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THE 1% W "J isle. * VOLUME X. CAMDKN, N. (\, KKIDAY, MAY ll?. no. iy. .(] Gen, Ggrv.ez Will Advise the Cubans to Disband Their Armies. ? EIGHT OFFICERS ARRESTED. 0 flaptist Cou\cntion at Loui&ulle Denounces the WhUkiv Kuriness?Profits of Ihe Standard Oil Cotnpanv. - # .. Havana, l?y Cable. 1 bo manifesto which General Maximo Gomez is pre paring tu issue will not oA^roviow his ?own position as tu the j ajfffeut oi tho Cubau army, but probably wis 1 direct the fonos to disband, Following its publication, Governor General Urooko Mill issue a modified order, eliminating *he necessity tor the participation of ?l\v Cuban commissioner iu the distri bution of the Jot.OOU.OOO. Thogoveinoi general rogarda Gomez a3 having acted sincerely throughout, and believes that Iub withdrawal from the question uf tho distribution to an attitude of "friendly inactivity,'' has boon forced upon him by' the desertion of thoso generals upon whom ho had relied. Members of tho late Cuban Military Assembly, and other discontented por tions belonging to tho new 1 evolution ary oluli, styled tho Veterans*' Associ ation, met at night at ( erro and iu dulgod in a prolonged debate on the quostion of tho Cuban troops surren dering their arms. One group was in fa vol of intrusting the arms to tho brigado chiefs, or Cuban municipali ties. Another group was opposed al together to surrendering the arm3, say ing it might bo nececK'oary to "use thorn ngaiust American pretensions." Tlie Baptist Contention. LorisviLtE. Kv., Special. ? flot Springs has bocn chosen a? tho noxt place of mcetiug of tho Baptist Confcrenco. C. 11. Winetou, of Virgin ia, was elocted president of tho foreign missionary board. Henry McDonald, president of tho misiiou board, and 1. E. Fuulk, of Tennesasee, president of tho school liouso board. A resolution affirming: the hostility o? tho Convon ? ion. to tho hquor traffic, and stating it as the sen.-b of tho delegates that no Baptist church should allow a dealer in liquor in its congregation, v. as intro duced. This resolution upholds tho action of a Louisville l^apti^t church in turning out ot its fold all members en gaged in tho traffic o? liquor. i ho re solution was amended to iuc udo only those dealing iu liquor as a beverago and in this shnpe it was adopted I ifclit -\rrcstcd. Pretoria, Transvaal l\F.r'*n?<K, By Cable.?Tho nrrest at .Johannesburg, j early Tuesday morning, of eovou al leged former British officors, named Nicholls, Patterson, Tliomlott, Ellis, tries, Hooper aud Mitchell, on tho charee of high treason, has caused in- ' tenye excitement here. Tho prisoners were brought to Pretoria by special train. After they had boeu lodged in tfjil they were visited by the British diplomatic agent bore. 1 ho arrests were effectcd by a detective who joined the movement which, it is asserted, was foi tho purpose of enrolling men in order to cause an outbreak of rebel lion. 1 ucriminatins: documents wero found upon tho prisoners and it is ex pe< led that further arrests will be ro adc. tun. W heeler Denies a Report. WARiltvnTON, l>. Special. ?Gen. .1 osop h W ticoler, who returned from Washington from the South, said that tho loport that ho came in response to h message from tho Secretary of War, and that he would pr?>l>ably he sent to tho Philippines, was mr.orroct. Ho ro- | ceived no such message from any gov ernment official, anil does not expoot to receivo at this time any orders sending him out of tho country. Hcv. C. W. Delyou Nichols, of Now York, has severed his connection with the Protestant Episcopal Church aud professed tho lioman Catholic faith. Flo announced tho forthcoming publi cation of a new book by hirasclf^nti tled "J'lio Decadents," which, ho'feaid, would "lay baro social iniquity and folly, both among tho ultra-fashionable folks and hardened sinners " Standard Oil Profits. Washington, D. C., Special.?Attor ney General Frank E. Monette, of Ohio, Was before the industrial com mission as ? witness in tho trust inves tigation. His testimony rolated almost exclusively to the Standard Oil Trust, ftgaldat w hich he ha* been proceeding in hie official capacity in Ohio. Speak ing of the earning* of the oil trust,Mr. Monette e?tttoate3' that the grosa reoeipta were $120,000,000 a year on the ' Ohio produot alone, and that all was profit ow four cents a gallon on re fined oil. He had placed the value of the earninga of the company per year ii greater in value than all the farm product# of the State. Of lacked Frew Daly. WAf.HiN<VTo*/?D. (X, Special?Hear Admiral SnmneT baa been detached fron diit; Jl cdoimii^ of the naval etation at Port Royal, 8. C., Jaw 1. and ordered home on waiting orders. CJ. If. Rockwell fceebeea do /from doty at tbe mrt Royal seooed Meeatal eenvention of tbe Order of Railway Telegrapher* be gan in Peeria^IlL, Meaday. HIF INTENSION BOMU l?. Mortgages on the Ohio Rtwr and Char leston tiled, A document of considerable in port uuco to the Ohio Kivi r ftuel Charleston railroad was filed in tho otlleo of tho secretary of state Wednesday. It waa a releaso of tlio moitgago hold on that road, (under the former ufUitc,Chnilc.s ton, Ciucinunti and Chicago), hold by the Huston Jjufo l'ejosit ami Truot company. Aiiothi-r mortgage was put on toeord as *-01.11 t?a tin* above wan cancelled. Tho latter instrument is directed tu tho Continental Trust com puny u( New York, trustee** fi?r the boud Jioldera, and is issued fur the purpose t?f been ring the SI,?>00,000 woith of bontla to bo floated by tho road under the tiile "South Carolina and Georgia Tvxteusion Kailuay Co." The road states that it# iudebtcdtiee& io $546,000 in South Caroliua and an identical f>uin in North Carolina, lho papers hu'i! drawn tip on May 1st, but wore not pri p?-iited lo the secretary of state* until Wodi/esdsy. 1 hoy are signed by Samuel ^lunt, president,and ('no. Collier, treasurer of the South Carolina and Ueorgia lCxlensiou. One of the most remarkable features of tho la; t mortgage in the amount of revenue Mump money necossaiy to make the document valid, 'liit-re were attached to the paper 1ft etauips, each of the denomination of ?r'n, aggregating 11 total of SHOO. <??? I he Home wood Colo \v. When Ilomewood Colony ueai Cou way was started about a year ago it wati thought by mauy that tho enter prise would bo u failuro, No one dreamed that in the coursoof oneyear its population would bo increased by several hundred families from the North. Tho colony was successful from the first, and the end is not yet, for the settlers still keep coming on the frequent excursions from tho North and the West. One thing which pleases them on their arrival there is the pure water from tho aitcoan uella. They are surprised when told that these wells woro bored by hand machinery at tLe small outlay of S?iU or ?V each There are 20 or 90 wells in Coaway flowing all tho year ?<"'?mh1. J hoy are from 175 to 250 feet in b-ptii, accord ing to locality. It takes about five hands to manage the machinery with which they are bored, and the time required to finish 0110 depends upon the number and hardness of the roekn which tie; drill may strike before reaching tho wat-.r. One well was pouring out a stream of puie cold Ma tt, two inches in diameter, within Is hours aftor tho hands began wotk. it has been known for some time that the water furnished bv these wells is a remedy for dyspepsia. Several chronic cases of indigestion have been puma ueutly cured. Some claim thai they were relieved in a few days after they began to drink it.. When Ilie Sal 11 > itegm? Public oflicinls are sometimes in doubt as to the dat<"> at which their sal ary begins to accrue. Attorney Gen eral Bollingor, iu reply to IMr L. M ' Gaeque, book keeper iu tho comptrol ler generul'e oflice, bays: "You ask An officer is elected and receives bis commission upon u certain date, and on that day presents bis coin mission to bis predecessor n:idemands the of fice, but it is several days later before the oflice is turned over to said officer witb commission, what duy does(he uev otlicet'H pny commence, upon the day he demands the oflice. or the da.t his predecet-sor turns over to himr "Replying to the Mime, 1 beg* to give as my opinion that as soon as one duit\ ebcted to oflico aud properly eommis sioned presentn commission to ins pitdcccBfor and makes demand upon him for possession of the ullice, that the salary and other emoluments of said oflico belong to the uewly com missioned oflicer." The suspected pickpockets who wore arrested Tuesday afternoon in Colum bia, were trud Wednesday ^ud sent tc jail to await the next term of court. A lot of damaging evidence was brought out agaiust them. ? #?? Clcs nx fu'icises of Columbia Seminary. The commencement exercises of Co lumbia Theological Seminary were held Thursday at noon at tbe seminary chape'. The graduating class consist ed e>f the Iiev. Messrs. Davidson M. Douglas, ui Wiuhl>oro; J. T. Dendy, of Walhnlla; Francin W. Orogg, of Florence; K. P. Walker, of Surainer villi-, and JoniPH and Alexander Wait, of I'enusylvania. The address to the graduating class was delivered by Ihe lie v. W. O. Neville, of Yorkville. The diplomas were presented by Dr. Cecil, president of tho board of trustees. ?Wednesday nmrning at tho college chfipel a very ablo and scholarly ' In au&iral Address" was deliverod by the Rev\II. C. Heed, D. P., of Nashville, Tenn\ formerly of Charlotte, N. C. His subject was: "How May We Make Our Brief fitudy of Charcb History Most Profitable?" His address con tained much food for thought, and will le very beneficial to the yonng minis er?. Mr. Walker la about sixty-five years old and if a well known character es? peeialiy in tbe eaetern part of the county. Sn Ex-PoitMulcr Arrested. Mr. John C. Walker, ex-postmaster at aftnety tlx, haa been lodged in jail 'at Greenwood bj United Btatee Com miosiooer Frieraon in default'of $7U0 bond for bie appearance at the Oo|O f ber term of district court at Greenville. Ihe ehargeagaiMt bin la "MiDg and dhpoiittf of w tense staapa in tbe pejnnt of debts and and the perebeee of netekeadiir, be being at tbe Use poatiaatar and entreated with Ike cere aud custody of ?te?pe?' 1 rr .() 0 -? Filipinos Fighting and Negotiating I For Peace. WISH TO DISCUSS SltUAllON. * ? Aguinaldo "Miaid the Warfare Neccssm to Conquer the bnlted States Will Drain the Countn's Resources," All lorcijtjn ers Must lea\s. Manila, By Cablo. ?Tho Filipinos havo rosumod tho attempt to induco tho Americana to discusfc tho aituution. 1<?3 os, u young liouteuaut of tho stufl of (ion. Grogorio del Pilur, cumo to (ieu. I.aw ton Saturday, undor a ting oftiuco. Ho was accompanied l?y a barefooted bugler. Tho two were os corted to Manila by ('apt. Sowoll. <'f tlou. Lawton'a atatt. lioyes told Maj. ( Jon. Otis that Aguinaldo dosired passes for a military commission to como to Manila to confer with Aiuorioau Phili piuo conuni&hioncua. (ion. (Misioplied that passes wouid not bo necessary, a> unarmed comm iflsiouers could enter tho Aiuorioau linos. tlo would leave tho matter, ho said, in (ionetiil Law tun's hands. Lieutenant h'oycs rolumod Friday evouiug to Hncolor. Aguinaldo lias issued orders that all foreigners must leave tlio iuBurgout tor tory within 18 hours. There are only a few oommecial inou thero, mostly J.nglish *nd German. Aguinaldo bo lievoH that by icfusing them tho rights of non combattants ho can forca their governments to recogni/o the belliger 01103' of his so oalled govornmont,in o.v? dor that th?3'ma3'treat for tho safely of tboir subjects. A Filipino priest ?who talked with tho Tagal general, Treas, has biouglit t> Father McKin non, chaplain of tho First California Begiment, a copy of a lotter written by Aguinaldo to Qeneral Treat",askfng his opiuion as to the advisability' of surren dering, saying: "I foar that tho lorn: warfaro that will bo necessary to con quer tho United States will <1?aiti tho country's resources too much. " Tho American's j ollev of huiuauo warfaro has its diradvantage!'. Among tho thousands of pretended fricudlv natives who havo boon rntuining to their homes behind tho American aiinios, thero aro somo wl\.o h i*.o tokeu advantage of tho genoiNjsity of the couqftmers to mnko tho yone ins;>f<< rtnleSs Auioricans go well armed and in parties. Soldiers goiu^r about alone nro frequently fired upon from houses, or from behind bushes. lim ine tho pnpt week, it has boon found nccospai \- to send auards with wagons and ambulances and several attempts hnvo boen mado to wreck trains by plaoinc obstructions upon tho ra:bond tracks. Driving Out the Jews. Lokdon, By Cable.?Tho BuFS-an govornment has decided upou excep tional measures against tho dews, doubtlosB owiner to the inlonso feeling against them prevailing in many parts of Russia at tho present timo. J ho first anti .Jewish measure was promul gated Saturday. under which tho stav of all, oven foreign .Ti|wf, is i roh'bit.-d In St. Petersburg. No exccmption will bo made, even in the cane of French. Jews. Touiticl by I'ackpock tf'. fiastonia, X. C'.,Special. 'J'ho dole nation of veterans from (iaston countx to tho rouuion returned from Char leston Saturday. Of tho numbOr, Messrs. ?T. C. Anthony. J^dwaid Whitosides, Hufus Jtatcliford and Taylor Olonn wero touchod by pirk pockets, losing thoir money and tickets. St. Louis haa been selected ns tho permanent headquarters of tho Catho lic Knights of America. Nerro Woman Murdered. i Chaklotte, Is. C., Special. ?Lai 13 Sunday morning, Carrie Harvov, 11 col ored woman living here, was shot and instantly killed by Press Giimore, a negro about 19 3*ears of ago. Jealousy was tho cause of the shooting. Tho murderer mado bis escapo and is still at largo, though tho police nro making diligent search in ail directions. They Violated No l aw. \Vj?*flTNiiro>r. I). , .Special. ? M?j. Strong, general ngont for tho Deport ment of Ju&tice, h-tB returned from JtHleigh, N. where ho investigated complaints of ill treatineut in the Fed eral jsil. Wjiilo Attornoy General Griggs (iodines todiscu&s tbo naturo .of tn^-report on the cane, it is under BtdtKl that five prisoners were found to bate been whipped, but that tbe prison officials cannot be prosecuted, as they have not violated any law. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Frank A. Vanderlip has consented to net as obairman of a national oommittee to provida a raeidenoa in Washington for Admiral Dewey. Aaron M. Powell, of Now York, tbe ?otad anti-slavery agitator, temperance worker and writer, died anddenly Fri day in Philadelphia, from heart die aaaa, while in attendaeoe npon the openiog eaeeion of Frioade Yearly' Meeting. . An official diepeieh received at Mad rid from Maoila fays tha iasvrgente attacked tbe Bpaniarda at 3*mboange, on tha ieland of Mindanao, bat were repnlsod. Two Spaaieh offioere and three man wero wonndod and ?na man vh killed. lilt HOMI I OK \1>MIR \ l Dl \N IV. The Great Xdin r;il tube Imcn a Compli mcntart resting ha?.e. WABi'.C SOToN, 1*. C. , SpOoittl.? Mr. I'luiili-r'lip, Assistant Heo retaiy of tbo 1 roasurv; Churloa H. \llen, ' Astjis tuut Secretary of the Navy; J'orry S. lloatli, Assistant 1 *??>? 1 muster lienor al; bi igadiai iJonoiul Corbin and l:'.llis 11. boberta, treas urer of the I uited States, who havo boon appointed a national com mittee to tuko chnr^o <?f the funds with which to puicLaso u ln-iiu) fui Admiral Powoy in Washington, had a iiioetiiit: in Mi, \ uudorlip's ollii'-o. Tho committee w ill bo glad to t-ei vo aiiy newspaper, organi/ni ion or utdi v id ti a I. wishing to uial.o n contribution foi tlio purpose :n view, Tho nutiouiil character ot commntco raat:os it tlio proper olio to have cliaigo of tlio unit tor, and it is o\pcctcd that mauy uews. papers who propose taking up thowoik Will oo-oporuto with thin comuntteo. Troasurer Uoborts is now preparod to rocoivo contributions in any amount. A handsomely designed leceipt will ho gotlon out immediately by tlio engrav eis at tho Hoaroau of Engraviug and Printing, and all contributions will io ceivo a receipt. \ formal address to tho public, probably, >v111 bo issued soon. Tlio tiiBt subscription to the fund, was roceived from (ion eral I'elix Align?, of tlie Baltimore American, and he ?il! recipvo receipt No. I. \dmiral |)ewe>'f. Plan. M amt , By f'ablo. -? Admiral Powoy will leavo f"i tlio I'nitod Stated n? soi>n as he can uirnngo his business and give full instructions for tho management ot tho floe* u> 11i-? successor, probably within ten days. I'iio I nitod Statos ciuisor Oiy input, upon which Admiral Powoy will miiUo tho voyage home, will sail a leisuicl.v trip, stopping al Mediterranean pin ts for some time, to give the admiral, tho ofticors of tho ship aud '.ho crew an opportunity for rest. Like all the Olympian company. Ad miral I'ewcy is iuiiL-h run 'town by his long stay in a tropical |rt without change and under the rigid conditions ncidonlp to a wai footing. Tho voyago may occupy four months, 'l he Olyrn l ia will proceed from Manila to Hong Konir, w bero a fortnight will be spent in transforming tho mud color which she is paintod to white, having up to this tinio bceu unablo to comply' with tho I 'epartuient a order to paint the shin white. Whilo thore tho cruiaor will bo coaled arid provisioned for lior further journey. Admiral Powoy ox pects 1o lotain his position on the i 1 nited States 1'hilippino commission. Soul lie ii Baptist Contention. li<>i txVii.r t\ Kv., Special.?Tntoreet in tho Southern baptist Convention centered about the meeting of the board of tiustecs. Tho business beforo the hoard was to lill vacancies aud io re ceivo tho answer of Dr. J. T. (.freeze, who w as elected president of tho South ern baptist Seminarj', to succeed Dr. Whitsott. There were many rumors afloat to the c fl oe I that Pr. Greeuo would oitlior doclino the presidency, or would withhold his auuwor nutil ho could lay the matter before his ccdloa guos in Missouri. Tho commitieo ap pointed to nominate candidates for tho vacancies on the board of trustocs mado throe nominations for each vacancy in each Stato. Th'- Peanut Trust. Norn rii,n, Va., S]>ocial.?For fully a year there has been talk of tho forma tion of a trust to control the peanut trade in Virginia, and for some time options liavo been held upon nearly, if not all, tho clearing houses in tb^ Stato. Those options have boon ex tended once or twice, aud tho last re newal expirod Monday. Mr. Charles K. W. Smith, of New York, who baa been pioiuoting tho deal, ia in the city, and has nccurnd no extension of the op tions until June 1.' No I xtra Session of Congrc&* Probable. Washington, P. C., Special.?A member who is in a position to know tho views of tho ['resident on the sub joct, eaid that tho probabilities were against au extra session of Cougrosa hoing called. Ho thought that tho Piesident had givoo the subject sorao thought, but he was reasonably* anre that no call would be issued, except in Borno unlooked-for contingency which would make it necesaary. The Dauntless Freed at Last. Jacksonville, Fla., Special.?The cases of the United States against the steamer Dauntless, for alleged filibus tering, which were begun against tho vessel nearly three years age, were dis missed in tho United States Court Monday, on motion of the govern ment. ' *. The London Daily says that the ad mil ally ha** offered ?79,000 tor an elec tric gun invented by the son of a Port land grocor. The gun thrown an ex plosive ahot a distance of 6j miles with a velocity of two seconds. Itais noise less and amokeless. The Cohans Actisf Uffy. Santiago, By Ciblt.?Considerable dissatisfaction ia expreeeeA here over the demand by the United Statee gov ernment that the Cabas soldiers relia qnish their arms before receiving their eharee in the dietribntioa of tho 98,000, 000. La fadepeadeaeia aad other papers pablUb article* proteeUaf faatnst the fcaeapUaoe of eay eaah prseaeal. Oa all a!4oe among the Cmbaqe of 8mm tlago. viotaat exprsestsas are hoard regarJlaf what ia taraaad "tha nig (ardly oot^pet of tha Anerloaas. iS 111. V HI! + Doc'.iif s 1 hat North Has no R i*lit to Dictate to South. ? SAYS IVNCHINGS WILL GO ON. Il?e Harlow Philosopher lUilaris Ihn wo MiiNl.Si lllo (he (,)iU vlioit ?Svorcs Sonic, of I lie New?, I I am nut happy Suino mouths ago i wrote to ul!l' yankcc fl ltlui.'i that it tliO.V Wt>r? gcliticliu'll t Ili'V W Oilld UPolo gi/.e fur uli tlu'y dom? I.? ufnliii .li).! Unit it; vili.-h let tor <? 11 tin* lino and that sshn Iijiuu native born fodciid soldier who Km,I )u> w ad friendly mi l I tint if I would writo out an apology anil send it I > li>in lii? would sign it 11*' seemed t*> be propel ly i o|?i*iiIfint. Ami now cornea t<.? tills editor of 111?> Now York HomIiI down here to iuveHtigato our I vnt hiug busiticsM ami to philosoplu/.o upon it, ami ho pays tho north uiado a mistake in giving tlio negro tho tight of NUtt'riige, but ho doetelit apologize, lie was "iio of tho prime leaders in tho wholo business ami spcaka of it as u mibtiikc It wi;s no inibtakc. It was malicious iguorauce, ami why docsout I to say soV It him tiikoli him anil hiw folks thnty \ nii.1 to find nut they know but httlo about us ttml nothing ill o-.it tho nogro. Soiifitor I ogulis bin got morn sense ami nioro candor. Ho f inio down to Texa* ton yearn ago to lnvesti^ato ami wont houio ami wrote a It 111 i in w hi oh ho said tho nogio was not lit for tho I'tillot ami that tho nol ih Iniil imnlo an ogregMOUH blumlor m giving it to him. I (?.* ?luln't apoloy iZo, but ho oiiiuo pretty Ui hi it Now. ii mittak,; (lookout involve any moral turpitude, hut a iuuluioua binuilor does, Tho time haw puKsed for any nio/u truckling I ho &tug?. ?-'t desperation in upon tho ?South ami po litical humility to tho Nojth hub pi^t-s oil \Yo have nevor felt Unit humility, but our politicians have preiiehod it oud trioil to get Bonn thing from tho public, crib by protcmbiig wn were humble whi-n wo were not I ho truth in that tho North i<* ie t-poubiblo for every onUti^o ami ev? ry 1 \ nching at tho South. Hen ie tho Atlanta Ago, a uegro paper that ih published by \Y. A. I'ledg* r, that-cop ies every veuomouB urtiolo from the Now York paper* about tho Hun Hone husitiess, and l'leilgi r wjitei" to The New York Hun Unit he i? shocked at Oovcrnor Caudler'ti utterances and tu* s.its tho good negroes at IheHiuth art opposed to those outrajpn on o'n -V" men. J ho paper i? pregnant with comment oti the lynching. 1 took on that i? all right, foi the liberty of the prtfs must not be* ict'icted. lint nevertheless these uUcrauct'.* from I'lede.cr'H paper go through the edu eatod negro eh incut oud pott ok ii* convictions and then by come* i-onio more outing* k and noiun n:oro lynch ings. New York nigg< rs ??oiun out in their papora and advibG tho shotgn.? and the torch in retaliation, and thobu things are copied in tho nigger papers lit the South. I5;it here ih the comfort: '."nolo Sinn if Mill helping me in my garden and doonent know and doesent care any thing about all this busincts Hi- mi;, m hewiin born a slave nud tor Unity years haH been a freeman ami ha** >?! wiiyn found that if a colored limn done his duty the white mini done In p. Uuclo Ham has a largo family aid through theao Republican influences they have boon corrupted ami demor alized and ho haH a lot of grandchil dren who don't know their own father and the. old man ih grieved. I wan ruminating about all this and ^tow these negrocH hav<> all been fooled fbout (Irant and Lincoln being their ricud* and were lighting to free them, when there in not a word ?f truth in it. Neither of them eared a continen tal dime for tho negro and both of them were more concerned about their own successes than anything elbo. Hut 1 have hud great regard for Lincoln, lie was a much better mon than his parly and hiw death whh it e?lamity to tho South I have recently received a little volume entitled "The (ieiiesit* of Abraham Lincoln " It ih cartdull.v ai'd affectionately written by Janics H. Cathoy, of Westoru Xorth Caro lina, and ita unprejudiced poruna! will convince any man that Ahaham Liu coln waa tho son of Abraham Enloe, and that Nancy Hankn wuh a good or phan girl who served in Enloe'n fam ily. Tho iiflldavitH and other ovidences establish this beyoncl dieputo Old Father Abraham Enloe was a second Abraham and poor Nancy Finks a second Hager and for tho same reason she was sent away from the patornal homestead to keep poace in the fam ily. The father of her child bad great regard for her and placed her with bis relatives in Kentucky, where she af terwards married Tbomaa Lincoln. Some of tho witueeaea to theae facts are now ninety yeara old*and have paasol all desiro to deceive anybody. The deaoendanta of tbia Enloe family are numerous *txd tbeir testimony baa beea taken from Nortli GwroKna, Miw sonri and Texas, and ?ll confirm the story. All the very old people in North^rolina, wars familiar with the girl Nancy tianka and ibe EnToe fam ily and old man Enloe's acknowledg ment of tbe obild'a paternity and why be aent tbia modern Hager and be* Ismoel away. Bat tbis is no new tbing. During the it was talked of in tbe army and Lincoln was denounced by tbe en tire Todd famtlj. into which be mar ried. Fifteen years #go, while. I ?o* jowrned ii Western Nor|h Carolina, I fonnd the etory enrreot tLat Abraham Liieoli os Iks so* of AJh abase Es loi and m naood for hiss by his n. iii-lli* i, N h 11-v I! >?nk .%>??, Mr l i>i In v Miitvn it | i etly Ilttlu book about it ami Ills excuse is tlia; tho I 11'1111 onnno ? hurt tho living or tho dead, Unit Abraham Lincoln was j \uiericn'* u.ost remarkable lUfth, nnd there Alton Kt be uo ultompt to cloud ? the life of a tool heio. Oicero say* ?lu\t tho llrbt law ?? f history in that it I f-ho lib I lull her vtitf Ij *ay apything I thut 1H fkIHllol four t" K?V anything) ? hat in truo It i-i, therefore, the ?ole purpose of; this li11!?< >?,"???k to prove that (hi *ou ill I fill i IV "?* . 1 Was Hilt Without !M)i'OAtiirS his iin'ljii wad Nnnoy Hanks. If bo was tho son of a worthy sire tho world in entitled to kllow who thut Hill* WH?, w hotico ho caiue and what his charao teiisties. The ciibto linns ot this history ol Abraham Lincoln are unmberod bv scores ituil hundreds of tho tirsl people - moil itirI v\oaion of nc-jtoxu >iorth i iiolina, for tho Knloes woro it largo and inlliieutiul family ami thoir doscou ihiuts huvo ititormarriotl with many distinguished pooplo. 1 >111 I do not propose to review tho book. It IH All interesting and remarkable revelation, and 18 writ ton by an euthnsiastio ad mirer of Mr Lincoln, and establishes boyond ? |ii? Ktiou his patoruity. Abra hani Lnloo wtm himself an extraordL nary man tho father of thirteen chil dren, and bis photo; TA hu; likeness to I his particular Ron is very striking, both in for lit and foaturo. Both were tho Hiuno height and had the name long, unshapely limbo. Thin littlo book of 175 pugos wits written by .Jamo* H. C'athey, of Hryson City, N. t'., and in kind in motivo and 11assic in style. 1 thought whoti I tiret opened it (but perhaps it bud bettor iiot have been written, but on its po i usal I believe that it is better for the whole truth to bo told than that this remailiublu man's gensiy should con tinue to be unceitaiu ami unknown. I am now trying to tsolvo another problem: tho problem ?'t how buf-t to dtstlt'J the potato bug oi beetle. Last year I tried paris green and was nut satisfied. 1 am now knocking them oil n orning mi l evening and hoeing tli" ground nround the plants, mid think that I h ive whi|>pod the tight. This will do for tho garden, but not for tho field . Professor Staruos will tell us a bt ttt r way, I hope, for ho is a xcioiitilio genius and the roost entliu Mustic experimenter 1 have ever met. ! ast week I visit, d tho exjieriuient f-tiition at Athens of which ho has ohm go, and w as delighted with the progress he bus tun ic on the university fusru H?? ib nbrorbed in bis work and lam Sinn be will mike it a great mio ce(fu. "How in if," unit] I to hiui, "that 5 on can beco t'UttiNiiiblio over ftomething flint you <io not own unit never will?" H e muiU**.I ami rs;ii? i: '?Six yenth" work iu thiN buftiucHH nt Cliiflin uml lu-ie huh created within mo fin iiiisorliiiif; love for it uml I feci like Huh little farm ami garden nnil orohnrd wore nil uiiuo My umbifiou is uot only to imiko it 11 NiiceeHfi |?incticnlly, I?ut to lieiit fit the people by improve! lit' )IhmIk uml 1.v hmhi iliea for tbo fuii iii<* mi l .|;>ii!mh(.th fbut rue iiicitioui to I ft** | -I r? t? KM oil. " He buH if >iv ten pupilft under biin mi.I ex|>eetto bave hulf u hundred in Augunt I hope tbo htnte will encoyf ago bim in bin good work, for fike SmitbHou, bin demie ik to 'linseroifyiito knowledge uuiong men. - I'lll Afjr iu AUmiitn Conwtilnli'in. Ixfiinxf.rr MoiU'> in Sm The I?ihi:< '.v*i i t iI/.' i l'iifj i? not coii:-M?'i ??'I i<i-' tl i?y Aui'-it'.in 11 ii vcliijg riltio.i'f. rj-p' ? inll.v;it 1he\ m< in their proverbial hutrj. On *??*< inp nny of the lending hanks :i mail wi^biiiur io cash ji <-hook must remove his hut. which be juny hunt; up ??u one of tin- lioi.kn provided for ilmt purpose. Usually b?? receives speeily. attention, for iIm- tclb*r ?-nn wait on ut !vnst six person* ;ii mice. Ills check Is tnken uml sent upsf n Irs lo be certified, which takes from live io fifteen minutes, dur ing which time lie doe* well to take n ' seal When tlm < he? k comes back ft it cniereil in a hook. Hie moliey is tak in t'loiu flic tale ami the nnine of the ? iisio?fi"i i> lomlly i itfl'-'l A t ier sign iiti; a i fi elpt h' jf'ts his money. All p;ipel issuer] f?v ;i Zurich luillk llllist henr ?ho -iiMiutoro of at lea-t two re spoil**i111'1 "r?? ??f the institution, fhleauo Ifei ord. The L'nitod Statoa fOTernraent nan boon notified that the Spanish govern ment will Hull at public miction at H?* van a tbo flouting dry dock of steel winch was thoro when the peaoe proto col was fiiguod. The Southern Novelty Company of Hnrteville hnj* l>?oa chartered. It in to aianiilijdfuro paper and wooden war Oqker is president. Cap ital stock, 36,000. The Elactrio apd Water Power Company of tha same town waa chartered. Its capital atock is $2,000. J L. Lawton is ,general manager. Guard Home Packed^itli Iowa 'Soldiers.. Savannah, O* , Special. ?Ula ninth Iowa Regiment waa ianatered I oat Saturday, and after being: paid off tbo man raided aoda water standa, brand and aanaaga wagoaa in camp and took all tba atnff and turaed over the wag on w. The police ware ciiied out in large numhera and many arraata war* made. Tha man wara hauled , into rnlina hlTMckl in mtrol WAffou -*?*-?* J trolley ears. Tha police etatiea waa peeked with them, and tha recorder will hold a special nsnrt to try tha ? The *xp*rl-?K*? of *ho en ghir?'i- in- handling thw machinery of tbo crofaer '-httosc Huegfata that while for*??gii nation;' may fce wfae I? mtyfr.K Am?rtraa vtdps they may dom aoccMd to making aa pax fact, t>lem of aaval aiiMtettaw af UMA lo commlaatoa as latrkaw ?mM i Admiral Knut/s OfJit.ial K*pb.) Made Public. ? . fiOMfZ (ilVES IIP MIS JOB# * ? H'H f>a\ (or iht TrusU?Iron. I iquor, Pea* null H'ui Vailn lakut in llantl In Ttieso \n> - (Mhcr Mattcri of Interest. WAsniMaroM, T\ (V, S| eeial.- See-* relfli v Iit?uc has made public mo much of a report of \dtuirol Kout/ upon 8a monn nt>a?rs<n? touches tho killing of t\ number of Amenoftu sai 1?? ra by tho Ma tnafii adherenta, oen? Apia, on tho int of April, i he report m ??) elaboration of tho description of I ho qlVait which wan cabled at tho tnoe bv tho Associat ed Press from Auokland. No meutiou 13 made at any' poiiit of tho reported participation in the affray of thu (ior uian, 11 ufua^ol, tho manager of tho plantation whore thu lij?Ut occurred, ft is shown that tbo faiinro of tho Colt K'uu to work properly was in a 1 aik? meimure the online of tho Aunnioan and Jijrittsh defeni. AduiiruL- Kwutz nay a l)j>; expedition wan projected l?> < aptuin Ktu/uee, of tho I'orpoiae. I'vr several nights proceeding, tho teiitiien had boon tired upon by tho uativo3 and it bccaiuo uooesspry to drive Iho aggres sors away. Admiral Kautz says that it was llio opinion of all of tho oflicors who had tho matter in charge that the force was ample to do tho work without ri.sk, otpooialiy as it wuh to niovo out alo&g the*bflaoh and return the. same way, under tho protection of tho gnn? of 11. M. & 1 Loyalist. U is *>afe to euy, sayn tho admiral, that (lieutenants Freeman aud 1/anedale had confotred fojjother. 'J hoy did what they doomed beat under the circumstances and the diautor that followed could uut b? foreseen. Vice President .Sherwood. Tho Hultiiuoro Steam Pucltvt Co. nn nouneoe tbo oloctiuti of Mr. .fohu B. Hherwoodjto the ofllce ol vioo-prosidont of I be company. Mr. Sherwood is also general manuf'ei of 4bt? company, and bnu beau connected with it ?;in?e iy?>P. The compauy ia oun of tbo oldest oper ating ateamera on tbo inbiud water* of this country, and has been uiiw of (be landmarks of tbe Chesapeake Hay, if it u?i?y be termed such. Mr. Sherwood'a I energy and ability hsvo placed him iu j bin presont position, ns bo be^au sor ' vice in a subordinate* capacity. ilia ! ideae in maiinc architecture have been ' shown in the construction of tbo lino steamers which compriso tho iloot of tbe Old Hay Line, for many of thorn, including the well-known Alabama, - were designed almost exclusively after hi* plan*. lie was also instrumental in designing the extenaivo dock i which the Old Hay Line will upa on Light street, Baltimore, in a fow montha in addition to its present wharves at Union Look. (ioinei Gives l'p Hit Job. Havana, Hy Cable, ?Gen. Maximo Gomez has informed Gov. General Brooke that he oould no louder act 03 representative of tho Cuban army in Vhe distribution of tho$H,000,000 appro* filiated for the payment of tbe Cu:~rr? troop*. Gen. (joiner. added thai be had arrived at this decision with groat reluctance, and with the nloat frieudlj feeling toward (len. Hrooke personally tod officially, but be felt he could no longer represent the Cuban army be cause a cabal, oompusod of many aub ordinate oommandare, existed to oppose,^ and if poaaible defeat the plans for tho partitioning of the money.' President MoKinloy baa practically proznmod to make n visit to St. Paul and Minneapolis, this AUjjmer, in connection with a Western trip. The New Iron Trust. Cleveland, O., Special.?Tbe sale of the Lako Erie Iron Work* has given notice of tbe fact that another immense combination of the iron ami steel inter- ? o*tA baa beeu consummated. Tho lie public Steel Company baa benn incor* porated under the laws of New .Tor soy, with a capital of $-05,000,000, connisting of $25,000,050 preferred and $J0,0U'.>,t)00 common ate ok. a Whiskey Tcoit Affairs. Wabhuioto.v, D. C., Special.?Gen* ?ral John MeNulta, receiver of the Dietilltng and Cattle Feeding Com pany, waa a witness before tbe indae trial commiaaion. His exatnlpetioa Waa a continuation of the invelitigMioa of tbe ao-eollea wbk^j t?a*t, began by the eommteeion l*a? Saturday. Gen eral McNalta began bis testimony bJ giving some of the ditaila regarding the reeeivwrwhip ef the wtiekey trust. It wo* found that one distillery at Ne braaka City, X?k, had bee? eold fe? $10,000 at private eale, end later woe bought toy the DhtHlfof and Gaitle feeding Conpsap *U!