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unto bhb. ! ninor Event* of the Week la a * Brief Form. The rtarkets. COTTON MARKET. Those figures represent prices paid to wagons: fGood middling 13V? Strict middling 133s Middling IS1* Stains and tinges 11 to 12 PRODUCE MARKET. Onions $ 50 Chickens?spring 12^ Eggs 15 Hens?per head 25 Beeswax 20 Turkeys 12?/2 Corn TO Ducks 22^ ! Wheat SO Wheat?seed 1 00 Oats 45 Rye 1 00 Sides 0 J JSrtlUS?'.'HII . Hides?dry salt iO Tailow?uarendcrcd - J Palmetto Briefs. At the last sesion of congress a bill was pas-ed a; t' o. .'zing the quartermaster general oi the U nited States to reimburse all ex-Confederate soldiers, from whom were taken horses, equipment. or ether property after the surrender at Appomattox in violation of The terms of parole granted all the ^y*r.Qc?s of the Confederacy. Like all * "Toihcr dealings with the general government the securing of the reimburse.'ments entails considerable red tape and j detail difficult to understand. Congressman Johnson is spending his (spare time going about to different | places in his district and giving to old 'veterans assistance ia making applications. R. E. Cudd & Co.. the Spartanburg liverymen. were the unfortunate losers of two fine horses last Friday night and Saturday morning, and a damage ^ suit against those whom they believe caused the death is being spoken of. The horses were hired out. one to a i * - ? a iUa 9r\ O I I traveling salesman anu iuc- uuci m ^ resident of Spartanburg, both for trips through the country. One of the horses fuve out at Moore's and died soon after getting to town. The other died Saturday. When they both came in they gave signs of having been driven severely. The stablemen believe they were overheated, which, they think cauocd them to die. John Black, a Lancaster negro, employed at the Haile Geld Mine, was arrested last week, being charged with murdering his wife, who lived across the line in Kershaw county. According to report Black went to his wife's house Sunday and gave her some medicine to take, telling her to go to bed and keep quiet after swallowing the dose. Black returned to the mine and after his departure the woman followed his direction, with the result that she died in convulsions Sunday night. It is thought that the medicine admin isiered was poison of some kind. H. A. Bowick. of Charleston, has signed articles and put up forfeit to j meet Fred Walls, of Augusta, In a 20 round contest for South Carolina and . Georgia championship on Labor Bay ?jn Augusta. Bowick is in good trim and expects to go in the ring at 135 pounds. Walls will weigh 140 pounds and is said to have won his most recent fight, which was in Augusta some weeks ago, with a man named Daws. Ed. B. Moore, the young white raa:i who was stabbed Sunday night in Columbia by Mark Taylor, died next day a' his home at 1 o'clock. He died in agr.nv nnd a drunken stupor. The tragedy was the result of a drunken rowbetween the two n.en. . Hre managers to the Marion Public library expect to receive a donation from Andrew Carnegie for the library. The renrtiroas upon which all of Mr. Carnegie's donations of this nature are based have beer, complied with by the library there. The amount expected is J7.5C0. which will be used to provide a handsome and comfortable library building. The ground upon which the building is to be placed has already been given. In a row on Saturday night between M<>;'cr Alexander and Jim Thompson at Seneca, two negro brick masons, Alexander was killed. The supposition is that both were drinking. Thompson says he killed Alexander in self-d?ffnse. as Alexander had made several cuts a: him with h.is knife. Thompson killed Alexander by hitting him on the head "with a stick of wood. Two negro children, one a girl about 36 and a little boy 7 years old, living on Blossom street in Columbia, were attacked aDd bitt' n Monday afternoon by a mad dog while they were walking up Sumter street. The girl was bitten on the arm and leg and the boy on the arm. Th<> dog was shot by Officer Irord of the city force. Louisiana Primaries. New Orleans. Special.?The Demo era tic State centia! committee has ordered primaries to nominate a full State ticket. The date will be selected by a sub-committee appointed to formulate the necessary rules. The same primary will decide who shall be bfiited States Senator to succeed Senator. Foster. Senator Foster probably will be the only candidate. Raises Rate of Discount. London, By Cable.?The rate of discount by the Bank of England was increased from 3 to 4 per cent. The rise in the rate was attributed mainly to the withdrawal of gold for the repayment of the Ncltherlands railroad loan and, to a lesser degree, to the demands for gold from Berlin. The action of the bank officials was a great surprise to the stock exchange and caused general all-around depression, especially in consols. It was thought the rise in the bank rate would hinder the supply for American requirements. PALMETTO CROP CONDITIONS j The Past Week One of Abnormaly High Temperatures. The week ending S a. m. Monday, August 31, had a mean temperature of S3 degrees, which is G degrees above normal. The day temperatures ranged from 93 to 102 degrees, and the night temperatures from Gd to S2 degrees. The winds were generally light westerly, and were very drying during the lattor part of the week. The week was rainless until the last day, when showers occurred over a large portion. cxrcpt the southwestern, an 1 north central counties. The showers were loecl in character, and the larger part of the Stat? continues dry and in urgent need of rain, as all crops were suffering from the excessive heat and lack of surface moisture. The rainfall at the close of the week is not noted in the correspondence except from a few stations. The hot, dry weather was very favorable for haying and curing fodder, and for rice harvest that has recently begun. The corn crop is making favorable progress toward maturity, and early corn is ripe, while late corn continues promising but needs rain. The hot weather was damaging to cotton, causing excessive shedding of squares and young bolls, especially on light soils and where affected by rust and blight, both of which have increased rapidly. There is less injury from insects than during the previous week. Cotton is opening rapidly in mstprn and central counties, par ticularly in fields that have rust on the plants, and picking has begun in many places and will soon be general. In the western counties cotton has a larger growth of weed, and is generally more heavily fruited, but open boll are few and picking will not begin for some time, the season being still from two to three weeks late. There is a general need of rain for cotton, in all parts of the State, to prevent further deterioration. Sea-island cotton continues to do well and is promising. Cow peas, sweet potatoes and cane continue promising. Sorghum yields are very good. Rice is improving. Much hay and fodder saved in prime condition. The hay crop will be heavy. Pastures in fair condition. Laborers for picking cotton are scarce in all parts of the State. Fall truck planting continues. It has been too dry for fall white potatoes.?J. W Bauer, Section Director. flurder at a Picnic. Torkville, Special..?A large crowd of negroes had what they called a farmers' picnic on the plantation of Mr. John A. Latta, known as the W. W. Jenkins place, on the Sharon road, three miles west of this place Saturday. In the afternoon some of them get up a difficulty and a negro named Alf Leech shot and killed another negro named Alex Lee. From what can be learned, Leech was trying to raise a row and Lee remonstrated with him, when Leech shot the latter with his pistol concealed in his hip pocket. There was considerable excitement on the grounds and a party of Yorkville negroes held tho murderer until the officers get there from the town. Some of the friends of Leech tried to get the > _ ihn mnn who held him p;jsuuvi Hum u.v ..? but without avail. Sheriff Logan. Constable Peters. Chief of Police Love and a number of white men went out there. Constable Peters secured Leech and brought him to town, placing him in jail. Not long afterwards. Chief Love and Mr. H. C. Glenn came in with two other negroes, one who took part in the difficulty and the other for having two pistols on his person. At this writing I am unable to give further particulars, as it is supposed other /rrcsts will be made, and the officers have not returned to town from the scene of the disturbance. Rich Gold Find. City of Mexico, Special.?Excitement here is at fever heat over the flnding of a wonderful rich gold deposit at Ejutla. All mining men here and many business men and lawyers have gone in a wild rush to the place and are staking out claims. It is probably the richest and most extensive gold district yet discovered in this country and a stampede to the section is antlciI pated. j Fatally Stabb-d. Columbia. Special.?Ed. Moore of I No. 8 Hurlcyville, in an altercation with Mark Taylor of 1910 Assembly street, was fatally stabbed Saturday night. The knife of the latter entered the right lung, between the third and fourth ribs. Both are carpenters, and each Is a man of family. The fight occurred in J. L. Shull's restaurant, north side of Taylor street, about 100 yards east from Main. Moore died at midnight. Taylor was arrested about the time Moore was breathing his last. From the facts obtainable last night, Moore seems to have been the aggressor all the way through. New Religious Paper. Greenwood, Special.?The Methodists of South Carolina are to have another religious weekly. Arrangements were perfected here today by the Rev. C. W. Crelghton, now located at Cokesbury, and other prominent men in other parts of the State. The new paper will be known as the Christian Appeal, and will appeal to the Methodists of the State as a popular-priced religious weekly of a high order. The paper will be issued from Greenwood and will be printed by the Greenwood Index. A CRANK'S VAGER1ES. Man That Wanted to Marry President's Daughter. THE DETECTIVES ARRESTED HIM. ; Fellow Tliat Claimed An Engagement j Willi President Roosevelt Gave the Secret Service Men a Chance to Hern Their Salaries. Oyster Bay. Special.?A man giving his name as Frank Weilbrenuer was j a: rested at Sagamore Hill late Tuesi day night while making a persistent demand to see President Roosevelt. The man was armed with a revolver i fully loaded. He was taken to the vil; lag-3 and placed in ike town prison, j Shortly after 10 o'clock at night | Weilbrenner drove to Sagamore Hill in ! a buggy. He* was slopped "by the Secret i Service detective on duty. Weilbrenner | said he had a personal engagement with the President and wished to see him. As it was long after the hours when visitors are received. the officer declined to permit him to go to the I house. The man insisted but the officer J turned him away. Soon after Weilbrenner returned and J aeain insisted that he he allowed to see ] the President for a minute. This time | he was ordcied away and warned not to return. Just before 11 o'clock the man returned a third time and demanded of the officer that he should be permitted to see the President at once. The officer's response was to take the man from his buggy and put him in the stables, w here he was placed nnrtor ori'-irH of two 6tablemen. A revolver was found in the buggy. Later Weilbrenner was brought to the village and locked up. He is five feet, eight inches high, 28 years old, has a medium-sized dark moustache, dark eyes a-r.d evidently is of German descent. He resides in Syosset, about five miles inland from Oyster Bay. He was well dressed in a suit of dark material and wore an old-fashioned derby hat. While Weilbrenner talked rationally , to the officers last night, it seems evii dent from his conversation that, he is | demented. He said that he had received | a telegraphic communication asking him to call at Sagamore Hill. Weilbrenner's buggy was taken to a local livery barn. When asked what had become of the rig, Wilbrenner replied: "Oh. the Preeident has taken care of it. That's all right." Weilbrenner. several years ago, had j a nervous attack which rendered him { mentally helpless for a day or two. but I his family supposed that he had been * -?3 *? rMA^l/.nl raat. quite resiorea uy ujc umiwi ?. v.-,. meat he had received at that time. Since then he had manifested no symptoms of mental aberration. He had no socialistic or anarchistic tendencies, so far as known, never having been interested in any questions of that kind. He was employed daily on his father's farm. Weilbrenner was arraigned before Juetice Franklin on complaint of the Secret Service detective who placed him under arrest. Weilbrenner's brother. William, was present at the examination. Justice Franklin questioned the prisoner about his movements. His replies were made in a quiet tone of voice, but they indicated, apparently beyond doubt, that the man is crazy. Asked why he went to Sagamore Hill , he replied: "I went to see the President about j his daughter, Alice." "Had you an engagement with the j President?" I "Yes." "How was the engagement maae: i "I talked with the President lasv, night," replied Weilbrenner. "How did you talk with him?" "Oh. I just talked." "A sort of wireless talk, was it?" "Yes. that is it: a wireless talk." "Why did you want to see the President about Miss Alice?" "I wanted to marry her." "Did you ever see Miss Roosevelt?" "Yes. I saw her night before last." "Where did you see her?" "At my house." "Did she go over there?" "Yes. she came in a red automobile." "Who accompanied her?" "Her brother. Theodore." Justice Franklin, after the examination. concluded he would hold Weilbrenncr until an inquiry of lunacy could be held upon his case. Norfolk Navy Yard. Washington. Special.?The following estimates for Improvements and expenditures at the navy yard named have been made by the chief of the bureau of yards and docks, the figures having been prepared by the civil engineers attached to the yards: !Corfclk. total $2,518,000. the principal items being: For ships and d;y docks S450.000; two 10,000-ton coal sheds, wharves, etc.. $225,000; general store houses. $100,000 ; 31 buildings, $315,000; ship-fitters* shop, mould loft, pattern shop. etc.. $300,000; offloe buildings, $410,000; launching ways $100,000. Jackson Finch Hanged. Richmond. Va? Special.?Jackaon Finch, colored, wa3 hanged at Boydton. for an attempted assault on a white woman of Chase City. Dock Bacon. another negro, was convicted of complicity in the crime, but was re, prieved by the Governor today until i September 4. so a3 to permit of further examination into his case. The I two negroes narrowly escaped lynch- j Ing at the time the crime was commit, ted. END OF CUP RACES, The American Boat Won Out It Every Test. cup cnnwtn hfd siiPfBinoiTV JI1L JDV/flLV itL(\ wwi bnivnii i The Final Race Was flade 01 Thursday?Sir Thomas Makes i Speech. The international cup contest that has been in progress for the past twe weeks came to a close on Thursday when the American boat, the Reliance won a third time. The racing this ycai was peculiar in that the British challenger. Shamrock III failed to scon a single victory, losing in every sori of weather. Sir Thomas Lipton has made a brave fight for the cup, but has failed three times in succession. The events of the present seasor have been about as follows: The first race was a failure, both hosts failing to cross the line within the time limit. The second race showed a signal victory for the Reliance. The third race was closer, the Reliance winning by a very narrow margin?less than two minutes. The fourth and fifth races were both failures on acoeunt of the slow breezt blowing. The yachts failed to make at efTort on Saturday because of th( stormy weather. On Monday the wind was stationary and no race was run. un ruesua-y m< conditions were the same, and Wednesday showed no improvement. The final and deciding race was rut on Thursday and was a complete viei?l * At***' "*" )/ amebica's err. tory in favor of the Reliance, th< American defender. The details of the final race are giver in the folowing dispatch: New York, Special.?The Reliance the American cup defender, won th< third and final race, and the series foi that famous sea trophy, the American': cup. In a dense fog, which prevente; vision beyond 200 yards, she finiahec the race at 5:30:02, amid the acclama tion of the assembled fleet. Shamrocl III., after running for more than ar hour in the fog, miS3cd the finisn line passed by it, and then returned to i from the opposite direction. As the Re liance was then being towed throng! the fleet yacht, ensigns fluttering fron her truck and spreading in eelebratior of her victory, the Shamrock III. die not cross the finish line. As often salt of the historic race when the Americ: von the cup, there was no second. This successful result was achieve: only after four futile attempts to sai off the final race and after the outcocn had been admitted by even Sir Thomrs Lipton to be a foregone conclusion The day's was the eighth attempt tc sail a race. After one fluke the Reli ante won the two following races, on; by 7 minutes and 3 seconds, and th< other by 1 minute and 19 seconds. * week ago the first atempt to sail th< third race failed and attempts hav< been made every day this week. Or two occasions the Reliance led th< Shamrock to the finish line by about 2 miles, but failed to reach it befori the expiration of the time limit of 5^ hours. The day's victory means tha the cup is destined to remain in America until England is able to produce i genius equai to HerreschofT in yacht designing. Sir Thomas Sp-'P.ks. A banquet was tendered Sir Thom as Lipton at New York Friday night It was a brilliant affair. The toasts and responses were felicitous. Th( speech of Sir Thomas was as fo! lows: "As regards the cup races we have been beaten fairly and square ly and I congratulate America upor having the better boat. I wish t( take occasion htre to express mj "?*-- v.a onnrtoousness anc in/UlKB lui IUI, klndnes shown rae by the New Yorl Yacht Club. I am especially grate ful for the admirable way in whicl the course was kept clear. "I have heard much comment to: and against the Sandy Hook course It is as good a course as any otherr.av there is no other course in thi world like it. "I am benginning to think tha there is some magic spell About tha bloomin' old cup. Two years ago had almost within my grasp, but i escaped me then as it has escaped m now, and seems as far cfT as evei Hcrreschoff is the greatest deslgne of the age. but I am still very hope ful that I will see that cup on th other side. "The American country is ver t hard to beat. I am a very dlssaj pointed man. but still I have the cor solation that both conquerers and f i conquered belong to the same good I old race. The cup Is still in the fam ily, only it is held by a younger and more ahead generation. I "Gentlemen, while I lost the cup. I T rather did not succeed In winning it. I have not lost the steem and good will of my American friends, which esteem and good will I reciprocate in the very highest degree possible. I am sure that as the days and years ? roll by these contests will not have been held in vain if they make us 1 realize that wherever we are all thr j , world over we shall 'brithers be fra' that.'" Comm ts Su:cIJe. : New York, Special.?Christopher > Thompson, 52 years old, father of ^ ' Hugh Thompson, the boy who was . , rescued last Thursday from the French | .p T unric Marie ^nui uc uuiuaui, iu... ?^ . miles east of Sandy Hook, committed I n : suicide some time yesterday at his ei t home in Brooklyn. He drank carbolic a > acid. The man's treatment of his son 0 w 5 was being investigated by the Federal ^ authorities and this, with violent quar- v. : re-Is with his wife, who was much an- g gered because of the treatment her boy ^ i received, arc believed to have caused n i Thompson to take his own life. ii . fi 1 Collision On East River 81 New York, Special?The Metro- t] politan was in collision with the gun- Si boat Scorpion in the East river Wed- rr nesday. The two vessels struck at a ^ i point in the river well toward the 0 ; Brooklyn shore. The Scorpion struck >; i the Whitney on the starboard bow a i and drove two holes in the vessel, 8 one about seven feet above the water r line and another about two feet a ) above. The Whitney put back to her y pier, where she discharged her y freight and passengers. 5 b i u Pore Urges Agreement. Rome. 3y Cable.?Pius X. has repre- ^ sentcd to the Austrian Emperor the a advisability, especially on the part of t Catholic powers, of coming to an agree- J" ment as to the best way to stop the T massacres in Macedonia. Several cardi- b nsls have expressed the opinion that the Pontiff should publicly denounce t ">? aitunMnn trs Macedonia to the civ- t Hired world without distinction of rc- 8 Iigion, calling on all the powers to 8 take common action on humanitarian grounds. Bulgarians Defeated. r Salonica, By Cable? Hllmi Pasha, in- !, spector general of Macedonia, has tele- c graphed from Monastir that a Bulga- ( rian band was defeated September 1, c between Klissura and Kastoria, with ,v heavy loss. The remainder of the band g :'a being pursued by the Turks. An- 1 other band was defeated the same 1 day near Veneelanogratsko and 30 of the in6urengts were killed. Another a band of 16 rebels waa destroyed near 1 Milnlk. I THE TERRIBLE SMALL BOY. How He Crested Discomfort for Pai- A i censers on Car. He couldn't ha?o been more than flf- t teen, and he was a perfect specimen f [ of the type of street boys one read3 : about but seldom sees. He was stand- 1 ; ing on the back platform, smoking, r j when the attention of the genial pasl senger was first called to him, and At-1- La?* nff tho uij8 utjuttubc uc uuj hi unu^u ; genial passenger's ccat and apologized r i lor nearly setting It on flre. [ "Beeo ter the ball game?" the boy j c Inquired. The genial passenger ad- i ~ mitted that he hadn't had that pleas- t j ure. e , "Peach of a game," said the boy. * 1 Just at this point a fashionably | 1 dressed young man boarded the car * > and went inside, where, after seating < himself, he pulled up his trousers, dis- , j playing a pair of brilliantly*colored c ; rocks. The boy moved over to the c . doorway, and, crouching, with his head inside the door, fixed his eyes ) in a fascirated stare on th'e gayly clad - ankles. When he was sure he had at? tracted the attention of all the passen- p ? ger3 to the ofTcndlng articles he yell- t ^ ed derisively: j ^ "Bum show! Drop der curtain!" * [ By this time the geninl passenger ? had reached his corner, but before he t had a chance to get off a good looking J i middle aged woman pushed by him * ! and stepped off the car, remarking f 1 sharply as she did so on the evils of f smoking. Of course her speech was t directed to the boy. Quick as a flash he retorted: "The old gal's mad because I wouldn't flirt with her." J The car moved off. with the boy t smiling and happy and the woman i j flushed with anger and wishing she j ? could box the young scamp's ears.? c - New York Press. c 1 Bellows of 2,503 Years Ago. . ' Dr. Johnson says, respecting the j j word bellows, "perhaps it is corruptc ed from bellies, the wind being con- c{ - tained in the hollow or belly. It has c i no singular, for we usually say. a pair ? of bellows, but Dryden has used bel I r lows as a singular." 1 ,,c from an olrl his onausj - - -? ? ~ torian. that Anacharsis, the Scythian philosopher, who lived in the time of t Solon, about COO vear3 before Christ, t invented the bellows, as well as the 1 I anchor and potter's wheel, but this ac- : t count Is very doubtful, as Pliny, Sen- j e eca, Diogenes, etc.. who likewise * speak of the Inventions ascribed to [ that philosopher, mention only the f e two last, and not the bellows. 1 It appears, however, that they were 1 7 known in ancient times to the Greeks, ! )- and Virgil mentions them in his fourth 1 i- Georgic.?Mirror. , 'j (ILLED AND INJURE I ? ? -I here Were Seventy Passengers On the |Cars. LECTRIC CARS RUN TOGETHER. he Acc'dent Occurred on the New Hampshire Traction Company's Line. Pelham, N. H., Special.?Through a. ead-on collision Sunday between'two lectric cars on the New Hampshire raction Company's line, each running. . is said, at a rate of more than 25 lilcs an hour, four persons were kill? tl and 19 so seriously injured that they . j re under physicians' care and several f these are expected to die. As there ere 70 passengers on the two cars. g lany others received cuts and minor ounds which did not prevent their oing to their homes. The accident ocnrred on the line which runs through ;is town between Lowell and Nashua, nd one of the cars, which was comig from the latter city, was nearly J? lied with people on their way to a nmmer resort. The collision was due, according to ;? r.e officials of the road, to a misunder- y Landing of the starter's orders by the lotorman of the car bound for Nashua. ' he- car starter endeavored to rectify his mistake by sending a man to shut * . ft the power and trying to recall the iashua-bound car, but it failed. The ccident occurred on a curve, on either ide of which we:e long stretches df . iraight rack. The dead as reported up to 10 o'clock re as follows: Charles H. Gilbert, 50 < ears old, Nashua; Gabriel Collett, 25 ears old, Nashua; George C. Andrews, G years old. postamster, Hudson, N. [.; Samuel Mays, motorman on Nasha car, Hudson. The cars met on the curve on ft owngrade, neither motorman aeeU>K he approaching car until too late to void a collision. Neither was ther? ime for the passengers to escape by j; umping when the cars came together ' ' ' < rith a force that threw the west ound oar directly upon the forward :r art of the other, crushing the top of ar down upon the others and pinning hose occupying the first three seats in' he wreokage. Not one of the passen-.. ers on the two cars escaped injury of ome character, although a number ? tere not seriously hurt. Awful Condition at Monastl. London. By Cable.?The Dally Mail's orrespondent at Monastir, telegraph- /, ng under Saturday's date, says: i There is no doubt that a Turkish war . -A f extermination is proceeding in the vj Jkrida district. The massacres of m entury ago are as nothing compared f* t ith these occurring daily in the villaet of Monastir. I have obtained subtantial evidence to prove that the J "urki6h Nizaras (Turkish regular roops) are in most cases committing mheard-of atrocities, which are not olely the work of the Ba3hi>-BasookS, is the authorities are seeking to prove. * "he plight of the survivors is terrible. 'S Jot daring to leave their houses and ubsisting on grass and water, they J esemble people in the last stages of 1 amine. The Turks are also losing v< ieavily. judging from the number of vounded arriving." Among the alliances he giv^ In support ot^om tatcment. the correspondent relate# hat a priest's son in one Tillage wu iayed alive and kept in this horrible c-nditinn for several days, to the deight of his tormentors, until a mercJul Turk shot him dead. Fire at Columbia. Columbia. S. C., Special.?Sunday light about midnight a destructive onflagration started in this city oil Hain street. It originated in the sod* ountain of Xepapas, in the Wiley juilding, which war. a roaring mass ot 1;- .v bef.i-e the alarm could be given :nd the department summoned. At 3 i. m., the fire was still in progress and t is believed that the Desportes and "" ' iiimnaugh blocks are practically uined. The losses will be heavy. The Southern Railway's offices, Howie's Photograph gallery, and Mimnaugh's ? /? ?? oro riostmred The loss .'1UII1IH& acwi t ui v ? ( annot be estimated at this hour, but ' t is believed will mr.ount to $75,09ft. Secured His Release. Pittsburg, Special.?After threw >revious attempts to have his resigns ? ion accepted by his congregation, lev. Frederick Brand, 'pastor of St. 'aul's Second German Lutheran :hurch, succeeded in gaining his obect and will accept a call to Trinity Jerman Lutheran church, at Spring- ^ leld. 111. He will leave for his new ield in about three weeks. Turpentine Operators. Montgomery. Special?A special from acksonvilie. Fla., says: "The turpenine operators' convention will be held n Jacksonville next Thursday and ^riday. The official programme . in- . ludes addresses from Mayor Nolan, if Jacksonville: former Governor Fleming, of Florida; P. L. Soutberand. of Jacksonville; Captain John R. roung. of Savannah, Ga.,* and Dr. CX {. Herty, of Washington, D. u. inaiations are that the convention will be he largest ever held. Many matters . if importance to the industry in Geor-' :ia, Florida. Alabama. Mississ'ppi. xmisiana and North and South Caroina will be considered." Attempted Regicide. Vienna, By Cable.?Special dig- ' latches gave an unconfirmed report of in attempt on King Peter's life at v'teh on Saturday. It is said that stones were thrown at the royal carriage, one striking the King in the face, and a pistol was fired from a neighboring window. It is also rumored that the Sixth Servian Regiment, notorious for he part it played in the recent regicides, has been ordered to Nlsh.