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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-20

fight lasted until midday, when the Mexi-
cans ran up a white flag
Only eight of them were left. Their
surrender was unconditional. They did
not ask quarter. because they knew they
would get none. Their ammunition had
run short and they were exhausted from
fatigue and the lack of food They pre-
ferred being shot TO dying of thirst. It
would have been better for them had they
fought II out.
One by one, at the command of Edwards.
they marched sullenly from their places
Of concealment. They left their arms be-
hind them. When they were lined up In
an open space Edwards commanded the
storekeeper to gather up their lariats.
Ten minutes later the Mexicans stood in
a row bound hand and foot with halters
about their necks.
Now, boys, we're off," cried Edwards,
Selling a halter and springlng into his
saddle. Seven other Texans followed his
example, and the cavalcade galloped back
over the trail.
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PrecOcity.


From the New York Press.
Mrs. Mary E. Bryan, grandmother of
the little girl of 10 who tried to elope with
a son of Gov Atkinson of Georgia, came
to New York eight or ten years ago to
accept the editorship of one of Munro's
publications at $4,000 a year. That was
the stage salary; the actual was less. She
is a small, dark woman with a capacity
for grinding out copy exceeded only by
that of MuYat Halstead. Her blood and
thunder stories in the Sunny South used
to blister the types. Her pen Travelled
through love and gore, sunshine and CHM
merriam darkness, arrogance and ignor-
ance poverty and riches with equal ia
cility She was bride at IA, her daugh-
ter one at 49, and her granddaughter
wants to be one at 10. While here Mrs.
Bryan was a leading member of Sorosis.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-20
THE YELLOW METAL.
PecuIia rifles of Form and Color in
Gold.


Gold.
Virginia City Letter to Salt Lake Tribune.
Most persons who see but little gold ex-
cent that which has been coined and al
loved suppose that all gold is alike when
nure. but the fact is that gold has pecu-
Itarities of color In different localities in
a great auriferous region and in the gold
fields of different counties, even when
freed from all the baser metals and
moulded into bars 1000 fine. An expert
onced metallurgist is able to distinguish
between the slightest shades and tinges
of color, and often can tell at once what
country a bar, nugget or package of
dust" come from; and veteran assayer
In a gold region Is nine times out Of ten
able TO tell almost at a glance from what
particular district a sample OF placer or
quartz gold was obtained.
The dust, grain, chispas. nuggets and
masses of gold from different lodes and
from pIacers In different localities also
have certain slight pecularities of form
that an experienced mining man OF metal
iurgist long established In a particular
locality Is able to distinguish, though to
nc ordinary observer all the samples In
The shane Of dust or nuggets may look
alike Each collaborating quartz vein
nroduces gold, but II does so In a way
peculiar to itself in some slight particu-
lar ana ii PERSISTS in the special feature
which makes 1t peculiar
In California are certain quartz lodes
that are spoken OF as specimen Lodges,
for the reason that they produce gold
n some peculiar form as OF a leaf Of a
flower. And a specimen lode persists in
producing its peculiar form of specimens
whether OF leaf. flower or crystal. There
may be small grains and scales OF gold In
the same vein Of no particular form, but
along with this will be found from time
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-20
LOAN ASSOCIATION WINS.
Receivers for the Southern of Knox
willie Discharged.

Knoxville. Tenn, March 19.-Judge
clark of the United States court to-day
decided the famous Southern Building
and Loan suit by dscharging all the re-
ceivers. He based his action upon the re-
port of Special Master j. W. Caldwell.
rbe masters report was a full and COM
rlote one and showed that the true state
If affairs had been reached. The assoc
citation is declared solvent, and to protect
n nudge Clark leaves his injunction
standing. preventing other bills being
i1ed. Ii was proven that Mrs. Johnson,
VINO was the complainant in the SUIT, had
not complied with the bylaws, inasmuch
as she had not given the slAly Gays no,
sIco ~ withdrawal. The association Will
now continue business at the old stand.
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ANOTHER AMERICAN RELEASED.
Theodore l.. Wives Given His Liberty
in Cuba.

Washington, March 19.-The Secretary
of state has been notified by Consul Cen
eral Lee at Havana of the release of
Theodore L. Wives, an American citizen,
who has been held in a Cuban prison
since last November. The record of Wives
case a the department is as follows:
case No. 50; native of Cienfuegos; nat
uralzed 1891: arrested Nov 49, 1896
charges, first. disorderly conduct, and,
second. insult to Spain; case pending
cosnizance of military or civil jurisdic-
ton confined to jail"
The release of Wives leaves thirteen
Americans still in Cuban prisons.
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MEMPHIS AND CHARLESTON.
The Receivers Issue Their Report
Il. for Six Months.

New York, March 1s-Receivers Nc
Ghee and Fink of the Me.Hphis and Char
lesion have issued their report for the six
months ended Dec. 81, 1896. The receivers
owe current liabilities S90,S55, and have
current resources $50, 1S9 Gross earnings
in the six months were 1903 against
$752, 452 in 1886 Net earnings were $222, 0l9
against S212, 1858. Freight tonnage decreas-
ed about 5000 tons and freight earnings
decreased about $4,000 The amount of
interest due and unpaid Jan. 1, 1897, was
81 Oj1 1856
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-20
A Tobacco Factory Burned.

Winston. N. c.. March 19.-The tobacco
factory of H. E. Robinson & Son at Mock
VILE was destroyed by fire last night. The
loss is heavy, with little insurance.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-20
GORDY NOT LYNCHED.

i"V A'ieged MOD Fatis TO storm the
Georgetown Jail.
Georgetown, Del, March 1.-THE mob
Of $50 men, which il was reported formed
late last night between here and Milton
for the purpose of lynching James NJ.
Gordy, who Is in jail at this place on a
charge Of numbering Mrs Mary Lewis
OF New York, his alleged wife, did NOT
put IN an appearance. Twenty deputy
sheri1s guarded the Jail during the night
ana this morning everything was quiet.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-20

Don't fail TO visit the tea store to-day
ana procure one Of their beautiful reliefs.
en,1''ed' How We Fought the Enemy"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-20

Washington, March 19.-The President
mas nominated Charles u. Gordon, 20 be
postmaster at Chicago
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-20
uoMEsEEKERs' EXCURSIONS.

Central Passenger Association
wants Them Abandoned.
Chicago, March 19-The Central Passen-
ger Association lines have issued an APP
neal to the roads in the Southwestern and
southern Associations urging them to
agree to che withdrawal OF homeseekers'
excursions on the ground that the volume
~ business from central passenger assoc
citation territory is not sufficient 70 war
rant the periodical reductions OF rates
made for these excursions, which are taken
advantage OF by ticket brokers and others.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-20

Souvenirs at the tea store to-day. Don't
fail to be on hand. Ladies. II you cant
come yourselves. send the children.-a/.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-19
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY

The October number of the Atlantic
n~iversary. We we'll remember its be-
ginning and read it's earlier numbers.
1t at once went to the head among
American monthlies and it is head to-
day. The current number Is very in
teresting Inc excellent as whole. The
first two papers are of remarkable
merit. We have written already Of
Mr.. Aliens acute and charming dis
cussion of 1.-TWO Principles in Recent
American Fiction" Brunetiere is the
greatest living French critic, and he
contributes a very clever paper on
1.-The French Mastery of Style" STAN
ley's paper on Equatorial Africa" de-
serves to be widely read for he knows
more Of hat part of the world and has
done more for it han any one who has
lived upon this globe. MI. Sedgewick
contributes an interesting and schol-
arly article on the greatest Italian nov-
elist, d'Annunzio. We shall not desire
to read his novels. Mrs. Wiggin is sim
gularly bright and entertaining as we'll
DIS WHY. one DcSlHS d. series entitled
"Penelope's Progress" another travel
series. Penelope Of course, is her own
brilliant self. She is beyond doubt one
Of the best equipped Of American fe-
male authors. The review Of the ex-
cellent Monthly is edifying. During it's
forty years it has had a most distin-
guished body Of contributors represent
ing most of the foremost literary and
scientific men Of our country. The
editor of the Atlantic is Mr.. Horace E.
Scudder. a man of letters of d~istinc-
ton in New England. He became editor
in 1890, n the Monthly states that be-
fore this he had already done much
work Is a contributor of both signed
and editorial articles. He succeeded the
gifted poet, essayist and novelist,
Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Mr.. Walter
Page is Mr.. Scudder's assistant.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-19
SOUTHERN JOTT xGS

Second crops of grape. nave beer
raised at Belleview, Fla, his season.
A Hungarian farmer of Beeville, La,
has invented a machine which, it is
said, will brush away all kinds of in
sects from cotton plants.
While Colonel Watterson was trying
to subdue h rural editors the Louis
vile voters slipped up on him and reg
istered a democratic majority of 5000
Things are not coming Colonel Waiter
sons way.-WashingtOn Post.
Two Georgia farmers engaged i in a
dispute over the best method of rear
ing children, n finally settled it with
shot guns. The children will now get
together and decide how to bury a pair
Of fool parents.-WashingtOn Post.
The South Carolina ~dispensary has
Melted something like 500, 900 a year.
Still this is no argument in it's favor.
The state should go out of the liquor
business. 1t is bad enough for indi-
viduals, it is infinitely worse for a SOW
erelgn state to engage in the conduct
OF grog shops and peddle liquor to its
citizens at SO much a misunderstanding
Herald-Journal.
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HE WAS so SENSITIVE.

A man stood on the rear platform OF
q Cedar avenue car with q somewhat
suspicious-looking package In his hand
He was a man OF grave appearance.
and his necktie was q white one. says
The Cleveland Plain Dealer.
On the platform beside him stood .
youth who had evidently been indulg-
ing too freely In in~toxicants. The
youth looked at the package In the
others hand. Then he smiled.
Where did you get II filled? Z" he AZ
fably inquired.
Sir" said the grave man. a. he
~nervously shifted his package to the
other hand.
Funny thing" said the youth. with
a knowing wink at the conductor.
that q man can't take q boil to get .
little old corn Juice without being
shamed of It"
What do you mean. SIR" said the
grave man. He tried to push the pack
age in his side pocket as he spoke.
That's all right" cried the youth:
don't distress yourself on my account.
There amt no spoilers In his crowd.
Carry your boil like q a There Is
nobody here to give o away" And
he aimed a pleasant hrust at the ribs
OF the grave man.
Sir" said the latter, with scathing
impressiveness, you will have to re-
frain from meddling with h affairs OF
others when you get older"
That's an ungrateful return for my
int'rest in your welfare" said the
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-19

In Virginia there are four tickets in
h field-democratic. populist, repub-
lican and prohibition. The nominees
are: For governor. ]. Hoge Tyler, of
Pulaski county; lieutenant governor.
Edward Echols, Of Staunton; attorney
general. A. J. Montague. of DanvilIe.
The populist party has nominated for
lieutenant governor Edmund r. Cooke.
OF Powhattan county. leaving the other
nominations open.
The prohibition party has nominated
for governor, the Rev. L. A. Cutler. of
Louisa county; lieutenant governor. G.
NJ. Smithdeal. Of Richmond; attorney
general, F. B. Kennedy, Of Stanton.
We have not at hand the republican
nominees lately made. The election
will be held on Tuesday after the first
Monday in November. The democrats
are reported on good trim and are san
guine Of winning by a good majority.
The legislature to be chosen will elect
a senator, and we hope it will be Sem
ator Daniel, the present most worthy
incumbent.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-19
Grand A.: Opening -,
O AND FINE DISPLAY OF o
millinery GOODS, DRESS GOODS AND SILKS.
WILMINGT0M'S Big RACKET STORE.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, the 18th and
18th of October, all day and in the
evening until 9:OO o'clock.
COME ONE AND ALI

The ladies are respectfully invited to
see the New Styles of Hats for this
season, also Capes and Cloaks. We
have made our Millinery Department
as attractive as possible, and would be
pleased to have a large crowd. We
are also having a big sales week Of
Fall Goods. We are selling Millinery
Goods at bottom prices. Nice pretty
new English Felt Shapes in Hats at
33c each; nice Wool Felts at 45c;
French Felts, shapes and flats, at 75c;
Mercury Wings, nice, large and long,
any color, at 15c a pair; Cocks Feathers
10c; beautiful Plumes at 25c each. 8
inches long at 75c each, IL inches long
at $1.00; Is inches, very handsome, at
$1.75 each; all colors in fine Tips from
Csc, three in a bunch, up to $1.25 and
$3.50 a bunch. Sailors, Tam O'Shan-
ters. Beautiful Tams at 25c, Csc, 45c and
SOC. Sailors, in fine felt, narrow back,
stylish hat, at soc each.
Fine line Of Silk Baby Caps. from
nice ruffled-edge, embroidered caps,
fine silk, at Csc, 35c, and very fine at
SOC and up to s1.0O. Children's Crochet
sacks at SOC up, all wool.
Ladies' Capes, light Ladies' Cloth, for
trimmed at $1,O0; beaver cloth. fur
trimmed, at s1.35. and better Capes,
nicer trimmed, at $500 and $2.75; Seal
Plush, beautiful fur-trimmed, at 1915
each; very fine, long, plain, beautiful
Capes at $500 each. A fine line Of nice
Cioaks, from $500 to $6.75.
Ladies' Skirts B%riliantine at 81. rs:
better, brocaded, at $2.25; beautiful Silk
Skirts at $500, a job.
Look at our nice line of Silk for La
dies Waists and Skirts-all prices:
fine eros Grain at CSC; better at S5c:
Tafeta at 83c: Black Satin from 25c.
soc, 75c and CSC a yard. Trimming Silks,
beautiful colors, att SOC a ward. Spooi
Silk at sc a spool; Crochet Silks at 10c
a ball and &c a skein.
Dress Goods, all grades. Single-fold
Novelty Worsteds at 9kc a yard:
double-fold, 81 inches wide, at 12kc:
SO inches wide, better quality, at 17kc,
2z19c, 25c, 30c a yard. Gold Medal. best
black dress goods, every five yards
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Fun

What's your idea of an ~aTistocrat?'
he is a person that is so wealthy
that he never has TO carry his laundry
bundle down town wrapped up in a
Observation-Disclosures Record.
Disappointed sutton (savagefy)-
What's that, o little imp? You say
you just overheard your sister tell me
h would be a sister to me, and tina
you are glad of it?
Small brother (meekly)-Yeth, thir-
mithery loves company.-Judge.
Her Recollection.-Kitty, during the
sunday school hour, had been much inn
pressed by h singing of the hymn be-
ginning:
There is a green hill far away.
Without the city WALL
And this is what h tol her mother
she a heard the children sing:
There is a Greenville far away,
Without q city hail.
-Chicaxo Tribune
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The @essenger.
NO Ex-REBELs NEEDED

Republican politicians and newspa-
KaerY are solicitous to induce more ex-
@onfederates "to join in the councils"
of thai old corrupt, u%surping, robbing
concern. The experience of Longstreet,
7aosby, Lamb, Walker, Malone and
some others who deserted their race
und people for office is not reassuring.
Ehey never commanded the respect and
confidence of the genuine men Of the
<xonth who wore the graz and stood
brAyely by the fortunes Of the defeated
whites. Joining the negro party has
become rather uncomfortable in this
blessed sunny SOUTH" One Of the re-
publican organs, the st. Louis Globe
Democrat, (the last part should be drop
ped) say that having been confederates
did not impede them or injure them
among republicans. OF course not.
Traitors are always welcomed. Every
~aelf-seeking demagogue in the south
who desired and sought favors with re-
EubIicans were used as entering wedges
TO revive the grand old party, decoys
FOR other cotton-string backbone fell
lows, and teachers of the negroes whose
votes were necessary to give the old
vicious party any showing whatever
an the south. Malone and his gang
were at the front of republican leader
ship in the south. II is a act that
every man, soldier or citizen, Of my
force or Importance who deserted the
rae and went with the black and tan
aggregation sought office and most Of
them got it. In North Carolina the
list of desert7rs was large and imposing
and with much talent, and about every
mothers son received favors at the
pie counter from the hands of republi-
cans. There were some confederate
sOldiers who went pell-mell with the
gang and to a man all got into the
radical feed-troUgh. Oh, no, having
eel cOnfederates was no drawback to
office at the hands Of republican presi-
dents. Colonel Lamb, an early deser-
ter CAV notice that the state COM
rnittee have made it very apparent
that they " no use for e~x-confed-
crates in the council Of the party" A
Richmond democratic paper says this
reTnar is true, and adds that the prin-
cipal reason why the Virginia republic
can state committee opposed the nom
fnation Of q state ticket by the party
this year was the fear tina General
James a. Walker, who represents one
OF n states districts in congress-, ana
who was a prominent officer in the con-
federate army, would be nominated foc
governor" But whether radicals de-
sire or no the presence Of confedera.es
IN leadership it is certain that the
democracy neither need nor desire such
leadership. Put no man on guard Of
suspicious record. We would rather
vote for the most red-mouth radical in
che nOrth-for Tom Reed or Major Nc
Kinley-than for a man like William
Lamb or LOnGstreet.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-19
SHARPS AND FLATS

In the last New York Forum there is
a paper by a Mr.. Davis relative to the
prospect of a bread famine. He shows
that there is is a much greater increase
of bread-eating patrons than increase
in bread products. The bread-eating
populations are to be found mainly of
European lineage, inhabiting Asiatic
Russia, the United States, Canada, Aus
%tralasia, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay,
Chill, South Africa and Europe. In 1871
this population numbered 81, 900, 900,
and it now aggregates $40, OOO, 900, the
increase being 37.5 per cent. in twenty
six years. In the same period of time
the area of grain production has only
increased from 25S, zoo, 900 to 27S, 400, 900
acres, Or 7.6 per cent. If Mr.. Davis
knows what he is talking about and his
statistics are we'll based, then the
chance of a bread famine is good at
some time and it may not be far away.
his facts and figures are attacked,
and his omissions are serious.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-19
TIE COST OF YELLOW FEVER

Yellow fever will cost .ne south q
very great sum this year. The New
York Herald estimates tina New Or
leans, alone will lose by business above
S25,0 OO, Oo0, quarantine added will make
1t not less than $3S, 900, 900. That is thu
loss for but one city. But trade is cut
Off all through the gulf section and up
the rivers. One drummer Who had
been travelling south Of ATLANTA report
ed trade as flat. Mobile will lose say
So, 900, 900. And so if the list were COM
plete the business losses would be enor-
NOUS indeed. That is a big price to
pay for bad quarantining, reckless liv-
ing, a failure to keep cities clean.
Distinction is better than philanthro-
by. The lives lost makes the total appal
Hing. The south will possibly lose in
loss of business by the yellow fever
scare and visitation 5000, 900, 900, OF
twice as much as the western farmers
gained by the advance in wheat. BY
the increase in wheat and flour i. will
lose doubtless 500, 600, 900 more. An uni
form, efficient sea quarantine, if such
Doe possible would prove a great saving
to the south. Some of the papers near
h gulf are discussing it's feasibility.
To shut out the awful visitor is better
than trying to stamp it out after once
in. DR.. Shakespeare, the very eminent
authority in Philadelphia, who vas sent
10 India by the United States govern
ment a few years ago, to study the
cause of cholera reported, among other
very instructive things, the following:
he found just where the dread disease
always originated-in a most foul city.
1t took its journey across Asia until
At reached the sea and then raveled
on to other lands. On the route there
was another city kept so pure, SO
cIeanly, that the cholera never noticed
It 1t passed by it annually, attacking
places on either side. This is what
cleanliness did for humanity in the
Rand of cholera.
"A little while ago the Houston Post
was Dragging of the impossibility of
Texas being visited by yellow jack.
Alas Houston is now nursing four
patients with the dread disease and the
inhabitants are panic stricken and van
Ishing as fast as steam can carry them.
Another paper had a standing offer of
$500 that not a case would be found in
Texas all through the season. And
now it is at Galveston and Houston
md doubtless other points and the shot
1xun quarantine is vigorously enforced.
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stamped Gold Medal" on the border
at SOC, 65c, Soc and $1.O0 a yard; CoIored
fine Fall Novelties and Suitings from
4Oc. SOC, 15c and CSC a yard. We have
Lining. Trimmings, Braids, Buttons
everything that Is carried in a first
class dress goods store. Examine our
stock Of fall drss goods along with our
Millinery when you cal at the opening.
vi on u third floor. which is 80 by
i!o rect, we carry Carpets and Mat
ting, handsome Chairs and Tables,
Rugs and Portieres, Table Covers and
Upholstery. Shades, Curtain Poles.
Trunks and Valises, Blankets and
Quilts. Look over our Mating, from
I0c to zoe a yard; our Carpets, from
lSc to 75c a yard; our Rugs, from soc
to $3.50 each. Beautiful, fine. solid Oak
Arm Kicking Chairs at $3.50; handsome
Ladies' Willow Wicker Chairs at s.. 90;
nice Oak Center Tables at 75c and 800:
large smyrna Rugs, 3 by 6 feet, all
wool, at WOO each, regular price $43j.
Trunks at all prices. from soc to $3.50.
Remember u Underwear for Ladies
and Gents. Ladies' Knit, Long-Sleeve
U~ndervest at 15c: nice Fleece-Lined.
Ribbon-Trimmed. heavy weights, at
25c; half wool Ladies' Vest at soc; all
wool at 75c n $1.00; Gents from 2Oc
to $1.25 each; children's 10c to soc each;
knit Ladies Skirts from 40c to soc;
Child's Saxony-wove Leggings at Ia
a pair. We have everything in e.
Underwear line. Ask for a card and
be given a nice, fine Chair. a fine Book
Case free on the purchase OF s25.0 90.
Nice Oak Center Tabl on purchase OF
1900. Beautiful Oak Writing Desk,
with folding doors. with purchase OF
5000; or a handsome Portrait, mad
life size, free, for the purchase Of 800
Ask for a card and get this line OF
handsome house furniture free Of cost
to you.
Be sure and come to the opening,
Tuesday and Wednesday, and bring
your friends.
We trim all Hats We sell free OF cos
to you IL you buy the material from
us. You will find us catering to your
wishes on Front street. opposite the
Orion Hotel.