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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-15
Mehan,s Acquittal Expectsa.

Atlanta, Ca, Dee. l4-Speeches in the
Mehan murder case occupied the entire
day, and will not be concluded before to-
morrow afternoon late. Great interest
is manifested in the case, and the court
room is packed 10 its full capacity. Mrs.
Mehan and her children sat in the dock
next to the prisoner to-day, as they did
Public sympathy is strongly
in Mehan's favor, and his prompt acquit-
tai is freely predicted
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-15
NEWS FROM THE NIcrHERoY.
The Cruiser Reported Off the Coast of
BRAZIL LAST Tuesday.

Washington, Dec. 14.-Minister Men
donca has received advices announcing
the arrival of the cruiser Nictheroy off
the coast of Brazil on last Tuesday. The
America, which met with an accident
and was obliged to remain at the West
Indies for repairs, is being put in excel
lent repair as rapidly as possible, and is
expected to sail Saturday, arriving off
the coast of Brazil about a week later.
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oheoked low the Courts.

Tennille, Ca, Dec. 14.-The grading of
the Sandersville and Tennille new rail
road was begun here ON the 18th inst,
under Contractor Prichart. To-day they
are restrained and the work is sus-
pended until there can be an adjustment
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Put a Bullet in His Heart.

New York, Dec. 14.-Vernon ELEPHANT,
80 years old, committed suicide to-day at
l6 Madison avenue by shooting himself
through the heart. He was the son of
Robert M. ELEPHANT, presidentlof the Del
awaEe and Hudson Coal Company
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An English ventriloquist recently beat
handbag, at the Same time mimicking the
cries of "a dog. A sympathetic man rushed
up ana gave the man tnTashng. The ven
triloquist sued hun for damages; but the case
was dscided against him, on the ground that
the aog champion acted IN good faith.
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KILLED BY ELEoTR1cIrY.
A Dangerous Piece of Machin cry
Handled by an Engln Ger.

Pittsburg, Dec. l4.-David Waulker-
man, chief engineer of the Allegheny
county electric light company was in
stantly killed by an electric shock this
morning Another employe was severely
burned and rendered Unconscious at the
same time, but viii probably recover.
Waulkerman was working about a
dynamo and inadvertently handled a
dangerous piece Of machinery The only
marks were a couple of sears on the
hands where the contact was
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A Christmas Sermon,
by
ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS-WARD,
Author of Coates Ajar." Entitled
Think Of The SAD
YG Happy PGOpIN!"
.'Getting Over Christmas, "Put Yourself
i'm the Sackcloth of the Homeless, You
Who Reign in the Purple of Home"
and While Giving Give Kindness.
A Magnificent Christmas C0IO|
Christmas Song,
In ExCGISiS Gloria"
WORDS by
REV. WILLIAM BRIGHT, D. D.
MUSIC by
CHAIR GRn7AT CnMVEpSE
CHARLES CROzAT CONVERSE.

Mr.. Converse is known
the world over. His great
orchestral pieces have been
rendered by Theodore
Thomas, Anton Seidl and
others. His Sunday-school
and Church Hymns, notably,
What a Friend We Have
in Jesus" have gone into all
the tongues of Christendon.
The rare melodic beauty,
brightness and choral eff
fectiveness of this new
CHRISTMAS CAROL prom
Uses to give it as wide
spread popularity as any of
the well-known songs of this
famous composer.
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oarlisla,s Report.

Washington, Dec. 14.-Secretary Car
isles report will, it is stated semi-offi-
cially, be sent to congress on next Tues
day.
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A SHOT OVER COTTON.
Two Young Merchants of BENEFITS.
vile, S. c., Fall Out.

Vile, S. c., Fall Out.
Columbia, S. c., Dec. IA special to
the Register from Bennettsville, S. c.,
says that in dispute about the weight of
a lot of cotton seed to-day at Dunbar,
Donald Mcqueen fatally shot w. H. Man
ming. Both are highly respected young
merchants. Mcqueen surrendered to
the sheriff, and claims to have shot
Manning in self defense. Mcqueen was
slightly wounded.
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scr1ption of this western amusement.
In the latter part of the summer our cat
tie are very fat, as the range is very
fine; and some one DESTROYS of raising
money on one of his cattle, advertises
that on a particular day, and at
given place a first-rate beef will be
shot for. When the day comes every
marksman in the neighborhood will
meet at the appointed place with his
gun. After the company has assem-
bled, a subscription paper is handed
round with the following heading: "A.
B. offers a beef worth $40. to be shot
for, at 25 cents a shot Then the names
are put down by each person thus: ID.
c. put in four shots. 81; f. F. put in
eight shots, 50: G. H. put in two shots,
so cents And thus it goes round until
the price is made up. Two persons are
then selected who have not entered for
shots, TO act as judges Of the match.
Every shooter gets a board and makes
a cross in the center for his target. The
shot that drives the center. or comes
nearest to it, gets the hide and tai
low which is considered the first choice.
The next gets his choice of the hind
quarters, the third gets the other hind
quarter. the fourth takes choice Of the
fore quarters, the fifth the remaining
quarter, and the sixth gets the lead in
the tree against which we shoot. The
judges stand near the tree and when
man fires they cry out, Who shot?' and
the shooter gives in his name; and so on
until all have shot. The judges then
take off the boards and go off to them
selves and decide which quarter each
man has won; sometimes one will get
nearly all
This is one OF our homely amusements
enjoyed as much by us, perhaps more,
than most of your refined entertain
ments. Here each man takes a part If
he pleases and no one is excluded, unless
his improper conduct renders him unfit
as an associate"
There are several full-page "engrav-
ings" of the Goloners charcoal"
sketches. but the writer will leave them
for the pen of the artist.
BEN ARDYS."
indianapolis Dec. 3. 1898
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Taking advantage of the darkest nook.
you see, not coming out in broad day
light like his humble brothers. And who
do you suppose he had cornered there?
is query 1 must leave unsolved, as IL
is a secret.
But to drop this point and go to the
main question, 1 think that / can-Being
somewhat of a debater-prove the alb
surdity of his remarks. He seems to
have seen all this at the reunion at Mich
igan City last August, but strange to say.
1 never saw the like of such while
l was there. True, l was out to the
prison. but none went with me. 1 only
wished there had been some one to have
gone with me, for it was lonesome till
l got out there. l was there two days
and saw nothing that came any ways
near it except between railroad en-
ploye and the colored cook. / did not
see an II. L. c. badge while 1 was gone,
though there were some in Chicago at
the time, but il was like looking for a
needle in a haystack.
1t seems to me from what evidence
can gather that our brother was either
dreaming or was highly drawing on his
already well-stretched imagination.
But Of this. one thing 1 do know for
sure, that none are so proficient in the
art Of OSCILLATION and embracing as is
our honored brother "Gano," as no doubt
but what some of the reurionists person
ally know from experience gone through
with at Rome City two years ago. But
with all my urgeat requests I could not
get him to go with me to the reunion
last summer and went alone.
My friends, 1 am glad to meet you ALL
If ii is only by pen, and 1 extend a
hearty good will and best Of wishes TO
you all, and welcome you TO the page.
love to see the return of old mons.
desire to know IL there are any of our
members in Central normal college. Dan
vile, Ind. and if there are any that in
tend to be in between this and spring,
and IL so I desire to meet and welcome
you. Any of the faculty and many of
the students know me and where l live.
IL there are any coming let me know.
My address is in the standing matter,
chairman of the committee.
! will bid you adieu and you that can
please let me know when brother "Gano"
completes his fovemaking, that / may re-
joice. for he has patched long enough
and change would do him good.
Danville, Dec. 3. ''IVEN."
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Coin of the Realm.

Contributed for the H. L. c. by Ben
Ardys."
Flower in the crannied wall
Little fiower-but if l could understand
What you are, root and all, and all in all,
/ should know what God and man is.
-Tennyson.
We get back our mete as we measure,
We cannot do wrong and feel right,
Nor can we give pain and get pleasure,
For justice avenges each slight.
Whittier.
The man who seeks one thing in life, and
but one.
May hope to achieve it before life is done;
But he who seeks all things wherever he
goes,
Only reaps from the hopes which around
him he sows.
A harvest of barren regrets.
-"Owen Meredith"
Be not to ready to condemn
The wrong thy brother may have
done;
Ere you too harshly censure them
For human faults ask, Have none?"
Eliza Cook.
Humble voyagers are we
Ger life's dim, unsounded sea,
Seeking only some calm cline;
Touch us gently. gently. time
Barney Cornwall"
The roses that in yonder hedge appear
Guido our garden buds that bloom within,
But since the hand may pluck them every
day.
Unmarked they bud. bloom. drop and
drift away. Anon.
He who from zone to zone
Guides through the boundless sky thy
certain fight,
In the long way that l must tread
alone,
VIII lead my steps Alright.
Bryant.
Each dewdrop on it's morning leaves
Is eloquent tears
That whisper when young passion grieves
For one BELOVED afar. and weaves
His dream of hope and fears.
--Halleck.
Pleasures are like peoples spread
You seize the flower. the bloom is shed;
Or like the snowflake in the river,
moment white. then lost forever
Robert Burns.
we tread through fields of speckled flowers
AS If we did not know
Our Father made them beautiful,
Because he loves us so. Alice Cary.
Indianapolis. Ind, Dec. 6.
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OFFICERS.
President-win h. strawn. Montpelier.
First VIce-President florence NJ. Jack
son. New Lancaster Ind.
Second Vice President-Miss sue Z FAR
ker, Kalona, Ia.
Pleasant-ave.. Indianapolis, Ind
corresponding Secretary-Miss Emma L.
Treasurer-Siiss Mary ]. Kelly. Camp
Executive NOTWITHSTANDING A Clark,
Montevallo, No; j. c. Mcdonald, Me S1I,i..'
rem; Mrs. J. p. Barnes. Bruceton Mis-
w Va
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HE is AFTER HIM.
.sIven, Takes "GnnO" TO Task-Other
Matters.
Altoona, Kas.. Nov. 80.

Matters.
Dear II. L. C. Friends-It is cold,
rainy evening and muddy, the first time
since last April, and 1t is as dark as it
was in Egypt once upon a time, and
there is no comfort out of doors.
But in the face of these disagreeable
conditions there is to be a social held in
the writing room Of the east college
building. under the management of the
Y NJ and Y. W. c. A, after which there
are to be social games of different kinds
INDUCED I'm and music is given, and no
doubt that many Y. nj. and Y. w. G.
A. will forget their station and, giving
up to the pleasures of the evening, will
shuttle the cards and dice and perhaps
the feet till late hour and then return
home through the rain to room where
the fire has gone out, weary and tired of
pleasure. and no doubt be late for
breakfast In the morning or miss it en-
tirely. And the truth of this calls up to
my memory Bryants words where he
says: "Thus a single pleasure often
costs the soul a thousand tears"
And how true this is to some extent
wherever man is wont to indulge in
worldly pleasure.
Instead OF going there 1 thought
would better enjoy myself to step into
the club parlors and see If any of the
old, old faces were there. but instead
what do / see? Something that inspires
me more in one sense, in another il does
not Over in one of the darkest cor
ners L see brother "Gano" going through
the same performances that he accused
brother Advance" and myself last week.
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LOVING THOUGHTS.
One of the Bases of Happy and Profit
nbIe Lives.


Dear Howard Friends-It seems bare
ly possible that ii can be the winds Of
winter sweeping around our homes and
the whole of nature enveloped i'm a gar
ment of ice.
1t is strange how the seasons impress
our hearts with their own peculiar
moods. They cause one so often to con-
trast them with life. The cold, piercing
blasts of winter. the welcome spring
time, with its life-giving warmth and
sunshine. the whitening heat of summer
the somber autumn filing our hearts
with it's own sweet sadness-al in turn
make their impress upon the heart. But
these are the things that reach us from
without and are subordinate to those
that are breathed into life within the
spirit.
think l could not better make clear
what / would set forth than by telling
Of a sermon | listened 20 last summer
by a learned minister at camp meeting.
He took his text from the eighth psalm
He led his audience on and on as far as
imagination could go in the planetary
realms. describing the wonderful works
of God. l began wondering, like the
traveller listening to the blind preacher.
how he was going To let his audience
down from the nights to which he had
taken them. But when he had led the peO-
pie to reach out in thought after the in
comprehensive works of God he said:
"But after all these wonderful works
of God are not as great as one good,
loving thought of the heart"
The comparison was awe-inspiring.
wondered that ! had never seen these
things in that light before. But how
long it sometimes takes us TO give up
TO single realization Of "A great truth
Why can we not think good and right
thoughts continually? If we only would
circle of our infiuence-it would be the
happier for our very existence.
Why should this glorious truth be such
a hard lesson TO learn? We are contiuu-
ally longing for peace and JOY and yet
injecting the very things that lead into
these coveted paths.
We talk of breaking away from wrong
habits, but let us change the tenor of
our thoughts and so strike at the root Of
the matter which it really is. How the
blessing Of God rests upon our yearning
hearts when we think His thoughts,
which lead into His ways. AS truly as
the blood is the life of the body the
thoughts are the life of the spirit
This is an intensely interesting, an in
exhaustible subject, but 1 can pursue
il no further now.
Dear friends, you that are prisoners
cial greeting Of loving sympathy, and to
all the club ldndest regards.
MARY OF CHAMPAIGN"
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the one fault to be found with it. 1t
was a mistake, but not an Intentional
one. AS a consequence the ballots were
not counted. so no one can be said TO
have been elected. The new ballot has
been made strictly according TO the con-
stitution and we hope that all mem
bers will cast votes before Dec. 16. Those
who can make it possible to attend the
meeting Saturday will have no trouble
in finding the house. Take the Pros
pect-st. car to Pleasant-ave., then go
south one square. Ours is the last
house on the east side of the street. 1
hope that many of us can meet to-
gether and have a regular Old-time re-
union. DORA DICKENS"
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PITTSBURG TRAGEDY.
Joseph Oldham shoots His Babe and
Commits Suicide.

PITTSBURG, Dec. S.-This afternoon
about O'Clock Joseph Oldham, resi-
dent of Taylor-st., Sixteenth ward, blew
his brains out with a revolver. Oldham,
it seems, had been drinking heavily OF
late and had beer quarreling with his
wife He had been drinking during the
day and coming home found his wife
absent. She had gone 10 a neighbours
for a moment. Oldham entered the
room where the baby was sleeping in its
cradle and seated himself beside it. Be
coming enraged at the absence Of his
wife he got a revolver and pointing IL
at the slumbering babes head, fired.
Then he pointed the weapon at mis- own
head and pulled the trigger. His wife
and several neighbors rushed in and
found the murdered baby dead in its
cradle and the murderer lying uncon-
scious on the floor. An ambulance was
called and Oldham taken to the West
Pennsylvania hospital, where he died in
a few moments. Oldham had been out
OF work for some time.
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a Happy Ending.

OTTERVILLE, Va.-For fifteen years
1 was a great sufferer from dyspepsia
and nothing relieved me until 1 tried
Simmons Liver Regulator This is the
best medicine in the world / am now
in good health.-Mrs. N. j. Collins.
Your druggist sells 1t in powder or
liquid. The powder to be taken dry or
made into a tea.
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BROKE THROUGH THE ICE.
Young Penn Ill of Pneumonia the Re-
suit of a Skating Trip.

CHICAGO, Dec. Sd. b. Penn. jr..
son Of Ex-Governor Penn Of Louisiana,
who was a member of the worlds
fair commission, is dangerously iii at
the Palmer house. Young Mr. Penn
took part in a skating party at the
worlds fair grounds a week ago. and
breaking through the ice was SO Sc
verely chilled that pneumonia developed
TODAY.
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"Vol. l. GO Ahead" No. T.
Davy Crockett's
Is. Almanack IS.

Is. Almanack 49,
OF Wild Sports in the West"
And pasted within on a small slip Of
paper is written the following: Pre-
scented by George F. Crockett, company
c, Second Ohio heavy artillery"
This little "almanack" purports to
give an account of Life in the Back
woods, Sketches of Texas and Rows on
the Mississippi" The authors preface
will speak for itself 1.-The great popu-
larity of Col. Crockett throughout the
United States was evinced by the in
terest with which the account of his adj
ventures and death were perused, and
the grief which pervaded all classes on
hearing of his untimely death showed at
once the estimation in which he was
held In addition to the matter left by
the colonel we have introduced one or
two anecdotes of him, received since his
decease. The succeeding almanacs will
contain reading of great interest from
his pen, and there will be five after the
present one. His posthumas papers con-
tain a great number of wild frolics and
scrapes, together with adventurous ex-
ploits Of the chase, both those in which
he was himself engaged and others that
came within is knowledge. The engrav-
ings are mostly from his drawings, which
are very spirited. He drew on birch bark
with burnt stick"
Among the queer anecdotes and other
reading matter in this little book is the
following tribute to 'Old Kaintuck' on
page 8. mo, stranger! there's no place
on the universal arth like old Kahn
tuck she whips all out west in pref
tiness; and you might bile down creation
and not get such another state out of it
Col. Crockett gives the following direc-
ton for those who may desire to visit
him:
We'll" said he, ''how will find
where you live? "Why, sir, run down
the Mississippi till you come to the
Obion river, run small streak up that,
jump ashore anywhere and inquire for
me-" OF Col. Crockett and Santa Anna
is the following: 1T is a fact we'll au-
thenticated in Texas that when Gen.
Santa Anna was surveying the Alamo
for the purpose Of informing himself Of
the best method Of arranging an attack
he made so good a shot at him as to
come near taking his life, which so en-
ragged the general that he resolved to
storm the fort the next day. and he
kept his resolution" Here is a ''senti-
ment:" THE enemies of our country
May they have sore eyes and chestnut
burr for an eye stone" And here is a
squib from the funny man: 1.-THE toe
that's tramped on feels most, and a man
that don't swear had better try a stumpy
field with a young yoke of cattle"
On page IL the following toast is given
THE wretch who would refuse to de-
fend the liberties Of his country, shod
with lightning, may he be condemned by
the voice Of free people to wander over
a desert OF gunpowder."
On page "a is given Col. Crockett's
Account of Shooting for Beef" He
writes as follows:
las this is a novelty to most of my
readers, / will endeavor to give a de-
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AN IMPORTANT MEETING.

A business meeting to count ballots
will be held at the residence Of the
recording secretary Saturday, Dec 10.
All are cordially invited to be present
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Fort sumter.

1.-THE Boat Attack on Fort SUMTER Is
the title of one of the articles in the
New Series on Naval Warfare De-
scribed by American Admirals,' 10 ap-
pear next year in The Youths COM
panion This article is written by Ad-
miral T. II. Stevens who. then a younf,
officer. had command of this unsuccess-
full movement.
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Only n Mistake.

Dear Friends-Just a word about the
election. The ballot sent out last sum-
mer was unconstitutional. That was
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TRADE SIMPLY WAITING.
CONDITIONS DO NOT CLEAR UP IN A
SATISFACTORY MANNER.

Little Visible Improvement I'm Most
Lines Of Business-The Past Week
Disappointing 10 Many Commercial
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and CIearings.