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mystery of c tre; Here is a Strange Stor Treasure Taken President ant J Scores of tales have been told the disappearance of the gold a silver taken away by President J ferson Davis and his official fam when the Confederate govftrnm( abandoned Richmond, but for h ' * a century seeKers duei moiwin facts have been unable to clear the mystery. Large sums of mor Were spent by the and to wh: the cash belonged in vain effo: to find the guilty men. Probably t reason the secret was kept so lo is that the friends of the loot had no particular desire to exp< them. Anyway it seems that nobc cared to tell a lucid, detailed st( of the incident until Judge Le^ Shepherd, a lawyer of Chattanooi who served through the war in i Confederate army appeared in pr the other day in an interview,gi? Mrs. L. M. Cheshire special cor spondent of the Nashville Bann Mrs. Cheshire says Judge Eak another prominent Chattanoog; vouches for Judge Shepherd's sto We have seen no denial of it, or fi ther confirmation and give it for may be worth. Here is the Tenn seean'e account of the affair: *. When the Confederate governm* abandoned Richmond as its capi all its archives and treasures w< sent under strong military escort, Charlotte, N. C. The banks of Ri< f V nn/vnri oont qwj?v thfvir treasure unc protection of the same escort; Pre dent Davis and his cabinet also cai to Charlotte and established tempo] f-'r \ ry headquarters. Before they reached Chariot Richmond and Petersburg had f len and Gen. "Lee had surrenderi and in a very few days Sherm and Johnston had agreed upon ; mistice by their celebrated pai under which it was proposed tl peace should be made, and that t * receding States should resume th treaty, if it had been carried o woald have obviated reconstructs under what is known as the Rect . ntruction Act of Congress, for covered the entire subject of rest< ation of peace and return of t Southern States to the Union, and their senators and representatn to congress. This armistice was pudiated by President Johnson a his cabinet, on the ground that th< military commanders had exceed their powers in undertaking to s tie the terms on which the erri States mignt resume meir yuuut functions with the general gove: ment. It may be admitted that these g? erals went a little further than th had the right to go, but it can r be denied that they displayed a pi found statesmanship in their co prehensive yet terse settlement a-question which afterward so sor< disturbed congress, so early caus the conviction upon impeachment the president, and so complete bankrupted the Southern States. Mr. Davis, being advised tl President Johnson had brought end to the armistice and repudi ed the Sherman-Johnson treaty 1 gan efforts to prevent the capti of himself and the treasures of t Confederacy. The gold and sih of the Confederacy and that of t Richmond banks were loaded ir wagons, and the president of t Confederate States with his cabir ministers, started soutn witn guarded by three brigades of a airy?Dibrell's, Vaughan's, a Dyke's. When we arrived at Wa: ington, Ga., it became apparent Mr. Davis that he could not w such a retinue escape the vigilai of the Federal cavalry, which v rapidly closing in on him from ev< direction, so the money kegs a boxes belonging to the Confeder; ' government were opened and 1 silver divided among the boys, ea without regard to. rank, receivi ?26.50, and they were granted definite furloughs. Mr. Davis a his family pushed on further sou and was a few days afterward c; tured by the Federals. Meanwhile the officers of 1 banks sought the aid of the Fede commander to return their spe to Richmond, and from them obta ed a permit and also a guard of s diers to protect it on its reti trip. Some of the officers and n of Vaughn's brigade became prised that a train of specie was ing carried north under Federal cort, and they jumped to the c elusion that it was the property the Confederate government, wh the Federals had captured. T! concluded that their four years hard service for the Confederacy titled them to a share of this g and silver, provided they could e ceed in securing it from the Fed* > KILLED BY SISTER-IN-LAW. ! "Lute" Tucker Dead, Minnie Dreher U ^; .. Jailed, in Lexington. , ! Lexington, March 7.?"Lute" j Tucker was shot and killed by his ! sister-in-law, Minnie Dreher, about j four miles from Lexington on Thursi day night, the killing, it is alleged being the result of a quarrel, in which it is claimed that Tucker was raising j a "rough house" in general. The I nt j shooting occurred at the home of I ONFDDERATE ISURE EXPLAINEI y of a War Time Myster From Richmond by J Official Family of | guard. With them the war was 11 nd ! yet over, and they acted upon t ef- j idea that anything is fair in wi il> They organized an expedition wi mt the view of capturing this morn alf and followed the train until a i :al vorable opportunity of attack pi up ! sented itself. They charged t iey! train, captured and disarmed t ich guard, and proceeded at once rts knock the heads out of the ke ;he and the lids of the boxes contai ng ing the coin and to fill their fora; ers sacks with ten and twenty-doll )se gold pieces. Several of them g dy away with as much as $60,000; sor >ry were content with $25,000, and st vis others with less amounts, dependii ga, upon the carrying capacity of the ;he sacks and saddle-bags, int One man began to fill his sa< en out of the first keg he came to, whi< re- proved to be a keg of silver. He w er. happy when he lugged off his b; in, of silver dollars, but when he met li an, companions later in the rendezvoi ry. where they stopped to count mone ur- he found that he had only abo it $4,000, while his companions had s es- j cured several times that sum in gol i while his was in silver. He becar mt j greatly disturbed over his ill-lu tal j and insisted that his more fortuna ire j brothers divide their gold with hii to j This they refused to do, and he th< 2h-1 determined to turn informer. I ier i was as good as his word, and up< :si-1 the information furnished by tb me I silver king, several of the gold-bu ra-1 were apprehended and forced to gi ! up their booty. But a number te i them were wise enough to keep goii aj^; until they got safe away from tl a(j scene of their capture. an'! I personally know several of tl ar_' men who got some of the swag. )er of these men went with their mone lat: amounting to more than $120,000 he | Kansas City, Mo., where they enga ejr ed in business, becoming men of larj ut ' wealth. Two others went to Califc )n'! nia, and with something more thi m_ $100,000 they embarked in busines | One of the wealthiest planters 3r_! Texas got his start with money s he cured from those kegs, and st of j another in the same State nas ma< res 1 good as a stockman, being now a ca re_ tie king.?Literary Digest. nd ^ ? WANTED ON BIGAMY CHARG led etJ. L. Brown, Barber, Arrested 1 ng j cal | Georgetown Chief. rn-| * j Georgetown, March 7.?Chargi )n_ j with bigamy^ Jack L. Brown, white, ey j journeymen barber, was arrest< 10t Thursday at his place of emplo r0_ ment on Front street, by Chief m_ | Police L. L. Bolick, and yesterdi 0f j was started to Cordels, Ga., where 1 ! is wanted, in charge of an office ^ j The Georgetown officer will tal of Brown as far as Savannah, where tl 5jv prisoner will be turned over to Sher: Hall, of Crisp county. iat i The arrest was made upon tel an | graphic request from Sheriff Ha at_ | who wired a complete description < 5e_ j Brown. Brown didn't deny his ide ire! tity when approached by the chief < he police. He did. however, in stroi .er terms, deny the charge against hii ke So far from being a bigamist, he sa lto he had not even one wife and wasc he | particular about wanting one. iet He admitted having lived in Co dels and having worKea mere at 11 lv_ trade. From that point, he said, ! n(j went to Savannah, where he work* 5k_ for awhile. From Savannah he can t0 to Georgetown a week or ten da ith ag0* was unaccompanied by lce wife. Brown was taken to the loc ,*as ' up un(*er tlie city where he spe ,rv the night, and whence, at 4 o'clo< n*l j yesterday afternoon he was taken ate the train. he Yesterday morning Brown reques ich ec* Bolick to go with him to tl ng barber shop to get his tools and oth jn_ belongings there. The chief conser n(j ed. In the shop Brown stepped in the back room to get his things. Xc ap_ j withstanding he was under tlie eye : the chief all the time, 110 sooner hi the *le S?tten *nt:o the back room than I made a break for and out of the re cje door and went sprinting down Bro; in-. street;0j_ The chase, however, was short ; though sharp. Brown had 110 mo I 1 lA than reached the corner of Prin street, one block from his starti <i P ^ ' point, before he was caught and Cc es- rie(* >jack t0 ^e lock-up. He w on_ considerably dejected because of 1 -j failure to get away. He didn't wa ich t0 I)llt to tlie anno>'ance an^ hev ^ense ?f answering the charge Cordele, lie said, meanwhile sticki n_ to his story of innocence of t old charge. ;uc- | iralj Read The Herald, $1.50 a yeai ke j Tucker, the weapon used being a 111 lr ! single-barrel shotgun, the contents of 11 ! which entered the lower part of the 11 J abdomen at close range, causing an H , ' ugly wound. 1 According to the evidence at the he inquest yesterday morning, conducted by Coroner Weed, Tucker was adt vancing upon his sister-in-law with a gg long iron poker and threatening to kill her, when Minnie Dreher reached for the gun and fired the fatal CTQ ? shot. Dr. J. Fulmer Mathias attendar _ ed the man soon after he was shot, ot but death resulted yesterday morn.jj ing. Sheriff Miller went to the scene of the shooting yesterday and the woft g ^ man was lodged in jail, the jury's finding being that "Lute" Tucker Q ' came to his death by a gunshot , wound fired by Minnie Dreher. ch Tucker had recently finished serving a term upon the Lexington county chain gang for manslaughter, he LIS having killed another negro eome l8' years ago. '7, Pi ut "SIAMESE" TWINS PARTED. Q \e d, French Surgeons Perform Delicate ae Operation. ck te Paris, March 4.?Madeleine3!^ Suzanne, the French "Siamese 2n twins," were separated to-day by a .je surgical operation of extreme delica- ! 3n cy. The operation was performed tis with specially constructed instrugS ments by Dr. Gustave Le Felliatre. ve Dr. Risacher and Dr. Victor de Lau0f nay and his wife, who also is a surlg geon. Numerous other surgeons were he present. Madeleine-Suzanne were joined tohe gether in the region of the stomach, 70 and it was found that a portion of the v intestines of Madeleine was within to Suzanne's abdomen. This became deg_ tached from the wall of the fibrous ge cartilaginous bridge connecting the ,r_ two children. A local anaesthetic n m was used and the babies cried a lit- || ;S tie during the operation, which lasted | in fifteen minutes. 11 ;e. Both children appeared to stand IE ill the operation well, but the surgeons II could not give a definite opinion as to " Lt_ the ultimate success of their work. H LAD HURT BY BULLDOG. |? Seabrook Romedy Painfully Injured __ K* at Darlington. t>>' Darlington, March 6.?Seabrook ? Romedy, the ten-year-old son of Mr. V C. L. Romedy, was painfully, though 3d not dangerously injured by a large a bulldog to-day. Seabrook was at a fe: 3d neighbor's and while standing in a 1 y- room of the house the dog reared up of on him, tearing several long gashes iy in the lad's face and throat with his le claws. ' sr. A doctor was hastily summoned ve and found it necessary to give an anle aesthetic so that he could sew some iff of the wounds. He reports that the ' lad is doing as well as could be hope ed and will be all right in a few 11, days. The dog was immediately of killed by its owner. ^ SEEK PROF. HAND'S RELEASE. UI ^ Prominent Educators Before Anderson College Trustees, id _____ Anderson, March 7.?The board of trustees of Anderson college this 'r~ afternoon declined to accede to the is request made by a delegation of edube cators that this college release Prof, -d William H. Hand from his accepie tance of the presidency. The dele>'s gation was composed of State Sua perintendent Swearingen, Prof. W. b- K. Ttate, Superintendent Gunter, of nt Rock Hill; Superintendent Anderson, -K of Newberry, and Prof. Wardlaw, of t? the University. These gentlemen declared that they had come on their >t- own initiative and not from Prof, be Hand to ask for the release in the er interest of the educational system lt" of South Carolina, to They stated that Prof. Hand is con)t sidered the greatest high school in?f spector in the South, and that the ad general education board in New York be had appropriated more money in orar der to retain him. a(i The trustees took the visitors over v.~ ,r.^n?ora Tvioni- and nnnvinced LUC IU1IC&L fiuuv ? them that Anderson college is destin're ed for big things and that it is going ce to do a big work for South Carolina. Before leaving the city the ir" members of the delegation, while reas gretting that they had not accomlls plished their mission, declared that nt their visit here had opened their JX~ eyes as to the scope of the college. in and that they now appreciate the ng great possibilities for the institution. 'le They declared that President Hand is the right man to head the college. Prof. Hand will come to An\ derson to take up his duties July 1. % 3i ii igph Concrete W a I have employed an ex plumber and am now pared to do all kinds of f class plumbing at reason prices and on short nc f U ki: Wi gr Ci re ALL WORK P. A. f HHEEsL? Mtdw Cotton IpV'Xs"* .j" p Fish-' mROY; TRAC JNr * M REG I I Are "HKg origirt I Fertilizer ammoniated w I admitted to be the plant I ton crop. B This is not a theory, but a fact ] B The popularity of Royster's, t fertilizer has caused a host of name: if you want to be sure o B be sure to buy the brand that I If you are not already acquaint I ROYSTER'S fish-scrap fertiliz I alongside any other brand and I F. S. ROYSTE B Norfolk, Va. Baltimore, Md. Spartanburg, S. C. Columbia, S B Montgc t I % - "?? > -iv.-l' ?. j^ppc?rr?icjj ork 1 nJ Plnmkinrr 1 UU 1 lUUlUlllg II - 'I ? ! v. v i ? ! pert , M Pre- : BM, irsti . -v-A able , - t-M >bce r-fti im also prepared to do all nds of Street Paving, Sidealk, Septic Tank, Under- g ound Systems, Coping, irbing, and all kinds of inforced cement work :: irflj ' GUARANTEED IATCHELL I . ,\m Requires Itf iTFPS/J al fish ferfili%Grs ? ith Fish-Scrap is universally I |f| food best suited to the cot proven by the experience of many. n he original and genuine fish-scrap brands to appear with fish in the ffl f getting fish in the goods as well, fl made fish-scrap famous; F. S. R. H '-M :ed with the splendid results from er, we simply ask that you test it B abide by the proven results. > R GUANO CO. | |J Charlotte, N. C. Tarboro, N * C. I 1 | I. C. Macon, Ga, Columbus, Ga, 9 >mery, Ala, 2 .,j .