Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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^ L."vX SERIES. ^TNI()NC. II. SOlTll NUMBER29 Pr More women are employed hy th^ I Bnglish Government than l>j the Got* tnuueht of any other country. Xfradvertisement in a San Franolsoo paper, for "tho first white ohild born in California," brought 11,713 letters, oooh written by a person who olaimed Uiat distinction. Still tho New York liavo nothing the **s"< -matter with them. Chronic invalids^ he says, are to be found chiefly among people who have nothing to think about but their livers, and they devote their minds to their aches and pains ' with great assiduity. He would like to reeommend work, but. he knows that bis hypochondriac patients would get angry at such a' suggestion and would , . ingage another physician. | ' Tho Rochester Jewish Tidings ob' 1 serves 1 Whenever Bliips from Euroc&mt?le$ visit American cities tner'c liable to bo considerable loss *'* *' .of sailors from^teaurtion. This coun^ * try is attractive to the people of all j other lands, and it is said to be a grow- i ing habit of many who wish to come to the United States to ship as sailors and then desert the first chance they get. Theso immigrants come in without paying any fees and without the usual examination to which by law immigrants are subjected. But a man willing to work his passage as a sailor ' shows some of the qualities essential to good citizenship'. He is not likely to beuimo a pauper so long as he can ' wok, jmd tlio nbijjty to .npport himL V ago a manufacturer of Paris, M. Clement, finding that he was the victim < t. of a 8y8tcm ot petty pilferings, amounting in tho aggregate to a considerable value, engaged detectives to spot the guilty parties. Quito a number of his employes were caught in the act, anil when arrested confessed that they were ^responsible for tho disappearance of the -alleles that M. Clement had missed. Ho proposed to make an example of them, and was surprised nt being informed that if ho did all his employes would go out on a strike. The men said that he was rich enough < to ftand such petty losses without mak. ? ing a fuss about it, and that it was a I shnmo that their comrades should be ( punished for such little things. : The following vwticlo is translated * from tho Paris Figaro: "Tho United 8 ^ States is not in the least dangerous to a V us in connection with military affairs. ^ V. " 41 _ i. But from an > wuuuuu point ol view it constitutes an immediate and pressing w \ menace. The debt contracted by tlio | / * United Statos during tho war of tlio tl I ' secession will bo completely extin- ^ 1 \ guished before tho end of tho century, a< 1 ^, whereas the total dobt of European CC \ \ eonntries is estimated at thoeiiprmoi.a ^3 \ sum of $25,200,000,000. Tlio Uniton w \ States has an army of only 27,000 nieu, \ that is soarcely as many as wo liavo in \ pne of otir nineteen corps. In com- an V ^arisen with these 27,000 men, place So k ^ \ d;he 3,600,000 soldiers kept by tho Eu? R< V,. \ ropean eonntries in time of peaco, and 11 ; it is easy to see how much of their pro* inj dnctive foroe the European powers Tl annually sacrifice. It must bo taken nu _ Into consideration that the men thus 8? B taken from the peaceful employments P1' axe all in tho height of their activity a 3 ? ?'1 ll 1 ' ' "" buu mi nu nffo wuen me cnaracter 19 forming. The low# of revenue which 'nl results from such a state of affairs is frightful when it is looked upon as a po factor in the induetrial war with the 8V United States. One must be blind not ' to see, in these conditions of rapid And Qj progressive development of the United States, that Europe is threatened with such a competition that thero will oomo a time when the balance of in* ^ dust rial .power and political influence . must bo 'placed to the profit of the ^ . new world, '/hat movement threatens as| Prance more than any other European L Nation, because Franee carries the nu ^ heaviest load and has tho largest debt, ter Everywhere in Europe, evon among the tra smallest States, nothing is spokon of jac at preset bat armies, the inorease of pai war materials and, of oourse, new ?n taxes." v w - > 14 FIREMEN KILLED, A. Burning Building at Chicago Collapses. The Firemen and Others Were Burr ed to Death. CnroAGo, III.?Fire was discovered in the tower of the b;g cold storago warehouse, near the Sixty-fourth street entrance of the World's Fair, at 1:00 p. m. While a large number of firemen were on Bkjjite|?f tho building the flames burst they wci'o forced^) uw>r iuo iuwwu IIcrushing it in arid carryUjgi"So? burning building a Urge AstrfWf *>( firemeh, dead and alive, tftlSlp fi^mnnniftna wrhrt had 6i'W, No accurate estimate of the lose of life or money is at yet possible. Wildly exaggerated stories as to the extent of the losses have gone abroad. Fire Mar* alial Murray reports fourteen firemen kill* ed, that two or three painters at work in the tower could not possibly have escaped and that several Columbia Guards, who joined in the effort to extinguish the fire at its first appearance, lost their lives. The financial loss will probably exceed 1500,000. The cold storage warehouse was destroyed. Its dimensions were 130x255 feet. It bad a massive tower running to an altitude of 200 feet. The place was outfitted with a complete apparatus for the manufacture of ice, cold storage, etc, and was on the grounds ns nn exhibit. An artificial ice rink in the top story had just been completed aud the place was usually thronped with sight-scers. NO MARKET "i'OR CLOTHS. Goods Pilling Up Rapidly in Fall River Factories. FaMj River,Mass.-The cloth market at this center is in an unusual condition. Prints are quoted nominally 8* cents for 84x64'?, but there is no demand at any price. There are practically no sales or demand for spots, ao delimies^^ke^ a shut down is agreed upon. The ac cumulation of stock would be naturally about 100,000 pieces weekly the present month. This will quickly briug tli2 stock up to half a million pieces. It is safo to predict that no one will hold out to continue running after the reports show a million pieces except the few who have good contracts unfilled on baud. The probabilities ere that there will be a formal effort to close up temporarily and give the market a chance to catch up by the time the stock reaches 700,000 pieces. Beat His Adopted Daughter to Death. Hanover, O. H., Va. ?Sandy Hanks (colored) was brought hero from Newcastle Ferry, twelvo miles below this place, at.d lodged in jail on the chnrge i )f beating to death his adopted daughter, i hiitcen years of age. The child had 1 >ccn living with Hanks for uioe years, ier father, John Adams, having been i ent to the '? ? ,.?..v..n<,ijf mr uurglary, i ncl her mother having moved to Phila- i elphia roon after. On June 13th the J lie girl was sent to the spring. She was \ fas slow in returning, and Banks fol>wcd and pun'shed her severely. When ie girl reached the house the wife reBated tho punishment. Two weeks terward she died. The verdict of tho ironcr's jury was that death was caused r a beating inflicted by B,nks and bis if?, wife is also incarcerated. 26 Millions Dividonds. ? The nggregato of interest payments d dividends on the first of July in the utli, says the Baltimore Manufacturers' (cord, wa9 as much as (26,000. Out of 7 Southern banks only eight are pay- ^ ; less than 6 per cent, dividends. lirty-sij pay 6 per cent.,but the greater mber pay from 8 to 12 per cent. The uth is not affected greatly by the i0 csent stringency, having shortened sail ^ ?ear or more ago. "Southern business er ;n," says tho Record, "have been mov ca j in a cautious manner, and reducing o( t.r?n?t.rJ.ir?n? na nuir (n ft /?ftnV? Hnnia ? Hsiblc It is to this cause that the f0 ibility of the South during the present di iturbed conditions is chiefly due." d< kVENPORT OBEYED ORDERS b< c< j Had Insulted a Married Woman w and the Oitisens Exiled Him. w Qrrkkvillb, S. C.?School Com- p] s-ioner Davenport, of Laurens county, < ? is Stnto.lma resigned and fled to Texas, p few days ago he attempted a criminal ]o ?ult on a young married woman, 16 T irs old, named Fuller. The woman's R sband agreed to compromise the mat- C! $100. The neighbors heard of the &r nsaction and held an indignation w icting, at which a resolution was gc ssed calling on Davenport to resign w d leave the State in forty-eight hours, tv > obeyed orders. In ' . * .w -' L^v .ml .-c* cjfc:-. , ^ ^JMP,* a <v*v -?> ayfc, ?*Jgr*^ M A Weidon] N. C.,cst has mumps, hav- ( ing caught It. from the children of the family with which it Wis hanging up. Postmaster General Eisscllhas decided t> abandon the ihtee sizes of postal cards ' now in ut and to substitute one size for * both single and reply cards. With that pur, ose in icw, the spcciflcitions which 1 Inw bem sent to tit) prospective bidders 1 for tie tontract ( f furnishing tho postal service with cirds during the next four years cnll for cards of the uniform size of three*and one half by five and onehalf incbei. AunUton Cor ln^e Co , Annlston, Altliami, is a new enterpriso and the only me of tho kind in tho South. Their I* ! I _ iL f ..1. J ~ f ..MAI1 uric nn^eiuc imQumeiuriuj ?? o""*" cordage ?uch as bell ami shade cord and -pindlo handing. There will be in oprat io.i 50 Rhode Island braiding machincs, in connection with which will be p aced the following m'chincry of the Utest pattern: The Pcttce icvolving flat cirds, railway heals and drawing tram 9, Whitin's spinning and twisting machinery. All told, there will be 1844 spindles, which will turn out 8,000 pounds per week. S. C. White, former,y in McOoll, S. 0., Is superintendent; Col. W. II. Chadock, treasurer, and Ool W. H. Zinn, president. The weight pf the accoutrements car" fll^lifl lllrnulry at present h-s to carry n weight of sixty-eight and a half pounds. Paris is to have an exhibition of old i people to which nobody under 90 will bo < admitted. There arc to bo several cen- i tenarians, the oldest present is to have i a premium, and all France is to be drawn i J upon. The old folks are to be given a \ holiday in Pails after the exhibition closes. g The co-operative housekeeping ex- li periinent is to be tried agiin, this time t In Clcvelaud, O. Forty dwellings are to p be built, each connected by a covered tl way, with a central building, where the oi cooking, washing, heating, lighting, 8t refrigerating and vettiluting plauts will 1T1 be established. In Southern England hay is now worth w ISO a ton and farmers are selling their ci, cattle. This means a dearth of English beef. m m Tf la J/1 At?a oa.u niut me largest rough dia- ex nond ever found in Africa has just nrived in London. It is bluish white, th( weighs 070 carats, and was found in the th fapersfootein mine. The Kohinoor it, weighs only 102* carats. o~ 105 oir A MEXICAN CART. aft< t the World's Columbian Exposition, ~ ~ ifes Another Southern Improvement. The contract for the Colbert Shoals ck, in the Tennessee River, has been warded to Prof. M. B. Henry, of Flor- ^ ice, Ala., on his bid of $345,842. The mal, when completed, will cost |3,10,000, and the money for the work is .' 1 available. The complete scheme calls >r a canel eight miles long, ono hun- j red and fifty feet wide and seven feet ^ sep at the lowest water. There will ( j but one lock on the canal and the ^ >ntract awarded was for that lock. The ^ ork on the lock will begin within two eeks, and the contract calls for its com lotion within two and a^mlf years. The inal will begin twenty-two miles below lorence, and the loch will be at the wer end thirty u\ilca below that city. j his canal will enable the Tennessee ilfU iver to be navigated from its mouth to for hattanooga at all seasons of the year an( id in all stages of water. In- connection the ith the great Muscle Skoa's Canal, At ven miles above Florence, and which Gli as complotcd and opened for navigation <Jr? ro yeara ago. this is one of the most mei sportant public work in the South. cag in Great FulW Manuf4et;M?y? nil purcha cd at a prcoiimn^fc. st ck is now worthless ami i ? r? jtcnts 01 Factory stock worth About >) the dollar. ?r The indebtedness of the presidentBates, is $4*,COO whi^e the collateX supporting it are estimated to be wortii about $17,000. The cashier, Mr. Smith, is indebted to the back in the sum ol $22,852.34 and his coital era's arc estimated at not? xceeding $ 10,000. A corporation iu which the president and cashier arc said to be interested at managers or otherwise is indebted to the bank iu the sum of $^8,729 01 with collaterals estimated At not exceeding $25,000. A firm of**tbich one of the directors of the bank ish partner owe3 the bank $129,084,88 w?h collaterals estimated at not exccc'dWg $35,000. A singlo firm owes the b4K a debt of $129,Ujrg^ Jrearages of inte-'s* while the collateralize not W0j^IT^n4r 500 and still anotbei^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 mother individual owes $89,500 with a eal estate mortgage (no other security) vorth say $2,00G. The real estate carried among the asets arc taken from the books of the tank, but on examination we fail to find hat amount by nearly $6,000. It is ossible thai, in the confusion incident to lie suspension these notes were mislaid r overlooked. But as the bank has no atcment book and never attempted to iake up a statement except when called f>on by the State Treasurer, there is no ay of ascertaining how long this defi ency may have existed. According to the facts above and any others, too, founded upon actual amination and such opinions, estimates d information as were accessible to e examiner, there can bo no question at the bank is largely insolvent; that | capital stock is worthless and its as- , 8 so reduced by numerous and heavy | ises, that its depositors cunnot reason- ( ably expect more than 75c on the dol- c , and perhaps not nearly so much as t '** , o The cause of the failuro, in the u nion of the examiner, were misman- j iment of thp,J???|f, unbusinesslike a. tue naoit or lluCM t ft Saort of security /allowing so reck- ft j and persUtWi&aa to approach h very Virgo of and very es negligence in tootaatter of looking t) jr and trying to spkure and collect ?ts that were past maturity and mantly in danger of being lost. . \ mm ? y Severed His Jugular Vein. c Irkknviixe, 8. U.?Near Grlei's ^ tion, too miles from here, Tom Toney j ^ Jim Cox with a pocket knife, sever- | ^ ma juguiar vein ana Killing mm lnitly. Both men were visitors at the n dence of John Cox, a brother of Jim, c 9 a ) was giving n.dinner in honor of the tbirt hdiy of Toney's son, Henry. '' : trouble began in a 'friendly scuffle ween Henry Toney and Jim Cox. All J lies concerned are substantial far- * s. , < Quickest Waiter. 1 VanEvu.i.E, N. C.?(Sapt.J.W. Glozor r i returned from Chicako, where he has < the past three monthL been manager i ! head waiter in a bug restaurant In I i German village on tire fair grounds. 1 the contest Last Ifhuraday night, szer was awarded the yrize of a hunid dollar bill and a)T beautiful gold dal as tho most efficietlt waiter in Chi? | CllAn About Li;;^eBXbem?ei^ ^harlkston, 8 c standing between ?r I"'sund< tho State promises to0},'18101 8e"erS ai Last year th?p ccome permancn Ch.rlJ.on J.? ,, -7 "vc i dolls, li?n'o for th l"? hu?'i"" firearms and cartrid^^f!,"!, SC"in' censes hare expired and ? '?S0 " not ?. of the dealer! I n "'"J"r"-V ' establishments wfrhouf I . ?PCU their licenses ti1(, . ''V,l,g re?ewed 1 --C a ,.erma.??: s"! ' "" <? called upon n i?0 j- 1 A reporter - tor a statMcut o/th^ (,Cn,L'r 8nd asked ' '4Kere Ilr ^ Cf6- "? said that M pcfsttTT^^tvr. _ ,e. ot Pa}'iag n licensel " shall be fined not over two'huntTiW'sam I fifty dollars, but does not fix a minimum fine and does uot provide any means of securing the detection of violators. The consequence of this was, the gentlemen said, that any and everybody could and did sell pistols and cartridges. The men who paid their liccuses were forced to j charge higher prices and the trade left them. About a year ago one house that was selling without a license was report ed. A trial was had and a fine of ( five dollars was imposed for the olTcnce. r This was, of course, mere nonsense. Taking all these facts into considcrt ation the gentleman speaking said that ^ most of the dealers were not goiug to bother themselves to secure licenses until the State would provide them with a ^ pro quo. The dealers seem to be in earn st in their fight and it is impossible *Vto say exactly what will be the outcome it all. Eminent consul is being consulted as to ways aud means of securing protection from a tax which the vendors C0IpSider to be little less than an iinj po^?on. I "1)1 N-J 3f \y _ THE TTTJIKIBH ftSDAN CIIATR. ' THE NUKTHAlUf*Tl/N EPTDEmfU." A Cholera Scare from the Old North State. A special to the N. Y. World from li tltigh, N . C , says: A letter to a prominent. State official says Dr. Lewis, health , officer of Northampton county, reports the existence there of a disease rcsem filing cholera. Persons attacked die in six or seven hours. There have been 12 dtaths. The disease is fieing officially investigated. a drniai. fhom southampton. Raleigh, N. C., ?There is no information here of any unusud disease in Northampton county or at any other poiut in North Carolina. A special to the News and Observer from Garysburg, Northampton couuty says: "There is no disease in tins locality resembling cholera." sugeon genera i. wyman investigates. | Washington, I). C.?Specials pub- ( lished in New York, alleging the exis- j tence of a disease in Northampton county, ( N. C , resembling cholera, were to-day ( brought to the attention of Surgeon ] Jeneral Wyman, of the United States ^ Marine Hospital Service with an inquiry g is to whether any ad vices had been revived on the matter. lie replied that lie official returns of the State health ifficers to the Marine Hospital Service a aadc no mention of any such extraor- p linary outbreak, aud they would as- <-* ItM^'fhhtettiTCHTdltfift/hna he received ir is patches from the State board of ai ealth of North Carolina stating officially p. lat there was no irut 11 in uic statement w iat cholera had broken out iu that State, io T Killed by Lightning. Winston, N. C. ?Luther and John M ripman, aged respectively 17 and 13 i ears, were struck by lightning and kill- C d five miles west of Winston Saturday tl vening. Their sister, 0 years of age, fr iras also knocked down and b idly stun- w ied. The boys were working in a ni neadow with their father. Seeing a storm bi oming up, the father told his children, w wo sons and a daughter, to go under a urge tree noar tho edge of the meadow A intil the rain was ovor. They went but ust as the oldest sou lcmcd up against (] , tree a keen flash of lightning came (j lown the tree, killing the two boys and j, tunning the sister. The youngest son ft was about three feet from the trco while j, ;he sister stood " voui ?:- n rhe father was horrified when he went 8 >ut to the tree and found the three child- j] ren lying on the ground. He thought at p Brat that they were all killed. The daughter soon regained conciousncss and is now thought to be out of danger. The funeral services of the two young <! men were conducted by Rev. H. A. ( Brown from Beck's church at 3 o'clock ( Sunday afternoon ? ' 9 IBrought into Our Borrf. . ;r- I w. Brie Had ? Schooner11 Britil Washington, I) r K Mm >d/??! Wyman has reicivsT^^0" Gc' . /official report of n yellow f ? ,0W,D " lllimptoo Roads i; U|3urgeouT. B. Perrv ' 10 IIp8l)it? -|B'i''?^tog'-Iw?ol?i7'.rt (list ,bo f(Havana, bound for Sidney' c" <J^Sfro,,? "? gravel ballast. put jnt' J!?0 Brcton. Bay formedicil rcli.f ci ,lce*pcalce 'fii,.0CI,n,lc ".''l,Sl,c w?"?.|>.cled so infected will, vcllow T ""d lo days illnrsq ?i? i , after aouoced symptoms' of /Jn.'w l"?>n's s'ekness. The vessel amf cr??? ,,0 / Dcen seat to Fisherman's Laud for trcatnent.,: The Marine Hospital Bureau is also adriscd that tine i< a case of yellow fever tt the Gulf quarantine staUon, Chandeeur Island. Miss., on the schooner Johu 3. Smith, froui Havana. To Fight the Commission. An ac ion h s been commence I in the United States Circuit Court by the Richmond ?fc I).i .ville Company to restrain the railro d enmm'ssion of South Caroline from enforcing its latest tarilT of freight ou liiju >r. Judge Bond, of Biltimore, has issued an inj inction restraining the commission from taking acton until \ugust 7, the <late set for a hearing. The pri: cipal grounds on which the pctiion is bisci ere that the commission construes the act of the legislature of South Carolina of December, 181?2, to make the freight rates cstiblishcd by the cviuiiiiniuu Biauu nx tail mm I casuuuuiu without allowing the roads to attempt to convince tlio commission t> the contrary*, I lint the action in the commission is null ind void, inasmuch as the law, if construed as the commission interpret it,will be a violation of till fourteenth amendment to the constitution of the Uuited States, and that the fixing of these unreasonable low rates on liquor in glass packages, ?s the State dispensary ships it, is an unlawful interference with the vuuiutj in the hands of the rccciveis of the court. The suit Is really a test case commission Mis to estAruiTSit^mPs. *'} deccision against the commission will also effect the dispensary system now in operation, as an increase in freight rates on liquor will force an increase in the price to consumers. A peculiar feature | of the suit is that the judge is Hon. Huge L. Bond, and the attorney Is Hugh L. Bond, Jr. The Robert 'Porter Brewing Co. has made shipments of beer to Charleston snd Greenville, S. C., and intends to legally resist any attempt to enforce the Tillman law relative to shipping liquor into the State. Mormons at Work in Richmond. Richmond, Va. ?Some months ago Major John Page, father of Thomas Nelson Pago, headed a committee who drove two Mormon missionaries out of Hanover county. Since then the two returned, rcenforced by eight others, m:luding the President of the o.</aidv? ion in Virginia. They have made about 1 hirty converts. A non-sectarian Suniay school, with Major John Page as 'resident and C. II. C akley as Secic- 1 ary, has been formed to defeat the dormons in their efforts. A Whole Family Poisoned. Cjiaki.rston, 8. C.?Isaac Mitchell | nd his entire family, consisting of five ersons, were yostoniaj. nnicnft and his exam- | mtion agree that the victims died from r sonic poison. The family dined at 2 , , m. off okra soup, rice, pork and ' atermelon. The whole affair is mystcr- , us. he Body of a Drowned Man Found. x Norfolk Va.?The body found on 1 [etomkin Bench l#st Sunday has been ( illy identified as that of Cicero Harrison asc, the old man who disappeared from 1 ic steamer Wyandotte on her voyage 1 om Norfolk to New York. The woman ( ho accompanied Case on that trip hns ' ot been found. The clothing on the 1 ady had been robbed end the pockets ^ ere wrong side out. l Defaulter to the Tune of $65,000. s Salt Lakk City, Utah.?It 1ms been t iscovercd that Osoar E. Hill, cashier of 1 lie Commercial National Rank of Ogdon ^ i a defaulter to the amount of $0 5,000 1 nd the bank will close its doors, and go ^ ato voluntary liquidation. .The dennoS. a n&9 win ii'se iiouiiug, as rno principsl tockholdcrs are among the strongest 1 nancial men in Ogden. Ilill has been peculating. I All Three Drownedi Charleston, 8. C.?In a squall Mon- 1 lay last a fisherman's boat containing leorge Rhodes end John Barnemann, white), and a negro named Harry, caplizcd off the bar, drowning all three men. I SILVER MEN MEET. 7H0,d8"m=MM,,r"tta' ? ?<? " Coliseum II?|| . ?l"??lion,l. 1 "Ol.ine/';',';10 1? .1.0 cllj, oonveoiion w,s jV ^ ' "'on lb, / Jout Morick. ,tM( odf ^ or,,cr Prosi. f .0 POCOh-m.kiog Tl?. e7 T *PCI" 'CSolulioDS did note . comn,l"oo On IJounmmeut w English power; if we are* Europern monnrchics, then w*c need another revolution, another appeal to arms. If war is forced upon us we will send to Halifax a far greater army of British To ics nccourding to population than our forefathcis sent there after the Itcvolut in try war.'' In conclusion he said: "The war has begun; it is the s.tmc war which must always be waged against oppressions and tyranny to preserve tnc liberties of men." A number of men indorsed the Governor's sentiments while others opposed them. J. Cook, Jr., led the opposition. lie said: "We are liable to do things we may regret. I appeal to you as men not to do to day what you will regret to-morrow. We arc excited. We should know what we are doing. Let us be reasonable and net as intelligent men. We ate goiug Eist as men to educate men in the East. If we fail, then is the time to ao*. There is time enough to talk as you feel now." The deba'c was lengthy, and the prevailing sentiment was evidently with the Governor. The Denver clearing house sent a check for $1,000 to pay the expenses of suitable dclpgates to Bt. Louis, Chicago and Washington, accompanied by thn following eommnninstionp^^i**^ by every banker and smelter in the city: "We wish to add our voice and our ?" sentiments, because our welfare depends greatly on the' prosperity of the trans - ^ silver as money, and that it be freely ? coined with gold at the prcsont ratio of 10 to 1, without discrimination in faror of or against either metal." C'has. 8. Thomas, member of the national Democratic committee, was elected permanent chairman of the committee. A STUBBORN LITTLE AFRICAN. 3he Defies the Court and DnmAnHa tn be Sent Back to Liberia, Her Home. New York, City.?The daughter of tn African Chief was brought to Jefferson Market Court and arraigned as an incorrigible child. Her Airerican name is Sarah I. Potter, and she is living with Mrs. Julia L. Smith, a colored missionary, at 21) II >nd s'reet. Sarah is the daughter of a chief of the Little Bassa tribe, whose territory is in Liberia,northwe.-t of Cape Pal mas. The chief became * convert to Christianity through the efforts of the missionary colouy at Cape Pal mas, of which Mrs. Smith wnsthen a member. When Mrs. Smith returned to this country she persuaded the chief to let his daughter come with her. Sarah was then 12 years old. Since coming to this country she has been morose and hard to manage, tetua In*Jo do _nVllir Tug ilaek eyes, a hrond nose, heavy lips, and i hrge head. She is clever and learns juickly when she chooses to study. Yesterday when arraigned in court she vas disinclined to talk. "You are not my people," was all sho vould say. "Let me go back to my own rcoplc. Send me back to my ewu :ountrv." Justice Grailv decided that he could io nothing in the matter. If the girl >ersists in her determination to refuse ibedience and in her desire to return to Africa she will probably be taken back hero. fhe Gold Reserve Increasing--The Currency Decreasing. Washington, D. C.?The gold reerve in the Treasury has been increased <200,000 and now stands at $97,003, 41, but on the other hand the currency tas decreased from $27,353,881 to $26,i04,770 in the same time, owiog to the teavy payments on account of pensions nd ? ??; ? 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 3rd: For Governor, J. B. O. Lewis, of Uartt Clarke county; Lieutenant Governor, R. F. Bland, of Middlesex; Attorney Gen- ^ CI at, W. H. Gi ossley, of Henry. '' '1 I v* -