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A { / L Snap Eliots. Massachusetts has 579 congrega tional churches and 105,943 members, leading all her sister states in this re spect. The costliest fur known is that of the black fox of Kamchatka. A single skin of one of these rare animals is sometimes valued at $1,000. The difference between the tallest and the shortest races in the world is one foot four and one-half inches, and the average height of man is five feet five and one-half inches. A man’s full mental power is not reached before the age of 25, and the development of talent is most marked between the ages of 30 and 45 years. Thero are now 1,370. Christian con gregations in Madagascar. The Ro man Catholics began work there in 1616, but not a trace is now left of their la bors. In the recently published “Essays” of the late Sir Morell Mackenzie the observation is made that it is “only singers who preserve the purity of language.” The Methodist Episcopal church at Fostoria, O., has done away with the single communion cup and furnishes a separate small tumbler for each com municant. To take out paint, mix • equal parts of ammonia and turpentine. Saturate the spot two or three times, then wash out in soapsuds, or cover the spot with olivo oil or butter, and apply chloro form, chloric ether or benzine. Paint can often be rubbed out of woolen goods after it has dried. The People of India. The Englishman thinks of Indian society ns an innumerable crowd of timid peasants, easily taxed and gov erned by a few' officials, or as a popu lation full of luxurious princes, with difficulty restrained by scientific force and careful division from eating up each other. In reality Indian society is more complex and varied than that of Europe, comprising, it is true, a huge mass of peasant proprietors, but yet full of prmccs who are potentates and princes who are survivals, of land lords who are in all respects great no bles and landlord's who are only squirreens, of great ecclesiastics and hungry curates, of merchants like the Parings and merchants who keep shops, of professors and professionals, of ad venturers and criminals, of cities full of artificers and of savages far below the dark citizens of Hawaii.—London Spectator. GEORGIA NEWS NOTES. Items of Interest Gaiters! at Ration Fortune Seeking Emigrants. Many a poor family that Peeks the western wilds in the hope of winning a fortune, is pre served lrom that insidious foe of the emigrant and frontiersman chills and fever—by Hoi- totter’s Stomach Bitters. So effectually does that incomparable medicinal defense fortify the system against the combined influence of a malarious atmosphere and miasma-tainted water, that protected by it the pioneer, the miner or the tourist provided with it, may safely encounter the danger. Tho note of highest value issued by the Bank of England in tho ordinary course of business is for $25,000. Brown’s Iron Bitters cures Dyspepsia, Mala ria, Biliousness and General Debility. Gives strength, aids Digestion, tones the mrves— creates appetite. The best tonic for cursing Mothers, weak women and children. About twice as much power is required to stop an express train as to start one. To Cleanse the System Effectually yet gently, when costivo or bil ious, or when the blood is impure or sluggish, to permanently cure habitual constipation, to awaken tho kidneys an l liver to a healthy activity, without irritating or weakening t hem, to dispel headaches, cold or fe vors, us# S> rup of Jb'lgs. Clouds are, on the average, about 500 yards in thickness. .T. O. Simpson, Marquess, W. Va., says: “ Hall’s Catarrh Cure cured me of a verj r bad case of catarrh.” Druggists sell it, 75c. Ev. ry night in London over 0,000 persons sleep in the open air. Many persons are broken down from over work or household carts. Brown’s Iron Bit ters rebuilds tli«' sy-tem, aids digestion, re moves excess of bile, and cures malaria. A splendid tonic for women and children. —* Profoundly Grateful For Help Derived From Hood's Sarsaparilla “ I am profoundly impressed with the medi cal virtues of Hood’s Sarsaparilla, I was threatened with cancer, and disagree able eruptions on my back and other places. The cauccr was appearing on ray lip. Provi dentially I obtained a bottle of Hood’s Saraa- parilJa, and by the time it was gone. Ifce bad symptoms had nearly all disappeared. I have used four bottles, and I believe it has Saved Me From Premature Death. 1 am now almost 73 years of age and I tvvk like a tiger. And 1 knote that Hood's Sarsaparilla has bad much to do with my vigor and strength.” Ruv. O. H. Power, 2034 Han over Street, Chicago, III. HOOD’S Sarsaparilla CURES The latest developments in the state bank matter at Brunswick are that E. S. Marsh, capitalist, of Brandon, Yt., will inspect its condition and if favor able will probably reopen it within a few days. * * * Notice has already been given of the annual convention of the State Bank ers’ association, which meets in Savan nah June 8th. The bankers of Savan nah have prepared a very elaborate programme of social entertainment for the visiting bankers. Rewards have been offered for the lynchers of Bill Dennis and the mur derer of J. J. Brown. Brown was mur dered by Eph. Walker, May 16th, in Coffee county. Dennis was a prisoner of the sheriff of Coffee county, and on May 18th was forcibly taken from the sheriff and lynched. The reward in each case is $200. ★ * * A committee of alliancemen from Troup, Harris and Meriwether coun ties met in Chipley a few days ago and made arrangements for a grand rally of the order of the three counties at Warm Springs camp ground on the 8th of August next. Col. H. B. Har ris and Tom Watson, Peter Smith and M. D. Irwin will be speakers, and ev erybody is invited. ... It is now the Atlanta and Florida Railway Company, T. W. Garrett, general manager, as the followin order will show: “The Atlanta and Florida railroad having been sold under d cree of the superior court of Fuhon county on tho 2-i day of May. 1-S93, and a deed having been duly m«''e and delivered by T. W. Garrett, receiver of the said properties, now, by authority of the pureha-ers of tile said properties, out of which is to ha formed a new corporation to be known as tho Atlanta and Florida liailway Company, notice is hereby giv en that tho nnderaigued has this day assumed charge and con rot as general mtnager of the said line of railway.” ... A rumor is afloat that the Waycross Air-Line railroad will be extended from Abbeville, Ga., and that the work will be commenced at an early date. It will connect with the Way- cross and Abbeville railrod. There is no doubt now but what it will be ex tended to Fort Valley during the next two years. The extension of the road to St. Mary’s is a possibility and will probably be a certainty. Railroad men who have discussed the subject say that when the road reaches Abbe ville the work on the St. Mary’s-divis- ion will be commenced at once. * * * Through a clerical error in report ing the number of votes cast in an election for justice of the peace in the 1450th militia district of Montgomery county, a commission was issued to John D. Brown. Ho received twenty- one votes and his name was reported to the governor for a commission. Af terward it was discovered that a mis take had been made and that another candidate, Elknnah Harrelson, had received twenty-four votes. Governor Northen has revoked tho commission issued to Brown and will makeitontfor Harrelson, who will be the justice in 1450th G. M. * * * The State is Protected. Attorney General Joe -Terrell has mi*.e arrangements for protecting the state against loss through the failure of the State bank of Brunswick. This bank had on deposit at the time it closed its doors $30,449.73. It had in actual cash only a few hundred dol lars, and in exchange and other assets quickly available, $6,000. When the attorney general appeared in the city there was some uneasiness among the sureties on the bank’s bond for the state deposit. He asked tho sureties to hold a meeting and see what they could do. He said that the state was not disposed to be harsh and force the bondholders to sacrifice their prop erty. Colonel Terrell found, after an investigation, that the state was in no danger of losing anything. The sure ties were anxious to protect the state, and asked for a little time, which will be granted. The sureties are 0. B. Lloyd, president of the bank; W. E. Burbage, W. E. Kay, M. J. Colson, M. Kaiser, W. A. Cunningham, Thos. W. Lamb, H. S. McCrary, A. T. Put nam, M. Nicholson, J. E. duBignon, J. J. Spears. Steps were taken to pay the state within sixty days. of the courts. It hurts every southern interest to have 6o many southern rail roads tied up in receiverships, and as the cases seem to be endless, capital gets the impression that things are in a bad way down here.—Atlanta C'on- silitution. ... A War Map for Georgia. Lieutenant Satterlee has a map of Georgia hanging in his office at the capitol which is different from any in the state. He took one of the regu lation maps and has dotted it with circles and flags—in yellow, blue, red and other colors. He can tell at glance where each company is located and where its regimental or battalion headquarters are. The flags indicate the headquarters. If it is a blue flag it means infantry. A yellow flag de notes cavalry headquarters. A yellow circle shows an Infantry company. If there is a black ring inside either the blue or the yellow it denotes that the troops there are colored. There is a state flag at Griffin to denote the encampment. Savannah has the greatest number of circles and flags. She has somethin^ of every kind, and the whole face of the earth down there would appear to be covered by militia. Lieutenant Satterlee is tracing the route which each company should take to get to the state encampment or to a common point in case of mobilization. This will be valuable, for should the occa sion arise when quick mobilization of several companies is necessary, a glance at this map will tell which com panies are the most convenient and can be thrown to the spot in the short est time. Getting Thin is often equivalent to getting ill. If loss of flesh can be arrested and dis ease baffled the “ weak spots ” in the system are eradicated. Scott’s Emulsion is an absolute corrective of “ weak spots.” It is a builder of worn out failing tissue—nature s food that stops waste and creates healthy flesh. Marshal ISunhip. Samuel C. Dunlap, appointed United States marshal for the North ern district of Georgia, was born in Gwinnett county about forty-five years ago. He received his schooling at Lawrenceville and in state institu tions. He began practicing law at Monroe, Ga., but, marrying a lady whose home was near Gainesville, he soon moved there, and ever afterward practiced in that town. He is a fine lawyer, and his practice grew more and more profitable. He was attorney for the Richmond and Danville at Gainesville, and for some years was United States commissioner. He was iortnuatc m real estate investments, and has a comfortable fortune. Until recently, he had no ideabf be ing a candidate for marshal. It was not until a deadlock was evident between Renfroe and Dismuke that he conclud ed to make the race. Hon Carter Tate, congressman from the ninth, made a strong pull for his friend, Mr. Dunlap. Solicitor General Howard Thompson lent his aid. The compromise candi date was urged with strong endorse ments behind him, and he went through a winner. The appointment gives complete sat isfaction. Mr. Dun lap has as many friends as almost any man in the state. * * * On tlio Right Line. Justice Jackson, in announcing the postponement of the further considera tion of the Central railroad ease until the 26th of June, clearly indicated his determination to wind up the litiga tion as soon as possible. He said : CotiDsel ihoutd facilitate each other as much as passible in the preparation of the case for the Ileal hearing. Here is a great property committed to tho court for administration in which large interests are involved, and there are thousands of poor people who are interested in it and who are.MifferinR front the deity in the permanent settlement of its affairs. The conrt is as determined as it can be to close the matter np as speedily as possible. 'While we may tight each other as much as we please on these collateral matters, yet the conrt is going to the bottom of this case and settle the condi tion of this properly promptly. After that we cau settle all these collateral questions in the distribution of the fnnd in court. This is on exactly the right line. The law’s delay in such a case operates to the serious damage of thousands of poor people, widows and orphans and others whose money is invested in the property which has been so long in court, where it runs the risk of being eaten up by the expenses of litigation. The people are anxious to see the case disposed of and the Central taken out Polnitz’s Sentence Commuted. Governor Northen has signed the order commuting the sentence of Dr. Von Polnitz from hanging to impris onment in the penitentiary for life. The governor had been beseiged by petitioners, lawyers, personal letters and every form of appeal that could be made. Great pressure was brought to bear on him to save the man’s life. The mother and the sister of the con demned man kept writing to his ex cellency to spare the prisoner’s life. On the other hand the family of the murdered woman begged the executive to let the man hang. They said that he deserved the extreme penalty of the law. They told how dear the victim was to them. The court had pro nounced the man guilty and sentenced him to death. After weighing every thing carefully, the governor decided to sign the order commuting the sentence to imprisonment in the penitentiary for life. Here are the governor’s rea sons for the commutation: Whereas, Very strong appeals have been made to me involving clemency in his behalf urging that tire crime was not of such a charac ter kb to deserve the extremo penalty of the law. That there was no direct proof which es tablished an intention to kill his wife ilnugh h s conduct was brutal. And, whereas, The grand jury of the county say: “We find such a lingering feeling among the law-abiding people of the county ihar there was, to a certain degree, an absence of that de liberate intention to kill, that- makes ihe aban don d and malignant heait and all believe that the ends of justice and that regard and reaped for law that is the health of eveiy community morally, would bo better snbserv> d by a com mutation of the sentence to imprisonment for life.” and Whereas, The foreman of the jury who found the verdict says: “Since the trial we have come to the conclusion that a commuta tion to life imprisonment would serve all the ends of just ; ee,” and Whereas, The solicitor general joins in the request for a commutation of the sentence and the judge says: “At the conclusion of the tes timony I was impressed that he should bo found guilty of murder, but that the jury should recommend him to life imprisonment because of the possible lack of intention to Kill,” and Whereas, A larse proportion of the law- ab'ding citizens of said comity urge that the said sentence ke commuted to lifo imprison ment. XHe governor states that he has never had a case which gave him so much trouble as this one. TELEGRAPHIC GLEANINGS. Tie News ol flic World Condensed Into Ply and Pointed Paragrapiis. Interesting and Instructive to All Classes of Readers. Mrs. Mary Nevins Blaine and Dr. W. T. Bull were married at New York, Tuesday. Dr. Nash, the representative of Dr. Jenkins in Hamburg, Germany, re ports by cable one death from cholera in that city Sunday. A New York dispatch of Thursday says: The Southern Cotton Oil com pany has declared a quarterly divi dend of 2 1-2 per cent, payable June 15th to stockholders. A suburban train ran into a passen ger train on the Texas Pacific road at Austin, Ylondav night. Two persons were killed and ten injured. The in coming train disregarding orders. The steamship Teutonic, which sail ed from New York for Liverpool Wed nesday carried a million and a quarter of gold. The Fuerst Bismarck which sailed Thursday carried $2,000,000. Comptroller Echols stated Monday that there were indications that the Chemical National bank, of Chicago, and the Capital National bank, of In dianapolis, Ind., would resume bijsi- The School Censn*. The returns of the school census show that in south Georgia the in crease in the school population has been heavy, while in the middle and upper parts of tho state, the counties have not gone ahead much, and in some instances t hey have gone back wards. A gratifying showing is in the decrease in illiteracy in the state. The census gives the number of school <Idler, n in G< ergis, their nmes, color, sex, whether they have ever attended school of any kind or not, whether they can read and write, the number of blind and deaf and dumb and idiots. Savannah makes the best showing as to education. In the whole city there are only ten white boys and four white girls, between the ages of ten and eighteen, who cannot read and write. “Out of a total white school population of 5,398 only fourteen are so illiterate that they canuot read and write. This is a high testimonial to the school sys tem of that city. In a colored popu lation of 5,871 there are 538 who can not read and write. That is consider ed a very small per cent. Chtttham county lias a total school population of 15,530, an increase since 1888 of 2,344, or 18 per cent. Dooly county makes a wonderful showing, its increase in school popu lation in the last five years being 90 per cent. Tattnall’s increase has been 46 per cent, Montgomery’s 41 per cent. Tatnall county has 1,319 more school children now than she had five years back, and Montgomery has 1,018 more school children in 1893 than she had in 1888. Hancock county has lost 568 school children. Bockdale had eight more school children in 1888 than in 1893. The town of Cusseta, in Chathoo- chee county, makes a fine showing. In that town there is not a single white child, of school age, that cannot read and write. And there are only seven negro children in the town who are illiterate to the extent that they can not read and write. There are 118 school children in the place. Habersham county has 980 school chiidren who are illiterate. This coun ty has gained 259 children since the last census. Towns county makes a fair showing of children who have had a schooling, but the gain there has not been large. Throughout the' mountain counties many families have gone away to Utah, Texas and other south and southwest ern states and territories. When the statistics are compiled they will be deeply interesting and useful. They will refute the charge of Georgia’s illiteracy. There is no doubt in the world that there are sec tions of Georgia which enjoy as good school systems as the most favored states. Georgia has fine teachers in spots, and where there are good schools the children can read and write. The gains in population in south Georgia are explained by the fact that new railroads have been built through that part of the state and have brought in new settlers. Those sec tions which exhibit gains in the num ber of school population will get larger proportions of the school fupd than they have enjoyed in the past. Captain Bradwell, the state school commissioner, is compiling the statis tics with great eare. Advices of Monday from London stated that during the fearful cyclone which has been raging in the bay of Benfal the ship Germania was lost and sixty-four people lost their lives with the ship. At a meeting of the board of direct ors of the Pacific Mail Steamship Com pany at New York, Wednesday, George J. Gould resigned as president and C. P. Huntington was elected in his stead. The Iowa prohibition state conven tion in session at Detroit, Thursday morning, nominated for governor Cap tain K. W. Brown, of Ames; lieuten ant governor, J. C. Reid, of Delta; and a full state ticket. The wholesale lumber firm of Muth- leison & Co., at St. Joseph, Mo., filed a deed of assignment Wednesday night. The firm has several yards in that im mediate section, also in Kansas. Lia bilities are estimated at $150,000. It is again reported in railroad cir cles that the Louisville and Nash ville has secured control of the Newport News and Mississippi Val ley railroad. It is generally believed that the purchase price is put at $20,- 000,000. A London cable dispatch of Thurs day says: Darkest Jlussia, a monthly publication, announces that Russian expulsion of the Jews is extending to Poland. It says that 680 families have been expelled from the Ronda-Gen- zowski district alone. Passenger train No. 36 on the Louis ville, New Albany and Chicago, which left Indianapolis Monday morning, was wrecked near Broad Bipple, sev en miles noi th of tho city. Engineer George E. Plant was killed and Fire man Williams was injured it is thought fatally. At a sitting of the sanitary board of Paris, Thursday, M. Monod, chief of the department, announced that forty choleraic cases had been reported in the department of Morbihau, in the western part of France, since May 117th. Of these eases twenty-three had resulted fatally. The entire block between Eleventh and Thirteenth avenues and Twenty- sixth and Twenty-seventh streets, New York city, was destroyed by fire Thurs day. The main part of the land was covered by one corrugated iron build ing, devoted to foundry purposes. This was burned to the ground. The damage is now estimated at $200,000. Decoration day opened at Washing ton, Tuesday, with beautiful weather. At an early hour the processions be gan forming at the various Grand Ar my headquarters, and at noon the pro grammes at the different- cemeteries were under full headway. An incident of the day was the decoration of the graves of Generals Rufus Ingalls and W. W. Belknap by Major YY. C. Dox- bury, an ex-confederate. A Denver, Col., special says: An awful accident occurred at the Busk end of the Busk-Ivanhoe railroad tun nel Thursday morning. It was caused by a heavy fall of dirt, which struck a gang of men while they were at work and completely buried them. A force of miners went at once to the rescue and after hard work uncovered the men. It was found that three of them were dead and three injured, probably fatally. The Diamond Plate Glass company, of Kokomo, Ind., employing 800 men, closed Thursday for an indefinite pe riod. The same company’s branch plant at Elwood also closed, throwing COO men out of work. An official of the company states that they have more than $600,000 worth of glass on hand, and the market is utterly de moralized. The threatening financial situation has paralyzed new construc tion. A New York special of Wednesday says: Some of the Georgia Pacific bondholders who are dissatisfied with the Richmond Terminal reorganization plan threaten to withdraw the road from the Terminal system unless they get better terms. The six per cent, bonds of the company which sold at 112 at one time, and the holders are now asked to exchange them for ninety per cent, in new bonds and thirty per cent, in preferred stock. The Plankington bank, at Milwau kee, Wis., which stood a hard run two weeks asro when it became known through the failure of Lappeu tc Co. that the bank had loaned $219,000 to that firm, closed its doors Thursday morning and made an assignment. A notice was plnced on the door which stated that on account of the failure of efforts to reorganize the hank and the constant withdrawal of deposits it was thought best to close the bank. The Victoria Cordage company at Cincinnati filed a d ?c-d of assignment Thursday afternr on to W. H. Billings. The liabilities are said to be $400,000, 'and the assets may reach S500,000. The plant is in Dayton, but the main business house is in Cincinnati. The company was leased by the National Company, but the lease wss not re corded. That failure, it is said, has caused this. It was always regarded as a money-making enterprise, but it was not able to realize upon its stock and material, and was threatened by creditors. The National bank at Fargo, N. D., and the First National of Dakota, N. D., were closed Ylondav on orders is sued by Mr. Eckels, comptroller of the currency. Both of these banks were organized by E. Ashley Mears, who was also the organizer of other nation al banks and of many state banks and other Institutions. His plan, says tha comptroller, appears to have been to make loans to the various institutions subscribing to the stock of the two national banks in some cases exceeded the amounts in which some cases ex ceeded the amount of the stock sub scribed to by them. TRADE TALK. Report of the Condition of Business for the Past Week. B. G. Dun & Co. ’s weekly review of trade says: In two ways there has been quite a general improvement during the past week. Better weather through out the most of the country has stim ulated retail trade, and the large dis- tribntion of goods has made jobbing trade more active. Monetary anxie ties have curiously abated at many widely separated points; large loans solicited at New York a week ago, pro viding for extreme emergencies in dif ferent countries have not been wanted, and threatening failures at several points have passed without causing much disturbance. Yet, the actual conditions do not seem to have chan ged materially. The large demand for rediscount and advances by western and southern banks, though considera bly abated, have been greater than eastern banks could wholly meet. There is no definite improvement in financial affair abroad, and the pros pect of the continued outgo of gold for some time to come has not altered. Speculative markets show compara tively little activity. Stocks have fallen off to some extent from the rapid re covery of last Week, the average being about one dollar per share lower than a week ago. Wheat and corn are both at the same price as a week ago, al though western receipts of wheat in fonr days have been 1,902,108 bushels, and Atlantic exports 1,036,597 bushels, and corn receipts have been very large, with insignificant exports. Mess pork is 25 cents higher, but other hog pro ducts a shade lower; and, while coffee advanced 1-2 @ lc,oil declined a cent. A natural decline is seen in dairy pro ducts and potatoes. Cotton is also an eighth lower, although the receipts have been smaller and the exports larger than for the same week last year. But the enormons stocks in sight are not diminishing more rapidly than is nsnal at this season. At Philadel phia, pig Hon is firmer and manufact ured in greater demand, owing to the expected closing of works in the sum mer. The outlook for pig iron is bet ter at Pittsburg, and some products are in better demand, but prices are very low. At Cincinnati, stringency lessens. At Cleveland, rolled prod ucts are in larger demand, but prices are weak and money close. Indian apolis reports money tight, owing to a lack of confidence. At Detroit pros pects ate less bright than last year. Chicago reports improvement, though collections are still slow and bank ac commodations sparing. Liquidation continues. At Milwaukee, money is close. At Minneapolis, the finan cial flurry has abated. St. Paul re ports seeding mostly completed ; a fair jobbing trade, but slow collections. St. Louis, fair collections, though southern planters are buying less meat than usual. Bankers are extremely conservative. Much money has gone out to other western cities. At Oma ha trade is good, but at Denver quiet. Bnsiness at Nashville is improving, and also at Savannah, but at other points at the south bnsiness is quiet, and nearly all collections are slow and money close. Mobile reports large shipments of early vegetables, and New Orleans reports a bright outlook in building trades, though the break ing of the levees will seriously affect northern Louisiana. Dress goods are dull, but there is closer discrimi nation than usual in favor of choice styles. Cottons are stronger and print cloths a six teenth higher. Wool sales are small, prices favoring buyers. Shipments of shoes continue .to exceed last year’s. In the iron manufacturing, new freight rates from the south affect prices large ly at points not on the seaboard, but bar iron is at the lowest point on rec ord ; plates are dull, and competition for all manufactured products are ex ceedingly keen, with prices quoted, in some cases below actual cost at most works. Imports are still large for three weeks in May, exceeding last year’s by nearly $6,000,000, but ex ports have Bomewhat increased, and for three weeks show a slight gain. Business failures for the last seven days, number 273, as compared with 261 for last week. For the corres ponding week of last year, the figures were 198. WIND ON A FROLIC. It Tackles a Circus Tent With Disas- trous Results. Dispatches received from several towns in Missouri and one point in Kansas report the occurrence Thursday afternoon oif a severe windstorm. The storm was accompanied by hail and a downpour of water amounting almost to a cloudburst. No loss of life or se rious injury reported to human life, bnt the telegraph wires are down in the country surrounding the towns that the storm struck. At Sedalia, Mo., the wind attained a trrific velocity. It surged under the tent of Gurgling Brothers’ circus and snapped the poles supporting it like pipestems. The crash buried 2,000 people beneath it. They screamed and struggled and several women faint ed, bnt all were finally safely removed from beneath the canvas. Several re ceived severe bruises. At Brookfield, Mo., the storm struck the roundhouse of the Hannibal and St. Jo railroad and it was partially de molished. Some of the engines were badly damaged. A number of work men were in the building, bnt all es caped injury. VERDICT AGAINST BRIGGS. The Committee Recommends Suspen sion from the Ministry; A Washington special says: Having decided by a vote 388 to 116 that they had a heretic on their hands in the person of Dr. Briggs, the first thing for the Presbyterian general assembly to do when it met Thursday morning was to consider what should be done with him. Accordingly a committee was appointed to bring in a verdict, and its members were requested to get to work at once. After a long session the committee brought in this commu nication: “Suspension from the min istry,” and the assembly adopted the report. >. Christie jiurrat, tne ringnst novelist, turns on his critics in a brief note to a London paper to demonstrate that truth is stranger than fiction. Of a reviewer’s charge that an episode in one of his novels was ‘‘wholly incredible,” Mr. Murray says: “Igot that story on the spot and had full proof of its ac curacy. In fact, I built the novel od that genuine bit of history which you; reviewer thinks incredible.” THROUGHOUT THE SODTH. Notes of Her Progress M Prosperity Briefly Epitomizefl ind Important Happenings from Day to Day Tersely Told. Harry Hill, who committed a nma ber of forgeries in Atlanta, Ga. a few weeks ago, was captured in Chicago Wednesday. He will be prosecuted by his Atlanta victims. Fire at New Orleans Thursday night destroyed the Home Brewin Company’s plant, a factory and oth er adjoining buildings. The loss is estimated at $125,000. Daniel Tal- mage Sons’ rice mills were also burned loss estimated at $25,000. General Luke E. Wright, counsel for the prosecution, finished his con cluding speech in the Dubose im peachment trial at Nashville Thursday, and the ce.urt then went into executive session to consider plans for taking a vote on the various charges. The matter was finally' referred to a com mittee of five. An important case has been filed in the United States circuit court at At lanta. The Manhattan Trust Com pany against the Augusta, Ga., Mining and Investment Company. It is a bill to foreclose a mortgage given to secure the payment of $450,000 of bonds of the Augusta Mining Company. CharleB W. Haskins was appointed re ceiver. The Gulf National bank, of Tampa. Fla., closed its doors Monday. Mr. C. B. Floyd, who is president of the Brunswick, Ga., State hank which closed last Thursday, is also the pres ident of the Gulf National. It is un derstood that a run was made on the bank when it was learned that the bank at Brunswick, of which Lloyd was president, failed. A deed of trust for $600,000, given by the Seaboard Air Line Belt Com pany to the Mercantile Trust and De posit Company, of Baltimore, Md. has been filed in the office of the clerk of the superior court at Atlanta, Ga, The date of the deed of trust was April 1st. This deed of trust was given by the railroad to back up $600, 000 of bonds. A Savannah, Ga., special of Tuesday says: The naval stores market has taken a decidedly upward trend Turpentine has advanced 1 1-2 cents during the last week and pure rosins have gone np from 25 to 30 cents on the barrel. Prospects are decidedly bright. Receipts bear out early esti mates of a much shorter crop than last year. The Wesleyan Female college at Murfreesboro, N. C. ( was destroyed by fire Wednesday. Professor E. P. Troy, with the assistance of the citi zens and visitors, succeeded in saving all of the young ladies without the slightest injury. Much of the private property of the students and teachers was lost. All of the library and appa ratus is a total loss. The magnificent building was insured for only $10,000. Depositors in the failed Bank of Commerce at Bertan, Tenn., filed a bill Tuesday against the l>ank and its officers and directors seeking to hold the latter personally responsible for their claims. The hill cites the eonsid eration of 40 per cent of the notes given for stock subscriptions, alleges gross mismanagement and negligence, and charges that the bank was insolv ent two years before it failed. Commencement exercises of Wake Forest college, at Raleigh, the chief Baptist male college in North Carolina, were held Thursday. There were twenty-two graduates. The college endowment fnnd now exceeds $250, 000. It was decided to raise $30,000 to establish the Royal chair of England in memory of the late Rev. Dr. William Boyal, who died in Genoa last year, and who was for many years professor in the college. At Milner, Ga., Sunday, the Rev. William Graham,one of the oldest and best known evangelists in the state, and his aged wife were dashed into eternity by the Nancy Hanks, the Central railroad’s fast train. The old people were walking along the railroad track, returning from church, arm in arm, when the Nancy Hanks, movin at full speed, ran upon them, raising them high in the air and hurled them down a steep embankment to instant death. A Vicksburg, Miss., special of Mon day says: There are at least ten thou sand homeless and hungry people in East Carroll, Morehouse, West Car- roll and Madison parishes, La., and the suffering and privations they are undergoing is appalling. With the exception of a few small elevations the whole of the northeastern portion of the state is under water. Forty-four negroes were rescued from a perilots position near Swan Lake, East Carroll parish, Sunday night. They were almost insane from hunger, having been without food four days. A special from Bristol, Tennessee, says: The Big Stone Gap Land Com pany, capatulized at $2,000,000, and with a bond indebtedness of $1,000,- 000, was forced into liquidation Tues day by a suit entered in the United States district court at Abingdon by Philadelphia stockholders in the com pany. The bill filed in the federal court alleges gross mismanagement oi the affairs of the company and misap propriation of its funds. By an order issued by Judge Goff, of the the United States district conrt of West Virginia, Messrs. H. Clint Wood, of Bristol, and J. K. Taggart, of Stone Gap, are ap pointed receivers of the company tc wind np the bnsiness. DECORATION DAY Fittingly Observed Throiighont the Couutry. Memoral Day was observed in New York City with the usual parade. Many thousand people visited River side park and attended the Memoral Day services at the tomb of General Grant. The tomb was tastefully dec orated by the members of the United States post No. 327 and elaborate floral offerings were sent by Mrs. Grant, the Loyal Legion, President Cleveland, the Sons of Veterans of New York city, the Chinese legation and the General Meade post, of Philadelphia. An Artist’s Good Fortune. A dispatch of Thursday from Mon treal, Canada, states that Lee Stanton, an English painter, bought a leather valise at the Grand Trunk railroad sale of unclaimed baggage for $2. On opening it he found 107 shares in the Western Gas Improvement Company, of Chicago, fully paid up and worth $107,000. The valise was the property of Louis Halberstadt, who died in Brockville, Ont., in October, 1891, of alcoholism. A large sum of money and some jewelry,which he was known to have had l just prior to his death, were missing and it was believed at the time that he had been robbed. Flesh Eating Plants. A familiar example of the carnivor ous plants or flesh eaters is the little drosera, so common in various por tions of the country. The plant is small and inconspicuous. The first one I ever saw caught my eye by a sudden flash of fiery red light, and kneeling on the damp grass I fairly caught the little carnivore in the act which has rendered it so famous. There were several tender, delicate stalks in the center, and round about it near the ground fonr or five singular ronnd, pad-like objects, about the size of small buttons. These were leaves, and their upper surface was covered with reddish tentacles that stood boldly up, each bearing a delicate drop of the dew that gleamed and glistened in the sunlight like a veritable garnet. Across the top of the leaves a long- legged fragile insect lay, caught but a second before and dying a most terri- j ble death. Five or six of the hairlike tenaeles were thrown across its legs and wings, ! holding it down and pressing its body nearer and nearer to the leaf, while other rich, blood red stalks were in all positions, bending over to encom pass the victim. The sight was a hor ror in a miniature and reminded me of the actions of an octopus, or devil fish, as the little cephalopod is com monly called. It has eight sucker lined arms radiating from a small, bag shaped body, and each arm has all the sinuosity, all the possibility of motion of a snake, ever undulating, quivering, as if with suppressed emo tion, while over the entire mass waves and varied shades of color seem to ebb and flow.—California Magazine. Wanton Slaughter of Buffalo. The Union Pacific railroad was com pleted in 1869, other railroads began to reach out their iron arms across the Kansas and Nebraska plains, and from that hour the fate of the buffalo was sealed. For Jbveral years to come he could be hunted, shot from horseback, driven into inclosnres and slaughtered, or perhaps forced over precipices after the manner described in old geogra phies and schoolbooks. The animals seem to have divided into two great herds toward the close of their career, for we hear of “the great southern herd” and “the great northern herd.” The southern herd was the first to go. Buffalo Bill and his kind with English “sportsmen” and American army officers vied with each other about in the wanton slaughter. Dur ing three short years, 1872, 1873, 1874, the number so killed has been estimated in millions. It matters not how accurate this estimate is or wheth er the number so slain was 1,000,000 or 10,000,000, the fact remains that at the close of 1872 the great southern herd was extinct. In the north the conditions were more favorable but the relentless hunter was hot upon the trail of tho diminishing herds.—Ham lin Bussell in Harper's. There are two or three small longi tudinal furrows in the forehead which are sure indications of an eager, anx ious mind. These constitute what is called the knitting of the brow, and are never absent from an American face. They are too deep for any fill ing np, and the only remedy for them is to take life easier. % « I There are a H i H few people left who still follow antiquated methods of raising bread, biscuit, cake and pastry with home-made mixtures of what they suppose to be cream of tartar and soda, compounded haphazard, , ■ - I i but there are very few | i ' The best housekeepers use the Royal Baking Powder instead. Its scientific composition insures uniform results. By its use alone can the finest flavored, most wholesome food be produced. To any housekeeper who has not used the Royal Bak ing Powder we would like to send our Cook Book, free. Mark your request “For instruction.” Royal Bakin? 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