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THE BLACKSHEAR TIMES.
VOL. VII.
TELEGRAPH AND CABLE.
WHAT !S GOING ON IN THE
BUSY WORLD.
A SUMMARY OF OUTSIDE AFFAIRS CON
DENSED FROM NEWSY DISPATCHES
FROM UNCLE SAM’S DOMAIN AND WHAT
TIIE CABLE BRINGS.
A severe shock of earthquake occurred
in Lima, Peru, at 2 o'clock Monday
morning.
The assignment of Bowden & Jenkins,
stock brokers of Wall street, Xew York,
was filed Tuesday.
Steamers arriving at Baltimore, Xew
York and Boston continue to report many
icebergs, aud some of them of large di
mensons, on their passage.
A dispatch from Loudon says: Cholera
has crossed the Caucasus, and appeared
in the southern provinces of Russia,
making its way westward.
Richard L. Edwards, of Cincinnati,
was drowned three weeks ago. When
found his hair had turned white, it is
supposed from fright while drowning.
Mrs. J. C. Ayer, widow of the noted
patent medicine millionaire, is to erect a
hospital in New York city for consumpt
ive patients, at a cost, it is said, of
$3,000,000.
A dispatch of Tuesday from Council
Bluffs, Iowa, says: Loveland, a brisk lit
tle town in the Missouri valley, has been
destroyed by a waterspout. Several per
sons were drowned.
The prosecution of the striking car
penters of Chicago by their old bosses is
being continued. The strikers’ pickets
are arrested as fast as one shows himself
near a non-union job.
An Egyptian claims to have discovered
the sarcophagus of Cleopatra, and has
written to the directors of the World’s
Fair, at Chicago, offering to sell it, with
the skeleton of tlie queen, for $150,000.
A Providence, R. I., dispatch of Mon
day, says: The first day of the enforcc
’at of the Sunday law resulted in the
closing of all the baker shops, groceries, stands.
meat markets, and news and cigar
Henry Hoffman, a discharged employe
of the LaC lcde flour mill, 8t. Louis, has
been arrested, and has confessed that, out
of revenge, he set fire to the mill, by
which it was destroyed. The loss is
about $75,000.
The Chicago bill appropriating $250,
000, onc-half of which is available during
the present fiscal year, will be reported
immediately by the senate committee on
military affairs, and promises to become
a law at an early day.
The cracker pool recently formed at
Minneapolis, having proved unsatisfac
tory, a cracker trust, with a capital of
$10,000,000, has been formed. It is to
include and conduct the entire cracker
business of the country.
Governor Fifer, of Illinois, has an
nounced that he will call a special session
of the legislature on the 17tli of June, to
act upon the suggestion of empowering in
the city of Chicago to issue $7,000,000
bonds in aid of the world's fair.
Councilman Maloney, from the joint
standing committee of ways and means
of the Baltimore council, Wednesday
night, reported an ordinance authorizing
the sale of the city’s 32,500 shares of
Baltimore and Ohio common stock.
A dispatch to the Baltimore Sun from
Richmond, V«., states that at a meeting
of the Lee Monument committee on Mon
day it was announced that $0,309 had
been contributed by persons in Xew Jer
sey who who do not give their names.
The London Times declares that the
order to dispatch the American cruisers
to Behring sea smacks too much of the
methods of the first Napoleon in dealing
with weak statesmen, and that if the or
der is executed British men of war must
follow.
An explosion occurred Thursday after
noon on the German junk steamer, Hans,
on the Delaware river. Thirteen men
were caught in the flames, and several
were badly burned; one has since died.
The loss on vessel and oil is about $150,
000 .
T-, De ec n g Ucivono in
Wallace ’ who
rob ie uncle” , the P nublisher of Wal
lace Monthly, of $20 000 Lewis, r— : the h
s
young man s aceomphce is also in Ila
van brougnt a A 10 , but T b- t og irether
.
The Home Market, club, of Boston,
Mass., had for its special guests Saturday
evening, Secretary of War Proctor,
Speaker Reed. Congressman Dingley and
Greenhalge, while among the 250 gentle
men present were many who were prom
in national and state affairs.
The big worsted mill of Ackroyd and
Scull, of Camden. X. J.. has been closed
by the sheriff, under executions hens and
juaments amounting to o,000 or fiUAL
000, with assets estimated at
The closed mill is one of the largest
•WOT sted manufactories in South Jersey
It has come to the knowledge ot tne
police of St. Petersburg, Russia, that the
xiihilists in France are engaged of in the a fresh
conspiracy against the life czar
The french police were made cognizant
of the conspiracy by the authorities there
and placed on track of the conspirators.
V Joliet Ill dispatch savs: Bernard
life , who received word
Oesiev a convict, had
few days a<*o that his sentence
been commuted and that be would lie
fter-next October, dropped dead Wed
tMauIav while telling his good fortune
His excessive joy J ' undoubtedly produced
‘SrrJ'reoorts A Sa disease received Xeb dispatch Bradsha'w, savs:
u from
hi tints some four or five hundred in
h about fifty miles west of Lin
that the town waa swept away
BLACKS! I EAR, GA. THURSDAY, JUNE 12,
late Wedesday night by a cyclone. Six
persons are reported killed and twenty
five or more injured.
The steamer Nacoochcc arrived at New
York, on Friday, from Savannah, Ga.,
and among her passengers were the crew
of the steamer Louis Buchi, which was
burned at sea on the 3rd inst. The
schooner's crew, comprising rescued thirteen nien
and one woman, were in an open
boat a mile from the burning vessel.
The negro conference opened at Mo
hawk Lake, N. Y., Wednesday. A
number of distinguished men from alt
parts of the country were present. The
conference'is called to consider the ques
tion of Christ'adzing aud educating the
colored people. Among the speakers
were ex-Presideut Hayes and Albion
Tourgee.
The laboring classes of the City of
Mexico are up in arms because the gov
ernment has decided that hereafter all
working men on both public aud instead private of
works must wear pantaloons authori
the usual cotton carmeot. The
ses determined, however, to enforce the
order.
In the general term of the supreme
court of New York, a few days ago, the
the decision of Judge Underwood,of Au
burn, in the Kemmler habeas corpus cases,
was affirmed. Tills allows the (use to go
at once to the court of appeals, The
only question at issue is whether
Kemmler can be legally executed by the
warden of Auburn prison.
About fifty silk ribbon weavers em
ployed by Pclgram & Myer, lage manu- Tues
facturers at Paterson, N. J. struck
day against a reduction in wages from fif
teen to twenty per cent. 'J lie weavers ol
the Velvito Silk company aud over one
hundred employed by Johnson, Cowdin
& Co. are also out, resisting a similar re
duction.
The free coinage convention of the
state of Nevada, met at Carson a few
days ago and adopted resolutions re
questing senators and representatives Nevada fa- in
congress from the state of to
vor the measure for the opening and of unlim- mints
of the United States for free
ited coinage of standard silver dollars,
and to support no other bill.
The court of claims at Washington, I).
C., has dismissed the claim of A. B. Mul
let for $150,000 compensation us architect
of the building now occupied by His the
state, war and navy departments.
claim was for architect’s commis
sion on tlie total cost of the building, al
though it was not completed till 1888,
thirteen years after he ceused to have any
thing to do with it.
A business men’s meeting for the pur
pose of protesting against the passage of
McKinley tariff bill was held in Phila
delphia Tuesday afternoon. Alexander
K. McClure presided and tlie list of vice
presidents included the names of many
prominent business men of Philadelphia.
The building was crowded, the tobacco,
tin plate and woolen industries being
largely represented.
The statement has been made that the
claims of the German colonists in East
Africa, regarding the boundaries of theii
possessions, have caused irritation in
government circles in England. Officials false,
at Loudon pronounce this statement
aud they say, furthermore, that there is
no doubt whatever that the German gov
ernment will refuse to recognize the
claims in Question.
THE FLEECY STAPLE.
HEPORT of THE new ORLEANS EXCHANGE
KEGAitDiNG the croi*.
_
The New Orletns cotton exchange is
sued a statement Tuisday, embracing
thirty-nine weeks of the season, from
September 1st to May 30th inclusive, this
and last year, showing that 7,078.915
bales of 1889-1890 have come
into sight at the ports, overland
points of crossing and leading southern
interior centers, including the takings
by southern mills. Up to this time last
season the amount brought into sight was of
0,805,112 bales, or say 98.08 per cent
the entire crop. The statement shows
there were brouirht into sight after May
30, last season 344,178 bales. It indicates
that of the supply this season 2,117,592
bales have been taken by American and
Canadian mills, including 429,587 south
of the Potomac, and 4,725,047 have lieen
exported F to foreign ^ ports. ‘ It also shows that
mill ki * aud Canada over
lan(1 ia 32 %0 bak ahe ad of the cor
responding thirty-nine weeks of last year,
and that excess in foreign exports for the
season is 220,537. Between the 1st and
0 f May, inclusive, this season’s stocks
a t American ports aud twenty-nine lead
j n g southern interior markets have de
cre ased 17,910 bales, against a decrease
<j ur ing the same period last year of 122,-
334 aud are now 141,278 bales less than
they were at this time last year.
A p HO SPHATE SYNDICATE
-
3KGA> -j ZED rs bartow, Florida, with
over a million capital.
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A dispatch of Monday from Bartow,
F]a > rC ports: One of the largest pbos
phate syndicates in Florida was formed
very q U j e tly in Bartow. It is called the
American Mining and Improvement Com
pa ny with a capital stock of
Thev own 4 72 0 acres of the noted phos
phate bed on the Alafia river. This com
pany is now preparing to mine and have
a contract to deliver 10,000 tons of phos
phate in a certain length of time, begin
a ing July 1st.
Austin . Offlrbm , . s wedding ... present , to . an
old friend in Philadelphia was the use
his magnificently appointed private car
for a trip to Mexico. The car was pro
vided with everything needful, including
a corps of servants.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL,
WORK OF THE FIFTY-FIRST
CONGRESS.
PROCEEDINGS OP THE ItOVSE AND SENATE
BRIEFED—DELIBERATIONS OVER MAT
TERS OF MOMENTOUS INTEREST TO OUB
COMMON COUNTRY.—NOTES.
On Tuesday the house proceeded to the
consideration of the Alabama contested
election case of McDuflUc vs. Turpin. Mr.
Comstock, of Minnesota, opened the dis
cussion with an argument in favor of the
claims of the contestant. Mr. Crisp, of
Georgia, presented the claims of the con
testee. Pending the discussion the house,
at 5:15 adjourned.
Among the memorials aud other papers
presented aud referred in the senate, on
Tuesday, were resolutions from the Louis
iana legislature extending thanks to eon
grass and the president for the relief af
forded sufferers from the recent Missis
sippi floods, Mr. Davis, from the confer
ence committee on the dependent committee pen- had
sion bill, reported that the
t.een unable to agree. The senate bill for
preventing the adulteration of food aud
drugs was reported and placed on the
calendar. The silver bill was taken up,
aiul Mr. Pugh addressed the senats. ilis
speech was largely devoted to a criticism
of the tariff bill. At the conclusion of
Mr. Pugh’s speech the silver bill was
temporarily laid aside, and a number of
senate bills were taken from the calendar
and passed. The most important was
one permitting bottling houses to be con
nected with breweries by piping, under
regulations set forth in the bill. The
silver bill was again taken up and Mr.
Farwell addressed the senate, lie de
clared himself in full accord with the
purpose of the bill, but said he was in
favor of going still further. lie would
use for money all the silver offered and
not a stipulated sum as provided for in
the bill; and he would coin it at its
market value. At the close of Mr. Far
well’s speech, the silver bill was again
laid aside and the fortification bill taken
up. An amendment to increase the ap
propriation for rifled sea coast mortars
from 1250.000 to $400,000 gave raise to
a discussion in which the condition of
American sea ports was discussed by
Messrs. Dawes and hale, and their ap
prehensions were ridiculed by Mr. Cock
rell. The discussion was participated Plumb, in
by Messrs. McPherson, Gorman,
Dolph, Ragan and Platt. Finally agreed a vote
was taken mid the amendment whs
to—24 to 22.
In the house, on Wednesday, Sir. Os
borne, of Pennsylvania, presented the con
ference report on the army agreed appropriation
bill. The report was to. Mr.
Morrill reported the disagreement of the
conference committee on the senate de
pendent pension bill. The house insisted
on its amendment, providing a service
pension, and a further conference was or
dered. The house then proceeded Alabama to the
further consideration of the con
tested election case of MeDufliic against
Turpin. '1 he first vote was taken on tfyc
minority resolution declaring Turpin
elected, and it was reported—yens 114,
nays 130. The majority resolution seat
ing MeDuftiie was agreed to—yeas 130;
nays 113, and Mr. MeDufliic appeared oath at of
the bar of the house and took the
office. Mr. McKinley directing presented the a enrolling concur
rent resolution
cl. rk to enroll in the customs admimstra
tive bill what is known as senate iimend
meut 91, in regard to the abandonment of
goods to underwriters and salvors. The
resolution was agreed to—yeas adjourned, 127, nays
5. The house then, at 4:05,
The resolution for an inquiry into the
management of the fish commissioner’s
office was taken up by the senate
on Wednesday, and agreed to. The
presiding officer, Ingalls, announo
c( ] as select committee on the bill
for the establishment of the university Edmunds, of
the United States: Messrs.
Sherman, Ingalls, Blair, Dolph, Harris,
Butler, Gibson and Barbour. The forti
fication bill was taken up, the pending items
question being on striking out two
f or the Watcrvleit, X. Y., arsenal $248,-
743, for the erection of a south wing, and
$'80,000 for machinery for twelve-inch
guns, and inserting, in lieu of them, the
following for boring and turning traveling laths,
rifling machine, and eighty-ton manufacture
crane fully equipped gins, for Watcrvleit the Arsenal,
of twelve-inch at
jf. Y., $235,000. A longdebate followed,
Finally the amendment to strike out the
two items described and insert the sub
gt j tute wag agreed to—37 to 18. Amend
men ts were adopted providing for the
r )Urc hase and test of a new iniantry gun
, uid two ncw cannons. All other amend
wcre agreed £ to and all were passed,
TLe w . nate t en adjourned.
In the on Thursday, Mr. MeKin
from the committee on rules,re
ported * resolution providing tbit the
house shall proceed immediately to the
consideration of house bill 5,381 fthe sil
ver b illj and that consideration be con
tiDU ed until Saturday, at 3 p. m. Mr.
McKinley gaid that the resolution was in
tec(kf ] t0 give the house of repre
Natives an opportunity and give to pass the some
, ilver legislation coun
trv & gilvcr hill, which would be
‘ to the general senti
j n / perfect response It give the
m( n t of the country. was to
house an opportunity ]<f to pass the bill,
lvhich wou take all the silver bullion
-jf the United Stab-sand utilize it for mon
, Ury pur p OSf;S . it was to give the $4.500,- poo
pie not $2,000,000 a month, but
<x>0. The resolution making the silver
bill a special order was adopted—yeas Mi
^ ^ ^ Mc(gr8 williams, of
Unh;im , of Texas, .poke in op.
poMtion U) t he bill, and Taylor, of Ilh
nuLj favort d it. Pending debate, the
ho-use adjourned until II a. m Friday,
Among the bills reported in the si rate
Thursday from the committee and placed
on the calendar, was the house bill to es
tsblish a national military ]>ark at the
battlefield of Chickumuuga. The silver
bill was taken up, and Mr. Hiscock ad
dressed the senate in opposition long to dis- the
free coinage of silver. After Teller, a
cussion by Messrs. Sherman, Stew
art aud Aldrich, the bill went aver.
Several private p-msion and bridge bills
were taken from the calendar and passed. p
Mr. Blair introduced a bill to prohibit
the exportation of alcoholic liquors to
Africa aud islands of the Pacific ocean.
Referred. The senate adjourned.
NOTES.
The ncuurc committee on commerce is
busy with the river and harbor bill.
Republican representatives the went adjourn- into
caucus immediately Wednesday upon afternoon,
ment of the house
to consider the silver questiou. No defi
nite action was agreed upon.
A delegation of about o"c hundred
Importers troin New York city appeared
on Wednesday before the senate commit
tee on finance, to protest against the
passage of the McKinley tarill bill.
There is a movement on foot in the
senate to have congress take a recess from
the first of duly to the first of October.
The assign reason the men who have proposed
this is that the senate finance
committee will take at least three months
to prepare a tariff bill, to report to the
Semite as a substiuie for the house bill,
mid that while this committee is at work
there will be no business for the houses
to trai suet outside of that which they
finish by the first of July.
It is understood at Washington that a
movement is on foot among southern
men, who were ex-confederates, some of
whom now reside in Now York and
others in the south, to raise a subscrip
tion for the Grant monument, as it seems
New York will never raise the fund
for the monument to Grant at River
side park. It is now proposed that the
men who fought on the other side come
forward and subscribe the additional
money needed.
The majority report in the case of Mil
ler vs. Elliott, from the seventh South
Carolina district, was submitted to the
Iiouse committee on elections Tuesday
morning. The report is somewhat sensa
tional, in that at the very beginning it
declares that the entire South Carolina
registration and election laws are uncon
stitutional. The basis for this declaration,
as stated in the report, is that the state
law imposes a number of restrictions upon
the exercise of the right of suffrage which
are in conflict with the state constitution.
Mr. Wilson, of Nortii Carolina, will pre
pare a minority report.
KILLED BY LIGHTNING.
A BOLT STRIKES FOUR MEN, KILLING TWO
OF THEM.
A Detroit Free Preen special from Cabo,
Mich., says: At 7 o'clock Wednesday
evening four farmers were struck bv
lightning, four miles west of here—T. N.
luggott, Edward Goodchild, William
Holmes and Matt Iiiuglc. They were
engaged horse. in performing thunder an operation on a
young A storm came up
suddenly and a bolt of lightning r struck
in the midst of the men. Goodchild and
Holmes were dead when assistance ar
rived, although could no murks or truces of the
current be found upon their per
sons. Kiuglc and Tuggctt are recovering.
PREACHER AND ACTOR.
THE STRANGE FREAK OF A NOTED REVIVAL
IST IN TEXAS.
A dispatch of Sunday, from Ban An
tonia, Texag, says: A sensation ha# been
created throughout the south by the an
nouncement from revivalist Iiev. Virgil and Maxey, the
noted southern Baptist
minister, that he will go on the stage
September 1st. He having been engaged
by T. Htutts, r the theatrical manager to
play proininerftf’parts Mr. Muxey, during in the interview, coming
season. an
stated his lie object will be to unite the the stage pulpit days and
state. on six
in the week and preach on Sundays.
A CYCLONE S WORK.
TWO INDIANA TOWNS REROUTED TO HAVE
BEEN SWEPT AWAY.
Information was received at Jefferson
ville Ind., stating that Iluntinghurg and
Jasper were almost swept away Monday
night by a cyclone and tint many per
sons were killed anil injured. Huntiug
burg is seventy-five miles distant from
Jeffersonville, and Jasper eighty-two
miles. No particulars were giveu, as tele
graph and telephone wires were down.
FOR ARBITRATION.
THE BRAZILIAN <ABI.NET Ari’KOVES Of
TIIE AMERIC AN < (INFERENCE.
The Secretary of State (Blaine; has re
ceived a dispatch from the United Staten
consul at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, an
nouncing that the cabinet has passed a
resolution enthusiastically approving the
actio 1 of the international American con
ference in recommending arbitration in
all questions of differences between the
several governments of America.
WILL WIN.
Two-Tiiiniis or Louisiana’s legislature
in favor of the lottery.
Rouge, A dispatch La., of Thursday A ]>oll of from the Baton
says: mem
bers of the legislature of Louisiana
shows that the necessary two-thirds vote
will be secure? for tlie proposition to
submit to a vote of the people a consti
tutional amen * ■ at permitting the re
chsrtci ing of : Louisiana state lottery.
FARMERS’ ALLIANCE NOTES.
NEWS OF THE ORDER AND
ITS MEMBERS.
WHAT IS RK1NO DONE IN TIIK VARIOUS
SECTIONS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF
THIS GREAT ORGANIZATION. — LEGISLA
TION, NOTE 1, ETC.
An Alliance warehouse will be built at
Cheraw, S. C.
***
Winona, A baggage Miss. factory will be built at
*
* *
The Alliance in Putnam county, Fla.,
tell the county commissioners that they
must be more economical in the disjiosl
tion of the comity funds.
***
The Alliance covers all the territory
from Texas to Minnesota, from Maine to
California, and yet it is hardly live years
old .—A U in nee 1 'indicator.
«
Alliunceraen shouhf attend every one
of their meetings. Things will bo dis
cussed that may benefit you. Know what
is being done by your lodge .—Mineral
I'ost.
The Farmers’ Alliance Exchange of
South Carolina has been in operation two
months and a half and has done a busi
ness Cotton in that time aggregating $50,000,—
Plant.
A
Will those men who oppose the sub
treasury plan place themselves on record
against the national hank pl.ui, the whis
ky warehouse plan and other like
schemes? We pause for a reply.—(At
lanta, Ga.) Southern Alliance Fanner.
** *
Cowley county, Kansas, Alliance will
celebrate the Fourth in grand shape.
They have secured Ralph Beaumont, of
Washington, D. C., and L. L. Polk,
National President of the Alliance, as
principal speakers for tho day.
¥
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An immense elevator will bo built nt
of St. Joseph, will Mo., be in stored wjiicli and a large hold quantity bet
wheat for
ter prices. A bank in that city will ad
vance money to the fanners. This is tho
Sub-Treasury plan by private individuals.
Alllancemen and *% have
all others n
right to ask questions of the office-seekers,
and the office-seekers, have a right to an
swer or not, just as they please, In fact
it is well to know how a man stands on
public issues before he elected to official
position .—Acicorth l\mt.
***
Thu enemies o5 the Bub-Treasury plan
ami the farmers tell yirti that it will not
benefit the poor man for that bill to pass.
Do not be deceived by such talk. The
Bub-Treasury phin„ if adopted, will nssist
in freeing the poorest farmer from the
clutches of those “so-called friends.’'
That’s wlmt’s the mattur.
1
• The chiefs of the Alliance organization
throughout tho United States, rejairt to
the Xew York Herald a membership ol
ulaiut 2,000,000; of these there aro some
thing over 1,000,000 votes,with the mem
bership rapidly increasing. The Alliunce Ih
becoming a power in the land which will
soon be felt m the political us well as the
commercial world.
+**
An Alliance in Davidson county lias
expelled their President ujKin the follow
ing charges: “First, for using Innguage
in open Alliance calculated to disorgun
izc; second, for denouncing the State Or
gan; third, for putting wroqg construc- by the
tions on the demands made
Alliance for the purpose, as ye think, ol
misleading the members. Proffretxioe
Farmer, Raleigh, N. C.
/.
As yet we have seen no argument
against the Alliance Hub-treasury plan that
has any weight when weighed rights. by the
scales of justice and equal The
farmers only ask that they he aided to
secure a fair compensation for their labor
by of wealth. advances Bankers upon a deposited enabled evidences to rob
are
the people with the consent of the gov
ernment, by the use of the evidences of
indebtedness. The Alliance proposition and
is more honest, more honorable, more
just.— The Tocsin.
The object of the Farmers’ Alliance
summarized, is to unite the farmers for
the politically promotion and of financially. their interests, How socially,
can
they promote their interests socially with
out understanding their social condition,
and how can they promote their political
interests without understanding their po
litical condition, and how can they pro
mote the financial interest:, without un
derstanding their financial condition, and
how can they understand these conditions
without a discussion of them? heater
(Kan.) Press.
A most powerful farmers’organization,
a branch of the Fanners’ Alliance, is un
der way in the State of Xew York. The
obligation of members is as follows: “I
hereby affirm that I will do all in my
power by vote and influence to serve the
passage of an equal tax law, arid such
other laws as will, in my judgement t*n
efit the agriculturists of the state.” This
new orgaDiza'ion is said to be going
ahead like a lightning cxpia-s train, and
it is expected that by fall its enrolment
will contain 100,900 members. — The
Toiler.
At a meeting of days the Fulton county,
Ga., Alliance some ago, the follow
iug resolutions w ere passed :
Whereas. The Fulton County Alliance,
in convention assembled, do recognize in
Colonel L. F. Livingston a gentleman of
high personal record, character, a statesman of
unsullied a veteran of faithful
NO 4.
service to (♦oorgia, and a consistent, elo
quent and able exponent of Alliance prin
ciples; therefore,
Resolved, That in further recognition
of the conspicuous services he rendered
to our order in this State, we hereby an-
nouncs iiira afl our choice for the tnext
governor of lids State, aud request him
to convenience. announce his candidacy at his earliest
AMAZONS IN ACTION. /
Tho Story of a Fight With Female
Warriors in Dahomey.
A firm of Rouen, France, has received
from a traveler, who is actually following at Kot
onon, a letter, containing the
particulars about the attach by the Dnho
minns:
During the last few days there had liecu
about fifteen sharpshooters wounded.
Something was expected, but gradually
the watchfulness had become rattier weak.
Hu* consequence was that the sentinels
were fast asleep at 5.80 in the morning
when the Dahomians advanced in snake
like glidings. They surprised the senti
nels and cut off their heads. In the same
manner the watchman of the battery was
butchered. The artillerv quartermaster
endeavored to defend Himself, but an
Amazon, a fine girl of lfl, stabbed him
with a poniard and cut his throat. Tho
same fate lmpjwnod to a brigadier, and
also to a non eommialoiied officer of ar
tillery. given.
Meanwhile the nlarm had licen
The Senegalese riflemen arrived on the
run and swept off the first, ranks of tho
Dahomians. The bold young Auiuzoir was
caught, thrown to the ground, ami her
neck cut. At the same moment Governor
Iloyutt signaled to the gunboat ut anchor
off the battlefield. Immediately a hail
storm of IxnnliK and Hotchkiss hallo
rained over the Dahomians, and caused
them to taka flight to the underbrush,
leaving from 5IH) to 500 of their people oft
the ground.
The amazons still constitute the (wst part
of the I lahomlan army. This corps of about
2,500 women is mainly recruited from
young girls of thp best families in r>uho
mey, designated by the caprice of tho
King for military service. They live la
barracks like regular soldiers.
One company of the smarotr regiment
hems the name of “razor virgins,’’ because
they arc imm-d with parol's lire feet long,
which are terrible weapons in African
tights, and are used in time of peace to
decapitate men sentenced to death by tlio
Dahomlan King, who also uaea his ama
zons m public executioners. Another
company In named “the big muskets,"
each woman soldier carried being accompanied
bv a slave, who algsivy Hint-lock.
The “wire to kill" ooinpuur Is formed of
the best sharpshooters, 'friere arc also
“eurblnci's" and “bayonet'’ ooiiqioHed companies, girl#
Tho “urrowbeuron” is of
too young yet for actual lighting, but
who ties and are in employed the ambulance »s rccounoilering Tho |>ar- “el
dostimsl oovpe. for tlie
ephant’’company lmttle-fiold, but for 1s huuting not elephants and
The procuring daring, ivory for agile the and royal athletic treasury. girls
most
lira admitted Into this company, which
might he railed the civil or private ser
vice of King Hondo. 1
WICKED 8TUDENT8
IlKHOUT TO VANDALISM IN UELEBItATIOH
OF THEIR VICTOR I ES.
A dispatch held from hi^li Boston carnival says: Satur- The
Uurvard boys
day night over their victories in the Yale
busebaji games. During the night the
college buildings Were defaced with vari
ous mottoes, including some profane
r feronees to Y T alo. The statute of John
Havurd wos besmeared with rod paint.
The inscription was hidden, and aculp
tors will have to chisel away the paint.
There Ir much indignation over the van
dalism.
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A Horse with Good Soa Legs.
A horse has no Inclination to lie dowr.
at sea, no matter how long the voyage.
The writer once traveled with a racehorse
on hoard a steamer, and became deeply
interested in the animal's behavior, as in
fact *el. did It the generally entire population acknowledged of the that ves
was
there was no hotter sailor on hoard, be
fore the mast or behind it. His stall, s
few pieces of seantling nailed together,
was in the steerage, twenty feet from tb<
port l>ow. and he stood there in one i»ob1
ENGLISH CAPITAL
AGAIN BROUGHT INTO REQUISITION IN
WEST VIRGINIA.
A dispatch from Wheeling, W. Va.,
say*: Tlie negotiations which have been
going on for and the past two rolling mouths between
the Aitna Standard mills and
representatives the of the an English mills, syndicate
for sale of came to an
agreement Thursday so far as the .Etna
i* concerned. The price paid is $750,000
and a forfeit of $15,000 has been de
posited. The negotiations for the Stand
ard mill will probably be completed
within a few days.
A BIG SCHEME.
EFFORTS OF NORTII DAKOTA TO GET TO
LOUISIANA STATE LOTTEBT.
A Bismark, Dakota, special of Wcdnes
day says; Efforts to secure a charter
for the Louisiana Lottery in Xorth Dakota
ire being ^pnewed with, great enesgy. the
The state is swarming with agents of
ottery, and it is said that $500,000 will
be expended with’the view t« securing
the election of 1 . governor and legislature
favorable to the scheme. /