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XXII.
THE LATEST NEWS.
CLEANINGS FROM MANY POINTS.
Important Happenings, Beth Home
ant'. Foreign, Briefly Told.
Ncwsv Southern Note*.
At Adnirsvilie, Ga., a little child, three
miles in the country, swallowed carbolic acid
and will probably die. 'The medicine had
been left as a wash.
f The Cherry Colton Mills at Florence, Ala.,
declared a quarterly dividend of 3 per cent.
This mill makes a specialty of fine yarns,and
ts running twenty-four hours a day.
The State militia, who have been under
■arms at for Charleston, the W. Va., for a week or
more purpose of suppressing any
outbreak of the striking miners In the Elk-
horn region, were dismissed to their homes.
A son of Dr. Banks nr.d a negro boy were
killed l»y lightning near Dadeville, Ala. The
boys were at « grindstone In the yard when
the bolt struck a tree and passed to where
th- boys were standing. They were both
killed instantly.
At Columbia. R. C.. on Wednesday, a State
conference of about 100 of the representative
negroes of the State met to discuss the out¬
look for the coining constitutional conven¬
tion. The conference was held with closed
doors. The negroes adopted along address
to "the people of the United States,” appeal¬
ing for th« negroes’ right under the consti¬
tution. The negroes will organize for the
coming election.
The Exposition.
Advices from New Jersey indicate that
that State will he represented at the Cotton
States and international Exposition. Gover¬
nor Werts has issued a proclamation urging
the people to take immediate action to this
end. The newspapers have taken up the
matter in earnest and the exhibit is expected
to bo attractive.
Washington.
ville, Henry Clay England, a lawyer of Rock¬
st uok Md., by and electric a well known citizen, was
ac car on the outskirts of
Washington and instantly killed.
Ex-Governor Campbell, of Ohio, who has
administration recently visited Washington says that the
will soon take aggressive RC-
tlon in favor ot Venezuela.
tach Secretary Herbert has determined to de¬
Constructor Fernand and Civil Engineer
Asserson from the New York navy yard, af¬
ter carefully considering their explanations
of the serious frauds practiced in their de¬
partment.
Labor.
all Wages In the woolen and worsted industry
over tho state of Rhode Island will be in
created duriug the present month from
to 32 per cent.
The rod mill of the Steel and Wire Compa¬
ny, Wedesday at Braddock, and Pa., resumed work on
the other departments will be
started in a few days. About 800 hands are
employed.
Foreign.
The Queen has signed the proclamation
"dissolving A2th Parliament and fixing August
as the dale of assembling for the new
Parliament.
At Limerick. Ireland, a wholesale poison-
lug case four has occurred among the Laurqli Hill
nuiis, of whom partook of poisoned
custaid. Two have died, aud ethers who
ate of the poisoned dish are dangerously ill.
A disastrous conflagration occurred at
Prorierode, a village at Hesse Nassau. Three
hundred and fifty houses were destroyed aud
t n n of the villagers were killed while seeking
to rescue their valuables. Two thousand
persons are homeless.
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Crl;ne.
Daniel Werling. who killed his wife, Bar¬
bara, at the Pittsburg Market House on
April 17, 1894, wa* hanged at that city on
Thursday.
Daniel Ackerman, a resident of Smith
M.ils, N. J.. on Friday stabbed his wife and
him, Mrs. Ackerman is dead, and the
mu i 1) dying. The supposed cause is jealousy.
James Pittman, a negro, has been arrrested
nt I’datka, Fla., for robbing the postofllce of
registered matter. Ho worked next to the
uostoffice and entered it at night by using
false keys.
In the Nobles murder trial at Jefferson,
Ga., Mrs. Nobles and Gus were convicted in
the firri degree ami sentenced to hang on
August 16th. Mary Fambles was convicted
with a recommendation to life imprisonment.
Deb’ey Nobles was acquitted.
Miscellaneous.
Fire lias destroyed 230 houses in tbe town
of Sambrow, government of Lomsha, Poland.
Two thousand people are rendered homeless
by tbe conflagration.
A poll of the press of Iowa sbow 9 that
every Democratic paper In the State, with
only two exceptions, is opposed to free sil¬
ver coinage at 16 to 1.
Five firemen were burned to death or
smothered in a^bnrning livery stable atile-
troit, M«eh., on Thursday, one fatally injur¬
ed by jumping. The fire damage was $60,-
000 .
At New York, Recorder Goff sentenced
Vincenzo Vino, wife murderer, to be electro¬
cuted some time during tho week beginning
Monday, August 12th. at Sing Sing.
In a drowning accident just off Bluff Point,
on Lake Keuka, N. Y., live persons lost their
Ines. Terry Tufft, with his wife and three
children, were in a sail boat when a strong
wind capsized the boat and the whole party
were drowned. The bodies were recovered.
At Chicago, Judge Woods modified the
sentence of Eugene V Debs from one vear in
jail to six months, and eight others, directors
of the American Railway Union, from six
mt nth? to three. Tbe sentences are now as
the court originally imposed them.
Tbe Supreme Court of Kansas has render¬
ed its decision in the ease of Mrs. Mary
Lease against the members of the Board of
Charities, in favor of the defendant. George
C. Clark, who was appointed to succeed hej
as a member of the Board. This effectually
removes Mrs Lease from office.
Two little girls were ground to pieces un¬
der a motor la Cleveland, O., Friday after¬
noon. They were Stci-a Selilaubeeker, aged
8 years, and her cousin, Eleanor Grop, aged
7. They were crossing the street and stop¬
ped on the car track to pick up something
Grant Kerns, the motorman, was arrested,
charged with criminal carelessness
AGREED TO DIE TOGETHER.
5. A. Field* Kill* His Wife and Child and
Then Commits Suicide.
8. A. Fields, until recently editor of the
Post at Polo, Mo., cut the throats of his wife
and baby with a razor, and then ended his
life in the same manner. The bodies were
found in a garden 200 yards from the house
of his father-in-law. five miles from Mead-
ville. Mo. Fields and his family were visit¬
ing there at the time. A note was found in
Mrs. Fields's pocket saying that everything
Thomas. they had was to be left to her mother) Mrs,
It i? evident that Fields aa l his wife ha l
agreed to die together, for she went into the
house after they ha l left it. put on an old
dress, anl then went back to be killed.
Fields wa? a lawyer by profession and wa?
about thirty-five years of age, but had made
a failure of his uracuce. Two years ago he
attempted his own life by throwing himself
out of a second-storv window.
ztovemor tireenhalge has vetoed more
bills than any other Massachusetts Governor
.Within the memory of man
The Toccoa News.
DISASTER IN ATLANTIC CITY.
Tragic Closing of the Annual Reunion
of the Elks.
A frightful accident terminated the Ells
festivities at the Inlet Casino, Atlantic City.
N. J., on Wednesday night, In which a large
number ot persons sustained injuries more
or less severe. It was at 9 30 o'clock when
Grand Exalted Ruler the Buffalo Bodj
Meade D. DetWiler, of Harrisburg, had (in
.'shed his address at the openiug social ses
sion of the Elks and was about to Introduci
James J. Armstrong, of New York, when i
cracking sound was hoard,
and the mass of h'Jrhanity was preeipitatet
to the ftrst flodr, a distance of twenty-llv
feet. Men. Women and children were piuQgec
into the hole and upon one anotlier. Th<
cries shrieks and groans were deafening ;ui<
the direst confusion reigned. Au alarm wat
5 immediately sent out, and all the physiciam
gallantly rushed to the rescue of their injur-
ed brethren and friends, indifferent to the
danger that confronted them, as they did not
know what instant the remainder of tin* pa-
vilion While the might bfiry them beneath its ruins.
work of rescue was going on the
lights on the first floor became extinguished
and plunged the place into darkness. Men
ran to the car barn of the trolly road near
by and obtained n number of headlights
from the cars. These were most Useful in
assisting the work of the resellers. The work
of extricating the injured proceeded
rapidly, and by !2 o'clock they had ail been
removed to the hospitals or their hotels.
A visit to the scene of the accident Thurs-
day morning showed that one of the big and
worn pillars holding the floor hud given way
and the weight on the floor gradually pres-
sed the other pillar sufficiently to weaken it
and the fioor opened like a trap in the centre.
The floor, however slipped doWu gradually
and the disaster was thus not so serious as
it would have been had it crashed through
suddenly. who The injured are all the people
were the first to reach the lower door.
Mayor Stooe condemned the building aud
directed the building inspector to have it
torn dowu and also to make an investiga-
tion of the unfortunate affair.
At the Elks’Grand Lodge session Thurs-
day morning an air of gloom pervaded the
meeting room. A committee was appointed
to look into the condition of the injured with
power to render whatever assistance they
deemed necessary.
Those seriously hurt are improving, ex¬
cepting Frederick Klaproth, fearfully the Camden
musician, who was crushed be¬
tween the beams. He is still alive, but is in a
critical condition.
The only other person who was reported
as being critically hurt, Mrs. Rockwell, of
Philadelphia, was improved and will re¬
cover. It appears that many people who
slightly were reported as seriously injured were only
bruised. There are now in the
hospital: Besides Klaproth, Leopold Frye,
of Philadelphia, had a leg broken; Dr.
Frick, of Roanoke, Ya., leg fractured and
internally injured;’ Anton E. Dimon, of
Camden, musician, leg broken; Prescott
Erkmau. of Mt. Holy, N. J., leg fractured;
Monroe Barry, of New York, leg broken;
Mrs. J. Melville Jansen, wife of a member of
Carm-ross Minstrels,of Philadelphia, leg frac¬
tured.
At the Elies’ headquarters tfa,e clothing and
jewerly cident recovered gathered from the -sarnie of the ac¬
the wore together ahd mid delivered
to owners upon calling describing
property.
d GREAT FLOOD OF BUSINESS.
It Is Out of Season in July. However,
This is a Curious Year.
R. G. Dun A Co., in their weekly review ol
trade, say: A business flood so strong and
rapid that the conservatives fear it may do
harm, is out of season in July. But the sea¬
sons this year lap over and crowd each other.
May frosts and frights, it is now evident,
kept back much business that would naturally
have been finished before midsummer, and
the the delayed culmination of one season gets in
way of efforts to begin another on time.
But the volume of business, however it may
be measured, is remarkably large for ^the
month.
Cotton has not changed, though specula¬
tion still turns wholly on prospects, regard¬
less of enormous stocks carried over. In
Europe the manufacture lags but here it is
satisfactory.
The weekly output of pig iron was 171,194
tons, having risen 13,970 tons in June and
other furnaces “have gone into operation
sinco July 4th. The rapid rise in prices has
brought into’ operation many additional
works, and there is still a rush to buy before
prices facturers advance further. Influential manu¬
are sending out warnings that the
rise may easily do mischief, and prices have
in fact advanced nearly 6 per cent, in two
week? but are stiUJIS per cent.'lower than in
forms Oetober, 1892. The demand for structural
is enormous. Bessemer pig has ad¬
vanced to $14,40 at Pittsburg, and wire nails
to $1.55, both higher than in October, 1892;
grey and forge to $11.25, structural beams to 1.5
angles fo 1.35.
AVool is still advancing with enormous
sales. As the sales are about four times the
weekly consumption, it is obvious that the
market is essentially speculative, but the
rise abroad has set the country ablaze so that
AVestern holders are asking even higher
prices than heretofore. Scarcity of domes¬
tic wool helps them aud the enormous sales
of foreign only compensate for the reported
decrease in the domestic clip. But buying
by most manufacturers is already affected,
and at the prices uow asked for wool, some
manufacturers are doubting whether a cor¬
responding value for goods can be realized.
Openiug prices for many light weight goods
show great irregularity, perhaps a majority
being on a par with last year but some lower
and some higher. Cotton goods continue;
active and strong, with comparatively little
difficulty as to labor. Tho Northern mills
have taken little over 100,000 bales in the
past three months, since cotton was below
7 cents, but with cotton bought cheap foi
five month* ahead, they are able to do good
business. It is not the season for activity u
boots and shoes, and orders have tallen off
Priees of shoes, leather and hides are ai
stiff as ever.
for Foreign trade is not encouraging, exeepi
July showing a largo decrease.
The failures for tho first four days of Julj
show liabilities of $1,258,500. of which $336,.
434 were of manufacturing and $702,066 o!
trading concerns.
CONDITION OF THE CROPS.
Cotton Improves 1 3-10 Points Since
June. Fine Wheat and Corn.
July returns for cotton make the average
.'ondition S2.3 against 81 in June, an im¬
provement of 1.3 points. The condition
July 1. 1894. wa? S9.6 and the same date in
1893, 82.7 points. The averages of the
States are as follow: Virginia. 100; North
Carolina. 74: South Carolina. 84: Georgia.
nessee 92.
The July returns of (be statists lan . of f the
Department of Agriculture by the eorres-
pondents thereof, make the following aver-
65.8; ages ot spring condition: whea., 102.2: 9 c.»ts, ?'.K,' r co 83.2: t o r winter
rye. 82 . 2 ; spring rye <i;al. rye. 7; barker,
91 . 9 ; nee, otpo^tojweompared 84 . 4 ; pouter, 91.5. tola.cQ, 8, .
^aage with 1.94,
107.?, and of tobacco 84.8 per cent. The re-
port on •'-’reag® 107as 0 compared with th P the
ry, shows area
<^mS l «^if^nd W h^i C nff^nine-ease 000~
of 6
aer_ The condition ot winter wheat is 62.8,
against7L1 in June and 83.2 last July.
The condition of spring wheat 102.2,
azalnat 78.8 in June and 68.4 in July 1894.
TOCCOA, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1895.
ENDEAYORERS MEET
IN NATIONAL CONVENTION.
Fifty Thousand From Every Corner
of This Country Pour Into Boston.
By midnight Wednesday nearly 50,000
Christian Endeavorers were in Boston, Mass,
attend the grand convention. During the
ytcrooon tbe business portion of th. city
was crowded with bands of Endeavorers,
marchingwiththeirgripstotheirheadquar-
ier * and an singing °?. their hymns, ’ or strolling
the decorations, ,
examining
The grand convention opened at 7:30 this
evening and at 9.15 simultaneous meetings
<» Bo—, Cambridge and SemervUechurch-
Among the most important* was the
fcetkely temple, at which Rev. Geo. E. fforr,
gr., D. D., of'Bostou, presided and welcomed
the delegates. The subject of the evening,
“The Religious Press,’’ was discussed by
Rev. Wm. Hayes Ward, D. D., of New York
city. Rev. A. E. Dunning, D. D. ( of Boston*
followed upon ‘The Relation of the Religious
press to Christian Endeavor.” Jamaica
Plain extended its local greeting to the En-
dbavorers with a graud union rally at the
Jamaica Plain Baptist Church. Rev. Ralph
M. The Hunt, pastor, presided, Christian
mass meetings of the great
Endeavor convention began at 9:30 Thurs-
day morning in Mechanics’ Hall and the
tents. Endeavor and Williston. Long before
that hour Mechanics’ Hall was packed to the
doors, and when Musical Director Percy S.
poster, of Washington, rose to lead the open-
jhg praise service, hundreds of people
thronged the rest of the building and the
avenue unable to gain admission. President
Francis E. Clark. D. D , occupied the chair,
Rev. Smith Baker, D. D., of Boston, conduct-
ed devotional exercises, and after singing a
hymn of welcome, written for the occasion
by Rev. S. F. Smith, D. D.. author of ‘-Amer-
j C a ” Rev. A. II. Piumb delivered the wel-
come of the city. Hon. S. B. Capen then
welcomed the delegates,
Governor Greenhalge delivered the wel-
come of the Commonwealth of Massaehu-
6ett3,
The response of the board of trustees ol
the United Society of Christian Endeavot
and visiting Endeavorers, was delivered bj
Rev. E. R. Dille, D. D.. of San Francisco.
The meeting closed with the reading of th*
report of General Secretary John AV. Baker,
of the United Society of Christian Endeavor,
The report showed a total of 41,229 so¬
cieties, with an individual membership from
every clime and every nation, with skins o)
yelTow, varying color,of which 489 are red, 20.300 art
109,400 are black, and 343,560 art
white; in all, a great inter-racial brotherhood
of 2,473,740. Upon the missionary roll ol
honor are the names of over 5,000 societiei
from 35 States, seven territories, seven pro¬
vinces aud four foreign lands. Each social
has given not less than ten dollars to its own
denominational home or foreign missionary
board for the cause of missions. The total
amount as reported on this roll of honor is
$149,719. In addition to this amount ol
money which has been given by these 6,-
551 societies enrolled upon the honor roll,
$190,884 has been given by these same so-
cities for “Christ aud the Church” in ot’nei
ways, making a total of $340,603. In the Iasi
6ix years, 816,355 new members have added
to the rolls.
Three great meetings were held during tha
day in the three places prepared.
In the afternoon the Christian Endeavorers
met in rallies according to their denomina¬
tions in the halls, tents and city churches.
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REV. DR. F. E. CLARE.
(Founder of the V P 8. of C. E.)
Tim first National Convention of the Young
held People’s Society of Christian Endeavor wai
In Portland, Me. (its birthplace), u
1882. Tho membership tnen was 481, com
prising six societies. At the twelfth conven.
tion held in Cleveland, Ohio, in June, 1894
28,741 societies, with a membership of 1,724,.
400, were represented.
Rev. Dr. Francis E. Clark, of the Williston
Church, of of Portland, Me., was the origina¬
tor the society. Being desirous of inter¬
invited esting the young people in church work he
them to his house and talked to
them about it. and their enthusiasm being
aroused, ho asked them to sign this pledge:
“Trusting in ihe Lord Jesus Christ foi
strength. I promise Him that I will strive to
do whatever He would like to have me do;
that I will pray to Him and read the Bibla
every how, day, and that, just so far as I know
throughout lead my whole life. I will endea¬
vor to a Christian life. As an active
member I promise to be true to all my
duties, to be present at and to take some
part unless aside from singing in every meeting,
hindered by some reason which I can
conscientiously Jesus Christ. give to my Lord aud Master,
If obliged to be absent from
the monthly consecration meeting, I will, If
possible, send au excuse for my absence to
the society.”
The first name subscribed to this pledget
was that of W. H. Pennell, who has ever
since been prominent in the society. It vrast
not had long similar before every church in Portland,’
ton a Church society, A member of Willis-
moved to Lincoln, Neb., and
carried tho idea there, Another membei
moved to South Hadley, Mass., and startec
throughout n society there. And so it spread, not onh
this country,but to foreign coun
tries, until it has reached every civilized
country on tbe globe, and, in fact, sonv
which are not civilized.
Mills Moving South.
^ he Tburlow Manufacturing Company, ot
Chester. Pa., concluded a deal for the pur-
and ham, will Ala., at formerly once used from is a soap Chester, fa^crl, Pa.
remove 5.000-spindle-cotton-mili}
to Birniinuham a
The shipment of the machinery will begin at
once, sept. 1st. and tne mill will be in'operation by
,
j. R. Gotten, president of the Tburlow
Manufacturing four Company, recentlv made a
months’tour of the South, and decided
t h.it this section is to be the future seat ol
- >,je cottOH manufacturing industry of Amer-
kiC His company already has cue mili in
North Carolina, and contemplates the loea-
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Many German newspapers severely crftf-
eise the expenditure incurred by the Kiel
festivities
THE NEW WEATHER CHIEF.
Willis L, Moore Has a Forecasting Sys*
tem of His Own.
Willis L. Moore, who has bees appointed
Chief of the Weather Bureau at WashlngtoS
by Secretary Mortofl, was chosed because 6l
his remarkable ability as a weather fore^
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tVEATHER CHIEF WILLIS L. MOOBE.
caster. He has had charge of the Chicago
weather forecasfing bureau for years, and
has a system of his own, which he has kept
a secret, but which he will apply in the
future totheolficiai forecasts. The result,
it is expected, will be more faithful predic-
tions thau have ever been made before.
Chief Moore entered the service when a boy,
and is familiar with the details of all its
branches. He is a Eenubliean in nalitics.
CORNELL’S CREW BEATEN.
The Trinity Hall Men Won at Henley by
Seven Lengths.
Cornell’s attempt to capture the grand 7.
Challenge Cup at the TT Henley . (England.) , re-
gatta ended in a fiasco. Tho Ameri-
cans led their competitors, 1 ’ the Trinity J Hall
crew, grandly' in the second heat of the
lace until three-quarters of the distance had
been covered, Then an accident dis-
ftbled one of their men and they were thrown
out of the competition. The struggle is
finished as far as Cornell is concerned, and
finished without a genuine test with a single
one of the English crews.
The Americans took the lead over Trinity
Hall at the very start and maintained it
with every indication of winning until the
mile post was nearly' reached. The Cam¬
bridge men were gaining slightly', but Cor¬
nell’s lead was then more than half a
length. Fennell caught a crab, and the
oar handle struck him a blow in the
side which completely disabled him.
His companions tried to help him, and made
three attempts to row on without his aid,
but this was Impossible. The Ithaca lads
rowed themselves to a standstill. The long,
surprising stroke of their opponents thor¬
oughly wore down the shorter, snappier
stroke of the Americans, and in the end the
Trinity Hall men finished seven lengths
In front, in the fast time of seven minutes
fifteen seconds.
The immediate cause of Cornell’s defeat
was the collapse of Fennell, who rowed No.
6, and who tumbled from his seat at the
finish in a dead faint. The loud claims to
“fairness,” “gentlemanliness” and “sports¬
manlike fond conduct,” boasting of which they Englishmen are
so of when are victors,
were well negatived by their conduct at the
conclusion of the race.
The crowds on the river banks and in ihe
boats along the shore were frantic with de¬
light at Cornell’s unfortunate situation. The
Britishers were wild with delight when
Trinity passed Cornell at the three-quar¬
ters post, but words failed to ex¬
press their degree of enthusiasm when
Trinity Hall won and Cornell trailed along
past the grand stand. Then the Cornell
men were received with hisses. They stopped
rowing before they passed the judges, Out.” who The
hoisted the sign “Not Rowed
band played “God Save the Queen” as the
crowd cheered itself hoarse, and poor Fennell
lay as if dead in the bottom of the Cornell
boat, while his nearest companions splashed
water in his face. The general opinion is
that tho Cornell crew were hopelessly climate over¬
trained, and that there was no or
malaria about it.
SOUTHERN COTTON MILLS.
Notes From the Great Industry in New
Sections.
The Union CoUou Mills, at Monroe. N. C.,
will have to be sold under foreclosure of a
$50,000 mortgage, ihe stockholders having
faded in their attempts to -aise that sum of
money.
The roof is being put o?. the three-story.
125 bv 100 feet addition of the Raleigh Hosie¬
ry Y:)'••! Mills, am) 10.900 new spindles will
be put in by August 1st. The mill will 1hen
have in operation nearly 25,000 spindle?. N.
W. Baker and associates, of lb no Wing.
0., contemplate the building of a cotton mili
at or neat that place, to cost about $100,-
000 . Captain
The organization of a company by
W A Post aud others, to build a cottoo-mili
at the town of Grantviile, Gl. is iu progress.
Wattesboro, S. C., wifi have a cotton mil
soon It lias been chartered as the Colletor
Cotton Mills Company.
The Cotton-mill of the Minneola Manufac¬
turing Company, af Gibsonvll’e, N. C., has
added a lot of spinning and quilting machin¬
ery. sixty Crompton looms, electric Lights,
etc. mill wii!
The Scotland Neck. N. C., cotton plant and dc
add a dyeing equip* 1160 * to its
its own dyeing hereafter.
Citizens of Winder. Ga.. held a large and
enthusiastic meeting Saturday to discuss the
building of a large cotton factory. A largf
amount was subscribed, and the factor}
building will soou be built.
The Atlanta. Ga., Exposition cotton mills
will equip their weaving-rooms with humid¬
ifiers.
There is a noticeable increase in the pe;
t eut. of knitting mills among tbe new nulls
now beiug built iu tbe South,and that branch
of cotton goods manufacturing will be more
extensively carried on hereafter.
oiadstone Still For Home Rule
The Westminister Gazette London a few
messa « e to P eo P Ie - to 56 U P°>
magic lantern sliders, together with cartoont
and election news at the National Liberal
Club. Mr. Gladstone complied with tbe re¬
quest by sending the following:
“Above ail ether present purposes vibdL
cate the rights of th? House of Commons a*
the organ ol tha nation, and establish tha
honor of England as well as consolidate tha
strength of tbe Empire by conceding th«ju»
tice and constitutional claims of Ireland.”
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Six Persons Drowned.
A special from Tialnapantia, Mexico, says
that a waterspout in tbe mountains above
lea used almost the crropbte inundation of
that , pla-.e. , Th_ T , _ flood wa^be ..w. . p. „ f
the village of Ruaedeos. and s-x p-sons
were drowne* -
A PULLMAN OF SLEEPING
Pilgrims and Priests Telescoped by a
Second Section. Many Never
Awoke. The Engineer Asleep.
tn the early hours of Wednesday morning
there occurred au accident on the Grand
Trunk road at Craig's Road, Quebec, that
Has seldom been excelled in horror by any
Similar event in Canadian railway annals.
A special excursion train crushed into an-
Other train Of the same kind preceding .it
and killed sotfie twenty people, while the
Wounded are numbered in the Vicinity o!
tWo score.
The trains that came in collision werfe
special excursion trains filled with pilgrims
en route from Sherbrooke, Richmond ano
Windsor Mills, to Levis, where they were to
cross over to Quebec and proceed to the
shrine at St. Anne de Beaupre, and wore
following one another with an interval of
some The twenty first minutes between them.
train reached Craig's Road sta¬
tion, About which 3 is fourteen miles west of Levis to’
take o’clock, and stopped at the tank
water. Due precautions were taken
and the semaphore thrown to danger sigual
for the following train. Only the trainmen
Were out and about attending to their duties
The Pullman in the rear was wrapped in si¬
lence and the sleepers were unaware of the
terrible fate that was rushing upon them.
ond Suddenly there was a great crash—the sec¬
train coming at full speed had dashed
Into the rear Pullman of the first section
Every berth in the Pullman was wrecked and
some of the occupants who were killed, never
knew what happened to them. They died
Bleeping. Others awoke to their horrible
surroundings ing and and position, maimed, bleed¬
the bruised, conscious of little else but
agony that racked them It was an aw¬
ful scene. The work ol rescue began at
once.
The colored porter ot the Pullman cat
Balmoral received fatal injuries, and has
since died.
The following is the correct list of the
dead: Charles Bedard, mail clerk. Hector
McLeod, Perkins, engineer, Richmond-, Richard L
cier,Richmond; fireman, Richmond, Rev. J. L. Mer-
Rev. F. P, Dignan, Windsor
Mills; Mr. Cogan, Richmond; Miss Valin. St.
de Joseph Levis; de Levis; Miss Phaneuf, St. Joseph
Mrs. J. B Cayer, Danville, Miss
feame Delidourte, Shefford; aunt of Miss Valin
O’Ferrall, unknown, Capleton. St. Joseph de Levis John
The injured number 28, all having French
names, and belonging in the Province of
Quebec.
it is hard to say where the blame for the
accident rests. It has been suggested that
J?55^°!m) rieep and thus have S ^ 1 missed k RV ® c the \ ozecl warning of * to
pemaphore whereabouts. and was unconscious of his
be the only theory Indeed, this would seem to
that can be advanced,
but a strict investigation will be held at once
lo determine the responsibility,
HE IS ACQUITTED.
DR. SHEMWELL A FREE MAN.
The Jury Out From Saturday to Mon¬
day. Close of a Noted Case.
The case of Baxter Shemwell for the
murder of Dr. Payne at Lexington, N.
C., was given to the jury late Saturday
afternoon. At 8:30 Monday morning
the jury returned their verdict of ac¬
quittal.
The prisoner stood firm and cool to
hear the verdict. AVhen he heard it
his face brightened and seemed to
grow larger. Tears came to his eyes
and a smile to his face. His little boy
Dermott was by his side, As the
prisoner took his seat the little fellow,
fell upon his neck and cried, the pris¬
oner hugged him. There would have
been a shout from the court house had
it not been for the timely warning of
Judge Boykin. Mrs. Shemwell came
in first after the prisoner was dis¬
charged, she clasped her husband in
her arms and held him for some min¬
utes caressing him. Ail his friends
congratulated him.
Mr. Watson for the defence contin¬
ued his argument Satuiday morning,
and from all reports it xvas a splendid
effort.
Judge R. F. Armfield followed for
the defense and B. F. Long closed the
case for the state. Saturday’s argu¬
ments by these well known lawyers
would be well w'orth reading but for
lack of space we must say “no.”
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE
Spanish and Chinese Gossip from the
National Capitol.
Spain now has her turn at the demand
business. She isn’t making a demand that
the United States shall apologize, but her
minister has been instructed to ask that this
government will officially disavow the senti¬
ments alleged to have been expressed by
Ambassador Eustis in an. intererview pub¬
lished by a Paris newspaper. Ambassador
Eustis ha3 already repudiated that alleged
interview, which he branded as a fake, out
that has had no effect upon the Spanish min¬ the
ister, who has gone to Massachusetts for
purpose of presenting his demand to Secre¬
tary Olney in person, not caring to deal with
the subordinate who is in charge of the State
department. The Spanish minister proba¬
bly knows, in common with everybody expressed, else,
that Ambassador Eustis never
for publication, the sentiments credited to
him in that interview, but he doubtless
thinks it a good opportunity to get the U. S.
government to officially say that it does not
sympathize with the Cuban rebellion, or
something to that effect. If it be true that
Secretary Olney has been listening to the
seductive buzzing of the Presidential bee tfaq
Spanish minister may bagorry he made that
demand as the Secretar^nay see in it an op^ byj
portunity to give his candidacy a boost
making the American eagle let out a scream
or two. It is more probable, however, that
the denial of the interview by Ambassador
Eustis will be considered a sufficient answer
to the demand. Spain would do well to be
very careful, about such demands. This
government is, of course, neutral, but there
is little doubt that an overwhelming majority
of the people in this country sympathize
with the Cubans and would at a pinch help
them throw off Spanish rule.
For the first time the Chinese question is
locally a live one iu Washington. The Chi¬
nese colony has been increased so rapidly
that some of them have had a struggle to
live and play fan tan. Some of the boldest
of these sought to boom the laundry busi¬
ness bv cutting the prices to tbe extent o!
about 20 per cent. This fstirred up the high¬ rest
of them and it is said that Chinese
binders have tried to kill several of the Pjfjce
cutters, but that s all among themselves. The
question has been brought home vO the com-
munity by the issuing of an appeal by the
big steam laundries requesting the peop.e
not to patronize the Chinamen, and stating
that if they do wages of American laundry
employes will have to be cut.
Lack of money is the chief canso -i
suicide in France,
WANT THE LIBEL LA \VS CHANGEI
The Virginia Press Association Makes
Recommendations.
The Virginia Press Association at its meet
Jdg at Blue Ridge Springs adopted ihe re
port or its Committee on Legislation as fol
JoWS:
To the President aud Members of the Virgin¬
ia Press Association:
inasimich as there was no session of the
Legislature in 189l-'95 your committee wa?
unable to accomplish any practical work ofs
legislative character. Your Instructions con
cerning the preparation of a bill on the sub
|ect islature, of libel, have to be presented to the next Leg and
been carefully considered,
while we deem it inexpedient to offer to this
meeting a formal measure, believiug that
barrass your adoption of such a measure would em
rather than aid the efforts of yout
committee next winter, we nevertheless re¬
commend the following resolution, as the
sense of this association respecting this most
important subject:
Resolved. That in the opinion of this asso¬
ciation the libel laws of Virginia are harsh
and oppressive to the newspapers of the
State and destructive of that freedom of the
press recognized by the founders of this Gov¬
ernment as essential to the liberty of the cit¬
izen, and that we respectfully ask the Legis¬
lature of Virginia at its next session to so
amend them as to embody among others the
following First, in reforms:
actions for libel, civil and crim¬
inal, malice must be proved and not assum¬
ed, against the defendant, on the principle
that every man should be deemed innocent
of an offence tiutil proved guilty.
give Second. Require plaintiffs in libel suits to
suits security by for costs, Qius discouraging
fur blackmailing irresponsible persons who bring them
Third. purposes.
sha!I be given Actual and not punitive damages
iu all cases uuless uia'ica shall
be proven against the defendant.
Fourth. The truth of a publication, when
hiade in good faith for the public interests,
without rna'ice aud for justifiable ends, sha'i
be a complete defence.
Fitih. Proceedings of courts, of official
bod'es, and of public meetings, when accur¬
ately printed, shall be deemed privileged
communications.
Sixth. Aggrieved parties before entering
suits should be required to make a written
demand upon tho publisher for a retraction,
specifying iu such demands tbe statements
complamed of. If within three days a full
and fair retraction is made with equal pro¬
minence as tlic alleged libel was published,
or in case of a weekly or semi-weekly,’ in tho
next issue of said paper, then the publisher
shall be liable mil v fur -ml uni dam acres.
BEAUT1FUL SENTIMENTS.
What Mr. Cleveland Has !o Say of
Married Life.
A letter from President Cleveland,in which
he speaks of his married iife os “one grand,
sweet song,” has been brought to light by
the news of the recent eveut at Gray Gables.
In December, 1899, Col. Jco. Temple
Graves, of Atlanta, Ga.. the southern orator
Miss was sending out invitations to his weddmgto
Annie Cothran, of Rome, Ga. He sene
one of his personal friends, the ex-President
aud Mrs. Cleveland, who were then residing
on Madison Avenue. New York. Acknowl¬
edging the receipt of the invitation. Mr.
Cleveland wrote as follows;
“My Dear Mr. Graves We received the.
card of invitation to your wedding a day or
two ago. I am glad that your letter received
only a few hours ago. justifies me. on behalf
of my dear wife, and myself, to do more tliau
to And, formerly notice the occasion.
first of all, let ine a-sure you how
much we appreciate the kind aud touching
sentiment vou convey to us in our married
state.
“As I lookback upon the years that have
passed since God, in His infinite goodness,
bestowed upon me the best ol all lfri gifts—
a loving and affectionate wife—alt eise. hon¬
or. the opportunity of usefulness, aud the
esteem of my countrymen, are iu subordina¬
tion of every sense of gratitude and thank-
fullness.
“You are not wrong, therefore, when you
claim, in the atmosphere, of fastcoming bliss!
which now surrounds you, kinship with ond
who can testify, with unreserved tenderness
to the santifleation which comes to a man
when heaven-directed love leads tne way to
marriage.
“Since this tender theme has made us
kinsmen, let me wish for you and the dea.*
one who is to make your life doubly dear to
you, all the joy and happiness vouchsafed to
men.
“You will, I know, feel that our kindest!
wishes can reach nogreater sincerity aud forod
than when my wife joins in the fervent desire
that you and your bride may enter upon and
enjoy tbe same felicity which has made oui
married life ‘one grand, sweet, song.
Truly your friend.
(Signed) “Grover Cleveland.”
Ojlonel Graves has kept the letter in a
white and gold frame hanging in his parlor af
Manchester.
Two years ago he wrote lo President Cleve¬
land for permission to publish the letter for
its sentiment upon the domestic life of thl
American people. Mr Cleveland, replying,
said that although he had forgotten the ver¬
biage of the letter, he [left the publication td
the “delicacy and discretion” of his friend.
TELEGRAPHIC TICKS.
A hail storm throughout the tobacco¬
growing district of Connectieutt Saturday
afternoon nearly destroyed the crop. Some
places it fell two inches deep on the fields.
At Galveston, Texas, on Saturday the first
bale of the season, classed as strictly mid¬
dling, The was sold at auction to Kuhn <fc Fraus-
sen. price paid was $100.
Fire broke out Saturday in the Augusta,
Ga., steam '.aundry. After a fight of three
and one half hours it was subdued, having
been confined to the building in which it
started. Loss $23,000.
Assistant Postmaster General Jones has
issued an order to postmasters throughout
the country forbidding the issue of money
orders payable on their own offices. The
order can be issued on a substation.
The Tennessee Goal, Iren and Railroad
(Wjpany has made another advance of two-
thirci3 ieduction of last year in the wages
of their workers fn the mines—this time
among handlers of coal, cleaners of drifts
etc.
In the English elections Saturday the Lib¬
erals were badly beaten. Sir William Vernon
lfarccu't was defeated in Derby. Tbe Con¬
servatives and Unionists will have 76 in the
new Parliament, the Liberals 5 and the Par-
celliies 4.
Ac Detroit, Mich., the Michigan Malleable
Ironworks, which employs between 200 and
COO men, nearly all of whom are skilled
Wc'Iiiaen.wlll voluntarily inoreasethe wages
of its employes 10 per cent., beginning An
gust 1st.
Wincey Davis, a six-year-old girl, wa?
killed by iigbtning Sunday while standing *n
!he opeu door of her home in Chattanooga;
At Beiiaire. O.. Monday morning 3.000 coal
miners in Ohio county. West Virginia district,
quit work and asked for an advance of wages
from 51 to CO cents pet too.
der An explosion occurred Sunday in a pow¬
magazine at Tivoli, eighteen miles norih-
?ast of Rome. Five persons were killed and
tevera. injured, The cause of the explosion
is unknown.
Constable James and Farmer Johnson, of
4 r( j elia Mo ( were deadly enemies and both
W ent armed. Tbev met 8undav near town
and both fired. Johnson fell dead with a
bullet through his heart, James surrendered
and claims self-defense,
Nut cake made in India from rich,
nutritions nnts is being extensively
sold in Europe as far superior to oil
cake or oil meal.
NO. 39
TflUMPCT CALLS.
Ram’s Horn Sounds • Warning Not# to
the Co redeemed.
S IN is deadly only
when It can hide
its face.
Don’t pattern
/ after men. when
you would please
God.
God Is still call¬
ing to some peo¬
v ple to do small
\ things.
^ To say "Thy
will be done,”
means to say
good-by to self.
God’s warriors are always chosen
from Ills worshipers.
The only things we really know, are
those God tells us.
AY hen you shut your closet door, lock
ft with a promise.
Whatever Is gained In Sodom must
be lost with Sodom.
The rod never does good unless the
hand of love holds It.
Let us do right, and God will see to it
that we come out right.
The devil Is most like a Hon when he
looks most like a sheep.
It is the wolf In sheep’s clothing that
has the sharpest teeth.
It is never hard to believe when wo
get on believing ground.
We can only walk with God when we
are willing to go his way.
Our mission of sorrow in this life Is
to show us our need of God.
To make those around us want relig¬
ion, we must show them what it Is.
Give thorns the right to live, and you
make a law against killing snakes.
Praying is sometimes done, when God
wants us to first do something else.
Some men whom God calls to preach
misunderstand him, aud write essays.
The devil has to work hard for all he
gets in the house of a praying mother.
The old serpent hasn’t grown an inch
since he crept Into the garden of Eden.
When the devil goes about ns a roar¬
ing lion he Is careful not to show his
teeth.
It Is a long step toward heaven to be
born in a home where the Bible is
loved.
It Is doubtful If the man who makes
a long prayer ever expects a quick an¬
swer.
There Is something wrong with the
preaching that won’t hit a sinner some¬
where.
The man who enters the straight gate
has to leave behind him all that is
crooked.
Whatever we undertake in the name
of the Lord, is sure to have God’s help
behind it
We must do the thing that God tells
us to do, before any other good work
will count.
The prayer that opens a window in
heaven, can only be offered when God
is worshiped.
The Bible will not long remain a clos¬
ed book against the one who opens It
to look for Christ
Only the wise can profit by the expe¬
rience of others. A fool has to find out
for himself that fire Is hot.
In the Toy Business.
Hamamatsu was quite unlike any oth¬
er Japanese town I had ever seen; the
houses had a projecting upper story
and broad overhanging roofs, and the
principal trade seemed to be in toys.
There were shops full of drums and
kites, and dolls with all their belong¬
ings, and tbe thousand and one things
which the Japanese delight in giving to
their beloved children. As I passed tho
little garden I saw what looked like
a fearful atrocity—dozens of babies’
heads, pale and gray as if in death, cut
off at the neck and impaled on short
stakes, stood about the ground; but
on coming nearer the mystery was ex¬
plained; they were life-sized dolls*
heads of papier-mache, put out to dry
in the sun before receiving their final
coat of paint.
The neighboring villages were pecu¬
liar; every cottage was protected from
the winds by a high hedge of clipped
yew, and the street seemed to pass be¬
tween two green walls, over which the
heavily thatched roofs just peeped. The
openings gave a glimpse of courtyards
and eottage fronts where women and
men were hard at work threshing their
beans of many colors and spreading
them on mats to dry, weaving blue cot¬
ton cloths, or winding off the skeins of
shining yellow silk.—Harper's Maga¬
zine.
fiflr Henry Layard.
It Is but a few weeks since that Sir
Henry Layard passed away. He was
a man to whose abilities, achievements
and personal qualities but scant jus¬
tice was done in the obituary notices
which appeared at the time of his
death.
He did not “wear his heart upon his
sleeve,” and those who had only a
slight acquaintance with him may, per¬
haps, be excused for not perceiving tlsfc'
stanch and genuine kindness of thai
heart—a kindness which none of his
friends could fail to experience; but his
achievements and his career are writ¬
ten large In the history of the nine¬
teenth century, and the impetus which
his researches and discoveries gave to
the study of arc-haelogy—to say noth¬
ing of the Inestimable value of the light
they throw on the Old Testament narra¬
tive—will never be forgotten or under¬
rated by those whose opinions on such
subjects is worth having. Sir Henry
Layard’s later years were chiefly devot¬
ed to historical, archaeological and ar¬
tistic research, and during his residence
in Venice, where he spent a considera¬
ble part of every' year, he cam* to be
regarded almost as an unaccredited rep¬
resentative of his country in that city.
—John Murray, in Good Words.
When a member of a brass band
buys a new horn, all the other teem ben
say it has a “mighty sweet tone/**' ’
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