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The Southern herald., 1897-10-15

The country is beginning to see
that those who charged Ex.secreta-
~ of State Foster with making a
mess Of bis sealing negotiations
with Great Britain knew what they
we're talking about. England's
notification TO this government
that il would take no part in the
sealing conference to be held in
Washington opened the eyes ofthe
world 10 Fofter's bungling. Repre-
sentatives of Russia ard Japan are
now on their way to Washington to
take part in the sealing conference,
those governments having accept
ed the assurance Of Foster that Eng
land had promised to also take part,
when it had not done so. Months
ago Prof. Elliott said that England
band no idea Of doingso.
The Southern herald., 1897-10-15
AccentUated Notes
ON THE TENNESSEE CENTENNIAL
EXPOSITION,

III should be asked what are
the acrentualed notes Of the Expo
si,ion, / should answer that they
lie in the respect these Tennessee
ans have shown for their traditions
and the reverence that they feel for
their past; respect and reverence
first for the old days Of the Con.
federacy, and next for the days Of
their patron saints jackson, Polk,
Houston and others. To recall to
the minds Of the living, and to keep
alive in the rising generation the
memory Of tie deeds Of their fore
ta,hers was ole oithe reasons that
Influenced these people and in
this effort they have been more
hln successful.
II say these people, meaning
these Tennessreaus, for this is not
i National Exposition--it is almost
exclusively a State Fair, illustrating
what Tennessee has done, can do,
and will do. Rut it has been done
SO we'll that its influence must be
national, liflingit Infinitely above
what has been heretofore known as
a State fair.
at is pathetic to walk through
the rooms Of the History building,
and lean over the cases containing
the relics that marked the time
when brother fought against broth.
er and father against son. Here is
a blood.stained sash beside rusty
sword. blade, with a little white
card in the delicate handwriting If
some widow, or daughter, who, for
the first time moved it from its rest.
! ing place above the family altar to
| its public setting here. Those who
gaze upon these relics, stand with
| bowed heads and revereut attitude
become as silent as if they stood
beside An open grave. You can
hardly read the name, at times
Captain So and So the legend
reads-'Who fell at Chattanooga.
That is all. But the crowds never
seem to be tire Of deciphering the
faint lines, or studying the relics
/ The mothers bend over the glass
cases, lifting their little children
that they may see the better, speak.
ing in lower tones, some in whiy.
pers, as the epaulette, sword Ailt,
or torn flag is pointed out.
"In this same History Building
are two chairs, which, though they
are no more identified, perhaps,
with the Safe Of Tennessee than
they are with any one of the other
sister cummonweallhs, have beer
thought to deserve place here
They are plain, substantial, slopinl
back affairs, with spindIing stick il
the back, and delicate arms thai
half circle about the sister A
gentle-voiced sweet. faced, soft eyec
Southern woman, with silvery gray
hair, was experimenting their
unpacking when l saw them.
"'Cornwallis sat in this Que, sh,
said, 'and General Washington il
that
at may have been so; l hav,
little doubt oft; she evidently ha,
none. But | lost interest at ono
in the chairs. 1t was the sweet
voiced oldlady, speaking in intona
tions which to me are the most de
licious Of all the many country pro
duces, that charmed me. She NOV
ed about among the several cases c
} EXHIBITS, arranging an old costum
: in one andpropping up in another
miniature Of some Revolutionar
, worthy in yellow waistcoat and bin
} coat, with hair in a cue, her tbi
The Southern herald., 1897-10-15

Nobody will be greatly surprised
if the Democratic National Com
mittee should declareHenry Georgt
to be the regular democratic candi
date for MayOr Of New York.
The Southern herald., 1897-10-15
Fall Examinations

Win be held for white applicants
on Friday and Saturday, Octobrl
22nd and 23rd-For colored samC
days, October 29th and 30th.
The Southern herald., 1897-10-15

DR.. William Bl0unt, health Of
ieer Of Coying;on county, some
days ago took the responsibility Of
having a quarantine placed around
the entire county a. a cost OF s20(
per day. This continued a few
rlays ana was raised. The Board o
Supervisors met on October 4lh
and il is reported that they refused
to pay the quarantine expenses
whish leaves Dr.. Blount with th'
bag 10 hold.
The Southern herald., 1897-10-15
Sealed Proposals viii Be Received

DY ORDER of the Board Of Su.
ID pervisors of Amite County,
Miss, for the Building of Wall around Ii,
County JAIL on the
FIRST MONDAY IN NOVEMBER, 1887
at the Courthouse in the town or Liberty,
Specifications for the work to be il(d in
the Clerks office.
The Southern herald., 1897-10-15

AT Glenn Falls on October 4th,
Gentry went a mile in 2;03t, and
Rsbt. J paced it in 2.043. Neither
horse had pacemaker.
The Southern herald., 1897-10-15

Mrs. 5. c. Hyde, Ol Amite City,
vas on October 9 paid The sun Of
5000 By ,hs American Legion Of
Honor, Lodge No. lO6s, this being
be fan anounl Of the policy esTfi-
81 ~ her hcsbsLd On bis lie N
hat order. Mrs. Hy De lis The sidow
osths lA;s Sam C. Hyde, who was
soully as.assiaaled near his home
On the morning Of July 3, 1897
The Southern herald., 1897-10-15

The New York Sun has come 10
the timely assistance Of those who
are struggling with the Pronuneia-
,ion Of The name Of the Tammany
candidate for Greater New York.
The ''y" in VanWyck has the long
sound, as 10 "eye," and not the
aouns Of "a" in wick" By the
way, Judge Van Wyck isa Kniek
erbocker Of the KnickerboCkeTs.
The Southern herald., 1897-10-15
Board Of Supervisors.

re Wes,bruok
T J Newman
JB Turnipsesd. Sheriff
II NJ Bates. Clerk
Building Of Tickiav river bridge
near Gillsburg, dist 8, let to q D
Newman in the sun of so 90.
In accordance with the petition
Of D " Fem, asking Board to re
lieve him as one Of the bondsmen
on the official bood Of I Fl Eetles
rs Constable from dist. 4, the said
Nettlrs presented to the Board
new bond, which was approved and
ordered filed, and the original bond
was annu.lrd.
Allowance heretofore made to r
D Moore for taking care Of Clsib
Minor. pauper, changed and al
lowed 10 Willie Gotten from and
after this date.
Allowance heretofore made to "
D Jones for keeping pauppr chang.
ed and allowed TO Geo. Harrison
Allowance heretofore made to D
f Kelly for keeping pauper, chang
ed and allowed to S W Reeves.
Allowance heretofore made ty
W D Reynolds for keeping pauper,
changed and allowed to Clorinda
| Williams.
Allowance heretofore made to J
" Lusk for keeping paup,r, chang.
ed and allowed to Mrs r J Causey
1t is hereby ordered that the
quarantine regulations Of Amite
county be and are hereby so amend
ed that oil mail,riders going from a
point in this county to point out
Of the county be required to obtain
a health certificate every seven days
but il is hereby made incumbent
upon said mail.riders to acquainI
themselves with the fact of any
point they visit being or hereafter
becoming infected when Sec l and
2 Of said regulations shall apply in
full.
Be it ordered by the Board d
Supervisors Of Amite county, thai
the Clerk Of this Board notify The
Bo dsmen Of G. Z Davis, deceased
as Tax Collector and Sheriff, thai
there is a shortage in his account
with the county as Tax Collector
for S51 IS and asSheriff for $40 76
and request them to come forward
and settle same.
Accounts allowed:
No. ! DR.. Ros, Kennedy med.
attention to pauper 5 6 OF
2 J NJ Nunnesy, articles
for disinfecting and win
, dowpanes for courthouse l 81
, 3N S Mclean, ex-olhclo
services Sept. term cir
cult court, '97 Is o.
4 Ms Mclean, fees where
in State failed in prosrc 10 g
5J B Turnipseed, Sheriff,
= summoningjurySeptem-
I Der term circuit court, '97 50 O
s 6 J B Turnipseed, Sheriff,
: services Of bailiff grand
jury Sept. term, ~ 8 "
, ms Mclean, per diem
Sept. term circuit court II q
SJB Turnipseed, for serr-
ices for self and bailiffs, IA o.
8 JB Turnipseed for wasn-
ing for prisoners, 5 o.
: 10 HarryBarkdull, services
as dep. sheriffSept. term 81 q
II C A Nelson, washing for
! prisoners, + On
Il H NJ Bates, services as
CountyAuditor for fiscal
wear 1897, $50 o.
: 13 II NJ Bates, ex-ofiicio
: services office toOct1.'97 % 0'
II Chapman Turner & Co,
records forChanc'yCpks
Office, % o.
10 N S Mclean, drawing
. jury issuing venire, B U
D 16 J H Walker, erecting 4
4 mile boards in dist. 8, 2 O
II Ben Bardwell, building
9 bridge in dist. 4, 10 O
r IS Ben Bardwell extra work
done on bridge in dist. 4 ] 0
' 19 Southern Herald, print
E ing Board proceed etc., Is /
f 90 Geo. A McGehee, salary, 43 2
y q J B Turnipseed, main
P tenance prisoners, 81 l
r % J B Turuipseed, convey
e ing prisoner to Justice
}. Court in dist. 4, 3 6
The Southern herald., 1897-10-15
Judge 4. c. Niles has ordered

judge d. 1. Niles has o'esie1
that The Term Of the Federal Court
6rsd bv Law f,f the fFs! Monday
- November, be postponed anti.
he fourth Monday, the 22nd Of No
ysnbsr next. Witnesses, Jurors,
Defendants aud al interested, SIli
raks notice Accordingly.
The Southern herald., 1897-10-15

81 JosHuf, hauling i5nbsF
for public F1ai in dist ) ~
s. Hiusun BEos., for lum-
Der and hauling f0Epubl.
roads, - -
s3 7 H Nellles, conveying
prisoners 10 county jail, J. 81
Board adjourned.
The record-union., 1897-05-19
How He Lost His Fare.

A travelling man approached a cab
driver at Broad Street Station last
night and asked to be driven to the
Continental Hotel. The jehu BUSTED
him inside quickly and was about to
start off for the required destination
when he got into an argument with an
other driver about working overtime.
Both men argued for nearly five min
utes, and then the man who had the
passenger mounted his box and drove
rapidly to the hotel. on arriving there
he jumped down and opened the door
with merry Here we are, sir" He
nearly tainted when he discovered that
there was no one inside the cab. He
rubbed his eyes and then reached in,
feeling the seats. Utterly bewildered
and disgusted, the disappointed cabby
drove back to the station, and, drawing
a confiding jehu friend aside, he told
him of the queer circumstance On
hearing the strange story the friend
told him that the man had become dis
gusted at having to wait while the two
drivers argued, and, getting out, had
jumped into another cab and was
driven TO his destination while the 9TH
er two men We're still quarreling.-Phil-
adelDhia Record
The record-union., 1897-05-19
A RUINED MAN.
1t Was Caused by High Play on the
Avenue

Midnight on Eighth avenue The
roar of the Saturday night traffic had
/ ceased, and only here and there a fakir
fingered with the hope Of catching some
belated customer.
In spacious and brilliantly lighted
room. shaded by a cigar store in front.
sat two men deeply absorbed in cards
/ The elder of the two, a man Of 16 or
IL, perhaps, had the hard, inscrutable
features that belong to the professional
gambler, and the heavy chain and
Alaskan diamond pin proved him a
successful one.
The other was two or three years
younger-almOst youth in years and
showed by his delicately nodded face
and nervous manner that the scene was
strange to him.
What do you do?" said the elder in
hard tones as he saw the younger hesi-
tate
I'll open it for ten" said the youth,
with the nervous excitement of one who
/ held two pair
Ten better" said the elder, with the
air of one who is running a bluff.
The youths face grew deathly pale
as he slid in five whites and a red and
his hand trembled when he saw the ell
der take two cards. The youth took
but one.
DO your betting" said the elder in
| the same hard tones as before
Il chip" faltered the youth.
Raise you ten said the elder
Again the youth grew pale as he saw
the bet and called.
What have you got?" asked the ell
der, bending upon his antagonist a pair
of piercing eyes.
"A queen full"
-Four deuces here" said the elder, as
as he laid down his hand, with the
jack of hearts carefully covering the
center of the tray of diamonds.
Ruined. Ruined!' moaned the
youth as he rose from the table and
staggered through the door.
How much are you ahead. Shark
ey?' asked the proprietor when the
youth had gone.
"One dollar and seventeen sents, -
said Sharkey, for it was indeed he the
most desperate and daring gambler on
| the avenue.-St Louis Post Dispatch
The record-union., 1897-05-19
Filings at Fair Women.

Maude-Miriam is trying TO keep her
engagement a secret. Martha-How do
you know? She told me so."-Yonk-
ers Statesman.
The average young lady likes to be
told that she is the prettiest girl in the
world, but it pleases her more if you
call her the prethest girl in town
Nebraska State Journal.
The reason why so many women age
rapidly after marriage is because they
have to make up for the years they
didn't grow any older while they were
waiting to become engaged.-L A. w.
Bulletin.
4 understand she largely sympathizes
with these attacks upon the inerrancy
of the Bible" "Oh, fancy she expects
the family birth record to be disproved
by scientific investigation Of some sort -
Detroit Journal.
Those reply postal cards never
seemed to amount to much, did they?
And yet they We're a good idea, too
Yes and I bet they were invented by a
woman, don't you? She could get the
last word, you now."-Cincinnati Com
mercial-Tribune.
These men who are so anxious to see
some one slaughter the Sultan of Tur-
key should remember that many hu-
man beings receive either reward or
punishment on this earth. The Sultan
has something like 1000 wives-Phil-
adelphia Inquirer.
Does your wife worry about burg
lars ," Not much" answered Mr..
Meekton. Il wonder what she'd say if
she found one in the house?" Il don't
know But / have an idea that shed
ask him how he dared to come in the
house without wiping his shoes on the
mat" Washington Star.
Friend OF the family (to young widow
who is inconsolable and talks of giving
up the world and going to bury herself
in a convent(-But don't you think.
my dear. ii is very foolish for a pretty
woman like yourself to think of aban-
doning the world at the age of 80?
Young Widow (correcting) - Twenty
ninei-Sketch
The record-union., 1897-05-19

The nasty and sensational and
yellow colored scandal in which the
San Francisco papers are just now in
dulging concerning the amours of Gen
eral Barillas and some women who ap-
pear to have had no shame in flirting
to put it mildly-with the Guatemalan
''old boy is disgustingly filthy and in
decent. A sense of common decency
should prompt our contemporaries not to
advertise to the world follies of that or
der, since the suggestiveness of the
whole affair relative to the parties held
up to view, is demoraiizing and cor
rupting in high degree and can do no
sort of good. Nice reading it all is to
be sure for the family circles of the
metropolis. But then yellow journalism
must have it's fling, no matter who suf-
ferS.
The record-union., 1897-05-19

words, led toward the way out under
raking fire at a gallop, and was close
ly followed by the troop. Very soon.
however, l fell from the saddle, struck
with a bullet from an elephant gun
about 800 yards off. The bullet struck
me on the top of the thigh, smashing
the socket of the thigh bone, breaking
vein, and otherwise wounding me.
My horse was carried on at full speed
with the rear guard. which rushed at
desperate speed to clear the pocket
like entrance of the DRIFT, where the ma
tives We're rallying in the hope of
killing US. AS | lay on the grass. bleed
ing profusely. 1 looked up and saw two
natives aiming at me at distance of
about forty feet. At the same moment
[ saw my horse come laundering back
from the drift. 1t suddenly stopped and
stood over my PROSTATE body, covering
me from the firing, and at the same
time making a peculiar noise through
it's nostrils. l though it had been
wounded. and that with the pain. noise
and confusion it had gone mad This
notion, however was soon dispelied. for
it continued TO stand over me in a
kneeling posture, and I could see the
faithful animal had come back to pro
tect me. 1 may remark here this horse,
which l myself selected, l made a pet
of. The assegais from the approach
ing natives We're now beginning to Ay
around me, and thinking if l could
reach my horses back I should be shot,
which was preferable to being assegai-
ed, 1 seized the reins. put my right foot
in the stirrup, and made a supreme
effort to mount And l was successful,
but how | did it l do not know. for
my left side was entirely paralyzed. on
finding myself in the saddle [ called
Coz to my horse, which darted like
an arrow toward the exit from the
drift A"
The record-union., 1897-05-19

Record Union" why organized wheel
men should go in a body to church, as
a group of them did on Sunday. Really
we are not given to answering self-evi-
dent propositions. But in this in
stance we so far break a rule as TO
ask why should not organized wheel
men attend divine service on Sunday
or any other day? We have an idea
that if the wheelmen, or any other So
ciety or organization desires to attend
church at any time. it is their own
business. and that it concerns no one
tend.
The record-union., 1897-05-19
AN EQUINE HERO.
The Rescue of an English Officer by
His Horse in RhOdesia.

A graphic story is told by Surgeon
Captain Grey, one of the officers who
served in Rhodesia. In the attack on
Mashangombi's the horses began to
drop, and soon thirteen lay dead on the
ground. and it looked as if the men
would all be killed Evidently Captain
Turner thought so, for he virtually
gave the order, "Sauve qui peut." tell
ing every man to fight the best he
could for his own hand. But though
the horses continued to fall the men
escaped. DR.. Grey, to use his own
The record-union., 1897-05-19
TURKEYS MILITARY STRENGTH.

The military capacity of Turkey is
widely commented upon by the press of
the country as a surprise to Europe and
to all people of the world. Not So If
Turkey was to-day pitted against a
nation equally well armed and with an
army equally we'll disciplined and off,
cered, it would be discovered that the
Turk is strong and successful only by
comparison with the badly armed. poor
ly commanded Grecian troops. Greece
has not efficient artillery. She has no
cavalry worth mentioning. The in
fantry arm she is using would not be
tolerated in a territorial militia COM
pany in this country for a moment. She
has unhappily a system of so loading
down the foot soldier with heavy and
many sidearms that his movements
are impeded and his strength is over
taxed
Grecian armies, save in one case, are
commanded by men who have no rep
utation of much account as tacticians.
or aggressive Generals. and her Com
mander-in-Chief is an inexperienced
scion of the royal house, whose chief
virtue as a soldier is that he was a ia
vored pupil in military school, and to
cap all. Greece is short on ammunition
On the other hand Turkey has the
best known infantry arms. She has
the best ammunition to be procured
and plenty of it. Her soldiers
move in light costumes but those well
adapted TO comfort and rapidity of
action. Her men thus far in the field
are mostly regulars, who are admirably
disciplined and accustomed to camp
life. She has a large and efficient
body Of cavalry, and in modern light
and foot artillery she has the best
les are differed by men of high skill,
who have smelled powder before, who
made not long ago even Russian legions
pause and who have the perfect conf
dence of the men in the ranks
Why then should there be surprise
at Turkeys military strength? All the
world has known just what it was all
along. Turkey has made no cOncealment
at any time of the numbers of her
armies or how they were armed. But
pit Turkey against German, English.
Austrian, Russian or American troops
equal in numbers and it would be found
that the Turkish military arm is not
surprisingly strong. nor it is managed
with greater ability than is possible
Tor any one Of a half dozen nations to
parallel and surpass.
The real surprise in the matter is,
that Greece, knowing precisely what
she had to meet. and without any as
surance that the Powers would stand
with her, should have rushed into a
war with the Turk
The record-union., 1897-05-19

1t is not creditable to the parties re-
sponsible that the Cuban relief bin was
held UP in the House. Here is a case
where it is wholly proper for the Gov
ernment to expend money in a direction
of seeming charity. Unlike donations
to sufferers by fire, flood and other dis
asters, which Congress has Illegally
made from time to time, this proposal
to use $4,000 is directly in line of duty
incumbent upon the Government: as
much so as would be the cost Of send
ing a ship or troops to protect and sue
cor American citizens abroad who are
afflicted by stress of war to which they
are neutral. That is a bounden duty Of
the Nation, one that the States as SOW
ereignities cannot deal with; one that
the Federal Government alone can ham
The record-union., 1897-05-19

Let no one say that men who feel
bound by a debt in common honesty
until it is paid. though legally freed
from it. do not live Here we have
by wire from London the story of
Horatio Bottomley. He was head of
a reporting and publishing company
that failed some years ago. causing loss
to a large body Of stockholders who
laid their bad fortune at his door.
though he was as great a sufferer as
any of them. Time and law freed Bot
tomley from his debts. and so far as
the stockholders We're concerned they
had no legal claim against him in the
first place. He did not so feel about ii
himself, and set about to make a for
tune. and after some years of effort he
has succeeded He has now placed two
and a quarter millions of dollars in the
hands of trustees to reimburse the
stockholders who lost by reason of the
collapse of the company of which he
was the head. That is splendid action.
1t proves that there is good conscience
in larger stock than is generally be-
lieved. But there are others" we
know of cases in this city, several Of
The record-union., 1897-05-19

them, where after an insolvent had
been discharged of his debts by decree
of time saved until he was able to and
did pay every dollar of the debts from
which he had been legally cleared. In
the cases we speak of not millions nor
hundreds of thousands were involved,
but the acts were just as noble and
manly and deserving Of plaudits as was
the action of Bottomley with his mill
lions