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WACESOF SIN. Marion Parr Paid the Penalty for Murdering Clarence Shealey. IS FIRST WHITE MIN diaooTered •vldenoe; but the Judge the world. For a *' Hlafed in This State la Eletea Years. The Last White Mao Haofed Was r- ' . “ '•-* — ■ - a Qreeovllle Mouotaiaeer Named Morfao. The Trial aad Exeortloo of Tomer.' For the first time In 11 years a , white man was banned for murder In Sonth Carolina Friday. Marlon Parr, the soung cotton mill operative, who killed the mill boy Clarence Shealey, was hanged In the Richland county Jail yard Friday be tween the hours of 10 and 12 Having been found guilty by^juryof his peers, good *men and true, be was sentenced to die on the gallows, and the righteousness of the verdict was attested by the confession which Parr made voluntarily to the minister not seany 4ays after bla conviction. THE LAST CASK. The last white man hanged in South Carolina was J. W. J. Morgan, a mountaineer, who was executed In the Greenville jail yard Friday, June 1st, 1894. Morgan had killed his fatber-ln-law, L. Wash Hipp, another mountaineer. The killing of Hlpp waaon the 18th W SarTliTln ^ bis own yard In the Dark Corner of Greenville county. Htpp’s younger daughter, unmarried, had given birth to a child and she accused her brotb- er-ln-law, Morgan, of being the cause of her ruin. On Saturday, June 18, 1892, Morgan went to the Hipp home and tried U> get the girl to go before a trial justice and make affidavit that the chargee she had made against him were nntrue. She refused to do so. Morgan remained to dinner, and after the meal the father and daughter took their hoes and went out to work. Shortly after they had gone Morgan took his gun and followed. Coming up with them be fired into Hipp’a back, killing him instantly, 53 buck- shot entering bia body. Morgan escaped to North Carolina but was captured and tried at the No vember term in Greenville, 1892. The verdict was guilty. An appeal was taken but the supreme court sustain ed the rulings of the trial court and * Morgan was resentenced at the March term, 1894, to be hanged May 4, 1894. His attorney, Oapt. Absalom Hlytbe, secured a stay of execution In order to make an appeal to the governor for commutation to life imprisonment but the appe al was refused and 1 the sen tence of death was executed on the first day of June, 1894, nearly two years to the date from the murder. Morgan was a magnificent specimen of physical manhood, a tall and stal wart mountaineer, 38 years old. He Wbad six children by his wife* and his wife and mother were constant In their attentions to him during his Imprisonment under the death sen tence. The sister-in-law who pas supposed to be the cause of the trOu ble was also attentive to him during ttff ^ ■ '' , Nine months before the hanging of Morgan another white man had been hanged In South Carolina, in the - county adjoining Greenville. The case of George S. Turner, the Spar tanburg man who was hanged for mqrder on the first day of September, 1893, Is one of the most celebrated in the court annals of South Cttro- prudent, however, to take away from the city and he was "spirited” out of town at night by private conveyance to Union the Tuesday following the attempt at lynching. From a three hours’ stop at Union the prisoner was brought to Columbia and committed to the Rich land county jail, Sheriff Rowan i» celvlng the prisoner. At the July term, 1890, Turner wss tried and con rioted of murder/ with- outmecommendation t° mercy. W r 0. Cannon was foreman of the jury. O: L. Sohumpert was assisted In the prosecution by Mr: Stanyarne Wilson, while the 'lawyers for the defense were Bomar A Simpson, Duncan & Sanders, Nloholls A Jones, George Johnstone and Samuel W. Melton. Judge Norton presided over that term of sourt Tamer was sentenced to be hanged on Friday, October 3,1893 An appeal was taken to the supreme court. The esse stood pending for about two years, during vrtriob time the prisoner stayed in (all. On July 14, 1892, a remittitur was banded down from the supreme court sus taining the judgment of the lower court and directing another date of execution. At the January term of sessions, 1893, Turner was resentenced to hang by Judge Nerton, who pronounced the first sentence. The day assigned was was June 2, 1893. A strong effort wss made to have Judge Norton grant a new trial on the grounds of after held that he had no jurisdiction since the supreme court had passed on the matter. " * Council for Turner then carried the matter to the final arbiter, the su preme eourt, asking for a new trial on the same grounds as presented to Judge Norton—after discovered evi dence. v As a result an order of this court was received, staying execution July 26, 1893, a remittitur wes seat from the supreme court sustaining the circuit court, and- ordering a new date for the exeoutk)l*-.ef th* sentence. - ' At the July term of sessions court, 1893, and on July 27, Judge William H. Wallace resentenced George S Tamer to be hanged, and the sentence of court was carried out by the then sheriff, George B. Desn, on September I, 1893. George S. Tomer wss a remarkable man In many respects. He wss s splendid type of the physical man, and was endowed with a gracious supply of common sense and a tact for making money. Hs was born on Tbickety Creek, five mllss from Gaff ney, on Jane 0,1850. At the close of the war he was a lad without a dollar and left to hustle for himself. Lixe many young men In the R»onstruc tion times, he was drawn into the Kn Klux organisation, and when this ne cessary factor for the preservation of the virtue and property of the south land had oSisbd to exist he bad to leave thQ State for a oouplenf years. On returning bp began to devote his energies to amassing a fortune. Knowing the profit to be derived from A REAR ADMIRAL In a Remarkable Speech Advo cates Bryan’s Views. CHICAGO PLATFORM And its Democratih Principles Ip the Em bodiment ef Rear Admiral Melville' Speech. Says Abandon Every Distant Possession thnt - Requires n Fleet. 1 In a remarkable address before the American Academy pf Social and Po litical Science at Philadelphia Rear Admiral Melville, retired, declared that the first step toward increasing the efficiency of the American navy should be “the preparation of plans for the immediate abandonment, at the slightest possible financial ions, of every distant possession'that Is likely to require s fleet to defend It.” Admiral Melville Id one of the fore most experts In naval engineering In and even after he had reached the re tirement age, bft served as engineer in chief of the American navy. Ha IS a man of widest experience and deep in formation on nil naval matters. He Is one of the men who has done most toward the upbuilding of the new American navy. In bis Philadelphia address Admiral Melville emphasized the grave respon- si bill ties resting upon this nation by Its "three ioherltances,” the Philip pines, the Panama canal and the ad ministration of the finances of bank rupt nations, each of which he de clared Is "likely to prove a Pandora’s box of evils and disappointments.” His address has made a profound gen- satlon. COST OX ARMY ANQ. KAVY. Admiral Melville spoke in part as foDows: "Probably a study of our own army will best tall of the expense connected with the maintenance of an existing military establishment. Even in peace time, the expenses of maintain ing each soldier of our army has reached the sum of 11,300 per annum. /‘If anything, the navy Is a more expensive Institution to mglntain than the army. Dividing the total naval expenditure by the number of men In the organization, we find that it is now costing the government about 12,000 annually for the support of each sailor. - - , - "The’battleship that can draw up on the rasouroes of a^ completely equipped manufacturing and military base Is at an enormous advantage as compared with a similar vessel that attempts to be, In great part, self- greater trade of the world, and which, In saw of war, would prove a military auxiliary only one less remove In 1m- portanoe than the battle ship Itself. . "(b) Tbs recognition of the fact that the modern navy Is an engineer ing one, and that the training of both oaten and men should be more teohnloai iq ebarsoter. /The time substantial benefit Is our attempt to spent by apprentices and landsmen on cost of suoh a waterway. It may be well to remember that Trautwlne, about fifty yean ago, eetlssated that cost was about tie,000,000 or about 7 per cent of the latest estimate. - RKCWKBSHXF OF BMPUBUOS. "The third Inheritante from which we will never reoelve an Income or cotton manufacturing, he engaged In snpporting. When the United States line. THE TURN KB CASK. On Friday, March 7th, 1890, Ed H Finger was passing by the store of George S. Turner, near the site of the YaUey Falls cotton mill, where Tur ner successfully operated a cotton factory and general merchandise bus iness. Finger and Turner were at outs. Tnere was a "family affair” In whloh the names of a maiden sister of Finger and G. S Turner were ooupled. A suit against Turner had been lostl-’ tuted and this was settled In the courts by Turner. Finger wss the brother-ln-isw of Turner. Basalng by the plsoe of business, he engaged In some bantering and threatening remarks, which brought Turner to the front of the building socording to the testimony. It Is further said that Finger’s attitude was ope of defiance and he was arm. d. Turner was a man of unquestioned courage, and arming himseif with a gun he left the store and proceeded to the roadside. As a result the fatal > shot was. fired and Finger fall dead. Turner went *to Spartanburg and surrendered. The Monday after his surrender there was w /ttempt nosde to lynch Turner. A daob collected on the square of the city and moved to wards the county jail, where the prisoner wss confined. The Jail w then located on Brbsd street, the building now occupied as the city station house. At the jail John M Nloholls, the present and the then -sheriff, with John B. Vernon, Eter Brawtoh aad Ed D. Gentry, waited the approach of tbs excited force. Sheriff Nloholls came to the front of the bonding and dearly and earnestly stated to the erowd that the only way to get Turner was to kill himself snt his deputies. The doors of the jsl were then Ucked and the Attack The mob took "ttektberlff d. It we* that Industrial business, along with farming. He operated Sod owned the Fingerville mill at one tlme,|And later owned the LolOfmlll. At the time of its execution his wealth Is estimated by one who should be conversant with Jhe subleot at 150,000. He conduct ed business strictly on business prinoi- >les, and met bis ohligstiqns. By nature he was Inclined to be Imperi ous and domineering, and while not a person to go away out to seek s diffi culty, he would not be. brooked, nor would he allow one to cross his path. Intense prejudice existed against the man after his career of crime. Three years prior to the killing of Ed F.nger he slew a German named Metzklaand when tried was convicted and sen tenced to seven years In the peniten tiary. He secured s new trial from the supreme court and when the case came up again be was acquitted. “Goodbye Mncken, Goodbye.” "The American Mercantile associa tion,” of Kansas, Mo., has dosed Its office there and this notice has been posted on the door: "Goodbye, you suckers, goodby.” The whereabouts of the offloere of the asisoolation Is uot known. The company’s bead office was at St Joseph, Mo. The majority of the subeoribers are laboring people, many of whom flocked to the concern’s offices and gave pitiable evidence of the distress they suffered in the loss of their hardearned money. The sab soribers had agreed to pay (me dollar a week for 80 weeks on the promise that they were to reoelve $100 at the endtl that period. A dispatch from St. Joseph, Mo., says a warrant has been Issued for the arrest of Henry Breaninger^presldent of the American Mercantile oompany, whloh collapsed there. L. H. Miles, seoretary, and M. N. Nordean, field manager, have dis appeared. Two thousand people In St. Joseph lost $30,000 by the failure. Jilted Millionaire, romance was shattered -when Miss Pearl White married Barnes L. Bancroft in Hot Springs on Thurs day. She had known Harold P. Roby, a wealthy young Clevelander, sinoe childhood. It Is understood that they had been engaged, at they rode, dxnoed and played together for the last two years. Mr. Roby is special agent of the Nerth western Mutual Insuranos Company, and is a son of Luther A. Roto, the capital ist and copper man. He Is a gradu ate of Cornell, and his brother, Luke, is a noted football player. Roby is now wealthy, and will Inherit nearly $1,000,000 when hie tether dice. Mn. Bancroft is the daughter of W. J. m1111oaaldY~chewlag u declared war against Spain the naval strength of the two powers was about the same, so far aa graphic charts and official statistics could show. . "The public at large, as well as the congress, now recognizes the fact that the defense of the United States must rlmarlly be intrusted to the navy, □less a possible foe had some hope of Securing command of the sea agiinst the strorgest opposing fleet that we could assemble, no natibn would un dertake the task of fittlngout a pos sible armada to attempr*tflth6r the blockade or the iuvaslou of our coast. "From henceforth we cannot evade the responsibility that attends our po sition as a great Industrial nation seeking a fair portion of the trade of the world. As we have taken It unto ourariree to asser^itoctilBSsthAt if Fedt others,' there^Hl come occasion when our military and naval strength, rather than the righteousness of our cause, may be tile only factor that will cause other nations to accept our interpretation of policies that concern them as well as ourselves. ' THREE COSTLY INHERITANCES, "During the past eight years there have been three luherltanoes that we have acquired, each of which is likely to prove a Pandora’s box of evils and disappointments to this nation. S> long as the reponsiblllty. of adminis tering these three inberitanoes re mained with ns, so long there will be a progressive Increase in military and naval expenditures, and so long will it be necessary for us to weigh well the Important elements of naval con filets. "The first Inheritance that was thrust upon us by some evil genie was the Philippine archipelago. These Is lands have been a tax upon tbe re souroes of every ration that ever pos them. White, the gum *v-' single controlling power, ‘ The second inheritance that either assumed or was bequeathed to us by political necessity was the obligation to build the Panama canal. We are gradually awakening to a realization that in guaranteeing completion o this worjr we took aa Internationa harden upon ourselves, whether this harden be regarded from either military or financial standpoint. The latest estimate u to the cost of an isthmian sea level cost of an Isthmian m level canal Is sboont $230,000,000 In connection with the quwtioauf keif if it \ practically assume the receivership of republics whose treasuries are empty aa s result of Intolerable national bus iness with administrative methods. Tbe financial and political history of some of tbe American republics for the last forty yean bordan upon a re proach to modern civilisation, and It Is surprising that there has not been Intervention ere this In the affairs of countries whloh are in a ohronio state of revolution and where financial re pudiation Is not regarded as synony- moue with commercial dishonor. Tbe mere we oonoem ovrselves with these countries the greater the political bur dens we shall have to bear. “In the administration of these three tnherltaroes that are In many respects of an International character —there will be need at times of. a strong navy. The civilisation of tbe Polllppinee, the building of the Isth mian panal.jmd the straightening out of the financial affairs of small repub lics whose fiscal transactions have been, questionable and Intolerable will each be found a financial burden that will prove a great tax upon our ra souroes and a political problem that require the hlghesl talent. -/‘The lessons of the RnteO’Japanese war are plain and simple, and should be to heart by all people It la the concomitant features of both military and naval organizations that have been^tieglected by the Rnmlans. For the, next few years, therefore, it should be lo the special direction of developing the auxiliaries of naval strength and not toward augmenting the number of fighting ships wherein we ghould dlraqt our tefitJ energies. "Our navel budget tor the next ten years most ha a large one, for If pos sible we should provide for % progres sive Increase in actual fighting naval strength that would be equivalent to .be net gain of a battleship. .The )ulk of the expenditures for Increas- ng the efficiency of our navy should, however, be applied aa follows: "(a) The preparations of plans tor the Immediate abandonment, at the slightest possible finanela! lorn, of every distant possession that Is lit to require e fleet to defend It. If It should be undersigned that In time of war we propose to abandon at least temporarily, certain territorial pos sessions, neither the morale nor the credit of the nation would then be mpalred by the seizure of such terri tory by an enemy. "(b) Improvement of the channels eadlng to all shipbuilding plante, na val stations and maritime dlstribut- ng porta. These channels should be straightened; broadened and deepened for military, as well as for commer cial reasons. The Importance to both the merchant marine and naval fleets, of ships being able to enter and leave >ort at all times with safety, oonati- iutes a very decided element of naval strength. rt (c) The building of a fleet of large and fast colliers, so that In time of war practically all the coal required tor naval operations distant from our own shores, would be available for im mediate shipment to the plan when most needed. We should abandon the >olloy of placing fuiy great relisnea on ixed coaling stations, they will have to be defended by ships as well as by fortreetfs, and will more likely prove a military detriment than a strategic advantage, by keepirg the coal afljat we could move this fuel to any tempo- rory base that It might he desired to establish. The destruction between the base of operation and oeallng plant Is self-evident. RKHABIUTATtON OT NAVY TABDS. "(d) Tne rehabilitation of all navy yards to a condition where it would m possible, in cbm of necessity, to build any type of warship at any one of these stations. While I do not be lieve in undr r taking snob oonetrac tlon at navy yards, the several sta tions should be kept in readiness for carrying on the work In oese of emer gency. > - "(«0 The enactment Into law of a statute providing that the elect of ih# graduates of tbe teohnloai Institution, »ho have successfully undertaken course of Instruction satisfactory to the navy Department, shall be ap pointed as acting midshipmen, and nhall. after two years of service at sea, have the opportunity of oompet- lag with the regular graduates of the naval academy for com mission In the naval service, thereby providing a re serve oJ naval officers for emergency purp sts. "(f) The establishment of a naval reserve aod the appropriation of an amount sufficient to send alLmembers of this naval reserve to sea In nava veesals for at least one month of every year, and while performing this to reoelre tbs same pay and emolument as officers aad men of cor responding rank and grads In (ha navy. vessels la practically wasted. 1) The purchase of Denmark, France and England of all their West India possessions or the trading If posribla, of tbs Philippines for tbe same, so thrt none of these Islands oould be nsad as base of operations by a possible enemy against either the Isthmian Canal or our southern coast. "Tbs regulation of the fiscal ar- rangements of soma of the American republics would be exceedingly simpli fied tf no European power held any of tbe Islands of tbe West Indies, for so long as a single Island in the Carib bean sea Is held by s foreign power, so long has that power a moral and political equity in concerning Itself as to tbs administration of its neighbor ing governments. DANS KB IN DISTANT ‘WARFARE. "(I) In brief, It will subserve our financial, naval, commercial and national interests to recognize the fact that there should be uo hesitancy to give up distant foreign poseemtous which we oould not hold In time of war against any possible enemy. Now that we have taken It upon ourselves give the widest possible Interpreta tion to the Monroe doctrine we in turn, must secure peaceable possession of every strategic point In the West Indies that bean upon the military of the canal, concerns the maintenance of doctrines that we have asserted. With the possession, or tbe dismantling of every West In dian fortress that might be a menace If In the hands of any enemy, we now have a navy strong enough to meet any power In tbe world either on the north Atlantic or north Paolfio oceans, or In the Caribbean sea. Bat for military oparatlons In Asia or even In certain portions of South America only national humllation and regret await any attempt to stake our prestige and commercial development by Inviting or accepting battle in waters when we would have to estab lish a baas of c para tlon far distant from the boms land.” Weekly Crop Report by flection Di rector Bauer. jpli0ui RAene or india. Great Havaftee Amopg. People With- oat Modleal Attention. Reports are still reaching here of the ravages of the plague In India, and of the dire stress of the people in many sections of that vast country. Word has Just oome to the office of the Presbyterian board of foreign mis sions from one of Its representatives n Sahannpur, a city of about 70,000 Inhabitants, nearly 1,000 miles north- i of Calcutta, that tbe plague has broken out In almost every quarter of the city and Is rapidly spread lag throughout the district, which has a population of more than a million. The civil surgeon, socording to the report of tbe mlaslonsrv, thinks the see cannot be stafiff until tbe end of April or first of May. Conse quently tbe Amerioani aod Europeans are looking eagerly forward to the hot season, which they ordinarily dread. The natives are for tbs most part Indifferent, bat those who can afford to doao are fleeing to uninfect ed region*. " - Tbs government no longer attempts any quarantine. Even disinfection Is not enforaed, nor tbe segregation of tbe sick. The stricken people are left io tbalr own devices, government having found that attempta to carry out preventive measures are rendered ife by the unwillingness of the people to obey tte Instiuetlons, and that active opposition to auon meas urers such as to endanger the gov arnment itself. ' ~ Badly sheltered, clothed and fed the poorer Hindus fall easy victims to the plague, and when they are at tacked they too poor or Ignorant to obtain the medical aid wblob might, save some of tholr lives. Out In the villages of the district nomedioal help U available. Up to a month ago the Christian community of the city had been spared, and preventive measures were being need to keep of the dread "It may be pertinent to call to mind that when France eelxed Formosa, in 1885, the European press of China and Japan gave studied effort to showing how cftwely conneotwl were tbe Islands of Japan, Fotiofiifc W*d the Philippines, and that U was but the destiny of eventa that this ebaiu of islands should some day be under a bestoratiqn of merchant mabdu. to ad- "(g) The restoration of our chant marine. It would be write several thousand words la vocaoy of subsidising oar marine than to attempt so show la a brief paragraph Urn nsoflly of tending suoh help. I have no tlon in asserting that In view of our existing relative naval would subserve military, and national Interests to slop tag battle ships and devote all or portion of the axmey thus saved to ptadogL upon the ocean a marine that would Mp to to Some Very interesting Reoorde In the | Report Jut Bnraed. Tbe Weather Reeerd. According to a weather report la sued last week by Section Director Bauer, the early vegetables in the western part of tbe state were dam aged by the recent cold nap. The report says: The weak ending 8 a. m. Monday, tbe 10th, began with high tempera tares and fair weather/ Showery conditions with rain, hall, sleet and snow flurries*’ prevailed from 4tb to thb 6tb Inclusive. Tbe hail did some damage to tobacco and strawberries In the northeastern oonnties. Tbe sleet and snow were confined to tbe western and flbntral counties and did very little damage. Ths snow oc curred In tbe western and central counties but was not general, and It melted as It fell. Toe rainfall varied from leu than half an Inch to over an laoh, and wu very well distributed and beneficial to growing vegetation and pat the sol into excellent condition for cultiva tion ; it wu heavy enough to stop plowing over the western counties) but scarcely interfered with farm work in other sections. Tbe frost on the 7ttv wu general over the state to within about six miles of the ooast. It wu kllltag over the western counties wbeve"'lhe minimum temperature fell to about 4 degrees below freezing, aod generally light in air other sections. Tender garden vegetables, such as beans and omatoes, were more or leu Injured, and corn wu nipped In the wutern counties,'although the damage wu slight u there wss bat little up. Fruit Is In full bloom in the extreme wutern couAtieSr-and the frost was, n places, quite damaging, but else where It is not believed that fruit wu materially Injured, except figs In plaou and possibly peachea. Farm work la well advanced gen erally, though backward In some sections where labor la scaroe. Cora planting Is nearly finished in the eastern and central count lu where moat of it Is np to fairly good stands; in ths western planting Is well under way on up- ands. Cotton planting hu been be gun In the eastern parte and will ie begun in the western ones next week. Some cotton Is aj ’esdy up. Tobacco plant! are small in Ma rion, and they were slightly Injured >y the hall whloh fell in sections. Rice planting Is making rapid pro gress In the Colleton district and haa not begun In the Georgetown dis trict, where the proposed acreage will be smaller than usual. Some sweet potatou have beau planted In the southeastern counties. The small grain crops are generally doing well and look promising, but in some sections tbe oat crop is poor ; rye Is heading. Futures afford good grazing In the ooast counties. Gar dens vary greatly, being poor In plaou and backward, while In others early vegetablu are on the market. Truck was damaged ‘Slightly by the tost, (specially strawberrlu and beans and cucumbers. Strawberrlu, lettuce and radishes are being mark et at Work of • fiend. Dynamite wrecked two houses one o'clock Wednesday morning Gkuburg, a mining town ten miles from Birmingham, Ala., on the South era, killing one white girl, 10 years old, and Injaring two others fatally Tbe houau were oocuped by nonunion miners, working for the Teonesse Goal, Iron and Railroad Company One of the bousu wu occupied by Alexander, white, and the other by William Cato, colored. The dynamite placed on front porohu in both The Alexander children slept In the front of the boose and re- eosst of the shook, the gir being horribly mangled. The explosion at tbe negro houu did not do much i explosi ve being placed In aa Iron pipe. Tbeexpkteon wu heard for ullu aroupd- The fiends will be lynobed if caught. m | Discovery of tbe Reoaiaflof Ptod Jones in Paris IN A LEADEN COFFIN. The Excavatfaus ef the Oil St Leets Cemetery » Paris Breeght to Light a Casket Coetsistaf a Bely .j Identified u that el Jehu Paal Joses. A dispatch from Parle uys the re markable search which *-nTnusdor Porter hu conducted tor the bexyef Paul Jones hu been- crowned with success by ths discovery of tbe body and Its Identification Thursday bp tbs highest French medical axparteae un questionably that of tbe foaaMM American admiral who founded tbe American navy. Ambauador Porter cabled to Washington Friday night announcing the iioonufnl results ef his long and difficult searoh. Tb$ Is to a good stole of] considering that tbe one hundred pecis The circumstances leading to final discovery of the body are purtto- ularly Interesting. Gen. Porter buu conducted the searoh tor the last five yean aad when took no lotion on tbe ommendatloo for the dent to tba eearob continued the extensive labors at own expos*. A large fores of men hu been engaged night aad dap tunnelling aod orou tunnoHtaf tba old St. Louts Cemetery. This eonsti- tutod a huge operation eatoraetag nearly a block, covered with and requiring a system of sen mining. Hundred! of found, but not until unearthed four leaden gavepromluof containing the bodp at the admiral. Three of thea bora plates designating tba auua of Mm deceased. Tbe fourth ahowad aapailac solidity of workutaashlp. No plate wu found on this casket, and It to sup posed it wu removed whu another coffin was superimposed on to, Tba leaden ooffita wu opened la tbe pres ence of Gen. Porter, OoL BtlOy-Bton- ohard, tbe second aaoretoip of Mte American emberey, Weis, who bad been dlreotiag cavatiou. The body wu well pneerved, owning to its been Immeroed in alcohol It ngg wrapped In a sheet with a paektag of strew aod hay. Thou preupt were immediately struck by tbe rearea- blanoe of the head to that of the 'are dallloas aad baste of the admiral. As wu anticipated no uniform dea eration or sword were tound, u aU such articles had been after the burial Tbe ed like s mommy-coOn whleh common tt that period, from’the feet to the Abouldere with a round top fitting over tbe hud. Tbe coffin wu taken to the audios! school, where Drs. Oaptton aad FapU* laut, distinguished ; school of anthropology, i authorities on sue i tai ;,/vs Foand Deed. A special from Gadsden, Ala, uys two tii—, Bob Heal! and Hones WllUame, were found dead to a coal rer A tall* Wednesday. Fifteen left the mine Tueodav night on of bod air, hot the two went to investigate aed did not ra il Is not known whether they tom bteok damp or becanu hot atr wu —Monument At Appomattox. The first monument to be erected at Appomattox in memory of the Coo- federate soldiers who fought In the Civil war was dedicated on Monday. Tne monument wu erected by the state of North Carolina, whose troops were the lut of the Oonfodente fore to hold out against the victorious Union army. The dedication was made the occasion for a great gathering of Confederate veterans of both North Carolina and' Virginia. Gov. Glenn of North Carolina delivered the prin cipal oration. Other speakers were G ns. Cox and Roberts, whose com aiands greatly distinguished them selves in tbe fighting about Appomat tox. — New York JUiopHftere. A young man and two yonng wo men attrheted the attention Of House Detective John F. Larkin at Altman’s recently. He followed them to the second floor. While the young wo men engaged the attention of a couple if saleswomen tbe mao stood by their side, near tbe counter. Finally Lar kin uys he uw him slip five silk waists Into his sld$ pocket. Larkin arrested all three. He uys two pairs of silk hose, valued at $13, were found in the muff of one of the women. Tbe side pocket of the man's overcoat had no bottom to It. The waists were down ioslde the lining. Altogether the stuff recovered wu worth $106.50. > Too Tree. The Spartanburg Journal uys: "It is noticeable that after all the talk and protestations about "dirty mon ey,” "ill gotten gains,” eta made In connection with prepoul gtfto~<of millionaires to religious and educa tional funds, the gifts are always ac cepted. A refusal to aooept one for any reason Is not on record.” examination for the purpose of j flea Won. To ful ttate this the au- beuador furnis .ed them with por traits and medallions, two busts by Boudin and authentic * the color of the admiral’s the height and boffjfjr TBA nonnoed complete to every Care hu been taken JO body In its present state of tlon. It will br Tiaoadtaal casket and deposited in *V ~~inlilny vault of the American Obureh on the Avenue de L’Alsoa until Mm mlTTHl dor can Jura the opinion of the Gov ernment concerning the emsI appro prlate muu of transporting it to Mm United States and giving a fitting upulchre to the body of the UbHtoft- ous Sailor whose place of burial hag ss long remained a mystery. Tired of IJib. A dispatch trout Spartanburg to The State uys Vandiver Rsy, a pauper, aged 84 yean, made a desper ate attempt to kill himself near MM county parish Thunday. He wu foand lying on tbe ground pariah obureh, bleeding from Sided wounds to the legs, throat gaff abdomen When carried to Mm perith be said that he had tired of life, griev ing about his little grandchild from whom be wu separated when brought to tbe poor bourn a month v* He gave the keeper $1 to give his _ child and said that be would dte. Ray used aa ordinary pocket knife ta I blog himself. His condition la Zigbrik ed u exceedingly eritieeL •wteide. The body of Mte. Grace Loomis, who claimed to be the wife of Charles Loomis, said to be a mUlkmaire, wu Tbe trio found Thursday ta a balf-fliljed hath {.the first tifo In a fashionahte boarding bonula Chicago. Frequent threats thht she intended to kill herself leave no doubt of suicide. Domestic trooblpwM the Goal labam Edwards, who is i Jacksonville, Fla., with two negroes under eeoteooe of death tog the murder at School f N. W. Eppee, August, but daring that Chid will aad tbs other