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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. I bu Of an 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 lumbia. ' ‘ the"’news in general. Conflensefl. from Our Most Important . Telegraphic Alices And Presented in Pointed and Reala- - ■ ble Paragraphs. 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. i 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 OUR LATEST DISPATCHES Tfle Happenings ol a Day Cflroniclefl in Brie! and Concise Paragraphs And Containing" tLe Gist of the News From All Parts of the World. 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 Ittttbii Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE 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.— Exchange. DR. KILMER’S SWAMP-ROOT CURED ME. La Grippe ! Grippe! Grippe! After Effects Cured. Mr. Bilger writes:—“I had a bad attack of the G rippe; after a time caught cold and had a second attack. It settled in ray Kidneys ar.d Liver and Oh! such pain and misery in ray back and legs J The physicians’ mcdicino and other things that I usci made no impression, and I continually grew worse until T was a Physical wreck and given up to die. Father bought me a bottle of Dr. Kilmer’s SWAIfIP-ROOT 5 and before I had used all of the second bottle I felt better, and to-da} r I am just as well as ever. A year has passed and not a trace of the Grippo is left. Swamp-Root Saved My Life. D. H. Biloek, HulmeviUe, Pa., Jan. 10th, 1883. At Druggists 50 cents and $1.00 size. •• invalids' Cuiile to Health" frce-Consultation hcc. f Dr. Kilmer & Co., - Binghamton, N. Y. Dr. Kilmer's PAFILLA LIVER FILLS Are the Dost 42 Pills, 25 cents. — All Druggists. 99 “German Syrup Justice of the Peace, George Wil kinson, of Lowville, Murray Co., Minn., makes a deposition concern ing a severe cold. Listen to it. “In the Spring of 1S88, through ex posure I contracted a very severe cold that settled on my lungs. 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