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the age of rich hen.
Ghth'CEATSOMBOF tub FOKTU
j A TE beings in this country.
—, * Hnndrod Million Doltars Means-
Peuvarsuil Ita IUch Mini— How Rep.
naautatlre ■jaaas and ex-Scu-
ntor 11111 Alado Money.
r—— IIE maoon weekly telegraph:
o»v* lnto bUco-tly coUic and James L,*?k brothers are 8 S0 n " lllo ' ;B1 ' £ '' 1 . nnd T
®' T ® n P »’me of the millions hS' L j k Bajno, the Oon^rc-hsiimn, Is worth . mfl.
toohiri'.y. It was not mnr„ S |ft be ^® d made : lon ’ The Camerons live »t Harrisbnnr
Mo that Mark Hooking 31.!^“ •*“ y .*" 8 “ nd falht ' r “ :id “on *re millionaires and thi
y.m, and aichK MduffiLfSF I-hiladelphia has man?
TUESDAY MOItWgp.jroVMlim * rtsr-T», . . PAGES
THE TRIAL OF JOHN MOST, f
ptld. Carpenter In Mall and Eipreaa.
jki, it the age of millionaires, and the
fated Slates has, as a o inn try, more
jfflionaires in proportion to its population
aiiny other. Every one of our cities
sdczrii or more men who are worth
-nines, and when we oome to larger ones
,amber is so great os to be unknown.
„ l'oik has to-day more men worth a
a dollars eaoh than it had fifty y 0n , 8
laneD who were worth a hundred thona
Ij,and the history of the world shows
lifer iastanoea of men starting with
idting who have reaohed the enormona
with of from twenty-five to one hundred
gun dollars. A statistician not long ago
id 10 give an idea of what two hundred
Sion dollars meant. “It woalJ, , 'saldhe
17 taken in silver cover a
_ of nearly sixty acres and
night would be 7,160 tona. It would
• i freight train two mlios and a half
slocirry it, and it contd cot be hauled
ess ttaa twelve locomotives. These
r dollars would be so many that it they
laid one tonohing the other they would
1 a titter streak from Nov York to San
jeiaeo and wonld run half as far again in-
tbe Pacific ocean. If they were piled up
1st upon dollar they would make a solid
:an 355 miles high, and if thoy were
iloto one dollar bills the bills wonld
dj sketch around tha world. If tho
3 sere piled one upon another they
ildreach upwards twelvemlles, and if
i sera sawed together, edgo to edge
a crazy quilt, they wonld cover 746
_a”
it even these figures give bnt little idea
that two hundred million dollars mean.
I per cent two hundred millions brings
nlra millions of dollars a year, or
d; a thonaand dollars a day, not ioclnd-
Sundays. There is Isaiah Williamson,
tilalelphia. who boa made twenty mill-
lolUra in dry goods, and whose tnoome
tt to be a million and • half yearly.
ith> richest baobelor in the United
r, and spends less than two thonaand
s. a year. Welghtman, the Phlladel-
druggist, baa also tw nty millions, and
big fireproof safe is filled with mott-
s -Still he works j cat ms hard as though
ad not a million uollars above lie ex
its, and he experiments In his library
i a ten-eent calioo apron stretched
ad his rotund frame.
xtef Her, the ooal oil millionaire, is
»vjnly million and his inoome ought
four milli in and a half, bnt it is poor
dsrd Oil atook that does not pay more
110 per oent, and Rockefeller's proper-
■eobably paya nearer ten million ttian
He has a hard time to spend it, and
not long ago that ha hoped tbs Lied
Id help biin. Lilaod Stanford la an-
’Of these big millionaire. He is worth
fifty to a hundred milliona and bis
ictveraity is to oost between flfte.n
tvrnty million, He ones thought he
Wng welt as a young lawyer when he
ill,500 yearly fees, and I doubt not ho
' rytitne wnen the nre which bwresd
. r : l.l:u !*...[ In Ciil.r .rill,: :,Lil
none.
thousand* or men hex.
tenures as a rule congregate In the
cities. It la tbero the most
1 Is dona, and it is there that tha
M fortnnes are made and invested,
nneeof the New York millionaires
Too. The palaces of tho mitlionairee
inland line Euclid aranne for milts,
uv.or Palmer, of Mich'gtn, aaya that
1 has a score of men who are worth
m of dollars sod mors, Tha old
*r city of Philadelphia haa many a
“ia and Baltimore, Boston an J Chicago
bigb among the oitiea of tha world
stoles of rich men. New Haven,
fiicut, is a iid to have more weal.h
«; oitter oily of i's sin in tha United
■ but Hunt or Httobell, of Oregon,
that Portland has more, and the
«ii:a of tho West aro.iknown in
** by their mtllionUro represent.-
!’*» Is fast becoming a olty of rioh
M-S raator Tabor owns real catste
firsiiy a million, and ona of the
nKonntas Brothers owns a honse in
worth over a hundred thonisnddol-
lodge Symee, tha red-headed Ooa-
>*o, who bus Jadgo Belmont'* Beat
Bouse of Representatives, has s big
near labor's Opera Honse which
>0 as ranch as a kirg’s ransom avery
It it arms with lawyer*, and Symes
*' up the building for legal offioe*
y iot one of the largeat law librariea
in it for the use of its ocon-
?bio* of Charley Konn'za, tbe
4 biy» are among tbe most enter-
Bn!lir,n>irea of the Untied States.
“71 P"or boy*, they alerted oat from
tv n Ctnton to make their for-
‘ Tney engaged in banking, and
“toetour 1* now worthaevsral mill-
*»° of them have megnifleent
MarNew.Y irk, great atine palsoe*
Now Jeriey monntaina above
•e»n Another has a home in
• »hmh is palatial in its appoiut-
'*°d a fourth has this big hon-e in
Tabor himself lives in a hundred
""ll-r honac. and Senator Hid is
V* worth a million. D. H. Muff*',
■'lent Of the Denver and Rio Graode
eime to Denver aa a bioksdier,
worth three million*, while the
.V'^'ruhera, who brought $‘2,000
,..f.“ 0, tng Llnooln’s presidency, are
nh * million and more Symes
.V??- 1 h'a money in mining law,
neater Hili’a fottneo eomes from
•1L . n of scientific methods to the
*0 Of preelons mttsla. BUI wa* a
Ptofewo, when he cams West. He
•oaea in Wale* and there learned
*°bw-i
. - r-n-saae* of • melting. He earn*
heaver and turned bia knowledge
• He has , )D e employe In hia
•ho g,„ »2o,000 a year, and the
•orka with which he la coonaoted
"a«.T^L , '* r *3,600,000 worth of i re-
, their process. Senator Tel-
““h- Ex-Gov Itiutt ha*
m lui, n L‘‘ Dee Qr “‘ '•> President,
ttSSS* '•*•* me he exoecU to
Hotei.*? *• fibs next ten years.
•id „l b f®, b ®*“ f° r years » State of
•ith*, 1 ?** ( crlnDeB - The whole world
fit?* 1 ?? * u>rt ‘o of ita rich men. The
»Uh.i “•“> dazxlea the eye* of all
fin, rvVP ,n dor of her extravagaoee
^t^t'foroU'a seats in the United
1«... beve been held by men whose
dear t 80 ? , .- ,or ml1 lions, and within
w , * b»lf more dun thirty mitb
l*r h * been removod /rom the IV
IkiJn! 1 R ala boo. tha banker,
““•tlf la 1878, yr ,i in 1871 W.
«* b,n n lnbu btajn Dati
|CS , 2« *• Uvgta died ImZ
* abortly af-er wards E
* 3 *“,* $-1,500,000. la
‘ year Tnd hi?^® 08 * 8 w<,r8le|,a <han $2,000
‘imea that a^nT* W " ’® V " al hUDdr » l1
sre, , Sfs l! jS’* a,s: s*«
amounted to? f,,rm J n ««'ifotnU
snd the value of one of its yearly croDa not
million ?fd P olUrA h6<1 ‘l ,r,e 1«»tew' of a
BtCB MEN or IB* GULDEN STAIN.
The rich men of California of to-day aro
fnlly equal to those of the past Stanford
a put down at $75,000,000 Maokay was
credi ‘f d *“ h *50,1)00,000, aml^uTir
another of tbe boo&Dz* kiuct. with h likn
amount. Hearn |..*td tobi worth aov!
where from five to ten million dollars, and
nam?d ,re Mil7« S*!!'? klDg u in C » U ' oral »
abont ginlirn r5S d I ®5 wbo have made
tw??!,* 10,000 '?? 0 eaoh ’ ,ithln ‘bo past
tadSjffi."' ?® y " Wn ^-W. 000 aotea of
„? dn , tl . d . tb,y have 300 rules of fences.
worth I .‘ he im "‘a 81 ,'! Med for '"'gating is
! Ti ° n dollar ''. » nd tbeir stock con.
‘** C0 '9 00 heftd o* eat-
owns 7nHJi°°° * he . e ?' J '‘ Ln( ' k ?" Ualdwto
SrS!. gc [ eB „ of Iand "» Californta, and
e?erfv. h .? W u^loUppedtrom 10,000 sheep
nno nm ? A H 18 .™ 111 * is ,aIdto be $20,-
000,000 and his inco cels a million a year.
Gtsus Spreekles is tbe sugar king ot the
wodi , II# {*“ nuH'oos upon minions in
sugar plantations, and his Unger revenue
UH SlTrJE aft?*f 18 - 00011 d »y- Bharon
left $15,000,000, and a number of thesu
OlUitornia millionaires have brought their
in W.Ta»“‘t- t0,n0r ®“ BOr de0Ie “ # ,hc "
t n ?i n P 'i¥ nntt ?, gton b *’ added to his pile
during bis residence in New York, and Jim
btta Of* fortune, though I under-
•Una he in fast makiog anoiter. It ia
something of a question as to how John \V
A‘ 8,, A 8y ®‘f nd a*‘ Present, but there is nc>
s?. „V b T i,,g ' ,urtl1 m'bions, end as to
Stanford, his for.nn# iuore .aes so fast that
it U a question with him wbat to do with
hi* income, Tha nnbeat man in 8t L mis
is said to be Girard B. All-n, the amount of
h a fortune being $1000.100. He began
tie as a monlder and made a tor-
tune in fonndriwk He owns some of tho
best real estate in tbe town and has
atooks and bonds in nearly everything
that ta good. St. Loots haa many rion men
.f 1 l yr *y- f** fortnnes, however, are
ra’ber tboae of aecnmnlatlon than of speo-
iltas •*”’ *” d lh ® t0W ° i8 on8 ot old itu '
It is different with Chicago. Host of the
nob men of the metropolis of the Uk-i be-
|UUf$Mpo«rbm and George Pullman,
Pottor Palmer, Marshall Field and Phil
Armour have been the arcbi.ect* of their
own fort one*. Armoor ta asid to bo worth
from SHl.OOO.OOil to $50,000,000. Ho has
“■ pact-1'g -auMMnaintslfi Kid.hb-. Cny
lied Omaha es well as in Ohio,go, and he
e«nd» his meat all over the world. The Far-
well's at*rted poor nud are now rich, nnd
Pnllman'a wealth la estimated at $20,-
■ AVilliam EuglUh, of Indianapolis, ax-
Mee.Presidential candidate, It worth-$1.-
000.000, and Civil Servioe Commissioner
Edgarton, whose lioma is in Fort Wayne,
b*a real estate worth nearly thl.t amonut
OHIO'S ucu MEN.
Ohio bsa many millionaires and they are
scattered throughout tbe vurious conutiia
from Like Erl* 10 the Ohio river. In To
ledo Petroleum V J^u-hby g.ts tho inoome
of a million dollars unt of bia Toledo Blade,
and Eiwin Cowlaa'a paper, the Leader, ot
Cleveland, p*)s a good Intertat on a like
amount. John It McLean receives, it is
•aid, $340,000 a jear from Lit Enquirer
•took, and a prominent Ctdolnnatian aaya
he t* worth |«x million dollar* and b* ia
■till under 50 John McLean end hia father
own nearly amilli n in real estate in Waah-
tng-.on city, atd, like a Lumber ot other
Oolo rich man. they spend their winter*
tnere. John Hay, who received abont
$2 000.000 from the eatate of Auiaaa Stone,
hsa.ia trick palace just acres* irom tbe
While Hull* >, where s twenty years ago, he
worked for leas than $50* week aa L.nooln'a
ptivate s'-cretary. Ilia honao is built upon
ground which coat $6 a foot, and another
Ohio mlllionaireta now eomplellog a real-
detqeln Washington which will coat him
$i(0,C00 oegta. This la to ba the home of
Warder, of Springfield, Ohio, and it will
be the finest house at the capital.
John Sherman, tbe millionaire Benator
from MehaAeld, Ohio, own* a boost at
Washington worth $50,000, and Pendleton,
onr millionaire b inister at Berlin, baa one
there of a lik« value. Hugh J. Jewett, who
enmea from Z meaville, Ohio, now Uvea at
Washington einri! g the winter, and ba 1* a
millionaire He reaeived for many year* a
•alary of $40,000 a year irom tb> Erie rail
road, and ther* ia a daughter of Nick Ling,
worth wbo live* in Wellington in fine
atyle Nicholas Longworth waa a Cincin
nati millionaire who dbd in 1862. leaving
whom $10,0.0,100, and among some ol the
other Cincinnati millionaire* who have died
recently arc Reuben Springer and John
Sbillito, eaoh of whom left large fortune*.
Gbarhs Foster live* at Foaturia, 0 He
ia worth $5,000,000, and haa made a nice
Iking out of the natural g*a which waa
lately discovered in ibat partot bia Stale
Heii connected with the Northwestern
Oa* Company, wbfeb is said to b j a branch
of the Standard Oil Company and which
owua tbe leases of tbe beet gaa territory in
Ohio. Tbe Standard Oil Company has
made many Oolo men rich and the Stand
ard Oil millionaire* of tbe country are
nnoitrcos. Some of these live tn Cleve
land. and Rockefeller ia aald to be worth
$70.UUO,OUU, John Honnington get* $80,000
a year irom this source, and Sam Andrews,
who baa a hundred thousand dollar palace
on Enolidaveunc, lately received a check
for* million dollar* foraoma of bia Stand
ard Oil aleck. Oliver Pains i* laid to be
worth $12 000,000, *U mad* ont of Stand
ard Oil, and I di-nbt not that a part of
Senator Payne's $4,000,000 oomes from the
tame iourc#.
Bnt there are other* than Standard Oil
millionaire* In Cleveland.
J. H. Wade, who organlzid the Western
Union Telegraph Company waa not worth
$1,000 when h# earn* Writ a* a vouog car-
K ter, and he is now worth million*.
•h, the electric light inventtr, still nn
der 40. has mada $3,000,000 out of his in
ventions; snd btevenion Burke, startup
Uf* as e pour lawyer, has made himstlf a
millionaire frora Ms specially of railroad
law end he Istalj got e single fee of IV.-
LOU The milhonrirte of P.nnt)lr..ni* ere
too many to m»mlow. Carnegie, of Pittz-
hnrg, ia worth $»,0U0,0<W. and 1 : p t) a <*-
of us foreman e "*• ••'£;* 1
Praeldant of the United liew
Iiltt ’ h »munS5rthe
nohAflt old bachelor in tho United Staten
bas made$l5.OOO'O. 0 ont of dry goods, and
.Til. • Glb ] on baa “ade $7,000.0X1 in dis
tilling, and A^J Cwsatt the r.ilroad man
1? oSvwvSP? Cbarlemsgne Tower
olSth 0 ^.’ 00 ? Northern Pacific lands,
n”iirm ' B ^’.1 a ' a Oil Company Las nnt $8,.
0,0' co ° into the peckete tf W. G. Warden.
Thomas Duian has $2,000,000 irom m.rn
«f| l nrin B V and v. F ' J A ' °rexel left about $25,-
CWO.OOO whon bn died. No one knows what
George W. Childs is worth, but hit income
ltd U?,tT n!ih f? k £ ep P 1M '*»b hit ohari-
^ heoould.dura to give « uczt
n}?.-?.„ t S rUl “‘ nen "’ “ ,te ““o offered Mrs,
Cleveland every month tnd have monnv to
A P !* r f.‘. p '"6««y. the editor of tha l'hila-
delphia Iteoord. is a millioDntr- Elverson,
!??h P ??i'r er °l J 8 ® Saturday Nigut, iaalso
rioh, and Frank UrLungblio. cf tbe Times
has an inoome of $80,000 a year from his
Btoek in th® paper.
The newspaper propriety of tho United
states embrace many rioh man among their
number, and Editor Abell, of the Balti
more Sun, bss made, it la said. $15 0)0.000
out of it. The Garret’s, of Balumire, two
oSsafta:!”""""" 1 " ”“ i * «•
Senator Joe Brown is, perhaps, tl
"S»“ ‘ba Booth. lie lives in
an d his iccumo it from $500 to $1,000 a
day. Hal Dolimy, of Virginia, is said to
have an inoome of over $200,COO a year, and
, 1er ®.,? T ® » number of millionaires seat-
tered through*-ut th® Southern States.
FBANg O, OABriNTEB.
NAVAL STOIttS M,N.
General Convention of Producer, to be
Held »t tied tip ThU Week.
SeT&QDRb New*, 21et.
A geu^rel cuQveuUon of the naval stores
producers of South Caroline, Georgia and
Florida haa been called by tho Naval Stores
Manufacturers’ Proteclivo Asiociation, to
bo held at Jesnp on Friday. It la an
nounced that the object ef the meeting ia
tha discussion of tho naval stores question;
that the numerous evils under which tho
producers are now suffering will be review.
, , that a strong effort will ba made to
Inaugurate acme practical and business
Snii—*? Bft T° th « turpontino in
duatry from destrnotlon.
^ t0 "“ Pfoducm’ As-
sooiatinn haa been invited to tend a repre-
aeotatiou to the convention. P
It is just about a year since the Naval
S.orea aaunfssttnrers Protectiva Aarosia-
tton otmeinto txlstonee. and during this
lime ita oHoeri aud members have labored
Zralously to carry ont tbe aims and pur-
pose* of organ!zn'lon. Theta were foroiblv
ei pres ted and embodied in the “resoln-
V??" 1 - Dp V th ® Btvannah moetiog,
Nov. la. 1886, aud uoanimonily adopted bv
ibe oonvemton. The tcommittee whiob
prepared these resolutious corsiated of A.
. ? r ?, nll * y .‘ J<>1 ' n Uorriaon, WiUtam Let-
ford, 0. B. Parker. D. C Newton and 0. B.
Townsend. The resolutions stated and de
nned, tn no nncerUln terms, the p>|.
uon of this association on certain of the
leading questions then at issue, viz; tUe
• bortiog swindle; the profit on inspection
har^-.l j.rudtKvr* Isv ovnniij f MC :or- -L.
virtual • l m*nipaUtion ,, bj tho factor® of
the sworn dty ioapaoton into private olarka
and dvpcndout attaches; the emission from
ftjconnt aalei of tarptnlino and roiin of
the name of-the pnrohator; tho excessivo
freights charged by tho rtilroad* for tho
traosportatlnn of roeir; and, finally, the
"over-production" of naval stores, with no
nrgoot appeal to producers to out I-os boxei
and reduce their g>noral operations.
Toe circular osll for the Jteup convention
reviews the pa t year’s wo k, and adds that
tbe naval stores tmarest hsa much to bs
thankful for in what bos been accomplish-
THE VIRGINIA VOTB.
The Democratic Majority 011 the Popular
Vota—Kstluiates.
Bicbmond, V*, November 23,—Dr. J.
D. Pendleton, elerk of tbe State Senate,
who baa been figuring for several hours
to day upon tha oflloial returns of tha re
cent diction tor member* ot tbe Legis
lature us received by the Secretary of tho
Commonwealth, lorotahea tbe folio*tog
figure* (leaviog ont tha oonnty of Nanas-
mond trom which there are two returns:)
Total Demccrailo vote 119,655; total R^
rnblioan vote 116,940; Democratio msjor-
ly In tha State on in* popular vot* 2,616.
Tb® flrat return from Ninserannd gives
tbe «*)publiosus a majority of 359, leaviDR
a net Dtmtcra io majority of 2 20C,
In the oonnlie* of Amelia, Greenville,
Nottoway, Stafford and 8nsi«x there wars
no Demcoralio nominees for tbe Honse of
Delegatee, and eonstqnently no Democratio
vole waa polled. These eonnties gave
Governor Lea 3.352 vote*. Clark county
bad no Repnklican nominee for tbe Home,
bnt polled 81 vote* for the R.-pobltoan Sen
ator. This indicate that had the five conn-
tic* named polled tbiir Damoo.atto vole the
Democratio majority in the Slate wonld
hi-ve been abont 5.5U0.
BOUGHT OFF.
Uow the Chicago Gai Tru.t Dlipoaee of
Troublesome Litigation. ■
Cbicsgo, November 23 —Tbe (great gat
ttnai, which lately bought a controlling in-
terestinel! th-gs- eomptil-e of the d'y,
is credited ly a morniog paper with having
bought off its latest opponents, who ware
fighting tbe treat in tbe conrt. Tt* plain
tiff wa* tha Utffman estate, of New Yuik
city, which owned 400 share* in the Chic mo
Gaa L'gbt and Coke Company. Lata jes-
n r lay tha sltorneya representing tbe eeute
rceeivrd a diepatob direeling them to di*.
miss all proceedings, as tha eatate had mad*
•atti factory strung menta with tho trust.
It U not known aa yat what th* iroat paid
theUcffman estate for the 40t) share*, or
wbat iodooemec'* were bald ont to them to
drop lb* auit. When tha oaae came Uf-rt
Ju'ga Tnley thi* morning tbe attorney.
for tha plaintiffs moved to hay* it dim,:.-id
at their coat, and thaooortaoordered. Tbia
i* th* secood time aniUbrought ag-iu.t the
Trust hare coma to naught.
JKlt-ShY CITY ItaS ONE.
The Omn'prnent Uwapipe Ilouib Pound
Lying Around Loo$r, u (
JzaaZT Crrr, N. J., Novtmber 2t—A
piece of gaspipe about two iuchi-s in diam
eter and fiftein inches in lcogth, plugged at
both ends aud with puce* of gun cotton
protrn jinv, wag foond this event! g n D the
sidewalk at the Fet.D.jlv.nla ferry in Jer-
acyCit,. It wag UOaVcd to he a bomb
and no one appro— 1..d it.
At I. 1 „".h u a.. ' r. t:j bl uo li,',. of
Policeman Enoch Ricbtri-i. u,t i , , . ,-.i
THE WATB PM8BHTS ITS CASE
AGAINST THE RANTER.
Cb» 4 B*d Only . Ml.dem.anor-
Teatlmoo, onvilnr,.,, f„ r the M ,. to .
aa to Mom’s Langimue at tho
Anarchists' atcetlng.
Nxw Yobx, November 23 -The work of
Retting ajary for the trial tf Johann Moat
the Anarchist, was continned to day. The
conr room was filled with interested spec-
r,# Tb® eleven jnrora obtained yester-
div were in their aea*t. Patrick Hall, a
real estate broker, took the twelfth seat.
lbojnrcrNo. 3, Pawnbroker Fox, was ex-
cased, and Hamnel Wormser lock h!z p!a:»
Jnror No. 2, a lfqoor dealer, Carroll^ was
rxoused, and John L. Rtdgman, a grooer.
was chosen. Both side* announced uatii-
faotlon with the jary. whloh was immedt
fttely sworn.
Assistant District-Attorney Niooll opened
b®, P. wo t,r ‘b® people Tbe language
that the prevention will endeavor to prove
Moat used is thi,: "Every person con
earned in tUt tragedy (tbe hanging of the
Chicago Ajaretists), from beginning to
end, is marked for extinction. Involution
is at hand. (4 voice hero cried: "Why
not begin tonutiirj "Again, I say,
ABU TOtJ&SKLTU FOB BITOLUTIOM.
i,th ® bomb, stronger thin the
Gatling gnrt cr other weapons. It kills
fifty at ouoe. Grlnnell shall be the first
that comes, Gsry, the jndgee of the Sn-
preme Gonrf ot 1 llnots and the jndgis of
the United Statoe Snpremo Court. And lot
Oglesby not think he will eseape because he
oommoted two of them."
Mr. Niooll told tbe jury that the clause
of the penal code under which tbe indict
ment waa brongnt provided that any assem
bly of three or mors persona at which was
threatened any nnlawfnl act was an unlaw-
fnl assembly and tbe participants were
guilty of a misdemeanor. There wonld
donbtlesa b. a great deal said abont the
CONSTITUTION AND TUCK 8FEIcn
bnt tbesam* constitution provided that the
abase of fre* speech should bo pnnlthed.
Mr. Mooli said his wltotssee were De-
tcouvei S.ctf, Roth and Stmnei Drryfnss
a roportor tor the city prors association, all
of wham understood German and had
made notes af the meeting.
Colonel Ftllows wlU sum up for tbe
proseontlon.
Detective Rotb was th* first to take tbe
witness stsLd. He told how t-e and his
brother offletr were present nt the meeting
ia disguise and gave a dot tied account of
wb«it wm »h:J Hod done.
John J. 8acbs, another doteotlve, oor-
roliorated Italb in full.
Simon 8. Dreyfnse, a reporter, waa next
called, aod on motion of Mr. Howe ail the
witneeee* bad to withdraw while his testi
mony waa taken. About suventy-flve went
ont. This wltneas corroborated tho other
witnes&fa ^nbetAntialiy. A m&u sat next
him at the meetiog who jamped up, Ha\iu*;:
"Why not to-daj? XVe're ready.” Slot
ennolndod by saying: "lam aa Anarchist.
Rite, ausr.hy, long may It live.” Witness
tnonght it time to get on*, which he did.
Ho did not tako notes htctnse ho did not
wont to
n* ctnnixn out deid.
Witrwu Zta «ot —.t „ uiu-iQ nod i tha so-
vere aroin-eximioatlon.
Joseph 0. Brants, a detective, wsa culled
to testify ooncernlng tho book of Most's,
described as a tnanntl of revolutionary war
fare, to chow what Moat meaot by the An
archist* weapon*. Tha bock oould not be
allowed in evidence, so witness was tx
MM
Mr. Nlcoll here rested and tbe conrt ad-
j named, and tbe jary wero allowed logo
noma to Iheir Thanksgiving dlnmr. Moat
was placed in the enstody of bta counsel.
A CHANCE FOR BRAINS.
OfT.rof a Large R „ »„i For an Invention
For Riterwlnatlog Habblia.
New Yoax, November 24 —The firm of
B. W. Cameron A Co„ of tbia olty. who are
•gents for tho government of Now Scuth
Wales, ore in receipt ot a oommnnlsation
ottering a reward by Ibat government of
$125,000 to American inventor* for a pro-
otaa wntoh will txtarminata rabbit*.
Th* rabbi a, wU.h were introdnned Into
Aostr-liaand New ZvaUnd in 1804, have
increased to inch an tx antas to txoome
a dangerous peat, and bow threaten to de
stroy lh* ih ep paatnrigs of tho entin
country. 1 he m^nttode o' the evil and
tha urgency cf the case are indicated by the
amount ot tha reward, which, at tba ume
time, Is ixpresalon of confidence in Ameri
can legenntty.
TWkNTY GRAINS OF MOIilTlINF.
Attempt or a Vonng Manat Rome to Com
mit Hnldde.
Nome, Ga , November 24.—L. D. Ed
mondson, 26 jean of age, a young man of
prominent Rally, attempted to oommlt su
icide this morning at 6 o’clock. Hs had
been drinking heavily for a week or ten
dtyi and waa tery low-spirited. Ho awal.
towed twenty grains of morphine and aa
soon as the f*u.l dote was taken he sent for
Us brother, who summoned a physician.
Thera ia a ban obane* that ha may live.
Rnrned Oa tba MU.U.IppI,
UruruiK, ftnu.. November 23—Tba
ataamsr Goarlu P. Cboteau, which left
I’*'* Ratnvdsv for New OH*op*, «■ burned
this morning near Vicksburg. The total
number ot bales on board tbe Gbolean
when *he burned waa 4,500 and 4 000 sack,
of oil_ otke. She waa about to back ont
from.tha landing whin fire wa* diaeuvatad
among the ootton. Toe lost men wore a
German deck passenger and a negro nsmsd
Jeokiua, who waa on* of ber firemen.
Seven race bonce that were on board were
burned. TUe^ paa^g,,, |o,t nearly all
thetr clothes. When tha alarm wsa Bounded
th* oraw of the steamer made a gallant at
tempt to extinguish tbs fire, bnt it h*d
gained too great a headway. The fire oo-
carred yesterday afternoon at 5 o’clock.
Hal It not been discovered until after the
boet had left tbe landing nearly all on
board wonld bava perished.
&d irsnii
stion of •
tenfalij.
ATlirlfiy Jonrnil,
Tork San.
. JMbgUnce n{tin atone of tbe most ix-
‘ r “f irdn ‘ r , r "peotacUs ever presented t y
any prominent American newspaper w e
“>• d «able back-action, ‘simultane?
ously roveistble csnvdss of tho Atlsnin
thaUown. 011 f ° r ® Dd * gainst Prehibiticn m
The JIacon Telegraph printed a few davs
ago a c irtoon which tbows some Uht urn
on the mystery of .he OonsUtnUon? &
tnde. Tnree gentlemen stand upon tho
oonnterin the publication ifflea 0 t that
journal. On ono aide is Ovptsin Evan P
Howell—aometlmi a oailid Colonel and
Ut?iV. n?? ^*J 3 G hot h s correct miliioty
Uin no- ii g | Ven ‘ n,b# °' c,0 P' d "- Oap.
« 11 8 ro Rreaet.te(l as serving a
from .*i my ,i u 0f ,hri,ly ■nbBoribera
"R™.K„ d *® J /? hn OOD, P iot 'onriy l.i’jcll d
Bourbon. On tbe o:ber side is Mr.
Henry W. Grady, who U ludustrbu.lv
»i7i?i" ,ffi,ron ? ,hroc S 0< Prohibition-
II W n lb c ,® •'“let from » big silver rilcher.
ennmit| a “ d r ar8d i y ’ *“ ,b ® f,,,c ''® of 'heir
oonfliotiug fanolions, stand baok to back •
bnt looming abowa both of them, with one
«" l,Dded ia benrdiotion over tho head
h»I,A®w OU ^ bon .L Wbl8ky ® dl,pr - “od theotber
hand blearing the labor* of tbe Ice water
M?' win !hlrd . flinre—undoubtedly that
in.% ' v ‘ d 'tui AciioUltion Hemphill, now
lntrodnoed to the pnbllo as the principal
proprietor of the Constltmlon, and the boss
of both Ho veil and Grady.
Acorreependem in AilanU anpplies ub
wnb an in teres ting account of tbe relations
existing between tbia gentleman, compara
tive y unknown at the North, and the
world oelebrtted Grady, and tbo almost
equally ronowned Howell. The theory is
planttole, for it exaotly tits tho facta of the
present astonlsbiog stinnUnn. Grady i* a
pry. red hot for prohibition. Howell's
Pif 8 «, aDd aon ‘ aro enlisted in the canse of
the \\ ols. Eaoh editor is tnrniog out every
day columns of editorial matter for and
against prohibition, auil the Constitution
prints all tho manusoript that its editors
oan supply on either aldorf tbo snbjsot
marks ts all "Commnnioatid," ».d chirgea
for inserting it at the nanal rates for read
icg notices.
For example, here in the ConaUtntiin of
last Wednesday is a signed artiole by Capt.
llowell, marked "Conimanic!ted,"nnd con
taining this passage:
■J*™ '• p« » Ohrlittsn nation in the woilJ
' a *' recoanl** lliinor. beer, and wine ae
an article of o-mmerce. it M n.ed for varlon* eur-
'1 f 0 ® 4 •» tbe neme. kiteS.
l£!! r Y!kI. n4 , u, °" ,n •’•7 department of Irta. m
one form or anotaer. AtU&ls to a commrrctol
4 ,b»a b«n train np Inside of a tnird of
croee-roadj plactooiM etoty
“"V *S®SSl ,h ® 5“Pl® of Attonto be compelled
vo go to Ortffln snd other plsrei to snpplr th.ir
in purohAilog the. “■PPUinwr
•* lr tomporano* .r. grestor undtr tbl.
prohibition tow than *vir under .i.n lh. .ut* of
a*f*h* •“•* *8* Honor tr.fflc .ai wl-hout r*-
JSuni.n.®*’* **® u i° Allsata(lac.lSMstaioet
cooUDuvlly, .xcvpt when In th* »rmy. I have
C l,,T *J*V“ , “°h 1 .e »«>rd aa w. h.v. msd. In th.
I tw.lva months, let w. nr* told what gnat
•ttto remit from prohibition." ®
In the next oolnmn is the subjoined
hoop for tbe Drye, conceived in Grady's
well-known editorial atyle, bnt also wiaring
the lgnominlous brandof “Commnolettcd":
terday •’ r °b" , "* 0B l*'s were In .good humor y*e-’
They era In a bettor humor Ibis morning. R to
the utto who are mad and who are dr.lln* oat
KlPLtK 1 h “!.w“ "•“tf!* villein*, end
SKTih^Votr 8,80 m
Prn't yoo know th.t if tba sntto hadlh.i.r.
SIW"” nu ‘
Dot It u tbe probititlonlsts wbo imll* sod tho
him ta ho Aro mail.
rrK* . laatiAA m«*l » IXtaJUfu> Ot Ur* vain:** .
SRRlnftprohlbltloa 1« sward. No man UUovm it
and no man will Mrioutly tMort It Tbo prohibit
JlonUts will get over three Ottht of ths wblM roto,
Uksllsr two-lblrds. and the balance am t ULlng
around In food shat «• The mom ter maatlt v Mo u
V *»*d« the antic mad. *
Bsniombar tbia. Il ain’t the f.Uow who U iat
tlcg heal that smUss. Ua U the fellow that gets
mad and calls everybody acoundrtls and hypo-
A LASH FOR KAt’H IiiiRFAR.
HOW FTVfl BtUNDBRING NKGItO
FOBGBH8 WERE PUNISHED.
They ERct Itetwcen tho Law and tho i i.-i*
Divide Five IIa« rt n-d Lmhe. h\.
tw.cn Them, Admlnl.tertng
Eneh to Another hi. Do.e.
All ihe problbl loniito have to do to to conllnn.
towotk. and th.y will ....p the city and county
like a whirlwind. Ueuimher. It to th. oth.r r.i-
low. who si. tt»d and .r. howling.
And turn u that charmiDg humorist.
Uncle Rrmns CbaodUr, enliated, a. It np
lean, on Grady's tide r*ih«r tlmu on
Howell s aod compelled, llko his nss,ctat a
to send bia plantation philosophy to tht
rreea by tbo ronndabont wsy it the count
ing room:
_ .. . iOommnnlcited J
v V*. ,r *t B * hiper, -II. .o'
dM-Tli d. 8^ n*.U."“ 1, ' , ‘ Ik -< lr 4u b '- M »»»«
MBa&ariSpKssaSE
m c JJ»h* far he Mggla' eoal in de
rniLCff tawi day a burnt ont ar meuya man.
1 eonta ae )lne la d. much de udd.r nil
£!*®*»h tafwws ertrahblln' me wld de roomuiz
trail .tad ot d. sldewtlk «n' ...d d4' ptroMhoa go
•jwtowalrtMraa, en' I «« t.r »,*-y^wK
I:i5i5’d‘. , uw c d':is^'“' b “ wui 8
t« da opery bon*
■f •• W down lar da ork»«Urebalra au aw tf
In Memory of Irtob I'wtrlots.
I'u.LADki.rsiA, Nov-u.her 23 -The twen-
►th woDiferikry ot th- martyrdom of Ihe
h b A,la “v L'f®" »"d
bnen. at Menchestar, Ergl.n.l, W.soom-
n'. 7'o b * pDbl,c in Indoitrial
n 2 I * r 1 th " B»BP' C '« tl 'he
CUu N* G«l. N.arli f 0:lr i|. o0 .«,„t
were preeenL The ,-r-monie*
a opened with ii,,irnm-ntal an I
vocal mnsis, euntiitirg cf sriectiocs cf
i. The singing of
'1 8r»-r*t entno«iaM!L
uencun
non
nd Iri«h air
rii*u Houga arcn4*
at.il met with thundera o
»lcr Biddleherger.
-v-mr.ir. cl. .-.I ti
11 It
• aded.
• hich
proaLd.t”".L r ‘' ,eJ ^ Colijalt ws. 8 *
I dMnkaowwhsdderbllwas de .FmIs ob de
wslr hose meertn or whedder .umiln .idled la d.
SJJJR’tbwt] f*l' I**, man, de Uo.ej m.a. wssaiad
yeiUddy, A r.ll.r cud er picked an er dghl aoy.
Ah.’^h™'*- * humpt “nma mltoy “p
Meanwhile, no reader of the Constltntion
who looks to the editorial oolnmns ef that
navapaper to ascertain it* position with re-
«V d *°‘ba horning question of tbe day
vrill find a word for or against prohibition.
Mr. William Acquisition Hemphill is not
only absolutely oantral. as between Howell
and Or* 4 y, Bint bon wblvky and to* water,
both* is also abiolntaly aitacL Every,
body els* in Atlanta haa an opinion
and a atrong desire to express that opinion.'
Mr- Hemphill, aatnte and thrifty gantleman
rXK,SiE“.K‘t?;51S “S.S;
ahcold buy tha Constitution to read Grady's
eloquent appeal* and imputioaed dmcrip-
tlone of ihe evil* of intamperanoe, and that
the Anti-Probibitionlslg should alto pm-
fi *. tb ® 0oo * utB rion in orJgr to atndy
Howellla imuterly demonstiaiions of the
min which a oontinnsnoe of prohibition u
sura to work wpon Athnta’s boiioeu In-
Dreata and future prosperity. Thna the
nswapaper is tb* org«n of both aid**, gets
Um'political advertising from both parties
and U act It Ally in position to m<ko ita o *n
inVrinr P * y t0r tb ® priTil, 6» of appeariog
Wss tha like ever seen befor<? It fs a
neat arraowmeot all aronod. \V* eongiat-
ulate Mr. William Acquisition Hemphill.
Visited by Their Wives.
J°i, ct. Ill , Now-mbtr 23,-FleIden and
rtcLwar,, >he Ansr-histe. Were, fur the first
time, Vtoited by th.ir wive, st the prison
tods,. TO* Visitors were Derived In the
waiticg r.om. Ru'.h pnsoLen donned
dtu-rs , dhee, a* is the en-tom when
convicts r.« -;v. a r«Ut*v» p. 'j ,, , . t i
eontlilerabl*feeling. The m-uL was sf.
iecung but tet d.unnetra'ive.
Columbia, 8. C., November 21. [Special.]
leaterduy a bungling attempt at forgiry
wns mrnlo in L incaster by a woman n-imed
Henrietta Brooks, who had for Ler ftccom-
pHoss four oilcred man. An order fur
$o00, payable to batrer, purporting to bo
from a nspeotable and well-to-do farmer,
WiB pnsjntod to Messrs. Heatb, Spring A
Oo., of Lanciakr, by a negro.
The ba 1 apelling and nncsual worJiog of
^ ca ""® d aa iuvcHlfgtlion to bo
made. One of tho men beosm • birhtened
and oonfersed tha wbolo thing. Tno wo-
man Henristta hnd devised the schame and
had drawn up tbo forgiry. All the partita
were arrtaiod and brungat
Toorruxa in a boom.
..rPfrr , wtat by With iv.od other and It
was dtetded, Imtond of proei i-ntiug them
to make them iDfliet propir pnntsbmehl
np.n each other. Keen whalcbouo whips
were procurod and eaoh wss made to ail-
mioister twenty lushes on an other, making
ono hundred lashes each, pr a lash for
forgery 8r bbay 4x P ec ‘®d t° get by tho
Whon the five hundred lathes had he«o
a””™ as stated th® floor win bloody nud
the five victim! were allowod to depart.
A TOBACCO FAIR.
Danville Gets up a Novelty In the Wsy of
»«» Exposition.
Danville, November 21—The first to
bacco fair ever held ia this part of tho
country opened here this morning with a
big trades parade, in whloh all branohes
of mercantile and mannfsctnriog bn.ir
were represented and in which tho dlsDlsv
wos very fine.
After tho prooesiion bad disbandoi tho
peopl* wore addressed, at tbo academy of
mniio, by Hon. B B. Dtvir, and then
t"?. 0 ? 1 , d b* ‘b° ,wo immense exoo-i:ion
bmldings, when ibere I* n fin* trade d *-
ploy and mvgnifi jent txhlbiti of briuirtte.
baooo. No Bitch display of tobsc • > L.t*
ever been seen in this slate, and the f *■ r ,,
a great snocoss. Fromtoent tohaco . men
aro here from all parts of tbe eonotrTaod
ar* dehVbt.d uiih the exhibition. The
oily to night wav illumlnm,.1 hmI th«r«,
•’"* an exhibition of fire-work*. rhrou K i
of visitor* Were nut to toe the display.
SOU TI IE ltN I ,UTI I kBANS.
.51*1 ling .,r III* Unit.,I NynwO In Uinut
Vwstwr.tay—Ofilcoi's lileclrd.
8avannab, Ga., November 21 —The
United Synod of tbe Evauguiical Lqttraran
Church in tho South began tt* hi., idul
convention in this city to-,Uy. The body
id compoaed of deli-gate t from the synod* of
Virginia, Wost Vngiuia, Tenniss**, N.rth
Carolina, S.ntb Carolina, Georgia, and
Misalailppi, and wpreaonts In,(am
OipsnU of the Lutiun*n Church. Hjv.
" • li - ^•WUI, of Wiloiir i; mu N, (j
ptMsdeot of tho Synod, preached th© syn
odical sermon this taming, #
The body organlked rt is n'ternoon. Hnd
after Deriving tbo Pn snlent'a rei.urL
elected the followltg offliwn: PmiudnL
S ,T ' £ T 1J Uorn ; D • U . nt South Carolina;
Vie'-Prcsldent, Rev. T. H. Enkel, D. D.. of
\ irgiM.; S.erotary, Rev. A. L. Crouse of
v??,n“n V0 '„ T ' 8 "S'. cr ' VV ' ^ Uirriet, of
North C*roliLft. Tbo synod wilt uko up
vi w ,° , before it to-morrow and will prob.
atly be in aontiion h week or more.
Hanged bj » ftlob.
FnxDXkKat, Md.. November 23,-Jo'tn
:M° ro i c b" r K ed w “b lelonlons
"• 80 ' t .°, n ir , M - Y ®»bl®. »" aged white wo-
SSLvrS bu *’ r aa ua " n 'rem ja : l nt 1
o clock this morning ami hanged to u tre*
atom a quarter of u ndlo from the prison,
RgUi d. eurod his innocence and's.,d Joo
U. I. another colored man, wa* tba perpe-
trator of tbeananlt. Tbe sb riff deund
a Imiision to the masked lynch, r-, who bat
tered down the doors and took tbalr vie-
Bits rsw. !i f,om hl ® “>*; w hco the place of execn-
nlto. csw. tl „„ was roaebod Blgu. aaked time to pray,
which ws* grunted him. After ho
drawn op to a limb of lhotre„tbroo pis-
tol shot* were flrod into hia body. *
Killed liy tho Kaglno.
Boston, Novambcr 24 — A team contain
ing 1 atrlek D. Gorman, WilliamnndCh ,ilta
HAnnon, aBd Joaaph llmko, was driven
ihroogb tbe ufely g*i os at tho Boston and
mo T. C n°, ? g . 8t , W, "‘ N ®* u »‘ ‘bi. oven-
g i'.1 ,08t ‘b® g»t* waa broken off
and the team gained the track. The b,ir-e*
"“ 80n “re | {»ble. turned und fol-
-ota ^ l8 ', 8 .”, d • b '’ w *R° n and4'* neon,
pant* were qnlekly ovartaken by • ualn
I?.V* c ~b*d into th* rear of the vehicle,
kllllog the two Hannons, fatally injuring
Burke and badly hrni'ing Gorman. g
llurlal «,r Father Allen.
New OaiEAi-s, November 24—St. Pat
LitVrSrik'f. 11 "?,* d ' d ‘bi» morning
with Catholics from all over the city, to
“??“■ J 11 * 8 ®* raonlim ortr tho re
main* of tha Vary B*v. Mgr. Patrich Fran-
Jlen, pastor of the chnreb, wbo di-,1
irtay morning. Tb* cbnreb and altar
draped with mourning and ih« «ffin
WMsnrroaoded with a prolusion of flawuriT
The remsins of the deoeurd wi«s deposited
In Ihe rsttlt of Ue ohurch beside Uiom.. t i
Maulm* 4 * 0 *" 0 "’ l ab ®" and
Did Not Want to Join.
Uwmcevlllo Herald.
Frakn Clowaon was waiting on the 8nn«.
rior Coartss a baillffa t, rrn nr two back
H* alapt with one >.f the j imr*. and
they bad retired Frank askrd hi* obom
Hra*k^| b ? , ^ 0II8bt a b# Kn, K l " M Ol L,M.“
I!i« bed fellow replied that ho did not know
much abont th#m. but if it «^ I “ ,
thing he would join. “ * Kood
Frank aaid no con'd ir iusv him that
night’ and that all a Knight h .d to do w^
to * 8 keep serstching.®*
••I have bid the itch abont two vd* tt r4 *
slid l r«ink, “ind Jon will be s full mealmr
by morniLK
" n . b .l Wa , td "P n<xt ““fllR Frank
• “ tbat th ® °‘b'r fallow was lying on the
,h d r8ili ? K ‘ 8nd 'bore wos a ridge between
them .a bigs* a potato row, win, th« bol-
-fr pllu.1 on top Of It. Ho eonoinded that
hU room mate did not war.t to “jino. ’
i Cm, November 21
d “
tntm^ntof Jr.
ur th.
Lt\. ni : \’x , S v
] hnra :.l ,,j.. l c!
dnel I.,,-,,1 |,
and w ,s . ,
loot Friday. They t.
I bound '.%*r »o kr* i
of $4,1*1) sarh.
“ nd "iWUm-roid
I'hi ip«, in an Intel
-i: II v - receiv- ,i ,
' h ► Al | I, tluel.t > ,
Jonr-
i-n I’hl'lip*. o?
of the fr*ou-
S j 4i k *
h- i
ldl(t
• foru i$tioQ
i-ti tutfda.
jft'g*
Conrt u,
v* <-: ill*-