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Flowers In the Philippines. Nearly every traveler in the Philip. pines finds much interest in the pro4 digious growth of flowers. There are 'over thirty varieties of orchids in the 'forests, and dozens of lilies of mam moth proportions that are never seen outside of the tropics. The Malapo lily is the largest. Its leaves are often six feet long and two feet wide, while its stems are three inches in diameter. It is in bloom five months in the year, 'and its blossoms are as large as a peck measure. Carnationsgrowin phenom enal variety all over the rural dis tricts and frequently cover an acre or more, while geraniums, whose luxu. riance excites exclamations of surprise from nearly every beholder for the rst time, grow like trees and great clumps of bushes. Geraniums that have grown up the trunk and along the limbs of immense forest tr ees are 4o be seen frequently. The lazy, in 'different natives seldom touch them, 'and they grow on and on for years. Along the rural roads there are every where wild poppies of the most deli cate yellow flowers and large etems. From the trees in the forest there are hundreds of vines and parasites of the most brilliant blossoms, and in the spring season, the air all over the sev. 'ral islands is for a time fairly heavy with floralfragrance. Both the Tagalt I and the Bocals have no taste forthe superb flora of the Philippines, and one seldom sees any kind of a flower or vine cultivated at the home of a native. The tropical luxuriance some' times causes a beautiful wild gerani um or a species of chrysanthemum te I spring up at the side of a bamboo home, and, because the natives are too lazy to do what is not absolutely neoessary to comfort or life, it will not be torn up or molested.-New York Times. Rental Ellects of Intense Cold. . A German physician who accom panied a detachment of soldiers in the disastrous retreat trom Moscow haE left an interesting paper containing his observations on the mental effects of the intense cold upon the soldiers. The first notable effect is a loss of memory, the next a paralysis of the will. soldiers forgot the names of the most common things about them -could not even remember the names of the articles of food for the lack of which they were perishing. It is true that they were enfeebled and hall 3 starved; but it probably took a less ( degree of cold to produce the above- I named effects in them than in men ' more vigorous. But the paper shows what occurs in a lesser degree in the robust, in the psychic point of view, when subjected to long and intense low temperature.-New York Inde. pendent. DEATH OF MRS. TALMAGE. Wife of the Celebrated Divine Died on Monday Morning. At Dansville, N. Y.. the wife of Dr. T. Dewitt Talmage, the celebrated minister of Brooklyn, died at 5:30 Monday morning. She had been ill some time. Her husband and ] son were at her bedside. Her death was the result of nervous prer j tration, brought on by the burning of Go Brooklyn Tabernacle. Supreme Court Decisions. .Since Chas. 0. ynr began the manufac tuzre of Tyner's ypepsa Renredy, many paole have nin edas to its efficacy. Chief Justice Beckley.o Georgia. has tredifo his decision :< 'AlntGa., March 14, 1894.-Chas. 0. Tyner, AtatGa.: I have used, and am now -sin, Tyer's Dyspesia RemedY. It is amenta as welaahyical elixir. With its aid and a pair of spectacles I can frequent ly see the law in spite of unsuitable or two much diet. Logan E. Bleckley." This is a splendid decision and people are profiting by it. Nodice. Iwant every man and woman in the United States interested in the Opium and Whisky habits to have one of my books on these dis esses. Address B. M. 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The nerves may be restored by Hood's Sarsaparilla, which feeds them upon pure blood, and this medicine will also create an appetite and tone up the system, and thus give sweet refreshing sleep andivigorous health. Hood's Sarsaparilla ~I the only true blood purifier prominently . hublieye today. $; six for $5. H di ""* ct harm'nidtis ivatb. 00__ P ills HoaS.r-ris. . The Grseatest 1'edical Discovery of the Age. KENNEDY'S Medical Discovery. DONALD K(ENNEDY, OF ROXBURY, MASS., Has discovered In one of our common pasture weeds a remedy that cures ev-ery kind of Humor, from the worst Scrofula down to a common pimple. He has tried it in over eleven hundred cases, and never failed except in two eases (both thunder humor). He has now in his possession over two hundred certili cates of its value, all within twenty miles of Boston. Send postal card for bok. A beneflt is always experienced from the first bottle, and a perfect c are is warranted when the right quantity is taken. When the lungs are affected it causes shooting pains, like needles passing through then ; the same with the Liver or Bowels. This is cause i by the ducts being stopped, and always disa- pears in a week after taking it. ltrad the labeL. It the stomach is foul or biiious it will cause squeanish feelings at first. No change of diet ever necessary. L:st the best you can get, and enough of it. Dose, one tablespoonful in water at bed time. Sold by all Druggists. - e- C- -W k4tURES WHtRE ALL ELSE FAtS- - Best Cough Syrup -Tastes ood Use I Lntre odbydugss 3NAKE CHARMERS TRICKS. EOW SNAKES ARR SUBJECTED TO THE WILL OF MAN. Ln Expert Tells All About the Hab its of Boa Constrictors, Cobras and Rattlesnakes. NE of the least tamable of all snakes is the cobra de ca pello, and, singularly enough, it is this very trait which nakes it so valuable to the Hindoo .nd Arab charmers, and which has, in sct, formed the entire foundation on rhich tha "charming" imposture is >ased. It need hardly be pointed out n these days of popular science that he cobra possesses the most rudimen ary organs of hearing, and cannot be nlauenced by the strains of the dusky nusician's pipe, while the intelligence >f the whole of the ophidia is so low hat no kin d of training or education S possible, says a writer in Cham ers's Journal. The very utmost that an be accomplished is to instill into em a sort of dull comprehension hat they need not bring into action heir weapona of defense every time heir hereditary enemy comes within he range of their extremely limited rision-this, and perhaps with some f them a doubtful recognition of per ;ons. But the cobra is ready to sit up .nd show fight to the bitter end at the irst hint of a disturbance. It is the >eculiarity of its belligerent attitude, pright. with a third of its length of )ody raised from the ground, attended >y the spreading out of its anterior ibs to form with the dilatable skin of he neck the fin-like expansion known s the hood, which gives it the appear .nce of acting in obedience to the ges ures and sorry strains of the per :ormer, who artfully adapts both to he natural and ispontaneous move nents of the reptile. One could ha::dly design a creature rhich would better answer the pur ose of the pretended snake charmer han does the cobra, whether we re ard the India or the Egyption spe ies. Venomous as it is-and there is )robably none more virulent, unless t be the Southern rattlesnake-it is he most easily manipulated and 'played" of all the serpents. What ver may have been the original valno the hood in the cobra's economy, rhether to inspire its foes with ter -or, or to serve any other end, there ,an be no dorcbt that it has long )assed the ::enith of its utility, d, like so many structures which we ind in the animal world, developed to aggeration in the blind fury of evo ution, has become a hindrance rather an a help to its possessor in the peat struggle. The reach of the obra's delivery, the limitation of the listance within which its blow must Iall, can be exactly calculated almost ustinctively by those who become ac ustomed to them, since its striking ~onsists of the swaying down of so iuch of its body as is upreared, and o more. The reader may obtain an Sficient illustration of this by laying is upper arm upon a table, with the orcarm and hand (representing the iead) raised from the flexed elbow. Very different is this from the spring ike mechanism of the process by ~rhich the majority of serpents dart on heir prey or adversary-'"fire a shot," s the Trinidad creoles say -the head emaining quiescent until the neck ud body behind -are drawn up into s-shaped folds, to be suddenly ~traightened with the speed of light. iing as the jawa are flashed forward. nd when the cobra's head has fallen or its bite, t'e weight of itslungs-ex anded umbrella prevents it from ris .ng again as quickly as it would other ise do, and admits of its being read ly seized and secured. Its near relathe, the hamadryad, he great snake-eating snake, which is :he largest of all poisonous species, d which also displays a hood, soon ecomes apathetic, and refuses to andr to the humbug of charming ; 'or this reason it is held of small ac ount by the jugglers of India and Burma, in whose baskets it is occa mionally seen, and to whom it is known is the big or king cobra, since it re iires a lot of shaking up before it will stand on the defensive, although .ts monetary value as a zool.rical ipecimen is' twenty times as much as that of the smaller species. Tho agh Lazy, it is said to be distinctively ag ressive in its wild state, and is per. ips the most intelligent of the ser ent order. How, then, is snake-taming effected ? Well, there is no great secret or mys bery about it. In the first place, the nakes become used to the presence ol humanity by being placed in such a mitnation that people p'ass and repass within their sight as constantly as ossible. And here it must not be rorgotten that no serpent can see any. hing distinctly at a distance equal to :wice its own length. The inmantes of :he reptile house at the London Zoolo ieal Gardens become noticeably -hyer after a day or two of dense fog ep~naw. during which the visi ors are few and -far between. And, ~econdly.. they must be handled at all imes and seasons, except immediately ifter a real, handled freely and fear Lessly, but with due regard to their efore mentioned morbid sensibility olf eck and tail. After all, the vast majority are not aarly SO anxious to 'use their t.eeth s is commonly supposed. Keepers in nenageries usually lift the new speci .ens from the boxes in which they urrive in order to transfer thenm to the cages, and are rarely bitten; and n forests and jungles all over the world I have always seized upon every Lhing I camne across with my bare luand, securing on one occasion a six Leen-foot anaconda in this way; and hough I have had some nasty nips, such accidents have not happened to in in one case out of a thousand where there was the possibility of their oe aurrenc. Gloves and tongs are worse han useless, and beget a nervousness n both sides. When a snake-keeper >ce begins to think about being bit en, it is all over with him, -and he had etter keep away from his charges un i his nerve comes back to him. I uave had more misadventures within a ew weeks after a bad bout of jungle ever than in all the rest of my life put ogethr, and I have lived in daily omipa:ionship with these reptiles al nst as long as 1 can remember. A Ilrge cobra da capello was sent ioie several years ago to Sir Joseph for analysis. It bit the spoon peatedly without yielding any, and on examination was found to have none to yield, not only its fangs but the poison glands having been extirpated. A protective operation still more cruel is sometimes practiced by novices in the art of charming, and consists in securing the mouth with a stitch of silk passed through the lips in front; to perform this, the poor beast's head is held tightly pressed to the ground by a short stick on which the foot rests, while the other foot restrains the writhing body, leaving both hands at liberty for the needle. Eleven ap parently healthy cobras were on one occasion received at the London Zoo-. logical Gardens. They refused to feed, and grew thin. When one died it was discovered that its mouth was sewn up with stitches so fine as to be invisible to any but the closest scru tiny. The rest of them did well on being restored to their normal con dition. In connection with this subject, I may mention that a rattlesnake was sent to me from up country when I was in Demerara, with the history that it had killed a coolie on one of the plantations. It had been badly injured abcut the spine, probably in capture, so that on reaching me it wra not only dead, but decomposed, and 1 was not able to make any complete dissection; but I found that its lips were tied together with stitches-ob viously the effort of an unpracticed hand, since the work was very coarse. This had apparently been preceded by an unsuccessful attempt to extract the long, crectile, needle-like fangs, for one of these was twisted half round with itIs bony base and had penetrated the lower lip when the jaws were forcibly closed. It is hardly possible that the duct was not occluded, but enough venom must have remained within the tube of the tiny, delicat3 syringe to indict a fatal scratch. The only itmplement I ever employ is a very soft brush, and that I use but seldom, and with one species only, the lance-headed tree-boa of tropical America, probably the most persist ently savage serpent in the world, as ready to fly at the most familiar face or hand after years of association as it was at its original captor. It grows to about seven or eight feet, and is of slender habit, though a powerful con strictor, but its teeth are longer in proportion than those of any other non-venomous snake, while its enor mous flat head and absurdly thin neck give it as malign and ill-favored an as pect as pertains to any rof the race. Four large specimens and five babies -born on the voyage, little fiends, all -have just reached me from the West Indies. With the small ones, an old shaving brush receives the bite as well s anything; for larger ones, a picture brush or feather broom clipped some what short is more suitable, for one's object is not to hurt the snake in any way, but to disappoint him, and teach him the vanity of earthly passions when he dashes furiously into the yielding plumes and finds nothing there. A course of lessons of this sort sometimes serves to impress upon them the futility of assault and bat tery, and reduces the probability of their future effortR in that line to snap when they are touched or suddenly disturbed. Most animals can be turned by a brush ; in zoological collections the attendants who clean the cages find that crocodiles, big birds, cats and other unpleasantly demonstrative creatures can be kept at bay with such a weapon, where sticks, whips or crowbars would be useless, just as large beasts are cowed most effectually by that real yet mysteriously intangi ble and unfightable foe, a jet of water from the garden engine. -Chambers's Hlom~ng Vigeons in the Navy. When the Naval Rleserves of Cali fornia wcnt on their annual cruise the other day on the United States cruiser Olympia a number of homing pigeons were taken along. These birds were iberated at frequent intervals and arought detailed reports ashore oi what was going on aboard ship. The birds for this purpose were furnishel b a San Francisco farncier, but the G3overnment has birds enough of its >wn for the purpose and would have furnished some of them for the Olym pia if that cruiser's officers had asked for them. The San Francisco experiments demonstrated anew the value of having homing pigeons for carrying messages from sea to land. The United States rmy and navy officers already under stand how important this feature will be in time of war, and are trying hard to induce the Government to establish a regular pigeon messenger service and to make a suitable appropriation for it. Lofts are maintained at Federal forts in Massachusetts, Rhode Islan1l and Connecticut. At Annapolis is the best equipped station in the country. It is connected with the Naval Acade my, and is in charge of Professor H. Maon. Pigeons from this loft are frequently sent to sea on cruisers and prove useful. Once a seaman was killed on board the Constellation when the vessel was about twelve miles out at sea. T wo birds were liberated bearing messages which told of the accident~ and statel that the body would be sent ashore in a steam launch. Later on the weather became unfavorable and two more birds were sent out with messages ask ing that the Standish be sent for trie ~od. The birds were liberated at G o'clock, anid at noon of the same riay the Standish was alongside the Coa stelation ani ha~l br-ought the foar birds back. * ew York Press. The Bicych Lamp. "There is a fortune awaiting tho man who can invent a really good bi cycle lamp," said the instruector. "The best one maae is the searchlight, which cannot be bought for less than $5 ; it is the only one in which hero sene can be burned, sperm oil being used in the others. The great adlvant age of the searchlight is that it is less liable to go out in running across car1 tracks, ruts or rough places, but a' sudden jerk eften extinguishes the light in this, as well as in the cheaper and less ingenious lamps. The truth of the business is it cyclists could buy a well perfected lamp there would b~e none of these arrests of persons for riding without lamps. Lamps cost all the way from $1.50 up to $7, and will hold enough oil to burn about iouz LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF. 1LEANINGS FROM MANY POINTS. [mportant Happenings, Both Home and Foreign, Briefly Told. Newsy Southern Notes. Julius A. Taylor. United States District At orney for the wesiern district of Tennessee, lied Friday. At Memphis, Tenn., President Thomas ppointed MayorE. C. Lewis director general >f the centennial. At Nashville, Tenn., Governor Turney par loned Rosey, alias W. B. Neal, of Rutherford ounty, sentenced to fifteen years for mur er. At Tallehassee, Fla., coroner's jury ontinued its investigatio:. of the killing of; he Adams brothers and returned a verdict >f murder against Stafford. At a meeting of the directors of the Enter prise Cotton Mill Augusta, Ga., a dividend >f 8 per cent was declared, payable July, 1896. This is out of the surplus earnings of he mill and distinot. from the regular lividend. The Mississippi Populist convention on Wednesday nominated Frank Burkitt for Governor, Dr. S. W. Robinson for Lieutenant overnor, and a full ticket. Barkitt read a peech in which he predicted that the Pop lists would carry the State. The Maryland Steel Company. Baltimore, as decided to increase the wages of 700 em ployees ten per cent. to take immediate ef [ect. President Wood says: "The great business revival warrants the employment of i larger number of men at higher wages." Maryland's Prohibitionists closed a two lays' convention at the Glyndon Camp Meet ng Grove. Four hundred and six enthusias :ie opponents of the liquor traffic, represent ng all of the counties of the State, took part n the deliberations of the body. The con ention nominated for Governor, Joshua Levering, of Baltimore. Mr. Juhn E. Hurst was nominated for Gov rnor by the Democratic State convention of aryland, on Wednesday. on the first ballot. he ticket was completed by the nomination f Marion DeKalb Smith, of Kent county, to, ucceed himself as Comptroller of the Treas-. ry. and of State Senator Charles C. Creth-. :rs. of Creit county, for Attorney General. R earn's tobacco warehouse, Durham, N. C. tokes's hall, the I elegraph office, telephone xhange, offices of the Durham Fertilizer ,ompany and the store of the Durham Sup >ly Company, and the upper parts of the tories of Rl. D. Blacknall's Marks's and El is's stores were burned on Thursday. Loss ,stimated at $100.000. Role:t C. Scott, ex-city treasurer, of Jack onville, Fla.. was arrested Wednesday on a harge of embezzling $10,707 of the city's unds during his term of office which ex ired June 21. The alleged shortage was iscovered by experts employed by the city ouncil. The charge of embezzlement wi gain be made at the regular term of the riminal court on August 27. Scott is free intil then on a writ of habeas corpus. Labor. At Topeka, Ras., the Santa Fe Railroad has mut its entire force in the shops on full time if ten hours per day. There are between 1,200 and 1.300 men at work, and up to the present only about 800 men were working ull time. Notice was posted at the York, Pa., Rolling lill announcing that on and after August 12th the price of puddling would be $3 per on. instead of $2.75 as at present, with pro >ortionate advance in other mill work. This vill be the second advance within a short' time, making the increase from $2.50 a tonl to the present rate. Crime. The two horse thieves, Colfran and George, ivho escaped from officers at Salt Lake, Utah, n Friday, were detected at Wahsatch, near Evanston. Wyo., next morning. On being ~ommanded to surrender they fired, instant Ly killing Deputy Sheriff Dawers. of Evans :on, and Constable Stagg, of Wahsatch. An irmed posse is in pursuit. Disasters, Accidents, Fatalities. A terrible cloud-hurst occurred on Garden reek, Wyoming, Wednesday night, sweep ag away houses and involving loss of life. A ire that started in the lumber yards in he northern part of Menominee, Mich. :aused a loss of about $500,000. It burned ver thirty acres of ground. 31iscellaneous. Two $1,000 notes were found in an uppet try of the old health office in Washington. The Populist of Ohio in convention at Col-' mbus have nominated General Coxey for lovernor. The Fresno, Cal., Court House, which cost' :he county $180,000.-was damaged by fire toi he extent of $90,000. The building was tully asured. The law passed by the last Massachusetts Legislature providing for the examination of persons having anything to do with the run iag of boilers and engines is now in effect. ['he penalty for violation is very severe. The bank of Salisbury, Mo., the oldest bank. :ngsystem there, has been ordered closed. An ~aminatiofl showed that th'e hn"'1.' Peein bad condition, but it is thought lepostors will be paid dolla- for dcllar. George W. Wolfe'. the bi'ccist who left hi.ago at :10 p. mn. Monday. Jualy 22d, ar ivl at t be city hall in New 1ork Sunday int at 7:15 o'cleck. having made the trip n ikwheel in six dayse. three hocurs and lv' miut"o. The' previon3s bmet record was :hts ro!:n by 45 minutes. BOATING TRAGEDIES. 'atal Ending of a Sunday Pleasure Sail in Jamaica Bay. The sloop yacht Ellat S. of the Excelsior oat Club, started out Sunday evening for a ail in Jamaica Bay, N. Y., with a party of ie on beard. They were John Strand, Sr., s sons, John, Jr., George and Andrew, tad Arthur Hemmingway. Shortly before o'clock, when off the foot of Ninety-third 5treet. a squall, which prc eded a heavy shower, struck the little craft, capsizing it. n amoment, all the c.oen pants or the boai vere floundering in the water, but the elder trand and his sons Andrew and George nnaged to cling to the overturned sloopy John Strand and Hemmingway, however4 Irifted away with the strong current and ivere drowned. The steam launch Edwin Al Powers rescued~the thrce men who clung td he sloop. TWO BnoTHE~s DRowKED. A special from Booth Bay Harbor, Me., ays: F. R. Robinson, aged thirty, nnd 1R. S~ Robinson. aged twenty-four, brothers, were irowned Saturday afternoon. They were ummering at Ocean Point and came here in ismall sail boat. Not returning home, an nvestigation was made, and Frank's body ivas found in the harbor. The body of Rich ard has not yet been recovered. Itis thought he boat was capsized during a squall. ovERTUnNED IN A SQUALL. E. F. Butler and Timothy Sweeney, while ailing on the Niagara river Sunday after loon, were overtaken by a squall and the >at was capsized. Both were drowned and heir bodies went over the falls. ANOTu RE DErLoRABLE AFFAIn. John Hartman. Jos. Whitkey and Alexan ir Whitkev, the infant son of the latter, ivere drowded near Little Hellena, N. Y., by he capsizing of his yacht Sunday evening. sIs. Hartman and her seven-year-old son, Who were also in the boat, were saved, Blackburn Snowed Under by 408 Votes. The Democratic primary held at Win hester. Ky.. nominated J. B. McCrary for iited States Senator by 498 majority over ooe Blackburn. J. D. Willis for Representa ie has a majority of 42 over H. L. Stevens ad 68 over J. T. Eeton. J. A. Snowden, the ivver candidate, received 28'7 votes. The otal senatorial vote was 1,881. Mrs. Higgins, of NewYork City, gave birth to triplets, two boys and a girl. They weighed five, six and seven oounds and are doing well. She is thirty-eight years old andA her hunband twenty-one. BIG INSURANIE FRAUDS. A Sensational Trial of Prominent Peo ple at Morehead City. A special from Morehead City says: The third day of the sensational trial for conspiracy in life insurance was devoted to proving the physical and financial condition of Charles Arthur, one of the alleged victims. If the evidence of the prosecution is not re butted Arthur is proved to have been a pauper and almost a living skeleton. Fraud is proved by the evidence as it stands, but as yet there is no proof oig conspiracy. W. L. Arendell was put on the stand Wednesday morning. He testified that Charles Arthur was a walking skeleton and the nearest to a dead man he ever saw alive. The Justice said this did not show conspiracy and further evi dence was ruled out. It is a matter of record that Arthur was a pauper and received $2 a month from the county fund, and that he was an object of charity for the citizens of Morehead City and Beaufort. Dr. L. W. Perkins, the last man ar rested, is mayor of Newport and ex town constable of Morehead City. At the beginning of this season Perkins was in charge of the police department of the Atlantic Hotel. Here and in Beaufort people are discussing the sensational arrests, but seem to with hold their opinions until all the evi dence bas been brought out. They say prominent citizens should not be condemned as guilty of these dark crimes until strong proof has been of fered. The prosecution claims to have this proof. The attorneys for the de fence say there has been no evidence to prove conspiracy and as yet no case has been made out. On the fourth day of the sensational cases of conspiracy to defraud insur ance companies the evidence brought out was in the line with that of the day before, but was much more explicit and conclusive. Fraud was proved con elusively in one case after another. The following shows, first, the actual I ages; second, the age named in the policy, and third, the real physical , condition of the parties named below, t who were all insured for good amounts: Hattie A. Davis, first 70, second 40; condition, infirm. Sarah M. Gabriel, very old, 45; t infirm. Shepard Davis, first 70, second 76; infirm. Emma J. Casey, first 70, second 50; infirm. Melissa Gurhtir, arst 70, second 50; infitm. John Boyd, physical wreck. Wm. J. PRice, said to be good risk, Iun atic. Mary A. Longhurst, first 65, second 55; lioor health. Wm. H. Jones, good risk, consump tion. Sarah A. Lc-is, first over 60, see ond 49. Rosanna Washington, first 60, sec nd 35; laid up with rheumatism. Samuel Windsor, first 85, second 58; infirm. Thomas Davis; consumptive. Florence Chadwick, in very bad health. The prosecution attempted to prove hat the money received on the benefit naid at the death of Wigfall was divid- t ed between four relatives of the dead i man, and that ihese four relatives in-T sured a man in the last stages of con- . suptltion eleven days before death, swearing that he was a good risk, that the insurance agent in Beaufort certi fied that Wigfall was a "good risk." Most of the day was taken up by wrangles between counsel as to the admission o f testimony. A large num-. er of letters, afiidavits, applications for insurance policies, etc., were ad mitted and seven of the hundred wit ness as were examined orally. The court room was filed uith interested listeners.. The trial of the alleged conspirators was on Friday continued until Wed. neday morning by agreement of the the counsel. On Thursday proof of fraud was presented in testimony of witnesses not directly interested. On Friday some of the very parties whose lives were fraudulently insured testi fed on the stand to the frauds com mitted. A pparent forgeries were shown in one case after another and several fraudulent applications were intro duced VIGILA3T WON THE GOE LET CUP. Defender Forced to Withdraw on Ac count of a Broken Gaff. At Newport, R. I., the Vigilant won the Goelet cup for sloops on Saturday because the Defender was forced to withdraw from the race within half a dozen miles of the fin ish on account of a 1. roken gaff. Bat for this accident, the Vigilant would probabir have been nine minutes or more behind the Defender. So far as practical the result of the race only reiterated what everybody knows, that the Defender is the fastest light weather boat ever built in America. She out-pointed the Vigilant in the beat to windward which was the frst leg of the course and gained much more on her during the second leg, a run dead before the wind. a course supposed to be most favorable to the centre board :acht. But just as the new vessel undertook a stretch for home with only 6 1-2 miles of the entire 38 to cover,11er hollow gaff snapped in two and she was compelled to give up. DEFEN~DER BEATs VIGILANT. The run of the New York Yacht Club from 1 Newport was made in a stiff soathwest wind on Saturday. Defender was the winner over Vigilant by about nine minutes. Jubilee did not race. Constellation was wiener in theI first-class schooners. THE I~NDIAN TROUBLES OVER. Gen. Coppinger Describes the Situa tIon in the Bannock Country. Gen. Coppinger, in a tetegram to army headquarters at Washington, thus describes t~he situation in the Bannock Indian country: "All is quiet at Jackson's Hole. The scouting parties- were sent out yesterday, one to the country east of Buffalo and one about Hobacks River. One company at Bis bee was ordered to Swan Valley for the pro tection of citizens. The acting agent at the Fort Hall reservation reports that 144 In dian were camped four miles east of Soda Springs and some 200 at the outlet of Gray's Lake, all claiming to be on their way to their respective reservations. The trouble seems : be o ver." Weekly dolodn Statistics. Following are the Liverpool weekly cotton tatistics: Total sales of the week 52,000, krercan 48,000; trade takings, including orwarded from ship's side, 52,000; actual ex lorts 6,000; actual imports 1,000, AmericanI ,000; total stock 1,406,000, American 1.270. 10; total afloat 30.000, American 15,000; ~eculation took 1,300; exporters took 3,700. CHINESE MASSACRE. )R. STEWART'S FAMILY, WITH EXCEPTION OF TWO, KILLED. dst of the Unfortunates. The Com ment of thilondonNewspapers on the Outrage. The London Telegraph prints a dispatch rom Shanghai stating that a massacre at ucheng occurred on July 31st. The officials uppressed the news for three days. The ames of those killed are: Miss Elsie Mar hall, Miss Annie Gordon, Miss Bessie New omb, Miss Flora Stewart, all of the English enana mission, Miss Nellie Saunders, Miss 'opsy Saunders, Rev. Dr. Stewart, Mrs. tewart, of the Church Missionary Society. Five of Mr. and Mrs. Stewart's children ere killed and two survived. One had a nee broken and the other, a baby, lost an ye. The following were sa.ved: Miss Hart rd. of the American mission: Miss Codding on. of the English Zenana mission; Rev. H. . Phillips, of the English Church missionary ciety. United States Consul Hixson, who is sta ioned at Foo Chow, with a party of volun eers. upon receipt of the news of the mas acre. started on a steam launch for the cene and has returned bringing with him he wounded Americans. The experiences of the survivors were rrible. They say that death was the least art .of the sufferings of the butchered romen. The reports are rather mixed. The latest avs that it is now known that ten persons rere killed. including Miss Lena Stewart and )r. Stewart's whole family except two. The merican missionaries, Miss Hartford and )r. Gregory, escaped. but the former was earfully injured. Several English and Lmerican children were killed. The London Standard demands that the aurderers he visited with condign punish ent and that an example be made of the leiials who virtually eonnived at the assacrc of the Christians. The paper says; If the emperor cannot or will not protect ritish residents we must give him assistance I the kind he will not welcome," The Chronicle says it trusts that Great ritain and the United States will combine to each the Chinese a lesson that will cause oreigners to be respected forever; but in iew of the condition existing in the coun ry. the bodies sending missionaries there, pecialy women. incur tbe gravest respon ibility.U The whole question. The Chronicle dds. ought to be reconsidered. The Times avs: "The outrage must. of course, form he subject of strong representation to China rom England. and probably from the United tates also. It must not be passed over as a rifle. Immunity to the murderers would use a standing menace to the lives and roperty of the whole European community a China." Married in Haste. William Rogers, of Chicago, an old an and wealthy, bad occasion to via. t Niles, Mich., the other day. 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