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' ' . . ? ftrajis and Jatts. ? Here is a story worthy of Mulhatton, the boss liar. It comes from Xewburg, X. Y., under date of Thursday, and is as follows : "Michael Cookingham, while walking over his farm to day found a box turtle plodding lazily along through the grass. He discovered some marks on the back of the turtle, and upon examination saw 'M. C.,' ^ie initials of his own name, cut in the shell. Mr. Cookingham at once remembered that when he was a ten-year-old boy he one day caught a turtle, and with his first pocket knife, cut the letters 'M. C.,' on its back, and subsequently permitted the little animal to depart on its way through the fields. Mr. Cookingham is now 70 years of age." ? A very sensational affair occurred at a hanging in Fanning county, Ga., last Friday. Edmund Green, a white man, was to be hanged for the murder of William O'Keener, another white man. It was the first legal hanging that had ever taken place in the county, and 4,000 people gathered to witness it. . The crowd * watched the proceedings ? - - - . - ' ! ? 1L. J with breathless interest untu mv urup im. By an accident the rope broke and the victim fell to the ground. The occurrence produced such a revulsion of feeling on 0 the crowd as to create a panic, and with one mighty'impulse the people ran away from the grounds. A number of people were knocked down in the rush and almost trampled to death under the feet of the excited throng. Another attempt was made to hang Green and it proved successful. There were not more than a score of people present, however. ? A bloody war is going on in Venezuela, ( South America. It is in the nature of a revolution similar to that which recently took place in Chili. The insurgents are in the majority, but the government has control of the treasury, army and navy, and continues to get the best of it over the undisciplined mobs by which it is being attacked. On August 16, a battle was fought between two thousand government troops on one side and about four thousand insurgents on the other. General Mendoza, the commander of the government troops, planned to lead Yallenilla, the insurgent general, into ambush* He stationed a large force of men behind an obstruction and sent forward about 800 to draw the enemy from their position. The commander of the decoy force, however, was killed, and the troops, forgetting their orders, were thrown into confusion. Notwithstanding this, they fought bravely, and 500 of the 800 were killed. The insurgents lost more than 1,000 men in the fight, and were forced to retire from the field. ? The published statement has been made that for some time past the Louisiana Lottery company has had agents in Honolulu for the purpose of obtaining a charter from the Hawaiian legislature. Their operations have been conducted with the utmost secrecy and few people, outside those interested, know anything about the matter. In return for the charter, the company will agree to pay $1,000,000 towards the cable ; to run a weekly line of steamers to San Francisco; to pay one-half of the expenses of the government ; to pay $100,000 per year to different local enterprises and to erect buildings for offices for directors, inspectors, etc. The money for the prelimiuary payments is already in Honolulu, and if the legislature accepts the proposition of the company, $500,000 will be afloat in Honolulu iu thirty days. Owing to the present depressed state of the islands this would prove a veritable bonanza to Hawaii, and it is quite probable the company will receive a charter; still there is a strong missionary spirit in Hawaii, and* a fierce assault will be made on the bill when it is brought before the legislature. ? The Belmont hotel, five miles west of Asheville, was destroyed by fire last Wednesday night. The hotel was a three story brick structure and contained 138 guests, many of whom barely escaped with their lives. The fire was first discovered at about 11.30 o'clock, and the building was so fur from Asheville that the fire department of that city could be of no service. The hotel was in ruins in less than two hours alter the fire was discovered. Citizens of Asheville went to the scene with all the carriages and vehicles that could be impressed into service, and the half clad guests were taken to the city and given quarters in the various hotels and boarding houses. The building and furniture was valued at about $80,000, on which there was $50,000 of insurance. Mrs. W. B. Kahn, of Charleston, S. C., is said to have lost $5,000 worth of diamonds, and another guest lost $3,000 in cash. When Mrs. Kahn first discovered the flames it was too late to go down the stairway, and, with her thirteen mouths old baby, she rushed to a second story window. Her cries attracted the attention of the people below, and in obedience to their instructions, she dropped her baby into their arms. It was caught unhurt, and the mother then climbed down a post to safety. ? A great deal has been said about the impregnability of Uncle Sam's cash room in the treasury at Washington. An incident is said to have occurred last week that goes to show that things are conducted rather loosely than otherwise there. Numerous visitors go to the treasury department every day, and one of the sights to which most of them are admitted, is an immense vault containing about $45,000,000 or $50,000,000. wnen visitors are snown into inis rcum, mey are sometimes allowed to hold in their hands for a moment packages of money, containing sums ranging all the way from $100,000 to $2,000,000. Last week, it is said, when a crowd of visitors was going through, one of them put a package of money, the amount of which cannot be ascertained, into his pocket. He got out of the cash room with it, and was evidently about to leave the building, when an employe of another bureau in the department spied the money sticking out and called the man's attention to it. The money was returned to the cash room and the visitor treated it as a joke, saying some one had put it where it was discovered, and it was allowed to stop there. For a while, however, the officials of the cash room are likely to be much more careful to see that the packages are returned to them after having been examined to the satisfaction of curious visitors. ? Tom Watson's speech at Sparta, Ga., last Thursday, says the Augusta Chronicle, has proved quite sensational in its character. About 2 o'clock, while Mrs. Roberts, who runs the hotel, was in her dining room superintending the serving of dinner, a large negro man marched boldly into the room. Mrs. Roberts was taken with surprise upon seeing him and told him he must leave. The negro replied that he would not, for his leader, Mr. Watson, had said that the color line had been wiped out; that he was on the same footing with white people, and could come to the hotel if he liked. Mrs. Roberts told him he could go to Mr. Watson's house and do as he liked, but could not in her hotel. Finally it was necessary for a policeman to be called to remove the negro. This has proved a sensation here tonight, and is the subject of general conversation. Mrs. Roberts was for Watson this morning, but she is now as strong a Democrat as is in the ranks of the old party. Mrs. Roberts saw Mr. Watson afterwards and told him no amount of money could induce her to favor him, and also that it was just such men as he and others who went around the country talking to poor, ignorant negroes that made them insult ladies. ? Dr. HafTskine, a scientist of Paris, has discovered what he thinks is a sure cure for cholera. His treatment is on the same principle as that employed by Jenner for small pox and Pasteur for hydrophobia?inoculation. He used choleraic vaccine upon several animals and then injected the poisonous virus of cholera. None of the animals died, while others inoculated with the virus and not the vaccine, died within a few hours. The treatment having proved successful on guinea pigs, rabbits and pigeons, the doctor next tried it on himself. He first inoculated himself well with the vaccine, and after going through all the symptoms of cholera iu a mild form, within twenty-four hours was restored to his normal health. He then tried the active virus, which he knew was certain death to a human being not previously inoculated with the vaccine. The poison however produced no ill effect, and now the doctor is satisfied that he has a prevention of cholera which is just as sure in its effects as vaccination is in small pox. Several eminent physicians have allowed the experiment to l>e marie upon themselves, though none of them are willing to risk the poisonous virus without previous vaccination. Dr. Haffskine has applied to the Russian authortics for permission to introduce his remedy into the cholera stricken districts. The permission will no doubt be granted, but a great deal of opposition is expected from the ignorance of \vi the people whom it will 1)0 desirable to in-' 0c I oculate with the remedy. f fv< j ?The Borden tragedy, at Fall River, I Mass., is still the absorbing sensation in the . i Northern newspapei-s. On tlie morning |of August 4, at about 11 o'clock. Andrew |su , J. Borden, a rich man of Fall River, and his i wife, were found murdered in their home at j I Fall River. The heads of both victims had Ssl, i been frightfully* hacked, and there is no other j X< theory than that their murder was accom- CI plished by means of an axe or a hatchet. I jn, Circumstances showed that Mrs. Borden died j at least an hour or an hour and a half before j her husband. She was in an upstairs room, ' * and her husband down stairs. The murderer, pe is believed to have killed Mrs. Borden, and ed then waitiug for Mr. Borden to return from th the city, took a favorable opportunity to put | nc him out of the way also. The first alarm Lj [ of the tragedy was given by Miss Lizzie I. Borden, a daughter of Mr. Borden, and a step j daughter of Mrs. Borden, within fifteen min- be utes after Mr. Borden was known to have so been alive. After a week's investigations, T1 the police, having run down a theory that sc outsiders were connected with the crime, . directlv charged Lizzie Borden and arrested , - th her. The only motive that tne prosecuuuu has yet been able to assign, was dislike on ca the part of Lizzie Borden for her step moth- nc er. Several points have developed in the pV case that seem to indicate Miss Borden's m guilt, but to a very large extent the whole thing remains a mystery, and up to the present there seems to be no certainty that the State will ever succeed in convicting Miss P? Borden of the terrible crime with which she th is charged. w lite ffflrMlc (tmjttiw. jf YORKYILLE, S. C.: t WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1S92. ? Tom Watson, the Third party candidate for congress in the Tenth Georgia District, ge may possibly be re-elected over Black, the gr T??-?lint-, if ho is. it will be i/CiUUV/iai/lV vu*mi\%M?vj ~ ? ?J -- I OU almost altogether with the help of negro jn votes. Hundreds of white voters who voted for Watson as a Democrat, are disgusted with him as a Third party man, and will not vote for him under any circumstances. Black w is one of the ablest men in Georgia, and will ui be supported by a vast majority c>f the think- M ing men of his district. Watson will be sup- th ported by a class of whites that has develop- th ed strong tendencies toward communism, and in also by a large number of the more ignorant h< class of negroes. J in ? Mob law by legally constituted authori- ^ ties is something unusual, but a case has de- ^ veloped at Asheville, N. C. Some time ago the city council decided to put a substantial j1{ paving down on the streets, and ordered the city railway company to bear the expense ipj of the same between its tracks. The railway cj, people were a little slow about obeying the order, and the authorities, secretly collecting a gang of about 200 laborers, went to work ju in the dead of night and tore up the tracks. The railway people afterward tried to put down the tracks again, and the city council, pr this time resorting to law, sued out an in J J _A ,1 juncuou UUU siuppcu tuc nuiiv. pj ^ tr ? The returns of yesterday's election are ' now beginning to come in, and of course everybody has begun to figure on the complexion of the September convention. The total jPj number of delegates elected is 320, distribu- ^ ted among the respective counties as follows: Abbeville 12, Anderson 12, Aiken 8, Barn- so well 12, Beaufort 10, Berkeley 14, Charleston 18, Chester 8, Chesterfield G, Clarendon 8, tn Colleton 10, Darlington 8, Georgetown 6, Greenville 12, Hampton 6, Horry G, Ker- ? shaw 6, Lancaster 6, Laurens 8, Lexington in 5, Marion 8, Marlboro 8, Newberry 8, Oconee G, Orangeburg 12, Pickens 6, Richland 10, Spartanburg 14, Sumter 12, Union 8, Wil- Jj( liamsburg 8, York 10. w ~ * * * tr ? The New York Herald recently asked Edward Bellamy, the socialist novelist; T. V. Powderly, the Knights of Labor leader; ^ and C. W. Macuue, chairman of the execu- . 1 jg tive committee of the Farmers' Alliance, to ^ give their views as to the probable outcome of the Coal Creek, Homestead and Buffalo , tr labor troubles. Each responded at some length, and their respective prophecies are ? of a most gloomy nature. Bellamy predicts a period of bloodshed and confusion until sc things get down to his pet theory of ''gov- ^ ernment control of everything." Powderly thinks that government control of railroads will correct the whole trouble, and Macune ^ says that the remedy lies in laws that will j. encourage competition wherever competi- . tion is possible. m t _ ac ? Last week, during the excitement at Coal Creek, Tennessee, a rumor to the effect 1S that Bud Lindsay, a lawless desperado who was a leader among the insurgent miners, *v had been lynched. The story was published ; throughout the country, and next day came the correction. As illustrating the difference P( between the law abiding North and the "law abiding" South in such matters, the New York Herald prints the following significant j m paragraph : "It was a great disappointment 1111 to the law abiding North to hear that Bud 01 Lindsay was not lynched. The North would not advocate lynching for the world, and if U? Bud Lindsay had been lynched it would have ?* felt very sorry. The North is merely sorry U1 that it wasn't made to feel sorry?that's all." ? The Federal government is making vast y< preparations for the defense of Washington w in the event of war. Impregnable forts, to th mount thirty-ton guns on disappearing carriages, are to be constructed along the river, pi and the bottom of the Potomac is to he laid ar with torpedoes to blow up the ships that an tb enemy may desire to send up the river to al take the city and loot the treasury. That is hi all very well for the protection of the city, j ai but as for the protection of the treasury, we ! ; think it will be best for the government to ! put its torpedoes under the house of repre- j sentatives and run a wire, connecting with ^ the mine, down South. If this should be j ^ i done, we are satisfied that a far more dangerous enemy to the public treasury than the 1 . ships of a foreign nation would be held in i check. , - di ? The new constitution adopted for Missis- tli sippi, which virtually wipes out the colored al ! vote of the State, is being widely discussed tli in the Northern newspapers. The constitu- d( ; tion makes ability to read and write an essen- pi j tial qualification to suffrage, and iii effect disfranchises about 120,000 voters, of which ; m 10.000 are white. Though of course in gen-1 w eral terms applicable to illiterates, the pro-! tli vision is obviously aimed more at color than tli ignorance. This is all right from the Southj cm white man's point of view, and all over e> the South it is conceded thai Mississippi has lu done a good thing for her future welfare., ty But a careful study of the situation puts a a rather different construction on the matter, in The Fifteenth amendment to the constitution in of the I'nited States, it is true, does not pro- tli i hibit a State's denying or abridging the right ta to vote on account of ignorance, whatever itli it may say about race or color. So far so pi good, but there is another difficulty that it ; must be met by Mississippi some of these la days. The Fourteenth amendment to the pi constitution practically declares that the rep- hi i resentation of a State in congress shall be m based on its voting population, and not on the male population old enough to vote. 111 j Therefore, at no distant day the question J al 11 come up in congress, ami whether Dem- [ 111c ratio or Republican, there is no escape [tin >m it that Mississippi's representation in at body must be cut down in proportion j itii the number of voters denied the right of. tin flrage under her educational qualification. pl< - "A number of colored men of Chicago,'' | jm ys a Chicago dispatch, "have organized the j Drthwestern Immigration Association of I an licago, for the purpose of aiding and assist- jn g colored people to leave the Southern jj1( ates and find them homes in the Northern se] ates. Arrangements are said to have been rfected by which a large number of color people will leave the South and conic to pjj e North." The association mentioned has j)e ? doubt been organized, but it is not likely SQ at the object of it is as stated. For years has been a noticeable fact that large numrs of colored people have been growing ^ incwhat cool toward the Republican party. | j)C ic Republicans are aware of this, and the pU heme has been gotten up to fool the negroes ua to believing that the Northern people want j | em up there where they can be "taken ne re of." The association does not want the igroes until after they have voted the Re- ^ lblican ticket, and then, of course, nothing ore will be said about the matter. - The Russian Nihilists are said to have ^ rfected an infernal machine with which j( ey can deal destruction to the authorities ^T| ithout danger to themselves. Heretofore (| ,-namite has been impracticable by reason ' the danger, it always being necessary to ye oduce an explosion either with a match or j r concussion. This necessitates the presice of the Nihilist in the vicinity, and even j successful in blowing up his victim without ^ jury to himself, he was in danger of detec- rp jn before he could escape. The new wcap- / 1 of assassination is gotten up in the shape ge book and can be carried in the pocket. It filled with a powerful explosive and is to i discharged by the mixing of certain liquid lomienls Turned one wav there is no | mgerof an explosion, but turned the other, e chemicals gradually mix up, and the ex- y( osion occurs anywhere from five minutes an hour after the machine is set according gQ the will of the dynamiter. It is repre nted that the czar and his olficials are eatly exercised over the discovery that jj. ich a mnchine has been invented, and are jel constant dread of any attempt that may y ,> made to use it. -Our old friend, The Augusta Chronicle, cut through a terrible experience last Satday morning. Just ahou 2 o'clock, Mr. Pr . P. Walsh, the night editor, discoverd that / e adjoining building was on fire. He saw S1< at the doom of The Chronicle huildiug was evitable, but with true newspaper instinct, ^ j immediately put his force to work collect- ta g the facts for a story of the fire and then rued in the alarm to the fire department. ac 'hile the fire department was at work on e flames, editors, reporters and compositors orked like bees in the face of blistering ;at, and prepnred a satisfactory account of ^)e e eouflagation for tbe Chronicle's readers. lie paper was gotten to press and the ma- to linery started, and with all possible dis- t|1 . * -l? i.?,i ,??iic cil ucn me t'limuu hus huim-u vh, ui? nuno the building falling with a terrible crash 111 st a few minutes after the last sheet was P' inted. Not satisfied with this exhibition ^ 1 pluck and determination, Mr. Walsh, the esident of the Chronicle Publishing commy, next made arrangements with other \ inting offices in the city and got out an ex- (b a edition of the paper, giving a full account ' the fire up to the hour of going to press, lie building and materials were well in ired, and the actual loss will not exceed 0.000 or $12,000. Other buildings, with * eir entire contents, aggregating in value Cl1 mething like $400,000, were also destroy- sn 1. The Chronicle managed to save all its 1 es, dating back to 1785, and a few other ar- *1 ;les of more or less value. The publication ^ ' the Chronicle will be continued without terruption. NOW FOR SOUTH CAROLINA. bl1 Now for York county and South Carolina ! 2t the two years of turmoil and strife with jo hich our county and State have bpen dis- ne acted, end with the election of yesterday. efl majority of the people of the State have lie [pressed their desire as to how they would Se ive the existing differences settled, and it jj" the duty of every good citizen to accept ie result, at least until the next election. jia The officers that have been elected, it is jg ue, will not be acceptable to the whole dii :ople, but they are the choice of the ma- he rity; they will serve during the terms for J58 hich they have been chosen, and the only u nsible thing that is left for the minority is y< accept the situation. pl: rPl.??? l.nt. lmoii mii/ili tnnnnil nrwl f>ll liiuiu imo uvtu iiiuvu vuifiivn mmm | tuperation and abuse, and enough hard I N ings said and done .by both sides to last a ^ etirae. None of it was justifiable on either a(" le, but all of it was for the purpose of jU) icomplishiug present objects, and now the to ily sensible thing, hard as it may be to do, w< for both sides to forgive and forget. T1 Our State has lost much during the past k*o years. Mutual enmities have been en- Li Ni indered, and every business in the State p, is suffered. This has been largely due to W] iliticians. They have indulged crimina- th ans and re-criminations until honest men pr ive begun to fear that the whole State is a ass of corruption, and outsiders have al-1 ost lost confidence in us. There is only as le way open for the gradual restoration of jn nit which has been lost. From now on let of > call mistakes errors, and let every patri- W ic citizen take it upon himself to hold ^ j the hands of those whom the major-1 ^ y of our people have elected to office, re- i ce embering all the time that two and four' t,e ;ars from now will be plenty of time in j wl hich to call the derelict to account for j cu eir shortcomings. j Now, once more, a long pull and a strong ^ ill for York county and South Carolina,! id leave our public officials to look after I ha ie affairs of the government, confident of di 1 times receiving that aid and support they ; ive a right to expect from every honest j ul patriotic citizen. I 1 . -- ?|w; i th If KIT h II KWAIIX | . It was Lord Bacon who, more than three 1 Cfl inturiesngo, wrote: "There he three things jn at makes a nation great and prosperous?a j C:1 rtile soil, busy work shops and easy eon- j it >yance of men and commodities from one w ace to another." I 5 This saying of Bacon's is just as true to- ^ iv as it was when he wrote it. We have ; *0 ie lirst requirement in such a degree as to most make up for the second. For the ' lird there can he no substitute, but in its Sc jvelopment the real will speedily take the ace of the substitute in the second. rr( The one thing we need in this country 15 ore than anything else, is good public high- nj ays. Without them there can be no such w ing as widespread material prosperity, and , in icin such prosperity is inevitable. rc I'nder present conditions, about the most j,( :pensive day's work that our people ever 1 j. ive to engage in, is to drive over any twen-: ^ miles of public road in York county with ! m loaded wagon. The labor is a strain on hi an, beast and vehicle, and the actual cost tli I .1 wear and tear amounts to hundreds of s| lousands of dollars every year. In fact,! king the whole county over, we believe1 lat the expense of transportation over our j V iblic roads is not less than twice as great as I JJ( should be. That is, by a reasonable oul-ijli y of money and labor, the roads could be i w it in a condition tbat would admit of their Uf. ing traveled with half the expense that is >w required. i'. If this fact is admitted, and we doubt if icre are many who will deny it, the avail- 1 <,| >ility of a large sum of money and an int- j ot use amount of labor, and the wisdom of ir being applied to the roads, is apparent. While these suggestions arc mere generally, we believe they are sound. They are rown out only in hopes of causing some peo-; j to look at the subject in a different way. bile the advantage to be derived from the provemcnt of our roads is apparent, we are e to confess that we have little faith in y law that may be enacted with that end view. In a county like ours, whatever eory there may be to the contrary, public utiment is the supreme law of the land, d in the matter of better roads as in every ing else, if public sentiment cannot accomish the desired end, all the laws that can put 011 the statute books will only cover much waste paper. In a nutshell, the only solution to the road estion is this: If any neighborhood can \ made to fully realize the vast benefit to I derived from better public roads, and \ blic sentiment demands of every individ- ; 1 interested that he contribute money and I ;>or in proportion to his interest, that ighborhood is bound to eventually have : roads fully up to its conceptions of what j ev ouirht to be. ; ASIATIC CHOLERA. The possible spread of Asiatic cholera to is country is giving grave concern to cities ang the Atlantic seaboard, particularly e\v York. Thousands of people are dying lily from the disease in Southern Russia id Southern Asia, and a few cases have dcloped in Antwerp, Vienna, Berlin, Paris, mdon and other European cities. The strictest quarantine regulations have en established at New York, and the auoritios say that although the disease may ach quarantine, it cannot possibly go any rlhcr. Every shipload of passengers prenting themselves for admission are subrtcd to a most rigid inspection, and the ggage of every individual must he thorighly inspected before it can be transited into the interior. Notwithstanding the precautions at New ark, however, it is possible that cholera ay get into the United States by way of me other point. It all depends on the gilance and efficiency of the oflicers at larantine, as was demonstrated in the year i 48. Two ships, crowded with passengers,' ft Havre at the same time. Cholera dedoped at sea on both ships. One went to ew York and the other to New Orleans, ?th arriving late in the fall. In New York e cholera ship was dealt with as was oper. The disease was connnea to me nits of the Staten Island hospital, and the ;k were given the best attention until all id either recovered or died. Then everying with which the disease came into conct that could harbor the germs, was either imed or thoroughly saturated with carbolic id. There was no further trouble. But with the ship that went to New Oralis the case was different. The quaranic service was loosely conducted. A numr of the passengers had already died ofj e disease, and the remainder were allowed ; proceed without the least detention. As e result, cholera first spread through the ty. Then following the channels of comerce, it went up the Mississippi to Memlis, Vicksburg and St. Louis, from where it as carried to Chicago by rail, and in May, 49, six months after it had arrived in New i-leans, it made its appearance in New j ork. Thousands of people died from the j scase, and all because of the negligence of e quarantine officers at New Orleans. August and September are the months ost favorable to the spread of cholera, and though it is still possible for the disease to id its way into some of the Atlantic coast ties, it is not likely to spread into the inller towns. As a rule it thrives only in e filth of the great cities, and not qyen ere, so long as the supply of drinking war is uncontaminated with germs of contaon conducive to its spread. Fake Newspaper Interviews.?The isiness of concocting in New York and lliug foreign telegrams of a fraudulent aracter, says a New York dispatch, has ng been a source of annoyance to every iws organzation in the country, whose forts were hampered by considerations of mesty and legitimacy. No amoufit of innuity, 110 reasonable expenditure of money! id no influence, however mighty, could, r r example, secure interviews with men such ' Schiaperelli and Bismarck. The former ' is referred all inquirers to his article of ' 88 and simply said he had' made no new i scoveries concerning Mars since that puliation. Bismarck talks only when he-wish- J ] and generally to the editor of the Hamirger Nachrichtcn. 1 In the face of these conditions the New j < Drk World published, on August nth, what j irportcd to he an interview with Schiaper- ' li, which it disseminated broadcast. The ew York Sun immediately pronounced ' e interview a fraud, and it went back to jf i alleged interview with Bismarck, printin The World on July 12th, and, stamp- 1 g that also as bogus, offered to give $1,000 i The Tribune's fresh air fund if The World juld satisfy Donald Nicholson, editor of i ie Tribune, that either the Schiapcrelli or smarck interview was genuine. Two rep- j sentatives of The World called on Mr. icholson and flourished somp forms of the < ench Cable company on which there was \ riting. Mr. Nicholson declined to decide j. e question, but The World claimed it had | oven its case and began to clamor for The J m's $1,000. j In the meantime, The Sun had communi- 1 ted with its office in London, and as soon | copies of The World containing the bogus 4 terviews could be delivered into the hands. The Sun's representatives, Mr. Frank M. 1 hite started for Milan, and Mr. H. H. j lamberlain for Hamburg. Schiapcrelli, j' lio reads English readily, laughed at what j ; was credited with saying and pronoun- f d it rubbish. He added that he had never j, fore heard of the New York World, and jJ lien asked if he would point out the inac- =' racies in the fabrication, he said it would 1' quire the writing of a pamphlet to do so.1 r. Chamberlain went to Hamburg and saw ( r. Hoffman, the editor of the Hamburger;, achriechten, the person whom The World id asserted was the man who had intro- ( iced their correspondent to Bismarck. Mr. Hoffman also had never heard of the 1 ew York World, and said, emphatically, j ill lilt* u.su ui ins iiaiiic in iuu iiiciiii'i us absolutely fraudulent. In the course or ( e investigation, which proved conclusively e bogus character of both interviews, it .me to the surface that after the Hismarek terview was printed in The World, it was < bled to London, with instructions to cable < back without the alteration of a single ord. Thus the fraudulent Hismarek in- 1 rview crossed the ocean twice within 1 I'cnty hours, and when it was safe in The 'orltl oflice that paper challenged The Sun do its worst. 1 (fOOMKIt Monopoly at tmk I'aik.? nnebody has offered $120,(KM) for the ex-!] usive privilege of selling goohers at the' liioago fair. At 5 cents a bag for his lobcrs this speculator would have to sell ' 400.000 bags before he could get his bonus oney back. Even at 50 per cent, profit, ' hieh includes his expenses for hiring peait purveyors and the necessary outlay for , lasting appliances, he would need to dis>se of 5.000,000 bags to start even, and at 1 ast double that amount in order to get a 1 ir return for the risk taken. Assuming lat 30,000,000 persons visit the grounds, he < ust expect one-third of them to patronize ; s industry. There may be a peanut crowd icre. but the fair will not be that kind of a j iow by any means. ? T111 It 11 I'AUTY Tuoll'.I.KS IN XoUTII ('Alt- ! UNA.?The Third Party in North Carolina j having some trouble with the State ticket nninated last week. Major W. A. (iiithcr. 1 ic nominee for supreme court justice, who ' as defeated for the same oflice six years o as the Republican candidate, is out in a trd declining to accept the nomination on count of personal business considerations. 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Vslic, Culp, Sapoch and Smith will make a t. second race for this office. I \ Wylie is clerk ; Crawford, sheriff; Xccly, i reasurer; Waters, auditor; Purslcy, coro- ] ler. 'j This is all provided there are no serious j naccuracics in our telegraphic reports. 1 ii TRIAL JUSTICE ELECTION'S. s The election of trial justices in the vari- ,, )tis townships yesterday, according to our olographic reports, resulted as follows: Ebene/er, J. A. Shurley, 83 votes. No j jpposition. , Bethel, H. K. Johnson, 211 yotes. No op- ( position. King's Mountain, John Q. Howe P<00; J. ^ V. McMackin, 130. Howe is elected. Bullock's Creek, J. 1'. Blair, without op- | positipn, 10G votes. ' Bcthesda, O. L. Sanders, without opposi:ion, 247 votes. Broad River. (>. C. Leech, without opposition, 143. i T-W. Mill. B. Henrv Massey. S3; J. W. McKlhaney, ; J. A. Withers, fit. Xo election. McKlhaney and Massey will have ? .0 run it over. Cherokee, W. I). Camp, 483 votes. No ^ >pposition. Catawba, J. J. Waters and Jas. A. (tiles.1! Waters heat (tiles 19 votes at Coates's Tav-i *rn. Report from Rock Hill is indeliinite. . Vork. Milus S. Carrol, .">S7 votes. Xo opposition. ELECTION STRAWS. iV ! i hurt Spcrials that Show the Course of the ' Wind. !11 Returns from yesterday's elections are piite meagre. The following bulletins from iiU'ercnt parts of the State were received by Mr. II. H. Heard, manager of the Western ^ I'nion Telegraph ollice last night, and by liim kindly turned over to Tim Kniji ikku. ; Rieiim ac, (Chester county). Total vote tC 193: Tillman's majority 33. Hemphill's ( . majority 22. Huchanan, 30; Henry, Sti; . c McDonald, (!!) : Hough. (5. x Andkkson.?Five precincts in Anderson Is county, including city, gives Sheppard 444,!sl Tillman 19?S. I f Hkaitoiu'?Vote in the county us far as j { lieard from : Tillman 12fi; Sheppard 294. Koht Dawn (Chester county).?Tillman j' ">1 ; Sheppard 21 : Hemphill 37 : Strait 35. sl Lands kokd.?Tillman 45; Sheppard 14. 11 (5itkknvii.i.k?Duncan's: Sheppard (59: 11 Tillman 47. Welford : Tilltnan 82: Slicp-'' panl 4(5. Xinety Six : Tillman (17: Sliep- ' pard 82. Seneca : Tillman, 85 ; Sheppard 75. ' Ciiaki.ksto.v. August 3(1,11 ]?. m.?The j Conservatives sweeji Charleston county by an overwhelming majority. Out of a total t vote of about 4.200 Sheppard lias 3,000 majority. Hrawley for congress by about 3,000 J votes. Ferguson for sheriff by about 2,000 | ? votes. They also elect entire county tickets, j Sheppard and Hrawley carry Mt. Pleasant ( iind Summcrville ami two outlying precincts, j Tillman carries Lancaster county by 7ni> and j Clarendon county by small majority. Aiken ,, county vote very close. Charleston, Lean- j Ibrt and Richland solid for Sheppard. ' Xkws and Coi kikk. <Jkkknvii.i.k?One-half the precincts in c ISreenville county jjive Tillman seventy- f live majority. In Riekens county four town- i ships give Tillman odS; Sheppard .'US>. i 1'ickens sure for Tillman. (Ireer's, in (Jreen-j t viHe county, -jives Tillman 1 lit: Sheppard oS. ( th 2 Fc Z ais r. ! foi v. I sp 2 T1 y. co an >J pl< Hemphill. s r th . 'jlj tTl uclianan. cn lgli Henry. = M] 'Otlgll. ft V 4 ml McDonald. rr | H 2 ird Leech.* ! J J. Miller.* /-V idas Moore.* i i at HI , or th x J pr imbroll.* j? r*-H ^ ni : (ZZ l_j he awlinson.* 3 ' r. Rigging.* ' \T] h-|H Jo jrtcr.* || (/) HH ^ no Whitesides.* * I 'J P^l t I > of )ltliarp.t S fo gs Li ar arritjon.t B .V r 11 tii H. Glcnn.f | - HH at [. Hicklin.f ?! ^ bc 31 H HHCC 'ressly.t 3 * . , s0 ? Hh lil oberts.f * | L. Riddle.t | ^ w IT. Snyo.f hi i s. Wilkerwon.t j i O0 *77] ?c ! r? ? kburn Wilson, Jr. t I 1 # te For Senator, XZ Ui Edward Finley. hjH ' ('"rro"' " r mfr man Elder. b [ J ^ . . iti ?i w f-i h-H ver Law. ^ th f; s o tn assoy. 3 ^ D W. Thomson. | \ J ^ ilbOT"- ! hi l~~] u M. Sims. 1 o * \ ?\ 111 3 r _ 1 w wn Wylie. I *" j k Ashe. ; ? /?H cc 3.1 v?i * J? [ A. Crawford. =*j J f0 ,:i D ^ si 1 J. Waters. a | H > I r1 ' ^ ^ m i B. Williams. : ? i I \ ^w I). Boyd. | (/) ^ \. 1). Xeely. | jj j ^ tl . Barron. 3f' 00 \J T n H.Edwards. | '^Q HH is Harrison. to r A"he- s mwcll. u: ? /"N 011 i'm]). 3 i ) si < V I il IT. Gillespie. gj H IV. Good. 11 [j ,* J. Hoft'ninn. % A ^?< v Ross Sapoch. ^ . ' A. Smith. i j bi ?' bl m ir ij. rurseiy. ? ^ tl 01 >te on Poll List. ^ it ~ t< *of names on club roll. p; E iliibition. b: S( Prohibition. si ???tl THE LATEST SUMMARY. is l Charleston View of the Situation at Five O'CIock this Morniug. h ty Telegraph to The Enquirer. i Charleston, August 31.?Election re- P urns received thus far, indicate the elecion of G8 Tillman and 04 Conservative dele- j' ;ates for the State convention. This em- ^ traces six counties for the Conservatives and g( even for Tillman. Chairman Dibble, man- j. iger of the Conservative campaign, con- ^ :edes the State to Tillman by not more than _ 0,000 majority. r Tlie indications point to the election of P Irawley in the First; Johnstone in the ? Third : Shell in the Fourth ; Hemphill in lie Fifth?Brawley, Johnstone and Hemplill beating all Alliance candidates. Moise s reported ahead in the Seventh district. n Uiell is the only Alliance candidate for con- 0 ;ress thus far elected. J. A. Moroso. ? LETTER FROM GROVER. a i n lad on Fodder?Cotton Opening Fast?Chain- * pion Hawk Killer. i * 'orrcspoiidencc of the Yorkvllle Enquirer. rj (JitovKR, N. C., August 29.?The weather j luring the past week has been very unfavor- a thle for fodder pulling, and very little has ^ ?een saved up to date. This morning, how- (] iver, the weather is propitious and the farm- ^ irs are going at the work with a rush. i j] The cotton crop has done all it can in this ! a ection, and has commenced to open at a,0 ively rate for this season of the year. i ^ The Cleveland Paving and Fire Brick n ompany, of which mention has been made i a n these columns before, commenced to de-! s iver their first kiln of brick to the railroad j. or shipment today. These bricks are pro- ^ lounced by experts to be second to no bricks ' n the United States for paving purposes. Master Gordon Hughes is the champion 1 fi lawk killer in this section. He has killed s ix this season. 11 Politics are receiving more attention just 11 :now than any other topic that affects the r nterests of tne people 01 uus section, nui i a mpc that after tomorrow everhodv will be v villing to go home ami look after their crops ti tnd their wives and children. r. c. ti h . j? LETTER FROM SMYRNA. 1 ; si 'uaiiltioiis of the Crops? Kcccnt Marriage ti at Canaan. ti .'oiTespoiuli'nce of the YorkvllU' Knquircr. ! L SMYRNA, August 2!>.?Things are very J lillerent in this section now from what they I , vere this time last year. Last year we were * inging the old woeful song of rain and grass " iml prospects of making enough to eat were *' jloomy indeed. Now, while we have some ; " eason to complain of not enough rain, it is;11 nit fair to say that the prospect is very dif- " erent. Many of the crops in this section ire better thiui they lnive been since 1N8L\ j, ind everybody is feasting on fruit and md watermelons to his heart's content. We ,, lave plenty of time to change the song of t. ain and grass to Sheppurd and Tillman. c >ut for the life of ine I am as yet unable to S( lecide which is the greatest scourage?poli- ,, ies or bad crops. v Kev. Mr. Dagnall held a meeting at ('a- a man M. E. church for a few days recently, j, md wound up with the celebration of a ? narriage ceremony in regular town style. flic couple was Mr. Kobcrt Moss and Miss Omnia Bradley, two popular and highly es- |, eemed young people of this vicinity. Before |( he marriage came oil', the friends of the j, iride and groom determined that the ocea- ? ion should be something extra, and a nuin>er of them undertook to decorate the church. I'lie way they succeeded is worth telling ti ihout. We may be green country people a >ut this way, but when it comes to the taste- d id arrangement of Mowers and evergcens v n church decorations, our young ladies do e lot ask any odds of anyone. The main lea- a lire of the decorations was six large arches h >f evergreens, one sprung over each door ofj a e church, and the other over the altar, sstoons of evergreens were run along the >le and carried forward to the pulpit, and t rmed into a huge diamond, enclosing the | j( ace in which the contracting parties stood, q le couple was met on the outside and es-' c rted to the altar by Misses Nannie Wallace (] d Lizzie Love. About four hundred peo- 0 2 joined in the singing service, after which 0 e ceremony was beautifully performed by ^ r. Dagnall after the custom of the Metho- f it Episcopal church. Rrief Remarker. ? ROCK HILTHAPPENINGS. ^ r. >V. J. Caveuy (Jetting Better?Key. W. Jj .M. Anderson Cioes to TeunesHee?Other ^ Matters. r rrespondence of the Yorkvllle Enquirer. a Rock Hill, August 30.?Mr. W. J. Cave- g has so far recovered as to be able to walk \ >wn the street this morning. T A special meeting of Bethel presbytery t is held here last night for the purpose of r leasing Rev. Mr. Anderson from his charge this place. Mr. Anderson hus resigned in p der to accept the call extended to him by I e church at Jackson, Tenn. He will g each his farewell sermon next Wednesday t ght, and expects to leave for his future c me at once. f The exercises at the Graded school were 1 sumed on yesterday morning, Prof. Thomp- ? n in charge. Although tuition will be ] larged for all grades, about the usual num- i ir of scholars were enrolled. c The Baptist church at Fort Mill is desirous t meeting with the church at this place, g rming a field between the two churches, g id thereby securing to each a part of the ' ne of Rev. Mr. Pearson. c Mrs. M. A. Cobb and Mr. W. M. Frew t id family, have returned from Asheville t sing compelled to leave that place on ac- j unt of the water. Mr. Frew's health is ] mewhat better than it has been for some- ( me past. t Mr. John P. Philips died at the Standard t ill on Saturday, and was buried at Laurelood cemetery. 1 Mr. Julius Friedheim has returned from j s Western trip much pleased with the ] tt? ?/*.?? ?tU5lA if ici o mnnh mnrn , luxury, nc attja wiiiic u to u <uuv? v rtile country than ours, ours is much bet- < r for health and good water. j Miss Mary Thornwell, of Fort Mill, is vis- < ing Mrs. Addie Witherspoon. I Miss Julia McClure, of Chester, is visiting j iends at this place. < Miss Mamie Mackey, of Lancaster, is vis- \ Ing Miss Emma Witherspoon. Mr. U. C. Partlow has been quite sick for i icpast week. v. j LETTER FROM LOWRYSVILLE. ] eath of Miss Janie Hardin?The Candidates? Mule Killed. >rrespondenee of the Yorkvllle Enquirer. Lowrysville, August 29.?Miss Janie . ardin, whose illness I mentioned in a for- ! er letter, died on the 19th instant. She , as aged about 47 years. ( The candidates are now resting on their j irs ready for the "race tomorrow. All seem , >nfldent of success. , Thfs section has been rather short on rain , r the past three weeks. Cotton has been j tedding badly in consequence. Mr. S. H. Hardin lost a valuable young ] lule last Saturday. He was hauling fodder hen the mules ran off with the wagon. ( ne of the mules ran against a garden fence, ] id a piece of railing entered its body just , ehind the shoulder and went nearly ( trough, killing the animal in a short time. | w. o. g. , BROKEN ARMS. wo Accidents That Have Occurred at Fort Mill During the Week. irrespoiulence of the Yorkvllle Enquirer. Fort Mill, August 29.?L. M. Dinkins, ho lives about two miles from this place, ad one of his arms broken last Saturday ight by falling from a fodder stack. Mrs. D. H. Hart, who lives about the -IJ-t oiiofntnml o cim_ 11116 UlbkUliUU Il l/ill tu?tuj quoi/uiuvu m uim ar injury from a fall this morning. Mrs. [art is about GO years of age and it is liker that the injury will be very slow in healig. c. Weaver, the Vilifier of the South.? There is the man in the South, Democrat, bite Republican, or respectable colored rother, who would see that country again lighted with the curse of carpet bag and egro rule ? A vote for Weaver, the bitter, lalignant vilifier of the Southern people and ic huckstering political scavenger who sold at in 1880, defeating General Hancock, if means anything at all, means a vote not > elect him, but to defeat the Democratic arty, and therefore bring upon the South farrison and Davenport's infamous force ill, which would reduce the people of that iction of the Union to more abject oppres011 than England ever imposed on down oddcn Ireland. It is to bring about this result that Weaver i today a candidate. Is there any man in the South who loves is section and his country and prizes the rosperity and happiness of his family and osterity, so unmindful of his duty and so ccreant to all that he should hold most lcred, as to east his suffrage for this putrid lass of political corruption? If so, let him ang his head in shame, and hide himself in auic dark cavern of the earth where the glit of day has never penetrated and the idignation of an outraged people can never each. Let the people of the South read and onder over the bitter and malignant, coarse nd vulirar denunciations heaped upon them y this man, and spurn him as they would least Butler or a viper.?National Democrat. A Hero's Conception of Duty.?"You aay be on the right side, Cod knows; but ur duty is the duty of soldiers, and we will ght you whenever you press us. You may rush this force like an egg-shell, if you can, nd you may also then bury us in one ditch." .^hese were the brave words of Keller An,erson, in command of the men guarding hat convict stockade in the mountains of 'ennessec. They were his answer to the lemand for surrender made by that desperteband of miners who threatened to annililate everything before them. To a later Semand, when resistance seemed hopeless, lis reply was "Never !" Finally, when he ad been seized by the maddened force and gun was leveled at his head with the threat f death unless he ordered the surrender of he guard, the brave old hero said: "Tell ay daughter I died like a soldier," and then dded, "Now, damn you, shoot." Such ublime bravery and loyalty to duty stamp [eller Anderson as a hero of the highest ypc.?New York Herald. Hearthen 1)1 nu Story.?A story comes rom Madison county, Georgia, telling of the ad death of the four children of a family i amed Wilson in the short space of forty j dilutes, three of them from the bite of a attlesnake and the other by drowning. The Hair occurred a few days ago. Mrs. Wilson ! ,'ent to a spring near the house for water, j -iking the baby with her. She had left the j ousc but a short time when screams attract-1 d her attention, and hastening there, found wo of her children dead and the third one ! ick. The little fellow, however, washable to I alk, and said that they nau poicou ineir. ngcrs through a crack in the tloor and a J en under the house had bitten them. Mrs. | Wilson hurried l)aek to the spring and there | juud that her little baby had crawled into! he spring and been drowned. When the1 lotlier returned to the house she found her; .tile hoy also dead. Some time later the : ither returned. Search was made and a uge rattlesnake was found under the house 1 ml killed. Somkthix<! of a Dii.kmma.?There is a; ood deal of speculation as to why these j residential letters of acceptance are so! lueh delayed. Mr. Harrison is probably! udgelling his brain to find out how toadvo-1 ate the force bill while seeming not to do a. He knows that he cannot say he is opused to the infamous measure, and yet he j rants to place himself in the position of not I ppearing to be very zealous for it. He is, i i a word, anxious to lix his letter so as to I lake the North think he wants it and the j outli that he does not want it. Mr. Harison will have to keep awake many nights efoic he solves this very troublesome probi'Ih, especially as he is handicapped by his; revious unsavory force bill record.?Kich-j loud Times. ? The local health department at Charleson has issued strict regulations to guard gainst the introduction of cholera. In ad-, ition to the usual summer quarantine, j rhich is now being strictly enforced, one! xtra precaution has been taken. The quar- j ntine station has been provided with the lotel system of sanitation and disinfection j ml is very complete. MERE MENTION. Russia and India*are again quarreling over hat portion of the Pamir region which beongs to Afghanistan. It is possible that the uarrel may result in hostilities. Offiial returns of Wednesday report 6,429 eaths from cholera in southwestern Russia n the day before. The scourge seems to be n the increase rather than decrease. General Weaver, the Third party candidate or president, is making speeches in the South and will probably visit North and South Carolina. The tobacco crop of Virginia has been subjected to' one of the aost distressing droughts known for years. ?he drought was broken last Wednesday y copious showers, which, however, were ather late to do much good. Ben Howrd, a negro charged with shooting a deputy heriff from ambush, was lynched near Sa-annah, Ga., on Tuesday of last week. * * L'he L'Mnese government propose to iigut he law in the courts, requiring Chinese esidents to take out certificates of resilence. DnFonseca, who was elected resident of Brazil after the deposition of )om Pedro, died last week. The steam- 1 hip City of New York has again broken he record, crossing the Atlantic in five lays and twenty hours. A story comes rom Staunton, Va., to the effect that on Thursday, H. C. Williams, of Michigan, fell >00 feet from a balloon and is still living. 31ack and Watson are having a lively time n the Tenth Georgia district, and the Dem>crats believe that Watson will be defeatid. The Buffalo, N. Y., switchmen's itrike came to an end last Wednesday. The iwitchmen were defeated. General lohn Bidwell, of California, on last Thurelay, published a letter formally accepting he Prohibition nomination for president of he United States. Dr. Exum, the Third >arty candidate for governor of North Caroina, in a speech last Thursday, publicly deilared that he preferred negro supremacy to lie state of affairs that has been existing in hat State. Gertie Carmo, a woman Aeronaut who has )een making ascensions at the exposition grounds at Detroit, Mich., fell from her baloon last Thursday and was killed. A lase of cholera was reported from Griswold, 2onn., on Monday of last week, but later information develops that the disease was choljra morbus. The patient, Miss Frances Mor;an, died. Dudley Waite, an aged pauper in the Hamden, Conn., poor house, set fire to the building last Thursday and then hanged himself. The State of New York spent about half a million dollars in maintaining the State militia at the switchmen's strike, just called off at Buffalo, New York. It is estimated that 43,000 deaths have occurred from cholera in Persia. The Metropolitan opera house, of New York, * valued at $2,000,000, was badly damaged by Bre last Saturday morning. The loss is estimated as being in the neighborhood of $500,000. Speaker Crisp is doing noble work for the Democracy in his district in Georgia, and is being received with ovations sverywhere he goes. A man by the name of Brooks, liying near Brunswick, Ga., was treated to a coat of tar and feathers by the citizens of his village on last Friday night. He had made some improper re' i i marks about several respeciaoie wumeu ui the place. A large five story brick building, Nos. 120 to 126 Wooster street, New York, was destroyed by fire 011 Saturday morning, and three firemen were killed by falling walls. The youngest man in the new British house of commons is 22 years . old and the oldest is 90. The total visible supply of cotton for the world is 2,666,956balesrof which 2,183,056 are "American, against 1,695,643 and 1,241,243 respectively last year. The receipts of cotton this week at all interior towns are 13,001 bales; receipts on plantations 8,651; crop in sight, 9,024,360. A terrific explosion occurred in Parkslip coal mines, near Brigend, Wales, caused by a cave in, and about 150 men were buried alive in the pit. The explosion occurred last Friday, and after about twenty-four hours of digging, the rescuing party found several of the miners terribly burned and in an unconscious condition. * At last accounts about fifty men had been rescued and the fate of the remainder -was uncertain. A Nashville mob lynched a negro charged with rape, in that city, last Saturday. Baron Hirsch, the Hebrew philanthropist, who hus been doing so much for the relief of oppressed Russian Jews, during the past few years, expects to visit America within a few weeks from this date. Thomas Calhoun, a white farmer of Mayo, Fla., was shot in the back and instantly killed last Saturday by Bee Dixon, another farmer. The shooting was the result of a family feud of long standing. Furman Schenck, "Barnum's Fat Boy," died at New Brunswick, N. J., last Friday. Owing to the immense size of the coffin, it could not be taken into the room in which the corpse lay, and the hotly lliKl to uo carried uut ui uic uuuoc ui by eight men, as many as could get around it. A young New York man named Frederick Gavlord, attempted suicide last Friday by jumping off of High Bridge into Harlem river. He fell in the water on his back, from a height of 116 feet, and was not killed. Grand Master Switchman Sweeney, who had the direction of the switchmen's strike at Buffalo, N. Y., and who agreed to a compromise, was run out of the city on Friday by his indignant fellowstrikers. The business failures throughout the country, for the week ending last Friday, according to the report of R. G. Dun & Co., number for the United States 165, against 204 for the same week of lust year. Of 11,000,000 women in Italy, 2,000,000 are employed in industrial labor, and 3,000,000 in agriculture. A magnificent market house in Dublin, Ireland, valued at $G00,000, was destroyed by fire last Saturday."" A report came to this country last week to the effect that the house of Rev. Mr. Bartlett, an American missionary in Asia Minor, had been burned by fanatical Mohammedans. Investigation by the Turkish authorities, however, develop the fact that the fire was altogether accidental. Hon. \V. C. P. Breckinridge, of Kentucky, will be returned to congress without opposition. Governor Eagle, of Arkansas, is lying at the point of death. The Homestead strikers are still holding out, and it is not altogether improbable that they may win yet. Redfern, Alexander & Co., bankers, of London, failed last Monday with liabilities aggregating $1,230,000. "' The supreme lodge of Knights of Pythias, now encamped at Kansas City, have decided on Washington as the next place for its annual encampment. Dr. Exum, Third party candidate for governor of North Carolina, was arrested at Goldsboro last Monday for profanity in the presence of ladies. The appointments made for Stevenson, the viecpresidenMal nominee, and W. G. Kwing, iu North Carolina, are: Asheville, September 15 : Raleigh, lfi: Charlotte, 17 : Winston, 1!); Fiiyctteville, 20: Wilmington, 21: Goldsboro, 22. Thomas Donnelly, a Lunsford, Mass., bascballist, was killed last Monday by a ball striking him on the head. Fifty-four stone-cutters at work on the Yandcrbilt mansion at Asheville, N. Cf struck last Monday for higher wages. They were getting 40 cents an hour and wanted 45 cents. Portugal is offering some of her colonies for sale in order to raise money with which to pay interest on the public debt. Cleveland has received numerous invitations to make a campaign speeches in different parts of the country, but persistently declines. He does not expect to make a single speech on the stump. The postoflice at Hampton, Ya., was robbed on Monday night, but at last accounts the amount secured by the robbers was not known. It is stated in official circles that the International Monetary conference will probably meet in London on September 25. John Obermeyer, a barber, and his wife. Margaret, committed suicide together iu their home in New York on Monday. They left a letter stating that on account of old age and inability to make a living, they found life undesirable, James J. Cor- , bett and John L. Sullivun meet in the prize ring in New Orleans on September? to light for $2~>,000 a side. Dr. Leslie K. Keely, of bi-eloride of gold fame, has sued the London Lancet for libel. Henry C. Miner, of New York, a Tammany leader, has bet $1,000 that Cleveland will be the next president. During the last fiscal year there were produced 4(55,000,(Mil) pounds of cane sugar, 12,000,000 of beet sugar, 1,151(5,000 pounds of sorghum sugar, and 144,KS2 pounds of maple sugar, on which the government paid a bounty of $7.5542,077. The People's party will establish Eastern headquarters at lloston and put State tickets in the field in several Eastern States, ? J. Minis Sullivan who, it will be remembered, slew Alderman 11. C. (iilreatb at (ireenvillea few months ago, has been released from jail on a $4,000 bond.