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The kinc 4 _^hon! A NOVEL OF AMERICAN LIP CV MAURICE Copyright, IS;2 ?D(i 1WT CHAPTER XVIIL COXTIXUED. "Oil, I know that's just what he will do!" cried Mademoiselle de Sezanucs, relapsing again into hysterical weeping and beginning to wring her hand?. "Oil, please, .Madame Vernon, tell the coachman to take us back! We shall all be murdered this very night!" , The suggestion was infectious. Pauline caught the chill of fear, and Mrs. Vernon lost control of herself at an unguarded moment. The carriage rumbled on through the forest, and, if there had been any t>erso:? to hear, the voices of the women crying in discord must have sounded strange indeed under the circumstances. Tho coachman must also have beeu affected, for he urged his . horses impatiently and kept increasing their speed until they were making a rather reckless dash of it along the road within view of a broad grassy marsh stretching away to a shining sheet of -* water. Mrs. Vernon drew all the curtains close over tho windows, as soon as eho could command herself, and began to chide Mademoiselle do Soeannes and Panline for their foolish excitement. Just then there was the sound of a horse galloping by in an opposite coarse to that of the carriage. Paaline looked oat of the little rear window, her eyes still streaming tears. "Why, it is Lientenant Ballauche!" she exclaimed/ "Why didn't he stop snH speak to us?" Mademoiselle de Sezannes almost thrust her from the pane in her eagerness to look out. "It is! It is!" she quavered. Call -? - v:? i ci? i nk " tu U1LU : Olrup UIUl; Vu She clasped her hands and gazed while the rigorous bounds of the house bore the young officer farther and father hack along the meandering road between tho trees, and presently lost him behind a fringe of bay bushes in the distance. "Oh. he never looked back or made even a sign; and he muBt havo known us!" criod Mademoiselle de Sezaunes. In a few minutes the carriage was drawn up in front of the plantation house, which was a oue-story, wooden structure set upon a high foundation of oak posts connected by a latticework of slender boards. An orange grove, dark and rich, stood in the background, and over a squat, broad veranda grew a closely-matted jasmine vine. In the distance were rows of cabins built under the shade of im>. mense moss-draped live-oaks. r The coachman dismouuted and opened the carriage door for the ladies, and little Lizette, Lupin's daughter, ran out of the honso to ' greet thorn. A sharp, salt breath from the marshes not far otf was blowing merrily. Mrs. Ternon descended first, fol lowed by Mademoiselle de Sezanucs, and theu Pauline precipitated herself upou Lizette, whose dark, pretty lace was all dimples and smiles. The snu came out, too, as if to clear away with a flood of golden light all the gloom that had attended the littlo journey. "Well, treeming folks, I air mighty mnch orbleoged ter ye for this yar ride w"at ye let me hev','' remarked the well remembered voice of Enos Peevy, the scout. The old fellow had found a seat between the curved suspension spriugs behiud the carriage, where he had ridden unobserved, and now he stepped forth, gun in hand, evidently satisfied with himself ami every person present "Ef ye'd er knowed'at I 'e tbar', I 'pec' ye.'d a* cried more 'n ye did. He-he-he! Ha-ha-ha! But ye didn't know it, did ye?" He chuckled and n?im?/.oiI /<nmi<<ik1lr "Wall, wee ID - ing folks," he added presently, shouldering his long rifle and adjusting hi* otter-skin ballet-pouch aud his transpareut powder-horn, "? mus' be agoiu'. Ef ever I kin do jea sarvice I'll do it. Good-bye, weeming folks." He tnrned about and walked away, as straight as an arrow and as brisk as a boy; but before he had gone far he looked back, stopped, appeared to reflect a moment and tbeu called back to them: "Say. weeming folks, I'll tell'ye what: Ef I see any sigu o' Britishers ero\in' yar, w'y, I'll jes' step in an' telfye. so's ye kin git up au' skin out afore they cotchye." There was something honest* and earnest in the ring of his voice, and the gleam from his steel-blue eyes, if apt warm, was steadfast aud friendly. When bo was gone, Mrs. Vernon remembered this and wondered why she had not thanked him for his proffered kind ness; bat tbo mention of British ?oldiors. couuied with the suggested probability that they might visit the place, so alarmed her. that she could not think of anything else for the moment, that he was sneaking. They found the house most comfortably prepared for them, nud when Lapia arrived later in the day. with such of the servants from Chateau d'Or as Mr. Vernon had thought best to send, there came such a sense of homelike security that they could not help looking at one another complacently in silent acknowledgement ol what, it now seomed, had been a mood of undue nervousness. (raafc&tae: ? w:"' \ l^'i; x O F' EY ISLAND E DURING THE WAR OF ISI2. : TKCMPSON, ; y TiOtcrt Bonntr's Sons. | LizeUe had brought in from the nower garueu great uumjuota ui iv?r and violets (for, despite the miusaui cold weather, the vines and tangled beds were still a mass of bloom), and with these she tud deftly decorated the airy and fresh smelling rooms. Moreover, a delicato luncheon was awaiting them, set in a cozy ulcove where low, broad windows let in a soft light which was first filtered through a screen of magnolia boughs and a gray fringe of Spanish raoss. Under the circumstauces, it was quite impossible for three woiueu, all of them French, to be otherwise than enthusiastic, even if their enthusiasm did consciously root itself back in a heavy sense of but haif suppressed dread. Mademoiselle dc Sezanues was, perhaps, the most cheerful one. She even tried to be gav over tho conduct of Lieutenant Bullauche, whom she persisted in accusing of willfully passing her by unnoticed. It is dne to the young mau to say, however, that he was scarcely aware of the carriage as ho rode pa3t it. His head was down, and his thoughts were fixed on a most iuiportaut duty; for he was fiying to General Jackson with news from within the enemy's line? A fleet of barges, heavily manned with | fiuely equipped soldiers, was on Bayon j Bienvenn, and in a few honrs theEug; lish would have an army safely landed I fKi rtifw ThA infnrmatirtn this UOiVTT VUV V*?J? *?w aw.v. time was authentic, for with his owii eyes he had sceu what he was to rei port. Naturally earnest and intense in j his disposition, ho felt to the fallest ' measure the responsibility resting . upon him. He would not trust auy courier to bear the message which might hold the fate of New Orleans and the conntry. So he rodo all the way aa fast as he dared urge his horse, and ou his nerves lay the strain of au all-absorbing excitement. The car* , riage whisked past him as n mere | formless, colorless incident of his 1 j flight to headquarters. He romem! bered afterward well enough when he ! would have given his life to know that ! he had halted just long euough to bid ; the coachman tnrn back and drive at i once to New Orleans. Everything , and every person visible about the | carriage catne out strong and clear, ; like a suddenly develowed photograph, j in his mind. The horses, the round-1 I faced, snowy-wooled coachman, the; closely drawn curtains, the wheels j flecked with sandy mud?even the old; man riding on the projection between j i the high-carved springs?he could | see nil so plaiuly and yet through what! a tilm of horrible mystery! And in I : that closed vehicle, though unseen byj , liirn, the girl he loved, the girl who] hfed so lately promfsed to be his wife j ! was going on all uuhindereJ to disapI pear as completely and mysterionsly , as if caught up by the spirits of the i air. Mrs. Vernon and the youug ladies ' passed the rest of the day iu compara1 tive comfort of mind. Lapin was there with a score or more of strong colored j ! men to protect them; everything looked peaceful aud sweet. Why should they bo afraid? They would not be afraid, | they declared they would cot; they would be brave women worthy of j strong-hearted patriotic men. They j vowed in it their inmost hearts. So long as daylight lasted, they ! held well to their determination and | kept up a fine show of it; but even when dinner came, served so fault' lessly by Lizette, their hearts began ; to sink a little, and they felt the chill creepiug over them again. Mrs. Vernon struggled vigorously against what she kuew was the wor3t i thing for them, but what could she do when a dense fog blew iu from liurgne ! and the night became an encircling ' wall of blackuess, through which the low moaning of some tall pine-trees crept with iulioite sadness? She looked for a book to reail aioua 1 and chanced upon an old edition of "La Princesse de Cleves," by Madame LaFayette. The girls hnddled close to her, and she tried to make them | interested iu the story, taking care I not to go too f&r into its sentimentali; ties. Her voice, however, sounded | uunatural, sho thonght, aud the vol| umc was soon thrown aside"I can never, never go to sleep to! night!" cried Mademoiselle do Sezaunes. "Oh, why did I ever come here!" Lapiu was in the kitchen: they heard him siuging a patois ditty between his pipes. Lizette had gone to bed.-' "We shall be ashamed of ourselves iu the morniuc." said Mrs. Vernon. "The sun will come up, and everything will be so bright aud cheerful that it will seem like sinful folly tohave been afraid." "And think what they?what tho i men who are in tho camps to-night j may soon hare to meet!" Pauline j found courage to say. "It is ihcy j who have the right to be wretched; aud yet I dare say they uevor think of complaining." "I kuow I am heartless and selfish," Mademoiselle de Sezannes half sobbed, "but 1 can't help it?it's dreadful! Why did they send us away ofT out here alone in the dark? And then to thiuk that he would ride right past like that!" Mrs. Veruon smiled wretchedly. "How could hj know, dear, that' ' - U. ? / . / you were in the carriage?" All of the eurtaius were closely drawn, you remember, and be could not have scea any of us." "He might have stopped us?ho didn't look?lie " Just then there arose a trampling souud, as of men crossing (he verr.uda. Some one knocked on the door, aud they heard voices. Mrs. Vernon sprang to her feel, too girls clinging tightly and breath Us*!/ a . 1. . _ Ki iter. Lapin cara> in from tlie kitchen when he heard the knockiugAiid .-tend irresolnte. Ho mti11 held his pip,* in one hand, while with the other he was aimlessly fainb'iug in the pocktt of his jacket. "Go to see who it is," Mrs. Veruon managed to say. Lapiu went gingerly to the door nnd called out in a weal; voice: "Who'* there?" "A friend," was the prompt auswer. Pauline and her mother started aud looked at each other. It was the voice of Colonel Loring. "Open the door immediately!" he commanded gruffly. "There's no tiwo for ceremony!" Lapin, iu a very ague of fear, fumbled at the bars ana ooits. His hands shook so that he made slow work of it, and when at last he quakingly polled open the heavy woodeu abutter, he fell back aghast before the tall form of the incomer aud gasped hoarsely: "Pierre Bsmean!" CHAPTEr. XIX. THE SHADOWS OF DAKK DAYS. When Lieutenant Ballanche returned from his reconnaissance in tho dirootion of the mouth of Bavou Bienveun, he brought a report which caused General Jackson to issue orders immediately for the doubling of all the oatpost pickets and for all the troops to hold themselves ready to march at the tap of the drum. As yet the reinforcements so long 1 and so anxiously waited for had not arrived, and the situation was most perplexing. From a bnndred sources came the infoimation, doubtless exaggerated and over-colored, that the Creoles of ths city were concocting an uprising in favor of the English. Thas to the commanding general it appeared that with an overwhelming alien enemy before him, he should have to move his little army down the river and leave behind him a horde of traitors, who were but waiting for an opportunity to fall upon the supplies in the rear and so render defeat inevitable. ^It was at this point that Mr. Vernon came to his aid with three hundred men well armed and equipped. They were not n soldierly looking battalion, measured by the ordinary standard of military taste, but there was fight in them; and Jackson, who read men at a glance, felt their efficiency, as he looked them over in a hasty review. Mr. Vernon had acted with amazing energy in the matter, sending out runners to call a meeting in one of the public squares. Singularly euongh these couriers did not seem to notify the better class of people, but entered the gambling dens, the low cafes, the haunts of the Chats-Haunts, the hnts of the river rats and the garrets of the quadroon quarters. And oat of these places poured moil and yonths of all colors, speaking a half-dozen languages, strangely picturesque, ready for anything, and especially ready and willing to go and do whntTnla? Vonimi micrht, ?slc nf Uinm. Their coining together was reported to Jackson, who. at first supposing them a mob of his enemies, thought of inarching a force to disperse them; bat he was restrained after mnch persuasion by Claiborne, Edward Livingston and Commodore Patterson. Upon so small an event hung the fate of New Orleans. Had that meeting of the lawless ones been interferrcil with in the slightest by the military, the city would have beeu burned to tho ground, with a result of a fatal panic in the already suffering American army. Mr. Vernon had caused a small platform to be erected in the square; from this lie addressed his motley assembly in English, iu French, in Spanish and iu German. lie know just what to say to them and just how to say it. His huge frame ami powerfully magnetic face were strong auxiliaries to his eloquent words and richly sonorous voice. Almost immediately the vast crowd beneath him was wild with enthusiasm; their shouts were heard at Jacksou's headquarters, whither word was quickly brought that a popular movement was being successfully agitatod in his favor by Mr. Vernon. The iron chieftain's face lit up with hope and pleasure. Ordering his horse, he at once rode to tho sceue, coming up at the time when the crowd was at its highest pitch of excitement. Mr. Vernon took quick auvanlago - * 11? >Inh'n/? a fitt* tron oi ime luciucui. A uiumi^ .v .... floral as lie sat like a grim statue iu his saddle, he thundered forth: "Behold, citizens! Yonder rides your leader?yonr uucomiuerablo general!" Every face was turned, and evory eye was riveted upon the gaunt form and implacable face of Jackson. He lifted his hat and waved it with a alow sweep around his head. For a moment they saw the Hhock of bristling hair, the stern brows and the tirin lips?they saw the steely eyes gleam j as with a vision ot victory. "Live the Republic!" roared Mr. Vernon, with tho voice of a lion. "Live ibe bravo general wlio has a>uie to save New Orleans and Louisiana!" He spoke in French, and his word* were tho signal for a very tempest of vehement applause. Tho excitable rubble look up the cry: ' (TO EE CONTINUED.) JWAWAV.V.V.W.V.V.V# | ? HOUSEHOLD ? * 5| I 5 * ? * * MATTERS iv.'.V/.V.VAW.W.VV.wJ J A French Way. The French cook pens by blending one tablespoonful of butter with a teaspoonful of tlour; add to this a pint r of yo'iftig pens, a small bunch of pars- ^ ley. one eup of water, six very small onions. Cook forty minutes, take out j the parsley, then add salt, pepper and a teaspoonful of sugar, the yolk of one egg. a small piece of butter. Mix thoroughly and serve hot on toast. Tli* I'tr* of fharconl. t All sons of glass vessels and other utensils can be purified bjr rinsing j them well with charcoal powder. Rubbing fhe teeth and washing out the ? mouth with tine eharcoal powder will beautify the former and purify the breath. Putrid water can he immediately deprived of its had smell by charcoal; a few pieces of charcoal placed on meat. fish, etc., that are beginning to spoil will preserve thera and absorb all the strong odors. A tablet of willow charcoal" taken twice daily will purify the stomach and aid digestion.?American Queen. Our Furniture. F urniture coverings were never better made. The materials are usually a Cool and attractive looking. Some forest green bedroom furniture j in a style suggesting the mission dc- a light fni. y, la addition to beating stuffed furnl- t ture It is well to allow it to stand out t in tlie sunshine a little while now and 1 then. ' a For liedrooms.flor.nl cretonnes match- 8 lng the language make pretty chair d coverings. Linseed oil. turpentine and vinegar g in equal ports, make an admirable s furniture polish. Mix thoroughly and t apply with hard friction. * If a house is to be shut up moths jj may be kept out of the chairs and d hangings by spraying them with tur- t pentlne. v Heavy pieces arc rather to lie avoided t in the average house, as it is important. that they may be moved and the dust o dispatched frequently. b leather-covered pieces may be refreshed by a rubbing with a mixture composed of two parts of crude oil and e one of benaine. p t Broad and Cake Roxm. || There is some difference of opiuion b as to the proper place to store bread a and cake. A great many housekeepers. * following time honored precedent, still keep their bread and cake In large 1 Stoneware crocks, fitted with covers. ^ The objection to these is that they are ^ very heavy to lift, and in summer are c apt to invite mould, unless they are ? kept in a dry. upstairs closet. Such ti broad crocks should t?e scalded out tl every time they lire filled, or as often r as twice a week. Cake crocks need ? not be scalded out so often. They g should both be cold and dry wheu they are filled again and shut up. g Bread crocks are so heavy and cause a so much unnecessary labor that large t boxes of tin enamelled on the outside tl have been substituted for them. There a are. however, more objections to tin & than to stone ware. Tin Is apt to give a "tinny" taste to any bread or cuke kept in it. To avoid tills some bread boxes are furnished with ventilators. ^ This dries the bread. Sometimes draw- a ers for cake-and bread ure fitted in v, storerooms. These are lined with tin. h and are better than anything else, if ll furnished with linen cloths, in which ^ the bread or cake is wrapped securely ^ from contact with the tin. though they ^ are not impervious, as nothing but an jf airtight, covered box would be. to at- c tacks of kitchen insects, which in the h city may sometimes invade the neatest t! and best protected kitchens. House- n keepers in the country do not always * appreciate iheir blessings, one of which Is immunity from insect pests when ^ proper precautions are exercised.?New ^ York Tribune. ? P fcaU8?G*iii S Soft Gingerbread?One pint of molas- b bos, one cupful of butter, half a cupful ^ of warm water, one tablospoonful of ^ sodn, one tablespoonful of pinker, two eggs and flour to make the consistency n f a soft batter. Stir the soda in the a molasses until it foams, add the beaten 4 eggs, the butter?which has been softened but not melted?then the water, ginger and flour. Bake in shallow pans in a moderate oven over half an hour. Cherry Tie?Line a deep pie plate with plain paste; brush over with the *' beaten white of an egg. fill with pitted t< cherries and sprinkle over thrpe-qunr- w ters of a cup of sugar; dredge with one v tablespoonful of flour or corn starch, tl one titblesponfnl of butter dropped g) over the top in small bits; wet the ^ edges of the lower crust and put on the upper crust and flute the edges, and be careful to make slashes in the n upper crust ior the escape of air. ^ Pineapple Pudding?Butter slices of K bread and line a dish with them. Pare f. and slice a pinenpplc thinly. Cut in strips, put in a layer of the strips, sprinkle with sugar, then another layer of pineapple, until the dish is full. Cover with buttered bread, pour over t: all a cup of cold water. Put in a ir moderate oven, cover and bake one hour: then remove the cover and bake L one hour longer. The bread shonld be t< browned before removing from the <. oven. a It is said that a single grain of gold, s after having been converted into gold b leaf, will cover forty-tix inches. ti i :L ' ; , ."V V ^ . s MYWOOD IS FREED lury Satisfied as to the Innocence ftf 4ha k rriteo A HI llll rtllUOWU IUICKLY MADE UP AN OPINION ury in Hay wood-Skinner Case Tried in Raleigh Deliberated Only a Few Minutes. i Raleigh, Special.?After being out lot more than 15 minutes Wednesday, ha jury in the trial of Ernest Hays'ood for the murder of Ludlow Skinier returned a verlict of not guilty. There was no demonstration, but miles of delight were on the faces of iaywood, his counsel and his four irothers, who have been constantly rith him. Haywood shook hands with lis counsel, and when he was disiharged went at once to the jury box ind shook hands with each juror, reurning thanks. Next he went to Judge 'eebles and did the same. Colonel T. A. Argo closed for the defense, urgng self-defenEe for Haywood and a ier?eculion of him and wiwtnesse3 for he defense. Judge Peebles next comnented on the evidence and charged he jury. It was charged very favoraile to the defendant Haywood shot nd killed Skinner in front of the postiffice here on February 21. A prelimilary hearing was waived and at the Jarch term the trial was postponed on .ccount of absent witnesses. At the isbeas corpus, the first of June, Hayrood was released on $10,000 bail. In he case seven lawyers appeared for he defense and five for the State. An ding solicitor was employed, as the olicitor declined to act because of his elationship to Haywood. The defenant did not testify. Judge Peebles gtated that as the !tate admitted there was a blow tricken. then the charge of murder In | he 6*ccnd degree was eliminated, it ras 11:35 o'clock when the Judge gave ils charge to the Jury, which occupied fty minutes. He said it was not the uty of the jury to be led off by atarks on the prosecution. The question rhich concerns the jury was whether be defendant was guilty of any crime -murder in the first or second degree, r nothing. The jury should be guided y evidence and nothing else; to take he evidence from the witnesses and be law from the courts, and not the iw from the attorneys. There is no xposed malice in this case, there is im. lied malice. The burden is on the depndant to prove there was no malice a the case. Claims he has done that v Simras. Schmitz, Hocutt, Barnes nd Fuller, and says there was not a ritness. except Sauls who contradicts hat. No witnesses, exctpt Sauls say hey saw any of the beginning of the rouble. The defendant says you ought o believe him, because it is five to one. 'be defendant says Sauls is not bad haracter. and that there are other dtnesse* who strengthen his contenion. Two witnesses, Mr. Billings and he jailer, say the defendant had a ed spot on his face. The defendant ays he thinks he was excusable uner the circumstances and that ohmitz. Hocutt. Fuller and Barnes all wore that when Haywood rose up kinncr had jumped away 8 or 10 feet, nd all of them say he had his hand on is pocket, some say the right, some he left hand. He claims there is not s much conflict of evidence as might e imagined. That under those condiions he believed his life in danger, and hat nobody contradicts, except Sauls, nd the defendant thinks the others ught to be believed in preference. Here he judge read Jones Fuller's evidence, nd said it was for the jury to say rhether the shot could have struck im as Fuller thought. Notwithstandig the fact that the State claimed to ave proved the bad characters of chmitz and Hocutt, yet. there are bir- t umstanoes to show they told the truth, "he defendant claims their testimony ? corroborated without regard to their haracters; that he had apprehension e was about to be shot and that then tie law excuses him. But these are iatters for the Jury to decide. Because man acts coolly it does not debar hhn rom the benefit of the law. The State ays the jury ought to believe Fuller, rho said when he saw the deceased e was making no effort to draw d istol. The State sayi it ought not t? be re. eived because of the blow. The blow id not excuse the killing but did way with malice. If the jury believes be killing was done from anger and assion, and not from reasonable fear, he defendant is guilty of manslaughsr. The jury is not responsible to anody for its verdict. If the deceased limped back and was attempting to raw a pistol the defendant Lad a right k ftvir The jury was not out long?barely la linutes, when it came in. There wai ruah. Foreman Wiggs gave the verict, " Not uilty." Senator Qreen Arrested. Birmingham, N. Y., Social.?Senator eorge E. Green was arrested and arsigned before United States Commisloner Hall on an indictment fornd 0?>ber 8, in Washington, charging him ith conspiring with George W. Beaers and Williard I). Doremus to sel le government, through Beavers, Lamp cancelling machines, known as le Doremus machine, in which Green as largely interested. Green de:anded an examination, and the case as set down for November 9, when ic previous indictmeat will come up. ail was fixed at $5,COO, which was .rnished. 5,000 Truants in Topeka. Topeka, Kan., Special.?L. T. Gage, ruancy officer, notified the city supcrltcndent that there were 5,000 chilren of school ago who are not standing the city schools. The truancy uv requires all children between tho ges of 8 and 15 years to be sent to chool. A list of the missing children i in the hands of officers, and acion will be taken. * - , . t ' '.'; 1 pram ffiiBjl J ninor EvenU of the Week In i x Brief Form. \ Fight Over Tillman Trial. Colombia. S. C., Special.?News has been received here of a p. Lmble homicide in Orangeburg county. A. C. Goater, a witness for the prosecation In the Tillman murder case, was forced into a difficulty by a man named Bushby, at Wagner. Gunter cut Bnahby'a throat, \ the wounded man's tongue being cut out. He was thought to be dying tonight. State Items. Mrs. Ed. Holder of Pacolet gave birth on Monday to triplets, two girla and a boy. ^ R. A. Richey obtained a verdict of $12,500 against the Southern road at Abbeville on Tuesday. A valuable deposit of fine marble has been found on Congressman Je Johnson's place in Laurens county. Miss Nancy Robertson, aged 75, was burned to death in her home in Laurens county on Monday night. She lived alone. Rev. J. W. Wolling, a missionary to Brazil, has returned to South Carolina with his family and are at Union, Mrs. Wolling's old home. H. B. Jennings of Charleston nas brought suit against the Western Union Telegraph company for $1,960 damages on account of a delayed telegram. '{ I. W. Haywood, a young white mas of Cowpens, has been committed to Spartanburg jail on the charge of raising a fire dollar bill to a fifty dollar bill. The executor of J. L. Andrews, a Greenwood merchant, who waa killed on the Southern recently, hat brought suit against the road for $65,000 damages. The governor has been petitioned to order an election to determine the question of establishing a new county with North Augusta as the county scat. Gov. Heyward has offered a reward of $150 for the capture of Arthwr Fitasimmons, colored, who is charged with murdering Queen Chapman, colored, in Saluda county some time ago. Policeman Wm. F. O'Shields waa convicted at Union on Tuesday of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature and was sentenced by Presiding Judge Benet to three months on the chaingang or a fine of $150. Gov. Heyward has appointed exJudge Jas. F. Ixlar to hold a special court at Orangeburg beginning the 30th instant for the trial of a negro . named Jones who is charged with attemntinz to assault a small white girl in Orangeburg a week ago. Filling Striker's Places. Dallas, Texas. Special.?Regarding the strike of the messengers of tha Pacific Express Company in this Stats Superintendent Runs said that a largs number of non-union men are being employed and be believes normal conditions will prevail in a few days. A non-union messenger was frightened from his car at Marshall this morning. Dispatches from Palestine, for Worth and other terminal points say nonunion men are taking the places of ths strikers, but that the service is crippled. Hanged and Shot Cordele. Ga., Special.?The body of an unknown neg o was found hanging to a tree near here. The negro'a bodywas riddled with bullets and all investigations so far have not been able to discover the negro's identity. Several peoDle living in the neighborhood stated that tbey heard shots fired dn- ^ rsig the night but did not make any attempt to discover what the troubte was. Commoner Sold. New York, Special.?Only a small crowd was in attendance at the dig- posal sale of the famous Belle Meade, stud, held at Sheepshead Bay and low prices were realized. The star of the Kale was The Commoner, by HanoverMargerine. After some spirited bidding, he was knocked down to Charlee P. Gaither, for $1Z 000. Stands By Mis Advisers. Washington. Special.?Referring to the recent intimation that the President was dissatisfied with those to whom he has looked for advle# in the matter of appointments in the Southern States. Secretary Loeb today gave out the following statement: "The President is much gratified over the result of his efforts, through his advisors in the Southern States, to give the people clean, competent officials and the best possible service in all the * * VU In. U?pai LllieuU) uuu uas sigu.ucu uia mtention to retain these advices. * N*ws of the Dar. The premier of Australia. Sir Edmund Barton, has resigned to aecept a piace on the Beach of the new Com- i J monweaith Supreme Court, which was modelled after our own Supreme Court at Washington. He is succeeded as premier by Alfred Deakin, lately At- ijj torney General in the Barton Cabinet. The Australia Supreme Court will be ,' ? more independent of the British Jhdl- Jg clary than any other tribunal in the . British colonies. - J