Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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^_?<^^S agjBp^^. ' S ^m hi111?ii ?-ssaSBfn KB ^"" ' ._ - ^a*, A ?J ^? CtotwU Jww ^M? 2>wy. ggpAY, JULY 21, INST' ^^xttti* - _g|^| JstT^ Vouvxxi--^?w ME - ? women are employed bi tl IP! Bb|UiE Qorarnment than by the Go' F ?? ??* ol any other country. Afradvertisement m a San Franoiac r paper, for "the first white ohild bo* H|?i in California," bronght 11,713 letter .v ?feu each written by a person who claims ^yH^^^^tbatmction. Still the New Yos a*e getii in people who have nothing t thattof with tht'ia. Chronic Invalh ? he saye, are to bo found chiefly amo people who have nothing to thi about but thoir livers, and they dev< their minds to their aches and pa I with great assiduity. He would 1: ? to recommend work, but he knows tl &L * kis hypochondriac patients would | angry at such a suggestion and woi tngage another physician. JmJF' ^Tho Rochester Jewish Tidings ! w^.% serves:. Whenever ships from Ei ***** 1 ''^"iWU'HI -visit American ci ^ there i^liable to b'o considerable ~ anil or h from desertion. This c< I;_ . ~ . . try is a.arnc$ivo to the peoplo o other lands, and it is said to he a g: ing habit of many who wish to c to the United States to ship as sa and then desert the hrHt chance get. Theso immigrants come in > out paying any fees and without usual examination to which by immigrants are subjected. But a willing to work his passage as a a h . shows some of the qualities essenti - good citizenship. Ho is not like ' , betwmo a pauper so long as 4o V- ' 'wofc^andtho abUHy to snpport iff firr ~ niat.in" lwy . *go a manufacturer of Paris, M. ment, finding that he was the vi of a system of petty pilferings, amc ing in the aggregate to a considej value, engaged detectives to spo guilty parties. Quito a number o employes were caught in the act, when arrested confessed that they ^responsible for tho disappearam the articles that "M. Clement missed. He proposed to make ai ample of them, and was surprise* being informed that if ho did all ^ employos would go out on a str The men said that he was rich one to Stand such petty losses without u ing a fuss about it, and that it w shamo that their comrades should l>uni&ho(l for such litt'-gthingn. ~ ' The following wrtmo is translr from the Paris Figaro: "The Un - ^ Slates is not in the least dangerou tL us in connection with military afTa But from an economic point of vie\ constitutes an immediato and press \j menace. The debt contracted by f United States during the war of \ secession will bo completely exl guished bofore the end of the centu whereas the total 4?U of Euroy< countries is estimated at thoonormc \ sum of $25,200,000,000. The Uni \ States line an army of only 27,000 m that is scarcely as many as wo have jono of our nineteen corps. In co \ ^>arison with these 27,000 men, j>1i - \ 'tho 3,500,000 soldiers kept l>y the ] Y ,'ropean countries in time of peace, f ^ it is easy to see how much of their p dnctivo forco tho European pow annually sacrifice. It must bo tal into consideration that tho men tl taken from the peacoful employmo *ro all in the height of their activ ?nd at an ago when tho charaetei forming. Tho loss of revenue wh results from such a state of affair! frightful when it is looked upon a factor in tho industrial war with * United States. One must bo blind to see, in these conditions of rapid progressive development of the Uni 8tatcs, that Europe is threatened v such a competition that there ' oomo a time when tho balance of dustrial power and political indue must bo placed to the profit of : ? uew worhl. That movement threat PrnnKn ilium illllll IlllV other Enrol) #\ Nation, became France carries " heaviest load and 1ms tho largest ?1< Everywhere in Europe,even among smallest States, nothing is spokei at presei^ but armies, the iucrenHt war materials and, of oourso, Uxee." r . r V,."J I 14 FIBKMEN KILLED. A. Burning Building at Chicago Collapses. n The Firemen and Others Were Burn h ed to Death. d Chicago, III.?Fire was discorsred is k the tower of the b:g cold storage waregf house, near the Sixty-fourth street en- ejj LagH^yhe World's Fair, at 1:50 p. m. ZS . , (J > * A ty, 7? I No accurate estimate of the loss of iDg ^ * * life or money i? et yet f>Ossib)e. Wildly ramity ^ exaggerated stories as to the extent of posti Dg the losses have gone abroad. Fire Ifar- t)abar nk shal Murray reports fourteen firemen kill- B#w jn ed, that two or threo painters at work In 5^ 8j the tower could not possibly hare escaped m)r os fc* end that several Columbia Guards, who jnv'. j, hat joined in the effort to extinguish the fire for ?et at its first appearance, lost their lives. scrv,cc uld The financial loss will probably exceed v,.ftr8 , 500.000- of thrc The cold storage warehouse was de- j, ob- stroyed. Its dimensions wire 130x255 ^ljn iro- feet. It had a massive tower running to ities an altitude of 260 feet. The pkee was |(]C of losa outfitted with a complete apparatus for |-UiC w jun- the mauufnctUrc of ice, cold storage, -,or]a, f all etc, and was on the grounds as an exhibit. .pjnrp row. An artificial ice rink in the top story ,ra<;0 orae had just been completed and the place ilorw was usual'y thronged with sight-scers. p'acc< they NO MARKET I'OR CLOTHS. utest vith- cirds, tLn Goods Pilling TTp Rapidly in Fall frnm tnc River Factories. low inaijh mnu Faia River, Mass.?The cloth market 8pln(j ailor tk's ccntcr *9 *n an unusual condition. pOUn, lol fci Prints are quoted nominally 8J cents for jn "" 64x64'b, but there is no demand at .any col. ^ to price. There are practically no sal*\or Col > demand for spots, so ' a shut dowrTis agreed upon. The ac wcigl cumulation of stock would be naturally P?i ictirn al>out 10?>000 pieces weekly the present peopl niut moutb- This will quickly bring tha stock admit ruble *? a million pieces. It is safe tenari jjie to predict that no one will hold out to a prei ^ j . continue running after the reports show upon. a million pieces except the few who have holidi nn^ good coutracts unfilled on hand. The closes VN crc probabilities ere that there will be n Tin Je ?* formal effort to close up temporarily and periin liod gjve maricet; a chancc to catch up by in Cle 1 cx" the time the stock reaches 700,000 pieces, be bu d at <-* way, ' his Beat His Adopted Daughter to Death, cookii ike. Hanoveii, O. H., Va ? Sandy Banks refrigi ugh (colored) was brought here from New- be esti riak. castle Ferry, twelve miles below this In ? as a place, and lodged in jail on the charge (SO a I [ b6 of brnting to death his adopted daughter, cattle, thiitccn years of age. The child had beef, been liviug with Banks for nioe years, It ii her father, John Adams, having been mond sent to the penitentiary for burglary, rived i H and her mother having moved to Phila- weighs irs. delphia soon after. On June 13th the Japers v it 8'rl wa9 se"f 1? fbe spring. She was weighs was slow in returning, and Bunks fol ijig =' tlio l?wc(' au" pu,vshed her severely. When ^ the girl reached the house the wife re. pentcd the puuishoicnt. Two weeks afterward she died. The verdict of the 1 ' coroner's jury was that death was caused lin by a beating inflicted by Bmks and his wife. The wife is also incarcerated, on, 25 Millions Dividonds. iu The aggregate of interest payments >1U- and dividends on the first of July in the ?co South, says the Baltimore Manufacturers' Kit* Record, wa3 as much as $25,000. Out of mil 117 Southern banks only eight arc pay- ^ ro- ing less than 0 per cent, dividends. era Thirty-six pay 6 per cent.,but the greater Ano kt.n number pay from 8 to 12 per cent. The fho |m(J South is not affected greatly by the lock, ii nts present stringency, haying shortened sail awardc ity a year or more ago. "Southern business ence, 1 r ? men," says the Record, "have been mov canal, ioh 'n R cautious manner, and reducing 000,00 4 j all transactions as near to a cash basis as au aVft possible It is to this cause that the for a c tj stability of the South during the present dred a n ^ disturbed conditions is chiefly due." deep a d DAVENPORT OBEYED ORDERS be 1,,ut tod ?- contra . . XJ-n.l Tn..illsrl o Marriad Wr?m*n WOlkl | and tbe Citizens Exiled Him. | weeks Ghkkm v IL.L.K, S. C.?School Com- | pictioi m* mis-ioner Davenport, of Laurens county, canal < ,u,? this State,has resigned and fled to Texas. Florer A few days ago tic attempted a criminal lower cns .issult on a young married woman, 1G This c ,,,ia years old, named Fuller. The woman's Hiver the nusbaud agreed to compromise the mat- Chatti e,)t. icrflOO. The neighbors heard of the and it the ransaction and held an indignation with a of necting, at which a resolution was seven 3 of passed calling on Davenport to resign WAS c< ?u>w tud leave the State in forty-eight hours, two j Be obeyed orders. impoi :V f r f -v;. y >1 ?> , ( iL v>v- ' ; * I V vty?T^ rs-v>i r A. _-/ j \ dclon, N. 0.,cat has mutnpat hav- < ght it. from the children of the with which it wasjhanging up. master Gcnerjl Oisscllhas decided idon the Ihtee sizes of postal cards u e and tu substitute one sfise for; ngle and reply cards. With that e in view, the specifications which OvU scot to th j prospective bidders ! contract < f furnishing the postal i with cu-ds during the next four mil for cards of the uniform size ie*and one half by live and oneicliei. hton Cordage Co , Anniston, Al, is a new enterprise and-the only tho kind in the South. Their | i l Jae the manufacturing of small ;e such as bell and shade cord and lo handing. There will bo in opi 50 Rhode Island braiding mai, in connecton with which will be 1 the following machinery of the pattern: The Pottee revolving flat , railway heals and drawing s, Whitin's spinning and twisting inery. All t?ld, there will be 1844 les, which will turn out 8,000 ds i>cr week. 8. C. White, formerMcOoll, 8. 0., is superintendent; W. II. Chadock, treasurer, and ? ? r*l ? T, a. w?u, v 10 vteigbt of the accountrcmen.s cair finiautrj at present Irs to carry n it of sixty-eight and a half pounds, ris is to have an exhibition of old e to which nobody under 90 will bo tted. There arc to bi several cenans, the oldest present is to have mium, and all France is to be drawn The old folks are to be given a ?y in Paris after the exhibition i. t co-operative housekeeping exent is to be tried agiin, this tinre ivelaud, O. Forty dwellings are to ilt, each connected by a covered with a central building, where the lg, washing, heating, lighting, jrating and ventilating plauts will ablished. Southern England hay is now worth ton and farmers are selling their This means a dearth of English , i said that the largest rough diaever found in Africn has just ariu London. It is bluish white, } 970 carats, and was found in the fontein mine. The Kohinoor j only 102 J carats. ft A MKXICAX CART. World's Columbian Exposition. ther Southern Improvement. contract for the Colbert Shoals n the Tennessee River, has been id to Prof. M. B. Henry, of Florals., on his bid of $ :t45, 842. Tlie when completed, will cost |3,0, and the money for the work is ilable. The complete scheme calls anel eight miles long, one hunnd fifty feet wide and seven feet t the lowest water. There will . one lock on the cannl and the ct awarded was for that lock. The sn the lock will begin within two , and the contract calls for its coma within two and ajiulf years, The will begin twenty-two miles below icc, and the lock will be ut the end thirty miles below that city. :nnal will enable the Tennessee to be navigated from its mo'Jth to mooga at all seasons of the year i all stages of water. In connection the great Muscle Shoa's Canal, miles above Florence, and which omp'cted and opened for navigation cars ago. this is one of the most tant public work in the South. 4 ^^Ssie^ s^r* - I '//yi^/ jjjjjJ|j,,Jiji!i ra i v^eE 11 UiBimmSl F ?*0*cS?HP*/I 11 1 I 11 ' jt^?-^?* I ^ || li fcifrr I |Tl7*l>**^*Tfi^BI^^Bi^^*;?'^~ ID< HHHV 85,871.06. bc 1 800,904.05. cc T.t,I ^ClIH ?1,884,677.87. dl 11 i u. w SCCUUIIVj, J a.408 88. U nds" car- W 3 assets, I $2,700 ^ Sjmpauy .... |>u.v.ua cu at n piv^.u.u. .'ho bank stck is now worthless and H^o Qrent a Factory stock worth about 5) cents on the dollar. The indebtedness of the president, Mr. Dates, is $42,090 wkl^e the collaterals ' j supporting it are estimated to be worth about $17,00C? The cashier, Mr. 8mith, is indebted to the back in the sum of 122,882 34 and his .collaterals are estimated at not exceeding $10,000. A corporation in which the president and cashier are said to be interested as managers or otherwise is indebtod to the bank in the sum of $^8,729 01 with collaterals estimated ft not exceeding $25,000. A firm of. which one of the directors of the bank Ilk partner owes the bank $129,084,88 treh collaterals estimated at not excetdijg $85,000. A sin* . gle firm owes the b|$ a debt of $129,70$|^^aides l^gfctfresrages of interest while the coliattfTal$,#q,aot worth more uuu uuu stni anoiuer corporation $22,500 both deb's probably without security and both corporations practically insolvent. A single debtor owes $20,754.25 winch is of several years standing, while another individual owes $89,500 with a leal estate mortgage (no other security) worth say $2,000. The real estate carried among the assets arc taken from the books of the b:ink, but on examination we fail to una thst amount by nearly $6,000. It is possible that in the confusion incident to the suspension these notes were mislaid ( or overlooked. But as the bank has no j statement book and never attempted to make up a statement except when called ( upon by the State Treasurer, there is no j way of ascertaining how long this defi - L cicncy may b?"e existed. According to the facis above and s many others, too, founded upon actual examination and such opinions, estimates | and information s= 1 ?' " V.v WWWUIC IU ^ the examiner, there can be no question p that the bank is largely insolvent; that ^ its capital stock is worthless and its as sets so reduced by numerous and heAvy ^ losses, that its depositors cannot rensononably expect more than 75c on the dollar, and perhaps not nearly so much as fl that. o: The cause of the failure, in the a opinion of the examiner, were misman- j any sort of security following so reck- flj lessly and persistentjV as to approach h< the very verge of very ft gross negligence io thAnatter of looking ft after and trying to sekure and collect debts that were past maturity and manifestly in danger of being lost. \ y Severed His Jugular Vein. Grksnvim-h, S. C.? Near Griet's c Station, ten miles from here, Tom Toney ;ut Jim Cox with a pocket knife, severing his jugular vein and killing him initantly. lJjthmen were visitors at the 'csidence of John (.ox, a brother of Jim, who was giving a dinner in honor of the t J1 st birtlid \y of Toney's son, Henry. 1 rbe trouble began in a friendly scuffle 1 actvxcen Henry Toney and Jim Cox. AH J onrties concerned are substantial far- 1 iiers. 4 s ? } Quickest Waiter. I AsnKVii.LR, N. C.?Oapt.J.W. Glozor ' lias returned ftom Chicago, where he has < for the past three month)* been manager i and head waiter in a big restaurant In the German village on tbie fair grounds. At the contest Last T hursday night, Glozer was awarded the jprize of a hundred dollar bill and a* beautiful gold medal as the most efficient waiter in Chicago. A PISTOL WAR. Dwlm Hot Bolhttiag ThwnwlTtl bOttt liWMM. Ciiuanoji, 8. C.?The misunder* it and log between the piatol sellers and ho State promisee to become permanent, ait year there were five houses in Charleston that paid the two hundred* tollar license for the privilege of selling rearms and cartridges. All of these lisums have expired, and a majority if ot all, of the dealers will open their itablishiuents without baring renewed icir licenses. The trouble bids fair to stuns a permanent shape. A reporter lied upon a leading dealer and asked r a statement of the case. He said that i ^ragm^were tired of paying a license i iuAi!inllRti> ,i,liuuiw1'nui L io and does uot provide any means of curing tbe detection of violators. The insequence of this was, the gentlemen id, that any and everybody could and id sell pistols and cartridges. The men ho paid their licenses were forced to iiarge higher prices and tho trade left ism. About a year ago one house that as selling without a license was report 1. A trial was had and a tine of ve dollars was imposed for tho oUcnce. 'his whs, of course, mere nonsense. Taking all these facts into coosidcrtion tho gentleman speaking said that aost of the dealers were not going to other themselves to secure licenses until ho State would provido them with a ?ro quo. The dealers seem to be in arn.st in their fight and it is impossible o say exactly what will be tho outcome ?f it all. Eminent consul is being conulted as to ways and means of securing protection from a tax which tho vendors :onsider to be little less than an imposition. BP 'twx rrmxTsn medak costs. THE NUKTHAHlfTlM ErftJEBfttf." A Cholera Scare from the Old Nortl State. A special to the N. Y. World fron It ilcigh, N. C , says: A letter to a promi uent State official says Dr. Lewis, hcaltl officer of Northampton county, report; the existence there of ft discus* rescm bling cholera. Persons attacked die Ir six or seven hours. There have been 12 dentlis. The disease is being officially investigated. a denial from southampton. Raleigh, N. C., ?There is no infor nation here of any unusuil disease in Northampton county or at any othei mint in North Carolina. A special tc he News and Observer from Garysburg, Northampton cou^-jroys: "There is no lisease iu this locality resembling .holera." l'ghon general wyman investigates. Washington, I). C.?Specials pubished iu Nhw York, alleging the exis ence of a disease in Northampton county, J. C , resembling cholera, were to-day irought to the attention of Surgeon encral Wymnn, of the United States larinc Hospital Service with an inquiry s to whether any advices had been re eived ou the matter, lie replied that lie official returns of the State heulth Bicers to the Marine Hospital Service tadc no mention of any such extraorinary outbreak, and they would as 'Hflfill UHrdlffiii.^Trid he received patches from the State board of salth of Norih Carolina stating officially tac tiieic was no iruili in t'uc sioivuicnt iat cholera had broken out iu that State. Killed by Lightning. Winston, N. C. ?Luther and John ripman, aged respectively 17 and 13 ears, were struck by lightning and ki 11d five miles west of Winston Saturday veuing. Their sister, 0 years of age, ?as also knocked down and bully stuned. The boys were working in a icadow with their father. Seeing a storm oming up, the father told his children, wo sons and a daughter, to go under a arge tree near the edge of the meadow intil the rain was ovor. They went but ust as the oldest sou lcmed up against l tree a keen flash of lightning came lown the tree, killing the two boys and itunniog the sister. The youngest sor was about three feet from the tree whib the sister stood illtnii' ? '- * The father was horrified when he wenl nut to the tree and found the three child ren lying on the ground. He thought a first that they were all killed. Tin daughter soon regained conciousness an< is now thought to be out of danger The funeral services of the two younj men were conducted by Itev. H. A Brown from Beck's church at 3 o'cloc Sunday afternoon YELLOW FEVER FROM HAVANAH. } Brought into Our Border on British Brig and a Schooner. Wabhihqton, I). C.?Surgeon Gensral Wyman has received the following official report of a yellow fever arrival in Hampton Roads from Marine Hoapital Surgeon T. B. Perry: "I have the lienor to repert that tho British brig "Darpa," thirteen days from Havana, bound for Sidney, Gape Breton, i in gravel ballast, put into Chosapcake t Bay for medicil relief. She war inspected it Cape Charles quatautine and fouud to t oe Infectsd with yellow fever. The body \ 5f Capt. Lyon, who died the 12th, after light days illotss, attended with pro- ai inunced symptoms of yellow fever, was h illl on h.^ard- There arj two cases of fc ivcdnys ^ "TT? Ixh ,re"; f, ncnt.' The Murine Hospital Durum ia also udrised that there i? a rise of yellow fever < it the Qulf quarantine Mat'on, Chandeeur Island, Miss., oo the schooner John 3. Smith, from Havana. To Fight the Commission. Au nc ion h s been commenced in the United Stater Circuit Court by the Richmond & Du-ivilie Company to restrain the railro d comm'ssion of South Caroline from enforcing its latest tariff of freight on liquir. Judge Hond, of lhltimore, har issued an inj inetion restraining tho commission from taking action until August 7, tho date set for a hearing. The prircipal grounds on which the pitiiou is based ere that t'ao commission construes the act of tho legiilaturo of South Carolina of December, 1898, to make the freight rates estiblislicd by tho commission stand as fair and reasonable without allowing the roads to attempt to convince tho commUsion t> the contrary; that the action in the commission is null ?nd void, inasmuch as tho law, if construed as the commission interpret it,will be a violation of tin fourteenth auiond- ' mcnt to the constitution of tho Uuitcd Stales, and that the fixing of theso unreasonable low rates on liquor in glass packages, as the State dispensary ships It, is an unlawful interference with tho ? "- "MfittT \" the hands of tho receivers of the court. 'The siilf is really a test case commission niw 10 estlruiTiil^raLtS, - decision against tho commission will A also effect the dispensary system now in x operation, as an in^easo in freight rates on liquor will force an incrcaso in the l price to consumers. A peculiar feature 8 of the suit is that the judge is Hon. Huge L. Bond, and the attorney is Hugh x L. Bond, Jr. I Tho Robert 'Porter Brewing Co. has r made shipments of beer to Charleston ?nd Greenville, S. C., and intends to legally resist any attempt to enforce the Tillman law relative to shipping litjuor ( into the State. Mormon# at Work in Richmond. ' Richmond, Va.-Some months ago Major John Page, father of Thomas 1 Nelson Page, hended u committee who drove two Mormou missionaries out of Hanover county. Since then the two returned, reenforced by eight others, including the President of tin oigairzation in Virginia. They lisve made about thirty converts. A non-sectarian Sunday school, with Major John Page as President and C. II. C akley as Secretary, has been formed to defeat the Mormons in their efforts. A "rrri?a . w * *?. nuum nunuy rononta. Charleston, 8. c?Isaac Mitchell and his entire family, consisting of five persons, were po>?ono<i jomtotdaj, amen- j all and I"* (lmnh^n.nfi?' mundn exAniinution agree that the victims died from arsenic poison. The family dined at 2 p. m. oil okra soup, rice, pork and watermelon. The whole affair is mysterious. The Body of a Drowned Man Found. Norfolk Va.?The body fouild otT Mctomkin Beach l#st Sunday has been ully identified as that of Cicero Harrison Case, the old man who disappeared from the steamer Wyandotte on her voyage from Norfolk to New York. The woman who accompanied Case on that trip has not been found. The clothing on the body had been robbed and the pockets were wrong side out. ? A Defaulter to the Tune of $05,000. 1 Salt Lake City, Utah?It has been discovered that Osoar E. Ilill, cashier of ! the Commercial National Bank of Ogden 1 is a defaulter to the amount of 105,000 1 and the bank will close its doors, and go 5 into voluntary liquidation. _?The djprvjoj, tuM win H'hts uoiiiiug, OS tiio principal 1 stockholders are among the strongest financial men in Ogden. Hill has been 1 speculating. > m rn a rntmmmmmtm ] All Three Drowned! Citatii.eston, 8. C.?In a squall Mony day last a fisherman's boat containing George Rhodes end John Barnemann, k (white), and a negro named Harry, capsized off the bar, drowningalHhreemjiu oiuOJCiJK SILVWHIKM MEBT. They Hold an Tmmwx Maea XNtlaf at D*AT*r. Dwtir, Col.?The Colorado silver convention ?m both big and sensational. Coliseum Hall, the largest la tho city, contained fully 9,000 people when the convention was called to order by Preel* dent Mrrick. Most of the day waa spent in speech-making. The committee on resolutions did not complote it* work and in adjournament waa taken. Tho sensational feature of the day waa ho speech of the Populist Ctovernort Valto. Among othsr things he said: "If the money power shall attempt to ustain Its nau*???? *? "* ?d,"w?lrm?;7L7 " : ??* MUo>J hugllth power; if iiiifTlM tm Burnposn monarchic!, then wo new W***,^^^( othor rcvohition, another appeal to arma; If war is forced upon us we will send to Halifax a far grcator army of British To ioi accounting to population than our forefathois aont there after the Rerolutinary war." In conclusion ho said: "The war has begun; it is (lie 8.11110 war which rauit always bo waged against oppressions and tyranny to prescrvo tuo liberties of men." A number of men Indorsed the Governor's sentiments whilo others opI>oso'.1 thein. J. Cook, Jr., led tho opposition. lie said : "Wo arc liablo to do things we mny regret. I appeal to you as men not to do to day what you will regret to-morrow. We aro excited. Ws should know what we are doing. Ui ua bo reasonable and act as intelligent men. We aro going But as mon to oducato men in tho East. If wo fail, then ia tho time to act. There is tirno enough to talk as you feel now." The deba'o was lengthy, and the prevailing sentiment was evidently with the Govornor. Tho Denver clearing house sent a check for $1,000 to pay the expenses of suitable delegates to Bt. Louis, Chicago and Washington, accompanied by tho following communication,*>. i by every banker and amelter in the city:. "Wo wish to add our voloe and our ? sentiments, because our welfare depends greatly on the prosperity of the trans- ^ "? a. ' rr ?? 11 x uoo ?f silver as money, and that it be freii)j * ; coined with gold at the present ratio of 10 to 1, without discrimination in faror of or against either metal." Chas. 8. Thomas, member of the national Democratic committee, was cloctod permanent chairman of the committee. A STUBBORN LITTLE AFRICAN. She Defies the Court and Demands to be Bent Back to Liberia, Her Home. Nkw York, City.?Tho daughter of an African Chief was brought to Jefferson Market Court and arraigned as an V incorrigible child.# Her American name is Baruh I. Potter, and she is living with Mrs. .Julia L. Smith, a colored missionary, at 23 Bond s'refit. Sarah is the daughter of u chief of the Little Bassa tribe, whose territory is in Liboria,northwc!t of Cane Palmas". The chii?f Imm* a convert lo Christianity through the efforts of the missionary colony at Cape Palm as, of which Mrs. Bmith was then a member. When Mrs. Bmith returned to this country she persuaded the chief to let his daughter como with her, Sarah was then 12 yenrs old. Since coming to this couotry she has been morose and hard to maaago, ta<? ?'? black eyes,' a broad nose, heavy llpa, and n Isrge head. Hlio is clever and learna quickly when she chooses to study. Yesterday when arraigned in court she was disinclined to taik. * "You are not my people," was all she would say. "Let me go back to my own people. Bend me back to my own country." Juatice Grady decided that he could do nothing in the matter. If,the girl persists in her determination to refuse obedience and in her desire to return to Africa she will probably be taken back there. ^______ The Gold Reserve Increasing--The Currency Decreasing. ?gold ra* ... .~ <i.a increased SL'I V C Hi l UV A VHO?? J MWM wvw>? ? I ?i_ .. $200,000 and now standi at $97,008, 141, but on tlie other hand the currency has decreased from $27,353,881 to $20,004,770 in the same time, owing to the heavy payments on account of pensions Snd nMtnfllwn ? ? The Possible Populist Ticket in Virginia. Richmond, Va.?The leading People's party advocate declares that this ticket will be placed in the field at the convene* tion to be held at Lynchburg, August ;trd: For Governor, J. B. O. Lswjl, of Clarkecounty^L^utenant^jy^a^^^^ ^ 'j m 4 ir_ "