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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. I f 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. _____ 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.