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* ' V * ■t BO*. W. «. BAT. I:. •'• ^nought, To•hwnothoonue for whkh they fought. MMlii i bright I toptlan idopbwnk 1 beautiful land, ..Of this bright *nd Alng o«dh rill tod on «uh hill That MetlT river o'er the plain. There rleepe In d«Mt a eacmf truit Tb oe, eome gallant aokUer akin. Bj ocean tide and mountain aide Our haroea fell in thickest light. And then thereat, their spirits blest,... * In the realm of hoarenly light. - Then, matrons aear and maidens fair, Go where the woodland echoes ring. Then come and crown each hallowed mound With the sweetest flowers of spring. Go search each nan and secret can To find when lie your gallant dead, And crown the gran that died to aan You from oppression's ruthless tread. Bring, too, the wreath from Southern heath And lay it gfcntly at the bead Of tomb of LaaTwhoee spirit free Still leads his sainted, gallant dead. And Jackaon. too, die good and true, Who grandly led his legions brave To win the right by dauntless fight, And thus Us bleeding country save. Lead of the South, 0 glorious South! Oans’t thou forget thy noble slain? Than curst the name and lustrous fame Of than who nobly died In vain. Land of the brave who died to san, Oh I forget not thy noble slain; But Uft a shaft of stately craft To them who nobly died in vain. Then, asothen dear and sisters fail, Rourn jn now to this work of love! And point that shaft of stately craft Proudly towards the heavens above. The proceedings on the writ of Ao&ew *ym ia the earn of F. A. Blackwood, of who waa kidnapped by Stone sod i off before Judge Hooey la idcy. The most Important br ths —nffewar was tha tfdavtt of Us wife, Mrs. Busaa K. Black wood. She swears, in substance, Umt BUM and McNally want to ha ths sight of tha 9U of March and naked lor a giaae of water, and when it haadad than by her husband he was eel violently by tha arm by McNally, w Bum pointed a pistol at him and hi cuffed him. Whan ha naked for what he was ananlad (hay rsfassd to produce any authority, sad Amply elated that they were authority iheaaalvea." That both men noted la a rode. heUUsaM and threatening man oar. After amatiu/ him they tha honss. and baMdas taking ftw In pteiat and °ant wt J kUvaTi^d forks; bom of which have been returned. Be- fora they left the houaa Blackwood an- Mated thane not to Wavs Us wife sad aioue, when they refunded ha gift. Thtf baton ha husband was tekanaway tr* the persona above named, aa ihelr prts aster was id Irons, ha remaaOnUed with (ham. and rvmnrked to them that If they had gtvoa bin. their authority when they Aral arrested him aad had not planod him in handcuffs, he might have cheerfully mawMh (Mm. put oo the stand. ^•^V-r'* ■a V ; . mmr- & las follows. *1 have been living ta Aiken county on last August. On the night of the Mh irch Htooe and McNally came to my ms. askad for a glaaa of water, and when l, Stone leveled a pistol at Into the I gave It teH my head, handcuffed me. took me I hniM. aourchad It, and took almost | thing I had, sack aa money and Mlverwan.| McNally wanted to take aoma jewelry, but Bum mid him it was my wife's, sad he Mill They than brought me to Augusta, iiff I 111 a mi il after the river. On the Iflth, seven due si my arras*-Deputy Sheriff Campbell ca to ths Jail and served a warrant, and cooing from ths jail to-day. a few mlnti on w arrant -Cv ’J?.. ■ ijaUUrday ■ after Jo’dock. he saved another I on au, t bsnch wananl When ■ I told thorn I did not want to coma, but t they had authority to Mag ass I should ham to ooma. On ths way to Wllllatoo WO met Mr. Guater. He asked me If I w going to leave the country. I told hlm| did not want to, but them men had me handcuffed and I could .not help it BUM was gszt put on the stand, end be jflBBd that ha did not know it was unlaw-) ful to arraat Blackwood if»«a mods of arrest was common; thUhel did' not draw Us pistol; sad that Black wood came along voluntarily. McNally swore that Blackwood came o oat his own free will and accord, and rela-| tod* the story of how a forged noteU passed on Urn as published. Mr. Hy&nu, of the Auguste Smtinf Jfmtt, swore that on the morning that Blackwood reached Auguste be said to him he did not object to coming to Augusta. Chief Twigge and Lieut. Hood swore that Stone told them in the presence of Blackwood that he made no objection to coming aad Blackwood said not] Tha cam was argued by Major Gary for Booth Carolina and by Solicitor Wright for Georgia* The Court then adjourned till Thursday. | After hearing further argument on Thursday Judge Roney rendered his decMom After stating his views of the comity between States, he said "The highest aim of a government is to protect its dtizeni No person shall be de- prived of life or liberty, except *by due process of tew. The question arises, shall a fM—n of one State set aside the laws of extradition and go into another State and arrest a citizen without due process of law? "If the Courts of Georgia or any other Btale recognize this, it would set at naught the provMoni of the Constitution.' tf a criminal goes into another State, the way to get him is by s requisition. ‘Then the question is brought up as to whether or not the arrest of Blackwood was according to law? Was he deprived of hi% by due process of law? If to, he luotberenuftided; but if not so, he ibe. “The facts, air elicited by the testimony, am that when Blackwood was arrested it is conceded that at that, time Stone and Mc Nally were not armed by due prooem of law. The qnestloa Is whether or not Black wood was extradited. It is an unpleasant duty to pom upon facto, This man was Mr. Altman la to the effect that he warned than they ware not making the arrest in ■mm with the law. Their reply was r would take chances. 4 am obliged did not come voluntarily, and 1 the prisoner issued an order to the Sheriff, to South Carolina and Minister Lawton will sail for Austria, his post of duty, on tha 1st Jose. A fire in Nashville on Wednesday night destroyed $40,000 worth of property- The French crown Jewels were sold at Parti; for 000,000 francs—about $100,000 Senator Hawley went Wait a few days ago without saying a word about his jour ney J. 8. MoaiMi. the Aa offered Guy s Hospital, tfi It baa been definitely ascertained that no iloaao has broken out in any part of Ari na. Forest fins caused the alarm. Fifteen hundred people, mostly Catholics, welcomed Dr. McGlynn at New Haven, Connecticut. Cardinal Gibbons’ health is said to have been seriously impaired by his recent trip to Europe and his labors at the Vatican. More buildings have been elected in Wal halla In the past year than In six or more years previous. ^ ^ According to Colonel IngersoLL, the onl; good laws that have been passed in 50 yean “are ths laws that repeal other laws. Queen Victoria has in Windsor Castle three vases valued at $100,000 and Sevres dinner service worth $95,000. Senator and Mrs. Cameron were among the sixteen guests at Mrs. Bancroft’s dinner to the President and Mrs. Cleveland. Mr. Pulitzer is said to hare In contempla tion the publication of an American paper in London, whatever that may be. Louis James, tbe actor, was one of the sixty-two zouaves whom Colonel Ellsworth drilled and led until shot at Alexandria. Ths Mexican officers who recently raised a disturbance on this aide of the line have not yet been executed. Justice Woods, of the United States 8u preme Court, is critically ill in Washington and bis death may occur at any moment. Judge John A Holman, a brother of the Great Objector, is held up to view by ad miring friends as the next Governor of In diana. Mayor Hewitt, of New York, wants tbe city to receive a royalty of one cent per jm- •eager from Ike street ralhriys that adopt the cable system. The Russian Government has prohibit** tbe sale of a drama composed by Count Tolstoi for general drruladon and ent 'The powers of darkness.'’ Mrs. Grant recently admitted to a friend that ha visit to Washington wi melancholy one. owing to the whkh tbe familiar scenes evoked. Mr LowA] baa arrived In London in ex reliant health aad begun the work of dedd log which of the thousand and one Invite does to dinna he will accept Stephen W. Dorsey thinks tbe South weal the "coating" section of the country, alike for Its natural resources aad the health fulness of ha climate. Sherman A Marshall. manufacturers of Chicago, have made aa assignment to N. B^Judah Liabilities $44S.OUO Tbe Ixwtdoe TVaws says that the Govern meet has sanctioned the Newfoundland Ball bilk Tbe law will go Into operation to itm Tbe Hotelaen ■ Mutual Benefit lion of the United Staten met In Washing ton. Jewlu Wilcox, of Chicago, elected Preridenl. Tbe People's Bank, of Grannvflle, made its return, upon which the HecreUry of Slate has panted them a charter busi ness at once street avenue, Wedneedsy. entitled Ten small buildings, on Msgsslnc 1 Napoleon sv between Balls street and New Orleans, were burned Lu« $30,000. Gen. Uuulanga • Mobilisation bill causes much uneasiness to Berlin. The North German (iautu ays it ia of much greater Importance than appears at first sight A Melbourne dispatch ays that s dlaaa trout collieioo occurred Wednesday on the Brighton railway. The killed aoc>Injured number 14. At Iftteburg. Pa. the Weetern Mail Aa soda lion met and reaffirmed the cut rate. There was a large attendance, every odliin the Weet being rep Senator Hearn's son, who is running the San Fraodeoo Aneamser for his fatha employs none but Harvard graduates on lu • General Sherman mys he cannot accept the office of Commaoda of the Loyal Le gion of Ohio, becaues, “you me, I lira in New fork and cannot attend Us meetings. The brave yoonf domestic treatment by the negroes. Turner and Pat terson, so aroused the people of Louisville, country to Ky., a few weeks ago, died from ha inju- srtm in London. 150,000 on oooditlaB that' $150,000 more was sub scribed by May 1st, haft canceled that condi tion and given tbe money outright Nearly 10,000 passengers landed from foreign pots at Castle Garden Wednesday from twelve ■teamen. This unusually heavy numba is partly owing to the heavy fog which delayed arrivals. The Massachusetts Supreme Court has decided that the State law which prohibit* the registration of a naturalized citizen until 80 days have elapeed after naturaliza tion Is unconstitutional. Richard Spenser, of Burlington, Iowa, a benevolent-looking man, who may not know Ijenry George as well as he thinks he does, journeyea *11' the way to New York to attend the second meeting of the Anti-Poverty Society. It is reported that the British Govern ment, acting, bn information from- secret agents in New York, has sent the cutter vnoetf to Carrlgaholt, Ireland, to watch for the arrival of an American vessel with a cargo of arms and expledvea. Sheridan impudently observes that Gen eral Rosser's recent letter would not have been written had General Rosser not had his eye on a Congressional seat Look out for more aquallaln tbe Valley of the She nandoah. Martin Bont, a farmer boy living near Michigan City, while ploughing in a fieki, struck with his plough a dynamite cartridge, which exploded and him fatally* The car tridge was left In the field by men engaged in extracting stumps. Mrs. Cleveland has been formally thanked by the Christian Temperance Union of Hamburg, N. Y., for having drunk cold water at the diplomatic dinna, but the respected head of tbe nation still takes an occasion*} hone-fly In his. Mr. Parnell and Michael Davitt are mid to be actively engaged in the work of or ganlzing a company with a capital of $500, 000 to ex port Irish linens and woolen goods. They have been promised - support by friends in this country. When Jacob Hchnelkopf, the millionaire tenner of Buffalo, took his wife around to to look at a $500,000 raridence which be recently bought her only criticism was that ■he wu afraid if the lived there she "would have to keep a girl." Christopba Meyer, a New York rubber merchant whom nobody seems to know, is said to have enough money of his own to buy tbe Baltimore and Ohio road oo terms. He Is a German by birth, but his fortune In this country., Jonas G. Clark, of Worcester, Mass, who recently presented $1,000,000 to that for the founding of a university, has i a further gift of half a tnilUoa dollars worth of reel estate, books and works of art, $500 000 in cash for the establishment of profrteorahlpa. St Louis HimbUea*. When Mr. Henry Grady Is Dominated for the Vice 1’residency by the Democracy there will be but two men left In the party, Mr Grady him and the man holding the first place on ticket. New York llm-M The President do ■ great work of land reform without the help of Congress. It will be hard work for him. but he baa begun this work, he can do nothing of equal Importance to lbs country. Boston lltr+ld Speaker CarUste Is a lit tie premature when he says that tbe Mug wumps are likely to become "good Demo crate ' They will go with the Democrats Just so far as the Democrats go their way, and no further. Philadelphia /Vm*. Evidently all t stories about Mr. Cleveland's having dared his Intention not to stand for a sk term are persuading OoL Daniel Lament to believe that the repot of the death of Ana ntes was ■ campaign lie gotten up-for po ll deal effect. Philadelphia I'rmm: Secretary Bayard has l>een ddtearing a few mors remarks on the fisheries controversy, but what he says Is of no consequence. Coder the new regime of American diplomacy ' thaa actions, for the there are no action*. Philadelphia lUcmrd. If Henry George or Dr McGlynn had ever felled the tftes, pulled the stumne and grubbed out roots on an acre of "new ground," he would have tin I ofinitely clearer view of the land question than hexan evolve out oTMft Inna cooedousneae. Nashville Union: About the time the Tory government gate Us Mile for the gov- .. A OAHAXT AT TH* TAB*. Folks has been to town, and Sehry Fetched ha home a pet caaayy— And of all the blame, contrary, Aggervatin’ things alive! I love musto-that.r I love It When Us f ree-and plenty of It— But I kind* git above At a do&araghty five! It’s just as I am sayin'— Tbe Idy, now, o' lavin’ Out yer money, ana a payin' For a wllla cage and lard. When the medder-larka ia wingin’ 'Round ybttj and thewooda a-mgln’ With tbe-beautifuleet ringin’ That a mortal ever heard! Sahry’s sot tho’-ao I tell ha He’s a party little fella. With hts wings o' creamy yeller And eyes keen as a cat; And the twitter of the creature - r Seems to abeolutely glitter! Guess I’ll have to go and git ha A better cage’n that The Iron age—Bondage. The golden age—Coinage. . , Light infantry—Torch-bearers. The cash system is a no-bill art. The corset has come to stay. It only takes about two seconds to get up a duel. —--"1= Aa a rule, the beet hats do not cover the best brains. Proverb for the yea—Faint heart never helped fair lady. A young Mdy who visited Niagara com plained ofa in her eye. Burglarious ditty—Oft in tbe atealy night Lawn tennis is a popular game, but it Is played out, all the same. The diver is a man who always does business at bottom prices. There are few things In this world more rasping than a tile of unpaid bills. A dual is the quickest kind of an encoun ter, because It only taka two seconds. A tea toteller—The tea merchant’s ac countant. A Kentucky dqck has three feet, all fully developed. A Chicago duck has two feet, awfully developed. Man has two wills. One bate born with, and the otha he maka to take effect u he dies • When a young woman attends ha first ball she thinks she has found woq •nd they They woe ztanding s shanty at the Tenth __. when one <■» them 0N|fct sight of a brakeman. who was going through various contortions on * the top of a box oar half way down tho yard. ’ “Wondor If tha engineer's asleep. He don't seem to see that fellow signalling him to pull oat," remarked the party who had first noticed the man’s mo tions. The others looked. "Pull ont,” caustically responded the one who wore'a plug hat "Guess you don’t know much about railroading. Those motions mean to back up." Before the otha could frame an an- rer sufficiently ironical to suit his friend’s evident lack of mental strength, the man with the checked suit spoke ^"Well, if you fellows don’t make me tired! That signal means that he wants to oat the crossing, and for the engineer to go ahead a little rte Karwtorry. Mr. P. B. Workman’s plantation in No, 6 Township on Monday, the 0th instant The partita woe each about 19 yean old and both negroes. Jeff is married; Heldon was not Monday afternoon Heldon and Jeff’s wife were at work in the field together. Jeff was working in another field. When Jeff went home at night hie wife told him that Heldon had made improper proposals to ha, and upon ha refusal had attempted to out rage her. After hearing ha statement Jeff tried to borrow a pistol from others on tire place, but failing in this wefit to Mrs. Cooley’s, a quarter of a mile away, and borrowed one. He then went to Heldon’s house and asked him about the affair. He says that Heldon denied it and kicked him. He drew his pistol aud shot Heldon three times. Heldon ran about four hundred yards and felL Jeff followed him and shot him again, killing him instantly. Williams has not been arrested.—Newberry Observer. tarito’laWiritofWtettMi ALL CHRONIC Patients treated h treated at homo,, t sueeessf ally as if aee us, or send •* Invalid*’ Quide-t ulare. Address:' cai AseociATias^ r •EASE* A BPfCtALTY.- person. Come an3 cents in stamps.fCr our go ahead a little way. ■ A ■■ | "Jim." patronizingly observed the ■ V A TIC fit I fill T an who hadn't yet spoken; "yon’re a WWllwQ IIUII ■ t spoken canvasea, bat when you get like this you’re away off. ‘ Cut crossing] Q, daylight that ea to kick the successfully paint the town afterward he ha a I brush A man may rad. but when with a policeman he loses color. "Is your husband aa Odd Fellow T "Well. I should imagine belt; such a strange man in my Ufa" It is stated that our army of about 38,000 coats yearly but half a million less than the Goman army of 40,000. "What a beautiful thing, my dear, la a rosy cheek " "Yea, husband, but bow great the contrast when the biuah eettiee oo the Care will kill a eat. The terdaed la taking aim. Il dUBculi however, to kh one with a bottle. Bank managers should maka good ra- portae, they are always taking notes And than, ante, they always taka an intern tha buatneas. A contemporary remake tints win i will nerar mock hla mother in law ■ thaa once. Shouldn't think a wim I would do it once. A four-rear old child, visiting, saw bel lows used to blow aa open lire, and in formed ha motha that "they shovel wind into the fire at Aunt Augusta a” Holland baa 10,000 windmills. During a Presidential campaign America Holland aad go ha about 50,000 windmills better. The invention of the drum ia ascribed by the Greeks to the god Bacchus Whence, undoubtedly, arose the exprearioo, "Tight aa a drum. r "It ia really very odd, my dear." said aa old lady, one very cold day to a friend, "I can't bear the heat in sununa and in win ta I lore it" first-class into a sal Pall oat! pshaw! the play is for the engineer train over into the haxt track." "May be you fellows think I ain't got scarcely any sense?” inquiringly re marked the plug hat man. "i say he wants to hare the train backed up, "And if any one wants to tell me Pm a wall-eyed idiot, he needn’t insinuate I’m right here," the first man wno had. spoken wid warmly as he glowered on the others "I my thorn signals mean to pull out" ••And maybe some one wants to tel me I’m a liar when I say they mean cot the crossing.” hotly retorted the check suit man. The flagman, attracted by the excite* remarks, sauntered up, and on catching sight of him all four appealed to him to referee the question. He looked up in the direction of tbe gesticulating man. and as an expression of disgust man tied his features he remarked: "Him! Wy that darned fool’s iust a flirtin’ with one of the chambermaids in the SC J But they beard no more. Each moved off in a different direction, aad from that hour were sworn enemiea—Jlnri- Th« Hey Mystery. The recent exhumation of the of P. B. Ney, at Third Creek Church, in Rowan ounntj, N. C., shed no light upon the my stay of the eeoeotric man who many have Ion*; sappoeed wee the rent able Marahel Ney of Fraaoe. Homo of tbe aknll bed poser d into dost that eouid not be secatoined whether or i it bed been trephined. Unavailing ssaroh wee made in the grave for 4 stiver plate end for the bafleli which was thought by many would be found. A large number of penons were prae- ent, end the exhumation was conducted by eight well known physicians, who made the following report: Tbe undersigned phyweiana wish to state that according to previous notice we did to-day oenee to be exhumed the remains of P. H. Ney. in the presence o e great nnmba of witnesses, some o them from Washington City, Hateigl and otha parti of the country. W found some of the bona only and these ia a state of snob decay that we cannot slate positively whether the skull bean trephined or not. We I for bullets said to have lieau lodged in the body but found none. We sneceeded so for however, ae to that the skeleton was about 10 inches long and the skull around it the eyes about $4 inches in iy i: 3ld arc sold in Atlanta to one of any other 1 blood remedy, and twice as much con- j snmed in the State of Georgia as uny other preparation? No one need take our word, but simply ask the driggis’^. Ask the people. They are competent witnesses, bix houses in Atlanta are baying B. B. B. in five and ten grow lots, and some of them bay as often as every two months. Why these unpre cedented sales here at home with so little advertising? Modesty forbids os making a reply. Had B. B. B. been before the public a quarter or half a century, it would not be necessary to be bolstered up with crutches of page advertisements now. Merit will conquer and down money. $1.00 WORTH $500.00 For four^years I have been a sufferer from a terrible form of Rheumatism, which reduce i me so low that all hope of reeorery waa given up. I have suffer ed the most excruciating pain day and night, and often while writhing in agony hare wished I could die. I have tried everything known for that disease, but nothing did die any good, and have had some of the finest physicians of the Btale to work on me, nat ail to bo effect I have spent over $KX) without finding relief. 1 am now proud to say that after using only one bottle of B. B. B. I am LeaaUed to walk around and attend to, business, and I would not take $500 for the benefit received from one single bot tle of B. B. B. I refer to' all m«Hiaat» and bom: esa men of this town. Yoesa, most truly, ILO. UARA. Wararly, Walha oouty, Tana. Demonstrated Merit. Brurrs, G*., May 15, 1888. Blood Balm Oo: Yon wul pteaas ship us per first freight one gross B. B. B. It gives ns piss sure to report a good trade for tide preparation. Indeed it has far eclipsed all otha blood remedies, both in demormtartrd merit and rapsd sole with us. Bow k Yaasnux. keepers, sod overworked women gensrauT. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription .Is the best of nil restorative ton k-s. It Is not a “(y all. but odmlrabiv fulfills a ■ ln «SP M L of JL U, K2!2; Ix-lng s most potent 8i>eclflc torm te«» Chronic Weaknesses and Dtoeases pecullar te women, Tto_h^tm<>nt many thouMds of such cases,»theJnv^lds'H^el andSurg- k-al Institute has afforded a larte expertenoe la adapting romedies for their cure, ana lir. Pierw’s Fnoriti Pmsiplte lit of this vast experlence. Fer congestion, tanammaMe|s (ration. It is a Specific. It Is the result internal c« and ulceration, - F . - 7 - is s powerful general, as well as uterine, tonic and nervine, and Imparts vigor end strength tloo Is sold by druggists under ourpoetttes guaranUt* See wrapper around boCO>. price St.00, ». •(£So. Send M o-nti In damps for Dr. Plcrcs’s larjS slar Medical Associatioh, 08 Mam imam. Buffalo, N. T. • _ LITTLE \OVCUS jjyQ yv am PILLS. Iiet HEAIUHE, ■ All who desire tall IsAmnsttoa stoat tlH raase end ears of bloud rul-ons. cerMula sad 'TtofokKn •w>Ulng^ lIcJrv sores, kbsom I llsnt, kldury (osspuints. i surrb. rtc . rt scctirs b) mall, fra a, a copy our M pass Ulu tfstrd Load* uf a ..ii>1 r». allaa.! WIIB IDS mo wonderful aud startling pra<of rvsr t«lo knowu. Address, fiuiuU BALM -XL Alania. OaJ be anybody there to ^govern. Tie process of <ie|>opuIation goes rapidly on, and pretty soon tbe landlords will hare the whole "A young wife's greatest trial” ia probably to flpd out whether It would be pro pa to starch ha husband's shirt all ova or, only the bosom tod cuffs. "Mamma,’’said a little uptown boy, be left hk bed and crawled into hers, the .atba night, " I can sleep in your bed, I know I can; but I’ve slept my up. On Tuesday night a hone kicked ova s lantern in Hoyt’s Uvasy stable at Ni Mass., and started a conflagration that con sumed 91 buildings and caused a loss of ova $80,000. One source of Secretary Whitney’s popu larity is said to be the fact that he never keepa a caller waiting. Frequently he leaves the dinna table to see men who gain access to his house. The Comptroller of the Currency has ap pointed Samuel McD. Tate, of Morgan town, N. 0., to be examina of tbe Nations Banks in the States of North Carolina and Virginia. Ex-Congroaamsn Barbour, of Virginia, dmstra- next the livery of his party.” Tbe will of Eleasa T. Slater, who died near Medina, New York, last week, gives $900,000 to missionary societies, divided between the Synodical Board of Foreign Missions and the Niagara Presbytery. Rabid Ash, who died in New York on Sunday, was the recognized authority on tbe Talmud and generally regarded as the foremost Hebrew theologian in this country. Three thousand people cheoed Dr. Mc- Giynn’a eloquence In Boston and then 2,950 of them went to their little homea and de cided that ill they could earn they would keep. Boston Ilmiii: We ara by no means sure that Mr. Blaine would not get more votes than uny other candidate. Still we would not advise the Republicans to nominate him. At Durham, JL-G^ on Monday night, the plug-tobacco factory of Car belt, Patton & Co. was destroyed by fire.' Loos $18,- 000, insurenoe about $12,000. Supposed to have been struck fay lightning. In Chicago the second failure ia the barb wire business has lust been announced. The firm ia that of Schrobel & Ca Their llabllitim will reach $808,000. Their as sets are about $175,000. Reports* received at the Treasury Depart ment show that $.500,42$ trade dollars have been redeemed to dele. Importations from Chine and Japan may swell the notmt to eight raflttnnt. The Quptimn Lodge of the Knight* of Honor met Mr Philadelphia Tuesday and States Bostonian here- J ;ueen KapioUnl’s first orda after ahe ved at tbe Parka House, Boston, was for a breakfast of brown bread and baked -The Mayor of the city called upon ha af jer she had finished this repast and assured ha that, despite ha color, she might conrida herself a after. Chicago Tribune: Secretary Whitney has just paid $500 for a St Bernard dog. There is reason to fear that he has been im posed upon. If the crew of the American navy should fall ovoboard by some unfore seen accident, any ordinary Newfoundland dog costing $25 or lea could be dec upon with more certainty to save h than this $500 animal. The joint commission on the Virginia debt has adjourned without accomplishing :. The delegates from th< anything. ginia Legislature will report to that body. The proposition of tbe bondholders’ repre sentatives was that they should have the principal sum of $26,887,900. The Legis lative committee recommend that it be communicated to the committee of the council of foreign bondholders, that in the opinion of the joint committee further ne gotiations will not tend to a final ment. ^ agree- The Trouble With Old Virginia. General Imboden, the noted Confed ate leader, ie in the employ of the treasury deportment aa an expat on the subject of the natural resource* and He has just x>rt on the of the dominion, Randolph Tuoka, after reading General Imboden’s report, told a story which, he said, explained wbj Virginia had not "made mere progress in business.” "One day in the house,” said he, "Bragg, of Wisconsin, told me the secret of onx Mckwardnees. He said that in war time he wee merohing toward Oal- and on the road met an old The poor fellow wee fogged, n end terribly seedy. Bragg stopped him end asked how mr it was to miles, air,” said the minister, said Bragg, "ie it mneh of 130° delegates, tbe DiSS of id Van- ■Well, town?" "No: it ie not * the _ the of hie rr big town,’ and Uien, wi yes and g, thin i When «jn*n and his wife engaged in a fat, and the dor rot np and acjatchdd to be let out of the room, they concluded it was time to stop the die- cuofon. A cut has been discovoed In France with an eye like that of tbe Cyclops. It seems to us that if any change is to be made in cats it should be made in their voices and not their eyes. At a recent ball a new figure was intro duced, which caused quite a sensation. It was the figure of an irate parent who took his son by the ear and waltzed him out of ball-room in a quickstep movement e think if Shakespeare had lived in Vermont he would neva have written, “Whfit a fall was there, my countrymen?” He would have put it “What a winter was there, my countrymen!” "Ta, ta; I’ll see you lata,” said Amy, taking leave of the high-schoo! girl, the otha evening. "You mean,” replied the latter, "you will ocularly observe me at a subsequent period, do you not?”* Horse-radish yields from two to four tons pa acre and sells from five to ten cents a pound. The wont drawback to its culture is the difficulty of eradicating it when it gets a firm hold on the land. "If it be true tbat.the hairs of one’s head are all numbered,” said the man after he had escaped from hts wife’s clutches, "there will be one angel, at least, who will show up with a big deficit” prims donna sang "Home, Sweet Home, ” to tbe convicts in a Western 'prison, and it so worked upon their feelings that seven of them escaped and struck out for the parental roof-tree tbe same night A near-sighted man in a street car, see ing a woman holding a pug-dog on her lap, asked if she had left her other children at home. And she got mad and called him a brute. Do you think eating angel cake will make an angel of me?” asked a seraphic young lady of tbe worldly young man. "Fve no doubt it will,” he answered,"! you only eat enough of it ” Then shc.gig- fled, and said "why?” Three handsome young lady dentists have opened an office in Chicago, and are rushed with work. And they do say that when qne of those fairs gets ha arm aroun* Mrs. M. C. L. McGuina. of this city, using much effort in searching for ha fatha David D. D. Kerr, whom she reason to believe is yet alive. He left his home in Cutberford county. N. O., in 1848 as a memba of Company D , First North Carelte* Volunteers, and went to tbe Mexi can war. He served through it, and re turned to North Carolina with^ila i and waa mustered out. He did not go3 however, but wss beard of at Montgomery, Ala., In 1849 at which time and place be started for California wl)A a man who was tnying out a drove of cattle. Since then no definite clue to bis fate or whereabouts has been received ky his family. Mrs. McGuinn was a child of seven yean when ha fatha left home, but has never aban dooed the hope that he would return some time. He was peculiarly marked iving two thumbs ou his right hand, an* this clue is being used in the« him. There are two men in this county who were In Mr. Kerr's company, and who remember him distinctly. He was a prac deal miner and a skillful minaologtet and left some property In North Carolina which has never been disposed of because of the uncertainty regarding his fate.—Greenville Xmee. at a fellow’s head and fangs him up tight an* begins to yank at a tooth it doesn’t hurt a m People forget that while the supply of timber is limited, the demand increases and accelerates the day pf scarcity. At no very distant-period materials for raff TMBffttqr wtl? and chUdren V a veiling aa Indian IdoL A rook which the Sioux Indians near Fort Yates, D. 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