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THE CONYERS WEEKLY. VOL. XI. If ten of the richest men in this coun¬ try, says the New York World, should withdraw their capital from railroads mines and factories more than 800,000 men would be thrown out of work, aud more than one million people would suffer by it. _________________ The Richmond Religious Herald has raised the inquiry as to what proportion of the beneficiaries in our Southern Bap¬ tist colleges use tobacco, and what the indulgence costs. One estimate places the number at fully one-half, and $15 as the annual expense to each devotee of the weed. The immigration into the United States in the seven months to January 31 was 236,845 persons, against 206,968 in the same time last year. Here is an ad¬ dition to the population in seven months sufficient to make a city as large as Buffalo and twice as large as eithe r St. Paul, Minneapolis, or Kansas City. New York city educates about three hundred thousand children annually, in one hundred and thirty-four school buildings, covering an area of thirty-five acres. These buildings placed side by side would extend more than two miles. There are about four thousaud teachers, and the annual expense of these schools is about four million dollars. The barb-wire industry is in a fair way of being overdone. According to the Iron Age there are forty-four manu¬ facturers in this country who own 2,191 machines. It is estimated that in 200 working days, running single turns, they will make 300,000 tons of barb wire, while the consumption ranges from 130, 000 to 150,000 tons a year. It seems, remarks the New York Sun, that the State prisons of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and New York undersold each other in what is known as hollow ware, namely, pots, pans and kettles, which are made in the prisons, and at last they saw that they were cutting out profits so that the work was nolongei self-support¬ ing. Then they formed a combine, and ; up went pot and kettle prices. A novel idea is to be carried out at a Presbyterian Church at Bethany, Penn., at a date set for celebrating the lifting ot Its mortgage. A mock funeral service is to be held, and the mortgage is to be sol¬ emnly cremated, amid the thanksgiving of the congregation, after which the ashes are to be deposited in an urn pre¬ pared for that purpose. A funeral ora¬ tion will be delivered, and the pastor will recite a memorial poem. It would be almost impossible, says Franklin S. Pope in Scribner’s Magazine, to catalogue the number and variety of purposes for which the electric motor is now in daily use. Some of the most usual applications are for printing presses, sewing machines, elevators, ven¬ tilating fans, and machinist’s lathes. At the present time every indication un¬ mistakably points to the probability that within a very few years nearly all mechanical work in large cities, especial¬ ly in cases in which the power required does not exceed say 50 horse-power, will be performed by the agency of the electric motor. It is an ideal motor, ab¬ solutely free from vibration or noise, perfectly manageable, entirely safe, and with the most ordinary care seldom ii ever gets out of order. Indeed there is no reason to suppose that the limit of 50 horse-power will not be very largely ex needed within comparatively short period, when it is remembered that scarcely five years ago the production of a successful 10 horse-power motor was considered quite a noteworthy achieve¬ ment. The War Department has prepared at interesting tabular statement showing the number of army officers born in each State, Territory, and foreign country. Of tne States, New York takes the lead with 447, Pennsylvania takes second place with 370, and Texas and West ^ hginia come in for 3 officers each in the service, and Nevada has but one. Of the Territories, the Indian Territory has onI yl, New Mexico 2, Utah 3, and Washington Territory 4. Four officers were born at sea. Of foreign countries, ‘reland has the largest representation, having 83 officers in the army who were born within her boundary. The follow ing is a list of the foreign countries rep¬ resented in the American Army and the number accredited to each': Asia, 1; ^astria, Lhuta- Xagjioor, 1 ; Belgium, i Corfu, 1; Canada, 17; In <3les ; 1; East - 1; England, 23; France, 9; Ger ” lan L 32; Hungary, 1; Ireland, 83; Malta, 1; Italy, 3; Netherlands. l;New Brunswick.- 2 ; Nova Scotia, 5; Poland, U Prince Edward Island, 1; Prussia, L5: Sandwich Islands, 1; Saxony„ 2; ■ i f'riand, 15; South America, 3; Swe tien ’ 3 i Switzerland 3, and Wales, 1. CONYERS. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1888. N -ri-llull A TTOA T iLlj AT PA VvAI PIT 1J ill., A \ INTERESTING DOTS ABOUT OUR UNITED STATES’ OFFICIALS. About tii© Whit© House— Army ami Navy Ulntters—Our Relation* With Other Countries ami Nation's. congressional. In the Senate, Mr. Stewart introduced a bill granting a pension of $5,000 a year to the widow of Chief Justice Waite, re¬ marking tices that the widows of chief jus¬ should be placed on the same foot¬ ing as to pen-ions as the widows ot pres¬ idents of the United States. Referred to the committee on pensions. The Dakota bill came up, and Mr. Spooner took the floor in support of it. He spoke of Dakota as the “wonderland of the con i nent,” and of opposition t# the bid as “unjust partisanship.” The bill appro¬ priating light, $25,000 for the establishment of igation a or lights, and other Charlotte aids to nav¬ Florida, to guide into harbor, was pas-ed Under the call of states the following bills and resolu¬ tions were introduced in the House and referred: By Mr. Cobb, of Alabama, to protect the rights of Indians. By Mr. declaring Breckenridge, of Kentucky, a resolution it the sense of the House that the Secretary of the Treasury has power to use the surplus at any time in the treasury the for the purchase of .he bunds of United States, and that so much of the surplus as may, from time to time, accumulate in the treasury ought to be so used. By Mr. Phelan, of Tennessee, a resolution call.ng on the heads of de¬ partments for a list of Confederate docu¬ ments in their respective departments. The call of states having been com¬ pleted, the speaker stated the unfinished business to be the motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill extending for one year the time for the completion of the give bridge across Staten Island sound (to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad di¬ rect connection with New York harbor). Alter a long speech in opposition to the bill by Mr. Phelps, of New Jersey, and a short one in favor of it by Mr. Crisp, the motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill was agreed to—116 to 31. Iu the Senate, Mr. Kenna, from the committee on commerce, reported the bill changing the boundaries of the fourth ‘ collection district of Virginia; passed. Among the bills reported calendar from commit¬ tees following: and placed on the for the were relief the House bill of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama. Among the bills introduced and referred were the following: By Mr. Call, to locate the Indians in Florida on lands in severalty. By Mr. Butler, to divide into six classes the employes of the railway mail service and to fix the salaries of each chiss. Mr. Call offered a resolution (which was adopted) instruct¬ ing the committee on public lands to in¬ quire into the titles of actual settlers on public lands in Florida, heretofore im¬ properly patented.... The House has not transacted any business since the dead¬ lock was broken. G °signed The President Mr. Clement’s giato tria to Joel™ Joe! J. Go'sf Goss. ^ “ Gt '°" The President nominated Thomas T. T. Tunstall, of Mobile, Ala., to be Um ted States Consul at San Salvador. Senator Brown introduced a memorial from the Atlanta board of trade asking the passage of Judge Stewart’s bill pro viding for an extra appropriation for the Atlanta barracks. The house which was purchased in Washington for the widow of Gen. Han cock was presented to her by the chair man of the committee, Stilson Hutchins, It is a four-story brown stone structure, The colored people of Washington cel ebrated the twenty-sixth anniversary of the emancipation of slaves. There were two factions known as street paradersand anti-street paraders. The former were reviewed by President Cleveland, and the latter addressed by Frederick Douglass, The The fourth-class fourth class nostmasters postmasters through- tnrou n out the country are petitioning Congress for an increase of compensation. Repre sentative Tilman recently presented the a pe tition of this character from citizens of Merrill’s Bridge, 8. C. It was re.cried to the committee on postoffices and post roads along with several thousand docu ments of a similar nature. The crop bulletin issued by the signal _ officesays: “The weather for the week has been favorable for the giowiug crops in all districts. Reports from the bouth era states show that the week was favor able for cotton and cane, and that small grain crops had been affectedfavorably. The season is probably ten days latem the middle Atlantic states, and from nf teen to twenty days late_ m the north west, where seeding is progressing slowly.” Senator Hampton, of South Carolina, ^ while out riding horseback, was thrown from his horse and narrowlv was," escaped, se rious iniury As it his arm and wrist were badly sprained, and he has since been confined to his room from the iniury It will be remembered that Sen ator Hampton lost a leg by being thi own from a mule in 1878, and that about a vear and a half ago he was thrown from a horse in Mississippi, discharged, at wffich time his gun was which killed the horse and very nearly placed the senator’s life in danger. It is settled that Secretary Bayard is to marry Mrs. Folsom, the mother in-law of president Cleveland. The wedding will come off June 2d, the anniversary of president Cleveland’s marriage to Miss Frances Folsom. Of course there is much rejoicing over this prospective marriage among the aristocratic members of Mr. Bayard’s historic family. The Bayards of Delaware are a proud race of Ameri¬ cans, and are never satisfied with any¬ thing except “the best.” They have al wa ys moved in the cream of society, and the nobles of Europe are not more exclu¬ sive than they. “NEW ITALY’* DOTS. All the Sunday trains on the Florida Southern Railroad will be discontinued. .Palatka will have two new hotels in ... time for next season's business... .The tobacco crops about Tallahassee are do¬ ing finely.... An immense cabbage crop is being shipped from Florida, and hun¬ dreds ot thousands of dollars are being realized therefrom... .The new manage¬ ment of the Florida Midland have ac¬ quired Wi.at was known as the Alabama, Florida & Atlantic Road... .Cypress blocks are being used in paving St. Au¬ gustine. Many of the people would prefer asphalt. The difference in cost is considerably in favor of the cypress pavement and it will probably be more generally used than any other....As many as 1,177 carioads of lumber have been transposed to Fernandina by the Florida Railway and Navigation Com¬ pany in one month—an average of about forty-three carloads per day....A very large force of hands are now at work on ihe La Camelia tobacco plantation rapidly. near Quincy, and work is progressing been cleared. Over 200 acres of land has ....D. A. Miller, of Ocala, bad ten orange trees in his yard on Magnolia street insured for $5 ) apiece, which were destroyed by the late fire, and for which the insurance company promptly paid. .... The orange tie s throughout Pasco county are in the most vigorous condi¬ tion, and the promise for an unusually heavy crop is encouraging.... Coloied people own a great deal of property in DeLand; some of it right they iu the business centre. The property nwn in the corporate limits covers at least thirty-five acres, and is valued at about $25,0u0... R. F. Kreig-man, of Eusiis, has a curiosity in his garden in the shape of a combination tree. Itcon sists of a lemon, peach, and pear, grape ad fruit, bloom___.Dr. persimmon, J. orange F. Appell, guava, of Like in City, is prib.iblv the largest ama eur florist in the state. His grouuds em¬ brace ubout eight acres. He cubivates in their highest pellet tion 250 varieties of roses of the ‘choicest species, aud many other rare flowers and fruits ... During the mouth of February the books at the United States land office at Gaines¬ ville show that there weie entered 102 homesteads, embracing 13,096.64 acresof land, 152 cash entries, embracing 26,064. 04 acres, and 41 pre-emptions tiled. The cash receipts of the office were $31,000. ... .It is rumored that one of the largest corporations in this country, worth $50, 000,000, has negotiated for the purchase of that large and magnificent tract of land south uf the barracks at St. Augus¬ tine, commanding a beautiful view of the bay and fronting thereon, owned by B. Dunham and others, and will build on it a concrete Moorish, hotel to accommodate 1,000 guests. BREWERS STRIKE. All union masters and brewers in uSas been"mining for some time, and has its origin in a circular issued by th(j bre proprietors, which in sub staace announced their determination to refuge recognition of any brewers and malsters unions. The immediate cause 0 f the strike was one non-union man em ployed in Ernst Brothers’brewery. Tlie tinion men employed there demanded the discharge of the intruder. This was re fused, and a strike of Ernst’s men fol lowed. A meeting of the brewers’ union resolved to back up Ernst’s men. Nego tiations were fruitless, and 300 brewers quit work, stopping every brewery, except that of Ernst Brothers, and throwing out of employment proba bly 1,500 to 2,000 men. Ernst Bros, es establishment is working because the proprietors some days ago secured a fo:ce of non-union men. Another cause ot ir ritation is the determma ion o. the em P lo >' ln S brewers “ ot *° reaew contracts and not.to , with the men recognize unions . q dea]ing with w „rkuien. A stand has been taken |, y ' , the Milwaukee employing , jrew aad the circu i ar before referred ’ tribute-;! there. The ^ has beerl di cb - 6 Q brewerg j ia ve a good many social in it anc] furn phed the bulk of mon ’ defense of the llaymarket en ded in rioters. The union was organized by one Haymarket m in who is now serv ■ a fifteen years’ sentence iu the peni fe ntiary for bis share in that affiir ... ^ ni . re ; s a s , r ; !{e j n Mocriein’s brewery, at Cincinnati, Ohio, which grew out if the discharge the other day of a collar n , an .About 36 of 150 men are already out, an(] the dissatisfaction is spri ading.. /I he jj astcr Brewers’ association in New York p ub ii gbed an advertisement giving notice ^bat unless the boycott placed of that on them, city, by the Central Libor union j g removed, they will “reorganize their wor king force” by weeding out all mal contents, and they have opene 1 an office for the registry of nintes of for work. Workmen in the breweries are very uneasy over this movement The Master Brewers’ association of Mil waukee and Chicago have sent telegrams iork upholding the act of their New brethren. _ TALKED -p * , ^ Fn TOO TOO MUCH MUCH, j n Ga barras county. N. C., some time ago, the baru belonging to Dr. Rufus T. Shimock was set on tire and burned. The loss was heavy. Henry Glover, a white man fifty years old, and his son were talking with a man whom they thought a bitter enemy of Dr. Shimock, and among other things they said : “We gave it to his old barn.” They are bow in jail at Concord. WORLD AT LARGE. PEN PICTURES PAINTED BY A CORPS OF ABLE ARTISTS. Wliat Is Goln* on North, East and West anil Across ti>* Water-Tlie Coming Eu ropean 8torm. Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, died at Cannes, France. General strikes of workingmen are be¬ ing arranged in Berlin, Germany. Out of 579 applications for liquor li¬ cense iu Philadelphia only 184 were granted. f Twenty members of the board of trade of Chicago were suspended for trading after hours. The Big Sioux river has overflowed its banks aud done considerable damt^je in vicinity of Sioux Falls, Dak. The conference to settle the dispute between the United States and Morocco will miet in Madrid on May 1st. One thousand locomotive engineers have volunteered to leave England each. for America if assured $1,000 a year The American Exchange in London has suspended. It will cause much in¬ convenience to tourists, who cannot get their drafts honored. The resolution providing for the sub¬ mission io the people of New York state of a prohibition amendment to the consti¬ tution was adopted in the Assembly. Editor O’Brien, M. P., was arrested on arriving at Kingston, Ireland, meeting in conse quence of his speech at the at Loughrea. He was taken to Loughrca. The E Igar Thompson steel works at Braddocks, Pa., will remain closed fo mii indefinite period, and all conferences and nego iations with the men declared 0 ff. The Norwegian bark Norma, from Sa¬ vannah, Ga., bound for Rotterdam, was sunk in the British channel by a collision w tii th ■ steamer Bremen. The Norma’s crew were saved. Sir Charles Tupper, in the Canadian House of Commons moved the second reading of the bill to ratify the fisheries treaty, and made complimentary remarks about Americans on the commission. Matthew Arnold, the noted poet, schol¬ ar, critic and theologian, whose article ou “Civilization of the United States” attracted at'ention, died suddenly in Liverpool, England, of heart disease. In the department of Nora, France, Gen Boulanger distanced all competitors majority of for the Assembly, getting the American a mil¬ 97,000 votes. Mackay, unlimited funds to lionaire, is supplying Boulanger. the Florida An accident occurred on Railway and Navigation Company’s rail¬ road near Baldwin, Fla., in which Engi¬ neer Bross was killed. The engine jumped the track from no apparent cause. Maj. John S. Rudd was found in his room at the Montgomery hotel, Coal Val¬ ley. W. Va., suffering from an overdose of chloroform, and died in twenty min¬ utes. He was a soldier in the Confeder ate army, being a staff officer of Gen. Longstreet, and a graduate of Wist Francis Murphy, the great temperance for advocate, who has been lecturing a week past before immense crowds in the Moody tabernacle in Louisville, Ky., tackled the Louisville base ball club, and, as a result, every member of the nine signed the pledge. 3 lie club man agers regard their nine sure winners now. a train on the South Carolina Rail way, which left Augusta, Ga.. ran over j oc Ryan, at Graniteville, twelve miles f r0 m Augusta, and killed him instantly, Mr. Iiyan was employed as a switch lamp-lighter on the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Road, and was walking down the track with his back to the train. Rev Dr. J. II. Campbell, one of the foremost an d oldest Baptist preachers Columbus. in Gcorgia> died at his home in H# wa8 ovt . r eighty years old, and for a numbcr of years has been engaged in missionary work in that city. He was . f atber of Rev. A. B. Campbell, of and Rev. Charles Campbell, of ’ Augusta. FRENCH AFFAIRS. The French Chamber of Deputies will reopen soon, and it is expected In will re¬ main :' in session until May. policy expec-a tion of the debate on the of th cabinet, tin- President has postponed hit i 0 ,irney to the south, and M. FJoqueth s tour of the departments... .A crank fire three shots from a revolver at the gates 0 f , be Dlysee palace, the President’s residence. Upon being ariested he said, j u explanation, that he wanted M. Carno to att -nd to a grievance of which he wa the victim . M. Lalande, a deputy o: the department of Gironde, has writte a letter to M. L r grande, miniate; o commerce, in which he says that thi proposed detrimental English to duty the on wine-growing bottled^ wine in ; g dus try, and that wine merchants of Bor deaux beat the government to protec; their interests... .The Oneamsts wi.i meet at the residence of the count oi Paris, at Twickenham, England, to de cile upon the ad vi-ability of supporting or condemning the union of the sections f the French co nse rvative party who oie a0 V0C!lta: " 1 e cau8e 0 oulaDger. A SEA SERPENT. Passengers on the steamship Wiscon fin, of tin: Guion line, on their arrival at New York, reported that feet they saw He on the trip a sea serpent 60 long. was green in color aud had a head like a horse. MURDER WILL OUT Confession of n Woman Who was Bull¬ dozed into Killing Two 1’eUJIi-rs. The mystery of the disappearance of two peddlers on the line of Ru-sell and Pulaski counties, Kentucky, about four weeks ago, has been solved by the con¬ fession of Mary Smith. She lived in the house of John and Henry Hill, near Mc¬ Clendon's ridge. She claims that she was forced to help the Hills commit the deed, aud that after the murder they watched her to prevent her from reveal¬ ing ihe crime. She eluded them at last, however, ami went to the house of a neighbor, R. D. Jones. The subject of the two peddlers, who have been missing for a long time, and about whom finding inquiiy has been stimulated by the of pieces of human lie li by the neighbors, The was brought up iu her presence. shocking circumstances "ere gone over again by the family, and the woman be¬ came so agitated as to arouse their suspi¬ cions. At last Mr. Jones openly taxed her with knowing somethiug about the missing men At this the woman broke clown and made the following confession: “I was staying with Henry Hill when the two peddlers came to the house and wanted to stay allnight. After they had been shown to their beds upstairs, John Hill came over and he and H- nry began to concoct a plan to murder them. They told me to get a quilt and follow them up stairs. We all went tiptoeing up the steps and found the ped Hers asleep. Henry Hill stood on one side of the lied and Johu on the other. They told me to throw the quilt oven the heads of the two men. I did so, and they commenced to smother them to death. they The peddlets the struggled so hard that tore quilt, and then Henry llill thrust a knife into my hand and told mo to cut their ihroats or they would kill me. 1 had to take the knife and do the work. I cut their throats, and then caught their blood in a dishpan and threw it in the road. They then took the bodies and threw them in ihe cellar. The Hills buried their bloody clothes in the garden. They let the bodies lie two da\ s in the ce lar and then took them away one night. I do not know wlicr . The men had about $2o0 on their persons in jewelry and other things ” arrtstedand Tue woman Smith and the Hills were lodged in jail at Janies own. The house in which the awful deed was committed is a mile from any other n sidencc, and is Dn a very lonely road where tiavel is in¬ frequent. GRADUALLY SINKING. The Death of Emperor Erederlck, of Ger¬ many Looked for In a Few Days. A change for the worse in Emperoi Frederick’s condition, combined with alarming symptoms preceeding the in¬ sertion of a new canula, gave the people around him a scare. The rapid swelling around the old canula, and the sudden contraction of the air passages, intensely alarmed the physicians. Dr. Macken¬ zie was summoned to the Emperor's and as distance. Dis. Bergmann, Krause Hovell succeeded in reducing the swell¬ ing before placing the new canula in the Emperor’s throat. This incident has again attracted attention to the prccari- the ous state of the Emperor. During lx height of the alarm Dr. Krause, on mg asked how the Emperor was getting on, replied: “He has got over it well now, but we dread every to-morrow.” The report is confirmed that the emperor is also suffering from inflammation of the lungs. Dr. Mackenzie suggested an ab cesj in the vicinity of the trachea as the cause of the excessive fever, which lux been so puzzling to the doctois. It is undeniable that Dr. Mackenzie believes that the emperor’s end is urgently rapidly ap¬ proaching. The empress sum tnoiied members of the family Wil¬ 1c hasten to the castle. Crown Prince liam came from Berlin, and arrived first. He was followed by Empress Augu-ta bed and others. Bismarck was at the side an hour after receiving the summon 1 here is a marked disch ive of bloody mucus from the emperor’s throat, and ti e swelling is processing downward. Bis¬ marck, accompanied by the minister <J justice, had another interview with the emperor, when the emperor signed an or der appointing the crown prince to act as his represen i a ive. SUDDEN DEATH. H<m. Z. W. Leitner,secretary of state of South Carolina, d ed suddenly at his res idence in Columbia. He leaves a wife and five children with litile legacy $3,000 save a house and lot in Camden and i suranee. He was bon: in Fairfield c< untv, near Winnsboio, on September 23. 1829. He entered the South Carolina College in 1847, and was graduated ad¬ in the class of 1849. Iu 1853 he was mitted to the bar. lie entered the miii tary service of South Cirolina in 'he Camden Volunteers on April 8, 1861, nd was present at the bombardment of Fort. Sumter, After the tunei.cer of he fort he went to Virginia, where he was engaged in most of the tatties fought by the army of Northern Virginia. At Gettysburg his right leg was sl.a'tercd below the knee by grape-shot and was ..mputated. BOYCOTT ON BEERS. The Central Labor Union at New York declared a general boycott on all pool beer. Every d> legate w as in favor of war to the last against the bosses. Among the firms boycotted are Peter Daclger, Henry Elias Peter Buckel, John Kres-, David Mayer, M. Groh’- Sons, Reubsam & Hersman, William Peter, II. B. Scharmann, S. Leiberman & Sons, Frederick Bachmann, Ballautine Sons, G. V. Ulmer and Frederick Munch. NO. 8. SOUTHERN GOSSIP. BOILED DOWN FACTS AND FAN¬ CIES INTERESTINGLY STATED. Accident# on Land ami on Sea—Now Enter; prisco—Suicides—Religious, Temperance aud Social Matters. Negotiations are pending Pa., and between citi- a large firm of Pittsburg, for the a of Athens, Ga., necessary glass plant and buildings for extensive works. The Farmers’ Alliance entered North Carolina about a year ago. It now has 686 sub-alliances in the state with 32, 000 members. The Knights of Labor are losing strength and the new order is over¬ shadowing everything. In Sumter county, S. C., a stroke of lightning killed a negro boy, killed wfio was the rising along a public road, mule he was driving and shattered the buggy. In the same county, about the sumo lime, a stroke of lightniug killed a mule, a cow and a pig. There are no other casualties reported. Andrew Marlow, mail carrier on the Blue Spring and Crystal River route, in Marion County, Florida, evas arrested by Postoffice Inspector Boykin on the charge and of robbing mail sacks of made registeied full other valuable letters. He con¬ fession, and much of the stolen property was recovered. There were 8,000 visitors at Bessemer’s, (Ala ,) first anniversary. Speeches Birming¬ were made by Messrs. Talliaferro, of ham; Colver, of the Nashville American ; Hudson, of Louisiana, and Burke, of the 7 imes-Vemocrat. All spoke in favor of protection for Alabama's greut iron and steel indu tries. While a construction train on the Kan- 8 8 City, Mpmp is & Birmingham Rail¬ road was luuning backward at a rate of twenty miles an hour, near Amory, Miss., it struck a cow and the entire train was thrown from ihe track and badly wrecked. Four negro laborers wero killed outright and eight others injured, some of them fatally. The jury iu in the case of David Walker, chief of the Bald Knobbers, wh i have been or tiial at Ozark, Mo.,Re¬ turned a verdict of murder in the first degree. James Mathews, Wilbam St n ley, Amos Jones and C. C. Simmons. were then sentenced by the court, three of them haviug phad guilty to muider iu the second degree. Stanleyand penitentiary, Jones go twenty-five years in the Sm mo us fifteen years, and Muthews was released on $1,000. THE CLOSING SCENE. New York’s Grout .Statesman lias Bat a short Time to Live. Ex Senator Conkling sleeps but little, and is much affected by a racking cough that disturbs him every few minutes. He is much prostrated by it; is weak and nervous. It has been found necessary to engage an assistant nurse for him. Dr. Barker said that there were no symptoms for the worse in his patient’s developed. condition, Mr. except a little bronchitis Conkling’s pulse was 1)0 and his temper¬ ature 98£. Notwithstanding hopeful views, the following telegram was sent by Gen. Harlow: “'To Hon. J. I 1 . Jones, Utica, N. Y.: Much weaker, chances diminisliin". Very little hopes. S. L. M. Barlow." One of theattendantssaid: “Conkling is no better. He seems in a coma. lie is taking all the nourishment that we give him. He does not recog¬ nize any one. lie talks incoherently in his sleep in a disjointed sort of way.” As time wore on Conkling’s nervousness and twitching of the muscles became more pronounced. A state of partial coma was the next development, and then he lost power to rerist the doctors’ efforts to feed him and dress his wounds. Not for a single moment was hi; rational. And Inter on his mind seemed filled with recollections of great lawsuits and the polirieal campaigns iu which he has been the leading figure. Edward Stokes, pro¬ prietor of the Huffman house, said: “Conkling is failing rapidly. There is no chance for his reeoveiy. I think tho cud is not far distant.” AN AMERICAN DUKE. Robert Mills, one of the most remark¬ able of the Texas pioneers, died in Gal¬ veston, Texas recently, aged 79 years. the Prior >o the War he was. perhaps, His wealthiest planter in the Soutn. slaves and plantations were value 1 at $8, 000 000. He was known thr ughout the South as the “Duke of Brazoria.” Pres¬ ident Lincoln’s pioclamation emancipated Mills 1,000 selected -lavis belonging ruin, to from aud resulted in his financial which he never recovered. revolution. The peasant rising, in Bucharest, is ex¬ tendin''. Several village mayors have been Til ed. Large binds are of attacking assemo lin" with th • avo -ed object have been Bucharest. Teleg aph wires c «t at several railway sta ions. Men of the territorial army, who were hastily called out, proved untrustworthy and have been replaced by troops ot the line. The Instantaneous Process. Dnmley (to photographer)—“Do the instantaneous pro¬ you take pictures by hurry.” cess? I'ni in a Photographer—“Yes, sir.” Dumley—“Y-ftu ma y t a k® mine; • dozen cabinets.” right, yus^sit . . Photographer—“All and wait turn, please.” s r; down your will I have to Dumley— “How long wait ?” few hours; Photographer—“Only baby ahead of you.”—JSJpe-A. a there’s a