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The Georgia Enterprise. VDLILMK XXIV. BsOl 111 l l.'N ITEMS. ftn/.s'OF I.\ TRUEST FROM 1.4 ■uor.s/■/>■ y.v / v the south. ■L.btanci: IN the rrHEM> states. ■pv Union Point nml 'Vhito Plains Hflroml will soon be in operation. 1 lie tracts have been let and work will r in at. once. ■ Tlic Inteiimtioniil Typographieal l nion by a I urge majority, accepted the Kvitation to hold its text annual meeting ■t Atlanta, G a., next Juue. I The large lumber mill of J. 11. Clarke, ■t Doctortown, near .lesup, On., tvs to ■„!lv destroyed by tire on Wednesday, ■jo-s, $00,000; partially Insured. | Wrsh y Clark and Harrison Blackburn, H)oth colored, wcie hanged in Aberdeen, ■ti,*.. Tuesday, for the ir.urder of Maj. Hamilton last December. I A dispatch from Savannah, On., says: to the Americus road ■unount now to nearly $30,000. There obtaining $20,000 will be raised next ■week. '|| Frank Smith, of Smith Station, Go., ■was struck by lightning Tuesday while in his store door and instantly ■killed. He leaves a wife and several ■ A middle age l negro entered Magis ■rate Russell's court, iu Savannah. Sit ■inlay, and insisted on surrendering him into the custody of the law. lie ■aid he had been guilty of suicide. ■II Jicv. Itolili White, of Cliarlottesvill ■, ■V u , lias been caller! to the pa-torute of church (Episcop 1) in Savannah, ■ev. Dr. Thomas Boone, tlie last rector Christ church, goes to New York. I Two boys, Jimmie Freeman, aged 11, Louis Miller, 15 yenis, werediowued ■n Charleston, S. C., bar or onThuisday. were -on the yacht White Wings a party. The boys were knocked by ti e main sail boom. ;■'l he various applicants fur the p >*. Cif Nashville. Tenn., were in!" exeitemt nt on Wednesday In umioiii.f incut Hint Postmaster J. 11. Huircy lul l sent in hi* resignation. Hr. ivy's ti ini dots not expire for som j^Houths. James \V. Warren, aged nineteen, and "ii tiisteamer K. I'. Holmes, M< mele.l to step into a skiff from the while tiie later was in motion >.t Telia. The skiff careened nit'l a fell into the river. living rumble Hu aim he whs drowned. l *.l The eontemplated Piedmont exp si Hun, which was to have been h Id in N. in the fall, has col- H|soi Oil a -eoinit of some disngrer meat the committee. If any exposi- is In hi it x\ ill now require anew It. V. Covington, a popular member the Brunswick (tlu.j Horse Hoards, drilling, made a si sh with sabre and missed his aim—a post— flew back, narrowly missing cutting Hll the the top of bis bead, uud complete- severing one of I.is ears from His face. HA meeting of the Greenville, 8. C., Alliance was held there in the on Saturday. About one rcpiesentntives wcie present. a 1 the sub-alliances in the state represented. lb-solutions were Hu--, and adopting cotton bagging to take Hu- place of jute. ■ Professor Bil liard W. Cone, recently in the Nannie How Waithen at Wiightsville, Ga., has been a lunatic, ami was taken to Friday night. He is a of the state university, and was of unusual natural endowments. B News reached Augusta, Ga., of the of the barn and stables of Mr. Lamar, at Hecch islands, S. C. the building, eighteen mules, oxen, several hogs, and three bushels of oats were consumed, was evidently the work of an iu George Handley, a teamster, died at Birmingham, Ala., charity hospital Thursday of lockjaw, caused by the Brick of a mule. Handley was trying to harness on a young mule, when it Bricked him in the face. His injury did B>°t appear to be serious, but lockjaw set and he died in a few hours. 1 Lieut. Carter, of the engineer corps in Bhargc of the harbor improvement at 8a- Banmth, Ga., lias submitted a report on Bte charges brought against liim through Be press of that city by a discharged Bniploye, that lie has been having a eor- Bupt understanding with liis contractor-', Bn<l that he has wasted the public funds. I John Lane, abrakeman on the Pratt Bliues railroad, fell from a moving train ■n Birmingham, Ala., and was killed. Blia fall was caused by tho efforts of the Bngineer to stop the train in time to to id running over a crowd of negro ys who had congregated on the track, and were slow in getting out of the way. Lee, of Virginia, whose of duties preclude his attendance, lias B 'k'uated Hon. William Wirt Henry, ■ Richmond, to represent Virginia at W c meo,l . n g of the governors of the thir ;sM>n original states to be held at [ndc pendence hall, Philadelphia, July 4th Mr. Henry is a grandson of Patrick Henry. The surveying corps of the Columbus southern is within a few miles of Cutli tiert, On. They are running a line from Richland, a point on their main line in Btewart county, to Cuthbert. With this connection for the road, soon to be built frojn Cuthbert to Bniubridge, Cuthbert will have superior advantages in railroad conucctions. i A negro drum corps parading in Wil mington,Del., on Thursday, was aunoved bya party of small white lads,and onc’ced Wat?" w • W [ th l' istols short range. hiroml t V, i ,ght ’, aKt ' d 10 ’ ™ he T tem| u e and died withinafew C ol J , oßl ' l,h Lawlo9( S aped 8, was rionev 1 * Ug K ‘be shoulder. Tlios. Mai pS.Wotd‘‘“ "”“*.r~ai".. ThursdavTlri" 1 , 1 "' Colcock died 011 rears Cllarlt ' ston . S. C. For many Sed Jit ° nU ,° f ,lle ,110 st <listir, collector ( f'rl 113 tke Stntc - He was and and ,ri a® P ° rt of Charleston before seccs^"" 8 ‘ he " ar ; "as an advocate of I r n Imm “ nremb<r of the conven -1 n IWOO. i{ e was a fi nc go ' JO i ar and possessed large wealth and great influ* euee. Ihe total passenger earnings of the <u r °ads in South Carolina last month as re | orted to the state railroad commis lon, w’ere $186,089.72; showing a de iease under toe earnings from the same r.f tlle same period last yeat £ #2, u 4 ill, Xhe_{reight.. earnings foi the month were #327,455.42, showing an increase over the earnings from the same s< tirrc during the same period last year of $•.2,3l .l. 111. Del with midnight and day Sunday morning the Central railroad put a force of hands to work laying the Uh< k on its Unused right of way, about a mile from Columbus, (la , to pi event the Columbus Southern ro a c ming in on it. An effort was made to ktep the matter a •ecret, but it leaked on , nud before the Work was half finished the Chattahoo chee Brick company tiled a Dili asking for an injunction and Judge Smith granted it. The work was stopped at ante. In the death, on Wednesday, of Dr. Andrew Simondf, one of the most eon spicuous figures in the history of Port Bellevue, Sou h Carolina, has pan ed iway. Dr. Situonds has been a confirmed lyspeptie nearly all bis life. A few days igo he was att.rked with iullammation of l.he bowels, which rendered a surgical op ■ration necessary. This resulted in his death. He was a native of Abbeville county and a connection of John C. Cal houn, of nullificdion fame, his mother being Jane Hamilton Calhouu. Iu 1800 tie married a daughter of John A. Cal houn. lie organized the First National Bank, of Charleston, in 1805, was elected president, and tilled the office till his death. A thunderstorm, resulting in consid erable damage to property, occurred in Newberry comity, S. C., on Wednesday. On one farm a cow was instantly killed. On another, the corn crib was set on lire, but the flames were extinguished before much damage was done. On Noah Wil son’s place a colored boy leading a mule to the stable was prostrated and stunned, while the nin e was instantly killed by the stroke. On John Wertz’s farm a team of four mulct were struck, two being killed and one crippled. The negro driver was thrown from the mule he rode and stunned, his hat being torn to shreds and his clothing uiych injured. The barn of George McWhorter, in Colum bia, was struck and set on tire. On Wednesday, at King's Crossing, a few miles beyond Seville, Ga., two ne groes boarded the train ami attempted tc steal a ride on the top of the height ear. When Conductor F. S. B. Whigham dis covered them he climbed on top of the ear. As he approached, is is supp >sed the negroes slipped down on the side of the car, and held on by the iron ladder, in oriler to conceal themselves from him. As lie passeti he looked over the side ol the car, and one of them tired a shot from a pistol and dropped from the train. The bail entered the brain of Mr. Whig ham, and lie fell to the ground. As soon us possible the train was stopped, Mr. Whigham was picked up and put on board, and carried to Americus, where he died. A negro has been arrested id Sycamore, who has been identified as the one who fired the fatal shot. TENNESSEE S SENSATION. A REVEREND GENTLEMAN SUES BEVERAI NEWSPAPERS FOR $50,000 DAMAGES. The great Howard damage suit is be ginning to assume shape at Jackson, Teun. The declaration was received. It covers about sixty pages of legal cap, and contains sixteen counts, and claim! $50,000 damages. The charges, ns pub lished in the Forked Veer Blade, and the Baptist, and Baptist llcjlector, briefly are That the plaintiff has borne the aliases Frederick Howard, Hewlett, Howard; that if he sailed on the ship Tigress in 1573, in search of the Polaris in the Arctic regions, he bore the name of Ilowlett; that in South Carolina he as sociated with uegiocs; as trial just ce, had committed malfeasance in office; eloped from Bobbins, South Carolina, with C. C. Brown's wife; that his life is covered over with a mass of corrup tion. The defendants plead the truth in justification. The first evidence intro duced by the plaintiff was to i rove the publication in the papers, and it was conspiracy also, to prove that the plain tiff secured his title—doctor of divinity —from the Agricultural aud Mechanic and College at Auburn, Ala., in a regular manner in 1883. The defendants opened Thursday. They introduced depositions of Commander Greer, of the Tigress, the officers in the Bureau of Equipment in the navy in Washington, and a journalist named Commague, who Soiled in the Ti gress on the polar expedition in search of the Polaris in 1873; that nc man named Howard was on the vessel; that Frederick Ilowlett was on it ns a seaman* deserted the ship in New York harbor in November of the same year. The connection of the case with a historical event like the Arctic expedi tion, is but one of the many interesting points which are to come up during this trial. LATEBT ABOUT CRONIN. A CLAN-NA- GAEL MAN SAYS THE DOCTOR WAS MURDERED- —GOV. HILL’S ACTION. Michael Boland, recorder of Kansas City, Mo., whose name has been con nected with that of Alexander Sullivan, the Chicago lawyer, and other members of the Clan-na-Gacl, in connection with the Cronin murder mystery, expressed the opinion he was murdered by members of the Clan-na-Gael. He thought that some of the more ignorant members, sharing the general belief that Cronin was a spy, killed him in mistake, think ing they were benefitting the order. He says Sullivan or any leaders Were not even remotely connected with the con spiracy .... A requisition was presented to Governor Hilt of New k on Thursday from Governor Fifer, of Illinois, for the surrender of John J. Maroney and Charles McDonald, charged With the murder of Dr. Cronin. Tho governor denied the application without prejudice to the renewal of the same, simply on the grounds: 1. That the application was not accompanied by an indictment. 2. That no proof whatever was present ed showing that the accused are guilty of the crime charged nga nst them, re quired by tho laws of N. Y.,and all other states. The application was based solely upon an afiidavit made upon “iuforma tion and belief.” PLUG TOBACCO TRUST. A special dispatch from St. Louis,Mo., says: The latest report is trust a of $25,- 000,000, which takes in all the the plug tobacco manufactories of the United Stales. There schemo is said to be one ot self protection. All manufacturers will sell out to one company, and then take stock to amount of valuation of their plants. Leggett and Myers and Drum j mond & Company, of 9t. Louis, ami Pierre Lorillard, ot New York,are at th< head of the affair. “MY COUNTRY: MAY SHE EVER HE RIGHT; RIGHT OR WRONG, MY COUNTRYP’-Jtrrrtntus FARMING HINTS, GARNERED FROM SOUTHERN ALLIANCE SOURCES. The Alliances of Georgia are solid for eotton hugging. Many Allancea are having their lec tures read at every meeting from the Southern Cultivator , of Atlanta, Ga. The Alliance men of DeKalb county, Ga.,will have a grand fourth of July meet ing at Wesley Chapel in that county. The Screven county, Ga., Alliances oppose the passage of a law prohibiting hunting and fishing on unenclosed lands. The agricultural headquarters of Geor gia have been located in the Franklin Publishing House, of Atlanta, Ga., iu rooms tendered for the purpose. The Dougherty county, Ga., Alliance bought a lot and will commence the erection of a warehouse at an early day. The lot purchased has a front of 102 J fict, running back 210. In the last repo: tof the condition of crops in South Carolina, it is estimated that 4 per cent, less commercial fertiliz ers has beeu used on cotton than last year, and that 20 ptr cent, of the fertil izer used this year was home-made. As to corn, 55 per cent, of the crop has bean fertilized, and over one-half of this amount with homemade manures. A large number of farmers came as del egates to the meeting of the County Al liance at Seneca, S. C. lie solutions con demning the bagging trust and pledgiug the members of the Alliance to use only cotton cloth to bale cottoh, were adopted. Though the Alliance declined as a body to endorse the proposed cofTou seed oil mill, msiiy of the members subscribed largely, thus showing their sympathy with tiud confidence iu the enterprise. The 7,075,000 farmers and farm labor ers of the United Static (4,000,000 farms) labor chiefly to feed 60,000.000 of people and the domestic animals, and to furnish wool, flax and other fibers as raw materials for partly clothing our own nation, and cotton to clothe more than 100,000,000 people besides our own; be sides lurge quantities of sugar, molasses, pjrk. beef, lard, tallow, hides and horns which the factories work into forms and shapes suited to the conveniences of commerce and the wants of the people. Albany, Ga., people spent many dol lars in sending off and buyiug of an iten erant florist the clematis, when the wild clematis of that section is far more beau tiful. A resident discoveied one of these plants in one of his incursions into the country, and that for delicate beauty, it far surpasses the clematis that bloom in the gardens. The flora of that section embraces about 175 varieties, some of which are as choice as ever were fash ioned in Nature’s mould. Think to what some of these flowers, so beautiful n their wilds, could be brought through cullivati&n. A Georgia former gives his formula for making a superior fertilizer. It is about the same as the popular Furman formula. He puts together, in layers, thirty bushels each of stable manure and cotton seed, sprinkling in 100 pounds of acul phosphate and fifty pounds of kainit. Iu this way he builds up the heap to the height of four feet, lie al lows it to stand say six weeks, then spades over and applies from thirty to sixty bushels to the area. He makes another fertilizer, with cotton seed meal and without the stable manure. Cue hundred pounds cotton seed meal, fifty pounds acid phosphate, fifty pounds kaimt, mixed together, applying from two hundred to three hundred pounds to the acre. The following experience of a French agriculturist was translated from a Mex ican journal: ‘-Two peach trees of my orchard were covered with insects, just as they were about to flower. Having cut several tomato vines, the idea occur red to me to place them around the trunks and branches of the peach trees, to shelter them from the rays of the sun. What was my surprise, on the following day, to notice that all the insects had disappeared, except from the leaves be yond "the influence of the tomato plant, i carefully separated these leaves and ap plied the tomato to them, when the in sects disappeared as though by enchant ment, and from that time the peach trees began to grow luxuriantly. Wish ing to carry the experiment further, 1 put some of the tomato leaves in water and sprinkled other plants, such as th rose bush, orange tree, apple tree, peat treo, etc., with the infusion, which blso had the same effect of completely freeing them of insects within a few days.” South Carolina papers mention a some thing astonishing to the “oldest inhab itant,” the finding of wild cane in seed: “This rnrn avis in question is a growtli resembling the red oak somewhat, and grows on a common cane or reed, such at is found on branch and creek bottoms. The specimen stalks before us from twelve to fifteen feet in heightl), thickly filled from end to end, or from ground tc tip end, with oat-like heads, containing flat, plump grains. It seems that this seed-bearing cane is of a very recent dis covery, never having been observed, infact, until within the past few days.” Boththt large and small cane bear seed, though not freely, ns is the case with most p’ants, which increase freely by running root-stocks. The latter fact, well known to botanists, accounts for the almost in variable sterility of that pcstiferoui grass, the “maiden cane.” But J. H. Simpson, of M mateo, discovered it in seed last year, aud proved it to be a va riety of a certain swamp grass, the pani cum Curtisi. Dr. George Vasey, of the Department of Agriculture, South Caro lina, has recommended botanists to rcc -ovni7.fi it as “variety Simnsoni.” The Farmers’ Aliiance is becoming • powerful and influential society in Mis sissippi. It has able public speakers and well-informed agents visiting all of the counties of the state, organizing alliances and instructing the farmers in regard to their interests, their rights and their wrongs. Their lecturers are itinerant school-masters, teaching the farmers in their lectures exactly what they all ought to know. And the members of the or der will pass it round to their neighbors who do not belong to the order. They are not only taught important practical facts in agriculture, but facts relating to commerce and trade, how they shoulil sell their crops, how they arc affected by “rings” and “corners” and “combines” and “trusts,” and by paying dearly for lire credit they get; and they are taught important facts in political economy, in relation to labor and nstional wealth, where the money comes from, and where it goes, and who gets it. And they arc taught that they must have more farmers in state legislatures, and in Congress, and COVINGTON. GKORGIA. THURSDAY, JUNK \M). 18811. hi huh government* to look after the agric ultural Interests of the country, ami that they must vote for tried friends of the femu rs for all offices from the I’m u dent of the United States down to tho officer (list tests the honesty of weights snd measures. Farmers have a deep in terest iu weights and measures, as well as in presidents and law-makers. FIGHTING IN COURT. vuk .irimk, coKsTAnt.it, ruisoNK.it and SEVERAL SPECTATORS KII.I.Kl). A bloody shooting affray occurred eighteen miles south of Austin, Tex., Thursday evening, in which four white men and five negroes were killed and many others wounded. It appears that in the neighborhood where the trouble occurred, a colored justice of the peace, Orange Wiekcs, and a colored constable, Isaar Wilson, were recently elected. The justice had issued a warrant for one U. D. Littcn, and it was put into the hands of Wilson. Soon alterwards, the lattei met Litten, and informed him he had a warrant for his arrest, and procec led to read It. Little remarked that it was no use to rend the warrant, for he would not be urrested by ad nigger. Quite a crowd had gathered and Wilson's friends advised him that he place the warrant in the hands of a white constable. This lie <1 ill and Littcn was arrested, but declared lie would not be tried before a colored justice. Notwithstanding his protest he was carried before Justice Wickes, whose court was in session. The room was crowded with blacks and whites. In the courtroom Litten was very abusive, and finally words led to blows, then to the use of six-shooters and Winchesters. Justice Wii ken and Litten wire riddled with bullets and died im mediately. The constable was also killed as was a negro named Bell. A gpectatoi was filled with lead and loon died. Houston Moore, a colored boy, was also killed by a stray bullet. Alexander Notch and George Seiiochf, both white men, were shot down und instantly killed, as was another white man whose name could not be learned. One hun dred armed men gathered around rei.b v to renew the fight, but all has been quiel so far. ROBBERS HUNG. Oue of the most brutal tragedies ever kuown in the history of crime in Ten nessee was expiated Wednesday by the murderous perpetrators, who were hanged lo a tree by a mob on Wednesday. Tuesday evening one week ago, E. it. Reynolds, aged 45, and Thomas J. Lloyd, aged" 21, went to the house ol Rev. Jacob Harness, a Baptist minister, in Scott county, believing him to have a large amouut of money concealed in the house. They reached the house about midnight on Wednesday and demanded admittance. ltcv. Mr. Harness wos away from the house, aud his wife aud a half-witted son, aged 16, wgre sleeping in the same room. Mm. Harness, who was about fifty years of age, went to the door and told the men they must leave. They broke down the door und rushed in, shooting the old lady dead iu her tracks the first thing. The boy, awak ened by the noise, rushed out at auothei door. They followed him out, and, overtaking him, beat him to death with a garden hoe. They carried him back aud threw him in the doorway, his legs protruding. They uext ransacked the house, secured $74, anil then, to covei up the terrible crime, applied the torch. They were arrested aud jailed at Hunts ville. Both the villains confessed their crime before they were executed, aud said tliev deserve! what they got. VETERAN ORGANIZATION. A NEW ORDER, KNOWN AS THE UNITE! CONFEDERATE VF.IF.RANS. Governor Gordon, of Georgia, has been elected general of the United Confed erate Veterans. This Grand Army ot the South was organized in New Oileant aud Governor Gordon received official notice of his election as commanding general, accompanied by a copy of tlu constitution of the ordir. The objceti are of a social, literary, historical and be nevolent character. An effort will be made to unite all associations ot Confed erate veterans, soldiers and sailors, tc gather authentic data for an impartial history ol the war between the states; to cherish the ties of friendship that should exist among men who have shared com mon dangers and common sufferings; to care for the disabled; to help the needy; to protect the widow and the orphan; and make and preserve a record of the services of every member, and :*s far as possible those of the Confederate dead. The officers will be a general, lieutenant general, adjutant-general, quartermaster general, conmii-sary-geuerai, judge ad-, vocate-general, surgeon-general and chaplain. General Gordon will appoint a lieutenant-general and a number of aides. The next meeting will be held on July 4th, 1890, at Chattanooga, Teun. MANY CHILDREN KILLED- A train containing an excursion patty from Armagh tb Dublin, Ireland, was wrecked near the latter place. Twenty pet sons were killed outright. The train contained 1,200 people, composed of Methodist Sunday-School scholars, their teachers and relatives. They were going on an excuision to Warren Point. Sev enty bodies were afterwards takpn from the' wreck. Warren Point, the place where the party was bound, is a watering place at the mouth of Newry River, in the county Down. r l lie acoident oc curred at a point where the trains hail tc ascend u grade on u bank fifty feet high. The first train ascended the grade with out trouble. The second section at tempted to ascend, but the weight of the train proved too great for the engine. Sever and ears were detached and allowed to run back towards the level track, but before they reached it, they came in col lision with ail ordinary truin from Ar magh, which was proceeding at a good rate of speed. CHARLESTON’S COURT. Tho coining session of the criminal court, which commences ou Monday next, promises to be the most important ever held in Charleston, S. C. The jury is composed of fourteen mulattocs and negroes and twenty-one whites—an uuu sually large proportion of the colored race. The docket has over 61 cases to be tried—l3 for murder, 16 of assault witli intent to kill, 6 burglary, 8 of va grancy, 2 of carrying concealed weapons, 1 of rape. 3 of house breaking, 8 of lar ceny, and the rest of minor offences. The greatest interest attaches to the case of McDow, charged with tho murder of Captain F. W. Dawson, on the 12th o! March last. It is probable, however that this case will be postponed. WASHINGTON, 1). 0. MOVEMENTS OF THE PR ESI DENI AND HIS AD VLEERS. AI'IDINTSIFNTM, DECISIONS, AND OTHKn MASTERS or INTEUEHT FROM THE NATIONAL I AFITAL. The Frcsideut on Thursday appointed L> be collectors of customs, T. Jefferson Jurrett, for tho district of Petersburg, Ya , und Robert Smalls for the district of Beaufort, 8. C. There is considerable talk of au extra session of Congress. The northern men are of the opinion that it will he held, while the majority of southern men ex press the opiuiou that the President will uwait the October elections in the newly admitted territories. The examination! at the military acad emy received on Thursday at the War Department, shows that Cadet Young, ol Ohio, the only colored cadet at West Point, failed to para final examination. On recommendation of academic board, he will be given two months’ time to make good his deficiency if he can. The President on Saturday made the following appointments to be consuls: Gen. Joseph A. Leonurd, of Minnesota, at Shanghai; Wakefield G. Frye, of Maiue, at Halifax; Zachary T. Sweeney, of Indiana, at Const intiuople; Oliver 11. Dockery, of North Carolina, at Rio de Janeiro; Oliver 11. Simona, of Colorado, at St. Petersburg; George W. Roosevelt, of Pennsylvania, cwnsal at Brussels; Levi W. Brown, of Ohio, consul at Glas gow. Some excitement was manifested at the State an.l Navy Departments Wednesday, upon the receipt of a cablegram from Commander Kellogg, at Ilayti. In obe dience to orders from the Navy Depart ment, which in turn were inspired by tho Secretary of State, Commander Kellogg recently steamed from St. Nicholas mole (cable to Port au Ptiuee. He reported to the Secretary of the Navy the result of his observations and inqui ries into the condition of affairs at the Ilaytien capital. Secretary Trncy imme diately communicated this information to Secretary Blaine, who carried the news to the President. Cnpt. O'Kane was or dered to sail immediately for the seat of trouble with the warship Bostou, which has just been refitted at New York. The June report of the Department ol Agriculture at Washington, indicates a slight reduction in the area of cotton on the Atlantic coast, and au increase west of the state of Alabama. Nearly four fifths of the proposed breadth had been planted bv the first of May, but germin ation was slow on accuunt of col l and generally dry weather. The replanting of defective stands is general, and some fields were plowed up and planted in corn. The following averages are pre liminary, subject to a revision from a thorough, special investigation now in progress: North Carolina 99, South Carolina 99, Georgia 96, Florida 100, Alabama 99, Mississippi 102, Louisiana 103, Texas 103, Arkansas 104, Tennessee 106; general average 101. The nights have been too cold aud the seed bed too dry for germination or vigorous growth. Frosts are reported in May, some as late us the 80th. Throughout the cotton belt the condition is therefore relatively l ow —the lowest in South Caroiua, the highest iu Texas, averaging 86.4; the state averages being: Virginia 85, North Carolina 84, South Carolina 78, Georgia 80, Florida 88, Alabama 83, Mississippi 85, Louisiana 90, Texas 95, Arkansas 92, Tennessee 79. General average 80.4. Replanting was scarcely completed at the date of the report, and in dry land the latest seeding had uot germinated. Rains on the last days of May were ex pected to improve the condition mate rially. Iu some districts are reports of the presence of lice and injuries by cut worms. PRINTERS' HOME. COLORADO STRINGS CHOSEN AS TIIE LOCA TION OF A HOME FOP. INVALID PRINTERS. At the third day’s session of the Inter national Typographical Convention, at Denver, Col., on Thursday, the matter relative to the sending of a delegate to Paris during the international congress, which convenes next month, was referred to the committee of the whole. Consul-, erablc discussion was caused by receiving a petition to use plates in the govern ment office nt Washington. Referred to a committee consisting of Messrs. C'aise ty, of New York, ltsichel, of Illinois, Metcalf, of Minneapolis, and Richards,of Waco, Texas. Several provis ous for the establishment of a home for invalid printers were then submitted to the meeting. The committee to which they were referred, reported unanimously in favor of adopting the pjoposition sub mittod by the citizens of Colorado Springe, who offered eighty acres of land near in as a free grant, on condition that the home be started within two years, and completed within three years. By a rising report it was adopted. The president ruled there were no vacancies, aud consequently no election of officers will be held until next year. An appeal was taken aud the ruling of the chair sustained. DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE. On Wednesday, the National Demo cratic Committee met at the sth Avenue hotel, iu New York, nearly the en tire membership attending. Sec retary Sherrin stated that the only busi ness he knew of that was to come before the committee was the election of a suc cessor to the late Chairman W. H. Bar num, and the admission of his successor, Carlos French, ns a member of the com mittee from Connecticut, and D. M. Haskell, from South Carolina, as succes sor to ttie late Capt. Dawson. The sec retary of the committee made an address on the death of Capt. Francis W. Daw son, of South Carolina, in which lie paid a high tribute to his worth and memory and briefly reviewed his life. He also presented resolutions testifying to the regret at his death aud high esteem iu which he was held by the committee ol which he was a member. These were also adopted unanimously, as well as eulogistic resolutions on the death of W. IT. Barnum. The nomination of Col. Calvin S. Brice to bo chainnan of the committee was then made by Judge McHenry, of Kentucky, and was sec onded by Senator Gorman. He was unan imously elected. THE GRAND PRIZE. The race for the Prixde Paris, 100,000 francs, was won by Bay Colt Vasitas by one lcDgth. The ChestDUt Colt Pour tant, second, four lengths ahead of Bay Colt, Aerolitlic, third. There were thir teen starters. GENERAL NEWS. CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS, AND EXCITING EVENTS. NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE ACCIDENTS, SrRIKtS, FIRES, AND HAPPENIN')* OF INTEREST. The black vomit has made its appeur auce at Vera Cruz, New Mexico. Emperor William’s review of the Eng ?;lish fleet off Spithead, lias been fixed or August 5. The town of Zlairnz, iu Austrian Gali cia, was almost entirely destroyed by fire on Monday. Many lives ware lost. The total amount of contributions re ceived by Governor Beaver, of Harris burg, for the flood sufferers to date it about $700,090. Three of Captain Wissman’s steamers are reported to have been lust on the Benadeir coast. German men-of-wai have gone in search of the missing ves sels. A dispatch from the City of Mexico says: The roof of the Merced market fell in Friday, burying nearly forty per sona. Four dead anil fourteen wounded have already been taken out. Soldiers are removing the rubbish and searching for the bodies. Lieut. Frank Reeves Heath, U. S. N., died at Mare island naval hospital, neat San Francisco, Cal., on Thursday. He was one of the survivors of the wrecked man-of war Yundalia, at Samoa. He has been suffering for weeks from dis ease contracted at Apia, aud a week ago was taken down with an attack of com pound pneumonia. CumiHo Bougutti, awaiting trial iu New Yoik city for the murder of Fran cisco Snnevito, whom he killed on tho 22d of May, committed suicide in the Tombs ou Thursday by hanging. Wi ll a piece of rojie taken from his bed-tick, he made a noose, and attaching one end to a sewer pijie running ucross the ceil ing of his ceil be stood on his bed, placed his head in the noose and swung off. A Chicago paper contains the follow ing paragraph: “The survivors of ihc Johnstown Hood are throwing away their Bibles and openly disclaiming any be lief in a divine providence. Men and women, who saw their loved ones swept away and drowned, have in their despe ration turned their bucks on religion. The great calamity has made more athe ists than a century of lugersolism could have done. A dispatch from Tucson, Ariz., says: The preliminary hearing of the parties who robbed Paymaster Whann was com menced Wednesday afternoon. Gilbert aud Wilford Webb, M. E. Cunningham, Natt Fol'et. Lyman Follet, Thomas Lamb and David Rogers were held to answer before the grand jury. Edward F Jlet was discharged. All the parties held were identified and a large amouut of circumstantial evidence adduced against them. Other parties will prola blv be arrested soon. USED DYNAMITE. A REJECTED LOVER IN OHIO CAt'Glil WITH EXPLOSIVES —HE SUICIDES. Frank James was arrested at Bowling Green, Ohio, on the charge of attempting to blow up Mrs. Mertic Williamson’s house with dynamite. He was put in the town jail where he committed suicide by hanging himself with a pair of sus penders Mrs. Williamson is applying for a divorce from her husband, aud James has been trying to get her to promise to marry him as soon ns she gets the divorce. As she refused, James un dertook to further his suit by threaten ing to blow her up with dynamite. Tuesday evening during Mrs. William son's absence, James, who was about half drunk, wns discovered in the cellar asleep with a big dynamite cartridge at tached to a fuse in his hand. The police wctc notified and James was arrested af ter a severe struggle, and was placed in jail and suicided. DRIVEN TO SUICIDE. 4 SON SHOOTS HIMSELF TO AVOID A FATH ERLY THRASHING. A voting man named Jarvis Odam committed suicide iu Rutherford county, N. C.. under peculiar circumstances. He had whipped a smaller brother who had reported the occurrence to his father. The latter is very severe in correcting his children and several times chastised his oldest son very cruelly, tin this occa siou he sent word to him that he would give him a terrible thrashing for whip ping his brother. The young man knew what this meant and went up stairs cry ing. In a few minutes the report of a gun was heard, and when the young man's room was entered, he was found lying on the floor with a hole in his head. He died in a few seconds. GENERAL TAFT INSANE. TOO MUCH RELIGION SEEMS TO HAVE lIEKN TIIE CAUSE. It is i uinored that General Taft, ex postmaster and present candidate for the postmastership of Charleston, S. C., has again lost his mind, nnd been sent to the state lunatic asylum. I aft lost his mind shout two years ago, went crazy on the subject of religion, and after remaining in the asylum for some time, was takeu north by his wife. Ho recovered and re lumed here, apparently perfectly restored, although his friends thought he was a little off. He was a candidate for the postmastership, and has been to Wash ington recently looking after his interests there, and it is thought that this might have unsettled his mind. UNITED labor. \ meeting was held Wednesday to take Steps to bring the organized work ing classes of Chic .go into a Brother, hood of United I.abor-Barry’ substitrte for the Knights of Labor. Represents tives of the following trades were pres ent' Moulders, foundrymen, butchers, coopers, waiters, gas and coke workers, telegraph operators, painters, printer., carpenters and others, said to represent in all about 10.000 wage workers. NEWS FROM STANLEY. I etters received at Zanzibar from Ujyi, dated March 10, say that Stauley met Tippoo Tib and sent a number of his sick followers buck with him by way ol the Congo Stanley intended coming to lhe East coast with Emin Pasha. Tip poo Tib would arrive at Zanzibar in July. BUDGET OF FUN. HUMOIIOI'H SkKTI'HKS I'HOM VARIOUS SOURCES. From lltm'rent View Points—Hardly Worth While—A (Juration ol Authority Rnslnes* I'haiißn., Kle. ‘‘lt I were in your plane,” the visitor saiil, Ai he looked through the grated door. “ I would turn my thoughts to a Irettai' life. And endeavor to sin no more.” “ If I were in your place, you bet your life,” The prisoner remarked, from his cell, “ 1 would skin up the street till I couldn’t rest, In less time than it takes to tell ! ” HARDLY WORTH WHILE. New iiourder—“ Madam do you reully propose to sav grace over this break fast ? ” Hoarding Mistress—“ Yes, sir, it is my invariable custom.” “ Y es, I know, but do you think it worth w hile—nothing but thin coffee and fried liver f ” — Tara* Sifting*. A QUESTION OK AUTHORITY, Neighbor—“ Roof leaking up there?’ Mr. Cassius—“ Nope. Sec that shot gun sticking out of th’ scuttle ? ” Neighbor—“ Yep.” Mr. Cassius—“ My wife's behind it. I ventured to remark this morning that I was th’ head of th’ house, an’ she's kept me up here ever since.”— Judye. BUSINESS CHANGES. “ A year ago,” he said, “ I sold out uiy drug business and went to Wall street, and iu less than a week's time I doubled my capital. That's making money fast, eh ? ” “ Yes, iudeed. Y'uu must be very rich now ? ” “Well, no, not very. At the expira tion of the second week I left Wall street, aud am now clerking for the man I sold out to.”— Life. Ills KNOWLEDGE OK FRANCE WAS MEAGRE. “My sou,” said the anxious parent, “ I learn with some surprise that you are marked ‘ deficient ’ in your French his tory. I thought you told me that you finished your paper iu ten minutes.” “ So I did; but the question was, ‘Tell all you know about the history of France.’” “ Ah, I see.”— Harper'* Maftuine. WHERE THIS ATHLETE TRAINED. “ You say you never had any gymnas tic training and never took part in a con test of this kind before I ” “ Never,” modestly replied the man who had just won the championship in a high leaping match. “ But there’s no secret about it. I live on a street where the grocers keep most of their stock out on the sidewalk in front.”— Chicago Tribune. THE JUDGE SIDED WITH THE JOKER. Judge—“ You say the prisoner threw you out of the door. Had you provoked him?” Plaintiff—“ Not at all. lie advertised an unusually fine bargain sale of laces, and I went in aud asked him for the low est figure on a pair of shoe laces. ” Judge—“ Prisoner is discharged. Mr. Clerk, swear out a warrant against plain tiff and have him arrested for criminal as sault.”—Harper's Bazar. AN OBJECT LESSON IN FUNNING. A Moted Washington wag and beau of thirty years signed his name “A. More. Mrs. John Washington had invited him to a formal dinner party at Mount Ver non. The company all arrived except Mr. More, but knowing liis queer ways the hostess did not wait for him. After she was seated some time a huge envelope was handed her, in which she found an enormous leuf of a sycamore tree. The interpretation was: “Sick.—A. More.” Chicago America. nE couldn't miss that game. De Courcy—“Angelina, dearest, have you yet fixed upon the day that is to make me the happiest of men ?” Angelina—“ Yes, Reginald, the 15tli of next month is my birthday, aud how appropriate it would Ik- to luivc our wed ding on the same date. Does that day suit you?" De C.—“ Well, no, not quite as well as some other. You see there is to be a League game played on that day, and I wouldn’t like to miss it.” —Boston Budget. thf. juiit was down on the slouch. A man churged with stealing a calf made the following statement: “I was always teached to be honest, an’ most al ways have been, but when I seed the calf I caved. I never wanted a calf so badiu all my life, an’ you know that when a man wunts a calf he wants him.” The jury returned the following ver dict: “We, this jury, air satisfied that Steve stold the calf, but as the feller that owned the animal is considerable of a slouch, we agree to clear Steve an’ make the slouch pay the costs." —Atlanta Con stitution. A SUGGESTION. It wus in the grocery store. “Give me a pound of cheese,” said an elderly man with blue spectacles on. “Yes, sir,” said the grocer, and he went to work with his knife. Just then a horse hitched in front of the store became uneasy. “Whoa!" shouted the grocer. “I beg your pardon,” said the man with blue spectacles, who had been gaz ing intently at the cheese. “Did yon re mark whoa?” “Yes, sir; to the horse outside.” “Oh, to the horse. AVcll, hadn’t you better say it again to the cheese?”—Mer chant Traveler. GETTING FULL ON WATER. Miss Nevertraveled —“One sees such ridiculous things in the paper, don t you think, Mr. Justfromabroad?” Mr. Justfromabroad —“Yes, rather. It does seem that the editors tried to see which could tell the biggest yarn." Miss Nevertraveled —“Why, only this morning, I read in the paper that it was a possible thing to get intoxicated on water.” Mr. Justfromabrond —“Oh, that was all right. Why, when I crossed, I was dnin—er —hem—aw—this has been a glorious day, hasn’t it, Miss Nevsr- NITMBKR 35. traveled I” But (he reply that he longed for never came.— Peeh't thin. UK WAS HIS MISTER S KNIOHT MIRANT. A young lady was much (Mined aua shocked as she walked down the street to see her young brother sitting astride the prostrate body of another boy and rein ing down blows upon his struggling vic tim. “Johnny,” alie almost st reamed, “what are you doing? Come here this minute. Aren’t you ashamed of your self, fighting this way in the street.” The boy reluctantly arose from his van quished antagonist and faced his indig nant siater. Then he explained: “Well, I don’t care. He said you wasn’t good-looking. I don’t think you are either, but it ain’t none o’ his funeral. 8o I licked him.”— Minneapoli* Tribune. EMBARRASSED BY lIEB COMPLIMENT. A young lady was ouce present at t musical party where the lion of the even ing was a celebrated flute player. Aftei he had performed, this young lady wa> presented to him, and there wasa general silence in the room, which added to het natural embarrassment. She felt thatsht must suy something pleasant, so, withs happy smile, she exclaimed: “Oh, how delightfully you play! Dc you ever accompany yourself on the piano ?” The artist looked at his flute, then at his fingers, shrugged his shoulders.bowed low aixl said : “Never.” After a moment she saw why everybody laughed.— lymdan Tit-Bit*. EXPERIENCED. The mystic moonbeams and the twinkli of the stars made soundless harmonies or that balmy night. They walked togethei down the old road past the orchard anc the ruined mill to the rustic bridge across the little streamlet which prattled idly tc the pebbles as it hurried along. “Mable,” said he, “do you know what love it?” “I think so,” she replied simply. “I mean were you ever the object of a love that was as fierce a* the onslaught ot a tiger and as unquenchable as the stars. Were you ever truly loved?” “Was I ever truly loved?" she repeated thoughtfully. “George eome back to the house and I will show you two dia mond rings, six valentines, and a trunk full of photographs.” And George was silent.— Merchant Trureter. LOOKED AT HIS GLASS BYE. The diner-out recently sat at the board of a friend w T hose misfortune it is to wear a glass eye- —a jolly fellow, fond of the pleasure of the table, full of good humor, quick to see a joke and a lover of a good story. What I now relate is one he tells of himself. He is a railroad man, occupying a re sponsible position on one of our great lines. A few years ago there: was a great crash on his road, and the train on which he was riding was knocked into smither eens. He was picked up as one dead, and was stretched out iu some con venient place to await the arrival of the doctors to officially pronounce upon his condition. By and by a physician bustled up, looked at his prostrate, motionless form aud pallid face and said: “That poor fellow's a goner, I guess.” Then he kneeled down, lifted up an eyelid and saw a dull, expressionless orb. “Yes, he’s dead fast enough—take him away!” exclaimed the doctor. The supposed corpse suddenly began to move its lips. The startled surgeon listened and this is what he heard: “You old fool, that’s my glass eye.”— I/ociston Journal. DISCOUNT. It used to be the custom, aud is now it many localities, to “beat down” in all trades with storekeepers and merchants. An amusing example of this practice it given below: In the old haggling way of trade it was customary to demand a great deal more than the asker hoped to get. One time, on the Texas frontier, a man came into a camp riding on an old mule. “How much for th* mule?” asked a by-stander. “Jist a hundred dollars,” answered the rider. “I'll give you five dollars,” said the other. The rider stopped short, as if in amaze ment, anti then slowly dismounted* “Stranger,” said he, “I ain't a-goin to let a little matter of niucty-tive dollars stand between me and a mule trade. The mule's yourn.” Another story, somewhat of the same sort, is related of an old tenant fasauts who, on paying his rent, told his land lord that he wanted some timber to build a house, and would be much obliged if he would give him permission to cut down what would answer for the purpose. “No!" said the landlord, sharply. “Well, then, sir," the farmer went on, “will you give me enough to build a barn?”’ “No!” “To make a gate, then?” “Yes.” “That's all I wanted,” said the farmer, “and more than 1 expected.”— Yanlce Blade. Farts About Lamps. Oil has been burned in lamps for many centuries, but no real improvement ia oil lumps was made until about 100 years ago, or about 1753, when M. Argand,a Swiss, who lived in London, invented the cylindrical wick and burner, which has siuee borne his name. Soon after the glass chimney was introduced and light ing oil was fully revolutiouized. These two improvements multiplied tht light to lie obtained from a lamp, and by producing a perfect combustion of the oil obviated the smoke and bad odors previously inseparable from the use of oil lamps. Other improvements followed, one of the most notable being the placing of the reservoir of oil below- the burner instead of above, making the lamp much more convenient. This was a discovery of Philip Girarde, a Frenchman, about 1807. Another Frenchman, Carcel, con trived a mechanism to regulate the supply of oil, but his contrivance was super seded by tile moderator lamp, introduced about sixty years ago. Some further modifications of lamps followed the dis covery of i>etroleum, but these are the principal features included in the lamps of the present day. the Argand principle being substantially unchanged. —Oveni Hmmkeepiny. ,