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CONFEDERATE VETERANS
Will Spend Next Saturday at Nor
gans q Grove.-Batallion TO
be Organized.

The Maury County Company of Con
federate Veterans, Sta-e reserve, will
meet and spend the day next Saturday,
the 14th inst, in Morgan s Grove. The
old Veteran Companies from Lawrence
burg and Lynnville will meet with them
for the purpose of organizing battalion
to attend the Confederate Veterans re-
union at Nashville June 14-l5-16 in a
body, in the old Confederate gray uni
form. The old Confederate gray coat
will be again seen on the streets of Co
lumbia. and will revive memories both
sad and sweet of the long ago; but the
ranks are thin now, the manly forms
are bent and crippled, the quick step of
the soldier boy is seen no more, and
there is something gray besides the uni
form. But God bless the old boys.
Their hearts are the same-they yet
beat brave and true for heir loved South
land, and will ever hold sacred the
memory of loved comrades who have
answered their last roll call
j. N MERONEY,
Orderly Sergeant.
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BOUND HAND AND FOOT.

1t is time fer the Ironuois also to bur,
the Ratchet, and to place upon it heavy
stones, so that it never again can bt
| dug up.
Brothers, as you know, the great
canoes from across the sea are bring
ing more and more white men, Look
about you, and tell me where are your
fathers and your brothers and your
sons? Half your fighting men are
gone; and if you turn to the west tc
seek out strong young men from the
other tribes, which of them will come
20 sit by your fires and be your
brothers? The war trails of the ma
ions have gone to the west as far as
he Great river. All the country has
been at war The friends of Onontio
Beyond Michilimackinac have been so
busy fighting that they have forgotten
% take the beaver, or if they have
aiken it, they have been afraid to bring
it down the water trail to us, lest the
Iroquois or the English should rob
them.
clared Onontio, the father of all the
red men, has taken the promises of
his children, the Hurons, the Algon-
quins, the Miamis, the Illini, the Outa-
eamies. the Oiibways, all those PEG
pies who live TO the west, that they
will follow the war trail no more. Next
summer there will be a great council
Onontio and Corlaer have agreed to
ell the tribes to meet at the Noun
'ain in the st. Lawrence. Onontio
says to you that he will give you back
your prisoners, and now he demands
whom you may have with you. This
is his will; and if you fail him, you
know how heavy is his hand.
Brothers, see that you have pris-
oners here, white prisoners. These
must be given up tS us. | will take
hem with me when return. For your
indian captives it is the will of Onon-
10 that you bring them all to the Great
Peace in the summer. and that you
then, all of you, help to dig the great
hill under which the Ratchet is going
TO be buried Then once more our
rivers will not be red, and will look
more like water. The sun will moi
shine red, but will look as the sun
snouIu iooK. me SKY VIII again DC
blue. Our women and our children
will no longer be afraid, and you Iro.
luo's can go to sleep in your houses
md not dread the arms of the French
Brothers, | have spoken. Peace is |
.ood.
ITO BE coNTINuED.)
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Card Of Thanks.

Next to the comfort that comes iiosl
above; next to the peace the relsl.Ss..
of the Lord Jesus Christ brings to "
heart of man when in sore trouble aI|
distress, is the comfort and peace srI
consolation which sympathlnlss|
friends can bring and give to J|
house of mourning and to hearts bo""|
down with grief.
To those friends who have been ~
devoted in their attention, so lo'p|
in their ministrations, so untirlng
their devotions to us and 10 u
loved one during the long h s.m
and days when we have "j
waiting and watching, hoping =
praying by her bed side, we Wis., y,,,,
return our heartfelt thanks. Ms
were friends more devoted OF MI
Never were recipients more gra,Ie,rs
and while life lasts we will Iva
remember the kindness of our flleG
ms the one bright beam OF s'lts sn.
when the clouds of sorrow Nv"
darkest above us.
w. A. COJQUITT. nv
1. J. STEWART AND FAh4b'
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RESCUE OF A RARE RELIC.
Massive Gold Chinese Seal Four
Thousand Years Old.
1t Has Been offered for Sale in San
observation-disclosures Consul
VIII Secure 1t.

San Francisco, May 1O-The Cal
says:
A massive gold seal, worth intrinsi-
cally $4,000 and one of the priceless
treasures of an ancient Chinese dyna.s-
ty, has been offered for sale in this city
to a local smelling company Word was
sent from there to the Chinese consul
general. He deciphered the worn in
scriptions upon It and declared that 1t
was one of the most valuable relies Of
an ancient Chinese dynasty. He said
that the gold came from the great
sands of the Cobb desert, and was gath
cred by hand from the rocks and chan
nels more than four thousand years
ago
Melted and refined into a solid mass,
the artisans Of those ages carved the
inscriptions upon tie gold that have
formed the official seal of the dynasty
for thousands Of years, until more
modern times and greater sway
caused a new imperial seal to be de-
veloped. Then the seal was delegated
TO the nearst nephew of the emperor
SIS his official signature. The seal was
withdrawn from sale by
it present owner, who claims to have
picked it up in China. It is stated the
Chinese consul general has guaranteed
the payment of $4,000 for It, which is
twice It's intrinsic value if melted ur
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NOTICE TO
Contractors and Bui|dpR,

Rids will be received at Columbia
Tennessee lat the office of f. FL. Hatch.
er, for the construction ia new court.
house upon the public square in The
town of Columbia, Tennessee.
BIDS WILL BE OPEN UNTI|
JUNE 10, 1904.
| All bids must be made in sealed en-.
velopes. The bids will be opened 10 The
presence OF the Committee on June 10,
1904, and the Committee reserves the
right 10 reject any and all bids.
Plans and specifications ana form Of
contract may be seen in the office of E.
ii. Hatcher IN Columbia, Tennessee
All bidders will be required to depOs
it twenty dollars, (S25 .O0) for the
safe return of such plans, specifications
blue prints, ETC., as bidders may desire
to take out of said office.
All bidders will be required to furnish
the Committee with at least ten no. re-
sponsible references. The contractoror |
contractors to whom the bid should be
let, if any bid should be acceptable to
the Committee and accepted by them,
will be required to execute bond in the
penal sum of twenty thousand dollars
1920, 000.0O) for the faithful performance
of the contract for the building Of SAID
Court ii use, with good and sufficient
security, satisfactory to the COMMITTEE;
If any bid is accepted, the successful
bidder will be required to deposit eef.
titled check for five huodred dollars
$500. OO) to be forfeited if the contract
is not duly executed within ten dayssl,,
ter notice of the acceptance Of the DIV
by the Committee.
Ii any bidder desires further informs
ton touching the work, the same can %
obtained from Carpenter & Blair Ar
chitects, 500 Fifth Avenue, Wind'a
Arcade, New York, N. Y.
E. IL. HATCHER,
Chairman OF Commits
FL. w. THOMAS,
Seer etary of Commltre
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BLEW OFF TOP OF HIS HEAD
Suicide of Harold r.. Clarke, M
American, IN n leading
Paris Hotel.

Paris, May 10,--Harold T. Clarke, of
New York and San Francisco, son OF
the late jeremiah Clarke of San Fran
cisco, killed himself in leading hotel
here by blowing off the top of his head
with revolver He had been touring
the continent for several months, and
had just arrived in Paris from Monte
Carlo. where 1t is understood. he los,
heavily. Clarke's mother and sister,
who are in this city, are unable to give
the slightest clew TO the cause of his
suicide. The deceased was 81 years of
age. The body will be shipped to the
United States.
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CHAPTER xxx.
THE EMBASSY.

Monsieur! Madame! Pierre Noir!
listen to me! have saved you! l.,
seru Breboeuf, | have rescued you'll"
So spoke Jean Breboeuf, thrusting
his head within the door of the lodge
IN which were the remaining prisoners
n the lroquois.
Il was indeed Jean Breboeuf who,
iSrpaiing beyond the outer edge of the
Gtiagc, had been among the first to
sxgy an approaching party of visitors.
" any travellers possible, none could
Iave been more important to the pris-
sners. Too late, yet welcome even
s0w. the embassy from New France
among the lroquois had arrived. In
ga instant the village was in an up
scsss.
LIE leader Of this embassy from Ore
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BRIG.-GEN. S. W. GROESBECK
For Upwards of Forty Years
In the Army.

st. Louis, May 10-Brig. Gen
Stephen w. Groesbeck, United States
army, retired, died at his residence In
this city early Sunday morning. He
had not been in good health since his
service in Cuba under Gen. William r.
Shafter in 1898, when he contracted
malarial fever About the first OF
March he had an attack of la grippe,
which greatly enfeebled his conatitu-
ton. Three weeks ago typhoid fever
developed On Saturday there were
symptoms of pneumonia, and death
soon followed.
Gen. Groesbeck had a record Of more
than Forty wears Of no b.able s,rvioa
N the army.
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@ a 6 T. 60 II L "a,
Bears the 4, The Kind You lavs Always Bough,
Signature e AzN2zzZx
THEY MAY YET BE RESCUED
Faint Hope That the Five Miners
Imprisoned in Locust Gap
slope May he Alive.

Shamokin, Pa, May lot is barely
imprisoned in the Locust Gap slope, on
Thursday last. may be alive The
smoke and black damp had sufficiently
disappeared to enable the rescuing
party to penetrate to the bottom of the
slope, but nc trace of the men could be
found. 1t is believed that the miners
have gone into an abandoned slope and
that they may be found alive. The
flames are under control.
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bee was one Capt. JOncaire. at that
former years a prisoner among the
OnOndagOs. where he was adopted into
he JrlDe ana muen respected Jun
eaire was accompanied by a priest o.
the Jesuit brotherhood, by a youns
officer late OF the regiment Carignan.
and by two or three petty Canadian
officials. as well as a struggling reunue
Of sayages picked up on the way be-
tween Lake George and the Indian
villages. He advanced now at the head
OF his little party. bearing in his hand
a wampum belt. lie pushed aside the
young men, and demanded that he be
brought TO the chief of the village.
Teganisoris himself presently advanced
to meet him, and of him Joncaire de-
manded that there should at once be
called a full council of the tribe; with
which request the chief of the Onon-
dagos FASTENED to comply.
Fully accustomed to such ceremo-
mics, Joncaire sat in the council calm
by listening to the speeches of its ora
tors, and at length arose for his own
reply. Brothers" said he. Il have
here"-and he drew from his tunic
copy of the decree of Louis XIV. de-
claring peace between the French and
the English colonies-"a talking paper
This is the will of Onontio, whom you
love and fear, and it is the will of the
great father across the water, whom
Onontio loves and fears. This talking
paper says that our young men of the
French colonies are no longer to go to
war against Corlaer. The Ratchet has
been buried by the two great fathers
Brothers, l have come to tell you that !
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men.
A Glorious Record.
Here is a summary of this Company.
compiled from the best information
now available; il is necessarily lncOm-
plete. yet any changes would only
show an increased loss. Ii is record
that was equalled by few companies in
the Civil War,-a record OF which the
members and families of the Duck
River Rifiemen. and all Maury Coun-
tians, can well be proud.
Two Commissioned Officers and fif-
: teen men killed In battle.
Four mortally wounded.
Three missing, never heard of after
wards.
One died on the way home after the
surrender.
Four died from sickness.
Thirty-one wounded in battle. some
mole than once.
Seven wounded and discharged. or
left at home.
Ten discharged for illhealth.
Nine otherwise discharged too
young, or too old.
Eight captured.
One name placed on the Confederate
Roll of Honor at Richmond for Con-
spicuous Bravery in the Battle of Muir
freesboro.
Something of Capt. TIndall
Before closing this sketch let me add
line or two about Captain Robert W.
Tindall, the last Captain of the Com
pany, and one of the best of the many |
good citizens of Maury County. He
was like so many others, strong |
Union man and opposed to secession,
yet when Tennessee cast her lot with |
the Southern Confederacy he enlisted
as private in the Duck River Rifle
men. His comrades tell me that he
was in every battle and skirmish in
which the command participated, was
never wounded or captured, never had
a furlough, and never shirked any
duty. And he tells me that
he surrendered at Greensboro formerly
known as Guilford Court House) where
he was born, and that the pay he re-
ceived at the close of the war was one
lollar and twenty five cents in silver.
He paid the dollar for a marriage
license, and has kept the quarter, on
which two generations of children
nave cut their teeth.
A Tribute to the Riffemen.
And final paragraph about the
PERSONNEL of this Company.
These men belonged to that God
earring, law abiding, hard working
lass that fulfilled the Biblical com
nand of earning living by the sweat
# the brow. Not tenth of them ever
'wned slave or had any personal
interest in preserving the Peculiar
Institution except in so far as it
ffected the general interest of the
and nearly all of them
we're Union men until President Lin
oln issued his call for seventy five
thousand men to suppress insurrec- Z
ion. Returning to their desolate
ONES at the close of the war to en-
ounter the horrors of the Reconstruc
ion period, bereft of all save honor,
the Duck River Rifle r
len were types of the Confederate \
Dldiers, who, accepting the logic of :
vents, went to work and succeeded in
lat wonderful development and re- "
abilitation of the South which has
lade it the most important factor in
le present prosperity of the United
tates-a result which is the wonder of
le political economist, and will be a.
le admiration of the future historian.
FRANK III. SMITH.
Tennessee. March, 1904.
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THE DUCK RIVER R1FLEMER
AN HISTORICAL SKETCH BY
JUDGE FRANK H. SMITH.
A Glorious Record.

'oficial act of The Duck River Rifle
man
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Convicted of Murder.

Kennett. Mo-, May 10.-Louis Eden
was found guilty in the circuit court Of
the murder of Frank HUFF in Maiden.
Mo-. last December. The evidence
showed that Eden shot HUFF without
rrovoc'tion. Sentence will be pro
: 'inced s-sy Is.
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indianapolis, Ind. May 10.--Com-
mander John f. Parker, Of the United
States navy, is confined at the home
OF his sister, Mrs. Benjamin Harrison,
widow of the late president, as result
OF INJURIES received while alight.pg
from street car.
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CONTINUED from last week.
Forrest to the Rescue.

Forrest had been hastily recalled
from the right wing when he was oper-
| atIng against the Nashville and Chat
tanooga Railroad. lie began retreat
ing ON the 10th. crossing good part
of his Command at LIZARDS Mills next
day, but the waters rose so rapidly
that he had to come down the north
bank of the river to Columbia TO avail
himself of the pontoon bridge.
The Confederates finished crossing
Duck River on the 10Th of December
| during hard storm, and Immediately
took up the pontoon bridge and moved
out of town on the Pulaski pike, after
which the rain ceased. Three of the
cannon that could not be put across
were spiked and pitched into the river
and were afterwards fished out by the
Federals. Forrest remained in town
until all the infantry had gone out.
deploying skirmishers from above Ash
tons Mills to Greenwood Cemetery
until this was completed.
Forrest and Hatch Meet at the River
After these troops had withdrawn
from town, the Federal advance which
had finally succeeded in getting over
Rutherford Creek, appeared across the
river, and battery was placed at the
Brown house, which shelled the town.
Forrest rode back to Columbia with
an escort, carrying flag of truce.
and went to the bridge abutment.
Gen. Hatch and an escort soon came to
the north side with a flag of truce, in
answer, when Forrest told HIM that
the city had been evacuated by the |
Confederates, and Hatch promised that |
he would stop the Smelling, which he
did.
The escape of the entire Confederate
army from its perllous situation north
of Duck River was permitted, or at
least greatly assisted, by one of the
most ludicrous mistakes in military
annals. But as this incident was not
connected with the subject
of this sketch, it will be reserved for
another article.
The Famous Rear Guard.
Hood made army headquarters at the
Nathan Vaught Place (now r. G.
Sparrow 81, from the 18th to the morn
ing of the Goth of December 1864, when
he left for Pulaski. On that morning
Forrest was placed in command of the
rear guard of the army, and Walthall
was Oruered TO support MIN WIN elSnu
origades of picked infantry. > These
eight brigades gave him an effective ,
orce of 1900 men, of whom about 400 !,
we're without shoes, and many more ,,
we're practically barefooted. Such :
vas the picked infantry" of the :
amous rear-guard Two of these !;
,rigades, Maney's and Strahl's, were !
commanded by the gallant Col. Hume ;
D | q
lay show total of only 113 electives =
or both brigades. =
Among them was the wreck of the :
Duck River Ritiemen, which had now =
ecome SO absorbed in these reorgani !
ations and consultations that it lost =
II semblance of existence as a separate =
rganization. Yet these few were !
true and faithful soldiers unto the :,
nd" and followed the waning star of g
he Lost Cause until it sank. never .
lOre to rise
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The Lest Consolidation.

| In North CarOl1na Marcn 2lSt, 1900,
in the final death gasp of the Confed-
eracy, the Third Tennessee CONSOLE
dated Regiment was organized; it
was composed of the 4th, 9Th. 10Th,
Gath. 31st, 33rd, 35th, 38th, and 41st
Regiments, of which James d. Till
| man was commissioned Colonel in the
Brigade of Brig. Gen. Joseph B. Pal
mer, Maj Gen. B. F. Cheatham s
Division, 1t Gen. W. j. Hardee's
Corps, and Gen. Joseph E. Johnston
Commander. The whole of the 24th
Regiment was used to help make up
Company K. of the new Third Tennes-
see Consolidated, and the following
members of the Duck River Rifemen
were among the officers for the new
company just before the surrender in
April 1865.
r.. W. Tindall Captain.
John E. Hardeman I'd Lieut..
Sam W. Daimwood Orderly Serg't:
Spun Cotton as Money After the
Surrender.
On the return home from North Car
DINA the Confederate money--even If
the soldiers had been paid-would have
been worthless to defray the expenses
1t was impracticable to furnish food
and transportation for it over the
mountains to Tennessee even if the
food and transportation had been avail
able. But there was good supply of
spun cotton yarns on hand and with |
raw cotton worth over dollar a |
pound in good money this spun cotton
was a valuable currency" easily car
ried: and this was what was given to
the soldiers to trade with citizens on
the road for food. One wagon and
team was allowed to each large com
mand to haul the cotton yarns, and
to help such of the men
rs should be broken down on the trip.
And so, with heavy hearts these
soldiers began their homeward march.
The Last "3harge
John III. Derryberry had suffered
with chronic diarrh9a in the army,
and on the march over the mountains
this was complicated with pneumonia.
The few retiring members of his Com
Dany remained with him at a widows
house about ten miles east of Greene
vile, Tennessee, and gave him all the
attention that they could but he died
n few days There was not means
enough among his comrades to bury
lim and as he was now civilian
nce the surrender, they wanted to
,ut him in coffin. SO council of :
var was held, and after much DELHI
ration il was decided to make one /
more charge. That night four of
he RiHemen led by Anderson Daniel,
made the charge" on the combined
'ommlssary, Quartermaster Pay
master, and Ordnance train-which
vas the one headquarter wagon car .
wing the spun cotton yarns, and cap
ured four bales. With three of these.
coffin was procured from Greeneville,
nd the other bale was given to the
,idow for her attention to John II. 7
larry berry. ana for n grave for aim in
or apple orchard. This vas the last
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THE MENACE TO GERMANY.
louisville Herald. }

Germany made IN 1902 the largest
gain Of population in many years.
There was but a small increase IN the
number of births, but there was, on
The other hand, a remarkable reduc-
ton in the number of deaths. By the
avoidance Of war, improved sanitary
conditions, education stimulated and
diffused and a healthful increase of
prosperity beneftin@ all classes, Ger
many has succeeded in making
substantial increase of population,
without an increase of the birth rate.
This achievement concerns civiliza-
ton itself.
But satisfactory as are these fig
ures, all IS not cOuleur de rose in the
German empire. The reaction pro-
iuced by militarism has impaired
baleful strength to socialism. In a
recent debate In the Reichsta@, Baron
Won Kardoff declared that Germany
IS on an express train, rolling with
wind velocity into the socialized state
Of the FUTURE Ire ranks of the
army were, the Baron affirmed, filled
with adherents of socialism, adding
that, unless the government took radi
cal steps to check the socialistic
Propaganda, the empire would find
itself face to face with certain revo-
luton. The Baron advocated the
withdrawal Of the right OF suffrage
from all who professed revolutionary
or republican doctrines, and urged
Catholics and Protestants to forget
differences in the face of common
foe. Baron Won Kardoff's remedy
would, we fear, precipitate rather
than prevent revolution. The Baron s
attack was boldly met by the Social
lists, who, through Herr Richter, made
a savage attack on the army. He de-
nounced the brutality and immoral
ity prevalent among the officers Of
the army. One officer in the Emper-
or's bodyguard, he affirmed, had been
guilty of 1000 instances of NAL
treatment of subordinates. IF such
conditions prevail under the Emper-
or's eyes, how much more must they
disgrace and embitter army life out
side that close circle? Criticising
the maintenance of the East Asiatic
brigade and of a fleet station with
fourteen vessels, Herr Richter said /: