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Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1900-01-03
STORIES TOLD OF SAM HOUS-
TON.

General Samuel Houston, named by /
the people Of his State as the "Wash-
inqton of Texas was born in Virginia
IN 1893. His widowed mother removed
to Tennessee when he VAS nine years
old. Here he labored on the firm and
went to school until be was 16. There
was settlement OF Cherokaes about
nine miles from his homo, where he
made frequent visits and learned to
speak TIE Cherokee language. de was
adopted as son of John Jolly, a Chief,
and formally admitted 10 the tribe. lie
was equal to them in feats Of strength,
agility, boating and Craftsmanship. He
lived with them three years, until the
war of 1912 broke out, VIXEN he enlisted
as O private soldier; was intimate with
General jackson, pr NOTED to first
lieutenant and resigned in 1918. He
was elected twice 10 Congress fr;m
Tennessee and in 1927 was Governor
of that State. In January, 1929, he
married the belle oil Nashville, Miss
Virginia Fraser. In about two months
after his marriage the Governor of
! Tennessee suddenly resigned, left his
wife and disappeared. This act caused
great sensation throughout the
cocntry. Houst was regarded at
the tine as the most promising public
man in the South. He lad won dis
tinction in Congress, his administration
a. Governor was successful and his
| popularity was unbounded. He had
the friendship Ct Jackson, and many
thought that Houston would one day
occupy the Presidential chair. But
he threw away all opportunities, all the
honors that had been showered on him;
flung away the pleasures and comforis
of civilized life and took up his resi-
dence among the Indians.
HE WAS RETICKNT.
Houston never told his moat intimate
| friends Of the cause OF this most strange
act Of his life. When any OF them
would touch upon this subject he would
CURLY say: "Sir, let us speak of some
thing else" But it became known
afterwards that Virginia loved John
| Endicott and Was secretly engaged tc
him, but under the pressure OF her am
bilious parents influence had accepted
Houston's attentions, and he married
| her without the least suspicion Of the
. facts, so carefully had the designing
mother drilled the daughter; and these
points being known led to the Ieason'
able surmise that Houston discovered
his yife's sorrow and she confessed The
= facts to him, John Endicott, at thu
, time, was the Governors private secre-
t | tary. It is also said that Houston
afterward wrote to her very kline
, letter, in which he advised her to get
| divorce, Which she did and married
her lover.
Houston spent the night, until day
break, In his Office, wrote his reslgna
: ton to the legislature, went through
his papers, destroying some and re
arranging others, and having concluded
his affairs went back to his house an'
found that Virginia had gone to he
mother. He then went to the stable
mounted his horse and left the town
We next hear OF HIM at Carlo, at tn
, mouth Of the Ohio river, snall trading
t post q! that time. Here he purchase'
. o boat and loaded it with stock {
/ groceries and goods for the lndlal
/, trade, also salt, bacon, whisky, tobacco
, 1
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-02


ask, for 1t IS complete vindlcation9 of
the course which they pursued in yvindi-E
eating their rights. IF the South wishes
TO Justify It's action TO ITSELF says the
Providence Journal. at is at liberty to DO
so. We at the north may say. at this
distance TO the heated discussions of the
sixties. that one section of the country
was moved as much by patriotic impulses
as the other" and as II to strengthen
tlstt assertion and to show its very high
regard for the Southern people our con-
temporary politely suggests that the term
rebellion as applied 10 the war be-
tween the States be forever erased from
the national vocabulary.
It had been often predicted that the
time would come when all fair-m!n6ed
men at the North would concece that the
South fought for a great principle. but
few Confederate veterans, we imagine,
believed that they would live to see the
day when this should be confessed in the
columns of New England newspaper.
1t is indeed a great triumph for the
South, and it is a tribute to New England
that one of its leading newspapers should
have the courage and the justice to make
such noble acknowledgement
Bun the Providence Journal goes even
step farther. Capt. McCabe had zsug-
gested that the time would come when
monuments to the memory OF Lee and
Jackson would be erected in the North
Our New England contemporary admits
that such thing may come to pass in
the early years of the twentieth century
Shall We" it asks, teach coming gem
crations that rebellion against the flag
is right and honorable? On the other
hand shall we withhold from, conscien-
tious American soldiers, who earnestly de-
Tended a great principle. recognition Of
their valor and sinccrity?'
To ask such q question in the name of
American vaior, is to answer it. and the
anwser is plain. Lee and Jackson, and
all who fought with them and under
them. were by the confession of this New
England newspaper, brave American sol
diers and patriots. They are even now
the soldiers of the nation, and whether
or not monuments be erected to them in
the States north of Mason and Dixons
line. it is enough for the South that the
North acknowledges their sincerity, their
courage and their patriotism. The South
asks no more.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-02
FRESH GO SSH :
FROM GOTHAM.
Members Of the Molineux Jury are
Indignant
OVER THE NEEDLESS DELAY !.
Restaurant Men Make Blundcr aud
Pay for I,-Ben Hur's Wife on e
Jag-A Woman Dies i'll
ChurcE-Bryan's Visit.

NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-Special-Talc
members of the Molineux jury are IN a
high state OF Indignation They have been
kept away from their business since No
yernber 18th. They receive only 81 day,
and they have formally protested to Re
corder Golf against the waste of time
In presenting the States evidence. 1t Is
now said that unless District attorney
Osborne produces some direct testimony
Of a sensational character that would tend
to prejudice the jury against MolineuA, nc
is not unlikely that Mr.. Weeks will per-
nit the case to go to the jury as ose-
sented by the prosecution, calling few, II
any, witnesses. He is adroitly turning
and twisting the circumstances as theS
are presented to show the jury that they
apply to others as to his client, ana ne
has an expert, David ~ Carvalho. VINO
will if called. express the positive eoih-
ion that the disputed writings could not
have come from Molineux's pen.
In the, event that the jury fails 10 agree
there is little prospect of second trlai.
Rev. DR.. Purvis has formally announced
his acceptance OF the call to the pastoraee
of the Fifth-Avenue Presbyterian churcn:
His new post will yield him about sl2,UV
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-02
SOUTHERN NOTES.

The tug Three Friends, which became
80 notorious during our difficulties with
Spain, is again going into Cuban waters,
but her mission is now altogether peace
full She is towing large new scows bullt
at Jacksonville for a concern at Havana.
Admiral Dewey has contributed $50 to
wards the erection OF monument in At
Ianta to the late Lieutenant Burmby.
The Southern Railway Company is sur
veying a lire from 11ns,ey, Ala, to Par
,ish which is at the junction of the
Southern and the Northern Alabama rail
roads. Ii is said that the line will soon
he built and will form 4 valuable link IN
the Southern system. giving il 9 new
route to the Tennessee and Mississippi
riaars.
Ten cases of SMALLPOX are reported from
the little town of of Acton. in Rich.and
county. s. c.
Tie Macon Telegraph Of 4 recent date
says: The remarkable sight of a load OF
watermelons being reddlcd on the streets
OF Macon was witnessed yesterday. The
melons we're offered for sale by q coun-
.try,nan and he had q wagon fu!i OF aver
age-sized o1es-that is, the size that
usually sells Tor a nickel in season, and
he was offering them from % TO 20 cents
each The melons attracted considerable
attention and nearly every passer stopped
10 take good look at them. Ehe sale
of the melons, however, was rather SLOW
due largely TO tie fact that most white
r-oDle we're afraid to eat them and most
negroes had spent all their money CHRIST
mas and didn't have the price one OF
the melons that was cut open by Il pur-
ci,aear appeared to have as firm and
healthy meat as the average melon fresh
from the vine.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-02
WAS pon.lass q Nero?

The biography Of Frederick Douglass has
iust appeared 1t is written by MI.
Chestnut. who naturally, we suppose
POINTS 10 this remarkable man as an evil
lence of what the negro may pccoihe M
tellectually. We haze long known that.
nouglass was an octoroon, bat Mrs. Dale
wh, is represented as "a great champion
of the negro race and an Intimate TREND
of Douglass, expresses regret that size
did not known Nr. CHESTNUT was wrltlhg
this life as she could have given MN d
historical fact Of much Importance. Mrs
Dale says:
a short time before Mr.. Douglass died
T went out to his house in Uniontown to
meet "a party of old friends from tie
North. Mrs. Douglass and the ladies mad
gone out into the grounds. and l was
LEFT alone in the modest Darlor with her
husband. Opposite US. on the wall, huhS
a rude portrait in oil, which | had not
observed before. Who does that repre-
sent?' ! asked Tt is not well painted.
but it is certainly a likeness of same
BODY" 1t was meant for me when / was
thirty years old answered my friend.
.Wnyr | exclaimed. it is the portrait
of an Omaha. Naturally enough he
replied, What do you mean, Frederick?
i went on. I have often wanted to ask
you about your parents | Know you
were the son of a white master.
Z WAS t!iSfS ILL W At4tS S'ooSi i4S >-st'~
YOU anything to account for your own
power, especially for your marvellous
command OF language? NO, he said
calmly: when l went back to the planta-
ton in 1878, I looked into the matter thor
oughly. There was nothing creditab!e on
that side
TO what, then, do you attribute it
was tia direct gift from Heaven-or from
whom did you inherit it.?
From my Indian grandmother. She
was full-blooded Potomac Indian of
unusual powers and greatly respected on
the plantation. She had one child BY
her white master. and that child was
my mother. After that she married a
free negro and had several children bit
I never knew one. Of them. She had a
nice little cottage OF her own and had
the care OF all the pickantnnles.
g. and your mother? What became of
her? Your fathe. was q white man. she
was white and Indian half-breed;4
where does the negro blood come in 2
s.. SO far as I know" he said. have
not .. drop in my veins. but. of co:rse,
my children have
Here is Douglass own confession. as
it We're on his death bed, that he did
not have q drop Of negro blood in his
veins. This will ustonish those people
who have been for years ad1niring him;
as an ilustricus member of the Eti1io-5
pinn race, and g who have --.-e, sg,r..;i biyt
I erected monument to him chiefly In
: that character. These people are evil
IDENTIFY the victims of misplaced comb
Chronicle.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-02
Who is Jouhert 2

Since Lamar Fontaine said the Boer
general commanded regiment under
Stonewall Jackson, correspondents evince
increasing interest in his personality, and
insist upon taking up columns of space
in the papers. There is a family of the
same name in Louisiana, and several of
them served CALAMITY in the armies Of
the South-perhaps they all came from
the original Huguenot stock, but 1t does
not follow that the Vice-PresiGent of the
Boer republic was Confederate colonel
On the 18th of last October LIE Patrie of
Paris, published the following particulars
as to General Joubert and his ancestry,
which are doubtless correct: 4 marriage
certificate from the Walloon community
of Briel!e, now in Belgium, shows that
in February, 1868, Pierre Joubert. of La
Note d'Aisues, and Suzanne Reyne, OF La
Rogue d'Atheron, both OF Provence, were
married in the Walloon church, and i'm
mediate!y embarked on the ship Mont de
Sinai. bound for the Cape of Good Hope,
under the command of the captain, SAM
uel Van Greil. Also it is stated that
Pierre Joubert had been compelled to
smigrate because he wassa Protestant or
.Huguenot"-the King of France having
just then decided that he was responsible
for the souls of his people, and must see
that they follow along his road to heav-
en-.
In 1854 Petrus Jacobus Jouber. was born
at Cango. in Cape Colony He first prac-
ticed as a lawyer, which was the profess
sion of his father; then he travelled, and
settled farm in the Transvaal He was
soon elected a member of the Rad and
supported the policy of President Kru-
ger, who carried him to London. where
he displayed great ability in the negotia-
lions leading up to the treaty with Eng
10y off tat
he resumed the practice OF. law s.ll
amassed a fcrtuness,O2 the outbreak Of
the natives he was given command of
the army, rendered distinguished ser
vice. and was elected sVce-Presslen His
5labors since, during the difficulties and
conflicts with the English. have greatly
strengthened his hold on the people ana
now he is easily held. abroad and at
home, as their ablests ma
He has visited America once. and was
the guest In New York OF Mr. George
Van slclen. but all the evidence goes TO
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-02
THE CHINESE TRADE.

The announcement that the extension
of the fereign concessions at Shanghai
China, has been finally approved by Great
Britain, the United States and France is
a good piece of news for the new year
It is said that the adjustment which has
been finally reached is satisfac Glory to all
parties concerned and this is gratifying
because the dispute has threatened from
time 10 time to bring about serious COM
pllcations between the nations in interest
The announcement is also gratifying be-
cause it practically assures to US the
open door in China. We are building up
large trade in that wonderful country
and as has SO often been mentioned of
late large portion Of cotton goods lnanu-
featured in some Of the Southern States
find their market in the Celestial En-
pire.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-02
Richmond. Va. ian. /. 1900.
Twentieth Century.

The New York Evening Journal has the
following to say editorially:
You admit that you have not finished
the nineteenth century until you have fin
sisned nineteen hundred years.
Nov then. instead of nineteen efa u
RES. lei US take nineteen dollars. eacn
dollar consisting of leo cents as each cen
fury consists Of leo years. Suppose man
owed you nineteen dollars and paid you
one cent at a time. When would YOU con-
slider the payment complete? When would
yen have Your nineteen dollars IN yocr
pocket
When he had paid you eighteen hun
bred and ninety nine cents yeisWouid nc
have your nineteen dollars. Blu when
he had paid you nineteen hundred cents
5yor would have your nineteen dollars and
your twentieth dollar would begin with
2 the payment of the next cen
us eighteen hundred and ty-nint Senfs
he las not paid US nineteen centuries. re
must give us one more year, namely the
nineteen shundredth year. to naske the
ninettens centuries complete. 1tef ne
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-02
a New Year PROPOSAL.

what resolutions have l vowed to keep
the coming year?
Come, sit beside me, maiden fair, ana
straightday you shall hear
I've pledged myself to choose one slri
from out the throus so gay,
And love her with an honest love forever
and for aye.
I'll work for her with brain and Drawn
with all my might and main,
Until I've won her everything that non
esty can gain;
I'll fill her" life with all that's sood' I'M
life itsef is done--
And while we train our minds and hearts
wen not neglect the fun.
Now tell me, won't you, maiden fair, what
YOU have vowed to do
For rye laid bare my inmost soul to no
one but TO you
i've made no pledges" she replied IN SO
But, il You don't object, I'll try to help
vo, keep your own!,'
Wallace Dunbar Vincent in Frank
Ieslie's Popular Monthly for January.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-02
ACTREssEs GET DAMAGES,

Dorothy Usner. whose golden hair is
the envy Of all soubrettes on upper
Broadway, and Louise Willis HeDner. a
stately walking lady went to Sham
lcy'S famous restaurant on the night OF
November 8, 1897, accompanied by Mr..
Hepner and Harry Fulton, a friend OF
Miss Usner One of the Shanleys met
the party at the door and ordered them
away. Mr.. Hepner attempted to argue
the matter. but Stanley pushed hin:
aside and shut the door in his face. On
the following day a member of the firm
explained to Mr.. Hepner that they would
not serve I. woman with hair like Miss
Usner'S.
A suit followed, and the Shanleys, find
ing that a grave mistake had been made.
settled the matter out Of court on Satur-
day last by the payment of a fancy sum
of money to each one of the offended
young women.
Mrs. Maggie Van Pott, the well-known
evangelist, preached i rousirg sermon at
the Second-Street Methodist church on
Sunday. She was the first woman licensed
to preach in New York by the Meth
odst Church. She went across the con-
tinent six times and according to her
statement. converted 5000 people.
MR.. BRYAN.s VISIT.
1t is r,,1nored in political circe1 that
when Mr.. William J. Bryan comes to New
York about the middle of January a din
ner will be given him by Mr. o. H. P.
Belmont. Mr.. Bryan's visit will cause q
great stir among the politicians, and it
will be interesting to see how ne will
manage to get along with the godites on
the one hand and the silvertes on the
other
Adelaide Cushman-Morgan the wife Of
Edward ID. Morgan, the actor. who is
playing Ben Hur in the Broadway The
:,,fo III 10, ,;,rt,t
locked Up in the police station Oh the
charge of intOXication and dsorderlyg
conduct. Her husband is suing for Il di-
vorce.
Mrs Catherine Game. while attending
services ct the Church of the pau!is
Fathers on F'ifty-ninth street. last night.
had attack of heart disease, and al
most Immediately expired.
Frank L. Saxby, of Troy, made an ugly
fuss at the Gilsey House on Saturday
night. He left a package with the clerk.
having first written his name thereon.
According to the rules of the house, he
was required to write his signature again
for Identification of the package. He re-
fused 10 do this, and made an assault
on the clerk. A policeman was summoned
and took Saxby in hand.
The official figures of the Department OF
Buildings for new building operations and
alterations in the borough of Manhattan
and the Bronx. for the period from Jauu-
airy to December 80. 1888. inclusive. show
an estimated expenditure of sl35. 3S2,l $50
against G27 for z similar ..:ind in
1898 The record shows the volume OF
building projects to be almost double that
of last year. This was the busiest year
in the Building DEPARTMENTS history
SUICIDE AT THE END OF THE NEAR
John Nassetter. fifty years old ended
his life with the old year. He put bullet
through his heart at his home. in Will
liamsburg. He told his friends cha. the
dying year had brought him noth;n:; but
misfortune.
One time he was in good circumstances
but lost all, and was compelled to accept
a job as Il iaborer. He lost even Ibis the
otfer da=.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-02
THE sou1H,s MITIGATION.

We reproduce to-day an editorial arti-
Gle from the Providence. R. l.. journal
in comment of the address of Capt. w.
Gordon Mccabe. Of this city, at the New
England dinner IN New York. ana com
mead II 10 those who have any doub, TIA,
sseeiionaiisn is now thing of the past.
we are thankful that we have been spared
TO read such an article as this in The
columns Of a New England newspaper.
It . all that the Southern people could
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-02
Mn xE,I,Y,s aiiTiCI,E,

The article which we printed in sun
days Tines from The pen or Hon. a. M
Kelley on the Transyaai war has nasural-.
Is attracted much attention and has been
enthusiastically received by those who
synpathise with the Beers in their strug-
gle against Great Britain.
The Times does not agree with al that
Judge Kelley says. but we are always $.
wiling to let both sides of the story be
heard through our columns. We have
presented our own views time and again
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-02
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Clii>EI:Nr TOPICS

The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph calls atten
ton 10 the fact that the late financial
furry in New York has come and gone
and there are few except the spectators
who have been hurt. The disturbance
was little realized outside of New York.
1t adds, land this complete immunity
seems TO have Seen especially true OF the
South This points to the conclusion that
the business of the country generally is
on i sound basis, for in times past such
disturbances at the center OF finance have
been Immediately felt more or less severe
~ all over the country
The Wall street panic amounts for lit
tie except as indicating conditions. When
a Wall street panic is due to unfavorable
conditions throughout the country it is
ii serious affair. But whom it comes
through overriding, While the country
generally is prosperous it is Of little con-
sequence.
nounces the retirement from its staff of
Miss Addie Williams, who has had charge
Of the local department of the paper since
the present management took hold of It
several years ago Miss Williams has
been city editor of the Observer and has
worked night and day at her desk. The
Observer pays her this handsome tribute:
We part with her with unsneakablc
reluctance and regret. There is no csti-
mating what her brilliant and ever-ready
pan has done to make this paper what
OF success it is. Her loyalty 10 II has
been Beautifully her lahors for it tire.ess
A tactful and unwearying news-gathe-er,
10 occurrence. great small, OF the
slightest public interest, has escaped heE,
and each morning she has presented 10
the readers of the Observer. as it We're,
q map of Charlotte. The occasion cannot
be allowed to pass without a public eX-
prsssion of appreciation Of her ability ana
fidelity, or without its being said that, she
resigns her position on this paper with
the keenest regret. of both a personal and
business nature. on the Part of the OBJ
verver, and with the very best wishes for
her that it has to bestow.
This is q revelation to Us. We did not
know that any daily newspaper in the
South or anywhere else had a woman Tor
its local editor. 1t is one of the most
and we must say that, so far as we can
Judge at this distance, Miss Williams has
fully measured up to the requirements
OF her Iost. She goes from the Observer
TO the Evening News because she was
breaking down under the strain of night
b
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-02
Hn Had Her.


81 WILL" she exclaimed, Il will not i've
with you another day.
You'll leave me, will you?" he ciam4y
asked.
Yes. I will
.When?
..Now-right off-ttis minute"
You'll so away?"
Yes, sir
Il wouldn't if were YOU
':But I Will, and I defy you to prevent
me. I have suffered ct your hands as
long as I cen put up with it,
"Oh, sln't Try TO stop you, ne iulet-
Nv replied I'll simply report to the po-
lice that my wife has mysteriousiE alsap-
peared They'll want your descrlptioI'
and l will give It. You wear NO SHOES
YOU have an extra large mouth: you walk
stiff in your knees; your nose turns UP at
the end; eyes rather on the saulnt; voice
like d
Wretch, you wouldn't dare do that
she screamed.
Il certainly will. and the description
will 90 in all the papers.
They giared at each other a moment IN
silence Then it was plain to be seen ne
had the dead wood on her.-Ohio state
Journal.