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VOLUME XV. HUNTSVILLE. ALA., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1894. NUMBER 51.
Kailwa t travel in Germany is almost
free from risk, as only one passenger in
1)3,000,000 is killed. The figures in this
country- are simply frightful by con
trast.
Thf. rapidity; with which the .laps are
racing around in China and picking up
land is calculated to make the boomers
in this country' feel that they have ex
isted in vain.
The republicans of the country ap
pear to have celebrated the thirty
fourth anniversary of the election of
Abraham Lincoln as president of the
Cnited .States with considerable eclat.
I >it. Tajlmagk will hereafter preach
n> an evangelist and not in a church of
his own. It is to be hoped that the
doctor’s ill fortune in the matter of
church fires will not follow him. The
destruction of church property would
he fearful.
Tt is a mournful fact for the bicycle
trade that the soldiers of Europe find
that they can not utilize the bicycle to
«u,v great extent in war. Had roads
appear to be the bane of the bike. The
horse market can not be abandoned al
together just yet.
The cost of a loaf of bread in New
York has been reduced from ten cents
to five cents and in Cincinnati from five
cents to three cents. A similar cut is
announced in Washing ton. An era oi
cheap wheat without correspondingly
cheap bread is too absurd to require
debate, j m^mmm__m
That was a neat point made by a
Massachusetts senator in an ante-elec
tion speech when, in referring to the
calamity howler sneer, said: ‘'The dif
ference between me anti the Boston
Herald is that the Htj-alc* wants to stop
the howling and I want to stop the
calamity.”
Thk Chinese are said to be waiting
until some of their imperial halls and
ancestral tom hr, fall into the hands ol
the Japs, which will be accepted as a
that, the present dynasty has
reached an end. Millitary men who
are wa'.ching this war in the east find
it as ’instructive as a comic opera.
1 aIxo Alexander of Servia having
l ae right to marry a peasant or a
princess, there is a report that he has
.-hosen Miss l’nllman for his queen.
This, however, may l>e only the dream
I of some slumbering passenger in an
upper berth. Newspaper readers will
await further advices from Servia.
All reports arier^t the eastern war
agree that the Chinese can’t light and
won’t try to light: that the Japs can
and will fight, and are having every
thing their own way. That being the
case, the prolongation of the war by
China is simply suicidal, and the sooner
-he sues for peace the easier will be her
exit from the present expensive entan
glement.
Japan, in spite of her mistakes,
stands for light and civilization; her
institutions are enlightened; her laws,
drawn up by European jurists, are
equal to the best we know, and they
arc justly administered; her punish
ments are humane; her scientific and
sociological ideas arc our own. China
stands for darkness and savagery. Iler
science is ludicrous superstition, her
law is barbarous; her punishments are
awful; her politics are corruption; licr
ideals are isolation and stagnation.
A nkw edition of the works of Jona
than Swift is announced -in Ldndon.
Another evidence, if more were neees
s.'irv, that whatever in literature really
deserves to live will live; that here, as
elsewhere, the eternal law of “the sur
vival of the fittest" prevails. Swift has
been dead nearly an hundred and fifty
years now, years of larger intellectual
achievement than any similar period in
the world's history; yet he is not for
[rotten, nor is there the smallest sign
that lie ever will lie—so long, at least,
as intellectual power obtains recogni
tion among men.
"hat with the indiscriminate dis
trandiisement of legal voters by the
employment of grossly incompetent
deputy revisers and the open and gross
‘fauds on the ballot box as practiced
by hired thugs in what may be termed
'he “hoodlum” wards of St. Louis, a
state of mind has been engendered
among the better elements of both re
j Publican and democratic parties which
Prompts them to inaugurate a. move
meut to ascertain whether state, city
•md police officials are their servants or
'heir masters.
Tammany is defeated. The nominal
Majority of 00.000 usually polled by
1 >at organization in New York city
,las been obliterated, and an opposition
■'a-partisan majority of 40.000 to 45,
"“i ha*, been piled up. making the net
'^position gain more than 100,000.
- ever since 1871, the year in which the
delations concerning the operations
'-‘e 1 weed gang were made, has
tre been such an opposition arrayed
v<unst Tammany, aad the returns
‘‘1"v’ that u severe blow has been
J'uek at the foundation of the most
i 'v.erful local political organization in
country.
j j IUNc r Kuxe, president of the Tsuag
i't n'1I1U n’ °alailv avows the impotence
' ua to withstand the Japanese at*
.A ' ail‘'kas appealed to the powers
t ’ rVt tK*- saving that China Ls w in
i'. "I ' ll-bandou her sovereignty over
^ Rji-t tg W (’• war JSBJtV,
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Variotu Souroea.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Tun suggestion has been made, and
may be carried out, that as a testi
monial to Rev. Dr. Parkliurst for the
work performed by him in bringing
about the purification of politics in
New York city, a chair be endowed in
Columbia college in his honor. It is
proposed to call it ‘’The Parkliurst
Chair of Municipal Reform," and to in
stall Dr. Parkhurst as its first pro
fessor.
Rumors are once more afloat concern
ing the reported engagement of Odette
Tyler, the actress, to Mr. Howard
Gould. Gossip has it that the engage
ment, which was declared off some
months ago, owing, it was said, to Miss
Tyler's resenting an objection on the
part of young Mr. Gould’s family, is
now on again.
Ox the 9th, after a half century of
commercial prosperity, the Schulen
burg-IJoeckeler Lumber Co. of St. Louis
made an assignment for the benefit of
all its creditors, making Eugene C. Titt
man the assignee. The failing firm
places its assets at WOO,000, but, no in
formation is given nor can be. obtained
concerning its liabilities.
Capt. J. P. ScmxnnL, of the Sixth in
fantry, died from heart disease at Fort
Thomas. Ky.. on the 10th.
Supt. Ha.nxax of the New York state
department of public works has ordered
the canals closed for the season on the
30th. at midnight, unless sooner closed
by ice.
Ox the 10th proceedings were insti
tuted in Rome against Deputies Ferri,
Prampolini and Agnini. on allegations
that thejr were connected with the an
archist agitation.
The emperor of China has had a se
vere attack of fever.
Tiie power of Viceroy Li Hung C hang
in China is waning.
Ox the 10th Conrad N. Jordan, assist
ant United States treasurer at New
York, arrived in Washington quite un
expectedly, and was inclose conference
with Secretary Carlisle at the treasury
department for some time. He re
turned to New York on the noon
train the same day.
Ox the 10th it was reported in St.
Petersburg that Dr. Hirsch, the sur
geon who attended the late czar at
Livadia. and with the other physicians
signed the daily bulletins during his
majesty’s illness, was dead. The re
port, however, was not confirmed.
Ox the 10th the long-pending case
of certain republican leaders, includ
ing George Swift, who asked that the
election of Mayor Hopkins of Chicago
be set aside and Mr Swift be declared
the mayor, come up, on a motion to
dismiss the petition of the republicans.
Jndge Scales granted the motion, thus
ending the matter, as far as the local
courts are concerned.
Ox the 12th Judge Grower, of Omaha,
Neb., handed down a decision in the
United States circuit court making the
injunction against the Nebraska rail
way rate law perpetual.
Hexry Schmeue, a Chicago pedes
trian, has accepted Edward Weston’s
terms for a six-days’ walking match,
to take place at Rochester, N. Y., pro
vided that Weston shall make the
stake 81,000 instead of $500. Schmehl
was willing to walk in Chicago for
$500, but would not go east for less
than 81.000.
CHIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Ox the Sth John E. Iiaibeau. manager
of the Albemarle club of Richmond,
Va., shot and mortally wounded Otto
Frazer. The tragedy was the result of
a drunken quarrel originating over a
game of dice between the parties the
previous night.
Ox the 7th John F. O'Malley, a.state
senator from Chicago, wiio was defeated
for re-election, was drinking with two
companions in a North Clark street
saloon, when the bartender entered
their private room to collect. O'Mal
ley took this for an insult and fired
a bullet through the bartender’s
arm. Charles Shepard, the driver of
the cab in which the senator was taken
home, was shot through the knee and
hand by O’Malley because payment of
fare was asked.
The Spanish coast steamer Fernando
foundered "0 miles north of Haniu lion
da, Cuba, on the 0th, and ten of her
passengers and crew were drowned.
A cloud-burst near Velencia, Ven
ezuela, killed 1.70 persons and damaged
the coffee and other crops to the ex
tent of ?o00,000. Houses were leveled,
bridges washed away and traffic gener
ally suspended.
‘ Kid" Thompson and ‘ Col.’’ Hopper,
members of the gang that robbed a
train at Koseoe. Ariz.. were captured
at the foot of the Keno mountains,
on the 9th, and taken to Phcenix. Ariz.
They fought desperately, only sur
rendering on condition of good treat
ment, after over fifty shots bad been
fired.
Fifty pouuds of dynamite, exploded
on the Hailwood & Kelfer sewer con
tract at Huntington, Ind.. on the f'th.
John Hartman and Norton Keffer were
killed and John Flynn was fatally in
jured. Residences in close proximity
were badly wrecked.
Ernest lluux, superintendent of the
Eagle Hird mine at Maybert. Cal., fell
COO feet down the shaft, on the evening
of the 9th, and was instantly killed.
The body was horribly mangled. Huha
was a mining expert kfietyo
tjpwgbwt tb? COVdBtl’J*
At Toledo, O., the schooner M. P,
Barklow, of Detroit, coal-laden for
Chatham, Ont., ran into the Wheeling
& Lake Erie railway bridge and sank
in the Maumee river on the 10th.
Ox the 10th fire on the British
steamship Ilajeen at New Orleans dam
aged 200 bales of cotton.
At an early hour on the morning of
the 10th five large warehouses in the
Minories, London, filled with tea, to
bacco and other goods, were burned,
loss is estimated at £200,000.
At Grand Rapids. Mich., the watch
man of the Lake Shore <fc Michigan
Southern railway bridge found a box
on the river bank, on the morning of
the 12th, containing the body of an in
fant. The head had been severed with
an ax in order to crowd the body into
the box. The coroner decided the child
was born alive and had been murdered.
Ox the 11th the first mate and five
sailors from the steamer Crown of En
gland landed at Santa Monica, Cal.,
in a dense fog, bringing news of the
wreck of their steamer, which oc
curred at 2 o'clock on the morning of
the 7th.
MISCELLANEOUS,
Copenhagen has been declared a free
port.
On the 12th the schooner West Side,
carrying a crew of seven men. went
ashore on Point Pelee, Lake Erie, and
displayed signals of distress. The
tug Home Rule went out from Amherst*
burg, Ont., to try and reach her.
The superintendent of the Chicago
police department suspended seventeen
officers, on the 12th. pending trial by
the police board, on the ciiarge of neg
lect of duty on election daj\ They
were accused specifically of not pre
venting the assault and driving a way
of voters from the polls in various parts
of the city.
On the 12th a heavy snowstorm raged
in Menominee,Mich. The steam barge
Pringle and consorts, also the Business,
were two or three days overdue at that
port, and fears were entertained for
their safety.
On the lltli the British cruiser Caro-'
line left Shanghai with sealed orders,
but it is known that she was bound
for Chusan, where the Porpoise had al
ready spent. . .< in preparing for an
occupation of the island by several
thousand Indian troops.
William Wako, a well-known and
wealthy farmer near Williamstown.
Kas., was sitting at a window in bis
home, on the night of the 11th. when
an unknown assassin stole up and
emptied a load of buckshot into his
face and body. Although fatally hurt,
Ward ran half a mile to a neighbor's
and gave the alarm, and a posse of sev
enty-five men were soon in pursuit.
On the 12tli the Laughlin nail works
at Martin's Ferry, 0., which closed
over two months ago, was placed in
full operation. About f>00 men and
boys are employed. Lack of orders
and hard times were the causes as
signed for shutting down.
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.
Secretary Carlisle on tho 14th
issued a call for bids for $50,000,000 of 5
per cent bonds.
John M. Taylor, a blind man, plead
guilty on tbo loth in the United States
Court at Fort Smith, Ark., to oerjury
and making false claims against the
government.. Ho has received over
817,000 in pensions that he was never
entitled to.
As a consequence of the long drouth
forest fires are raging all around Pine
Bluff, Ark., and reports received from
various points indicate that many
farmers have lost fences and outhouses.
Tho fires aro said to have been started
in many places by hunters.
Tub police of Lincoln, 111., were
called on the ldth to the house of
Stephen Nicholas by a small crippled
son of Nicholas’ whom the stepmother
bad beaten. When the officers reached
the bouse an over-turned coal oil lamp
lay on tbo floor, with tho oil burning
and tho drunken woman was trying to
roast a 7-year-old girl alivo by building
fire around her. The officers burst open
the door, subdued Nicholas and bis wife,
and at the points of revolvers extin
guished the (lames.
While Charley Cobb was picking
cotton near Calhoun, Ga., on tho 8th a
cockleburr lodged in his coatsleeve, and
in attempting to pull it off with his
teeth, ho sucked it down his throat,
where it lodged in his windpipe. The
little fellow suffered intensely and was
unable to speak above a whisper. Dr.
Perry located the burr but was unable
to remove it without an operation being
f performed.
Three thousand Armenians, includ
! ing women and children, are reported
| to have been massacred in the Sassouen
region, near Moos, Turkish Armenia,
i during a recent attack by Kurds.
! Twenty-five villages were destroyed.
A party of tramps camping in the
edge of tho town of Boone, Iowa, had a
row on the lltb, and one of their num
| her named Hendricks, was beaten to
i death with a coupling pin and his body
! thrown into the fire. The police have
captured six of the gang.
John Tbaisor, marshal of Athens,
i Ky., shot and killed Isaac Davidson on
! th’o Sth. He also seriously cut Lew
I Sharp, a farmer of the Athens neigh
borhood. Trainor is a Breckinridge
man. and Davidson and tsbarp were
Owens supporters.
HAWAWAN AFFAIRS.
Tht Patriotic llirty Carries the October j
Elections—Annexation Candidates Cho- 1
sen—The R»p*tbllc Recognized by ()oeen ;
Victoria and the Czar of Russia—.Rome. 1
stead Laws for the Enactment of the \
Coming lefNatnre.
Victciia. B. C., Nov. 18.—The fol- |
lowing Honolkilu advices tip to Novem
ber 3 have beien received here by the
steamer Miovqncra: ‘‘The election was
held October 29 for senators and rep
resentatives flor the legislature on this
island and all the candidates of the
American uqion party were elected.
The single op position candidate failed
of election. On the other inlands the
candidates elected are nearly all active
buppoiters iff the republic. It is be
lieved that all the senators strongly
support annexation, uotwitljstandiug
a disposition of some of the planters
to advocate continued independence ox
of the republic in onlfcr to be free to
import Asiatic contract, labor.
Henry P. .Baldwin. (#f Maine, stands
at the head of the planters and is a
leader in legislation. He has come
out strongly for annexation notwith
standing his detirc q; a planter for
cheap labor. He believes that if an
nexation abolishes the contract labor
system it will more than compensate
in other ways. He thinks that there
are too many Japanese in the cour try;
that Portuguese should lie introduced
instead, that the plan of co-operative
planting or share sysbem may succeed.
An autograph letter of Queen Vic
toria, recognizing the republic of Ha
waii was received on the 26th of Octo
lier by Her British Majesty’s Com
missioner Hawes, but. owinqj to the
absence of President Dole in Hawaii it
has not been jires £nted. A letter of
the czar of Russia, recognizing the re
public, was received to-day.
The birthday of the emperor of .Ta
pau is enthusiastically observed by his
subjects to-day. A procession of Jap
anese paraded the streets. The Chi
nese were much irritated, and notified
the police that there would be a tight
upon the slightest display of insolence
by the Japanese. There was no
trouble.
President Dole is inspecting crown
aud government land on tJie island of
Hawaii, lie is preparing new home
stead laws for the coming legislature.
The British steamer Nashua arrived
October 28 with 1,000 Japanese labor
ers. Several days previous the Japan
ese sailers mutinied and were sup
ported by the passen<?ers. A court
martial is iu progress upon the mu
tineers, held by the British commis
sioner.
The Japanese in Hawaii raised §6,000
for the Red Cross society attending
the Japanese armies.
The French cruiser Duguay Trouin
arrived this morning, twenty-seven
days from Calao, en route to Yoko
hama.
ROBBED THE EXPRESS.
j A Traill oil the St. l.ouM & San Fra ncinca
Kailway Hoarded by ftobberg at Vferona,
Mo., and the Kxprces.’uan, Cnder Cover
of Winchesters, Compelled to tflvc t'p
Kverythlng of Value in Slglit—A Posse
In Pursuit.
i Mosett, Mo., Nov. .13.—Train No. 1
| on the St. Louis & San Francisco rail
way was held up at Sc30 o’clock last
night at a small station named Verona,
fire miles east of this city, by two
masked men. The affair did not oc
cupy over twenty minutes, and the
amount secured by the robbers did not
j exceed SHOO.
The bandits boarded the tiwin as it
stopped at Verona, and as the engineer
pulled the throttle to start the train
he was confronted with two Winches
ters and given orders to g'o ahead un
til he was told to bring the train to a
halt.
llalf a mile out the train was stopped
and the engineer was compelled to get
down from the cab and walk back to
the express car. Then he was told to
order the expressmaD, Dolph Chap
man, to open the door. Chapman did
as requested, recognizing Engineer
Stephenson's voice.
The robbers immediately covered tUe.
express messenger with their guns awl
compelled him to give them the pack
ages that were in sight. Engineer
Stephenson was then marched back to
j his engine and ordered to pull <att.
| The robbers departed in a northerly di
I rection.
A posse of citizens is pursuing the
| men.
TWO BRAVE MEN
Save Six Imperiled Prisoners From Death
in a Hurning Jail.
STAXDISH, Mich., Nov. 13.—Through
tho bravery of two intrepid fellows
Sunday the six prisoners in the Saran
ac county jail owe their lives. l ire
broke out in the plank wall which sep
arated the two prisoners in an outer
cell from the four more important
convicts in the steel cell. These im
prisoned men saw the lire and fought
it with their hands and bedding. For
nearly two hours did those prisoners
battle with the flames, which gained
on them inch by inch. At length the
floor took fire and the courthouse,
which is over the jail, was soon
! ablaze. Two of the crowd of spectators
j when they learned of the men confined
i UK>k the keys from the jailer, rusfced
in and dragged out the six men who
i were insensible from the suffocating
j smoke. Three of the men were badly
| burned about the hands and face. Had
j the rescuers been a few minutes later
! all six would ha-re died from t-utfoesp
> Ik1?.
LET US HAVE PEACE I
W'esWfut Cleveland'* Offer to Mediate Be
tween Them, So Promptly Agreed to by
China, Will Doubtless Beceive the Assent
of Japan, and the Bloody and One-Sided
War in the Orient May Soon be Terml- '
nated.
Washington, Nov. 13.—Although the
formal acceptance by Japan of Amer
|ican mediation already agreed upon by '
China has not yet reached the depart
r ment of state, no doubt whatever is en- j
| tertained in diplomatic circles that it j
! will be forthcomiug as promptly as the ;
I Japanese government can act without j
j sacrificing ceremonious avoidance of j
i undue haste. The reply to the
proposition of President Cleveland
is momentarily expected, and eon- 1
i fldenee is felt that it will |
| convey Japan's assent. It is un
| derstood that while Presidtyit Cleve
i land’s offer to mediate simply pre
! sen ted a general proposition without
j details as to procedure. Japan has
[ been made aware that China concedes
in advance most of Japan's probable
claims as far as cash indemnity and
Corean independence are concerned,
but does not expect that any partition j
of a portion of her territory will be in- !
volved.
It is also understood that the assur- ;
ance which China has given respecting
the proposed mediation of the United i
I States between China and Japan do j
j not favor arbitration, but look only to
! the use bv the United States of its
good offices in bringing the two hos
tile countries together with a view to
peace negotiations. The offieialsnt, the j
Chinese legation maintain a diplo- i
matic silence respecting the progress ;
that is to be made, but no doubt is en
tertained that the end of hostilities in
the east is nearly in sight.
Meanwhile Japan is pushing her
1 forces in the direction of Moukden us 1
j rapidly as the physical conditions of
j the country will permit. While there
is little doubt that Japan will accept I
the friendly offices of the United
• States, as proposed by President Cleve
! land, there will be no cessation of ag- i
! gressive movements on their part un- |
j til a definite arrangement has been j
| bad. Our government is fully aware i
' of Japan’s purpose to continue the
| war until some decision looking to ,
! jxaace has been agreed upon, and for j
! this reason there will be no delay if
I both countries agree to mediation in ;
bringing them together at the earliest
moment in order that further blood- j
shed may be avoided.
| China Will Have to Consult (ire»t Britain
!• Before Answering.
Washington, Nov. 13.—Atalatehour
yesterday afternoon nothing official ■
I had been received at the state depart- ;
ment from either China cr Japan. The
Japanese ministry, it is well known,
are considering President Cleveland’s
proposition, but it is a matter of too
great import to be settled hastily.
The Emperor of Japan, whose head
quarters are at Hiroshima, will be con
sulted and these various consultations
require time. It is believed, however,
that definite replies will be received
from both countries by to-morrow.
Ho far as China is concerned, it was
not expected that her reply would be
formally given until she had consulted
Great Britain. That she is anxious to
bring to a close a war so destructive to
her interests, is well known, and it is
this that has led the Cleveland admin
istration to believe that she will accept
any honorable terms made by Japan.
It was said yesterday, however, by
those who are in a position to reflect
the views of the Chinese minister, that
China will not dare to determine the
matter absolutely, until after Great
Britain shall have been heard
from. And it is not believed
that Great Britain will be wil
ling that the United States
alone shall gain the prestige which
, will naturally belong to this country
from bringing the war to a close,
(treat Britain is more anxious than
this country that hostilities should
cease, but she wishes to have a voice
iu effecting this result. China, it is
thought, will not. for this reason, of
fend Great Britain by rashly accept
ing the proposition of the United
States until she first learns the tem
per of the Briti sh mind.
Another stumbling block will be the
amount of the indemnity. Japan will
doubtless hold out for *100,000,000,
while China will regard not more than
half that amount as the proper figure.
Aside from the very natural desire of
China to reduce the indemnity as much
as possible, it wCf be a matter of great
embarrassment in her present impov
erished condition to raise so large a
sum as that which -Japan will exact.
It can only be done by increasing her
duty on foreign importations, which is
now about 5 per cent., and which, in
view of her treaty obligations, will not
be easy. Great Britain, who is the
largest exporter of manufactured prod
ucts to China, would be the first to pro
test against this increase in customs
duties, and this it, another considera
tion which will cause China not to act
precipitately, but to await Great Brit
ain’s pleasure.
A Sixty Thousand Dollar Klazc.
FnAXKFor.T. Ky.. Nov. 13.—Fire yes
terday morning destroyed the three
story brick warehouse of the state pen
itentiary. The building contained a
| stock#of chairs tielonging to Messrs,
! Norman & Hubbard, of the Kentucky
| Chair Co. The total loss is In
j surance, $40,000. The explosion of a
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.
Near the Century Mark.
Mrs. James Sumruers-Johuson. 1 re
oldest woman iu Fairfax county, Va.,
died a few nights ago at West Grove,
aged 98 y'ears.
Mrs. Johnson was a noted woman in
many respects, being well known
throughout northern Virginia. She
had lived at West Grove, surrounded
by some of her descendants, the fourth
generation of which are living, and
the descendants of her former slaves,
all the latter having long since died.
The aggregate of Mrs. Johnson's
descendants is over 200, and they
are to lie found in every state
:'n the* Union. Three of her broth
i rs emigrated from Virginia to dif
ferent parts of the United States and
each became a county judge. After
her marriage to Mr. Summers she
lived in the same house more than
fifty years and buried two husbands
from it. Mrs. Johnson enjoyed perfect
health during her entire life, was never
even troubled with headache, and un
til ten years ago was able to read and
knit without the aid of glasses. She
was an old Ironside Baptist and had a
great repugnance for everything that
she thought ought to l>c classed as a
frivolity of life. The body was laid be
tween the graves of two of her hus
bands, in the old family burying
ground in Fairfax county.
The Cotton Crop.
The New Orleans Picayune, of « re
cent date, says: Mr. Henry Neill, the
well-known cotton-erop authority, has
made public his estimate of the actual
vfeld of cotton during the present year,
and it must l>c confessed that the size
of the figures is surprising. Mr. Neill
beleives that the crop will be 10,250,000
bales, of which Texas and Indian terri
tory will supply 2,930,000 bales.
Mr. Neill's past record as a crop au
thority entitles all his estimates to
serious consideration, and beyond a
question his opinion in the present in
stance will be given weight in Europe.
It must be remembered, however, that
Mr. Neill is not infallible, and some of
his estimates in the past have fallen
far short of the mark.
It is sincerely to be hoped that Mr.
Neill is radically wrong in the present
instance, and the Picayune believes
that he has actually been misled as to
the size of the crop. The publication
of bis estimate in Europe, however,
can not fail to do groat injury to the
cotton producers hv lowering the price
of cotton, unless in the very near fu
ture a falling off in receipts creates a
doubt abroad as to the accuracy of Mr.
Neill’s forecast. _
liishop Turner's Idea.
Says a New York dispatch of a re
cent date: The steamship Kansas City
has arrived here from Savanah, Ua.,
and among the passengers are twelve
negroes, old and young and of both
sexes, the advance guard of an African
colonization scheme now on foot in
several southern states. The plan
originated, early this year, in the
mind of Bishop Turner, who is now
travelling through the south. It was
formulated and put into shape by Jere
mie Millau, a white man, of Birming
ham, Ala., who founded what is known
as the International Immigration so
ciety. The plan of the society was not
new by any means, but this particular
scheme seems to have hail a large fol
lowing from its inception. The society
is now said to number 4,000.
Waylaid and Murdered.
Madison L. Connell, a well-known
and respected fanner of the Ariel
neighborhood, about 7 miles from Lake
City, (la., was waylaid and killed on
the public highway, within half a mile
of his home, where his \fife and several
children were watching for him. When
found at midnight he was quite dead
and partially burned, his clothing hav
ing been set on fire by the charge that
took his life. He had lieen at work at
a ncighl>or’s house during the day and
was returning home.
Fell From a Train.
A. 11. Mitchell, who boarded a Chesa
peake <fc Ohio train at St. Louis, fell
from it, 2 miles north of Memphis, and
struck his head against a side-track
rail and died of a broken neck. Mitch- t
ell held an accident ticket for the trip
for 80,000. He was at one time a prom
inent merchant of Memphis, and was
returning at the time of his death
from St. Louis, where he had been on
an affair of business. He was 46 years
old and a bachelor.
Tired of This World.
Gus Raimer. a Little Rock (Ark.) po
liceman, resigned his position and
went to a cemetery, where he attempt
ed to commit suicide by shooting in the
head. Ho left a note to the sexton,
which said:
jox--Dig a hole and pot me la It. I am tired
of living in this world; nobody Is to blame.
GUS RAUfUB.
Mr*. Charlotte Kobiniun Bell.
Mrs. Charlotte Robinson Bell, one of
I the best known women in Kentucky,
| died in Jessamine county. She was
| the last surviving daughter of the late
| Chief-Justice Robertson, the intimate
; friend and chum of Henry Clay. Mrs.
i Bell was the wife of the late Dr. David
S. Bell, one of the most distinguished
of Kentucky physicians.
Frightened to Death.
Willie Smith, a colored boy, fancied
he saw a ghost i*i the road at Memphis,
Tenn., and, running home, lie informed
his mother. The lad became terribly
excited, and a physician was sum
moned, but, despite every effort, the
1 boy died Ip popvuisiups