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The true Democrat., 1899-01-07

New YoRK.--Tomas Estrada Palma,
president of the late Cuban iunta, said
that he did not anticipate any serious
disturbances in Havana al the raising
of the American flag. Mr.. Palma ex-
dressed a disbelief III the rumor that
Gen. Menocal had taken the field.
Gen. Menocsl, he said, was Il patriot
and brave man, and would not be-
come actively hostile to the Americans.
The true Democrat., 1899-01-07
The Blessing of Laughter.

Some one has said that 20 sensesl3
the ludicrous and the faculty Of flaugh'
ter are the most useful parts OF oai
nature. Laughter is essentially g.
cial, sympathetic and contagious .
power. Some nations, particularly ~
Orientals, are said never to laugh; oaI y
all European nations have been graa,
laughers, and the ludicrous has plsysa
an important part even in thelf ,la. n's
tory. By means Of laughter, a absolaa . 1As
monarchs have been controlled, alal !,
even Demos, himself, has been mace
to laugh at his own follies till ae Wss
almost shamed into good sense. ouacs.. !.
cries, hypocrisies and atfectasions a,O, y
all kinds have been exposed and sup
pressed, and the reformation was pro-
NOTED by the united efforts Of !, reassa y ~
and ridicule. The sense OF the laus y,
crous and of the pathetic have 'usa ~.
sources not far from each other 10 sns "
highest part of our nature a u,a goJa
laugh, ,period odically administered, {. Toa,a aaa
excite those sympathetic feelings anu ~.
genial dispositions, which are m.si s.sl
needed for regenerating our mora, sa.s
system. Then men, whom we na.s ~
sent home laughing, would nave 70 81 ~
perienced an hours pleasure w'suuh. ;th.
fear of misgiving at the time and y s,,-. w..
out remorse or reaction Afterwards
Detroit Free Press.
The true Democrat., 1899-01-07
Negro Suspect Held.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo.-Peter Murray, o
negro with peculiarly shaped face, is
under arrest here. The police believe
they have n notorious criminal in GUS
tody. At Covington, KY, a negro
named William Fox is wanted for the
murder of q woman, and the descrip-
tion given tallies with the appearance
of the man. Murray says he had only
been in Missouri 48 hours at the time
Of his arrest, and that Re came from
New York,
The true Democrat., 1899-01-07
"ship Surrounded by Whales"

Whales, dolphins with theI ..a,ans rs,u
bow colors when DYING the lsu. and
bird, the albatross, porpoises; - 81 Il
other members Of the great lama; :;;cs.
the deep are incidental to INT the e.,as ass srs
borhood of Cape Horn. WnSlos sso,;ss
still plenty, and interesting ~ s'si,i 'stvls
are told of them by the o,a,'I 10. Sss
shiver-my-timbers captain Nv. WIZ tinss
rounded the Cape half dozen 0sa - ' This
and likes to tell Of it. one o. ssss 'n
sort on his first voyage in those ., sfis his
awakened his sleeping crew ~l'A -
command: , .roring,
"Avast there, stop that sn01'l''
you land lubbersI" :,tervsls,
This being repeated at il'e lne, ds.
and the men wide awake, 'aoI iesan
clared they had not snored anu This
an investigation with lanterns, Ta;n.
was their report to the captain .les al
"ship surrounded by Thal15a' Tau5a
snoring. "-Chicago Times hef''
The true Democrat., 1899-01-07
Two Departments In Havana.

WAsHINGToN.-The war department
has issued an order establishing two
separate departments in and about
Havana, viz: The department Of Ha-
vana, comprising the city proper,
suburbs and an area of about ten
square miles, and the department Of
the province of Havana, comprising
the territory outside of tie city proper.
Major General Ludlow is assigned to
command the department comprising
the city and suburbs, and Major Cen
eral Lee is assigned to the department
outside the city.
The true Democrat., 1899-01-07
ShtyeripR in the West.

DENVER, CoI.-Sixteen degrees be-
low zero was the minimum tempera-
ture recorded in the weather station
in this city Friday night. The cold
est place on the eastern slope of the
continental divide was Calgary, where
the thermometer registered thirty be-
low.
The true Democrat., 1899-01-07
Dreyfus en- koute to Paris.

New YORK. "A special to the Herald
from Paramaribo, via Hayti, says: II
is reported here that former Capt.
Dreyfus, who for the last three years
has been kept in solitary and close
confinement on Devils Island, one Of
the Isles de Salut, few miles east Of
here, has been removed from his island
prison to Cayenne and sailed from
there to France on December 4 last,
on convict transport. No details re-
garding the departure of the prisoner
or as to his ultimate destination, con
be ascertained. 1t is believed that he
will be taken to Paris to await the Or
ders of the court of cessation.
The true Democrat., 1899-01-07
oTHE NEW lDEal,
' '''or honored earl,
valiant knipht.


The. two ao will tend the stov
train from Waakfiia9ss fi9s ''sa /
had in the course Of them, /
come acquainted, and in the n,
were quite as confidential 90
had known each other for ys,.a |
is the beautiful simplicity ',' :; y y
nature. W gR(
ooh, yes," said the gray.sy.,
blushing prettily, IT hsvss s's =. 0as
friends i'd with the army in Cubs, ''Eslal ''H.a
you?" - afa
"No, I have not" respo,ds,,
blue-eyed one. IT have sS,ss
quaintances, but I should scarSsI. y :.
them friends" elll
"Oh, I don't mean that e,,l,;,.
the gray eyes, without know;na
actly what she did mean. =
"With what command is ben.
quired the blue eyes, smiling in ,,sl :
a superior manner. 'ie'
"Oh, you tease" twittered tbs 1.
eyes, "but, Of course, you know 4. ~
how, and I might as we'll tell soa II T.
is the incest fellow you ever saw M y y
1 want you should meet him q y
time. He is at Santiago now, and =.
been down there since the tre5Os Az Y,
landed. 1t was simply awful NM IN
he first went down there to that bs,,;l 'ss
fighting. Every day we sat Waivss
for the news that might tell he s. 81
shot Or something dreadful had h,s
pened to him. You didn's Z q d Il
one down there, and you can ca1as alss !
conception Of the perfectly awfulsb,i
it is to wait for news from the a. r.
when some loved one is there. . /,
the soft gray eyes grew moist at Il
memory.
The blue eyes took upon themssl,I
the look only blue eyes can take.
/ "Oh, I don't know" said theirpo
SCISSOR, II have a friend who nh
foot ball. Washington Star.
The true Democrat., 1899-01-07

CHATTANooGA.-Col. Higgins has
received orders from the war depart
ment to have his command, the eighth
regiment United States volunteers,
colored, immunes, in readiness to sail
from either Savannah or Charleston
not later than January s, for Cienfue-
gos, Cuba, where they will be sta
toned
The true Democrat., 1899-01-07
English Comments on the Philippines.

NEW YoRK.-A dispatch to the Her
aid from London says: The Morning
Post, commenting on the latest news
from the Philippines, says: "Sooner
or later the whole question of the pos
session of the islands will have to be
faced. The United States will find
themselves obliged to assert their au-
thority by force, for they have de-
stroyed the only government which
existed. They cannot leave the is
lands to anarchy" Tho Daily News
says: "To leave the Philippines to
anarchy would be inconsistent with
the spirit of their declarations and the
obligations which the United States
have incurred"
The true Democrat., 1899-01-07
GUAM RECAPTURED.
spaniards DepOsed the American Governor
After the Charleston's Departure.

Spaniards Deposed the American Governor
After the Charleston's Departure.
MAN11A.-The British steamer Es-
merald, which has just arrived here
from the Ladrone islands, reports that
after the United States cruiser Charles
ton left the island of Guam in June
last, the Spaniards refused to recOg
nize the authority of Francis Portu-
sach, who was verbally authorized by
Capt. Glass to continue his former
regime as governor and Jose Sisto, a
former public administrator, was de-
clared governor. He armed part Of
the native guard, collected tax of six
dollars and secreted fifteen tons Of
powder and small stock of ammuni-
tion when the island was taken by the
Americans.
The schooner also reports the mas
sacre of the Spanish garrison by the
combined native forces at Panopi,
Carolina islands. Henry Naoti, an ed
ucated chief, has been selected to be
the ruler. He is reported to be favor
able to Americans.
Francis Portusach, whom the officers
of the cruiser Charleston left in charge
of the Ladrone islands, being the only
American citizen there, is q native of
Spain, where he was born about thirty
years ago. He took out his citizen
ship papers in Chicago during the
year 1883. He is said to be the son of
a wealthy merchant of Barcelona.
The true Democrat., 1899-01-07
Locating Confederate Dead.

ATLANTA, GA.-The memorable SEN
timent regarding the nations care OF
Confederate dead, expressed in Presi-
dent McKinley's now famous, frater-
nizing speech before the Georgia leg
islature, has crystalized into an order
to ascertain the location Of all the Con-
federate burying grounds i4 the South
and this work has already begun.
Georgia has been called upon for a
list of these places, the adjutant gen.
eral of the state having received an
official letter from Washington request
ing that q full list of the Confederate
cemeteries be forwarded to Washing
ton. There is no official record in this
state of the number or location Of Con-
federate cemeteries, but Gov. Gambler
authorized that circular letter be ad'
dressed to all the county ordinaries
in the state requesting them to obtain
the information in their respective
counties and report to him. tits un-
derstood that Gen. Wright has ad'
dressed similar letters to the adjutant
generals of oil Sol, lhern states.
The true Democrat., 1899-01-07
SCIENTIFIC.

An insulating caster and electric
switch for use on tables and chairs
fitted with electric apparatus has the
wheel made Of glass, with a metallic
contact arm pivotally secured to the
frame of the caster to form an electric
connection with floor plate.
Street cars can be easily replaced
when derailed by a new device con-
sisting of a curved plate to be clamped
to the side Of the rail with a cross
groove at the top, which slants toward
the rail to allow the car to slide down
in place when it reaches the top.
Gliding is easily applied to signs
and decorations by a new brush, which
has a reel on the handle on which the
metallic leaf is wound, one end being
inserted under the tip Of the brush,
which slides along and deposits the
foil on the surface underneath.
Umbrellas and parasols can be car
ried without the necessity OF holding
them in the hands by using q new
carrier, Consisting Of rod with clasps
at each end adapted to grin the um-
brella, the rod being fastened TO the
belt by cords or chain ending In o
hook.
To prevent the stealing of hats, coats
and umbrellas in restaurants and other
public places q Wisconsin man has
designed q rack with metallic frame
to close over a set Of hooks, the frame
being hinged at the top and locking
in a socket at the bottom to be re-
leased by q key
The true Democrat., 1899-01-07
Natural Gas Explosion.

RED KEY, KY.-An explosion of gas
followed by fire at the Ohio and In
diana Pipe Line Company's compress
ing station near here, caused a loss
estimated at 100000. Engineer w.
E. Robinson was badly burned. Thirty
Or more towns are deprived Of natural
gas by the destruction of the station.
The true Democrat., 1899-01-07
Family PoiSobad

BRENNAN, TExAs.-A wholesale (poi:
soning is reported ly telephone from
Shelby, Austin county Frank 6o-
mack, his wife and five children Were
the victims. Two are dead, and til is
thought that none Of the others Wall
recover. Arsenic was placed in their
coffee.
The true Democrat., 1899-01-07
London Charities

The income of the principai. onhd ssad.
BILE institutions having 1ael - orss
quarters in London amounts v
S35, 900. 900 per annum,
The true Democrat., 1899-01-07
were unmarried.
who came here

pu9JCIOu OuV OlA'J u "
ady was o salesman in tie
.ayS. R. Sledge & Co., and a
,opular young man.
lsingle man who participated
5ht remains to tell the story.
are all we'll known, and the fear
tragedy caused commotion among
. the friends of the dead men.
The immediate cause of the killing
was an attempt to arrest Harman, who
was accused OF running an unlawful
whiskoy business near Lula. He was
also accused of running blind tiger
in Lula.
There has been bad feeling for some
time between Harman's friends and
the men who were killed and their
friends around Lula. Complaint had
been made against Harmap, and Ken
nedy, who was a deputy marshal, and
Grady, who had been specially depu-
tised, made an attempt to arrest him,
and this was the immediate cause of
the shooting. Kennedy and Harman
were killed on the spot, but Grady did
not die until after he had been in
Memphis for several hours.
Armed with warrant Kennedy and
Grady had gone to arrest Harman for
conducting an illegal whiskey bust
ness. They found him at the depot
on tho platform, and he was at once
told what they wanted with him. From
what eye-witnesses say, Harman made
no verbal reply to what Kennedy and
Grady said. He simply pulled his
pistol and started to shooting. He
shot Kennedy first. Kennedy pulled
his pistol quickly and opened fire on
Harman. Harman kept shooting.
Grady was not slow about getting his
gun to work. There was much con-
fusion, and in the triangular fusillade
that followed Kennedy and Harman
fell first, and Grady was the third man
to reel and fall. Kennedy and Har-
man were dead when their bodies
dropped on the rough plank of the de-
pot platform. Upon examination it
was found that they had been shot
through the heart. They were both
shot twice through the upper part of
the body. Grady was shot through
the lungs and gradually bled to death.
Kennedy and Harman newer uttered
q word after the shooting began.
They were in close range. 1t is
claimed that Harman pulled his pistol
apparently from an upper pocket, and
that Kennedy was really wounded be-
fore he could get his pistol into action.
But in the shifting Of positions that
followed he was able to fire two shots
before Harman shot him through the
heart. He fell with his pistol in his
hand, and there were two empty cham.
bers. Harman fell almost exactly al
the same time. Grady fred the last
and then fell, mortally wounded.
There was o small crowd around the
depot at the time and excitement ran
high for time. Grady was the only sur
vivor, and his friends put him on the
first north-bound train and sent him
to Memphis. He reached that city
about 8 o'clock Saturday night, and
was at once conveyed to st. Joseph's
hospital. He was at once placed
under the care Of physicians, who soon
found that they could do. nothing for
him and that he was rapidly sinking.
He was not able to make statement
afteE his removal to the hospital. He
died $ hortly after 8 O'Clock. His re-
mains were shipped to New Orleans
by the friends who carried him to
Memphis.
The true Democrat., 1899-01-07
DEATH WAS THE VICTOR.
THREE MEN FIGHT AND EVERYONE IS
DEAD AS A RESULT.
A Deadly Battle at Lula, Miss---Attempt
to Arrest q Alleged Illicit Whisk"y
Dealer the Cause.-.AlI Men Are Well
Known and Unmarried.

LULA, MISS. -ThVee men dead is the
result of a three-cornered duel fought
on the cotton platform at this place
about 2-o'clock Saturday afternoon.
The participants were Richard Har-
man, J. E. Kennedy and W. T. Grady.
It is not known how the trouble
started, as all three were on the plat
form, attending to some cotton, and
no one else was near. 1t seems that
the shooting began between Harman
md Kennedy. Harman fired five
shots, two of which struck Kennedy,
and one Grady. Kennedy shot Har-
man twice, and both fell about the
same time, and were both dead in a
few minutes. Grady was struck in
the left lung, and fingered by a slen-
thread of life. He was carried
'rr hospital treatment on
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VOLUME XXXIV---NO. 45.
Regulars Salute Confederate Dead.

SAvANNAn. GA, April 26.-'rhc fca-
to-day WAS the presence ut the head of
the procession of two companies of the
Second United States infantry (rugu-
lars under command of Lieut.. .lnln
l.. Hines. and the firing by that body
of the customary salute to the dead III
tn" Confederate monument i'll Forsyth
park. The participation of the regulars
III the exercises was somewhat uEcX-
pcctcd. This morning the veterans
association having charge of the ccic-
monies received tender of escort
from the regulars and quickly and cor
daily accepted. This is probably the
first time in history when 4 salute in
honor of dead tnntcdrratrs has been
tired by regular troops of the Federal
army. Followin" the regulars there
were III line the Confederate Veterans,
the local militia and citizens.
At'U>r>. GA. April ~. The fH,nu-
irir will SAY tomorrow: Confederate.
memorial day III Augusta. ls1?. WAS
marked by one ni those happy ucca-
Sion> that so frequently in The past
year have borne witness Ia tho, fact
that we are one great, ,ovilly. loyal ma
tiOn united in the strongest bonds of
patriotism and brothcrly love. 1t WAS
with grateful hearts that Auglstnns
received the tender of the bands OF the
Fourth llliuois and Third Nebraska
regiments To participate in thc rcrcmo-
nes of the day. The emotions of the
people us they SAW in the same process
sion the bands of blue and the Con
fcdrrate survivors in their old gray
uniforms were too deep for cheers. but
the scene is engraved upon their mem
Dry and will always be one of the most
sacred pages in Angusta's history
NIck>BrR'. Miss, April oG.-Thc
Confederate decoration day ceremonies
were probably the most notable ever
held here. a detachment of - marines
ana sailors from the United States gun
boat Nashville took Il leading part in
the ceremonies. The blue .inckcts were
heartily cheered by the Confederate
veterans. Several officers of the gun
boat also took part in the exercises.
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Negro Troops For Otis.

WAslIINGTON, April 21.-A PROPOSE
tion to utilize negro troops to il large
extent in future military operations in
the Philippines is attracting much at
tentiOn, and it is believed will br con
sidercd by the Administration in the
near future. Such IL policy is urged on
the theory that certain racial alliia-
tiOns may be utilized in Il way to de-
feat rbellious acts on the part of
Aguinaldo and his party, and to bring
peace to the newly acquired possess
sions Of the United States in The East
One-third Of the population of the
Philippines arc negroes of tho same
race ms those in The United States, and
while not numerous about Manila COM
prise nearly the entire population of
some OF the islands. The advocates OF
the scheme believe that in short time
there would be an assimilation be-
tween the negroes of the Philippines
and their kindred from the United
States. and that there would follow for
the c0lorcd people opportunities To get
homes and possibilities of careers they
could not hope for this country.
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Free Rural Deliveries.

WAsHINGToN, ID. c., April 2;.-On
May the postal service Of almost the
entire State of South Carolina will be
altered. nearly all the star routes. in the
State being replaced by rural free de-
liveries. Twenty three rural free de
livery routes will be established, and
oll the star routes, except the longer
and more important ones, abolished.
This move is i'll the nature of all cxper-
iment, as the postofiice department de-
sircs to ascertain if it is possible to
serve rural districts III sparseIy p0p,i-
lated regions by means of carriers,
who, i'll addition to delivering the mail
will perform the ordinary duties of the
star route carriers.
In some places in South Carolina the
country postoffccs have been served
only twice Il week by means Of the star
route. They will now receive their
mail Mt least two and possibly four
times Il week. by doubling up, the de-
partment expects to obtain much bet
ter service, Mt very slight increase in
cost. In one case the carrier will serve
four routes. making n delivery ever
each route once in four days.
Many applications are being sent to
the department for free delivery service
by means of n wagon, such as has been
started near Westminster, Md Thus
far the department has been unable to
comply with any Of these requests. In
some places, noticcably in Tippecanoe
county, Ind, the carriers voluntarily
provide themselves with light wagons,
something similar to the Westminster
wagon, which is miniature travelling
p0stOffice, and have them lettered like
other mail wagons. In many places
the roads nre too bad to permit OF the
use of n heavy wagon. This is true of
Illinois among other States, although
in one instance, where route was es-
tablished over roads where the mud
came almost to the axle OF the carriers
vehicle, the representative of the dis
trict applied FOR two additional routes.
The department was unable to comply
with his request OH account of the bad
roads.
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Bishop Turner Prefers Slavery.

ATHENS, Ga, April 3O.-Bishop Hen
ry NJ. Turnerpreached to day at Bethel
African Methodist Episcopal church
and to the white people at the courJ
house. The sermon to the negroes
urged them to conduct themselves
Alright and to teach their children to
observe law and religion. He said the
newspapers of Georgia had done the
negro preachers great injustice by
saying they were not preaching to their
congregations against the crimes Of
murder, rape and arson. He snid the
ministers did preach against such
crimes; he always did; and that the
newspapers, as a rule, knew rs much
about what the negro preachers were
saying as gang Of monkeys, for they
did not, in many instances, have re-
pOrters at churches to report the SER
mons.
During his address to the white peo-
pie, Bishop Turner said he would pre- :
fer to see his people, the black race,
again in slavery, since slavery afforded
them protection, than in their present
condition. He sees little future in this
country for the negro, in competition
with the white race. He does not be-
lieve it possible to bring about assimi-
latioh or equality, lacking which there
must continue to be race prejudices.
The negro was brought to America, he
said, by divine will, and taught by cx-
ample tho basis of high civilization.
Now ii is manifestly tho will OF God
that the negro should go back to Africa
and civilize the savage races there.
The. race question, he concluded,
would never be settled until the black
man returned to his native country.
Inc GiI9o..n II. =. ci,urci;. south so Ho Il, II
much respected by the whites and re
vcred by the negroes. He is 32d dc
gree Mason.