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COLUMBUS,'GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNUS G, AUGUST 20 1889, v-;m, XXXI. NO. 2,7 NEVER BEFORE ! GEORGIA LEGISLATURE. l’HE DEATH OF REPRESENTATIVE AKSHE1M ASSOUNCiD. IX THE HISTORY OF OUR BUSINESS HAVE WE BEEN SO ANXIOUS TO SELL GOODS. We have written and telegraphed the manufac- tu‘ ers not to ship our fall purchases for two weeks, hut they ar like ourselves, crowded tor room, and continue to hurry them through. Now to state facts, we ore crowded for room, and must hove it at once or rent quarters. To reduce our stock, we name a few prices that cannot he met. U mbrellas! U mbrellas!! Seventy-two Umbrellas, Gloria Cloth, Gold and Oxidized heads, and natural handies, that we have been selling for $1.50 and $2.00, will go to-day and Saturday at 90c., $1.00 and $1.15. Many Silk and Gingham Umbrellas in proportion. Stock must be reduced. Two Hundred Neck Ties, Walking Canes, at prices to close. Call it needing anything in our line. Will try and suit you in prices. Chancellor & Pearce I)AN ALSTON’S TRIAL Will Begin in Decatur To-morrow, But Reviere May Never lie Tried. Decatur, August 19.—Dun Alston and A. D. Reviere are very interesting charac ters to the public at this time. Both are confined in the little rock jaii at Decatur on the charge of murder. Alston skilled the Scotchman, Wilson, near Lithonia, by stabbing him in the, head with a one-biaded pocket-knife. Reviere is charged with shooting and beating to death with an iron burglar’s jimmy the unknown “crook” at Stone mountain. Alston’s trial will begin before Judge Richard H. Clark, in Decatur, to-morrow morning. Reviere’s trial may never take place be fore the bar of an earthly court, as he is lying very ill in a close, damp and narrow cell in the jail, and may possibly never re cover unless he is moved to more com fortable quarters. On the -1th of July Dan Alston, with a number of his friends, went to a sociable given at the house of a Scotchman. Alston and his friends wore drinking, and one of them blew out the lights, which brought on a tight. One of Alston’s friends'struck a Scotchman over the head with a beer bottle, and one of the Scotchmen threw Dan Alston out ot the window. The Alston parly then started home, but a party of Scotchmen from the house ran around, headiDg them off. "Where’s Venable’s fireman? - ’ asked a Scotchman. “He’s not here, but this is his engineer,” replied one of the others, pointing at Alston. The Scotchman then struck Alston, and he retaliated by stabbing him in the head with a long, single bladed, heavy-handled poeket-kuite, such a kaite as the boys would call a frog sticker. Tbe blade penetrated the skull of the Scotchman, whose name was Wilson, and he died from the effects of the wound. It would seem, from looking at the knife, that it would be impossible to stick it in a man’s head. Solicitor Candler, in order that no doubt may arise on this point, had a portion of the Scotchman’s skull, where the knife penetrated, re moved, and will tender it in evidence. The piece of bone is not very large, but in the centre of it is a slit, into which the long blade of the knife fits exactly. Alston is very hopeful as to the outcome of his case. He was seen in his cell this morning and talked freely about his trial. Alston is quite a young man and has a youthful, downy-looking moustache upon his lip. He occupies one of the up-stairs ceils in the jail, where there are besides himself three negroes. He was smoking a cigarette this morniDg and said he felt that he would come out all right. He is hoarse Irom the effects of a severe cold, contracted by sleeping in one of the damp cells on the grounu floor of the prison. For fear of serious results he employed a guard to watch him at night, and was then allowed to sleep up-stairs, where there is more air and where it is dryer. There is quite an array of legal talent in the case, and every bit of evidence for and against the prisoner will be thoroughly sifted before the jury. Alston is represented by Mr. H. C. Jones, of Decatur, and bv Messrs. Hulsey & Bateman, Calhoun, IviDg Spalding, and Cox & Reid, of Atlanta. Solicitor John S. Candler will be as sisted in prosecuting tne case by his oldest brother, Col. M. A. Candler, who, by the way, is Reviere’s leading counsel, and will tight against his brother when the case comes to trial. When A. D. Reviere was arrested and lodged in jail last April, he was quite a youthful looking man, apparently not more than twenty-five. Since then he has grown old very rap idly, and to-day one might fancy him to be at least forty from the appearance of his face. He has been aiiing for several months, and was for a long time in one of the upper rooms of the prison. Three weeks ago he asked to be removed down stairs on account of the noise made by his feliow prisoners. His request was complied with, and in one of the humid little rooms I saw him this morniDg. He was lying on his back on a narrow cot. The ceil, which was whitewashed, is about eight feet long and four feet wide, while it is not more than eight feet hign. JThe only opening to the cell is a narrow No light or air can get. in anywtere lamp, the light from which cast a ghastly gleam upon the glaring whitewashed walls. Reviere’s arm was thrown back of his head to shield his eyes from the light. On the opposite side of the cell from the lamp was a bucket of water, while from a number of hooks in the ceiling hung the sick man’s clothes. The cell was hot and close even to a well man, and it seems a mystery how a man as sick as Reviere can exist in such a place. Reviere, when asked how he felt, re plied in a very weak voice: “Oh, I fee! weak and sick. I can’t sit up now, and if I don’t get out of here I don’t know what will become of me. I can never get well in this place. I’m sure of that. I don’t know what is the matter with me except that I have a slow fever and am getting weaker every day. “If I can get up at ali I want to have my trial so as to get through with it. If I don’t I’ll die in here.” A gentleman who has watched the pris oner closely gives it as his belief that Re viere is troubled with remorse and noth ing but a confession of the terrible deed will relieve him. The bill of indictment found against Re viere is a ghastly looking document. It reads as follows: “We, the grand jury, find that the said A. D. Reviere did, on the 2d of April, 1889, with force and arms, and with a steel tool, and with a pistol, unlawfully and with malice aforethought, kill and mur der a man whose is name to the jurors un known, but who registered his name on the hotel register at Stone Mountain as Charles Thompson, and a photograph cf whose face is hereunto attached, as de scription of said killed and murdered man.” Then in the middle of the indictment is the ghastly looking photograph, taken after death, the face cut and*gashed by the iron tool and the pistol bullet, the hard lints about the mouth and eyes deepened, and even more revolting than they were in life. For the sake of humanity, if nothing else, Reviere, even if he is an accused murderer, should be placed in a more heathful Diace. If he is not, he will never be tried on earth for the murder of the unknown man.—Special Atlanta Journal. CARLISLE IN MEXICO. door. else. Lookirgin from tne doer a picture fit for an artist is seen. toe sick man, attired only in his under lie U a '“. sefcu Jyhig with his head close up against lhe back wall of the ceil. J ust above his head was a little kerosene The Bring Ex-Speaker and His Wife Royally Entertained. St. Louis, August 19.—A dispatch from the City of Mexico says: Hon. John G. Carlisle and wife, accompanied by United Statts Minister Ryan, left there for Guada- lojara Saturday night, where they will be given a reception by Gov. Cosona, of the state of Jalisco. Saturday afternoon Sec reiary of Ixterior Romero Rubio gave a dinner at Taeubava, at which Mr. and Mrs. Carlisle, Mr. Ryan and President and Mrs. Diaz were present. The entertain gient is said to have been the finest ever given in Mexico. Mrs. Carlisle was vis ited by Mrs. Diaz during her stay in the city and «b,y many of the ladies of the American colony. Mr. Carlisle has re ceived more attention from Mexican offi cials since he has heen here than any American since Grant’s visit. Centennial of Catholic Hierarchy. Baltimore, Md., August 19.—Answers to the invitations to the centennial of the Catholic hierarchy, to be held in Balti more, N^yember 10, and succeeding days, indicate a .very large attendance. Fully fifty of the bishops of the United States will be present. Cardinal Tischereau, archbishoD of Quebec, has sent a very cordial acceptance, and a large number of Canadian archbishops and bishops will doubtless do likewise. An unprecedented feature of the occasion will be the proba ble attendance of a delegation from Rome, headed by a prelate holding high rank in the propaganda. A delegation of distin guished laymen from the Pacific slope have already sent a request that seats be reserved. Attempt at Train Wrecking. Vincennes, Ind., August 19.—A most atrocious attempt at train wrecking is re ported on the New Evansville and Rich mond railway. In the course of building through Einora, about four miles out of Odon, some miscreants had placed a lot of rails upon the track with the intention of wrecking the first train that came along, but several persons of the town of Odon borrowed a hand car to go to Einora on a visit, and were going along over the new railroad at a terrific rate when the car struck the obstructions, knocking the light structure into the air and throwing the passengers in every direction. They were all more or leas injured. Tne attempted train wrecking was thus averted. >lr. Sneison Introduce ?lis Usual Monday Morning Ke^oiatiou—Tlie State Road Lease Kill Other Matters in the Senate and House. Atlanta, Augast 19.—[Special.]—The death of Hon. Lewis Amheiin, of Dough erty, removes from the Georgia legislature one of its ablest and best members. Upon his first appearance in the house Mr. Arn- heirn took high rank, both on the floor and in committees, and was considered one of its most influential members. He married in this ci y some years ago, Miss Ida Mayer, a daughter of Hon. David Mayer, one of the moat prominent citizens of Atlanta, and his wife and two children survive him. He had been ill for many months, and his death was not unex pected. The fuuerai of Representative Arnheim at 3;3G this afternoon was attended by a large crowd. Rabbi S. Reisch and Luvi officiated. The legislative pail-bearers were Speaker Clay, Harrell, of Webster, Barnee, Glenn, Simmons, West, Hal! and Huff. The Masonic and Hebrew orders with which Arnheim was connected were well represented. The body wa3 interred at Oakland cemetery. Mr. Sneison, of Meriwether, came to the front again to day with a resolution pro hibiting the payment of per diem to mem bers except for active service. Most of Mr. Saeison’s resolutions are killed, ana this one met the same fate. IN THE HOUSE. When the house convened Mr. Glenn, of Whitfieid, offered a resolution that be cause of the death of a distinguisned mem ber, the Hon. Lewis Arnheim, the house appoint a committee to confer with the relatives of tne decased as to the ceremo nies of interment, and to draft a suitable memorial to be presented to the house next Saturday. Also, that the house adjourn at 12 m. to-day to enable members to attend the funeral, and that the flag on the e&piroi be lowered to half mast. The resolution was adopted. Mr. Davis, of Elbert, offered a resolution that debate on the Western and Atlantic bid and amendments be closed at 11 o’clock to-morrow morning. Mr Smith, of Gwinnett, wus opposed to anything like “gag law.” Tae resolution w T as tabled. Mr. Sneison, of'Meriwetber, off'erdc, of course, his usual able bodied Monday morning resolution. He again asked of the taxpayers to demand of their repre sentatives why tney fail to pass the great original and only genuine Sneison resoiu- j tion, providing that the pay of members | of the aouse shaii o ly run during their | time of actual service. He made a speech on the subject which cleared the house of ali memoers except a diminutive and long suffering minority. Tne j kers whetted their beaks and pecked at the gentleman of Meriwether in a vain attempt to silence him. No go. He had his say, and the house was obliged to tabie his resolution in taeir usual Monday morning manner. The house, in committee of the whole, then took up the Western and Atlantic lease bill. The ninth and tenth sections were adopted without amendment. The eleventh section was also adopted, with amendment by Mr. Glenn, as fol lows : “Section 11. Be it further enacted, that said lessee or lessees shall be required to pay all taxes and assessments upon the property of this state in the state of Ten nessee, and in Georgia upon all property owned or controlled by them not received from the state, and such further taxes upon their income as is now paid by the Central Railroad and Banking company, and shall not sub let said road, or any part thereof, to any other company, corporation or party.” An amendment to the Glenn amend ment was offered by Mr. Hand, of Mitch ell, to add “nor shall any share in said lease be sold or transferred so as to defeat or lessen competition or encourage mo nopoly.” Mr. Felton, of Bartow, opposed this amendment. He thought it would tack to the lease aot the worst features of the Olive bill. The resolution called forth a lively de bate between Messrs. Glenn and Felton. Mr. Rankin, Mr. Calvin and Mr. Hum phreys, of Brooks, also opposed the amendment. On motion the committee of the whole rose. A report was presented from the com mittee appointed to confer with the fam ily of Hon. Lewis Arnheim. The pall-bearers selected are Messrs. Clay, Turner, Howell, of Webster, Huff, West, Hall and Simmons. The following bills were introduced: A piobibition law for Wilkes. By Mr. Reid, of Putnam —“That the tax payers ot Meriw ther, be requested to ask Mr. Sneison to explain why ne was absent on last Friday while a motion to adjourn till Monday was being discussed.” Adopted. By Mr. Matthews, of Houston—To amend section 4579 of the code. By Mr. O’Neil, of Fulton—To require the clerks of the courts in counties having a city of 10,000 inhabitants, or in which two or more judges ot the superior court may preside in bank, to brief the book of minutes. By Mr. Howell, of Fulton—A resolution that the governor be authorized to draw his warrant on the treasurer for |5,019 59 in favor of the city of Atlanta in full pay ment for the stales’ pro rata share of the cost of permanent improvement of streets, abutting on property owned by the state. Bills Passed. To abolish the county court of Jefferson county. To incorporate the town of Lovett, in Laurens county. adjourned. IN THE SENATE. An important bill was introduced in the senate by Senator Rice this morning. The purpose of the bill is to create a state board of mediation, or arbitration, to take cognizance of such controversies as may arise oetween employers and employes, when the same do not involve suits at law. It is proposed that the board shall con sist of three members, two of which shall be appointed by the governor. One shaii be an employer and one a member of some labor organization. The third member shall be ordinarily selected by the other two, but in case they fail to agree upon a third person within a reasonaDle time, the governor shall complete the board by ap pointment. The bill was referred. Senator Hall introduced a bill to amend sub-section 6 of section 287 of the code, touching the immediate recording of dec larations, pleas, bills in answer in equity cases, etc. Referred to the committee on general judiciary. Senator Sharpe offered a bill to incor porate the Carrollton Street railway. The bill to establish a county court for Screven county passed. Mr. Howell’s bill, diminishing the num ber of university trustees, and providing for their appointment by the governor, passed. At 12:30 o’clock, the following resolu tion, offered by Senator Strother was car ried : “Resolved. That the senate do now ad journ out of respect to the memory of Hon. Lewis Armheim, of the county of j Dougherty, now deceased.” Edison Made an Italian Count. Paris, August 19.—The special envoy of King Humbert, of Italy, to-day presented i Thomas A. Edison, the famous American | electrician, with the insignia of grand offi- cer ot the crown of Italy. Mr. EaisoD ] tuns becomes a count, and his wife a , countess. i Prisoners Escape. Lynchburg, Va., August 19 —Two ne-! groes, named T. F. Alien and John Carter, eseaped from jaii here yesterday evening by knocking the jail door down One was 1 recaptured, bat tne other is stiil at large. A BLACK FIEND LYNCHED. He Makes a Villainous Assault I'pou a Young White Girl. Savannah. Ga.. August 19.—Lula Kiss- man, the • -ven teen-year-old daughter of i Engineer Kissman, at Newton’s lumber i mill at Pooler, was tne victim of a desper ate assault by Walter Asbury, alias Ber rien, a negro ' mili hand, Saturday after noon. Ail of Pouter was under arms Sat urday night, and halt a d^zen posses armed with shot guc and Winchesters scoured the wood all night for the perpe trator of the assault. Sheriff Rocau and Chief of Police Green were notified and the sheriff's deputies and the police were notified to keep a lookout for Asbury. The negro was captured early Sunday morning, about a mile from the scene of the assault. He was taken back to the girl’s housa and she identified him. His clothes were covered with blood from the encounter with tne girl. He confessed the crime. Tnree hundred masked men then harried him to an open field, strung him up to a tree and ridded his oody with bullets. The assault wa? committed at the Kiss- mac's home on Newton street about a quarter of a mile from the Pooler depot. The father of the girl was at work: her toother was visiting a neigabor. acd the other members cf the family were away, leaving the girl alone in toe house. As bury told a colored man at the depot that be was going to Kissmaa’s house to collect some money. A short time after he had gone tne giri’s cries were heard, and the man whom Asbury told that- he was going to Kissmsn’s hurried there and found the girl struggling with the negro, who sprang through a back door, ana jumping a fence started tovvara the woods. The girl was nearly unconscious. Her ciotnicg was torn from her body. Her lace was terribly beaten aud gashed. One eye was closed* The Suger prims of the ne gro were on her neck, and her cheeks were t-orn and bleeding. Her neck was so wrenched that she was unable to turn her head. The neighbors were aroused, but j in attending the ir-jured girl her assailant j was allowed Lime to escape. Dr. Bleakney was summoned, and he found the girl in a dsz-d condition and suffering trom her wounds, but other than the cuts and bruises upon her nead and body she was unharmed. The struggle must have lasted several minutes. The fl ior and furniture were covered with blood and the girl’s hands were bloody where she fought cer assail ant. The girl herself in her excited con dition could give but a vague account of the assault. After leaving the Kissman house Asbury attacked Mrs. Grayson, about a quarter of a mile from the scene of the first as sault, and beat her over the head with the butt end of a gun which he seized as he entered the house. Mrs. Grayson escaped into the street, and Asbury raided the house aud armed himself with a double barrel gun and a single barrel gun. He then went to tne house of Mr. Walls, aud was about to assault Mrs. Walls, when her husband entered tee house, and Asbury escaped into the woods in tne direction of Mouteit-h. Asbury is a large black man with a re pulsive countenance ana ugly manners. Hi is well known at Pooler, where ho had oeeu employed some time in Newton’s mi!!. Before that, he worked at Eden, ana he was known in Savannah. The vieim of bis assault is a rather oreposses j sing and well developed girl. Her father came to this country with hi3 family from Germany, and is engineer at Newton’s miffs, where Asbury also worked. The family is eminently respectable, and the asseult earned the greatest excitement. RACE TROUBLE IN SELMA. ATLANTA'S NEGRO PAPER THE INCENDIARY UTIER UNCE5 OF A NEGRO EDITOR. Through HI- Paper He At'acks the White People sail Predict- a Race War, The White People Aroa-ed. The Editor Denounced, PR S-IDENi HARRISON. He Will Visit Ciuciuuati and Attend a Krcepliou There. Deer Park, Md., August 19.—President Harrison bss somewhat changed the plan of his trip west, intending to stop in Cin cinnati before instead of after bis visit to Indianapolis. Tne sub committee of the Circinnaii Chamber of Commerce waited upon the president this afternoon, and he promised to attend the reception to be given Wednesday at 12:30 d. m. in the new Chamber of Commerce building, and to pay a short call at the Builders’ Exchange. Prasiaent Harrison will be at t tie Gibson House in the morning, aud receive callers from 9 to 11 o’clock. The president will leave here Tuesday night and arrive in Cincinnati at 7 o’clock Wednesday morn ing. and take a special train about 4 p. m., on the Big Four, to Indianapolis. Accom panying the president will be Secretary Rusk, United States Marshal of the Dis trict of Columbia Ransdell, and Private Secretary Halford Tne committee which waited on the president consisted of Theo. Cooke, Joseph R. Brown, Q. L. Perin, L. R. Keck, B. H. Cox and J. M. Balier. They are highly elated at tne success ot their mission. Deer Park, August 19.—The president spent the morning considering pest office appointments and examining the papers in the case of Linden I. Clark, sentenced to five years in the Virginia penitentiary for making false entries on the books of the first national bank of Richmond. In view of several extenuating circumstances, the president decided to commute tne sentence to three years’ confinement. The sub-committee from the Cincinnati chamber of commerce called with a warm invitation to the president to visit the Queen City. The president accepted the invitation, and will leave here at 9 to-mor row night,arriving at Cincinnati at seven a. m, and leaving at four o’clock. He will hold a reception in the exchange, aud expressed a desire that the exchange could be open to all citizens. This will be done. Several invitations to visit several Cineinrati entertainments were declined for lack of time. In the afternoon, the president and General Miller, and Private Secretary Hal ford drove over to Oakland in a tea cart, and in the evening, the president and Mrs. Harrison took tea at the house of ex Sena tor Davis. Birmingham;. Ala., August 19.—Ao arti cie in an independent paper at Soima, Ala., edited by a colored preacher named Bryant, has created a stir iu Alabama. In ,?n editorial in the last issue he abased the whites for various injustices against the colored race and concluded as foliows: “Were you (the whites) to leave this southland, in twenty years it would be one of the grandest sections of the globe. We would show you m-^ssbaek crackers how to run a country. You would never see convicts half starved, or deserving, honest working men hunting a living. It is only a matter of time when throughout the whole state, affairs wiii be changed, and I hope to your sorrow we were never destined to always be servants, but to be ali like other races. We must have our day. You now have yours. You have had your revolutionary and civil wars, and we here predict, that at no very distant day we wiii have our race war, and we hope, as God intends, that we will be strong enough to wipe you out of ex istence, and hardly leave enough of you to tell the story. It is bound to come, and just such hot-headed cranks as the editors of your democratic journals, are just the right set to hasten it. It is fate.” The white people in Selma are taking steps to prevent R;v. Mr. Bryant, who is now absent from the city, from ever coming oack. The executive committee of the white republicans’ protective tariff league, with headquarters at Birmingham, met here to day and passed a resolution denouncing the editorial as incendiary and dangerous, and tendering their moral, and if neces sary, their physical aid to stop such utter ances. Selma, Ala., August 19.—There is nf> race trouble here beyond the publication of an incendiary article iu the negro paper. This publication is only one of a series of articles which have been published. Much indignation has been excited among citi zens,aud a meeting was held to-day to take measures to prosecute the offenders. The city is quiet to-night. Surgeon Forter’s Transfer. | Washington, August 19.—An effort is j making on the oart of some of the people i in Florida to secure a revocation of the I army order detailing Surgeon Porter to proceed from Jacksonville, Florida, to Jackson barracks, La., “if his health would permit.” Dr. Porter, on account of ill health, is not held to active erviee ana is now awaiting retirement, the exam ining board having found him incapaci tated by reason of heart trouble. He is state health officer of Florida, and the people there have great confidence in his ability to deai with any threatened epi demic of yellow fever. They are especially desirous tnat he should not be removed at this time, as he has had eutire charge of the precautionary measures taken to pre vent the re appearance of yellow fever this season. Mr. Goodrich, who was one of the re publican candidates tor congress from Florida in the last election, came on here to present the matter to the department, and it is said has obtained assurances from Secretary Proctor that Surgeon Porter will not be disturbed. It has been suggested that Surgeon Hernburg, who is now in Cuba, might be detailed to proceed to Louisiana in place of Dr. Porter. The Situation at Jubustowu. Johnstown, Pa., August 19. —It is now stated upon good autnority that about all the money has beeu speDt that had been guaranteed to Governor Beaver for the prosecution of state work here. Such being the case, it is said that in a few days the state force will be withdrawn, and Johnstown will then be left to shift for itself. The people are very much alarmed about the matter, as it is evident if the working men are withdrawn now, that very serious consequences may ensue. Two more dead bodies were taken out of cellars to day. Neither of them were recognized. The police officials have been scouring the country for the past four weeks, notifying the people who carried off things from the debris to return them. As a consequence, many valuables are being returned to the owners. The Atlanta Newspaper Union Refuses to Print It. Atlanta, August 19.—[Special.]—The Weekly Defiauce, Atlanta’s negro paper, ! was not issued Saturday. The Defiance is printed by tbs Atlanta Newsoaper L'nion. During the recent post office muss the paper has been very bitter in its denun ciation of the democrats and white people in general. Last week the copy which was sent to the newspaper union by the editor of the paper contained some very incendiary paragraphs. The character of the writing referred to was so bad that the managers of the company informed \V. II. Burnett, the owner of the Defianec, that they could not print them. This made Barnett mad, and he failed to come up with the money for the printing of his paper. Without the money the newspa per union do nothing, and so the Defiance aid not not appear Saturday. It may not appear aDy more at ail. PEOPLE PERISHED. j Kts Utt OF A FEARFUL C TNFLI8T4- TION IN NEW YORK. j A Large Teuement Catches Fire aud Nine ! of the Sixty Tnm »tes Perish—Womep and Children Burned and Siuoth-red, Etc., Etc. CHICAGO MARKET. Review of Speculation in the Grain and Provision Market. Chicago, August 19.—The wheat market was dull and narrow today. Up to within an hour of the close fluctuations in December, which is the favorite month with traders, were ail inside a jc range, with the bulk of business within the limits of le, or from 77ic to 78c. Business in the pit was so light that the market was with out feature, the prevailing sentiment of the crowd being in favor of lower prices. December closed at 73c bid, the same as Saturday. O.her deliveries were a shade easier. A moderate business was transacted in corn and the feeling developed was weak er, the bulk of trading being at lower prices. Tne market opened s to jc under Saturday’s closing prices, was steady for a time, but soon ruled easier, and prices de clined Jc, ruled firmer, closing i to^c lower than Saturday. Oats were slow ana easier. Prices de clined |c, and the market closed easy. Mess pork was fairly active. At the opening the market was comparatively steady, but a weaker feeling was devel oped later, and prices receded 17£ to 20c. Prices rallied slightly, but the market closed easy. Lard was weak. Prices rece ed 5 to 7ic, with a fair business reported at declining scales. Short ribs attracted considerable atten tion. The feeling was weak and prices declined 7J to 10c, and the market closed quiet at the reduction. Cotton Futures. New York, August 19.—Futures ad vanced five to eleven points ana closed one to eight points higher for the day for August to November inclusive, and par tially one point lower for later options. A sharp advance in Liverpool, together with a surprisingly large export business here of late, as well as a rise on spot here, small receipts and a firm market at the south (Galveston |c higher) caused con siderable covering here, and at the ad vance selling was largely by bulls taking profits. Oa the late advance Wail street sold heavily. Greeks and Germans bought. Cotton on spot was firm; middling up lands 11 7 16, gulfs 1111-16. Brierfield Coal aud truu Company. Montgomery, Aia., August 19.—The Brierfield Coal and Iron Company was sold to-day under an order of the United States circuit court for |600,000. Thomas F. Larube and Thomas F. Peters, trustees, wore the purchasers for the bond holders. The pianr is situated in Bibo county and consists of a furnace, nailery, and 32,000 acres of coal and iron land. Several cred itors gave notice of an appeal from the decree of the court. Struck by Lightning. Savannah, Ga., August 17.—Dr. J. H. Whita, United States surgeon at Tupelo, arrived in the city to-day on his way to his home at Milledgeville. The doctor was struck by lightning on Blackbeard island Thursday afternoon, and is in a critical condition. He was sitting in bis residence when the lightning struck the house, en tering the room he was in, and, in passing across the room, struck his left leg. The trousers were ripped, his leg was terribly burned and his shoe was torn to pieces. He was knocked unconscious. A friend, Mr. Goetchina, of Columbus, was in the same room, but escaped with a iight shock. Saratoga Races. Saratoga, Augast 19. — First race— Five furlongs; Objection woo, Lady Pulai- fer second, Lucan third. Time 1:04£. Second race—Five furlongs; Deer Lodge and Boccacio finished head and head. Time l:03j. Third race—Mile and a sixteenth; Brown Princess wan, Dake of Highlands second, King Crab third. Time 1:481- Fourth race—Four furiongs; Rainbow won, Major Tom second, Nannie P third. Time 501. Fifth race—Six furlongs; Ben Harrison won, Gypsy Queen second, Bonita third. Time 1:15£. Sixte race—One milt; Fonsie won, Mirth second, Redlight third. Time 1:431. Weather Probabilities. Washington,August 19.—Indications for Georgia: Fair, stationary temperature, southeasterly winds. For Alabama: Fair, except light local showers on the coast, stationary temper ature, easterly winds. Rescinds tlie Rule. Washington, August 19.—Assistant Sec retary Bussey, in a pension decision brought before him on a motion for recon sideration, rescinds rule 135, made by Com missioner Black, and overrules the opinion of Ex-Assistant Attorney Hawkins in the same case, Ithat “dishonorable discharge from service operated as a bar to a pen sion.” The assistant secretary holds that for the department to impose upon a soldier forfeiture to the right to even claim a pension because of dishonorable dis charge, which may have been inflicted by a courtmartial for an offense of which the court had jurisdiction, would be equiva lent to pumshiflg a soldier twice for the same offense. Cousnl Conroy Dead. Washington, August 19 —The depart ment of state to-day rec ived a cablegram from the United States vice consul at Porto Rico announcing the death last night of Consul Edward Conroy, one of the oldest members of the consular service, having been appointed in April, 1869. He was fully eighty years of age. Failure at Richmond. Richmond, Va., August 19.—Richard Frey, proprietor of the Richmond wagon works, made an assignment to day. Lia bilities >6000; assets not stated. Resumed Work. I AN caster , Pa., August 19.—The Penn sylvania Iron Company, of this city, re sumed work tbi3 morniDg, after eight- teen weeks of idienesa. Employment is given to 250 men. Hon. Randolph Tucker 111. Lexington, Va., August 19.—Hon. John Randolph Tucker, ex-member of congress, is repoited to be very ill to-nigbt, aud his family fear a serious change. A CRUE<OME WEDDING. A Couple United at the Tomb of Theatre Fire Victims. Philadelphia, August 16 — Mr. and Mrs. H. Burbank arrived he/a yesterday on the way from New York to Nebraska. They had a strange story to tell. At the Brooklyn theatre five years ago the father and sriter of young Burbank were lost, as were the mother aud sister of Sadie King, who then lived iu Stase street, Brooklyn. Mr. Burbank wrote from the west for in formation about his folks and was answer ed by Miss King, who wrote occasionally for her uncle, an undertaker. Young Bur bank read the letter and a correspondence has been kept up ever since. Last Oct ber he proposed marriage. She replied in a satisfactory manner, bat suggested as the Brookly nflre had been the means of their meeting that they should carry out the marriage ceremony in Greenwood ceme tery, near the monument that was erected by the city of Brooklyn for the unknown dead who perished in the terrible disaster. Oa Wednesday Mr. Burbank, accompa nied by Col. Montgomery Green, of St. Louis, an old friend of his father, Forester Bishop, of Cincinnati, aud his sister, ar rived in Brooklyn and met Miss King for the first time at her house on DeKalb avenue. Tney drove to the cemetery with a minister and 3tood before the tail shaft. There were eight in the party, and the group was quickly made. Aware of the solemnity efthe spot the bride said: “Harry, my mother and sister are under that stone. We never fouud them.” He took her hand and answered: “And so are mine.” Colonel King, who was an officer in the army during the late civil war, said: “Yes, and they are in one of the most beautiful spots this world can find for the dead. Sadie, you have selected this spot to be married. Are you ready?” The minister then arranged them in iin9 facing the monument, aud the ceremony proceeded. After being made man and wife they walked up the glassy incline to the shaft. The bride and groom knelt while the clergyman offered a short but effecting prayer. Then all returned to the city, the bride aud groom going to the house of an aunt, Mrs. C. Barnutn, at Yonkers, where they remained until yes terday, whan they left for their home in Nebraska. MISTAKEN FOR A DEER, Clarence Fell, of New, Shot Dead iu the North Woods. Rome. N. Y., August 16.—Clarence Bell, a young New Yorker, was accidentally shot and killed yesterday morniDg in the north woods, near Morse river, by Ellis Roberts, of Utica, who mistook him for a deer. Boll and two companions, Cox and Hu.sted, were camped near the river with their guide, Win. Pell, an old woodsman. At 5 o’clock in the morning, when the mist was just risiDg from the woods, and the sun was just beginning to creep up they made their way towards the deer lick. By a fatal coincidence Roberts aud a companion named Sherman, who had their camp about half a mile above Lake Pansalla, had chosen the same lick. Tney arrived there about ten minutes in advance of the other party, and with rifles ready quietly waited for the coming of the game. In the woody shadows the light was indistinct, and objects were not clearly ducernaffle at a great distance. It was Robert’s first experience of the kind, and perhaps he was a little excited and eager to secure the first shot. He did not have to wait long. Suddenly, in the opposite direction, was heard the cau tious breaking of twigs and the unmistakable moving of shrubbery. Then the sounds ceased. The two hunters were ready with their weapons, with their attention centered in the direction from which the sound came. A move ment on their own part had evidently warned the game. Tne sounds began again, and the young men were on the S ui vive. Suddenly, about tea rods away, oberts saw a tan colored object, evi dently the back of an animal. Quickly as his excitement would permit, his rifle was brought up to his shoulder. He took a quick sight and fired. The object dropped. With a shout of exultation Robert rushed forward, followed Sherman and their guide Spinper. The intervening distance wae quickly covered, and instead of a dear laid low by a bullet, they saw Pell lying in the arms of his guide, the blood gushing from a wound in his right side. He wore a tan colored coat. When Robert realized what he had done he was overcome with grief. Pell made a cry when he was struck, out never spoke afterwards. He died iu a short time. It was a sad party that returned to the little camp. The two young men were good friends. Owing to the distance from any telegraph or telephone station, the news had to be carried miles through the wild country by PeL’s companion. Coro ner R. W. Werner, ot Ilion, was summoned and held an inquest on the body at Star ter’s hotel, White Lake Corners, at 4 o’clock this afternoon. The jury, late to night, brought iu a vtrdiol of accidental shooting, and exonerated Roberts. The body arrived at Boonville to-night and was prepared by Undertaker Chauncey for shipment to New York. Both of the principals in this sad acci dent are young men. Pell was twenty-one years old in September last. His father is connected with the firm of A. G. Spalding & Co., sporting goods manufacturers. Rob erts is only seventeen years old. He is the son of George Roberts, of the Utica Herald, and a grand nephew of Ellis H. Roberts, assistant United States treasurer at Nbw York. j New York, August 19— EirJy this morning fire broke out in the kitchen of j ft restaurant on the store fl x>r of a big flve ; story tenement at 305 Seventh avenue. ; Nine of the sixty odd occupants of the j hcuDe iost their lives, and it is a great i wonder that many more did not perish. Tne dead are: William Glennon, aged sixty years, burned to death. Nellie AtcGeaghan, aged twenty years, smothered. Mary Wells, thirty-one years, smoth ered. Jane Wells, four years, smothered. Thomas Wells, two years, smothered. Bertha Lustig, aged forty, burned to death. Wm. Makes, forty-seven years of age, burned to death. James Jeffrey, aged sixtv-five, smoth ered. An unknown woman, aged forty five years, smothered. The list of injured is William Glennon, eighteen years of age, badly burned. John Glennon badly burned and injured. The building was oceupied by thirteen families, who have been made tempora rily homeless by the lire. The flames did not do much damage in the various apart ments, but burned out their strength in I the hallways. The pecuniary loss will not ! amount to more than $10,000. [ The fire originated in the rear of John Suyder’s restaurant at an hour when all the people in the house were 3ie»ping soundly. Just how the fire started is as yet a mystery, but. as the restaurant’s cook is missing, It is fair to presume that the accident occurred while he wa3 mak ing a fire in the big lange. The awful speed with which the flames swept up through the building suggests the use of kerosene by the cok. The door leading from the kitchen to the hallway was fuund open, and a great volume of fire rolled out into the passage and swept up the stairways so rapidly that the families living on tho first "floor must inevitably have perished without even so much as a warning. But it so happened that the rooms directly over the restaurant were unoccupied, on account of the heat which seemed to sift through the flooring from the range underneath. Less than half a block a way, on the c >r- ner of Twenty-eighth street and the ave nue stood Policemen Warner and McCal- logh, of the Thirtieth street station. They received warning from a cry of pain which came from the building and look ing in the direction whence it came, saw a wall of fire beating against the front win dows of the restaurant. By the time that they realized what the trouble was, a forked tongue of the flames shot out from the roof and lighted up the neighborhood. With their clubs the t wo officers beat in the front door, but a spiteful biaza shot out and drove them back. They tried the next door and in that way found an en trance. There were signs of life in the building, and the officers hurried from one room to another, rapping on the doors with their clubs, and calling to the inmates to fly for their lives. Murmurings at first were heard, then the buzz of many voices, which finally changed into a wail of terror and agony from the women and children, struggling for their lives in the death trap. The fire escapes leading from the burning building to the, a3 yet, untouched tene ment next doer, were speedily filled up with half naked people. In the meantime, alarms had been sent out, and the fire department were soon at work on the flames, and assisting the frightened inmates. The flames were extinguished easily enough by the firemen, and all the people on the fire escapes were safely landed. Not one person escaped down the stair way, and the names of a few who tried it are found in the list of tho dead, as given above. As soon as possible search for the dead began. The first body found was that of old William Glennon. The remains were discovered by the side of his bed in his room on the second floor. He had risen to fly with his sons, but his old legs were not strong enough, and he perished. The boys were taken to the hospital. They were burned on the feet, caused by walk ing on the hot iron bars by the fire escape. In the rooms of the Wells family was a sight which cannot easily be forgotten. In the middle of the floor knelt the moth er, Mary W9lls, and in her dead embraca were her children, Jane and Thomas. They had been smothered, and not a burn or blister defaced the palor of their coun tenances. The nine dead bodies were placed in ambulances and taken to the Thirtieth street station. Coroner Hanly gave friends permits for the removal of the dead. Snyder, keeper of the restaurant ia which the fire broke oat, was arrested oa suspicion of being responsible for its ori gin. A policy of insurance for $1000 oa his stock was found in his possession, and an employe states he found fat scattered over the floor of the restaurant. THE SULLIVAN COMBINATION. Baseball Yesterday. At Philadelphia—Philadelphia 14, Wash ington 1. Base hits—Philadelphia 16, Washington 3. Errors—Philadelphia 3, Washington 5. Batteries—Casey and Schriver, Ferson and Daly. At Boston—Boston 4, New York 4. Base hits—Boston 5, New York 9. Errors—Bos ton 3, New York 5. Batteries—Clarkson and Bennett, Crane and Ewing. Called on account of darkness. At Cincinnati—Cincinnati 3, Columbus 4. Base hits—Cincinnati 10, Coiambus 5. Errors—Cincinnati 2, Columbus 2. Batter ies—Smith and Keenan, Gastright and O’Connor. At Louisville—Louisville 9, Brooklyn 8. Base hits—Louisville 15, Brooklyn 17. Er rors—Louisville 3, Brooklyn 2. Batteries— Lovett and Carathers, Beynolds, Ehret and Smith. At—Indianapolis—Indianapolis 3, Chica go 10. Base hits—Indianapolis 13, Chicago 14. Errors—Indianapolis 3, Chicago 1. Batteries—Boyle and Buckley, Gumbert and Darling. At Cleveland—Cleveland 3, Pittsburg 4. Base hits—Cleveland 3, Pittsburg 9. Errors —Cleveland 1, Pittsburg 1. Batteries— Bakeiey and Zimmer, Morris and Ca- roll. Chicago Breweries ®old. New York, August 19.—An evening paper says: “It is learned that negotia tions have just been completed by which the entire breweries of Chicago have been sold to a syndicate ot English capitalists. The negotiation was conducted by Mr. Heiser, who has been heretofore more prominent in Masonic circles than in busi ness affairs. It involves millions of dol lars, and has been kept a secret and is only known in Chicago to the parties directly interested.” Clune Says Kilrain and Sullivan (Vill Form a Combination. Pittsburg, August 19.—John Sullivan and party passed through Pittsburg on the limited express this morningea route east. Sullivan was sleeping and Matthew Ciuna would not allow him to be disturbed. Clune said it was true they were going to form a combination, and that Kilrain will probably be in the company. [After Sullivan had been sentenced Sat urday nignt at Purvis, Miss., to imprison ment for one year, his cou..sel appealed the case to the supreme court, and Sullivan was put under a bond of 51000 for his ap pearance next February.—Ed ] New York, August 19.—John L. Sulli van arrived at 8 o’clock to night, accom panied only by Matthew Clune, proprietor of the Vanderbilt hotel. He was met by his backers and the Port Chester band. At the Vanderbilt hotel a crowd awaited him, eager to shake hands, but he cleared the sidewalk in a jump and ran up the stairs. Being interviewed, he said: “Boys, I am very tired, but I never felt in beiter condition ia my life. I nad an ovation at every station on my route from the south, and at Cincinnati, Pittsburg and Philadelphia, an immense crowd greeted me, and others tilled the car aud insisted on snaking hands with me.” “What is your opinion of the vurdict, John?’’ “Judge Terrell, in charging the jury.” said Sul ivan, with a show of bitterness, “brought out every point it was possible to u-e against me, and the moment the charge was delivered I knew there could be no other verdict. Almost without ex ception the people sought to favor me. I was constantly in receipt of encouraging letters from men in the highest social and business circles, who understood that I had no intention of violating the laws of the state of Mississippi. I hope that when my case is tried by the supreme court the decision of the lower court will be reversed, as I dread imprisonment and would never have fought in the state had I known that I rendered myself liable to a term of imprisonment. I hope to be able to leave the city to-morrow evening for Boston. I am in receipt of a telegram from my people there stating that my mother is very sick and urging me to hurry.” Jackson, Miss., August 19.—Governor Lowry has received a telegram from Agent Childs that Kilrain’s lawyer has ad vised him not to fight being extradited, and that he would come with his prisoner to-day or to-morrow. Cotton Worms in Arkansas. Little Rock, Ark., August 19.—Great excitement exists among cotton farmers of five or more counties in this state over the appearance within the last few days of cotton worm . They hive appeared in the bottom lands of Pulaski, Jefferson, Clark, and two other counties. As far as heard from, Paris green is being freely