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THE BLACKSHEAR TIMES. YOL. YL An indication of the spread of English as a language is given by the fact that it has just been chosen for use in the re cording of important treaty engagements between Russia and China. Paris morals are getting even worse. Last year out of 26,000 malefactors 16, 000 were under twenty years of age. The corruption in this wholesale way of the youth of a great city is the most un favorable sign of the many unfavorable signs given by the French capital. The moral reliance of France has long been in the provinces. Probably 1000 steers are shipped alive out of New York every day. Theii landing place on the other side, as a rule, is Deptford, London. Ships carry all the way from fifty or sixty head up to 600 each. If a hundred or two are carried they are kept on the upper deck. If from 400 to 600 are carried, then two decks, and sometimes three must be de voted to the cattle. Tha Supreme Court decides that the law requiring citizens of Idaho, when about to register, to swear that they are not bigamists or polygamists and that they are not members of any order that practices or encourages plural marriages, is constitutional. The decision was ren dered in a suit brought to test the con stitutionality of the law, and will greatly aid in the suppression of Mormonism. Latest British emigration returns show that Great Britain continues to be the European colonizer par excellence. Eng land has delivered herself of 164,225 emigrants during 1890; Ireland comes next with 64,972, while Scotland—the land which founds empires on a peck of oatmeal—contributes *25,371. This makes Great Britain’s total 254,5GS out put for 1889 compared with 279,928 for 1888. Of foreigners making use of Brit ish ports for embarkation, 83,608 left Great Britain in 18S9, compared with 113,230 in 1880. Of the total of all na tions, three-fourths selected tho United States as their new home, Scotland send ing so large a proportion as 17,593. There are four members of the United States Senate who can never be candi dates for the Presidency of this republic under the constitution because of an alien birth. Senator Jones, of Nevada, was bom in England; General McMillan, of Michigan, in Canada; Senator Beck, of Kentucky, in Scotland, and Senator Pasco, of Florida, in England. While it is the exception rather than otherwise that a Senator was born in the State he represents, sectional lines have beeu ■closely observed. Of the northern Sena tors only two were born in the South— •Cullom, of Illinois, and Senator Hawley, of Connecticut, in North Carolina. Not one southern Senator is of northern ■origin. 1 The low point to which the price of bides has been forced through the de pression which has existed of late, seems to have tempted sellers to try to find a aew market for their merchandise. Dur ing the past few weeks about 80,000 to 100,000 dry Western hide3 have beeu shipped to Europe, in order to try that market. How this new departure will turn out is at present entirely problemati •cal, but if European tanners can use otir hides to advantage, it will offer up a new field, and tend to give a tone of steadi ness to this market that has not been felt for a long time. The recent shipments ■of African hides to Europe from this market, while a new feature in itself, was not of that importance to the trade here that this latter shipment will be if it proves successful in opening up a new market. It is said that the chronic state of fear in which he lives has driven the Czar of Russia insane. The stories told of the dread and apprehension with which his mind is filled by the plots of the revolu tionists have been no exaggerations of the truth. His life from hour to hour is one of abject and quaking fear; every bush is a Nihilist and every obscure cranny of his palace conceals a mine. An autocrat and a despot, he has refused to modify the tyrannous rule which has brought these dangers into being. A representative Government, or even smaller concessions, would have quieted his reign and preserved his reason. The Chicago Herald thinks it not to be won dered at that he has gone insane. Tbe task of maintaining a despotism when even monarchies are cihmbhng would have been too much for a more powerful brain than his. AT THE CAPI1AL. WHAT TI1E FIFTY-FIRST CON GRESS IS DOING. APPOINTMENTS BY PKESIDF.NT HARRISON— MEASURES OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE AND ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST. In the senate on Tuesday the attend ance at the opening prayer was so small that a call of senators was ordered, and after a quorum was thus obtained the journal of Monday was read and approved. The credentials of Senator Allison for his new term, commencing March 4, 1891, were read and ordered to be placed presented on tile. Among the petitions from Flor and referred was one. ida asking a duty of one dollar per box . on foreign resolution oranges. Mr. Hoar called up the re ported by him Monday for the exclusion from the Record of sentences interpolated by Mr. Call in the report of his remarks in the discussion with Mr. Chandler some weeks ago. Mr. Call submitted some remarks in his own vindication, and as sured the senate that he had no intention of violating its rule. A vote was taken on the resolution and resulted yeas 27, nays 11. No quorum. Without dispos of the matter, the senate adjourned. In pursuance of the agreement made Sat urday, the public building bills which that day passed the committee of the whole, came up Tuesday morning in the house with the previous question ordered. The bills were passed. They provide the for the erection of public buildings at following points: Cedar Rapids, Atchison, la.; Chester, Pa.; Columbus, Ga.; Kan.; Alexandria, La.; Houlton, Me.; Lynn, Mass.; Lafayette, Ind.; Baton Rouge, La.; and Tremont, Neb. Also an increase in the limits of the cost of build ings at Newark, N. J. Scranton, Pa.; Troy, N. Y., Dallas, Tex., and Spring field, Mo. The measure involves <wn ex penditure of .$1,845,000... .Mr. Baker, o! New York, from the committee on terri tories, reported a bill for the admission of Wyoming. He asked for the immediate consideration of the bill which, under the new rules, is a privileged measure. The house decided to consider the bill, and it was referred to a committee of the whole. The first three-quarters of an hour of the session of the house Wednesday morning was consumed in a desultory discussion as to the status on the calen dar of private claims reported from the court of claims, but the speaker reserved his decision. Mr. Cannon, from the com mittee on rules, reported a resolution set ting aside Wednesday and Thursday lor the consideration of the Oklahoma bill. The resolution was adopted and accord ingly the house went into committee of the whole on the Oklahoma bill. Mr. Kelly, of Kansas, offered an amendment providing that a general status of Kansas (instead of Nebraska) shall extend over the territory, until after the first session of the motion legislature. Mr. Edmunds the senate, On of on Tuesday, proceeded to the considera tion of the resolution reported on the 10th of February from the committee of pri vileges and elections declaring that it is competent for the senate to elect a presi dent, pro tempore, who shall hold offico during the pleasure of the senate and until another is elected and shall execute the duties thereof when the vice-president floor is absent. Mr. George took the in opposition to the resolution. Mr. George was still speaking when the hour of two o’clock arrived and the educational bill came up as “unfinished business.” lie asked unanimous consent that he might go on and finish his argument. Mr. Plumb called uj >ou Mr. Blair to give the when senate he some indication of the time would be ready to have a vote taken on his bill. There were, he said, a great many important measures on the calendar —measures relating to pensions, to for feiture of land grants, to silver coinage and to other important subjects affecting the months prosperity the of the people. Nearly four of session had elapsed and nothing had yet passed the senate that could be said to be of any national importance. Finally it V. .1. - arranged that on next Thursday, at 2 o’clock, Air. Blair shall have the floor to speak for not exceeding an hour, and that then the bill shall be under the five minute rule and a vote shall be taken on the amendments and bill. NOTF.8. The committee on military affairs Thurs day reported to the house the military academy appropriation bill. It calls for $430,09C. The secretary of the tVeasury on Wednesday received a conscience con tribution of $20.25 from an unknown resident of Charleston, S. C. It is given out th-.t the republicans of the house election committee on Wednes day decided to unseat Louis W. Turpin, of Alabama, and bring in their man (Mc Duffie) to take his place. The senate on Wednesday exclude proceeded from the to vote on the resolution to the Congreteional Record the interpolations made by Air. Call in the report of the discussion with Air. Candler on the 20th of February. The resolution was agreed to—yeas 36, nays 14. Democrats in congress say that the sur plus in the treasury has dwindled during one vear of republican administration from $110,000,000 to less than $40,000,000. and the spoliation of public funds contemplated by the party in power will not be long in reducing the “vaunted surplus" to a reminiscence. Mrs. Harrison, Airs. Wanamaker. Mrs. Russell B. Harrison, Aliss Matiatnaker, Airs. Wiidon, of Philadelphia; B. Robinson, of New York: Air. Iius-ed Harrison and Air*. Hammond, of ton. left Washington Thursday in the private car of J. H. InmaD, BLACKSHEAR, GA. THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1890. dent of the Richmond and Danville rail road, for a trip south. The senate, on Thursday, confirmed the nomination of Lieutenant Colonel Wil liam Smith, paymaster general, with the rank of brigadier general. Collectors of customs—E. C. Duncan, district of Beau fort, X. C. Collectors internal revenue— Virginia, P. H. McCrull, sixth district; J. W. Brady, second district. H. II. Williams, United States Marshal, south ern district of Florida. The senate on Wednesday confirmed the following nominations: Collector of customs, J. E. Lee, St. Johns, Fla.; Dan iel P. Booth, Mobile. United States mar shals, Simon Matnews, southern district of Mississippi; George 1. Cunningham, South Carolina; James W. Brown, wes tern district of Tennessee; William E. Craig, United States attorney, western district of Virginia. Post-masters, Mis sissippi; W. F. Elgin, Corinth; Virginia, C. P. McCabe, Leesburg; Perkc Agnew, Alexandria. Representatives of the Florida orangi growers appeared before the ways and means committee on Wednesday to request for an additional measure of protection their industry. J. E. Ilartridge present- during ed 1heir case in an argument, which he dwelt at length ution the prac tice by importers of .securing undue re missions of duty upon damaged fruit. II* believed that the duty should be fixed at ${ per box, and the provisions for damage allowance should be stricken from the law. Dr. McCune, a high officer in the al liance, and editor of the National Econo mid , told the committee on agriculture that the alliancemcu of the South were divided on the compound lard bill, He said many favored it, and many opposed it. The southern members, however, said he wus not coirect; that every farmer in the cotton states was opposed to the measure, as it was a direct attack upon cotton seed, and would reduce their value to almost nothing. All the efforts of the southern men are now being ex erted to smother tho bill and committee. A PREMATURE EXPLOSION IN WHICH SEVERAL PEOPLE WERE KILLED AND MANY INJURED. An explosion of dynamite occurcd at Brooklyu waterworks, near Rockville Center, N. Y., Thursday, by which several men were killed and a number injured. Dynamite was being used for blowing up tree stumps on the line of extension of Brooklyn Rockville acquedui Center. t, a half mile east of Two laborers, who were walking near, were blown to pieces, a part of their bodies being thrown in every direction. Two others were fatally injured. The shock of the explosion created consternation. Many houses were shaken, and a number of window panes broken. Later reports say: The river at New Orleans at 8 a. m., Thursday was six teen feet and three tenths. At 5 o’clock it was reported by the harbor station at sixteen feet and nine-tenths, and at 2:50 o'clock they reported remained the water that at seven- point teen feet, but it at but a short while when it receded to six teen feet eight-tenths, where it seemed to make a stand. This was six inches above the record of other years, and the water went over the levees all along the city front at every flooded depression the or low and place side and soon streets walks of a large section of the city. The river at Baton Rouge, rose six inches: Ilayou Sara, rose nine-tenths of a foot; Natchez, >ose six-tenths; Greenville. Miss., rose two inches, and below Arkan sas City the water is running over tin levee. It continues to rain. Donaldson ville, La., rose seven inches;Plnquemine. La., rose six inches. Every preparation provide is that ingenuity and man can being made for breaks that may occur. The min has fallen for fifty-four inches hour and the total fall has exceeded five Dispatches from Memphis, Tenn., condition. say: The rivers are in an alurming The highest flood level ever recorded has already been reached at many attained point south of here arid will likely be from Cairo to the gulf within the next five or six days. Reports from Arkansas City, Ark., wu the real condition of affairs at that place have been suppressed. has flooded The water the from Sappington break town and surrounding country. Hundreds of hogs and sheep have been drowned and the people are in constant fear of a break In the levee in front of the city, where the water on Thursday was of four levee. inches upon the sand bags od top the THE CZAR IN DANQER. HE IS THREATENED WrTH ASSASSINATION— A WARNING LETTER. A dispatch from St. Petersburg, Rus sia, says: The Czar has received » threatening letter from a woman wbc signs herself “Tichebikova.” The writei says that unless he modifies his reaction ary policy, he and will meet the fate of Petei III., Paul I., Alexander H. A copy of the letter was sent to each of the min isters at the same time. The police an extra watchful, and are conducting at active search for the persons suspected bemg implicated . the sending of th* in letter. _ WORKING FOR ANNEXATION. OBCASIZATIOJt LOOKING TO A UNION BE tween “ir UNCLE SAM” AND CANADA. A dispatch from Ottowa Canada, pays that a league having for its object the union of the United States and Can ad a, has within a week founded forty three subordinate leagues, with a mem bership the of league 1,793. The total memberehi of now exceed* 5,000, a voters. CLKRENl MEWS. CONDENSED FROM THE TELE GRAPH AND CABLE. THINGS THAT HAPPEN FROM DA' TO DAY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, CULLED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. The ballot reform bill passed the Mary land legislature Thursday. At London, Wednesday evening, the house of commons rejected the Irish laud tenure bill by a vote of 231 to 179. The Uliuois democratic central com mittee has decided to call a state con viction, to meet at Springfield on June 4th Tidewater Land and Timber company, at Baltimore, has made an assignment to John W. Denny, trustee. Bond for $80, 900 was filed. Tho influenza is raging at Teheran, Persia, causing 70 deaths daily. Several members of the shah's household arc among the sufferers. Several snow storms and frosts arc re ported in England and iu various visited parts of Europe. Among the regions are Rome and Trurere. The crockery warehouse of tho B. t'. Clark Crockery Monday, company, at Kansas City, Mo., burned with tho entire contents. Loss, $100,000; fully insured. Harrison & Loedcr, wholesale dry assign- goods, at 379 Broadway, Liabilities N. Y., made an $800, ment Thursday. nominal between exceed 000 and $400,000; assets the liabilities. in The United Townsend, States steamer Iroquois,put Tues to Port Washington, iu the day, having been blown about condition the since Pacific ocean in a disabled December 23d last. A dispatch of Alonduy from St. Louis states that a large received consignment of cotton ami seed has been in Oklahoma will be distributed among the settlers ini mediately. Planting will begin at once. Report has it that the large packing and canning establishments of Baltimore have been secured by an English syndi cate, or at least 95 per cent, of them, whose output of goods amounts to $15, 000,000 a year. There was a long meeting Thursday, of the and sugar be trust in New York on fore it ended interested parties every where had information that a cash divi dend of two and a half per cent had been declured for the present quarter. It. came out in an English court a few days ago that 100 worn-out horses hud just, been shipped Belgium, from that used country in the to Germany and to be manufacture of sausage, and that such shipments were a regular thing. The five-story building owned and oc cupied by Stern, Mayer & Co., one of the largest and wealthiest clothing manufac turing firms in Cincinnati, was completely gutted by fire Monday morning. The loss is estimated at $4.50,000; insurance, $250,000. At New York, on Alonday, Deputy Sheriff AIcCorry and Warden Keating, of Ludlow street jail, were indicted by the grand jury on charges of bribery. They were placed under arrest and taken before Judge Fitzgerald, in each who placed the bail at $10,000 case. United States Indian Agent Wood 1ms notified a cattleman that in accordance with an order from the commissioner of Indian affairs, dated March 5, 1890, he will at once instruct tho police to drive from the reservation the cattle of all who made use it by for the grazing Indians. purposes under grants A. A. Courtcr, former cashier of the Equitable bank, at New York, was ar rested Tuesday. The arrest was made on five indictments—three for forgery and two for having received deposits after the bank became insolvent. Bail was fixed at $10,000, and he was remanded to the cus tody of a detective until he could secure bondsmen. 'The thirty-eight cotton mills at Fall River, Mass., with a cash capital of $18,550,000, carried and paid $1,853,000 during 1889, or an average of 9.98 per cent on their mills, capital. Of the entire num ber, thirteen with $7,250,000 cap ital, paid from 10 to 24 per cent, an av erage of 14 per cent. A dispatch from Jefferson City, Mo., savs: Governor Frances Booneville, has appointed Lou V. Stephens, of State Treasurer of Missouri, to serve until the second Monday in January, 1893. The appointment was made lute W ednesday afternoon, and at 0 o’clock Block, Mr. of Stephens appeared before Judge of the office. su preme court an*I took tho oath A London correspondence dispatch of Tuesday, says: Eng The official between land and Germany with regard to the coming labor conference has just been made public. Lord Salisbury, in his re ply accepting the invitation of Germany to send a delegate to the conference, re fused to in any way lend his influence tc rhe promotion of the of proposed legal re ■triction of the hours labor. A STfeAMtrt AQrtlFT. AT THE MERCY OF WIND AND WAX’E FOR TWO MONTHS. A telegram was received at the navy department on 'I uesday from Com mander Bishop, commanding the United from Honolulu to Samoa, her piston rod oroke and her machinery became dia tTanged and she was driven out to sea. Commander Bishop says that the officers xnd crew are all well and that after he has taken on coal and £nciaco. provision*, he will take the Teasel to Sen RUSHING WATERS. WESTERN RIVERS OVERFLOWING TIIKIB BANKS AND INUNDATING THE LAND. Flood news from various points along the Mississippi river and other streams Wednesday morning, in is that White and Black rivers, Arkansas, are on a ram page. Both arc over their banks, and overflowing the country on each side fi t miles. Heavy rains have fallen, and continue to fall, along these streams and a general inundation is looked for. The Black is a tributary of the White, and the White empties into the Arkansas just above the point where tho latter pours its flood into the Alississippi. At Flirt Smith, on the Arkansas, a rise of over eighteen foot took placo in twenty four hours, and at last accounts the swell was proceeding nt a rapid floods rate, The great rise, added to minor pouring out of all the small tributaries below Fort Smith, will greatly add to the volume of water iu the Mississippi below the mouth of the Arkansas, and increase the peril to tho lower country. All railroads m the vicinity of Fort Smith arc suffer ing from serious washouts or loss of bridges and trains are abandoned temporarily. At Betesville, Ark., the AVhitc river rose eighteen feet Wednesday and is now ris inga foot per hour. At Greenville, Alisa., the river stood forty-seven and a half feet and still rising. Latest reports from the levees tluit along the the principal Mississippi levees side were were still in good shape, but the strain against them was increasing it has been every hour. At Arkansas City rain ing for about forty hours, and the crcv us.se in the levee above the city is now about four hundred feet wide. The peo ple are much alarmed at the outlook, and some arc seeking higher situation ground. At Poplar Binds the is serious. The vise in tho Arkan sas, west of Little Hock, is un precedented. It is feared another day will bring out the unwelcome news ol the water’s ravages. The flood outlook at Memphis, previous Tenn., is more since threatening the than at any time pres ent high water begun to excite attention. The Arkansas and White rivers arc pour ing out an immense volume, and the situ ation below their mouths is anything but encouraging. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE8. BIRMINGHAM, DETROIT AND JONESVII.I.E, THE SUFFERERS A special from Birmingham occurred says: Tin most disastrous * Are that ever in that city, broke out in a brick block on 19th street, ut 2:80 Sunday morning. The losses and insurance are: E. E. Sew ell, undertaker, on stock $15,000, build ing $25,000, insurance $5,000; Misfit Clothing company, loss $5,000, fully in sured; McGuire & Wood, saloon, losi $3,000, insurance $1,000; Joe Frank, wholesale liquor dealer, stock dura aged by water, fully insured... At Detroit, Mich., Fire was discovered Sunday morning in the rear of Gray A BiifTy’s six-story brick furniture factory, which was totally destroyed. The establish- Car roll & Hunter Chair company ment, the Ostler Printing company and Carroll Cigar manufactory, ground. caught next and were burned to the This b the largest tire Detroit has experienced sinceD. M. Ferry’s seed store fire, iu January, 1886, when the Iohh ran into the millions. The total loss is estimated at $250,000, partly insured.... Fin brokeoutat Jonesville, 8. O'.Sunday night at 12 o’clock. The following stores were burned: J. L. McWhirter & Co., dry goods; J. L. Swink, Jr., groceries; The loss is J. esti N. Lemaster & Co., drugs. with mated at $10,000, some insurance. A MINE HORROR. ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY PEOPLE KILLED BT AN EXPLOSION. A cable dispatch from London says A terrific explosion occurred Monday in Morsa Collery, in Glamorganshire, hundred Wales. Ijitest advices are that three miners were eatomed, and all] blit 160 were rescued from the workings, nearest the main shaft. Most of those taken out are unhurt, but several liave received fatal injuries. Eight bodies, shockingly mutilated, have been excitement recov ered from tho mine. Great was caused at the pit by a rurnor that ap peals for help could l>c heard from the entombed men. The rescuers were con stantly succumbing to the effects of gas, and were obliged to make a speedy retreat. WILL THEY COME ? SOME DOUBTS EXPRESSED ABOUT TnE PAN AMERICANS COMING SOUTH. It looks like the southern trip of th* Pan-Americans will be a very decide failure. Some doubts are expressed Only twclv as t whether they will go at all. of the delegates have accepted the Secretar Southei Blaine’s invitation to take trip at the expense of the governraen Twelve delegates have declined, and t) others have failed to reply tfiat at all. Dipl* mats, however, say the excursio must take place, no matter how few wi go on it, for invitations have been sei out and acceptances returned. DECIDED TO CL09E. >» th« bank from whose vau.U lelle Charles A. Pitcher stoie all the cash i June, 1888. He is now in a Ganadia j»>b The bank recovered nearly all t the cash and securities tuat Pitcher stol* but its affairs have not been in a flourish >«* condition for some time. NO 24 SOUTHERN NOTES. INTERESTING NEWS FROM ALL POINTS IN THE SOUTH. GENERAL PROGRESS AND OCCURRENCES WHICH AHE HAPPENING BELOW MA SON’S AND DIXON’S LINE. The Kentucky legislature, on Wednes day, passed a bill calling a constitutional convention. The first cargo of Florida phosphate will bo exported from Savannah this month for Liverpool. The Richmond chamber of commerce is making arrangements to entertain the Pan American delegates. Jacob Fuller, librarian of Washington and Leo university, Lexington, Vu., died Wednesday, aged seventy-live years. Arrangements are being made for three of large excursions, through Virginia, representatives of the New England asso ciation. Alatilda Ruby, a negro woman, died at Raywick, Ky., recently, aged aged 128 years. Her mother died five yiurs ago, at the age 135 years. Five prisoners wero enabled to escape from jail nt Moulton, Ala., recently through a big hole torn iu the roof of their prison by a bolt of lightning. A lire occurred Tuesday morning by which the Durham fertilizer factory at Durham, N. C., was totally destroyed. The total insurance involved is $17,000. The Tennessee house of representatives on Tuesday enacted what is known as the Dortch elccsion bill, Mycr’s registration bill and Carson poll tax bill into laws. They lmd previously passed tho senate. Tho Chattanooga, Tenn., News states that ex-Governor Foster, of Ohio, and his party will take the Budding Ridge property about at Trenton, of coal On., consisting iron land of 30,000 acres ami at, $1,100,000, as fast as the titles can be made out for it. Tho trial of ex-Presldcnt Holden and ex-Sioretnry Pullen, at Memnhis, Tenn., on two indictments charging larceny, embezzlement and fraudulent breach of trust, came to an end Monday, Iloldeu was acquitted Pullen on ull the counts. The jury found guilty on tho first jount and fixed his punishment at fifteen lays in tho work-house. The members of the Tailor’s uuion, at Atlanta, Ga., are. out on strike. Tney made a demand upon employers for an increase iu wages, which wus refused. It is reported that the strikers are or ganizing into a joint stock company for the purpose and embarking of opening into a co-operafiva .tore the merchant tailor business for themselves. Mercic’s A dispatch from Richmond, Vn., says: equestrian statue, iu bronze, accepted. of General Robert E. Lee, has been The statue was made in Paris, and will lie shipped at once to this legislature, country. At the recent session of the resolu tions were adopted accepting the monu ment on behalf of the state of Virginia. (Seventeen hundred puoplo atteuded Vcn- an entertainment Momluy night ut tho dnrne at Nashville, Tenn., for tho benefit of the Jefferson Davis monument fund. The Young Men’s Demoernric club had charge of the affair, and fully $1,200 was realized above expense*. Chief Justice Turney, of the Tennessee supreme court, delivered an address on the life and char acter of Mr. Davis. Baxter Brotherton, a constable of Han cock county, ami three raftsmen were ar rested at Chattanooga, Tciin., Monday, for stealing a raftof logs, valued at $1,000. The four men cut the raft loose in the up per portion of Hancock county, their in tention being to flout it to Chattanooga arid sell it. The owner of the raft discov ered the theft a few hours later, and swore out wurrants against the quartette, who wero placed in the county jail. A NOTABLE GATHERING. THE CHARITY BALL AT BT. AUGUSTINE,FI.A. A GRAND AFFAIR. A dispatch from St. Augustine. Fla., says: “The charity bull 'Thursday night at the j’once de Leon was the greatest suc cess of the season. All New York’s four hundred were transported bodily here, uud the wealth and fashion of the whole country was represented. Tho ball wis given for the benefit of Alicia hospital, which was built by Mr. Flagler, and will be supported by the Ladies' Hospital asso ciation, for whom the ball yvas given. Among tho prominent guests were Mr. and Mrs. Calvin 8. Brice, of Ohio; B. F. Jones and wife, Fred Vanderbilt and wife, Admiral Ujwhur and yvife, Wash ington; Mr. and Mrs. If. M. Flagler, An nie Flagler, Legrand It. Cannon, II. Le grand Cannon, W. Bayard Cutting, Jacob Lorillard, Jr., and a hundred of other distinguished New Yorkers; L. Harrison Dulles, Miss Butcher, Mr. W. G. Warden and daughters, Philadelphia; Robert Garrett rind wife. Mr. and Mrs. Gilmore, George J. Appotd, Baltimore; II. R. Mallory and family. New York. Tha hotels are crowded the to overflowing and the season is greatest ever kuown.” LYNCHERS CONVICTED. three or rnr. principals to bf. hung and ABOUT THIRTY OTHERS USED. e tto. The first two named were the wife md son respect ively, of Oleson, who was Iragged from his bed and hanged by a nob last November. About thirty other persons who took part in the outrage each. pleaded guilty to riot and were fined $100