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4w4 VOL. XIV. MANNING., S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3,19.N.1 HOTEL BURNED. Miraculous Escape of Guests From an Awful Death. A. J. WHITE PROVES HERO. Saved the Lives of Three Women Before He Gave Up His Own. His Death Was Most Dramatic. Wednesday morning the Baldwin hotel at San Francisco caught fire and was entirely destroyed. There were 300 people, guests and employes, in the hotel when the firt broke out and two of these pei-nl am. 'hought to have lost their lives. A. J. White and a man named Meyer are the victims. The fire is said to have started in the kitch en, located in the bast ment on the El lis street side. The fire worked its way up through the flue to the sixth floor and before the fire alarm was sent in the fire had gained great headway. For years the Baldwin has been re garded by the fire department as the most dangerous fire trap in San Fran cisco. Built of wood, six stories high, with narrow and tortuous hallways, it is a wonder that half of the people in the hotel escaped. They were slow to waken. Many were dazed and stupe fieI by the smoke when the polieg, the firemen and hotel employes, hnrrying through the hallways, kicked open doors and notified the people of their great danger. When they man aged to reach the windows and fire es capes there were no ladders. Many at tempted to jump from the windows to the streets, but were warned not to do so by the crowds below. The firemen .got u p their ladders and commenced taking people to the grounG, rescuing many in this manner. In tae interior of the hotel an explosion in the theatre caused that portion of the building to cave in. This explosion also extin guished the electric lights througho-" the building. Those in the street below could bee through the rifts in the smoke sh ng the attic cornices, forms of men and women crouching and. climbing to the woodwork, which was already begin ning to smoulder. Streams from thirty engines were being poured upon the blazing building from every point of vantage but without any apparent ef fect. $xplosion followed explosion. The death of White was most dra matic. Three women appeared on the cornice of the fifth floor on the Market street side Qf the hotel. The firemen could not reach them. White came out of a window carrying a small rope. With this he lowered the women into the arms of the firemen, who were wait ing at the windows of the next floor. Then he started down the rope hand over hand. Half way down the rope parted and the man who had just saved three lives was dashed to the pavement 100 feet below. "Lucky Baldwin" had a narrow es cape from perishing in his fire trap. Amid all the din he slept peacefully unt-il his room was broken into and he was dragged from his bed. H. I. Kowalsky, a well known attorney, was also dragged unconscious from bed. He will recover. The Baldwin hotel has been known and dreaded for years by firemen and insurance people as the worst kind of a fire trap. It has been stated often that there were no fire walls init ex eept those enclosing the theatre and that no insurance companies would write a risk on the building except for a small amount and a heavy premium. The building of the hotel began in 1873 and was finished in- 1877, its total cost including ground and furniture be ing $3,000,000. In the building was the Baldwin theatre. The street floor of the immense building were occupied by the hotel office, bar room and a num ber of stores. In the basement was an elaborately fitted cafe. E. J. Baldwin stated today that he carried $100,00insurance, but he could not remember in what company. The Baldwin theatre was completely demolished by the falling of the fifth floor. The entire effects of the "Se cret Service" company, which was fill ing an engagement at that theatre, were destroyed. A great deal of jewelry and money belonging to members of the company were lost. In addition the contracts were burned. The Columbia theatre and places of business opposite the Bald win were damaged by water to the ex tent of $15.000. El. J. Baldwin is prostrated and unable to tell much about his affairs. He says he will not be able to estimate his 1)ss for severai days. H. W. Luke, manager of the hotel, barely managed to g -t out with his wife and child. He says where were 302 guests in the hotel. Bold Postoffice Robbery. One of the boldest robberies commit ted in Columbus, Ohio, in years was perpetrated Tuesday when the p(ost office was robbed of eleven pac-kagt containing $100 each, or $1,100 in all. The money was in a pigeon hole at a stamp window presided over by Miss Mary Berry. She left the window for a few seconds ano during that brief time the morsey was taken. Four women *were seen acting in a suspicious manner in the cor ridor of the postoffice just before the robbery and the police believe one of them to be the thief. No arrests have been made as yet. Removal is Asked. Mayor Watkins of Chattanoogas Tenn., states that he has written the secretary of war, asking him in the in terest of good order and for the honor of the service .d in behalf of the good name of Chattanoioga, to remove the regiment stationed there, to some other point from Chickaimauga Park. The mayor stated that he had done this tc throw the responsibility for any breact of law or order that might occur, grow in~out of a possible race collision there, on the department. She Was Mistaken. An exchange remarks that the femali who addressed a recent meeting in Nev York was mistaken in her claims. She said she represented womanhood, whet in fact she only represented viragohood WISE COUNCIL. Good Advice Given to the Negroes by a Negro. Last Thursday night wuile T. Thomas Fortune and a few other Negro orators were howling at a Negro mass meeting in Cooper Union, New York, and Mrs. Grannis was screeching on the same platform, a Negro was speaking words of wisdom at a meeting over in Brooklyn. The:- was not one uttered at the Cooper Un.on meeting which was calculated to help i. -, condition of the Negro, to allevia u any degree his real or fancied ills At the Brooklyn meeting the only t ue and helpful policy for the Negi 1 ..as laid down in strong language by the wisest Negro leader in the country. on that occasion Brooker T. Washington s 'u. "It must be apparer -L this time that the effort to put tr. cank and file of the colored people i i a position to exercise the right of ! chise has not been a success in th .t portions of our own country where th, Negro is found in large numbers. Either the Negro was not prepared for any such whole sale exercise of the ballot as our recent amendment to the constitution contemplated. or the American peo ple were not prepared to assist and encourage him to use the ballot. In either case the result has been the same. In m3 mind there is no doubt but that we made the mistake at the beginning of our freedom of putting the emphasis on the wrong end. Politics and the holding of office were emphasized al most to the exclusion of almost every other interest, and we accepted respon sibilities, which our experience and education had not fitted us to perform with success and credit. To mind the past and present teach but one lesson to the Negro's friends and to the Negro himself-that there is but one way out, that there is but one hope of salvation, and that is for the Negro in every part of America to resolve from henceforth that he will throw aside every non essential and cling only to essentials that this pillar of lire by night and this pillar of cloud by day shall be property, skill, eccnomy, education and Christian character." No man who will look the facts squarely in the face, no man who is capable of forming a fair conclusion as to the results of Negro suffrage can deny the truth of what Brooker Washington had the sense to see and the courage to proclaim. The worst enemies the Negro has had since his emancipation have been the politicians and place seekers of his own party who have filled his head with false notions and his heart with false feelings. The best the Negro can possibly do isto realize his own position, his present weakness and incapacity for positions which he is urged by false leaders to claim. Brooker Washington points out to him the only path which will enable him to gain a better condition for himself and his children-Atlanta Journal. A PECULIAR ACCIDENT. An Exploding Boiler Tears Up Two Houses. One of the most peculiar accidents which has ever occurred in Georgia happened in Warsaw last week. An engine and boiler of six horse-power, and weighing 4,000 pounds, which was used to run a gin, blew out the crown sheet of the boiler and kilted two Ne geo men and came near killing an entire family. The residence of Mr. S. A. Maxwell, a well known and respected gentleman of Warsaw, stand just across the road from the gin house, and last - week, while all of his family were sitting in their house, the orownsheet of the boiler blew out, and after kilg two Negro men who were standing near the ginhouse, went clear across the road and entirely through a portion ef the resi dence of Mr. Maxwell and landed thirty feet away from the residence in the back yard. The bursting of the boiler made a terrific noise, and tore the porch of the residence off on a line with the parlor, knocked both front and back walls out from the parlor, and left the end wall and the partition wall intact. The ceiling and roof were only slightly dam aged, and the engine was torn loose fi..m the boiler whilo passing through the house and finally 'stopped in the rear of the house, while the boiler went twenty-five feet further and came to a stop at the far end of the back yard. Mrs. Maxwell had just left the par lor, where she had been to replace a book, and she iad her children were sitting in the ryom next to the parlor, wheL the accident occurred, and their escape from serious injury or death was almost miraculous. A Negro man was chopping wood at the corner of the engine house was blown thirty yards through a barbed -wire fence into the road and instantly killed. Another Negro man was just entering the doorway of the engine house and was blown fifty yards in an opposit direction, breaking his neck. The family of Mr. Maxwell were very badly frightened by the - accident, and had a narrow escape. Mr. Maxwell had only a few minutes before he left the house and crossed the road to the store, which escaped uninjured. The pranks played by bursting boilers are nearly always peculiar, but the actions of this boiler in Warsaw were more freakish than any of its predecessors. Gagged the Watchman, At Elsberry, Mo., 68 miles north of St. Louis, Mo., robbers made a desper bte attempt to rob the Lincoln county aank. It is not known how much, if any, they obtained. As the result of rough treatment received from the rob bers, J. W. Waters, nightwatchman of the town, who is 60 years eld, may die. He was found at an early hour Thurs day bound and gagged lying in the open air, where he had been left by the rob bers. He was badly frozen. A New Plan. The Rev. Dr. L. G. Broughton. pas tor of the Third Baptist church of At lanta, hit upon a simple and good idea for increasing the contributions, by making an innovation in the method of the collection. Instead of the six staid and sober dleacons who have passed around the collection plates, he put six young women on that duty, and the collection was suddenly and largely in creased. It is an idea that is likely to SOME PLAIN TALK. Caustic Comments on the New York Meeting. A SLANDERER REBUKED. A She Monster Makes an Unseem ly Exhibition of Herself by Lieing on the Women of the South. No better justification of the white revolution at Wilmington, N. C.. could be furnished from a hostile quarter than was afforded by the spirit whioh characterized the colored mass meeting held in New York recently to protest against so-called "Southern outrages." The attitude of the Negro as illustrated at a meeting supposed to be representa tive of the best colored elements, is de monstrated to be that of bitter hostility toward Southern white people and of savage desire to humiliate and crush them. It was the same spirit as that displayed when the Negroes were in the ascendency at Wilmington, and which lead them to heap insults and contumely upon the white victims of their misgovernment. It was the spirit which rendered the situation at Wil mington intolerable and made revolu tion a necessity. While it way be con ceded that their attitude is mainly at tr'butable to the political adventurers and fanatics who have inflamed their minds and played upon their passions, it is clear that it is an attitude which not only justified, but demanded heroic measures such as were adopted at Wil mington, and which will render it ne cessary to maintain a firm hand upon them until they have reached a far higher condition of civilization than they have yet attained. The false teaching of the past thirty years has done infinitely more moral harm to the Negro thai all the generations of slav ery through which he passed. Slavery found him a savage, and in multitude of cases made him a Christian and in many instances gave him the refine ment and good form which were devel oped even in dependents by the high social standards of the old South. The political education which he has re ceived from New England sources since emancipation has confused his brain, perverted his heart and corrupted his manners, and instead of really progress-. ing, there is danger, under the baneful influence of the morbid and unprinci pled guidance to which he has been ex posed, that he may revert to the origin al type.from which slavery rescued him, except that this renaisance of barbar ism in him will be accompanied witi the vices of civilization aDd the power for mischief which civilization confers upon those who are in it, but not of it. If the Negro is to avoid this danger and develop into a higher citizenship, he must free himself from the evil in fluences and teoahings under which he has been degenerating since the war. As long as he suffers himself to be abused by bad counsel and kept in a false attitude toward the Southern white people, just so long will he con tinue to retrograde in character and re spectability- He has seen the effect of thirty years of fanatical politieal edu cation. Let him turn away from the school of hate, defiance and distrust in which he has been trained and try thirty years of good will toward and co operation with the white people of the South. If he does,. he will rise to a higher stature and'a higher degree of prosperity than ever before. His home and biding place is in the South, and he should recognize the fact that his in terests are bound up in the prosperity and progress of that section and are de pendent upon the relationi in which he, stands to the dominant classes there. While the Negro is to be rega-led more with pity than with anger, be cause the victim of a pernicious sys em of political philosophy and pretended philanthropy, it is impossible to find in the English language words sufficiently strong to properly describe the white hypocrites and ifolitical criminals who have mislead him in the past and are still endeavoring to fire his heart against the South. Such wanton, ma licious and unspeakably abominable as persions against Southern women as were uttered at the New York meeting by one Mrs. Elizabeth B. Grannis could spring only from a heart as black with hate as the foul and shameful slanders which she ettered. The New York Sun describes her remarks as unprint able. An extract from her address was as follows: "I am only here tonight to represent womanhood," said Mrs. G.rannis. "We all know that the white women and white girls of the South are full of col ored blood. I stand here for colored women and colored girls the same as I do for white women." At this a wild uproar ensued. The colored men and women jumped up in the aisles to cheer. Many laughed and gave vent to hysterical exclamations. Others mounted their seats and waved their hats. The pure and true women of the South can afford to treat this libeler with the contempt with which they would regard the ravings of a foul minded maniac, but her utterances il lustrate the spirit of sectional hate to ward the South which still prevails in some quarters of the North and which apostles of humanity like Mrs,. Grannis are continually endeavoring to fan into a general flame. They stop at no slan der, no lie, no villificasion, no matter how gross and detestable, if it gives them the opportunity to spit out their ma lignant venom against the South. They are the pretty and vulgar political descent an:s of that wholesale libeler, Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, who had more imagi-ation and just as little re gard for truth as her imitators of the present day. The wrong and injury which "Uncle Tom's Cabin" inflicted upon the country incalculable. That wrong and injury still live, and, like John Brown's spirit, seem to be march ing on for still further evil. As is pointed out in the recently issued United States history of Susan Pendle ton Lee, "Mrs. Stowe had never been South nor seen slavery and slave-own ers as they really were, but she was a violent abolitionist, and she wrote for anti-slavery newspapers a story found ed upon isolated cases of cruelty and rime pickreA up from other pnars. In vain the South denied the slanders given broadcast to the world. "Uncle Tom" was republished in England; it was translated into the European lan guages, and its caricatures of Southern life were multiplied a thousand-fold by abolition energy and fanaticism. When Mrs. Stowe was pressed to give her au thority for the account she gave of the Kentucky and Louisiana planters, she published 'A Key,' which showed among the millions of slave-holders and their Negroes how few were the in stances of wickedness such as she gave to the world as the habitual daily life of the broad South." Haters of the South who have learned their morals from Mrs. Stowe and John Brown, who deliberately slander the Southern people and seek to array the Negroes against them, are enemies of the colored race and dangerous to the peace and prosperity of the whole coun try. They are directly responsible for race outrages, murders and collisions in the South, and the blood shed under these circumstances will cry to heaven against them. It is time that the bet ter classes in the North put the stamp of their emphatic disapproval upon these emissaries of evil and wickedness. They cannot afford even to appear to endorse creatures who, like very drabs, fall to cursing a whole section and spew out upon-it the slime of their own de graded natures.---Baltimore Sun. A Heavy Bale. Cotton ani Ba0ks in th3 S.m- ?ac age. One of Adam's black sons, Will Clar dy by name, and a farmer by coccupation, induced by the exceedingly low price of cotton, and hard times generally, con cluded as he was helping to gin a bale of his own cotton at Frank Davenports gin in Greenville county, one morning before daylight, list week, that he would add a few hundred pounds to the weight of his bale by dropping a rock in the press occasionally, and so he proceeded to execute his plan, with the result that when his little bale of cot ton was suspended upon the company's scales at Pelzer, Cotton-buyer Blake was astonished to see that the beam was tipped at the 829 figure, and sus pecting that there was surely something heavier than cotton in the enclosure, Mr. Blpke ordered the bale unhooked and Mr. A. P. Long, chief of police, ordered Will Clardy to keep quiet and watch the investiga:ion which only lasted a few minute.s, when 350 pounds of rocks, five in number, were separat ed from the cotton, the largest one weighing 125 pounds. Mr. Long, after pausing a few minute, came to the eon elusion that any man who could en hance the value of flint rocks from nothing to 4 5-8 cents per pound would do to take along, and he accordingly invested his man with bracelets and escorted him to Anderson jail. Will did not confess his crime but only said -its de strangest thing I ever seed how dem rours got into dat bale of cotton.' -Columbia State. Girls Uoinu=t Aurder. Miss Nora Bitner, a highly respected young lady of Allegheny, Pa., was beat en so badly Thiursday afterno by three girls (none of whom are over 15 years of, age) that she will probably die. Her assailants, Mamie Wright, Sophia Mickle and Victoria Bennett, are in jail. The cause of the assault is rather mysterious. It seems that Miss Bitner, with a young lady companion was walk ing-along East Ohio street, and in pass ing a group of young girls at play she made some jocular remark .concerning the party, whereupon one of the young sters grabbed her by the hair and pulk~ ed her to the ground. While prostrate, Miss Bitner was kicked on'the head and beaten into insensibility. Her com panion was unable to protect her, and a rescue was only effecte4 whie4 twQ men came upon the scene. The physicians attending Miss Bitner says her skall is fractured, and a blood clot has formed on the brain. Tried to Nob the .Engineer. Members of the Seventeenth United States volunteers, colored, attempted to mob Virgil Waters, an engineer on the Southern Railway Thursday. At Silver Creek, Ga., Waters' train acci dentally killed a member of the regi ment who was- standing on the track, the troops being en route to Macon, Ga. When the man was struck Wat ers stopped his train and hastened out of the cab to render assistance. Several menibers of the regiment cursed the engineer for alleged carelessness and one made a threatening gesture, and with angry soldiers in pursuit the en gineer ran to his cab and hurriedly pulled out. A gun was fired as the train moved away, but no one was in jured. Danger in S944. C'ommon soda is all right in its place and indispensable in the kitchen for cooking and washing purposes, but. it was never intended for a medicine, and people who use it as such will some day regret it. We refer to the common use of soda to relieve heartburn or sour stomach, a habit which thousands sof people practice almost daily, and one which is fraught with danger; moreov er, the soda only gives temporary relief and in the end the stomach trouble gets worse and worse. The soda acts as a meehanical irritant to the walls of the stomach and bowels and cases are on record where it accumulated in the in testines, causing death by inflamation or peritonitis. Don't Want Them. El Parvenir, a Santiago de Cuba pa per, prints a two column article with reference to the intention of a colored preacher of Topeka, Kas., to bring 40 families of Negroes and establish a town in the highlands above Santiago which shall be known as Topeka. The paper demands that the people boycott the Yankee Negroes, asserting that they are frequently guilty of horrible crimes and that the southern States, anxious to be rid of their colored population, will endeavor to send them to Cuba. A Horse Midget. The premium midget of the New York horse show is a perfect horse, 29 inches tall, 7 1-4 hands high, weighing 127 pounds. He is four years old and eats a pint of oats three times a day, and when thirsty drinks a glass of wa URGED FORCE. Demonstrative Meeting in Wash ington Wednesday Night. MUCH BAD ADVICE GIVEN. Only One Voice Was Raised for Peace. McKinley, Brooker T. Washington and Other Leaders Denounced. Upward of 5,000 Negroes assembled Wednesday night at the Fifth Baptist church, on Vermont avenue, near R street, Washington, D. C., to protest against the wrongs it is charged have been inflicted upon their race, particu larly with reference to the recent race riots in the Carolinas. Incidentally they took occasion to denounce the Democratic party, President McKinley and Brooker T. Washington and other colored men and the Washington Post as enemies of the Negro. It was prob ably the greatest outpouring of Negroes ever seen in Washington. Generally speaking, the addresses were of the most fiery and passionate order, while two diametrically opposed sets of resolutions were adopted, the one favoring force, and termed the po litical resolution. the other counseling prayer and preaching. Incendiary as were some of the utterances, the meet ing was nevertheless harmless, and af forded the speakers an opportunity to give vent to their feelings. A committee was then appointed to draft resolutions for the meeting. It consisted of Rev. W. H. Brooks, Rev. W. J. Howard, E. M. Hewlett, W. Calvin Chase, Rev. R. T. Hart and Col. Perry H. Carson. While the committee was out Attor-. ney John Moss secured recognition from the chair, but he did not long re tain it, and had not the Hilisdale bar rister left uce church at the time-that he did-, a riot ugiA have ensned. Moss wanted to know the purpose of the meeting. In reply, twe presiding preacher started in to tell the story of a man going to Heaven, but he had conducted his hero no further than the pearly gates before the audience burst into thundering applause and laughter, mingled with cries denouncing Moss, commanding him to sit down and to get out. Moss protested, and vainly en deavored to state his position, but the crowd declined to listen to him. *At the conclusion of his speech the committee on resolutions reported. Rev. W. H. Brooks read those. which were announced as the moral resolu. tions. They 'reviewed the situation throughou) the South with respect to the condition of the Negro, declared that lynchings had become common, anarmed men were slaughtered, habes torn from mother's breaats and private property destroyed. The resolutions then urged the Negroes to act, and to protest before the American people against arson, murder and anarchy, and also appeal for sufferage.. The Negroes were urged to support the best states manship of the South, and a call was sent forth to the ministeri throughout the land and to preach and to teach right and justice to all men, and Chris tians everywhere were calledl on to sup port the Negro in demanding his rights guaranteed him by the law. The political resolutions next read declared that the fourteenth and fif teenth amendments are practically dead letters, and that s a former presi dent sent troops into Illinois to protect property, so should the present es~ecu tive have sent a force i,ntol the Carolinas to protect the Negro and his rights. It was then declared in- the resolutions that color was not the cause of the race war and outrages against the Negroes; it was because they were Republicans. Democracy had caused all the trouble to regain its power. The passage of a Federal electien law was strongly urged, and a commtittee of fifteen advised to he appointed to codamunicaste the reso lutions to the president. The resolu tions advised that force be used to se cure the negroes' voting rights. ioth of these sets of resolutions were unani mously adopted. Tremendous cheers greeted Col. Per ry Carson when he came forward to speak, and his every utterance was greeted with cheers and laughter. He said the Negroes wanted a Douglass to lead them, and then dropped into origi nal poetry which brought down the house. "Organization is what is need ed," said Col. Carson; "you niggers dont get nothing till you~ organize. Resolutions and mass meetings don't count for anything; organize." Look at your organization here tonight; I am known all over the country as Col. Per ry Caraon. The* Irishmen stand to gether, the Dutchmen stand together and so must you niggers, if you expect to'get your rights and stop calling on the White House. Father Abraham ain't there no more. Prepare to protect yourselves; the virtue of your women and your property. Get your powder and shot and pistol. The Negroes in North Carolina had five years to do that, and they didn't do it until three days before the election. That's why they failed. Perry Carson is ready; he has got his shot and pistol; he is ready to defend himself. Help yourself; stop rying for the white man to help. you. Get your shot and your powder." Rev. W. H. PBrooks followed in a speech which, considering the occasion and the surroundings, was simply mar velous and wonderful. It, was most eloquent and, in fact, the redeeming feature of the meeting. It was a most stirring but sincere and earnest appeal for deliberation and the working out of the destiny of the Negro by peaceful methods. He appealed to the pulpit and to Christians everywhere for justice and moderation. Several brief npeeches were made, all of them of an inflammatory nature, and it was late when the mass meeting adjourned, after having passed a reso lution denouncing George W. Stewart for his attack upon the colored school teachers. He was declared a defamer of the virtue of Negro women. An Oklahoma girl advertised for a husband and got him. The advertise ment and wedding outfit cost eleven dollars. Within a year he died and left her five thousand dollars life in surance. And yet some peopl.e say ad BISHOP TURNER ON NEGRO RACE. He Declares His People Have no Fu ture in This Country. The seventeenth session of the Ma con African Methodist Episcopal con ference, sitting at Dublin. Ga., since Wednesday, has* adjourned. Bishop H. M. Turner, D. D., of Atlanta, pre sided, assisted by Vicar Bishop James M. Devane, of Queenstown South Af rica. This conference consisted of 250 colored ministers. Before reading out the appointments Bishop Turner made a sensational address. Among other things he said: "I see no manhood future for the negro in this country, and the man who is not able to discover that fact from existing conditions must be void of com mon sense. Our civil, political and social status is degrading, and as deg radation begets-degredation, the Negro must go from bad to worse and infini tum. Neither education nor wealth can ever elevate us to the grade of re spectability. I say this, because we are surrounded by so many influences that militate against our manhood. "The best thing the Negro can do is to ask the United States congress for a hundred million dollars to meet the ex pense of starting a line of steamers between this country and Africa, thus pioneering a domain for our settlement. With this start upon the part of the general -government, which actually owes us forty billions of dollars for 246 years of labor, w3 could build up a business that would enable us to trans port to Africa as many of our race as are fit to go. If the United States has hundreds of millions to throw away in a useless war, and for other foolish things, surely it can appropriate a hun dred million dollars to the most loyal inhabitants it has in its domain. "The white people themselves bad infinitely better appropriate a hundred million dollars, if we are the raping monsters which the public press charges us with being, than to be shedding so much blood, when I know and you all know that much of that blood is inno cent blood; and innocent blood, will speak to God day and night for retribu tion till God overthrows the nation, as he did the Roman Empire. And, as I have the ear of the country it is very likely I shall call such a convention within the next three or six months; for, if the Negro does not say or do something in his own defence, he is not only an inferior race, but he is not fit to be ranked as a human being." A WJMAN'S WoiK. She Makes a Good Living on a Little . Farm There is in this state a woman who on a little farm manages to support her self and her chiidren and to provide the latter with the means of education. lHer only help is a young negro boy. The following extract from a letter written by this woman to a friend in Atlanta a few days ago gives some 'idea of the way in which she manages to get along: "Well, let me tell you what I made on my little farm this year. First, I sld $40 worth of strawberries, made 60 bushels corn, plenty of hay and fodder, 60 gallons syrup, 200 bushels sweet po tatoes, 3 bales of cotton, which the children and J, with the negro boy, picked. I get 4 gallons of milk a day and li pdunds of butter; have 4 hogs to kill and have plenty of oiokens and eggs. 1 have never done as much wort and as hard work as I1 have this year and my healIth has never been better. "The children are getting so they are lots of help to me, and are just as smart in their books as they can be. May plays nicely on the piano, is tak ing lessons from a good teacher and I pay her in butter, eggs, etc. We are gradually getting out of debt." This brave little woman has not only given a noble exva'nple of courage and audepeduece, but she furnishes also aillustration of the advantages of di versified farming. Ber good sense in raising her own p~rovisions might be imttated by a majority of the farmers of this state greatly to their benefit. There are many women in this state who conduct farms, large and small, and it is said that nearly all of them are remarkably thrifty and successful. They believe in raising as far as they can everything they need, and they are exemplars of the fine practical business sense which wom.en so often develop when there is a demand for it.--Atlan ta Journal. A Remarkable Case. William B. Smallridge, who died a few days ago at Glenville, in Giilmer county, carried a bullet in his heart for 3X years, He was a member of Co. E, Ist West Virginia infantry in the civil war, and in September, 1861, while marching through Gilmer county, West .Virginia, was shot by somebody in am bush, the bullet entering Smallridge's chest, at the lower point of the scapula, on the left side, passing thence direct ly through the left lung into the left ventricle of the heart. The force of bullet was so broken that it did not pass the inner wall, but thec regimental sur geon pronounced the wound fatal, and left Smallridge to die. He did not die, however, hut was sent back up the Lit tle Kanawha river in a skiff to his home in Glenville, where he recovered- and has since lived. A few weeks ago, while on his deathbed, he asked Dr. (3. 0. Brown to make an examination of the wound after his death. This Brown did, and found the bullet imbedded in the heart. Surgeons pronounced it the most extraordinary case on record. An Indiana Mob. On Sunday night' November 6, Jos eph Baird, an offensive negro in Sey mour, Ind..- was taken from jail and horsewhipped. It was with difficulty that the mob was restrained then from lynching him. When Baird was re leased he accused about 20 colored men of being in the mob, also Mayor A. W. Mills. and other officials. When May or Mills met Baird Thursday he accus ed the latter of making these charges. Baird was also confronted by Dr. Shield who said Baird had repeated the charge to him. Then Baird and Mills both drew their revolvers and opened fire, keeping it up through the street till Baird ran into his house. Fifteen shots were fired while a crowd was wit nessing the chase, and no one was hurt. Baird was arrested and taken to Brown town to pnevent lynching. 0.UR TROOPS LAND. They March on Cuban Soil to Their Camp. Gen. Greene and his staff left the hotel Inglaterra at 6 o'clock Friday morniug for Marianao in order to sup erintend the landing of the American troops. All four companies of the Sec ond regiment volunteer engineers which arrived on the Florida landed by half past 9 o'clock at the Marianao wharf with colors flying. They formed at the landing place and marched to their camp, two miies away, filing past Gen. Greene and his staff, who, on horse back, reviewed the men as they passed. All the men, with the exception of five who are still suffering from sea sickness and were taken to the camp by train, were in line and are all in good spirits and fit for duty. One hundred and fif ty Cubans of Gen. Menocal's division were employed in clearing the camp site and by 11 o'clock the tents were being pitched for the first American camp at Habana. Apart from the few cases of sea sick ness only two of the 280 men who land ed from the Florida are on the sick list. Patrick Toohing is suffering from dysen tery and Thomas Leonard from a dislo cated knee cap. Both had their pres ent complaints when they left the United States. These men were busy all the afternoon pitching camp and fixing tents. The site selected for the camp is excellent on high ground and well supplied with water. The men have arrived with only heavy under wear, woolen blouses and cloth breeches, which are very trying under the scorch-, ing sun of the seacoast. The medical staff considers it urgeatly recessary that khaki uniforms be sent at once for the comfort of the men. EARTHQUAKE SHOCK. Felt in Portions of North Carolina and Virginia. Richmond. Va., Nov. 25.-Many points in'south and southwest Virginia report having experienced an earth quake shock about 3.30 o'elock this af ternoon. The disturbance was felt from Nottoway county to the Tennes see line. There was the usual preced ing roaring noise. No damage is re ported. AT LYNCHBURG, Lynchburg, Va., Nov. 25.-At 3,05 o'clock this afternoon a shock of earth quake was felt here. It was quite gen erally felt, but there was no damage. AT DANVILLE. Danville, Va., Nov. 25.-At 3 o'clock sharp this afternoon an earthquake shock was felt throughout the city and surrounding country very perceptibly. No damage reported. CHARLOTTE ELT IT. Charlotte, N. C., Nov. 25.-A dis tinct . earthquake shock was felt throughout this section at 3.10 this af ternoon- No serious damage reported. SOUTH WEST VIRGINIA. Roanoke, Va., Nov. 25.-A very perceptible earthquake shock was felt here this afternoon at 3 o'clock, lasting about 3(1 seconds. No serious damage was done. Reports to the Times from various parts of southwest Virginia show the tremor to have been very gen eral throughout that region. ELSEWHERE. Raleigh, N. C., Nov.-A special to the News and Observer from Frank linsville, N. C., says: A very distinct earthquake shock was felt here this afternoon about five minutes after 3. Vibration was from east to west. A special from Winston, N. .., says: A distinct earthquake shock was felt here at 3.1(1 this afternoon. It shook the largest buildings in town. AT NoREPOr ALSO. Norfolk, Va.. Nov. 25.-A few min utes after 3 o'clock this afternoon two light shocks of earthquakes were felt here. There were not generally noticed however. A Lady Suicides. Friday morning about 5 o'clock Mrs. Sam Whetstone, of the Hollow Creek section of Aiken county, the wife one of the community's most respected citi zens, committed suicide by drowning. At an early hour, while it was yet dark, she called her husband to do some er rand for her. He was still in bed, as was all the rest of the household. He remnuined in bed some 10 or 15 minutes afterwards, dozing off to sleep. When he awoke he missed his wife. He arose, calling her, and receiving no answer he gave the alarm and search was immedi rately made. It still being dark, it was with much difficulty that she was traced by her footprints to an old pond some 200 yards from the house. There she seemed to have sprung across an old ditch, and going some distance up, th~e stream, jumped in. The searchers had to wait some time for daylight before the body could be found, the current having borne it some distance down the stream. The place was only about two feet deep and it is somewhat remark able how any one could be drowned in so shallow a place. This is the second attempt in the last few weeks. The other was made with a razor, the lady cutting an ugly gash in her throat. Her reason then, she said, was her very ill health, and she felt that she was only a burden to her family, and want ed to get out of the way. She was about 60 years old and leaves a large family and a number of relatives to mourn her sad end. Negro Mill Labor Fails. In the United States circuit court in Charleston Saturday Judge Simon ton appointed C. 0. White temporary receiver of the Charleston cotton mill upon application of Walters & Compa ny, of Baltimore. The claims of these concerns amount to $.30,000. It is al leged in the complaint that the liabili ties of the mill amount to $125,000. The order issued is made returnable December 19th. The mill was reor ganized about fourteen months ago, Negro labor being substituted in it for white labor. It was generally supposed to be doing a rood busin#a. Getting Their Eyes Open. "Senator Tillman recently said that there had been a great change of senti ment in the North in relation to the rights of inferior races, and it looks very much as if he was right," assents the Portland (Me.) Press, a Republican ORE BLOOD SaW. Serious Trouble With Negro Sol diers at Anniston. SPRINGFIELDS FREELY USED. Fatalities Result. Apparently Worst of All the Troubles Yet Developed. A Reign of Terror for Awhile. A special from Anniston, Ala., to The Advertiser says: Members of the Third Alabama (Negro) regiment with murder in their hearts caused great ex citement here Thursdag night. Shortly after dark, Private Gildhart of Co. B, Seoond Arkansas, while going towards his regimental camp from town, was shot in the head by a Negro soldier, who also stabbed him in the back. Gildheart was taken to the regiment3d hospital. A little later a member of the Fourth Kentucky was shot on Wal nut street by a Negro soldier, who lay - in a gully, shooting at the white men who passed. Firing was heard in Libe ria, the Negro quarter of the city, whick is not far from Walnut street, andb squad of provost guards went to inves tigate. As it turned the cornerof Six teenth and Pine streets a large crowd-of Negro soldiers, without warnng, opened fire upon the guard with Springflelds the gun in use in the regiment. The guard returned the fire, but had but few cartridges, and soon had to retreat Reinforcements and more ammunition' were sent for. but when they arrived the Negroes had disappeared. The number of Negroes in the mob was variously estimated at from 50 to 200. In the engagement, Sergeant Dobson, Third Tennessee, was shotin the arm and Priyate Graham, Third Tennessee, received a painful but- not necessarily dangerous wound in the stomach. Two other members of"the provost guard are missing and cannot be found. When the newsof the troublebecame known the white soldiers who were in the-city gathered around the provost guards' headquarters and begged for guns and amunition, crying like chlI dren because their requests could not be granted. Citizensarmedteiselves and repaired to the scene of the battle. Mayor High at once orderedsall'sloons closed. Several Negro -soldiers,- one with a Springfeld which had just been fired, were arrested in various partsof the city and locked up, though it was with difficulty that the infuriated white soldiers and citizens were prevented from wreakingsummaryvengeanceupin them. Armoriesof thetwolocal military com panies were broken into and every gun and cartridge appropriated by unknown parties. Gen.. Frank, who is in com mand of the troops here, came outand was on the streeta until a late hour. Gen. Colby, commanding the Seoond brigade, ordered out two compamies each of the Third Tennessee and-Sec ond Arkansas and brought them to the city for whatever services might be-re quired. They scoured the city and car-. ried all soldiers not on duty back to the camp. A nmember of the Fourth Wisconsin is said to have been shot but ther6r cannot be verified. One Negro soldier while under arrest was shot in the arm - by a citizen. After the engagement at Sixteenth and Pine very few Negroes, either soldiers or civmlans, were tobha found on the streets, and it was well. Firing has been heard 'at various parts of the city and rumors are afloat of sev eralecrowds of Negroes in ambush, but all investigation was fruitless. A Negro soldier was .dangerously beaten by some white soldiers on Tenth street this afternoon and this incident is supposed to have caused the riotous actions on the part of the Ne groes, who are said to have slipped out of the camp through the guard lines. One Negro soldier has been brougt in dead and another fatally wound . Deserted Himat Altar. Miss Margaret Moore, who was to be married to Timothy Foley in St. Oath erine's church, Moscow, Pa., Wednes day, deserted the bridegroom at the al tar. The church at Moscow was filled with the relatives and friends of the principals. Rev. R. H. Walsh- began the service. Already the bridegroom had made his solemn vow. "Will you, Margaret Moore, take Timothy Foley to be your lawful hus band?" asked the priest. There was a pause. "Is it yet too late?" asked the bride eleet. "Not yet," said Father Walsh. "Then I'will not." said Miss Moore, as she turned from the altar and start ed for the door. Several years ago Foley jilted Mar garet Moore for her sister. His wife dying, he recently sought out Margaret Moore, who promised to marry him, but through revenge deserted him at the altar._________ Fed on Turkey. The Seventh army corps had an un usual Thanksgiving. The ladies of Savannah gave Gen. Lee's 13,000 sol diers a turkey Thanksgiving dinner. Five hundred ladies visited the camps during the afternoon and served the ta bles in each regiment. Turkey, fruit and cakes were served to every man. Outside of Camp Onward the provost companies at a dozen different stations were given dinner so that not a soldier in the entire corps was without turkey. Thousands of crysanthenums was dis tributed among the mnen and half of the corps wore boutonniers. Six'Xen~illed.2 A special from).Quiney, fll., says: The powder mill at Lamotte, Mo., situated eight miles south of hereeon the maine line and a half a mile from Ashiburn, blew up at 7.55 a. in., killing six men and wounding several others. The explosion occurred in the packing house and was so terrific as tobe heard and felt a distance of 25 miles. A Democratic Conference. Eastern and western Democrats will hold a conference in New York in the near future, probably on December 2. Chairman Jones is aathority for the statement that the Chicago platform will not be abandonedi