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* * r' will be n~Jre of the commodity left for manufacturing purposes and but little for domestic use either in that State or in Indiana. It is the opinion of the Chicago Herall that "Uncle Sam does not offer much eucouragement in the way of remuneration to men of science in the Government employ. No matter how able a scientist 'may be the maximum salary he can receive is $1500 a year, and it is frequently i never $1000." ' i Tho United States Secret Service officers have notified all tho jewelers of ' - Chicago that hercatter they will be pros- ( IMiltwt oniin?o.f?:H " ?--v- -v wuuiiviiciiiuj iu case nicy are caught gold-plating silver or nickel . AP coins for use eca -bangles. Tiiis action is * taken because M has l>ecu discovered ' that some of these * plated coins havo , >been passed for gold coins, which they resemble in size. a ' _ I Joseph Nimrno, Jr., the Government 11 Statistician, is of the opiniou that "at J", the rate at which the Interstate Commission is now evolving decisions, it is ? to be apprehended that in the course of ten years the railroad lawyers of this h country, except those willing to study J themselves to death, will throw up their profession in despair, for the reason that ? j it has become too much for them." U . n a ' Tho Prince of Monaco having secured wi^P^vith $600,000 annual income haj a I rhnde up hia miad to be gonrr Una "nave ^ no more gambling in his spacious realm M after the present lease of tho Casino is > \ run nnf A nrll lit Tlnf fVin milnr. *.* 0* prising managers of the tables have made arrangements to reproduce the en- ? tiro establishment, theatre and all, iu r, Andorra, the little republic in tho Pyrenees On the border of France and ? Spain. Already 5*4,000,000 of the capi- ^ tul stock has been taken up in Paris. ^ The asylum that anarchists of ah ,i Europeru countries have made of P Switzerland has never been regarded favorably by the Swiss peasantry. They " have been impervious to all attacks of socialistic oratory, and in order to make 0 v a more distinct resistnnoc njnins* ?OCl?l~ " ism, peasant associations, under tho ,, name of "Uauerbunde," have been .. n . founded in several parts of German !i Switzerland. The movement, lias two ^ newspapers, one of which advocates this policy for the Government "The nbolition of public festivals and Government g pensions, opposition to all superfluous j' expenditure of the State and improved ^ ^education." L. I I Professor Lombroso, a student of ' criminals, says that out of forty-one an- i arcfcists whom he studied in the Paris "JWlifo omilc, tuniy-uiie poi wui, ouuit-.-i the criminal type of features. Of forty- i three Chicago anarchists the percentage < of wicked faces w.is forty, and that is * atout the percentage obtained troni the professor's researches among the political criminals of Turin. liogicides or murderers of presidents, such as Fieschi, Guiteau, Nohilingand historic evil-doers like Marat, ha 1 nearlv all the ortmia;;'. cast of features. Nobiling, Guiteau and Booth, in the specialist's opinion, ha I ^hereditary tendencies to crime. Certain socialists, like Karl Marx and Lnssalle, are exempted from the doctor's classification, as their features arc noble, but thc>; such men do not favor anarchy. The real truth about "the attempt in Japan to assassinate tho Uzarewitch" has renched the Berlin embassies from St. Petersburg. It appears that the- C/.arewitch and his companions, having dined freely, proceeded in plain clothes into the lowest <juarierof the town in which they were staying, where tiiey entcre I a "tea saloon," in which a large and l rowdy company were assembled. The j Czarewitch and his friends appear to have been somewhat exhilarated, and wro aeanmf>rl to hfi ;i Ivtnd of not VCTV retiucd touists "on the sprue." A row spedily took plane, an 1 tlio police were called in, whereupon there was a rough fight, in the course of which the Cznrcwitch was slightly wounded, l?y a pure accident, and ho and Prioco George of peffiWtsatiu f?,l?wers wcrc t,iy ou,y laughter at the idea o f~flu"]vn" liussia having so hastily decorated his Greek nephew for saving the Czarewitch, who was in danger of nothing except a prison-ce'l for tho night, which Prince George would hp?-? share I with him, for they were bn.'n equally eolpiblo. The Kmperor was furious when the truth reached him, an 1, not eoatunt with tel graphing a very severe rebuke to the Caarewitch, he ordered him to return home at once. His "bear-leaders' will have aba I time of it wh -a they get back to Itussia. Jackson, ia chief engineer. GEORGIA. Columbus is to have a garbage crematory. Savannah will probably build a second garbage crematory. A grand reunion of the surviving veterans uf the famous Fortv second Georgia teg'uicnt t^ok place Wednesday, at Grant Park. Atlanta. These Late News Notes Will Re fresh You. A. Digest of All the Principal Hap penings in Our Galaxy of 8outhern States. VIRGINI A. A<?fitie Odd Fellows hall is to be erect ed at Miueinl City. A building and loan association with one million uolluts capital was chartered in Alexandria Thursday. Ninety-two warrants have been issued for the participants iu the prize tight between Indian Wongo and Jack Connors, which took place in Princess Anne eoun ly Tuesday night. The charter of the Business Man's Protective Vniu!i, ufKi<Juuoud^|^J^*A iment^ed, (OTStioi general banking and brokerage business Herbert L. King and Millard A. King. :hildren of M. F. King, ? f Hie inond. vcre drowned by capsizing of a boat ir fork River Tuesday night. Plans have been prepared for building i tunnel under the tracks of the Chesaicake A Ohio Railroad at Newport News it a cost of $17,000. The tunnel is deigned for street travel and a street cai inc along Twenty-eighth street. The Catholics will build at $10,000 hurch edifice at Buena Vista. E. King, Sr , of Petersburg, claims to c the author of "Stout-wall Jaeksoa's Vay." It has been credited to John Williamson Palmer, of New York. Governor McKinlcy issued a ie?piision upon the Governor of North Carona for Charles Wat kins, who is charged ith the murder of his wife on April 6th, car Salem, in Roanoke county. George S. Smith was shot and killed 1 Alexandria as one of Alexandria's enterprising citi jns, and for a long time was lieutenant f the Capitol police force at Washing >n. I). C. NORTH CAROLINA. The electric street ear company, of laieign, nave arranged to construct a elt line around the city. The railroad commission has completd assessing the entire railroad property f the state, making the total value at I P. #00,0(10. Last year it was $12,000,00, showing an increase of 50 per cent. The contract has been given for the c\v freight depot in Statesville, in the < late of the one burned. i Grand Sire Busbcc, of Raleigh, has ow iccuperalod so far that he is allow) take short drives. . t Misti Helen \Y hi taker Fflwk, dnnghtrr > f the latp GUmmmmw** r>.?i.i -fx _j us married Wednesday afternoon to Mr. 'homus Duerson Knight, of Chicago, iu hrist church. Raleigh, and witnessed nly by near relatives and immediaie ! iendfs. The groom is a near relative ot Irs Senator Vance and of Mrs. Charles 1. Busbeo. The Capital City Land Co. has been rganized with A. S. NichoU, of Miehian City, Ind., president. This coinany lias purchased and will improve dull iggs & Womble property in North luleigh. It is now no longer a secret that Gov. I..It will not carry out the provisions of lie law passed by the late Legislature, ippropriating $25,000 to the World's -'air at Chicago, to be taken from the urcci tax money sent ncre oy tne i*ovivU rfi?iuo v*xr*c? uur rased on ti decision of the Attorney Genrral. Gov. Holt does not think he would .)<; justified in appropriating funds of .vhich he is the custodian to any purpose other than that for which it is intended. SOUTH CAROLINA. A North Carolina party is corresponding relative to the establishment of a tobacco factory in Florence. l?ev Prrf. A. G. Voigt, ol Thicl C'ol cge. Pennsylvania. has accepted the professorship in the Newberry College and Seminary. The Richmond A Damille, South Carolina division, discharged several con doctors and engineers for allowing accidents to their trains. The Columbia firemen will at*end the firemen:-" tournament ai Durham, N. ('., on August 2*?, 2fi and 27. The Comptroller General has issued a circular t?. insurance agents I'" the idea of the law propounded shall prevail the taxes of iiiMiraueo agents will be about doubled. Winston*.- < bampion b? ball team were defeated for the first time this year at Charleston Thursday; score to nothing. Win-ton won the second game; ? " a t, l ti to 2. iion C. I>. Tillman delivered an adI dros> at St. Matthew'>. in (be interest i>f t)i. new i ..mil v of Calhoun The subj... t of his remarks wa : "The Importance of Smaller Subdivisions of the Slate." A n onlei lias been taken in the I mted States Circiil t'ourt anth nizing the sale of hix-lin's Island, for I lie stint of if 150, (inn. t> a company organized in Itoston 11 v Receiver St owe. of the Old Pacific Guano ( oinpanv. George Wallace, ??| Boston, Mum., representing a syndicate of capitalists of that . .*qti- t.W purchased the (.olunibia cannl QUO, says that ttie removal of 11ftibi'iiii/it vi,tr TENNESSEE. Chnttanooga labor union denounces convict labor, and petitioned Governor Buchanan to summon the Legislature in extra session to consider the subject. Mr. Marker, of Pittsburg. Pa., and others are endeavoring of organize a $'?00,0n0 stock company for the purpose >f erecting a steel plant nt J spa. \ eoiumittee has been investigating as to the u< 1 \a - ability of constnu ling canal between the Tennessee and ('iiiiihcrlnm' tivers and between tin Tennessee ati'l ^1 iv?i?sippi i iveis 'Jhcseenit.il inks (to be An or (.in miles in length) will, it is Ai a meeting of Brunswick citizens the Southeast Georgia Fair Association was organized for the purpose of holding *| an annual fair in Glynu. Virgil Steed has sold $100 worth of 2 watermelons for the cash in Talbot ton s since the opening of the seasoh off of two acres of land, on which he made c less than one thousand pouuds of seed t cotton hist year. li Captain Dempster, of theSalwrtta^ ?1 gest liar in Ilnnishurg. Mrs. McArfnur? slapped the captain's face at the time Cor-' ? using such approbious language. * * The colored stn'e firemen's tourna- n ment was held at Augusta last week, with companies present from Macou, Athens. ' t'uthhert. Americus, Washington. v Barnesville and Albauy. The first named i aptured the $100 reel race prize % O The Atlanta city council h s ratified n ihe contract ??f the wa or commission for ~ the three ])umping engines for the new water works; also adopted a bill for pre- ? Mentation in the legislature, authorizing the issuance of $500,000 of water works bonds. .,| FLORIDA. d Gihuore & Davis have secured contract lor the erection of a building 00x72 feel '. for the State Industrial College for col . ored students, at Tallahassee. | W. II. Brnden, a farmer, was shot ol Tuesday at Mundun's Pointy onjjicj^^ ^ bothen, win told "him that he had come t\ cither to get rations or kill him." The doors of the First National bank fi of l'alatku closed last week, and a notice ft thereon says that they will remain closed until the arrival of a national bank ex- in nmincr. This bank was regarded as one n< of the staunchcst in the state. So far July in Florida has been de- " light fill Another month of the weather l' would break up the northern exodus. There has been for the past few years, to says the Times-Union, a great cry for cl "younger blood" in the supreme court of 01 Florida. The "blood" seems to he young m enough now, and the work of disposing u< i?f cases is certainly going on more rapid- ? ly tnau in the past. A Fairbanks special says: The P| shipment of pears and putting up fruit. bWJUUI til bo tfta tflinw yl. ?- - W P * ? dcliscious this year. The jiincapple luovcmcnt is about end- ^ cd. This year's crop was the biggest in m the history of Florida. A well-known railroad man estimates |? that 250 tons of phosphate are shipped from Florida per day. A big ship arrived in Fcrnaudin..'. Monday, and is loading with phosphate. Four other large phosphate ships, are ex- .j". pcetcd daily, and Fernandina's people are jubilant inconsequence. '(; OTHER STATES. a< The last of the jury bribery cases was 'l' tried in New Orleans and resulted in an acquittal ^ The law of Mississippi require three n x-ciMvr,-, ^ he must be able to coustruc the Constitu- ^ tion of the State. This last clause is q vague and uncertain, and under it one- v half the voters of the State can be de- v prived of the right of suffrage. Royal Arch Masons. Minneapolis, Minn., [Special.)?The general crawl rl>.??>?cr Royal Aicii Masons l :?t the United States of America began i its twenty-eighth triennial convocation y here at high noon, Wednesday. This i body is the largest Masonic body in the ; world, having a .membership of 141.901. I It is nlso the oldest body in the United States, and it will celebrate its centenial i in 1897. An address of welcome was de- < live-red by Mayor P. 13. Winston, and a > response by the general grand high priest, i I). F. Day, of Buffalo, N. Y. The report of the general grand scribe showed that ' in two years the new growth of the or tier has been 14,942. The total membership now is 141,901. Since 1889 $186796 were collected and $168,095 expended. There are 2,069 enrolled chapters, Interesting references was made to the * growth of the order in Asia, Mexico and 1 A morion I'Kn rriMiml cliftnlnr in < dwmi niiivuio, . ...... vU?,.w. ... Chile lias not been heanl from on account of the civil war. The general grand high priest in liis address said Chat the grand chapters of Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia, which were still independent. would probably be brought under the general chapter, as we'l as the Canadian grand chapters, before the centeu< ial. Virginia's World's Fair Convention. The spirit manifested at the State convention held last week, Wednesday, at Pulaski, evidenced that the World's Columbian Kx posit ion lias taken a strong hold upon the minds of tlie people of the Commonwealth, and that there will be a substantially unanimous call upon the general assembly next winter to make : a large appropriation, so that every resource ami eveyy attraction of Virginia *???.vjae adequately and fittingly exbibite T Vv IlllCTlO Sinn tyub fixed ti' last that would he required, there was a general agreement that *100,000 would be the lowest sum that the legislature should appropriate. It has been noticed that in some other Mates the farmers opposed any appropriation. or else insisted that it should be' very small, and that tlicv denounced all liberality of appropriation as grievous extravagancies. Not thus feel the Virginia agriculturists, ? |,o were represented at Pulaski. On the contrary they intend to spend liberal!v, but not lavishly m order that their Commonwealth may I ivea rew rd for the enter,,. and pubI lie spirit of her citizens. j AXLIANCE TJI||ll#EOT. Everything Mortgaged I Sooth wester* Kama* Countie* With Small Btpuli ion* and L&or? 0?bts th? Outc do of Wildcat Settling Sch? e*. Southwestern Ttansa* boa s of the direwdtst financier* in the w< id, writes i Topek? correspondent of ie Boston Herald How the people Ut *nd what hcv can hope for in the fh&n< have pu*:lod the brnius of the easl^fta jart of the Mute for many years. ... I The attention which thaveqnt killing >f Col. Sam Wood ha* MM towards he district bordering oa mMnifcUna resulted ? $"'^u^jffl^Sfchthe. ast,has bden Vobl?wt%if^(|<e?^Ji?^hleli' <OT^6ncere must command (Jen the diuiintion of their victims. Tne thirty-second judicial difrict is (imposed of six counties?ScwarT Stevns and Morton, on the southern Ino beiveen Kansas and No Man's Land,, and !runt, llaskell and Stanton joininr them n the north. Each of these couities is T miles square. A few years ago every re of their area belonged to the g?vcrnleut. Hncc then they have been taken l? by alleged farmers, who, as soon they >uld secure title from the land office, lortgaged them to loan companies for I the agents would advance and abauoncd them. Now the loan companies are in undiluted possession of 90 per cent, of the aims, and about the only remaining evlence that the country was everjpoputed are the ruins of sod houses and dugits that dot the broad Qlail)sg?j-<jg}i)|g|| incfieation that ic little hut ia occupied, and that water being pumped for the family's use mil a depth ranging from 100 to 189 of. . Towns which were abiding places for- | oi ly of from 500 to 3,000 people are I 3\v either entirely deserted or nearly ' ?. County seats which contain fully 0 business houses seldom have over tree in use, aud Til E AUE ENOUGH BUILDINGS i furnish two for each man woman aud liid resident. City lota, which were ice in demand nt II ,500 each, and any of which have brought $2,000, >\v have no value, and their owners do >t pretend to pay taxes upon them. These counties were organized in pros rous times, when eastern loan compacs, through their agents, gani/.atian under the state law, while i w there is not one that has half enough, bortivc attempts at farming have alost invariably proved complete failures, id the only crop that has been raised is been one of bonds and mortgages. Commencing Monday, July 27, a Farm's'Alliance and Kuights of Labor enimpincnt began at Sulphur Springs, cxas, to continue five days. The rogramme is modeled upon the Chnuuiquan system, and includes ldresses each day- from well known eturers, the following speakers beiug f the number: Prof. C. Vincent, 8ena>r PefTer, President Evan Jones, Harry racy. M. W. Wilkins, R. W. Coleman, f. 8. P. Ashby, AV. 8. Morgan. C. AV. iOuv, KiHi Jwumuor Ralph Beaualhering of labor in 'exas was present. Oroiwf).^ wnod and rater were provided ?r those who rerc camped. * ( ****** 1'KFKER IN WEST VIRGINIA. Wuwi'i icn tV Va., Svurtiur >V. if. > ir. _ ..r V nuih Kulional Alliance Sec etary Turnei and State Alliance Oignni:cr t'arskudon addressed an audience of <>,000 people at Moundsville. After the iddresscs a eonferencc was held with ending Alliance and People's party men >f this State with n view of mapping a 0 n of cinping in West Virginia. The ;reat majority of the Alliance leaders, u< h as Congressman Capchart and Scnaor Knott, stand aloof from the movement md predic t its failure in this State * ? + A 0 * a national. alliance encampment. Baltimoue, Mi>., [Special.]?The \meiiean says that the National Farmers' Alliance will hold their encampment in Maryland, near this city, and that the annual encampment will lie hcnl here every year, certainly for the mxt five yeais, and it is probable that a Ite will i>e purchased and the encampmea located here permanently. This year the encampment will he held in 8e>tember. About two hundred acres of lam will be needed for the encampment andan auditorium will l?e erected which vi 11 seat 12.000. The encampment will last two a^ecks and 2~>0,000 persons ma* be expected to be present. The Penuylvauia and Baltimore and Ohio railronls have made liberal offcis to secure the tncampment along their lines. ** + * -- - * \\r 4 o r> r motAW ri>L.n a% " Aoii.iiv. v.,. Washington Post: An iut?rosting talker, because his words ring wlh the sincerity of honest conviction, is Col. L. Ij. Polk, of North Carolina, present of only of medium sS*n?,$ct no ifcoVoU**. tractive face full of shrgtvdness and good humor. Mis hair is- iron-gray and hi? long pointed board nearly white. lt< looks about five and fiftv, and dnsae? ?' good taste. "The partisan pr?, ' " he said, "is ful of misreprc-entatiol. of the Alliaoet You must have hear* of the alleged n< tion of the Kansas si W Alliance, to tl cfTeet that, as the Hoi1 Lu was not repr sen ted at our Ciiicinnjfsti convention, was a scheme to enrryO he country in t next national election for the Democrat and therefore the sub J y Alliance in gu tion would return to the Republic*! party. Now, this was made of the wholt cloth. The presideut of the Alliance came out in a card denouncing the whole story as a falsehood. No such resolution tiou was ever introduced, vet it nets in print, and people who read ouly the par tisan papers fancy the Alliauce has gone to pieces in Kansas, and that ita members will go straightway luiek to their old love, the Republican party." "I waut to tell you that such notions are absurd In Kansas today we have from 15,000 to 20,000 luemlu rs gained since the adoption of the Ocaln platform. Does that look like losing strength? We aio growing faster than ever and are thorouohlv lmit.-.i " "Will there be a third ticket in the Presidential nice? 1 will give vou a straight answer: So far as the Northwest is concerned the third party has cotne to sisjyit^wjUJuort tiftkat iniWfl?UsV^ io leWers (to not put Xh end to their int dernnce, proscription, and denunciation of our order and its principle there will be a third ticket in the South also. There is a grva' deal of human nature among A1 iancemen. They have stood a good deal from the Petno enitic leaders, but are grow ing weary and may turn ou their detractors." "Is it true that you have demanded the resignation of President Hall, of the Missouri State Alliance, being lie is op posed to the sub-treasury plank?" "About as true as the story that as commander of a Confederate brigade I had some prisoners shot in cold blood at (Gettysburg. I never got higher than third lieutenant nnd the Union soldiers I had executed existed in the fertile brain of a partir.au editor. No, President Hall has not been asked out of the order. I have had some corresjioudcucc with him and think that lie with Wade of Tennessee nnd McAUiater and Beeman, of Misaissipv.f. arc makimr sad miatakaa in dnniatiai. "What nbout tho charges that Dr, Macune has sold out lo the protective tariff advocates?" "That is on a psr with the other stuff. Wo never notice the calumnies directed against our prominent men. Tin: public lifts pot so used to the fakes ot the party organs that little dependence is placed in what such papers say." "Col. Polk has been lecturing in New York State to enthusiastic audiences, ami will start shortly for Georgia, where he is to make a speech making tour in company with (Jen. Weaver, of Iowa, Hon. Jerry Simpson, and Mrs. Higges, of Kansas." A YOUNG JEW'S STORY Of Inhuman Treatment in Russia How 1 E,ua^J Bitertfr.m fuUKObiWh in1?!trtir deteutioa bmcan at the barge office, awaiting the decision of the supcrfatrndent of iiumigia*ior It is ptobablc that they will all be sent back, nr. each one has been "assisted." Oncol the detained immigiauts, Men del Tiogaiski. a young man of twenty, a carpenter by trade, tells a thrilling story of his own ad vent ures and sullerings in Hussia. lie became ;; suspect, while winking at Ids trade in lliga. end to escape Siberia, which was inevitable, lie lied fiom city to city, pursued constantI". lie was finally taken prisoner, beaten and ticated most inhumanly, and picpnr ed fot Siberia, when lie again managed to escape, lie succeeded in reaching the frontier and by the assistance of his countrymen was sent to Hamburg llcm he was further assisted aud left for America. ^ jlc has 110 money, having been robbed he was ?aken prisoner lh UUUIH, mm says if hois caught again in ib.it country ho will he put to death. The Jewish societies have taken hold of his case. That Big Light House. " Vabiiinoto.n, D. C., [Special.]?Un derson & Ban of New York, contractor for the construction of the light liou.se 01 Diamond Shoal, ofT Cape llaltcras, havi informed the Light House hoard tha notwithstanding great loss that theyhavt already sustained in that work, they wil make anotlu r endeavor to secure a solie foundation. On a treacherous reef, it will he impossible, they say, to do that <>1 anything before next year beyond the con stretion of a caisson which will be largei and stronger than the one which was destroyed a few weeks ago while being put in positiou. They feel confident that a pcrmancnl light can lie estah'i-hed at that point hut think it cannot he done for much les: than two million dollars Theit contract price is $485,000, being within *15,00( of the available appropriation. It Means Dollar Wheat. A Baltimore merchant tells the Anieri can of that city that "Fiance has ordciet wheat this year in Baltimoic up to tli piescnt time to the extent, of about 25, 000 <>00f, (*5.000.000".) The < xpenditun i of *5,000,000 ineansthcpurcha.se throng tirms in this city of, roughly estimated .?.< 00,000 bushel- of wheat. The pun has money alone noes hoi ny anj n.. present the henelit u? < ruing to thiseit fioni siieli ex pcnd i t ill e, for you must tak into consideration tli?* vast number < hands that must nc< essui ily he employe to handle the grain. on the tailioad, i the piers, and 01 shipboard. 1 lie shortage of tin* wheat crops in Kt ropea o count lies ami 'he heavy crop < wheal anil other meals with which w on this side'of rlie watei have hetn hie-.' ed. feive to give a lioom in flopping i this and oihe. por* of tiie Atlantic tha makes the iiearts of the mariner, the fa "yf I "^twl the middleman glad, (WSI5IWT nr ? m The Hev. Dr. Cuylcr of Brooklyn ' that Horace Greeley onrc told him tt ; he believed that at the time of his you manhood it. New Hampshire hiB wa, II oniv teetotaler in the State I nc K I , Cnvler further says upon the the Hev Dr. byman Heechcr, that those times, when the CuMngM< Ministers' Assoeiation of ( onnecti it iield a dinner, the place where they < i?. ?-d lmd so much whiskey 111 it that .v smelled like a barroom. ihiugs I eV- changed since then. ; "STONEWALL" JACKSON, j The 30th Anniversary of Manassas Fitly Celebrated. The Statue of the Oreat Cavalry Leader Unveiled at Lexington. Lexington. Va ?[Special, j?The SOth anniversary of the first hat tic of Matiassos was celebrated here with great enthusiasm. I The village was bright nml hustling with color, while 10,000 stiangcrs assembled within its enviroua to participate in the exercises incident to the uuveiling I tifully. Three arches extended over main street i on the line of march. (In one Honoured Jackson's telegram after the battle of i McDowell: | "God blessed our arms with victory at ' McDowell yesterday." I ' On another banner is his leanest to . ? rest in Lexington: "In the valley let tuc lie underneath 1 God's open sky." ' The decoration of houses was profuse and soute of them beautiful, consisting 1 of loug streamers, Confederate States' ' Hag", and the battle flags, set off with national colors. Lee's mausoleum was s wrapped in evergreens and cut flowers. I Thestatucof Thomas J. Jackson stands i in a circle in the centre of the city ccmctery on Main street. A square contain- ? ing four acres of ground, well set off ' with giant trees partially hides the stat- i uo from view. The site ia a ffVu|u^ * ^nTesemptorisii Virginian, Edward V. Valentine, who designed the Lee monument. The statue is of bron/o, hctoic in si/.e and portrays 1 Jackson with uncovered head, leaning j on his sword and left leg, and looking , out upon the field of battle. In his I right hand at his side is a field glnss. ) 1 The figure is clad in full uniform of a ! ' Confederate Lieutenant General with 1 gold lace on sleeves distinctly visible and 1 with heavy military boots and spurs | 1 The carriage is easy, and.the attitude is ! one of c lose observation with the right . ' foot advanced, ready and alert for in- I stant aud vigorous action. The scabbard 1 ' of the swoid upon which the gauntiettcd left hand tests, bears the letters, "U. 8." ' The historical fact is it was modeled J r from Jackson's own sword. The statue h proper measures eight feet and surmounts 1 < a granite pedestal ten aud a half feet ' h i nh in h+nami^T - - in " I ' X^EScripti^jn : 'Tlnckson, 1^1-lWII/1 and on unotlieFlhe single -w or tone wall," I the sobriquet given Jackson by his chief, 1 Gonaral Lee. Beneath the pedestal is a vault containing six sepulchre chambers, , sui rounded by a circular gruss plot around which is a drive way with four , approaches. The general effects of the j structure is imposing, and old soldiers who followed Jackson during the war are pleased with the statue. The parade ground of the Virginia ' military institute was the place of formation, which wa? under the direction of Chief Marshal, General James A. Walker, of Wythe, Va., tho only surviving commander of the Stonewall Brigade, t Members of General Walker's staff who occupied the right of the procession were: Maj. 8. C. Moore, Berryville, Va.; Capt. Jno. Bumgardocr, Staunton; (.'apt. Randolph Barton, Baltimore; Cant. H. It. Garden. New York; Capt. [I Mart*. Roefrmghain';' tirftwhW * all, John T Dtinlap, J. |\ Moore, It. T. McLcod, W. F Johnson, C'upt. William Wade, Capt 8. W. Buxton, M. D. Wilson, J. X. Bell. J. C. Tt*w|lngj Juu Curmicnael, of Rockbridge. The staff was followed by the Stonewall Hand with s twenty pieces, heading the Rockbridge i (Va.) Battery under Col. Win. T Poague, r with the guns the battery operated under t. General Jackson at the battle of Manas3 BUS. I The remainder of the pioc i -ion made I up of survivors of the Stonewall brigade, I consisting of 2d, -11 h, fit It, 2it.h nod U'Jd r Virginia regiments under comiuuud of i Col. Andrew Jackson, Grigsby and Col. r ! J. K. Edmonson; Marylaud bund Confoderato Veterans of the a: my and Navy from Maryland under Gen. Bradley JohnI sou; vutlous coufcdciate camp.*, nud cm ; riages containing Gen Jub.d A. Early, < orator of the day, Gen Wade Hampton, t who presided over the ceremonies, Ed) ward V. Valeutine, Sculptor*, Mrs. T. J. Jackson, General Ho.-v-.cj and a number of j ottlwrw tiutt V ladies. inocvssioa tirst moved to j campus of Washington au I Leu Un:\er? , 1 sity and lulled ubouc 'he pl.iUo.ai which j 15 ' had been erected for distinguished gue ts und handsomely decorated, ii It was twelve o'clock when the proces, sion arrived at the enmpus. Gen llntnpe ton then introduced Col. T. M. Semmes, of the Virginia Military Institute, who v teeited most beautifully three poems, e Stonewall Jackson's Way," "Over the >f liver," and "Slain in battle." Gen. Jud ha I A. Karl v. orator of the occasion, was it next in'induced, and eommeneed speaking from manuscript. Gcuerul Karly npi peared in good health but showed pain. >f fill signs of old age. He was twice ine teirupted by bauds that had just arrived. < lie stopped speaking and turned sharply I it around and asked if there was no way to | it stop that fuss The oration was received r- with attention and great enthusiasm. A touching incident on the stand wn? ys wliom sfic ?ia& n^l VWlt fW int ted to sec for so long a time. She ruing braced them warmly and appeared mu' h he a (Tec ted, holding little Thomas in her >r. aims during the oration Julia sat of alone. After the oration the paiadc was in continued to the cemetery, foisuing in nnl rear of it at two o'clock, cut At 2:15 Mrs Stonewall Jackson nntl lin- her two little grand children. Julia Jack , it son ( In is i-i-i and Thoiues Jackson ( liris lave tian, ascended the stand accompanied b Captain John Cairuichael. Two minute fltarward* audd the firing of c.. inoa by V; Rockbridge artillery the coru vim ntrtled by little Julia and the veil fell exposing to view the statue. Military and civic orgacizationa then passed in view of * tho statue thteugh the ceiretery, drooping out ot .Mne etched their Quarters. TRAGEDY AT A DANCE. Qeorge Futch Shoots Willie Dowling and Hie Father. A Starke, Fla., special sais: Willio Dowling was shot and killed and his 'ather, Joseph Dowling, perhaps fatally voundud by (Jeorgo Futch, Wednesday ^ corning, about fifteen miles west of hero. . The trouble occuracd at the hou o of ^ i ucrura Adkius duriegthaDrMtM^^^^^^^^^I 'turned loose." Then Dowling let hiin * >. Then Flitch slipped hark, pulle?l ? ?ul his pistol, a ml began tiring. The llrst shot struck Willie Dowling ver the region of the heart, killing him u?tiintly Kutch had tired three shots it Joseph Dowling, the father, tho first nteringthe upper jmrt of the right high, the next enteriug the right lower <m1 ion of tho abdomen, and the Inst coei ing the right groin Futeh then ran through the front gate nid turned and tired another shot into lie crowd, dnugciously wounding an uphan hoy named Vniucs. A posso tailed pursuit of Futeh at. once, but so ar nothing has been heard froiu him. I'liese people are well eouueeted and uiioiig tin best citizens of Bradford ounty. In fact, Joseph Dowling bear* lie reputation of being one of tlio best uid nujstjmnipcro^^mnor^^ "OLD UNCLE BILLY." Death of an Eccentric Character of Cabarrus County. V II AM.OTTK, IN. C., [ Special. J ?One CI ho most eccentric mcu in North Caroliuu .as just died iu Township No. 10,Cabnrus County, at tho ago of 80. He wm IVin. Most, known throughout this secion us "Old Uncle Billy." Droll iu speech, singular io thought, v was u bachelor, a woman hater, amis r and a recluse. His sole companion* vcre two old dogs and mi old negroes rho cooked his tueuls. After his 'death lis lolntivcs ransacked hi:i house aud gathered together $10,000 in gold found ? towed away in cans, stockings, pockets ?f old clothes, pltcherH, jars, gourds, >o.\es, cupboards and nooks and. cronnica. t ror n a year* were among them. Three hundred dollars in notos which had been hid among the raficrs had been destroyed by rats nnd mice. The old niau made a will a month beforo his death, by which he bequeathed of tho 1,800 acres he possessed, 600 acres to Peter Most and his I Mother, his nephews, nnd the remainder iu 100 aero tracts to other nephews. No bequests were made to his nieces or any of his female relatives, no' was I lie faithful old black cook remembered. One thousand dollars was bo< I ilea tlicd to Bethel Church, fiorn which he was buried. Tho disappointed relatives thrcatou to contest the w'll. Forty Thousand in Gold in Her Woodshed. Nkw Castle, Pa., |Bpccial.j?ThcEpwortli Methodist Episcopal Church here has just couie into $10,000 in a pecuhav way. Maty Grcev was an eccentric old inn -i 11 r"" A'\o"' had conic. *b<> aunt for hmr lawyer and ? friend to make her will. *hc first cuiLcd lo uc carried to a woodshed in the yard. There she pulled asido some rubbish aud disclosed a can cou (.lining $-10,000in shining gold. Then the old lady was carried iolo tltu tiouso and made a will bequeathing $10,00D to (lie <:11111c-11. She mas informed that if a public bequest was made within thirty days of death if was of no avail, so the obi ladv handed over the money in cash. Straws Show the Wind. The railroad construction which is rceoided for the six months ending July I I. shows that of the 1,609 miles of railway that were built during teat period, were iu the South. The mileage of ' lie several States is as follows: Georgia. Iu*>; Alabama, 1J7; South Carolina, !t?*?.5; West Virginia, 111; Virginia, 100; '.ml North Carolina, 64 4. Of the Northern Suites Pennsylvania leads with 169.4, Washington follows with 102,7. Montana wi'th ^7^.7. Only two"" nWItt '* were constructed iu New York, four in Massachusetts, five in Indiana, six in Maine and Missouri each an J seven in New Hampshire. Arms Purchased for the Miners. Knoxvii.i.k, Tknn., fSpecial. J?It is said on what seems to be good authority that arms are being purchased in Knoxvilli* for the use oi persons in the neighhood of Coal Creek. Investigation s' ows that iu the past 21 hours there has been an unusually large number of calls at Knoxvillc hardware stores for Winchester i dles, ii is said that there are tivc hundred men in the vicinity of Williamsburg, Ky., ready to come out to the aid of millers at Coal Creek It is known that a telegram was received from Pennington pro! nosiinr contributions of money and also 12r.~.ft-lf.y-y- at? >h?th. 1 "l0UB" ?| Wrbt Point, Nkb., [Special.]?Th .veatcst flood in this city's history occur <1 here yesterday almost completely sub merging I lie business part of the city, jist year the city council filled up a j n ge creek that flowed through West I'oint, but made no provision for carrying i way the water, estcrday a heavy rain ' to. in set in and the old creek turned into ' lie main street. . -i