The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 05, 1901, Image 1
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HOTTEST ON RECORD
Monday, July I, a Pay of Torrid I
Ileal,
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MANY DEATHS AND PROSTRATIONS
Intense buffering Among the Poorer
Clusses in the Great Cities ? \V?i in
est Day in Years,
now York, Special. ? Monday was
the hottest July 1 on record. At 3: 1<>
1>. m., the thermometer at the weather
ofllee reached 9s degrees, oni> degree
hotter than Sunday. .The records
show t ah t In the 30 yeari^ prc:edin
on only two days in all that period
has a higher temporature been reach
ed. These were July 9, lS7ti. and July
3, 180S. On .
w renewed 99 degrees. The percen
tage of humidity was only M. At'tcn:
3:10 p. m., a decline began until 9 p.
in., the thermometer registered 92.
Vu Hie early morning hours there
was what might be^tenned a light
breeze blowing, but u firing the early
part of the afternoon the breeze died
away and the city was baking in tor
rid heat. The suffering in the city,
particularly In the crowded tenement
house districts, was ruost intense. As
the day grew the deaths and prosfra
? tions Increased and although provision
whs' made In all the hospitals for this
emergency (he authorities were scarce
ly able to cope with the great tax
made on their "resources. Thtypr were
so many ambulance calls the po
lice were called on to sifpply patrol
wagons and every ambulance did
double duty in responding to calls.
Many patients wore carried to the
hospitals In cabs and carriages and
several went fco Bellevue and the Har
lem Hospital in moving vans. The
prevalence of the grip am'ong..tho
horses of the city tended to militate
effective work. In many cases horsc-s
had to be obtained from contractors to
draw patrol wagons and ambulances.
Between the hours of 2 a. m.. and
midnight there were reported 57
deaths and lil prostrations In tin;
boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx.
Prom jnldnight CU , 9 o'clock 21
deaths~ttnd 36 prostrations had been
reported in Brooklyn.
? Although the Weather Bureau shows
that the maximum was 9S that does
not Indicate the heat on the streets
Many thermometers registered 103 at
3:10 and all of .them over 100 on the
street level...
If the heat was killing on mankind,
It was worse on the horses. They
dropped right and left. At one time
Hi?*.- ??iu eignt dead horses lying on
Broadway between Thirty-third street
and Forty-second street. There were
14 horses prostrated in the vicinity
of Madison Square alone. The rush
of the crowds to the parks and to the
nearby seashore resorts tonight was
unprecedented in the history of the
city. It was?noted at the Brooklyn
bridge that numbers of men who
boarded the cars for Coney Island and
other beaches carried blankets in
which they intended to roll themselves
and sleep on the island.
New York, Special. ? At 2 o'clock
Tuesday morning the death record for
the 24 hours ending at that time in
Greater New York was 87. the prostra
tion 183. For the last live days, cov
ering the present heated term, the
? ? total deaths in the same territory were
Tile Vjlhole Country Sweltering.
Washington, Special.? The hot
.^weathdr continue)! here with unabated
fleVctjifess. t lie climax coming In the
afternoon wh<n Vv\ local record fo this
early Iri the summer was broken, the
Weather iJurelni thermometer rfgist^v
ing a tempeSMnire of 102 degrees. For
tunately there was not nn:ch humidity
In the atmosphere. There wore f?0 cases
of heat prostrations reported an 1 two
resulted fatally. At S o'clock At night
the thermometer had fallen to SO de
grees, with every probability that it
would not fall greatly below that dur
ing the night. There se.eins to bo no
t prospects for any relief for the ir?t 4>?
hours for this vicinity. Boycn I that
length of time the Weather Bureau of
ficials make no predictions.
102 at Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, . Special. ? Philadelphia
and vicinity experienced tho highesi
temperature recorded UijUi is city, the
government thermometer hn Ylie Top'ot
the postoffice f building, / 70 feet from
- the strect. registering lt)2 degrees even
? At Cramp's shipyard tho prosi rations
were up numerous that %t he 5.000 men
employed there we^e l^'lieved from fur
ther d?ty at noon. &
Taft for ClvII.<Jovernor.
Washington, D. * C.. Special.? Tho
'president has signed tho commission
of Wm. II. T*?!, of Ohio, as civil gov
ernor of the Philippine Islands. Judg?
Taft was notified some time ago when
Instructions were sent him relative fc
the inauguration of civil government
In t^he Islands July 4, that he would be
? Appointed civil governor. While the
? appointment of the civil governor Is
. .. . credited to the War Department, tWs
does not mean necessarily that 'the
President Is proceeding entirely under
His wit power In eeftins up civil gov*
? "> *"? pnnippi^ " hs ts
aot differentiating the source of his
Mt^ffTtf. He II acting, so It l?_nattior>
ftsttvely atated, pnder all the power*
fee has Ja the premises.
" Warns at Chicago.
Chicago, Special. -'Vive persons drop,
ped dead os the Mreett from excessive
frsat sad ifteen others were so badly
mrttxme that" they had to hs moved
tohespitaft. A mnaber of ths^prostrat
* wmtHIam and may;
W ffc- " tfcsi
AMftOvlajs
LAI EST FROM Tilt FLOOD.
Dflpiage in Detail ? Not 3o Bad ns at
l-'lrst Reported.
Hoa.noke, \'a., Special. ? Tho flood <>t
Tuosday night at Pocahontas did 11 >t
cau?v any loss of lift' si) far as Is
known. Water was three feet deep in
soino sec tions ,o? the town. Tho great
damage was to railroad tracks. The
following official sta( uncut regarding
tho second storm in tlu*1 coal Holds was
given out by the Norfolk: At W^s'crn
general ofh'ces hero.
"We had a very heavy storm Friday
which cut out some of the track re
pair work badly, and wlil Take all ?>.'
Friday to repair the damage. We hav ?
material enough at the front to re pa i.
the bridges between Vivian an l,'*">avy.
The storm delayed this work als>.
The s^tprni in Tazewell county. Va..
seems to have been worse than at first
though. Kneli day brings meagre <]?
tails of the calamity which has be
fallen that community. *>ry Fork,
which has been entirety eul off v.
wm-mtit? communication since Saturday,
has up to this time added three mora
victims to the death list. Their names
are Booth, Heavers and Hiankeship.
It seems that these unfortunate men
were at the home of young Boolh,
son of ono of t lie drowned men, an I
were trying to save the household ef
fcets when so suddenly the house wa.f
torn from its foundation and carried
dowtf* tho maddened stream that all
hope of escape was cut off before *.he>{
realized their perilous position. It id
not known whether The bodies have yet
been recovered. Numerous houses wero
washed away, among them being tho
old Harnett mill, which had stood the
Hoods for three-quarters of a century.
Several r.teani saw mills are situate. 1 on
this stream, all of which wero carrie 1
away and millions of feet of lumber.
James Heaver's mill alone lost 200,000
feet of fine poplar lumber.
Tho body of Mrs. Hooper, tho sec
tion foreman's wife, who with her I wo
children, was drowned at Pounding
Mill, was recovered two miles from her
home lodged In a tree. The body of a
Mr. Tate was also recovered. The Tu
gate Lumber Mill and lumber yards
situated at Disnmfc.wcre swept away.
Numerous estimates have been made
as to the amount of damage in the
Tazwell county farm lands, mill prop
erty, woolen mills, residences, loss of
crops and stock, but nothing definite
can bo determined as the list of losses
Is growing. It Sr. now placed at from
$500,000 to ??OO.QOQ.
News reached Tazewell Thursday
night of the finding of two unknown
dead persons in an enormous drift lrv
low Rich lands. They are believed to bo
father and son. When. they were found
the man was clinging to h!s dead horsi
and the boys' arms were twined around
the man's body. Reaching parties are
at work, dragging the river, and other
victims m?y yai The I*ol vl
dead so far as known at Tazewell is u
follows: John VanDyke, Edward Van
Dyke, Mrs. John Hooper; two children
of Mrs* Hooper. Tate, ^nn
kenship, Heaver, Booth;
father and son, unknown; Paris Craig.
!ored.
iJluefleld, W. Va., Spccial. ? The flood
situation is in good condition consld
erlng the sccornl wash-out. The largo
force of hands, mfnberiug 3,0rJO, repair
ed all washouts for temporary use
far as Vivian, the point readied Wed
nesday. The rnlii-f train, with provis
ions, reached Elkhorn and supplies arc
bring furnished the needy. Railroad of
ficials at Blueficld have stited that the
road will he opened for traffic on Sat
urday night. Many destitute families
are leaving the field, goin^*But by foot
or on work trains.
The complete list of the dea;l as they
have been found and as compiled by
The Dluf field Telegraph, Is as follows:
John Lewis, Mrs. Nellie Smllh, Anna
Smith, Mrs. McKay, Mary McKay,
Charles Chellev, Sam Poindexter, John
Ballard, little Jlrown, William Trigg.
Jacob Kitiing, John Bannister, Mrs.
Mary Fooller, T. B. Christian, Mrs.
Bertha Anderson and two small chil
dren, William Cheatham. Guy Uain??
and wife, A1 Beverly and wife, un
known v/hlto man minus head# John
VanDyke, Edward VanDyke, Mrs. John
Hook and two children, Chas. Tnte, P.
H. Blankcnship, R. J. Beaver, P. M.
Booth. Paris Craig, unknown man and
boy. The total list numbers 3f>. but It
is believed that as many more are still
in "the debris and driftwood^
Cotton CioodA for Philippines.
Washington. D. C., Special. ? The im
portation of cotton manufacturers- in
to the Philippines during l'JOO phowed
an incre^so of per" cent, over tho
importation for tne previous year, ac
cortllttg to a comparative statement
Issued by the dlvtei'.r of insular af
fairs, War Department. Tho value of
the cotton manuf-u turers Imported in
V.'OO is given as fS, '29, 777, and for
1899 at $-1,522 1Ck>. Tho increase in
Importation from tho baited States
aione showed an increase of 503 per
cent, or $09,23(5. The greatest amount
of tho cotton manufactures came from
thu United Kingdom, about $4.000.00Q
with Spain second at $1,233,262.
Telegraphic Brief*.
Tho trustees of the University of
Alabama clected Dr. Williams S. Wy
man fo succeed Dr. James K. Powers
as president. Dr. Wymon has been
professor or T.*tin at the University
sine* 1*71. H? l#-a- native Ataframtsn.f
Mr*. P. D. Vroom, wife of Col.
Vroom; IT. 8. A., Inspector general of
the Department or the Bast, stationed
at Gottrnor'n Island, N. Y.. died In
?an Antonla, Texas. She .was the
Sftghter of Major P. O. Wood, of the
Twelfth latantry.
Ctllsa 5taftstlr?.
Liverpool, SpodaL ? FoUowias art
the Weekly cotton itathtleir Total
-2- ot an ktftda 47,000 hatoa, total
4 M00 he
4I.0M ha
MANY WALK OUT.
50,000 Steel Workers Leave 1I:eir
Employers.
MANY COMPANIES ARIi AFFECTED
The Fight Will He a Desperate (hie
Uuless the Parties Are llrought to
* An Agreement.
Pittsburg, Special.? Prosldout T. J.
Shaffer, of (lie AmalgimaU d Assocla
?.ion of Iron, Steel and Tin Workcs,
Monday issued ;>.n order calling i>ui
nil union employes of the various .in ills*
of the America!! Steel 1 1 Company,
known as the hoop trust. It is estima
ted that 1.1,000 men will )>o subject
miv vn^i, "v.'Tfi cn , in connection with the
his strike of the American Sheet
Steel Company ordered by President
Shaffer on Saturday, will affect
000 men. Pre Meat Shaffer said: ? Ti>o
Impression that only the mills of t ho
American Sheet Steel Company aro
affected bj' the decision of Saturday
is a mistake. Tho workmen of ail
mills I si tho American Steel Hoop
Company are interested and will 1>:
officially notified that the scale hn^
not been slgntiil and that they will quit
work. To the well organizes 1 mill*
this notice will be necessary as tli">
men w.ll have watched the situation
carefully, but what is known ns op.n
mills, where union men havo been al
lowed to work side by sldo with tho
non-untyn. Is where we hav^^t> move.
Union men must walk ?|!prof tluvo
open mills in tho hoop trust.
"The open mills to be notified aro
one In llollldaysburg. Pa., three at
Pittsburg and one at Monessen. Thflf
organization mills which will olose -,:a
our call aro the upper and lower
mills at Youngstown, Ohio; Ponvroy,
Ohio; Sharon, Pa. ; (lirard, Pa. ; War
ren , Pa. This, I believe, will bring
the number of men alfected to 5
000.
"It Is a matter of regret that tho is
sue has boon forced, but it now looks
as though it would bo a flgTit to tho
death. The Amalgamated Association
is not unprepared for it. We havo
pot had a general strike for many
years and in that time we have not
been Idle. We have funds and will
use them. Right hero 1 want to e -
im an impression wh'ch has been
given out that no benefits will be paid
strikers until two months have elap
sed. The Amalgamated -Association
will begin at once to take care of its
people."
Mr. Shaffer concluded l>y saying: "I
will say now what I said to Mr. Smith,
general manager of the Sheet Steel
Company, In the conference: I said if
it is to be a strike we will make it one
to be remembered. The officials now
dealing with us have^but little idea of
the extreme to which this ttrike will
go once it is. on."
Youngstown, O., Special ? In order
to take inventory the mills in Youngs
town is qu the Mahoning val
ley of tbe llopubilc. Iron and
Steel Company will close f;;r
two weeks. The mills here
and at other points inUhe Mahoning
and Shenango valleys .which are own
ed by the American Steel Hoop Com
pany will remain idle pending a set
tlement of the scale question.
An offlelal said: "The company was
willing to sign the scale agreed upr.n
by the Republic Iron and Steel Com
pany and t f<?r the same mills for
which they signed last ywr, but tha
Amalgamated men insisted that they
must also sign for certain Pittsburg
mills and others which tho company
owns in the East and this the com
pany declined to do, and thus the ma',
ter stands."
A Collision at Sea.
Boston, Special. ? The six masted
steamer George W. Wells, of Taunton,
Captain Crowley, which jailed from
here Sunday afernoon for Newport
News in ballast, came back into port
under tow, with a prcat hole In her
side cut down to- within three foet of
the water line. Some time during tlip
night she was run info by tho six
masted schooner Eleanor A. Percy,
Captain Jewctt, in the fog, squa-o
amidships on tho port side. ? The col
lision occnrrel somewhjrf oft Capo
Cod. The Percy was loaded with coal
from Newport News for Jtoston. She
car;e up to Highland Light with her
bowsprit and Jibbon carried away.
Baltlmore.T?m?1 Caves In
BaUlmora^SpeclalA-The roof of tho
tgnfon railroad tunnel In the eastern
Section of cltf, used and coatroll-^
ed by the Pennsylvania Railroad, caved
tnahortly before 2 oVTocK Sunday
morning. It Is supposed that a d'feet
In the arch of the tunnel caused the
afeMdent. A narrow escape from death
or aeNous Injury was experienced by
the pasahisers and crew of an express
train, which was caught by the. fait
tag debris la the tunnel.
^ASwMtllost
Rotas wy, Firth Of Ctnde, By Cable.?
The Bhssimrlr n and* Shamrock 1 had
their fat trial Friday afternoon sine*
tke hmer wae wrecked. They had a
fair rating trial aad the Challenger
CUM) 1 1 :U.N Ui CKul'i.
Warmth anil floistwre Have Mrulo
Mudi Inipi ovcpi.'Ht.
ending .fitly 1st,
&VtfTMged sH^luly waniiir than usual,
with a maximum tcinpe:a' u? ? of iui' m
Mateshurg cm the HMh ami a m nimuui
?>t ?;0 at Clu-raw oq the i'?th. '4 no tem
perature was generally favorable to
the growth ami development of ttol<l
crops, and there was about the cs.ai
i mount of sunshine. High win Is rausc I
some damage to corn on the L'Mh.
There wore numerous s.att-iei
jhowers throughout the week, general
ly light, hut heavy in places, w th a
maximum ialnf.il-1 of in. he* ni
f'h kens bounty. Cultivation m ule tai
progress where the rainfall was light,
hut much laml remains i.?,i wet t;? ? 1 1
tivato. anil many fields eontlnue t > t> <
Hi'asvy. although much grass was kil'el
(luring the week. There are cunpaut
nf the groi'.uil becoming ver\ hanl as i (
dries I>anUi*e l>y hi'.l oc ui-fj i>> *
?nrYiMc, tthmijcrg. liarnwell. N'ewbnv
ind Saluda counties, an I 1 i ? S t hail waj
reported from a few points. There art
numerous nport.^.of coin and cotton
fields being abandoned on ace.imit ol
their foul condition and the i n.-,t an !
ditficultv of (diajilng them.
There wa.t a genwal improvcimnt. n
the condition of cotton, greatest on re,!
lands that could be worked and in tlu
sea-island section, while on s.uid>
Ian !s the plants continue to die t > some
extent, anil generally arc not thriving.
Cotton is unusually small for the sea
son, but has begun to bloom in places
although as vet it is fruiting spaicly.
The general condition of cotton con
tinues to be unpromising. On low-lying
lands it is deelilely* off color.
The condition of corn varieji^greatly.
although generally pour ovcy the oast
orn half of the State, where/it is be hi;
laid by. I'pland corn looks well ovei
t he j \vstern counties, but on bottoms
it wns almost entirely destroyed an I *
uow being replanted to .some' extent.
IManting stubble lands to corn is also
underway.
Over the grea!'? portion of the to*
barco regions, the pl.ints are back wan'
and smnll. but In Kcrsnaw county to
bacco is doing well. Cutting anil curing
made slow progress in Klorenee c ?un
t.v. and has not been begun in othc?
sections, ltice is generally thriving
Wheat and oats are b<Mng thrashe I. anil
many, correspondents report the yield*
the best in years. Oats were greatly
damaged by rain aftiy cutting, but th*
damage, to wheat was" sl^ht.
Ml not* crops arc generally in a thriv
ing condition, but pcachcs and plum
are rotting extensively as they ripen.
Apples continue to drop! Pastures an:
gardens, with some exceptions, arc fin
On the whole, there is a marked Im
provement In the crop prospects, hut
they are still re portal discouraging.
New Enterprises. j
The seoretary of State lius issued ;i
commission to the Hewley Hardware
Company of Chester. which propose;
to do a wholesale nYlri retail busines
On a capital stock of $10,000. The cor
porators are \V. 1). Hewley and I/. M
Dawson. A commission was also issued
to the Farmers' Trust society of Nin
etv-Slx, which propos"s to furnis';
weekly allowances to si< k members
burial benefits, vpon th? graduate.'
.monthly assessment plan. The corpor
ators ore P. G. Graham. M. C. Johnson
.Jahn Prince, Wheeler Thompson, Wil
lis Thompson and Hell Williams.
The Eureka Iluilding and Loan as
sociation of Georgetown was commis
sioned Friday, -fl'hc capital stock is tr.
Ik> $150,000. payable *.i monthly instal
ments. The corporators are' Marks
Moses, J. H. Steele. I.e urand (J. Wal
ker, L. S. Khrich and S. S. Fraser.
A charter was granted the Acme
Drug Company of Anders >n, which will
do a wholesale bUslr?s.s in medicines
paint*) oils, etc.. on a capital stock of
$40,00(T. H. S. IJgon is president, D
A. Dedbotter is vice jjrosident, and J
T. J.igon secretary and treasurer.
telegraphic thrsitihs.
In the United States Court at Wil
mington Wednesday a petition,, was
made by the Morton Trust Comfrhny
of New York, to foreclose a $ I f>0,000
mortgage on the Wilmington Street
Railway Company. Judge Purnell
granted and appointed A. 13. Skcldlng
general manager of the street railwaj
company, receiver.
T!??? Alabama constitutional conven
tion adopted the report of the commit
tee on taxation, flxins? the limit o!
taxation in the State at G cents on ih<!
$100.
Violent storms have swept the north
west and southw.est sections '?!
France, do I iff; great damage to crop?
and vineyards, especially in the neigh,
borhood of Bordeaux and Dijon,
where considerable hail has fallen.
Governmement Works Guarded.
New York, Special. ? A spe-'ial t
th? Tribune from Newport News, Va.,
says: "The government has stations]
guards on all of its work at the ship
yard, as a precautionary measure dur
ing the strike. On thft n*w battleship
Illinois, whiCb will go into commission
soon, the monitor Arkansas and the
battleship Missouri, men have been
placed m protect the government's in
'tor est*. TfiW guards are additional
to tho shipyVd's regular police fore.\
The machinists have decided not to re
turn to work unti( their demands are
granted and the reports tbat the men
would go back Monday aro ground
less/' *
President Oorepers Badly Hurt.
Washington, D. C., Spcdal.? Samuel
Oompers. president of the American
Federation of Labor, la lying danger
ously ill sfnis .home la this city, suf
fering from concussion of tbe brain
and a naaalble . fracture of tbe skull.
While m condition la critical, bis
pbyalclaaa say be probaMr will re
cover. He was Injured Friday night
as le alighted from a c ar on whicb *?r
been taking bla two children far
an anting. Mr. Oompers was reported
to w i ?tint easier. An InroatlgaUon
baa not developed any fracture oC Ihe
-T.'~ A'. " v'y
ARPQUOTUSBEECHEHi
Philosopher Quotes the Words of tl:o
Famous Preacher
TIIH HOT WEA1IIER CAISFD IF, j
Sag c of Mai to\y Has a Molting Collurl
A ml Is Not At All IMo soil \N itli It .
Sonic ktf rjlarks.
Tho horrid, torrid wcalher rem fi Is]
ino of what Henry Ward It.icber s tM j
In Ills church one sweltering d .> nil
July. He look no te\i. ||e wipe. I I h () I
perspiration from li 5 s hrow and look-l
ing solemnly at the I n^. ?? >ngi cgat ii n, '
said: "it is hat today It is d nunc I
hot. It is n.s hot as hell!" ICver\l?>!y
was .1 v wv'
ded. ' That is l lie lane.iiaj'.p I In. ml l h i
young nun u.-.e at the , *h> <r of thr
church as 1 nas-i 1 them. My y.r.ui;
friends, It lb not as not a * h- l!." The i
in a low, oaniL'st tone he phi nr.-d th-.
torments of ludl and i!ie certan t:,i
of the wicked until atmospho; o of 111
ehuitli seemed to be cool and pleasa:ii
la comparison. The indies ocas ? 1 I :
move their fans and eve yb.idy w n
still and solemn as a funeral It w a ?
Hornet liing like Jonathan l-M wards i t
Northampton when he got hit* hearers
?o wrought up and alarmed that J?hey
groaned In fear and grasped the p ?>?>??
and braces to keep from sinking m'o
ludl, and another preacher In th< pul
pit hogged Mr. Kdwurds to stop, "rt o;
Mr. Kiiwnrd3; stop now and (ell them
of tho metvy and love of (Jod." What
wonderful power is In Hie wards of an
eloquent, earnest man. Mr. i'eeohei
was all of that a gift- d. td.iqurnl m in.
1 heard him preach twice before the
war and was profoundly Impressed. 1
looked upon him as the inipers urition
of the man of (Jod. Liter on. when h .*
began his vindictive war upon th;
south and said that Share's tides wert
better til till lJiblus for J.dta i;i
Kansas and was a crime to slioot at
a slnvo-holdot,B;Vn?i iwlss him, 1 won ler
at my iufatuat'on with the man and
Exclaimed with 1 ;iUh, "How are the j
mighty fallen." An I still liter whe n
Tllton charge^ him with alien '.tin ',
and seducing his." wifi^jtuJ it t ? ?. ?? lc two
months to try tho esse amf* Stic jit. y i
two days to make ni> a verdict. wlileii
virtually said, "l!e Is not guilty, but ho
miiHt not do so any more." 1 was mor
tified at my own weakv.e-s in b \ o nin ;
his idolater and roso'.vt 1 to wo:#hi!i
no man again while he lived. A great
man's character cannot he made lit)
until after he is dead.
! lint I was ruminating how o k y it h
j for a young man to say damn and
I .ton,,, If I'll lz r.v d ?..d ??veil XC
j take the name of (Jod In vain. Damn is
j a more convenient and expressive wo \)
I than (logon or dingnatlojt or blanrVl
| and it shows a dnjlauue'of the devil an !
I a self-conndt in the man who uses it
j 13ut it is a very handy expletive an'
! wh^tt a young man gets In tie* habit oi
[ using it he rarely reforms. 77o 1 n >w?
that it Is not good fanners, for h?
does not use it in the presence of ladi*'?
j or preachers or his parmis. Nev critic
less there are some good people w ic
think damn it without s-.ying it. 1
heard a good stiSry the other day or
Colonel Livingston, our member o.
congress from the Atlanta district
Last summer he was sent ov*r t > \N*? s;
Virginia to speak and help the ib n'.o
crats In tlnir canvass. He ventured
into a pretty hot republican town a:r
was hrtranging and electrifying a larg'
audience, and while scarifying the re
publicans and Ik's fighting adminis ra
Hon a soft, half do:>e Irish poiat o i i ft
him kerzlp right between the eyes. I
knocked off his spectacles and flattened
into mush all over his <Uassic eounto
nance. It surprised and shocked him
of course. Recovering his glas?"s In
wiped tho. sticky stuff from hln face an '
said with excited tone," My frl< n 's. )
h.ivn 4jeen? I have born a consistent
ft consistent member of the Presbyto
Han church? the Presbyterian church
I say for more than? more than fifi)
years ? yes, fifty odd years, and havr
tried to livo ? tried to live In hflrnriri)
with all men? with nil nfnu, but if the
flirty, dogond, dadblamed puppy whe
throw that pglato will stand up or ralst
Ills right Jj^ful I'll be ? I'll l>e dadb'ast
ed if I don't stop speaking long enough
tn com* down and lick the hair ni?.
hide ore of him In two minutes by thi
clock.'' Ak nobody roso or raised n ban !
the colonel resumed his broken if?
marks, but declares that he never cam'
as near cursing since lie joined the
church.
This thin/? of cursing is of very jjji
clent orjgiii. Sometimes it was done by
proxy. Malak, the kink of Monh, hire I
Halaam to curse Israel, and some of u>
veterans remember when we, too
wanted to hire a ruxsln man to expand
our wrath upon the yankees. Peter
cursed and swore when -accused of be
ing one of the gesciples. It is probable
that he said "I'll be dunned if I am,"
or jwrhaps worse. Soldiers and sailors
nave in all ag^s been profane? the vT?ry
class that aro in greatest peril and
should have the greatest reverance fo; I
their maker. Uncle Toby says "Our
army swore teTribly in Fjsnders." Ant
Uncle Toby himself swore an oa\h
when he found the sick soldier lying
ani d yizg at his gate. "lie shall not
die, by God," he said, and the accusing
fcplrlt flew up to heaven with the oath
and blushed as he gave it In. The rec
ording angel as he wrote It down dro&
ped a tear upon the word and blotted
It out forever /' That ia beautiful, Jaent
Itr Verily, charity hldeth.a multitude j
of sin** 1
But thia is enough on this subject. It
I* too hot to work tn the garden and
so I get in the shade of the rlnss on
my verandah and ruminate. Judge
Origpi, ou{ honored Member of con
gress, tails that story on Co&nsl Llv
| Isgston and M Jtoid anothsr that will
make the old men forget that it ItJtat,
for they n#ver *et t6o oM to enjoy any
?lory that has woman ln
One of the isit rases firrougfet before
the Judge wss ? young unsophisticated
cotinr?y* hoy wi? ew rtiml wHt w
lwwtl mvss a louf eoteiy girl In
wSsR
that ho had caught her at the sprint
in 1 hugged a ? i ?1 kissed her against her
will. 1 1 ?? r mother .saw it from hor p!az
: a an. I hear. I hor scream and suw hlin
run n\va> to tin* field where lie \vas
|tiowiii>: She was very Indignant, an I
(m iv-m , ut i il lilin. She was tho witness
in I s > w.i.i tha Kirl, hut tin- girl didont
iceiu wry vidbutlvo, ^ih i? sild
!u> dlvbni hurt her tjnt took hor by
| rise, j-'lie had tilled hor bucket and
.1 > about to > <i ba< k w !u n h>> caught
Pi! a:td hugyed hfi an I klsspd hor
' ? i : ? h f o i her in -u*!i. Tho dicltor c) >sod
lis case. Tho >.>11110, m.'u was put up to
make Ills statement, and all ho R"?.ld
a.'iv i\i at s'w ]o >Kt'.l s i swi^i and pro:
'.v ho vould'-ut help It. and ho didont
lu lii-vc ihat Mlus Molly was very mad
about It nohow, for alio wont off sink
ing of a hymn. ^TS'hat hymo was sho
tig i tig?" askod tho Judge. "1 do..'t
Know," ho said. "What hymo wore you
singing, Miss Molly?" uekod tho Judge.
Slie smiled and said It was "Tho Lord
\\ ill Provide." Tho Judge charged the
jury very mildly. and toh) /)>??? *. *:???? ;
an assault Implied malloo, etc.. but as
tho jury couldnont seo whero tho mnl
h o ( ame In, they came back with this
v?rdioi: "Wo. the jury, And tho defend
aul u >t guilty, aa there \v;us no malloo
or hate In it, and wo recommend him
to the nu ivy of the court." This story
reminds mo of John H Floy's verdict In
tho Pass. case. flood old John Klloy, I
tho for^mjan^of Tho Rome Courier's
ptvsKi^tuui for years and years, and the
f'iroina?fff thi Jury in tho caso of tho
. tato trgainst Uomllus Pass tor h'.ig
Mealing. Pass hud been suspected Of
killing Wallls Warren's shoals a? tlupy
ran in tho woods, and so Wallls laid f ? ? r
him and ono evening about duBk, when
he heard a rille shot, ho slipped u|> and
ca tight Pass in tho very act of putting
tin* shoot lu a sack. Wallla didont go
to the war and managed to save his
stock. Pass went, and left his wife and
throe little children to the mercy of
( ?od and the community. When ho re
turned he found thoro was nothing left
to live on, and ono of the chlldron had
died. Judge Wright volunteered to de
fend him, and introduced no evidence,
but had the last speech. I will never
forgot, tho tender pathos of that speech
his' ^leluro of a poor soldier return
ing homo to find desolation and de
spair. Ho never alluded to the evidence,
btil*had tho Jury and tho court In team.
The .indue charged them as fairly as
he eo-.-ld. and they retired, lu a brief
time t hey esino In with this verdict:
"Whereas, the late, unhappj war re
duced mauy of our brave soldiers and
their families to w lyit and poverty by
reason of, which they were forced at
times to .wander In the woods for swell
{fame as they could And In order to
kc.'K.lhe wolf from the door and their,
little ones from starvation; therefoio,
we, the jury, lind the defendant not
guilty. John Kilev, foreman."
"Py giaciousj" said Wallls, "they
found Pass imiliy nnH ?bo:i pardoned
him." Judge Wright never lost a caso
whpre he had the last sjieoch and a
\y<ftnan or a |>oor man was his client.
Hut it Is getting a llttlo cooler now
as the sun nears the horizon. I must
stop and turn the water loose on my
garden. The city has no water meters
yet. and I can steal water with impu
nity. but as the nigger preacher sSld to
his Hock. "You musont bi cofched
s? eat in' chickcjis ? cotched. I say. ? liill
Aru In Atlanta Constitution.
Will Not lie Appealed.
. Now York. Special. ? Thomas C?.
Marker's friends definitely decided at
a mooting I cM at Arlington. N. J.,
uoi to take an appeal from I ho verdict
of tin* jury. It was the sense <V tho
mooting that t Iio energies and friends
of those who had Interested them
selves in the chs'c would bo (k'votcil
to caring for if is. Itarjtor and prevent
ing her from want and in uoeurlng a
rebate of a pari at /least of Iiih five
year K/iitelfiro, whion moans that h(/:
must serve four years and flvo days
if his conduct, record is fjiorfect. It ii
expooted the re'juest will bo for hia
parole at t li -> < mi of a year.
A l.nrgo Surplus.
Washington. I). ('., Special. ? Tho
corporative statement of tho govern
ment ro'lpt* and expenditures for tbu
floral year will show sri excess of ro
eoipt.H ov '"r disbursements of approxi
mate ly $70. 00), 000. This i: only about
$1/0,0,000 below ih: estimate made by
Congress at tlio beginning of thr> In^t
scs.dnn in I)}cenjb."r? 10';0. at whi -h
tlhlo the Secretary estimated tho r< ?
cei|H? from customs would In about
J? I r? ,000. AGO. The finnl figures whi' h
will be issued next Monday will proba
bly f.ill short of l his amount by about
$(>,000,000. "
Dai.k Remains Closed.
Tluffalo, Special.? The Clfy National
.hunk, which was placed in the hand? I
of a receiver on Saturday by C'tnp- J
troller of. the Currency Dawes, did not
opens Its doors Monday morning. M.L#.
Lynch, chief of the division of insolv
ent banks, and Special Hank Kxnminor
W. A. Mason took charge of the bank
ponding the arrival of Mr. Haughtou,
the temponvr ry reeelvod. Not mor?
than 50 people were at the bank . at 10
o'clock, tho usual opening hour, and
a few minutss later moat nf thTi had
lefU
I'ostofflce Wsrf tied Away,
Washington. SpecMl. ? Official
advices to the 1'ostoffiy Department
shows that the break tfia Vtfg!nl?
and Ohio division of tha Norfolk. *
Western Railroad caused by the floods
extends for a distance of M miles, from
Williamson to Vnnls, except la spots.
The branch line running from Goodwill
to Rramwgll is practically entirely
washed sway. Chief Glerks Ooodlos,
from/Waafrjagtoa, and Sales, from
Lynchburg .or the railroad mall ser
vice, hare gone to tfea flood district to
make a report on the situation an C
needa in a postal way. j
Dr. Joseph Price, hi S .
read before the PfcUdctpUa CodMy ]
, Medical Society the other day, smA: **I
I attribute the enormous iaerase of if- 1
peruJicttis among wo awn lo | poll, crichK
the bicyde sad other outdoor
which at times svbject them to^pi iHnajsl
physical ttwthg wl Ulliillitnaf
ther." *
? 1 _ ? ?o*
m
KILLED IN A WRECK
Thirteen People Lose T heir Lives in a
Railroad Accident.
A WAIUSII ILYER CM% DOWN
Plunges through a Trestle While II
I* ^Running at it i r. It Speed, With
Disastrous Results.
rent. Iui|.. Special. Thirteen per
rons were killed i) lid about f?6 sorl
ouslj Injured In a wreck of Train No.
.1, the west-bound Wabash limited,
nine miles HvHt of this city at 12:110
a, in., Wednesday. Thi' dead are all
Italian emigrants on route' to Colora
do, \\ host'
Two sections of train No. 3, ono
coming I'rom Detroit and (ho other
from Toledo, wero consolidated in
this eitv into a train of 11 cars. mnk
Ing up the flyer for Us Journey to
Rt. Linda. It cousiutod of a comblun
Hon baggage and express, eoinblua- ?
Hon bnggago and binoker, day coach,
emigrant conch, tin*. chair cars,
throe sleepers and tho private car of
O en era I Superintendent Cottor, of
the Iron Mountain Railway.
Having left thlH city one hour late
the train wan speeding westward at
u high rate, when, at a ponlt nine
miles west, the engine plunged thro
ugh a trestle which bad been under
mined by the recent heavy rains. The .
embankment on both sides of the
little stream dropped at a sharp do*
greo a distance of forty feet. Owing'
to the momentum of tho train tho en
gine appeared to leap across >thii
abyss, plunged Into tho soft earth on
tho opposito side*" and fell back to
tho bottom. Engineer Hutler and)
iTIreman Adams were thrown from
the cab, but not seriously hurt, 'rht!
express car and tho first chair car
wor? telescopod. The emigrant car
followed by two chair cars went
down ou the left aldo of the-tmek ?
and the llrst sleeper pjtchod forward
upon the mast} of debris. Its win
dows and trucksu wero broken, but *
none of the occupants were injured.
The remaining cars also left their
trucks, but were not badly damaged,
It was in tho omlgrant and day coach
es that most of tho deaths and in
juries ocurrea. ?
There was absolutely no menus by
which the engine crew could see tho
Impending dungcr. In fact tho en
gine run upon the trestle before tho
structure gave away. The night was
InteriKoly dark. For a few mlnutoa
after th efatal plungo. and dreadful
roar of crashing timbers, a^. deathlike
stillness prevailed which was only
broken by tho cries of tho injurod.
Trainjisca ca^iii tip t'noir lantonvi
and r\ished to the neighboring fnrm
hopscs for assistance. The farmers
with their wives- and children bear
ing torches hnsteneil to tjrc scene and
All efforts wero bent to glvo first aid
to the injurea. Telephone, messages
wero despatched to thiw city and ev
ery physician was hurriedly taken on
a special train which* carried them
to the scene. The Inju rata wore placed
aboard the cars and brought to the
general hospital In this city, where
everything possible wa? done to ame
liorate their condition s For a time
after the rescuers readied the scene
of the wreck little could bo done la
the way of removing tho. dead. Iltin-/
dreds of tona of twisted iron and
broken timbers rested; upon the car
where the unfortunate emigrants
were crushed. Hut by means of
wrecking derricks the mass wi\? gra
dually opened and by daylight near
ly ali tho dead had been removed to
tills city. '
' Among the dead are the following
'name.!: Mrs K'fUy Krust, of New :
York"" ' Miss I^nnnlfAMunlole .Bister of
John Munlolc; I.ulgl Henlul, New
York; live Italian men, names nil
.known; two Italian women, names un
known; three Italian babies.
Vj
I ? ?
Alorgan (live* Harvard $1,000,000.
(""abridge, Masz.. 8paclftl.- -President <?
ICllot announced at the Harvard alu pu
nt dinner that John PIcrpont Morgan,
had given more than $1,000,000 lor the
erection of thrco of th? five bnjflditfgj
plnnn'l for the Harvard Medical ?
rrhool In Uoston. Tho pift. Is 'for thfl
prosecution of "applied biological re
search.". The buildings, will bo ft me
morial to JunliiR Spepcer Mgrgaivfof?
many yoar.s a Rooton merchant.
Non-Union Miner* Fired Upon.
Matowon, W. Va., Spoclal.-f^Wednea*-.
day morning when tho non ijnlon men
a?nln attempted to go to work at tilt
Maritime coal mlnoj thoy were flred x
upon by strikers at a distance. The
non-union men deemed It bast to with
draw and did no, before any of tin ?
number fell victim to "the <d??adly bub
lets. Another battlo la Imminent be
tween tho strikers and Federal mar
shals. Ever since they left tho mine
the men have been preparing for an
emergency and Marshals Hufford anJ
Tollto. and Superintendent I^ambert,
of tho Maritime mines, are expected to
arrive here front" Charleston. It ij
said that they -are heavily re-enforced
ind ready to put an end to all tB#
a this section,
. Law Put Through.
I, , Paris, By Cable,? The Premier,
rwaMeck-RdusseatL has carried tf?
most Important project of his miftte* -;
try, the law of^ssoclationa bill, '
now only awdlts the signature oC Pr* ; -;
sldent Lovbet fby become tow.
Chamber of Demitles tonight/
single seasiofc. ddfnltely
bill, as amended vy the
to 20 Toteb. Several
made by tltfe Oppoaltfc* mm
to afalo amend the bM, tart
her la erer awe mpprtrtod ths