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% ? -The king 1 _ ;i iCNi A NOVEL OF AMERICAN 1.1F! rrrr' CY MAURICE CoT)STl;Iit, isrj ac<: 1"?.: CHAPTER VIII. CONTINUED. Rut Mrs. Veruon's arm clasped licr daughter's waist aud pave caress for caress with geuuiue creole veheluenee. They walked from room to room, iii a liual rouud of review, haud in hau l, aud comineutiug vivaciously ou the beauty of the decorations. "But I wonder why paps doesn't come?" said Pauline; "he promised to be in by eight." "Some affair or other has detained him," answered tho mother; "you kuow he has had much to look after since we returned. We have scarce- > ly had au hour with him for a month j and more." "I think ho might lay aside affairs for this evening at least, when it wotil 1 be so very nice to have him." "Oh, but he will be here in good time; he likes such a thing as this; he's never so light and bright and engaging as when in tho midst of a company." "And yon are -o beautiful this even- I 4PF ing, mamma. He will be very proud | of you." } "Ah, if I were yonug like yon, yon i ? Ktif T'm nnf trninr* fro I IUlgU!, suv mm, vu? x u uv. ? I flatter ^ou. Do you know, Pauline, that it is positively dangerous for : young woman to think herself beauti ful?" '"Why, no! If she really is beautiful, why should she not be perfectly frank in acknowledging her good fortune?" They were passing before a grand mirror set in a bronze frame; they both looked in aud stood for a moment contemplating themselves as reflected there. A momentary pensiveness passed ovm- Mrs. Vernon's face; but Pauline blushed just a little aud smiled with an expression of sincere delight as she glanced over the reflection of a slender, graceful girl dressed iu a gown of clinging, dull-white brocaded silk with a fluff of delicate lace at the upper line ol tne mouestiy ue?iKueu corsage. - It was a radiant face that threw back her smile, and the white arms and throat with their cnrions bracelets an 1 slender pearl necklace hinlmered softly. At this moment Mr. Vernon came in, accompanied by a tall, swart man. The two went directly upstairs to the room prepared for the gentlemen's dressing room, but returned almost immediately, when Mr. Vernon presented his guest to the ladies as Colonel Philip Loring. The gentleman's bearing was military, soldierly in tho extreme, and his form and face suited well the air of studied dignity he wore. "While not ^ etrictly handsome, his features were strong and well-formed, aud his eyes had a singular power, as if of concentration and steadiness. He wac bronzed bj exposure to wind and sun until his face was olive-brown, although it could be secu that it was not naturally dark, and there was a white scar, a saber-cut it appeared, running in a slender lino across a part of his left cheek and ear. His neck was corded with muscles and his bauds were shapely, large and sinewy. "You have a lovely houie here, Mrs. Vernon," he said, speaking French with a curious accent. "I have been leiliug your husbaud that he lives like a grand duke." Mrs. Vernon had often heard ber husband speak of Colonel Loring as one of his most trusted friends; but sho had never beforo seen him. His smile, as he looked down into her face, was peculiarly attractive, ulbeit there was in it something remote and lnexpucamy uuaausmuiui *. "And you, madautoiselle," lie continued, turning with a bow to Pauline, "must be as happy as you look, in such a place of euchantmeut. You will not charge a rough old saber like me with tlatterv if I tell you that you look like au especially dangerous fairy iu a most alluring bower." Pauline's cheeks showed the slightest access of pink undpr his bold yet not uupleasaut glance. "Your father and I," ho added, "have long been great friends, and I account it one of my far-apart pieces of good fortune to be here, even by mere ebauce, to-night." "My father's friend is my friend," Pauline said; and she could not have acoouuted for the embarrassment she felt iu delivering this bit of formality. "And raiue," joiued Mrs. Vernon. "Wc are glad to welcome yon as a clianco guest this time, and we shall be proud to greet you as a privileged n... -L .11 A.; i) oas uereauer at an nines. The conversation oonld go no farther than these stiff commonplaces characv teristio of the period and the place. Guests were arriving, a*d Mrs. Vernon and Paul ire hal duties to mee at once. Thev both turned awav, j leaving Colonel Loring standing, tall, straight, grimly attractive, beside a magnificent flowering cactus as tr.ll and strange as he. Somehow they took his face with them, clearly setiu their minds, and the scar on the cheek and ear was as white and tho features as dark aud wuguetic as in iiie orig inal. Among the early gnests was Lien tenant Ballancue. He shook band with Mrs. Vernon, aud, after a fev. words, passed on to meet Pauline. "You were my prisoner the othei i morning. I am yours this evening," | . OFfc, \ / i o t /, Mn HI !OL/i !.N U | : during i::n wv.r cf 1:12. T:-:OIVPCCN. . 3 Ho'.rrt rcr"*---'? lie fiaio, witn a happy look ami referring, of course, to the little adventure on Lake Borgne. "But you will be generous, I know." He did not look so tall in his fulldress uniform as he had in undress, but the fine high-bred air seemed to be more pronounced. Pauline had seen him frequently since their first meeting. At present, however, he impressed her as much handsomer than ever before. Not that she really took time to think this. It was the impression and nothing more. Fairfax came rather late. He had neeu ileiaveu on his way by a que? little adventure on the street ?an adventure which, although at the ?uu-> it appeared to have no connection with his future, introduced nu active element into the drama of his life. At the entrance to a dark alley, n struggle was going on between two persons, aud Fairfax heard, through his open carriage-window, low cries anger and distress. He signaled hi* driver to stop, and at once sprang ottr and rau to the spot. A burly man was chokiug and beating a small hunchback, whofonght wjth tooth and mil like a tiger cat. Fairfax called to :'ie big fellow to let go his hold of the 1 warl's neck, aud not beiug heeded, dealt him a heavy blow on the ear with his list. A watchman appeared it this moment and reached the spot ust as the ruffiau was trying to rise rora where the cufi had lauded him. Some tinle was speut by Fairfax inexolaiuing to the officer his couuectiou with tho matter. The little deformed man declared that his powerful assailant was trying to rob bim of a small amount of silver money, but the accused stoutly maintained that the moucy was iiis and that the other had stolen it from him. The light of a distant lamp set at tlie gate ot a private uouse jseriuuicu Fairfax to see the dwarf's fcatnres hut dinilj, yet they were so unusual, so hideous indeed, that they fixed themselves firmly iu his memory. The watchman knew both of the conioatacts aid, laying his hand on the little fellow's strangely distorted shoulder, called hiui Cra^aud Crapoasin. "Crapaud Ciapousiu," he growled, as he shook him rudely, "you are always into mischief! How many times must I chuck yon iu jail:" Of course Fairfax got away from this scene as soou as he could. The delay, however, was longer than this brief telling may make it appear. "When he reached Chateau d'Or his right baud, with which he bad delivered the blow oil tho man's ear, was paining him greatly, aud later he discovered that he had brokeu a tiuger on the fellow's skull. "But you ninst have it attended to at ouce," said Mr. Vernon; "fortunately there is a skillful surgeon present," and forthwith he hurried Fairfax into a room-apart from tho company, and sent a servant to briug Colonel Loring. "It's nothiug," Fairfax insisted, as a matter of form; but bis pain was by no means bidden, aud bis baud was beginning to swell. "A gentleman should never strike with his unarmed hand," said Mr. Veruou. "Why didn't you shoot the scoundrel?" "I shot him with the only weapon I ohauced to have," replied Fairfax, with a grim half smil \ The music was swelling merrily and rippling through the house; the dauears were flashing back ami forth and in ami out; and the breeze coming in at the opeu windows and doors gently fanned the flushed young faces as they whirled. When Colonel Loring approached and Mr. Vernon was about to speak, Fairfax looked up and saw before him Pierre Rameau. lie could not help showing his surprise aud astonishment. "Let me present my friend, Colonel Philip Loring, Mr. Fairfax. Colonel Loring is an expert surgeon; ho will deal cunningly with your hurt band." Fairfax was stariug, glaring, his lips compressed, his chin thrust out, tis face white and rigid. He did not icar a word that Mr. Vernon said. "Don't offer me your hand. Pierre Rameau, you base and conscienceless villain!" he exclaimed in a low, measured tone of voice, husky with rage. He appeared about to spring upon Loring and throttle hira. Colonel Loring without changing countenance turned to Mr. Vernou aud, with a simple inflection of injuiry, paid: "What does this man mean?" The wrath and the insnlting cpithets seemed not to liave affected him a nuy way. Xot a line of hi3 face tad changed its expression. He . nrned uis eyes, slowly aud with a po u!mr steadiness from Fairfax to his iost and stood in an erect bat aujreinely indifferent attitude. Tho indignation of Fairfax was ir epressible; ho could not lie -.till. ).mbt!ess be would have made a Honorable scene of it if ho had been - ft free to act. Air. Vernon stopped between tho vo meu and made a gestnre that eant a command for them to be ;eut, and when he spoke it was aroeiv above li's breath. "This is my hous?, Mr. r'airTax; I you are both my frieuds aud uiy I guests; if yon nro enemies io eccl otlier, iet me beg you not lo maktf t iccno here." "I ncr?r li.vl the honor of sceiug 'he gentleman before," said Loving, a n tone th.it gave no suggestion of eeiing, unless it might have been .hat a hint of contempt rang in it. ''You are the robber, Pierre Jtaluau," Fairfax boldly declared. "Yon eannot put me aside with your cool effrontery. I have hccu your lace once before; I would know it twenty years heuce at a glance. Yon are the very man who robbed Yassour. "Hov/ cau yon call this scoundrel ynnr friend, .Mr. Vernon?" he added, after a moment's intense gaze into Loring's face. "He's the very man " "Bnt, my dear Mr. Fairfax, you are mistaken. Coloue! Loriag is not Pierre P.ameau or any other robber, lie is my frieud, just returned from Mexico. I understand your feelings now," Mr. Vernon went on, rapidly and earnestly, "bnt I assure you that you are suffering an honest mistake and your excitement to lead you too far." "Hut, Mr. Vernon, I cannot be mis taken iu this matter. l oa are mismar?thaf man, from bead to foot that villain, wlua bis ma3k slipped aside '' Tlio melodramatic almost hysterica! excitement of Fairfax contrasted curiously with the perfectly cool and even deprecatory manner of Mr. Vernon au 1 of Colonel Loring; and yet. Fairfax was very steady?rigid, indeedw and his look was dangerous. The apparition of Pierro Rameau could not be counterfeit, and for the moineut he felt that Mr. Vernon conld not help being aware of it, so distinct and coiupleto was the identiticalion to himself. Ho felt so intensely, under the sadden strain of recognition, that his bearing was awkward and stagy iu comparison with the grace and ease of the waving figures seen through the flower-draped doorway giving into the parlors where the daucers were in full career. It was at this moment that Fairfax saw Pauline pass across the field of his vision. Sbo was dancing with Lieutenant Callauche, and her face was illuminated trim picasuic. CHAPTER IX. SOME SYLVAN SlIBPJIXSrS. Vasseur gathered together hli slaves and his other persona! property and with them loaded two luggers and a small schooner. Mr. Vernon had warned him that it was no longer safe to remain on the exposed coast of Ray Saint Louis. To be sure, tho warning was scarcely needed after the raid of the cavaliers; but Mr. Vernon did not refer to this daugcr; it was the British fleet that was expected to appear iu the gulf waters. As a matter of fact the fleet did not come immediately; but the British were sending emissaries to theludiaus all through Alabama and Mississippi, inciting them to war agaiust tho whites. General Jackson had defeated the savages, after bloody lighting, on the 27th of March, at Tohopekn, and was taken steps to organize an army with which to gain possession of the Spanish forts along the gulf coast. Everywhere among the white settle? i?i t. n. menis me rumors u?u guun nmu uut great military events were impendiug; that most probably an English force absolutely overwhelming was about to be thrown iuto the country, to ravage it far aud wide. The frontier people were mostly poor, uneducated and possessed < [ but limited knowledge of the current affairs of the world, and it was :.<> moro thsn natural that they should receive t 1 exaggerated impression of the threr :ened dauger. They \ ere as brave as lions, however, an t their patriotism know no limit. Xudiau haters from their cradles up, it needed no more perfect goad thau the British coalition with the savages to make every luau, woman aud child in the Southern settlements an implacable foo of everything English. Even the outlaws of Barata: ia aud of Pearl River, v/hen atlast the test came, took tho side of the United Stales in the struggle, although justice had set a price upon lueir iiKaus. Vasseui* betook himself, with nil his movable belongings, to a plantation southwest of New Orleans, in tbo La Fourche country. He thought that his slaves would be safe in this wild, out-of-the-way place, and here, in the care of au overseer, he left (hem, nhilo he, dreaming of nothing bnt the recovery of his jewels and revenge ou Pierre Kameau, went back to dog the tracks of that intrepid and successful robber and pirate. Mounted on a strong, spirited pony, lie made his way iuto the Pearl lliver country aud found little trouble ill associating himself, under an assumed name, with some of the free-andeasy inhabitants, who wore more at ease on account of crushing defeat that had befallen their enemies, the Indians. Like most of that class of men who bad sought the remote gulf-coast rcciou to hide from juslieo, Vasseur did not have the least rc3pcct for the legal methods of righting wrongs or of bringing to punishment those who did him injury. His nature was revengeful, and tbs only law lie dreamed of appealing to was that of which bo could appoint himself solo executive. Small as lie was, his strength was great, and no wolf was more savage or untiring. Cunning and full of expedients. sly r.s a fox and *piiclc as a cat, be passed from place to place, attracting little notice, but always managing to collect, little bv little, information cciirerniug the whereabouts aud the doings of the cavalierr of Honey Island. (to b3 coxtx::i j:d.) n?vi ; SERIOUS RACE WAR f Wild Work of InfLTiated Mob in An Illinois Town WREAKED VENGEANCE ON NEGROES t An Infuriated Crowd Literally nutil- p lated Two Colored Men and Pro- [ h posed to Lynch the Jail Keeper. h Danville. 111.. Special.?This city i3 ' i in the throes of a race war. One ne- j, gro, an unknown man from Evans- b ville, Ind.. who shot and killed Henry Gatterman. white, has already been lynched by a mob of 600 men. who were later fired upon by the sheriff. three men being wounded. The mob fj were clamoring for the life of another negro named James Wilson, who has b confessed to a brutal assault on the ^ wife of a farmer at Alvon, 111., just tl north of here. The unknown negro p met his fate while the mob was on p the way to lynching Wilson. The anerv throne was passing down East i Main street when the negro became i involved in an altercation with some ! of its members. They started after v j him, and he pulled a pistol, firing into s , the crowd. Henry Gatterman. a young j butcher, who has recently returned c; ; from Fort Monroe, fell mortally tl ; wounded and expired in a few seconds. a j The negro turned and fled, but was ! caught by the officers within a block of the scene of the tragedy and hurried 'r j to the police station with the mob in 'P ; hot pursuit, temporarily diverted from 11 j their march to the county jail. The I officers with their prisoner took refuge w i in the city building, baricading them- ti ; selve3 behind the door of one of the I( offices. They could not cheek the mob. , however, for it secured a long pole b and tried to batter down a section of t( the wall and the door, both of which f? \ were very thin. On account of the overwhelming number of the mob it ; was useless for the officers to resist The negro was seized and rushed to the spot where he had shot down Sj ; Gatterman. It was the work of an in1 stant to throw a rope around his neck h, | and swing him up to the nearest tele. nhnna nnlo Tho mnh iH nnt itP1 flV I _ i long, but waited to see that their vie| tlm was dead. The life was slowly 1 strangled out and he was left hang- " ing, while the mob proceeded on to m the county jail. The officers hope to ' save the second negro by some ruse. F i Wilson, it is charged, went to the g< farm house while the woman was n< alone and told her he was hungry. I While she was getting him something p, to eat he entered the kitchen door and q seized her. He fled, leaving her half- d< dead. Afterward she managed to crawl to the nearest farm house ai | where she told the story. A posse of officers started in pursuit of the negro and when Wilson was captured ! he was hurried to the county jail to ! prevent lynching. There the negro o( confessed. | Three other negroes have been attacked by members of the mob and ? severely beaten. One of them is Ben | Rich, and the other two are said to 1 be refugees from Evansville, Ind. ' le Some negroes are arming themselves in and others are preparing for flight. The victim of the mob later was iden- aj j titled as J. D. Mayfleld. The mob a! 1 changed its mind before attacking I the Jail and went back and cut down I Mayfield's body. They rushed it to y< the public square and burned it in a bonfire, hacking it to pieces with ! knives as it burned. Then they cI { charged the jail and the sheriff and f': i deputies fired, wounding several 1 members of the mob. some fatally. Among the wounded?are Adam Merry, al fatally shot through the head; H. si Hines. shot in neck and shoulder, may la | die; Otto Heinke, shot in the arm. will recover. 21 I The mob repulsed, sent to a neigh- gi ! boring mining camp for dynamite and j probably will attack the jail. The mob is infuriated and threatens to lynch . 1 the sheriff and his deputies, also the j negro turnkey in the jail. After securing battering rams, it 1 took tire mob about half an hour to ^'( wron ir tlm pitv rvHccm thn nrrorn ho | ing found hid in a safe. He was pulled I from the safe, struck with sledges, tn i knocked down, 'jumped upon and th | stamped to death. A rope was placol about his neck and his lifeless body was dragged about three block3. An effort was made to hang the body to a telegraph pole but the rope broke. The mob, which this time numbered ki 5.U00, then dragged the body to the jail and burned it r(J Company K. a colored troop, ha? its t0 quarters here, and the officials have T! prepared to call it out. Leaders of the to mob declare they will try to kill the entire company, if it comes out. 'IC Hotel Partly Burru J Nashville, Special.?The Commercial Hotel was badly damaged by fire, at an V] early hour Sunday morning, and the Vi ! rear end of the building was complete- c< ly wrecked. All of the guests were a: rescued and some of them with difficul- pi ty. The fire is supposed to have started from a lighted cigar, or pipe, that was left in a ccat belonging to a waiter. The damage is etimatcd at $7,000 and is fully covered by insurance. The pj. building was occupied altcrnatelv dtirlng the war oy Confederate and Feder- p; al soldiers and was at one time the headquarters of General J. C. Davis, of Indiana, who killed General "Bull" Nelson, in Louisville. 3[", Jcp-tn D-t tm''ed. 1'aris. uy UUUlf.?ivu\iu: 13 Iiu.ws been printed io the effect that the c0 Japanese Prince Impahana was coming in Paris, charged with a mission from T, the Fmpcror of Japan to as'.c the modi- ' ation of France between P.ussia and j Japan, La. Patrie has interviewed a high official of the Japanese legation v who denies that the Prince i3 charged with any such mission and adds that Japan only wants peace, but is deter- tl< mined to enforce her rlfhts. p. ft LIVE ITEMS OF NEWS. V Many Matters of General Interest In 5j Short Paragraphs. jp Down in Dixie. ^ A contract was let at Greensboro, N. ? last week for the erection of 600 M wo-story houses, 15 store buildings __ nd a modern hotel. A wreck at Coneville. Va.. Sunday iled a passenger train upon two roirrVifc on/I fnnr no^nlo wnro oorimtclv ;v*0iiw ttttu uul wvi v avi iuuui; urt. Pa A negro was brutally murdered by is wite in Greensboro, N. C., last Co eek. His head was chopped to ori leces and.he v/as dragged several Cl( undred yards from the house and his *' ody left. "r m< At The National Capital. * Representative Cannon had a con- Ca ?renco with President Roosevelt on naucial legislation. ac< In the burning of a paper mill near ^-x lartford. Conn., Fireman William A. iaskins lost his life. j. Charles Hedges was removed from Go tie position of Superintendent of ,, "ree Delivery of the Postofflce De * * artment. or... erf At The North. C1' coi because his sen would not rise. c0, William Liard, of Knoxville, Iowa, hot him and committed suicide. Ga Sn< At a meeting of creditors it was de- ' ided not to attempt the operation of ,lie ie Harlan & Holiingsworth Works. Rh t Wilmington, Del. gai Five persons were seriously injured co\ 1 a collision between the Norfolk ex- the ress and a freight train near Wildngton, Del. ^ Three men and one woman were ounded in a fight between horse- rec aders and an officer at Eddyville, he: >wa. Cei The battleship Kearsargc arrived at ar Harbor Sunday after making a ?cord for war vessels in the way of . ist travel. tru l^s From Across The Sea. lift Pope Leo was buried temporarily on iturd3v. ab< It was decided by the cardinals to bui old the conclave in Rome. nee The London Times reports that bui remier Balfour is for protection. tun The visit of King Edward and the |ng oyal family to Dublin was again arked by great cordiality. Prince Ching, head of the Chinese oreign Office, informed Minister Con- mc ?r that the ports of Manchuria would per ot be opened. WO: The United States Government has yjt ?en granted leave by the Privy . ouncil of England to appeal from the c ?ci:Jon of the Canadian Court in the "at ctradition cases of John F. Gaynor boj id W. D. Greene. nut Mlecellaneous natters. to The formation of the new $12,000,K) stogie trust is completed. to < F. V. La Bountie, a Buffalo law jjra ark. is alleged to have embezzled \j'0 jndreds of thousands of dollars. ?us The body of James McNeill Whi3fc- of r, the famous American artist, was Ch: iterred at Chiswick. bra steel stocKs were rorceu down in :other bear attack on the market id Steel common touched 22. wai , jo jl Fights occurred between white and ' " ack sailors on the United States war e,)'! Msels at Bar Harbor. ^ Miss Lillian Joven, of New York, bus aims that James F. Fairman hypno- oth zed her and made her marry him, gari she is married. Ion Mgr. Merry del Val was provision- it 1 ly appointed Secretary, 'o the Con- ^'cl storial Congregation, tAeueceed the fo te Mgr. Volpini. \ t"?ii Unofficial advices state the Venelelan troops have captured Cludad r"0, olivar. y King Edward XII and Queen Alex- dea ldra entered Dublin amid the cheers the thousands of Irishmen. in ! The Duk? of Marlborough has been ' ipointed Secretary of State for the dov ilonies. |>r0 The Administration, finding the ' :tra session is apt to bring on a j riff debate, is sai7l to have raised ,?n< e currencv Question as an offset. T A Fatal Row. hav Atlanta. Ga.. Special?A Constitution All; lecial from Camakga, Ga.. says: Two ?}*[ (Jill lied and six wounded, four of them, tur( is believed fatally, is the result of a w at negro church here in which pis- ? A Is and razors played a deadly part. le entire negro population of the ^ ' \vn is terrorized as a result of the tlir< ray and it is impossible to learn the S;C1 al cause of the trouble. v:.fcr Ci t Plot Against Emperor 11 St. Petersburg. Special.?The Novoe reyma published a dispatch from ? ladivostock which says that several '*_t )rean ministers and high dignitaries e suspected of being concerned in a abc ot against the Empress of Corea, :Sh< id it is expected that they will be ,nf smissed and arrested. C Postoff ce Robbed. of; Ashcville. N. C.. Special.?A tele- Prii icnc message from Waynesville Sun- of t y states that the postofficc at that ;on ace was robbed Saturday night. The nr, eves got about everything in the of- ^ j c, and the postmaster at Waynesville is sent to the Ashcville office for .A.ac amps. ,nr~ * T Bids on Dry Docks. ^ Washington, Special.?Bids for the p instruction of a dry dock at Norfolk =re opened at the Navy Department. ho *? o# noet rt'no flvorl hv p<?q .Tj JU IIUJIL \JL WUV ?? WAVJ U??wu vv^o* $1,200,000. The bids were as fol- of ws: John C. Rogers, New York, vil! 10,000; Edward F. Fonder. Philadel- 'as. ;ia, $1,273,560; John Piere, New York, :ns .057.731; Continental Jewell Filtra- of t :>n Company, New York, $1,033,147; per J. Carlin. Brooklyn, $1,152,478. Jud __1 PILMEITO MI8S. ' fllnor Events of the Week in a j Brief Form. S Alliance Exchange Judge Gary has issued an order Is p case of the receivership of the rmc-:s' Alliance exchange making 1. J. Q. Marshall the receiver for the ganization. The case, as will be re tmbe.red. was brought by H. EL ockshire. cn behalf of himself, the -mbers of the Cash Hill sub-alliance d all other stockholders of "The* rmers' Alliance Exchange of South rolina. Limited." who came into this :ion. against "The Farmers' Alliance change cf South Carolina, Limited,"' C. Lvles. J. L. Keitt, J. B. Douthltt F. Ashe. S. T. McKeown and 0. P. odwin. as directors of said exchange L. Donaldson. J. C. Colt, creditor*, . behalf of themselves, and all other rditcrs of the Farmers' Alliance exmgo. Palmetto Bank and Trust npany. The order first relates that nplaint having been made to Judge ry or. March 7th last, and In re >nse to the complaint having -been '<!. that he ordered the master of :hland county to take testimony re- 3 rding the case. Aftfer hearing the^, jnsel r-n both sides he decided tfcgJtP ? money of the exchange having ;n used for other purposes than for 1 purpose of purchasing goods that * N eiver should be appointed. A very ivy bond will be required of the rever. Palmetto Paragraphs. t. negro boy 13 years old was roastalive in a brick kiln in Spartanburg t Saturday. He was employed at nna's brick yard, which is situated ?nf o milo an/1 a half frnm Prmrtan- I g. Late that night he fell asleep ir a kiln, where brick were being ' rned. About 3 a. m. the brick kila nbled over and enshrouded the sleepbey. He was taken too suddenly and s asleep at the time, and conse:ntly there was no outcry. One of n working there saw the tragic bailing. ahd gave the alarm. Seye?-? ^ rkmen hastened to the spot, an* h implements they pulled the fcre. , 1 brick from the boy and extri- ,< ed him from hie red hot bed. Th*r died in an hour after being taken 1 udgc Purdy refused to grant bail E. E. Harbeson. white who is con- 6 'd in the Berkley county Jail 'n \rleston. on the charge of beat'** ieath a woman by the name of Belle indon. Messrs. Dennis & Dennis, of sck's Cornef brought habeas cor- , ; proceedings and Sheriff Morrison. , Berkley, took the prisoner srleston Friday. Solicitor Hildec.:i went down from Orangeburg ana icarcd for the State. The showing :.C iliniiUH.icut uuu in 5 remanded to the Berkley county '* to await tr'al at the fall term . ' .nderson Is *o have a first-class . iness men's club, such as exists, !a er cities. The need of such an Ot lization has been felt ihere for a g time, and now it is ..believed th* an be secured. The club will hare 1 furnished rcomst where visitors ' that city can be carried f.nd enter- i led. and where the members them- ^ ;->s can spend their leisure tims I isantly and to'advantage. l fonday morning at .7 o'clock the ^ d body of Otis McMillan, colored, ^ night porter of the Spartan Inn. Spartanburg, was found in the rear the building beneath an open winr on the second floor. His neck wan ken and his face badly mutilated. ' ^iolans who examined the body sa'd re were no marks to indicate vioe and that his death was evidently 3 to a fall he county commissioners of Unl^t e awarded to George H. Crafts :0s ? anta. Ga.. contract-for rebuilding Iges at Guest's and Cedar Bluff, in on county, at $4,724. Sunerstmo-"^,\l ?s will be of steel. t an entertainment in the colored ond Baptist church in Greenville iday night, a sneak thief stole augh one of the rear windows and tred a purse containing $21. A re- t d of $10 was offered for the capture he thief. l Columbia Tuesday morning jucge y rendered a decision in the e^fr f 3rookshlre vs. the Farmers AlliancJ ^ hange, ordering that a receiver be ointed for the fund now on han.1, ; ut $17,000. or that bond be furn* * 1 nrM/Mint InirAlvOft J ?('. I or IWltr IUC ClUiUUUl IUIWKVW i! this fund is distributed. & -jl overcd with dirt and grass, the body in unknown negfo man was found lay not far distant from the tracks he Southern Railway between Ladand S'immerville. The body wa* aed over to a magistrate at Lsdson.? an investigation of the case will made. It is thought that the man i murdered, for the body bore no '-*s of having Hon fcv 3 tra'n. wenty-one contractors in Columbia aday signed an agreement not to )loy any union man connected with Building Trades Council. inies Hammond, a former employe# the Arcade Cotton Mill, of York- . e, was tried in the Yorkville court ; week. He was convicted of car*ya concealed weapon and Qfassault i high and aggrappted nimMBlh Suintendent G. A. BurbanA^nd ge Kiugb fixed his fine at .