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BILL ARP’S WRITES A CHAPTER OS WANTON CRUELTY. Sorry That He Ones Fired Upon His Neighbor's Cow. And the sports killed s thousand pigeons in Macon the other day. That ** swful. I did not know thsrs were such unfeeling people iu this civilized country. Thera is nothing mors harm¬ less nothing so hsppy and so beautiful ns the pigeons thst domesticate around our homes and seek the protecting care of mankind. I thought thst this cruel sport had bean abandoned and that day pigeons wefe substitutes and wars tktofm from a trap by a spring. No wonder the good people of Macon refused to witness the unfeeling sport, It is an honor to them and it seems to they might have found some law to prevent it. Where did they get so many pigeons? Is it possible that any gentleman who had them on bis pisoe would let his boys sell them for such s sacrifice? Just think of it I A thousand happy, innoeent birds torn and mangled by shot and shell, legs bro or wings, and then dying a lingering death of pain. This thing oould not have been done in Csrtsrsville. The other dey two young books, who are proud of their moaefe, planned a hall boxing and match to none off at the oity onr mayor rad oonaoil roae np in arms snd called out the militia and beat the long roll rad issued s proclamation and soared the young book* so bad they left the town for three days. Their boxing gloves were seised as contrabands of war and have been filed away among the trophies. One of the backs is from England and the affair may yet get np another Venezuelan complica¬ tion with tha Monroe doctrine attach¬ ed. What right has Johnny Amerioan Boll born to be knoeking No, oat an don’t believe in sttissn? we sports that are ernel or dangerous. A man went np in a balloon here today and hung from it by his toes on a trapeze and than eat loose and cams down with a parachute rad everybody gased and but he wondered, ought for to it was have a been free show, not killed allowed to do it, lor they get sooner or later rad it exoites a thirst for dangerous risks rad an indifference to death. A m e n who will wantonly rad foolishly nut his life in hasard is • fool for wantof sans# rad will never get to hgvfra, in my opinion. Many years ago I sew Blondin, a little Frenchman, who was brought over by Miblo to danos the rope at his garden show fa New York. The garden want big enough for his ambition and he got to walking buildings rope* rad from Steeples of high and last the great next over waterfalls, ovsr The last below Niagara falls. tints I saw him he was walking over that c Wc ? on a rope that was 1,800 feet long rad wss 150 feet above rngi^wstars and he had a man Well, of course rat very wonderful rad very u, but rad it aooomplisbad nobody would no good have body fallen and killad him Dtkcr foo| gens,” And tha I ore wo Id have said. father toll about Bam imping from top of vs* from high bridges. He jump telle of Paterson, N. J., abont rad then the falls of Niagara id finally the Gen case His body was found • afterwards and he waa a flret-clase fooL Bnt still i respect for Blondin rad than for any set of men kill a thousand pig It is a bad sign in a boy to pigeon* at onr iKJ« slip « n P$HtaJ§*mo no MSB < or - ■* honest mss. I am sorry that I his oow. He loved to talk to me about ••hold h’England” sad once I hart feelings became I seemed to doubt bis word when be told me that his father used to raise eighty bushels of wheat to the sore. '•Sow wheat in dost and rye in mortar,” be need to say, “band you will ’sv’ a good crop.” He was never weaned from his love of the fatherland and was a good, loving citi¬ zen of both countries. What a beauti¬ ful trait is patriotism. An unrecon structed rebel friend told me in Florid* that nothing bad harmonised him sinov the war until he visited Europe last summer and saw the stars and etript dying to the breeze in every foreig i port, and then bis old love for tot banner came back again and he felt like be ooold shake hands and be at pesoe with the whole Tankee nation. Z wish that I and my wife eould travel abroad.—Bill Arp in Atlanta Consti¬ tution. ALTOELD CAUSTIC. Illinois’ Governor Replies to Carlisle’s Speech. Governor Altgeld, of Illinois, is out in an open letter answering Secretary Carlisle’s recent speech in Chicago. Among othei things Altgeld says: Mr. Carlisle should have explained why it was that for 200 years gold and silver held the market ratio of abont 15} to 1. The ratio fixed by law was 15 to 1 in most oountries and for awhile 16 to 1 in our country. In other words, the market ratio as shown by the tables remained practically the same as the statutory ratio during all that time. If the two metals cannot stand together how does it happen that they did so without serious fluc¬ tuation for 200 years, notwithstanding the fact that the annual production of each metal varied greatly from time to time? If only one of the metals can be a standard and a measure of the value of things, snd if s combined standard of both gold and silver » as impossi¬ ble ss it is to here two yardsticks of different lengths, why was it that some of the greatest financiers of the world and particularly Baron Rothschild, stated in 1869 that was the sum of the two metals»taken to¬ gether which formed the measure of tbs veins of tbingk No matter wkjioh metal might for a time predominate, nevertheless the sum of the two taken together wss the messnre of the vslue of all property. If the same oountries had etrioken down gold by law and de ctroyed it for monetary uses snd made «H™ the sols standard, would not sil have gone np and the pnrohaeing of gold gone down? Nomtaattoas Confirmed by the Senate. The senate haa confirmed the fol lowing nominations : Leo Berghol, of New York, oontnl at Postmasters—Mississippi—Guy Eraeronm, Armenia. Nor¬ thrnp, Pam Christian; Catherine E. Kelnnis, Mom Point, Texas—0. 0. Lockett, Kerrville. Also numerous promotions in the revenue cutter servioe. DIAE LIBERATED. • Bo and His Brother Ordered to Laava Cobra Boll A special of Wednesday from Havana ■ays: Bar. Albert Diaz, Ike American Baptist missionary, and his brother, Alfred, who wore arrested last week, have been set at liberty, but have been ordered to leave tbs oouatry before the expiration of six days from the time of their release. Two Amerioan correspond ante have been arrested la Matan -Thomas R. Dawley, who baa 'represented Har¬ per's Weekly in Cuba for the MoGarthy- past two months, and Maurioe O’Leary, the correspondent of The Philadelphia Both made Bulletin. headquarters men their in Havana rad tiy went to Matan province in search of war news Dawley la an Amerioan cdtizen, and O’Leary, a British subject They are charged with maintaining relations with Alfonso Lopes, who wae also ar¬ rested on suspicion of being a rebel ^Later advices state that the prison on bail which furnished by to* American vies A special of Friday Hall wd aa d aw that he ^ —Ipromieed a fTTp ____ « sr it” *■: FIVE SHOT DOWN. ROBERT KILLS A FAMILY AND TWO OFFICERS. g Being Closely Poshed Ho Then Kills Himself. Saturday morning at Bockville, Ind., Peter Egbert, a young man twenty three years of age, shot and killed Mrs. Hermann Heaohke and her two children, Hermann aud Aggie, Sheriff W. D. Mull and Constable W. M. Sweep. killed himself. He then Hie sister, Miss Florence Egbert, who was lying very ill with typhoid fever, died shortly after the tragedy from the effect of the shook. About 7 o’clock young Egbert was sent into the backyard to saw some wood for family use. Shortly after, while Mrs. Hasobke, who lived next door, was out milking her oow, Egbert secured a double-barrelled breech¬ loading shotgun, and going into the Haechke house, shot the little daugh¬ ter, a child of ten years,. dead aud wounded the boy, two* years younger, who ran out on the porch, where Eg¬ bert shot him again, killing him in¬ stantly. Killed the Mother. The murderer then went out into the and levelled his gun at Mrs. who, seeing his intention, to escape. He shot her, however, the charge taking effect in top of her head, removing part of skull. She died within a short Having oompleted this work of Egbert shonldered bis gun deliberately walked into the busi¬ part of the town. Sheriff Mull and Constable Sween planning a means of capturing murderer. Egbert w*« walking aorom the north of the square, holding hie gun in, with both barrels cocked, he saw Mall and Sween crossing street toward him. He oalled out them not to oome any nearer. The two offloers retired into a hallway in ths national bank building for a consultation, when Egbert and coming upon them sud¬ denly shot rad instantly killed both men. The murderer then started to run, taking a westward course toward the fair grounds, with a number of oiti sens in olose pursuit. He ran like a deer, bnt while he was crossing an open field jost west of town a shot from his pursuers took effect in his heel. This orippled him, and, though he managed to seals the inolosnre of the fair grounds, he wa« onable to run further, afid, crawling into a stall, shot himsalf in the right breast. The fire from his gun ignited his clothing, which was partially burned when he waa found. Egbert was at one time confined in the insane asylum, but bad been dis¬ charged as eared. The general belief is that insanity waa the cause of the orime. TWO MEN LYNCHED. M«b Overpowered the Jailer rad Took His Keys. A special to the Nashville Bun says that at 1 o’olook Sunday morning fif¬ teen masked men entered.the residence of tho jailer at McMinnville, Tonn., overpowered the jailer, took bis keys and entered the jail. William and Victor They were after Hiiiis, who were awaiting trial charged with the murder of Carroll Martin, in Van Buren oounty, in August, 1894. When the mob entered theoell,where the Hiiiis boys were oonfined, Victor snatched np a bad slat and succeeded in knocking down two of the crowd before he was overpowered. William, realizing that his doom was fixed, fell into a swoon. time Without giving the Hiiiis boys to don any elothing the masked men proceeded to their horses and mount¬ ing rode quickly and silently out of town to a point abont five miles south¬ east, near SbaUaford, where they banged the two brothers to the ia tree. BOI KILL WOMEN. The of the H< A horrible doable panied by small burglary, was committed at Hilltop, a village in Maryland, AbontS o'clock Joseph Cocking, Hilltop, who a at by a is his store, over family lived. Hastily aris a Mr. Cocking cam* down stairs by a blow on tied with a rope he a 1 rad a Jkwt to ■ r h: : - i* j OBOWTH OV TOE SOUTH. * The Industrial Situation as Reported for the Past Week. Beporte of industrial, mechanical and business affairs in all the southern states for the past week indicate that the lumber market has been aotive and unsettled during the week and prices are lower for all grades of pine. The association has changed its list to meet the new conditions. A good deal of lumber is changing hands and the mill operators are increasing their outputs. Iron and coal are steady at unchang¬ ed prices. The advance made in southern* iron has brought in many or¬ ders and the favorable reports as to maintenance of prices, g under* standings among the( largfT producers and probabilities of market \he i building firm. The of steel mills keep the iron men are very confident of a pros¬ perous summer. The coal miners are reduoing outputs somewhat to meet the changing season. Supplies of coal are ample and the market is rath¬ er weak. ’ Cotton prospects indicate that the new crop will be a large .one. The area of planting has been considera¬ bly increased over that of last year and more care has been given to sup¬ ply fertilizers. Cotton manufacturers report that stocks are accumulating somewhat nnder a decreased demand. Prices are low and some mills will soon shut down unless an improvement is soon apparent. The southern cotton mills have bad a very prosperous win¬ ter's business and considerable and im¬ portant additions have been made to their number. Southern new industries are many and some are of considerable import¬ ance. There is reported as organized or established during the past week: The Cumberland Coal. and Steel com¬ pany, of Norfolk, Va., capital $2,500, 000; the Cunningham Sugar Refining and Paper Manufacturing eompsny, of Sugarland. Texas, with $500, 000 capital, and the Jefferson Coal and Railway company, of Birmingham, Ala., capital $400,000. The Texas City Mill and has Elevator been company, capital $100,000, chartered at Galveston, Tex.; the New Orleans Furniture Manufacturing company, with $50,000 oapital at New Orleans, La.; the Upshur Seal and company, at Richmond, Va., and the W. B. Kindly Cotton Mill com¬ at Pleasants, N. G., each with oapital. A $80,000 cotton oil mill is to be built at Granbury, Tex The Blount A Edwards Foundry and Machine company has been chartered at Milledgeville, Ga.; the Independent Peanut company, at Smithville, Va., and Collins A Co., limited, saddlery La., manufacturers, at New Orleans, rach with $25,000 oapital. reported Brick and tile works are at Knoxville, Tenn., and Blaoksburg, Va.; a cotton oompreas at Cordele, Ga.; proposed cotton mills at Leaks ville and Tioy, N. C., and flouring mills at Gadsden, Ala.; Eureka Springs, Ark., aud Hartsville, Tenn. A manga¬ nese mining company is being organ¬ ized at Athens, Ga., a tannery is to be built at Wayneaville, N. 0.; tobacco works at Birmingham, Ala.; a furni¬ ture factory at Mebane, N. C., and a planing mill at Hartford, W. Va. The new buildings of the week in¬ clude a bank building at Scranton, Miss.; business houses at Bristol, Tonn., and a $20,000 ohuroh at Nor¬ folk, Va. A court house to cost $25, 000 ii roportod At ShsphflrdivillOj Ky«, and one to cost $50,000 at Winston, Ky.; a $40,000 hotel at Weston, W. Va., and a $14,000 warehouse at Green¬ ville, Miss.—Tradesman, (Chattanoo¬ ga, Tenn.1 GROSVKNOR’S FIGURES. His Division of the Delegates Elected the Past Week. An Indihnapolis rpetial says: In all )he tables sent out from Washington sach week by General Groavenor, the thirty delegates in Indiana have been placed in the MoKinley oolumn and they have been oonoeded to him on all hands, although only twenty-six of them have been elected. It is believed, however, fourteen or fifteen of these voice will never go to MoKinley wheth¬ er the name of Harrison ia brought before the convention or not. The men on toe delegation who threatened to bolt McKinley Harrison are warm personal admirers of and their resent t has been aroused by the charac¬ ter of the by McKinley campaign Gowdy, in of In¬ diana, led Chairman to* state ittee. Mr. Gowdy has de¬ clared that the state don vention shall instruct for McKinley even if Harrison it re¬ quires a bitter fight and the him of inspiring oertain paragraphs that are appearing in coun try newspapers to the effect that Indi ana would have for MoKinley even had Harrison bean a candidate. Harry New, of the delegates, said tbit he Harrison saw no reaaon be why the s trirad of might not t friend of McKinley; that had come to McKinley only after Harrison had written hia tetter, hot that if this sort of SSTtJIa continued and the toned to aa ia see, they would take it sslvea to de mo nst r ate in the Si. Louis that Indiana’s first love is > 21 * id ^Window* Glass Com to go to work become discharged in viola , iSr -T ' eased. BOOMS RUSSELL. DEMOCRATS OF MASSACHUSETTS WANT HIM FOR PRESIDENT. State Convention of the Party Held at Boston. With enthusiasm ae great as that noted at the recent state conven ion of the Republicans of Massachu etta when Thomas B. Seed was en¬ dorsed ae a presidential candidate, the democrats of the state in convention at Boston Tues lay named - ex Governor William E. Hassell as their choice for the nomination ae president Cleveland’s suooessor. Hon. Thomas J. Gargan, of Boston, was named as chairman of the commit¬ tee on resolutions and Hon. John E. Thayer, of Worcester, was chosen permanent chairman. The committee on credentials rey ported 1,246 delegatee present, Judge repre¬ senting 81 cities and 327 towns. Corcoran then presented Chairman Thayer to the convention amid loud applause, and Mr. Thayer addressed the delegates. said: . „ Among other things he The true interest of all onr people who canqpt constantly and closely ob¬ serve the money market is to have every dollar issued or authorized by the government at all times, under all circnmstanoes and in all its uses, the exaot, unchanging equivalent—not only in debt paying, bnt in its purchasing power in any dollar- This can only be obtained by the maintenance of the monetary standard universally adopted by the civilized world. Mr. Thayer denounced the American Protection association which he com¬ pared to a “fungus growth that sprang from and took root and flourished in the very heart of the republican party.” Mr. Thayer closed his address with President an eulogy upon the administration of Cleveland. Daring the delivery of Mr. Thayer’e address the applause was enthusiastic, especially upon the severe critioism of the A. P. A., and at the mention of President Cleveland’s name. The election of four delegates at large was then moved and the names of John E. Hassell, of Leicester, G. Fred Williams, of Denham, John W. Corcoran, of Clinton, and James W. Donovan, of Boston, were presented by Congressman Fitzgerald. J. T. O’Sullivan, of Lowell, con¬ demned the ticket as machine made, bnt upon the vote Mr. O’Sullivan was the only dissenter. The platform adopted conoludes ae follows: “Following long established demo¬ cratic custom, the democrats of Massa¬ chusetts in convention assembled will not in any way instrnot or pledge their delegates, but they do declare that it is tho wish of the democratic party of the state to present, and they earnestly recommend to the considera¬ tion of the national convention to be held in Chicago as their candidate for the offioe of president ef the United States the name of their victorious, courageous, Willia high-principled ex-govern¬ or, m Eustia BusselL ” NEBRASKA DEMOCRATS SPEAK. They Demand the Restoration of Sil¬ ver to Its Place. Nebraska Democrats held their state convention at Lincoln Wednesday. The currency question was the domi¬ nating feature of the convention and enthnsiam was at a high point. With the delogates, all of one mind, there was little strife and the work was oom¬ pleted early. The appearance of ex-Oongressman Bryan and the incidental mention of his name as a presidential possibility was the oooasion for wild cheering. The platform says: “In order to UDdo the wrong already done and to prevent a further rise in the purchasing power of the dollar, we favor the immediate restoration of free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver st the present legal ratio of 16 to 1, as snoh coinage existed prior to 1878, withont waiting for the aid or oonsent of any other nation, snch gold rad silver to be fall legal tender for all debts, public and private. • “We are uppuwu iu iuo nuiiiueut of the greenback and demand that the secretary of the treasury, -instead of issuing interest- bearing bonds for the purpose of gold, shall recognize the silver as money of redemption and ex¬ ercise toe right to redeem greenbacks, treasury notes and all other ooin obli¬ gations in silver when silver is more convenient.” The reeolntions favor tariff for reve¬ nue only, an income tax* election of United States senators by direct vote and in opposition to the Amerioan Protective Association. For delegatee at large: W. J. Ryan, of Lincoln; C. J. Smith, of' Omaha, and W. H. Thompson, of Grand Is¬ land, and W. D. Oldham, of Kearney, were selected. Twelve district dele atfai ware also nwf^. Just before the convention adjourn¬ ed a resolution was in trod need in¬ structing the delegates to rapport W. £. Bryan for pr e sid e n t. Mr. Bryan protected, inasmuch as it would virtu¬ ally bar him from acting ae delegate, and at hie earnest solicitation the ree¬ olation withdrawn. Tobacco Dealer In Financial Trouble, Meets Lindheim, a wholesale dealer in teal tobacco at New York, is re BUZ? “ are SSomT 1 * to h* * 100 ’ 000 V imw t k • Color of Women’s Eyes. “Did yon ever notice that men al¬ ways instinctively put confidence in a girl with blue eyes, and have their sus¬ picion of the girl with brilliant black ones, end will you kindly tell me why V* writes Lilian Bell in the Ladies’ Home Journal. “Is it thst the limpid blue eyes, transparent and gentle, suggest all the soft, womanly virtues, and be¬ cause he thinks he can see through it, clear down into that blue-eyed girl’s soul, that she is the kind of girl he fancies she is? I think it is, bnt some of the greatest little frauds I know are the parry, kitteny girls with big in¬ nocent blue eyes. Blazing black eyes, and the rioh warm colors which dark skinned women have to wear, suggest energy and brilliance and no end of intellect. Men look into such eye* and seem not to be able to see below They have not the pleas¬ ^ the surface. ure of a long, deep gaze into immeas¬ urable depths. And so they think her designing and*clever, and perhaps (God save the mark!) even intellectual, when, perhaps she has a wealth of love and devotion and heroism stored np behind the impulsive disposition and those dazzling black eyes, which would do and dare more in a minute for some man she had set that great heart of hers upon, than yonr cool blooded tranquil blonde would do in forty years. A mere question of pig ment in the eye has settled many a man’s fate in life, and established him with a wife who turned oat to be very different from the girl he fondly thought he was getting. ”—Exchange. Awful Punishment Abolished. The last instance of boiling to death took place in Persia in 1890. The offender was guilty of stealing caldron state revenues, and was put into a of cold water, which was slowly heated to the boiling point. His bones were distributed as a warning among the provincial tax collectors. Better than Keflned field Is bodily comfort. This unspeakable boon Is denied to many unfortunates for whose ailments Hostetter’s Stomach Bittern is m promptly helpful remedy. The dyspeptic, tbs rheumatic, the nervous, persons troubled ■with biliousness or chills and fever, should lose no time in avslllne themselves of this comprehensive and penial medicine, it pro¬ motes appetite and nightly slumber. In Persia a nobleman’s wealth la judged from the number of his slaves. The best w»y to know whether Dobbins’ Float¬ ing-Borax Soap Is the beet for laundry and bath Is to try It. It don’t turn yellow like uthor floating soaps, as it la pure. Bed wrapper. Ask your grocer for Dobbins* Floating-Borax. Olve the world one-half of Sunday, tho other half will soon go. Half Kates to Chattanooga, Tenn. The southern Baptist Convention meets at Chattanooga. 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