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V6THE PEOPLE' S JOELL A Y VOL . 20 P~ICKEiNS, S. C.9 THIURSD)AY, JUNE ? 19.OEDLA ER SWEPT BY STORM AND FLAME. A TI'IiUt1nilbE DISASTEt IN S'1 LOUIS. Struck by a Tornado. of' Unusual Severity--One Thousaid 'ersons Killedt aid Wounded--Millions of Property Destroyed. One of the phenomenal disasters of the century took place at St. Louis on the 27th inst., resulting in the death of sevral hundred ptopil and the de struction of untold millions of property. The following is the first acc'>untof the terrible storm, which was sent out from Chicago, as the wires were down in St. Louis, and the usual lines of commluunication were cut off soon after the tornado struck the city : One of the greaktst (lisastors of re cent years overwhelmed the city of St. Louis on Wedncsday night in the shape of a cyclone, which began shortly after 5 o'clock, and for thirty Ininutes toro its awful way through the city, with a velocity of over eighty miles an hour. Although reports sent out fron there were very meagre, owing to the almost total destruction of the telegraph wires, it seems certain that the number of dead and wounded will amount to full *one thousand, and the damage done to millions of dollars. The city hospital, which fortunately survived the storm, is filled to over flowing with mangled men. wvomen and children, and the morgue within two hours after the end of the storm was so full of corpses that it was neces sary to provide other qua-rters for the reception of the dead. In addition to those who were killed in their houses and in the streets, hundreds of dead lie beneath the waters of the N issis sippi River. Of all the steamers on the levee when the storm broke out, but one is now afloat. All the others have gone down, in many instances every soul on board being lost and in others not over two or three being able to reach a place of safety. Among the boats destroyed is the excursion steam er Great Republic, one of the largest steamers on the lower river. Not a man escaped from her, and it is said she was crowded with excursionists when the storm came. The contre of the city is a wreck. Many buildings have been demolished and others partially wrecked. The streets are utturly impassable to street cars, and in many places progress on foot is a matter of great d IlicuIty. To add to the horrors of tlhe night. the electric light plants' were rendered in capable of service, and the gas lamps were also shut off, leaving the city in total darkness. Fire also broke out in several parts of the city, and the fire department was unable to make an effective light. because of the choked up condition of the streets, and the large number of firemen who were en gag-A in the imperative work of res cuing the dead and wounded. The only authentic information from the stricken city was sent out by the agent of the Associated Press, who managed to reach an outlying tele graph office, and set a brief dispatch as follows : " Tornado blowing at the rate of over eighty miles an hour struck St. Louis to-night, and raged for half an hour with great fury, and as a result hundreds of lives are lost on both sides of the river. Many buildings are blown down and many river steamers sunk with all on board. It is impos sible at the present time to estimate the numbor of lives lost as the hospi tals are illed with the injured and the morgue is Ii lied with the slain, wit~h great numbers of the dead and maimed ying among the r-uins in all d iree tions. A portioni of the cast end of the Eads bridge is destroyed, the grand stand at the Fair Grounds blown downm, the wvomon's portion of the jail is go noe, and the immense Cupples block is par tially destroyed. T1he Waters & l'ierce oil works are burning and other builId lngs In various sections of the city ar~e on lire." The rep~orts regarding the duration of the storm are conllieting. A bout 8 o'clock the operator' on the Wabash road, at a small station near l'ast St. Louis, managed to get the oper-ator- at D~ecatur-, Ills., long enough to send him wordl that the roundi house of the Wabash road was blown down and that the freight house of the Vandal ia was wrecked, and thirty-live moin were killed in the ruins. After he had told this much the wir-e failed him. Shortly after 5 o'clock the Wabash operator at Deccatur- reported to tihe main dispatcher's office at Forest, Ill., that a cyclone had just passed through the country to the south of Deccatur' and it was r'eportedl to have (lone mnuch damage. In aL few rainutes he sent word that a second storm hadl passed through the country alumost. exactly in the track of the tirst, and he was tun able to get any more in formation re garding it, but that it, was thought to have done great damage in the cuntry lying east of East St. Louis. The operator~ on the Alton road was unable to get any information fronm their men in the neigh borhxood of St. Louis, but rep~orted that just hofore all their connections with that city were broken off, they had received word that there had been a severe cyclone at Ruxsh lill, Mo., whichx is a small town on the Altonx road not far~ from MexIco, Mo. T1ho dlispatchor's oflice of the Illinois Central was u nable all nxight to gel any informnation from anmy poinmt oni their li no south of Cenitral i. It w as reported1 to them, however, that, a cy clone had swept th rough all the cun-x try south of that p1oint. U At east, St. I nu is, the destruction seems to ho greatexit. II. C. I ice, the \Vostern iJnion manager at the relay dlepot, on the east sid(e, climbxed across the dlemnolished bridige, andl madt~e hxis way to St. Lo~uis. ie reports that the NatIonal Ilotil, the T1remon t I louse, Martelle hlouse, D~eWolf CUafe, the lant of the Hiexel Milling Comixpany, Horn's cooper shop) and a great nmx ber of other buiildings are blown dlown. Many dwellings ar~e wrecked and mainy of their occx luats arel kinown t~o lie dlead. TLhe VandalliaL rolund-houise, the Vandal Ia freight h ouse, in whlichl thirty-live meni a r. ahl wx have been killed, the IBaithnroce and Ohio i ound1 house1 the Standaxrdl )ilI woi ks, East St. Louis clevators, Crescent elevators and twelve other freight houses on the levec are destroyed. The Grand Re public and several imoro excursion btCuLI'S with all on board are report ed to have gone down, and there IW but one boat now at the levee of all which wore thero before the storm caio. It is fillicult to estli mto the number of dead and wounded, but a rough esti mate would. place the number atabout one thousanid. One of the worst features of the dis ester is thought to have taken place at the race track at East St. Louis, where races woro in full swing. The grand sand was crowded with people. ie turns from the St. Louis races are re ceived at the track at Lake Side, Ind., and at a few minutes after 5 o'clock, the Operator sending the report of tile races stopped his work long enoug h to remaik : "Thoro goes tile grand stAid," and then his viro collapsed and nothing mure was heard from him. In a few socolids, the same messago was reported from Lexington, Ky., with the additional information that fully 1501 people were killed. This in formation was subsequently corroborat of] by the opcrator at Decatur, who said that in his second message re ceived from East? St. Louis it was do elared that the grand stand at the races was down and that fully 150 people were buried in the ruins. A few minutes after 5 o'clock, the operator of the Associated P'ress at St. I ouis, who was in the act of taking 1 usual rMport,, sent word th at it was growing very dark, and asked for a minute's d-yjlv that he iight provide Iimself with a light. In a second more the wiro snapped and it was imI possb11e to get any further informa tion from him or out of the town. The local w cather ollices in Chicago wore unable to give any information regarding the storm, as they werO in formed early in the evening by the Western Union that it would not be able to send the usual weather bulle tins from St. Louis. It is said, how over, that the conditioni hits been all day fusorable for severe storms all through Missouri and Southern Iliii nois. It is thought that the storm swept over St. Louis fromi the north west to southeast, as it is considered probable that tle storm which was re ported in the afternoon at lush 1ll, Mo., would require several hours to reach St. Louis and the storm a two points is reported as having been long enough apart to enable the storm to cover. Lih distance between Ilush lill and St. Loiit. The storm which tore thro1gh the cou ntry south of Centralia is said to have occurred at about 6 o'clock. or an hour after St. Louis was devastated. These~throe.,oints are in direct Hlne from the northwest to the Southeast, and the weather oflicials are inclined to believe that the storm was one and the sans'. The lads br'de which is reported as having been badly damaged*by the storm was built inl 1873, and was con sidered one of the strongest arch bridges inl the World. It was built w ithlout a draw bridge, and rose to an elevation in the centre and sloped down to the shore on each side. There was upon it a double railroad track, a d(uble passageway for wagons, and a double path way for pedestrains. Froin the reports received it is not thought that it is so seriously damaged as to delay the train service of tile roads which cross it to any large extent. FROM 1ST. LOUIS DIRIPCT. The Details of time Tornlo are Given to Some Extent. Death and destruction reigns su premo in St. Louis and vicinity as a result of the most terrible storm that ever visited this section of he coun try. So wvidespread is the destruction in both St. Louis and~ linst St. Louis that it is imp)ossiole to even estimate the~ am~iount (of damage and loss of life. Buiildings of every description are in ruins anid as aL resuit hunidreds of peo0 ple are reported (lead endl injured, but until dayaI ght comles and order' is re stored, it will be impossible to miake a defi1nite stattemient. A replort is ini circulation that coven steamers lying at wharf boats on the East St. Louis sidle of the river. have been suink with all on board. Theli city is nearly in dlarkniess as the electric lights and trolley wires are down. With ono or two (extceptionis, all the street car lines in the city are at a standstill andI thou sands of p~eole ar ie compllolled to ire maini dlown towvn Or walk home. T1he storm broke about 5 o'clock In the afternoon, after a most oppressive ly hot day, antd the rain began to fall. It soon developed into a lierce thuni dlerstorm, with the wind from the east. A little later the w ind had gainedl a velocity of eighty miles an liour, dlrIV ing tihe rain before it and tearing loose signs, cornices, oh imneys aind everything in its way. Many build ings of every kind were dlemolished anid others set on fire by lightning and crossed wvires. Th tir depa (~l&rtmelnt respond~ed to fourteen alarms. The streets wereo full of p)eop)1 going home fromi work and a panic ensued as soon aLs the stormi br'oko ;1m1n wore picked up) t band hurled against the buildings; horses and1( carrilages wore sent flying here amilt there, and fallIng wires full of the deadly IIlul added to the horror of the sceiie. Suddenly the wind veered ar'ound to the west andi~ comleted the deCstruel tionm. ItL is asserted1 by some of those wh h11 iave taversedl the downtown part of thme city that there are but few buildings in St. Louis thait have niot suffered in somoe way from the storm. TJo-niighit the streets aLro In compllleto darkniess anmd travel ini every direction is (dangerouls beccaulsO of fallen live wires and debris0 lying everywhere. The wvagonl way (of the Ei~ada bridge on the h0ast t,. I aouis sIde, is a crmibling massL5 of mor,)ta" iui 111stonio, and p[arts of the tower andlpier No. I were also torn awuay. Thiousands (of dlollars will not cover' bhoU wreckage. A trolIey one loaded wvith passenger~s boun rd for the vest sitdo is said to have faillen through the railroad track be low, hut wvith whatL resu~ilt Is not known. Th'le roof of the lI epublican..halhl was blown oif and atili 20-froot section of the western hal(1f of the city jil (clear dhownI, exp 1o-,inmg 11he initerior. It wvas duiring exerek-e hmour is, antd two hun dre pr 1 Iloniors e x.:ri in g ini the build ing~ wer. patniei stricken. TompaiI'ratry ho si tLu abuntid in every part of the city. The armior'y at Seventeenth atnd I 'ino streets hits been Opened for the care of the wounded and many injured have been taken into p':Ivato houses. Tile city authorities at midnight wore sending mounted policomen through the city to ascor tain if possible what loss of life and the number injured really is. So far as absolute facts are concerned, noth ing definite can be learned before to-mllorrow. To add to the dismal situation, the rain which foil shortly after the torna (10 passed, began again about 7:30 o'clock and is now coming down in torrents. It is imlpossible to get re ports from the police stations, where many of the dead and injured have been taken, and consequently all stato ients In regard to the dead and wounded up to the present time are the merest conjectures, but there is no doubt that the loss of life is greater than anything tie country has known since the disastor at Johnstown, Pa. Threc fire alarms were sent in to night from a poor house which had 1,:300 inmates. Tihe roof of that struc ture was blown off and it is feared that the number of fatalitios there Is great. The loss of life on the river was great. It is reported that the magnili cent steamer Grand Republic was sunk with all on board. The steamer D. H. Piko, with thirty passengers on board, bound up the river for Peoria, was blown bottomnsido up. The steam or Conger wias blown nearly across the river and sank at a point opposito Ca-ondelot, ten miles below. The steamer 1)auphin, a pleasure boat, containing 20 women passen"ers and a crew of 6 men, was blown against the middle pier of the Mads bridge and brokcen in two. '.he stear Li!2 I A bbic Conger' of the liaiond Jo Lin, wiih Captain Za man, his wife and the crow of six men, was sunk in the middlo of the river. LINCOLN AS A GItOUNIitY CLEIItC. His senrse of Chivalry and ILove of Square Dealing. Tihe prcise date of the opening of Denton Offutt's store is not known. We only know that on July 8, 1831, th County Commissioner's Court of Sangamon county granted Olyutti a li cense to retail merchandise at New Salem, for which he paid $5, a foe which supposed him to have $1,000 worth of goods in stock. When the oxen and their drivers returned with the g(oods the store wits opened in a little log house 1on the brink of the hill, almost ovei tie river, according to a writer in McClure's Alagazine. The frontier etore filled a unique place. Usually it was a " general store," and on its shelves were found most of the articles needed in a com munity of pioneers. But to be a place for the sale of dry goods and groceries was not its only functions : it was a kind of intellectual and social centre. It wrs the common meeting place of the farmers, and happy refuge of the village lounge-s. No subject was unknown here. The habitues of the place were equally at home in talking politics, religion or sport. Stories were told, jokes were cracked and laughed at, and the news contained in the latest newspaper find ing its way into the -wilderness was discussed. Such was that of Denton OYutt. Lincoln could hardly have chosen surroundings more favorable to the highest development of the art of story-tolling and he had not been there long before his reputation for drollery was established. A man caie into the store one day who used profane language In the presence of ladies. Lincoln asked him to stop, but the man persisted, swear inu that nobody should prevent his saying what he wvanted to. Theli wo men gone, the man began to abuse Lincoln sohotly that the latter finally said, coolly : "Well if you muist ho whippel)d, 1 suppose I might as wvell whip you as any other muan," and going outdoor with the fellowv he threwv him on the groundi and ribbed smartweedl in his eyes until he bellowed for miercey. Nowv Salem's sense of chivalry was touchled and enthusiasm oveir Lincoln incireased. 1his honesty excited no less admira tion. Two incidchbts seem to have par ticularly impilressed the community. Having discovered onl one occasion that lie had takenl 6 1-4 enits too much from a customeri lie walked three miles that evening after his store was closedl to return the money. Again, lhe weighed out a hal f-pound of tea, as lie supposed. It wias night, anid this wvas the last thing lie ditt be fore closing up. (in entering in the morning lie discovered a four-ounce weight on the scales. Ile saw his mistake, and, closing up shop1, huried off to deliver the remindoer of the tean. -~-- *-' * - Til E CAM PAlIGN APP1OINTrMEiNTS. Theire is a proposition before the State executive committee to (10 away wit~h so many >ol iticial moiotings as haive been held heretofore. Since 189)0 it has becon the rule to hold canmpaignl meet ings in each county. It, is argued that this is unnaiecssary for thie reason that one meeting is identical wvith another, andl those who do not, atteiind the meet ings can easily get a full understanding of the situation through the newspa pers. U nder the circumstances, it has been suggested that a dlozenl umeetings, or say one in each congressional dis trict, ought, to be sulliciont. Senator1 Tillinan is reported to favor the u!' phin of holding a meeting ini each coun - ty ; it says that inasmuch as lie is not in it this y'eari, tile boys (can arrango it, to0 m~it themselves and he will be saiti lied. The exegutivo comnmitteo m~ots on Jiune I for the purp'lose of miaking appointmnents for the campa)nign, and will give the idea oIf fewer meetings proper consideraition. Tihe underCIstand ing is that the State campaign wvill 1)0 started about the 15th of Juone, andI the lirst meeting 1be held( sotuewhle in the i ddle or lower part of thme State. --The rapid growth 'i cotton imanu facturing In South Ca' olia Is not real ized until the figuirer are brought be fore one. In 181)0 t'.c Charleston News ane Couim'er publtshed a cotton miili hand book~ in 'whiche it showed that, the numnber' of 8lpind les in the tate wasb 95,u38, andl tha t. theroV weei'~ I1.3 loomsui in operation. Tlodamy there are) at work', In the Stato I ,322,(129 spindles and 40,089 looms In mills with an eggregate capital or $1'1,93non0 EIUXITItICITY 1YT TI'E CAN. Pod(llcil on (ie Streets of Newv York - Tho E lectric Man Will Soon Mival (he Milk Peddler. " Do you want any electricity today. mia'am ?" This is a question put to many New Yorkers nowadays; and when the reply is in the allirknative, the amount asked forl is at once doliv ored from wagons, much as milk is dlivered. Not that it Is dipped out of largo forty-quart cans with a measure, nor does It cotte in quart bottles labeled "' no ad uit teration,"' but it Is put uip in batteries of assorted sizes, fron some as small as cigarette boxes to others as largo as soda water fountailn cylin ders. The trado in canned electricity is booming, the vendors say, and the electricity wagons will soon be as coi mnon a sight as tiae milk wagons. Un like milk, though, it cannot be water ed, amuch to the satisfaction of the contsutners 0 who, nevertheless, still manage to find enough to kick about. The business of peddling electricity has thriven so rapidly that already hundreds of business houses and pri vate residences arefurnishod daily w it h sufficient motive power to meet their various requirements. The nods of electricity ure iani fold. Thu proprietors of many hotels, theaters and even th'j superintendents of public buildings, find it inuch elap eP, though perhaps a little moore 0both er'some, to use this canned lightning rather than to maintain an ext ensive electric plant. For the same reasons, owners of private residences purclhase the needful supply fromn the itiiaerant vender: and so great has the business grown that the shrewd dealer wl:o '!rst thought of peddling power in this manner now has eighteen routes w lich he supplies from as many vagon-. lach morning the eighteen wagons are loaded with their stores, and start out on their various ways. At each place of delivery the driver grasps a can containing the aiount, required and deposits it on the stoop or in the area way, where he finds an empty jar, the contents of which were used the lay before ; this he throws into the waigon and drives on to the next cus tomer a. UL-.e the butcher, the baker and can dlestick maker, the electric man is subjected to all kinds of lectures for his remisbuess in delivery of goods, a remissness which is nearly always imaginary on the part of his patrons. Some Women who buy each day about a one-sixteenth horse-power can fill of the electric filuid with which to work their sewing machines or rock their babies to sleep, frequently complain that yesterday's supily was not as much as that of the day before, forget fng that they sewed longer yesterday, or that their darling was mnore than usually cross and Wakeful, and requir ed more rocking accordingly. Women do not seem to realize that electricity, like everything else, has a limit, and they cannot make four hours' worth of electricity do for eight hours. The smaller batteries are generally purchased 'y those in charge of insti tutions ; ottiers require a battery that is easily transportable. order for sizes that can be carried in the vest pocket are frequentiy recoived, and are often used by vaudeville perform ers on the stage of variety theaters to enhance a spectacular effect. Jrofes sional men also find various uses for then in their ofli.es, and there are six wagons catering exclusively to law yeas, doctors, dentists and the like. Dentists connect these portable bat tories with Simall motors which furnish the motivo power for machines used in cleaning and for drilling holes ill the imolars of thc. patrons. They are also used by dentists foa' generating the small lights used in exiaminine teeth. Sur'geons use small batteries which they car'ry about in their cases of surgical instruments to aid thenm in perform inlg dlelicate saurgical opera tionis. But no class of persons use this de vice morte, or' are mlor'e dependent upon it, than bicyclists. Many a rider has been, saved from a possible night's so journ in a station house when hlis light hasi souddeonly gone out by coming across a bicycle store where batter'ies for' wheels are kept in stock. The:e bilcycle b~attcr'ies are georally charged wvith ecectr'icity so Ilict to gener'ate a bright light for a ll1eriod of twelve hor's, and nearly every bicycle stor'e now keeps a large supply of small bat t(ories in stock. The11 writer recently atccepted an ini vitation of one of the electric venders to go over tile route wvithl him. Thela first stop) was at a promlinent dentist's esta~bli.shtment up town. Takinag a can of okctricity about the size of a pinat lpail from a rack in tile wagon, the draiver entered the olle. Tile pro parietor at once comtmenced1 a vigorous "' kick " h)ocause ho had1( been neglected in thoe pr'evious (lay's supply. TJhe draiver said nothing until he had1 re turned to his seat, when he said: "That man wvouldn't tumble if a house fell on him. If he doesn't settle up protty soon he'll b'3 noglected every day." Tihe next customera happened to he in a prtivato house. A mother'ly look ing old ladly camell to tihe dl~or in anl swer to the driver's r'ing, and said: "What has been the mlaitter withl my 'lectricity these last few days ? It doesn't seem to be upl to the qual ity~ of that you left when I first began to trad1e -with you. Why, I can't do anty sewing oni my mach ine. If it doesn'lt get better soon I shall have Ii' get it of someane lse." WVVhen tihe dr aivear hIad r'esum ted hi s seat, he clhuckled an~d said: "Thlat's the way wvitha all of 'em. Thley grow'~l on p'i neil 1es. Sh ca'Ut1 take it from aaybody else. heeause ther'e isn't, any one elso to take it faom." And so It was all alonag tile route. A t somie places the cloctr'ic Iluiid dl( is penser' was tr'eated courteously, but in the mlajority lhe was accor'ded 'the same treatmaent as that usutally given to thbe milkmnan amnd other' long-sulfer'ing ven dors. The cloctric stor'age battery is now nehed In so many ways thlat is no0 easy task to enumer'ate them, They m~ia tile seinltiIllaitonsl onl t~me floata usedI at tile \Arion lall. Tlhe'y furn'ished thle j.'per that Ilighte'l tile la~mpsh laliced l in thme follage att th'e GoulI wedd ing ait St. 'i'homas chutrch . '.'hey mal~ke tihe p)honograph1 talk, the Chistmnas tree spar'kle and~ tihe -'totmatie piannu )IpLY. They savo cyclist from taking headers, and att a recent parado of the firemen at Troy a batter3 phiced Iin the engino, with wires running aiong tie ropes by which it was pulled, lighted lamps that sparkled in the hats of thea participants. Every sum mor shows an inereaso in the number of pleasuro launches that are propell od by means of electricity, and many carriage makers now place one inl every vehicle which they make. The batteries are rented at. prices low enough to inake them within the reach of nearly all classes. A sensa ti Wits caused a few yOrs ago by the discovery of an arrangement in a1 coachnan's high hat at the Sheepshead Bay race track, by means of which the owner of the turnout, a middle-aged man and a handsome, dashing young womi, were enabled day after day to send news of the races outside the grounds at a time when tie tratc 11milgement was doing all in its power to keep thu result of the race from being made known in the city pool r&'oit.s. It wits this discovery which )Lned the eyes of at Icast one man to the possible uses to which electriety may be put, and nlow hIe is reain zig It harivest of miloney by peddling the r suit, of his idea in the forum of canned clcetrieit-y. SIWEA0t MEdN WILaL CONTitOa. TIhe GoltI Men Will Certainly Holt V (ol StandIard Organ (Gives it li. Thel Philadelphia Times, which is one of the strongest gold standard organs in the East, gives up the light against free silver. It prints a table showing 420 delegates for gold and -190 for silver, and thinks perimps it. gives the gold men too much strength in Georgia, LouisilnaL, Ohio ani V irginia, and believes Kentucky likely to go into tile free silver column. It acknowledges that the silver men will control the Dlmocratic national convention-in fact, proves by its own figures that all the eflorts of the admi nistration and other gold standard in fluenc;.s to prevent this must neces sarily fall. The acknowledgment, The Times makes its created much consterna tion among the aIvocILs of the gold standard, who have all the while pinned the ir faith to tle prophecies of this and other gold papers which have been declaring that gold would surely win at Chicago. But now tile ilevit athle is presented to them ill most Conl vineiig shape, and that, too. by au thlority w h ich Lh 0y CaLnn Zot qiuestioi. The Times clearly sets it forth as the intentioni of the gold democrats to bolt time Convention. There is nio mine ing of Words in this declaration, and it is all the more significant because the paper is Supposed to rellect the senti ments of the administration l)cmo crats of P'ennsylvania and, indeed, of the 1last. The language is plain. After pre Senting its table, The Times points out that the only possible way by whicl the gold )emocrats can hope to con trol will b through concessions made by silver Democrats, in the hope of keeping the gold men in the conven tion. " The certainty of a bolt of tho sound moniey men0,11 in the event of the adop tion of ia free silver platform at Cliica go may influence enough of those who incline to free silver but who would not follow it to the disruption Of tibe party to give the Sound imoney mion1i a majority of the body." " We have made the foregoing list as liberal to the gold standard as the facts seem to w ?r ranit at, Lih is ~imen. I t is doubltful whu Lhor Geergia shlml Ihaitve 8 souiid mioney liiemocrats out of the 28, butt it is possible, anid wve cout that niumiber, and it is very doubtful whlethier one-half of the Iidiana de(le.. gation will he in favor of the gold sti~aad. We rank N entucky'~ itLh t he sound money meni because thm int. 1 )/iiocatie coinvention so delaredil, hout it, i ad mitted that the batiaia in~ t.bat State is not entirely free from dhubt, and the 2ti votes placed in the gold coiielum iiay 1)e tranisforr-ed to thbe other sid~e. We regard it aLs a very liberal estima~te to divide the Lou isi na dollegatioin evenly. There is 1no like l ihood that more than half the deo galtion will b, for soundt~ money, and it is p~ossible that less Luban half Lhe delegation will be for sound)1 money, and it is piossible that less than Lubat, numb~er will be faith ful in 1,he emd. "ThI'lere is a contesting delegationi from NebraskaL thaitt is in favor of sound~ money, but it is the creation of aL bolt ng con veintion, and there is little likIe hiood~ that, it, can be recogn ize.d. ( h lit is quite uncertain on the iioniey isue and tho cibances are moie than e ven thaitt two-Luhirds Of thet dlele-gatioin fronm that Stato wvill lbe for free silver. Thie Vi rgini2a (delegationi will not, have nore thain 41 votes for sound0( monley, w it~h 2n against it, and \Vest Virmginiha may have more than Ii of the J 2 v'ot(1s east, on the side of fr-ee silver. There is ai shado1( of dloubt as to Wisconsin, but, the chances are mu ich in favor (of aL sohd( delegation agai n-t time free silver. craze." -A richi disco0very of gold anid silver wats made a few days ago at Soimer vi lie. just across tihe river- from Ilios finn. Wo mrk zmi.n engaged in 1)1astLinzg for stoneo uearthed the veini, froii whliebl saimpe w1(5~ ere at onice tak en to Lii (aissayVist. A ftcer aL thmorouighi ~ x at mina tior they (3werie pironou need the riest, which lie hmad seen this side oif Ciolor-ado. Ini spea3k ing oif this diiscov Lry wlhicht may turn (out, t o lie aL imst, valuabl ie ore, aL lio-tLon pape11r say-s: "'Ti'i, is inot thle first timte thait golid hats been0 found in Sometrvi lie. Some years a13o thiie g ralt, Tuizft farmi, whIieb I included a larege par~tt of what, is now West -oume rv illc, w as operated by IL muan namtedi I-imersoni. 'The story is totld by Liihe (ier r-esidents (of Somie yeairs in migging am iong Lt lt'ilges 01n the far-m foir thet preriouis imetial. liuit althoiughi het ofti-ti foundf tace oif grold i., 'ery near ti lukt -rm. ht i ., t the V Ci Irahno~t i :-.e'.I I liii t .' re't. (If land on which thet: find has been THE IU4UNION AT IIICIIMOND. Genler'al Gordon Anious118 Jbl- a Iarg Atttlalnte-0 of' Veterats-The Worl to be Donke. [ldtirs United Confederitto Votorans, Now Orleans, lit., May 1, 18918 General Orders No. 1(14. 1. Thie general Coimanding an noulevs that tle Fixth annual ileetini aItid r'enolion Of the nited ConfedoItto Veterans will bu. hold ats stated il ll Gen ora Orders No. 151, current series from these h) eadturti ii'ors, inl tle City o Richiiond, Vi., on Tuosday, Wednes day and Thursday, .J mo :30 and Jlly I and 2, 18t9i. All Confederateo organiza. tiois atid Conl federato sold iers itid sail. ors of .all arins, giades and dopart' tuents, ire cordially invited to titond this sixth generavtl reCuniion of thoir coi-tuaes. 2. With pride and pleatsuro ho also ani nou neUs thtu, eight hu andrn'ed and lif eon ttCamps aI' alr'eaudy enrolled inl the U. C. V. organ izationi, with applica ions inl for over one hiuntid red Imtor.e Ikx-Contfedertto Soldiers and sailors everywhere atro irtged to formiit theii selves into local associations, wlere this lits not alitready beetn donie, and ILlI issocitionis, bivouaes, encam enti pittit' and other bodies not mnmbers of the U. C. V. Association are ear'nestly re q iested to sen(d itn app lientionls to ,liese lieadquitters without delay, in time to participatte in this great re'u'nion aid thus un ito with the it' C011mades it carrtying out tle laitudithlo an1d philu thropic objects of the U niited Colfeder it,o Votetran organ izatiotn. 3. Business of the greatest itmpor ttine1 will detiatild eltofil Cols idera' tdion during tho sixt'h nlultl conventior -such ats the best methods of scLuriitg impartial history and to enlist eetl Stite inl tho cottpilatioti and preservat tion of the history of ho' Citizen sol, diery: the benevolent C'are througl Stato aid or other'wiso of disabled. destitito ort' aged veter'anits aid tilt widows and orphlias of our faller1 brothetrs-i It-ar'm ; the Care of the graves of our known and utnk(nown deaid bimried ait, Gettysburg, W'ort a 1)1n, Ctmtlps MAlrtonl, Chaise, L)oughis, klan tLtid Ce0mn't.et'y It CliC ago, 1h1111 son's Island, Caitlr, atnd a t AIll Otlert points to s e that they ar'e dlnllyl.v deorit.ed, tie he L1aL st (les prese'ved an(d protucted, and con 1plete lists Of tLile namitieS of (11ou d(etl itrOL'S, With tti (ILtoc tion Of t t last, re!itin t , ' fir'iislied to their frieids and : Itivk's through the mediutm of ourt catmtps, thus r scuing.( thei' niun111S ft'omtt Olilv iln and hanudingl thiIl diown to history: to pa'Lticipate in lvying the Corner stolne of the 'Je'flerson i)tvis ilonimttiit at Hichimid, VaI.: the con sideritationl of tihe difforent Imioveentels, plants aud nineans to complete the mtionuinii'it ti the mtimo'y Of JCt' rsotn I llvis, I'es dclt, of the (onl fede.ate Stutes of A mer ican, anid to akid inl buildinig mlonunulvl'-n to Otlit' gr'eait IUlees, soldie's nd Sailors of the Soutb, and as tlere is no relief or atid for our3 vetenlis nild theil families, otside of otrstelves and ot OWi resouIriceS, to eet aL plan for I mutul aiid aid beievolent, atssociatiol to matike sitl chtaiges in the consLiLi tion ahd by-laws as experiue)e ma; s uggest, Lld 0t.h1er' matlitter3s Of gqienera inturest.. -1. 'aeh 1am W nvadm1i tted itLo ti United Coti fderate Veltant organiizt titon 1(i( those Idlmitti d before t' til reunion are it'gel to It oice elect nei Credit ed delegaites ail ltr1 niates ti littuendtili the riol, as only accreditei delegates will part'icipate inl Lil bisi ness prit't of the rentin ion. The repre sen-tation Of delegatesW.- at f-he reuniorO Will be IS fiXdei int Setiotn I, ArtiCICle of the constitLitioni, le dlegte fot every twenty nIetive members in good stan1ding, an(d oile iiditiohml one for a frt'ionl (If ten mnier CIs, pro"' vidted e:very campI itn good~i siand ingt shtall 110 eit Litled tel at h'aist, Lwot dl ll guttes. llach~ cam30p e'nn electI iheam numbe ofi~i(f al ternaits',is deClegatels, whIo will serIve inI case( of anty fail urto. (1n the paritt oIf the delegaites toi at tuntd. .,. Attenition (of campi is is cailledl L< S etion 5, Artie 5, (if the conItst~ittioni '"Camiip5 wVill 3n11, he alilowell trepre'sen tai~tin untiless the ir pet'r l caitLa shIial have beent palid toi the adljutanL~t get i'r'al (It 03' befor'e the 1st (liy oIf Api neOxt prei'ced Ing the annullal me Ietingi. ti. A pr iogrammilie LII lbe obst rvedea the r'eitniion andii ill ILthe details will b fitn'n ished toI t (.camp1Is andi to amlI v'e1 er'ans by te comi t tee oIf arrtange mnonts ini dute timte, and any ftt'rtbe I ng Lto Gen. I 'e'yton Wt'ise, ehiitimn U (C. V. I l inion Comiti too e, I ichmiiondi Vai. '7. Th'le genter'al commandiiin Itg r'esptct, fully reques5L5t~sle pre'ss5, botih dail~y at wteekly, of thi w vhole uni0try to ai< te patiotie artni ben'ievlen~t obljetst oif the I i nitl'(d Con federnatLe V'oeram biy I ubliietionl of thtese orersII' wit~l ediLtrial ntice~s ofI Lbe (orgait /.ionI. fully r'eequesi.s atil Lrets' titat, r'ailr'oai olli'iails wvil aIilso aidl the 11h4 veter'ami bly giving~ sutch reducedI'I rates (If trants portI'LaLIion as w':ill enablie thtemt to at tend.l 'I. ( Jhliceres etf Lt generat'il staffI ar<~ dIir'etedl to assist, dlepatmten t, div isior commandertllcts and1( l~herls LI or'gan iz their' respeat3i v e States, andio gentera'tlh LII assist, in thbe comp jleto federation u al I(l Coneera'te il suvivor's ini on4 iorganlt l IatIion undiller the coniti tut ion oft Lb< Uni ted li odt'raite V e trats. lI y rderi ot (f J.1 1 . G or'don, Goeera Commtanidinig. Ga-o. \loonIAtN, Adjutant GJenet'al antd Ci ef of Staff Chiarleston. S. C., NI ay 2:,. Iw'in. I(esplectfully itntd earinesly r-iet re< Lio thie campttis J this I1)tvisiont. 'Thl pre'iss (If tihe Stat i urgel toLI aid Lih< e ause. lI y ot'der of (2. irvine \VaLIker', \laljo Geerial C2onuniandling. C()lleial : J .~iiA S G. LIe I,:t lEs, Adjuitant Gene'al, Clh ief of Stafl. Th-le seaL is inufinitely ILore1 prtodtie Live than the landu. It is estimte<ti thtat ani acrt'e oif goode fishiing will yieb. mor.te food iniit a wAee k Ltan lit acrte C: thle best lande will yield itt a year'. buit ai high waymani i(t enn 0hohl ut ai 80 antd clleLt ever'ything~ a tmant hasv 'et This- goes to show that, a manI~ wil d giv more to save his body thant to saeve I 5(13t ALL SOltTS ?OF P'AIAGIAPH8. Culled 11-om Various Sources and Re Iating to Numerous Suldects. -Tho not debt of New York on May I was $110,587,000. It is gradually increasing. ---T isyear the Prince of Wales will have been Grand Nlaster of the Eng I ish r'eu Masons for 21 years. -- Partners, diversify your crops and you will be pleased. with the result'. .'ho one crop ago has evidontly "seen its best days." -I t takes a boy seven or oie'ht years to Ilarn the t, ultiplication. table, but he can learn to ridoe a bicycle in an hor'1 and at half. -.n lEnagland the "rules of thle road'' reqiure foot passengei's to keep to tihe right, and htorsemnent and vehi(les to keep to the left. -Noi matorial except that produIed inl the Stato is allowed to ontor into the construction of the now Stato cupitol at Olympia, \Vash. --- IrL. .Jatne ubertson, who h1as just died at St. lyacinuthe, Quebee, at the age of yea's. was at Coubin of Long fellow anil of Noah Webster. --hvenezer Nelson, the senior cdli torial writer of the IHo'ston Transeript, who hats .just died. wais connected with that papur filr f(orty- fol r years. --Nliss "taneti-s Jones, of Philadel phia, t-is been chosen one of tie Presl iential lectors-at-large. and delegates to the National Irolhibition (Conven ,ioni. Sfessoi," said at gradtaaite, try ing to he pathetic at parting, I amtt ill debted to you for all I I katow;' "1>aty do not mlaentioni suehI a trille,'" was thte reply. ----801io onle hats said tih nt the man Who Iats anl itelhing for Success titlist constanitly keep scratchling. Laziness is the only sure inoeulation agailnst tle disease. . -It is said that at man ltwho won't buy at paper hecaise le enti hrro-w One iats inaventAi a m1acthine-' by which he ("III cook his dinner' by tihu sitmoke of his neigltbor's chimitey. FIth extent, of the hicyclo ertazo inl al' tand mttay he estiiated froi the fact tbat It omany organized to in1tlanucturlo pneutiei tir-us is capi t~abzod att!.01)0 Te 'o imstmistress of Gibr'altar Is INISis NILargttei't, Cresswell, who re 'ti'v- to' aiandsote totlat'y of $3,500 at ymir. Sh, i; aso Superintendent of the v )ait, y I liees On tihe North A r en c;tI oat,L. .ThI West.mtinister' Gazette says thtat t2,3.1; of SIri'geol's xeimonts hItve 1been i'inat' teal and sold, antd that the Sili total of the sales reaches ntearly 10.000,001, anl average of about 3,000 vopies per Sermon. -it, is probably trie that the life of I're-ident Gart'lie woltid haIve been saved if the IoeontIogen rays Ihad beena knowit itll. No ditle'ult3y now 's - - foitdil inl lio'atti ng at a uIIet di'stinetly inl the deepet, recesses of t-ho body. -Sna'ttor 13lack htrn, of tintueky, says : " 'I'Ther'e will he two colnvent ions, tLwo ttmiialitionts antd two platforins at C tiengo, aund Grovev Clevelatnd will bo at lib lead of one of tle tickets." He adks that it will be impossiblo .to elect, himl. -A gartleuner' elatimlts that whent live acres aive been ' brought, up to the Iigh est, state of cultivation, w len tile full ex tint of its usefullosia is reached, 1tu10r4 tmontey ean he maatade fromt it than froii two li1i1)(i10'1i Ih tcr'es int ceeals its I r [ Hi' OIlten, who looted the 'T'reasuriy of i'LIhe city of Oaa t Nob., til $I105,00i~, htas bieen senteinced to tanteiencaa yetarls in t~be Stale pentIitnti - ary', atnd ini addition tlt pay it line of $2I1i.t00 : aidouble thea amontai lie was conia eti oaf cembezzl.Iinig. - iA new wvatrehuse int l'aris basheetn cost 15is 'it cn ierably overi thaat of the atrdliniaiiy tlloar, but In view or the fatt tl aatt Ltghli.-nedt g hiss is so muicihlongeir hv 'ed thani w~od, Lbh experim'l'llaent, is Ili kely LIo proIve echeapler int te lonig arun. C(a pt. .huniaes D). .1 ohntamti, whlo dlied t, in Satvannahl tate O)t'er daty In hais 7th a~ yeari, wats the tank Iing ollcer of thte t surv ivol's of Ithe CJoinfeder'ate Natvy andl Sthe seior)1 suitvorVi ouf t ho UnatIted r' -itates Navy of the ~i ime lhe for'e the w atr. - ilo entIe red the~ ntavy 'ts a maaidsh ipana .in 18.'12. -Dr~g. I. '. (ihntan, whoJI hats been faor Lwenty yetars t~thn pr'esi d eat of ,John ts IIlaopkiats Unaiverisity in lIatlLtimore, is I kely Ii to becomel thbe siuperiintentdent o)f Nw Y'orVa'k's syst-emt tof publ ~Iic Iitstrute Liitn. 'Thae iulfer' has not beon maade ats yat., atlthauaglhDr. Gilmnan's tnamie has been'a favabtly d iscust-sed. 'To posi - ien is a mtiost, impor)titatnt otto in vIew of lth aretacen miG easur pr)iov id intg fotr the cinl idattionl oif New York, lirook ynt anald lon- islatnd City. -'Ex-Go;vet'nor'. ,amtes 1'0. Campbell)01 , of (Ohioii, is qtiuoated ini a liewspaper' ini -terlv ieiw atssaying tatt lhe woul d accept - 'iresillencaiy aLt ihicaigo tio matter'i what thae phai tformt mtig h t be. 11le lirst satid h le wias ini faivoi' of hi imetall.iand be Sie.veil int t he use of htotlh goldo tad silver, Providled a pro-per' intterntationial atgree Ithe white mtattl. iiis idoa wat' that a silvet' ave wais .sprieadllinmg over the o u n try~, beaintg Is peiially mauIlfest in .his ownvt countity in Ohio, atnd ha wants ili aid'': itit Ita Whaite louse. -- A mtt. iy I -t namt ofii 1)0. H. Ken Intedy', whot livedl in l'hiilatdelphia, died a fo'uw datys aigo, leatvinag atn estato y h ich wats valuted att $100,000. Acorid ing to Lthe ter'ans oIf the will the prop Iirt y is to be btehl ini trust for the benellt oaf the womtan's br'anch of the Pennsyl vaa .oaaiety for' the Provention of Cratehlty Lii Atnias. 'The trustee Is to paly t.o thec socioiy the (intiro income froina th~ is larige sumn, unless the society shatl I d isbatnd, orP eentse to) do the woark whIiich it is no(w diniig, to protect anl ials fromt eruolty. Ina tho latter event thte taet iatnual Iitcomto of the trust testaite is to be puad atnually to the committissioner's of Fatirmiount pa'rk, for aa Lth liltrcihatse antiutai y of oneO paiinting, s whai'h shtall be placed in the art gal n ler'v of liatirmona~tlt, parik. MI r. K('nnedy, b, h die'd at l lahnrannaia hospital on - e -\ aty I Lth, had long- been a devoted s fr'iend to thte society whtich he made hais baneiathy.