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Jt 9 $f)e Union &imcs 1 UNION, 8. C. THE LATEST HEWS, i' . ' ( GLEANINGS FROM MANY POINTS. Important Happening*, Doth Homo ' and Forclirn^ Briefly Told. Southern Dots. Tho first oar load of peaches to leave Georgia this season was shipped from Tiftou Thursday. p A six year-old daughter of Charles Mitchell, j t who lives in Savannah, Ga., was killed, it is | claimed, by fulling out of a bod and striking her head ou a saucer. Tho parous of tho ? child could not be fouud and tho case is a ! t very suspicious one. ( Tho Atlanta and Florida railroad, running i j from Atlanta to Fort Valley, a distauee of 104 miles, was sold at public outcry by tho 1 United States marshal, and was bid in by tho ( Central Trust Company of New York, which held it in mortgage. The road was btd in at (275.000. At Knoxville, Tenn.. the Bristol. Elizabeth- i ton A North Carolina Kail road was sold at j receivers'sale on Friday to tho Pennsylvania Steel Company for (178,000. The road is in operation from Bristol to Ebzabethton, Teuu., 41 distance of twenty-six miles and it will be extended to Ashevil'le. N. C. President Samuel Spencer jays that tho Southern railway luis acquired control of tho reorganized Georgia Southern and Florida Railway Company by tin? purehaso of a majority of the outstaudiug bond eertilleates of most direct between the Ohio river ami Southern Ocorinu ami Oeiilr.il Florida. Mortuary. One of the victims of the heat 111 Washington on Montlay was James Tdton, sou of tho late comniamler Edward (i. Tilt on, U. S. N. -* ?. Inibor. At Harrisbiirft.I'a. .notice of a ten per cent. Increase in the waves of the employees has been posted utthe Pennsylvania Steel Works. Four thousand men aro alVected. Crime. At B"thleham, Pa., Jacob Lucky muriiereil 1 John Mullock and then banned himself. Mill- t lock tcave protection to Lueky's abused wile. ^ At Toledo, ().. the gran 1 jury found indict- ,] ments against County Commissioners Knight i and (iibson for soliciting bribes from luddcia | on tho new court-bouse. s At Detroit, Mich., Mrs Nellie Pope was r found guilty of enusiug the death of her < husband, I)r. Horace E. Pope, 011 the niybt c of Februarv 12 last II 4*>> Wnshl ngton. The President has appointed II. Clny Armstrontr, of Alunamn, secretary of the legislation at Madrid, vice Stephen Bousail, of Baltimore, Md., tesigued. The treasury eireulntion statement for May shows that on Juue 1st the circulation ot ail kinds of money in the United States aggrtdjuteil $1 .COfi.l75.551). an increase since IQipnU.tlast of id,715.402. The decrease in circulation since June l. 1S9-I, is iGD.-190.000. The percapitacirculation on Juue J. 1895. as hused on an estimated population ol (>9,750,000, is 23.02. >1 iseclluiieous. The report of a committee to the Illinois Senate is vei v nnlavoratile to the moral and commercial value of Chicago's department stores. On Tuesday seven persons were overcome with the lie.it in P.ltsluiig. l'a., and died. Si.\ fatalities occurred in Washington, I>. and 05 of Philadelphia's policemen and llreIiien werod.-r.hled I>y the heat while on parade. uud three are expeett d to die. ~ r, i? ore I j* n. A dispatch the I*'. vintage Telegraph I ' Company from'J'angiei >ays that the Suliim ; of Morocco lias otlicial'v informed the for- i 1 eign rpresontative . that th>> tioxcrnim at is ' ' powerless to guarant > safety lo trave'lers, I ' .in'i mat ii'ri'if !!* '> ipom? into the iu- I 1 trrior should t o \\nrued if this statu of r.i fair-. * - ? I FYee Silver Seintillunfs. Tim Frankford. lud.. Times, an in?f?'p?*n- ' It-Hi newspaper. published a t all fur a lie- N 1.111>1 k11 e<>i.v -ntifii .11>11 * II t<i fij.'iuii/.f a ' free .silver le>:^nt Tim name.-, of SOi) prominent llepn liliean- ill tim e.'iial y aKaehed. The ileilioerat ol Va.-.ooomly. Mis':.. Itnhl , their iioiiiinatiii);' toiV'-atii'ii on Wetiaesilny r a in I litter naniimc a lull t i set. adopted a f reo eoinane plattorin and made eandidates ft>r tile legislature pledge tlma:-elves to VotH for iio man lur the I'nitetl State; senate not iu full svaip.ith\ on that tpiestion ^ \r.XT (o\t.i;i:ss , v Virus of Members oil Silver, Tarifi' * and the I tie ome Tax. i ' The New York World oul-li he- a telefrapliie poll ofilie next t'oiijires*. as far an ohtaiiiaMo i;|-n t lie-il v<*r. tarifT. and income j ta\ .piestiou.- J; . nin1. up 111?- re-ult us fol- ' low.-: In il f?onernl way it may t? -said that out of j 1 HI member* win ijrtvo uni iyiivooal answers > to tin-free silvor ipu'-liori, an* unqtiaii? ??!> in favor of free noiiiiuh', 4-1 favor t?i? iiu talli-ui K?'iicral!y, with tin* proviso of au international agreement. s Only seventeen < an fairly lie r Ins sod as favoring a single >rnhl -tuudard, and tho t ii 11 it ii< 1* of -i.'in- ..f those even is Hot do fill! to. | \ 'l!:o S>itli ainl fai Western States nro n I most t unanimous for froo < oi.mifo tho Control ( Statos loan toward -iivi, with international t biniotallio qiinlitleations, and it is only in N'-w Y<>rlc, N>'\y I nui.iiid. iiimI adjaoont [ 1 i-torii statos that thoro uro any avowedly (.'old standard inon. t in roirard ti fho tarifT. only twenty-eight . tv. ::!> r aro attain t all ohan wliilo thirty- j tivi f.i\ r a. lot.-to I .ui'-ti - ai.d tInrt v oil-lit jy ar? | r noiia.-o.t for radio.il . lianitos. A few r( nro free-traders. Tho moderates are chiefly ( vlio 11: ii k oliaiia*' Willi" in- < ary in oiih i 'o inot'i'iiso rovoiru . / ( In- uo'oiiio-ta\ <| io-tioi. hrftiivlit out many ?har| iiiol pi'|ioiiit answers. Forty-nine ( congressmen sav thoy tavortho prinoiplo of tho lux ( '.irt \ ? even opj o-.o a A great n atiy ova h-d tho quo- lion, or failed to Uus We r it. ^ The Now Cotton Post Kinigratinp;. tl The Texas eotton pest, reported as nt work . In ISaldwin l ounty. Ala , last s-mdav is now J" n-ported front several farm- i , t i. iko county, \ Ala. It is the most destrtn ti enemy that has yet appeared and 'hi- t, .n> i ury greatly n ?liirmod. tl ffll CABINET OFFICERS, , is )lney, Secretary of State and Judson S Harmon, of Ohio, Attorney-General. t H CLEVELAND GIVES A SURPRISE. :j i ~ * i p rhc Atloriiey-Goiiml Promoted to the ,, Stalfi DotiArlinfnt?.Judge llurmon, of S Cincinnati, the New Attorney-General-?. Uia Selection Had Not liecu l.ookml for y by the Politician*. President Cleveland gave tlie country ? ' genuine surprise when the official announoe- , nent was ir.ado from the Executive Mansion p hat he had selected Hou. Richard Olney, of * dassachusetts, for the position of Secretary >1 State, to till the vacancy caused by the y leath of the late Walter Q, liresliatn, oi 1 llino.'s. ami that he had chosen Hon. Judson 1 Turmoil, of Cincinnati, as Attorney- ,, ienerul, to succeed Mr. Olney in that office. n .v SECRETARY OK STATE R1CI1ARI) 01.NET t resuiem vueveianii nun uo personal noluuii.tauce with the new law ofllcer of his administration an I hud never soon hira. edge Harmon, wiion seen by a reporter at ' lis homo in Cincinnati said that lie had no utimution that Mr. Cleveland was even countering him for the plane, and that when he 4 cneived a despatch from the Presilent tendering him the place ho ,ould hardly believe it. There was , i hasty consultation with one or two intinate friends, and then ho submitted the natter to his law partners in New York, load ley, liar 1 on, Colston and Goldstein. | iVhen u reply came hack commanding him Da; I'i'jit ho instantly wired the President hat he would do so. f Sketch of Secretary Olne.v's Life. j Richard Otnoy w.is born In Oxford. Wor- t ester County, Mass., September 15, 1885. t To was prepared for co.Jogo at Leicester tcadetny, and graduated from Brown } Jniversity. Providence, II. 1.. in 1856. "roiu tlnit year to 1851> he attended the j Jurvard Law School, when ho was ad- . nitted to the bar and entered the itTlco of Hon. P.. P. Thomas, of Boston. * Jo was a inombet of the Massachusetts 1 Jo use of Representatives in 187J. Since the ?ear of his graduation at the Harvard Law j ichool and his a bnisston to the bar, in 1S5D, j ; in ha. been continually in the practice of . lie law in Boston. He received bis appoint rient as Attornov-General oi the United t Rates Man h (>. is;):}, the date upon which ( ['resident Cievelauil eutered upon hi" second 1 erin of oflire. ! , The New Attorney -Genera!. I Judge .nid- >11 Harmon is recognised as ' me ol I be b-abng iawyr.- and jurists of i 1 >hio lie win born near Ciiieinunti forlv- ! f 1 '!> years ago, anil has always lived there. I 1 [In father, the R %-. 11. P. Harmon, was a ! 1 i.-Liil ivt minister v*-? 11 L-if.ntMi tKe..>...i * "? 1 - ' "UHII'.I". Ill" I jhio Valley Tin- Judge grai I tinted i i! IViucson University, a fiat'list in- | 1 ;t it tit **. fit Granville, Ohio. in IS.;."., an*l ' M-g.in 1 prnctiew <<f law in (.'in- ] ' 'iiiiinti in 1 !|" \va a i( 'publican ' ill l-oJ. when he < ireeleyite. Iln i va- elected Sii|ii'rior Judge in iM7.^, re- 1 ' leoied in Ixs;i and wh i Governor George ' ' lead le v wait to New York in ixs7 Judge 1 la ran-n re-ign >d from t i* lfeneh to become J in- II of ill-* tirtn ?>' Ilarrnnii, Colston, ' i.M<lsti-in ?( lliii lli-y, wiii *h represents sev ra! railroads mid otner la'ge corporations, | ,ii-l with win i t rni In will ooutiuun his r >: ix"?-ti->ii. Wh-n Judge II ir-n-?n r 'signed " . I-s7 G.>\ -r:. ' I' >:a< r appointed Judge i V:i tarn 'I n*. now United Slates Circuit Ige and formerly S oieitor-General. to the a aii > .Mr-. I! irmou i- an wvomplishi'd . v -nan. ! a- ig!:!i i 1 the ialo I):. S -obey. Ilaini't-'i). i iicv have three daughters? ; "i>. I'Mtnar Wrigiit .lr . oi Philadelphia: i lis- I.'.zahotii. a ri ogiur.ed society leudor, ;n i Murjnria. who is fourteen years old. udg?* Harmon forty-nine years of aire, is .liout six feet two inches in height. athletic ! n appearance and well preserved though lis haii is slightly tinged with gray I COTHAVI REACHiNC OUT. Takes in '-iO.OOO Ai res of New Territory in WottrlieMter County. ] Governor Morton signed Senator Itobert- j ion's hill providing for the annexation to the | ity and county of New York of territory vitliin the limits of Westchester, Enstehester I iml polham. The law adds to Now York j j Jity an area ot 20,000 h-tos, including two of ! ho most imp >rtaiit of tho recently acquired j . larks in Westchester, ami an additional pop- j ilati>n of 17.000 The iiow territory includes Morris Park aoo truck. TIii-okks No -k. at the eastern ox- , . remity of whicli stands Fort Kehuylcr; ? Jnionport, Westcliestor, WlllinmsbridgQ, Jronwille Olinvilte, Hay Chester, East- . 'hester, Wakefield and Barlow. All thi& erritory is to tie included in tho present , ["wenty-fourth Ward of New York C ity and ? 'ouutv. ? Four Men Hanged. I At 8an Francisco, A'nelio Garcia was j 1 langed on Friday. Onrein eommittcd iruir- ! lor for the purpose of robbery. A/off was lie second to bang. Azoff was caught ii | lie act of robbery and killed OtUeer Harris rhen he attempted to arrest him. Cullii.-, v lie third man to bo hanged, followed. Ho I | ran a wife murderer. } At Morrillton, Ark., Will Downes, who as- * ssnulted Paulina Bridtlbaugh, wur hanged tie same day r m Cotton Crop Statement. The New Orleans Cotton Exchange statenent is as foflotf"?: Secretary Hester has just ssued a statement of the Texas cotton crop >nd movements from the Quit and Atlantic Itates. showing actual deliveries from the Itate of Texas for the first nine months of he season to the close of May. inclusive, of 1,188.260 bales, against 1,976.884 bales for the ame time Inst season. inaaing a net increase if 1,211,376 Imles. Tin; deliveries at the ?exas seaboard show an iucrnase of 643,711 ml-.:, shf its .yia Cn.'rj and St. Louis 43,596. to NfC ?v Orh ....? 40.1.906 nod railroad hipments to Mexico 30,974. While the shipments across the Mississippi river north ot It. Louis have decreased 13,174 boles. Seyjc.. ary Hester says that the deliveries from the Itate of Texas from and after May 31 Inst ear were 82.176 bales, the commercial crop >f Texas last yenr having been 2,059,009 m'"?. Mr. Hester has also issued a statement riving an analysis of the movement of cotton uto sight, dividing tile cotton licit into three (roups, viz: First. Texas and Indian 'J'erriory; second, otiier Gulf States, e nluacing irkansas, Louisiana. Mississippi and Tennssee; tui?d. Atlantic states, embracing iorth Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama. This analysis shows he crop brought into sight for the first nine nonths of the season to the close of May. in lusive. as follows: Tcxils 3.134,156 hales, igainst 1.987.177 in 1894, and 2.067,018 in 893; other Gulf States 2.794,676 bales, against 1.129.381 in 1894. and 1.770,846 in 1893: Atantic States 3.540,953 bales, against 8.190.677 n i?in. iiriii z.osa.i.M in is.'J. I tie statement loes not divide Texas it ml other Gulf States or 1892. the t>,035,000 erop y?*;ir. as there vere no separate monthly (Inures n.Hile up or Texas in that year, but it gives the followng eomparlsons between this year ami 1892: i'e.xas and other tinlt States together this ear 5.979.182 bales, against 5,37-1.021 in 1302. itlantie States, this year 3.540,053, against i.587.197 in 1802. Excess eouipareil with 1802 n Texas ami other (Julf States 605.111: excess ompared with 1802 in Atlantic States 53.750. The difference in the Texas crop, as given ibove, and Tcxib iu sight consists of the fact hat the Texas erop embraces ouly cotton ncually shipped out of the State to the close *>f day, whereas the insight includes also stocks it counted interior towns at the close of May a ogees* of September 1. An important feature in Mr Hester's report s the showing of the amount brought into ight from the different groups after the dose if May in the past three years They were is follows : From Texas 80,883 dales in 1804 mil 41.305 in 1803; from other Gulf States Ki.OOi bales in 1804 and 03,720 in 1S03. From i'exas and other Gulf States together 60.079 ales in 1802; from Atlantic States 74.808 mles in 1894. 144.143 in 1803 and 113.182 in 809. K HOPEFUL OUTLOOK SOUTHERN BUSINESS IMPROVING Vew Cotton Mills, Oil Mills,and Other Enterprises Building. Special reports tc the Baltimore Manufac'urers' Record covering the industrial and ;cneral l>usiuc?s progress of ti e South durug the past week shows continued iroproveneet, with a steady increase iu railroad aruings and clearings as compared vith the con espWnnbg period of last year. There is a very marked improvement also n the condition of trade, with a very hopeul outlook for the future. Cotton mill tnerests continue to command wide attention x>th on the part of Northern investors who ire contemplating building mills intbo.South, tnd on the part of local people of the'South. Ininng the cotton mills reported for the week ire a 3500,000 company now being organized 0 build at Charlotte, N. C., a 10,000 spindle nill at Athens, Ga., an 8.000 spindle mill at jraham, N. C., 325,000 of new machinery is icing added ton nail at Augusta, Ga., and a lew mill is to be built at Mount Holly, N. C. A Western company will build a 3100,000 lant in Alabama for the manufacture of -hnrcoal and the utilization of the hi-product u making wood alcohol ; a 350,000 cotton eed oil mill company has been organized at Fort (lams, Ga.. a 340,000 oil mill at Rome ; 1 312.000 oil mill at Spartanburg, mid an il mill is being organised >:t Blaeksburg, 4. A 3150,000 barrel oil reflneryand soap ivorksareto be built at Meridian. Miss., at Cireeuville. Miss., a 3100.000 cooperage plant is to be started, and at Meridian. Miss., a pi 00.000 lumber company has been oaganized. \ 31.000,000 minting company, composed naiiil.v ot Northern people, has Oceii orgnniz <! to operate in West Virguiiti. 'i lie fertilizer York1" being ous ted i:t Black-burg. S ('.. will tuvc a eapac11y of alioul 25.0(H) tons pi" year. THE ADVAXC KIN PRICES I'liW is the Feature of the Week According to IJradstieel's. Brr.d?t reel's Commercial report says of ast week Toe -peenlati ve spirit which teemed dominate I tli commercial and Innncial >r l< s until a week or teu days gist is still le<-s conspicuous in ail Jir.es. iVtiile hi-uie-.. throughout the country may >e characterized as quite raw. the tone of itapie market- ?--?!itinu?-~ strong. and contlleiiee in a good demand when the fall sea ( a open.- next month remains unabated. The feature of the week, a- heretofore, is he continue I long U-t ol advances in prices, lotahlv tin -" in iron and steel, and the upvard movement of hank clearings. Higher jriees are re.-ordeil for some cotton goods, ihoes hnh- leather, paper pig iroD. steel galvanized iron, 'dark sheets, canned goods, logs, wheat corn, oats and some grades of vheat flour, prices lor liveriittln, wool, coal irul liimher ire r ; < rte I uiiohanged and llrin, vitli-liver >tt a peir'.e)i:m and :ard alone loteworthy as showing lower prices than list week. Southern > itie* jr. most instances report rade and collections fair, with no special hnnge from I. -t week. A light gain in denand is r< ported fr-ci Atlanta ami .la ksourille. where < .dh etion-are also better. An inpr< ved condition ot business prevails at Jew Orleans. Failures in four weeku of May showed labditie- , | > ? d'if.lK! of which *3.401,876 ver" 01 ii,niii>iu<'i 11 ring ami j&.Hfj.MOti or radiiig eoneerne. f.ast year the total was 111.787,!>.il, .f which f 4.(I'llwas of mariur.cturing ami i l. 2X1,s?t> of trading eoncernH. *hilnr?*s i,,r the wok have been )!?.*> hi the ! States iw.iunt 2)t> ia-t year uud 25 lu a Canada, agiiin-t -to last year. Kiftv Killed and all ltrl<lg<>K Ciono. Telegrams received at Stuttgart from the >ia k I-'i rest district of Wurteinberg. which yas deluged l?y a (loud hurst and inundated >y the corise<|iient overflowing of the river iyacti. Wednesday night state that 50 perons were killed in Buligeu district and all d the bridges spanning the river were curie.I uwuy. CAST BP BY THE SEA. GRAPHIC STORIES OF WRECK. Hairbreadth Escapes and Harrowing Scenes When the Pacific Mali Steamer Collma Foundered. On Thursday at San Francisco the San Juan arrived from Panama and way ports with survivors of the wrecked Pacific Muil steamer Colima. George D. Ross, formerly a mate on the cruiser Olympia. gave the United Press reporter the following graphic account of the wreck: "We left Mntzlan Sunday, May 26, at 4 o'clock P. M., with a fair breeze blowing. Toward 9 o'clock in the evening the wind increased a little and continued blowing preujr irfeu u.11 UJ^III. nwAi iiiuruiu^ ui six o'clock the wind moderated considerably until it acquired the proportions of a hurricane. The Colima labored heavily and it was evident that we were in a very precarious predicament. The greatest excitement prevailed on board. "Unfortunately just at the last momenta fatal blunder was committed by the third officer, who cut the lashings of a deck load consisting of 3'2,000 feet of lumber. Some of this was washed into the sea and what remained on deck was driven out, knocking down and maiming those whom it struck. A | particularly heavy sea struck thoship. tumbj ling the foremast and smoke stack. Shortly i before this, however, a succession of huge j waves had punched a hole in our starboard ) bow. through which the sea poured. Wo j men screamed and rushed tip the companion ! wav. imnloritiir the men to save tliem. The ship gave couple of heavy roll?, an'l sin enormous sea dimbeil ou us. smashed the I hurricane deck and with one mighty lurch | the ship went down. As she was making her last lurch I dove into the Bea and when 1 came up she was out of sight. People wive floating around, clinging to all sorts of I wreckage, and some sinking under our very ' eyes. Some who had managed to grasp hold of boxes or planks were knocked senseless and drowned. The force and effect of this Homing mass of lumber cannot be de- t scribed. It caused the death of many \vl ! might otherwise have been saved. "It is a difficult matter to gay to what cause the wreck of the C'olima is attributable. She must certainly have shitted her cargo, as her strong list to port showed. "1 firmly believe that but for the shifting of the cargo the ship would have ridden out the gale. I hud been in the water some little time, elinging to one object or another when finally I managed to get bold of a good sized piece oi hurricane deck, upon which I climbed, and being close to shore was soon picked up." T. J. Oriel, an electrician on his way to Mexico, gave about the same version of the commencement of the storm. Ho said the Colima, during the height of thestorm. listed So badly after each succeeding rush of waves that she did uot recover. About !' o'clock on the morning of the wreck, he said: ' I went below to the steerage quarters and noticed water coming into the starboard scuppers. Shortly afterward a quartermaster came down saying the captain wanted to see the engineer. The latter went on deck, but re- \ turned to the engine room in three or four I minutes looking like a dead man. Hi- face j was ashy pale. That was the last I him. "By this time the steerage passengers had all gene below. Then the seven men-ofwarsmen from the American cruisers Olympia and Philadelphia tried to console those around them. One of these Dually told us | we were doomed. "W? shook bauds, said good-bye and he ; knelt on a sack of Hour aud said prayers. 1 then started to go on deck, butthe ship listed ] bo badly I could scarcely make my way up| ptairs. At this time, the third officer cut the j lashings that hound the lumber deck load. ! The smoke-stack hud toppled over. I made I for a boat, intending to cut it loose from its ! fastenings, but was unable to do so. The 1 Bhip was on her beam ends, and tie* decks bulged out and were tinally rent. I then jumped into the water, seized a box and was washed about from one float to another like many others. The heaviest squall name just following the disappearance of the ship. While it prevailed many ?f those who were struggling in the waves were mangled and drowned hy floating lumber, rive of us. Tom Fiteh, .lack '.'urpenter. two Mexicans and myself, got on a raft and were pieked up I by a boat in command of rapt, f.-uig. | formerly captain of the Colima. A Mexican named Zerrabia went crazy from drinking ealt water." ; George Rowan, another pa>--enger fl5jr,TS I in the main with the. previous statements of the storm and added: "There was absolutely no discipline, no organization of any kind. : Everything was e panic. The captain stood on the bridge. Women screamed and the 1 children cried, clinging in desperation to their parents and even ?o -trangcrs. As soon as I became ronvin ed that the sliip was doomed I hastily jm111> .1 down some lifepreservers. W.ien seen I?y the xfeward lie ; ordered me peremptorily to discontinue vhnt ! 1 was doing. Without paying any nttenlion to hi.n 1 kept on pulling d.-wn lib- belt*, and j passing them out. As I am unable to swim I tied one of these belts around me and | Jumped into the sea. Three times I sank, and had just reached for a piece of wreckage wheD I whs again knocked under by something. presumably a plank, a large gash was cut in my head and I am cut and bruised * II over. Alter floating about b.r twenty-four hours mi a large piece of wood I wa? picked i up by a boat frem the San .Juan." The following is the list of the survivors ! landed: Third Mete tfansci lc. A villus. A j Carpenter. A. ilk-hardson. ; liomas ] ish. | members of crew II. A. Sutherland. C. II | Cushinu, J- M. Thornt' it. II II. itovd, (ieorue ; Rowan, lJrunoeend.., Jos? Manuel j?. I ; Rosa, Louis Sanjtiencr ,J. Oriel, Juan A j Ramos. Tbe following survivors were landed at j Mazatlan: Thomas Seralia, J>. Oliva-< A Guttierez, Carlo? Luitn. A fatal l':r o 'irf'-tl in h -',r- . ' ,I,|. . won villi*. I" 1 i . I>\ .vhii'h . t. i~ | . i i?? W. mini'- , j hiul Iter 7 ye?r old nejce, Snllie .Io:iM?, in ||. ! eoiored.?were burned to death. Memorial day in honor >f tin- <" .f:f?r.i? r;itr ili'iiii hiirii'il at L-<n _moii. V.i.. v?v observed Saturday. (Jen. Kd;.lim;h Lou ilt'liviTol an address ir. the <*iin|>?-1 tin- Washii irton and f'niversil v to a la rip' cat In rin^ ' { people. i Tin* toml'x ol iiciwrn1 !|'?!""! J.ei . J'hoa.u.1 Jin ksi n (Stonrwall i. and 'tier ?!i>l:n- i (jiiished dead were sti<*wu with llo*or?. Ex-ti..vi'rin?r Lewis K. I,ftrwonv died ir. , Tailed nun. Am., on Saturday II" v.as api pointed provisional u-,v|,rru>r of the Stato in ' June, inn", hv President Johnson. Whin , the Legislature met u. l>m*ninl>"r offluit year | be was ele. ted Tinted Slut's Senator, hot I van refused his sent bemuse of opposition j Congress made to the r*-e<>iistn.< tion polJey I of Mr. Johnson. Sinee that tiiue lit- de? i voted Ids time to the j raetlce of law. money question not later than August, lfc'JS. If the said national committee refuses to call such a convention, then we invite the Democratic State committees of the other States to take concurrent action with the Democratic State committee of this State in calling such convention. "Resolved, That the Demcratic members of Congress and members of the Senate from this State be and are hereby instructed to use every honorable means to carry out the principles above enunciated." Judge Samuel 1'. McCunnell was then eondieted to tile chair aud spoke as follows: "This convention has a most peculiar and rni^t important significance. Heretofore, managers >! pohficai parties have arranged that party policies should be declared only at the time candidates were chosen. ftDd only a short time oefore the gathering of the franchises ?>t the people. The result has been often that our conventions have put forth a mere assertion <>l general principles, or on live issues expressed themselves Lu meaningless compromises. "At the very beginning of this contest let us make up our minds that we will not tie frightened by nursery tales, an?l that we won't give up oui tight because they '0111 us names. Let us bear in iniud, in view of the direful predictions of the mono-metal lists that we have not much gold at present, and that what little wo have wo bought with 4 per cent, gold interest hearing-bonds, and that even what little we have we keep through the courtesy f,f 11.iron Hothschild anil Mr. Morgan, ll-tw nil ali the time we are not only depressing trade, hut straining our llnaneia! i sources to perpetuate a financial system which we don't believe in and which ivf never knowingly established. "Intern.in uial agreement is by no means necessary. Until human wisdom lias devised some other plan than tluit now recognized by the entire world, gold and silver will ooutiauefo tie used as money. And So long aa we are to use metal as a representative of x a hie and as aid t.. exchange, we cuunot iiiTord t<> dispen-e with either silver or gold. "We who are in favor of the remonetiza*.:< ti of sii,? r say there i- no injustice even to the red it or, if the government shall restore to silver its o|,! f.lace in our monetary system. 7lie time has cone* to rebuke thoso who distrust the vis ion. >f ?he people and accept the srlllsh wisdom of the money ' hiinges ami Mie bondholders. The system we want restored has been approved by lung experience, hits been -ninth lied !y our progress, is justified by our situation, and is necessary to ur national independence and prosperity. We must rid our-, ves of the veto pow'er of New York and 1.- ml. n. Let t tie people ' ouimaiid and our official -ervnnta must obey." oner some inrtner easiness of an unimportant nature tin; committee adjourned. GAINFUL. <?< < I NATIONS. A New Census iJuIletin Containing Some Useful Information. The Washington correspondent of the Charlotte Observer says: The census bulletin like the census year, comes along slow \ for here is No. 90. dated May IHth, coniaiu ingthe number of persons ten years ot age nuu U** I riimx^ru in ^ llllllll ill MIS. Til" whole number in 1890 was 22,135 .fifil or 47.96 percent. of all persons too yearn Irt arid over, the whole numlier o' -at oh perrons being 47,413/101). i'he pereei.<age ul males was 17.28; ol femaWs 16 '.is. In North Carolina the total pi ptilntion ton years anil over wan 1.147.440, n! whom 659,704 wore males and 587,0S2 females. The to tnl of all pernors in gainful occupation* wan 537.303. of whom 4i2,l7'? were males and 115.193 females; 818,711 males ami 55,04* females were oeeupied with agriculture fisher::?-. and mining 8,97! males and 3.325 females with professional nerviei n The total in trade and transportation \v< re28.7;)'t, nil exeept 628 males. In n.nrmfaetories anil mechanical Industries there, were .C,v34 males and 13.415 females omjiloved. 'J lu ie were 29,083 males persons iii domestic umi * personal service, and 42,177 female persona. Tho ITygenic Congress nt BudaFesth, Hungary, brought out tho fact that there nro lonr times as many in on who stammer as there women so kfni*tiut ? FOR FREE SILYER. THE ILLINOIS CONVENTION. Platform Adopted? Judge Samuel P. McConnell's Speech. Tlie Illinois Democratic Silver Convention met at Kpringtleld on Wednesday. Secretary of State Heinriohsen, by virtue of his office, chairman of the Democratic State central committee, called the meeting to order. Temporury Chairman Crawford sold ha would not delay the proceedings of the convention by muking a speech. He would, however, say that the eyes of the whole country were on this convention. Let its action he no uncertain one. Lot it not beat about the bush, nor mince matters, but declare unconditionally for gold or for the. free and unlimited coinage of silver nt 1(5 to 1. After disposing of routine business the following platform adopted: "Whereas, silver una gold have been the principle money metals of the world for thousands of years and silver money recognized and used as honest money between nations notwithstanding the varying ratios between silver and gold, and, "Whereas, The demonetization of silver has deprived the people of the free use and benefits of au invaluable and original money metal, and has increased debts and added to the burdens of the people by lowering the value of labor products, and, "Whereas, The constitution of the United States prohibits the use of anything but gold and silver coin as legal tender for the payment of debts, thereby recognizing that coin composed of silver and gold is honest money and fit to be used as u legal teuder; therefore. by the Leiuoerney of Illinois, in convention assembled, be it "Resolved. That we are in favor of the use of both gold and silver as the standard motley of the United States, and demand the free and unlimited coinage of both metals at the ratio of i(> to 1 without waiting for the action of any other nation, and that such coins shall be a legul tender for all debts, botb public aud private, and that all eontracts hereafter executed for tbo payment of money, whether in gold, silver or coin, may be discharged by any money which is by law a legal tcr'' :.-. "We hereby endorse the action rd the Democratic State central committee in calling this convention, and we instruct the committee to carry out the will of this convention as expressed in its platform by inaugurating and carrying on a campaign of education in this State, and to thoroughly organize the Democracy of the State on the lines luid down in the platform of this convention. "Rcsx-lved, Thut we request the Democratic uational committee to call a Demo..rufii. niitir.nui .u.nuui.linn ?.1 .>nrtui>l?r Im