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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-21

car, or the reduction of church rate, or
the completion of necessary repairs of the
edifice in which they stood
Frequently they were carted off by the
pensioners or the owners of the livings
to meet what we should call to-day an
lmproV ement rate, such as the wldenin &
OF haven or the building of a harbor.
Some OF them were sent abroad at the
time of the suppression of the monas-
teries, and there is record of pile of
bells and bell metal of the weight of 100 900
pounds being sold out of the country for
1900 Not infrequently they were regarded
as 50 much useless lumber left in quar-
tiers where the whole parish could have
access to them, and broken up piecemeal.
at the will and pleasure of any clown
who had fancy for a bit of bell metal
for his own use. By and by, however their
value began to be appreciated they be-
came useful asset. and were catalogued
by authority. But even the intervention
of the state failed TO save but a small
portion. and the number of medieval bells
now in existence is very limited indeed.
Thus, in the county of Norfolk only one
bell in six bears a date previous to the
reign of Queen Elizabeth. In the county
of Surrey, out of over 1000 bells, only 2
per cent. had been cast prior to 1900 and
in Lincolnshire II per cent. Hardly in
any instance is one of the survivors found
to bear a foreign stamp. English work
manship detied, foreign compe tiion, al
though in Scotland-doubtless owing to
the more intimate relations of leading
Scotch families with foreign courts and
capitals-the continental workmen were
more in request Naturally, the cathedral
towns, such as Gloucester, Norwich and
Salisbury, were, specially noted for their
bell foundries, but the center of the in
dustry was undoubtedly London, where
even to-day there is a foundry which has
been casting bells for over 800 years
Another London founder who combined
gunmaking with his bell-foundry works
cast guns for Dover in 1885, while supply
ing the west country-Cornwall and De-
vonshire-with bells. Unhappily, most of
the work of these early founders was de-
stroyed in the great fire of London, among
them the great bell of Bow, familiar to all
of us as children. That was nightly rung
Eat nine of the clock" by order of the
county council of 1863, and was supposed
to marke the birthplace of the cockneys
The great bell of St. Pauls-which has
taken the place of the big Bow Bell but
which is never used except for the strik-
ing of the hour for tolling at the death
or funeral Of a member Of the royal family
of the bishop of London, or the dean of St.
PauPs, or the lord mayor, if he happens
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to die during his mayoralty-bears the in
scription Richard Phelps made me, 17l6.
It's diameter is about 10 feet, and its weight
Az tons. 1t is said to have been made prin-
cipaly out of the metal of Great Tom of
Westminster, and once in the clock tower.
II is interesting to know that the English
bell foundry still keeps up its reputation
not only on its own soil, but abroad, and
in the English colonies. A curious instance
Of the survival OF its worldwide hold is
afforded by the story of an order which
reached an old established firm in White
chapel some 80 years ago, from the United
States. 1t may be recollected that the
first of the southern states to declare It's
secession from the union was South Caro-
lima, of which the capital town Is Charles
ton. When the state authorities proclaim
ed their independence and final severance
from the union after the capture of Fort
Sumter from the small federal garrison, a
great joy peal from the principal church
in Charleston announced the foundation
of the southern confederacy, shortly
strengthened by the accession of all the
southern slave-owning states south of Ma
son and Dixons line This was about the
close of the year 1860.
Nearly FIVE years later Charleston sur
rendered to the federal armies and the
first act of vengeance of the conquerors
was to burn the church whose bells had
pealed forth the earliest note of independ-
ence. When things quoted down, and the
reconciliation between north and south
was completed the citizens set themselves
to work to rebuild their lost church, and
with it to restore the peal of bells The
archives and the papers of the old edifiee
had persisted in the flames, and there was
some difficulty in tracing out the history
of the famous peal but by degrees their
source was discovered, and eventually the
authorities concluded that the bells had
come from London. Further investiga-
ton proved that the order for the casting
of the bells had been placed at White
chapel some hundred years previously, and
it was determined, If possible, to find out
the firm which had cast them, and, If 1t
were in existence, to repeat the order.
The firm was found, although its name
had been many times changed In the in
terval of the century. When the agent
employed in the mission visited the East
End establishment further inquiries were
made. and ultimately there was found in
an old ledger on the premises the original
order with full details of the size and
weight and material of the bells delivered.
The result was that the order for the new
peal was given at once to the old firm,
and that il was sent out in every minute
respect perfectly identical with that which
had been destroyed by the federals. Eye
witnesses of the scene which ensued when
the bells rang out the old familiar chime
state that it was pathetic beyond descnp-
ton. and that men and women alike shed
tears as the notes pealed through the
city. 1t was like the ushering of a new
dawn after the long gloom which had
clouded their hopes.
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Romance In the Kitchen.

About week ago the housemaid Of
Noting Hill resident became i'll. and was
ordered by a medical man to leave her
situation, and go to her home in the coun-
try to recruit says the Westminster Ga
zette. She left behind the bulky MS. of
story entitled "A Real Life Romance"
in which was stuck a printed slip show
ing that Il had been declined by the edi-
tor of a well known publication. The gen.
tleman had the curiosity to read 1t, and
found that his late Abigail had constituted
herself the heroine. Also he, his wife and
the members of his family were ruthlessly
satirized by reason of their alleged mean
ness and Ignorant sruck-upness." The
romance" ended by the housemaid mar
rying baronet and so being enabled to
look down scornfully on the former en-
poyer forever afterwards" The anus
ed householder forwarded the MS. to the
literary slavey, with an expression of his
best wishes for the good fortune she had
mapped out for herself IN her "romance.n
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these inscriptions may give to the world
as startling and interesting a story as
was ever unearthed by the most ardent
archeologist who has labored in Egypt.
Who were these strange people? The
question has never been satisfactorily
answered. Some hold that they were of
the Aztec race; others that there was
once a great Pueblo empire In the south
west, of which they were a part, while
still others assert that the cliff jewellers
were a separate and distinct people, of
whom no posterlty now survives.
From their knowledge of the secret of
the preservation of the dead however,
supposed until these discoveries TO be
peculiar to Egypt 1t is not an incredible
supposiHon that they are a branch of
some race which, by some means, crossed
the seas to this country. When this MI
grafton occurred, If ever. cannot be in
diligently guessed, as the best authori-
ties are unable to determine whether the
eff dwellers fourished only centuries
ago, or were contemporaneous with or
antedated the Oldest races of the old
world.
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SKIN AND BONE.
4 Colorado Royal Family Preserved
With Egyptian Skill.
From the Denver Evening Post.

From the Denver Evening Post.
Few people in Colorado, perhaps, are
aware of the fact that within this state
are found the remains of a. prehistoric
race, preserved by a system of embalm-
ing which. while somewhat different from
that of the ancient Egyptians, has proven
equally effective in combating the raw
ages of decay. Many know that South
western colorado was. hundreds of years
ago, populated by race of cliff jewellers,
and the ruins of their homes on the Rio
San Juan. near Mancos are annually Wis
tied by thousands OF inquisit!ve tourists.
II is not generally known, however, that
these people attained to such a degree of
perfection in the art of preserving the re-
mains Of their dead that even now cen
turtles after they were placed in the tomb.
the only indication of the lapse Of time is
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BELL FOUNDERS IN ENGLAND.
How Cannon Came to BE Cast on Old
BeIIs-MediaevaI Bells still Exist.
From Machinery

How Cannon Came to he cast on Ola
BeIIs-MediaevaI Bells still Exist.
From Machinery.
One of the oldest handicrafts in the
kingdom is bell-founding. Its introduction
into this country dates from medieval
times, and the earliest bell founders of
whom we have any trace were connected
with monastic institutions. They were
very proud of their. work, and either put
their own names and the dates of the
founding on the bells or stamped them
with devices and ornamentation which
identified their makers. 1t would appear
that the art of bell founding, although of
foreign Importation, was sedulously cult
waited on English soil, for, after the sixth
century, the bells which were put up in
parish churches and cathedralS were all
of English workmanship; yet the manu-
facture was confined to a few foundries,
and often continued through generations
in the same family. In the earliest days
the bells most in vogue were large and
ponderous, but by degrees peals of eight
and twelve bells were substituted for
them, the big bells being destroyed and
recast in order to supply material for the
lighter ones. Bell metal was a very elab-
crate alloy. Curiously enough, too, the
bell founder was, as often as not maker
of cannon, and used to indicate his trade
by a foundry stamp representing a bell
and cannon with a ball projecting from
it's muzzle. But after the Reformation.
bells, like all other ornaments of the
churches and abbeys and cathedrals, fell
into dsfavor, and a great sweep was made
of them throughout the country. Some
times the bells were simply taken down
and slowed away among the rubbish but
in most cases. as the metal was valuable,
they were sold for the stipend of the vi
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Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-18

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, Feb lj.-Chief
of Police Henderson this morning ar.
rested Joseph +. Jones of Springfield
at the City hotel just as he was rifing
a trunk in the room occupied by Sena-
tor Miller. For several days guests
had been missing small articles from
crossing clerk of the House. He is a
well known politician. He was placed
under bond for $500 and not being able
to secure it was placed in Jail,
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-18
Honors for a Dead Singer.

NEW YORK, Feb. 15.-Probably no
person connected with the theatrical
or operate profession had such a
tribute paid to his memory in this city
as was displayed yesterday afternoon
at the funeral services over the body
Of Count Armand de CASTOR, known as
Customary, the opera singer who died
at the Metropolitan opera house on
Wednesday night while singing in
martha" The crowd that collected
in and around the French church of
st. Vincont de Paul was so large that
the forty policemen on duty there
could hardly control it. More than
1000 persons were in the church, and
many women swooned.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-18
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Representative Murray introduced
resolution providing for an investiga"
ton of the presidential election in
South Carolina.
Appropriations made by this Con-
gress probably will exceed a billion
dollars by forty-five millions,
Mr. Cummings asked the House to
investigate the reported searching of
passengers on an American vessels by
Spanish officials.
Stuart says Corbett and Fitz will
fight at Carson, New, March II. Gov
erhor Sadler went to the train to meet
Corbett when the latter passed through
Reno
Illinois appellate court has affirmed
the decision removing the Farmers
Loan and trust company as co-trustee
of the Lake Street railway first mort
gage for failure to deposit $500, 900
with the state auditor of Illinois.
Beginning at Hayden, l. T., Febru-
airy 16, about 81 100000 will be dis
tributed to freedmen by James G.
Dickson, representing the government.
Captain Philo McGiffen, who COM
manded Chinese ironclad during the
late war, went crazy from wounds and
killed himself in New York.
Lower House of the Nebraska Leg
islature voted down woman Suffrage,
81 to 36.
The Carnegie and other great plants
about Pittsbusg are resuming opera
tiOns.
Editor A. b, Clark, aged ~, of the
Newark CO., American, was killed by
the cars.
Frank May, who was removed as
cashier of the Bank of England in 1898,
is dead in London.
United States Judge Leonard Wales
is dead at Wilmington, Del, aged 70,
from pneumonia.
Mrs. Rebecca Mitchell of Idaho Falls
was elected chaplain of the Idaho state
legislature,
A motion to disestablish the Church
of England was voted down in the
British House of Commons.
A boiler in the county Jail at Frank.
fort, KY, exploded, wrecl1ing the Office
and fatally injuring three men.
Southern cattle are quarantined from
February IS to November Is on a line
drawn from California to Maryland.
Mrs. DIR. S. n. Burnham, a news
paper woman of Chicsgo, committed
suicide at the Commercial hotel, Jack
sonville, Fla.
Major George Armes has traded
Washington city property for Apo
mattox battlefield and will turn it into
sheep farm.
The steel rail pool, the most success
full trade organization ever formed,
has collapsed and prices dropped IS to
S0.75 per ton in one day.
At Holman, Ark, Sam Leigh, aged
Is, shot and killed Adam Cartwright,
his stepfather, after the latter had IA
tally dubbed the boys mother.
John B. Clancy, a dairy employee,
poisoned the milk supply of $50 people
at Norfolk, Va, but the crime was
discovered in time to prevent use of
milk
Messenger Summers of the Santa Fe
California express shot train robber
dead near Nelson, Ariz. A pal escaped
with some registered mail packages.
DIR. John B. Gorrell of Tyler county,
West Virginia, on his death bed con-
fessed to the murder, eight years ago,
of Alex. Campbell, wealthy farmer,
whom he owed.
An open letter to the women of the
United States, urging them to use all
means in their power TO further the
passage of the arbitration treaty with
Great Britain, has been issued.
Ben Harrison and John Bigheart,
full blood Usage Indians, married
Minnie Harvey and Ethel Stokely,
white girls at Blackburn, Ok.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-18
10y AdmIts a Murder.

MARION, ILL.,, Feb. 15.-The coroner's
inquest over the body of Andrew
RAIDER, the young farmer who was
killed while husking corn at his barn
on Thursday evening, has brought to
light one of the most premeditated and
cold-blooded murders ever committed
in Williamson county. Young Gill,
the neighbor boy, whom the murdered
mans wife saw running from the barn
after she heard the shot, has made a
confession of the crime, and told the
coroner md others that his sole object
in killing RAIDER was to get the $50
which he knew the latter carried.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-18
A FIend at sedalIa.

SEDALIA. NO., Fed. 15.-Willia m
Phenix, tough character, made a
most diabolical effort last evening to
murder his wife. Mrs. Phenix, who
had been sick in bed during the day,
was sitting by the kitchen stove drink
ing a cup of coffee, when her brutal
husband arose, as if to leave the room,
but instead of doing so he grabbed n
flatiron from the stove and rained
three blows upon her head, the iron
fracturing the skull each time. The
woman fell almost lifeless to the floor,
and Phenix fled. The police and state
officers have been unsuccessful. up to
late hour, in effecting his arrest.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-18
Betraved bv His Brotber.

DENVER, Colo, Feb. 15.-Harry
Davis, charged with the murder of
Night officer Joseph Baker at North
Baltimore, Ohio, June II, 1896, has
been arrested in this city. He is said
to be the last member of the Stratton
gang of postoffice robbers. officer
Baker discovered Davis, Bob Curry and
Doc Lee in the act of robbing the
North Baltimore postofiice. They
killed him, but were captured. Davis
escaped from the Toledo, Ohio, jail
through the connivance of turkeys.
Curry and Lee were tried, convicted
and sentenced to the penitentiarY for
life. Davis was betrayed to the police
of Denver by his young brother, Guy,
with whom he had been travelling
through the South and in Mexico since
his escape. They arrived in Denver a
week ago.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-18
GEN. SHELBY DEAD.
PASSES PEACEFULLY TO
THE OTHER WORLD.
he Had Been Sinking Gradually for
Several Days and the End Was Exc
Pected-Burled at Kansas City Beside
His Comrades In Arms.

MERwIN, Mo-, Feb. i5.-General 10
o. Shelby died at AGO o'clock Saturday
morning, so peacefully that those
who watched at his bedside scarcely
realized that the end was at hand
until he breathed his last.
General Shelby remained uncon-
scious to the last and no word or sign
of recognition to those about him came
from the dying man. His eyelids had
remained closed for several hours and
there was only a relaxation of the
features as the hand of death swept
across the pallad face.
Joe and Ben Shelby, with c. F. hal-
deman and George Hall, were watch
ing at the bedside when the signs of
death approached Mr.. Haldeman
called attention to a sudden pallor
which came over General Shelbys
face and the members of the family,
except Mrs. Shelby and Miss Anna,
were called to the room.
Ben Shelby, Joe Shelby and Webb
Shelby had borne up remarkably
throughout their fathers sickness, al
though they were passionately devoted
to him. When they realized that the
end had come they were completely
overcome.
All along the family had hoped that
General 10 Shelby would regain con-
seriousness before his death and this
fact added to their grief. He had not
spoken a word for over forty-eight
hours and had given no sign of rational
consciousness for three days.
The funeral took place at Kansas
City on Wednesday, after the body lay
in state in the federal building. He
was buried in Forest Hill cemetery in
the Confederate lot.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-18
Cleveland to Sell woodlsr.

WAsHIEGToN, Feb. 10 - President
Cleveland has placed his country resi-
dencc, "Woodley" in the hands of
real estate agent for sale, and it is said
he has no intention of spending por-
tions of each winter season here. To
the politician it signifies also that he
has no lurking designs on the presi-
dency four years hence. Mr.. Cleve-
lands fortune has been variously esti-
mated, but those who have made the
most conservative figuring place it at
not more than 81, OOO, 900.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-18
ALICE PLATT is FREE.

Verdict Of Acqulttal for the Suspected
POisOneF of the Musscy Children.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Feb. 13.-Alice
Platt was acquitted this morning of
the charge of poisoning little Eliza
beth Mussey. AS she left the court
room with her father and sister she
waved her blue veil excitedly and
shouted to the great crowd that had
gathered: did you ever get left?"
The jury at first stood seven for ac-
quittal TO five for conviction, but the
five were gradually won over to &C
uuittal.
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Tho War In Cuba.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Feb. l5.-Col.
Frederick Perez Carlo, late dispatch
chief general to Maceo, received a let
ter from General Lucas Rivera from
the Pinar del Rio section yesterday. 1t
spoke in the highest terms of his men.
their enthusiasm in the cause, and de-
MED in strongest terms that that
province was pacified. His army con-
sists of over 5000 men, all well armed,
and the health of the troops is gener-
ally good. Several important engage
ments have taken place, and in every
one the Cubans have been victorious.