Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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BACK TO HOME, DO Sow and then the clouds enwrap me, Closing all the world from view; And alone I sit in dreamland, Where the meadow bathes in dew. All about the flowers biootning. Xod and bow their pretty head, And the bluebells seem to jingle Merrv son<-s to roses red. Down the pathway to the pasture Grain is swaying in the sun. I can hear the comblades rustle? 1 can see the shadows run. In my vision I am listening In the twilight, when the stars Dimly peep through mellow azure? . . Hastening toward the rustic bars. e" //. //./a/j; //. ti.ts.rr.fr. a. rr.rr. rr., 4\ IN THE FIRE-I ii ' OF Tl fife' W - By C. A. S <?y ?^7T/rur. tr,rA sr. /7;/r./r. > r. /r. iu /*\ - |>. * apj.-, ^ /geAST March Teter McCcm, |^^' " ,.r= frey, once a fireman on the llll}| T (Kill "White Star steamship Ten IHH1 Mil tonic, and afterward on a French steamer plying to the Indian Ocean, took service on the Borodino, at Madagascar. The war vessels of the Russian fleet, then on the way to the East, were short of stokers, and good wages were ofifered?as far as Saigon, Cochin China, for which port about thirty of the men in the fire-room were engaged. But the Borodino did not put into Saigon, and whoever came aboard at Madagascar had no opportunity of ieaving the ship. The men were compelled to proceed with the fleet to the Strait of Korea. There were ninety-eight firemen on tlie Borodino, in either three or four shifts, each of which worked before the furnaces for four hours at a time. These men were from nearly every nation and country of the known world. A little Chilean, called "Panclio," a New Orbleans negro, Sam Lafayette, two Welshmen, designated as "Big .Mac" and "Little Mac," an Irishman, Fiinn, and a "Fuzzy" from Saukin, who had served on an English P. & 0. steamer, were in the same shift with McComfrey. There were also with them four Finns and six Russians, two of the former being anarchists, who were believed to be plotting the destruction of the ship. The heat below during the whole long voyage from Madagascar to the ra&r, China Sea was well-nigh insupportable. Often the blowers were not operated, and when the ship lay to. the men were on the verge of suffocation from bad air, the temperature rising to 10S de1^. grees Fahrenheit. All the men in Mc|P* ,; Comfrey's shift intended to leave at Saigon, if they had to desert without ' / their pay. They never had the chance. McComfrey's letter home, describing : the Battle of Tsu Shiipa, is as fol-1 lows. "Our shift was to go on at two bells. _ I had been asleep, but turned out a I;n little ahead of time, ana tooK tne nan coffee, mu?h and canned beef they pave us, then went up 'tween decks to look out to sea. It was cool, damp and foggT- We were making about ten I knots, and a sailor told me we were off the coast of Japan. "I could just make out the Kniaz Suvaroff in the mist ahead, and the K Imperator (Alexander II.) in the line behind us. Those were all the vessels I could see on that side. There was quite a sea on that seemed like the tail of a storm farther north, for there was no wind. "We shall be at Vladivostok to-morrow, matey,' the sailor said to me in Russian. "Two beRs struck, and I heard the pipe caling our shift down to the fireroom. If you have been aboard a battleship, you know how narrow the gangways are from the main deck, and L how steep the stairs to the stoke-hole and bunkers are set. "We had cleaned the fires twice when we felt the ship begin turning to port; and just then the third engineer, a German from Bremen, came to the fireroom door. He said something in his own language to the head fireman, who was also a Bremen man. They shook hands, embraced, and then each gave a little packet to the other. I guessed at once that vhe Japanese fleet was sighted. For away down there, with the noise of the furnaces, we could hear nothing of what passed on deck. A moment, later the forced draft went on. It made our ears feel queer. Immediately too, we were piped to clean fires and coal faster. They were .giving the screws more steam, working up to full spaed. I wondered at it, in "that fog, with twenty ships all around ns, but have been told since that the fog lifted at this time. "The heavy air pressure made the furnaces roar tremendously. It was ' all white flame inside and cut out coal |?^\ like cheese. We would 110 more than g-v -. get the fires stirred up and coal in, and stnml hack a moment to breathe, when the pipes would scream again. "The Borodino was now doing sixteen knots; and just then we heard a dull report that came to us like a blow struck against the ship's side. It was a gun a long way off. Little Pancbo. who stood next to me. cried, 'Los Yap; A ' pos!' crossing himself after his Catholic fashion. The Russian stokers also dropped their shovels to cross themselves, and the Fuzzy threw down his cleaning bar. Big Mac came across to where Flinn and I stood. "'What d'ye think, mon:' he cried. What d'ye think?' "'Xo good thinkin' now!' growied Flinn. "The head fireman ordered Mac back to his place. " 'Stand by your furnaces!' he shout . ^ XI T, U 10 us. nrsi m oermai], itifu iu uuscian. 'Tend your fires! Xo bolting! |g#sWfr.:' % fe ski'" \VN ON THE FA KM. Again I loiter near the moorlands, Chasing butierilies at will; Again I hear the cowbells tinkle, And the call 01 whip-poor-wiii, Hie lazy cows I find in niding 'Xeatli the willows there in vain, And I drive them homeward singing, *'0, to be a boy again.*' Then the clouds that close enwrap me In my restrosnective dream Seem to lift and near me onward Toward the ocean?clown the stream, 0. how sweet is memory's calling. Lifting one from thought of harm, Back again a barefoot boy? Back to home, down on the farm._ ?A. U. Mayfield, in Denver News. ROOM fiE- BORODINO TEPHENS. mere s going to De a ngnt, out mat doesn't concern yon. The first man that starts to leave this fire-room will be shot.' He shoved the door back, and we saw that two marines with carbines had been stationed in the runway outside. At sight of them a sense of deadly fear came over me. There was to be no escape for us. "The pipes screamed again: and suddenly, like a thunderclap, the near, tremendous report of one of our twelveinch guns in the forward turret shook the big ship to her keel, ancf mode all the electric bulbs wink. An after turret gun chimed in, and then, one after another, the six rapid-fire guns spoke out along the whole starboard side. We knew from this that the Japanese were on that side of us. "It was now one continuous roar from the Borodino and from the Suvaroff, Imperator, Orel, Osliabia, and the whole fleet; while like a distant refrain now and then came the dull boom of the Japanese guns. Their ships were two or three miles away. "But as minutes passed, my first fear and excitement abated somewhat. No harm ntvnenred to he eomin<r to us. I took heart a little. The third engineer came down again to speak to the head fireman. 'They haven't hit us yet.' he said. 'We may pass them by. But the Suvaroff is getting it hot. She's afire!' "He had scarcely gone when we felt a heavy shock against the side, accompanied by a loud explosion. The ship reeled over, then rolled to and fro heavily. It was a Japanese shell. " 'We got it that time" exclaimed Flinn. "The pipe screamed and we piled In the coal, but just as we closed the doors another shell struck and exploded astern?an awful crash! Again the ship rocked, and soon we felt her yawing. The forced draft went off so suddenly that our ears fluttered. Then the screws stopped. "Order after order come down the speaking-tubes, and immediately the second engineer rushed into the fireroom and ordered the dampers all closed. No one told us anything, but a rumor went round that the steeringgear was disabled. The Borodino was helpless, and had stopped to prevent colliding with the Osliabia. "The fire-room at once grew- hot enough to scorch us. No air was coming down. We stood and panted, then yelled for the blower. A moment later a third shell penetrated the armor amidships, and exploded with an even worse crash than the others. Hoarse shouts and the cries of wounded men followed. None of the guns were fired after that. This last shell had disabled both sets of ammunition hoists. The Borodino lay helpless, unable to fire, unable to move ahead. Big Mac was for making a break, but the sentries had their carbines cocked, and the head fireman kept calling out to us to stand by and keep steady. By shouting up the tube, he finally got a blower started. "All the while we could hear the enemy's rapid-fire projectiles striking the upper works like a hailstorm. Their guns sounded nearer, now that the furnaces were still. The time seemed endless. "After a long while one of the hoists was repaired, and two of the large guns began firing again. This went on for a long time. Two of the Tap-] anese ships seemed to have singled out the Borodino. More than twenty shells struck us. The after turret was wholly wrecked. The passages below were now full of skulkers from the gun crews. Officers, shouting exe-1 crations, came down and drove num bers of the runaways back to the guns. "After a long time steam was put on, and the vessel moved slowly ahead for a while, then stopped again. We opened the drafts. A rumor came in that they were going to run her ashore and blow her up. "Soon after this another shell penetrated the armor, just abaft the coalbunkers, and exploded there with a fearful concussion. The pungent smoke and gas came through into the fireroom. As there was nothing to do before the furnaces, Sam Lafayette and I crept back info the bunkers, and there we could plainly hear water coming in. We reported this to the head fireman, but he bade us hold our tongues. "It was past time for the other shift to come on, but no bells were struck and no shift was made. It was rumored that many of the other firemen were killed forward. 'Night came on, and for a time the enemy's tire ceased. The Borodino lay hove to. i;y the hammering, fore and aft, we supposed mat me omcers were trying to make repairs. Not long after that we noticed that the ship had a slight list to starboard. Two pumps were started. There was a sood head of steam in the boilers, and tbe dynamos were running steadily. "As much as two hours passed. At a distance we could hear firing, but the enemy appeared to have left the Borodino in peace. The pumps worked steadily, and tlie list got no worse. Hammering resounded through the ship, with now and then shouts or a revolver shot. "But the enemy had not forgotten us. At about 10 o'clock three or four I of our rapid-fire guns were discharged suddenly. Loud shouts on deck followed. and in the 'tops' several machine guns rapped sharply. We also heard the quick revolutions of a small vessel's screw close to us. '*A moment later something bumped against us. and the next instant there come an explosion to which that of the shells was like a v,w,-gun! It tliew is all off our feet. We heard the armorplate tearing like paper. The side of the ship heaved ponderously up. then settled back. We had been torpedoed. Accompanying the shock, one of the forward set of tubular boilers exploded. and a moment later every light went out. ''For a few seconds we stood there in the dark, not knowing what to think. But we all heard a Horrible sucking, j for I felt the ship sinking. And I had not made ten'strokes when, with an awful roar of her exploding,boilers, the Borodino turned over and went to the bottom of the strait. "A great wave sucked me back into the roaring vortex that closed over the ship. For some moments I was involved in it, buffeted and whirled about; but the belt helped me to keep up, and soon I found myself floating in calm water." McComfrey was in the water for four or five hours, till daylight Sunday. Then at some little distance he saw four other swimmers. The one nearest was clinging to what looked like a slim cask. He proved to be Little Mac, and what he had his arms round was an unexploded torpedo?a round, hollow steel tube, sufficiently buoyant to float. Little Mac did not know what it was, but McComfrey knew, and called out to him to leave it. The Welshman held on, however, saying that he might as well be blown up as drown, McComfrey kept away, shouting to his mate on no account to hit the cap at the end of the tube. A warship, which proved to be the Japanese cruiser Kasuga, was lying to, a few cable lengths away. McComfrey began shouting, and presently the cruiser lowered a boat to pick them up. The Japanese bluejackets rowed to McComfrey, pulled him in, laughing, and patted him on the back. But when j they recognized the torpedo which Little Mac held in his arms, they susI pected some desperate trick on his I part, and would not go near him. They even threatened to shoot him if he did not let it go and swim to the boat. This Little Mac, now very weak, dared not do, and affairs were taking a bad turn. McComfrey succeeded, however, in making them understand the matter, and a line was tnen inrown to mm. They were taken first on board the Kasuga, but a few days later were landed at Sakai, and sent to a military camp for Russian prisoners. McComfrey writes that they are well fed and well treated. As far-as his knowledge goes, he and Little Mac were the only survivors from the fire-room of the Borodino,?Youth's Companion. When Garfield Met Arthur. "I was present the first time Garfield and Arthur ever met," said General Grosvenor, in reminiscent mood the other night to the St. Louis GlobeDemocrat man. "It was in the New York campaign of 1874, and Garfield had been making speeches in the State. He bad finished up his itinerary and was ready to go home. He and I were sitting in the Fifth Avenue Hotel when Arthur, who was State Chairman, eame along and was introduced to Garfield. Arthur complimented Garfield on the good speeches he had been making, and then asked him for a bill of his expenses. Garfield demurred, and said he had not expected any remuneration, and had been glad to contribute to the good of the cause. " 'We don t do business that way,' said Arthur. 'Other visiting speakers get paid, and you deserve more than the rest of them.' ' With that remark Arthur passed five $100 bills into the band of Garfield, who 6till protesting, finally took it. That was their first meeting, and little did either think how they were to play such prominent part? in the great political drama of the next few years.'' t I r IPalmettoState News; ! w "V ? >rvVTVy??'V < City Delivery for Greenwood. According to a Washington flis patch the postmaster general has oriered the establishment of city de ivery at Greenwood. ? * Reappointed Postmaster. rni.inpl rharles J. Purcell has gurgling sound of water coming in, and could actually feel the ship settle to that side. "With that all order ceased. We made a rush together for the fire-room door. A carbine blazed in the dark, but Pancho and I pressed out into the runway. I heard Big Mac whimpering like a child. Men were crowded everywhere, pushing, shouting, yelling?and all the while we could feel the ship settling to that side! "I got through the jam of bodies and bumped along the passage to the ladder leading up to the engine-room. No one seemed to be there, and I felt my way on deck, falling over dead or wounded men every step. Two more boilers ex pioueu una bieum uiuii1 iusuiu^ uy. "Right ahead of me I now saw the second engineer, Berustain, with a lantern and a life-belt on his arm. He was clawing his way up the incline of the deck toward an embrasure on the upper or port side. The starboard rail was already in the water, and the deck like a steep hill. "He reached the gun-port and stopped there, with the lantern ring on his arm, to buckle the belt. At that moment he was struck by a fragment of shell, and his dead body slid down the deck to my feet. "I seized the belt, buckled it round me in the dark, and scrambling up the embrasure, jumped off into the water? loarned from the Washington authorities that he has been nominated for mother term as postmaster at Newberry. * * Strike Closes Three Mills. A strike of phosphate hands in the mills of the Virginia-Carolina Chemical company at Charleston has rendeied three of the mills idle. Five hundred men have gone out, and it is believed that 1,500 will Quit work. The men are getting $1 and demand $1.23 2 day. Nearly all the strikers are negroes and the trouble affects all the departments of the work. * * Charleston Wars on Vagrants. A Charleston news item states that many negro laborers are striking for $1?25 per day, but the movement will receive a sudden check vin the determination of the police department to renew the warfare against the vagrants. The operatives at the fertilizer factories were so successful that the craze for striking has rfeached the city, hut with the police prosecuting the vagrant, the movement is not like ly to be very successful. # ** * Senator Tillman has wired J. T. Hay, chairman of the dispensary investigating committee at Columbia, that he would leave Washington for Columbia at once for the purpose of appearing before the committee. He says he had not received an invitation from the committee to appear before it, but could not leave at any other time on account of the railroad rate legislation. * * * Wife Murderer Surrenders. Claiming that he had brained his wife because of unfaithfulness, Luther Strickland, a white man living moetom nnrHrm r?f Anderson IU LUV IT S. UbVi u. VAWM W. county, surrendered himself to the sheriff. No one in the neighborhood had heard of the affair, and upon investigation the woman was found cold in death, with her four-year-old babe peacefully sleeping beside her. An ugly gash across her head told the story. The wound bad evidently been inflicted while she slept. * * * Not Ever Disfigured. Colonel Watson's immigration department got a bad scare in the house ? few days ago. It just struck a snag in the appropriation bill, the hoiise refusing to table. L. A. Fitte offered an amendment to Out the department's expense account $1,000. ftefore this could be done, the house switched to the bill of Green of Lee to * j a -u? aboiisn tne aepariment-aiiugeuicr. xuc friends of the department preferred it to be Viped out altogether rather than have it crippled. The Green bill was killed, 58 to 45, and the L. A. Fitt.e amendment was rejected, 65 to 46. The department came out of the fight not even disfigured. * * Hearing is Postponed.' The hearing of the case against the Union Cotton mills of Union, to have the corporation declared bankrapt, was deferred for a felv days at Charleston. The agreement to postpone was a mutual understanding among the couhsel, who are quite numerous on account of the number of plaintiffs and parties who have intervened in the proceedings. These proceedings are independent of the action brought by the Union and Buffalo mills to have Former President Duncan declared a bankrupt, which are now pending before Referee Earle. Lynching Charge Failed to Stick. The seven prominent white men, including farmers, merchants and two state constables, who were arrested recently, accused of having participated in the lynching of John and Frank " * - 1 3 O t Deioacn, coioreu, wwc icxcao^u Barnwell. Magistrate C. W. Moody decided that the evidence against them was insufficient to hold them for murder. The decision of the magistrate was greeted with loud cheering from a big crowd that was present. More than a score of witnesses were examined and their testimony was all in favor of the defendants. * The Passing of Major Steedman. Major W. K. Steedman, after an illness of three days from paralysis, died in Savannah. Ga. Major Steedman was on the floor of the cotton exchange when stricken, and died without regaining consciousness. The remains lay in state in the veterans' hall until they were taken to the train for Charleston. They were es^ ccrted to that city and buried with the honors of a Confederate veteran by Camp Sumter. Major Steedman was born in Charleston December 23, 1S3S. After the war he returned to Charleston, where he became connected in a short time with the firm of Knopp, Frenchs & Co., with which he remained until his death. As manager of this firm he transferred his office from Charleston to Savannah in 1900. Of immediate relatives he is survived by his wife, one son, T. C. Steedman of Bamberg, a brother, J.' Blake Steedman of Camden, and a sister, Mrs. R. B. McDowell of Hondersonville, N. C. * ? ? risni Frnitpnc Rrpalc Panic. After a run which is said to have been precipitated by the anxiety of several Greek friuters with small deposits, the Columbian Banking and Trust company of Charleston closed its doors a few days ago, the directors later made a general assignment cf property and assets for the benefit of creditors, naming Edward W. Hughes assignee. As no quarterly statement had been made since November, 1905, the figures of liabilities and assets could not be obtained. In the last statement, a surplus of $6,500 was shown, and in January a dividend was declared at the rate of 6 per cent per annum. The bank was capitalized at $50,- j 000, and was chartered in 1893. The I financial troubles of a director, howover, caused uneasiness, and the run, as above stated, brought matters to j CI uioia. It is thought that the hank will be able to pay up in. full. * * * Hasty Trial Begins on 26th. "George Hasty, of Gaffney, who fatally shot ifilan Bennett and George Abbott Davison of the "Nothing But Money" theatrical company, on December 15, will be tried on the charge of murder February 26. Hasty, who has been in jail since the killing, will be defended by local counsel. The prosecution will be conducted by T. E. Sease, state attorney for the circuit, who will be assisted, it is understod, by special counsel, employed by the Actors' Association of New York, which has taken the matter up. Several witnesses of the tragedy, members of the theatrical company, will appear on the stand for the state. The trial will be followed with the greatest interest, and private homes | in Gaffney have offered hospitality to the members of the company who will attend the trial. ANOTHER MINE HORROR. Twenty-Eight Coal Diggers Sent to Their Do:m by Explosion in West Virginia Pit A Charleston, W. Va., dispatch says: At least twenty-eight men are sapposed to have met death in a terrible mine explosion in the Parall mine of the Stewart Collieries company near Oak Hill, Thursday. Thirty-nine men were employed, in the mine, and only eleven have escaped alive. At midnight six bodies had been recovered near the mouth of the mine, and it is certain that all the others in the mine-a^e dead. The explosion occurred at 1:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon, and was caused by a pocket of gas, which was struck in a fault in the mine. The explosion was terrific, and it is thought that many of the miners were k^led outright by the explosion. The system of fans was completely wrecked by the explosion, and all air was shut off from the mines, leav ing the men who had not been killed by the explosion to smother to death. The mine is a shelter mine about 700 . feet deep and the unfortunate miners had little chance of escape. Most of the miners caught in the mine are Hungarians or negroes, who had little experience in mining. They were not exfccting the pocket of gas, which is nearly always discovered Jn mine faults in the Kanawha region. MUST HOLD TAX RECEIPT. Kentucky House Passes Measure for Qualification of Voters. The lower branch of the Kentucky general assembly Thursday adopted the proposition to submit to the people at the November election the question of so amending the constitution as to provide that a poll tax receipt shall be a qualification for a Voter in all elections. Republican members opposed the passage of the bill. TO PROBE COTTON REPORTS. I House Committee on Agriculture Arranges for General Hearing. The house committee on agriculture has arranged a general hearing on cotton statistics. The department of agriculture, census bureau, cotton manufacturers, planters and others interested in the cotton industry will be given an opportunity to be heard. Thirty-Six Bodies Recovered. A special from "Victoria, B. ., says: Thirty-six bodies of the Valencie victims have been recovered, including L twelve men brought in Tuesday?nine mep aijd tby?e women. t * ' . ; :.v"~Ty . * - - -*i 1 > :&& -<i A POLITICAL TRAGEDY. Revolvers Crack on Streets of Savan? nah and Many Bullets Find Vlotims?Ante-Election Row. In a pistol fight of political partisans tn front of the city hall at Savannah Friday afternoon Babe Dyer was Kiircu, rrau* jxagia, a uysiaua?r, was shot through the eye and is In -V critical condition, with a bullet in hia brain, it is thought; Pat Kearney, a policeman, off duty,was shot through the neck, and C. H. (Sap) Dyer was < 3hot twice in the legs. Under arrest at the barracks are .. _ : ^ " Snatcher" Dyer and Thomas Hewlett, a private detective. The parties known to be concerned in the fight 0 besides those under arrest or wound- *f ' ' <c - ed are Harbor Master James McBride,- .. Plumbing Inspector Richard McKOnna,, fS Tim McBride, a clerk in the harbor master's office, and James Lane, keeper of the police stables. i It cannot be said by whom Babe J Dyer was shot He is said to have , | been fired at mainly by Tim jJcBxide. ^ Sap Dyer seems to have been shot by - - ;;\ ^ James McBride and Tim McBride. . ^ Kearney was shot by Sap Dyer. "he affair has created tremendous . ? excitement, politics now being at fever heat, and other fights having pro- t n/\/l A>1 If LUUCU 1U Earlier than in years before a heated local political campaign has been inaugurated in Savannah. So violent already had the difference between the Citizens' Club' faction and the op- V/'s|ijsg posing People's League faction become that prediction of serious trouble had been freeiy made, and the shooting ? , Friday afternoon was no surprise. I Though the election is yet many , months off, feeling had reached a fe- ' ver heat among those most actively concerned. On Thursday there was a fight between the two Dyers and John Mun- ' roe, driver of a police patrol wagon, and at times a wholesale shooting affray was threatened. Several revolvers were presented during that af-r ' fair, and it was believed that the , bloodshed that had been averted was sure to follow in time. Friday morn- X ing an altercation at the conrt house, i'i: where the registration for the election Is taking place, resulted in a fignt $*353 in which "Babe" Dyer was beaten s with a billy by Inspector McKenna, ' ' one of the city employees, who has been hanging about the polls to watch the progress of the'registration. The two Dyers had determfhed vengeance. They knew that McKenna was expected at the city exchange for the afternoon's work and lay in wait for him. "When he got off the car and was about to enter the building tbe Dyers attacked him, and it : was then that Kearney went to MeKenna's aid and that the shooting bePRISONERS CREMATE? IN JAIL. Lockup at Eastman, Ga., Burned and Three Men Lose Lives. The town jail at Eastman, Ga., burned Friday night, together with three inmates?D. A. Cooper, Elbert Mullis and John Hart These men were locked up Friday afternoon on account of being intoxicated on the ?" 4i| streets. . About & o'clock, it was discovered ' that the jail was in a blaze, and before : ??*?.??? oAnV Kfl milna/l +Vv?? TT1 .On v itu nuuaubc kuuiu u& gwuvu M?V c,._? named had been burned to death, and when taken out were practically nothing more than a mass of bones. Mr. Cooper and Mr. Mullis were ^3(8 each about fifty years of age, and among the most highly esteemed and , prominently connected men in the county, having only the unfortunate .1 habit of occasionally getting lntoxi- i... cated. The other was some younger, but is said td have been an extremely good citizen. All three men haye large immediate families. ^41 Fifty Die In African Gold Mine. * >vjg Fifty five natives were drowned Fri- ^ day, owing to the flooding of the South Rose, a deep gold mine near Johannes'- . '..-J burg, South Africa. J . FOR FORTY NEW LOCOMOTiy?8. - | | Southern Railway Places Orders for Extensive Equipment The Southern rattway has placed an order for forty locomotives for de A livery during mis present, year, muai of these engines are of very high grade and powerful type and range in price from $-13,000 to $20,000 each. v This would make the entire contract in the neighborhood of $750,000. Or- S 2 ders have already been placed for . some 10,000 freight and coal cars in : ^ addition to many passenger coaches. %|| HELD ON G?*RGE OF ARSON. Two Young White Men Accused of Being Barn Burners. Jesse and Albert Russell, two young white men of Lifsey Springs, Ga~, were arrested Friday on warrants 'i$j| ehaaging them wtth burning the barn erf Smith Brothers, the big nurserymen of Concord, Qa., on the morning of December 15 last The fire destroyed fifteen head of stock, mostly fine mules, with other valuables amounting to over four thousaud dollars, with no insurance. // - &?&&&&; ... ' .v. , . ;