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A BLACK EYE FOR BILLY. THE LITTLE VIRGINIA SCALAWAG DENOUNCED BY HIS PARTY. "The Defeat of William Mahone," De clares the Anti-Mahone Republican Conference, "Is Esseatial to the Salva tion of the Republican Party"-Serious Charges Against the Little Boss. Ricamon, Va., October 2.-The fQl lowing report was adopted by the anti Mahone conference this morning before adjournment: We, Republicans from all parts of Virginia, in conference assembled, de clare that William Mahone 1. Made it impossible for the Norfolk ticket to be elected. 2. -He has deceived the National Com mittee by a pretended compromise, the conditions of which he has not only made no effort to carry out, but violated both in letter and spirit. 3. He has taken from the Republican party their plan of organization, which was founded on the will of the people. 4. He has adopted a plan of organiza tion of his own, which is both hateful and tyrannical. 5. Be has driven from the counsels of the party the ablest and most popular men in it. 6. He has removed County chairmen in order to pack conventions to do his will. 7. He has tried to force the unit rule to carry delegations to the National Convention, to represent him and not the people. 8. He has refused to abide by the de cisions of the National Republican party in convention assembled. 9. He has refused to hear our griev ances and treated our overtures for peace with contempt. 10. He has placed himself at the head of a ticket and labelled it Republican without the consent of the Republican masses. 11. He has debauched the party and made loyalty a matter of merchandise. 12. He has meddled with and in many instances dictated County nominations. 13. He has forfeited his right to the confidence of the people of Virginia. 14. That the defeat of William Ma hone is essential to the salvation of the Republican party. 15. That it is the sense of this confer ence that no recommendation be made as to the course to be pursued either by the members thereof or those through out the State who are in sympathy with us, but each voter on election day be advised to take action as his individual judgment approves, looking to the end we all have in view. THE FARn.S' NEW MOVE. Tare Must be Settled When the Farmer Sells His Cotton. AmAtrrA, September 30.-The na ti ittee of the Farmers' Alli m met o ',md adopted the follow "ng preamble and resolutions: Whereas the Association of American Cotton Exchanges met in New Orleans on the 11th, and in conjunction with various commissioners of agriculture and representatives of the farmers' interests, did reccommend that cotton be sold by net weight as a solution of the tare question; and whereas, information now received shows that said action has not received the approval of a sufficient number of Cotton Exchanges, and tc enable the New - Orleans Cotton Ex change -to carry it out, commencing or the time agreed upon, to wit, October 1, -1889; and whereas, the action taken by the New Orleans Cotton Exchange in favor of assisting the farmers to get paid for the eight pounds more cotton that each cotton-wrapped bale contains than the jute-covered, is highly appre ciated, but for said Exchange to contend in sp tte fact that miany leading rte~Ad, is especially commendale andwlb co-operated in by the interests we repre sent;; and whereas, the justice and eqluity of the farmers' claim on the tare question is based on one fact, whicl stands boldly and undisputed and in disputable, that every cotton-wrapped bale actually contains eight pounds more of lint cotton than it would if covered with jute: Therefore, it is hereby resolved, Thai the action had by the Shreveport' Cot ton Exchange be adopted in the present emergency, and every farmer is hereby instructed, when offering for sale cot ton wrapped in cotton bagging, to de ind payment for eight pounds more of cotton than the actual gross weight BesovedThatthis action is intended to-supersede and take the place of the previous action and instruction: in regard to the tare question. In nc case shall a bale of cotton be sold sub - eet to a .dock of sixteen pounds foi -cotton bagging or twenty-four pound: Sfer jute bagging as agreed upon in Neiw Orleans, unless the cotton be sold -ai talf a, cent per pound in advance o S tecurrent price at that time anc --Further instructions will be given th4 order by the National Cotton Committei on the 26th of October. through thi President of each County Alliance Wheel or Union at their County sites where the president of each primary alli ance, Wheel or Union will meet them t< receive the same. Signed: R. J. Sledger, chairman Texas: M. L Donaldson, South Garo hina; W. J. Northen, Georgia; T. T Hather, Louisiana; Oswald Wilson Florida; S. B. Alexander, North Caro ina; B. M. Horde, Tennessee; S. P Featherstone, Arkansas. - Irony of Pate. Much has been written about th< -gorgeous Blaine-McCormick wedding but the most striking comment of an.: made on it is the following from th< New York Herald: . It was a cruel irony of fate that th< marriage bells should have been ringing -; our blithely in Richfield Springs oi Thursday morning to welcome the ad -vent of a new daughter into the house bold of Premier James G. Blaine at th< same time that another, a deserte< daughter, the wife of the family's pet J. G. Blaine, Jr., was tossing aboul wildly on a sick bed in this city-. Almost at the same moment that thi happy young bridal couple were start mug for their special- train, amid the affectionate farewells of relatives an< friends, Drs. Wynkoff and Scudde: were administering chloroform to th< sick wife here to make her removal pos sible, and while congratulations wer< being showered on the groom and brid< as they stepped aboard their privati - coach, the young mother in New York just before sinking into unconscious ri- ess, uder the effects of the ants thetic, pulled her nurse down to he: pillow and whispered feebly: "If any thing happens to me, if I should die don't let the Blaines get my baby." A Pretty Woman Shoots Herself. * ST. Louis, October 4.-Mrs. Emil: Howard, a bright and attractive woman till recently engaged as stenographe: for Millionaire E. C. Simmons, sbot her self three times last evening in her for .imer employers office. She will recover Unrequited affection for Mr. Simmon and separation from her husband ar< t~ssigned as the cause. . General Lew Wallace has receivei $4-5,000 for his story "Ben Hur." -The establishment of graded school: for Newberry is being agitated by th< Wid-awake people of that town. Her Answer. "Young man proposed to me last night." "You can't mean that?" "Inde d it's true; Asked me to be his wife outright." "Good gracious, dear! What did you do?" "Poor boy! He looked so handsome, Nell." "Handsome! A clerk on weekly pay Asks you-a beauty and a belle! But tell me what he dared to ray." "Well--first, he loved me!" "Oh, that part. Of course! What e:se?" "And that he thought [ was the sort of girl whose heart Won d never let itself be bought." "He said he was a man-that I Was just a woman equil so In youth, health, brain we stood, an -why, You'd think he never dreamed of no-" "That he was poor need be no bar-" " Well! what an attitude to take!" "For Live will prove the guiding stir To fame and fortune, for my take-" "And then he begged my heart and band." "$uch impudence! who'd ever guess? I hone you made him understand His place?" "I did--I told him 'Yes!' " Mr. Davis Demolishes Lord Wolseley. Mr. Jeffetson Davis, ex-president of the Confederate States, has the good fortune not only to enjoy after a quarter of a century the respect of a people whom he led in a losing cause, but also to have lived long enough to hear and confute innumerable criticisms'respect ing his official career that have their "rigin in inventive malice or in ignor ;::ice of facts. Few men have been more maligned, but time and fact being his vindicators, Mr. Davis emerges from every conflict with his calumnia tors with increased prestige. His arti cle in the October number of the North American Reciew upon "Lord Wolse lev's Mistakes" is a conclusive and crushing reply to the English general's venomous attack on the Confederate Executive in the May number of the same publication, and shows that age has not impaired the clearness or vigor of his intellect. Relying upon the Century's history of the civil war as a correct narrative of facts, Lord Wolse ley has made a number of statements about Mr. Davis, all of which the latter is able to demolish most completely. As similar statements are sometimes made on this side of the Atlantic by uninformed persons it will be uninteresting to enu merate them and add Mr. Davis's com ments. Lord Wolseley's first allegation is that Mr. Davis "began his high duties with the avowed expectation that 10,000 Enfield rifles would suffice to overawe the United States, and then refused the services of 366,000 men and accepted only a fraction of them, because he had not arms for more." There was no such offer or refusal. There was no organi zation in the South numbering 366,000 men to be offered and accepted. An Act of the Confederate Congress of March, 1861, authorized the acceptance of 100, 000 men by companies or regiments, to be armed by the States from which they came. The law made the possession of arms the condition on which volunteers might be accepted. Mr. Davis states that it was a matter of record that he often publicly predicted a long and bloody struggle, and was far from thinking 10, 000 Enfield rifles would suffice to over awe-the United States. As a matter of fact, the offieial report of General Gorgas, chief of ordnance of the Confederacy, shows that the Confederate government at its formation had about 150,000 serviceable arms, or fifteen-fold more than Lord Wolseley represents M-. Davis as relying upon as sufficient. Mr. Davis shows further that he was not remiss in the collection of arms. One of his first acts as Presi dent was to send Capt. Raphael Semmes North to purchase arms, ammunition and other munitions of war and ma chinery for making them. Such pur chases were actually made. Major Huse was sent to Europe in April, 1881, t o buy arms, and got nearly $5QO0 worth. The seodchar aSde by sdWolsele - ' at" r. avis "neg lected t bo' 1y the East Indian fleet, which happy chance and the zeal of sub ordinates threw in his way." This story first got currency in 1878. Gen. Beau regard stated in an interview published in the New York BSun that he introduced to the Secretary of War at Montgomery a messenger of Fraser, Tren'holm & Co., who offered to sell six large steamers just built in England. Mr. Davis~knewv nothing of it; the matter never reached his ears. Gen. L P. Walker, the Con federate Secretary of War, writes to Mr. Davis that he recollects no snch propo sal. Mr. Memmmnger, Secretary of the Treasury, says the same. Mr. W. Tren holm, recollects that he proposed the purchase to the Secretary of the Navy and to the Secretary of War, but the great draught of the Lvessels and want of 'money caused those officials to decline it. Mr. Trenholm has no recollection of seeing Mr. Davis on the subject. Captain Bullock, who was sent to Europe ini May, 1881, to buy cruisers and naval supplies, .writes to Mr. Davis to say that he knew of no such proposition. He saw the ships in question in 1862, and says to have bought them would have been "a senseless, waste of money," as they were too big to enter any Confederate port on the Atlantic coast. If they had been bought it would have been impossible to arm, equip and man them in England, or to send them off, as the Alabama was, to a secret place of rendezvous. Mr. C. K. Prioleau of the English firm of Fraser, Trenholm & Co.. whom Genera Beauregard drew upon for his facts. writes to Mr. Bullock that he thinks the ships "were never offered to the Confed crate government at all." The blame of not buying the East India fleet tc keep the ports of the Confederacy open, evidently, therefor, does not lie on Mr. Davis. The vigilance of the English government in preventing ships in tended for the Confederacy from leaving English ports was a difficulty Lord Wolseley -fails to take into account. Lord Wolseley's final and most serioum charge is that Mr. Davis "rejected al] means proposed by others for placing the finances of the Confederacy on sound basis." This Mr. Davis under stands to be a revival of what he terms "the long-ago exploded theory that the Confederacy, should have seuit out the cotton crop of 1860-'61 and placed it as the basis of its credit in Europe." Tc demolish it he quotes from a letter ol Mr. Memminger written in 1874. Mr. -Memminger, after noting that the Con federate government was organized in February, 1861, and that the blockade Swas inrnituted in Maty, observes thai there were thus 'out three months itn which to get control of a crop of 4,000, I000 bales and ship it abroad. A fleet ol I4,000 ships of 1,000 tons each would have been required. Could they have been had? Private enterprise did all that the government could have done. -Large sales were in fact made abroaa .and the proceeds of the sales were it -most cases sold to the Confederacy in the shape of bills of exchange. With these large purchases of arms were made abroad. Mr. G. A. Trenholm, who sue ceeded Mr. Memminger in the treasury, in a letter shows by the close of Fe-b ruary, 1861, the cotton crop of 1860-'61 had already been for the most part sent - broad er to New England. By May 1 Europe had taken 3,127,000 bales and New England 654,000 bales, so that "before the new government was fairly organized the entire crop was already beyond its reach." Mr. Davis seems to have the facts with him. The trouble Iwith his critic is that his lordship labors under the impression that the current Northern histories of the civil war are somrething better than romances.-Bal GIRL PEDESTRIANS EXCITED' One of Them, Clothed in Bright Bed Treed by a Cross Bull. The Pedestrian Club, composed en tirely of young ladies living in the Western part of this city, started on their first fall tramp yesterday morning. The proposed trip of the club was to a friend's house on the New Castle road about three miles from this city. Tte chaperon claimed that by walking down the Hare's Corner road about half a mile and then across a lot the club would lessen their walk nearly a mile. The Hare's Corner proposition met the ap proval of the majority, and the tramp to the goal profeeded. They were not long in reaching the field that was to be crossed in order to shorten the walk, and no time was lost in climbing the fence. No. 1 field was crossed without the least obstacle, and all were delighted. Then came No. 2 field. Over the fence the gaudily clad damsels went. The last to mount tbc fence was a sprightly miss, clad in a crimson flannel dress and a large red hat profusely trimmed with violets. This blithe little miss claimed to be the long-distance walker of the club. She had barely gotten over the fence of field No. 2 when an immense bull, whigh had been taking in all the manouvres of the fair ones with attention, came from the rear of a hay stack and started in pursuit of the one in red. The miss saw her predicament at once, and, being much in the rear of her companions, began to run. She kept up a lively pace around the field twice, and at many times the bull was at her heels. After making a third circuit of the field, Miss Red became weak from ex haustion and cried for help. Her speed slacked and the bull advanced at every leap. Miss Red espied a small near tree in a eorner of the field, where her sister members stood by, urging her to come on. On reaching the tree there stood a small ladder. She mounted, but the ladder fell. Then the air was filled with the piteous shrieks of the other mem bers, who stood pn the outside of the fence. Miss Red was- equal to the emergency, and with great presence of mind she raised the ladder and fastened it to a small limb of the tree and vic toriously climbed to a stout limb, and there looked on the bull with disdain. A young man who was passing on a side road, hearing the shrieks of the fair ones, came to their rescue. Hitch ing his team to a tree, with whip in hand he approached the bull and with much difficulty succeeded in making the animal retreat. Miss Red showered thanks upon her rescuer and begged him to retire to an adjoining cornfield while she would descend from her peril ous position. The young man promptly obeyed, and MLs Red in descending fell to the ground and received several in juries, from which she had to be con veyed to her home by the young man, with the consent of other members of the club.-Wilmington (Del.) News. The Miscarriage of Justice. The multitude of cases in which jus tice is baffled by the disagreement of juries in criminal trials throughout the country is increasing to such an extent that convictions for a capital offense, instead of being the rule, even where the testimony is clear to the ordinary mind, is becoming an exception. One 'great difficulty of our criminal courts is to get any jury at all. In the first place, most of the men who are sum moned to do jury duty resort to every possible plea to get excused. In the next place, even when called upon to serve, there is frequently an indisposi tion evinced by some of them to consent to a verdict that shall involve the pen alty of death. The young New York ruffian who boasted that hanging was "played out" did but express thbe belief of his class, and especially of that class which has "a pull" on the politicians, although in his particular ease the boast was fatal to him, as it has been more recently to several others. Our laws are lenient to criminals. To have formed an opinion with respect to the case ex cludes a man from sitting on a jury. Intelligence and conscientiousness and the ability and desire to bring in an im partial verdict and to be governed only by the testimony are but too often a fatal bar to his acceptance. If the prosecution will take him, the de fense will challenge and reject him, and the process of weeding out goes on until eitber the challenges are exhausted or the defense has got some men on the jury on whom it thinks it may rely. If we add to this the delays interposed in coming to a trial and the not unfrequent spiriting away of one or more important wit nesses, it is obvious that when the ac cused.. person has friends in the com munity interestedr in saving him from the conseqnences of his crime, and who have money enough to fee able counsel in his behalf, his chances of going to the penitentiary are small, and of his suffer ing capital punishment infinitessimal. Even at the very wo-st, there is an ap peal to the Governor to commute the extreme penalty into imprisonment for a long time or for life, with the ultimate and by no means unfounded hope of a pardon after serving some time in prison. In flagrant cases the efforts of the defense are to bring about a dis agreement of the jury, and the fre quency of such disagreements is one of the most common facts in our criminal annals. A "hung" jury generally pre supposes a second trial, and a second trial either an acquittal or a verdict in voying a light sentence. It would spot be true to say that it always implies a miscarriage of justice, but in a majority of such trials it is tantamount to it. The only criminal on whom justice is impartially administered is the man for whom nobody cares, who has no money and no friends, and it generaliy happens that those who have the friends and the money to help them belong to the most vicious and least desirable element of the population.-Baltimore Sun. Governor Eill's Victory. NEw YORK, October 4.-The New York Democratic State ticket is before the people. It is supposed to be Gov. Hill's very own, since it is the unbroken slate he gave out before the convention met. The objectionable persons sup. pose( to be affected by .the fraud on the State treasury, done through the bills for repairing the ceiling of the Assem bly, are still there in spite of the ob jections of the New York delegation. Yet this is supposed to be a great Hill victory. The platform stands true to the tariff line, and the excise problem is dealt wit hi according to honest Demo cratic prin~ciples. The platform is all right, and Republican discords make it almost impossible that the candidates standing on it can be beaten. The leaning of a majority of the new State committee is to Mr. Hill's interest, but the proceedings show thbat Mr. Hill's in terest as far as the imptrtant section of the -party in the big, cities is not quite as securely rated as 0it might be. He is neither feared nor trusted by the New York or Kings County factions. Offcial Homtsopathy in Washington. "Ten years ago," said Dr. Riggs, "there were twelve homeopathic phy sicians in Washington, while to-day there are thirty-five. Among the pa trons of this method of the treatment of disease are Secretaries Blaine and Win dom, ex-Secretary Bayard, Senators Call and Kenna, Assistant Attorney General Montgomery and many others. Ex-President Garfield and Chief Justice Waite were both pronounced in favor of hommeopathy during their live."- Wash A Frank LettAr. Ab, Countess Clare! as I sat last night In your long, luxurious room, Where gloves of amber and crimson burned 'Mid banks of the rarest bloom, A breeze from the Land of Memory blew, And the perfume to me stole From a cluster of roses, pink and sweet, In a dark-blue china bowl. You looked a queen in your violet silk, W th your breast in a foam of lace, And a diamond star in your g'.lden hair A queen in your high-bred grace; " But 1 saw a veil of the Past divide, And the seasons backward roll, And a slender girl in a muslin gown Bend over a china bowi. The ivory-white of your satin cheek Grew roreate for my sake, Your eyes looked love, and your lips were ripe With kisses for me to take. But I turned away from your jeweled arms, For I thought of a sunny knoll Where the roses grew on their thorny stalks For the quaint old china bowl. So, gay coquette. y'u will wait to-night On the terrace in vain for me, For I shall go back to my sweet first love Far over the turquoise sea To my se-eet first love in the muslin gown As white as her spotless soul, And the roses growing in sun and dew For the dark-blue china bowl! --Minna Irving, in Belf. rd Alagazine. Support Home Newspapers. (Baltimore Manuufacturers' Recrd ) Many times within a few years we have urged upon our readers to sustain their local newspapers, provided they were such in fact, and not in name alone. We know very well that all through the country men are publishing what are called by courtesy newspapers, that are no more like the genuine article than a toadstool is to a mushroom. And as the one is unpleasant and poisonous, while the other is palatable and nutri tious, so the no-account paper is an in jury to any locality, while a live, enter prising journal, however small, is a power for good. Within a few years newspapers have come into being in the South as thick as toads after a shower. Many proved themselves worthy the name, while many more showed conclusively that their projectors had mistaken their vo cation, and after a few weeks or months they disappeared. Unfortunately the injury they did to legitimate journalism did not die with them. The legacy they left their unfortunate subscribers was a distrust of and contempt for newspapers in general, and a desire to get hold of first class journals and learn what was going on in the world without cost to themselves. Every business man ager of a live paper could give repeated illustrations of this from his own expe rience. Recently, while visiting the editor of an influential and deservedly pQpular daily paper in a large Southern city, we were shown two letters received in that day's mail. One was from a business man in a neighboring town who paid his subscription to date and ordered the paper stopped. He said that he had taken it fifteen years and had always been pleased with it, but that for many months he had not seen his copy an averageof once a week, for some neighbor would borrow it, read it, lend it to another and so on, and when at night he wanted it it was gone, no one knew where. He thought he was doing the publishers an injustice as well as himself and had concluded to stop for awhile until some of his neigh bors could be induced to take it, and then he would renew his own subscrip tion. The other letter was to this effect: "My neighbor, Mr. A., has not received your paper the last four days. As seve ral of us depend upon it for the news, we will feel much obliged if you will attend to this at once and see tbat there is no niore trouble." Many publishers could relate similar experiences. Journeying leisurely in the mountains not long since, we saw one Sunday during the noon intermis sion a group of a dozen or more sur rounding one man who was; reading from a paper. We learned that he was the only citizen of that vicinity who took a newspaper of any kind, and that whenever there was preaching at that cross-road meeting house he was ex pected to bring his weekly paper and read it to the others. It is safe to say that the really able weekly newspapers published in the South average twenty readers to one subscriber, while for that number of readers there should be at least four subteribers. Now where doeg the fault lie? Certainly not with the editors and publishers. They are, as a whole, the greatest . workers in their respective communities. They give their time, brains, energy and experience to their vocation, and are -usually the active promoters of everything that will bene fit the public. If they arc at fault at all, it is in the fact that in their zeal for the public welfare they often forget their own, and give the use of their columns gratuitously when they should be paid liberally for the space occupied. The responsibility for sustaining a live newspaper in any locuhty devolves upon the entire community. For merchants it is the best medium for reaching the people. A well-worded and well-dis played advertisement in a newspaper draws more than all the circulars they can issue or handbills and sign boards they can post in their Counties. The merchant should therefore advertise liberally, and also influence his custom ers to take the paper he uses as his medium. The latter will respect his opinion and follow his ativice, and then, as their families read from week to week the miscellaneous columns, they will be insensibly led to feel many new wants that he can supply, for every good newspaper contains items showing what other people, the world over, are wear ing or eating, or what tools they are using, or what new household stuff, or labor-saving machines have been intro duced, and reading about these things creates a desire for them that will event ually lead to their purchase. * * * Sup port your home newspapers for the geod they have done, are doing, and will continue to be to you. HANGING FOR FUN. A. Miner Finds How it Feels to Dangli from the End of a Rope. DE~vER, September 29.-A min: employed mn one of the mines at Lead ville is in Denver undergoing peculiar treatment at one of the hospitals. Sev eral weeks ago three miners, while eat ing their morning lunch, discussed various topics. In the course of the talk death by strangulation came up, and one of the men, Frank Leahey, expressed the opinion that by the exercise cf a little judgment and nerve a man could sustain life for a considerable time, even when suspended by the neck. To a challenge to illustrate his theory in his own person, he replied that -he was perfectly willidg to do so, and a wager of $50 was made and accepted. The foolhardy theorist at once de scended the shaft and commenced pre parations for his experiment. Tying a rope around his neck he gave the sig nal, and in an instant he was swinging in the air. A few seconds afterward Leahf'y became painfully aware that he was sacrificing his. life to an idiotic theory. The rope contracted, the blood in its passage filled his head almost te bursting, his eyes protruded from their sockets, his swollen tongue began te make its way between his lips; and then he became unconscious. His friends, having no faith in the experiment, let him down with alacrity. At first it was thought that the young man was dead, but after an hour's hard work consciousness was rostored. More than $8,000,000 have been pledged for the World's Fair at St. Lonis. THE PRESITENT'S SCRXE. PlAnning to Insure a Republican Ma . jority in 1892. WASHINGTON, September 80.-The President is said to be giving much thgught to -the problem of securing a Republican victory in 1892 without de pending upon the aid of the State of New York. The friends of ex-Repre sentative Goff, who was defeated in the election of a Governor of West Vir ginia a year ago, are manoeuvring to get him into the Cabinet by representing that he can control the electoral vote of that State for the benefit of the Republi can party. To make a place for him they want to advance Attorney General Miller to the Supreme bench. The Evening Star has this about it: "The fact that Mr. Miller has sold out his establishment in Indianapolis has given rise to the impression that the ?resident has gone back to his old love, and that Mr. Miller will go on the Su preme bench. This will give the Presi dent a chance to do two things he is credited with being desirous of doing to gratify Mr. Miller, and to place Mr. Goff of West Virginia in the Cabinet. "The President, it is said, has ex pressed regret that his election was dependent upon the vote of New York, and is apprehensive that the same con ditions may exist at the next Presiden tial election. It is his desire, and that of leading Republicans generally, that the party should get itself in a position to be independent of the electoral vote of New York, which is always on such a delicate balance and subject to strange influencos. Taking the vote of the Electoral College as it stood, the six votes of West Virginia transferred to the Republican side would give the Re publicans a majority without New York. The party is chafing some under the po litical tyranny of New York, and would welcome anything that would make them independent of Platt and other New York bosses. Last fall Mr. Cleve land got 168 electoral votes and Mr. Harrison 233. With the thirty-six votes from New York Cleveland would have been elected. But with the six West Virginia votes Harrison would have had the election without New York." EVA AND RAY HAMILTON. Annulment-of the Marriage for Fraud to be Demanded. NEW YoRK, October 2.-Mr. Samuel B. Clarke, Robert Ray Hamilton's law yer, got back to New York yesterday, after an absence of several days, and for the first time saw the newspaper ac counts of Hamilton's last meeting with Evangeline. Mr. Clarke said that the published accounts of the interview were essentially wrong. Mr. Clarke was not present at the interview in per son, but- Mr. Runzmann, a partner of Root & Clarke, was. Mr. Kunsmann took notes of the whole interview. Ac cording to Mr. Clarke this is what occurred: There was no kissing or affectionate embrace when Mr. Hamilton entered the attic room in the third story of Sheriff Johnson's house. Mr. and Mrs. Hamil ton greeted each other formally. There was a distant bow, and nothing beyond that. Mr. Hamilton, according to Mr. Clarke, granted the interview simply because he had received five letters from his wife begging that he should give her a chance to clear herself from accusa tions made 1y his friends that she de clared had been made in accordance with a conspiracy against her. Mrs. Hamilton boegan her plea by stating that she was really the mother of the baby Beatrice. She said, however, on ques ticning, that she knew that Mrs. Swin ton was negotiating for the disposal of a baby about the time she was confined. Mr. Hamilton took the statement in credulously and questioned the alleged mother about the time and place of her confinement. On these points Mrs. Hamilton did not seem to be very cer tain and would not fix either the date or place of birth. Then, instead of being favorably im pressed by the statements made by hi~s wife, accordjing to Mr. Clarke, Mr. Ham ilton became more and more satisfied that her whole story w-is founded upon falsehood Mrs. Hamilton not only tied herself up in the stopof her mother hood, but made other statements that left Mr. Hamilton, at the close of the interview, more satisfied than ever that he had been outrageously tricked. At the time he gave no sign of his disbelief in her story, but left her as pleasantly and as formally as he met her. That Mr. Hamilton is entirely done with Mrs.,Hlamilton there is no doubt in Mr. Clarke's mind, and that gentle man says emphatically: "The result of the interview between Mr. Hamilton arnd his wife need cause no uneasiness to Mr. Hamilton's friends. There was no reconciliation, and he repudiates her in toto. As his lawyers, we are instructed to procure an annul ment of the marriage, which was ef fected by fraud and misrepresentation. She pretended to be the mother of the baby Beatrice, and alleged that he was the father of the child. That alleged fact has been proven false. Mr. Kunz mann, my partner, was present at the interview, and the statements made by Mrs. Hamilton are contradictory and not borne out by the facts. Mr. Hamil ton wants a divorce and seeks no recon ciliation." A Mad Billy Goat. Two pitol shots in quick succession startled the neighborhood rnte vicinity of Curve street Saturday morning. On enquiring it was learned that a mad billy goat had been killed. Billy was the property of Louis Cherry, a colored man, and lie was quartered in Mr. Gid Moseley's livery stable. About two weeks ago billy was bitten by a dog said to have been mad andl which had to he killed. Saturday morning this goat acted very strangely. It appeared to be very mad, would butt and try to bite everything it came in contact with. It butted the horses in the stable and took after Jim Johnson, a colored man who is empiloyed at the stable. Jim did not have ainyting in his haud to defend. himself with and looking about saw a stick on the ground which he stooped down to pick up. Ilis back was to the goat and while in a stooping position the goat let drive with all his powver, making a centre shot and knocking Jim sprawl ing into the middle of the street. Jim picked himself up q1uickly and got out of the way. Shortly after this the goat was shot and killed.-Aiken Journal. Dropped Dead While XilkinR. Last Wednesday morning Mrs. Mary Giles, wife of Mr. Samuel Giles, who lived near Fort Mill, went out to milk the cow as was her custom, and shortly afterward she was discove:-ed lying on the ground near the, cow in an uncon scious condition. The family supposed at first that she had been kicked by the cow, and at once dispatched a messen ger for a phyisician. When the physi cian arrived he found Mrs. Giles (lead, and decided that she came to her death from heart disease. Mrs. Giles ate a hearty breakfast before going out to milk, and was supposed to be in her usual health. She was about fifty-two years of age.- Yorkrille Enquirer. Killed by Chloroform. DUE WEST, October 3.-The wife of Dr. J. A. Robinson died near this place this afternoon from the effects of chlo roform administered by her husband Intense suffering during a dental opera tioin led her to ask for the anosthietic, which was administered by the doctor contrary to his own wishies.--Rews and (ourier. MRS. MAYBBICK IN PRISON. What She Is Doing-How Female Con victs Are Dressed. Mrs. Maybrick- almost forgotten now -is doing her nine months of solitary confinement, and daily does an allotted task of needlework, says the Pall Mall Gazette. 'Those who follow the wretched woman's career, as it may be studied from time to time by the prison bulle tins, will learn with interest that there is considerable thought as to dress in this prison, and as befits a lady's es tablishment. Even in prison, accord ing to F. W. Robinson, a variety of toi lets is customary. There is the probation class, in which women for the first nine months wear a lilac cotton skirt in sum mer, with a blouse bodice, a square of .erge for the shoulders, a check blue and white apron, small white linen cap with goffered border, and a plain, un trimmed, coarse white straw bonnet of what is termed the "cottage shape," and a very hideous shape, to our masculine mind, it appears to be. On Sundays white aprons and neckerchiefs are worn. In winter the lilac dress is replaced by a thick blue serge, with a neckerchief of the same material, and a thick fawn colored circular cape is also allowed for the shoulders. In the second nine months the prisoner is a woman of the third class, and wears in summer a plain blue cotton skirt wig h stripes, and a square of brown serge for the shoulders. The bonnet and linen cap remain the same in style or distinguished, as it may be, for want of style, and white aprons and necker chiefs again smarten up the women on tbe Sabbath. In winter the third class women wear brown serge dresses and fawn-colored capes. In the third nine months a female convict b comes a woman of the second class, and is allowed the distinction of wearing a full blue cotton skirt with white spots, a blouse bodice of the same material, and a square of green serge for the shoulders. In winter she wears a thick green serge gown, the other details of the dress being the same as in the preceding class. In the fourth period of nine months she be comes a woman of the first class, with little if any distinction from the second, and this remains till she is within nine months of the expiration of the sen tence, when-happy time for the female convict, with liberty so close at hand again-she is dubbed a woman of the special class. The two children of 'Mrs. Maybrick have, by the consent of their deceased father's brothers and of the Baroness von Roque, been adopted by a lady and gentleman in London who are in good circumstances and who will see to their maintenance and education. The chil dren (boy and girl) will assume the names of their foster parents, and thus it is hoped in future life escape the stain attached to the name of their mother. A WOMAN CIRCUIT RIDER. Miss Alva Button is Commissioned as an Itinerant Preacher. BRAZIL, Ind., September 30.-To the Lower Wabash Annual Conference of 'United Brethren in Christ, whose thirty second session closed in Clay City to-day, belongs the honor of giving to the church its first lady circuit rider in Miss Alva Button of Greenup, Ill. The act author izing the innovation was passed by the session of General Conference held last May. Only a few days ago Miss Ella Mishwanger, a graduate of the Theolog ical Seminary, Dayton, 0., was or daine d as an elder at the session of thbe Central Illinois Conference, being the first woman ordained. At the same conference Mrs. Elliott was also admit ted. Later Mrs. Bell, wife of an itiner ant preacher, was admitted to confer ence. None of these were assigned to fields of labor. Miss Burton is a young lady of more tban average attainments, common sense and pluck, and it may be added that she possesses beauty, being tall and poposseasing i-n appearance. Sbc isa native of Chicago. She learned to set type in the office of an Illinois newspa per when seventeen years old, and after ward became a successful school teacher. When her call to the ministry came she was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, but joined the United Brethren, owing to the similarity of their doctrine and in order to secure admis sion to Conference. The Westfield Illinois Circuit, to which she was appointed, is one of the first in the Conference. It has five ap - pointments, somewhat scattering, but she will preach at the appointments every two weeks. Bishop Kephart and the Conference generally give her a cor dial welcome, and a bright future is predicted for her. "She may do all right," said one of the older preachers, "until it comes to immersing some, big six-footer in a creek; then she will be left." "Not a bit of it," said a bystander. "There will not be a man in the crowd but what will throw off his coat and volunteer to do the ducking for her." THE NEW YORK DEMOCRACY. In State Convention-The Mention of Grover Cleveland's Name Bvokes Groat Enthusiasm. Siccsz, N. Y., October 1.- -Rumors of a smashed slate on account of the opposition of the New York men to cer tain candidates are the only topics of discussion this morning. It is said that both Tammany and the County Democ racy are determined to support some other candidates for Attorney General and Comptroller tban Tabor and WVemple. It is pretty certain that both organizations will support Senator Foley as a candidate for the Attorney General ship. A bout 11 o'clock Alhambra Rink, in which the convention is to be held, was thrown open and delegates and visitors began to stroll in. The hall is prettily decorated with flags and bunting. At 12:15 Edward Murphy, Jr., as chairman of the State Committee, called the convention to order and announced the action of the State Committee in nommnatinig rtawara A. Jones for ten. porary chairman. The committee's action was unanimously adopted, and a com mittee was appointedto escort -Mr. Jones to the chair. On his appearing on the platform there was loud cheering. When it had subsided Mr. Jones began his speech. lie was frequently applauded. Bis allusion to the name ot Grover Cleveland evoked hearty cheering, which was continued for nearly a minute. At the point mn his speech where the words "I am a Democrat" occur there was also wild cheering. The speech was listened to attentively, and at the finish the Lieutenant Governor was again cordially cheered. The secretary then called the roll of delegates. The usual committees were appointed and a recess was taken until 5 o'clock. One of Mrs. Surratt's Prosecutors. Gen. George Foster, who was one of the prosecutors in the trial of Mrs. Sur ratt, was before -a New York police court Saturday on the charge of raising a disturbance while drunk. -The charge was not pressed and the Justice dis charged him. At one time General Foster had a practice in New York worth $20,000 a year. "Less than a yeariago," says the World, "the General began on the downward grade, after some domes tic troubles. Mrs. Foster and her two daughters now live down town some where. From being unusually neat in his dress the General has grown to look like a tramp, and he has no money ex cept what he begs from those who have A TEN-YEAB-OLD CONVICT. He Was Sent to Prison for Life, But Has Been Conditionally Pardoned. FRANKFORT, Ky., October 1.-Through the efforts of the National Humane So ciety, a conditional pardon has been ob tained from Governor Buckner for Linn ville Combs, the young life convict. Combs is to be placed in the Industrial School of Reform at Louisville, to re main until be is of age. He lived with his mother and stepfather in Breathitt County. There was a baby in the fam ily, and one day the baby was missed. Linnville was questioned, and finally led the neighbors to where the baby's body was found in a creek, its head crushed in. He said he had hit the child on the head with a poker and killed it, after which he tried to burn the body. It did not burn fast enough and he threw it into the creek. He also said his father had promised him a pair of new red-top boots if he would kill the baby. Being an infant in law, his testi mony against the old man was valueless, but he was sent to prison for life. He had never heard of God or the alphabet aud did not know right from wrong. At the time of his conviction he was 10 years old and now, at the age of 12, he can read and write and is very bright. Evgry convict in the prison signed a pe tition for his pardon. FOUR MARRIED AT ONCE. Remarkable Coincidence in the Courtship of Lansdale Maidens. By a series of strange coincidences eight young poeple living in Hatfield township, near Lansdale, became en gaged to each other at the same time, fixed upon the same date for their mar riage, and were married by the same minister at the same place and hour Saturday last, says- the Philadelphia Record. Up to the hour of the cere mony each of the four couples had been totally unaware of the intentions of the others as to when, where, and by whom they should be married, although the fact of their engagement was known. The names of the young people who en tered upon married life under such unu sual circumstances were: Alen M. Hil derbrand and Miss Mary E Rickert, Hiram J. Minninger and Miss Kate Bechtel, Isaiah M. Funk and Miss Annie F. Detwciler, and Jacob Kunn and Miss Lizzie Sowers, and the Rev. J. L. Becker. pastor of the Lansdale Lutheran Church, was the clergyman who performed the ceremony. The homes of all four couples were within a radius of two miles, while a still more singular coincident was that the young husbands were all related to each other, while the young spouses were all brunets. Three of the hus bands-Detweiler, Hildebrand and Min ninger-are also of the same age, 21 years, while Funk is on the verge of his legal manhood. Two of the young ladies -Miss Rickert and Miss Bechtel are 20 years old, and the remaining two are within six months of that age. It appears that the young people, who were perfectly well acquainted wifib one another, went to a picnic near Lang horne early last August, and it is said each couple there resolved to he bound together for life. On the ride home from the picnic the young people ex changed confidences, and were greatly surprised at the news. The engagements were of short duration, but the couples had no understanding about the time of their marriage. When they lined up in a row in pastor Becker's study there was a broad smile all around. The minister read the marriage ceremony to them all at once, and in his parting blessing said it was a good omen that they should start out all at once. BLOWN INTO ETERNTY. Forty Lives Lost by the Explosion of the Boilers of a Mississippi River Steamer. NEW ORLEANs, La., Octobe~ 3.-The steamer Corona of the Ouachita Con solidated Line left here at 7:30 last evening for Ouchita River, with a full cargo of freight and a good list of pas sengers. She exploded her boilers at False River, nearly opposite Port Hud son, at 11:45 this morning, causing the loss of the steamer and about forty lives. The Anchor Line steamer City of St. Louis, Captain James O'Neil, was near by, and with his crew and boats saved many lives. The surviving pas sengers and crew were taken on board by Captain O'Neil and very kindly cared for by him and his crew. Colored Competition With White Labor. But the negro problem is to be viewed from other stat.dnoints than that of the farmer. There is a wide difference be tween the educated and uneducated negro. As soon as the negro acquires some "knowledge of books" he deserts his cotton patch and seeks other means of making a liveliho l. As yet but little is seen of him in the mercantile or pro fessional world, but as a mechanic he is making himself felt all over the South. In some communmities he has actually driven the white mechanic to the wall and is making a comfortable living at prices 25 to 50 per cent. less than the white man can afford to work for. Why? Because it costs him little or nothing to live, and not because he is a more skilled workman than the white man. Whbere the latter is required to spend two dollars in the support of himself and family the negro will get along ou fift y cents. The white mechanic has to feed and clothe himself, wife and children and pay house rent, all out of his wages; but not so with his colored copttr he wife of the latter prob abl coks for you and you usually furnishi your cook with a house on the premises to live in. Thus the negro mechanic saves house rent and is fed by his wife. Hil chil dren are fed in the same way and if any of them are large enough they are hired out too, and thus help to swell the in come of the family. He buys good 5?eDULchad-clothing for whicli-avar Core, that his daily expenses are practi cally nothing when compared with those of the white mechanic. And while he may do inferior work, it is nevertheless a fact lhe is gradually elbowing the white mechanic ou: of the way, in many places at least, accepting work at prices at which it is literaily impossible for the white mechanic to le.- Ia;caster Re view. The bill to establish an industrial school for girls has passed the Georgia House of Delegates and will probably pass the Senate. The bill t o open the State University togirls failed to receive a constitutional majority in the Senate, but the vote was reconsidered andl the bill is still before that body. The friends of woman's education are in a majority in the Georgia Legislature, though some of them object to corducation af male and female students in the university. Killed by a Gin. Alex. hIough, a worthy colored man of Flat Creek township, in the employ of Mr. Amos S. Mungo, had his arm caught by a gin belt, on the 24th inst., and was so badly injured that he died from his wounds a couple of days after ward. Theforearm was amputated, but his other injuries proved to be more serious, lie leaves a family of four children. ilis death is regretted and much sympathy is expressed by the citi zens of the community who knew him. O0 AND ENDS. The catch of the Alaska Fur company for. the last year amounted to 1,000,000 seal skins. A plain gold ring was found by a Washing, ton, N. C., man imbedded in a large block of ice. An English lady has left $50,000 to be de voted to the photographing of stars, planets and nebula. Legal proceedings that were begun in 1490 in Poland to decide the ownership of forty acres of land have just been concluded. it is chronicled. It is said that sixty-three million:ires re side in the territory between Dobbs' Ferry and Tarrytown, N. Y., a distance of only six miles. It is estimated that the amount of gold and silver coin at the bottom of the Atlantic ocean is about $50,000,000, and it is further estimated that most of it will stay right where it is. The prisoners in the Texas penitentiary raise sugar cane and refine its juice. After paying all the costs of food, fuel, shelter and clothing, $6.5,000 have been turned into the state for this work. The largest bar of gold ever cast in the world was turned out at the United States assay office in Helena, M. T. It weighed 500 pounds, and is worth a little over $100,000. The first Mohammedan mosque in England has just been built in the parish of Woking, close by the Oriental institute. It is a hand some structure, surmounted by an elegant dome. The head measurements of 107 students at Cambridge university show a small dltninu tion in the head capacity as the individual grows one year older, but this is so small compared with the probable error that the observations are quite consistent with the hypothesis that the head remaius quite sta tionary. The tan shoe may -have a permanent fu ture after all. One of the results of the re cent maneuvers of-4he British fleet has been] the suggestion that the marines should wear tan or brown shoes henceforth instead of black ones and brown gloves instead of white. As a general result of numerous experi ments candle power, as determined by mean of the Bunsen photometer, affords no correct measurement either of light giving energy of of th' !uminosity of the source of light, the direction of the error always being such at to favor sources of a low degree of incandes cence when compared with those of higher temperature. A few days ago T. H. Adams, of - Clarks ville, Ga., cut a perfectly sound, fresh look ing muskmelon he had just received from Banks county, and upon examination it was found that a number of the seeds had sprouted and had roots nearly an inch long. The melon was perfectly sound and the flesh firm and nice. This is certainly a strange freak of nature. During the London season there is a great demand for plover's eggs in the city markets. They are the eggs of the lapwing, a bird which lays about four eggs of an olive cast spotted with black. These eggs come chiefly from Holland, the home produce being now very small, and they are received during the spring and summer, from March to June. ' Malietoa and the other exiled chiefs have arrived in Samoa in the German gunboat WoIL The natives hoisted Malietoa's old standard, and the crowd cheered him on landing. Herr Stubel, the German consul, informed Malletoa that he was at liberty to do as he pleased. Mataafa cordially wel comed Malietoa back to Samoa. The Samoan crops are abundant, and the fears of a famine are unfounded. Experiments are being made at the farm connected with the New Jersey state experi ment station, in New Brunswick, with differ ent breeds of cows, to ascertain the cost and value of the products of the different breeds. Those being tested are the Ayrshires, Guern seys, Holstein-Frielnn, Jerseys and short horns' The experiments, which include feeding, milking, weighing, measuring, etc., will cover a period of from two to four years. The O'Sullivans are coming. There are twenty-seven of them in the family-father, mother and twenty-five sons and daughters. Nora O'Sullivan, the youngest member of the family, a flaxen haired miss of 15 years, was at the Mission of Our Lady of the Rosary at Castle Garden the other day. Sho informed Rev. Father Callahan that she had left her fatner, mother, thirteen sisters- and eleven brothers in County Kerry, ireland. Nora said further that two of her brothers were twins and three of the sisters triplets. She hopes to see the whole family in the United States early next spring. She is the advance agent, as it were, of the great attraction.- L Chicago Herald. King Ludwig ad Wagner. I was once walking with a friend, a native of Munich, through one of the leading thor oughfares of that beautiful city, when he suddenly stopped, and pointed to a house which, although not a large one, was of very comfortable proportions and was surrounded by a garden, and had every appearan'ce of elegance. "In that house," said he, "lived the one man who was responsible for the ec centricities of our poor demented and new decaed1 king. It was the home of Richard Wagner." I have recently read a story which is now going the rounds, told by a person who claims to have been in the body guard of the unfortunate King Ludwig, of Bavaria, which says that the late king was not insane, and that the cause of all the trouble of the much" to-be-pitied monarch'-was due to Bismarck and to a woman. How true this may be, I know not. Richard Wagner certainly had an unbounded influence over the Bavarian king, and if many of the strongest adherents of Ludwig are to be believed, it was Wagner who prevailed upon him to withdraw from the world and its realism and live an Ideal life, surrounded by the luxuries of art and music, amid the mountains of his native Ba varia. Had it not been for the king, such works as the "Ring des Nibelungen" and "Parsifal" would prbbynever have been produced with suc gadur, and the gorge ous castle at Hreciemsee would not now exist as the most wonderiul of modern artis tic works.-Washington Pr-ess. . A Leaf for a Cradle. 91 Visitors to Fairmouns park during the ps week have been much interested in the sln did specimen of Brazilian water lily, known as the Victoria Regla, flourishing in the par terre above Horticultural hall. The leaves of the plant are fully a yard in diameter and shaped like green circular tea trays, with an inch high border about their circumference. They rest lightly on the surface of the water, but are of so strong a fiber that a dog or a small child could readily sta,nd upon them without sinking. These leaves are often used by South American mothers as resting places -e4ueir babes, serving as a cross betweerra white lily of wonderful purity and delicacy. T'he first blossom' that has appeared since the plant was brought from South America last: spring appeaed one day last wveek but dis apveared bneath the water on Fridiay. An-i otier bud is expeted to burst within a feiw days.-Philadelphia Record. A North Carolina Case Settled. WAsHINGTON, October 3.-A question' of considerable interest to the State of North Carolina was settled to-day, after several conferences between the Attor ney General, the Secretary of the Trea sury, the Secretary of the Interior and Governor Fowler of North Carolina. It involved the liability of the State forl about $41,000, interest on $147,000 in, bonds issued by the State many years ago in aid of thbe North Carolina Rail-: rood, which are, now in the possession of the government, mostly in the shape of Indian trust funds. The bonds ma-I hured in 1883 and in 1884. The State is willing to redeem the bonds, with inter est to date of maturity, but demIfurs to the payment of interest from maturity o (late. An agreement has beenO reached whereby the ~State is to pa~y into the [nited States treasury the undisputed amounts, leaving the question as to its3 lability for interest accruing onbod since their maturity to be determined by the United States Supreme Court. Senator Hampton's Idea. Senator Wade Hampton, in an inter-1 hould pass a law to aid colored citizens o emigrate to Mexico, or some island on, he West coast, and colonize. J'