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VOL. I. THROUGH DIXIE. NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEFLY PARAGRAPHED Forming 1 an Epitome of Daily Happenings Here and There. Crenshaw & Bros., wholesale liquor dealers, Richmond. Va., made an assign ment Monday. In an election Monday at High Point, N. C., for the sale of liquor, “local op tion” was carried. At Williamsburg, Ky,, Saturday, Sid ney Lewis, son of Judge Wilson Lewis, of Harlan county, was sentenced to the penitentiary for life for the murder of his father in February last. E. S. Terry, a prominent dry goods merchant of Fayetteville, Tcnn., made an assignment Saturday. Liabilities, $20,000; assets, $23,000. Inability to make collections is given as the cause. • Fred L. Smith’s planing mill and lum ber yard at Clarksville, Tenn., were burned early Friday morning, with sev eral cottages. The total loss was $30,- 000, with insurance of only $7,000. A Tallahassee dispatch of Saturday says: The bill makiug the anniversary of the birth of Jefferson Davis a legal holiday has become a law. After the bill was passed the legislature adjourned sine die. A Birmingham dispatch says: Sheriff Morris’ wife was feeding the prisoners in the Blount county jail Sunday at dinner, when one of them knocked her down and all but one of them made good their escape over her prostrate body. The one who remained is charged with murder. The Shelby, N. C., Improvement, Company, on Friday, closed a contract with Garrett’s Hydraulic Motor Company, of Union, S. C., to bring sulphur water from a famous spring to the courthouse square in Sbelby, water to be flowing in town by the 15th of July. Work com mences at once. A Nashville telegram says: The corner stone of the Confederate Soldiers’ Home was laid at the Hermitage Saturday, un der the auspices of Frank Cheatham Biv ouac and Phoenix Masonic lodge. Speeches were made by. Congressman Washington, Attorney General Pickle, Hon. S. F. Wilson and others. At New Orleans, Monday, Bernard Glandia, accused of offering a SSOO bribe to Henry B. Atwood, tales juror in the Ilenncssy case, was found guilty. The penalty for attempting to bribe a petit juror is a fine of not exceeding SI,OOO and imprisonment in the penitentiary for a period not exceeding one year. Argument was concluded in the case of the State versus the Coosaw Mining Company, before Chief Justice Fuller, at Charleston Saturday. r lhe decision was reserved. Suit was brought by the state to forfeit the charter of the Coosaw r com pany and to declare its territory in which it claims the exclusive right to mine phosphate open to all. Representatives of Kentucky jeans manufacturers, which operates -3,200 looms in Nashville, Evansville and other southern cities, met at Louisville, Fri day, and determined to run only two thirds time for the next fifteen weeks. Ibis will reduce the output 50,000 pieces, valued at $60,000. The unsatisfactory condition is given as a reason. The most disastrous hail storm that ever visited that section passed over Fforence, S. C., Saturday night. Re ports from the country indicate that a strip at least twenty miles in length and averaging four in width was swept as clean as if by a cyclone. Roofs of houses •were torn off and broken, and shutters and windows dashed to flinders; branches were torn from trees, and growing crops beaten into the ground. A horrible casualty occurred at the Chattanooga blast furnace at Chattanooga Saturday evening at 7:30 o’clock. While four colored men were tamping a dyna mite blast the charge exploded, killing and horribly mangling three men and wounding a fourth. The timber and ma chinery in the furnace plant were hurled about promiscuously* The ex plosion was heard througout the city, and occasioned grest excitement. In the United States court at Charles ton, S. C., Friday, Judge Bond signed a decree authorizing D. 11. Chamberlain receiver of the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago, railroad, to purchase the entire equipment of that road, consisting of thirteen locomotives, fifteen coaches and 286 freight cars, for $221,514. That amount is due the Massachusetts and Southern Construction Company on the original purchase. A Nashville dispatch of Tuesday says: William E. Minchin is a fugitive from justice. For six years he has held a po sition with the American National bank of Nashville, and up to May 25th was in dividual bookkeeper. On that date he resigned and left the city with his wife,os tensibly to take an extended eastern tour. Nothing has since been heard from him, but it has leaked out that he was a defaulter, as an investigation of his books shows, to the amount of nearly $17,000. The executive committee of the Vir ginia Historical society, at a meeting held at Richmond Saturday night, elected the following officers: President, Hon. William Wirt Henry; vice president, A. H. 11. Stuart, deceased; first vice president, Jlon. J. L. McCurry; second vice president, Col. Archer Anderson, member of the executive committee; Robert M. Hughes and Dr. Bennett Wood Green. A number of new members were chosen and many gifts of historical value were received. H ltd Wf IB $ v SkSc MSI pKX jw - .Hfl ) MB HZ Sfiß fO j&jijMjf A decision in the first case In ought un der the anti-trust law, which was passed by the last congress was tiled at Nash ville, Tenn., Saturday by United States District Judge D. M. Key, being in the ease of the United States vs. the Jellico Mountain Coal and Coke company, and others. This was a petition filed by Unsted States District Attorney Ruhm to enjoin the Nashville Coal Exchange from operating under its agreement. All of the Nashville coal dealers entered into an agreement with certain Kentucky and Tennessee mine owners for the declared purpose of establishing and maintaining the prices of coal. BUSINESS OUTOOK. Dun & Co.’s Report of Trade for the Past Week. R. G. Dunn & Cos., weekly review of trade says: While hesitation in business has not ceased, and decided activity is hardly to be expected now until after the close of the fiscal year, it continues to be a matter of surprise and congratulation that the money markets and trade have been so well sustained in spite of the heavy exports of gold. As has been an ticipated, exports don’t cease, though the Bank of England has reduced its rate, indicating that no further emergency is apprehended there, and leading finan ciers have predicted that the gold move ment would cease. Exports of products are indeed larger than a year ago, with not much difference in imports, but the excess of imports, was very large at this time last year. Some sales of stock- on foreign account also appear, and it is hardly to be expected that the outgo of gold will entirely cease until a heavy crop movement begins. The New York money market has been easy, rates on call dropping from 3£ to 3 per cent., with heavy receipts from the in terior. HEPOBTS FBOM OTHER CITIES. Reports show that money is tighter at St. Louis, tight at Nashville, firmer at New Orleans and Pittsburg, in hardly adequate supply at Cleveland, not strin gent but affected by distrust on account of city finances at Philadelphia; firmer at Boston, in good demand in Chicago and Milwaukee, but with a supply for all legitimate needs, and easy at all other points reporting. Trade is not very ac tive, but almost everywhere hopeful. The exposures df official and banking misconduct at Philadelphia tend to make business inactive and no life is seen in iron. Wool is dull, though some con cessions are made by western holders. At Pittsbmrg a rise in iron is prevented by the reopening of some Mahoning and Shenango furnaces and the preparations of others. Window glass is fairly active, but flint is dull. In the northwest con tinuous rains have made prospects unsur passed. Throughout the west and south tine crop prospects give encouragement, almost the only complaint now coming from New Orleans of drought in adjoin ing regions. At Nashville a heavy dry goods failure causes some depression, and there is no improvement at Memphis. New Orlears reports trade dull, cotton in fair demand, sugar acrive; mola'ses and rice quiet and lower. At Savannah trade improves and at Jacksonville is quite steady. THE IRON MARKET. In the great industries there is a better demand for iron, but as yet without change in prices. Sales of some cotton goods are recorded at the lowest prices ever made. Wool moves slowly but yielding at the west gives a better pros ptet. In brendstuffs the decline con tinues. In general, the approach of the harvest, which is expected to be most bountiful, has its natural effect on pri ces, and trade is but little embarrassed by speculative movements. Failures of the week nomber 211; for the corresponding week of last year the figure was 179. THE BRIGGS CASE. Directors of Theological Semi nary Pass Resolutions. A New York dispatch says: The di rectors of the Union Theological semi nary have met and have declared their position on the question of the right of the general assembly of the Presbyterian church to veto the transfer of Professor Charles A. Briggs from the chair of He brew to the chair of Biblical theology. The resolution passed at their meeting held Friday afternoon is as follows: Resolved, That the board of directors, after having taken legal advice and after due consideration, see no reason to change their views on the subject of transfer of Dr. Briggs, and feel bound in the dis charge of their duties under the charter and constitution of the seminary to ad here to the same. The intent of the vote passed by the general assembly at its recent sessions in Detroit was that Dr. Briggs should cease to be professor in the Union seminary. The effect of the resolution given above ip it that is the judgment of the directors that the vote was a usurpation of powers never given, or intended to be given, to the general assembly, and that since the vote was illegal, the appointment stands, and Dr. Briggs will continue as professor during the coming year, as during the past seventeen years. The meeting of the board of directors was very full, only three members being ab sent out of the full board of twenty-six. The vote by which the resolution was adopted was practically unanimous, one vote Only being cast in opposition. Third Party Convention. A Milwaukee dispatch says: Robert Schilling, secretary of the new people’s party, on Thursday, issued a call for a convention of the party to be held at St. Louis, June 13th, to arrange a plan of action for the coming campaign. TRENTON, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1891. THE WIDE WORLD. GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND CABLE CULLINGS Of Brief Items of Interest From Various Sources. The Illinois senate, on Friday, killed the bill making eight hours a day’s work. Seven thousand shipworkers a'. Clyde Bank, Scotland, are on a strike against a reduction of 5 per cent, in their wages. A camblegram of Monday from Rome, Italy, says: The pope has issued an or der deciding that all employes of the financial department of the Vatican be discharged. A fire did damage to the extent of $250,000 in Glasgow, Scotland, Monday. Moiloch’s glassware house and the estab lishments of Willis Si Neison, ribbon manufacturers, were destroyed. The postoffice department, on Saturdaj', completed the readjustment of the sala ries of first-class postmasters for the next fiscal year, beginning July Ist. They are based on the gross receipts. A London cablegram of Saturday says: Mr. Gladstone’s letter on the Hebrew question is obliterated from all papers containing it which arrive in Russian ter ritory. Enveloped copies of the letter have, however, been smuggled into the country. Contracts were let Friday at Chicago for the construction of the electricity buildings at the world’s fair. Thai prin cipal contract, that for carpenter and iron work, went to Arthur Johnson & Bro., of Omaha, for $104,444. Chieago builders secured the remainder. A cablegram from Santiago, Chili, states that the British legation was de stroyed by fire Saturday. The British minister, J. G. Kennedy, and wife nar rowly escaped death. The building oc cupied by the German legation was also damaged and many others destroyed, Bishop Knight, of the Episcopal dio cese of Milwaukee, Wis., died Monday afternoon. He was attacked- with the grip several weeks ago, and on Friday suffered a stroke of paralysis, which hastened his end. The deceased was sixty years of age. Several offers for the extension of the 4J per cent bonds were received at the treasury department Tuesday morning. One was of $600,000 at the rate of 2 per cent. This came from a private citizen. Others were nt any rate the department decides on. They were all from western banks. A dispatch from Washington, Ind., says: After a six weeks’ strike, 600 miners of the Cable Coal Company re sumed work Friday, the difficulty having been adjusted by arditratiou. A feature of the agreement upon which the men return to work is that no miner shall be discharged except for good cause, sub ject to investigation. A dispatch of Friday from Peoria, 111., says: The severe electrical storms during the last two days have done much dam age. The waterworks pumping station was struck by lightning and two men at work on it seriously injured. One was totally blinded. A dispatch from Mar tinsville, Ind., says two people were killed by the tornado in Johnson county. The dwelling of Samuel P. Myers, a prominent farmer of Summit township, near Meyersdale, Pa., burned to the ground Friday night, and two children, Clara and Missouri, aged nine and twelve years respectively, were roasted alive. The fire spread so rapidly that nine other occupants barely escaped in their night clothes. Three men and one woman were compelled to jump from a second story window. In the United States district court at Springfield, 111., Saturday, the Rev. Jerry Holmes of Stonefort, Saline county, was tried and convicted of counterfeiting and sentenced to three years in the peniten tiary. Rev George Vuncil, of Duquoin, plead guilty to the same charge and was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. The preacher counterfeiters are a strange backwoods pair, whose arrest a fortnight ago caused so much comment. The American Nurserymen’s associa tion, in session at Minneapolis, Minn., unanimously voted Friday to hold its next annual meeting in Atlanta. The association is composed of over 400 of the most experienced fruit men in the country, and every state in the union is represented in its membership. The next meeting will be the first ever held in the south. J. Van Lindley, of North Carolina was elected president. The anarchists attempted to make a demonstration Sunday afternoon in front of the Mont Martre basilica. They as sembled for the purpose of laying votive wreaths on the spot where the Varlin communists were shot in 1871. The po lice stopped the paradera and tried to take tne wreaths. The ensuing tumult alarmed the worshipers within its oasiti ch, and the services were sispended until quiet outside was restored. The police succeeded in dispersing the anar chists, six of whom were arrested. A cablegram from London savs: Hardly a single omnibus of the 875 vehicles belonging to the London Gen eral Omnibus Company was running Monday, and it is estimated that about 5,000 men and 10,000 horses are thrown into a state of idleness through the strike which commenced Sunday. The amount of inconvenience which working men and business men of the city are thus put to can be readily imagined, when it is understood that tens of thousands of people depend upon the omnibuses to couvey them to their work. WANAMAKER SUBPOENAED To Testify in the Keystone Bank Muddle. A Philadelphia dispatch of Saturday, say: Postmaster General Wanamaker has been asked to appear before the com mittee of the councils investigating the affairs of City Treasurer Bardsley and his connection with the wrecked Keystone National bank. The committee conferred with Mayor Stuart and the result of the conference was the writing and delivery of a letter to the postmaster general ask ing him to appear before the committee at his earliest convenience and testify as to his knowledge of the Keystone bank affairs. Auditor General McCamant and John and James Dobson, the bondsmen and assignees of Bardsley, have also been subpoenaed. BEFORE THE COMMITTEE. A dispatch of Tuesday says: Long be fore the hour set for the meeting of the sub-committee of councils that is investi gating the affairs of ex-City Treasurer Bardsley, the select councils chamber in which these meetings are held was crowded to its utmost capacity. Inter est in the proceedings of the committee had been intensified by the promise of still more startling developments in con nection with the looted bank and by the fact that Postmaster General Wanamaker had signified hi 9 willingness to appear before the committee, and to testify to all the knowledge he had in reference to the bank’s management. When he came he at once proceeded to business by stating that he, as a taxpayer, had the greatest interest in unraveling the affairs of the Keystone bank. He stated that he had prepared and proposed to read a statement in answer to all allega tions that have connected his name with the Keystone bank which was at the same time a full and complete statement of all his transactions with the bank. As the Postmaster-General had said, the pa per was a categorical denial of every alle gation that has been brought against him, emphatic and without equivocation. When Mr. Wanamaker had finished, his many friends in the room and among the committee, pressed forward and shook him cordially bv the hand. MORE BILLS OF INDICTMENT. The grand jury, Monday afternoon, found eighteen bills of indictment against ex-City Treasurer John Bardsley, charg ing him with appropriating to his own use city and state funds. Bardsley is now in prison in default of $50,000 bail to answer the charge of embezzlement of $39,000. Eighteen bibs of indictment were found number of specific chargers under three separate heads of “money loaned by a public officer,” “de riving gain from the deposit of public money,” and “converting public money to his own use by investment.” A REI?N OF TERROR. Citizens of Port au Prince Massa cred by Soldiers. The steamer Orange Nassau, which ar rived at New York Tuesday from Port au Prince, brings the first definite news of the late insurrection in Hayti. The up rising was of a serious character, Jand fora time threatened important consequences, but the government repressed the rebel lion by prompt and stern measures. The insurrectionists stormed the prison at Port au Prince, and a number of prison ers were released, when the military ap peared on the scene and captured the whole party. ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS. For the last two or three weeks there have been rumors that a revolution against President Hypolite was immi nent at Port ail Prince, the* capital, and these having reached the ears of the chief executive, he caused the arrest of about eighty suspected persons, and put them in irons in prison. Among the suspected was General Sully, who, hearing he was “wanted,” hid himself. Failing to se cure the general himself, his wife was taken instead, and thrown into prison. Corpus Christi, Thursday, May 28th, was the national holi day and it was reported that on that date Hyppolite. in order to effectu ally terrify the populace, had ordered a Gatling gun to be taken down to the prison and the eighty prisoners to he summarily executed. The friends of the prisoners, among whom was General Sully, met in council, and while the president was in the cathedral, they forced open the prison doors and freed all the prisoners, about 250 in all. Then, by order of the president, began a series of assassinations, perhaps unequaled in the annals of civilization, and to which the massacre of St. Bar tholomew sinks into insignificance. It is impossible to enumerate in detail all the murders that have been perpetrated under the color of law. It is estimated that from May 28th to May 31st at least fifty persons have been put to death, and the figures are placed as high as 100. No one can say how long this 6tate of affairs will la9t, or what the result wiii be, nor can any one who has not been an - eye witness of the scenes of horror enacted, have any idea of the terrified condition of the people of Port au Prince. COMMISSION OF INQUIRY Appointed to Investigate the Conduct of Rev. Newton. A New York dispatch of Saturday gays: It is stated upon pretty good authority that the commission of inquiry to investigate the charges of uncanonical conduct brought against Rev. Heber Newton, the rector of All Fouls church, have been appointed by Bishop Potter, and will cousist of Rev. Dr. Shipman, of Christ church. Rev. Dr. Peters, of St. Michael’s, Bloomingdale, and Rev. Mr. I Butler, of the Church of Epiphany. T ’ \RTHQUAKES IN ITALY. Whole Towns Collapse—Several People Killed. A cablegram from Rome, Italy, says: The cities of Verona and Mantua were shaken by an earthquake Sunday. Many houses were damaged. An invalid lady was so badly frighieued by the shock that she died. Lombardy, Venetia and part of Tuscany were visited in the early morning by repeated shocks. The worst shocks occurring about 2 o’clock. Shocks were also felt in Venice and Milan. The center of the disturbance was at Verona. A subterranean noise was heard like the roar of artillery, which was followed by three strong shocks. The inhabitants rushed into the streets in terror. At Marcenigo three persons were killed, and at Badia, Calavena, seventeen were badly injured by falling houses and chimneys. A later dispttch from Rome says: Ad vices from Badia, Calsvania and Treg nanzo, two of the towns in northern Italy visited by the earthquakes Sunday, show that the inhabitants were terror stricken and have taken to the fields for safety. The authorities have, as far as pos-ible, sought to alleviate distress among the people and have furnished a large number of tents to shelter those who have fled from their homes. The subterranean rumblings continue and occasionally slighter shocks than those of Sunday are felt. The people are in dread of momentarily seeing the earth open and swallow them. The damage done at these two places is much greater than was indicated in the first reports. The towns were prac tically destroyed by the severity of the shocks. The commission, appointed by the authorities to examine houses which were not thrown down by the undulations of the earth, have made hasty examina tions and they report that three-quarters of the houses are in such a condition that public safety demands that they be pulled down entirely. Large bodies of troops have been dispatched to these places to assist the authorities in clearing the streets of debris in tearing down dangerous houses and to render such other assist ance ns they may be called upon to give. VESUVIUS HEARD FROM. A cablegram of Monday from Naples says: A large stream of lava is issuing from the new crater of Mt. Vesuvius at the base of the central cone. Signor Pal mieri, director of the observatory, states that the flow is directly connected with Sunday's earthquake in Lombardy, and that seismic disturbances generally stop when an eruption commences. He does not consider the lava stream dangerous. rN NEW JERSEY. A dispatch from New Brunswick, N. Y., says that a distinct shock of earth quake, from southeast to northwest, ac companied by a rumbling noise, was felt there at 11 o’clock Sunday, morning. CLOSING UP. Work in the Census Office Near ing Completion. A Washington dispatch of Monday says: The clerical force in the census office within the next seven weeks will probably be reduced about 1,600, in ad dition to 200 reductions in salaries which will be made within the present month. This reduction in force is due to the fact that work in nearly every division of the ceosus office is rapidly drawing to a close. There are twenty-five divisions in the bureau, with a combined clerical force of 3,058. Of this number 1,046 were employed in the population division end thcso will be retained until Juiy 31st, when the services of at least 900 clerks will be dispensed with. Four weeks later this force will be fur ther reduced to about 400. The next important branch of census work is the division of farms, homes and mortgages. There 537 persons employed on this work which will very likely be completed by September 15th next, when the clerical force will be reduced to 200. Under the present appropriation, work can then be carried forward until April 1, 1893, but it will be necessary for con gress to makan additional appropriation to complete this branch of the work. The population division, farms and mortgage and printing divisions, and administration division comprise 2,274 of the present force of 3,058. The re mainder of the force comprises 2,274 of special work of the census, and it is staetd that this work is sufficiently ad vanced to admit of decided reductions. Six minor divisions have already been abolished, and five others have about com pleted their work. In regard to the condition of work of the census it is stated that none of the statistical in quiries will have to be abandoned. The aggregate population of the country by minor civil divisions will have been completed, printed and bound in pre liminary form by August Ist, next. By that time it is expected 500 pages of the volume of the compend um will be ready for the printer. By December or Janu ary next it is believed that the volume of the compendium relating to population will be printed and ready for distribu tion. It is expected that all special work, with the exception of vital statistics, agriculture and manufactures, will be completed and ready for the printer by the close of the year. A DEAD PREMIER. Sir John McDonald, Premier ol Canada, Dies. A dispatch from Ottawa, Ont., says: Sir John McDonald died at 10:15 o’clock Saturday, surrounded by his entire household. All the churoh bells w ere tolled and thousands of citizens expressed deep regret at the premier’s demise. In terment will take place at Kinston, Ont,, where the premier’s first wife and his fahter are buried. NEW DESIGNS Wiii Be Placed on Our Dollars, Quarters and Dimes. “Buzzard silver dollars will soon be a thing of the past,” said Director Leech of the United States mint, Thursday, “and one of the principal reasons for soliciting new designs for United States coins was to bring about a change in the silver money now used There are now piled up in my offices hundreds of suggestions in plaster and on paper for new devices, and these will now be opened by a com mittee of artists and an appropriate design chosen for the backs and fronts of the silver dollar, half dollar, quarter dollar and dime. No change will be made in the designs or devices on the gold coins consisting of the double eagle or S2O gold piece, eagle, half and quarter eagle, which are $lO, $5 and $2.50 re spectively. Nor in the nickel five-cent piece and the one cent copper piece. People have become tired of seeing the small-headed, big-bodiod female figure which is seated on a cotton bale on the silver coins of the United States, and a radical change in the designs for these pieces of money will be effected and as early as possible. On the present silver dollars that big-headed female is an eyesore, and she will have to go and be superseded by a more tasteful and appropriate emblem. On the silver quar ters the inscription ‘ln God we trust’ is too small to be deciphered easily in the scrolls above the eagle, and it will meet with the same fate that has been assigned to the female sitting on the cotton bale. This also applies to the silver half dollar and to the face of the ten cent piece. On the obverse side, however, of the latter coin tnere will probably be placed merely the w r ords, ‘one dime,’ the same as is now done on the nickles which are stamped ‘V cents.’” HORRORS OF THE RAIL. Death and Disaster Result from Railroad Wrecks. • A dispatch from Parsons, Kansas, says: The most disa9irous wreck that ever occurred on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas took place Tuesday between Sa vannah and Frink. Three men were burned to a crisp and six injured, some of them, it is thought, fatally. Two engines were totally demolished, and the wreck took fire and thiity cars burned. The cause of the wreck was that two freight trains were ordered to pass at Frink. One of them arrived at the sta tion ahead of the other, and the engineer seeing a train on a sidetrack, supposed it was the train he had orders to pass, and did not stop for ordeis. STILL ANOTHER. A St. Joseph, Mo., dispatch says: A serious wreck occurred on the Burling ton and Missouri railroad directly across the river from the water works pump house early Tuesday morning. Just as a passenger train was passing under the bluff at that point an immense mass of dirt and rock came crashing down the j steep bank, striking the locomotive and mail car, knocking them off the track and completely wrecking both. The en gineer and fireman were both seriously injured. The engineer is thought to be fatally hurt. The reservoirs of the water works company, which are directly above ' the landslide, are in great danger of col- j lapsing. _s AN OUTBREAK THREATENED. Plans on Foot to Overthrow the Guatemalan Government. A dispatah of Saturday from the City i of Mexico says that advices have been] received from the city of Guatemala to ] the effect that secret meetings are being held in Atlas, or upper districts of Guat- j emala, at which revolutionary plans are I being formulated for the overthrow of j the Barriilos government. These meet- j ings are attended by some of the most 1 prominent residents, and speeches are j made urging separation. Some of the j small garrisons at various towns are! ready to join the separationists, and many rich coffee planters are ready to 5 secede and furnish money to erect anew 1 republic. The people openly declare j they will no longer endure Barriilos’ \ despotism and an early outbreak is ex- 1 pected. MISTAKEN FOR A THIEF. A Prominent Lawyer Killed by His Son-in-Law. A dispitch from Gadsden, Ala., says: Monday night Colonel R. H. Abercrom bie was out walking in his garden. Bur glars have been pretty bad in the neigh borhood recently and his son-in-law, Dr. D. H. Baker, was on the lookout for them. The night was dark and some ac tion of the colonel's caused him to sus pect that he was a burglar, and without waiting for developments he fired with a shotgun and instantly killed him. Colonel Abercrombie was one of the prominent men in Alabama. He was a colonel in the late war and bore a con spicuous part in Alabama politics. He moved to Gadsden in 1887, Colonel Abercrombie was a well-known lawyer and politician. Dr. Baker married his only daughter, with whom the de ceased and his wife lived. Tobacco Factory Burns. Fire broke out Tuesday morning in the plug department of the large brick to bacco factory of R. B. Mayo & Bro., at Richmond, Va. By hard work the fire men succeeded in confining the fire to this building, which is five stories high.. The contents of all the floors, save that of the first, which contained manufac tured goods, were destroyed. The loss is estimated at $75,000; fully inau'ed. NO. 7.