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WASHINGTON, D. C.
MOVEMENTS of the president
and his advisers.
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Of
Tuesday the Secretary of the Treasury
warrants in payment of $16,000 .
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The President, r, • i $ on Monday at ^ appointed • f i
Augustus J Ricks to be judge of the
district court for the northern district of
Ohio. He is a prominent lawyer of that
sl»te.
Secretary Windom haa rejected the of
fer to compromise judgment against Holy
Trinity Church, of Hew York city, for
the violation of the alien labor contract
law, and the case will go to the Supreme
C'ourt. The Secretary’s action is based on
the advice of the Attorney General.
Corporal Tanner department presented a demand
to the $16,500,000., treasury of the Wednesday
for out amount ap
propriated lor pensions for the fiscal year
1301). It is understood that most of this
money will go to the payment of pen
sions due in June, but for which there
was no money available.
On Monday, First Assistant Secretary
Chandler, in the contest for the posses
sion of a tract ot land in the Gainesville,
F!a laud district, between Senator
Wilkinson Call, and a colored man
uamed Robert Swain, decided adversely
D Senator Call. The case has been
pending in one form or another for many
vears, and there have been several de
cisions in it—one by Secretary Teller,
in favor of Swain, and a subsequent one
nf Spnitnr : fioll 1
Iladje llnasiin G _. loo y va , in, T , ersian .
minister to the United States, will shortly
leuve this country for Europe In an in
terview lie states that he would not come
back, and that he had been driven out of
the country by unkind and ungenerous
ffimgs which have been written about
him and his sovereign in American news
papers He nas a large volume of news
paper cuppings which have offended him.
fie has speaks resigned mind has official position and
now Ins as a private citizen,
which he could not do as long as he was
minister. He says Ins action is an ex
passion o p< TiOim ee mgs.
The President made the following . ap
pomtments Monday: A. Lowden Snow
den, of Pennsylvania, to be minister res
ident and consul general of the United
States to Roumania, Servia and Greece;
William Hayden Edwards, of Ohio, to
he consul general of the United States at
Berlin; Augustus O. Brown, of Rhode
Island, to be consul general ot the United
States at Rome; Eugene Schuyler, of
New York ffi be agent and consul gen
eral ot the Lmted States at Cairo. Io
be consuls of the United States—Wallace
Bruce, of New York, at Leith; William
Hairison Bradley, of Illinois, at Nice;
Edmund B. Fairfield, of Michigan at
Lyons; Irving J. Manatt, of Nebraska,
at Athens; William Bowen,of Kentucky,
at lieu 1 sin; Adolph G. Studer, of Iowa,
at Barmen ; Enoch J. Smithers, of Dela
ware, Osaka aud Hioga; Alexander C.
Moore, of West Virginia, at St. Thomas;
Charles F. Johnson, of Ohio, at Ham
hurg; Silas C. Halsey, of New Jersey, at
bouneberg.
WORKINGMEN ADDRESSED.
THEY ARE CALLED UPON TO STRENGTHEN
AND SOLIDIFY THEIR RANKS.
An address was issued from Pittsburg,
Pa., to the working people of America,
on all the Tuesday, signed by representatives of
ia declaration leading labor organizations. It
a for peace, which is, per
haps, very significant in view of the con
tests which have been urged during the
past year between the Knights of Labor,
American Federation of Labor, and other
labor organizations. The address says
that differences of opinion and matters
of detail in methods for the improvement
°t the laborer’s condition hive been
roagnified by interested parties into con
h'tts of the moit beligerent and warlike
n aUire. All labor organizations are
ca.,ed upon to put forth renewed efforts
to strengthen and solidify their ranks,
(u >d to leave nothing undone to make
? . society the power for good that it
18 ^tended to be.
floods in china.
TJiesteamer batl Francisco City Rio DoJanieroarrived
y okohomaon from Hong Kong and
one of the Monday, and reported that
most distructive rainstorms
the history of Hong Kong occurred on
huh and 30th, The total rainfall
? r tair (y-three hours was 21)j inches,
"tie time the fall measuring nearly
enree inches per hour. Hong Kong
P er * do not venture estimate pa
® priVate to the loss
oies, property, such as residences,
088 etc., but places the estimate of
to public property at $200,000.
. fcely a house within a area of thirty
iwci square miles did not suffer. All the
)at s aud t-treets in the colony
t rneii into wore
SS* and dwellings mud-heaps, and innumerable
■ ives were flooded. Fif
the are known to have been lost
CI i steamer sailed.
fSUSPICTOUS TAT.
T* Lt T ;r l' ardli P—What would you do,
1 tm d look i G • von n Dn dollar bill <
ft lt , at it pretty sharp t O SCO
Was a counterfeit
SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS.
A FRIGHTFUL plunge.
m entire train DITCHED, CAUSING
TERRIBLE A
LOSS OF LIFE.
A fearful accident, by which large
a
tumtel of peoplI'injur'S Jd witem So»d
the Norfolk at
Tuosd aj morning, thirty
taia J s oltto Jm
twenty-lour hours. Several trains had
P–SScd over tha road during the night
md it wa8 thought that the line was wfe
f or traffic, notwithstanding the rains,and
that no danger need be apprehended.
At the place of the accident, however,
the water had undermined the road-bed,
»ud caused a waffiout about eighty feet
long and fifty feet wide. The water at
that point was eight to ten feet deep,
Into this watery gulch the engine made
a der frightful and eight leap’, cairyiug with it the ten
cais. As the engine struck
the bottom the boiler explod. d. This
^ lct greatly augmented the catastrophe,
Debris was thrown in every direction by
ihe force of the explosion, injuring some
°f those on the train by flying fragments
and scattering fire-brands, which ignited
Die wood work of the coaches. The
spread and destroyed a large
amount of mail and express matter,
csidcs causing a pauiio among the
already terror-stricken passengers.
The most reliable estimate places the
min ? bei ' of persons killed between twen
t 3 dlve and thirty. The number of
v ' ouadc d will be far in excess of the
numb ^' r kuled - Thirty of the wounded
Huloidsville, ^cc'i jaknn and to fifty Roanoke, to Liberty. thirteen Major to
Lynchburg T * ^ Cassell, superintendent of the
division ^ of Norfolk and
Western, was on the train and was se
riously injured, as were also Baggage
master kor d and Captain l Rowland
J()hu g tov , vho wag iu ch of tbu t ,, ain
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A relief train was made up at Lvnchburg
iate in the afternoon to go to the scene
of the wreck aud a num ber 0 f physicians
wenfc dowu ou it to do what they could
to aid the wouaded . Tbe Norfolk and
Wosteru Newspaper people absolutely refused to al
lcw any men aboard the train,
and several who got on,despite-of orders
t0 the d colltr also ary, were pit off. The rail
roa men refused to give " out any in
formation ia re2ard to tb wreck .
The following are known t0 bekilfM;
Pat Donovan, engineer; U. E. Bruce, fire
mail) A. M. James, road foreman of
engines; M. S. Bruce, mail agent; S. W.
Lipsey, train dispatcher, Roanoke; Will
Hopkins fi express messenger. Passengers;
D e n } s Mellon, of Roanoke; Win. A.
g^venson, 0 f Cleveland, Tenn ; C. W.
g teed Cleveland, Tenn.; Will F. Mar
sball of Cleveland, Tenn.; John M.
Hardwick, of Cleveland, Tenn. .The
fas; uamed three were bound for the
Pari s exposition. Nathan Cohen, of
Roanoke, bound for Germany; James F.
Rose of Abingdon, Va.; Pattie Carring
ton, of Texas, aged nine years; John
Kirkpatrick, of Lynchburg, Ya. There
were about thirty peo le who es
caped wltb oldy 8 [ig t injuries,
and ten wbo ar0 seriously injured.
^Tie lijst of the dead will be increased as
friends of mi-sing people come for
ward bl soaT ch of them. There is nc
way at present to ascertain the exact
number of the dead owing to the fact
tbat n 1(j eu tire train was destroyed by
flre< Tbe superintendent of the railway
mail service received information from
Postal Clerk Summers that tha postal
car was burned and all mail matter, in
eluding three registered pouches, w r aa
destroyed.
DAMAGING STORM.
FIVE FEET OF WATER IN TIIE STIiKF.T-S OF
A PENNSYLVANIA TOWN.
A heavy rain-storm passed over Holli
daysburg.Pa., V\ ednesday night,causing a
great flood. The Juniata river rose rap
idly, and by midnight the water stood
fifteen feet above low water mark, and
only two feet lower than the flood of
of water, and many people had to leave
their houses. Stores, iron mill and
houses on the river bank were all flpoded,
and truck gardens and farms in the sur
rounding country badly damaged. Sev
end new country bridges and much fenc
ing were carried away. The temporary
bridge over the J uniats, at Willi unsburg,
was destroyed. The mills of the Portage
iron works, at Duncanville, were flooded
and the fires put out The water was
higher at Duucauvillo than in the flood
of May 31st last, and a river live feet
deep rushed through and destroyed the
main street of the town.
A MOCK MARRIAGE v
FOUND TO BE GENUINE--CONSEQUENT
TROUBLE OF THE PARTIES.
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Mr. J. Fletcher Marcum, of Ottles
burg, and. Miss Laura Duke Smith, of
fflft " '“»“out g S,
and the county clerk were amoug the
guests. After awhile some one suggested and
a mock marriage, and Mr. Marcum
Miss Smith volunteered to be tho bride
and bridegroom. Tbe county clerk was
>ppealcd to and made out thc license,
$nd tho minister performed tho oox*
Nothing more thought oi
the affair until it was mentioned to a
lawyer, who declared that the marriage
was a legal one. This view is accepted
tis correct, and the make-believe bride
tnd are intensely distressed.
To add to the complication, Mr. Marcum
was engaged to an estimable gpung lady
of Ashland. The oourts will have to bf
append tp fqr relief* —.—•
FIENDS OF WAR.
Terrifying Effect of the Scream
of a Shell on Soldiers.
To Be Struck by a Shell Meant
Total Annihilation
There is something terribly menacing
in the ping of a musket ball, as it cuts
the air above the heads of men in line
—something to try the nerve3 of the
bravest in the rush of a solid shot, but
of all the devils in war the scream of a
shell is the wickedest. A bombshell
flies with a long “w-o-u-s-ht” some
thing like the rush of a big skyrocket,
and there are shells used by the light
artillery which fly with a sort of long
drawn sigh, not at all terrifying, But
the man who hears the scream of a Whit
worth shell will never forget the sound
to the day of his death. It is a concen
tration of the war-whoop of an Indian
—the snarl of a tiger—the scream of a
woman in mortal terror. It begins afar
off with a muttered threat of vengeance ;
jt S rows U P 0U lhe ear with a howl as of
wolves in pursuit of the lone traveler; it
comes nearer with shrieks of baffled
rage; it is at hand with a scream which
can be likened to nothing but the cries
of a mob mad for death and destruc
tion.
I have seen a dozen men killed by
these Whitworth , shells, andlvenlybe
lieve that most of them were so terrified
by the sounds that they suffered noth
ing in the moment of death. One could
tell, after a few experiences, whether
the shell was in the direct line or to the
right or left, but the coming ever
b , ™ught a feell »g °f helplessness-a
sort of dumb terror which held the
Jim bs captive 1 One could not have run
away had he so desired; but where
could one run to? Who could say just
where these terrors would fall after their
fljght—the ° instant they were to ex
P* ode and send thoir fragments hither „
and thither to search out and claim
their victims?
While the blockadm lay off the
mouth of the Cape Fear River two or
three of the Whitworth guns were in
constant use by the Confederates. They
had a range ° of six miles, ’ anl were al
most . accurate riflei ^ henever
as as - a
blockader ventured in within range by
daylight * she became a target for a Whit
j wortu - If « the the win wind was off shore we
could hear one of the “devils” almost as
soon as it left the muzzle of the gun.
]ts fli , rht b an with a shrie k of fiendish
j glee, changed to a moan of agony, rose
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j to a scream for vengeance, and the last
'■ quarter of a mile was a combination of
scream and shriek which brought the
hair on end and the cold chills to th':
spine. The man who pretended net to
hear them was a base hyp oeute. The
man whose ears can take iu those sounds
without affecting his nerve does not live
to do battle. Our vessel was struck two
or three times, and on five or six occa
sions had close calls, but the shells
which struck were no more terrifying
t ban those which dropped into the water
■ itb tbe b f
j s9 0 a m0QS ter serpent a
I hundred feet away.
j To be killed by a shell bursting at tbe
jnstant of contact means more than death.
J be It means affected such iu complete no other annihilation manner on as earth can
j except by the exjfiosion of gunpowder or
** » , \ Thc may see a
; bear but
or a roar, it must come in
| the fiftieth part of a second. The ven.
geance of man grants him the merest
iota of time. Those to the right and
left see a flash of flame and hear an ex
plosion and the “ w-h-i-n-gl ” of frag
ments, but the victim—perhaps the man
( bis immediate right and left—has
on
boen blotted off the face of the earth, as
if he had never existed. When the roar of
battie has died away to a low growl;
when thc growl has become an occasional
mutter; when the mutter has lapsed to
I a gasp, in which a man in blue or gray
y i e i ds U p his life to a stray bullet, we
w jjl make a search. Thero is blood on
the parched E r„ hit, o, burned doth
ing on limb and bush, a lock of hair
bere al) d there with a bit of scalp at
tached. We may find a button or two,
broken and twisted . gun^barrel
a or
b n VOn et, tho visor of a soldier’s cap.
‘ . g ^ These are the relics—the
fragments—of a soldier struck by a
shell. That is, they may bo. Some
time8 no t even a button is found, noth
ing hut a splash on the earth to show
that blood and . r fragments . / fell n there,
The fastest train in England is drawn
by a throe-cylinder locomotive.
Belies of Mound Builders
To men of scientific research in
Indiana, parts of Decatur County, lying
about twenty miles east of Columbus,
Ind., are most interesting. There are
in that county a number of mounds, the
work of the mound builders. They are
of large size and of peculiar shape, and
are supposed to mark the burial places
of members of that extinct race. The
most remarkable mound in the group is
located on the farm of Orlando Miller.
It has been considerably explored, and
a rare collection of historical relics found
buried in it. Among other discoveries
made during the excavation was the
unearthing of several skeletons. The
latter are of largo size, the lower bones
measuring six inches longer than those
of an ordinary man of this age. This
would indicate that the height of the
men of that race was about eight feet.
A very large and peculiar shell was also
found in the mound. It is valued very
highly as a relic. The State Academy
of Science has arranged to spend several
days in exploring the other mounds of
the county during the summer, and
some interesting discoveries are ex
pected.— Chicago Ilcrald.
A Few Facts About Oranges.
Few persons, even orange-growers
themselves, are aware of tlie various
sources of profit that may be obtained
from an orange orchard outside of the
sale of the fruit. A New York chemist
has stated to an Eastern praper the result
of his observations in Southern Europe,
and mentions the following processes as
there in vogue: Extracting by pressure
orange peel oil (oil Portugal), prrico per
ounce, £2; distilling Heroly oil, pier
ounce, $4; distilling falling green fruit
oil, per pound, $4; distilling^leaves oil,
per pound, $2; preparing wine, per
gallon, 50 cents; preparing citric acid,
pier pound, 50 cents; preparing dry
orange flowers, per pmund, $4; preparing
orange blossom pomade, per piound,
$2.50; pirepiaring orange-flower water,
per gallon, $2.50. Of eourse some of
the processes require the use of ma
chinery, but from the high prices pre
vailing of some of the products this cost
would soon be repaid. When low prices
for the fruit obtain, orange-growers
might, by employing some or all of the
processes mentioned, render their emp
much more valuable .—Fresno (Cal.)
Expositor.
Flax as a Profitable Crop.
The United States Department of Ag
riculture has lately received from Ireland
an argument iu favor of flax as a profit
able crop upon land which will no
longer grow wheat to advantage, This
suggestion is reinforced by a communi
cation to the New York Tribune , de
scribing a-new process for retting flax
and hemp, by means of which it is
claimed that the fibre can be obtained
without the delay, expense and de
terioration inseparable from the old
method. “We have no independent
knowledge,” states thc Tribune, “of the
value of this discovery, nor of the ac
curacy of our correspondent’s statements,
but we have no doubt that the subject
is worth patient investigation, The
new process is said to have approved
itself already in several countries of
Europe, and the promise is held out that
establishments capable of taking all the
flax and hemp likely to be offered dur
ing the coming season will be in opera
tion here next fall.”
When Spaniards Have Suffrage.
There are elections in Spain, but uni
versal suffrage is not dreamed of. The
franchise is peculiar. A Spaniard, t
vote, must be of age,domiciled 25 years,
contributing 25 pesetas ($5) as a real es
tate tax,and double that as an industrial
tax. Politicians in power do not try to
increase voters, but to diminish their
number. Madrid, with 400, 000 popula
tion, has an actual register of 12,000.
All parish priests, and their curates,
members of academics, and ecclesiasti
cal chapters can vote.
Very Aristocratic.
“I have been trying for years to be as
thoroughly aristocratic as you are, my
dear. ”
“Yes, Amelia.”
“Well, I’m about to reach the achme
at last.”
“Ahl”
“Yes. Thc doctor says I have symp
toms of the gout.” — Time.
Crushed Again.
Miss Lovelorn: 4 4 Did you mean that
as a smile at me?”
Old beau: “No, my dear; it was a
twinge of thc rheumatism.”
The Silver Lining.
Above my head, beneath my feet
The black clouds roll in fury by;
I glance as far as eye can see,
And naught but storm clouds fill my sky
No ray of light, no sunbeam shining—
No glimmer of a silver lining.
About my soul and on my heart,
The shadows fall in silence gr in,
The murkey clouds have filled my brain,
And left my wearied vision dim.
My soul in grief and woe repining,
Can see no gleaming silver lining.
Clouds of the past but roll away,
To let the present gloom appear;
While future years rise dark and stem
With threatening cloud heads far and neat;
The hand of fate my lot designing,
Obscures the blessed silver lining.
Roll on dark clouds with grief oppressed!
Thy vaporing mists must pass away.
The soul bears but its destined load
Of sullen sorrows day by day.
Borne welcome breeze thy mists entwining,
Must yet disclose the silver lining.
—Lurana W. Sheldon.
HUMOBOUS.
Consumptive’s early stage—A hack.
Were the dead languages talked to
death?
Nature’s serial story—The spinal col
umn, continued in our necks.
“I should re-mark,” said themerchan
when the price of goods wont up.
The frontiersman who shot an Indian
corpse didn’t know it was Lo-dcad.
The man who made himself a new tilo
out of fur was fur-tile in resources.
When the “shrill music of the shells”
is spoken of, is a bomb bard meant?
i l Only a hew and cry,” said the boy
who sliced his foot with a broadaxe.
When a man goes out for a “spin”
on the road he should use a “topi” bug
?y
To use the language of gushing youth,
the very perfection of the beautiful is
the smile which now adorns the face of
the seaside hotel keeper.
YYiung Lady—Mr. Conductor, will I
have time to say good-by to my friends?
Conductor—Guess not, miss; tbi3 train
leaves in two hours and a half.
A lawyer's life is full of trials and
tribulations, but he manages to make
money out of the trials and leaves noth
ing but the tribulation for his clients.
Mr. Softleigh (approaching the point)
4 4 The sentiments I bold toward you,
my dear Miss Keene, are so tender that
I cannot express them I” Miss Keene—
“Then you might send them by mail.”
Pupil—“ Teacher, kin me an’ Bill go
an’ git a pail o’ water ?” Arkansas
Schoolmaster—“There you go again.
How many time3 have I got to tell you
that it ain’t good grammar to say me an*
Bill?” Pupil—“What orfc I to say?”
Teacher—“Bill and me. Can’t I never
learn you nothing.”
When in the orchard Robin sings,
When in the meadow springs the grass,
Tis time for cucumbers aud things
And tender “garden sass.”
Spring vegetables glad the heart;
Oh! they are welcome ever;
A zest to life do they impart,
And purify the liver.
“Are those our men?” asked Major
Pitcairn, as a squad of soldiers ap
proached along the road near Concord.
“No, sir,” replied Colonel Smith.
“They are minute-men.” General
Washington believed tbat it was to this
that the British defeat may be attribu
ted.
A Plentitude of Meals in Russia.
The Russian eats on an average once
every two hours. The climate and cus
tom require such frequent meals, the di
gestion of which is aided by frequent
draughts of veilki and tea. Vodki is
the Russian whi-ky, male from potatoes
and rye. It is fiery and colorless and is
generally flavored with some extract like
vanilla or orange. It is drunk from
small cups that hold perhaps half a gill.
Vodki and tea are the inseparable ac
companiments of friendly as of well of
business intercourse in the country of
the Czar. Drunken men are rare. Rus
sia and Sweden are the only countries in
which the double dinner is the rule
When you go to the house of a Russian,
be he a friend or a stranger, you are at
once invited to a side table, where salted
meats, pickled eel, salted cucumbers,
and many other spicy and appetizing
viands, are urged upon you with an im
pressiveness that knows no refusal.
This repast is washed down with fre
quent cups of “vodki.” That over, and
when tlio visitor feels as if he had eaten
enough for twenty-four hours, the host
says, “And now for dinner.” At the
dinner table the meal is served in
courses .—New York Star.