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['THE WIMLTiXmiOl TUBS PP VOL- XXIII." NEW SERIES. UNION C. H., SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1892. NT7MRW.R ?.: Canada has about doubled its railway mileage in tea years. ,* There is what the New York Commercial Advertiser calls "an excellent rule' at Harvard University which prohibits any student from participating in athletic sports unless he maintains a certain standing in his studies. What is now North Berwick, Me., was I known as Dougbty's Falls thirty years ago. A postal clerk says that occasion- j ally letters are even now addressed to j Doughty's Falls, and that he has ha I one such in his hands within the last t month. > - Twenty million dollars is the 03ti- ^ mated worth of flax products imported- y into this couutry last year, aud oar farm oio aw utuu, reeorus tue iNew York v World, to have destroyed 1,070,000 toua ? of flnxstraw. . . r The great question in Paris, learns the Boston Transcript, is whether she shall ^ hold a World's Fair in 1900. It is J, agreed that the Champ.? de Mars, and n such buildings as survive from the great fi shows of 1869, 1878 and 18S9 shall not be used. ol ______________ ii it A joint committee of the two houses |, of the English Parliament has reported < lectricity a suitable and efficient source *1 of motive power, and rcccomended that electric railway construction be encouraged throughout England. . "It is curious," muses tho Boston "" Transcript, "how one invention renders a previous invention useless. Siuce the w coming in of the electric cars, the patent 1)4 switches which were turucil by the horses have become inoperative and the railway company has gone back to first princi- -v! plos?that is to say, to a man with a *' witch-hook." " ?????1,1 ca The Chicago Herald is astonished that in although the Uuitod States is a country . |(i possessing immense timber tracts, it ap- 1 pears that it imported woo I aud wood products to the value of ??1,772,185 in the year ending Juno 30, 1891, and in the same time exported similar articles ? - tr\ . Au English writer tells an amusing ^ 6tory of a country house where a regular oy l ? > l >?!>??> ' UU..J .UHV,U5 > . ?v, tn chauce is given one of breaking the sh monotony. It is of a man who waute.1 sw to stay in a country-house, thinking it would givo him the opportunity of propoling to a gill with whom he lud beeu th iu love for a long time. 11 is visit was th to last a fortnight, but the last evening came without his having had one ag chance of beiug aloue with her during sw the whole time. As he sat at dinuor N (ot course he was at the opposite end of m the table to where she was), he felt the 611 re time was fast passing away, and in a few y, hours he would no longer be in the same house with her.? When the ladies weut to the drawing-room, ho would have to sit on in tho dining-room. His host ao might allow him to look iu at the draw- ca ing-room for a few minutes that evening, fe, but after that his presence would be re- uu nuired iu the billiard-room. In utter 'ai lie desperation he took up the mouu card, co and on it wrote: 'Will you marry jj{ W a rlnnltlAil Ik lira t.ftllin'r fchft bp butler to give it to the lady in question. lie did so. She read it, ami, with ttio " Is perfect sangfroid born only of the nineteenth century, said: "Tell the gentlotnan, 'Yes.' " __ a h The Boston Brimmer School had this tl year an exhibition of what is known as C the Swedish "sloyd" work?"sloyd" ^ signifying both to plan and to execute. tl The work was first taught in the North o Bonnet Street Industrial School in 1388. n and consists in copying on paper and then ;in actual material auy model put beforo the pupil. In 1839 Qustaf Larsson i went >* ' the school and aodilied tho fti series of models to fit American ide is, uj the models previously used having been 8j K Swedish entirely. In Sweden the plan A seems to have beon for the pupil to con- 8' struct his object directly from the mo lol ^ without making a working drawing, ami tl tho improvements in tho direction of do- tl signs were added by Mr. Lirssonnt a ^ later period. According to tho report of the Boston Superintendent of Schools, > there are now abouWoOO pupils in that ' city receiving shop instruction, mostly (l, in wood-working. There are six shop3 f, for instruction in wood-working by either the Swedish or Russian systems. ' The boys are said to consider tho "sloyd" work as much n part of their regular course ns any other study. Tho entire C course in the work of the put year in- ^ eluded tho construction of About t' ',kyfive models, ranging from the simple h whittling of a wedge to tho complex 2 making of a cabinet having a drawer w and a door with carved panels. This work is divided, for the grammar schools, into a three years' course, tak- P *ni? ?00 i.viuis. 1 ? c d PRETTY POLITICS, Interesting Events (From All Over The Field. Nomination* For Oongraw and State Ticket* Mad* at a Lively Bat*. A convention of Ohio Democratic colored men will be held at Akron on Sep tember 15-10. Lynchburg, Va.?The Democratic nominating convention for the Sixth District nominated lion. Paul C. Edmunds for re-election by acclamation. At Richmond, Va., the Third party listrict iuct and nominated Walter E. jlrunt for Congreaa. At Martinsville, Va . tho Democratic Jongrcssional convention for the Fifth lomiuatcd Claude A.Swausonof Pittsylania county. Rat.kioii, N. C.?John 8. Henderson ras renominated for Cougrea* by acclanation by Democrats of the 8eventh I>isrict. Frank Koonce is nominated for Jougres by the Third party in the Third iistrict. The number of voters registered in lissksippi and entitled to take part in lie November election is about 80,000, f whom 9,000 are negroes. It is cstilated that 91 per rent. of the negroes ailed to register. Col. W. C. I\ Brcckcnridge has been (Hcinlly declar> d the Democratic nomi ee for Congre s from Ashland district i Kentucky, no candidate having apcared against him. Senator llalc stated in an interview mt Mr. Blaine will, if physically able, i-liver two or three speeches during the imp<ign in Maine; otherwise lie will (press his views in a letter. The Washington Democratic State invention at Olympia nominated H.J. livclly of Yakima, for Governor; J. R unday for Congress; H. C. Wi son tor" ieutenaut Governor, aud B. K. Ilaima id H. W. Brinker for the Supreme Mich. During the session of the Kentucky 'gislaturc a Senator said that any man lio said the journal was incorrect "lied ?m the tip of his lying tongue to the ittom of his black, bribe taking heart," d that he was astonished that the Sene would tolerate such a member who inc into the Senate "bleary eyed and capable of comprehending the business fore it." When lie was called to orr he "disclaimed anv intention of be. g personal." An Electric lint Polisher. The electric hat polisher is the latest novation in the field of applied eleccity. In the lower corridor of the 'W.vy i is process. The operation is as simplo it is effective. The hat is slipped er a clutch, which holds it firmly, and e clutch is attached to the end of the aft of a small motor. The current is ritchcd on, and as the hat spius around the rate of 2000 revolutions a minute, brush moistened with benzine, or some ore mysterious fluid, is applied. .After is cleansing strips of silk or plush take e brush, and the hat is polished off. Ironing is rendered unnecessary, as e heat developed by the friction ;ainst the rapidly moving surface anrers every purpose of a heated iron, ot only is much time saved over the old ethod, but the results are said to be I ipeiior. Silk, derby or straw hats are novated with equal success.?New ork Advertiser. Cniqi'o Way of Cntolilug Seal. Mr. Dyer, who livos on a small Islan 1 ar Seven Ilundrod Aero Island, Isle9rough, Mo., has a unique way of tching seal. Ho takes u pole seven et in length, to which are attached a imber of common co ltish hooks with nyards several feet in height. The >oks aro batted with a herring. This mtrivauce is anchored and buoyed, the loks being ju9t below the surface. The als in swallowing the herring become )oked and are caught. Mr. Dyer has ,ken a large number in this manner.? ew York Post. 8hot*$By Hie Mistres*. Cmfton Fohoe, Va.? Rucker Booze, young man from Buchanan, Ya., who as been here for the past few weeks in le employ of the Withrow Lumber 'oinpaiiy, was accidenlly shot and fatally founded by u pistol in the hands of arrie Moore, his mulatto mistress, while liey were in a vacant house about. !! 'clock iast uight. Booze is of good amity. He will die. The woman has ot been arrested. Two Roads Didn't Sign. Ateanta.Ga. ?The Southern Steamship id ruilwuy Association adjourned after early all the roads of Virginia, the Carlinns, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida going, the C. "qniiHti Southern and the labnma Great . Athern having fniled to gn the agreement. Major Fink has veil days in which to make up his mind he impress on among the members is int there will be a bitter boycott of lese roads unless Major Fink gives in. reed Her Dress to Take Her Life. New York, N. Y.?Mary Burns, aged ?, of 42 Christie street, was arrested on ite Bowery last night for teing drunk d disorderly. She was locked un in 'io station house and this morning was Mind dead. She had torn lijer dress into !i eds and hanged herself to the bars of lie window. A Mountain Cave Ho?p?ta!. Memphis, 'IVnn.?A special from Coal 'reek says a mountaineer arrived there lingiug information of the discovery of ho - pital in t e mountains a few miles rom Coal Creei which the miners have uproviscd into a cave. lie says he saw 1 dead bodies there and a large number rounded. MacHne Associate Justice. Rai.kioii, N. C.?Gov. Holt has apoiuted .lames c. McRae, of Fayettcville ij be Associate Justice of the Supreme ourt, to till the vacancy caused by the eath of Judge David Davis. ALLIANCE READING. President Butler's Annual Message To tha North Carolina State Alliance in Seaaion at Qreenaboro. To the N. C. Farmer?' Stat* Alliance: BrbtiirknOne year ago you placed your banuei iu my hands. You placed mc in the front of the N. C. division cI the great national army of reformers It was a position of tremendous responsibility and I trust I felt in a large dc , grce the gravity of the situation. It wm at a time when the organization was enteiing the roost critical period of its existence, a time when we nud our principles were to be subjected to the supremcst crucial test The year has been a stormy one. Every day, Sundays exclu led,, the fire of the euemy lias been poured upon us with merciless force nud iu an un scrupulous manner. The inoucy power has left no stone uuturned to crush the movement and dowu the cry of the weak for mercj aud the deinsud of freemau for ju tice. Toilav Wfl HIP t nirain I .? "" """ what has been accomplished; what the present status of the organization is, and what is our duty iu the future. Every reform movement has its various stages ol growing and development. Many ol those movements sooner or later reach the stage of disintegration and decay. This hss been the case wheu tho cause has beeu slight or local or temporary or when the people failed to tiud the true cause for a real wrow^ and therefore could not apply the tr^ remedy. The cause of the present movement is deep rooted and wide spread. It is one that in a large degree affects alike every laborci aud wealth producer of the whole country A portion of those suffering from the blighting effects of some great ij^fetmrr caused them to organize to study the situation. They formed themselves into a great vigilance commit tec to search for the cause, a cause that made them poorci while each worked harder created more wcal'h, a cause that has made poor the people whose labor has made their country rich. giucc this class of men ami this cond<tiou existed in every <piartci of the country, the organization soon spread over the whole country. Fot years the cause or raftocr the causes have been simultaneously searched for aud studied from Maine to California and from the lakes to the gulf. The cause or part of the causes were found. The whole organization agreed on them. The public generally agreed that the evil causes existed. We then appealed to the law makers of the country for a rem cdy. Great sympathy was expressed for our condition, but no remedy was offered. The organization then formul ated its own remedies for each cause and appealed to the law makers to give u< tiley if^ivcT',0iYwXo,'5il fail It with something better. That was fair. For if the wrongs exist, if unjust and oppressive laws are on the statute books, it is the duty of our law makers to give m relief, to give us our remedy or a better one. Up to date the demands of tliepeople have been ignored, while every rcqust of the monopoly corporations and the mouey power has been promptly agreed to. We have just realized that the organization cime too late for justice to be gotten by petition. * * * * THE KALKIUII CONFLUENCE. On April 17th I called u conference of the Alliance of the State through on-' representative from each county. I did it in the iutercsts of our principles and the cause of r, form. While at times during the year many of us (though a unit iu thought) havo differed in judgements as to methods, yet today the organization is practically a unit in action as well as thought. I believe that the guidance of a divine hand hus turned what at times seemed to be mistakes, into blessings. Our seeming errors have proved to be the essence of wis lorn, for by what methods could we have have been stronger thau we arc today? Therefore let us at all times have that chaiiiy of opinion for cucli brother, for we may honestly differ, that we have a right to expect from each other brother. DEATH OK COL. l'OI.K. During the year the organization. Na tioual as well as Slate, has suffered an irreparable loss, and each member h;?*s felt a sore bereavement by the untimely death of our great and beloved leader, Col. L. L. Polk. We have never known u purer mail, nor has any organization ever been blessed with a more ardent, devoted and loyal leader, yet bis charity toward those who differed with him in opinion, and liis spirit of fairness toward those who opposed him was almost supeihuman, liis great work and his magnificent example lives after him. ami is today an inspiration to every icforinei to have the courage of his eo ivictions and to carry on the work for humanity so grandly and heroically begun. Let us Imild a tilting nioiium- nt to bis inemorv. but bis greatest monument will be the place he holds in the hearts of his people. Let his last words ever be the motto of the hour, "Do your duty " Dr. Talmage As a Dion. TIirminoitam, Eng. ? Dr. Talmage Sun day addressed the largest assembly evci glittered in liitmiugliam. The town hall was trammer! with an audience of S.000 persons, and outside there hovered :;0,0 (0 more people, whom Dr. Talmage addressed from his cariiaee after the scr I , V vices iu the hull. On his way back to his hotel Dr. Tal mage was informed that 10,000 person.wete still waiting on the other side ol the town hail to near liim. Heirmnedi ntily turned and briefly addressed them, and the immense crowd, estimated at WhQO, sang 'Tmise ?'iou, from whom all blessings flow." The main doors r l the hotel had to be bolted against tin surging crowd, which ran ahead of the doctor's carriage. Ran Away With His Mother in-Law. 8ai.rm, Va. ?A citizen of this place has been placed in a curious predicament by the action of his son in law. The latter, who lives with his father-in law and works at tin' mines of the 8nlem Furna 'CC Company, returned home a few nights ago and eloped with his motherin law. The father-in-law lias ins itotcd a suit for divorce on the ground of desertion. THREE STATES' BRIEFS, Telegraphic Dispatches Froa Htay * Points of Interest The Fields of Virgins, North and jj South Carolina Carefully Gleaned For News, nj la VIRGINIA. T1 There are about 1,000 miucre out on a h< strike at Pocahontas at present. The national archery tournament began ?| at Old Point Comfort Thursday, an ! nearly all the clubs in the United State ?* have representatives present. Col. John M. Brockenbrouxrh died at fe his resilience in Richmond. He was 03 Ml years of ace and a native of Richmond ^ county. 11 u. Vir- gj cihia legfuicnt in thcwirTSp^Pnllt'yt'- ft0 th? Mrs Ye, wife of the Corean secretary, ea< lias not been well for some months past, gu and will leave Washing:on September 5th to for a vi.sit to lier lionte in Core* *n , ~ - -.V? 1UI country she will be accompanied by Mits ' Davis, of Abingdon, Va., who will go as coi a missionary. 1 hey will sail September Tb 17th from San Fiaucisco. 6i A fa'al and singular accident occurred on board the tiaiu a tcr it left Quantico for Frederi' ksbuig Saturday evening, by which a colored woman had hrr neck < broken She wasou her w ay fr m Wash- gQ ington to her home, near Brooke station, ^hi After the train left Quantico she at- cjj tempted to pass through the car, when e(j by a sudden lurch of the train she was 0f thrown viol ntly against the back of one nn the si ids and her neck broken. aje NOPTH CAROLINA; in( The residence of Sheriff R. D. Rom of at Asheboro was buriicd Tuesday. all] The Rowan County Fair will be held ftd< in Sulisbuty October 4-7.. bri (Joy Maxwell, aged 83, was drowned ('? in Lake Forsyth at Charlotte, Friday. 1 Ayourglady, Miss Kate Pat>er, was killed by lightning at Farmer's Turnout, J|j, Brunswick county. jn The aggregate valuation of the prop- off crty in Forsyth county, as shown by the 8. < taxlistcrs, is $7,570,318. The property one held by the white citizens is rated at wai $7,450,593, aud the colored people at p?l $122,725. A I Dr. Kemp P. Battle, of the State Un ant ivcrsitv, has accepted an invitation to aiu deliver the historical address at Raleigh's die ccntconial celebration on October 19th (2 His subject as assigned by the committee anc will bs "The Fiist Hi.udrcd Years of haj Raleigh." Ion The convention of oysler growers was bis hold at Ocracokc last week. Resolutions CXf were adopted ami ordered to be present- 8e* cd to the Legislature next winter that the oysterinau were opposed to scraping ' or dredging of any kind Od ojster w?s \VTtupdate u> v.. t hM^iiai i Christian chaplc, in LcnOu?^m^RPBr ?k?, about three months past. Their church t now has a mcmbeiship of about 140. The u Hicctiugs aie very sensational, the people falling on the floor in trances, etc. Three young men of that section have been or daincd ministers of this church. SOUTH CAROLINA: LFr< Ch ulesion has quarantined against the me, cholera. ?0t, Lieut. Commander Win. W. Rhodes / lias been ordered to duty at the naval sta- aft< lion at l'ort Royal, S C. sho The acreage ?>f set island cotton in the cir< State is 12 to I > per cent, less thau last ooc year. bin A little boy named John Meldow was mu drowned in Colonial Lake at Charleston, mrt Thursday. Fairfield county fair will bo held at Winnsboio October 27-28. The Rich-1 mi] land fair will open at Columbia on Nov. ^ ** Ma The Gcogetown Rice Mill has recently cut put?loven liiigleburg rice hulicrs iu its wo mill at a cost of $4,000. The acreage in the rice is increasing. the OTHER STATES. Cri A coroner's jury nt Nashville, Tenn , ^ investigated the killing of J 11. Taylor, ?. a horse thief, and returned a verdict that . Sheriff Hill was justified in killing the . man. th) A man at Macon, On., has a $10 note thi of the State of North Carolina, priutcd it in 1788 While he is rather proud of his ra, treasure as a curiosity he cannot helu cal dilating the compound interest lie has *C!, lost by the money lying there unemployed. wj Mrs. Tom Woolfolk Remarried. Macon, Ga.?Mr*. Georgia Byrd Woolfolk, the widow of Torn Woolfolk, was mat l ied to George Lamb, superin 'P tendent of u barrel fnrtory here. Woolfolk's crime is well kuow,o. Five years ago he killed nine members of his own family in order to gain possession of the Pc family estate. For three years he was 'p' in prison awaiting the final disposition of iiis case by the courts. During that W( time his wife kept up the appearance of constancy, but dressed flashily and be havod in a questionable manner. Geor- J? gic By i d's Aarriugo to Tom Woolfolk was a t unajBp alTuir, and the ceremony 1,1 was perforimd or a moving train while it was passing through the principal -r cemetery of th city of Macon She has P( frequently ascribed her ill luck to the J"1 fact that she was married in a grave"rd ,i 01 Gen. Prince Commits Suicide. b I.ondon cablegram: It is now del ^ initelv known that the American gen Ionian who committed suicide oo Friday at Marley's Hotel was Brigadier-General He:;: v Thincc. aired Ski. a retired ofticei of the American aimy. Gen. Prince G left a letter n fid rested to "All my si friends," in which he s.?id that death was in a relief which physicians ought to bring w about when a man's life becomes was'ed tl by n.ituie. At the inquest a verdict of it "temporary insanity" was delivcicd. al Gcu Prince had shot himself with a C revolver and w;n found dead. Ho is w supposed to have become despondent on ri account of old age and lameness. tl The Strike Ended. Buffalo, N. Y.?The switchmen's strike is otlicially declared off. Effective f at midnight. c JUMPING FOR LIFE. Biff Hotel at White Sulphur I Springe Destroyed Ashkvii.i.e, N. C -The Belmont otel, at White Sulphur S| rings, tivc 1 lies from the city, was destroyed at uiidight by a Are which broke out in the undry aud spread with great rapidity, here wore nearly 200 guests in the >use at the time, many of them jumped | on the windows. Mis. Dr. Von Huck, t ! Asheville, was badly injured, and t ?d Thursday morning. CharlesUretn, 1 ficw Orleans, bad a leg d slocated. i erk Henderson also had a lc/ dislocat i I, and a colored nurse a leg broken. A i w others were slightly bruised, but none 1 riotfdy hurt. A'l the guests lost their s iggage aud some of them other person- 1 bOtoogiwgs. a A good many diamouds n d a good de.il of money were lost in b fire, numbers of those in the building f raping only iu their uight clothes. The A eats.made their was, as best tney rould, h Ashcville, where fliey were made com- u rtable. d Tho hotel property was owned by a it rporatiou and leased to Dr. Von. Huck ti e building was erected at a cost of n 5,000 and there was insurance of 22,- a< ) on it. ei It Wm A Mean Trick. That was a mean trick played on a ? uthern stranger in a Vine street saloon n, d other eveuing,savs a writer in the Ciu- jf inatiTimes Star. The said stranger float p in and opening the apeiturc in the face |, the knot ou which he carried his lial u d perfumed locks, ordered a glass of p i. His dudiah appearance and air of j, ffablc wisdom attracted the attention a well known ward politician, who. j, pping a chunk of ice from the lemon- Cl 2 he was sipping, hastily deposited a (( ght silver dollar on it. Keeping the liar on ice out of sight he engaged in OI ivernation with the Southern gentle- ,.j n and finally led the talk to the coin- vj > of silver. "And do you know," J the W. P., 4 that the dollars coined the North are colder than those struck at New Orleans?" "No." replied the i? U. "Well, it's a fact. Look there," I the cold and carefully dried dollur i placed in tho Southerner's sweaty cn m, where it felt like a chunk of ice. ook of wonder passed over his face, jK I all he sould say was: "IJy luckcrs, 't that strange?" Then commenced a Wl kcr, which resulted in a brand new bill being given for the cold dollar, I the Southern Gentleman departed 111 ipyasaboyat the circus. Laughter ttl! g and loud filled the snloon as soon us 1'' locklcts vanished, and "Well, boys," t.( claimed the politician; I'll have to -Vm up on that." Ninety-five cents . th of beer went by the board arid the I pi bill was passed to the bartender, who mi about to hand back tho change, pirn he seemed struck with a funny tin a at" first, and when tiro gang tvonr ^ to look for the long-haired Southern ^ tlcman he could not be found any- ^ sre. Tv f r< Former Enemies Meet. u)r am the St. Louis Globe Democat. | Ievada, Mo.?The four days'enrnnipit of the Vetnon county ex-Union cm liers closed at Fail haven Spring'. pci iu affecting incident occuncd in the irnoon. A big showman who had h's >w at Schell City drove out with his , :us baud and Asked permission to ' ' ae into the grouuds. It wa9 accorded i, and, after favoriog us with sonic ? sic, he took the speakers' s and and 'j de a tine speech. lie said he was an Union spy, and among other incidents Kl bis perilous career as such told nbout ring been ciptured by the enemy eight in les oclow Richmond. He was hanged 0, them, but, fortunately, a Confederate oi jor came up and ordered him to be 2, down. lie still bears the scars of the \? unds made by the rope, and exhibited w :m to the crowd, lie stated that d< ! Con fed i ate Major, wh' so name was ittenden, was accompanied by a private i ? cut the rope at the Major's orders, ^ 1 this private took charge of him and jj 1 him in a swamp, where he lived on >gs till he got hack into the Union linos. ,p He had no sooner made the statement jj 2n Uncle Dick Robinson sprang upon - -A - .1 1 : 1 ?l l... 2 HttftUU miu OCI/XU mi; h|iuii\n ? Ii.uivin. transpired that Uncle Dick was the til who cut the rope, and the way thoM o men fell upon each other's necks and fihraccd brought tears to every eye that _ itnessed the scene. * v Clever Ruse of a Cashier. v Coal Ckeeic, Ai.a.? A bold attempt *' rob the cashier of Coal Creek Mining " >mpauy was made, and one of the iob- ' rs was killed. For a mouth past the company has [ :en expecting such an ellort, and Cashr Mounteastle was pi ( pared for it. J" irn Clang, Bill Jones and Fred Stonies Jere the men who made the attack. It was the pay day of the company, r. Mounteastle had been told the atnipt would l>e made to iob him, and he id a bogus package sent instciu of the oney expected by express. This pack ) jc was labeled $4,00). Food alter the ' ain left, and when the cashiei was sup- * >scd to be fixing his pay-ro I, tiie three ' ished in on hiin, put a pi to) at his ' ?ad and ordered him to open the safe. Ai tKic (iflir'om uhn were secreted in ' ic strong room cloned in on the robbers, rdcring them to throw u|> their hands, ' nt the robbers opened fire. Clang w t. ! i'led, but the others escaped. I Was Afraid He'd "Be 1 Jackson, Mifs. ? Tho Kcv. J. II4 ^ embroil, the Baptist minister who win 9 >inc weeks since nominated for Congiess ^ i this district by the People's party, lias t ithdiawn He give* the strange reason * lat he thinks he will be elected if he re- 6 isins a candidate He sava l e cannot f [ford to give up his chinch and goto " ongriss, and that his former candidacy ( as for the purpose of assisting in the f eform movement. His rertson is the heme of much diverse criticism. ' First Frost in New Hampshire. Concord, N II Auaj. 22.?The first rost of the season prcvu led in this viinity this morning. THE DREAD CHOLERA. J. 8. Government Precautions to Prevent its Coming Here. Psopl* Dying By the TbouiMndi in Germany. Persia and Russia. Wasuinoton, I). C\?The Stato De nrtmcnt received further advices rc'ative o tho cholora, of a very disquieting nauro. The vice consul general at Teheran, ilr. Fox, son of a prominent newspaper nan at Washington, l>. C\, says tho oeti listed deaths in Persia are 35,000; 5,000 n Meechcd, 18,000 in Tabriz, 8,000 in Teheran nnd 10,000 in other places. His ippeals for assistance to tho American losnital in Teheran have ulready been naao public. The consul at Hauiberg telegraphs that he auth rities of that city admit that isiatic cholera has been prevalent there iucc August 18th, and that up to Aug st 33d I hero were 291 eases and 75 oaths. Nevertheless, the fact of the exitcnee of cholera there was denied, up i> August 23d, just as it is now also deied at Havre. The attempt to suppress ccurato information occasions much unitsinets to health otticcM hero. Til It DRK Al? PK8T1I.KNCK IN HAMBURG. Hamburg, (jkiim an v. ? One hundred nd sixty-nine bodies of cholera victims re awaiting burial in this city. 80 great 1 the terror caused by the cholera that is ddlieult to get men for the work of urying the dead ami many assistants of ndcrtakers have deserted their places, tusiness is prostrate and shipping is goig to other ports. 80 serious is the panic that Russian emigrants now in the city find it dillijlty to procure food, us everybody tries ? avoid them. At Allcna (he army surgeons have been dried by their superiors to assist the viliau doctors in earing for the cholera etims. A NT W RHP IN A STATU OF TRKHOR. Antwkhp, lloi.1.and.?The excitement this city over the outbreak of cholera increasing. There little doubt that the was brought here by vcssimh from .stern Europe. The lirst victims were >ck laborers. They were tuken to the ispitals, where tho doctors stated that was ordinary cholera nud tint nothing us to be dtcaded from it. The disease, >wever, spread and the public became united. The first victims died almost imcdiutcly after entering the hospital id the tppcaraiico of the bodies showed e disease to be Asiatic choltra. )n iion moving against TIIK CliOI.Kit a London. ?The health coimnittce of tlio uiiicipality held a meeting to consider coalitions against tl?e cholera. It was iioiiuced that all the steamship lines l oiioscd to suspend their immigration ( 1 l',c danger from cholera ed in England. The steamer uemmn mi Hamburg bus entered at Clraveaend inging several cases of the plague, vo women on the steamer have died ^ >m the cholera and nuothcr victim, a in, is improving. The news causes cat consternation at Clravescud. I'ahih.?At Havre forty-eight fresh , scs of cholera and 21 deaths arc re- < >i led. ki'sman thadk cut okk. Koniohiikhg.?The government has or red the suspension of ull trallic on the ussiaii fiontier except at Eydtkumen id I'rostken. A multitude of intending nigrants have been stooped at points on ic frontier and drivcu back to Russia. cahkui, ciiol,Kit a mohtai.ity in ill'hsia. Sr. PetkhhiiijIUI,?Thursday, accordg to the official returns, there were 322 new cases of cholera against 5,070 i Wednesday. Yesterday there were 977 deaths reported against 2,743 for 'ednosday. in St. Petersburg there crc reported 103 new cases and 24 filths. steamship voyages akkkctki). London. ?The Hamburg-American cainship Columbia will not proceed to amburg She is unloading here and ill start for New York on Saturday lie steamship Normandie, of tlie same no, will not be allowed to land, it is lid, although she declined to take on oard 100 emigrants who applied for pas?ge. n Andiana Scamp in South Carolina. ItorKViM.k, Ind ?.las. II. Morrow, ? /to-known horse jockey of Washington, i as arrested and lodged in jail herccnargd with producing abortion upon a wo11:111 at Columbia, S. some inanths go and from ?liicb it is reported she ied. A letter was received by the miliorities here some weeks ago to keep a jokout for him, as ho Ind been indicted ?r the njli'iisc at Columbia. The South 'aroliiin authorities have been notified y t> legraplt. To Invite Senator Hill to Topeka. From the Kansas City Times. | Toi'kka, Kan. ?The Kansas Democratc Flambeau Clul> of Topeka at a ingoing voted to invite Senator David II. Hill >f New York to visit Topeka this fall and jj their guest For this purpose the ollowing committe on invitation was ippoinlcd with orders to report at the ie.\t regular meeting: Judge John Mar in, Mayor It L Cofran, ('. K. Hoi:.l ... 1, i.'.. ....... II..., ,,, lOirnnn Wntfa J B. Isenhait, the Ifo i M llecry, Ranki 11 Mason, Jolin Milelnuu, and A. J. Arnold. __ leliArcd to Have aoen 125 Year* Old. Thomasvim.k.?The oldest woman in Pjgorgia died at the poorhouse on 8ulray morning. It will sound like fiction o state Aunt Peggy plater's age, but all icr acquaintances and her old mastev j ay that her age was 125. Aunt Peggy lid not date events from the civil war, us many do, but from the Revolution. Vunt Peggy had outlived all her thilIren except one, and there were quite a lumber of them. 'I he one living is in icr 97th year. Killed With a Shot Oun. o'lkkcnkf, Ga. ?Boh Crittenden was sho* and ki led by Frank Brown just above Ogeechee Brown used a shot gun. X Ul'? A ROMAN BULL. The Pope Dismisses Cardinal Ruggiero in Disgrace. All Germany's Bona llust Learn the Art of War. Bays Emperor William. Romk, Itai.y. ? (lieat excitement Ims been caused tyy the dismissal of Cardinal Huggioro, Prefect of Financial Allans of tho Propaganda, nod who has l?tcii looked upon as the probable successor of Popo Leo XI1L It is said tbnt the Popo himself ordered Huggioro's dismissal, being convinced, as a result of inquiry, that Knggiuro, and not Btonsiguor Folchi, was tho rcnllv guilty patty in conucction with tho inuiuvcstmcnt*,' to use a mild term, for which Moesignor Folchi was iliunis cd from the Papal service about a year ago. Tho dismissal of Folchi was brought about, it is said, by Cardinal Kujjgicro Folchi was Vice-Chambcrlain to tho Pope, nod had control of the Papal unds. It w as alleged that, in tho wiuler < t 181)0 01, Monsignor Folchi, supported by Priuco lluoncompngni and Union haxzaroui, resolved, io order to save tho lhncn di ltoma, iu which tiio Vatican held 10,000 out of 12,000 shares, besides oilier RGPuritha t<i # >?#,?l*l ^1. ... and London, and afterward in Homo. Hcrliu ami New Yoik, a syndicate of Catholic banks, with tin object of ahso l>ini? the tinnncinl societies of Home ih d were known to l>e in a disastrous condition, and to i est ore them to vitality, while at the same time raising the value of the depreciated securities. Above all they wanted to save the Kauro di Hoiua, intending.as they eventually did, entirely to reconstruct, it. The scandal arising out of the affair has already been made public. Later investigations appear to liavu exonerated Kolehi and implicated Kuggicro. There is great excitement in church circles, and it is generally to ieved that a tremendous scandal is awaiting disclosure. IliCitLiN, 'Jkumany.?It is announced semiofficially that the Km poor's speech at the Emperor Fran Josef's banquet has been misquoted and distorted, and that the declaration that he has been credited with making against Caprivi's military bill was only a conditional one What the Emperor really said was that tho (Jertnau people could not expect to have the service-term reduced to two years tin less they were willing to pay for it. The numerical increase of the army, in accord...ill. ?t... ? - ,T.w. liiu iwu-jiftr scrvico pi mi. must bo accompanied by increase ??f Hp. propristions, otherwise the efficiency of army woul?l he impuircd. If I he people refuse to grant such an increase the Kmperors preference was for an army of tho present size, iath?r than for one of mnro men yet with inferior couipuient and discipline. * ttT/Yirf* -__j Koanokk, Va. ?A cloud burst over his city at ft JO Monday night and rain fell in torrents over four horns,filling cellars and lower floors of business houses in Campbell and Salem avenues and Ncloiii, Jefferson, Henry ami Commerce ?t reels. Doors were burst open, windows crushed in by floating debris and goods washed away. The loss iu goods damaged will rcuch $100,000. Many buildings are seriously damaged by the uud? imining of foundations. Barney Smith in trying to cross Salem avenue stepped into an excavation for n sewer nnd was drowned. Policeman Peck lost his fo iling there and fell in and was pulled out insensible. It is said that other people have been drowned, but the report cannot be verified. Men nnd horses travelling the flooded streets were compelled toswiin. The electric light station whs flooded. The electric cars arc not running, and it will be a week before lights and power for the operatiou of machinery in many establishments can be supplied. The storm was confine I principally to Itoauoke. Six miles westward there was only a sprinkle. Fnrme s two miles South of the city were ploughing, and north and cast the rainfall was very light. Fanny Tilings About the Face. Tho average human nose is badly out nf linn and it in this fact that usually lends its peculiar piquancy to tho face. A medical writer says that there ure anatomical reasons why a slight deviation from a true centro line may he expected. If he is correct in his deductions, the nosd which is squarely set between tho two eyes is, aftor all, tho abnormal one. German and Americau doctors in Japau have succeeded iu discovering a surgical process by which the Japanese characteristic eye cau be relieved of its slaut and be made to look liko the European optic. The Japs are having their visual organs operated upon by the wholesale, which removes one of their national characteristics, as they have their national dress. Boon, i/ this thing goes on, we shall , have changes in the style of wearing, feces, and the paper will quote the latest ode in noses as well as sjsa. Mis a_ aar a ja I one nronu. ^ Big: Fire in Norfolk. Norfolk, Va.?Fire broke out at 7 o'clock in the carriage manufactory of A. Wrenn & Son on Union street and destroyed all the work shops together with theshops of the agricultural implement house of Wrenn, WhitchurstA Co. adjoining. The entire fire department w .h in service and after hours hard work subdued the flames. The loss is estimated at $20.000. Richmond's Chamber of Commerce. Richmond, Va.?The corner-stone of the chamber of committee was laid in due Masonic form At 5 o'clock. The grand lodge of Masons a', 5:30 proceeded to the s te, corner Mnin and Ninth streets, tho Knights Templar acting as escorts. The address was delivered by Colonel John 11. Purcell in l?ehalf of the chamber. To Prison for Hugging Girls. Nyack, N. V. ? Justice Matthews of this place ?ent John Lamr.kcof Brooklyn to Hocklnnd county jail for two months for hugging girls on the street. i