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VOL. VXXI.- NEW SERIES. UNION C. H., SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, APRIL 28,1883. - NUMBER 17. COLUMBUS CARAVELS. The Arrive Towed by the Spanish 1 Fleet. la BxcmsIt* Amount of Chnpowlw Burned AfUln. Fostksm Mow bob, Va.?The three Columbus caravels arrived here at 10:80 o'clock Friday morning in tow of three 1 Spanish war ships, and were received with great thunder of salutes and display 1 of flags from the counties represented by 1 the fleets. They dropped anchor at the v"d ot the American line of vessels. i \ day could not have been more 1 bcaut'tu. "jr the scene more impressive as 1 they came le-!he road, decorated from jib-boom to toffra:l and with the flags of 1 Castilo and Aragon at 2 . of Queen Isabella standing out and fluttering in the gentle breeze. Tho little fleet was turn bled about on the Virginia coast Friday in ? livelv fashion bv the northwest wind that blow all day, but it managed to make the Cipes early in tho morning, and, after takiug pilots aboard, proccdk ed in. At the head of the fleet was tbe unprotected cruiser, Infanta Isabel, towing the flagship Santa Marii, which displayed the flsg of tho admiral. Behind and a mile eastern came the torpedo vessel Neuva Espana with the Nina as her charge, aud in the latter's wnke was the big black protected cruiser Ilcina Rcgentc with the Pinta. They wore towed by at least a quarter of a mile of hawser and looked like so many ducks sitting on the water with the feathers of their tails plucked. Whcu off the foil the stars and stripes were thrown out and were sa, luted by the leader, the fort quickly rt rffc spouding. ** Before the Sauta Maria was abreast of the Philadclph'n, the Dutch frigate Van Bpeik rnn up tho Spanish colors and saluted theui with thirteen rounds. Then the Russ'an ship, General Admiral, commenced to salute and Uter every flagship in the harbor hono cd these curious looking cra't-s and the country they cniue from. Hoke Smith's Patronage Court. [From tire St. Louis Globe Democrit.] Washington, D. C. ? Ilokc Smith h:is introduced n novelty. lie has established whnt mijdit be cdled a patronage court. Finding himself bes t by the impor.unatc friends of rival candidates for a certain ofii re, Secretary Smith inform? them as fast as they call: "Gentlemen, I will s?t a timo when I will henr you in regard to the qualifications of your candidate." Ho consults a memorandum book, which might be very well cutitlcd, "the office seekers's docket," and makes an entry, 01" which tho following is an illustration : "Saturday, April 8?Governor of Oklahoma, 1 p. in." When the day and the hour come round the friends of the candidates assemble in the Secretary's offico. The privato secretary acts as outer guard,and informs all comers on other business that Secretary Smith is engaged. Promptly, when the little hand aud the big hand on the clock iudicatc tho appointment. Secretary Smith leans back in his big chair and asks: "How many candidates are represented for this office?" The partisans announce their candidates in turn. The Secretary keep; lab on the lingers of his loft hand, bending down a finger as oach candidate is announced. "Five," ho says, looking at tho fingers when the names of entries ceases; V --"Now, how much tunc will you require?" There is a ha9ty canvass in each group and then some scattering suggestions. "Well," says Mr. Smith, "say an hour for each candidate. Will that be enough?" Usually it is enough and i more than enough. Secretary Smith calls the name of the candidate first in nlphibetical order and the candidate's friends go at the biographical business with zeal. Secretary Smith is patience in a big armchair. Hour after hour tho praises are sounded. When all have finished the Secretary announces that his decision will be reported to the President of the United States. The patronage counties adjourned. Four sessions of the court p- were nein uuriog msi wee*, n.acn was devoted to the office of a Territorial Governorship. Tho hearings wero very spirited. The only thing that occurred to dampen the ardor of the proceedings was the complete reversal of ono of the decisions of Secretary and Judge Hoke Smith. After a long and heated debate the friends of Mr. Lett got a verdict of the court that he was tho man for Governor of Utah. Two days later tho President nominated C-dcb West for that offico. Since then the partisans of Lett have been making Muea-tic remarks abont the patronage court Killed His Mother-in-law for a Burglar HoNOMI Aiifci.A t ITY, FA. About midnight James Hurtinett of Coal Centre shot and killed his motbcr-in-'.aw, Mrs. Lottie Tray. Tninkiug burglars had entered the heuse, licgrthis shotgun, and, without speaking to the intruder, fired both barrels. Then he got a light and found he had shot Mrs. Tray in the bead. She died iustantly. TAPPED A DIN OF SNAKES. There Were 114 of them In a Ball ia ill the Bottom of the Old Well. Nomwicn. Cork.?Henry Dolbeare, with Freok Baker of Montville, in the I country, six mile* south of the city, went iof to the extreme end of Henry's house lot Sno in the morning to clean an old well there, byl and after ten minute*' work in the well the tapped the most extraordinary subterran- th? ean snake reservoir noted in the annals the of eastern Connecticut. The well was a rep deep, dry one, and for years Dolbeare bci and his family and other people had flung Ph all sorts of rubbish into it. There were < f stones and rails, and sticks, old boots, the hoopskirts, aud tin pans in it, but oobody hie bu-peeled that away down in the bowels thr of it was a seething colony of rerpents. ?il Wrih their coats off, crowbar in hand, (|0| the two men steppid into the rubbisli ^ heap, which reached almost to the nrouth of tire shaft, and with vigorous thrusts ,MS loosened the pieces of debrs and flipped lea them out ou the around. Afior ten rain- ihi ntes th< y were almost nt the both m of the w? II, tw nty f?ct below the surfnee ' * of the house lot. Then they removed a 'I" couple of br. ml boards, an 1 of a sudden ch< the bottom of th ; w -ll rose up, heaving an, and billowing bricith their feet. . j The phenomenon hai coine so sudden- er ly and mysteriously that their eyes bulged with awe and terro", and they liopp. d ho' about with tr.-inbling legs ou their ser- cjr pentine perch. They sa v at once that 0lJ they had struck a sort of a solid stratum of wo'.l snakes, deep, co volutcd, and inbraided, a g eat round ball, as big as a the fchool globe, of hibernating reptiles, by Worse still, the spheres of slim snake strands, which had been wound into a hard mas*, like a ball of wrapping twine ,an in ciiss cross fashion during the winter, wa had instantly burst into multitudinous cot and nimb'c consciousness and activty-^ under the trend of the farmers' cowhide , boots; then it bega 1 to unravel itself, and scores of serpent tail* and red forkc i un jaws detached thcmsclv.s from the moss bu and shot upward, twiniug themselves ^ about the men's legs an I slapping them . viciously. In a moment the whole ball was dissolved into ils component parts. ch' which first straightened themselves, fo m- pai ing n palpitatin : and In aviug batter of (jr, serpents two feet thick or more, and then the wra h'ul reptiles, hi-sing and calling themselves iut > swift loops, turned upon the fe^J ful intruders in their den. id; Those scared p rsons, now fairly wal- ir( lowing in snakes, had been stepping , lively in order to maintain their unstable foot ng, and the iustant the serpen's at- ?r lacked them they were seized with a Pli panic of fright and loathing and made a ,ec break to get out of the well; but their f3v-t slipped on the undulating well bot- ' torn, and losing their hold on their lad- k* der, which had been set up against the by side ef the shaft, and which both essayed tro to climb at the same time, they fell back into the pit and resumed the business of treading serpents again at the same old "r stand. Then a spasm of desperate cour- mi age took possession of them, and with w llieir short iron pinch bars they sailed pr into the attacking army of vipers with a vengeance, regardless of stylo and form. m( The combat was brief and decisive as it was extraordinary. ?'a For eight minutes the old well seemed m| to be full of flying snakes,arms and legs, and gesticultatiug pinch bar9, and the who'e undergrounds business went on of amid a steady rhythmic purring or swish- ter iug uproar, aud an accompaniment of < intermittent but regular dull thuds. The well buzzed like a hive of swarming 1)0 bees. The farmers were spry and muscu- Pf lar, however, and they finally got the co: best of the battlo. Then they fought pr more leisurely. The enemy had weaken- . cd. The attacking column of sernonta. the first onset of which was like the roar of a mail river advancing from sub- thi terrancan regions, had dribbled away to ;ei a mere rivulet of reptiles, and the men as speedily disposed of the rivulet. The well was now knee deep in de?d snakes. Not a serpent got away. Then [ti the farmer.', who were tired out with their exertions and bathed with perspiration, took a short rest, after which they climbed out of the shaft. At Mr. Dolbeuc's home they procured a couple of ;h< stable forks and a basket. Then returncd to the well, and drew all the dead serpents out of it. Thtrc were just 114 of them, and the men placed them in a o; row in the tunnel at the mouth of the ,V1 pit. All of them were fu'l grown black 4 j snakes except three vcnomou'llnt headed adders, and tho blacks avc nged five feet ( in lc gth. Some of the largest ones were seven feet long and as thick as a man's ,n for. arm It was the most remarkable :h< single private exhibit of snake', pro- .ni bably, in the record of the State. So ^ Mr. Dolbenre kept them in line at the . well until most of tin farmers in Mont- ,tfi vil cciwm and raw tiiem. Some farmers >' drove right mi'cs to sec the show. One of tho biggest blacks Mr. Dolbeare broug't to this city and displayed it in lD the office of the Norwich Evening Re? ni cor.i, cay ing: "Now, th s ain't no fish story I'm giv- ^ ing you, nnd, if any one still doubts my word, I'll engngc to take him in my team ig and show him the well and the hull snake collects n " The sides of the well, said Mr, Dol bearc, in the ucighbih od of the snake Ej nest, wtro fcrh rated with deep, round n) tuuuclsthc serpents had bored, and into . which th y might retreat in case they were attacked and did not feel like fight ing?in wintr, s y, when serpents in !oi Connecticut arc in a comatose state. )V Mr. Dolbcarc resuin'd work in the well jn purposing to deepen it until he reaches water, but, sa'd be, "I'm going slow "l now, nnd keeping on my gtiHrd, for I suppose 1'ir liable to tap another den of 'cm any moment," A Convict's Fearful Work. 0 Auburn, N. Y.?John Johnson, b known as the "blue nigger from Clyde," q ran amuck in the broom chop of the Au burn prison. He was armed with a sharp c knife used in cutting broom corn. lie n first attacked Charles Peck, a fellow con- w vict from West Chester county. Leaving n him dead In his tracks, he r.ext fatally ^ stabbed another convict and wounded t*o others before he was shot by the c keeper and rendered powerless. a SHOT OUT THE BRIOGS HEN. Feeling in ths Cincinnati Presby- ' tery Over General Aeeemb y Delegates. CiKCiMHATr, O.?X verj b'tter feeling # I has been developed b.-twten the t iith and orthodox factions of the Prei- t Itriu Church over the action of i conservatives la n fusing to give i Briggs men a sing'e delegate to 1 i Geccr.l Assembly, although they ' resent a Urge minority of the mem rs of the Church and ministers la this psb. tery. T .e Rev. J. L. Taylor, on 3 c the lea ling liberal ministers, said that 4 1 other side were trying ti boycott him n and other minist re wh > believed i it the Scriptures were not absolutely c tho t error. Everywhere he went to * liver sermons or addresses he learned .t anonymous communications of warn* | ; had preceded him. It is said that at "] st five of the wealthiest churches in ? s vicin'ty Lave threatened to refuse to f their assessment for the delegates to ! Gi ncral Assembly, because the men >scn are regarded as bigoted beyond j of the others who were mined for legates. rhc orthodox side is also raising a wl. They ch r<e that the 1 bcrals have culated stories of difference! in the h dox church s, which threaten to d to disruption a <1 have led some of ) mincers to resign. It is conceded cv^J^except a 'cw hothcada on^^/)"o%aodox, that the Presbyter i Church ia this section is in a bad y, and that if the General Assembly ivicts Dr. Btiggs there will probably a schism. Hie orthodox declare that they can, dcr all circumstances hold the churches t th<s is as vigcrously d nied, with the ertion that the couria havo declared it, unless there is somethiog in the utcr of a church binding it to some rticular form of worship, it can withiw at any time by a majority vote of i members. 8cveral of the wealthiest urches in the city ars not bound bv y such restrictions, and two of theui i said to bo getting ready to sec.dc. Philadelphia, Pa.?Tbo issue of 'ggsism involved the Pr sbytcry of liiadclphia North into fever host at its :ond day's session in Germantowu. The ' citemcnt was precipitated by Frnuklin Bliepnrd, an Elder in lbs First Presterian church of Gcrinantowo, who in- 1 duced an overture to the General Asably not to consider uppea's from the esbytery, but to direct that they be ] ide to the Byued in the regular course ] as to keep up the dignity of the Synod. < . Brigg's name wis in everybody's >uth in a few rninu'es. : Elder Bhepard thought Dr. Briggs was | n injury to the church," and if be relined it might cause dis.uption. The ( iv. John Peacock thought the Synod New York abundantly nb!a to look afthe Briggs case, n. t c n.n.nn v.;. 1.1-^,1 A U<< A?Of AJ. M. AAVUDUII CU IVI II ACT UIUUV4 iled win n he s ?w Presbytery after 1 esbjtery ask the General Assembly to nvict Dr. Briggs. lie thought the 1 esbyterion clmrch s were large enough hold him. The Rev. Chsrhs Wood ought Dr. Kriggs would be silenced in 1 e end. Elder Sh??j srd withdrew his olution. I SOUTHERN NEWS BRIEFS ?ms of a General Nature and Other ' States. Although r. arly ihree uecades have ipscd since the pence of Appomattox, 1 ire are still 102 of the 493 general < i c.8 of the Con fed racy surviving." Then is a horso in Florida that hemes wildly excited and unmanageable lencver any oue app oaches hira haviug >natli that smells of whiskey. ' lie is t a Kentucky horse Gov. BrowD, of Maryland, is the ouly o of the Southern Governors who takes > least pains with his moustache. The ds of it are twisted and waxed in truly ench fashion. He is also the most ihionably dressud and stylish-looking tlio Governors. While Sam Small is writing poetry for Atlanta newspaper ins oia rival, earn nes, is still beating his record in savj souls. A revival conducted by the v. Jones at Bowling Qreen, Ky., last ;ck, resulted in the ''profession" of re;ion by 2,5^0 of tho ungolly of that y. Bishop Key, of the Southern Methodist jiscopal Church, who was recently irried at Sherman, Texas, to Mrs. L. Kidd, president of the North Texas jraale College, the ceremony being p rrmed by Bishop Oallowav. is a little er 50 years old and is said to be the iest looking of the Southern Method i-t shops. Fighting in Salisbury. Salisbuht, N. C.?There was much xcitement on the streets about 2:30 clock, caused by a personal encounte* etween Mayor T. C. Linn and Town lommissioner D. M. Miller. The difti ulty occurred about the purchase of a ock orusher by the town. Several blows rere struck and the faces of both gentle ren were considerably bruised. No reapons were used, but Mr. Miller acuaes the mayor of having drawn a pistol nd a pair of brass knocks on him. PALMETTO CHIPS. fewe Mid VotM Trom HMt, There A Everywhere la South OwoUmThe Girls of Converse College, Bperl uborg, iiad en Arbor Day ell of belr own last Friday, end pleated man? reee. Work on the Cathedral et Charleston progressing Hone bat CherleeVoo r<>rkmen here brae engaged on th? /uilding. Farmers' buie ere being burned by in* ndinrics through Spartanburg end Or aoebunr counties. ? Tin Charleston, Surator Jb Northern iailroad Co is enlarging ita Sumter mr :hioe ahopa, putting in a foundry, bias' urnace, etc. The Home Insurance Company of Co umbia has decided to go out of buaiuesa rhc coinprny bos been in business fc ibout three years. Work has beg in on the extension cf be Atlautic Coast Line of their branch rom Sumter to Hemioi, 2) miles southvert, v'a Orangeburg, to Denmark, con lecting there with the S.uth Carolina tud South Bound Railways. Muck Sh Iton, a wbl e convict from Charleston County, made his escape fron. he penitentiary Thursday. He was uu lcr a two yoirs' sentence for burglar." md only had seven months tongrr tc serve. He is a (killed mechanic and mad* limse'f a duplicate key, which he used :o uolock thcdo.rr to the post from whic*? 10 i scaped. The sinking fund commission of SouC [.'arolinn, which had power granted by he legislature about a year ago to assume '.octroi of and lease the oyster beds ot lint State, his now taken tho matter in innd and is granting leases to responsible .ppliconls. By a wise provision of the law oiclr loaac ia for twenty years, and luring each year the lessco is required to replant one-twentieth part of his territory thus insuring tho rcp'nnting of the entire ma l>y the timo the lc.sc expires. The rental charged will vary from ten cents to one dollar per acre annually. VIRGINIA HAPPENINGS. rhe Latest News Items in the Old Dominion. A new bank has commenced business it Martinsville, known as the Farmers Bank. Both the Presbyterian and Episcopal pastors at Abingdon resigned last week dev. J. J. Loyd of tho latter haviog a rail from Lynchburg. Ollic Brown, a 12 yoAr white boy of Richmond met his death Thursday by Falling under a lumber wagon. The eightieth anniversary meeting of tho Virginia Bible Society was held list week at the Grace-street Presbyterian church Richmoud. The Roanoke Machine Works has received orders for eighteen locomotives, thirty cubiu cars and two wrecking cars, the whole aggregating ^about $208,501, in value. Tho Governor has granted three pardon?, viz: J. W. Fairfield, sentenced in 1890 to 10 years for stealing; Jacob Smith who had served one out of three years tor grand lurccoy; Walter Miller who was sentenced in 1878 for 22 y* ars For house burniog. August 9th has been named as the day For the gatheriog of Virginians nt the Chicago Fair. On that day the two hundred nnd seventy-fourth anniversary ol the nssemblying at Jamestown of the first leprescntativc legislative body of Americans will occur. A Richmond newspaper expresses the hope that "a real Confederate dinner'' will be servod at the Memorial Bazaar. Such a spread would c unpriso "rye cof fee, "slapjacks, sorghum, Nassau pork, rice soup, potato pie and other delicacies that pleased the palates of th^boys when they got big boxes from home." THE NEW RAILROAD UNION. It Enter* the Field with a last o Officer* and 11,000 Member*. Chicago, III ?The members of tb< various labor organizations that have.beei in daily session duriug the past weel perfecting the new national railway order which will be known as the Americai Railway Union,finished their preliminar; work. The officers elected are: Executivi Board?Eugeno V. Dabs, George W, Howard, W. 8. Missemer, 8. Keliher W. H. Sebiing, L. W. Rogers, F. W Arnold, Henry Walton,aAd J. A. Clarke The Board elected the followin| officers for tho year: Eugene V. Debs, President; Goorg W. Howard, First Vice-President; W 8. Missemer, Second Vice-President, an< S. K'.'lthcr, Secreiarj. It has been decided thAt the Eastqyi country will be divided into districts And one member of the Executive Boat* will be assigned to a special district which will put nine organizers into th field At once. The entire membership o th s Order of Railway Carmen have al reidy voted to join the new order. Thi will start the now union with 154 lodges having a n}C!pber$hip of pearly 10,000 NORTH CAROLINA SQUIBS.; Iww/ OlMU>ii>g? from Oheroken to ; Currituck. sturgeon weighing 820 pounds wis on the Greenville market last Faiday. It was caught in a Dutch net below Washington. The North Caro'loa,Corundum Wheel I Co. hare completed their 9150,000 mining plant at Sylva. The Farmers* Alliance have opened a general merchandise store at Durham, capital $5000. The pos office at Clairmont, Catawba county, was burned recently and Elmore Cloninger, the deputy postmaster, has been arrested and bound over to the Fedorjl Court at Statesvilie, charged with einbozz'.iag th j money and stamps. John F. Lffsey, who killed his brother- 1 in-law, Chaa. Key, at Garysburg last December, was tried at Northampton court last week, and the prisoner was acquitted. Senator Ransom was of counsel in the case and received a fee of 91,000. | Firo at Kinstou burned ton residences mi ? church. The wind was rery high. The 1 as is cst'inited at $20 000. The business p rt of the town was not affected. The tire burned itself out. At Raleigh Frank Batchclor, a son of tho Hon Jo cpli B. Batckelor, wbilo out driving complained of a pain in his heart and soon afterward expired. Abner Adams, of Watauga county, sold a beautiful curly walnut tree the other day to L. L. Council!, of the firm of Couocill, Taylor & Co., of Elk Park, for tho sum of $435. The tree measured three and one half feet through at the stump and is said to be curled from tho roots to the end of the topmost twig. Such trees are of fabulous value. Mr. CounciU may realize $1,000 or $1,500 for it. damage oases"compromised. The Railroad Adjusts Suite Growing Out of the Bostian Bridge Wreck. STATX8VILLK, N. C.?All the suits against tho Richmond and Danville Railroad, growing out of tho wreck at Bos tian's bridge, ucar Statcsville, on the 27th of August, 1801, in which 2*3 persona were killed aud 30 wounded, havn been compromiacd. There were 13 of thtse cases in Iredell Superior Court and the following amounts have been allowed in each case: Death claims?J. C.. Brodie, $5,000; W. M. Houston, $5,000; Chns. G. Wtbcr, $5,000; Miss Ophelia Polk Moore,$2,000; Mrs. Susan Pool, $2,000; Hugh K. 1 instcr, $2,500; A. Davis,$1,200; Rev. J. M. wI. *0 KAA rmw, fu,?iuv. Claims for injuries?J. F. Holler, $5,000; Mrs. Naomi Hayes Mooro, $1,500; Miss Louallie Pool, $1,500; O. W. Lawson, $1,000; G. W. Bjwley, $1,000. Messrs. Binghun & Caldwell and R. Z. Linney were attorneys in tho Linstcr and Davis cases and ox-Judge D. M.Furchcs in the case of Rev. J. M. Bikes. Messrs. Armfield & Turner were uttor ncys in the other ten cases. There were a number of suits entered at Ashovillc, Salisbury and other places. We understand that all of these have been com promised. The L-xington Dis patch understands tint A. L. Sink and wifn have beer, allowed $5,000. This case was in Davidson Superior Court. We have not learned what amounts were allowed in the other cases, but it is safe so say that the wreck, tirst and last, cost the Richmond & Danville Railroad at least $100,000. PEACE LIGHTS"ON BELGIUM. The Country Barely Escapes Most Dirteful Calamity. Buusski.8, (Cablegram.)?A nation yesterday on the verge of < ivil war is today completely at peace The air of terrible suspense like that which hangs over two great armies about to be h tried , sgainst each other has vanished. The escape from a dreadful slauohtor y.v.a ! ? a o "J the smallest chnnco. The plans of the revolutionary leaden are now becoming known. They counts: f with good reason on turning the guns is' thej regular army, reen forced by the mob, against the Civic Guard and the K police. The conflict would have been 1 one of the most sanguinary in the history 1 of the Government, and the moarchy it' jelf would have been almost certainty 1 overthrown. Then would have com# ^ Communist reign, foreign interference, and endless complications for all Europe. c It must be admittc 1 that the leaders ' of the revolt have remarkable control ' over the people. The orders to retur., ' to work have been almost universally obeyed, and there has no' been the slight % est disturbance. The agitation f i universal suffrage 6 without plural voting will be continued. ' it is not likely to load to any such erst ^ ic?! situation as tli il of Wednesday. If the demand is not granted by the present 1 Parliament it probably will bo tho first ' Chamber chorcn under the systOM * adopted. ? Mrs. Gen. Hancock Dead. ' New York.? Mis. Almira Hussell Hancock diod at 4:510 p. m Thursday afternoon. She was the widow of General '? Wintirld Rcott Hancock, the Democratic candidate for p.c?!,leiit in 1889. EX-PRESIDENT DAVIS. Biilxiy to Ntw Orleans on Kay tho Twenty-Eigh'.h. Au Atlanta dUpatch says: It is an* ouuced that the b^dy of Jefferson Davis vill iio in state here on tho 90th day of May while en route to its final reeling I>1*-* at Richmoud. It is officially announced by the committ e of Fulton ,'o.nty Ciuf derate Vouraoa' Association, of which Mr. Davis was one of tho two honorary membeia?Honry W. Grady being the other?that the body would leave New Orleans on the night of May 18th, accompanied by an escort from he Louisiana veterans. Montgomery will be reached early in the morniag of the 2Bth. The funeral train will art i vein Atlanta about 4 o'clock >n the aftorno >n of the 29th, and the oody will bo conveyed to the Stato capito', whero it will remain until about 7 o'clock, leaving at 8 o'clock for Richmond. The Confederate Veterans' Assosis ion wil', in a body, meet the funeral train and accompany the remain* to tho japitol and back to thi depot. A comuiitte) will go ou to Il?chtn >nd with the ojamhtees from Now Orl sns and Mont, ornery. New Profession?The Cutter-Out. [From the Saturday Rcviow.] The world is over-populated will) amiable, good looking young men: highly educated, healthy and wholly Lctpnblo of earning their livelihoods. No ingenuity can provide berths for all of thcin, but some might be employed as "cuttersout " This is a new profession. The duties of the cutter-out nro few, smple, and agreeable. IIo or she has morcly to make lovo and to ride nway. Thus, put case that aoiue one's daughter, niece, or, it may be, favorito cousin, has become oDgngcd to a man who is not. liked by the family. To resist lier choice is futile. Opposition moroly funs the flame of ins siou. So jon send a note or telegram to the central office of the "Socie'y for the Utilizttion of Johnnies," and they dospVeh a cutter cut. |Ie is young, handsome, agreeable, perhaps a lord or nc honorable, a baronet, very likely. Ilie duty may be explained in a word?ho is to cut out the young lady's affianced lover, to inako her out of conceit with that diaagrecablo person, and then to retire gracefully to s me outlandish part ?>f the globe. The sell mo is peculiarly valuable to parents, but any one may make use of it. Of cou so there may also be, and should be, fema'c cutters-out, to be slipped at joung men who hnvo entangled their affections undesirably. Lord Algernon is fond of th) rector's daughter, of th? gardenr'a daughter, ol whom you will. histoid of crying if you are his lady mother, or Bwcaring il you are the Duke, you rend up t) tin central depot for a really first class cut tcr-out, married lady preferred. In i very few weeks the rector's daughter, 01 the g.irdenr's daughter is as disconsolate as Calypso, and then the cutter-out (lisappeals, carrying with her the respectful homage of the family whom she has rescued. Lady Did the Carving. The d-sk which Mrs. Co ten and Mn Kidder North Cirolinn World's F:;'. Commis ionc-r9, hud con-true'cd ns memorial to Virginia Dare,the first whitchild born in America. wns made o! white holly from Itoinnkc Island, Vir ginin D.irc's birth place; was designer by Silas Me Bee of Scwancc, Tenu., onr carved by Miss Kate Cheshire,of Turboro This desk is a tiibutc to the memory o Virginia Dare, from the women of thii State, and will bcs:nt to the World' Fair. Portrait of Oen. L-jo. The Hon. O.lnndo B. Potter, of New York, has presented to tho Washiugtoti and Leo University a splendid portrail of Qen. Itobert E Lee. The portr.il was executed by an artist for the flou. Jehn Bell, oi Tennessee, once Speaker < f Htn Hnnap f\f Wonrouonlnlirou tl? n Sinn. -.V,,,. ... .. ,_,V.. ator from Tennessee and a candidate foi Pr. sident in 1800, Oen. L? c a* that time being a colonel in the United Sttlcsnrmi and the portrait of him was in blue uni form, he at that time having only a mus tache. Since the war it came into tlx hands of Mr. Potter, after the artist had with skillful brush changed the bin i cor tume of the United States otlic r to thai of the uniform as the command r of tlx Army of Northern Virgiuin, nud had added the heavy board which Oen. Lc< wore all through the war and until i>ii denth. It is a most striking and excel lent p ctute of the Confederate chieftain Two Doomed Men Respited. CoLitMiiiA, S. C.?Napoleon Leville the Charleston wife murderer, was rc spited until MnyJOth by the Govcrnoi There is considerable doubt as t> hi sanity ?nd r. commission will be appoint sd to pass upon his mental condition. Wade Haines, the colored rupisl, see tenc< d to be banged, was respited fo the fifth time. His execution will t?k placj two weeks hence, unlc:s in th meantme some alleged additional cvi icnec is developed in his favor. William B. Puett Suicides. Lbnoir, N. C.?William Benton Pu-.ti a prominent young citizen of this counti who has lately been diinkii g beaviij committed suicide, blowing cut h brains by a pistol shot ent ring at th forehead. The act was precipitated b a suit for divorce instituted l**t frock his wife, who is a daug'at.r of a promi ncnt citizen of Mitchell. MURDER IN THE SECOND DEGREE. Existence of a Peculiar Baft* of fM> plo Brought out ia a Murder Trial. Auhbrst n Courthoosb, Va.?The Amherst County Circuit Court?the Hoa. lobu I>. llorsley presiding?which had bovu iu sent nsinco Mouday.the 10th,ad> loomed Saturday, most of tho week h*v? lug been taken up iu the trial of the case )f the Comraouwealth against William Srucc, who was indicted for the murder jf Charles Hartlcss. Thia ia the eecosd irial oi the esse. The jury on the former trial brought iu a verdict of murder la the first degree, which was set aside bv the court, thereby adding interest to this trial, a large crowd being in attendance ach day. Bruce, the accused, and Hart* less, tho murdered man, both belong to i peculiar race of people, known in thia icction aa the '-free isshics," or free issue, ivho arc reported to be a mixture of In* jian, negro and Portuguese. They hava never been slaves, and in consequence sold theninoivcs above the neor.i and In turn nre culled by bo h bl .ck and whito 'free nigger*." Thoir customs and nudes if life, a* brought to life in tbis trial, anvo been among it* peculiar feat urea. What has caused most comment, how)v?r, has been the judge's ruling iu allowing the defense to introduco witnesses who clabn to have heard aim of the accused say n few hou s after tho killing that he and not tho elder Itruco killed Harthss. This is olTered iu r. buttal to :he dying dcclarat on of tho murdered nun and the direct evidence of one witicr?, who tostilies that hu Saw tho prlsorer s'riko tho fatal blow. Young ilruca ins down to par.a unknown. Tho jury, after twelve hours' deliberation, brought in n verdict f?,r murder iu he second dcgrtoittid ten years iu tho jenitentiary. SWALLOWED A"WHEAT BEARD. ButPenn'ell Would Have Got Well if Hia Bull Hadn't Gored Him. New Brunswick, N. J.?Frank PenRill, ouo of the Inst known farmers in Middlesex county, died at Frunklln Park oflo.kjaw. About a week ngo he inhaled a wheat beard, which lodged in his throat and caused much irritation. t ..t 4.. 11... i. ,?,,i Jiuui 10 ui |iu^ni\;innn iu i ciuwvv mu u.nnt were fruit less, but tho man might have got well had ho not lmd an experience with a lino Ilnlstoiu bull on Fiiday, Tho animal bin always been regarded as tame, but 01 Friday, as Mr. Pcnooll was leaving tho forty acre field on his place, ho becumo conscious of tin rapid ' approach of tho bull f.nm behind. Mr. 1 Fennell made for tho Irnccus faRt as pnsi sible. Tim bull w.:s nearly upon hiin | when ho was within a few foct of tho fence. He dropped down, hoping tho enraged union! would rush by him. Tho bull did phos him, just slopping ou Uii * ? , right arm. Then PcnnclJ jffmped tip anoT ~ r attempted to gatij the ieno-i. Tho benst ami ono of his horns was jammed into tho man's neck. . Tho minimal then rush d oil in another dlrcci tion. Mr. Pcunell was able t> stagger to the house, where the sight of the terrible wound in h's neck and h.s pnla face cau-ed his wf. to faint. Tho four young children ran screaming from the house. Physicians said that despite tho wound p made by the buM they might have saved % Mr. Ponnell's life, but for tho ailment in his throat oaiiRjcl by the vhrnt beard. Lockjaw set in immediately, aud he died i iu terrible agony. Late Nowi Briefs. 1 A fly I van in, (Ja., merchant, who hat a lot of crinolines left over from the old [ days, has placed them on sale iu his store. A divorce was recently granted to a worn in at Paris, Tex , and live minutes Inter she faced the judge with another man and was marrl'.vl. fluits for $207,0 0 have been fllod against the city of Atlanta, Ou , bv pcopio wh > claim that their health lias been injured through miasma from the city dumping grounds. t .Joseph It. Combs mid wife, of Hoiston, Ind , were manic 1 thirly-five years ago. About a year ago differences arose aud they were divorced. On Saturday 1 they were remarried . Tho ladies of Dresden have been boldly in j a riding tourn uncut, the honors of the j <ust bjing won by a young English 4 girl, Misr Theresa Brooks, ller final cx<= ploit was the driving of a pair of hordes tandem while riding her own horss at full speed. Whde being transferred from the prison at Bunkius to Ncwpoit, in (Jeorgia, a ' prisoner leaped from the tram wliilo it 1 was going r.t the rate of thirty-live miles ^ an hour The train wis instantly stop 1 ped and a seuich made, which ptoved uusLiCCCioi ui. Out of one hundicd men whom you will meet iu Tobasco, Mexico, scarcely ten arc able to read, and two out c/cry three arc held by their creditors ns slaves for debt. There arc about 5 >0,0 >0 Mexicans in this form of s'nvcry. The people often fall into debt through paying [ the exhorbitant marriage fee asked by the pries', and another large fee is ex t acted at the baptism of each child, each baptism requiring the entire wages of at [ least two weeks. 3 aTatal serenade. 1 A Farmer, Newly Wedded, Kill* Twe of Hi* Annoyera. Tofkka, Kan.?The frontier idea of celebrating a wedding by tho beating of '> tin pans and firing of guns was rcspousii ble for three deaths at a charivari near Ness City. A young farmer by tho name is of Anderson was mart led, and brought t- his bride to the little cottage he had provided for her. A number of hoodlums i- in the community thought it would be r proper to give them a reception. ? About fu'iy gathctcd around the place c at midnight and commenced making - deafening noises. One cowboy had borrowed a doubled batreled shotgun which was loaded witli buckshot. He wee jftji drunk, ami, instead of shooting in the t air, fired both load* at iiy tlfthe . jiyB < ottagc. Anderson y ly escaped In liinlllfliOW ^ Anderson grabbed? !tkk&fWL 5j~| e the door iouslttflKidtng ' V? ~ fi. Mr N *> 'Ai