Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1895 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

At Birmingham, Ala., Robert S., Walter L., and James Skelton, brothers, have been acquitted of the murder of Robert C. Ross, a banker, in February, 1893. The negmes. of.ihe Ouk Grave settlement, near Camilli, - (la., assembled at* their church to spend a day in religious worship. Each of the families carried *rmwrihd wmr wsngraiawm who would partake. _ Before the meal was over several left the table on account of violent sickness. Forty-one in all were poisoned, and six have died, with the chances against several more. It is thought that pies baked in tin plates two days before caused the poisoning. At 2:30 o’clock Wednesday afternoon an electric impulse flashed into the grounds of the Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition from Gray Gables and the pressure of President Cleveland’s finger on an electric button set in motion the big engine in the machinery building. The fountains played, the flags unfurled, the greqt throngs of visitors cheered, and Atlanta's big fair was formally opened for 102 days. Atlanta had made great preparations for the opening day. There were many handsome decorations in the business part of the city, anil a general holiday hud been declared. Lying upon a cot in Lookout Inn—upon historical Lookout Mountain —is Governor Wm. H. Upham, of Wisconsin, suffering with a fractured leg, the result of his heroic action Thursday in saving the lives of his wife, daughter and the latter’s female companion. Major Upham and some friends elected to climb Lookout in carriages over ■ the old mountain road, to •avoid the heat of the crowded cars. When part way up the horses acted balky and threatened to hurl vehicle gnd occupants down the cliff. Major Upham sprang out to check the animals, and in doing so tripped over his daughter’s dress and broke the small bone in his leg. Dr. S. B. Plummer, declared that Major Upham’s injuries were serious, set the fractured boue and prescribed absolute rest for throe days and crutches thereafter for as many weeks. Friday, the last day of the exercises at Chickamauga Park, was the most spectacular in its events of any during the dedication week. It was the first time that the center of interest has been in the city of Chattanooga itself, and i.o developed the first opportunity of getting some tangible idea of thfe crowds thj?t have been attracted thither. It afforjed the first opportunity the people of Chattanooga themselves huve had of Meeting their guests en masse, und neither, guests nor hosts were disappointed in thq meeting. The parade in the morning w#s witnessed by at least 100,000 peoplr. So large a number were never before in the town at one time, not even during tne military operations which were being commemorated. The parade moved at 10 o’clock, and it had all the element? of a pageant in the great number of military organizations, and the larger number of notables who took part in it. Vice President Stevenson presided over the dosing exercises. Speeches were made by Mayor Ochs, Senator Ball ofj'eufiesspe, Gen. Grosvenor of Ohio, and others. Then the exodus began, and the celebration was over. Nowhere and at no time has there been such fraternizing betweeu. the blue and the grny as Wednesday on tho battlefield of Chickamauga. - At Brotherton’s house, which marks the point where the Union center was broken, the First, and Sixtyeighth Georgia Regiments, Confederate States of America, held a reunion. This was maae the rallying point for all the Confederate veterans. Dinner was served for thousands, and Union veterans were made aa welcome as Cfcsffederate veterans. At the dedication a? the Illinois

monuments an ex-Confederate soiuier spoke on Snodgrass Hill; at the dedication of the Ohio, Michigan and Minnesota monuments there were hundreds of exConfederates in the throng. And so it was everywhere. All over the park parties composed of ex-Union and ex-Con-federate veterans were hunting for relics or discussing the varying fortunes of the battle- and the positions they respectively 1 occupied at different times dosing it. It was a greqt day for the survivors of that famous field. It was a great day for the thousands of the younger generation which can now realize so vividly the valor was so conspicuously displayed, as it is enabled to do by the monuments and tablets that have been erected. It was a great day for Chattanooga.