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IS OF INTUITION. WHOSE WORK IS TO DE- HER BLIND ADDRESSES. That Have Gone Astray and Been I^Bent Bv r m-st to Come the Dead Letter Office—-The to the Foreign DJ- jf^Blslon — IIow They Are Deciphered ^Blegible |H'ouble, but handwriting at place lias do made diffi- lots jHies no fho ^Bter brought about by it appear than in the Postoffice Depart- Bl The dead letter office, in which ^»et ^■dreds result of clerks of inaccuracy are employed, of is a ■>. penman- Bpnrt or forgetfulness or ignorance on of letter writers. ^Rerhaps ■he dead the letter most interesting is the branch office foreign ^Ksion, ^■ing from to which abroad are whose sent all addresses letters ■ve illegible to postmasters first ^Idling ■manship them. which When seek to systems train boys of ■ girls to write with a precision that ■Tld leave no room for individuality ■trietly adhered to wero inaugurat- ■ many of the old teachers predicted ■b results from such systems, saying ■t they would inevitably end in ■sing Bee the people to write so nearly that forgery would be easy and Bisequently By crime increased. But one who visits the dead letter Bee, Bn ahd especially the foreign divi- of that institution, will be con- Bced that the years of training in set Btems of writing have had no effect ■causing a similarity of penmanship. ■ the other hand, practical experi- B‘c seems to demonstrate that train- B in penmanship can no more make Bople Bihl write alike than any training make them look alike. ■The illegible letters coming to the Beign ^R>ert division are turned over to an corps of ladies whose duty it is ^Kecipher By should them be and determine for delivery. where sent Bbse experts are under the direction ^Ktiss Richter, number whose service, of extend- has over a years, ■^'Postoffice ^■sed her to Department be regarded throughout marvel as a ^Bceenness ■ wonderful and intuition in which because de- of way she ^Bear ^Biers hieroglyphics little intelligible that to others hen as as Bitches. Blhere is a good deal of system in Bs Richter’s work. To begin with, ■ has access to a library of 250 vol- Hes of city directories, which fre- Be ■ently guide her in delivering letters. has also a volume, which was Bepared Bipart for the use of the Postoffice men t some years ago, which Bves the names of streets in all the Bincipal ftd cities of the United States, shows how high the number of ^■yies HIBquently on each happens of these that streets relative run. a of some newly-made American writes from his home in the old country and fails to give the name of the city for which his letter is intended.” In this way it might happen that merely the name and number of the street would lead to the delivery of the letter. For instance, if a letter were received with the address of Baltimore and Paca streets, with the name of the city left out, it would at onee be sent to Balti¬ more, Md., because that is the only city in*the United States in which streets of these ames cfoss, though there are other eities having a Balti¬ more and a Paca street. Frequently the name of the street is as good an address as if the name of the city and State to which the letter was going was attached. Terpsichore street ex¬ ists only in New Orleans, but streets named after Presidents are so numer¬ ous as to be no guide to the city in which they are located. President Jackson was so greatly admired that 250 streets were named after him. It frequently happens that a very high number on a street with a common namewili lead to its location, because, although there may be scores of streets of the name, very few of them have numbers running into the thou¬ sands. The ladies whose work it is to send poorly and partially addressed letters to their destination have need of a varied class of information in order to be successful in their labors. They must be thoroughly acquainted with all geographical and historical names in the country. For instance, if a let¬ ter bears the address of Suwanee street that at once places it in a southern city in the vicinity of the river that has been made famous in song. Many towns, but little known, are named for Governors and other men eminent in State affairs, and names of streets .are located in the same way. Men estab¬ lishing great business enterprises gen¬ erally bequeath their name to posterity in connection with a street or avenue. The foreign division is also supplied with directories containing all sorts of information that might lead to the de¬ livery of a partially addressed letter, A letter addressed to a cashier or other officer of a National or private bank, for instance, without the name of city or State to which it should go, is read¬ ily sent to its destination by reference to the directory showing the location of all such officers. Foreigners generally seem to have an idea that “America” is a rather contracted place, and they frequently omit name of States and counties in which they wish their letters delivered. The fact that there are dozens of towns called Madison, scattered in all parts of the United States, does not seem to occur to the average foreigner, and unless the name of a street or possibly the county is attached there is little elue to the destination of the letter. Such letters are frequently de¬ livered, however, by the experts hand¬ ling them knowing in what parts of the United States emigrants from the country from which the letter came have located. Tuscaloosa was recently indicated on a letter from Canada as Teake Luce, Ala., but it was promptly delivered. A glance at many of the addresses to the uninitiated gives no clue whatever to tlieir meaning, but to tlio experts a* very slight indication of the place to ■which the letter is intended lends to its ultimate delivery. The department instructs postmasters to whom these letters are sent for delivery to return the envelopes, if possible, so that the expects handling them will be able to aee how nearly they came to decipher¬ ing the addresses. In this way the experts are constantly being trained V> greater and greater efficiency for their work.—Washington Star. Priceless Trophies of the Hunt. W. A. Baillie-Grohman writes ol “Sports in the Seventeenth Century” for the July Century: The author says: The the stag was altogether most highly prized animal of the chase; and his antlers, if they were of great size or showed any abnormity in their growth, were the most treasured trophies of the hunt. When potentates made one another presents, these usu- ally consisted of some famous deer head; for these Nimrods not only vied with one another in the quantity of game they laid low, but also regarding their collections of antlers, upon which enormous sums were spent. For the famous sixty-six-tined head killed in 1696 by the Elector of Brandenburg, aud which is still preserved at the Cas- tie of Moritzburg, near Dresden, it is said that the. Elector of Saxony gave a company of the tallest grenadiers in his army. For an abnormal thirty- six-point head one of the Dukes of Wurtemburg gave a whole village, with its inhabitants, land, houses aud church, including even the parson’s prebend, as the chronicler does not forget to mention. A Duke of Pom- for a celebrated thirty-two- tined head, which he was anxious to have for his collection, a sum which would correspond to $25,000 of our present money, and what is more, his bid was refused. Upon the spots where great stags were killed monu- ments were erected; and in more than one instance monasteries and cloisters were founded in such localities, las well as in those where some great Nimrod had escaped mortal danger. Shooting a Captive Balloon. Recent experiments \ at Shoebury- ness, „„ England, tv ,__ i by officers of n i. the n oid- nance department show that, contrary to the general belef, balloons maybe struck by projectiles from cannon. A captive balloon was sent up over the es nary of the Thames, attached by a cable of about 700 yards to a boa loaded with ballast, which was set adrift on the water. The weather was somewhat boisterous and the morning dull and hazy. The field piece was placed on the marsh land beyond the school of gunnery, from where the firing took place. The dis¬ tance of range was ascertained to be about 4000 yards. Shrapnel shell was used, and good practice was made from the first, On the sixth round, however, excellent elevation and di¬ rection and distance were obtained, and the shell was observed to burst almost immediately over the balloon. After oscillating for a few seconds the balloon was observed to be collapsing, and then it gradually fell. Its descent was slow, and, as far as could be judged, had the car contained any oc¬ cupants it is possible they would have sustained but little, if any, injury had the balloon fallen on land, It was impossible to ascertain the extent of the injury which was done to the bal¬ loon itself, but the wicker car ap¬ peared to have sustained little or no damage. Firecracker of Compressed Air. The noisiest firecracker yet has been approved by the New York Board of Fire Commissioners. It is warranted to make more noise than the Chinese kind, and to burn no awnings. It has no reaction and no after affects. It explodes with great force, and fills the air with large quantities of noise and lots of strawboard, but no spark. It is a plain United States fire¬ cracker, composed of one-third of chloride of potash and two-thirds of compressed air. The explosion of the chemical bursts the chamber of com¬ pressed air, and the result is an ex¬ plosion which combines the delightful nerve-annihilating properties of the cannon and the pop gun. This cracker is lighted by means of a fuse, just as is the Chinese cracker of commerce. The air chamber will not explode if it is stood on end or if the cracker is held in the hand. This American invention leaves no sparks, for the fire does not cling to the tough strawboard as it does to tho porous rice paper used by the Chinese maker. It consists principally of a pasteboard tube filled with compressed air and stopped with a cork.—"Wash¬ ington Star. Hare It Like a Soldier. The real name of General Smolen- ski, the gallant Greek commander, is Constantine Surolentz, and he comes of Dalmatian stock, His father took part in the war of independence, set¬ tled at Athens, and married a Greek lady. His two sons adopted a military career, for which they were educated partly at home, partly in France and Belgium. Constantiue is the younger of the two, and besides possessing strategetieal abilities of a high order, he is endowed with great physical courage. It is related of him that a few years ago he had to visit Germany for the purpose of undergoing a severe surgical operatiou. The doctors were proceeding to administer an anesthetic, but Smolentz would have none of it. “Chloroform,” he exclaimed, “is only fit for women!” and while the knife was being used he said, “Go on, gentleman!” as coolly as though ho were a mere spectator, nor did a single expression of pain escape him during the most trying moments. Greater New York is thirty-two miles long by sixteen wide. * Si TfBBZ:.- ■SB-/ m Mm ■,Kj W § ///; /•/ ' ii U <r\ ) i • msi ty • i o v'lii • Mill ■ ■ j ■Be?:-; mm SB A Talented Colored Girl. A young colored girl of Vermillion County, Indiana, has won a personal triumph which entitles her to recogni- tion as one of the bravest young women of her time. She is a credit not only to her race, but to the coun¬ try, which, by its provisions for free public schools, has given her the op- portunity to show the stuff of which she is made. Four years ago she en- tered the high school at Clinton. Ever since that time she has been practically ostracised by her fellow-pupils. On two occasions, when she resented in- suits, she was expelled from the school for no better reason, as the trustees explained, than “to keep peace in the family.” Still she kept ou, and the other night she was graduated, with a good record. When she gave her ad- dress at the closing exercises she scored the greatest success of the even- ing. Such usually is the reward for courage. The pity is that during her course of study some of the young woman’s classmates, or at least the authorities of the school, were not as generous as the public. Her four years of work would have been far more com- fortable. The father of the girl, whose name is Carry Ptrker, is a laborer, She intends to become a foreign mis- sionary.—Indianapolis News, Will Teach Girls to Keep House. The girls in the seventh and eighth grades of the Charles Kozminski and the Hammond schools are now to have a chance to learn how to make bread, run a hem or dust a room according to the , best , and , most . improved . - methods. Since ,the introduction of manual tnuil ; n « g f or ^ J )y3 the Chicago pub- th e has been eonsklera- b [ e complaint £ that the girls were not f th chance to use their hands u8eful arts . In other cooking d lain sewi had been introduced into the curriculum of the schools alongside of manual train¬ ing for the boys. For many years the Kitchengarden Association, of which Mrs. W. H. Mtfiore is the head, has given instruc¬ tion in cooking and sewing to the girls of the Huron street and {Holden schools, but the classes were held after the regular school hours, attendance was not compulsory and the Board of Education had no jurisdiction over them. From lack of interest in the work aud scarcity of funds the associa¬ tion gave up these classes. The mem¬ bers then resolved to make one last ap¬ peal to the Board of Education and see if it were not possible to have the cook¬ ing and housekeeping taught during school hours as part of the regular course in one or two schools as an ex¬ periment. At the same time Mrs. E. S. gtick- ney asked to be allowed to support a kitchengarden in the Hammond school, where her nephew, Cyrus McCormick, supports the manual training depart¬ ment for boys. The Board lately granted Mrs. Sticlcney permission to establish the kitchengarden in the Hammond school, and has given the Kitchengarden Association two rooms in the Charles Kozminski school, where they are at liberty to carry out its ideas as they see fit. The association has raised money sufficient to pay two teachers for a year aud to furnish the rooms ia the best manner for the Work. Miss Allen has been secured to teach cooking and Miss Mills to teach housekeeping and plain sewing. The instruction is to be confined to the girls in the seventh and eighth grades, for these are the grades where the study of domestic economics is gen¬ erally introduced, and the association believes that by starting the study in the early grades it reaches a much larger per cent, of children who especi¬ ally need the instruction than if girls were taken from the high school.— Chicago Record. Juliet Corson Passes Away. Miss Juliet Corson, familiarly known as the “Mother of Cookery,” whose work on culinary art made her name a household word over the country, died recently La New York City from thei removal of a tumor. It was told last year in the Herald that Miss Corson was incurably ill with a tumor. At that time she was living at No. 57 Clinton Place with friends of many years’ standing. With the news of the famous woman’s ill¬ ness came the report that she was al¬ most destitute. Miss Cornelia C. Bed¬ ford, of No. 10 East 131st street, Pres¬ ident of the New York Association of the Teachers of Cookery, sent an ap¬ peal to the Herald, and Miss Corson’s many friends and former pupils rallied to her assistance. More than $300 was sent to Miss Bedford, as trustee of the fuud, and many contributions reached Miss Corson directly. Miss Corson was the first woman in the country to teach the art of cook¬ ing under a systematic course of in¬ struction. Her early life was one of poverty and hardship. Leaving her father’s home, she found employment in a library, where her intercourse with books and papers gave her an in¬ sight into literary work which served her well in after years. After con¬ tributing occasionally to magazines and papers, she became an editorial writer for the National Quarterly Re¬ view. In this connection she joined with several charitable women in teack- ing the art of cooking to deserving working girls. This prompted Miss Corson to make systematic instruction in this impor¬ tant branch of domestic economy her life work. This was nearly a quarter of a century ago. She traveled about, chiefly among the families of the poor, showing the wives, mothers aud sis¬ ters how to live well and cheaply. In every case her instruction was accom- .panied by practical demonstrations. The railroad strikes in 1877 brought her into prominence. At her own ex¬ pense she circulated 50,000 copies of a book, showing workingmen’s wives how they could prepare a substantial meal for fifteen cents. Her work was by no means confined to the poor. Society women called upon her for instruction. Bachelors were frequently shown how they could prepare wholesome breakfasts by means of the chafing dish, and sport¬ ing men were prepared for a summer’s outing by her valuable hints. Miss Corson was a prominent ex¬ hibitor at the Columbian Exposition, in Chicago. Her exhibit and work won her a medal, the only one given for dietetics, and a diploma. She again launched out into a literary career, in 1889, when she became the editor of the Household Monthly, a Boston publication. —NewYork Herald. Fashion Notes* Gros grain silk is revived again for dressy gowns worn by matronly wo¬ men. Cashmere is unquestionably stylish for outdoor wear, and it has a greater attraction for women of moderate means than silks have. Linen dresses are very fashionable. These are trimmed with incrustations of guipure over a transparent lining of contrasting colored silks. A watered silk poplin cut into small checks, in cream and brown, white and black, gray and white, and in other colors, such as dark blue and red or maUWe and cream, is much affected. Oddly enough the silken poplin has again become popular. Many years have passed since it occupied this position in the fashionable world, but now it seems to be on the top wave once more. Ribbon and tape braiding are each effective, and with deft fingers can accomplish a gown that will simply shriek “imported.” Try braiding a bright blue cloth with tape or soutache; the effect will be stunning. The perfectly plain coaching um¬ brella is again in vogue, and a safe standard of taste authorizes bright green silk, bright cerise and a purple that seems bright, but which guaranteed really shows the soft surface, only by expensive dye. Very attractive and dainty are the exquisitely sheer Swiss muslin dresses made up over crisp, lustrous, white taffeta silk. A lovely model is made with Vandyke trimmings formed of Valenciennes insertion and lace. Very deep points to match are inserted in the seams on the front and side breadths of the gored skirts. When only a little good material re¬ mains in a dress, it can be often used to advantage in making a dress for a child. There are the dainty guimpe costumes with the skirt and sleeveless waist of one material and the guimpe of another. Yoke and sleeves of a contrasting material make the dress look better than if only one kind of goods is used. A great deal may be done to make the dresses which are outgrown large enough. If a waist is too short a belt may be made and sewed to the lower edge with the upper edge of the skirt gathered to it. The sleeves may be pieced down or new cuffs added. Dress skirts are lengthened by letting out the hems or putting a bias band around the bottom. Delicate lace figures cut out and appliqued in regular design on very fine black net make an effective cover¬ ing for a bright satin, closely fitting bodice. The black net hardly shows, and the design formed by the lace figures being carefully planned, just as the braiding would be, to set off the lines of the figure, the result is at once modish and artistic. General taste in purchasing this year appears to go to extremes. It is either the very sheer transparent tex¬ tiles like organdie, batiste, etc., or linen duck pique. In the transparent fabrics white takes high place this summer. Then follow creamy pinks, rosy violets, aud mauves, and some soft, beautiful shades in corn yellow. There are also some lovely and refined shades in gray in silks, French cash¬ meres, and other light wools, and many charming dyes in green. Women who do not care to adopt the short skirts advocated by the Rainy Day clubs are using an ingeni¬ ous contrivance of tapes and rings to keep their draperies out of harm’s way in wet weather. The skirt thus ele¬ vated does not look nearly so ungrace¬ ful as one would expect, and it has this advantage, for those who consider it so, that it can be lowered in a sec¬ ond, and when the sun appears, one is not left high and dry in storm cos¬ tume. FRIGHTFUL EXPLOSION IN ARMO¬ RY OF WINCHESTER COMPANY. 3 t EVEN FEOPLE INSTANTLY KILLED. Accident Occurred In the Load ins: Depart¬ ment-Four Women Among the Dead. Four women and three men were killed in an explosion in the loading department at the armory of the Win¬ chester Repeating Arms company, at New Haven, Conn, Wednesday. Five others were taken to the hospital badly injured. The dead are; William F. Baumers- ter, Mrs. Mary Baumerster, Miss Josie Bennan, Miss Ida Brown, Wil¬ liam Hill, Miss Tracy Conroy, Ed¬ ward Barderf. George Barderf and Edward Blair were fatally injured. The explosion occurred in the load¬ ing room. Employed in this room were 150 hands, two-thirds of them girls or women. Nearly all of the fe¬ male hands are employed on the load¬ ing machines, each of which require throe operators. The full complement of hands was at work in the room when the explosion took place. Forty feet of the side of the building was blown out and hurled in pieces many feet, and fragments of human bodies were scattered in a sickening manner. Two of the bodies had been decap- itated. Others had been partially torn asunder, and still others had been dismembered. The officials of the company expended every effort to assist in the work of relief. The cause of the explosion has not been determined, and perhaps its source may never be known. Some of those at work in the room at the time say it was due to the fact that a cartridge in process of loading had been improperly placed in the ma¬ chine. The two Barderf boys, working side by side, were tfirown at a tangent out one side of the building. Edward Blair, working ten feet away at ' his machine, was sent upward through the roof. He fell on an ash heap, with broken bones and a frac¬ tured skull, and his legs twisted out of shape. The doctors say he, too, will die. Edward Barderf died after being taken to the hospital. T. G. Bennett, president of the company, expressed the belief that the machine that exploded had been over¬ charged through the carelessness of the operator or powder boy. GOLD MEN ARE HOPEFUL. Executive Committee Members Hold a Meeting In New York. The executive committee of the na¬ tional democratic party, the gold wing of the democratic party, met at New York Wednesday, There were on hand W. D. Bynum, late of Indianap¬ olis, and now of Brooklyn, chairman of the national committee and ex-officio chairman of the executive committee; G. B. Hollman, Rockland, Me.; W. D. Haldeman, Louisville; John C. Bullitt, Philadelphia; George F. Pea¬ body, New York; F. W. McCuteheon, St Paul; W. W. Screws, Montgomery, Ala., proxy for J. M. Faulkner; T. P. Linn, of Colnmbus, O., proxy for L. G. Krauthoff, of Kansas City; Charles J. Canada, New York, proxy for J. P. Frenzel, Indianspolis. There was much disappointment over the absence of the three members of the committee and also because of politicians, who had expected to be present from Iowa, Kentucky and Ohio, to talk over the prospects of the fall campaign, did not appear. T. P. Linn, of Columbus, O., chair¬ man of the state committee of gold democrats, said that the outlook was very encouraging in Ohio. Mr. Linn stated that many of the rank and file who were Bryanites last fall had come to a serious contemplation of their error and would be found with the national democracy this year. At the close of the meeting Chairman Bynum gave out a statement. He said that after a discussion it was decided to assist the states of Ohio, Kentucky and Iowa this fall in their campaigns. GENERAL M’LAWS DEAD. With One Exception He Was the Oldest Surviving Confederate Major General. General Lafayette McLaws, the oldest surviving Confederate major general, with one exception, died at his residence in Savannah Saturday morning. Death was produced by indigestion. General McLaws was born at Augusta January 15, 1821. Ho was graduated in 1842 from the United States milit'-ry academy and gained his first experience on the Indian frontier. In 1851 he was made captain of infantry and took part in the expeditions against the Mormons and Navajo Indians. He resigned his commission to enter the Confederate army as brigadier general. BIG PLANING MILL IN FLAMES. Town of Fayetteville, Tenn., Has a $40,000 Blaze. A forty thousand dollar fire occurred at Fayetteville, Tenn., Friday. The losses and insurance are: Lernis & Williams, planing mill, loss $25,000, insurance $8,000; Atlantic Lumber company, loss $12,000, insurance, $7,000; Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railway, four cars; Middle Ten¬ nessee and Alabama railroad, two cars. The mill employed 75 men. >0 TRANSFERS FOR ATLANTA, Consolidated St root Hallway Wins a Decisive Victory. Atlanta, Ga., loses in her transfer case. The decision of Judges Newman and McCormick squarely knocked the city’s claim of power to require trans¬ fers off' its feet. It left it not a leg to stand on, declaring clearly and defi¬ nitely that not upon a single ground upon which the city had based its claim for authority to force transfers was there legal warrant for the action. It went a step further. It made the remark that the power sought to be exercised went to the extreme munici¬ pal authority even under legislative authority. It is a complete victory for the Con¬ solidated and thoroughly establishes the fact that the company has the right to name its own rate of fare within a certain limit. The decision not only overrules the city’s demurrer, but goes so far as to emphatically deny the right of the city to pass an ordinance requiring the street railway company to gramt transfers. Most of the public and many con¬ nected with the case expected that the decision would be different. It was thought that a special master would be appointed to investigate the case and that the end would not come in pos¬ sibly two years, but the judges have surprised every one with a decision that settles the litigation, so far as their courts are concerned, definitely. CHOPPED WIFE’S HEAD OFF. Anderson’s Small Son Says His Father and Brother Did the Deed. At Tuscaloosa, Ala., George Ander¬ son, aged sixty-two, and son, Wesley, aged fifteen, were arrested Friday on a charge of murdering tbe former’s wife. A seven-year-old son of Anderson says that while the family were trav¬ eling through Jefferson, Tuscaloosa and Shelby counties, old man Ander¬ son held the woman while Wesley chopped her head off with an ax. He cannot tell where the killing oc¬ curred, but says he can lead the way to the hole where the body was thrown in. Sheriff Shirley, of Tuscaloosa, is trying to locate the woman, Anderson claiming that she is in a poorhouse at Columbiana, aud if she is not there the boy will lead the way to where he says the body is buried. CUBA IN A BAD WAY. London Chronicle Correspondent Draw* Gloomy Picture of the Island. The correspondent of The Daily Chronicle (London) in Sagua La Grande, province of Santa Clara, Cuba, writes to his paper a terrible account of the condition of affairs in the island. Both the government troops and the insurgents, he says, are suffering hor¬ ribly from famine aud the ravages of smallpox aud yellow fever, while butcheries of prisoners after inquisi¬ torial tortures are of daily occurrence if the victims be suspected of with¬ holding information. Captain General W’eyler, the corres¬ pondent says, has shown neither mercy nor quaater, and has turned the campaign in Cuba into a near approach to that of duke of Alva on Holland in the sixteenth century. EXPLODING BOILER KILLS FOUR. Naptha Vapor Caused Accident—Beside* the Dead Others Were Fatally Hurt. At 6:30 o’clock Friday evening an explosion occurred on the steamer Nutmeg State of the Bridgeport Steam¬ boat company’s line while she was lying at her wharf at the foot of South street, Bridgeport, Conn., aud as a re¬ sult four men are dead, three others are thought to be fatally injured and a number more are in a serious condi¬ tion. The men were all connected with the boat. Immediately after the ex¬ but plosion an alarm of fire was sounded, the flames were quickly extin¬ guished do aud the firemen had little to but to assist and care for the in¬ jured. The explosion was probably caused by the igniting of naphtha. SILVER AT BOTTOM PRICES. White Metal Makes a New Record for Low Quotations. A New York dispatch says: The silver market was unsettled Friday on the decline in London. Silver bars and Mexican dollars made a new low record quotation for the last two years. The decline since Saturday has been 7-8 for bars and 5-8 for Mexican dol¬ lars. A GHASTLY FIND. Bodies of Twenty-six Infants Found In ft Churoli Tower. Special dispatches from Madrid state that the bodies of twenty-six in¬ fants in rough deal boxes have been discovered in the tower of St. Peter’s church at Seville. It is supposed that wholesale crime has been commitied by the church warden, Orellans and his wife, and they have been arrested. Keene Made Riches Rapidly. The New York Journal aud Adver¬ tiser says that James R. Keene has succeeded in making $2,000,000 in sugar stock speculation during the past few days. LARGEST GEORGIA MELON. Weighs 78 Founds, and Will Be Presented, to President Mcklnley. The largest watermelon grown in the south thin season was shipped from Atlanta, Ga., Monday, for Wash¬ ington, and will be presented to Presi¬ dent McKinley. ’lhe melon was grown in Georgia, weighs seventy-eight pounds, and took the prize of $25 offered by W. N. Mitchell, southern agent of the Balti¬ more & Ohio railroad.