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: : " .. - > . . ,,_ p^iS' ^- ':- " .- . v. ' ' - _ ' . "' "^~ ; , ? ' -rKjS^.-. * - - '?J? !;? ?: . - ' t c- 'Jz : * VOL. XLVI. WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1889. NO. 17. jUBpMrmBD|1>tMBinwmT^^-?*??^rrang^i.?.i?i*w'i JULI U i POHMHBBBHDBflHEOBHBBnnaBa ! laborers digging a sewer at Ticonderoga, N. Y., found a stone under which was a partly decayed oaken coffin, containing a well-preserved skull and some bones. An inscription showed that this .was the grave of that Lord George .Howe, the English infantry officer, who fell before the French at Ticonderoga in July, 1758. Relic hunters were with difficulty prevented from taking pieces oi the coffin before it could be put in a place of safety. H Great as is the West, it seems it may be made vastly greater." Major Powell, L chief of the geological survey, says that v liis party visited all the States and Territories where irrigation was deemed practicable, and found that the number of teres that might be made productive tmounted to 100,000,000. Figures iike these make the mind reel. And to think, xclaims the Commercial Advertiser, that that this is a mere w;iste field that Uncle Sam thinks of fencing in unci adding to his farm! An Imperial Chinese decree has been Issued directing that tiie two ends of the Peking-Hankow Railway shall be begun ^ ~simultaneously. In the opinion of the ?' Emperor, the extension of the railway ?ystem is essential to the prosperity and influence of China. At the same time His Majesty recognizes the existence of popular distrust and suspicion, and, in }rder that they may be dispelled, calls 2pon the viceroys of the various provinces io issue proclamations explanatory of the invocation. He earnestly enjoins upon ill the subjects the desirability of work-^ ing together to attain success. There is no doubt of ^3S^s**?fiich tHTa5^rrSS^SSp^^^?''is beTmfe tarried on in Europe. Nearly every steamer brings recruits for the New Zion, n chaige of the ciders whose eloquence las ensnared the converts. It does not ?ke much oratorical skill, observes the San Francisco Chronicle, to induce peo? pie who can save nothing by the hardest work and the strictest economy to emigrate to a land that is pictured as a modern Canaan, flowing with milk and honey. The darker side of the picture is hidden, and is only revealed when the converts are safely landed in Utah. The latest party of these dupes came from Fhuringian and numbered 110. more than " half of girls. ^Nothing could be don^^P^^Lcm at Castle Garden, uid'the authorities were fc.ced to allow ? dxem to go to their fate. ine ireorgia legislature aeieaseu a law taxing dogs. The affectionate devotion of the Southern legislature for the rural Southern cur dog is a thing always to be wondered at and never to be ex1?' plained. The average cur dog?and, for that W matter, the average town dog too?is the most thoroughly useless of creatcd things. He is not ornamental, he is not musical, he is not good to eat, and no useful occupation suitable to hrs talents has yet betn devised by human ingenuity. He consumes constantly and produces only fiias and hydiophobia and more or less | modified and eccentric duplicates of himself. Where burglary in the night time k is almost an unknown crime his services as ? cniard are not valuable, and it mav Lfi readily noticed that the less a man has 9 Kempt thieves the more dogs he keeps PBrguard it. But the cur stands in the way of the sheep industry as potently as if he had the lion's strength, courage and beauty. But for him farmers would occasionally enjoy mutton for dinner, the annual wool clip would diminish the outgo for woolen goods' and we might have a mod est woolen mill here aud there to furnish home markets and employ home cap^al L to the general advantage. The logic is irresistibly against the dog, but the legislature is irresistibly with him. Therefore do we continue to luxuriate on imported hog meat aud seud forth our j i- ? r? z 1^.1 ?r* 7* UUC&ES XUl" JUlJlUtlCU >\UUI. W/tCKHMt, (&. C.) Doily trs. The controversy as to the island upon which Columbus iirst landed when he reached the New AVorld and which he \ named San Salvador is likely to be reinrigorated by the coming celebration in honor of his great achievement. The New York $>t? says the trouble is that Rfc "the hardy old mariner in his log book ^^^^jjave anything but dctinite and miuute * " " * ' C * " ictnn^c VlCt descriptions ot tin.- w,iu> ^ visited. His discovery of Cuba, the crowning achievement of his first voyage, riistracted attention from the Bahamas. They were very little known for many years after Columbus discovered them, and were never correctly chartered until this century. Washington Irving made ? _ the long narrow island, now known as Cat fcteMad, the scene of Columbus s first apH fcta|^nerica. theory was H j^L Other students deHf^rand Turk, Maya9 & one or two other nu's have been found sunoosition By a century ago Island lying north latiEk.t^ '; best Hunan (I reHson. r?f the Bl tb'' cor Hkenerally Heading's THROUGH DIXIE, SUMMARY OP S0UTRBB3 NEiS. Happenings of Special Importance From Virginia to the Lone Star State. NORTH CAROLINA, The United Lutheran Synod of the South convened at Wilmington Thursday with a large attendance. Rev. Dr. E. i T* IT.s.n ..f plocfAn .Q P X. ilUlUj KJX. vuuiiwvvu, </. V?J W4UVV.^ The delegates represent seven synods, North Corolina, Virginia, South Carolina, West Virginia, Tennessee, Holston, and Georgia. In Surry county tliere is a natural curiosity in the shape of a mountain resembling the famous Egyptian sphinx in all its derails. It lies east of the Blue Ridge mountains on the Piedmont plains, like a gigantic lio-n, its body at right angle to the ridge, and with head reared aloft as if in the act of iising. The head is of solid rock, several hundred feet high. The shoulders and breast are finely proportioned, and at the distance, of'a, few miles it looks like a thing of life. ; It rises 1,500 feet above the plain. Samuel Laften, of Green county, was ; shot in the head by Abe Stocks. The j * * -i i? T .fi., tronDie was causeu vy iiam-u assijuu^ polioemea to arrest Stocks, who had been utiruly. The wounded m:ui is in a critical condition. His assassin is at j large. The North Carolina Baptist state convention met at Henderson Wednesday. ' Jefferson Spock, of Craven county, was critically hurt Tuesday in a singular way. He was employed at a shingle machine. Sawdust choked the saw, and Spock undertook to clear it away with an ax handle. The handle helve struck the saw and was thrust against Spock's head, breaking his jawbone and otherwise injuring him. One of the teeth from the saw was broken out and struck him, in ^Uctiag-ii'dangernus wound. There now seems to be no alternative for Cross and White, Raleigh's boodle bankers, than to serve their time on the y^yuntry roads. It is learned tlmt as toon as tfce recent decision of the United States Svy.iremeCourt, affirming the judgment of* th*K lower courts is certified down, Cross anu "White will be turned over to custody'^ by their bondsmen. White's sentence is-- for five years and Cross for seven. SOUTH OAEOLftrSr^-^^ C. M. Ward was on Safurday appointed general manager of the South Carolina Railway by Receiver Chatnberlaia, iu place of Col. John B. Peck. Mr, Ward has been superintendent of the Pittsburgh Junction division of the Baltimore and Ohio system. N. Tink Pope, a well known mechanic, was killed about four miles south ol Rock Hill by his mule running away with the sulky in which he was riding. He leaves a wife and five children in Richburg. . Ex-Governor Chamberlain, receiver of S/mfh Carolina. Railroad. has been authorized by the court to put the road I in thorough repair, replace worn track with steel rails, etc. This will prove of great interest to the people along the line. The machinery for the Rock Hill oil mill has all arrived and is being placed in position the mill will be making oil within-a week or 10 days. The company has- in Its warehouse about 30.U00 bushels of seed. The building for the company's fertilizer works has been completed and the machinery will be placed in position in a short time. Dr. Elkins, of Alston, was killed at Peaks Station Thursday by a*, freight train, No. 10. Mr. Elkins wanted to come over to Peaks from Alston, and he got in Conductor Beam's car. The conductor, being on top of his train, did not know that Mr. Eikins was iu j ? the car, and having no lreigm lor re&Ks j the train did not stop, and Mr. Elkins, j in trying to jump from the train, missed ; his footing and was thrown under the i car, and the wheels passed over his j thighs, severing his legs from his body, j He lived in this condition an hour and j a half. i VIRGINIA. An explosion occurred at Romaine Bros. & Mannies' fireworks factory at Petersburg Thursday by which three Italians, A. Domichello, Felix Cardigua, j and Felix Spongado, were injured, the ! first named dying from the effects. The i men were loading whistle-bomb? at the | time the explosion took place. The! damage to the factory is small. Soon aftfr the fcjam Jones meeting iu Danville last fall, the street car company, while in a pious frame of mind, discontinued Sunday cars on its lines, and since then worshippers have had to walk to church on Sunday or trot out their conveyances. At a meeting of the stockholders held Thursday night it was decided to resume Sunday tratlic on the lines. The Confederate Monument erected by Colonel Thomas W. Smith was unveiled at Suffolk at Cedar Hill Cemetery Thursday afternoon in the presence of an au- ; dience of about five thousand persons, i Appropriate addresses were delivered by! Governor Fitzhugh Lee, Judge Theodore I S. Garrett, and T. It. Borlaud, Esq., of j Not folk, and Colonel Smith. The mon- j ument is chaste and beautiful. The American Peanut company, of j Norfolk, has been chartered, with a c:ip- j ital stock of not less than $10,000 or ! i more than $">0,000. The officers tor the j first year are: K. C. Scott, of Peters i burg, president: James F. Duncan, of; Norfolk, secretary and treasurer. The United States Supreme Court in ! Alexandria Tuesday held that a pass<n- J gcr was not entitled to damages for I being ejected from a railroad train when : he had neglected to have his round trip j ticket stamped before beginning his j journey homeward, as required by the j conditions of the ticket, even though he ! was admitted to the train ami his bag- j gage chocked on the ticket. The councils of Norfolk at their Tues- ; day night cession completed the cousid- j eration of the bill exempting manufac- j torics from taxation for a period of live j years. This question has been long ug- ; itated in the city. GEORGIA. A collision occurred at Lula, on the ' Richmond and Danville Railroad 3Iond;iv night, the Northbound passengei traili running into the rear of a freight train. Fireman Font, of the passenger engine, was instantly killed, and Engineer James Bell was so l?adlv crushed that he will probably die. A car building firm of Albany, Ind., I hasrcceivcd a contract to build a halfi million dollars' worth of cars for the ! Central Railroad, of Georgia, consisting of 1,200 freight cars and 22 passenger coachcs. This is one of the largest contracts ever given by this company. The Rev. C. K. Henderson, pastor of the Baptist church at Cedartown, was out bird hunting with Gabe Jones in an open field. Henderson was in advance of June?, with his gun cocked and over j his shoulders. The gun was accidentally I discharged and the load entered Jones's ; hiad, scattering his brains upon the I ground. ir or me nrst time in auuut iw the roll of the Georgia Senate and House J of Representatives was called in Savannah. One hundred and twenty members answered the roll call Tuesday morning of hist week. The Legislature was on a pleasure trip. Whiie out hunting near Perry, John | Jullv, a negro lad, accidentally shot Kugene Woodward, another negro boy, I and he died in a few hours. TENNESSEE. j A. C. Conn, the first vessel to pass through the great Muscle Shoals Canal sysj tern of the Tennessee river,arrived at Chattanooga Thursday. The canals were begun by the government in 1873, and nearly I JN 4 ?AA AAA l.tw. Avw/\nJor] An fl^nrrt litis L7CCU u-vptuutu vix vu^ jjLLm The opening of the canals, which will formally take place in a few weeks, will give water transportation nine months iu the year from Chattanooga to the Mississippi River. Water transportation from the Chattanooga mineral j district to the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, will favorably affect all trades and manufacturers in that section. Cbirks-ville citizens have subscribed J.jU.OOO towards securingthebuilding of the road from Clarksville to Dickson, by the Louisville & Nashville R. R. The E:ist Tennessee Land Co. have begun laying off lots in a new town they call Harriman. It is reported that the Government will build a boulevard from Sherman Heights to the Chickamauga Battlefield at a cost of ?50,000. Officer Hans McConnell arrested at Nashville Julin Walker and a married woman who had eloped with him from New Albany, Ind. The husband of the woman, a German named John Land, I and his daughter Mfcdora came to Jsasiu-l ville in search of the erring wjftfand j mother, who astounded himjB&en they found her by saying, am not your wife, either.Tiien ia/her passion she _rcvedvcl,.tJiii.XuW -efiormity of her crime, when she married Land she had a first husband living. lie is still living. She even seemed to take delight in the keen torture she was iuflicting. Land, who supposed himself to be her first and lawful husband, is a well to do farmer, and still holds dear the interests of his children, upon whom so crushing a disgrace has beeu suddenly brought. He commanded that the woman return to New Albany for the purpose of making legal settlement in regard to the property and this was decided upon. The entire party then left the police station to catch the ne.\t train. FLORIDA. Emanuel Watson, assistant purser on steamship Olivette, was drowned at Port Tampa, late Friday night. In trying to throw a rope his foot slipped and he fell into deep water. In the darkniS3 he could not be rescued. The board, of directors of the Florida Sub-tropical .Exposition at .jacssonviut; hits clected Col. M. R. Moran director general for the ensuing year. The new director general was for several years assistant manager of the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key "West system. The Exposition will open on January 9,1890. The trial cf J. H. Benjamin, for killing Capt. J. Wade Douglass at New Smyrna in June last," which has been in progsess at Orlando for the past week, terminated suddenly Saturday. A feud existed between the two men by reason of an attack upon Douglass in the columns of the Delacd News, of which Benjamin was editor. Douglass met Benjamin on th*; wharf at New Smyrna and threw him overboard into shoal I water: he then jumped on him and held | his head under water. While in thisJ i position Benjamin drew a revolver and shot Douglass dead. The court declined to admit testimony showing the previous relations of the two men, and the State's attorney thereupon nol prossed the case. On Saturday last Capt. Henry Marcdtte, of the United States army, who accompanied Senator Call to Pensacola, ! had the papers in a libel suit for $10,OUO ilamazes served on him there. A I letter to the Times-Star, of Cincinnati, j siguid "Mascotte'' O., dated "On the wing iu Florida," September 14, 1880, ! is what the suit is based on. Titles to | landgrants are the questions which the | letter dials with. The railroad officials 1 who bring the suit assert that Capt. ! Marcottc will have an opportunity now to prove whether or not these titles are valid. I? he answers in the civil suit it is stated they will produce evidence upon which to prosecute him for criminal libel. A Pensrcola special Tuesday says that Col. W. D. Chi pity Tuesday entered a libel suit for $10,000 damages against the l'eusacola Commercial, for charging i-ii.it hsiri f>m1:f!7.zled lands from the State in the interest of thePensacola and Atlantic Railroad Company, of which he is vicc president and land commissioner. OTHER STATES. After two nights discussion which was ah time.*; acrimonious the New Orleans Chamber of Commerce and Industry prono unco in favor of Chicago, as the site for the world's fair by a vote of 57 for Chicago and 32 for New York. The Bourbon classical and business college was burned at North Middletown. Ky., Wednesday night, and all the furniture, including eight pianos were lost. The young ladies of the collfvc barelv escaped with their live3. Lyss.v40.OU0; iusurauce $7,500. James and Charles Haywood and Julie a Carti r. three white men, were fishing at Cahaba, below Selma, Ala. They attended to their trout lines and began, to fscend the river bank, when it caved 1110:1 them and all were taken out dead. The Dcmopolis, Ala.,oil mill burned Fri da v. Tiie los--. will be -$12o,000: insurance $70,000. The cause of the fire is un; known. The democratic mass meeting to nom j inate a candidate for mayor of Jackson, j Miss., has been set for December {Jrd. | John McGill, "whose defext two years ago was the subject of sensational investigation under Chandler's resolution, is again a car.iurlate, and a hot contest is expectied. NOVEMBER CEOP EEPOET. The Monthly Eeport of the United States Department of Agriculture. The November cotton returns of the department of agriculture show* a remarkable variation in the condition in different localities. In South Carolina and Virginia the season has been very short and excessively wet, and the plant seriously injured by long continued raiDs in the season of blossoming. Tennessee reports injury to the crop by wet weather, lack of cultivation, and early frosts during the past month. In these States the crop is much worse than that of last year. < Elsewhere tbc crop is comparatively late, especially from South Carolina to Alabama, "with a largo growth of weed. Iu low lauds early frosts have injured the crop cast of Mississippi, while uplands in the Southern belt are still green. "West of the Mississippi in a large portion of the area there had been no frosts. Weather for picking has been remarkably favorable, assuring the gathering without waste of all that is opened in excellent condition. The fibre is grading comparatively high, notwithstanding adverse conditions arising from abnormal distribution of moistuie, affecting the growth and fruitage. Indications of yield per acre, by county correspondents, are about 3 per cent higher than last year. So much still depends on future killing frosts, and sunny weather for opening and gathering, that the result cannot be known very closely until after Christmas. There has not be'-n severe general loss by caterpillars and boll worms, though the dam age in some localities lias been serious. The returns of potatoes make the average yield 70 bushels per acre. In the eastern and middle States the yields is poor aud quality low, while in the west and southwest reports are better. The general average for tobacco of all kinds is G-io pouuds per acre. The best corn is in the Missouri Valley, as well as the highest yields.. general average will ru#-?above 2Gj bushel per acre. The NrtJ, Gold Excitement, A Salisbury, N. C., special says: The four experts who went from here last week to see the Tebe Sanders rich gold find in Montgomery county have returned and report tbat the first stories or wild talcs about the find is true. There has not been fifty dollars worth of work done on the find, aud from reasonable calculation ?lo'J,UUU wortn oi gom nas been taken out. The gold was first found by a man who was turkey hunt' ing. It was toltl, and then hands flock-' ed there and went to work, paying fiveeights of the gold they found as a royalty. One man was thought to be dishonest and did not pay all that was due. He was stopped from working and he went off saying he did not care about any more, as he had all he wanted. Ha is known to have nine pounds of gold now. One man last Saturday panned only twenty minutes and paDned two thousand pennyweights of gold. Two men worked a day ?nd a half and clerned up ten and a half pounds of gold. The find is on a high hill above a branch. The surface appears to be full of line gold and runs into fine glassy quartz stringers in depth, which form into pockets, some of which are two-thirds gold. Where the gold is found and has been worked dots not cover more than a quarter of an acre, but it appears to get richer in depth, and the gold can be seen sticking in the quartz stringers from t.hf> ton of the cronher holes. The land o 1 belongs to a brother of Tebe Sanders, who is in Texas. The owner has been informed, and is expected here to look after his find. In the meantime there are two factions who want to work the property. The result is that all work has stopped and the factions are .standing guard and will not let any one strike a lick or wash a panful. The find is the richest ever known, and is near the property of several large English companies, who have spent large suois there. The gold is coarse, and some nuggets weigh from one hundred to live hundred pennyweights, while others hold the quartz together so that it can be bent and twisted. The find is an old pine field that was cultivated before the war, and is owned in fee simple by Sanders, hence claims cannot be laid oil like in the West. Biography of Ool. Ehett, Col. Alfred Rhett, who died in Charles ton a day or two ago :u his sixtieth year, was one of the most prominent figures in the lute war. lie was a con of Robert Barnwell Rhett, United States and Confederate States Senator, and ihe founder of the Charleston Mercury. Col. Rhett was graduated at Harvard in 1800, and he at once hastened to Charleston, his native home, and entered the South Carolina army as a lieutenant. His captain was Ransom Calhoun, a relative of JohnC. Calhoun, and' the battery was stationed at Fort Moultrie. When Major Anderson and his little force were bombard jd in April, 1801, Rhett's battery fired red hot shot into the fort and eventually set fire to the barracks. Colonel Rhett held charge of the Confederate forces of Sumter till General Gilmorc had so pounded the walls that the fortvocc nn innrrp nvni labia for artillerv uses. He claimed that Calhoun put uu. ?'.'rout upon him. Calhoun declined a challenge to light a duel, but offered to meet Rhett after the war was over. Jn 1862 Rhett's denunciation of Calhoun brought a challenge from a friend of the i latter. Shots were exchanged but no j one was injured. Then Calhoun resiged his commission in I860 and challenged Rhett. The duel was fought in the city limits, and Calhoun fell mortally wounded at the tirst fire. Colonel Rhett succeeds d him in command of the regiment. Colonel Rhett w;is chief of police of Charleston for several years, and at the time of his death was'a magistrate and rice planter. The Virginia-Maryland Line. Joseph Seth and TV. A. Jones, representing Maryland and Virginia respectively, and Henry P. "Whiting, of the United States Coast Survey, met at Bal timore and endeavored to settle the boundary line between Maryland and Virginia at Ho? Island, on the Potomac river, about which there has been a little ire aroused among Maryland oystermen. Having failed to settle the question at a former conferencc and failing again this time, Messrs. Sctli and Jones agreed to submit to and allow Mr. "Whiting to decidc the matter for them. Mr. Whiting's decision, which will be final, is cxj pected soon. NORTH _AND WEST. HEWS? ITEMS EI TELEGEAPH. Being A Condensation of the Princros] Happenings in Different States A blizzard has been sweeping over southern and western Kansas. A committee of the corporation uf v,.i.. t- : r i ...1 i <u?; universityjjiis uit'u ujipuiuvu iu consider tbe advisability of establishing a chair of music in the university. Capt. Julia Ford, master and owner of the schooner Lady Lincoln, which was j recently lost oft Cape Cod, was found j drowned Tuesday. A remarkable revival was recently held j in the penitentiary at Kingston, Ort. j Between eighty ana one hundred <j! the leading cracksmen, forgers, counterfeiters, pickpockets, and men of that ilk. were converted. Hunter and Crossley, the Canadian evangelists, conducted the meetings. In a hoarding house at Providence, K. I, Wednesday J'eter Fenlin md, 2o years old, sliot and murtally wounded Walter C. Potter, proprietor. * Tlrj young man was in love with Mrs. Potter, who resented his attentions, and the reproof by her husband was followed by the shoot Hig. A tire at Medina, N. Y., on Monday evening threatened fur a time the complete destruction of the business portion of the village. The "water gave out and the lire engines broke down. The losses amounts to $50,000. George W. Hillman was hanged in the corridor of the county jail at Wood bury, N i J., Wednesday for the murder of Peddler j Siedman.- lie is only 20 years old. Ajjtfrr request he was allowed b^.'^the Sheriff to witness the consiiKiction of the gallows. ^ ' . Chief of PoUfifc-Swiggetl, of Wilmington, Del., rysigned Thursday night the result ^Kcharges of bribery preferred -agfcyast hiiu in the city council. The city was paying lifteen cents a meal for food furnished prisoners at the City Hall, and the contractor, Isaac C. Pyle, the leading hotel keeper, returned to the Chief seven cents a meal, presumably pay for giving him the contract. The Chief also returned to the city his check for $4G8.S3. Buffalo Juues, of Garden City, Kan., has had an exciting time at Stony Mountain, Montana, this week. He lassooed twerty-five full grown buffalo and had them hobbled. They are to be shipped to Salt Lake City. Many are the regrets that the buffalo are to leave the great Northwest, where they are so much needed for fur audf hardiness. The Rev. Dr. Phillips Brooks has just completed his twentieth year as pastor of Trinity Protestant Episcooal church, Boston. A dispatch from Cambridge, 3Id., says, -'-'"he... Democrats celebrated their victory here by a parade. The gun used in firing salutes explode J, killing Capt. Stephen Augustus Moore and seriously lacerating L. Eugene Jackson." Although complete olriciul returns from the Ohio election h;ive not been re ceived yet. Lumpson, republican for lieutenant governor, thinks he is defeated by eighty-sir votes. Daniel V. Carmichael. one of liie best known business men of Amsterdam, N. Y.,was arrested by Detective S-.veeney, of Albany, on the charge of forgery. The forgeries extend over a period of two years. Mayor Cregier, of Chicago, appointed a committee of leading citizens to confer with the ex-Confederate soldiers association relative to the reception to be* tendered to Governor Gordon, of Georgia, during his visit to that city. The oecuson promises to be a notable one, and there will be a public meeting in the interest of the Confederate soldiers' monument to be erected in Oak wood eernetcry, Chicago, where several thousand Confederate dead are buried. In keeping with the rise in the iron market, the wagts of employes of blast furnaces of the Brooks Iron company, at Birsboro, Pa., have been advanced ten per ceDt. The Waiwick Iron company, of Pottstown, Pa., will increase its furnace employes' wages ten per cent. Monday. WASHINGTON NOTES, Admiral Gherardi, who commanded the United States lleet in Ilaytien waters during the late revolution 011 the island, has been ordered to the West Indies again. Miss Rachel Cameron, the youngest of Senator Cameron's five daughters, will make her debut in Washington soc;ety this winter. She is very pretty, as bright and accomplished ?irl as can be found in Washington. Especial care has been bestowed on her education, and her manners are very engaging. Assistant Attorney General Tyncr has decided that circulars as advertisements closely resembling United States pustal money orders may be construed as coming within the provisions of the law which provides lor nue auu imprisonment for "falsely making or printing any order or imitation of money, or postal note issued under or by the direction of the Post Office Dep.u tment.'' Col. Lie1)cr, the acting Judge Advo- j I cate General of the army, has made his annual report to the Secretary of War. The total number of courts-martial during the year, was of which 10 weje commissioned officers, 3of military cadets. Absence without leave, descrrion, carelesnt-ss in handling government propeity, drunkenness, and conduct t>? the prejudice of good order and military discipline, were the most numerous offences. Col. Lieher rtcomendsa fixed system of punishments for ollenccs. Jesse A. Atwoorl, of San Francisco, - rs;?- H!*:_ | wiio was in ine rnsi msi.uuwu v^aivai^. j has applied to the Treasury Department for his share of the re wan I offered for the capture of Jefferson Davis. At wood, can odU obtain the money he claims to bo due him by applying to Congress as all the rewnrd has been distributed. Tke Secrctajy of the Navy ordered the Marine Band to furnish music from the 20th to the 22nd instants, on the occasion of the North Caroliua Constitutional Centenial at Fayettevilie. A board of officers consisting of Lieut. Col. Sawtclle, Lieut. Col. Danuy and Maj. Carpenter, has been appointed to appiaise the post traders' building at Fort Slyer. Ya. Y~ v CATHOLIC C0NGEES3, Laymen of the Church Meet in Council In Baltimore. Twelve hundred delegates to the first Congress of Catholic laymen of the United States assembled at noon Monday in Concordia Hall, Baltimore. Archbishop Ireland invoked the Divine blessing. Ex-Gov. John Lee Carroll on taking the < 1i.ni- ?!iid klThe Coneress has but two great purposes at heart, the glory and progress of the Catholic church and the continued prosperity of the American people." The following cablegram from Rome was read: "His Eminence, Cardinal t4iljbons, of Baltimore: Having made known to the Holy Father the expressions of devotion conveyed to him or. the part of the Catholic Congress to be held in Baltimore",?his Holiness graciously bids mo say that he most affectionately imparts his blessing to all members. "RL Card Rampolla." Monday night the city was beautifully illuminated during the great reception tendered the visiting prelates particularly Cardinal Gibbon's residence and the homes of the Catholic laity in every quarter. The fronts of houses and public places were profusely llfang with lighted Chinese lanterns, while the churches by means of innumerable gas jets wero outlined in tire to the summits of their steeples. The address of welcome to the distin. iiiii-Viorl mioefc wnc rlfllirprpfi l?v Fy Congressman Roberts, of Maryland. While lie was speaking two Indian chiefs, in full panoply of gayest feathers and embroidered niany-colfjrcd blankets, were seen making their way through the crimson vestured prelates to where stood Cardinal Gibbons. "With solemn mein ^.icjfndians readied for the hand of the noted"'-ecclesiastic, and bending low, silently kissed his archi-episcopal ring,, while the spectators stood in wonder, finally breaking mttrtiiyers. The Indians were both. Catholics? -Chief Joseph, of the Flatheads? of Mont:;u:t, and Chief Whitebird, of the Sioux, of Dakota. They "were given scats of honor close beside the Cardinal, with their travelling companion, Father Yon-. Gorp, S. J., of the Rocky Mountain mission. Following the address of welcome camc the reply on behalf of the prelates by Archbishop Elder. FOBEIGfl NEWS. Barcum's show has made a great hit in London. There were 15,000 people present on the first night. At "Wadowice, Austria, the trial opened of six-five persons who are charged with swindling a large number of. Gulician peasants by inducing them to emigrate to Amcrica by false statements, and obtaining commission on their passage money. Among the persons implicated are a commissary of police, comptroller of customs. Hungarian judge and a liumber [of customs guards. Several Austrian :uid Prussian gendarmes were were bribed to assist organizers of the swindle. ___ It is ascertaiued from official figures that during the present year Italy has called into the various branches of her Diilitmy service 150,000 more men than ia any previous year. The Paris Exhibition having closed, the Parisians are now engaged in contemplating the statistics and conntingthe gains. It is estimated that 5,000,000 French people came from the provinces, and that their aggregate expenditure in capital was 300^000,000 frances. At least 1,300,000 foreigcrs visited Paris and the Exhibition and spent 750,000,000 francs. The Englishmen heac. the foreign list with 386,000, the Belgians comiug next with 22G,000, the Germans third with 100,000, and the Americans a good fourth with nearly 120,000. The emperor and empress of Germany arrived at Innsbruck, Austria, at noon, Thursdav. Emneror Francis Joseph re eeived them on the platform or' the lailway station, and embraced and kissed Emperor William. He then kissed the empTess. The emperors retired to the salon of the station where they conversed privately for some time. After partaking of a luncheon, the imperal party resumed their journey to Berlin. Emperor Fancis Joseph nccompanitd them as far Rosenheim, in Bavaria. Chief Justice Smith Dead. William Nathan Ifarrell Smith, Chief Justice of North. Carolina Supreme Court, died at Raleigh Thursday. He had been until Monday previous to his death, regulary attending the sessions of the Supreme Court, and his death was a painful shock to his friends. As soon as the announcement was made, all the State offices were closed, and the city bells were tolled. * "* ' " * * ?i- ? i.? -1 /v Cimn/imA The body i;ua in siaic at mc ou^i Court building till the hour of the funeral, which took place at 3 p. m., on Friday, attended by the bar ia a body and a vast concoursc of people. Chief Justice Smith was born in Murfrcesboro, Hertford county, 77 years ago. lie graduated at Yale at 22 years of age and also took the law course. He was one of the counsel to defend ex Governor Holden, during his impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors. He was in politics a Whig, and was a member of 1... stnt-ps C'on<rress. In 1859 he im. 0 | came within one vote of being elected I Speaker of the House. During the entire war lie was a member of the Confed- | crate Congress. He has been Chief Justice of the Supremo Court of North Carolina for 11 years, being appointed by Gov. Vance, to the position upon the death ol Chief Justice Pearson. Still Suing The S. id E, E. The '"Old Reliable" is fast getting into hot water. Another suit for foreclosure was-filed Wednesday in the United States Court against the South Carolina Railroad. The complainants in this suit are H. H. Walker and others, | holders of the original nrst uiun^ajjc I bonds of the old road, whose securities j were nut converted in the reorganization, j There are three suits for foreclosure i [tending in the courts against ihe road, j the first l?cing the suit of the first morti gasfe consolidated bonds known as the j "Bond Suit," and under which ex1 Governor Chamberlain was appointed rei cyiver: the sccond in behalf of the second ! mortgage new bondholders and the third in behalf of the first mortgage "old bond holders." The case will come up for a hearing before Judge Bond at Columbia in December. It is thought that all the parties will unite oh ex- Governor Chamberlain a? receiver.?Fj-rhmuje. i A California Clergyman's Crime, C. A. Ross, a clergeman living near Lockeford, Cal., early Tuesday morning shot and killed his wife, his eight-yearold soc, and himself. He was a Methodist minister for several years, but laiely had been an itinerant Congregationalist. engaged in selling books. He had not lived happily with his wife, and they seperated surue time ago. She supported herself and her boy by teaching school near Lockeford, and made her home at the rsidence of Frank Fester. For some time past Ross bad been driving to the schuol house and taking his wife home at the close of schooi hour3. He did this yesterday, and re maincd with her all night. He arose at 5 o'clock this morning and shot her through the temple with a pistol, killing her instantly. The report awakened the little boy, who slept in an adjoining room. lie rushed into his parents' room, and the father shot him twice in the cheek and temple, causing instant death. Before Foster's family could reach the room Ross shot himself in the head and soon died." Th<? real cause of the tragedy is not known. The Knights Meet in Atlanta, The General Assembly of the Knights of Labor met in Atknta Tuesday, Mr. Powderly in the chair. The session of the assembly were fixed from 9 to 12:30 in the forenoon and from 2 to 6 in the afternoon. Action was taken in the case of T. T. O'Malley of D. A. 38. He had been admitted on his credentials, when a protest from a local connccted with D. A. 38 was received, charging that O'Malley was not a proper person to sit in the Assembly, because uf his treachery, unfaithfulness, and avowed hostility to the the order. After a patient hearing of the charges and defence, a resolution not to permit him to remain as delegate was adopted, and Mr. O'Malley was escorted from the hall. This action is significant of a determination to evict all discordant elements. ? L. F. Livingston, President of the State Farmers' Alliance, was invited to address the Knights in mass meeting. Jhis action is taken to strengthen the "V~i 1 Victorr>pn these two irJU^-iuai uuuvu .. bodies. A Oonieder'^' flag Or eates a Btimpns. in Animata. RV , I3^?urday mj>ht, some young Democrat-> enthusiastic swung to the breeze a sure enough rebel flag. It was put on the high pole used by the signal service. It was beautifully made of silk, two red bars on either side, with a white bar in the middle, a blue corner with thirteen stars enclosed made it complete.*. There was no wind Sunday, and it did not unfold, but ever since it has been as a red garment before a maddened bull. About 4 o'clock Tuesday it was torn down by members of Major Harris Post, G. A.. R., who were loud in denouncing the outrage. There came near being serious trouble oyer the affair. The Post accused a well known tailoring cstablishnf Tiotrincr mnr?c- t.he and the. ?? ?b o, accusation __was_ personally resented by the proprietors. Tlis Negro-Mexican Colony Scheme, City of Mexico, via Galveston.? Ellis, the Texas negro, who proposed to colonize American negroes in Mexico, is still in this city strivirg to secure a concession from the Government in the interest of the proposed colony. It is asserted that Gen. Pacheco, minister of Public Works, is greatly iuterested in Ellis's plans and is heartily in favor of granting the concession. Other members of the Government are also said to* favor it, so there seems to be little doubt that the concession will be given and the colony established. The scheme, how"wr will meet with strong opposition on the pait of the Mexican people, and the negro colonists are not likely to receive a vtry encouraging welcome. The feeling is general that in the Indian peon class Mexico has as large an element of a different race as it can find room for. Southwest Virginia to be Developed. The Virginia Development Company has recently been organized, with a capital stock of $5,000,000. The directors are wealthy citizens of Philadelphia and Southwestern Virginia. The Roanoke Herald says the purposes of the company are to promote and encourage the establishment of mining and manufacturing industries in the sections of the country tributary to the lines of the Norfolk and ? 3 ??;i Western ana onsuauuuau * i?iroads. The company state that recent discoveries settle beyond a doubt the question of an abundant supply of iron ore of superior quality in Southwestern Virginia. They have recently purchased oyer 9,000 acres of land in different sections of the State, and an organised movement such as this is will prove advantageous to the State. Echoes of Charleston's Gala Week. Charleston has been devoting itself this week to the celebration of its earthquake, and has had assistance of a very considerable section of the population of South Carolina in the task. It is a city that doesn't spare expense or trouble on these gala occasions and the visitors from the Pee-Dee und Piedmont, the mountain counties and the sea islands, will go away to talk over their experiences on many a coming night at home and to look forward with pleasing anticipation to the next anniversary.?Ilaitford (Conn.) Com'ant. Eobert Bonner's Latest Purchase. Rrtnnpr thp nwner of Maud S. IJlVUViU JL/VM?V.J and other fast horses, has just purchased | the great tbrie-year-old Sunol from i Governor Stanford, of California. Sunol on Saturday last trotted a mile in the unparalleled time for a three-year-old of 2.10i. Considering her- age, Sunol's performance is regarded as the greatest ever made by a trotting horse. Bonner's offer for Sunol was made and accepted by Governor Stanford before she made this great performance. Sunol has also the fastest record ever made by a two-year old, she having trotted last year in 2.18. American Cotton Oil Trust. At a meeting of the boara of trustees of the American Cotton Oil Trust, held in New York, the rcsi^nar tions of J. H. Flagler, as president, ana,' Jay Moss, as Treasurer of the boards were read and accepted. The secretary, was instructed to spread the letters o&. the minutes. Jules Aldigc" was unani-_ , mously elected president, and the' election of treasurer was postpone i. * r i s BttaBaig WHAT OP THE CL&MA-GAEL? Interesting Evidence in the Oronin Oasa Buled Out, Chicago, Nov. 18.?At the opening of the Cronin trial this morning, Juage McConnell announced his decision on the question of going into the past history of the Clan-na-Gael. The last witness on the stand yesterday was ex-policeman Brown. He was also an ex-member of the Clan-na-GaeL He was asked whether or not he preferred charges against Dr. Cronin in 1885, the State's attorney explaining that he proposed to show by witness that this was the fact; that Dan Coughlin was a member of the trial committee, and that Dr. Cronin was expelled from the organization. The logical consequences of the admission of this testimony was a complete investigation of the Clan-na-Gael, at least so far as it could be made to show cause for animosity against Dr. Cronin on the part of any of the prisoneis at the bar. This offer led to a most earnest and protracted debate between counsel for the State and counsel for the defense that has yet taken place during the.trial. Nearly every lawyer .engaged had something to say during its progress, and there was much plain.speaking. The talk occupied the time until adjournment, and Judge-MeConnell announced that he would hold the matter under advisement and would render his decision this morniag.^..Jn accordance with that arrangement, when court was called to order this moiniug Judge MeConnell announced his opinion to be that the evidence souglit to De eucitea. from Officer Lrown, on the points named, was incompetent, and ruled it out. The policc made another mysterious arrest in Lake View last night. Tha- . prisoner was "J. B. Simon," who bought; the furniture at Iveveil's and occupied No. 117 Clark street^ i?^ Bold Eobbei^ A snecial dispatch from Suiligert, near v Mt. Vernon, Ala., tells of a bold robbery . there Tuesday night. Two heavy armed med rode up to the residence of Mr. Summers, a merchant in Mt. Vernon, and asked him tovgo to his store and let them have some burial material. After aomittiDg them the men drew their pistols and compelled. Summers ~td open. "hirsafTaSi^givethcm ?400 in cash?all that he ^ then redo' v away. A party of ._ several miles ia pursuit, but trail and turned back. The robbers are fr supposed to be Rube Burrows and his partner. . ? w National Paimers' Congress, The ninth annual session of the National Farmers' Congress opened at Montgomery, Ala., on Wednesday. Three hundred delegates were present, all the States represented, except New York and Nebraska. The meeting was called to order President Kalb, of Alabama, and addresses were delivered b* Mayor Graham, -r>f. Mnnt/yaiien;: Hon. A., B. Smith, of Kansas; Hon7jS7HT~LU^ rnnj?c^-CLUi. fornia, and C. N. Spoiford, of Illinois. At tiie mgnt session nuo extended by resolutions, and wired to the National Grange now in session at Sacramento, Cal. The members of th* Congress visited New Orleans ia a body Saturday, after being in session three days. The State- of "Washington. The receipt of the proclamation of President Harrison admitting Washington to the Union was received at Olympia. the capital, of the new state while Senate and House were "in session. Instantly every member sprang to BfTTesfcand the entire House and spectators cheered wildly. . . . ^ . When order was restored one of the members, Tucker, an old pioneer of .the State, rose to his feet, and in a brief ; spcech, trembling with emotion, congratulated the Legislature and people on admission. In the Senate the proclamation was also received with continued cheering and the greatest enthusiasm. Jeff Davis Trusted Fim, , Col. Ambrose Dudley Mann, who died in Paris Wednesday was Assistant Secretary of State under President Pierce; ? j ??..ir T?okl m:inV dil)lo auu, |uiui iu iij-v ? _ t _ matic positions abroad. la 1861, he was one of the commissioners sent by Jefferson Davis to EuroptT^Xiygethe' recognition of the Confederacy. JL if W he was Confederate commissioner ia ^ Belgium, and the bearer of a letter from Jefferson Davis to the Poj>e. lie has remained abroad since the downfall of tha Confederacy. lfe was born in "Virginia. 84 years ago. Gettitng Back into the Libby. The Union ex-prisoners of war of thefNorthwest have been offered the^t^of the old Libby prison by the managers.- of > that institution for the national reunion at Chicago of all who were" prisoners during the late war. At a meeting of the Chicago Association at the Grand Pacific Hotel, the offer was accepted, * " ntid ?>vailm and jJcceniDcr iutu, oiiauwu auu v.w ing, was named as the time of the reunion. W, 0. T. U. In Sessioa at (Jhicago. At the annual convention in Chicago, Miss Frances E. Wi Hard was re-elected president of the Wonian's Christian Temperance Union. The vttte/wasr practically unanimous, sin'ee on^aa- -inform J. ballot but nine vote.; Mrs. J. _ EUen Foster, of Iowtf/j^rarepresents the, non-partisan element-^&'he 'convehtjuaa,. . These nine votes came from "Ioya, Ver-' mont and Pennsylvania. Johnstown's Hard Fortune. The large bridge connecting Cambria City and Millvale,-suburbs of .Johnstown, ir"a., was entirely aemonsacu by high water and drift in the Cocemaugh River. The loss of the structure will greatly retard the removal of the dead from the Morellville cemetary to their permanent resting place in Prospoet cemetary. Monday night the Christian Church on Main street, Johns-town; was badly damaged by tire. . -r-r TT 1 "DJ^aa w ams xier .a.usu&iiu& natc. . It if announced afc Lexington, Ky., that -;$?rs. WilliamGoodloe will be an -applicant'lor^e-pe^jiion of collector of intcrnalTeyCSrtC^idr the Tfh district of Ecnttteky^jaftcie.vacant by the untimely death-of .her husband.