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Dignity and Doty.
The following story is told of the
nrohbishop of Canterbury when ho
was head master of Wellington college:
One day the prince consort attended
by a single equerry rode over to Wel
lington and arrived just as the doctor
was about to address his boys. The
prince expressed a wish that the mas
ter should proceed in his presence.
Having with bare head, as etiquette
demanded, shown the prince to a seat,
he turned to the boys, and replacing
his cap began lecturing them. Just
then the equerry hurried up and
nudged him on the elbow.
“Dr. Benson,” said he.
“Yes,” replied the doctor.
“His royal highness is present,”
whispered the equerry.
“I am proud to know it,” was the
answer.
The doctor had spoken scarcely a
half dozen words before the courtier
again broke in:
“Dr. Benson, we all remain uncov
ered in his royal highness’ presence.”
“I am his royal highness’ most hum
ble and devoted servant,” rejoined the
doctor, at the same time bowing low,
with uncovered head, to the prince.
“But,” turning to the boys once
more and replacing his cap, “I am also
my boys’ head master.”—London
Tit-Bits.
Brcadmaking.
In an article on “Breadmaking as
an Accomplishment” an English con
temporary refers to the scarcity of
breadmakers among cooks. Says the
writer: “It is astonishing how com
paratively few professional cooks will
nowadays undertake domestic baking.
I was staying with some friends in a
furnished house at an out of the way
place where the village bread was so
sour and bad as to be pronounced un
eatable, and they were obliged to have
a supply twice a week by train from a
• town 40 miles away, their coachman
having to go seven miles to the station
to fetch it, and this because their Lon
don cook—an expensive and otherwise
efficient specimen of her class—did
not understand tho mystery of set-
ling the dough to rise.”
A Heavy Loss.
Teacher—“You say, Jimmie, that
your father bought a horse for three
hundred dollars and sold him for two
hundred and fifty dollars. Now, how
much did he lose ?”
Jimmie—“About six hundred dol
lars.”
“Why, Jimmie, I’m surprised. There
isn’t another scholar in the class who
would not have given a correct an
swer. ”
“There ain’t one of them what knows
anything about it. The horse kicked a
ono-kundrod-dollar setter to death; he
smashed a new buggy so the maker
didn’t know it; he broke pa’s leg, and
cracked two ribs for our Jersey cow.
Now, let your smarties figure that out
and see what they get.”
A Work of Years.
An Englishwoman has employed 35
poor Irishwomen since 1885 in mak
ing a copy of an old piece of Bayeux
tapestry. The linen and silk were
woven and dyed especially for it. It
is 227 inches long and 20 inches wide,
contains 623 men, 202 horses, 505
other animals, bosides innumerable
birds, trees and flowers. The original
was also made by women, Matilda of
Flanders and her court having worked
a long time on it.—New York Sun.
Floor Polish.
A mixture of equal parts of bees
wax and castile soap melted in turpen
tine will keep polished floors in ad
mirable order if well rubbed in and
not too thickly. Where there is much
traffic the polish will have to be ap
plied every week, but ordinarily once
in three or four weeks. Only a thin
layer should be put on, and it must bo
thoroughly rubbed in or it will attract
much dust.
Don't Langh
-4-t people wlio aie nervous. It is brutal to do so.
| Their affliction is very real and distressing.
It can easily be remedied, howover, with Hos-
tetter’s Stomach Bitters, ft nerve tonic of
| leading merit, indorsed by physicians and of
long standing in popularity. It restores and
cultivates digestion, regulates the liver and
bowels, and prevents malarial, rheumatic and
kidney trouble. It is pure and efficacious.
The editorial pocketbook is a money ar;ic!e,
but the dollar isn’t in it.
For impure or thin Blood, Weakness, Mala
ria, Neuralgia, Indigestion and Biliousness,
take Brown’s Iron Bitters—it gives strength,
making old persons feel young—and young
•persons strong; pleasant to take.
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Of
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It is not now the land of tho sweet buy and
buy.
The True Laxative Principle
Of the plants used in manufacturing the pleas
ant remedy, Syrup of Figs, has a permanently
beneficial effect on the human system, while
the cheap vegetable extracts and mineral solu
tions, usually sold as medicines, are perma
nently injurious. Being well informed, you
will use the true remedy only. Manufactured
by £he California Fig Syrup Co.
The march of progress has gone into quar
ters for awhile.
If your Back Aches, or you are all worn out,
rood for nothing, it is general debility.
Brown’s Iron Bitters w«ll cure you, make you
6trong, cleanse your liver, and give a good ap
petite- -tones the nerves.
Tho honest dollar is the one secured by
honest work.
Deafness Cannot be Cared
by local applications, as they cannot reach the
diseased portion of the ear. There is only one
way to cure Deafness, and that is by constitu
tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an in
flamed condition of tho mucous lining of the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets in
flamed you have a rumbling sound or imper
fect hearing, and when it is entirely closed
Deafness is tho result, and unless the inflam
mation can be taken out and this tube re-
Btored to its normal condition, hearing will be
destroyed forever; nine cases out ten are
caused by catarrh, which is nothing hut an in
flamed condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that can
not bo cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Send for
circulars, free.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
£3F“Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Jho Greatest Southern System.
In all the wonderful progress made by the
South in recent years, none has been more re
markable than t he improvement of its railroad
systems and service.
Far in the advance guard of this progress
the Richmond & Danville Railroad system
occupies tbe unchallenged position as the
Greatest Southern Syst-m. The wonderful
eucoess of its famous ‘Westibuled l imited”
trains is attested by its patronage. Its fame
Is almost as familiar in the foreign lands of
Mexico, Canada and across the European
countries as in the United States. And in ad
dition to this the “United States Fast Mail”
train of the Richmond & Danville has like
wise become an established success
This system affords the most rapid and lux
urious transit between New York, Washing
ton and thp East, with Atlanta, New Orleans,
Memphis. Texa- and the West, and also Sa
vannah, Augusta and all Florida points.
Mornings—Beecbam's Pills with a drink of
water. Beecham's—no others. 25 cents a box.
Hood’s^Cures
“A few years ago my
health failed me. After
much persuasion 1 com-
. menced to take Hood’s
1 Sarsaparilla, and am
Jmuch improved. From
* an all run down con
dition. I have been re
stored to good health,
Formerly I weighed 135
*.TV.Twist, pounds, now 176.
Sarsaparilla has been a great benefit to
aJSORGE W, TWJSTi ColOJBft, WJfc
Ba sure to g&t Hoop’a,
CONGRESS IN SESSION.
*ite Daily Routine of Botii
Briefly Epitomize!
Wliat is Being Done to Allay Finan
cial Depression and Bring Relict.
Thirty-Sixth Dat.—The attendance
in the senate Monday was a small one.
Stewart gave notice that he would at
the earliest possible opportunity offer
an amendment to the silver bill, invit
ing Mexico and Sonth and Central
America to join the-United States in a
conference for the purpose of adopting
a common silver dollar of not less than
383.13 grain. The senates then went
into executive session.
Thirty-Sixth Day:—After the
routine of Tuesday morning in
the senate, Mr. Squire, republi-
ican, of Washington, gave no
tice of a substitute which he
intended to offer for the bill to repeal
the silver purchase act; and it was
read in full. It provides that owners
of free silver bullion moy deposit it at
any mint to be turned into standard
silver of present weight and fineness,
for his benefit. He is to pe paid, how
ever, only such a number of standard
silver dollars as may equal the" Com
mercial values' of the silver bullion.
The differen<r#between the nominal
and coined silver of the silver
bullion is to be retained by
the government as seigneiorage.
The coinage of silver dollars is not to
exceed $4,000,000 a month, and the
total not to exceed $200,000,000. They
are to be full legal tender and no sil
ver certificates are to be issued. A
resolution to pay Mr. Beckwith $2,000
for his time ahd expense in prosecut
ing his claim for a seat in the senate
under appointment from the governor
of Wyoming was taken from the calen
dar and agreed to. Also like resolu
tions to pay Mr. Mantle from Montana
and Mr. Allen, of the state of Wash
ington, $2,500 each. At 12 :30 o’clock
the bill to repeal the silver purchase
act was taken up; and Mr. Voorhees
made a statement to the senate, which
precipitated a lively discussion. After
a speech by Mr. Mills, in favor of the
bill, and by Mr. Stewart against it, the
senate, at 6:15 o’clock, adjourned.
Thirty-Seventh Day—After* the
routine morning business in the senate
Wednesday there was A conflictbetweeii
Mr. Voorhees and Mr. Platt as to the*
right to the floor. Mr. Voorhees desir
ed to call up the repeal bill, while Mr.
Platt wished to make a statement as
to the cloture rule which he had given
notice of Tuesday. He intimated that
the Indiana senator might he a little
kinder in his treatment of other sena
tors. Mr. Voorhees said that he
would have yielded if Mr. Platt had
asked it, and that now fie would yield
without being asked. Mr. Platt was
thus given an opportunity of stating
that as the senator from Missis
sippi (Mr. George) desired to address
the senate he (Mr. Platt) would not in
troduce the resolution of which he had
given notice but would do so at some
future time. Mr. George then began
his speech, saying that, as he happen
ed to differ from the, democratic ad
ministration on the bill, and as he be
lieved that his constituents concurred
with him, he thought it well to state
his views with" some jirecision. The
passage of the bill by the ; senate, he
thought, would be a leap in the dark,,
as likely to increase as to diminish
financial troubles.
Thirty-Eighth Day.—Mr. Platt of
fered his cloture rule in the senate
Thursday morning. Discussion on the
rule was closed by letting the matter go
over till Friday. Mr. Platt was com
plimented by Mr. Voorhees for his
clear and lucid statement of the situa
tion. Substitutes for the resolution
were suggested by Mr. Hoar and Mr.
Hill. A strong argument in favor of
tho cloture rule was made by' Mr.
Lodge, although he recognized the
fact that the adoption of the rule would,
be made use of to pass-measures which
he considered worse than the Sherman
act—that is, a uew tariff bill and a bill
to repeal the election laws.
rules committee, providing for taking
np the elections law repeal bill on
September 26 and a final vote on Oc
tober 10. The yeas and nays were
called on ordering the previous ques
tion, and it was ordered, 175 to 4.-
TEN HEN KILLED.
A Mol) Fired Upon fly the Malitia With
Mol Effect
The Crowd Wanted to Lynch a Negro
hut Were Snmniarity Checked'.
THE HOUSE.
Thirty-Sixth Day—After some morn
ing business, filbustering, against the
federal election laws repeal bill was
resumed in the house, Tuesday. Bur- '
rows moved to dispense with the call
of committees for reports, such re- ’
ports to be submitted without excep--
tion, except as may ■ propose changes
in federal election laws. Objection
was made. Burrows . then -.flipyed to’
dispense with the call and the ayes and -
noes were ordered. . Republicans re- 1
framed from' voting, but got no
support from democrats. The demo
crats came within five of a quorum,
securing 173 votes. Filibuster mg was
continued, when, rather unexpectedly,
Mr. Fitch moved that the house ad
journ, which was carried without dis
cussion, and at 2.45 o’clock the house,
was declared adjourned until Wednes- ..
day. Before the members could leave
the hall the clerk read a call for a
democratic caucus to assemble imme
diately. The republicans greeted the '
call with laughter and applause as they
filed out. The caucus was called, it is .
understood, at the instance of Speaker
Crisp, who was excessively annoyed
over the failure to secure the attend
ance of a quoriim of democratic mem
bers.
Thirty-Seventh Day.—Immediate
ly after the approval of the journal in
the house Wednesday, the fight over
the federal election bill was resumed.
Mr. Burrows moved to dispense with,
the call of committees for reports.
Pending this, Mr. Catching's present
ed a resolution from the commit bee on
rules, but before it was read Mr. Bur
rows raised the point that'the resolu
tion was not order. The •
speaker overruled- the {joint of order -
and then the house was thrown into
great confusion. Mr. Reed and tho
speaker had some very bitter pas
sages. Mr. Burrows appealed from
the decision and Mr. Fitch moved to
lay the appeal on the table. Pending
a vote on the Fitch motion, Mr. Bur
rows moved a recess. Mr. Catchings
made a point- of order against the mo
tion and Mr. Burrows argued
in its support. Mr. Burrows’ ap
peal from the speaker’s de
cision was tabled; yeas 172, nays 56.
The report of the committee on
rules was then agreed to—yeas 176,
nays 9, and the speaker proceeded to
call the committee for reports. Mr.
Tucker reported the federal election
bill and it was placed on the calendar,
and then the house at 5:45 o’clock ad
journed.
Thirty-Eighth Day.—The fight over
the federal election bill was inaugu
rated Thursday morning in the house
by a request from tbe committee on'
rules, providing a cloture by which a
vote shall be taken on that measure on
October 10. After a short passage
relative to the journal, the approval of :
the latter 'was deferred, and. Mr.
QfttPkifig* presented the report of the
One of the most dastardly crimes in
the history of Boanoke, Virginia, oc-
cured at about 10 o’clock Wednesday
morning. Mrs. Henry S. Bishop, age
fifty years, a respectable white u oman
from Cloverdale, eight miles from the
city, was enticed,by a negro named
Thomas Smith from the market where
she had come to sell produce, into
an empty saloon basement. There
she was beaten into insensibility
and robbed of her pocketboolj .con
taining less than $2„ The woman was
left for dead, but managed to revive a
few moments later and crawled up to
the street where she told her story.
The fiend had in the meantime escaped,
but was detected, from the description
given by Airs. Bishop, boarding an
outgoing train. A colored man jump
ed on the car, grabbed the criminal
and the two fell to the ground.
A crowd immediately surrounded
the prisoner and threats of lynching
were loud and frequent. Detective
Captain W. W. Baldwin seized the
man, and holding the crowd at bay with
his revolver, started on horseback with
the frightened negro behind him.
He rode to the saloon where the
wounded woman had been remov
ed, and she positively indentified him
He was then taken to jail.
her son led the mob.
A crowd gathered around the jail
and kept increasing as night approach
ed. At 5 o’clock, the Boanoke Light
Infantry marched to the jail by orders
of Mayor Trout. Guards were p osted
and the streets in the immediate vicin
ity were cleared. About dark the
crowd was increased by a hundred
from the vicinity of the woman’shome,
beaded by Mrs.* Bishop’s son, a fire
man on the Norfolk aud Western rail
road^
At 8 o’clock portions ' of ihe'mob
battered at a side door of the jail
where the militia and Mayor Trout
had retired.
TEN KILLED AT THE 1’IRST FIRE.
The shooting was commenced by
the mob and the mayor was shot in
the foot. The militia were then or
dered to return the fire aud a volley
from twenty-five rifles was poured in
to the mob. Ten men were killed
outright and many wounded, some of
them fatally.
During the excitement caused by
the volley, the negro was taken from
the jail by an officer and secreted. The
dead and wounded were removed to a
drug store and to the offices of near
physicians. The militia were then
dispersed and left the scene as quietly
as possible. The following is the list
of the dead and the injured as far as
known at present:
THE DEAD.
S. A. Vick, hotel proprietor; Will
Sheets, fireman on the Norfolk and
Western railroad; Charles Whit-
hieyer, conductor on the Norfolk
and Western railroad; Emmet J.
Smajl, of Northwest Roanoke; Geo.
E.'White, a fireman on the Norfolk
and Western railroad; J. B. Tyler, of
Blue 0 Ridge; George White, shot
through the leg and bled to death;
W. Jones, engineer on the Norfolk
and Western railroad; John Mills,
distiller, Back Creek; George Settles,
of Vinton, mortally wounded.
Nineteen of the mob were wounded,
some of whom will die. Several
speeches were made' after-the militia
retiradj.iJudge Woods, ot- tho 1 Lusting
:court, assured the mob that the negro
•Smith had beep; removed from the jail
and accompanied two of the crowd
through the jail to prove the.-truth of
his statement. The speeches 4i<l much
to.pacify the crowd. But hundreds
lining around, the jail and ..udjtjeent
streets for several hours afterwards,
many dispersing to search for the se
creted prisoner. ' At midnight, the
scene h'ad quieted' down and no" fur
ther trouble is’expected.
LYNCHED „ AT.;LAST.
Later dispatches state that a squad
of twenty men took the negro Smith
fjcom three policemen, just before 5
-oiclock Thursday morning, and hanged
him to a hickory linjb, oq Ninth ave
nue, southwest,.in the^jj^idence sec
tion of the city.„ They riddled the
body with buH'ets.iind left a placard
on it reading : “This is Mayor Trout’s
friend.”’ A coroner’s jury of business
men was summoned and viewed the
body of the"negro, and rendered a ver
dict of death at the hands of unknown
men.
After the jury had completed their
work the body was placed in the hands
of the officers, who were unable to
keep back the mob. Three - hundred
: men tried to drag the body through
the streets of the town, but were per
suaded to desist. A wagon was . pro
cured and the body put in it. It was
then conveyed to the bank of the
Roanoke, about one mile from the scene
• of the. lynching. .. -
THE DEAD BOUT BURNED.
. The.dead negro was dragged from
the wagon by a rope about two hund
red yards and burned on a pile of. dry
lumber. The cremation was - witness
ed by several thousand people.
The mob threatened at one time to
biifw the negro in Mayor Trout’s fard.
Threats of vengeance have been openly
ma'd^-against the mayor and the mili
tia for attempting to' maintain the law.
Captain Bird, commanding the mi
litia, left town. . Major Trout also
disappeared. - ...
A CORRECT LIST.
The following is a correct list of the
dead: S. A. Vick, William Sheets,
Charles Whitmyer^ J. B. Tyler,“George
White, W. E. Hall, John Halls and
.-George Settles. Those- wounded are:
O. C. Falls, Will Eddy, George C.
Monroe, Frank Willis, Thomas Nel
son, Leroy White,.J. B. McGhee, O.
S. Shepard, E. J. Small, J. F. Powell,
J. E. Wayland, George^ Ligh, W. P.
Huff, Mayor H. S. Trout; J. H. Camp
bell, Edgar Whaling, C.- W. Figgatt,
C. P. North, O. B. Taylor, George
Hall. David Buggies, N. E. Sparks,
N. E. Nelms, Charles Moten, E. J.
Small, William Berry and Susan Doo-
litejr,- colored. ; U
Fearful Flood in Japan.
A San Francisco special says: The
steamship Peru, Monday evening' 5 from
China and Japan, brought the news to
September 3d. The Japan Gazette,
dated August 26, gives an account of
a great flood in Fifu. Ken. Three
between Mr. Reaed and the speaker 4. hundred and-four were drowned, and
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Affairs or Government and Rontineol
tfle House and Senate Discnssed.
Notes of Interest Concerning the Peo
ple and Their General Welfare.
£0,000 are receiving relief, .It. saya
also that 9,386 cages are- reported smk
The president sent to the senate
Tuesday the following nominations:
William B. Hornblower, of New York,
to be associate justice of the supreme
court of the United States, vice Samu
el Blatchford, deceased; James J. Van
Allen, of Rhode Island, ambassador ex
traordinary and plenipotentiary to
Italy.
After the approval of the journal in
the house, Tuesday, Mr. Flynn, re
publican, of Oklahoma, asked consent
for the consideration of a resolution
reciting that son^e of:, the settlers on
the Cherokee strip had been shot down
by United States soldiers, and request
ing the secretary of war t6 inform the
house as to the circumstances, and
further, by what authority the troops
were acting.
The hearings before the ways and
means committee closed Wednesday,
and now the actual work of drawing
up a new tariff bill will be begun.
The democrats say that more time has
been given to these hearings than by
any previous committees and that ar
guments have been presented on all
the schedules likely to be affected by
the new legislation. Chairman Wil
son says the bill will be reported as
6oon as consistent with the importance
of the interests involved.
A. H. Gallahue, of New York, ap
peared before the committee on ways
and means .Tuesday and presented a
petition of the Associated Trades and
Workmen’s Reform League of New
York, demanding that the duty on the
vegetable products of the Bermuda
island beremoved or greatly reduced,
so that the middle class or working
people may be able to purchase fresh
vegetables iu the early spring. Henry
T. Oxnard, of Nebraska, spoke against
tbe repeal of the. sugar bounty clause
of the McKinley act.
The’ president sent to the senate
Wednesday the following nominations:
Joseph W. Nichol, of Indiana, to be
deputy second comptroller of the
treasury; William L. Chambers, of
Alabama, to be land commissioner in
Samoa, under the general act signed
at Berlin June 13, 1889, by the pleni-
potentiates of the United States, Ger
many and Great Britain, vice E. R.
Ormsbee, returned. Postmasters—
Tennessee, John J. Ingle, at South
Pitsburg; Mississippi, Carrie King
Smith, at Sewanee, Virginia; William
E. Owen, Sonth Boston.
The house committee ou rules decid
ed Thursday morning that the Tucker
bill to repeal the federal election laws,
should be taken up for consideration
on the 26th and that the vote on the
passage of the bill and • the pending
amendments should be taken on the
tenth of October—twelve days being
allowed for debate. This order was
agreed upon by a majoity of the mem
bers. The minority members of tbe
committee say they will -oppose the
adoption of the o’tdery’but are not in
clined to filibuster against it.
When the proposition was made to
put coal on the free list, the New York
capitalists organized a big trust and
.purchased extensive coalmines in Nova
Scotia. Tuesday a strong delegation
of mine owners from Virginia, Weqt
Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania
arrived at Washington and organized
at the Willard hotel. Tuesday after
noon they appeared before the com-’
mittee on ways and means to-argue the
proposition of a duty of seventy-five
cents per ton on bituminous coal.
They claim it will be ruinous to tbe
coal mining interests of this country
to put coal on the free list.
The committee on foreign affairs najl
a meeting Thuj^ilay to consider the
McCreary substitute to the Everett
bilFextending the time of registration
of'the Chinese 1 .' T)ie’'diseussion de
veloped the fact that’ every- member of
the committee f&vored the extension of
the time for six months, with the pos
sible exception of.--Mr. Geary, of Cali-,
for-nia. The latter gave notice that lie
.would.offer an ..amendment.^providing
for identification, by meaps of photo
graphs,, ' The committee adjourned
without action, but fiiere'is no doubt
that at life next meeting the bill will
be favorably reported.
• Associate Justice Hornblower.
Judge Hornblower is a prominent
and widely knowmNew Yprk lawyer
and who has for many years had a very
large practice before the supreme
court of which he will soon become a
member. Senator McPherson, who
knows him personally, says he is a
man of strong mind and great judicial
attainments,- with a natural aptitude
for constitutional subjects. He comes
of a family of jurists, his father having
been the late chief justice of New Jersey
where his grandfather was a leading
practitioner at the bars of his day.
Mr. Hornblower was for a number of
years the law paftner of ex-Governor
Chamberlain, of South Carolina, and
is a relative by marriage of the late
Justice Bradley, - who’ married a
Miss Hornblower. In stature, Mr.
Hornblower. is small, reminding
one very much of tho present
chief justice of the supreme court.
He is a trustee of the New York Life
Insurance Company, of which William
R.'Grace is a director. It is evident
that the appointment of Mr. Horn-
blower will not be received with pleas
ure by all the politicians of New York.
Senator Hill declined to discuss the
nomination, but simply said that the
democrats of.New York, would be dis
appointed. .
HURRICANES IN SPAIN.
Violent Storms Sweep tlie Provinces.
Fearfnl 'Loss of Life.
A special of Friday from Madrid,"
Spain, states that the province of To
ledo has been swept by violent stotms
and much damage done to property.
Large tracts of country are flooded
and many lives lost. Sixty dead bod
ies have so far been recovered at Villa
Canas. Many more are believed to h<
hidden by the wreckage or to have
been washed far from the town. Many
of the deaths were caused by theflood-.
ing .of the cave dwellers on the out
skirts oL the town. These dwellings
are holeaflug in the hillside almost
level with the plain. They are occu
pied by the poorest families. The
lower caves were filled at the first ris
ing of the flood, and the occupants
were drowned before they had time to
make any e'ffort to escape.
A Steamer Burned.
The steamer Byron Trerice, run
ning in connection with the Erie and
Huron railroad, was burned at her
dock at Leamington, Ont., early Wed
nesday morning, Captain Cook and
(the purser jumped overboard and
were drowned, Two desk hands wets
fcn?h*d to death,
HE WAS DRUNK.
Senator Irby, of South Carolina, on a
Big Spree.
A Columbia special says that Sena
tor John L. M. Irby arrived in that
city Tuesday morning from Washing
ton-in a beastly state of intoxication.
When he got off the train at the union
depot, lie pulled from his pocket a
a double-acting revolver, passed
through the waiting room and pointed
it at a colored haekman, without any
cause. The haekman ran and Irby
was quieted and hustled into a hack.
He immediately.went to sleep and was
driven through the streets with both feet
hanging out. He was carried to the
governor’s mansion and was met by
Mrs. Freeman. He didn’t appear to
realize wher&.he was, however, and,
recovering, he again pulled his pistol,
but made no attempt to fire. He was
put to bed, but left for Laurens in the
same intoxicated condition. Irby’s
conduct excited much comment in Co
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The police have notified all London
banks that a gang of expert American
forgers are now on their way to Lon
don. It is stated they possess the se
cret of effacing handwriting from
checks
A London cable dispatch of Wed
nesday says: Admiral Damelles has
sent an ultimatum to the authorities
at Rio, announcing his intention to
immediately and thoroughly bombard
the city with all his ships unless it
promptlV'^urrenders.
A dispatch was received from Yoak
um, Tex., stating that John Newman,
a prominent merchant of that place,
was killed Wednesday Morning by a
trap gun which he had set for a burg
lar. Mr. Newman had forgotten about
tbe deadly affair and was opening up
the store when he came in contact
with the string which pulled the trig
ger of the gun, the charge passing
through his body.
The New York Herald of Wednes
day says there is reason to believe that
the passengers of the steamer Alvo,
which was’believed to have been lost,
have been safely lauded at Mompox,
United States of Colombia. Juan
Riqon, at the Westminster hotel, re
ceived a cable message from his neph
ew, who was a passenger on the Alvo.
The message, dated Mompox, was
“Salamos.”
At 9:30 o’clock Tuesday evening
during the performance of “Michael
Strogoff” by tho Baldwin-Melville
Company in the new opera house at
Canton,Til., fire from fireworks nsed
in, the fire scene ignited the scenery.
In a few' minutes the entire interior
was a roaring furnace. The audience
was cautipned to stand still and many
remained standing. This delay near
ly caused a holocaust. Twenty per
sons were burned, of whom three or
four were fatally injured aud five seri
ously.
A New York dispatch says: The
amount of clearing house certificates
outstanding was reduced to $32,405,-
000 Tuesday through the cancellation
of $1,400,000 of certificates. Calls for
$20,000 to be cancelled Wednesday
have bgen.issued.Nearly $4,500,000
in gold coin was paid into the clear
ing house during the day in settle
ment of. balances. Only about 5 per
cent of (he settlement was affected by
the use of clearing house' certificates,
the balihce being paid in legal tender.
Advices received at Washington
Tuesday" from Madison court house,
Madison county, one of the mountain
counties, of Virginia, say: “The
floods in-this section have-caused iin-
,mense damage, to cr,o.ps;.and fencing.
Four, large mills oji the .banks of the
Bapldan river and three dwellings . in
.this county have been washed away.
The’* village "of Criglersville, on the
Robinson river, was almost swept out
of existence. Many -narrow escapes
have been •made: but so far no lives are
reported lost.” ' '-('-•■
' A dispatch of Monday night from
Marqnette, 'Mich., says: Practically
all the meft-.who had anything to' do
with the robberry of the Mineral Range
express last Friday of $7Q,000 are in
jail, or under espionage and up to date
$14,000 of their booty has been recov
ered. Monday George Libert, ft'for
mer fireman on the Duluth, South
'Shore and Atlantic road, was’ arrested
by the police’ on the telegraphic order
of the sheriff of Houghton county attd
made a clean breast of the whole affair.
A Pittsburg, Pa., dispatch says:
Brown & Co.-’s Wayne iron works re
sumed operation Monday morning,
their former employes reporting for
duty to a man. In anticipation of
trouble, the entire police reserve of
tjj.e .city went on duty at the mill at 5
o’clock. They found nothing to claim
their attention, and withdrew from the
mill.”' By unanimous vote six hundred
employes decided to go to work, not
withstanding the fact that the firm
positively refused to sign the Amal
gamated scale.
' A cable dispatch from Parks says:
It having been found impossible to
satisfactorily adjust the troubles be
tween the coast miners and the mine
owners in the department of Pas de
Calais, work in the eolleries stopped
Monday. The exact number of men
who quit work is hot at present known,
but it is large. ’The strike, if long ex
tended, is certain to cause considera
ble embarrassment to' the manufactur
ing industries of the department and
elsewhere. The trouble - is- due to
questions concerning wages-,, and the-
treatment of - mem by tbe overseers.,
A cablegram from London was re
ceived at Mobile, Ala., Wednesday by
T. W. Nicol, chief engineer of the
Dauphin Island Railroad and Harbor
Company, to begin work on the road
at once. The London'agent for the
road is to sail hence in a few days.
The plan is to connect Mobile by rail
with deep water in the gulf of Mexico,
distance thirty-five miles. The road
is to run on the west shore of Mobile
bay to Cedar Point, cross Grant’s pass
to Dauphin.island and thence to the
south shore of .the island. Four im
mense break waters will be built to
shelter vessels lying at the docks.
The cost will be up in the millions,
but it is laid to be justifiable because
of the great increase of the coal and
lumber and timber trade of this port.
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May Extend the Time to 1894.
After a conference at Chicago, Fri
day, with a number of foreign com
missioners, the World’s fair directors
have called a meeting to discuss the
feasibility of extendi ag the expositioB
until rtnswf 1st mi
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The Chicago Evening Journal was
sold at auction Wednesday. The pa
per plant and a leasehold interest in
The Evening Journal building were
bought by Dr. S. Farrar for $163,000.
The board of health of the city of
Selma, Ala., adopted resolutions that
no person passing through Atlanta,
Ga., shall be allowed'to enter Selma
while the epidemic continues at Bruns
wick and refugees are received in At
lanta.
During the twenty-four hours end
ing at noon Thursday there were
twelve' new cases of cholera and three
deaths from that disease reported to
the authorities at Hamburg, Germany.
All the cases and deaths reported were
in the suburbs of the city.
Advices of Thursday state that the
ravages of cholera in St. Petersburg,
Russia, are rapidly increasing. The
new cases reported reach an average of
fifty a day, while the deaths from the
disease reach almost the same number.
The cholera in Buda Pesth is spread
ing among the wealthier classes and
considerable uneasiness has been caus
ed by the fact.
A special from Brunswick says:
Mrs. Winklei died at ten o’clock
Thursday morning from what is be
lieved to be yellow fever. She was
sick several days, but the doctor only
called a few hours before her death.
There is also a suspicions case on
Jeckyll island. Dr. Butts reported
two new cases, Lola Scott and Sarah
Bland, both mulattoes.
A dispatch of Thursday from Baton
Rouge, La., says: Governor Foster
has written a letter to the district at
torney of the thirty-first judicial dis
trict, calling his attention to the ne
cessity for prompt and vigorous action
in the enforcement of the law in Jef
ferson parish, and the taking of proper
steps to bring all the guilty parties
involved in the murder of Judge Es-
topinal and the lynchers of the Ju-
liens to justice.
By an explosion ;of gas in the large
colliery, No. 11, of tho Lehigh and
Wilkesbarre Coal company, at Ply
mouth, Pa., Thursday afternoon, five
men were instantly killed and five
others seriously’}but not fatally in
jured. All of the killed wero married :
and leave families The explosion was
caused by a careless miner and his
lamp. The mine is badly damaged,
but will not be obliged to suspend
work.
A Chicago special of Thursday says:
The executive committee of the
World’s Fair directors have definitely
settled the closing of the exposition by
deciding October 31st should be the
last day. Another twenty per cent
dividend is ordered on the bonded in
debtedness, making a total of seventy
per cent of $4,450,000. The commit
tee estimates it will have $500,000 sur
plus November 1, after the payment
of the bonded and floating debt.
A Washington special says: The de
murrer filed by Colonel W. C. P.
Breckenridge to the suit of Miss Mad
eline Y. Pollard against him for $50,-
000 damages for breach of promise of
marriagA was argued in the district
court Thursday. The court overruled
the demurrer aud directed the case to
be set for trial on its merits. The
condition of the docket is such that it
is not. expected the case will be reach
ed for two years.
The new route between-Wilmington
and New Berne, N. C., over the Wil
mington, New Berne and Norfolk rail
road, is now regularly opened with a
double daily service. The distance is
eighty-seven miles, about one half of
the distance by the old route. The
road having just been completed, the
schdeule is three aud a half hours,
which will probably be shortened.
This road gives Wilmington entirely
new connection with a rich section' of
eastern North Carolina.
A London cable dispatch of Thurs^
day says,: The health .authorities at
Portland declare that the sickness on
’ “board the Russian schooner Ligo is
yellow fever. The Ligo, under com
mand of Captain Kirsten, sailed from
Wilmington,' N." C.,' August 8th for
London. She put into Portland
Tuesday in charge' of her mate, Cap
tain Kirsten having died on the voy
age. - ■ The second mate was also taken
sick on the passage and died before
the schooner reached Portland.
Wednesday three of the crew of the’
Ligo were taken .sick and the health
officers ordered her in quarantine.
At the convention of United Typo-
thae of America at Chicago Thursday
it was decided to ho'ld the next conven
tion in Philadelphia, the second week
in Oetober. The following were elect
ed officer's for the year ensuing: John
McFaridge, Philadelphia, president;
R. R. Donnelly, first vice president:
George H. Ellis, Boston; E. E. Colby,
N. Y.; J. H. Bruce, Nashville,.Tenn.;
P. H. Herman, Kansas City; James
Murray, Toronto, Out., vice presi
dents in the order named; Edward
Waddy, Richmond, Ya., secretary;
Charles Busa, Cincinnati, treasurer.
A Birmingham, Ala., special says:
Thursday morning G. G. Wilson and
S. J. Davis were lodge in jail- by
United States officers on a charge of
counterfeiting. They were examined
and bound over to the grand jury.
They were arrested in Svlacauga.
When caught they had a considerable
sum of the spurious silver dollars in
their possession of the date of 1890; 1
A complete set of counterfeiting tools-
was fou: d. The dollars are a pretty-
good imitati n, having a perfect ring-
and good appearance. Talladega and
adjoining counties have been flooded
of late with these counterfeit dollars.
HE WAS DRUNK.
Senator Irby, of South Carolina, on a
Big Spree.
A Columbia special says that Sena
tor John L. M. Irby arrived in that
city Tuesday morning from Washing
ton in a beastly state of intoxication.
When he got off the train at the union
depot, he pulled from his pocket a
a double-acting revolver, passed
through the waiting room and pointed
it at a colored haekman, without any
cause. The haekman ran and Irby
was quieted and hustled into a hack.
He immediately went to sleep and was
driven through the streets with both feet
hanging out. He was carried to the
governor’s mansion and was met by
Mrs. Freeman. He didn’t appear to
realize where he was, however, and,
recovering, he again pulled his pistol,
but made no attempt to fire. He waa
put to bed,, but left for Laurens in >iw
same intoxicated condition. ’ IrfcyV
coBduct escitril much comment in Go
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Sonic Singular Customs.
The Tartar take a man by the ear
to invite him to eat or drink with
them.
The Laplanders rub their nosea
against the nose of him whom they
would honor.
In many parts of Java the bride
shows her subjection by washing the
feet of the groom.'
When meeting his friend the China
man shakes his own hand instead of
his friend’s.
The Chinese have an academy of
manners that prescribes etiquette for
the whole empire.
The body of a dead Chinaman is
often kept in his late home for three or
four years before burial.
A Roman bride was carried to her
future home and lifted across the
threshold by her husband.
Japanese ladies of the olden time
gilded their teeth ; in the East Indies
black teeth were the fashion,
The practice of using eggs at Easter
is of Hindoo origin, the egg being iu
India an emblem of immortality.
At the time of tbe discovery of
America the rank df a Peruvian lady
might be determined by the size of the
ring she wore in her nose.
The Dyak head hunting has a reli
gious origin. The Dyak believes that
every person that he kills in this world
will be his slave ift the next.
Roman mourning extended during a
whole year, but a great feast or vic
tory, or public rejoicing of any kind
might terminate it sooner.
In China white is the color of mourn
ing; in Egypt,yellow; Turkey, violet;
in Ethiopia, brown; in Europe,during
the middle ages, white.
Down to the present century a part
of the marriage ceremony in Hungary
consisted in the groem giving the
bride a kick to remind her of her sub
jection.
Among the head hunters of Borneo
a man is not permitted to offer mar
riage to a woman of his tribe until he
brings her the head of a man killed by
bimself.
Buying on Credit.
Going into debt is not necessarily
unwise or improper; debt is not neces
sarily an evil. It is the habit of run
ning store bills that often lands a man
in iextricable bondage and misery
which makes a debt an inevitable nui
sance. Many a man will buy that
which is not absolutely necessary: when
running a store account, who would
hesitate to make a similar purchase if
he had to pay the cash" out of his
pocket on the spot. How many have,
for the sake of possessing a machine
which they could not use one month
in the year, overwhelmed them
selves in debt to the tune of
hundreds, of dollars, when by asso
ciated effort one such machine would
have served the purpose of a neigh
borhood. Again, and on the other
side it has paid many a young, thrifty
and energetic man to buy a farm on
credit when he had only money enough
to stock it and provide the few imple
ments essentially necessary. Thons-
'iindS of men have succeeded under
such circumstances in earning a farm
in a few years who would otherwise
have dragged their weary way along
as farm laborers, earning but little
more than enough to live on. Buying
goods ou credit and running store ac
counts is ah'intolerable source of wor
ry and annoyance.—Rural World.
Petroleum to Cure Diphllieria.
o Paris-medical men continue to give
their opinions vaguely on ,the treat
ment of .diplitUerm by petroleum as
carried Qut- liy. Dr. Flahout, a pro
vincial physician,/ "XU unite in testi
mony as to the fa’ct that such a treat
ment is by no means original. Dr.
Fanvel, a celebrated flrrbat specialist,
says that in pulmonary maladies the
application of pure petroleum has pro-
-duced splendid results. . Moreover,
during the American war of secession
wounds were dressed with the oil. The
doctor, however, counsels mothers
whose childreTP-are affected by tho
dreadful malady of diphtheria or croup
to put their trust for the present in
pure lemon juice, .which should be
sponged or brushed, over the throats
of t he sufferers. — Lon don Telegraph.
“A max,” says-Prof. F. B. Cooper,
“is the sum of what he puts into him
self.” What then may-the young man
expect who puts beer, cigars, tobacco,
cigaretts and evil thoughts into him
self. Whatever a man sowetk that
also shall he reap.” There is nothing
more true. — The Accountant. . , .
Inculcating Consideration.
Teach a young child to wait upon
itself and upon its parents. Let it
bring father his slippers, cane, hat or
gloves, and mother her workbasket,
thimble or book. Encourage it tc
perform any little offices that conu
within its powers as a tiny child. It
will be proud to execute these small
commissions, and as it gr^'s older it
will form a fixed habit of considering
the wants of others. Improvement of
the character is likely to make the
body more beautifnl. Mind and phy
sique are closely allied. Noble im
pulses, high aspirations and unselfish
character are indicated by a high
chest, well poised head and elastio
footstep.
He Was Born Lucky.
A Long Island man fell into a well
a few days ago and found a $20 gold
piece while he was gathering himself
together in two feet of water. He is
alive and well, and a flesh and blood
example of the old adage that it is
better to be born lucky than rich.—
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