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??? Difficult to A By Henry D. Ferjjusc HUE bane of tho Air most difficult thing f people, we are grow publicity that is den and the audience, at habit of having peoj a nee than in reality But. claim some, fame, is highly commendable and bei modest private citizen. There has ev brated. "The happiest of all men is posthumous fame." was written by a is as true to-day as wnen written. But there is a vast difference hot on respect and admiration: notoriety i used of things known to their disadv and usually upon the lowest order of the coarser side of human nature and The philosophers tell us that the high must be simple; and if simple, r of the murket place. To accomplish this?to avoid cheap task of all. For there are these two f sending us out to our kind and the selves. It is necesgary to seek social vindicate the fact of our personality. Individuality, and to be known as "Nc mate desire for the sympathy of his 1 But the man who inherits the old what he holds highest in life wher notoriety. A healthy eare for the good opii and a longing for bis approval of o stimulus for better things; but a t thousands?applause for personal weal deeds?is debasing and contemptible, happiness. And so overmastering has this pa la so insatiable for new horrors in tb servants are obliged to be blazoned a of detail until their daily chronic-lings a of truth or made up entirely of new a ^ A Commerce is 1 By Gabriel Hanotaux ODERN energy is cousecrat produce more and more, a If R?J ? its products. The earth is labor squeezes. The earth from the atmosphere, fron -1 space. He takes them to I claims. Another form of labor takes hold o classifies thein, ships them, inscribes order that they may increase in pas they may become values by cireulat daughter of motion. By traversing tl perpetual agitation increases in his ej It is commerce that produces thes these singular illusions. Aided by moc means of transport and of communica present phase of history most other i boo I'lmrrn rtAthinf* cimilflf trt IHJUllJ una ftuvn ii ?v life considered formerly economics as .was only to assure the normal subsist The modern movement began to i many contributed more to it than on< ment Germany has done nothing mo: which she made experiments in the Ml an initiator. The example of the gre tainly by the Fugger family, those many interesting details appear in tb "Fugger said that be did not kiK money was in Turkey, in Greece, in Poland and in England. He could est This is the starting point. Presid when he was struck by 1^1 assassin, open to the world. He said sagely tha that overproduction in America had t< Europe will have to settle soon tl changes with America. The commerci prodigious effort of human activity, the day incline to a commercial career, than they. Every one feels that the I activity in time of peace as upon cour The commercial man of to-day is geographer, a man of learning using t cation, an artist making of the beautifi merce is, above everything, the tie tn ranks, equalizes conditions. No other Is subservient to its will. The fate of the caprice of a broker or the temerit; People have thought of suppressing to take its place, which is that of in sumer. But commerce had its secret, tice. To learn thein one must serve a tipllcity of aptitudes and of capacit slow. heavy and sedentary, others qu ranks that one learns how to mobilize J Eye Strain, O By a Distinguished E ^ g HERE is no greater cr tflfcW'iurfU ity, than that of no 1 Headache, "sick he melancholia, insomni; fill some of the more pro V I tures, rendered so mis m M Darwin, Huxley, Bro1 sons less known to f Eye-strain in child ably treated. Many childreA are me this involuntary habit they are often dians. The blinking is due to some i consequent cCfort made in aecommoda sing on the retina or optic nerve the c A child kept at near-range ocular and so forth, finds the page becoming failing to focus with accuracy. He t accommodation, and the letters are aj ? v. n?ore lines the page again uecomes u peated. It is performed so often in th< It not infrequently happens that a added to the winking, and later on act. with the accompanying grimaces Thus a habit chorea?which is not th> it is often met with, it is seldom trea be sent to an oculist, and no time wa Migraine is a painful affliction; si vous headache and bilious headache a causes a large number of other sympl v cording to the kind of near work req tient. Out of 1000 cases of this dis< Vere cured by spectacles. As one get the frequent disappearance of sick hej I years. Seamstresses, typewriters, cle or handicraftsmen who cannot stop n out risking starvation are great suff( choly miseries. Instead of drugging "w hich in the end make wrecks of thei to secure a suitable pair of spectacles is so ludicrously simple that it is gene all nervous symptoms should excite i fault and lead to their examination 1 Caent may obviate lifelong misery. void Notoriety >n, LL.D. lerican in public'life is notoriety?the or him to avoid. Always a spectacular injr more and more accustomed to the landed and enjoyed by^both the actors id huve dropped all tod easily into tlie , >le regard us as beiug of more importwe are. This is one of the vices of the desire for renown, the thirst for itting the loftiest patriot and the most er existed in man the wish to be celehe who lives in conscious certainty of Ilonian poet nearly 'JOOO years ago, and ween fame and notoriety. Fame rests s less valuable, because it is commonly antage and is at best built principally curiosity. It is a habit that develops I appeals to the lower motives. pure and manly and those that aim uust keep a large part of their life out and glittering notoriety?is the hardest orces constantly at war?the centripetal centrifugal drawing us in to' our inner existence and so create society and to Even the prisoner objects to lose his ?. fMU." There is in every man a legititind. fashioned love of privacy is robbed of ! ? surrounded by?literally bathed in? lion and sympathy of our fellow man ur public acts is good and becomes a t.ii.o+ nnnlousn from flip heedless knesses rather than approval for public Excitement has usurped the place of ission for notoriety become, the public e notorious, that the lives of its public broad with more and more minuteness re either exaggerated beyond semblance nd brightly colored calico. . ?? gr King , Foreign Minister of France ed to commerce. The world wants to nd wants more and more to exchauge similar to a large orauge that human itself does not suffice. Man borrows 11 the sun. the forces disseminated in multiply the products that bis appetite f the amazing products, measures them, them, counts them, pays for them, in sing from producer to consumer, that inc merelv. "Wealth, like heat, is the ic earth, man widens his "prison;" his res the little planet that confines him. e astonishing effects, or?if one wish? lern invention, which has created swift tion. commerce makes secondary in the Manifestations of human activity. Anthat. Men who have written on social an inferior part of politics. Commerce ence of the city's inhabitants, levelop in the sixteenth century. Gere may believe. In her actual developre than to rediscover the processes in ddle Ages. The Hanseatic League was at modern fortunes was furnished cerbankers of Augsburg about whom so e "Conversations of Luther." >w the amount of his wealth, for his Alexandria, in France, in Portugal, in imate only what he had in Augsburg." lent McKinley, on the eve of the day told the new perspectives that were t commercial wars were without profit, a obtain by treaties new fields, tie grave and complex question of exnl future of the world demands a new. This explains why the young men of They are impelled by a force stronger life of a nation depends as much upon age in time of war. a creator. He is a mathematician, a he latest discoveries in practical appliil the exquisite food of the mass. Comat binds men. unites nations, confuses career Is as really democratic. Politics ' elections, peace or war, depends upon r of a speculator. r commerce. The State has been ashed termediary between producer and conits sleight-of-hand, its art and its pracn apprenticeship, have a singular mulies. "Commerce has its armies?some ick, alert and movable. It is in their and to recruit. ur Worst 01 ye Specialist uelty. no greater crime against humane-recognition and scorn of eye-strain, adache," "tlyspepsia," "nervousness," i, indescribable suffering?these were ininent symptoms that, in various mixierable the lives of De Quincey, Carlyle, svning, Spencer, Wagner and other perame. ren should be noticed at once and suit t witn wno diidk mcessanuy, unu tor i punished by ignorant parents or guarerror of refraction in the eye, and the tion, or, in less technical phrase, focustbjects which the child is looking at. work, such as reading, writing, sewing ; blurred owing to the lens of his eye hen blinks and increases his efforts at tain seen clearly. After reading a few ilurred, and the blinking process is re? day that at last it becomes a habit, spasmodic closure of the lid is superthe whole face may participate in the peculiar to chorea, or St. Vitus' dance, e real chorea?is formed, and, although ted intelligently. Such patients should sted at first in giving drags, ck headache, megrim, hemicrania, nerre other names for the same thing. It toms. and is itself of a varied type, ac uireu, aim me lemperameur 01 me panose, ninety-nine out of every hundred s older, eye-strain becomes rarer, hence idache at the age of from fifty to sixty >rks, students, teachers and mechanics ear-range ocular work or limit it withers from migraine and all its melanthemselves with dangerous medicines, r constitutions, all they require to do is to correct their eye defects. The cure rally overlooked. In children especially the suspicion that the eyes may be at >y an oculist. Their appropriate treat* I MONUMENT TO GORDON, General Lee flakes Suggestions Con cerning the flatter. Columbus, Miss., Special.?Genera Stephen D. Lee. commander-in-chie | d? the United Confederate Veterans has issued an unofficial call to ever; Confederate organization to take im mediate action and organize to secun j subscription for a monument to b< erected to the late John B. Gordon a j Atlanta. The call is in the nature o an appeal. The following is the cir cular: 1. The great demonstration of warn love and confidence shown at the bur ial of General John B. Gordon at At lanta, Ga., and the abundant evidenci of esteem manuesiea every?uac ?i our beloved Southland and als< throughout our great republic, ?ug gests to the undersigned some concen (ration of action necessary to a quid and suceessful movement to erect i monument out of such funds as ma: be raised this year. 2. While as commander-in-chief o the Confederate Veterans' organiza tion I do not think it proper to issu< in general orders an appeal, still ai the successor cf our beloved comman der and his personal friend and ad mirer, I issue this call to every Con federate organization, to divisions brigades and camps of the United Con federate Associations; to the Ladies Memorial Associations and Daugh ters, Sons and Children of the Con federacy, to take immediate action ant organize to secure monument move ment 3. I also suggest to States, cities and organizations generally to unit< with us in building a monument. 4. I also suggest that a local com mittee be promptly formed at Atlanti to receive subscriptions for the monu ment at the home of General Gordon (Signed) STEPHEN D. LEE Postal Trials. Washington. Special.?In the posta trial the government introduced rur ther evidence tending to show the relations existing between Machen Groff brothers and the Dorenzs, ir connection with the sale of letter-boj fasteners to the government. Severa witnesses from Cleveland and Toledc having connection with bank institu tions testified to various deposits bj the Lorenr.s of checks of D. B. Grofl for large amounts and to certain debts made against their individual ac counts. N. H. Baumgartner, Mach en's brother-in-law, secretary of th( Dejposit Trust Company, Westminister Md;. also testified as to Machen's de posits with that company. A consid erable portion of the day was taker bp by arguments by counsel on boti sides concerning the materiality and admissibility of certain evidence of fered. The subject of the coaching ol witnesses by Postofflce Inspector May er again came up, during the discus sion of which Mr. Douglas, for the de fense, said he also would include Postofflce Inspector Gregory in the charge. The matter was finally passed over, upon the statement of Mr. Kum ler counsel for the Lorenzs, that he would procure affidavits to support the charge. He offered to produce one such affidavit today, but District At tomey Beach objected to this form ol evidence. Making Great Exertions, Washington. Special.?Minister Con feer has informed the State Depart ment that tha Chinese government has appointed Prince Pulun aa exposition commissioner to the Louisiana Pur chase Exposition. The minister says that the Chinese government is mak ing exceptional efforts to have a cred itable display at the exposition, and the appointment of Prince Pulun is a striking evidence of that fact, as he is a member of the royal family. Negroes Terrorized. Stephens. Ala., Special.?Negroes living near Bigbee, Washington county are terrorized by actions attributed tc a self-styled Dalton gang. Severn months ago a turpentine still and sav mill were burned and negroes wer< suspected. The children of Danie Grimes, a negro, were fired on fron: the bushes last week. The same nighi Grimes' house was fired into. A notics wad atrivcu uu uiui iu icavtr v>uuiu uvt days on penalty of death. The sam< night two negro churches were burned also a barn and contents belonging tc Joseph Anderson, a white farmer. 0n< arrest has been made, name not stated and a preliminary trial will be held. 1 f A Panic Caused. Richmond, Special.?By the burstinj of a steam pipe in a colored publi< school im Manchester Wednesday af ternoon, several children were severelj Injured and a few narrowly escaped bo ing killed. About 300 colored childrei were in the building at the time. Mosi or me injured were nun. 07 jumping from windows. Schooner Run Down. New York. Special.?Capt. Nelson, 0 the supervisor's tug, Lamont, report at 7:30 Wednesday night the steame Waccamaw, from Georgetown, S. C. while coming up the Swash Channel abreast of the Romer, ran down th< fishing schooner, Julia Graham, carrying away a part of the rigging am doing other damage. The schoone was picked up and towed to Ne\ Yd by the tug Ariosa. A CYCLONE'S FURY i Wipes An Alabama Town From Off [ the Face of the Earth f ? ?* ? mr mm m rn AIYTIM /? I1T b' TMKIY-StVfcN MLLtU UUIJUUni | e " t One Hundred Crippled and Very Much f Property Swept Away By the Fury of the Wind. i Tuscaloosa, Ala., Special?The most disastrous cyclone that ever swept over s this section visited Moundville, Ala., a town of 300 inhabitants fifteen miles south of Tuscaloosa, Friday morning 3 at 1 o'clock, and as a result thrityseven persons were killed and more than one hundred injured, and every v business house, with the exception of 1 a small drug store, completely de1 atroyed. The cyclone struck the city from the ^ southwest, dealing death and destroc* tion as it made its path, a quarter of 5 a mile wide, through the town. The s following Is a list of the white persons - who were killed: E. P. Seymour, of Nashville, Tenn., - who accepted the position as operator , at the railroad station last evening; . A. H. Warren, of Birmingham, em ployed by the Alabama Grocery Company; J. H. Redmond, superintendent pumping station, from Nashville; Robj ert Powers, of Tuscaloosa; Miss Nettie Farley. The negro dead are: W. N, Miles, wife and six children; Albert Holston, i ' ? ' *i _v:l.l Tl,? UAlotnn wiie auu iiirrt? cmiuii-a, ixvc uuiow-, 3 wife and three children; nine other negroes, yet unidentified. The following Is a partial list of the 1 seriously injujred: Mrs. W. A. Grubbs, of Kentucky, dislocated hip; R. L. fcriffin, Lee GrlfTin, A. B. Griffin, Mrs. Farley, Mr. Gailey, Mrs. Galley, Mrs. F. T. Gailey, Mr. Farley, A. B. Taylor, Mrs. McCaney. 1 The names of the Injujred negroes have not yet been procured. Surgeons were rushed to Moundvllle from Greensboro and Tuscaloosa, and all possible was done to alleviate the sufferings of the injured. By the force of the storm persons were blown hundreds of feet from their beds In the blackness of night. , Through terror, a father, mother and j three children fled from their home to seek refuge and In their excitement 1 left a 5-year-old boy in bed. This morning he was pulled from beneath some " timber, and thus far it is impossible > to find any other member of the fam. lly. Bedding, carpets and wearing appar el are scattered a distance of ten miles i through what was a forest, but which i Is dow as clear as If It had been cut I by the woodman's axe. Freight cars were torn to splinters, f the trucks from them being hurled . hundreds of feet from the track. The depot, the hotel, warehouses, gins, thirty homes, the store-houses } occupied by R. L. Griffin, A. W. Wigi gins and Son. W. J. Domenick, A. D. I Griffin and W. P. Phifer, together with their stocks, were completely destroy| ed. Where they stood, it is impossible ; to find even the pillars upon which [ these structures rested. ? Bales of cotton, which were stored in warehouses, were torn to atoms, the fragmepts of lint together with the debris, lodging in trees, making it. appear as if that section had been visited by a snowstorm. Heavy iron safes were j carried by the storn\, the doors of which were torn from their hinges. A young clerk employed by W. P. ' Phifer, hearing the terrible roaring of the approaching cyclone, let himself down into a well in the center of the store. He had no sooner found his [ place of safety than the store was com' pletely demolished. This morning he was drawn out uninjured. : Danger at Pittsburg. ' Pittsburg, Special.?Lulled into a sense of security in the early evening > by the rapidity with which the Alle1 gheny river was carrying ice and water r from the upper stream into the Ohio, 4 Pittsburg went to sleep with the belief ' that the warnings of danger from the 1 rivers had been exaggerated, but at i this hour a new danger has arisen. The I Monongahela river has broken loose, , Huge masses of ice, less broken than that which came rushing down the 5 sister stream all day are choking the i harbor. Both rivers are steadily rising. , The Allegheny is already three feet > higher than her consort stream, and as 3 a consequence a dangerous ice gorge is now forming between the Wabash and ' Smithfield street bridges, just about the confluence of the two rivers. Quick Action on Canal. Mobile, Ala., Special.?President D. ' E. Hudger, of the Mobile cotton ex' change, by instruction of the directors " has addressed a letter to Senators r Morgan and Pettus, advocatingstrong ly quick action on the Panama treaty, l | It sets forth the advantages to the . , na nnnsfriicion of the t ll UU JA/1 CO it mn vuv ? - r canal, and declaring that the republic is established, and that further opposition of the treaty can be of no benefit to this country. f By Direct Vote. s Indianapolis Special.?The United 1 r Mine .Workers of America adopted a resolution urging the election of Unit- 1 " ed States Senators by direct rote. < The convention began the considera- < e tion of a number of rules providing ] - for all mining contracts in the coun1 try to close on one date, and make one r joint agreement district. There is a division of sentiment among the delegates. The matter was referred to the national executive board. NATIONAL LAWMAKERS What the Two Houses of Congress Are Doing. Pure Food Bill. The House spent the day considering the Hepburn pure food bill. It was not completed when the House ' was ready to adjourn, and, on motion of Mr. Hepburn, a recess was taken until 11:55" tomorrow. This will re tain the bill before the House without interruption for consideration tomorrow. Just before the recess an amendment coming from the Democratic side was adopted inserting the word "wilfully," relative to the sale of prohibited adulterated goods by retailers, whicfc would make it incumbent upon the government to prove knowledge on the part of retailers that the sale of such goods was con- i trary to law. The principal speeches of the day were made by Messrs. Hepburn and Mann in favor of the bill 1 and Adamson, Bartlett and Clark in ( opposition. Mr. Adamson elaborated the views he expressed in a minority 1 report. He said such legislation was | unnecessary, as local communities had ample power to correct evils, Mr. Clark believed the present bill should be modified, especially the sections pertaining to the acquisition of samsamples, which, he said, required a man to furnish evidence against himself, which was unconstitutional. Patterson Talks. i Mr. Patterson completed his speech ?? ???,? A?M.1 AM/1 un uic x uuauia tauai tjucoiii/ii auu iui? i Piatt, of Connecticut, began on the I same subject. Mr. Patterson declared that the President wa8 largely responsible for the revolt in Panama and an- : nounced his decided preference for the Nicaraguan route. Mr. Piatt took this pronouncement for Nicaragua as the text for his remarks, saying that this 1 preference for the more northern route ' explained away the mystery of the otherwise unexplainable opposition on the Panama treaty. Referring to the President's declaration that what had been done In Pan- ' ama had been done as the mandate of ] civilization, Mr. Patterson quoted with , approval a statement by Mr. Spooner to the efTect that that was a new 1 phrase, adding: :"It was a new phrase, and the man who penned it must have t been in a state of mental exaltation at ' the time, as others have been on other occasions. Mahomet, Joe Smith and 1 Dowie have moved in such exalted < spheres that they imagined themselves ( as the very vice regents of the Al- , mighty, and it may be that the President moves In the same sphere." ' Mr. Patterson charged that the efTort \ to displace the Nicaraguan canal with ( the Panama canal was in the interest of those who wanted no canal at all and 1 who, if they were to have any canaJ, wanted the one which would give the least competition to the trans-continental railroads. He believed the Nicaragua canal could be completed in fifteen years' less time than the Panama canal. He would, therefore, vote against the ratification of the treaty, fir. Piatt's Views Mr. Piatt, of Connecticut, concluded his speech on Panama Thursday, consuming moet of the time of the open session, after the expiration of the morning hour. He defended the course of the President throughout the Panama revolt and eulogized the executive personally as brave and fearless. During the morning hour Mr. Morgan spoke in explanation of his bill for the annexation of Panama to the United States basing his argument oq the ground that the pending canal treaty practically contemplated that resu't and said, In effect, that if it was to be done at all it should be done by legislation and not by treaty. Mr. Morgan spoke of the difficulties which the country has encountered in Panama, saying that they are not of the country's seeking, but were due to the precipitancy of t^e President of the United States. It was. however, impossible to undo what had been done, and he contended that further proceedings should be in accordance with legislation. In order to get rid of the consequences of our acts we must make, he said, some equitable arrangement with Panama, for it was not to be supposed that Colombia meant to submit calmly. If, he argued, we are to ' ? /.anai in Panama, we must have L/UUU c* Vttnu. , the good will of Colombia, for without ] it the obstacles of disease and outlawry , will be infinitely increased. Mr. Morgan predicted that the President would not be able to secure future i aDDroDriations. i "Indeed," he said, "I don't believe that he wants appropriations. It is better for campaign purposes that legislation on the canal question should ( consist of purposes only." He said that he had inserted in his bill the provision for the payment of ' $15,000,000 for the praetiflcation of Colombia because he had heard that the President had entered into an agreement for the payment of that sum for that purpose. Mr. Piatt defended the President against the charge of committing an' act of war or even an act or Intervention. denying that his acts in connection with the Panama revolt amounted to either. The charges that the President knew'of the revolution and had connived at it, Mr. Piatt characterized, as disgraceful and untrue. He said the President had the right to protect transit across the isthmus even against Colombia. Mr. Piatt referred to the retirement of the Colombian forces and was Interrupted by Mr. Tillman, who asked if the attitude of the Colombian forces was not in the nature of a dicker or badger to Increase the price of going." Mr. Piatt replied that Mr. Hubbard and his 424 men bad nothing to do with the Colombian troops. "I want a canal at Panama," said Mr Tillman "if we don't have to steal lt" Fig Orchard in New England. James T. Barker, a well-known and prosperous farmer of Middletown, R. ( [., has a fig orchard of some 200 trees, and to Mr. Barker belongs the unique ' distinction of being the only fig farmer, as far as he is aware, in any New England state. ? I Shot White Hedgehog. George M. Cram, South Lyndeboro, N. H., shot a white hedgehog recently. . - . . . i .. ^1 ??? ?? lo??71!I^H Fearful Experience of a Crew Thai^JH Was Shipwrecked ^ TWO SAVED OF A CREW OF TEN Mistook Shore Light For Headlight of a Steamer, and Went on to Cer tain Destruction. New York, Special?Eight lives were lost In the wreck Saturday off Quogue, Long Island, of the four-masted schooner Augustus Hunt, coal-laden, fiom Boston for Norfolk. Of the crew of ten only two men were saved. Second Mate George Ebert, of Cleveland, Ohio, and a Swede who was unconscious when washed on the beach and whose name could not be ascertained. The vessel was in commend of First Mate Conary, who took charge of her in piece o! Capt. Robert Blair, when she left Boston. Soon after midnight, nuring a dense fog, the schooner stranded a few hundred feet from the beach and about a mile west of Quogue lifesaving station. A life-saving patrolman heard the cries for help of those on board and summoned the crew. For hours the live-savers were able to hear the criee f of the men on the vessel, which was near at hand but buried in the fog. They were absolutely unable to help the men. Time and again they launched their boat, only to have it hurled back to the shore by the heavy surf. The life-savers also had recourse to life lines, but the shots carrying the lines either fell wide or short of the invisible mark. Soon after daylight masses of wrecka? hBimn to come ashore, indicating that the vessel was rapidly breaking: up. About noon a spar with a man clinging to it was seen tossing in the outer line of breakers. After a line had been shot across It and made fast by the man, he was pulled ashore and [-.roved to be Second Mate Ebert. A few minutes later another sailor was seen on a mass of wreckage, and half \ dozen life-savers, forming a human L'hain, dashed into the surf and drew bim ashore. He was unconscious and :ontinued in that condition at a late dour tonight The cries of those remaining on the wreck continued to grow fainter and Fainter during the afternoon, and finally ceased altogether. One body drifted ashore, but It was so disfigured as to be unrecognizable. It is believed that only the bow of the vessel remains on the bar, and from this the exhausted 3eamen dropped one by one until all were swept away. Mate Ebert, after being taken to the life-saving station, said that the vessel stranded in the fog after having mistaken the Shinnecock light for the ^ headlight of a steamer. The officers believed they were at least twenty-flve miles off shore and in no danger, when the vessel suddenly struck and began to pond to pieces in the heavy sea tt It was running on the bar. * Great waves swept over the vessel, the masts snapped off like pipe-stems, and, with the rigging, were carried away by the tremendous seas. As the hull began to go to pieces the members of the crew were driven toward the ?w, where they hung as best they could. Ebert was clinging to somewreckage qf the deck when the whole mass went overboard, carrying him with it Elbert was unable to give the names of any of the crew, most of whom shipped at Norfolk. Convicted of Murder. Sedalia, Mo., Special. Frank G. Deaon, who killed Emil Meyer in this city two months ago for the betrayal and desertion of Deaton's daughter, Daisy, was convicted of murder today, the verdict fixing his punishment at zo years in the penitentiary. Evidence showed that Meyer was shot in the back, and on this ground the verdict was given. + Carter Shot. Danville, Va., Special.?BrantleyCarter, the Lynchburg commercial man who was shot at Chatham on Monday by Geo. Ball, a Danville drummer, died in Chatham Thursday. Ball, who did the shooting, Is in jail at Chatham, awaiting a preliminary trial, which will probably be given him tomorrow or Saturday. Hip brother, Thomas Ball, has been committed to jail as an accessory before the fact, the charge against him having hoon tn the crand iurv. This is the third murder in Pittsylvania county in the past month, and much excitement prevails in the country districts. 1 -rA Man Robbed. Roanoke Special.?In the Hustings Court Fannie Hodges was sent to the State penitentiary for 15 months and Mary Foutz was given four months in jail as accessory, both pleading guilty to the charge of robbing Hiram Jones, of Craig County, of money and certlfi- V* cates of deposit amountlg to $6,840 while he was here a month ago. It is said that $300 in cash was taken. The certificates, aggregating $6,000, and some valuable bonds, were burned. . \ . . , I