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ROBBED HIS UNCLE. THE STORY YOUNG WALLACF TELLS AFTER HIS SOJOURN IN CUBA. Detail of same 4 f the Doing-yof LivelY YounglMan New 'ork Sun. Young Robert H. Wallace and Ig uaz. Batch Lowitz, who robbed Wale lace's uncle and employer John H Wallace. proprietor of Wallace's Monthly, of $52.000 inbonds and fled -to Havana., were brought back yes terday by Inspecteor Byrnes' deteet ives Thomas Adams and Robert Mc Naught, and locked up at police headquarters. Wallace told-the in spector a remarkable story'of lii downfall and fight wita Lowitz. One day last October Wallace said he ac-t L'owitz in the corridor of the Stewart building, where the.!offices of Wallace's Monthly are, and Low itz asked him to cash a $50 check hr him. Wallace cashed the check, which was on the Woonsocket Silk Mio 2ompany. and was signed R. W. Watts. Wallace sent the check to the bank, and before he had time to hear fromthe bank Lowitz asked Lim to cash a similar check for $200. Wallace acc'ionmodated him. The 'next day the first eheck came back toWalace marked wortdess. Wal lace says that when he asked Lowitz to make good the checks Lowitz said that he had a lot of diamnon Is in a pawn shop, and that if Wallacc would advance the money to redeem the stones he would sell them and more than repay Wallace.Wallace said that he gave Lowitz a check for $1. 100. L.owitz redeemed the diamonds and sold a few of them, but did not repay him any part of the $250 he had advanced, him on the bogus checks. Then Lowitz said to him: "You are in a box, my boy. Brit I'm going in the bookmaking busi ness. and will soon be able to repay you. Wallace says that Lowitz had no luck, but told him of a "sure thing," on whieh he wanted to bet 2,500. Wallace told him that he could give him no more checks, as the money had riun out. Then Lowitz. Wallaco Says, showed himhow he could swin dLie his uncle out of $2,500 without beim: discovered. He told Wallace to SUow his uncle two checks. one for $2 , and the other for $5, and when he had signed the $2 check to slip along one for $2,500 and he would sign it without reading it. The ruse worked and Wallace cashed the check and gave 12,500 to Lowitz to invest in the races. Lowitz reported in a few days that he had lost thle money, and Wallace says he then tola Lowitz that he had ruined him. Lowitz consoled him by telling him that the best thing they conld do was to make another bold strike and run away. "You have keys of the safe deposit box where your uncle keeps his bonds," Lowitz said to him. "Rlob the box and we wll leave this town behind us." Walace, according to his own sto ry, thought over the proposidon for several days. He saw no way out of the trouble he had brought upon himself, and concluded to take the anai step. Lowitz accompanied him to the' Bankers' and Merchants' safe deposit vaults,, but r-emained in the street. Wallace took-83,000 in bonds out of the box and joined Lowitz in the Cafe Savarin. They fonnd a broker who hypotheeated eight $1, 000 bonds with Vermiflyea & Co., and $4,000 of Jersey Central bonds $4,000 of Chicago, Burlin & Quincy bonds at a p1 Wall street where a b' {e Lowitz works. They - Astor House,and W' r his mistoess. Sadie 'whom they intrusted the while they knocked around that evening. They boarded the Havana steamer at night and bought their tickets on board. Wallace sailed under the name of E. A. Collins, and Lowitz 'took the name of G. B. Lewis. As the steamer was nearing Havana, -Lowitz told Wallace that it was not unlikely that he would be arrested upn reachin their destination, but tt it would be an easy matter t secure his release. He then directed to Wallace a statement exonerat ig himself from all blame in the -robbery. Wallace signed the pa per. In Havana they deposited $10,000 in bonds and $5,000 in money with J. H. Vanza & Co., and received a receipt which they deposited in the safe of the Hotel .tassage. The next day they were arrested. They en gaged Lawyer Miguel Genner to de fend them and upon his recommen dation Wallace raid $200 .to R. M. Tarrafa, arunner for the hotel, to abstract the receipt from the safe and bring it to him. Then Genner told them that for $2,000 ho could get the bonds and money at Vanza's, and Wallace gave him $2,000. Then Genna-r told his clients that he want ed $3,000, for his services. He warn ed Wallace that it was a very serious offence in Havana to bribe an officer, ad unless the money was paid to him they'd get in further trouble. Wallace gave Gennet $1,000 in cash and two $1,000 Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific bonds. Frank Mclnerney, an American merchant who was a prisoner in the jail, told Wallace that he had better get his bonds before Genner disposed of them and Wallace did so. Detectives Adams and Mc~aught arrived in flavana on May 20th and learned of Genner's transaction. They had Waflace put his statemen in writing and laid it before the American Consul. Raymond 0. Wil liams. Consul Williams quiestioned Gender, who admitted taking $3,000 from Wallace, but denied that he re ceived any bonds. Lowitz says that e.x-Judge Gilder sleeve is his counsel. He was arrested some time ago for swindlng Jewel 1er John Bloch, of 9 Maiden Lane. of $1,500 worth of diamonds, which he took to sell on memorandum. I-n spector Brynes says that he will soon be able to restore toMr. Wallace $27, 000 of the $52,000 stolen. The pris oners have been indicted bythogrand jury for lareeny and burglary in the second degree. -The Richmond Terminal direc tors have empowered President Inman to negotiate for a share In the syndi cate which has recently bought heavi ly of B. & 0. stock, to be paid for which cash now in the treasury. The regular 2{. per cent. dividend on pre ferred stock was declared. The R. & D. directors declared a. seni-annual dividend of 5 per cent -The steam pipe of the tug"Light ing," of Norfolk, exploded there Tuesday, kiling CGaptain Darby and a fireman- - SILVER TRIUMPHS. The Westand the south Come Together on Common (C'ound. WASHINGTON, June1C 11.-Harrist,1 Reed and Sherman were turned down by the Senate this afternoon, when that body passed a free coinage bill, by a votc of 13 to24, and they made the silver certificates legal tender. Indeed, the administration was I defeated on every turn, and the predictionsmade in this correspon dence, two weeks ago, have come true to the letter. There was no'mincing matters by the Soulhern and Western Senators. They cuame out squarely for the free coinage of both gold and silver, and although the president, Windom, Reed. Sherman, and all the other gold bugs, made the greatest effbrt to force the Western Republicans into line, they were unsuccessful, and Plumb's free coin-age amcndinnt to the House bill went through with a whoop. Now the bill will go to a conferene committee, where Tom Reed expects to get the Senate to agree to a com promise under the threat that lar rison will veto a free coinage bill, but it is hardly probable that the Senators will allow themselves to be bulldozed by Reed, especially as they know that a free coinage bill would now pass the H:ouse by a very large nia jority. The Senate's action has plac ed the free coinage Republican in the House in a position where they can now vote with their convictions, and even Reed could not now hold them in line if the matter was before the House. NOT A FAIR COUNT. The Pcople of Charleton Are Not Satisfied With the census Work. OhTrrALsToN, S. C., June 1.-There is widespread discontent here about the result of the census enumeration, and there is good reason for believ ing that the work has been loosely done. Several of the enumerators gave up their work, and therefore the time will be extended at least un til tomorrow. The white enumera tors seem to have done their work pretty thoroughly. The negro enu merators, on the other hand. seen to have done it very loosely. It is said that hundreds of families have not been counted. There are thirty dis tricts in the city, each of which was calculated to show over 2,000 popula tion. Some of these fall from 500 to 600 behind, and it is claimed that this is caused by the negligence of the enumerators. Numbers of cases have been reported where the enu merato has refused to count the members of a household who had been sent to a summer resort in an other State after June 1st. A num ber of other cases are reported in which the enumerator has never even halted at the house. The last city census, two years ago, gave a popula tion of 68,000. It is thought that the present census will show a total of not over 55,000. It is also said that the increase in the colored popula tion is considerably more than that in the whites. Oni Pension Outlay Next Year. The pension appropriations made so far by the present House, accord ing to Representative Hendersoia of Iowa, aggregate $167,419,731. This is handhome, certainly, and not too niggardly in view of the degree of prosperity enjoyed by the farmers of t rounry--The -itemis are these: gular pension bill, $98,427,461: gnt deficiency, $21,013,009; sol ;er's homes (deficiency,) $61,609; artificial limbs (deficiency.) $60,000; pay and bounty claims, $1,123,629; soldiers' homes, $2,601,765: aid for State homes, $400,000; artificial limbs, $402,000: expenses pension office, $2,439,100: records and pension divs ion. War Departnwnt, $837,270; Act for'total helplessness, $45,000: gen eral pension Act (passed Wednesday,) $35,000,000: urgent deficiency, $3, 708,838; total, $167,419,731. An mn come tax on pensions will be re quired by and by for the support of the ordinary taxpayers. The Three C's Road. Caausrox, S. 0. June 17.-The story of the troubles of the Charles ton, Cincinnti & Chicago Railroad which reached here today is disbe lieved by those who are interested in the enterprise. W. F. Marshall, the soliciting agent of the road, said in an interview today that he had just come from Blacksburg, the head quarters of the road, and wvhile there had seen Mir. Albin, the solicitor, and Mr. Bently, the vice-president, and that neither of them had mentioned the suibject. The road had just re ceived about twenty car loads of rails, fish plate, etc.,to be used in its completion from Rutherfordton to Marion, N. C., and a large force of hands is now at work near Union and Hickory Grove, N. C., and an other at Newberry, S. C. The gen eral impression here is that the story of the road's mismanagement and le gal complications is a bluff.-Spe cial to the Greenville News. Capt~ain T illani on the Tariff. The following is sent the Green ville News as an authorized expres sion of Captain B. R. Tillmans tariff views: 1I know free trade or anything ap proximating it is a 'barren ideality' utterly impiossible while we have. thre ~and four millions of dollars to raise to carry on the Government. I favor tariff reduction as much as any man on the necessaries of life, and wouldput on free list every commodity which is owed by a tr-ust or monopoly, like jute bagging for instance. Re-] quiring so much money for the Gov erment and to pay pensions, I would favor such a tariff as would raise it without running the Ameican manu facturer out of the business or giv ing him a monopoly so he could rob the consumer. In other words a tariff for revenue with incidental pro tection -Jim Hawkins. colored, was kill edy lightning on Tuesday after noon at the works of the :Greenville Fertilizer factory, and forty or fifty men were shocked, seome of them be ing rendered senseless for a few ne utes. At the fertilizer works three .'-y heifers and a turkey were kill edi oy lightning about the same time. -An old couple who were married in 1863 called at the county elerk's ofice yesterday to ascertain if the minister who performed the ceremo ny had made a proper return as re (uired by law, says the Indianapolis News. They wvere happy to finid that everything was accordimg to law. - - _ _ -Dr. Gatling, ine North Carolina Iinventor, says lhe will produce an ice machine that will make ice at one +-nt of th2 present cost. DYINC B ( TnOUSAND Ne v Mexico Cattle Starvina go Death-No Rtain for Six Month%. .!LVE CIrrY N. , June 14---Stock men in New Mexico have never be f!re suffered anything lfke the losses vwhich are now being borne 0on ae cout of the extreme shortness of feed, which has beoii brought partly oil aceount of overstocked ranges. but mainly on account o the long continued dry weather. There has been no rainfall for more than six mionths in the southcrn portion of the Territory, and the consequence is that the ranges are bare and brown and catlb- are dying by the hundred:; daily. The Lyons & Cai ipbell Cat tle Company, o flte laiuge ipa nies of tis county, reports anaverago loss of about fory head per day. This company has shipped severai thousand head of cattle withi the past two months. as many other companies and individual owners have done, but the ranges will not support the stock now on them uncss there are heavy rains befoic many days to start the grass. Some of the oldest ranchmen iu this country say that if the dry weather continues a .month longer they will lose one-fourth of their herds. Few cattle die out on the ranges. The grass has been eaten down close to the ground i the vi cinity of all the water courses and watering places, and the herds in some instances go miles into the foot hills or out on the mesas, where there is better grass to feed. They re main out until thrist drieves them in and they drink their fill of Water af ter which they invariably lie <down. The weaker ones never get up. Thousantis of bloated carcasses of dead cattle lie rotting in the scorch ing sun in New Mexico. but the stock men are bearing their losses philoso phically. Good prices are bemg obtained for cattle shipped North for feeders. Steers which are now selling here for from $16 to q20 per head would not have netted shippers more than $6 to $8 per head two years ago. As long as such low pri ces prevail there were very few cat tle shipped from Southern New Mex ico. consequently the ranges became overstocked. Stock shipments from this Territory this spring have been unprecedented. For more thain two months the Atchison, Topeka & San ta Fe railroad has been taxed to its utmost to move stock North, and al though extra crews have been put on and the motive power has been made to do extra duty, the company has been unable to furnish transpor tation for stock as fast as it has been brought in from the ranges. Over 60,000 head of cattle have been ship ped over the Santa Fe in the past two months from this county alone, but the shipment of this large num ber of cattle has made no apprecia ble improvement in the condition of the ranges, and losses from dying stock will continue at the rate of thousands of dollars daily until there is a good rain fall. In the northern part of the territory there has been rain, and cattle are not suffering, but the losses of stock sustained by ranchmen-during the blizzard last November were about as heavy as they are in southern New Mexico now. During the past eight months more stock has been lost in New Mexico than had been lost in as many years previous to last October. Notwithstanding the unusual losses of the past eight months, the average ercentage of loss in New Mexico for ~en years has been less than that of any other stock-raising section of this country. The Corn Crop and its Prices. In 1867 the corn crop of the United States covered 32,520.249 acres and amounted to 769,320,000 bushels, of a total value of $610,949,300. Corn averaged 80 cents per bushel in that year and the average value of the crop per acre was $18.87. In 1887 the acreage had increased to 75,672, 763 acres and the crop to-1,987,790, 000 bushels, while the aggregate val ue has only risen to $677,561,580. During this period the value of corn had shrunk from 80 cents per bushel, and the acre that cained $18.87 in 1867 yielded only $.82 in 1887. Like wise with wheat. In 1867 the area devoted to wheat was 18,321,561 acres, and the crop amounted to 212,4414000 bushels, valued at $421,786,460. The aceage in 1887 was 87,641,783 acres, and, although the crop had more than doubled, to 456,329000 bushels, its vidue was only $385,248,030, or $536,548,430 less than the crop of not half the size in 187. The average value of the wheat crop fell from $1.98 per bushel in 1867 to 87.3 cents in 1887, and the value of the crop per acre decreased in the same period from $23.05 to $10.30. Rye, oats, barley and buck wheat make a simailar, though even worse, showing, but corn and wheat, as the largest crops, aro sufficient to showv that the American farmer has been going down-hill, in spite of his tariff protection, at a more rapid pace than the most rab~id protectionist would car to predict as the result of -a partial removal of onerous tariff taxes. Water From the Rivecr Jordan. The Rev. Dr. A. Toomer Porter, occupied the pulpit, of the Holy Com munion Church, Charleston,1last Sun day for the first time in a year. The doctor has ,iust returned from a year s tri to Europe and the East. and he was warmly greeted by his congrega tion on his return to them again. A baptism was performed before the morning service. T'he subject was an infant of o~ne c the prominent members of the congregation, who was sprinkled with water from the River Jordan, of which a supply has been brought on by Dr~. Porter from the scriptural stream for these ceremonis. The Longest H-umuan Tooth. BorON. June 16.ADrs. Giorham and Stephens have .julst extracted a tooth for J. E. Mcliinney of Wool wich, Me., which is said to be the longest human tooth on record. It is an eye tooth and measures one amtd nine-sixteenthis inches in length. -Baltimore's first month under the high license law has been more than satisfactory. Over 1,000 saloons have been forced out of business. ar rests have decreased and the annual revenue has increased froma less . than 150,000 under the low license to more than 8400,000) under the high i icense, of which the city g.ets $350. 00, while it formerly received noth ng. The license fez is 5250 -The Spanish government has!I ordered that cordons of troops bel laced around all districts in thec provinces of Falencia that are infected with cholera. Seven new cases of the disease have occurred at Puebla| nc Tbwet..2 A TRAN'S MAD RUSH. iumninig wild Dnwn aMo'usntain--F'rightful neit of a l islhav to a L~tocomontive on a Stcp (:rade. AswnuY. N. C.. Jaue 1.-There was a terrible wreck of freight trains on the AsLeville & Spartiburg brauch of the Westcrni North Caro lina Bail Road at Melrose station last night. Four ii.en are reported kileC, "Ua three badly wounded. A dispaetch front Sartanburg givs urther partieulars as follows: Sterribie disaster occurred on the Asheville & Sptatuburg r*ail road last night. te comn:niy keeps an oxdra engitle at Saluda io assist the freight trains on the heavy grade on Tryon and Saluda Mountains, a dis tance of sevcral miles. This engine aids thle train both up and down the mountain, aiding in checking the speed of the east bound trains do cending, and in pushing the west bound sections a.scending. It was in chairge of Engineer Lewis Tun stall, one of the most trusted men on the road. great skill being necessary to operate on so exceptional an i cline. Last night about eleven o'elock the sciIonI of through freight No. 1. cast boand, came down the mioun tain. Tunstalls engii beig attach ed. besides the engine of the freight tmin. :funstall shIol(i have stopped at Melrose. a station at the foot of the mountain, but it was found that his engine was unIMamtigeable, and it rushed on, carrying the other eu gine and train, until they left the track, and caused a general wreek. Both engines and ten freight cars were wrecked. and there was a mas sacre of men Engineer Tunstall was found dead mider his engine, and his tireman, Will Taylor, a white man, was also killed, John Smyers. engineer of thefreght,was killed, and J. S. Beaucock, the flagman, a white man, had an arm and leg broken. Ed. Foster the colored train hand lost both eyes, Will Poe, white. fireman on the freight engine, hurt his shoul der and side by falling. H1e Stole a Parrot. Several days ago a thief entered the house of Dr. D. Morrow, at 308 Jefferson avenue. St. Louis, a dis patch from that city says. and, choos ing between a sideboard full of silver ware and a red-tailed. gray parrot mn a gilded cage, took the latter. The error of his preference was soon made manifest to him when the burglar reached the'street, for the parrot set up vociferous cries of "Stop thief!" and whistled up all the dogs in the neighborhood.--The thief stood it as long as there seemed the faintest show of escaping in spite of it, but at last, as men, boys and dogs closed around him, he threw down the cage and nimbly sped -away. Daniel Shaughnessy was subsequently ar rested by the police. When the trial comes off in a few days the police will introduce the parrot as the main prosecuting witness. The arrested man, who was at first indifferent, has been aroused to employ a lawyer, and declares that he will cheerfully face judge, jury and police. but never the tell-tale bird. A Snake on a Trestle. HoLL~m, Tex., June 18-Bud Brown, who resides a short distance north of this place, had an exciting experience a few evenings ago with a huge serpent. Bud, it appears, was on his way home along the Missouri. Kansas and Texas track, from this burg, and he had just reached a point about one and a half miles north of Holland, when he heard a queer bel lowing sound, similar to that made by alligators in the dead of night. He looked behind him and sure enough, saw a sight that for the time being rooted him to the earth. About 100 yai ds in the rear he could plainlly discern a suake- of monstaus size. The reptile approached him at a rapid rate, coming so close to him. in fact, that Bud, with a shriek of terror, jumped from a hi.gh trestle, landing in soft sand below, escaping fortunately, with only a sprained an kle. Luckily for Bud, some eat tle were grazing along the track, which the big snake at once attacked. making away in a jiffy with a calf and disap pearing in the timber. - Bud. who is a worthy citizen and temperate swithal, estimates the length of the snake at 42 feet. with a b)ody as thick as a telephone pole. He also avers that the monster was adorned with two formidable frangs, and, in addition, was eqjuipped with horns about a foot and1 a half in length. ;SheSpanked Hecr Decbtor. Nrd YOnK, June 17.- Mrs. Kate Ostrich, a muscular trade swoman of 376 One Hundred and Twenty-Fith street, was in the Harlem police court yesterday charged with spank ing Charles WV. Butler. Mrs. Ostrich claimed that Butler owed her $7.10 for painters' supplies.but Butler con teded the amount was only $2. hence the claim remained unsettled. On Monday the lady and her debtor met in Hundred anid Twenty-Fifth str ect and renewed that dispute, which ended in the former placing the latter. who is a little man, across her knees and publicly spanking him for the edification of the small boys of the neighborhood. In the court the matter was amicably adjusted by Butler's agreeing to pay the bill. N(ole Work of the Misses Hampton The Highland Star says: Misses Hampton. sister of the United States Senator Wade Hampton of Colum bia, S. C., who have a delightful sum mer home in Cashier's Valley, have built a model church there that cost $6.000. Its dimensions are 30x00 feet. The stainedl glass gothic win dows cost over $600, and the interior of the building is correspondingly finished in artistic style. It is Epis copal in denomination. In connec tion with the church, the Misses Hampton are now erecting a good size school house near by, and will furnish a good teacher to conduct it hen opened. It is thought that bout sixty or seventy pupils will at tenm. This p~hilanthropic work should meet with the hearty co-operation of the people, to whom these religi ous v:d edunational advantages are ofTered. Mother ol' Thirty-seven Children. Rl~duxosD. Va., June 19.-A census numei ator here has found a colored w man named Martha Gray who has aad thirty-seven childhen sinco 1 sGM. She has given birth to triplets sixI times and toseuni others singly. She is now living with her third huisband, md of the thirty-sveven chiudreni but -A planter living near Corinth, Missippi, Philip Henson, is believed to be the possessor of the longest eard in the world. Although he is .maun six and one half feet tall. his BAGGING FOR THE NEXT CROP. 'The stae ainiane-. Exchanige Arrange for Twot Mi!Hon Yardi.. fo t I anneri Alb:ce prOvidel Alliac' in this ' taeV I, meC u71 of the Ho . Dodd n Siot. buineiss agent of the Alliance. The members of. th Bo1rd of Directors presenti1 werv J. C. Col. oi Cheraw, nresidkLet: W. o. C . of -mr seeie try Jo) R3 Hario. Greenville, :ual !T. Lawson. of Ab) beville. Letters were read fr >m tiie abseni members. The purpose of ch. neting was tio rae arraig(ngeits for supplyig i, bagtimng for the pre.ent crop of cot ton of the Alliance memibers. The State business agent was authorized to contract with large anti-jute fims for the nceCssarly amount. which is expcfted to be 2,000.~000 yards. Any kiudL oi substantial bagging, s it i not -ute. will be taken. The board rec-omrnd~us that neither newuorsev'~ c Ondihand jut~e bagging be used by AliaLnce members under aniy co'idv eration. The purchase of bagging ii to be made oU the sante principle as other transactions of the State exChange. It is to ix, delivered in instaihnents from the 15th of August to the 15th of November. The county business agent will receive orders from the sub Alliaues for so many yards of bag ging. These orders accompanied by fifty per cent. in cash will be sent to Mr. Donaldson.who will then send on the money and order the amount of bageing wanted in each county. The bagging will be shipped to the coun ty agent ordering it and by him will be distributed. By the time the last installment of bagging is reeived the Alliance members will have paid for their bagging. By purchasing in wholesale quan tities it is expected that the bagging can be procured much cheaper than by the usual methods of purchase. News. Proposed Prinaries on the Lottery ErxroN RouGE, June 18.-W. A. Crandall, chairman of the Democratie State central committee, last night wrote aletter to State Senator Foster, leader of the anti-lottery faction in the Legislature, suggesting as a means of settling the lottery iuestion and avoiding dissensions within the party ranks that the State central committee be convened within ten days, and that they order pI-imary elections throughout the State, at which white people only will be' al lowed to participate: the said election to be held within thirty days. and if a majority voting at the primarios favor the submission of the lottery amendment to the people, the Gov ernor is to call a special session of the Legislature for that purpose within thirty days after the said elec tion. "You will, of course, under stand,* writes Mr. Crandall, -that in order 'o carry out the above sugges tiou the co-operation of the Governor will be necessary." The lottery amendment was introduced in the House Monday, and yesterday was referred to the special committee without opposition. Columbia's Campaign C :b. CoLUtrWa. S. C., June 17.-A large meeting was held in the court house here tonight, and n. campaign club for 1890 formed. Its objiects are to oppose Tillmnan, and refute his car ges agaist the State government. Judge A. C. Haskell. who has not been in politics since 1876, when he did noble work in redeeming the Stato. was elected president of the club, Hie addressed the assemblage and aroused the greatest enthusiasm. Colonel John C. Haskell and Gener al Johnson H11good. ex-governor of the State, wvere present, and de n?ounced Tillmnan's mode of conduct ing the campaign. The club will at tempi!t to organize the opposition to Tiflman iu every county in the State. -Atlanta Constitution. Our Mary is a IBride'. Losnox, June 17.-Miss Mary An derson was married this morning to Antonio Navarro in the Roman Catholic Chapel of St Mary's, in Hampsteadm. Th e weddinag was st-ictly private. M'.ss Ar derson was driven from the hIouse of her stepfather, Dr. Griflin, to the church ina a close carriage. The curtains were drawvn so that no glimpse was eaught of the bride until she left the carriage to enter the sanctuary. The marriage ceremony was performed in as quiet and simple a manner as possible. There was no choir, the only accompanying music being that of the organ. Only the intimaie fiend s of the bride and groom were present. Hlow Many the "Grippe" Eilled. -Accodingto a report submitted~ at the recent mueetinag of the Acturial Society of. America, tw4enty-ine life insurance companies paid out $881. 699 in death losses over and above the amounit paidi out by them'i during the corresponding (juarte ofi the pLre ceding year. The inerease of deathxs due to influenza for this periodreach ed one to every 2,0003 policy hiolders, and this, it is calculated, would1 n ake a total of 450 lossesf all theI in suance comnpanies in th country The insuranuce retulrus show that 25 per cent. of their death losses for the three months are from cuiher tho "grippe" or sonie of it s cotmplica tions. _______ Sound and Headi by at 123. ATLAN;TA. GA.. Junme 1 9.--Prob~al-y the oldest man living is John Hiraun Lester, an inmate of the Henry county p~oorhouse. lHe is 12:8 years of age, being born in South Carolina in 1767. He was wounded three times in the Revolutionary war and fought under General Jackson in 1812. He~ remembers seeing Washington sev eral tunes, and was pe'rsonally ac quinted with Lafayette. His father lived to be one hundred years old, and he has a number of broithers in, the nineties. Lester is in good healtha and sound mind, and expects to live to be 150. at which age he says. an aunt of his aied in Englaud. - -Represeniaiive Burrows is one( f the tinest lookinug men in Co gress. He is six feet two inches tal. weighs over two hundred pounds and hlas at voice that. pene(tats (o every ~omErJC of~h the as chambier i infor years from 'i:da ia and Gen tinkls tha. he a wil liforv'r, f he an always &e P P. l. (rick l s Poke' Roo2 and Potasi. This party's naLme will be pgi .ea ou apli HAY WHILE THE SUN SHINES. Precsident lIarribon said to )e 4(etting IeacLy for the Return Trip to Indiana. WAum;r.ox. D. C.. June 18.-The present of a seaside cottage to Mrs. ilarri son by Post Master General wn-iwaker and other wealthy men of Philadelliia has been the sub ject of much unfavorable comment and cr(l(5ism here. it was J)iCVCd the i-tft enterprise busiess had p1lyed out in Presidential famihes since Grant was so much criticised Ifo accepting valuable presents. and Republicam are much annoyed that t( Harrisonl should be the first to revive it. They say that while there is 11othli disraceful or corrupt about accepting such presents, it is in bad taste and has been condemn ed by public sentiment. This is not the first time the Har risons have oficnded in this respect. It is well known that when the Pres idcent cae to Washington he accep ed a gift of several line carriages from a Wtcrln manufacturing firm. The1 Hrrisons.are making a valiant effo- to save a big lot of money out of their salary. They live economi cally at te White House, do their shopping at Baltimore. New York, an4d Philadcelphia, where prices arc lower than in Washington, and im port many of their household neces saries in bulk from the country. It is said Mrs. Harrison has made her boast that Benjamin will leave the White House $100,000 richer than when he came into it, and it appear th7at a free summer at Deer Park, a present from the Davises and Elkin ses. and a free cottage by the sea, . gift from Wanamaker and others. are part of the programme of econ omny. Never before, it is said, was thc White House run so economically The staff of servants is unusuall3 small. and Mrs. Harrison watche. every item of expense as carefully a was her wont in private life. One oi the official staff at the White House i authority for the statement that ever Rutherford B. Hayes spent two dol lars in the White House where Ben jamin Harrison spends one. Haye, set up no wines or liquors, but h< did. not spare expenses in other di rections. Single entertainments giver by him cost!$4,500. President Harri son serves wines at State dinners but they are not of expensive vint ages. Some of the Scuatorial and di plomatic connoisseurs say unpleas ant and ungracious things about thi wines which they have tasted at th, White House. A queer story has been brough out by the gossip about the gift cot tage. It is to the effet that a nieN bank, started by a coterie of Wash ington speculators and financiers. i sing! as an advertisement the fac that President Harrison is one o its depositors. One of the director of this bank says a deposit was pla ced to the President's credit by ur known parties, and the belief is tha the directors have made the deposi and sent the bank book to the Presi dent for advertising purposes. Do not let anxiety about field crop cause neglect of orchard and vint yard. These are very important part of a farm, bearing upon both th Ihealth and pleasure of the fammlj IAs a rule, city people are better sui pled with fruit than the farmers, a] though the- latter have such abundar opportunities to have it in greates abundance and fmnest quality. Nes lected orchards are visible at ever turn-tha land grown up in weedt brairs, etc., which -. are choking an killing thegtrees. Or else, if cultivt ted, planted in cotton or some othe crop which is starving the trees t death by taking food from the soi Almost every farmer feels calied upo to put out some fruit trees: but whe: this is done he seems to think tha he has done all that is needful c necessary. Cotton and corn cannc take care of themselves, but fro-i trees can. We insist that fruit tree require just as much attention an manuring as any crop grown on th farm. The land they occupy shoul be broken every winter, not so dee as Lo injure the roots of the tree materially. but deep enough to rer der summer planting possible. The: begumng with spring surface culti vation should be given every thre or four weeks until, say, August. A the last plowing it is well to sow th orchard in peas. These will kee: .down other growth and servo to er rich the soil. It is the only crop ad missible in an orchard. Ceasing to plow in August an< sowing in peas will check the growt] of the trees somewhat, and cans them to mature the last formed wood so it will not be hurt by the winter' cold, and develope strong buds t< to make a good growth the nex year. One shounild go over his orch ard frequently during'spring and sum muer, and rub of all buds where limb: are not desired. and pinch off thi enuds of all limbs that are growing (disproportionately fast. This wil bring the head of a tree into prope: shape, leave nto scars or wounds, an( do away with necessity of knife : saw. If one begins with a yon: Iree it can be shaped entirely witi the finger nails. It is desirable un der our very hot sun to have rathe> low, spreading heads, with interio: )petty well opened up to admit ligh and air. The- killing of the bark of the truni by ithe afternoon sun is a fruitfu. source of destruction to fruit trees. PL-ehes and plums should have their stemns wvell hilled up to preveni ihe borer fiy from depositing its eggs. which it does on the soft bark just at surface of ground. Where c ;rape vines are trained tc stakes. go over them frequcetly and tie up thec advancing ends of the young~ vineLs so ats to get one strong mainm vie as a foundation. If allow ed to fall over thle laterals will appro pri ate too much of the samp and dwarl the maiu vine. A little pinchinghcre andO there of too rampant shoots is also proper. but heav s' ummner prn in s not advble. Like the ore-h arL. the \ine(yard shiould be culti'.a ted late sun uer--W L .Jones in At -Tiwentyiv yearcus amgo the Sioux chieftain Jrineri~i' married a white woman.a descndant of St. Louis pio nievrs. Today !he is the owner of a twety-tive acre farm near Muskegon, Mlieh.. upon which he has built a com;orta bile home. --The St. Petersburg police have disc(ove~red( a widespread conspiracy against the Czar's lifc. The imperial palace at Giatschina is undermined. The guards at the Palisades places have been doubled. Several arrsta SHE HAS SLEPT OVER 80 DAYS. The strange Case of Pretty G. ace Gridley. Anmoy, ILL., June 17.-In a quiet room on the shady side of one of Aiboy's pleasant homes stands a dainty bed, upon which, with rosy cheeks, a lightly closed eyes and half smiling lips. slumbers pretty Grace Gridley, the daughter of one of Am boy's prominent merchants, the "Sleeping Beauty." a? she has come to be known. On the night of March 15th, 1890. she retired to rest as usua in perfect health. so far as her parents know. The next morniugshe did not appear at the breakfast table at her usual hom-. Her mother went up to call her, and found her sleeping -so soundly that she decided not to awaken her. saying: "It will do her good." So Grace slept all that day, and when supper time came she was stinl sleeping. and her mother found it impossible to arouse her. Becom ing alarmed the family called in physicians, but every method known to them was applied unsuccessfully. Medical gentlemen came from other cities, and a consultation was held, but they could not solve the puzzle. They had all had cases of trance and had read of cases similar to Grace's, but never in their experience had they encountered a case like this. Only once since falling into her long sleep has Mis: Grace shown the slightest consciousness. When she had been" asleep for about a week the nurse left the room a few mo ments. Upon her return she found that Grace had arisen from her bed and left the room. In another apart ment, not far away, she was found, where she had apparently gone for the purpose of reading a Bible, as the book lay in front of her, where she had apparently dropped it after read ing awhile, and had again returned to her strange slumber. She was placed in her bed again and has not since shown the slightest signs of awakening. The younglady has, strange to say, lost but little flesh during her long sleep, and appears to rest as calmly and easily as a child in gentle slum ber. The beating of her heart and her respiration are natural, her flesh is warm and natural in tint, and the sleep appears to be perfectly normal. Food is given in a liquid form, but not in very large quantities. After being placed in her mouth 'he food passes into the stomach without any apparent effort at swallowing. There are many surmises as to the cause of her strange condition, bui only one that meets any favor. Dur ing the'winter there was a religiou revival in Amboy. Among the mos1 enthusiastic was Grace Gridley Every night saw her present, takin4 part in the exercises with ever in b creasing fervor. On the night of th< 15th of March the meeting was at tended by more than usual religiou excitement, and, it is thought, cul minatedin complete prostration of th< t young lady's nervous system. CAMBL!NC IN WASHINGTON. Compared with the Past it is Almost: Lost Art. "Well," repled Martin,ldrawing hi Swords out as if each weighed a pound "gambling in Washington is a los: 5 art. You know when President Ar Sthur caught a treasury clerk steal ing i540,000 and found out that he played it on the green baize in Par ker's faro bank, he sent for the fiv< commissioners who run the city of tWashington under theDistrictAct ani -drove every faro bank out of Wash i ington,and they stayed out too. - "There isn't a faro bank in Wash i ington, but the youth of Washingto2 -go across the river, over the long r bridge, and copper the ace there SBut there is nothing but poker game . running in Washington now. Hos i different things are since OldPrindl 1used to run a game without a limit t' Prindle ante-datedPendleton and th rother big gamesters, and I have seer tGreen, a Seinator from Missouri, la' t down a thousand .dollar bill in th C pot between the six, seven and eigh l1 spot with as much coolness as a mod 5 ern sport would play $25 on a cas< l card. Those were great days. >) have seen some of the Southern Sen S ators of ante-bellum days play $1,00( -on a single card without flinching. 2. "George Prindle was the bos: gambiler of those days, He was th< Sonly one of the sports before the wai who died and left any money. He left $50,000 in hard cash, and left il Sto his negro servant, who had nursec -him in Washington for twenty-five -years. "There were no club houses it those days, and the Congressmer 1and Senators with sporting proclivi ties met at Prindle's for asocial time, and they had it. There was anol planter in those days, when every thing 'went'-Burhanan was Presi dent-that came up from Arkansas, -who, as soon as he had sent his fu-st -boatload of cotton to New Orleans drew on his cotton factor for $20,000 and, as a matter of principle, he came to Prindle's faro bank to spend the money. When not at Prindle's he was at Johnny Coyle's, then as fa mous a restaurant as John Cham berlain's is now. This old planter painted Washington a carmine hue from the day he got there till his money was all gone. Then he drew~ on his cotton in New Orleans for $1.000 more and did not show up till next session. "The Arkansas planter's name is well remembered, but he is dead,and it is not worth while to give it." The Comning Congressional Elections. Nominating conventions are be ing held or prep)ared for just now all over the country, and some members of Congress are being renominated and some are being selected to stay at home. The feeling in the House is that there is going to be a change this fall-that the next House will be Democratic. The only trouble the Democrats are having in their Congressional Districts is in sections where the Farmers' Alliance is going into politics, but where Alliance men are elected they will, it is thought. generally be good Democrats. The Republicans are having the same trouble, only more of it, tihe Alliance movement being generally inimical to Republican policy. The main fight of the campaign this fall will be on the tariff, and it promises to be hot beyond precedent. In some States the Democrats expect large gains. Ohio, Missouri, Maryland, Virginia, Illinois and New York ar named as among the States that will add to the Democratic strength in the nexti House. The Northwest promises surprises, but they may not be, per haps. .iust as the Democrats expect. Will a Federal election law make muc'h diIfference in results? Careful students of the situation are of opin ion that it will disappoint its inven tors, and will show that Southern RED HOT ALABAMA POLITICS. The Farmers' Alianoo Stirring Things at a Great Rate. MooNTGOMRY, Ala., June 19.-Th nominations by the recent State C ventions have not settled a 1 the pol tical contests in Alabama for 18 even in the ranks of the Democrac. The State officers w-il be elected without opposition, except from the Republicans, but the Democrats will have a lively fight among themseives and the Farmers' Alliance in at least two of the Congressional districts. William Oates, of the Third District, and Hillary A. Herbert. of the Second District, will have strong opposition, headed by the Alliance. They wRj be opposed by the Alliance becauje they have openly and boldly decline. to support the Sub-Treasury bill nov pending in Congress. A. A. Wiley, of Montgomery, will opppose Hei. bert. The opposition to Mr. Oates has not decided upon its candidate as yet. The Legislature which will assem ble next fall will elect a United States Senator, 'and James L. Pagh will have a strong opposition to fight. He will be opposed by Governor Seay, ex-Governor Thomas H. Watts and probably IR. E. Kolb, who was recent ly defeated as the Alliance candi date for Governor. Kolb has not en tered the race, but it is generally eb lieved that he will, and if he does the Alliance will support him. Leadir.g Alliance men say they are now in politics and will be heard from again. TIMELY TCP!CS At the close of the war 1,7.0,000 men were mustered out of service by the United States government. The Indianapolis Journal, an ardent de fender of pension grabs, informs the public that "the length of life of 586, 000 of these men had been shortened twelve yeats each by injuries, disease and exposure," and goes on to say, that 400,000 of this number - are still living. The war has been over t won, ty five years, and the fact that 400,000 out of 5S6,000 men whose lives had been shortened twelve years each are still alive constitutes one of the mar vels of modern times. If these inva lids had all been healthy men the chances are that 100,000 more of them would have been dead by this time. The last sensation visited upon Par is is a pamphlet by the radical deputy, Camille Dreyfus,entitled "The Neces sary War." It -says: "The moment has come for France to obtain the re vision ot the Frankfort treaty or tear it up. France should appeal to Eu rope in the name of general peace, menaced by that treaty which conse crated the abandonment to Germany of Alsace-Lorraine. The moment has come for France to make war on.Ger many. Let us make war; diplomatic reasons permit it; economic reasons impose it on us, and military reasons command it. Let us make war; the Shistoric -hour has come. Two years ago would have been -too soon; in two years it may be too late.". The Colliery Guardian, of London after making the statement that the people of England are already im mensely dependent upon the United States for the food they consume, and for the. cotton garments which they wear, asks: "Why, then, should not -the people of Great Britain obtain Sftom the United States liberat supplies of the fuel which they burn'i" The' Gurinsuggests that it is. a matter 'of prices from .beginning to end, and Sadds: "America can fiood the markets of Europe with her surplus wheat, Swhy should she not also pour upon then:. large supplies of fuel Irom her enormous coal field?'" Coal mining in England is very expensive, as the -coal has to be brought from great depths. While the coal mines of Eng land were at one time the most .pro ductive in the world,it is now claimed that the labor and other expenses'-in cident to mining at great depths make it possible for the American mines to compete with those at England. The Republican organs which have~ so often ~logized Gee. Longstreet fox joining the Republican party wijl not in-lulge in any extravaganice over his recent remarks about the condition of the negro in the South. To a re porter of the St. Louis Globe-Demo-. crat who asked him how the ne gro fared down this way the General said: "He is getting along quite well and would do much better it it was not for the politicians. It does not follow that because a man is black that he is a Republican. A negro is like most any other man, he will vote to the ad vancement of his own interest. He ,will vote a. ainst a negro who has gone to the front simply as a politican in favor ofna respectable Southern white man any time. He will vote for a Southern white man that he knows against a politican from the Nerth every time. Schools are working out the problem of the colored man in the South. The development of the coun 'try is giving him new avenues of em ployment. Whlat he is gradually get - ting is better wages, and what he needs is less politics and meddling from politicians."~ A Northern paper recently had occa sion to inform a country reader that John Sherman is still a member of the United State Senate. While this little circumstance might seem to show some ignorance in the inquiring reader, it gives hope, also, ef' some progress in this country. The policy of which John Sherman has been a conspicuous advocate and a very noisy spokesman has, for some years at least, given place to one in which his services acnd sug gestions have been alike unneeomry and unprofitablo. The "burning ques tions" which once afforded Johni Sher man opportunities on the floor of the Senate have been settled by the pluck and pariotism of the Southern people, seconded all through by the good sense of the conservative people of the North. Possibly Mr. Sherman's presence in the Senate may soon be advertised-when he comes to talk about the measures concocted in the Republican caucus, with the purpose to over awe the Southern people and remand them to the rule of the negro. Doubtless Mr. Sherman has lots of thunder ready for such an occa