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ScMey Coin Bows. —PUBLISHED EVERY WEEK AT— ELLAVILLE, GEORGIA. The flow of Northern and foreign capi ial into the South and Southwestern aec tions is increasing. Tlu» effort to make tobacco a staple crop in iVrrida is beiwg continued on a larger acreage and with apparent success. Herbert Spencer estimates the parlia mentary or “lobbying” expenses of En glish railway companies at $260,000 per annum...... ..... A private 1 soldier says J that desertions from the army are largely due to the tyranny of the younger officers and the drunkenness of the older ones. During the last ten vears Americans have contributed $20,000,000 ’ to relieve suffering caused by disasters and epi demies. Not such a very bad record, observes the New York Tribune. “For every five girls 6 you put into busi offices, ,, New Yorker, jl , ness says a “you will make three old maids. They will be appreciated for their work just as boy s are, but they will lose the influence of their sex over men.” The most versatile American has been discovered at Mosherdale, Hillsdale Coun ty, Mich. He is a regularly ordained . preacher, but also practices medicine and surgery, has proved his ability to gain a living as a cabinet-maker, and is a skill ful draughtsman, surveyor and fruit gar dener. United States Consul Mason, of Mar seilles, writes to the State Department that the effects of general and unre Btrained absinthe-drinking in France are now reoegnized as forming a basis of one of the gravest dangers which threaten the physical and moral -welfare of the people of France. We are constructing some very big guns lor our new navy. Two have just been turned out with a muzzle velocity of 2000 feet per second and a ran<m of ton miles each. These, says the Nm Or leans Times-Democrat, would assist ma terially in keeping the flies off any for eign man-of-war that dared to approach our coast with hostile intent. Five Indians recently appeared as wit nesses in a land case at Los Angeles, Cal., one of whom, Juan Sabera, claimed to be one hundred and twenty years old, and Baid he was twelve years of age when the San Gabriel Mission was founded. An other one of the quintet was Juan Cal mila, whose years numbered one hundred and fifteen. The other members of the group were Francisco Apache, one hun dred and five; Ramon Largo, one hun dred and four, and Harahisjo Cabojon, who was a mere boy of eighty. Said a lieutenant on board the British warship Buzzard: “Were I in charge of a battery when engaged with either the Boston or the Atlanta, I would make a target out of the afterdeck and destroy the steering gear. The ship losing this would then be unmanageable and at the mercy of her antagonist.” It is said that the confidential photograph books of nearly every British cruiser contain plates of every ship in the United States service. Many of these photographs were taken by the instantaneous process while the ships were under way. An Englishman contributes to a recent issue of the St. James Gazette an extraor dinary article on the lack of fighting qualities of the American. He declares that there was no real fighting in oui Civil War, and that at anytime during the first two years a well equipped divis ion of 10,000 disciplined troops could have cleaned out either side within three months. But when he gets down to the probable results of a war between the United States and a European power, Bays the San Francisco Chronicle he is , most amazing. “Hs figures out that if a war did not result in the South seizing the opportunity to secede again, then the cowboys and Indians of the West, both of whom ‘hate the grangers’ and detest the Government, would unite aud devas tate the country. The picture of the union of ‘Lo’ and the cowboy is a bit of unconscious British humor which throws into the shade the best efforts of the American wits.” The fisheries of Maine are reported to be on the (Jgsline*.. „_____ .... GENERAL NEWS. CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS , AND EXCITING EVENTS. I NEWS THOM KVMrWHERH—ACCIDENTS, STJUKM, FIRES, AND MAFFENINOS OF INTENRUT. The premium on gold in Buenos Ayres has advanced to 65 per cent. At ihe the charter election in Guthrie, Oklahoma, Wednesday, the charter was curried by 112 majority. Michael McDonough shot and killed his wife Wednesday night at Kenton, O. Lynching is threatened. Jess Overman, a jealous lover in Peru, Ind., shot and killed Maggie Smith, Wednesday night, and then killed him •elf A number of naval officials p.t Berlin 1 KeW Germany hare been arrested | on the charge of wholesale bribery. One of them has committed suicide, Four French journalists have been sen tenced to pay nominal fines for publish ing the indictment against General Bou an S er * I The Rhode Island senate passed a li ;ense bill Wednesday, after inserting a , ffause prohibiting the keeping of a sa- 1 loon within 400 feet of any school bouse. | Late news from Indian territory is to I :he effect that the famous desperado, 3t - Lo P ki > was killed last Sunday by the 1 japlain ot the Creek Indian Light llorse ximpany j The stable and carriage storage place ; ff Moses Weill, ou Eist Eleventh street, New York City, burned Sunday morning ! with one hundred and twenty-five horses ! ind filty carriages; loss $45,000. I Aoco»rding to the latest statistics care Johnstown, (X),ri P ll(xl Pa,., Wednesday, ljoar( l yf the injury, at num j her of lives lost in the devastated district was about six thousand. j by Joseph damp while Larson, aged 14, was overcome j donia, Saturday cleaning a well near Ma la., afternoon, and J. A. boy, Wilson, who was lowered to rescue the was also overcome. Both died. The Chicago Johnstown relief commit : i tee met in the comptrollers office Wednesday morning, and decided ta | I send the balance of subscriptions iu their hands, $25,000, to the Pennsylvania ! authorities. At Anderson, Ind., Friday evening, while bathing in White river, Scott Todd and Charlie Hosier, aged ten and eleven, were drowned. Sunday evening a man named Bilby was drowned while trying to recover the bodies. j ’ consented The Slandw< ot Lw , aoll) „ , )M damages for to apologize and to pay £100 I assertiug that Father Cove np T» of Dunmanway, Ireland, publicly ' “ P1>0 "' ed t0 God '° sten S thwl ll *" d of the man who killed Inspector Martin, at G weeu or. A dispatch from Kansas City says u The heavy lains of the past few days in Kan sas, which were welcomed as a sure pre ventive of hot winds, and as the saver of the corn crop, seem to have done almost as much harm as good. The damage to wheat and oats will be considerable. At the couit of oyer and terminer at New York, Tuesday, Charles Giblen aud Ferdinand Carolin were seutenced to be hanged on who August 23. This will make five men are to be executed in the Tombs on the same day. The other three are Jamts Nolan, John Lewis aud Patrick Packerham. The co-operative brewery stockholders, of Buffalo, N. Y., have sold their stock to an English syndicate for $140 per share, an advance of $i0, $50 being originally paid for each share. They clear $400, 000 on the plant. It is understood that the brewery will be used as bottling works. A dispatch from Minneapolis says: Saturday night a gang of strikers over powered the sheriff and police and forced a large number of coal dock employes to throw up their jobs. Six of the mob leaders were arrested. Major McKay telegraphed Governor Hoard,asking that troops be sent there. The whaling schooner Franklin arrived at New Bedford, Mass , Monday morning, with the crew of the steamer Lorenzo D. Baker, from Port Antonio, La., for Bos ton, with fruit, before reported overdue. The steamer was burned at sea. Her cargo was valued at $10,000, and the vessel w T as insured for $50,000. Duport, a Boulangist, member of the chamber ot deputies at Paris, France, Wednesday night, attempted to make a speech at Pont L’Abbe, Finistere. but was attacked by a mob and stoned. A number of Duport’s teeth were broken and his face cut, and he received permis sion to proceed with his remarks. While men were removing rock and coal from the chambers closed at the Centr.nl Wednesday mine, near Scranton, Pa., on of the by a cave-in, the lamp of one laborers ignited the mine gas and au explosion followed. John Williams and Robert Roberts were killed and four others frightfully burned. A dispatch from Spring Valley, Ill., says: The Spring Valley Coal company has finished serving evictions on all miners that are living in their houses. About 100 families or 500 people will be thrown out of house and home in a few days. They have no place to go to. It is quite likely that many of the miners will resist and trouble will result. The sheriff and i posse will do the evicting. A cave-in occurred in Hyde, Pa., Wednesday morning over a vein of the Central mine. Over six ucros of ground school were affected, and the 5th ward public Fully building dozen was badly dauiuged. cracked a foundation private residences have walls and jammod doors as a result of the cave-in. A large fissure may be seen in the earth, and iu SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS. the center of the affected district the earth has settled fully ten feet. Exports of specie from the port of Nets York last week, amounted to $3,633,003, of which $3,379,870 was in gold and $253.133 in silver. Of the total exports, sil $2,874,285 in gold, and $252,400 in ver went to Europe, $2,742,643 in gold going direct to Paris, and $505,585 in gold and $733 in silver sent to South j America. Imports of specie for the week amounted to $156,595, of which $116,186 was in gold and $40,400 in sil ver. Lieutenant O. M. Carter, at Washing ton L). U., lias ten separate works ot im provement under his charge in Georgia and Florida. He asks the insertion of the following named sums in the next river and harbor bill: Improvement of the Savannah river and harbor, $2,500, 000; Savannah river between Savannah and Augusta, $100,000; Altamaha river, $50,000; Ocmulgee river,$50,000; Oconee river, $50,000; Brunswick harbor, $02,- 500; Jekyl creek, $38,590; Cumberland sound, Georgia and Florid 0 , $1,000,000. Bob Younger, the Missouri outlaw, must die in prison. He is in the last stages of consumption, and prominent men of Missouri have been trving to se cure ms pardon, Governw Merriam said to CoL Bronough and eX-Gpvemor Marshall, on their presentation of a large petition: “I may as well Say to you now once for all, that I have my own per sonal feeling and prejudice in the mat ter, and I should not be moved to inter fere in the case of Bob or any of them, even if Haywoo l’s wife could come from the grave and s g.i your petition, or if Haywood’s surviving daughter should join in your appeal. ” Hiram Hoad ley, Jr., formerly and a prom inent county politician Ohio, a prosperous whose citizen of Edgerton, wife was seeking- a divorce, earlv Sunday morning secreted himselt near the farm house of his father-in-law, where his wife wa< staying and killed her with a re volver as she passed by to milk the cows. He then shot and instantly killed her father, who was attracted by the pistol shots. He pursued ihe mother and a sister of his wife .also, but they escaping he returned to where his wife’s body was and killed himself. Rev. Father Curley, director of the Georgetown university, died in Wash ington, D. C., Wednesday morning. He was the oldest living priest in the United States, and, so far as known, in the world. He was born in the countv Ros common, Ireland, in 1786. He entered and Georgetown college iu 1827as anovitiate has remained at the college ever since, with the exception of two years •pent in study from 1827 to 1831. E^or forty-eight years he was professor of phil osophy and natural science and during this time he made a number of valuable contributions to science. A land slide on the Northern Pacific which occurred near Miles City, Mont., Saturday, is one of the most extensive and disastrous in the history of the road. It happened on a point on the Yellow Yellowstone stone division, where the truck skirts the river, with a turbulent stream on one side and a high alkali bank on the other. Without warning or appa rent cause, this bank gave way and j mass of earth for the distance of five hundred feet along the track and frotr three hundred feet away slid down intt the river, completely burying the rail road. A still exploded in Dodge – Colcott’e chemical works, at the corner of Morgan J., and Washington Saturday streets, Jersey City, N. afternoon. A three-story brick building, 100 by 25 feet, with a large stock of essential oils and valuable drugs, was destroyed. The building oc cupied by Ames – Co.’s spike works, across scorched. Washington Dodge street, was slightly – Colcott are a well known drug firm with offices on Wil liam street, New York city. Their loss is estimated at $120,000 on building and machinery and $200,000 on essential oils and other stock. A general strike was inaugurated at West Superior, Wis., on Saturday, among the laborers, and over 600 are out. They demand an increase from $1.50 per day to $1.75. They visited the St. Paul and Pacific coal docks, where fourteen men under were working police at forty cents an hour rate protection. They over powered the police and routed the men. The St. Paul and Pacific and Northwest ern Fuel company refuse to meet the fifty concessions by the Lehigh coal heavers of cents an hour. They claim they can hire men at forty cents and propose to do so. One of the leaders has been ar rested. A company of state militia has been ordered to the scene of trouble. A shocking accident occurred Monday morning on the Philadelphia and Read ing railroad, near Mahoney City, Pa. Three boys were driving in a buggy from Mahoney City to Frackville. As they approached the railroad crossing a pas senger train passed, closely followed by a little combination engine. They at tempted to cross as soon as the passenger train had passed. The combination engine struck the buggy, smash ing it into splinters, killing the horse and terribly injuring the boys. One of them was thrown forty feet and shockingly mangled and instantly killed. The other two were very badly, and it is believed, fatally hurt. FATAL SHARK BITE. Ed Roe, a young Englishman, while fifteen swimming in Cumberland sound with struck other by boys from Fernandina, Fla. was a shark, which bit off the calf of one leg. Roe was taken into beat at but bled a medical once, to death before assistance could be obtained. This is the first instance known of lhark attacking a amau in those waters. j WASHINGTON, D..C/ . MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT AND HIS ADVISERS. APPOINTMENTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATTERS OE INTEREST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. The state department Wednesday re- 1 ceived from Henry F. Merritt, consul at Chemnitz, Saxony,a list of subscribers to the fund tor the relief of the sufferers by the flood at Johnstown, Pa. It amounted to 3,785 marks, and 80 pfennings, equal to $910 American money. EnimoDS Clark, ex-colonel of the fa mous Seventh regiment, New York Na tional Gnard, has declined the appoint ment as consul to Havre recently mode. In his letter of declination, Colonel Clark says that he had fully intended to accept, but that since the especially appointment his was made his friends, and physician, had made such representations decline. to him that he felt constrained to Superintendent Bell, of the railway mail service, said on Wednesday that there was nothing exceptional in the case reported from Lynchburg, Va., al leging that two white postal clerks had refused to instruct a newly happened appointed negro clerk. It frequently in the South that white clerks at first re fused to insruct negro clerks, but a lit tle persuasive talk usually convinced them that they were unreasonable. dent’s Following is an outline of the presi trip to Bar Harbor next mouth: The president will leave Deer Park on the sixth of August and proceed to New York by rail, thence to Boaton via Fall river steamers. He will stay in Boston one day. That portion of the trip be tween Boston and Bar Harbor will be made by rail. It is not certain that Mrs. Harrison will accompany the president, but it is probable she will do so. The attorney general has given the Secretary of the Treasury an opinion to the effect that there is no legal objection to the transit through the United States territory of the Chinamen recently ar rived at New Orleans from Cuba, eu route to China via San Francisco. This opin ion is in accord with the decision given by Solicitor Hepburn on the same ques tion some weeks ago, which was how ever, not accepted by the Treasury De partment. Secretary Noble has issued an order directing Dr. George Ewing and H. L. Bruce, of the board of pension appeals, and Judge Campbell, of the attorney general’s office interior department, as a committee to investigate all re-ratings of pensions by the bureau made within the last twelve months. It is said that the civil service commissioner is not satisfied with the present administration of the civii service law in the pension office. Commissioner Roosevelt, it is understood, will make remonstrance against the course that has been pursued. The president appointed the following collectors of customs: William Gaston Henderson, of Mississippi, for the dis trict of Pearl river, Mississippi; N. Wright Cuney, of Texas, for the district of Galveston, Texas; Henry DeB. Clay, of Virginia, for the district of Newport News, Va. Collectors of Internal rev enue—James D Brady, of Virginia, for the second district of Virginia; P. H. McCaull, of Virginia, for the second district of Virginia; Joseph W. Burke, of Texas, lor the third district of Texas. M. M. Hurley, of Indiana, to be the third auditor of the be treasury; deputy J. H. Franklin, of Kansas, to second auditor of the treasury ; James J. Dikerson, of Texas, to be mar shal of the United States for the eastern district of Texas, Milton C. Elstner, ot Louisiana, to be attorney of the United States for the western district of Louisi ana. To be consuls: Evans Blake, of Illinois, at Crofield; Henry C. Fisk, ol Vermont, at St. Johns, Quebec; Jasper P. Bradley, of West Virginia, at South ampton; Eugene O. Fechet, of Michi gan, at Piedras Negras; Archibald J. Simpson, of Colorado, at Paso del Norte; Horace E. Pugh, of Indiana, at Newcas tle, England. In their reports to the chief !>f engin eers of operations under the river and harbor bill, the various officers in charge make the following recommendations of appropriations for continuing the work next year: By Captain William M. Black, St. Johns River, Florida, $576,- 500; Volusia bar, $500; northwest en trance Key West harbor, $300,000; Ca loosahatchie River, $3,600; Pease River, $10,000; Manatee River, $10,000; Tam pa $5,400; Bay, $25,000; Withlacoochcc River, Cedar Keys harbor, $5,000; Se wanee River, $5,000. By General W. T. Smith—Inland Water Bay from Chinco teague Lewes, Bay, Virginia, to Delaware Bay, at $100,000. By Captain William H. Bixby—Roanoke River, Va., $60,000; Pamlico and Tar Rivers, N. C., $15,000; Contentnia Creek $30,000; Trent River, $8,500; Neuse River, $60,000; Inland waterway from Beaufort to New r River, $35,000; Beaufort harbor, $38,000; New River, $17,000; Black River, $20,000; Cape Fear River, $420,000; Yadkin River, $10,000; harbor at Georgetown, 8. C., $20,000; Wiuyard Bay, $300,000. By Captain Frederick V. Abbott—Lum ber River, N. C., $30,000; Mingo Creek, 8. C., $12,000; Clear Creek, $5,000; Edisto River, $12,385; Salkiehatckie River, $5,000; Little Pee Dee River, $50,000; Wateree River, $12,500; Con garee River, $39,500; Wappoo cut con necting Stone and Ashley Rivers, $55, 000; Waccamma River, $73,000. It appears that the whole number of offi cials now protected by the Civil Service rules is 27,697, of which number 8212 are in the de partmental vice, 11,767 service, 2298 are in the customs ser in the postal service and 5320 in the ra ilway mail service, THE CROPS. OFFICIAL BULLETIN OF THE CONDITION 0* THE WEATHER AND GROWING CROPS. The weather crop bulletin of the sio. Dal office at Washington, D. C., says that the week ending July 20th has been slightly warmer than usual in states west of the Mississippi River and in Missis sippi, Maryland, Delaware and portions of Pennsylvania, Virginia and Alabama, About normal temperature prevailed in the South Atlantic States, Ohio and the upper Mi-sissippi valleys, while the daily temperature in New Euglaud and the upper lake region, including northern portions of Indiana, Illinois and Ohio, has averaged about three de grees below the mean for the week. There has been more than the average amount of rainfall during the week gen erally throughout the Northern states. The rainfall has been in excess in Geor gia and some portions cf Alabama, South Carolina and Texas. Over the remaining portions of the Southern States generous rains occurred. Seasonable rains from January 1 to July 20 continue in excesa from New York southward to Florida and from Texas northward to the Mis souri Valley, also in Northern Illinois and Eastern Wisconsin. Over the greatei part of the cotton region and the princi pal corn-producing states, the rainfall for the season generally exceeds 80 per cent of the normal. Throughout the principal corn produc ing states from Ohio west to Nebraska, the weather was generally favorable to the crop, which is reported in exeellenl condition, but excessive rains cause dam age to wheat and oats and interrupt har vesting in some localities. In the south west, including Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas, the excess of sunshine and light showers proved very favorable to all growing orops, and cotton is report ed as much improved. Kentucky reports the tobacco crop improving under the favorable weather of the week; that the harvesting of a good crop of oats is in progress, and that corn was never in'bet ter condition. In Tenuessee, Mississippi and Alabama excessive rains have caused some damage to cotton, which is greatly in need of culture. In middle Tennessee wheat was damaged, and tobacco is growing well. The weather was unfa vorable for farm work. In the south Atlantic states and Virginia the weather was especially favorable for all growing crops, and the prospects are excellent. Respecting the Louisiana rice crop, it ia reported that Mississippi heavy rains river and high wa ter in the are doing wonders, especially ior late plantings. It is conceded the outcome is likely to be six or seven hundred thousand sacks. If the present weather continues, the crop is likely to be the largest ever pro duced in that state. ELECTRICITY’S WORK. SEVERAL PEOPLE KILLED AND MUCB DAMAGE DONE BY LIGHTNING. During a terrific thunderstorm Satur day, which prevailed throughout the central and western portion of Massa dealer chusetts, James H. Kierner, provision at East Brookfield, was struck by au electric bolt and instantly killed. Louis Harper, who kept a restaurant, was also struck and knocked across the room, his ear being nearly severed. James Corcoran, buggagemaster at the Boston and Albany railroad station, was also prostrated by the shock. The lightning badly damaged the switch boards of the telephone exchange, besides burning out nearly all the local lines of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Ex change Company.... A Pioneer Presi special from Sturgis, Dakota, says: Lightning struck the residence of Sam uel Layster, in Whitewoods, seven miles west of St. Paul, Min., Saturday night, during a heavy storm. A son of Lays* ter, aged twentv-two years, was instantly killed. The house caught fire and wa< totally consumed. A young child also in the house at the time was severely shocked. In St. Paul the residence of P. A. Brigham was struck and badly damaged. Meade, A bolt descended at Fort one-half mile east of the city, and struck a school-house occupied by the government. The building was badly wrecked. The loss will reach into the thousands. DISASTROUS FLOODS. A special from the flood district, give near Parkersburg, the following W, Va., Sunday night, list of drowned. R is thought that the death list will be much larger when the districts now cut off from the outside world are beard from: Robert Black, Mrs. Black, Mrs. Thomas Hughes and four children; Edward Bose, Mrs. Isaac Roberts, Mrs. Orville West and two chil dren; J. Bailey, R. Kegier and wife; Mrs. Lasa Tucker, and a man whose name cannot be ascertained. The dam age to property and crops cannot be es timated at present. Hundred of people lost all they possessed and many families are homeless. A later dispatch says the village of Morristown, W. V., was swept The entirely away. Great suffering exists. commissioners of Wood county will issue au appeal for aid. FORCED TO MURDER. The authorities at Warsaw, Ind., Thursday, took into custody Mrs. Martha Danks, charged with murder, and het husband, Daniel, as accessory. Danks of recently became a crank on the subject religion, and it is said thirteen-mouths-old compelled bis wife to strangle their child as a sacrifice, claiming that the Almighty has promised to resurrect the child ou the third day. When Danks was arrested ho had been carrying the dead infant in his arms two