bone." The Story Of A Philadelphia Dollar. Printers' Ink. Twenty-eight years ago a man in Philadelphia rwh'o had a savings ac count witihd'rew 'his balance before moving to New York, leaving a dol lar to hold 'his 'book. TIhere it lay, not sleeping-even in PBhiladelphiia. lhree years ago 'the owner ireceived notice from the, bank that, as his ac ount was not active, it would better be closed up. He 'signified his willing ness to have it taken off the books. md upon surrender of his pass-book received 'a check for $4.50, which rep resented interest at th.e rate of 350 per cent. It is commonly demonstrated that a dollar at ordinary savings-bank nterest doubles in about twenty years, ut in 'this case the account was nearly guadrupled in twenty-five years. In, :erest is not t'hought to be as good m advertising argument as it might be For the savings banks, but 'this in ;tance ought to be worth printing in ;avings publicity. A woman usually knows flher 'hus iand is a liar, but she wants 'him to be ruthful about it. 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