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* vs., -W* wprwyy ?ji| yfrjl-':-' "; jj^HI ' # " w* % * 4 , / FORT MILL TIMES. i " ' " " ' " ?????m VOL. XIV. FORT MILL, S. C., WEDNESDAY. MAY .i. 15)0.5. NO. 0. Eli Mill p Distinguished Party From the North Greeted by Prominent Southerners SOME SPLENDID SPEECHES MADE Meeting at Columbia Opens With a Cordial Address of Welcome by Governor Heyward, Followed by the Annual Address of Mr. Robert C. Ogden. President of the Conference. Colombia, S. C.. Special.?The Conference for Education in the South opened its eighth annual session here Wednesday, with a large attendance of leading educators from both North and South present. The Ogdon train, containing a party of ladies and gentlemen from New joriv, noston, Washington ami other Northern cities, arrived at 3:10 p. m.. itirl .no visitors are being entertained in various homes in the city to whit-h they have been invited. Tin* party numi rs ninety-five, being educators, literary men and women and business men interested in education. They ano* in on a special of ten Pullman jars, i bartered by Mr. Robert C. OgIcn, of New York. The members of the parly are his guests for a nineteen Jay trip to different points in South Carolina. North Carolina and Virginia. During their stay in Columbia, they as well as the many hundreds of other visitors, mainly from the Southern States, are guests of the eity of Columbia. A party consisting of the mayor of t! ( eity. the State Superintend nt of Education. Editor Gonzales, of The Columbia Sta'e, two professors of the South Carolina College and several atlier prominent citizens of Columbia, met the party at Hamlet, N. C.. and escorted it into the State. Every train joining into thp city brings from all parts of the South visitors to the conference. Th< conference opened its first session here with an address of welcome by Governor I). C. Hey ward. The Governor said in part . GOVERNOR HEY WARD'S SPEECH. . "Today throughout the entire South the s hoolhousc bell is ringing. It rings from the university on the hill and it v.ngs from the little schoolhouse by the roadside, and to you teacher; wl.o are present at this con Terence from our sister States of the I.1WI r>.?? -.1? ? > ......... ..ii.i liuiii rn i.i |1UI HUH U1 Ull. | :?\vn State. I vjiBh to say that in wel- t ;omir 'g you l must also congratulate i you upon the great work j'ou have t loin . I believe that you have ac oninliswd more during the past forty 1 year.- along educational lines than has j ever !<< < n accomplished hy any peo- j pi" in the same length of time. No < . people have ever worked so well or i under the same conditions, and iri your work you have boon accorded ] loyal - pport hy your people. In their < days of poverty and in their days of j pros| rity the tax-payers of the South j ha\c shown a willingness and a de- i sire to tax tlienjselves to support the schools not only for their own children ] ?the white children of the South ? but also for the liildren of anotder ( and dependent race. Though often , misunderstood, they have never let | their hearts fail them; they have never looked backward, but always forward. , and today we can see in university and in college, in graded school and in common school, in better teachers and longer terms, a happy and prosperous people?aye, in smiling fields and growing rdies, the result of theif courage and determination. "In welcoming you to South Carolin i 1 welcome you to a State which has always had a deep interest in the cause in which you are enlisted. With us. the modern schoolhouse stands beside the college of a century. From the earliest history of our State our people have prized learning and cultivation. Before the Revolution, South Carolina sent her sons to Oxford and to Cambridge. Shortly after the Revolution we began to build colleges and to establish public schools. The first library in America to be supported in any degree at the public expense was that established in Charleston in ; 1 ?OCl IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION TIT.' i LIZED. "I am sure, however, it needs no argmir r.t to convince you that the importance of education in its highest sense has ? vcr been realized by our peo pie. I The facts that 1 have just cited ttint before we had colleges of our own we sent cur sons abroad, and the further fact that almost within sound of onr vole - stands South Carolina College? o\ ( r "SOU years old?these will show the spirit that animated our ancestors. "As to what we are doing teday for the sons and daughters of South Carolina, ! have hut to point you to the numbr r of colleges ot our State, and to our growing system of graded and public schools. The State supports Winthrop College for Women. and South Carolina College, the Citadel and Clemson for young men, and also a State college for negroes. In addition to this, each religious denomination supports onp or more colleges which an- doing excellent work. There are also many private colleges, several of which are well endowed. Contributing to these is my system of graded and common schpols. Our State eon*t?t.''.tton requires that the General Assembly shall provide for a liberal system of free public schools for children be tween the ages of 6 and 20 years, and the constitution imposes an annual tax xceeding one-half of our entire Statu ax for general purposes. With us the lght to allow school districts to levy l special tax has already been won: t is incorporated in the organic law if the State, and we are now extendng the battle lines to the various disricts, 400 of which have already exerMsed this prerogative. New victories ire constantly being gained along this inc. and within the next few years we confidently hope to greatly enlarge our irmy of educational progress. "During the past year we built 175 school houses, and we improved ami equipped many more. These buildings ranged in cost from $300 to $40,000 ipiece, and in this equipment are included 500 libraries. Two thousand md five hundred of our teachers last rear attended summer schools in order to better equip themselves for their great work. It will require no prophet, my friends, to predict that, should we be again so fortunate within the next row years as to welcome you within the confines of this State, your eyes will behold vast improvement in our educational and industrial affairs. "Pardon me for this apparent digression. which 1 hope will prove to you tfte interest we feel in you and in your work. Let me give you some added welcome to our State and to our capital city. In the name of the great cause which brings you hero; In tha name of every school and college in the State; in the name of those high interests which it is your mission to serve; in behalf of the people of our State, and especially in behalf of the ijoople of our capital city. I welcome ?'ou. ladies and gentlemen, to South Carolina." At the conclusion of the Governor's iddress of welcome, the annual adiress of Mr. Robert C. Ogden. presilent of the conference, was delivered. PRESIDENT OGDEN'S ADDRESS In the opening Mr. Ogden spoke at some length of the objects and history >f the conference. Although this conerence, he said, lias no education body >f authority, it yet has a very deep sommunity of interest with the Southern Educational Board, the General Education Board, and in a lesser de;rt^e with the board of trustees of the Peabody fund, ami the hoard of trusees of the Slater fund. These several loards arc so thoroughly co-ordinated ind sympathetic that every facility >rcatod by any is at the command of mcli and the commonage of aim is so perfect that waste by duplication or competition is impossible. The work >f these boards and funds having been jriefly dealt with, the speaker spoke )f what hail been accomplished. It is he leadership of the child that we folow here, ho said, inspiring this great ompany more than curiosity, possible mtertainmont or social fellowship?is he interest of the child. And it was lust the preparation of this pervasive ntluence that awaited the advent o^ he new movement for education which a-as unfolded in the triple alliance of lie conference and the two hoards. This movement came at the psychological moment. Throughout this Southland, isolated and lonely, many able, thoughtful, well informed and solitary souls were brooding over the needy conditions of certain localities with which experience has made them paiinuiiy iamwiar. Anil with tlio perception of need was associated a conscious helplessness and vague, indefinite hopefulness, or was this condition of mind solely confined to the isolated and obscure? Men of large public affairs, women socially prominent, were both equally anxious and sadly doubtful. Here a voice had been raised, there a little local effort had been started, and beyond this the prophets were beginning both persuasion and provision* Then followed the awakening of the earnest and anxious thinkers. A strength of association was promptly created. Symptoms of many sorts indicated the educational epiphany that has commanded the admiration and respect of educators throughout the land, the encouragement of progressive citizens, the interest of statesmen. Certain facts mav he briefly outlined. PROGRESS OF LOCAL TAXATION. l*ocal taxation for education has made great progress, notably in Alabama. South Carolina. North Carolina and Tennessee. The constitution of the State of Georgia has been so amended as to facilitate local taxation for schools. The increase of public appropriations both through States and the local tax. for education, has aggregated many millions of dollars. New school houses by hundreds, perhaps thousands, have replaced others that were lacking in comfort, space enu equipment. Hundreds of inadequate schools have been consolidated and transportation lias been supplied to scholars that have been incommoded by the changed conditions. School terms have been greatly lengthened, the oualiflcations of teachers improved. and compensation increased to meet the longer term and better scr\ ice. Laws against nepotism in education have been passed and thus a beginning has been made in the removal of a corrupt and debasing influence upon education. This is an incident in the divorce of public education frond poll tics?an end most devoutly to ho do sired. Perhaps the most encouraging single element of progress is found in the formation of local and State or ganizations of citizens and educators tor the promotion of public interest in education. In the cities of Virginia large audiences of the best people have horn assembled by the commission to wait upon the teachings oi men whose souls are awake to the needs of the children and whoso tongues have been touched with the holy iire from the altar of public scr vice. Such meetings have been hob! elsewhere with success and power. Put Virginia's leadership is exception al in persistence and thoroughness. No doubtful curiosity of suspicion m ! mrKs >n tne DacKgrounfl; no academic seclusion, no Intellectual superiority, no cloistered exclusiveness now divides higher from popular education in tbo South. Other prominent educators made I splendid addresses. The meeting was an eminent success in every particular. Second Day's Session. The second day's session of the groat educational conference was marked by exceptionally strong addresses by notable speakers. At the Superintendents' Conference the State Superintendents of the following States were present: South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia. Alabama. Texas, Tennessee and Arkansas. Each of these spoke on different phases of the recent progress .of education in the Southern States, Columbia. S. C.. Special.?The Conference for Education in the South closed its sessions here Friday, and the conference adjourned subject to the call of the executive committee. At the morning session of the conference, Mr. Robert C. Ogden. of New York, was unanimously chosen president; Chas. R. Aycock, former governor of North Carolina, was chosen vice president. i no following executive committee was elected to serve the ensuing year: S. C. Mitchell. Virginia: Sydney J. Bowie, Alabama; R. it. Cousins. Texas; Clarence H. Poo, North Carolina; D. C. Caldwell. Louisiana; C. P. Gibson Georgia; R. II. Jesse, Missouri; Dr. 1 A. Jenkins, Kentucky; S. A. Mynders Tennessee; J. H. Hlneman. Arkansas; I). B. Johnson. South Carolina. The other officers of the conference elected were: Secretary. B. J. Baldwin. Alabama; treasurer. \V. A. Blair, Winston-Salem. N. C. The following resolution adopted by the Association of Southern States Superintendents of Education, abits meeting on April 2G. is given out for the first time: "Resolved that the Association of Southern State Superintendents of | Public Instruction, desires to exflrt'ss its appreciation of the valuable work of the Southern Educational Board, in co-operation with the educational authorities of the States, and of the spirit in which the work has been done for the past three years: and also to express gratification at the provision for the" continuance of this co-operative work." All the Southern States are represented except Tennessee. Mississippi and Virginia. Mr. Ogden. in a brief and expressive speech, then pronounced the conference adjourned. Visible Supply of Cotton. New Orleans, Special.?Secretary Hester's statement of the world's visible supply of cotton, issued Friday, shows the total visible to be 4.141,621 bales, against 4.798,989 bales last week and 2.931.311 bales last year. Of this, the total of American cotton is 2.911,621 bales, against 2.944,989 bales lust week and 83G.311.bales last year, and of all other kinds, including Egypt. Brazil, India, etc., 1,230,000 bales, against 1,235,000 bales last week and 1.095,000 bales last year. Of the world's visible supply of cotton. there is now ailoat and held in Groat Britain and continental Europe l.!".?i..000 bales, against l.GGS.OOu bales last year. Movements of Russian Squadron. Kamranh Bay, Special.?The Russian squadron, with transports, left its last stopping place last Wednesday evening for an unknown destination. The warships are provisioned for six months, and are believed to be bound for Vladivostok. Four German colliers arrived at Kamranh Bay too late to proceed with the squadron, but subsequently sailed in the same direction in the efforts to catch up with it. Nebogatolf's division was expected to arrive yesterday in Indo-Chinese waters, where it is believed the admiral will receive instructions regarding the place where he is to effect a junction with Rojestvensky, whose squadron, besides 25 Warships, includes a repair ship and a water tank ship. Sentence Commuted. St. Petersburg. By Cable. ?An imperial rescript summons Count Vorontzoff-Dashkoff, viceroy in the Caucasus. to the council of the empire and appoints him a member of the council of ministers, and charges Baron Noble, Secretary of State, to represent the viceroy in the council's declarations. A rescript commutes the sentences ot tin? officers concerned in the incident of the firing during the cercmonv ot the blessing of the waters of the Novo. Illinois Gambling Laws. eiitnairn :i 1 ?The Worth .lock cy Club on Friday definitely abandoned the clubs race meeting, which was to begin Saturday, opening the race season in Chicago. The stock holders decided that there was nothiAg e'se for them to do but to bow as gracefully as possible to the ultimatum of the State's Attorney, who declared that the laws of Illinois concerning gambling must be observed. $250,000 Saw Mill. White Springs. Fla., Special.?The saw mill of It. J. and B. F. Camp, one of the largest concerns of the kind in ' Florida, was burned** here Thursday, ! with the dry kiln, veneering mill, comi missary and 2,000,000 feet of lumber. > The flro spread to the neigliliorlng houses and several of them wefe de! stroyed. The loss will reach at least $250,000. Sir Thomas LJpton Hias invaded t Paris. He has opened a store in the Place do I'Opera. I SPECIAL IS WRECKED | Ogden Party Thoroughly Shaken Up in Fatal Collision TIIC I 1CT nr r?r . r* ? ? lilt LI3I ur ucau anu WUU.MJtl) Rounding a Curve in the Yard Limits of the Southern Railway at Greenville, S. C., the Train Bearing the President of the Conference for Education and His 100 Guests Crushes Into the Rear of a Freight. Greesnvile. s. C.. Special.?While ; founding a curve in the yard limits of the Southern railway at Greenville, and running at an estimated speed of 50 miles an hour, the special Pullman train bearing Robert C. Ogden and 100 members of the Southern Conference for Education, crashed into the rear ! end of a freight at 7:55 oclock this morning, killing four persons and injuring a score of others. None of Mr. I Ogden's guests were killed. The dead are; Charles M. Cope, white, brakeman of the special. Columbia. S. C. John Little. W. \V. Cummings and J. P. Hayne. negro employes on the dining ear St. James. The injured are: Prof. Henry \Y. Parnham. Vale 1'nlverslty. arm broken and cut on head, and Mrs. Henry W. Karniiam, badly bruised about head and arms. St. Clair MeKelway. editor of The Hrooklyn Eagle, bruised on back and shoulder. Dr. Julius D. Dreher. former president of Roanoke college, cut on the head. Robert M. Ogden. secretary to President Ogden, cut on hand and head bruised. -Mrs. J. G. Thorpe. Cambridge, Mass., rut and bruised on head. Bishop \V. Nr. McYiekar. of Providence, R. I., bruised. James Hunter, engineer on special, leg and arm broken. Walter Kershaw, electrician on special. ear and head cut. Conductor Edward Acker, bruised. John F. McCoy, agent Pennsylvania railroad, gash on head. II. Shall, negro cook on St. James, cut on arm. George Williams, waiter on diner Waldorf, bruised. Ogden Calls For Inquiry. The Greenville wreck will lie investigated as is shown by the following: "Hon. 1). C. Hey ward, Columbia. S. C.; Would respectful1;' suggest the extreme use of the executive power as may exist by the coroner's jury or railroad commission for investigation of criminal negligence, local and management, that caused wreck of my train. Four hands killed and others ! injure:!, also Prof, and Mrs. Farnham. ! My impression is that t,he ease is a ) had one and needs drastic treatment. "ItOHT. C. OGDEN." Governor Hoy ward replied as fol- j lows: "Robert C. Ogden. Greenville. S. C.: | I have referred your telegram to the i j railroad commission, who will imme- I j diatcly investigate wreck. Coroner's j ! inquest will he held l?v countv authorj ities." Making Investigation. i Greenville. Special.- Prof. Farnar,- j ! of Vale University, and Mrs. Farnar, | i who were injured in the wreck of the j Ogden special, are both resting easily I in a sanitarium here. It has not been decided when they will be able to travel. but the attending physicians -sav not before Tuesday. Electrician Kershaw. also injured in the wreck and detained here, is doing well. Assistant. General Superintendent H. Baker and Division Superintendent ' McManus, of the Southern, are here, j and an investigation of the cause of the accident is being held behind I closed doors. Sixteen Killed in Texas Storm. l^aredo, Tex.. May 1.?Later dentils j from the tornado, which struck this J city Friday evening indicate that tlrst reports in circulation here were hy no ! means exaggerated, either as to the number of lives lost or the financial damage resulting. Scores of people were ! injured and are being attended by the j various physicians. It will he impossible to state th? number of the injured, hut it is not belived that may deaths will result from injuries. The number killed is sixteen in this city. i St. Paul Globe Suspends. St. Paul, Special.?The St. Paul Globe, after Sunday's edition, will suspend business. The Globe was the. only Democratic morning daily in Minnesota, and it was the recognized oigan of its party both in State and in municipal affairs. The reason announced hy the paper for its suspension was that, in spite of its large circulation, it was not properly patronized by advertisers. A TO PENSION PROFESSORS. Munificient Gift of Andrew Carnegie \ For The Purpose of Assisting Needy Ex-Teachers. Now York. Special.?A gift of $10.- j 000,000 by Andrew Carnegie to provide annuities for college professors who are not able to continue in active service, was announced by Frank A. Vanderlip. vice president of the National City ! Bank, of New York. Professors in the ' United States, Canada and Newfound- ' land will share in the distribution of the fncome of the fund. United States Steel Corporation 5 per cent, first mortgage bonds for $10,000,000 have been transferred to a board of trustees, and steps will be taken at once ! to organize a corporation to receive 1 the donation. Dr. l'ritchett. president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. and Mr. Vanderlip have been sc-' lected by Mr. Carnegie to obtain data on the subject, to be presented at the first meeting of the board of trustees, which will take place on November loth. The bonds have a par value of j $11,000,000 and will produce an annual Income of $500,000. The corporation v?? ieh is being formed will be styled "the Carnegie Foundation." Mr. Carnegie's secretary has sent a letter to the press, giving the forego- ' ing information and inclosing a letter from Mr. Carnegie, dated April 18th, j which says, in part: "I have reached the conclusion that the least rewarded of all professions is that of the teacher in our higher educational institutions. New l.ork city generously, and very wisely, provides retiring pensions for teachers in her i public schools and also for her police- ; men. Very few. indeed, of our colleges are able to do so. The conse- j cpiences are grievous. Able men hesitate to adopt teaching as a career, and many old professors, whose places should he occupied by younger men, cannot be retired." Mr. Carnegie says that the fund will J apply to universities, colleges and technical schools "without regard to race. sex. creed or color;" but not I to institutions supported l?y State or ' colonial governments. Another class ! excluded is sectarian institutions. "Only such sis arc under .control of a sect, or require trustees, or a majority thereof. or officers, faculty or students to belong to any specified sect, or which impose any theological test, arc to be excluded." Mr. Carnegie specifies the duties of the trustees, and concludes with the hope that, "this fund may do much for the cause of higher education and to remove a source of deep and con- 1 slant anxiety to the poorest paid, and yet one of the highest, of all professions," Among those named as trustees are Presidents Kdwin B. Craighead, of Tit- I lane, and (Jeorge H. Denny, ot" Wash- | ington and lx*e. EXPLOSION KILLS SIXTEEN. Every Man in the Mine at the Time Lost His Life Except One, and He Will Die. I>n Bois, Pa., Special. Sixteen men were killed and one-will die as the re- I .miIi of an explosion at the ISleanora i shaft, near Big Hun, Friday night. The j mine is owned by the Rochester and ' Pittsburg Coal and Iron Co. The nigiu snin -was small or thorp would ( have been more fatalities. Every ; man who was in the mine at the time of the explosion, except one, was kill ' ou. Three bodies have been recover* | i (1. The men were English speaking and resided at Eleanora, a small inin- j ing village two miles from the shaft. Great College For Tennessee. Columbia. Special.?Wyckliffe Rose, j dean of the Peabody college at Nashville. made the announcement here that j the $S00,00() required of Tennessee, had ' been raised to match the $1,000,001) the Peabody hoard voted on the 24th of last January for the establishment of ; a teachers* college at Nashville, on the | condition that Tennessee raise $X00.000. j Of this amount. $250,000 comes from the , State and $50,000 from Davidson county, the home of the proposed college, which will be the largest teachers* ! school in the South. In addition to the $1,800,000 thus available for the institution. J. P. Morgan has made an offer of $250,000, provided a similar amount is raised. Peonage Case Dismissed. Jacksonville, Fla.. Special. Judge j Rocke, of the Federal Court, issued an order sustaining a demurrer to an ! indictment against John W. Rennet and Richard Rennet, of Bradford county, who were indicted on the charge of holding Maggie Williams in peonage July 1. HUM. All parties are wliito. anil the llennets prominent citizens. Judge Locke's order virtually dismisses the case. This is the only case of alleged peonage ever brought in Florida. Russians Sighted. Hong Kong, lty Cable.? The steamer Stettin, which has arrived here, sighted from thirty to forty vessels of the Russian Second Pacific Squadron in llongkohe Bay. Annr.m, (about fifty miles north of Kamrnnh Bay.) Thursday cft'Tucon. Two < misers, which l ad their decks :;tucl;ed with coal s: nailed the Stettin to stop, and que; ' ioacd her. The Rest was preparing lui sea. GEN. F1TZHUGH LEE Stricken With Apoplexy While oa Board a Train to Washington DISTINGUISHED MAN PASSES AWAY Had Been a Confederate Major-General Governor of His State, and Consul* General at Havanna, and also a Retired Brigadier-General in the U. S. Army. Washington, Special.?General Fitx* iugh 1,00, United States army, retired, md one of Virginia's foremost sons, iied at the Providence Hospital hero Friday from an attack of appoplexy. which he suffered on a train while en. route from Huston to Washington. In the room when he died were I)r. Montgomery, one of the physicians at :ho hospital, Miss Dorsey, a relative ind a nurse, two of the attending physicians, Drs. Edie and Kean, having retired temporarily. A pathetic feature Df the case is that although General Lee had a family consisting of a wife ind live children, not one of them was with him at the time of his death. The general was 6fc years of age. Arrangements for General Lee's fun;ral. together with ti e selection of the place for interment of the remains, will lot he made until after the arrival in Washington of Mrs. l.ee, who is now in her way to Washington from Fort Oglethrope. Ga. Meanwhile the hotly will be prepared' for burial and will re? main at the hospital, it. is possible .hat the body may he laid to rest at he national cemetery at Arlington, alhottgh it is expeeted that General 4 Lee's friends may make an effort to tiave a site chosen somewhere else In Virginia, the State in which he lived so . . many years and with whose interests he was so strongly identified. A widow and five children survive Seneral Lee. Two of the boys are army officers and two of the girls am wives of army officers, while the remaining child is a young woman still in her teens The children are Mrs. J. C. Kae. wife of Lieutenant Rae, now it Fort Oglethorpe; Lieutenant Fitzbugh Lee, of the calvary branch* now in Manilla; Lieutenant Mason Lee, of Hie Seventh Cavalry, who is now iu San Francisco; Mrs. Anne Brown, wife of Lieutenant, llrown of the Seventh. Cavalry, who is now at San Francisco, and Miss Virginia Lee. General Loo was stricken with appoplexy. the entire left side being affected. at 3 o'clock Friday morning, while on a train en route from Boston to Washington. The train had just left the Harlem river when the stroke ante. The train hearing the general arrived in Washington shortly after 1 o o'clock. I'nder the direction of Major Kean, United Slates Army, of the Surgeon General's office, the patient was removed to Providence Hospital. A physician was taken aboard the train at Jersey City. At Philadelphia he gave place to another, who accompanied the general to Baltimore, where still another was taken aboard and made the trip to Washington. General Lee had been spending a few riays in lloston ami was returning to Washington, on liis way to join Mrs. Lee. His Distinguished Career. General Lv long has been a prominent figure in Washington, and he always was given a hearty reception, wherever he went. Prior to the eivil war at the beginning of which he resigned his commission in the United States army. General T>;c saw considerable frontier doty in moving against the Indians. Ho was an ex-cavalry officer. His services in the Confederate army as a major general are well known, and during the interval between this* war and his active work in the Spanish-American war. General l>ee filled a number of important positions, including governorship of Virginia, the presidency of the Pittsburg & Virginia railroad. the eollectorship of internal r?;vcnue for the Lynchburg district, an* the consul generalship at Havanna. Following his honorable discharge from the volunteer army on March 2. 1901, General Lee was appointed to the regular army with the rank of brigadier general, and with this rank ha was retired in the March following. Hail Goes Through Roofs. Savannah, fia., Special.?Dispatches from Southwest Georgia report a severe hail storm Friday. Fifteen miles (if A1 hfl n V in I Imifrhtorv iirtil Worth counties, cotton and other crops were broken to the ground. On J 11. Bynum's farm the roofs of houses were broken through. Near Hartsfield, Joseph Stovail, an old and wellknown citizen, was killed by the blowing down of the bouse of his grandson John Stovail. Monument to Joe Jefferson. Tlichmond, Va., Special. A popular subscription has been started here for the erection In this city of a monument to Joseph Jefferson, the actor. It bids fair to be successful. The city i.; expected to provide a site. Steamer Passed Warships. Island of Penang, Special- The British steamer Catherine Apcar from Calcutta, reports having passed two detachments of eight and seven warships, respectively, Thursday night sixty miles south of Penang. Tbe^ were beading for Singapore.