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ESTABLISHED EN 1S< FARMER'S CONVENTION. A BUGLE BLAST FROM GEN. BRAT TON, OF FAIRFIELD. The Convention's Action Considered Kart leal ami Unreasonable and Utterly Re gardless of the Difficulties and Com plications of tin- Situation in South Caroliim. In a letter to the Winnsboro' News and Hearld (Jen. John Bratt?n explains his position in relcrence td the Farmers' movement. He says: I desire to be distinctly understood as according to die advocates of the faring ers movement the honesty of purpose and good tmth that I claim for myself, ami indeed have ever claimed for the -sturdy fanners of the land In public matters. The expression "to the man ner born," with all tho devoted fidelity to country thai it carries with it. has ever been associated in my mind es pecially with the owners and tillers of the soil. Their interest are as fixed as the soil itself. They cannot be stored in safes, or boxed and sent off to foreign vaults in the time of trouble." They must abide the fate of their country, whether it be devastated by an invading foe, Orient and torn bv internal dissen sions and class conflicts, or calmly rests ' under the peaceful reign of law based on mutual concessions. If they are not true in their hcr^ts to the best interest of the State, where are we to look for fidelity ? With no doubt as to their motives I hoped and expected that the Convention would be an effective agency of agitation, and by its consideration and discussion of the" agricultural situation reach some intelligent conclusion as to the. close of the depression, or at least, throw sonic light on the subject and to that extent riilay the unrest and discontent which seem to prevail. It was with feelings of disappointment and regret that I found myself unable to concur in the action of the Convention or in the assumptions on which it seems to have been predic ted. I say seems, because in the publish ed proceedings the ground on which the action was based arc not clearly and definitely stated. There seemed to be a vague, indefinite idea that the body politic was afflicted with leprosy and honeycombed with rottenness, and that amid this rubbish of leprosy and rotten ness, concealed somewhere, is a masked enemy to the agricultural interests ol the State. I cannot concur in these assumptions'. I cannot concur in the idea that is floated on the air. not fixed aud; located, that injustice has been done to, or justice been withheld from, tho farmers of the State by any.othcr class in the State, or that the agricul tural; depression prevailing is in any >.pv. f? :ape or form attnl\it:tblc to -eoiranct of our State Government. The administration of our Government since '70 has never been excelled in purity or 3d.'fidelity to constitutional obligations, und it will continue to be an honor and blessing to the people of the Stale as long as it is controlled by apolitical or . ganizntion which combine in harmonious union the conservatism, the intelligence arid the character of all classes of our people, whether the offices are filled by farmers or not. If there is an mdividual, or a class, organized or disorganized, in the limits of"the State, in hostile attitude to the agricultural interests ot the State, I will venture to say that be or they arc so closely masked as to defy the skill of the best scouts of the farmers army to locate them. To my mind*it is all baseless assumption?putting up an imaginary enemy in order to get up a fight. But grant the correctness of these assumptions?do the measures proposed reach and cure the evils? Do they tend to generate or call iDto service a healthy, sound, elevated, liberal and enlightened public sentiment? This is the only reliance?the single and sole agency by which rottenuc-ss in a Government like ?ours can be reached and eradicated. To meet the assumed condition (which, by the way, has strayed entrely away lrom the incipient object of the Conven tion, namely agricultural depression and its cause) the farmers are called upon to organize as a class to enforce class leg islation?to capture the Legislature to take what legislation they want. They arc to call a convention of the peo ple, and reorganize the Government to suit their views. In tbe meantime, such institutions as the assembled wisdom of all classes of the State have been able, with patient and earnest labor in adjusting complications and surmounting difficulties, to build on the ashes of our rums, are to be felled at one blow as Stale institutions, and. without regard to cost, converted into class establishments. It the farmers or ganize lor stiel: :t light they will inaugu rate class condictio which the actions of men are governed, not by moderation and wisdom and calm consideration for the common weal, but by passion and prejudice. Will this. I submit to the organizers, call into union thai sound, healthy public sentiment that you need to cure rottenness in the Government? It seems that one of the purposes of .the movement is to take by legislation for the benefit of ;he furnier their just share of the public treasure. When the power is obtained by such means to do that, who is to determine what the just share of the fanner class is ? Who is to measure the grab? \\ here Is the author ity for distributing the public treasure, justly or unjustly, among the classes of people? When was it ever done in our country, except unjustly and indirectly, as is proposed here, by elass legislation, the urea' source to which sonic of us trace the depression ol our industries ? I mean Federal class legislation, how ever, not State. Bui push ou a step further. We make this class light and win. And what Jo we as farmers, or our agricultural interests, gain to rc loonnerate us for tho wounds and seal's with which a crippled and debased poli tical sentiment emerges from the con We will have lowered our standard of education, especially that of the farmer, by substituting, regardless of Uic ex pense, a set of special class schools for our State University system. By special i class education we* will secure the per 1 petuation of the class dissensions and strife which we bare thaugrntcd. Tbc State will not be allowed to concentrate her educational strength, and. in her impoverished condition, exercise the , highest and wisest economy in affording opportunities for the. moral and intellec tual culture of her sons, and. breaking down class lines, train up all into one hearty, healthy, strong family mutually dependent, mutually supporting and af? ' ways struggling together for the welfare. [ honor and glory of their common moth er* How this is to benefit the Farmer ! as au individual, or The farmers as a class, or the agricultural interests of the State, it will be difficult to show. There is ouc assumption that I I neglected to mention, which is correct: I and that is, that the fanners constitute I the majority of the dominant political ' party of the State. This is a first-clas* [ ground for not organizing as farmers for political purposes, as in that dominant, party only can they wield-their political strength wisely for the welfare of the State and for the benefit of themselves. But the programme is an appeal to them, not to assert that strength as citizens and Democrats, but to organize it and I wield it as class power for class pur | poses. This power is to be wielded j within the lines of the Democratic party. That is the avowed and. I believe, the ; sincere intention of the movers and j organizers. Will such a movement con i tribute to the harmony and efficiency of 1 that party ? Is there any conservatism. : and spirit of concession in it? Is there ; not the shadow of the spirit that would rule or ruin ? - * Again?it is a farmers' organization to carry out a platform political in its character and other than that of the Democratic, party. How is the member ship of such an organization limited to Democrats? Is it not unfurling a ling that might attract even a judicious enemy of Democracy and under which he could judiciously fight? There is no I provision against it. Can wo afford this sort of thing in our condition ? Fear fully handicapped by the weight of a newly-fledged and debaseil citizenship, is it not suicidal to fritter away our I strength for such a purpose, when it is I all needed to uphold the thin veil of the j law between us and licentious and dc ! bauched government, and with it. if it J ever comes again, the debasemen t of our standard of free citizeuship? From devolves on us of the white race the I highest duties of citizenship?requires ! the maintenance of the highest standard I of citizenship. While orators, writers ! and sentimental philanthropist theorize I at a distance on the race question, it is J our fate to be in the .forefront in the practical solution of the problem.- The vital question with us is?can we, under the load thrust upon us, maintain a healthy, liberal, enlightened public and ' political sentiment, or are we to suo (ctimb and be dragged down to its level'' j By taking care of oursckes in this mat j tor, we render the highest service and I do our full duty to the State, and. in ? deed, by thus holding up to his view a high and worthy standard we render the j only aid in our power to the "man and j brother" in working out Iiis own destiny; ; for that he must, under the laws of na ! ture, do for himself. But the point is j made for application to ourselves and j our duty in working out our own destiny. Is it not the part of wisdom, is it not j the dictate of self-preservation, to con I ccntrate our force?our intellectual and ; moral force, our educational and politi ' cal force, our Anglo-Saxon race force? and apply it to the accomplishment of this purpose? How can wc do it? The only agency in our reach for effecting this combina tion is the Democratic party?the organization not of any class, but of all I classes?the organization of the people. It was framed for the purpose and used effectively to lift the political sentiment of the State from a condition of ruinous and disgusting degradation to a healthy standard, and thereby restore to its allegi ance to the Constitution the Government of the Stale. It is the only means at our command for maintaining the fidelity of Government to the expressed will of the people. It is the only instrumentality through which wc can concentrate our strength for the supreme duty of the situation. So long as it will require of the officials of Government lidelity to constitutional obligations in the conduct of their offices, aud maintain the rule of their Constitution, so long may we await in calm security the developc ment of the destiny 'd'the-black race. The Democratic party, with all its faults and sliort-comiinrs, is our sole re liance, our forlorn hope, in the conlhet with the difficulties and dangers of this critical period in the life nl the Male. Can we a (lord any movement that will cripple and impair its efficiency? Hut enough has been said to indicate my views on the subject. I am forced to the conclusion that the movement will operate in the opposite direction from that intended, and is a most un forliuialc mistake. Its fullest success would sacrifice the substance for the shadow, and. far from benefiting the agricultural interests of the Stale, would be detrimental to all the interests o! the State and especially to the agricultural. But the particular misfortune of such a movement lies in the fact that success is not necessary to enable i*, to do harm. The mere persistence in it will be like a lire in the rear and will distract and cripple our strength in the great conflict in front. In my judgment the action of the Con flict? RANGEBURGr, S. C, TH vention was ill-considerate, radical and unreasonable, and utterly regardless of the difficulties and complications of the situation bore m South Carolina. A MOUNTAIN FRESHET. Catching a Train and Eating the Track from Under It. ASHEVILLE, X. C. June 9.?The j most terrific aud phenomenal rain that i ever fell in the history of this section. ' occurred last night in the vicinity of ! Marshall, and your correspondent was ! in the train which left Asheville at 5 p. m. ! Two small slides* occuredN before reach ' ing this place. They were soon rc ' moved. The rain descended in terrible ! torrents, and there was great uneasiness ; Lfor fear of other troubles on the road j j ahead. When the train reached a point just below Marshall, a slide in front of the train stopped it. The conductor ! ordered the train to back to the depot, j ?Amoun'iain torrent, which five minutes j before the train had passed over, could not now be crossed. The driftwood, trees, timber of houses, and the boulders, I the raging, mad torrent piled upon the | track made it impossible for the traiu to return to the depot. The roadbed is on the margin of the river, and the j j turnpike road between the railroad and i j the mountain. The embankment next to the river began crumbling from under] it, and the conductor and passengers ; fled in consternation from what appear led to be the doomed tram. The wafer j was lour feet deep on lite track, and j 1 rising at the rate of six inches per minute. ' A heavy log about two or three feet in j I diameter was dashed against the cars,; I and for a few minutes the scene was one j I of the greatest fear and excitement. By ! ! the most heroic efforts the construction ! I lorce got the drift wood and debris from I the road, which was actually melting! away from the cars, and the brave en- J giueer, Mr. Clark; drove through the i turbid waters to a place of safety^ 1 Captain Murphy, the conductor, says that he never spent a moment in such imminent danger in all his years of railroad life. The stream, which is known as Rigsbv run, is ordinarily not more than three or four feet wide. This sudden and unparalleled rise is attributed (o a.w^ter spout which broke forth a short ihstauire afoyc the town of Marshall, and augmcJ^d by the heavy rain which I was all while falling in great torrents, i The water at one point in the low lands below Marshall spred out to a distance of a half a mile. Houses aud stock were carried oil' by the raging waters of the heretofore small and comparatively harmless stream AVARICIOUS RELATIVES FOILED.' The Court? Keftiso to Prevent a Plan's | 4 <:?.i;..ro*ity V.??'ard VSTi.iff WIW- j1 Hartford, Conk., June 3.?The re-1 latives of Chauncey Winship of Wether feild, aged seventy-five, who wanted a ! conservator appointed over the old j gentleman because he was giving too : much of his property to the buxom wife i he married last year, are not likely to ! succeed. After a long hearing, in which ! the old gentleman showed that marry I ing at seventy-four did not necessarily establish his mental imbecility, the Court to-day relused to appoint a con servator. The Judge suggested, how ever, as a compromise, that the wife transfer back to her aged husband the !?0,000 cash and securities he has given her and receive for her absolute use the third of his estate, to which she would be entitled at his death. The remainder would be placed in trust for his support and subject to his will, the Court sug gesting that there was no doubt of bis testamentary capacity. It is believed that the venerable Chauncey will reject the compromise, as he is grateful to the buxom widow for marrying him after a dozen younger women had rejected his i proposals of marriage, backed by offers of several thousand dollars cash down. Triplets Twice In About a Year. A little more than a year ago we re-! corded the fact that Mrs;. George Poorc 1 of West Xewbury, gave birth to triplets, i two boys and a girl. The girl lived but a short time afer birth, and the boys grew healthy and strong and are alive and well to-day. Xow we have the pleasure of recording an exact repetition ! ! of the circumstance. This week triplets ' ' were again born to them, two boys and 1 ! a girl. The girl breathed a short time: ! and died: the boys arc as strong as in ; hints at that age can be expected. The j mother is doing well with her four boys,! ! the eldest of which is but a trifle over a year.?Georgetown (Mass.) Advocate. All Sale and Sound. Boston. Juue !?.?A few days ago Detective Dearborn was called to trace the disappearance from a lawyer's office [in this city of $340,000 in unregistered Government bonds. Investigation dis closed that a tin trunk containing the securities had been stolen by a little ? office boy. who knocked oil' the lock and helped himself to fifty dollars hi gold coin, which was in the trunk, and went to till up on pie, leaving the trunk with tin; bonds hidden in the rear of the old Merchants' Exchaugc. Next day the; lad relumed the trunk to the nfllee. hid-j iuu' it in an out-of-the-way place, where it was loimd with the bonds untouched. Found Urotlters and Sisters. IJiioii.miia.m. Conn.. June 4.? Miss Mary Filbert, oneoflbe prettiest ^irls , in this town, returned from Xcw York to-night as happy as a queen. Seven teen years ago she wns left an orphan, and was adopted by a family mimed Fil bert. Her own name was Kutlmiann.' but she took her parent's name and; lost sight ol brothers and sister.-. For ; four year.- she has been trying to lind them, and recently interested postmas- ? tcr Clark in the search. He went to work with a will, and was successful in I discovering the Ruthmanns in Xew York.: ' Miss Filbert went there a week ago and I returned to-night. I jp: -^^^ ^^^^^ |||| . - DUSDAY, JUNE 17, 18* Cigf?BEI) BY A MADMAN. ? STEAMSHIP CREW TERRORIZED BY - A CRAZY COMMANDER. Day.-, of Agonizing Suspense on Bouril the ,.,Frinz Frieelcrich Carl?Cuptiiln Linda '?"atlus Amuck With Cutlass and Pistols. When 'the German steamship Prinz ijrleiferich Carl of Hamburg arrived at pier .45. East River, on Sunday after noon; Captain Gosotf Linda, who had been her commander, was not with her. lie had been lost at sea. His death and the,-incidents which preceded it make up' a terrible story. The officers and men of the Prinz Friederich Carl were fond of- their captain, but most of them felt almost glad that the voyage was continued without him and that the ocean relieved them of a fearful dread. On the morning of April 27. at 7 o'clock, .as ihe fcrinz Carl dropped anchor iu Suez Roads,' Captain Linda disappcard. He had been seen a few moments before setting ou -a rail of the qnartcr deck, Dear the stern of tiie vessel. When the+crew searched for him ten minutes afterward no sign of him could be found on the, vessel, and lie was given up for los?. The German Consul and the agent of the vessel at Suez came aboard during the day, and said they had seen a cap.resembliug a Turkish fez floating in the sea. The descriptor of the cap answered to that worn by the captajn. Every-one became satisfied that captain Linda bad been drowned, and Chief Offi?fl&iF. H. Stohm was made captain, and iBecond Mate Henry Rohm was promoted to chief officer. TbjSr Prinz Friederich Carl has been out from Hamburg for eight months visiting Chinese and Japanese ports, and taking on a cargo of teas and mis cellaneous goods. At Singapore a young man came aboard as a passenger, and at Hong Kong a tine-looking young woman made* the second passenger. They bolh came lo New York. Xot long alter the arrival; of the yonug woman on board Ca^platn Linda began to manifest signs of insanity. He drank heavily, and when under the influence of liquor, and for..fWo*or three days after a spree, be was.excecdmgly dangerous. lie would arul'l.imsclf with a cutlass and pistols, whiqb he strapped, arouud his waist, and parade the deck, threatening to kill the cnti3e.crew. The men were frightened, an^%v a tlnma^. mutiny seemed proba ble; The fit would weapon", and Cap tain L'uida was again one of the kindest aud raostcousiderate of superiors. Cjiicf Malc"3iohm tells the story in the follow ing words: ?'Qi'.'j day I entered the saloon and fouifu,'he c'ajotain in n terrible humor. StfTOWj cutlTsses were hear by in a lock '>rj'i^5j'i''^-fenr that lip would poize one of them and injure some one I took them up in my arms and turned to walk cut. The captain became more furious, find demanded the weapons after he.had run to the door and locked it. Raving no means of escape, I threw the swords on tho floor and the captain seized one. Brandishing it over bis head lie cried: ;I am going to kill you; I'm going to kill every one) on board the ship.' lie made a movement toward me, and bend ing my neck I said. 'Here, captain kill me if you want to!' That seemed to pacify ium, aud he called the boy who was cowering in a corner to unlock the door and let me out. One day lie ap peared on deck with several pistols, and after frightening all the mcu into hiding places, he fired at Chief Mate Stohm, aud came near killing him. Captain Linda was most attentive to the lady passengers when he was sober. It was a bright morning in April, and the sea was gently rolling under a light breeze from the South. One female passenger was sitting aft on the quarter deck under a parasol, reading a book. The captain nppeard at the head of the stairs leading down into the cabin, aud when he saw the woman his demeanor changed. A pleasent look had been on his face but now his eyes looked tierce, his face livid. He disappeared down the stairway, but sprang out a momcut afterward like a tiger. The woman looked at him and screamed. Leveling a pistol at her bead he was about to fire, when the woman leaped upon him, seizing the weapon, turned the muzzle aside. Then a strug gle followed, but some of us interfered and disarmed the captain. For weeks none of us felt safe. We did not know at what moment our captain would become violent and shoot or saber us. The men crept jnto their bunks at night trembling, and came out trembling m the morning. We knew we had a lunatic on board, and that lunatic was our captain. The day when he was drowned I had been talking to him only a few minutes before he disappeared, and lie seemed perfectly sane. Whether he fell off the rail acei dcnlly or committed suicide, none of us know.'' Captain Linda was .'!?*> years old. and leaves a wife and two children in Ham burg.?Xcw York Star. An Kxtrnonliuary Case. The telegraph has announced the fact that Dr. J. Milton Bowers, convicted in Sun Francisco of poisoning h:.^ wife by slowly administering phosporus, has been sentenced lobe hung. The case is au extraordinary one iu the criminal an nals of San Francisco, as the trial c??m biimcd six weeks, and the main evidence was found in the stomach and throat of the dead woman. These, subjected to delicate chemicals tests, revealed plain traces of phosphorus und a malitriiant ulcer in the stomach also due to the same cause. Dr. Bowers hud insurance amounting to 17.000 on Iiis wile's life, und it was proved he bud discussed mar riage with another woman while his wife was lying ill. The evidence was wholly circumstantial, but Rowers' bud character aud the atrocious revelation of his domestic habits led to his convic tion, lie received the sentence calmly, although tbe judge who pronunced it shed tears. piiic: SCALPED BY THE APACHES. The Terrible Experience of a Voting Cali fornia Scout. A sick and sorry looking specimen of Inuuauity slopped from the passenger [train last night and climbed into a wait- { ,: iug wagon and was driven to the conn-, i try. His name, was Samuel Xcff. He j is a man ol about thirty years of age and his parents reside in Pine Creek. ' Young Xcff is just home from Arizona. : where he has becu prospecting in the ! mines and acting as a scout on the hunt ' for Indians. L nfortuatcly for him he 1 found the murderous red devils, and ; : they almost made mince-meat of him. \ ; One day while riding through a canon he was shot through the shoulder and \ ] fell from his horse. IBs assailants, j : finding that he was not dead, tortured i : him outrageously. They cut gashes ' ' in his face and all over his body, and j ? applied lire to his feet and hands and j ended their brutal assaults by scalpiug i j bun. lie suffered untold agonies and ! ; prayed that death might relieve him. j i Finally he fell into ,a faint, and upon : awakening lie found himself being kind-, ! ly treated in a miner's cabin. The j j miner had picked him up and carried I j him a long distance on horseback. Xelf j : suffered weeks of excruciating pain and j i raved with a fever, and us soon as he ? ; was able to travel he look the road for\ j home. Last evening a Chronicle reporter ask- I ed Xelf how it felt to have his hair lift ed. '?It is a dreadful sensation," he said, j : "One thinks, as the skin is being torn i Irom the skull, that his feet are coming '? , right up through his body to the top of j his head. Ob, It is terrible. It is so j .painful that you cannot utter a cry and thousands of stars dance before your i eyes. You imagine red hot needles are j darting in and out/>f your llesii and you clasp your bauds so closely that the j j linger nails cut mlo the flesh. I would j ! rather be run through a thrashing ma J chine, ground up in a sausage mill or thrown under a locomotive than to ever undergo such another ordeal. It makes me shudder lo think of the tortures 1 have gone through with and I never want to look upon the-face of another I Indian." "Do many persons survive the opera- j j tiou ?" interrupted the reporter, i "Xo,. I have ' only heard of two or ! three men besides m^^t who have lost i their hair by the scalpj?g-kriffe and then j lived to tell ?f it." "Mr. Xcff, do vou think tire hair will I ever grow out again f I "Oh, no; 1 shall always, have a bald j spot up there. The skin was torn oil'; for a space of four inches square, and j I'm afraid it will never heal again, j . "X\r-n if it does heal over the here place [ ;' will always be so painful that I cannot i j touch it. I keep my head tied np in ; cotton and sweet oil. You can sec that my beauty has been considerably j marred. These fright ft: 1 gashes across! my face will go with mc to the: grave."?California Chronicle. lien. Butler und Father ltynti. \ The late poet priest of the South fre quently told the following anecdote of his stay in Xcw Orleans: it was during 1 the war when Gen. Butler was in charge of the city. A Catholic; soldier in the i Union forces there, died, and because] 'someone blundered no religious rites were observed at the funeral. II was reported to Butler that Father Ryan had ! refused to read the burial service. In a j towering rage Butler sent for the priest ! and in the most peremptory and offen sive way demanded why he was not ' given all the honors of the church to the \ deceasd. Father Ryan quietly cxplain ' ed the matter showing that lie was not j to blame; that the fault was due to the comrades of the dead soldier, and add \ cd: "It is therefore, not true that I refused to bury him. It is also not true I have publicly and repeatedly refused to officiate at the funeral of any Federal 1 soldier or officer. On the contrary, it is the reverse of the truth, for, general, it would give mc great pleasure to bury the : whole lot of you!" Butler's stern face relaxed into a grim smile, and from that day he and Father Ryan had no further trouble in common._ Territory Recovered. Wc are reliably informed that, by the : recent survey of the State line, made by j a commissioner and surveyor appointed by the Legislature of North Carolina, two thousand acres of laud heretofore considered a part of North Carolina really belongs to South Carolina.' This survey gives'to South Carolina the fol lowing prominent landowners; J. M. [Howie, Prank Merrill, Ncaly McGiu. James McGin and Jackson Hogland. The most of the territory is valuable farming lands and will add greatly to the panhandle of our county. Some suppose that the early settlers of North Carolina crowded the Indians down and look possession. At any rate the Slate should look after her rights. It may lind out why the difference is so great in the real acreage of the Stale and that returned for luxation.?Lancaster Ledger. A Democratic Victory in Oregon. I'uKT I.A NI>, OltKCiOX. JUHO 10.? TllC election returns are as follows: The Republicans re-elect Sherman to Con gress by 1,000 plurality and also elect their candidates lor secretary of Male, superintendent of public instruction and public printer. The Democrats elect their candidates for Governor, treasurer and Supreme Judge. As the Governor, secretary of State and Ircasurcr constitute the board for ihc management of all Stale institutions, , the Democrats will have control of the State affairs for the next four year-. McBridge, (Republican,) for Secretary of State, has -100 plurality. Slrahau, I (Democrat.) for Supreme Judge, 1">" plurality. The official figures will not , change this result. The Prohibitionists i polled about 2,000 votes. it E $1.50 PEE ANNUM. I SWALLOWED UP. I ELEVEN ACRES OF LAND SINK INTO THE DEPTHS BELOW. The Result of it Terrific Explosion? The Shaft Con vert ml Ini??i? Roaring Chlm lyeyof Flaming <Jus?Mouses Moved ami Cracked, ami a Rnllrond Undermined. YVlLKESBARRK, P.V.. June 10.?At 0 o'clock yesterday evening one of the most violent explosions thatcvor occur red in the anthracite coal lields took place at the Mineral Spring Colliery at Parsons, where on Monday lastsix men were so badly burned by a slight explo sion. It is thought that lire was still lingering in the colliery from Monday's explosion and ignited a large body of gas which had probably accurmnulated in the lower seam, which has not been worked since Monday. The rest of the mine has been worked as usual since Monday. Yesterday afternoon the ma jority of the men. about three hundred m all. left the mine between 4 and 5 o'clock, and at the latter hour the super intendent passed the word forall to leave. Five men, however, who were repairing I in the lower seam, remained until nearly ! C o'clock, when they ascended the shaft and had just stepped oil' the carriage when a roar as of thunder slariicd them. The ground shook under their feet as though by an earthquake, and instantly I after a volume of smoke und llanie burst j up the shait with terrific violence, carry ing with it a vast quantity of wreck and j debris. The head house was broken to i pieces and a portion of the fan house : ruined. Several of the men standing ; near were thrown to the ground and cut : and bruised by the wreck and rubbish ; that rained down upon them. At the same time the surface over an area of about eleven acres sank with a sharp shock about two feet. The gtound was covered with fissures and seams from two to twelve inches wide, from which smoke and noxious gas escaped. Several houses stood on the track and were bad ly shaken and split, though not wrecked. The terrified inmates lied from their shaking dwellings amid clouds of dust and dirt caused by falling of the plaster from the walls. The tracks of the Philadelphia and Heading road crossed this disturbed area aud^'werc rendered impassable until this morning, when trains were allowed to pass .slowly. It is impossible to say what the condition of the mine is, as it is full of black damp aud.nil ventilation is stopped, but it is fearcd/however, that it is almost entirely ruined, as, if the explosion occurred in the l?wer seam it must have wrecked the whole mine to have affected .the sur face. The colliery is' owned by the Lehigh Valley . Coal Company-, - and .f.tnploycNt about 400 men uiul boys, who arc thrown out of work. A MAD KING DROWNS HIMSELF. Deponed and Removed From Ills Castle He Plunge:* Into a Luke Munich, June 14.?King Ludwig, who was recently deposed from the Ba varian throne, committed suicide at ? o'clock yesterday evening. He had gone out for a promenade in the Park of Berg Castle, accompanied by Dr Gud den, his physician. The King suddenly J threw himself into Stnrinberg Lake and was drowning. The physiciad jumped into the water to rescue the King, aud j was also drowned. The Medical Com? mission, which examined the late King Ludwig, report that he had ordered the j members of the ministeral deputation, headed by Count Holstein, who called , upon him to procure his consent to a rc j gency, to be flogged uutil they bled and then to have their eyes extracted. Be fore his death the belief was spreading ! among the common people of Bavaria j that the King's deposition was illegal. ! The people did not beleive he was insane. ! Precautions had been taken to prevent the populace from rising to restore the King. There is evidence that a violent struggle occurred in the Lake between the King and Dr. Guddcu, m the endeav or of the latter to rescue his patient. Many* footprints can be seen in the soil at the bottom of (he Lake near where the bodies were found, and there are several brusies on Dr. Gudden's face, which were probably made by the King's linger nails. The marks consist of two large and two small scratches on the right side of the nose and forehead. These signs show beyond a doubt that a struggle look place. Itriilitl .Murder. CUAKI.UTTK, X. I .. ,1 line !).?W. E Cuthbertson, ii grocer of this city, was this afternoon shot through the heart' and instantly killed by Iiis son-in-law, Cyrus Long, a young dry goods clerk. Two years ago Long "married Cuthbcrt son's daughter, but Lite match was so bitterly opposed by the girl's falber that the couple ran away and were married. Since then Cuthbertson has made re peated threats to kill Long. Long's baby was sick last week und CulhbcrtJJ son's wile w. nt to see it. When she returned Cuthbertson gave her a brutal beating and would probably have killed her but for the interference of neighbors, This week Cuthbertson made threats to kill Long and sent him word he intended to shout him on sight. This alteruoou as Long was standing In Taylor's store Oil Trade street. Cuthbertson approach ed when Long drew his pistol and shot hilll dead. A Whole Family Poisoned. I'lCKKXS. S. ('.. via EaSI.KV, S. <'.. June 12.?Joseph Ilardin. who lives a lew miles North ofPickcns, is the father of eight, children. One of them died on the 8th. one on the HUh. and three on the 12th instant. The three are to-day corpses iu their lather's house, and two more are at the point of death. The eighth child and t'ie mother took sick to-day. The physicians think the deaths above are the result of some poisonous substance in the well water the family use.?Columbia Register.