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Spring Place Jimplecute. CARTER & HEARTSELL. Ppopbmtobr VOLUME XL ANOTHER TRAGEDY. MiSS RI'HriF. OF PUNTA GORDA. SHOOTS HER LOVER. A Girl Loves Xot Wisely but Too Well A 111 Created a Se.idaYlon—She Shoot, Her L. .ver aril tried to Kill Herself Tlie I.it la Village of I’unta Gorda la the seeue of a Tragic Kndltig of a Bore Al¬ taic Rautow, July ?<i.—The hour of 1 o'clock yesterday morniug saw the trag e ending of a tc.ve affair at Punta Gor da—in which Howard Bivens was fatal ly wounded by >li-w Ixse Ritchie of that place. Bivens for some time past has t**on quite attentive to Mias Ritchie, but of late his attentions have ceased, he having told her that he saw that she was beginning to care too much for him, that he was already engaged and lutd no seri¬ ous intentions with her and had only lssen visiting her as a friend. It was here that the matter ended until the evening of the 14th, when Bi vens received a note from Miss Ritchie ashing him to call that evening, He declined the invitation but was urged by a second note to come as she wished to see him very much, Biv , ns then decided to go. lie was cordially welcomed by her and ihe evening pawed off very pleasant¬ ly until 11 o’clock when her mother came iu to the parlor aud reminded them of the fact that it whs quite late. Biv¬ ens arope to go but. Miss Ritchie insisted upon nis remaining longer and turning to her mother remarked “Molher, Mr. Bivens and I wish to have our talk out and I insist upon bis remaining longer, don’t hurry him off, you won’t tie both¬ ered with him a-zain, this is fhe last time he wiii ever come here.” Mrs. Ritchie left the parlor. Bivens noticed a very pretty 33 calibre revolver lying upon the table and made some casual remark alwut it. Bee then arose picked up the revolver and flour¬ ished it around rather recklessly and seemed to be trying to nerve lierself for something. He then ttaliited what her intention was. He a rose, seiz>vl her, and tried to take the weapon away, but he was not strong enough fur she threw one anivaround his neck and with the other fired the probably fatal shot. The ball entered just under the left nipp’e pass¬ ing so near the heart that the doctors say he cannot recover. As he fell he said “you have killed in*-. - ’ She replied “I intended to and now I will Kill myself.” This she tried to do but the pistol failed to fire. With a master effort Bivens jumped up and tried to take the pistol from her and it the struggle it waa again dis¬ charged, but did no damage. Her moth¬ er then rushedinto the room and Biv¬ ens. who was unable to get the pistol, rushed out and fell just outside the gate and managed to crawl home. The mar¬ shal then appeared upon the rcene and as he entered the room,-Miss Ritchie handed him the weapon remarking, fix ttiis, “l want to shoot myself.” The affair is deplored by all, as both parties are well connected. Bivens has been employed in Hinckley & Co’s bank at Punta Gorda and is a quiet and steady young man. His parents who live at Bartow left imtnedUtaly for the scene of the tragedy upon receipt of the news. To day’s advises still repoit Bivens alive. Fio/.«n in hla.Orave. San Fra ncisco, July 19.—The tragedy ■of a solitary miner, in a remote part of Sierra Nevada, was revealed a few days ago when the sheriff of Fresno county, searching for two murderers, discover¬ ed the body of a man imbedded in a grave of ice. The sheriff’s party found some miners’ tools in an almost inacessible canyon, and after searching around, suddenly came upon a dead man lying at the bottom of a rude grave with six foot of i3e. over him lie had evidently cut the grave in solid granite. This done, it seems, he laid down in the grave, placed a large rock across his thighs and drowned him¬ self as the grave slowly filled with water from little streams which the melted show sent into it, Although mid-summer, yet the grave was filled with ice that had not melted this year. The ice was transparent, and the dead man in the bottom of the grave «.’as plainly visible, the body being as well preserved as if he had died but yes¬ terday, though there can be but little doutst lie committed suicide last fall. Near by they found a note, written with lead pencil: “My name is Dare Menear. 1 have lived like a devil, I will die like a man and be — like a devil. Nov. 20.” The theory is that he was driven mad by disapointment, as the mine where he -worked waa worththless, It is said that the shaft of a century plant maker an excellent razor stre p, OCEAN MAIL SUBSIDIES The roitmuter Oenenl Isanes Ills Art veruimment. Washington, July 21.—Postmaster General Wanamaker to day issued the advertisement of mail letting under the postal aid bill passed by the last con¬ gress. It invites proposals from tlie steamship companies for carrying Amer¬ ican mails to foreign countries in vessels of American build, or the best construe ■ tion and of the highest speed in their re sj>ective classes, over routes minutely described. Tlie advertisement is the product of three months of conference at the department. The postmaster gen¬ eral has met at frequent intervals dur¬ ing the whole of that time ropresenta tives of the principal American steam- 8 hip lines, and of the principal coast citfag, especially ft, tlie south, where it might he possible to encourage the estab lishment of new lines, in order both to give them his views as to the best meth¬ ods under the bill of improving foreign mail facilities,and of encouraging Am loan commerce and of receiving their tentative propositions as to what they, on their part, might be willing to con¬ tract to do. A LACK OF POWER. At presentthe United States has no power to compel the transportation of any mails to foreign countries. No ship owner or ship master is obliged to re¬ ceive or carry American mails. When the ship owners or ship masters do carry them they fix their, own time of depar¬ ture and follow whatever sailing course they choose. Only a very small portion of tlie American mail is carried in Amer¬ ican bottoms. In many cases the ser¬ vice is slow and irregular, by whatever vessel it is performed, as the payment allowed being inconsiderable as an item ot earnings, shipowners necessarily pay more regard to inciting up cargoes along a devious route than to the expeditious delivery of mails by direc t courses. TUB ROUTES. Tliere are fifty-four paragraphs cover¬ ing routes, many of them repetitions of the same routes for different ports of call, classifying vessels differently, or inviting different proposals as to the fre¬ quency of the service, in order to get offers of service In various forms so that the best selection may be made. Com¬ pendiously stated, the American ports from which the service is proposed to start are: Boston, New York, Philadel¬ phia, Baltimore, Newport News, Nor¬ folk, Port Tampa (with service from Mo bile), New Orleans, Galveston, San Fran cisco, Seattle and Tacoma. Absolutely new servico for American ships is in¬ vited for trans-Atlantic lines from New York, Boston and Baltimore; a line to Buenos Ayres from New York, and one from Philadelphia; a line from Port Tampa to Venezuela and to the east coast of South America, a line to the same ports and from is projected Galveston, from and Now Or icaus a new line from New Orleans to Aspinwall, calling at ports on the north coast of Central America and ports on the Span¬ ish main; anew line on the Pacific coast from San Francisco to Chili and to the west coast of line South America Seattle is proposed, Tacoma and a new from or to China and Japan,also anew line from San Francisco to Melbourne. Sam Small Again. Atlanta, Ga., July 21.—Sam Small figures in another sensation—this time a sensation journalistic. Two days ago Sam dropped down in Atlanta. Yester¬ day he was one of the speakers at the big alliance rally, and gave every indi¬ cation of cropping out as a third part lecturer of thi strongest order. To-day the announcement is made that he has accepted the editorship of the Evening Herald, a new paper to lie started on Saturday. It is to be a pro¬ hibition organ editorially, and as there is no better newspaper man in the coun¬ try than Sam Small, it is sure to be live¬ ly from a news standpoint. The paper will have plenty of back¬ ing. Small’s contract provides that he can continue his lectures whenever so disposed. Seized by tlie Canzdtznz. Eastport, Me., July 21.—For the past month or two there has been excellent fishing in the Passamaquoddy waters and many of our citizens have availed themselves of it. It is difficult to tell just where the boundry line is, and our fishermen have been chased and other¬ wise annoyed by the Canadian cruiser Dream, her officers claiming that Amer ican boats were fishing in Canadian wa tors. The Eastport boats were fishing to¬ day as u tual when the Dream suddenly appeared, seized seven of the boats, lan¬ ded the occupants on Dog island and towed the boats to St. Andrews, N. B,, where they will be confiscated. Considerable excitement now prevails over the affair, and when Canipo Bello, who is alleged to have been acting as an informer to the Canadian authorities, appeared in town to-day, he was chased by a crowd of indignant citizens and was glad to get away to his boat with¬ out a broken head. The owners of the seized boats will, of ourse, lose them and their contents. “TELL THE TRUTH.” SPRING PLACE, GA, THURSDAY, JULY THE VERDICT RENDERED. THE INVESTIGATION HAS OOME TO AN END. Oel’an Id Nut Guilty, but Re U Not an Ex pert Busmen Man by s l.srKti Majority —Director DePau Objects to the Third and Fourth Sections o( the Charge. TallahaSskk, July 20.—At the last session of the State I .legislature a com¬ mittee was appointed to visit and exam¬ ine the Agricultural College and Exper¬ imental Station at Lake City. They made a report of their action on the 4t,li of June, in which appears the fol¬ lowing sentence : “Mncli complaint to your committee has been made against the director of the station, and we therefore recommend to the hoard of trustees that they make a thorough investigation of the acts and doings of the director in the management of the station and publish to the world the result of their findings.” Recognizing the right of the people, through their representatives in the Legislature, to inquire into the man¬ ner in which the appropriation by the United States Government for the pur¬ pose of agricultural experimentation has been expended, in compliance with the above recommendations, the trustees of the Agricultural College, who have also the government of the exjierimeutal station, met in Lake City on the 30th day of June and proceeded to “make a thorough investigation of the acts and dokigs of the director in the management of tins station ” To facilitate the work of investigation {lie board deemed it to be right, to call to their assistance the Hon. B. P. Rogers, of the State Senate, and the Hon. 1. J. Brown, of the Assembly, who were members of the committee who made the report referred lo and who bad heard and preserved the evidence upon which that report waa based. These gentlemen were requested to conduct the examination of witnesses and to bring bofore the board such facts as may have come to their knowledge, and to call such witnesses as they had reason to believe possessed snch infor¬ mal ion, touching the conduct of the director in his management of the sta¬ tion, and ihe hoard is impressed that these gentlemen performed thcid'- ty requested from them free of anyjj'trJJ mm spirit, aDd with tfie sole purpose of reaching the truth, intelligently and thoroughly. The examination lasted through four days at Lake City, when the board adjourned to meet in Tallahas¬ see on the KHh inst. to conclude the evidence and to receive the statement of the director in explanation and re¬ buttal of certain charges arising out of the evidence submitted. The whole was concluded on the said 10th inst.., and the hoard proceeded to consider the same; and after due deliberation reached the following conclusions : 1. That the evidence, when consid¬ ered as a whole, does not show any “acts or doings” on the part of the di¬ rector which can be construed into a criminal intent. 2. That it does not appear that the management of the farm work and ex¬ periments generally at the station have been inefficient, or that they have been without good effect. 3. That the director has shown a want of business system In keeping the accounts of the station, in that he has mixed up his personal accounts “as to freight bills” with that of his station accounts, leaving the matter to be ad¬ justed in his annual financial state¬ ment, and that he failed to enter into his book account with the station amounts received from the sale of fire wood and cotton, service of stallion, and for analysis by the chemist, and the purpose to which the same was applied ; though the funds from these sources appear to have been used for station purposes. 4. That they find it necessary to en¬ force a more rigid and business-like system of keeping accounts at the sta¬ tion, and especially so that if anything should be sold therefrom or any money received from any source whatsoever, it should be turned into the treasury of the station fund, at the time re¬ ceived, and every expenditure shall be accompanied with a voucher showing the exact purpose of such expendi¬ ture. 1 certify that the above is a correct copy of the original finding of the board of trustees. L. B. Wombwkll, Secretary, It Is understood that the report was unanimously agreed to by the board. Director DePass is not very well pleased with the third and fourth sec¬ tions and says they ought not to be given to the public in that form. Im¬ mediately after the report was given out he went before the board and used his persuasive powers and succeeded in getting them to insert “as to freight bills” in the third section. A copy of the report was given to the press with the request that it be published in full, also a copy to the director and to Sen¬ ator Rogers. The board then proceeded to trans¬ act business of the annual session. The report of the director for the year was received and appropriations uiade for the ensuing year. It is not known if the newly elected members will accept At 7:30 the board adjourned until 8 o’clock to morrow morning. After the verdict in the DePasa the reports of the president of the lege and of the faculty were read. Senator Rogers appeared before board and declared himself as perfectly satisfied with the verdict. The matter of investigating charges against the president of college was brought up, but Rogers did not deem the investigation necessary, as about the only charge against him was that he was not a man of broad learning, so nothing was done in regard to this. When the director appeared before the board he wished a number of changes made in sections 3 and 4. Clarkson Major Russell nominated the W. B. nation for trustee, Baker but as resig¬ of Judge was not yet re¬ ceived no action was taken. CONDITION OF THE CROPS. The Bast Week Cool Nearly All Over the Country. Washington, July 21.—The weath¬ er bureau’s weekly bulletin says ; “The week has been cool in all the districts east of the Rocky Mountains, except New England, New York and South¬ ern Texas, where normal temperature lias prevailed. Over the western and central portions of the cotton region the mean temperature of the week was but slightly below the normal, while In the South Atlantic States aud over the wheat and corn regions of the cen¬ tral valley the mean dally tempera¬ ture for the week was about 0“ below normal. In the spring wheat region the deficiency iu temperature was less and amounted to about 3° per day. The same deficiency in temperature occurred In Southern California, but it was slightly warmer In Northern California, Oregon and Washington. THU RAINFALL. “The areas of excessive rainfall (hw in« the past week are much tending widely distributed, from Lake Superior the to Oregon, including the greater^ por¬ tion of the spring wheat region. The area of excessive rain next in extent covers the west portion of the cotton region, while the east portion of the cotton region was favored with abun¬ dant rains in sections where the seas¬ onal rainfall was deficient. The rain¬ fall was generally less than usual In that portion of the central valleys where harvest work is in progress, ex¬ tending from the southern portions of the lake region to Southern Minnesota. Light showers occurred on the Pacific coast as far south as San Francisco and the central and southern Rocky Mount¬ ain regions. GENERAL REMARKS. “Alabama—Fanning interests in ex¬ cellent condition ; crops doing well hi most sections-, cotton in a few locali ities is suffering from disease. “Mississippi—Heavy showers fell at a few places in the central part of the State ; elsewhere none or veiy light; favorable weather for cultivation and growth of cotton and com. “Virginia—Low temperature and a deficiency in the rainfall, injurious to com. “Arkansas—General weather condi¬ tions favorable, although the rain was badly distributed, particularly in the eastern part of the State. Cotton somewhat retarded by cool weather. Corq excellent and a crop assured. Fruit will he an average crop. IN THE TARHEEL STATE. “North Carolina—Heavy rain in some portions of fhe State; generally favorable to corn and tobacco, which show slight improvement, hut the weather was too cool and cloudy, Cot¬ ton is at a standstill. “South Carolina—Cool, dry weather, unfavorable to cotton and corn. The drought continues in some portions of the State. “Louisiana—Rainfall deficient but beneficial. The corn crop is made and the yield promising; cotton is fruiting well; cane growing luxuriantly. The laying by of stubble cane is nearly completed; early rice heading; crops somewhat grassy; all reports favorable. “Texas—Warm and dry weather have injured cotton in West and Southwest Texas; in other portions good showers have greatly benetitted the crop, which promises a heavy yield. The corn crop Is below the av¬ erage. The fruit crop is an average. “Tennessee—Wheat mostly threshed in good condition, and a fine yield. Cotton blooming late ; bad stands and prospect poor. Corn and tobacco do¬ ing well. Oats hut half a crop. Hay crop large and fine.” SIGNS AND SIGN BOARDS. HOW SOME FAMILIAR ONES HAP THEIR ORIGIN. Qnnlnt and IncongrasM Specimens Cued In tlie Olden Time*—Even Now Some queer Once May Be Seen In Old London Town — Their Peculiarities Kxplnlned by ■ Student ot Old Things. „ Nowadays the great ^ commercial , , com. munity pays but little attention to the trading legend which, like the noble man s armonal bearings, was once upon striped Edition pole and the th^wWch three golden s^l balls; hoTd and in to their own on this side of the Atlantic, the Zri7d™? monly drstmguish tt ° e? r tire t £ deVi pubhc wl houses biCbCOm and * gin palaces m England are familiar to every visitor to that country. But these are scattered remnants of a custom which, not so very long ago, was almost universal. In the good old days, when few people could read or write, and when the modern system of numbering thd houses in the sheet was a conveniences* yet undreamed of by our uninventive Tfijrssa J? b ° h ” uae ,{ or ^ doon —«*. hwlrf* 0 *. wn which are interretmg . bmmsethey re tein so much of the old world flavor, Everyone who has amused himself by making even a cursory examination o* these stranded anachronisms during * “ ’iT 8 80 ® 0 °* the old t *\ orough * If thing 8 of °*^. their nd , character l n ’ or J“f In . l( ± the meA pagre 80mo of ; Dickens or Thackeray, must have beep struck again and agate by the extraordi P?ry an d often entirely meaningless com? lunations of ideas which are presented by S’ gemtors f in r the tradesmen’s S *“*5? tokens of the past we find thosameanise for amuse. ment and surprise. Wteit, for instance, can lie the possible dgmficance of “The Iamb apd Anchor? Why should a bull be associated with a gate, in tiie common sign of fhe Bull and Gate? Where is there any conceivable connection between an elephant and » castle, which yet nourish together over oh® of the most famous taverns to the English metropo lisr—between a nun and three hares?— between a goat and compasses? What ' law craild have governed the introduction, Of such anomalous inscriptions as “The S Man? 60 ^ or an JlS Iho a Iron ? , “■£"* DeriL H Thopuzzlesr 10 Green presented to us to these quaint and curi¬ ous versifier compounds of struck an observant the last century, who thus gives vent to his astonishment: I’m amazed at the signs Ah I pass through the town; I see the odd mutt tore, A magpie and crown; The whale add the crow; The razor and hen; ' The leg and seven stare; ^ The axe and the bottle; The ton and the lute; The eagle and child; I The shovel and boot. Truly, such “odd mixtures™ must at first sight seem devoid of any sort of meaning; and It la only as we delve back into the past that we become aware that their apparent absurdity and ex¬ travagance may be very easily explained. There ate, indeed, several ways in which these strange associations have been brought about. For example, when a young tradesman decided to start busi¬ ness on his own account he frequently followed the common practice of adding (as a kind of recommendation) his late master’s sign to that which he himself adopted—just as to-day it is not unusual for Jones, opening a store, to mention under his own name the fact that ha was “late with Brown & Co." In this way wo may account for such complex tokens as the “Three Nuns and a Hare, * above referred to, and others of equal incongruity. Again, a similar result was brought about when a tradesman, removing from one place of business to another, adopted, os Ire very often did, the sign of the new establishment to addition to that which he had chosen for his own. Thus we read that one Anthony Wilton, who had formerly traded under the sign of the “Green Cross, ” removed to a house al¬ ready known by the motto of the “Cross Keys,” and thenceforth carried on bus¬ iness under the double sign of “Tire Green Cross and Cross Keys." In the Daily Cwrant tor November 17, 1718, there Is an advertisement reading; Thomas Blackail and Francis Ives, mercers are removed from the‘Seven Stars in Ludgate Hill, to the ‘Black Lion an ,p,® lnuasownd evcn ana °J er senseless the way. an associa tion as a Lon and seven stars becomes ex rLmbln Hl n T °L ber C ° Ure ^ ?’ ^ w °* ? tU ?° A . „ third ?H a ons and very produced. frequent of source tot C ^i In Z »mistakes andiwrup- to “ tions of tee Ignorant populace of former “X under the ,, Aa various °\ ere w signs f* “» to inscriptions show what *7""“ rcaUy in „ tended I to rep™. Lo small difficulty to decide upon their actual meaning. Hence arose num^ua errors. Moreover, in the course of time f Jke Doi^ab a Year. NO 26. ?nm«Z pnblfeZu^Sf ta^gl^d are to be explained by reference to such corruptions. Thus the “Bull and Gate” is really the Boulogne Gate; the “Goat and Compasses™ is only a corruption of the pious words, “God enoompasseth us " while the “Iron Devil™ la as resolvable Into L Hirondelle (French for swallow) and the “George and Cannon” into George Canning, the statesman. The “ three golden balls" still employed by pawnbrokers have had a airi™* history. They seem to NIcholaTwbo have with a legend of St Tn ono ^ ^ ™ hTt St Nl « holaa w f patron . i ^ d ™ tiie^iS^L ofthe°Lth FL FT aristocratic bankers and Ty* abused pawnbrokers of modern TTri™ y The three nurses irftothr^ldmS , : saint transformed th“ became the trading ^ token of bard nlon cliang from w hom thw wero in a „ A T by f pawnbrokers histor^ of the nre«ent a th£ the £ and meaning of familiar - thr w balls," though , . ^ gsussriss a hair or draw your teeth with operation” absolute impartiality. Among other phle^ he commonly performed that of botomy or blood lotting, during bTthe whteh a IK) i e waa ^ped mi^t tightly patient that the Wood flow more freely. As this polo was liable to be stained by the blood, it was painted red that the discoloration might not be observable. When not |n usa itwaa genoraI1 8U8 pended outside the shop door, with the white linen swathing 2nd bands twisted artistically around it; this in time save rise to the red and white sign which fa 8t m so familiar to us all, though our b arber8 (or hair dressers, as many ^ now prefor to be have , over the practice of surgery. The early fashion of exposing shop signs was by hanging them out across the sidewalk, and very frequently they were large enough and heavy enough— one tradesman vying with another in making them striking and attractive—to obstruct the thoroughfare and even to cause serious accidents. little by little public attention was called to this public nuisance, and in course of time project teg street signs either fell into disuse «« or assumed the less objectionable proportions which they pretjerve at the present day. RIFTS FROM THIS RAM'S HORN. Nothing keeps a stingy man from steal¬ ing but the risk of the thing. It costs more to be proud than it does tor everything else put together. If head religion could take people to heaven, somebody would find how to get there in a balloon. The thing to do is to get salvation be¬ fore you wear out your brains in trying to understand it. Unless a man has a character that won’t show dirt, he had better not have much to do with politics. If tombstones were always reliable, the devil would soon be willing to put out his fire and quit. If the earth were covered with flowers all the year round, the bees would get lazy. Nine women out of ten would rather have you praise their judgment than their beauty. If you are ashamed of your religion, you can write it down for a fact that you ought to be, for you’ve got the wrong kind. It looks as though there are some things that the devil could learn a hypocrite. There are too many people in the church who always look as though they had been baptized in cold water. Some people can trust God as long a s they have plenty of money, but when the bank breaks their religion all goes with it. Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts the Columbus of his own soul. ________ IT MS og iwt krest. A Portland, Ore., Chinaman who died recently left property valued at over $200,000. Artificial eyre are supplied to all the world from Thuringia, Germany. Nearly all the grown inhabitants of some of the Tillages are engaged in their rnanu faeture. There are a class of people to Japan hire the poor to beg clothes from the charity association, and, dyeing them, sell them at higher rates for new clothes. The aqueduct has cost the city of New York $24,707,477.28. A detailed 8tatement 0 f the expense has just been made u The Uig*, itom fa $ 12 , 849 ,-. 181.58 to contractom, The camera show, that northern J TrSL douhte 2?* FF’ ^ ,*7 , J em-