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Hoffh tMtUM that be nw •3,' prc n© w ^. for ley on the via*, wu had before Judge ti9(hran la Charieetco laet week, com- jaewelHf on Toeeday. Solicitor Jenrer wppeered for the State, while the de- ff aa repreMuted by Meiere. itohbll ft Smith and the Hou. A. G. After aeveral ebeliencet a , composed of twelve white me»i, .wu empaneled and eworn. The first witness for the State was Dr. Kiuloch, Who simply described the five woonds —two in toe head end three in the body. W. W. DoVeaux described the en- ooonter—or so moeh of it ns he saw. He stated that Riley was advancing on Dr. Bsilinfer with his head down and his right arm outstretched, and that Dr. B. fired five limes rapidly. Riley foil, and Dr. Bellinger walked off. James Wells, colored, stated the cir- cnmstanoes of toe encounter, and swore that after Dr. Belliuger fired twice Riley fell, and that after he fell Dr. Bellinger shot him three times. Selina Darter, colored, described the difficqlty of the night before the kill ing, bnt her account did not greatly differ from Dr. Bellinger’s, summaris ed below. She saw only two shots, being in the house, and then got Riley’s pistol end raised the alarm. When she got to Riley be was dead. Alexander Williams, colored, stated that he sew the morning encounter, and, after Dr. Bellinger shot Riley twice he (witness) saw him standing over Riley’s prostrate body, and fire three times. Joseph Cain testified to the encouu ter, and said he saw Dr. Bellinger "stagger back’’, and fire, and that the Doctor fired twice into Riley’s pros trate body, and snapped his pistol after that. Joseph Kennedy, colored, brought oat nothing new. He denied that he •aid before the coroner that Dr. B. re treated from Riley into the middle of the street, and then fired. The State here closed its case. Dr. A. N. Bellinger, the defendant, was now sworn. He stated that on the night before the killing be was in the streets, attending to his regular rofossional business, and that when came to a point on Bnll street, be tween Smith and Rutledge, ho heard loud strokes of a whip, and cursing. He said to the man (whom he fenud to ba Riley), "Yon ought to be ashamed of beating that horse in that manner; why don’t yon lead him on?” Riley became angry and abased, carsed defendant, flourished his whip, and oaae on him with a knife in his hand. Defendant went off, leaving Riley cursing and threatening. The looming ef the homicide, de- fondant went on his usual rounds, by no nnasnal route, and fearing violence from Rilsyi pat a pistol in his pocket. He met fUley at the corner of Bull and Smith streets. He saw Riley with his back to the fence, bis arms akimbo and legs stretched apart and glaring at him in this manner. As I got opposite to him be said: "I took you for a gentleman, but I never made sneb a mistake in my life; you are a d—d white .’’ That was pretty gal ling. I turned and I said: "ftilev, this thing has got to stop here. You oursed me shamefully last night and threatened me. Now you have got to retract this.” I said this in a voice not londor than I am talking dn now. Preserving the same position, be said: "I have got nothing to retract, and I won’t take back anything,” and he •aid, "If yon want to fight 1 am a better man than yon are and I will give you h-1.” \ said: "I don’t want to fight, but you have got to lake these things back.” and he said “G—d d—n you, I will give you h—1 anyhow,’* and with that he made a rush at me, and as I stepped back, having on low- quartered shoes, my foot larned and I •tumbled off the pavement and my hat fell off. I then jamped back a couple of steps into the street, and when I looked again lie (Riley) was coming at me with his knife in his hand, so. i Witness indicated the position thus: [ead bent down, the left arm thrown up as a shield and the right hand with the knife in it drawn back.) Q. Was the knife open? A. Yes, open. Q. In which hand? A. Right hand. Q. Had; ^on lost sight of him when y#o stumbled? A. Yes, my hat fell off and I lost Sight ot him for a moment. I then backed nearly to the middle of the street, and he followed rushing at me with bis knife drawn so (indicating as above). I then pulled out my pistol. It was a self-cocking pistol, and I kept palling the trigger nntil be fell to the ground. I then picked up my hat. wiped it with the tell of my coat and walked back to Capt Dawson’s house. (After stating that he started down town to delivar himself up, but, after going to Capt. Dawson’s house, he tnrned back, went borne, and informed his wife of what had happened, the prisoner testified as follows:) Q. How for was Riley from yon When yon fired the first shot? A. I can’t say how closs, but be was very close. Yon cannot make very accnrate calculations under those circa instances. I kept backing and kept polling the trigger and runnlug backwards. He rushed at me With his bead beat down and a knife in his hand. Q. Where were yon when yon fired the first shot ? A. i was about the middle of the stc0Ot» and I was back of that before I •topped. I never removed my band firotn the trigger. I kept on firing. Q. Where was he when you fired the first shot? A. He was right on top of me. Q- Was be advancing? A. He was rushing at me. The last shot that I fired I was a further distance off, because I kept backing mad kept firing. Q. If yon had not fired what wonld ha have done? A. He would have cat mv throat. He con id have taken me and held me •t arm’s length aad ent my throat. I have act as mnch strength as when / wee If. He oonkl have held me off et arm’sleoghtb and I ooalda’t have reach- ad Mas by six inches. Q. What was hie condition? A. He wee hi a violent rage. He pieed me, had threatened to kill me ‘ " was Haply defending my life. Jerveyaald ba bad no qnee- T. P. D^te'featfBed that ha and Riley oat la the rray _ _ _ Riley at the railroad depot the morn ing after thewlght fnss, and Riley told him that be (Riley) bed carsed Dr. B. about his interference with him, and had also threatened him. J. G. DeVeuux said lie saw Dr. B. retreating from Riley, and then saw four or five shots fired in rapid sac- cession. The evidence of Kennedy before the coroner was pat in, to contradict bis statement as to what he then said. Janies Kelly and J. C. Hemphill stated that thev saw and talked will) Bellinger about 9 o’clock on the morn ing of the homicide, and be was in bis usual good hnmor—not excited. (The killing occured abont eleven o’clock.) This closed the evidence. Mr. timitli proposed jto submit the case without argument, bat the Solicitor declined. Arguments were then made by Judge Magrath, Mr. Mitchell and the Solicitor. On Thursday the case wont to the jury, after the charge of the Judge. Thn retired at 2.40, p. in. At 7 p. m., the Judge told them that if they agreed by ten, he wonld receive their verdict- otherwise they could remain. At that hoar they had made no sign, and they were locked up till next morning. 1 TI1E RESULT. On Friday morning the jury return ed into Court, saying that it was im possible for them to agree on any ver dict. A mistrial was accordingly en tered. The jury stood eleven for nc- S aittal and one for conviction of tnan- aughtor. RAILROADS IN THE STATE. New Roada, Old Koada and Hoad* that are to be Built. At a recent election hold in Bul lock’s Creek township, York county, on the question of subscribing $32,000 to the capital stock of the Georgetown and North Carolina Narrow Gauge Railroad, there were 376 votes polled. Only 81 votes were polled against the subscription, the majority in favor being 214. The people along the line of the Augusta and Knoxville Railroad are ioud in their complaints of the cxces ■ive freight charges of that company The consequence is that large quanti ties of cotton are being shipoed by the Savannah River. It is alleged that the railroad in question Iras advanced the freight charges on cotton to twenty-uve cents per hundred pounds and ou other classes of freight pro portionately. The Branchville Banner, speaking of the opinion tnat is held in some parts of Colleton county that the cor porators will apply the $60,000 of county funds to the building of the road only from Walterboro to Greeu Pond, says: "It has teen suggested, and by those who have means to in vest in such an enterprise, that if the corporators wish to otipel such im pressions from the public mind, and establish the fact that their opposers have misconstrued their intentions, and at the same time Invite the investment of private capital in this enterprise, let them have the survey made at once, and when operations are begun let it be simultaneously done at both Green Pond and Branchville, expending as they go equal amounts on both ends of this road.” The work of laying the rails on the Bavannah Valley Railroad is being actively pushed forward. The con struction party have arrived at the river, and are now putting up the tem porary bridge, which will soon be fin ished, when the cars will pass over the stream and track-laying will be con tinued. The people of Johnston, Edgefield county, are making efforts to raise such a subscription us will place John ston on the line of the road which it is proposed to run from Greenville to Port Royal, or some point on the At lantic coast. At a meeting recently held at Johnston Capt. P. B. Waters and Mr. W. J. Huiet were elected delegates to a railroad meeting to dis cuss this matter, which will be held m Ninety-Bix op the 13th instant. The friends amt advocates of (lie narrow gauge road from Augusta to Newberry met at Edgefield Courthouse last Monday to discuss the bnildingof that road and the branch road from Ninetv-alx to the main line. It is ex pected that the people along the pro posed route from Niuety-Bix to the main Hue will build that part of the road* by private subscriptions. It is estimated that the main line can be built for $100,000. The Edgefield Chronicle says "that the bright visions looked for from the several railroad projects in view have undoubtedly failed to bring any wave of business prosperity to Edgefield. It is about time trow for the people to stop dreaming and wailing and go to work and build a narrow gauge railroad.” The Abbeville Press and Banner, speaking of the proposition to levy a tax to grade the proposed road from Enright’s to Abbeville and Greenwood, says: "If our people desire to levy a tax for a road which would promise a fair return we will, no doubt, make no objection. But we certainly will not join a crusade to levy the tax when there is manifest opposition. We are opposed to lynch law’, no matter whether applied to persons or proper ty.” Oo*d for the Child. The ailments of childhood need care ful attention and wise treatment. Borne people think "anything is good enough for a child, and there isn’t much the matter with it anyhow.” But judi cious mothers mothers know better, and do as Mrs. H. W. Perry, of Rich mond, Va., does. She says: "I take Brown’s Iron Bitters and give it to my children with the most satisfactory results.” Bold everywhere. * —The State Fair in Columbia was a grand success. In nnmber and variety the exhibits were quite as good as usnal; and the crowd was immense. A Blind and Dnnf W Miss Minnie Wallace, of Atlanta, lost her hearing, her sight and sense of taste. Sbres covered her body and limbs. Her joints were swollen and painful, her limbs paralysed, appetite lost, and she was eking out a miserable life. Six bettles of B. B. B. restored her sight and bearing, relieved all pains, added flesh a aches and and shale and strenrth now a well woman. Write to itelfortlu’d. Did Rot see . ^ ^ WtaMSS’a Jsorse ?df flad, narried Mol out '"jyi&it ’ fc.-V-iil A prominent Alabama physician said: been treated by severs! noted f srttbbnt benefit, aaed one dosen B. B. B. and was entirely cored, nleers on his sms and fee bones fee flesh and skte at ( Washington Letter in Cleveland Leader.) Becretury Whitney wilTtootest wife Becretary Bayard as the most popular social member of the Cabinet daring the coming season. He has rented the old FiX'liugl.hysen mansion, which was the social centre of Mr. Arthur’* administration, and is adding a large ball-room for this winter’s entertain ments. This ball room will be nearly as big as the city council chamber in Cleveland, and will, iiis said, be bong with gobdin tapestries. Whitney has more money than Bayard, and, though he cannot cook the terrapin for bis dinners himself like the Secretary of State, he can hire a French cook who will probably equal him. Bayard ought not to rxjM'ct to save much out of iiis salary as Secretary of State, even if he does do ids own' cooking. His position demands more social work than any other outside of that of tiie President, and lie is a parsimonious man indeed who can lay up money in it. Mr. Evans paid out $20,000 more than Id* salary while ho was Secretary of State under Hayes, thus making his four years cost him $02,000. Bayard will get through on less than this, but he lias a family and he wears too good clothes and lias too tasty a stomach to save anything on $3,000 a year. Vice-President Hendricks will live at Willard’s dmlng the coming season. This living at a hotel by a prominent official lias of late been looked down upon Washington society, but Mr. Hendricks is such an adroit mixer and his wife has sovmany social qualities that -their little parlors at Willard’s will probably bo us popular as any place here. • Thq fact that Mrs. Logan has a house might lead to the supposition that she was going to entertain largely during the coming season. 1 don’t think she will have as many callers as when she was in the stuffy little boarding-house on Twelfth street. She is too much out o! the way, and it is a Sabbath day’s journev io get to her. The re sult w ill be that her calling list Will be reduced to those who really want to see her, and that it will rather select than large. Henry 15. Payne will keep house nexl year, and I understand he has rented on Vermont avenue near the Portland. This will not be a great distance from Iiis son-in-law, and Mrs. Whitney will assist her mother in many of her receptions. Whitney’s actions in regard to entertainment lead to the suggestion that Henry 15. Payne and he may he concocting a scheme whereby young Whitney shall be tbc Presidential candidate for 1888, and that his father-in-law may make him his heir to ids Presidential support. The opportunities for such a post- Presidential campaign are excellent. There is plenty of money in Whitncy- Payne "bar’l” to run it well, and Mr. Whitney comes from the right State to make a good Democratic candidate. This is worth thinking about, and please don’t forget it. A MISPLACED SWITCH. A Frightful Wreck on the Baltimore nnd Ohio Railroad. A frightful wreck occurred at Blue- stone quarry neary Pittsburg, Pa , on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad at seven o’clock on Thursday morning. Train No. 12, through express from Baltimore to Pittsburg, consisting of a sleeper, two coaches, two baggage and one express car, ran into a mis placed switch and was completely wrecked. The sleeper roiled over an embankment ini® the Youghiouhenv river. The other cars were upset and the whole train was detached from the engine. Sixteen persons were injured but none killed outright. The report of the wreck reached Pittsburg about 9 o’clock and caused great excitement, as it was known that many prominent men of Pittsburg were expected on flic train. The acci dent disarranged the telegraph wires and it was after 10 o’clock before tbc following particulars of the accident were received: The express train was about fifteen minutes late when it reached the place where the wreck occurred. At Blue- stone quarry the track makes a sharp curve around the river. A short dis tance hack from the bank there is a switch at the commencement of the curve. Whether some one had left the switch partly open or not is not certain. The officials of the road say the switch had been tampered with, evidently with the intention of caus ing a wreck. Had the switch been open the train would have gone into it all right and would have been stooped before any damage had been none. As it was, the train could go on neith er track, 'the result was that the engine dashed along the tics, tearing up the track and causing the coaches and sleeping cars to break loose and dash on over the embankment in the wildest confusion. The sleeping car rolled over and stopped with its side lying in the bed of the river thirty feet below. The two passenger coaches stopped at the water’s edge, but the baggage car went into the water. There were many passengers on board. The scene that followed was one that beggared description. The cries of the injured were heard from every car. The frightened sprang from the windows and struggled with each other to escape from tne rolling cars, and the wails of pain were heard from some who were held withLn the wreck. Those who escaped uainjured were too much startled for a time to render assistance. Then they began the res cue. A messenger was sent to Cor- nelisville for medical assistance, and in a short time a corps of physicians were sent up on a special train. The injured, after having their wounds dressed, were removed to the hotels at Cornel I sviile, where they received every attention that conld be given them by the railroad cdmpnny. The wreck caused great excitement at Cor- neilsville, and for hours afterwards people hurried to the scone of the accident. The track was blockaded and tom so badly that no trvins got through until that afternoon. Cot*, ■jmv r— t«M A«.,Jbr tb« iKNovwnbar. The crop report of ths National de partment uf agriculture says feat fee cotton returns of November are local estimates of the yield per acre. They are aomewbat higher than those of the- last two years, but materially lower year is id Geor- —Mrs. C. M. Walker, of Wildwood, Fia., lias in her possession a baby dress which is seventy-five years old and has quite a history. It was the first dress ever worn by her father, John W. Barr, who was born in Scot land, and is now a citizen of Oakwell, Camden county, Ga. Mr. Barr wa* the father of eleven children, all of whom have worn this dress. A1IVJOR TO MOTHERS. Mu. WiasuiWs hoothtmi Brscv should al ways b« used lor children teething, it soothe* ibe child, softens ih* fuma, allays ail pain, curva wind colic, and Is the heat nuaedjr nr diarrtusa. Twubty-five oenta a bottle iabrietfri N mHB : \:tc #.*• n- manfe ■ ii^ssi 2 than those of 1881 and 1882. The -in crease over the yield of last most marked In Tennessee am git. In Arkansas and Tennessee, 'where the average yield is unnsnally high, the rate depressed by unfavora ble conditions of August and Septem ber. The rate of yield by States ia as follows: Virginia 152 ponnds per acre, North Carolina 167, South Carolina 142, Gcornia 150, Florida 105, Alabama 145, Mississippi 165, Louisiana 223, Texas 182, Arkansas 200, Tennessee 155. The weather has been favorable ior pick iug, and killing frosts are only report cd in the northern border of the cot ton belt. The top crop is very light and in many places a scarcely appre ciable quantity. The drought dunm the early fruiting period caused shed ding of shrivelling of bolls, and re duced the yield in North and South Carolina and parts of Texas. In a large portion of the Gulf ccast there was an excess of rain and destructlvi storms which proved almost equal) injurious. Injury by caterpillars and boll worms have been severe in Cep" tral Alabama, in parts of Texas, Louisiana "ami Mississippi, and in a few counties in Georgia. Small loss from insects is reported, except in States bordering on the Gulf coast. The past mouth lias been generally favorable for picking, which is well advanced, more than three-fourths of the crop having been gathered. Rains have interfered with the harvesting more in Georgia and Alabama than elsewhere. YV’ith good weather here after the proportion to be gathered in December will be confined to locali ties favored with a top crop worth harvesting. The present crop of corn is the first full average in the rate of yield since 1880, which was the last of a series of six full crops of 26 to 28 bushels per acre. The present crop, grown on an area of 73,000,000 to 74,000,000 acres, is slightly above the average for a period of ten years or 26 j bushels pe acre. The highest rate of yield is 361 in Nebraska and Ohio. Three corn growing States will produce four tenths of the entire crop, Illinois, Iowa and Missouri, each average several bushels per acre less than in the census year, Illinois 31, Iowa 32, Missouri 30. Utah averages 86, Massachusetts, Con nectlcut and Colorado 36, New Hamp shire and Rhode*Island 34, Michigan 33, Wisconsin 32, Kansan 31. The Bouthcrn States ipakes an average yield. The quality of corn is very- good in the East and South, medium in central parts ot the West, and some what depreciated on the northern border from Michigan to Dakota. The potato crop is smaller than that of 1884, in consequence of injury from rot, which has reduced the New York crop nearly one-third. There is much complaint of rot in Wisconsin and Iowa, and in some counties in Michi gan, Illinois and Minnesota. The reported yield of hay per acre averages one and a quarter tons, and indicates a crop of over forty-seven million tons, nearly as large as that of last year. The bvekwheut crop will be large. The average yield will exceed fourteen bushels per acre. TALK ABOUT TOBACCO A Practical Farmer’* F-xperlence with the Weed-How to Plant. Cultivate and Cure. Orangeburg, November 2. To the Editor of the Neicsand Cq li ner: 1 tiave cultivated tobacco for my own use for smoking purposes, for the last twenty years, ami will give you my experience with it for the benefit of your readers who contemplate giv ing it a trial next year. First. For the seed-bed select some open spot In the woods where there are not many tail trees, as too much shade retards the growth of the plants, while some shade is advantageous. Early in January, if not sooner, make a large brush or log heap on the bed and burn it thoroughly. I then spade up the soil about ten or twelve inches deep and again burn a brush heap upon it, and then let the spot stand for a week or two, or until there comes a shower of rain upon it, when 1 again spade the ground (four or five inches this time), so as to have it in the best tilth. 1 then scatter the seeds over the spot and brush them in very shallow, the seeds being so very small you have to be very careful or you will have them too thick. It too thick on the bed they are apt to be spindling and are easily wilted down when taken to the field. Otherwise they will be stout and in better condition to withstand the ravs of the sun. Blatil beds on old lands do not thrive nearly so well-aadn the woods. Second. In this latitude I find (he worms a very troublesome enemy to the leaf and also fo the seed that is left to mature. If the bug that depos its the eggs is not eradicated the weeds should lie looked after twice if not three times a week. Worming does not commence, however, until some time in June or about the first of July and continues until the tobacco is ready for the knife, but not so much after the leaves begin to get tough as when young. If any worms should be left on the ptocks that arc put in the house for natural drying they will there destroy the tobacco. This danger is not hard to overcome, however, par ticularly if artificial heat is resorted to for drying purposes Third, {f the ground is in full tilth aud a good stand is obtained early, a second crop can be made from the stubble. 1 have two kinds of seed, mixed; one a narrow leaf, the other a very large, broad leaf. The narrow leaf is finer and yellower than the broad leaf, but the broad leaf will grow taller aud heavier, and make a far greater yield side by side I, have no seed for sale, as I only keep enough for myself and a few neighbors. F. H. GrAMONG. Tha T®b*e®® Room la South Carolina. (brom the Marten Cotton Plant.) Wishing and working for fee wel fare of oar fermerfi Cotton Plant cau tions them sgalnst dying off at a tan gent. The Iftot and Covri«r % wife its interest for oar farmers, is ably advocating the cnltivation of tobacco in onr Btate on a large and extensive scale, W« advise oar farmere to go slow on ftils question. The fmpovere Ished condition of oar soli has nearly impoverished oor State, and tobacco iaa much greater exhauster of the •oil tbsu cotton. Severtd months ago we published a letter of Mr. J. C. •• ' ■, ? :!■' ;4 /: , _ on tobacco, whisk eleari: aed fee dangers, and now tbe tor of, the GreodVill# Daily Newt, a Virginian, says; There may be mnch profit in grow ing tobacco i* onr Btate, but it is an expensive experiment and will be a disastrous one if it is tried otherwise than cautiously. It is well to remem ber that the poorest section of Vir- giniuia is that devoted to tobacco growing’under the management of men who have had hundred of years of study aud experience to guide them. crop is more exhaustive to the any other, and may fail en- been very fine for iv c tirely after having two or three years. With our present light wo believe tobacco will be profiitably grown in a •mall way as an adjunct to cotton and corn, as a few acres of it ou a planta tion wonld not require the employment of extra help and would utilize the spare time of regular help. When farmers have generally tried that sys tem for a year or two’ they can learn the methods of growing and curing fee crop and know what hope of profit there is in it. At the same lime they will gradually build an home markets where what tobacco they make can he disposed of. The growing of tho leaf is a very small part—getting it prepared and to market is where the trouble comes in and tbc experience is needed. WILL THK SOUTH DIVIDE? Qui-Nllon* aixl Anawrr* upon au Interest ing Political Point. Tbe New York Herald has recently sent out the following questions to prominent Southern men with tho request that they be answered: 1. Upon what issue and by what means can the while voters of the South be divided itito two parties, separated by opinions ami interests, as at tbe North? 2. Would an interchange of political speakers of both parties between the North and the South be acceptable to yourJState in future campaigns? 3. Do you consider that the negro voters are more indifferent than form erly to the suffrage, and arc they dis posed to disregard tiie color line in voting? 4. What is the greatest existing ob jection t® a break in what is called the Solid South? Prominent among the replies is the answer given by General Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia, which is as follows: I answer your first question thus: The solidity of the white vote of the Boutli is the result of the false recon struction policy of the Republican par ty after the war. The white people will not practically divide until the colored people do, and these latter will not divide so long as the few whites acting with them are sustained by the National Republican party’s promises of office and reward. Mahone said, yon know, that he controlled the ne gro vote, and it was only a question of how many white votes he could add to them to control the Btate. No South ern Btate can ever be long controlled by such a mixture. To your second question I answer: An interchange of speakers would make the sections know each other better, and might do good. Wo would like the Republican party at the North to sec what the Republican party of the Boutli is composed of. To your third question 1 answer: Yes. To your fourth question I answer: The fear that oiu - Btate Governments will return to the condition of tilings existing under the scalawag and carpet which the bag Governments, and from Democracy rescued them. A HOKr.I ULE DEATH. A Dt*tln*ul*he<l rx-Cunfederale Surgron Kllld sin LouUiana. Dr. Alfred Gourner, a distinguished medical practitioner and surgeon dur ing the waron thestafi'ofGen. Stephen D. Lee, was buried in New Orleans Thursday by the surviving veterans of the Confederate Army of Tennessee. Dr. Gourner was killed by a boiler explosion in Iberville parish on Tues day. My went to the river Uwmperin- tend the working of an engine pump ing water tc the sugar-house, and soon had the pump working under a heavy gauge of steam. Feeling that all was right he turned to go, when lie was liandett )iis mail by the jHistboy. He retnrtiea to-jean the mail by the light ot the engine, and finding u letter from his wife, now absent in Maine, stooped near the furnace to read it, when the explosion took place. The noise brought many to the scene. Nothing of the engine and boiler could be found in their place, and fragments were scattered many hundred yards away. Search was instituted for the doctor. Hi* body was found among the weeds, 272 feet distant, so horri bly mangled as to be almost nnrecog- ognizable. The engineer was scalded and will hardly recover, while the fireman escaped almost uninjured. —The estate of Kate Townsend, bet ter known as "The Queen of ths Courtesans,” who was killed in New Orleans about two years ago by her reputed husband, Troisville Sykes, is again in court. The lawyers have suc ceeded in finding a sister of tiie dead woman in Ireland, and have filed a suit in her behalf. The estate was valued at $200,000. Sykes, the mur derer of Kate Townsend, was her devisee by will. - - - - — DYSPEPSIA wall *a illitniaiin oomplaint If The Mirror f is no flatterer. Would you make it tell a sweeter tale ? Magnolia Balm is the charm er that almost cheats the looking-glass. GREAT OFFER ■ TO PIANO BUYERS! ■MUainaa* eonttlM aMfeaMUf «p**tqital liy« ■MU ia T*tm*'* Cnaoaa* Bauaar o» Bwmt Otnt **b Mirum Um trat k*an r—«Iy tor Oraxbt. Oroap. 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