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TIE AUTHOR OF
"THE PHANTOM HOST.
Father Ryare Did Not Write the
Famous Poem and a Modest
Carolinian is its Author.
From The Greenville Mountaineer.
The editor of The Mountaineer in
preparing: the memorial in honor of
Gen. Wade Hampton which he read
at the Confederate veterans' reunion
in this city, fell into an error unwit
tingly as to the authorship of the
beautiful poemi,*' The Phanton Host,"
from which quotations were made in
the memorial. It is with sincere regret
we learn that an injustice has been
done a worthy South Carolinian, who
is the real author of the magnificent
verses which are preservative of" the
memories of Southern heroes who
yielded up heir lives for the cause they
held so dear. The poem entitled by
its%authpr "The Phantom Host,", was
composed by the Rev. Peronneau D.
Hay, an Episcopal clergyman, who
is now in charge of churches in Tren
ton, Ridge Spring and Lexington, S.
C, and who fought as a gallant sol
dier through the Confederate war, and
who is now fighting under the banner
of the Cross.
This poem was written in the spring
of '1866 by the Rev. Peronneau Dawes
Hay, sind was first published in the
Sumte r Watchman the same year.
Mr. Hay wrote at that time under the
"nom de plume," Errol, which was
a family name of the Hays. It was
also published in the Charleston Daily
JNews, Sept. 1,5 1866, and other papers
of that time, when its authorship was
correctly ascribed to Mr. Hay. It was
likewise once published in the Confed
erate Veteran, with due credit being
given to its author, but later, when
recounting the proceedings of a
"reunion," it was printed a second
time in the.Veteran, credit,being erro
^SSSSr^g?&n :to Father Ryan. "This
mistake was scon after corrected /by
the Confederate Veteran, which plain
ly stated it was in error, and that the
' anther was the Rev. P.- D. Hay.
About the same time, the Sunny
South, in connection with the same
reunion, published the poem and attri
buted it to Father Ryan, which was
the copy that misled us in preparing
the tribute to Hampton. The Sunny ?
South has been the medium through
which poems and reminiscences of !
Confederate times Jiave been often
rescued from oblivion, and it is not j
strange that the statement erroneously !
made in its' caption was accepted with
out question from that source, which
was- as follows :
The Memorial Day exercises at
Montgomery, Ala., were marked by
the reading of a poem by Father
Ryan, of Mobile, Ala., hitherto un
published, except in the Confederate
Veteran, and believed to be one of the
last productions of that famous South- ,
em poet
It gives us peculiar pleasure now,
in making the correction of an unin
tentional error, to introduce the real
author of the poem in question to our
readers, whose accompanying ietter is
as once convincing proof of the authen
ticity of his claim to merited renown
and also to the possession of an unpre
tentious, modest worth that deserves
recognition at the hands of his com
rades who have not yet gone to join
the phantom host of which he has
given so touching a description. This
letter was not written for publication,
and a portion of it has been omitted
as unnecessary, in which we were re
ferred to gentlemen of note and dis
tinction who would verify his state
ments, but the inherent truth is so
plain that these names need not be
given. Every veteran in South Caro
lina, at least, will rejoice to have a
more intimate knowledge of Mr. Hay,
and after all we are not filled with
unalloyed regret at the mistake that
has caused this introduction of our
gifted comrade to a wider circle of
acquaintances. His letter is as fol
lows:
Trenton, S. C, Aug. 16, 1902.
Dear Sir: Please allow me, who am
an old soldier, to thank you for the
true and beauiiful tribute that you
have so lately paid to our great Hamp
ton at the veterans' reunion in Green
ville, from which I was precluded at
tendance. Allow me to say that your
eulogy on Hampton was fine, as well
as incidentally, your mention of so
many of our heroic dead?cur death
less ones, and will find fervent echo in
every true hearted Carolinian.
Permit me, however, with all diffi
dence, to call your attention to one
slight mistake that you have made.
You quote several lines from "The
Phantom Host," and assign the au
thorship to the gifted Father Ryan.
I beg your pardon, Father Ryan was
not the author, but, in all humility,
he whose name you will find at the
end of this letter.
Your mistake was very natural, for
two or three years ago The Sunny
South printed 4 ' The Phantom Host, ' '
assigning the ^authorship to Father
Ryan, and even going so far as to add
that "it was the last or very latit of
his poems. " It is needless.to say that
I was both provoked and flattered.
My son wrote immediately to The
Sunny South, correcting the error of
authorship, but received no notice.
Subsequently, as I recollect, The Vet
eran published "The Phantom Host,"
again it was assigned to Father Ryan.
The Veteran was likewise corrected
and, in another issue, admitted the
error. I presume the copy from which
you quoted is either one or the other
of those two, for I note that in quot
ing you say "grand mem?ri?m
strain," which is a mistake of the
above named publications, as I recall.
No such line occurred in the original,
but "grand memnonian strain, " from
Memnon, sphynx-like, mysterious.
It is not vanity alone that urges me
to have this correction made. It is
surely honor enough that my poor
lines, the wraith that my heart wove in
those sad days (the spring of 1866) to
lay on graves of our heroic dead,
should find place in so high an occa
sion as a memorial to Hampton and in
your exquisite eulogy, but ever since
February or March, '66, when 1' The
Phantom Host" was written, the lines
have been known by many of my
friends as written me and I cannot
afford to have their faith in my probity
shaken.
Unfortunately this question of au
thorship only arose after the death of
Father Ryan, who never laid claim to
it, (or I have been deceived in the
m in), but it was likely the thought of
some zealous, but hasty friend of his,
because Father Ryan wrote-war poems.
It was not, therefore, a Catholic
priest who wrote the lines you quoted,
bat a priest of^the Holy Catholic
Church, not a priest of the Holy Ro
man, but of the Anglican church, who
begs to subscribe himself,
Yours gratefully,
Peron?n an Dawes Hay.
CoL Jl A. Hoyt, Greenville, S. C.
In addition to this letter from Mr.
Hay and by the same mail we receiv
ed a communication from Prof. Chas.
J. Colcock, of the Porter Military
Academy, Charleston, who is spending
his vacation at HayviJle, ' Bar?we?
County, in which he gives a full his
tory of "The Phantom Host" and its
literary vicissitudes so far as author
ship is concerned. We have already
used some of the facts supplied by Mr.
Colcock in the introductory para
graphs of this article, and would like
to print his entire letter, but limited
space forbids, and we will be com
pelled to make only a few extracts, as
follows :
It ia strange how persistently the
authorship of this poem is attributed
to Father Ryan, despite the correc
tions which some friends of its author
always make ; and it proves how true
is the saying, "It is easy to speak, but
impossible to recall what has been
spoken."
At some " reunion" a speaker once
stated he did not know the author of
the lines, but thought they had been
written by Father Ryan, being, he
?aio, probably one of his latest pieces,
and so never published in his book.
Although this piece had been read at
previous reunions and the authorship
referred to Mr. Hay, and although
these limas had been pnblished in the
Confederate Veteran, and credit given
to its true author, and although they ?
nad been printed in 1S66 in the Sum- ?
ter Watchman over the name of;
"Error," yet this speculation of the
speaker was immediately converted
into certainty by his audience. From
that period to" the present each year
the mistake is repeated, so that it be
comes necessary for Mr. Hay's friends
to do what is possible toward correct
ing the mistake in ascribing the
"Phantom Host" to a poet who al
ready wears many jewels in his crown
and many roses in his garland, thus
not needing the addition of one rob
bed from another's.
Now I have mentioned and even re
peated these facts believing you will
be glad to remedy, so far as possible,
the injustice unintentionally done Mr.
Hay by referring to his inspired com
g)sition as the production of Father
yan. I also send you a copy of the
poem, and shall be glad if you have it
inserted in the paper in which this
correction is made, and beg that you
will have a copy sent me.
We are indebted to Prof. Colcock
for a corrected version of ' ' The Phan
tom Host," and doubtless one that
has the approval of its author, which
is given herewith:
My form was wrapped in slumber,
That steals from the heart its cares,
For my very life was weary
With its barren waste of years ;
But my soul, with rapid pinions,
Fled swift to the light that beams
From a phantom sun and planets,
For the dreamer in his dreams.
I stood in a wondrous woodland,
Where the sunlight nestled sweet
In the cups of snowy lilies
Which grew about my feet :
And while the forest arches
Stirred gently with the air,
The lilies underneath them
Swung their censers, pale in prayer.
I stood amazed and wondering.
And a grand ?emnonian strain
Came sweeping through the forest,
And died; then rose again.
It swelled in solemn measure,
Till my soul, in comfort blest.
Sank down among the lilies
With folded wings tc rest.
Then to that mystic music,
Through the forest's twilight aisle,
Passed a Host with muffied footsteps,
In martial rank and file ;
And I knew those gray clad figures,
Thus slowly passing by,
Were the souls of Southern soldiers
Who for freedom dared to die.
In front rode Sidney Johnston,
With a brow no longer wrung
By the vile and senseless slanders
Of a prurient rabble tongue;
And near him mighty Jackson,
With a placid front, as one*
Whose warfare was accomplished,
Whose crown of glory won.
There Hill, too, pnre and noble,
Passed in that spirit train,
For he joined the martyred army
From the Scrath's last battle plain.
The next in order followed
The warrior-priest, great Polk,
With joy to meet his Master,
For he had nobly borne the yoke.
There Stuart, the bold, the daring,
- With matchless Pelham rode ;
With earnest, chastened faces,
They were looking up to God.
And Jenkins, glorious Jenkins,
With his patient, fearless eyes,
And the brave, devoted Garnett
Journeyed on to Paradise.
Before a shadowy squadron
Rode Morgan, keen and str?ng,
And 1 knew by his tranquil forehead
He'd forgotteng. every wron
There peerless Pegram marching
With a dauntless martial tread,
And I breathed a sigh for the hero,
The young, the early dead.
'Mid spectral black horsed troopers
Passed Ashby's stalwart form,
With that proud, defiant bearing
Which so spurned the battle storm ;
But his glance was mild and tender,
For in that Phantom Host
He dwelt with lingering fondness
' On the brother he had lost.
Then strode the brave Maloney,
Kind, genial adjutant;
And next him walked the truthful,
The lion-hearted Gantt.
There to that solemn music
Passed a triad of the brave ;
Hayne, Taylor, Alfred Pinckey?
All had found a soldier's grave._
They were young and g?ntle spirits,
But they quaffed the bitter cup,
For their country's flag was falling,
And they fell to lift it up. ?
-Aye, there passed in countless thou
sands
In that mighty Phantom Host
True hearts and noble patriots
Whose names on ean;b are lost.
There "the missing" found their
places?
Those who vanished from our gaze
Like brilliant, flashing meteors,
And were lost in glory's blaze.
Yes, they passed, that noble army?
They passed to meet their Lord ;
And a voice within me whispered:
"They but march to their reward."
REPUBLICAN PLANS UPSET.
The President Throws th? Fat in
tho Fire.
Washington, August 27.?President
Roosevelt, by his speeches ont he trust
question, has totally disarranged the
plans of the managers of the Republi
can Congressional campaign. Chair
man Babcock and his assistants had
been as anxious to avoid taking any
decided stand on that question as they.'
would be to avoid taking hold of the
hot end of a poker. They were willing
to let individual Republican spellbin
ders attack the trusts for local con
sumption in parts of the country
where the feeling agaiqst those aggre
gations of capital is especially strong,
but these attacks were to be for local
consumption and there was to be noth
ing done that would commit the party
as a whole to any policy on this issue.
It was carefully avoided in the Repub
lican campaign text-book, which
devoted pages to trying to make it ap
pear that everything that had been
done against the trusts had been done
by Republicans, but had not a single
line about any policy of the party on
the subject at the present time.
The reason for this was not far to
seek. Chairman Babcock wanted
money for the campaign. In former
campaigns the Republicans had fried
the fat out of the manufacturers on
the tariff question, or had scared it
out of them by holding up Bryanism
and the silver issue. In this campaign
either of these schemes could be work
ed. A Republican campaign without
money is an impossibility and after
looking the field over this year Chair
man Babcock decided that the trusts
should be made to furnsh the sinews
of war. It was for the purpose of be
ing in touch with the money kings
that the headquarters of his commit
tee were moved from Washington to
New York, and from these headquar
j ters he is filling the country with con
fidential circulars addressed to men of
great corporate interests, quoting from
a statement made by Secretary Ed
wards, of the Democratic Congression
al campaign committee, to the effect
that the Kansas City platform with its
endorsement of the Chicago platform
is, and will remain, the platform of
the Democratic party until it is
changed by the next Democratic Na
tional Convention. This Mr. Babocck
says in his circular, means that the
Democratic party titill stands for 'free
coinage of silver at the ratio of sixteen
to one, and for all of the features of
the Chicago and Kansas City platform
which made them unsatisfactory to
the business men of the country. How
much money he has succeeded in get
ting by means of these circulars is
not known, but many of the men to
whom they were addressed have either
torn them up and thrown them into
their waste baskets, or have put them
into their pockets to show, to friends
as curiosities.
Now, just on the heels of this large
ly unsuccessful attempt to frighten
money out of business men by shaking
the ghost of Bryanism at them, comes
the President with his speeches
which will interfere with the plans
for squeezing the trusts. Mr. Bab
cock and his assistants will have to
tell the trust magnates not to pay any
attention to the President; that he
represents only himself in his speeches,
and that they must rely on their Re
publican friends in'Congress to see to
it that no legislation is enacted that
will be to their disadvantage.?News
and Courier.
For a bad taste in.tnemcuth take Cham
berlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. For
sale by Dr. A. J. China.
Detective stories of all kinds at H.
G. Osteen & Co's book store.
SUMMONING TRE STATES.
President Francis, of the World's
Fair, Calls a Meeting of Ail
State Commissions?Pres
ident Roosevelt to
Attend.
World's Fair, St. Louis, Aug. 27.?
Plans are under way for a three-day
ceremony at the World's Fair Grounds
on September 30 and October 1st and
2d. President David R. Francis has
sent a letter to the State World's
Fair Commission in twenty-nine
States to assemble in St. Lcuis on
those, dates, when the director of
works and the committee on grounds
i and buildings will allot the sites for
State buildings. The allotment Trill
be made the occasion for elaborate
I ceremonies. The State commissions
will be accompanied by their governors
and. other distinguished officials and
a special program will be arranged by
each commission for the dedication of
each site when allotted. The railroad
companies will announce reduced rates
for the event. President Roosevelt
win be the guest of honor. Besides
the governors of States there will be
present the National Commission, the
: United States GovernmentBoard, Board
' of Lady Managers and others of promi
nence. One of the features of the cel
ebration will be a street parade in
cluding military and civic organiza
! tions. The States and territories which
haveriak?n action with the view of
? being represented at the World's Fair
I are as follows :
Washington, Missouri, Illinois, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico,
'New York, South Carolina, West Vir
ginia, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska,
Hawaii, Georgia, Idaho, Arizona,
1 Montana, Fensas, Texas, Mississippi.
Florida, Iowa, Wisconsin, Maine,
; Oklahoma, Indian Territory, Arkansas,
Connecticut, North Dakota.
Gilford Pinchot on the Exposi
tion Staff.
World Fair, St. Louis, Aug. 27.?
Gilford Pinchot has been selected as
honorary chief of the department of
forestry to co-operate with Dr. Tarleto
H. Bean, acting chief of the depart
ment. Mr. Pinchot is chief of the
division of forestry in the Department
of Agriculture at Washington and is a
man who has done more, perhaps, than
all others to devise a practical policy
for the preservation and extension of
the forests of the this country. He is
a graduate of Yale University and
subsequent to his graduation studied
foreiiry in the best schools of France
and 'Germany. Immediately upon his
ret&yn to this countrry he was placed
in zkarge of the Biltmore Estate in
Western North Carolina, where he
developed and applied for perhaps the
first time in America the practical
methods of managing large private
forests. He also formulated, the best
measures for securing and preserving
the large forest areas in the State of
New York.
He was appointed Chief of the Divi
sion of Forestry in the Department of
Agriculture at Washington some half
dozen, years ago, and under his effi
cient management this division has
recently been organized into the Gov
ernment Forestry Bureau. He is a
warm personal friend of President
Roosevelt.
American Plows For South Africa.
(Philadelphia Record.)
An order for 18,000 eight-horse plows
to be used ?.a breaking up the virgin
Soil in South Africa has been received
by the Farquhar Agricultural Works,
at York, Pa. This is probably the
largest order ever sent out for this
crop-compelling implement. It affords
a most welcome proof of the new turn
of affairs on the bloodsoaked veldts
where Briton and Boer were lately
struggling for mastery. The 'Ameri
can people will take much greater
pleasure in sending plows to the Trans
vaal than in sending mules and muni
tions of war, and will lose nothing by
the substitution. The resumption of
mining operations will no doubt be the
signal for a renewal of large export
orders far machinery, tools and lumber
to go along with the plows and help to
rebuild the prosperity that existed be
fore the land was given up to the deso
lation of war.
A Parson's Noble Act.
"I want all the world to know," writes
Kev. C. J. Budlong, of Ashaway, R. "L,
'*what a thoroughly good and reliable
medicine I found in Electric Bitters. They
cured me of jaundice and liver troubles
that hid caused me great suffering for
many years. For a genuine, all-round cure
they excel anything I ever saw." Electric
Bitters are the surprise of all for their
wonderful work in Liver, Kidney, and
Stomach troubles. Don't fail to try them.
Only 50 cts. Satisfaction is guaranteed by
J. F. W. DeLorme.
Rome, Aug. 28?Mgr. Guidi has been
appointed apostolic delegate to the
Philippines. Mgr. Guidi is expected
to hasten his departure for Manila in
consequence cf information received
at the Vatican of the oragnizarion of
a scismatic Catholic church in the
Philippines. The Vatican professes not
to attach* much importance to the
movement and declares it "cannot de
velop under the leadership of persons
whose sole reason for organization is
because they are excommuniacted from
the Catholic church."
Fortune Favors a Texan.
"Having distressing pains in head, back
and stomach, and being without appetite,
i began to use Dr. King's New Life Pills,"
writes W. P. Whitehead, of Kenneda'e,
Tex., "and soon felt like a new man." In
fallible in stomach and liver troubles.
Only 25c at J. F. W. DeLorme'edrugstore.
MUSTN'T MARRY PHILIPINOS.
Ban Against American Soldiers
Taking Native Wives.
-w Washington, Aug. 26. ? United
States soldiers who marry Filipino
women in the rutare will run a very
great risk of being dishonorably dis
charged from the service. The fre
quency of such marriages has been
made the subject of a report to the
war department from Gen. Chaffee
who takes the ground that rather than
give the soldiers an excuse to desert
his native wife when his regiment is
ordered to other quarters he will order
the soldier discharged without honor.
One of the requirements of enlistment
is that the applicant be not married,
and a marriage after enlistment is
regarded as just as deterimental to the
service as before enlistment, in which
latter case the applicant would not be
enlisted.
Army chaplains have the right to
marry anyone they please, but they
customarily do not marry enlisted men
without consent o:! the commanding
officers. Generally such consent is
withheld in the case of enlisted men,
inasmuch as at posts there are limited
. accommodations even for married com
missioned officers.
If soldiers in the Philippines marry
native women and then, when their
regiments are ordered away, attempt
to desert them, they may be held as
having been guilty- of conduct prejudi
cial to good discipline and dropped
from the service on that score. Inas
much as a soldier enlists as an unmar
ried man the army can make no pro
vision for the care of his wife.
"There has undoubtedly been wan
ton cruelty practiced on native women
by enlisted soldiers who married
them, hiding in their heart the cow
ardly intent to desert them whenever
their regiment left the island," said
the Manila Times in a recent editorai.
"It is a question if chaplains who
have thus made it possible for the
men to violate a fundamental law of
honor and decency may not themselves
be liable to discipline for aiding and
abetting an infraction of discipline.
"Every departing transport brings
trouble to the division commander's
office. Thirteen renegade husbands
have been discovered aboard the Crook,
now in quarantine, and they have been
gently, Dut firmly, brought ashore to
rejoin their weeping families."
During the early American occupa
tion of Porto Rico many soldiers mar
ried Porto Rioan women, for whom a
part of the soldier's pay was set aside.
It is not known that any such- provis
ion is made in the Philippines.
The Veteran's Romance.
The veteran with the war-worn look,
the old slouch hat and the military
goatee, yellowed by the use of tobacco,
was telling the story. He had "shoul
dered his crutch and showed how
fields were won," and now he was
telling how something else was won.
"The old farmhouse on the right ap
pealed to me too strongly to go
ahead," said he. "Besides,;I had got
a glimpse of a cool, sheltered spring
house, where, perh ips, my imagina
tion told me I might get a cool drink
of cream. I do not say that the rustle
of white skirts on the green of the
shrubbery around the springhouse did
not attract me. Be that as it may,
I went and never regretted it.
' ' I met her there. She stood framed
in the doorway of the rustic spring
house, the last rays of the sun giving
a golden glory to her wealth of hair.
Her head was thrown back and her
; graceful neck lost itself in a maze of
ruffles. There was a tender smile on
her ripe mouth and a tender look in
her eyes. Whether she pitied me or
my faded gray uniform I never knew.
I dragged myself up the hill, in spite
of my wounded foot, and made my
request.
" soldier of the Confederacy?'
she said. 'Anything we have is yours.'
"I drank the cream from her hand
with my eyes intent upon hers. After
that she insisted, and with many a
groan I was installed in a gorgeous
white bed in a clean, neat room, and
there my wound was dressed.
"The days seemed to have wings.
Before I knew it, under the care of
my nurse, I was well. But I had
been making progress in other ways'.
I had won a heart.
"I asked her one night as we sat on
the piazza, when the moon was high.
She didn't say no, find as I looked
into the depth of her brown eyes I
knew she was mine, and I took her to
me.
"We then heard footsteps approach
ing. I heard her cry:
" 'Father! father!' and rush to
him. I drew myself up. This was
the old General, of whom I had heard
so much, and who was reputed the
richest man in the State. He advanc
ed and she told him all, cuddled
against his shoulder. He strode up to
me, and?
"The old soldier paused and looked
aronnd to let his words soak in.
"And what?" asked one of the cu
rious.
"And then?I woke up. I woke up
with a sickening pain in my right
leg, and looked around on the battle
field, ghastly pale in the glare of the
cold moonlight. I woke and I dream
ed no more."?Courier-Journal.
A Boy's Wild Ride for Life.
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agonies from asthma, but this wonderful
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Guaranteed bettles 50c and $1.00. Trial
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store.
EARTHQUAKE iN MiD?KiQ.
No American Troops Injured, but
Some Twenty Moros Killed
by Falling Walls.
Washington, August 27.?The war
department has received a cablegram
from Gen. Chaffee at Manila, report
ing the occurrence there of a series of
earthquakes on the island of Mindanao.
Twenty persons were killed by falling
walls, the victims all being Moros.
The Americans in the vicinity escaped
and the dispatch says there were no
reports that any of the soldiers occupy
ing that portion of the island sustain
ed any injuries. The upheaval occur
red in the country adjacent to the
Lake of Lanao, in the Moro section of
the island, near Camp Viekers, which
is now the headquarters of the Ameri
can forces stationed in Mindanao.
Gen. Chaffee's cablegram says the
mountains and rivers and other streams
were considerably disturbed and much
damage was done. The extent of the
damage, however, was not reported.
It is presumed here that the seismic
shocks occurred about five days ago,
though the date is not mentioned in
the dispatch. This is the first serious
earthquake reported from that coun
try during American occupation of the ?
Philippines. The most important ?>
previous seismic disturbance in Min
danao was the one that partly destroy
ed Palak, Kota Batua and the village
on the banks of the river Mindanao in
1872. This phenomenon closely fol
lowed the eruption of the volcano of
Makaturin.
Gen. Chaffee also cabled that the
military situation in that section re
mains quiet and unchanged. No at
tacks have been made on the Ameri
can forces at Camp Viekers since the
last reported, which was cabled eight
days ago.
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Battle Creek, Mich., Aug. 28.?Five
members of a boating party of six em
ployes of the Battle Creek sanitarium
were drowned last night in Lake
Goguac. Their rowboat was run down .
by the steamer Welcome.
Manila, August 27.?Frederick Dorr,
the proprietor, and Edward O'Brier,
the editor of Freedom, recently con
victed of sedition, have been fined
$1,000 without imprisonment. A. ?.
Dorr, manager of the paper, was fined
$25.
Roanoke, Va., Aug. 28.?Advices re
ceived at the general omces of the Nor- ?
folk and Western railway from the coal \
fields say that two mine guards ;?jC
two strikers were killed^in a b?tele on
Crane Creek in Mercer County, W.
Va., this morning. The scene of the
shooting is in the vicinity of the
Crane Creek Coal company's operation,
and of the Thomas Coal and Coke com- 1
pany's operation.
Liverpool, Aug. 29.?The following
are the weekly cotton statistics : Total
sales of all kinds 29,000- bales: total
sales American 22,000; English spin
ners takings 46,000 ; total export 9, ?C0 ;
imports of all kinds 15,000; import, \
American, 700: stock of all kinds
436,000; stock, American, 352,000;
quantity afloat all kinds 21,000
quantity afloat. American, 18,000;
total sales on speculation SCO; total
sales to exporters 1,200.
Boston, August 27. ?Governor Crane
honored the requisition papers for the
return of Munroe Bogers from Brock
ton, Mass, where he is under arrest,
to Durham, N. C, where he is said to
be wanted on the charge of arson.
The case has attracted considerable at- '
tention, as strong efforts have been
made by prominent colored mea of
this section to have the requisition
denied on the ground that Rogers,
who is a negro, could not expect a fair
trial in North Carolina. They laid
special stress on the condition that
arson is a capital offence in the South.
Atlanta, Ga. August 27.?A petition
for the incorporation of the Southern
Book Company, "capitalized at ?250,
000 was filed here today. The object
of the concern, as stated in the appli
cation, is to ? publish text or other
kinds of books or periodicals for
schools or other purposes and also to
do book and job printing of all kinds.
The principal place of bnsiness and
home offices are to be located in
Atlanta, but the right is asked to es
tablish branch offices and other places
of business in other counties and
States.
Not Doomed for Life.
"I was treated for three years by good
doctors," writes W. A. Greer, McConnell
ville, O., ?*for Piles, and Fistula, but, when
all tailed, Bncklen's Arnica Salve cured
me in two weeks." Cures Burns, Bruises,
Oats, Corns, Sores. Eruptions, Salt Rheum,
Piles or no pay. 25c at J. F. W. DeLorme's
drug store.
Toccoa, Ga, August 27.?Officials of
Oconee County, S. C, have taken into
custody three men, Henry Love, John
Howard and Thomas' Howard, who,
they charge, aro responsible for the
wreck of the Southern Railway's
limited, near Toccoa, last, Monday.
The results of the investigation of the
accident show that the train was delib
erately derailed. Prints of wrecking
tools have been discovered upon the
rails.
Wanted.
We would like to ask, through the col
umns of your paper, if there is any person
who has used Green's August Flower for
the cure of Indigestion. Dyspepsia, and
Liver Troubles that has not been cured?
and we also mean their results, such as sour
stomach, fermentation of food, habitual
costiveness, nervous dyspepsia, headaches,
despondent feelings, sleeplessness?in fact,
any trouble connected with the stomach or
liver. This medicine has been sold for
many years in all civilized countries, and
we wish to correspond with you and send
you one of our bopks free of cost. If you
never tried August Flower, try one bottle
first. We have never known of its failing.
If *">, something more serious is the mat
ter with you. Ask your oldest druggist.
G. G. Green, Woodbury, N. J.
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