The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 4

1 MONDAY MORNING. AUGUST 19, 1901. THE COUKIEK-J OURN AL. LOUIS VIEUE, MARCH AWAY. HEAR SERMON AND THAT Published Daily, Sunday and battered hat and umbrella that had seen better days, he was the guest of Willard Mitchell, of Nicholasvllle.

who Is camped here with his family. Mr. Mitchell took him to Assistant Adjt. Gen. Haley headquarters and introduced him to coi.

Halev and a number of visitors there, and he furnished amusement for tn-. crowd for the evening. Shimmell nas traveled all over the United States without paying a cent of railroad fare Hf is an unusually bright young fellow and is well liked. Lieut. Fraser, of the Second regiment, has been detached and assigned to the commissary department of the Third, and Is now doing duty.

A large crowd witnessed dress parade last evening, and the regiment presented a nice appearance. Lieut. Col. Kenry and Adjt. Williams both expressed themselves as being well pleased with tne showing made by the regiment.

A The band gave a concert In the park last evening. A large crowd was weakest in. the general situation, has shown material improvement- Sales of wool were large in ncston this week, and stocks have been materially reduced since January 1, notwithstanding heavier receipts. Mills report good orders, and prices of the raw material have perceptibly hardened. Cotton goods have not done so well, and there Is a threatened closing down of the Fall River mills, though an attempt to secure an agreement for a 15 per cent, reduction of wages seems to be a failure.

The boot and shoe factories of the East are very busy, and the leather trade was never in better condition. Hides are also strong. The jobbing business of Louisville is picking up. The dry goods trade has been fair, somewhat ahead of last year, and the fall movement Is about to set in. Very encouraging reports are heard as to hardwaro and merchant iron, the demand being very heavy.

Leaf tobacco has been active and with satisfactory prices. Whisky has been quiet. Business with the banks has been fair, and money 1s abundant and cheap. TABOOED. Texas County Where Negroes Are Unknown.

EXILED BY THE PEOPLE. WAItW THEM TO STAY AWAY PROM THE PLACE. SITUATION HAS DRAWBACKS. "You all are Southerners, aren't you?" asked a gentleman yesterday of a group of his associates. There was a unanimous assent given not by a single vorl but by a strongly assentlve silence.

"Did you. ever live in a county In the South where there were no negroes?" Every head swung from right to lett and one of the party, who was possessed of considerable old-time sentiment, said: "I hope I never will, because this old South of ours Is a sweet smelling savor. It Ji as produced thousands of men. I mean white people, worthy the name of Southerners or had I not better say Americans? But the negro, although even now an embryo American citizen, in its fullest sense, has been an essential part in the bringing of our Southern folk to the present full measure of their material prosperity. Our people, of course, gave the 'negroes all the morals they have." "I made a mistake, I see now," said the first speaker, "in my questions.

I will ask another question. Did you ever want your shoes blacked did you ever wont a negro boy or man to run an errand did you ever want one of them to bridle and saddle your horse and when you rode home save you the trouble of riding to the barn, unbridling and unsaddling tho animal, watering him, haltering him In the stable and thin feeding him with either rain or snow falling, or even In good weather after a long ride?" There was a bow of assents and no philosophizing. "Now." said the first speaker, "I lived in a county in Texas a little over ten years ago where negroes were not allowed to live, except one family." "What county?" "Comanche, about 100 miles southwest of Fort Worth." "How did it come about?" "Away back in the latter part of the '80s about 'SS one of those Wo horribly frequent crimes was committed by a negro. He was quickly caught and was punished in accordance with the rules of the unwritten law. county was sparsely populated.

It was largely used for pasturage of cattle, but was rapidly developing into a grain region. The whites were in considerable preponderance, but they lived at some distance from each other. They met at Comanche, the name of the county seat, which had a population of possibly 400, and was distant from one railroad sixteen miles and from another fourteen miles. "The meeting was different from most American meetings in that they had no written resolution. There was also very little speaking.

Every one knew the work at hand, and on the verbal mo- rion-of some reputable citizen, it was resolved to give every negro in tne county one week's notice to leave the comity, and committees of men from different sections of the county were appointed to carry out the will of the white people. "The motion was carried by a rising vote end every one arose, but before they sat down, an old gentleman, who was known of all men to have feared in youth, manhood, middle and old ase, only God. spoke: 'Mr. "All eyes turned to him, and seeing who it was, he was left standing. am for this said the fine old Texiar.

that's the way they call It in Texas 'but I want to move an amendment. There has been living in different parte of Texas with me and my people, who came here from Kentucky, a negro family. They or some of them have been with us through good and bad times. The head of this family now is Aleck Hughes. You ail know him.

You know his old wife, Hannah. Why' "Heie the old gentleman broke down. Some one tried to second his amendment, but he gulped a little and quickly said: 'Sit down there, sir, until I finish speaking for my people, for they are mine. No, I won't eay any more and we all knew him, 'God help the man's soul who tries to come on my place to order them away. They are my people.

There's only old Aleck, Hannah and their likely boy, Cyrus, and as God is my judge my children have beaten my wife and me to the end my blessed wife and so long as God gives us breath will protect them. Gentlemen, excuse me, but did I hear a second to my second. Why, the crowd rose up and yelled a second which precluded the necessity of a vote. "The committees went right to work and In the specified time cleared the county of negroes excepting, mark you, the grand old man and woman's folk. They stayed you can depend on that.

"All of us bragged mightily on our bringing about this exodusv but It was awfully troublesome the lack of the negro. I lived at the county seat. No Southerner knows until he experiences it, the many things you want a negro to do for you which you don't wish to ask a white woman, man or boy to do for vou, unless you are living in some Eastern city, where all the help Is white. I have never had that experience and don't hanker for it. "With us in Comanche the chief trouble in this particular was that every man, woman and child In that village was practically on the same social plane excepting, of course, the debased.

I never saw a "grander set of peopVe. Very few of them were of any literary culture, but they were honest and brave, splendid American men and women. "I couldn't ask such folk to do my little bachelor chorrs I mean the running of errands and a hundred little things that we don't hesitate to ask a negro to do. Oh, I missed negro and never want to be without them as a servant." "What did you miss them most in? "I have thought about that, and I believe that I chlefiy missed them in the cleaning ot my shoes." "Did the negroes ever attempt to coma back?" 'I left the county several years ago, so I cant tell. I know one thing, that In my days over the public well In the little railroad station, sixteen miles from Comanche, there was a villainously painted sign, which read as follows: 'Niggers! Let not the sun set on you in Comanche Minister Scores Elks' Eair.

Lexington, Ky Aug. 38. Special. The Rev. MarkCollis preached a sermon to-night on the recent Ellis' Fair.

He said the exhibition was unfit to te seen by women and children, and declared the Elks took tariff from vice by accepting $3,000 for the gambling change of surroundings made a difference in Republican nominations, which began to have a value outside of those localities where the party had always commanded a majority. But the oligarchy were now even move desirous to control because it added greatly to their power and consequence among their party associates. Meantime, however, the office-seeking element had become too considerable to submit tamely to the rule of a few men who were known to be hostile to the aspirations of some ot them. Under such circumstances the creation of factions was and every year adds to the bitterness of the hostility that exists among them. The present Republican oligarchy in Kentucky, which has excluded from its channels many ot the old leaders.

Is now fighting for its life. Ttie slender majority of one in the State Committee at Saturday's meeting was apparently all there was between the Sapp-be-boe combination and utter ruin. Th3 plan of conciliation that was attempted received the assent of only two out of the Ave who constituted the minority of the committee on the test vote. This minority represents a numbcT of very influential Republican leaders In the State, and possibly a majority of the Republican voters, though on this point a difference of opinion is possible. It is interesting to note the plan adopted fcr hording the convention in this city and county to nominate candidates for local offices.

The State Committee named five persons to act with a like number to be named by the City and County Committee In selecting officers to conduct the primary, at which delegates are -to be chosen. As some of the five chosen by the State Committee are for Sapp, and as Sapp is the County Committee, it is plain that he is still master of the situation. The control ot the primary which will choose the delegates who will control the convention remains, therefore, just where It was before. In other words, while professing to take the control of the convention from the County Committee (which Is Sapp), the plan adopted virtually leaves the whole matter to a majority of ten men, which majority Mr. Sapp can easily control.

In all this proceeding we see a disposition to insist on the oligarchical principle. A few men chosin by committees are not only to dominate the prlmary acd the convention, but are to select a Campaign Committee. To the same purpose was the meeting held a few nights ago to select a ticket to be voted for in a large ward. Everything points to a disposition to exclude the masts of the Republican voters from any real influence in the decision. They are to be asked to ratify what has been determined upon by a few men who assume to know better who ought to be nominated than the majority of those qualified to participate in the primaries.

Not only are the latter asked to ratify the choice ot tbe'few, but their voting Is to be regulated by men selected by those who in no sense represent them and who are nbt responsible to them forthelr action. In all this the city of Louisville and the county of Jefferson ate immediately interested, but It is eaey to see that the struggle really involves the whole State. A United States senatorship is supposed by some sanguine Republicans to be involved in tne control of the party organization. Hence the bitterness ot the struggle. Senator Deboe is committed to Mr.

Sapp and at this stage of the proceedings cannot conveniently unload him, for that would deprive him of a valuable ally. The quarrel is one that admits no compromise; one or the other faction must be beaten decisively before there can be any unity. The voters of the city and State have their remedy, however, and they will find it by inflicting a stinging defeat upon both factions. i. The comments of the London newspapers upon the prorogation of Parliament appear to indicate that it is considered less of a deliberative body than it was formerly.

But arbitrary power by a majority of Parliament is no new-thing, and the present situation is by no means unparalleled. What is uncommon in the present situation is the utter helplessness of what is called in England "His Majesty's Opposition." or the party out of power. Without an opposition party with a leader and a policy of its own, a deliberative body cannot deliberate to any good purpose. It has only been a few years since the free silver advocates pointed to India, then under the silver standard, to prove everything. The financial statement of the Indian Secretary, just made to the House of Commons, more than realizes, as he claims, the Government's expectation for the gold standard, the balance sheet which he showed being the most favorable since India became a British possession.

In spite of the three years' drouth and the immense sums expended for relief of the famine sufferers. A McKeesport dispatch says: "About 2,300 men of the 15,000 idle In this city are organised. Many of those not in organisations are chafing at idleness, but do not want to work unless assured protection." McKeesport, it will be remembered. Is the town whose Mayor announced at the beginning of the strike that the police should not protect the property of the mills and that he would arrest nonunion men coming to McKeesport to seek work. The General Secretary of the President of Venezuela has issued a statement in which he says that Venezuela has not accepted the Colombian invasion as an attack by the people of Colombia, but by its Government.

Of course. It is the Government of Colombia against which the Colombian rebels and Venezuela seem to be making: common cause. REMINDS ME" "It's not often that a man marrlesthe woman picked out for him. As a rule, a fellow likes to do the picking hjnjseU. Sometimes, though, the choice has-been scoh a good one that he is only tooglad to fall in with it.

I married picked out for me by my two best friends, and if I didn't know that this plain old Lmilsviile I'd be a firm believer that that marriage was made In tell you the story if ycu care to hear It." The speaker was ono of Louisville's best-known and best-liked business "Some thirty-five or forty years ago though, of course, you don't it you couldn't walk along the streets i a Virginia town and pick up money I. can't say 1 ever stumbled across in the country. The land was so -poor, and-the people so much poorer just after the n-ar that a dolVar in United States coin seemed bigger than a corner on the-wheat market. -My brother and I had fought for Virginia, but we didn't like the prospect of starving in her, so we set out on foot for Kentucky. We walked tho whole distance, and when we got.

-to Louisville we had Just a dollar between us. about as close Hgurlng on Jlnances as I care about. Luckily, w.e.got jobs as farm hands. It didn't give us a chance at the theater very often, and It didn't entitle us to membership in -the Pendenni, but It did give us three full meals a day and a place to sleep. "After a year's work I saved up money enough to get me a horse and a wagon.

-Then, before my work began In the morning, I would drive In to Louisville truck to sell, and after I had.dlsposed:of it I could get commissions from some of the merchants in town for delivering goods for them. My people In Virginia were Presbyterians, and I joined 'the Presbylerian Church. One of the elders seemed to take a fancy to me, and after he had known me for half a year said: 'Look, here, Dick; don't you want' to meet somo of the girls 'Xot 1 told him. 'I wouldn't make any girl speak to me when I was driving a' wagon, and I wouldn't care 10 know-a girl that wouldn't speak to me because" I was. ''Well, If you look at-It that way, I don't suppose there's any he Only there's one girl here I'd like you meet.

She is the finest woman I know for any 'Who is sheV I asked him. "He gave htrr name Miss Nellie and added: 'And if you didn't have that Virginia pride about you, you'd jump at my onTer to introduce you to "At the end of another year I succeeded in getting a second horse and wagon, and then I thought I'd let somebody else do the driving. 1 hired two men for the work, and began to put a little more money into something besides the mere necessities ot life. In the meantime I had changed my membership to one of the other Presbyterian churches, and had become a great friend of one of the leaders in the work in that church. 'Say, he said to me one day, 'you're not half a bad fellow, and you are not a hundred yet, so why don't.

you meet some of the 'I hadn't thought about It, I him, b'ut I don't know that I have' any great objections. "'If you don't meet any other w-omari in Louisville, you must know Miss Xeilie "I began to think there must be something In Miss Nellie and I agreed to call on her with him. Six months later I married her. But first I told: her, people that they must write to Virgiuia't and find out who I was there-r-thal was the first of my family to plaar? port of delivery clerk, and I did' n6cif feel that their daughter ought to marry a delivery clerk, plain so. Fortunately Mrs.

had known my people in Virginia before the war, fend the letter Vas not written." "Well, sir, I don't suppose you have ever doubted the wisdom of your two friends?" said the newspaper man. "My boy, Solomon Isn't in the same class with They were telling ghost stories. The old gentleman announced that his story was true, and told the following: "In Maine there lived a farmer and his family three boys. It was a happy home, situated in a cosy little village in the pine hills. The eldest boy.

John, had been off to college, and had come home to spend the Christmas holidays. It was Christmas night, and the family were all congregated about the blazing fireplace. The old clock on the stairs had just struck 10. "As the fire began to burn less brightly, some one started to tell ghost stories. John was just in the midst of a thrilling one 'and as the old man.

tottering with age, faint from hunger, but with black revenge in his heart, entered the dark road through the graveyard, suddenly there appeared something At this juncture 'something white' did appear. The back door was suddenly flung wide" open, and a chill gust of December air swept through the room. Silhouetted against the black night, the form of a young girl tilled the door. She was clad simply in a robe of white and her raven hair flower over her shoulders. "Her feet were bare and bleeding from cuts made by ice.

Her eyes had a. startled look in them, as if she had just awakened from a dream. "For a moment the company sat staring. Then they suddenly saw that the stranger was not an apparition, but flesh and blood. "At that moment, the girl placed her hand to her breast and reeled.

The whole company bounded forward to her assistance, but John was first. He caught the falling girl and bore her to a place of warmth. Brandy was liberally applied, with hot cloths, and soon tho girl was conscious. 'Don't take me away, she pleaded. 'I am so So that night she slept at the farmer's home.

"Tho next day she told her story. I am Lawyer HJggins' niece, who lives in the house you see across tho road4 My mother just recently died, and I Was forced to come to my uncle's. Last night as I was in bed I felt homesick, arid I looked out and saw your cheerful lights. How I wished I was there! I went to sleep with such a feeling. "'1 don't know how it came about.

I never did much walking in my sleep before. But I must have gotten up, ana started on my trip in my sleep. I did not up until I opened your "The winter passed away and summer came. The old house was filled with roses and with guests. A wedding was to be performed.

Solemnly John led Dorothy, the girl of a Christmas Eve, down to the altar. The vows were and the two left on their honeymoon. 'What did you think of me?" she asked, as the train sped southward, 'w-hen you first saw me on that winter's 'That an angel had come down from heaven for me and I was: not loath to claim War Correspondent Honored. San Francisco, Aug. IS.

James. E. Archibald, war correspondent, has received word from England that tie'' has been granted an honorary fellowship In the Royal Geographical Society of London for papers and writings on South Africa and Cuba. Less than twenty of these fellowships are held la the tJr.ited States. Sturdy Kentuclrians Answer Uncle Sam's Call.

RECRUITS FROM LONDON. STATE HAS FURNISHED 275 BEES' SO FAB THIS MOUTH TO FILL GAPS IN THE ARMY. "Left! Left! in the mctor.ous tcne of the drill master and the even step of twenty-five men caused the old Colonel standing at Fifth and Jefferson streets to turn his head yesterday afternoon and attempt to locate the familiar ECtnd. "Seems like old times," he commented. He (rursi Into loud laughter, and when he had partially recovered he continued "yes.

like the ankn-artl squad." Twenty-flve mountaineers were coming up Jefferson street, headed for the recruiting station, between Fifth and Center streets. The Captain, who emitted the monotonous "left" was the only man who wore a coat. It was by: reason of this virtue that he possessed the distinction. As they crossed the corner a street car came upon taem. The motcrmaii ransr his eons, hut it had no effect.

"Hold on there." ylled the Captain of the squad, "we're Foldiers now and we don't get out of the way fer nobody." And the motorman waited until twenty-five men. marching- two abreast, passed before him. That was the first squad to arrive. They were all from London and arrived at 4:20 o'clock. An hour later another squad Just as strong arrived.

Every style of costume from the days of the Revolution was represented. Coats bad been cast aside, but the boys had made some attempt to "dude up" as they said. One fellow wore a paper collar, now popular in the mountains. Of course the flaming red tie was attached to it. Needless to say he wore no shirt, but lie had suffs to match the collar just the same.

All of them had on boots. When they arrived at the recruiting station they were drawn up in line. The roll was called and ill were present. To some it was the happiest moment of their lives. The army of the United States must be increased and recruiting officers are scouring the State In search of men.

Thirty-five thousand volunteers were recently mustered out and their places must be filled. In addition the artillery service is to be increased from 7,000 to 15.000. So far Kentuckians have come gallantly to the front. In the month of August 2jo young men have been recruited at the local station. And the month is only two-thirds gone.

Recruits are being enlisted at the same rate that they were during the Spanish-American war. So far most ot the recruits have been enlisted for the field, or light artillery. Almost every day a squad of recruits is to Ft. Riley. or Ft.

Howard, a new fort which has recently been establish! near Baltimore. Among the men who have recently en-1'sted in Ihe regular army In Eastern "Kentucky are: Cleveland McCowan Robert Hammons, William Smith. Steve Gill. Mark WatlUns. Philip C.

Thompson, Ben F. Adams, Pleas Dees. Charles JVcwiLt. Charles Weils, Frame Ciark; Alex. Mc-Whorter, Dan Stansbtrry, James Mullins, Darling Jones and S.

W. Hopkins of Laurel county; James SIzemore. Farls Roberts, John D. Woods. Russell SIzemore.

John Farris and Morgan Davidson, of Clay county: Bill Huff, of Owsley county; John McWhorter, Dees, Henry Allen, William Ward and Georae W. Tlnch-er, of Jackson county: John Matlock. Tom Matlock. John Jenkins. James Hale anvl James Mullins.

of Knox county: William Sizemore, Middle-fork. James M. Gilbert and Deze Gilbert, of Lee county; Thomas Brumeback. Bocne county: Hubert Baker, Ohio county; Joseph Kuyken-dall, Garrard county, and WilHam A. Martin.

They left Saturday for the various army posts to which they have been assigned. STRIES A GIRL. MYSTERIOUS BULLET WOUNDS anss ethel Mcdonald. Police Believe That Shot "Was Fired By Joe Garr and Was Intended For Another Person. Somebody shot Ethel McDonald, the daughter of II.

S. McDonald, a druggist at Twenty-fifth and St. Cecilia streets, yesterday morning, but so far no one has confessed to the shooting. The police believe that Joe Garr wounded the girl, but Garr says that he knows nothing about it. The shooting occurred at Twenty-second and Rowan streets at 11:30 o'clock.

The ball struck Miss Mo-Donald In the right hip. The police say that there are several persons in that neighborhood who take pleasure In starting trouble. Yesterday morning Garr, his neighbor, Andrew Dobson, and Xelse Athens had a fight. It was Athens against the other two, Garr drew a pistol and fired four times. Each time he missed his enemy, but when the smoke cleared away Ethel McDonald was wounded.

Everybody but Garr is of the opinion that he was excited, did not know where he was shooting and accidentally wounded the girl. She was on her way home from Sunday-school at the time, and was half a block from the scene of. the fight. Miss McDonald's wound was not serious, but she was badly frightened. She was removed to her home and a physician was summoned.

The doctor said that no serious complications would follow, and that she would be all right in a few days. Both Garr and Dobson were arrested. According to their story Athens is a bad man and responsible for all the trouble In the neighborhood. "Why, he tried to kill my wife," said Dobson. "He run her out of the house with a big knire." Garr is a tobacco stemmer.

"Xelse Athens is a bad man. and I've took ail I'm going to off ot him," ho said. "About two weeks ago he came to my house and raised a row. I wasn't there, and he run everybody out. Thla morning I went after some groceries, and when I got back everybody was on the outside of the house but Athens.

Even Dobson came out without his hat. When Athens saw me he came with a big knife. I took out my gun and let go at him. As near as I can remember I shot at him four times. Maybe I didn't hit him, but he knew I was In the neighborhood, you can go broke on that." A bystander asked him if one of the bullets Intended for Athens did not nit Miss McDonald.

"Not that I know of," was his answer. Third Regiment Men Attend Divine Service. ARTILLERY COMING HOME. MEW OE THE BATTEEIES TO BREAK CAMP TO-DAY. SUNDAY WITH THE MILITIA.

Camp Jean Raphael, Owensboro, Aug. IS. Special. The military camp has been "the center of attraction for the people to-day and thousands visited the soldiers. The first Sunday of the Third regiment was spent happily by the men.

The Y. M. C. A. tent was packed this morning to hear Chaplain F.

M. Thomas preach. The Y. M. C.

A. tent has proved to be a popular retreat and more especially so on Sunday. Secretaries Shaffer and Darter, of the tent, said to-day there was not a man in the regiment who had not paid his respects to them and made himself at home. There are as many as four hundred letters mailed there a day. Every paper published in this part of the State and the metropolitan dailies and magazines are sent complimentary, and in addition almost every game is provided for the men.

Batteries Break Camp To-Day. The men of the batteries have been busy all the afternoon going around bidding farewell to their many young women friends made while here. At 9 o'clock in the morning they will break camp and at 10:30 take a special train for Louisville. The battery boys seem to have completely captivated the city and a large part ot the population will turn out to see them leave to-morrow. Capt.

Robinson, of the Louisville battery, said he hoped all camps In the future will be located at Hickman Park. He says it is an ideal site and that the people of Owensboro had been so congenial and entertaining that he and his men were made to feel like guests, and all heartily thanked the people and hoped to return here next summer. The Captain ot Battery said that he and his men are as much in love with the citizens of Owensboro and hope to return. Baseball a Sunday Diversion, Nine selected men of the Bardstown company played a game of baseball with the Hop Gold team, of this city, this afternoon at the ball park adjoining the field in which the camp is situated. The game was close and exciting all the way through.

In the ninth inning the bugle was sounded for mess and the soldiers quit the game, leaving the score a tie, each side having made eleven runs. The umpire, however, declared all bets off and gave the game to Owensboro by a score of 9 to 0. It was witnessed by about 1,200 persons, nearly all 61 whom seemed to be for the soldiers. Max Bloom In the Guardhouse. Private Max Bloom, of Battery was the first man of the battallion to grace the guardhouse.

He was placed in the guardhouse this afternoon for the remainder of their stay in camp for Insubordination. Lieut. Col. Henry inspected the camps this morning and reported them in excellent condition. Maj.

Mansir, of the artillery battalion, has been in the hospital tent today on account of asthma. He is not in a serious condition, however, and will return home to-morrow with the battery. During the last few days there has been much rain, but the tents are dry and comfortable. The streets are ditched and the water soon runs oft the grounds. The men of the Third have spent much of the time telling of their war experiences in Cuba.

ENCAMPMENT NOTES. Private Wiggins, of the Bardstown Cadets, had a pair of trousers stolen this morning. He charged a private in Battery with having committed the theft. A detachment of the guard was sent to Battery quarters to bring the man to the guardhouse, and was in the act of arresting the man accused, when about thirty of his comrades, with fixed bayonets, came to his rescue and forced the guard oft the company A crowd soon gathered, and it locked for a time that a clash was to come. The timely arrival of the officer of the day.

who ordered the men to their quarters, put an end to the trouble. Tho private accused was arrested and placed in the guardhouse. Private Robinson, of Company A. Bowling Green, was slightly Injured In alighting from a car. He Is confined to quarters.

Sy--t. M.ij. Wright returned from Louisville this evening. Sergt. Chapman, of Owensboro, has been acting Sergeant Major in tho absence of Jlaj.

Wright. Lieut. Ernest Nesblt, of the Brashear Rifles, Madisonville, was called home on business to-day. Private McAllister, of Mayfield. is Adjt.

Willinms' orderly to-day. Private Nesblt. of Madisonville. is acting In the same capacity for Lieut. Col.

Henry. Clem Whittemore. of Frankfort, was the guest of Adjt. Williams at dinner today. Considering the fact that last night was Saturday, the last day of the Daviess county fair, good order has prevailed throughout the day.

Only two prisoners are in the guardhouse. Capt. Brennen B. Davis. Judge Advocate General, Is unable to attend the encampment on account of Important business arising.

Capt. Lawton, the little son of tho late Gen. Lawton, Is in camp here with the Bardstown company. He is a very bright little fellow, and is made much of by the regiment and visitors. Few negroes visit tile camp nowadays.

When the regiment first arrived a number came out, but the boys tossed them in the blanket, and now it is seldom one is found who Is brave enough to show himself around the camp. Last night some of the boys tossed a young man who was looking around the camp. Complaint was made to Adjt. Williams, and he ordered the blanketing of visitors stopped under penalty of the guardhouse. Thl3 wilt suffice, as most of the offending men are recruits and live in dread fear of being confined under arrest.

Lieut. Buchanan, of Company B. Mor-ganfleld, was granted a leave of absence of two days, and left for home this morning. The funmaker of the Third regiment la Private Shimmell. of Company Madisonville.

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Tribune BulIdlr.K. Sole Ajenta Ijr Eastern advertisements. MONDAY AUGUST 19. 1901 "Business." Saturday Evening. Aug.

first Ur of the forthcoming fall trade is be-Cinnlns to be felt, and the indication!) are that, it -wilt be on a larger scale ihan it was last year. The crop situation has also shown decided improvement, due to the general rains, which "have finally reached the long-neglected Ohio valley. Estimates of the corn crop ire now running from 1,400.000,000 to 1.S50.-000,000 bushels, the late rains have Jso beer, worth millions in the matter of forage crops and pastures. The spring-wheat harvest Is progressing satisfactorily, and the most reliable trade authority places the total crop at bushels, while others put it as high as 7S0.O0O.OO0. As an enormous export demand is now prevailing and as indications are for very large European needs, the spod effects ot such a wheat crop can be readily determined.

The rains have also beneflted the cotton very appreciably. The better news of the crops is thus more than a set-off for the hot tight that is being waged between the United 6tates Steel Corporation and the Amal-camaled Association Tin, Iron and Steel Workers. The monetary situation continues easy, though there has been a -slight advance in the call loan rate. The hishly satisfactory international trade report for July, with its favorable balance of $36,000,000 pointed in this direction, has been followed by a sharp break in sterling exchange. A heavy cotton movement coming now in addition to the grain shipments and with a continuance of European purchases of securities would compel large remittances of the precious metal with all its vivifying effects upon trade and finance.

The report of the New York banks this morning had one encouraging feature in the decline of 51.615.5Cfl in loans, although There was a small decrease In the surplus reserve and the deposits. The statement shows that no large commitments are now being made, and that funds will be sufficient for the crop movement. Interior banks being so well supplied with funds, the drain on New Tork -will not be severe, but whatever it is, it can be met. The cash holdings of the New Tork banks now amount to S259.579.200, which is W.JO per cent, of deposits, against or 21.1? per cent, a week ago, and 2G1.I43,4W. or 27.31 per cent, two weeks ago.

Their present surplus reserve Is TiS.O.MO. compared with $20,557,050 a year go, $15,082,350 two years ago, three years ago, and $20,952,550 a week age. The following is a comparison of the averages for the past two weeks and a year ago: AO.10.1ML Au.17.lWI. Au.lS.1900. rxar ISSMS5.0W SSH.S10.300 JS14.SS3.6W fcrci! ISS.CS5.5W 711.100 1SS.93.KI) Iesal 7S.3B.7-jO 77.S5S.1M 73.213.609 H.fi.i.J S94.317.S00 Circulation 30.E3.tCO ar.oJJ.'O) :s.osi,e-:i The relation between the total reserve and the liabilities is as follows: Au.10.lS01.

Atl.17.lMl. Deer's-. J1S3.M.W0 1S1.711.!! 5I.3S1.4-J) Leral tender 79.:02.700 1.SJ1.6W Total reservo JK3.I9S.5C--J TO.STS.MO S2.719.C03 Reserve reo.u!r-3... :I.343.:SO 241.137.30-) 1S7.K0 Surpl-JB SIS.431.W0 J2.531.0N Money varied from 2 to per cent. On tall during the week, averaging about 2i per but closing at the higher figure.

The reserves, however, are ample for all purposes. Speculation in the stock market was on a larger scale, due to the more reassuring crop reports, but the lose was dull on account of the suc-sess of the strikers In securing a reversal the determination of the steel workers LtJoliet and Bay View to observe their tontracts. The general situation, how-iver, still points plainly to the triumph rf the manufacturers. vin spite of the steel strike the Iron tad steel markets are strong and give ivldence of tho greatest prosperity In very direction. The Independent mills overrun with orders, and advances tre reported on nearly all sales for im-nediate delivery.

There has even been a levival of ejeporta, which has prevented ucumulatlons, and, with the exception if; the strike, there is no serious cloud tie sto'. it textile trade, which has been the A number of the men of the regiment brought their dress suits with them, but not one has been donned yet, as the man in civilian clothes is not noticed by tho girls, and that is about all the men care for. Sergt. Phelps, of the Second regiment, has been assigned to the commissary department of the Third. CELEBRATE.

BUTCHERS GIVE ANNUAL PICNIC AT PHOENIX HELL. Members of Indianapolis Union the Guests of the Local Organization. Louisville butchers are not dependent on a programme for a good time. Their annual picnic, which was given at Phoenix Hill Park yesterday afternoon, was devoid of special features. Throughout the afternoon the Louisville butchers and their guests from Indianapolis sat about the park tables, concealed streams of beer, smoked black cigars, ate bachwurst and talked incessantly In German and English.

Uhrig's band held the grand stand, and in the course of the afternoon played waltzes, marches and two-steps with but brief Intermissions. Night brought an awakening. Hundreds of visitors and Invited guests came to tho Hill: the large pavilion was opened, and from 9 o'clock until the small hours of this morning the hall was gay with dancers and the grounds bright with summer dresses and the red and white colors of the butchers. The guests of the occasion were members of the Indianapolis Butchers' Union, who came on a special train. The list of guests included: CI iris Heinrich, President, and George Derlett, Treasurer of the Union; George Woesner, John Wack, Fred Herdt, Martin Rauth, Charles Gardner, Louis Young.

Henry Steck, William Woerner and A. E. Rhodes. With them were their wives and children, bringing the Indianapolis delegation up to the hundred mark. They were met at the Seventh-street station by the reception committee of the local butchers and escorted to the Hill.

There dinner was served, after an address of welcome had been delivered by Sebastian Welsbach and responded to by Chris Heinrich. The officers of the Louisville union are: Gottlieb Layer, President; Wm. Schaeffer, Vice President; Jacob Frank, Treasurer, and Ben. Zoepfel, Secretary. The Committee on Arrangements and Entertainment was composed of Sebastian Weisbach.

chairman; John M. Letterle, Xlck Webber, Chris Smith and Fred Breitenbach. "LOOKING BACKWARD." Extract from the Courier-Journal of August 18, 2001. All heat records were broken In Louisville yesterday when the mercury, reached 309 at 3 o'clock. This is two degrees higher than was ever known.

The previous highest temperature was recorded on July 24, 1901. just one hundred years ago, when the thermometer registered 307. The reccrds of the Weather Bureau show that the period of heat experienced that year, however, was accompanied by much more disastrous consequences than those which attend the present spell. Mr. Thomas Bankston, retired banker and the oldest resident of Louisville, recalls interesting reminiscences of those days as told by his father, a pioneer Iceman of this city.

Mr. Bankston, had good reason to remember vividly the torrid spell of 1901. as it continued so long and was so furnace-Hke in heat the entire product of his ice factory melted, entailing a loss of thousands of dollars and practically closing the saloons, whose profitable existence in summer is dependent upon the Ice supply. "Tes," said Mr. Bankston, to a Courier-Journal representative, "my father never got tired telling about those torrid days.

He said it was so hot the asphalt, which then coverfid the majority of our magnificent glass streets, turned Into liquid tar and ran in rivulets down the gutters. People dropped dead on the pavements, end so many thousands of working people were prostrated all business, except that of the restaurant and hotelkeeper, the soda water ard ice cream dealers, the barkeepers and the undertakers, was suspended, while white and black, rich and poor, the belles cf society and the men of Bohemia, bathed in the river to keep cool. My father recalled a funny incident of a restaurant keeper who created amusement by frying ham eggs in front of his place of business on a stove heated by the rays of the sun. "It was an exceedingly dry summer, too. It rained only or.ee in ninety days.

The smoke from burning vegetation was so thick It covered the sky for days and completely hid the sun from sight. There was a famine in vegetables. Irish potatoes sold for five cents apiece, green corn twenty-five cents an ear and cabbages $1 a head. The Weather Bureau was at that time located in the building at tho corner of Fourth avenue and Chestnut, now occupied by the Chicago, Louisville and New Orleans Aerial Navigation Company! And, by the way," said Mr. Bankston, parenthetically, "I was one of the first citizens of Louisville to make a trip in the dirigible balcons operated by this company, and shall never forget the sensation.

We left Louisville at 8 o'clock In the morning, and landed on the lake shore at Jackson Park, South Chicago, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. But, of course, the tims is much faster now. But you were asking me about the hot spell of 1901, weren't you? "Well, I guess I have you all I know, or, rather all that my father knew. I used to think that he exaggerated his stories a little bit, but I guess he was truthful about the awful heat, as the official records bear him out in that. The Weather Bureau was in charge of Maj.

H. B. Her-sey at that time. The monument which stands In the park plat fronting the site of Louisville's new million-dollar marble customhouse on Oak street was erected in commemoration of his Infallibility as ti forecaster." County Sues For Transferred Territory. Knoxville, Aug.

IS. Special. A bill filed at Kingston styled Roane county v. Morgan county seeks to regain territory taken from fioane and attached to Morgan by the last Legislature. Roane contends that the transfer is unconstitutional, and it has not the number of tquare miles allotted by the State's Constitution.

Good raith. In Labor Troubles. In the midst of the general labor troubles in which the Amalgamated Association has succeeded in forcing a large number of its members to break their contracts, there stand out two conspicuous instances of good faith. One is on the part of a manufacturer who happens to be able to control the situation and who is preventing a needless wage reduction: the other is the action of a labor union which is using every effort to enforce an agreement it has made with employers in the face of an unauthorized strike. Mr.

Matthew C. D. Borden is the manufacturer, and the Iron Molders' Union of North America Is the labor organization. The Textile Manufacturers' Association, representing eighty-seven mills and 30,000 operatives, last week prepared an agreement which many of them signed for a 15 per cent, reduction in wages on September 3. Mr.

Borden is a very large operator who is outside the association, and he has come out in an interview in which he declares the measure unwise and iun-necessary. The proposed wage reduction, he says, is only a scheme of the manufacturers to provoke a strike so that they can get rid of the heavy stocks they have accumulated by overproduction. Mr. Borden says, rightly, that to cure the evils of overproduction is not to make more goods at a lower cost, but to close down until the surplus is marketed. He doubts whether even that is necessary, but he denounces the attempt to cure a congested market at the expense of the operatives.

Mr. Borden is such an influential manufacturer that his opposition is likely to put a stop to the wage reduction movement. This is not the first time he has interfered with attempts to cut wages. In February, 1897, he stepped in and bought 750,000 pieces ot print cloths to ease the market in order to prevent the shutting down of the spindles of Fall River, and he bought 500,000 pieces at an outlay of $750,000 in September, 1900, for the same reason. In 1S9S, when there was an effort to enforce a decrease in wages and whenhe labor leaders recommended a 5 per cent, cut, Mr.

Borden put a stop to the matter by posting notices ot a 10 per cent, increase in his own mills, the other manufacturers following his example. President Martin Fox and the Executive Board of the Iron Molders' Union of North America are standing flrmly against the action of the' molders who are on an unauthorized strike in Chicago. These men have struck in defiance of their superior officers, and the latter are keeping faith with the employers. As a matter of course, the strikers must fail, but the wisdom of President Fox and his associates will be vindicated to the advantage of their organization in the future. More manufacturers like Matthew Borden and more labor leaders like Martin Fox would solve the industrial problems which so often paralyze business and starve the laborer.

The Local Bepublican Huddle. The Republican organization in Kentucky has always been peculiar. From the first it developed oligarchical principles. The leading men, generally Federal office-holders, have usually controlled the party to suit themselves. Nominations have frequently been made without trie formality of calling conventions by the party committees.

This was readily acquiesced in at a time when the party was In a hopeless minority. But the authority exercised without question when there was no hope of winning has not willingly been relinquished because of a change In conditions. The spirit that animates the leaders is Just the same that It was, but there are rival leaders who do not so readily acquiesce in the exercise of arbitrary power by those who happen to hold representative positions Hn the party. Having some hope of carrying the elections, they insist on having a chance to get nominations from the rank and file of the party. For a long time the Republican organization in Kentcky was little more than an agency for the distribution of Federal patronage.

To this end State and local races were made, for whoever accepted a nomination in a hopeless fight did so with the expectation tbat he would get a. Federal office for his pains, or It he bad one already, that be would be heard in the distribution of patronage. There being already more wtrite leaders than there were Federal offices to give out many of those In control were not anxious to receive accessions from the office-seeking element. Circumstances sufficiently well known contributed to build up the- voting strength of the party, and it won victories In unexpected quarters, thereby elevating to higti places some rather odd specimens office-holders. This.