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VOL. I. THROUGH DIXIE. NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEFLY PARAGRAPHED Forming* an Epitome of Daily Happening's Here and There. A he ivy frost w:is reported throughout north Texas Thursday. The first colored people’s fair ever held in Virginia was opened in Richmond Thursday. Tire Fionda world’s fair convention voted to raise sloo,o#o for au exhibit at the world’s fair. Thursday’s dispatches report that General Lee continues to improve slowly, and is able to take light nourishment. H. M. Hall, Jr., of Florence, Ala., ■was, on Thursday, appointed receiver of the Farley National Bank of Montgom ery, Ala. lleuld’s bark mill and Singer’s mill, at Lynchburg, Va., were destroyed by tire Sunday. Loss $150,000; insurance $50,- 000. M. Weil & Cos., dealers in clothing, Nashville, Tenn., were burned out Sat urday night. Loss $1,000,000, believed to be covered by insurance. Jack Mullin, of Buchanan county, Virginia, convicted of intimidating voters at the last presidential election, has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment in jail and to pay a fine of SSOO. Considerable interest is excited at Ro anoke, Va., by the discovery of a large vein of zinc glance in the mines at Bon sacks. The vein was found in the ninety-foot level and is nine feet wide, thirty feet deep and extends indefinitely in line with the main ore body. The express office at Durant, Miss., was robbed at about 1 o’clock Saturday morning by three masked men. They got the drop on the express agent and his helpers, had the safe unlocked, and took all the money they could find and left. They secured about three thousand dollars. No clue. The largest steamship that has ever entered the port of Savannah, arrived in the harbor Sunday morning. She is the Spanish steamship Martin Saehz, Captain Tural, 2,335 tons register. The steam ship. which is anew and remarkably handsome vessel, will be loaded with 11,000 bales of cotton. A dispatch of Saturday from Middles borough. Ky., says: The management of the Middlesborough Town company and of all the allied companies operating in this development, have, in a body, ten dered to the shareholders in London the resignation of the positions held by them in each of the companies. A Chattanooga dispatch of Saturday says: Only one steamboat, and that a light draught, now plies between the city aud upper or lower river points. The river now lacks but five inches of being as low ns it has ever been in the memory of the oldest river men. Navigation is practically abandoned, and with no im mediate prospects of relief. A Nashville, Tenu., dispatch says: Adju'ant General Norman on Saturday, began issuing checks to companies for their services during the Briceville trou ble. It has been decided to allow each company a small amount for armory pur jx>ses, but to use the bulk of the $25,000 appropriated by the legislature for state militia in a monster state encampment, to be held next spring. Thursday at Abinton, Va., before Judge Kelly, of the circuit court, argument was begun for anew hearing in the now far famed Baker murder case. Thirty or more reasons were given why anew hearing should be granted. The ques tion of anew trial is the topic of the hour through all the country, and there is a great diversity of opinion as to whether the prisoner will hang in No vember. A dispatch of Sunday from Waco, Tex., states that the district court at that place, in the case of the state of Texas to escheat Thco Mullison of real estatp acquired as an alien, has been decided in defendent’s favor upon the ground that the law was directly in opposition to the reciprocity treaty with Great Brttiain, the place of defendant’s nativity; also upon other rumors of technical errors i/i its passage. A monument was dedicated Sunday in Beliefontaine cemetery at St. Louis to mark the last resting place of all worthy members of the St. Louis lodge No. 9, Benevolent and Protective Order af Elks, w ho desire to sleep their last sleep there. The statue is the gift of Colonel John A. Cockerill, of The New York Advertiser. Assisting in the ceremonies were dele gates from many cities in the country. A Jackson, Miss., dispatch of Friday, says: Attorney General Miller decides that the theft of the registration books in Pontotoc county, cannot deprive the electors duly registered four months be fore the coming election from the right to vote. The board of supervisors say they can order a duplicate list made from the best obtainable sources subject to the revision of the board of election com missioners. A well-attended alliance meeting was held at Raleigh, N. C., last Saturday. Ex-Senator Norwood, of Georgia, detail ed his plan as a substitute for the sub treasury plan. It was not well received. The meeting adopted a resolution endor sing the action of the state of Georgia to obiaiu deep water in Skvannah river and requesting North Carolina senators and representatives to vote for a sufficient ap propriation to secure deep water at Sav annah required for the exports and im ports of the west. Staff af §a k $ cM, A Chattanooga dispatch says: A vigorous and significant movement is on foot in this city looking toward the en c uragement of Scandinavian emigration to the south, and particularly to this section of Tennessee. The Chamber of Commerce Saturday night took the initia tive by appointing a committee of five prominent citizens lo confer with the East Tennessee and the Louisville and Nash ville railroad managers to obtain the lowest possible rates for the prospective importations. The Chamber of Com merce is advised that 8,000,000 of the Scandinavians can be induced to locate in the south. MURDERED BY HER COUSINS. Tragic Death of a Heroic Young Lady. A tragedy occurred near Unionville, Ga., twelve miles from Forsyth, Friday afternoon which resulted in the death of Miss Lizzie Gossett, a beautiful young girl of seventeen. Mr. J. C. Gossett, the father of the murdered girl, is a large planter. On an adjoining farm lives his brother-in-law, Edward Thomas, who has four sons. He has had trouble for some time with the Thomas boys, of whom there are four, J. R., David, Boner and Jake. The matter culminated late Friday afternoon as above stated. The evidence before the coroner’s jury was substantially as follows: Three of Mr. Thomas’s mules got into J. C. Gossett’s plantation, and he put them in his lot and sent his nephews word to come after them and pay the damages. Three of the boys came, John and Dave bringing their pistols. They went into the field where the girls were holding the mules, and demanded them, but the girls asked for the money to pay damages. The boys refused to pay, and attempted to run the mules over the girls in order to get them loose from them. The children’s father came out, when John Thomas and he got into a scuffle. The young lady, Miss Lizzie, went to her father’s rescue, when Thomas grabbed a gun belonging to Mr. Gossett, which was sitting against the house, and shot her just above the region of the heert. The young lady staggered backward and exclaimed: “Oh, Lordy, papa, he has killed me with your gun.” Miss Gossett lived for about an hour after, dying in great agony. DID NOT MATERIALIZE. The Proposed Cotton Seed Trust Falls Through. A meeting of the planters of sea island cotton was held at Charleston, S. C., Thursday. It was attended by most of the planters on John’s, James, Ediston and Wadmalow island, the area were the Carolina long staple is cultivated. After a full discussion, it was decided that the plan to combine in order to prevent the sale of sea island cotton seed was imprac ticable, and the project was therefore, abandoned. In the discussion it was stated that during the past session anew variety of cotton had ap peared, which wa9 grown from green seed, and was entirely distinct from Sea Island, but which, nevertheless, had a staple of from one to one and a half inches. The opinion was expressed that in a lew years the variety would formida bly compete with Sea Island. This ends the attempt to form a combination against the sale of Sea Island cotton seed, which is purchased in South Carolina by long staple cotton growers of Georgia and Florida for planting purposes. THE DAVIS STATUE is Finally Accepted by the Com mittee. A Jackson, Miss., dispatch says: The committee appointed to pass on the ac ceptance of the marble statue of Hon. Jefferson Davis, for the vestibule of the monument of this city, on Tuesday finally decided, by a vote of fifteen to seven, five not voting, to accept the same. The association accepted this decission and paid the contractor in full for the monu ment. The statue had been previously paced on its pedestal in the monument by the con tractor, there being no ceremony attend ing the same, nor will there be any, as th 3 ceremonies were virtually had when th 3 monument was unveiled on June 23, 1 ist. The reason the statue was not ac cpted on arrival was because many thought it was not a good likeness of Mr. Davis. Since the contractor has put it into position, however, and cleaned it up, the resemblance to him is much greater than at first. He is represented standing delivering a speech with one hand extended. The pose is graceful, and the work is a magnificent piece oi a eulnture STRANGE COINCIDENCE. Parnell’s Strongest Opponent \lso Died Suddenly. A London cablegram says: Coupled with the announcement of Parnell’s death Tuesday night was the news that Sir John Pope Hennessy, member of parlia ment from north Kilkenny, was also dead. Hennessy, it will be remembered, im mediately after the exposure in the O’Shea divorce case in December. 1890, contested the north Kilkenny election, backed up by Parnell’s op ponents, and defeated the Parnellite candidate, Vincent Scully, by 1,147 votes. This was a great, and possibly the greatest, test of the strength between the Parnellites and McCarthyites. and the defeat of Scully, no doubt, counted for a great deal in the future series of dis asters which befell the Irish leadei. Hennessy died at Queenstown rather sud denly. His death is said to have been due to the mental and physical strain to which he was subjected as one of the consequences of the political contest in North Kilkeonr. TRENTON, GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16,1891. THE ECUMENICAL. Meeting of the World’s Metho dists in Washington. TheEucumenical Methodist conference, which assembled at Washington City Wednesday is one of the most remarkable religious bodies ever convened in Amer ica. The conference, as the name im plies, is composed of all the various branch es of Methodism established throughout the world. Five million Methodists are watching with the keenest interest, the deliberations of th'is great gathering of their most prominent men. This is only the second conference of the kind, the first having been held in London just ten years ago. The conference is on a very large scale. It is made up of 500 dele gates, 300 from the various Methodist churches in this country and 200 foreign lands. The list of churches that is represented is interests.: as showing the largest number of divisions of Metho dism which flourish. The delegates are. divided into the eastern or foreign sec tion and the western or Amer ican section. The eastern section comprises twelve churches, of which the strongest is the Wesleyan Methodist church, in which body the ma jority of all English Methodists are in cluded. It has seventy-six Relegates, led by Rev. T. B. Mephenson, D. D., who is president of the Wesleyan Conference of England. In tho delegation are many men noted both in and out of Methodist circles. Some of them are the Rev. John Bond, the Rev. Hugh P. Hughes, Thomas Barclay, a wealthy manufacturer of Birmingham; Henry J. Farmer Atkin son, M. P.; Percy W. Bunting, M. A., editor of the Contemporary lieoieic, and J. Bamford Slack. These are the other churches in the east ern section and the size of their delega tions: Irish Methodist, 12; Methodist New Connection, 12; Primitive Metho dist, 30; Bible Christian, 10; United Methodist, Free, 21; French Methodist, 2: Au stralian Methodist, 9; Independent Methodist, 2; Wesleyan Reform Union, 4; South African Methodist, 1; West India Methodist, 2. Of the 300 delegates apportioned tc j the western section, the Methodist Epis- j copal church supplies the largest num- ; her, 126. This is by far the strongest ! organization of Methodists in the world, j and to it nearly half of all Methodists \ in this country belong. The latest re ports show that its members and proba tioners are 2,283,154. Next to the Methodist Episcopal church in strength in this country is the Methodist Episco pal church South, which separated 4 from the former in 1845, the dividing cause being slavery. The communicants of this body number now 1.182,288 and its delegation in the Ecumenical conference will consist of 64 bishops, ministers and laymen. The separate colored churches to have repre sentatives in the conference are five in all, and their aggregate delegation is 48. As there will be a number of colored men among the delegation of the Methodist Episcopal church they will form a promi nent feature of the conference. These are the principal colored churches and their delegations: African Methodist Episcopal 18; African Methodist Episcopal Zion, 15; Colored Methodist Episcopal, 9; Af rican Union Methodist Protestant, 3. These are the other churches included in the western section, with the size of their delegation: Methodist church in Canada, 24; Methodist Protestant, 9; United Brethren in Christ, 7; American Wesleyan church, 6; Union American M. E., 3; Free Methodist, 3; Congrega tional Methodist, 3; Primitive Methodist, 3; British M. E., 3; Independent Meth odist, 2; and United Brethren in Christ (old constitution), 2. The gathering illustrates in a striking way the strength of Methodism in this country. The Methodist churches have been growing very fast, and nearly a million communicants have been added since the first Ecumenical conference was held. This increase alone is about the same as the full strength of Methodism in England, where the sect first saw birth. The program for the entire conference, which extends from October 7 to Octo ber 20, has already been mapped out and the subjects of the different essays and addresses have been assigned. Nothing gives a greater idea of the great scope which the conference proposes to cover than this program. . These are some of the subjects which give a good idea of the range of the dis cussion: Essays on “Ecumenical Metho dism” will be delivered on the present status of Methodism in the western and eastern sections. There will be followed by addresses by speakers from the different bodies repre sented. “The Christian Church; Its Essential Unity and Essential Catholic ity,” will be fully discussed. The essays under this topic will be on “Christian Unity” and “Christian Co-operation,” each to be followed by a series of ad dresses . This, in fact, is the arrange ment which will be carried out through the entire conference. There will be one essay in each of the morning and afternoon sessions, each to be followed by a scries of addresses on the same sub ject. “The Church and Bcien ific Thought” will undoubtedly be product ive of a great deal of interesting discussion. Bishop John B. New man will deliver a memorial sermon on John Wesley, the great founder of Methodism. Two days will be devoted to the topic, “The Church and Her Agencies.” One of the subjects under this head will be “Woman's Work in the Church,” and it is just possible that the addresses which follow this may bring out the question of woman’s rights to be represented in the government of the church, which is now a vital issue in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Under the topic of “Education,” a very large varie ty of subjects will be discussed, from ed- ucation of an elementary kind to higher education. “Romanism,” its present position and its political and religious power will also occupy the at tention of tho Conference. The tem perance question, “Social problems” “The church in her relations to labor and capital,” “The moral aspects of labor combinations and strikes,” “The moral aspects of combinations of capital,” and “The obligations of the church in rela tion to the social condition of the peo ple,” will be given attention. “Mission,” “War and peace,” aud “The church and public morality,” are some of the topics which will occupy the attention of the delegates in tUe closing days *J the con ference. These subjects una’er the last head ought to be especially interesting: “Marriage and divorce laws,” by Hiram L. Sibley, and “Ihe attitude of the church toward amusements. ” The con cluding day, Tuesday, October 20, will be taken up in a studv / “The Out iwvk.” THE WIDE WORLD. GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND CABLE CULLINGS I Of Brief Items of Interest From Various Sources. The Olympic theater at St. Paul, Minn., was burned Friday. Loss, SIOO,OOO. In a riot in Rio Janeiro Friday, several persons were killed aud many injured. Queen Victoria will raise to the peer age the widow of the Right Honorable William Henry Smith. The Olivet & Roberts Wire Company, of Pittsburg, Pa., on Friday made a re quest to its creditors for an extension. By an accident on the Hudson River railroad, near Hyde Park, N. Y., Satur day, Arthur Small, fireman, and two brakemen were killed. H. S. Mann & Cos., dry goods dealers. Rochester. N. Y r ., failed Friday for SIOO,- 006. H. B. Claflin, of New York, is the largest creditors, $20,000. Fire in New York Thursday destroyed a five-story brown stone mansion, at 101 Fifth avenue, owned by Mrs. Haywood Cutting. Logs $200,000. A cablegram of Saturday says: It is estimated that no fewer than 22,000,000 peasants in Russia are now destitute and must be taken care of for the next ten months. The extensive placing mills, factories, warehouses, sheds, composing the plant of Messrs. Meel & Wampler, at McKeesport, Pa., were completely de stroyed by fire Sunday. A wreck occurred on the Albany and Susquehanna railed Thursday near Binghampton, N. V, by the second sec tion of a train running into the Jfcrst sec tion at a curve in ihe road. (*e man was killed and several injured. At the annual reunion of the New En gland survivors of rebel prisons held at Worcester, Mus 9., Saturday, a committee was appointed to frame resolutions deny ing the published statement of the late Jefferson Davis, that northern prisoners in southern prisons were treated no worse than the exigencies of war demanded. A desperate attempt was made to hold up a south bound passenger train on the ’Frisco road, 100 miles north of Paris, Texas, at 3 o’clock Sunday morning. Several shots were tired. Conductor Carr knocked one of the robbers down with his lamp just as tire man was preparing to tire with his pistol in the conductor’s breast. Exports of specie from the port of New York for the week ended Oct. 10th, amounted to $838,217, of which $5,730 was gold and $832,617 silver. Six hun dred dollars in gold and all the silver went to Europe and $5,130 in gold went to South America. Imports of specie during the week amounted to $3,754,494, of which $3,735,602 was gold and $lB,- 892 silver. The October report of the statistician of the department of agriculture at Washington relates tc yields per acre of grain and the condition of corn, pota toes, buckwheat and tobacco. Estimated average yields are: Wheat, 15 bushels; oats, 29.3; barley, 25.8; rye, 14.4. The condition of the corn crop is 92.5; buckwheat, 92.7; potatoes, 91.3; to bacco, 93.8. At a meeting Thursday at Lansing, Mich., of the State Farmers’ Alliance, the following resolution was adopted without a dissenting voice: Resolved, That we, the Farmers’ Alliance and Indus trial Union of the state of Michigan, endorse the Ocala platform, and further declare to the oppressed toilers of Ameri ca that we are unyieldingly in favor of independent political action as outlined at the Cincinnati conference. Dispatches dated September 27fch, which reached London- from Amoy, a seaport town of China on the island of the same name, announce that there has been serious rioting forty miles from the town of Amoy. The population of Amoy, amounting to about three hundred thou sand people, is in a great state of excite ment. The riot was caused by fiscal abuses. Several mandarins and other officials were killed by the rioters. The riots have have been quelled. A Military Novelty. A vegetable cartridge shell, which M entirely consumed in firing, is now coming into general use iu the French army. The cartridge has scarcely half the weight of one with a metal shell; the cost is considerable less, besides the inconvenience of removing the shell after each shot is avoided. At present the eomposition of this military novelty is fcent a secret.—r At. Xouis lievublic. BURIAL OF PARNELL. The Mortal Remains of Ire land’s Chief Laid to Rest. A Dublin cablegram says: The re mains of Charles Stewart Parnell arrived at Kingstown at 7 o’clock Sunday morn ing. After leaving London there were no demonstrations along the railway route until Chester was reached. Here large deputations from Liverpool, Man chester, Preston, Newcastle-on-Tyne and oiher places joined the train. Parnell’s colleagues in parliament, including John E. Redmond, of Wexford; John O’Con nor, of Tipperary; Joseph Nolan, of Louth; Henry Campbell, of Fermanagh; Dr. James G. Fitzgerald, of Langford, aud James J. O’Kelly, of Roscommon, extended greetings to various deputa tions. The funeral train reached Holy head about 2 o'clock. Eager groups of people had collected on the quay to watch the transfer of the coffin from the train to the mail boat (appropriately named the Ireland.) The voyage across St. George’s channel was quickly made, the train arriving at Dublin station ar half-past 7 o’clock. A vast but silent crowd, with uncovered heads, awaited the train as it rolled into the station. Upon being removed from the train the case was tuken from the coffin, which was then lifted into the hearse, the panel glass exposing the coffin to view. Wreaths and other floral tributes literally covered the top of the hearse and piled around the coffin case. As the hearse moved from the station a body ot police formed in front of the procession. As the march progressed the crowds grew denser, yet they kept clear of the line of procession along the whole route to Cas tle Hill, where the serried ranks of peo ple occupied every inch of space, LYING IN STATE. The city hall was reached at 8:30 o’clock. A violent rain storm streamed down as the coffin was being born into the hall towards the catafalque. It kept raining in pitiless torrents for hour after hour, yet the number of the vast throng struggling to force their way to the city hall was not reduced in the slighest, or was their eagerness one whit dampened. From 10 o’clock till 2 o’clock in the afternoon a continuous stream of people poured into the city hall. It is estimat ed that 40,000 persons availed themselves of the last opportunity to pay their respects to the illustrious dead. The ceremony of lying in state was to have been closed at noon, but the crowd was so numerous that the closing of the doors was postponed till alter 2’clock, and eveu then hundreds were obliged to go away disappointed. At a quarter to 3 o’clock the procession started, led by the exec utive of the leadership committee. Fol lowing came the bier, drawn by six coal black horses, surrounded by parliament ary colleagues of Parnell. As the coffin passed, almost hidden in flowers, every head in the vast assemblage was uncov ered. Behind the members of the Dublin municipality came those of the provin cial corporations, trades societies and other organizations. Borne forty thous and people had passed through council hall during the four hours the body had lain iu state, and most of these joined the procession, forming into line, six abreast, wherever a gap iu the procession permit ted them to go. By 4 o’clock the police became overwhelmed by the power of tho ever-increasing crowd, and by the with drawal of a portion of their force, who went to try to clear a way for the funeral at the entrance gates to the cemetery. When the first part of the procession reached the lower gate, at 5 o’clock, it was found impossible to penetrate the dense masses. In a struggle with the onlookers the police were obliged to abandon the attempt to drive them back. The surging crowd around the gate seeking to see the cortege met a great contending wave of others trying to enter. A LITTLE CONFUSION. A scene of great confusion ensued. The procession for the time wps checked and thrown into disarry. It was decid ed to close the lower gate, and this was effected amid great disorder, just as the hearse reached the spot. The hearse was then taken to the upper gates. Here the coffin was removed and placed upon a platform in order to enable those in the procession to the file around and have a full view of the bier. At 6 o’clock fast falling dusk found the procession still filing past. There seemed no likelihood that the stream of marchers would end till far into the depth of night, so orders were given to remove the coffin to the side of the grave. A body of Clan-na-Gaels suc ceeded in clearing the way to the grave and formed a circle within which were grouped the lord mayor of Dublin, the civic dignitaries, parnell’s colleagues in parliament and relatives. The crush around about was terrible. THE BURIAL AT SIGHT. Darkness bad set in. The noise o i shrieking women, the cries of children and the cries men struggling amid the crush, made inaudible the voice of the clergy, recitiftg the ritual of the Church of England. At the grave liev. Mr. Vin cent, of the hotunda chapel, and Rev. George Fry, of Manchester, officiated. They were obliged to cut the services short, as the crowd broke into the pro tecting circle and overwhelmed the inner group. Some time after, in the dead darkuess, when the crowd had thinned away, the more intimate friends again grouped themselves around the grave, deposited wreathes thereon and took a last view of coffin. George W, Truitt, a well-known cotton grower, says that the cotton crop of tin E resent year will tall fully one-third short of tst year. He thinks three hot days—August 10, 11 and 12—did the cotton great damage and was the cause of the decrease. H estimates that the crop of the South was cut off 1,500,000 bales by. that hotwava. MANIFESTO By the National League of Great Britain. A London cablegram of Sunday says: The National League of Great Britain has issued the following manifesto: Six months ago the members of this executive committee were appointed by Mr Parnell to advance the cause of Irish independence in Great Britain. Fighting under many difficulties, we held our ground and rallied every Irishman who remained true to the principles for which our leader lived and died—the principle of an independent Irish party and an in dependent Irish parliament. Ireland has received a blow by his death from which ■ she will not recover for a generation. After payiug a high tribute to Parnell it* concludes: What is the duty of those left behind ? What is the duty of the men who fol lowed him? To the last to struggle for Irish free dom. It is said we fought for the mau and not for principle. It is untrue. We fought for the principle which the man embodied. The man himself was indeed the principle—the principle of self-re liance and independence, which nothing could sap, and to that principle we aro staunch. Now, it is necessary that mem bers of this organization should elect a new president and anew executive, and we invite branches in Great Britain to take immediate steps to that end; We urge our fellow countrymen not to des pair. If victory seems distant, we ask them to take for their motto the last words addressed by Mr. Parnell to the executive: “Hold on, fight on.” RUSSIA’S FAMINE Threatens Revolution—Terri ble Stories of Distress. Cable advices from Russia received at Boston, Tuesday say that entire states are being deserted on account of the famine. They also assert that anew law has been made forbidding the sowing of seed this fall, so that the acreage next year wili not be sufficient for the home supply, still less for export. So great is the distress that tho people have been driven to pillaging each other, first set ting fire to villages and then robbing the inhabitants. The distress is a greater menace to the government than all the sflorts of the nihilists. The famine may cause a revolution where the love of liberty has failed. Aid is being sent in by Holland Jews and nihilist societies of, Armeuia. The latter have sent $4,300. CAMPELL OBJECTS. To the Unjust Criticisms of the Newspapers, A Washington dispatch says: The Star of Tuesday evening publishes the follow ing special dispatch from Columbus, O.: Governor Campbell has telegraphed Hoad iey, Lauterbacli & Johnson, his attorneys in New York, as follows: “Please demand from the New York Recorder an immediate retraction of the article in Monday’s paper, and as full as can be made by thoir most emphatic lan guage, to he printed in their next issue. The alleged Ralph W. Wilkinson I never heard of and his entire story is a lie with out foundation. “Jas. E. Campbell.” no also sent to the Cincinnati Com mercial Gazette, the Philadelphia Press, New York Press and Detroit Tribune telegrams of like import. STANLEY IN A WRECK. Narrow Escape of the Explorer and His Party. A cablegram of Monday from Rome, Italy, says: A Brindisi express, on board of which train were Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Stanley and Mrs. Tennant, mother of Mrs. Stanley, has been completely wreck ed at Carovingo, nineteen miles from Brindisi. The Stanley party was on its way to Australia, where the explorer was to lecture. They, with all the other pas sengers on the train, escaped without in jury, though they had a Darrow escape from death. The express dashed into a baggage train that was on the track near Carovingo. Railroad officials have or dered the usual investigation to be made into the affair, with the view of fixing the blame where it properly belongs. A DEAD KING. Karl I, King of Wurtemburg, Gives Up the Ghost. A cablegram from Stuttgart, says: Karl I, king of Wurtemberg, died at 7 o’clock Tuesday morning. He was born March 6, 1823, and ascended the throne at the death of his father, King Wilhelm I, on June 25, 1864. On July 13, 1846, he married the Grand Duchess Olga, daughter of the late Emperor Nicholas I, of Russia. Prior to the year 1805, Wur temberg was a grand duchy, but by the peace of Presberg, it was elected into a kingdom. A proclamation, signed by the new king and all the ministers, has been issued. It announces the accession of Mfiihelm 11., nephew of King Karl I, to the throne of Wurtemburg._ THE CZAR IN PERIL. A Conspiracy Against His Life Unearthed. A London cablegram of Monday says: “A conspiracy against the life of the czar has-been discovered in Ivieff, Russia. A printing press used iu the publication of seditious literature has been seized, and there is a serious outbreak among the students of the university there who have been given to violent revolutionary speeches. Many of them have been put under arrest, but the spirit of revolt is s&read r g.” NO. 25