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A FLORIDA COON HUNT. Incidents, Accidents and Fun to Be Found in an Old-Fashioned Way. "Come," said the Major, flipping the ashes from his cigar, "let's go coon hunting to-night." "Why, certainly; wheni do you start?' "I will come for you at 4 p. in.," he answered. "It is ten miles to the plantation-our starting poin t for the hunt. I'll ride Selim and bring my black mare for you. She is a daisy, if she is a little frisky. Good day." At 4.30 p. in. we mounted our horses and rode out toward the setting sun. It wa a beautiful afternoon, with just a imuspicion of fall in the cool, sweet breeze. On either side were tangled ma-ses of wild and shaggy undergrowth, the flotsam and jetsam of the redundant life of nature. Giant oaks and stately pines stood uard over these and lofty bamboo tines climbed to the top for a more extensive view. Sometimes the road ahead of us would seem to come to an abrupt conclusion, the overarching trees appearing to form an impassable barricade. As we approached they would open ranks and onward we would go. About five miles out we came to a little stream and stopped to water our horses. This little stream was clear as crystal, the bottom being of hard clay. It slipped out of the woods in the cutest manner and, spreading out to a width of three feet in the road, sparkled and glittered, then dashed into the darkness of the other side. SOME FUN TO BEGIN WITU. A mile further on a little episode occurred that afforded me considera ble uneasiness and discomfort and the Major a like quantity of amusement. I was riding along, carelessly con versing, paying but very little atten tion to my horse, when a little spotted fawn ran across the road. My horse stood still about one second, trembling in every limb, nostrils distended, wild with terror, and then made a tremen dous leap to one side, throwing me half out of the saddle. Here my Indian experience came in hand and I soon recovered control. There was a series of plnnging, kicking and rear ing, a desperate effort to rub me off against the trees, and then Kitty, having found her master, settled down to uqiet again. AN OLD-TIME RUINED HOME. Passing through one large, well cultivated plantation, we came to a second one, and here our journey efided. A long avenue, lined with snIh bayonet, led to the old man sion; once a stately edifice, but now almost in ruins. It was nearly in the centre of a grove of immense live oak, .,kubg with masses of soft, gray moss. a gled vines and creeping roses hid the rotten planks of the wide piazzas. On the second floor but two rooms were habitable, one being occu Pied by the bachelor overseer, the other was the guest chamber. The only furniture of the latter was a cot and some chairs. A wide, open fire piace gave an. air of comfort to the irge, dingy, shutterless room. This dilapidated mansion had once been the summer home of one of the wealthiest planters in the county. What scenes of merriment the crumbling walls had witnessed! What shouts of joy and langhter! What strains of long-or g'otten music, to which tiny feet kept timel In these rooms the Wail of the new birth has been beard! Here the 'fir bride has stood upon the threshold of a tateful, untried iite. From here too,'the deadi have been carried fort h, for the tomibstones gleam white in the grove some distance in the rear of the hb'use. Here it was the handsome, stalwart, chivalrous owner don ned the Confederate gray and went forth to battle for the cause of his people. Here, also, was he brought back cold /and still, shot at the head of his regi. ment, died on the field of honor. - A SOUTHERNS SUPPER. From some hidden recess the y-oung overseer brings forth a corpulent black bottle. We half ill our glass with a reddish-looking fluid-I am positve it was not milk-and then talie seats at the supper tabie in the lower room It is a bachelors' repast, for we are all Isachelors, and we enjoy it, for good old' Aunt Jenny knows exactly what ,we want. A plate of biscuit, plump and snowy white, a large dish of chicken fried to a delicious golden brown, boiled potatoes, bursting their brown jackets off in their eagerness to be eaten, coffee, strong as Sampson and black sa 3iggerdemnos, rounded out the meal. After snpper we lit our pipes and sat out on the crumbling porch while waiting the preparation of the hunting armament. The might air was full of sound. The grotesque laughter of the mule came to us from the far-off stables; the chattering whirr of insect life made the darknes; melo dious with mnoncotony of sound. Sonme times a shadowy flag of wing and a harsh note showed wher.e some be lated bird was going wearil- home ward. WE nUNT TilE COOS. "Fall in," said the 31ajor, and off we started. Josiahl and his son Tke, both of the color warranted to kect> in any olimate, led the column. They have torches, made of fat pine and carry under the left arm bundles of the same. The overseer follows, equally well equipped. The Major and I follow him. We leave the plantation and tramp through an immense field of brown sedge. Circling around us, obedient to the call of Josiah, are the famous coon dogs, "Bill" and "Shep." At the word they forge ahead eagerly, and on we go. After a weary trail through the tall grass we come to an immense oak tree and Josiah halts with a smothered ejaculation. There is a cleared place tinder the tree and signs of a recent camip. We notice traces of tire and see a huge pile of corneobs and some few chicee-. bones. "What is it, Josiah?".the Major asks. "Nuffin' but er- ole camp oh dema ref'gee niggers. Been gone er~ bout a week, I 'low. Wush I'd cotehed 'em, doggone dei-e tr-ilin' pot-licker skins: Mus' a bin three er~ fo' ob 'eim. Dat's whar my big roos'er went las' week". Now we have to ci-oss a -wimt,itasmuig stream, show ing dairkly grieein uncd-r the flairing ligh'tot the torches. The bridge is a homie-mnade, homo pathic one of two raiis width, sup ported by ickdey, Swaying pole, guarded by an equally rickety hand rail, The water lok to be of fathom less depth . Th nxetroe-s and the oveeer ao over the bridge as care lessly as it it was as~ stable and solid as the 'connecting link between . New York and Brooklyn. The 31ajor eyes it dubio~uly and teilis me to go tirst. With snail-like pace I cross it safelg. Now he tries it, first picking up a pole to steady his path. In the middle of the bridae the pole-which proves to in he goes. How the the overseer and I laugh, for the water, deemed almost a mile in depth, does not reach the top of his botts. As he scrambles up the bank we greet him with renewed laughter and cheers, but become very solemn when he says in a quizzical tone: "Boys, you forget that the flask is in my pocket." Now we come to a cane-brake and plunge in boldly, no matter bow coldly the swamp mud and water runs. After tram1iing about a milo~we halt to hear from the dogs. We build a fire and break off some canes to throw upon it. As they catch tire the quick, sharp snapping sounds like the skinwish tire of war time. Awaken ed (frei pleasant dreams by the unwonted heat, a deadly moccasin glidVs fl within reaching distance of the Mt jor- There is the sharp, quick bark of 1 Derringer and, its head shot off, the snake writhes out its life. wE FIN) THE COON. The frantic yelping of a dog. "Dat Shep," Josiah savs. Another dog joins in. "Dat Bell, coon done treed." "I golly, pop, he in dat tree ober dar on aire of de swamp," shouts Ike. "Ilush ro-a motif, you fool niggah, don' vou s'pose old Josiah know whar am?" is the paternal reply. All fatigue is forgot ten. Torches are replenished and on we ru'h to the spot indicated. Ike is right. A rather slender tree hangs over the swamp. On one of the liml)s we see something grim and silent, i:s eyes shining like coals of fire. ut few words are spoken. Bell is leaping against the trunk, Shep sits on the ground, steady, motionless, watching the enemy above. "Ike, climb the tree and shake the coon off." It is the overseer who speaks. The grinnirg Ike scrambles up the tree and crawls out upon a limb under the one on which the coon is perched. le is nearly to where he can reach this limb when sita, the limb on which he is breaks and down he goes into the swamip. Both dogs are on him in a minuie and roll him over in the water. -'Tu'n me loose, I tells yer; tu'n ie loose. Can't yer tell a nigger from er coon? 'fu'n me loose!" The dogs slink away abashed and resume their former )ositions. Up the tree again goes Ike. This time he reaches ,the limb safely and gives it a vigorous share. Ilo! here comes the coon. "Sick him, Shep! Sick him, Bell!" A short, sharp tight and Mister Coon relinquishes the ghost. THlE CURTAIN DROPS. It is 2 a. in. when we regain the house. Thanks to Aunt Jinny's thought fulness, a good fire is blazing in the tire-place and on the table is a huge cake of some unknown style of architecture. We are hungry and eat. We arC chilled through, but a hot whiskey punch restores the circulation. Now fo a little folding of the hands in sleep. I dream that I am a coon, and the M.ajor, a big yeller dog, has. me by the throat, when a vigorous shake rouses me out of this pleasant dream and the genial voice of the Major says: "Get up, old man. The horses are at the door. 1o, for home". Early as it is, Aunt Jinny is up to bid us good bye. This means a dollar apiece, which we gladly give her, and then ride out into the glory of the awaken ing day. ii NMILTON JAY. THE fIIARP: HIPS OF LAVRORERS. Dr. Tabluage Discourses on the Gent-ral WVickednless of EmLIployer1. In a rcent sermon, Dr. Talmnage. in his tusuai draimatic and eloquent fashi ion, pictured ''The Genuine il-ardships of Workinn Classes."~ It was the third of his series of lectures on the labor qestioni. A large audience more than took u p the seating capacity of the Tabernacle. Ilis discourse treated of the darker sideC of the life of tile a-age workers, especially the working girls. "In tile olden ~time,"' said Mr. Tal mage, "the Children of israel weire God's chosen people, but to-ay the American people occupied that proud position. Few persoins realize the trials and burdens of anybody but themselves. It is idle to say that be. cause some of the falso friends of labor did unlawful things the cry for reform is all hullabaloo. The great question of the day is the labor problemn, and it must be solved in a short time. Whbo will deny that the largest employing firm to-day is Grip, Gouge, Grindem & Co." Here the speaker read extracts from a late repor-t, in which a factory girl was quoted as testifving before a labor commission that she was only able to get four months' work in the year, and then sh~e could scarcely earn S3 per week. ile also read the list of fines to which the employas of a large cot ton mill were subjected. it contained such items as twenty-five cents fine for washing one's hands. Foir eating a piece of bread at the looms another irl wats docked a dollar. A poor piner- who told a fellow employe that her mother was about to die had to pay twenty-five cents tine. Mr. Tamage th ought that there wvas no fair re n on why women, especially those e mployed in the g overmnent ciices in Washlington and in the punblic Ischools, should do the same work as the m~l~e employ as and get only half as much par. Hie said that there were 00 ewing girls in New York and Brookh ni who (lid not get half enough to feed and clothe thiemselves, while their emipiovers were rolling in wealth. Some of them made shirts for six cents a dozen and died of slow star-a tion. The needle. he said, killed more people than thle sword. Carlisle's Presidential Prospbcts. There is a buzz of talk going on now about Speaker Carlisle being a Presidential candidate ini 1888. it is strange how that old woman's super stition about the Speakership of the House being a short cut to the Presi dency still prevails. Mr. Blaine thoght so--every man who ever sat in the Speaker's chair has thought so. The fact is, the Speaker of the IHouse stands jus one chance in thirty of giet tn in the White House. There hiave beeni thirty $oeakers, and of these Only oie-ami'es N. Po. andi lie was an 1ecidnt-ever became P1-sident. Mir. Cla com)es tiret with the gratest tenme.th of service in the Speaker's y air. lie was elected to pmiede over i Conresses. I Ie had the I-re., "enial rabie-s badly. Next conies Andriew Stevensonl, 01 Virgtiniia, who was eleted four- times, andt wats aliso bitteii by the tar.jntulat., James (. Blane, debuyler Colfax anid Sanmuel . Randall follow, each of whom served rce Congresses. Ever-ybody. 'knows how Brothner Blainc and poom- Mr. Col x raved and cavorted when tl.e virus got into thleir- blood. Mr. Randall bas ore nearly escap~ed than anyv nani who ever- s'it in the Speaker's chair; but he, too, has~ had faint symiptomls. Now that Mr. Carlisle has been inoctu hated, a case of mor-e or- less developed mania may be expected. But to be Speaker is to take one chance in thirty of vr being- Presidant A TRIBUTE TO JOHN KELLY. What a Once Hostiile Journal Now Says of tho Dead Tammany Chief. It is. not as a philanthropist or as a dis peuserof large charities or as a man whc went much about doing good to his fellow. man that John Kelly will be chiefly knowr in history. yet we doubt whether there it another citizen of New York whose deatl would touch so many hearts with a sens( ofpersonal loss. Unquestionably the sincert and widespread sorrow occasioned by his death is due in some degree to the generou and charitable nature of the man. but it ii the leader rather than the friend whom most- of those who followed and trusted him in life will mourn to-day. The politi cal followers of Mr. Keliy belong, for thc most parl. to a class whose emotions are easily stirred :md in whom the sentiment of lovai!!v to a leader appro aches much mtore ne:' rly contines of personal alTeetion than is t le case with the members of coolet blooded and less enthusiastic races. A life of pnoinn;d and manifold activities had made1(i1 .ltmii Kelly not only prominent asth( skilled leader of a powerful faction of the local Democrac. but it had also won for him the homndless confidence of something like a third of the legal voters of this great city. To these voters. not the most dis cri minating part of the electorate, but un deniably a very active part. Mr. Kelly was the visible embodiment of every politi cal ieasuire :ad every political principle. lie was i to hem not merely Tanmany Hall and soun 1 Democracy, but the Constitution an11d the country. So long as he retained his hI ih :ad his part in politics John Kelly ca.ried under his hat the principle of hlis fimmendiate party. and the member, of that party will lament his death as i kingdom nourns its sovereign or a republi its founier. The pblice's tribute to the memory of John K.-lly will gain much in sincerity and in impressiveness from the )ublie's feelin t.t he was an honest man. Per onal ho ::estv counts for much in life. ever in this ey, where the dishonesty of puhlic Imen is pro veriial. lut in death it Count" for ever thing, since it has not yet beconi customary with respectable persons to join in rever.-it e'.remonies over dishonored dist. A id the consoling reflection thal in all the struggles and the tumults of hih life. i a'I the ottices he held, and in hit private r.-hations Mr. Kelly's personal char aeter conuiianded tile respect of his bitter est political enemies will serve as the com fort and solace of his near and intimatt friends anid the criticisms which it is in evitabie and not to be regrett.ed that hi public c:-reer and services should undergo Fxiloion in a Firework% Factory. The Unexcelled Fireworks Company. o0 which E. F. Linton is the President, oc cupies f ur detacheid buildings on the cor ner of I'nnett anl Liberty avenues, Eas: New York. where 200 men are employed: These buildings are spread out over an aert of ground. ind all were in full operatior Tuesday. Shorily after 11 o'clock ther was an' xnlosioni in the building No. :3 Bennett avenute. and the brick wall fell ir with a crash. There were not man work men in ohat building. and tile firemen pre vened the llames which were caused b3 thle expilsion from spreading to the ad joining ::iuses When the debris had been cleared awa3 the body of Ilov.ard Johnson, an opera ti'e. w: tound. A large -e bolt hia been sh, t into bis clest. and his foot hat been to:n off iat the ankle. Death inus: have en-ed almost iist.antaneous. Nea. hiis, body,! another emipiove. Jamnes Basker was fou::d insensiblc, b]ut still alive. I will recet. .'r. lThe danage to the buildinm :nn hi' :'epaired for about $1,000. Th< cause of the explosion. the force of whiel bro:k' winlows in tile Bennett street sekool 5t0 feet awny. is not known. Biinie"' Nuirih and Nonth. article ei ''-~-uiess North andu South. sus that thie peopl'e of the Sothl huave suf fe'redl !h::e *t' io. inerrutttion to their mza t:'ri:al j'pity. Tl tinseutled state o. :Lfitrs i:'th Noth.' i continues. ''ha caused a gret deal oft caipitalt to riow fron 'te Nor tin fioim Grieat .lriain to tin South. it' is~t''n' ltd that during the tirs1 three mem als of this yetr full'y $:36.000,t0t h'as been invested in the Soth in new un dertakins most of' it fromi the North and~ fiom Etlad. Tis is something which shoul intere:,t the Northern workingman.' To this the Richmond (\ a.) D)i2patch adds: "This i' something~ wic~h should interest the Sothe~rni wvor'inn too. It speaks v ohunes for the conservaitismi of our work Iin"'- elass~e, and is very' suggecstive." The f'ct is "lso signiicaot that the w'orkini popuulati *n of the Souith so much prefex toil to talki that the iron works of Chatta nooga.i Lirmitnham and North Carolina, the oil ritineries of 3Memphis, Helena and New Oreans, and the cotton factories of Sou1th Carolina and Georgia, are till b)usy, itthouit . strike. boyeott or lockout. Clwr~stt eacinig C'hr'onide. Th'le 'Trouabesome Redskin'. rThe cmmnandant of Fort Bliss, near El Paso. Texas. has received irders fronm Gen. Aliles to immtediatevlyimove his troops to sonic point in Arizoai to aid in the' prose' cutain of the war against the Apaches. It is understood that these tr'oophs will strike directly fo r the Giha River country in hopes of im'ecepting thet band of eutthiroats. All is bustle ::ad ecaitemenitat the fort. Troops are being light ly equ ippid for long marches and lirg' qanitiies of pirovisions anil med' icintes arne bein' loaded, wichel seemis to in. dienate that Ce:. 3iles~ ' propse's to remain OUt aill smamertt~t if 'necei"5aryt. The vigorouts act ion of thi il5ilcer .ine:- is tauiptio n of the commna.d of this departmenut cauises gener'al 'a i-ifaction :mdii ha~s done more than tiy other' onie thin'g to riuiet the peo pil', restore coG..ideceI ihe G;overnmeni'It, and prevent 'i g'"nerai upising of the border meni. The U te Indians purchaiseid large quanti ties ot ermns atnd ammtunition: in Durango, Col., Ilast week. Theyi alsio purchased a number of saddles and at greater number of useful aric(les thtan usual. It is expected by some thait they aire preparing to make trouble if the removal scheme is not carried out sit isfatctorily. WIhat the Km:.is Want. ('muavimn, 3May :31.-This nmornig's session of the Knights of Labor conv'ention wais by fair the miost implotatnt in its results to theptublic at large, if not to the order it self. of any session of the convention. A resohitiotn was adopted requesting Congress to dechlire the inationaul eection idayi a lepdl iolidav Ai leuter w'as 'nid-ned sent to the \rn'manated Association of Iron aitd Steel W ork. T Ihe cont' tt and cbaracter of ihe Icener'" re withheld ui' it has been ire (eiv'ed by the' iah''mnatedl Association, tthitbt goiod will 'and the spirit of fra trnit v. It was- reolvedi to appoint at on1ce -nd1 -nd to \ 'iiiintn a speciail comit ..e r i tolok ifter the laibor legisla ln no pen J~i ini" bifore Congre~ss. -Ac t Like a ( harma," This is what MIrs. MIayer, of' Baronnie tre'et, New Orleans, says of' Brown's .on Bitters. A "('balnn"l works quietly, urely, prepf~ly, thoroughly and with elightful effect. Tint iu jst the wvay his wonderful family" medicine worlts on nivalids wuho have h'heen sufi'ering' the ru'ns of li'er comphntt, dlyspepsiat and mpnioverished blood. TIhose who know ts worth sav it is a comonulete ctu'e for yspepsia, wveakness, malai-ia, neuralgia, te. The best plume in wisdom's pinion is the GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. Facts of Interest Gathered from Various Quarters. John Kelly, the Tammany chief, died on the 1st inst. There is a scheme afoot to enlarge the n1avy of Spain. Thirty-two new cases of cholera have been reported at Venice. Captain Bonham, of Abbeville, has been very ill at Providence, R. I. An epidemic has broken out at Chemnitz, Germany, arising from eating raw beef. United States Minister Cox and lady dined with the Sultan of Turkey Sunday. Major H. C. Russell, a Mississippi gam bler. suicided at Indianapolis Sunday. In China the fe for medical attendance is from 5 to 10 cents a visit. Henry Ilavemeyer, sugar refiner, died suddenly, on Wednesday, at Babylon, L. I. Over $30,000 has been raised in Chicago for the families of the killed and wounded police. The police of Belfast, Ireland, seized a quantity of arms consigned to parties in Armagh. The Normal Institute for Richland will begin on the 19th or 20th of July and last ten (lays. Silence never shows itself to so great an advantage as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation. Opportunities are importunities. They are like flowers that fade at night; seize them, therefore, while they last. Orangeburg is now without a telephone, the Bell Telephone Company having taken their instruments away. On Saturday night last the Quirk resi dence, about a mile from Florence, was burned to the ground. The Rev. J. Q. Wertz has accepted a call to become the pastor of the Lutheran congregation at Orangeburg. Mr. 31. B. Anderson shot and wounded a large eagle near Three-and-Twenty Creek, Anderson, on last Wednesday. The deceased wife's sister bill has been sat upon by the House of Lords again. This was expected. The Washington fund collected for the purpose of buying Mrs. Hancock a house now reaches nearly $10,000. The Grand Division of the Sons of Tem perance in South Carolina will meet in Co lumbia in July. The United States Consul at Samoa has established a protectorate over King Ma lietoa. Ex-President Fish, of the New York Marine Bank, is now an assistant to the Auburn Prison chaplain. Mr. Ejijah Wilson, of Abbeville, aged 91 years, fell from a wagon last Saturday and injured his spine. Dr. W. 0. Baldwin died at his home in Montgomery Sunday. He was ameng the most eminent physicians of the country. W. H. Giger shot and killed Deputy United States Marshal J. W. Higgins at Carthage, Tenn., Monday. Old feud. The Cbiago Grand Jury returned 34 additional indictments against the Anar chists Wednesday. In the first game of faro on record, the inventor (incorrectly callek Pharoah) went in a little too far and was done up. It is now thought that the present trouble in the fisheries question is a blessing in dis guise, and will hasten a lasting settlerien.t. Fourteen thousand miles of railroad track were changed in the State ef Georgia from the broad to the narrow gauge wi' in a few hours. . On Saturday W. G. Riley, town mar shal of Abbeville, was accidentally shot while attempting to quell a row. le will recover. Tbe residence of Dr. Henry Faust, near Graham'~s, ()ranm:bim: County, was aecci dentally hurtwa Th lay. Loss $1,000; no insurance. (Capt. Pierce, o.f :-San Carlos Reserva tion, Arizona. is 9 i $12) :.piece for the headls of hostile ios ?oux;l in San Pe dro \':allev. The Pall Mail G':ette, of Moi:ay. calls upon the G'.erinment to take immediate steps to nmet the threatened Ulster rebel lion. Dre George W. Pyle, his wife and two children and a hired man were brutally murdlered on Monday in the Cherokee N tion, Indian Territory, by unknown parties. A freight house in East St. Lous was destroyed by an incendiary fire yesterday, and an officer shot at twice while entering the building. Loss estimated at *75,000. A closed (door meeting of Chicago So cialists was held Sunday night to raise means for the defence of Spies, Schwab and Fielden. The subscription raised for the families of the Chicago policemen killed and injured in the Hay Market riot, now exceeds $70, 000 andI is still increasing. Friday afternoon the wife of Silas Fos ter, of Columbus, Ga., shot herself through the hear-t. Her husband charged her with infidelity. The Provincial Mayors throughout Bel ium have issued orders prohibiting the Socia' ist demonstrations annouinced for June 13. The President has nominated David L. I Iawkins, of Missouri, to be Assistant Secretary of the Interior, rice Jenks, re ignedl. The measles and spring fever have been :onducting a joint canvass in Georgia for s.mne time. Both sides have found full naterial. There is no longer any concealing the fact that prohibition has full possessin of Georgia. In North Georgia the peache-s re rotting a nd falling from the trees. Anarchist Most was sentenced Wednes ay to the New York Penitentiary for one ear andl fined $500: Baunschineg, nine onths and $250; Schienck, nine months. The Blue and the Gray mingled in ('harleston, West Va., on decoration day, o pay their floral tribute to the dead sol iers of the late war. A petition from the Knights of Labor m~s been presenited to Congress to abolish ational banks and establish national loan offices. Mr. Thomas Adams, of Prosperity, says e saw a horse and buggy tioating down he Saluda when the water was up last eek. A rattlesnake measuring four feet five nches in length, with fourteen rattles, was illed by a colored man, nor Slan's Bridge, n Colleton, on Wednesday- last, A dispatch from Australia reports that he steamer Lycemoon, from Melb ournc for Sidney, was wrecked off Green Cape, eventy persons were drowned, Deputy Collector J. B. Elkin catpture~d '. Bellew and destroyed a hartre distillery, nar Landru's, Greenville County, early onday morning. A destructive tire broke out in Pensacola, la., Tuesday, burning thirty buildings. ne hundred people are homieless in conse ~un. Loss $60,000; small insurance. The Count and Countess of Paris have eturned to their residence at Eu to make' reparations for their departure from rance in anticipation of an order of ex ulsion. The U'nited States Consul at Samoa has laced that (!omain under the protection of he American flag, at the request of Kin Malietoa, and notified President Cleveland f his action. Rev. Sam Jones has modified his views pon base ball, and now admits that it is a ealthful and harmless sport in itself, and ny beome objectionable when it is made the occasion of betting and the like. The national game may now proceed. The conviction and punishment of all the men in Illinois who preach chaos and prac tice bomb throwing would not deliver the State from anarchy, Her divorce laws would still remain to menace her tranquility. The inclination of the American girl t, marry a coachman is justly characterize. by the Pittsburg Ditpatch as an "extraordi nary freak." Most wives prefer to take the "reins" in their own hands. A fight occurred in the Minnesota Legis latureSaturday, between Premier Norquay and an opposition member, on account of the defeat of the motion of confidence in the Norquay government. New Orleans is a little straitened for money, and last week borrowed $16~>,000 at 8 per cent. interest to meet the pay rolls of officers and other employees for the months of March and April. The Pittsburg Oakland and East Liberty street cars, of Pittsburg, Pa., were tied up Monday on account of the failure of the company to make out the twelve-hour schedule as promised. Congtessman Tillman vigorously defend ed the manufacture of oleomargarine. which, lie said, was the poor man's butter. and denounced the proposition to tax it out of existence. Rev. Dr. Michelis, Bishop of the Old Catholics in Germany, who persistently re fused to accept the decree declaring the in fallibility of the Pope, died at Frieburg Sunday. The Salvation Army Congress opened in London last Saturday. It will remain in session a week. Two thousand oflicers and many thousand members from all parts of the world are present. It is authoritatively stated that Chamber lain and his Radical supporters have made up their minds to abstain from voting on the home rule bill, thus ensuring its success of the measure on its second reading. A North Carolina Coneressman has re ceived from a constituent a request that lie borrow a sum of money from the United States Treasury, to be secured by a mort gage on the constituent's farm in the old North State. The United States revenue cutter Dix brought to Pensacola, Sunday, the Spanish fishing smack Chlotilde, which she captured for violating the fishery laws. The captain has been reported to the Washington au thorities. The annual report of President Gruner, of the New York Cotton Exchange. states that it is a subject for regret that the busi ness of the Exchange had felt the effect of dullness which had prevailed in the trade during the year. The acreage in cotton of the cotton grow ing States last year was 17,322,388 acres. The crop for the season was 5,774,665 bales, equal to 2,742,966.011 pounds of lint or about 8,228,898,033 pounds of seed cot ton. Two children of A. Leidy, Boyertown. Penn., aged respectively 3 and 5 years, while rummaging in a bureau drawer dis covered a loaded revolver. The eldest shot his brother nearly through, but the physi cians think he will recover. An understanding has been reached con cerning the bill for the expulsion of the French princes, requiring that!the Count of Paris and his wife and children and Princes Jerome and Victor Napoleon should be ex pelled immediately afterthe bill was passed. The committee of the Knights of Labor waited upon Presidem Bliss and other of ficials or the Boston and Albany Railroad Monday and secured a raise of wages of freight handlers and track layers. Those getting $1.50, $1.75 and $2 per day were advanced to $1.65, $1.90 and $2.15. Henry S. Hannis, the famous distiller, died on~Wednesday afternoon at the Nor riston (Pa.) Insane Asylum. He was one of the largest operators in whisky in the United States, and just after the late war was ratedl as one of the millionaires of Phil adelphia, his native city. Special dispatches received at Milwaukee, Wis., state that tires are raging in the tim ber lands along the Escanabha Rtiver. in volving a loss of thousands of dollars. Forest fires are also burnming at Junction City and in the vicinity of Sturgeoni 1ay, and they are raging fiercely :! ong the line of railroad North a:! S.::th of Phllips. Wis., much valu;.d-i timber imving bee-n destroyed. The National Line steamer America, which sailed from Liverpool for New York May 26. arrived at Qucenstown, May :30. having put back in distress. On Friday last, while in latitude 50 degrees North. longitude 18 degrees West, a piston rod was broken, cracking the bottom of the cylinder. The America has return-.< to Liverpool for repairs, which it will take a month to complete. A negro boy, living with Walter Gray at Laurens, was killed by lightning on Sunday afternoon. H~e wa~s standing near an open~ door. The planks on the door where lie was standing andi those of the door on the opposite side of the room were splintered and the chimney was slightly damaged. Several other persons were present, but scarcely felt the shock. The boy killed, was about 12 years old. The debt statement issued to-dlay shows a decrease of the public debt during the mnonth of May to lbe $8,828,565.91: cashm in the Treasury; $490,406,:301.78: gold certiti :ates outstandling, $80,120,02:>: silver cer tifcates outstanding, $80,184-,120: (ertifi :ates of deposit outstanding, $1;3.055.000): legal tenders outstanding. $346.7:3.46: fractional currency. (not in-luding the~ mount estimated as lost ordetyd. 6,954, (87.52. It is hard for our Carolina nreaders to be ieve the reports and accounits of Genemcral Gordon's style and sp)eechesm whenm he ap pears on the stuimp. Well, it was har-d enough for Generad Gor-don's frien mds in Georgia to realize that they- were- his own ords and sendhm-nts, and inny who hai I ve eard him do not believe that they are at hs heart: still he has adopted the styl dite cribed in the public prints, ad the reports re substantially correct.-A uguses Chr on. An interesting experiment in skin-gra~ft ng is being conducted in San 1-ranc-isco. he patient was badly burned five months ago by nn explosion. His limbs, face andi ands were covered with htge sores which efused to heal. Skin-grafting was resorted 4, and fully fifty pieces of tiesh fr-onm rela ives of the sufferer have been grafted. 'he flesh from the thigh of a live chmkeni as also grafted successfully. The case is oe of the worst ever known in San Fran isco, and the result is awaited with inter est by physicians. Thomas J. Cluverius,- the voung l-awvyer who is in jail at Richmiond, Va.. under entence of death for the murdler of Lillian Mandison, does not sleep soundlly now. The gard who has been placed in his cell to atch him says the prisoner- wakes up very night about nmidnighmt and aippears estless from that time on. lie talks~ about his ease to the guard, and expre-sse-s the pinioni that the Cour-t of Appeads will give his case a rehearing. His long contiinemnt s beginning to tell on hin. All Sorts of mrts and many sorts of ails of an and beast need a cooling oton. Mustang Liniment. En the system from n o causes, at all seasons. Shat the Nerves, Impairs Digestion, and Enfechi the- uscles. THE BEST TONIC ickly ndemety cues I"n riaand Chills and Ieer. enrnittent Fevrs8,54s sitiede, Lieckc.ii Energ, i has no equal.a It enrches an the o stimulates the ap pette and straugtbu.ns, the muscles and nerve. pt does not inure the teet. cause headache, or T. J. 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