Show OUTRAGES Moon shiners as our readers may know aro the keepers of illicit whisky distilleries in the southern states pro eminently in georgia tho united Slates officials generally making a pretty Il vely war upon them but their auses ruses and schemes often defy detection they willeen armed resistance to the federal revenue officers and one ilfe been sa cri iced in the bloody contest between law and lawlessness one of the very most sanguinary hotbeds of binom hilere hi nere outrages is red oak sl ulion from which place brief information was hashed all over the country a few days ago concerning taci dastardly proceedings of the illegitimate whisky gang A special correspondent of the chicago inter ocean gives some very interesting details of the war waged between tho ruthless ofTen dera and the officers of justice there was in the forepart of this month a desperate fight between revenue officers and sin chich ono was killed and another severely wounded on the seventh of ho month the twelve united states revenue officials who participated in ie fight were arrested by the civil authorities of the state of georgia on the charge of murder sworn out by one of the most famous or rather infamous moon shiners himself guilty of armed resistance to tho revenue officer A brother of this notorious lawbreaker issued the writs and they were served by a sheriff extremely in favor of tho distillers it is expected that tho jury will hardly mete out evenhanded even handed justice to the officers and without the interference of the federal government there is no telling what will be the result this place red oak which is acquiring an unenviable notoriety is situated twelve miles south from atlanta on the great railway thoroughfare ough fare between new york and new orleans it has a office and a watering station the surrounding country is rough and broken and for years its ruggedness has been a concealment for many illicit distilleries tho inhabitants on the whole appear to be a tolerably rough set of customer and they are most tenaciously opposed to any steps tending to an abolition of their distilleries several months ago an old gentleman named eason 70 years of age was BO unfortunate jis to excite tho suspicion of his neighbor that he had been guilty of the nefarious crime of informing revenue officers of the location of several illicit distilleries suspicion seems to have been a sufficient assurance of his guilt for a few nights later was an execution in red oak mr eason the culprit was called to his door at night and as he stood there peering into the darkness listening doubt less for the voice of a stranger asking shelter for ohp h aw only i tc ht H t fi in crack of his neighbors guns and fell back dead upon his own threshold nothing more than a passing notice in tho slate papers was mabo of the dastardly deed mr elsons was not tho first case of a m in sentenced and executed in red oak upon the criterion of suspicion suspicion of assisting in on forcing federal laws only a short time previous henry cantrell a negro was suspected of guiding a posse of revenue olli cers by night to an illicit distillery A few nights later henry cantrell was visited by the distillers of red oak dragged from his home and family carried into the woods pinioned to a tree and riddled with bullets the samp taciturnity of the press and inactivity of the civil authorities gave indirect sanction to this atrocious biolas tiou of every law of justice or inhumanity numerous similar deeds are re atrocious as the above and it is highly deplorable that the local press will persist in k beeping them as still as possible and that the state remain inactive before such highhanded outlawry as it unfortunately furnishes very acceptable cep table campaign yampa ign material to tha republicans who never icis from making political capital out of every individual crime or outrage ANOTHER dignitary of the at holic church has recently shared the fate of the unfortunate archbishop purcell of cincinnati being unable to meet his heavy financial engagement capel the celebrated english disraeli introduced years ago in his novel 03 the pi catesby has become bankrupt before the english courts archbishop manning when requested to como to the relief of his fellow pro lato refused to do o as tho church had no appropriations for the canceling of debts of individuals but the great catholic duko of the first peer of the united kingdom has sinco como forward to tho relief of tho embarrassed priest and paid his debts A PLUCKY boy of ten years wag recently severely injured by tho cam at when he was taken home his legs hung limp but lie did not cimpl nn not a tear stood in hia eyes but the tender look ho gave to those who stood by side told plainly that lie was suffering great agony after the doctor had dressed hia wound she called hh and brothers to his bedside kissed one al and farewell and left a tear upon their A second time lie called his mother to ciulo hi ulo placed bai about her neck and said mother I am going to die ip a few minutes forgive me for not minding you with th aho little fellow fell back and as the mother said V my angel and took another look at as hi auoe sh a found him and beyond all baio and |