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JTl 110 X^IOI >OIOK. BY Ed. H. DkCamp. ITBUSHKI) TUESDAY A.N’I) EKIDAY SL'KsCUII'TION ruiCE: Cash in advance, per year .lil 00. On time, per year $1.50. The Ledgeh is not responsible for the views of correspondents. Co-respondents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur nish their name, not for publication, but for identification. Write short letters and to the point hoodwh " ich to insure publication; also endeavor ! . to get them to the office by Monday j miration of the worm and Thurt-day mornings. OaMs of thanks will be published at one cent a w r ord. Reading notices will be published at ten cents a line each insertion. Obituaries will be published at five cents a line. All correspondence should be ad dressed to Ed. H. DeCamp, Manager. condemnation and social and politi cal ostracism. It may be, as the News maintains, that Southern sentiment lias played out. If so, it is a dark day for this generation If there is nothing in the records of the past, in common sufferings and common triumphs, nothing in the valor and devotion of ►Southern soldiers, nor in the achieve ments of Southern statesmen, noth ing in that splendid civilization vvh'ch bred the old Southern gentle men and moulded a type of woman- was the envy and ad- if there is nothing in any nor in ali of these to suit was brought to recover taxes for the whole period. This was a viola tion of the spirit of the contract on the part of the to.. a and ought not to have succeeded. Cet justice he done though the in ivens fall. We happened to hear the other day that a prominent Republican in a neighboring town was soliciting subscribers to the (li’eenville News, among his brother Republicans, and was claiming that it was a good, sound, solid Repul a can paper. Our informent also stated that the agent, self-appointed or officially authorized as the case might be, was meeting ••SOI I'll SUIN' SENTI MENT." Rrof. W. 1’. Trent, of Sewanee Col lege, Tenn., has i?eentiy resigned his pisition to accept the chair of Eng lish in Columbia College, N. V. The Charleston News and Courier and The Savannah Tress both speak of inspire and to keep alive an exclusive, ! with considerable success. Perhaps distinctive and emphatic Southern : this circumstance will throw some sentiment, then Cod pity the South ! light on the recent boasting of the News about its financial success in connection with its free thought. Perhaps after all, the additions made to its subscription list come from men not opposed ■ > it way of think ing as it would h us believe, hut in hearty accord " irh it. Jiin i it'!’ •» i HI ’J i i: h (j is i 1 ut ofsyin peth\ \\ i: h th* • oiitli u- d out ( f t()U( •h v il 1 ! > • ! *r ii ~ C n timer. l, ittu i < xn V >s H h d( -giv- i of t U11 Sfi» e-liun t> :* lie haa got: ie; v ihcreUi ; iL u (lie vi.ie L it" C 1 i a rat ll) ;'.se two pap. r. as ‘ ‘rust it " usty, « -ti: i u 1 i : * . n “fo ssil r t ill .ins” oi t ; o!. :■ age an i SO e n i! a'OU^': l)ul 'tilli of * • r ' ►;I see. ill e h, spe eia.e ns u i the a ^i ur j o u t liitving no | 1 'ace lii ' !i.u iff.-. t i ii a tiiou ;!lt (tf tiff. ; age j n tin- , 11 1 V ; coni i c c t. j u n ti: New s de iiv. rs a f loci 1 i I'd to the pub! lie ( m Sail th t rn Si 1 t : t ricr) i. v. Iff ch it cliff ili.S tO i re (iiscov :. { t bs a vj ID i :■ i i; d lx. il ii iCil: u t i 01: t ‘The bos- L" i ■ .- S fill .nil.- ot V ii < * n. ; ’ that m g ive U1 lity wi i 1C ll “• »!iJC im-la- pir, sicia ns think in j jm .»► 11 'ii i * iOUgilt rciu :!.► s \v lx •“ b“-J on it pianc one ptaff X uijuv .- ti. ri t of me i o sense in her degradation , her humiliation, and her everlasting shame! We would not fan the flumes of sectional prejudice and hate. Those flauns have about died out, and thej should never be rekindled. Ru ! the native horn Southe-n inun whose craven spirit would truckle to North ern wealth and prcetigo, or whose soul is so absoi 1»* 1 with greed that he has no room for sectional pride, no love for his land and people, no ad miration for tm d ' is of his father.-! —tiiat manat heart is a miseiubie n io gade and ue .vorihy of a home it: a' y <:"!:] 11 v. th : me inouncedt hat a right to levy d due notice >1 the meeting. no difference s a small one 0 I :f:v) out of which t park and who;! 'he ioth of M 1 !. i - A s s oc * a I by a de-ire to deed ■ ' ■ : HATt Li:<.K(HM> i’AUK. and levied and <-•• e new- . dumns Of tiffs pi- : pas •. n ■( rs 1 i f;,l - ■ . |. ( . ( ems to us t Ini'. tf 'ie ( -nvp li ' ('I t he in our State is up R 11 - man rnc-tnod in i T t ill : ii-. i ’v?.-: ,.tiou tin'it I:lo.-d: anybody e i id iri the - ur. Ijousc on Jlvt. umi ■ de: .1 the !.•: itter the gie-handi : . d: president of a but to make a ii:- JOI • ! 1 •. ■’ *i 1 i '' |} 5 J 0 ii < • . cljOUl- ir -irutne.nt of v s of iund surto ,S IriJi » ; f 1 !} •' uimiit at tin- Jhr M 1 ^ T „ putt, and the ; t r . 1 . 1 ' * . ti.'ff tiiev ai) In must la to m:lR< paid for hi i' romptid solely 'net ■ tlie rohle ■ f-it The courts bn mass meeting 1. a school tax, ; shall have been g We suppose it m , whether the meeting or a large one. A single man held up a train in the wi si the other day, •da heavy tax i crew; and it taxing power .. iting the one • p rations. Al- ' \ tax.-s, if not 1 • o ugh others, ate college has - wants in an called a re- >• reconiii'. mis hu d, and it is ■y tilings and T e •chool of- ' o make his v> tlie neces- n. COLONEL BitOiDWOOD SUFFERS HEAVY LOSS Roberts Reports His Defeat at Thahen-Chu. LOST 350 MEN AND 7 C UNS Forced to Retire to IHoemfonteiu After Severe Fight—Was Attacked From Three Sides While His Retreat Was Cut Oil'by Kneniy. IjOXDOn, Aja-il d.—Tho war office re- ix)rts that Colonel Broadwood lost seven guns and all his baggage in the ambush laid for him by the Boers ou Saturday. The casualties numbered doO. The war office has received the follow ing dispatch from Lord Roberts, dated Bloemfontein, April 1: “I received news late yesterday even ing of Colonel Broadwood, who was at Thahen-Chu, d8 miles east of here, that information had reached him that the enemy was appearing in two forces, from the north and east. lie stated that if the report proved true he would re tire toward the waterworks, 17 miles toward Bloemfontein, win re wo have had a detachment of mounted infantry for the protection of the waterworks. “Broadwood was told in reply that the Ninth division of Martyr’s mounted infantry will march at daylight to sup port him, and that if he considers it necessary ho would retire from the pe: 1)11011 'll N ow,; wt .lent i.now, aid do not en- (V 01 candid to admit, l..at joy the distinct! .n o' a personal ue- j quui.'itunce wilii Truf. Trent, n. ref an ; intimate knowledge ol nis literary i procluclions. We oniy l.no'.v in out line that lie began his literary cure, r with an auj ct apoiugy i j the North and the rest of the world for his hav ing been horn south of Mason and Dixon’s line, and that the North freely forgave him for ihat unfortu nate mistake and bestowed some cheap honors upon him with the full assurance tiiat he would not make the same mistake again. JIu wrote a life of Win. Gillmore Simms, into which he infused the personal rancor and vindictiveness which a traitor always cherishes for j ^ liS 4 ^ or ^° keep green a spot incur the representative of the cause which ! county made sacred by the blood of he has betrayed, and so perverted the | our ancestors ih a struggle for liberty, truth to the disparagement of our j ^ e ' V *H accept contributions at great exponent of ►Southern life and cilice and will take pleasure in s ct uieir for liber j ace w hero oi port nr:' b. it is look place, deseivcb lho highei-t prai.-c 1 ;i these days of greed and selfishness the past is | forgotten. That wl ich should bean inspiration is swi pt isi le by the desire :—r ay, craz;—for money fur success. A d when an A-socialion like this one uiidi rtak,-s to mark sucii a lii.-,- tnic spot by surrounding the oid monument with a park—the re sponse to the cull for money to do it with, should be prompt and hearty. It must not be said of Cherokee county that this pitiful sum could not lie raised f t the pur pose with which to purchase arid beautify this land. Cherokeoans! what a reproach should this effort fail, done. It wool 1 not v,ir\ tho re I • i ficer were auti | own calculation- ! sary tax by proc WORKING FO.i THE PARK. 1 lie >1 l-llioriul AfcMK i.: HliiislIf AI« « : i Pursuant to ti. it lii-Iil nil EiltliU- ■>:itur<iay. e ‘•.ot issued, a meet- iiig of li.'C Cowp n morial Association court house on day of March, at 1 President \V. 1. meeting to ord r its object. 11 se i ciation lias an o; acres of land s monument at the they desire to tu; amount necessui.. he gotten up i That the Atsociu carrying into elf < t its noble and patriotic desires ti cre can he no doubt. Cherokee •: r.tnty wants tiie battleground Me- uas Jield at the ..urday, the .>lsi o’clock. iorloii culled the i.ud briefly staled that this Asso- on about ten riding the old ' ground, which mo a park. The ..bout $100, must .jo loth of May. •n will succeed in literature as to arouse the resent ment and indignation of every true ►Southern man and woman. He has further, if our impressions are cor rect, curried favor with Northern book-seliers and danced attendance to Northern prejudice as a monkey dances to a hand organ, by abusing Southern statesmen, maligning publishing the names of those con tributing. NOTES AND COMMENTS. 'Die spring is remarkably Jute. The oats have been killed or badly damaged. We are now advancing into April and the woods are as bun as in January. Hardly anything has Southern institutions, and deprecia- been planted, hut v.ith favorable ► ive it. de by Capt. 11. .►ailey’, Prof. W. L. McWhorter, of D. A. Thomas is-ed authorising park and is going Addresses wer P. Griffith, Rev. .1 S. Hull, Jr., and J and at the instune.: a resolution was , the president to appoint a committee to consist of two from Limestone township, two frotn Cherokee town ship and one from aoh of the other townships, to sm - it subscriptions for the purpose of purchasing tho land and making M.rk. The follow ing is the comn e: Limestone, Prof. W. S. Hai! an. J. V. Whelchel; White Plains, M W. Brown; Dray- tonville, M. M. • ; Gowdeysville, C. W. Whisonat. ; Morgan, .*1. B. ting and apologizing for all that was wi atber, (hr old civilizu- with best and noblest in the tion of tho South. We are glad tiiat such a man, like Judas, has departed to his own. There is no place for him among fair minded and Iioii' raide nun. But the most remarkable tiling connected with his departure, i? the surmisai of the Greenville News us to tlie cause of his going. The News -ays : * p. s- sibly he has been hounded away by fossils like the News and Courier and the Savannah Press, wno do not know tiiat tlie old days of mu ting unpopular opinion with rail rid,m, tar and feathers and etc., i. .ve gone never to return ” Truly there is some thing mv, under the sun vhen two ils be come the exponent- of a imn ruity and ihase a man out of iho country as a pack of hounds eiiUu * a fox. Tliis is enough to make the 1 nil- rise on the heads of L. Comte and Aaggasiz us they see ti,- r whole life- work swept into tho fathomless void of that same nonentity to which the News has consigned Southern senti ment. '1 lie News has a good deal to say about free thought ns a substitute for sentiment, and indulges in some pardonable boasting of its own suc cess on the score of tree thinking. plows will now mow op, and by tlie Scruggs; Choroi. and P. 11. Dow i It was then >. < JO. 1 i GSO0L first of | ‘Trillion at the 1 . .. j ., . I be on Saturday, M;.v ti.ere- .viI! hi no vestig, .-fc to , i •, i ; ’ i also decided t,. 1 ‘ • ■ >,•• 1 • Hatur- I would meet at ' sp-’ing. !,-.st tryir.g o:i aM peach re out, but tlie hope are i iiougli blooms yt t <if tIn 'at.' I >\ a - OloOir..- tin:l w | is t bat tiien to come, to iusur.- u good crop. • ♦ ♦ ♦ The lid'- sti'l runs strongly againsl I t!.-' ii icrs. I'i'-ir gr, o'i-st g'-n* i-al, I ,',h,-r is d .1 tli"' V , It i i o' . ii -1 it i ; doubtful if r m ii fully ijuali- lied to ' a■ i- bis pl.u ", St ill (he war i? l ot nd< ► and d is uncertain when it ►% ill I ;. I'rcMd i ' Krug rtlt elaroH tbi! 1 b- - ■ ii i-'i-t it. <. tf ai d light to tin bit t (id. Tb- mi i.-i a ; l•..^t deal (.f -ympat I:- for . llocrs inanifi di d n- id >nday in Mu., of the commitl. i ions and to a! taiis of the Mu* d that the cel- ■ ground should 2(5th. It was Association y on the first iw Hit- report -licit subscrip- omplete the de- . m at ion. A resolution wa -passed requesting tlie nn-iiibers of c>'...ress and sena tors from Souiii i arolinu, and the Hon. Amos J. Gum-nings, of New Yen;, Jo use tb ;r t.i-st endeavors to ieive tin hill n n--tore congress to hecome a la v, THE CLOSiNC SCENE. HuiKlriMls of Ucojili ■ oi-di'e TlM-iiiKclveit to Kalso Hu! t Iw-isliaii >liii!<lar<l. tliro'lgiiriu' li s,an(1 illy b\ t iu-m but cm .; le*- s greed of i Tlie closing s m. ting were imj I he (-vaiii: : • . y--t Earopi will 1 ' ‘ ‘ ( d ; womltrful nreiu "Ut► sly tb( i emm-se- gn al rival po»ver. tliut !ia is. advises that ■ nva-•: for renator Ti secure of a $ tho count ►State offices io at pptd, J'liis is good advi c com, from what sourc it may, and if is to he hoped that we shall have no more of these Stiue canvasses, conducted as they have i wet i s of 1 lie in' ! < d S'mm master: j mons, but non - > quak-d, 1 hose t n. day, and his ►Sin - I lie climax of aii Sunday wen: lai r been in the past. They have been great demoralizers and all round nui sances. If the people want joint Ji-- t,- ... , .. ,, . , | cushions tiny cun have them by in- \Ve wish to remind it that thought „ i ,» , , , , . # ! vitatlon, and thereby relieve the can. has always been free in every age I f ij.i . n ... .... .... ° | didates of the heavy burdens of go- ing around over the fctatc and re- and clime, and it always will he. No device that has ever been invented since man’s inhumanity to man first made countless thousands mourn”— not the thumbscrew nor the rack, nor the pillory, nor tho stake, nor the gibbet, nor the guillotine—lias ever in the least obstructed thought or curtailed its freedom. It is the expression of thought that is justly subject to censure and restriction. A man may think Ihu thoughts of a traitor, with none to molest him nor to make him afraid, hut when he begins to give public expression to those thoughts, he is u fit subject for hashing the same speeches at every court house. With all duo respect to tho opin ions and tho interests of the town, we believe the supremo court ren dered u righteous decision in tho case of the town against the Gaffney cot ton mi Ms for hack taxes. If wo re member correctly the mill had the official assurance of the town that it would be exempted from municipal tuxes for a period of years, and be cause some irregularities were dis covered in the form of that assurance, - of the Leitch • ve and inspir bud done some during the thr< e : rid bad preach, powerful ser- • ipsr-d. or even preached .Suii- night effort v. as ! congregations nd attentive, and every one fSumiai i i-.-ht seemed im pressed wit Ii tb'* i i rribie earnestness of Mr. Leitch. J! -hose us his sub ject “A Higher ►•• -udurd of Christ ianity,” and he Inn lied it in a mas terly manner. 'I in re was nothing scathing, hitter or catting about it, but it abounded i- ; iirilling incidents and an earnest t, peal for professed Christians to ni! e the standard of Gu ir religion. 1- r nearly two hours the preacher talk' I to the people and he held their un ! ,1 at tention dur ing ail that thin . The church was crowded to the (in .r>, every available inch of space beh • taken up, and at the end of the serin m hundreds came forward and gave < e ministers pres ent their hand hi to make un ellori urd of their reliy A sketch of Mr. ► will doubtless j . Lodger readers j,i in Friday’s J.*- Leitcli's own b. then tic. New coiitrat-ls . ntates Governmu t geons pay during seucei. ill hey intended raise tlie stand- 1 oil's life, which interesting to now, will appear It is in Mr. -e and is uu- nil the United allow army sur- uulhurized ub- 1 * ' b-X coed 8,000 or 10,000 whieu tao Boers are said to number. FUNERAL HELD UP AT GRAVE. FrH Investigation Reveals Fact That SSi/.c- morc Was Not Dead. Greenville, S. C., April 3.—Friday moniiug Pinckney Sizemore collapsed in the office of Magistrate Mauldin and be fore doctors could reach him was pro nounced death The body was removed to his home and there a coroner’s jury assembled, viewed the remains and on the statement of the doctors rendered a verdict of death from heart failure. Tho fun*Tal was set for Saturday afternoon. The grave was dug, the mourners bad assembled and the body was about to bo interred when the ]>,,lioe appeared and ordered a postponement. The kwly was taken home and a test made which con firmed tho suspicion that tho man was i not dead. | gYund jury, w hich convened at 3 o’clock The man, while having the appear- ! this afternoon, to return indictments ance of deat h, so far as the face was eon- [ against It--publican Governor Taylor and ceriied, Ji;ul a warm body and breatmng 1 fil1 „ _ T , ... , . could be detected by the use of a mirror : ® U of tho Iie l mblicau stato otocon, at the mouth. The jaws were set and j charging them with usurpation of tho the pupils of the eyes unresponsive to offid-s they claim to hold, light, but the joints were as supple as in life. Charges Are Placed Before the Grand Jury. GUBERNATORIAL TRIAL ON Court of Appeals Convenes at Louis, vitle to Hear Arguments In Case. Deeislou Will Probably He Handed Down Latter Part of Week. Fkankkor, Ky., April 3.—Judge Can- trill lias instructed the Franklin county TliofiijMi'm*K Dill ('nrjx Is (Corn spond -f of T’ - i ■ Cccr.) Tno.vi Mu.i i i:• i) 2 “Softly tit.' .. / >;u S.owly Hi:- >; .ink . I » ’ll lit 1) el- Its- , in I’iie liinl let.i r-i-.uri;' , ,• e A few dni s i.'icj w id" (ladsden Tim -.' a ••••••. -. | paper tliut. is pokiisk'. i -| j ing town of ., A i. ! see at a glance tin » ■ i j is weilded by o • v, ho t ' v ARE HELD FOR INFANTICIDE. Usurpation of office under the Ken tucky statute is a high misdemeanor, punishable by heavy line, and Common wealth's Attorney Franklin has iuti- Alother and Grandparents Charged mated that he will make a vigorous With Horrible Crime. prosecution of the usui-pators, if tho iu- Jaspkk, Ga., April 3.-John Brock and di ^. llu ‘ , > ts are ^toxiied. Ins wife, Annie, have been placed in jail : ^herilf Suter that or his deputies In-re charged With muder, and their j might enter the ' oit il grounds for tho daughter, Linda Brock, is under guard purp-se of serves j- • > -.-s s of .• civil na- at their home, 3 miles north of town, i hut that to y w.n:M n-t b.- per- Au infant which had been born to Linda was missing. The mother and grand mother first d -ided there being any child born, but finally said it had died. The coroner and some few citizens wont to the Brock house and deniamh d to know where the child was buried and were di rected to go into the garden. They pro ceeded to the garden and found the child about 18 inches under the ground in a small box. It was brought to town and an inquest held. Dr. W. B. Vaughan dis sected the head and found two ind -nfa- mifted to serve any of a criminal na ture. The guards at the gate .Mid they were acting on orders and inspected tho ! sheriff’s pipers to s--e ii any warrants of ] an--st were among them before ho was ! allowed to enP r. j J. Tj. .Sutton of Whitley and W. L. Hazelip of Grayson county, who are uu- 1 d'-r it ID,ODD Ifjnd each, arrived here to day. Their cases come before the grand j ur y- ARGUMENTS HAVE BEGUN. lions in the skull near the base of t!fd ! Court of Appeals Takes t’p the Gov- brain which had can.ed concussion. j ernorsiiip Case. Hill Talks to7t^ts. ‘ 3.-Arguments in ,, , . .... r , : the guwrnatorial tnal con test cases were begun lx tore the court otupjx-a 1 sitting j in t-ie chancery division of tho circuit j court in this city today. Ohi“f Justice mj ii' CL.XKIIAL BOTHA. The New Commander-In-Chief of tho B-x-r Army. waterwnks. Ho moved there during the night and bivouacked. At dawn ho was sh. lied by the enemy and attacked on three si k-s. lie dispatched two horse artillery bavtcries and his baggage to ward Bloemfonreiti, covering some of them with his cavalry. “Some 3 miles from the waterworks the road crosses a deep nullah, or spruit, in which during the night a force of Bo-.-rs had concealed themselves. tSo well were they hidden that our leading scouts passed over the drift without dis covering them and it was not until the wagons and guns were entering the drift thar tin-B iers : bowed themselves and opened fire. Many of the drivers of tho artill -ry horses were immediately shot down at short range and several of tho guns w re captured. Tho remainder gall- >;> -d away covered by Roberts’ horse, which s lier -d heavily. “Meanwhile Lieutenaut Chester Mas ters of Rombigton’s, souts liviuid a pas sage acr >ss tli • spruit unoccupied by tho enemy, by which the remainder of tho an audience of students and their friends, Assistant Secretary of State Da vid J. Hill delivered the convocation ad- i u i a . i.i .i , ... divss to the graduating class of the Uni- ! ‘ * gi-‘ U!< ot-iei m-iuIxts ot the court ox appi itlsamved h -re from 1 rank- ss to the graduating class of the Uni versity of Chicago. President Harper deliv» red bis (piai-t.-rly statement, tell ing "f the .■s2‘>0,0UDwhich badlx-eii rai.vxl sint-e Jan. 1, thereby fulfilling'theegree- meiit whi ii s< cures to tin- university ihe 000 ni' dgei! by John D. R'r-k'-feller on condition the university raise a like amount. Large Aereaga* of < 'otton. Cl llman, Ala., Atu-i] :j.—Tlie farmers fort this morning. Justice Haz -Mgg iinuouiieed tli;it ail the urguments would lx* heard and that tliere would be two sjx-cches on each side, each six aker tebe linuted t-) an hoiug and timt a d .ci.siou will lx- reached before tho latter part of the week. Ex-Governor Bradley and II -lm Bruce represent Governor Tavlor. Lewis Mc- j , - *• 'Ye would advi <• ail o wlve.i to : raise a- in ary :-'ff. ff< - P -.'ibie | tiff - year, as tiff., w “<• ►!■ d r.” \Yc saw, a few '• u.-s l.-.,-.. .-'•ur: ;-or- respondeiit asking ‘ J, i . ad- vice as to tiie best pbm i . : ■; - chick- ens». We woui-i ‘..:y tot K- > r ter t hat we have a gen!iomari ■ c oi. r down here who in. ; rivvisid t. (- quickest plan to raise ! ’ fowl t i A I know of, and tiiat is. cf.' the r <o t Mrs. Ross Bra on j.- ti' very low, and no hopes of in r r. < . . :irc e^ tertained. The writer attf ndt ' ? . - ' if g ser- vices at Abingdon on to Jand Ju ard an aid - ■ i.or, , v. iizeli. 'J iffs was Mr. Ii/..!!’s id- : ■; .ice at Abingdon, but i.: is going 1' rrtippiy t he church t he i oai n: . ti. jeur. Mr. K/eil i.-- i-.n .-ibie a. •oeak- (r and can entei tain iff ' for u long time. ‘ d y i i -d crown iffs work in We havi t . g s in tiie county. .-:r, du- table limb' . - . i, and neatly covet' I • ! r was ftut up by that v t i . 1 V •I. . King, of Nirx 1 • ix, .- Misses Sail:. ■ i P i i ve, of eastern Yoi k ► •: • < , . m- Mrs. Jane Bishop t . • . We never ’ d < • f elu cation agitated as 1: ff:}-. AI! journals, peri .dieff' a' i i ■ vines are coming to tlx- front on ’nis groat quest i ion. Mother ' a11!i i h-g i. ff) clothe herself aglifr. V, ii : ■ verdure, ar-d iitti -ll i ; in ff p ep from their hid;, g j ,d. .- and si ;i:Ie i;i t ho balmy suimlii: --riff- • rff-es ono feel that v.c '..../ Ji . ' d mi of ►1 o wers. $s ^ s : Quown and Judge W. S. j for Governor Ik - klunii. Pray or sjieak in tnis count} aie piejKiiiug to pLtnt die : Giivt i-nor Tavl-.r, at List aceomi s, was large-st cotton crop that has lx -u planted ftill at Morgantown, wh re he went last week to attend the funeral of a sister. The governor’s family has left Frank fort and stories aiv circulated that tlie Republican executive will not return to the capital for some days. Broadwood forces crossed. They re- pleted and has opened its doors for in many years. They believe that high prices will prevail next fall and to this end they are planting every available acre. The weather has he. n very unfa vorable to oat sowing, and us limners seem bent on iner. a. ing their acreage in cotton and making' a e >it< spomiing de crease in the corn acreage, scarcity of feed and bread stuff’s will very naturally follow. C'ofoim-riceiuent Kxcrrlscs. Atlanta, April 3.—The annual com mencement exercises of the Georgia Col lege of Eclectic Medicine and Burgery will beheld at the Grand Opera House Wevnesdny evening. The exercises nr- ! cons -native cstimah i-auged for the occasion are of an attae- The deadis in Manila, officially re tire nature and among the members of : portal during tho mx months from'Julv the gmduathig class are a number of j 1 to Dee. 31, Iasi vi-ar, were (i,2u3. Of prominent young men who have com- ; these, 2,911 w. re children. 8 .me of tho pleted the course at the eollogo with ’ diseasi s were bori beri; of bronchitis credit to themselves and the institution, i theie were 314; fevers, 287; while stom- wl ~ T ! troubles ranked high. JLmila now Hank Opens I-oi- Husincss. ! l, a , time diseases epidemic which would Couktlanu, Ala., April 3.—The Mer- throw the average eoiinnanity into ;i chants’ bank building has been com- l ,il!,1(5 b lb pkigue, b< ii ix-ri mid truiH:) o.:. Beri beri n-solts from a diet ol ii-ii and nee, s., that whites do not DEATHS IN THE PHILiPPINES. Health Report Shows Many Diseases Are Prevalent. Manila, April 3.—The soldiers who Lave just computed the health report give the city an unpleasantly high rank among the uuheahhiul cities of the world. Tiie report establishes a death rate of something over 10 per cent at a casualties at about 3.J0, including 200 missing. “< );i hearing' tiiat Broadwoixl was hard pres.-x-d I Oi-der. il General Freneli, with the two remaining cavulrv brigades, to follow in support of the Ninth division. Tiie latter, alter a magnificent march, urived on the scene of action shortly af ter '! o’clock. “Broadwood’s forces consisted of the mill will be located here in a short time. Kiiiiua Coglilun Insane. New York, April 3.—Miss Emma Coghlnn, sister of Rose Cogidan, the ac tress, and lierself well known o/i the sDigc, has been taken to Bellevue hos pital, apiKirently insane. She has Ix-eu ill several days and had become so vio- Cuiinou I'lieurthed. Savannah, Npril 3.—Tho hig dredge B;.lx-oek, working on Hutchinson’s island, m-ross tlie river, has dug up two oM ie .'olutlonarv eaiiiions, which proh- Ul.lv b' iongi d to the Ih iii-li wursiiip, (he wreck of \vhi< h wasdugout a few days ago. G'ue of ihe pi'c. .. weighed about 1,000 pound.-, the other 8.>o. 'J’Jie caunon - . - , , - g . , . ’ I 7 ' * * ' till II' > J R»yal Hons 'iold cavalry, the Tenth' lent that her physician directed that she will be presented to in. city and pre liu .-.'S, G and U, Royal Morse artillery and I ilcher’s liattaliou of mounted in fantry. ‘•The < neniy is estimated at from 8,000 to 10,000, witli guns, the number of which is not yet reported.” Tlie rumors of the recapture by tho British of the seven guns taken from be sent to Bellevue. Will Reaffirm Chicago IMutlorin. Chicago, April 3.—The Dimocratio national committed has issued a circular urging that all delegates to the Kansas City convention be “instructed for the Colonel Broa11 wood's force, based ou a ! reaffirmation of the Chicago platform dispatch from Bloemfontein, fails to mid the candidates loyal to it in 1890 and ; p. ll!V compensate Loudon for the severe shock L>vi.l miw ” I IN ► exprionc d by tin* humiliatiiig defeat served as a revoluti -nary n lie. Tiie Old wai’siiip was ( ". idently sunk there dur ing the revolution, and an elFort to got at heiTaiun-aii't history is now being made. To Room Alabama. Montgcmkpy, Ala., April 3. — The Loui.-'\.!; and Nashville railroad coin- | Thin, pale, anaemic girls | | need a fatty food to enrich | t thei:* bloc ', rive color to i ft-* § their chei!f3 and : ..‘ id their| | health and strer..It is| | safe to say iliat nearly! | aii reject fai with ti.cir food. | - U I _ xn Uu ^ OF CGIO k-_l O 5 L W/tf HYP0i'i>u^ LiiL*.SODA sustained within a few ni'Gsof thehead- < pin tiers of the British army of oo.-upa- tion. loyal now.’ Charged With Em be/./, lenient. has cfeat; d the office of indus trial agent, to which position Mr. J. R. i Weiny- s, loi-'.ii-r Inud eoininissioner, has Tacoma, April 3.-J B. Thompson, I and NaSviR chief city detectne, and A. J. Ilospor, to Immuii the towns and comniunities Ihe plans of t he Inirgdiers were excel- | j - s a oph"w, were arrested last night by along its route and that Mr. Weinyss leutly conceived and boldly enmed out * r . - - . - -an i ► r _ . and unless the reinforcements sent by fT‘ n , ' Izird Roberts have turned the tide and Beattie on i r aii(leventer and two deputies of l”' !l v< r . v busy man tor a while. It in a me rido and ►'► «>>*^-m a cinirgo of emlx z/.hng $20,- cyi* ten j timt Jiis endeavors will inci- recaptured the prisoners a couple of him- 00U _ fro, “ .?.Y 11 Kloutlikor , “ d( ‘ utall >' he o* value to the state. dred men from two crack corps of the I a prop-rty deal. Hou ,*hold cavalry and the Tenth Hus sars are now on their way to swell the growing deposit of British prisoners at Pretoria. President Kruger is said to have prom ised to ro-occupy Bloemfontein this week and the stublx*rn burghers seem to be closing around the place in such force as promises to Ixi troublesome, especially when it is realized that the activity of a strong Jkx-r force in tho vicinity of Puardoberg has ah-cady interrupted di rect communication. A dispatch from Kimberley, dated Sunday, says there is great Boer activity along the Vaal river. About (i.OOO burgh ers have assembled at various ixiints lx-- tween Fourtoeu Streams and Christiana. About 700 men are occupying the mul north of Kilipdam and 400 ineu are laagered at Boestup. Tho war office has rooeivod another dispatch from Ljr<l Roberts, (kited at Bloemfontein, Sunday, in which, after referring to his previous telegram, lie gives a pai-liul list of the mi; sing British officers. Of battery four officers were niiwaiiii/ One minner was killed and 40 conimissinea otff'x.-rs and men are still missing. Lord Rolx-rts then continues; “In U battery all are missing except Major Kyllcr and u sergeant major. Tho two cavalry regiments did not sulfur much. “A report 1ms just come in that tho enemy has retir* d to Iridylir.iud, leaving two wounded officers anil some 70 men at the waterworks.” A dispatch from Bloemfontein this morning i-ejxirts that tho water supply of the place has been cut off. This is tho natural s<:(iuenco of the success of the Boors at the waterworks. It is evil lent from Lord Roberts’ dis patch that a, big engagement is in pro gress. Though it is difficult to estihuito theiiuiiilx-i- emtatfcxl Jlo-y probably ex- | is exactly what they require? ^ f it not oniy t^ives them iiie im- $ % portani element (ccc iiver oi!) | in a palatable and easi iy di'| | gested form, but also the hypo-; phosphites which are sovalua- 5? b!e in nervous disorders that g usually accompany anamia. | SCOn .S EMULSION is a ^ fatty food that is more easily ’% digested th:*n ary o'her form g § of fat. A certain .’ r ;cuntof! | flesh is necessary for health. | | You can get it in this way. t We have known per- % sons to gain a pound a $ | day while taking it, i A 50c. rnd $i.oo, atldru^ sts. Z W SCOTT & BOWNl-;, Chem;y (s, Ne.v Yoitt. # Settled l>y Arbitration. Luiupasas Flouted. Omaha, April 3.—Arbitrator Olds has Galveston - , April 3.—The Mallory decided the Oumha-Kunsus Ci^y differ- line steamship Lampasas, whicli has cntial case, involving the rate on jmck- been aground on a mud bank within half ing house products to tlie southeast, lie . or h . r iha ^ 1™, bd is practically tuiinjuivd. LokIcuI ItoUHUIlillK. As near ns can be useertained one kop Is worth two kloofs, and one kloof bus a value of two kopjes. Therefore, when one Boer is on a kop, he Is equal Meisenluimmer, a cotton mill operative, to two Brffoiis <111 a kloof, and one 21 years old, has been arrested and taken Briton on a kloof is equal to two Boers fti> Union county for trial on a charge of on a kopje. Hem e onr advice Is to bigamy. It is alleged that tho accused take nil the kons In sight and come has throe living wives, out. on top. 'J iffs strategy proposition some mouths ago the Burlington cut it to 3. Other Omaha i-oads resented this and a bitter light ensued. Has Too Many Wives. Greenville, S. C., April 8.—Joseph is easy.—f t. I'nul Bioiieer Press. A \4 . f.lttvy Stahl.-. Ciurki Willlain Julies Insane. Washington, April 3. — William Jones, the avenger who shot at Guiteau, Mr. T. B. Clarkson is opening up President Garfield’s iissassin, while a first class livery and feed stable in j Guiteau was being taken to jaii, has the Easterly oid stand. Mr. Clark son intends fitting up his stables with an up-to-date livery, and wu wish him success in his new busiut-ss. A man walking day and night without resting would take 428 days to journey around tho world. “No family can afford tor be with out One Minute Cough Cure. Jt will stop a cough ami cure a cold quicker than any otiur uu dieino M writes C. W. Williams. Sterling Run, Pa. It cures croup, bronchitis and uli throat and lung troubles, anti prcv« nts con sumption. Pleasant and harmless. Chorokeo Drug Co. been found insane and turned over to a Georgia relative. 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