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TREKS AND El'IHEK NOTES.
It is said that timber cannot be
«.oi»T.hrtS properly seasoned by uJnoking.
1 ”
ao„. kinds Ol wed «igh.
years for effecting seasoning.
♦bnI* the progress P0S81J of f seasoning U1 HOme c f' by ,e dissolving " to
the sap of wood by immersion in
water.
The beauty of the birdseye maple
arises from the contortions of its
libers. The cause of this peculiarity
is unknown.
A cubit foot of the best English
_____’ oak, when F. green, ' weighs K seventy-one Severny one
pounds , and ten ounces; when season-
ed, the w ood is reduced to forty-three
pounds and eight ounces
Itxpei r„ tenced , lumber , . men say that ,, ,
in the process of seasoning wood
should occasionally be repiled and de-
cayed or defective pieces
they 'l'he infect durability the* others. of wood does |
not, as i j
some suppose, depend 0 „ its weight,
.Larch, one ot the lightest woods, and !
locust, one of the heaviest, are alike
almost indestructible.
VV mil shakes „ are circular , cracks ,
in a treo separating the different lay-
ers. They are supposed f, to he caused
by wind, and -i greatly . . xi tlie lumber i i
injure
made from such a treo.—St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
His Praise.
A a at„ .Norfolk e n rector . writes •< to , the Lon- x
don Daily News: “All Norwich men
know how exquisitely the late Dr.
/l.,.!!,,,,.,, -
Goulburn lead i *.1 the lessons, i especially •
the epistles. Here is a Norfolk far-
mer’s criticism upon him: ‘Hav wun-
“
no an , 1 , , ° i? a _ pi niche) • i an i
‘
. . libel, by the ‘but hay
cious way — wuz
a wunnerful fine man at the gewse’—
eagle lectern.”
How About Him’
.Tones Do you believe in the Spir-
ltual injunction, “Let not thy right
hand know what thy left hand doeth’” '
Atones— Bonos—Yes- Ies, wW vhy should,,’. shonidu t 1? ,-,
Jones—Well, how about the man
■who spends his money right- and left?
—New York Journal.
K>-.. the Fax-well is Spoken
-dm'! ->a
train that Is to h-ur you away 7 bin these
to you, y--u will, i: you ure wis-e h-.v-- solely
Stomach Bitte-s. ( on.me.vial t avele.a, tour-
ists and pioneer emigrants c mcu>- in testifying
tottm fo tittiug and Raving ptope-ties of the
great »onl • Uso for constipation, bi iousne-s.
malarial and kidney eomph.ims and
ness.
Considering the fact that it always get roasted
the peanut uianag..sto preset veits heerfainrgg.
Fits permanently cure.i. \o firs or nervous-
ness after first day's use of Ur. Kline’s Great
Nerve Restorer. %2 trial bottle ami treatise tree,
Dr. R. u. Klink. Ltd.. 931 Arch st„ Phtia., Pa.
We hav-* not boon with, ut Plso s Ou*-e for
Consumption for 20 year *.—lizzik Fkrreli,,
Camp st., Ha-tisburg. Pa., May 4, '94.
E. B. Walthall & Co., Drue is s. Horse Cave,
Ky., sty-: "Hill's ('atarih Cure cures every
one that t ikes it. ’’ Sold by Druggists, 75 .l
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothlvg Syrup for children
teeth!us, softens the gums, reduces inflamma*
tion. allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle
GAINED IN STRENGTH
w«5 Confined to the Bed Most of the
Time—The Remedy.
“ I was much run down in health and had
to keep my bed the greater part of the
time. I had no appetite and did not rest
well nights. I began taking Hood’s Sarsa¬
parilla and my appetite returned and I
gained strength rapidly, and soon felt like
a new man. I attribute my escape from
illness of any kind the past winter to tak¬
ing Hood’s Sarsaparilla.” Ar.EL Myers,
Arthur, New York. Get Hood's.
Hood’s Pills the best family cathartic,
easy to operate. 25c.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT,
Tulano University of Louisiana.
Its advantages for practical instruction, beth
In ample laboratories and abundant, hospital
materials are unequalled. Free access is given
to the great Charity Hospital with 700 beds
and 30,000 patients annually. Special instruc¬
tion is given daily at the beside of the sick.
The next session begins October 14th, 1807. For
catalogue and information address:
Prof. S. K. ( IIAILLK. M. !>.. Dean.
tWV. O. Drawer 261. NEW ORLEANS, LA.
Bicycles
• “ALEXAN DER SPECIAL”. ...$30.00
“OVEKLAN D”......... ......8140.00
■WAVERLEY............ .....$43.00
ELECTRIC CITY...... ......*30.00
You have no excuse now for not buying a
bicycle if it’s the price you have been waiting
for. Agents wanted. Write for Bargain LDtof
second-hand wheels. W. D. ALEXANDER,
GO-71 N. Pryor St., Atlanta, Ga.
PEROAY SURE
Salary or Commission.
DO you loom honorable, steady r.nplerymem
the year sauna, at good wages, at your am
horns or to travel? If so. senate in stamps
for our wholesale price-list and particulars.
We furnish best of Oanh references.
AMERICAN TEA CO.
OE l'ROiT. WlCMIOAN.'
Sweetness and Light.
Put a pill in the pulpit if you -want practical
preaching for the physical man ; then put the
pill in the pillory if it does not practise what it
preaches. There’s a whole gospel in Ayer’s
Sugar Coated Pills; a “ gospel of sweetness
and light.” People used to value their physic,
as they did their religion,—by its bitterness.
The more bitter the dose the better the doctor.
We’ve got over that. We take “sugar in ours”—
gospel or physic—now-a-days. It’s possible to
please and to purge at the same time. There
may be power in a pleasant pill. That is the
gospel of
Ayer’s Cathartic Pills.
More pill particulars in Ayer's Curebook, 100 pages.
Sent free. J. C. Ayer Co., Lowell, Mass.
A VETERAN’S WIFE.
Aff<,ct ** 1 with Heart and Given
Vp *" 1,1 “ Wo “*
„ r r m '“'rr?“■ ?££l STIST * r -
j New York , ? han Mrg . John j lgk , the wlt0 „}
! an old resident and veteran ot the war of
j the Rebellion. In April of this year, Mrs.
j j Fisk heart lay disease, at death’s the family door from neuralgia and
I physician having
recommended her to settle all her worldly
affairs, as she was liable to be taken at any
minute, and inquiring friends expected at
each visit to hear that she had passed away.
But Mrs - Fisk, to the surprise of her
? ei K hb fl rs and physicians, suddenly began
to mend, and now she is as strong and
healthy years) a woman of her advanced age (70
as can be found, and really does not
appear nearly as old as she is. The follow-
ing is her own story of how she was cured.
“I consider it is a duty to myself and the
community to toll of my extraordinary re¬
c ?very trom what was thought by my phy-
from neuralgia in its form, ^
i° that only those worst who enduring
a & on 3 have under-
Smrso^d^ti^y^nd" ganieally, that the doctor 6 ^
said I was liable
at any time to pass away. He had done all
* n h L< ? ff. w ” r for mo ; « na 1 «x»nlc him much
for , bis kindness and attention, and believe
him to be a good, faithful physician. I was
1101 disposed to die, however, if I could help
it -" nd ho havinK don ®. al1 he could * JJelt
at liberty f to . use any other means that held
0 ut a chance of life, and determined to try
a remedy that had been recommended by a
friend who had been at death’s door from
rheumatism and heart disease, but who now
is in good health.
“Whatever doubt I may have had as to
this remedy's efficacy in a dissimilar dis-
ease, to that from which he had suffered,
was dispelled on reading in the Press of a
case identical with my own being cured,
with the name and address of the person
who had been so benefited. So my husband
who now was anxious that I should at once
take the treatment, purchased for me a box
of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. I took them
accor <u n rr to directions, and within a very
short time the pains began to disappear,
mv heart s actions became normal, and four
weeks ago I ceased taking them, as I am
entirely cured, and able to do my house-
work as well as when I was a young woman.
“I had always, until I tried Dr. Williams’
ideas have undorgono a wondrous change
in tllat direction, for under God's all wise
Providence, £ ‘Pink Pills' have renovated
m0j ud apparently given mo a new lease
of life.
"This is no seoret in this locality, anil I
hope this certificate may be the means of
other sufferers in distant places securing
the same benefits that I have received.
"Ci.ahinda Fisk.”
*Prafc forniTty PfN* are sold in boxes hundred, (never in
loose the doben oh and
the public cautioned against 1 numerous
box rations or six boxes are sold in for this $2.60, sh4e) and at may 50 cents po had a
°t a h druggists, or direct by mail trout Dr.
Williams’Medicine Company.
-
First Meeting With Mosquitoes.
Two Irishmen, just landed iu Amer-
i e a, were encamped on the open plain.
in the evening they retired to rest,
and were soon attacked by swarms of
mosquitoes. -, fn Ihey , took , , refuge , under .
the bed-clothes. At last one of them
ventured . , to , out, and, ,
peep seeing a
firefly, exclaimed in tones of teiror:
“Mickey, it’s no use; there’s one of
the cravthers searching for us wid a
lantern.-—Pearson’s Weekly.
Profits 300 to H00 Per Cent.
The sewing machine, one of the
greatest blessings in the way of ma¬
chines ever offered the public, sold for
years at sixty dollars in the United
States. The same machine, however,
to be shipped to a foreign land, could
be purchased below twenty dollars.
After the patents ran out the price
fell rapidly until now sewing machines
are sold for twenty-five dollars and of¬
ten below twenty dollars. The sewing
machine manufacturers became im¬
mensely rich from their profits of sev¬
eral hundred per cent. It has been
estimated that typewriting machines
cost less than twenty dollars to build,
while they sell for from fifty dollars to
one hundred dollars each.
It is generally understood that an
agreement exists whereby these high
prices are maintained. Business men
are compelled to pay from three hun¬
dred to five hundred per cent profit or
go without the machines.
Are there any other machines which
yield such profits as the sewing ma¬
chine did for years, and the typewrit¬
ing machine has and does, except it be
the bicycle?
Avoiding Publicity.
“I cannot longer keep the wolf
from the door,” he sighed, his head
sinking dejectedly upon his breast.
Thus he sat until his wife came and
kissed his throbbing temples and
sought to cheer him.
“Perhaps the wolf will go around
to the back door, ’’ she whispered.
It was woman’s way to reflect upon
the bright side of things; she hadn’t
much use for a side she could not
reflect upon.—Detroit Journal.
FIVE MIX KILLED IX A (IEOH(HA
CONVHT CAMP.
BOLT STRIKES PRISON BUILDING.
Scores Were Injured—Jo the Fxciteweiit
Many Convicts Made a Dash For Lib¬
erty, But Nine Are Recaptured.
As the hundred and fifty-odd con-
victs at the Green Brothers’ camp at
Dakota, Ga., seven miles from Cor-
dele, were in the prison supper room
Sunday night eating their evening
meal a flash of blinding lightning shot
from (lie black clouds which had been
hanging over the section all the after¬
noon, struck the building, knocked
a half-lmudred of the shackled men to
the floor and created the most thril¬
ling consternation.
Three men were killed instantly,
two, who died later, fatally shocked,
and twenty injured.
The guards about the place were as
thoroughly demoralized as the prison¬
ers, and for a few seconds fear held
full sway.
Convicts lay upon the floor moaning
and groaning, their clanking chains
adding to the horrible noise their
abject terror caused. Guards stood by
apparently petrified by the spectacle.
Suddenly, and almost in the very
midst of it all, there was a wild rush
for the door by half of the zebra-clad
crowd. The guards stood still, allow¬
ing the men to hurry by, thinking, if
they thought at all, that they were
seeking safety on the outside from the
death that seemed imminent inside.
Recovering their senses the guards
brought those jvho were yet in the
room to a standstill, and while some
of them held the prisoners at bay
others hurried out to give the alarm
and overtake those who had rushed
out in the first seconds of the intense
excitement following the lightning
stroke.
Then its order was restored, some of
the guards in the building began mak¬
ing an investigation of the situation
in the room. It was found that three
of the convicts were dead, two dying
and twenty others hurt, some of them
reriously, while others sustained hurts
which may make them hospital sub¬
jects for some time to come.
When the final round-up had been
made it was seen that eleven prisoners
of the camp had made their escape.
The dogs were called out and guards
started in pursuit. A drenching rain
was falling, and as fast as the fugi¬
tives moved the heavy downpour
washed away not only their tracks,
hut even the sceut by which the train¬
ed dogs follow.
S i complete was the work of the
heavy rain that the dogs were unable
to follow any of the escapes any dis¬
tance. However, so close were the
men upon the fugitives that they were
able to overtake several of them, and
during the night nine of the number
were overtaken and were returned to
the prison.
When the lightning strnek the build¬
ing the convicts were gathered about
the table. Their chains were together
and the sparks played along the metal
making a crackling, sizzling noise as
it went. It caused many to spring to
their feet and more than one negro
danced a death jig to the electricity
charged chains that clanked with the
movements of the terrified men. Many
of the men were burned and scorched
about the ankles and blisters show the
course the current took as it wound
around their limbs, leaving its course
marked by the blisters it made.
The bolt appears to have struck the
comb of the roof and after splitting it
open from one end to the other went
down one of the corner posts. It then
played around the interior of the
room, leaving its course so clearly-
marked on the walls that the lines
can be seen.
’Warned Against Emigration.
The Ivruez Zeitung (Berlin) warns
German farmers against the invita¬
tions of emigrant agents to settle in
the southern states of America, and
calls upon the government to issue a
strict prohibitive decree against such
emigration “since German farmers are
too good to compete with black labor
in the cotton and rice fields.”
FIGHTING CONTINUES IN CUBA.
Insurgents Meet with Stubborn Resist¬
ance in Their Attacks.
A dispatch to the New York Herald
from Key West says: Santiago
Private advices from prov¬
ince give further details of the fight¬
ing during the past week around
Gibara and Banes, between the insur¬
gent and Spanish forces. The advices
state that the iusurgens under Gen¬
eral Garcia and Colonel Torres, num¬
bering between 5,000 and 6,000 men,
attacked both of the seaports simul¬
taneously, but met with a stubborn
resistance.
INFORMATION NOT OFFICIAL.
Nothing Is Known Regarding the Report
That Castello Is to Succeed DcLoine.
No official information has been re¬
ceived at the state department in
Washington in regard to the report
from Havana that Senor Gastello is to
succeed Senor de Lome as the diplo¬
matic representative of the Spanish
government at Washington.
The officials of the Spanish legation
at the capital decline to discuss the
report iu any way.
KllLER BY FALLING DERRICK.
Twn Colored Brickmason. Ifa.fled From a
Ten-Story Building.
A derrick on the roof of the now
Austell building, iu course of erection
at Atlanta, Ga., fell at 1 o’clock Monday
afternoon, knocking three workmen
from a scaffolding on the ninth story.
Two of them were dashed to instant
death on the ground, 125 feet below,
and the third was saved in a most
miraculous way.
The killed are: Palmetto Ayres,
colored, aged 40, living at Austell;
Charles Cargill, colored, age 35, of
Atlanta.
W. M. Brown, a white carpenter,
was cut about the head and arms.
The dinner hour was just over and
the men had returned to work when
the accident occurred. They were
standing on the platform which skirts
the edge of the ninth floor when the
derrick fell. The part of the scaffold
upon which they stood was swept
away and the men were thrown into
Headlong down the entire distance
fell the two negroes. Brown,, by th»
wildest freak of luck, grasped one of
the derrick ropes as he shot through
the air. As the boom of the hoisting
engine fell the ropes on the tackle-
were set in motion, one going up and
the other down. It was Brown’s good
fortune to catch the rope being drawn
upward and he was hauled safely to-,
the roof.
To another boom of the derrick pro¬
jecting out on the other side of the-
building was attached a car, in which:
four men were standing. This boom,
likewise fell, but was held up by the
roof. The car was dashed over the
side.of the building and swung there
in safety. The men were rescued
through a window,none of them being-
injured. ground
The two negroes struck the
in the basement. The scaffold from,
which they fell was on the court side,,
and a clear fall to the very bottom
was opened to them. The bodies yere
crushed and mangled horribly. Scarce¬
ly a bone in the body of either remain¬
ed unbroken.
CYCLONE HITS CORDELE.
Georgia Town Suffers Great Damage From'
W imt and Hail.
A hurricane' struck Cordele, Ga.,
Mondey about noon, ruining crops
and destroying property. It was
companied by a heavy hailstorm.
Two negro Blethodist churches were
completely destroyed, and the barrel
factory of the Cordele Cooperage com¬
pany was also destroyed.
A portion of the livery stables be-
h v'ing to Fain & Dougherty was
blown down, demolishing fifteen bug-
gies.
One dwelling was struck by light¬
ning, which tore out one end of the
building. Signs and awnings were
scattered over the streets and several
plate glass windows were smashed by
the falling rubbish-.
The telephone system was also bad¬
ly injured by the storm. No loss of
life has been reported.
REED TO NAME COMMITTEES.
Speaker Will Present the List Before tlie
Pinal Adjournment.
A Washington dispatch says: Speak¬
er Beed has given out the information
that he has the matter of the appoint¬
ment of the committees under consid¬
eration and that unless something now
unforeseen occurs to change his pres¬
ent inclination he will prepare the list
and submit it prior to the final ad¬
journment.
The speaker ha® had ample oppor¬
tunity during the extra session for as¬
certaining the wishes and the quali¬
fications of members for committee
assignments,, and although the actual
work of preparing the committees has
not begun, the task will probably be
rendered easier than usual by the fact
that most of the chairmen of the im¬
portant committees in the last house
are members of the present house and
the speaker now has a personal ac¬
quaintance with all the new members.
Queen Returns Her Thanks.
Queen. Victoria, through the press,
expresses her thanks for the many
touching proofs of loyalty and affection
she is receiving by letter and by tele¬
graph from, ail parts of the empire.
Falling Rock Does Deadly Work.
Advices from Valpraiso state that
twenty-six miners have been killed by
a fall of rock in the mines in the prov¬
ince- of Atacama.
COAL RATES DISCUSSES*
lty the Republican Members "t S,, -nil, to*
Finance Committee..
There was a large gathering of re¬
publican senators at the meeting of
the senate finance committee at the
Arlington hotel, Washington. Monday
night. Most of the time was spent in
discussing the rates to be imposed on
coal, and the proposition to fix them
so that a reciprocal arrangement may
be arrived at with the Dominion of
Canada. No formal conclusion was
reached, the committee deferring final
action until Tuesday’s meeting.
Northern Cotton Mills Close.
The Massachusetts cotton mills at
Lowell, were closed Monday and will
not be reopened until July 12th. The
mills employ 1,999 men. The shut
down was deoided upon because of the
low price at which goods are selling,
and the poor demand.
Nine Children Killed.
Advices from Madrid state that nine
children have been killed and many
others injured by the collapse of a
church wall at Solaua in the province
of Ciudad Real.
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A TRAIN ON WABASH RAILROAD
WRECKED IX A OULCll.
SEVEN PEOPLE TAKEN OUT DEAD.
Nineteen Other s Were Injured Hat Not
Seriously—Disaster Caused
by » Rain Storittv
The St. Louis express oa the Wa¬
bash railway, which left Kansas City
at 6:20 o’clock Saturday evening,
plunged through a trestle at Missouri
City, Mo., at. five minutes of 7 o’clock,
carrying down the entire train with
the exception of the rear ear, a Pull¬
man.
The gorge, which a. few hours pre¬
vious was practically- empty, had be-
eouie a raging torrent because of a
tremendous downpour of rain and the
structure weakened.
As a result of the catastrophe- seven
people were killed. A correct list is
as follows:
W. 8. Mills, postal clerk, St.. Louis.
O’. M. Smith, postal clerk, St. Louis.
Gustave A. Smith, postal clerk,. St.
Louis.
Charles Winters, postal clerk, St.
Louis.
F. H. Brink, postal clerk,. St. Louis.
Edward Grinrod, baggageman, St.
Louis.
Charles P. Greasley, brakemau,
Nineteen passengers were injured"
but not one is in a critical condition.
Among them all there is not'one-bro¬
ken limb, though many of them, were
thrown three-quarters of the length of
the coaches in which they were riding.
John Ennis, traveling salesman for
Beckman & McKnight, was in the rear
end of the train which was the only-
one-that escaped injury. It was*like¬
wise the only car in which none of’ the
passengers were injured. Mr. Ennis
had an interview with a farmer who
had come from Missouri City in the
evening and was at the place where
the wreck occurred to flag the train.
The farmer claimed to have waved ay
flag on the track, but owing to the
terrible rain the engineer was unable
to see the signal. Mr. Ennis said the
wreck occurred at 7:05 o’clock.
One of the most important things,.
and : one which secured the safety of
the remaining passengers on the train,
was the flagging of a freight train
which followed the passenger train
about ten minutes.
This freight train was flagged by-
passengers 300 feet from the wreck.
The engine passed over the trestle,
which broke immediately afterwards,,
and the tender, with the front or
through smoking car, was thrown
back, into the gorge.
The farmer with whom Mr. Ennis
talked said that at 5 o’clock there was-
practionflly no water in the gorge, but
at the time of the wreck it was raging
a torrent of ten f^t or more in depth.
The former said the bridge was clearly
unsafe, which had impelled him to
stand in the storm and attempt, to-
flag the train.
KENTUCKY HORSE WON.
Ornament Captures the St. Louis Soveep*-
8 tak*?s of 812,000.
Kenlracky heats Missouri—Orna<- i
ment outran Typhoon II in the* St..
Louis*derby Saturday in the 812,000- |
sweepstake for three-year-olds and
several thousand St. Louisians walked
home.
The- much-played Typhoon II w-m of
beaten, not only by Ornament;,
Kentucky, but shot, also who by Buc^videra,. get¬ a
twelve to one came near
ting, in first-place. Aside from the re-
assertment of Ornament’s superiority,
the-race was a disappointment. Orna-
mentis price, 19 to 20 and out,, pre-
vented any heavy play on him by the*
visitors, while attractive. Typhoon, 11 to 10,. was
hardly more
ALL QUIET AT KEY YYEST.
GonRernoj* of Florida so W'ires*the■
ington Authorities.
President McKinley has received a ;
massage front Governor Bloxham, of
Florida, stating that the sheriff of Key
West wired Saturday morning that the
contemplated trouble did not materi-
and alize orderly. and that everything there is quiet j I
ANSWER TO JAPAN’S PROTEST.
Secretary of State Forwarded Ife to Japan¬
ese Legation.
A Washington special says: “The
reply of the seer, tavy of state to the
protest of the Japanese government
against the annexation of Hawaii has
been forwarded to the Japauese lega¬
tion here, and by them cabled to
Tokio.
“The legatioa will probably file a
supplementary* statements upon receiv¬
ing instructionis from the home gov¬
ernment.
“If is expected thaJs this will take
some time, as the note* of the Japanese
government is worded in the most
carefully diplomatic manner.
DAVIS’S RECTOR DEAD.
Kov. Or. Barten, of Christ Cliur«li, Nor-
folk, Va., Basses Away.
Rev. O. S. Barten, D.D., rector of
Christ church at Norfolk, Ya., died
Saturday afternoon, aged fifty-seven the
years. Dr. Barten was one of
u»ost prominent divines in the south-
Br n diocese. He had been rector of
Christ church since 1865 and was
rector for Jefferson Davis during his
incarceration at Fort Monroe imme^
diately after the war.
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WHEAT NAVAL REVIEW
Of Yfsr/Iitpa of tlie World In Honor ef
Uueen VfeSnrlu.
A special from Portsmouth,England,,
says: The most magnificent display of
naval strength ever witnessed occurred
oil Spithead Saturday, the occasion
honor being the grand naval review held in
of the completion of'the sixtieth
year of the feign of Queen Victoria.
The Prince of Wales, representing
her majesty, reviewed a tine fleet of
foreign warships, representing all the
maritime nation* of the world, proud¬
est, strongest and swiftest of these
crafts being the United States armor¬
ed cruiser Brooklyn, flying the flag of
Bear Admiral Miller, and the heir ap-
pareni also inspected about thirty
miles of British warships in which
were 196 fighting! ships of different
classes, manned" carrying about 900 heavy
guns, by over 45,000 men, and
of about 60,000 tomrim all.
Each maritime nation sent an ad¬
miral in his flagslup' to. witness the
review. They formed at line abreast
of the British battleships,, where they
were favorably placed to compare their
own naval architecture- with that of
other nations. Each nation' sent its:
best available ship .and: a. magaiifieeut;
display resulted.
An interesting feature*of tlie- British
fleet was the training? ships,, which
comprised threoof the oiufly iron-clads,
a squadron of cruisers which usually
winters with a training crew on board
in the West Indies, or in some other
warm latitude, and a fleet of training
brigs which cruise in the neighborhood*
of the British ports.
The British fleet assembled Jtme 22
and was drawn up in four lines, ex¬
tending from abreast' of Portsmouth
harbor to a distance off about, five'
miles to the westward.
Following the precedent of' former
naval reviews there was-free access-to
the review ground up to the hour
named for the official inspection, when
all vessels with visitors- anchored in
their assigned positions,.and the tour
of the fieet was . commenced' by the*
Prince of Wales.
WILL REFER TO LEGISLATURE.
Governor Ellerbe Will Not- issh«- Order
Reprimanding lien. Watt*.
A Columbia, S. C., special says:
Governor Ellerbe will not issue a gen¬
eral ord. r reprimanding adjutant Gen¬
eral Watts, as recommended by-the
court of inquiry.
It is probable that the governor’s
not being on the pleasantest personal
terms with the general may have-in¬
fluenced him in this regard, he desir¬
ing to avoid the possibility of: letting;
personal feeling influence him; Then
the action of the board is equivalent: to
a reprimand, and the legislature can
deeide whether a more serious- view
shall be taken of the case.
The governor’s order issued says:
“The report of the court of. inquiry
and record of proceedings will be at
the proper time transmitted’ to the
general assembly for such action as
that body may deem proper with ref¬
erence to the adjutant and inspector-
general, who iu this state is-a,consti¬
tutional officer, and it is ordered:
“First, That Private Fishburn, of
the Richland Volunteers, be discharged
from the military service of the state.
“Second, That the captain, of- the
Bichlaud Volunteers publish an order
reprimanding Private Dunning, of said
comp uiy, for leaving ranks without
permission.
“Third. That the court of: inquiry
having completed the duties assigned,,
it is hereby dissolved.
“Fourth. That the eommaudemn-
chief desires to express his high ap¬
preciation of the complete and' careful
manner in which the court:has per¬
formed its duty.”
INSURGENTS KILL THIRTY.
TIaey Attack a Stage Coacli, an-dh Capture■
Much Booty.
A news special states that a, stage*
coach from Havana for San. Jose de,
Las La]as, a nearby-settlement, band was
topped on the road by a,lhrge
of insurgents, who killed with their
machetes eighteen scouts escorting the.
coach, six guerrillas, one Spanish! offi¬
cer, a doctor, a- carpenter ami three-
other passengers who attempted to>
save their lives by fight.
The only occupants of the-crwh tvuo.
were not killed by the insurgents* were
a woman and a. child, who .were twnon-g:
the passengers. The bodies-of the-per-
sons slain were stripped of-their- cloth-
ing and left lying alongside the roatl.
The insurgents captured a.conside®--
able amount of booty.
GERMANS FOR ALABAMA.
Two HundtnwJ Families Will .Sotillw- JSa tl»o
T<»wn of Bismarck.
A party of 200 German immigrants
and their families from lo.wa and
Illinois. i» en routs to Bismarck, a
town, in Limestone county;, ALa.,which
has been designed for them.
Bismarck was laid off laist fall by a
company headed by M. Meistier, one
of the founders cl CnllmatU, Ala., and
Captain R. B. Mjison, of Athens. The
interests of the town will be vigorously
pushed There- is already a movement
to build an electric tramway connecting
it with Athens.
The immigrants wilt engage iu fruit,
farming.
CUBAN BONDS SOLD.
.John Jacob Aator Rays One of the
Six Per Cents.
A new York telegram states that
John Jacob Aator has purchased one
of the thousand dollar 6 per cent gold
bonds of the republic of Cuba, which
were issued last April. Dr. W. Seward
Webb has purchased one of the $400 6
per cent bonds.
These bonds are offered at 50 per
oent of face value and fall due ten
years after the evacuation of Cuba.
