Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I' , - ' - ' .' p. - ' " A ME] The night walked down the sky With the moon in her hand; By the light of that yellow lantern I saw vou stand. fs; The hair that swept your shoulders ; Was yellow, too; Your feet as they touched the grasses : Shamed the dew. The night wore all her jewels, ^ ; And you wore none, But your gown had the odor of lilies Drenched with sun. ?Frederic Li i: FARRAGI Ef . AND REVENGEFUL m V. OLSH MOONEY was so in)i timate with the good peoO 1/1 O pie that she could turn herA. R cpif into a hare anv minute. Sro*r/ She often said that Far- J ragh Flynn would never come to a good end because ever and always he ,was making fun of the fairies. When I Farragh heard it he burst out laughing and said: "The next time Molsh turns herself into a bare I'll get me gun." "It's little I care for himself or his , gun, then," sneered Molsh, when the Story was brought to her. She knew .well that when she was under the enchantment the only thing that could hurt her at all was a golden bullet add sure gold was too scarce in RathNa-Gar to go shooting hares or rabbits . With it. ' Farragh Flynn lived alone, all by himself, on a farm of his own, and as there was a big whitethorn tree and a fairies' rath in the corner of his gar- , den, every one in the village knew it -; Wasn't right for him to be making game of the fairies. ? ; Ah, he was the stubborn man en% tirely, and him a young man at that :' > . He wouldn't believe that Dominick ;Dolan saw the ghost that disappeared In a flash o' fire at cock-crow, and he ; .even wouldn't give in that there was such a thing as a banshee, after all the (village heard it the night before the j fp||: i>ig wind. , ; Well, it was bad enough to be so un- ] reasonable as to deny the evidence of rthe senses, you might say, but when ?*arragh dug up the big whitethorn j jbush and leveled out the fairies' rath ( -at the end of his garden for a potato i patch everybody held his breath, know- , ling the good people would soon have 1 -their revenge on him. I ' fc- The whitethorn bush was as old as |the cliffs of Rath-Na-Gar. No one ; jknew when it began growing, and < [some thought maybe it never grew at ] ail, but was built far back in the be- ] * * Iginning of the world by the fairies for < jreasons best known to themselves. At ] ;any rate it was well known to b? the j [meeting place of the good people, and it was at its foot they always went Into ( rtheir underworld and came out of it, j [too. 1 t When Dominick Dolan's cow was be- \ ,Witched, and he caught hold of her by \ the tail to keep her from the fairies, \ iture, didn't she disappear into that t 'nontn rath on oronlnc rtrflccrilll? t ioauic iaui vi ?*** ? i 0, _._OCJ?0 ( [Dominick with her into the finest [country man ever laid eyes on. A ^ small, pleasant-spoken man wanted to j [treat Dominick to a jorum of punch; j jbut Dominick knew well that if he * |toak food or drink he would never come back, and, greatly as he liked to ? jbfe sociable, he put the temptation be- \ $ s ;hlnd him, and that's why he caffie out r of the place all right with his cow. j t "But the cow never was the same j since. She wouldn't give a drop of 7 milk excepting when the village piper t would play "The Coolin," or the "Cruiskeen Lawn." Now it was , mighty unhandy to have to send for ( the piper every time Dominick Dolan's ( 'people wanted to milk their cow, and ( >when the piper died not a drop more j would she give. They tried Darby 4 'Fogarty's flute on her, but it was no , use; nothing but the pipes would move y lier, and seeing there was no other l piper to be had, she went dry. ] i But that was neither here nor there, r It's Farragh FJynn I'm telling about. *Wben Phelim Tigue, the fisherman, heard that Farragh turned the rath .into a potato patch, he said: "It's meself that wouldn't like to ate wan o' thim praties that'll grow there." I- "An', shure, what karum would it do you, father?" asked his daughter Kathleen, the prettiest girl in all the village. f "No harm in the world, alanna," said Molsh Mooney, with a knowing wink; ."for It isn't praties that will growthere at all, but thistles." !*? "Maybe you don't like Farragh," >ays Kathleen, with a toss of her pretty head. i "I'm sorry for thim that does," and rMolsh spoke as if she knew Kathleen's *.. secret. t To tell the truth, Kathleen did love Farragh, and Farragh loved her in return, .but between themselves it was; although Molsh hinted many a time ; that it wasn't right to love a man who ( wrocn-f frionniv with the eood people. 1 Many's the time Kathleen went out 1 jfishing with her father in his small , boat, or curragh, and it was good to see . her pulling on an oar like the best, j '- while her black hair was blown about , i tier rosy cheeks by the salt sea breezes. 1 ! Farragh Flynn didn't go out in the boats very often, but he was fond of , ,bream fishing from the great cliff of ( ;Rath-Na-Gar, which was nearly five , hundred feet high and mostly white , with sea gulls that had their nests ^ there. 1 i There he would fish for hours with , a hand line, so close to the edge of the < cliff that it would make your head or mine dizzy to go so near, and listen to ] the sound of the sea far below. ] It happened of a fine evening m j spring that Farragh, who was fishing, < / % WEORY, And never was Eve of tlac garden Or Mary the maid More pure than you as y?u stood there Bold, yet afraid. And the sleeping birds woke, trembling, And the folded flowery were aware, And my sense was faint with the fragrant Gold of your hair. And our lips found ways of speaking What words can not say, Till a hundred nests gave music. And the east was gray, iwrence Knowles, in Boston Transcript. i FLYNN THE ==LEPR.ECHAWN as usual, smoking his pipe and thinking of nothing at all, without it might be of Kathleen once in a while, felt three strong tugs?at his hook that told him there was a fish there. That very minute, all of a sudden he spied the queerest man on two feet at his side. Although disbelieving in the good people. Farragh knew at once that the dawny little man was a leprechawn, and that as long as he kept his eyes on him he could get any wish he wanted. "Why don't you pull in your line?" says the little man; "don't you see there's a fish on It?" "I'm better employed now," says Farragh, "an' I'll keep my eyes on you, never fear." The little man let a dry laugh out of him and gays: "Your fish will get away and that will be a loss to you entirely." "Faith, there's plenty more if it does," and Farragh didn't take his eyes for a minute off the leprechawn. "I think I'll be goin' now," says the little man. "You can't budge till I say so, an' have me wish," says Farragh. "An' what would you like to have? Would you like to see Ireland free, an' have a counthry of your own?" asked the little man with a grin. "That I would," said Farragh, "but tt isn't in your power to give me a counthry of me own. The sthranger has too hard a howlt of it." "We will see about that," says the leprechawn, and he began walking round and round Farragh, who got so tired trying to keep his eyes on him that he fell fast asleep there on the edge of the great cliff, with his line tied around his wrist and a fish tugging away at it far below. When Farragh woke up it was the morning of the next day, and, wonder 5f wonders, a great thing had taken place! The part of the cliff he was perched on was cut as clean as if you !ut it with a knife off from the mainland, a distance of a hundred feet or more, maybe. There Farragh found himself lying jn the top of a narrow pillar of rock :hat rose straight out of the sea about ive hundred feet or so, like a round tower. Between him and the mainand a roaring sea was plunging, and. t gave him an uneasy feeling to look iround and see himself as helpless as mything. "Troth, the little man has kept his vord," says Farragh to himself. "I lave a counthry of me own, but not :he sort of a counthry I wanted, at ill." Farragh was one of the best runners tnd jumpers you'd find in a day's walk, )ut that leap was too much for him. There was no sign or token of the little nan, and Farragh was afraid to budge 'or fear he'd fall off that tall rock >vith the wild sea beating about its jase like all possessed. As the day wore on the people of the rillage flocked to the cliff and wonlered mightily at Farragh's fix. He ?alled out for help, but sure no one :ould do anything more than wonder at lim. He could see Molsh Mooney tmong the people, shaking her finger it him, and he could hear her sharp roice above the discourse of the waves, is she cried out: "Aha! Farragh iTlynn, I knew you'd come to no good. The fairies have their revenge on you, md there's not a man or woman in the vorld can save you. Now, maybe rou'll give in to the good people." "Yourself and the good people can ?o to a place I won't mention,'! shout?d Farragh back at her. "I've a coun C A-rr-n of 1T1T TO " find he UJ. 1UC UH1J, vkv U",I >?vv, sat on the rock and lit his pipe as calm as you please, not wishing to show fear, although you may be sure le was badly bothered. The people came from far and near :liat day to look in astonishment at the man who was cut off from the world, ike, and him still alive and in possession of his seven senses. Toward evening the wind softened to i whisper, and the sea, that had raged round Farragh's rock all day, grew as still as a sleeping babe. Then the people on the cliff wondered still more to see a small boat with a woman in it rowing for dear life :hrough the shadows toward the enchanted rock In the ocean. So far be-1 low was the boat that they couldn't :ell who was in it; but they watched it tvith all their eyes, thinking that it was i fairy boat going to carry Farragh *ar out into the middle of the sea, cvhere he'd be lost forever. It was a time of wonderment, you may be sure. Every eye was on the boat and the ;irl. She rowed straight to the foot of the towering rock. Leaning over the edge of the boat she caught hold of Farragh's line that was still fastened to his wrist at the other end, and tied a strong rope to it. Then looking up and raising her voice, she shouted: Pull up your line, Farragh!" He started like one in a dream, and looking down, saw the face that he loved. It filled him with hope. It cade his heart leap. It was the face of Kathleen Tigue. - }[ V'V" ' ^ r "Kathleen, aroon!" he cried. "It was ! the saints that sent you." i "Pull up the rope, Farragh; fasten it , to something and save yourself." It didn't take him long to take her advice. He drew up his line, with the rope at the end of it. Kathleen held the other end of the rope steadily. Farragh then made the rope fast to a i skelp of rock as strong as Gibraltar j itself, and so'on, to the astonishment; of everybody, he was climbing down i hand over hand against the face of the J cliff. In a little while he stepped into | the boat beside Kathleen. Then you may be sure there was a wild cheer from the people, for. in spite of Molsh's maledictions, they i were sorry to see a poor mortal in such a fearful place as Farragh was in. Soon Farragh and Kathleen rowed rouifd to an easy landing on the Claddagh, and the welcome they got made ? * 3 1 ? -1 iknt ?-? ' + I everyuouy giau iu;il ux^m, <iuu im ic ; were dancing and diversion in Rath-! Na-Gar. Did he marry Kathleen? Well, now, \ don't ask me. What would you do if j you were in his place? If any one doubts this story he can J go to Rath-Xa-Gar and see for him-! self. The lonely pillar of rock stands there j yet, a hundred feet or so from the ; cliff, with the sea dashing between, to j tell of the lepreckawn's revenge on | Farragh Flynn.?Ned Xewcome, in the j New York Times. I 3000 Times More Valuable Than Gold. The greatest wonder in the line of science just now is radium, the new i substance discovered by a Paris pro- \ fessor and his wife. Radium looks i like ordinary table salt, but it is worth i about a million dollars a pound, and there is only a tablespoonful in existence. "Radium is the rarest and most pre- \ clous substance in the world," says j Cleveland Moffett, in McClure's Mag- j azine. It has so many mysterious powers that even its discoverers do not understand it. Some of the strange things that it can do are as follows: 1. It gives out heat without being consumed. 2. It gives out light. Two pounds of it would light up a room thirty feet square. J .3. If it is held near the eyes it will cause blindness. 4. It destroys germs, plants and small animals like mice and rabbits. Professor Danysz says that a couple of pounds would destroy the whole population of Paris if they came within its influence. 5. It cures cancer and similar diseases. 6. It has a mysterious influence upon insects, killing some and prolonging the lives of others. 7. It can be used to produce new species of insects, birds and animals. M. Curie and his wife, who discovered it, have had their hands and arms burned by the dangerous substance. It is possible, they say, that radium may be cheaper, but at present it takes eight tons of material to produce enough radium to fill a salt spoon. Poison* From Meat and Fish Good Healtn says mat meat owes no harmful properties chiefly to two things: First, the germs, or microbes, which may give rise to disease in the flesh which is eaten; and, second, poisons which may naturally exist in the flesh or which may have been produced in it by putrefaction. The germs are killed by cooking, but the poisonous substances found in meat either as the result of decay, as has frequently been observed in canned salmon, or as the result of ordinary tissue activity, are not destroyed by cooking. All flesh contains these poisonous substances. Uric acid is present in beef- | steak in the proportion of fourteen j grains to the pound; nineteen grains j of the poison are found in a pound of j liver, and seventy grains in a pound ! of sweet bread. The poisonous sub- \ stances gradually accumulate in the J body and give rise to neurasthenia, j Bright's disease, calculus and numer- I ous other maladies. The poisons pro- j duced by putrefaction are often very j rapidly deadly. Meat far advanced in ; decay, a condition frequently founcl j in wild game and canned meats oi> : fish, in which the putrefactive pro- j cesses have begun, all contain poisons which are deadly in very small doses, and the cooking of such substances does not to any appreciable degree j lessen their poisonous properties, ao j ( these poisons are not destroyed by heat. No Kace Suicide Among the Fishes. Perhaps few people who eat fishballt ; and salmon salad know that if it were j not for the persistent work of the ; Fisheries Commission both the cod i and the salmon would be exterminated, j In fact, constant battle is going on I between the Fisheries Commission and I the enemies of the cod and salmon. ! These two kinds of rish cannot repro* j duce themselves fast endugh to sur- I vive and have to be protected by the i United States Government. The latest report of the Fisheries j fCommission says that 44,000,000 sal- i mon are hatched every year in the j Government hatcheries, and more than ! 98,000,000 cod. Three steamships, six j special cars and twenty-five hatcheries are now in use. "It would take sever- j al books," says the Scientific Ameri- : can, "to tell the whole story of the ' wo'rk done by the Fisheries Coramis- ! sion." Some day. perhaps, the Gov- j ernment may do as much to help the j O ^ f nnw i tiny uauit'fc ui mu jiuui^ ao ii , to protect young codfish. "Walked on the Tliamcg. A middle-aged man in a white jersey the other day performed the feat of walking along the Thames, going ashore near Waterloo Bridge. Two planks, painted white, and about three yards in length, were fixed to his feet. 1 He carried a single oar, which lie scarcely used. 0 v . 1 ' ' " V- .. . - ^ f Ithenewsofaweek | : i in south carolina. | Statement Not Encouraging. The statement of the Farmers' and Merchants' bank of Camden, the president and cashier of wnich killed themselves on the same day, is not encouraging. The depositors and creditors will get their money eventually, but $72,370 belonging to the stockholders will not be realized. On tne day of the double tragedy, when the bank was closed the cash on hand was $171.99. * * * Shipping i in ore xo turope. What is said to be the first shipment of tin ore ever made from this country to Europe is now at Gaffney, awaiting shipment to Liverpool via New York. The tin deposits are on the place of Captain S. S. Ross, of Cherokee county. In three months in a very crude manner he has mined 20 tons of the ore, from which it is said he will realize $300 a ton. He has not sufficient capital to build a smelter, hence the shipment of ore to England j * * * Roosevelt Stands by Crum. A Washington dispatch says: President Roosevelt once more demonstrated his determination to stand by Dr. Crum, the negro collector of customs at Charleston, by again sending to the senate his appointment and doing so with the "recess" string to it, which lets Dr. Crum go on drawing his salary, j The president, who at first led the ; people of Charleston to believe that j he selected Crum only because he had j to and that he had no interest whatso-1 ever in the appointment, has had ha'f a dozen good chances to drop him, but i instead has each time sent his nam? j to the senate. * * Prosperous Negro Murdered. The dead body of Anson Arnold, a J well known colored citizen of the Greenville section, was a few days ago found in a swamp near Farmers' oil mill, four miles from the city. John Carter, Perry Butler and Jess Harrison are now in jail charged with the murder. Arnold had visited Geenville. where, it is said, he secured about $200 from a bank. On his failure to return home diligent search was begun, which resulted in his oldest son finding the dead body. The supposition is that Arnold was murdered for his money, and evidence secured so far is convincing that the negroes under arrest are the guilty parties. ?' Bonds sold to Atlanta Firm. The school district bonds recently voted on at Marion have been sold to the Robinson-Humphrey Company, of Atlanta, Ga. The total amount of ihe issue was $12,000. The bonds bear 5 j per cent interest, run for twenty, years without option of prior payment, ana | principal and semi-annual interest payable at the Morton Trust iCompany. New York. These are the only bonds which have been issued by the school district. The Donds sold at a very satisfactory price and nave been paia for by the Atlanta firm. Work on the school building is being rapidly pushed, and it will soon bo ready for occupancy. * * * Blood Flowed Freely. Accompanied by Deputy Collector McCoy, the local constabulary force recently searched the registered distillery and premises of Tully Babb, located four miles from Greenville, and found five gallons of contraband goods. Before the officers left the premises, a party composed of Tully Babb, Joe Babb, John Beard, Will Brown, all white, hid in the woods and opened | firp on thp rnnfttahlps with nistnls and ! Winchester rifle3. The officers return, ed the fire. For ten minutes rapid firing continued, fully fifty shots being fired on each side. When their ammunition was exhausted the constables and men joined in a hand to hand fight, and blood Cowed freely. Finally the officers succeeded in arresting the four men. They were later released on bond. No one of the party was seriously shot. * * * Chinamen Being Swindled. What appears to be a bold scheme for swindling Chinamen was developed at Charleston recently, when a number of Chinamen reported to H. J. Renick, inspector of immigrants at the custom house, that one of their numhor a lnnnHrvmnn Tiarl )>non pvfnrrin<r WV* ? W 4 ^ .. **4^3 money from them for several weeks past, claiming that money was required of them for th? privilege of living in the United States. The Chinamen stated that an American had been making the collections for the laundrvman. The case was reported to the authori- i ties at Washington, and it is expected that arrests will soon follow. It. appears that a Charlestonian is connected with the swindling scheme. Hundreds of dollars have been collected ' from the Chinamen of the citv. * * 3 Piedmont Mills Stand Pat. According to reliable information J gathered in Greenville from mill | sources, none of the cotton manufac- j turing establishments in the Piedmont j x - v ' . r'' V- . ' . V v' | sectibn will be forced to curtail production on account of the high price of the raw product, i One of the mill presidents states that there is no reason to apprehend danger in this section. "Practically all of the mills have cotton," he said, "and certainly they have enough to run for several months. At least we are not inclined j to take part in the Charlotte confer! ence, because we are not short on j the staple." There is much cotton in the local warehouses, where it has been stored by farmers for iuture delivery, borne of the farmers are holding on for 15 cents. w m Son of Tillman Wins Bride. Announcement was made in Washington Monday of a prospective wedding which will be of great interest to many people'in Georgia, as well as m South Carolina. This is the marriage, which will take -place on the 29th, of Miss Lucy Dugas to B. R. Tillman, Jr., son of Senator Tillman. Miss Dugas is the daughter of the late Dr. George Dugas, of Augusta, and the granddaughter of the famous Governor Pickens, of South Carolina, whose wife was the famous Douschka Holcombe Pickens, famed as one of the south's greatest beauties. The union of these two families, which have played so important a part in the affairs of South Carolina, is of much interest, not only ' to this state, but throughout the south. 1 The marriage will take place at EdgeI wood, the old Pickens homestead, i near Edgefield. I 'Miss Dolly Dugas, the elder of the two sisters, was married on the 9th of this month to Wallace Sheppard, son of the late "Boss" Sheppard who was such an important factor in the | upbuilding of the national capital, and who recently died in Mexico, where he amassed a large fortune. WORLD'S FAIR POINTERS. Ice plant produces 300 tons of Ice dally. Typical '49 mining camp in "Mining Culch." . Jubilee presents of the late Queen Victoria. Rose garden six acres in area, 50,000 rose trees. Outdoor mining exhibit, covering twelve acres. Forty thousand horse-power for Exposition uses. Approximate cost of the Exposition, ?50,000,000. Largest gas engine every made, 3000 horse-power. Palace of Education, 525 by 750 feet, cost $319,999. An 8000 horse-power turbine engine in power plant. Revival of the Olympian games of ancient Greece. Fair opens April 30, 1904; closes December 1, 1904. Palace of Machinery, 525 by 1000 feet, cost, $496,597. Size of grounds, 1240 acres, nearly two square miles. Palace of Electricity, 525 by 756 ! feet, cost $399,940. j Anthropology Building, 2G3 by 113 [ feet, cost $115,000. i Palace of Liberal Arts, 525 by 756 feet, cost $475,000. The sum of $150,000 appropriated for athletic events. Palace of Transportation, 525 by 300 feet, cost $090,000. Palace of Manufactures, 525 by 1200 feet, cost $719,399. Fifteen exhibit departments; 144 groups; 808 classes. Palace of Horticulture, 400 by 800 feet, cost, $228,000. Aerial navigation, $200,000 appropriated for tournament. We are ready to enter your name on our subscription books. You will not miss the small sum necessary to become our subscriber. ? immmmrn rrcurviiNeiN i rturi_tt The Czarina is suffering from ear trouble. Senator Hoar has just published his autobiography. Julia Marlowe declares she has no intention of retiring from the stage. Idaho's building at the World's Fair will bo a big log .structure in Swiss style. ' President Roosevelt lias been elected a life member of the New Jersey Historical Society. King Victor Emmanuel and Queen Helena have reached Italy on their return from England. The Dowager Duchess of Abercorn Is now the head of five living generations of her family Emperor William will go south for a winter vacation, and may go yachting In the Mediterranean. ni. ITaniT Co rrinnrtrtn Rnttnn pmt. I JLXCiil J Vdliiu^ivu v<->? nent chemist and scientist, at "Washington, D. C., aged sixty years. The Duchess of Westminster lately purchased a flexible ribbon of diamonds, paying therefor $100,000. The Rev. Dr. J. M. Pullman, brother of the car builder, fell dead after preaching a sermon at Lynn. Mass. The Emperor of Russia's menu card i 1- printed in red letters on a pure ivory tablet, surmounted by the royal crest and arms. The famous o/d schooner yacht America, winner of the cup, may be started in the transatlantic race next May, for which Sir Thomas Lipton has offered a ?5000 prize. Sultan Abdul Hamod, of Turkey, has an intestinal cancer and can live only, two or three years. He recently refused to consent to an operation recommended by a Munich doctor. Senator Stewart, of Nevada, is the only man in the United States Senate who has never been shaved. His beard began to grow when he was sixteen, and has been growing for sixty years, j " :'T' MUST BE RENEWED Presidential Nominations are Side-Tracked by House. \ STATUS IS COMPLICATED No Hiatus Occurred Between Closing of Extra and Beginning of Regular Session of the FiftyEighth Congress. By the manner of adjourning the house Saturday the extra session of the fifty-eighth congress expired by constitutional limitation Monday, when the regular session began. This eliminator? tho nrvcciVnlitir r?f a TOfPW hfi UA^fVU ^ VJkJl Wii* v* M * WWW tween the two sessions and opportunity for the president to review his civil and military recess appointments. Such of these as were not confirmed by the senate during the extra session must be reviewed simply in the form of nominations, which, in effect, are but recommendations and do not be^ come effective in dny case until confirmed by the senate. In effect this action will demnote General Leonard Wood from his presr ent rank of major general, to which the senate has not confirmed him, to the rank of brigadier general, which he held prior to August 8 last It also will demote, in like manner, 167 army officers who were promoted respectively to fill the vacancies caused by the promotion of General Wood. The important civil appointments affected include William D. Crum as collector of customs <*? Charleston, S. C.? Charles P. McClelland as a member of the board of general appraisers of merchandise at New York, and L. V. McAllister, of Vicksburg, Sis3., as receiver of public moneys, all of whom are serving under recess appointments, the effect being to vacate their present n positions. . " : As Collector Crum's recess appointment has thus been terminated and J* ->1?n? ?- o.l__ i - L._ me situation in me senate uas uccu such that his confirmation is despaired of, the collectorship of the port of Charleston will remain vacant until the expiration of the regular session of congress unless the president selects some one else for this place and the . - 1 nomination is confirmed by the senate. While no official representation was . made by the senate to the house, sev- v eral informal conferences were held between th elading republican senators and Speaker Cannon. In these conferences the speaker stated that the house had no constitutional authority over executive appointments or confirmations and that if the dreatlon of a recess was necessary To take care of cnrOi matters the sp.nfl.te should have taken care of the action looking to adjournment of the special session by concurrent resolution. In the absence of such a movement, the speaker said he would not interfere in any way in the expiration of the extra session by constitutional limitation, all the nominations, including army, navy and civil appointments made by President > Roosevelt during the extra session and which have not been confirmed^ by the senate will have to be renewed at the regular session. At the war department the officials are not quite so clear in their minds as '/ to the exact status of the military officers whose nominaions failed of confirmation. There is a disposition to / >' ; take the point of view that between the expiration of the extra session and the beginning of the regular session there was necessarily an appreciable, but practically infinitely small period of time where there was no session, and consequently congress was tech* nically in recess. ^ v COTTON FIRE IN OPELIKA. 1 v| Warehouse Destroyed-and Eight Hun- 11 . dred Bales Reduced to Ashes. The Merchants' and Planters' warehouse, one of the largest in Opelika, Ala., was destroyed by fire Sunday night. Over 800 bales of cotton, the warehouse and a $3,500 fire engine belonging to the city were lost. EDITORS SCORES TRUSTEES. ??. , 4 North Carolina Press Association Aroused Over Bassett Incident. The North Carolina Press Association had a lively discussion of the action of the trustees of Trinity university at Durham, N. C., in refusing to accept the resignation of Professor Bassett S. w. wniteneaa, or nateiga, announced Professor Bassett and the university trustees, and offered a resolution condemning the acf.on of the trustees. NEW YORK TO NEW ORLEANS. Rumor that Coast Line Will Put Through Train in Operation. Railroad rumors are again going the rounds, and this time they relate to through trains from New York to New Orleans over a direct route. U is said now that the recent visit oi President Smith and other railroad officials to Atlanta was to discuss the advisability of putting on through trains between New York and New Orleans by the way of Atlanta. * " , ''M