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ESTABLISHED IN 1865 NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1P. Y AN APPALLI\G RAITROAD DISASTER AN EXCURSION TRAIN DROPS THROUGH A BURNINC BRIDGE. Over 100 Persons Ki led and 400 Serl ously Injured-Heartrending Scenes and Incidents-A Horrible Sus picion-Miscreants Rob the Dead and Dying CIICAGo, August 11.-A special to the Chicago Times from Forest, Ill., says: All the railway horrors in the his. tory of this country were surpassed three miles east of Chattsworth last night, when an excursion train on the Toledo, Peoria and Western Rail road dropped through a burning - bridge and over one hundred people were killed and four times that num ber more or less badly injured. The train was composed of six sleeping cars, six dr.y coaches and chair cars and three baggage cars. It was carrying 960 passengers, all excur sionists and was bound for Niagara Fails. The train had been made up all along the line of the Toledo, Peo ria and Western Railroad, and the excursionists hailed from various poin s in central Illinois, the bulk of them, however, coming from Peoria. Some of the passengers came from Canton, El Passo, Washington, and in fact all stations along the line, and some came from as far West as Burlington and Keokuk. A special and cheap rate had been made for the excursion, and all sorts of people took advantage of it. When the train drew out of Peoria at 8 o'clock last evening it was loaded to its ut most capacity. Every berth in the six sleepers was taken, and the day cars carried sixty people each. The train was so heavy that two engines were hitched to it, and when it passed this place it was an hour and a half behind. Chattsworth, the nexc station east cf here, is six miles off, and the run there was made in seven minutes. ..So the terrible momentum of these fifteen coaches and two engines, shooting through space at the rate of a mile a minute, is understood. No stop was made at Chattsworth, and on and on the heavy train, with its living freight, sped through the dark ness cf the night. Three miles of Chattsworth is a little slough, and where the railroad crosses a dry run about ten feet deep and fifteen feet wille. Over this was stretche I ae ordinary wooden trestle bridge, and as the excursion train came thunderind?r-.1-it>w!iiT was the,bgrfor of the engineer on the frat'engine when he saw that the bridge was burning. Right up before his eyes leaped the bright flames, and the next instant he was among them. There was no chance to stop. Had there been any warning it would have taken half a mile to stop, and the train was within 100 yards of the red tongued messengers of death before they flashed their fatal signals into the engineer's face. But he went over in safety, the first engine keep ing the rails. As it went over, the bridge fell beneath it, and it could only have been the terrific speed of the train that saved the lives of en gineer and fireman. But the next engine went down, and instantly THlE DEED OF DEATH WAS DONE. Car crashed into car, coaches piled one on top of another, and in the tA'inkling of an eye nearly one hun dred people found instant death and fi4ty more were so hurt that they could not live. As for the wounded, they were everywhere. Only the sleeping coaches escaped, and as the startled and half-dressed passengers -camne tumbling out of them they found such a scene of death as is rarely witnessed, and such work to do that it seemed as human hands w.3re utterly incapable. It lacked but five minutes of midnight. Down in the ditch lay second engineer Mc Clintock dead, and fireman Apple gatte badly injured. On top were piled three baggage cars, one on top of another, like a child's card house after he had swept it with his hand. Then camie six day coaches. They were telescoped as cars never were b.ffore, and three of them were pre-ssed into just spa'ce enough for -- one. The secondE car had mounted o.T its trucks, crashed through the car ahead of it, crushing the wood aside like tinder, and lay there, rest inig on top) of the seats. while every passenger in the front ear was laying DEAD oIR DYING underneath. Out of that car but four people camne alive. 9. top of the second car lay the th? fnd although the latter did not r its bearer as completely as t - e beneath its bottom was suf' - with the blood wer no 39dady cushd,but were brokn aftwsti inevery conceiv 31. mead a rusbed timber and beam represented a crushed hu. es man frame and broken bone. In- pl stantly the air was filled with the he cries of the wounded and the shrieks co of those about to die. Groans of Ai men and shrieks of women added to nu make an appalling sound, and above ill all could be heard the agonizing O'< CRIES OF LITTLE CHILDREN, pl, as in some instances they lay pinned ne beside their dead parents. There 3 was another terrible danger yet to be met. The bridge was still burning, ho and the cars were lying on and h around the fiercely burning embers. an Everywhere in the wreck were wound- n ed and unhurt women and children, at whose lives could be saved if they th could be gotten out, but whose death h in a most horrible form was certain if the twisted wood of the broken ch cars caught. And to fight the fire there was NOT A DROP OF WATER, fa and only some fifty able-bodied menb who still had presence of mind and Ti nerve enough for duty. The only la< light was that of the burning bridge, w< and with so much of its aid fifty men went to work to fight the flames. For th four hours they fought like fiends, and for four hours victory hung in the balance. Earth- was the only weapon with which the fire could be th fought, and so an attempt was made Sc to smother it. There was no pick or cr shovel to dig it up, and no barrows m to carry it, and so desperate were ri] they that they dug their fingers into ni the earth, which the long drought had th baked almost as hard as stone, and ce heaped the precious handfuls thus ev hardly won upon the fr< ENCIROACIHING FLAMES, w( and with this earthwork, built hand- br ful by handful, kept back the foe. hu While this was going on, other brave th men crept under the wrecked cars th beneath the fire and wooden bars w which held as prisoners so many W precious lives, and with pieces of p< boards, and sometime their hands, or beat back the flames when they in flashed up alongside the seats. An unfortunate wretch who was pinned down by a heavy beam looked on h helplessly while it seemed as if his death by fire was certain. And w while the fight was thus going on, tr' the ears of the .orkers were filled se with the groans of dying men, the to anguished entreaties of those whose th death seemed certain unless the ter. co rible blaze could be extinguished, al and the cries of those too badly hurt t ar to care in what manner death were broug'ht_about, so it only would be e quick. So They 4ug up the _earth. with their own hands, reckless of the7 blood streaming out from their broken C< finger nails, and heaping it up in lit, in te mounds, while all the time came hi HEART-RIENDING CRtIES, rc "For God's sake, don't let us burn to tb death !" But finally the victory was h* won; the fire was out after four hours of of endeavor, and as its last sparks d4 died away the light came up in the d( east to take their place and the dawn tb came upon a scene (f horror. fo While the fight had been going on w. men had been dying, and there were ut not so many wounded to take out as wi there had been four hours before. be But in the meantime the country had us ben aroused. Help had come from wi Chattsworth, Forest and Piper cities, th and as the dead were laid reverently d( alongside of each other out in a corn- fie field, there were ready hands to take os theia to Chattsworth, while some of p1 the wounded were carried to Piper gs City. One hundred and eighteen th was the pt AWFUL ToLL OF TIIE DEAD, h while the wounded number four at times that many. The full tale of th the dead cannot, however, be told yet be for days. Chattsworth was turned into a morgue to-day. The town hall, engine house house and depot T were all- full of dead bodies, while every house in the little village had its quota of wounded. There were rover 100 corpses laying in the ex temporized dead houses, and every man and woman was turned into an amateur but zealous nurse. Over in a lumber yard the noise of hammerst and saws rang out in the air, and t busy carpenters were making rough coffins to carry to their homes the dead bodies of the excursionists who, twelve hours before, had left their hones, full of pleasurable expecta- ui tion of 0.- enjoyment they were go- w ing to have (during the vacation which had begun. PROMPT ASSISTANCE RENDER'D. T W hen news of the disaster was frstp flashed over the wires promnpt aid th was at once sent. Dr. Steel, Chief ni Surgeon of the Troledo, Peoria and ac Western Railroad, had come og a t special train, and with him were two Ith other surgeons and assistants. From b~ Peoria also came Drs. Martin, Bar- th ker, Flugler and Johnson, and from T ever ciy whence the unfortunate . eursionists had come from, thei ysicians and friends hurried on t Ip them. From Per.ria had als me delegations of Red men and th icient Order of United Workmen mbers of both sects being on th fated train. And so, after 1 lock in the morning, there wer, mnty of people to do the work tha eded such prompt attention. PROAISED IIOSi'ITALS AND MORGtES In the Town Hall was the maii spital, and in it at,xious relative d sorrowing friends sat, and, fan 2g the sufferers' faces, queried th ending surgeons as they boun wounded and insisted that ther, ist be hope. Down in the dea uses, fathers, husbands, wives an ildren tearfully inspected each fac it was uncovered and sighed a a features Aere unknown, or criei t in auguish when a well know :e, sometimes fearfully mangle< t yet recogniz?ble, was uncovered ie entire capacity of the little vil ;e was taxed, and kind-heartei unen drove in from miles arouni give their gentle ministrations t a sufferers. HUMAN VULTURES. No sooner had the wreck occurrei .n a scene of robbery commenced ,me band of unspeakable mi: ?ants, heartless and with only an: i instincts, was at hand, like gu( las who throng the battlefield th ght after the conflict and filch froe e dead the money which they r< ived for their meagre pay, stealin en bronze medals and robbin )m the children of the heroes othe >rthless emblems of their fathers avery. So last night did thes man hyenas plunder the dead froc is terrible accident, taking eve e shoes which covered their feel ho these wretches are is not knowi hether they were a band of pici >ckets who accompanied the trai some robber gang who were lurd g in the vicinity cannot be said. A HORRIBLE SUsPICION, wever, exists, and there are man io give it credit that the acciden LS a deliberately planned case c in wrecking; that the bridge wa t on fire by miscreants who hope seize the opportunity offered.; an e fact that the bridge was so fs nsumed at the time the train cam >ng, and added to the fact that th uin was an hour and a half latt e pointed out as evidence of reful conspiracy. n,fBINGv TTTE DEk MD)YING. It seems hardly possible that ma uld be so lost to all ordinary fee g which animates the basest of ti iman race; but still, men who wi b the dead, men who will steal froi e dying and plunder the wounde< d down by the broken bean: a wrecked car-wounded whoa ath by fire seemed imminet-ca most anything which is base, an at is what these fiends in huma rm did. They went into the ca: ien the fire was burning fierce] iderneath, and when the pot etches who were pinned ther gged them, "For God's sake hel out," stripped them of thei tches and jewelry and searche eir pockets for money. When ti 'ad bodies were laid in the cor lds these hyenas turned ther 'er in search of valuables; and the under was done by an organize .ng was proven by the fact the is morning in the cornfield, sixtee rses, all empty, were found in ap. It was ghastly plundering d had the pluderers been cangi is afterno~on they would surely hav en lynched. T HE LOSS IN MONEY. CIcAoo, August 12.-A Chicag ?mes Forest, Ill., eiecial says: Ti cuniary loss arisit.g from the acc nt is simply enormous. Under the laws of I1i.s, the rel: ;es of those killed in the disaste 11, if they have any claim at al plete the treasury of the Toled< oria and Western Road of som< ing like $350,000, and those injure )uld receive at least a quarter of lilion more. THE FATAL LIST. The list of killed so far as know~ >to noon to-day foots up 156,. xom 65 are from Peoria. THE WoRK~ OF ROBBERS. President E. F. Leonard, of ti ledo, Peoria and Western Cor .ny, said to a reporter of the Tim< at he had made a careful hi ~cessarily brief investigation of ti cident, and could no way accour r it unless on the presumption thi e bridge wats set on fire deliberatel fiends for the purpose ot wreckin e train and robbing the passenger say that he deplored the accider r President Leonard came from Spring. o field in the afternoon, accompanied o by Col. John Stephens, general so e licitor of the road. When the body i, of Edwin E. Adams was searched by e one of his friends, neither his pocket. 3 book r.or his gold watch and chain e could be found. Although he was t known to have started on the trip with a large sum of money, the only cash was found on his person was thirty dollars, which he had in the 2 watch pocket of his trousers. SIGNIFICANT TESTIMONY. e CHATSWORTH, ILLS., August 12. j At the morning session of the coro e ner's jury some decidedly significant 1 testimony was given. Timothy j Coughlan, section foreman here, tes e tified that he had four men helping s on his six and a half miles. le re j ceived orders on Wednesday to go a over his section and see that -the j bridges and track were all right. Coughlan went to the east end of the [. section and burned the grass along 1 the track for half a mile. The burned 3 piece was about half a mile from o the wreck, and he put the fire out. He examined the bridge about 5 o'clock and found no smoke about it, and otherwise it was all right. About three weeks ago the grass under the 2bridge had been cut away for ten feet from the bridge timbers, and he had no idea how the bridge could have caught fire. e Christopher Ennis, roa'master for n the line from the State line to Peria, said he went over the road on Wed nesday from Fairbury to Gilman. g He went over the fatal bridge just r before 4 o'clock in the afternoon. He was on the rear end of the car e and saw that the bridge was all n right. There was no fire or smoke about the bridge. Ennis said: - "My opinion is that the bridge was set on fire by somebody. My train was the last train over before the special, and if there was fire there the men would have discovered it. The bridge could have been burned in two or three hours. About three y years ago two attempt. were made to t ditch the 10 o'clock passenger train ,f at that bridge, and we kept a watch s man there for six weeks. Obstruc d tions were piled on the track. It is d a. very lonesome place, far from any r house." e INCIDENTS OF TILE WRECK. e CIIATSWORTH, August 12.-Stories , an1 den nceraing the disaster are coming to lih'g ectmn in a measure dies out. Robberi are becoming known. Miller Patter. n son, when be left Wyoming, his home, 1- carried a silver watch and had about le $30 in money, after buying his ticket. 11 Only $2 were found on his body. A a man, apparently a tramp, about 50 3, years of age, was caught in the act s of robbing a corpse, and was spotted e thereafter by a young man and made na sneak for Piper City. d For three honre ou.g woman was Shanging out of the car, window, her - body lifeless. She was caught by y the thighs, and it took about fifteen >r minutes to extricate her. Her legs -ewere horribly mangled, and the flesh ptorn completely off. in One of the most ghoulish acts ever a recorded is going the rounds. A e'man was getting out of the cars. n Near him, during the journey, was a a woman with a fine gold watch and it chain. She was badly injured, and d cried with anguish : "Oh, God ! Help Lt me?" The man turned apparently to n assist her, but, instead, stooped over, a grabbed the watch and chain and fled' A PAIR OF LOVERs. ~tOn the upper floor a handsone wo e man, about twenty years of age, stylishly dressed, lay extended on a couch. She was Miss Hattie Bren ner, of Farmington, Ills., and was on 0 her way to Niagara Falls, with sev e eral relatives. In the party was a man named Walters, also of Farm ington, and to whom she was en. ~gaged to be married. He had been r badly injured and lay near her on a Ibed attended by a couple of surgeons. "While Miss Brenner was physically Sunhurt, yet the fright and knowledge d of her lover's injuries had rendered ahrinsane. An Investigation Ordered. CHICAO, August 12.-A dispatch n from Springfield, Ills., says that a board of railroad and warehouse com missioners will go to Chatsworth to day and conduct the investigation of e the wreck yesterday morning. 1 CLEARING THE TRACK. es CHATswoRTH, ILLS., August 12. it At 7 o'clock this morning master me be chanic Warren with a wrecking train it and a large force of men were at it work. Warren was confident the y track would be cleared for trains by tg noon. They were certain all the . bodies had been removed from the its wreck. A special car with officials . Kf the Wabash road reached the wreck early this morning and ten dered the dse of their wrecking out fit and offered to be of any service possible. The Illinois Central also nffered any required assistance, but Warren said he thought his present equipment would enable him to clear the track. President Leonard, Superintendent Armstrong and other Toledo, Peoria and Western officials were seen this morning. They have given devoted attention to the relief of the injured and care of the dead. Both show signs of the terrible shock which the accident has been to them. Presi dent Leonard said so far as the rail. road officials could estimate there were about 80 killed and 100 seri ously wounded. There are many who were slightly injured, of whom no record has yet been obtained. A list is being compiled in the Peoria offices of the company. Leonard said that, as near as he could ascer tain, the train was making about thirty miles an -hour at the time of the accident, not an excessive rate of speed, as the track was in good con dition. The bridge, an ordinary 15-foot wooden structure, was all right at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, when a train passed over it, and half an hour later section men inspected it under orders in advance of the excursion train. It was all right then. As to the liability of the company or the future of the road the president could not say. The first thing the officials will do will be to devote their atten tion to the care of the unfortunate victims. It was a blow which would, of course, be most serious to the road, but that was as nothing ccmpared with the death and injury to human beings. Leonard said he could in all conscience say he believed the road had provided every reasonable and customary safeguard. The Negro in England. London Letter. Colored people are apparently very popular in England. There does not seem 'to be any prejudice against them on account of their color. There are not many colored people in London. The few that I have seen from time to time are invariably in the company of white people, and associating with them upon footing of perfect equality. I saw the other day upon Regent street a negro girl, black as coal, walking along leaning pon the arm of a fashionable, well dr n nlsmn who seemed perfectly >g;ped and contented with his dusky anion. In the same way I have seen 'n'A women respectable in their appearanc& a,nc dress, walking in public leaning upoi the arms of negroes. Frederic] Douglass, when he was here, said there did not seem to be any preju dices in England against the negr< on account of his color. The othe: day I visited the temple; there found a negro hard at work in the li brary reading up for an examination I was told that his color would no stand in his way in the slightest de gree when he came to be examine( for admission as a member of th English bar. A Mosby Monstrosity. Edgefield Chr-onicle. Mr. W. R. Cooper, of Cooper Town ship, who is a zealous and energeti farmer, brings us a freak which goe to prove that under the intensive car the Mosby corn is inclined to thro' of all restraint and bear a bushel t the stalk. Upon one stalk are twi fine, legitimate ears, while higher up in the place of the tassel as it were is a great bunch from whose middli springs another legitimate ear, thougi not a large one, around which cluster or rather sprangle, forty-five othe: would-be ears. Upon these would be ears, the grains are small but tolera bly perfect. Our friend Coop.er has but to persevere, and he will easilj bring his Mosby up to 50 ears to thi stalk. The time is evidently coming in Cooper Township when a smnal garden patch of the Mosby will makt one year's bread for the coun,ties o Edgefield and Newberry. Capt. ,J. L. Little Resigns Again. Othel Appointments. C'olumbia Record. The resignation of Capt. J. L. Little as chief deputy in the office o the Collector of Internal Revenue, a announced some time since in th Record, will take effect on the 1st o September. This will occasion som changes among the officers. Majo Bradley has appointed Mr. Arthu Bacon to take the place of Captail Little. Mr. Bacon has served fo two years as office deputy. Mr. L. T. Levin, Jr., will be promoted f ron clerk to office deputy, and Mr. C. Dl Burns, of WValhalla,- Oconee,County AN "ACCIDENT" IN ATLANTA. The Proper Place for the Man who Carries the Deadly Pistol. News and Courier Editorial.. The later accounts of the Atlanta tragedy detract nothing from the very ugly features of the occurence, which are editorially summarized by the Constitution as follows: "Let us take the case of Mr Veal, who killkd Mr. Horn. Here was a man of peaceful pursuits, living in a peaceful town. He was going to pay a visit to a city which was order ly and well policed. He was going to spend Sunday in that city. And yet making this quiet visit on the quiet day of the week, he put a dead ly revolver in his pocket. He is e broiled in a casual quarrel, dra this pistol and shutting his eyes, pulls the trigger. The ball goes crashing through the brain of a per fectly innocent man who was holding back the fist that was hammering .him in the face. "But what about Mr. Horn ? Here was a model citizen. A man of gentle habits, of kind nature, who perhaps never saw a pistol since the war closed. He goes to visit a friend at his room. While sitting there, in comes a stranger who in a mment is embroiled in a tight. Mr. Horn, anxious to preserve the peace, seizes the arm that is uplifted against the stranger. In an instant he is killed by a ball from the pistol of the man he is attempting to save." A third feature of the affair which is seriously commented on by the Constitution and the people of At lanta is the verdict of the coroner's jury, that the killing was "acciden tal," which, if accepted as final, as the Constitution remarks, would have left the homicide free from all ac countability for the killing. For tunately, the matter will not rest where the easy.going coroner's jury left it. Veal has been arrested, and charged with murder and will be tried for his life. Within the past six weeks two men have been shot in Georgia, Mr. Reeves in Athens and Mr. Horn in Atlanta. In each case the slayer was an alderman of the city in which he lived, and each "habitually car ried a pistol hidden in his hip pocket." This leads our Atlanta contemporary to say, very justly, and the remark has been made be fore on more than one occasion, that when "the men who make laws and are sworn to enforce them habitually violate them, it is time to increase the penalty for breaking them." The Contstitutiorn urges, the Georgia Leg islature to make the carrying of con ~ed weapons a felony, and de clares wi,-i1il pass a bill to that end, "it.will win and deserve the gratitude of Georgia for generations to come." Indeed it will, and the s'iggestion applies to the Legislatures and the people of other States with equal force. It is very sad that it should require shocking tragedies, at intervals, to arouse the indignation of conimunities, and to impress upon them the need of enforcing the law tor the protection of human life; -but, if they are required, such trag edies have been had in sufficient numbers to have produced the desired effect long ago. The practice of carrying concealed -weapons, whether habitually or occa sionally, has been too long winked Sat or too feebly condemned. It will Snever be broken up by imposiug fines on rare or even frequent oc casions. It is at the bottom of a great majority of the more serious crimes that shame our civilization, and that fill the land with mourning and misery every year. So flagrant an incentive to crime should itself be treated as a crime.' The man who goes armed in a peaceable com munity is a dangerous character, if not a murderer at heart, and be should be treated accordingly. Mild penalties have signally failed to suppress him; it is time to try effec tive measures. He has defied the Ilaw already, and is prepared and ready to become a felon, if oppor Stunity presents. It will save him from committing a greater offence, and will save the life of perhaps an utterly innocent and inoffensive man, if he be recognized and treated as a felon in fact. 'Thle penitentiary is the only pro per Iplace for the sneak and bully who Scarries a concealed weapon, and he Shas been overdue there for very many years. So long as he is allowed to go at large, so long will pistol rwearing be justified in the eyes of 1other men, and so long will murder rbe a matter of weekly occurrence and small consequence. In the name of law and order, and of heaven it self, strike down this barbarous prac tice in any,.way and at any cost ! GEORGIA'S UNIQUE CARD. t The Invitation of the Piedmont Ex position Company to the President and Mrs. Cleveland. 1 WasinGON, August 12.-l. W. Grady, of Atlanta, and Senator Col- c quitt, of Georgia. spent this. morning i with President Cleveland discussing the details of his Southern tour. The President received the gentlemen at Oak View cottage. Grady bore to the President the formal invitation of the Piedmont Exposition Com pany. It is a unique and striking piece of work, made of four leaves of ( Georgia gold about the size of a l 12mo. book, bound with clasps of t Georgia silver,. and each clasp set 3 h a Georgia diamond. The invi- i tation is enclosed in a box made with < 68 samples of Georgia wood polished < and joined with exceeding. skill. I The box is imbedded in a block of Georgia marble of every shade from < black to white. On the cover leaf of 1 the invitation are engraved portraits of the President and Mrs. Cleveland, l the monogram of the Piedmont Ex- ] position, and a picture of the club house of the Piedmont Driving Club. 4 On the third page is the invitation of the Driving Club. On the fourth, i or last cover page, is the engraved I picture of the main building of the I Piedmont Exposition. In presenting the invitation Mr. Grady made no formal address, but stated that it was designed to make it, in some sense, significant of the resources of Georgia, in whose capital city the first exposition of the famous Pied-. mont country will be held. As the President had accepted Atlanta's invitation before any others were made, he had defered making dates with other cities until the ex act date of his visit to Atlanta and and other details were settled. It is understood that the Atlanta dates were fixed to day, and that the dates for the entire trip will be speedily announced. The Pied. mont Exposition opens on October 10th and closes on October 22. A Chance for the Great Family Ex terminator. Edgefaeld Chronicle. On the first day of the March term of Court, 1887, Rob't T. Jones was arraigned for the killing of the three Pressleys under three separate indict ments. When the State announced itself ready to proceed upon the trial of Jones for the murder of Mr. Ed ward Pressley, Sr., the prisoner, through his counsel, Messrs. W. T. Gary, Ernest Gary and N. G. Evans, filed a petition with the Court de other two cases. After Jones's con viction in the case of Edward Press ley, Sr., the State did not take up for trial the other two cases. Onthe last day of the term of that Court, it being the second term of the com mitment and indictment of Jones, his counsel then moved for his uncon ditional discharge in those two cases under the Habeas Corpus A'et. They demand this as a right of the prison er under the case reported in 5 Riehardson, the State vs. Fasket, which says that a prisoner committed for a felony on refusal to be given a trial when demanded, "must be dis charged if not indicted and tried the second term in the same mnanner as if upon his trial he was acquitted." After argument, and the citation of the authorities contained in the case stated above, Judge Norton signed an order that the prisoner be dis charged (from those two cases) and go hence without date. Those two cases were still left on the calendar and were called over on Tuesday the 2nd, by Judge Wallace when he was sounding the docket. Major Ernest Gary moved that they be stricken from the docket as they were improp erly placed there, and referred to the order which Judge Norton had signed at the March term of Court. This was a surprise to the State that the order could possibly have such an ef fct. The order was called for, and, after examining it, Judge Wallace stated that he concurred in the con struction placed on Judge Norton's order by Major Ernest Gary. The State has been onit-generaled com pletely in this matter. Now, the: question is, has the State the right to give out new bills against Jones in those two cases? Jones's counsel claim that new bills cannot be given out against him as he is now dis charged as effectually in those two cases as if he had been tried and ac quitted of the- charges contained in them. If he should get a new trial in the case under which he was found guilty of manslaughter, and the new trial should result in an acquittal, Jones would then be a free man again without having been acquitted by rial of the murder of Charles PresQ ey and Edward Pressley, Jr. UndeLnd he authorities cited-ad -idbefores' udge Norton he had no Stenatie eft him but to signtheorde. It tlite certain that the State will' ei . leavor t' have new bills acted gainst Jones for .the murder- of.,d rard Pressley. HENRY CLAY'S LAST SON. iudden Death of John Clay, at Farm Near Lexington,K1. LEXINGTON, KY., Augudl1.-Joim Ilay, the only remaining isonro: lenry Clay, died at his -f nea his city, this afternoon, at 5d' 3e left the city at 1 o'clock in,. isual health, going home, ining went out to superintendre n his pump~ While giving ins r, ions to the workmen he fell; rithout any premonitions, of lisease. Clay was 67 years oId. ' iad no children. He was marre bout twenty years ago to his >hew's widow, Mrs. Col.' Ir t :rwin was killed at the. battle = Perryville, while in command4 ;nfederate regiment.' John ossessed but few of the ciarati sties of his illustrious father beiug )lain farmer, devoting much of ;iine to raising thorougbred Ele became a Catholic-twea igo. the Negro's Love for the Court Sooe. Edgeeld; Chronicle. During the three sweltering >f the 'lyncher""trial, we studied :lored man in our Coit roo rhere he was, densely packed, $ ling, gaping, goggling, early late, unshaken, unterrified,' laced. The case was utterly axclusively a white man's case, still the interest of the brothe black flagged never a Wpat an inexpressible charm Court room has for bim To e ts privileges and fetid "tm' Le will incontinently desert t :as, the watermelon rinds, the band, and even the "Nunions." we rt been a wretched, me aewspaper ,man, not all the eloquence of Butler and Earle Lave hel us.in that ho phere one single at. so with the br&her in. blac1 does he so fully, so proudly old Abe Lincoln's mA n proclamation as when enjo'ng freedom of the temple of justi called!i MURDER IN ASHEVILLE. Men-Cane. not Kanow AsHEVILLE, Auust l0.~-bu 1 o'clock on Sunday mornings a shot was heard by the police onit ten avenue at a point near the Bunik combe warehouse. On reaching t spot Sef. Gainey. a negro, waston shot and cut. He said that two mew named Win. Cowan and Geo. Ca ness, had attacked him. .Cowanw' arrested. Cabiness fie&. Thter s said to have been badly cut.TI cause of the difficulty is vros stated. The negro is dead. A Curious Law Case. From the Argonasd.. A curious law case, which hs arisen out of the recent earthquk at Diano Marino, will shortly be cided before an Italian court. Two adjoining houses at Diano - M belonging to two different faniilicsN were destroyed by the earthquake aaNN the inhabitants were all killed. Whe.i the ruins and corpses were removed, the sum of 200,000 francs in'gold and bank notes was found among the debris. As it was impossible to a certain to which house the 1noneyt belonged, and as no member of eithed* family was saved to decide th& iia$ ter, the surviving relatives have brought their claims before the judges whose decision is. expected in Itsl with much interest. 9 A Texas Chie.. From the Kerryrile Texas, Eye. The $ellow tlIat coils himself rw ten three fingered glasses of. shot whisky and stands with - back against the bar with a five e cigar in his month, and can hit Lb spittoon square in the bull'a eye h~ steps away, is as big a man inb1~ own estimation as Washington,N poleon, or any other man who h~ scratched his name high up on t& ladder of fame. What it Cost the Lynchers. Edqgefuld Adwertiser. . It is said that the lyschi~~ cost the parties concerned ten sand dollars, seven thousand dred of wich went to the ~