Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The vr, hiuuuisi^busy- -that sombreros ' North Carolina it to have the honor of having the longest electric railway in the world, announces the Cincinnati \Erujvirtr, a line from Asheville to .Rutherforton, a distance of forty-one miles, being about to be constructed. ^ ,'!Thc power is furnished by water. The P Voed will be built to operate both freight 'and passenger cars. IUI.1.1 I ?L -1 1 ' 1 " muiiwni uave tusir I rials, ODserves the Chicago Herald, "but they know low U> bear them without wearing out prematurely. The necrology of Andover ^Theological Seminary for 1890 showed that of the forty-six graduate.! who had s*. died two were over ninety years of age, one Of them ninety-sevon, nineteen were between eighty and ninety, fourteen wero between seventy and oighty, nod only one wae under fifty. The average nge V was seventy-six years and eight months. 3ao wonuer that life insurance agents are Iricndly to clergymen.n The recent outburst against tha Prince of Wales is, says London Truth, proof positive that loyalty in the old sense of the . word has ceased to exist. The Queen is respected as a wo.nau, but not a the descendant of a line of Kings. The monarchy rests upon the fragile basis of the good conduct' of the occupant of the throne. As a principle it has aire* ly disappeared. It hse become a marc qui? tion of expediency whether we shaii have ill * King or do without one. Kingship .Jfe. will last out my time, but It is dojuu 1. "Whether "know; but a republio England is likel/ to become before fifty years hare expired. ' Thirty thousand tons, or tw?? thousand carloads, of staff will be used io the cou tructioa of the main buildings of the Exposition at Chicago. It has bson decided that all of the buildings will be faced with this material. Start was inTented in France about 1870, and first used in the buildings of the Paris Expo* m sition in 1878. It is composed chiefly of powdered gypsum, the other constituents being alumni, glycerine and dextrine. These are mixed with water without heat, and cast in molds in any desired shape and allowed to hanlon. The natural color is a murky white, but other colors are produced by external washes, rather than by additional ingredients. To present brittleness the material is cast around a coarse cloth, bagging or oakum. The casts are shallowlike, and about half an inch thick. They may be in any form?in imitation of cut stone, rock, fsced stone, moldings, or the most delicate designs. For the lower portions of the walls the materia! is fjf? mixed with cement,which makes it hard. Staff is impervious to water, and is a permanent building material, although its cost is less than one-tenth of that of marble or granite. U 1 1 Athanssius, the brigand who captured a train in Turkey the other day, seems to be a picturesque and gentle l ruffian of the operatic sort. He is described as Tery handsome, about thirty* Are years old, dressed with scrupulous care, and wearing a white Oriental cloak. To the women on the train he behaved who grace ana gallantry, AMunng tnem that he warred not with the fairnex. He treated hie captives wit'i much consid^ eration, and when a kid waa stolen gave them the meaty bits and waa content to pick the bones himself. In a letter which he wrote to a Greek newspaper in Constantinople he said he meant to keep $10,000 of the ransom for himself, divide $14,000 among his six associates, and give $13,000 to the poor. He further requested that the messenger conveying the money should be authorized to spend part of it in buying (even woolen shirts, tobacoo, cigarette papers, "~v efrg revolvers, six ambir cigarette holdera and six pocket-knives for the use of his band. When his captives were released he ktoed them and gave each of them $38 for pocket-money. It would Ka ?tfnaai . nmin fsmt 4a kaaa tKai (Kta romantic robber qualified himself for a brigand bj serving m a waiter In a ras* tauraot, If ft were not for the general *atr of burlesque about the whole affair. It appears now that there were only seven Aj^urjvrn Ariiii; UJUSVITIES The News From North, East, South and West. Dispatches Received and Recorded Fresh From the Wire All For the Dear Reader. The courthouse of Winston county. Alabama, has been burned. AH the records were lost. 8. F. Pearcc, a prominent cotton merThe first bale of eotton of the new crop was received in Montgomery Thursday and sold at auction for 8 cents a pound. Notwithstanding the general financial depression, the Birmingham, A a , Her ala reports that over $T>0,<J00 were in vested in new buildings in Birmingham during the month of July. Roanoke, Salem and Vinton, Va.. have been trying to relieve the ni'dsnraraer dullness by agitating the idea of a tripartite consolidation. The tlncc towns cuusonuaieu wouia niRKC a city ol UO, 000 people. The phosphate industry is booming in De Soto county, Fla.. where a solid lied of phosphate has been struck a few feet below the surface. Land has advanced from ,o $10 an acre, and there is considerable" excitement. The engineer corps engaged in running the route of the Norfolk, Wilmington & Charleston Railroad is reported to be making steady progress through the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina. When last heard from the party was nearing South Mills, from whence probably two routes will be surveyed, one via Elizabeth City, the other farther to the north. The agent and operator of the Georgia, Carolina and Northern railroad, at Fish Dam, about forty miles from Columbia, committed suicide Thursday afternoon by b'owing out his brains with a shotnun. , The big World's Fair building will be a mile around. Texas has a Fat Mau's Association, the initiation fee of which is a cent a pound. Men who weigh less than 225 pounds are ineligible to membership. The old-fashioned Russian wagon driver, who carried passengers and freight long distances in liis rude, selfcontrived vehicle, is still competing successfully with the steam horse in the land of the Whits Czar. -Tn !hn*ti,tnH "'""T.r'.'ir-. Florida. Thci orange crop of the i alter is practically but of the way before, t lists' of the former is ready for the market. The California orange is of slower growth than tho Florida product and docs mvt decay so soon. Congressman McMillin's Tennessee ad tnirers are making an active for their favorite for Speaker of the next Congress The Canadian Government lias r< reived information that, owing to the great promise of the crops in Mauitoba and the Northwest, the Canadian Pacific Railroad Company has orde ed fifty new locomotives and one thousand five hundred bo* cars to transport the season'j harvest to the seaboard. It is estimated that it will require ten trains daily for seven months to move the crop, Henry Exnll. a native of Emrland. ami I the first architect to open an office in I Virginia, died suddenly in Richmond, Thursday, of apoplexy, aged 70 years. Toe labor trublu in Omaha is spreading. More bricklayers hare gone ou? for seven hours on Saturday with eight hours' pay. Editor George Jones, of The New York Times, is seriously ill at Poland Springs, Me. His advanced age?seventy-nine years?makes his complaint more serious. The White Star line 6teamer, Majestic, arrived at New York, Wednesday, having crossed the Atlantic in five da s, eighteen hours and eight minutes, beating the record by fifteen minute1. The coal mine at Walnut Cove, 8'okes county, N. C., recently opened by the Greensboro Coal and Mining Co., is in the famous Dan river coal Held There are several seams, but development begun so recently that none but surface co 1 has been taken out. This is semi-bituminous, burns freely, giving out great he?t and leaving no clinker. At the annual meeting of the Btntc Horticultural Society of Georgia, held last week at Quitman, there was a dis play of fruita that the delegates pro nounced the fine.-t' ever made in that State. The floral exhibits were numerous and most attractive. From tho Alabama experimental farm, located at Auburn, a splendid collection of grapes was received. At Winston, N. C., Friday, the home ] club scored another victory in content with tho visiting team from Washington, D. C. Runs, (1 to 3. The two post offices, Winston and \ Hnlom N. (! will HA mw\A I 1lic general freo delivery system applied to both cities. At the meeting of the State Horticultural Society at Greensboro, N. last Wedncsday night J. Van Lindley was re-elected president: Dr. G. K. Faust, vice prcsicieht; C. F. Surburg, of Southern Fines, secretary, and J. A. Linebaek, of 8nlem, treasurer. Hon Thos. 8. Bocock, a prominent Virginia legislator died Thursnay night in his residence in appomattox county, aged W. Fifty-one new industries were established in the South last week, although it was tho dullest commercial period of the year. Savannah's first bale of cotton of this reason's growth was received here Thursday, classed middling, and sold for 10 ' cents per pound, wef*hed 558 pounds. The second bale arrived in the afternoon. The Atlanta Piano Manufacturing Company waa closed last week by the foreclosure of a mortgage. Boston Mmi., i* to build ? fottl to? THE PEOPLE'S PARTY. The Convention Met With 460 DeleRates in Bpnnglleld, Ohio. SrniNGPiELD, O., 18pecial. ] - When the People's party convention was culled to order Wednesday by Hon. H. T. I Rarncs, of the State committee, at least 4.10 delegates occupied seats in the beau fully-decorated hall. A nir?re orderly and intcllig* nt couventiou is seldom seen. Many ladies were on the floor of the hall, aud several of them occupied ten's on the stage. The proceedings were opened with prayer by Joshua Crawford, una Chairman Ba ncs ihcn read letters of en- ^ ItOSntT IT "T~mTTTn-T?.- iimuLitt.'1 I. ...il " National Committee of Alabama. c Hugh Cavanaugh, of Cincinnati, was in'roduce I as temporary chairman, and when he advanced to the front of the stnge he was greeted with hearty applause. Cavanaugh said this was th most importnnt convention held by nuy party for mauy y ars. It is composed of men who have no hxcs to grind. "Wc 1 propose," said he, "to serve notice on 1 dominating paities that they have served out their time. Wc differ from both the other State conventions which have bccu held this year, notahly the one in Columbus, in that we have not so many Senaatorial.candidates iu the field Wc arc here to represent a principle which must in the end prevail. Politicians have been saying: s 'You till the soil end wc will atteud to the politics.'" Cavanaugh said that John Sherman, like Iugails, would be relegated to private life. If the Mamfield Iceberg fully understood his position he would say with Wolsey, "Had I but served the people with half the strength I have servo! Wall street they would not now leave me in my old age." H. B. Hutchinson was selected as temporary secretary. Various committees retired and pending their return to report. ltobert Schilling addressed the convention * After rccci?ing reports from committees, the convention adjourned until the morrow The committee on resolutions, which has been wrestling with the plat i vi an oiutv v u. iu , ot IV JJ. 111. | ftQ* journed without having reached a conciusioo. The points at issue are prohibition and the land tax. Regarding u ticket everything in chaos. A t'ozen S atcs and their respective advocates are not sanguir e. There is beneath the sur ace considerable feeling between the Federation of Labor men and the Knights of Labor, .which causes the farthers' clement to suspect both. The 8tatc People's Party Convention Thursday nominated John Seltz, of SenA Nine-Million Dollar Railroad^1 Record. Charleston, 8. G'., !Sp cial ) ?-Tiny biggest railroad deal of the century hri$ just developed here. A. B. Morton, vice-president of the Cincinnati and Cape Fear railroad, who was here last week, had recorded in B. rkcly county a mortgage for $0,000,000 on property of that road. The pr je t is to run the road from Norfolk to Charleston, east of the Atlantic C >ast Line, enter ng the city on a bridge across the Cooper river, crossing Ashley river and uoing down to Savannah. The company now controls th'linc built from Norfolk to Scuthport, N. C., and is engaged in constructing a line from Soutbport to Conway, 8. C. From there the road will tie extended via Georgetown down to Charbston. The company has purchased the franchise ol the Mount Pleasant and Littla Biver railroad with all the necessary land grants. The new road will, 'tis said, give the shortest route north and west now in existence. THE SLEEPING"cAR TRAGEDY. Death of D. F. Connell, who was Shot by the Unknown Highwayman. Chari.ottesvillk, Va , [Special.]? Daniel F. Connell, the capitalist of Portsmouth, Ohio, who was shot by some unknown person while lying in his berth on the Pullman sleeping car on the Chesapeake and Ohio train last Saturday morning, died at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning at Wrights Hotel. He was conscious to the last moment, and his , last words were, "I'm getting blind." He did not think he would die until just a few moments before death. His wife, daughter, and four sons were with him He had nine children. 11c mad? no statement except that the assassin dcliberatoly shot htro after dcumndilig tltf* money which was refused. Mr. C'onne I was born in Wellsburg, I W. Va., and was 03 years old He mane a will yesterday. His remains were taken to l is home at 5 :30 in the afternoon Fifty-one Miles Shorter. In the completion and operation of the South Bound railroad to Colombia, and ' it * connection with the Richmond A J Danville railroad ai thst point, the dis- J tance Irom Savannah to New York will bo 1 sscoed tifty-onc miles over the pres- I ent mileage of ibe Atlantic Coast Line. The Coast Line mileage now is nine hun- I drcd and eighty one, and the South bound nod the Richmond and Danville J I eight hummed nod sixty-seven mi Jen. The famous vestibule train of the Kich | moml & Danville now leave* New Ytrk i at 3:20 p. m. and reaches Charlotte, N. C., tue next morning at 7:43' Prom ChaMotle to Savannah via Columbia and the r-.outh Boond, the diatanvc is two 'I hundred and fifty-three should be mado easily in mSahoiiSp making it possible t> teach Savannah at 3:43 tlic next afternoon, or a little more than twenty-five hours out. The present time b? the fast mail train, No. 27 of the Coast Line, t# alrout twenty-six hours. Xmperor William May Ooms to Mao Bkrlik, [Cobl'gram.)?A newspaper of this city says that Chancellor von Ca6:-ivi haa t id Mr Pholp*. tlio American finister here, that Kmperor W illiam will perhaps visit the World's Fair at Cty. cago. ALLIANCE TOPICS. c Usury Atdtut the Alliance De 1 | J (bated. ' ? Senator fdfcr at the Texaa En- j campmtet. Says the Party Wil| Elect a President. u "On the mootMlaof rtateS. whet glorr I behold, v, Whileeejarc?Um year* if our eerrtce is tinging 1 And Mk> hlrh the proph ^ "Ah! the vision espy A tnlvhty host of raV^^^Hb~7t .usHly. L And I'm game Ing as I hear them ^ Hurrah: 'Hurrah! thtflBl la marching on." 0 It is estimated j that the products of ^ agiiculturc this year fit fair prices will amount to $7,000,000,0 " * a * * ? 1 B. B. Turner, of Broad Bun, Vh . fays v th it ho has organized a sufficient number . of sub-Allianc s in Fait fax to foim ? county organization, *.? * * ? "While Congressman Jerry Simpson has <, been toiling on the Alliance stump in Georgia his wife has been cooking for a gang of threshers who arc c'earing up a GOO-acrc Jot of wheal owned by him near Medic'ne Lodge, Kansas. i ****** t It now seems probable, savs th?. Na- 1 tional Ecouomist, that the president of c the Louisiana State Union will L>0 the next v governor of Ida flbdn, J * * * * 1 J. Fount Tillman," .of the Executive 1 Board, is now in Washington, having re- ' turned from a visit to the West to arrange for the next meeting of tho Bu- ( prcmo Council. He now believes list 1 Indiana] olis will fce selected. ****** The idea of restricting next year's cot i tbu acreage is taking root among the i farmers. All ov?r the s uth they arc | passing resolutions qu the subject. The < latest nction reported is that of the Ogl - \ thorpe County, Georgia, Alliance, in ] which Rev. J. B. Gibson's resolution, , pledging the members to plant only tcu ( acres to the mu'e, in case of a concerted plan, was adopted. A like resolution was also passea by tho Mecklenburg county, N. C., AUflmcc, last week. * * / Nashvill*^*, [Special. J?The 1 being rece;"?dj(, another at ; herds Very discouraging from Tipton, LauderdalcjRHppVR and Obion. These report*, HoWi^/er, are the exception, as stock iu(UI other counties is generally healthy and in good condition. ? ?* Sulphur SpriWos, Tax., [Bpc ial.j? ocumor i-euer \yss ornior at the farmers' encampment Wednesday night. More than four thousand people w.rc present. Pcffer wanted the government to loan people money at'1 per cent, to lift $9,000,000 mortgages, and to pull the teeth and'close the mouth of the r?d dragon in Wall street. He proposed to do this with the fiat money issued directly to the people who had mortgaged their homes. His sp'ech lasted two hours, and he closed by saying tligt pe pie's party would finally elect the president, congicss and senate, and i{JM^uipreme court was not with them thnM^rt make-arret her. * * Miss Kate cArflwgham, editor and Eroprietor of the Women's Chronicle of little Rock, Ark., is the daughter of Hon. Charles E. Cunningham, who is so ctive In the Fnrmcrs' Alliance. The family are direct desccudents of the Mt. Vernon Washington*, and Miss Cunningham has many stories to tell of her earl v days at Claremout, the home of the recen t generations of Washingtons, which has now passed into other hands. One of the most charac teristic of these tales relates to theMny of Lee'* surreuder, when the pickaninnies and the white children of the plantation watched the Northern troops maich by. "Ah, ha, Miss Katie, uow we doan belong to Jbu alls no mo'," tauntingly remarked# dusky child near her own age. "Olid of it, glad of it," said Katie,swingindbsr heela from her reserved .a. *? 3in ox 11 A diseussblpn the 8ul>-Trensiily plan , between Or. William Stokes, Pre.-ident of the State Alliance, and Senator M. C- Bul'or, wok place atTProspcrity, i 8. C.. Thursday, and was listened to by about 1,200 people. Dr. 8tokcsspoke on the general plan of providing warehouses and loaning money to the people, while Senator Butler confined himself to the provisions of the Bub-treasury bill. Senator Butler was thought to have the beat of the discussion. After the debate was ended, and just as the barbecue dinner was being served in the grove, a piotol shot was heard near bv. Immediately five men surPA i^imun t O Hunt.. wo* standing near Senator Butler. Hunter told them to Keep off, but seeing that they intended to atthek him, he put on a pair of^raaa knuckl 8, grasp <1 his club, ~ud $h<! scrimmage began at once. Hunt rj^t and left, Mm w ith^Ttoeded cane, cutting a gaali to tho Nkutv Hunter then draw his pis tol, placed?\i against the body of his nearest a***ilont>*ud pulled the trigger. The hammer -.Jpapped twice ana the pistol failea ta 8#e. My this t'roc Hunt* r was the centre dj> big free fight. Flaahing knivea took tbe places of clenched fists, and before 1 a poaae could quell tho ! disturbance At&hnen were badly cut, and Hunter had almost killed. | ALLIATC? W LOV*. l L/ YT0^^Z iSfi<lC^ ^Tb* RrrlVai if a bright eyed girl at Persimmon under ' he etcort of Hugh Amcrsou was the nil illation of a roinunce which began iu lacon county, N. C. By the light of a i lickrring candle they were married by he local 'Squire, and now bid deflncc to their enemies. Hugh Amerson uns a countn^torc on the North Caroina liuc, atul^^k a young man of irre- 1 iroachable charac^r. Among his customers from Macon county was the daiighcr of Aity McGhec. S*he met with so much favor in the storekeeper's eyes that i made bold to call on her at her home, II unconscious of the fact that the Farm r rs' All anee had declared war upon him r nd his sort. It was not until trie girl's I ither_told^him that the boys objected tg f ^WJFWW^WfTjSilHSiee debated f. he subject of store men courting the iest girls, and had passed resolutions 1 bjecting to such proceedings. This I 1 tily made Amerson the more detcrmin I d. He went to the county church last. < luuday and arranged with his sweet ' icait to elope. At 3 o'clock on Tues | lay morning lie had his horses ready and i it d out in the woods. Miss MeGhec > lai waiting for his signal, and soon they 1 vcre on full gallop for the Georgia line. I leaching IH-W. use of a friend in the j arly morning, tliey remained hid until > vening, when they resumed their ourncy. They reached Persimmon at 1' I ('clock ami were duly married. i ****** i usury against faiimkrs defeated. AuGubta, Ga.? Judge Emory 8pccr, n the United States District Court for ( hp Southern District of Georgia, has j endered an important decision in the { nse of Turner C. Thomns, administrator, s. The American Freehold, Land and j loxtgage Company, of London, on notes | >ayable at the otlice.of the Corhin Bank- _j ng Company. of New York Tl.; i *** [iany lends money to farmers and takes mortgages on land to secure payments. Under the terms of the agreements the company had a right to forclosc on fail^ urc to meet any note when due. This was done in the Thomas ca'c, and judg inent was tntcrcd up in the United States Court according to the terms of agreement. Administrator Thomus brought a motion to set asido the judgment nno nale made thereunder on the ground thai Ihc contract was conditional, and though no defence was filed the court could in t enter judgment except on the verdict of a jury declaring that the conditions had been violated. The qaso was argued some weeks ago and Judge Speer has rendered a decision sustaining the above position. Hundreds of similar judgements have been taken throughout this section and the decision will probably give rise to cx tcusil'tLlUigation. In the Thomas case the ^ cw >5 000. of whu>*-j|j tiaun^isContracts could not be enforced, and'that only the principal could l>c collected. FUSION IN^LOUISIANA. The Anti-Lottery Democrats and Farmers' Alliance to Unite On a Ticket. Nkw Orleans, [Special.]?The con fcrence betweeu the Farmers' Alliance and the anti-lottery Democrats, at. Lafayette, has resulted in an agreement by which a joint ticket will be nominated". The Farmers' Alliance will name the Governor, Treasurer, and the Superintendent of Public Kducation, and the Anti-Lottery League, the LieutenantGovernor, Auditor, Attorney-General, and Secretary of State. These nominations are to be made by a Convention elected by all white voters who are opposed to the lottery and afterward submitted to the Democratic Sta'e Convention. The Alliance endorsed this agreement, and at once noraiuatcd T S. Adams, its President, and State Commissioner of Agriculture, for Governor. The enmpaigu will be made almost altogether on the lottery issue. LEE COLLECTED THE MONEY And Then Skipped Out For Parts Unknown. Montoomrry, Ai.*., (Special. | ? Frank A. Lee, a young man who came here two years ago from Tenm ssee, and has been working in the telephone exchange, collecting ami assist in v^u keeping up the instruments, collecteriTirmicthing over three huudred do'lar*, mak ing out bills front the books without the knowledge of the manager. Lee went off duty Monday night, securing a substitute to woVk in his place. He did not i^rt for duty in (he inornino and Mana'J*'/Walker never suspected anything tin til he called on four or five subscribers, and found that they had payed their bills yesterday to Lee. The young man is about eighteen yents of age end rather good-looking. Ho left no trace as to where he went. A Cruel Joke on a Bank. Cars May, N. J., [Special.]?The foolish joke of a 17 year old boy started a run on the Capo May branch of the New Jersey Trust and Bafc Deposit Co , f\t Pnmlnlfletc* nnfl flirt inlrrtr ia uaiu in jail in default of ono their nud dollars nail. He told an old colored employee of the Stockton hotel that the bank was broke, and the old man ran for his cash lelliug other depositors as he ian why he woat. The rumor flew rapidly and a crowd sooa collected asking for their money. The true state of the case was made known and by noon the run had ceased. This is ('ape Mav's busy season and deposits were very heavy, but the bank officers have pSWtiOed themselves lor any lurtnrr cTrm.urt ore.-. *nn?v. ^ The Tennessee X^gislaturo. NasiTviIiLK, Teon. [Special.] ?Governor Buchanan has issued a call for the forty-seventh genejal assembly to meet in extra session Monday, August 5ttsl. We announced sevcjal days ago that he v ould convene tho general assembly August 17tl?, but was tuduced to postpone the assemblying of the body two weeks by very urgent letters from me mbers who desired to feel their constituents unoo the important questions that are to be conliwrti TERRIBLE HOLLOCA FST V Fast Passenger Train D ashes Into A Freight. The Cars Telescoped, The Fireman Killed, and Nineteen Italians Roasted. Syracuse, N. Y., [Special ] -The norning freight train on the West Shore oad going west broke in two between 'ort Byron and Montezuma, and the nst train No. 3 dashed into the rear. tilted. Nineteen Italians, en route to ' Niagra Falls in the smoking orr. we e Imrili d tf> rtnnd. iinrl f"'1 ts in the same car were injured. The deeping car was burned, but it is sup oscd that nearly a'I the passengers were | escued. The injured were hi ought to I Syracuse and arc being cared for. The Indies of the killed have been brought lore for identification. Among the in ured is the member of an Opera Co , vho died on the way here The scene of the accident is four miles rom Port Byron and two from M011tc7.11 ni. Trainmen say that more killed are n the wreck. A dense fog prevailed >ver the Montezuma marshes and envel >ped the train and tracks. Physicians and other aid were sent rom Syracuse, Auburn, Montezuma and Vnt Byron. The scene at the wreck is lescribed as terrible. At 0 o'clock a wrecking train brought he killed and wounded hero, and ambit auces, police patrol wagons and hacks dertakt r's rooms. Michael Belgin, of Buffalo, fireman of the passenger train, was instautly killed Engineer Patrick Ryan, of Buffalo, had his chest, crushed and is in the hospital here. Of the 20 Italians in fhe smokingcar. one only escaped injury, and lie was. 011 the platform, usually considered the plnco of greatet danger. Seventeen injured Italians were brought to Syracuse, some of whom will probably die. It is now said that nobody in the sleeping car was badly hurt, and all passengers who were able were brought here on the Con tral train. The bodies of the killed nrc hehl at Port Byron, where Corner Stew art will hold an inquest. rumors of a treaty Between France and Russia as a ? -y ?*>*t uaawavv ?i'ms result of the leceot visit ol tht An ir French tleeF To CTonf^^^WBwtheclose friendship between Rio sin and Fraiice continue to he circulated in nil classes of society, and there is much coujectuie as to what the outcome of conferences between the representative * of the two nations will be. Le Pax publishes nn article which, if true, will put an end to all conjecture. That paper says Baron Moiircnhcim, the Russian embassador to France, has received a dispatch from the Rusfiau for oign minister announcing that a treaty of alliance between Russia'aml France has been signed. ciianoi.no hkk.nch iuim.omais The Journal otlicial announces the following changes that have been made in the French Diplomatic service. Count de Mantebello has been appointed to succeed M. Dc Labaulage as ambassador lo Russia, M. Com ban, at present ambassador to Spain has been tiansfcrred to Constantinople, where he will represent France at Court Sultan He, as before announced, will be succeeded at Madrid by M. Theodore Roust an, at present French minister in the United States. afteOncleT samITmoney. A Plot to Rob the United States Treasury. Washington, D. C.. |Special. J The secretary of the treasury lias been advised that a bold attempt will be made during the present inuuili to rob the treasury by a " strong and determined band of men organized for that purpose." The plan is tostart files in various parts of the city for the purpose of diverting the at I ention of the police, and then to overpower the treasury watchman, and boot the vaults. The information was given in a letter signed bv the "King of the Tramps." who explained his knowledge of the plot by the statement that he was leader of the band. The letter was referred to the captain of the watch with instructions to give the visitors a proper reception. Notes of Foreign Happenings. Hawaiian newspapers announce tha' tlie Hon. J. Mott Smith has sueeeedei Widemann as Minister of Finance. The Czar and Czarina of Hussia, th< Grand Duke Alexis, and the Minister ol War have started for Finland. They will make the journey in the imperial yacht Derjava A committee of the Argentine Senate has approved a bi'l authorizing a provis sionnl issue of f.">0,{;0rt,t)0'h and tlie cs tablislimcnt of the Argentine National Iiank to liquidate the affairs of the pros ent National Bank. The Commission appointed by the Pope to investigate the recent losses tr tlio St. Peter's Pencj fund have already found n deficiency, w huh is said t? amount 1o 80,000,000 l ie The Commission has not yet cot eluded its in vest igat ions p - S Outfit. I RAMtiott, N. C., i Special. J?An en tire new chemical outfit was ordered to day for the chemical department of tht Agricultural aud Mechanical College anc It ia expected to arrive here in time foi us* at the opening of the fall session. I is ordered front Germany and is to l? very full and very complete. ' It is estimated at the State Trujur Department that aliout $75,( 00 of th direct tax money has been paid out t claimants up to dale, end application are coming in much faster than they ca he paid and are iaj>idly accumulating. ? / I INGALLS IN THE SOUTH. Treated Coldly at First, but He Finally Catches the Approval of His Hearers. ! Ati.akta, Ga., | Special. J ? On his initial trip to the South rx-Senator ingall* did not have what might be called a very flattering reception. Notwithstanding the fact thnt for several weeks the homely face of the Kansas statesman-out of-a job has adorned billbonrds, and column after column of newspaper space announcing his coming and cnlling him the nation's greatest living orator, when he stopped from the sle ping car on his ar rivat h<-ro Vie not rvrn bavo a* umueh kh a drummer's welcome. p< lied to hvpuvr of i\ policrmaT?^Tv^,,!^^^^BPHR! to the nearest hotel, lugging his own va vfr. lise. lie registered and, to use his own wordsin talking to a newly made acquaintance, "Confound if anybody recognized me, even after I had signed mv name." lie went immediately to his room and endeavored to take a nap. In this he was not disturbed, ss his only callers were the hotel bell boy and a couple of I newspaper men. In the afternoon he boarded a train fm the Georgia Chautauqua, whcie he | was met by a party of citizens and a | band, which played ' Dixie" in the shrill ^ est key. There were probably 300 people wait iug ou the hotel piazza to greet the great orator. Mrs. Lease, "the. woman who | beat Ingalls," occupied a conspicuous po sition in front of the crowd. She regarded the ex-Senator with a triumphant, smile, pi?nIIIrwalkeddrcsscd about 2,500 peowl en be discussed the war and (Tie t!tfo question finally caught his audience, and at the conclusion of his address all agreed that ho richlv deserved the $500 for which he w as induced to "come down South." ,r I " Florida at the World's Fair. The farmers of Florida appear *_o be as heartily in favor of a gnat State display at the World's Columbian Exposition us are their Virginia brethern. A Slat j convcnt'on is to be held at Orla do Orange county, October 7th. to i organize for efficient work, Statewise, nud to raise funds to enable her to enter iiito a c ompetitive rivalry with California. The citrus exhibits of those States deSightcd all visitors, and surprised the majority who attended the first New Oil sins Exposition Since ihen money, enterprise and pop dati n have poured r l jas"j|il2t''*l."t iiiijjaa^xiikhiae llijpugh all tapeSrmS',. A.AJfc-u, <lcter-_^^HH A' Deficit 3hown. Boston, [Special.) ?The Kansas : Memphis and Birmingham road stntcmflK : shows a deficit for the year ending Jun^, x I 30th last of $179,000, against a surplus\l of $.70.00 last year. The Kansas City, sL j Fort Scott and Memphis road shows a \? | balance for dividend for the year ending v>A June 30th, of $258,8?0 against $769,157 the previous year. The figures show a j deficit of $ 1 fi, 3 30 against a surp'us of i $123,272 in 1890. The directors voted i that consideration of a dividend upod contracts foa preferred stock be postponed until the result of the earnings for the calendar year of 1891 be ascertained, and that a dividend upon common stock be passed. Alliance Men Holding Back Wheat. I'lUTT tVAnnt Tumm I C.??o:?l i in. I..... . ...wtMin, m trnn. , ik7|vtrn<il j I 111! Alliauce men in this section scent to he taking seriously the advice given by the order to hold wheat for higher prices. One result here is that n/illers aie lot in iog a league to purchase Wcs'cvn grain, claiming that the middle Tennessee fanners, with the Alliance behind them will sell only at enormous prices. Whott has gone up front to 90 cents in a week, i and flour has advanced 25 cents per barrel. As a matter of fact the mills have so far succeeded in running on East Te:t! | nc-ssee w heat, but the supply will be inj adequate to the wants of the flour nrtk Cr8' ? ' North Carolina's First Coke Furnace. The tirst coke furnace ever built it i North Carolina is under cont act. The i Cranberry furnace now makes coke iron which it sells at a high price in Pittsburg for Bessemer steel purposes, but this fin inter was not oiiginally [for using coke. It is a small furnace intended for charcoal iron. The new coke furnace, for I t lie hililflinrr nf n-liich a rnnlr?rl tins been let, will l>c located at Greensboro, and will be owned by the North Carolina Steel and Iron Co., of that city. Thu build :ng of this furnace opens the en* of iron making in North Carolina on a t, large st ale, for the iron ore wealth of I the St Go is so great that it must become a great rou producing section. ^ Suicide Because of Gambling Iioesns. I Auousta, Ga , |Special.]?Pope N. t Crouch, a travelling salesman for J. L, Friedman & Co , of Paducah, Ky., was , found dead in bed in the Planters' Hotel Wednesday. An empty phial labelled morphine, and a note addressed to travelling men and one addressed to his wife told a story of ill fortune and money lost at gambling. The letter to the travellers asks thnt they take care of his wife. ' Wanted to aee a Train Wreck. r , Lynchburg. Va., [Special.) ?A white . youth about sixteen years named William Childress was arrested by' Policeman Childress, charged with having atlrnir.ti.il tn ivrpi.tr a iiHOHpnorpr train nil I f*?.Norfolk and Western Ctt Hsturd^y ;rmitv ami ?.ai(l lie oulv wrtiHTu f>> V-*' -?Ma J w lint h wreck would do. J The Use of Letters. t i'he ratio in which the different letters c nre used in the language U sho wn by the numbers of each letter supplied in a "bill vr of type1' to the printers. The proporo tion is x 3, x and j 1, q 6, k 8, IB, b o and g 20, p 24, w and y 2B. in and f HO, a c 40, u 4S, <1 and I BO, h BO, r 70. n, o a and s 80, a and i 90, t 100 aud e 140,?? BoUor. (Jloin, " 'i ' "i * . s w J