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APPALLING RAIflJOA) ISASIEU I OVER ONE HU NDIb E D MULLK. .\Ni) FOi It HUNDRED WOUNLEi. An Excuriiou Tran DIro- Throbugh aBur'iM: Bridge-t'arm Telescoped andl ed ("C' Upon Another.-The Diaster geHent'd to Ha'e IBeen Ileiberateli i'rojected. Ciiic.wo, August 1.-A special to the Chicago Timexg. trom Forest, Ill says: "Last night an (xcursen train ou tue Toledo, Peoria. and Western rdlriad we! down with a burning trestle. about three miles cast of Cuattsworth. and over 100 excursiolists killeil ande uO or more balyv injured. The train consisted of six sleep ers. six dav coaches anId ch:ir cars.:and had on board i60 excur-ionists biund for Niag ara Falls. The iassene-rs hailed fron va rious points in central Illintis. t!hemajority. however. coning from Peoria. The train was so heavv that two engines were em ployed, and was an hour and a half behind time when it passed this place. Chattsworth, the next station cast of here, is six miles off. and the run there was made in seven minutes. Three miles from Chattsworth is a little slough, and where the railroad crosses a dry run about te-n feet deep and :fteen fcet wide. Over thi- -. as stretched an ordunary railroad trestle. and as the train c:aue ti. dering down on it, -1at was the horror the engneer on the frnt engine whLI discovered the bridge was burniug:' There was no cnance to stop. and the next matant he was on it. But he went e; ersafely, the first engine kee;ing the rails. As it nassed over the structure tell, and the next enune went down. Car crashed into car, coaches piled upon each other, nd in less than two minutes nearly one iundred were -crushed to death and iany n re died ;hortly after. The wounded were t',h sueen in every di rection. Only the .iecping coaicescaped, and as the startled and hatif-dressed passen gers came tumbling out of them they found such a seene of death as is rarely witnessed, and such work to do that it seemed as hu man bands were utterly incapable. It was five minutes ot midnight. Down ii the ditch lay Second Engineer 31Clintock dead and Fireman Applegate badly injured. On top were piled three aggage ears, one on top of another. Then came six day coaches. They were telescoped as cars never were before, and three of them were pressed into the space of one. The second car had mounted off its trucks, crashed through the car head, crushing the wood aside like tinder, and lay there, resting on top of the seats, where every passenger in the front car was lying dead or dying ln derneath. Out of that car but four people came alive. On top of the second car lay the third, smeared with the blood of its victims. The other three cars were broken and twisted in every conceivable way, and every crushed timber and beam represented a crushed human frame and broken bone. The air was tilled with cries and sbrieks of agony, and above all could be heard the agonizing cries of little children, as in soine instances they lay pinned beside their dead parents. The briuge vas still burning. and the cars were 1ying on and around the fiercely burning embers. Everywhere in the wreck were women and children whose lives could be saved if they could be got ten out, but whose death in a most horrible form was certain if the twisted w ood of the wreck caught. There was not a drop of water with which to light the lire. Only some fifty able-bodid men, who still had presence of mind and nerve enough to do'their duty. The only light was that oi the burning bridge, and witn its aid these brvve men fought with desperation for four hours. Earth was the only weapon with which to fight, and an effort was made to smother it. There was no pick or zqhovel wbe had, and nothing to carry the t ith,.but in their desperation they du,_ '- leir ngers into the hard, (ry earth, built earthworks, handful by handful, and thus kept back the -foe. W hile this was going o'n other courageous men crept under the wreck beneath the lire and wooden bars which held as prisoners so many precious lives, and with pieces of boards and some times their handis beat back the 11ames. An unfortunate being, who was pinned down by a heavy beam, looked on helplessly while it seemed as if his death by fire was certain. WVhile the tight was thus goin.t on the eairs of the workers were filled with the groans of dying men, the anguished entreaties of those whose death seeuned cer tain unless the teri ible blaze could be ex tinguished. Some of the unfortunates dug up the earth with their own hands, reckless .of the blood streaming from the ends of their fingers, antI heaped it up in mounds, to help subdue the fire, while all thej time could be heard heartrending cries, "For God's sake, don't let us burn to death: Finally, about daybreak, the fire was ex tinguished. Help came from Chattsworth, Forest and Piper cities, and as the dead were laid alongside of eath other out in a corn field, there were ready hands to take them into Chattsworth, while some of the woundep were carried to Piper city. One hundred and eighteen was the awful po." of the dead, while the wounded number four times as many. When news of the disaster was tirst sent over the wires promp~t aid was at once sent. Before 8 o'clock in the morning, there were plenty of people to da the work that needed such prompt attention. The town hall was improvised into ahos pital. The entire capacity o'f the little vii lage was ta.yed. and kind-hearted women drove in from miles amund to give their gentle ministrations to the suffereis. No sooner had the wreck occurred than a scene of robbery c-ommened. Miiscre ants were on hand who plundered the dead, taking even the shoes which covered their feet- Who these wretches are is not known. Whether they were a band of lick pockets who accompanied the train or a robber gang who was lurkin.g in the vicinri ty cannot oe said. A horrible suspicion exists that the accident was a deliberately planned ease of tradn-wrecking: that the bridge was set on tire by miscreants who hcped to seize the opportunity offered. The robbers went into the cars when the lire was burning fiercely undemneath, and when the poor creatures who were pinned there begged them for nelp, stripped thienm of their watches and jewelry and searched their pockets for money. When the dead bodies were laid in the corn held the rob bers turned them over in search of valua bles. That plunder was done by an organ ized gang was proven by the fact that six teen purses, all emnpty, w ere found in a heap in the field. Ihad the plunde-rers been caught they would have been lynched. A Mlathemnatical W1ond(er. Higginsville, Mo., has a mathematical wonder who doesn't know a letter of the alphabet or one printed figure from another, but who is wonderfully strong on mental calculations, making them off-hand. His name is Rieuiben Fields, and he is 36 years of age. He claims that his gift was given from Heaven, and says it came to hinm suddenly when eight years old. He says the Lond made but one Samson, one Solomaon, and one Reub Fields. To the'- one he gave strength, the other wisdom, and to him self mathematical instinct. He guard thiL instinct with the utmost care, and will not answer questions unless he is paid, fearing that it will be taken from him should he use it to satisfy idle curi osity.-New York Suin. Dr. Pierce's "Favorite P'resc-Iripttin w'r feetly and permanently cures thuose disearses peculiar to females. It is tanc anid ner vine, etfectually- allzaying. and a'rin::hos sickening sensations that nifee: the .t-:onnch and heart, througth retiex au-ion. 'Thc backache and "dragging down' senlsiain all disappear under the strengthenin z eil'ects of this reaot estoative By drgists Quartersc. Thie 31ormos are looking around for a nev. President. T is a prohibition war at Alli-ne, ;hio. The sculler should be like the ovster. quite at home in his lhefl. Fcutncne case-s of cholera and six deatIs have leen reported at MIalta. The vilhiec of Saudusky. Mich.. was nearly wiped out by a ti- yesterday. Tlhonas J. M lolovy who set lire to tie Nati. :d Line steamlner Queen has bI eel de eared to b 'e insane. "A winning plat form"- is wali.t the Rich moId JI-D !Jt.-/t teCams tihe recent dcelaration o the Virgina Demnocrats. I'rom nearly ai million imlemubers a few moniths ago. the Kihhts of Labor have de creaid to abillt six hundred thous:d. A New York boy six vcars old drank a pin. -f biraindv the other day. It burnt out ils ti l ie in a few hours. .l * c Band has again decided against the ' hCato!inata on non-resident drum iHv1aa dispatch says that Sinle Wed 'here have been indicatius of a cy Clone ;outhwest of that city. The disaster to the rice crop on the Sn v-umhi river eems almost complete. Only a ftewv hundred acres escaped destruction. R d:s hanve been general in Iowa. Illinois an. .iebhigun. and tile crops which. a few day ngo, seeled lost, are now saved. The Sa-vannah river is up again at Au :1ii it is feared that the rise will cgl1: that which, visited the city some days -mp:aei yellmw fever are ragiug in H1:vaoz. Cue. For July there were 1!. hdam. 7:-om vellow fever and 112 from small pox Nlrs. Cleveland is making a collection of New Elngiaud mosses and ferns for the adoruieLnilt of the Whuite IIolIse library af ter her return. General Neid Dow. who is now in MIa.ie. thinks it morally certain that the Prohibitiunists will nominate a national ticket next year. Rain has v-iited the Milwaukee section or WXisconsin, ending a sixty days' drouth which has caused Ia loss of thousands of dollars to the farmers. .Jerry Pa.elcs, murderer (f Samuel Kohn, and sentenced to be hanged on the 26th inst.. at St. Louis, committed suicide in his cell Monday night. A tire occurred in a large warehouse in Concord, N. H., yesterday. Eight men in tie fourth story had to jImlp from the windows, and all received severe injuries. Captain S. S. Brown, of Pittsburg. lay in. m de z tO$100.000 on Troutadour, tiinks it is about timle to give the great race horse a rest. Now that the wall paper pool has phiz tere I the country over wit'. Japatnese de sigts. it announces that these must give way to "oriental" patterns. l)uring a lire in St. Louis on Wednesday morning three 1iremen were killed and four injure' by the fall of a wall. One of the i ured wiil (he. They must have plenty of money up in Connecticut. Twentv-one thousand dollars has lain unclaimed in a Iartford savings banlk for twenty year,. The employes of Park Bros. & Co., of Pittsburg. recently struck. After they had lo t ':0,000 in wageas they wen' back to work just where they left olf. The bes' paid w, man journalist in thC word is 31rs. Crawford, tie well known Paris correspondent. She earns 10,000 a year. A camp meeting at Neshaniny's Grove near Phldlha onTesday' drew to. gethecr fully 11,000) persons. T welve trains, fi fiten hluddred wagons and forty-one by eveles carried tihe exeursionists. Fire in the packing house of T. 31. Sin clair & Co., of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, dle stroyed the slaughtering department and tank' rcom. Loss is i$t0,00; insurance $80,000. Cha~rles Williams, who was contined in the j ii of Log:.n county, WN. Va., for tihe murder of Jan-.es Aldrich,. surveyor oIf tile cuntyi~ a few daiys ago, was taken fr m the jail MIonday by citizens and hanged. N r.Justice Gray is tihe only bichelor on the Supreme Court bench. The justice is a bad man to fol with. It is said he oncej sued a coquettish damsel for breach of promise, Th tbrst Polish newspaper ever printed in A n--rica has been started in Buffalo. It is c11 i the Oja:,nam. A year's subscrip tion vsiii be iven to any Amnerican who - an pronounce the name of the new journal. The dlemandl for President Cleveland is becomngn unliversal. Even little Joe Fora ker who crew furious over the Ilag order, has cooled diown sufficiently to bec the preidlent to take in Ohio on his Western trip. C -nlarrssnman Pat Collins, of Boston, ha.afely passed the impertinent tory spies at Glug~ow, is now having a high old timel in Ireland. Patrick is a zallant Irish man and a true D)emocrat. IIe deserves the oivatioa he is receiving. Tihe removal of the iron bridge on the PennasylIvarnia R:i road across Conestoga Crek to tem1l'rar-y timber supports forty ive feet ;i-t-tnt. was made in fifteen nlin utes, and in t:.n hour and twenty minutes traffic was resumed. ,Ju lge Re--c,'n was a mlemlber of thle first Democratse Convention ever assembled in Texas. It was held in 1857. Tihe Galves ton KePN is unkind enough to remark that he hats been holding office ever since. At Winone, 3Minn., the tent in which the Rev. 3Messrs. Ilosler and Schulz, Seven Daiv Adventists from Nebraska, were hold ing revival services, was attacked -by amo of 200 Germans and Poles Sunday nirht and pulled dow n. The roof of Chatterton's Opera Ihouse at Spm inafield, Ill., fell in on 3Monday, pre ipitatina six mna to the ground. Tile loss is $50.000. Architents say the~ fall was due -to shrinkage of timbers, caused by heat and dry weather. 31. 3Iatchevitch. Dulgarian foreign muin itr. accompanied by Pi ince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg Gotha and retinue, tias started for Bulzaria. It is officialy announced that Prince Ferdinand has been permuitted to retire from thme Austrian armv. Galiganis' messenger advises MIr. Blaine that lie can win the respect of Scotchmlenl more readily byi ceasing to slander the South-rn States than by making chea p after-inner speeches, and payinag pretty compliments to tihe Scotch themnselvye-. The Virginia Republican Committee held a conference with MIahone at Petersburg on Wedinesdaiy. and dilscumsed the situation inI geneiral. li Th cmmlaittee au11thorized( 31ahonec to) prepare an additre. to tile pleople Petitions ire being genterally circuilated throi; houmt tie State oIf V'irginti-i(enlling for i Stat IC onventio o(1(f ithe Prohibit ionl party. Stauntr wvill ptoably lie seleted as ihe place of mleetiinand th11 ie cou;iVen tin will be heid early inl Septemb:-~r. The. O wes tn express train was robbed Weth c-div nighit th irty tmili-- east of Tuei n. Aizona. The train was ditched :md he < press camr robdibed by four men. The thle I lt-a Mmannaus. They bhave1-ome- very coniderate burglars ill Loumiisville. A~ few' nLihts agoZ( one enitered a' rI-dmente anid stole a1 tine suit If clothes: but heC left a note in a1 new plug halt staiting that the hat did njot sutit his comlplexion,I Dako ta clims popualaton of '1(100. lais of population tire alw:*ys ;etx to ;lsuspicion, :!md wheni thley emn frm tr ritorY whih irin to hif iii w t iW 'nto Ahe Union. t i t: rul. to umke a dI; (ount f mhirty to y p.rct rId, (:Cei-n - by thec of the 16 c-raph oveorg. . 1o nx a. adee a''t hi pst O~n of the '''reme ts kila ~loln bthi the I The iV a' ':rtween ir'a lr 1(:Pmvw , I v Lo nmLi 0 11 "!111 "'ti Ll *c b he~' efton of T .li. 1o.iTlei , ' ecreav and Tr.:..... T1 - ht . 2t L' il th' : i111d n * r T" en surveyed. Frdo Hoh. was Slot to d::thu at I : 1! Thursxitt, for a nurder ciiommnitteder vears :-. Ite s four time co" n i' n 'im'rs the Unitil inti' l : 'ourt rantd hi anew I ! i:ill - I I t ie ni onbut the fo urth tim"e !Ihejdmn of thei lower court was n-im-ud. Te irst Repubican c:npign Ile in fiuy is that Mr. Powell, the Deimocra i publlieis can't 'ivent a et oune iel thi.i seiu nc r t:1 they (re taking a mani with a mighty wifte n' retr Th reports sm dy t1he_ -ki. Exvimine.rs for promot)ion inl the Wa De partmIent show thlat i .'I i''t dep' tO nr" *ined in the Parm;.strea'r Gn: t'.t oilick-, twen;ty-tlhree in number, pa- ed scv fulliv, -11d that hiut oneclr out Oftem foui ained ill) in the lceofih Chie Engnersfaiedtopnzs a eee ..ul ex i'lationl. A serious ruptuin;1 the,, Grawl Army iy thre'taoteed by tI pid im-rense in th memrtilship of the :ioa eea'A sc:in.The newv order was fru, e h4 lioua h' men who) are not iin t.o. rep-es ivtedl by su:-h er,:tLures asoa, Lo(I es hive been estab:i-Id all oVer lo.: and tli or'iinizi:tii wivll1soon spirel t( other State. '3 avor Sutton, of Wi' itrie, Penm. ninetecal Couneihnen :uath Nee Com. ni;-sioier were arrested n a comlint 0 cit rns for failiing to keep th tIreetS ' order, and for '!owing segnant w ater aceum u laie. from ixhich foul'a smells arise dlun'erous to the l ahof the c mmni:' in 1iat part of the ciy, and harmful 1, property interesits. 1 .R Dill, of Somers-t. Pa.. dild thi otlher day from the A es of etlier admin i'tered by the distinguish'(i surgeon, Dr Agew. The brother o the deanI man incliied to blanic the do ctor, but be i ex oner -ed by the unarniious ti' of th, medical profession. Ether is f..al In on: cas. out of 10,000 and Dill haIppened to h the ten thousandth man. Tibe foflowing from a Georgia i a iih story: A gentlenmn of Ameri.u.y Fl;,- iiver -was So low last week tha it cat-nhleft the water and invIld th, wod ard tields. Tlhey neariv divas tt a fti' of corn for Lucus HndI&n livIn; s.ei! iles from the river. it is i: i I.n the noi-e they made in pll was equal to a hundred of hl of hur: TIeV have a United State c r joi in I -a.:iappolis Iby the nme of W7oo for w'nom th' Sentinl m does t che.Tish I h tregard. of hinit'ys 1. o, totallv demented * A -e . c p ion- i blunted thcli. hes t' itee thc li-e. Vivid as l'ightninthat - dia "is between a Judge ni Juggier. lhi and leierdemii' Ex-Governor Moses, who ku s hoxw i is hin-if, has w% ritteali, a book :i1 refo:n in prisons. In it ie alh!z to ,b, opnu: I ait, to which in f* o,"rmr y. vl was " hive. but which Ie is now free from, nd reointes hiS own' prison exp''e-riences~ i: ord'r, ai" he s, "thait I mii t' 'id myi divi-!.-I em r' to thiose. whici' 'thers ari na'th g t *or eplainng thesjct -a O~ prso'n ref"m. 1B er drn!..ng a'ording~ to initerni'i rev ene iu'es, "i' u-rowig in popub1ir fIv at thet. e~spenlse' x L'whi y. Tha' taxesc' 0: dit al I sp ts fo ltc is fisi a year. sh, Iii tho '4'- on nadttliquor! ":'ve im-ra "rat fV. Rect ro tak~e i> loiime 'toi rial anda' no atlie of 'iincre::D i da to ei:'a "'ttei. pT(eod .int'ra hf veno p arried womre. a aufma'"n, Tex, ari ofrqenld tk in lhicr' pii' 'L.iit ' fen. homedb the pice hilein- masqurad sax1'a!i. 3Marion 1Uhags. a Diss count1 farm hi. v, has turned out to be a frm i She wore trousers for a year be'fore discar rc. Innumenrable dire's are' ragin ' in the pra' ries and woods of the drouth-:sieiken see iors of Northern Illinois, Wisconin ':m 3!!higan. No loss of lifec has b~een: te portl, nor very hc'avy loss of property it any particulair locality, but the agrepba losses are immien'se, :uO i te graVt of thi situatititni lies in the con dit ion of t he colun try. In sevxeral inst'ancesI"a inai!-is s towns anid villages- havex been'cr obliUedp 1( iht te llames in the woods upon tih very lin:its of thei se xttlemen'its. The statement pre.pared at th Interio: Deparmecnt, Wasing'ton, sh'ows thia t ro .January 10, 188,'to Ju l l''-. there we:~' 205 ivil service app'" iiuentas made. in tai department, exclusive of 2 rnsfean one reinstateme~nt Of this numbert -4 er from Pe'nnsylvania,~ 2. "nm New'' York. 21 from Illinoi-, 1i) from Ir'd1ina 17 fron hin, 11 froni Teinnessee, 10 frt iliaryb~ ln and 10 from the District of (Co'uTil: eacti from 3Iassaich1usetts i. I-,wa Kty Loisana, 3Missouri. V'irginii. Wuionsia, and 0 eaceh from Mlississbipi, 31ichilan. Alamia and Texas. hair is variegated and that she enamels hi ace. Tro cotnvincte a reporter she knult uni ier the soft lih of si wa taipers anid tin loosd the snood wichi impi) ned her'1 it luxuiint chestniut locks. They' fell in a loodi over her beautiful inecxk and bathed her plump, "arm should'rs with their wxaveas of unbroken brown,. whichi ripl :lown to her .silver goidle. Thecn s'he rouiht her benatful tace 'ao deii ous proxinity to the blshing r. .ir and 'isked him if he ccould so'' the 'lts race of enamecl. ie was thoareii'~dy ton v'in0cd that the Liiv' had beenc' ''u or"d. The P'resident wixil! lave Wa\h a'i 'I hei ax wreek in Septembe~r. goi":: to(. LIoui's. ~hiciiop'. i 3 Ixwauke ( h. h n.it. 'u! Iieapoi'. Kpo a cti I -n h. n n i tim" t'io' me his .. e - a~m n foIpat- : L". t'' wiii '"n by'. ordtini l'''\'f'i r' wie th ''IPe J'pac's n'un'd.: isid Iod '.uch au enmt I wx lin .3 fm . i xx'wi't ps quli{'hslver, it t ~ :02 md .cu.e'th skn t iom "b in'txd b ru. . u ht ::r ' h e'e. it d pore broe is to te eattn01 ezhd h V. HI~ 1-( NAiM0L>, SPAiE LAIWE VITIEs. A ew years ago an expert employed by t nited States Signal Service de clared that there was no conceivable rea son why a tornado should spare a large city. Lie even went so far as to say that it was possible that a funnel-shaped cloud would one day strike New York, wreckling the city and twisting the great Brooklyn bridge into a corkscrew. The Chicago Inter-Ocean takes a different view--starting out with the assumption that th- inmunity enjoyed by large cities in the past is solid ground for the belief It there is no danger to be apprehend e.1 It is, nevertheless, admitted that a whirl-i, aerial shaft having a diameter of2,;' ).") feet. and moving at the rate of 20 iles an Lour would crush the most s.bstantial buildings like so many egg she!l. Tne Inter-Ocean says: "The reason is very plain, and may be easily understood, even by people un versed in scientific lore. The tornado at the outset is a simple, whirling shaft of air, caused, as we believe, by the wind currents from nearly opposite directions, of unequal temperature and different degrees of humidity. When it is fairly started on its course it generates im mense quantities of electric fluid. In act it becomes a swiftly moving dynamo, g-nerating enough electricity to make it lu.ninous, and leaving evidence of the burning fluid in its pathway. It is the theory of some who have written on the sub)e-t that the tornado is primarily c mvsed by electric action, but this we tlink is an error. The mistake is in placing the effect for the cause. But it iz certain that after its inception electri eity is generated, and that the subtle flid becomes one of the most important f cto-'rs of its destructive force. "Passing over the country, the tornado follows the general trend of the larger evelonic storm, or area of low pressure. It obeys the natural law of all bodies in notiou, -oving in the direction of the I leaf resistance. A mountain, or other consid bL-cc e elevation of land, will break it u!) or turn it aside. A city like Chi cago iresents an obstacle sufficient to repel 'the electrified meteorite and turn it to right or lef t. The city bristles with rods and spires, and is covered by a net tin of electric wires. These, together Nwith the vast aggregation ot metaliestrue tures, disarm thunder clouds of their destructive force, and at the same time evidently tend to repel the more highly electrified tornado. It is well known tLat d eath or danage by lightning is of very rare occurrence in the centre of any con .iderable city. The bolts may strike in the suburbs, but if they descend in the city they are :rrested by much more swiftness and certainty than a depredator is caught by 'the best.'" Howevci consoling all this may be to the dwellers in large cities, and however strong the temptation to swallow the theury whole, there still remains a very interesting question-how large must a city be to turn aside a well-devoloped toriado? One thing, at least, seems to be estab lished. In the smaller towns it has been found that buildings constructed of solid masonry and good brick, put together in a workmanlike manner, resisted the force of the most violent storms. Good buildings, therefore, afford some protec tion. The fact that no structure will re sist a column of air whirling along at the rate of ,6,00 miles an hour should not deter people from building their houses in a proper manner. A tornado that will destroy a well-built house is no more anig the probabilities in this latitude than is a destructive earthquake. The Cotton Mlovemne-t. :1The New York Financial Chronicle, in its rev-iew of the movement of the cotton ercop for the week ending on the night of August 5, says that the total receipts have reached 1,499 bales, against 2,581 bales last week, 3,295 bales the pre v ;ious week, and 4,600 bales three weeks since; making the total receipts since the 1st September, 1686, 5,206,178 bales, :against 3,tk296 bales for the same period of 1855-6, showing a decrease since Septemaber 1, 1886, of 100,118 balee. The exports for the week reach a total of 1i,'00J bales, of which 17,056 were to Great Britain, 87 to France, and 2,256 to the rest of the continent. The t )tal mies for forward delivery for the week are 555,900 bales. For immediate de livery the total sales foot up 10,2:30 b~ales, including 6,217 for export and 4,1: for home consumption. Th~e imports into continental ports for the week have been- 20,000 bales. These figures indicate an increase in the cotton in sight of 73,000 bales as compared with the same date of 1886, an incease of 10,319 bales as compared with the corresponding date of 1885, and a decrease of 357,045 bales as com pared with 188S4. The old interior stocks have decreased during the week 710 bales, and were, F-riday night, 23,569 -bales less than at the saie period last year. The receipts at the same towns have been 2,893 bales less than the same week last year, and since September 1 the receipts at all the towns are 73,790 bales less than for the same time in 1885-6. The total receipts from the planta tions -since 1st September, 1886, are I5,1i,13; bales; in 1885-6 were 5,340,253 Ibales; in 1881-3 were 4,740,574 bales. Although the receipts at the outports for the past week were 1,499 bales, the actual mov.ement from the plantations was only b-- bes, the balance being taken from hestock~s at the interior towns. Last yea the receipts from the plantations for tihe same week were bales, and for 18S5 they were 2,716 bales. The de cre' - in mmouut in sight Friday nigh~t, as compared with last year, is 105,371 iales, the increase as compared with 1884-5 is 749,382 bales, and the increase over 188i-4 is 715,000 bales. The Chronicle s..ys that the specula tion in cotton for future delivery at New York has been fairly active for the week under review, and the course of prices has fluctuated so sharply and widely as as to offord the regular room traders full Iscope for the employment of their pecu liar tactics. There was a considerable decline on Saturday, as the adverse re ports from the growing crop lacked con iation: but on Monday the reports f rm G;eorgia and the Carolinas that heavy rains had caused loods, with con tinued dry' weather in parts of Texas, caused a buoyant market. On Tuesday -she failure of Liverpool to respond to our adva-'ce wais atended by a decline, and a further y.ielding of values on' \\an'esday morning wans followed by a gjaiek andu full recovecry on reports of a renewl of heavy rains in the sections rb..ve inmed. On IThursd-ay the market w~as unsettled, without important change, bu0t made~.i some adv.ance in the later deal ig.-, wheu the speccution was quite :,rog Friday- the market was variable ad wiuthout important change. Cotton on tie sp~ot mect with a moderate de -:..nd for homie consumption. There was C din of .j-10c. on Satiu-dar last. i *a the v wa a fair business for home cons-unaption on the basis of 10c. for O ana sme: of e is only ten cents a ;n~no.and is m mo :saisfactory thin;g Terry's Lucky Widow. There is a long and curious story be hind the announcement made, with a good deal of sensational flourish, that a fortune of $7,000.000 has been left to Mrs. Kate Louise Terry by her late hu. band, Ivan Petro Terry, who die! in Paris, where the lucky widow is still living. The $7,000,000 will probably be cut down a good deal, but if the for tune reaches half that sumI Mrs. Terry is an extraordinarily fortunate woman. Of the lady the Hartford Timzcs says: Her life up to the present time, if ac curately depicted in a novel, would make interesting reading. Kate Louise) Norman (her maiden name) came hither from England in childhood with her father, who settled in Brooklyn. and eventually became a jitge there. She is now about .32 years of age, hantd some, of good figure, and a style tha: has a good deal of dash in it. It was to her good looks and her style that she owed her court-room marriage to Ivan P. Terry. Before that she had been the wife of the notorious bank burglar, Charley Bullard, who is now said to be serving a long term of imprisonment in Belgium. The marriage to Bullard took place in England, where she was visit ing, when she was about 16 years old. Bullard then went by the name of Charles Wells. He was a smart fellow. with a fine address and plenty of spend ing money, and the girl lie married knew nothing about his real character. He took her to Paris, where he opened a sort of American bar-room on a showy scale, and installed his pretty young wife as cashier. She naturally attracted a good deal of notice, and the venture prospered for a while. Dullard gave it up, however, and brought his wife to New York. It was then she found out who and what he was. Another wife soon turned up, and the couple separated, never to meet again. The second wife took her two children and went off on her own account. Ihow she lived till she met Terry does not appear to be known. He was the son of a millionaire sugar-planter in Cuba, and had made some money himself. They were married without any loss of time, but the subsequent proceedings were not entirely harmonious. A num ber of little unpleasantnesses occurred, and led up finally to a police-court scu sation. Mrs. Terry was of a decidedy jealous turn, and once on going through her husband's pockets, after the manner of wideawake wives, she found a gush ing letter from a young womanu explain ing why a certain appointment was not kept. It is needless to say that the let ter did not improve Mrs. Terry's state of mind. After thinking a while she set a trap for the young woman, and caught her in it. Then she calledt on her at her home to give her a talking to, and zot turned out for her pains. That warmed her up still more, and her next step was to make a charge against the young woman of appropriating cer tain money that she said she missed. Then came the police-court sensation, in which the two women played prom inent parts, and which the reporters had a fine time writing up. After a great deal of wrangling the charge was dismissed, and the second woman, a Miss Atwood, soon after retaliated by suing Mrs. Terry for slander. She claimed $25,000 damages, and a jury awarded her $300, but as Mrs. Terry had no property in her name to levy on the judgment is still unpaid. Miss At wood will try pretty hard to colect it when Mrs. Terry returns to New York as a millionaire vidow, if she does re turn. Her husband's will has boen re ceived there for probate, and she will probably follow it. The unborn child is expected next month. A Correction, Mr. E. II. Hallock, agent for the Dr. Harter MIedicine Company, of St. Louis, to whom attention has been called by the Orangeburg Times and Dcmiocrat, w hich piece we publishedd in our last issue, warn ing the people against him as an enIemy of the South, visited our towni la.st week. Mr. H~allock appears to be a man of at leas~t fifty years. Is quiet, unassuming and mild in his manners, and his conduct in MIarion was in every respect perfectly in kceping with that of a gentleman. He is a native of Pennsylvania, lived for some yeais in Iowa, but had resided with his famnity in Greenville, Tennessee, ever since the war, is a Democrat and always has been. The explanation he gives of the attack sati-ties us that it was a picce of spite on the part of a debtor, with whom he had some dillictilty about money matters. The worst thing we heard him say on politics and men was that we of the South would have a bi-tt.:r opinionlo .John Sherman if we kniew him better. We believe from the general bea:r ing of Mr. Hallock, that his story is the true one, and we arc not alone in ouir helief. in Marion-,M~ari'an Indez. Living on Turtle's Blood. The sloop Sarah, owned and e:smmi~anded by Abraham Bajarim, left 3lulej--, Spain. July 2>. The vesael had on ooaid the cap tan, his wife and children and~ nice~ and Superintendent Ihale, of the Baltimore Copper Mill at Santa Rosa, andi a crew of five mn. While betwveen San Pedro and Martinez the vessel was struck by a heavy surf and capsized. All on b~ard per ished excepting the captain, three snilors m1td a boy. who saved themselves by cliimbing o: the bottom of the sloop. On July :30Jw of the sailors became crazy and( sa-id th-y were going ashore and imnmediate-ly plunge'd ovrtoardl They had no0 soonear struck the water than the sharks devourci theni. The captain, one sailor and the boy re mained on the bottom of the vesse! cig-ht days, sustaining life by caitching turtles that would come near and suckmgr thll blood. They were rescuied in a mos-t pit able conditton by the sloop Ra fugee. Thme New Rules .About cotton Wenigtst. Owing to a new reglation of the New York cotton exchange on and after Sep tember 1, 1887, cotton btuyers in all Interior towns w~ill deduct from bles weighuine under 400 pounds i- cent per pound: under 350 pounds per pound; andl packages le-s than 300 pounds are not considered bakhs and arc therefore unmerchantable. The ginners and farmers will dio well to note this fact in puttin. tip their cotton. They will als.> find it to their initerest to ibcrease the general average of their bales. as thle heavy weight of bales from the South~wes! is in addition to the superior staie, an1 .1 ditional indticment toi- Northern an i Euiropeani spinners to give their orders t that section. This is anu impnortant 11n: te to the ginoner's and farmers, and shoubnl r a ceive their attention. .1 Uniu;;hit bik it:-r Mioiher. A special froim Lawrenic, Ka: :s Satuda:y 3!rs a: ~ ry, ~ hlnson, i rrived in Osw-en from Ainaulan, . intending to take up! lher resieeb laughter. Mrs. Ila~rvey Wi lli' lay or two the old hidy quarrelil v I anulhter, whoI w:mitedl to t her mthier's money. a1 coidera - -i u Monday morning the two) uni 1 1 lisraceful qu~aire!. in whichi Mr-. Wi ~rbed her mother by the hIdr hrs ioentlv to the hi' or and h 1at and lt h ier until .she b-caime ue-ei -- i' cw hours the iinjured wom~:m ded- i :he effects of ler' injriies. She isiC-' wh. iciating a will to excludec he-r u~nnat:d itugtr from receiving any of her ro lp The other day - young tal m: unsen, vhil engged n gi:in-a pilz la:H twist to wr hrrn rs. ret- cciea l Neitemen il 1' famwilv cirv'e bl) 'jO l 1 ici h' :: :. . at ph ,i V i : 'P N ;riousth -s ft n n Otut t!:0 17c (I-.' artment 'n ri !w n u 'V '% beI SO!atia. G i I'. h ':;v r. tit' i:0 ibllLile',. :m U'li yo Vd W'' 'cle alion ice, : nd rno eei! of i ..nxicuI for a Fi-ht. l PnrA2:l"i-pll v:y PrcIe Kr'ii tFiLe hswrittv:1 :1i i.i! e e oR e for it, . pr 's I :: i ' : El' Ih ' L'n "i' fot teI a--e Io :a !h :: ir 12 I; t .,- (be excu ' d 'ror.i e ' ' i : S ' :i i I tie letter i 'Y m ' o i sav that we ' nt il (ow < r(pl' i toin G~erman in our al I-! ?A.holtv 'vi: w~il save :;s flem that sh une will la orthy of 'ratitude. A AMELESS CASE. M case has been a very curious omE for about thirteen years. At imterals o about Cne week I vould be attacked witl spIels of severe andc( most exeruciatiIr pain, always: commencing in tie regiol of my kiduers. The pain would then g upwards and airet my body and head and seemed to ;penetrate my very 4ye balls, creating the most intense sutl'eriug lasting about eight hours each spell. I resorted to all kinds of medicin without beneilt. Several doctos treate my case, but none gave relief. I filnali used B. B. B. as au experiment, aid t< my utter astonisienment all pain and sil fe-ing vanished after using three doses To the )resent time I have used threi bottles, and not a pain has ever return ed. I do not know what was the matter neither could my physician name thi complaint. The D. B. B. acted finel; and powerfully upon my kidneys; m: appetite has been splendid and my con stitution built up rapidly. R1. Tro-%,, Constitution, Ga., May 6, 1866. Unimpeached Integrity. I am 55. Broke down twelve year ago, and have not been able to worl since. Have lost proper action of M: hips and legs. For five years scrofulou sores have appeared on my scalp an< nose", and at same time my eyesight be gan to faiJ, and for three years have be comparatively blind. H'tve been treate< by eminr-nt phAySici:Ls orf differe sehools without a em. I have takei five botoes of D. 1. D. (made at AMlanta Ga.)mld scrolulous sores ere gradz ally heating. Inilammatiou about in eyes has disaipeared and there is soru improvement in my vision. Am ver; mub benefited and relieved and be. to feel like a boy again-feel good. strfngth and activity are returning in n: legs and hips. The B. D. B. acts vigot cusly upon my kitnes, and the grea q1u't1 y of iatter th' has been forc cut throl'h the skin is utterly incredi duce naisea. I refer to all business me: of Cage a. . 11. Pn" a L flneG., Jan, r 1,j 158. All who do atul iomai'on at fill th cause ol' cure 0 I:o d i o0 , -crl an. eouoE. "w lI ;.. i icer' . r ,:;iem Secet b! aiil, e e. a c r:1 01-y illE : ;'I ''ott i, file'; with t hi mo ElniIErful and stariti. tig iE'' veben known. .x ddres.s, 0 Lol>V i'-MM ., CATAWE3A COUNTY, N. C. Ne':;1v titd up -a''hj* new Ho' tel'anid ln iure 1,'r oEr'E 4' E :uests andi the pr':pri: o vtOold b)E lih-d 'tEE iiee a liei' old :.od tz:' : ::w tricn' I" re . The .. dIe. propertie' < iihet v-at ar ' a u:.r ivle for liyvpe1si a.1:e ntEintJi . Ej...e:-, ..in .y..:: Urina1ry dieas"E:? Gener ' I-eC! it ' :1 evu I'rotrauor 'EealthIEr :oca.t'i not to be y und BIATH- C'O.'LETE. 1 001, shoer, \ nrm ad It 5::phur, Ht' ing' PlIac's. 'ii fI a'alo uoue. Duh. E. . LLIOiT SON, .Proprietorsi. ONE uF TilE fINEST iWESUJfS L2 TilE SUTil. G5ASTON COUNTY, N. C. Tliis elegant Summer .Resort is nc open. AccomcaodJation equal to the e~st Eevatio'n :2,00)0 feet above sea lovel Rates 82.00 per day, $10.00J and 812.'; per week. For circuliars or informatici address the proprietors. COZZENS '& T HOMAS. All-Healing P. 0. PEACE I NSTITUTE The1 FaI sessonlE comninEes on te Ics we EE -'~ayt i - ' Ptemzber (NthI day , andl e'nd the ft. bi V,' dnEE~E.v in .luni, Iss Ev'tery dep.2 Iitd ofInstrulion file icQ c 1)rip e i te :tcae. HIe:ed by! .tean:: ltu y E a ll , h e . y t~e br e rii .eEtEi pel tiate Lfo to or more fro a s~m ForC I~li' cic lar, an Catalogure, Rev. R. BURWELL & SON. 15 A' J.!!!TNT PE RFECTLY H ARN!.t5 Aii 5|'|'L.D 1E USED A fo -TERRAC .m foEnine4ers. Arc h i ct and b rr men ; f or ''ince rig mechan irsI T r e i t. irtn h u:trmC. C. TRcaRYf, s ALL !iUMORS, . no rlotch, or Eruption, erri.Salt-rheumn, - o re-." Scaly or Rough M.it, .i diseases aued by bad 1 by this powerful. puri ,t:1t!ratingmeflicine. Great in icr rapidly heal under its be I iOn.n!. 1:Slehilly has it manifested ..,; Irvin .I Tetter, Roec Rash, noiis, Carbutilte e, Sore Eyes, Scrof im sores and Swellings, Hip j1iNeas, White Swellings, Goitre, or Tif lck Neck, anl Enlarged .;,ad t. in ceits in statnips for a -i r.:., -ati. with co!ore d plates, on Skin se, or 11:. ime ainount for a treatise o., scroflos :eetons g'rau 21L*)OD IS THE LIFt."1 Tho~rouhly clans it by .using Dr. Pierce's Go!den YIedical Discovery, and good dsitesttion, a fair ikin, buo3 ant spir. .ts, and vital stre ngti, will be established. CONS'UMPTION, Ih s Scrofula of the Lungs, is ar nd cur y tIis ri*iedy. if taken be Ilt- li-t sta-s ofd the disease are reached. !'-n its mav -lous, power over this terribly ii ..:, wht-n ti-st offering this now .1%04nw . * Vlt the piblic. Dr. PsEnCE t ught -ro01I o1f ct'allir. it his "Con U'1p1oin Ctirc." but abandoned that iue aos i for a icr1eine which, ts 7. wder:l' cmbin%!itn of tonic, or n :: -, : . or hloo-1-ceansing. - r ... ,,. 4-- 1 : 1l r:tiw proper n 1.t I , <.- r :--: rein edy for ,; .' t- Uil Chronic Dis. Uver Bbe, ad Lungs. if you .'e a1 drowsy, debilitated, have Va l cob ,r ' li ' N. rllowish-brown spots on ae or Uwiy., frcqiient headache or dizzi ow:. ha' t:. , iinoiith. internal heat or i;rh hot tushes. low spirits :'.1 l n fr3h.i s, i-regular appetite, 'FI i t . r..ng-, yat are suffering from e i D-. tpsin, and 'Torpid -P|: 6 ''iiouslnesso." In many IUs. ypart of t!,: syniptoms are expe I . ior all such cases, Ir. Pierm-c"s Golden MIedical Di.s. ;covery 14nsrg d For W~cak Lutg', Spitting of lood, %hortless of E9reatlh, Bron. - i. , Astilma, Severe Coughs, and sprired1 alteeti;s, it is nn eficient remedy. nI DurcmsC-Ts. at $1.00, or SIX - for $..O -nts in stamps for Dr. Pierce's n :% .-imp1)Ntio . Add~ress, ;, o i iispensary Medical Asso c ati on, 663 31oain LStreet, BUFFALO, N. Y. $500 REWARD iz offered by the proprietors of Dr.Sage's Catarrh Remedy f or a case_ of catarrh which -have a discharge from the n o'fensive or otherwise. partial loss of taste.. or learin;r, weak eyes. dul pain - nsuire inh . .ou have Catarrh. Tou uids o casis terminate in consumption. r.u s CATAI'll REMDY cures the worst - ses of Catarrha, "Cold in the Head," Iand Catarrhal Headache. 50 cents. EVAN WINKLE &GO. 3AINUFACTUREBS, ATLANTA, GA. DAL.S, TEXAS. COTTON C-4NS and PRESSES, L I~ Cot'-n Seed Oil .ls, Cotton Seed Lintors, Ca:-. If 411s, Saw Mills, Startni.;. Ft~ys, Hangers, WidM e: n Castings, Pmnps and Tanks. E.VAN WlNK(LE& CO., A4:anta. Ca. ATLNA~ DA4LLASTEX. GOLD) MiDAL. awarled at Cotton Exposi t.ion. A tlanta, 3ma. Daltas, Texas, and Charles F on, S. C. Wriite fr prices and termis to E. Van Winkle & Co., - Box 53, A TLANTA, GA. CHAR LOT TE 7 Y \\a) 8DiNS SEPT'. 7, 1887. m TNsTITUTE forYOUNG(LADIES uw Noth ia ivaitages supe r(t taeol'r7d h.-m -in every depart n .21~it--:, .\t .xi :Meie. Only m 4-m: a ~e!*-iotn:ihe teachers. T "33(.: 1:I" :: . :tsS. ar e h"1an. 33-'d va r ha - .: r -c ins a 3y..iwn as 33 Bo '.73 t0N:Glin 1tine- 0:1 f two e tmo e 1~n v-e 30 me ro' . -"s-t o . :-n :,: -- t e t'n m : h i- - .-:v. W M. !-. .\.TKINN( N. Charlotte, N. C. ~- (W . ILL) . bEN. M in.- t rLe-! for colic of infants. Cres Dysentery, D~iarrhoca, Cholera Infatutti or awy diseases of the stomach and bowe-l:. MIakes the critical period o Tecthing safe ad easyv. Is a safe and piaetsantt tonite. Fort. sale iy all druggists, ir d for wholes.ale by HoCwarD, WrrarT - o. Aucm: .ta, Gt. SH OWc;sES- -AL CASES. DESKS, OFFICE URiTURE AND FIXTURES. NC AND CRDEIC -3'tr junen de.veli.; ltheir taste for en ane cou -rr(ect fna imi ::- . .r~.n: Crm .'n al Engan-t" Or .3 v.-m . -ia!h vth rIr. I :7-truct:in with i w:iit-.t. Sect'y AUTO MATI C LEVEL CO.