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THE WBEILlAlOllOfi TIME! J ? Aqi .wWiuris Hortvmttxr*, ^ . " _ * - ^ ;^jgMflj|B VOL. VXXI.-NEW SERIES. UNION C. II., SOUTH OAROU<|BBj^^J|BBHiMiiilWMi^^ There are ten Chinamen in this country to every American in China? the figures are eleven hundred against one hundred and ten thousand. Switzerland is veritably the land "flowing with milk and honey, and tattle upon a thousand hills." Great attention is paid to apiarios; the honey \ U famed for its aroma and delicacy; though some tourists are disposed to doubt if that which is on every breakfast table is all the produot of the little busy hymenopter. In spite of the fact that emigration ast year was against the Argentino Republic, and that the country was undergoing financial depresoion, tho total area under crops 8,ttfl2,000 acres ll^^^SreSe^^ithin a year, of 1,878,000 acres. The only wools which come to tho United States from the Argentine are tho Cordova carpet wools from native sheep, shipped mostly to tho Boston mills. When General Dodds, the successful French Commander in Dahomey, re^ . ceived the brevet of General dnring W the recent campaign he was unable, says a Paris correspondent, to procure there tho four silver stars which, stitched on the uniform, aro a sign of that rank. It was suggested to make them with silver coins. As the only ones that could be found were English shillings, tho stars bore the head of Queen Victoria, the General's original sovereign. Says Once A Week: **Tho jre^lSyf seas one of tho worst years over known w Iii the iron and steel industries of ^ Great Britain. Attention will be di. fwT' rected at once to the building of rail* f roads in India and to the development of the resources of that country. It is in order now for us to devote all our energies to the development of our new States and Territories, and to oul* iivttbiug tuoser commercial relations with South America. Tho develop* ment of India, forced at lost upon Great Britain as a commercial and industrial necessity, will mean a slior' Old World market for us." end $20,000,000 a year back to Italy 1 for the support of their relatives, or tc ' pay their passage to this country. "For all this," observes the New York | ^ Independent, "they have paid an aim pie equivalent in work which has onriched tho country more than tin 8 money they send impoverishes it, no1 to speak of what they earn and spend here. And it must be remembered that a considerable part of what they send comes back again.- and greatly increased in value, in the person ol other immigrants, even if wo put tha value of free men no higher than tha old valuation of slaves." A Belgium newspaper correspondent finds that there are twenty per cent, more voters in proportion to the population in Franoe than there are in tho United States. His flgares are: France?One voter in every 3.69 of population. Greece?One voter in every 4.36 of population. United States?Ono voter in about 4.50 of population. Germany?One voter in every 4.87 of population. Great ^ Britain?Ono voter in every 6.13 of population. Italy?One voter in every ' ~~UP7fi7 of population. Holland?One vbter in every 15.02 of population. Jforway?One voter in every 15.57 of / population. Sweden?One voter in very 16.00 of population. Hungary ?One voter in about eighteen of popu, lation. Belgium?One voter in every 46.20 of population. A timber expert makes the interest* ing statement that the spruce lands ol Maine are to-day worth more thai were the pine lands of fifty years ago, mainly because of the development ol the pulp business. He estimates th< value of wild lands at $20 per acre reckoning only eighty-five cords to ai 1acre. There are nearly 9,500,000 aore of wild land in Maine, ana aturamiu that only a quarter of this is cover? f. with merchantable growth, the toti valuation would be something lik 947,000,000. Some idea of the in jnense extent of wild lands in Mair may be gained from the statement thi they wonld make a State twioo as larg as Massachusetts, twice as large as Ne r' Hampshire and Vermont combine and thirteen times as large as Rho< fe' . Island. In Aroostook County aloi | there aro nearly 8,000,000 acres, whi 4 in Pisoataquis, an adjoining oount I there are over 2,000,000; in Washin I ton, another adjoining county, o\ 500,000; in Somerset nearly 2,000,0C f and in Hancock about 400,000 acr Ponobscot the most thickty sett! I, county in eastern Maine has over 90 000 acres. ? 1 PRINCESS MAY MARRIED. 8he Becomes Duchess of York and Royal Heir Apparent. An Immense Assemblage Witnessed the Royal Frocccsion to the Ohapel Royal in St, James Palace. London, Cablegram.?The marriage of the Duke of York, Prince George of Wales, and Princess Victoria Mary, of Teck, the event to which all England has been looking forward with deep interest, took placo in tho Chapel Royal, St. Jam-s' Palace. T The wedding was a brilliant function and was attended by a lar&e gathering of the members of the British royal fam- T ily, continental sovereigns or their rep- cl wnaUtitM wd wnay-wwirIwiw -of the highest nobility: The weather wu -3 tiful, and ff thcro is .my truth in the old K proverb: "Happy is the bride whom ej tho sun shines on," the Duchess of York ci will be exceedingly happy, for a more tv splendid day has s Idom been seen in tl London. T The occ sou wm one of national ro- w jo:cing and a partial British holiday, at Great crowds of people gathered, many deep, a'ong the line of route from Buck- Ci ingham Palac*. up Constitulion nill, g< through Picadilly, St. James street and si Marlborough Gate to the garden en- di trnecc to St. James Palace, which is sit- p< uated on the north side of the Mall. The si decorations along tho line of the royal ?i proc ssion were pi of use and beautiful. Tho roadway was kept open by the A house troops in their glittering uniforms, si by detachments drawn from military de- so pots, by the Metropolitan Voluutcers th and militia, by Middlesex yeomanry and cs by the police. Tho scene was full of life aud movement and the ceremony ol eclipsed in pomp and splendor any re- hi cent S'ate ceremonial in connection with fc the British court. hi The royal party left Buckingham Pal- II ace iu four processions, tbo first conveying tho members of the household and at distinguished guests; the next proces- J' siou included tho Duke of York and bis ol supporters, the Prince of Wales and tho Duke of E-linbu^g; the bride came In is the third proccslion, accompanied by ol her father, the Duns of Tcck, and her p brother, Princo Adfcphus of Teck; the $ last procession was Jfcnt of the Queen, a whq was accom.n*ntMj2_g tchisa.of tVok. Her younger son! ana the untfa WD Duke of fiess drove in State to the cere- Nei moiiial. Each procession was occom- sor. [isnied by a Life Guards escort, and, in I* addition to this, the Queen had an es - Hai cort of native Indian and Australasian den horse. Her Majesty rode in a handsome unc glass coach used at the opening of Par- sun Iianient and on other special occasions. Un The marriage ceremony was opened lev; with a procession of the clergy into the bav chapel. This consisted of the Arch Pfe bishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of ary London, the Dean of the Chapel Royal, J the sub Dean, the Bishop of Rochester, wit Hon. and Rev. E. Garr-Glyn, Vicar of of i Kensineton: Canon Harvey, Domestic w Chaplain to the Prince of Wales, and larj Canon Dalton, Honorable Chaplain to w? the Duke of York. Handel's march and gr< an occasional overture was played by ere the organist as tho procession came for- "j ward. P While the Archbishop and clergy were ina taking their places, the music of the iQ(i march in "Scipio" came from tho organ j)aa and immediately the front of the second ^ procession, including tho royal family j j and the royal guests, came in sight. The Q0, members of it were conducted to their seats as they entered. As the Queen's procession, which in- 2(j eluded the Dutchess of Teck and the |Z Grand Duke of Hesse, walked up the aisle, Sir Arthur Sullivan's "Imperial March" was played. A march composed in "G," composed by Smart, was played during tho progress of the bridegroom's procession to communion, and as the bride and her supporters passed up the aisle to the altar the organist played ^ Wagner's march from "Lohengrin." The Archbishop of Canterbury, assistI ed by the other clergy, performed the , ceremony, the bride being given away by ' her father. , n I ? v I Latest in North Carolina. ? , The Wilmington and Weldon Railroad j ? baa decided not to pay its regular July t 4 dividend because of having to pay heavy , ' - A* Qi.i. g back taxes to tue oimo. t d Trains are expccUd to run between | j Wilmington and Newborn on the Wild mington, Newborn A Norfolk Railroad x. (nearly completed) in August. , u The Fayetteville Gazette says that "Bolly" Gillespie, colored, was taken ^ from bis house near Hope Mills by some white and colored men recently and ^ jfiren a thrashing for having "blown" on ?? -Aline i_ av?4 j* % certain "geil-uerry aim iu m? u?.gUborbood. Warrants ' have been sworn , out for several of the offenders. >le Town Sergeant Shop. ? A special from Keyaville, Vs., says: ?* Town Sergeant V. 8. Almond, while at* tempting to arrest a negro burglar was es" shot through the shoulder. The negro ^ then escaped to the woods and is being pursued with dogs. If caught he will doubtless be lynched. t l?it|VYV y y in >|i y ||| ||| ? XJIVK 8TOC1 At the World's Col THE NEWS IN BRIEF. he Latest Happenings Condensed and Printed Here. Rioting has been going on in the Latin narter of Paris and many students and erks have been killed and wounded. , Bwirljuu lias tndCBH rBcflBBBCk HfsiJa ? fts owif home. At Blowing Green, y., Saturday last, after one of the most (citing elections in the history of that ty, the "drys" won by a majority of venty-eight votes, and for tho next tree years local option will prevail, hroughout the day prayer-meetings ere held, women stood around the polls, ' id tho church bells were rung. Tho report just presented to Goveraor arr, of North Carolina, by the State's eologist shows that the work of the irvcy is being pushed actively in several ifferent sections of that State. One irty is examining the clays of Ilarnett id tho headstones of Moore, R:chmond id Anson. Another is examining the :ology of tho Great Smoky Mountains, nother is studying the serpentine rocks id associcted minerals in,Macon, Jackin and other counties. The forester of le survey is examining (he timber interts in the Black Mountain region. J us B. Marshall, a prominent citizen [ Richmond, Va , committed suie'do at is residence inursuay nignt. lie was lund dead in his parlor with a~pistol in is hand and a bullet hole in his head, c had been ill for sonic time past. The 17-ycar locust made their appearlcc iu Surry county, N. C., Sunday, ily 2. These are the first that are heard I in this section. J. S. Armstrong, of Culpepper, Va., in Wilmington, N. C., for the purpose f organizing another bank. Ho is excricnced in the business. Ho will take 50,000 stock if the people of tho comluuity will tako the same amount. The politicians now say that Secretary W of t is highly probable that President ( rison will become n permanent resit of California. It is now very well lerstood that if he is pleased with the roundings at Lcland Stanford, Jr., iversity when ho delivers his series of r lectures there next fall that he will 0 tho opportunity of becoming the sident of that institution at a big salJohn Wannamaker was so much pleased ,h Washington that he is now thinking making it his winter home. He is ^ iously contemplating tne opening of a ge store there and has agents now at rk trying to secure tho necessary lot of ^ ?und for the building that he wants to ct. j )r. y. A. Hodges, of Wilmington, N. has been elected to tho chair of tomy in tho College of Physicians 1 Surgeons, of Richmond, Vs., and accepted. fhe Knoxville, Tenn., street car lino q the hands of a receiver who nujnccd Monday that no negroca would Allowed to ride on the cars yesterday, f 4th of July. The negroes announctheir purpose to ride and a clash was pec ted. HUNG AN INNOCENT MAN. jffered Death for a Murder That TTas Never Committed. Fatettrvillb, Ark.?Saturday's deslopmenta have rendered sensational a ispesed of by the hanging of an in ocent man. In 1866 George Watkins, with a comef young wife, moved from Kansas to a ounty adjoining this and settled on the omestead of Andy Hedgepeth, a roaltby planter. Watkins soen became ware 4 of unholy relations between ledgepeth and Mrs. Watkins. The two nen went to market in Hedgepeth's wagon. Hedgepeth returned alone. The ludden absence of Watkins excited sua* picion and Hedgepeth and the woman were arrested * * ? a -* - A_ .3 AL.a The woman, at tne inai, siaieu mm the and Hedgepath had agreed to kill her husband, but denied any knowlcdgo oi the murder. The evidence was circum stantial, but in a strong and unbroken chain. The case was carried to tho Su preme Court, reversed, and at the second trial Hedgepath was again convicted and hanged. It is learned bj Hedgepath' counsel that Watkins is living in his ol< home in Kansas, where ho has been a! the time since his disappearance Fatal Fall From a Oar. Riovmond, Va.?H. Lee Rarnetf about 20 years of age, fell from a car an was killed, while the car was crossing trestle about sixty hat high on the Seve Pines elactric line. # SMASHING AftuM POWER"" Virginia QlJfrnan Attack? a Whisky EMW wi^ a Olub. Rev. John Aldie, Loudon county, Va., is?JKWorld'a Fair and wiaJnnnJjy m the reverond geaileman came upon the handsome whir&y exhibit made by Sir John Powers, of Dublin, Ireland. Suddenly he railed a heavy hickory cane he was carrying and smashed away at the bottles arranged in the form of a famous round tower of Ireland. Three times he smote the exhibit, bringing down about twenty bottles and shilling the liquor on tho floor of the building. Then he was seized by the guards and the club wrenched from his hand. A patrol wagon was summoned and the clergyman given a ride to the patrol barn, where he admitted smashing the exhibit. lie was kept a prisoner while a warrant was being produced, ard he meanwhile wrote out a long statement of ''Why I struck the whisky power," saying that it was because Jehovah told him, and ho did ;i^ ^ .on tho Fourth of July as an appropriate day. Chicago, Ili. ?Rev. John T. James, of Virginia, who smashed tho whisky exhibit of Sir John Powers in the Agricultural Buildiug on the Fourth of July, got off easily in Justice Porter's court. The prisoner refused to make any statement and acted so qucerly that the justice allowed the charge of malicious mischief to be changed to disorderly conduct. He then fined the reverend vandal $25. Mr. James declared kc would go to jail and pose as a martyr for the demon, drink. Then the judge remitted the fine. ~S\ AX OLD I?UT(!H WINDMILT.. p ttthe World's Columbian Exposition. p ? 1 i, The parting WaA Affectionate. Ckanston's N. Y.f-Mrs. Jeff?rson R Davis, her maid nnd Miss Winnie Davis departed from Cranston's Monday morn- , ing over the New York Central. They ( where they will remain (luring the season. * All the guests of the hotel, including Mrs. Grant, took their leave of Mrs. Davis last night. Tie parting between Mrs. Grant and Miss Divis was very af- ' fectiountc indeed. Mrs. Davis nnd pjutv, in company with Miss Mary D. drove to West Point nnd witnessed the parade last evening. After their return to the hotel Mrs. Davis remained n the large parler during the entire eveiing nnd sat con- ' versing with Airs. Glint most of the time. ' Carried Off to Sea. Savannah, Ga.?T ie Austrian baik Sirena, G'upt. Marteulisb, has been libelJorl /at $SrOOO Ujr \rhnt e\t this city, who seeks to' recover that amount for being shanghaied. Last December, while drlnkiig, Whoat fell in with a runner, who caried htm off to the Sirena and shipped hin under the name of a negro who had deserted. When Wheat came to his sens?s the bark was at sea on the way to Tries e. There he laid his case before an Ameiican Consul, who 1 - - fKomt sent hiin to uenoa, '.119 VsUlJOtai vuvsv . sending him home. The 8ircna reached | this port a few days ago, and Wheat will endeavor to keep her here some time. The Register of the Treasury. Washington, D. C.?.Tames P. Tillman, of Tennessee, the new Register of the Treasury, is not well known to the 1 public, but he is de>'cribstl4?y? esteem. ' ed Virginia contemporary^a* "a gentle' man of much ability, linesocial qualities, ' and handsomo personnl appearance, who has been promiuently iudontificd with * rthU_ KaMtraflt Farnicrs'f Alliance." It seems thht? Register Tilliripn is a manager and Ao owner of tho jVrt^onal Economist, the national organ of the wintional Farmers1 Alliance and Industrial Union. t, I?! 4 d The Gold Reaerva Increasing, a Washington, D. C,r-The Treaaor n gold baa Increas d $700,000, standini now at $90,070,948. - ? ' M 1 Z'". PAiw?iis. I 1*** ' -V* ' ' ;"V* J* if | j^rere Mdiey Troubles In Miny 'Stales. Banks and Merchants Cannot Main tainThair Position Until Congress Relieves the Situation. ' kanf^b bank failure. Topkka, Kan.?Two Kansas banks Jj^ive closed tfytfr doors. Tlio failure of uie Iftutiey couDtj bank, at Garden City, was not unexpected, as tbc bank has for somo time been in bad condition. The bank of Lcroy, Coffey county, was also clo&cd. a tugkt sountj 11ank fails. Everett, Wash.?On account of the inability to realize 01 securities, the ?? r? j i ,u .t has suspended. miTVTV MfWIfv A t'? ?r ij-ta nivw Worth inoton, Minn.?Nobles County Bank closed it3 doors Thursday morning. Us owner, Peter Thomas, lins made an alignment. Several thousand dollars of county money are tied up in it. a savings sank collapses. Omaha, Neu.?The Aimricnn Savings Bauk suspended Thursday with deposits of $153,000 and assets of $'350,000. It was involved in the embarrassment of the American Loan and Trust Company, through the lattcr's enterprise, the Omaha and South Texas Land Company. a speculator kails. O.ttcmwa, Ia.?A. C. Leighton, a prominent capitalist and speculator of this city has assigned. . His liabilities are iWscfs $300,000. A texas land company assionr. Galveston, Tex.?Judge Bryan appointed IT. V,. McGregor rcccivor of the Omaha & South Texas Land Company. The liabilities are $100,000. No schedule of assets was filed. this is c.ratifying An analysis of the Statistics of business failures of the Uuited Statc3 for the past six months by the Chattanooga Trades man discloses the fact that the Southern States have withstood the financial crisis better thau any other section of the country. distress out west. Tofeka, Kan.?The Findlay County Bank, of Gtrdcu, Kan., has failed. State Bank Commissioner Brcitdenthal is there investigating. american national, bank suspends. udvljuopv/ltut ul1 ? ftiv I o placed by the bank ofliccrsat $1,250.- 1 )0, and the liabilities at $035,000. O. ' H. Baxter, one of the wealthiest ' en in the State, is president. It is boeted that the bank will be able to reimc business shortly, because its assets I e in good shape. There is no excite- ] lent among the depositors of the other anks. ( a 11a1) failure. 1 Denver, Col.?The failure of the | bailee County Bank Tit Salida Saturday ] roves to have been a bad one, and it joks as though the institution had been coted. Liabilities, $ 80,000, and the | enuine assets only f8,000. i a nontii carolina rank. Winston, N. C,?The Frst National ui ^rtluovuu <1 aana tlvatoa. lay moruiug. It is believed that the >ank will be reorganized aud that it will csume business within a month. SWEPT BROADWAY CLEAN. Jyclone-Like Doings of a New York Cable Car. New York ?A c.d>!c car became unnanngeable on Brcndway in front of City II til park, and started on a rampage toward the Battery. The motorman wes iriublc to release the giip, and, under the ji' cumstances, the brake became useless. In front of the postoflico the runaway car ir tthed in the rear platform of a horse car ahead. The driver of the horse ear, with coinmcudablo presence of mind, reined his horses to one side just in time | to save them from being run down. Both horses were thrown to the. stxeetan/i th>? traces were torn uwsy. inc Wtver ts raped with slight injuries. Still the cars rmhed on, plowing through trucks and knocking down horses. In front of St. Paul's churchyard there was a block on groadway.and t ~ ..?.hla fr> b?V(! the drivers ol uncus wuiu uu>v. ? lheir horses and wagons. When the enrs hid cut a passage through the block seveu horses were hors do combat and about five wagons badly damaged. The cars, with their frightened load of passengers, were finally stopped near the Battery. An Absconding Sheriff. WliREi.iNO,W. Va. ?Joseph L. Curtis ex-sheriff of Brooke County, this State who disappeared from his home in Wells burg, is said to be short in his account about forty thousand dollars. He lei home on Monday afternooD, telling hi friends ho was going to Znncsville, Ohir and lias not been seen sinco. His boa docs not cover his liabilities. A Conference On the Silver Situatioi Brvssblb, Cablegram,?The Bclgii government is repgrted to be about convene the Lttin tfnion States for t purpose of considering what action th shall take in view of the recent fall F silver. This will precede the reassei J bling of the inter-national monetary co 11 ference. f$E COTTON CROP* JS >008r^|F^^8 ho" New York W.arld Correspondents . Bay It is Materially Damaged*^ New York.?The World prints, rcorts by telegraph from nearly 800*of !'.s rrespondents in the South and South- < 4 est upon the condition, July 5th, of tho -<^-4 itton crop in thcr respective localities. Tins; reports, which cover thoroughly m ic whole cotton raising section of tho ~ited States, make n very discouraging owing for this year's crop of that stac. It is already certain that tho crop rs been badly damaged by unfavorbale eather during Ihe past six weeks; that has got a poor start; that it is being in? red by iusccts and disease and cannot mount to an aviispf yiuHki sliru^segl- 4, vuUJl n>;awc&,.th'it..(vr'ler ad - J!L - 1 . THE COTTdNljdOSB. . . ... Reraedife* for . Riddance?Tk? Lady T: Bugs Doing a Good Work. Ezterimrnt Station, Rai.kioii, N. C.?Every scuson us soon as the hot dry P1 weather begins in enrnest, the Experi- cc ment Station receives complaints of the w' damage caused to cotton plants l?y a ct small rei mite which most furmcis call a louse. This is scientifically known as totranychus tolarius. It is a tiuo mite U which lives on the under surface of the leaf covered by a white silken web. It pi inserts its beak into the veins of the leaf hi and sucks out the sap, causing the leaf w' to turn red or brown in spots, producing it whafcis often called "rust." The leaf j" I eventually withers end falls/ off. This 01 notice*ulitiT Hs jrfcserico""1s"m"?}ft6 "KYfttWtf W by the rusty appearance of the cotton P( leaves. cc Remedies: Probnl ly the moat satis- ,c factory remedy is to seed men through j the fields with baeke's or bags and p ck hi off all rusty leaves, carry them away with their infesting mites and burn to them. As thev live on the under side of C1 the leaf it is difficult to use st ray against 1U them unless one has a nozzle that will g| throw the spray upwards. Such a noz ' zle attached to a T rod is made by tlio A Field Pump Co., of Lock port, N. Y. A reliable ready prepared emulsion can be bought of W. S. I'owcll & Co., Annapo- ,nl lis Junction, Md., as cheap as any one ^ can make it. -1' The tobacco decoction will also de- ^?' etroy these mites. It is made by boiling tobacco sttms or powder in water for W1 half an hour at the rate of one pound of ea tobacco to three gallons water. It will Pr be mora powerful if sulphur is used in 1,1 connection. Mix five pounds of fiuur of sulphur with ten pounds of ftesh lime and boil together in five to ten gillons of 111 water for half an hour. Add this, boiling hot, to twenty gallons of diluted to- 4 bncco dooorfion mid nsn nt otioo Tn. etend of boiling lime and sulphu-, fuI- wl phide of lime may be bought at the stores. Wl One pound of this powder should be well 1)1 mixed with one quart of ordinary soft U1 tonp and tho whole then stirred into u twenty gallons of the hot tobacco decoction and used at once. Should tho wea'her turn wet those mites will soon tj disappear as they are uuable to with- t stand much moisture. I shows "that the iccta, lady bugs, are al react J-'destroying smf !ho lice, and hence it would scarcely pay prfl :o purchase a sprayiug outfit at this date. cmj Ceuald McCarthy, jjj( Entomologist. N. C. Experiment Sta- gn, 'ion- wh Prayer Answered While He Prayed, wei Augusta, Oa. ?The wiuds of Thurs- seri lay night's storm settled a religious twe (vrangle by summarily blowing down tho anr louse of worship where the wrangle took T place. to i For weeks the members of the Brownrille Baptist Church, in the southern part of the city, have been engaged in a ^ dispute over a choice of pastors. Through '*h trials and tribulations the Kev. White, far removed in color from his name, did ,01 e.v.a.1 tu* Va QoJ stood complete, and the church )C] members pronounced it good, a bright tirf mulatto theologian came to the neighbor- :^c hood, smi!cd upon the females of the "( end onnnll nPOll IlimQnlf A ' ^ ] W.b.VM.,v.w.., ...v. candidate for pastor. That this yellow *te parvenu churchman should receive any favor from his flock mado the Rev. *'r While indienaut. lie prayed that this {V house of worship which he with his own hands, had built should be destroyed, thus ending forever the audaciout or claims of his ruu'atto opponent and the ,1( wrangling of his ungrateful congregation, js( Shortly before last night's storm, while ^ the clouds were growing dark and the ^ distant thunder rolled, the Rev: White t( continued to pray. Tho fury of the blast t] increased, the rain fell, the flood came, ? the Rev. White stopped His petition the church was destroyed. There was $15,- rt 000 damage. The negroes of that whole 0 lection aro terrorized over the visitation. ~~ E rho American Bi Metallic League Called to Meet. Washington, D. c.?Gen. A. J. 3 Warner, president of the American Bi- ? Metalic League,issued a c ill for a national jonvention of that League to meet in ' Dhicago August 1st to continue as long is the convention may direct. "All nembers of the league are urged to attend, and all who are in favor of maintaining the money of the constitution and , ipposcd to the establishment of the sin {1? g"ld standard in the United States, i- without regard to pirty, arc iuvited to s ittend and participate In the delibera- I :t ions of the convention." j is . >f Port Royal's Dry Dock. I ^ Port Koyal, 8. C. ? Owing to the) earthquake and extremely high lides the a. coffer dam to the dry dock became weakin cned and a crevasse appeared on Friday to night, through which the river water he flowed and filled the dock. The coffer ey dam is being rapidly repaired and in strengthened, when the dock will be m- pumped out ami work proceeded with, n- The water in the dock cau do little damage, as it ie built to hold water. (ctcil nt this Reason, catching the belntI crop iu its present condition, will ducc the yield still further. A few sections, as iti Florida and ouisiana, seem to be excepted from the te that his overtake the cotton terriry generally, but they are not extensive tough to make any material difference i the crop as a whole. ULLETS FLY and LAWYERS FLEE Murderer on Trial Attacked by His Victim's Husband. Tbxarkaka, Tex.?Wlii'e the cxamiog trial of S. E. Leo for the killing of rs. Jesse llale, which occurred in tlijs M ty some tiuio tygo, to ^TMgresI Tie-" re Justice Edwards,' Hale, the husband the deceased, entered the Court room ith his twj little daughters nnd adncirg to where Lee was sitting in the isoncr's dock, set his cliildreu down, d, drawing a 55-calibre Colt's pistol, ened fire on the slayer of his wife. Ilale fir# 1 five times, the second shot ricking Lee in the thigh and making a itigcrotis wound. Lee owes his life to large stove, behind which he took fugc. The scene in the Court room is a wild ouo, Judges, lawyers and itnesses takiug refuge from the flying diets. Ilale was placed under arrest id Lcc's trial postponed to await therei\t of his injuries A Gun Cotton Factory Blown Up! Newfoiit, It. I.?Fire broke out in tic gun cotton factory atthe^goygrnmen* orpoiW +k.mA??? " ' < te th?T tiro reached a J dl quantity remaining aud it exploded. | ink Lnugblin and Jeremiah Harrison, 1 l>'oyes in the factory, were killed, and l . liael Hoagan, John T. Harrington, ] M??IJ JiVIUlv <ui\t Owtviui vvuviO) j use names have not yet been learned, re hurt. Ctpchart's injuries are not ious. All the other injured und the > men killed arc citizens, employees ^ 1 residents of Newport. Hie gun cotton building was leveled the grouud. Boilers Explode, Killing 20. jT. Pktkksuuko, Cablegram.?A tcr!c disaster, resulting in laagc loss of 9 , occur, d on the steamer Aliens, a it employed in the river tr.ulo on the & lflf-i? The stoamnr lyhb-auilA n r of pa'scnger on board, was ap- J inching Roman or when the boilers ex- \ xlc 1, killing 2(5 passengers. Among dead is General Petrushewski. The plosion tore the upper part of tho amer to pieces, and burning coal, >v\ n fiout the furnace, set tire to the eck. Tac boat burned to the water's ge, then sank. ] Colored People to Visit tho Fair. The colored people of Chicago, have gani/.ed for tho purj ose of bringing 10,000 of their race, who live in the autli, to the fair. Twelve Southern [ntes are to he worked up and au oportunity to be given by the cheap rates > visit Chicago. The Monon route and 10 lines covered by the Chicago and toV"- -*U4? rv< n lion<k 1 ? AV..|. J*1 * in the first excursion about August 20th, ^ nd the cheap rates arc to continue for 1 nc month. 'inds Religion, but Eoses His Wife. i Boston, Mass.?Because his wife left ,im after he joined the Methodist church, ; oth having been Catholics, Thomas F. ijj ? S A.' antrinrv* 4 4 Sill ft (1a? iyfiu nsituu uivuitc, ouj.nft. ? . lertct' because I love my Saviour bet- j jerthanido her." His suit was dis- 3 missed. Justice Blatchford Dead. 9 Nkwi'oht, R. I. ?Justice Blatchford, of the United States Supreme Court, died Friday night. He was a very able man .9 and one of immense physical proportions. 1 Mr. Blatchford was appointed to the S Supreme Court bench from New York in I | 1882 by President Chester A. Arthur. 1 Money Order Superintendent. I Wahiiimotom, D. C.?Edward E Gads- " fl den, of Georgia, has been appointed Superintendent of the Money Order 1 Service, Postofficc Department. J Rival for the South. I Odbssa, Rtssia.?The minister of pub- jfl lie domains has under consideration ft 9 I plan for the cultivation of one million 9 acres of cot'on in Moiv. , J