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VOL. 1.
Hebrew is again becoming a living
language in Palestine.
The London Telegraph advocates that
murderers condemned to electrical exe
cution be chloroformed.
The assessed valuation of real prop
erty in New York City, as announced by
its municipal authorities, is $T,4(54,247,-
820; an increase from last year of $05,-
957,813.
Mail matter dropped in a box in Paris
is delivered in Berlin within an hour
and a half, and sometimes within thirty
five minutes. It i3 sent by means of
pneumatic tubes.
Chicago, first and last, ha3 expended
more than $6,000,000 in purchasing
lands on the outskirts of that city for
her system of parks. There are twenty
nine of them in all, containing two thou
sand acres.
“It is a fact,” said a Philadelphia
■ bookseller, “that the books of contem
porary wits rarely have a purfiaufcit sale.
The’funny book of ten years ago is al
most as unsaleable as a theological work
of the same period.”
The Turkish army is reported to be in
excellent condition. Nearly 600,000 re
peating rifles are in the hands of the in
fantry. The artillery is furnished main
ly by Krupp, and forty-nine regiments
of cavalry, mostly raised in Asia, have
recently been added.
Truly we are an enterprising people,
exclaims the New York Tribune. A
California man is already taking steps to
erect a hotel on the shore of the new
and mysterious lake which has appeared
in Southern California, and will soon be
sending out circulars announcing good
bathing, boating and fishing.
Lieutenant Finley, of the United
States Signal Service, who claims the
•credit of originating the idea of tor
nado insurance, suggests the applica
’tiou of the same principle to the protec
tion of farmers in California against loss
by northers. He also proposes spraying
trees and vine3 to prevent blight from
these winds.
The Home Journal has ransacked the
New York libraries for remedies for sea
sickness. The result as tabulated seems
to indicate that the inau or woman who
is not a born sailor has the alternative of
staying at Lome or getting his frame
shaken to pieces with mal de mar. The
combined remedies are awful to contem
plate, aud the admission that their effect
is doubtful is not calculated to encour
age their general trial.; •
Bad as is Idaho’s case, remarks the
New York Post, the condition of Nevada
is far worse. The population of that
sage-brush tract, according to the new
census, is only 45,761. As there were
82,266 inhabitants in 1880, there has
been a loss of more than one-fourth
during the decade. Between 1870 and
1880 there was a slow growth from 42,-
491 to 62,266, but the total is already
back nearly as low as in 1870, and there
is no telling but it may coutinue to fall
until it sinks to the. 6357 of 1860.
The curious fault is fouud with the
mastless ships of the new navy, observes
the Philadelphia Reoord, that they afford
the crews no opportunity for exercise—
the seamen have nothing to climb; they
feel cooped up, and are showing a spirit
of discontent. It is questionable whether
such taue devices as horizontal bars
und other mere gymnastic appliances
would avail to restore the spirits of the
men. The Darwinians may seize upon
this fact ap additional proof of the simian
descent of the human species.
The scheme of Felix Adler and others
in New York to help the laboring people
by inducing men and women of educa
tion to meet them in the tenement dis
tricts cannot fail to do good, maintains
the San Francisco Chronicle. Incident
ally, these workers also may be able to
stimulate the work of building model
tenements in which the poor can secure
well-lighted and wholesome rooms for
the same rental that is now exacted for
dark and ill-ventilated apartments.
Jacob A. Reis, a NewYork reporter, last
year stirred charitable New York by his
graphic pictures of misery and vice iu
the tenement quarter, and it is to be
hoped that Luis new society may push on
the reform that aims to give toiling thou
sands comfort and decency in their
‘homes.
State of Haile Ite.
THE WIDE WORLD.
GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND
CABLE CULLINGS
Of Brief Items of Interest From
Various Sources.
The German Catholic Knights of
America met in its thirty-sixth annual
convention in Louisville, Ky., Monday.
Fire late Friday afternoon completely
destroyed the furniture factory of Stille
& Dubimeir,at Cincinnati. Loss SBO,OOO.
The suspension of the British Bank of
Australia was announced Monday. The
liabilities are SBOO,OOO. half of which is
owing to creditors in England.
The Pocock can factory at St. Louis,
Mo., was struck by lightning Tuesday,
setting fire to the building, and the loss
to it and the adjacent buildings was
$20,000.
A cablegram of Tuesday from Cincin
nati says: Governor Campbell is quite ill
at Columbus, and his friends fear that he
will not be able to do any active cam
paigning this year.
Saranca Lake club house, seventeen
miles from Saranac lake village, N. Y.,
was burned Sunday. Twenty-five guests
lost nearly all their personal effects. The
origin of the fire is unknown.
A Vienna, Austria, cablegram says:
A cloudburst occurred at Kollman, at
midnight Tuesday night. The water
loosened an avalanche. Forty persons
were drowned. The railway was destroyed
for many miles.
An express train on the Philadelphia
and Reading railroad ran into a north
bound freight at Egg Harbor, N. J., Fri
day evening and both trains were badly
wrecked. A dozen or more passengers
on the express were injured, some fatally.
A Chicago dispatch says: The national
board of control of the world’s fair on
Friday, passed a resolution doubling its
membership. The resolution was to the
effect that alternate members be made
active members with all the powers en
joyed by the charter members of the
board.
A Philadelphia dispatch says: Charles
Lauren, ex-cashier of the suspended Key
stone National bank, who was indicted
with the bank’s fugitive president,
Gideon W. Marsh, for conspiracy in the
misapplication of the bank’s funds, Mon
day afternoon pleaded guilty in the
United States court.
The will of the late George Jones, of
the New York Times , was filed for pro.
bate Monday. His entire estate is kept
in bis family. His forty-six shares of
Times stock are placed in such a position
that his son, Gilbert, his son-in-law,
Henry L. Dyer, and his daughter, Mary
Dyer, will have entire control of it,
A Little Rock, Ark., dispatch says: J.
L. Biy was arrested Monday afternoon
on a warrant sworn out by State Treas
urer Morrill, charging him with the lar
ceny of SIOO,OOO state scrip. Bay is a
clerk employed by the bondsmen to in
vestigate the books of the defaulting
ex-Treasurer Woodruff. A great sensa
tion has been caused by the arrest.
A London cablegram says: There was
a serious railway accident in Wales Sun
day night. A passenger train crashed
into a volunteer special which was sta
tionary on the track at a point between
Pout-y-Pridd and Cardiff. Fourteen
persons were injured, and some of them
so seriously that they will probably die.
The rear of the special train was com
pletely wrecked.
A cablegram of Tuesday from Calcutta,
India, recites that the execution of the
Manipur princes has created a profound
sensation throughout India. The news
paper press of India printed in the na
tive language, strongly condemns the so
called “hurried order” issued for the ex
ecution, which, the native press declares,
was hastened, lest English public opinion
should undergo a change in favor of the
condemned princes, after the publication
of their defense.
A Baltimore dispatch says: The final
action of the Maryland Farmers’ Alli
ance convention before its adjournment
Thursday was the declaration, which
was put in the form of a resolution, that
the Farmers’ Alliance of the s’ate of
Maryland is in no way antagonistic to
United States Senator Gorman, and that
any publication that the farmers were
opposed to the distinguished senator of
the state was without warrant and had
no foundation in fact.
A New York dispatch says: Judge
O’Biien, on Tuesday, heard the argument
and reserved decision upon the motions
to c ntimie the injunction obtaiued by
A. Myers, Bros. & (Jo,, of Savannah, Ga.j
against the Merchants’ National bank
restraining them, Abraham Backer and
Backer’s assignee, Benjamin F. Einstein,
from disposing of certaiu southern secur
ities, consisting of stocks and bonds of
the Savannah and Atlantic Railroad Com
pany and the Muscogee Real Estate Com
pany and notes.
At aim eting of the South’ rn Railway
and Steamship Association at New York,
Thursday, the agreement of last year
was renewed. The old board of officers
was re-elect'd as follows: Senator Joseph
E. B'own, of Georgia, president; Thomas
11. Caibr, commissioner; Charles A.
Sindall, secretary; John Screven, of
Georgia, aud E. K. Sibley, of New York,
arbitrators. The executive board and
rate committee will meet at White
Sulphur Spriugs, Va., the 28th instant.
A cablegram from Pekin, China, says
that is evident from the action taken by
the powers that they intend to compel
China to protect foreigners residing
within her borders. Representatives of
i several powers iu that city addressed a
fresh joint note to the Chinese gove u-
TRENTON, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 21,1891.
ment Thur-day in relation to the outrages
perpetrated by Chinese mobs upon mis
sions and missionaries and others in
Yang Tse Kiaug valley, demanding that
China take immediate steps to protect
the lives and property of foreigners.
A London cablegram of Friday says:
Owing to the depression in the iron trade,
operations at many of the principal iron
works in Cumberland district have been
suspended for some time past and the in
ability of workmen to procure empploy
meut is causing most acute distress. Six
thousand men have been thrown out of
employment by the stopping of works
and a large number of them have earned
nothing for a year. Many families have
struggled along, hoping for better times,
but the hope of work again starting up
has been abandoned now and the outlook
for the coming winter is of the gloomiest
nature.
STATE ALLIANCES
IN ANNUAL CONVENTION AT
VARIOUS POINTS.
Meetings in Alabama, North
Carolina and Tennessee.
The North Carolina State Farmcs’ Alli
ance met in annual session at Morehead
City, Tuesday. The committee on cre
dentials reported ninety-two counties rep
resented. president Carr’s annual address
was a carefully prepared and able docu
ment. H# reviewed the history of the
state organization, advocated minor
changes io the state constitution, outlined
the policy of the organization and closed
with a storng presentation of the duty of
membership. The report of the state
secretary shows a membership over one
hundred thousand. President Polk de
livered a public address in the mammoth
ballroom of the Atlantic hotel. It was a
powerful speech, and one of the happiest
efforts of his life. His audience was com
posed not only of alliancemen but wealthy
pleasure-seekers and professional men,
and the members of the South
ern Dental Association, which was
aUo in session at Morehead.
IN TENNESSEE.
The third annual meeting of the
Tennessee Farmers’ and Laborers’ union
opened at Nashville, with 150 enthusias
tic delegates present, representing eighty
four counties. NearLy all the prominent
alliancemen in the state were present.
Governor Buchanan, who is ex-president
of the order, delivered an address of
welcome. President J. H. McDowell
delivered his annual address, and ap
pointed the usual committees.
THE ACTION OK ALABAMA.
The Alabama State Alliance met at
Woolfolk, Tuesday. Every county in
the state was represented and every officer
fireseut, with several hundred visitors
rom the different sections. The only
business transacted the first day was the
passage of a resolution endorsing the
Ocala platform, which was done with lit
tle discussion and no opposition. A re
solution was introduced endorsing the
call of the national alliance for a confer
ence of labor organizations in Washing
ton in February. The resolution also
pledged the alliance of Alabama to abide
by the decision of that conference. The
latter clause provoked many speeches,
all of which were opposed to it. The
speakers argued against a third party in
Alabama and against binding the alliance
to the result of a conference which might
adopt such a course. The vote in favor
of striking out the clause was unanimous,
even the delegates from Geneva, the one
county whose alliance has declarea for a
third party, giving its vote against the
pledge. The resolution, as amended, was
endorsed and the call for a confer
ence without anypledge to abide by
its discision was unanimously passed.
THE PEOPLE’S PARTY.
A Topeka dispatch says: Tuesday was
a great day for the people’s party. The
call'for a meeting of the state central
committee brought over one hundred
leading members of that party to confer
and prepare for the local fall campaign.
The feeling prevails that if the vote of
the party polled last November is not
maintained next November, the alliance
would from that time on lose strength
and power, not only lose its strength in
Kansas, but all over the union. One
member said that the whole country was
looking td Kansas t 6 keep the people’s
party movement to the frsnt, for if it
should show a falling off this year it
would be impossible to regain lost
. ground next year, when a hot presiden
tial contest was appealing to the voters
to return to their old parties. A propo
sition is being considered to raise a fund
of by assessments to establish a
daily paper at Topeka.
TEXAS' FIVE AMENDMENTS
Were Favorably Decided at the
Polls.
A San Antonio dispatch says: The
amendments to the constitution upon
which the people of Texas veted Tues
day were five in number. The first pro
vides for the registration of voters in
pities of 10,000 Inhabitants and over,
and empowers the legislsture to make
changes in the ballow laws. The second
authorizes the legislature to take 1 per
cent of the permanent school fund and
place it to the credit of the school fqnd.
The third provides that the legal rate of
Interest shall not bo more thau 10 per
cent per annum, and in contract", where
the rate is not stated, it shad be 6 per
cent. The Farmers’ alliance is at the
bottom of this. The fourth gives more
extended facilities for adopting and en
forcing local prohibition. The fifth pro
vides for the creation of additional courts
* and criminal appeals.
THROUGH DIXIE.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEFLY
PARAGRAPHED '
Forming- an Epitome of Daily
Happening-s Here and There.
Governor Tillman, of South Carolina,
on Monday, commuted the death sen
tences of David Jacobs and Mrs. Mary
Johnson, who poisoned the woman’s hus
band, to imprisonment for life.
Mr. H. W. Patton, who undertook the
exploration to determine the source of
the desert lake in California, reports that
the lake will be permanent, aod that, the
waters will make rich lands heretofore
worthless for planting.
A Jackson, Miss., dispatch says:
George carried DeSoto, Tate, Lee, Clay
and Benton counties Saturday, which
gives him a majority of the legislature
with & dozen other certain counties yet to
act. Walthall’s election is also settled.
The annual exhibition of the South
Carolina State Horticultural Society be
gan at Greenville, Friday. The exhibits
far surpass those of any previous year,
and were pronounced by competent
judges to excel anything heretofore ex
hibited sout h.
A Nashville, Tenn., dispatch states
that on Tuesday the sub-lessees of
the prisoners now at Briceville made
application to the board of prison in
spectors to have the order for the
removal of the convicts from Briceville
rescinded. The board, however, refused
to modify their order, and the matter
will possibly be taken to the courts.
A telegram of Sunday from Gaines
ville, Fla., says that the man shot near
Bronson, Saturday, and supposed to be
Harmon Murray, the negro desperado,
has turned out to be Jesse Burton, the
negro who shot Deputy Sheriff Carson,
at Branford, Fla., about six months ago.
He was a desperate character, only sec
ond to Murray in crime and bloodshed.
A special of Sunday from Cullman,
Ala., says a few days ago Monroe Eyans
and his son John were arrested at Bailey
ton, in that county, charged with shoot
ing Pierce Mooney last May. On Satur
day they were taken before a local jus
tice of the peace, who declined to try
them, but bound tnem over without bail.
They were put uuder guard at a neigh
bor’s house over night. About midnight
they were taken from the house and
hung to a tree.
A Memphis, Tenn., dispatch says:
Colonel Dudley who was chloro
formed and robbed at Gayoso hotel last
Thursday, returned from Monte ,Sano,
Ala., Tuesday morning for the purpose
of identifying, if possible, the prisoner
held by the Memphis police as a sus
pect. Colonel Frilfcr, after looking at
the man, stated positively that.he was
not the person who perpetrated*Jhe out
rage, anu the prisoner, who 1° Dr. J. E.
Clemens, a reputable young physician of
this city, was released.
The employes in the machine shops of
-of the South Carolina railway, at Charles
ton, quit work Monday, leaving only
two men at work in the entire establish
ment. The strike was caused by the re
fusal of the railroad to increase the
wages 25 cents a day. The present pay
is $2.50 to $2.75 a day. The strike is
inaugurated under the International As
sociation of Machinists, and the strikers
hope to obtain the support of the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Engineers and
other unions.
A DECISIVE PROTEST.
Citizens Threaten to Mob the
Mayor and Council.
The mayor aud city council of Kansas
City barely escaped vengeance, Tuesday
night, at the bauds of a crowd of 800
taxpayers. The excitement arose over a
proposition of the city council to pur
chase the plant of the Consolidated Elec
tric Light and Power company for $340,-
000. There was much public indigna
tion over the proposition, it bbing be
lieved by many that improper induce
ments had been offered to members of
the council to pass an ordinance author
izing the purchase. The indignation
culminated Tuesday night, when a mass
meeting of taxpayers was hold to protest
against the proposed purchase. Several
intemperate speeches were made, and a
committee of fifteen was appointed to
call at the council chamber and present a
protest before the ordinance could be pass
ed. The crowd, by its own motion, joined
the committee and the march to the city
hall was taken up. As the march pro
ceeded the excitement grew until the
inutterings of the crowd became more
loud and bitter and finally culminated in
shouts of “Lynch them!” and Hang
them!” Thecrowid had worked itself up
to a high pitch of indignation, when ths
city hall was reached. In the meantime
the council had been iufomed of the
progress of the mob, and a hasty adjourn
ment was taken. The last alderman had
barely beat a rapid retreat when the ad
vance guard of the mob rushed into the
chamber, only to be disappointed at Slid
ing it empty. The crowd resolved itself
into a mass meeting again and more
speeches were made, the mayor and city
council being denominated as cowards
and thieyes. Finally the mob dispersed
without doing any damage.
Major It. Hirst of the Kansas Live
Stocii C(>murssio:i, >ays lie thln-cs it is a con
servative estimate to say that t ie people of
Kansas will seii wit Jin the next year #K'
000,000 wm tli of Stoeic and taroi products
raised this year—that is, that that much of
Kansas grain and stooge will go outside of
the State, besides what is used by the people
of tbe State themselves.
MILLIONS IN SMOKE.
One Day’s Record of Disastrous
Fires.
On Tuesday Jacksonville, Fla., had
one of the biggest fires in her history.
The fire broke out in the three-story
crockery house of R. D. Knight, in the
center of the business portion of the city.
The heat ignited the Hubbard block, the
largest bnilding in the city, four stories
high, and containing the Hubbard hard
ware store, Western Union Telegraph
office, Southern Savings and Trust Com
pany, Jacksonville Light infantry armory
and the telephone central office. Thence
it jumyed across the street to the Semi
nole Club bouse, three stories high, and
commuuicated to the Smith
building and the Mattier
building. Iu the Smith building a
large amount of dynamite had been
stored. This exploded and started fires
blocks away to the northwest. The
sound was not heard, but the effects of
the explosion was seen fifty miles away.
In the city the effect was stunning. Men
fell in the streets and many were injured.
Plate glass for four and five squares was
shattered, uud the sidewalks covered
with broken glass. The firemen could
have stopped the fire at this point, but
for the explosion. That rendered them
about helpless. Residences, stores and
hotels broke into flames, and the fire
became a terrible conflagration, and was
not stopped until after daylight in the
middle of the square, bounded by
Church, Ashley, Laura and Main streets.
The burnt district covers about ten
blocks 'u area, six long and two wide,
embracing some of the finest blocks and
best dwellings in the city. A heavy
wind was the cause of the fire spreading
so much. The city has a desolate look;
many families are camping out in the
park, as the weather is warm, and they
haven’t had time to engage new quartets.
This is the heaviest blow in this line
Jacksonville has ever sustained. An
estimate of the loss and insurance is as
follows: Total losses about eight hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars. Total
insurance $493,805.
A CAN FACTORY DESTROYED.
The Pocock can factory, in St. Louis,
sn extensive establishment, on the corner
of Franklin and Second streets, was
burned Tuesday morning, and two or
three other smaller adjoining concerns
were gutted. The total loss is about one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Pocock’s loss is about one hundred thous
and dollars, with an insurance of $78,000.
The other property was well insured.
SAFE WORKS BCRN.
The Damon Iron And Safe Works in
Cambridge, Muss., burned Tuesday.
Edward Kendall & Cos., machinists, oc
cupied part of the Damon bqilding, and
they also were burned out. The entire
loss* of the Damon Safe and lion Com
pany will appioximate $200,000, on
which there is but partial insurance. In
the Kendall shop $20,000 worth of pat
terns were destroyed, and the stock and
machinery ruined were valued at $60,-
000. There is $50,000 insurance.
Pittman & Co’s mattrass factory, on
Congress street, was also burned out dur
ing the afternoon. The building was
brick, six stories high. It was complete
ly gutted. Loss $200,000
IN WACO, TEXAS.
The dry goods and hose furnishing es
tablishments of Goldstein & Migel und
Currys & Orand, in Waco, Texas, were
totally "burned Tuesday night. Loss,
$275,000; insurance a little over 50 per
.
DEATH OF MRS. POLK,
The Venerable Widow of Our
Republic’s Tenth President.
A Nashville, Tenn., dispatch says:
Surrounded by a few loving friauds and
relatives, Mrs. Jas. K. Polk, relict of the
tenth President of the United States, de
parted this life at 7:30 o’clock Friday
morning, peacefully and quietly, in full
possession of her mental faculties. Mrs.
Polk had been in perfect health until last
Wednesday evening, when, on returning
from a short drive, she wa3 taken sudden
ly ill, from which she never rallied. Had
she lived until tbfe 4th of September next
she would have been eighteen years be
yond the allotted time of three score and
ten. The cause of her death was simply
exhaustion resulting from old age.
The bells throughout vae city arc
mournfully tolling, and sympathy and
regret are heard from the masses of the
people as they gaze upon the bulletins
announcing the demise of the honored
and beloved lady who spent her years
among the people she loved so well, and
who respected her as one of the noblest
of her sex.
YELLOW JACK
Making Fearful Headway in
Vera Cruz.
The Ward line passenger steamer, City
of Washington, arrived at New York
Monday morning from Mexican ports and
Havana, aud, as a precautionary measure,
was detained for thorough inspection
and fumigation by the health officer at
quarantine. The steamer left Yera Cruz
early in August, and then yellow fever
was prevaleut to an alarming extent
in that city. The hospitals were filled,
and though the health authorities
were striving to check the spread
of the disease, their efforts were appa
rently unavailing. Their first attempts
were to isolate the patients a soon as the
malady made its appearance, but the dis
ease spread so rapidly that it was impos
sible to cope with it. Many deaths have
occurred during the last six weeks, and it
was a common sight, officers of the ves
sel say, to see a string of funerals half a
mile long, stretching from the gates of
the city to the cemetery, each fuueral
party waiting patiently for a chance to
bury its dead.
NO. 17.
THE JUMP IN WHEAT
Causes Pandemonium in the
New York Stock Exchange.
Dispatches from New York report
that the dealings of the produce ex
change were again at fever heat with the
beginning of trade Monday morning.
There was an attempt to run a further
radical bull movement on top of the re
markable advance of Saturday, and it was
successful for a short time. December
wheat option, in which there was the
most active trading, ran up 1$ cents to
$1 .18, and September made $1.15.
There was great nervousness aud a feel
ing that affairs had been strained.
Soon there came along heavy selling
orders on foreign account, and local
longs became anxious. They began
throwing overboard large lines, and
prices were soon forced down, December
going off to $1.14 and September to
$1.125. From these figures there were
fitful reactions and much calmer feeling.
However, there was evidently fear of
taking either the long or the short side,
and brokers in operating demanded large
margins.
A peculiar feature of the dealings
Monday was that at no time were prices
alike, there being a difference of fully
two cents per bushel at the same mo
ment in various parts of the pit. The
radical advance has a bad look in its
driving exporters out of the market, who
for the day are remarkably indifferent.
In fact, they are attempting to resell
their wheat. Selling orders in part came
along from the fact that Russia was
trying urgently for markets for its wheat,
especially upon the continent, in order to
be ahead of the order forbidding expor
tation, which goes into effect August
27th.
“GUILTY OF MURDER”
Is the Jury’s Verdict in the
Baker Case.
A dispatch from Abingdon, Va., says:
The jury, Friday morning, in the case of
Dr. Baker, charged with the killing of
his wife by poison, brought in a verdict
of “guilty of murder in the first degree.”
The trial which has just ended will go
down in history as one of the most sen
sational ever known in Virginia, if not
in the south. The circumstances of the
crime are fresh in the public memory.
Dr. Baker was one of the most highly
respected citizens of the beautiful and (
historic town of Abingdon. Me was a phy
sician of high rank, a gentleman of un
usual intelligence and leader iu his com
munity. It was thus that Dr. Baker
stood in the public estimation when the
awful shadow fell across his life that
blighted his reputation and will now
send him to the gallows. Dr. Baker’s
wife died under circumstances which in
dicated poison. Dr. Baker was suspect
ed of the crime, was arrested and im
prisoned. It was charged that he had a
partner in the crime, and that partner
a woman, who wished to dispose of her
husband so that she could marry.
She was Mrs. Loula Gilmer, wife of an
other prominent citizen of Abingdon, a
woman who stood high iu social circles
and whose character is supposed to have
been spotless. The two parties to the
crime are well-known throughout Vir
ginia and many portions of the south..
Their arrest and trial created a profound
sensation. Mrs. Gilmer turned stated
evidence in the trial and It was on he*
te timonv that Dr. Baker was convicted.
A ROW EMINENT
Unless China Interposes in the
Murder of Foreigners.
A cablegram from Shanghai, China,
says: There is no disguising the fact
that a most serious state of affairs, po
litically, exists in this country at the
present moment, and the combined fleets
of the powers may be called upon at any
time to take effective action. Danger
clouds have been teen on the horizon for
months past. Smouldering fires, caused
by the agitation existing against for
eigners and others, among the populace,
have repeatedly broken out into flame,
but, apparently, without, until quite
recently, revealing the strength of the
volcano which is threatening a most dis
astrous outbreak.
Internal affairs, undoubtedly, are in
ward, and the actual cause of the dis
plays of ill-feeling against foreigners are
the only outward signs of the movement
in progress. In this City, at present, a
state of great excitement prevails at an
increased and still increasing tension be
tween the Chinese government and min
isters of foreign powers. From all ap
pearances the former are obstinate in
their refusal to redress the injury done to
foreigners during the recent riots. Some
people say that the government dares not
take this step demanded in common jus
tice to the powers for fear of incurring a
storm of popular disapproval. In any
case there is no doubt as to the obsti
nacy of the refusal to light the wrongs
inflicted upon foreigu residents of Chinu.
SPURGEON CONVALESCENT.
He Says the Lord’s People
Would Not Let Him Die.
A Londou ablegratn of Friday says:
Mr Spurgeon is able to sit up for a brief
period daily. His friends now seriously
hope that he will be able to reoccupy
his pulpit. His weakness is still very
great and his progress is necessarily very
slow. The delirium has ceased. He him
self says that the Lord’s people would
r.ot let him die; that their prayers kept
him alive. His physicians state that hie
disease retains a hold that threatens to
[withstand every remedy. The best pro
gnostication at present is that it will be
wauy months before lie will be able tc
preach.