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THE SENTINEL. 1 , W. ■CCIiSlS, Manager and Proprietor. - - MISSISSIPPI GRENADA. CURRENT TOPICS. The News in Brief. • Department of Agriculture returns in dicate the winter wheat product at 350,000, 000 bushels. Senator Sabin has determined to resign the chairmanship of the National Republi can Committee. Nearly all the principals concerned in tbe Marine Bank and the Grant & Ward failures made assignments on the 8vh. Proe. Gregory says there is nothing in the Civil Service law to prevent officials from attending political conventions. Pope Leo expresses satisfaction with the prospect of a renewal of direct rela tions between England and the Vatican. California delegates in Congress are making an effort to secure tbe passage of Territory of tne bin Alaska. a large attendance at the un Thehk veiling of the statue of Chief-Justice-Mar shall at the Capitol grounds in Washington on the 10th. George Jones says the $250,000 raised for General Grant are all safe, but that outside of that the General hasn't a nickle, and is head and heels in debt. It is reported a treaty has been signed by Frauce and China recognizing a French protectorate over Tonquui and Anam. No indemnity is demanded by France. The members of the New York Produce Exchange moved into their new building on tbe GLb, marching from their old build ing to the new one in a drenching rain. New York and Cmeago were agitated on the 10th over a report that Jay Gould •was financially embarrassed. The report originated in Chicago and was denied by Gould. Designs for the Garfield monument have been received from artists in the United States, France, Italy, Germany and En gland. No decision will be reached lor several weeks.__ From papers found in the possession of soldiers slain in the late insurrection at Fuigeros, Spain, it is learned that tbe mili tary conspiracies were extended and grow ing formidable. _ The London Times explains the hisses with which Gladstone was greeted at the Health Exposition as a condemnation of the treatment of the Government towards General Gordon. * The proposed bill on explosives, pre sented in the German Bundesratu on the Tth, is very severe, penal servitude and death being among the penalties for the violation of the law. The Sharon divorce case was rich in its developments on the 8th. A colored wit ness who had previously testified in behalf of Miss Hill acknowledged she had been bribed to perjure herself. Ingkrsoll and Wilson want the priv ilege of cross-examining Walsh and Price if tney are called as witnesses in the Kel logg case before the Committee on Expend itu.es in the Department of Justice. An audience of 3,0u0 people in Exeter Hall, London, on the (ifch, cheered Canon Hoare when he alluded to the shame the English people felt at General Gordon be ing left without assistance in Egypt. When the steamer Titania with the crew and passengers of the State of Florida landed at Montreal on the 8th crowds were gathered at the wharf to see them. The stories of the disaster are heartrending. William H. Vanderbilt sailed for Eu rope on the 19th, but before he left he sent for General Grant and returned to him all the deeds to the property which the Gen eral and bis wife had made over to him the day previous. An attachment suit has been brought by the Marine Bank against Grant & Ward, and General U. 8. Grant is made co-defend ant. Ward's elegant residence has been deserted by the family and is in the hands of the Sheriff. of the Sheriff. It is said the King of the Belgians offers to send Btauley in charge of an expedition to the Congo region to aid Gordon in his retreat from Khartoum if the English Gov ernment will recognize the International African Association. The Methodist General Conference at Philadelphia on the H:h discussed the use of the church hymnals, of New York, said tbe people would sing such hymns as they please, no matter what the Conference said. The International Health Exposition In London, held under tbe.auspices of the Prince of Wales, was formally inaugurated on tbe 8th with imposing ceremonies by the Duke of Cambridge. It bids fair to rival the Fisheries Exposition. Rev. C. C. McCabe, Another confidential clerk has come to grief through private speculation. James Clark, confidential clerk of Rudolph Hoch kofter, commission merchant of Ban Fran cisco snd Austro Hungarian Consul there, 1s short §30,000 in hls accounts. Tine steamer Cjty of Portland, which left Portland, Me., on the night of the 7th for Ht John, N. B., struck on Grindstone Hedge at Owl's Head the morning of tbe 8th and was wrecked. The crew snd sev enty passengers were transferred safely to another vessel, but the cargo was a total loss. Zanesville, O., Is excited over mysteri ous, wide and deep fissures in the earth, and the sudden sinking of three seres of ground, on which were many houses. Some «f tbe terror-stricken Inhabitants think an rtbquake has occurred. Others think an abandoned coal mine under the sunEen territory caused the depression. The result of the Inter-State drill at Houston Is as follows: First infantry prize, §SJXM, Houston Light Guards; second, $1, *§0'. Traadway Rifles, St. Louis; third,§500. „*Sal,,„(( („ Guards, Columbus, Ga. The feprh Znnares, St. I-ouis, won the Zouave ^EqKtlJMO. First artillery prize, §'o0, BwnUI B, Louisiana field artlllsy; second, AW, Be' - ry A, Sfc Louis light artillery. / PERSONAL AND GENERAL. William Ellis was shot and Mlled tbe evening of the 7th by George Jenne, in 4 dispute about a log-chain, at Tidioute, Pa. PaiitCE Jerome NaeoleoN, in hie reply to his partisans, says a republic can not bo displeasing to a son of the first Consul. Baron' St. Leonards was committed to jail in Brentford, Eng., on the 8ib, and bail refused, on a charge of indecent assault domestic in the family of a friend upon a be was visiting. At the Medical Convention at Washing ton, D. C., on the 8tb, Dr. Keller, of Ar kansas, said in a few years cremation would be regarded as a sanitary neces sity. * An investigation of the affairs of the Marine Bank has been begun. Excitement has moderated, the general impression be ing that President Fish was hasty in his action. China will invest Li Hung Chang with full powers on the Anam question. During the trial of Dubetski and daugh ter, Nihilists, at St. Petersburg, the former stabbed himself fatally and the latter seri ously. The charges of bribery in connection with the late Kentucky Senatorial election were found by the committee of investiga tion to be without foundation. Tm§ spring meeting of the Kentucky As sociation began on the 8th at Louisville with warm weather and the track ankle deep in mud. Gladstone appeared at the Health Ex hibition in London on the 8th and was re ceived with mingled cheers and hisses. Seaman Nindeumann resumed his tes timony ou the 8th before the Jeannette Committee of inquiry. Testimony was also given by John P. Jackson, Paris cor respondent of the New York Herald. The Greely relief steamer Thetis arrived at St. John's, N. F., on the 9th. Minister Sargent will be banqueted previous to his departure from Berlin. R. J. McKim, a member of the Canadian Parliament, has been arrested for forgery. A new edition of the Medical and Surgi cal History of the War of the Rebellion will be issued shortly. The National Medical Association, in session at Washington, adjourned sine die on the 9th. Many buildings were damaged by thun der-storms in several Eastern States, on the 9th. Governor Glick of Kansas is in corre spondence with parties who claim to have located the Benders. Congressman Hewitt will introduce a bill to amend and simplify the present tariff law. Ex-Coroner Hope, of Cincinnati, has ob tained a judgment of six and one-quarter cents against the Commercial'Gazette for libel. More witnesses are coming forward • in the Sharon divorce case and confessing to perjury. James 8. Coleman! (colored) was hanged at Columbia, S. C., on the 9th, for the mur der of Sarah Willis. Ex-Mayor Saunders of Lawrence, Mass., has been held to bail charged with ballot-box stuffing. and dozen ballot-box stuffing. An engine and a dozen cars were smashed on the night of the 8th near Hunt ingdon, Pa., by the wreck of a freight train. 1 wo children perished by tfce burning of a school building in Roth Rocksville, Pa., which was struck by lightning on the 9tb. An additional appropriation of $100,000 has been recommended by tbe Secre tary of War for the Southern flood suf fers. Attorney-General Brewster denies that the Department of Justice has con nived at the dismissal of the Kellogg case. Another attempt was made by robbers on the 9th to wreck and rob a train on the Mexican Central Road. One of the rob bers An Englishman named Thos. Leonard was shockingly murdered at Nebraska City, Neb., on the 8.h, by unknown assail ants. Robbery is given as the probable cause. Two murderers, Geo. Horn and William Gibbons, in jail at Ashland, O., awaiting death on the IGnh, attempted suicide 9th by taking morphine, but were saved for the hangman. A Utah murderer named Hope, alias Welcome, has selected shooting as the means of death in his case, his execution being set for Juno 12. His case has already cost the Territory $15,090. The Alert sailed on the 10th for the Arc tic regions. At Fall River, Mass., the operatives' strike is at an end. Reports of the 10th said Charles O'Con nor, tho eminent New York lawyer, was not expected to live. A Manitoba barrister named John Boultbee has absconded with $70,000. A Plumber in St. Paul, Minn., fell from the fifth story of a building and only broke his ankle. Monsignor Capel will probably be of fered an American bishopric. Giovanni Prati, the Italian poet, born in 1815, died on the 10th. The Sweetland Manufacturing Works, Wallingford, Conn., burned on the 10th. Loss, $41,090. Ex-Governor Paris C. Dunning of In diana died of apoplexy at Bloomington, in that State, on the 10th. Lieutenant Chkrmside has been de creed Governor of Suakim by the Khe dive of Egypt. The change of forgery against McKim, member of the Canadian Parliament, has been dismissed. It is reported President Arthur lost money by the Grant & Ward failure. Thomas. C. Jones, President of the Con ductors' Life Insurance Company of the United States and a well-known railroad man, died on the 10th. S. P. Burt, a Boston millionaire who married bis servant girl a month ago, dropped dead in the Metropolitan Hotel, Milwaukee, Wis., on the 10th. A resolution to instruct for Ben Butler was voted down by the Greenbackers of the Fifth Congressional District of Ken tucky. In order to escape Bonapartist intrigues Prince Victor Napoleon, son of Plon-Plon, takes a voyage East. John MoDougall, of Brussels, Ont., was run over and killed by a St. Paul train near Sevalle, Wis., on the 10th. He w as en route to Portage, Manitoba. Hon. Butler B. Strong, who represent ed Tioga County, Pq,, in the State Senate for fifteen years, committed suicide on the 10th on account of ill-health. The Northwestern Manufacturing and Car Company of Stillwater, Minn., has failed. D. M. Sabin, Chairman of the Na tional Republican Committee, was Presii dent. killed. t be Thk Prince of W.les visited It sniarci. and Emperor William and bad a chat with the Prince of Bulgaria on the lltb. Rr.y. T. V. Van Bodenfield, • book con vaster of BuffMo, N. Y., who has been car rying on extensive swindling practices, has been arrested by order of the Bishop of New Jersey. Eoan and Daly, the recently captured dynamiters, have been committed for trial at Warwick, Eng. They are charged with complicity in the explosion at Victoria railway station. BabonksS Be kdett-Couth is entreated to establish a fund for the relief of (Jordon. The expedition to Khartoum, 8,000 strong, will start in July. W. G. Case, of Santa Malica, Cal., on the way to the Presbyterian General Assembly, was seised with apoplexy and died at Kansas City, Mo. MII*Hat Pasha died in Constantinople on the 11th from the effects of a carbuncle. of XLVJHTIi CONGRESS. its in In the Senate on the 9th Senator Vest re ported favorably the bill for the erection of u public building at Detroit. Memorials favoring the suspension ot th r coinage of tue silver dollar were presented by Senator Bayard and others. A bill was intro duced by Senator Cockrell to facilitate the negotiation of bills of lading and other commercial instruments. The free bridge bill across the Potomac Hiv taken upon a substitute for the orig inal bill offered and passed. Mr. Vance addressed the Senate in support of Vest's amendment providing for free ships.. .In the House the morning hour was dis pensed with and the tariff bill taken up in com mittee of the whole. Speeches were made bv . Brown of Pennsylvania, Townsheud, Gibson, Randall, Blackburn, Eaton and oth ers, the debate being closed by Mr. Morrison. There was an excited scene when Mr. Con ed to strike out the enacting clau83. ttien Me verse The motion prevailed—159 to 155. In the Senate on the 7th a bill to place General Grant upon the retired list of the ras introduced by Senator Edmund* army and referred. Bills were also introduced to create tho Quillinetto land district in Washington Territory: to provide for ad justment of accounts of w< rkmen the eight-hour law. Mr. Hill addressed the Senate on the bill to declare forfeited the land grams of the New Orleans, Baton Rouge X Vicksburg Railroad Coin puny. The shipping bill wus taken up....In the House a number of bills reported from various cominiitees were referred. The Sen ate amendment to the bill repealing the iron clad oath was concurred In. The bill for the relief of Fitss-John Porter, with the Senate amendments, wascons.d rid.and, the amen 1 ;nts wore non-concurred in. The Senate •concurred in in the amendments were bill establishing a bureau of uniraal industry. The bill passed donating a purt or the nba 1 - doned military reservation at Fort, Fmithto the be..eiitof the city of Fort Smith, Ark., the public schools. In tbe Senate on the 8th messages were received from the House announcing non concurrence In the pleuro-pneumonia bill and the Fitz-John Porter bill and committees of conference were appointed. The bill grant ing pens one to soldier* of the Mexican war was reported favorably iiomthePeusion.*Commit tee and pine d on the calendar. The shipping jn taken up. Mr. McPherson'* amend ment cutting off comoemation for the leturn trip of shin* that inav take out the Un t *d States mail was rejected. A motion to strike out the section providing for foreign lost. The House bill as amende 1, then passed.In the House bills were reported to enable Na tional bunks to change their location and name and to increase their capital slock; thorlzing the appointment of a Missouri River Commission; to amend the patent laws. The House went into committee of the whole on tbe state of the Union. 9 he bill appropriat ing $1.090,u00 for the World's Fair at New Or leans was taken up and passed. In the Senate on the 9th the Indian ap propriation bill was taken up. The Senate amendments increase the appropriation $767. 413, maklnfr the total sum to be appropriated $6,213,802. Pending debate on the bill the Senate went into executive session — In the House h remonstrance from the Louisville Board of Trade was presented against the en actment of a bankrupt law. The bill passed granting the widow of General Frank P. Blair an additional pension. bill >t mail pay In the Senate on the 10th a concurrent resolution of tho Legislature of California, relative to the appropriation for the improve ment of the Sacramento River, was present ed by Mr. Fraley and referred to the Com mittee on Commerce. The Senate, shortly be fore one o'clock, suspended business to per mit.members to attend the unveiling of tbe statue of Chief Justice Marshall .. .T'tfi House was not in session, having adjourned over till Monday. CONDENSED TELEGRAPHS. 12th a resolution In the Senate of inquiry passed authorizing the Commit tee on Judiciary to look into the facts forming the basis of Senator Garland's bill to amend the Thurman act relating to Gov ernment claims against the Union and Central Pacific Roads. The Indian appro priation was discussed at length, but with out action....In the House Mr. Cox (of New York) introduced a bill to place General Grant on the retired list. Messrs. Hewitt and (of Missouri) introduced bills relating to the tariff. Mr. Belford introduced a bill to prevent the sudden contraction of cur rency; Mr. Tucker, to repeal internal rev enue taxes on tobacco and on brandy and wine manufactured from fruit. Confer ence committees were appointed on the Fitz John Porter bill and on the bill estab lishing a bureau of animal industry. A number of bills relating to the District of Columbia passed. Prince Yamashana of Japan' arrived at San Francisco on the 12th. Bismarck has finally received the Em peror's consent to retire. Mayer's brewery in New York city was destroyed by fire on the 12th. Loss, $00, uie O'Neill 000 . The Willinsh Koail has been placed in the hands of a temporary receiver. It is said the Franeo-Cbinese treaty gives France more than she ever claimed. Hknhy D. Stout, one of the oldest news paper men in Ohio, died on the Pith. He was seventy-six years of age. Ferdinand Ward has filed an assign ment for the benefit of hls creditors. George C. Holt is the assignee. In the contested election case of Wal lace vs. McKinley, the House Elections Committee has decided In favor of Wal lace. A slight run was made on the 12th on tho First National Bank of Stillwater, Minn., growing out of the Northwestern Car Company's failure. An unprecedented cut in rates is an nounced by the agents of the Burlington, Missouri, Union Pacific and Atchison, To peka and Santa Fe Roads. Bhi 1 ' 1 -krh, shin-owners and underwriters at a meeting in New York on the 12th, con demned the bill now before Congress re lating to international bills of lading. There has been a slaughter of Chris tians in Bouth Africa. The Norwegian Mission at Inhlabatkt was attacked and three men killed on the 4th Inst. Until the statement of the bank exam iner Is mode public, no official or definite figures can bo givenofthe amount involved in the Grant & Ward failure. Gkokge A ndkrson, an advanced Liberal, notics in the British House of Com on the 12th that he would soon make gave mon* a motion to condemn the existence of the House of Lords. SOUTHERN BLEASISHS. At a receiver's »ale reciently in Au gusta, Ua., Oban. H. Ftain-ey bought the Summerville cotton mill, the price being 108,000. District Grand Lodge, No. 7, of the Inde pendent Order of B'nai Brith, held its an* nual session in New Orleans recently. Large delegations from Alabama, Arkan sas, Mississippi, Texas, Tennessee and Louisiana were present. After tbe reading of the message of the President, Seigmund Haas, of Mobile, the election of officers took place, resulting as follows: Lea N, Levy, Galveston, President; Jo3. Hirsch, Vicksburg, First Vice President; J, A. Levy, Victoria, Second Vice President; M. Ullman, Memphis, Secretary; H. Eliren berg, Little Bock, Treasurer; E. Wolf, Nashville, Sergeant-at-Arms. A few days ago a fire starting in the Var House at Gainesville, Fla., spread num thence across the entire square west of the Court-house, destroying every building in It then swept across Liberty its way. street, burning the Arlington House, an elegant winter hotel, with the building in . Estimated value of the buildings consumed, mostly wood, $40,090; value of stocks and contents not learned, was a rumor that a riiild burned to death in one of the building*. The fire is sup posed to have been caused by a tramp put out of the Varnum House the night be the There fore. A few nights ago twenty masked men went and demanded the key of the jailer in Burlington, the couuty seat of Boone County, Ky. The jailer refused to surren der them. They then went and broke open the jail, took out Charles Dickerson, the arrested last March for negro who burglary, and escaped, but was again ar rested a week ago in the act of committing The mob took him two another burglary, miles from Burlington and lynched him by hanging. Dickerson pleaded that he was young in this business, aud had been led into it by drunkenness. York Grisham, colored, who died a few Cherokee days ago at Will's Wood, i County, Ga., the oldest person in Georgia. The Georgetown (Ky.) National Bank loses heavily by forgeries committed by J. It. Wolf, of that place, who has been ar rested. The Kentucky Democrats in State Con vention at Frankfort selected delegates to the National Convention and recommend ed Hon. John G. Carlisle for nomination s in his 115th year, and for President. The jury in the case of Ike Loeb, ot Dal las, Tex., charged Emanuel McClarty, colored, brought in a verdict of not guilty. Loeb was warmly congratulated. Charles Greer was shot and killed a few days since by Lawrence Smith on the plan tation of Mr. O. B. Stevens, near Dawson, •ith the murder of Ga. In a difficulty between Mr. Wm. Courts and Mr. Thaddeus Bunn, at Cochran, Ga., the latter was shot three times in the body, from which he died. The murderer has not been captured. Henry Sevarn, who murdered Mrs. Har rison Reed at Winston, N. C., was taken from jail a few nights ago by several hun dred citizens and lynched. A Texas youth of sixteen recently turned highwayman, stole two of his father's horses, and, armed with a shot-gun, went on the road. At the first store he attempt ed to rob the proprietor fired five shots at him and the boy hasn't been seen since. Two houses were blown into the river during a storm at St. Joseph, La., a few nights ago. The cotton crop report for the Memphis (^strict shows a decreased acreage planted. A Louisville attorney named Lewis C. Garrigus lias sued A. Frazier of that city for $8,000 damages for shooting him at Russellville, Ky., last year. The heirs of Thomas A. Scott sued the city of Shreveport, La., for $30,000 with ac crued interest since 1875, but Judge Board man rendered a decision against them. James Murray shot and killed D. Hardin, -Sheriff of Crittenden County, Tenn., a few duys ago in a quurrel growing out of a lawsuit. Murray was shot in return and lied soon afterward. An attempt was made a few days ago by a Sheriff's posse of forty men to capture W. B. Cash, the Chesterfield (S. C.) out law. The Cash mansion, Cash's depot, was surrounded and a thorough search of the premises made, but the murderer could not be found. J. R. Wolf, of Georgetown, Ky., was ar rested at Lexington a few nights ago on the charge of forgery. He had forged the name of T. J. Burgess, Cashier of the Georgetown National Bank, to checks to the amount of several thousand dollars. The bank will lose heavily by it. Austin Bull, a raftsman from Pennsyl vania, was found murdered under a pile of straw in tbe eastern part of the city of Louisville, Ky., a few days ago. He had been struck in the head, then choked to death with a towel and his body hid under the straw. There was no clew to the mur derer or cause of the crime. John Ashley, a farmer, while at work on his farm, half a mile east of Denison, Tex., was shot in the face by some unknown party, the ball lodging near the ear, but it is thought not to be serious. It is supposed to have been a stray shot from some on< out hunting. The trial of School Superintendent Carter M. Lauthan, of Richmond, Va., for engaging in politics in violation of law resulted in a verdict of guilty. He fined fifty dollars in addition to forfeiture of his office. Lauthan will appeal. One of the little girls of Mr. Geo. Reeves, of Waynesboro, Ga., went out into the yord, a few days ago, carrying one of the smaller children in her arras. There were two large pots of boiling clothes in the yard. As she neared the pots, holding the little one in her arms, peeping over the edge, she released her grasp and dropped the little fellow into the hot water. It was scalded to death. Rice in Georgia promises well. Mrs. Rivers, of Galveston, Tex., ha» brought suit for $20,000 damages against the Dallas Herald for stating that she was the mother of a child found recently in a basket on Dr. Morton's doorsteps. Mr*. Rivers shows up her own child in proof of the falsity of the charges of the Herald. The foundation of the Methodist colored church at McKinney, Tex., gave way dur ing a largely attended meeting a few nights ago. Two lamps exploded and one woman was burned to death and another had her clothing all burned off by the burn ing oil which was scattered over the con gregation. The liver of a chicken recently killed in Maysville, Ky.. weighed one and one-quar ter pounds. WEST YIRUIJilA TBABEUIES. A Farmer Instantly Kills the Newly Weddad Husband of Hls Slepdnngliter and Lanves the Latter far Dead—A Mysterious Mur A**** her—A Sian Shut by Unknow •instil Hls Field «nd Afterward Beaten te Death with Stone*. Wheeling, W. Va., May 12. A terrible tragedy was committed at Petersburg, Grant County, Friday night, the particulars of which have just been received here, and another lynching may follow, which will be the fourth in tills State within ten days. Lawrence SpiUer, a farmer living back of Petersburg, had a handsome step-daughter to whom he played the part of a cruel parent, keeping her mewed up ever practicable, was full of rumors their relations to each other, and it be came a matter of surprise when Edward Taylor, who worked for Spiller, demand ed her band In marriage. Spiller refused point blank and warned Taylor he would kill him If he found him again on the premises. On Friday night the girl dis appeared, having eloped with Taylor and gone to Petersburg. Spiller armed himself lowed, when The county concerning and fol vowiug death to the if caught. At Petersburg he learned that they were married aud were lodging with a man named Williams. SpiUer went to Williams' house and was told the newly married couple had retired and were asleep. Forcing his way to the room, he entered, awaking Taylor with the noise. The bridegroom sat up in bed as Spiller entered, and Spiller levelled a revolver at him. The bride begged piteously for his life, but Spiller fired, the bullet entering his heart and killing him instantly. Spiller then at tacked the wife, hammering her over the head with the revolver, and bitterly de nouncing her for deserting him. Leaving her for dead he rushed from the house, man mounted his horse and fled. Williams gave the alarm, aud an armed posse start le pursuit. Spiller returned home, where he was arrested and taken back to jail. The news comes by messenger, aud when the man left the town the indigna tion and excitement were iuteuse. Mrs. Taylor was then iu a dying condition, and the courier feared mob law in the event of her death. SHOT AND BRAINED WITH STONES. Charleston, W. Va., May 12. The people iu this Immediate vi cinity are excited over the accounts of the numerous desperate deeds that have lately been committed. Within ten days five murders have been enacted and three lyuch ings, and while all of the crimes have been committed by the "Jntnes gang," aud though three of Its members have been lynched and one shot dead while re sisting arrest, the lawless deeds of the band are still carried ou and hor rible tragedies ure becoming every day occurrences. The latest has just come In fro: Koauc, an adjoining county, and will ever re maiu a mystery. Thomas Duskiu, a well-known farmer, has figured promi nently before the Federal Court as a wit ness in various cases, and has incurred the hatred of the gang, which caused several threatening letters to be sent to him. He gave them no heed, and went to work us usual. With a man named Elmore he was plautlug corn, when a shot was heard, and he threw up his bauds and exclaimed, "I'm killed!" Elmore could see no person, . and takiug hold of Duskin started for the house, a mile distant. On the way Duskin became weak from loss of blood, and resting ou the feuce sent Elmore on for help. Elmore had not gone five hun dred yards before five masked men emerged from the woods aud attacked Duskin, killing him by pounding his head to a jelly with stones. So fur as could be learned nothing Is known of the murder ers and no steps are being taken for their apprehension. at a a by A GRACEFUL ACT. William H. Vanderbilt Return* the Deeds by General and Mr*. Grant of Their Property In Connection with tho Recent Failure —" Fay When Y Ready." Gi Get Good nod New Yoi:k, May 12. It is a fact that is now pretty gen erally known that on May tth General Graut went to Wm. H. Vanderbilt and asked him to loan him §150,000, which he said was to help the firm of Graut & Ward tide over the affairs of the Marine Bank which he said needed a little aid. Mr. Vanderbilt loaned the money to General Grant, and on the Tuesday following both the Marine Bank and the firm of Ward & Grant failed. Ou Wednesday Mr. Vanderbilt had an Interview with General Grant and asked him to ex plain the affair, had little to say; he asked to borrow the money the firm and did it In good faith. The failure was as much a surprise to him as to any one and he felt his position keen ly. He said he would make all the repa ration possible and he assigned all bis property to Mr. Vanderbilt. Mrs. Grant did the same, including her Newport property. Two hours before Mr. Van derbilt sailed for Europe on Saturday he sent for General Grant, handed him all the deeds that had bceu assigned to him and told the General he had no use for them; he also told him to pay him the §150,000 when be got good and ready, hoped the General would come out ot Ills difficulties O. K., aud bade him a cordial good-by. The General had been for Locked Wheel* and Ri-okt-i Heads. Springfield, Mo., May 12. Two teamsters' named respectively Manual Brake, of Polk Comity, aud David Ilargus, on Saturday drove close to each othoras to lock their wugon wheels on the road live miles north here, which resulted in an altercation, during which Hargus picked up a pole and struck Brake on the head, knocking him senseless. A physician was called, but at a lute honr the wounded man still unconscious and not expected to live. Hargus will be held to await the suit of Brake's wounds. of WUS re* THE ISTER-STATE BRILL. Result of tlko Houston, (Tex.) Military Tournament—The Successful Competitors snd TUoIr Frizes—Houston HoKpitalitic__ A Graceful Act by the Home Company-, Off for Home. Houston, Tex.. May 12. The judges on Saturday night at the final dress-parade rendered their decisions In the State and inter-Stnte drill. The prizes were awarded as follows: For Artillery—Battery B, Louisiana Field Artillery of New Orleans, first,, 8760; Battery A, St. Louis Light Artil lery, second, 8250. For Infantry—Light Guards of Hous ton, Tex., first, §5,000; Tred'vay Bides of St. Louis, second, §1,500; Columbus Guards, Columbus, Ga., third, 8500; Mo bile Rifles, fourth, no prize; Montgomery Greys, Montgomery, Ala., fifth, no prize; Washington Guards, Galveston, sixth, no. prize. The Richardson Zouaves of Indianapo werc forced to withdraw from the inter-. State Infantry contest on account of four ot the members being overcome with the h 'at, and it was considered unsafe to al 1 .tv them to participate. The Houston Light Guard as a com pany were out drilled by long odds by both the Tredways and the Columbus Guards, and can thank their commanding officer Captain Scurry, for saving them from being placed third on the list. At no time during the entire drill of his company did he lose his coolness pres ence of mind or fail to give the proper command. lie was the oply officer who did not bring upon hls company costly errors. When the Light Guards appeared ail brokeu up uud|their friends had lost all hope, he succeeded in restoriug the com pany to its equilibrium. Had the officers of the Tredways done as well the first prize would have gone to St. Louis. The drill was decidedly close and was only won by the slightest sort of good fortune by the Light Guards. Iu the drill for the best drilled man,, the prize being the Noyes cup, worth. §150, R. B. Dumont, of the Mobile Rifles, was the victor, with B. C. Spickcrinau, of the Tredways, second. There were sixteen competitors. The programme of the day consisted of the great sham bat tle, in which all the military participated. It was a splendid Illustration of mimic war, and was witnessed by fully 20,000 people. The award of prizes gives per fect satisfaction to the companies, all feeling that the awards were fairly made. All Houston was wild with delight Sat Uay night. The streets arc filled with peo ple and the shouts arc deafening. In the State contest between Texas companies that had never won a prize at an inter state drill the Washington Guards, of Galveston, took the only prize offered, §500. The other companies were placed as follows: Austin Greys, second; Bren ham Greys, third; Queen City Guards, of Dallas, fourth: Johnson Guards, of Hempstead, fifth, and Lamar Rifles, of Dallas, sixth. There is a misunderstanding between the Busch Zouaves and the drill man agers as regards the amouutof money the Busehs ure to receive for first prize. The management tendered them §750, and gave the Richardson Zouaves of Indian apolis §250 for second prize. The lluschs claim they are entitled to §1,000, and ac cording to the terms of the drill guide book their claim is good. The exact reading of the part referring to the zouave drill, as copied from the guide-book, the zouave drill is as follows: "For zouaves, two or more companies to enter, §1,000; if but one company enters, §500. As three companies competed and tin; Busch Zouaves were awarded first place they are entitled to the §1,000. It is said that Captain Koemer returned the check sent him by the drill management lor 8750, and declines to take less than the 81,000 his company won. Yesterday was a gala day in Galveston. The Tredwav Rifles, the Columbus Guards, tile Mobile Rifles, the Busch Zouaves, the Bain Zouaves, the Richardson Zouaves aud Battery A of the St. Louis Light artillery went thereon an excursion and gave exhibition drills at Reach l'urk. The Light Guards met on Saturday night and turned over their 85,000 to a committee of citizens to be distributed, among all the companies that have visited Houston during the drill. The division is to be made to-day and will be on the pro rata plan, companies having won prizes to be charged up for the amounts and tile §5,000 so distributed that each visiting company will receive an equal sum of money as near as it is possible to make it. The Buscli Zouaves have been, given assurances by responsible parties that they shall receive their §1,000 prize and their proportion of the §5,000 as well. A number of ex-Confederates ban queted the Richardson Zouaves Saturday as a compliment to them as the only com pany from north of Mason and Dixon's line. Governor Ireland was present and spoke, and speeches were also made by a number of other ex-Confederates. Toasts were drunk, etc. Captain Richardson, on behalf of his com pnuy, responded in a very happy manner. A banquet was, given at the Capitol Hotel,'complimen tary to the officers of the visiting com panies. of as he all for the Ills An Exciting Fire. Lexington, Mo., May 12. John Smith's grocery was destroyed by fire ou Saturday night. He was badly burned, and an aged lady named Myers la an adjoining building very narrowly escap ed perishing In the flames, being insensible when dragged through the window by a* oue-armed boy named Joe Parham, the Commercial House, a couple of doors away, there was the wildest excitemeuV every one raovlug out. The Post-olllce, opposite, was endangered, uud the ex press office wus also threatened. The only protection the city has against tire is the exertions ot citizens, uud right nojjly did the bucket brigade work, hut without success In saving the building or goods, though the flames were prevented from spreading. A watch will he kept, l|j case the flames now smouldering should' revive. aud to Youug; Crowe'* Crime. PEonrA, III., May 17 Tom Crowe, who was arrested In CM the accusation ol cago a few days ago on having burned his father's barn Febru ary 11, 1882, urrlved here Saturday even ing and gavo bond In the sum of 3500 , Edward Spallwan becoming his surety. Tom is a son of Pat W. Crowe, the <y oao lu of namitcr, and the barn burned was which Pat Crowe, who was a. contractor for the city, stored gasoline used In HR' ing street lamps In the suburbs of * • I city. The Insurance on the.born was u 1 •850. re*