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THE NEWS IN BRIEF Items Collected From Every Quarter of the Globe. Short Southern Stories. John Fitch, a negro, was-lynched at Birmingham, Ala. He was charged with attempting an assault. North Georgia goldfields are looking Up. The Paulding county mines are being developed and promise well. General Adolph Meyer lias boon re nominated for congress by the Demo crats of the First .Louisiana district. The Georgia chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy will meet in annual convention in Macon on Oct. 15 and 10. . The Georgia and Alabama road earned gross for August SBO,BBB, an increase of $40,977, and net $27,815, increase $27,- 680. At Portland, Me., John R. Gentry paced the fastest mile ever made in har ness, and placed the world’s record at 2:00} A Torn Delk, a desperate character in jail at Atlanta, attempted to saw out, but was discovered aud his tools were taken from him. The North Carolina bank statement for the past quarter shows 28 national, 41 state, 17 private and six savings banks. Total, 92. The application of C. M. Ohislom, convicted in Georgia of counterfeiting, for restoration to rights of citizenship, has been denied by tile president. The Petersburg and Asylum railway was sold at Petersburg, Va., the At lantic Coast Line becoming the pur chaser. The price paid was $29,000. Citizens of Nashville have decided to erect a bronze statue to Cornelius Van derbilt, the founder of Vanderbilt uni versity. The contract will be let at $4,000. Ladies of Ocala, Fla., have formed a Bryan silver club with Mrs. Marie Ditto as president The object is to raise funds for the national Democratic com mittee. The marshal at Rochelle, Ga., A. J. Eastman, was shot while trying to ar rest an aro. The wound is in the neck anti may prove fatal. The negro escaped. The storehouse aud stock of goods, valued at $12,000, belonging to D. H. Johnson, located at Leomont, Accomac comity, Va., has been destroyed by fire; insurance, $2,009. The fast train from Atlanta ami the Picayune from Augusta collided on the main line of the Georgia railroad at Mesina, Ga, Engineer BUI Murrow aud the fireman were injured. The Third United States artillery, stationed at St. Angustme, Fla., is to bo transferred to the Pacific coast, and the Fiftii artillery, is to come from the Pa cific coast to St. Augustine. At New Orleans the jeans pants fac tory of A. Kory & Cos. was totally de stroyed by fire and the buildings on both sides of it were badly damaged. The entire loss is nearly $50,000. Hon Charles E. Hooker of Jackson, Miss., has been invited to make Demo cratic speeches in the east, under the auspices of the national Democratic committee, aud will do so. In a letter to Governor Culberson of Texas, Prince Bismarck says the inde pendent action of the United States in favor of bimetallism would aid in bring ing about an international agreement. The Savannah Catholic Knights of America have placed upon the wall of their place of meeting, in the Catholic Library hall, an xcellont lifesize crayon portrait of the late Vicar General Oaf ferty. Great preparations are being made in Atlanta for the opening of the Georgia School of Technology, which takes place on Sept. 30. The school will open this year under brighter prospects than ever before. A vessel named “Unique,” said to have been built in Canada, is now in the Mississippi, bound south, aud is suspected of having on board a cargo of arms and ammunition for the Cuban insurgents. Alabama negroes are planning to help the Cubans. It is expected to enlist 1,000 in the cause. A big secrot meet ing wjts held Friday at Mobile and sev eral hundred negro volunteers were en rolled, it is said. The receivers Of the Memphis and Charleston railroad report for the year ending Juno 30 gross earnings of sl,- 848,538, an increase of $146,266; expen ses $30,531, and net earnings $287,283, an increase of $115,735. At Bowling Green, Fla., the irate father of a schoolboy, who had been whipped by the teacher, met the peda gogue on the street and cursed him, whereupon the wielder of the ferule had him arrested, and tne judge nned him $5 and costs. J. B. Castilla has been arrested at Key West, He is al eged to have been the head man in a recent filibustering expedition, carried to Cuba, by the Three Friends, now detained in Florida. The arrest was made by the United States marshal. The president has pardoned J. W. Phillips, convicted in Alabama of illicit distilling and sentenced April last to 15 months imprisonment and SIOO fine. The prisoner is iiqan advanced stage of consumption and on this account the pardon is granted. At Slaydett’s crossing, a hamlet be tween Lamar, Miss., and Grand Junc tion, Temt., in tire former state. Walter Brown, a young negro, was shot to death and then burned. His crime was a murderous assault upon Mrs. Slaydeu, postmistress, aged 73 years. W. A. Goldin. Populist candidate for sheriff of Haralson county, Ga., has been arrested, charged with an at tempted criminal assault on the wife of J. J. Pope, Populist nominee for the legislature. Goldin says that he is the innocent victim of a plot meant to de feat him. Joaquin Fortune, president of the Cu ban club of Jacksonville, Fla., has writ ten to Clara Barton, asking that the Red society of the United States send a representative to Cuba in behalf of the Cuban army, inasmuch as the Spanish Red Cross attends exclusively to the Spanish army. Joseph N. Wolfson, a prominent law yer, has been arrested for aiding in fleecing the Union National bank of New Orleans out of $36,000. The sys tem pursued in this robbery was differ ent from the others, checks being drawn for large amounts and much smaller sums being charged up by the individual bookkeeper. The steamer Three Friends has been libeled at Jacksonville, Fla., by United States District Attorney Frank Clark for violating the navigation laws by go ing into foreign waters without sur rendering to the collector of the port her coastwise license and taking out papers that would permit her to enter a foreign port. Marshal Stevens, manager of the Man chester Ship canal, with C. C. Harvey, a large cotton spinner, and James L. Hall, a'prominent grain merchant, of the same city, are in Savannah, discuss ing with capitalists and leading rail road men the practicability of establish ing a freight and passenger steamship line to Manchester from that port. Notes from Nortfi. fast. West amt Abroad. Peter Gallagher, Indian agent at Warm Springs, Or., is dead. George P. Tyler, former president of the Norfolk aud Western Railroad com pany, is dead, aged 74 years. Mr. Alexandre Ribot, ex-president of France, who has been touring in this country, has sailed for home. Governor W. O. Bradley of Kentucky has left for St. Louis to take part in the Republican campaign in Missouri. Tire postoflice department has issued an order prohibiting the use of the mails to the bucketshop operators of Chicago Failures fro the week nave been 315 in the United states, against 216 last year, aud 39 in Canada, against 50 last year. Captain General Blanco, the Spanish governor of the Phil ipine islands, lias disappeared, and it is supposeil he has been murdered. A free silver meeting at Orestes, Iml., broke up in a riot in which 20 peoplo were more or less injured, three, it is feared, fatally. Frank Ives, the billiard champion, was defeated at Boston in a 14 inch balk line game by George Carter, ex-cham pion of New England. John Boyd Thacher has declined the Democratic nomination for governor of New York, because he could not indorse the platform adopted at Buffalo. The governor of Pennsylvania has pardonajl John Bardsley, ex-city treas urer of Philadelphia, serving a term in the penitentiary for embezzlement. By an explosion of gas in the Phila delphia and Reading company’s Middle creek colliery near Tremout, Pa., five men were burned and otherwise hurt. The officials of the Democratic and Silver Club association are issuing a cir cular of information in regard to the club convcntiou to be held in St. Louis ou Oct. 3. Betting ou election results continues slow in the principal cities of the United States. Odds of 2to I are offered on McKinley, but few large bets have beeu recorded. The body of Edson Keith of the big wholesale millinery firm of Edson Keith & Cos. was found in the lake at Chicago. He committed suicide while temporarily insane. It has been decided that Corbett ami Sharkey will do battle before the Eureka Athletic club of Sau Francisco, for a purse of $12,(K)0, on a date yet to be set. Both men are now training. Charles Pfeifer, living at Briglitwood, a suburb of Indianapolis, cut his wife’s throat, his 'baby’s throat, and tlica hanged himself. All are dead. Pfeifer was an operator on the Big Four. The delegation sent to Mexico by United States labor societies to study the wage question and cost of living have arrived at their destination and are having every facility accorded them. The czar of Russia has just signed an imperial order decreeing that the colors of the national flag shall henceforth be white, bine aud red, placed horizontally above one another in the order named. Robert Fitzsimmons, the pugilist, has beeu arrested in New York on an in dictment found by the grand jury last week, accusing him of agreeing to en gage in a prizefight with James J. Corbett. A correspondent in Pinar del Rio de clares that Antonio Maceo’s rebel band are completely overrunning western Cuba, burning settlements, assassinat ing all pacificos and ill treating helpless women. It is reported in the city of Havana that United States General Lee will retire. The reasons given are that of late the relations between the consulate aiid the palace have been quite strained. Major McKinley has received a finely polished and embellished stump of a tree. It is intended for use in deliver ing his front doer addresses. The -Stump was sent by Jesse Grover, sheriff of Knoxville, Tenn. The strike of 250 miners, employed at the mines of the Missouri aud I linois Coal company, at Rentchler, Wilder tnan and Freeberg, Ills., has been de clared off, the company raising the men’s wages from 38 cents to 39 cents per ton. A cable dispatch received from Con stantinople announces the death there of Oaliias Bey, who l'ecently married the widow of P. T. Barnum. Mine. Cailias is now on the ocean, having been notified last week of the serious illness of her husband. Austin B. Crary, known as “Hey Rube,” for many years with Barnum’s circus aud recently with the zoological garden, at Cincinnati, has beeu com mitted to an‘insane asylum. After act ing as a crazy man for 30 years, he finally became crazy. Four thousand persons were pjesant at a massmeeting in Liverpool to pro test against the rule of the Sultan of Turkey and the massacres of Armeni ans in the Turkish empire. Mr. Glad stone, the principal speaker, met a most enthusiastic greeting. Awards of the 11,000-ton battleships, for which proposals were opened last Saturday, have just been announced by Acting Secretary McAdoo. The New port News company %vas given No. 7; the Cramps No. 8, and th 9 Scotts, of Sau Francisco, No. 9. Colonel William O in, secretary of state for Massachusetts, has just ren dered a decision to the effect that in the Bay State the names of electors of the Pa mer- Buckner ticket cannot go on the ballot under their title of “National Democratic” candidates. Six hundred persons were killed in the recent disturbances at Euguin. in the Diabokir district of Armenia. The Kurds attacked the Armenian quarter of the town, pillaged aud burned the houses and killed as many of the inhab itants as they could find. E. G. Blunt, who was Ultimately as sociated with John Brown in conduct ing the underground railway in Kan sas, aud was also an active scout in the civil war, is dead. He wa one of the early settlers of Kansas, having gone there in the spring of 1855. Antonio Cuaze, a young Swiss, living on a ranch 12 miles from Aspen, Colo., shot aud killed his wife aud her mother, Mrs. Mary Quinn. Cuaze was arrested. He says that the insults and taunts of the women made him mad aud that the shooting was entirely unpremeditated. Eire at Oswego, N. Y., destroyed the entire plants of the Silver Metal com pany and the Seliger-Toothill Novelty company, together with the 3-storv block of Timothy Donovan and the houses of Patrick Murray and William Grant. The loss will aggregate SIOO,OOO. The steamer Doric, just arrived from the Orient, brings news that the city of Kobe, Japan was wiped out by fire on Aug. 26, and that floods, storms and earthquakes caused the loss of 2,500 lives and the destruction of millions of dollars' worth of property in northern Japan. Grand Master Workman J. R. Sover eign of the Knights of Labor has estab lished in Chicago a national labor bu reau in the interest of Bryan and Wat sou. He will be assisted by a number of prominent labor leaders, and will pay special attention to the Campaign in Chicago. The civil service commission is in formed by the treasury department that it lias discontinued the services of Wil liam Springer and John Terney, deputy collectors of customs at Port Huron, Mich., who were charged by the civil service commission with having re- • ceived political contributions from gov ernment employes. Dr. John C. Sackville, aged 82 years, a skilled surgeon and eminent physi cian, was struck by a Baltimore and Ohio train, at Washington, Pa., and in stantly killed. Dr. Sackville was a cousin of Lord Sackville-West, formerly English ambassador to Washington, aud a brother-in-law to the English poet, Robert Carr Foster. The Missouri military academy, situ ated ten miles northeast of Mexico, Mo., has been burned to the ground, causing a loss of $75,000 to the building and a heavy loss in personal effects. Insur ance, $35,009. One hundred students were in the building when the fire broke out and while no lives were 1 st, many of them had narrow escapes and received injuries more or less serious. The activity of the headquarters of the various presidential nominees in sending out public, documents and other literature has somewhat em barrassed the postoffice department by overtaxing its mail bag facilities. The result is an order issued to post masters throughout the country direct ing all surplus mail equipment to be promptly forwarded to regular depos itors. POPULIST OPPORTUNITY. Now Is tlic Time For t;ie People To Use the Seasoned Lever. It is to 1 arc gretteil- that some of our old time pioneers, who for 10, 15 and 20 years have been bi..xing out the path way for just this ; i.iug that all have striven to produce, si. uld now consider it in their line of duty r i v.ithh -U sup port from the Bryan ticket to join the Socialist Labor party. Time may prove them in the right. But it is a strang conclusion to think ti at to Le right necessarily requires one to maintain a hopeless minority relation in a move ment. In the United States laws are mad by will of the majority as expreed at the ballot box. For 20 years the op ponents of a gold basis plutocracy hav centered their fire and directed their energies under a common tanner apart fr'-m both the old parties. We have strivelTto force a combination of the monopoly forces under one leadership. In this the pr< sent campaign marks onr success. To now withdraw at the cru cial time when every vote is required to test the stability of free institutions is to certify a preference for continua tion of oppressive rule aud gives the lie to professed efforts to culminate in vic tory the desires for which we have been laboring. We are accustomed to quoting Lin coln ns a worthy example. Let all such procure the September number of Mc- Clure’s Magazine from auy newsstand and read Lincoln’s great speech deliv ered at Bloomington, Ills., May 29, 1856, before the first convention of the Republican party in that state. This speech has never before been reported. Compare utterances with those of onr young leader today. There was more compromise in Lincoln's utterances than in the speeches made each day by Mr. Bryan. Lincoln boldly announced it not the purpose of the Republican party to interfere where slavery was already an institution, but merely to prevent its ex tension into free territories. Did the Republican party in elevating him to the presidency gain more or less than its original objects? The People’s Party has forced one great party to cast its Jonahs overboard. Wo are taking for granted the majority of that party are honest and in line with the demands as laid down in their platform as the Populists are who for mulated the St. Louis platform. The forces in the Democratic ranks who are striving to hold Sewall on the ticket xire no more in earnest for success aud yet quite as much as are the Populists who, so hardened to minority service, cannot longer train with their party aud help seal the vantage gained by years of struggle and sacrifice. It is not the easiest task in times like these under conditions not of our own shaping to be consistent. Nor have we yet to learn wherein even the sacred Scriptures teach consistency as a rule in life. Had we die shaping of environments, consistent practice would be more possible. The Free Soil party did not elect a president. The autislavery and liberty parties were only factors in the growth of the party of Lincoln. Under the arrangements made to suit existing ballot, laws in the different states earnest Populists can maintain their party organization and hold their machinery in readiness for whatever emergency the future has in store. This is a year when men should be governed by reason and patriotism. We condemn selfishness in onr neighbor, yet the unselfishness that seme are betray ing proclaims a willingness, yea, a de sire. to trudge alone another 4,8, y. s, 20 years : don’t want auy rrf m; v. ;.a ]ly to exercise tl . < s-;lvts cf fir:: citizenship and k ’... For cue, v.-o have D' a on the kick n -e years btf. .re our majority—kicking for an opportunity to kick out the Ccv.Js \ hoso operations in law tell your boy and my boy Le h;;~ no business on this earth. There is an opening now to give them a knockout kick. To that point we hnstaSdiny our reserve forces and will r.ot throw down a Populist lever cifh.- v just at the time it is seasoned for the test to go sprout anew one and wait for it to ma ture.—Parkersburg (W. Va.; Tribune. Cleveland and Carlinle. The telegram of Mr. Cleveland to the bondocrats of Louisville on the occasion of the notification of the bolters that they had been nominated was most nat ural. Mr. Cleveland duriDg his last ad ministration has been so busy in bond deals that it is natural he should mis take bondocrats for Democrats. But it is a little odd that Mr. Carlisle in his communication should call the goldbng bondocrats “the old fashioned Demo crats, ” when he declared in 1878 that this bondccratic "conspiracy which seems to have been formed here and in Europe to destroy by legislation and otherwise from three-sevenths to one half of the metallic money of the world is the most gigantic crime of this or auy other age. ” Will Carlisle have the same faith in Cleveland after the 4th of March as he now ha- if he dees not get a fat place in New Fork for His services as secretary? It is to be hoped that the Morgans and the Belmonts will retain both Cleveland and Carlisle as long as they live for their faithful service to them.—Silver Knight Who Are Americans? It is as important now as it was in 1776 to inquire, Who are Americans? History repeats its; If. There were in 1776 m< :i born in America who were not Americans. The poet, addressing Americans, asked; I- them a man with 735 so and ad Who never t ■ 7 — .... If hath said. This is lay own, my native land? It was found in 1770 that something more than being born in America was required to make a man an American. Benedict Arnold was an American born. George Washington was an American born. To know who are Americans yea must try them. When Washington said, “Put none but Americans ou guard tonight.” be meant more than birth. There arc thin s which try men s souls, their mat: tood. thoir couvlciluus, their courage. History repeats itself—such times oc curred in 177 3, again in IS"3. The same question is up for debate. Can the United States, with a popcia tion of 70,0.00,000, stand alone in 1890, as the colonies swore, with 3,000,000, in 1776, that they could stand alone, free aud independent, in spite of Eng land? The battle is on.—Railway Times. Tlie Pen and the Sword. In his speech to the Ohio gold stand ard editors who went on free railroad passes to visit him Tuesday last Major McKinley said: “This is a year for press and pen. The sword has been sheathed. The only force now needed is the force of reason, and the'only power to be invoked is that of intelligence and patriotism. ” That is a sound maxim in reference to the conduct of campaigns, but are the majorsond his friends living up to the spirit of it. Is it “app ng only to the force of reason” when rich rail road president or the mast, r of a mg manufactory notifies his poor wage slaves that they will he discharged ii they don't talk and vote for McKinley aud gold? It is true that for a railroad president, like Mr. Ives for instance, to call for his pen aud write a notice to his workmen which threatens them with discharge aud possible starvation if they don t vote the way ho wants them to is a case where "the pen is in deed mightit r than the sword," for a railroad president's pen when used in that way is a mighty sight more effect ive weapon to bring about the enslave ment of the workers than any sword b. could possibly wield in this day and age of the world.—Journal of the Knights, of Labor. A Pretty Eish For Ecseert. Choose some large even sized apples, wipe them and remove the core, but not the skin. Lay them in a steamier and steam thorn until they are tender through. Lift them out earefully and arrange on a glass d:sn. Frost them with sugar several times, pile red cur rant jelly around them and place a lit tle dab on the top of each. Serve cold. Custard may be used instead of the cur rant jelly, but always drop a tiny mor sel of something bright colored on the top of the apples. When the Fruit J.r Is Not Light. If your freshly filled jar of fruit ei ades juice when turned upside down, try the virtues of a little putty, pressed firmly in between the rubber and cover to as to till the crevice that makes the trouble. This will sometimes save re heating the fruit and putting it up again.