Evening journal

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of tho ju;y. ilr. John Dollard, of No. 9

Btate street, who it boedwnan for Mr.

/.'Vary th s'i:n of #40,;H)) will be notified

this morning to produce the defendant on

Jan. 31.

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A CRISIS APPROACHING.

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Hyppolite Soon Expected in

Port au Prince.

HE HAS LEGITIME HEMMED IN.

Victory Follows Victory and Ills Army Is

Now Encamped Near the City—The Next

Blow May be Final—Legitime's Bunks

Honeycombed with Traitors.

Port au Prince, Hayti, Dec. 30.—The

situation looks very bad for Legitime.

Hyppolite has won three battles In ten days

and his victorious army Is entrenched within

twenty miles of here waiting tho arrival of

arms and munitions from New York. Their

foraging operations cover territory whence

most of Legitime's supplies have hitherto

came. The majority of people here expect

to see Hyppolite in full control soon. legi

time is anxious and suspicious. He has

thrown scores of prominent citizen» into

prison for suspected sympathy with Hyppo

lite. He is pressing into tho military service

every laborer and farmer he can seize. The

country is in a state of anarchy. Voodoo ism

is rampant among the half civilized inhabi

tants of the interior. Horrible tales of tho

sacrifice of young girls in these rites are

told. Murder and rapine flourish in the- ab

sence of law. Agricultural processes are

abandoned. Mob rule prevails in the capita!.

Legitime's army was disastrously defeated

at Hmcha about ton days ago; again on Doc.

33, while on retreat, and again a tew miles

from the capital. The remnant fil'd to the

city. The leaders took refuge in tho French

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Evening journal. (1889). Wilmington, Del., 1889-01-09. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85042354/1889-01-09/ed-1/?sp=1

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Evening journal, 1889-01-09.