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Hawcasfe Heilgtr, 1 HI RLOW 8 CARTFR, Editor and Manager A Family Newspaper: For the PFtT&'nfon of the Political, Social, Agricultural and Commercial Interests. Terms H.JJO a Year. Payable in Advance. SEMI-WEEKLY EDITION. LANCASTER, S.C.. FEBRUARY 17, I89L ESTABLISHED 1842. ' ? John D.Rockefeller has given nearly 85,000.000 to tho Chicago University and h-i3 what tin Detroit Fro i Pron (erran, "the gooil taste" not to demand that it be named for him. r- ..! t< Bir Charles T)ilke, recently said in jn the debate in the British Parliament: 'The moat dangerous illusion any in- ? habitant of tho unite I kingdom can have is that wo are a popular power. Jn "We are probably tho most unpopular 1A the great powers." JU_ -J. L Tn the opinion of many, the religions w tales of A. L. 0. E. are the beat Bunday-school stories in tho language, w The initials stood for "A Lady of Kng- fr land," and her name was Miss Charlotteo Maria Tnckor. The announcement of her death will bring regret to a large number of people who have * , m been interested and helped by her books. i. .?j w Navigation of the great lakes dur- N ing tho season of 1893 resulted iu the loss of 123 lives. The number of ves- h< sels lost was fifty-three, with an aggregate tonnage of 24,258, and valued at $1,040,409. Partial losses by stranding*, collisions and tires bring Ci the total up $2,11.2,588. The shallow ^ waters of Lake Erie claimed nearly half the lives lost, Huroi b?'na i * J? ' ' ' - q *1 According to tho figures piosonted tl by tho London Times in its agriculiural review of the past year, tho area iu Croat Itritain devoted to whoat was 1,798,889 acres; to barley, 2,201,293, ^ and to oats, 4,435,941. Tho wheat crop is estimated 45,429,407 bushels. ^ Tho paper bovs that at tho end of tho l year there were 2,079,587 horses in as Great Hritain, 11,207,554 hoad of cattle, 31,774,924 sheep and 3,278,010 V pigs. tfc _ in "While in Germany the people ar? -just learning how mauy good things can be made from our cornmeaJ," states tho New York Post, "in England they are dis;ovcring how good our cranberry is when properly j>( cooked. Heretofore tho English have ia not taken to it kindly, which is not b< wonderful if it be true that they have ^ always cooked it :n tin and poured it into metal dishes. Cooked in poroelain and served in nhina, the tartsauca f to hac ?juit<> a different flavor." ' in the University baw Keview some interesting figures nro collected as to th the pecuniary value of life and limb as estimated in the courts within tho jn last Hve yearn. The value of a lifo is tl) in Nome Htntea fixed hy law, and New York is one of tho States whioh does ti not allow the recovery of nioro than ' $5000 for tho loan of a life in a suit j, against tho person or corporation p, through whose negligenco tho lose oo- ot eurred. This figure seems strangely low, nince five times that amount has cr been allowed in this State an compon- ^ eatiou for tho loss of a limb. Fifteen thousand dollars has been held not ox- ^ ccssive for the life of an intelligent ^ young man in Kentucky, and a verdict (j for a like amount has been sustained in Tennossee when tho life was that of ^ a postman and express agent, thirty- j, three years old, though a verdict for ii $13 ,1K)0 was held excessive in the same I State where tho life lost was that of a >i xveak man fifty-seven years old. The 11 courts allow less for the loss of a drunkard's life and more for the life of an industrionsaud steady man. The ^ lives of children are usually valued at j from $3000 to $1500. In Illinois the tl loss of sn eyo has been compensated n for by $5000, and of two eyes by $9000. '' In New York a verdict of $14,000 for ' itho loss of an eye and disfigurement of tho faoe has been sustained. In this f> Htate, als<>, it has t>een held that $0500 |? for the loss of a hand is not exoeaeive. Two thonsaid dollars was held to be j JM the proper nmonut for the impairment 4 of the iim of a hand in Ijoniaiana. The New York oourte hare usually been liberal in allowing verdicts for damages. A verdict for $10,000 for the loss of the arm of an eight-year old boy h*a been held proper. Texas Jc juries are even more liberal and the courts in that State have upheld a vor- ot diet for $11,000 for injury to one arm and other wounds. An allowance of to $11,lot) for the loan of the leg of a man eighty years old was held not exoee* aire in thia State, and one of $16,000 Ai for an injury to the limb of a woman ^ o' /wonty-seven waa alao held not ex* c / A verdiot of $12,000 for the Jofc' of a leg by a boy Ore years old ;; u waa ala<i approved in thia State, and th one of $21,000 for a similar injury waa m not disturbed. In Wiaeonain a verdiet of $40,000, for the loea of both M lege of a hoy waa reduced to $18,000, in and a verdict of $20,750 waa reduoed ea to $' \7fi0 for an injury to a man's leg *r in a tern State. The loaa of the ^ leg -if i boy waa regarded aa worth fwh) 0 il?i?* W*wcia L< PITHY NEWS ITEMS. pc Six cottages along the canal nt Co- mi imbia, H. C., lmrnccl Thursday. T1 Mai. W. A. C. Doggett was crushed 'r,' ? death by two cals at (laflfney, S" C" to at week. nh 200 bales of cotton burned at An- of prson, 8. C. m Cnpt. R. R. Crawford, a prominent cr ian of Winston, N. C., has failed. m ur Jones' livery stable in Atlanta was bt nmod Friday night at 11 o'clock, pi oss 8100,000. A number of firemen B< ere seriously burned. be FTenry Snorderly, an old man, and his *ri ife, were killed by burglars 18 miles om Knoxville Thursday night. Tho urglara got 8200. *? he The Bear Spring Iron Furnace in m tewart county, Teun., will resume in few days giving employment to 300 jR en- . co Tho postoftlcoof NewportNows, Va., nl as robbed Friday morning of 81,000, o clue. Br ex A flour mill has been contracted to n, p built near Fingerville, S. C. C(] Stanhope Fallen will erect a new in ininess block in Raleigh, N. C. Many of the cotton iiiiIIh of South arolina are adding more machinery. he textile interests of the State are miming. F' sv C. H. Almoud, dry-gooda merchant A. ; Ijynchburg, Va., has assigned, with in abilities of 831,000. m The Wilmington (N. C.) branch of ftl io National Loan Association has sen organized with Samuel Northrop, :,J resident. f? The Consolidated Lumber Co., at n| ulaski, Vn., linn made an assignment. r? ssets are estimated at $10,000. Charles A. Oladke, dry-goods mer- ctl innt at Staunton, Va., haa assigned. 1'' iabilitiea are estimated at $35,000 and w acta at 8 18,0(H). t< bi The improving credit of the State of . irginia i? shown by the passage in y 16 Virginia aennte of a bill autliorizig the monthly purchaae, out of the j, irplna of 8100,000, of "Century mds." Peteraburg, Va., ia to have electric >? reet earn. It ia exported that the Manchester ^ Augusta road now being built will s completed by April. Tho grading ( l nearly tlniahcd and tra< klaving haa |'( pgun. Tliia ia the Atlantic Coaat ine'a extension WUveen Retmni and enmark, H. 0. It ia reported that the Baltimore Ohio ia oonaidering the idea of ex- lb 'tiding the Valley division of ita aya- th rn to Roanoke, Va. *1 Bida have been opened at Oharlea- 1M n, S. C., for the reconstruction of '? ie bridge acroaa the Ashley River. In A reduction of .r?0 centa per gallon Wl i whiskey have been announced by ie South Carolina State diapensnry. r#. The bill to repeal the Federal elec- <>v on law haa passed the U. S, Senate, re id received the President's signature, tewart, of Nevada, and the three epnlist Senators, Allen, Kyle and eflfer, voted with the Democratic, herwise it was a strict party vote. Hope Elias is slntod for tho Demo- ^ atie nomination for Congress from n ie Wth North Carolina disti ief Hosch are blooming out of doora at !' owhern. N. G. C The Daily Newa offlpi>, Orwnvillp, C., wraa partially burned lnnt Sun- 1 mj' ti Prof. ftlair, Supt. of the Winnton, Hi f. C., graded achool, expelled u< v. ral |j npila for going to the DegratY liangr?K Capt. .John L. Morris, of Graven, I. caught 215duckaanil three Iooiih f? hia ahad nets on Hancock creek and ad them on the Newborn market hist m< riday. vil The Uadica Memorial Araocintion of J18 filmington, N. haa invited t'ol. .11 nlian S. Gnrr, of Durham, to deliver n le oration on the olmervanec of Me- * inrial Day at Oakdide ei iio tery on the Dth of next May, and he ha* aeet pted " le invitation. to Theophilua IMand, of Pitt. V (' .haa ?ven aons, and nooneinthe <>ntHt,tbe |oi Id man counted, wciglia lean than J'Mt oa onnda. frt Another bomb ah- thrown in f ins, fonday afternoon, fatally wounding ' people. The MeArtor Farm, adjoining Upervtlle, Fampner county, Va , was dd at public auction Thursday, to fr, >hn I). Hooe, of Alexandria for $1,- co f-V Al McKtnley was enthusiastically nom- *? isted in the convention of lb pnbli ,n ins at Columbus, O , fin President *' ' f the United States. n'" pr A aour-wood tree fell oti Oscar Hrit ftf< n, of Jonea county, N C , and killed ?u ni- on Oen. C. A. Kvar.* ami Hon W. Y. 1111 tkiiiaoii are to canvas* Georgia for ic Democratic nomination for Oovnor. jl? ? - ? - ? r y^urrfis ari urgnm Itng. I U Ramcioh, N. C.?The Pnpnliiti are r* tin early beginning to hold county *<'' ltH>0iior tfc piHMwaf owiihdn ' 1 iilm At each meeting a letter fr<?in tairman Taubeneck, of the national entire eomimtte, m read urging tho imediato organisation of club* in ch township. It in aaid theae clulm e to meet publicly ami haW no aign rMWorda, audi at the Pupslilta (lr in their organization two yeara do o, and that tlnii motto will be "au do >ueat government and a fail count." vii Must Bestir Themselves. Bremen, the famous German seairt, has addressed an official com- Politic indention to Clarkaville, Ttnn. icse two ends of the earth have time rp^, mo together, because, as Bremen :.nrgcs and Clarksville admit", th? crtuci bacc? packed nt the latter place snd i]>ped to the former .falls far short , j the samples furnished to the Bre- j|( ii en tobacco importers. The import- R s announced that they would give no py j ore orders for Clarksville tobacco ^ itil a satisfactory reply should have sen received to the circular of com- , , ' aint. Tie Clarksville Tobacco jard of Trade, which had already >en investigating the question of p,,]jp audulent tobacco packing, not only nt a full and satisfactory reply to remen, but thanked tho importers ^ u r their circular of complaint, and ^jr" mceforth Clarksville is likely to ^eeti aintain her good repute in the -pj1( bacco importing world. Clarksville |j?f|e a town of 8,000 inhabitants, the ^ , mnty seat of Montgomery county, m,M10 i on the Kentucky border and the (,om|, ipot for a large tobacco-growing fj. en. As Bremen is a tobacco port of vice tensive trade, neither Clarksville f,,rilj| >r any other American depot can be nnfortable when tho Bremen tobacco j,.y( lporters look askance at its products. ^ yp Hanged For Killing His Sweetheart. u/l'l At Winston, N. C-., in the presence q'hi over 0,000 people, Peter PeGraff, j>.,l t lid the penalty of the murder of his ?<>]ect ieet heart, Ellon Smith. Sheriff Mc- com rthur sprung the trigger at 12:55and He- ] i an instant the lifeof tho condemned doubt an was out. His neck was broken q'he t nl death was instantaneous, but the j ,rHr mart's action continued for seven jhe v i nu tea. Th In his speech PeGraff made a con- ideas ssion of tho crime, which he has Secrr ways bitterly denied. He talked the cl ipidtv but was notexcited. He said: prove "That thing you cnll corn liquor, olutic n ds, dice, an l other games of chance, istols and bad women, are the things hich have brought me to this place, i stand on this scaffold. 1 have kept p( ick for months what 1 am going to II you. God told me to keep it t-nok. es, 1 shot that woman. I was drnnk ., , .U- 41 T . .. .. .... I Ml... I in ? niv. ? puv me pisioi ro lier " reast hitil fired it. The only word* . o,|H? 10 said after 1 ?hot, were: 'liord.have ercy on me.' I stand here to day to reive my junt rewnrd." lie ronrliidrd ltin remarks by telling i* hearers not to do as he had done. v| 'lien IVter ahook handa ami told his ' v*i brother* and the officers good bye, ?r ,n ir aeene waa a aad one. He gave his iblv to hia youngest brother". j>y tb ? A, Sam Jones and tngalls Meat. * ,, _, _ the H Nashvillk, Te.nn.?When Evange- ^ tp( ?t Sum Joiiea railed for penitent* at e Goapel Tabernarle in this-city, p hero he ia holding a revival, the first i,Prot( raon in the line of those who went 8,| fr, rward to take hia extended palm waa ,,ur.,( ? leaa a personage than Hon; John uiiea Ingalla, of Kansas. Mr. Ingalls Nor ia in Naidiville to lecture. reaoh: "I endorse every word you say," he M<) HM marked earnestly hh he grasped the angeliat'a hand. "Ood bless yon," r aponded Mr. Jones, fervently. liow t . const! Water Falls in North Oa ol'na. mjtto Vire ! On the Yadkin River on the line of ic Richmond and Danville R. R.t lere ran be found 27 miles from Elin, N. O., a magnificent wnter- power inning to waste. . W/ Then again at the Cartera Falls on turn lkin Creek, fi miles above r.lkin, N. roiiait ., ran be obtained?if every ' advan- B 1m ige of the position ia taken?a90 feet Wilm II of witter, the volume ,of whirh romn iroughout the year ia sufficient mo- ed fa ve power to drive the machinery of Her ly one of the largest textile estnb- a Htat aliments in the country. rust" year: - - 8. H< * Governor and the Typattting Machine. fet-H c [ From the Galveston Daily News. ] . ? dfeto Governor Hogg was shown the cchatiiam of the machines, ?ud in- V. Led to take a seat and set up his J"hni me. It is necessary in operating ' p keys to touch lightly and quickly.. V ,m! the first effort the Governor's touoh m not delicate enough, and as the pe poured down the Governor thought i'machine was coming to pieces. "What's the matter with that blamed . g ing?" inquired the Governor. Ho was told not to press the keys so Vu ag, ami he proceeded to finish his F??"th me, and here is what he se^ printed *hen ?m the identical line he made wi(h 9 machine: fellow J J J.I J... 888H HHHH00 QGOO. W" V* quant - "" mid' II Troops to Protect Negroes. ?ij Hj? Richmond, Va Persuaot to a call been < ^m the Sheriff of prince William t?<)M*oi unty, Gov. G'Ferrall ordered the 1 was e\nndriA Light Infantry to proceed K Mnii'i -iiiii tn aid lK? niutl f\tt ikm - -..v v.f I. Nurur/Itiim -n? profiting two n.'groe* to be tried WBH 0 i>r<? for UHAulliiiR two women. The learnr groea were tikento Alexandria to nainec event lynching. The Hheriff in his (jninitlon niyn he cannot gel a pome ^ fficiently atrong to protect the priaere upon tneir arrival at Manamaa Ath leae aided l>y the military. tor? * Fla . m* of thi tVantt tO Por Cunt Tat Mboliohod. 'J1*' the c Richmond, V*.?A resolution was trod need in the Hnnae of Delegate were rnefitly requesting the State's Reprc fc/q j * ntntives in the Congress of th> p, n, sited States to use every pomible protui bi t to have abolished the 10 pe' ut. tai on State's banks' manes. ? Ko, Honk, of Ohio, Orops Dtad. Rome Washington, I). Representative tli?* l?a orge W. Honk, of the Third Ohio Fope itriet, dropped dead from heart ^at m r??e at 4:30 o'clock, p. m., while the pr liting friends. fl?at*? NATIONAL FARMERS ALLIANCE. s Were Not ConsTdered at the Annua) h Mee'ing. 5 snlarv of Marion Butler, of ibo*o, to. 0.. and editor of the r< Mian, the Dew president of the p nnl Alliance, is $3,000. Hereto tl he president hna been required o: eat Waahington, D. C., but nn- o new rule bo can reside where- p ;ie likes. a . Butler nays the meeting gt To- n Kansas^ wen large. The dele- a were entertained at the city's ai me and the |<>wu left no stone on ti 1 to innkc .theft |t?y pleasant tl iob were not discussed. There a 0 change ifhij, "institution of c llianee, nndt r > .<nc?l tneasmes a r kind were etjto#ted. r. Lease was present at^ ihf 6 up, althongh Topeko js her home. tl i* next meeting, says President c r. will be in Raleigh, by which i' the Polk monument, for which * v in now solicited, will have been b ieted, , . I: n other officers elected -were d president, J. L. Gilbert, of Cali- ti i; secretaryand treasurer, D. P ' O an, of South Carolina. .? L'cntive Committee?Mann Dage, rginia; H. 0 Dunning, of Penn ninf.l. E. Dean, of New York." ' 1.' L. Lucks, of South Dakota;'r? executive committee was authorr> appoint a national lecturer and f a place 'ftvr holding the. next | i?tion. Ben Terrell,..of Texaa, 1 prem-ut notional lecturer, will c 1 less be chosen for another t^erm. f inlnr v ?if 4 lio ?n> nDi <1 a?i A 1 * wnatlxed nt-?3,0<)0 each, aifd of ' ice preside lit at #'2,250. ? 0 Alliance took exceptions to the c advanced by J. Sterling Morton, r tsxfv of Agriculture, relative fft * Issues, sod expressed it* disap t il of Secretary Morton in a tea- 1 >11. r mm WOMAN SUFFRAGE a tnce. of Colorado. Proposes a BUI to * Thin Effect. r ? ' r sniNOTOM, I). O.- Mr. Pence, list, of Colorado, offered in the a bill proposing woman!*' suf..The bill differs somewhat frym < presented on the same subject A tfore, as it does not propose' to t 1 the constitution, but simply, a women over the age of 21 t to regiater and vole at all elections t embers of the House of Re- h iitativea, a#d provides that their , kheli not !> ? denied or abridged s e United Htatea or any tttatf. a iresmhfe to the resolution says ( h? right to choose .members of 1 on so of Representative* is vested t >> constitution in the people of the c d States, without distinction of 1 >ut for want of proper legislation 1 >f<?re, one-half has been restrict- c (in voting. The bill if for the i (se of correcting this error and I e fiill-effect to the constitution, no days sgo Mr. Bell offered a ition amending the conatitntion Jo give "woman suffrage." It fcrredto the judiciary cmritnittec 1 eported adversely, 't'lie reaolu- ^ i/ Mr Pence does not amepd tiie rs itutuiK, rind was sCnt to the com- V e on'ilie cbAttioliH of President, | President and meinbevs of the | Three Ought Washington Rriefk. t lmiisoton, D. C,? The, uominn<>f Nf/fxrW. <T II. .fiffrnigrfn, -for * il general'MShangai, and W. ' for collector of.-cpstom at ' lington, wore both referred to lerce committee a:ij there report rornbly. '' retar.y Carlisle sent to Congress cinent of the cmolumenta o f the I ins collector* for the last flaeal * District- of Albemarle, William ' >ii<1, total compcnK*t!lOn? $386.77, ollcctod $"> 20, Kenneth R. Pen- * ii. total compensation, $855.37; * tort, H (' . I^ibcrt Smalls, $1,- 1 6; Georgetown, 8 C., Bherma A. son. $.1,582.74; Pajnliep, Robert * ock. $1,181 28; Wilmington, ' (VI fancy, $>,853.58 e.Remit* has contfrtrfed-the nom- * >n of Win H Cnlltngwnrth to be ^nnti'i ut UichbuOn<J,i.V? ^ j ' T-: " --r'? i '.? a/o Panti. of the Moat York Sun. Englishman travelling in the f .some years ago wm interested , h chunfe acquaintance at a hotel 0 him. "I hare aoitre of Long'a hair." Then ho .draw from | >cket a little bo* and exhibited a ity of coarse black hair. "Oh," 4 tic Engliahinan,' %Vth aitrpriae, fluid have thpnght it would have t white." "No," Mill the proud wor of the relief "It's all right, in the stable myself yesterday, nt this where he'd switched it uinat the aide of .his stall." It < iuh that the Englishman first ' >d that a famous horse had been < 1 for the poet < ( :, ... , I tit Honor s Romantic Marriage J ir.wu, (1a -Judge J. W. Proc- ? prominent jurist of Olenwood, ? married Mfsa Elizabeth Msddox ( a city: Neither party had seen i her previous to" One hour before t eremony was performed The ement and all afriyigcmenta made by correspondence and ecret It was a great surprise e relatives Both parties are 1 rii.rti nitil Kmlilw ? V r?M<* MISHIT mprviwi. 1 Beatification of ..'oan of Are j IB. iTAiiV The Monitoiir do pntihftli)-* s lU'creo fti)nouncing , Nil'ifloMiion'of Jdairof Arc. Tho h*? iMined document* hhomng Ij?i beatification ib in ?*rnril with I ivht? records of Hiierewiii e ponti- | ? REOPEN THE MINIS. idia'a Trade Has Been Sadly Oemoraliied by Closing them. CAi.rtrrrA, Inoia The India Cur?nce Association has entered a strong rotesi, which has Iteen addressed to lC government in regard to the disrganiyution of trade 111 consequence f the charges in the silver policy. The roteut aaya that the present state of flairs shows that the closure of the lints did not do any harm, though its dvuntagee were temporary and were impended by tlie abnormal importaioiiB of silver, of pieCt; goods and bough other caa?eB. The government handoned the miuimiim priee for Duncil bills at the moment success w as Mured and this resulted in a panic, i In now imperative to restore condenoe and the association recommend be Using of a minimum price for ouncil lulls, tho prohibition of tho nport of silver for private account nd that the sale of council hills be enrusted to an agent appointed by the ndia finance minister. A few firms isaent from the above rocommenduon and advocate the reopening of tho iinta. UN APPEAL TAKEN rrom the Commissioner s Refusal to Grant Tillman's Trademark Washington, 1>. 0.~ There was anither legal step taken today that will irolong the light between Governor Cillmrn, of Honth Carolina, ami the lommiRsiotier of patents over the granting of a trademark for th" PalHetto brand of whisky. An appeal rom the commissioner's refusal to crnnt the trademark was taken to the i red it'court on a petition for a writ f mandamus, which was granted by he court. The commissioner carried his decision to the court of appeals of be District of Columbia, where it was eversed ,1 Alphens Johnson, attorney for ^pvernor Tillman, entered an appeal iivai iiai Wo .le.iiuon. ..f ' " 4 ' v..^ ..rnmi.ll ..1 VIIC OOOH Ol ppeal* and the cast- will now be carlert to thcKupremccouitof tli?* ITn it* tea. The Co'jn try 5 ?Te ten iter s The annual report of Secretary of Vnr Lament to Congress, shows the otwl organized militia of the States n?l Territories as 112,1'JO. or MHO less ban in any previous year Most of he big militia Slates lost, while those i*ving small organizations increased. X'ork and Pennsylvania lost OM irid respectively, while Alabama iiid other Southern States had small :ains. South Carolina, with 0.140, i*s the largest militia force in proporion to her population, and is only e\eederl in numbers by New York, with 2,810; Massachusetts with f?,t>6f>, and '^nusylvnuia with 8,614. The strength if Georgia is reported at M,53o, Florin 4,011, and North Carolina 1,782. "Hdaware's militia numbers onlv H30. The Three C'9. Oon. .T. T. Wilder npcn( Friday in Urinto', Vn. Speaking <>f Iho recent p*ih t of Samuel Hunt, |?.-I* *?t of t!?> rhree C'a roHil to .Tohnaon City, ho ia'd lint it whn tin* plan of M . Hi ntto lave the roml completed to the eonl i?'ld??, provided he Hnda the himiuewi > lit Took HiiOicieDt to justify the \ enure. There is no like'ihood, hei. WiMer th'eka. of the road heing hu'lt h'ough tlie mountains 01 either a'de loon, lmt lie rnther expects the coti tm.ction to he completed to the N ir<inii> eonl fields. More Failures at Winston. WlNHTON, N. ft.?Col. .1. W. AN iaugh, ex-president of the First Nn .tonal Rank has assigned. His linhili lea are heavy |<?0,tM)0 .fudge I>nvid irhrnck, of (freenahoro, is trustee !fol. Alspaugh owns a large intereat in phe^ftuilfordCollege Mills,of ?hichlie is ireaident. Hiinon T<. Kiger nlso failed, iisinnig f. H. Orngan trustee The assignment uvolvea 14 town lots in North Winston, ind one-half interest in a tract of M icrea of land in Stokes county. l>r. A'kins Will Sreak at the Medical Co.ege of Virginia. Rev. James Atkins, D. IV, president !>f Ashex ille (N. C. )FenialoCoUege, has accepted mi iuvitntiou to deliver the iniiual oration before the graduating 'lana at the next eoininencement of the Medical College of Virginia, Dr. Atkins is a man of profound learning tn 1 distinguished abilities as a speaker This is the fifty-sixth year o f titMedical College of Virginia, and the most successful in ita history. England's Torpedo Dealroyera. The Havoc, tho now torpedo de itroyer of the British naval force, can (team am fast as a railway train, ami an turn with such rapidity iu lmr >wn length that she would cut a good igure in a marine waltz. There are to "he a dozen sneh vosaels. the fastest iteamera in tho world, and they are ?x pec ted to do smart service on ocoalion. They conld catch Anything ifloat, or as rapidly retreat. The next var will be interesting in more ways lian one.?Toronto Empire. An ordinary elephant produces 120 Kinuds of ivory. Two exhibition uiaks in Ijondou weigh 102 and 17J pounds respectively. Fifty years ago tho block on which he Chicago postoffico now stamln was old at auction for $605, It h* now rorth $6.000.000. The first cent coined in the United Hates Mint appeared in 17'.'2. It bore the head of Washington on one hide und thirteen links on the other* "OLD HICKORY'S? COUR STORT OF AN ATTKMPfBO A SINATICW OF JACKSON. They Could Shoot at I If in. Couldn't .Make II im IMuytlic of a Coward A Nurnav Ksoi tF ever a man bore a channe that man was "OKI HicV That he should live to ri| (i" age I die a natural ileal! spite his many dr imatic, nut t tragic, experiences, was reinarl Hut of all of General Jackson's n escapes there was one which la on the supernatural. Two 1 loaded pistols of perfect con tru which at no other time were known to miss firo, snapped in t President Jackson's bxeast, tin cussion caps exploding, 1mi< the ons refusing to shoot I That tli hero met not the fate of t wo of I lustrious successors was littl" ah< a miraclo. As it was, this i at caused an intense excitement id the country. 'I am not afraid! Let mc They can't kill me. I can take c myself!" So exclaimed President Jacksc memorable day in January, liftj years ago, as breaking away fro friends ho rushed upon his wot ashassin. This attempt to murdei oral Jackson was made on the 3< January, 1835, the same moi which, twenty years pr< viousl motive on the part of the pri?? commit the deed he iittempte gest ?d t!ie idea that he must be But hid domeanor at the time being examinod bore not the *1 appearance of frenzy or doranj of any kind. Indeed, when as the Court if he wished to cross ine the witnesses or to make e\ tion, he answered in the negatii said that those who had seeu t could state the facts. At the > sion of the trial, whon.asked if anything to offer, he said that h not contradict what had bceu g evidence. In the midst of the meat and anxiety which pr around him Lawreace appeare fectly calm and collected. The President, in speaking ? vent, remarked tbat bawrenee ner from the moment his eye his was firm and resolved until the failure of his last pistol, wl seemed to shrink rather than bawrenee was a handsome yoni of about thirty-five years, srr stature, with pale complexion hair, dark eyes, ami genteel < moot, aud was well dressed. The keeper of the rotunda that he had frequently obser* man about the Capitol so oft Id, had tried to draw h;ni into < nation, but had found him ti won nis nignesi renown i?v tus i of the British army at New Orloi On the afternoon of the (lav n while President Jackson was a Capitol, in attendance upon tl nera! of Mr. Warren H. Davis, of Carolina, one Richard Lawren painter, residing in Washiugto tempted to shoot him. This in ital was seen to enter the hall i House of Representatives dnriti delivery of the funeral sei before its close, however, h? taken his stand 011 the e portico, near one of the col The President, with the Seci of the Treasury on his left an retiring from the rotunda to rea carriage at the steps of the pi advanced toward the spot where rence stood?who had lus pistol eealed under his eont ?and wli approached within two yards i half of him, the would bo a' levelled tho pistol at tho Presi breast. Tho percussion cap oxj with a noise s?> great that severa nesses supposed the pistol hat tired. On tho instant Iiav dropped the pistol from his haud, and taking another co 'kon irom iiih icit, presentet snapped it at. the President, i tho moment raised hie cane nut! for the nssai'aut with iron-like ei Ho would have executed veng but Hocrotary Woodbury and tenant Godney at the name tin hold of the man, who waa kt down, tho President pressing him until he waa secured. The President's friends then him to go to the Capitol, whii | old hero did, with great tirmnci self-possession, though duriu eventful moment his commi voice was hoard above all oth< tearing himsalf from bis friou rushing for the assassin, the \ the words quoted. As soon as the act was known crowd they wished to kill the a o.i tho spot. Hut this was pr< prevented. Lawrence was fori carried to jail, after a brio iimiuary examination before Cranch. At this exaininntio Randolph, Sergeant at Arms House of Representatives, intended the Marshal to condu prisoner to the; City Hall, tt tint the prisoner when ask the Marshal what motive h to make the attempt, state! tho President had killed his The assertion was, however, 1 as, upon investigation, it was that his father, an Englishinai died a natural death in Wash some years before. The son v proutioed afterward to a Mr. with whom he lived three years Claik, when called upon, said h a mm of excellent habits, hoik industrious; that he had seei very frequently, and was w< quainted with him since he hi his family, and had heard not! his disadvantage until of late 1 informed of his being quarr among bis friends, and that li treated his aiater badly. The entire absence of any pf win Hti'l unwilling to talk. On the clay in .I'lL. ijuostiou lic? kept prowliug about, but did not come within the railing near BBAS- the member's scuts. Ih? Imtnl iv? ;' iu0d inside his vest, a.; if grasping something, ami his lips were palo.Rud nut 'l'?'v?riiig. " |i.iri < hi his pistols being taken from Iiirn ^ after the nirair they were founddO lm n very elegant pair, in excellent ofdei <1 life ?ml loaded with pew dor and ball nltory.' most to the muzzle, tli" barrels being fie old about six inches long. It xtas'w aio-t i, cle- astonishing circumstance, nimost 0 say vouching to tlie miraculous, tint sable. loaded as they were and of such peril r row f?>et mechanism, both pistols inisse 1 irdors lire. It was a dual lottery of life ami ?iillet- death, and the hero of New Orleans, etion, with his usual good luck, drew a prize 1 ever v,ieh time! urnat There was probably. in our native 5 per- history no more interesting test of weap- firearms than that made immediately ip old after the ufTsir by District Attorney lis il- Key and General Hunter, the Marshal irt of of the distric t, on Lawrence's pistols, ident This was clone with some of-the ro I over mainiug powder, balls and caps of tlii prisoner, and the result showed that, 1 tro 1 loaded in the ordinary manner,4 the are of discharge oi tlu weapons took place 1 very time, and their power was juioIi >n one that the bullet would pass through an r-uino inch board at a distance of nine yard* m his and nearly lniry itself in a second ild-be board at a further distauco of about rtlen- as many yards. Mil of So great was the excitement proith in ibieed bv the affair that some of the v, he most eminent opponents <>t the Presidofeut dent, including such men as day, fins. ('alhoiiii, I'oindextor and White, were , timed, in the frenzy of the moment, suspeclit the ed of having conspired in a plot to get ic fu- rid of the President. South But in this affair "there*was a voce, a ?aan in the case" it appears. It. was ii, m- if-eeriaiir-ii imir bonie Mill" previous (livid- Ij-n\relive had formed ao attachment ;>f the for u young lady, and frequently fold ig the his sister flnl ho would, by his indusrmon ; fry, soon bo enabled to buy a corner i liad lot and build <>n it r> good house, when astern he would marry tho object, of his alliums. bieliment. rotary With tain view h>* labored day an 1 m, on night until ho had about lint ch his lie was dijappoint.'.l and became o\irtico, treuiely pensive, quUall'-employ mont Law- and would stand for hours, g.i/.mg upI con- on tho spot whiuh ho ha 1 seleete 1 for en he his future re?ideuoe. He hceam and ii hopelessly insane. This was shown at isnssin his trial, when it was developed that dent's ho had claimed his right, to the crown iloded if England and had called on the l'res d wit- ideiit an d demanded money, threaten1 been jug death to him if it was not soon vrence forthcoming, right The jury, after beiyg unit live ininready utea, rendered a verdict, of "not 1 and guilty, he having been nttder the invito at tlueiiee of insanity at tko time of eomI made niittiug the neb" , . aergy. P.ut before tlje trial an l its terminaeanee, tion the int-uiae exeitomCrtrt pro due-1 Lieu- by the act t e?iughout tho country ha I 16 laid about wholly subsided. As for Law locked rouee, he wis sent jy ij jnuatie asylum, after where he remained ail ifimnte llie rest of his life, nearly forty years.?Washurged ingtou Star. ? ; cli the > . . t< ss and rt t}10 Foj'r 'were Tilled. uulin^ WuiM Smnvna. V-V.'? Kimvo lew je.st ira, us, Ikh'.j rtirseiv???J hpro of,g fight on f>lnck la fiud Allegheny Mount tin, near tli" Went lttered Virginia line, betifccen aoverul depntv bailed St -tea marshals and n pariv of to tho iMieit distillers. Two of the marshal.! s80Hsin nit< l.tll' i!, as wrre also two of the >mptly distill- i<, mill one mini, Ham. Collins, IH wit li who a. 1. now u ie-re, wan badly wounded, f pro n UMr" Beat the Hcrzes. of the JkrKsoNViiji.F, Pi a' In a ten-mih' ho at- relay race against live trotters here, el the Jack Prince, chniupioli abort-distance jBtitied bicyclist. curdy beat the hora-'s. oil by Tine .*n ;i?7. The race whs for ?'-50 a e had Mile and eat" receipts. 1 that " father. His Eyeball Carried Off by an Owl "iVa" i Capk < Iihaudkai', Mo. John llider 1 I a l '^"b'htow" w,lH ""I coon hunting in t"'ii l ueeday night and while looking up a * ' tree for a coon an owl Hew down, 'ciark "-biking him in the eye with Ilia claw, * t airing out the ball and carrying it i way# n nFrY-Tnt&P_CONQRBSS. 1,1 If.rt I ' Tl,?* flrn.iio. lillg to | 31m I>?t Mf-. ifiie inlr,? lno?<l n roso'nin whs ''"illni - for tiiclIT hearings Imforo tho I Klnsnoo Committee. Messr". Chandler e " "" mi 1 Fryo spoko mriinst tho ri'p.vil of the i? i"i I r? lorol Flf-tlon low/. "?>rn 1'iv. ? M<>*c'-. Hnwlny. I'ryo. Danle'i >rdon?1 i i'?l Harris look part in tin* on i'i? ?, I K- lorn I Fleet Ion 1. iV,*s H-peii Will : tin vo: < l | (,|| ii?. ,, , >5g||T . .. V.-.. I pflsSMIWl ?*I"'S ?l Hug- l .n nico Commijleo ?lr"l,lo4 lo glv.? no |.?riU' insane. ItHirliijK. i, __ .Virn Hit. Tii v liill rspnlin-r t'i" FiH. . or,si 11 ion Isw* w is p iss > I l>v n rot of T? ightest , {emont .'17th Dai M?". VVolootl proposal n C?nke?l by Milntioti ll nni'iilinrnt women thn * rl.:ht o'snffi-ivro, Mr. T'wkini pr -smite I n memorial for the mn-'x illoti of Hawsil, [plana- fro n tSVn I'rsn ;is-o CVim'wr of Cnnie, an<l more-'. .",?vr,e iry Carlisle'* nuthoritv ?o he act iw the pro-oo,jy m the nnw lion I Isms ir.n . illiensvo t. none In he hmi The Homo. 0 could T)iv.?Tii j debate on tli-? Hiwiil-in i?n fso'utIon wis crtnt'nii" t l>v Mesars. Rsvnor, lvon in Money. Hut. Blair nit I Draper. oxeitc- 43n Day.?The ,|oti,?le on tho Hawaiian evaileil r?Holntion wa? ooriilnuoM. Momr*. It nit nil", tl per* To'iinon. Vau Voorhls, Olios an I Wheeler * being among the speaker*. 1 tii IUv.?Debut* on the MrCrmry of the I! nvsliin resolution w.i? Anla'to 1; tho lllair 'a man- nurwnlment ant tho Ifltt MiWInile wr-ri . v ?to 1 down, lijit no voto coil I I tie obtain* I " ? i tho resolution Itielf bee.vii" of tholao:,- o! 1 after I n ipioru n. ' fen he 45tii Dav. Mr. MeCmaiy'* Hawaiian roeoreaint. I"ttoil", npproving Frwiblont Cloyelnn<V? I >11.yv, wor<> 4.ass * | hy n veto oi 177 to 7 . rig man 1 \iiil-slli-or men fllltmsterod sue, .ifnli.tall in neatuM the Bland >?l 11 nil it th-.Hou-> >rler t , black 1 the nrr>ist of absentee*. ??-Mr. Hatch lntr<?1 a illl 'fvl III* 11 'V lilll 111 r itriihit?t mi I f??v <!,? * - i??pori- , |niI |n on(|oitit :m<i Intum. 4flrii I>av. - Mr. IMnn.rn hill to coin tho h'Intnteil v r M?<<nilicmrc wis takon up :???-l dUennai I r...l i hi After lo.ir hr>"<\ illiltu?ttirli>i(. , ( 17tii T?*r. Debate on tlw bill to coin the nil thn. aIIv**r s?l;rniortip? wis eootlnaesl. npw 1 s ,'onwer- Ifln't m?il? l?y Mcwm. Itlan<l. Btouc, Mo* iciturn K- >*Uau, llarter and Kllnoro.