The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, June 06, 1912, Page 6, Image 6
WOMAN WHO AVON BULL RUN.
Mrs. Greenhow, Washington Society
Woman, Acted as Spy.
In Harper's for March, William
Gilmore Belmer, tells the true story
of Mrs. Greenhow, a Washington woman
of gentle birth who acted as a
spy for the Confederacy and gave
the information which resulted in the
nintnrv rtf "Rllll RllTl
VUlilCUCiaiC V IV.lui jr VI iJUii.
"Washington lay ringed about with
camps of new formed regiments,
drilling feverishly. Already the press
and the public had raised the cry,
'On to Richmond.' When would
they start? Where would they first
strike? It was on these two points
that the Confederate plan of campaign
hinged. It was Mrs. Greenhow
who gave the information. To
Gen. Beauregard at Manassas, where
he anxiously awaited tidings of the
Federal advance, there came about
the 10th of July the message from
Mrs. Greenhow. The message told
of the intended advance of the enemy
across the Potomac and on to
Manassas via Fairfax Court House
and Centreville. It was brought into
the Confederate lines by a young
lady of Washington, Miss Duval,
who, disguised as a market girl, carried
the message to a house near
Fairfax Court House, occupied by the
wife and daughters (southern born)
of an officer in the federal army. Gen.
r Beauregard at once commenced his
preparation for receiving the attack,
and sent one of his aides to
President Davis to communicate the
information and to urge the imediate
concentration of the scattered
Confederate forces.
"But still the Federal start was delayed,
and the prescise date was as
indefinite as ever. It was during
this period of uncertainty that G.
Donelan, who before joining the
Confederates, had been a clerk in
the department of the interior, volunteered
to return to Washington for
information. He was armed with the
two words 'Trust Bearer' in Col. Jordan's
cipher, and was sent across the
Potomac with instructions t6 report
to Mrs. Greenhow. He arrived at tne
very moment that she most needed a
messenger. Hastily writing in cipher
her all-important dispatch. 'Orders
issued for McDowell to move on Manassas
to-night,' she gave it to Donellan,
who was taken by her agents in
a buggy, with relays of horses, down
the eastern shore of the Potomac to
a ferry near Dumfries, where he was
ferried across. Cavalry couriers delivered
the dispatch into Gen. Beauregard's
hands that night, July 16.
> "And the source of Mrs. Greenhow's
information? She has made
the statment that she 'received a
copy of the order to McDowell.' Allen
Pinkerton was not wrong when
he said that she 'had not used her
powers in vain among the officers of
the army.',
"At midday of the 17th there came
Col. Jordan's reply:
?
" 'Yours was received at 8 o'clock
t'<
at night. Let them come; we are
ready for them. We rely upon you
for precise information. Be particular
as to description and destination
of forces, quantity of artillery,
etc.'
''She was ready with fresh information,
and the messenger was sent
with the news that the Federals inr
- . i
intended to cut the Manassas Gap
\ ' railroad to prevent Johnson, at Winchester,
from reinforcing Beauregard.
After that there was nothing
to be done but await the result of
the inevitable battle. She had don ;
her best. What that best was worth
was learned when she received from.
Col. Jordan the treasured message:
" 'Our president and our general
direct me to thank you. We rely
upon you for further information.
The Confederacy owes you a debt.'
"After the result of the battle became
known, and she learned how the
last of Johnson's 8,500 men (marched
to Gen. Beauregard's aid because
of her dispatches) had arrived at 3
o'clock on the day of the battle and
had turned the wavering Federal
army into a mob of panic stricken
fugitives, she felt that the 'Confedt
eracy owed her a debt indeed,' "
Athens Bankers to Face Court.
Athens, Ga., May 30.?Several new
indictments have been returned by
the Clarke county grand jury against
officers of the defunct Athens Trust
and Banking Company.
J. W. Griffin, president, and R. H.
McCrary, cashier, are charged with
receiving moneys for deposit after
the hank was in unsound condition.
H. L. McCrary, uncle of the cashier
and a director of the bank, is charged
with having borrowed $14,816.10;
President Griffin, with having borrowed
$13,140, and Cashier McCrary,
with having borrowed $4,836.10,
all without the consent of the board
of directors. Cashier McCrary is also
charged with embezzlement, it being
alleged that he is due the bank
$111,548.
Judge Charles H. Brand, in superior
court, has fixed $500 as compenstation
for Frank A. Lipscomb, temporary
receiver of the bank.
GLASS STILETTO IS IXYIBLE.
Some Remarkable Weapons Carrier
By Criminals in Europe.
The ordinary Paris apache or hooli
gan invariably carries a revolver
and most of the murders which have
recently horrified Paris have bee:
committed with the ordinary sixshooter.
The weapon which the police founc
upon Prevost, who lay in wait for i
bank messenger on April 2 last was
a novelty. He and a friend namec
Coulon planned to kill this messengei
in a way which would be least likelj
to attract public attention.
Coulon carried a bludgeon witt
which to stun the man. Prevost hac
a medical syringe charged with thai
most deadly of all poisons, prussit
acid. He confessed that he meant tc
squirt this down the victim's throat
which would have resulted in his instant
death.
A pistol which renders the persor
fired at unconscious without seriously
injuring him was found upon a
hooligan arested in East London ir
October last. The cartridges contained
a mixture of gunpowder, burned
cayenne pepper and lycopodium, the
fumes of which caused the persor
fired at to lose consciousness.
Very little originality is shown b.v
the assassin. If he does not use a
pistol or a bomb he has recourse tc
an ordinary knife. In almost all political
assassinations one of these
three has been used.
The only exception was Luccheni
the anarchist who so brutally killed
the unfortunate empress of Austria
at Geneva. His weapon was a- file
fixed in a wooden handle and ground
to a keen point. This was afterward
destroyed by the Swiss authorities.
The "blackjack," a variation of the
old-fashioned sandbag, is a favorite
with the New York crook. "Silent
talkers" is "another name given to
these deadly weapons, one blow from
which will stun the strongest man.
Some three years ago a man was
arrested in New York for the murder
of an old woman, who had been caretaker
in an up-town flat, and there
was found in his possession a blackjack,
of which the head was a leather
pouch filled with small shot. The
handle was of painted leather nine
inches long. It weighed nearly two
pounds.
A somewhat similar weapon was
taken from a man who is now in Sing
Sing prison serving seven years for
a murderous assault upon his employer,
an Albany butcher. It has an
iron ball for a head and a length oI
steel wire rope for a handle.
As diabolical a specimen of murderous
ingenuity as ever was discovered
by the police was found in the
possession of a Chinaman, who had
been working in a laundry in New
Orleans and who was believed tc
have intended using it upon his employer.
It was a tiny stiletto, with a
handle about as thick as a carpenter's
pencil, and a blade four inches long
. > J_A_J
01 glass, puiiueu as Jtvccuij as a
needle. A tiny groove had been
filed around the blade close to the
hilt. Suppose it was driven into a
man's body it would be certain tc
break off at the groove and leave
three inches of glass deep in his
flesh. What is more the puncture
would be so tiny that it would probably
close at once and show no mark,
not even a single drop of blood.
A blind elderly woman who was
found dead on the kitchen floor of
her house in Manchester had been
stabbed with a corn knife, which was
found on the floor beside her. The
murderer was never caught. And a
surgeon's lancet was the weapon used
by the maniac who, in the year 1900,
stabbed no fewer than 80 people in
the streets of Kiel, and before he was
at last arrested caused a panic worse
than that produced by the infamous
Jack the Ripper.
Perhaps the strangest weapon ever
used for killing was an umbrella. In
October, 1908, a man named Ernest
Smith was found dead fn Chiswick
High street. He had a punctured
wound in the eye which had reached
his brain, and which the doctors
agreed had undoubtedly been caused
by the steel ferule of an umbrella.?
Pearson's Weekly.
What Jolm Knew.
The teacher of one of the classes in
a school in the suburbs of Cleveland
had been training her pupils in anticipation
of a visit from the school
commissioner. At last he came, and
the classes were called out to show
their attainments. The arithmetic
class was the first called, and in order
to make a good impression, the teacher
put the first question to Johnny
Smith, the star pupil.
"Johnny, if coal is selling at $6 a
ton and you pay the coal dealer $24,
how many tons of coal will he bring
you?"
"Three," was the prompt reply
from Johnny.
The teacher, much embarrassed,
said: "Why, Johnny, that isn't
right."
"Oh, I know it ain't, but they do it
anyhow."?Philadelphia Record.
BOISTEROUS CONVENTION
I Of 1880 May be Surpfissed in Bitter- Oi
ness at Chicago This Year.
The coming Chicago convention is
, expected to surpass in bitter and th
; boisterous demeanor even the famous m
1 convention of 1880, when a field of 6C
- candidates opposed a third term for w<
General Grant, which was ably and
I remorselessly advocated by Senator m
l Conkling, of New York, and Senator to
; Cameron, of Pennsylvania, great Re- ca
I publican war horses- at the time. Re- ce
i and 12 are reported to be for Sher- gi
> man, but 45 ARE for Grant." of
t Senator Lodge also recalls how w<
1 Senator Hoar, as presiding officer, mi
made General. James A. Garfield, the pi'
> presidential nominee of the conven- by
! tion, sit down and permit himself to on
' be nominated. to
1 The balloting had gone on and on ve
i without result, but practically in all a
the earlier ballots the name of Gar- es
' field had appeared with just one vote. Qi
' The fact attracted attention more and th
more as it became apparent that the a
convention was a deadlock between
- the leading candidates and that a qu
' dark horse would be nominated. Now wi
> Garfield was for the nomination of T1
f John Sherman, and was indeed an wi
1 active worker in his cause. ba
"Next to what proved the last bal- of
1 lot," said Senator Lodge, "it was be- w<
> coming apparent that Garfield would gl.
' be nominated. The vote for him had
been climbing. Garfield, from the *
1 floor, addressed the chairman, deSc
manding a ruling on a point of order.
" 'What is the p'oint of order?'
aske" Senator Hoar.
1 ".'That, a delegate cannot,' said e
cu
Garfield, 'figure in the balloting with- x
i ty
out his personal consent, and I refuse w
to allow my name to be used. My
6D
' name is not in order and I make that ,
. . , to
point.
UI
"But Senator Hoar, who knew, of ^
1 course, that the nomination of GarW
(
" 1 1 - ?; ~ Ko nlr f a
1161a Wets CUIlillig, SHU UICU uuvn. w
' Garfield: 'The gentleman from Ohm, ya
se
is not in order/ and as he said this
! he brought down his mallet with a
' bang, and soon afterward Garfield
1 was nominated.v?Washington corre- .
1 spondence Baltimore Advertiser.
; ^ ca
i Telegraphs of the World.
_
It is only about sixty years since vi<
the introduction of the electric tele- he
i graph, as the system was known in de
; this country up to its acquisition by ar
the postoffice. The lines now in ex,
istence are sufficient to go around the
world 138 times. Put in other j
words, they would reach the moon 16
times. The total number of offices is
given at 130,000, with 160,000 apparatus,
which send out annually 300,- an
000,000 dispatches. The English, CQ.
we read make the greatest use of the
telegraph, it being estimated that aci
for every 100 persons there are sent st?
out 194 messages. France follows,
?!lt- 1 r \T?v+ nnmao Flon.
Willi ?<j?? uieasag, co. i^cai ?.umvu wum jg^
, mark, with 118; Eelgium, with 104, pa
and Germany with 91. The record ac.
telegram extended over 20,000 an
words. Others of 10,000 are men- pe
i tioned.?London Globe. be
Editor Bok Fires "Turkey Trotters.'' PF
' saPhiladelphia,
May 30.?The Curtis
Publishing Company is without the ^
services of sixteen young women who V1<
so far forgot the proprieties and rules ^
of that corporation as to indulge in
the "turkey trot" on the third floor
of the Ladies' Home Journal building.
thi
The sixteen were discovered at the an
> noon hour engaged in this terpsieho- '<s
rean specialty, much to the disgust Rc
of Edward Bok, the editor, who or- fr<
dered them "fired." ch
The young women regarded Mr. so:
Bok's action as not only an intru- a
1 sion, since they were enjoying their fe?
* * - ? -x /N nc* ?
i noon iuncneon at me time, uut ao cil
an attack on their personal privil- po
eges, and some of them say they in- of
] tend to ask Mr. Curtis to reinstate m*
them. all
In the meantime there will be no an
more "turkey trots" "bunny hugs" or hil
, "grizzly bears," at least while Mr. wt
Bok is in the building. ea:
* ' ' - *- ? '--rJi'J&Z:..
* puDiicans in wasnington who auena- qi
r de that convention are recalling some ds
of its scenes. One present was Sena- th
1 tor Lodge, not then even a congress- wl
1 man and scarcely known to fame, and de
t probably those who saw him and also In
* Senator Hoar at the time both the by
temporary and permanent chairmen
of that convention little realized that w]
4 E
there was present a man, who after- Di
ward was to embody that honor at su
two Republican conventions, that at w<
Philadelphia, which nominated Mc- ha
Kinley for a second term, and that at SI
Chicago which nominated Taft. es
There were many, many ballots in ta
the 1880 convention and Senator
Conkling was ever the spokesman for th
the New York delegation, and the way ce
he announced the result was always sh
spectacular, although always the ti<
same on that account ever effective, la:
"I do not recall the exact figures
and names of the New York vote," th
says Senator Lodge, "but Conkling's tr;
announcement was this wise: sh
"Five votes in the New York dele- dr
1 gation are said to be for Edmonds fo
QUEEN MARY'S VEIL.
ae Worn by Her at the Durbar
ued at $30,000.
The veil worn by Queen Mar:
e Durbar cost $30,000, was
onths in the making and requ
I women to execute its wonde
Drkraanship, says a London spe<
If stretched on poles it w<
ake a tent large enough to he
ur soldiers?supplied with e1
mp need. It is the most mag
nt veil ever worn by any Bri
leen in India and shows what t
;rful lace making is being done
e Irish peasants. It is hard to
hich was more splendid, the \
srful jewels worn by the princes
dia or the magnificent train v
r the Queen Empress.
When the costume of the Qi
hich was to be worn at the Ini
arbar was being discussed it
ggested by her majesty that
=ar the same veil and dress
id worn at the English coronat
le would not listen to any un
sary extravagance for this im
nt coronation.
The women at court assured
at if this Durbar was as mag
nt as those that had precede^
e would need handsomer cor<
>n robes than she had worn in I
nd.
She compromised by allo\
em to order her a new corona
ain, with the understanding
e be allowed to wear the s
ess. The train certainly made
r a new gown. It was an oi
ven to the most skilled lacema]
Belfast. Sixty skilled nee
Drkers labored more than
onths to make this magnifii
ece of lace. The veil was desig
' the best designer in Belfast
ily the most skilled were alio
work on this masterpiece,
il is about 12 yards long and
gift from the wealthiest and h
t born women in Ireland to t
leen. Nobody knows exactly v
e train cos-t, but $30,000 woulc
fair estimate.
The veil is a rose design, the
lisitely fine roses being surrouc
ith garlands of buds and lea
le finest part of the work was c
:th the needle and the hea
ckground with the bobbins. M
the work was so fine it had t<
Drked with the aid of a magnif;
ass.
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)FFICFRS HURRY TO SCEJi
arching for Women Charged i
Beating White Children.
Hampton, May 31.?Word reac
;re this afternoon of a difficulty
rring at Camp Branch, in this c<
, in which two young childrei
r. W. H. Benton were severely b
. by two negro women. The ai
ok place this afternoon and i
tderstood that considerable fee
.s been stirred up by the act of
)men in going into the white m
rd and taking advantage of the
nee of the children's protectors
It IS stated on nign aumuruj
large number of men have gon
e scene and summary punishn
anticipated in the event of
pture of the two women. The si
has gone to the scene with d<
is in automobiles to prevent
elation of the law. Up until a
iur this afternoon there were
velopments except that the offii
e on the ground.
ATTACKED B^TAXGRY BULJ
D. Antley Perches on Bull's N
to Save Himself.
St. Matthews, May 31.?Scai
d exhausted from a desperate
unter with a Jersey bull this m<
I, Mr. JoM D. Antley made a i
tilous escape from death. The 1
irted on the offensive, without
ghtest provocation, while Mr. 1
r was surveying the stock in
sture. The bull raked his vie
ross the front of his body mat
ugly wound. Mr. Antley fin
rched himself upon the neck
tween the horns, displaying gi
esence of mind, which probs
red his life. Mrs. Antley rus
with a hatchet and with this ti
weapon Mr. Antley cowered
lious beast, which was glad to
ray in disgraceful flight.
Finger in the Tobacco.
Mr. J. A. Rogers, an employe*
e factory of Statesville, N. C., S
d Table Co., has for good reas
worn off" on chewing tobacco.
)gers had just bit off a "ch<
)ra a plug of popular brand
ewing tobacco when he noti
mething in the tobacco resembl
bone. And one may imagine
jlings and indignation when
>ser examination, he discovered
rtion of a human finger in the p
tobacco. Of course the finger
ished, and dried, but it was a fin
. right, cut off between the sec
d third joints. It is now on
Dition at the factory and tt
' ^ VioTTA oAftn ?4- POTT +VlOTT nQTl 7
11/ ua V C XI Ct*j VMM *
sily quit chewing the weed.
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; by ~ This bank has facilities for1
say securing such information for. its)
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borrowing money, if you
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was I or recommendation and the banker is
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any open a savings account here, and constantly add to the ?g
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J. Aldrich Wyman E. H. Henderson
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