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OCili.4 DISPATCH. 0C1LLA, GEORGIA. HENDERSON & HANLON, Publishers, The czar’s Finnish subjects will help along his disarmament scheme by emigrating. The only trouble thej find is in knowing which country i; most unlike Russia. Dr. Carroll reports that the people of Porto Rico want a territorial civil governrneut as soou as possible. They ought- to have it, and doubtless will have it, as soou as it seems practicable to give it to them. But that is a tusk for Congress. The administration has nothing to do but to continue the mil- itary system until Congress acts, Oar expoits of manufactured goods average $1,000,00** a day. There were 204 working days during the first eight months of the current ti.-cai year, aud during that time the total exports were $207,000,000. This wa- a gain of $25, Out), 003, or 14 per cent, over the corresponding period of the pie- vious year. A London bookseller has just been sentenced to nine mouths imprison¬ ment for selling indecent French books, in spite of his counsel’s plea tli a book iu a £ 0 ; eigu tongue could not corrupt the morals of her majes¬ ty’s subjects. Though this was the first suc-c-s 1 ul proseoution ou record where the book was not in English, the court would uot allow an appeal. Dreyfus is uot the only one who suffers by the way things are run in France. M. Lordlier, the private .Secretary of Colonel Henry, who com- nutted suicide, has followed his mas- ter’s example. If this sort of thing goes on the Dreytus case will be -quoted 1 in the statistics along ° with guff. small-pox aud other , deadly , ms- ,. eases. And it begins to look as if the friends of Dreyfus are not. those to whom the disease will prove the most deadly. The possibilities of the invention of liquid air are to the present view li.u- itless. Steamers and engines and fly- ing machines can carry their liquid air machines with them ami manufacture their fuel from the atmosphere as they Coal and other expensive fuel can be kept for ornamental parlor use. and liquid air engines generating elec- tncity will supply all the nea.iug and lighting of the world. Instead of *—» - - our force, we shall draw ou the com* paratively limitless heat of the sun. It may be that we shall in an iafiui- tesiwal degree accelerate the cooling off of the world; hut that is a subject none of us is quite altruistic enough to worry about yet. An interesting side issue of the in- teruational differences centring in Samoa is the known but futile ambi- tion of Germany to secure possession of the Tonga or Friendly islands, which are small but numerous, and lie some 350 miles southwest of the Samoan group. Germany’s threat to annex these islands furnishes circum- stsntia! evidence of her desire to out- wit Great. Britaiu aud the «**: “ *T 1 British action,in sending a ciuisei aud reaching a thorough understanding with the king, appears to have settled German schemes. The natives of the Friendly Islands, being Christians and dominated by missionary influence, are much more readily dealt with than are the Samoans. The skill of maritie architects and the ingenuity ..... of science have-for . , first-class steamers at least—con- quered most of the dangers of the sea. But the danger of colli- siou in fog aud darkness remains a fearful hazard of the most skil- navigator. lkare . hope fnt is now that, this danger also may disappear, thanks to the labors of an ingeniou* inventor. The government has search¬ ing! v tested a new instrument called the eophone—meaning “sounding down”—by the use of which au opera- tor may precisely determine the di- -*» - “X or distant it may be. It is believed that with such instruments in use the man on the bridge, in thickest fog 01 densest darkness, need never be in doubt as to the ,, direction or distance . of'an approaching ships whistle the roar of breakers, and need never, therefore, suffer collision or run his ship ashore. If the device shall prove to be all that the gover me H’s expeus think, its itiveuiiou is one of the best gifts of our time to ocean travelers. !f y-iu liare something to sell, let the people know it. An advertise¬ ment In this paper will do the work ! rV j £ \ ! 4 13000900300003000300300001 THE SOUTH DOOR. BT MABOABKT B. KOKEBSOK. 00300000000000000090000000 jfflEjjsjjBMp ftoSiSEItiMK T last it was fin- | isked and it was j such a fine, con- | .’ venient barn, j 1 m if all such respects, a model that in ffigfjfri'y Giles Hewitt felt // his excessive Milt® \V ll\ pride iu it a per- feotly justifiable i|§||pgygii|§¥ thiu S- A-H he strolled about in this sultry July "■ “ ’ 1 morning, survey- ing it from all points of view, he could uot restrain his oft-repeated encomiums, “Admir- able! Admirable! Fine! None bet- ter in the country,” then, as he spied Esther, his wife, looking for early apples in the orchard below, he called iu his soft, slow voice, “Come up here, Esther.” The call troubled her. She had no time to spare, as this was a very busy morning, crowded with work, and the girls, Ria and Ella, were engrossed with preparations for a picnic at Point o’Rocks, on the lake, that af¬ ternoon. As for the barn, how thor¬ oughly she knew it, from the shining cow that served as a weather vane to the foundations. It had been the staple of Giles’ conversation for mouths, and she could not tell how man y times she had meekly followed in his wake to survey its conven¬ iences. “Esther, do you hear me?” The soft voice was distinctly peremptory. Giles Hewitt always expected his | women folks to come at his bidding, I ! red As&aokaTs^nd wenTreluouItij; ! “I want you to see how well these doors , work now, said Giles, leading „ the way to the rear of the huilding framed! , u Tf It ^| always anC struck V ' V ,„ her , with • A' a ‘ sense of loveliness quite inexpressible in words. She "drew a long sighing breath as she looked on wood aud meadow dimpled dells and swelling tills, church spires rising wlntely Mo a silvery ribbon! : No rtkward a blue lake glittered like a jewel in au emerald setting, and in the west a circlet of hills vanished Jehcately like a dream into the so.tly I 1 ‘*w 0 w ^beaniifull” she said “It j r?8ts me just to look I could j sit here and look just look for hours Oh, Giles, 1 u louse on y 1 £ Lss door ' , “The house is in the best place, Esther, sheltered from the north , j winds. I don’t understand why you I are always saying that.” She sighed. “Yes, I know, ^ but such a view is food and rest. Oh, I : know you think me silly. Yes, I am j truly glad you have suoh a big, con- venient barn, so many nice labor-sav- j ing things about it; it must be good I to have things as you want them;” ■ she began to pleat her apron hemner- vously. “I xvas thinkiugtkat now the ] barn j 8 finished and all the crops so j promising and the hay 9 ll ?P * s 80 large, that you will be willing to let me have the door out through the south side of the kitchen. You know i b ow long I have waited to have it 1 done?” She looked so wistfully meek, stand- ! been a self-assertive woman—no one knew that better than Giles, Never- theless, he felt annoyed aud angered. He had not called her up here to dis- ! cuss her whims. I “You know,” she went on, “I just ^nt a common door with a glass sash, aud then I’d like a little stoop run¬ ning to the end of the house. I could do the churning out there, and lots of little chores—the kitchen is so small aud hot—aud it won’t cost much, Johnna oa i cu | ated he could do all I wanted for forty dollars.” “Johnson!” his tone was distinctly I angry. “You see, Giles,” she pleated the apron over aud over, quite flustrated at liis perceptible annoyance; “it was 1 wb en he came down to the house one da y for a drink of buttermilk—and you know what a baud he is to joke- lie said, ‘This is a sort of unhandy kitchen, Mrs. Hewitt; you’d better move up to your husband's barn and ; have it airier and handier.’ Then I I told him how I wanted a door cut through on the south and we talked it .La Gi[ eg| too vexed to listen further. “I I never knew such a gadfly as you are. 1 You get an idea in your head and harp eteri.ally ‘Door! Door! Door!’ You oan’t think or talk anything else; ard U0W) after all the barn has cost and the necessity for economy, one would thiuk you would have some common sense. But, you are aRoval?” He sneered as if thus branding her signified that her people had been ex- travagant and wasteful. Then, noting the quivering of her lips and the tears welling beneath her lids, he was more angered than ever and went on irate- ly: “For forty years my mother used that kitchen and I never heard her complain, but some women want the world, and having that, would cry for the moon. Don’t you say door to me again.” She turned away without a word and went down the hill to theorohard bars. She wiped her eyes before she took up the apples and trudged back to the house. The girls must not see the tears. “Mother is a long time pioking apples,” said Ella Hewitt, as she frosted a tempting cake just baked for the picnio. “Probably pa has called her to who tag him about the barn,” said Ria, was deftly slicing pink ham for sand¬ wiches. ‘That barn is the bub of his universe just now—has been for six mouths. He houses his cattle better than his women folks. Isn’t this a flue, light, airy, haady kitchen ?” “Very, for a man of his means,” said Ella vexedly. “I’m just ashamed of such a gloomy, unhandy little pen. it See the walls—rough boards that never pays to clean, two miserable, tiny windows, stuok so high up you oan’t see out of them, and a cellar trap door in the middle that takes up a good quarter of the room; no water in brought in; and the well way down front of the house; not a single con- venience to make work handier or easier, and poor mother has had to put up with it all those years! why doesn’t pa have that door cut through for ber?” She shrugged her pretty shoulders, “Say, do tell me if this ham is thin enough. I want my sandwiches to be first class.” Giles Hewitt was distinctly taciturn at the dinner table that noon, and in view of his lowering countenance the meal proceeded in unpleasant si¬ lence. Immediately after dinner he made ready to drive to Hoyt with a load of grain. It was second nature for Esther to anxiously wait on him when he dressed to go anywhere. She always put out his olothes, brushed them, tied his cravat, saw that he had a clean handkerchief, but to-day he told her coldly to go about her work, he would help himaelf. Presently he came into the kitchen where she was washing the dishes to blacken his shoes. Phew, hot it was, and how darK that little corner where the cracked square of looking glass hung, beforo which he fumbled with his j oravat! Esther stood at the sink with her j back to him, and just opposite the ! tra P door was a ^e cross chalked on the rough wall boards, marking * where she wanted the outer dcor ut- Somebow the sight of the innocent mark angered & him again, P She seemed , to , , have chalked , it f a purpose, and he went out slamming ® 1 001 ' ® 1S gJ^Tookin^ver^ „ n a in nil in ^ " £ pretty and dainty . q simpl !aw sa nd big hats and quite overflowing with the pleasuar- t(i i Pflve * J 0 ® * J , . f , ’ , rln'thft dishes j „ pen Bently, “but we * had ^ make reftdy See> the Warren < toys are driving in the gate now. ^^olfowed to'take" a"look? a fond> proud look aftel . them as they rode awa y with their cavaliers. “ 2.1 i higher and higher in the tube ou the | s t oopj the fowls went with drooping ; wingg and gaping beal-.s, the cattle g^ght grateful shade and ruminated j n gba u 0 w pools, the house dog dug a g rave behind the currant bushes in w bieh he lay panting with lolling t on g lle) vegetation shriveled and w jit e d, the earth was cracked and baked; but by and by clouds gath- ered j n the west aud gusts of wind oapr jciously swirled the dust and caU g b t up sticks aud straws in elfin dauce s. An old farmer driving by ca u e d to a man digging a ditch in a field, “I gue 3 S the dry spell is broken. ^ shower is coming up.” The lie j ag b ed his wet, jaded team so as to d jgtance the storm if possible. A gloom almost appalling settled on the landscape, the bees flew to the hives, the cattle snorted and raced about, frightened at the rolling of thunder and the shooting of javelins of fire from the jagged clouds. There was a going in the tree-tops, a strange, distant murmur of millions of rain drops advancing with the swift¬ ness of a mighty host. “I wonder if Giles shut the barn door?” said Esther, burying out; then there was a thunder-clap that seemed to shake the universe to its founda¬ tions, and a blinding, swirling deluge! It was four o’clock when Giles Hewitt jogged homeward. Dixey aud Topsy, his big black mares, resented being held down to a sober gait and tossed their heads aud snorted as they splashed through puddles. The clayey mud caked the wheel-rims, streaked the spokes aud clung in tenacious blobs to the hubs. Everywhere were signs of the storm’s havoc, aud Giles was conscious of certain ugly misgiv¬ ings lest the new barn, the pride of his heart, might have suffered; but no, as he turned a corner he saw it sil¬ houetted on its hill, dominating the landscape, the shining weather-vane all agleam with reflected glories of the west. He breathed more freely now aud critically scanned his neighbor’s fields to see what damage had been wrought. liis white When he came in sight of frame house he wondered to see a num¬ ber of people in the yard. Then he said, “By George, if the old elm hasn’t been struck. What a shame!” Dan Conly, his neighbor, hurried to meet him as he turned up the drive. His face was ghastly. What on earth ailed the man? “Isay, Hewitt”—he clasped hi* hands mechanically as he called— “stop a minute—hold ou—I want -to tell you—God Almighty! man, how caul? The lightning struck—-Esther’s dead! Whoa there!” catching the reins that fell from Hewitt’s palsied hands and leaping to the seat beside him. “Lean on me! There! There! You had to know it. God! but it’s rough." Kind neighbors stood aside in silent groups as Giles Hewitt tottered into the room where Esther lay. Oblivious of spectacles he fell on his knees beside her with an exceed¬ ing bitter cry. “Esther! Esther! You are not dead! Speak! Look up! Yon were always good, Esther. You were never un¬ reasonable. You shall have that door made. You shall, I say. Somebody get Johnson.” Crazed with shock and anguish lie stroked her cold hands. “Speak to me, Esther, speak to mo. Do you want the door?” Some of the neighbors left the room weeping. In the next room Mrs. Couly rocked hysterically back Riid forth. “The Lord knows I can’t stand it to see a man going on so,” she cried. “It’s just awful. I says to Dan, says I, ‘Break it to him gently, Dan, kind o’lead up to it;’ and there; he’s just gone and right out with it and shocked him crazy. Hark! there he goes again, talking senseless-like about a door. He’s clean out of his mind!”—New York Independent. A CREM ATION IN SIAM. The Variety of tlio Funeral Festivities In¬ dicates the Departed’s Dank. If there is any time when the Siam¬ ese may be said to hold sports, it is at a notable cremation. Ordinarily the dead of Siam are burned at a glial common to all who cannot afford the considerable expense of a private con¬ flagration; and when the wood of the funeral pyre has been consumed the body is well roasted, aud the attend¬ ant vultures are given a chance to clean the bones. Those who can af¬ ford it build the funeral pyre within their private walls, where festivities are held during the burning, aud in¬ vitations issued to friends, that they may come and behold the honor paid their dead. The bodies of those in¬ tended for private cremation are em¬ balmed, and usually • kept for some time—often many months. One Siam¬ ese gentleman, when inviting me to the proposed cremation of his brother, informed me that the distinguished deceased had been awaiting combus¬ tion for a year. The extent aud char¬ acter of the festivities on such an oc¬ casion depend entirely on the length of purse of the deceased’s remaining relatives. But as some people gauge the social importance and erstwhile political “pull” of a departed brother by the number of carriages his friends muster at the funeral, so also in Siam the variety of the funeral festivities marks the wealth and status and the grief of the bereaved family. On the afternoon or evening of the appointed day the guests asssemble and witness the simple ceremony of the yellow-robed priests of Budlia. Subsequently the nearest male relative fires the pyre, and then, while the flames crackle and the late lamented hisses and imps like a green pippin on a spit, his grieving family and friends grow merry over the cakes and sweet¬ meats and wines, while men hired for the occasion perform at several games, and even, on rare occasions, do some little running and jumping. The game - nearest approaching one of skill is a sort of fence play with short sticks fastened to both arms. Once in a while one sees at these human barbe¬ cues a kind of boxing, the art of which seems to be in parrying with the arm and open hand the thrusts that never have any serious intention of landing. —Harper’s Weekly. Blue Doses at Last. The blue rose, which, with the black, has so long been the subject of horti¬ cultural research, has, it seems, quite unexpectedly made its appearance in a Continental garden. Ilizanlik, in Bulgaria, whence the rarity is reported, oi is a district renowned for its attar roses, and consequently the flowers are grown on a very large scale. The owner of the blue rose is M. Staut- cheff, who when visiting his collections one day noticed on a bush that had hitherto produced blooms of a pale rose color five greenish-blue roses of a hue recalling the delicate tints of the turquoise. Samples of the soil wherein this rare plant has grown have been sent to the chemical laboratory of Sofia to be minutely analyzed. It is known to be rich in lime, ammoniac, salts of copper and oxide of iron.— London Post. The Dead Irishman. Some Irish body-snatchers had rifled a grave, and hid their booty in a corner of the churchyard, when it occurred to a half tipsy fellow, who had been watching them unobserved, that it would be pleasanter to be driven back to the nearest town than to walk. He accordingly secreted the dead man under a hedge and lay down in his place. He was duly transferred to a cart; but, when about half the journey was over, one of the men who had touched his hand screamed to his friend, “Good God! the body is warm!” Hereupon, in a deep voice, the supposed dead man remarked; “If you had been where I’ve,been for the last two days, you’d be warm too!” In a moment he was left in full pos¬ session of the vehicle!—From Sir M. E. Grant Duff’s Diary. An Elecftic Head Dress. At a dance recently given by the “Bachelor Maids,” a society of young, women at Bryn Mawr, Penn., a prize was offered for the most brilliant and inexpensive head dress. It was won by Miss Gertrude Sousleigh, whose hair was decorated with three minia¬ ture incandescent lights, while a fourth sparkled in her corsage. A small battery, which she hail con¬ cealed among her clothing, supplied the power, and as the wires were thickly covered, she was just as safe as her rivals, who shono resplendent in diamonds. t DIFFICULTIES ABOUND Our Boys Inthe Philippines Have Hard Times. THE HEAT IS PROSTRATING Morong In Possession of the Americans. General Lawton Searching For Major Truman: Advices from Manila under date of June Gth were to the effect that the American forces have occupied the peninsula and General Hall’s column is encamped at Morong. | Major Truman, marching across the 1 Binaugouan, found it impracticable to form a cordon, and the insurgents, with the exception of a hundred or two, escaped through the mountains after General Kio del Pilar, dragging their battery by buffaloes at night. A few, however, may be trapped. | The Washington troops have return- , ed to Pasig, but the program of the other troops is uncertain. i The present expedition shows the difficulty which is encountered by an : army which must depend upon wagon I trains in catching barefooted bandits in their own mountains, and all alone, is nroof that the rebels do not intend to ~fight battles. General Hall and left Santa Teresa Monday morning marched twelve miles to Morong, up and down rocky hills and through woods and swamps. Scores of men fell out, owing to the extreme heat, and were left to follow as best they could. The head of the army arrived at noon, having exchang-| ed only afiw shots with insurgents on ! their way. Groups of stragglers fol- lowed all day, but the force was 200 j smaller than when it started. The 1 almost thirty-six hours with¬ I men were out rations and it was considerable of an achievement for them to cover the ) - ground they did. En route to Morong the Americans met flocks of lilipinos and flags of truce, many of them young men with the bearing of soldiers. Many dis- carded uniforms were found in the houses, apparently those of soldiers who had escaped by changing their costuiqes from“insnrrecto” to“amigo” and walking boldly past the army which had expected to corral them. ! Few were found about Morong. General Lawton, on board a gun- boat searching the coast for Major Truman, stopped at Binangonan, op- posite Morong. The natives immedi- ately ran up a flag of truce, but a delegation in canoes put off and greeted the Americans with the usual protestations of friendship. j AGED WOMAN TESTIFIES | As To Horrible Treatment Received At Hands of a Brute. The trial of Grant Bell, charged with criminally assaulting aged Mrs. Lumpkin, was proceeded with at Ce- 1 dartown, Ga., Tuesday. Mrs. Lump- kin told to the jury the story of the assault and the closest possible atten- tiOD was paid her recital, which at times w T as dramatic and hysterical. The aged lady almost broke down when the climax of her struggle was reached and members of the jury, spectators, lawyers and court officers shed tears without an effort at re- straint. Those who witnessed the memorable scene say that no such j touching and impressive sight was | ever enacted in the Polk county court house. Grant Bell, the defendant, made a statement ih which he asserted that he was innocent of the charge. SATISFIED WITH HENDERSON. The New York Republicans Indorse Iowan For Speakership. A conference of republican congress¬ man of New York state to decide on a candidate for the speakership for the house of representatives was held at the Fifth Avenue hotel Tuesday and resulted in a decision to support David B. Henderson, of Iowa. The conference went into session behind closed doors. CHAriBERS IS SAFE. Samoan Commission Has No Power To Remove Chief Justice. A Washington dispatch says: No in¬ formation has come from any official source to the effect that the three con¬ suls and the chief justice at Samoa were to be relieved. The impression prevails among the officials that Mr. Osburne, the Ameri¬ can consul, has been fortunate enough to avoid making enemies at Apia, and he is believed to be obnoxious neither to the German nor the British elements. As to Chief Justice Chambers, the Samoan commission it is said, has no power to remove him. THEY BOOMED BRYAN. Democrats of District of Columbia Have Enthusiastic Meeting. The democrats of the District of Columbia held an enthusiastic meet¬ ing Monday night, at which . many speeches eulogizing Bryan and ind ors- ing him for the next president was made. There was forwarded to Mrs. Will¬ iam J. Bryan, of Nebraska, a fine marble bust of her husband, for pre-* sentation to her on her birthday. SPEER ADDRESSES LAW CLASS. WpII Known Jurist Discusses Status ol the Negro In the South. The baccalaureate address delivered to the law class of Mercer university at Macon, Ga., Wednesday morning by Judge Emory Hpeer was remarkable in the selection of the question dealt with before such an audience. Judge Speer devoted his whole time for half an hour to an enunciation of his viaws on the attitude of the white people of the south, and especially of Georgia, toward the negro, as the result of the commission of the many awful crimes > against white women. The speaker said that the punish¬ ment of the criminal must be kept within the bounds of civilization and within the pale of the law and the courts. The contrary course, he said, is debasing and effective only in de¬ laying final correction and prevention. In emphatic tones and gesture Judge Speer said: “I solemnly assert before this dis¬ tinguished audience, with a full knowl- edge of the import of what I say, that the crimes that have so inflamed the white people of this country against the negro race are foreign to these people, whom I have known and loved «»>ce my childhood, and whom I will know and love until my eyes are closed death. The negroes themselves most assist the whites m hunting down arresting the outcasts in order that the J ma Y remove the onus of the that they are in sympathy, Jh* country constabulary districts force should of the be state made in e ®° lent \ The judges of the superior courts be selected from the highest in- telligence and moral character of the a ‘ a ‘e. Rewards should be promptly offered, rnd above all things, that aec- tlon of the ™ d e which provides a K a 'ust any expression of opinion by a and l^Age which in charging expression in criminal constitutes cases, an on which the supreme court “ust grant a new trial should be re¬ P ealefi - _ CONFLAGRATION IN AUGUSTA. - Property To the Amount of $250,000 Destroyed By Flames. Augusta, Ga., was visited by a con¬ flagration Wednesday afternoon in which $250,000 worth of property was wiped out, , The fire 8tar ted in the drug store of D aven p 0 rt & Phinizy. A negro was m i x j n g a po t 0 f venus turpentine, Fire got ln tbe pot and the flames 8pread 80 rapidly that emplovees in t he front part of the store barely had time to escape, The flames made quick headway and in a short white the following stores aud stocks were burned out: Kress & Co., five and ten-cent store, i OS s$10,000,insurance$7,000; Lamkin & Co ; groce rs, loss $7,000, insurance |s t 000; Thomas & Barton, musical in- 8 t rU ments, bicycles and furniture, loss $24,000, insurance $24,000; Alexander Drug Company, loss $17,000, insurance $12,000; Davenport & Phinizy, loss $o 4i000 , insurance $22,000; Stulb & Co.’ liquor dealers, loss about $5,000, insurance about $3,000; Smytlie A Co., china store, loss about $7,000, insurance$7,000; William Schweigert, jeweler, loss very slight, fully covered by insurance. The buildings burned w r ere valued in the aggregate at about $150 ,000; insurance about $75,000. Besides these there were a number smaller losses, as tbe upper stories 0 f 4be Duiltlings were used as offices, making the to tal losses in the neigh- borhood of $250,000. Savannah and Macon were tele- grap bed to for assistance and the Cen- tral ra ij road ], ad spe cial trains in readiness to bring engines and hose when word wa8 8ent tba t the fire had ex bausted itself. During the height of the excitement 10,000 rounds of cartr i d g e s in the armory which was also burned began to explode and for a b 0 ut an hour there was an incessant fusilade of shots that sounded like a rea j battle, CUBANS BEING PAID. Over Orie Thousand Have Received Pro Rata—-Bogus Certificates Sold. A special from Havana says: Colonel George M. Randall paid 193 Cuban soldiers Tuesday at Jeruco and re¬ jected 44 others. This makes 1,347 Cubans paid by Colonel Randall. It was discovered that four Cubans were selling fraudulent certificates of service in the Cuban army, charging $4 each for them. This so enraged several soldiers who had legitimate discharges that they badly beat the sellers of the bogus certificates. REDUCTION IN ORDER. Governor McSweeney May Cut town the Constabulary Force. A Columbia, S. C., dispatch says: While there is some talk of a reduction of the constabulary office to about thirty or forty, there is no cliauce of anything being done immediately. Governor Ellerbe himself had been urged to reduce the force to fifty men, but declined to do so. Governor McSweeney at present has no thought of abolishing the force al¬ together. However, be proposes to consult with other officials iu regard to the reduction and that will unques¬ tionably result. SHOT HUSBAND ANlTwiFE. An Alabama Negro Commits a Cold- Blooded Double Murder. One of the most outrageous and 1 brutal murders was perpetrated small Mon¬ day near Pearson, Ala., a sta¬ tion on the M. & O. railroad, twenty miles south of Tuscaloosa, when Alex. Hill, colored, Bkot and killed Mr^ yard Rufus of Hubbard their home. and wife inBMMfH|H rel Tlio tragedy was the resul^H over wages.