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them to join the rebellion and raid down
the river, destroying the state stations es-
tabliShed on it's banks. The Arab chlefS
at Stanley Falls include q son OF Tlppu
Tb. The relations of these chiefs with
the whites have long been very pleasant
and it was hoped that they would with
stand all temptations to revolt. Unfor-
tunately Tippu lib is at Zanzibar. NO
one credits him with any special liking
for the whites, but he has q keen eye Tor
his own interests, and as the most pow
erful and influential Arab in Central Al
RIGA his presence there in the present
crisis would probably be of great value to
the Congo State While his representa-
tives at Stanley Falls might continue
friendly it was deemed quite probable
that Rachid, at the mouth of the Iona
mi, would take up the cause Of his south
ern friends and make great trouble.
The Congo State at once sent up the
river all of it's native soldiers who could
be taken from Leopoldville and Bangala.
1t has strongly fortified post at Basoko,
at the mouth of the Aruwimi river, and
hundreds of the Basoko cannibals, who
chased Stanley down the river, yelling
'meat, meat" now wear the uniform Of
the state A part of the reinfOrcements
have been added to the garrison at Baso-
ko, and q strong force has also been
posted at the mouth of the Lomami to
keep an eye on the movements of Rachid.
The latest letters from the upper Congo
are reassurng, and their general effect is
to show that an extension of the troubles
further down the river will probably be
prevented. 1t may take much time and
money, however, to assert the authority
of the state over the large region now
in revolt. CYRUS G. ADAMS.
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Africa
Joubert was that bis supplies were run
ming low, and that unless he received
speedy relief all the white interests on
the lake would be at the mercy Of the
Arabs.
1t is believed at Brussels that Ruma-
liza is at the bottom of the uprising; that
he may possibly have inflicted no one
knows what fate, upon the Tanganyika
stations; that his bands crossed Many
ema to Nyangwe and induced the Arabs
there to join them in killing the four
white men who had reached that point;
and that the inSurgent force then divided,
Il part going down the Congo to Riba-
Riba to destroy that post, while the other
crossed to the Lomami and killed all the
white men but two at the three stations
on that river 1t should be said. however,
that no positive proof has been received
that RumaliZa took part in the uprising,
and the Tanganyika region may not be in
volved in the Congo revolt. L is certain,
however that Muini Mukarra, the Arab
chief of Kasongo, was a leading spirit in
the Instruction.
The war on the Tanganyika slave traders
the tax on ivory and the influx Of white
taderS are not the only events that have
excited the hatred Of the Arabs and led to
this deplorable tragedy. South of the Lo-
mani stations is LuSambO, on the San
kuru river, where Mr.. Dhanis, an agent
of the Congo State, recently attacked
large force Of Arab slave raiders, killed
ten Of their chiefs, and took seven hun
dred prisoners. Far north on the Makua
river, VandekerkhOven, for q year past,
has occupied a station with strong
force of Congo State soldiers Almost
isolated from the world as he is he has
been able to send to the Congo reports
of two hard battles with strong forces
of Arab slave raiders in which he defeat
ed and drove them north of the river
This news greatly excited hundreds of
Arabs living at Isangi, at the mouth of
the Lomami and at Stanley Falls. and
the chiefs sent q protest to the Congo
State authorities The most vehement
and indignant protest came from Rachid,
who commands q large force of Arabs
at Isangi, and who led the revolt against
the Europeans in 1856 when the station
of Stanley Falls fell into his hands
When the news of the HodiSter disas-
ter was carried down the Congo, as fast
as o. steamer could go, there was grave
reason to fear that the victorious Arabs
would hasten to Rachid at Isangi and to
the chiefs at Stanley Falls, and incite
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further disaster and Furnishing the insur-

further disaster and Furnishing the insur-
gents.
The Arab slave and ivory merchants
have killed every white man but two
within an area of thousands of square
miles, have destroyed every white station
within that district and have seized Il
large amount of trade goods which the
Commercial Syndicate of Katanga had
sent into the country. The white victims
of this uprising are seventeen in number,
one of them an officer of the Congo State
and the other agents of the Commercial
Syndicate. They occupied five and pos
sibly six trading stations on the Lomami
and Upper Congo rivers The broken line
on our map enclOses the area in which
these tragical events have occurred.
This uprising marks the disastrous end
of the first attempt that has been made
south of Stanley Falls to establish a
purely commercial enterprise in a region
where the Arabs have enjoyed a mOnop-
oily of trade. Other causes, which viii
be named, doubtless contributed to bring
abOIr this reSistacSs attack upon the
whites.
The Katanga Commercial Syndicate
was organized in Brussels about a year
ago for the purpose of carrying on trade
oI tiic I@clllhIll ilIu Upper 1OuSO I1fcIS.
This enterprise should not be COMPOUNDED
with the Katanga Company, a wholly dis
tinct concern, which has acquired rights
from the Congo State to very large
territory among the western headwaters
of the Congo. The purpose of the Ka-
tanga Syndicate was simply to start trad
ing stations i'll the fairly populous regions
of the Lomami and the Congo, between
Stanley Falls and Kasongo where, it was
believed, large quantities of ivory could
be purchased Of the natives. The leader
ship of the expedition was given to Ar
thur Hodister, who in his nine years of
service on the Congo and its tributaries,
had shown himself to be one of the most
competent explorers and useful men who
ever went TO Central Africa. His expe-
dition, early this year, assembled the Up
per Congo and the Lomami rivers on the
steamer Auguste Beernaert, owned by the
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OUR CITIZEN SOLDIERS.
They Stand Between Society and An
archy.
From The Now York SIM

From The New York Sun.
The riotous instructions Of these days are
radically Indifferent. They are not sudden
and unprecedented explosions, but organized
movements, with leaders whose sole function
and business is to conduct them. They are
carefully planned for the purpose of bringing
into alliance with them all related and affiliated
bodies in the wide system of organized labor;
and they undertaken not merely to get the
immediate advantage of increased wages. but
also to force all labor into the system. They
are a part Of "A scheme to drive every working
man into combination with all other working
men for purposes of OffenSe and defense. Their
ton which makes them powerful, so that it
shall be res1stless, whittier by capital or by Ia
Dor
In other words they are fighting for the con-
troll and domination OF II reorganized social
system. The great mass Of their followers are
honest and well-meaning men, but the policy
therance of it they can always rely on lawless
spirits in their ranks, and on the lawleSS ele-
ment of society outside of them. II, for in
stance the rapine of the switchmen insurgents
at Buffalo had not been stopped by military
force. every rufian in the town would have
joined with them in the work of destruction;
and thence the insurrection would have spread
over the state, the labor unions affordng it
the nucleus of organization.
The ability of society to defend itself against
such destructive forces by the eXertion OF mil
lesson has been taught in New York PennsyI-
vaDia and Tennessee. 1t must be kept armed
to resist the assault threatened by the organ
Zation, which has been built up by leaders like
Sweeney and O'Donnel. The day has come,
alast when even in this republic the guns of
soldiers necessary for the preservation of
the social structure.
That Is the fact to which the situation In
three of the oldest and greatest states of the
union bears witness today Society is forced
10 take up arms for its defense against anarchy.
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JOHN G.. WHITTIER.

a farm and was always fond Of nature and ma
of rural scenes and associations, as ms
poems show. His parents were, FRIENDS,
popularity termed Quakers, and ne at tha am
early age joined their society, wore thelr
garb and used their form of speech; Like
all it's members, he was opposed 70 slavery
and his opposition grew with his years
Ii seems not improbable that but Tor ms
strong anti-slavery feeling ne might l4 nave aan,
remained obscure to his death. Ihat 1eel-
ing. especially after the newspaper ne ed,
tied in Philadelphia in his younger PeIlou
had been mobbed, was so intensified tlat
whatever he wrote, whether, prose or verse
was saturated with it. lie WAS chosen
1880 secretary of the Anti-Slayery society
and his stirring poems, expressing his con
victions, early made him conspicuous Ill
the then small band of nholluomstS.
For the last twenty years or more Nc Hau
been to an extent a reclusc, rarely, gong
away from home. and keeping III unlaVora-
BILE weather within his simple, Seduiously
neat house at Amesbury. lie had frequent
visitors from all parts of the country, not
ipfreouently from abroad, drawn tmther by
his great reputation as Il poet. he made
it a rule to see all who came when ne was
well. and he Was uniformly considerable
and
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-09-13
SAM SMALL SLIGHTLY WOUNDED.
Tho Evangelist and Prohibition Orator Has
u Lively Experience.

Tho Evangelist and Prohibition Orator Has
u Lively Experience.
Vincennes. Ind, September 6.-(Special)
A sensation was created here this morning
by the report that Rev. Samuel w. Small
was shot last night at tiaHleCun, lnG.. III
teen miles south of this city, where he was
holding prohibition meeting.
just as lie was preparing 20 retire Small
said he felt singing sensation in his leg
and upon examination found he had been
shot at through the window. The wound
was nothing more than slight abrasion OF
the flesh, but Mr.. Small picked up the ball
as it rolled the floor and carried it away
with him as Il trophy OF his experience in
Gibson county.
Mr.. Smalls version Of the affair is ''Af-
ter | adjourned the meeting | went to my
room at the hotel and was about to retire
and had partially undressed, when | heard
q noise outside Of my window, which was
open. | looked out, but could not see any
one. When | turned my back to the win
dow | felt something strike me on the leg
through the open window, and feeling sure
| was being pursued by the ruttians who
tried to break up my meeting. l opened my
travelling bag, secured my revolver and went
to the window. when | saw two or three
fellows standing around the corner OF Il
shed across the street. | pulled my re-
yolyer and called to them that they mad
,atter moi try that again. The fellows dis
appeared in the darkness My companion
then came in from an adjoining room and
wanted to know what the disturbance was
about. ] told him that some hoOdlumS were
throwing rocks through the window, but
up0n investigation further l discovered
had been shot at and found the bullet on
the floor. | am not injured in the least
but q rufiian who will throw 81 rock or use
a noise]ess weapon for the purpose OF in
Jury will stab an adversary in the back with
a dirk 1 am not used to such treatment"
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ipnIFai
syndicate The vessel carried a large
supply of trade goods which We're to be
distributed among the six stations to be
established.
The latter letter received from Hodister
was dated April 9th from Bena Kamba,
the head of navigation on the L0mami.
The prospects We're bright, and he was
very hopeful. He had established sta
tons at Yanga and Bena kamba, where
two or three white men at each post with
an adequate force of black assistants,
We're to begin trading operations at once
He had sent another party further up the
river TO settle ut Fabi. Half OF his eX-
petition and supplies had gone overland
from Bcna Kamba to Riba Riba on the
Congo. had established n station there, ana
also further up the river ut NyanSWe,
and were soon to set up their furtherest
station at KasOugO, which with It's 9,Coo
inhabitants is the largest Arab settlement
III the Congo region. 1t is not known
whether the station at kasongo was es-
tabliShed before the outbreak. -Four
white men were sent to found the station
at Nyangwe and Kasongo, all of whom
We're killed. The map shows that the
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have been making war on Arab slave
raiders on the shores of the lake, and
have freed many slaves. Early this year
Joubert also undertook to levy tax upon
Arab caravans bringing ivory from the
west to transport across the lake and to
the sea. The Congo State officials say
he was not authorized to impose this tax.
This impost kindled the wrath of Ruma-
liza, the powerful Arab chief at Ujiji on
the east side of the lake, and in April last
he attacked one Of Joubert's stations. At
last accouts Rumaliza was pressing his
enemy hard and the latest word from
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-09-13
Will APPEAL F0R rrgZIE BORDEN.
housands Express Approval OF PetitI on
snr Release on Bail.

for Release on Bail
Boston, Mass, September S.-lnScrlpeu III
golden letters Oh Il crimson banner, when yes
terday afternoon adorned the great organ III
fremont temple, were the words: For COD
and Home and Native Country, the motto
of the Massachusetts WomanS CHRISTIAN
Temperance Union. 1t was an inspiration to
the large audience which had assembled at
the temperance veSper service. MIS-. SUSAN
Fessenden presided and upon the platfort
were Mrs. Kate l.. Stevenson ana many prom,
inent temperance workers, including seyeraf
clergymen. In most pathetic language Mrs.
Fessenden spoke of the orphan girl now in
iail on the charge of the murder OF her
father and stepmother. The most the gov
eminent could say of the prisoner" she said,
was that hers was exclusive opportu-
nifty" Mrs Fessendcn thus appealed to the
audience il it was just to even imagine that
because she had an opportunity unprotected
woman could or would commit such horrl-
bic crime She then read Il petition, as fol
lows:
''ro HIS Fxcellency, the Governor of Mas
sachusetts-We, the undersigned feeling th:S
tho probable innocence Of Miss Lizzie A. Bor-
den, now confined In the jail in Taunton, on
the sharCe of the murder of her father, y
at least RS great as that of her guilt, and
believing likewise that thirty years of yirtu.
GUS living should count for much in such
doubtful case. do most earnestly besecch your
executive authority TO the extent OF releasing
the said Lizzie A. Borden on ba.i-thc amount
of said bail to be decided by yourself until
the grand jury in November. 1S92'
At the conclusion of the reading OF the Pc
tgtion the vast audience, numbering about
two thousand five hundred, arose simultan"
ousIy with the exception of forty or nifty,
and hy this mute testimony showed theiA
belief in the prisoners innocence.
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ARAB UPRISING.
4 STORY OF BLOOD FROM THE FAR
OFF CONGO.
Only Two White Men Escape Alive-When
tho Arabs Make IA Descent on the VIII
lage-Rough Times Experienced.

In the last week of July report reach
ed Europe that an Arab uprising had oc-
Cured in the Congo Free State This
vague rumor is now fully confirmed. The
work of extending commerce and civili-
eaton in Central Africa has received a
lamentable check. The extent Of the dis
aster is not yet fully known, nor is it
certain whether the forces of the Congo
Free State are adequate for preventing
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-09-13
THE QUAKER POET.
Death of John g. Whittier Mt HIS MasS"on"
eetts' Home.

Hampton Falls, N. H., September IL H.
John c. Whittier died at 4:3O O'Clock tnis
morning. Mr.. Whittier passed aWay
peacefully. His nearest relatives ana ".
Douglass were at his bedside when gay can,o
and he seemed to be conscious of his sur,
roundings at the last moment. The tuneral
will take place at Amcsbury, Mass, ut
2:3O o'clock p. m. Saturday next.
Born in small town in Massachusetts,
December II, 1907, where he lived manly
till past thirty, and then removing to anoth-
err adjacent small town, he closed his days
there He had done many years work on
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Humboldt, Tenn, September 9.(Speclal) J
The deadlock In the ninth congressional dis
trict democratic convention was broken today,
but it was necessary to abolish the tw0-thirds
rule. Hon. Dorsey o. Thomas withdrew and
J. G. McDearmon, of Gibson county, was nom
mated the 726th ballot. Mr.. Thomas was
made district elector and Mr.. McDearmon will
succeed Rice A. Pierce. the present congress
man, who refused to go before the convention
md Is running aS an indenCnlent.
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EermOnts Election.

White River Junction, Vt, September g.
Vermont today held its biennial state election
choosing state and county officers Legislature
and congressman. Forty towns give Fuller
republican: 7,235: Smalley, democrat, 2,72u
Allen. prohibitionist, 25l falling off in the
democratic vote of 5.
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Utica, n Y, September 7.-Francis Kcr-
nan, United States senator from 1876 to
1881, died here this afternoon. He enjoyed
the confidence and respect Of all democrats.
He was the party candidate for governor
once, and defeated Roscoe Conkling for the
house of representatives.
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CEISPO HAS WON
And the Dictatorship in Venezuela Over


Washington, September S-Unoffical ad-
vices received at the department of state from
Venezuela this morning We're that General
Crispo has finally triumphed and the dicta-
torshp has been overthrown. General Crispo
has, it is said been called to Caracas to as
sumo the rcins of government, and there is
now a bright prospect for the restoration of
peace in the distracted country.
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five stations known to have been estaD-
iished are separated by considerable dis
tances. Every one of them, however,
was visited by overwhelming Arab bands
who killed the garrisons and utterly de-
stroyed the stations. Hodster who had
remained at Bena Kamba was tortured
for three days and then beheaded. The
tB0 white men who are the sole sur
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-09-13

From The Stewart County, Ga, Hopper.
AS the morning star scatters night away,
the bright effugence OF The Atlanta Constitu-
ton scatters herescs, "isms and 'tes" and
lights up our pathway to true government.
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Death of General A.

Death of General Anderson.
Portsmouth N. H., September General
James X, Anderson, of Richmond Va, died
this morning.
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From The Chicago Tribune.
There was q man whose name may be
given as Ferguson, because it was some
thing entirely different from Ferguson, and
Ferguson will do as well Cor any Cher
name. Besides, it is a handy one to speak
and it looks well in print.
This man Ferguson was a county treas
urer, with q good salary, a wife and six
fair-haired daughters, a position in society,
ample means, had the confidence of every
body in the community and was, moreover,
the superintendent OF one of the largest
Sunday schools in the country. There was
no reason OH earth why he should betray the
confidence reposed in him, bring reproach
on the honored name of Ferguson and drag
his amiable and deserving family down to
share in his own disgrace.
But one day, like Il clap of thunder from
q clear sky-this being the phrase usually
employed in eases like this-there came the
of $4,000 in County Treasurer Fergusons
accounts.
Inquiry at the county building and at the
various banks only served to confirm the
report.
Then society gathered up its skirts. 1t
was the duty of society to protect itself and
justice must be doue.
And everybody said County Treasurer
Ferguson ought to be in the penitentiary.
But the next day it leaked out that the
discrepancy III the accounts arose from the
fact that Treasurer Ferguson had not drawn
his salary for four years, and instead of his
being short in his accounts and II defadlter
The county owed him $4,000
And then everybody said Treasurer Fer
guson ought to be i'll the insane asylum.
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Come, Let's All Quit!

From The Hartford Courant.
Why not all strike? Why doesn't every
body pronounce the burden Of work unbear-
able, and just lay it down and go III for good
time? Suppose that the farmers, the hardest
worked and the poorest paid Gn money! OF all
workers, should decide not to raise any crops
for the year, to give the earth and themselves
good round rest Suppose that all the mil
hands should decide that tending machines
didn't pay; that they'd had enough of work
ing day after day in the production of things
they never would need, and that they would
leave the mills and rest. Suppose all the
thousands engaged in transportation should
determine to quit. and quietly put an end to
the perls and struggles OF that risky life. And
along with the rest suppose that the store
keepers decided to put up their shutters and
abandon the veXatons Of trade, with its many
cares and its small profits. Why not every
body 90 i'll for good time?
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-09-05
Motors for Hot Weather.

1t is not merely an aggravation when
a pedestrian, with pleasing expectancy,
seeks the sidewalk shaded by great
buildings, to find, instead of the cool.
ness belonging to shade, outrushing
volumes of hot air through grating and
basement window. How much more
comfortable it would be for the occu.
pants were the hot furnaces and boilers
allowed to go fireless through summer,
and to grow cool, cold, frigid-until the
latter sort of weather came again! This
might be accomplished by bringing in a
cold electric motor or two and a couple
of cold wires. 1t would not only con.
duce to the bodily comfort of all in the
vicinity, but be profitable change for
power users.-Practical Electricity.
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Summer Dress of Congressmen en-.

Visitors to congress are not struck by
the dignity of attire affected by senators
and representatives in these warm days.
True, the atmosphere of both chambers
is almost unbearable lately, but that
need not deter the senator's from main.
tanning little care in assuming negli.
gee. To see great legislator strollins
around in limp trousers that would apt.
ly costume a Joshua Whitcomb is not
edifying. The absence of waistcoats Is
not crime; indeed, it is sensible
fashion if proper care is bestowed upon
the arrangement of the garments that
remain. In this connection the fashion
bulletins for congress should advise
gentlemen who lay aside their waist.
coats to supply themselves with ample
belts, or even the despised Gordon
sash" if they wish to preserve the ad.
miration of visiting constituents. 1t is
very hard to have any generation for a
body of men costumed with the lack of
care displayed by the senate for the last
few weeks.-Mrs. McGuirk in Kate
Fields Washington.