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LMTiECEDENTED «
The Speed With Which Parlia
incut is Rush hit? Tilings.
Adjournment Expected Early in
August at the Latest.
Parcel Post Droves a Grand Succecls in
England The i’<»!>e Asks Hie ,
i!units if They wm Consider His Dosi
tion—Mali etna to Return to Samoa.
Various Other Foreign News Notes.
London, July „ 7.- rm the British t, ... i parlia- ,.
l lent is getting through its routine
business at an unprecedented rate
speed, and it is cofidently expected will
be prorogued this month or early in
August Lilis at the latest. All the
arc : dreadv passed or well in hand.
Darrel D.»t, , a sm‘o,,s ,» England.
London, July 7.-Tlie parcel post
pine; i s introduction in England luts
j roved a great success. The report of
the postal department just issued .shows
thr from 1,000.fi o parcels carried an
nually at first the business has increased
to 70.000.000 last year. The interna
tional parcel post is also extending rap
idly and now nearly every foreign coun
try is exchanging parcels as well as let
ters by mail with England. Mexico has
other just eor.ie into the arrangement and an
c.fort is being made to induce the
Touted States to do the same. America
and < ( >,ie< m,land are nmv ah ait the only
prominent itions exceptions among civilized
n to adopt the system.
The Decrease «.f Crime ill Ireland.
London. July 7.—-As indicating the
rapid .decrease in crime in Ireland
ing Judge Purcells statement in Go-;
tin* Limerick sessions
worthy of note. In iicknowledg
m while g til A : r-‘<; *ipt he expressed of another liis pair of
ti"-: tile p>ves almost complete gratifies
:! absence of
cri ciu the county, and said he now
luul so manv nairs of white gloves that
fie di in t know wiiat to do , with them.
1 1 m mj > v ,(
' July The coal pit St.
■ 7. at
7". i -tine, i l which the explosion of fire
i.amp oc -inred is still entire. Many
m “v bodies have been recovered, lint
the iiiirk is attended with great difficulty
a i 1 danger. The scene at the pit is
l;m ■ <>wi ,g. President Carnot lias or
• mv : measmes be at once taken
f the relief of the families of the dead
miners.
Fatal Fxpoi-imeiitins:.
BbuTjTn, July 7.—While making some
experiments with ether in the labora
tory of Dr. Koenig in Munster, 'West
pi i ilia Thursday, two of the doctors’ as
s.s..in's. Drs. Fricko and Boeinerhave,
were ether fatally injured Two by the bursting of
an retort. other physicians
and were will frightfully burned sight. about the face
lose their
rope ami tin; Powers.
Rome, July 7. — The pope has sent a
copy of his recent allocution to each of
the powers, asking whether or not they
tion J ' H;sd«^idr'a8 S to e ii?fiitiDv-S A
«™ .ho Jmtm-i) of the
1
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Tim siaro Ti -Itie Ab.iifshc l in Tripoli.
Bond, in, July 7. The governor of
Tvi Ji has issued a d-e.....Gr.oii.shing
toe. a.,. !m I -. and f-.rbi Iding any one
to on.Tige in it under pain of severe
penalties.
Am tiHM- Vic <> V for Ami'i ic...
Lono'-n. Julv 7. The Masseehusotts
Fine t...... won another victory i’hurs
day. defeating the Susse Yobm-eers*
ti a i at Brighton by a tot score of <J88
to 210.
VI" 1 Lie Collins Ni l i-i Dan
T Jul Tic y '• :'V tvu 1,at • ' ^ ° iv lni A . s
m> m danger o. dea a bv reason ot Ins -
latefi. jilnesA *' 18 :jot evyJi
imn lv ill.
OVER A HUNDRED P-OPLE INJURED.
A Giand Stand at a Knee Course Falls
H ‘li liv v a Thousand Persons.
Oklahoma Cn% July 5. The grand
sS.i.l ,1 -.1;,. tn«k (! ol]:,i„,C.l 3
. , , ye.Jerday . , afternoon, ... • • .
come... injuring
more than one hundred persons, nr my
frtally. One thousand people orowded
into tho Gaud wh n tho ho'-som-ame to
tk mi -■( MmIv. with.mt .in.'
,, '• "f, ,, l ...... " V ■ lov bui , "
' : iu, 7 ’
‘T- moil' ■ • ’ lU ■ 1U1US -
1 tne ouv ide _ spec utors
were p, “ 1 by the accident. Then,
ns the cries and groans of the wounded
tilled the air. t-hev rushed forward aud
bi 'rui tin'work of rescue. The victims
Wl l i > dr.; rged out aud carrie l to places
of i-aa-tv! or put in ambulances and sent
ii to own ; '• ( ,1 i XVade V -M the 1 eor-Mnandiiuf ' ,n
olive neve, sent *i tee miilfiirv and pli , s’
vsi
i-ioi; - :o the sei ne proiupjiv and gave
to,,!,!.; a -i l “
-fl,to;:7. of lh,> crmv.T fro,o .loath
r.'Mom, it
a «>• ! ’••• to !•:
A lle:«‘etive As as. Hated by !i Dald Knob
bar’s Soil.
Ox'ur. 51o., July 5.— Defective Jim
Eo]' was assassinated yesterday on the
Arkansas bor.ler by a young son of
Ytosh. Middleton, whom Holt murderod
n year ago. Middleton was a Bald Knob-
1 er. and wr.s arrested for shooting an
ctiler uh' uln r <4 the fraternity. He es
raped Holt from afraid jail, aud Holt followed him.
wa to arrest him, but wait
i- t until he got the drop on him and shot
him.
Mid Veton’s sons, aged 14 and 10,
swine that thev would kill Holt. The
Molt- vounmv one. now 15 vears ohl, wavlaid
yesterday mid shot him live times,
with a Wine'iester ritle. He then rode
a v»av. Pubhc opinion is on the boy's
bide.
SCIILEY COUNTY NEWS.
HEAVY RAINS.
I)o Great Damage in Tex.ss—In the Vicin
ity of Fort Worth Many are Drowned.
Fort Worth, Tex., July 5.—Several
inches of rain fell in this part of the
state yesterday, anil great damage has
resulted. Reports from the west show
aud heavy the rains Trinity for 200 miles. The Brazos
rivers are booming. At
Beubrook, twelve miles west, the bridge
of the Texas and Pacific, and 500 feet of
track washed away. The St. Louis,
Arkansas and Texas for two miles out is
submerged. Texas and the The Fort Missouri, Kansas and
Worth and Denver
j iaV(3 abandoned their train north. The
Texas and Pacific has abandoned trains
both oast, and west.
At Fort Worth the bottom lands to
tile north for two miles and to the east
for a mile and a half are submerged and
truck farms are gone. The Trinty rose
four and half feet in an hour, and the
dwellers on the low lands barely
caned. Richaidson City Martial 1 tinner Hlienff
and their entire force for
ie med nne the lecame a rescuing corps and
people na to the boats where winch they brought the
large city, are final
teioa in warehouses There are
n WOmCU aU<l ‘ 0hlldreU thus
ea, (G fim
H. Plume and sister are said to have
been washed away, and Mrs. H. S.
Bentlev and 1 atriex, her son, who
lived oil the Trinity, are missing and
said to be drowned. Their house was
cirried away. The river there is
miles wide, and alt the cabins and tents
are gone, ihe hit. Louis, Arkansas and
Texas operator last night received
message that the west fork of the Trinity
w as coming down with an eight-foot
vise, bix inches more of water and the
water works will have to be abandoned.
vv heat, oats, fruit and cotton are badly
1! °i
nn llie loss can hardly be computed, but
conservattve estimates place it as high
as $2, uOO.OOO. There is some fear for
the little villages along the Trinity
above Fort Worth, but there is no tele
graph linitive communication, and nothing de
can be learned. At 8 o’clock
this morning it was still raining heavily.
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SAD ENDING
nf Of „ n c Sunday „„ Iclmol Picnic Four Girls ,
—
anil , a Youth Drowned.
PiTTSBUr.o, July 5.—A sail accident
happened Street Methodist at the picnic of the Arch
Allegheny City at Episcopal Forest Grove church of
Pittsburg on the
aud Western railroad, yester
day ple afternoon, by which five young peo
were drowned. Their names are:
Jennie Burton, aged 18 years; May
Riv al, aged l(i years; Ida Cassiday,
aged about 22 years; Fannie McOomb, aged
18 years, and Bert Freeman, aged
20 years.
The five named, together with Edward
Shatters took an old barge and started
.oi a rule , on .. ,, oimaquessiug . creex. , ihe
saeam bai capsized, was ierv throw turlmleiiu, and
go ing the occupants
into the water, loung Shaffer succeeded
in went reaching down before the shore, but the other
assistance could reach
Cd o: tlie 1 ' 1- cd bu'idav ! ’ i vd school '^, lla ' s , v,, ’ ve l lived d'd members
an m
eiicii 1 , ji i. a heir bodies have not been
recoverett.
CHICAGO CUTT NG5.
Two Cases M Ut . sillt Fatally occur*
Vr,mn!ay Morning
- C “ ! gg'- -"".V Thmm, M
bv William Brooks, in the latter’s house
y„ , Wclwl^ r ,iir ,i. yetmlw , moS
b et We 1
p,.., u -. it is alle-md “has be Ih^kftindhm m ii Pa bn tod
wild Brook* wife and
him his at the aid house Dlnn‘*ed him‘in a k'n’fe into
Invest 1- alsiicut u.in m the me mce.
vi., , L, u.nn J . 1 man was - taiven to the
.
! Eroo. T hia wife a d>ing locked condiaon.
s an vvere up
| ^Despnunes •« ^ i > ison. sti-eet je.us station oui. go. imo
: -
nn‘ anu Maiket a H ‘‘f street a, , 1 uMo .,V ,uc emek :to' ,) Tester- l,V( ™' (!
I 'to; Lmnnng. ..nd \ias .atalh stabbed.
1 7 > iavt 'rffi u
. ai.cseo. . 1 . i.m same ciDwd only i a little
Mr. an,l ; Mrs. V' ' JIaAos. who live
, at 1.0
i ucag ) a,oime, cutting t.ie woman on
lac,u
1 RIOT AT WHEELING.
i:,e 1,,t,:o r ‘ lu ‘‘“ 1 of the CIt T R «*
V*HE i-mi-c:. Av T . Va., July 7.—There
Thursday was UI1 ,. xi ,7tiug time in the First ward
wiiite ni. fiit. A row occurred be
! tween and colored laborers on the
! C««-y inil-oa 1 tunnel, Uir.-u and a man nam,G
wm m..l UckS
I . luo oas t arpenter, colored, , till it is
tlmm-it lie cannot recover. The police
i men arrested ■ ‘arpenter. b it bed to fight
about 400 white laborers before they
could ta.ke him to jail. All the police
force in the city had to be called in bo
h"' l> the wot was finally quelled, aud
there *.s a possibility the trouble is uot
doueyot.
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Th,' ........... i-thmu*.
Pwwa f July 4 —The isthmus as
'
usual since tho sto]ipage of .. work j on flic ,,
! canal, jireseut-s no imw or striking feat
eves littL ivspeotimr ac:i?ifv work ,7 in.-ofi But there Xvi.,7 is
».n,o i,,
>«•..)»«, «wl to .'ll.vMi.g mil
!!“ l I' 11 1 1 r Vl> th 1U il1 8
Intnm j eon,lit oil for service wm u work
me‘el tostoommd-’i'ulvvl^-e^Vmmo -u ts eo. ml, *to ined t who 'e
tw..... Cnlon
. .....- . .................. o t
numerous there hard villages Iv along the canal line
are auv inhabitants at all.
PiciHrleil VVitn tlm Money.
New York, July 5.—Tlie offices of
Alfred Carr – C. nnpanv, bankers aud
brokers, No. 30 Pino street, were iu
charge yesterday. of a deputy ‘Carr sheriff all day long
iomers, Mr. 's erst while eus
who are sadly looking for some
$40,000 of vanished cusli, passed fro
quenfly iu in whiih an out. It is the ofd, old
story, the affable broker, S o
full of good nature and the knowledge
of the way prices were goivg. has .le
parted with tlie funds iutrus
INDORSING BY TELEGRLPH.
A Kansas City .Judge Decides That it
Holds Good in I.aw.
Kansas City. July 4. —Judge Phillips,
of the United States district court, has
prepared his opinion in the case of Gar
nett A. Garrettson against the North
Atchison bank, of Westboro, Mo., filed
at St. Joseph. The case involves the
question who indorses of the commercial liability of an indorser by tele
graph. James Tate, of Colorado, paper
posed pro
to buy of Iowa, of the Muscatine head of Cattle
company, 1,000 cattle
for $22,000. The cattle company, at the
time, owed the bank, and wanted it to
take Tate’s check on the bank for the
purchase of the debt. cattle They in payment telegraphed of the
company’s check
asking $22,000. it if it The would pay answered Tate's by tel
for bank
egraph: ‘‘Tate is check good; finally send fell on
JXitlle y Links , ” The x
of Garrcttson, but upon
ending Phillips it to the bank it was protested.
j m | ge holds that the accept
. mce G f the check as implied amounted in the
1)auks tele .o rndorsement, m phic message in
law to au and the judge
aecides that the bank must pay
plaintiffs the amount.
A City Hacking Against Unde Sam.
Baltimore, Julv 4.—A case which in
volves a conflict between the United
States law and a city ordinance came up
Letzerf a t a police station Monday. Emit
a mail collector, was arrested
Saturday afternoon for drivimr through
the Hanover market during market
hours, in violation of a city ordinance,
The street cars, however, are allowed
t,> to get pass the during market hours. certain In order mail
contents from a
box he bad to violate a city ordinance
leaving by driving his cart through the market, and walk- or by
jug to box, rendering a square away himself
tlie amen
able to the United States law, which for
bids collectors leaving their mail unpro
tected. The justice fined him $8.7b.
Fire ami Loss of Life.
Savannah, Ga., July 4.—Fire Mon
day night furniture destroyed A. J. Miller – Com
pany's house m this city. The
establishments of J. T. Cohen, dry
goods; Byek – M. Son, Sternberg, jewelry, and L. E.
burned. The total dry loss goods, building were also
on and
stock will amount to $150,000. While
the firemen were at work on Broughton
street on the front of the building, the
wall gave way and carried the firemen
with it, burying six of them under a
mass of hot bricks. J. T. Wehrs was
killed, and eight others were injured.
One or two may die.
liife In^uutuico Company Assign*.
Mojjile, Ala., July 5.—The Mobile
Life Insurance company has made a
general the assignment. No statement of
company’s condition was given out,
R m t there are 1,100 outstanding policies,
The mostly held of in Alabama and Mississippi,
cause the assignment was the
could maturing be of met. obligations This faster than they
is the last of the
eii hf ‘‘l.i 1 ? 8U r ““ < I e ,o“ n 2 ) alli ' ,s
in the south about i 1870-71, . and their
extinction is said to have been caused
by the great northern companies gradu
ally business. swallowing up the life insurance
Two Negroes Hanjed.
Quitman, Miss July 5.-Two ne
™
lor the murder of a negro named
John Iu\ 101 . A large number ot spec
ta JUU ?J n ' eu s c ^ i ltllssseJ oaiuv Piiuee execution tue s.-afiold iu the
on
Richard am
^ >L ' SlilUH | sto-al ““‘iitlie unconcern. i»o<R
last, but although the evidence against
them was purely circumstantial, there is
not the remotest doubt of their guilt.
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mcachia* Explode*.
Lyons, Iowa, July t.—About 5:30
o’c.ock Tuesday evening an immense
upright Lyons iron steam-bleaching vat in the
paper null exploded, hurling a
? 1<n-tlou llv ' tank 100 feet m the air.
The .southern and largest portion of the
building will is a total wreck. The McBride damage
reach $15,000. Thomas
and Alex. Hart were instantly lulled.
James Cadahan, another workman, was
baalv seal,led. but will recover. Several
otners were slightly injured.
C XUOi xvhv ’ lit- ’ Y h' lionevmoon “ tv** l i sh—t - ik. D nines
d^y , evening . trank L rings, bookkeeper
hjl .Jvnowlson so - l n ‘ !U Kefiy, “ ) and Miss tue ,msie i:\sfc
R r
p
7 11 ./ph ‘ L . Jfij i\i nnij, fjG ine\ FTG li.mincu •
t° that ., . city, but i„ w reported that the
e ‘ fc hwddmily A or pan-s unknown
' r morning, it having been dis
em l ’° v< P Ao j ',} 3 erR nlt “ e ' va « a dexiiulier to his
*__
i’.o»t strung bv L.'giitnin;.
New Orleans, July 4.—A Murmur
Cit. - .special states that on Friday last
while George Alden, A. Ferriouo ’Proud
PmHinsaml Ambrose Hiner. a party of
bTd ohu hunters nuim is, wme «•**'•<« amaiil .iboanJ Hull tbGi- Inggei L
*V --"-yi ls.aud. tue boat was struck by
lightning A,nl,,-o i.„„mtly during a thunder storm, and
t ,. kilM I Alton »ml
7 J ’ i!!'’kliokC't i! .M' T],T
111011 8 bo ^^ercd with bruises.
xvr.ok.d by a Dig itock.
Seitark. O.. July 4.-4 heavy rain
storm Monday evening washed a big
nx;k mit m 11 °' !t tIl( ' i^oi-Handle
throwing eleven off the s«
causing di cars track and
a a trims wreck. The road
is blocked both ways. Tho only man
<m The the damage train jumped is to save Ins life.
to cars heavy.
... Z * . v llh . n 7.77,7 KlUin S s«v. . n M-n.
« T L?m*. July m-I our
Jo T , {’'fitohs ’ aud Buvroll Brown, brothers, negroes,
iV, " GiUespie, a brodier-m-law of
tl ‘ ,j ,AV t.ie r< V killing l f/JV stcu to ] K ’ smen rc ^ l!<ll, whue ««
n \ r "Glen not a.Yanon, Lon
V s 0 oeU * ‘ 111 November.
CLAUDE DIXON f EUGENE DIXON
^ W ks? a
AND
r "V‘-;
•GWS
WE KEEP EVERY THING USUALLY FOUND IN A COUNTRY STOKE, AND SELL
AS LOW AS THE LOWEST. HIGHEST CASH PRICES ALLOWED FOR COUNTRY
PRODUCE. WE SOLICIT YOUR PATRONAG B
jt
0
—.-Dealers in:—
EJ
LOj £221
-
jywE KEEP ON HAND ALMOST EVERY THING TO SUIT THE TRADE. BESipESA
FULL LINE OF GROCERIES, WILL BE FOUND, HATS, SHOES, CLOTHING, ooFFINS. CAS.
KETS. FURNITURE. ETC., AND WILL SELL GOODS AS CHEAP AS ANY MERCHANT IX
SOUTH WEST GEORGIA. SOLICITING TRADE, IT IS OUR 01UEC7 10 t LLAc-L ALL, ANI)
GIVE VALUE RECEIVED FOR YOUltMONEY.
MURRAY – WILLIAMS,
Ellaville, Ga.
J y n'sm qMIW
<5
ELLAVILLE, GA.
Dealer in
) Lj Lj )
°n \ CS e
f mam* amts,ui V/ a£2 CD)
fancy goods, notions, etc.
CF; Also, Perfumery, Toilet Articles, School Books, and Stationery. ^£73
STARTLING STATEMENTS.
Plenty of Squealers in xlio Cronin Mur
der Case.
Chicago, July 5.—The Tribune says:
There is nothing new in the Cronin
case is the phrase at police headquar
tors and among the underlings at the
state attorney’s office. But this is not
true. There is more news daily crop
ping up than at any time since the in
vestigation was commenced. State's
Attorney Longeneckcr’s office is bes leg
ed by squealers. They are at the crimi
rial court building from early morning
until until late late at at night. nighfi Mr. Mr. Longenecker Longenecker
lfeton. to them. »nd ,-heu he rind, they
lu ‘ ss ^ •• They -UR .1 ffil illi 1 give ve eviMeuce e\i a...ct. as as to to
the moral guilt of xuicaacl Davifct’s pro
tege evidence what would surprise Dav
itt himself. But tne most‘important
statement yet made has reference to an
attempt at alibi in behalf of Alex. Sul
t; V)in
* ’
m. I ie story . and , tuere ,, . half
dozen goes, are a
men to authenticate it, that Will
iam J. Elliott, of Columbus, O., who
lived for a few months in Ciiicago in
1882, and who now called publishes Snndky a paper in
Columbus, O., tho Capi
tul, visited Alexander Sullivan
time ago, and afterward visited a man
named O’Cailaghau. living at Joliet,
This O'Callaghan, it is smcl, agreed to
go to London and to swear before the
Parnell commission that he is the man
who conducted Le Caron into the Clan
na-Gael organization. Le Caron swore
before the Parnell iiommission that it
was Alexander Hullivan who inducted
hto into the Lo Cm-.,n-vko S w,m,
that he knew Sullivan lor eleven vears
before, and that Bulhvan was the son of
a British soldier and pensioner living at
Out.
Ifc L \ °! oousefiuenee to the de
bm.bu.t, . in lli.y .um-H oomyiWjn isbo
latroiluced Lo Caron into the Clan-no
Gael society, but it is of some import- Ironi
mice for Sullivan to free his skirts
tlie blame of association with Le Caron,
Callaghan7s testimony would, it was
thought, ^“ ' go far towards accomplishing
,s - r dliam t ! expiana!ion it may be said that
J. Elliott alluded to is a
\r°' iei * m *‘ in ' V ,l tmuiglo ],I( agent
okumG ,‘ IH .'V V-J l \ C!imu to
o,‘V i <n ..u,. ah G..Laglian ,, Mr.
»fixfilmati, the district member of
Clau-na-Gael in fi.fi
Every ^vuv son son and ami broPmr Inot.iei i>,i--e-i nt.v • l up j in , fi.m thw
^ ”
C»mpStt of :l.o Clan-na-Guol, had n
haU its Fridar was ' ou\r n/gl,fc tilS
use on one of each
■'*«««>- ' Wr otoo" of tho
Ci «»R has b e:i a matter that has
tho polne In one of Wood
c!“ ihist 1 s.
bl ° colll, ‘l’ °i Market and division
Greets. He also claimed that he met
Alexander ,Sullivan there. The police
ve received information that the mnr
(lerous , tribunal met at that place. The
I auilys ilcn.i it, however, and say that
no mee.mgH of winch they did not know
the object wero ever held in this place.
Wheat In Indiana.
Rushville, lad.. July 5.— Tlie wheat
crop in this section of the state will be
allot e the average. Tho grain is unusu
ally fine.
TOO MUCH RED TAPE.
The Relief for Johnstown Not Properly
Handled.
Johnstown, Pa., July 7.—The Chi
eago people have become indignant
about the delay in the sending of their
relief money to Johnstown, and through
Mrs. Dr. Dickinson have asked Mrs. Dr.
Francis S. Jerome to tell the needs of
Johnstown. In a letter of reply Mrs.
Jerome says that unless the people are
given outfits of their own they will be
mimed and wrecked forever. Their
inoral characters arc fast being lost from
* manner ...............‘ of living 1 ........... and tim state
re
«n> too .ulatory n, their
tho P eo P l0 «*-« il J ors ?
condition , than a weex after tho flood,
as they could not then realize their sita
alien Young gu-is are being rained
mid children are running wild She
*«*<«>'*■' suggested t.ie establishing of day
She asks that the Chicago
committee entrust to her the $150,000
now in Chicago, and she will beper
sonaliv will responsible for its distiii ionaiiTS mtion,
and give New York mil
her bond She savs that if the state
does not interfere with red fane, she can
house and home every family m the vul
ley Col inside of ten days.
ing Douglass, chief engineer, in clear
the debris of the Couemauffii vallev,
has resigned, hjs work being almost
completed, and he is not furihemee
Gen. Hustings has oYtovd ail con
tractors to withdraw Saturdav The
general will then turn allthe work over
to one contractor. The heads of depavt
incuts will return occasiona’.iv to look
after the work, and Gen. Hastings will
be hero a ,v lw k.
Cholera morbus in its worst form is
prevalent attended here. Lu.-t nichtDr Foster
tlie ovi-v one hundred cases among
workmen. Early Tiiursdav movn
ing Gen. Hastings and Col. c.gSi.t Douglass
nvre »trick, m .lo,™ vriUi the
and are confined to their bed The
the physicians say the disease is caused bv
continued wet weather. Tents and
contents have been soaking wet for tho
past three days. Except in the cases of
Col. Douglass and Gen. Hastings the
sickness is not serious. It will require
two or three days to bring the general
and colonel out of the kinks
nelb. Eariy Thursday morning John Don
drunken an employe stnoor o; the morgue, in a
...l,.,,,,;., lav down on the : Penn*
l i.,. V 1 «-oue bridge aud ,
U wont . to . sleep. , Ar tram cut off
passing *“V'
KhtaL' ’“a Jo
S,Sg damaged, toS ^^mS'wlS
wa, flood. from going feoug out wi h the
Three Negroes Drowned.
Birmingham, Ala., Julv 5. Tlireo
negroes sinking were drowned by the accidental
of a ferry boat at Hatcher’s
ferry, night, on tho Tallapoosa river. Sunday
and five other persons naiT'iwly
down escaped. the Homo river of them drifted a mile
cued. before they were res
Not Guilty.
iu Charleston, the H. C., July 7. Thejmy
case of John Widr, a factor ' op
erative on trial for the murder of Will
iam Munzormarer, Thursday fulfilled
public diet expectation by returning u ver
of “not guilty. ”