The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, December 27, 1906, Image 2
BEFOPE V
His face is seamed .vith lines of care,
Despair and agitation;
His knitted, clouded brow is wet
With beads of perspiration.
Wl jat dreadful curse hangs o'er his head,
Like sword to fall and smite him?
Or lias his conscience serpent fangs
To sorely sting and bite him?
Oh, no; with friends he cracked some
Jokes
When all were feeling mellow,
And they convinced him that he was
A bright and sparkling fellow.
They captured in his moments weak,
This rash, vainglorious sinner,
And he consented with a speech
To grace a public dinner.
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A hundred and fifty gentlemen in
evening dress sat in ghastly alignment
along the sides of the huge banquet
table. The debris of an elaborately
indigestible menu had been removed
from the cloth, and 150 stomaches
were, so to speak, wringing their hands
over the problem in their midst.
Before each gentleman was his demitasse
and his thimble of liqueur. The
air was heavily aromatic with the incense
of 100 cigars and the smell of
50 cigarettes. There was a show of
luxury everywhere; yet a look of dog*rnA
mic-orr cot nn Ol'prc miPTI and de~
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spair was abroad in the very atmo-'
sphere as at the feast of a Belshazzar. I
But there was no handwriting on the
wall to cause this dejection. The explianation
was simple. During the
procession of viands the cates and embottled
sunshine, conversation had
flowed freely from uncorked souls,
jokes had popped and laughter had
gurgled. But now the after dinner
v speaker was getting in his deadly
v. work.
It is said that you can always tell
at a banquet who the speakers are to
be by observing those who eat least,
orink most desperately and wear the
sorriest faces. But once the food has
^ vanished, it is the audience, not the
speakers, that wear the sorry faces.
This was not the first banquet Mr.
Oliver Tingley had attended, but it
was the first since his last solemn cath
that he would never go to another.
He always made such a vow alter
hours of that abject despondency, that
living death, that state of tormented
coma, one endures while flannel-brained
oafs squeak ' and gibber through
their after dinner speeches.
On this occasion Mr. Tingley had
been unable to decline the invitation.
He knew the dinner would be harmoiously
composed and melodiously served.
He promised himself that along
about tobacco-lighting time he wouid
fade away with the first smoke. But
it had been his ill-luck to be placed
next to one of the speakers. He gave
up hope of escape.
He was in for martyrdom. He little
knew, as he sat there, that this ordeal
was to inspire him with an epochmaking
idea. It is not necessity but
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tfon. How little we know when we
suffer what will be the outcome of our
v * grief! What is the pearl but the teardrop
of a despondent clam ?
The toastmaster had been chosen for
his political eminence in congress?an
eminence that seems to unfit one hopelessly
for after-dinner speaking.
With an eloquence that was appallingly
out of place the toastmaster began
to dilate on the grandeurs of American
liberty, the westward progress
of the star of empire, the lowly prairie
schooner with is freight of glory, and
kthe magnificence of our free school system.
It was all very important and more
or less true, but it did not contribute
to digestion. The toastmaster let the
eagle scream himself hoarse, then made
him scream some more. He pulled out
the tail feathers one by one, and it
was only when he had extracted the
last pin-feather that he consented to
Introduce the first speaker.
The Hon. Justice Sudbury had for
his subject the promising little trifle,
"International law in its relation to
the origin and scope of the Monroe
Doctrine."
? The Justice gazed down on the guests
as if they were so many defendants in
a civil action. And he read to them a
speech full of legal verbiage and pomposity
that had neither a scintilla of
interest nor a prophecy of conclusion.
He might have been talking yet had
not one of the guests, who had managed
to become cozily drunk, leaned
across the table and asked him in a
loud and bibulous tone:
"Is the old horse thief going to talk
all night?"
The Justice overheard, and came to
a halt. He realized that the offence
was beyond his jurisdiction and he
could not sentence the man to death.
He clutched at a few straws and ignominiously
sank into his seat. Every
one applauded?ostensibly the speaker,
actually the beneficent drunkard.
This apparently unimportant episode
started in Tingley's mind the first
workings of the idea that resulted in
his era-estaDiisnmg invention.
The toastmaster rose again, studied
his notes, and told a few stories, of
whose hoary antiquity he alone seemed
to be "ignorant. He dragged them
from their graves with the glee of a
grinning ghoul. But as even the
effort and inclination to be humorous
are rare at banquets, the audience acclaimed
him with gratitude". But he
introduced Senator Peavey, whose subject
was "Peace hath her victories no
less renown'd than war.?Milton."
L He spent five minutes saying that he
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WATERLOO.
Where is his inspiration gone?
His mind now gropes and wanders.
And now and then he mutters low
And bites his lip and ponders.
He turns his stock of stories o'er
And tinds with memory murky
He's stuffed as full of chestnuts as
A roast Thanksgiving turkey.
So he'll break down?he knows he will?
Supreme of all disgraces!
He shudders as he thinks he sees
The rows of glistening faces.
So. as the fatal hour draws nigh,
He paler grows and thinner.
And gloomier than a funeral feast
Appears that dreaded dinner.
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1 was no speaker and twenty-five minutes
proving it beyond a shadow of
doubt.
He Ixijan logically with the first war,
that of Cain and Abel, and came down
the valleys of history with the deliberation
of a glacier, neglecting few details
and freezing everything he touched.
People coughed, shuffled their feet,
talked and groaned. One man gave
vent to a cavernous ana revemeraiu
yawn. Everybody laughed. But the
speaker ignored him.
At the end of thirty minutes Senator
Feavey had reached the paintings of
Verestchagin, which he described with
detail that was harrowing without being
interesting.
A man from Texas delighted a group
by declaring, "If he doesn't shut up
I'll shoot him," but he disappointed
them by inaction, though they promised
him a verdict of justifiable homicide
in self-defence. But nobedy ever
does the things that everybody wants
to do.
In the balcony a few women sat
yawning behind their fans and wondered
what men saw in these affairs. But,
like all things mundane, even Peavey
came to an end.
Again a long interlude by the incorrigible
toastmaster, then he introduced
Congressman Quinby. Now,
Quinby was chiefly famous for the
occasion when he prevented the Hous9
from voting on a bill by talking against
it for thirty-six hours, at which time
the exhausted majority promised him
anything if he would quit.
He began as if he were going to do
it again but Mr. Tingley grew desperate.
* He rose from his place and
sneaked from the room under pretence
that he was overcome with a
nose-bleed. Less couragous diners
gazed at him with envy and longed for
a hemorrhage or a paralytic stroke tc
rescue them.
Once out of the room, Tingley decided
to walk home. The silence of the
sky and the beautiful repose of the
flittering stars led the thoughts to
that heaven where there is no afterdinner
speaking. It soothed him and
uplifted his soul to a height where he
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fellow men and to leave a
name that posterity should call
blessed.
Plainly the crying need of the twentieth
century was a means of choking
off long speeches after dinners. Warnings,
prayers, hints, did no good. Tingley
had once heard a desperate toastmaster
introduce a speaker thus:
"The hour is exceedingly late. Every
one wants to go home. I call upon,
Mr. Thaddeus Budd, because I know
he has the good taste to close the occasion
with about half a dozen words."
After such a preface, Tingley had
seen this man Budd rise and talk for
one hour by the clock. And one hour
of after-dinner speaking equals a cycle
of Cathay.
He had seen speakers who had talked
on and on while the banqueters, one
by one, in common despair, folded
their napkins like the Arabs and as
silently stole away.
He had seen speakers provoke a riot
of protest and talk it down.
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Me naa seen speaners resist, uie Lagging
of the toastmaster at their coattails.
It was evident that the relief was
not to be found in admonition or prayer
or in any human intervention. The
simplest means of ending the evils of
after-dinner speeches would be, of
course, to give up the dinners. But
Tingley knew that men liked to get
| together in regalia over the board.
It was a survival -of primitive and cannibal
times.
"But in those days," he mused, "If
a man talked too long the rest probably
grabbed him, threw him in the
pot and made an entree or a hors-d'oeuvre
out of him. Ah! An Idea!"
Tingely started with joy. Of course,
it would be impossible in these effete
days to eat a garrulous speaker. But
why not boil him?
Tingley hurried home and late as
it was, went to his desk, turned on
tb#? lieht nnd worked like mad draw
ing plans. His wife found him there
at 4 p. m. He heard a gasp and saw
her standing somewhat like the Goddess
of Liberty in curl papers, etc.
"What in heavens' name are you doing
at this hour?" she gasped.
"Saving the great American people
from the greatest danger that now
threatens them?the danger of being
talked to death," said Tingley, with a
strange gleam in his eye. "Conversation
has always been the greatest sin
of republics, and dyspesia admittedly
the greatest blotch on American health
ergo, dyspesia is caused by conversation.
Remove the cause and nature
will do the rest I have at last discovered
the remedy."
Mrs. Tlngley was not interested but
she edged toward a cold steam radiator
and listened while Tlngley ran on.
"Like all the great inventions, my
dear, the simplicity and obviousness
of this chiefly excite one to marvel that
the ages have had to wait so long for
its discovery. My device is based on
the same idea as that of common or
garden gallows.
"The' speaker, when introduced, is
escorted to a platform or dais, slightly
raised above the level of the floor, so
that all may see him better. He is in
reality standing on a trapdoor, operated
by clockwork. As soon as he begins
to speak the toastmaster presses
a button, which sets the clock mechanism
in motion. The speaker is warned
that his remarks must be limited to
ten minutes. It is possible to prolong
the time by a simple adjustment of
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stances can this be extended beyond
eighteen minutes, as nobody on earth
can conceivably have anything to say
that a crowd of men full of dinner can
properly listen to for longer than a
quarter of an hour.
"One minute before the allotted
time the speaker hears a low but oniinious
buzzing beneath his feet This
gives him ample time for his peroration
or reminds him of his final story.
He then finishes and retires.
"Otherwise?otherwise, my dear, at
the exact end of the allotted time the
trap beneath him opens automatically,
and he disappears into a yawning
chasm."
"Good gracious!" exclaimed Mrs.
Tmgley with pardonable excitement.
"What becomes of him then?"
"That depends," said Mr. Tingley.
! "I have several schemes in mind. In
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pattern a ne is aroppea mio a large
caldron of boiling oil. This is surely
no more than is due to a man so
merciless of his fellow citizens. An
| eye for an eye, torture for torture.
"As there is, however, a mawkish
sentiment against making the punishment
fit the crime, I shall expect to
install more of my pattern B. In this
the speaker is deposited on a polished
chute or runaway, something like the
"down and out" at Coney Island.
Through this he glides swiftly and
safely to a porthole, whence he is carried
by his own momentum into a
waiting jpatroi wagon, which takes
him to the police court. After a night
in a prison cell he is arraigned the
next morning fcr disorderly conduct,
disturbing the peace and maintaining
a nuisance. I call the device Tingley's
Post-Prandial Trap, or Banqueting
Made Easy. I shall incorporate
a company tomorrow under the laws
of New Jersey and begin the manufacture
of those pain-killers at once.
And now, what do you think of your
husband?"
"I think," said Mrs. Tingley grimly,
"that if you were on one of those postprandial
traps now I'd press the button.
As it is you'd better go to bed."
No hero is a hero to his valet and no
inventor a genius to his wife; but the
world is soon to see 1 he Tingley mechanism
placed on the market. No hotel
or banquet hall can afford to be withr
out one.?Harper's Weekly.
A MODEL ENGLISH VILLAGE.
Bournville, Where the Workers Live
in a Wooded Park.
During the past eleven years Bournville
village has arisen, and today it
shelters a community of about 3000.
It covers an area of more than 500
acres, nearly the whole of which was
a free gift by Mr. George Cadbury.
The village, which stands amid gardens
and park lands, comprises dwellings
which are not beyond the resources
of the artisan, and also a fair
proportion of houses of the villa type.
No two houses are alike. The average
garden space allowed to each
house is 600 square yards; and that
most of the occupiers take a pride in
their gardens is abundantly evident.
The- roads are 42 feet wide, and are
planted with trees. The houses are
set back at least 20 feet from the
roads. About 1200 out of the 4000
employes in Messrs. Cadbury's factory
reside in Bournville. Of the re
maining residents aDout 4U percent
work in Birmingham. Mr. George
Cadbury explained that out of their
4000 workpeople only seven had died
for the last four years, a death rate
of less than two per 1000. Six hundred
or 700 girls had learned to swim
in a large bath provided for them at
the works. Practically all the boys
and men could swim.
No cottage is allowed to occupy
more than one-fourth or one-fifth of
the area of land on which it stands.
Mr. Cadbury urged that if we were
to maintain our position as an imperial
race the problem of overcrowding
in unsanitary surroundings in our
great cities must be faced. At Bournville
village the death rate was 7.5,
whereas in the working class quarters
of Birmingham the rate was three
times as high. One of the principles
which had been put into practice at
Baurnville was that every child
should be within five minutes walk
a playground. He hoped England
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of not allowing any district to be developed
for building without the whole
of the plans being fist submitted to a
central authority.?London Times.
Some Hints for Parents.
We would like to wager that when
the Topeka girl who left a home of
wealth to marry a ball player and
jointkeeper thirty years her senior
was a child she kicked and screamed
if she didn't have her own way and
kept kicking and screaming till she
got it We make this wager for the
benefit of parents who in to the
children every time the children kick
and scream to have their own way.?
Atchison Globe.
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Prominent Physician Dead.
Dr. W. H. Huger, SO years old,
died in Charleston a few days ago.
For 50 years he was a physician of
the Charleston orphan home and a
member of the board of health for
25 years. He was a Mason and prominent
in social organizations.
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Officers Capture Big Still.
'State constables captured a big illicit
still in York county one nights
recently, making the second still that
has been captured in the county during
the last= ten days. The officers
making the raid are attached to Chief
Constable Fant's division, with head
quarters in Spartanburg.
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Planter Surrenders.
H. L. Cox, a truck planter near
Charleston, surrendered himself to
Sheriff Martin last week.
He shot and killed a negro on his
plantation. He was released on bond
of $5,000 for his appearance at the
' next term of court.
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Operator Travis Arrested.
T. ?>. Travis, a telegraph operator,
whose home is at Newnan, Ga., and
who is wanted at Columbia, was arrested
in Chattanooga and taken back
to Columbia by the officers. He was
formerly connected with the Central
of Georgia office in Columbia and is
charged with forging express money
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Failed to Turn in Money.
William P. Sharp, employed at
Claxon's marble yard, iSpartanburg,
has been arrested on the charge of
breach of trust, it being alleged by G.
E. Claxcn, proprietor of the marble
works, and Sharp colectea between
$1,000 and $1,200, which he failed
turn in to the office. Sharp has been
'in the employ of Claxon for five years.
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Alleged Counterfeiter Jailed.
ti. M. (iranam, a leading xarmer,
was jailed at Anderson a few days
ago on a charge of making counterfeit
50-cent pieces. iSome time ago he
turned over to the authorities a counterfeiting
outfit, saying it belonged to
a neighbor, and offered to assist in
running this neighbor down, but the
officers, after a careful investigation,
have suspected that 'Graham himself
is the guilty man, and the arrest followed
as a result.
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No Appropriation for Triplets.
Mrs. J. -Christopher of Florence has
written to Governor Heyward, asking
if there is an appropriation for triplets.
She has them, and they are three
months old. She has three other children,
and is a poor woman.
Governor Heyward replied that he
has no appropriation for this purpose,
but will refer the matter to President
Roosevelt, under whose universal jurisdiction
such matters come.
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Columbia Seeks Subtreasury.
The Columbia chamberpot commerce
appointed a committee consisting
of Messrs. W. A. Clark, R. W. Shand
and F. H. Weston to push Columbia's
claims for the subtreasury. A letter
was read from Congressman lever in
Washington stating that Columbia
would receive the support of the South
Carolina delegation, and that Charleston
had been eliminated. He asked for
facts and figures on which to base
Columbia's claims. .
The committee was instructed to
get up the necessary data and go to
Washington to press the matter.
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Heyward Declines Invitation.
In reply to an invitation from Secretary
Cooper asking Governor Heyward
to deliver an address on 'Immigration"
at the annual meeting of the
Atlanta chamber of commerce, Private
Secretary Norment wired that
Governor Heyward will be unable to
accept.
The legislature will meet about that
time, and the governor cannot leave
feis office in 'Columbia.
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Doctor Found Dead in Road.
Dr. B. D. Hopkins, a prominent physician
of Fork Shoals, was found dead
in the road two miles from *his home.
The cause of- his death is not known
definitely, but the general opinion is
that it was heart disease. Dr. Hopkins
was out in the country and it is
thought that he was on his way home
when he died. About sundown his
horse and buggy came up to his house
without him, and his son suspicioning
that something was wrong went in
search of his father and found him
lvine in the middle of the road dead.
Dr. Hopkins was 55 years old. He was
a large farmer and was in a prosperous
condition.
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Fireburg Contradicts Himself.
Lewis Burton, the negro firebug,
new in the county jail at Newberry,
charged with the burning of the prop.
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erty of Press N. Boozer, has made
another confession, in which he contradicts
in a large measure the statements
made by him shortly after his
arrest. Ee says that his former statement
was false; that there is no organization
of the negroes in that community.
Henry Ciay, colored, he says,
was the one who set fire to the barn,
his reason for so doing being that
Mr. Boozer had charged him $30 for
a pair of shoes, which he had stolen,
and which were found in Clarv's nos
session. Sam Pinson, colored, is also
named as a party in the crime. According
to the statement of Burton,
the burning was planned by these
three negroes that night. Clary started
it in the hay loft and Burton, who
was in the employ of Mr. Boozer, took
it upon himself to notify Boozer of
the fire as soon as it had gained sufficient
headway.
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Moody Escapes from Jail.
W. R. Woody of the marine corps,
held in jail at Charleston,' charged
with the murder of Lillian Reeves,
on October 30, made his escape by
taking' advantage of the liberty of
the building, securing a plank from
the engine room and scaling a 15-foot
wall. He was shot over the left breast
on the night of the murder of the
Reeves woman, taken to the hospital
and sent to jail November 8.
It is the custom to allow invalid
prisoners the liberty of the jail buildire
The doors were not locked un
til 6 o'clock, and the escape was made
before then. A reward of $50 has been
offered by Sheriff Martin for his arrest.
lie is a marine, brunette, weighs
150 pounds, height 5 feet S inches,
and wore a uniform under a civilian
ccat.
The Reeves woman was found dead,
shot in the left side. Woody, wounded
over the breast, was found several
blocks from the scene of the crime
cn the same night.
DYNAMITE DEALS DEATH
Youth Drops an Explosive Cap to Illustrate
an Accident and Death
and Destruction Follow.
By the explosion of dynamite in
the small fireworks factory of Joseph
Carbo and John Niva, Italians, in Savannah,
at 9 o'clock, Wednesday night,
one fireman was burned to death,
another was fatally .burned, assistant
fire chief and another fireman - were
seriously and possibly fatally burned.
The proprietors were alio painfully
burned.
Carbo and Niva were engaged in
counting torpedoes they had manufactured.
One dropped and caused the explosion
of the rest. Carbo and Niva
suffered painful injuries, those of
uaroo Deing uie more serious.
The small building took fire and. a
chemical company of the neighborhod
responded to the alarms and
quickly extinguished the blaze.
Assistant Chief Mouro was telephoned,
as it was desired that he investigate,
it being suspected that the
Italian proprietors had a greater
quantity of explosives in the place
than the city ordinances permit. Upon
bis arrival he and Fireman EJady,
O'Leary and Daley entered the building.
With them was a boy, Fred Chitty,
16 years old, who had crowded
his way in.
The firemen were speculating as to
what could have caused the explosion.
"I'll show you how it happened," remarked
Chitty, picking up a dynamite
cap. This he hurled to the floor,
and tliere followed three explosions
in quick succession. The building collapsed
and the detonations -were heard
all over the city. Window glasses
were broken in the neighborhood and
debris was sent flying in every direction.
Fire followed the explosions.
Eady was caught beneath the fall'
ing timbers, crushed to death and his
body incinerated. The others escaped
to the open.
All of the injured were at once
hurried to hospitals. Carbo and Niva
had already been hurried to Park
View sanitarium for treatment, but
the superintendent of police almost
immediately directed their removal
to the' police station. This was for
a dual purpose, the effecting of their
arrest and to save them from a mob.
The crowd became greatly inflamed
immediately upon ariving on the
scene and hearing what had occurred.
"Lynch the dagoes," was the
shout. "Never mind the police; lynch
the dagoes."
The cries stirred the crowd to a
pitch of frenzy, jut the appearance
of additional policemen prevented an
outbreak.
MORMON KIDS SPIT ON FLAG.
Wife of Idaho Senator Says Mormonis
m is Greater Curse Than Slavery.
"Mormonism is a greater curse
to the country' than was slavery,"
declared Mrs. Fred T. Dubose, wife
I of the Idaho senator, in an address at
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Tuesday night She said
that should President Roosevelt make
a trip through southeastern Idaho lie
would no longer be willing to deelare
that there is nothing in the Mormon
question. Six United States senators,
she said, owe their election to the influence
of the Mormon church. In closing
her address, Mrs. Dubois said:
"Mormon children in Idaho and
Utah spit upon the American flag."
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GREED NOR COLOR
Considered by Rooseveft tip^i
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Discharging Negro Troops.
MESSAGE TO CONGRESS
Evidence of Guilt, Says President, 'M
Cannot Be Disputed?A Blacker 'mSm
Crime Never Before Disgraced
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velt was read before congress Wd-;
ness relative to the discharge of the ^
negro treops in Texas, charged with ^
"shooting up" Brownsville.
The president is so prompt
thorough in his response to the- sen- ^
ate resolutions calling for the facts*v ||p
about tlie Brownsville affair that there
Is room for the slight suspicion that
he abetted if he did not inspire the v:?
resolutions. His response came in the ,
shape of a bulky document of 18$ j- ... -J
pages, or about 50,00$ words, of which!; ^
4,000 words form his message to the: ." . '
senate, the rest including the report '
of Secretary Taft and additional
uments bearing upon the case.
The president in his message say^/: - %
"I ordered the discharge of nearly^ - ^
all the members of companies B, &
and D of the twenty-fifth infantry b7. "' V'.
name, in the exercise of my consti-' - ^
tutional power and in pursuance of ' ' >/<
what, after full consideration, I founds ?. *?
to be my constitutional duty as com? ~ 3
roander in chief of the United v fA
army. I am glad tp avail myself of: J
the opportunity afforded by these res- ^
olutions to lay before the congTes??kJj
the following _?acts as to the murder- / 7
ous conduct of certain members of tbe^ <
companies in question and as to -the^i'^
conspiracy by which many of tti?
other members of these companies . > .
saved the criminals frem justice, C
the disgrace of the United State*--,'
"An effort has been made' to disfe^
credit the fairness of the investigation.
into the conddct of i these
troops by pointing out that Geaejjfir
Garlintgon is a southerner. Pveclfipfcjr vSQjj
the same action would have been %
en had the troops been white* V .5
"It appears that in Brownsville, the
city immediately beside which ^
Brown is situated, there had beencoBiJ~y; &}?
siderable feeling between the'
and the colored troops of the gart^o^T,!.jy
companies. Difficulties had ocoqrir^^S
there being a conflict of evidence
whether the citizens or the
troops were' to blame. My.
is that, as a matter of fact, in tgesqff V
difficulties, there w as blameto
both sides; but this is a' w&e^'i'. ||
unimportant matter for our
purpose, as nnuirag .^uxai, uccux^.mh^^h
fered in aay shape or way an excnn/. |
of Justification for the atrocious; %'*1
duct of the troops when, in
and murderous spirit, and under xkfftyl', " ?
er of the night they made thieirv^j7 if
tack upon the citizens.
"TMs attack was made near
night on August 13. The foJlowiaf|y:^
facts as to this attack are made clear^ \
by Major Biocksom's investigation*'';
and have not been, and, in my judg-i - ;
ment, cannot be successfully canfocn 7 "7
"Prom 9 to 15 or 20 of the colored 7
soldiers took part in the attack. ThejK. v
leaped over the walls from the bajy- I
racks and hurried through the town? v;:
They shot at whomsoever they sal?:
moving and they shot into bouses
where they saw lights. In some
these houses there were women and 7 7
children, as the would-be murderet*7 /
must have known. " * " tj;7S
"In one house in which there vrer$ 7 .
two women and five children soaae t^^^^
aUntc wsnt thronsrh at a . height '
about 4 1-2 feet above the- floor, on
puttiBg out the lamp upon the table.
The lieutenant of police of the town heard,
the firing and rode toward It; ^
He 5net the raiders, who, as hestat-'; . ;
ed, were about fifteen colored soldiers,
They instantly started firing upon
him. He turned and rode off, and c
they continued firing upon him .'xuskitiiV
I they had killed his horse. They shot '
him in the right arm?it was after-\
ward amputated above the elbow.
"A number of shots were also fired
at two other policemen. The raiders.
fired several times into a hotel, someof
the shots being aimed at a guest,'
sitting by a window. They shot intoa;.-r',;
saloon, killing the bartender and ~
wounding another man. At the same "
time other raiders fired into another
house in which women and children'
were sleeping, two of the shots going
through the mosquito bar over A,
the bed in which the mistress of the x
house and . her two children were ^-x|1h
ing. Several other houses were
by bullets." ?
DECEMBER GINNING
Bulletin of Census Bureau Shows
11,099,001 Bales to Date. >
According to a bulletin issued
the census bureau at Washingto^O?3
there had been ginned up to December
13 of this year's cotton crop. 11,099,001
bales, against 9,297,918'at
time last year.
The number cf ginneries reported itt;A &
operation this season prior to Decenw . ry
ber 13 was 28,322.
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