Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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L_ ' s ^0^ 5^? ^ _^ ?--^ jjll f.*..._ --= ^ Devoted to Agriculture^ Horticulture, Data Kfe, Politics and the Current News of the Day. ~ r-- -,'- : ~~~ " 'j ' ' ' ' "' ~ ~ , 1,V.,^lJljt.J"? 1 , ... ... ? =^r~: -*" ~J^" * UNION C. H., <o<waiiiii' -? NLMBLlt 17. .THE NEWS. t ' Fred McMasters, stenographer, found li the New York PostofHce $30,375. which b returned to the owner. All the men 01 the Trails Ohio Division of the Haltimon and Ohio have, with exceptions, accepted th< new insurance system. Matilda, the four teen-year-old daughter of James Williams put roagh-on-rati in her parents' tea anc nearly killed them. Ministers Orant am Porter sailed from New York for Bremen ??Small-pox is spreading at Nantlcoke I'a. The street-car strike in iMinneapolit is as Mr from settlement as ever. Trouble ii apprehended. Edward E. Little, of Cast county, Michigan, a veteran of the war oi 1813, celebrated his one,hundredth birthday. ?A. W. Edsns, a Boston real estate agent, was arrested on the charge of uttering forged deeds of land in Florida.?Mrs. France pany, lost his life while seeing that of a tenyear-olchboy. 'Win. Gould, a speculator in oil, committed suicide in New York. The ferryboat New Brunswick, plying between New York and Jersey City, was do stroyed by Are. James Fields, of Butler, ^ Pa., was shot and killed by his wife. B The Oroat American Tea Company, in Ne braska City, Neb., is in the hands of the sheriff. Governor Francis, of Missouri, * has respited John Matthews and Win. Meker, the bakl knob be rs, sentenced to be bung. Francis Ebbs, tho colored mistress of the lato James M. Roman, of Louisville, has been awarded her lover's property. The challenge oup offered by General Payne, for an International yacht race, has been accepted. William Ryan,4 the notorious Missouri rain robber and associate of Jesse James, has been released from the Missouri penitentiary, after serving eleven years. Thomas Doinlnguex, a Spaniard, nearly out his strifes head off with a razor, and then cut his own throat at their home * in Buffalo, N. Y. H. M. Angell, of Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago, committed suicide. Ellsworth White, an insane youth shot and fatally wounded Mrs. J. Kellogg as she was coming out of his mother's bouse, at Look wood, N. Y. The church trial of Rev. M-. E. Bush on charges of immoral conduct at Lowville, N. Y., resulted in a verdict of guilty, and the clergyman was expelled from the Methodist ministry. Laura Grants, a seventeen-year-old girl of Blngbamton, N. Y., was deceived by a bigamist and made the victim of a mock marrim. The Rmt Rnm>' fv.n?o- ' ? ? ?? corporated at San Francisco, with a capital of Aw millions, the Spreckles holding half the stock. The Grand Comtnandery of America of the Ancient and Illustrious Knights of Malta held its fifth annual convocation in Philadelphia.-*?-A strike is imminent in th? Western Pennsplvanla coat University $150,000. John W. Childs & Co.'s, tobacco factory at Lynchburg, Va, burned. A bill permitting the sale of pools at exhibitions or fairs or driving park associations was defeated by the Pennsylvania House of Delegates.. The Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers will seek to have the mills closed down in two months during the sdmmer. A natural gas well was struck near Belle Vernon, Pa, which yields forty-million feet a day. The railroad coal miners in the Pittsburg district have accepted the reduction of two and a-half oents per ton in wages. Captain R. C. Jones of the ?"" schooner Arthur of Mobile from Bay Islands, reports tbataRev. Henry Hoheon, his wife and a young girl were murdered by Joseph Bares at Ruatan. James Cnnningbam & Co., hardware dealers, of Mobile, Ala., made an assignment. Rook salt has been disco re red in K?n*m??The Minnesota legislature passed a bill prohibiting the safe of Chicago and Kansas dressed beef in that state. Puwoeo BUI and bis three thousand ^ boomers aro on borders of the promised ^ land?Ok'alioma. General Charles K. G. ahnm, ex-surveyor and ex-naval officer of the port of New York, died at Lakewood, N. J., or pneumonia. The pilot boat Enooh Turley, of Philadelphia, has been given up for loit, with tho five pilots and tho six seamen on b.tard. The Everest exploriug party started front Winnipeg for the Arctic circle. David Llndsey, aged sixty years, of Bridgewater, Michigan, fatally shot bis son. Both wereof intemparate htbits. A freight train was wrecked near Belleville, III., by the track linking into the ground under tt)e weight of the train. Ignats Rainitz, the swindler^ who was captured abroad, was brought back toNew York. T. P. Lock wood, a capitalist of Minneapolis, committed suicide. Thai cool-handlers on tho docks at Cleveland, O., are on a strike. Charles F. Hatch, t'-V - president of the Wisoonsin, Minnesota and - Pacific Railroad Company, committed suicide in his office in Mlnneapolin The Conibohooken Worsted Company, of Philadelphia, made an assignment. A number of buildings have been destroyed by forest Sres in Patriol wupty, Vo,?^Hou. Calst Boggedd, a noted West Virginia lawyer, is dead.??A passenger train struck a farm wagon near Youngs town, O., completely demolishing it and instantly killing Mrs. Dafid Cramer, one of tbe occupants. QUflT DV Mn'flNCmNt/DC kjnu u i muviwuiiibiWi Death of One of tho Men Who Aided In the Capture of a Oang. Joseph Wallace, one of the oftlcere who, in company with Detective Baldwin, on . ^ April 3d, attempted to arrest William Moran, the moonablnor, and won shot in the chin b> the desperado, died from tho effeota of hii wound at Taaewell Court-house, Vn., on Sunday night. He hod boon taken to thai piece after being bounded. Dnectlvo Bald win sod Eugene Robinson, who toero nlsc wounded in the light with Moran, hare r? 7 ' eoTind. Tbey am now on the track o! another gang that bare boon selling illioi) jwhiskey in West Virginia and Virginia an< HNgi^ defying the law. iTeroer county, W, Vs. a.a Tazewell oonnty, espeoially around th< * '? octal operations at Cooper's add flipping hare been infested by moonshiners for some tine, and who hare been the cause of i w&jm : , -y great deal of trouble about pay-day at th? Baldwin and his assistants hare sent n< at , lees than forty moonshiners to Jail and poni . tentiary within the last four weeks, ana th< eeal operators, as well as the oUir.me of Po "ri cahontaa and Bramwell, are rery mucl *'y' gratified oror the sttooees Baldwin has tnai with, especially in ridding this partioulai aeetioo of this class of desperados# ant THE SAMOAN DISASTER. \ * Particulars About the WreckJ ingof Our Ships at Apia. 8iirvivors Tiring the Story of the I Great Calamity. I The steamer Alameda arrived In San ' Francisco bringing advices from Apia, Samoa 1 up to March 90. 1 The steamer stopped at the Samoan capital ' and took off many of the shipwrecked sailors. Among those who came upon the Alameda were Chief Cadet Robert Stocker and Cadets 1 Hlbbs, Decker, Wells, Cloko, Sackland, Lo' jure, Wiley and Logan, and Dr. Cordon, all ) of the Vandalia. Lieutenant Ripley came on ' t*10 A lapvoda. with thirty men, but stopped i hurricaneWhich cost so mariv livee at ; Samoa began about 2 o'clock on 8atnrday morning, March 10, and lasted until Sunday at a little after 5 o'clock tn the morning. The Eber, the Gorman vessel, was the first to be wrecked. Shebrokeup in pieces in a fow minutes, only one officer ana four men being saved. Her guns, which were of great weight, probably assisted in smashing her so oulciclv Shortly afterward the Adler (German) nlso drifted on the same reef a little further westward. She was lifted high and dry, and is now lying on her port side high and dry, only a few feet'of her side being under water at high tide. In all twenty men were lost from the Adler. The United States steamer Nipsic was the next on the list of casualties. It was obsorvablo from the shoro that she would not bo able to hold out. She was drifting toward the reef, and at about nine o'clock she headed for the shore and just touched the points of the reef with her rudder, which was carried away, together with her stern poet, but, by the skillful management of tho captain and of fleers they succeeded in beaching her on the sand. Great credit Is duo for the manner in which tho Nipsic was handled, for if she luul gone on tho reef a larger number of lives would undoubtedly have been lost. As it is seven men were drowned, but all would have been saved if they had stuck to the ship. Early in tho morning the Olga collided with tho Nipsic, doing the latter considerable damage,carrying away her smokestack, steam launch, wliafeboat and part of her bulwarks. On account of the smokestack being broken off the furnaces would not draw to keep a full head of steam on. Excepting for this aocident tho Nipsic, which had powerful eivgines, might have rode out the gale in safety. On Thursday morning the Nipsic was successfully floated out to her old anchorage. Her propeller is too much injured to be repaired in Samoa, and her rudder is gone. Thu Vandolia was the most unfortunate vessel of the United States Squadron. She drifted, about 0 , V.w?, Iivw IU HID tlUIIOIK) and the Olga camo into collision with both. Tlio Calliope struck hor with great force on the port, doing considerable damage. The Vondaliu still continued drifting almost in company with tho Calliope, but the latter vessel, having lost nearly ail her anchors, put full steam on and went steadily out to sea. Tho captain of the Vandalia, seeing no hope of saving his ship, headed her for the shore, MUik jiirfrTrr-4-" Could beach, vithin about fifty yards from tho stern of the Nipsic. The captain, paymaster, payclerk, lieutenant of marines and many men were washed overboard. The vessel was completely submerged, and all hands bad to take to the rigging, where they remained until tho Trenton was driven alongside about 8 o'clock in tho night when most of the officers and crow got on the Trenton,excepting Lieutenant Ripley, who jumped into the sea just before the mast crave wnv and I with great difficulty swain to tiio shore. Ho I then procured a whaleboat, and, with the aid of Samoans, cot a line out to tho wreck. Tho loss of life in the Vandalia were tho commander, three offlcors and thirty-nine seamou and marines. The Trenton, meanwhile, was gradually coming closor to the land. 8he had her bridge ports broken in, which left an opening, and tlio sea come in great quaqtitio through this opening and the hawse pipe-, getting into the fires. This was unfortunately ratal to the chances of saving tho Admiral' i ship. The engineers were unable to keep up steam. All 1 lands wero ordered to the pumps, whlc'i were kept constantly going all nay. About 3 o'clock the Trenton hod drifted down toward the Olga, which vessel was then about600yards from tine net. Both ships tried to avoid touching, but a collison was inevitable. Tin rn - uiga s vun Bvrui-K w? i rvnion on me qiuU'Dcr, opening a large breach and doing oih.r damage, and the Olga's bow was smashed. After tho vessels cleared each other tho Trontou drifted still further toward tho reef, and ono time held fairly well to her anchors; but at about 8 o'clock sho 1 dropped down just clear of tho ' roof and on to the Vandalia. Tho TrouI ton's stern was aground. She was broadside on to tho sunken vessel, and tho poor fellows who hod been on the Vandolla's yard about twelvo hours got on to the Trenton, heing arsisted by the Admiral's crew with lines and other contrivances. On Sunday morning boats wero busily engaged all dav in removing the men from th"? snip to the shore, which. was accomplished without accident. All were removed before night. On Monday280Samoans from Ma taaf a s camp and tho men-of-war sailors were working hard all day saving property from tho Trenton, and several Samoans and sailors were also engaged working on the other ships ashore. No lives wore lost. Tho Trenton is a total wreck. Ono of the men was killed early in the morning of Saturday by being crushed among the timber after tho collision. His lutmn was JnMnh Hewlett a colored man. The Olgo, after slipping her cables and getting clear of the 'fronton, managed to make headway against tho sea for a short time, and hopes were ontertained that this vessol, tho last left afloat in the harbor, would be saved, but within half an hour she was run into one of the best positions for beaching in the harbefc , Tlie Nipsic is fitted up with the Vandalia's funnel. Her rudder ana stern poet are gone, propeller bent and twisted. The Trenton is bard and fast on tbe reef, ller bottom is full of holes and filled with water up to her gun deck. The crews have been working ten nours daily trying to save some of tho rigging and personal effects and stores. The Vandalia is totally lost. Noth ing can be savod from her. Nearly every day since the wrecks of tho German and American vessels bodies of tbe drowned ore being washed up, greatly do' composed and uureoognlxable. 1 Only forty of our dead sailors' bodies , have ueou found off Apia. Some of our r officers and men attended the German memorial service, but not a German vm present at the American services. Admiral Klmborlv shows that the Trenton 1 coukl not hare been saved, because the badly constructed ha wee-holes allowed water > to pour in and flood the engine-room, putting ; out the fires. Be says tho Trenton had all ' steam on, but that her engines were not pow1 erful enouarh to save her. I On the Tuesday following the disaster diver* recovered tike safe of the Vandaho, which con> tained 940,000. A rumor is nrrait in Apia that the Ad> mlral and Consols are endeavoring to ort range matters between Mataafa and Tam? naese, so an to induce them to return to their homee until after the Samoan conference. > There were some disgraceful scenes at Apia, - it appears, after the terrible disaster in the ? harbor on March 10. * flome of the men rescued from the Ameri? can and German war-vessels got drunk, and t there was a good deal of feeling against tho [ German sailors on the part of our men. I Captain Frits, the esnior German offloer. iOm uteri ip WrW cffitof* pr4sr> tagged to be excused, saying hd waft afraid the Americana would attack the German sailors. He further requested that tbo American officers should take full charge. This was done, and tho American sailors were not allowed to approach the lower part of the town, where the Germans had their headquarters. The next great question was bow to get tho news of tho disaster to America and Europe. Prank W ilson was sent to Futuila Island. wh?re ho boarded the nteamer Mariposa for Auckland, from whence he telegranhod the news. 1 no Calliope took on coal, and Thursday, March 10, after tiring thirten guns as a salute to Admiral Kimberiy, sailod for Sydney. Order woe generally restored in Apia in a few days. A large force of Samoans succeeded in hauling off the Nipeic. Tho Trenton's sailors ore temporarily quartered In tents in the middle of tho town. The Vandolia's men are quartered near the American Consulst^. The survivors of the Gorman .vessels aro quartered In tho German Trading Company's warehouse. Most of the merchant vessels in the harbor at the time of the storm belonged to the Ger his tlag-?hip. He said he considered faulty construction of the Trenton's hawse-pipes as indirectly the cause of her wreck. Within a few days of the storm a condition of things resembling order hud been brought about. Tho marinos and Matoafa's pouoe had been actively at work in this direction. Tho Germans and Americans hekl memorial services at different da tee for the dead. At the German service Admiral Kimberly and other American officers attended. Only about one-fourth of the bodice have been recovered. Some of these were badly mutilated. It was difficult to identify them, cr even to tell tho nationality, and it was finally determined to bury all at one spot together. A body, thought to bo that of Captain Schoonmakor, was found up the const some miles distant from tho immediate scene of tho disaster. TRIED TO BEHEAD HIS WIFE. A Spaniard's Bloody Work?Murder and Suicide, A fearful tragedy was enacted about seven o'clock in the morning at Buffalo^ N. Y., In a tenemont occupied by Thorn is Domlnguez, a Sp miard, aged about thirtyeight years, his wife Clarina and their two little children Domlugcz had been out all night. On his return ho Attacked bis wife wltharo7X>r. Tho houso consisted of foar rooms, one being used for n kitchen or sitting room, while tho other three were used ns bed-rooms. From their appearance attor the crime, it would sooin that a fearful struggle ensued between the husband and wife, and that he must have attacked her almost the moment he entered the kitchen from tbo hall. The woman, it is thought, was standing at tbo stove cooking breakfast when be sprang upon her with the razor and gave tbo first blow. 8he must have fought desperately for her hands, arms, head and face wero cut and slashed ill many places, but bo Anally obtained the mastery and almost cut hor head from her body. Tbo fiend then dragged her down stairs and threw her out upon the |>aveineut in the court, where she died, lie then wont back and into what may bo called the front bedroom, from where he could see bis wife lying below, almost swimming in ber blood, standing there, he, with the same razor, cut ?ou?A^easily push biyt\V close to the window. He must bsw died almost instantly. Tho murderer left a letter, written in Spanish, in which he accused his wife of in fidelity and said he bad made up his mind to kill her. He had lately been in New York, but returned boinu a few davs ago. MORE APPOINTMENTS. Chicago Gets a Postmaster?A New bolicitor of tho Treasury. The President bos made the following appointments: W. P. Hepburn, of I<jwa, to be solicitor of the Treasury; Win. H. Whitoman, of New Mexico, associate justice of the Supreme Court of tho Territory of New Mexico; J as. A. Sexton, poetinaster at Chioaim Til Qeneral Wm. P. Hepburn, who wu appointed solicitorof the Treasury, represented the Eight district of Iowa in Congress for several terms. Ho was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, in 1833, and began the study of law in 1853. In 1858 he was electa I prosecuting attorney of (Marshall comity, Iowa, and was subsequently elected ohief cleric of the Iowa House of Representatives. He served in the Union army during the war, and at one time commanded the Second Brigade cavalry division, Sixteenth Army Corps. He has always been an earnest Republican, .and was recommended for the solicitorship by the leading men of his party in tho state. Mr. VVhiteinau was nominated to this office during the special session of the Senate, but his nomination was not acted upon. James A. Sexton, the new postmaster at Chicago, is a well-known business man of that city, in which bo has lived for twenty years or more. During the war he served in tho Union Army. Ho has been commander of the Illinois department of the O. A. R. His business is that of an iron founder, and he is a man of considerable means. He bos always boon an active Republican, but has never before held any public office of prominence. His appointme.it was urged by Senator Farwell, the Chicago member of the House of Representatives, and various old soldier organisations. THEIR-PLUNDER FOUND. Government Officials Charged With Stealing. Tbe United States Grand Jary has found 85 indictments against WiUtam Harned, ex* Special Deputy Collector, 11 against Herbert F. Beecher, ex-1'; jury Agent, 13 against Quincy A. Brooks for stealing from the OoveTm^nt, Hseord." end accounts have been thoroughly overhauled and presented to the Grand Jury by Government officials Kent out from Washington to PortTownsend, W. T.f by tho department to make investigations of the many charges preferred by the press and public. The records show tbat vessels have been overcharged in entrance and clearanoe, aud by this method veeeels were swindled of smell sums amounting to a few dollars eaob, whioh aggregate many thousands dollars per year. In another part of the records it was found that a payer was charged in some instances many hundred dollars more than credited. The largest steal discovered was for duties paid on tbe cargo of tb? British bark Maderia, from Liverpool, last June. Duty to tho amount of #7,088 was paid, and tbe Qorertnent received #5.044. After tbis Uarned was dismissed. Over $12,000 was found in various parts at bis office, sucnUd under tbe carpets, in flowor-pota, pigeu.i-holes and other places Tbe records of the daily receipts during the latter part of Beeobert timo aro also ratssloc from tbe office. SACRIFICED HIS SON. . A HenRion* maniac inuoorgMOirera His Child's lit To to the DerlL Prince Liar, a colored man, living on Mm Bpringfleld Plantation, Are miles oat of 8ai?onsb,Qj., killed his Itv^-ysar-old sun as a sacrifice to the devil. Law Is ortud on religion. A few days ago he became convlnoed that It was his duty to kill some member of his faiptly, and lie drove his wife from home and beat his child to-deatb on the doorstep with a piece of soantling. Law was arrested and Is a raving maniac in JoU. -.V. ii.- J ' " S-W.a.'Xv . ^ ? ? vfl - % w\ M^K. MMH \ /wJH^W ^31 /JQ^ jg^^^P Thomas Wtthorelt Fdmer, of Detroit, the mtr Minister to Spain, was born at Detroit, Mich.. Jan. 25, 1?T; -Vas educated in the DUbtio schools/at Thompson's Academy at Palmer (now Bt Cltir), Mtoh., and at the Michigan University; is, and has Jjeen a roannfactOror and farmer; has servodwm the Board of Estimates of Dot riot and aS State Senator in 1879-80; was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican, upon the eighty-first joint batiot of the Legislature to succeed the Hon. Thomas W. Ferry iiepubiioan. and took his seat Dec. 8, 1883. His term of service expired March 8, 1889. ROBBED THE JAIL Fire Criminals Make a Successful Break from a Salem Institution. Five notorious criminals, Thomas W. Flynn, Patrick J. llanley, Felix Ooldingt E iward A. Denftison, Alias Eliaa Quthrie, and William Mariow made their esoape from the jail in Saiecn, Mass. . Their leader seems to beve been Mfcrlow, wher bad gained the jailer's good graces and had the run of the guard-room and the ofDoe. This morning, as is customary on Sundays, servioes were held in the jail chapel, where ail of the prisoners, unrein excused, are supposed to attend. One hundred and Ave prisoners attended the meeting, and, as usual, the night watchman re locked the entrances to thi jail proper, having previously Tnade a thorough ..mp.vmuu ui me ceus c > ascertain if any prisoners remained behind, aa to sometimes the case. The masting opened with singing, followed bv prayer and a sermon by lie v. Charles A. lowne, but while tbe reverend gentleman was trying to persuade tbe prisoners to aocvpt salvation, Marlow was at work liberating bis four compactions, who eecapod with biin. From what can be learned the Ave men were under tbe beds in. their respective cells, and as soon as lfariow gave thw signal they crawled out and Were spoedlly out of jail. Before leaving the jail the men entered the office, pried open tbe safe, took $200 and two 45-calibre revolvers, and appropriated some clothing which was banging from tbe wall The^ seoapo wag wot discovered un.il THE EARTH CAVED IN. A Frblctht Train Wmkcd b? tbe Col ?-p? Af > (Wl ft* Jus. A bad wreck occurred op tbe Cairo Short Line, a mile from B?lteviUe, Mo., at 1.40 In the morning, the train being a freight, bound east, John Hawkins, conductor, and Patrick Tobin, engineer. Without any warning the ground begin to sink beneath the engine, and tbe engineer and fireman jumped and escaped with a few bruises. The Walnut Valley Company's coal mine was. underneath, and the grdvad b?d sunk from six to elgbtfeet for a distance of about Wl Ci.1 l> lA ?? I-V ? I-IA- - w iww iu ?9U|(VI? WJ- IV fcWOfc IU ^tiuui. HIV engine and fire bozcutwere Mill on the rails, bat the thirteen other can were piled ap in oonfusion. From beneath the pile oatne agonising orict, neighboring ranger* and miners after working two hours dug oat ffrtxn under the oogl and debris Bans Talton, a brakpman, fearfully bruised from bead to foot and injured internally. Brakemdn Fat Brown receivod severe cutOifi the i back, but is not thought to b* seriously injured. * Two of the overturned ooal cars with their loads caught fire and were burned, tbe blase illuminating tbe sky for utiles around. Twelve flat oars lqoded with ooal were raduoed to splinters and the contents of one box-oar loaded with boots and shoes, boxes of eggs and other merchandise were scattered along tbe track. The wreck was cleared and a "track built around the depression. WHY THE TRENTON SUNK. Her Engines Were ?t Kali, Not Her Hawuo Pipes, an Expert Says. Naval Constructor Hichl>orn, who is act' ing chiof of the construction Bureau, does not credit the report that the fires of tbo Trenton were extinguished by the floods of water tbat came in through the hawse-pipes. H* says that these pipes, through which the anchor cables run. we're placet on the berth deck in order lo allow toe Wavy forward a a ho be worked, to make > vessel ride at. rfnebor n^?i/V(wily than if they bad bean plaoed on the upper deck. In a heavy sea water would come through them and complaint bad been made tbat they kept the deck wet. Still, they were furnished with rubber-packed bucklers which, if applied. Would make tbe pipes nearly watertight, and Cuptiin Hionborn says it is en ureiy inoreniuw iau enouxn water snouui hare come torougn to extinguish (lie fires. Undoubtedly the cause of Iter wreck was insufHc>*nt engine power. The English ship Calliope, which escaped by the bare margin of hair a knot an hour to windward, bad 8,000 horsepower to 700 tons displacement. The Trenton had 8,100 horse-power, bat her tounige wns 3,90O. This gave her about three fourths of a horse-power per ton, Srbile the English boat had about one and one-fourth horsj-power p r ton, and the margin was Just sufficient to save the vessel . . AKCTIC EXPLORATIONThe Kvcrcst * * v I9^ - ufiAiMW * - SOUTHERN ITEMS. INTERESTING! NEWS COMPILED FRdM MANY SOURCE 1. ?A military company is to bo formed at Middiebourne, W. Vu. The West Virginia Educational Association will moot at Morgautowu July 9th. The recent hailstorm did groat damage 'to the tracking interests about Norfolk, Va??Tbo Liberty, Va. woolen mill has boon sold to Mr. William H. McOhea for $17,000. ?In Swain county, N. C., Joe Pholix cut off the head of his thrce-yoar-old son in a temporary Qt of insanity. ??Tbo r.sideitce of J. P. Fell, In Frankfort, Greenbrier county, W. Va., was burned last week. Tbo less is $1,500. ?Roanoke, Va., is to hare a new opera .house to cost $30,000. It has already been leased for a term of fire years. ?For the three months ending April 1st the destruction of property by Are lo Norfolk. V-. amounts to $47.i30,53L -The Middle Island Tto Company, of W. Va , will run one hundred thousand ties out of Middle Island Creek this spring. Andrew McDonough, a coal miner at 8later, Fayette county, W. Vu., was caught ujr a iau 01 Slate a few days ago aud badly injured. ? There have been fifty cases of measles in Pleas int District, Preston county, W. Vs., but only one death has occurred from the disease so far. A procession of gipnes passed through Wheeling, W. Vo., on their way to Ohio, and Were visited by a largo number of curious citizens. The proposition to subscribed xty thousand dollars to the Weston and. Elk River Railroad was carriod in Braxton county, W. Va.f by an overwhelming majority. ?A tbree-year-oid boy of Mr. Joseph Custer, residing near Martinshurg, W. Va., while playing around a spring near tbo bouse, fell in and was drowned boforo being discovered. During a row at Ben wood, W. Va., William Littleton struck Joseph Smith with a coupling pin several times over the head, and would have killed him bad not a trainman g:no to bis rescue. ?A hen belonging-to Sir. Harness, of Moorefleld, W. Va., laid a curiosity in the line. It consisted of two perfectly formed eggs, joined at the small ends by a cord about half an inch long. The dwelling of Wm. II. Meyers, near Vanclemsvillo Station, W. Va , Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, was destroyed by fire, caught from a defective due. As there is no insurance, tbo loss falls heavily ou Mr. Meyers, who is very poor. G. L. Ewing threw a large quantity of poeder in the (lr<v place of liis house at Fayetteville, W.Vu., thinking there was no lire burning. The powder ignite I, and ho was terribly burned about the face and head. A band of Fayette county, Ph., outlaws are commit ting depredations in Preston county, W. Va., creating considerablo ex citement in tho neighborhood. The outlaws threaten vengeance on any one who may inform on them. The Interstate Fencing Company bos I been incorporated at llagerstewn, Md., Ir Messrs. P. M. Miebler, A. Carbott, Alexander Hagner, G->orgo A. Duvis and J. D. Main, cap! al stock $100,000. rains bave rotted the March planting. The crop on the highlands escaped. A (ourteen-year-olil youth by the name of Coleman, was soverly Hogged noir Patterson's Mill, in Bedford county, Va., a few days ago by a party of maske i men. He was ! playing the devoted to a young woman | against bis parents'' wishes. Farmers at Nansemond, Va., report themselves financially ruined; iHteiy planted crops a total loss, fields covered with sand and mud, damage to barn and houses dreadful, bridges and foncea gone, and roads blockaded ana impassable in every direction. ?At four o'clock in tho afternoon the dwelling houso of Mr. ICR. Tain tor, u wealthy farmer near Quantico, Md., was completely destroyed by tire. The fire originated from a spark flying 011 the roof ami igniting the shingles. Loss about $2,000; insurance $ I, *J00. ?It is reported at Rockvillo, Mil., that the asbestos mine three miles west of that place will in a short time, be reopened and oxtenlively worked by a company of Washington capitalists, who have employed Mr. John 8. Bounce, of Georgetown, D. C., to manage it. ?At a meeting of the board of county commissioners for Allogany county, Md. the following officers were elected for the onsuIng year. Treasurer, Difniel Tannan, collectors, Jesse Robinctte, Jhonios H. Koan. John L. Porter, Daniel O'Hauloy and Stephen Fuller. Active atene ere helnv telren frvr the bration at Fayettevillo, N. C., of the 21st of November next, Loin* the centennial anniversary of the ratification by North Carolina of the federal constitution, a call having been issued for a meeting to take place in that oity to consider the matter. Mrs. P. L. Qrasty, a well-known lady of Danville, Va., scperated from hor husband some time ago, was fonnd in her house alone, kneeling by hor bedside dead. An empty bottle which had contained chloral was found In an adjoining room. It is believed sbe unintentionally took an overdose to induce sleep. ??The phoephsto mill in Rileigb, N. C., are to be enlarged end otherwise improved, as the company is crowded with orders. Eighty man are employed?60 at Castlo liagu*. New Hanover county, where the phosphate rock is quarried, and 2') at the mills at llalidgb. Another large cyclo.ie crusher has just boon placed in position. ?During the recent gale, Portsmouth, a nnrrftw ialnml nnar CW*rnnitbn InInf in M ' ( 1 ' was submerged, drowning cattle, sheep and bogs. The water rosj to mauy feet in the houses, and there was great destruction of property. The inhabitants took to the housetops, remaining there until the storm was over. Great suffering was oxperiencod, but no lives were lost. The matter of a local option election In Raleigh, N. C.,*next Juno, still hangs lire. Ttie Prohibitionists have asxed for ua extension of time, within which to procure names on the fcvcral petitions. Much more difficulty tbau was anticipated lias been experienced In this respect, but it is still thought a sufficient number of signatures will be obtained to justify the call. ?tA bad froignt wrecu occurred at tho F. M. and P. Junction, a mile west of Fairmont, W. Va. Thi "pick-up" engine 3UJ lay on toe switch at the junction, and while attempting to back ont i the main track, col11.1^1 .... ? U iW.. t.a(n nnrefrtA R')*L Tha II'ICU WIVU b(iU wnj Kiaiu UH^IUVJ a uu caboose and two cars of tbo "pick up" were piled on each other, and the engine of the way train badly damaged. The track was blocked for several hours. ?rAt Salisbury, Md., Are broke out in tho cigar a ltd liquor store of Josoph Dennett, corner Mill and West Church, street, and oompletaly detroyed the building, along with the house adjoining. Th * origin of tho (Ire is unknown. The night watch man first gave the alarm, and stated that he was first attracted by an explosion. When be went to the door the whole place was ablasc. The bouse and stock are 'nsured. A deplorable affair is reported fro v Transylvania oounty.'N. C. 8ix white mm went to tbe home of Joah Henderson, n negro desperado, with tho^inientiou of carrying him into the woods and Beverly punishing Elm for some of his off."uses, The mmi overpowered him and w. ro carrying him into the woods when they were fired upon by HsndersonV friends who wero secreted in ambush. By mis tales the ntgro was shot and fell to tbe ground with a groan. The ( men ran and two Of them received bad wounds. W, T. Blackwood was shot through I tbs shoulder and Will Johnson received two | puloi botal In bU kw. FROM ffASBIKGTOH. Happenings of Interest at the Capitol. Governor Rolilnson Declines?Barred by iho Contract I.abor Ijow?ltolief lor tlio Men at tfamoa. Governor Robinson, of Massachusetts, one of the commissioners to negotiate with the Cherokee Indians for tbo cessions of lands in the Indian Territory to the United States, called on the President and informed him that ho could not possibly serve on the com. mission. The President acceplod Governor Robinson's declination with regret. The dor?rt?r? ol \h? oommliwion to lix Cbsrukw country will bo delayed by this declination, but steps have been taken to All the vacancy at once, so us to cause as little delay as pus* tible* Commissioner Tanner ask Indulgence Commissioner Tanner, of the Pension Bu* reau, received during the tirst week in the present month 00,871 lottors and other pieces of mail matter pertaining to the business of his otllce, and Inst week lie received 00,000 pieces. The commissioner desires this fact oiado public as a gonoral explanation of delays in answering correspondence from Grand Army men and others having personal Interest in |>eii.sioii cases now ponding in the ofHc.*. . lie bespeaks the indulgence of correspondents until the present burden of the work shall have been disposed of. Tlio Commissioner is making every effort in bis power to expedite the work of his otllce and to bring it up to date at tbo earliest possible day. Riirrcil Iiv ti?o * ?* * Assistant Secretary Tichenor, of trie Treasury Department, sent a letter toT. O. Hague, of New York, in responso to an inquiry from the latter for his viows as to whether tho the transfer by manufacturers from any foreign country to the United States of their plant, machinery, workmen or interest, or uuy jHirtion of them, with a view to permanent settlement in the United States, would in any way conflict with tho statutes relating to alien contract Inhor; and also whether machinery that hail already used would bo entitled to free entry. Colonel Tichener dates in reply that the law exempting personal oiTocts from custom duty expressly provides that "this exemption shall not lie construed to include machinery or other articles imported tor any manufacturing establishment or for sale." The alien contract labor law, ho further states, will not |>ermit of tho antry of tho workman roferred to. The Point Harrow Itclicf Station. Tho plans of tho Government for establishing the Point Barrow Succor Station forwhuling vessels, for which Congress appropriated #15,000, will probably bosoliiod this week. In a general way it is prn|ioscd to buy at San Francisco provisions, coal mid a bouse already built, but which can lie taken apart aud put together again nu<) transport tliein to Point Barrow, together with such man or men as are wanted to take caro of iI ? - wi" mwwj for these various expenses is left, howi'vWj to the Revenue Marine Division, subject to the approval of tho Secretary of tho Treasury. iltiliof for tho Men At Samoa. Lieutenant John C. Wilson,of tho Vandalia, nas telegraphed to the Navy Department from Syndey that he lias chartered the steamer Rockton lor thejpurposeof transporting the shipwrecked sailors to the United States. The Rockton is duo in Sun Froucisco on tho 10th of May. Department. Notes. Tho following named post-otflco inspectors on innil depredations have been removed: James E Alexander, Atlanta,'Ga.; James H. Gritlln, Atlanta. Ga. and Romus F. Stuar', Chicago. Lewis Lewbergor, of Indiana, post-oflloe inspector in tho money-order ser vice, tins resigned. f rsncH M. tionr, ol Mississippi, mid George W. Dontlierago, ol St. Louis, post oil ice inspector on ina'l depredations, have also resigned. Theodore Smith, of New York, a special examiner in the iHwt-ortic.', who resigned las) Summer, has I.eon reinstated. The commissions of the following-named postmasters who were nominated by Presl dt nt Cleveland and confirmed by the Sennit February 2S, 1 M89, woro signod by President Harrison: Miss Mary S. Thompkins, nt Willlnmston, Mich.; l^erov L. Brfnkley, nl Kt Ion ton, N. C., and Miss Dolia M. Barrows at Hinsdale, N. H. Robert VV. Ross, of Illinois, the recorder of the Central Land Office, and Virgil M, Hobbs, of Intliana, Chief of the Contest Division in. the General Land Offico, have resigned. Ten additional clerks, making twenty in all, will I e detailed from the different divisions in tho Post-office Department to brief applications uml other pajiors relating to appointments. If this force is found to be insufficient to spoedly bring the work up tc date further details will bo made. HE DROPPED LIKE A BALL A Lrap from a Famous High Brfdjp Into tho Kentucky River. Meredith Stanley, of Cincinnati, O., a well known athlete and bridge jumper, who line challenged Brodie of New York, made th most remarkable leap on record. It was fror the famous high bridge on the Cincinnati Southorn Railroad over she Kentucky river Tho height is 235 feet. Ho selected a placi whoro tho water was twelve foot deep,attired in silk tights and slippers loipjJ into tho air and doubling up his body like a bull, fell t water, and a moment later bouuded to thi surface, where ku was quickly seized by m slstunts in a boat. lie coughed bloo I a littl while, but soon recovered and took the trail for Cincinnati. He says the feat is done b knowing how, and byperfect self-confidence Ho escaped without breaking the skin, am f^.l. Tki. I..11..... I. ?>... I.l.k 1UUI9 on WVII w> v ? ui i A i UI 13 vug ui^u est in the world exoept one. THESAMOAN CONFERENCE. Who The Gorman and English Rnp resentatlves are. "The Berlin Post" says that the Sacnoai Conference will open on May 1. The Oei man delegates are Count Herbert Biemarol and Dr. Krauel, Privy Councillor of logs tion, of tho Foreign Oflioo. Count Herber will preside. Sir E Iward D. Mnlet, British Ambassodo nt Berlin, will represent England at th Samoan Conference. He will be assists l?y two officials from the Foreign Office. "The Cologne (layette" aays: "The nom nation of Mr. Hewall as disbursing officer c the Americtn Commisaionors to tne Samoa Confer.'lice, together with tho appointmer of Mr. Bates as a member of the Commit sion, warrants the supposition that tt Washington (lovernmont does not serf oust desire a irtondly settlement of the queetio concerning Samoa." Mn?. J. P. Hart, of Brookltne, Masa., wt wad co badly scalded in tbn accident on t( SantaKe and California Railroad, near Jolie HI., died in the boepital in Chicago^ Tt other wounded are recovering. TEIfKR itNC E. STRIKE FOR FREEDOM. Oh, slavo o? the cup, say how long will yon ' * V kneel; The yoke on your nock, the chain on your 4icel. The Rtrii>es on your back, tho dust on your lip*. And body and soul in tho darkest eclipse? Do you breathe the freo air, is this a free Iiauu, Whore you kiss the red rod in the Bacchanal's hand? Will you cringe the men who stand by the howl, When Riving the 6tripes without stars on the soul? Will you go to the altar of freedom, and then, Like the craveu, bow to the merciless men Who'd chain you and sell you as did Judas of WheuSw, fur pieces of sliver, bis Master sold? Will you be u slave on American soil, And leave in saloons the hard earnlnRS of toil; Will you blot out the stars on the flag of the free And lie scourged by its stri|)es on the suppliant knee? With your neck 'ncatli the feet of the tyrant you fear. Give your money and life to Gambrinus and beer? No! Arise and be free in u land that is free! Let your appetites drown liko the swine in the sea. The spirits you drink aro the spirits of wine; Not changer! from the water ny wisdom divine; But like demons of evil that entered tho swine. Now let your motto l>e: "Freedom is mine!" ,, ?G. Vi . livnyny, in National Advocate. WANAMA.KKK OX TFMI'KHANCIC. Postmaster-General Wanamaker recently ? .s> i iim u?11 Kjn*?fn in lavor or temperance to his Sunday-school scholars in Philadelphia. Among other things he said: "The mnn who wtli not sign a temperance pledge, though ho floes not need it himself, to nelp a weaker brother is not as much of a man as he thinks himself to be. Christ said: 'Deny yourselves. Take up your enws and follow Mo.' There is no need to lie drunk to be under the influence of wine. The man who takes only a little and will not give it up is as much controled bv it as if ho was an habitual drunkard. lie is under the influence because be won't give it up. What's the reason you won't stand out for the amendment? Because you like a glass of lieer. You say: '1 want to ho free to take an occasional drink if I feel like it.' Isn't it the influence of the glass of lieer? There are thousands of men in this city who do not get drunk. They say: 'We have the right to drink it if wo want to; to sell it, to buy It or to give it away.' "A man may not drink it atoll, but he may bo under the influence of the liquor spirit. Ho will sav: 'I am a temi>erance mnn hn* T ant in business, ami the liquor |>oop]e deal with mo, so I won't say anything against it.' Now, what influence is ho uniler? It's tho same with many a politician. He's afraid he won't get votes, so he is silent on the liquor question. When n minister or a teacher refuses to speak out on this question he is ruled _ \ I V tbM jitiiiQr Tilft linuiWr ^both iit in the harness of high license! Just its tn6 l,"**; saloon keeper must answer for every glass of liquor he sells, no >*? must answer (or voting for liquor. It is simply a question of whether or not we are in favor of tne saloon. It isn't a question of high license. Tho quibble that prCuluiv uoo iiut?uiii(^ t?u with it. The law against stealing does not prevent stealing. Tho samo power that puts the amendment on our Constitution will attend to the enforcement of the law. It is our duty to make It ns difficult to get liquor ... it <c II | no iv ia v\j ^vv |nji.tvu. ALCOHOLISM IN FRANCE. The consumption of alcohol in Franco has i l>een made the subject of a report drawn up j by the French senatorial committee. hYom this document it appears that since the invasion of the phylloxera spirits have been largely substituted for wine as a stimulant > with the French people, the spirits most used ? 1 l>eing, moreover, no longer distilled from | wine, as formerly, but from potatoes, plums^ j apples and jioars. The alcohol thus obtained I ! is, it seeins, extremely deleterious, and to its . j use is ascribed the deplorable increase of aui ' cide, criminality ana insanity in districts v where these drinks are most m vogue. Im' | pure alcohol, in fact, is known to l>e most detrimental to the public healthy and medical } testimony proves that the spirit drinkers of ; Paris and other districts iu Franco not only ? suffer from nervous-and other diseases, but " that their children are liable to epilepsy, in sanity and hysteria. Normandy, where the consumption of impure alcohol is very large, is noted, it nmiears, for the high death rate of infants, while the proportion of suicides ' from drink there constitutes 52 jnsr cent, of 1 the number. The senatorial committee strongly recommends the almlition of private 1 distillation and the prohibition of the sale of ; all spirituous liquors which are dangerous to health, and insists that all alcoholic products shall pass through rectifying establishments. 1 This recommendation ought certainly not to 1 be neglected.?London Standard. A HIRING TIDE KOK TEMPERANCE. There can l>e no question that-, as the year* go on, there is a rising tide for temperance and for prohibition The number ot people who believe liquor selling a sin and a crime is on the increase, and so is the number who 8 have resolved that it must In* stopped. The saloon ami the saloon keeper are regarded . with an increased abhorrence,and the business is gradually |>assing into tho hands of the lowest class, nearly all of them foreigners, 0 aud men who will never leave it except on. a compulsion. And this compulsion ougnt- to ^ t receive a new impulse at tbo municipal elections now near at hand. Many of our cities J, can be carried for prohibition, if the friends r j or temperance will organize ana put in the hard work that has secured a uo vote in Om bridge, Somervillo nnd elsewhere.?Congre. yatioiuilist. 'u TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. .. __ i The saloon must have lioys, or it rr.ost shut y up shop. j South Africa has a Woman's Christian ~ Temperance Union composed of natives. An Inebriate Home for Women has recently been opened in the north of Ixmdon. Mr. D. H. RurweU, of Allegheny City, Penn., recently did a week's campaigning for the amendment at Erie, under the auspices of the W. C. T. U. It is stated that 3000 persons signed the pledge, nearly all of whom > were men and boys. Pour hundred young men signed after one meeting. q To throw a bomb, to set a house on fire, to .. wreck a railroad train, are inconsiderable . offenses compared to the deeds of the men who have introduced into millions of homea k- poverty, wretchedness, ignorance, crime and t death. How long, asks Zion'x Herald, will a Christian public tolerate such criminal* abroad ? e Miss Frances E. Willard and Miss Anna tl Gordon left Chicago recently for a six weeks* trip in the South, during which time they i. will attend the annual W. C. T. U. Convan >f tiniu and visit the leading cities in Georgia, n South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Missisit alppi. Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas and Indian i? Territory, returning by way of St. Louis ,e early in May. y Rev. Dr. Daniel Dorchester, in the 7ndea prntlmt, compares the coat of pauperism in three cities and two large towns at periods twenty years apart, the first l>eing a period of prohibition ami the second of license. Re >0 shows that la these live municipalities lb twenty years the increase in cost of pauper's ism under license averaged 488 per cent, over ~ I voe ww miner prommuon. m average m1 cra*aa In population beta* nut 77 par cant. ^