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THE! LUHT.
•'Open the window. Mother dexr.
•* And lot breathe the fragrant air
* That blows tn from tiio garden where
The flowers bieom. And let me hear
The chorus of the birds that sing
Within the trees, for it will tiring
To my faint heart a little cheer.
Please, Mother dear—
It seems so close and hot tn here.”
She raised the window. Full and free
The gun-kissed air enme streaming in
Upon Ills face so pale and thin; nrlee
Tim song of birds—la raptor ms and then
Fell on his ear. He smiled,
The eyelids closed; In* slept again,
The mother holding tenderly hand,
The outstretched
For well she seemed to understand.
“Open the shutter. Mother dear.
It’s growing dark I cannot see.
Let in the light it close 1 me.
That 1 may feel your presence near,
bet In the sunlight from t he sky— T
The light thilts pure and free. Hint
May see vour fnee again. Bend near—
Ah. there's tho light!
Cood-bye, dear mot her—good—goou
night,”
Tlo- light had cn;;,n tlic radiant light
Of angels bending o'er him low,
The light which but tho dead can know,
IVliich guides the soul upon its flight
To tit at far land of peace and rest;
The Heavenly light which, last and
Illumines through the darkest Independent. night.
—James C. ChalliHs, in
THF 1UIj WRONG ' V UUi>U (TR V;L
i:V DULY I.K .'O.V.
JTrS HA jSlrfi: WITH tainrht
'
■
am a Tho uro n’s
Y oung Ladies’
K- a Baminnry w h c n
1 Thorndyek Fur¬
ring t o n xv a a
cashier of the
First National
»Omm- Bank.
Lila was both young and pretty, and,
as the bank was just around the cor¬
ner from the rfbnunnry, it often hap¬
that Mr. Farrington walked
from school with her, to tho un¬
disguised chagrin of her lover, John
He met (hem one afternoon iu Feb¬
slipping along over tho icy
pavement, and talking gaily together,
John had gone out of his xvay on
purpose to walk home with Lila, but
came too late; and, when he met her,
half a block from the seminary, lean
mg on Farrington’s arm, ho passed on
with a bow that was verv * still and for
ma)
* “Confound tho fellow!” ho muttevod,
as he glanced bank at Farrington’s
stylish figure, » I What does Lila moan
hy kiting him dauco attendance on
her every day?”
Tho cashier of the First National
xvoro on this occasion a handsome
brown chiuokillu overcoat and a stylish
Derby hat. In one hand he carried a
cane xvith a head of beaten silver,
W ..r . .
'
moi m TlilU Gogance; Mr.
Thorndyek Farrington was just then
oblivious to epithet#. called that evening, Lila
When John
know iu a minute that ho was out of
sorts.
“See here, my little girl,” ho said,
soberly, “I wish you wouldn’t let that
fellow, Farrington, walk home with
you so much.”
“Noxv, John, don’t be silly!’’
"I don't, like him. Lib. lic«ide S . I
xvouldu t want any man to walk home
with you as lmtoh as he does.”
“Well, John Cuuningham, if you
aren't perfectly absurd!”
“Idon't think lam,” ho said, flush
ing deeply. “,Some one asked me this
morning why I’d let that fool of a Far
rington cut me otti. I don’t like such
innuendoes, Lila.”
“What perfect nonsense, John!”
“Nonsense or not, I don't like it!”
he said, with some spirit. “Lila, I
am going axvay to-morrow, and I want
you to promise me that you xvon’t nl- j
low .Farrington to walk home with you i
any more.”
“Yon nro going away to-morrow,
John!” she echoed, “To Washing
ton?”
“Yes,” he said, slipping his arm
around darling!—to her. “I am going to-morrow, j
be gone two months, under-1 per
haps. But if I succeed in this
taking, all this Lila, there waiting, xvill aud be an end be to j |
weary we can j
married at once!”
“Humph!” she said, saucily. “It.
takes two to make a bargain.”
“ Yes—but xv e two are one! Don’t
trifle xvith me, Lila, l can't bear it. ;
This hope lies too near mv heart.” | '
“I did not mean to trifle, John.”
“I don’t think you ever mean to)
hurt mo,"’ be said, gravely; “bntsoir.e- | !
times yon do. I know I am jealous,
Lita, but I can’t help it. It is nil in j
vain that I strive against it, and when
I think of that fellow Farrington, I— |
it makes me xvrctched'”
“But what can I do, John? I can't
iusult the man bv * telling him he can’t
walk xvith me.”
“Your woman's xvit will serve you.
Lils. I never snxv a girl yet ’Inu
couldn’t get rid of an admirer, if she
saw fit.”
“But suppose I don’t want to get
rid of him?”
“Lila!”
“Well, John? I think vou ’ might
trust ”
me more.
“I do trust vou. Bat I tell you it
makes me unhappv to jsee you xvith
that fellow, and 1 think that ought to
be sufficient!”
“I suppose I might go home the
back wav.” she said, musingly. k\
“If vou did several times. would
soon see that you v ere trying to avoid
him •’
“But 7o» n the • 'ek w»t is bo*
rid!”
He took her pretty, perverse iittle
face between his hands, and lifted it
so that he could look at down into
her eyes.
“Darling.” he said, softly, *‘,iO ii
just to' please me.
“Well I will' But you're a perfect
tyrant, John Cunningham!” cried,
' And yon are an angel!” he
ranturouslv “Lila, you shall never
regret tho little things you do to
please me. 'They make me love you
till the more.” fol¬
John went to Washington the
lowing morning. Two weeks dragged
themselves away, and then something
unexpected happened to shorten his
sojourn in Washington. His purpose
was accomplished with less difficulty
than ho had anticipated, and in full
realization of his fond hopes,he hurried
back to Tula.
He had not written her, because he
wanted to take her by surprise, and
she never dreamed lat*e of his coming.
It was rather one evening when
he ran up the steps and pulled the
bell.
There was a bright light in the par¬
lor, and John leaned over to peep
through the lace curtains into the
room. much
“Pshaw!" lie exclaimed, with
vexation us Jte saw a gentleman sitting
with bis back toward the window.
“There’s somebody there! I’ll go right
ou up to this sittibg-room. ’ little col¬
The door was opened by only a servant
ored girl, who was the
that tho Weirs kept.
“Hush—sh!” John said, warningly,
^ be a iuto lhe lmll . “Don’t
toll any one I am here. Katie.”
’ The little girl retired under cover of
a broad
“l wonder who is in there!”
reflectively, as lie stepped up to
the hat-rack to identify the hat and
»-«U'»i There was a cane '■»«»« with a V'"T- beaten-sil¬ ,
ver bead lying across the top of the
rack, and under it a brown overcoat
hanging beside a Derby hat.
John’s face changed its and expression,
ns he took down the hat, saw in
side of it an embroidered band
marked, “T. W. F.”
“Thorndyek Farrington!” he mut¬
tered, xvith quick resentment, and just
then he heard Lila’s voice raised to a
key somewhat higher than ordinary.
“John is so fearfully jealous!” she
said, “I don’t know xvlmt to do xvith
him!”
“Why do yon put up xvith it?” was
the query, in a loaer tone. “I cannot
... ,
bear to see you subject o ie ' V1
such a man, darling. I xx is i x oil x. ou <
* me put a stop to it
' a,u G ou, l? “ rn myst ,
said Lila. lean (stum "any ongei.
I bai'o fully made up nix mm< <> Jlta '
ofl our engagement. heard
John heard this; but he no
more. Tho floor seemed to heave like
the xvaves of the ocean; the light in
the hall grew suddenly dim, aud lie
gasped for breath.
His first inst inct was to get out of tho
house. He staggered toward tho door,
and doxvu tho stops, like a drunken
miui. exclaimed,
“What was that?” Lila
as she heard tho front door bang.
mvJ* autlui oiJ.
John! Did yon rea ly think . xvas
saving ali that?”
“Of course I did!” he nns- ered,
tremulously, and then ho folced his
arms around her, xvliile his teas wet
her glossy hair.
“Darling,” she said when siio had
let him hold her there in silence for a
long, long time, “never doubt me
again, no matter xvliat happens.”
“I never will,” he ansxverel, sol¬
emnly. “I ought to have gonti right
to you for an explanation. My jealous
nature made me the easy victim of a !
mistake. Ob, Lila! If I had lost you
by * my own precipitancy!” yon!” she said,
“What if I had lost
xvith a shudder. “And Harry, through
your death!”
“Thank God, there is no danger of
that! I shall got xvell, the doctor eavs,
and—and, Lila, I xvisli you would
bring Thorndyek to sec me.”
Harry xvas discharged, of course,
and at the end of two months, John
was able to be about. Meanw ie, he
changed his opinion of tho ca- tier of
| tho First National, xvhom xvhenevw he a lowed dis
i to walk homo xvith Lila
posed to. long that Lila
But it was not very
felt the need of an escort. She left
Madame Thouron’s iu May. aud iu
June she and John were married.
Harry Weir aud Thorndyek Farring¬
ton were groomsmen at the wedding,
and they do say that the latter is go¬
ing to marry John’s sister.
Snake Overcomes c«w.~7 V
a ' .
On a farm belougiLgto . ono *f the
townsmen of St arnica,-Penn., a year
ago since, a cow was noticed making
repeated aud furious charges at a
dense thicket. An nivestigatnki by
the owner of tlie animal snowed tuat
j she was fighting a big b.acksaate and
. trying to stamp it to ueai i w Ur hex
fore feet. The thicket was an isplatei
clump of laurels, aud the snake did
! not seem disposed to leave it am) trust
j its life in the open country.
j Finally the cow lowered her head
! and attempted to impale the snake cm
' her horns, la an instant the snake
sprang on the cow s head and coiled
itself about her horns. The cow was
dazed for an instant and then set off
j ou a ran, occasionally ground, kneeling but to rub
herself against the she
was unable to rid herself of her en
emy. seemed fi all ^
The cow “ J
that all her efforts were useless, and
j set off at a full gallop. The men
the farm made an effort to follow her
and turn her back, xv hen cornered
she would charge everything in light.
Occasionally the snake would half
twist itself and its ffeidxvonU p.uy
before the cows eyes. On tte eoo
ca-ions the poor animal would
with terror and go backward in
endeavor to escape from the snake,
Finally the poor r brute dropped rr
sheer exhaustion and panted jWi.
snase was immediately dis
patched, . and on being test measure in length.— .
found to be over six
New York" I’ress.
i 4. - visible . ,
.
hall, but no o ue xva •
“I guess it ”\vas the wnd, sha ob
served, as she xi'out back to her seat;
and Johu’s brief visit xvas uot dis
covered.
But the next day there came to her
a note, saying:
I take this opportunity of releasing you
from an engagement xvhich lias grown irk
HOmotnyolI You nro free to favor xvhom
.
y OU will, Mr. Thormlyok Farrington not
excepted. May you have *%SKS53a more happiness
«|}» ft ”l,»”d!
f0U1)J you out p 0 forc it v,-as too late,
John Cunninoham.
In the afternoon John xvas sitting
:.n his office, trying to makeup his
mind whether ho would go to Panama
or Alaska; all he knew xvas that he
could not stay where lie xvas.
As ho sat there, with liis util! gaze
fixed upon the floor, Harry Weir came
in, looking flushed and indignant.
“See her, Cunningham!” no said,
laying his right hand roughly on
John's shoulder, “what the deuce do
you mean by acting iu tuis xvay. What
right had you to send such u note to
Lila?” feet, and threw
Johu struggled to his
off Harry’s hand,
“Because,” he said, bitterly, “your
sister is a heartless, unprincipled
flirt!” cried, both,
“You’re a liar!” Harry
and xvith one stout bloxv ho sent John
staggering back over the chair, xvhieh
fell to the floor xvith a crash, and Johu
ou top of it.
With one faint, cry that was hah a
groan, John fell bank in _ a limp, sense
less heap upon the floor.
As Harry saw John lying there,
xvhite and unconscious, his anger gave
way to horror.
“Great heavens,” be cried, falling
on bis knees at John's side, “1 have
killed him!”
Half frantic at his own violence, lie
summoned aid, and John Cunningham
xvas taken home, not dead, but seri
ously injured. straight story, and the
Harrv told a
law lmd its course. He was placed
under arrest, to await the result of
John's injuries.
From the prison he xrrote a note to
his sister.
“Dear Lila,” he said. “I did not
obev vour injunction, for I could not
keep mv hands off Cunningham. The
thought of you made me forget your
earnest prayer that I would not molest
him. I knocked him down, and I fear
he is fatally injured. Forgive me,
aud break this to mother as gently as
yon can.”
Half an hour after this note reached
her, Lila loft the house xvith a face
ilia. xx- a s xvhite death, aud eyes
that were shadowed by dark despair,
It was not to hex brother iu prison
that she went first, bat t > John Onu
uincbaia wlio Iut back upon a bank of
pillows, pale and suffering.
“Is is he ne going poiuj, to die’” Lila asked.
with ashen bps, as the doctor passed
her in the hall.
“No,” the doctor answered,
‘•but his back—”
“Broken?” she gasp;!.
“No, not so bad as that; bo a
sprain It may bemont
Lila and heard was no kneeling more. Sheha.Jed dowi-"
lover’s bed .
“John, John!” she sobbed.A
sorry!” aligl?‘ l> n
As he opened his eyes a '
his face. \ lT:u0
Against his will the look of Io‘
back, and he murmured:
“Lila!”
Her arms were about him an
instant. .
“Johu, dear!” she cried, _
her face in the pillows, while she ’ 0 '
with convulsive it, did you?” sobs, “you d| 10
mean
“Did you mean it, Lila?"
gravely.
“Did I mean what?”
“What you said to Mr. IV n
last night. I was in the hall, 1 td
heard you.” ‘lj
“John, dear, you are c
dreaming.” lis
“No,” he said, turning ax ‘i '»t
head, with a look of pain. *
to surprise you, and X slipped he
hall. I—I heard what you s;. ut
me. I saw Farrington's ove ju
the rack. Oh, Lila! why did »e
ceive me?” 1 “I
“John,” she said, impress!
do not understand a word of tJ
“Thorndyek Farrington calf on
you last night, Lila.”
“He did not!”
“I saw his cane and ov^rcV
“John!” she cried, with i ri
-
inspiration, “did that misle •
That was his hat and overco .e
and , rT Harry went skating , ,. nigh . ■, ee
last, and Harry got into an '
You have misjudgedThorndye and |' iU8e
He saved Harry’s life,
Harry was ail wet he loa ,n T
brother his hat and overcoat vear
home. Ah for the cane, lie
apiesent of that a n wont week oirn ag
he t at IP _
Then nami your
night? ’ John said, laintly.
“No; I have not seen him J
went away.” say—”
“But I heard you - '
“What did you hear, Johu
“You said, ‘John is so 111
jealous. I don’t know what t°
him!’ You said more, too. dou
remember the words, only 1 1
dared that you were going to
your engagement with me, ai~
rippled fro Lila t
A joyous laugh nssW 1116111
lips, but she checked it
bered John’s condition.
“Dearest,” she whispered, ni * in
over him till her soft
against his bearded one, “I v
ing aloud. I xvill show you
in xvhich those very xvord oCcur
Harry took cold, in spite P^ e
cautions, and the doctor orJa “t
to stay in the house. I anf“ y
by reading aloud last r.igM. ou ' or
teacher of ( 10n
got that 1 was a «
Like Mr. Orator Puff, I
tones to rav voice.’ One
The Experience of People in an In¬
diana Town.
m SHAKEN OUT I j.- Ia!
A Tbree-T<m Engine M as Torn lo
Fragments anil Every Living Animal
Killed Instantly.
Audersouviile ... (Ay. ,
A special from j
to the Louisville Evening Post
says Chesterfield Indf.. was ai
'
most wiped . off the map „ y> try v me the
explosion of eighty quarts of uitro-gij c
erine which had been brought over
land from Montpelier and placed in an
open held .... half . ,, a mile .. fioui town -o n.
Marion, Mausey ami Earn Maguno
were working gas wells near by when
the explosion occurred. Mausey was
blown fifty feet, but not fatally injured.
Maguire was thrown a hundred feet in
the air and badly lacerated, but will
recover. Mr. James Cold’s house. 800
rods distant, was blown to pieces, lbe
explosion tore a hole in the ground
down to the water line, and so tar it is
learned, it was spontaneous. torn to frag¬
A three-ton engine living was animal
ments and every was
killed, instantly. The little town oi
Chesterfield is a mass of ruin, everj 7
house being moved from its foundation,
windows shattered, doors smashed in,
every light put out and the plastering
; q 1£ q, en from the walls. Several- people
were shaken out of bed. AtDalesviile,
two miles distant, and at Yorktown,
fi ve miles distant, the damage was
almost as great. that
injured and it is a miracle none
were killed outnght The ju r of tho
explosion [ was felt iu all directions 101
fif een miles distant. The gas in the
well wa9 blown out and a workman
named Cooper lit it and caused another
explosion, in which he was fatally
burned. The damage cannot be esti
mated.
A FEARFUL TYPHOON.
One of Uio Worst Disasters Ever Re¬
ported from the Southern Ocean.
A dispatch from San Francisco, Cal.,
says tho typhoon xvhich sxvept over the
Phillipine Islands on tile Cth of Octo¬
ber, xvas the cause of ono of the xvorst
disasters that has been reported from
the southern ocean in tnauy years, if
not fn the history of that section of tho
world. Thousands of lives xvere lost,
including many Europeans, and the
damage to property was appalling.
The difficulties of getting news from
tho islands is great at any time, and
owing to the remoteness of some of
the provinces visited by the hurricane,
all details of the storm did not reach
1st of November.
The steamer Gaelic, from the Orient,
brought letters and papers xvhich con¬
tain accounts of the ravages of the
tidal 1V8V0 a mr rhe-xvmds, --£i*?*rtt!
towns xvere swept and blown axvay.
Fully 400 Europeans were drowned,
and it is estimated that nearly 0,000
natives perished. inland nearly
The sea at Samoa swept
a mile, destroying property valued at
several million dollars and causing
xvholesale deaths among the natives.
INDIGENT CUBAN-AMKRICANS.
Gen. Lee Says There Are 1,C07 in the
.Island.
Consul General Lee has mado a re¬
port to tho Secretary of State, in xvhich
he says there are 1,007 American citi
zens in Cuba dependentupon charitable
assistance, They have been partly
provided for out. of tho $.70,000 appro¬
priated by Congress. (leueral Lee says
that in making provision for tho relief
of these citizens more than $1,7:00 a
week must be expended. Ho has drawn
$'E,0 00 of tho sum appropriated, of
which txvo drafts for $5,000 each were
draxvn last month. He expresses the
opinion that a considerable tirno mnsi
elapse before the iudigeuts will be self
sustaining.
Visible Supply of Cotton.
Secretary Hester’s weekly statement
of the world’s visible supply of cotton
shows an increase compared xvith last
xvefck of 234,104bales, as compared with
last year as 230,3(53. He places the to¬
tal x isible at 3,445,51(5 hales against
2.211,33(5 last week and amount 3,G75,38J^last 3,45,526
year. Of the former
bales are American.
Not a Pipe of Peace.
At as Mount xf mint Sterling S»terI.n of Ky Kv JIB. J.»e Em- g
brey, a farmer, was shot and killed by
his tenant, L. A. fchu.l. iiiejquai
re ffid over a division of the tobc.o
co crop._____ ___ _____
y asr Death From Hydrophobia,
Tr rues t E^^sieker, a farmer, died
hydrophobia at the Baptist Sani
+ ar ; uu jYn St. Louis, Mo. He was bit
ten bv a a Q g iu September. His death
was iT j direct contradiction to the ropu
lar impression that death by hydropho
bia is always attended "ith
sufferings The ^^“ f^lv
Wk'like fUd no
a dog
. uot sul j er His one
a more for company than for
* *
Bryan Endows a College Piizw „ .
William J. f^ n
Missouri ^ a e essafon . ^
i - }* the
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r
Colonial Residence Burned.
A private telegram from
toQ coun t v . on the eastern shore
states that the handsome col
-j resiJeace 0 f Lieut. Edwin S.
Jaeob , pr. h N., retired, has been
to the ground. Lieut
estimates his loss at $75,000.
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ximO Piy * 1 heir DebK ' *„
The Secretary *, of tne . , neasuix „ rr uas ia
sued aa order that cierss receiving
stated salary must pay tneir debts
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TRADE REFORT.
No General Improvement, Says Brad
street’s Review.
Bradstreet’s weekly trade report for
the past week, says in part: ‘Not
withstanding the appearance of a de¬
mand for holiday specialties at some
points in the South, at Chicago. St.
Louis and in the tributary thereto,
general trade throughout the country
has shown no general improvement. the
Most favorable reports are front
territory west of the Mississipsii river
and north of the Missouri and Kansas,
where colder weather has stimulated
demand at the interior and country
merchants have been buying with com
p ara ti ve freedom,
“The Eastern cotton goods industry
continues depressed. Consumers eyi
dentlv do not intend to buy extensively t
uatil tbey be!ieve the price Competition of rav - co
ton is ready to advance.
from Southern mills—more particular!y who
overproduction by manufacturers
produce a single staple— and unueines the
existinf? Iarge stocks and
heaviness of prices? Converters
manufacturers of cotton yarns are sit
lines representing seasonable distribu¬
tion are manufacturers of woolens,
clothing, shoes and jobbers of fancy
groceries. At 1 ....... Philadelphia there * is a
check iu demand for products in lead¬
ing textile lines and arrangements Iron are
making to run on shorter time.
and steel have not been iu as active
demand as expected, and are lower,
notwithstanding furnaces and nulls are
supplied with orders sufficient to carry
them well into next year. A favorable
feature is found in advances in wages
of operatives in various industrial lines.
“There are 235 business failures re¬
ported throughout the United States,
compared with 235 last week. There
are i.T failures reported from the Do¬
minion of Canada, compared with 31
last week.”
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HENRY A. HICKS.
The newly elected General Master
of the Knishts of Labor is
A. Hicks, of Nexv York. Ibis
Mr. Sovereign the only past
workman iu the order of the
Labor. All others who have
(Li bisnfiHU cm th.V ex- —
from the order or died. Air.
has beon at the head of tbebudd
unions, connected with the Knights
Labor, for nearly ten years. He is
of tho State congress of dis¬
aud local assemblies of Nexv York
xvas a national committeeman for his
in the People’s party. Tho report
the secretary of the order of Knights
Labor shows the society to be in a
condition. The report of
betxveen the members and of¬
of tho order xvere strenuously de¬
but there seems to have been a
lively scramble for supremacy in
choosing of the nexv officers.
NEGRO BURNED TO DEATH.
lie Killed a White Man and Paid tha
Penalty on a LlghtxvoOrt Knot Pyre.
A special from Wilmington, N. C.,
say s that ou Thanksgiving Day, Nathan
Willis, a colored man living near Town
Creek, Brunswick county, xvas arrested
on the charge of murdering a young
white man by- the name of Stephens.
Stephens xvas found in the vicinity wound of
\Yample, N. C., xvith a gunshot
in the back.
A mob xvas raised by the farmers iu
the country near the Waccamcxv river.
Willis xvas takou from the sheriff', car¬
ried into the woods aud chained be¬
tween txvo pine trees. Lightivood xvas
then piled around him aud he xva3
burned to death, thus suffering death
to pay tho murder, penalty suspicion for his crime.
After tho at once
rested on the colored man who had
been seeu in neighboring communities
xvearing some of Stephens’ garments.
He had also been seeu driving tho ox¬
cart in xvhich the murdered man xvas
last seen alive, and H-D in money xvas
found ou his person, that, it xvas sup¬
posed. he took from his xTctiui’s pock¬
ets. The officers carried Willis to Con
xvay jail, Horry- county-, S. O.
Cuban Autonomy a Fact.
Madrid, Spain.—(By publishes the Gable}—-The royal de¬
Official Gazette
crees, granting autonomy to Cuba and
Porto Rico, thus removing the anxiety
that had begun as" to be experienced on
all sides tne result of the govern¬
ment’s vetieene* aud unexpla ned de¬
lay.
Dr. Doriand Dead.
Rev. Dr. Luke Doriand, of Hot
Springs, N.’ C.. founder of the Doriand
University, Hot Springs, died at the
home of his eon, Chas. J. Doriand, in
Springfield, Ill, aged 83 years.
8 |io\v in Nebraska.
Snow i* piling up in .Nebraska, and
great damasre to cattle is feared, as ice
covers the ground.
The Girafte Broke Its Neck.
The Atlantic Transport Company’s
gteamer Massachusetts, xvhich left Nexv
Yor k on November T' for London 1
carrying - as a mx^o tn- -.rt—. * pa.t t
Barn urn ana Bai*ey ^ menagerie ana
show ’ arrive., off Gravesend at tee
rnoiith of the Tuames on tue^Ith. u
ceil on tee first three Jars she had a
smooth t assage. A dispatch from
Gri;v ^ o „ d says tbat the giraffe died of
a broket; uei-k on t!:e night of the Gth.
j j, Rr horses, including Eagle, also sue
cuinbed.
LEASE CASE AT COLUMBIA,
Came Up On Questions of Contempt
and Was Removed to Special Master
Craige.
The Xortli Carolina lease case was
Judge Simonton at Columbia.
C., on the 23th. The proceedings
held upon the certifications of
blaster Craige, of the refusal
a number of witnesses to testify ai
the hearings had before him.
Hon. A. C. Avery, Capt. W. H. Day
and Col. Philip W. Avirett appeared
for the Governor and the North Caro¬
lina Railroad and ex-Secretarv John G.
Carlisle and Mr. F. H. Busbee for the
Southern Railway Company.
After a prolonged and bitter argu¬
ment by Col. A virett in favor of order
in" the witnesses to testify, and a brief
reply l>y jMcssrs. Busbcc hdu OstilisiG,
Judge Simonton held that it was impos¬
sible for him to pass upon the questions
of contempt and competency unless the
record of the whole case was before
him. He thereupon ordered the case to
be remanded, to Mr. Craige, who v.il
now hear the evidence ot the Southern
Railway, after which the parties charg¬
in'- fraud will be allowed to oner fui ther
evidence, and budge Simonton will
then hear the case. The deteuuants,
Russell and others, claim this as a vic¬
tor v, while the Southern Railway peo¬
ple are also reported as very well satis¬
fied. . ____
AX OUTRAGEOUS
A Negro Arrested for Stealing a Mule
Shot to Death by a Mol).
Jerry Johnson, a negro, xv as lynched
by a mob near Screven, Ga. He was
in charge of officers and was being taken
to jail at Jessup, A crowd of men rode
up to the officers and demanded the
prisoner. The negro was riddled with
bullets. Johnson had been arrested
for stealing a mule.
Usual Penalty for the Nameless Crime.
An unknown negro was killed bv.
lynchers near Blackshear, Ga. H 1S
bodv xvas riddled with bullets. TMe
negro outraged Miss Ilebie Davis, the
17-year-old daughter of Eli Davis, a
farmer living seven miles north o,
Blanckhear, while the xvas alone in her
home.
TOCO A LOO UNIVERSITY BURNED
A Negro College in Mississippi De¬
stroyed By Fire.
Fire broke out m the dormitory oi
the Tougaloo Negro University at
Tougaloo, Miss., and despite the he¬
roic xvork of the students, the builcungs
xvere < juickly burned to the ground.
The fire was first discovered in the
third story and is supposed to have
defective flue. f For¬
originated tunately the from students a xvere ail at piayei
meeting, so no olio was six'teachers injured, loi.y
three students and
their entire personal effects, ino
is estimated at .j?2u,000. The amount
insurance is uot kuo^ n, as
nil placed from the office of the
sionnry AsRociat! !i, niN exvYor _ .
BRYAN IN POLllICS FOR LIFE.
Whether He Shall Again Run for Of
lice is Unknown.
William Jennings Bryan intends tc
remain in politics until he dies. Noi
long a go it was reported that Mr. Bryar
was about to retire. Congressman
Gaines, of Tennessee, heard the story
and xvroto Mr. Bryan about it. Mr.
Bryan replied: “The’newspaper item
is uot true. I expect to remain in poli¬
tics all my life. Whether I .shall ever
run for office again, depends on cir¬
cumstances.”
FELL 105 FEET AND LIVES.
Is Only a Litile Iiurt-- V Painter’s
Experience at Keidsviilc.
The Ed ha Cotton Mills, of Reiusville,
N. C., is having its 12-5-foot smoke¬
stack repainted by a young man named
Colo, a professional stack painter oi
Greensboro. While engaged in this
xvork Cole lost his hold, near the top >f
tho stack, and fell a distance of IE feel
to the roof of tho boiler room. There
were no bones broken and ho seen: - :
be only a little hurt, saying he will gel
out aud finish the work.
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Convicted of Criwihaal Assault.
Frank, alias Dad Meine, has been
convicted at Newport, Ky.,of criminally
assaulting Mrs. Win. Gleason, October
6th, and sentenced to twenty years in
the penitentiary. CTuxtou and Greer
have previously received the same sen¬
tence for the same offence, and all will,
no doubt, receive twenty years each.
The defendants belonged to a gang
that insulted ladies, and the outrage
on Mrs. Gleason xvas such that lynch¬
ing xvas averted only by the transfer of
the prisoners to Maysville, Ky.
Found Guiity of Immorality.
A t Danville, Ya., the Methodist Con'
ference committee charged xvith. the
trial of Bev. AI. S. Watts, of Middle -ex
circuit, for immorality, made its report,
xvhich finds the accused guilty, and ex¬
pels him from the ministry and mem¬
bership of the Methodist church. Coun¬
sel for Mr. Watts gave notice of an ap¬
peal to the general conference.
The Middle of*thc-Readers.
The national organization committee
of *.he middle-of-the-road Populists
held a meeting in Ht. Louis, Mo.. and
gave out an address setting forth tho
chief features of the platform in the
next campaign; it will bold a meeting
in January and asks the People’s party
committee tq,meet with them.
To Print $48,000,000.
Assistant the secretary Director Yanderlip has
authorized of the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing Treasurer to print aud
deliver to^the L. S. m,m.
Sit,000,000: 1 >00 ', - a f n ^ lIo silver -T rs: certificates States $24,000,- notes
000: treasury Oi. §G,(k)0,000.
George Gould Advances Salaries.
It is announced from rt. Louis, 3Io ,
that -Uhrse as J. a Gcnld. Thanksgiving of prt Mr.
the Mi; i. a
{ j}x c railroad svstera has it;
a l along the line 1,1 • er c.^ns.
