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rHE NEWS.
TOCCOA, GEORGIA.
It is proposed now in France to sub¬
stitute death by electricity for the guillo-
Ane.
Canada will soon have an independent
Atlantic cable to England,the $2,000,000
required having being nearly all sub¬
scribed.
Oklahoma was an unsettled wilderness
but a few weeks ago, yet it managed to
have the biggest Fourth of July accident
of the year;_
Over 20,000 French people have bcei
induced to emigrate to the Argentine
Republic, and about the same numbei
would be awfully glad to get back t«
France again.
The daily consumption of crude ane
finished iron, of cheap dry goods and ol
ihop and mill products generally, is
growing with amazing rapidity in all the
Western and Southern States.
Dr. Felix L. Oswald predicts in the
North American Review that the progress
of forest destruction will before long re¬
duce a large area of our farm land* to
the necessity of artificial irrigation.
At present the exports of the United
States to Chili are not far from $3,000,-
000 per year, and our imports from that
busiest and most thriving of South Ameri¬
can republics are a little less than this
sum.
London Justice says that all the people
now living in the world, or about 1,400,-
000,000, could find standing room within
the limits of a field ten miles square,and,
by aid of a telephone, could be addressed
by a single speaker.
English investments in Mexico seem to
be increasing with thc regularity of
arithmetical progression. In 1886 they
reached two and a half million sterling;
in 1887, five millions, and hist year
nearly eleven millions.
The Philadelphia Record declares that
“while the sunflower and the lily have
their enthusiastic admirers aud advo¬
cates, the laurel is gaining ground as the
most appropriate American national
flower. If a vote should be taken it is
probable that the laurel would have a ma*
jority over all floral competitors.”
The state of anarchy in Hayti is pro¬
ducing its natural results. Trade is
paralyzed aud the lack of all security foi
property is forcing all foreign merchants
out of thc country. Provisions are as deal
as they were in the early mining days in
California, and the people are in a bad
way, for they arc without- food or money.
The lot of the Maine peddler is not now
as happy as it has been. A law has gone
into effect which makes it incumbent
upou persons pursuing that avocation in
the Pine Tree State to provide themselves
with a paper certifying to their good
moral character and to the fact that they
w® American citizens. The peddler who
lacks such a passport is to be prohibited
from peddling.
Mr. C. Meriwether, of South Carolina,
graduate student of John Hopkins Uni¬
versity, has entered the educational scr-
vice of the Japanese Government as in¬
structor of the English language and
literature in the second higher middle
school of Japan at Sendai, in the northern
part of the main island. The appoint¬
ment was made through the Japanese
Minister in Washington aud the engage-
went lasts for three years.
Missouri is one of the few States in the
limon ^ which continues to pay bounties on
wolt scalps. A St. Louis paper explains
that during the war men were so busy
hunting men that they paid no attention
to wolves, which increased so rapidly as
to make sheep-raising impracticable in
some of the southern counties. In five
years, from 1S70 to 3S76, the State paid
out $1,500,000 for wolf scalps at- $3 per
scalp. The St. Louis editor says it will
take another million and a half to exter¬
minate the wolves of south Missouri.
The Giant Diamond, lately discovered
in Cape Colony, South Africa, and now
at the Paris Exposition, weighs ISO
carats, and is valued at $3,000,000. It
is kept in a glass case by itself and guar¬
dians stand around it all day. At night
it is placed in a big safe, which is simi¬
larly guarded all night. It is said to be
of the first water, and as pure as the fa¬
mous Regent iu the French Crown dia-
monds. It is for sale, and it is confident¬
ly expected that some American in home¬
spun clothes and a slouch hat will come
along one of those days and buy it as a
pocket piece.
A scientific authority has figured out
the best average time run by trains irain4 in m
>
•Jr,,, t- , j .
attained by one of ,he Freoch railroads,
Ztnz ' ' “ roads d *
renre&eiitcd ‘ ' 1 in le i- ^ : 'ited • States, and
wlulc . . the New York Central dm* no,
show the fastest ui eruge speed for any
distance, it leads the van with an average
1)eed , of , 41 8 10 mHes
' per hour for 439
miles, which is about the distance 6 Bp be '
tween New o k aJ d D Buffalo, ~ , and the
-ongest , ^ . distance ,.
represented.
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SODTHEM NEV ,ni d
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM F14-
R10 US POINTS IN TEE SO UTU.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOING ON Of
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
Reports from the Virginia tobacco crop
are encouraging.
Hr. J. B. Wortham, a prominent citi¬
zen of Winchester, Va., committed sui¬
cide Monday, by shooting himself
through for the head. No cause is assigned
the deed.
At a meeting of capitalists in Charlotte,
N. C., Thursday night, it w r as decided to
build a cotton oil refinery at once. It
will be located either in Charleston or
Columbia, S. C.
About eighty gentlemen of Boston,
Mass., left that city Saturday for Shef¬
field, Ala., by special train. It is stated
that the party intend to invest heavily in
local enterprises at Sheffield.
Matthew Gibbs, supposed to be the
oldest man in the state, died at his home,
n ar Center, N. C., Monday morning.
Mr. Gibbs wras 108 years old, and died of
sheer old age.
The heading of the great tunnel at
Cumberland Gap, which unites the states
of Kentucky and Tennessee with Vir¬
ginia, was knocked in at 6 o’clock
1 hursday afternoon, with appropriate
ceremonies.
The Chicago delegation which lately
visited Tampa, Fla., returned home and
reported Tampa harbor as possessing su¬
perior facilities for making it a terminal
point for South aud Central America and
West India vessels.
Sunday morning iu a gambling den in
Macon, Ga., Herman Bohnefeld and Levy
Loweuthal quarreled over a game of cards.
A bloody fight ensued, in which Bolme-
feld was stabbed to death by Lowenthal
Charles Camden, of Lexington, Va.,
died Saturday night of a cancer, which,
iu one year, literally eat away the lower
portion of his body, starting in the legs.
'Ihe case resisted the treatment of the
most eminent surgeqns.
J- ?*• ^hilfi 8 , who opened a music
store in Birmingham, Ala., a few weeks
a f?°i went in debt as deep as he could
and skipped. Ilia shop is in the hands
of the sheriff under attachments sworu
out by numerous creditors.
The Tradesman , at Chattanooga,
Tenn., has received authentic informa¬
tion that the coal miners of Alabama are
organizing to fight the convict labor
system and company stor< s, and demand
better mining laws. A convention will
be held in September aud the struggle
will be inaugurated.
At Charlotte, N. C., the jury in the
case of state against Police Sergeant
Boyle and Policeman G. J. Morris, for
clubbing and the Justice Hunter, could not agree,
judge ordered their discharge
Sunday, entering a mistrial for Boyle.
Morris was acquitted. The jury stood
five for conviction and seven for acquit-
tal.
A special from Lexington, Ky., says
the Arlington hotel at Blue Lick Springs,
was burned Monday morning. A hun¬
dred guests were at the hotel, all of
whom escaped. Loss, $35,000; insurance
$17,000. Senator Blackburn and ex-
Chief Justice Hargio and family, were
among the guests.
The heirs of brothers William F. and
George W. Norton, deceased millionaires
of Louisville, Ky., have decided to give
$6,000 to the building fund of thc South-
tru Baptist 'lheological Seminary,
moved there from South Caroliua a few
years ago. Both brothers made princely
gifts to the seminary during their life¬
time.
RozzelPs family, of Charleston, N. C.,
consisting Monday of a wife and three children,
relatives on Union evening were going to see
m county in a carriage, The
and when driving along a precipice,
carriage capsized, throwing Mrs. Ilozzell
and the three children out. All the
children are badly injured, and it is
thought Mrs. Ilozzell canuot recover.
Extensive preparations are being made
at Knoxville, Tenu., to celebrate the
103d anniversary of Davy Crockett’s
birthday on the farm where he was bora
near Limestone. Among the guests will
be 11. 1*. Crockett, of Granberry, Texas,
the only living son of the frontiersman,
and the only living grandson of Colonel
R. H. Crockett, of New Gaseny, Ark.
The Dispatch newspaper of Montgom¬
ery, Ala., was, on Saturday night, sold by
its president, Colonel D. S. Troy, to the
A <h rrtiscr. ’Ihere will be no hyphen¬
ated name, and the editorial and office
force of the Advertiser remains un¬
changed. The Dispatch is understood to
have lost over $50,000. The Advertiser
has been in existence since 1828, and has
absorbed over a dozen papers.
Gen. J. R. Lewis, the newlv appointed
post-master and Col. A. E. Buck, a
prominent republican leader, were burn¬
ed in effigy at Atlanta, Ga., Wednesday
mglit. The burning was the result of
the appointment, by Postmaster Lewis,
ot a colored man to a position in the
registry department of the Atlanta post-
office to work in the same room with a
young lady, daughter of the super-
intendent.
A band of cattle thieves is getting in
work in the the section Apalachicola of Florida contig¬
uous to River, Tt.e
band has been depredating upon the
herds of cattle for some time, and many
farmers have been their victims, The
community would is thoroughly aroused, and it
not be safe for the farmers to to^be get
in sight of the gang which is said
composed oi two white men and two
negroes.
McDowtll coumjf \V7
ua [ s are nicagre. It appears that a
widow, named Giliis, lived iu a remote
district of the county with two daugh-
ters about grown. They were poor, but
respectable people. Friday the neigh-
bors found all three dead. They had
evidently been criminally assaulted and
murdered. There is absolutely no ciue
to the dispJoh perpetrators of the deed.
A from Columbia, is S. C.,sav s;
The Secretary of the State kent busy fi
issuin’ 1 charters and XhaTbringor! eomnissions o
numeroasiudwtries
ganized throughout the state. Three
charters of commissions were taken A out r
f „ , v-, , lt
villa and MK&r'fer AuEE
w “ el, ". b8 *r ed .“ Co!umbia -
The v *• i em . T . ^ SSOC ationin
convention ttSSSS* j
cruel, thesenteuees^fallpersonslintencS^dS requesting Governor Hill'to commute
law, and asMngfor the repeal of the
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Ref over * 41 *.°00,000 have been
i^s-joowooollf^Ptuf^u icrease hi Veoi 0 ' ^ ^ “* Whicb I ll\^ “ ork *
great over
iE BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
ENCOURAGING REPORTS FROM R. G. DUN
<k CO. FOR THE PAST WEEK.
R. G. Dun & Co.’s review of trade for
the week says: Changes in the business
worid during the week, though but
slight, have all been in the right direc¬
tion. There is a little better movement
of products, some improvement in crop
prospects, with confidence particularly in cotton, and
more and strength in the
stock market and less chance of a dis-
Sn In r manufactures, mZ,7„eJ:,re aWa all n°'n changes 5peCie ,m are E in ? ro the R?-
direction of improvement, and reports
from the interior indicate a volume of
trade exceeding last year’s, and, on the
whole, steadily increasing. Of all cities
reporting this week, scarcely one notes
dullness in trade. The glad news that
the coke strike has ended, removes the
apprehension of closing many iron works
in the Pittsburg district. Prices of iron
and manufactured iron and steel had been
advancing. With steady improvement in
the reports of food products from the
Northwest, wheat has declined about
i on sales of only 8,000,000 bushels at
New York, and corn $c. on sales of
5,000,000 bushels. Oats are nearlv one
cent lower and hogs 10c. per 100 pounds.
In oil there is an advance of $c., and in
coffee prices have been lifted J of a cent.
Sugar is nominal, with 6J cents, quoted
as above any bid at present attainable.
The stock market has been strong and
advancing, and money in ample supply
for commercial use is quoted at about the
usual rates all over the country. During
the week the treasury took iu one million
dollars more than it paid out, but mer-
chandise exports from New York for the
week were nearly 30 per cent, above last
year, with an increase of about 20 per
cent, iu imports. The average prices of
commodities have slightly advanced.
Business failures throughout the country
during the week number, for the United
States, 1G4; Canada, 35; total 201,
against 210 last week.
AN EXCITING SCENE.
A BALLOON BURSTS IN MID-AIR AND
CRASHES TO THE EARTH.
A. Mount Holly, N. 0.,
Friday afternoon, Professor W. K. Perry,
the celebrated aeronaut of the American
Balloon company was to have made his
marvelous leap to the earth after ascend-
ing to a height of three-quarters \ of a
When decoding the balloon by aid of parachute.
had traveled upwards
about seven hundred feet the crowd dis-
covered that it was bursting, gas could
be seen shooting out, and soon the cau-
Vas Perry cloth began”to drop. As Professor
was bolding on under the para-
chute, he was not aware of his terrible
situation. The crowd became frantic
with excitement. Yells went up and
pistols were fired to attract the man’s
attention, but all of no avail
Soon, however, ail the gas and air iu the
balloon was exhausted, and it bemra to
fall downward. It was too late to
loosen the parachute from the wrecked
balloon, but for some distance it was
Successfully engineered. The balloon
causing the parachute to capsize, all
came down with a terrible crash to the
earth. The unfortunate man was taken
from the wreck in an insensible coudi-
tion. Many of his bones were broken,
and his recovery is very doubtful.
AN ANGRY MOB*
FIVE HUNDRED HUNGARIANS ATTACK IN¬
NOCENT WORKMEN.
Hungarians at Morewood, Pa., where
the miners were on a strike, and which
was satisfactorily settled, refused to go
to work Friday morning,because they did
not understand that the strike was set-
tledi Hearing that the Alice and Besse¬
mer works were running, they formed a
howling mob of about five hundred and
etarted for those plants. The men at
the Alice mines were warned in time,aud
fled. Upon reaching Tipple, the mob
tore the boards off and started ihe c^al
wagons down the slope, to wreck them
and block the entrance so that
no coal could be hoisted.
They next made a descent upon the
store at Bessemer, and after breaking the
windows and doors open, carried off nil
the bread and bologna sausage they could
find on the premises. By this time Sec¬
retary Thorn arrived, in company with
another of the leaders. They addressed
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them, and finally succeeded in making
them understand that tha strike was
over in their favor.
A BOLD ROBBER.
A MAN, SINGLE HANDED, ROBS A WI8CON
SIN CENTRAL TRAIN.
The Wisconsin Central passenger trait
from Chicago, was held up and robbed
by a single man between Chippewa Falls
and Abbottsfoid, at 3:30 o’clock Thurs¬
day morning. At the hour named, a man
entered one of the sleeping cars, corn-
munied the conductor and porter to
throw up their hands, and proceeded to
go through them. He took from the
conductor $30 and a silver v.atch and
from the porter a gold watch and a small
amount of money, aud from a passenger tackTed
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some money and a watch. He
another passenger, but the latter told
him the conductor had all his money.
As a matter of fac f , however, the man
had $500 on his person. The robber
pulled the bell rope as goon as he had
c >mpleted thc robbery, and when the
train came to a stop be jumped off aud
escaped.
A BIG SUIT.
000,000. ----
The Robert Morris Land and Coal
Companv, of New York, on )[» D dav,
filed a bill in equity against the Phi lad el-
phia and Reading Coal and Iron cornua-
nv, in the United Slates circuit emm at
Pittsburg, Pa., alleging that they are
owners of 8,949 acres of coal and timber
land in Northumberland county £“ta Penn
posse sion of the land and timber is ranidlv re
raovnm the coal and bein^taken from oui it
2,00ffi000 tons of coal
annually. The property P in di,pute P is
worth $30.000,000.
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of / industry,;
t ami the P nr ^ f m u* r are r n no " shipping pme j
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a.rneu, , ITT wi l solve the " cT \ baggm w *? Ich question * 11 . !S
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GENERAL A’EWS.
CONDENSA TION OF CURIO US,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS FROM EVEBTWHF.BK—ACCIDENTS, STRIKES,
FIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST.
Adirondacks, 4 6hock of earthquake in New was felt in Satur- the
York state,
da J morning.
On Tuesday, Alfred Tennyson, metrical En«r-
lan f a master of form,
will be eight? Years old
wafrafused Frank rvuinV tR M \r innea P£ r hs r
bought*i han’rm . He had re *
ccntlv “ 7 b ° Ught $100 nn. ’ 000 hfe insurance,
Sheriff E. C. Swain, of Paulding
G., has been found to be short in
bls accounts fco the amount of something
°ver $2,000, and his bondsmen asked to
be releaSfcd -
fully According to the latest statistics care¬
compiled by the board of injury, at
Johnstown, Pa., Wednesday, the num- ___
her of lives lost in the devastated district
was about six thousand.
There w r as terrific explosion of a
natural gas main in Pittsburg,Pa., Satur¬
day evening, which resulted in the killing
of two men instantly, fatally injuring two
more, and seriously injuring some fifteen
others.
W. H. Talman, a deputy clerk in the
chancery shot court, Richmond, Va., who
himself Monday, died from the ef-
fects of his wound Friday. Soon alter
the shooting, Talman explained to his
family that it was accidental.
In the constitutional convention held
in Helena, Mont., it was decided that
Helena should remain the capitol until
1892, when the question shall be voted
on. Woman suffrage was defeated bv J a
tie vote.
Martin Burke, the Cronin suspect, was
identified on Monday by Mr. and Mr-.
Carlson, owners of the cottage in wlii< h
Dr. Cronin was murdered, i s the man
who rented it from them, giving the
name “Frank Williams.”
An investigation of the accounts of W.
shortage amounts to $6,000, and may
reach more. Denny lias not yet been an- 1
prehended.
The total visible sunnlv of rnttnn
the world is 1 043 313 auaintt bales of / 0^0 which
024,313 arc Amerkan /or ft 23 *"
and 694 223 biles rpsnprrivpw 7 i! l v-
Receipts for bifes. the w ok fll . L S .
towns 1,027 The cron ^ b -
6 868 720 bales
1 i Chicago Evening r Journal , reports
J, C9tuna ^} 1*0 to 175 cases of typhoid
avc “ ue between
J t} a “ d * ° rty sixth . streets. The
• . attubuted the pollution
Py emic is to
C,ty water caused by the recent heavy
. to the
r ^ inS carr ymg sewerage out source
SUpply m thc lake *
At New York, Monday, the grand jury
P resen ted to the court of general sessions,
two indictments against Eben S. Allen,
as P re8 i den t of the Forty-second Street
aud Girand Street Ferry Railroad Com-
P an y, charging him with forgeries. The
s P ul 'ious stock issued is a trifle over
1,000 shares,
I ire broke out in . the book store of
Bearer, Batsley & Co., in the Treutman
blockatFort Wayne, Ind., Thursday
evening. The stock was an entire loss,
reaching $40,000. Stern, Mautner &
Iredlick, clothing, on stock, $15,000:
Louis Wolfe & Co., druggists, damage
to stock by water, $20,000. All losses
lully covered by insurance.
Cardinal Gibbons, who returned from
Deerparkj busy Me., Saturday, will be kept
several weeks advising with the
committees and formulating plans for
the great Catholic hierarchald centennial
celebration in Baltimore next November, it!
and other events iu connection with
there will be a re-arrangement of the
cathedral to fit it for the large number
of prelates, who will take part iu the
celebration.
A cable from London, England, says:
The memorial to the Government, asking
that Mrs. Maybrick be reprieved on the
grounds of the conflicting nature of the
ntedical evidence given at her trial, has
been signed by eight hundred broke:s
and merchants of Liverpool. Judge
Stephens,on Saturday, protested iu court
against abusive letters addressed to the
jury in the Maybrick case. He said he
thought they had conscientiously done
their duty.
The finding of the dead bodies of Ollie
Jones, his wife and two other persons,
was reported Thursdav from Corvallis, a
small town in Bitter Root Valley, in
western Montana. A young girl who had
been shot in the hip w'ns also found on
Big Gole mountain. All of the dead had
been shot in the back. No further de¬
tails could be obtained as Corvallis is
without telegraphic facilities. Jones
was married three weeks ago and was on
the road to his ranche.
The newriran steamship “Kansas City,”
built at Roach s yard for the New Eng-
land and Savannah Steamship Company,
was successfully launched .at Chester,
p a., oni Saturday. The vessel is 350 feet
°J\ r al J> 4o feet be ? m and 27 feet depth
of hold. Her T engines are of the tripple
expansion surface condensing type, with
3o-inch and 54-mch diameter, aud 54-
inch stroke, supplied w ith steam by
eight steel boilers. L.he has been con-
structed to move 16$ knots per hour.
Her passenger accommodat.o: s are 116
first class and 1-0 second class. Ahen
finished she will ply between New York
and Savannah, Ga.
A DUEL FOUGHT
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Mr Pat Calhoun WiC ofAtUnta ol it „ n
Mr T D ITri \ h Pk ^
fought nooaa Rom Sf«i C< ? ,umbus railroad
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a evening, Geo just
lbe r ^ a hne >
in 4 \, Q t a ? ome 1 Becatur
,, tluamson . tired fiye
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marked'^ r
l ^ tch ’ At this point
controversy was satisfactorily adjust-
Mr Hatemeuts^Sde h? ^ ^
mSnf 1 ^ ^ ( cmI alho ’ Ja b efore
a meeting of the railroad -, committee ( f as
&
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they■ organiz e.
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ihe pear growers seeking means to
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The pear growers and shippers ol
Cairo, Ga., have organized an association,
and will petition the other localities of
the P«a r belt to do likewise, and then
meet ut ome central point an<l organize
a general association, the purpose of
which wid be to oevisv ways and means
to protect thpir inuustry.
THE COTTON OUTLOOK.
THE AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT SENDS
OUT A FAVORABLE REPORT.
The August crop report of the depart¬
ment of agriculture at Washington, D.
C., makes the condition of cottou 89.3,
au advance of nearlv 2 poiuts during the
month. Since 1880 this average has
been exceeded but three times, in 1882,
18S5 and 1887. Improvement is noted in
five states. Two report the same condi¬
tion, while Virginia, North Carolina,
Tennessee and Mississippi show a lowet
average than a month ago. Rains have
been frequent during the month, except
in portions of Texas, and in many dis¬
tricts they have been excessive.
North Carolina has bad too much rain,
delaying good cultivation, but ihe Carolina weed showi the
a growth. In South
condition has been improved by good local
seasons, damage though there was some
from excess of rain. Alabama
returns show the crop in promising con¬
dition, clean, with a good growth, and
fruiting well. Mississippi reports the
condition lower than one month ago on
account of excessive, rain. In Arkansas,
the early season was not favorable, and
the plant was small and late, but
favorable weather during July placed it
in vigorous condition, and it is improv¬
ing rapidiy. In Tennessee the condition The
has fallen off during the month.
stand was generally poor and late, and
tbe eycess of moisture has prevented the
P ro per cultivation. The averages of the
condition by states are: Virginia 63,
Nord \ Carolina 80, South Carolina 90,
Georgia 91, Florida 95, Alabama 90,
Ar Mississippi J ansas $8, Tennessee Louisiana 78. 92, Caterpillar Texas 91,
worms are occasionally men-
ed m Mississippi and Louisiana, and
. 8everal , counties of Texas, but the
damage from them is as yet inapprecia¬
ble.
ON THE WAR PATH.
TWO FAMILIES IN SOUTH CAROLINA I*RE
PARING TO EXTERMINATE EACH OTUER.
Tile Mc How verdict, at Charleston, S.
n
na8 been a dozen or more shooting and
CUt y ng scrapes m the state within the
past week. The last occurred in Laurens
^ ouat y Fr * day > wh «“ B * w - Langford, a
. cltlZbn I killed Ben-
> anf
““ Lnngatou be both white. A vendetta
ba8 i L ^ een \ declared Langfords and Langstons,
)een ’ au ^ both families are
?°'T “ tho ” r !»*«<•, 1“ B-nlterg there
is also a vendetta on between the Prices
and Stewarts, growing out of a caning
and snooting scrape that occurred sev-
eral days ago in Charleston. The col-
man and brother is following closely
m the footsteps of his white brother, and
is using both the shotgun, pistol and ra-
zor with lively effect. There have been
no less than five or six shooting and cut-
tm g s ? ra P es in the vicinity of Chari* s-
ton within the past three day s,
TRAINS COLLIDE.
THREE PEOrLE KILLED AND MANY OTHERS
WOUNDED.
A collision occurred near Forest Lawn,
N- «L» on the Rome, Watertown & Og-
densuurg Railroad on Saturday morning.
The nigtat express, bound west for Niag-
ara Falls, ran into a Rochester train,
which was backing down, telescoping
four cars of the train, killing three per-
sons and injuring many others. The list
of dead are as follows: John Day, en-
gineer of the steamer Hazelton, Oswego Johns,’
N. Y.; Miss Ella Perrin, of St.
^ Bcb * ’ BoweB C. Brown, Sherman, N.
X: 1 ^ Oswego, of engineer in jured are: of the Andrew
an y> express;
^ Irs * Lewis Moore, of Gratwick, N. Y.;
Mis3 Sarah Sweet, of Walcotf, N. Y.;
Frank Bell, of Sheboygan, Mich.; Mr.
a,ld M. Peri in, of St. John/
LIVERPOOL NOTIFIED
THAT COTTON BAGGING WILL BE USED TO
WRAP THE COMING CROP OF 1889.
A conference was Held in cotton ex-
change in New York city on Monday be-
tween commissioners of the Southern
states and a special committee of New
York cotton exchange. The result was
the appointment of Henry Ilentz, C. D.
Miller, James Meissmer, Theodore II.
Price, M. II. Lehman, R. Wolfenden
and R- H. Roundtree, as a committee to
draft resolutions to be submitted to the
Llv e r Pool cotton exchange, favoring the
use of S otton bagging iu which to wrap
cotton instead of jute. Tho Southern
commission was composed of J. S. Hen-
Person, of Georgia, John C. Cheney, of
Alabama, D. M. Hood, of Tennessee and
A * Butler, of South Carolina,
PRISONERS ESCAPE
4FTEU KNOCKING THE JAILER AND HIS
ASSISTANT SENSELESS.
Friday night, at Lumberton, N. C.,
Jailer Bennett, with his assistant, went
into the jail to serve the prisoners with
supper. When they were in the hall
way of the jail, three outlaw prisoners
assaulted them, knocking both semeless
to the floor with a piece of plank They
then took the km s from their pocket's
and opening the doors made good their
escape, and have not since been captured,
The escaped prisoners are Steve Jacobs
B >b Jones, and Tom Bird. The skull
of Bennett and his assistant were both
crushed. Neither of them, it is thought, b
can recover.
A CENTENARIAN.-
M ° nE CEACnEa 11ER 10 2u
J T La . . A . n . F dlmore, rehet of
thf , r ®; f t^ ^ X0I nia | Fnimore, ^‘ who wasfirst
m , n h ? u' dle e f President Milord
Fldmore p ’ celebrated „ her one hundredth
and second birthday Tuesday, at her
home near Buffalo, N. Y. Mrs.
h ill more is without doubt the oldest per-
son in western New York, and retains
She She was horn *“> August * 13th, 1787, S*"*; and
was married to the pioneer Methodist
18 ?' has lived m -^ £ la ^ mber ence
cn,,nV ever tlDCe . ^r husband
died in 18 iu.
a ine w" ' i»rooe» 8
B, which tobacco cab be ccked-s,*
w
The first Installment of tobacco of the
crop of 1889 was marketed at Asheville,
*■ &• S.tuMay. This i, remarkable,
since heretofore about the 25th of Sep- ■
tember has been the date of the first
sales. This difference is due to the in-
troductionof a new process of curing the !
weed. Only primings, a< vet, have been i
* that
cured. The undei leaves hav . in
-ection.h retofore bee . cas: as a a* use-
h ss. This fir-t lot sold at $32 er hun-
dred for bright wraaners.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
MO YEMENIS OF TEE PRESIDENT
AND EIS ADVISERS.
APPOINTMKNTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATTERS
OF INTEREST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
The treasurer of the United States has
issued instructions, subject to the con¬
venience of the treasury, to the assistant
treasurer of the United States at Now
York, to supply notes and silver certifi¬
cates of small denominations to banks
ordering them iu sums not less than
$ 1 , 000 . fie
President Harrison, on Saturday, r J.
the following appointments: Samuel
Phillips, of North Carolina, commis¬
sioner on the part of the United States
under the Venezuela and United States
treaty concerning the adjustment of
claims; Charles G. Pope, of Missouri,
consul to Toronto; Richard G. Lay, of
the District of Columbia, consul-general
at Ottawa.
Lieut. John C. Irvine, member of the
class under instruction at the torpedo with
station, Newport, has been charged
scandalous conduct, drunkeness on duty*,
neglect of duty, and absenting himself
from his post without leave. A c >urt-
martial has been detailed to try Lieut.
Irvi^i on these charges, and it will con¬
vene at Newport on Wednesday. Capt. and
Thomas O. Selfridge is president, advocate.
Lieut. J. V. B. Blecker judge
First Comptroller Matthews lias de¬
cided that the appropriation, $600,000,
made by the act of congress, of March 2,
1889, for “agricultural the experiment benefit only sta¬ of
tions,” can be used for
forty stations, for which estimates were
made, namely: $15,000 each for stations
in each of the thirty-eight states, in the
territory of Dakota, aud the agricultural
department, aud that no part of the ap¬
propriation can be used in the cstablish-
ment of such stations in any of the terri¬
tories, with the exception of Dakota,
that being the only one included in the
estimates upon winch the appropriation
was based.
THE ELIXIR OF LIFE
A NEW REMEDY WHICH 18 COMMANDING
GREAT ATTENTION AMONG DOCTORS.
Drs. Wilson Yoe and Dungan, of the
Hospital College of Medicine, at, Louis¬
ville, Ky., have been experimenting
with the elixir prepared according to
r/L/ r „T; SCq v?-»h '° r T l “’ ‘T giV0 ". ly
Uie Lancet. With a rheumatic patient
seventy years old they have obtained
almost complete relief. He feels young
aud re-invigorated. Dr. Robert Porter
has tried the elixir in case of an nsth-
matic paralytic, who was not informed oi
the nature of the treatment. The pa¬
tient has partially recovered from paraly¬
sis, and has new energy and strength,
ihe experiments are being continued.
THE SEASON OPENS.
A special from Albany, Ga., snys:
“The cotton market has opened, and the
warehouse men are now beginning to
look busy. lion. Primus Jones has
marketed fourteen bales from this year’s
crop. The fleecy staple will be coming
in very briskly in a few days.
An Elephant Gone Mad,
When an elephant goes mad he makeg
things lively. A company of English¬
men were out on a tiger shooting expe¬
dition, and all at once were startled by
a shout from one of their servants:
“Bun, run, sahibs ! The tuska lias gone
mad. He has broken loose.” Most of
the company got out of the beast’s way,
but one fellow was still in the tent.
Over the river we could see the brute
in a frenzy of rage, kneeling on the
shapeless heap and of cloth, furniture, tusks poles,
and ropes, digging his with a
savage fury into the hangings and can¬
vas.
We had little doubt that poor Mac lay
crushed to death, smothered beneath
the weight of the ponderous animal, or
mangled out of all likeness to human¬
ity by the terrible tusks that we could
see flashingin the moonlight. It seemed
an age, th s agony of suspense.
had Everything been showed as clear as if it
day. We saw the elephant
tossing the strong canvas canopy door-mat. about
as a dog would worry a
Thrust after thrust was made bv the
tusks into the folds of the cloth. Rais¬
ing his. huge trunk the brute would
scream in a frenzy of liis wrath, and at
la-t, after what seemed an age, but in
reality was only a few* minutes, he stag¬
gered to his feet and rushed into the
jungle. then
Just a smothered groan stmek
like a peal of joy bells on our ears, and
the muffled voice was heard from be¬
neath the folds of the shamlaha: “Look
alive, you fellows, and get me out of
this, or I shall be smothered.”
In trying to elude the first rush of tho
elephant his foot had caught iu one of
° tke whole falling
hurlimr >d, L v upon him,
limimg the the camp table and a lew chairs
over him. Under these he had lain,
able to breathe, but not daring to stir.
His escape seemed miraculous The
cloth had several times been pressed so
close over his fu e as nearly to stifle
him. The brute, in one of its savage,
purposeless thrusts, had pierced the
ground between his arms and ribs, p:n-
mng his African ehoga or dressing- said
^ V m earth; and he
lm felt it himself smKing into uneon-
setousness did^^eirnasked/ when the brute hapnily got
° P |ow
. ;
“It 2d?* aK^I S-emid’to’turn
quite Tin concerned. All 8f>rts of funny I
ideas came trooping across my brain.
could n >t for the life of me he’p feeling
cautiously about for mv pipe, which
had dropped somewbe.e near when /
tripped on the ropes. I seemed, too, to
have a quick review of all the actions I
had ever done, and was just dropping
off'into a dreamv uneonscionsne ^ s, after
with my * «7r«” old crew, when your voices
roused me to sensation once more.”-
T ° Uth ’ S Companion.
If there . --7-7“T-. America where
is an v pace in
an American feels that he is m a foreign
'Iw'^Eogitoh am
few Americans who reside there. In
fact, a person unacquainted with tbe
Germ.,,, ton^ie ha. some diffi.-nlly in
making h.s way about. He is confronted
with cab drivers and car conductors
who s> t -ak only a few words drive of English,
avid if lie wishes to take a in the
country, Ins way is barred by a toll-gate, inform
tbe keeper of which cannot even
him of the amount of h s toll in w.iat is
generally Limited considered to be the language
of the atates,
DBRBLICT.
She wandem up and down the motn
Without a master, nowhere bound;
The currents turn her round and round,
Her truck is like a tangled skein;
And never helmsman by his chart
So strange a way as hers may steer
To enter port or to depart
For any harbor, far or near.
The waters clamor at her sides,
The winds cry through her cordage torn.
The last sail hangs, to tatters worn;
Upon the waves the vessel rides
This way or that, as winds may shift,
In ghastly dance, when airs blow balm.
Or held in deep lethargic calm,
Or fury hunted, wild, adrift.
When south winds blow, does she recall
Spices and golden fruit in store?
Or north winds met off Labrador,
The iceberg's iridescent wall?
Or east, the isles of Indian seas?
Or west, new ports and tails unfurled?
Her voyages all around the world
To mock her with old memories?
For her no lighthouse sheds a ray
Of crimson warning from its tower;
No watchers wait in hope the hour
To greet her coming up the bay;
No trumpet speaks her, hearty, hoarse;
Or if a Captain hail at first,
He sees her for a thing accurst,
And turns his own ship from her course.
Alone in desperate liberty
She forges on; and how she fares
No man alive inquires or cares
Though she were sunk beneath the sea.
Her helm obeys no firm control,
She drifts, a prey for storms to take,
For sands to clutch, for rocks to break,
A ship condemned, like a lost soul.
—Portland Transcript.
PITH AND POINT. >
Paradoxical—Calling legal documents
“briefs.”
Has an attachment for his victim_
The constable.
Game law'—The unwritten law that
governs a game.
Many fine dinners are served in a course
way.— Picayune.
A business that has its ups and
downs—The drivers.
Some of the upper crust looks soft
enough to be dough.
Strange to «ay, the only way to till a
lawisnottopxemtf.it not to execute it.
Nations move by cycles, says Emerson.
Boys move bicycles, too.
“Can I help your heartache?” “Yes,
if you’ll my heart take.”
A man runs and gets warm. Butter
gets warm and runs.— Statesman.
A man in a peck of trouble is in a
measure to be pitied.— Cleveland Sun.
No matter how industrious the baker
may be, he is at best a loafer .—Merchant
Traveler.
In Tennyson’s “rosebud garden of
girls,” it is supposed there were no
“widow’s weeds.”
It was a barber who remarked that it
took everything he could “rake and
scrape” to make him a living.
If some men were half as big as they
think they are, the world would have to
be enlarged .—Merchant Traveler.
The Indian squaws of the past were
very romantic. They always took their
bows about with them.— Statesman.
It is wonderful how polite men are
in the summer. They even lift their
hats to the breeze .—New York News.
The wife who can retain a sure hold
upon her husband’s heart will never have
occasion to take a grip on his hair__
Omaha Bee.
“Miss Flyte, do you think Miss Giggle
is laughing at me?” “I can’t say, Mr.
Softleigh. She often laughs at almost
nothing .”—The Epoch.
He lifts his soul in grateful praiso
Because there is no ice,
But later in the season he
Will also lift the price.
—Boston Courier.
The following advertisement recently
appeared in a Western paper: “A middie-
aged woman, who is capable, honest and
industrious, but as homely as a stono
fence, wants work.”
Tompkins—“What has become ot
Dimly, who went around lecturing on ‘The
rich should divide their wealth among
the poor?’” Johnson—“Oh, he in¬
herited $50,000 from an uncle, and ha 3
gone to New York to enjoy it.”— Light.
Not a Mutual Benefit.—Emeline—
“Alfred, I am very fond of you, but I
doubt if I love you enough to be your
wife.” Alfred—“Emeline, give me, oh,
give me, the benefit of the doubt!”
Emeline—“I will, Alfred. Henceforth,
all is over between us.”
An Iowa man told a love-sick girl
that he would marry her it she would
comm it to memory the whole of Web-
■*“* “ a: ‘? ,l0 ____ '*■ and j n !e now dl ?” ne 1 wl " hav »
u
,, to cake tbe consequences for the , rest of
hls Me.—Burlington Free Press.
Tom—“Hello, Tagg. What’s that
sign on your front door for: ‘No ______ Ad-
mittance Except on Business?’” Tagg—
“There have been so many young men
filing on my daughters, and their visits
have been so fruitless that I have adopted
^ te redurp the * c UrD P i us •
v . DJ ,
Making Castor Oil.
u ^ J* * jround ° J
“P. Sn e P ut m . , horsehair , . bags. , T In
this shape , they are crushed under aipow-
e * u [ press giving out in oil about one-
third ot their weight. The dry pulp,
called “pumice,” is sold for fertilizing,
The oil is filtered and finally bleached, if
for medical use, by exposure to the sun’s
rays under glass. The amount of castor
tnflmg compared tor mediae, to the quantity however, con- to
S umed in mechanical crafts For lubri-
caring leather it is unequaled, while its
properties as an “alizarine assistant” are
inc arable . Alazarine is an element
r n rnM j +o r f rnrn „n -.l
-sedfor printing: teatile fabrics' 3,1 an
‘° mako ,heir
In India castor oil is used for burning
in lamps. The art of making it from the
heana to of recent discovery. The an-
cients were accustomed to administer the
seeds whole for medicine. At first heat
was employed in the crushing of the
beans, but this injured the quality Volatile of the
oil, while during the process a
principle escaped, so irritating that tbe
viorkmen were compelled to wear pro¬
tecting masks.— Washington Star.