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A PRINCE OF ROGUES. A GREAT EUROPEAN RASCAL NOW ON HIS WAY HITHER. How a Swindler of Plebeian Birth Became the Intimate of Nobility and Even of Royalty-He Has Recently Finishea a Six Years' Term of Penal Servitude for a Series of Extraordinary Frauds. VIENNA, August 19.-I have been re quested by the chief of the Vienna po lice to warn Americans against one of the most dangerous and successful swindlers ever set loose on an unsus pecting community. It is but a year ago that he issued forth from the pen itentiary here on the completion- bf his term of six years' imprisonment with hard labor, to which he had been sen tenced in 1882, and already every capi tal of Europe is again ringing with ac counts of his extraordinary exploits, his victims including even royalty and im penal personages. At the present mo ment he is believed to be in the United States or on his way thither, his object being to exercise his profession in a new and rich field, and to escape the pressing attentions of the European po lice. His real name is Charles Hoffmann, which he occasionally transforms into von Hoffmann, Chevalier von Hoffmann, or Baron Henry de Courtier, the latter being his favorite alias. He describes himself as either an English or Austrian colonel, a atetement which is borne out by his military carriage and appearance. He dresses with quiet elegance, is tall and powerfully built, with black hair and a thick gray moustache. His age is about 47, and he is married to a charmin Russian princess, whom he has deserted after squandering to the last cent her once considerable fortune. The chief Of police here adds that the pseudo "Colonel de Courtier" speaks English, French, German, Italian and Russian without the slightest trace of any foreign accent. His history is indeed a strange one. Born in 1843 at Prague, as the son of a respectable glass dealer named Hoff mann, he made his way to England in 1869, after his father's death, and in a very brief space of time spent every penny of his portion of the inheritance. In 1855 he made his appearance at Carls bad, where he figured as a member of Queen - Victoria's bodyguard of gentle anen-at-arms, every one of whom bears the rank of Colonel. His fascinating manners, the fortune which he ap 'peared to possess, and the rank which be claimed in the British army, p" c'l sufficient to capture the heart an. te hand of a princess, a wealthy and beau tiful young Russian widow. Shortly after his marriage he took up his residence on his wife's estates in -msian Poland, and lived there with great splendor for several years. Cards and every other kind of extravagance soon made-enffnous inroads into his fsaftune, and in 1872, after selling every portion of her property for which he could find a purchaser and mort gaged the remainder, he deserted the pnncess and moved to Berlin. While there be acquired several hundred thou rtand dollars as a negotiator of more or less fraudulent foreign railroad con tracts, but spent the money as fast as he made it. He insinuated that he was in constant and confidential intercourse with Frince Bismarek, and that he was frequently employed by him for confi dential political missions. Although ~this was believed to bethe case at the am~e by his victims, and proved to be a source of material support to him in his~ swindling operations, yet it has -sicbendiscovered that the chancel not even know him by sight. at length became. 1 d he took ~he escibedndo, where dsrbdhimself asghe nephew ~Xof Baron von Hoffmann, who at that time held the post of Minister of Finance Sof the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It was Sdue to a belief in the existence of this relationship that he was made an honor ary member of several of the very best l3adn clubs, where the insouciance, thlerality agd sangfroid with which he -loei large sums at cards soon won for hIim a host of friends of the highest rank, including even the heir apparent, a number of whose letters were found among his papers at the time of his ar rest in 1882. It is probable that his -loisses at cards were intentional, and that lie was shrewd enough to perceive that muoney spent in-that manner would en A"~beii. considerably to extend the d'elI of his swindling operations "en grand." That the investment was of a >poftable nature is shown by the enor mous extent of the frauds which he per petrated in London, and by the fact that his acquaintances of the card table not only invited him to their houses and ~country seats, but also presented him to their bankers, and even went so far as to furnish him with letters of recom mendation to the British representatives at foreign courts. Hence it happened that he was fre -ently to be met at the tables of the Egihambassadors and ministers in continental capitals, whose leading citi zens can scarcely be blamed for having accorded their confidence and considera tion to a man whom they knew to be treated with such marked cordiality by her Britannic Majesty's envoys. So fa - torable was the impression whichhe cre ated bothat Rome and at Lisbon that King Humbert conferred upon him the cross of ak-avalier of the order of the Crown -the same which George M. Pullman possesses, while the Portuguese sove reign made him a knight of the orcter of Christ. During one of his visits to Brussels he became acquainted with the late Crown Prince Rudolph of Austro Hungary, who conceived a great liking for him. Fozeseeing the advantages of an intimacy of this nature, Hoffmann announced his intention of presenting to the archduke a magnificent yacht as a wedding gift. The plans of the latter were duly submitted to Prince Rudolph and approved by him; and Crown Princess Stephanie's chamberlain, Admi ral Count Bombelles, was actually in cor respondence with Hoffmann respecting the date on which her Imperial Highness was to christen the yacht, when sud denly the prospective giver of the latter was arrested in this city on charges of forgery and fraud of the most extensive kind. A few weeks later, June ii" 1882, Karl Hoffmann, the friend of the -British and Austrian heirs apparent, the honored guest of English Ambassa dors and Envoys, the husband of a Princess, and a Knight of several royal orders, was sentenced to a term of penal servitude for a series of frauds unpar aleled sinice the days of Robert Macaire. This is the illustrious stranger, then, who under some alias is now about to honor the United States with his pres ence with a view to business. Good Sense in Chunks. Dr. Webster Fox, in the journal of the Franklin Institute, maintains that the majority of blind people have lost their sight from want of proper care during infancy, and that nurses or mot m .who heedlessly expose an in - ts eyes to the glare of the sun for hours, may be laying the foundation of the most serious evils. He pro' ests against permitting young children to use their eyes in study, and declares that the eye is not strong enough for school work until the age of seven to nine. Children should not be allowed to study much by artificial light before the age of ten, and books printed in small type should be absolutely prohib NEGROES ON WAR PATH. A White Boy Accidentally Kills a Colored Woman-The Negroes Threaten to Lynch the Unfortunate Youth and Burn the Town. CHARLESTON. August 23.-[Special to The Register.]-To-day has been one of intense excitement in Charleston. At. 11 a. in. a telephone message was re ceived from Mount Pleasant asking for assistance. Mount Pleasant is a suburb of the city, aeross the river, in Berkeley I County, and near the scene of the Cain boy massacre in 1876. The negroes outnumber the whites in the proportion of about thirty to one. The message came from the Sheriff. It seems that about 9 a. m. a negro wo man named Mollie Holmes entered a grocery store in the village and made some purchases. The clerk, Fred Schaefer. a boy of about 17 years of age, had been cleaning a gun, which is invariably kept in such stores. The wo man passed in front of it while the boy was handling it, the gun went off and mortally wounded her. As soon as the news got abroad, the negro women, as is their custom, started out on a crazy crusade. They aroused the men, and in a moment the whole population was in n ferment. The boy ran to the Sheriff and gave himself up and was locked up in the jail. The women surrounded the jail and demanded his blood. The men sent out to the surrounding plantations for arms and ammunition, and threatened te take the prisoner, Sheriff and jailor and hang all of them unless the boy was given up. 1 The Sheriff had a half-dozen deputies sworn in and stood the siege, in the mean time sending to Charleston for help. By order of the Governor, two compa nies of white rpilitia, the German Fusi liers and the Sumter Guards, were dis patched to the scene of the disturbance. They left the city at 1 p. n., and forty five minutes later were at the jail. The woman died at about 2 p. in., having made an e'nte m ortem statement to the effect that the shooting was acci dental. This, however, did not appease the infuriated negro men and women. The prisoner was sent under guard over to this city at 7 p. in.; but in the meantime the reinforcements from Cain hoy and the surrounding country had come in and the crowd threatened to burn the town. The Charleston troops thereupon were ordered to encamp on the scene, and will stay there all to-night. The negroes in this city are very much excited, and the lower classes are talking boldly of embarking in small boats for Mount Pleasant to go to the aid of the rioters. Seven of the ringleaders in the demon stration were arrested about 5 p. in. and lodged in jail. It was clearly a case of accidental killing, and the bloodthirsty feeling of the negroes is somewhat difficult to understand. Does Advertising Pay? Does advertising pay? is a question often asled. and the answer must al ways be: It depends on what you have to give notice about; how important :t is to you that the notice be given; that is, what advantage to you can reason ably be expected to resdlt from such notice being given; and the probablez pense of so spreading the information to be conveyed among the 'eole from whom you hope to deriv .n advantage from the dissemination- of the inform'a tion. If, tha -..xiable cost 'st - ion being spread ab.. tat e**e e herbbe value toyot mig it so f~~*ed inad will not pay. A man having lands, senriti, chandise or talents which he is will to sell, exchange or loan, hoping to ac quire thereby money or other property more useful to him, can only expect to effect the exchange with some person who has become informed that he pos sesses the articles to be exchanged, and that he wishes to exchange them. This information is usually conveyed by word of mouth. Is talked over by neighbors and friends. A homestead is to be sold because the family means are too limited now to permit of living in the old home. A few friends are spoken to about it. An appraisal of its value is arrived at. An old-time acquaintance decides to take the property. The deed is given. A notice of the transaction appears in the newspaper, and then it appears that more than one neighborr more than one stranger, who have fo, years cast longing eyes upon this desir able plot, this comfortable mansion, would have gladly paid for its possassion a handsome advance upon the price at which it thad been sold, but refrained from making an offer, fearing to give offense by asking old residents to make merhandise of the home of a child hood, the scene of recollections con nected with parents, brothers, sisters the whole past. If the seller bad inserte:1 a notice in the newspaper that he desired to) sell; if the disappointed, would-bc purchaser had announced a wish to buy, in a sim iar way, describing the sort -of place wanted, then by this more general dif fusion of information both would have been benefited to an amount worth con sidering, at a cost not considerable. We suplement what we have told to our acquaintances by writing, perhaps, to others whom we do not so often meet. If the number of this class is consider able, it is not uncommon to prepare a printed circular, which may be sent by mail or messenger. All this confines the spread of the information to those you yourself know, or those who happen to come in contact with those whom by your efforts have become possessed of the information. One of these circulars, if posted up in a public place, may, and probably will, be read by persons not known to the writer or his friends. If printed in the newspaper, it is there likely to meet the eyes of yet other strangers, a'nd as among all people the number of persons whom they do not know greatly out numbers those they (10, it follows that a customer for anything which is to be sold, or tne owner of any specially de sirable thing to be bought, i.<more likely to be a strae~ r than an acquaintance. Consequently, in giving notice of what you wish to buy or sell, it is best not to forget the larger class. Death of a Noted Negro Preacher. Rev. Jim Steel, colored, of Biddle ville, died Sunday morning at eleven o'clok. He was a noted character, a prominent politician, and organizer of a secret society having chapters in the Carolinas and Georgia. He at one time served in a Georgia chain gang. The boy murdered in the cotton patch in York County, S. C., some years ago met his death by the members of this secret society, and the murderers were hung in Yorkville.-Charlotte Chronicle. Red Rain. Red rain fell recently in the province of Lublin, Russian Poland. The shower lasted for about teni minutes. The peasants, who mistook the red liquid for blood, became panic-stricken and crowded the churches, where they were quieted by the priests. Several bottles of the red rain were sent to chemists and microscopists in Warsaw for exami nation. For several days after the shower all the surface water in Lublin A Song for the Future. Sing sweetly a song for the days that are gone. They were m rrv and glad and free; Bet oh for the" . . , he are yet to dawn And the joys ih..t are yet to be! Fair is the East, when the m~orning shint s, And the glad earth awakes from rest: But lovelier far, when the day declines, Is the glory that fills the West. To morrow will come, with a brighter light Than yesterday ever knew, For a pleasure unknown and a new delight w ill gladden it, through and through. Then slg for the light.bearted, bygone times They were merry and gay and free: Bat, oh, sing in fuller and ha: pier chimes Ui the joys that are yet to be. Boston Transcript. ROSS RAYMONDS TRICKS. Under Arrest for Swindling-How He 2eat Mr. Chamberlain Out of .50. A cable dispatch from London to the New York Herald has the following in regard to Ross Raymond, a newspaper correspondent, who has figured con siderably in this country: About four weeks ago Morris Wise, who represented the United States Treas - ury Department at the Paris Industrial Congress, was standing in the main cor ridor of the Hotel Metropole when a hand was laid lightly on his shoulder. He turned around and found Ross Ray mond smiling at him. Wise's greeting was not warm, and Raymond disap peared after saying he had just come from Paris. Tuesday the following dis patch was received from Blackpool by the London police: "Rolfe, the man arrested here for swindling, is 38 years old, 5 feet 9J inches high, with sallow complexion, dull gray eyes, heavy eyelids, dropping chin, brown hair, full forehead, stout figure, gentlemanly appearance and ad dress, and clean snaved, with medium moustache. He has an anchor, shield and two flags on his right forearm; me dium voiced, is well educated, polished in style, well versed in military affairs in Egypt, also press and naval matters. He has very pleasing and. attractive manners, is quiet and never at a loss for ideas. While in Blackpool he had dozens of people running after him, taking him driving, feasting and honoring him. He speaks rather sharply and has an exten sive vocabulary." This is the genuine goods and no mis take. Raymond bore the name of Earn est Neville Rolfe when he was committed at Manchester Assizes for obtaining ?21 on a foreign bill of exchange. He repre sented himself in Blackpool as Bennett Burleigh, war correspondent, and said he was going to report the doings of the Channel squadron at Fleetwood. Superintendent Derham has been busy inquiring into his career, and has gath ered material for a three volume novel. Rolfe is the same gentleman who in De cember last presented himself at High bury, Birmingham, under the name of Ritchie, bringing a letter of inti duction from Erastus Wiman, whose acquaint ance Joseph Chamberlain made while acting as special commissioner in the United States. Chamberlain conducted the ingenious Ritchie round his cele brated orchid houses, and then lent him a few pounds to meet his hotel bill. Next morning Ritchie discharged this little obligation by getting Mr. Chambe' lain to introduce him to the bauk. Chamberlain introduced him to the local house, upon whom Ritchie palmed off a fraudulent bill for ?50, drawn on Drexel, Morgan & Co. "Ritchie" found it convenient to leave Birmingham in a hurry and to hie him self to Saunders & Co., orchid collectors, at St. Albans. To Saunders he repre Isented himself as Austen Chamberlain, and, knowing the penchant of thatgen tleman's father for orchids, he ~ saw nothing suspici ' a-order for a supply of that fower, nor in the Am ' id for it. Mr. Saude ficti tiouisA the c next parance was in f racter ajor Rhodes, of the Royal Dragoons. Under that name and title he presented himself to Mr. Nathaniel Morton, of Belfast, and bought five hors'es from him for ?470, tendering a military draft for ?525 and receiving the change ?45. The draft was returned marked '-no ac count." Under pretense that he was Captain R. Esford, the master of Lord Dorches ter's yacht Aphrodite, he obtained ?30, and as Eric Harting he beat a boat builder to the tune of ?20; as Captain Rathburn, the master of Lord Brassey's steam yacht Sunbeam, he presented a check on the Capital and Counties' Bank at Hastings, and got a bank at Greenock to advance him ?30, as he said he wanted to pay his een off. Among minor performances be in duced Mr. Morgan of 'the Aberystwith Observer, to loan him ?7 on a forged cheek, He has also been heard from at the Isle of Man and at Boston, Lincoln shire. At the latter place he went to Swmneshead Abbey, the residence of Mr. Ingram of the Illustrated London .News He told the lady ot the house that he was Melton Prior, and was hard up. When Mr. Ingram returned and heard this tale, he and some police officers made a tour of the local borels and found the pseudo .Melton Prior in the act of 'obtaining cash for a fictitious draft at sight for ?21, drawn in favor of "Ernest Neville Rolfe," R. N., C. B., on Sir Gerald Fitzgerald of Spring Gar dens, London. A WATERLOO VETERAN. He Still Lives and Tells His Story of the Battle. John Scott is an Englishman, still living and still able to do some manual work, who took part in the battle of Waterloo. He is described as a healthy looking man for his age, rather tall, but with a heavy stoop in his shoulders, which makes him look shorter than he really is. His features arc regular and though his whiskers are white there is scarcely a white hair in his head. His employment is not laborious, even for a man who is nearly eighty-five years of age. His chief work is to ring a bell in tne morning, at night and at the meal hours. His personal recollections of the battle in which he took part arc contined to what went on immediately around him. Interviewed a short time ago by a reporter of the Newcastle Leader he said: "My father was a soldier in the Black Watch. I was brought up in the army, and was in Belgium in June, 1815. What I had to do was to play the triangle. I was in the Black Watch, too, but my arms weren't much, just a pistol and a small sword. Quatre Bras was a good deal worse than Waterloo in my opinion. My father spoke Gaelic as well as English, and a lot of the Black Watch spoke Gaelic. But Wellington said he would not have it, for 'by the living God he would have every man speak Eng lish.' "After the battle we got a rest, and then we had to march to Waterloo. A bout 11 o'clock on the night of the 17th of June it commenced to rain heavily. Tne rain poured as hard at it could, and what a night that was! It was a potato field we were in, but I wrapped my cloak around me and got a good sleep. I remember I lay just on the side of a little bank, and the water was running down on both sides of me, while in the morning there were two inches of mud around us. At daylight we were up, and each of us got a glass of rum and a ship's biscuit. "Before the fighting began the Duke of Wellington camne riding up to us and cried, -Now, I hope you are well and ready.' One of our soldiers saluted him and cried, 'Yes, we know our duty.' Wellingon smilerd andl rde off "As for the battle, I remember very little. It was nothing but fighting and excitement. The Hanoverians were a splendid lot of men, and all of taem fought well; but as for the Belgians, if Wellington had only known what they were he would not have given one of them a horse. We were short of horses, and he would have taken theirs and made every man of them tramp on foot. They never fired a shot, for as soon as the first crack was heard they were off as hard as they could go. All day long the fighting went on, but the smoke hang so thick around us that we could see little. There was nothing but firing and shouting on all sides. Some times when the smoke lifted we could see fighting going on around us, some times in front, or to our right and left where we could see the cavalry charg ing each other. Then a lot of horses would come flying across the fields in all directions, neighing and kicking wildly. Their riders were gone; they had been shot out of the saddles, and the horses were galloping madly away to escape. There was an English regi ment near us, and I remember seeing the French charge at them. As soon as ever they appeared the English would yell, ' England forever, here they come, get at them,' and then they cheered, tired away, and off would go the French. "Sometimes we lay on the ground doing nothing. We could scarcely see twenty yards ahead of us for the smoke, but then we would know something was coming. We would hear the shouting of the French, and out of the smoke they would rush. We shouted and fired straight at them, and away they went and were gone in the smoke again. But they would soon turn, and back they would come with another rush out of the smoke, more firing. and they were gone again. And so it went on all the time. I was not frightened; I was too excited for -anything. I played my tri angle and shouted 'Scotland forever! till I was hoarse, and could scare;!. speak a word. I never got a scratch, but I think it must have been my height that saved me. I was so little that I had not much risk to run, but the Black Watch was so cut up that it had to join with the Seventy-seventh. "But the French had no chance that day. They were no match for our army, and the little Frenchmen could not stand the bid Englishmen. It was the same with the cavalry, for our men could ride over them. The English could have fought all night, but the French would not let them." Scott maintains his contempt for the French to the last. - "They hate us yet," said he, "but the English beat them at Waterloo, and can always do it."-Hew York Times. A Bomance for School Girls. A few weeks ago a girl, who we will say lived in Troy, was married there under circumstances rather romantic for this prosaic age. She was traveling in Germany, studying art, and whatever else pleased her sweet fancy, when she lighted upon Heidelberg. One day she was sitting in the cathedral there, copy ing a picture, when a handsome young man strolled leisurely by, .and looked so hard at the Troy girl that he could al most be accused of staring. After about an hour he came back, and in passing the young woman went so c'ose that he accidentally knocked down an umbrella which was leaning against her camp stool. He picked it up, and also several scraps and sketches which had fallen to the floor from her portfolho. After pro fuse apologies for his awkwardness, he complimented the maiden on the .oA cellence of her~eyaaf~sptffiIly ex prsed thedpe that he might Eee the work W'Ifn it was done. This was the. end ot act one. The next day the girl was sitting, as before, at her pleasant task, and at about the same hour the young man passed, deferentially lifting his hat. The following day he managed to make the acquaintance of the friends with whom sne was staying, and thus he procured an introduction to her. He proved to be a young Englishman, well to-do, and of good family. It was a case of love at first sight with both of them, for within three weeks they were en gaged to be married. After the girl had finished her studies she returned to her home in Troy. A year later the yodng Englhshman came over here with his father to claim his bride. There was a quiet wedding, a short bridal tour through Canada and the States, and now the girl is mistress of a honme in London. -Albny Expreses. Bernmhardt's Late Husband A man who once acted as agent for Sarah B3ernhardt said: "The death of Bernhardt's husband, Damala, removed from Paris one of the most remarkable specimens of assurance that ever lived. According to the rules of French dra matic art, Damala could not act at all. But he had the person and face of some one of his. old Greek ancestors and was practically irres'istible among the wo me-n. He had a certain amount of shrewdness and was notoriously incon stant at all times and to everybody, but he posed skillfully and was onie of the most poetic looking men I have ever seen. This, together with the enormous influence which he exerted over 3ime. Bernhardt and Mine. Hading, enabled him to get a hearing in the best theatres of Paris, when his actual ability would not have procured him an audience even in the open air concert gardens of the Champs Elysees. There are few good things in the world, by the way, that the wily Greek missed, and be had the con solation of going out. of life knowing~ that he had got as much out of it as any man in France. But his career would have been impossible in any other city but Paris." An Accommodating Boss. A gang of men were at work on a city street when a slight, beardlsss youth laid down his pick, and, approaching the foreman, said to him:. "Can I take a fit, sir?" ''Take what?" asked the foreman. "A fit. I feel one coming on," re plied the young man, without emotion. "Why, ceitainly,"said the foreman. So the young man walked over to a bit of grass under a leafy tree-it was a new street in the suburbs--and had a fit. Then he went and washed his face, came back to his place in the line, took up his pick and struck into work. Af ter- the day's work was over the young man said to the foreman: "You don't mind my having fits?" "No- I guess not, if you do a fair (ay's work." "'Well, you see, I used to work for a butcher, an' he wouldn't let me take fits-said it interfered with business an' I thought you might feel the same way about it." And the young man works hard with pick and shovel and takes a fit once in a while as you or I might take a drink of water. -Pittsburg Dispatch. Considering the Bible. The council of ministers of the Turk ish Government have had under consid eration a memorial from the American Legation complaining that hindrances had been put in the way of circulating the Bible in Turkish, on the ground of its being an injurious book. The coun cil, finding that the books had been printed in various foreign languages and circulated throughout the empire, and that apparently no harm had re suted, and that there was no proba bility that there would be any harm, de cided to instruct the foreign Minister accordingly, to the end that -the pulbti cation of the books should not be inter fred wih. DIRECTED BY A DREAM, A Missourian Finds a Box Filled With Human Bones and Jewels. Thomas Cooper, a master mechanic of this city, says a Kansas City letter, can boast of one of the strangest and most thrilling experiences during the last few days which have ever fallen to the lot of any man. What great mys tery lies behind his story, or at least his singular adventure, will probably never be known. A box filled with human bones, rotted by its long confinement in the earth, scarcely more than two feet long and not more than one wide, is now in Cooper's possession. On a table in his room, where any one would be allowed to see it, is another box of similar shape and appearance. In this box lie several sil ver dollars which are rusted and stuck together, several bits of golden jewelry and two diamonds of small value. All these things go to confirm Cooper's story as to the remarkable manner in which a dream influenced and controlled his aetions for several days. During the first part of last week Cooper was foreman of a gang of car penters at work on the Coates House. One morning he called the contractor to one side and said: "I can't work to-day, and would like to be excused." "Why, what's the matter, Tom?" was asked. . Cooper informed him that for three successive nights he bad besn troubled with a dream which never varied. The figure of a woman with a little child in its arms would appear to him and say: "Go to Westport, thence three-fourths of a mile West. There you will find a farmhouse, and off to the right a tall tree. Dig and you will find an infant's bones, and that which will reward ycu." At first Cooper said he thought noth ing of the dream, but its singular repe tition troubled him. The woman and (hild appeared in the same manner h e'- uigbts. anad each time in the dream sue w mani uttered the same words. So sad did they sound that Cooper said he seemed to hear them all day while at work, and he was so troubled that he determined to cast the burden off his mind by following out the dream wo man's directions. Last Saturday moro ing he quit work and started out to Westport. So clearly had the dream showed him the way that he recognized the house at sight.. He called and asked for a spade on the pretense that he wished to dig herbs. He then went to a tall tree off to the right, and dug according to the directions given in the dream. At a depth of three and a half feet he found a box filled with bones, but found nothing else. He returned home, but that night was again troubled with the dream. For three nights the dream was repeated to him and he again went to Westport. Digging in the same place at a depth of four feet he found another box similar to that containing the bones. He opened it and found $15.50 in silver stuck together, two small dia monds, since valued at $50, and some jewelry. Without digging further he returned to the city, and now has the relics on exhibition to prove the truth of his strange vision. A CIRCUS TRAIN WRECKED. Twenty-four Fine Horses Billed and the Cars Smashed into Smithereens. W&rETowN, N. Y., August 23.-The second train of the.Bstuiim~& Bailey show was w.reekedlate last night about twa.and dhalf miles East of Potsdam, 'ihile en route on the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad from Gou veneur to Montreal. A broken axle was the cause. Twenty-four ring horses, including one of the four- chariot teams, and two camels, were killed. Six cars were de railed and two telescoped so that.every thing in them was crushed. There were three trains conveying the show. The first train, which carried the tents and their belongings, passed into Canada safely, but the second train, conveying all the animals, met with an awful disaster. The scene is one of confusion. At eitheriside of the track are distributed the bodies of the uead horses, with here and there a poor beast which had received injuries that render it-useless tethered to fences. At the side of the highway are one camel, sacred cows, steers and various otber animals which were res cued from the derailed cars. The cars are crushed and twisted into all sorts of shapes, and piled upon the track in a seemingly hopeless entanglement. The elephants, which were in the first car that was derailed, were not hurt, and have been taken from the car and are swaying their bodies angrily as if displeased at their unusually long con fnement. Barnum's partner, J. A. Bailey, is at the scene. He says it is difficult to es timate the loss at present, but it will be in the neighborhood of $40,000. A BABY'S LEAP.* Through the Window of a 3tailroad Car Going at Fall Speed. Thbere is one lucky baby and a happy motber in California to night, says the Stockton Tndependent. The mother and babe were passengers on the South ern Pacific North bound passenger train yesterday afternoon. The child, which ~was about a year old, was standing im its mosher's lap looking out of the open window. It g-ave one of those sudden springs to whiich babies are addicted, ad, before the mother could clutch it, went out through the open window. [he shiriek of the mother brought a brakeman to the spot, who pulled the bell cord, and the tr~ln, which was going at full speed, was checked as soon as possible. The conduetor soon made his appear ance, and when the case had been ex plained to him ordered the train to be backed up slowly till the spot was reached where the baby had made its frightful plunge. To the surprise of all the sound of the baby's cries was beard, for it was supposed that it would be in stantly killed. Nearly every man.on the train jumped off to search for the hittle one, which was found sitting by the roadside, cry ing lustily. It wa soon placed in its mother's arms, perfectly uninjured, not even showing a scratch as an evidence of its narrow escape from death. MRS. MAYBRICK, THE MURDERESS. How She PReceived the News of Her Comn mutation-Brierly Coming to America. LIVEEPOOL, August 23.--The oflicial messenger bearing the announcement of the commutation of Mrs. May brick's sen tence did not reach the jail until 2 o'clock this morning. The news was at once communicated to the prisoner, who betrayed some emotion, but not to the extent that was anticipated. The chap lain visited her at breakfast time. A re vulsion of feeling had then prostrated her, and she seemed weaker than at a!'v time since her arrest. It is feared that she will not live long. Brierly, her al leged paramour, sailed for Boston on the steamer Scythia which left Liverpool yesterday. A Bard Guess. A business firm in Chicopee, Mass., offered a prize for the best guess as to the number of marbles in a big boot ex hibited in their window.- A shoemaker of the town, anxious to win thbe prize, made a boot, as he thought, of the same size and filled it with marbles. Then he counted the marbles and gave the num ber as his guess. He was over 2,000 out f the wayv THE FAR rERS' CONGRESS. The Declaration of War Against Jute Continued Indeninitely. MoTrGOMERY, Ala., August 21.--The Southern Inter-State Farmers' Associa tion closed its annual session here to day. The subjects discussed to-day were: "The depression of agriculture, causes and remedy," "Should farmers' organizations be encouraged?" Gen, William Miller of Florida led in the discussion of the latter subject and made a strong tariff reform speech. The committee on cotton covering, Hon. W. J. Green of North Carolina, chairman, submitted the followng report, which was unanimously adopted: "Recognizing the fact that jute bag ging, which has heretofore been excln sivelv used by cotton planters as a cover ig for their product, was during the last season most unnecessarily raised in price nearly 100 per cent. by the manu facturers of the material, and recogniz ing likewise that such an arbitrary and cruel rise in price could only have been made possible by what is known ao a trust, and inasmuch as under the spuir of such wrong, suitable substitutes have since been discovered for cotton covet ing, your committee do most earnestly recommend to -every cotton producer throughout the land the absolute discon tinuance of the use of jute bagging, whenever a substitute can be obtained. "Your committee goes further and proclaims that this recommendation, whether viewed as a retaliatory measure, or simply as a measure of self-protection, is equally justifiable, and they recom mend like action or non-use when possi ble of every article which has been placed or shall hereafter be placed un der trust for the purpose of excluding competition and thus enabling the projectors to fix their own price on the same." Col. L. L. Polk, of Raleigh, N. C., was re-elected President of the Associa tion, and the lIon. L. A. Youmans, of South Carolina, was elected Vice Presi dent from the States at large. All the vice presidents were re-elected. G. F. Andover, of Tennessee, was elected Sec retary. Resoluions were adopted urging the importance of securing legislation for the advancement and protection of the agricultural interests. The association adjoured to meet in Nashville next year. THE TERRY TRAGEDY. Some Doubt as to Whether Deputy Nagle Should be Tried in the State or the Federal Courts. Six Fiuscisco, August 22.-It has been arranged between the lawyers on both sides that when Deputy Marshat Nagle's case comes up a continuance will be asked for till Wednesday next. to give counsel for defense an opportu-. nity to investigate the law. The lawyers are beginning to fear that Nagle cannot be tried by the United States authori ties. Judge Sawyer is reported to be doubtful of their right to interfere in Nagle's case, as he claims Nagle cannot claim to be an officer of the Circuit Court, as Judge Field can. If he refuses to recognize the Federal rigrit to inter fere, Nagle will be promptly returned to Stockton jail and will be tried there. Sentiment here in regard to his ac tion is still divided, but in the country, judging from editorial opinions, three fourths of the~#eople believe that he showed great eagerness to kill Terry. There is no way of proving or dis proving Porter Ashe's statement that Judge Heydenfeldt of San Francisco re-. ceived a letter from Judge Field offering his support to Terry if Terry would agree to support him for the Presidency. Field denounces Ashe's statement as a malignant lie, but Heydenfeldt refuses to say a word. Mrs. Terry reached here last night, an d is expected to be present in court to-day when Nagle's case comes up. The State Supreme Court yesterday denied a rehearing in the Sharon-Terry case of its last decision, in which Judge1 Sullivan's judgment was reversed INCITING NEGROES TO RIOT. War of Extermination of the Alabama -Whites Urged by a Colored Editor. SELM, Ala., August 19.-The Weekly Idependent, a paper owned and edited by negroes, in its last issue contained an editorial abusing the whites, saying: "If you mnossback crackers would leave this Southland in twenty years it would be one of the grandest sections of the globe. You have had your day and we will have ours. You have had your rev olutionary and civil wars, and we here predict that at no very distant day will have our race war, and we hop.,: God intends, that we will be stro'ng enough to wipe you out of existence and hardly leave enough of you to tell the story." This publication created intense ex citement and Rev. Edward Bryant. the editor of the paper, would have been lynched if he could have been found. He is in hiding and it is said has forty ne groes armed with Winchester rifles with him who have sworn tol protect him. The cool-headed whites are counseli ing and meditating, but trouble is ex peted unless Bryant leaves Selma for good. The white Republican League of Birmingham, at a meeting to-day, adopted resolutions severely condemn ing the utterances of Bryant. -A mem ber of the G. A. R. post here said to me that if a race war occurred the G. A. R. men would be found side by side with Confederate veterans. A Simple Relief for Lung Troubles. During a visit to the home of a most estimable lady living on Indian River t-his editor was told of a discovery that had been made which may prove a boon to sufferers from lung or bronchial troubles. This lady having heard that there was a peculiar virtue in a pillow made from pine straw, and having none of that materiil on hand, made one from fine, soft pine shavings, and had the pleasure of noting immediate bene fit. Soon all the members of the house hold had pine shavings pillows, and it was noticed that all coughs, asthmatic or bronchial, abated-at otnce after sleep ing a few nmghts on these pillows. An invalid, suffering with Iu ig trouble, de rived much benefit from sleeping upon a mattress made from pine shavings. The material is cheap and makes a very pleasant and comfortable mattress, the odor of the pine permeating the entire room and absorbing or dispelling all un pleasant or objectionable odors.--Cocoa (Fla.) Spirit. General Leach Breaks a Leg. DuRHAM. N. C., August 23.-Intelli gence has reached the Globe from Char lottesville, Va., to the effect that Gen. James Madison Leach, ex-member of Congress from North Carolina, had a leg broken a day or two ago. He was on his waly to Washington and on the arrival of the train at Charlottesville he got off while the train was moving, falling, with the above result. Gen. Leach is over 75 years of age and the accident may prove fatal. New Jersey's Next Governor. Hon. Leon Abbett will have a walk over for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in New Jersey, all the other aspirants having abandoned the hope less contest. Ex-Governor Abbett is the ablest as well as the most popular Demo crat in New Jersey, and it is claimed that lie will carry the State in November by 8,000 or 10,000 majority. The Dem ocrats are also confident that the Legis lature will be decidedly Demoeratic on jint ballot. FACTS ABOUT AMBER. How the Substance Is Gathered by the Fishermen of the Baltic. In the window of one of the largest tobacco stores in Brooklyn there is displayed a remarkably-fine collection of amber. Some of it, as translucent as honey, fairly glows with color, as though i t 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 latter 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 -th'e pieces of amber that may be f6ating in the water. As fast as- the sea weed is got to the shore the women take it and piek out the bits of amber that ma'y be clinging to it and place them in bags ready for the dealer., Some dealers stay on th% beaik ?ile 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 eyer. 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 witLin 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, recove# ing them with their hooks and nets. A more systematic way of obtaining the amber is to get it from the reef, which lie some three-quarters of a mile off shore. ilere, when the different 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 ii' 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 rem'Zcs 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 $1.50 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 know, jewelry was quits extensively made of it, but, with the exception of children's beads, it is not used for that purpose to any extent now. The greatest rival ambei has nowadays is cetluloid, outor which an excelent imitation can be mad." Broolun RaaL FELL SIXTY FEET IN HIS SLEEP. Death of a New York. Man by BEollng from His Bed Into an Air Shaft. John Harper, the janitor of tbe build ing at Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth street and Nin,th avenue, went to his flat at 138 West Sixty-second street late Saturday night, and the night was a o warm that he opened wi-le the win dow of his bedroom and pulled his bed close up to it. Then he went to bed. An hour or so later tenants in the house beard a body falling down the air-shaft. The janitor of this building was awak ened, and going out to the bottom of the shaft found Harper lying there cov ered with blood and dlead. A hurried investigation was made and it was found. that Hlarper's bed was just on a level with the sill *of the window, which opened on the shaft. It is supposed that the unfortunate man had become restless in his ai>ep and had rolled out of the open window to his death. Tbe room was on the fifth floor and about sixty feet above the ground. Harper was 35 years old. Nest Eggs for Colored People. Jackson D. Hughes, who is one of the portrs of the Georgia Senate, appointed by Senator du Bignon, is the lucky re cipient of a legacy amounting to $4,760.25, which was paid him on Thursday last in Macon Ga., by Roberti H. Plant, banker. Jackson is a colored.I man, who was born in Savannah in 1827. About nine years ago, Hayden Hughes, of Twiggs County, died in Atlanta, leaving $30,000 to Jackson and his1 brother and sister. It was to be kept by Mr. PLaLnt, in Macou, and paid to: each one on arriving at age. Law suits reduced the amount to about one-half,< which is still intact. 7ackson has re-c ceived his, as stated. His brother and sister have not as yet arrived at ma turity. Hie thinks of investing in bonds and real estate, but has no well-definedt plan as yet. Two Flouring Mills Burned. 1 ST. CAThri~Efs, Ont., August 22. rhe Empire and the Phoenix fiouring aills, both owned by Sylvester Neelan, f ere totally destroyed by fire this morn-s g. The Empire mill was one of the I inest and largest mills in the countryd Lnd was erected only a few years ago at 1 THE CUST . M5sACRE. One Man Escaped. and Be Blew His Brains Out to Avoid Capture. In his long service as Indian agent Dr. Mc Gillicuddy learned from the Sioux many in teresting facts about the Custer massacre. For years after that terrible affair the par ticipants in it were very loth to talk of it to white men, but as the agent gradually gained their confidence they told him, little by little, the whole story. Sitting Bull had 3,000 war riors on that occasion. That is said to have been the largest force of Indians ever encoun tered by American troops in a single engage ment. Custer had over 500 cavalry and soyne Crow scouts. He divided his force about equally, andsent Maj. Reno with one body to attack the lower end of the Indian village, while he charged at the upper end. The Sioux all agree in their statements to Dr. Mc Gillicuddy that their surprise was complete. They were engaged in repelling Reno at one end, when the bugles at the other end gave them their frt warning of Custer's presence. They were disconcerted, and were on the point of giving way for a general retreat when Reno, to their astonishment, drew off. This permitted them to turr their whole at tentien to Custer, "the white chief with the yellow hair." They told how they managed to make the massacre complete. The ground was broken and Custer was unable to handle his men in cavalry formation. He dismounted them, leaving every fourth man to bold the horses. The Indians threw themselves first on the men with the horses, shot them down and stampeded the horses. They did this, they said, because they knew that the bulk of the ammunition which the soldiers carried was on the horses. This done, the rest was easy. It was only the question of a few minutes till the cartridges in the beltsof the suldiers gave out, and then there was no more ammunition. "I see," said Dr. McGillicuddy, "that every now and then some man announces him.self, in the east, as the sole survivor of the Custer msassacre. You can always put him down as an impostor. There was one man who might have escaped. He was a young surgeon named Lord. His body was not found until long afterwards, and it was at fir.t supposed he wqs a captive. The Indians told tue a strange story about Lord's death. They said that when he saw how things were going he started off. Several young bucks followed him, but he had a good horse and kept ahead of them. Just as they were going to give up the chase and intending to let Lc: d escape, he drew a pistol and shot himself dead. I suppose he was cht of be coming a p ~~. The only person with Custer w survived was a Crow scout. When he'saw that the fight had gnae against the caai ry he drew his blanket over his head so2.iat the Sioux might not recognize him as - Crew, jumped about among them and howled and gradually edged his way out of the fight and made off. I believe he is still about the Crow Indian agency."-Sioux Falls Letter. In the Barber's Chair. A young man who lay back luxuriously in an easy shaving chair in a Beekman street barber shop the other afternoon, with alittle German barber working at his chin with a glistening razor, suddenly recollected a very funny story that had been told by a friend a few hours before. The recollection tickled his fancy anew, and be suddenly burst out laugh ing heartily. The little barber sprang back from the chair, scared. His eyes were bulging with conster nation. "Vat you dot Vat you, do?" he cried, in alarm. "I vos nearly cut you gin." "Thought of something funny," replied the young customer, still laughing, "and I had tc laugh." "Gott in himmel," retorted the little bar ber, tragically, "you moos not do dot again. You moos not dink of anydings ven you vos get shaved. How gan der parper shwc mit der guadomer's gin vaggingi Dot yos very dangerous, I gan tell you." "What's a man to do?" retorted the cus tomer. "He must thihk, you know." "Arguse me," persisted the little bar ber, "dot yos all nonesense; he moos tink, You surbrise me. Dot parper chair vos for comblete rest to der mind ov der gusdomer, and vor luxury uncgomford. It yos petter der gosdomer shut Bis eyes ub, und goes to seep, or he ga listen to der parper vot he says yen he makes him dose inderesdingr ob servations on currend evends. You will notice, blease, dot dose remarks vos never s boisderously funny dot der gusdomer he have to laugh oud loud. No, sir. Dot parper vot knows his business knows dot dot vosto% erilous, und he tone der vunny dings down so dot dey only oxcite a nice quied liddle smile. Dot quiet liddle smile doesn't wrench der muscles ov der face like dot hearty laugh you yust give, und is isharmlessund pleant both for dot parper und der gosdomer. Please remember dose next time. Vill you have pay rum oder vaseline?"--Kew Yorb Sun. ______ Cause of Wakefnlness. The primary cause of wakefulness is an in crease in the quantity of blood circulating in the brain; hence any condition or cause capa .ble of inducing this state of the cerebral cir culation may give rise to it. As these causes are more or less under the control of the in dividual, it is important that they should be generally known. First-Excessive and long continued intellectual action or powerful mental emotions. Second-Those positionsof the body which tend to impede the flow of blood from the brain and at the same tinie do not obstruct its passage to the brain. Many physicians have noticed the connec tion existing between bodily position and wakefulness. It is evident that the recum bent position is more coniducive to a state of congestion of the brain than the erect -or semi-erect. Dr. Forbes Winslow, Dr. Ham miond and other physicians have noticed an increase in the number and intensity of hal lucinations of insane patients, or persons suf fering from delirium tr'emens, as soon as they assume the recumbent position. These patients have been found to sleep quietly for some time in an armchair, but to be annoyed by hallucinations as soon as they lie down. Third-Certain substances used as medicine or food.-Medical Classics. Campanini's Hard Pate. In an Italian restaurant on Union square I observed a short, sfout, very red faced man eating his macaroni in the most skillful for eign style, and I began to study the changes that time had made in the appearance of an artist whose operatic triumphs are without equal inthe history of the lyric stage. He was roughly dressed, his hair disordered, his mustache scraggy, and his skin almost purple from the heat and the labor of eating. Across one cheek was a long scar, said to be the honorable nmark of a saber received in a battle for freedom. In the room where he sat were several young and beautiful girls, but not one of these ever turned her eyes to the mac aroni eater. He finished his dinner and left the room, and only a few people present knew that not many years ago this was the greatest tenor singer in the world, the recipi ent of a hundred perfumed notes a day and one of the most picturesque figures in the glitter of New York Bohemia. Only a few Italians and myself were aware that the purple, short necked macaoni eater was Campani.-NewYork Letter. Cotton Bagging Made in Newberry. The Newberry cotton mills is now fill ing an order from a neighboring County ror two thousand yards of cotton bag ging. Two bales of cotton put up in the rades of bagging manufactured at Newberry are now on exhibition at the store of J. N. Martin. One grade is 40 nches wide and weighs a half pound to he yard; the other is 42 inches wide and weighs twelve ounces to the yard. l'e Newberry cotton mills will make :otton bagging only on orders, anld antil the new crop conmes in can only make 500 yards per day. Then 5,000 yards a day can be manufactured]. The 12-inch bagging will be sold at 121 yents a y'ard, and is the most service rble. -erald. A Serious Expense. A New England manufacturer says hat street musicians arc a serious ex-* >euse to manufacturing companies in ountry towns. A gypsy girl playing a nbourine recently passed his establish ncnt, antd, he says, cost the company boat $200. Every employee in the big ctory ran to a window, -and work was aspended for a quarter of ftn hour. very circus parade ecsts thcm hun teds of dollars, and when a minstrel ass band marches by it costs from