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VOL. XXVIII—NO. (Jol.l’MLi'S. UK< S.ViTUlH V- MiUtXIML MAV VIVK CKXTS- yesterday s proceedings in the HOUSE AND THE SENATE. 11,„ Hoii.r Fns,.,, 1In- Miirkcrcl Kill RKrln*- iiout II,m I’l-ii'lon Ulll» Arc I’iiv><><1—A |'ro|ii:'cil Aiiicnilmciit to the timstltutlmi Auulnst I’oljuumi. Washington, May 21. -Herbert, of Ala- 1, aunt, from the committee on naval affairs, reported the naval appropriation bill. Ke- fi-rreJ to the committee of the whole. The house then resumed consideration of the bill for the protection of mackerel during spawning season. After a long debate and slight amend ment the bill was passed yeas 120, nays SO. A- oasseil the bill prohibits for a period of ii ,-e rears from the first of March, 1887, the importation into the United States or land ing upon its shores of mackerel except Spanish mackerel) caught between the first of March and the first of .tune of each ve ar. The penalty proscribed fora violation of the act is a forfeiture of the mackerel imported or landed, and if the vessel vio lating the act be a United States vessel, the forfeiture of its license. Nothing, however, in the act is to he held to apply to mackerel caught oft the shore with ] - ok and line from open rowboats of less t han twenty feet keel and landed in said boats. On motion of Morrison-the order setting apart Saturday for general debate was re- ■ aided, this action to take effect after to morrow. The consideration of private bills was then proceeded with and Several bills re ported to-day and on previous Fridays front the committee or l he whole were passed. Among the bills passed was one removing the charge of desertion from the record of Franklin Thompson, alias Seeley, 'fir’s is the case of a woman who for two years served in a Michigan regiment as a soldier without disclosing her identity.) The house then at 5 o’clock took a re cess until 7:30, the evening session to lie fur the consideration of pension bills. The house at its evening session passed thirty pension bills, and at 10 p. nr. ad journed until to-morrow. SUN ATK. In tlie senate Hampton at his own re quest, owing to illness in his family, was excused from service as one of the'West Point visitors. The president, pro tempore appointed Gibson in place of Hampton. liuldleberger offered a resolution provid ing for the printing of ail papers relating to the nomination of Matthews, recorder of deeds of the Districtof Columbia. Hoar, Edmunds and Miller and others, objected to the reception of the resolution as being executive business, and it was declared not now in order. Dolpii endeavored to secure the setting of a day for the consideration of the bill re pealing the pre-emption und timber cul ture act. Objections were made by sever al senators, among them bexvell, who said tic would object to further special orderH till the Fitz-John Porter Hill was taken up and dispersed off; that lie would ask the senate to take up that bill when the bank- i uptcy bill should have bean disposed of. Oil motion ofj Hoar the senate look up the bill providing for the settlement of the the business of the court of Alabama chums. Ti’C reports of the majority and minority of the committee were read. The majority report maintains that the difference in vaiuo between coin and currency at the time of the Geneva award and afterward at the sale of the Geneva award bonds was, and Is the property of the United States treasury and should not form any part of the sum out of which the judgments of Courts should be paid. The minority con tends on the contrary, that the United States occupied the position of trustee for tiic claimants and could not seil the bonds named and credit itself with the difference between gold and currency values. A number of amendments were reported. When the bill was about to come to a vote in the precise form in which it came from the House, George stated his understanding of it to be that it provided for the payment of e.v, tiy the amount of money received by the United .States from Great Britain, erring to the claimant the benefit of the ) .'thniuni made on the sale of gold for g; pen backs, iu which part of the former eiaimi.nts were paid. He also un- < iMtood the hill to pay all i.'lonst vli.'i h ti:c Unitad States had agr-i (i to pay from the time of the recept ' the money ill ISTo up to 1877, when the money was convoyed into tile treasury. G.orgt said that that understanding was exactly correct, or, in other words, the United States gains nothing and loses nothing by this transaction. It pays out foe money il gut from threat Britain and ' io:n it invests the mniiev in certain socii- fiie- : and sells them again it pays out tue money it gels and does not make a simjcu- lmion of the train,.iciion. Been ash d whi ther wo were not, thus paying these people a premium on tile le- thougli tie could rot give the details with out ref. lenee to the repott. He lull! not reported to the senate a single case that ne had not believed to be just. Beck mentioned the bill that had been vetoed because it gave a pension to the wrong- man. Rlair said the only effect ofj passing that '•ill would have been that nobody would get the pension, and the bill would have to be reintroduced with the right name. Hawley, referring to the president’s statenn nt that the pension office had re jected a large number of cases for which congress had passed these bills, admitted the statement was true. It was remem-. | bered. he said, that 30,1)00 cases were | granted in the pension office every year and a large number rejected. The commissioner of pensions was obliged j to go according to positive law, which j could not reach all equitable eases, and ft i must be seen, therefore, that he was obliged to reject many cases in which the commissioner himself and everybody about . him, and every impartial person could me ; that the applicant was honestly entitli i to : the pension. It was simply an illustration I of the elementary principle of Blackstone, i that there should lie somewhere a court of equity, for “equity supplies that wherein I the law by reason of its i universality is deficient.” If the pension j office had 50,iXHl coses a year to examine, was it unreasonable to expect that 1000 or 1200 cases should come before congress as a review mg court of equity ? But the presi dent iias suggested that if the present law were not sufficient to afford relief under all equities oft in case congress should amend the law. Well, every lawyer knew that tlie more you amended or extended a law the more likely it was that there would lie ; exceptional casts that the law could not i reach. There would, therefore, always be a considerable number of eases that would come before congress. It was not impossible to suppose that there might be two thousand cases a year coming there-- cases that every man would say were per fectly honest and just cases, and that was a small number in comparison with a mil lion and a quarter soldiers now living and many hundreds of thousands who died leaving widows. There were many points . of tlm president’s veto, Hawley added, i that could he readily answered if the press had taken the trouble to answer them. Tlie press had given out the idea tiiat wo passed pension bills by i tnc- wholesale and that the pension office I could have settled everything il it had wanted to. It was not so, and such .state ments did great injustice to the senate. Hawley hoped that some formal explana- , lion of the matter would lie made by either I the house or the senate, j After an exchange of compliments be tween Blair und Riridleberger, the senate at 5:10 went into executive session and at ! 5:50 p. ni., adjourned until Monday. Autdnst I'ulvuniM). Washington, May 21. The house com mittee of judiciary has instructed Chair man Tucker to report favorably the amendment of the constitution declaring polygamy unlawful. There was but one member of the committee who did not agree to the action of the committee, and he only desired further time to consider it. The following is the full text of the amend ment as it will be reported : | Resolved, etc., That it is deemed lieces- i sary by the two houses of congress to pro- 1 pose an amendment to the constitution [ which shall he valid to all intents and pur poses as a part of the constitution wlien , ratified as hereby proposed by the legisla tures of three-fourths of the states, the proposed amendment to be numbered and , to read as follows, to-wit: ARTICLE XV. First—Marriage relation by contract, or in fact bv one person of either sex or more than one person of either sex, shall be deemed polygamy. Neither polygamy nor i any polygamous association or cohabita- ; tion between the sexes shall exist or be lawful in aiij place within jurisdiction of ' the United Slates or any of the states. Second—The United States shall not, nor I shall any state make or enforce any law 1 which shall allow polygamy or any polyg amous association or cohabitation between the sexes, hut the United Slates and every state prohibit the same by law within ! their respective jurisdiction. Third -Tlie judicial power of the United : Stares siia.il extend to the prosecution of the crimes of polygamy and of polygamous association or c ihabitation between the sexes under this article, and congress shall have tlie power to declare by law and pun ishment Hierefor. | Fourth -Nothing in the constitution nor ! in this article slinil be construed lodeuy to | any state exclusion power subject to the provisions of t ins article, to make and en- marrluge ami di- lion, or to vest in over representing THE DEMURRER OVERRULED AND HIS TRIAt. FIXED FOR MONDAY. Mart 111 Irons 1',nv,,,i to l.-nn- M. I.oiik Huril KuHIm.* Imoiu III,* sf-i.,-- Mnl,I* it I ii'lc r Komi Or it, OY.' ><•*. - 1!,, si! „., 11, n. Jacksonville, Fi.a., May 21. Careful inquiry a.s to the ailt-ged presence ofn:,- aivhist Parsons in (Ins state h is disclosed nothing to indicate that he is here. The report was probably d.ie to a canard pub lished here a lew ifu.vs i;j;u. bused on the reecl.pt by the chief of police of Persons' portrait. li • ti,. New York, May 21.—Recorder Snjytke heard arguments to-day on the demurrer entered by Herr Most i counsel to certain counts of the indictment against his client, but finally overruled the demurrer. Most was then arraigned find pleaded not guilty. Wednesday next was fixed ,•■..= tlie liav' for his trial. Tuesday morning closed last nighi. The total rainfall w is eight inches Bicakiiii the Air IJne mad, i„ tv on I'harlotte and Atlanta, hav- been repaired. Three breaks occurred u the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta r* ad, l uttii, ,' were is pairb yes terday end only slight deiuv w cai'a. >' in the running of trains Tlie lliohniond uud L'amilie line siiffVr-d sever-iy l„ twv, ii Charlotte and Greensboro, the trestle over Coddle creek being washed aw iy and one span of the bridge. , ,e feel long. rthe \adkin river destroyed. This caused the stopping of travel. The break at Coddle , creek has been repaired nr.d transfer will j be effected nt Yadkin river on Monday i next, at which time Havel on ibis roll'd will l>" resinned. TT.„ Western North Carolina road was only slightly damaged. The destruction of crops is immense and no est’mate can be ir.nde of tlie loss in flicted on the fanning ( onunuiiLy. ll.ES Mil ! \ .'HE GROWTH AND BEAUTY OF THE VIRGINIA CAPITAL. Tin If.I li,- '’HlLAliEi.viliA. P.\ , May 21. —A hearing was given to-da.\ by Magi.sil’.'.i.o Lennon John Herzug, .Severn Afili -r, Eberhnrdt Millenberger, Gustave Korbinski, Henry S. Sehech'.ing, Martin llammerschtyiidt and Kdwur.l L. Beck, charged on oath of Chen, v ’villiurii, of file llale and Iviltnn-i; manufacturing eonin.iny, witli conspiracy to prevent the eompii iy from currying on its business by preventing persons from working at the establishment bv means of intimidation and threats. All the defend ants were formerly in til, employ of (lie Hale and Kilbuvn inariu- I factoring company, and are now on strike. They struck: oil I lie hist of April because of tlie refusal of the company to comply with their demands as to hours of iabor. Her/ag, Millenberger, Schliehting, Kerbinski and Iluininerschmidt are- not citizens and are all natives of Germany. t Beck is the only one of tlie lot who was I born in this country. The testimony shows that the strikers endeavored to prevent by intimidation and threats anyone working in their places. Tlie magistrate held Mil- i ler in a $1000 bail to answer the charges of 1 aggravated assault and battery, fiiOO to ; keep the peace and $800 for conspiracy. ! Ail tile other defendants were held ill $800 bail upon the single charge of conspiracy. If,lilts to Other IMucrs. Reaping, Pa., May 21.— Cigar makers . are leaving the city in large numbers to ! find employment in Philadelphia and New j York. Both the cigar makers and manu facturers agree that the present strike, if it continues, will drive trade away from Reading to other pieces. Tlie eoniraetsof one establishment employing nearly 200 hands have all been transferred to other cities. Tlie labor situation summed up shows that over 2000 employes of hat fac tories and 1000 workers in cigars are locked out in this district, with the prospects of being out of employment all the summer. UcMimiiu; Work. Detroit, Mich,, May 21.—Two hundred more Michigan ear company strikers re sumed work this morning and the shops are now running in all the departments, | although not with a full force. It is prob- j able all the men will go back to work, such decision having been reached by the I strikers in a mass meeting this afternoon. ! The old terms continue. force all vorce within its ju the United States'll) the same wil bin the Rumors of Crookediiokn, St. Louis, May 21.—A special from Se- dalia, Mo., says J. H. Delay, of Little Rock, member of district assembly No. 101, Knights of Labor, is in the city for the purpose of investigating the charges made by the strikers that relief funds sent to this city bud been improperly disbursed. He will check up the books to-morrow, and if there has been any crooked transac tion they will be brought to light. Marlin Irons Loaves 1 lie City. St. Loris, May 2J. -Martin Irons, it is claimed, had a narrow escape from a mob of strikers last night or early this morning. Tin men arc very bitter toward him, and it i'- asserted that they visited his residence for the purpose of warning him to leave the city, lie must have received an inkling tiiat he would be called upon, os be passed (benight at the house of i friend and boarded the soiiili-boimu Missouri, Kansas and Tijii! train early t iii.-, morning for parts unknown. TURF NEWS. t.i.st II.) if ,it til,- I’illliltt) till,'US, Balt I more, May 21. Ti.is was the fe.nrt h day and dt.videriiy tht hes* meting. Tlie weather was pleasant andtiic track heavy, j but not muddy. First race, J’atapsoo stakes for two-year- olds, five furlongs, Young Luke won, The 1 Queen 2d, Bracken id ; time, 1:(XU. .Second race, dasli one and niu-.slxttenth miles, for non-winners, Pasha won, Lord Bcaco.islieid 2d, Farewell 3d ; time, 1:6S. Third rare, Freak ness stakes for colls and fillies three-year-old, one and one-half miles. The Bard, won, Earns 2d, Kikwood 3d : time, 2:45. Fourth race, free handicap sweep stakes, one and three-eights mile. Ten Booker won. Enigma 2d, Joe Mitchell 3d; time, 2:311. Fifth race, selling race, one mile. Edge- field won, Huron 2d. Error 3d, time, lets;. Tin* Louisville Raws. Louisville, May 21.—The weather was warm, the truck slow, and tlie attendance good. First race, 5 miles; Dnnnyhrook won, 1 Margy 2d, Jubilee 3d: time 1;'05. Second race, mile bents; Sovereign Pat and Tom Black started, tlie former won in straight; time 1:48j and 1:411. Third race, an -cl out’s stakes, 1! miles; ! Modesty won. (day Pule 2d, Billy Gilmore I 3d; time l:59y. Fourth race, j) mile; Dnhmo won, Duke of Bourbon 2d, Jennie T. 3d; time 1:15}. I Mutuals paid field $8. 'Hi,' I'n-sItyh-rLui (ini,‘rid A shc in lily. Augusta, Ga., May 21. The second ' day’s session of the Presbyterian general ] assembly was commenced by leading tlie committee report on education. The re port showed a falling off in contributions | and nn increase in the number of candi- , dates to lie educated for tlie ministry. The j receipts for mission work were $57,753, a a much larger amount than usual. The re- | ceipts for suhutatiou show a falling off. | Five thousand dollars were spent to huji- j f iort evangelists. Asset* of $E4,86li over the | labilities were shown by tlie publication committee. The committee on the train- ] ing of colored'ministers reported, showing progress. The committee especially a|e pointed to examine the question ol' evolu tion is headed by Dr. Armstrong, of Vir ginia, and is organized against Dr. Wood row’s peculiar theories. tliuiiumi Kjiisriijiiil ('iiiivi-iitliin. Anniston, Ala., May 21.—The Episco pal Convention of Alabamu has declined to adopt the changes in the prayer book recoil)'” .'icd by the last convention. It | memorialized the convention to organize a court of appeal to hoar appeal, of the cler gymen from the diocesan convention on the eiiange of name from diocesan con vention to diocesan council. Tlie dele" gates elect to the general convention are : clerical. Revs. H. Stringfuilow, J. M. Ban nister, J. L. Tucker and J. T. Beard: lay- I men, J. H. Pitts, It. M. Nelson, A. H. Tyler and J. B. Bond. SECRETARY MANN'NG i'li.l; v. : t fid;: sak realized • coin nnd n U "t_-sL •d ns ( \ hill }>l <• -..tv tn.,'■•«.■. im! .J anirf who werct not (, i‘ the* (tciiov.i av. ar '■< iv satisi.fc'l witn ii i- av ask*.11 hi ii in t,, diti nui; ,■ unt c* i B« uk did not 1! t.K- nit; rest. r * ii«j t.ill > l.s tn <• •( paym c 111* !fO\\;nini*.M .Hid jjnyin In oilit.L word •ositioi, r »f a . o och tlf j ' clain in the prim ini V.t 1(1 !’.: turn I . tin* 1 •••■*!-.11 ^ (HUM- d WasTTINOTOX, .V.t; ‘2 that th • family ■?' Secre urtriutf him t-' takt :tshu It is reported ; -'.lanniii^ ar« • .vi/'r hopin^ 'to.’d. A rnr,- i>; the pro- tiiat it would for a mail < on- ha •t ol i U ritjlit to pa i il cjiiue from t stitut'.*'' ;.ft tim set. i-l;«r; t<> y up Wi’J*. r. ^ca-.sioki.o.is would pro.i.'dn outo )-i]o. and violent would ‘erir nsiy a1f*ot tin* !)Io«mI his Ii *ad. ii is certain that tSccrot niii'/ wi!i not return to tin* tro jiar jm anti; ’ it* in the full, -on i.i h<;liev< - onl \ _ to d'Miyhtcn up p: limii! ii'y 1o >• .■■.!*_• •: : l.•«*’. r» lari. t’airchihl and Smitn ! fit 11i!'L Siriker** Stulid St. Louis. May 21. r l which lias been in sc ic Mo., for the past nine d.iv ialior.s yesterday. Their almost ;.iv( n up to tin charges of conspiracy a^a riuid .strikers, lifty-nim- - dieted. Many of ihem warrants could ho sc *••. «*( only loin have hev.i aivc si I lie Ai «M*in*r >a Ihi’.i..- Cmc auo, Mav 21. Th** i;a>- af.ro u made its ai.pfa form, a kiraa ijuarto. ••mi hpi--s. Pars ns, Koi.\t,d. : ohists \*. < ! o persona My <*oi day’s paper has son,, i-igl vert i s i i: u, indudliig nun nn dirys nn v.iiaons ni rar.d Hills jury. dor.), their Oil T'lanuri • Nrw York, May 21. To-<lay was an other day of encouragement for the advo cates ot higher prices. Everything to night shows substantial gains over last night's closing. Ai the same time St. Paul was undoubtedly lower, by which most of the market was moved. The buy ing of Bt. Paul seemed to he entirely for western account. The market, opened linn, although Vanderbilts’ w- re down “ and Pacific mail There w;is active trading in the. first, hair hour at slight ad vances. The market later, However, be came dull and steady, m mainjng so until in the afternoon when a movement was •darted in Lake Shoiv, followed (jnicklv by -*t. ‘Paul, which continu 'd unt i! I he close. .Althougli the whole a<1ive iist is higher to-night, St Paul is tin only slock on I lie usually acli\e list, showing an advance of more than 1. Sales 28A 000 sliart •. 1 iu.i i bur sin,il* fn « s in tin* strc*is Tin* I iuhous <ii*uii|i ni'si||!imr> in 1 i»|»itol Si|inu*(* Miii,;iiiu for ronh'di niti* f.iiaiiiimi Iih I In* i Jimme* h roiiulil since Im'.g I ort> fiiousHinl (iiiocs, (’in **|w.ndenA* Npw8 und Courier. Richmond. \ a., May 11. The spring hi re is considerably later than in Charles ton. 1 see wistarias now coming into bloom. The roses are still in small, tin- opening buds. The neoniss are just com ing in, and so is the lily of the \ alley. The tulip trees are covered with beautiful vari colored flowers. This tree l consider one of the greatest ornaments of this much favored city; nnd although there are a great many of them in the streets here, 1 never pass One without notice and admira tion. The horse chestnut, another street tree, with heavy umbrageous foliage, is also now in bloom, and I often think how nice it would he if we in Charles ton had such trees in our streets. There are many other line trees here, notably the lindens, maples and elms, which all look finer, richer, health ier than you will see them elsewhere. To the tourist there is certainly an eiuharras de richesse here as regards trees. Now. in the matter of flowers. 1 think Charleston is ahead. 1 see few flower gardens here, and comparatively few roses. 1 presume the winters here are too severe for out door growths. Oli, hut the green grass— the grass on Capitol square looks to ine of the richest green and of such rapid and exuberant growth. By the time the lawn- mowers gel through saving it they have to start right back and do it over again. Some of your readers may have heard of the Washington monument on Capitol Square. An equestrian statue of Washing ton is surrounded by figures of heroic size of Chief Justice Marshall, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson. George Mason, Governor Thomas Nelson, jr., and Andrew Lewis; and these six figures are again skirted by another six, emblematic of Finance, Colo nial Times, Justice, Revolution. Inde pendence and the Bill of Rights. Most of these figures were designed and modeled by Crawford. Whdn Air. Crawford died in 1857 the unfinished work*- statues of Nelson and Lewis and the allegorical fig ures was executed by Randolph Rogers. The entire cost of the monument, includ ing statuary, was $260,000. So says the guide book. The people of Richmond are very proud of their statuary all of bronze, 1 forgot, to mention above, and east at the royal foun dry in Munich, in Germany. And a finer work of the sculptor's art, 1 ween, it would be difficult to find anywhere than this group. It is very grotesque to see the im prudent sparrow, who nos adopted the Capitol square as nis domicil, 1 uilding his nest under the sword of Washington, he- I tween the scabbard and the thigh, and then another nest under Thomas Jeffer son's arm. I notice wire netting over the caps of the columns fronting Bt. Paul’s church, doubtless to keep sparrows and swallows off; and to all appearance, a guard will have to be* placed some kind of scarecrow'-to protect flu* statuary, or else these heroic figures will have to be veiled. Thus it will ever he; protection calls for more protection. Richmond pro- ! tects her sparrow's, and now she has to protect her statuary. There is much here to admire, but I am sorry I cannot join in the pteans of the* nu tives in the praises of their sweet .James ; river water. They hate two large, we.il- i built reservoirs to supply the people with ; drinking water, but the water is turbid, i looks much like the must, (or is il most ?i the newly pressed wine, ere it clears. But you will not gel a native to acknowledge anything amis:, in his delightful drinking water. Now. an outsider cannot see why a corporation tii.it spends’millions in its water works, anq has already two large reservoirs, cannot lmu a system of filtering that will fwt nish ejenr water. This has always been a puzzle to me. When the river rises, and tin* Jam. s has a trick of rising upon th; Might• -.1 provocation, the sweet drinking v n* i\ (1 rawm from tlie street maim ••• muduy. But the people here, with a I*»,•:< 1 *y v lecli I cannot but admire, insist that it i** Ho liest water to be bad nnyvIuTi , and «I■ r.•» its color somet lines a d**«*pera eg<• male w no difference. The evconfederate who revisits Bit t. mond now for tin* first time •do*- |v * r -bids it difficult to lx lieve that tw« ntv <» .* \* •'*• can effort the changes bo sees all ..r*»*i'i«* li : m. The war sears are. all < bar. <1. it 1 only niter much starch that he find . ;i:-y traces <»1 the numerous and u-nii.- able be borne in mind, also, that the high rater « f'< ‘ Inn d deat hs In-re is largely due to tho fin’ that wo have two hospitals tr> which the friendless colored peo~ l 1 " of Maryland and Virginia come in ! her last illness to die, and this district geta ep'dited \* itli llieir deaths in those statis tics. Fight cities where the records arts known to be accurate ar<* given, and the*- deatli rate for the four years followingtha year in which the. last census was taken 1 18S0 makes the following creditable show ing for Washington : j'dies. Mean Death Rate. Washington 23.30 per 1(100 per annum- Boston 21.12 per looo perannuiik .28.00 per 1000 per annum ...23.90 per looo per annum: .... 37.40 per 1000 per anuum 30.30 per 10Q0 per annum 3S.ll per looo per annum 28.55 per 1000 per anuunv Brooklyn Riehmoiul. Norfolk (’harleston.... N■*\v Orleans.. MARY HAMILTON’S ROMANCE. S.'.'rptly MurrU.f1. ncMTlnl, Almost u lUu,imist r Dlvomol, Miirrii‘,1 Auuiii. Towanda, May 18.—In a local paper printed ill one of the northern counties of I Ilia state appeared on Thursday the fol- lowiiiff aunounccnient: Dl VORCKD—MARRI ED. Mrs. Mary W. Gage ohtaiued a divorce from her hushand, Lyinaii Gage, on Mon day, on tin ground of desertion and non- support. On Monday evening the Rev William l’ellet married Mrs. Gage to Bid- low Utter, the young railroad contractor The local paper gives no further par ticulars, hut there is a curious story con nected with the divorce and marriage.. In the spring of 1882, William Hamilton, a well-known farmer living in the northern oil field, invested$3000in oil land inWarrei. county, and in a few days sold the property at an advance of $10,000. This rapid mak ing of money turned his head, and he in vested the $13,000, and as much more a* he could raise iiy mortgaging his farm in an oil speculation. The following August came the memo rable decline in the oil market, caused by tlie sodden failure of the Cherry Grove field in Warren county. Hamiltou was ruined. He took to drink, and died iit a few months, leaving a daughter twenty years of age penniless. This daughter, whose name was Mary, had been keeping, company for a year or more with Lyman Gage, the son of a well-to-do farmer of Hie neighborhood. Gage and Hamilton had been bitter enemies, nnd the former carried his enmity so far that he opposed his son in ids attentions to Hamilton's daughter, and more especially after Hamilton lost his money. Not long after the death of the girl’s father her lover had a quarrel with his father, and he left home and went u'est. For some time Mias Hamilton received letters from him, but they finally ceased coming. She support ed herself ns a seamstress nnd by working at times as a domestic. In the spring of 1883 old Mr. Gaffe received a letter signed by a person giving the name of George Gray. The letter was from Chicago. It. said that Lyman Gage had been drowned in Lake Michigan by the capsizing of a bout, and that his body had not iaien re covered. Farmer Gage went to Chicago, lint could learn nothing further iu regard to his son’s death. After a thorough investigation of several days tlie farmer returned home, and was astounded to hear that Miss Hamilton claimed to he the widow of his son. She produced n marriage certificate setting forth that she and Lyman Gage had been married at Bulamaneii in July, 1882. The certificate was proved to be genuine, und tlier -upon her father-in-law provided for her support. Tn the winter of 1885 Bidlow I ’tier, a young man who had a contract in tiic neighborhood, begun paying his atten tions to young Mrs. Gage, and they were tn he married lust Christmas. AH the ar rangements had been made for u big wedding, when, thy Sunday before Christmas, the supposod dead man, Lyman Gage, put in an appearance, ainl. refusing h* give any explanation or his reported dunth. claimed his w ife. She refused to receive him, in which refill d sho wns supported by farm, r Gage. Tiic long- missin.? husband said he hud come hack u> take ids wife west wiiIi Him. Hi remained at ills fat her’- a few days, anil tin n disap peared again. The wedding was -oeessa- rilv postponed, nod Mrs. Gage begun pro- r< ,siing e,r a divorce, wlooli lias just heel. 0-11,1 ted and was followed by tie. quiet. ■ of i*d Bidlow Utter. A BIG DEAL. •up y Allison IV, nations, it 1‘lumij n:o\ S i iie.-hdmc d'lrinu l he summer. Tii t H-.MK* BlcNvtUl. |»l l ■••j Hu:--- ,-(v Hint-;; m 'llJ>|>!-( s*s it, mid \ Kolilicr It till Dunn. MKy.Pins, May 21. On the ti i> -r 1S, 1870, A. B. M’;!!;-r, a jcvulur of this city, was robix-fi by hi. 1 »Jerk. I*'r« <1 Miiier. The jeweler and his family wrr a'.’ht ill riuiinfi tin* evening aial li.td fill the key wit Ii Fred, a trusted e:n| !o' «-. Tin- xi inurnii'if Muller .iisc-o-.c r. d llud i-.oiicy and jewelry aiuuuntiii^ to :I0,0()0 r( luissiiiD; so was it's eonliat nli .; i-lcik wlio iutd made j^ood his csenpe ulM; I hi ixi..iy. i'm rcJ)herv laid iln'o.-i h(ijif.,r- iuttci:, \* !i( ii this mondiij/ Ci.ief I 'av:*; r< • lei*-aran; li in !*« l‘:i$ i. 'i'i ;• r . t;i» iri*_• Hint M:iier was h* i.'ur i.*-id : !e i a.*» ;» - 'Oil i|S ( | !•«•)’••)• : .*:■ tan \ '.,.i ii iit *1. . A.. :- s * Mas 21. A v jx ' i;il t*. t hr- i isi - J )is| ial c 11 says Lee Bi.rms \ ;r-> han,e<-d mu.-li IuItov By the !>ovs in ' i.,- -nr*’ lie I’adiiu; landrnaii; li< n . ( Oiinhoraz*) is a i)ds;»ital i mm « '!mnl)(»razo park. f.ilifi now lieiilv terraced and r*-j* i< * a j)j ' Ihit; ,<i of Mai shall | .-»* k. I lint t in* Lee nionmin-'il !•> 1 in Marsiiail park. Mane .,f i ' ; - ual ii'ipr* If I seep. d its i * * i.l () (■ iii )»)i i • I 1x0 ■( < • ,, .f.A l *iMi»ii 11 ii •• M V«* D" O’ -n-c I ijU u;i|. ,.( fhe ns Nia.v r.l. 'Phe cotton-seed oiJ h;r.i*een much wrought uji for .•ek.N «.\( r a j unior that the Stand - unpiiny. ll.rou^h Mr. Levvvtv. nro- .Llin^; up ii.!! the principi»> mills in iy,i-nd 11.11> estahlisl ingu ni'iiiop- \ 'd i»rt ;.k down all eomp^til/on. • d*'jr was inti unified to-day nu:-« r eriija-o « urr» ik y tiiat the i ■|' , 'i-i company had 5 s- ii* ndU’cn di.liars iri certificates ireJi.i«»* of f iii entile inten-.-ts of sistinjf of n Rock, o 111 ! said )!»i)ied It- the •ice of. . i)ina- •t was i. who utitied y that i w nr o.»l. Bet ll , will not . in Litt Jins, and f purehmse o x- a in tidy a ti. n!!y set! iitorc I he pi In- Leu is ( « ix. An etinr a! L, r . ntlemi i linently id.-i v. d! oldv sa in MORMON •IV >t l! \\ i Th-: st-mil*.- ih* IIl rti.'j XplA andinj; oi! the ci p- ssa^e oi a number fi-h'fe-'-stLd tiiat once in s t n.es or so. it. be cnijiinittee report of tin r \ ' just to show tflU s ^ f * Ht the case. Tl^ ine third time and pass \ - ififoi'ination. Wu haii had two vetoes and several suggestions tiia knew aiiNthiinj” about what wi done. He Bee!:; cert-odly did n a * iCl did not believ-- any iiiC.:ila s yi*ate did. Bijir replied that there \vi>. ji varc-fully printed report on tlie fil showing Ine facts of c. ;1 been there a ii" wa11led i11for?nation L 1 all i.‘*< ings i»t t, i igton t TsnriMi, i'a.. irizctt** s Fey Seven M(>r! Y-ilh-v' ('it s ('online! •d o"' •iLiiator, facts hi it. .arked t.i ; »f prose. Vt ojg JM ** t- »)ol la--is, . in \Vafth- filaco. la.-t Sunday. Their me* tings w**r • largely attemle*!. and tin y l*.iptiz.ed several enlivens. Tin* ci; i/ens b* earn*- iiaiignant and demamied tnat the siiiool ixaise i>e closed against tiicm, but it wa-. not done. Last night the house \vn* crowded, and at the eonelusi »n of the services Parker Claybough. justice of the peace, arose and dt.nouficd M(*rn , .onism in a speech of halfun hour i». icngtii. lie pro- dec.-1 a glass of ookit'on of arsenic and challenged tlie preacher to drink it, wliicii he, t):e preat.her , had stated in his .ser mon that ho could do ’without liarni. Tiv: preacher refused. Cluybaagh branded him with a great tumult du. .stones and other missile missionaries, f iiey ik-d n.-» foru*-t ami oer- < «•!.*.* d '•••.; •o ip them, a.s they are m*\vu.vs help you " fiu'-i.1 v*• Lehman. r J'h«- nai): i-> l)V tin autiioi-iJ ies as .)!’»• eapai>K < d'wvin ii’apoii.int iaforn.al loit l ■ **;*». LI. . tii if!, nl.lv of Lie bomb th. ov. ..!*. "t !;*• d* ti .«•'succeeded in arr.**,)ine ).« i... an ean.N hour tins morning, in his po- cupic hi at. tiic time of iii- a 1 : *.*'1 • -- ‘'»• in• L.r round d t \ namite i>om!»s (-xhcIIv .-imi lar to that used at the 1 k- • rioi caps. twoVoiis of 'iynlim.'t.* l'i,Vy‘ and’' • w' i)r».vc:s of dynamite !: »t n;ad-. into i.* .mo- *' *. su . w* r■■ also found. Th*- bomb.-, h; d id f ia. •'C u i g* *. .i^ I attached and seemed r« ady for imim-di *.t».- s id', inan. John ( olliiis a:.d I;m,h I i • s*.:i aided Barnes in tm- nmni* : ( *,i- j»V 4 '' 'i11:j»)• : s«»i»..i< * L and \Val-on will ll. icd a. !!<• »,« yl n ran oi . ourt. 'J I,* m* •re -ill ..ft I;. • -.-.me kil.e, gfiinlih r eul- roals. ih-: man. Ii**\v* v*-r, iiad a*-. i,n... - cl • .it. - n.oia-.v ami i.mper>. w ! L i, s a*- i i«i 1 * *- ../»'• led. Barms pinne. d . 11111r <— sr»d roho* ry. wind h < obi,is ni W’.-.i • ! r« . oily ai(i* *! in carrying out. tf.-s ■ r e.ftc i vietioii. imi tin elm re * ft t li<-ii■ wln i :y. c.\e< pi i el.im-li. wide up t(.\\ n. 'I in- id* s in d.-' * ff.ii-i ( v. 't oil ha \ e ' I .in I.- K*.rk. A *- pec ial fro I .it t L d 11 p: , j<;. **. • • ll-.. If/hi. BrrK.\i/>. i t * r i.o’.iisOtio, ilu: wifi mi -«!• 1 . ■' a- 1 : J d ;,t 0;]0 ' I of !•: t ii is ne ti : . < »li ■ '• a> a rin.i.kt i. (i-’oly Ids \\ in* of iser < an.b.j- al L:e wa.-,li tub. Hi! ciiiiit’ iii’im: (iririih me ■ ’av. fonmi J:• • r • it work al la r tub :ird siiot Jier in tlie .-a,.*k iiu times v ii iio .1 jaa \ioii>i.\ utL iing a 'Vf*ni. No palii: 1 ing *-ireums1 arn-escould pin beautiful l.i v .and prosperous <■:: e fair grourni is now .' I re'/ioiis beyond, wli Camp Jackson lio^pj. '• m.w being laid on: tii miles of youne .-• Here is tl.<- n brok* which use. II-.uiiiiL'iie.' f ri »,n is. Charleston, s. C., May 2" -Tfi iteavy frnsliet'* lhrougaout nope’* L'a Via Bed,;.- river stands thirty lx ie* ; rii are a total jo- .. Th* '« • 'l liis afternoon pm-iriy N. C .. M- hang* c lit. ’llendersfmviHe for ■ »*’ M-d ■ i< I i jaa.-i’Mu , a di ^reputublt vmi.uij, ia-»t f-i!i. V ;.-| \V. ,-f hi i*-.*it ar;d inviting cottages of the 'oi fi fL rate soldiers’ holm*. Tin- Ki< ii- ii •ml J ■ i pt ist college is an < 1* gart stria*- iir*-. gaudy almost with its ornate mansard ooling, not looking one bit like its former, imc! humbler self. I have-aid nothing of t Im gr*-d g-.rdens vli. r« s!e* p tin. dead. I visifi d H.dly- '.'oo*l. of course, and Makwood, Imt so unity sad memories cluster around tlmse. pots that I have not tin* heart to describe in m. Just thii.k of tin- resurr. d ion in,rn. w hen these vast armies some io,*JOO Wamid 'I'.,wn-*-m ON, Ma out in of the Health Olfic-r ! to j.rov*-that ol tl.ii' e.j \ wen- kept busy (iurii g til*' eni-!;. Ii-a;: - oi y-i.rduy morning extin- gai'iiin ;..• *ui* 1 iai \ in* s, four oi which oi•< i. ; i. *(iii• -i‘t nt parts of tlie city at tin • v !:-• ’im*. I !■*• tires occurred in re- 1,, j a; I - • .f I in city; ami three of them it :• iioiis.-s, the fourth being 111 a j.-iA. i* r-.V -mi . Ail v.ere extinguished \* it!.o<11 .i-rious loss, ll is supposed tiiat. I!:* tin*- we»'e liglded in order to draw the * h b * :.s ’ hi' !i. r iV'un ll.cir dwellings, thus oil. ring a chance for the miscreants to add t-i the crime of incendiarism robbery. Tiny fail'd of their object, however, owing to the prompt and effective work of t lie lire department. A U**sm < hiir«-Ii n.mtrilaition. f.im’N c \vi*'k .(ia.. May 1!) -Christ cliurcli, i-'n deriek, on tin- site where John Wesley preached, has had the biggest contribution of any church in the south during the past year. This was caused by a bequest of *111 .MM) ! \ t Iu wifi- of Rev. Mr. Dodge,who- di* d in India on her wedding tour. Her hii'haml hart jiiil. turned it into the treasu ry. Of that sum, ? 10,000 has been put in tiiKtasan emlowinent of the missionary l». iitli-.f Hr. Lewis. . N. V.. May 21.—Dr. Dio author and reformer, died at t< tills morning from cry^ipe- i illness of two or three days*