davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
, 1901-07-18

America still has some things to
learn from older countries, particularly
i'll the way of economy. New York
City pays about five hundred thousand
dollars a year for the disposition of its
garbage, while many English cities, by
burning their waste matter in special
furnaces, not only destroy it in the
most effective way. but make n profit
from it. Being dried out, 1t becomes
fuel. and the heat which it generates
is used to furnish steam for pumping
water. operating city electric lighting
plants. and grinding up such portions
of the refuse as are capable of CONVEX
sion into cement, tiles and paving
blocks. This plan is in use in seventy
or eighty of the smaller cities Of Eng
and. and a million-dollar plant is in
process of erection in London.
, 1901-07-18

A statement prepared at the internal
revenue bureau shows that the total
receipts from the war revenue act
only from July 10. 1898, the date the
act went into effect. to May 81, 1901,
amounted to $780, 1853. 1913. as follows:
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-03
snuirs Gloucester

Especial Dispatch to TIL. Tiuts.)
GLOUCESTER c. IL, VA Feb. q
The sudden changes in the weather has
caused grip to be very prevalent in
Gloucester. The type. however, is
very mild one. Most diseases aS~e
mild form in this salt and fine atuos-
pilere.
Mrs. T. j. Clopton has returned from
Baltimore.
Miss Mary Thurston has returned from
a visit to GAINESVILLE. Ohio
MIR. Joseph Hopkins. Miss Elizabeth
Hopkins, AID Mr.. Harold Hopkins arr
az WaverIy, guests of Mrs. Gerard Hop
kins
Miss Port5a Lee Baldwin. of Clarka
who has been q guest at New Restory
left to-day for her nome
Miss Mamie Brady, who has been visit
ing her aunt Mrs. HARDWOOD, OF Airville.
has returned to Baltimore.
Miss Lee D. is IN Norfolk visiting
der sister, Mrs. James Duncan
Professor William Stubbs. of Alabama,
IS on a. short visit 20 his old home. VAL
ley Front. in Gloucester
Mrs. Richard Byrd has returned from
a visit to her daughter, Mrs. CorbiD
Waller. OF Norfolk
The Misses Stenley, OF Great Barring
ton, Massachusetts,, who have been visit
fryr Mr. ard Mrs A. w. Withers, OF
Severnoy. on the Severn River, and the
Misses Tabo. .of NewStead, on the NORTH
River, have returned TO their home
Miss Clara Linslsy. who has been visit
ing friends in North Carolina, IS cow IN
Richmond. the guest OF Miss Sarah Har-
vey.
Mrs E. L. Dimulock has -etu-end from
a visit to Mrs James Harris, OF Rich
rNorrd.
Hon. and Mrs. Joseph Washington. OF
Tennessee after q visit to Mr.. and Mfs.
tSFr LIZ
Washington.
Mis- Fan1lie James entertained s,nsals
house party at her home, the ship fafd-
Those present were Misses Lizzie Brown.
Eaizabeti, Meredith, Messrs- John Istoos
Fo.:aine Jones. and w. c. Il Talialerro
Miss Nora Lsiiafeur also bad pleas,
ant bonss-uarty. Those present were
Misses Nora T. Moore. Portia 5. BALDWIN
Messrs. ]. Tabb. L. Meem and 9
T.Aliaferro.
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was a disagreement between them, ana
the rgagement was broken OFF, ana
both, in after years, married another
party.
The black-hafred, rosy-cheeked and
black-eyed maiden had grown TO be
beautiful mature woman, and when, she
first came to the Jail in Hendersonville
to see her husband, and Taylor saw his
first love. it made his heart leap and
brought viviily back to him those days
when he sat with his arm around her.
his lips to hers, the world we'll forgot
in the experience of loves young dream.
In their conversation there were refer
ences to the bygone days and what might
have been, and then moist eyes and
silent clasping of hands.
In due time the trial came on, and
three defendants were convicted OF muir
der. and an appeal was taken to the
Supreme Court. In regular order came
the decision affirming the judgment and
the three defendants We're sentenced to
be hanged Governor Tod. R. Caldwell
was appealed to for Communication, which
he promptly refused to grant TIE feel
ing ran his;l against the defendants and
the populace clamored for their blood.
The fear OF rescue from jail was SO
great that Sheriff Taylor remained there
all the time after the day for the eXecu-
ton was fixed Now came the time thnt
tried the soul of Taylor. Mrs. Baynard
was we'll night crazy at the impending
death of her husband. Bnynard, while
rough and uncouth, was the father of
her several children, and he had been
kind, loving and true to her, and by
force OF these things her henrt-strings
had entwined themselves around her hus
band and the thought Of his being put
to death and by the lover of her youth
was worse than death itself to her She
made appeal after appeal to Taylor TO
help her in some way 10 save her nus
band from a felOn'S death, but there was
no way except by the betrayal OF the law
and the commission of 4 high crime Mrs
Baynard finally declared to Taylor that if
Ter husband was hanged, that she would
remain in Hendersonvlle during the exc
cution and commit suicide on the body
OF her husband and that Taylor would
be responsible for her death and the
making of her children orphans
'TyVINT LOVE AND DUTY.
Never Hnu man so sorey tried. Be
tween his duty TO his country and State
and the woman he loved with the fires OF
early manhood. his trial was that of 4.
martyr He had never failed heretofore
in the honest and fearless discharge Of
his duty He possessed the confidence OF
the people OF his county more than any
other man. He wanted now to do his
duty but he was not made OF clay DIT
ferent from other people. He had loved
this woman who virtually demanded OF
him not only the life OF her husband, but
her own life as well. Taylor we'll knew
that SalIic BAynard meant all she said
about killing herself. 1t was the story OF
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-03

RUTIERFORDTON. n. c.. Feb. .
Often the facts of real life are more in
terestinS than the tales of fiction 1t is
not always that love, romance and traS-
edy, and the final happy ending, is con-
fined to the brilliant and fertile ina gina
ton of wcll-i1nown writers who cater 10
the literary tastes of the general pup
lie Frequently in the busy beehive of
the people who make up hustling towns,
there are constantly occurring love
scenes, now. and then 2 tragedy com
mingled with the devotion of a woman.
and the self-sacrifice Of "a man for her to
whom he has trusted the keeping of his
first and early love. Such a true story
occurring in this and the county of Hen
derson in this State, among the foothills
OF the l)lue-capped peaks of the Blue
Ridge. in the year 1871, with the conclu-
sion near the flourishng city of Waco.
Tex. twenty years later, is that which
follows:
Shortly after the war illicit distilling
IN the western part Of the State was car
Tied on To : much greater extent than it
is now. In those days the mocnshiners
lay around their .'blockades'' as they are
called, with their guns in their hands, and
they usually fought the revenue officers
when they came upon Tie scene of nc
ton to cut up the still and destroy the
liquor. And the feeling against the law
was so great that it was worth as much
knowledge OF the running of u blockade
STILL for him or her to give Information
TO the revenue officers Of this fact. AS
soon as it was known that 4 certain man
had become an informer of the blockad-
ers he WIS marked for death sooner or
later his doom overlook ilim, and he was
found in some Sequestcred place with 4
bullet-hole through his head.
A PICTURESQUE CHARACTER.
In the year 1871 there lived in this
county, about ten miles from the court
house, near the road leading 10 Marion,
n. c., a. man by the name of Henderson
Adair. He was an honest, steady noun
taineer, who had reared q large family
and had known all his life what it to
work hard for a living He was a most
1lncompronisinz old-line Wing, and be
fore the Civil War his word was law and
gospel on clection-day at AIcAIahan's pre-
cinct. After the war he became an ar
dent Republican.
Among his family at this time were
two grown sonS-Columbus and Govan
These boys We're chips of the old block
They We're radical Republicans and We're
intolerant of the views of their neigh
bors. They We're courageous and :iEgres-
slTe, and had many enemies in the coun-
fy. They had many fights During the
war they were strong Union men and
delighted in plotting Federal soldiers who
had escaped from the Salisbury and other
Confederate prisons across the noun
tains and into the Federal lines. OF
course all the ConfederateS were their
aNnwcd enemies. Under slc sway of
their family McMahan's precinct was as
largely Republican as it had been Wing.
For these reasons the 1Adair family had
many enemies among those whom they
delighted 10 dcnounce as the -secesh,''
meaning those persons who had favored |
the war against The Union.
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oath of office, all because of his first love
for Sallie Morgan, and had saved the
husband of the woman he loved of an ip-
famous death.
Won HER At LAST.
AS she stood beside him, she gazed into
his face, and with her fifty years she
looked as il she Were but forty. The
black hair of former days did not show
a single line of gray. the cheeks We're
red and rosy, and the eyes were as black
and brilliant as they We're the day they
caused Terrin to give up the world as
well lost for Il smile from Sallie Morgan
So he took her hand and held it in both
of his and looked her in the eyes and
said: "Sallie, is it possible that you do
not know me2"
She knew him Instantly. and exclaimed,
.'Terrill Taylorr' And he said by the
grave of this man whom they had saved
from an awful fate: Il tell you that I
have enever. ceased to love you: like your
self, I am free: I have nothing but my
self My property is all gone / came
out here to be near you. but you are free,
too. ask you to take me for your hus-
band"
And by the dust of Martin Baynard
they again p1ishted their troth. and
passed hand in hand into the house. hap
by in the never dying love for each other
ALL FOR y WOMAN.
And there we leave them with thn re-
lor had seen hundreds of times from the
mountain peaks of the Blue Ridge, where
he lived in Henderson county. arise from
the horizon and animate all the world
that came under his vision for miles and
miles around him with light and life, had
again enveIoped him.
His declining years were to be the para
disc of his existence on earth. 1t is sur
prising that he counted his failure to do
his duty the commission of a great crime,
excusaoie because it was done for a wo-
NAT and that he forgot the four mounds
among the foothills of the Blue Ridge.
where rest the cremated remains of Silas
Weston and his three innocent children.
All tor his love tor woman who was
his Eve and who was now to be his Re-
beCca-
And VIC bid them sood-bye with our
opening remark. that Truth is offer,
stranger and more thrilling than Ec-
ton
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jealous of the attention WhlCh ,o,,ii.- re-
ceived from other young men. Saiie had
genuine affection for Taylor, but she was
something of Il cOuuettc, as every beau
tifui woman is 10 more or less degree,
and she had much attention from the
gentlemen beaux Of Rutherford and Hen
derson counties Taylor was as Jealous
as Il Turk, and he resented the fact that
she would not devote herself to HIM. FL
nally they became estranged and the en-
gagement was broken off.
Sailie finished school and went to her
fathers home in Rutherford county,
near what is known as The white House
in the Cove" This hose was the first
one in Rutherford county that was paint
ed white, hence its name. 1t was here,
in June, 1858, that the writer saw Sallie
Morgan. The occasion was a discussion
between Mr. Zebulon Il. Vance and the
Hon. Waightstill ". Avery. Wing and
Democratic candidates for Congress.
a GREAT POLITICAL CATHERINE.
This was the first political gathering the
writer had ever attended. He well re-
members the occasion. There, was a great
concourse of people present. Mr.. Vance.
the Wing candidate, was a bOyish young
man and almost unknown outside Of
Bunconbe county. His opponent was the
leader of the Democratic party in this:
State and its ablest member. He had been
chairman OF the Committee on Resolutions
at the National Convention, held in 1856
at Cincinnati. T!aa district had been
democratic for many years. General
Thomas Clingman having been repeated
ly elected from it. He was at this time
in the United States Senate and the
Hon. Mr.. Avery sought to be his success
sor. Mr.. Vance had the reply and re-
joinder at this discussion. Mr. Avery open
ed and delivered most able and learned
address on all the issues. whitch was I'M
number OF his audience. He INDUCED in no
humor, and did not cite Illustrations with
which to point and enforce his argument
1t would have been a great speech for
Westminster or the United States Senate,
but it was sadly out Of place, considering
the education, intelligence and political
experience of those who listened TO it.
Nt-eGl Vance came to reply il was seen
that in a few minutes he had the crowd
in the hollow of his hand. He was cilaste
and pure in his language, for there were
hundreds Of ladies present. His speech
was literally punctured with wit and hui
NOR. that kept his hearers in 81 continual
roar OF laughter and applause 1t was a
held-day for Vance. When the discussion
ended both candidates We're the reciD-
tents OF flowers from their lady friends
Among those of the Wing girls who pre-
scented Vance with a bouquet was Miss
Sallie Morgan. The writer who was then
twelve years old. remembers hsr as the
most beautiful girl he had even seen. She
was most DcorEin9ly alfred and fully
answered the description heretofore given
of her
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-03
CITY rf,he Future.

With enc railway now building to caps
Henry (rhe Norfolk and SoGthernl, an-s
other being strongly pushed by Mr.. ]. 4
Cole and associates. and the possibility
of a third one under charter owned
by William Lamb and others. Cape Henry
seems to have bright prospects tor fu-
tire importance, not only as summer
resort, hut also as a manufacturing and
Shipping center.-Norfolk Journal q
Commerce.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-03
AWFUL BUTCH7ERY.

AWFUL BUTCHERY.
While the shooting and cutting her
husbands throat was gong on, she at
tempted to get under the bed Govan
Adair and Martin Baynard dragged her
out, and Govan Adair attempted to shoot
her with tis pistol, but it did not fire.
He and Baynard then gave her several
severe wounds, leaving her, as they sup
posed, dead. They then attempted TO
cut her infants throat, set the bedding
on fire, ana then fed from the house
She lay upon the floor until the flames
began to burn her hair, when, finding
her infant still alive. she took it and
placed it outside the house. then re-
turned and dragged Theodosia out, whom
she left outside the burning house. dead
being unable to carry her further on
account of a wound on her arm and
shoulder. She THEN made her escape.
to the house Of Mrs. Williams, about a
mile from the scene of the Quadruple
murder.
The next morning the house was found
in ashes. and the remains OF three
human bodies, corresponding in size TO
Sitas Weston and the children were
found on the site of the burning house.
and the child Theodosia was found dead
with a, bullet hole through Ter breast,
and her body burnt, lying where her
mott,er said she left it lying the night
before. when she escaped from the
flames. The murderers did not think for
a moment that they had lett Mrs Yves
ton alive, and when they We're arrested
the next day and Gov:m was told tina t
it was on her aftidavits, Govan eN-
claimed. why, Amt she dead?" This
circumstance was very strong against
them i'm the trial. The case was moved,
from Rutherford to Henderson, county fer
trial because Of the Influence OF the
defendants in the iorrne., county.
MET HER OLD LOVER.
At this time, !s1. man by the name
Of Terrill W. Taylor was sheriff OF Hen
derson county. Fifteen years before this,
he was engaged to be married to the
woman VITO afterwards became the wife
of Martin Baynard. It seems thai there
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-03
HER PRETTY SPEECH.

HER PRETTY SPEECH.
She made Vance a neat little speerh
in presenting the flowers congra tulatlins
him on his address and predicted his cleo
ten. Vance then got down among t;1e
crowd and told anecdotes and made him
self hail-feilow-wcll-met' with all How
he reversed The Vote ana was elected bv a
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-03

majority of 1900 is now history.
AS the writer and Vance rocie home at
ter the speaking. the United states Sell.
ator frequently referred to what a love.
~ girl Saie Morgan was:
The war soon came on, and the beau
tisul girl faded from tie memory of the
writer, and he next heard " her again
IN 1871 as the wife OF Martin Baynard.
Like the Adars, Baynard was a violent
Republican, and was completely under
the domination and control of che Adair
family. He aided them in running the
blockade distillery. Very much against the
wish and protest of his wife. Finally the
enemies of the Adairs and Baynard found
that a man by the name Of Silas Weston
and his wife, Polly, who lived near the
Adairs, had positive evidence Of the run
ming of the blockade diSfillery. This infor-
nation was furnished to the revenue Off
GERS, and Columbus and Govan Adalr
and Martin Baynard We're indicted in the
United States Court. The indicted parties
always believed that Weston and wife
turned informers and gave the informa-
dion. The truth is that the Information
vas given by other parties, and Weston
and wife were unwilling witnesses before
the grand jury and We're the only wit
nesses for the Government.
THE TROUBLE BEGINS.
Right here the trouble began which
brings an awful tragedy into this story.
AS soon as the Adairs and Baynard
found that they We're indicted, and that
S.las and Polly Weston We're the only
witnesses gainst them, they conslpired
and agreed to kill Weston and his wife
in order to remove the witnesses, and to
carry into effect the unwritten law of the
against an informer. Wes-
ton ana wlIe nau IOur small children and
lived in Il cabin two miles from where
Hederson Adair lived. How well the con-
spiracy succeeded will be best told by
Polly Weston i'll her testimony. She
says: THAT she was the wife of Sias
Weston, and that she had been the
mother of four living children. That she
lived III rutherford county. That OH the
night of the 18th OF April, 1871, about one
hour in the night, she and three OF her
children had risen from the supper table,
leaving her husband at the table feeding
the baby She heard the growl of a dog
in the yard, and went to crack i'll the
end of the cabin TO see what had dis
turbed the dogs. On putting her face to
the crack she was fired on, the powder
her eye, and she staggered back
saying. I am killed-Lord. have mercy
on me-! y
The door was then burst open. and
Govan Adair entered and fired on her
husband while he was seated at the
table, and again as he retreatsd to the
other end of the house. Govan Ada!r'
and Martin Baynard then seized her
husband and cut his throat. AS Column
bus came into the house he fired on
David and then shot Der son, W. II.
Steadman The two first named children
were killed instantly. w. H. Steadlnan
breathed twice. and with a surslinS
sound exclaimed: They have killed me-
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oath of office, all because of his first love
for Sallie Morgan, and had saved the
husband of the woman he loved of an in-
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-03

Taylor asked where Baynard was buried.
and the widow walked with him short
distance to a beautiful grove of trees,
where stood an imposing marble shaft
with these words Inscribed thereon: Mar
tin Baynard. faithful husband and Low
ing husband lies here. So here was the
dust Of one Of the men whose soul was
stained with murder of four innocent
human beings. As Taylor stood by this
mound he thought OF the days when he
had forgotten his oath to his State, his
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-05-31
GENERAL LUTHERAN SYNOD.
Foreign Missions Discussed by h Del
cgatcs at Opening Session.

DIES MONIES. Ia, May 30.-The hrst
business session of the General Lutheran
Synod convened to-day, with 2O delegates
present, and visiting c~lergymen from
Europe, India and Africa. Foreign mis-
sions were discussed this afternoon, ad-
dresses being delivered by Rev. Luther
kuhler, of Frederick; Rev. DR.. j. b. Aberly,
or Gunter. India; Rev. George j. Albrecht,
Of Rentachintala, Planad, India, and Rev.
DR.. j. II. Harpster. of Gunter, India.
The principal matters of discussion before
the fortieth synod are these: First. the
movement to change the missionary field
from the African coast, and particularly
Liberia, to the interior, for climatic an
nygienic reasons; second. the establishment
of an official paper or organ, which shall
represent the spirit of the General Assem-
bly, and promote and uphold all its inter.
ests; third, a movement TO adopt a graded
course of lessons in the Sunday schools,
and 10 this extent modify the international
lesson course.
The first important business of the first
session was the election of officers for the
synod to hold for the next biennial period.
Rev. DR. S. w. Freas. of Baltimore, was
chosen president; Rev. DR.. w. +. Fisher, OF
~Shamokin, Pa, secretary. and DR.. Louis
Mans, Of Cincinnati, o., treasurer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-05-31
Large Railroad Earnings.

Net railroad earnings for the first three
months of the present year are now be-
ing published, and they show that 4S of
the leading roads the present year in
creased their net earnings ST. 1872, 700 over
the corresponding three months of 1890.
The Pennsylvania lines lead with an in
crease of 81. 454, 200, the Southern Pacific
comes next with an increase of 81, 42l, 4S1;
the Lehign Valley, the Missouri Pacific
and the Philadelphia & Reading show
increases ranging about 500. goo. The most
important fact in regard 10 the earnings
is that the increase as reported comes
from every section of the country, and is
not confined to any particular territory.
The two roads which showed the most
flattering increases, the Pennsylvania ard
the Southern Pacific. are widely separat-
ed, occupy entirely different territory. and
earnings are dependent upon vastly differ
ent conditions. The Eastern roads, car
rying manufactured articles, the Central
Traffic Association lines, carrying coal, ag-
ricultural implements. furniture. produce,
live stock, dressed meats, the Northwest
ern roads, carrying agricultural products,
and the Southern roads, with fruit, tobacco
and minerals, all report earnings greater
than ever shown before. IL is gratifying
to note that indianapolis lines are shar-
ing their full percentage In the earnings.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-05-31
Gods Memorial Day.

lin the mountains near Cumberland there is a
grave OF an unknown soldier. The spot is sell
dom visited. and the grave Is absolutely IN
cared for. In fact. 10 Is not known 10 which
army the soldier Belonged
Up in the mountain solitude.
Where soft wild grasses wave.
Each year. when the dreaming blossoms blow,
God decorates a grave.
And no man KNOWS IL the sleeper fought
In the garb Of blue or gray.
But the roses CLEAN and the daisies dream
On Gods Memorial Gay.
No tender hands cast the blossoms there,
on the unmarked. unknown mound.
But the blooms OF peace lend a hallowed air
To the long hushed battle ground.
And the blossoms noat with a silent grace.
And hutter along the wind.
Till they ind their rest on tho soldier breast.
Because his God is kind.
The carven stones mark the other graves,
And the dirges Groom DER them.
But the zcphyTs come with their whispers soft
And sing mis- requiem.
None comes In grief 10 the lonely spot.
To Weep-to wish-to pray.
But the forest bloom strtNS the mountain tomb
ON Gods Memorial day.
For him 10 more rings the saber clash
or song 81 the battle drum.
For him no moro viii the trumpet call.
TIL the last great summons come.
But the heart OF God has room for him,
As he dreams the years away,
And the wild blooms true have their tears OF dew
on Gods Memorial day.
w. u Nesbit. in Baltimore American.