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A WOMAN LYNCHED. KATE X AXWELL AND POSTMEASTER AVERILL PASS IN THEIR CHECKS. Kate Was Called the Bandit-Queen, and She Was a Terror-Hanged to a Cotton wood by Cowboys for Stealing Cattle. CHLEYENNE, .July 2. -James Averill, and the notorious cattle queen, Kate Maxwell. were lynched by cowboys last night. The bodies of the "rustler" and range queen dangled from the same limb of a big cottonwood this morning. The~ scene of the lawless deed is on the Sweetwater River, in Carbon County, near Independence Rock. a landmark made historical dluring the rush overland to the Cahifornia gold fields. Averill was postmaster at Sweetwater. Kate Max well was the heroine of a sensational story, which appeared in the newspapers throughout the country three months ago, when she raided a gambling house and recovered1 a large sum of money won from her employees. Stockmien of the Sweetwater .region have been the victinms of cattle thieves for years. The rustlers had become very bold. Averill and his remarkable part ner have been very active in thieving. The woman could'hold her own on the range. riding like a (lemon, shooting ont the slightest pretext, and handling the lariat and branding iron with the skill of the most expert vaequcro. Fifty freshly branded yearling steers were counted in the Averill and Maxwell herds on Saturday morning. A stock de tective,. whose sspionls were aroused. was dIrivenl from the place when he was -noticed viewing the stolen property. This circumstance was reported to the ranchmen, who determined to rid the country of the desperate pair. A verill and the woman have several times been ordered to emigrate or cease ap)propriatinig cattle, but they disre garded all warnings. After her cele brated gambling house escapade, Mrs. Maxwell degenerated from a pictuircsqjue Western character into a reckless prai rie virago of loose morals, and lost most of her following, but continued part nership with the postmaster. WordN passel along the river, and fif teen to twenty meni gathered at a designated plae andI galloped to the cabin of Averill and Cattle Kate with out unnecessary noise. The rustlers were at home, and a peep through a window disclosed the thieves and a boy in their employ sitting beside a rude fire-place smoking cigarettes. As a half dozen men rushed into the room a Win chester was poked through each window, and a command to throw up their hands was given with unmistakable earnest Iess. The trio sprang for their weapons, but were quickly overpowered. Averill begged and whined, protest ing his innocence; Kate cursed. 11er -execration of the lynchers was some thing terrible in its' way. She cursed everything and everybody, challenging the Deity to harm her if he possessed the power. An attempt was maae .to gag her, hut her strugglino was so vio lent that this was abaloned. She called for her own horse to ride to the ~sr~eected for a scaffold, and vaulted astride the animal's back from the ground. Averill did not resist, and the boy who had been told that he would not be harmed, followed. The ends of the same rope was fastened about the necks of the rustlers as they sat in their sad dles. The boy made a pass with a k-nife at the man who was preparing Kate for hanging. He was knocked insensible by a blow with the butt of a revolver. The lad was a nephew of the bandit queen. When preparations for the ha'ging had been completed Averill and the wo man were asked to speak. The man spoke only of his office, saying that he did not wish a certain man to be his suc cessor. The influence ot the party for another candidate was pro 'him. Kate made uiean She sible, desiring that her - in ignorance of her disgraceful career and tragic dealh. It was useless to deny that their herd had been stolen from the ranchmen of that section, but if they did not wish to divide it among them selves, she would like to have it sold and -the money given to a home for wayward girls. Kate bade her nephew good-bye and commenced to deliver a blasphe mons harangue. The horses were led from under the pair while Kate was still cursing. Both . kicked in lively style for ten or fifteen minutes. A few bullets were fired into Averill's body, and the lynchers rode away. It is doubtful if an inquest will be held and the executioners have no fear of being punishe<L. The cattlemen have been foreed to this, and more hanging will follow unless there is less thieving. CHEYENNE, July 23.-Averill, who -was lynched on Sunday night with the Ciattle Queen, Kate Maxwell, though -called a coward and really a cur, has a record of killing two men. One was shot in the back from under cover. The other was killed in a row over ,a game of cards. ~No trial was had in~ either case, though Averill was threat ened with lynching, but his victims were men of no prominenee, and the trage dies were soon forgotten. The fellow was appointed postmaster on account of the central location of his ranch. As an official he was not entirely satisfactory. Several men with whom he had quarrelled bmd their letters sent to a postoffiee fifty miles away rather than risk a conflict with Averill. Ifrs. Maxwell, whose rapid descent since the debauch which followed the gambling house adIventure had some what (dimmed her lustre, was a character indeed. She was once a Chicago variety actress, but, with the adaptability of women of her class, fell into Western ways readily. She improved vastly on rauch life by importing race horses, lighting dogs and sprinters, and holding tourneys at her place. Her husband died mysteriously. It was whispered that she poisonled him. The' ranch foreman, wvhom she had known in the East, became proprietor. Kate was true to her lover. She re sente-d the familiarity of a drunken Mexican by sending a bullet through him. Mrs. Maxwell took part in an In dian war befdre she had been in the country thirty days. One of her thor oughbreds showed his heels to the fast pony of Chief Sharp Nose, an Arapahoc dignitary. The same day a sprint er from the East easily defeated a yoin g brave in a dash of a hundred yards. The Indians lost money, ponies, blankets, and even squaws, on the event. They started away from the race mutter ing threats, and suddenly turned about and opened fire on Kate and her men. The latter rallied quickly and repulsed the Arapahoes, killing several. Two white men were killed in the conflict. Life on the ranch was now gayer than -ever, but after the recovery of the money -from the skmn gamblers at Bessemer things went to the dogs. Kate's para mour made a trip to the railway and forgot to come back. The men left one at a tume, horses were stolen, dogs killed, and cattle scattered. A colored boy who had been Kate's body servant was the last to disappear. lie took lher dia monds along. She set out -in pursuit, overtook the darkey, and shot him down on the highway, recovering the jewels, but they were soon pawned. From her high estate as the wealthy and powerful Queen of the Cowboys, she became a prairie tramp, still high spirited, walk ing into camp ando ranches and helping herself as though an attache of the out fit. She knew that Averill was a thief, and became one herself after she went to live with him. Again established in a home, she sought to resume her place in the hearts of the cowboys, but they were fearful of Averill. and would not be captivated by her blandishments. Failure to reorgan ize a lawless band (lid not discourage the dashing Kate and her terrible partner. For a time they were guarded in their criminal work, but everything coming to the net was fish. They would kill a steer, burn the hide, and sell the carcass to employees of the men who owned the animal. It was hinted, and doubtless not without foundation, that the pair were veritable Benders. Their ranch was only a couple of miles from the road. Travelers stopped for meals. while freighters loved to camp beside a splendid spring just outside the Maxwell and Averill pasture. Many of these visitors were lured to financial ruin at least by the wiles of winning Kate, who was faded, but. still a beauty. She played every card game well, and to fleece the innocent was only pastime for her and her husband. Two men who mysteriously disappeared were traced to this deadfall, where they were in all probability murdered for their money. A thorough search of the premises will he made. The rustlers at first stole calves in the night, but sooii branched out, and on nu merous occasions wer" met on the range in broad daylight. driving bunches of young, unbranded beeves to their ranch. When detected they would, at the pistol point, make those in possession of the evidenc against them swear secresy. Within two months they have stolen hundreds of cattle, selling many to men who came in the night and hurried the plunder across the line into Utah. They intended making a big shipment to the Eastern market this fall. During the hanging bee Kate seemed to have no thought of death, only desiring to curse the Ivnehers. She referrad to her mother without feeling and spoke of no other relatives. The nephew says Mrs. Maxwell was born in Kentucky, but that her parents have left that State and that he does not know their where abouts. A South Carolina Negro in France. George Alfred Townsend found at Nantes. in France, a South Carolina negro iatme( Sara Anderson. Townsend says: "Sam is a negro from Conway boro, S. C,, who keeps a dance house, or rather a concert (live, at Nantes, and he is the only American citizen in town except our two Consuls. He has a white French wife, who is well fixed in other things, as property, and jumped to marry Sam Anderson, who has a fortune in his heels. Said Mr. Shackleford, our Consul: 'I want you to see this negro as a singular instance of force of character. About three years ago a negro man came to me and said that he. was an American citizen who had no official paper testifying to that fact, as was re quired in France. He said that he was about to marry a Fiencn widow and that her family wanted it done like the great nation of the United States would have it done-by the Consul or by his sanction. 'Who are you?' I asked. 'Me? Well, I'm just Sam Anderson, and was born at Conwayboro, S. C. I was a slave. I speak six languages and play de bones.' Being myself from George town, S. C., in early youth, I knew that region enough to question him and test l'm. So I certified him under oath to be a citizen of the United States and lie was married to as clean and neat a French widow as you ever saw, older than he, but he has settled down to con duct her business, and occasionally he comes to see me.' " KING VS. PILLOW. Spicy Answer of the Widow to the Colo nel's Peculiar Innuendoes. MEMPHIs, Tenn., July 20.-Some time ago Colonel H. Clay King filed a bill in oUrt ast.Mrs. Mary -illow, widow of the well known Con federate General, in which he alleged that Mrs. Pillow had exercised an undne influence over him and had induced lhim to deed a large amount of hi. property to he-, but that he did so with thc exp:- essed und'erstanding between them that she would not present the deed for registration until after his death, which obligation and agreement she had violated. The object of his bill was to get a decree vesting the title to the property again in himself. Within the nast week Mrs. Pillow has brought damage suits against him in the Circuit Court for $100,000, supple moenting this with her answer and cros~s bill to the bill filed by Colonel King. The bill is a very sensational one, and contains wholesale denials of all of Colonel King's allegations arid severe strictures upon him. Among other things she charges that '-om plainant, upon a hollow prete~se, in dluced her housemaid, during her ab sence, to get him the deeds in question, and that, once in his possession, lhe threw them in the fire, and that "every allegation of his bill putting any other construction upon this transaction is an ingenious falsehood." The bill further says: "Notwithstanding the complainant wishes to destroy the respondlent's repu tation, lie has repeatedly, in conversa tion with his friends in Memphis, sol emnly declared her purity. In the first years of their business connection he told her he wished to get a divorce from' hIs wife in orde'- to marry her. Re spondent dlissuadled him. Afterward he drew up a bill of divorce, arnd sent it to Judge~ R. J. Morgan of this city, to be filed, and sent a copy to defendant's son-in-law, J1. 5. Shield of Birmingham. "Shield at once replied that the dis grace attached to Ihis actions could only be wiped out with blood, and asked for a meeting ini Memphis to arrange hos tilities. Respondent came to Memphis andl induced Judge Morgan to suppress the bill. The comphuinant dlemanded that respondent marry him, saying he wvas a ruinedl manm if she did not. Complain ant has always averred that respondent was a chraste womnan, and that he. is unmder obligation to marry her on the death of Mrs. King, or on the seuring of an honorable divorce.' BRAVE JOHN M~YERS. Heroic but Probably Fatal Act of a Bal timore Carpenter. B.ALTIMoRE, .July 21;.-An act of al most unparalleled fortitude this morn ing was that of a carpenter, John My ers, wvhich will probably end in the death of that brave man. Myers was at work on a building when a gtasoline stove exploded within and the dwelling was threatened with fire. He rushed iito tl'e house, grasped the stove, around which the flames were leaping, anti, raising it to his shoulders, ran out into the street. The gasoline pured down his back and arms, and soon the flames were burning his flesh: but he clung to his fiery burden until he had conveyed it wvhere it could do no further damage.. Bystanders extin guished the flames. lki back and arms were literally roasted, and blood raii in streams fromn his burned body. There is little hope for his recovery. Grounds for a Horrible Suspicion. H e-And you are sure that I am the first and onlyv man who ever kissed you? She-Of course I am sure. You do not doubt my word, do you? lHe-Of course I do not doubt you, my darling. 1 love you too madlly, too de votedl: for that. But why, oh, why did you reach for the reins the very instant I ventured to put one arm around you if you had nver been there beonre? Voices. A man died yesternight. To-day the town Makes mention of his taking c ff, and sums His virtues and his failings. On the street, Mid: t many barterings and lures of tr de. In homes where he was known. in busy marts, Or public places where the common wt al Gather the town folk: up and down his name Is spoke of In as various ways of speech As are the voices various sounding it; Gruff-throated base, shrill treble of old age, Soft sibilancy of a woman's tongue, Or reed-like utterance of a little child. Thus one, his mate in business: "Ah! a shrewd, Dry head was that; much loss to us, much loss. And as for heart"-wise shrag of shoulders now "We.i, 'tis but little quoted here on 'change." .pother, who had summered with him once In leisure time: "A right good fellow gone! 'Tis true, lie liked his case: but who does not? For me, elve me the man that Horace lovd, Who deemed it wise to fool when seasonable." A tiny one who oft had found great store Of sweetness in his hand, and, prized far Ies, Great stores of tenderness within his heart: "Oh. %on't he colme and see us any more?" l lis -u pliced pastor, bound to save his soul. Balanced a bit by inconsistencies Ile thought he saw. in private to his wife: "Alas, poor soul! if only he had grasped That matter of the creed, and made us sure! lint then-his heart was right, and God is good." And one, a woman, who had found his arms An a'l-protecting shelter through long years. Said naught, but kissed the tokens he had left, And dreamt of heaven for his sake alone. Meanwhile, what was this man, and what his place? You ask, confused by all this Bable talk Of here and yonder, from his fellow-men. I am as igt orant as anyone Whose speech you beard, and yet I love him well. Nay, ask me not; ask only God. He knows. -lar7.er's Magezals. YELDELL WILL COME BACK. he Pennsylvania Supreme Court Re -fuses to Grant the Writ Sued For. PHILADELPHIA, July 25.-The Supreme Court has refused to grant the writ sued for in the case of Rev. Mr. Flemon, the colored pastor of Pittsburg, who is wanted in South Carolina for murder. Flemon's counsel and citizens of Pitts burg to-day appealed to Governor Beaver to withdraw the warrant in the case. If he refuses to do so, Flemon will be turned over to the South Carolina au thorities. Fanaticism and Sectionalism. (Augus4t Clronile.) If anything is needed to show the fa natical spirit of hatred towards the South still dominant in some narrow Northern hearts, it has been supplied by the letter of Mrs- Canfield in Nashville and the remarkable requisition case of Yeldell in Pennsylvania. The former may be easily overlooked, for it was the lucubration of a thought less woman; but the latter instance has dragged its rancorous toggery into the courts and has taken possession of the people of a commonwealt1-. There is no earthly reason why Yeldell should not be surrendered to the authorities of Carolina. The extradition papers .are regular and have been so recognized by the District Judge and the Governor of the State. The howl raised over the surrender of Yeldell, allas Rev. E. F. F1-non, is purely political. The nego preachers in Pennsylvania have made a long and lachrymose petition to the President to overu'e the decision of that bold, bad man, Governor Beaver and retain from the clutches of the Carolina panther the lamb-like Yeldell. Congressman Dalzell of Pittsburg, better known as Carnegie's attordey, has been entrusted with this delicate missio1i. But stranger still, the white Republicans have joined in this sensless clamor. Subscription lists were circulated throughout the city to raise money for the defense of Yeldell, in case lie was brought back to South Carolina for trial. In its own behalf the Pittsburg Tines publishes the following card: "The Pittsburg Tinmes will guarantee, expenseing the E. F. Flemon case to and through the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Those who desire to share in giving a black man a white nman's chance for his life are welcome, thougli not absolutely necessary. "THE PIrrsBURG TIMES. "W. HI. SEIFF, Treasurer." The North seems to be as much excited over this case as it was over Dred Scott. This is sectionalism run mad. It is fanaticism of the meanest and basest sort. A Foolish Flurry. (P/Udadelphia Tinue.) Rev. E. F. Fiemon, alias John Yel dell, a colored preacher who committed murder in South Carolina and fled to Pittsburg to escape justice under an as sumed name, has been ordered back to South Carolina for trial in obedience to a requisition from the Governor of that State, and it has been made the basis of a very foolish flurry, simply because the accused is a colored man. Whether Flemon is guilty of the crime of murder is a question that belongs solely to the State of South Carolina. If he could be tried there by others than his peers, there might be excuse for flurry over an adventurous criminal who seeks to hide his crime in the pulpit; but in South Carolina he must be convicted, if convicted at all, by colored jurors, for there is no jury in that State without colored men on it. Every thieveiag negro convicted of thef t with the old carpet-baggers of that State-including Smalls, Cardoza and others-was convicted by negro jurors, and the flurry about sending Flemon back to suffer the vengeance of whites is simply an absurdity. It is high time to stop the now com mon efforts of race to defeat the pun ishment of crime. Johnson, one of' the most cowardly of murderers, has escaped the judgement of the law, after having been convicted by every judicial tribunal of the State, solely becaisse he is a negro and thereby ,enlisted race sympathies and presumably race power; and such exhibitions of race battles for the guiltiest of criminals are now every - day occutrrenices in thle land. If justice is niot to be greatly crippled in the pirote~ctionI of person and prop ertv, the question of race must be elimi nated from judlicial trials, and gtiilt~y parties, whether white or black, be pntished without race protest. AN IDEA STRUCK HIM. Wife-Murderer Palmer's Novel Scheme to Escape from Punishment. JACKsON, Mich., July 26.-David R. Palmer, sent to prison for life for the murder of his wife, has been an exerr, plary prisoner, and was given more than usual libert~ies. This morning he was filling a large cask with scraps, when an idea struck him. He put a faise head in the cask about midway of its length, and then, placing citizen's clothes, a hammer and a chisel in the barrel, got in himself. Another head was fastened to the cask by Palmer's fellow-convicts, and the cask'was taken to the freight ofice. As it was being loaded in the ar, the freight handlers heard a wild apeal for pity, which they could not at first understand. Finally, one of the men opened the cask and drew the prisoner out, more dead than alive. Palmer was turned over to the authori tis. He declares he would rather stay in prison for life than to undergo again such torttures as he experienced the three hours he spent in the cask. Seven Thousand Bales Burned. LIvERooL, July 26.-Seven thousand bales of Americatn cotton were destroyed by the burning of thie wvarehouses on Red Cross and Grand streets here, last Strdar. AN INDISCREET WOMAN. A SENSATION CAUSED IN NASH VILLE BY A LADY'S LETTER. Mrs. Canfield, Wife of the New Presi dent of the National Educational As sociation, Writes Unkind Things of Southern Women and the South Gene rally. The Nashville American of Saturday republished a letter written to a friend in Kansas by Mrs. James H. Canfield, wife of the newly-elected president of the National Educational Association, who was in that city last week with her husband attending the sessions of the convention. She had, like all the visit ors, been treated with great coun esy, but wrote a letter to a friend in Kan sas, in which she made several slight ing remarks about the So,?th. The letter was not intended for pubication, but the friend to whom it was written indiscreetly sent it to the Topeka (Kan.) espital, and the Nashville A me-ican re published it. The letter was as follows: "I was rather disappointed in the looks of the Sunny South so far as I have seen it. Kentucky, seen from our car windows, seemed very much like Missouri-unkempt and uninteresting the towns are small, poverty-stricken and dirty. At the stations the people were sunburned, sad and stolid crea tures; men chewed tobacco, women wore sunbonnets and negroes were plen tiful, ragged and dirty. Tobacco ware houses were conspicuous in every place we passed through; miles and miles of swampy roads, and seldom saw a well kept and prosperous looking farm. It is quite possible the railroad passed through the worst part of the country It often does. Nashville is beautifully situated on the Cumberland River and has a population of 100,000 people. "Yesterday we went to the largest church here, a Methodist one. The min ister was an invited guest of the one in charge, and much to my surprire he gave a fine, liberal sermon, a regular Simon-pure Unitarian sermon. I have been told that they are very old-fas:i ioned in religious matters in the South, maintaining a strict orthodoxy. A Unita rian Church does not exist here. Imag ine my surprise, then, to hear this ser mon. But, as I say, the man was a stranger, and I don't think his discourse was relished by the congregation. There were no responsive faces around me. His one thought was: "Religion is a simple thing; follow the truth as it is re vealed to each soul, and imitate Christ." He was odd and 'Beechery' in some of his illustrations and expressions. 'If you think Heaven is going to be re cruited from the amen corner of the Methodist Episcopal Church alone, you will be mightily mistaken.' 'We should not make forms and ceremonies a part of ourselves, but wear them as we do our clothes: ready to lay them aside for better ones when they are outworn. If we wear them like our skins we are sure to become hide-bound, and a hide-bound Christian is no better than a parchment dried old Pharisee.' 'The Jew is bound by the clip theory; the Baptist has the dip theory; Presbyterians have the grip theory; Episcopalians have the tip theory: Methodists have the hop and skip theory, and they are all apt to wear these theories like their skins, till they are bide-bound.' Much of his dis course was smooth and eloquent, and think of his quoting Emerson and Ten nyson! A Methodist minister in the South! "In the afternoon we took a 'dummy' street ear and went to the outskirts of the city, to a pretty park six miles out. Thousands of people were enjoying the cool breezes under the trees in a very quiet way. When we returned we took another 'dummy' to see West Nakhville for whites and the other for blacks. Several colored girls, well dressed and quiet, got into the car we were in while we were waiting for the time to start. The conductor told them they must get in the next car. They left the train with indignant faces, and did not go at all. I discussed the incident with a Southern woman who sat next to me in the ear. 'Those girls ought not to have been allowed to enter the car,' she said. I asked her if the colored people often demanded equal rights of this sort. 'Oh. no,' she said; 'as a rule, the negroes arc right obedient. They know. they have to be,' she added. So you see the color line is drawn sharply, and is sometimes resented. We shall see more of this, no doubt, as the mee-ings go on. The race question is the question of our time, I believe. The blacks are increasing faster thaii the whites. It is only a question of time when they will outnumber the whites two to one. They are strong and sturdy, they are being educated, and have the ballot. What is to hinder them from having the power in their hands some day? May I then be in some convenient corner in the sky to look down on the spectacle of black heels on white necks. "Cursed be Canaan" will do now, but it won't last forever. Well, our trips to the parks showed us the people of the middle South, or rather the working people of the Southern city, taking a holiday. To-night after supper Mr. Canfield and I walked to the State House and walked through the grounds by moonlight. We passed many solidly elegant houses. There is much wealth luere. The capi tol is on a hill overlooking the city. It seemed very massive and imposing to me to-night. Seen by daylight I have no doubt it would not look so fine, but would appear dingy and uncared for as everything else in the South does. I had a call from two Southern women to-day, wives of members of the loca committee. The dialects, as given in novels, are not at all exaggerated. I rather like the soft voices, the invari able drawl and absene<>f r's. 'I ie n inflicting this long letter on you to-night, because my husband is late in coming in, and 1 am waiting for him. I hope you will be able-to wade through it all. I have a flickering light and a scratchy pen, both drawbacks to good letter writing. "I am in a depressed state of mind because I have just finished a dreadful book, a novel by Florence Frick Kelley, whom my husband is interested in as an ex-student ot Kansas University and one he thought promising. "I have read the book because of this interest in her. 'Francis' is ~the nam~e of it. It is weak and vile. No other word will do. 1 am ashamed and dis gusted that a Kansas woman should do this thing. What is the matter with women novelists nowadays? It is as if they had discovered that indecency was in demand and nothing else in the lite rary market would sell. "I hope to see Craddock's mountain eers and the Mammoth Cave before I go home. Yours affectionately, FLAVA CANFIELD." Mrs. Canfield was so shocked when she found herself in print that she pub lished a card saying that the letter was a private one to a friend, and that the obnoxious passages were "simply the unwighed and exasperated utterances of private conversation." Mr. Canfield was so mortified that he offered to resign the presiden~cy of the Educational Asso ciation, but the directors declined to hold him responsible for his wife's letter. The Nashville American, referring to the letter editorially, says: "We recog nize that many things are written in the freedom and abandon of friendly cor respondence which the writer would not acnlerldge as a fixed and deliber ate opinior. Other than this we have no special comment to make. Mir. Canfield, we trust, has been treated with proper courtesy during her stay in Nashville, and tae American,atleast, will find no excuse in anything she may have written or said for any lack of defererce to her as a lady and a guest. After all, we are not so dependent upon the opinions of those who are taught to misunderstand us ti at we need lose our tempers or forget oar courtesy for a harsh or hasty word. If there are people in this country who would enjoy tl'e spectacle of 'black heels and white necks,' let us be content in the assurance that what they enjoy in fancy they can never enjoy in fact." Mr. W. P. Harrison of Nashville writes to the American in regard to the relative increase of the two races, and shows by figures from the United States census that notwithstanding the destruction of Luman life by the war, the white popu lation of twelve Southern States has in creased in a greater ratio than the negro race by nearly 4 per cent. since 1860. THE CITY BY THE SEA. Affairs of the South Carolina Railway The Watermelon Business-Death's Doings, Etc. CHABLESTON,. 'ily 26.--[Special to The Register.J-The news published in THE REGISTER on Monday last, concerning the proposed settlement of the financial troubles of the South Carolina Railway, is confirmed this morning by Major Brawley, who has just returned from a visit to the North, and who states that there is every probability of a settle ment. As stated in these dispatches the plan is to call in and refund the first mortgage 6 per cent. bonds ($5,000,000) in a new issue at 5 per cent. The sec ond mortgage bonds will be replaced by preferred stock, and the income bond and common stockholders will be as sessed to meet the expenses of the con solidation and will be given preferred stock for the cash Daid in under the as sessment. The company by this plan expect to reduce the fixed charges which stand against the road from about $400,000 to about $250,000 per annum, and they are confident that the prop erty will pay this and leave a good an nual surplus out of the earnings to pay dividends on the stock. As has been stated in THE REGISTER, the affairs of the company have been thoroughly investi gated by railroad experts, who pro nounce it a paying concern, provided it can be relieved of a portion of its burden of indebtedness. Major Brawley thinks there will be no difficulty in carryinr out the plan of settlement, and that the company will be reorganized and be ready to make a new departure by next fall. THE HEATED TERM. The old City by the Sea is red hot. There have been "cloud-bursts" all around here during the past week, but never a burst here. It is distressingly hot and sultry, and even the old and time-honored Southwest sea breeze seems to have taken wings and departed to Columbia or Summerville, or some other inland sea. There is much suffering in the thickly populated portions of the city, although the mortality has not ap preciably increased. On Sunday next the first cheap excursion train to Colum bia will leave here and will probably carry quite a crowd of excursionists. THE WATERMELON BTBBLE seems to have bursted despite Colonel Mike Brown's Watermelon Trusts To day an unusual thing was witnessed--a score of express wagons loaded with forty-pound "Kolb Gems," which they offered at five cents each or six for a auarter. Of course watermelons have leen sold here before for five cents, but they were from Pan Top, Edisto. The fact is that the Northern markets are glutted and a carload of melons does not even sell for enough to pay the freight. Under the old sste-m the melons were shipped and the freights paid at the other end. If there was a glut on the market the railroads sold the meloas for the freight and stood the loss. Under the new system the melon shipper has to pay from $125 to $150 a carload, and pay in advance. The melons brin~g about $100 and the shipper is out the odd $50. Altogether this is not a good melon year. DEATH OF HENRY CARD. Capt. Henry Card, a prominent ship broker and cotton merchant, died at Summerville this morning. Deceased was 54 years old and a native of Windsor, Nova Scotia. Hle. came to Charleston in 1869 in command of a ship, and settled here. He was one of tne leading shipping merchants of the port, a member of tbe Merchants' Exchange and Chamber of Commerce. He wias much respecied for integrity of charac ter and public spirit. Railroad Earnings for May. From the tabulated statement of the earnings of State railroads for the month of May last, as compared with those of the same month in 1888, the following facts and figures are gleaned: Of twenty rine roads included in tbe statement, twenty-one, all but eight, show an in crease over the same month last year of $60,060.02, and subtracting therefrom the decrease shown by eight roads, $:3. 659.95, there is left as the net increase $56.400.07, or 11.5261 per cent. The road!s showing the largest amount of in crease are: Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line, $13,079.50, or 15.37 per cent; Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley, $8,615.35, or 35.83 per cent.; the Charleston and Savannah, $10,142.86, or 23.66 per cent.; South Carolina Railway, $10,227.14, or 14.45 per cent.; Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta, $7,006.40, or 12.27 per cent. The Charlotte, Columbia and Au - gusta showed an increase of $2,017.06, or 4.36 per cent.; the Spartanburg, Union and Columbia, $925.24, or 13.1:3 per cent. The total increase shown by the roads of the Richmond and Danville system was $17,781.:30, or 9.614 per cent. The total passenger earnings fcr the month were $16;5,217.86, agamnst $159, 226.57 in the same month. 1888; in rease, $5,991.29, or 3.7626 per cent. The total freight earnings for the month were: May, 1889, $323,452.97; May, 1888, $282.736.51; increase, $40,716.46, or 14.4007 per~ cent. The tonnage hauled was 250,534 tons this May, against 201, 112 tons May last year; increase, 49,422 tons, or 24.56 per cent. An Expert in the Matter of Typewriters. "Can you manage "a typewriter?" asked one married lady of another. "Can I manage a typewriter? I should say so. I made tthree leave my husband's office within the last two months and the last is so homely that John is almost afraid of her. The management of a typewriter is an art, but I've got it down fine." A Detective Going forTake Kilrain. KNOXvILLE, July 26.-Detective John T. Norris passed through this place yes terday, going East. He ha~d pap~ers from the Governor of Mississippi with which to secure the arrest of Jake Kil ram.n Negro Lynched for the Usual Crime. PARIs, Ky., July 26.--James Kelly (cored), who made a criminal assault on Mrs. Peter Crow, wife of a section boss of the Kentucky Central road, was taken from jail early this morning and hanged to a bridge near town. All monthly disorders peculiar to woman are corrected and much suffering avoided by the use of Bradflold's Female Regulator. Sold by all FACTS AB UT AMBER. Bow the Substance Is Gathered by the Fishermen of the Baltic. In the windo of one of the largest tobacco stores in Brooklyn there is displaybd a remarkably-fine collection of amber. Some of it, as translucent as honey, fairly glows with color, as though it had caught the sunshine of a thousand summers. This has been polished, and differs as greatly from the rough, dirty-looking lumps beside it as does a cut from an uncut diamond, and yet the lattar is just as full of color, only it is imprisoned. "Where is amber obtained?" asked a reporter, who had been attracted by the display, of the proprietor of the store. "The bulk of the amber supply of the world," was the reply, "comes now from the region known as Samland, on the east Prussian coast of the Baltic. I happen to know something about it, because I came from that part of the world myself, although not from that precise vicinity. From the Brusterot light-house on the Baltic coast one can see with the naked eye the entire stretch of shore on which this precious petrifaction is and has been found for the past three thousand years. The stratum of blue earth on which the de tached fragments of amber are found lies from twenty to thirty feet below the surface of the beach. To some extent the amber may be and is ob tained by mining, but frequently the vein is exposed by the action of the water, so that fishing for amber is much easier than digging, and most of it is obtained in that way. "Amber fishermen are a vigorous and hardy people, and they need to be to carry on their businesss. They work in stormy weather, when the huge waves have detached masses of amber from the ocean bed and are roll ing it, mixed up with bunches of sea weed, in the surf. The fishermen, half naked,wade into the sea, shoulder deep, armed with long hook forks and hand nets. The women stand along the shore as near as they can to the waves. The men poke up the masses of seaweed with their forks and drag them in toward the shore as far as possible. With their nets they endeavor to secure the pieces of amber that may be floating in the water. As fast as the sea weed is got to the shore the women take it and pick out the bits of amber that may be clinging to it and place them in bags ready for the dealer. Some dealers stay on the beach while the fishing is going on, thus hoping to secure particularly fine specimens." "It must be a pretty interesting sight." "Not only interesting but exciting. The whole scene is wild in the ex treme. The thundering roar of the surf, the shouts of the men and the shrill screams of the women mingle weirdly with the soughing of the wind. The most profitable part of the harvest, however, is gathered after the storm is over. ' The amber which can be gathered while it is in prorgess is mostly in small pieces, but large masses of it too heavy to be moved within reach of the fishermen by the waves, have been uncovered. When the sea is smooth enough for the bottom to be seen through from five to fifteen feet of water, the fishermen row out and look for these blocks, recoveg ing them with their hooks and nets. A more systematic way of obtaining the amber is to get it from the reefs which lie sorn ~ -uarters of a mile currents have met, it is heaped up with immense quantities of seaweed and rubbish. For fully ten months in the year a little fleet of black boats is anchored oyer these reefs, the largest and most valuable of which is 600 feet 'long and 400 feet wide. Each boat has a diver who is sent dow a to poke over the seaweed, discover the blocks of amber and raise it to the sur face. Each diver remsis under water for five hours at a stretch and the la bor is said to be very trying. Some times such large blocks are found that it takes the united strength of two or even three men to bring them to the surface. Masses of such size bring from $75 to $150 apiece. the price for ordinary amber being but about $4.50 a pound. During the fishing season the water is icy cold and the work is prosecuted under great hardships." "What is amber used for mostly now?" "For mouth-pieces for pipes. Some years ago, you kaow, jewelry was quite extensively made of it, but, with the exception of children's beads, ii is not used for that- purpose to any extent now. The greatest rival ambez has n<,wadays is celluloid, out of which an excelent imuitatiodi can be made.'" LOOK INTO THIS,'MB. BLAINE. An American Lady Missionary Sentenced to Death in Corea for Teaching Chris tianity. CHICAGO, July 23.-A dispatch from Nashville. Tenn., says: Information has been received here that Mrs. Hattie Gib son Heron, wife of the Rev. David Heron, late of Jonesboro, this State, is under sentence of death in Corea for teaching the doctrines of Christianity. The Rev. David Heroni is well- known as a Presbyterian minister, lie went to Corea about three years ago, the wife joining her husband a few weeks later Mrs. Heron preached the Gospel as well as her husband, andl was the means of converting a nobleman in Corea, who began p)reaching Christianity. The Em peror had Mrs. Heron arrested and thrown into prison. Her case was in vestigated, and finally the sentence of death was passed. Mrs. heron was known as the most beautiful lady in upper East Tennessee. THE STATE DEPARTMENT TAKES ACTION. WAsHINGTON, July 23.-Acting Secre tary of State Wharton, upon telegraphic representations from Congressman Tay lor of Tennessee, that Mrs. Hattie Gib son Heron, a missionary in Corea, was to be hanged for preaching the doctrines of Christianity, cabled Minister Dins more at Seoul to investigate the case, and, if necessary or not too late, to use his good offices in securing Mrs. Heron's release. The State Department has no other advices upon the subject. A Mystery of the Sea. PHILADELPHIA, Jnly 24.-There is a suspicion in shipping eireles that the Philadelphia bark Mary P. Kitchin, which had been given up for lost, is still afloat under the name of Kissan. When the marine underwriters who had risks on the vessel were about paying the in srance, due informat'on was received here arom London through Lloyd's ~Shipping Register that the Kitchin had arrived at Montevideo on May 2, uri der the name of the Kissan. It is now feared that Captain Ryan has been murdered on the passage, and that one of the crew is in command. It is supposed that the crew will collect the freight and leave Gath on Gal11de, Not much improvement was made in the way of mechanics upon Archimedes, who died 212 B. C., until we come down to Galileo, who got to the base of the laws of motion about the year 1638, or some time after Massachusetts had been settled by the Puri tans. Galileo was born in 1564 and died in 1642, a few. years before Charles I was executed in England. Galileo was not a perfectly educated man. His father was a musician and the son had resolved to be a painter, but his father put' him into medicine. By loving to draw he fell into the line of geometry and let medi eine go. His first discovery was the isochronism of the vibrations of the pendulum. and he used this principle to count the pulse of patients, and in the course of time applied it to clock work. He loved to read old Archimedes, and from him got the idea of the hydrostatic bal ance, and of this he made a description which led to a mechanic named Ubaldi, of high de gree, becoming his friend. He now wrote a paper on the center of gravity, which got him at the early age of 24 a professorship of mathematics at Pisa. He was loaded with antagonisms, and at once attacked certain perverse and current view> of science. His severe language was followed by hatred; and these enemies, once raised, never let him go.-Cincinnati Enquirer. Disappointed. The true artist has an instinct for perfec tion, and as a necessary consequence is never fully satisfied with his own work. Some times, however, he comes nearer to satisfying himself than to meeting the taste of his patrons, especially if he is a painter of por traits. A New York artist, who was in Charleston on a pleasure trip, painted the portrait of a little darky. She was encouraged to sit pa. tiently by having seen a beautiful picture which the same artist had made of the fair haired daughter of one of the proudest houses in Charleston, in whose service the young darky's mother was laundress. Patiently she posed, and when the portrait was completed the artist brought it round t< show ix to its original. "Here you are, Janey.' he said. Janey looked at her counterfeit present ment and burst into shrieks and howls. She ran from the room to pour her sorrows into sympathizing ears. "O Missey Grace!" she cried, "Missey Grace, I never tink he would mek me look so I I didn't tink Mr. Waller would do me sol He tek and mek me a orful little notty headed nigger, an' I tought I was jes' a-goin' to be a beautiful little yaller headed gal, with blue eyes and a white face, jes' like Missey Ger trudel"-Boston Herald. Mountain Forests Prevent Floods. A mountain forest has more functions than most people have considered. It covers the hills with a vast mat or network of living root fibers, and holds in place the ever ao cumulating mass of mold and decomposing vegetable matter, which absorbs and retains the water of the rainfall and the melting snows. Such a forest is a great sponge, which receives all the water that falls on the moun tains, and allows it to escape gradually, so as to maintain the steady flow of the rivers which it feeds. A forest is thus a natural reservoir for the storage and distribution of the water which falls upon it; and it is far more efficient,as well as far more economical, than any system of artificial storage reser voirs that can be substituted for it. If the forest Is removed, this mighty sponge is de stroyed, and there is then nothing to perform its function of holding back the water, which will rush down in overwhelming floods and torrents. The first thing to be noted is that the water will thus all run away at once, ai a time when but little of it is wanted, and there will be little or none of it left for the season when it is most needed. The rivers which have been fed by the mountain springs will soon be dry a gr'eat part of the year. Century. _____ ___ American Autographs in India. A correspondent, writing from India, says. Most Americans buy shawls in this part of Indja, and after a sale is made the merchant invariably demands that you write a recoin mendation for him In his note book. This he shows to future travelers, and I find scat tered over India the autographs of noted Americans. At Delhi I found Grant's auto a recommendation stating that his wares were good, told me he had been offered one hundred rupees for it, and that he would not sell it for one hundred thousand rupees. James Gordon Bennett states that he "finds a certain man's shawls good, and heo supposes they are cheap" and the merchant who owns the book tells me that Bennett bought a dozen cashmere shawls, saying he wanted to use them for making undershirts. These were of the kind called ring shawls, so fine that you can pull a whole shawl through the weddingringof alady.-Leslie's Newspaper. The Pig in a Tight Place. In his early days, John Gilbert played for several seasons in New Orlens. Some of his journeys there were made on fiatboats down the Mississippi. "On one occasion," he told me, "we got stuck in the mud-not an un usual occurrence-hard by a small town. All the company was on board and the manager thought we might make a little money by giving a performance. He found a barn raised on posts about a foot above the muddy lowlands, and there we played, parting off one end with sheets and curtains for the stage. In the middle of the performnance most unearthly cries rose from right under our feet. We tried to continue, but the cries drowned our voices. Then some of the audi enco sallied out to see ighat was the matter. They found a pig had got wedged in under the floor. It was half an hour before the brute could be hauled out. I am told that town has now two fine opera houses."-New York Tribune. Ushers' Robbing. Ushers in many of the most prominent theatres in this city have a new and clever device fo. 'ictimizing theatre goers. If they hold coupons fer particularly desirable seats the usher on going down the aisle will sub stitua coupons for inferior chairs, frequently without the knowledne of the purchaser. If people are not alreaay occupying the stolen seats they are waiting in the lobby, and when the employe receives his consideration are promptly satisfied. This practice is spread ing, but occasionally one of the forward fel lows is caught ira the act, a turn of at~air-. which does not worry the offenders in the least. The fees which ushers receive in this manner and for selling unpurchased seats are enormous. In one of the smallest houses in town at which a strong attraction was run ning during the past season one young man made from $10 to $20 per night-New York Evening Sun. In Norfolk there was a belief among the peasantry that if a young woman on first hearing the cuckoo took off her shoe, she would find in it a hair of the same color as that on the head of her future husband. Cor nishmen regard it as of good omen if they ear the first cry of "cuckoo" in the right ear. If irst heard in the left-bad. PATRIOT AND NAN OF PEACE. Leo XIII Wil'. Not Regain the Temporal Power by the Shedding of Italian Blood. RoME. July 23.-One of the principal reasons which determined the Pope c, calling the last Secret Consistory was that he h;ad reccived communicatio.n from France urging b'm to le:sve I or. e. and putting at his disposal a rc idena in any city he chose in that con ry, be sides promising him the re-establishmen of the temporal power in Rome. The Holy Pa ier told the Cardina's ass a bled in Coraistory that he refu.x-d the offer froza France bccatuse lhe will not leave Rome except at the last momnent. as in case of a war in which Italy would be compl icated, and which consequently would put his person in danger; but'he will never leave, if his doing so would be the treans of France declaring war for his cause against Italy, for whom. rom the bottom of his heart, he wishes wery good. "I desire above all things that peace I je aintained," he said. Boulanger Stiil in the Field. PAnIS, July 26.-Boulanger 3ril1 be a aniate in ninety-two cantous for the 1 ABOUT TA _CHIIMNEYS. rwo REASONS FOR BUILDiI"G THEM TO SUCH GREAT HEIGHT. kethods of Their Construction-Fearlegs. ness of the Workmen-Works of Art Rivaling the Productions of Ancient Greece-Notable Structures. "Why are factory and other chimneys to bear off smoke from great furnaces built Will" asked one of a group of men standing by and observing the work progressing on the chimney of the water works house on Earrison street. "'at's easy enough to answer," replied a tall fellow from Blue Island avenue; "it's to lift the smoke up above the houses and the streets, so's not to foul the air we take into our lungs." "That may be, so far as it relates to the chimney, but not altogether either, for the 'her it is the stronger the draft. There's a chimney at Glasgow, the tallest in the world, 445X feet high, belonging to a chemical works factory, where the elevation is requir ad in order to keep from poisoning people with the gases constantly escaping. It is also of first importance - where much quicksilver or arsenic enters into the fumes.- If the chimneys were low in the former case all the people would be salivated, and in the latter case arsenic poisoned, which is worse." "Then," said the reporter, who was stand ing by, "tall chimneys are built for the double purpose of carrying smoke or other objectionable matter off above the houses, as well as to afford plenty of drafts for the furnaces." The knowing man assented, and In a few moments the man of the pencil said, medi tatively: "It must take a decidedly level headed follow to do the work those fellows are doing up there." THEY GET USED TO IT. By way of explanation it may be stated that the chimney under consideration was about 1:10 feet above ground, and had twenty more to be added to it. The men at its top laying bricks looked like dwarfs. "Your eror is a common one," said the knowing man in reply to the reporter. "One reads ever and anon about the perils of lofty climbs and how imperative it is that masons who build high walls shall know no such thing as dizziness, but possess nerves of steel. That is a delusion and a snare. A contractor or boss would scarcely send a man aloft who is subject to frequent attacks of epilepsy, but. any ordinary fellow can begin work upon a wall, and as it ascends day by day, grow ao customed to it, until a height of 1,000 feet would be no more to him than an ordinary stone fence would be to you. I've no doubt the fellows on the Tower of Babel walked around its upper wall as fearlessly on the day of confusion of tongues as they did when they laid its foundaticn stones. Men get used to anything. I've no doubt they would grow accustomed to dyi:g in a very short time, if thbey could go through the experience every day. In any event, take 100 brick or stone masons and ninety-nine of them can face any sort of altitude if it is necessary." "But one does take a tumble once in a while." "Barely," replied another of the party. "We have put up fifteen tall chimneys here in Chicago and around it, and we've had no accident of any kind. There are accidents when scaffolds are built too weak." "Chicago has no such tall chimneys as that mentioi.ed at Glasgow ortheone at Kearney, N. J., which is 335 feet high; still it has one which, for beauty of design and the success of having placed upon its top a solid iron cast ing weighing 7,200 pounds, gives to it a very enviable distinction, although it is a trifle under 100 feet in height." This was said by the knowing one, who continued: "You ought to see it. It is at the Murphy Varnish com pany's factory, corner of Twenty-setcond and Butterfield streets, and is without exception the most handsome chimney in America, if ne un the world. It is absolutely in plumb, * the diminishing of the diameter in two feet from the foundation to the top is as fault less as the work done by the skilled masons of Greece when they shaped the marvelous col umns which adorned the Acropolis." A MLASTERPIECE OF SKILL. "a they done away with scaffoldings alc- er in chimney building?" asked the ,e who obeerv ed that the masn "As a ru.le, yes, wrhen he~ it being less expenve and -dangcrous. ou will observe that but two masons are at work there and one laborer, who attends to... the mortar and bricks lifted up by the horse below. The Murphy Varnish company's himney bad four masons and two assistants, but that had a diameter of eighteen feet at the base and sixteen feet just below the cor nice atthe top, which Is nearly double the size of this one." "Which is theafas1at chimney hereabouts?" somebody asked. "That of the glucose factory, which is 250 feet high. The building tawhich it Is at tached, by the way, has more bricks in it than any other structure in Chicago." "I suppose they would build them slowly if there were 100 men at work upon them, wouldn't they?" asked the reporter. "Not abit ofit. On the contrary, the Arc Light company's chimney, 123 feet high, was bv'it in fourteen days, and It has not suffered in . e slightest In consequence." Much more was said upon the subject In general before the party separated; among other statements was the cheering one that if a workmnan did but make asingle missteplin ascending or descending the succession of primitive ladders which lead from top to bot ton it would be necessary to gather up his remins at the biottom In a basket, and that the labor incident to the ascentinclined them to keep at their posts throughout the day, spnding their hour of "noonipg"at thescee of their toil. One will understand readily how difficult Is the task of maintaining a perpendicular and at the same time reducing the diameter at the rate of one inch in eighty inches of asent. The interior of some of them have in addition to the main flue from one to three, and some times even four, additional ones of smaller size, all of which must be constructed with circumspection and with an eye to rigid rule of measurement. Thus it is that a tall chim ney isnot amere pile of masonry heaped up all in a hurry, one brick upon another, but a masterpiece of skill, demanding Iilnitely' more art than the rearing of the equilateral walls of ordinary residences. But for this altitude how much grimier and dirtier and darker and fouler the atmosphere of this great city, which is daily growing into great er iipo:ance as a manufacturing center! in many instances touching the rain laden clouds, they soar aloft into the undisturbed serial circulation, to be so diffused as to ren der lnuouous all manner of gases and pcison ns exbhalations-Chicago Herald. Another Long Felt Want. A writer says that a few cloves dropped into mucilage will prevent It from turning sour. Good gracious, we don't care to eat mucilagu. What the average store mucilage eeds Is something to drop into it that will make It stick. Besides, cloves are too pre les to waste in paste.-Bordetto in Brook' Some Unanswered Questions. Whether there arc more ifreat or small people in tne world. At what precise point in life a man eases to be middle-aged. Whether a hundred years hence George Washington or some baseball hero will ppear the more glorious ebaracter. How much religious freedom there v'ould be under an Irish rep~ublic. How Shakespeare could have beenl ;o well informed without taking a news How so many people can be satisfied viib themselves wvhen ther'~ are entirely litferet from!i us. When you made vyour first, y-our ~reatst, and yotur last mziake in life. Who sows the seed, andI whaot sort of ed is sown, for that prolific erop, ipening late ini June in Northern ;tates, known a~s honorary dlegrees. What Dr. Talmage thiuks of his OWnl ermos. Who is the most important andl wo be least important pers1'on1 in your neigh iorhood. Why there are not even more of the amous theological crities. seemng it is o easy to bceome a famzous~ theolog al eiti.-SyracutX Ch/rstian A'o