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; " |? ? % H' *' r ????-^?????-???_$838383835}} ___g=l__lj_____ 'the lotte .1 __________ si /' '8 V v & h. 1 $ <2lOS^ AMES LAXXIXG was a )( j mechanic, a young, honest P I O man, whose highest ambi^ Jfc tion was to gain ^ com"WOW fortable home for himself and wife, and to be thought well of by his neighbors. He had built himself a house, and there still remained upon it a mortgage of $500; but -this sum he hoped to pay in a few years, if he only had his health. He had calculated exactly how long it would take him to clear off this incumbrance, and he went to work with his eyes open. One evening James came home to his supper more thoughtful than usual. His voung wife noticed his manner, JS** ~ and she inquired its cause. | "What is it, James?*' she kindly asked. "Why, I never saw you look so g * sober before." "Well, I'll tell you, Hannah," returned the young man, with a slight * , hesitation in his manner. "I have just been thinking that I would buy a lottery ticket." Hannah Lanning did not answer immediately. She looked down and smoothed the silken hair of her babe, which was chirping like a little robin in her arms, and the shades of her handsome features showed that she pk .was taking time to think. "How much will it cost?" she asked, at length, looking half timidly up into her husband's face. "Twenty dollars," returned James, trying to assume a confidence which ? - * lie did not feel. "And have you made up your mind jk* to buy it?" "Well, I think I shall. What do you -think about it?" "If you should ask my advice, I should say do not buy it." < "But why so?" "For many reasons," returned his r. .wife, in a trembling tone. She would not offend her husband, and she shrank from giving him adyice which he might not follow. "In the first place," she sai,d, "I think ^ the whole science of lotteries is a bad one; and then you have no money to risk." "But just look at the prizes," said James, drawing a "scheme" from his pocket. "Here is one prize of $20,000, another of $10,000, another $5000, and . so on. Something tells me that if I buy a ticket I shall draw a large prize. 'And then just think, Hannah, how easily I could pay all up for my house, and perhaps have a good handsome sum left." The young man spoke with much earnestness and assurance, but he saw tthat there was a cloud upon his wife's brow. "It seems to me that the chance of drawing a prize is very doubtful," said Hannah, as she took the scheme. "Here are many thousand tickets to be p . % sold." The babe tried hard to snatch the paper, and Hannah laid it aside. ? "I think I shall run the risk," resumed James, glancing once more over the paper, and resting with a nervous longing upon the figures which represented the higher prizes. ''There's Barney; he drew about $S00 a year ?S?" "Yes, I know it," said Hannah, with more warmth than she had before manifested, "and what has become of the money? You know he has squandered it all away. Ah, James, money is of no use unless we come honestly by it. "Honestly?" repeated the young man. "Surely, there is nothing dishonest in drawing a prize in a lottery." "I think there is," kindly, but emphatically, replied the wife. "All games of hazard, where money is at stake, are dishonest. Were you to draw a prize of $20,000, you would rob a thousand men of $20 each; or at least, you -svould take from them money for which you returned them no equivalent. Is it not gambling in every sense of the word?" "Oh, no! You look upon the matter In too strong a light." ',T> 1 "* ~~ 4-n. "".feriiaps x uuj uui vei it mvmo w nje. What you may draw some one else must lose: and perhaps it may be some one who can afford the loss no better than you can. I wouldn't buy the ticket. James. Let us live on the products of our honest gains, and we shall be happier." James Lanning was uneasy. He had no answer for his wife's arguments: at least, no answer that could spring from his moral convictions, and he let the matter drop. But the young man could not drop the siren from his heart. All the next day his head was full of "prizes," and while he was at his work he kept muttering to himself, "Twenty thousand dollars," "Ten thousand dollars," "Five thousand dollars," and so on. When lie went home the next night he was almost unhappy with the nervous anxiety into which he had thrown himself. The tempter had grasped him firmly, and whenever he thought of the lottery, he saw nothing but piles of gold and silver. In short, James Lanning had made lip his mind that he would buy the ticket. lie went to the little box where he had already S120 laid up toward paying off the mortgage from his house. The lock clicked with a startling sound, and when lie threw hook the cover he hesitated. He rr iRY TICKET. i i | ?T I: lK?5S3?SE?i looked at bis wife, and be saw that she was sad. "Oh, I'm sure I shall draw a prize"' he said ,with a faint, fading smile. He took four half-eagles from the box, and put them in his pocket. His wife said nothing. She played with her baby to hide her sadness, for she did not wish to say more on the subject. She had seen that little pile of gold gradually accumulating, and both she and her husband had been happy in anticipating the day when the pretty cottage would be all their own. But when she saw those four pieces of geld taken away from the store, she felt a foreshadowing of evil. She might have spoken again against the movement, but she saw that her husband was sorely tender upon the subject, and she let the affair go to the hands of fate. A week elapsed from the time that James bought his ticket to the drawing of the lottery, and during that time the young man had not a moment of real enjoyment. lie was alternating between hope and fear, and therefore his mind was constantly on the stretch. At length the day arrived. James went to the office, and found that the drawing had taken place, and that the list of prizes had been made out. He seized the list and turned away, so that those who stood around should not see his face. He read the list through, but he searched for his number in vain! It was not there. He had drawn a blank! He left the office an unhappy man. Those twenty dollars which he had lost had been the savings of two months of hard labor, and . he felt their loss most keenly. When he returned home that night he told his wife that he had lost. She found no fault with him. She only kissed him and told him that the lesson was a good one, even though it had been dearly bought. But James Lanning was not satisfied. He brooded over his loss with a bitter spirit, and at length the thought came to him that he might yet draw a prize. He wished that he had not bought the ^ {f a />An1rl Anlr LLLdU ULIiClj UiiU XL uc wutu back bis $20 be would buy no more; but be would not rest under bis loss. He was determined to make one more trial, and be did so. This time be purchased the ticket without bis wife's knowledge. The result was the same as before. He drew a blank! "Forty dollars!" was a sentence that dwelt fearfully upon the mechanic's lips. "Ob, I must draw a prize!" be -said to himself. "I must make up what I have lost. Let me once do that, and I'll buy no more tickets." Another $20 was taken from the little bank, another ticket was bought, another blank was drawn. At the end of three months the little bank was empty, and James Lanning had the last ticket in liis pocket. Ah, how earnestly he prayed that that last ticket might draw a prize! He bad become pale and careworn, and his wife?poor, confiding soul!?thought he only repined because he had lost $20. When she would try and cheer him, he would laugh, and try to make the matter light. "Jr.mes," said his wife to him one day?it was the day before that on which the lottery was to be drawn in which he had the sixth ticket?"Mr. Rowse has been here to-day after the semi-annual interest. I told him that you would see him to-morrow." "Yes, I will," said James, in a faint voice. "Yes, to-morrow I shall see him." Young Lannir.g thought of the lottery and of the prize. This was his sixth trial, and he felt sure that he should draw. The morrow came, and when James Lanning returned to his home at night he was penniless! All his golden visions had faded away, and he was left in darkness and misery. "James, Lave you paid Mr. Rowse his interest yet?" asked Hannah. The young man leaned his head upon his hands and groaned aloud. "For heaven's sake, James, what has happened?" cried the startled wife, springing to the side of her husband, and twining her arm about his neck. The young man looked up with a wild, haggard expression. His lips were bloodless, and his features were ail stricken with a death-hue. "What is it? Oh, what?" murmured the wife. "Go look in our box?our little bank!" groaned the poor man. Hannah hastened away, and when she returned, she bore an empty box in her hand. "Robbed!" she gasped, and she sank tremblingly down beside her husband's side. "Yes. Hannah," whispered the husband, "I have robbed you." The stricken wife gazed upon her ??i7ch?-.ml v.-itlj m lnnlr fnr fit first slip diil not comprehend; but she remembered his behavior for weeks back; she remembered how he had murmured in his sleep of lotteries and > tickets, of blanks and prizes, and grad. ually the truth broke in upon her. i "I have done it all, Hannah," hoarsely whispered the condemned man. when he saw that his wife had guessed > the truth. "All, all has gone for lot> tery tickets. The demon tempter lured (me; he held up glittering gold in Ml I hand, but he cave me none of it Oh, | do not chide me! You know not what I have suffered?what hours of agony I have passed?and you know how cold my heart is now. Oh. my wife, would to God I had listened to youl" "Ah!" calmly whispered the faithful wife, as she drew her hand across her husband's heated brow. "Mourn not * for what is lost. I will not chide you. It is hard thus for you to lose your scanty earnings, but there might b? 1 many worse calamities than that. Cour- 1 age, James; we will soon forget it." "And Mr. Rowse will foreclose the i mortgage'. You will be homeless," i murmured young Lanning in broken. accents. j < "Xo; I will see that ail is safe in that quarter," added I-Iannah. At that moment the baby awoke, and. the gentle mother was called to car* for it. On the next day, at noon, Han- . nah Lanning gave her husband a receipt for $15 from Mr. Rowse. "Here," said she, "interest U paid. Xow let us forget all that has passed- , and commence again." J "But how?what has paid this?'* 1 asked James, gazing first upon the re- 1 ceipt and then upon Ills wife. < "Z\ever mind." "Ah, but 1 must mind. Tell 7ne. Hannah." "Well, I have sold my gold watch." "Sold it!" ! "But I can buy it back again. The man will not part with it. if I want it J ^ But I don't want it. James, till wo arc | able. Perhaps I shall never want it. I j You must not chide me, for never did ! I derive one icta of the pleasure from ' its possession that I now foci In the result of its disposal." James Lannon clasped his wife to hie j' bosom, and he murmured a prayer, and , 1 in that prayer there was a pledge. i ******* , Two years passed away, and during j that time James Banning lost not a single day from his work. He was as punctual as the sun, and the result was as sure. It was late oil Saturday evening when he came home. After supper, he J drew a paper from his pocket, and laid i 1 it upon the table. 1 ''There, .Hannah,'' said he, while a '< noble pride beamed in every feature, J "there is my mortgage. I've paid it? ? every cent. This house is ours; it is j t our own house. I've bought it with 11 dollars, every one of which has been I j honestly earned by the sweat of my j j brow. I am happy now " ( Hannah Lanning saw that her bus-- j ( band had opened his arms, and she sat j t down upon his knee and laid her head I upon his shoulder. 1 "Oh, blessed moment!" she murmured. "Yes. it is a blessed moment,?' responded her husband. "Do you remember, Hannah, the hour of bitterness j that we saw two years ago?" 1 The wife shuddered, but made no i reply. [{ "Ah," continued the young man, "I j have never fcrgotten that bitter lesson; 1 and even now I tremble when I think how fatally I was deceived by the tempter that has lured so many thou- j sands to destruction." . "But its horror is lost in this happy moment," said Hannah, looking up with a smile. * "Its terror may be lost," resumed j 1 James, "but its lesson must never be i J forgotten. Ah. the luring lottery ticket I < has a dark side?a side which few see j until they feel it." "Are not all its sides dark?" softly asked the wife. "If there is any bright - - - - - ? ?* - jo xu ? ness about it, it is omv mo glare ol me | fata! ignis fatuus, which can only I lead the wayward traveler into danger j ^ and disquiet." i. "You are right my dear wife. You 1 were right at first. Ah," he continued, as he drew the fai:hful being more 1 closely to his bosom, "if husbands j? would oftener obey the tender dictates t of the loving wife, there would be far 1 less misery in the world than there is f now."?Waverley Magazine. < y Are Americans Popular In England? , As a matter of fact, no English politician ever thinks of mentioning the United Stages in the speech without j some complimentary adjective, and the British public, which has long ceased to be the most stolid public in Europe, and become instead, thanks to cheap reading, one of the most hysterical and i j sentimental, always cheers heartily j any allusion to "our cousins beyond t the sea," and agrees rapturously with I, the speaker that 'trood is thicker than ' < water." An Ameiican who tries to A persuade himself that his country has !, a political foe in England had better ! j stay in America if he wants to keep ' his faith vrhole. I: would haruly sur- j' vive a fortnight in England itself, jJ Englishmen bear no grudges. They j' are as proud of Washington as Amer- ;( icans themselves; most of them are not ! i even aware that there was such a j < thing as the War of 1S12; while they j' quite cheerfuily admit that all through 1 ] the Civil War and the Alabama btisi- ! < ness tbey were in the wrong, and were ! t rightly made to pay for it. In the vis- I itors' room at the Reform Club on ! Pall Mall you will tiud over the mantle- j piece a facsimile of the Declaration of j Independence, and above it medallions of Washington, Lincoln and Grant, j There is something rather fine in a pco- ; pie that can thus candidly publish and i1 acknowledge two of the greatest blur.- ' * ders in their history. But the Eritish ^ J have grown into a big habit of always i exempting Americans from the ortli- i nary divisions of nationality. Cecii t Rhodes was far from being frhe only < Englishman whose patriotism went be- } yonu iiic emu. i^viuuvu v?w t ^ race. The least imaginative Londoner j ^ feels himself and his country in a very ! ( special degree united to America. It j is the nation of all others he 'would j most like his own to be on friendly and ' even intimate terms with.?Sydney ' 1 J Brcoks, in Harper's Weekly. * \ SOUTH CAROLINA _ 5 STATE NEWS HEMS.r W ^ w csHMtsjir^cNjrvW sac^i Negro Held in New York. A New York dispatch says: At the request of the authorities of Florence, 3. C., a negro who gave his name as Jim Brown, and who is charged with Incendiarism and felonious assault,was arrested on the schooner Salisbury, or Port Royal, S. C., which arrived Mon3ay. * * * Constables Make a Raid. A party of dispensary constables in the Spartanburg district recently Jestroyed over 3.000 gallons of beer in twenty large fermenters, and also broke up a still. This is one of the largest seizures ever made in the district. The still was abandoned before the constables reached it, and ac-I :ordingly no arrests were made. I * " * Painter Slays Carpenter. A homicide occurred three miles from Columbia a day or two ago. Per:y Crews, a carpenter, engaged :n building a cottage on the Epworth Orphanage property, was shot in the back of the head and killed b ya painter named Harley McDonald. There had been some dispute over i matter of $5. There were 15 or 20 nen working on the premises and hey did not try to stop McDonald. fvho went to Columbia, notified his vife and mad;? his escape. Crews is , ittle more than a boy. ? 3 * * Banks and Mills Have Security. The statement sent out from Bos on concerning voluntary petition in bankruptcy by W. B. Smith-Whaley ( lis caused South Carolina bankers , md mill men to explain that all of Mr. Whaley's obligations held in this < section are fully securel. Many of , :he liabilities listed are notes endorsed ; >y Mr. Whaley and others and are berfectly good without his name. The bankruptcy proceedings were not unexpected, as they are the logical out- i :ome of embarrassment of mills In , ;his state, which was fully aired last vinter in the courts and in the press. * * i Bride in Role of College Girl. When Miss Annie Latimer Law, of \ugusta, Ga.. entered Converse Col- , ege, at Spaitanburg, the past week, t was little dreamed that she was l bride. It was discovered by the coiege authorities, however, that such vas the case. Miss Law's marriage Leaked out by neans of a telegram from her husband, Mr. Reab, of Augusta. President Pell refused to allow the young lady ;o comply with her husband's telegraphic request to come home and sept Miss Law at the college until ler guardian arrived. In the company bf the latter she left immediately for Augusta. * * Entire Family Wiped Out. A telegram was received at Gaffley, announcing the death of Mr. Lee iill at Jellico, Tenn., who was killed n an explosion in a powder mill. The corpse was expected at Gaffley last Monday night, but instead l telegram was received stating that he corpse, accompanied oy Mr. scou 3ill, his father; Lee Hill's wife a5d our children and a single sister, were >n the ill-fated Southern train, which ,vas wrecked in Tennessee and that ill the parties were killed. The corpses of all seven of the 'amily were later sent to Gaffney. * ? Safe Crackers Make Neat Hall. Expert safe crackers entered the postoffice at Kingstree, one night the past week, and, after a short ap?)Iica:ion of blacksmith tools, stolen from i nearby s;hop, extracted a package of 54,000 addressed to the Bank of Kings:ree, $350 in postoffice funds, about 5150 wcrth of stamps and jewelry oeonging to Postmaster Jacobs valued j it $500.. The burglars then departed, j eaving no clue. The money for the J Dank had been sent from Charleston | m wired orders, and it was supposed j j 10 one knew of the order except banit 1' ifficers and the telegraph operator ' riie loss was discovered the next norning. As the money had been insured the bank will not lose any:hing. * * Lynched fcr the Usual Crime. A young negro boy named Babe Brown was lynched by the citizens of Laurens county for attempted crimiaal assault on the 14-year-old daugh- \ :er of Doc Hughes, a farmer at Water- j ' oo township. The girl and her sister were alone n the yard and the negro assaulted :he younger one. The older girl came :o the aid of her sister and the negro j . -eleased the younger, telling both he J ; would kill them if they ever told. He :hen went back to his work picking cotton in a nearby field. The girls told their father when he :ame home. The news spread to the leighborhood. The negro was taken :rom the field. Some wanted him car ried to the Laurens jail, but others insisted on lynching him. f. The lynching sentiment prevailed, and, at night, the negro was carried across the Saluda river into Green-] wood county and hanged. * * * Repentinq at Leisure. A case of love at first signt, a hasty marriage and a husband now in jail, charged with bigamy and obtaining goods under false pretenses, is the pitiful tale that comes from Anderson, regarding Mrs. Susan Owens, who recently left the Excelsior Knit-1 ting Mills, at Union, to take a position in Brogon Mills, Anderson. Mrs. Owens is an attractive young woman about 26 years old, with four little children. On the 20th of last June her husband, George Owens, died j - A nni A to ciIICI ~d? ?UU11 vv June a5u ouu uwiuvu ?-v go with friends to Anderson. At Jonesville she was joined by Charley Kennedy, a man about 35 years of age from Hickory, N. C., whom she had met just a few days before. While en route he wooed and won. and on arriving at Anderson they were made man and wife by a magistrate; but evidently the marriage did not carry with it all the bliss that was expected, for Kennedy was arrested, charged with bigamy, his fihst wife, now living in Greenville, and also with having sold all the earthly possessions of Mrs. Kennedy No. 2, formerly Mrs. Owens. She. as a result, was stranded in Anderson with ner four little ones. * * Bennett Extradited. Governor Terrell, of Georgia, grantwarrant in fflvr>r CU LUC CAL1UUIUVU vv w*.L * V v. of Governor Hey wood for J. B. Bennett, now confined in jail in Savannah, but wanted at Hampton, both on the charge of being an escaped convict and for the murder of his wife. Attorney General Gunter went to Georgia to represent the state pn ftio supposition that Bennett proposed to fight his extradition. But Qovernor Terrell received a letter from R. L. Colding, of Savannah, who has been representing Bennett, stating that he would make no further contention. It seems that Bennett, who had been serving a term in the state penitentiary for murder, was pardoned on condition that he would never return to the state. He did return , and, it is said, while here, killed his wife. The extradition papers were made out on the first charge, it being claimed that he was an escaped convict, because he had returned to the state in violation of.his pledge. It was afterwards learned that if the extradition papers were not honored on that grotmd, another rr*o rr<in ( urmt'M ho Sent ph'Sr^'ino' Ben* YT ai 1 UUt TTVU1U Kf V WVMV VMM.0.~0 I nett with murder. It was then that Colonel Coling decided to give up *he fight and so wrote Governor Terre1!. MILL BOILER EXPLODES. Four Men Instantly Killed and Others Badly Hurt. i At 7:15 o'clock Friday morning tne I boiler in the gin department of the Mammoth Cotton Mill, Edwin No. 3, at Dukes, N. C., on the Cape Fear and Northern railroad* about 25 miles from Raleigh, exploded with terrific violence, partially wrecking the engine foom, instantly killing three white men, one of whom was the superintendent of the mill, and one negro. Another negro was scalded so badly that he will die. Several persons were thrown down by the shock i of the explosion, but their injuries are not serious. From the best information obtainable, it seems that the old fireman oi the mill having just been discharged, a new man, not thoroughly under standing the engine, had gotten up too much steam. The engine refused to work and the fireman vent after the superintendent. As they entered the engine room together there was a rending roar, and the men were blown i to pieces. WATSON DRAWS COLOR LiNE. Forcibly Objected to Riding in Hack With a Colored Woman. A dispatch of Thursday from Houston, Texas ,is as follows: "Hon Thomas Watson, of Georgia, who is to speak here tomorrow, arrived unexpectedly tonight and the committee failed to meet him. At the station Mr. Watson entered a hack to drive to a hotel and was requested by the driver to admit another passenger. The driver thereupon presented a negro woman as his seatmate, whereupon Mr. Watson left the hack and struck the negro a blow." i impaled on huge splinter. s I I Brooklyn Youngster Meets Tragic UvUin nnc uo^nti my unvownubd* Impaled on the stump of a tree by i a large splinter that had penetrated hig right breast to the lung, a Brooklyn, N. Y., boy died in the presence of a score of horrified boys and girls. He had been sitting on the branch of a tree knocking off chestnuts to nis companions when the limb on which he sat broke and he fell face downward upon a stump below. j Feil Dead Over Friend's Coffin. While gazing at the dead face of a life-long woman friend, the coffin lid having been reopened at her request, i Mrs. Mary Reeves, of Brooklyn, N. Y., j fell dead across the casket. i < JAPS GO FORWARD * A Flanking Program Now Under Way Near Mukden. TO CUT RUSSIAN LEFT \ < Clashes Between Outposts are of Con- 1 stant Occurrence, and Many Cas' 4 ualties are the " Result. ^ News was leceived in St. Petersburg * Monday from General Kuropatkin that the Japanese are preparing an exten- * sive turning movement east cf Muk- * den. A large force is advancing from Liao-Yang, by way of Taiche, to Tsian- m schan. Skirmishes have occurred in i 1 the valley cf the Run river, an'd at | Inpu, between Bentsiaputze and the railroad. There were many casualties at Inpu. General Sakharoff, in a dispatch dated Sunday, telegraphed that the Japanese guard during the last few / ; | days attempted to occupy Kuropatu pass, on the road to Fushun, but were repulsed by a detachment of Russian advance guard. On the south front all is quiet, 3 though shots are exchanged daily and skirmishes occur between the advance pasts. Advices from Mukden state that doubts are beginning to be felt as to whether it will be possible to continue V ' j the campaign through the winter, which begins in November. ' * The Japanese do not appear to be moving, but it is believed that they will begin a general advance within a 1 ' day or two. They are continually receiving reinforcements. Russian scouts who penetrated beyond Bentsiapuzel, saw large encampments of Japanese and a strong column is reported to be forming northwest of Liao-Yang. A thousand Japanese are daily crossing the Taitse river 1 over three bridges which have been built above the railroad. General Kuroki is supposed to design crossing the Hun river at a point -J considerably east of Mukden, from which he is expected to move down that stream and co-cperate wilt an | army from Sianchan, while Generals Oko and Nodzu hold General Kurppatkin south of Mukden. Japanese at- 1 |j tacks on Da pass and Sanlungku are regarded as confirmation of this theo- * ry. Outposts of Generals Oku and Nodzu have been in conflict with Cos- j 1 sacks between Bentsiaputze and thel^ railroad. / I No news was received Monday from Port Arthur. - v i The reorganization of Russian forces v in the Far East by the appointment of General Crippenberger to command. the second army, has been received with much satisfaction by the St. Petersburg press. Even tne Novoe-Cre- ; mya, which has been urging the promotion of General Kuropatkin to tne rank of commander in chief, recognizes the impossibility of confiding L the vast host now to be assembled to f (5) the commander of the forces actually in the field. Other papers warmly endorse the motives for the formation of the second army and the evident * % I determination to prosecute the war ' ; ; with increased vigor. RIOT IN A CORN FIELD. White Men and Negroes Use Guns With Fatal Results. ) \ 1 Two negroes were killed and three were fatally wounded in a race not near Lynchburg, Miss., Monday. j The shooting took place on the plantation of J. J. Johnson, who, with 1 his two sons and two helpers, went > ;j into a field to gather a load of corn. The field was worked on shares by a negro family named* Kennedy. As the white men were driving their wagon from the field a fusilade was fired at them. The fire *was returned with the result that two negroes were * ^ killed outright and three were fatally shot. * ?j J COTTON GROWERS ASSEMBLE. More Than Five Hundred in Attend* ance on Convention at St. Louis. - More than 500 cotton men attended the convention of the southern cotton ^ flj growers, whjich met in the Palace of ?! Agriculture at St. Louis, Monday. * Representatives were present from j all the cotton producing states. The jjj I .i. - ?:? /lio. 1 purpose ui me eouveuuuu was tu uwJ cuss ways and means for the future ^ t handling of the crop and' to perfect j arrangements for financing the cot- i ! ton in their hands so as to secure a j ! slower and more uniform movement i of the staple in the markets. * f ! ACCUSED OF TYING ROPE. . Second of Alleged HuntsviHe Lynch- ( ers Arraigned in Court.Ben Hill, alleged lyncher, was plac- j ed on trial at Huntsville, Ala., Monday morning on a charge of murder. Seventy-seven talesmen were examined before a jury of twelve competent men were found. Several witnesses testified that Hill * fl climbed the tree to tie the rope at the j i hanging of Maples. ' J